Tigers 9, Nationals 6: Ty Cobb had five hits and scored three runs, but it was the Washington defense that decided the game as two 11th-inning errors led to three unearned runs that handed the Tigers the decision. Detroit trailed 5-2 after only three innings, but their first four men reached in 5th (including Cobb, who had already recorded his third hit of the game) and a single, two RBI groundouts, and a wild pitch followed to produce four runs to put the Tigers in the lead. When the Nationals answered with one in the 6th to tie the score again it looked like this might be a "last-team-to-hit-wins" sort of afternoon, but quality relief from Eric Erickson and Doc Ayers put a lid on the scoring into extra frames. Cobb started the 11th with a base hit then, with one away, Harry Heilmann hit a bounding ball to second which Hal Janvrin couldn't come up with and Ira Flagstead hit a fly ball to medium-deep left which rebounded off the heel of Patsy Gharrity's glove for a two-base error the pushed across the tie-breaking run. The damage was fatally and immediately compounded when Bob Jones ripped a double that scored both of the men who had reached on miscues; Ayers stumbled a bit in the bottom half, loading the bases on two singles and a walk, but he struck out the unfortunate Gharrity and got Sam Agnew to ground into a game-ending force play. Bobby Veach and Joe Judge each had three hits. [box]
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| Ty Cobb, DET |
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