Browns 8, White Sox 5: Six different Browns batsmen had a pair of hits on the afternoon as St. Louis outlasted Chicago in a busy affair at Comiskey Park. The clubs combined for twenty-seven hits but, despite all of the action, the score was still tied at five runs apiece heading into the 9th inning. Dickey Kerr (8-5) put the first two Brown aboard and then, after retiring one man, Ken Williams delivered the go-ahead blow with a single to center and Wally Gerber followed up one out later with a two-run double. The White Sox got the tying run to the plate in the bottom half, but Allen Sothoron (9-9) persevered until the end, racing to first base to retire pinch-hitter Chick Gandil on a bouncer to first for the final out. Williams reached base three times, scored twice and drove home two, and Buck Weaver had there RBI for Chicago. [box]
| Ken Williams, SLA |
Yankees 2, Red Sox 0: New York managed to squeeze across only two of its seventeen baserunners, but Bob Shawkey ensured this was enough by authoring a complete-game four-hit shutout of Boston at Fenway Park. The Yankees gave some preview as to what was to come when their first two batters of the game singled, and then Frank Baker grounded into a twin killing; a run scored, but they would collect only one hit with runners in scoring position the entire game. Shawkey (11-9) was hardly bothered, however, as he set down twenty of the first twenty-one Sox and got crucial third outs with the bases loaded in the 8th and 9th innings to preserve the narrow victory. Wally Pipp registered three base hits for the Yankees. [box]
Tigers 4, Indians 1: Bernie Boland tiptoed around ten Cleveland hits so that two late-game RBI from Ralph Young were enough to separate the Tigers and Indians in Cleveland. The teams exchanged early runs as Young singled in one for DET in the 3rd and Larry Gardner did the same for CLE in the 4th, but the real break came in the 7th. Bob Jones (three hits) singled to lead off the frame and Eddie Ainsmith then walked against Stan Coveleski (8-11); after Boland sacrificed the runners along, Coveleski whiffed Donie Bush but Young (three hits) and Ty Cobb struck for two-out run-scoring singles to give the Tigers the lead. Boland singled in the 9th and Young doubled him home as an insurance policy, but Boland (14-3) escaped a pair of one-out singles in the 8th and a one-out Steve O'Neill triple in the 9th to finish it off. [box]
Nationals 7, Athletics 3: Philadelphia fell to their 11th consecutive defeat, mustering only four hits against Walter Johnson while Sam Rice was denting them for three RBI to lead Washington. This looked to be the usual sort of lopsided affair that the A's have been producing as of late when they fell behind in the first five innings to 5-0 to Rice's three RBI and two more from Joe Judge. But an uncharacteristic fielding error by Eddie Foster in the 6th scored one run and kept the inning alive for George Burns to drive in two more, and the three unearned runs brought the game back within reach. But the first three Nationals singled to start the home 7th, leading to two runs that felt like two hundred with the Big Train (15-5) on the slab, and he duly retired the final nine Athletics in order. [box]
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