The Indians score eight in the 1st and nine in the 2nd in a 24 – 6 win over the Yankees at home. Johnny Hodapp of the Indians becomes the first American League player to get two hits in an inning twice in a game. He strokes 2 singles in both the 2nd and 6th innings of the game. The Yankees’ lead shrinks from 11 1/2 games to 6 in one week.
On July 27, 1928, At Chicago’s Comiskey Park, 41-year-old Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics makes the final regular start of his Hall of Fame career. Cobb collects a single and a double before being hit with a pitch in the chest by George “Sarge” Connally. The pitch leaves Cobb with a bad bruise, forcing…
7/26/1928 – The Reds batted out of turn in the ninth inning at Philadelphia and scored the game-winning runs during that frame. In the eighth inning, Pinky Pittinger had pinch run for Bubbles Hargrave (in the seventh spot in the lineup) and remained in the game. In the top of the ninth, the Reds had one run in and two runners on when it was Pittinger’s turn to bat. Val Picinich, who had entered the game in the eighth spot in the previous half inning, strode to the plate instead of Pittinger. After Picinich fouled out, the proper batter, Pittinger, was called out. Now it really was Picinich’s turn. Instead, Pid Purdy pinch hit for Picinich and walked. Eventually, Hughie Critz doubled home three runs to claim the contest for Cincinnati. The Phillies gained nothing by pointing out that Picinich had batted out of turn since he was already out.
The Phils buy left-handed-hitting OF Chuck Klein from the Fort Wayne Chiefs.
Detroit rookie righthander Vic Sorrell and the Yankees’ Waite Hoyt are locked in a 1 – 1 tie after 11. Twelve hits and 2 walks in the 12th score 11 New York runs in the biggest extra-inning storm ever.
In a Class C Western Association minor league game against the Topeka Jayhawks, future major league player and manager Paul Richards of the Muskogee Chiefs is summoned from his shortstop position to pitch. The 19 year-old right-hander throws with both hands during his brief appearance on the mound, including an unusual confrontation with a switch-hitter, that briefly results in both the pitcher and the batter continually swapping hands and batter’s boxes, respectively, until the ambidextrous hurler becomes a left-hander and right-hander on alternate pitches, regardless of where the batter places himself.
1928 – P Red Faber of the White Sox comes up to bat in the 8th with two runners on base and the game with the Yankees tied, 4 – 4. He swings twice right-handed against righty Wilcy Moore and misses. He then switches to the left side and knocks in the winning runs with a single to center.
1928 – Jimmie Foxx hits the longest drive ever seen out of Shibe Park as the A’s take two from St. Louis, increasing their lead over the third-place Browns to 10 games.
Baseball’s biggest battery is recorded, appropriately, with the New York Giants, as Garland “Gob” Buckeye, a 260-pound pro football lineman in the off-season, makes his National League pitching debut with 250-pound Shanty Hogan behind the plate. The Giants lose to the Cardinals.
Washington P Milt Gaston surrenders 14 hits in a 9 – 0 shutout over Cleveland, setting an American League mark and tying the major-league standard.
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