The Red Sox collect 21 hits against Cleveland in a 15 – 6 win at Fenway Park. Cleveland manager Tris Speaker retaliates by hitting two homers over the RF wall.

Tom Zachary and the Senators beat the Browns’ Dixie Davis‚ 3 – 1‚ cutting the St. Louis lead in the American league to a game.

Ken Williams hits two home runs (#29 and #30) in the 6th inning, off starter George Mogridge and reliever Eric Erickson, as the Browns score nine times against Washington in a 16 – 6 win. Williams is the first to do so since the 1890s. Both homers follow doubles by Baby Doll Jacobson, also tying a major-league record, as the Browns bang out a major-league record seven extra-base hits in the frame.

A record ten Pirates collect two or more hits as the Pirates tally 22 hits to pound the seventh-place Phillies, 17 – 10. The Phils knock out the Bucs ace Wilbur Cooper, scoring six runs in 2 2/3 innings, but the Pirates score eight in the 4th to take the lead. Three Pirate pitchers are 5 for 5 at the plate, including Whitey Glazner’s home run, and the only Buc batter to not contribute two safeties is cleanup hitter Clyde Barnhart.

In St. Louis, Walter Johnson gives up the first grand slam of his career, a 3rd-inning shot by Jack Tobin, as the Browns top the Senators, 8 – 4. George Sisler is 2 for 2 against the Big Train, as Urban Shocker picks up the victory.

Tommy McCarthy, a top outfielder in the 1890s, dies at 58. He will enter the Hall of Fame in 1946. On the 14th, an all-star team will beat the Red Sox in a benefit game that raises more than $5,000 for his family.

Pittsburgh roughs up Boston starter Rube Marquard and beats the last-place Braves, 9 – 3.