IN THE NEWS: Burleigh Grimes picks up a win as he relieves in the Cardinals 3–2 win over the Reds in eleven innings. The Birds will waive Grimes (2–1) to the Pirates in two weeks.
At Washington, the Yankees give Danny MacFayden a 3-run lead in the first, but he can't hold it and he leaves in the 7th with the score tied at three apiece. New York scores five runs in the 9th to win it for George Uhle, 10–5. MacFayden was making his first start against Washington since June 2, 1932, when he lost his major-league record tying 14th straight game to the Nats.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants beat the Dodgers, 6–5, for a series sweep and takes over first place in the National League. Lefty O'Doul, pinch hitting for Travis Jackson in the 8th, homers with two on off reliever Van Lingle Mungo. Charlie Perkins takes the loss against Hal Schumacher. Mel Ott hits his 6th homer of the year in the 3rd with Ott on base.
Heine Meine outpitches Lon Warneke to give the Pirates a 4–2 win over the Cubs. Chicago drops to 2nd place with the loss.
IN THE NEWS: With the Red Sox leading 9–3 against the Browns, Lefty Grove makes his first appearance in a Boston uniform, and bombs. He gives up three hits and two walks, five earned runs, without retiring a batter.
IN THE NEWS: The Red Sox score 12 runs in the 4th inning, helped along by a record-tying four consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, and Bucky Walters, to beat Detroit 14–4. Firpo Marberry serves up all four triples. In their next at bats in the inning, the foursome tack on two singles, a walk, and a double.
IN THE NEWS: In Boston, Schoolboy Rowe wins for Detroit with five innings of relief, as Detroit tops the Red Sox, 8–6. Rowe settles the game with a home run.
The Cubs Bill Lee makes his first major-league start, stopping the Phillies, 2–0.
IN THE NEWS: The Chicago White Sox name Jimmie Dykes as their new manager, replacing Lew Fonseca, who later will become the motion picture specialist for the ML.
IN THE NEWS: Lou Gehrig hits two home runs (one a grand slam) and a pair of doubles, tying the record with four long hits, and drives in seven runs, but leaves the game after five innings with a severe cold. The Yanks top the White Sox, 13–3. During the game Ben Chapman shouts racial remarks at a Jewish fan. In 1947 he will lead the dugout bigots in protest of Jackie Robinson.
IN THE NEWS: For the second time in his career, Cleveland's Lloyd Brown serves up a grand slam to Lou Gehrig, as the Yanks roll, 8–0, behind Lefty Gomez. Ben Chapman adds a homer and a pair of triples to lead New York. Babe Ruth leaves in the 4th inning when he is hit on the knee cap by a pitch from Thornton Lee.
The Red Sox use a pair of grand slams -- by Bucky Walters and Eddie Morgan -- to roll over Chicago, 14–2. Walters adds a 2-run homer for six ribbies.
IN THE NEWS: Buffalo (IL) hits five home runs in one inning against Albany. A rookie, Jake Plummer, is beaned by the Albany pitcher after the 5th home run in a row, and a promising career is ruined.
The Cubs pick up pitcher Jim Weaver (2–0), waived by the Cardinals. He'll win 11 games for Chicago this year.
IN THE NEWS: The Reds send pitcher Syl Johnson and OF Johnny Moore to the Phils for pitcher Ted Kleinhans, Art Ruble, and OF Wes Schulmerich. Moore will turn out to be the class of the swap, hitting .300+ in the next three years.
IN THE NEWS: In his first game in Philadelphia since the Phillies traded him to the Cubs, Chuck Klein hits two home runs to pace first-place Chicago to a 10–3 win. Gabby Hartnett adds another as Chicago pounds four hurlers for twenty hits. Kiki Cuyler and Dolph Camilli have four apiece to back the five hitting pitching of Bill Lee and Pat Malone. Malone gets credit for the win.
Down 2–0 in the 8th, Browns manager Rogers Hornsby inserts himself as pinch hitter and ties the game with a homer off Red Sox lefty Fritz Ostermueller. The Browns add another and hold on for a 4–3 win.
The Giants defeat the Reds, 6–3, behind the hitting and pitching of Fred Fitzsimmons. Fitz poles a homer, has a single in a 5th inning rally, and scatters eight hits.
IN THE NEWS: At Comiskey Park, Jimmie Foxx tees off against Ted Lyons and hits the first home run to ever land in the CF bleachers. Hank Greenberg will match Double X in 1938, then no one will reach the bleachers until Alex Johnston in 1970. Chicago still wins, 5–4.
IN THE NEWS: Lefty Grove makes his first start of the season going the distance to beat the Browns Dick Coffman, 4–1. Lefty allows six hits and belts a 3-run homer.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants beat the Cardinals 5–2 but do it without starting P Freddie Fitzsimmons, who is struck in the back by a fungo bat while warming up. Fat Freddie will miss several starts.
IN THE NEWS: The Indians stop the Yankees, 5–1, with Lou Gehrig driving in the lone run for New York. For the 2nd time in his career, Lou has driven in at least one run a game for 10 straight games.
IN THE NEWS: Boston's Lefty Grove allows five early runs, then settles down to beat the Indians, 7–5. Down 5–4 in the 9th, Grove hits for himself and singles. Grove will lose his next 4.
IN THE NEWS: Fans will vote for players in the 2nd All-Star Game, to be played on July 10 at the Polo Grounds. The managers will pick the lineups from 20 players chosen.
After eleven days and eight appearances with the Pirates, a winded and dry-mouthed Burleigh Grimes is sold to the Yankees. Pittsburgh acquired the spitballer on the 15th from the Cardinals.
IN THE NEWS: Buck Newsom walks 11 batters but knocks the visiting Yankees out of first place with a 16–7 Browns win. Bruce Campbell helps Buck with a grand slam as the Brownies score eight runs in the 4th to pin the loss on Red Ruffing. Cleveland moves into the league lead.
Detroit gets a complete game from young Schoolboy Rowe, who beats the Red Sox, 9–2.
IN THE NEWS: In St. Louis, Lou Gehrig hits a 6th inning homer, off Paul Andrews, then follows Babe Ruth's 7th inning homer with another round tripper. The back-to-back homers, off Jack Knott, are the last the pair will combine on. New York gets homers from Jack Saltzgaver and Tony Lazzeri to rumble to a 13–9 victory.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees purchase -- rent? -- spitballer Burleigh Grimes from the Pittsburgh Pirates. After 10 apperances with the Yankees, the Yanks will release Grimes on August 8th and the Pirates will pick him back up.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland 1B Hal Trosky hits three successive home runs in the 2nd game of a Memorial Day doubleheader against the White Sox as Cleveland sweeps a pair, 7–5 in 10 innings and 5–4. His first two are hit off Les Tietje, and the last off Bill Gallivan. Trosky will homer again tomorrow in a 12–5 loss to the Pale Hose.
A record crowd of 41,000 jam Ebbets Field for a doubleheader with the Giants. New York manager Bill Terry, who earlier in the year had wisecracked, "Brooklyn? Are they still in the league?" proved correct. New York sweeps both games, 5–2 and 8–6, to raise their season record to 6–0 vs. the Dodgers. New York will move into 1st place the following week. Giants SS Travis Jackson has only one chance in 18 innings.
Washington's Earl Whitehill pitches a one-hitter, allowing a 9th-inning single by Ben Chapman, to defeat Lefty Gomez of the Yankees 1–0. In the nitecap, Yankee reliever Burleigh Grimes pitches the last four innings to pick up his 269th win, 5–4, in 11 innings.
Minor leaguer Lou Frierson strokes five successive home runs for Paris (West Dixie League) in a 17–12 loss to Jacksonville. He drives in eight runs.
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