The 1935 Chicago Cubs have company at the top of the standings! The 1937 New York Yankees swept the 1931 Philadelphia Athletics, and now the two best teams in the league are both 15-9 with eight games to play.
Three of the four games were close, and the Athletics (8-12) either had the tying run on base or at the plate in the ninth inning of each of them. This is only the second sweep of Season 3.
Tony Lazzeri batted .615 (8-for-13) with seven extra-base hits, while Joe DiMaggio hit .571 (8-for-14) with two home runs, giving him the league lead with nine. Mickey Cochrane batted .357 (5-for-14) for the Athletics.
Game #1: New York 4, Philadelphia 3
Lou Gehrig broke open a 1-1 game with a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth. In the bottom of the seventh, Red Rolfe led off with a double and scored on an error to put the Yankees ahead 4-1. They’d need those extra runs, as the Athletics’ Jimmie Foxx hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning. In the ninth, the Athletics got the tying run to second base but no further.
1931 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI 1937 NEW YORK YANKEE AB R H BI
Max Bishop 5 0 1 0 Jake Powell 5 0 1 0
Mule Haas 5 0 2 0 Red Rolfe 5 1 2 0
Al Simmons 5 0 1 0 Joe DiMaggio 3 1 2 0
Mickey Cochrane 3 1 1 0 Lou Gehrig 4 1 1 2
Jimmie Foxx 4 1 1 2 Bill Dickey 4 0 0 0
Bing Miller 4 1 1 0 Myril Hoag 4 0 0 0
Jimmy Dykes 4 0 1 0 Frank Crosetti 3 1 1 0
Dib Williams 4 0 2 1 Tony Lazzeri 3 0 2 0
Roy Mahaffey CYW 3 0 0 0 Bump Hadley CY 2 0 1 1
Eric McNair 1 0 1 0 Tommy Henrich 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 38 3 11 3 TOTALS 34 4 10 3
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 010 000 020 -- 3
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES 010 020 10x -- 4
LOB--1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 9, 1937 NEW YORK YANKEES
10. ERR--Jimmy Dykes, Lou Gehrig, Frank Crosetti, Red Rolfe.
2B--Bing Miller, Al Simmons, Mule Haas, Tony Lazzeri, Joe
DiMaggio, Red Rolfe. 3B--Bump Hadley CY. HR--Jimmie Foxx,
Lou Gehrig. SACB--Bump Hadley CY.
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Roy Mahaffey CYW [L] 8.00 10 4 3 3 2 1
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES
Bump Hadley CY [W] 8.00 10 3 3 1 3 1
Spud Chandler BYZ [S) 1.00 1 0 0 0 0 0
Game #2: New York 4, Philadelphia 0
A pitching duel between Hall of Famers Lefty Grove and Lefty Gomez lived up to the hype, as they both put up zeroes until the eighth inning. In the bottom of the eighth, one team finally came through. The Yankees had a crazy inning and plated four runs on four hits, three of them triples. With one out, Joe DiMaggio tripled, and he scored the game’s first run on Lou Gehrig’s single. After the second out, Myril Hoag had an RBI triple. After a walk, Tony Lazzeri knocked his third extra-base hit of the day, and his second triple, to score two more and make it 4-0. Gomez ended up with his league-high third shutout of the season.
1931 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI 1937 NEW YORK YANKEE AB R H BI
Max Bishop 3 0 1 0 Jake Powell 2 0 0 0
Mule Haas 4 0 1 0 Red Rolfe 4 0 0 0
Al Simmons 4 0 0 0 Joe DiMaggio 4 1 1 0
Mickey Cochrane 4 0 1 0 Lou Gehrig 4 0 1 1
Jimmie Foxx 3 0 0 0 Bill Dickey 3 1 1 0
Bing Miller 3 0 0 0 Myril Hoag 4 1 1 1
Jimmy Dykes 3 0 0 0 Frank Crosetti 3 1 1 0
Dib Williams 3 0 0 0 Tony Lazzeri 4 0 3 2
Lefty Grove ACKZ 3 0 1 0 Lefty Gomez AKZ 4 0 0 0
TOTALS 30 0 4 0 TOTALS 32 4 8 4
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 000 000 000 -- 0
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES 000 000 04x -- 4
LOB--1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 6, 1937 NEW YORK YANKEES 8.
ERR--Dib Williams. 2B--Lefty Grove ACKZ, Max Bishop, Tony
Lazzeri. 3B--Tony Lazzeri (2), Myril Hoag, Joe DiMaggio.
HBP--Bing Miller.
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Lefty Grove ACKZ [L] 8.00 8 4 4 4 11 0
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES
Lefty Gomez AKZ [W] 9.00 4 0 0 2 8 0
Game 3: New York 5, Philadelphia 2
The Yankees’ Frank Crosetti had a two-run single to open the scoring in the top of the fourth, but the Athletics immediately tied it on Eric McNair’s two-run double. Joe DiMaggio came back with a two-run homer in the top of the fifth to put the Yankees back in front. In the seventh, DiMaggio doubled and scored on Lou Gehrig’s single to make it 5-2. The Athletics loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, but Yankee reliever Ivy Andrews came in and struck out the final batter.
1937 NEW YORK YANKEE AB R H BI 1931 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI
Jake Powell 5 1 1 0 Max Bishop 3 0 0 0
Red Rolfe 5 0 1 0 Mule Haas 4 0 0 0
Joe DiMaggio 3 2 2 2 Al Simmons 4 0 0 0
Lou Gehrig 5 1 1 1 Mickey Cochrane 3 1 1 0
Bill Dickey 4 1 2 0 Jimmie Foxx 4 0 0 0
Myril Hoag 4 0 1 0 Bing Miller 3 1 0 0
Frank Crosetti 4 0 1 2 Jimmy Dykes 1 0 0 0
Tony Lazzeri 4 0 2 0 Eric McNair 3 0 2 2
Monte Pearson BX 4 0 1 0 Dib Williams 4 0 2 0
George Earnshaw BXYZ 1 0 0 0
Joe Boley 1 0 0 0
Phil Todt 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 38 5 12 5 TOTALS 32 2 5 2
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES 000 220 100 -- 5
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 000 200 000 -- 2
LOB--1937 NEW YORK YANKEES 8, 1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 7.
ERR--Tony Lazzeri, Dib Williams. 2B--Tony Lazzeri (2), Joe
DiMaggio, Jake Powell, Monte Pearson BX, Mickey Cochrane,
Eric McNair. 3B--Red Rolfe. HR--Joe DiMaggio. SACB--George
Earnshaw BXYZ. SB--Frank Crosetti.
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Monte Pearson BX [W] 8.67 5 2 2 3 6 0
Ivy Andrews CZ [S] 0.33 0 0 0 0 1 0
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS
George Earnshaw BXYZ [L] 7.00 11 5 5 1 5 1
Waite Hoyt CR 2.00 1 0 0 1 0 0
Game #4: New York 4, Philadelphia 2
The Yankees’ Frank Crosetti hit a solo homer in the second, and Joe DiMaggio had an RBI single to make it 2-0 in the sixth. Mickey Cochrane’s RBI single cut the deficit 2-1 in the bottom of the sixth. DiMaggio hit a two-run homer in the top of the eighth to double the Yankees’ run total. Cochrane led off the bottom of the ninth with a home run. The Athletics got a base-runner on and brought the tying run to the plate with one out, but hit into a game-ending double play. Red Ruffing improved to 5-0 after six starts.
1937 NEW YORK YANKEE AB R H BI 1931 PHILADELPHIA AT AB R H BI
Jake Powell 5 0 0 0 Max Bishop 2 1 0 0
Red Rolfe 3 2 1 0 Mule Haas 4 0 1 0
Joe DiMaggio 4 1 3 3 Al Simmons 4 0 0 0
Lou Gehrig 3 0 0 0 Mickey Cochrane 4 1 2 2
Bill Dickey 3 0 0 0 Jimmie Foxx 4 0 0 0
Myril Hoag 4 0 1 0 Bing Miller 4 0 3 0
Frank Crosetti 4 1 1 1 Eric McNair 4 0 1 0
Tony Lazzeri 2 0 1 0 Dib Williams 3 0 0 0
Red Ruffing BXZ 3 0 0 0 Rube Walberg BY 2 0 0 0
Joe Boley 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 4 7 4 TOTALS 32 2 7 2
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES 010 001 020 -- 4
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 000 001 001 -- 2
LOB--1937 NEW YORK YANKEES 6, 1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS 5.
ERR--Tony Lazzeri. 2B--Tony Lazzeri, Bing Miller. 3B--Red
Rolfe. HR--Joe DiMaggio, Frank Crosetti, Mickey Cochrane.
SACB--Red Ruffing BXZ.
1937 NEW YORK YANKEES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Red Ruffing BXZ [W] 9.00 7 2 2 2 5 1
1931 PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS
Rube Walberg BY [L] 7.00 5 2 2 4 3 1
Eddie Rommel BRZ 2.00 2 2 2 1 2 1
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