Nationals 3, Red Sox 0: Walter Johnson was overpowering at Fenway, allowing only five Red Sox hits and whiffing five on his way to a complete-game shutout. After the 1st inning, Johnson did not allow two men to reach base without benefit of an error in any inning and held Boston to a zero-for-five with runners in scoring position. Howie Shanks supported him with three hits, and Sam Rice knocked in a pair. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Wednesday, 7 May
White Sox 7, Tigers 4: Chicago scored six times in the bottom of the 8th to win their eighth game in a row. Cleveland was having everything their way up until then, with the White Sox only able to muster a single unearned run over the first seven innings and a two-run double from Eddie Ainsmith and a two-run homer by Ty Cobb giving Detroit a 4-1 lead. But Chicago loaded the bases with two away in the 7th and, although Slim Love came out off the bench to halt the rally, the crowd could sense a change in the air. When Swede Risberg started the 8th with a triple and Ray Schalk immediately singled him home, the ball was rolling - three singles and a Joe Jackson two-run double later there were six runs on the board and Roy Wilkinson just had to survive three walks in the 9th to secure the win. Jackson, Eddie Collins and Harry Heilmann each had three hits, and Ira Flagstead walked four times. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 6 May
Browns 5, Indians 4: George Sisler had a single, double and triple and the Browns scored twice in the top of the 9th to edge the Indians. With the score tied at three heading into the 9th, Jack Tobin and Joe Gedeon led off with base hits against Jim Bagby, and Ken Williams and Baby Doll Jacobson followed one out later with RBI singles to put St. Louis in front. Cleveland put the first two men on in the bottom half, and loaded the bases with one out and a run in, but Ernie Koob got Elmer Smith to pop up to third before striking out Larry Gardner to silence the gathered throng at League Park. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Monday, 5 May
Red Sox 5, Yankees 3: Amos Strunk doubled and knocked in a pair at Fenway as the red-hot Red Sox edged the Yankees. NY starter Jack Quinn came out of the gate ice cold, and before the cracks had settled into their seats the Bostons had put their first six men on base and scored four runs in the opening stanza; although Quinn righted the ship in style from that point forward, setting down twenty of twenty-one Sox at one stretch, the damage was done. George Dumont pitched seven strong innings before giving way to Carl Mays for the final six outs. Sammy Vick went a perfect four-for-four in the losing cause for the Gothams.[box]
1919 AL Players of the Week - 4 May
The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the American League for the first week of the season, including games from 23 April thru 4 May, are (* denotes League-leading total) . . .
1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 4 May
White Sox 3, Browns 0: Eddie Cicotte was nearly untouchable in front of the Comiskey Park crowd, holding St. Louis to three baserunners (all singles) and setting down the last ten Browns of the game. His teammates used scientific ball (four SH) and timely hitting (5-for-11 with RISP) to plate six runs in support, with Happy Felsch reaching base four times. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 3 May
Tigers 2, Indians 0: Hooks Dauss spun a three-hit shutout, making Bob Jones' 1st-inning homer enough to carry the Tigers past Cleveland. While Dauss walked five (while striking out no one), he only allowed runners to reach second on two occasions and benefited from a key double play in the 6th after he had walked the first two men. He then retired eleven of the final twelve Clevelanders to put an exclamation point on his afternoon. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Friday, 2 May
Results from the 10th day of the 1919 American League season . . .
Indians 9, Tigers 7: Elmer Smith hit a pair of home runs to help bring Cleveland back from an early deficit to win its first game of the season. Trailing 5-1 in the 4th, the Indians took advantage of a pair of Detroit three fielding miscues in the inning to score four times and get back into the ball game. Smith homered to lead off the 6th, and then again in the 8th provide an insurance run, to make a winner of Elmer Myers who came on to pitch 4.2 innings of fine relief. [box]
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