In the 9th against Chicago, Braves reliever Ray Boggs plunks three Cubbies, walks two and tosses one wild pitch. Chicago manages to score just one run off Boggs, but they win the away game, 15 – 5. Pat Malone picks up the win over Art Delaney.
Wilcy Moore, the Yankee pitching hero of 1927, goes home with an ailing arm after working just 60 innings.
1928 – In a doubleheader with the Phils, the Cardinals leave 29 runners on base but still manage to win both games, 3 – 2 and 8 – 6. Stranding 29 is a record for two regulation-length games.
The Braves play their ninth consecutive doubleheader, splitting the home twin bill with the Cubs, 5-2 and 1-6. The streak, which began on the fourth of September, sees the team drop 14 of 18 decisions, including losing eight consecutive games to the Giants.
At the Polo Grounds, the Giants take two games from the Braves, 11 – 6 and 7 – 6. Freddie Lindstrom goes 8 for 10 to pull New York into 2nd place, 2 1/2 games behind St. Louis. The Giants will continue to feast on Braves pitching, winning doubleheaders from Boston on the 13th and the 14th to tie the National League record for twinbills won on consecutive days.
On September 11, 1928, In the Yankees’ 5 – 3 win at Yankee Stadium, Ty Cobb makes his last appearance as a batter, popping out against Yankee Hank Johnson to SS Mark Koenig as a pinch hitter in the 9th. Babe Ruth’s two-run clout, off Lefty Grove in the 8th, seals the win for New York. The Bronx Bombers seal the fate of the A’s with their 4th straight win…
1928 – The Giants gain 1 1/2 games on the Cards and Cubs by winning two from Boston while the leaders lose. Fred Fitzsimmons wins the opener for the Giants, 4 – 1, and Joe Genewich wins the nitecap, 11 – 0.
On September 9, 1928, New York Yankees pitcher Urban Shocker dies from pneumonia in Denver, CO at the age of 38. Shocker had struggled with his health throughout the 1928 season because he had suffered from an enlarged heart and was unable to sleep lying down for two years. Shocker, who never had a losing…
At Ebbets Field, the Robins come from behind to edge the Giants, 3 – 2, behind Dazzy Vance. Harvey Hendrick dinks a 2-run homer in the 8th, off Larry Benton, to tie, and Jake Flowers singles with two out in the 9th to drive home the winner. The ecstatic fans respond by covering the field with straw hats.
A total of 85,265 jam Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees sweep two from the A’s, 3 – 0 and 7 – 3, to move back into first place to stay. George Pipgras is the winner in the first game while the Yankee star of the nitecap is Bob Meusel, who takes an Ed Rommel knuckler out of the park for a grand slam in the 8th. Waite Hoyt is the winner.
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