Boston Red Sox/Philadelphia Athletics, April 26, 1918

Friday, April 26, 1918

Boston Red Sox v. Philadelphia Athletics
Shibe Park

BOSTON         AB  R  H PO  A  E   PHILADELPHIA    AB  R  H PO  A  E
Hooper, rf......3  0  0  0  1  0   Jamieson, rf.....3  0  2  1  0  0
Shean, 2b.......3  0  1  1  2  0   Kopp, lf.........1  0  1  1  0  1
Strunk, cf......3  1  1  2  0  0   Gardner, 3b......3  0  0  1  1  0
Schang, lf......2  0  0  2  0  0   Burns, 1b........4  1  1 11  1  0
McInnis, 3b.....3  0  0  7  2  0   Walker, cf.......4  0  2  5  0  0
Hoblitzell, 1b..4  1  1 12  0  0   Shannon, 2b......3  0  0  3  3  0
Scott, ss.......3  0  1  1  3  0   Dugan, ss........4  0  0  3  2  0
Agnew, c........3  0  0  2  2  0   Perkins, c.......3  0  1  2  3  0
Leonard, p......3  0  0  0  3  0   Perry, p.........3  0  0  0  3  0
                                    McAvoy, ph......0  0  0  0  0  0
                                    Oldring, pr.....0  0  0  0  0  0
               -- -- -- -- -- --                   -- -- -- -- -- --
Total..........27  2  4 27 13  0   Total...........28  1  7 27 13  1
  
Boston....................0 0 0  0 0 0  2 0 0  --  2   4   0
Philadelphia..............0 0 0  1 0 0  0 0 0  --  1   7   1

Doubles: Hoblitzell, Perkins. Stolen bases: Strunk 2, Walker 2.
Sacrifice hits: McInnis, Schang, Gardner. Double plays: Leonard to
Hoblitzell to McInnis, McInnis to Hoblitzell. Left on bases: Boston 4,
Philadelphia 11. Boston RBI: Scott and an error.

BOSTON       IP  H  R  ER  BB  K    PHILADELPHIA    IP   H  R  ER  BB  K
Leonard (W).. 9  7  1   1  10  1    Perry (L)....... 9   4  2   2   4  0

Wild pitches: Leonard, Perry.
Attendance: 4,000.
Umpires: Evans (plate) and Nallin (bases).

“The Philadelphia 4 o’clocks were spotted 10 bases on balls, seven husky hits and one perfectly good score in the twilight baseball game today, but despite this handicap, easily lost to the Red Sox by the score of 2 to 1. It’s pretty hard to go down in defeat with odds like that, but it must be remembered that the Athletics are past masters in the art of losing ball games. They have had wide experience in the last three years and to them finishing second is as difficult as crossing the street.

“Dutch Leonard, who labored for the Barrows, had everything but speed, curves and control. He put on a private parade of his own in the nine innings, 10 men being in the procession. Toward the end of the game the heroic audience believed that someone had mislaid the home plate, for the portsider couldn’t find it without a microscope.”

[Boston Herald and Journal, April 27]

Play-by-play:

Athletics 1st — Jamieson flies out to left, robbed of a hit by Schang. Kopp walks on four pitches. Gardner walks on four pitches, Kopp to second. Burns flies out to Strunk, who hauls in a potential triple. Agnew thwarts a double steal.

Athletics 4th — Kopp safe on a bunt single (first hit by either club). Gardner sacrifices into a double play, Gardner out first base unassisted, Kopp out at third base, first to third. Burns safe on a bunt single. Burns to third on a wild pitch. Walker singles to center, Burns scores.

Athletics 5th — Perkins doubles to deep left, as Schang leaps at the wall and saves a home run by knocking the ball back onto the field. Perry pops up. Jamieson walks. Kopf walks, bases loaded. Gardner strikes out. Burns grounds out.

Red Sox 7th — Strunk safe on infield singles to deep shortstop (first Boston hit). Schang sacrifices Strunk to second. With McInnis batting, Strunk steals third and scores when Perry’s pitchout flies to the backstop. McInnis flies out to center. Hoblitzell doubles to right center, Walker makes a nice strong throw to keep him there. Scott singles to left, Hoblitzell scores as Kopp, in his haste, lets the ball go through his legs.

Athletics 7th — With two outs and Jamieson on second, Burns flies out to Strunk in deep left center.

Athletics 9th – With Kopp on first, Gardner pops out to McInnis, who throws to first to double up Kopp. Leonard walks two men and Hooper saves a run with a nice catch.

Notes:

Athletics were thrown out all three times they tried to go from first to third on outfield singles.

Second base iron man Eddie Collins of White Sox set a new major league record in St. Louis by playing in his 473rd consecutive game. Chicago beat the Browns 6-2. The old record of 472 was held by Sam Crawford. Collins went 0-4 in the game, but was on base when Joe Jackson (4-4, 5 rbi, 1 rs) hit a home run into the right field bleachers.

Other Games
Chicago 6, St., Louis 2
Washington 9, New York 4
Cleveland-Detroit, rained out

The Senators scored six runs in the top of the first, five of them before the Yankees recorded an out. Walter Johnson won his first game of the year.

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