Red Sox 2, Tigers 1: Ossie Vitt's two-out single in the bottom of the 11th scored an unearned run that ended a tense affair at Fenway Park. Doc Ayers and Waite Hoyt (making his first major-league start) had spent the afternoon locked up in a tight game that saw each man repeatedly wriggle free of tight spots as they stranded a combined twenty-five base runners, with one DET run in the 3rd and one BOS run in the 4th the only blemishes on their ledgers. Boston loaded the bases in the 6th and 7th, and Detroit put two aboard in each of the 5th, 6th and 7th, but there was to be no further scoring into extra innings, with both starters continuing to carry the mail. The Tigers had the go-ahead run gunned down at the plate from left field by Babe Ruth with two away in the 10th, and Boston drew two walks in the bottom half, but the 11th inning came along with the score still tied at one. The 19-year-old Hoyt pitched a perfect inning, but Ayers got into trouble with one away in the bottom of the inning - Everett Scott reached when his grounder snuck through the legs of Bob Jones at third base and Hoyt then grounded a ball up the middle and into center field to push Scott to second. That was enough for Ayers, said Hughie Jennings, and George Cunningham came on to get Harry Hooper to ground out to second base with the runners moving up 90 feet. This brought up Vitt, hitless on the day and only hitting .230 on the season, but Ossie roped one over the second-base bag and onto the outfield grass and Scott skipped home to end the game. Bobby Veach and the young Hoyt had three hits apiece in what will surely be a memorable day for the young Schoolboy out of Brooklyn. [box]
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White Sox 7, Yankees 1: Buck Weaver had three hits, Joe Jackson doubled and tripled, and Dickey Kerr hurled nine fine innings as Chicago disposed of the Yankees at the Polo Grounds with relative ease. It was close affair until the middle innings, when Chicago scored two in the 5th on Weaver's groundout and Jackson's three-base hit, and two more in the 6th on Nemo Leibold's two-run single. Kerr (9-5) strangled the Yanks on just three hits over the final seven innings and escaped a bases-loaded one-out jam in style in the bottom of the 9th when Roger Peckinpaugh skied out to Jackson in right and Ping Bodie inexplicably tried to tag up and score with his team down by six runs; Jackson's throw home was in time and on line and Ray Schalk dropped the tag onto Bodie's leg for a somewhat embarrassing final out of the game. Eddie Collins (5) and Happy Felsch (4) homered for the White Sox as they became the first team in the circuit to reach the 60-win mark. [box]
Browns 4, Nationals 1: St. Louis put an abrupt end to a classic pitchers' duel by scoring three times in the top of the 9th off of Walter Johnson to defeat Washington. Johnson didn't allow a base hit until George Sisler singled with one out in the 7th, but he still found himself on the short end of affairs after St. Louis scored without a hit or walk in the 4th on Eddie Foster's two-base throwing error and a pair of ground outs. But Buzz Murphy tripled with one gone in the home 7th, and Howie Shanks' base hit got the Big Train and the Nats back on level terms. There it stayed until the 9th, with Urban Shocker looking similarly impenetrable for the Browns, and Johnson was to blink first. With one out, Baby Doll Jacobson singled and took second when Mike Menosky failed to field the hit cleanly. Johnson (15-6) retired the dangerous Sisler on a shallow fly to left and might have thought he had gotten through the toughest test, but Ken Williams singled to put Browns on the corners and Earl Smith followed with another one-base knock to score the go-ahead run. Wally Gerber then pulled a ball from the fading ace down the left-field line for two bases and two runs, dropping a pall of silence over Griffith Stadium. Shocker (13-6) escaped a leadoff fielding error in the bottom of the 9th and closed the deal by retiring Joe Leonard as the tying run at the plate. [box]
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