IN THE NEWS: The Indians break a 44 tie by scoring a record seven runs in the 14th inning to beat the Red Sox, 114. The big blow is a grand slam by former Brownie Bruce Campbell.
IN THE NEWS: The Senators Henry Coppola makes his first ML start and stops the A's, 30. It will be Coppola's only shutout as he goes 34 this year.
Alabama Pitts, signed May 22nd, is released from prison on parole, but Albany (IL) withdraws its offer when controversy rages over his right to play. He'll sign with York (New York-Penn) and move on to the Charlotte Hornets (Carolina) on July 28, 1936.
IN THE NEWS: Behind Roy Parmelee's pitching, the Giants squeeze by the visiting Braves, 32, in 10 innings. Mel Ott homers in the 9th to tie, and Bill Terry drives in the winning run in the 10th off Ben Cantwell. Giants LF Joe Moore hits in his 11th straight game.
IN THE NEWS: In the lidlifter in Boston, Lou Gehrig is 3-for-3 with four RBIs to lead New York to a 136 win. Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds on a play at 1B and leaves the game with arm and shoulder injuries. He does play in game 2, a 42 Boston win. Lefty Gomez walks eight and wild pitches home two runs to help lose his 7th.
IN THE NEWS: Paul Waner, Arky Vaughan, and Pep Young hit successive home runs in the 8th inning off Al Hollingsworth in the Pirates 141 win against the Reds. Arky Vaughan's homer is his 2nd of the day as he continues to lead the N.L. in hitting with a .400+ average.
IN THE NEWS: Despite a hostile home town crowd, Dizzy Dean tosses a six-hitter at the Cubs as the Cards win, 132.
In game 1, White Sox vet Al Simmons belts a grand slam off Washington's Bobby Burke, but his five RBIs are not enough as Washington wins, 98. The Sox take the nitecap, 93. Showing he's in the groove, Simmons will repeat the slam in three days of Nats hurler Belva Bean.
IN THE NEWS: After manager Grimm blasts the team in a pre-game clubhouse meetingand bans poker games, the Cubs go out and throw a full house at the Phillies, winning 150. Larry French is the winner as Cavarretta has three hits, including a home run, and four RBIs, and Chuck Klein adds a 3-run homer. The Cubs lose the nitecap, 11-8.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland's Oral Hildebrand tops the A's, 43, as Earl Averill is 3-for-5 with a stolen base. Cleveland is in 4th place, with New York leading the AL by two 1/2 games over Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: Playing for Kansas City (AA), 1932 AL batting champ Dale Alexander hits four successive home runs off future ML hurler Steve Sundra at Minneapolis' Nicollet Park.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs rattle 18 hits off four Brooklyn pitchers to win, 94. Bill Lee allows no earned runs in the victory. Stan Hack is 4-for-4 + getting hit with a pitch; he had three straight hits to end yesterday, giving him seven straight. Rookie Ken O'Dea belts a 3-run homer.
In New York the Giants defeat the Cards, 75. Mark Koenig's single in the 8th drives in two runs to give reliever Al Smith the winning vote. Collins and Rothrock have homers for the Cards. Viewing the proceedings are Alabama Pitts, late of Sing Sing, along with Johnny Evers, manager of the Albany club (his team loses today, 120, to Montreal) and Warden Lewis Lawes. The three are friends and are awaiting a favorable ruling from Judge Landis that will allow Pitts to play pro baseball.
John Whitehead, Chisox rookie ace, bows to the Yankees, 53. Texas Johnnie allows 13 hits, including four by Gehrig. But it is Red Rolfe's double in the 9th that brings home the final two runs. Johnny Murphy wins in relief. New York now leads the surprising White Sox by four games.
The Reds send P Danny MacFayden (12) to the Braves for the waiver price. Deacon Danny will go 513 this year in Boston, but win 45 games in the next three seasons.
IN THE NEWS: Senators OF John Stone adds eight hits to four he made yesterday with two triples, two doubles, and four singles in a doubleheader split with the Browns. Stone scores five runs in the opener, a 17-8 win, and the Browns outslug the Nats in game 2, 109.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants Fred Fitzsimmons picks up his 4th victory of the year, stopping the Cubs on 11 hits and winning, 80. All of Freddie victories have been shutouts.
The Senators capitalize on 11 walks to defeat the Tigers, 127. Hank Greenberg makes it close with a 9th inning grand slam off Hadley.
The league-leading Yanks (37-22) lose their 3rd in a row, dropping a 65 decision to the 2nd-place Indians. Rolfe's error in the 8th allows the Tribe to tie and Lefty Gomez looses two wild pitches in a row in the 9th to all Joe Vosmik to get to 3B. Ab Wright's single brings home the winner. Mel Harder, in relief in the 9th, wins his 11th.
Alabama Pitts, the celebrated ex-convict, makes his debut with Albany in a twinbill with Syracuse. He has two hits and two spectacular catches in CF in the opener, then goes hitless in the nitecap. Manager Johnny Evers enthuses, "I tell you he's a sure shot for the big leagues."
At Chicago, the White and Red Sox divide a pair, the Pale Hose winning the opener, 42, then losing 82. Ted Lyons takes the opener, beating Wes Ferrell, then Boston hands Johnny Whitehead his fifth straight defeat. Whitehead had started his major league career with eight straight wins.
IN THE NEWS: Billy Herman cracks a first inning home run off Carl Hubbell and the Cubs score seven runs in the past three innings to beat the 1st-place Giants, 105. Herman adds another three hits and Augie Galan has three hits, including two triples. Dick Bartell has four hits for the Giants. Al Smith takes the loss for New York, while Fabian Kowalik pitches the last inning for the win.
IN THE NEWS: Lloyd Waner has a still-standing major-league record 18 putouts in CF in a doubleheader as the Pirates take a pair from the Braves at Boston. The Buccaneers win 21 and 51 behind Bush and Swift.
IN THE NEWS: Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673 when he is injured in a pre-July 4th fireworks accident. Cleveland still wins, 65, over the visiting White Sox.
IN THE NEWS: Despite Joe Medwick's hitting for the cycle, Paul Dean and the Cardinals are beaten 86 by the Reds.
Gabby Hartnett goes 4-for-4 and drives home the game winner in the Cubs 21 victory over the Pirates. Chuck Klein's homer accounts for the other score to back Lon Warneke's win over Red Lucas. Chicago moves into 2nd place with the victory.
IN THE NEWS: At St. Louis, leadoff hitter Pete Fox leads the Tigers to a twinbill drubbing of the Browns, as Detroit rolls 18-1 and 11-6. Fox drives in 10 runs, six in the opener when he hits his 2nd grand slam of the month. Fox has eight hits, five in the nitecap, and scores four runs in each game. Rowe coasts in the opener and Alvin Crowder is the nitecap winner.
At Boston, the Phils unload on the Braves winning 155 to give Syl Johnson his 8th straight win.
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