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.
The Braves’ Wally Berger adds three home runs in a doubleheader against the Reds en route to a rookie record.
In the 9th against Chicago, Braves reliever Ray Boggs plunks three Cubbies, walks two and tosses one wild pitch. Chicago manages to score just one run off Boggs, but they win the away game, 15 – 5. Pat Malone picks up the win over Art Delaney.
Wilcy Moore, the Yankee pitching hero of 1927, goes home with an ailing arm after working just 60 innings.
1926 – The Cardinals regain the National League lead in a 10 – 1 win over the Phils. Light-hitting Tommy Thevenow bangs his first major league homer, an inside-the-park liner off Jack Knight. The Reds continue to nose-dive, dropping a 5 – 4 decision to the Giants on Frankie Frisch’s 10th-inning home run. The Reds will lose 7 of their final 9.
1925 – Behind hurlers Ted Wingfield and Paul Zahniser, the Red Sox shut out the Browns twice, winning 2 – 0 and 4 – 0.
1924 – With the Senators and Yankees deadlocked at 83-59, Walter Johnson edges the Indians, 3 – 2. Washington will win tomorrow to sweep the three-game series.
At Washington, Walter Johnson notches two wins against the Browns, winning one game in relief, and the other as a starter. The first game is 5 – 4, in 10 innings, and the second is 12 – 2, in seven innings.
The Giants’ George Kelly sets a major-league record by homering in the 3rd, 4th and 5th innings against the Cubs’ Vic Aldridge as New York rolls to a 13 – 6 win. Kelly adds a single and double to run his total bases to 15 for the game. Kelly has now hit a record six homers off cousin Aldridge this year, a mark off one pitcher that will be tied by Ted Williams (in 1941, off Johnny Rigney) and Ted Kluszewski (in 1954, off Max Surkont). Kelly is the first player to homer in three successive innings.
Browns southpaw Hub Pruett, who has fanned Babe Ruth 9 of 10 times over the season, is reached for a home run by the Bambino, but he still beats the Yankees, 5 – 1. One day after being clubbed on the head with an empty bottle, Yankee CF Whitey Witt receives an ovation, but the partisan crowd in CF is quick to wave white hankies in the 8th inning for Yanks pinch-hitter Norm McMillan. Police make them stop. George Sisler has a single to extend his hitting streak to 41 games.
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