The Phillies’ Joe Oeschger and Brooklyn’s Jeff Pfeffer face off to a 14-inning scoreless tie. Pfeffer gives up just three hits, while Oeschger allows just 6.
The Yankees split a pair with Boston, losing, 4 – 2, to Babe Ruth in the opener, then beating Carl Mays, 7 – 3. Ruth allows no hits until the 6th inning and just five hits overall.
The rampaging White Sox use an 8-run 8th inning to beat the Browns, 13 – 6. Red Faber is the winner over reliever Tom Rogers.
In a twinbill that will resonate for years, the White Sox sweep a pair, to give them 4 wins in the last two days, from the Tigers winning, 7 – 5 and 11 – 8, while the Yankees sweep a pair from the Red Sox. Chicago now leads the Red Sox by 6 1/2 games. Detroit takes the lead in the morning game, driving Red Faber from the mound in the 5th, but Ray Schalk’s triple in the 8th seals the win for Chicago. In the afternoon contest, Detroit again chases Faber and scores seven runs in the 2nd and 3rd innings to take the lead, but Schalk’s three-run homer in the 4th, off Bill James, puts Chicago in a lead they never relinquish. Ed Cicotte takes the p.m. game with six innings of relief, while Lefty Williamspitches three innings of hitless relief to win the a.m. game. The Sox run wild on the bases, stealing seven bases against Oscar Stanage in the opener and five against Archie Yelle in the second game. Two weeks from now, while staying at the Ansonia Hotel in New York, the White Sox will collect $45 from each player as a gift for the Tigers, allegedly as a thank you for beating the Red Sox. But suspicion will linger that some Tigers threw these two critical doubleheaders and Ty Cobb, though he had three hits, will be included in the accusations.
At Shibe Park, the A’s host their biggest crowd in three years and celebrate by sweeping a pair from the Senators, 7 – 4 and 9 – 2. Joe Bush, reinstated today by Connie Mackafter being suspended for two weeks, starts for the A’s but is lifted after three innings because of wildness. Roy Grover and Amos Strunk have three hits apiece in the opener. In the second game, the Mackmen jump on Walter Johnson, knocking him off the rubber in the 3rd inning, and Jing Johnson coasts to the win.
Grover Cleveland Alexander goes the distance in both games of the Phillies’ doubleheader sweep of Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. In his 18 innings of work, the Philadelphia right-hander limits the Dodgers to seven hits en route to posting 5-0 and 9-3 victories in the twin bill.
1917 – The first-place White Sox take a pair from the Tigers, winning, 7 – 2 and 6 – 5. The Sox bunch four in the 1st and three more in the 3rd to make the shine ball’s leading proponent, Ed Cicotte, a winner over Willie Mitchell. In the nitecap, the Sox snap a tie in the 9th when Eddie Collins, with one stolen base already, swipes second and third base after a walk. Joe Jackson’s sac fly brings him home.
The Cardinals‚ behind the pitching of Oscar Horstmann and Milt Watson‚ win both ends of a doubleheader with Pittsburgh by 1 – 0 scores. Wilbur Cooper takes the loss in game one on an unearned run in the 9th. Hal Carlson loses the second game. The Cards have now won three straight 1 – 0 games from the Pirates‚ tying the major league mark and setting the National League mark.
In the bottom of the 1st inning at Cleveland‚ Tris Speaker tries to steal home with Joe Evans batting. Evans swings and lines the ball into Speaker’s face. Tiger manager Hughie Jennings allows a courtesy fielder, Elmer Smith, to play CF in the 2nd frame while Speaker has his face stitched. Speaker then returns to CF in the 3rd.
American League president Ban Johnson instructs umpires not to tolerate unnecessary delays. His statement is an outgrowth of a complaint by Charles Comiskey that protests by some managers and players about the condition of the ball in recent games has made it necessary to play two hours or more. The New York Times writes that‚ “Johnson said he would enforce the rule about discoloration of the ball but he has given out no bulletin on the ‘shine ball.'”
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