IN THE NEWS: Kid Nichols, in relief, and Christy Mathewson face each other for the 2nd time in three days, with Matty winning this outing. Nichols relieves in the 7th with the score, 5-5, but New York scores four runs to take a 9-5 lead. Boston retaliates with three runs to put Matty on the ropes, but he escapes with a 9-8 win.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland pitcher Ed Scott goes all the way against Milwaukee and hits a solo HR in the top of the 10th to win 8-7. It is the last game of Scott's career. Bill Reidy serves up the homer in the loss.
IN THE NEWS: Cincinnati and Pittsburgh players are clocked while running from home plate to 1B. The fastest time for the 90-foot sprint is three seconds flat, by Pirates OF Ginger Beaumont.
IN THE NEWS: In the first of two in Philley, Giant OF Ike Van Zandt makes an 11th inning error and Philadelphia goes on to score three runs and win, 6-3. Van Zandt came on in the 9th after starting LF Kip Selbach is tossed for protesting strike calls. Christy Mathewson takes the loss for New York.
At Cincinnati, Topsy Hartsel strokes two inside-the-park homers, but they are not enough as Chicago loses to the Reds, 10-7. Whitey Guese takes the decision over Jock Menefee.
In Baltimore's 9-0 win in game two against Boston, Oriole 1B Burt Hart is called out at 3B on his long hit, and punches umpire John Haskell. Winters takes the win, which follows a 3-1 Boston victory.
IN THE NEWS: Ban Johnson suspends Baltimore 1B Burt Hart for striking umpire John Haskell yesterday, stating "This is the first time a player in the American League has struck an umpire, and it is an offense that cannot be overlooked." The 31-year-old Hart will never play again.
The hits keep coming. In Cleveland, Milwaukee manager Hugh Duffy hits umpire Al Mannassau when a fly ball nicking the foul line is called fair, scoring the winning runs in a 5-4 win for the Blues. Duffy is suspended indefinitely.
In Boston's 10-5 win in game 1at Baltimore, the Bostons pull off a triple play. Pitcher Lewis starts the TP, which goes to Jimmy Collins (3B), Schreckongost (C), Ferriss (2B), and Parent (SS). The Orioles take game 2, 10-4.
IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Brooklyn split two, Brooklyn winning the opener, 3-0, before losing the nitecap to Christy Mathewson, 4-1. Brooklyn threatens in the 6th, putting two on with no outs, but Matty K's Cozy Dolan, allows a single, then strikes out Tom Daly and Bill Dahlen to end the threat.
IN THE NEWS: In a split at Boston, Baltimore 3B Jack Dunn is knocked out in game one by a foul ball off his own bat. He will be out of action for a week.
IN THE NEWS: In the 2nd game of a DH, Washington Nationals P Dale Gear gives up an AL record 41 total bases in losing 13-0 to the Athletics. The 23 hits include four doubles, four triples, and two HRs. Philadelphia A's P Snake Wiltse, brother of Hooks, has two doubles and two triples, just one of three hurlers in history to collect four extra-base hits in a game. His 10 total bases is a major-league record for a pitcher. Snake was acquired last month from the Pirates. In the opener, a 9-4 Washngton win, Nats' pitcher Win Mercer becomes the first AL hurler to steal home. Lajoie has a pair of homers for the A's in game 1, his second game in a row with two homers. He hit two in yesterday's game two win. He will lead the AL with 14, drive in 125 runs, and hit .422 to win the Triple Crown.
Before a crowd of 5,000 in Cleveland, the AL-leading White Sox cannot overcome a 7-0 lead and fall, 11–7. Frank Isbell sets an AL record for LOB with 11 left on base for the Sox.
IN THE NEWS: Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson face each other again and both throw shut out ball for nine innings. Boston finally scores three in the 10th to win, 3-0. Matty's record in the past month is 3-7. Nichols and Mathewson will go at each other tomorrow, in the 2nd game of two, with the match ending in an 11-inning 5-5 tie.
IN THE NEWS: Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson square off the 3rd time in seven days, with Nichols winning easily, 11-6. New York makes four errors, but a tired Matty is pasted for 13 hits while striking out just one.
At St. Louis, the Pirates knock out the NL's leading pitcher Jack Harper (21-8) in the 3rd en route to a 9-5 win. Harper, 21-7 at the start of the day, will end up at 23-13.
IN THE NEWS: Umpire Bob Emslie becomes ill before the 2nd game of the Superbas-Phils twin bill and Phils P Al Orth and Superbas C Jim McGuire fill in for him. However, it is a close game, and Orth is needed as a PH in the 9th. Doc White then becomes the 2nd umpire as Orth hits a single and scores a run. Brooklyn holds on for a 3-2 win.
At Boston, Cy Young pitches a 6-0 shutout over visiting Milwaukee. Boston (59-40) is a game behind the White Sox (60-39), but will lose 12 out of their next 17 to drop out of contention.
IN THE NEWS: At Washington, umpire John Haskell is involved in another violent incident during the Washington-Sox game when Sox SS Frank Shugart punches Haskell after a disputed ball four call, followed by a Nationals bases loaded triple. Teammate John Katoll tries to add his two cents, and a fan jumps in punching Shugart. The police intervene and both players are arrested. Shugart will be expelled. Washington's Win Mercer lives up to his name with an 8-0 win over Chicago.
In Baltimore, Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is tossed for spitting in the face of umpire Tom Connolly. When Detroit's Kid Elberfeld intervenes, he is decked by Baltimore's Mike Donlin. Bill Keister also gets involved, as do some fans, and the police, who arrest the players and a fan. Judge Harry Goldman, a part-owner of the O's, releases the players and fines the fan a $100.
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