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…
Doc Gautreau of the Boston Braves steals home twice in a game against Brooklyn to tie the major league record. This feat will not be repeated until Vic Power does it in 1958.
1926 – In a 17 – 3 Giants cakewalk over the Braves, the Giants unload for a National League record 12 runs in the 5th inning. Young Mel Ott plays five innings and goes 3 for 3. He also steals a base. The 17-year-old star will hit .383 in 35 games this year. The Giants blow it open in the 5th inning, scoring 12 runs.
After a recent incident on a train, when Cubs manager Rabbit Maranville anointed various passengers from a spittoon, Chicago relieves the Rabbit of the burdens of managership. Chicago hastily appoints George Gibson, former skipper of the Pirates, as manager for the remainder of the season. The Cubs were 23-30 under Maranville, and Chicago will cut the last tie when they waive the veteran in November.
The first-place Senators continue their march toward a second straight pennant with a 9 – 3 roughing up of Red Ruffing and the Red Sox. Roger Peckinpaugh leads the way, going 3 for 4 with a triple. Alex Ferguson, Yankeecastoff, is the winner. The idle A’s drop six games off the pace.
The Cardinals score five runs in the 9th to break the first-place Pirates’ 9-game win streak, winning 9 – 3. Rogers Hornsby, the majors’ leading hitter at .387, has three hits including his 37th homer of the year to pace the attack. Babe Adams, who takes over for Emil Yde in the 9th, is hammered for four hits and five runs, but the loss goes to Yde. Art Reinhart is the winner.
The second-place Giants top the Phillies, 5 – 4, on Bill Terry’s solo homer in the 10th inning. Starter Dutch Ulrich tees up the homer, losing to Art Nehf who pitches the last 6+ innings.
1924: Nip Winters of the Hilldale Club no-hits the Harrisburg Giants 2-0 at Harrisburg’s Island Park. It is the first no-hitter in the history of the Eastern Colored League and the second of Winters’ career. He misses a perfect game when Jake Stephens bobbles an easy grounder.
9/3/1923 – The St. Louis Browns confused their lineup in the first game of a doubleheader in Cleveland. Ken Williams usually hit in the third spot but the lineup given to the umpires had William Jacobson third, Marty McManus fourth and Williams fifth. In the first inning after Wally Gerber doubled and Jack Tobin reached on a bunt, Williams, hitting out of turn, doubled home the first run of the game. Then Jacobson, also hitting out of order, hit a run-producing ground out. McManus, hitting in his proper spot after Jacobson, walked. The next hitter should have been Williams but Pat Collins, the sixth-place hitter, came up and struck out. No more runs were scored in that inning. The Indians figured out that the Browns had hit out of turn later and tried to protest the runs scored but umpire Evans properly allowed them to stand. However, Cleveland came back to win the game, 4-2.
1922 – The Giants pull off a 2nd-inning triple play against the Phils. With runners on first and second base Jimmy Smith pops up and the infield fly rule is called. Although Smith is called out, Frankie Frisch fails to catch the ball, and the runners take off. Giants right fielder Ross Youngs picks the ball up and the relay catches runner Cliff Lee at third base for out number 2. 3B Heinie Groh’s throw and relay catch Sam Leslie at first base for the third out. The Giants then break a 7 – 7 tie in the 9th when Frisch scores from second base on a muffed 6-3 play that Phils pitcher Jimmy Ring bobbles.
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