IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth and the traveling Red Sox stop the Yankees, 7–1. Today's game is the last stop on a 29-day road trip for the Sox. Ruth allows five hits and bangs his 2nd ML homer, a 3-run shot, again connecting off Jack Warhop. After his 2nd inning drive, the Babe is given two intentional walks. Ruth ends up kicking the bench and breaking his toe, sidelining him for two weeks.
IN THE NEWS: Tim Hurst, colorful umpire who was often in the center of controversy, dies at 49.
Ty Cobb steals home in the 9th inning of 3–0 Detroit win, the only steal of home that late in a game in his career. Yankee pitcher Ray Caldwell is so angry at the safe call he throws his mitt in the air and is promptly ejected by umpire Silk O'Loughlin. It is Cobb's 2nd steal of home while Caldwell is on the mound (the first was on May 12, 1911).
IN THE NEWS: Philadelphia's Grover Cleveland Alexander loses his no-hitter when the Cards' Artie Butler punches a single with two outs in the 9th. Alex then fans Bob Bescher for the final out to win 3–0. He will pitch three more one-hitters this season.
IN THE NEWS: The Phils move into first place, as Grover Cleveland Alexander flirts again with a no-hitter, holding the Cubs hitless until the 7th. The Phils win, 4–3, in the 11th, beating Larry Cheney. Alexander will be 31–10 and lead the NL with a 1.55 ERA, 36 CG, 376 IP, 241 strikeouts, and 12 shutouts.
The 2nd place Tigers paste the Red Sox, 15–0. With lefty Ray Collins on the mound in the 3rd, Ty Cobb swipes home.
IN THE NEWS: Yankees P Ray Caldwell hits a pinch home run for the 2nd day in a row. Nobody else in the AL repeats the feat until Joe Cronin in 1943. Tomorrow Caldwell will hit another, but he is on the mound in that game.
The Reds finally beat the Robins, 1–0, in 15 innings as Rube Benton pitches a complete game shutout. Tommy Griffith's single drives in the winning run. Yesterday, the two teams battled to a 2–2 tie in 14 innings.
Giants catcher Larry McLean, suspended by McGraw for 10 days, goes on rampage at Buckingham Hotel in St. Louis and picks a fight with John McGraw and scout Dick Kinsella. McGraw banishes the catcher saying he'll never play for Giants again. Christy Mathewson, unperturbed, beats the Cards in the afternoon. McLean will be shipped to the Cards, from whence he came, on August 6th for Doc Crandall.
IN THE NEWS: On Bunker Hill Day in Boston, the Browns manage just four hits and one run off Babe Ruth in six innings. Ruth strikes out 10 before collapsing in the 7th. Carl Mays relieves with one out and the Red Sox emerge with an 11–10 win, Ruth the victor. The Sox are now tied for 2nd with the Tigers.
IN THE NEWS: George "Zip" Zabel comes out of the Cubs bullpen with two outs in the first and winds up with a 4–3 nineteen-inning 4–3 win over Brooklyn, the longest relief job ever. Brooklyn starter Jeff Pfeffer scatters 15 hits as he labors 18 1/3 innings, only to lose on an errant throw by 2B George Cutshaw.
IN THE NEWS: Ty Cobb steals home twice in a game against Washington, on the front end of double and triple steals. Both steals come with Joe Boehling on the mound. Bull Henry is the starting catcher, but he leaves in the first inning with a spike wound from Cobb. The 5th-inning steal is with Buff Williams behind the plate. The steals make the difference in the 5–3 Detroit win.
In an 11–4 Chicago win, the White Sox try to steal 11 times against three A's catchers, but are successful on just 5. The six runners caught ties the AL record set last month, and the major-league record set in 1909.
Charley "Victory" Faust, 34, dies of pulmonary tuberculosis while confined to the Western Hospital for the Insane in Washington State. Faust was the "good luck charm" of the pennant winning Giants' teams.
IN THE NEWS: Pete Alexander allows two hits in the 1st inning and none in the next eight innings, but the matchup with the Giants Rube Marquard ends in a 1–1 tie.
IN THE NEWS: For the 5th time this month, and 6th time this year, Ty Cobb steals home, doing it in a 4–2 Tiger win over the St. Louis Browns. Cobb scores another run when Sam Crawford hits back to Browns P Grover Lowdermilk, who somersaults after catching the grounder and sits on the mound holding the ball. Cobb scores all the way from 2B on the play.
Philadelphia Athletics lefty Bruno Haas makes his debut against New York a memorable one as he walks a record 16 batters, and throws three wild pitches. He goes all the way in a 15–7 loss, his only ML decision. Haas breaks the record of 15 walks, set by Boardwalk Brown, before he was sold by the A's to the Yankees. Haas will pitch in just five more games before ending up in the NFL as a halfback for Akron.
IN THE NEWS: With two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Heinie Zimmerman swipes home to give Chicago a 14–13 win over the visiting Cardinals. St. Louis went ahead 13–10 but the Cubs score four in the 9th, highlighted by a 2-run pinch double by Zimmerman.
IN THE NEWS: In Boston, Babe Ruth blasts his 3rd homer of the year, off Ray Caldwell, and is the 2nd player to hit a ball into the RF seats at Fenway. Ruth strikes out eight in pitching a complete game, 9–5, win, and adds a single off reliever Bill Donovan, Yankee skipper and his former manager.
IN THE NEWS: Phillie ace Pete Alexander continues his masterful pitching, topping Brooklyn's Jack Coombs, 4–0. Zack Wheat's 8th-inning single is the only Dodger safety.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants sweep two from the Braves, winning 3–2 and 5–3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, 11 innings to beat Pat Ragan. Art Fletcher scores the wining run in the 11th on an error. Matty allows six hits, including a two-run homer in the 4th by Sherry Magee. Jeff Tesreau is the winner in the nitecap.
Recent University of Michigan graduate George Sisler makes his ML debut as a pinch hitter. Sisler stays on to pitch the last three innings, giving up no runs, in the Browns 4–2 loss to the White Sox.
IN THE NEWS: Led by Tris Speaker's 5-for-5, the Red Sox trip the Yankees, 4–3, in 10 innings. Babe Ruth gets the win, going all the way before Sheriff Gainer hits for him in the 10th.
In the 7th inning of game 1, Cards LF Cozy Dolan's single hits his own glove in the grass behind third. Buc LF Max Carey hustles in and throws Dolan out trying for a double (as noted by Clem Comly). Pittsburgh wins the opener, 8–6 and the Cards rebound in the nitcap, 6–4.