The Giants beat Babe Adams and the Pirates, 5 – 2, to sweep the 3-game series with Pittsburgh. The Bucs batter Christy Mathewson for 12 hits, but he wins his 22nd.
Highlander right-hander Tom Hughes pitches 9.1 innings of no-hit ball before giving up a single to Harry Niles. The Naps eventually win the game in the 11th, 5-0.
In the first of two, Highlander P Jack Warhop swipes home in 6th. His run is the difference as New York beats the White Sox, 4 – 3.
Inventor George Cahill brings his patented lighting system to South Side Park. Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, two amateur teams play a night game before 20,000. However, the first American League night game won’t be played there until 1939.
At Chicago’s West Side Park, Chicago pulls off a 3rd-inning triple play – 2B Johnny Evers to 3B Heinie Zimmerman – against the Giants, but New York wins handily, 18 – 9. The Giants tally 23 hits to the Cubs 15 in beating the league-leaders.
In Boston, Red Sox hurler Sea Lion Hall pitches a 7 – 1 one-hit win over Cleveland. Elmer Koestner’s single is the only hit.
Washington 2B Red Killefer sets a major league mark by sacrificing four times in the first game of a doubleheader against Detroit.
1910 – In Pittsburgh’s 4 – 2 win over host Brooklyn, a National League record is set when the Buc outfield makes just one putout and the Brooklyn OF none.
At St. Louis, the Athletics’ Danny Murphy hits for the cycle, but it is not enough as Philadelphia loses, 9 – 6.
In the 12th inning at Brooklyn, Pittsburgh’s Bobby Byrne doubles, steals third base, and then steals home to beat Brooklyn, 4 – 3. This is the National League’s first 20th Century’s extra-inning steal of home.
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