Boo Ferriss shuts out the A’s‚ 2 – 0‚ as the Boston Red Sox start another win streak.
Boo Ferriss shuts out the A’s‚ 2 – 0‚ as the Boston Red Sox start another win streak.
Boo Ferriss shuts out the A’s‚ 2 – 0‚ as the Boston Red Sox start another win streak.
The outlaw Mexican League scuttles its competition, Mexico’s only league entry in organized baseball. There are now 43 minor leagues for 1946. No other minor leagues will fold this year.
Mel Ott retires from playing and decides only to manage the New York Giants. He has amassed a total of 2 hits in his 42 at-bats, and if his resulting .048 batting average does not amount to “hitting bottom”, Ott, understandably, does not want to find out what does.
With the score tied 1 – 1 in the 10th inning at Ebbets Field, Cubs SS Lennie Merullo and Dodgers 2B Eddie Stanky start punching each other, precipitating a brawl between the two teams. Claude Passeau rips off Leo Durocher’s jersey before calm is restored. The Dodgers win, 2 – 1, in 13 innings, collecting 11 hits off Johnny Schmitz, who goes the distance. Joe Hatten gives up four hits in 12 innings, with Kirby Higbe pitching the last round.
Pinch-runner Jeff Cross steals home in the 10th inning to give St. Louis a 9 – 8 win over Boston. A week ago the Braves won on an extra-inning steal of home. The Cards win their 9th of 10 road games but will lose tomorrow.
1946 – Before a Friday Ladies’ Day crowd at Yankee Stadium of 64,183, the first-place Red Sox take their 15th straight game, a 5 – 4 win over the Yankees. Earl Johnson gets the win with four innings of scoreless relief. A Joe DiMaggio grand slam accounts for all the Bombers’ scoring.
At Chicago, Braves first sacker Johnny Hopp swipes home in the 12th to break a 2 – 2 tie with the Cubs. Boston scores twice more to win, 5 – 2, with Lefty Wallace taking the decision over Ray Prim.
At Fenway Park, Boston (20-3) runs its win streak to 14 by edging Chicago, 7 – 5. Bobby Doerr’s two-run homer in the 4th inning is the big blow. Mickey Harris, in relief, wins his second game in two days.
At Griffith Stadium, Detroit 2B Eddie Mayo snags a 3rd-inning liner off the bat of Gil Torres to start a triple play. The ball is deflected by P Hal Newhouser, but Mayo grabs it before it hits the ground. It is the second time in a year that Mayo has started a triple play off Torres: in the 2nd inning of the nitecap on July 20, 1945, Mayo grabbed a Torres line drive to start the triple killing.
2B Lonny Frey of the Reds throws out six straight runners as part of an 11-assist game against Brooklyn. Frey also adds a triple and two singles but the big Red blow is a 3-run pinch homer in the 10th by Brooklyn’s Don Padgett to win the game, 8 – 5.
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