IN THE NEWS: The Red Sox and the third-place Yankees split a Sunday doubleheader before a record 40,000, played at Braves Field because of religious restrictions involving Fenway. Former Boston P Red Ruffing wins the first game 41, and ex-New Yorker Wilcy Moore blanks his former mates 10 in the nightcap. Moore allows just three singles in topping George Pipgras. The Yanks will go 308 games before being shut out again.
Washington beats the A's, 106, to knock Philadelphia's lead in the American League down to 14 games.
IN THE NEWS: At Wrigley Field, Bob Smith shuts down the Reds, 80, to hand Cincinnati its 4th straight shutout. The four shut out losses in a row ties the National League mark for the century. The Reds lost on July 30 (05), August 1(01, and August two (03) to the Pirates. Si Johnson takes the loss today.
The A's Lefty Grove beats the Senators, 32, giving up 11 hits. Grove has now won 13 straight games.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh's Heine Meine gives up three Cardinal runs in the 6th inning, halting a scoreless streak by Buc hurlers at 45 innings. The Pirates streak includes shutouts over New York and Cincy in four consecutive games. The Cards win today, 71.
The Reds finally score, but lose to the Cubs, 42, in the first of two. Guy Bush beats Larry Benton. Chicago takes the nitecap, 73, behind Les Sweetland as Jack Ogden is pinned with the loss. Rookie OF Vince Barton has five hits in the two games, including a pair of homers in game 2.
IN THE NEWS: For the 2nd time in his career, Jim Bottomley has six hits in six at bats, as the Cards defeat Pittsburgh 162 on 23 hits. In the opener, Bottomley contributed four hits, but St. Louis loses to the Bucs 54..
The Cubs edge the Reds 32 at Wrigley Field when Leo Durocher boots a ground ball hit by Kiki Cuyler. It ends a string of 251 errorless chances in 53 games for Durocher.
IN THE NEWS: Washington's Bobby Burke, a little-known lefthander, throws a 50 no-hitter against Boston. Burke will finish the year eight and 3, the best mark of his 10-year career. "Burke didn't throw more than a half dozen curves all afternoon," said plate umpire George Moriarty.
IN THE NEWS: After the White Sox take the opener, 42, over the Browns, Dick Coffman pitches the Browns to a 10 win, allowing on a 5th inning single by Johnny Kerr. Bob Wetland takes the loss.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants land highly regarded Len Koenecke from Indianapolis for OF Harry Rosenberg, and pitchers Joe Heving and Jack Berly. Koenecke will have a decent season in 1932 before going to Brooklyn. He will die tragically in 1935.
IN THE NEWS: Tony Cuccinello wakes up the last-place Reds by going 6-for-6, with three singles, two doubles and a triple, as Cincy wins the first game, 173, of a doubleheader against Boston. Cuccinello doesn't stop there, belting a 3-run homer in the 8th of the nitecap to give the Reds a 42 win. 'Cooch' has eight RBIs for the day.
IN THE NEWS: In New York's 54 loss at Detroit, Lou Gehrig is hitless as he plays his 1,000th consecutive game. He is 307 short of Everett Scott's record streak.
Paul Waner chalks up five hits to lead Pittsburgh to a 145 win over the Phils.
IN THE NEWS: At Chicago, Lefty Grove (252)wins his 16th consecutive game, 42, tying the American League record set by Walter Johnson and Joe Wood in 1912. Grove holds the Sox scoreless till the 9th, while the A's score in the 2nd, 3rd and 8th off Red Faber. Grove has completed all but one of the wins.
The Giants score single runs in each of the last three innings to beat the Reds, 65. Giants Shanty Hogan is the first catcher to start three DPsonly one other catcher, Damian Miller in 1999will match him. The three DPs ties a major-league record for catchers.
IN THE NEWS: At St. Louis, Lou Gehrig hits his 33rd homer in the 4th to tie Ruth for the ML lead, but the Babe answers in the 9th with his 34th, a grand slam over RF roof, to give the Yanks a 73 win over the Browns. Lefty Gomez almost has New York's first shutout of the season, but he weakens in the 9th.
Tony Freitas, who will win 342 minor league games, is let out of jail to pitch for Sacramento (PCL) against the Missions. He wins, and then returns to finish a 5-day sentence for speeding.
IN THE NEWS: After belting #599, a grand slam in yesterday's game, Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run, off George Blaeholder of the Browns, as the Yankees win 117. Lou Gehrig homers immediately after the Babe's historic blow. In their 10 years as teammates, they will homer in the same inning 19 times and in the same game 72 times.
IN THE NEWS: Lefty Grove is frustrated in his effort to win a record-breaking 17th game in a row, as Jimmy Moore misjudges a routine fly ball by Ski Melillo, turning it into a 2-out double, to allow the game's lone run. The volatile Grove is outraged and unforgiving, not at Moore, but that Al Simmons, the regular OF, missed the game. Dick Coffman of the Browns allows just three hits to win, 10. The A's win the nightcap, 100, behind Waite Hoyt's 6-hitter.
In St. Louis, the league-leading Cardinals go to 7844 by sweeping the Braves. The Birds pound Boston 161 in the opener as Chick Hafey drives in eight runs on 5-for-5 hitting, including two home runs. One of the homers is a grand slam. St. Louis takes the nitecap, 10, in 11 innings, winning on Jim Bottomley's home run.
IN THE NEWS: At Chicago, the Yankees record their first shutout of the season when Herb Pennock blanks the White Sox, 60. Ben Chapman has a good day with a triple, single, two runs scored and his 50th and 51st stolen bases of the year. In addition, he beats the Sox Carl Reynolds in a pre-game 100-yard dash.
IN THE NEWS: In his first start following his loss, Lefty Grove fans the side (Byrd, Sewell, Ruth) in the 1st inning, hands out a walk to Lou Gehrig to start the 2nd, and records three more K's (Chapman, Lary Dickey). Lefty has two K's in the 3rd but develops a blister from gripping the ball. Gehrig knocks Grove out of the box with a 6th-inning grand slam, but the A's lefty still wins 74. Lou now has 142 RBIs. Jimmie Foxx knocks in five runs for the A's.
In his 2nd ML plate appearance, Chicago's Billy Herman fouls a ball off his head and has to be carried off the field. The Cubs beat the Reds, 145.
IN THE NEWS: At Boston, Ben Chapman and Lou Gehrig each have four hits and together total nine RBIs as the Yanks roll over the Red Sox, 144. One of Gehrig's hits is a homer, his 37th, and two of Chapman's leave the park. Hal Rhyne has four hits for Boston.
IN THE NEWS: Wes Ferrell of Cleveland hits two home runs, as he beats the White Sox 135 at Chicago. He will end his career with a record 37 home runs as a hurler, plus one as a pinch hitter.
Against the Senators' Lloyd Brown, Lou Gehrig belts his 2nd grand slam homer in three days, but the Senators hang onto 2nd place by beating the Yankees, 65.
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