Game Date: September 2, 1914 The St Louis Star and Times
Eleven innings, one run, 10 strikeouts, 1 walk
Bill Doak pitched one of the greatest games of his career in the afternoon’s windup and though he fanned ten of the opposing batsmen, he was forced to go eleven full innings to a tie with an old rubber boot like Babe Adams.
Doak struck out Carey and Kelly in the first inning
Doak struck out three in the second, Viox, Wagner and Coleman while Koney and McCarthy sandwiched in hits
Doak threw 60 times in the first four rounds, 21 of them called balls
Kelly was Doak’s seventh strike-out victim in the fifth
Coleman was Doak’s eighth whiff victim in the seventh. Then Adams was the ninth.
PASSING “HAM” HYATT.
Doak was in hot water on two separate occasions, but managed to pitch himself out of them, but in the ninth inning and with a 1 to 0 victory in sight, Doak was ordered to pass Ham Hyatt in order to get Coleman. Viox was on second at the time and Coleman’s single tied the score. At that late stage of the game and with two down, it seemed foolhardy to pass even so famous a pinch hitter as Hyatt. Hyatt would have to drive the ball to the fence to beat the throw to first, otherwise the chances are he would have expired on a high fly and ended the game. It was a bad break not to pitch to Hyatt, and it warranted the result, but the saddest part of the whole story was the absolute inability of the Cardinals to deliver the punch needed to score runs.
The game ended in a tie.
Elsewhere in the day’s news…the War rages in Europe
