Red Sox 5, Tigers 2: Paul Musser continued his fine run of form as a stopgap starting pitcher, and Babe Ruth hit his 20th home run of the season to lead Boston to victory over Detroit. Since coming into the rotation ten days ago to help pick up the slack from the missing (and now traded) Carl Mays, Musser has made three starts, winning all of them, and has tossed 18.2 innings with a 2.41 ERA. On this afternoon, Musser (3-0) pitched into the 7th, allowing just one earned run while striking out seven Tigers, and also tripling in a pair of runs in the 2nd to give the Sox the lead for good. Ruth became just the ninth man in big-league annals to reach twenty homers in a season, and the first in the history of the American League (Socks Seybold having previously set the AL high-water mark with 16 for the Athletics in 1902). The young slugger needs just eight long balls to break the major-league mark of 27 set by Ed Williamson of the Chicago Nationals in 1884, although many experts consider that record to be suspect due to the peculiar home field dimensions at Lake Front Park in those days, and point instead to Buck Freeman's 25 four-baggers for the 1899 NL Senators as the rightful total of record. [box]
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White Sox 9, Yankees 5: Joe Jackson and Swede Risberg belted out three hits each and contributed to a six-run 3rd inning that paced Chicago past New York at the Polo Grounds this afternoon. With the Yankees leading 2-0 on a pair of 1st-inning runs, the White Sox ganged up on Hank Thormahlen (8-7) when it was their turn to bat in the 3rd. With two on and one out, Jackson singled home the first Chicago run and Risberg doubled home two more after a free pass to Happy Felsch and a Truck Hannah passed ball. Run-scoring hits from Fred McMullin and Eddie Cicotte completed the damage in that frame, but an Eddie Collins triple and Jackson's single plated another run in the 4th and Risberg singled in one in the 6th as Chicago ran out to a big 9-2 lead. The Yanks would chip away at Cicotte (15-7) with two unearned runs in the 6th and a singleton in the 8th, but it was both too little and too late for the home club. Fred McMullin had four hits as well for the winners. [box]
Athletics 5, Indians 3: Philadelphia took advantage of some early jitters by Stan Coveleski to build a lead, and Scott Perry held on with a little help from the bench to earn a rare and hard-fought win for the Athletics. Coveleski (8-12) clearly didn't come to the slab with his best stuff today, allowing three hits in the 1st, and three more in the 2nd, as the A's jumped to a 5-0 lead, George Burns and Tillie Walker each delivering two-run hits. Perry (5-13) held Cleveland to a single earned run through the first eight innings, but loaded the bases with a pair of two-out walks in the Indians 9th to force Mr. Mack to lift him from duty in favor of Walt Kinney; the Texan lefty walked Ray Chapman to force in a run to make the score 5-3, but then got Tris Speaker to fly out to Amos Strunk in right for the final out and his AL co-leading third save. Merlin Kopp and Terry Turner had three hits apiece for Philadelphia. [box]
Athletics 5, Indians 4: Ray Chapman's five hits and three RBI were not enough to stop Philadelphia from stunning Cleveland with two late comebacks and a game-winning run in the bottom of the 13th inning, earning a sweep of their doubleheader at Shibe Park. Cleveland led 3-1 into the last of the 9th, with Guy Morton working on a three-hitter for the Tribe, when the A's sprung to life. With one away, consecutive singles from Amos Strunk, George Burns and Whitey Witt cut the A's deficit to one run and then Terry Turner stroked a double into the LF corner to tie the game. Cleveland took the lead again in the 11th on Chapman's RBI double, but Philadelphia got a Strunk double and a Witt sac fly to knot the score once again. Burns began the home 13th with a two-bagger and moved to third on a groundout; when Turner bounced one to second, Burns was off at the crack of the bat and beat Chapman's throw home to score the deciding run. Burns had four hits and scored three times, while Jack Graney reached base four times and Bill Wambsganss hit his first home run of the season for the Indians. [box]
Nationals 6, Browns 2: St. Louis failed to get the big hit, and allowed Washington to ride Eric Erickson's arm and Eddie Foster's bat to victory in the District of Columbia. A three-run 4th, aided by a passed ball and a Wally Gerber error, was key for the Nationals, as Foster delivered a two-run single that gave Washington a 4-1 lead. A pair of strikeouts helped Erickson (4-5) to escape a four-hit 1st with only one run on the scoreboard, and he bore down in the pinch all day to hold the Browns to a 2-for-11 batting mark with runners in scoring position and retired the final five men to finish it off. George Sisler had three hits for St. Louis to continue his mid-season flirtation with the .400 mark. [box]
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