Red Sox 9, Indians 6: Babe Ruth had five hits and homered three times to tie the all-time single season home run record, and he drove in all nine Boston runs as they outlasted Cleveland in a slugfest. Ruth homered to plate the first two runs of the game in the 1st inning, tripled home two more in the 3rd, hit a two-run homer in the 7th, and equaled the record with a three-run shot in the 8th. The final blow gave BOS a 9-1 lead, but Cleveland rallied to score one in the 8th and four in the 9th; the tying run came to the plate with two outs, but Allen Russell came off the bench to induce a game-ending ground ball from Bill Wambsganss. The three-hit performances of Ossie Vitt, Joe Harris and Jack Graney were lost in the glare of The Babe's incandescent afternoon. [box]
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White Sox 9, Nationals 5: Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch rapped four hits each, and Swede Risberg knocked in five as Chicago buried Washington under a seventeen-hit offensive attack. The Nationals had the upper hand early, scoring twice in the 1st on Clyde Milan's two-run double and leading again 5-3 after scoring three more times in the 5th behind Eddie Foster's two-run hit. But that second lead was short-lived as the first four Sox reached base against Tom Zachary (1-2) in the bottom of that inning as Chicago scored four times to take the lead for good. The beneficiary of the Chicago hitting was Lefty Williams (21-9), who allowed five of his six hits in the two early WAS rallies and was nearly unhittable otherwise; he held the Nationals to a single hit over the final four frames. [box]
Athletics 4, Tigers 0: Rollie Naylor baffled Bengal batters to the tune of a three-hitter with no walks, and George Burns and Joe Dugan each had three hits on their own to lead the Philadelphia offense. Burns tripled and Dugan singled to open the scoring with two PHI runs in the 4th, Dugan singled and scored the third run in the 6th, and Burns singled home the final score in the 9th. Naylor (7-11) allowed only one hit over the final five innings and, in fact, had as many runners reach base on Athletic fielding errors as reached on safe hits. [box]
Browns 4, Yankees 3: Baby Doll Jacobson's single brought an end to the season's longest game, scoring pinch-runner Ray Demmitt in the bottom of the 18th inning in front of an elated and exhausted Sportsman's Park crowd. Jack Tobin's RBI single in the 5th had tied the game at three apiece in what was looking like it would be a day for the batters, but then suddenly the well ran completely dry - twelve consecutive scoreless innings followed, with very little in the way of scoring chances for either side. St. Louis got two on with one away in the 15th, and New York did the same with two outs in the 17th, but neither could produce a run. In the bottom of the 18th, pitcher Ernie Koob (4-2) singled and PR Demmitt was sacrificed to second and took third on a groundout. That brought up the hot-hitting Jacobson, who finished off the very long afternoon of baseball with a sharp ground ball into left field that sent Demmitt across the plate and into the arms of his teammates. Tobin had four hits. [box]
Yankees 3, Browns 2: The fans could not complain that they hadn't received their money's worth, even if they didn't like the final result, as the second half of the doubleheader also went to extra innings before New York edged out a 3-2 win. It was a 1-0 Yankee lead through seven innings, and the clubs traded runs in the 8th; George Mogridge (3-7) couldn't close out the Browns in the 9th, though, as PH Herman Bronkie doubled with one out and scored on consecutive singles by Jimmy Austin and Joe Gedeon. New York rebounded quickly from the disappointment, however - Duffy Lewis and Ping Bodie singled after one out in the 10th, and PH Al Wickland delivered the two-out hit that provided the decisive run. Jack Quinn came on in the bottom half and got three straight lazy fly balls out of the Browns to earn the save. Bodie and Baby Doll Jacobson each collected three hits. [box]
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