» May 27, 1913: Using their bats, the Braves sweep two from the Giants, winning 10 and 52. In the opener, the lone run scores when Joe Connolly rounds 3B after a single by Bill Sweeney. Giant CF George Burns makes a perfect throw but the ball hits Sweeney's bat on the field and caroms off. George Tyler picks up the win against Christy Mathewson. » September 3, 1913: Boston sidearmer George Tyler spins a one-hitter over the Giants to win, 21. The Braves reach Christy Mathewson for eight hits and two runs.
» May 9, 1914: Before 18,000, Christy Mathewson scatters 10 hits in shutting down the Braves, 20. A Chief Meyers double off Lefty Tyler accounts for both New York runs. Boston is now 311, 10 games behind the Pirates.
» May 21, 1914: Boston's Lefty Tyler beats the Cubs, 21.
» June 26, 1914: In Boston, the Giants hammer the Braves for 27 hits, winning 84 and 104, and put Boston back in the cellar. Boston had moved into 7th with yesterday's win over New York. Christy Mathewson wins the opener over Lefty Tyler, and Art Fromme wraps up the nitecap.
» July 4, 1914:
The Dodgers drum the Braves, sweeping a doubleheader, 75 in 11 innings and 43 in the nitecap. The nitecap is especially hard fought: Lefty Tyler plunks Dodger SS Ollie O'Mara on the neck and when Jack Daubert crosses the plate with the winning run in the 9th, he collides with Braves C Hank Gowdy and is knocked unconscious. Boston (2640) is 10 1/2 games in back of New York.
» July 20, 1914: Lefty Tyler and Bill James combine to hold the Pirates to four hits and the Braves score a run in the 9th to win, 10. Boston (37-43) now moves into 6th place past the Dodgers.
» July 23, 1914: Lefty Tyler follows suit, stopping the Pirates, 20, as the Braves take 4 out of 5 in Pittsburgh.
» August 11, 1914: Boston Braves P Lefty Tyler begins a string of 23 shutout innings, but Red Ames of the Reds matches him today in a 13-inning 00 tie. Four days later, Tyler will beat Christy Mathewson 20 in 10.
» August 13, 1914: In the start of a crucial series in New York, the Braves pound Rube Marquard for 11 hits to win, 53. Rabbit Maranville contributes a triple and Les Mann adds a homer and 2-run single. Lefty Tyler notches another victory.
» August 15, 1914: At the Polo Grounds, 32,000 watch as Lefty Tyler and Christy Mathewson throw goose eggs for nine innings. In the 10th, Red Smith singles and Hank Gowdy triples him home. Matty then wild pitches home Gowdy for 20 lead. New York loads the bases in the 10th with no outs, but Tyler slams the door with no Giants scoring. The Braves trail by three 1/2.
» August 19, 1914: Lefty Tyler stops the Reds for a 32 Braves win.
» September 7, 1914: The Braves and Giants play an A.M.-P.M. twin bill in Boston on Labor Day. To accommodate the crowds, the Braves have moved their home games to Fenway Park, courtesy of owner Joe Lannin: Fenway has triple the seating capacity of South End Grounds. The two contests draw 74,163 on the day. The Braves, down 43 to Christy Mathewson in the 9th, storm back for two runs to win the opener. Josh Devore scratches a single, Herb Moran doubles into the crowd ringing the outfield, and Johnny Evers slaps a single that eludes George Burns to drive home the tying and winning runs. Jeff Tesreau wins the nitecap, 101, and the Giants pile on Lefty Tyler. In the Giants' 4-run sixth, Fred Snodgrass takes a pitch on the sleeve to reach 1B, thumbing his nose at Tyler along the way. Lefty retaliates by acting out Fred's 1912 muff. When Snodgrass returns to CF, the crowd is merciless to the point that Boston Mayor Curley rushes on the field and demands the umpires eject the Giant player. McGraw, worried that Snodgrass might incur an injury, replaces Snodgrass.
» September 26, 1914:
At Fenway Park, the Braves roll over the Cubs, 62 and 122. Lefty Tyler tops Hippo Vaughn in the opener, and Otto Hess beats Larry Chaney in the 2nd game. The red hot Braves will sweep the four-game series with the Cubs.
» October 9, 1914: The Boston Braves go into the World Series as underdogs, despite their strong finish. Only one regular, LF Joe Connolly, hit .300. Their strengths are pitchers Dick Rudolph, George "Lefty" Tyler, and "Seattle Bill" James, 2B Johnny Evers, who wins Chalmers' final MVP automobile, and SS Rabbit Maranville, their cleanup hitter. The Philadelphia A's Eddie Collins, with a .344 BA, wins the Chalmers AL award with 63 of 64 possible points. The A's have seven pitchers with 10 or more wins, led by Chief Bender's 173. Bender's World Series magic is quickly dispelled as the Braves knock him out in the 6th. Rudolph coasts to a 5-hit 71 victory. Hank Gowdy has a single, double, and triple. He will hit a World Series record .545, and Evers, .438. Only Babe Ruth will top Gowdy with .625 in 1928. Bender makes his last World Series appearance, finishing with a record 59 strikeouts.
» October 12, 1914: Joe Bush, 1710 for the A's, faces Lefty Tyler in game 3. Tied 22 in the 10th, Home Run Baker drives in his only two runs of the Series, but a home run by Hank Gowdy starts a game-tying rally. After Bill James comes on and sets the A's down for two innings, Gowdy doubles. Bush gives up a walk, then throws a sacrifice bunt past Baker at 3B allowing pinch runner Les Mann to score the winning run.
» September 9, 1915: Boston's Lefty Tyler allows just one Brooklyn hit, but loses 10. Jeff Pfeffer is nearly as perfect, allowing two hits for the win. Brooklyn scores the lone run on a walk by Hy Myers, Gus Getz's single, a double steal, and a sac fly.
» September 15, 1915: The Cubs edge the Braves, 10, behind Phil Douglas, with Lefty Tyler taking the tough loss. Tomorrow, the Cubs will win another 10 battle, but it will take them 12 innings to do it.
» May 4, 1916: Christy Mathewson, beset with back problems, makes his first start of the year, losing to the Braves, 76, in 10 innings. Matty goes the distance allowing 15 hits, including a homer to rival pitcher Lefty Tyler. The Giants were held in check by Tyler until the 9th when, trailing 40, they tie it up. Fred Merkle's homer is the big blow in the inning.
» May 26, 1916: Despite outfielder Benny Kauff's base running blunders. The New York Giants cruise to 14th straight road win, 121 over Boston. Kauff, the Federal League's "Ty Cobb", sets a NL record when he is picked off first base three times, the only 20th century player to do this. Lefty Tyler picks Benny off three times. Sailor Stroud is the winner, picking up his last ML victory.
» September 30, 1916: In the opener of a doubleheader, Giants pitcher Rube Benton takes a no hitter into the 8th inning before Braves 1B Ed Konetchy repeats his performance of two days ago by lacing a hit, the only Boston safety. Benton wins the one-hitter, 40 for New York's record 26th win in a row. Boston then wins the 2nd game, 83, behind Lefty Tyler to snap the historic streak. Jeff Tesreau, in relief of Slim Sallee, is ineffective. Despite the winning streak, and an earlier skein of 17 victories on the road, New York finishes in 4th place.
» January 4, 1918: The Cubs acquire Braves crossfiring ace Lefty Tyler, sending vets Larry Doyle, Art Wilson and $15,000 to Boston (National League). Tyler will win 19 games for the Cubs this year.
» July 17, 1918:
Chicago's Lefty Tyler goes 21 innings against Milt Watson to beat the Phils 2-1.
» September 6, 1918: In game 2, Lefty Tyler drives in two runs in the Cubs' 3-run second. The Red Sox get one in the 9th and that's all the scoring for the day, with George Tyler beating Joe Bush. The game also features fights between Heinie Wagner and Hippo Vaughn and another involving Lester Mann and Joe Bush.
» September 9, 1918: In game 4, Ruth bats in two runs on a triple in the 4th and pitches seven scoreless innings before the Cubs tie it in the 8th, ending Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 scoreless innings. Shufflin' Phil Douglas relieves Lefty Tyler for Chicago in the last of the 8th and throws away the game, first by a wild pitch, then with an error. Ruth is the winning pitcher, but Mays relieves with two on and no out in the 9th.
» September 11, 1918: The Red Sox win the World Series in game six on Carl Mays's 2nd victory, a 21 threehitter. With two on and two out in the 3rd, utility OF George Whiteman lines a hard drive to RF. Max Flack drops it, allowing the only runs off Lefty Tyler. Righty Claude Hendrix, 207 during the year, finally makes an appearance, tossing a final inning for the Cubs. Cubs pitchers compile a 1.04 ERA, while Boston's .186 BA is the lowest ever for a World Series winner, but they compensate by making just one error, a record not beaten this century in a 6-game World Series. The Red Sox will realize $1,102 each, the Cubs $671, the smallest winner's share ever earned. The inning by inning results of the game were relayed to Fort Devans, 58 miles away, via homing nine pigeons.