1926 – Cleveland sweeps two from the Nationals, winning 8 – 1 and 3 – 2. In the opener, Walter Johnson serves a two-run homer to Tris Speaker in the opening inning.
Minor league head Michael Sexton fines the president of the Norfolk club $1,000 and suspends the team indefinitely for an attack on the umpire. Sexton also accused the Virginia League president of laxity in that this is the second attack on an ump in the league this year. Since the season is closed the suspension of the team does not affect the standings.
After Yankee leadoff hitter Whitey Witt reaches first base on a controversial infield hit that is ruled a single, Boston P Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 batters for a 3 – 0 win, his 20th of the year. The Yankee crowd exhorts the scorer Fred Lieb to reverse his call on the hard grounder that 3B Howie Shanks booted, but the one hit stands. Ehmke has now given up just one hit in his last two games.
1922 – The Browns are down 4 – 3 to the Tigers in the 9th, but a walk and a George Sisler triple tie the game. Marty McManus lines a single to win it, 5 – 4, for reliever Hub Pruett. Sisler falls on his shoulder in the 7th stretching for a ball but stays in the game.
1921 – The Giants whip Brooklyn, 11 – 3, behind Fred Toney in relief of Phil Douglas. The win moves the Giants into 1st place ahead of Pittsburgh.
1918 – The Red Sox win the World Series in Game six, on Carl Mays’s 2nd victory, a 2 – 1 three-hitter. With two on and two out in the 3rd, utility OF George Whiteman lines a hard drive to RF. Max Flack drops it, allowing the only runs off Lefty Tyler. Righty Claude Hendrix, 20 – 7 during the year, finally makes an appearance, tossing a final inning for the Cubs. Cubs pitchers compile a 1.04 ERA, while Boston’s .186 BA is the lowest ever for a World Series winner, but they compensate by making just one error, a record not beaten this century in a 6-game World Series. The Red Sox will realize $1,102 each, the Cubs $671, the smallest winner’s share ever earned. The inning by inning results of the game are relayed to Fort Devans, 58 miles away, via nine homing pigeons.
At Wrigley Field, Military Day is celebrated by a double victory for Chicago over the Reds, with Hippo Vaughn credited with both wins. Vaughn starts the opener and retires after an inning with his team ahead by three runs. The Cubs win, 6 – 5, with Vic Aldridge allowing two runs in five innings. Aldridge will eventually get credit for the win and not Vaughn. Vaughn then goes nine innings in the nitecap, striking out nine to win, 5 – 1.
Walter Johnson allows just two hits to beat Dutch Leonard to give the Nats a 4 – 3 win over the Red Sox. All the runs are unearned for Boston.
White Sox pitcher Jim Scott is admitted to the reserve officer’s training camp at the Presidio in San Francisco, CA. Death Valley Jim was 6-7 this year, his final season.
The Giants sweep the Robins at the Polo Grounds. New York takes the opener, 3 – 2, by scoring the winning run in the 10th on George Burns’ inside-the-park homer. They do it again in the nitecap, scoring two runs in the 9th to beat Jack Coombs. Pol Perritt, with relief help in the 9th, wins.
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