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