Tigers 8, Yankees 7: In what could only be described as a crazy day at the ballpark, Detroit survived six fielding errors (the last of which put them behind in the 12th inning) to beat New York. The Tigers' adventures with the glove began in the 3rd when Chick Shorten muffed a fly ball for three bases and Ben Dyer kicked a grounder, leading to two runs. Detroit had rallied to lead 5-4 when Donie Bush's second fumble of the day allowed Sammy Vick to score the tying run in the 8th, and Dyer's second error helped had NY the lead in the 9th. But the home team got a gift of their own when Allen Russell's wild pitch brought in the tying run with two outs in the bottom half. In the 12th, Bush committed his third error to put two Yanks aboard before Wally Pipp singled for the lead run, but a pair of walks by Pete Schneider (1-1) and consecutive RBI singles by Bush and Ralph Young brought Detroit back from the dead. Bush, who won't soon forget this afternoon, had five hits, three RBI, as walk and a steal, and Young had two doubles among his three hits. [box]
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Tigers 7, Yankees 0: Bernie Boland mastered New York in a virtuoso three-hit performance that gave Detroit the doubleheader sweep in front of a wildly appreciative Navin Field crowd. Boland (13-2) did not allow a a single Yankee hit from the 2nd inning through the 8th and survived three baserunners in the 9th to earn the shutout. Oscar Stanage and Chick Shorten each drove in two of the Detroit runs and Ty Cobb scored twice on a single and a triple. [box]
Red Sox 5, White Sox 4: A pair of 8th inning runs which scored on outs turned out to be the margin of victory as Boston rallied late in Chicago. An early 3-1 White Sox lead had been evaporated by Wally Schang's RBI triple and Everett Scott's single in the 4th, but the League leaders put their hose in front again in the 7th when Fred McMullin led off with a double, moved to third on a ground out, and scored on a wild pitch by Bill James (6-3). In the 8th, though, Babe Ruth led off by drawing a walk and Stuffy McInnis singled. Both men moved up 90 feet when Schang grounded to second and then Scott also hit a grass-cutter to Eddie Collins at the keystone; Ruth broke for home on contact and the throw was wide enough to allow the Babe to slid in with the tying run. Dave Shean then lofted a fly ball to right that was deep enough to score McInnis with the go-ahead tally. James bore down and retired the final seven men to nail down the victory over Eddie Cicotte (12-7), and Bill Lamar and Ossie Vitt had two hits each for the Red Sox. [box]
Indians 2, Nationals 1: Elmer Smith singled twice and drove in the eventual winning run, and Jim Bagby outpitched Walter Johnson in a tight affair at League Park. Bagby helped his own cause by singling home the first run of the game in the 5th, and Smith singled home a second in the 8th. Bagby (8-9) allowed three hits and a run in the 9th, but stranded two Nats when he got Hal Janvrin to ground into a game-ending force play. Johnson (13-5) struck out five men and Mike Menosky had two hits for Washington. [box]
Browns 15, Athletics 9: There wasn't much in the way of pitching to be seen at Sportsman's Park today, as the two clubs combined for twenty-four runs and forty-one base hits. It was a relatively placid game at 3-2 in the bottom of the 6th, but the afternoon took a hard right turn at that point - the Browns sent fifteen men to bat in that inning, ten of whom scored, with Jack Tobin and Ken Williams each driving home three in that frame alone. But the bat-swinging fun was not over as the Yankees brought ten men to the plate in the very next half-inning, scoring six times themselves, and STL pitcher Bert Gallia piled on with a two-run homer (2) in the home 7th. Perhaps exhausted by the offensive effort, the teams went scoreless over the final inning-and-a-half. Both Tobin and George Sisler had five hits for the Browns, with the latter pushing his average to within a hair's breadth of .400 on the season. [box]
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