IN THE NEWS: Christy Mathewson allows 15 singles, but his teammates help with four double plays and the Giants top the Pirates, 84. Babe Adams takes the loss.
IN THE NEWS: Against the Cubs, visiting Brooklyn gets three homers in the 5th inning as Eddie Zimmerman, Tex Erwin, and Zack Wheat connect, not consecutively, in the 53 win. Zim's and Erwin's come against Lurid Lew Richie, while Fred Toney serves up Wheat. The trio will total six homers on the year.
IN THE NEWS: Lee Tannehill of the White Sox, the only SS to execute two unassisted double plays in one season, makes both of them in the same game versus Washington. Walter Johnson still wins 10 for the Senators.
IN THE NEWS: The matchup between Three Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson is something less than a pitching duel as Chicago bangs out 10 hits, including two singles, a double and a triple by Joe Tinker. Tinker also adds a steal of home. The Giants collect 13 hits, but Chicago wins the game, 86.
IN THE NEWS: Bill Keen, 18, debuts with the Pirates at 1B (as noted by Retrosheet) and injures himself in the 5th running from 1B to 3B. He's replaced by a pinch runner, who breaks the 88 tie with the Phils, by scoring on a single. Keen makes six more pinch hit appearances this year, but never scores a major league run.
IN THE NEWS: In Chicago, the Giants paste the Cubs, 165, and the Pirates now lead in the NL race for the first time. But it doesn't last, as the Cubs replace them tomorrow with a 75 win over the visiting Cardinals. The lead changes 26 times, as the top four bounce in and out until the Giants emerge on August 24th and build a seven 1/2 game lead over the Cubs.
IN THE NEWS: The Phillies reach Christy Mathewson for 11 hits, but fail to score as New York triumphs, 60. The Giants toast Bill Burns for four runs in the 1st two innings.
IN THE NEWS: The Pirates' Elmer Steele throws just 72 pitches in subduing the Superbas, 90. Steele gives up no walks and has no strikeouts, and allows just one hita one-out 9th inning single to light-hitting Tex Erwin. Brooklyn so admires the feat they obtain him on September 16th, but he never wins another game in the ML.
Ty Cobb, apparently believing the Tigers can no longer win the pennant race, begins a vacation.
IN THE NEWS: Cy Young, 34 at Cleveland, is given his release. He returns to Boston and signs with the NL Rustlers, where he will close out the year 45, and his pitching days with a 511315 record, 750 complete games, 7,356 IP.
IN THE NEWS: At Brooklyn, Honus Wagner suffers a serious ankle injury rounding first in the first inning. He will miss 13 games, play one at first base, then miss another 12. With Wagner out the Pirates will lose eight of 13 and drop out of the race.
At the Polo Grounds, it take Christy Mathewson just 92 pitches to top the Reds, 61. Big Six allows just two Cincy hits in beating George Suggs. It is Matty's 22nd straight win over the Ohioans.
In the 4th inning,, Wildfire Schulte busts his record 4th grand slam of the season to help the Cubs maul the Boston Rustlers, 136. Pitching, it's Brown over Brown as Mordecai tops Buster.
Philadelphia OF Sherry Magee is reinstated, following his suspension for attacking umpire Bill Finneran several weeks ago.
IN THE NEWS: Thirty-five thousand gather at the not-yet-completed Polo Grounds to watch the Reds finally get to Christy Mathewson after 22 straight losses, beating him for the first time since May 1908. Matty, after saving the 54 opener for Hooks Wiltse with two scoreless frames, starts the nightcap, goes five innings, and loses 74. Mike Mitchell leads the Reds in the nitecap by hitting for the cycle off Matty, and adding a double. A crowd of 35,000 view the loss.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs lose to Brooklyn, 65, in 10 innings to lose sole possession of first place. Doc Scanlan bests Mordecai Brown.
The Giants split with Pittsburgh, but move into a tie for 1st place. Christy Mathewson loses the opener, 31, giving up six hits and two earned runs in eight innings. Rube Marquard salvages the nitecap with a 2-hitter, striking out 11.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants take over sole possession of the lead with a 32 win over Pittsburgh. New York will remain atop the NL for the rest of the way.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh, playing without Honus Wagner, is no match for Christy Mathewson, as the Giants win, 62. Tommy Leach, filling in for Wagner at SS, makes three errors behind Howie Camnitz. The Giants announce that for the first 11 playing days at the new Polo Grounds, the average attendance was 23,864.
Now pitching for the NL Rustlers, Cy Young delights the hometown Boston fans by pitching a complete game against the Cardinals, winning, 54.
IN THE NEWS: Chicago's Ed Walsh pitches a 50 no-hitter against the Red Sox. A 4th-inning walk produces the only Red Sox runner. After going 1820 in 1910, Walsh bounces back to win 27 and lead the AL in games (56), IP (369), and strikeouts (255).
IN THE NEWS: After belting a 14th inning homer on August 17th off the Browns' Jack Powell, A's pitcher Jack Coombs hits another extra inning round tripper, this time in the 11th off the Tigers Ralph "Judge" Works. Coombs's homer is the last one hit at Detroit's Bennett Park. Among major league pitchers, only Dizzy Dean will hit two extra-inning homers.
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