Lefty Grove Fans 10 as Athletics Crush Yankees; Giants and Phillies Also Prevail
Lefty Grove struck out 10 to overpower the Yankees, while the Giants rallied past the Braves and the Phillies hammered the Robins in another action-packed day from the June 29, 1926 New York Daily News.
Content from the NY Daily News - Tuesday June 29, 1926
In This Edition
- Lefty Grove Left Hands Way to 7–1 Win Over Yanks
- Giants Triumph in Battle With Braves, 3 to 2
- Phillies Defeat Robins, 9–4, in Alleged Ball Game
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GROVE LEFT HANDS WAY TO 7—1 WIN OVER YANKS
Hoyt Starts, but That's All Successors Did, Too.
Philadelphia, June 28. — The Yankees took another on the chin here this afternoon. Lefty Grove simply southpawed them to death and trotted home with a 7 to 1 decision in a game that was all Grove's from start to finish, and figuring both ways from the middle.
Mr. Grove allowed only seven hits, struck out no less than ten batsmen and otherwise made himself obstreperous. As some wise cracker once remarked, "The Yankees are a sucker for a left hook." They were yesterday—particularly for the left hook as exemplified by Mr. Robert Grove.
Fine Is Fine.
Waite Hoyt started for our boys and the best that can be said for Waite is that he stayed in there five innings. He didn't have much to start and what he had the Athletics soon knocked out of him, much to his own chagrin and the discomfiture of Mr. Miller Huggins. But it didn't make much difference whether Mr. Hoyt was good or bad, so far as the result was concerned.
The only ones of our boys who managed to do any free hitting at all were Babe Ruth and Ben Paschal. Each of these young men connected for two blows—singles. It was Mr. Ruth, as a matter of fact, who drove in the only Yankee run in the first inning.
Bam Fans Twice.
Lou Gehrig lifted a high fly to Bill Lamar, which Bill obligingly dropped, permitting Columbia Lou to reach second. Thence he scored at a canter when Ruth socked one against the right field wall for a resounding single. But all was not glory for the Babe at that. Twice he struck out with gigantic swings. As some guy in the stands remarked: "Grove struck out ten men, and Ruth was two of them."
The A's lost no time in taking the lead—getting two runs in the first—and thereafter it was only a question of the score. Once Mr. Hoyt had left the game Messrs. Herb McQuaid and Nick Braxton performed in order. Herbie was touched for one run in two innings and Braxton for none in one.
GIANTS TRIUMPH IN BATTLE WITH BRAVES, 3 TO 2
By WILL MURPHY.
The Braves fought the Giants bitterly for seven innings at the Polo Grounds yesterday. They reverted to their accustomed ineptnesses and the Giants won out, 3 to 2.
Paul Florence, who continues to be a dangerous clubber, opened the scoring with a homer off Larry Benton in the fifth inning. It was a line swat to left center that romped past the agile Edd Roush Brown and rolled to the wall.
Benton was throwing in great style, and so was Kent Greenfield. But in the seventh the Braves filled the bases on hits by Hugh High and Cotton Burrus and a pass.
All in Vain.
Manager Dave Bancroft gambled on taking out his pitcher for a substitute batter, and it looked like a good bargain when pinch hitter Frank Gibson doubled, scoring two runs.
Bancroft's bargain turned out badly, for his relief pitcher, Harold Goldsmith, could not hold the Giants as Benton doubtlessly would have done.
So They Won.
Master Goldsmith was trying his darndest, however. While Heinie Mueller was scoring on Ross Youngs's hit, Goldy stood squarely on the base line for some unknown reason. Meuller had to knock him down and crawl to the plate on hands and knees. Brown's wild throw on that play let Frankie Frisch get into a scoring position at third.
Jack Scott pitched the ninth and let the Braves fill the bags with two down. But John fanned the Eddie Gautreau infant for the last out.
The Giants broke even on cripples yesterday. George Kelly was pronounced cured of his bum knee and may play today, but it was found that Al Tyson broke his right forearm when that member was hit by one of Jess Barnes's pitches Friday.
The John McGraws yesterday signed pitcher Ned Porter, a University of Florida lad.
Two games with the Braves today.
PHILLIES DEFEAT ROBINS, 9—4, IN ALLEGED BALL GAME
Robert McGraw Smacked For Six Runs at Start.
Although the Dodgers dropped a 9 to 4 game to the Phillies at Ebbets Field yesterday one never would have guessed it by watching the athletes perform. The actions of the rival nines were highly reminiscent of the sort of burlesque that one would expect at a Sunday school picnic when the married men play the single men.
The Phils lambasted young Robert Emmet McGraw for six runs in one and one-third innings and the game was as good as over if any one only knew it.
Wings Clipped.
No one seemed to know it, however, least of all the Dodgers, who spent the better part of two hours pecking away at the offerings of Frank Ulrich in a futile effort to swing the tide. Ulrich weakened in two innings in which respect he had it on the four Dodger pitchers, who weakened in five of the nine frames.
Buzz McWeeny, Rube Ehrhardt and Lefty Williams followed McGraw to the mound, and while the scoring realized from their offerings was practically negligible, it didn't ease the agony of the Flatbush fans any, who winced as the additional and superfluous Philly runs were trotting homeward.
Fourteen Hits.
The Phillies totaled fourteen hits as they clicked off their fifth straight victory and four of the Quaker safeties were corralled by Fred Leach, among them a homer over the right field wall. Fred accounted for two-thirds of the Slow Town runs, batting in three and scoring three.
Dazzy Vance is expected to face the Phillies this afternoon in an effort to put the Dodgers back in the right road. Vance has not pitched in over a week.
Chunky little Dick Cox has now hit in his last eight games. The former coast leaguer is making valiant efforts to climb back into the .300 class.
Sammy Bohne, the infielder purchased from the Reds, reported to the Dodgers yesterday.
The score.
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