Detroit’s Ed Summers pitches two complete-game wins over the A’s, winning the opener, 7 – 2. The second game is a 10-inning battle with another rookie, Biff Schlitzer, that ends 1 – 0 on a Claude Rossman drive for an inside-the-park home run. Summers allows just two hits. With the White Sox idle, the Tigers move to a half-game out of first.

The Senators score five runs in the 9th inning off Cleveland righthander Charlie Chech and beat the Naps, 6 – 1. Former Cleveland owner Frank DeHaas Robison, listening on the telephone to a friend’s play-by-play account of the Washington rally, collapses with a heart attack. He dies several hours later.

Cleveland wins its 10th straight game, defeating the Highlanders and Jack Chesbro, 9 – 3. The Naps score five runs in the 7th, while Bob Rhoads pitches strong ball until the 9th, when he allows two runs. Nap Lajoie has no official at bats, getting hit by pitched balls three times, tying an American League record, and walking his other time up.

Giants P Christy Mathewson and Cubs P Three Finger Brown battle in the most controversial game ever played. The score is 1 – 1, with two outs in the last of the 9th when Fred Merkle’s failure to touch second after an apparent game-winning hit by Al Bridwell scoring Moose McCormick from third costs the Giants a 2 – 1 win; the ump calls Merkle out and rules the game a tie. Merkle’s ‘boner’ will eventually cost the Giants the flag.

The Pirates win their 7th victory in 10 games by topping Brooklyn, 2 – 1, behind Lefty Leifield. Kaiser Wilhelm takes the loss. Pittsburgh is now a game in back of first place.

Cleveland takes the American League lead, beating New York, while Detroit takes two at St. Louis. With two weeks to go, 3 1/2 games separate four teams.