IN THE NEWS: The Giants score two unearned runs in the 7th against the Reds to win, 2-1. Christy Mathewson wins his 7th.
IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, the largest baseball crowd ever (37,223) cheers Iron Joe McGinnity, trying for his 14th straight win, against Cincinnati's Jack Harper. The game ends in a 2-2 deadlock after 11 innings.
IN THE NEWS: The White Sox fire manager Nixey Callahan, replacing him Fielder Jones.
IN THE NEWS: New York scores six runs in three innings against Pirates' P Roscoe Miller and coasts to an 11-0 win. The Giants are led by Browne, with four hits, Gilbert, with a homer and three hits, and Roger Bresnahan, with two homers, both inside-the-park. With the game safely in hand, Mathewson departs after five innings. Miller will be 7-8 with the Pirates before incurring a severe injury in a carriage accident on the way to the ball park in Philadelphia. The injury ends his career.
IN THE NEWS: Iron Joe McGinnity nails his 14th straight win, beating the Pirates, 2-0. With the win, the Giants move into 1st place over Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: In the opener of the battle for first place at the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson pitches a brilliant one-hitter to beat Chicago, 5-0. The lone hit is Johnny Kling's 4th-inning single. The other action is provided by ump Charlie Zimmer, who ejects Sam Mertes on a strike call. He also thumbs John McGraw, coaching at 3B, to the bench, and sends Dummy Taylor, the 1B coach, to the clubhouse. One wag said later that Taylor was making too much noise.
It is Ladies Day in Boston, and the Pirates start Patsy Flaherty, recently re-acquired from the White Sox, where he led the AL in losses in 1903 (25). Patsy wins his first start with the help of Honus Wagner, who is 3-for-5 with two doubles, three runs, and two steals.
IN THE NEWS: Before a record-breaking 38,805 at New York's Polo Grounds, Iron Joe McGinnity pitches nine innings of scoreless ball against Chicago. The Colts Bob Wicker goes one better, tossing nine innings without allowing a hit before former Cub Sam Mertes singles with one out in the 10th to break the no hitter. Chicago win it in the 12th, 1-0, when Johnny Evers 2-out single off McGinnity scores Frank Chance. It is Iron Joe's first loss after 14 straight wins. Wicker is flawless, allowing no other hits and striking out 10. Mertes also broke up another no-hitter on May 9th.
IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, Chicago tops the Giants, 3-2, as Three Finger Brown outduels Christy Mathewson for the win. Frank Chance leads the Chicago offense by hitting for the cycle. The loss drops New York back into 2nd place, one-half game behind Chicago.
| SCOREBOARD: JUNE 15, 1904 |
| Boston Braves 4, Chicago Cubs 3 at South End Grounds III |
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| Brooklyn Dodgers 4, Cincinnati Reds 0 at Washington Park III |
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| Brooklyn Dodgers 10, Cincinnati Reds 5 at Washington Park III |
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| St. Louis Cardinals 5, New York Giants 2 at Polo Grounds IV |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates 9, Philadelphia Phillies 3 at Baker Bowl |
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| Chicago White Sox 3, Boston Red Sox 0 at South Side Park III |
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| Cleveland Indians 8, Washington Senators 0 at League Park I |
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| Detroit Tigers 1, Philadelphia Athletics 0 at Bennett Park |
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| St. Louis Browns 6, New York Yankees 1 at Sportsman's Park II |
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| Compiled by Retrosheet (www.retrosheet.org) |
IN THE NEWS: The Giants score the winning run against the Cards in the bottom of the 9th when St. Louis 2B Dave Brain drops a toss for the inning-ending force. New York wins, 4-3. with the win, Christy Mathewson starts a 24-game winning streak against the Cardinals that will not end until 1908. His 33 victories and Joe McGinnity's 35 will be the most victories by two teammates since 1900. For the Giants, it is the start of an 18-game win streak.
IN THE NEWS: In a swap greatly criticized in Boston, the Pilgrims send OF Patsy Dougherty to the Highlanders for weak-hitting rookie Bob Unglaub, who played in just six games before being hospitalized with blood poisoning. Dougherty is not the only Patsy changing uniforms this month; For $750, the White Sox release Patsy Flaherty (1-2) to Pittsburgh where he will win 19 more games. This will be his only winning season, but his feat of winning 20 games while pitching for two teams in a season will be matched only by Joe McGinnity, Hank Borowy and Rick Sutcliffe.
The Giants Ed Poole allows three Brooklyn hits in beating the Superbas, 20, in the opener of a 4-game series.
IN THE NEWS: Joe McGinnity breaks his 2-game losing streak and beats Brooklyn, 5-1. The Giants are 11-1 against Brooklyn.
IN THE NEWS: Despite yesterday's ruling by William Gaynor of the Brooklyn Supreme Court prohibiting Sunday baseball, there are no arrests today at Washington Park. Brooklyn should've arrested Giants pitcher Hooks Wiltse, who allows just three hits in collaring the Superbas, 11-0. Next Sunday, however, Brooklyn's battery of Oscar Jones and Fred Jacklitsch, along with a program seller, will be arrested on misdemeanor charges and taken to the police station.
Patsy Dougherty makes his first appearance for the Highlanders, collecting two hits in a 4-3 win over St. Louis. New York loses the 2nd game, 1-0.
IN THE NEWS: New York coasts to a 12-4 win over Brooklyn, pounding out 13 hits to beat Bill Reidy. Christy Mathewson picks up his 11th win. Reidy's cause is not helped by nine Brooklyn errors, including five by ex-Giant SS Charlie Babb.
IN THE NEWS: The 1st-place Giants run their win streak to eight games, beating Boston, 6-2. Christy Mathewson allows nine hits, strikes out 9, and drives in two runs with a 6th inning single.
IN THE NEWS: In Boston, the Highlanders Jack Chesbro wins his 12th straight, besting Cy Young, 5-3. Patsy Dougherty has three hits against his former teammates.
In a New England League, Lowell edges visiting Concord, 5-4. When Concord 2B Clark is ejected in the sixth inning, Concord is left with eight players. The club then puts 9-year-old mascot George Diggins in the game.
IN THE NEWS: Dougherty has another three hits as the Highlander beat their old teammate Jesse Tannehill and Boston, 8-4. Boston leads the AL by just a half game. Long Tom Hughes will win tomorrow to stretch the lead to one 1/2 games.
IN THE NEWS: Christy Mathewson blanks Boston, 3-0, despite allowing eight hits. The Giants have now won 14 in a row.
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