Bosox pitcher Ivy Andrews allows just four Senator hits through eight innings, then a single, walk and pinch single by Cliff Bolton clips Ivy, 3 – 2. Monte Weaver wins, sending the Senators 8 1/2 games in the lead.

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Bosox pitcher Ivy Andrews allows just four Senator hits through eight innings, then a single, walk and pinch single by Cliff Bolton clips Ivy, 3 – 2. Monte Weaver wins, sending the Senators 8 1/2 games in the lead.

At Boston, Dolf Luque comes to the aid of the Giants, pitching the last eight innings and knocking in the winning run in the 14th. The Giants shade the Braves, 4 – 3, then tie, 4 – 4, as a curfew ends the duel with two out in the 9th. Ben Cantwell pitches well in game two as all the Giants’ runs are unearned. The Braves draw 40,000 today and 140,000 for the four games with first-place New York, more than they drew the entire season of 1928.

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At Boston, Dolf Luque comes to the aid of the Giants, pitching the last eight innings and knocking in the winning run in the 14th. The Giants shade the Braves, 4 – 3, then tie, 4 – 4, as a curfew ends the duel with two out in the 9th. Ben Cantwell pitches well in game two as all the Giants’ runs are unearned. The Braves draw 40,000 today and 140,000 for the four games with first-place New York, more than they drew the entire season of 1928.

1933 – In the first of two games with the Braves‚ Carl Hubbell pitches 10 innings and drives in the winning run for a 2 – 0 win. He doesn’t walk a batter and never goes as deep as a 3-2 count on any hitter‚ holding the Braves to 4 hits. It is his 20th win and his 10th shutout of the year. Five of the shutouts are 1 – 0‚ a National League record. Fred Frankhouse is the hard-luck loser‚ when his mates make 2 errors in the 10th. New York then takes the nitecap‚ 5 – 3.

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1933 – In the first of two games with the Braves‚ Carl Hubbell pitches 10 innings and drives in the winning run for a 2 – 0 win. He doesn’t walk a batter and never goes as deep as a 3-2 count on any hitter‚ holding the Braves to 4 hits. It is his 20th win and his 10th shutout of the year. Five of the shutouts are 1 – 0‚ a National League record. Fred Frankhouse is the hard-luck loser‚ when his mates make 2 errors in the 10th. New York then takes the nitecap‚ 5 – 3.

1933 – The Giants lose 3B Johnny Vergez for the season due to an appendectomy. Travis Jackson, who has been filling in at SS, shifts to 3B.

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1933 – The Giants lose 3B Johnny Vergez for the season due to an appendectomy. Travis Jackson, who has been filling in at SS, shifts to 3B.

1933 – Cleveland’s Wes Ferrell stops Heinie Manush’s hitting streak at 33 games, as Washington loses, 5 – 4 in 11 innings.

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1933 – Cleveland’s Wes Ferrell stops Heinie Manush’s hitting streak at 33 games, as Washington loses, 5 – 4 in 11 innings.

Bill Veeck suggests the idea of a mid-summer series of interleague games and proposes a split-season schedule format. Although the Cub president’s concept of games between the two circuits receives some support, Senator owner Clark Griffith opposes the proposal, calling the American League a major league not in need of grandiose schemes he deemed as “Hippodrome stuff”.

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Bill Veeck suggests the idea of a mid-summer series of interleague games and proposes a split-season schedule format. Although the Cub president’s concept of games between the two circuits receives some support, Senator owner Clark Griffith opposes the proposal, calling the American League a major league not in need of grandiose schemes he deemed as “Hippodrome stuff”.