IN THE NEWS: At Pittsburgh, Chicago's Wildfire Schulte breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Marty O'Toole and Jimmy Lavender by legging out an inside-the-park homer in the 12th inning. Lavender and the Cubs win, 1–0.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants' Rube Marquard nips Nap Rucker 2–1 to capture his 19th straight game this season. With two end-of-year wins in 1911, he has 21 in a row in regular season play. Both marks are records. On the 8th, the Cubs will beat him, but he will ultimately compile a league-leading 26 victories against 11 defeats. Today's game is the Giants' 16th consecutive win. Brooklyn will end the streak tomorrow
Walter Johnson picks up a win and is given a rare rest in the 6th inning as Washington coasts to a 10–2 win over the Highlanders. Johnson will rack up an AL record 16 straight wins before he is beaten.
IN THE NEWS: Three weeks after the Tigers ask waivers on George Mullin, he pitches himself a 32nd birthday present at Detroit, a 7–0 no-hitter over the Browns. Mullin helps his victory with three hits and two RBIs. In the morning game, a 9–3 Detroit win, Ty Cobb steals 2B, 3B, and home in the 5th inning against the battery of George Baumgardner and Paul Krichell. Cobb has stolen home five times this season; this is his first swipe of home in his last eight successes that didn't occur in the 1st inning.
Boston's Smoky Joe Wood suffers his worst loss of the year, a 16–4 shellacking at the hands of the Athletics. Eddie Plank beats Wood, who will finish the year at 34–5. Wood will win his next start on July 8th, the first of 16 in a row.
Brooklyn ends the Giants win streak of 16 games by sweeping a doubleheader, 10–3 and 5–2. The Superbas take the a.m. game, cuffing Christy Mathewson for five runs on five hits in three innings. Hooks Wiltse is the loser in the afternoon contest, but the Giants are still in the lead by 14 1/2 games.
IN THE NEWS: To fend off possible future challenges to the legality of the standard contract and its reserve clause, new wording provides for compensation to the player for the right to renew. A player's salary is specified as 75 percent for his services and 25 percent for the privilege of reserving them for the following season.
IN THE NEWS: Gavvy Cravath swipes home in the 11th inning to give the Phils a 9–8 win over the Cubs. Reliever Tom Seaton is the winner over Jimmy Lavender. Seaton also pitches the 2nd game but loses, 4–2, to Ed Reulbach.
IN THE NEWS: Ty Cobb strokes seven hits in a doubleheader to give him a major-league record of 14 in two consecutive twin bills against the Athletics. Bill White will tie Cobb in 1961. Cobb also pummeled them for seven hits on the 17th on his way to collecting an incredible 68 hits for the month, a record.
IN THE NEWS: Ray Caldwell of the Highlanders, inserted as a pinch runner, steals home for the tying run in an eventual 4–3 win over Cleveland. He then pitches a 4–0 victory in the second game.
In Chicago, the Phils pound the Cubs, 14–2. Sherry Magee leads the way with two steals of home tying a ML record. On August 1, Joe Jackson will swipe home twice to set a AL record.
Jeff Tesreau, with relief help from Christy Mathewson in the 9th, beats the Pirates, 2–1. Four singles in the 9th inning off Hank Robinson provide the Giants with the margin.
IN THE NEWS: Fleet OF Max Carey goes hitless, but steals four bases and scores five runs in the Pirates 12–3 win over host Brooklyn. Carey will lead the NL in thefts 10 times, and retire with 738. Owen Wilson has a triple for Pittsburgh, off Eddie Stack, one of 36 he'll hit this year for a ML record.
IN THE NEWS: In an accommodation to the Wall Street crowd, the Giants open their home stand with a 3:45 game against the Cubs. But the Cubs score three in the 8th off Christy Mathewson to win, 4–2.
IN THE NEWS: For the first time, a NL team loses a game because of the rule that holds runners in place when a batted ball hits an umpire. A double by the Giants' Buck Herzog drives in two runs, but the ball hits umpire Garner Bush, and the runs do not count.
IN THE NEWS: Led by Red Murray's homer, the Giants pound Chicago rookie Jimmy Lavender for five runs in the first two innings on their way to a 10–4 win. Each team makes four errors, but Christy Mathewson scatters nine hits to win. The Giants lead the NL by 10 games.
IN THE NEWS: A day after the Braves went 14 innings to beat St. Louis, they go 19 innings with the Pirates. Lefty Otto Hess going all the way for Boston. The Pirates score three in the 19th, and the Braves come back with 2, losing 7–6. Honus Wagner, who earlier stole home, drives in the final run for Pittsburgh. Wagner, at 38, is the oldest player in the NL.
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