This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead
By The Associated PressMay 6, 2021 GMT
May 7
1917 Babe Ruth of the Red Sox allowed two hits as he outdueled Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators 1-0. Ruth knocked in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.
1922 Jesse Barnes of the New York Giants pitched the only no-hitter of the year, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 6-0.
1925 Pittsburgh shortstop Glenn Wright made an unassisted triple play in the ninth inning against the St. Louis Cardinals when he caught Jim Bottomley’s line drive, stepped on second to double Jimmy Cooney, and tagged Rogers Hornsby coming from first. The Cardinals, trailing 9-4, scored six runs in the eighth inning to win 10-9 at Forbes Field.
More Cubs vs. American League pitchers By JohnW53 on Jan 29, 2021, 6:38am CST +
The previous posts in this series looked at the success or lack thereof against American League pitchers in All-Star Games of Cubs greats who never batted in the World Series, and only 1 of whom batted in a handful of interleague games.
Five players were featured: Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg and Andre Dawson.
Each post detailed the player s performance through the lens of the pitchers ranking among all AL hurlers in total Wins Above Replacement from the first through the last season in which the player appeared in the All-Star Game.