Philadelphia 1, Chicago 6
Connie Mack’s Athletics woke up in Chicago in third place, but just a half game ahead of the White Sox. Poor play today doomed them to fall to fourth, as Chicago leaped ahead of them to a two-way all-sox tie for second with Boston. The Tigers continued their winning ways, causing the Athletics to fall 9.5 games back.
While the Sox hit Harry Krause hard starting in the fourth inning, the A's only managed to eke out three hits against Jim “Death Valley” Scott. According to the SABR Bio Project, this most excellent moniker “was earned in part due to confusion on Scott's place of birth*, and part due to association with an infamous Western prospector and con man also named Death Valley Scott who arrived in Chicago on the same train as the pitcher.”
William Peet of the Washington Herald noted that all four Eastern teams lost to their Western AL counterparts today. Boston, New York, and Philadelphia each had star players injured, “while the Nationals are all shot to pieces.”
The standings at the end of play:
Team Name G W L T PCT GB RS RA
Detroit Tigers 30 25 5 0 .833 - 176 112
Chicago White Sox 27 14 12 1 .538 9.0 146 107
Boston Red Sox 28 15 13 0 .536 9.0 145 119
Philadelphia Athletics 25 13 12 0 .520 9.5 141 115
New York Highlanders 26 12 14 0 .462 11.0 97 131
Cleveland Naps 31 12 18 1 .400 13.0 137 152
Washington Senators 25 10 15 0 .400 12.5 86 143
St. Louis Browns 28 8 20 0 .286 16.0 114 163
* He was born in Deadwood, South Dakota and raised mostly in Lander, Wyoming.
[Today's sources: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1911-05-17/ed-1/seq-8/ and for Death Valley Scott: http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=1695&pid=12736]
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