In a shootout at the Polo Grounds, Beals Becker hits a pinch inside-the-park grand slam as the Giants outslug Brooklyn, 17 – 8. It is the second such pinch slam in ML history; Mike O’Neill hit the first.
Browns 3B Ray Jansen gets four hits in five at-bats in his ML debut, the only game he will play in the majors. Speeding his exit are his three errors at the hot corner.
Walter Johnson tosses the first of his two career one-runner games, missing a perfect game when a grounder skips by SS George McBride for a single. Johnson’s one-hitter is good for a 3 – 0 victory over the Browns.
In the first game of a doubleheader at Philadelphia, the Chicago White Sox stop A’s ace Jack Coombs’ string of shutout innings at 53 with a run in the 7th. But Coombs beats Ed Walsh, 3 – 1, in 14 innings. The Sox win the nitecap, 5 – 2.
1910 – In another matchup of aces, the Giants score four runs in the 1st inning off Three Finger Brown, who is lifted after six innings, trailing, 5 – 1. The Cubs rally against Christy Mathewson, and score two runs in both the 8th and 9th innings to tie. Larry Doyle, whose sloppy play helped the Cubs score, singles home the winning run for New York in the bottom of the 9th. Despite the Cubs tying the game after his departure, Brown is handed the loss.
1910 – George Stallings, convinced that Hal Chase tried to throw a game, but unable to make the charge stick, is replaced by his charismatic first sacker as manager of the 2nd-place Highlanders for the season’s final 11 games. On his own, Prince Hal will lead the New Yorkers downhill to 6th place in 1911.
1910 – At Atlanta, Mobile and Atlanta break the “world’s time record” for a 9-inning game, completing the match in 32 minutes. Mobile wins, 2 – 1. Both teams run in after each inning, hitters usually swing at the first pitch, though there is one walk and four stolen bases in the game.
Detroit pitcher Ed Summers, a notoriously poor hitter, bounces two home runs into the stands in a 10 – 3 victory over the A’s. The two homers, both off Harry Krause, will comprise his career total.
A game between Mobile and Atlanta (Southern Association) takes only 32 minutes to complete. The game is conducted as an experiment with batters coming to the plate “on the run” and swinging at any good pitch and both teams taking little time between innings. It is the final game of the season for both clubs. Mobile wins, 2 – 1. Many sources cite this game as the fastest in professional baseball history, but it will be bettered by one minute by a game between Asheville and Winston-Salem on August 30, 1916.
1910 – Christy Mathewson stops the Bucs on five hits, as the Giants top Pittsburgh, 3 – 1, to move a half-game behind the 2nd-place Pirates. Lefty Leifield takes the loss.
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