Red Sox 7, Yankees 6: Harry Hooper singled home Del Gainer in the bottom of the 12th inning, and Babe Ruth homered for the fifth time in six games, as Boston pipped New York at Fenway Park. The late-game heroics overshadowed the two-homer performance of Wally Pipp for the Yankees, the 7th multi-homer game of the season in the American League. Boston led 4-0 after five innings on the strength of Ruth's three-run blast for his 19th home run of the year, but Pipp went into the seats for two runs in both the 6th and the 7th, the latter giving New York a 5-4 lead. Red Shannon tripled home a pair in the Boston 7th to take back the advantage, and Ping Bodie singled home a run in the top of the 8th to send the game to the end of regulation with the score tied at six. New York had two on and nobody out in the 10th, but failed to score, and then the Red Sox found themselves in the same situation in the 12th. Everett Scott sacrificed the runners to second and third and pinch-hitter Stuffy McInnis was intentionally walked to put the force play in order, but this was all for naught as Hooper was next to the plate and he stroked one into left field to end the game in favor of the home side. Braggo Roth had three hits, and Shannon drew three walks, for Boston. [box]
1919 AL Players of the Week - 27 July
The Batter and Pitcher of the Week in the American League for the week of 21-27 July are (* denotes a League-leading total) . . .
1919 AL - Games of Sunday, 27 July
Indians 13, Tigers 12: Donie Bush had a hit and three walks, and scored five times, but Cleveland scored four times in the bottom of the 9th to clip Detroit in a wild affair at League Park. The game began rather sedately, as Detroit led 1-0 after three innings on the strength of Ty Cobb's 1at-inning RBI base hit. But the faucet opened up in the middle innings, with the clubs scoring a total of eleven runs in the 4th and 5th innings behind home runs by Eddie Ainsmith and Earl Smith. With the game tied at six runs apiece, Detroit took the initiative by scoring one in the 6th and three more in the 7th (two of those scoring on Ray Chapman's bases-loaded throwing error) but the Indians answered with one in the 7th and two in the 8th to close to within 10-9 heading into the final inning. The Tigers scored two times in the 9th behind doubles from Ralph Young and Bobby Veach and appeared to have put the game in their back pockets, but Slim Love could not survive the bottom of the 9th. With one out he allowed a single and then back-to-back doubles to Steve O'Neill and pinch-hitter Joe Harris; after a second out, Chapman joined the parade of two-baggers to tie the game. Tris Speaker took four wide ones, and Smith (4-for-5, 5 RBI) then singled to score Chapman with the improbable winning run. Chapman and Doc Johnston each had four of Cleveland's nineteen hits. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 26 July
Nationals 6, Athletics 0: The Philadelphia season has gotten to the point where opponents must be circling dates on their calendars. Even after breaking their 11-game skid yesterday, fourteen-game loser Harry Harper of Washington came to Griffith Stadium looking forward to a chance to face the crumbling Athletics, and he took full advantage. Holding the A's to five singles while striking out 8, Harper pitched the Nats to a win while Patsy Gharrity collected four hits on his behalf. As has often been the case on this losing skein, matters were largely decided early in the contest, as Washington scored four times on five hits in the 2nd off of Jing Johnson (5-9) with Eddie Foster delivering the big two-run double. Harper (4-14) was on cruise control, meanwhile, only allowing one Athletic to reach scoring position after the 2nd inning. Sam Rice chipped in with three hits and a stolen base. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Friday, 25 July
Athletics 3, Nationals 0: Perhaps the only way that Philadelphia was going to break its eleven-game losing string was to get a superhuman effort on the mound and that's what it took. Scott Perry tossed a three-hitter at the Washingtons and his teammates waited until the last possible moment to make it count for a win in the Nation's capital. Perry (4-13) and Eric Erickson (3-5) hooked up in a tight one with neither team really threatening, in fact Perry allowed but a Sam Rice single over the first six frames while Erickson was striking out ten Athletics. With the game still scoreless into the 9th, and the A's increasingly looking like they would waste this golden opportunity to break into the win column, they finally broke through. With one away, Amos Strunk and George Burns singled to put runners at the corners and then Cy Perkins and Terry Turner delivered doubles to score three runs. That left it up to Perry, who put two runners on base in the bottom of the 9th but held the Nats off the board to earn the shutout. [box]
1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 24 July
Browns 8, White Sox 5: Six different Browns batsmen had a pair of hits on the afternoon as St. Louis outlasted Chicago in a busy affair at Comiskey Park. The clubs combined for twenty-seven hits but, despite all of the action, the score was still tied at five runs apiece heading into the 9th inning. Dickey Kerr (8-5) put the first two Brown aboard and then, after retiring one man, Ken Williams delivered the go-ahead blow with a single to center and Wally Gerber followed up one out later with a two-run double. The White Sox got the tying run to the plate in the bottom half, but Allen Sothoron (9-9) persevered until the end, racing to first base to retire pinch-hitter Chick Gandil on a bouncer to first for the final out. Williams reached base three times, scored twice and drove home two, and Buck Weaver had there RBI for Chicago. [box]
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