IN THE NEWS: Pinky Higgins equals the 2-day-old ML mark for errors by a 3B, making four for Boston against Philadelphia. But Pinky knocks in two as the Sox route the A's, 13–1, behind Johnny Marcum.
University of California All-American football star Sam Chapman signs with the Athletics for a $8,500 bonus.
The Giants announce that 2B Burgess Whitehead is out for the season following a nervous breakdown.
With Lou Gehrig batting 6th and joe DiMaggio at the cleanup spot for the 2nd game in a row, the Yankees edge the host Senators, 3–2. DiMag homers while Gehrig has a single.
The Indians score 10 runs in 4th inning and beat the Tigers, 11–3. Averill has the lone home run in the game.
IN THE NEWS: Lefty Grove defeats the Tigers 4–3 in 10 innings for the first of a record 20 consecutive victories at his home field, Fenway Park in Boston. He will not lose there until May 12, 1941.
IN THE NEWS: At Washington, the Indians and Senators match zeroes for 12 innings before the Zeke Bonura scores in the bottom of the 13th to win, 1–0. Dutch Leonard goes all the way for Washington and walks none while allowing six hits. Feller pitches the first 10 innings for the Tribe.
IN THE NEWS: Hal Kelleher of the Phillies faces 16 batters in the 8th inning, as the Cubs score 12 runs. Both marks are National League records off one hurler in a single inning. The Cubs win 21–2 with Joe Marty tallying four runs, four RBI, and four hits and Augie Galan adding a homer and triple and another four ribbies. The loss goes to Wayne LeMaster who throws just three pitches to leadoff batter Stan Hack before leaving the game with a pain in his throwing arm. Tommy Reis relieved and allows four runs to score, but the first is charged to LeMaster. Al Epperly wins the laugher.
IN THE NEWS: OF Bob Seeds of the Newark Bears (IL) hits four home runs in four successive innings and drives in 12 runs against Buffalo. Tomorrow he will slam three more. His seven home runs in the 2–day barrage account for 17 RBIs and 30 total bases. In his first 59 games, Seeds will clout 28 home runs and drive in 95 runs. His reward? The Yanks decide he won't break into their lineup and will sell him to the Giants for $40,000 on June 24th.
IN THE NEWS: At Boston, Jimmie Foxx drives in five runs on a pair of homers to pace the Red Sox to a 15–3 drubbing of Cleveland. Jim Bagby is the winner.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland manages jut four hits off New York's Lefty Gomez but they win, 3–2, behind Bob Feller's five hitter. Lou Gehrig drives in both runs on a 2-run home run.
IN THE NEWS: After a 7–6 ten-inning loss to the Cardinals, the Reds file a protest regarding a disputed hit by the Reds Dusty Cooke. Cooke hits a ball that bounced off the part of the RF pavilion at Sportsman's Park that juts out over the playing field. The ball bounces back in play and Cooke reaches 3B. Reds manager Bill McKechnie contends it should be a home run, stating that if it had been hit lower it would miss the pavilion and been a homer. On June 3, Ford Frick rules the game should be replayed as part of a August 20 twinbill. The Reds will win the first game, 4–2, then lose the nitecap, 5–4.
IN THE NEWS: After Bobo Newsom equals the American League record with six consecutive strikeouts, Joe DiMaggio hits his 2nd home run of the game, and Newsom and the Browns lose to New York 11–7. DiMag drives in five runs and WP Lefty Gomez knocks in 3.
At Detroit, Wes Ferrell pitches and bats the Indians to a 5–1 win. Ferrell hits a solo homer, while his batterymate, brother Rick Ferrell, goes hitless.
IN THE NEWS: Cubs pitcher Bill Lee shuts out the Giants on five hits to win, 1–0, in 10 innings. Lee scores the winning run to beat starter Harry Gumbert.
IN THE NEWS: The power-laden Yankees give little support to P Spud Chandler, but he hits a home run in the 8th to gain a 1–0 victory over Thornton Lee and the White Sox.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs Bill Lee tops the Braves, 4–1, as the Braves score their only tally in the 4th when pitcher Lou Fette drives in the run. This is the only run that Lee will allow in 47 straight innings going back to the 19th, when he tossed a shutout. He will shut out Pirates, 5–0, on May 27, the Reds, 3–0 on May 30, and the Braves, 4–0, on June 3.
IN THE NEWS: Bobby Doerr's 2nd inning single for Boston is the only hit that Bob Feller allows. Ken Keltner belts three homers as Cleveland coasts 11–0.
The Tigers use the long ball to defeat the Yankees, 7–3, at Detroit. Rudy York and Hank Greenberg hit back-to-back homers twice in the game.
IN THE NEWS: Detroit's Hank Greenberg hammers a Frank Gabler pitch into the centerfield seats at Comiskey Park, the first slugger to reach the bleachers there. The Tigers win, 5–2, behind Vern Kennedy's 6-hitter.
IN THE NEWS: The largest crowd in Yankee Stadium history, 83,533, sees Red Ruffing end Lefty Grove's 8-game winning streak in a 10–0 victory over the Red Sox. Six thousand fans are turned away, and 511 are given refunds because there is no place to sit. The Yankees also took the 2nd game of the doubleheader, 5–4, in a game made famous for a fight between Yankee OF Jake Powell and Boston player-manager Joe Cronin. The brawl starts when Boston P Archie McKain hits Powell with a pitch in the stomach. Powell's charge to the mound is intercepted by Cronin and the two pummel each other for 2-3 minutes. Cronin and Powell are ejected but continue the fight in the area beneath the stands, until they are separated by Yankee players. Both players are fined and suspended for 10 days.
Rudy York hits his 3rd grand slam of the month, as the Tigers beat the Browns 10–9 in the first game of a holiday pair. York will slam five this year.
IN THE NEWS: At New York, Jimmie Foxx hits a grand slam off Yankee P Joe Beggs, the first of three he'll hit off Beggs this season, but the Yanks prevail, 12–5. Lou Gehrig plays his 2,000th consecutive game and has an RBI single.
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