PIRATES, GIANTS KEEP ON WINNING
Bucs Beat Brooks for 7th Straight; Giants Top Cubs
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (AP) - No one would blame the New York Giants if they were
becoming frustrated. Artie Nehf won his 16th game of the season and George
Kelly belted his 23rd home run as the Giants cruised past the Chicago Cubs, 6-2,
at the Polo Grounds for their fourth consecutive victory. The problem was
that, across the bridge in Brooklyn, the Pirates crushed the Robins 9-1 at
Ebbets Field, thereby maintaining Pittsburgh's 2 1/2 game edge over New York at
the top of the National League standings. It was seventh straight win for
the Pirates and the club improved its record to a remarkable 27-4 since August
21. In that same time frame, the Giants have posted a fine 22-10 record
yet have dropped 5 1/2 games in the standings to Pittsburgh.
At the Polo Grounds, in front of nearly 18,000 supportive partisans, the Giants
ran out to an early lead over Chicago and never looked back. Nehf helped
his own cause with a two-out two-run second inning single to put his team on top
2-0. Kelly's two-run blast, well into the second deck in left field, in
the third made it 4-0. The Cubs fought back to make a game of it in the
top of the fourth on Bernie Friberg's eighth home run of the season, a two-run
shot. But the Giants extended the game and all but put the game away with
a pair of runs in the sixth on Nehf's sacrifice fly and Ross Youngs'
RBI-single. Nehf was lifted after Sparky Adams' leadoff single in the
eighth but Rosy Ryan came on to pitch a pair of scoreless frames to close out
the game.
Across the East River, the Pirates roughed up Robins starter Rube Erhardt early
en route to the easy win. Max Carey tripled home Eddie Moore and Glenn
Wright later singled in Carey to give Pittsburgh a 2-0 first inning lead.
In the third, the Pirates increased their lead to four by scoring one run on
Kiki Cuyler's RBI double and another on Wright's grounder. The Robins got
on the board in the bottom of the third on Jack Fournier's RBI single, but the
Pirates got that run back in the sixth on pitcher Emil Yde's RBI-single
and then put the game away in the seventh. Pie Traynor's sacrifice fly
made it 6-1 and then, following a two-out error on Brooklyn third baseman Milt
Stock, Charlie Grimm's two-out double into the right field corner put Pittsburgh
on top 8-1. The Pirates capped their scoring in the ninth on Yde's
sacrifice fly. The Robins gained some measure of consolation on Fournier's
National League leading thirtieth home run of the year, a three-run blast onto
Bedford Avenue, with two outs in the bottom of the ninth off a tiring Yde, but
it wasn't nearly enough. Yde retired Eddie Brown on a grounder to end the
game and secure his sixteenth win of the season.
Both clubs have single games over the next two days against their current
opponents, then enjoy an off day before meeting for a critical three-game series
at the Polo Grounds on September 23-25. The Giants can only hope that
Brooklyn can cool off the Pirates before then. Pittsburgh's magic number
currently stands at eight.
9/19/1924, ChN24-NYN24, Polo Grounds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1924 Cubs 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 1 5 0 1924 Giants 0 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 x 6 11 2 9 2 Cubs AB R H BI AVG Giants AB R H BI AVG Adams ss 4 0 3 0 .256 Groh 3b 4 1 2 0 .316 Statz cf 3 0 0 0 .252 Frisch 2b 3 0 2 0 .320 Heathcote ph 1 0 0 0 .371 Youngs rf 4 1 2 1 .344 Barrett 2b 4 0 1 0 .300 Snyder c 1 0 0 0 .323 Miller lf 3 1 1 0 .283 Kelly cf 4 1 1 2 .306 Friberg 3b 3 1 1 2 .254 Terry 1b 4 0 0 0 .182 Bush p 0 0 0 0 .083 Wilson lf 4 1 2 0 .321 Weis ph 1 0 0 0 .321 Ryan p 0 0 0 0 .138 Vogel rf 4 0 1 0 .277 Jackson ss 3 2 1 0 .301 O'Farrell c 3 0 0 0 .238 Gowdy c 2 0 0 0 .371 Fitzgerald ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Southworth ph 1 0 0 0 .247 Kearns 1b 3 0 0 0 .167 Nehf p 2 0 1 3 .306 Blake p 2 0 1 0 .296 Meusel lf 1 0 0 0 .285 Grantham 3b 1 0 0 0 .325 33 6 11 6 33 2 8 2 Cubs INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Blake L 4-8 5.2 8 6 6 2 2 103 58 3.81 Bush 2.1 3 0 0 0 1 29 21 3.49 8.0 11 6 6 2 3 132 79 Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Nehf W 16-4 7.0 7 2 2 1 3 84 55 3.05 Ryan 2.0 1 0 0 0 0 14 12 3.66 9.0 8 2 2 1 3 98 67 ChN: Grantham inserted at 3b in the 6th Heathcote batted for Statz in the 8th Heathcote moved to cf in the 8th Weis batted for Bush in the 9th Fitzgerald batted for O'Farrell in the 9th NYN: Southworth batted for Gowdy in the 6th Snyder inserted at c in the 7th Southworth moved to rf in the 7th Meusel inserted at lf in the 8th E-Statz, Frisch, Jackson. 2B-Groh(39). HR-Friberg(8), Kelly(23). RBI-Friberg 2(70), Youngs(62), Kelly 2(109), Nehf 3(25). SB-Jackson(7). CS-Friberg. K-Adams, Statz, Barrett, Kelly, Gowdy, Southworth. BB-Miller, Frisch, Jackson. SH-Nehf, Southworth. HBP-Groh, Frisch. HB-Blake 2. GWRBI: Nehf Temperature: 67, Sky: clear, Wind: right to left at 3 MPH. Attendance: 17,951 Game Time: 2:02
9/19/1924, Pit24-Brk24, Ebbets Field 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1924 Pirates 2 0 2 0 0 1 3 0 1 9 13 2 9 1 1924 Robins 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 8 1 10 3 Pirates AB R H BI AVG Robins AB R H BI AVG Moore rf 2 2 0 0 .310 High 2b 5 0 0 0 .328 Carey cf 4 3 3 1 .343 Mitchell ss 2 1 1 0 .278 Cuyler lf 5 1 2 1 .366 Wheat lf 4 1 1 0 .368 Wright ss 5 1 3 3 .281 Fournier 1b 5 1 3 4 .333 Traynor 3b 5 0 0 0 .281 Brown cf 5 0 1 0 .312 Maranville 2b 4 1 0 0 .284 Stock 3b 3 0 1 0 .277 Grimm 1b 4 1 2 2 .301 Griffith rf 4 0 0 0 .266 Smith c 3 0 1 0 .448 DeBerry c 4 0 0 0 .232 Barnhart ph 1 0 0 0 .292 Ehrhardt p 3 0 0 0 .167 Schmidt c 0 0 0 1 .223 Roberts p 0 0 0 0 .100 Yde p 5 0 2 1 .167 Hargreaves ph 1 1 1 0 .400 38 9 13 9 36 4 8 4 Pirates INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Yde W 16-6 9.0 8 4 4 4 2 140 80 2.46 9.0 8 4 4 4 2 140 80 Robins INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Ehrhardt L 4-4 6.2 11 8 6 2 1 105 69 4.37 Roberts 2.1 2 1 1 2 1 39 24 4.91 9.0 13 9 7 4 2 144 93 Pit: Barnhart batted for Smith in the 7th Schmidt inserted at c in the 7th Brk: Hargreaves batted for Roberts in the 9th E-Wright, Traynor, Stock. 2B-Cuyler(22), Wright(26), Grimm(24), Hargreaves(1). 3B-Carey(10). HR-Fournier(30). RBI-Carey(66), Cuyler(77), Wright 3(114), Grimm 2(78), Yde(10), Schmidt(17), Fournier 4(147). SB-Grimm(1). K-Cuyler 2, DeBerry, Ehrhardt. BB-Moore 2, Carey, Grimm, Mitchell 3, Stock. SH-Schmidt. HBP-Moore, Maranville, Wheat. PB-Smith. HB-Yde, Ehrhardt, Roberts. GWRBI: Carey Temperature: 60, Sky: cloudy, Wind: left to right at 1 MPH. Attendance: 8,139 Game Time: 2:27