IN THE NEWS: At Cleveland, the Tribe sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 122 and 61, to move into 2nd place in the American League. Bob Lemon coasts to his 14th win in the opener, beating Ellis Kinder. Larry Doby drives in four runs. Cleveland RF Edwards dislocates his shoulder crashing into the fence making a spectacular catch of Spence's home run bid. Sam Zoldak wins the nitecap. The Sox drop from 1st to 4th place with the double loss: Cleveland, New York and Boston are each a game back of the A's.
IN THE NEWS: Before 72,434 in Cleveland, ancient Satchel Paige makes his first start pitching seven innings against the Senators, before being relieved by Eddie Klieman. Paige picks up the win, 53, which moves Cleveland (56-38) into a four-way tie for first.
Jack Kramer leaves in the 3rd inning with a sore shoulder but still is credited with his 11th straight win as the Red Sox (58-40) pound the Browns, 158. Williams hits his 19th home run and Vern Stephens drives in three runs.
IN THE NEWS: In St. Louis, the Browns spot the Red Sox six runs in the first inning, then come back with seven of their own in the bottom of the inning. St. Louis scores two in the 9th off reliever Ellis Kinder to win, 98.
Ernie Harwell begins as an announcer for the Dodgers calling a 54 win over the Cubs. The Dodgers had to trade a player, Cliff Dapper, to the Atlanta Crackers to acquire Harwell. Brooklyn scores a pair in the 1st, one on a steal of home by Robinson.
IN THE NEWS: Dodger Gene Hermanski hits three successive home runs to offset six Brooklyn errors as the Dodgers beat the Cubs, 64. The win moves the Dodgers into 2nd place. Carl Erskine starts his first game and earns his 3rd win.
IN THE NEWS: The Reds release Johnny Neun as manager and pick Bucky Walters to succeed him. The change doesn't help today as Brooklyn's Rex Barney wins, 41.
IN THE NEWS: Before 66,000 fans, New York's Vic Raschi (14-4) allows four singles in stopping the Indians, 50. DiMaggio has a pair of doubles, drives in three runs, and swipes home on the front end of a double steal.
IN THE NEWS: In Cleveland, 73,484 fans watch the Indians and Yankees square off for two games. Trailing in the opener, an ailing Lou Boudreau hits a bases loaded pinch single in the 7th to tie the game, and Satchel Paige wins it in relief, 86. Steve Gromek goes seven innings in the nitecap to give the Indians a 21 win over rookie Bob Porterfield, making his ML debut. The Indians and the A's are now tied for 1st (60-39), with the Yankees two games back and Red Sox in 4th place, two 1/2 out.
IN THE NEWS: At Brooklyn, Chicago's Johnny Schmitz goes 11 innings to beat the Dodgers, 42. Schmitz scores the winning run, coming home on an Eddie Waitkus double.
IN THE NEWS: In the 2nd game of a twin bill, after losing 84, the Indians wallop the Browns 263, coming within one run of the American League record for the most runs scored in a game. A record fourteen players have hits for the Indians in the game. Hal Peck leads with four hits and four runs. Pitcher Gene Bearden, who also has four hits and four runs, is staked to 9-run lead before taking the mound. All 14 Indians who have an at bat get a hit. Bob Feller pitches the last two innings.
IN THE NEWS: The promise of Paige on the mound brings 51,013 to Comiskey Park to see "Ole Satch" pitch his first ML shutout as Cleveland wins 50. He gives up five hits to run his record to 51. In his 12 appearances, Paige has attracted 201,829 fans.
The Phils score 10 runs in the bottom of the 1st inning, including a ML-record nine runs before the first out is recorded, then hold on to beat the Giants 107. Rookie Curt Simmons lasts six innings for the win.
IN THE NEWS: Rookie George Vico drives in seven runs to pace the Tigers to a 103 win over the Browns. Vico is one better than a cycle, collecting two doubles, a triple and homer to back Virgil Trucks' sparkling one-hit relief effort over 6+ innings.
IN THE NEWS: Before 72,468the largest crowd of the season at Yankee Stadiumthe A's sweep a pair from the Yanks by 53 scores and regain second place in the American League. The A's win the opener in 10 innings after Joe DiMaggio ties the score with his 20th homer of the year. Joe D also triples home a run in the extra frame but Lou Brissie preserves the win for Carl Scheib. The A's total 20 hits in the two games, including a triple and double by Sam Chapman. New York is now in 4th place, five games back.
In the first of two at Philadelphia, Ken Heintzelman tosses a one-hitter to beat the Giants 81. The only hit is Whitey Lockman's 7th inning triple. The Phils take the nitecap, 75, as Ed Heusser pitches five innings of relief to win. Larry Jansen and Clint Hartung take the losses.
IN THE NEWS: Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at age 53 in New York. His body will be put on display at Yankee Stadium and be viewed by more than 100,000 fans.
IN THE NEWS: Tom Henrich hits his 4th grand slam of the season, off the Senators Sid Hudson, to join Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Yorkand, later, Al Rosen and Ray Boonefor the American League record. Henrich, who broke in with the Yankees in 1937, had never hit a grand slam before this season. Bob Porterfield wins for New York, 81.
Indians' rookie Gene Bearden shuts out the Browns, 80, to improve his record to 123.
IN THE NEWS: At Philadelphia, Rex Barney fires a one-hitter, beating the Phils, 10. The lone hit is a looping single by Ralph Caballero that just eludes a diving Duke Snider. Barney completes his victory by striking out the side in the 9th. The 2nd-place Bums score their lone run in the first when Robin Roberts wild pitches home Brooks from 3B.
The Pirates halt the Cubs, 74, behind rookie Bob Chesnes. Chesnes helps his own cause with two singles in the Bucs' 6-run 8th inning to pin the loss on Russ Meyer. Stan Rojek has four hits for the Pirates, while Pafko drives home three runs on three hits for Chicago.
The Giants crush the first-place Braves, 82, behind Sheldon Jones. Sid Gordon hits his 24th and John Mize his 29th, both off Vern Bickford, to pace the New Yorkers. The Braves lead Brooklyn by a game.
IN THE NEWS: In the Eastern Shore League, Ed Santulli of Rehoboth Beach pitches a 10-0 no-hitter over Federalsburg, the 3rd no-hitter in the league in four days. On August 16, Ed Black of Salisbury no-hit Milford. 4-0. while Gene Kern of Cambridge did the same, beating Federalsburg, 12-0.
IN THE NEWS: The Indians draw record 78,382 for the largest crowd to attend a night game. The Indians go on to beat the Chicago White Sox, 10, at Memorial Stadium as Satchel Paige blanks the opposition on three hits for the 4th consecutive shutout by Cleveland hurlers. Bill Wight is the hard-luck loser. Besides Paige, Gene Bearden, Sam Zoldak, and Bob Lemon fired shutouts.
IN THE NEWS: After shutting out the White Sox for eight innings, Bob Lemon weakens and Chicago scores three runs to beat the Indians 32. Pat Seerey walks and Aaron Robinson and Dave Philley hit homers for Chicago. The runs break the 47-inning scoreless streak by Indians pitchers that started with the last three innings of the first game on August 15. The 1903 Cleveland team had had a run of 41 scoreless innings and Baltimore will extend the record in 1974 to 54 innings.
Representatives of Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, meeting in Havana, agree to stage a 4-country round-robin 12-game tournament to be known as the Serie de Caribe (Caribbean Series) and to be launched in Cuba during February 1949. The Dominican Republic and Mexico will also later participate on a regular basis.
IN THE NEWS: The Dodgers steal eight bases, including a 5th-inning triple steal with Jackie Robinson on the front end. But the Braves win 43 to move two games ahead of 2nd-place Brooklyn. In the last 19 steal attempts against the Braves, no Dodger has been thrown out.
IN THE NEWS: At Fenway, with the Red Sox trailing Cleveland 87, Vern Stephens crashes a 2-run homer to give the Sox an 98 win and move them into first place. This is Stephen's 15th game-winning hit of the year.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs sweep two from the Braves, 51 and 52, despite a near-riot that holds up play for 20 minutes in the nitecap. The reaction by the fans comes when Jocko Conlan rules that a drive by Phil Cavarretta in the 3rd inning is a ground-rule double, not an inside the park homer. Conlan makes his call after Braves LF Jeff Heath "loses" the ball in the Wrigley vines, though it is really by his feet. The fans shower the field in protest and Conlan bawls out some of Chicago's finest for not taking any action. When play is resumed, Andy Pafko walks and Peanut Lowrey's hits a bases-loaded triple.
IN THE NEWS: Hank Majeski of the Athletics hits six doubles in a doubleheader against the Browns, pacing the dogged A's to wins of 60 and 91. He is the 3rd American League player to collect six long hits in an afternoon and just the 2nd to do it in two regulation length games. Hal McRae, on the same date in 1974, will do it next in the AL.
Johnny Schmitz leads the Cubs to a 10 win over the first-place Braves at Wrigley Field. Schmitz allows just six hits, including two triples, but doubles and scores the games only run in the bottom of the 9th. Johnny Sain takes the loss.
IN THE NEWS: The Phils snap their 10-game losing streak with a pair of victories over the Pirates, 92 and 117. Del Ennis and Andy Seminick homer in the opener to back Schoolboy Rowe. Ennis hits pair in game two, Seminick adds another, as do Eddie Miller, Granny Hamner --his first of the year -- and Al Lakeman. But the Phils lose star Richie Ashburn, who breaks a finger on his left hand.
The Yanks stroll into 2nd-place by edging the Indians, 32. Ahead 21, Sam Zoldak wilts in the 98 degree weather and Gene Bearden replaces him in the 9th. DiMaggio is hit, and two wild throws brings in Ed Klieman, who finishes the walk to Berra. A Brown sac bunt, and an intentional pass to Rizzuto loads the bases. Mapes walks to force a run and a grounder brings home the winner.
Vern Stephens is 4-for-4 with two doubles to pace the Red Sox to a 62 decision over Chicago. Ellis Kinder (67) is the only starter not to collect a hit for the first-place Sox.
IN THE NEWS: The Dodgers sweep a doubleheader, 127 and 64, against the Cardinals to take over first place ahead of the Braves by three percentage points. In the first game, Jackie Robinson hits for the cycle, scores three runs, drives in 2, and swipes 3B. The Cardinals use 42 players, a major league record, in the two games, with Brecheen and Munger taking the losses. In the American League, only two games separate the Red Sox, Indians, and Yankees.
IN THE NEWS: Before 45,531 at Wrigley Field, the last place Cubs beat the first-place Dodgers, 30 and 72. Hank Borowy stops Brooklyn on one hit in the openera single by Gene Hermanskiand faces just 27 batters. He hurls 100 pitches, while Bob Scheffing drives in all three runs. Doyle Lade wins the nitecap. The loss slices Brooklyn's lead to two points over the Braves, 31 winners at Cincinnati, while the Cards and Pirates move just two games back.
At Yankee Stadium, the Yanks score four runs in the 8th but the Browns come back with five in the 9th off Joe Page to make it close. But New York prevails, 109. 1B Henrich has a home run and an unassisted DP to help Allie Reynolds to the win. The Yanks remain a game behind the Red Sox.
The Red Sox keep their precarious hold on 1st place with an 84 win over the Tigers. Mel Parnell is the complete game winner. Ted Williams has two hits, scores two runs and steals a base.
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