1919 AL - Games of Friday, 13 June

Results of the games played on the 50th day of the 1919 American League season . . .

Athletics 2, Browns 0: The St. Louis hitters could do nothing with Socks Seibold, so that single runs in the 2nd and 8th innings were enough to give the Athletics the win. Philadelphia took the lead when Cy Perkins drew a bases-loaded walk in the 2nd, but Seibold and Carl Weilman were on top of their games and there would be no more scoring until the bottom of the 8th. The A's scratched out an insurance run when Braggo Roth was plunked by Weilman to start the inning, advanced twice on groundouts and scored on George Burns' single. But as fine as Weilman (6-2) pitched (8 ip, 7 h, 3 bb, 3 so), Seibold (2-0) was better - if it were not for Burns' error in the 8th he would have retired the final thirteen men, not giving the visitors even the scent of a chance to get back into the contest. Whitey Witt had two hits and a stolen base atop the Philadelphia lineup. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 12 June

Athletics 1, Browns 0: Rollie Naylor pitched a ten-inning masterpiece, allowing seven hits and no walks, and the A's finally broke through against Bert Gallia with a run in the bottom of the 10th inning for the win at Shibe Park. This was a classic pitchers' duel in every sense, with neither pitcher allowing two men to reach base in any of the first nine innings; the closest either side came to denting the run column was when Jimmy Austin reached second base with one out in the 3rd on a single and a wild pitch. Gallia was perhaps even more effective than Naylor (1-0), retiring fifteen of the first sixteen A's, but the spell was broken decisively in the first extra frame. It started innocently enough, when Gallia (4-4) retired the first two Athletics, but he then plunked Joe Dugan in the back with a quick one; Frank Thomas singled and then Cy Perkins walked to load the bases with Naylor due to bat. While not much of a hitter, Naylor was having nothing to do with being replaced with a pinch-hitter (having retired fourteen of the last fifteen Browns) and had taken a bat to the plate before Connie Mack could even mull it over; The Grand Old Man decided to let Naylor take his turn at the bat, and the one-eyed right-hander made the gamble a winner when he grounded a ball through the right side of the infield to score Dugan with the game-winning run. Austin and Baby Doll Jacobson had four of the six St. Louis hits between them. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Wednesday, 11 June

Tigers 1, Yankees 0: Dutch Leonard authored a complete-game four-hit shutout, and needed every ounce of it as Detroit could only muster two hits of their own, but those two hits were good enough for the single run that decided the game. The white-hot Ty Cobb (a League-leading .432 in June) had both Tiger hits, and his first chased Eddie Ainsmith across the plate after he and Donie Bush had coaxed walks from Jack Quinn (4-4). Cobb's 8th-inning single was the only base hit for Detroit the rest of the way, but Leonard (3-0) was not to be denied; he pitched around three Detroit errors, and survived a 9th-inning triple by Ping Bodie because potential tying run Wally Pipp had been caught attempting to steal second base on the previous pitch. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 10 June

Browns 14, Athletics 8: In a day of big innings at Shibe Park, St. Louis had the bigger ones and outlasted the A's. It looked a like a Philadelphia cakewalk early on, as the home club scored four times in the 1st and four more times in the 3rd (six straight singles to start the stanza) against Dave Davenport to take a large early lead, but the Browns got half of those back in their next at-bat and then exploded for six runs in the 6th against Jing Johnson (3-4) to jump ahead. In the 7th, Wally Mayer drove in two runs with a single, and Jimmy Austin tripled and scored, as they tacked on another four runs to create some breathing space. The Browns' relief corps were the stars of the afternoon, as Allen Sothoron (3-6) relieved Davenport and threw six innings of one-hit baseball before Rasty Wright tossed a scoreless 9th. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Monday, 9 June

Athletics 12, Indians 3: Philadelphia sent fifteen men to the plate in a ten-run 4th inning that sent the Shibe Park crowd into a frenzy and made a comfortable winner of Socks Seibold. The game was scoreless when the home club came up to bat in the 4th inning and, after Roy Grover grounded out meekly to start the frame it appeared that zeroes were going to be the order of the day. But three straight singles followed to produce the game's first score, and when Joe Dugan then doubled in two more the visitors appeared to lose focus. Fred Thomas grounded to his counterpart Larry Gardner, who kicked it, and then Cy Perkins hit one on the ground to Dugan, who dropped the ball getting it out of his glove. With the bases now full again and a second out on the scoreboard, three more singles followed in succession before a double by Tillie Walker and a triple by George Burns cleaned up the baserunners. Cleveland scored three in the 8th as Seibold (1-0) began to tire, but the assembled fans hardly noticed. Burns had four hits and four RBI, Braggo Roth had three hits and scored three runs and Dugan had three RBI. [box]

1919 AL Players of the Week - 8 June

The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the American League for the week of 2-8 June are (* denotes League-leading total) . . .

1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 8 June

Yankees 5, White Sox 1: Bob Shawkey held Chicago to five hits and Frank Baker had three hits and two RBI to give the Yankees the win at Comiskey Park. Shawkey and Red Faber were pitching to a 1-1 deadlock when the Yankees turned five hits into four runs in the 4th to take control of the game, Baker finishing the scoring with a two-run single. Shawkey (4-5) only allowed three baserunners over the final five innings and finished the day with four walks and five strikeouts. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 7 June

Athletics 5, Indians 2: Philadelphia buried Cleveland and Stan Coveleski (3-5) under an avalanche of eighteen base hits - sixteen of them singles - and Tom Rogers was sharp on the hill in front of the home fans. The Athletics clearly came to swing the sticks today, as they took no free passes, but the strategy paid off as they had multiple safeties in every inning but the 2nd and 8th. Tillie Walker got them off and running with a home run in the bottom of the 1st, and four more hits in the 3rd made it 3-0 and that would turn out to be enough although, despite their overwhelming superiority in the hit column they could never quite pull away. The Indians put the tying runs aboard in the 4th and then put the first two men on in the 8th, but Rogers (3-2) was up to the test and retired the final six men to face him. Whitey Witt led the hit parade with four knocks, while Walker and Joe Dugan had three each. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Friday, 6 June

Tigers 3, Red Sox 2: Howard Ehmke allowed only one earned run over nine innings, and also had two hits and two RBI to lead the Tigers over the Red Sox. Ehmke (3-7) split open a 2-2 tie in the 4th when he logged the second of back-to-back two-baggers with Eddie Ainsmith and then wriggled free of a bases-loaded jam in the 7th to ensure that run remained decisive before setting down the final six Sox in order. Bobby Veach tallied three base hits for Detroit while Dave Shean and Amos Strunk each had two of Boston’s seven safeties. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 5 June

Tigers 3, Red Sox 2: Donie Bush had three hits and knocked in the go-ahead run twice as Detroit edged Boston in the series opener at Fenway. Bush singled home Eddie Ainsmith with two outs in the 5th to open the scoring, and did it again in the 8th to break a 1-1 tie and put the Tigers ahead to stay. Ty Cobb sent Bush home withe a triple two batters later, and that insurance score proved to be the difference as Boston got one run in the last of the 9th off of Dutch Leonard; Stuffy McInnis’ double play ball short-circuited the rally, however, and Leonard (2-0) bested Babe Ruth (1-3) in a fine pitching duel. Amos Strunk singled twice for the Sox. [box]