IN THE NEWS: Walter Johnson gets his 100th shutout, and New York SS Everett Scott gets a gold medal from the American League for playing in his 1,000th consecutive game. Scott's skein began on June 20, 1916. Washington defeats the Yankees 3–0, as Big Train allows just three hits.
IN THE NEWS: Pirates 1B Charlie Grimm starts a 25-game hitting streak that will be stopped by Dick Rudolph, the 1914 Braves hero, who comes off the coaching lines to make four starts for Boston.
IN THE NEWS: In St. Louis, Marty Callaghan's swipe of home in the bottom of the 10th wins it, 2–1 for the Cardinals. Virgil Cheeves is victorious over the Cubs Fred Toney.
IN THE NEWS: At St. Louis, A's pitcher Walt Kinney relieves in the 3rd with his team down 3–0, and helps tie the score in the 6th by reaching Urban Shocker for a solo home run. The Browns rock Kinney for four runs in the 7th and he is lifted, and St. Louis goes on to win, 10–5. For Kinney, his home run comes on his last ML at bat.
IN THE NEWS: The Phils and Cards bash a record 10 home runs out of cozy Baker Bowl as the Phils outkick the Cards, 20–14; Cy Williams has three homers and seven RBIs while teammate Johnny Mokan adds two homers, a double, and seven RBIs. Les Mann belts two for St. Louis, and losing pitcher Bill Sherdel connects. In all, 23 batters hit safely with the two teams combining for 79 total bases. Williams now has 12 homers, tops in the Majors.
OF Pete Schneider strokes five home runs, including two grand slams, in a game for Vernon (Pacific Coast League). He also adds a double that hits two feet from the top of the CF wall. The former ML pitcher drives in 14 runs in a 35–11 victory over Salt Lake City.
IN THE NEWS: Washington rookie Wally Warmoth strikes out Cleveland SS Joe Sewell twice. It is the first of only two times in his 14-year career that Sewell will fan twice in the same contest.
Chicago's Pete Alexander beat Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance, 5–2. For Alexander, it is his 6th straight game without walking a batter since the season's start. He'll walk three in his next outing, ending his streak at 52 straight innings.
Playing for Salt Lake City (PCL), teammates Oscar Vitt and Paul Strand each connect for two homers in the same inning.
IN THE NEWS: Paced by Wally Pipp's grand slam, the Yankees score eight runs in the 12th against the Tigers, to put the game away. Detroit comes back with three runs in the bottom of the inning to set an American League mark (later tied) for most runs in that frame.
IN THE NEWS: When the Giants return big southpaw Rube Walberg to Portland (PCL) after a 2-game trial, the A's buy him. He'll be 4-8 in the first of his 15 ML seasons.
Grover Alexander finally issues a walk after starting the season with 52 IP without a pass for the Cubs. He walks three in a 7–4 win over the Phils.
The Braves Dick Rudolph wins 1–0 over Pittsburgh's Wilbur Cooper in 10 innings. This is the only win of the year for the 35-year-old coach. He stops Charlie Grimm's 25-game hit streak.
IN THE NEWS: At Detroit, former Tiger pitcher, Howard Ehmke pitches his Boston Red Sox team to a 6-2 victory in 10 innings. Ty Cobb is 0-for-3 and caps the day with a heated argument (under the grandstand), reportedly because Ehmke hit him with a pitch.
IN THE NEWS: At Chicago, the Senators edge the White Sox, 6–4. Walter Johnson slams a decisive two run single in the top of the 9th, then allows three runs in the bottom of the 9th before getting relief help from Allan "Rubberarm" Russell. Johnson fans 6. Ossie Bluege homers for Washington.
IN THE NEWS: With the Polo Grounds newly expanded, the Giants set a National League attendance record with 42,000+ fans on hand. The Giants clip the Cardinals, 14–4, on 20 hits.
IN THE NEWS: Formal transfer of T.L. Huston's interest in the Yankees to Jake Ruppert is completed for $1.5 million. Ten days later Ruppert buys two more sets of uniforms so his players can wear a clean outfit every day, an unprecedented move.
IN THE NEWS: Babe Ruth breaks a 1–1 tie between the Yanks and White Sox by clouting a 2-run homer in the 15th inning. The blow breaks up a tense pitching duel between little Mike Cvengosa and Herb Pennock, who goes all the way giving up just four hits. The Yanks have now won 12 of 13 contests in their western swing.
In a Negro League National League game at St. Louis' Stars Park, Chicago American Giants CF Cristobal Torriente hits for the cycle, scoring three and batting in seven runs, He finishes his offensive outburst with a homer in the top of the 9th to give the American Giants an 11-10 lead. In the bottom of the ninth, Jack Marshall gets into a jam and Torriente comes in with two out and runners on 2B and 3B. With Cool Papa Bell at the plate, Torriente promptly goes from hero to goat in the space of two pitches, both of them wild, allowing the tying and winning runs to score easily.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh sends 2B Cotton Tierney and P Whitney Glazner to the Phils for 2B Johnny Rawlings and P Lee Meadows. Meadows will win 85 games over the next five years as Glazner's replacement in the Pittsburgh rotation.
IN THE NEWS: At New York, Phillies slugger Cy Williams cracks his 15th home run of May, a new record for the month, and his 18th of the season. The homer comes off Giants' P Rosy Ryan.
IN THE NEWS: Houston Buffalo slugger Les Bell ties a minor league record for most doubles in a game by clanging five straight in a Texas League game against Dallas.
IN THE NEWS: After playing before the National League's biggest crowd (41,000) in the P.M. game of the holiday twin bill against Brooklyn, the Giants head west with a 4-game lead over the Pirates. Five regulars will bat over .300, and three will top 100 RBI, led by NL leader Irish Meusel's 125. At 3B, rookie Travis Jackson takes over for gimpy Heinie Groh. With five future Hall of Famers in the lineup and eight on the roster during the season, the Giants will be the first team to hold first place from opening to closing day and the only NL team to have done it. With average pitching, they win just 95 games, but it's enough for a four 1/2 game margin over the Reds.
In 1st of two games in New York, Ruth's homer in 1st inning off Walter Johnson propels the Yankees to a 6–4 win over Washington. Herb Pennock is the winner.
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