Red Sox 10, Browns 9: In one of the most improbable comebacks in big-league history, Boston scored seven times in the bottom of the 9th inning (without making a single out) to commit grand larceny in broad daylight, in front of 2200 witnesses. St. Louis had built a 5-3 lead through seven innings, on the strength of a four-run 5th, and then appeared to have blown the game wide open with another four runs in the 8th that were aided and abetted by three free passes from Sam Jones (11-15). Rolla Mapel took the mound in the bottom of the 9th having held the Sox to a single earned run, but was likely feeling the strain of the effort having had only made two previous starts this season. When the first three BOS batters resulted in a hit batsman, two singles and a run, manager Jimmy Burke thought he saw the signs pretty clearly and waved in Rasty Wright to finish off the doubleheader sweep. But Wright (2-4) gave up singles to the first two men to face him, and then kicked a comebacker that loaded the bases with the tying runs, and the small Fenway crowd could smell the scent of crime in the air. Stuffy McInnis singled in one run, and Wright walked PH Wally Schang to force home another and it was suddenly a one-run game and Sunset Jimmy was forced to trudge to the mound again, looking for anyone who could record one out, much less the three required to finish the job. In came the usually reliable Bert Gallia, but the heist was well underway at this point - Red Shannon singled to tie the score, and blooped his second hit of the inning into shallow left field to score McInnis and the theft was complete with no sign of flatfoots or gumshoes to be found anywhere. Demmitt had three RBI, and there were a combined eight fielding errors which led to seven unearned runs. [box]
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Browns 8, Red Sox 6: The clubs traded four-run 4th innings in a rapid-fire start to the opener of the twin-bill, but St. Louis got two RBI from Jimmy Austin late in the game to pull away for a victory. The Browns had six consecutive men reach base after two were out in the top of the 4th, and Ray Demmitt's two-runs single sparked their big inning, while Babe Ruth's three-run home run (#34) was the centerpiece of Boston's response. The Browns took the lead in the 6th on Austin's run-scoring groundout, and got some insurance when he doubled home Wally Gerber in the 7th. The Sox got one back in the 8th, but Allen Sothoron came on to get out of the inning and pitch a scoreless 9th. St. Louis had thirteen hits (three by Austin) and seven walks. [box]
Yankees 4, Indians 0: Bob Shawkey allowed but a single Cleveland batter to reach second base, and Ping Bodie drove home all four New York runs. The Yankee center-fielder singled home the first run of the game in the 2nd, hit a solo home run in the 7th, and singled home two more in the 8th to cap a three-hit afternoon. Shawkey, meanwhile, was throttling the Indians on four hits - all off the bats of Jack Graney and Tris Speaker - and one walk, with Speaker's leadoff double in the 4th the only instance of a Clevelander in scoring position all day. [box]
Tigers 10, Athletics 9: Ira Flagstead drew a bases-loaded walk as a pinch-hitter in the top of the 10th inning to push Detroit to hard-fought win in Philadelphia. The A's shot out to a 5-0 lead after only three innings behind a two-run double by Chick Galloway and a three-run home run from Frank Welch. But the Tigers got four runs right back in the 5th behind six straight singles, and took the lead briefly when Galloway's error left the door ajar for Ty Cobb's two-run two-bagger. The catchers too over in the next two at-bats: Cy Perkins doubled home a run to tie it up again in the bottom half of the 6th, and Eddie Ainsmith tripled home two in the top of the 7th and scored himself when Welch threw the ball wildly back into the infield. But the Athletics weren't done - three singles, a Chick Shorten error and an sac fly scored two runs in the home 8th and the game was a 9-9 tie. Unfortunately for the Shibe Park crowd, this didn't last long as Walter Anderson came on to pitch for Philadelphia in the 9th and issued three walks after a leadoff single, the last coming to Flagstead to force across the go-ahead run. Slim Love pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the 10th to nail down the Detroit victory. Ainsmith and Al Wingo each had three hits and scored three times. [box]
Nationals 6, White Sox 4: Frank Ellerbe drove in three runs late in the game and Jim Shaw maneuvered around fourteen Chicago safeties to earn Washington a win in the first game of two at Griffith Stadium. Ellerbe singled home a run with two away in the 5th to give WAS a 4-3 lead and, after the Sox had tied the game on Happy Felsch's two-run homer in the 7th, knocked a two-run double in the bottom half of that inning after Eddie Collins' second error of the game had kept the inning alive. Shaw (15-19), who allowed at least one baserunner in every inning but crucially only put the leadoff hitter aboard in two of them (the two innings in which Chicago scored), allowed two hits and a walk in the final two innings but kept the White Sox off the scoreboard. Felsch had four hits in the defeat. [box]
White Sox 4, Nationals 2: Chicago rebounded in the nightcap behind seven strong innings from Lefty Williams and three 10th-inning walks that led to two tie-breaking runs. The Nationals led 1-0 through seven behind Tom Zachary's strong mound work and a Sam Rice sacrifice fly, but the White Sox offense broke through in the 8th. A single and a walk put two aboard with one out before Buck Weaver drove a ball into the gap for two bases and two runs to give Chicago the lead, but one which would only be momentary before Joe Judge and Howie Shanks doubled in the bottom of the inning off of Eddie Cicotte in relief to tie the game. It would stay that way until the 10th when Harry Harper, who leads the circuit in bases on balls with XXX, would find the plate resistable once again; with one out, Eddie Collins drew a walk, Weaver singled and Joe Jackson walked to fill the bases. Harper (6-19) fanned Hap Felsch for the second out, but Chick Gandil singled in a run and Harper threw four wide ones to swing-first Swede Risberg to push home a second. Cicotte (24-8) was more than up to holding on, as he retired eight of the final nine men to face him. Weaver and Gandil each collected three hits for Chicago. [box]
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