Browns 3, Tigers 2: Herman Bronkie had four hits, and Baby Doll Jacobson (3-for-4, 3 RBI) walloped a key two-run double to push the Browns past the Detroits at Navin Field. The Tigers had taken a 2-1 lead in the first on RBIs from Ty Cobb and Bobby Veach, but Bronkie led off the 5th with a single and he and Jack Tobin, who had walked, moved into scoring position on George Sisler's groundout. That set the table for Jacobson's two-bagger down the left field line which put St. Louis in front. Bert Gallia was money in the bank the rest of the way, benefitting from two double plays that kept traffic on the base paths in check. Ty Cobb had a pair of hits, including a double, a run batted in and a stolen base. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Friday, 30 May
Eight games on the Memorial Day schedule and, fittingly, the biggest fireworks of the afternoon came in the Nation's Capital . . .
Nationals 5, Yankees 2: AL-leading hitter Mike Menosky added three more hits to his impressive start to the season and Dick Robertson gave Washington eight strong innings in a Nationals victory. The home team strung together four singles in the bottom of the 7th to turn a 3-2 lead into a 5-2 one, and Robertson (and Walter Johnson in the 9th) retired the Yankees quietly over their final six outs. Patsy Gharrity also had three hits for Washington. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 29 May
Athletics 4, Red Sox 3: Tillie Walker doubled with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th to score three runs and snatch victory from the clutches of defeat in front of the home fans at Shibe Park. A well-pitched game between Carl Mays and Tom Rogers was leaning Boston's way after Harry Hooper's two-run homer had given the Red Sox an early lead; they had nursed this into a 3-1 advantage headed into the home half of the final inning, despite having collected only five hits. But Mays, who had allowed only four hits himself thus far and had retired the last six Athletics, came a cropper suddenly and immediately - Red Shannon, Braggo Roth and George Burns singled in succession to start the inning, and Walker then wasted no time drilling one into the left-field corner to drive them all home and a dejected Mays to the clubhouse. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 27 May
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Yankees 11, Browns 1: Frank Baker lived up to his nickname with a pair of home runs, and New York scored in each of the first six innings on their way to a rout of the Browns at Sportsman's Park. Baker's first clout put the first runs on the board in the top of the 1st, driving home Wally Pipp with two outs, and his solo shot in the 4th made the score 6-0 in favor of the Yanks. A four-run outburst in the 6th, aided by four free passes from the usually reliable Allen Sothoron, salted the game away entirely. Frank was not the only New Yorker to have fun at the Browns' expense, as Duffy Lewis and Ping Bodie each had three hits and Bodie crossed the plate three times. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Monday, 26 May
Nationals 5, White Sox 1: Harry Thompson pitched a complete-game five-hitter and made a three-run first inning stand up for the Nationals in Chicago. Swede Risberg's error led to three unearned runs in the opening stanza while the White Sox could muster only a single score in the 4th, on Eddie Collins' single, stolen base and Chick Gandil's ground out. Val Picinich homered in the 7th and then doubled in the 9th as Washington cashed in some late insurance, but Thompson needed none of it as he set down seventeen of the final eighteen White Sox. [box]
1919 AL Players of the Week - 25 May
The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the American League for the week of 19-25 May are (* denotes League-leading total) . . .
1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 25 May
Athletics 4, Tigers 1: Tom Rogers tied the Tigers in knots for nine innings, the incandescent Braggo Roth had three hits and Tillie Walker knocked in two runs as the A's suffocated Detroit at Navin Field. Rogers did not strike out a single batter but pitched artfully around seven hits and three walks, allowing but a single first-inning score. Philadelphia got that back on George Burns' home run the next inning, and then took the lead two innings later on Walker's run-scoring groundout, and stretched the edge in the 6th when Walker doubled home another and then scored on Joe Dugan's base hit. Rogers got a double play to escape some trouble in the 8th and then retired Donie Bush on a routine fly ball to center for the final out with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 24 May
Indians 2, Athletics 1: Bill Wambsganss singled through a drawn-in infield in the bottom of the 11th inning to score Elmer Smith with the winning run in a tense ball game at League Park. Rollie Naylor and Johnny Enzmann were outstanding on the mound, each pitching into extra frames while allowing but a single early tally to besmirch their ledgers. Cleveland scored in their first turn at the bat when Smith's ground out allowed Ray Chapman to score, and Philadelphia equalized in the 3rd on three straight singles capped off by Braggo Roth's RBI hit. The only real threat to score in the regular nine innings after that came when Wambsganss led off the 7th with a double and went to third on Johnston's infield hit. But Naylor bore down and got Steve O'Neill to ground to third with the infield in, and Enzmann to pop on the infield, before escaping completely on Jack Graney's grounder to first base. In the 11th, the As looked to have a golden opportunity when George Burns and Joe Dugan singled, and Fred Thomas beat out a sacrifice bunt to load the bases with one away. That brought Elmer Myers in for the tiring Enzmann and he got Cy Perkins to hit one sharply at third sacker Larry Gardner, who fired home for the force on Burns. Al Wingo came in to hit for Naylor, but swung weakly at a third strike from Myers to waste the opportunity. And that would come back to haunt the last-placed Athletics, as reliever Bob Geary would issue a free pass to Smith with one out in the bottom half and then Gardner would stroke a single to right that moved Smith to third base, With the infielders drawn in to cut down the potential winning run, Wambsganss lined one into left field to send the crowd home in good cheer. Dugan had an eventful day for the visiting team, collecting three hits but also grounding into a double play with two men on in the 8th and making his seventh error of the season. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Friday, 23 May
Results from the games of the 30th day of the 1919 season . . .
White Sox 12, Yankees 2: Eddie Collins had a single, double and a home run and Swede Risberg knocked in three men with three safeties from the penultimate spot in the lineup to power an easy White Sox win over the visitors from New York. With the score 3-2 Chicago in the bottom of the 7th, Buck Weaver drew a walk from Bob Shawkey to start the inning and Collins followed with a drive to the wall in center field that allowed both men to circle the bases uncontested. This was the beginning of the end for Shawkey as three of the next four men reached base against him, and Pete Schneider couldn't stem the tide that resulted in a seven-run inning. Eddie Cicotte put that in the bank and set the Yanks down quietly over the final two innings to join teammate Lefty Williams atop the AL win list with five. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 22 May
Yankees 6, White Sox 4: A four-run outburst in the top of the 9th inning turned the game upside-down and gave the Yankees a win at Comiskey Park. Jack Quinn and Lefty Williams had locked horns in a pretty good pitcher's duel which had seemed to finally tilt in the White Sox's favor when Joe Jackson led off the bottom of the 8th with a single, advanced to second on a groundout, and scored on Swede Risberg's two-out base hit to give Chicago a 3-2 lead. But Williams couldn't finish off the New Yorkers, walking Duffy Lewis to start the inning before allowing four consecutive one-out singles that produced three runs and a Yankee lead. Frank Baker's insurance-run single proved important when Chicago scored one in the bottom of the 9th off of Allen Russell, but the NY reliever got Hap Felsch to ground slowly to first with the tying run on second to end the game. Baker had three hits and two RBI, while Jackson and Nemo Leibold added three hits each to the losing cause. [box]
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