1919 AL Players of the Week - 29 June

The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the American League for the week of 23-29 June are (* denotes a League-leading total) . . .

1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 29 June

Yankees 6, Red Sox 3: Roger Peckinpaugh blasted a three-run home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to propel New York to victory after having nearly given the game away in the 9th. The Yankees took a 3-2 lead in the 7th on consecutive two-out singles by Peckinpaugh, Frank Baker and Duffy Lewis and George Mogridge held that lead until the final hurdle. Everett Scott led off the top of the 9th for Boston with a double and moved to third on Red Shannon's pinch-hit single. After PH Stuffy McInnis flied out to shallow center, Frank Gilhooley hit a grounder to third which went under the glove of Baker to allow Scott to score the tying run. Neither club mounted a real challenge again until the home half of the 11th. Truck Hannah drew a leadoff walk (his third free pass of the day) against Ray Caldwell (2-7), and then Allen Russell (3-2) dropped a bunt to Babe Ruth at first; Ruth threw to second looking to cut down the winning run, but threw the ball over Scott's head and into shallow left field allowing Hannah to reach third base. Chick Fewster came on to run for Hannah, but Sammy Vick popped one to shortstop for the first out. This brought Peckinpaugh to the dish and he ripped a long one into the seats for his third home run of the season and a Yankee win. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 28 June

Tigers 11, Indians 2: Donie Bush collected four hits from the leadoff spot and scored three times as Detroit gave the Indians a thrashing at League Park. The Tigers scored four times in the 4th and again in the 6th, while Cleveland could only score two runs against Dutch Leonard (5-2), despite five walks (Leonard also struck out seven). Ralph Young also scored three Tiger runs, and Harry Heilmann drove three home to reach 40 RBI on the season. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Friday, 27 June

Browns 17, White Sox 2: This was not what Chicago expected, with ace Eddie Cicotte atop the hill looking to be the first AL hurler to reach eleven wins on the season. Cicotte (10-4) was rocked for nine runs in three innings, and the onslaught continued against Red Faber as the Browns piled up nineteen hits and twenty-six total baserunners in a laugher at Sportsman's Park. St. Louis got three in the 1st and three more in the 2nd, and any hope of a White Sox comeback was put to a quick and painful death by a six-run 4th inning that was bookended by triples from George Sisler and Jack Tobin. Tobin drove in six of the St. Louis runs, Baby Doll Jacobson had four hits and Carl Weilman (8-2) allowed only seven hits and one earned run on the afternoon. [box]

1919 AL - Big deal between Athletics and Red Sox

In order to get some lineup protection for Babe Ruth and address a production hole at second base, the Red Sox made a move today with Philadelphia - Boston sent 30-year old outfielder Amos Strunk and 31-year old second baseman Jack Barry to the Athletics in exchange for 26-year old OF Braggo Roth and 22-year old 2B Red Shannon. Initial reactions to the deal across the League were firmly in Boston's favor; Roth has been one of the best batsmen in the AL in the season's opening third and Shannon has shown some promise in just his second full-time season in the bigs. Supporters of the deal in Philadelphia point to the experience of Strunk and Barry, their familiarity with Mr. Mack's way of playing ball (both having had long previous spells with the A's) and the difficulty that Messrs. Shannon and Roth have had making consistent contact (first and second in the league in strikeouts, respectively).

The players are expected to be available for duty with their new clubs when they take the field again on Saturday - the Red Sox are in New York for a twinbill with the Yankees, and the Athletics host Washington for a pair at Shibe Park.

The tale of the tape on the deal looks like this . . .

1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 26 June

Red Sox 4, Nationals 1: Herb Pennock held Washington to four base hits and Evert Scott had three hits two RBI to lead Boston to victory. Leadoff doubles in the first two frames by Frank Gilhooley, Sam Rice and Scott lead to single runs that left the Sox with a 2-1 lead, and then Scott split the game apart with a two-run single off Harry Harper (2-10) in the 5th. Pennock (2-4) retired seventeen of eighteen at one stretch, and went the full distance without much heartburn. Stuffy McInnis also had three hits and reached base four times. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Wednesday, 25 June

Red Sox 5, Nationals 4: The two clubs combined to knock out twenty-eight hits, but could only manage nine runs between them, and it was Frank Gilhooley's third hit of the day that sent home the eventual winning run in the bottom of the 7th in Boston. The Sox scored twice in the 2nd on three hits and two walks, one to Harry Hooper with the bases loaded, and another in the 4th on Hooper's double to take a 3-1 lead. But the Nats scored two of their own in the 5th when Sam Rice singled home a run and Patsy Gharrity hit a sacrifice fly. But, in the bottom half, Stuffy McInnis singled with one gone and two-out base hits off of Jim Shaw (6-7) by Everett Scott and Dave Shean put Boston in front again. This was the edge that Babe Ruth (2-4) needed, as he nursed the lead through the final innings until Clyde Milan was caught attempting to steal his way into scoring position with two outs in the 9th. Milan had four hits for Washington and the light-hitting Dave Shean turned the same trick for Boston. [box] 

1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 24 June

White Sox 1, Indians 0: Lefty Williams was imperious in front of the home fans, pitching ten shutout innings, but could only earn the win when Nemo Leibold scored on Buck Weaver's single through a drawn-in infield in the bottom of the 10th. Williams (10-4) and Stan Coveleski were filling the cranks' scorecards with blanks all day and, after Chicago loaded the bases with one away in the 1st and failed to score, there were few threats to do otherwise. The key blow came when Leibold led off the 10th against Coveleski with a double down the right-field line; Eddie Collins bunted him the third, and the infield came in as Weaver came to the plate. His sharp grounder to the left side got between the shortstop and third baseman and Leibold trotted home with the game-winner to make a hard-luck loser of Coveleski (5-7), who had three of Cleveland's six hits. Joe Jackson had three safeties as well. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Monday, 23 June

Results of the games played on the 60th day of the 1919 American League season . . .

Yankees 7, Athletics 2: Bob Shawkey pitched a complete-game five-hitter and went three-for-three with two RBI at the plate to lead New York over the Athletics at the Polo Grounds. Shawkey (7-5) knocked in the tying run in the 2nd and the Yanks' final run in the 7th, while scattering five hits and three walks and holding the A's scoreless after Braggo Roth's two-run homer (6) in the 1st inning. Frank Baker had three hits in five trips, and Roger Peckinpaugh homered (2) and singled. [box]