The host Red Sox top the White Sox, 3 – 1, behind Babe Ruth’s four-hitter.
The host Red Sox top the White Sox, 3 – 1, behind Babe Ruth’s four-hitter. Chicago bunches three of the four hits in the 3rd, including an RBI triple by Joe Jackson.
Ernie Shore no hitter in relief but some historians consider a perfect game
Ernie Shore No Hitter or Perfect Game? on June 23, 1917, the Washington Senators in the first game of a doubleheader at Fenway Park. Babe Ruth started the game, walking the first batter, Ray Morgan. As newspaper accounts of the time relate, the short-fused Ruth then engaged in a heated argument with apparently equally…
George Mogridge of the New York Yankees pitches franchises first a no-hitter
1917 – George Mogridge of the New York Yankees pitches a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox, 2 – 1, at Fenway Park. Mogridge strikes out three batters and walks three as he becomes the first Yankee pitcher to actually win a no-hit game.
At Fenway Park, Boston’s Dutch Leonard no-hits the Browns, 4-0. The 24 year-old Red Sox southpaw will finish the season 18-12, contributing to Boston’s World Championship.
At Fenway Park, Boston’s Dutch Leonard no-hits the Browns, 4-0. The 24 year-old Red Sox southpaw will finish the season 18-12, contributing to Boston’s World Championship.
Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox and Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators engage in a memorable pitching duel
Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox and Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators engage in a memorable pitching duel
For the second time this season, White Sox pitchers toss shutouts in a doubleheader, this time against the Red Sox.
For the second time this season, White Sox pitchers toss shutouts in a doubleheader, this time against the Red Sox. Lefty Williams wins, 4 – 0, then Reb Russell follows with a 3 – 0 victory. With the temperature at Fenway Park in the 90s, this is the first of three consecutive doubleheaders for the two Sox.
1916 Boston Red Sox Pitching Staff
1916 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox Pitching Staff. Rube Foster, Carl Mays, Ernie Shore, Babe Ruth, and Dutch Leonard. They were a combined 89-54 and Babe Ruth lead the way with 23 wins and a 1.75 ERA.
James E. Gaffney sells the Boston Braves for $500,000 to Percy Haughton, Harvard’s head baseball coach and businessman Arthur Chamberlin Wise, who will raise $600,000 to build Fenway Park. The former owner, a Tammany Hall alderman and construction contractor, who bought the team in 1913 for $187,000, recently gained notoriety as a target of Hennessy and Whitman investigations into political graft.
James E. Gaffney sells the Boston Braves for $500,000 to Percy Haughton, Harvard’s head baseball coach and businessman Arthur Chamberlin Wise, who will raise $600,000 to build Fenway Park. The former owner, a Tammany Hall alderman and construction contractor, who bought the team in 1913 for $187,000, recently gained notoriety as a target of Hennessy and Whitman investigations into political graft.
Ty Cobb catches the final out and needs a police escort to leave the field
1915 – In the first of an important four-game series at Fenway Park, the Tigers (90-48) and Red Sox (90-44) square off. Detroit knocks out starter Rube Foster, then rookie reliever Carl Mays keeps throwing at Ty Cobb till he hits the Tiger star on the wrist. Cobb slings his bat at Mays in retaliation, and the crowd reacts by throwing bottles at Cobb. The next inning, Cobb catches a fly ball for the final out and then needs a police escort to leave the field. The Tigers win, 6 – 1.
Babe Ruth blasts his 3rd homer of the year, off Ray Caldwell, and is the second player to hit a ball into the RF seats at Fenway Park
On June 25, 1915 In Boston, Babe Ruth blasts his 3rd homer of the year, off Ray Caldwell, and is the second player to hit a ball into the RF seats at Fenway Park. Ruth strikes out eight in pitching a complete game, 9 – 5, win, and adds a single off reliever Bill Donovan, Yankee skipper and his former…
