BEVENS 1-HITS CHISOX AS YANKS COMPLETE DH SWEEP
DiMaggio Homers Twice
CHICAGO, June 20 (AP) – Bill Bevens took a no-hitter into the ninth inning and settled for a one-hit complete game shutout, as the New York Yankees completed a doubleheader sweep of the Chicago White Sox with a 6-0 victory in the nightcap. The Yankees won the opener by an identical score, as Spud Chandler tossed his major league leading sixth shutout of the season. Joe DiMaggio belted a pair of home runs in the second game, giving him three in the doubleheader. DiMaggio drove in eight runs across the two games.
Bevens’ teammates seized control of the contest fairly quickly. Johnny Lindell opened the scoring with a two-out solo home run off White Sox starter Earl Smith in the second inning, and DiMaggio led off the top of the fourth with a rocket into the lower left field grandstand to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
New York broke open the game in the top of the fifth. Gus Niarhos drew a leadoff walk and Bevens sacrificed the runner to second. A wild pitch moved Niarhos to third and Snuffy Stirnweiss dove him home on an infield hit to make the score 3-0. Tommy Henrich followed by drawing a walk and Charlie Keller popped to short for the second out. That brought DiMaggio to the plate and he launched a 2-2 offering into the seats in left-center for a three-fun homer and a 6-0 Yankees advantage. DiMaggio’s two-homer effort represents the seventh time thus far this season that a member of the Yankees has hit multiple long balls in a single game.
Bevens was seeking to toss the third no-hitter of the season for New York, and he came three outs away from doing so. After cruising through the first eight innings, allowing nothing that even vaguely resembled a hit, he entered the bottom of the ninth facing pinch hitter Wally Moses. On a 2-2 pitch, Moses hit a sharp grounder to third. Yankees third sacker Billy Johnson smothered the ball, but his throw to first was too late to get Moses. The White Sox had their first hit. Bevens regrouped and induced the next batter, Ralph Hodgin, to ground into a double play, and then retired Thurman Tucker on a bouncer to Johnson at third to end the game.
The complete game one-hitter is the first this season tossed by an American League hurler.
Chandler has thrown a pair of no-hitters for the Yankees this season and has had three separate different streaks of 20+ consecutive scoreless innings this year, including an active skein. No other American League pitcher has managed even one such streak.
6/20/1946, NYA46-ChA46, game 2, Comiskey Park
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1946 Yankees 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 6 2
1946 White Sox 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1
Yankees AB R H BI AVG White Sox AB R H BI AVG
Stirnweiss 2b 5 1 1 1 .282 Hodgin rf 4 0 0 0 .199
Henrich rf 3 1 1 0 .285 Tucker cf 3 0 0 0 .284
Keller lf 5 0 0 0 .266 Michaels ss 3 0 0 0 .308
DiMaggio,J cf 3 2 2 4 .257 Platt lf 3 0 0 0 .206
Johnson,B 3b 4 0 0 0 .293 Kuhel,J 1b 3 0 0 0 .125
Lindell 1b 3 1 1 1 .243 Kennedy,Bo 3b 3 0 0 0 .247
Rizzuto ss 2 0 1 0 .311 Kolloway 2b 3 0 0 0 .258
Niarhos c 3 1 0 0 .125 Dickey,G c 2 0 0 0 .151
Bevens p 3 0 0 0 .059 Smith,E p 1 0 0 0 .182
31 6 6 6 Moses,W ph 1 0 1 0 .225
26 0 1 0
Yankees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Bevens W 6-4 9.0 1 0 0 3 3 115 71 2.42
9.0 1 0 0 3 3 115 71
White Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Smith,E L 1-5 9.0 6 6 6 7 5 150 90 5.60
9.0 6 6 6 7 5 150 90
ChA: Moses,W batted for Smith,E in the 9th
2B-Rizzuto(11). HR-DiMaggio,J 2(11), Lindell(2). RBI-Stirnweiss(18),
DiMaggio,J 4(44), Lindell(6). K-Johnson,B 3, Lindell, Bevens, Michaels,
Platt, Smith,E. BB-Henrich 2, DiMaggio,J, Lindell, Rizzuto 2, Niarhos,
Tucker, Dickey,G, Smith,E. SH-Bevens. WP-Smith,E.
GWRBI: Lindell
Temperature: 77, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: left to right at 10 MPH.
Attendance: 11,771
Game Time: 2:09