Tigers 5, Red Sox 4: Three 9th-inning walks proved fatal to Boston's chances as Detroit took advantage of the charity to score twice in the final inning and hold on for a narrow victory in The Hub. Babe Ruth extended his single-season home run record to 35 with a solo shot in the bottom of the 8th that tied the game at two runs apiece, but Sam Jones (11-17) didn't have the gas, or the support, to hold on in the 9th. Eddie Ainsmith led off with a little dribbler toward third base which the slick-fielding Ossie Vitt should have just eaten, but his wild heave to first allowed Ainsmith to take second. Jones then, unforgivably, walked pitcher Howard Ehmke to put himself in real trouble. Donie Bush sacrificed the runners into scoring position and, again, Jones issued four wide ones to one of the weaker hitters in the League (this time, it was Ralph Young) to load the bases with Ty Cobb, Bobby Veach and Harry Heilmann coming to bat. Ed Barrow came to the mound, and Jones left with him as Bob McGraw trotted to the slab to try to dig the Sox out of the big hole in which they found themselves. But McGraw walked Cobb to force in the go-ahead run and then Wally Schang let a bender get through him for a passed ball that provided an insurance marker for Detroit, before he managed to escape from the inning. Boston put Ehmke (13-15) under pressure in the home 9th, scoring once on Frank Gilhooley's pinch-hit double, but the tall Tiger right-hander got Vitt to tap back to the box for the final out. Veach had three hits for the Tigers, including his League-pacing 40th double, while Stuffy McInnis had two hits and two RBI for Boston. [box]
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| Bobby Veach, DET |
Yankees 10, White Sox 7: More late-season difficulties for Chicago pitching, as New York belted out another seventeen hits on their way to a high-scoring win over the White Sox. The Yanks led 10-2 through four innings, on the strength of a five-run 2nd inning that was fueled by two Chicago errors. The Sos tried to make a stand with four runs off of Carl Mays (11-13) in the 7th, and a solo homer by Joe Jackson in the 9th, but it would not be nearly enough to avoid a series sweep for New York in front of the home crowd. Ping Bodie and Muddy Ruel each collected three hits, and Frank Baker drove in three runs to pass the 100-RBI mark for the season. [box]
Indians 5, Athletics 2: George Uhle limited Philadelphia to five hits, but it still required a three-run 10th inning for Cleveland to secure a victory at Shibe Park. Uhle and Charlie Eckert (2-2) were locked in a tight pitcher's affair that remained scoreless through five and was tied at two after a Jimmy Dykes sacrifice fly evened things up in the bottom of the 7th. Neitehr team threatened until extra innings, when Jack Graney (three hits) led off the Cleveland inning with a two-base hit and scored to break the deadlock on Ray Chapman's single. When Joe Harris doubled one out later, Eckert yielded to William Pierson, who in turn yielded a two-run single to Larry Gardner that gave the Indians some breathing room. Uhle (9-4) walked the leadoff man in the bottom of the inning, but got Cy Perkins (who had homered earlier in the game) to bounce into a double play to end the game. [box]
Browns 7, Nationals 3: Washington's three 4th-inning errors doomed them to defeat at Griffith Stadium, as St Louis rode five unearned runs to victory. Howie Shanks kicked two ground balls in that inning, and Buzz Murphy allowed a Wally Gerber single to sneak under his glove to plate three runs, as the Brown scored five times to seize control of the contest. Two St. Louis errors in the 6th allowed the Nats to score twice and add some interest, but four hits and two runs in the top of the 9th put that to rest. Wally Gerber had four RBI, but also made two errors to push his League-leading total to 53. [box]
Nationals 5, Browns 3: Harry Courtney went the distance on the mound, and five Washington batters (including Courtney) had two hits each as the Nats sprinted ahead and then held on to salvage a doubleheader split. WAS scored three times in the 2nd behind Courtney's two-run single, and two times in the 5th on doubles by Joe Leonard and Sam Rice and an RBI single by Frank Ellerbe. Three bases on balls from Courtney (1-1) in the 6th helped St. Louis to score three runs, but he then held them to a single hit over the final three innings to earn the complete-game win. George Sisler had three hits in a losing cause. [box]
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