Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2012

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Collins v Ford

Ray Collins (10-67, Red Sox) v Russ Ford (10-68, Yankees)

1911 Red Sox   010 000 101  -  3  7  1
1911 Yankees   000 100 001  -  2  5  1

W - Collins        L - Ford

Les Nunamaker singled home Larry Gardner to give the Sox a 1-0 lead in the top second. The Highlanders answered with a run in the bottom of the fourth on Larry Gardner single that plated Cozy Dolan. The Red Sox regained the lead on a seventh inning single by Nunamaker that scored Heinie Wagner.

Boston added an insurance run in the top of the ninth thanks to a John Knoght error that scored Clyde Engle. Harry Wolter led off the bottom of the inning with a single and scored on a Dolan single, but Collins finished off the next three hitters for the complete game win.
 
            IP    H   R   ER   SO   BB     
Collins      7    5   2    0    6    1
Ford         9    7   3    2    5    2

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Moore v Marquard

Earl Moore (10-64, Phillies) v Rube Marquard (10-66, Giants)

1911 Phillies  200 001 100  -  4  7  0
1911 Giants    100 100 001  -  1  5  0

W - Moore         L - Marquard

Home Runs - Sherry Magee 2 (Phi), Roy Thomas (Phi)

Bit of a strange game this one. Magee's first home run came in the first inning - off Marquard's card. Thomas' homer in the seventh also came off Marquard's card - a card with only one home run number! Marquard did not pitch badly, but those home runs doomed him.

            IP    H   R   ER   SO   BB     
Moore        9    5   1    1    3    4
Marquard     9    7   4    4    7    2

Saturday, January 14, 2012

1911 Top Mound Showdown -Adams vs Alexander

Babe Adams (10-68, Pirates) vs Pete Alexander (10-65, Phillies)

          123 456 789       R   H   E
Pirates   000 000 300  -    3   7   0
Phillies  004 400 13x  -   12  16   2

W- Alexander         L - Adams


Not much to say about this one. The Phillies took batting practice against Adams pounding out 10 hits off him in just 4.2 innings. Alexander had little trouble with the Pirates until the seventh when they scored three meaningless runs.

            IP    H   R  ER  SO  BB
Adams       4.2  10   8   8   3   2
Alexander   9     7   3   3   6   2 

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Pape v Scott

Larry Pape (10-66, Red Sox) vs Jim Scott (10-67, White Sox)

                                  R   H   E
Red Sox    000 010 000 000 0  -   1   8   3
White Sox  000 001 000 000 1  -   2  12   2

W - Joe Benz       L - Charley Hall

The game that seemed to go on forever! 

The Red Sox drew first blood in the top of the fifth when Harry Hooper singled home Bill Carrigan.  The White Sox tied the game in the bottom of the sixth when Shano Collins doubled and scored on a Duffy Lewis two base error. Each team had good scoring opportunities in subsequent innings, but that was all the scoring until the bottom of the thirteenth.

Matty McIntyre singled with two out and advanced to second when Lee Tannehill drew a walk. Shano Collins smashed a grounder to third, but Larry Gardner's poor throw bounced past Clyde Engle allowing McIntyre to score the winning run.

       IP   H  R  ER  SO  BB
Pape    9  10  1  0   3   1
Scott   9   5  1  0   5   2

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Walsh v Bender

Ed Walsh (10-69, White Sox) vs Chief Bender (10-70, Athletics)

                                R   H  E
1911 White Sox  001 000 060  -  7  11  1
1911 Athletics  100 002 002  -  5   9  5


W - Walsh          L - Bender




Bender and the A's took a 3-1 lead in the top of the eighth when it all came apart for the Mack Attack. After the Pale Hose banged out hits and Philly committed three errors in the inning, the White Sox had a 7-3 lead. The A's added two runs in the bottom of the ninth before their rally fizzled out.

         IP  H   R   ER  SO  BB
Walsh    7   6   3   3   5   4
Bender   8   7   6   5   1   2

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Mathewson v Richie

Lew Richie (10-68, Cubs) vs Christy Mathewson (10-73, Giants)

1911 Cubs   100 000 000  -  1  3  0 
1911 Giants 000 000 20-  -  2  6  2

W - Mathewson    L - Richie

Mathewson had some bad luck in the first inning when Josh Devore's two base error on lead off hitter Jimmy Sheckard led to an unearned run. Solly Hofman's sac fly scored Sheckard. But after that Mathewson was really on his game retiring 16 hitters in a row during one stretch.

Richie kept the Giants off the scoreboard until seventh. Larry Doyle led off with a triple and scored on Red Murray's single. Murray scored what turned out to be the game winner on Fred Merkle's triple.



            IP   H   R   ER   SO   BB     
Richie       8   6   2    2    4    0
Mathewson    9   3   1    0    3    1

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Johnson v Gregg

Walter Johnson (10-73, Senators) vs Vean Gregg (10-75, Indians) 

Senators   000 100 001 -  2  7  0
Indians    010 000 002 -  3  8  1

W - Vean Gregg     L - Charles Becker

Neal Ball tripled and then scored the first run of the game on Terry Turner's single.

The Senators tied the game when Germany Schaeffer walked and then scored on Kid Elberfield's sac fly.

Johnson injured his arm in the fifth and had to leave the game.

Washington took the lead in the ninth when Doc Gessler scored on a Tilly Walker sac fly.

Charles Becker relieved Dixie Walker who had previously Johnson. The Naps gave him a rude welcome in the bottom of the ninth.

Ivy Olson led off with a single that was followed by a Shoeless Joe Jackson single. George Stovall doubled them both home for the dramatic win.
 


            IP   H   R   ER  SO   BB     
Johnson    4.2   2   1   1    2    0
Gregg       9    7   2   2    4    2

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Leifield vs Crandall

Lefty Leifield (Pirates, 10-64) vs Doc Crandall (Giants, 10-64)

1911 Pittsburgh   000 120 010   4  11  4
1911 New Yorkk    200 040 00-   6  12  0

While both pitchers struggled in this one, Leifeld's defense really let him down, especially in the fifth when two errors opened the floodgates and allowed the Giants to score four unearned runs.


           IP    H  R  ER  SO  BB
Leifield   6    11  6   2   1   1
Crandall   8.1  11  4   4   6   3
 

1911 Top Mound Showdown - Plank vs Wood

Eddie Plank (A's, 10-71) vs Joe Wood (Red Sox, 10-72)

1911 A's      000 000 030  3  7  2
1911 Red Sox  012 100 00-  4  8  1


The Red Sox scored the first four runs of the game against Plank and the World Champs from Philly. Nunamaker's single scored Clyde Engle to give the Sox a 1-0 lead in the second.

Two errors by A's shortstop Jack Barry allowed the Sox to extend the lead with a couple of unearned runs in the fourth.

Joe Wood's homer - yep Joe Wood - gave the Sox a 4-0 lead in the fourth.

The A's finally made it interesting in the top of the eighth. An error by Engle set the stage for three unearned runs off Wood. Ed Karger relieved Wood in the ninth to get the save. 

       IP  H   R  ER  SO  BB
Plank  7   7   4   2   4   1
Wood   8   7   3   0  12   2



Next up:
1935 - Charlie Root vs Dizzy Dean
1935 - Lefty Gomez vs Ted Lyons
1956 - Whitey Ford vs Bob Lemon

Friday, September 16, 2011

Top 1911 Pitchers - Ames vs Steele

Giants (Red Ames 2.68) at Pirates (Elmer Steele 2.67)


New York    1  3  2
Pittsburgh  2  6  0

W - Steele    L - Crandall


Pittsburgh's George Gibson scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the third on a single by Bobby Byrne.

Fred Snodgrass led off the top of the fourth with a triple and then scored on Red Murray's grooubd out.

That was all the scoring until the 10th. Chief Wilson doubled off of reliever Doc Crandall. Crandall retired George Gibson on a grounder to short. Newt Hunter, pinch hitting for Steele, delivered a two out single to bring home Gibson with the winning run.

Both pitchers were very effective despite racking few strikeouts.

         IP  H   R  ER  SO  BB
Ames     9   5   1   1   1   1
Steele  10   3   1   1   1   5

Saturday, August 6, 2011

1935 All-Star Game

The game was played in Cleveland, so the AL was the home team. Bill Walker started for the NL and Lefty Gomez for the AL. Here's how it went.

Joe Vosmik led off the bottom of the first with a walk and scored on a Jimmie Foxx sac fly. AL leads 1-0.

Jimmie Wilson tripled off Lefty Grove in the top of the fifth and then scored on Pepper Martin's single to tie the game 1-1.

The Nationals took the lead in the eighth on a strange sequence. Arky Vaughan walked and then went to third after singles by Mel Ott and Ducky Medwick. With the bases loaded and Mel Harder on the mound for the AL, Harder inexplicably balks to score Vaughan! NL leads 2-1.

Buddy Myer led off the eighth with a walk and then scored when Earl Averill drew a bases loaded walk against Dizzy Dean. Game tied 2-2.

In the bottom of the tenth Ben Chapman doubles off Paul Derringer. That brings pitcher Tommy Bridges to the plate. I tried to play everybody, so I have no pinch-hitter for Bridges. But Bridges is not a terrible hitter for a pitcher - he hit .239. You can see where this is going, no? Sure enough, Bridges doubles to score Chapman with the winning run. Bridges gets the walk off double and the Win too.



          R  H  E
National  2  7  0
American  3  9  0 (10)

WP - Tommy Bridges
LP - Paul Derringer

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

1946 Cardinals at 1922 Giants

Howie Pollet vs Jesse Barnes
           R   H   E
Cardinals 5 6 0
Giants 4 13 2
Red Schoendienst's 2 run double in the fifth gave the Cards a lead they would not relinquish.

1951 Giants at 1947 Dodgers

Jim Hearn vs Joe Hatten

         R   H  E
Giants 7 12 0
Dodgers 3 13 2
The Giants jump all over Dodger starter Hatten. Bobby Thomson went 4 for 5 with a 3 run homer.

1948 Indians at 1953 Yankees

Bob Feller vs Eddie Lopat

          R  H  E 
Indians 2 8 0
Yankees 1 5 0
Lopat pitches well, but Feller pitches a little bit better.

Monday, October 15, 2007

1936 Yankees vs. 1935 Tigers

Red Ruffing vs. Tommy Bridges
         R   H   E
Yankees 2 8 0
Tigers 1 10 0

Joe DiMaggio's 2 run single in the 6th was the difference in this low scoring game.

1934 Cardinals vs 1935 Cubs

Dizzy Dean vs. Lon Warneke

                R   H   E
1934 Cardinals 0 6 0
1935 Cubs 1 4 2

Augie Galan's triple and Chuck Klein's sac fly are all the support Lon Warneke needed.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

1927 Pirates at 1942 Cardinals

Carmen Hill vs. Max Lanier

The Pirates jump on Lanier for three runs in the top of the first, but the Cards more than answer with a 6 run bottom of the first that was capped by Whitey Kurowski's 2 run homer.

                R   H   E
1927 Pirates 3 6 0
1946 Cardinals 6 11 2

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

1960 Pirates vs 1963 Dodgers

Bob Friend vs. Sandy Koufax

Koufax wasn't on his game at all. After some lead changes, the Dodgers took a 5-4 lead into the top of the ninth before Dick Groat's two run homer gave the Pirates a 6-5 lead. The Dodgers couldn't rally in the bottom of the inning, so it's a disappointing night for the Chavez Ravine faithful.

1927 Yankees at 1972 Phillies

Dutch Ruether vs Steve Carlton

Steve Carlton pitched well against the Yanks allowing 3 runs in 9 innings while striking out 10. Tony Lazzeri drove in all 3 Yankee runs with a sac fly and a two run triple. Deron Johnson's triple brought home the only Philies run as the Yanks win 3-1.