EOBHR

GAME 76:  Washington (6-4/3rd) 2-5-0-4-2

Boston Red Sox (3-7/7th) 0-6-1-4-1

A Frank Kitson 6-hit 31-batters-faced shutout of lowly Boston, A.L. version (3-7). 

The 'real' versions of these two bottom of the barrel role clubs were Nats (55-95), Sox (49-105)...  So, indeed, the better team did in fact win. 

Perhaps it was during this loss that 'Orator' Bill Dinneen (1-2/3.86: with fastball, sharp curve) had the bright idea....Mebbe that poor ump'd be better off facing the catcher's heinie than his mask... And he ended up umping a record 8 World Series...and also called balls & strikes for the first five innings of the Inaugural 1933 All-Star Game... And is the only player to both pitch a no-hitter and umpire one.

In the B2nd of this game, the Sox manager, CF Chick Stahl, a great fielding outfielder, leads off with a single but then Red Morgan smashes a GDP grounder back to unrelated Jake Stahl of the Nats to end the opportunity*. 

*Chick dies at age 34 before the start of the 1907 season. 

Piano Legs Hickman strokes a low line 2-run single with 2-out T6th to decide the game in Washington/Kitson's favor. 

If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the Kitson

GAME 75: Phila. A's (4-6/6th) 3-7-0

Detroit Tigers (2-8/8th:Last) 2-8-0

After A's slugging 1B Harry Davis (.389/3d/2t/5r/36ab) pokes a one out go-ahead double following an OF Harry Arnbruster similar two-ply slasher, it appears that the actual 78-67 Mackmen may be on their way to an easy victory.

But the toofless (in this replay so fur, but a decent 71-78 in actual '06) Tigers, working on a 7 game losing streak here in '06 EOBHR (all of the losses but one by only 1 or 2 tallies) immediately reply with 2 scores of their own B1st to revoise the lead, 2-1 Tigues. 

First, Tiger 2B Germany Schaefer smacks an infield  single deep into the hole --  (you know, the groundsleepers really should fill-in the rodent subway beneath the playing before the games) -- a play on which A's SS Monte Cross goes far to his right to nab the ball before it disappears into the hole popping up farther out in the OF....And taking advantage of the opportunity per usural, the fabulous Yahoo! Sam Crawford e-mails a game-tying triple far down the RF line.... making it to 3rd before reply (throw to 3rd) to tie the game 1-1.  And reliable Tiger 3B Bill Coughlin keeps the early mauling going by with a line Ribeye single LF: 2-1, Tigers B1st.

Yes, fans: it looks like a high-scoring game in the making! 

But dazzling A's starting P Jim Dygart, who held opposition batters to a depressed .227 BA across his six-year, 57-49, realworld career, and who shuts out the Tigers for the rest of this game, yes, this self-same superman Dygert drives a game-tying triple over speedy Tiger CF Davey Jones' (unhappy Tigers fan, as he follows the play:  'Yep, it's headed twards Davey Jones'....... locker!)....

And another momentous T7th triple, by the A's offensive mini-monster , 5'5" CF Topsy Hartsel (5 realworld A.L. RBI leaderships 1902-08), including 121** ribbies in the real, if in other ways inferior to EOBHR, 1905 season during the A's great early 1900's run) -- Topsy who is nonetheless somehow only 3 for 35 so far in this '06 replay!?! -- briefly breaks out of his slump with the game-winning 2-out triple T7th.... as talented A's starting P Dygert picks up the 3-2 win by going the distance...and driving in 2 runs!   

GAME 74:

Cleveland Naps (8-2/1st) 5-11-1 in 12

N.Y.Highlanders (7-3/2nd) 6-12-2 in12

In this important and hotly contested game,  a N.Y 3-spot is posted in the B1st thanks primarily to a long bases loaded single by cleanup-batting 2B Jimmy Williams.

But the Indians mount their own 3-spot T3rd, making it a a 3-3 tie with the Clevelanders.

Then low-calibre one-spots are fired back and forth between the teams until the 8th, as neither club can seem to achieve more than a one run cushion....  See details below

B4th:  Frank Delahanty, still another Delahanty MLB scion, puts his N.Y. Highlanders on slightly higher ground with his sac fly.  4-3, NY

T5th:  C Harry Bemis' 10th RBI of '06 evens the score 4-4.

B7th:  Willie Keeler long sac fly puts Yanks back ahead.  5-4

T8th:  Claude Rossman RBI single re-knots game 5-5.

B12th (the extra innings here hurting both contenders):  Jimmy Williams singles by reliever Otto Hess, Jimmy swipes 2nd base, slumping Yankee 3B 'Pot' LaPorte rips the walkoff single down the RF line!

Tribe offense takes too many naps, as a result ends up trapped inescapable, churning, evilly bubbling Pot of trouble.