PIPP, YANKS OUTLAST BOSOX, SWEEP DH
Ruth Extends Hitting Streak to 27
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (AP) - Continuing his surge of the last month, Wally Pipp went
4-4, including a home run, and drove in a pair of runs as New York completed its
doubleheader sweep of the Boston Red Sox with a 10-5 victory before a Labor Day
crowd of 15,741 at Yankee Stadium. It was Boston's fifth straight
loss. Babe Ruth had a pair of hits and extended his hitting streak to 27
games, tying him with Whitey Witt for the season long.
The Yankees exploded for six runs in the third inning to seize control of the
game. Joe Dugan's one-out single plated Everett Scott, who had reached on
an error by Red Sox starter Bill Piercy (3-7) and it snowballed from
there. Ruth--who had uncharacteristically appeared overanxious in the
first inning when he grounded out on a 3-0 pitch--ended any suspense regarding
his hitting streak when he roped a one-hop double off the right-center field
wall to score Witt, who had walked in front of Dugan. Pipp was walked
intentionally to fill the bases but light-hitting catcher Fred Hoffman foiled
the strategy by slicing a double down the right field line to score two more
runs. Bob Meusel's infield single capped the frame's scoring and gave New
York a lead it wouldn't relinquish.
Boston tried to get back into the game in the fourth by scoring three times off
Yankees starter Bob Shawkey (6-12). A one-out error by Pipp on Ike Boone's
sharp grounder helped open the door for the Red Sox and Bobby Veach and Danny
Clark drove in three runs between them before Shawkey was able to stem the
uprising.
The Yankees stymied Boston's momentum and drove Piercy from the hill in the
bottom of the inning when Ruth's second hit of the game scored Witt to put the
Yankees on top 7-3. Pipp's solo home run in the seventh, his fifth of the
year, all but put the game out of reach.
The Red Sox did knock out Shawkey and draw a bit closer in the eighth when, with
one out, Boone walked and Joe Harris and Veach followed with consecutive doubles
to cut the deficit to three runs. But Milt Gaston came on and retired all
five batters he faced to close out the game. The Yankees, meanwhile, added
insult to injury by scoring twice more, with Shags Horan and Pipp doing the
honors with RBI singles.
For Shawkey, it was his first win at home since a May 13 complete game victory
over the Chicago White Sox.
9/1/1924, BoA24-NYA24, game 2, Yankee Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1924 Red Sox 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 5 8 2 5 0
1924 Yankees 0 0 6 1 0 0 1 2 x 10 12 1 6 2
Red Sox AB R H BI AVG Yankees AB R H BI AVG
Flagstead cf 4 0 0 0 .288 Witt cf 4 3 2 0 .309
Wambsganss 2b 4 0 2 0 .298 Dugan 3b 5 1 1 1 .295
Boone rf 3 2 0 0 .295 Johnson ss 0 0 0 0 .358
Harris 1b 3 2 1 0 .311 Ruth rf 4 1 2 2 .406
Veach lf 4 1 3 3 .277 Pipp 1b 4 2 4 2 .281
Clark 3b 4 0 1 2 .280 Hofmann c 3 1 1 2 .205
Ezzell ss 4 0 0 0 .273 Schang c 0 0 0 0 .288
O'Neill c 3 0 1 0 .250 Meusel lf 4 0 1 1 .323
Piercy p 2 0 0 0 .222 Gaston p 0 0 0 0 .182
Ross p 0 0 0 0 .250 Ward 2b 2 1 0 1 .269
Williams ph 1 0 0 0 .667 Scott ss 3 1 0 0 .262
Murray p 0 0 0 0 .278 McNally 3b 0 0 0 0 .308
Todt ph 1 0 0 0 .269 Shawkey p 2 0 0 0 .305
33 5 8 5 Horan lf 1 0 1 1 .423
32 10 12 10
Red Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Piercy L 3-7 3.1 7 7 5 3 1 72 40 4.70
Ross 2.2 1 0 0 0 0 31 19 4.39
Murray 2.0 4 3 3 2 0 40 23 4.92
8.0 12 10 8 5 1 143 82
Yankees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Shawkey W 6-12 7.1 8 5 4 4 2 109 63 4.08
Gaston S 2 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 19 12 3.31
9.0 8 5 4 4 2 128 75
BoA: Williams batted for Ross in the 7th
Todt batted for Murray in the 9th
NYA: Schang inserted at c in the 8th
Horan inserted at lf in the 8th
Johnson inserted at ss in the 9th
McNally inserted at 3b in the 9th
E-Veach, Piercy, Pipp. 2B-Wambsganss(39), Harris(32), Veach 3(37), Ruth(33),
Pipp(32), Hofmann(4). HR-Pipp(5). RBI-Veach 3(59), Clark 2(39), Dugan(52),
Ruth 2(120), Pipp 2(90), Hofmann 2(13), Meusel(88), Ward(57), Horan(3).
CS-Flagstead, Meusel. K-Clark, Piercy, Ward. BB-Flagstead, Boone, Harris,
O'Neill, Witt, Ruth, Pipp, Hofmann, Ward. SH-Ward, Scott, Shawkey.
WP-Shawkey 2.
GWRBI: Dugan
Temperature: 61, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 11 MPH.
Attendance: 15,741
Game Time: 2:19