Pittsburgh’s Nick Maddox makes his major league debut and tosses a nifty 4 – 0 shutout over the St. Louis Cards.
Pittsburgh’s Nick Maddox makes his major league debut and tosses a nifty 4 – 0 shutout over the St. Louis Cards.
Pittsburgh’s Nick Maddox makes his major league debut and tosses a nifty 4 – 0 shutout over the St. Louis Cards.
At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2 – 1, striking out 11 Superbas batters. Dan McGann is 4 for 4 for New York, while teammate Jack Hannifin collects a single, double, triple and two walks in his five trips to the plate.
Boston loses to the Athletics, 7 – 1, to start a 16-game losing streak.
In a 2 – 0 win against the Highlanders at Hilltop Park, Washington’s Walter Johnson strikes out five batters, though it will be recorded as four K’s. Researchers in the 1990s will find the extra K, resulting in Johnson’s lifetime total of 3,509. The issue crops up again on Opening Day, 2001, when Roger Clemens ties (or beats) the mark.
The Giants play their 5th doubleheader in a week, splitting shutouts with Boston. New York takes the opener, 10 – 0, then Irv Young outpitches Christy Mathewson, 1 – 0, in the 7-inning nitecap.
1907 – The Giants and Superbas split a doubleheader. New York takes the opener, 2 – 0, behind Dummy Taylor, then Brooklyn takes the nitecap 1 – 0, in seven innings, behind the 8-hit pitching of Jim Pastorius. The Superbas score on a single, two walks, and a wild pitch by Christy Mathewson.
1907 – Highlander pitcher Tex Neuer, begins baseball’s most successful short career by besting the Red Sox 1 – 0 in his first start, the nitecap of a doubleheader. In one month he will pitch six complete games, win 4, including three shutouts, and then disappear from the ML scene. In the first game, Boston’s Cy Young wins his 20th game, defeating the Highlanders, 5 – 3.
1907 – Christy Mathewson pitches for the third day in a row, beating the Pirates, 7 – 4. Matty allows just one hit over the last six innings.
1907 – The Pirates cut up a trio of Giants pitchers to win 20 – 5 in a game mercifully called after eight innings. The Bucs notch 20 hits, gather eight walks, and the Giants add four errors. George Ferguson, the second pitcher, gets the loss having allowed 11 of the runs.
Boston’s Rube Kroh wins his only game of the year, a complete game 2 – 1 victory over the Browns.
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