After 44 games and 285 errorless chances‚ 2B Red Schoendienst of the Cardinals errs twice against the Pirates. His last error was on September 15‚ 1948. Elmer Riddle wins‚ 4 – 2‚ over the Cards’ Harry Brecheen.
Striking out the last 6 St. Paul batters‚ Mickey McDermott of Louisville (American Association) fans a total of 20 for a new league record. McDermott wins‚ 3 – 1‚ striking out the side in the 3rd‚ 5th‚ 6th‚ 8th‚ and 9th innings.
Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe makes his first major league start a dandy, shutting out the Reds, 3 – 0, in Cincinnati. It’s the first shutout in a National League debut in eleven years and extends Brooklyn’s win streak at Cincinnati to 19 games going back to June 1947. Newk gives up hits to the first two batters, then allows just three more hits while walking none. He drives in two runs as well. Ken Raffensberger then matches Newk by firing a one-hitter in the nitecap to beat Brooklyn, 2 – 0, tossing only 83 pitches. The only hit is a leadoff single by Gil Hodges in the 8th. Raffensberger pitched two one-hitters against the Dodgers in 1948.
Boston’s Vern Bickford stops the Dodgers, 4 – 0, allowing just four singles. One is by Gil Hodges, extending his hitting streak to 17 games. Jim Russell switch-hits a homer and double to pin the loss on Morrie Martin. The Braves start Al Lakeman at 1B in place of Earl Torgeson, who separated his shoulder the previous day when he attempted to block Jackie Robinson on a double play. Torgeson will be operated on tomorrow and will be sidelined several months.
White Sox hurler Bill Wight coasts to a 10 – 0 win over the Indians, and Al Gettel follows with a 2 – 0 whitewash of the Tribe.
Scoring in every inning, the Chicago White Sox beat the Boston Red Sox, 12 – 8, at Comiskey Park. A team tallying in every inning has only occurred five times in American League history.
1949 – Longtime Cardinal owner Sam Breadon dies. Robert Hannegan, the man to whom he sold the club, will die October 6.
The first-place Giants win their 7th in a row as Sheldon “Available” Jones stops the Cubs, 7 – 2. Aided by ten walks and homers by Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall, the Giants pin the loss on starter Ralph Hamner, who allows one hit in three innings.
At Detroit, the Tigers set back the first-place Yankees, 4 – 1, behind the five-hit pitching of Ted Gray. Vic Raschi also allows just five hits, including a homer by Dick Wakefield, in taking the loss.
In Philadelphia, the Reds score five in the 9th to take a 7 – 3 lead, but the Phils tie to go into extra innings. Cincinnati then scores seven runs in the 12th to win, 14 – 7.
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