IN THE NEWS: Rube Marquard is fined $25 by the National Commission for pitching an inning in a semipro game in Port Chester, NY, on a day off.
Heinie Zimmerman has two hits in the Cubs win over Brooklyn to raise his average over .400. Bill Sweeney will briefly pass Zim in mid-august before the Cubs star regains the batting lead for good.
IN THE NEWS: At Comiskey Park, Walter Johnson relieves Carl Cashion with two outs in the 8th and stops the White Sox. Johnson throws another two innings of hitless ball and drives in the winning run to give Washington an 87 win. Johnson has now won nine out of 10 decisions with the White Sox this season.
At St. Louis, the Cards' Ed Konetchy hits two inside-the-park homers in an 84 win over Brooklyn.
IN THE NEWS: Inspired in part by the Ty Cobb suspension and the Tigers' brief strike in May, the formation of a Players' Fraternity is announced, headed by attorney and former player Dave Fultz. Leading players include Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Mickey Doolan, and Jake Daubert. The goals are to oppose contract violations, rowdyism, and anything that may "impair a player's ability." At one point, a strike will be called for a Brooklyn attempt to send an obscure player, Harry Kraft, down to Newark, but many teams balk at the strike call, and it is rescinded.
At Cleveland, Joe Wood gives up 13 hits in an 11-inning 54 win for Boston. He strikes out five in running his record to 234.
IN THE NEWS: Browns manager-1B George Stovall makes seven assists, topping Willard Brown's record of six in a game for Louisville in 1893.
At Pittsburgh, the Pirates win their 3rd straight against the leading Giants, belting Christy Mathewson for 15 hits and six runs in eight innings. Spitballer Marty O'Toole allows seven hits to win, 72.
IN THE NEWS: Led by Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Phils whip the Reds, 102. Pete wins the game on the mound and also adds a home run.
In a game at Boston, Chicago star Johnny Evers pushes umpire Bill Finneran after the latter challenges Evers, Heinie Zimmerman, and Frank Chance to fight him under the stands after the game. Evers will be suspended for five days, and though the Cubs win three games, there will be a howl that president Lynch is favoring the Giants. Red Downs will fill in at 2B for Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland's Joe Jackson becomes the 2nd AL player to steal home twice in a game. He steals home in the first inning, and then in the 7th, he steals 2B, 3B, and home.
IN THE NEWS: The Cards paste Red Ames for six runs in three innings, then add two more against reliever Christy Mathewson to win, 86. Matty takes the loss; his record is now 178.
Cubs owner Charles Murphy hints that the Cards and other clubs go easy against John McGraw's Giants. Later Phils' owner Horace Fogel, a former Giants manager whose ownership of the Phils is seen as a front for Murphy and financial backer Charles Raft of Cincinnati, echoes the accusation and charges NL umpires with favoring the Giants. It will lead to Fogel's being expelled from the NL.
IN THE NEWS: The Pirates score an unearned run in the 10th to beat Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Phils, 21. It is Pete's first loss to Pittsburgh.
Tris Speaker runs his hit streak to 20 straight games, lining a hit in game one of today's twinbill with the Browns. This is Speaker's 3rd long streak of the season; earlier he had streaks of 20 games and 30 games, the only player in history to do so. In the nitecap, Smoky Joe Wood wins his 25th, beating the Browns, 80. He allows four hits and strikes out 9.
In game one against Vean Gregg, Stuffy McInnis has two inside-the-park home runs to pace the A's to an 83 win over Cleveland. Philadelphia takes the nitecap, 20.
IN THE NEWS: Little-known Guy Zinn, Yankees outfielder, steals home twice in a 54 win at Detroit; this will add to last-place New York's major-league record of 18 steals of home for the year. The Yankees will win tomorrow, 98, when Zinn hits a 9th inning double.
IN THE NEWS: Walter Johnson and Joe Wood are in pursuit of Rube Marquard's 19-game win streak. Johnson picks on the White Sox for his 14th straight, a 2-hitter, tying Jack Chesbro's 1904 mark. The Washingtonians win, 20, beating "our meatball expert" (Chicago Record-Herald) Joe Benz with eight hits. A week later Joe Wood will win number 13 in a row.
In Chicago, the Giants score twice in the opening frame off Jim Lavender to knock out the would-be Giant killer and go on to win, 74. Fred Merkle and Larry Doyle pull off a double steal in the inning, with Doyle on the front end. Jeff Tesreau puzzles the locals and the Cubs drop six games behind the Giants.
Behind Earl Hamilton's seven hitter, the lowly Browns beat the front running Red Sox, 32. Hamilton gives up six hits to beat O'Brien. Boston is 8 1/2 ahead of the A's.
IN THE NEWS: Chicago's Jimmy Archer singles home Vic Saier in the 11th to give the Cubs a 65 win over Christy Mathewson. The Giants lead has now slipped to five games.
IN THE NEWS: In New York, the Tigers beat the Yankees, 94. Ty Cobb steals home in the 1st inning, the 3rd time this season he's swiped home and all in the first inning.
IN THE NEWS: In Washington, Walter Johnson wins his AL record 15th straight, downing Cleveland 42. Big Train is topped in the nitecap when Washington hurler Carl Cashion tosses a 6-inning no-hitter, winning 20. The only baserunners reach on two errors by SS George McBride. Johnson's effort takes one hour: 55 minutes, while Cashion's six innings finish in just 65 minutes: the game is called to allow Cleveland to catch a train to Boston. Cashion will win only 11 other games in his ML career.
IN THE NEWS: Before a sellout crowd of 27,000 at Forbes Field, the Pirates sweep two from the Giants, winning 32 and 86. Howie Camnitz outpitches Christy Mathewson in the opener, and Rube Marquard taking the loss in the nitecap. The Bucs are led by Honus Wagner who goes 3-for-4 in the first game, and hits for the cycle in the nitecap. Honus' seven hits total 14 bases, he scores five runs, drives in four and swipes two bases. Wagner will hit seven homers this season, with three coming off Rube.
IN THE NEWS: Fred Merkle's 3-run homer off Babe Adams in the 7th to give the Giants a 32 lead over Pittsburgh, and Christy Mathewson pitches the last three innings to preserve Hooks Wiltse win over the Bucs. The Giants won a pair yesterday from the Bucs by one-run scores.
IN THE NEWS: Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends under AL rules of the time. In the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Browns, he relieves Tom Hughes with one out and two on in the 7th inning of a 22 game. The two runners score on a Pete Compton single up the middle and the Nationals lose, 43. The two runs are charged to Johnson, not Hughes, giving him the defeat. Under the NL's rules, Johnson would not be charged with the loss. After the season, AL president Ban Johnson will change the rules to conform with the senior circuit, but he will deny he does it because of this game.
At Boston, Owen Wilson has his 2nd three-triple doubleheader this year. The fleet Buc triples off Otto Hess in the game one win, 54. In the nitecap, an 84 loss, he triples in the 6th and 8th innings off Ed Donnelly.
IN THE NEWS: It takes a one-hitter by Art Fromme, but the Reds finally beat New York, and Christy Mathewson 20. Art Fletcher's single is the only safety. The Giants' lead shrinks to three 1/2 games over the Cubs.
Owen Wilson triples for his 3rd game in a row, a 4th inning drive off Walt Dickson good for three runs. Pittsburgh beats Boston, 94.
In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the NL will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The AL will not make ERA part of their official statistics until 1913.
IN THE NEWS: The Red Sox have only 50 at batsa major-league record for fewst at bats in a DHin a doubleheader with Chicago, but they make them count. Boston wins, 53 and 30.
IN THE NEWS: Lefty Earl Hamilton, 22, pitches his only shutout of the year, a no-hitter in the Browns' 51 win over Detroit. Ty Cobb scores on an error after a walk.
IN THE NEWS: The Red Sox run their record to 8737 with a 21 win over the A's. Following the game, Connie Mack says he never realized how strong the Sox were, and concedes the pennant to them. There are 30 games left for Boston.
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