Athletics 3, Nationals 0: Perhaps the only way that Philadelphia was going to break its eleven-game losing string was to get a superhuman effort on the mound and that's what it took. Scott Perry tossed a three-hitter at the Washingtons and his teammates waited until the last possible moment to make it count for a win in the Nation's capital. Perry (4-13) and Eric Erickson (3-5) hooked up in a tight one with neither team really threatening, in fact Perry allowed but a Sam Rice single over the first six frames while Erickson was striking out ten Athletics. With the game still scoreless into the 9th, and the A's increasingly looking like they would waste this golden opportunity to break into the win column, they finally broke through. With one away, Amos Strunk and George Burns singled to put runners at the corners and then Cy Perkins and Terry Turner delivered doubles to score three runs. That left it up to Perry, who put two runners on base in the bottom of the 9th but held the Nats off the board to earn the shutout. [box]
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| Scott Perry, PHA |
Red Sox 5, Yankees 3: Everett Scott and Bill Lamar had key RBI hits and Babe Ruth allowed only two unearned runs over nine innings as Boston edged New York. The Yankees had just tied the score at three in the top of the 5th on Wally Pipp's double and Duffy Lewis' triple when the Sox loaded the bases with one away in the bottom half of the inning, Scott and Lamar then singled off of Allen Russell (5-7) to score one run apiece and Ruth held New York scoreless over the final four innings to secure the win. [box]
Browns 8, White Sox 4: Lefty Williams was hit hard by St. Louis used pitched four innings of shutout relief from Bert Gallia to hold Chicago at bay. The Browns got to sixteen-game winner Williams (16-7) right away, using a walk and three singles to score twice in the1st inning and then piling on with four more hits and three more runs in the 4th. The White Sox closed to within 6-4 when Ray Schalk singled in two in the 6th, but Gallia replaced Dave Davenport (4-6) and restricted Chicago to only two hits over the final four innings. Nemo Leibold had three hits for the Sox, and Joe Gedeon drove in three runs for the Browns. [box]
Indians 6, Tigers 5: Elmer Smith singled home Ray Chapman in the bottom of the 9th inning to give Cleveland an exciting victory over Detroit at League Park. The clubs had traded haymakers in the early going with the Tigers scoring four times in the top of the 1st (Harry Heilmann two-run single) and the Indians answering exactly in kind in the 2nd (two-run error by Chick Shorten), but things went quiet after that and the game was tied at five heading into the 9th inning. Hooks Dauss (6-10) retired the first two men in the home half, but then walked Chapman and allowed a single to Tris Speaker before Smith knocked the game-winner over the infield for his third hit of the day. Harry Heilmann also had three hits, and drove in two runs, for the visitors. [box]
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