Tigers 2, Nationals 1: Detroit strung together four straight hits in the top of the 1st inning, and Howard Ehmke made sure that was enough at Griffith Stadium. With two outs in the 1st, Ty Cobb doubled and then Bobby Veach, Harry Heilmann and Chick Shorten each singled to produce two Tiger runs. Ehmke (11-12) allowed the Nationals to score once in the 3rd when he gave up a leadoff hit to hard-luck loser Jim Shaw (11-13) and then drilled Joe Judge in the ribs to set up a run-scoring ground out, but after that he was nearly impregnable, allowing only two hits over the final six innings. Cobb's double and single raised his League-leading average to .399. [box]
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Indians 4, Red Sox 2: Larry Gardner had two hits and two RBI to back Elmer Myers' complete-game six-hit pitching performance at Fenway Park. Gardner started the scoring when he singled home a pair in the top of the 1st off of Herb Pennock (5-10), and doubled and scored in the 4th as Cleveland extended its lead to 3-0. The Sox got two in the 5th on Everett Scott's two-run single to close to within a single run, but Steve O'Neill doubled home an insurance run in the 6th and Myers (9-1) recorded the final nine outs wihtout allowing the ball to leave the infield. [box]
Yankees 2, Browns 1: New York scored twice with two out in the bottom of the 8th to snatch a victory from the clutches of Urban Shocker and St. Louis. The only scoring action in a pitcher's afternoon had come in the 3rd, when George Sisler doubled home Jimmy Austin after the latter's leadoff single. Shocker (13-7) was mesmerizing the Yankees, retiring sixteen of seventeen leading up to the fateful 8th inning. Ping Bodie led that frame off with a single, and one out later PH Aaron Ward singled as well. After a sacrifice put the go-ahead runs in scoring position, Roger Peckinpaugh and Frank Baker delivered RBI singles that broke the spell and gave New York the lead. Bob Shawkey came on in relief of Jack Quinn (12-10) and pitched a hitless 9th inning. [box]
Browns 4, Yankees 3: In the second game of the twinbill it was St. Louis' turn to draw the last straw, as Ken Williams' single brought home George Sisler with the tie-breaking run in another close game at the Polo Grounds. Sisler had reached base on an error by Frank Baker to begin the inning, and then stole second to get into position for Williams' scoring hit. The Yankees got two runners aboard with one out against Allan Sothoron (11-10) in the bottom half, but retired Baker and Duffy Lewis to ruin the New York debut of Carl Mays (0-1). [box]
White Sox 11, Athletics 3: Chicago pounded out sixteen hits, half of them off the bats of Nemo Leibold and Hap Felsch, as they ran Philadelphia off the field at Shibe Park. The White Sox got three runs in the 2nd on three hits and two walks, two in the 4th with the help of an error and a passed ball, and two more in the 6th on Buck Weaver's bases-loaded double before Philadelphia could even get on the board against Eddie Cicotte (17-7). Three singles in the bottom of the 7th produced a single A's tally, but Chicago piled on with three more in the 8th behind Joe Jackson's first home run of the season. George Burns had three base hits for the home team. [box]
Athletics 4, White Sox 3: Philadelphia rebounded in the second contest, getting a two-run triple from Cy Perkins and riding Rollie Naylor's arm to a close win over Chicago. Perkins' triple in the 2nd put the Athletics ahead by a score of 2-1, and he then scored on an error by Buck Weaver. It was 4-1 Philadelphia when Naylor faced his biggest test; in the 6th, as a leadoff walk and two singles helped Chicago to score twice and cut the PHA lead to one run and, in the 7th, the Sox loaded the bases with one out. But Naylor (5-9) retired Eddie Collins and Weaver to end the latter threat without harm, and he held on for the final two innings to get the A's a much-appreciated win in front of the home crowd. Fred McMullin had three hits for Chicago. [box]
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