Browns 9, Red Sox 0: St. Louis rapped out seventeen hits (six for two bases), five of them from pitcher Lefty Leifield (2-1), and the 35-year-old southpaw held Boston off the board completely in front of a quiet gathering at Fenway Park. Leifield's hitting exploits included four singles, a double, two runs scored and a run batted in and, with the ball in hand rather than the bat, he held the Red Sox to eight hits while issuing only a single free pass. The Browns got all the scoring they would need with four runs in the first two innings and then piled on with five late inning runs to run up the final score. Jimmy Austin and Hank Severeid each had three hits and Babe Ruth reached base three times for Boston. [box]
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Red Sox 2, Browns 0: Waite Hoyt returned the favor in the second game of the twinbill, twirling a three-hit shutout. The game was scoreless into the 6th when Boston finally broke the ice against Ernie Koob (3-1) - singles by Hoyt and Hooper put the pitcher on third base, from whence he scored on Ossie Vitt's sacrifice fly. Boston got another in the 7th when Red Shannon stroked a triple with two outs and scored ahead of Everett Scott's single. Hoyt, the teenage phenom from Brooklyn, needed no more help than that as he retired seventeen of the final eighteen Browns to salvage the split for the home team. Harry Hopper was the only man to register two hits in the sharply-pitched affair. [box]
Indians 7, Yankees 6: Ray Chapman reached on an error to start the top of the 11th inning, and scored on Elmer Smith's two-bae hit to provide the decisive run in a back-and-forth affair at the Polo Grounds. The decisive run marked the fifth lead change of the game as the clubs took turns putting their respective noses into the lead and then failing to keep them there. Cleveland led 2-0 and 3-2 before three hits, a walk, a hit batsman and a wild pitch conspired to produce two Yankee runs in the 4th that out the home team ahead. But the Indians jumped right back in front with a pair in the 6th thanks to RBI from Chapman and Smith. New York then scored once in their half of the 6th to tie, and once in the 7th on Chick Fewster's two-out hit to invert favors once again. Jack Graney singled home PH Charlie Jamieson in the 8th to knot the score up again, and the tug-of-war then relented for a few innings as fresh arms entered the game. In the 12th, Chapman skittered a ball to shortstop which Fewster mishandled to begin the inning; after Tris Speaker bunted the Indians SS over the second, Smith hit one over the first-base bag and into the right-field corner for a double that gave Cleveland the lead again, and this time for good. Guy Morton (9-9) finished off four innings of scoreless relief work by retiring the Gothams in order in the bottom of the 12th. Five different players (Larry Gardner and Doc Johnston of CLE; Fewster, Frank Baker and Ping Bodie of NY) collected three hits in the game. [box]
Tigers 13, Athletics 6: Philadelphia's second-line pitching collapsed under the weight of Detroit's bats, allowing eight late scores that turned a potential A's victory into a thumping defeat to the dismay of the smallish crowd assembled at Shibe Park. The Athletics had used some two-out magic in the 7th to score three times and give themselves a 6-5 lead, Tillie Walker singling home one run and George Burns doubling across two more. But, as has so often been the story in this ill-fated campaign, pitching and defense would fail Philadelphia when it mattered once again - Socks Seibold served up two-base hits in the 8th to Donie Bush and Harry Heilmann, wrapped around a pair of Terry Turner fielding errors, and the Tigers had three runs and the upper hand. Seibold then disintegrated completely in the 9th, allowing the first seven Tigers to reach safely on their way to a five-run inning that sent the cranks home grumbling. Bush and Bob Jones had three hits apiece while Heilmann drove in five runs to reach 70 for the season; Walker had three hits and Burns four for the A's. [box]
Nationals 3, White Sox 2: Walter Johnson held Chcago in check to allow Washington to make three early runs stand up for a home victory over the League pacesetters. The Nationals got four singles off of Erskine Mayer () in the 1st, good for two runs, and three more singles for another run in the 2nd, before the White Sox hurler found the line and length necessary to pitch six more innings of two-hit base ball. Johnson was in complete control save for a two-on, no-out pickle which he escaped in the 5th, and the White Sox eventually got to him in the 7th; with two away and a runner on first, Ray Schalk, Mayer and Nemo Leibold all singled to pull the visitors to within one run. But Walter (17-6) held Chicago without a hit over the final two innings to hold on to the slim margin for his seventeenth win of the season. [box]
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