Pat Collins Saves the Yankees as Cubs Blank Giants and Robins Crush Cardinals — May 8, 1926
A noisy single snapped along the left foul line by the bat of Pat Collins in the eleventh inning yesterday was one of the most welcome blows of the season, for that hit defeated the Detroit Tygers by a score of 7 to 6 and terminated the four-game losing streak of the Yankees.
Today's Edition
- HOT DAWG! Yanks Nab Game at Last
- Cubs Shut Out Giants, 6–0, Scoring All on Mr. Scott
- Robins Crush Cards, Holding First Place
HOT DAWG! YANKS NAME GAME AT LAST
Hugmen Beat Tygers, 7 to 6; Ruth Gets 6th
By Marshall Hunt - NY Daily News Saturday May 8, 1926
A noisy single snapped along the left foul line by the bat of Pat Collins in the eleventh inning yesterday was one of the most welcome blows of the season, for that hit defeated the Detroit Tygers by a score of 7 to 6 and terminated the four-game losing streak of the Yankees.
Lil Stoner, the fourth Detroit pitcher, was on the rubber in the eleventh when there was an unmistakable aroma of simmering dinners permeating the Bronx atmosphere. Lil passed Signo Tony Lazzeri, first up in the eleventh, and Joe Dugan sacrificed. Up stepped the squat Yankee catcher and, after fouling off sundry balls, clipped one to left with such vigor that Bananas Lazzeri, for indeed he is known as Bananas among the trade, scored easily with the winning run.
What a struggle the Yankees had. With Waite Hoyt on the rubber, nothing was left to be desired for five innings. George Herman Ruth had sent a ball scuttling into the exit of the right field bleachers in the first inning — he-man sock seeking the wide open spaces. The Bam’s sixth home run of the year scored Comrade Lou Gehrig too.
But the flinging of Master Hoyt soured in the sixth to such an extent that one of the Tygers’ three runs in that round was forced in. The Tigers tied the score in the seventh and ninth innings, only to have Collins unraffie it for keeps in the eleventh.
Herb Pennock relieved Hoyt in the eighth. The score:
Cubs Shut Out Giants, 6–0, Scoring All on Mr. Scott
By Will Murphy - NY Daily News Saturday May 8, 1926
Chicago, May 7.—Having had respectable pitching for one day, it was almost too much to expect that the Giants would be enjoying more of the same today. All the good pitching placed on view in Cubs park was done by Tony Kaufmann, who works for the Chicago side. Tony shut out the Giants 6 to 0, and gave them just four hits, all singles.
The good-sized crowd, close to 20,000, thought Tony and the Cubs were just grand, and they were.
John Scott began the throwing for our side and did right well for two innings. But in the third Travis Jackson’s error on a slow roller, the kind Jax doesn’t like, put a man on base and doubles by Kaufmann himself and “Sparky” Adams made it two runs for the Cubs.
A rare and curious double play ended that sally of the home club. Adams was on second when Heathcote rapped to the pitcher and Sparky was run down. Meanwhile Heathcote tried to reach second and was caught after much tossing back and forth, Tyson coming for the final assist. Freddie Lindstrom made both putouts.
The Cubs had all the runs they needed right there, but they pecked away at Marse John Scott until he had to be hauled out. This occurred in the sixth inning, when the Cubs made three more runs.
John McGraw today signed a contract which will make him manager and vice president of the Giants for three more years, or till the end of the season of 1929.
Robins Crush Cards, Holding First Place
Burleigh Grimes Hurler in 7 to 1 Victory
By Jack Farrell - NY Daily News Saturday May 8, 1926
St. Louis, Mo., May 7.—By way of avenging their defeat in the opening game of the series by the Cardinals, the pace setting Robins came back with a rush today and evened the series with the Cardinals by pounding out a 7 to 1 victory.
Burleigh Grimes had his spitter working in deceptive fashion with the result that the Cards were limited to five widely separated base hits. It looked like a shutout for the hard working Burleigh right up to the eighth inning. Here he made the mistake of walking Blades a pinch hitter and the latter spoiled an otherwise perfect performance by scoring on Heinie Mueller’s single.
But Lefty Sherdel, the Cards’ nominee, wasn’t quite so fortunate. The Robins hopped on him for four runs in the opening inning and finally succeeded in knocking him out of the box in the fifth after putting three more runs over the plate.
In the first, with two out, Zack Wheat singled and Sherdel filled the bases pronto by walking Herman and Felix. Butler scored Wheat and Herman, and Maranville put Felix and Butler across with a single to right.
Sherdel escaped further punishment until the fifth, when the Robins drilled him for three more runs, four hits, and knocked him flatter than a victrola record. Grimes launched this offensive with a single and scored when Cox slapped a double off the exit gate in left field.
The score:
