RUSSELL FIRES 2-HITTER, OUT-DUELS HADLEY
Myers' 2-Out 9th Inning Hit Snaps Scoreless Tie
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (AP) - Buddy Myers' bases loaded single with two outs in the
bottom of the ninth inning broke a scoreless tie and gave the Washington
Senators a 1-0 victory over the St. Louis Browns at Griffith
Stadium. Myers' base hit made a winner of Senators starter Jack Russell
who fired a two-hit complete game shutout. Bump Hadley--who surrendered
only an unearned run in 8 2/3 of work himself--was the hard luck loser.
Russell became only the seventh American Leaguer this season, and the first
member of the Senators, to allow two hits or fewer in a complete game
effort. The two clubs combined for only eight hits, marking only the
fourth time this season that a total of eight safeties or fewer were amassed in
an AL contest.
Neither club managed a hit until the fourth inning and neither team advanced a
runner into scoring position with less than two outs until the bottom of the
sixth. Myers drew a one-out free pass from Hadley and advanced to second
on John Stone's single through the box. But consecutive ground ball outs
off the bats of Dave Harris and Joe Cronin snuffed out the threat.
Consecutive two-out singles by Fred Schulte and Pete Susko put Washington
baserunners on first and third but Hadley again kept the Senators scoreless by
retiring Russell on a pop to short.
Myer, who seemed to be in the middle of everything, led off the bottom of the
eighth with a base hit and advanced to second with one out when Stone sacrificed
him along but Hadley coolly set down Harris and Cronin again to preserve the
shutout.
The Browns, meanwhile, got virtually nothing going against Russell, never
advancing a runner past second base. As an illustration of his dominance,
Russell retired the final 10 St. Louis batters he faced.
The Senators finally broke through in the ninth, but they needed a defensive
miscue on the part of the Browns to do so. Cliff Bolton reached leading
off the inning when St. Louis shortstop Alan Strange booted a ground ball for an
error. Schulte sacrificed Bolton to second and Susko drew a walk.
Ossie Bluege fouled to first baseman Jack Burns for the second out, but Hadley
committed the cardinal sin of walking Russell, on four pitches. That
brought the pesky Myers to the plate with the bases loaded and on a 2-2 pitch he
lined a base hit between first and second to plate the only run of the game.
8/27/1934, SLA34-Was34, Griffith 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 2 1 4 0 1934 Senators 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 1 10 0 Browns AB R H BI AVG Senators AB R H BI AVG Clift 3b 4 0 0 0 .243 Myer 2b 4 0 2 1 .304 West cf 3 0 0 0 .300 Stone rf 3 0 2 0 .329 Burns 1b 4 0 2 0 .296 Harris,D lf 3 0 0 0 .261 Garms lf 3 0 0 0 .273 Cronin ss 4 0 0 0 .266 Campbell rf 3 0 0 0 .255 Bolton c 4 0 0 0 .301 Melillo 2b 3 0 0 0 .216 Sewell pr 0 1 0 0 .220 Grube c 3 0 0 0 .269 Schulte cf 2 0 0 0 .287 Strange ss 3 0 0 0 .240 Susko 1b 2 0 1 0 .313 Hadley p 2 0 0 0 .185 Bluege 3b 4 0 1 0 .209 28 0 2 0 Russell p 3 0 0 0 .240 29 1 6 1 Browns INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Hadley L 4-14 8.2 6 1 0 5 1 141 75 4.21 8.2 6 1 0 5 1 141 75 Senators INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Russell W 4-9 9.0 2 0 0 2 3 127 80 4.56 9.0 2 0 0 2 3 127 80 Was: Sewell ran for Bolton in the 9th E-Strange, Bluege. RBI-Myer(48). SB-Burns(8), Schulte(3). CS-Harris,D, Susko. K-Clift 2, Hadley, Russell. BB-West, Hadley, Myer, Harris,D, Susko 2, Russell. SH-Garms, Stone, Schulte. HBP-Schulte. HB-Hadley. GWRBI: Myer Temperature: 85, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 2 MPH. Attendance: 2,157 Game Time: 2:03