IN THE NEWS: Skeeter Webb's bouncing single over 2B in the 3rd deprives Chicagos Joe Haynes of a perfect game. No other Tiger runner reaches base as the White Sox win, 50, on Haynes' one-hitter
IN THE NEWS: Boston's Boo Ferriss pitches his 2nd straight shutout, blanking the Yankees 50, matching a mark last accomplished by Johnny Marcum in 1933.
Tiger pitchers Hal Newhouser and Al Benton shut out the Browns in a doubleheader. Prince Hal wins 30 and Benton follows with a 10 victory.
IN THE NEWS: Behind Phil Cavarretta's four hits, the Cubs beat the Phils, 71. Cavarretta is hitting .365.
The Giants defeat the Reds, 43, but New York CF Johnny Rucker goes hitless for the first time in 19 games. Rucker is a nephew of great Dodger southpaw Nap Rucker.
IN THE NEWS: Rookie phenom Boo Ferriss reaches 22 shutout innings before allowing a run versus the Tigers in a 62 Red Sox win. This sets an American League record for scoreless innings at the start of a ML career. Ferriss strikes out 1B Rudy York four times, all on called 3rd strikes.
IN THE NEWS: Ex-serviceman Mel Bosser makes his ML debut with the Reds and walks 10 Phillies before being relieved in the 8th inning by Boom-Boom Beck. Bosser, whose only pro experience is pitching in Class D, allows eight hits and gets credit for the 54 win.
IN THE NEWS: Mort Cooper goes AWOL from the Cardinals, returning to St. Louis. A 20-game winner for three previous seasons, Cooper, along with his brother, has had his salary frozen at $12,000 for three years, and is in a salary dispute with owner Sam Breadon. Without Cooper, the Cards drop a pair to the Braves, losing 54 in 14 innings, and 41.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants score six runs in the 8th to vanquish the Cubs, 85. For New York, it is their 12th win in 13 games. Rookie Al Gardella starts at 1B for New York, and his brother Danny Gardella is announced as a pinch hitter in the 8th, but is switched for Billy Jurges.
Trying for their 12th win in a row, the Dodgers are scuttled by the Pirates, 123. Nick Strincevich stops the Dodgers, who fall three games behind the Giants. Luis Olmo's hit streak is also stopped at 14 games.
IN THE NEWS: A wet record. The Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics both have seven straight games postponed because of rain in the past four days. In the American League, every game between the 14th and the 17th is rained out.
In a 1512 Dodgers' victory over the Cubs, Brooklyn's Luis Olmo hits a triple and home run, each with the bases loaded. No 20th century ML player has done that since. Olmo adds a 2B for good measure. Former OF Ben Chapman is the winning pitcher.
Jimmie Foxx hits the 2nd pinch grand slam of his career, off Ken Burkhart, to give the Phils an 87 lead. But St. Louis rallies in the 9th to win 118.
IN THE NEWS: In St. Louis, Pete Gray stars, as the Browns sweep the Yankees 101 and 52. Gray has two RBI on three hits in the opener, and in the nightcap he scores the winning run and hauls in seven fly balls, three on spectacular catches.
Before 51,340 fans at the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Pirates split a doubleheader. Bill Voiselle wins his 8th straight to give the Giants a 51 win in the opener. New York ends the day atop the National League by three 1/2 games.
At Boston, the Reds build an 81 lead over the Braves behind the pitching and hitting of Bucky Walters, who belts a pair of homers. Bucky then holds on for a 108 win.
IN THE NEWS: Mort Cooper is traded by the Cardinals to the Braves. The three-time 20-game winner has twice jumped the club in a salary hassle. Threatening to run out again unless his contract is increased from $12,000 to $15,000, Cooper is swapped by owner Sam Breadon to the newly affluent Braves for Red Barrett and $60,000 cash. Cooper will develop arm trouble while Barrett, 916 in 1944, will win 21 games for the Cards this season.
IN THE NEWS: The visiting Giants beat the Reds 76 on a pinch homer by colorful Danny Gardella. Gardella had started the day by leaving a suicide note in his hotel room for his roommate Nat Reyes. When Reyes returned to the room a few minutes later, he noticed the open window and read the note. Horrified, he rushed to window only to see the grinning face of Gardella, who had been hanging from the window ledge several stories over the street.
The Tigers lose Al Benton, who has five wins and three shutouts, when he is hit on ankle in the 4th frame by a line drive off the bat of Estalella. The A's score four in the 5th to win, 72.
IN THE NEWS: Red Sox CF Leon Culberson makes an unassisted DP when he catches a short looper and continues on to 2B to nab Vern Stephens before he can return. Despite the play, the Red Sox lose to the Browns, 50. Nels Potter records the shutout.
IN THE NEWS: The White Sox get only three hits total in a doubleheader loss to the Red Sox. Boo Ferriss allows only a single by Tony Cuccinello in the 2ndin the opener to win, 70, for his 6th straight victory and 4th shutout. Emmett O'Neill gives up two singles in the nitecap to win, 21.
After losing nine straight to the Browns over two seasons, the Yanks brush aside the jinx to sweep a pair, winning 109 and 31. The Browns blow a 82 lead in the first game and lose in the 14th inning. The nitecap is called after eight innings because of darkness.
IN THE NEWS: Before the biggest Wrigley crowd42,565 paidin seven years, the Giants top the host Cubs, 86 in the opener, and Mel Ott passes Honus Wagner's career total of 4,888 total bases to set an National League record. Wagner's has since been adjusted to 4868 and both players' totals have been passed. Slim Emmerich is the winner over Ray Prim. The Cubs take the nitecap, 112 behind Bob Chipman's 3-hit win over Bill Voiselle. Andy Pafko clouts a 3-run homer in the 3rd. It's Voiselle's 2nd straight pounding after winning his first eight games.
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