1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 6 July

March 15, 2024 by 

Indians 7, Browns 1: A tight pitching matchup blew apart when Cleveland scored five times in the 8th inning to sprint past St. Louis at Sportsman's Park. Elmer Myers and Carl Weilman had been largely untroubled by the batsmen for seven innings, with George Sisler and Joe Wood exchanging RBI singles, but the 8th was a different story. Harry Lunte drew a leadoff walk and was sacrificed to second, then Myers hit a dribbler down the third-base line for an infield single. Steve O'Neill singled to score Lunte and Myers followed him with another base hit. When O'Neill beat the throw home on Elmer Smith's grounder to the right of the mound, the Indians led by two and the wheels were coming off for the Browns. Bill Wambsganss singled in another run and then the next two men reached on fielding errors to score another. Larry Gardner concluded the damage with a two-run single and Myers (4-1) put away the final ten Browns to curtail any sense of suspense. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 5 July

March 13, 2024 by 

Red Sox 11, Athletics 1: Babe Ruth blasted a double, triple and two home runs - missing the cycle by a single! - and drove home seven men in a one-man demolition of Philadelphia at Fenway Park that gave Boston a doubleheader sweep. The Babe tripled in a run and scored in the 1st; doubled in a run and scored in the 3rd; hit a three-run homer in the 4th; added a two-run homer in the 6th; and walked in the 7th. Meanwhile, Bill James (5-3) was scattering seven Athletic hits in a complete-game effort. Harry Hooper scored four runs batting in front of the Babe and Whitey Witt made three errors - giving him four on the day - for Philadelphia. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Friday, 4 July

March 13, 2024 by 

Nationals 11, Yankees 4: Joe Judge had four hits, including a triple and a homer, and drove in three runs as Washington buried New York under an avalanche of late runs. The Yankees had built an early 3-0 lead on Frank Baker's two-run single and Sammy Vick's RBI triple while Bob Shawkey pitched five shutout innings. But the Nationals scored once in the 6th on Val Picinich's 5th homer, and then the floodgates opened in the 7th as four straight hits led to three runs that put WAS in front, and four hits and two walks in the 8th resulted in five more scores that put the game away. Picinich had three hits and four RBI and Baker had three hits for the Yanks. [box]

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