IN THE NEWS: Playing under Kansas City's portable light system, the Pittsburgh (later Homestead) Grays 44-year-old hurler Smokey Joe Williams (27 strikeouts) spins a one-hitter to defeat the Monarchs' Chet Brewer (19 strikeouts, including 10 in a row starting in the 7th) 1–0 in a fiercely contested 12-inning matchup. Oscar Charleston scores the only run.
IN THE NEWS: In the 1st of two in a doubleheader sweep over the Braves, Chuck Klein hits safely in his 26th consecutive game, the 2nd time this season he has run a streak to this length. He will hit safely in 135 of his team's 156 games in 1930. Klein, who hit .434 in the stretch, is stopped in the 2nd game of the doubleheader. The Phils win, 11–5 and 4–1.
At Washington, the Senators divide a pair with Boston, winning 11–2 and losing 7–1. Joe Judge manages the Nats with Walter Johnson in mourning, Senator players will act as pall bearers at Mrs. Johnson's funeral tomorrow.
IN THE NEWS: At Philadelphia, Lefty Grove helps himself to his 17th win by belting a 3-run homer in the 2nd. Al Simmons adds two triples and a 2-run homer as the A's beat Boston, 13–4.
At Detroit, Charley Gehringer hits a CF homer with the bases loaded in the 12th inning to give the Tigers a 7–3 win over Chicago. It was Gehringer's 4th hit and 2nd homer as he drives in six runs. It is Gehringer's 2nd 12th inning homer in a month: he hit one against Cleveland on July 4.
IN THE NEWS: Eugene Mercantelli, under the name Gene Rye, hits three home runs in the 8th inning as Waco (Texas) racks up 18 runs in the inning against Beaumont. Waco wins 22–4. The 5'6" Rye will have 39 ML at bats and get seven hits, all singles. Rye sets four organized baseball records for one inning with 12 total bases, nine extra bases, three home runs, and eight RBI (since tied). In 1931, Rye will hit .179 for the Red Sox in 17 games.
IN THE NEWS: John Stone, Detroit OF, doubles in two runs in the 6th inning against Boston as the Tigers win 3–0. Stone has now hit in 23 straight games, but will go hitless in tomorrow's Sunday game at Fenway. Vic Sorrell tosses today's shutout.
The A's increase their American League lead with a second straight doubleheader sweep of the White Sox, winning 9–2 and 3–0. Jimmie Foxx's 32nd homer, off Caraway with two on in the 8th, gives Ed Rommel the win the curtain call. The second place Senators drop a pair to the Indians.
IN THE NEWS: In a Sunday doubleheader in St. Louis, 21,000 fans cheer as the Cards sweep two from the first place Dodgers. Burleigh Grimes takes the opener 8–2, despite Babe Herman starting a triple play for Brooklyn. Bill Hallahan K's 12 to win the nitecap 4–0. The 4th place Cards are now nine games behind Brooklyn.
Before 45,000 fans, the Cubs sweep two from the Boston Braves at Wrigley to move a game in back of Brooklyn. Hack Wilson drives home seven runs on three homers, the last his 39th, to back up Charlie Root's 3-hit shut out in the opener. The Cubs win 6–0 beating Bob Smith. Pat Malone completes the sweep. twirling a 5-hitter to beat Bruce Cunningham, 11–1, in the nitecap.
The last place Phillies win 18–0, as Claude "Weeping" Willoughby defeats the Reds in the first game of a twin bill, then take the 2nd game, 4–3. Chuck Klein and Lefty O'Doul each total six hits in the two games. The Phils will tie the ML mark they set last season by playing just six shutout games, winning four and losing 2.
At Fenway, Detroit's Earl Whitehill wins his 9th straight, beating the Red Sox, 4–2. The Sox score their two runs in the 9th. Detroit collects nine hits, but John Stone goes hitless ending his 23-game hitting streak.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs displace Brooklyn for the league lead, completing a 4-game sweep with the Braves. Cubs P Bud Teachout wins the final game, 4–3, in 10 innings.
IN THE NEWS: With 40,000 fans on hand at Wrigley Field, Dazzy Vance gives up 14 hits and walks four but strands 16 Cubs runners. With the game tied, 2–2, in the 11th Riggs Stephenson bounces a single to drive in the winning run. Brooklyn loads the bases in both the 9th and 10th but comes up dry; in the 8th Brooklyn adds up a triple by Babe Herman, a walk to Dale Bissonette, and an Al Lopez single for zero runs.
IN THE NEWS: Lefty Grove (20-4) wins his 20th game of the season, and 6th in a row, beating the Browns in Philadelphia, 4–2. Grove drives in the first two runs in the 2nd off Dick Coffman, who gives up nine hits in the loss. The Browns net 10 hits off Grove.
At Wrigley, the league-leading Cubs nip the Phillies, 10–9, the play to a 3–3 tie in 11 innings before darkness intervenes. The Phils score eight runs in the 7th to take a 9–8 lead, but Gabby Hartnett's drive wins the game for Chicago. Hack Wilson hits his 41st homer in the opener. The Phils manage just two hits in the nitecap, but take a 3–0 lead into the 9th. But Chicago scores a run on a balk by Stephenson, then Woody English cracks a two-run homer to tie.
Meanwhile, the 2nd place Dodgers split with the Pirates, winning 7–5 before losing 6–2.
IN THE NEWS: Woody English scores five runs and Hack Wilson hits his 42nd home run, as the Cubs crush the Phillies 17–3. Pat Malone contributes another home run and goes the distance for the win.
IN THE NEWS: Goose Goslin hits three consecutive home runs for St. Louis to back George Blaeholder's 7–0 shutout of the Philadelphia A's.
In the first of two, Chicago's Hack Wilson connects off Phils P Sugar Sweetland for his 43rd home run, tying Chuck Klein's National League record set last year. In RF, Klein waves to Wilson as he circles the bases. The Phils hold on for a 9–8 win with Claude Willoughby the winner over rookie Bud Teachout. The second game ends in a 6–6 tie after 16 innings.
IN THE NEWS: Dazzy Vance is given little support against the Reds. Pitcher Red Lucas' fly ball in the 8th is misjudged and two runs score, and Brooklyn loses, 4–1.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees buy Frank Crosetti from the San Francisco Seals but allow him to play another season in the PCL before reporting. The Yankees will make a similar arrangement for Joe DiMaggio, buying him from the Seals but waiting a year before acquiring him in 1936.
IN THE NEWS: New York's Fred Lindstrom has his 24-game hit streak stopped as the Giants lose to the Cubs 3–2. The game is tied 2-all in the bottom of the 9th, when the Cubs load the bases with two out. With the count 0-and-2, Danny Taylor the runner on 3rd, races safely home as surprised Giant reliever Joe Heving watches and then completes his deliberate windup with a wide pitch.
IN THE NEWS: Hack Wilson has four RBIs to lead the Cubs over the Pirates 7–5. Wilson cracks a 2-run single in the 5th, but then allows a Lloyd Waner liner to skip by him for an inside-the-park-HR, and vows to atone. He hits his 44th home run, off young Larry French, breaking Chuck Klein's one-year-old National League record.
In San Francisco, Dolf Camilli's brother, Frankie, dies after a boxing match yesterday with heavyweight Max Baer. Fighting under the name Frankie Campbell, he has his neck broken in the 5th round by a Baer punch and never recovers. Camilli, a star for Sacramento (PCL), will win the NL MVP in 1941.
IN THE NEWS: The Cards outlast the league-leading Cubs 8–7 in a 20-inning game at Wrigley Field. Andy High's single scores the winning run, even though High was tagged out trying the reach 2nd base. Taylor Douthit's run is ruled to have scored before the out. Hack Wilson leaves the game with a strained back after a big swing.
Brooklyn beats up on Giants ace Carl Hubbell, scoring seven runs in the 6th inning, enroute to a win, 8–7. Dazzy Vance is the victor.
IN THE NEWS: In the Cubs' 2nd successive extra-inning game, Pat Malone beats Burleigh Grimes 9–8 in 13 innings to halt the Cardinals' 9-game win streak. With captain Charlie Grimm out of the lineup with a spike wound, the Cubs sign George Kelly, released a month earlier by Reds.
A little comedy is injected into an 11-inning, 9–8 Braves victory over the Phillies. The Braves Rabbit Maranville makes the 3rd out of the 4th inning in a steal attempt at 2B. He argues vigorously and at length. Fresco Thompson of the Phils finally tires of it, picks up the scrappy little guy and carries him to his position at SS.
White Sox P Pat Caraway shuts out the Indians 3–0, but he has to go 13 innings to do it.
IN THE NEWS: New York's Carl Hubbell loses to Brooklyn 1–0 giving up a run in the 9th. With a runner on 3rd, King Carl walks two intentionally and then walks in the winning run. Giant coach Dave Bancroft argues the call with umpire Lou Jorda so loudly that he is suspended for three games.
Hack Wilson returns to the Cubs lineup and drives in six runs on his 45th and 46th homers of the year to lead Chicago over the Cardinals, 16–4. For August, Hack hits 13 homers and drive in 53 runs.
IN THE NEWS: Bill Hallahan, on the way to becoming the National League strikeout leader, fans 12 as the Cards beat the Cubs 8–3.
With a chance to pick up a game and a half on the leading Cubs, the Giants edge the Braves 4–3 in the opener a doubleheader before 40,000 fans at the Polo Grounds. In the 2nd game, Mel Ott hits a double and three consecutive home runs to drive in six runs, but the Braves counter with a homer by George Sisler and two by slugging rookie Wally Berger among their 18 hits. Ott is the 4th major leaguer to hit three straight homers, joining Goose Goslin (August 19, 1930) Carl Reynolds (July 2, 1930), George Kelly (September 17, 1923), and Cap Anson (August 6, 1884). The final score is Boston 14, New York, 10.
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