IN THE NEWS: In a masterful performance, Bob Feller one-hits the Red Sox 20, with Sammy White's single in the 7th spoiling his bid for a no-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader. It is his ML-record 12th one-hitter. In the nightcap, Cleveland's Herb Score fans 16 Boston hitters in a 21 win, missing Feller's strikeout record by 2. Score fans nine of the first 12 batters and 12 through the first five frames.
In the Giants 21 win over the Reds, the two teams toil 16 innings with combining for a record-tying 10 double plays. The only other time ten were turned was 30 years ago, when the Reds and Braves made 10 DPs in 12 innings. An alert Don Mueller start the rally in the 16th when the Reds are trying to intentionally walk him. He hits an outside 4th-ball pitch for a pop single, sending Whitey Lockman to 3B. Johnny Antonelli pitches all 16 innings for the win.
IN THE NEWS: At Ebbets, Carl Furillo raps his 8th home run with Jackie Robinson on base in the 12th inning to give the Dodgers a 20 win over the Braves. Carl Erskine wins his 4th straight, beating Gene Conley, as both pitchers go the distance.
IN THE NEWS: Mickey Mantle's homer in the 6th off Mike Garcia gives New York a 43 lead, but Cleveland wins it 54 at home. Garcia last year allowed just six homers in 258 innings, the best mark of the 1950s.
IN THE NEWS: In his first ML start, Dodger southpaw Tom Lasorda throws three wild pitches in the same inning, to tie a record. He also receives a spike wound from Wally Moon of the Cardinals in a play at the plate. Lasorda later blames his wildness on his catcher, Roy Campanella, but the Dodgers go on to win the game, 43. Before the game, Don Newcombe refuses to pitch batting practice for the 2nd time this week and Walt Alston tells him he's suspended. The two will settle their differences tomorrow and Newk will finish up the Dodgers, 64 12 inning win over the Phils.
IN THE NEWS: At Fenway, Mickey Mantle lines a first inning solo shot into the Yankee bullpen, and Bob Turley shuts out Boston the rest of the way for a 60 New York win. Frank Sullivan is the losing pitcher.
IN THE NEWS: Backed by Elston Howard's first ML homer, and Mickey Mantle's tie breaker to dead CF in the 8th, the visiting Yanks overpower the Red Sox, 96. The Yanks spot Boston a 50 lead before roaring back with three in the 9th.
Behind Carl Erskine, the Dodgers beat Robin Roberts and the Phils, 63, for their 9th straight win. All the Phils scoring is on solo homers -- two by Willie Jones and one by Del Ennis. For the Phils, it is their 8th loss in a row while the Brooks have now won 20 out of 22 games. The game is almost forfeited in the 7th after plate ump Art Gore chases Roberts, Earl Torgeson, and Jack Meyer from the Phils bench. Fans rain dozens of beer cans down on Gore and fellow ump Jocko Conlan.
The White Sox nip the Tigers, 10, behind Dick Donovan's 2nd shutout.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs click off five DPs in a 108 win over Brooklyn, snapping the Dodgers' 11-game winning streak. Ernie Banks hits a grand slam, the 1st of five he'll hit this year. The loss goes to Russ Meyer, who had beaten the Cubs 17 straight times and 22 times in his last 23 decisions against Chicago.
IN THE NEWS: Sam "Toothpick" Jones of the Cubs no-hits the Pirates 40, fanning the last three batters in the 9th after walking the bases loaded. It is the first no-hitter in Wrigley Field since the double no-hitter of 1917, and the first no-hitter in the ML by a black pitcher. The Cubs lace 15 hits against Nellie King and Vernon Law. TV announcer Harry Creighton joked in a pre-game interview with Jones that he'd give him a gold toothpick if he pitched a no-hitter. Creighton keeps his word.
Washington 3B Eddie Yost's streak ends at 838 straight games because of tonsillitis as teammate Maury McDermott 4-hits the Indians for a 30 win.
IN THE NEWS: It's Friday the 13th and bad luck for the Tigers as Mickey Mantle homers from both sides of the plate for the first time. In all, Mantle has three home runs, the first two lefty against starter Steve Gromek, and the third off Bob Miller, all to the deep reaches of the right centerfield bleachers. Mick adds a single, good for five RBIs as New York beats Detroit 52. Whitey Ford goes seven innings for the win. Mantle joins Tony Lazzeri (1927), Ben Chapman (1932), and Bill Dickey (1939) as the only Yanks to hits three homers in a game at Yankee Stadium.
IN THE NEWS: New York's Irv Noren hits an inside-the-park grand slam in an 84 victory over the A's. New York wins the nitecap to sweep the A's. Mickey Mantle is 4-for-9 for the afternoon and is hitting .311.
Chicago's Dick Donovan tosses his 3rd shut out of the season, beating the Senators, 30.
After the Braves win the lidlifter with the Phils, 65, Philadelphia comes back in the nitecap to win, 91, and break their 13-game losing streak. Robin Roberts is the victor. Billy Bruton's leadoff home run is the only run off Roberts.
IN THE NEWS: Paced by Joe Adcock's four hits, including a home run, the Braves defeat the Giants, 94. Gene Conley is the winner, despite giving up home runs to Willie Mays and Hank Thompson, but he does stop Don Mueller's 24-game hit streak.
At St. Louis, Cards rookie Larry Jackson hands the Dodgers their first shutout, stopping the league leaders, 30. St. Louis takes advantage of the removal of the screen from the RF pavilion by banging two homers -- by Red Schoendienst and Ken Boyer -- into the sector, 310 feet away.
IN THE NEWS: Cleveland scores 11 runs in the 5th to whip the Red Sox 190, and give Herb Score an easy win over Willard Nixon. Vic Wertz's grand slam is the big blow in the inning. It is the worst shutout pasting ever by Boston and the most runs ever in a shutout for the Tribe.
Milwaukee slugger Eddie Mathews undergoes an appendectomy and is lost for two weeks.
At the Stadium, Mickey Mantle's 8th inning grand slam off Mike Fornieles powers the Yankees past the White Sox, 116. In the play before Mantle's blast, a grounder was ruled a dead ball after Hank Bauer interfered with Nellie Fox at 2nd, leaving the sacks jammed. The Sox lose Minnie Minoso for two weeks with a hairline fracture of the skull after he is hit by a pitch from Bob Grim.
IN THE NEWS: In Milwaukee, Cubs pitcher Warren Hacker loses his no-hitter when he gives up a one-out 9th-inning home run to George Crowe. Hacker holds on to win 21.
In a game marked by a fight between Maury McDermott and Jackie Jensen, the Senators top the Red Sox, 10, in 12 innings. In the 12th, Jensen is trapped off 1B but his way back to the bag is obstructed by first baseman Mickey Vernon: it is called by 2B ump Ed Runge but he makes no gestures and Jensen continues back to 1B. McDermott, waiting to put the tag on, is knocked over by Jensen, and Hank Soar at 1B calls the runner out. Soar is overruled and then the fight starts between Jensen and the pitcher and both are tossed. Pedro Ramos, who succeeds McDermott, draws a walk and scores the winning run.
IN THE NEWS: The 2nd game of a Giants-Pirates doubleheader is called at the top of the 9th due to rain, 28 minutes short of the Sunday curfew, with the Giants leading 53. If the rain had started before the end of the 8th, the game would have gone to the Pirates by a score of 32. The umpires almost ruled it a suspended game rather than a called game, because they felt they had to wait at least half an hour before calling a game, which would set the time two minutes after the curfew. But a Giants vice president finds the rule that puts weather and similar conditions first when determining whether a game is called or suspended.
IN THE NEWS: After losing 11 straight games, the Pirates rout the Dodgers 151, their highest score in 172 games. Tomorrow they will sink to the cellar. Bob Friend, who pitches the last four 1/3 innings in relief of starter Vern Law, is the winner. Preston Ward has a single, triple and home run to pace the Corsairs.
IN THE NEWS: Dodgers P Don Newcombe becomes the only National League pitcher of the decade to steal home when he hits a triple and swipes home in the 9th inning in Pittsburgh. Newk has two RBIs as he wins 62 over Ron Kline (2-6).
Despite a single by Ted Williams in his first appearance of the season, Boston loses to the Senators, 53. The Senators score five in the 6th when Mickey McDermott starts the scoring with a home run.
IN THE NEWS: In just the first five innings, Norm Zauchin hits three home runs and a double and drives in 10 runs as the Red Sox slaughter the Senators 160. Pitcher Tom Brewer coasts for the win.
Bobby Hofman of the Giants hits his 3rd pinch-hit home run of the year, and 9th of his career, tying him with Cy Williams for the record. The Giants trip the Dodgers 31.
At Detroit, Frank House's home run is the only score as Bill Hoeft beats the White Sox, 10. In the 9th, Bill Tuttle runs down a 415 ft. drive by Jim Rivera that Schoolboy Rowe calls "the greatest catch since White's robbery of Martin in the '34 Series."
IN THE NEWS: Johnny Groth bangs four extra bases hits2 home runs and two doubles as the White Sox wallop the Tigers, 164. Every Sox starter has at least a hit and a run. The Sox take over 3rd place from the Bengals.
After starting the season on the retired list, Ted Williams of the Red Sox becomes "unretired." He joins the team and collects a single in his first at bat, but the Red Sox bow to the Senators, 53. Camilo Pascual is the starter, but receives a warning from the ump when the Cuban Cutie twice hits Sammy White with pitches. His replacement, Maury McDermott, ignites a 5-run 6th with a home run.
IN THE NEWS: Larry Doby of the Indians hits the first ML home run over the outer wall in Kansas City, an estimated 500-foot clout in the 6th. The Indians win 42 behind Herb Score, who is replaced in the 9th after singles by C Wilmer Shantz and pinch-hitter Enos Slaughter. Wilmer's brother Bobby Shantz is the loser.
IN THE NEWS: For the 2nd time this season, Dodger ace Don Newcombe homers twice in the same game, posting his 8th straight win, beating Pittsburgh, 83. The Brooks win the opener, 84 behind Russ Meyer. Newk gives up 12 hits but fans nine and starts two DPs.
Senators P Mickey McDermott beats the Yankees, 32, with a pinch-hit single in the 10th.
Cubs rookie slugger Bob Speake homers in both games of a doubleheader against the Cards to finish the month with 10 homers. His homer breaks a 3-3 tie in the 11th inning of the nightcap to help the Cubs sweep in St. Louis, 95 (10) and 43 (11). Paul Minner and Howie Pollet are the winners for Chicago, while Brooks Lawrence and Bobby Tiefenauer take the losses. Speake will hit just two more homers the rest of the season. In game 2, the Cards get stopped in the 9th by an interference call. Wally Moon attempts to steal 3B but C Harry Chiti's throw hits the bat of Red Schoendienst. Red is called out and Moon must return to 2B. Stan Musial then grounds out.
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