IN THE NEWS: Behind Alex Ferguson and Bill Piercy, the Red Sox twice shut out the Senators, winning 30 and 10.
Carl Mays wins his American League record 23rd straight game over the Athletics, although the Mackman knock him out of the box for the first time in his win streak. He leaves with one out in the 6th and the Yankees winning, 72. New York prevails, 116, in game 1, but the A's win the nitecap, 40, behind Hasty.
At Detroit, the Browns win their 2nd in a row over the Tigers, 54. Hub Pruett allows three hits in four innings to win in relief. George Sisler hits in his 30th consecutive game.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants pull off a 2nd inning triple play against the Phils. With runners on 1B and 2B Jimmy Smith pops up and the infield fly rule is called. Although Smith is called out, Frisch fails to catch the ball, and the runners take off. Giants right fielder Ross Youngs picks the ball up and the relay catches runner Cliff Lee at 3B for out #2. 3B Heinie Groh's throw and relay catch Sam Leslie at 1B for the 3rd out. The Giants then break a 77 tie in the 9th when Frankie Frisch scores from 2B on a muffed 63 play that Phils pitcher Jimmy Ring bobbles.
IN THE NEWS: At the start of the day, both New York teams are on top, and both Boston teams are on the bottom. But today, the Red Sox will take two and knock the leaders off their perch as they sweep the Yankees, 43 and 65. Babe Ruth hits his last regular season home run, in the Polo Grounds. He gets it off Herb Pennock, who also gave up Ruth's first Yankee homer, also at the Polo Grounds.
At home, the Browns win decisively, beating the Indians, 103 and 132. Urban Shocker wins his 23rd in the morning and Ken Williams hits his 33rd. Sisler is 4-for-4 in the opener and 3-for-5 in game two to run his hit streak to 34 straight games. Vangilder is the winner in the nitecap.
IN THE NEWS: The Browns take over 1st place by beating the Indians, 109 as Urban Shocker wins his 23rd, in relief. He'll win no more. Ken Williams hits his 34th, a grand slam.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees go back on top, this time to stay, beating the Senators, 81, behind Carl Mays. while the Browns lose to Detroit, 83. New York's win is triggered by Wally Pipp's 6th inning 3-run homer of Walter Johnson, the 2nd homer Wally has dinged off the Senator's ace in nine days.
Detroit beats the Browns, 83, on Bobby Veach's two homers off Urban Shocker. First baseman Lu Blue pulls off two unassisted DPs, tying the American League record, and both are off line drives by Johnny Tobin.
IN THE NEWS: Danville's Otto Pahlman (III League) has his 50-game hitting streak stopped. Now in 2nd place, he'll end the century with the 4th longest streak ever in the minors.
Baby Doll Jacobson collects three triples to lead the Browns to a 160 whitewash of the Tigers. The victory, the most lopsided in Browns' history, goes to pitcher Elam Vangilder. St. Louis totals 20 hits with Ken Williams hitting a homer in his 5th straight game, his 37th of the year. Sisler has three hits to keep his hit streak alive, as the Browns keep pace with New York, winners in 10 innings against Washington.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush beats the Philadelphia A's 103 in the opener, and Waite Hoyt edges the A's in the second 21. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but this is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will play their next 18 games on the road, and then open in Yankee Stadium next spring.
IN THE NEWS: The Browns, down 43 to the Tigers in the 9th, but a walk and a George Sisler triple ties the game. Marty McManus lines a single to win it 54 for reliever Hub Pruett. Sisler falls on his shoulder in the 7th stretching for a ball but stays in the game.
IN THE NEWS: The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns' pennant chances and Sisler's 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 86. Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.
Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 81 and 61. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his ML debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.
The powerful Baltimore Orioles win their 4th straight International League pennant. The O's are paced by Lefty Grove (188), in his 3rd of five seasons (10836) in Baltimore.
IN THE NEWS: C Butch Henline is the first National League player to hit three homers in a game since 1897, as the Phils beat the Cards 109. Henline's 3rd home run tied the game in the 9th inning and Cliff Lee then hit the game-winning home run. Lee ends the year with 17 homersall at Baker Bowl. Only Gavvy Cravath, in 1914, and Mel Ott will have more homers in a season this century coming all at home.
The Browns pull to within a half game of the Yankeeslosers to the White Soxby rallying to beat the Red Sox, 71. Vangilder scatters five hits to win. St. Louis trailed 10 after six 1/2 innings before coming back.
IN THE NEWS: Pennant fever rages in St. Louis, as the Yankees come to town with a half-game lead. Bob Shawkey outpitches Urban Shocker 21, as Sisler ties Ty Cobb's 1911 record by hitting in his 40th straight game. While chasing a fly ball in the 9th, New York OF Whitey Witt is hit in the head and knocked cold by a soda bottle thrown from the bleachers. Ban Johnson will initially offer a $1,000 reward for the name of the bottle-thrower. Then, to calm the crowds, the American League offers the theory that Witt stepped on the bottle and it flew up and hit him. The incident leads to a ban on the sale of bottled drinks in ballparks.
IN THE NEWS: Browns southpaw Hub Pruett, who has fanned Ruth nine of 10 times over the season, is reached for a home run by the Bambino, but he still beats the Yankees, 51. Whitey Witt receives an ovation but the partisan crowd is CF is quick to wave white hankies in the 8th inning for Yanks pinch-hitter McMillan. Police make them stop. George Sisler has a single to extend his streak to 41 games.
A's catcher Ralph Perkins has his 2nd consecutive game with no putouts or assists, a ML record. Today, he catches Bob Hasty in a 42 loss to Cleveland's Dan Boone. Yesterday, he caught Eddie Rommel in a 61 win over Cleveland. Perkins also had no POs or assists in a 13-inning game on May 17.
IN THE NEWS: Whitey Witt, his head bandaged from being hit by a bottle, drives in two in the 9th for a 32 New York win, and they leave St. Louis 1 1/2 in front. They will finish one game on top, clinching the pennant on the 30th with a 31 win in Boston. Sisler's 41-game hit streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush, the same pitcher he had started the streak against on July 27th.
IN THE NEWS: Against the Senators Walter Johnson, Ken Williams hit his 39th home run of the year in the 4th, and Pat Collins, subbing for Sisler at 1B, adds another solo home run in the 7th to give the Browns a 21 lead. But the Senators rally to win, 4-3, with Walter Johnson earning the win over Elam Vangilder. Sisler pinch hits and strikes out. Washington will win again tomorrow, 50.
IN THE NEWS: Brooklyn's Burleigh Grimes stops the Cardinals on three scratch hits to win the opener, 61, of twinbill against St. Louis. Grimes also snaps Rogers Hornsby's hit streak at 33 games, which still stands as a Cardinal record. Hornsby recovers his stroke in the nightcap and hits two home runs as the Cards outslug the Robins, 137.
IN THE NEWS: The American League reinstates the MVP award, last given in 1914, appointing a committee of one writer from each city, headed by I.E. Sanborn of the Chicago Tribune. As a player-manager, Ty Cobb is not eligible, and the trophy goes to George Sisler. The National League will pick up the idea two years later.
IN THE NEWS: Rogers Hornsby belts his 40th homer, a solo shot in the 6th at the Polo Grounds, but the Giants hang on to win, 75. Ross Youngs saves a homer in the 9th when he leaps to snag Jack Smith's drive. Jack Scott hits 4-for-4 and goes all the way for the win to keep the Giants six games in front of Pittsburgh.
Brooklyn makes the fading Pirates walk the plank, beating Pittsburgh 95 and 51.
IN THE NEWS: Rogers Hornsby hits his 41st and 42nd home runs of the year, connecting off brothers Jesse Barnes and Virgil Barnes of the Giants. Rosy Ryan, in relief of Hugh McQuillan, picks up the 106 Cards win.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants beat St. Louis, 5-4 in 10 innings, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant and the Giants' 10th in 41 years in the National League.
IN THE NEWS: In the Giants, 32 win over the Phils, rookie Travis Jackson debuts, going 0-for-2. Jackson will play 15 years for the Giants, eventually going to the Hall of Fame.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees clinch their 2nd pennant by beating Boston 31 behind Waite Hoyt and Joe Bush.
In the 2nd of two at Cubs Park, the Cards whip the Cubs, 53, in a game stopped after five innings. The big blow for the Birds is a 3-run homer in the 1st inning by journeyman infielder Del Gainer off Cubs lefty Percy Jones. When Jones is lifted, so is Gainer, who closes out his career with the home run. The Cards also take the opener, 98.
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