1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 3 July

Results of the games played on the 70th day of the 1919 American League season . . .

Athletics 9, Red Sox 6: Philadelphia scored seven times in the bottom of the 8th inning to turn what looked like an impending defeat to Boston into a victory in front of the home crowd. The Red Sox had taken a 4-2 lead in the 4th when Harry Hopper singled with runners at the corners and Tillie Walker mishandled the ball in centerfield, and had added what seemed to be an important insurance marker in the 8th when Red Shannon singled, was bunted to second, and scored on Ossie Vitt's two-out hit. But Sam Jones (4-7), who had been sharp through six innings (one earned run), lost control of proceedings in a hurry in the bottom of the inning. Two singles and a base on balls filled the sacks before anyone had been retired and a groundout produced the first run. When Everett Scott muffed a ground ball to let a second run score and cut the Sox lead to one, panic set in. Pitcher Rollie Naylor hit a grounder on the infield, but Merlin Kopp beat the throw home to score the tying run; Jones then uncorked a wild pitch and a walk to fill the bases again before Walker singled home two more to put the A's in front. Naylor (2-3) allowed a couple of hits and a run in the 9th, but reared back to record the final two outs via strikeout. Dick Burrus had four hits, and Amos Strunk had three safeties and scored twice against his former club; Red Shannon, also part of the deal that involved Strunk, had three hits for Boston against his old team. The two teams combined to commit six errors leading to eight unearned runs. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Wednesday, 2 July

White Sox 10, Indians 9: The most topsy-turvy contest of the season thus far saw Chicago demonstrate again why they have been the class of the League thus far. Spotting Cleveland an 8-0 lead, they roared back with ten runs over the final three innings to win a wild 10-9 decision that shocked to silence the assembled throng at League Park. The Indians teed off on Dickey Kerr for three runs in the 3rd (two-run single from Joe Harris) and four more in the 4th (two-run double from Tris Speaker) to build that eight-run lead and there were no signs that Stan Coveleski was going to have any problems defending that advantage, working on a six-hit shutout into the 7th. But the Indian defense contributed significantly to the undoing that began in the top of the 7th - the first two batters reached on miscues by Joe Evans and Bill Wambsganss and Eddie Collins singled to load the bases. But Coveleski couldn't get the final out of the inning before a walk and two singles led to four runs that cut the lead in two. In the 8th, another Evans error turned the potential third out of the inning into a two-run rally when Joe Jackson doubled in a run and Hap Felsch singled home another. Harris drove in another for CLE in the bottom of the 8th to give the Indians a three-run bulge heading into the 9th inning but it would not be enough for Elmer Myers (3-1), who was brought on to spell a battered Coveleski. After retiring the leadoff man, Myers gave up a walk and three singles that scored two runs; with two away, runners on the corners and CLE still clinging to a one-run lead, Jackson and Felsch delivered again with singles that scored the tying and go-ahead runs. Frank Shellenback (2-1) then pitched a second inning of relief without incident to send the Cleveland crowd home in disbelief. Felsch was the man of the hour with the first six-hit day in the American League thus far (in six trips to the plate) and four RBI. Eddie Collins had four hits, and Tris Speaker and Harris each drove home three for the Indians. An aesthetic exemplar it was not, as the two clubs combined for seven errors in the field. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 1 July

White Sox 8, Indians 2: Eddie Collins stroked four hits, Joe Jackson drove in five runs and Eddie Murphy scored four as Chicago raced past Cleveland. The Indians led 2-1 after the 1st inning on Tris Speaker's two-run single, but Jackson's two-run hit got Chicago in front again in the 3rd and they added on another pair in the 4th and in the 5th to stretch their advantage. That was all that Lefty Williams (11-5) needed as he limited Cleveland to seven hits (only one after the 4th inning) without walking a batter and retiring thirteen of the last fourteen Indians. Larry Gardner had two doubles and a single. [box] 

1919 AL Players of the Month - June

The Batter and Pitcher of the Month in the American League for June of 1919 are (* denotes League-leading total) . . .

1919 AL - Statistical leaders through 30 June

Statistical Leaders in the American League at the end of June . . .

1919 AL - Games of Monday, 30 June

Athletics 5, Nationals 1: Tom Rogers allowed only one run while his teammates conjured five runs from only three hits to win at home. Almost all of the Athletic damage came in a 2nd inning which featured only two hits, but also two walks, a hit batsman and an error; but one of those hits was a three-run home run off the bat of Merlin Kopp that would be the last hit Philadelphia would manage against Dick Robertson (3-1) until Rogers himself homered in the 8th. On the mound, Rogers (6-4) held Washington scoreless until the 9th when Howie Shanks dropped one into the left field seats with the Nats down to their final out. Clyde Milan had three of Washington's eight base hits. [box]