Pirates Punish Giants' Costly Error as George Uhle Downs Yankees in July 1926
Three pennant contenders made headlines on July 13, 1926: the Pirates capitalized on a Giants miscue, George Uhle mastered the Yankees, and Brooklyn won despite losing ace Dazzy Vance to injury.
In This Edition
- Giants in Form! Win for Pirates, 6–3! Nize Babies
- Mr. George Uhle Does Yanks Out of Rubber Game
- Robins Win Game, But Lose Dazzy Vance; Out for Week
GIANTS IN FORM! WIN FOR PIRATES, 6–3! NIZE BABIES
By WILL MURPHY.
Pittsburgh, Pa., July 12.—After their taste of prosperity in Cincinnati, the Giants struck their normal stride again here today and chucked a ball game to the Pirates, 6 to 3.
The failure of Master Freddie Lindstrom to snare a ball thrown approximately at his wishbone by Jack Scott seems to have cost Mister McGraw's youths this particular contest.
This lapse of Freddie's occurred in the sixth inning when the Pirates stuck a handsome figure “4” on their score board. One run had already been honestly earned in that inning, and one was out and Glenn Wright, who had doubled, was on second when Pie Traynor slapped a bounder at Mister Scott, who made some kind of a throw to third. But the ball wasn't caught by any one of the name of Lindstrom—so much is certain. When the onion was fetched back from left field a careful census showed that Wright had scored and Traynor was on second.
Had Freddie caught that peg, Wright would have been out and the next man, instead of scratching a hit, would have forced Traynor at second.
Also, the two runs scored by the Giants off Vic Aldridge in the eighth, and George Kelly's homer over the left field scoreboard in the ninth, would have tied the count and further baseball would have been required.
Kelly's swat was a hefty drive, about as long as anything this park has ever seen, but what of it? It was George's eighth homer of the year.
Mister John McGraw was not with his charges today. He departed during the night on a mysterious errand.
The Pirates, particularly Messrs. Kiki Cuyler and Traynor, fielded to-day like men possessed of great desire to win a pennant. Frankie Frisch also made a glittering stop or two.
MR. GEORGE UHLE DOES YANKS OUT OF RUBBER GAME
By C. A. LOVETT.
An overdose of George Uhle, Cleveland sandlot alumnus, and an underdone batch of throwing to batters by the veteran Bob Shawkey and the comparatively novitiate Walt Beall, gave the Forest cityans the rubber game of their five-game series at Yankees Stadium yesterday afternoon, 6 to 2.
A silent 10,000 saw Uhle give one of his finest pitching performances. Although bothered a bit by wildness in the early stages, walking two in the first and one in the third,
Uhle Fans Eight
Uhle fanned eight—Pat Collins and Tony Lazzeri twice—and his Uhlans played sharp defensive ball behind him. On offense, every Indian hit safely, Joe Sewell leading the assault with a brace of singles, a homer and a walk in five trips up.
Indeed, George Burns's circuit smash into the far left field stands after Charlie Jamieson's single at the outset all but decided the issue and when J. Sewell followed with a resounding thump into the right field seats pretty much the whole story was written—and the game but a few minutes old.
Shawkey opened the brief attack on Uhle in the third with a single over second, and Ben Paschal followed suit. Joe Dugan walked and the bases were full with none out, but Babe Ruth watched a fast-ball third strike breeze by. Shawkey scored while Lou Gehrig was forcing Dugan.
Enter Mr. Beall
Solid pokes by Joe Lutzke and Uhle did for Shawkey in the fourth and Wallie Beall came in. He opened by nicking Burns on the forearm. Beall beat Joe Sewell's attempt to sacrifice by walking him on four high pitches, but Ed Summa bunted and Walter pegged too late to Dugan to nip Burns, whom Beall then proceeded to wild pitch home.
The tribe continued to peck at Beall, and long singles by J. Sewell and Summa and Lazzeri's failure to handle the other Sewell's smash produced a final run for the visitors in the seventh.
Ruth opened the Yanks' ninth with a sharp hit to right and, after Gehrig and Earle Combs flied out, was taking second unmolested when Lazzeri maced a single past third and the Bam dashed all the way home.
ROBINS WIN GAME, BUT LOSE DAZZY VANCE; OUT FOR WEEK
Strike-Out King Hit in Arm With Ball.
By CHARLES HOERTER.
Chicago, July 12.—A barrage of base hits, mixed with several bases on balls and an error in the fourth inning gave the Dodgers sufficient runs to defeat the Cubs, 5 to 0, in the final game of the series here today.
The victory, however, was not as sweet as it might have been for Dazzy Vance, who had been pitching for the Dodgers, was hit on his right arm by a line drive from third baseman Schreiber's bat in the fifth inning, which forced his immediate retirement from the game. He probably will be idle for at least a week.
Vance proved that his showing against the Braves last week was no false alarm. He yielded only five hits, four of the infield variety. He added five Cubs to his strike-out list, which has grown to be the largest in the league despite the few games he has pitched.
When Dazzy withdrew Rube Ehrhardt, the fashionable relief artist, stepped in and held the Cubs helpless.
The Cubs served up three pitchers—Milstead, Huntzinger and Piercy—to be slammed around but only Milstead twirled badly. All the Dodger runs in the fourth were scored off him.
