Buck Weaver, CHA
Indians 1, Yankees 0: Stan Coveleski spun a three-hitter for Cleveland and Joe Harris' two-out RBI single in the 4th inning was enough to beat New York in a tense affair at League Park. There was very little for the batters to pounce upon as Coveleski and George Mogridge were at their stingiest - the Yankees got two hits in the 1st and not another until the 7th, while Mogridge (2-7) held the Indians without a safety until the decisive 4th. After Ray Chapman reached on a force out, stole second and moved to third on Tris Speaker's dribbler between the mound and first base, Harris lined a ball into right field that sent the Tribe second-sacker sprinting home with the game's first (and only) run. Coveleski allowed a one-out single to Del Pratt in the 7th but, after Pratt stole second and took third on Steve O'Neill's wayward throw, the right-hander got the big outs by whiffing Duffy Lewis and getting Ping Bodie to bounce out to short to leave Pratt standing forlornly at third. Coveleski (11-13) then retired the final eight Yanks in order to finish off the game. Joe Wood (single, walk) was the only player to reach base twice in the game. [box]
Nationals 5, Tigers 4: Slim Love's fielding miscue in the top of the 10th opened the door for Washington to win away from home in the first extra frame. It looked early in the afternoon as if this would be a high-scoring affair, as the Nationals scored four times in the top of the 1st against Dutch Leonard (helped along by Donie Bush's error) and the Tigers scored twice in each of the first two innings behind Cobb's single and triple. But the spigot was closed after that as Leonard and Walter Johnson kept the scoreboard clean for the remainder of regulation play. Detroit threatened in the bottom of the 9th when Eddie Ainsmith's second triple of the game put him on third with the winning run with only one out, but Johnson got PH Ira Flagstead and Bush to hit pop flies to shallow left and the Tigers came up empty. Love came in in relief the start the 10th, and Joe Judge hit the first pitch right back at him; Love (4-8) could only grasp at empty air as the ball went between his pegs and Judge reached on the error. With one out Sam Rice singled Judge to third base and then Patsy Gharrity (three RBI) hit a liner that dropped in front of Chick Shorten in right to score the go-ahead run. Johnson (19-6) surrendered a one-out double to Cobb (now hitting .413!) in the bottom half, but retired the dangerous Bobby Veach and struck out Harry Heilmann for the final out. [box]
Browns 3, Red Sox 2: Jimmy Austin's single with two outs in the bottom of the 9th inning scored the winning run as St. Louis walked off a win against Boston. Wally Schang's second home run of the season, a two-run drive that followed a Babe Ruth walk, had given the Sox a 2-1 lead in the 4th but a single, sacrifice and a Joe Gedeon run-scoring single knotted the score again in the 5th. Ruth and Allen Sothoron were pitching well, though, (Sothoron retired sixteen of the final seventeen Sox) and there would be no more scoring until the final half-inning. With two outs, Hank Severeid coaxed a walk from Ruth (3-7) and Sothoron (12-11) singled him into scoring position. Austin the grounded a ball past a diving Red Shannon and into left field to score Severeid and send the Sportsman's Park crowd into a roar. [box]
Red Sox 10. Browns 4: Stuffy McInnis piled up four hits, and Babe Ruth had two RBI, two runs scored and two walks as Boston earned the split with a big win. It was St. Louis that got out of the gate quickly, scoring three times in the 2nd inning with the help of two bases-loaded walks by Herb Pennock. But McInnis tripled in a run in the 4th, two walks and a steal helped produce another in the 5th, and Pennock's two-run double was the key to a four-run 6th that put the Red Sox in front to stay. They put it out of reach in the 8th when Hooper hit a solo home run and Ruth tripled home two more, and Pennock held on to the end despite allowing fourteen hits. [box]
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