Indians 15, Athletics 5: Cleveland scored all fifteen of their runs in just the first five innings of the game and used twenty-one hits (eight for extra bases) to bury Philadelphia. Consecutive RBI hits by Tris Speaker, Joe Harris and Larry Gardner got things rolling in the bottom of the 1st, and Speaker knocked in two more in a three-run 2nd. Elmer Smith then homered in both the 3rd and 5th innings as the Indians pummeled Jing Johnson (7-11) and Jimmy Zinn for nineteen hits in the first five frames. Speaker ended the day with five hits, four runs scored and four RBI while Gardner drove in five. Stan Coveleski (12-14) wasn't sharp, but went the distance to earn full benefit from the support. [box]
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| Tris Speaker, CLE |
Yankees 4, White Sox 2: Bob Shawkey scatter six hits and Wally Pipp's two-run single keyed a 6th-inning rally that lifted New York over Chicago at Comiskey Park. While Shawkey (15-10) was holding the Sox off the scoreboard for the first seven innings, the Yankees took the lead in the 4th on Roger Peckinpaugh's solo home run and then created some elbow room in the 6th. With runners on second and third and one out, Kid Gleason decided to put Frank Baker on intentionally and pitch to Pipp with the force play in order, but the veteran first baseman had other ideas - his single through the box off of Eddie Cicotte (20-8) scored two runs and pushed Baker into scoring position from whence he tallied on Del Pratt's double. It was not all completely smooth sailing for Shawkey, though, as he was taken into the seats by a Buck Weaver clout in the 8th which cut the lead in half before he recorded the final four outs in order. [box]
Red Sox 1, Tigers 0: Waite Hoyt pitched a complete-game shutout and a key Detroit fielding error led to the winning run as Boston won on the road. It as a scoreless duel between Hoyt and Hooks Dauss (7-14) through five innings but, with one away in the 6th, Donie Bush booted Braggo Roth's grass-cutter allowing the Sox outfielder to reach. Babe Ruth followed with a single to put baserunners at the corners of the diamond, and Stuffy McInnis hit a slow grounder up the middle which Ralph Young could only turn into a force play on Ruth, allowing Roth to score the first run of the game. And the only one, it turned out, as Hoyt (6-3) survived his own defense-driven danger in the bottom half and then went on to hold Detroit to a single hit over the final three innings. Everett Scott and Harry Heilmann were the only hitters to record more than one base hit. [box]
Browns 3, Nationals 2: Washington misplays were the difference in a tight game at Sportsman's Park. The Browns took an early 2-0 lead on a Ken Williams home run in the 2nd and a 3rd inning that featured two WAS errors, a wild pitch and a passed ball. But the Nationals tied it up in the 6th when Mike Menosky homered off of Bert Gallia (9-8) with Clyde Milan (two singles, two walks) aboard. Matters rested there until the home half of the 11th, when the Washington defense again let them down, this time fatally - with one out, Hank Severeid rolled one towards third base which Eddie Foster picked cleanly but then lost the handle getting out of his glove. Earl Smith then pinch-hit for Gallia (11 ip, 6 h, 7 bb, 2 er) and singled to right, moving Severeid to second. This brought up little Jimmy Austin, hitting under .240 on the season but already with two hits on the day, and he lined a single to left field off of Jim Shaw (11-18) that scored the winning run for St. Louis. [box]
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