GOMEZ OUTDUELS NEWSOM AS YANKS WIN 6TH OF 7
Dickey's 5th Inning 3B Is Difference
NEW YORK, May 8 (AP) - Lefty Gomez improved to 4-0 on the season with a five-hit
shutout, outdueling Bobo Newsom as the New York Yankees slipped past the St.
Louis Browns 1-0 at Yankee Stadium. It was the sixth win in the last seven
games for New York; the club now holds a 2 1/2 game lead in the American League
over second place Detroit.
The Browns never moved a runner past second base against Gomez, who walked two
while fanning five. In fact, St. Louis only managed to advance one runner
beyond first base. In the top of the third inning, Alan Strange led off by
grounding a single into left field. Newsom sacrificed the runner to second
base and Gomez then walked Harlond Clift on four pitches. But Earl Clark
flied to left and Jack Burns lined out to right to end the threat. It was
the closest the Browns would come to scoring a run and was the only time the
team had two men on base at the same time.
Newsom was, in point of fact, every bit as good as Gomez. He held the
Yankees to just four hits in his complete game stint, while walking two and
striking out three. But the St. Louis defense--which committed three
errors in the game--ultimately did him in in the bottom of the fifth when the
Yankees scored their only run. Newsom retired Ben Chapman on a ground ball
to open the frame but Tony Lazzeri reached when second baseman Ski Melillo
booted his grounder for an error. Bill Dickey followed by lining a triple
into left-center field's Death Valley, scoring Lazzeri with what would prove to
be the contest's only tally. Newsom walked Don Heffner to put runners on
first and third. Gomez sacrificed Heffner to second and Earl Combs flied
to right to end the inning, but the Yankees had picked up an unearned run.
Dickey's triple was the last hit recorded by New York and the only Browns safety
from that point on was Clark's harmless two-out single in the eighth.
Neither club put another runner in scoring position.
Newsome becomes the first major league pitcher this season to throw a complete
game, not allow an earned run, and lose.
5/8/1934, SLA34-NYA34, Yankee Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1934 Browns 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 6 5 1934 Yankees 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 x 1 4 0 3 1 Browns AB R H BI AVG Yankees AB R H BI AVG Clift 3b 3 0 0 0 .265 Combs cf 4 0 0 0 .262 Clark,E lf 4 0 1 0 .143 Rolfe ss 3 0 1 0 .250 Burns 1b 4 0 0 0 .276 Ruth rf 2 0 0 0 .308 Pepper cf 4 0 1 0 .209 Byrd rf 0 0 0 0 .333 Campbell rf 4 0 0 0 .206 Gehrig 1b 3 0 1 0 .410 Melillo 2b 3 0 1 0 .147 Chapman,B lf 3 0 0 0 .297 Bejma ph 1 0 0 0 .200 Lazzeri 3b 3 1 0 0 .307 Grube c 2 0 0 0 .095 Dickey c 3 0 2 1 .431 Strange ss 3 0 2 0 .228 Heffner 2b 2 0 0 0 .382 Newsom p 2 0 0 0 .111 Gomez p 1 0 0 0 .083 30 0 5 0 24 1 4 1 Browns INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Newsom L 1-1 8.0 4 1 0 2 3 96 56 2.78 8.0 4 1 0 2 3 96 56 Yankees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Gomez W 4-0 9.0 5 0 0 2 5 106 66 3.64 9.0 5 0 0 2 5 106 66 SLA: Bejma batted for Melillo in the 9th NYA: Byrd inserted at rf in the 9th E-Clift, Melillo, Strange. 3B-Dickey(1). RBI-Dickey(20). K-Clift 2, Pepper, Grube, Strange, Ruth, Lazzeri, Heffner. BB-Clift, Grube, Ruth, Heffner. SH-Newsom, Gomez 2. GWRBI: Dickey Temperature: 67, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: left to right at 16 MPH. Attendance: 9,409 Game Time: 1:40