Cy Young eases to his 32nd win as Boston pounds the A’s, 14 – 1.
Cy Young eases to his 32nd win as Boston pounds the A’s, 14 – 1.
Cy Young eases to his 32nd win as Boston pounds the A’s, 14 – 1.
Boston beats the Giants, 2 – 1, with both runs scoring on wild pitches by Christy Mathewson.
The White Sox’ first no-hitter in franchise history is tossed by Jim Callahan when he defeats the Tigers, 2-0. The right-handed utility player, called Nixey by his teammates, will accumulate 99 victories on the mound but will pitch in only eight of his 13 seasons in the major leagues.
Johnny Evers, acquired to replace second baseman Bobby Lowe, who broke his ankle, joins shortstop Joe Tinker and first baseman Frank Chance on the Chicago infield, marking the first time the three Cubs’ infielders have played together. The legendary double play trio will be immortalized in Franklin Pierce Adams’ baseball poem, “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon,” better known as “Tinker to Evers to Chance”.
John Malarkey, leading off in the bottom of the 11th inning, hits a game-ending homer off St. Louis right-hander Mike O’Neill to give the Beaneaters a 4-3 victory in the first game of a twin bill at Boston’s South End Grounds. Malarkey becomes the first pitcher in baseball history to earn a victory by hitting his own walk-off home run.
1902 – In a doubleheader with the Orioles, the A’s bring Rube Waddell in for eight innings of relief in the opening win. Rube comes back to pitch another two innings of relief in the nitecap to pick up his second win for the day. It won’t happen again until 1915.
In Philadelphia, 17,291 see the Athletics beat Baltimore twice, while 172 watch the Phils play Pittsburgh. With the A’s 1902 attendance almost four times that of the Phillies, and the American League planning to oppose the weak Giants in New York, pressure mounts among National League directors for peace talks.
Dave Fultz steals second, third base, and home in the 2nd inning against Detroit, as the A’s romp, 13 – 3.
Chicago Orphans rookie Alex Hardy debuts with a 1 – 0 shutout victory over Brooklyn, and becomes the first 20th century National League pitcher to toss a shutout in his first game. It’s happened twice already in the American League.
1902 – Cleveland pounds the Orioles, 23 – 7, collecting 23 hits off Bird pitcher Jack Katoll, a 10-game winner with the White Sox last season. Katoll goes the route.
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