VANCE VICTORIOUS -- AGAIN
Brooklyn Starter Wins 20th
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2 (AP) - Dazzy Vance won his 20th game of the season in
overpowering fashion as the Brooklyn Robins whipped the Philadelphia Phillies,
6-1, in the first game of a doubleheader at the Baker Bowl. Vance is the
first National League hurler to reach the 20-win threshold this year.
The Brooklyn right-hander's outstanding season continued in impressive fashion;
Vance fanned 10 batters for the eighth time this year and the third time in his
last four starts. No other National League pitcher has accomplished the
feat even once.
The Phillies took the lead in the game in the bottom of the first inning when Cy
Williams, the second Philadelphia batter of the contest, pulled his 21st home
run of the season, a solo shot, just inside the right field foul pole. The
Phillies would manage a second hit until Walter Holke led off the eighth inning
with a single. Holke eventually advanced to second on Fritz Henrich's
one-out base hit before both runners were stranded by Vance. Holke was the
only Philadelphia baserunner of the game--other than Williams on his home
run--to reach second base.
This was Vance's fourth three-hitter of the season.
The Robins ultimately made Vance's job relatively easy. Brooklyn tied the
game in the third when Zack Wheat doubled home Andy High--the first of three
runs scored by the second baseman.
The Robins took the lead in the fifth. High led off the inning with a
single, his third of four, and was sacrificed to second by Andy Mitchell.
Wheat walked and Brooklyn loaded the bases when Philadelphia second baseman Hod
Ford booted
Jack Fournier's potential double play grounder. The Robins pounced on the
error when Eddie Brown lined a two-run single to left, making it 3-1. Milt
Stock's double play grounder ended the frame but Brooklyn had a lead it wouldn't
relinquish.
The scoring was capped with Robins' solo runs in the sixth (Tommy Griffith's
solo home run), seventh (Hank DeBerry's RBI single) and eighth (High's solo
blast).
Vance did the rest. The Brooklyn starter fired his 24th complete game in
28 starts. In the NL, only teammate Burleigh Grimes (26) has more.
9/2/1924, Brk24-PhN24, game 1, Baker Bowl
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1924 Robins 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 6 15 2 13 0
1924 Phillies 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 5 2
Robins AB R H BI AVG Phillies AB R H BI AVG
High 2b 6 3 4 1 .318 Henrich lf 4 0 1 0 .190
Mitchell ss 4 0 1 0 .304 Williams cf 3 1 1 1 .306
Wheat lf 4 1 1 1 .378 Wrightstone 3b 3 0 0 0 .307
Fournier 1b 2 1 0 0 .320 Harper rf 4 0 0 0 .293
Brown cf 5 0 1 2 .324 Ford 2b 4 0 0 0 .234
Stock 3b 4 0 1 0 .284 Henline c 4 0 0 0 .314
Griffith rf 5 1 4 1 .269 Sand ss 3 0 0 0 .239
DeBerry c 5 0 2 1 .231 Holke 1b 3 0 1 0 .309
Vance p 4 0 1 0 .179 Carlson p 2 0 0 0 .242
39 6 15 6 Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0 .200
Oeschger p 0 0 0 0 .174
31 1 3 1
Robins INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Vance W 20-6 9.0 3 1 1 2 10 132 85 2.33
9.0 3 1 1 2 10 132 85
Phillies INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Carlson L 12-11 8.0 14 6 5 3 4 148 87 3.97
Oeschger 1.0 1 0 0 2 0 19 9 4.26
9.0 15 6 5 5 4 167 96
PhN: Mitchell batted for Carlson in the 8th
E-Mitchell, Stock, Ford. 2B-Wheat(32), Griffith(20), DeBerry(12). HR-High(7),
Griffith(4), Williams(21). RBI-High(56), Wheat(88), Brown 2(51),
Griffith(55), DeBerry(20), Williams(69). K-Wheat, Fournier, Stock, DeBerry,
Henrich 3, Williams, Ford 3, Henline, Sand 2. BB-Wheat, Fournier 2, Stock,
Vance, Williams, Wrightstone. SH-Mitchell. HBP-Fournier. HB-Carlson.
GWRBI: Brown
Temperature: 72, Sky: clear, Wind: out to right at 14 MPH.
Attendance: N/A
Game Time: 2:17