IN THE NEWS: Cubs P Ed Reulbach, who will be 17-4 with a 1.69 ERA, goes into the 9th with a 2-0 lead over the Cardinals at Chicago. He gives up eight straight hits, seven runs, and loses the game. The nitecap is stopped after seven innings. Still shell-shocked, the Cubs are shut out twice tomorrow by the last-place Cards, losing 6-0 and 9-0.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants and Superbas spilt a doubleheader. New York takes the opener, 2-0, behind Dummy Taylor, then Brooklyn takes the nitecap 1-0, in seven innings, behind the 8-hit pitching of Jim Pastorius. The Superbas score on a single, two walks, and a wild pitch by Christy Mathewson.
IN THE NEWS: For his 32nd birthday tomorrow, Cleveland fans give manager Nap Lajoie a wagon load of gifts, including a live black sheep. Addie Joss pitches a one-hitter against Detroit.
IN THE NEWS: At Baker Bowl, the Giants sweep the Phillies, winning 6-5 and 2-0. Joe McGinnity relieves in the opener with runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs in the 9th and retires the side to preserve Dummy Taylor's win. Christy Mathewson then beats Lew Moren in a 7-inning nitecap for his 20th win. Moren's wild throw in the 3rd accounts for the scores.
IN THE NEWS: In Boston, Walter Johnson tops the Red Sox, 1-0, for the first of his 38 career 1-0 wins. On the 12th, he will shut out the Highlanders 2-0.
IN THE NEWS: Boston's Cy Young and the A's Rube Waddell battle to a 13 inning scoreless tie. Neither pitcher walks a batter.
The Giants play their 5th doubleheader in a week, splitting shutouts with Boston. New York takes the opener, 10-0, then Irv Young outpitches Christy Mathewson, 1-0, in the 7-inning nitecap.
IN THE NEWS: Chicago's Doc White blanks the Browns 2-0. However, his one base on balls ends his AL record run of 65 1/3 IP without issuing a walk. He will win a career high 27 games and walk only 38 in 291 innings pitched.
IN THE NEWS: Boston loses to the Athletics, 7-1, to start a 16-game losing streak.
In a 2-0 win against the Yankees at Hilltop Park, Washington's Walter Johnson strikes out five batters, though it'll be recorded as four K's. Researcher John Schwartz, in the 1990s, will find the extra K, resulting in Johnson's lifetime total of 3,509. The issue crops up again on Opening Day, 2001, when Roger Clemens ties (or beats) the mark.
Pittsburgh's Nick Maddox makes his ML debut and tosses a nifty 4-0 shut out over the St. Louis Cards.
On closing day of the Ohio State League, Walter "Smoke" Justis of Lancaster pitches a 3-0 no-hitter against Marion. It's his fourth no-hitter of the year. The others came July 19-6-0 against Mansfield, August 2-6-0 against Portsmouth, and September 8, 5-0 over Lima. Justis pitched in two games for the 1905 Tigers.
IN THE NEWS: Washington's Lew Lanford, 21, in one of the worst debuts any pitcher ever endures. Lanford walks two New York batters, hits 2, including Frank LaPorte in the head, throws a wild pitch, and balks-all in the first inning. Six runs score, but it is not all Lanford's fault. Two errors and a passed ball add to his woes.
At the West Side Grounds, Chicago beats the visiting Reds, 12-5. The Cubs collect 19 hits to the Reds 10 hits-all 29 are singles.
IN THE NEWS: At the Browns-Tigers game in St. Louis, a soda bottle thrown by a fan, Hugo Dusenberg, fells umpire Billy Evans. The crowd beats up Hugo before the police come to his rescue; he is fined $100. Evans is carried from the field and hospitalized, but is not very seriously injured.
IN THE NEWS: In a doubleheader sweep, 3–1 and 3–2, of the Giants, Boston slugger Dave Brain hits his 10th homer, off the Giants Red Ames. Brain's ten round trippers will lead the NL this year, but he will never hit another. The same fate befell Fred Odwell two years ago. Brain will be sold to the Reds in May, the same route that will taken by the 1910 NL homer champion, Fred Beck.
IN THE NEWS: Every player but one is hitless in the Pittsburgh-Brooklyn game, won by the Pirates, 2-1. Twenty-year-old rookie Nick Maddox, making his 3rd appearance, allows no Superbas hits for the first Pittsburgh 9-inning no-hitter. Pirate manager Fred Clarke gets the only two hits given up by Elmer Stricklett, but neither safety figures in the scoring: all three runs in the game are unearned. Earlier in the year, Maddox hurled two no-hitters while at Wheeling (Central League).
IN THE NEWS: Against the Reds, New York jumps to a 6-0 lead against Charlie Smith, and Christy Mathewson coasts to a 6-2 win. Fred Merkle makes his first appearance for the Giants, playing 2B.
IN THE NEWS: Phillies rookie George McQuillan pitches a 6-inning 2-0 win over St. Louis in his ML debut, starting a record string of 25 consecutive shutout innings at the beginning of his ML career. He'll go 4-0 this year, with three shut outs, and win 23 next year.
The Reds' Bob Spade makes his pitching debut in a 1-0 shutout over the Giants. He outduels Joe McGinnity, allowing just four hits. New York's Roger Bresnahan is tossed by Bill Klem and will need the consent of the league president to next play.
IN THE NEWS: At the start of the Giants match in Pittsburgh, John McGraw hands Bill Klem the lineup card with Roger Bresnahan's name in the lineup. The two argue about whether the catcher can play after yesterday's ejection and then when Klem turns away he is hit in the face with a glass of water. No culprit comes forward but Klem gets his revenge in the 6th by ejecting McGraw and Art Devlin for arguing a call. The Pirates win, 2-1.
In Chicago, the Cubs clinch the pennant by beat the Phillies, 4-1. The game is washed out after seven 1/2 innings with Ed Reulbach winning in relief of Three Finger Brown. Chicago pulls off a triple play in the 5th inning to help seal the win.
IN THE NEWS: Christy Mathewson shuts out the Pirates, 2-0, while Bill Klem continues his battle with the Giants by tossing four more, including John McGraw.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner steals four bases, including 2B, 3B, and home in the 2nd inning against the Giants. Not to be outdone, his teammate Fred Clarke also swipes four bases for the only time in his career.
IN THE NEWS: After Cleveland's Addie Joss fired a one-hitter against the Highlanders yesterday, teammate Heinie Berger matches him today, also against hapless New York. Thsi is the 2nd time this century that teammates have thrown back-to-back one-hitters (as noted by Steve Boren).
IN THE NEWS: After leading the AL most of the month, the Athletics (83-54) are beset by pitching problems as Detroit (86-56) comes into Philadelphia for a three game showdown. Detroit win the first game, 5-4, to take over 1st place.
Pirate star Honus Wagner is hit on the hand by a pitch from Rube Dessau, and will miss the last 12 games of the year.
IN THE NEWS: Phillies rookie George McQuillan completes a major-league record string of 25 consecutive shutout innings at the beginning of his career. The streak began on May 8.
IN THE NEWS: An overflow crowd lines the OF at Philadelphia's Columbia Park for the showdown Monday doubleheader between the A's and Tigers. In the first game, the home team gets off to a 7-1 lead against 25-game winner Bill Donovan. But Rube Waddell, who relieves in the 2nd, fails to hold the lead. A 2-run home run by Ty Cobb ties it 8-8 in the 9th. Both teams score once in the 11th; an umpire's ruling costs Philadelphia the game in the 14th: Harry Davis hits a long fly into the crowd in left CF, ordinarily a ground-rule double. As Tiger CF Sam Crawford goes to the crowd's edge, a policeman stands up and moves, either to interfere or to get out of the way. Home plate umpire Silk O'Loughlin says there is no interference, then reverses his ruling when base umpire Tom Connolly offers a different opinion. When play resumes, the Athletics' Danny Murphy hits a long single that would have scored Davis. The game is called because of darkness in the 17th, a 9-9 tie. The 2nd game is never played. The Tigers, in first place, leave for Washington where they will win 4. They will finish one 1/2 games in front.
Cardinals 1B Ed Konetchy steals home twice in St. Louis' three game against Boston. St. Louis sets a ML one-game record with three steals of home as Joe Delahanty also scores in the 8th.
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