Bill Bergen ends his major league career with the lowest lifetime batting average for a position player in major league history by hitting an anemic .170 during his 11-year tenure with the Reds and Superbas. The 33 year-old backstop, who had only one year of batting above .200, also holds the records for lowest season batting average for a regular season (.139 in 1909) and the longest streak of at-bats without a hit (46 in 1909).

With a triple steal on, the Highlanders’ Cozy Dolan singles in three runs in a 9 – 4 loss at Detroit. The 3 RBIs are half of Cozy’s season total.

The Giants beat Pittsburgh, 7 – 2, as the Giants steal eight bases with Larry Doyle swiping home twice. New York ties a major league mark with the three steals. Christy Mathewson is the winner on a four-hitter over Howie Camnitz, increasing the Giants’ lead to five games.

For the second time in a week, an American League rookie debuts with a shutout; the Browns’ Elmer Brown stops the Senators, 6 – 0.

1911 – Washington manager Jimmy McAleer announces his resignation. Ban Johnson then arranges for McAleer and Robert R. McRoy to buy a half-interest in the Red Sox for $150,000. Clark Griffith will take over as manager and, by purchasing 10% of the team, its largest single stock holder.

1911 – At Boston, the Giants pound the Rustlers 13 – 9, scoring six runs in the 9th inning for a 13 – 4 lead. The winner is Hooks Wiltse with little relief from Doc Crandall in the 9th: Doc allows seven hits and five runs.

1911 – In the nightcap of a game billed as a pitchers’ duel, Boston’s Cy Young and the Giants’ Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000, Boston’s largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9 – 0 lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. Mathewson adds to New York’s scoring in the 3rd by swiping home. The Giants coast, 11 – 2. In the field, Matty also helps when, with Doc Miller on first base in the 2nd inning, a line drive to center by Hank Gowdy results in a double play (8-4-1-3). New York wins the first game, 9 – 3, and now lead the Cubs by two games.