IN THE NEWS: Thirty thousand fans are on hand in Boston to watch two superstars face each otherthe Cardinals with young Dizzy Dean on the mound against the Braves with 40-year-old Babe Ruth. Diz walks Ruth his first two times up, then with two strikes on the Bambino, Dean waves his outfielders back and pipes a fast ball down the middle that Ruth misses. Dean wins the game, 70, and in his first at bat, homers over Ruth's head in right. Dean will face Ruth again on the 19th, holding the Babe hitless again, and win that game as well.
IN THE NEWS: Boston's Fritz Ostermueller holds the Indians to six hits in winning, 21. The loss drop the Tribe to 2nd place behind the White Sox. Ostermueller wins his own game with a run scoring single in the 7th off Oral Hildebrand.
IN THE NEWS: Reds backstop Ernie Lombardi equals the major-league record with four straight doubles, all in consecutive innings (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th) and each off a different pitcher: Syl Johnson, Orville Jorgens, Euel Moore, and Franklin Pearce. The slow-footed Lombardi also has a "long single" in the 23-hit, 154 win over the Phillies in game 1. The Reds collect seven doubles and two homers. In the nitecap, the Phils snap their nine game losing streak with a 54 victory.
IN THE NEWS: The Braves Rabbit Maranville sets a new record for National League service by appearing in his 23rd season. It is his first appearance since breaking his ankle in last year's spring training. The Rabbit has a single but Tex Carleton is too much for the Braves and the Cubs win, 81.
At Philadelphia, Charley Gelbert of the Cardinals plays his first game since a 1932 hunting accident almost severed his leg. Gelbert's error in the 7th paves the way for the Phils' first run as they win, 21. The victory goes to Bucky Walters, the infielder whom manager Jimmy Wilson has been endeavoring to convert to a pitcher all spring. Bucky allows four hits and scores the winning run in the 9th to win his first ML game.
IN THE NEWS: Lou Gehrig steals home in a 40 Yankee win over the Tigers. It is his 15th and last steal of home, all of which were double steals.
The Giants make Dolf Luque a coach, the Browns buy Russ Van Atta from the Yankees, and the Dodgers obtain George Earnshaw on waivers from the White Sox.
IN THE NEWS: Bucky Walters shuts out the Cubs for ten innings and singles home Jimmy Wilson to win the game, 10. Walter gets two of the three Phils' hits off young Roy Henshaw.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh 1B Gus Suhr injures his hand and leaves the game with the Dodgers. He plays in the OF one inning the next day to continue his consecutive-game streak, which eventually reaches a National League record 822.
IN THE NEWS: Hank Greenberg collects two of his three RBIs in the 11th inning as Detroit tops the A's, 86. A's pitcher George Caster, heeding the advice of Jimmie Foxx, walks Gehringer in the last frame to pitch to Greenberg.
IN THE NEWS: Promising pitcher Buck Newsom is sold by the Browns to the Senators for $40,000.
The A's acquire P George Blaeholder, who won 10 or more games in each of the last seven seasons, from the Browns for Ed Coleman and Sugar Cain. Blaeholder had one of the highest salaries on the cash-poor Browns.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland has an internal problem between manager Walter Johnson and two veterans, 3B Willie Kamm and Glenn Myatt. Judge Landis refuses to intervene, and Kamm is eventually made a scout while Myatt is released. Johnson continues his shaky tenure, which will not last the season.
IN THE NEWS: After a day's delay because of rain, the Cincinnati Reds host the Philadelphia Phillies in the first ML night game, winning 21 before a crowd of 24,422. On the initiative of Larry MacPhail, FDR throws the switch at the White House to turn on the lights. the Phils Mike Chiozza is the first batter as the Reds Paul Derringer outduels Joe Bowan, though the Reds are outhit, six to 4. The Reds will play seven night games in all, one each against the other National League teams.
IN THE NEWS: Babe Ruth has a last hurrah, hitting three home runs at Pittsburgh. The first shot is hit off Red Lucas, while the last two homers come off veteran Guy Bush. The final one, the last of his 714 career home runs, is the first to clear the RF grandstand at Forbes Field and is measured at 600 feet. With that, Ruth sits down in the dugoutPittsburgh'snext to rookie Mace Brown. Ruth, who hit three homers in a game just once in the American League (May 21, 1930), is the first player to turn this hat trick in both leagues. Ruth lifts himself in the 7th inning, finishing the day at 4-for-4 and six RBIs. But Ruth's old teammate Waite Hoyt, in relief of Bush, is the winner as Pittsburgh defeats the hapless Braves, 117.
At Boston, Detroit wins, 32, on Hank Greenberg's 2-run homer in the 6th inning. In his previous at bat in the 4th inning, Greenberg's line drive hits pitcher Fritz Ostermueller breaking cheek bone and several teeth and sending him to the hospital.
IN THE NEWS: In Cincinnati, Babe Ruth K's three times and makes an easy out in his 4th at bat on "Babe Ruth Day" as his Braves lose 63 to the Reds. Syl Johnson is the winning pitcher. Tomorrow, the Babe will walk as a pinch hitter in the 9th as the Reds win, 95.
IN THE NEWS: The Red Sox get Oscar Melillo, star 2B, from the Browns, for Moose Solters and $35,000. Solters will make the trade look good, hitting .330 on the year with 104 RBI and become the first American Leaguer to collect 200 hits while playing for two teams. Only Irish Meusel, in the National League, has done it.
IN THE NEWS: Washington's Buck Newsom (later to be called Bobo) is hit on the knee by a line drive by Cleveland's Earl Averill in the 3rd inning. After he finishes the game, it is discovered that his kneecap is broken. Washington loses 54.
The Reds run their winning streak to six games, their longest in four years, beating Boston, 134. Babe Ruth is 0-for-3, scoring a run, but stumbles twice and injures his leg running and is replaced in LF by Hal Lee.
IN THE NEWS: The Memorial Day twin bill at the Polo Grounds breaks all National League attendance records when 63,943 see the Giants take a pair from the Dodgers, 83 and 60. Thousands are turned away and the gates are closed 40 minutes before game time. Roy Parmelee coasts in the opener after Mel Ott hits a grand slam in the first inning. In his first appearance at the Polo Grounds as a Giant, Al Cuccinello also homers in the same inning. Fred Fitzsimmons twirls a 2-hitter in the nitecap.
Babe Ruth plays only the first inning of the opener of a doubleheader between Boston and Philadelphia at Baker Bowl, going 0-for-1. It is his final ML appearance. The Phils win 116 and 93.
Joe Medwick has three doubles and a triple in the first game, a 125 Cards win over the Reds. The Cards take the second game, 42, as Medwick contributes another two doubles and a single: his six long hits for the afternoon is the 3rd time it has happened in the NL.
The Yankees move into first place in the American League with a double win over the Senators, 40 and 93. Vito Tamulis pitches his 2nd straight shutout in the lidlifter.
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