IN THE NEWS: Christy Mathewson allows 13 hits but the Giants continue to pummel the Phils, winning 84. Matty gives up no walks to run his streak to 34 innings.
IN THE NEWS: The Red Sox tally 15 hits off Washington's Walter Johnson, but lose 10 in 15 innings. This a ML frustration record for most hits in a shutout. Ray Collins takes the loss.
The Giants hand Pete Alexander his 3rd loss in the four game series, as Jeff Tesreau wins, 42, in 11 innings. New York is now in first place by three 1/2 games.
IN THE NEWS: With manager John McGraw in the grandstands, the Giants win their 11th straight, beating Brooklyn, 32. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Pat Ragan, scattering 12 hits but walking none. His walkless streak is at 47 innings.
IN THE NEWS: At St. Louis, the Senators push across two runs in the top of the 9th to take a 32 lead, Walter Johnson, the 4th Washington pitcher, shuts out the Browns in the 9th and is awarded the win. As reported in Sporting Life, Prexy "Ban Johnson rules that when a pitcher leaves the box at the end of an inning he shall not receive benefit of any runs made in the following inning. He says all runs should aid the reliever, not the previous pitcher."
IN THE NEWS: Led by Ward Miller's 2-run triple, the Cubs stop the Giants, 32. The victory ends the New Yorkers' win streak at 14 games and stops Christy Mathewson's win streak at nine victories. Matty's skein of consecutive innings without a pass continues however, and is at 52.
IN THE NEWS: Philadelphia's Boardwalk Brown walks 15 Tigers in seven 2/3 innings, but staggers to a 169 win. Brown has only one walkless inningthe first. Ty Cobb, out for a week with an injured knee, plays 2B for the only time in his career, and makes three errors in his five fielding chances.
IN THE NEWS: Veteran Three Finger Brown, sold to the Reds over the winter after a 56 year with the Cubs, loses his matchup with Giants rival Christy Mathewson, 42. Matty walks none to run his streak to 61 innings.
Jake Stahl, hobbled by a foot injury, resigns as Red Sox manager. C Bill Carrigan replaces him.
IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, the Cards win the opener of two, 43, with help from the error-prone Giants. In blanking the Cards 50, in the nitecap, Christy Mathewson finally yields a base on balls, ending a record string of 68 walkless innings pitched. Ed Konetchy draws the pass in the 8th. Matty's record won't be topped until Bill Fischer, in 1962.
IN THE NEWS: The Tigers ship 38-year-old George Mullin (16), five times a 20-game winner, to Washington. Mullin pitched a no-hitter a year ago on his birthday.
IN THE NEWS: New York sweeps two from Pittsburgh, winning 83 and 21 in 11 innings. Al Demaree wins the rout in the opener, and former Pirate Art Fromme, in relief of Christy Mathewson, picks up the victory in the 2nd game. Fred Merkle drives home George Burns to win for New York. The Giants now lead the NL by eight games.
Cards P Slim Sallee beats Brooklyn, 31, and scores one of the runs himself on a steal of home.
IN THE NEWS: A 15-inning 88 tie game between St. Louis and the Nationals is called for darkness. Reliever Walter Johnson fans a major-league record 15 in the last 11 innings, but he hits rookie catcher Sam Agnew with a pitch, breaking his jaw. Browns P Carl Weilman sets a major-league record by striking out six times. He becomes the first player in history to strike out six consecutive times in a game, as Johnson gets him four times, and Joe Engel and Long Tom Hughes once each. Johnson's strikeout mark for relievers will last this century before another Johnson breaks it, in 2001.
At Philadelphia, Pirates OF Max Carey scores five runs against the Phils without a hit, reaching first on an error and four walks, as the Bucs win 122. He also steals four bases and advances twice on wild pitches. A student at St. Louis Theological Seminary, he will lead the NL in runs this season: he'll lead in stolen bases as well, the first of 10 such seasons.
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