Indians 13, Tigers 12: Donie Bush had a hit and three walks, and scored five times, but Cleveland scored four times in the bottom of the 9th to clip Detroit in a wild affair at League Park. The game began rather sedately, as Detroit led 1-0 after three innings on the strength of Ty Cobb's 1at-inning RBI base hit. But the faucet opened up in the middle innings, with the clubs scoring a total of eleven runs in the 4th and 5th innings behind home runs by Eddie Ainsmith and Earl Smith. With the game tied at six runs apiece, Detroit took the initiative by scoring one in the 6th and three more in the 7th (two of those scoring on Ray Chapman's bases-loaded throwing error) but the Indians answered with one in the 7th and two in the 8th to close to within 10-9 heading into the final inning. The Tigers scored two times in the 9th behind doubles from Ralph Young and Bobby Veach and appeared to have put the game in their back pockets, but Slim Love could not survive the bottom of the 9th. With one out he allowed a single and then back-to-back doubles to Steve O'Neill and pinch-hitter Joe Harris; after a second out, Chapman joined the parade of two-baggers to tie the game. Tris Speaker took four wide ones, and Smith (4-for-5, 5 RBI) then singled to score Chapman with the improbable winning run. Chapman and Doc Johnston each had four of Cleveland's nineteen hits. [box]
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White Sox 3, Browns 2: A key fielding error and Hap Felsch's sacrifice fly gave Chicago the go-ahead run in the 8th inning and allowed Lefty Williams to notch his League-leading seventeenth win of the season. St. Louis took an early 2-0 lead on RBI singles from Wally Gerber and George Sisler , but the White Sox pulled level when Shano Collins doubled one home in the 3rd and Williams tripled and scored on a Joe Gedeon error in the 5th. Williams and Carl Weilman were otherwise stingy with Weilman (13-4) pitching his way out of a first-and-second one-out jam in the 6th, and Williams pulling the same stunt with no outs in the bottom half of the inning. But in the 8th, Buck Weaver led off with a double and moved to third when Jimmy Austin could not field Joe Jackson's grass-cutter cleanly, and this allowed Felsch to loft a fly ball to left field which was deep enough to prevent a play on the tagging Weaver. Williams (17-7) retired the final seven Browns to ensure this was enough. [box]
Nationals 8, Athletics 6: Washington again got a quick start against Philadelphia and then held on to defeat the A's for the fourth time in four days at Griffith Stadium. The Nationals led 5-0 after two innings, and 7-2 after four (two RBI from Menosky and three from Rice), but the A's put together a four-run rally in the 6th with the help of three walks issued by Tom Zachary. Washington, however, got an immediate insurance run on another Rice RBI in the bottom half and Ed Gill survived the final three frames unscathed to save the win for the home club. George Burns and Dick Burrus each had three hits for Philadelphia, who would lament their fifteen stranded base runners, and Rice piled up four hits for Washington. [box]
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