New York (May 7, 8, and 9)
Taking three of four in Brooklyn brought the Phillies into third place at 6-5 as they prepared to meet the second place team, the New York Giants, for a four-game set at Shibe. (The Cardinals, at 12-1, were running away with the division in the early going.)
Dave Barnhill (pictured below) took the mound for the Phillies, as Ruth reshuffled the rotation once again. The diminutive right-hander from North Carolina traded zeros with New York’s Harry Feldman in the first, but Gene Benson scored for the Phillies in the second. An error on Johnny Rucker in center field gave the Phillies one more that inning to make it 2-0. Feldman walked the first five batters in the third to give the Phillies two more runs. Barnwell, a good-hitting pitcher, singled in one more to make it 5-0. Murtaugh’s throwing error let the Giants get on the scoreboard with five runs in the fifth—all unearned. The game went to extras. Brown muffed a ball in right in the eleventh that led to a New York run and cost the Phillies the game.
Si Johnson was on the hill the next day against the Giants’ Bill Sayles. Three straight singles in the second by Gene Benson, Cool Papa Bell, and Willie Wells gave the Phillies the game’s first run. Leonard doubled off the wall in the fifth to push home another run and hits by Gibson and Brown brought home three more. That was enough for Johnson, who shut out the Giants on five hits in the complete game win.
Sunday was a doubleheader day, with Johnny Podgajny on the mound in game one. Mel Ott got hold of one in the first, as he was bound to do eventually, and put the Giants up 2-0. Ray Dandridge doubled in two off Van Mungo in the third to tie it up at two. Mungo doubled and scored in the fifth to put the Giants up one, but Brown got that back plus one more with a deep home run to the left field bleachers in the bottom of the inning. Brown notched another RBI in the seventh when he knocked in Dandridge—who had finally broken out of his slump with a 4-for-4 day—to make the score 5-3. Gibson’s RBI single added one more that inning. Podgajny set them down one-two-three in the ninth to clinch the complete game win for his team.
Paige started the nightcap, and Benson started the team off right with a home run in the first inning. Paige led off the third with a single and came around to score on Leonard’s sac fly to make it 2-0, but his error allowed two Giants to score and they went up 3-2. New York piled on in the seventh and soon the score was 8-2. Gibson launched a pinch-hit home run into the second deck to make it 8-3, but Johnny Allen gave up two more in the top of the inning. Things had turned ugly, and the Phillies ended up losing the game 13-3, and splitting the home series with the Giants 2-2.
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