IN THE NEWS: Boston's Babe Ruth tops Walter Johnson, 10, for his 2nd straight shutout, allowing just three hits. The Sox get their only run in the 8th inning when Mike McNally scores from 2B on an infield force out. McNally will set a major-league record this year of playing 87 game without an extra base hit: Luis Gomez will top it by two games in 1975. Both pitchers strike out six, while Ruth adds a hit by pitch on Joe Judge. Ruth strikes out twice against Johnson.
IN THE NEWS: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants lose to the Reds in 13 innings, 64. The Reds knock out starter Christy Mathewson with four runs in the first three innings, then score two in the 13th off Bill Perritt for the win. The last score in the 13th on Hal Chase's steal of home.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland continues to beat up on Red Sox pitching, whipping Carl Mays and Rube Foster, to win, 93.
In Game One of a PCL doubleheader sweep at Oakland, Bill Prough pitches 10 hitless innings against San Francisco. He leaves the scoreless game after 17 innings having given up four hits. Oakland wins, 1-0, in 18 innings.
IN THE NEWS: At Boston, Chicago's Heinie Zimmerman swipes home in the 4th inning for the only score as the Cubs top the Braves, 10. Lefty Gene Packard prevails over Art Nehf and helps his own cause with seven assists and a put out at home.
In Cleveland, Babe Ruth shuts out the Indians, 50, on five hits, and has now thrown 24 straight scoreless innings. The Boston lefty is 2-for-3 at the plate.
IN THE NEWS: Walter Johnson beats Cleveland, 74, for a Washington win.
In Detroit, consecutive doubles by Bobby Veach and George Burns stop Ruth's scoreless innings at 25. Ruth evens the score with a longest drive ever seen at Navin Field, into the RF bleachers. When Ruth tires in the 9th, Carl Mays relieves and loses, 65. Ruth is 3-for-3 at bat.
IN THE NEWS: Pete Alexander beats the Pirates, 21. His shutout bid is stopped in the 9th inning when Honus Wagner lines a hit off Alex's shin to drive in the lone Buc run.
In St. Louis, Babe Ruth hits a 3-run pinch homerthe first of his careerin the 7th to tie the Browns at 33, but St. Louis scores in the 9th to beat the Red Sox, 43.
IN THE NEWS: Babe Ruth goes five 1/3 innings and, with relief help from Ernie Shore, beats the Browns, 53. Ruth allows one run and is 2-or-2 at the plate, including his 3rd homer in three games.
IN THE NEWS: Cubs spitballer Jimmy Lavender has his moist one working against the Giants, beating New York, 40. The only hit is an infield single by Benny Kauff. Christy Mathewson takes to the loss, though all four runs are unearned.
IN THE NEWS: Long Tom Hughes of the Braves pitches a no-hitter over the Pirates, six years after pitching a 9-inning no-hitter for the Yanks, before losing 50 to Cleveland in 11. Today he wins 20 striking out Honus Wagner for the 2nd time to end the game.
IN THE NEWS: The White Sox pound Babe Ruth for 12 hits, including three by Joe Jackson, in eight innings and beat the visiting Red Sox, 50. The loss drops Boston into 6th place.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees roll over the Indians 193, as they score in every inning but the 8th.
Former major leaguer Johnny Dodge, playing for Mobile (Southern League) is hit by as pitch from Nashville's Shotgun Rogers and killed. Seemingly unfazed, Rogers will go on the pitch five straight shut outs after the fatal beaning. Dodge played for the Phillies and Reds in 1912-13. Rogers will break in with the A's in 1919 and compile a 412 record.
IN THE NEWS: Tilly Walker's home run over the LF wall is the only home run the Red Sox will hit at Fenway this season, but it is the lone Boston score today as the Yankees win, 41. Inserted as a defensive replacement late in the game, Boston SS Everett Scott starts a string of 1,307 consecutive games, all played at SS. He will complete the streak as a Yankee on May 6, 1925. It will be the best until Gehrig's 2,130.
IN THE NEWS: Rube Foster of the Red Sox no-hits the Yankees 20, for the first no-hitter in Fenway Park, beating Bob Shawkey 20. Harry Hooper leads the offense with three hits. Red Sox president Lannin hands Rube a $100 bonus and each of his Sox teammates receive a gold handled pocket knife engraved with the date.
At a soggy Polo Grounds, the Braves edge the Giants, 54, in 10 innings. Christy Mathewson, in relief of Bill Perritt in the 9th, takes the loss.
IN THE NEWS: Brownie 1B George Sisler makes his final mound appearance of the year, a complete game 20 loss to White Sox starter Reb Russell.
Babe Ruth almost duplicates teammate Rube Foster's no-hitter, allowing just three singles, two by Frank Gilhooley, in beating the Yankees, 10. The game takes one hour: 18 minutes.
Against the Giants, the Braves pull off a triple steal in the 11th inning, with Johnny Evers on the front end. It is the NL's only extra-inning triple steal; the AL's only triple swipe will come in 1941.
IN THE NEWS: Chicago pitcher Tom Seaton provides the edge by stealing home in the 6th inning to help beat the Reds, 21. The 2nd game at Wrigley is postponed.
Ernie Shore blanks the A's, 10, the 3rd straight shut out for Red Sox pitchers.
Pitching for San Francisco, Skeeter Fanning fires his 2nd PCL no-hitter in three years, beating Vernon, 41. Fanning no-hit Portland on October 25, 1914.
IN THE NEWS: The leading Dodgers sweep a doubleheader against the Giants at Ebbets Field, winning 64 and 54. Casey Stengel is the hero in the opener, going 3-for-4.
The Red Sox sweep two from the A's, winning 32 and taking the night cap, 73 behind Carl Mays. Mays also saves the opener for Dutch Leonard.
IN THE NEWS: The Dodgers split with the Giants, losing 118 before winning the nitecap, 21. New York takes a 60 lead in the opener, but the Dodgers score five in the 5th off starter Bill Perritt, then put two on against reliever Rube Schauer. Christy Mathewson then takes over and George Cutshaw cranks a 3-run homer to give the Dodgers an 86 lead. Matty allows just one other hit and New York comes back against Duster Mails to win. It is Mathewson's last major league victory. During the game, police at the Polo Grounds and arrest three fans for not throwing back baseballs hit into the stands.
Cleveland players, in a game with the White Sox, wear numbers pinned to their their sleeves, marking the first time players are identified by numbers corresponding to those on the scorecard. Jack Graney, leading off for the Tribe, is the first batter to wear a number in the 20th century.
IN THE NEWS: Boston's Babe Ruth allows two runs in the first inning, but settles down to beat the A's, 7-2, while striking out 10. Red Sox infielder Larry Gardner is caught stealing three times, the 2nd time this year that A's catchers have caught a base runner three times (New York's Fritz Maisel, April 26). On June 29th, Lee Magee will be caught three times by the A's while trying to steal, and not until Rickey Henderson, in 1982, will an AL runner be cut down thrice in a game.
IN THE NEWS: Rogers Hornsby, playing his first full season for St. Louis, has a 5-hit day, with three singles and two doubles.
Cubs catcher Bill Fischer sets a major league record by catching all 27 innings in a doubleheader loss to the Pirates. The second game goes 18 innings before the Corsairs win it, 32. Impressed with Fischer's durability, the Pirates will acquire the backstop next month.
IN THE NEWS: For the 2nd time in three days, the Braves Ed Konetchy collects the only hit in a game, a single. Today it is Rube Benton of the Giants firing the one hitter.
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