CHISOX SNAP 14-GAME 'L' STREAK
Yanks Fall One Game Behind Detroit
CHICAGO, Sept. 7 (AP) - The Chicago White Sox used a five-run seventh inning to
break open a close game and went on to end a major league season worst 14-game
losing streak with a 9-5 victory over the New York Yankees at Comiskey
Park. The White Sox overcame a beanball inspired brawl in the top of the
seventh inning that saw both starting pitchers ejected from the game.
Chicago third baseman Jimmy Dykes doubled, homered and drove in three
runs. The White Sox also persevered, winning despite committing three
errors and allowing two unearned runs.
The Yankees broke out to a 2-0 lead with single runs in each of the first two
frames. Frank Crosetti led off the game with a triple and scored on Red
Rolfe's fly to left. In the second Crosetti's base hit drove home Art
Jorgens, who had singled two batters earlier.
But the White Sox fought back to tie the game in the bottom of the second.
With one out, Luke Appling singled off New York starter Jimmy DeShong and
advanced to second on Dykes' ground out. Marty Hopkins and Merv Shea drew
consecutive free passes, filling the bases. Chicago starter Les Tietje
then improbably grounded a two-run single through the box, knotting the score.
The White Sox took the lead in the bottom of the fifth. Jocko Conlan led
off with a walk and moved to third when Al Simmons rattled a double off the
right-center field wall. Zeke Bonura's fly out to the warning track in
right allowed Conlan to score the lead run and Simmons to move to third.
Luke Appling grounded to second with the infield drawn in as Simmons held at
third, but Dykes came through with a double to left-center, plating Simmons to
give Chicago a 4-2 lead.
It was still 4-2 when the Yankees came to the plate in the top of the
seventh. DeShong led off and Tietje pushed him off the plate on an 0-1
pitch, drawing a glare from the batter. On the next pitch, Tietje hit
DeShong and the New York pitcher charged the mound as both benches
emptied. Both pitchers were ejected, which forced the White Sox to replace
Tietje with Whit Wyatt who immediately induced a double play ball from Crosetti
and a ground out from Rolfe to end the inning.
Johnny Murphy replaced the ejected DeShong on the mound for New York in the
bottom of the seventh and immediately got into trouble. Back-to-back
singles off the bats of Conlan and Simmons put runners on first and
second. Bonura's long fly to left allowed Conlan to tag and advance,
leaving runners on the corners with one out. Appling then cracked a double
to the left-center field gap, scoring Conlan and advancing Simmons to
third. Dykes came through with a drive into the lower grandstand in left
field. The three-run homer put the White Sox ahead 8-2. Before the
inning was over, Evar Swanson had singled home another run and Chicago took a
9-2 lead into the eighth.
Aided by a pair of errors, New York scored two unearned runs in the eighth and
Crosetti's home run in the ninth capped the scoring, but it was too little, too
late for the Yankees.
The loss, coupled with Detroit's doubleheader sweep of the Philadelphia
Athletics at Navin Field, drops the Yankees a game behind the Tigers atop the
American League standings.
9/7/1934, NYA34-ChA34, Comiskey Park 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1934 Yankees 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 5 9 0 8 0 1934 White Sox 0 2 0 0 2 0 5 0 x 9 11 3 8 2 Yankees AB R H BI AVG White Sox AB R H BI AVG Crosetti ss 5 2 3 2 .307 Swanson rf 5 0 2 1 .257 Rolfe 3b 5 0 1 1 .268 Conlan cf 4 2 1 0 .229 Ruth lf 4 0 1 0 .272 Simmons lf 5 2 2 0 .366 Gehrig 1b 5 0 0 0 .377 Bonura 1b 5 0 0 1 .278 Chapman,B cf 3 1 1 0 .317 Appling ss 5 2 3 1 .311 Lazzeri 2b 4 1 2 0 .312 Dykes 2b 4 1 2 4 .268 Selkirk rf 4 0 0 1 .398 Hopkins 3b 1 1 0 0 .160 Jorgens c 4 1 1 0 .200 Shea c 2 1 0 0 .173 DeShong p 0 0 0 0 .239 Tietje p 3 0 1 2 .053 Murphy pr 0 0 0 0 .175 Wyatt p 1 0 0 0 .174 Hoag ph 1 0 0 0 .312 35 9 11 9 35 5 9 4 Yankees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA DeShong L 11-5 6.0 6 4 4 4 0 108 60 3.82 Murphy 2.0 5 5 5 2 0 46 27 3.63 8.0 11 9 9 6 0 154 87 White Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Tietje W 9-11 6.0 7 2 2 2 4 104 64 3.86 Wyatt S 1 3.0 2 3 1 1 1 49 28 5.92 9.0 9 5 3 3 5 153 92 NYA: Murphy ran for DeShong in the 7th Murphy moved to p in the 7th Hoag batted for Murphy in the 9th E-Simmons, Appling 2. 2B-Rolfe(8), Lazzeri(23), Simmons(29), Appling 2(25), Dykes(16). 3B-Crosetti(14). HR-Crosetti(13), Dykes(7). RBI-Crosetti 2(69), Rolfe(17), Selkirk(24), Swanson(25), Bonura(83), Appling(51), Dykes 4(57), Tietje 2(2). K-Ruth, Chapman,B 2, Selkirk, Jorgens. BB-Ruth, Chapman,B, DeShong, Conlan, Hopkins 3, Shea 2. SH-DeShong. HBP-DeShong. HB-Tietje. GWRBI: Bonura Jimmie DeShong was ejected from this game Les Tietje was ejected from this game Temperature: 57, Sky: clear, Wind: in from center at 16 MPH. Attendance: 12,237 Game Time: 2:44