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…
Journeyman hurler Hank Johnson of the Yankees blanks the star-studded Athletics, 4 – 0. In the game for Connie Mack’s team are Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker and Lefty Grove.
On September 3, 1927, the “Murderers’ Row” New York Yankees are shut out for the first and only time on the season. Lefty Grove, the ace of the Philadelphia A’s, allows three hits in blanking the Yankees, 1-0. Grove’s masterpiece represents his only shutout of the season…
Chicago admirers present Eddie Collins, now with the A’s, with a new automobile. The A’s send out a lineup featuring Collins, Ty Cobb and Zack Wheat, all of whom have at least 2,500 hits entering the game. The next team to that will be the 2012 Yankees.
On June 11, 1927 At Shibe Park, the Philadelphia Athletics field a team of seven future Hall of Famers in the 9th inning: Ty Cobb (RF), Mickey Cochrane (PH), Eddie Collins (2B), Jimmie Foxx (1B), Lefty Grove(P), Al Simmons (CF) and Zack Wheat (LF). After 5 wins in a row‚ the A’s lose to the…
In an A.M.-P.M. doubleheader, the Senators win the morning contest with the A’s, as Walter Johnson tops Lefty Grove, 2 – 1, and goes 3 for 4, the second consecutive game he’s collected three hits. A record crowd of 36,000 watch the A’s drop the afternoon game, 7 – 6, for their 12th straight defeat; they are now nine games in back of Washington.
On July 4, 1925, two of the era’s greatest pitchers lock horns in a classic pitching duel. Herb Pennock of the New York Yankees defeats Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia A’s in a 1-0, 15-inning matchup of future Hall of Famers. Pennock retires the final 21 batters he faces.
NMay 4, 1925 At Yankee Stadium 25 year old rookie Lefty Grove records his first win pitching 4 innings in relief. The Philadelphia a’s were down 7-6 entering the 9th when Max Bishop took another future hall of famer Waite Hoyt deep to tie the game and the A’s push across another run on a…
Two future Hall of Famers make their major league debuts with the Philadelphia Athletics in the same game. Lefty Grove starts against the Boston Red Sox and leaves in the 4th inning after walking four and striking out nobody. He gives up five runs on six hits. In the 8th inning, Mickey Cochrane pinch-hits a single, while the Athletics go on to score nine runs in the last four innings to win, 9 – 8, in ten innings. Grove, known as Groves in Baltimore, is also listed that way in the New York Times box score. Grove will become the first pitcher to lead the American League in strikeouts and walks in the same year.
On March 6, 1900 Lefty Grove. Grove was born in Lonaconing, Maryland, one of eight children of John Robert Grove and Emma Catherine Beeman. He was from a family of coal miners. Grove was a sandlot star in the Baltimore area during the 1910s. Grove didn’t play organized baseball until he was 19…
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