Jimmy Williams enjoys afterglow of lead-reversing walk-off B9th HR!
Handsome Harry Schaflly serves up a bit of Scha Fly pie in opponents' faces!!
Billy Sullivan, ready to go out on the town after lining extra inning walkoff blow
1906:EOBHR #38:A.L. DAY 5
33 PA (2-3/7th) 3-8-0-3-0
CW (3-2/T2nd) 4-10-0-9-1 in 11
The A's take a 1-0 Lead T1st as Topsy Hartsel greets the eventual Clown Prince of Baseball, Nick Altrock, by drilling a leadoff triple over great CF Fielder Jones, then one out later hard-hitting Philly 2B Danny Murphy grounds a go-ahead single through 1st for his 5th ribbie so far.
But the Sox come back with a 3-spot B4th, putting the A's in a 2-run hole. 26-year-old Billy O' Neill beats out a leadoff infield hit against great lefty flameballing whacko Rube Waddell, then Sox slugging SS George Davis lines a double over 3rd, moving speedy O'Neill to the penultimate base (3rd)....And the 5'-11"/190lb 'Bald Eagle', Frank Isbell smashes the game-tying infield groundout that ties the game 1-1 and also gives the Bald Eagle the A.L. RBI lead (8) in this 1906 replay!
The Sox' fancy 1B Jiggs Donahue follows suit with an RBI groundout of his own to score George Davis and make it 2-1 Sockos... Then A's LF Armbruster has to turn and chase back on star defensive C Billy Sullivan's double that goes soaring over his head. 3-1, Sox.
This rally just about expends all of Chicago's amunition for this game against the great Waddell, but the A's still seem to have more to say about the outcome. Philly C Ossie Schreckengost smashes a single by slugging 2B Isbell to open the T7th, then Bris Lord, our town of Media Pa.'s good old Court House guard for many years, Bris living alone in a little apartment on the square where the Court House is located, comes through with a hit & run single, then a sac fly by A's SS Monte Cross, brother of Lave, cuts the Sox lead to a slim 3-2.
And in the T9th, the A's slugging 1B Harry Davis smashes another A's hit by 2B Isbell, then powerful Danny Murphy crushes a drive way deep RF....but is out at home on his inside-the-park homer attempt!!! Nonetheless, Danny has finally tied this game up after dogged pursuit of the slugging Sox, 3-3.
And was it all worth it for the A's, keeping Waddell in for the entire game, using their best bench players to 'ketch up'?
Well, nut exuctly, nope, not this time... But you always gotta keep tryin' and playin' yer hardest. In the B11th, Waddell still working away, CF Fielder Jones reaches on an oddly bouncing smash zigzagging towards A's 2B Murphy.... Then with fleet CF Jones running on the pitch, wonderful ketcher & hitter Billy Sullivan lines a walkoff extra base hit over 1st!!
M.C. Sullivan: 'I,m happy to say we Sox are gonna have a Reeeeeeeeeeeely beeeeeg shew for you tonite!!
34 BR (0-5/8th) 5-8-0
NY (3-2/T2nd) 6-15-1
This was one of the closest games so far in this 1906 replay... But the Bosox continued their winless ways with almost one third of the 16 game regular season over. And until this 'encouraging' 6-5 loss, the Red Sox were not only 0-4, but had been outscored 36 to 3!
Kid Elberfeld triples and scores B1st for the ultimate winners, but an RBI hit for struggling 2 for 15 Sox slugger Buck Freeman ties the game 1-1 T2nd.
A Hal Chase RBI infield hit and a 'Pot' LaPorte sac fly make it 3-1 home Yankees B5th.
But in the T6th, Fred Parent and Chick Stahl (who was 1 for 12 entering the game) each smash 2-baggers to cut the Yankee lead to 3-2.
The great Jimmy Collins pinch hits a double for Boston T7th, and PH Jack Hayden singles him home to re-tie game 3-3. Then Hayden steals 2nd and SS and leadoff man Freddy Parent grounds to his hard-hitting but-not-as-good-fielding counterpart, Kid Elberfeld: who makes what must have been a really errant throw to great 1B Hal Chase... And the Sox are ahead 4-3!!
Parent then steals 2nd, and scores on a single by (whooooey???) oh, I get it, Sox RF Jack Hoey! 5-3 Sox.
But in the Yankee B8th, Wee Willie Keeler leads off with a checked swing ball 4, Wid Conroy skillfully slaps a hit & run single through the right side with the Wee One on the move...and PH Deacon McGuire, an outstanding player and slugger in his day, loops an RBI single into RF! 5-4 Sox.
Finally, with ultra-workhorse, 511 game winner (real MLB) Cy Young the Sox starter still on the mound B9th, Hal Chase opens the B9th with his 3rd hit of the game, a scalding line single, then cleanup man and fine-fielding 2B and cleanup man Jimmie Williams clobbers a 2-run HR over racing-back CF Chick Stahl's head B9th to decide thrilling game!!
Williams Jimmies open door to victory
35 SB (2-3/3xT5th) 2-10-4
CL (5-0/1st+2G) 4-6-0
The Brownies double up the Tribe on hits+walks (12-6) but are in turn doubled up by the Indians (4-2) on scoring!! Hmmmm... Let's see.... Which is the more important of the two?? Hmmmm...
Strawberry Bill Bernhard's pitching with men on base is a huge factor in the Cleveland win, which puts the realworld 3rd place, an 89-64 team in reality, a full two games ahead of any other A.L. team in this replay with a fabulous 5-0 start... Although there are three teams (Chisox, Highlanders, Nats) with 3-2 performances to date, two games behind the undefeated Tribal members as of this game.
Struggling 2 for 14 and Brown 7-hole-hitter 2B Pete O'brien...not to be confused with the more recent, slugging Ranger and Mariner 1B Pete O'Brien of the 1980's-90's...lines the game's first go-ahead hit with one out T2nd, scoring red-hot cleanup-hitting C and future baseball megamogul, the creator of the modern Farm System concept, Branch Rickey.
Then, after Brownie superstar (if you can have such a personage on these Browns) OF George Stone beats out a dribbler with two out T3rd, steals 2nd, his 2nd steal of this replay. And C Rickey comes through again, just like the surefire exec he would be, with an RBI single down the RF line, making future chubby exec 7-18/D/4R/3RBI so far in the replay and putting his Browns ahead by two.
Thus ends the Browns offense for the day.... And that 2-0 T3rd lasts only until 2-out B3rd, when we are not that surprised to see....
1. Ironically, a one out C Branch Rickey 2-base error (E2) on a dropped high pop up launched by Jap Barbeau, who makes it all the way to 2nd in the ensuing panic, then a star SS Terry Turner grounder to our non-modern 2B Pete O'Brien, who throws wildly to 1st (E4). A 2-out RBI double by the almost unstoppable HOFer Nap Lajoie ties the game 2-2. Then the great-hitting contemporary of Nap, the speedy, powerful, athletic CF Elmer Flick flicks s single by poor picked-upon 2B O'Brien, and it's 3-2.... All five runs scoring in the 3rd frame!
A final insurance run is another Flick RBI, scoring Bunk Congalton, who had driven a leadoff double to the RCF wall!
...As Bernhard faces 37 Brown batters but allows just two to score for the 4-2 win, as the Indians make the most of their opportunites, whether created by themselves or their Brownie opponents.
Elmer Flicks Bic, StrawberryToo Tart for Brownies
36 WN (3-2/3xT2nd) 7-9-2 DT (2-3/3xT5th) 6-12-2
Tiger 1B Bill Coughlin lines a 2-out go-ahead single 2-out T1st for his 3rd RBI of the 1906 replay, then slumping 1 for 15 Nation's CAPITAL 2B Germany Schaefer, who can be a formidable hitter, begins to maybe turn things around for himself by lining an RBI double into the RF corner. 2-0 Tigers
And in the B3rd, Tiger 1B Pinky Lindsay's 2-out sinking liner into LF becomes a triple when Nat LF 'Honest' John Anderson makes an honest but misguided attempt to make it a 3rd out with his diving sliding fielding manoever.... Then Nat SS Altizer misplays lumbering C Boss Schmidt's bounder (E6) 3-0 Tigers
But to blear the early going in doubt and replace it with a blast of turn of the century Nationalistic fervor, after an RBI groundout contributed by P Kitson 'Piano Legs' Hickman's bases skragged 3-run game-tying triple is lined well over a retreating LF Matt McIntyre's head (as well as the rest of his body) , an obvious one-upping of a boiling Pinky Lindsay's very recent B2nd 2-out 2-run 3-baggler for 'the oppoeition'. 3-3 tie
So Pinky makes sure he becomes a baserunner in the bottom of the frame (B4th) by drawering a walk in the appropriate shelf of his lifetime baseball scorecard bureau. Next batter C Boss Schmidt, mutters, 'OK, Pinky, yer the boss I gusset...' and he too employs the patience to earn a 2nd free pass in a row off a soon to by departing Frank Kitson. 'I thought I left something on in my kitson...'had to run home and check Frank explains to writers as to why he hurried out of the park after himself drawing a walk and coming around to score an important run B5th. 6-4 Nationals
But Tiger hurler 'Wabash George' Mullin officially leaves the game before Kitson, who is chuckling on 2nd base when Mullin gets red-flagged for drilling poor Dave Altizer on the elbow and must immediately leave the playing field or any place in the paying specpotatoes' lines of vision!
Red Donahue comes in to replace Kitson, and immediately shows off his potential inferiority by giving up a solid single to Honest John Anderson, albeit the run is unearned since a daring, hard slide by sometimes forgettable SS Dave Altizer into C Boss Schmidt knocks the ball free from his mitten (E2!!). 6-4 Nationales,
In the B9th, one out, El Tigres still down 6-4, LF Matt McIntyre punches his 2nd hit of the game, then HOF slugger 'Wahoo' Sam Crawford (coincidentally born in Wahoo, Nebraska) yanks a single RF as only Wahoo can yank...And 'Coughing' Bill Coughlin whacks a single to jack the sacks... only one out...Tigers down 6-4.
...But 2 for 19 Germany Schaefer grounds into a run producing FC, and 3 for 17 SS Charlie O'Leary scorches a 2-out game-tying single that tallies Crawford.... But RF Charley Jones nails Schaeffer at 3rd... 6-6 tie....Hold the dinner, Mrs. Dinnings...it's time for extra innings!
Tiger SS Dave Altizer's 2-run double leads off the T10th with a BANG! and then 2-hole batting 2 for 16 Harry Schlafly follow suit serves up a double Schlafly pie T10th with no out T10th to promptly decide the game T10th... as Casey Patton wins in relief for the roadie Nationals!!
Case Closed: Patton, Nats Winners