The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-21
Rally in Last Inning
Gives NdpldnderS Game
With Two Out and the Bases
Loaded, Cleveland Stoves
Three Runs Across.
LAPORTE In LIMELIGHT
By WILLIAM PEET.

Cleveland, Ohio, May o-Breaking
through the Nationals two-run lead the
Cleveland Maps won a sensational 10 to
3 victory this afternoon by showing over
three markers in the final half of the
ninth inning.
There is but one alibi to offer. Howard
Shanks should have obeyed instructions
and played a deeper left field. Two were
gone in the Clevelands ninth. and the
bases clogged when Manager Birming-
ham sent up Carisch to pinch hit for
O'NeiI. Carisch lifted a long fly TO left
field which would have been a regular
"felder's delight had Shanks played his
usual position. The Monaco marvel had
stationed himself thirty feet back of La
porte, and although he made a gallant
try for the ball, he could not reach it, and
two Naplanders breezed over the plate,
the needed tallies to win, as the Climbers
were in the lead before this all hap
pened. to s.
Shanks should not be severely criti-
cised. for It is possible that on account
of the deafening roar from the crowd he
did not hear the shouts of Manager
Griffith on the Washington bench. who
called, Get back, Shanks. get back"
MuIIin starts Game.
George MuIIin. former Detroit Tiger.
was given his first start as a National
and pitched six and one-third innings.
Things broke badly for the veteran. and
ne was hit hard in spots and taken out
after Graney and OrSeI had both come
through with safe hits.
Tom Hughes finished the game and
was a puzzle until the ninth when the
first two men who faced him rammed
the ball to unguarded spots in the out
field and scored a run. Joe Jackson was
purposely walked. as was Larry Lajoie
who followed jackson. Turner had
previously died and Graney forced Olson
at the plate. Then it all happened. The
long fly from Carisch landed where
Shanks ought to have been playing.
Manager Birmingham used five pitchers
in his attempt to stop the Nationals.
Southpaw Mitchell, who opened the game,
was knocked out of the box in the
second. Banding got his bumps in the
third and retired under fire. Nick Cullop
relieved Handing and did well until the
sixth when the Climbers grabbed a
couple of runs of his delivery. Kahler
was rumpled up for a marker in the
eighth and Vean Gregg. the famous South
paw. pitched the ninth, holding our
side runless
Gridmen Hit the Pill.
Both Mullin and Hughes were backed
UP brilliantly while the Maps made
four costly errors. The one encouraging
feature from a Washington standpoint
was the manner in which the Nationals
kit the ball When swats were needed
in the pinches they invariably came
Laporte led the Griffmen at bat with
three ringing singles
The Maps scored a couple of runs in
the opener by the aid of three punk hits
ard base on balls The Nationals
came to life in the second when Mitchell
WAS slaughtered. collecting for them
selves four large juicy tallies on as many
hits couple of walks a steal, and a
passed ball.
Banding got his bumps proper in the
third. Laporte opened with single and
reached third on Williams smash through
Olson. Shanks drew walk, filling the
bases. Exit Mr.. BIanding, enter Nick
Culop. A sacrifice fly to Ryan by Nc
Bride scored Laporte. and while Shanks
was run down between first and second, !
Williams crossed the plate.
With the count TO in the Nationals !
favor. the home team scored one run OFF
Mullin in the fourth. and added two
more in the fifth. crawling up to within |
a point of the Climbers count.
Increase the Lead.
This slender lead was increased in the |
Washington half of the sixth when Gull |
lop had walked Muilin, and Milan, and |
Morgan scored them both with a vicious
smash 10 left center.
After the Maps had gotten to MuIlin for
a tally in the sixth, he was relieved by
Tom Hughes.
An infeld out scored another run.
placing the figures: Cleveland, I; Wash
ington. 5.
Kahler was on the mound when the
Griffmen came to hat in the seventh /
and escaped unscathed until the follow
ing inning. when Moeller's double
clever steal of third by the Rochester
rambler and Milan's slow roller TO o.
son. gave the Nationals another.
Long Tom Hughes twirled great ball
during the seventh and eighth and the
betting was 10 TO ! that Washington
would win. but the unexpected happened,
as il is liable to happen any old time
during a hall game. Cleveland had the