team:New York Yankees

“Spaghet! Tony Wins for Da Yanks!” Lazzeri Lifts New York in 1926

Tony Lazzeri’s eighth-inning grand slam carried the Yankees past the White Sox, while rain froze Brooklyn and Pittsburgh in a 4–4 deadlock during a wet May 18, 1926 baseball slate.

Content from the New York Daily News - WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926

## In This Edition

- [Spaghet! Tony Wins for Da Yanks!](#spaghet-tony-wins-for-da-yanks)
- [Rain Again Halts Robins and Champs in Deadlock](#rain-again-halts-robins-and-champs-in-deadlock)
- [Giants Open Four-Game Pirate Series Today](#giants-open-four-game-pirate-series-today)
- [Indians Beat Senators and Walter Johnson, 4–2](#indians-beat-senators-and-walter-johnson-42)
- [Standings and Batting Leaders](#standings-and-batting-leaders)
- [Advertisements](#advertisements)

SPAGHET! TONY WINS FOR DA YANKS!

LAZZERI HITS HOMER WIT DA BASES DRUNK

Clout Beats White Sox in Third Straight, 5—3. | Poosh'm Op!

By MARSHALL HUNT.

There probably were bonfires and dancing in the streets of the Italian east side last evening. If there was none of that, no rejoicing, no festivities, it was a regrettable oversight, almost a personal affront to that Neopolitan nobleman, Tony Lazzeri.

1926 newspaper portrait of Yankees infielder Tony Lazzeri beneath the headline “Poosh’m Op!” following his game-winning grand slam against Chicago. — “Poosh’m Op!” portrait feature of Tony Lazzeri after the Yankees second baseman blasted a decisive grand slam against the White Sox in May 1926.

Signor Lazzeri, he do what?
How come Tony he bigga da push, da bigga da guy?
Macaroni, Raviola, Spaghet!
Tony he slappa da baseball for beeg home run with bases full in eighth inning and winna da game for hees Yankees, 5 to 3.
O, Tony he bigga da push!
Cutta da beeg peece, cake, Tonee!

For seven innings yesterday Master Hollis Thurston of the Chicago White Sox held the Yankees in complete subjugation. A feeble, puerile lot were the Yankees, and in that same length of time the Sox had earned three runs off Sad Sam Jones and had made his removal in the sixth quite necessary.

But Mark Koenig artistically inaugurated the eighth with a single and comrade Earle Combs doubled. Lou Gehrig walked and the bases were completely tenanted.

Now there was ecstacy in the galleries for the vast frame of Babe Ruth had emerged from the Yankee hutch. Aw! the best he could do was to reach first safely on Eddie Collins's fumble, but, of course, Koenig scored. Bob Meusel fanned. Shame! Shame! Robert.

But does any Italian recognize a crisis when he meets one on the street? Brother, he does! Signor Lazzeri smashed a home run to center field, the ball galloping beyond the flagpole and there still hums in the listeners of your correspondent the pounding of Yankee hoofs as the stampede continued, causing the terrain to vibrate and quiver.

Clumpity! Clumpity! Clump! On they came, Combs and Gehrig and Ruth and Signor Lazzeri, clumpity! clump, clump, clump! Now there was huzzahing and yelling and those five runs had defeated the White Sox the third straight time and had extended the healthy winning streak of the Yankees through seven games.

A home run by Spencer Harris in the fourth gave the Sox their first run and three hits in the sixth enabled them to score two more, an inning which was thickly encrusted with White Sox strategy at the end but which went for naught when Robert Meusel made a remarkable throw to the plate for a double play.

1926 newspaper box score showing the Yankees defeating the White Sox 5–3 behind Tony Lazzeri’s grand slam and strong relief pitching by Wilcy Moore. — Box score from the Yankees’ 5–3 comeback win over the White Sox on May 18, 1926, highlighted by Tony Lazzeri’s eighth-inning grand slam.

RAIN AGAIN HALTS ROBINS AND CHAMPS IN DEADLOCK

Score Knotted at 4—4 in Tenth Inning.

By JACK FARRELL.

Pittsburgh, May 18.—There seems to be a cleverly concocted conspiracy afoot in which old John Weatherman is playing the part of ringleader, to keep those Robins from regaining their footing at the top of the Heydler circuit.

Surprise Attack.

Today, just when it appeared as if the Flatbush athletes had a chance to salvage at least one game of a rather disastrous series from those pesky Pirates, the elements interfered and forced Umpire Charley Moran to declare the fracas a four-to-four draw after the combat had struggled through nine hectic innings and part of the tenth.

With Douglas McWeeny pitching just well enough to hold a two-run lead, the Pirates launched a surprise attack in the eighth and tied the score at four all. Two bases on balls, Paul Waner's double and Pie Traynor's single gave the drive the necessary momentum.

Then the Deluge.

Undaunted by this unexpected occurrence, the Robins set themselves for a fresh start in the tenth and were well under way when the flood gates opened and drove all hands to cover.

Dick Cox led off with a single, and after Clifford Fewster had fanned, Zack Wheat forced Cox. Babe Herman, who had gotten himself three hits off two Pirate pitchers who labored prior to the arrival of Tom Sheehan in the eighth inning, peeled off another single and Grandpa Wheat dusted himself off at third.

1926 newspaper portraits of Pirates pitcher Douglas McWeeny and third baseman Pie Traynor following Pittsburgh’s rain-shortened tie with Brooklyn. — Douglas McWeeny and Pie Traynor featured in a 1926 newspaper portrait after Pittsburgh rallied to tie Brooklyn before rain halted the game.

But he got no farther. It had begun to rain at the start of the tenth and when Mr. Gus Felix stepped up to the plate the field was enveloped in darkness. After Sheehan had pitched two balls and one strike, the rain came down in torrents and brother Moran decided to come in out of the wet.

The Pirates broke into the scoring in the second inning when they scored one run on Traynor's single and Johnny Gooch's double. That lead was effaced in the fourth. Lee Meadows, then working for the Pirates, walked Wheat. Herman singled, sending Zack to third, whence he scored on a double steal.

Meadows was bombed right out of the picture in the fifth when the Robins worked him for three hits and a base on balls for two more runs.

Waner’s single, Kiki Cuyler's sacrifice and a base on balls gave the Pirates their second run in the sixth. Fewster's double, Herman's third single and a wild heave by Stuffy McInnis gave the Robins one in the eighth.

1926 newspaper box score showing the Brooklyn Robins and Pittsburgh Pirates tied 4–4 in a rain-shortened game featuring Babe Herman, Paul Waner, and Pie Traynor. — Box score from the rain-shortened 4–4 tie between the Brooklyn Robins and Pittsburgh Pirates on May 18, 1926, halted during the tenth inning.

Giants Open Four-Game Pirate Series Today.

Cincinnati, O., May 18.—A brief rainstorm washed out the final game of the Giants-Reds series here this afternoon.

After taking three straight lickings from the Reds, the Giants are hard to live with and the combative spirit is in the air. It is to be hoped that our Giants will take out their hard feelings on the Pirates in the four-game series which opens in Pittsburgh tomorrow.

The best Mr. McGraw's cut-ups can hope for on the western trip is an even break.

MURPHY.

INDIANS BEAT SENATORS

AND WALTER JOHNSON, 4—2

In the American league the Indians took the measure of Walter Johnson and the Senators, winning 4 to 2. The Tigers beat the Athletics 5 to 2 and the Red Sox defeated the Browns 6 to 3.

The Phillys-Cubs and Braves-Cards games were postponed on account of rain in the National league.