Red Sox 7, Athletics 1: Babe Ruth homered in the 1st inning and Boston never looked back as they brushed aside Philadelphia at Fenway Park. Ruth's 29th four-base hit of the season scored Frank Gilhooley ahead of him with two outs in the opening stanza and was followed two batters later by an RBI double from Roxy Walters, and Boston led 5-1 after four innings before padding the lead with two 7th-inning runs on Stuffy McInnis' two-run double. Waite Hoyt (7-3) allowed only one unearned run, which came in the 5th after McInnis had mishandled two consecutive ground balls. In addition to his homer, Ruth doubled and walked, and took over the League lead in RBI with 97. [box]
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Indians 2, Tigers 1: Cleveland failed to put a runner aboard for five innings, but the sixth was the charm as a two-run rally provided the margin of victory over Detroit. Hooks Dauss, last week's AL Pitcher of the Week, was continuing his rich vein form by retiring the first fifteen Tigers after Bobby Veach's RBI single in the top of the 1st had given him a slim lead. But Elmer Smith led off the 6th with a clean hit that was followed one out later by another from opposite number Stan Coveleski. At this point Hooks appeared to lose sight of the plate, as he walked Jack Graney (no surprise) and then Ray Chapman (which takes some doing) to force in a run to tie the game. Tris Speaker then drove a ball into the air which carried deep enough to Veach in left to score Coveleski and put the Indians in front. Stan (13-14) then retired six Bengals in a row before an error and an single got the tying run to second with one out in the 9th, but he got Harry Heilmann to ground one to third and Chick Shorten to fly out to end the game. Dauss (7-15) was the tough-luck loser after allowing only three base hits. [box]
Browns 3, White Sox 2: Elmer Smith's triple scored the tying run in the 7th innings, and his sacrifice set up the winning run in the bottom of the 9th as St. Louis clawed back the game they had lost to Chicago in the standings on Tuesday. The Browns scored quickly for the second day in a row, getting back-to-back doubles from Joe Gedeon and Baby Doll Jacobson to score in the 1st, but Chick Gandil's triple keyed a two-run Sox rally in the 7th that took back the lead for the visitors. In the bottom half, though, Jak Tobin singled with one away and Smith then drove a ball over the head of Happy Felsch for three bases and a tie score. Chicago got a runner to third with no outs in the 8th when Eddie Collins singled, stole second and took third on the wild throw, but Bert Gallia (10-8) got Buck Weaver, Joe Jackson and Chick Gandil to hit shallow pop flies that left Collins stranded there. This set up the last of the 9th, when Tobin started the inning against Lefty Williams (22-10) with a double for his third hit of the afternoon and took third on Smith's well-placed bunt. Wally Gerber then hit one in the air to right field which might not have been deep enough to score the run, but Nemo Leibold had one eye on the runner at third while the other eye watched ball carom off the heel of his glove for an error that decided the contest. [box]
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