The Senators clinch their second consecutive American League pennant when they sweep a doubleheader from Cleveland at Griffith Stadium, 4-3 and 6-2. Washington will have a week to get ready before facing Pittsburgh in the Fall Classic.
Carl Mays wins his 20th for the Reds, 9 – 6, over the hosts Phils, becoming the first pitcher to win 20 for three different teams in his career. Grover Cleveland “Pete” Alexander’s 21 wins for the Cards in 1927 will make him the second; Gaylord Perry will be third in 1978.
Brooklyn’s Burleigh Grimes dusts six batters in the first two innings and bests the Cubs, 6 – 5. Reliever Rip Wheeler takes the loss. 30,000 Brooklyn fans celebrate the team’s showing at the 160th Street Regiment Armory where each player receives a gold watch. Manager Wilbert Robinson predicts that the Robins will overtake the Giants in the next few days.
Detroit pitcher Ray Francis, with a 3 – 0 lead over the Yankees, issues a bases-loaded walk to Babe Ruth, but hangs on for the victory.
Bill Terry takes his first swings in a Giants uniform as a pinch hitter. On September 30th he will play his first game at 1B and get his first hit in a 4 – 3 win over Boston.
Cardinals outfielder Rogers Hornsby hits home runs off Giant hurlers Jesse and Virgil Barnes. The homers served up by the brothers enables the Rajah to set the National League record for round trippers in a season with 42. Rosy Ryan, in relief of Hugh McQuillan, picks up the 10 – 6 Cards win.
Browns pitcher Dixie Davis pitches both ends of the doubleheader against the Red Sox, scattering nine hits and losing the opener 2 – 1, then coasting to an 11 – 0 win in the nitecap.
1921 – Harry Heilmann is 3 for 4 against Walter Johnson, but Washington wins the game over Detroit, 5 – 1. Ty Cobb is so incensed by the umpiring of Billy Evans that he challenges him to a fight. The two future Hall of Famers go at it with Cobb getting the best of Evans. George Hildebrand, the second umpire assigned to the game, reports the incident to American League president Ban Johnson. When Johnson fails to act, Commissioner Landis steps in and suspends Cobb, but allows him to continue as a non-playing manager.
At League Park, Duster Mails pitches Cleveland to a Friday afternoon 2 – 0 victory over the White Sox, dropping them to 1 1/2 games back. In the 5th, Mails walks three straight batters on 12 pitches, but stays in and strikes out the side. No Sox reach base after that.
In the first game of a twinbill, Babe Ruth hits his 50th home run in the 1st inning, off the Senators’ Jose Acosta. He then adds number 51 in a 4-for-4 second game, a 2 – 1 win, to give the Yankees a sweep. The other three hits off loser Jim Shaw are by Del Pratt.
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