IN THE NEWS: Cleveland beats the Senators 12–3 in Washington behind Jim Bagby's 5th straight win. The win gives the Indians 13 straight victories. The Red Sox will end the streak tomorrow.
At Fenway, Ted Williams cracks a 9th-inning home run off Eldon Auker to give the Red Sox an 10-10 tie with the Browns, and Bobby Doerr's RBI double wins it, 11–10. Johnny Pesky pulls off a hidden ball trick in the 9th, but it is for naught as Doerr, unaware of the play, calls time out before the play. Auker goes the distance allowing 17 hits in the loss.
IN THE NEWS: The Tigers edge the A's, 8–7 in Game One of a twinbill. Rudy York, who clouted two homers yesterday, hits two more in the opener, one short of Ty Cobb's American League record for two straight games. Phil Marchildon allows two hits in game two to stop the Tigers, 1–0.
IN THE NEWS: At Ebbets Field, in the first twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top the Giants 7–6 with Dolph Camilli's 7th inning home run onto Bedford Avenue the big blow. With more than 24,000 fans on hand, nearly $60,000 is raised for the Navy Relief Fund, as all the proceeds are donated. Everyone, including the ball players and umps, pay their way into the park.
IN THE NEWS: The Reds Ray Starr and Bucky Walters both pitch shutouts over the Cardinals. Starr wins the opener, 1–0, allowing nine hits, and Bucky coasts, 3–0, on a 4-hitter.
IN THE NEWS: At Boston, the Cubs outslug the Braves, 9–8, as rookie Ed Hanyzewski wins his only game of the year. Bill Nicholson has a 2nd inning homer off loser Lou Tost, while Braves pitcher Jim Tobin hits a pinch homer.
IN THE NEWS: Pitcher Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves slams three successive home runs to beat the Chicago Cubs, 6–5, at Braves Field, the only ML pitcher ever to accomplish this. His last, in the 8th, breaks a 4–4 tie. Hi Bithorn takes the loss. Bill Nicholson returns the compliment, clouting a 2-run homer off Tobin in the 6th inning,
IN THE NEWS: The Giants score 10 runs in the 8th inning to whip the Pirates 12–6 at the Polo Grounds. Pinch hitter Babe Young bangs a double and a triple in the rally.
IN THE NEWS: The Phillies attempt at duplicating the Dodgers' charity effort fails, as only 3,366 fans show up for the mid-week twilight game with the Pirates. Little money is raised for the Army and Navy relief funds, but the Phils come away with a 5–4 win.
Where are the frequent flyer miles? The Cubs sell Babe Dahlgren to the Dodgers, six days after they sold the Babe to the Browns on a conditional basis. The condition was that he hit, and after pinch hitting in two games, the Browns sent him back.
IN THE NEWS: Brooklyn's Whit Wyatt loses 1–0 to the Cards Mort Cooper, the first loss for Wyatt after eight straight wins. Cooper allows just two hits. The Cards score on Walker Cooper's triple and a fly ball in the 5th.
IN THE NEWS: At Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo, one of the most memorable games in Japanese League history takes place, a 28-inning marathon (4-4 tie) between Nagoya and Taiyo. It takes three hours and 47 minutes and both starters, Michio Nishizawa of Nagoya and Jiro Noguchi of Taiyo, go all the way: Nishizawa 311 pitches; Noguchi 344. Games are not allowed to end in a tie because the league has to show off their fighting spirit, according to historian Yoichi Nagata. Because this is the last day of the spring schedule in the three-part season (spring, summer and fall), closing ceremonies and awards are scheduled, so officials order the umpire to end the game. Nagoya uses only nine players, and Taiyo, 10. Despite the war, the game is noted in TSN.
IN THE NEWS: New York's Lefty Gomez, self-described as the worst-hitting pitcher in baseball, bangs out four hits in pitching a 4-hit, 16–1 victory over Washington. They are his last ML hits. Buddy Hassett adds four hits as well.
IN THE NEWS: The Reds split a twinbill with the Cardinals but lose three outfielders to injuries in the process. After Johnny Vander Meer wins the opener, 3–2, the Cards take the nitecap 10–5. Mike McCormick breaks his leg sliding into 2B in Game One and Harry Craft and Gee Walker are knocked out when they collide in the 8th inning of game 2.
IN THE NEWS: Against the Pirates, the Reds Clyde Vollmer chops a home run on the first ML pitch he sees, the 4th major leaguer to do so. Pitcher Max Butcher is the instant loser as the Reds go on to win 3–0 in this 2nd game of a doubleheader. Vollmer's next homer won't come until 1947.
In Game One of a twinbill sweep at Brooklyn, Dixie Walker of the Dodgers is credited with an inside-the-park grand slam as the Braves aging Paul Waner searches for the ball under the bullpen bench. Walker follows Pee Wee Reese, Pete Reiser, and Arky Vaughan over the plate. The Dodgers win, 10–2. Brooklyn wins the nitecap, 3–1, behind Whit Wyatt's 10th straight win over Boston.
Before 22,000 at Griffith Stadium, Satchel Paige pitches five innings to defeat the Dizzy Dean All-Stars, 8–1. Dean pitches just the first inning, giving up three hits and two runs. Private Cecil Travis plays 3B. The game a week earlier, in which Paige won 3–1 at Wrigley Field, drew 29,000. Judge Landis will prohibit a scheduled July 4th matchup because the first two games outdrew ML games.
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