GIANTS COME FROM BEHIND TO WIN 9-8
PHILLIES' 5 RUN LEAD VANISHES IN EIGHTH
Succession of Pitchers Does Not Stop Boys
By WILL MURPHY
Philadelphia, Pa., April 27
The Giants broke their losing streak and the hearts of about 8,400 Philadelphia fans by overcoming the Phils' five-run lead in the eighth inning here today and then scoring the ninth winning run in the ninth. The final total in this long and messy ball game was 9 to 8.
Until that heated eighth the Phils were always in the lead, with Wayland Dean’s pitching making the Giants look very sad. But Wayland went way up in then and walked Young and Southworth. Kelly’s out advanced them, and Tyson’s fly scored a run. Dean walked Farrell, but there were still four runs to get.
Pancho the Puissant.
Pancho Snyder did his little bit toward bridging the gap by bumping a line home run into the left field stands. Three runs right there, friends. The silence issuing from the stands was oppressive.
Out came Dean and in went Art Decatur to pitch. Freddy Fitzsimmons, who had entered the game a short while before as relief pitcher for Jimmy Ring, came up and socked a double. Heinie Groh hit one that took a funny hop over third baseman Huber's head and it went for a double, Fitzsimmons scoring the tying run.
Decatur left the party then and one Ray Pierce got Frisch for the third out. The eventual winning run was produced speedily in the ninth. Ross Young rapped one toward shortstop and went clear to second on Heinie Sand's bad throw. Southworth sacrificed neatly.
Ol' Highpockets.
Out came Pierce and in came Ernie Maun just in time to have George Kelly smack the single that scored Young and decided the ball game.
The game was a sort of test of the trade between the two clubs last winter and on the returns it looks as though both clubs got the worst of the bargain.
Messy but Sweet
*Ott fanned for Ring in seventh.
†Wrightstone batted for Friberg in ninth; Henline batted for Maun in ninth.
New York ................................ 010 002 051 — 9
Philadelphia ................................ 210 014 000 — 8
Two-base hits—Harper, Jackson, Snyder, Tyson, Sand, Fitzsimmons, Groh. Home runs—Dean, Kelly, Snyder. Sacrifice hits—Harper, Tyson, Southworth. Bases on balls—Off Ring 4, Dean 5, Maun 1. Struck out—By Ring 3, Dean 8, Fitzsimmons 2. Hits—Off Ring, 11 in 6 innings; Dean, 7 in 7 2/3; Decatur, 2 in no inning (pitched to two batters in eighth); Pierce, none in 2/3. Wild pitches—Ring 2. Umpires—Hart and Klem. Attendance—8,000. Time—2:45.
Ring looked bad all the way, allowing eleven hits in six innings. A four-run outbreak in the sixth finally caused his removal, which could have happened sooner without any objections. It was not one of Jimmy's good days.
Dean, on the other hand, did finely for seven innings. He even went so far as to hit a home run in the second inning. It was a line smack which bounced into the left field stands. He made two other safeties and was generally a success as a hitter. But when Wayland blew he blew farther and louder than Ring.
Another Homer.
There was yet another home run. George Kelly knocked it in the sixth with a man on base. At the moment it did not appear to help the Giants much.
Doubles by Jackson and Snyder scored the first Giant run in the second inning. This Snyder was a valuable person today. Page Burleigh Grimes, boy.
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Fred Lindstrom and Travis Jackson both twisted their tender underpinnings early in the game, hence the presence of Groh and Farrell.
BASEBALL today, Yankee Stadium. Yankees vs. Philadelphia. Game starts at 3:30 P. M.—Adv.
Source: New York Daily News, April 28, 1926
