Nationals 3, Yankees 2: Walter Johnson came off the bench and delivered the game-winning hit as Washington scored twice in the bottom of the 9th inning to snatch a win out from under the noses of the New Yorkers. Carl Mays and Jim Shaw locked up in a classic duel, with six scoreless innings of base ball before damage was first done in the 7th. The clubs traded single runs in that inning, courtesy of a Muddy Ruel sac fly and Mike Menosky's fifth home run of the season, but the Yankees jumped ahead again in the 8th when Frank Baker doubled home Chick Fewster. Johnson (21-6) came on in relief of Shaw when the latter put the first two Yanks aboard in the top of the 9th, and escaped a second-and-third, one-out jam by retiring Fewster on a ground ball to short with the infield pulled in and then getting Baker to fly out to the fence in left. Sam Rice started the last of the 9th with a single and was sacrificed to second by Frank Ellerbe. Menosky then singled to tie the game, and Bucky Harris singled him to third. Mays (9-12) whiffed Patsy Gharrity for the second out, and Johnson (a career .225 hitter with more than 100 extra-base hits) stayed in the game to swing the bat. And swing it Barney did, bouncing a 2-2 pitch over the second-base sack and into center field to send Menosky across the plate with the game-winner. Roger Peckinpaugh had three hits in a losing cause. [box]
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White Sox 6, Indians 4: Chicago scored three times in the bottom of the 8th to flip the script on Cleveland at Comiskey Park. The Indians had themselves reversed a 3-1 deficit in the top of the inning, using two hits and two walks to score a run and load the bases before starter Jim Bagby pulled a double down the right-field line on the first pitch delivered by reliever Red Faber for two more scores. But Bagby (13-15) could not bar the barn door in the home half of the inning - with one out he allowed four straight hits, the last straw coming on Ray Schalk's two-run single that put Chicago back on top. Faber (14-5) served up a double to Ray Chapman to put the tying run on second with no outs in the 9th, but he retired the next three men on harmless fly balls to complete the comeback. Schalk, Nemo Leibold and Swede Risberg all collected three hits for the Sox. [box]
Tigers 6, Browns 2: Bernie Boland held St. Louis to four hits as Detroit pulled away at Navin Field. The Tiger starter struggled with control in the early going, with a walk and a hit batter leading to two Browns runs in the top of the 1st, but Detroit answered with two in their half and single runs in the 2nd and 3rd to move ahead. Boland (17-8) then retired fourteen of fifteen at one stretch while his teammates were adding a couple of additional tallies (Boland himself contributing an RBI single) in support. Ralph Young and Bobby Veach each knocked in a pair of runs. [box]
Athletics 4, Red Sox 2: Two big extra-base hits fueled an 8th-inning rally that put Philadelphia into the lead and Jing Johnson finished off a complete-game win by holding Boston to one hit over the final three innings. The game was tied at two when Dick Burrus led off the 8th with a triple that eluded the reach of Braggo Roth in center Whitey Witt followed with a double for the lead, and Tillie Walker with a single that plated Witt, and Johnson (8-13) then ended the affair by coaxing a double-play ball off the bat of Everett Scott. Burrus and Fred Thomas led the A's with two hits apiece. [box]
Red Sox 7, Athletics 1: Babe Ruth homered twice, and Harry Hooper added a circuit clout of his own, as Boston beat Philadelphia to split the doubleheader at Shibe Park. Hooper led off the game with his fourth four-base hit of the season to get the Sox rolling and Ruth followed two outs later with his 31st. The pair were at it again almost immediately, as Hooper singled in another run in the 2nd and Ruth homered again in the 3rd to score two more runs for a 5-0 Boston lead. The A's were not up to the task of pulling that back, as they could only manage a single run in he 6th when Allen Russell (3-3), who allowed but six singles and two walks, uncorked a wild pitch with two men on and a ground out brought one of them home. [box]
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