Earl Averill raps his 18th and 19th homers of the year, off Earl Whitehill, as Cleveland beats the Senators, 6 – 4. Lloyd Brown is the winner, allowing 11 hits. Hal Trosky extends his hitting streak to 22 games, while Cleveland’s Roy Weatherly sets an American League rookie record by hitting in his 20th consecutive game.
1936 – The White Sox edge the Nationals, 7 – 6, for their 17th win in 21 games. Vern Kennedy wins his 9th straight when he drives home the winner with an 8th-inning double against Bobo Newsom. Luke Appling is 2 for 4 to keep his American league-leading batting average at .382.
Joe Medwick collects his tenth consecutive hit to tie a National League record shared by Ed Konetchy, Kiki Cuyler, and Chick Hafey when he singles off Carl Hubbell in the sixth inning of the Cardinals’ 2-1 loss to the Giants at Polo Grounds. The 24-year-old Cardinals slugger, called Ducky by his teammates, had seven hits in his last seven times at-bat in the doubleheader sweep of the Boston Bees at Sportsman’s Park before yesterday’s off-day.
Baseball is the only game you can watch on the radio. Join the community today and listen to hundreds of broadcasts from baseball’s golden age! Sign Up or learn more On July 19, 1936, 17- year-old Iowa farm boy Bob Feller makes his major league debut, pitching one inning of relief for the Cleveland…
Carl Hubbell starts his 24-game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh, 6 – 0. The Giants hit a National League record-tying four triples in the 1st inning: Jo-Jo Moore, Mel Ott and Hank Leiber hit them in succession, and Eddie Mayo adds one later in the inning to equal the major league record.
Bees C Al Lopez reaches first three times on errors, the third player to do so. It is little help though as the Cubs edge the Braves, 1 – 0, in 10 innings. Lon Warneke is the winner over hard-luck Ben Cantwell.
At Cincinnati, Phillies starter Joe Bowman gives up his first hit of the game, a leadoff triple in the 9th inning to Kiki Cuyler, and then is relieved by Claude Passeau, who retires the next three batters. The Phils win, 4 – 0.
Baseball is the only game you can watch on the radio. Join the community today and listen to hundreds of broadcasts from baseball’s golden age! Sign Up or learn more July 11, 1936 Jerome (Dizzy) Dean, whose potent right wing has rocketed the Cardinals into the National League lead, suffered a brain concussion in…
At Forbes Field, Chuck Klein hits 4 home runs in one game, including the tie-breaker in the 10th, helping the Phillies defeat the Pirates, 9 – 6. The Indianapolis, Indiana native barely misses hitting an additional homer in the 2nd when right fielder Paul Waner catches his drive against the wall. At 36, Klein is the oldest player ever to hit four homers in a game, and the first National Leaguer in the 20th century to do so.
Bobo Newsom pitches one-hit ball in blanking the Tigers, 5 – 0. The lone hit off the Washington pitcher is Jack Burns’ 3rd-inning grounder that both the first baseman and second baseman go after. 1B Joe Kuhel stops the ball but no one covers the bag.
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