PENNOCK STIFLES BOSOX
Ruth's 40th Stretches Streak to 26
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (AP) - Herb Pennock fired a complete game five-hit shutout and
three Yankees homered in New York's 7-0 win over the Boston Red Sox in the first
game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. For the hard luck Pennock
(12-16) it was his first shutout of the season.
The Yankees left-hander retired the first nine Red Sox before surrendering Ira
Flagstead's leadoff double into the left field corner in the fourth.
Boston stranded Flagstead, the team's only baserunner to reach second base.
Babe Ruth provided the Yankees with the only run they would need in the first
inning with a two-out solo home run into the right field bleachers. The
homer--Ruth's major league best 40th of the year--extended his hitting streak to
26 games, the second longest in all of baseball this season (teammate Whitey
Witt had a 27-game streak earlier).
New York acquired some breathing room in the second when Bob Meusel led off with
a base on balls courtesy of Boston starter Curt Fullerton (5-8) and promptly
stole second. Aaron Ward tripled him home to make it 2-0 and the Yankees'
lead was extended to three runs on Everett Scott's RBI-grounder.
The score remained 3-0 until the seventh when Witt popped his fourth home run of
the season, a two-run shot run just inside the right field foul pole, in the
seventh. Scott capped the scoring with a two-run homer of his own in the
bottom of the eighth.
As disappointing a season as it has been for the Yankees, the club can move into
a tie for third place with the Red Sox by beating Boston in the nightcap.
9/1/1924, BoA24-NYA24, game 1, Yankee Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1924 Red Sox 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 0
1924 Yankees 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 x 7 9 0 7 1
Red Sox AB R H BI AVG Yankees AB R H BI AVG
Flagstead cf 4 0 1 0 .290 Witt cf 5 1 2 2 .307
Wambsganss 2b 4 0 0 0 .297 Dugan 3b 5 0 0 0 .296
Boone rf 3 0 1 0 .297 Ruth rf 3 1 1 1 .405
Harris 1b 4 0 0 0 .311 Pipp 1b 4 0 2 0 .276
Veach lf 4 0 0 0 .273 Schang c 3 0 1 0 .288
Shanks 3b 3 0 2 0 .261 Johnson pr 0 1 0 0 .358
Ezzell ss 3 0 0 0 .279 Hofmann c 0 0 0 0 .202
Picinich c 3 0 0 0 .290 Meusel lf 3 1 0 0 .324
Fullerton p 2 0 0 0 .176 Ward 2b 4 1 1 1 .270
Williams ph 1 0 1 0 1.000 Scott ss 3 1 1 3 .264
Ferguson p 0 0 0 0 .185 Pennock p 3 1 1 0 .221
31 0 5 0 33 7 9 7
Red Sox INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Fullerton L 5-8 7.0 7 5 5 3 1 99 58 4.33
Ferguson 1.0 2 2 2 2 2 32 16 3.99
8.0 9 7 7 5 3 131 74
Yankees INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Pennock W 12-16 9.0 5 0 0 1 4 98 66 3.28
9.0 5 0 0 1 4 98 66
BoA: Williams batted for Fullerton in the 8th
NYA: Johnson ran for Schang in the 8th
Hofmann inserted at c in the 9th
2B-Flagstead(26). 3B-Pipp(12), Ward(8). HR-Witt(4), Ruth(40), Scott(3).
RBI-Witt 2(40), Ruth(118), Ward(56), Scott 3(53). SB-Meusel(18).
K-Wambsganss, Boone, Veach, Fullerton, Meusel, Ward 2. BB-Boone, Ruth,
Schang, Meusel, Scott, Pennock.
GWRBI: Ruth
Temperature: 79, Field: wet, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind:
left to right at 4 MPH.
Attendance: N/A
Game Time: 1:42