Duster Mails delivers for the Indians, canceling the Senators, 1 – 0, for his 4th win without a loss. Joe Sewell scores the lone run.
1919 – Dutch Ruether beats the Giants, 4 – 3, to clinch the Reds’ first pennant since their American Association days.
At the Baker Bowl, Grover Cleveland Alexander is coasting with a two-hit, 6 – 0 lead in the 8th over the Cubs, when weak-hitting Steve Yerkes lines a single followed by manager Joe Tinker’s only hit of the year. On a double play grounder, 1B Fred Luderus pulls his foot off the bag and Chicago goes on to score three runs. Second-place Philadelphia wins, 6 – 3, to pull with 1 1/2 games of Brooklyn.
The Reds’ Fred Toney pitches 12 innings in the nitecap against Brooklyn before the game is called at 1 – 1 apiece. Zack Wheat goes hitless to end his hitting streak at 29 games. He’ll put together a streak of 26 in 1919.
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.
On September 16, 1914, 23-year-old Roger Peckinpaugh becomes the youngest manager in major league history. The New York Yankees name Peckinpaugh, their starting shortstop, as manager, to replace Frank Chance as the skipper of the team. During his 20-game tenure as the player-manager, the young infielder will finish the season with a 10-10 record…
The Cubs riddle Christy Mathewson for 10 hits to beat the Giants, 4 – 3. Jimmy Archer’s solo homer is the game winner.
The Pirates’ 2 – 1 win over Brooklyn is their 12th in a row; they will overtake the Cubs and finish 2nd.
The Reds shut out the Phillies in a twinbill, winning 6 – 0 and 1 – 0. Art Fromme allows four hits in the lid-lifter, while Rube Benton outduels Grover Cleveland Alexander, 1 – 0, in the nitecap. Benton allows five hits.
For the second time in a week, an American League rookie debuts with a shutout; the Browns’ Elmer Brown stops the Senators, 6 – 0.
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