The Brooklyn-Colts game draws only 450 fans in Chicago as the visitors win‚ 9 – 1.
On June 10, 1901 The Brooklyn-Colts game draws only 450 fans in Chicago as the visitors win‚ 9 – 1.
On June 10, 1901 The Brooklyn-Colts game draws only 450 fans in Chicago as the visitors win‚ 9 – 1.
On June 10, 1901 At Washington‚ the Washington Nationals overcome an 8-run deficit in the 8th to tie the game at 10 – 10 with the White Sox. Clark Griffith pops out as a pinch hitter in the 9th but stays on to pitch for the Sox. In the top of the 10th‚ Dummy Hoy‚ who earlier homered‚ singles to start the inning….
At the Polo Grounds‚ Christy Mathewson wins his 8th straight‚ beating Cincinnati’s Bill Phillips‚ 1 – 0. Matty gives up just 3 hits.
Reversing the previous day’s 9th-inning rally‚ the Washington Nationals‚ down 5 – 0 at the end of 8 innings‚ score 5 runs to tie the Blues. When Cleveland fails to score in the 9th‚ the game ends at 5 – 5.
At Cincinnati, Reds ace Noodles Hahn strikes out 16 Boston batters en route to a 4 – 3 Reds win. The 16 K’s will stand as the club record until matched by Jim Maloney in 1963.
1901 – Giants fractious owner Andrew Freedman accuses umpire Billy Nash of incompetence and bars him from the Polo Grounds. The Pirates’ Chief Zimmer and the Giants’ John Warner are forced to officiate. Christy Mathewson then wins his 7th straight, 2 – 1, but his scoreless streak stops at 39 innings when the Bucs score an unearned run in the 9th.
The first shutout in American League history (during its time as a major league) is recorded as Watty Lee of the Washington Senators blanks the Boston Americans, 4 – 0.
Christy Mathewson (6-0) tosses his third straight shutout, outpitching Jack Taylor to beat the Orphans, 4 – 0. The Giants move into first place with the win over Chicago.
The Pirates beat Chicago, 8 – 1, as Deacon Phillippe tops Jock Menefee. It is the 8th game in nine days between the two teams, half in Pittsburgh and the last four in Chicago.
In Cleveland, rookie P Earl Moore, purchased from Dayton for $1,000, allows two unearned runs but no White Sox hits through nine innings. Cleveland matches the White Sox with two runs of their own in the 3rd inning. In the 10th, with rain coming down, the Sox use singles by Sam Mertes and Dutch Hartman off Moore, “The Steam Engine in Boots”, to score two runs and win, 4 – 2. The threatening weather keeps the crowd to 400 at League Park.
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