ALLTIME ALLSTAR ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Sunday, June 1, 1901
In the American League showdown between the top two teams in the league, they traded 5-1 victories...At Yankee Stadium in the first game Detroit's Jim Bunning (4-3 3.97) and Hank Greenberg (.350) were the whole show...Bunning stifled the Yanks on eight hits and Greenberg doubled and homered to bat in four runs...Whitey Ford (5-4 3.23) was the loser...rightfielder Earl Combs (.358) pulled a muscle and will be out about a week...Mickey Mantle (.270) will replace him in the lineup.
But New York came back in the second game and regained the AL top spot by a game as Lefty Gomez (4-4 2.57) totally shutdown the Tigers on a two-hitter...Derek Jeter (.259) tagged his fifth fourbagger and drove in three runs...Schoolboy Rowe (5-4 3.96) got hung with the loss...this opened up a four-game series that runs through Tuesday.
Third place Chicago was at home against seventh place Cleveland and they split a pair...Bob Feller (4-4 2.56) blanked the White Sox 6-0 on eight hits in the first game with Wilbur Wood (6-3 2.05) taking the loss.
In the nightcap Chisox Magglio Ordonez (.282) and Harold Baines (.244) supplied the home run power with home runs and Ed Cicotte (8-3 3.35) held the Tribe in check until a four run outburst in the ninth in an 8-5 win...It was homer #10 for Ordonez and #3 for Baines...Bob Lemon (3-6 4.56) toiled in defeat for Cleveland...Cicotte tied the Yankees' Ron Guidry for the most wins in the Majors...both have eight.
In Washington, the Senators swept St. Louis, 7-4 and 8-7 in eleven innings to slide by the Browns into fourth place in the standings...It was the Nats third consecutive win and the Browns third loss in a row....The Senators offensive stars in the first game were Tony Oliva (.224), Muddy Ruel (.238) and Goose Goslin (.338)...Oliva tripled in the game-winning run in the eighth...righthander Camilo Pascual (4-4 3.29) posted the victory and Ned Garver (3-3 3.34) chalked up the loss.
In game two, Washington's outstanding fireman did it again...Rick Aguilera (5-0 2.55) twirled three scoreless innings and then took it upon himself to win the game with an eleventh inning walk off home run off of loser Milt Pappas (0-2 8.18)...George Sisler (.352) of the Browns got hits in both games to extend his hitting streak to seventeen games.
In Philly at Shibe Park, the cellar-dwelling Bosox took both ends of the doubleheader from the Athletics, 3-2 and 12-4...Boston's Sammy White doubled in the top of the ninth and scored on Dom DiMaggio's single to take the first game...Smokey Joe Wood (3-3 3.99) fanned eight and went the route for the victory...Reliever Rollie Fingers (1-3 2.60) took the loss...the Red Sox's Moe Vaughan had two hits and two rbis including his second roundtrip job of the season.
Nomar Garciappara (.267) and Ted Williams (.246) were a two-man wrecking crew with 3 hits, 3 runs and 3 rbis in the runaway win...Luis Tiant (1-2 5.94) came on in the third when Roger Clemens arm tightened up and went the rest of the way for the victory...Rube Waddell (2-6 5.60) was kayoed in the fifth and suffered the loss...Boston lost their top hitter, second baseman Johnny Pesky (.326) for about week with a strained back...Bosox Williams (4) and Philadelphia's Jimmie Foxx (6) and Eric Chavez (2) homered in the nightcap.
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