NEWSOM, BROWNS PREVAIL OVER PEARSON, TRIBE IN IRON MAN EFFORT
Pepper Drives Home Clift With Game-Winner in 13th
ST. LOUIS, July 29 (AP) - Roy Pepper's two-out single to right field plated
Harlond Clift with the game-winning run in the bottom of the 13th inning as the
Browns completed a doubleheader sweep of the Cleveland Indians at Sportsman's
Park with a 4-3 victory. This all occurred just hours after the two teams
battled for 12 innings with the Browns pulling out a 4-3 win in the opener when
Clift doubled in Alan Strange from first base with the winning run. The
victory in the nightcap made a winner of Bobo Newsom, who worked all 13 innings,
matching the longest stint by a starting pitcher in the major leagues this
year. Cleveland's Monte Pearson, who had held the Browns off the
scoreboard after the first inning until Pepper's heroics, was the hard luck
loser.
St. Louis seized control of the game early, with three runs in the opening
frame. After Newsom wriggled out of a bases loaded one-out jam in the top
of the first by striking out Odell Hale and Bill Knickerbocker, the Browns
erupted. Clift led off with a base hit and moved to second on Sam West's
bunt single. Jack Burns' triple to center scored both baserunners and
Burns scored on Pepper's long fly to center, giving St. Louis a 3-0 lead.
The Indians countered with a pair of runs in the top of the third when, with two
outs, Joe Vosmik and Hal Trosky belted back-to-back solo homers to left and
right respectively. It was the third time this year that Cleveland batters
had hit consecutive home runs.
The Indians tied the game in the seventh when Johnny Burnett led off with a
triple and scored on Sam Rice's base hit.
After surrendering the three-spot in the opening inning, Pearson completely
stymied the Browns. Following the Burns triple in the bottom of the first,
Pearson retired 20 of the next 21 batters he faced; a harmless two-out single
off the bat of Burns was the only interruption. Ollie Bejma's base hit in
the seventh, which amounted to nothing, ended that stretch, but even afterward
Pearson didn't allow a St. Louis baserunner to advance past second until the
12th inning.
Newsom's experience was considerably more checkered. The Browns starter
didn't record a 1-2-3 inning until the 10th and the Indians had the potential
go-ahead run in scoring position with less than two outs in both the eighth and
ninth innings but failed to score.
In the top of the 12th, Pearson led off with a double. Rice flied to
center and Newsom pitched around Earl Averill, eventually walking him, before
retiring Vosmik and Trosky to again strand the lead run in scoring position.
In the bottom of the 12th, the Browns seemed poised to win the game.
Pepper led off with a base hit and Bruce Campbell followed by rolling a single
into right field, sending Pepper to third. But Pearson got Rollie Hemsley
on a fly to shallow center, and Bejma's grounder to a drawn-in infield resulted
in Pepper being cut down at home plate with the second out. Newsom then
flied to center to end the threat.
Newsom, who somehow seemed to be getting stronger as the game wore on--Cleveland
never advanced a runner past first in extra innings--retired the Indians in
order in the top of the 13th. In the bottom half, Clift led off with a
base hit and West sacrificed him to second. Burns grounded sharply to Hale
at second, advancing Clift to third. It appeared that a 14th inning was in
the offing but Pepper lined a base hit over Hale's head, scoring Clift with the
game-winning run.
The game marked only the second time this season that a starting pitcher worked
13 complete innings. Coincidentally, the other instance involved the same
two clubs. On April 19 at League Park, the Browns defeated the Indians 1-0
in 15 innings. Mel Harder of Cleveland pitched 13 shutout frames in that
contest. Newsom and Pearson are the only big league pitchers this season
to toss complete games greater than 11 innings in length.
7/29/1934, Cle34-SLA34, game 2, Sportsman's Park (A) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1934 Indians 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1934 Browns 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 R H E LOB DP 1934 Indians 0 3 12 0 10 0 1934 Browns 1 4 10 1 7 1 Indians AB R H BI AVG Browns AB R H BI AVG Rice rf 6 0 1 1 .303 Clift 3b 5 2 2 0 .251 Averill cf 5 0 1 0 .314 West cf 5 1 1 0 .287 Vosmik lf 6 1 1 1 .323 Burns 1b 6 1 3 2 .284 Trosky 1b 5 1 2 1 .363 Pepper lf 6 0 2 2 .284 Hale 2b 6 0 1 0 .301 Campbell rf 5 0 1 0 .259 Knickerbocker ss 5 0 0 0 .325 Hemsley c 5 0 0 0 .249 Burnett 3b 6 1 4 0 .339 Bejma 2b 4 0 1 0 .248 Pytlak c 4 0 1 0 .283 Strange ss 4 0 0 0 .245 Pearson p 4 0 1 0 .299 Hornsby ph 0 0 0 0 .444 47 3 12 3 Melillo 2b 0 0 0 0 .218 Newsom p 5 0 0 0 .148 45 4 10 4 Indians INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Pearson L 11-6 12.2 10 4 4 3 6 188 121 3.96 12.2 10 4 4 3 6 188 121 Browns INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Newsom W 7-8 13.0 12 3 3 3 10 173 111 3.78 13.0 12 3 3 3 10 173 111 SLA: Hornsby batted for Strange in the 12th Bejma moved to ss in the 13th Melillo inserted at 2b in the 13th E-Campbell. 2B-Trosky(35), Pearson(5). 3B-Burnett(2), Burns(6). HR-Vosmik(6), Trosky(19). RBI-Rice(35), Vosmik(38), Trosky(102), Burns 2(52), Pepper 2(53). SB-Pytlak(8). CS-Hale, Knickerbocker, Clift, Bejma. K-Averill, Vosmik 2, Hale 2, Knickerbocker 2, Burnett, Pytlak, Pearson, Clift, Pepper, Bejma, Strange 2, Newsom. BB-Averill, Trosky, Pytlak, Clift, Bejma, Hornsby. SH-Pearson, West. HBP-Knickerbocker. HB-Newsom. GWRBI: Pepper Temperature: 85, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from left at 16 MPH. Attendance: 1,190 Game Time: 2:45