1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 22 June

February 23, 2024 by 

Tigers 10, White Sox 9: A long afternoon at Navin Field ended when Ralph Young singled home Oscar Stanage in the last of the 11th to give Detroit a wild win over the White Sox. When the Tigers scored five times in the 4th to take a 7-2 lead it looked to be a stress-free afternoon for the club and the crowd, but Chicago stormed back with three in the 6th (two-run triple by Ray Schalk) and four in the 7th (two-run triple by Hap Felsch) to leap to the front by a score of 9-7. But this was not a day for holding the hitters down, and Detroit scored once in the 8th when Bobby Veach tripled and scored on Harry Heilmann's single, and again in the bottom of the 9th on a Stanage double, a groundout and Donie Bush's run-scoring fly ball. The home team got two aboard in the 10th and failed to score, but Howard Ehmke's (5-9) sterling relief stint gave them a chance to try again in the 11th. Stanage started the inning against Dickey Kerr (4-2) with a single, and Ben Dyer and Bush also reached to load the bases with no outs. The suspense didn't last long as Young got his first hit of the game when it counted most, looping the ball into left field to send Stanage home with the game-winner. On an afternoon where there were many offensive laurels to hand out, that list was topped by the four hits by Heilmann (pushing his batting average to .383) and Chick Shorten. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 21 June

February 22, 2024 by 

Tigers 4, Athletics 0: Bernie Boland outlasted Scott Perry in a pitchers' duel that saw the game remain scoreless for six innings before Detroit rode the power bats of Ira Flagstead and Harry Heilmann to victory. Flagstead led off the 7th with a home run off of Perry (2-8), his third of the season, and Detroit tacked on another when Ben Dyer reached on Red Shannon's error, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on Oscar Stanage's single. In the 8th, after a walk to Bobby Veach, Heilmann laced a triple and scored himself when Flagstead cracked a base hit. Boland (8-1) was rarely challenged and retired ten of the final eleven A's after his teammates had given him a lead with which to work. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Friday, 20 June

February 22, 2024 by 

Red Sox 6, Browns 5: Ossie Vitt beat the throw home on a dribbler to the mound in the bottom of the 10th inning to score the winning run for Boston. The two clubs had battled back and forth for nine innings without a decision at Fenway Park, St. Louis having leads of 2-0, 3-2 and 5-4 before the Sox locked matters up again in the bottom of the 8th. Vitt doubled with one out and Babe Ruth was intentionally walked with two away in favor of pitching to Stuffy McInnis, no slouch himself when it comes to handling the stick and already with two hits on the day. The veteran first-sacker took advantage of the opportunity with a base hit to right that scored Vitt with the tying run. The batters went down with relative quiet in the 9th but, in the home half of the 10th, Vitt led off with a single and stole second. After Amos Strunk drew a walk from Lefty Leifield (1-1), Ruth hit a drive to center for the first out and Vitt - crucially - tagged up and beat Baby Doll Jacobson's throw in to third base. It was again McInnis' turn in the spotlight and he came through, albeit in a less artistic fashion. He tapped Leifield's offering to the left of the mound and,  with Vitt sprinting home on contact, all the left-handed pitcher could do was to spear the ball and flip it back-handed towards the plate where catcher Wally Mayer watched Vitt slide past as the ball settled into his glove. McInnis had three hits and George Sisler had three hits and a stolen base. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 19 June

February 22, 2024 by 

Nationals 8, White Sox 4: Clyde Milan had two doubles and a single, scored twice, knocked in three runs and stole a base to lead Washington to a home win over the White Sox. The Nationals roughed up Grover Lowdermilk (1-2) for five runs in the 2nd to break a 1-1 tie, with Milan doubling home two runs and then scoring on a wild pitch and Sam Rice's single, and added two more in the 4th when Milan started a rally with a single. Charlie Whitehouse (2-0) labored through five innings on the mound, and Dick Robertson provided four innings of one-run relief that held the League leaders (who were uncharacteristically sloppy in the field with three errors) at bay. Joe Jackson had three hits for the White Sox. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Wednesday, 18 June

February 22, 2024 by 

White Sox 4, Nationals 2: Happy Felsch doubled, stole a base, and drove in two runs and Eddie Cicotte found a way to pitch around sub-standard stuff on the way to his tenth victory of the season. Chicago scored single runs in the 2nd and 4th while Cicotte was working around a base hit in every inning yet keeping the scorecard clean. After the White Sox scored two more in the 8th on Felsch's two-out, two-run single, the Nationals finally dented Cicotte with three straight two-out hits that plated two runs, but he managed to get the final out of the inning and then got help from Dickey Kerr to secure the final out of the game. Nemo Leibold had three hits for Chicago and Sam Rice turned the same trick for Washington. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 17 June

February 21, 2024 by 

Red Sox 6, Indians 4: Babe Ruth homered in the bottom of the 11th inning to push the Red Sox to a doubleheader sweep of the Indians at Fenway Park. Ruth's 10th home run of the season was his third in two days after going nearly a month since hitting his last four-bagger on 21 May in Detroit, as he sent a Charlie Jamieson (0-2) offering into the stands with Amos Strunk on first and no outs in the extra frame. The game had failed to conclude in regulation when Cleveland rallied for two runs in the top of the 9th off of Herb Pennock, Doc Johnston providing the big base hit with the bases full and one out. Both teams threatened in each of the extra frames, but Bill James (3-1) managed to wriggle free for the Red Sox while Jamieson could not evade the wrath of Ruth, who also collected a brace of two-base hits to finish the twin bill with three doubles, two home runs, three runs scored and six driven in. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Monday, 16 June

February 20, 2024 by 

Tigers 8, Nationals 1: Ty Cobb ran roughshod over Washington at Griffith Stadium, smacking two triples among his four hits and stealing home for what turned out to the winning run of the game. The Nationals struck first in their opening half-inning when Joe Judge led off with a single, advanced to third on a sacrifice and a groundout, and scored on Sam Rice's deep fly ball. But Cobb flashed his formidable gifts in the 3rd; after Ralph Young had led off with a walk against Harry Harper (1-8) and had been bunted to second base, Cobb ripped a drive to center field that scored Young and went for three bases. One batter later, Cobb sprinted for home while Harry Heilmann was at the plate and beat Harper's throw home for the steal that gave Detroit a 2-1 lead. It turned out that there was plenty more to come for the Tigers, scoring two in the 4th and two more in the 7th, and Cobb tripled again in the 8th and scored the team's final run. Bernie Boland (7-1) shut the Nats down after their early run, allowing six hits and one walk despite Clyde Milan's three hits. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 15 June

February 18, 2024 by 

Tigers 7, Nationals 6: Joe Judge's five hits were not enough to overcome poor situational hitting by Washington as the Tigers edged an eventful contest at Griffith Stadium. The teams traded runs early and Washington held a 4-3 lead into the 5th, when Doc Ayers lost the thread. Four of the first five Detroit hitters singled, and the fifth reached when Eddie Foster mishandled a grounder to allow a run to score; another single, a based-loaded walk and a ground out produced three more Tiger runs and a 7-4 lead. Judge, who came into the game struggling mightily with an average below .200, got one of those back with an RBI double in the 7th, and another in exactly the same fashion in the 9th, but Rudy Kallio came off the bench to relieve Howard Ehmke and retire the final two men with Judge left standing on second base as the tying run, and as the 16th runner left on base by Washington on the afternoon. [box].

1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 14 June

February 18, 2024 by 

Nationals 1, Tigers 0: Jim Shaw beguiled the Tigers' potent offense, allowing them only three hits without issuing a free pass and fanning only one. Other than the three hits, Shaw only allowed Detroit to hit five balls out of the infield on the afternoon, coaxing a variety of routine grounders and pop-ups that enabled him to make short work of his opposition. And that level of dominance turned out to be necessary, as Dutch Leonard was spinning a gem of his own as he surrendered but four hits and a walk. But Detroit's biggest mistake of the afternoon came at the worst time - after Eddie Foster had singled with one out in the 6th and moved to third on a groundout and a wild pitch, Babe Ellison could not come up with Sam Rice's ground ball to his left and Foster scored the only tally of the game. That was always going to be enough for Shaw, who set down nineteen of the final twenty Tigers to close out a masterful performance. [box]

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