Kid Nichols, in relief, and Christy Mathewson face each other for the second time in three days, with Matty winning this outing. Nichols relieves in the 7th with the score, 5 – 5, but New York scores four runs to take a 9 – 5 lead. Boston retaliates with three runs to put Matty on the ropes, but he escapes with a 9 – 8 win.
In Cincinnati, the Reds take 14 innings to subdue the Chicago Orphans, 5 – 4. Reds pitcher Noodles Hahn strikes out 11 in the win, while Chicago pitcher Tom Hughesrecords 15 strikeouts.
1901 – Ban Johnson says the American League will place a team in St. Louis in 1902. The Milwaukee franchise is seen as the most likely to be transferred. New York will likely have a franchise while Cleveland and Baltimore will likely lose theirs.
At the Polo Grounds, Boston’s Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson square off for a ten-inning shootout, with Boston prevailing, 5 – 4. Matty gives up 11 hits in bringing his record to 15-11.
1901 – Brooklyn righty Frank Kitson outpitches Christy Mathewson, allowing just one Giant hit in beating New York, 5 – 0. Four of the Brooklyn runs are unearned. Algie McBride has the only safety, a single, for New York.
In a baseball rarity, the Pittsburgh Pirates score in every inning, a major-league record of course, defeating the Reds, 11 – 2. Deacon Phillippe is the winner over Jesse Tannehill, who will be his teammate next year.
Milwaukee’s Pink Hawley beats Boston, 4 – 3, and beans C Lou Criger with a pitch. Criger is unconscious for five minutes before being taken away. Ossee Schreckengost moves from 1B to C and Tommy Dowd moves to 1B.
Brooklyn batters a wild Christy Mathewson for six hits in two innings, knocking him out of the game in the 3rd, the first time this season Matty has not finished a start. The Giantslose, 8 – 3.
Jack Chesbro stops the visiting Reds, 9 – 2, and Fred Clarke backs him up by hitting for the cycle.
1901 – In Chicago, Jack Taylor allows 10 hits to the Giants, but is unscored on until the 9th. The Orphans paste Christy Mathewson for 12 hits to win, 5 – 2. Chicago has now won three in a row over the visiting New Yorkers, and will take the next two games in the series as well.
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