Earl Averill raps his 18th and 19th homers of the year, off Earl Whitehill, as Cleveland beats the Senators, 6 – 4. Lloyd Brown is the winner, allowing 11 hits. Hal Trosky extends his hitting streak to 22 games, while Cleveland’s Roy Weatherly sets an American League rookie record by hitting in his 20th consecutive game.
The temperature is 106 degrees in Central Park, the hottest July 9th on record in New York, as the Indians take on the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The Yanks score four in the 1st inning, but Cleveland comes back to score 11 runs on 15 hits, including five homers, to win 11 – 4. Hal Trosky, Roy Weatherly and Joe Vosmik all homer in the 2nd frame to tie the major league record. Trosky hits another homer to tie for the American League lead with 23. Lou Gehrig and Earl Averill also homer.
The Senators win their fifth straight, beating the Indians, 5 – 1. Bobo Newsom scatters 10 hits – 5 by Earl Averill, including two doubles and a triple – to go the route. Joe Vosmik, in the race for the batting championship at .345, breaks out of his recent slump going 1 for 4.
Earl Averill’s consecutive game streak ends at 673 when he is injured in a pre-July 4th fireworks accident. Cleveland still wins, 6 – 5, over the visiting White Sox.
1934 – An All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails on tour to Hawaii and Japan. Players with wives include Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Gehringer, Lefty Gómez, Earl Averill and Lefty O’Doul.
Earl Averill hits for the cycle, as the Indians beat the A’s 15 – 4.
On June 9, 1933, future Hall of Famer Walter Johnson assumes the managerial reins of the Cleveland Indians. The former Washington Senators’ pitcher and manager will lead the Indians to a third-place finish in 1934, but will be forced to resign his post midway through the 1935 season.
Cleveland’s Earl Averill cracks 3 doubles and a home run in a 10 – 5 win over Chicago. Averill is the second Indian this year to hit 4 extra-base hits in a game. Joe Vosmik‚ who did it earlier‚ has a pair of doubles today.
With three consecutive home runs, Earl Averill drives in eight runs in a 13 – 7 Indians victory over the Senators in the doubleheader opener. He narrowly misses a fourth when the umpire rules a long drive foul. Averill then adds another homer in the second game to set an American League record with 11 RBIs in the twin bill.
At Cleveland’s League Park, the Indians defeat the Yankees, 4 – 3, in the first game in major league history in which players from both teams wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.
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