RED HOT BUCS VICTORIOUS AGAIN
Cooper Blanks Card for 20th Win
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 3 (AP) - The Pittsburgh Pirates used an eight-run third inning
to run roughshod over the St. Louis Cardinals for a 9-0 victory at Forbes
Field. It was the fourth straight victory--and 14th in the last 15
games--for the Pirates. The Cardinals have dropped seven straight and ten
of their last 11.
Wilbur Cooper fired his second shutout of the season en route to his 20th
victory of the year. Cooper limited St. Louis to six hits and has now
beaten the Cardinals four times in five starts.
The game was scoreless until the bottom of the third when Pittsburgh buried St.
Louis starter Hi Bell under an avalanche of hits. Cooper led off the
inning with a looping single to center and Eddie Moore followed with a triple to
the left-center field wall, giving the Pirates a 1-0 lead. Max Carey
singled through the box to make it 2-0 and Kiki Cuyler's double to left-center
plated Carey with the third run of the frame. Bell then stiffened, fanning
both Glenn Wright and Pie Traynor but the wheels came off for the
Cardinals. Rabbit Maranville's foul pop to the left side of the diamond
was dropped by third baseman Hi Myers for an error. Instead of the inning
ending, Maranville used his new life to rope a single over shortstop Spec
Toporcer's head, driving in Cuyler with the fourth run of the inning. The
Rabbit stole second and promptly scored when Charlie Grimm followed with a
triple to right. Cooper smacked his second single of the inning and when
Moore followed with a single of his own the score was 7-0 and Bell's day was
over. New pitcher Bob Vines, making his season's debut, immediately walked
Carey to fill the bases and yielded an RBI-infield hit to Cuyler before finally
ending the inning on Wright's fly ball to center. 14 batters had come to
the plate and eight of them had scored. 11 reached base safely.
It was far more support than Cooper would need on this afternoon. The best
scoring opportunity for St. Louis came in the second when Myers and Mike
Gonzalez singled to open the inning and Ed Clough sacrificed both runners into
scoring position with one out. But Bell chopped a ball to Traynor at third
who cut down Myers at the plate and, after Jack Smith was hit by a pitch to load
the bases, Toporcer rolled weakly to Grimm at first to end the threat. It
was the only time the Cardinals advanced a runner past second base all
afternoon.
Pittsburgh gained an unneeded insurance run in the sixth inning without the
benefit of a hit. Cuyler reached on the last of Myers' three miscues--a
two-base throwing error--to lead off the inning. He advanced to third on
Wright's grounder to first and scored on Traynor's ground ball to third,
accounting for the ninth run.
The win moves the Pirates, at least momentarily, into sole possession of first
place, pending the outcome of the New York Giants' contest at Braves Field in
Boston, the result of which was unavailable at press time.
9/3/1924, SLN24-Pit24, Forbes Field
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1924 Cardinals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 8 2
1924 Pirates 0 0 8 0 0 1 0 0 x 9 16 1 8 1
Cardinals AB R H BI AVG Pirates AB R H BI AVG
Smith rf 3 0 0 0 .277 Moore rf 5 1 3 2 .333
Toporcer ss 4 0 0 0 .365 Mueller rf 0 0 0 0 .341
Blades 2b 4 0 1 0 .374 Carey cf 4 1 1 1 .340
Bottomley 1b 4 0 2 0 .287 Bigbee lf 0 0 0 0 .281
Niebergall c 0 0 0 0 .411 Cuyler lf 5 2 3 2 .379
Hafey cf 4 0 0 0 .069 Barnhart rf 0 0 0 0 .296
Myers 3b 3 0 1 0 .195 Wright ss 5 0 0 0 .282
Dyer ph 0 0 0 0 .241 Traynor 3b 5 0 0 1 .286
Gonzalez c 3 0 2 0 .279 Maranville 2b 4 1 2 1 .278
Mueller 1b 1 0 0 0 .362 Grimm 1b 4 1 2 1 .303
Clough lf 1 0 0 0 .000 Gooch c 4 1 2 1 .253
Sherdel ph 2 0 0 0 .205 Cooper p 4 2 3 0 .380
Bell p 1 0 0 0 .071 40 9 16 9
Vines p 2 0 0 0 .000
32 0 6 0
Cardinals INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Bell L 9-8 2.2 10 8 3 0 3 67 49 4.02
Vines 5.1 6 1 0 1 0 69 48 0.00
8.0 16 9 3 1 3 136 97
Pirates INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Cooper W 20-11 9.0 6 0 0 1 2 107 70 3.22
9.0 6 0 0 1 2 107 70
SLN: Sherdel batted for Clough in the 7th
Smith moved to lf in the 7th
Sherdel moved to rf in the 7th
Niebergall inserted at c in the 8th
Mueller inserted at 1b in the 8th
Dyer batted for Myers in the 9th
Pit: Mueller inserted at rf in the 8th
Mueller moved to cf in the 9th
Bigbee inserted at lf in the 9th
Barnhart inserted at rf in the 9th
E-Myers 3, Wright. 2B-Cuyler(17). 3B-Moore(5), Grimm 2(15). RBI-Moore 2(14),
Carey(59), Cuyler 2(66), Traynor(56), Maranville(60), Grimm(71), Gooch(39).
SB-Carey(39), Maranville(16). K-Vines 2, Wright, Traynor 2. BB-Dyer, Carey.
SH-Clough. HBP-Smith. HB-Cooper. WP-Cooper.
GWRBI: Moore
Temperature: 71, Sky: clear, Wind: out to right at 8 MPH.
Attendance: 11,231
Game Time: 2:08