The 1954 Cleveland Indians finally won a game, earning their first victory of the season in their seventh contest. It came against the first-place 1959 Chicago White Sox, which knocked the Sox into a tie with the 1953 New York Yankees and the 1954 New York Giants at 5-2. The Giants beat the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates for the third straight game to clinch the series win, and they now have a five-game winning streak.
Pittsburgh’s Dick Stuart and Milwaukee’s Eddie Mathews both hit their league-leading fourth home runs of the season in losing efforts.
New York Giants 3, Pittsburgh 1
The Giants (5-2) built an early 2-0 lead after Hank Thompson’s RBI single in the first inning and Davey Williams’ solo homer in the second. The Pirates (4-3) cut the lead in half in the fourth inning as Dick Stuart homered. That would be all for Pittsburgh as Ruben Gomez pitched a strong eight innings. New York added an insurance run in the fifth when Whitey Lockman singled and scored on Al Dark’s double.
1960 PITTSBURGH PIRA AB R H BI 1954 NEW YORK GIANTS AB R H BI
Bill Virdon 4 0 0 0 Whitey Lockman 3 2 1 0
Dick Groat 4 0 0 0 Al Dark 4 0 2 1
Bob Skinner 4 0 3 0 Hank Thompson 4 0 1 1
Dick Stuart 4 1 1 1 Willie Mays 4 0 1 0
Roberto Clemente 3 0 0 0 Don Mueller 4 0 1 0
Smoky Burgess 4 0 1 0 Monte Irvin 3 0 0 0
Don Hoak 3 0 0 0 Davey Williams 3 1 2 1
Bill Mazeroski 3 0 0 0 Ray Katt 3 0 0 0
Vern Law BZ 2 0 0 0 Ruben Gomez BY 3 0 0 0
Gino Cimoli 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 1 5 1 TOTALS 31 3 8 3
1960 PITTSBURGH PIRATES 000 100 000 -- 1
1954 NEW YORK GIANTS 110 010 00x -- 3
LOB--1960 PITTSBURGH PIRATES 5, 1954 NEW YORK GIANTS 5.
2B--Bob Skinner, Al Dark (2). HR--Dick Stuart, Davey
Williams.
1960 PITTSBURGH PIRATES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Vern Law BZ [L] 7.00 7 3 3 1 0 1
Roy Face BYZ 1.00 1 0 0 0 1 0
1954 NEW YORK GIANTS
Ruben Gomez BY [W] 8.00 4 1 1 1 3 1
Marv Grissom AX [S] 1.00 1 0 0 1 0 0
New York Yankees 8, Milwaukee 1
Joe Collins hit a three-run homer in the third inning to get the Yankees (5-2) going. The Braves (3-4) got their only run in the fourth on an Eddie Mathews home run. The Yankees’ Gene Woodling added a solo homer in the sixth inning. New York put the game out of reach with a four-run eighth inning, which included RBI singles by Woodling and Billy Martin and a two-run single from Gil McDougald. Johnny Sain outpitched Warren Spahn in the battle of former teammates.
1957 MILWAUKEE BRAVE AB R H BI 1953 NEW YORK YANKEE AB R H BI
Red Schoendienst 4 0 2 0 Gil McDougald 5 1 2 2
Frank Torre 4 0 1 0 Joe Collins 5 1 1 3
Eddie Mathews 4 1 1 1 Hank Bauer 2 1 1 0
Hank Aaron 4 0 1 0 Mickey Mantle 4 1 1 0
Wes Covington 4 0 1 0 Gene Woodling 4 1 2 2
Johnny Logan 4 0 0 0 Yogi Berra 3 0 0 0
Bill Bruton 4 0 1 0 Billy Martin 4 1 1 1
Del Crandall 3 0 1 0 Phil Rizzuto 3 2 1 0
Warren Spahn B 1 0 0 0 Johnny Sain BYZ 2 0 0 0
Joe Adcock 1 0 0 0 Irv Noren 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 33 1 8 1 TOTALS 33 8 9 8
1957 MILWAUKEE BRAVES 000 100 000 -- 1
1953 NEW YORK YANKEES 003 001 04x -- 8
LOB--1957 MILWAUKEE BRAVES 6, 1953 NEW YORK YANKEES 6.
ERR--Eddie Mathews, Johnny Logan (2). 2B--Hank Aaron, Frank
Torre. HR--Eddie Mathews, Joe Collins, Gene Woodling.
SACB--Warren Spahn B, Johnny Sain BYZ.
1957 MILWAUKEE BRAVES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Warren Spahn B [L] 6.00 5 4 3 2 3 2
Juan Pizarro CXW 1.33 3 4 4 1 0 0
Ernie Johnson CX 0.67 1 0 0 1 0 0
1953 NEW YORK YANKEES
Johnny Sain BYZ [W] 8.00 8 1 1 0 2 1
Steve Kraly CW 1.00 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cleveland 2, Chicago 1
The Indians’ first win came via an impressive pitching performance from Art Houtteman. Cleveland (1-6) had just six hits, but four of them came on four consecutive at-bats in the third inning, and Larry Doby and Al Rosen had RBI singles to make it 2-0. Chicago’s Al Smith had a sacrifice fly in the fourth to make it 2-1. The White Sox (5-2) stranded runners in scoring position in the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth innings, including on third base in three of them.
1959 CHICAGO WHITE S AB R H BI 1954 CLEVELAND INDIA AB R H BI
Luis Aparicio 3 0 0 0 Al Smith 3 1 1 0
Nellie Fox 3 1 0 0 Bobby Avila 4 1 2 0
Jim Landis 4 0 3 0 Larry Doby 4 0 1 1
Sherm Lollar 4 0 1 0 Al Rosen 4 0 1 1
Al Smith 3 0 1 1 Vic Wertz 3 0 1 0
Earl Torgeson 3 0 0 0 Dave Philley 3 0 0 0
Bubba Phillips 3 0 0 0 George Strickland 2 0 0 0
Jim McAnany 4 0 1 0 Jim Hegan 3 0 0 0
Billy Pierce CYZ 1 0 0 0 Art Houtteman CZ 2 0 0 0
Ted Kluszewski 1 0 0 0 Wally Westlake 1 0 0 0
John Romano 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 30 1 6 1 TOTALS 29 2 6 2
1959 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 000 100 000 -- 1
1954 CLEVELAND INDIANS 002 000 00x -- 2
LOB--1959 CHICAGO WHITE SOX 8, 1954 CLEVELAND INDIANS 5.
ERR--Al Rosen. 2B--Jim McAnany. 3B--Jim Landis. SACB--Bubba
Phillips. SB--Sherm Lollar.
1959 CHICAGO WHITE SOX IP H R ER BB SO HR
Billy Pierce CYZ [L] 6.00 5 2 2 0 1 0
Gerry Staley AZ 2.00 1 0 0 2 3 0
1954 CLEVELAND INDIANS
Art Houtteman CZ [W] 8.00 6 1 1 3 2 0
Don Mossi AX [S] 1.00 0 0 0 2 1 0
Brooklyn 6, Philadelphia 3
After three scoreless innings, the Dodgers (3-4) got on the board in the fourth on Duke Snider’s RBI single, while Gil Hodges hit a solo homer in the fifth. The Phillies (2-5) got one back in the sixth as Eddie Waitkus and Dick Sisler both doubled. An error led to Brooklyn scoring four unearned runs in the eighth inning, with Duke Snider hitting a three-run homer and Hodges providing an RBI single. The Phillies scored twice in the top of the ninth to make things interesting, but Clem Labine came in with the tying run at the plate and got the final out.
1950 PHILADELPHIA PH AB R H BI 1953 BROOKLYN DODGER AB R H BI
Eddie Waitkus 4 1 3 1 Jim Gilliam 4 2 1 0
Richie Ashburn 5 0 0 0 Pee Wee Reese 3 1 1 0
Dick Sisler 3 0 2 1 Duke Snider 4 1 2 4
Del Ennis 4 0 0 0 Jackie Robinson 3 1 1 0
Willie Jones 3 1 1 0 Roy Campanella 3 0 0 0
Granny Hamner 4 1 2 0 Gil Hodges 4 1 3 2
Andy Seminick 3 0 1 0 Carl Furillo 4 0 0 0
Mike Goliat 2 0 0 1 Billy Cox 3 0 0 0
Russ Meyer DY 1 0 0 0 Carl Erskine BXY 2 0 0 0
Dick Whitman 1 0 1 0 Bobby Morgan 1 0 0 0
Jimmy Bloodworth 1 0 0 0
TOTALS 31 3 10 3 TOTALS 31 6 8 6
1950 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 000 001 002 -- 3
1953 BROOKLYN DODGERS 000 110 04x -- 6
LOB--1950 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES 8, 1953 BROOKLYN DODGERS 4.
ERR--Granny Hamner. 2B--Eddie Waitkus, Dick Sisler. HR--Duke
Snider, Gil Hodges. SACF--Mike Goliat. SACB--Eddie Waitkus,
Russ Meyer DY. SB--Jim Gilliam.
1950 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO HR
Russ Meyer DY [L] 7.00 4 2 2 2 5 1
Bubba Church B 1.00 4 4 0 1 0 1
1953 BROOKLYN DODGERS
Carl Erskine BXY [W] 8.00 8 1 1 2 4 0
Jim Hughes BX 0.67 2 2 2 2 0 0
Clem Labine BZ [S] 0.33 0 0 0 0 0 0
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