Browns 15, Tigers 3: Baby Doll Jacobson had five base hits, his St. Louis teammates added another fourteen, and George Sisler set a major-league record as St. Louis demolished Detroit at Sportsman's Park. The day's highlights for the Tigers came early and ended quickly - they scored twice in the top of the 1st when Ty Cobb reached on an error and then Bobby Veach tripled and scored himself on Harry Heilmann's single. But the Browns started their ball rolling downhill in their half of the inning when Joe Gedeon reached on an error and scored on Sisler's sacrifice fly. In the 3rd, three singles led to another two SLA runs and, in the 4th, the Browns ran Hooks Dauss (7-16) out of the game with seven hits and six runs; the second of these scored when Sisler again lofted a run-scoring fly ball. St. Louis piled on just for fun with five more in the 7th - Jacobson doubled in a run, Earl Smith hit a two-run homer, and Sisler hit his third sacrifice fly of the game to set a mark that no scribe in attendance could recall ever having occurred before in a big-league contest. Urban Shocker (15-9) rode this wave of offense to his fifteenth victory, allowing only one earned run despite giving up fourteen hits (Detroit batted 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position). Smith and Jack Tobin each had four hits for the Browns. [box]
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| George Sisler, SLA |
Yankees 6, Nationals 1: Jack Quinn allowed only a single unearned run and Ping Bodie whacked three hits to lead New York to a straightforward win over Washington. The game was a tense, scoreless affair through six innings with Quinn (16-11) and Eric Erickson matching goose eggs, but the levee broke in the 7th. First, the Nationals took advantage of Frank Baker's fumble of Joe Leonard's leadoff grounder to score when Val Picinich brought him home with a two-out two-bagger. But NY responded immediately - Bodie led off the home half of the inning with his seventh home run and two singles and an error by Mike Menosky in left brought home another on Roger Peckinpaugh's single. The Yanks put it away in the following frame when Wally Pipp tripled, Bucky Harris muffed a grounder, and Duffy Lewis belted a two-rum home run. Chick Fewster had three hits atop the New York batting order. [box]
Nationals 2, Yankees 0: Jim Shaw pitched eight shutout innings and Walter Johnson came off the bench to improbably thwart a last-gasp New York rally and allow Washington to salvage a doubleheader split. RBI singles from Clyde Milan in the 2nd and Frank Ellerbe in the 8th had staked Shaw to a slim lead, and he was holding up his end of the bargain through eight innings of a high-wire act that saw him pitch around ten hits and seven walks. But in the 9th, it seemed as if his circus routine would come to an end when he allowed two walks and a single to the first three Yankee batters. That brought Johnson into the game, and he got Del Pratt to pop up to first and then whizzed a fast one by Duffy Lewis for the second out. With the Polo Grounds crowd on its feet pleading for a hit, Ping Bodie bounced one right at shortstop Ellerbe who flipped the pill to Bucky Harris for the force play that ended the game. Chick Fewster had three singles in the losing cause. [box]
Athletics 5, Red Sox 1: Walt Kinney pitched a five-hitter and his teammates bundled all six of their base hits into a pair of run-scoring innings as Philadelphia won in Boston. The Sox scored in their first time at bat when Kinney walked Roxy Walters with the bases full, but that would turn out to be the last time that Boston would trouble him on the afternoon. The As got to work in the 2nd, with a little help from the Red Sox - Joe Dugan walked with one out, stole second and took third on Walters' misthrow, then Fred Thomas singled him home. Thomas then stole second and scored when Cy Perkins grounded one through the infield and into left field. In the 5th, Philadelphia used four singles and a base on balls to score three more times and that was more than enough for Kinney (8-12), who allowed only a Stuffy McInnis single (one of his three hits) over the last six innings. [box]
White Sox 3, Indians 0: Eddie Cicotte pitched his fourth shutout of the season to win for the twenty-first time as Chicago blanked Cleveland at League Park. Swede Risberg's two RBI doubles helped the visitors get out to a 3-0 lead over the first six innings and Cicotte (21-8) handled matters from there. The veteran knuckleballer was untouchable in the middle innings, retiring thirteen of fourteen at one stretch, and wiggled out of a couple of late inning jams before retiring pinch-hitter Doc Johnston as the potential tying run for the final out of the game. Ray Schalk had three hits for the Sox. [box]
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