Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-30
CLUBS ARE RELYING
ON ONE BIC inning
Three of Seven Games Yes
-
terday Decided by Con-
centrating Gunfire.
BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

TIME idea OF having one big
inning to win base ball
game seems to be coming
more and more into favor
in the major leagues, either by
accident or intent. The Sluggers
of the big leagues, now finding
their batting eyes rapidly after
rather slow start, are becoming
group of opportunists, pounding
out enough runs to gain the vic
tory at the moment the opposing
pitcher weakens.
The seven big league games played
yesterday gave just one SIT of nlustra-
tons of this fact out of the many that
have turned up lately. Three of these
seven were decided directly by the one
big inning, while the same factor had
an important bearing on the result of
the Brooklyn-New York Giants smuggling
match, in which most of the innings
were big ones. The Cincinnati Reds
and ST. Louis Cardinals had no chance
to hit, due to wet grounds.
The Robins and the Giants carried
the idea to its limit as Brooklyn won
for the second time in a row by score
of 19 to Is. Brooklyn scored II runs
of four Giant pitchers in the second
frame, only to have the Manhattan war
riors come back with a 9-run third
frame.
Phillies Work Scheme.
Philadelphia National League club
| likewise won an entire game in one in
ming with the Boston Braves as their
victims. After seven Scoreless stanzas
OF a duel between Ray Benge of the
Phillies and Bob Smith of Boston,
Philadelphia suddenly started hitting
in the eighth to score all its runs in an
8-to-2 triumph.
The Pittsburgh Pirates gave the
Chicago Cubs Sven runs in the first
three innings and got them all back in
one to beat the National League
champions, Is to 9. The Pirates picked
up few runs first. but it was the seven
counters in the sixth that gave them
their ninth victory in IL ganl3s and put
them at The top of the National League
standing.
The Washington Senators produced
the only big inning in the four Ameri-
can League games to win their eighth
in row and make their winning streak
the longest either major league has seen
this year. They also gave away seven
runs in three innings, then tied the
score in the third as they pounded Tom
Zachary and Roy Sherid from the
mound and went on to defeat the New
1OIh Yankees, IL TO B. Five Yankee
errors contributed to New York's down
fall, three of them contributing to the
Senators rally.
AS Again Triumph.
The champion Philadelphia Athletics
were content to get their runs in pairs,
but, led by Al Simmons and Mickey
Cochrane, they got four twosomes and
single to beat the Boston Red Sox,
8 to 5.
Old Red Faber of the Chicago White
Sox brought forth one of the days
two good pitching feats as Chicago
downed the Detroit Tigers, to 6.
Faber went the full nine innings and,
although he gave IA hits, he famed z
and had the backing of two home runs
by Carl Reynolds and Bill Cissell.
Cleveland'S 6-to-4 victory over the
st. Louis Browns had the 1,101st con-
secutlve appearance of Joe Sewell as
its feature, although he had nothing
to do with the triumph. Joe was in no
shape to play, as he has been running
a high temperature for two days, but
he has missed but one game since he
joined the Indians, 10 years ago, and
wanted to preserve his record. Johnny
Hodapp's home run in the third, the
first one hit by Cleveland player this
season, was the leading factor in the
overthrow of the Browns.