1919 AL- Games of Sunday, 7 September

White Sox 9, Indians 8: In one of the most improbable finishes of the season, the front-running White Sox put on display the fighting spirit that has carried them away from the American League pack, scoring six times in the bottom of the 9th inning to shock Cleveland and send a crowd of 34,000 at Comiskey Park into a cap-tossing state of delirium. Joe Harris had three hits and knocked in three runs in the first six innings as the Indians built a 7-1 lead, and that advantage was 8-3 into the final inning. Roy Wilkinson (2-0) retired the Clevelanders without incident, and Stan Coveleski - who had allowed six hits and no walks in the first eight innings - took the hill for the last of the 9th. He walked Joe Jackson to lead things off, and Hap Felsch and Chick Gandil followed with singles that produced one run. After a force out, Ray Schalk doubled to score another and Tris Speaker had seen enough - Coveleski was out and Johnny Enzmann was in. Shano Collins was handed a bat in the pitcher's place, and he singled to cut the deficit to 8-6. Enzmann (3-3) recorded the second out by getting Nemo Leibold to pop to short, but Eddie Collins then ripped a line drive to the wall in left-center for three bases, two runs and a tie game. With the huge Sunday gathering on their feet hollering, Buck Weaver blooped one over the infield into shallow right, Collins scampered home, and the Sox were winners for the 84th - and most unlikely - time this season. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Saturday, 6 September

Nationals 3, Yankees 2: Walter Johnson came off the bench and delivered the game-winning hit as Washington scored twice in the bottom of the 9th inning to snatch a win out from under the noses of the New Yorkers. Carl Mays and Jim Shaw locked up in a classic duel, with six scoreless innings of base ball before damage was first done in the 7th. The clubs traded single runs in that inning, courtesy of a Muddy Ruel sac fly and Mike Menosky's fifth home run of the season, but the Yankees jumped ahead again in the 8th when Frank Baker doubled home Chick Fewster. Johnson (21-6) came on in relief of Shaw when the latter put the first two Yanks aboard in the top of the 9th, and escaped a second-and-third, one-out jam by retiring Fewster on a ground ball to short with the infield pulled in and then getting Baker to fly out to the fence in left. Sam Rice started the last of the 9th with a single and was sacrificed to second by Frank Ellerbe. Menosky then singled to tie the game, and Bucky Harris singled him to third. Mays (9-12) whiffed Patsy Gharrity for the second out, and Johnson (a career .225 hitter with more than 100 extra-base hits) stayed in the game to swing the bat. And swing it Barney did, bouncing a 2-2 pitch over the second-base sack and into center field to send Menosky across the plate with the game-winner. Roger Peckinpaugh had three hits in a losing cause. [box] 

1919 AL - Games of Friday, 5 September

Red Sox 9, Athletics 2: Babe Ruth and Everett Scott each had three hits, and Boston used a big 8th inning to pull away from Philadelphia in the City of Brotherly Love. The A's scored twice in the 1st after the first four men reached base against Sam Jones (10-14), but the Sox responded with a run in the 3rd on Ruth's two-out RBI double and two in the 4th on Harry Hooper's two-out, two-run two-bagger. It was still a contest at 4-1 after seven innings but Win Noyes (0-5) ran out of steam in the 8th, putting two men on base, and Scott Perry could not find the plate when called upon to bail him out - three bases-loaded walks put Boston well clear and Jones held Philadelphia to three hits over the last seven innings. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Thursday, 4 September

Browns 5, Tigers 4: Jack Tobin had four singles and St. Louis survived a late Detroit rally to win a close one in Detroit. After the Tigers had jumped into the lead in the 1st behind Ty Cobb's RBI single, stolen base and Bobby Veach's triple, the Browns struck back with four straight singles and a sacrifice fly in the 4th that put them in front 4-2. Earl Smith's second RBI single of the game made it 5-2 in the 5th and Rolla Mapel (1-0) looked as if he would hold that edge through to the end, before he wilted in the bottom of the 9th. He drilled Ralph Young in the ribs to start the inning and, one out later, Veach doubled to put two men in scoring position and bring the tying runs to the plate. That man was Harry Heilmann, and he singled to score both runs and that was the afternoon for Mapel. Ernie Koob came on and struck out two of the next three men to leave the tying runs standing on second base. [box] 

1919 AL - Games of Wednesday, 3 September

Nationals 4, Athletics 0: In only his second start of the season, Ed Gill spun a complete-game six-hit shutout at Shibe Park. Even his own teammates could have been forgiven for being surprised by the performance, as Gill's only previous start this year, about six weeks ago, was less than notable - eight runs allowed in 3.2 innings at St. Louis in a 14-3 Washington defeat. But on this afternoon he was in complete command from the start, not allowing more than one Athletic to reach base in any inning and walking only one man. The bottom of the Nationals order got him the support he needed by tuning doubles from Mike Menosky and Patsy Gharrity into three 2nd-inning runs, and then tacking on another in the 7th when Menosky singled home Sam Rice. Joe Judge had three hits and a drew a walk from the leadoff spot. [box]

1919 AL - Games of Tuesday, 2 September

Indians 2, Browns 1: Cleveland came out on top in a hurler's tussle at St. Louis behind three hits from Steve O'Neill. The Browns got on the scorecard in their first attempt when Ray Demmitt's two-out single scored a run in the home 1st, but little did they know at the time that this would be all the reward they would get off of Ray Caldwell. Cleveland got that run back in the 3rd when O'Neill tripled with two outs and Caldwell grounded one through the infield for a single, and the same script played out again in the 5th, albeit with no outs. O'Neill laced one over the head of Baby Doll Jacobson in center to begin the inning and raced all the way to third base, and Caldwell poked a single into left field to bring him in and give the Indians the lead. Caldwell took matters into his own right hand the rest of the way, allowing four hits over the final eight innings to one of the League's best batting clubs and retiring the last seven Browns to eliminate any doubt. Urban Shocker (16-10) was the hard-luck loser for St. Louis. [box]

1919 AL- Games of Monday, 1 September

White Sox 9, Tigers 4: Swede Risberg had three hits, scored twice and drove home a pair and Eddie Cicotte pitched carefully around eleven Detroit hits as Chicago earned a split with a convincing win, their 80th of the American League campaign. The Sox put the game out of reach early, scoring seven times in the first four innings against an off-form Bernie Boland (16-8) behind five hits in the 2nd and four walks in the 3rd. Cicotte (22-8) was not his sharpest, and wasn't well-supported by the fielders behind him, but he held Tiger batters to 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position to go the distance. Ty Cobb had three hits for Detroit. [box].