IN THE NEWS: In the first of five games in Washington, Johnson gives the Senators a 73 win over the A's. Roger Peckinpaugh drives in three runs for the Nationals. The Nats now lead the A's, who are in a 12-game losing streak, by four 1/2 games.
IN THE NEWS: After losing Game One by a 63 score to the Phils, the Giants unload in a nitecap, 249 shelling. The hits keep coming30 to be exact in a record 58 at-batsat Baker Bowl. Four New YorkersSouthworth, Frisch, Irish Meusel, and Lindstromeach collect four hits apiece, while a ML record-tying ten batters each collect two hits each. Doc Farrell (2-for-3) who takes over for Travis Jackson at short in the 6th is the 10th. Ex-Phil Meusel drives home nine runs, while Rookie Fred Fitzsimmons allows 14 hits, including homers by Cy Williams, Johnny Mokan and Hal Carlson in the 8th frame. Phils starter Art Decatur is the loser.
IN THE NEWS: After a recent incident on a train, when Cubs manager Maranville anointed various passengers from a spittoon, Chicago relieves the Rabbit of the burdens of managership. Chicago hastily appoints George Gibson, former skipper of the Pirates, as manager for the remainder of the season. The Cubs were 2330 under Maranville, and Chicago will cut the last tie when they waive the veteran in November.
The Cardinals score five runs in the 9th to break the first-place Pirates 9-game win streak, winning 93. Rogers Hornsby, the majors leading hitter at .387, has three hits including his 37th homer of the year to pace the attack. Babe Adams, who takes over for Emil Yde in the 9th, is hammered for four hits and five runs, but the loss goes to Yde. Art Reinhart is the winner.
The second-placed Giants top the Phillies 54 on Billy Terry solo homer in the 10th inning. Starter Dutch Ulrich tees up the homer, losing to Art Nehf who pitches the last 6+ innings.
The first place Senators continue their march toward a second straight pennant with a 93 roughing up of Red Ruffing and the Red Sox. Roger Peckinpaugh leads the way, going 3-for-4 with a triple. Alex Ferguson, Yankee castoff, is the winner. The idle A's drop six games off the pace.
IN THE NEWS: In an A.M.-P.M. doubleheader, the Senators win the morning contest with the A's, as Johnson tops Lefty Grove 21, and goes 3-for-4, the 2nd consecutive game he's collected three hits. A record crowd of 36,000 watch the A's drop the afternoon game, 76, for their 12th straight defeat; they are now nine games in back of Washington.
After apologizing to his teammates yesterday, Babe Ruth makes his first appearance in a week, collecting one hit in a 51 loss to the Red Sox.
IN THE NEWS: In the first game of a doubleheader, Dazzy Vance tosses a one-hitter over the Phils to give Brooklyn a 10 win. The Dodgers complete the sweep with a 43 game two win.
The Yanks top the Red Sox, 74, as Ruth pounds his 300th career homer, off Chester Ross.
IN THE NEWS: Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig hit successive homers in the 4th inning of Game One versus the A's, all off Sammy Gray. New York wins, 73. Then, Ruth and OF Ben Paschal hit back-to-back homers in the 4th of game 2, but New York loses, 54.
IN THE NEWS: In Detroit's Game One loss to Cleveland, 31, in 13 innings, Detroit's John Tavener hits ML-record tying three triples. Benn Karr goes the distance for the win. Detroit then takes the nitecap, 32.
IN THE NEWS: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia, pitching a 101 no-hitter five days after a 10 one-hitter. The Phils' lone run is scored by Chicken Hawks, who reaches 2B on an error. Five days earlier it was Hawks' 2nd- inning single that ruined Vance's no-hitter. On June 17, 1923, Vance lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th. In the 2nd game, the Phils win, 73, behind Chicken Hawks' grand slam.
Reds ace Pete Donohue wins his 20th, beating Chicago, 52, at Wrigley.
IN THE NEWS: At Pittsburgh, the Pirates stop the Braves, 97. Kiki Cuyler is 4-for-4 with a double and triple and two runs to start a hit streak.
Five days after making a start in a 43 loss to the Browns, White Sox pitcher Dickie Kerr loses his only decision this year, 116, to Washington. It's the last decision of his brilliant but short career. Kerr (21-17 in 1920: 19-17 in 1921) turned down Sox offer of $4,500 in 1922 and signed with a Texas semi-pro team for $5,000. Commissioner Landis suspended Kerr, and he didn't return to the ML till this month. Kerr was the winner of two games in the 1919 series
IN THE NEWS: The Pirates pip the Braves, 21, as Cuyler has his second straight 4-for-4 game. The two teams total 23 hits Pittsburgh 13but score just three runs.
In the 2nd game of a twinbill, the White Sox take a 150 lead against Washington after five innings, but Chicago P Ted Lyons will have to pitch to 18 different batters as Senators manager Bucky Harris juggles his lineup and sends in pinch hitters. With a no-hitter going, Lyons continues to bear down. Finally, with two out in the 9th, Washington's Bobby Veach gets a base hit to break the no-hitter. The final is 17-0 for Lyons with Tom Zachary taking the loss. Washington outfielder Sam Rice's streak of nine hits in a row is stopped, but he will end the season with 182 singles, an American League record until 1980. Washington takes the opener, 32, behind Dutch Ruether.
In St. Louis, the Cardinals rollover Brooklyn, 153, behind Wee Willie Sherdel. In the 7th inning, the Red Birds rub it in with two steals of home, tying a ML record. It's the last time it's been done in the National League. Oakland stole home twice in the 1st inning in May 28, 1980.
At Chicago, the Cubs beat the Giants, 62, behind Sheriff Blake. Taking the loss is Jack Scott, the first of 10 straight losses the Cubs will hand him.
Eppa Rixey becomes the 2nd Reds P to win 20, this season, beating the Phillies, 72. The Reds big three of Donohue, Rixey and Luque will finish 1-2-3 in innings pitched.
IN THE NEWS: In Cleveland, the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland old-timers play a 66, 8-inning tie. The lineups include Three Finger Brown, Jimmy Archer Artie Hofman, Mort Scanlan and Dutch Meier for Chicago; For Cleveland, Larry Nap Lajoie, Dode Paskert, Chief Zimmer, Cy Berger, Cy Young, and Joe Delahanty. The game benefits the Amateur and Old-timer's Baseball Association of Cleveland: "This association employs a doctor to look after the injuries of any boy hurt in baseball in that district." Before boarding the train for Cleveland, Brown throws batting practice for the Cubs at Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh OF Kiki Cuyler ties the National League record by getting his 10th consecutive hit, singling in his first two at bats, off Decatur and Ulrich, before he fouls out in his 3rd at bat, against the Phils' Art Decatur. The Pirates win the opener, 97. In the nitecap, a 144 Pirates win, Cuyler has his 3rd 4-for-4 game in his last four outings. He clouts two homers to back Kremer's pitching. Phils utility player Barney Friberg catches the 8th inning in the game, thus playing every position during the year; he will be featured in a Ripley's Believe it or Not cartoon.
IN THE NEWS: P Burleigh Grimes of Brooklyn has only himself to blame for losing 32 to the Cubs in the 12th. While he masterfully scatters 16 hits, he not only goes hitless at the plate but bangs into two double plays and, in the 11th, a triple play.
The Yankees' Ben Paschal hits two inside-the-park homers, in an 116 first-game win over the White Sox at Yankee Stadium. The Sox take the nitecap, 42. Paschal will have seven homers this month, a Yankee rookie record for September that will be stand until 1998.
In a doubleheader loss (118 and 72) Ramon Herrera, a Cuban IF, makes his debut with the Boston Red Sox. He will bat .385 in 10 games, but will hit only .257 in 74 games in 1926. Herrera is probably the first player of this era to play in both the major leagues and the Negro leagues.
IN THE NEWS: For the first time in history and the only time in the National League, teammates hit bases-loaded triples in the same game. Reds catcher Walker, in the 3rd, and Bressler in the 5th connect at home in the 187 win over Brooklyn. Jakie May is the winning pitcher before just 534 fans at Redlands Field. The A's will accomplish the feat next season.
IN THE NEWS: With the pennant clinched, the Pirates get shut out for the 2nd time in three days, losing twice to the visiting Giants. Fred Fitzsimmons stops the Bucs 30 in the nitecap, beating Johnny Morrison. Zeke Barnes outpitches Vic Aldridge, 43, in the opener. To the dismay of the 25,000 on hand, the Bucs leading batter Kiki Cuyler is hitless.
Cleveland sends rookie Ray Benge against Philadelphia and, in his first ML start, he stops the A's, 60.
Philadelphia fans chip in to buy a new automobile for the A's player chosen by the press as MVP. The winner: Al Simmons with 30 points. Mickey Cochrane, a .331 hitter in his first year, is 2nd.
IN THE NEWS: In a doubleheader split with the Braves in St. Louis, the Cards player-manager Rogers Hornsby hits his 38th and 39th home runs of the year, along with a single, double, and triple to push his average to .403. In batting practice tomorrow, Hornsby will foul a ball off his foot splitting his toenail, and will sit the last three games. The Rajah calls reporters into the club house to view his bloody toe, "because some of those in the East may say I'm stallin' because I want to save my .400 average." Hornsby will be the only player-manager to win the triple crown, which he does by topping .400 for the 3rd time in four years, while his 39 home runs and 143 RBI are National League highs. His .756 slugging average is still the NL's best. The Cards take the opener 65 and lose the nitecap 76.
IN THE NEWS: At Yankee Stadium, the Tigers take game 1, 62, behind Ken Holloway, and the Yankees rebound to win the nitecap, 76, behind Ben Shields. Schields gives up a pair of homers to Jess Doyle, his only two ML round trippers.