Nationals 6, Athletics 0: The Philadelphia season has gotten to the point where opponents must be circling dates on their calendars. Even after breaking their 11-game skid yesterday, fourteen-game loser Harry Harper of Washington came to Griffith Stadium looking forward to a chance to face the crumbling Athletics, and he took full advantage. Holding the A's to five singles while striking out 8, Harper pitched the Nats to a win while Patsy Gharrity collected four hits on his behalf. As has often been the case on this losing skein, matters were largely decided early in the contest, as Washington scored four times on five hits in the 2nd off of Jing Johnson (5-9) with Eddie Foster delivering the big two-run double. Harper (4-14) was on cruise control, meanwhile, only allowing one Athletic to reach scoring position after the 2nd inning. Sam Rice chipped in with three hits and a stolen base. [box]
 |
| Patsy Gharrity, WAS |
Nationals 8, Athletics 2: This time, Philadelphia at least convinced the crowd to stick around for the end of a long afternoon at Shibe Park, staying close until Washington erupted for six runs in their final two at-bats for an 8-2 victory that was much closer than the linescore indicated. The A's scored first, on Tillie Walker's 1st-inning RBI single, and scored again in the 7th on Dick Burrus' base hit to tie the game at two runs apiece. Rollie Naylor and Jim Shaw were both pitching well, but Naylor's luck ran out in the 7th. A single, walk and fielding error by Fred Thomas loaded the bases with only one out and, after getting Mike Menosky to pop out on the infield, Naylor could not keep the ball over the plate to Sam Rice, who worked him for a tie-breaking bases-loaded walk. This seemed to rattle Naylor (3-8), who then served up a long double to Buzz Murphy that scored two more runs and effectively put Philadelphia out of reach. Shaw (10-11) retired the final five A's to secure the twin-bill sweep and push the losers even deeper into the American League cellar. Murphy and Joe Judge each drove home three runs for the Nationals. [box]
Red Sox 5, Yankees 2: Babe Ruth homered, Red Shannon doubled twice, and spot starter Paul Musser pitched 7.2 strong innings as Boston defeated New York at Fenway Park. The Red Sox took the lead when Ruth hit his 18th homer of the year with the bases empty in the 4th, and grew that lead to 5-0 over the next few innings as Shannon doubled and scored in the 5th and doubled in a run and scored again in the 7th. The Yankees got on the board with two in the 8th on a Duffy Lewis two-out, two-run two-bagger but Sam Jones came on to relieve Musser (2-0) and record the final four outs of the game. [box]
White Sox 8, Browns 6: Chicago broke open the game with a four-run 8th inning and then held off a 9th-inning St. Louis charge to knock back the second-place Browns. Baby Doll Jacobson's RBI double i nthe top of the 8th had completed a St. Louis comeback from a 4-1 deficit to tie the game, but Urban Shocker and the Browns defense couldn't hold it together in the bottom half of the inning. With one out, Hap Felsch and Swede Risberg singled and Ken Williams misplayed the latter into a second-and-third, one out jam. Shocker retired Fred McMullin on strikes and then put Ray Schalk on first intentionally to face pitcher Eddie Cicotte, on in relief of Red Faber. The strategy failed manager Jimmy Burke horribly, though, as Cicotte whacked a single that scored two runs and Nemo Leibold followed with another hit that plated a third. After Joe Gedeon booted Eddie Collins' grounder, Buck Weaver singled home another to cap the outburst. But it was not smooth sailing for Cicotte in the 9th - the first three Browns singled to fill the sacks and Gedeon and Jacobson pushed single runs across before Cicotte could retire George Sisler with the tying runs on base. Jacobson had three hits and four RBI, and Felsch reached base three times. [box]
Tigers 9, Indians 4: Detroit exploded for seven runs in the final four innings to race away from Cleveland in front of their home fans. Cleveland led 3-2 through five, behind two RBI from Larry Gardner, but six of the first seven Tigers reached in the 6th against Jim Bagby (9-10) and Eddie Aisnmith's two-run double was the big hit in their big inning. Cleveland closed the gap to two runs on a bases-loaded walk in the 8th, but Detroit responded in the 9th with four more hits and three more runs to put the decision safely away. Howard Ehmke (9-12) earned the win despite issuing seven walks, and Donie Bush had three hits and a stolen base. [box]
0 comments:
Post a Comment