Babe Ruth's 25th Homer Powers Yankees as Phillies Halt Brooklyn Streak
Babe Ruth blasted his 25th home run of 1926, Tony Lazzeri added another, Wayland Dean silenced Brooklyn, and a controversial call sparked a bottle-throwing riot in St. Louis in a dramatic day across the major leagues.
Content from the NY Daily News - Monday June 28, 1926
In This Edition
- Babe Ruth's 25th Homer Lifts Yankees
- Phillies End Robins' Winning Streak
- Thousands Riot During Cub Game
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SMACK! BABE’S 25TH AGAIN RIPS SOX
WALLOP PUTS END TO MOUND DUEL AND YANKS TRIUMPH BY 7-1 SCORE
Tony Lazzeri Also Gets Homer—His 11th.
By WILL MURPHY.
A mildly exciting duel of pitchers was in progress at the Yankee Stadium yesterday afternoon when Babe Ruth came to bat in the seventh inning, the first man up. Lefty Heimach had held the Yanks scoreless, and Walter Beall had been compelling the Red Sox to jump through hoops and do other diverting tricks.
Fans Get Dish.
“These pitching battles are all right,” remarked Babe, “but what the fans want is hitting. It is time something happened.”
And when Babe had worked the count to three and two, something of importance did happen.
Heimach sent up a curve, rather high. Herman the Great stepped forward, choking his bat meanwhile, and just rode that onion on a line into the left field bleachers for his twenty-fifth homer of the current season. That sock threw the Red Sox into utter demoralization, and a 7 to 1 victory was thereafter an easy matter for our Yanks.
Hardly a soul in the crowd of 35,000 but what was delighted by that vigorous slam of Herman’s. It gives Babe his twenty-fifth homer in the sixty-seventh game of the season on June 27, while in his record-breaking year 1921, he poled No. 25 in the sixty-fourth game on June 23d. The record, therefore, is still within his grasp.
The rest of that seventh inning was typically Red A newspaper graphic compares Babe Ruth's 1926 home run pace to his record-setting 1921 season after he blasted his 25th homer on June 27.Sox. Whereas, in previous rounds they had supported Heimach beautifully, now they faltered. An ill-judged throw by Heimach himself, another by Phil Todt, and Ben Paschal, the rascal, and Mark Koenig combined to hand the Yanks four more tallies.
Delights and Delights.
Further delight for the fans in the eighth, when after Babe had walked and been forced by Paschal, up came Tony Lazzeri.
The Salt Lake signor’s contribution was a soaring homer into the right field district, his eleventh of the year. Viva Lazzeri!
The pitching of Master Walter Beall deserves more than passing notice. He was diligent at all times, despite his reputation for a certain carelessness. He gave but five hits, struck out nine, walked only four and would have had a shutout if it were not for the ninth inning habit of letting a beaten team run the bases unhampered.
Yanks go to Philadelphia today, while the Giants take on the Braves at the Polo Grounds.
PHILLY BUNTS RUIN ROBINS’ STREAK AFTER 5 STRAIGHT
Dean Beats Jess Petty in 2—1 Duel.
When Wayland Dean is not wayward, Wayland is certainly tough. This fact will be attested to, although not cheerfully, by those of the Dodgers, whose misfortune it was to face young Mr. Wayland Dean yesterday at Ebbets Field as the three-ply pitcher of Manager Fletcher led the Phillies to a 2 to 1 victory over the Flatbush team, which snapped a five game winning streak of the Dodgers and extended the victory string of the Phillies to four.
Wayland pitched side-arm, underhand and overhand to turn back the Dodgers. He also pitched high, wide and handsome. Five hits were all that the Dodgers made off Dean, which was quite a comedown for a team that had amassed seventy-five hits in its previous six games.
Of course, the victim of Mr. Dean’s nefarious and crafty hurling had to be Jess Petty, the sterling Flatbush southpaw. Jess pitched splendidly, but brought about his own defeat with a fumbled bunt in the seventh. The Phils tallied both their runs in this frame and did not drive a ball out of the infield in doing so.
Jimmy Nixon dribbled a roller through Petty’s feet to open the canto. Charlie Grimes then beat out a bunt to Babe Herman. Just to make it harder, Frank Henline laid down a sacrifice bunt, which filled the bases. Bill Huber’s pop fly fell safely behind Jimmy Butler to score Nixon. While Mickey Standaert and Butler were completing a flashy double play Grimes went across.
The Dodgers had several opportunities, the best of which came in the seventh. Bill Jacobson batted for Al Niehaus O'Neil and walked. He raced home on Eddie Marriott’s double, but neither Jake Fournier nor Andy High, both of whom pinch-batted, could bring Bill across.
THOUSANDS RIOT DURING CUB GAME
St. Louis, June 27.—The Cubs won the second game of a double-header here today, 5—0, but almost won it by forfeit when, in the ninth, the crowd broke into a riot and showered the field with pop-bottles. The riot started when Umpire Moran ruled Sparky Adams safe at first after the throng saw him pop to Rogers Hornsby. Moran declared him safe because the catcher had interfered with Sparky as he started to run.
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