Athletics 10, Browns 9: A back-and-forth tussle in which no lead appeared safe was settled when Philadelphia scored five times in the bottom of the 7th and that lead turned out to be one bridge too far for St. Louis. The score was 5-4 in favor of the Athletics after six, and there had already been three lead changes, when the Browns came back to go on top again. Ken Williams' three-run homer (4) in the top of the 7th turned the score around once more but, unsurprisingly, given both the way the day had gone and the state of the back end of the Athletics pitching staff, this was not fated to last. In the bottom half, Dave Davenport was chased after allowing two of the first three men to reach base and a run to score on Whitey Witt's triple. Bert Gallia took his place atop the slab but Witt beat the throw home from third on a ground ball to Wally Gerber at shortstop to tie the game, Gallia walked Cy Perkins, and Walt Kinney singled in the go-ahead run for the A's. They weren't done quite yet, as Merlin Kopp walked and Tillie Walker delivered a big two-run double to make the score 10-7. This turned out to be barely enough, as Cleveland scored twice in the 8th Kinney, but the young lefty held on for dear life, putting two Browns aboard in the 9th before escaping on Hank Severeid's game-ending groundout to short. Five players had three hits in a game that featured twenty-none total safeties, eight of which went for extra bases. [box]
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| Walt Kinney, PHA |
White Sox 1, Red Sox 0: Joe Jackson singled a home run in the top of the 1st inning, and that run stood as the only score of the game as a pitching duel at Fenway Park ended in Chicago's favor. Eddie Collins singled with one out in the opening half-inning and then swiped second base. After moving to third on a groundout, Collins trotted home when Jackson laced a single to right field off Sam Jones (6-12) and Chicago led 1-0. The pickings would be slim for the batters from there on out, however; Jones and Red Faber made certain of that, putting zero after zero up on the scoreboard as the afternoon wore on. The White Sox got runners to second and third with one out in the 4th on two singles and two steals from Jackson and Swede Risberg, but Jones fanned Fred McMullin and retired Ray Schalk on a foul pop to the catcher, and Boston got two on in both the 7th and the 8th but could not get one home. In the bottom of the 9th, with Eddie Cicotte on in relief of Faber (12-5), Red Shannon led off with a double and moved to third with one out when pinch-hitter Bill Lamar singled. Harry Hooper walked to load the bases and bring up Ossie Vitt; the Boston rightfielder lofted one to his counterpart Nemo Leibold and Shannon broke for home on the catch . . . Leibold's throw was strong and true and Shannon was OUT at the plate for for game's final out. [box]
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