1937 REPLAY HIGHLIGHTS
 

3+ Homers
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Wally Moses Philadelphia                      
3 homers
Philadelphia vs New York
May 29

April 20 - Bosox beat A's in opener, 20-21-1/0-1-3 in 1-hitter (3 walks) by Wes Ferrell.  Skeeter Newsome has only A's' hit, a single (reached in bottom of 2^nd, with 2 outs.  Here's the PBP: "The pitch ... grounded toward third ... Higgins knocks it down ... picks it up

throws over to first ... and it's by Almada! ... Dean races to third

and Newsome will make second easily ... score that a single."

April 25 - Bums beat Phils, 19-21-2/3-3-4.  All 9 Bum starters, including pitcher Mungo, had at least 1 hit.  Gibby Brack and Babe Phelps had 4 each; Mungo (pitcher) had 3 (with 4 RBI).

May 2- Cubs beat Cards, 18-22-1/3-10-4.  Every Cub starter, including pitcher Bill Lee, had at least 1 hit.   Tigers beat Chisox, 16-17-0/0-4-2. 

May 7 - A's beat Browns, 17-20-1/5-14-3.  Every A's starter, including pitcher Caster, had at least 1 hit.  Billy Werber 5-6, 2B, HR, SB.

May 10 - Yanks lose 2-9-1/1-8-1 in 16 innings after Yank starter Monte Pearson loses no-hitter in bottom of 7^th on a homer by Chicago's Zeke Bonura. 

May 14 - Tigers beat Browns 16-18-0/2-8-2.  Hank Greenberg 3-5, 2 HR, 5 RBI, 4 runs.  Every Tiger starter, including pitcher Tommy Bridges, had at least 1 hit.

May 16 - Tigers beat Browns 22-25-0/13-18-2.  Every Tiger starter, except for Mickey Cochrane (0-4), including pitcher Roxie Lawson (3-4, 3 runs, RBI), had at least 2 hits.  Charley Gehringer 4-5, 2B, HR, 3 runs, 5 RBI.  Hank Greenberg 3-7, 2 HR, 4 RBI. 

May 18 - Tigers beat A's, 21-21-2/6-8-4.  Hank Greenberg 5-5, 11 RBI, 2 HR, 4 runs, 2B, 12TB.  Every Tiger starter, except pitcher Gill, had at least 1 hit.    

May 22 - Yanks beats Browns, 13-15-2/7-12-1 as every Yank starter, including pitcher Lefty Gomez (7-0, 2.18), had at least 1 hit.   Pirates (Red Lucas, 2-1, 1.44) 1 hit Braves, 2-9-0/0-1-0.  Only Brave hit is 2^nd inning single by Gene Moore.

May 24 - Yanks take 2^nd straight from Tribe, 6-3, and move into sole possession of 1^st place.  Yanks now 18-9, Tribe 15-8.  Tigers beats Nats, 27-24-1/7-7-2.  All 9 Tigers had at least 1 hit.  Hank Greenberg hits for cycle -- 5-6, 6 runs, 10 RBI, 3B, HR, 3 2B, Walk, 13 TB.

May 25 - Cubs beat Phils, 20-27-1/3-11-1.  Every Cub starter, including pitcher Bill Lee, had at least 1 hit.  Chisox beat Nats, 17-21-0/0-7-1.  Mike Kreevich 5-6, 4 runs, Zeke Bonura 4-6, HR, 5 RBI. 

May 26 - Tribe beats A's, 15-20-2/2-8-3.  Every Tribe starter, including pitcher Johnny Allen, had at least 1 hit. 

May 29 - Tribe splits w/Chisox, taking nightcap, 16-22-1/3-6-3.  Earl Averill 5-6, 6 RBI, 3B. 

June 2 - Pirates beat Bees, 21-26-0/0-5-3.  Woody Jensen 5-6, 2B, HR, 4 RBI, Gus Suhr 5-6, 3B, HR, 10 TB.    Pep Young 5-6, hits for cycle, 2 RBI, 4 runs, 11 TB.  Every Pirate starter, including pitcher Cy Blanton, had at least 1 hit. 

June 10 - Cubs beat Bums 28-28-2/6-12-1.  Gabby Hartnett 5-10, 10 RBI, 5 runs, 3B, 2 HR, 13TB.  Billy Herman 5-7, 3B, HR, 10TB, 4 RBI.   Tigers beat A's, 17-15-1/3-10-2.

June 13 - Yanks beat Browns in opener, 21-26-2/2-8-4.  Every Yank starter, including pitcher Johnny Murphy, had at least 1 hit.  Crosetti 5-5, 5 runs, 3B, HR, 3 RBI.  DiMaggio 6 RBI, HR.  Selkirk 4 RBI, HR.

June 14 - Bosox's Jim Wilson (4-3, 3.10) 1 hits Tigers, winning 9-12-1/0-1-2.  Only Tiger hit is bottom of 7^th 2 out double by Gee Walker.  Tigers do get 5 walks.

June 17 - Yanks beat Cleveland, 19-17-2/10-10-5, and score 13 runs in bottom of 4^th.  DiMag 3-6 2 HR, 6 RBI, 4 runs.   Jake Powell 5 RBI, HR.  Chisox beat Bosox, 19-22-2/6-10-3.  Every Chicago starter, except pitcherDietrich and catcher Sewell, had at least 2 hits.  6 players had 3 or more hits.

June 20 - Yanks take opener against Chisox, 3-8-0/0-3-0, as Lefty Gomez (14-0, 1.51)  wins his 14^th straight.  Tigers sweep A's, taking opener (Gee Walker 2 homers, 6 RBI), 16-19-2/5-4-2, and nightcap, 18-16-1/2-5-0. 

June 24 - Giants beat Cubs, 12-16-2/2-8-0, as every Giant starter, including pitcher Hal Schumacher, had at least 1 hit. 

June 26 - Yanks' Lefty Gomez wins his 15^th straight (15-0, 1.54) as NY beats Detroit, 9-2.

June 27 - Relief pitcher Lynn Nelson hits for cycle, including his 1^st HR, as A's come back to beat Tribe in nightcap, 13-15-1/12-15-1 with 3 runs in bottom of 9^th.  Nelson is now batting .404.

June 29 - Boston's Lefty Grove (7-4, 3.10) pitches one-hitter (1 walk) for 8 2/3 innings against Nats until Jesse Hill singles ("hot smash to 3^rd, Higgins gets his glove on it, now the long throw, Foxx scoops it on one hop but he bobbles it!  He's safe! And they give Jesse Hill the hit.").  Boston wins, 4-9-0-/0-1-2.

June 30 - Yanks' Left Gomez wins his 16^th straight (16-0, 1.45), as NY beats A's, 8-13-1/1-6-2.

July 4- Lefty Gomez pitches 5 hitter, beating Nats, 1-2-1/0-5-0.  Only run is 4^th inning homer by Jake Powell.  Gomez now 17-0, 1.36.  Giants Cliff Melton (8-6, 1.86) pitches no hitter against Bees until top of 9^th inning lead-off double by Al Lopez.  Giants win, 5-10-0/1-2-0.

July 10 - Browns beat Chisox in opener, 17-15-0/4-11-4. 

July 11 - Yanks' Lefty Gomez (18-0, 1.29) no-hits Nats (1 walk) in opener, 14-17-2/0-0-3.

July 12 - Pirates' Lloyd Waner (.327,1, 18) hits in his 30^th straight, getting a double to lead off the top of the 9^th, after previously going 0-2 (with a walk).  Giants (Hubbell) beat Bucs, 6-1.  

July 14 - A's beat Chisox, 16-17-0/3-9-1.  Earle Brucker (.340) 4-4, 5 RBI, 2B, HR, 3 runs, 8 TB.

July 15 - Lefty Gomez (19-0, 1.22) wins his 19^th straight, beating the Tigers, 8-13-1/4-9-4. 

July 16 - Pirates Lloyd Waner singles in his only AB to extend his hitting streak to 31 games, but the game is rained out in the 3^rd inning (rescheduled for 7-26).

July 17 - Pirates' Lloyd Waner's 30 game hitting streak ends when he is injured in bottom of 2^nd, after going 0-1.

July 18 - A's sweep Browns, winning opener, 13-17-2/10-12-0, and taking nightcap 19-22-2/15-17-3. 

July 19 -  Yanks beat Tribe, 21-20-1/0-2-1, as Lefty Gomez wins his 20^th straight.  Lefty is now 20-0, 1.16.  Every Yank starter, including Gomez, had at least 1 hit.

July 22- Tribe beats A's, 18-18-0/3-7-4. 

July 24 - Chisox (Thornton Lee, 7-7, 2.93) beat Yanks, 4-6-0/2-5-1, ending Left Gomez's 20 game consecutive win streak.  Gomez now 20-1, 2.93.  Yanks started Hoag and Heffner (righties) against lefty Lee, both both were injured in 3^rd inning collision and they had to be replaced by lefty Henrich.

July 27 - Phils hit 3 consecutive homers (George Scharain, pitcher Bucky Walters, and Leo Norris) in top of 5^th against Pirates.  Phils prevail, 8-17-1/3-5-0.

July 29 - Pirates' Cy Blanton (8-9, 3.69) 1 hits Phils, 1-7-0/0-1-0 (0 walks).  Only Phil hit is 1^st inning bloop 2 out single by Hersh Martin. 

July 31 - Yanks beat Browns, 14-11-0/1-10-2 and hit 6 homers (Crosetti 2, DiMag 2, Gehrig, Dickey).  DiMag now .396, 32, 103.

August 1 - Yanks beat Browns, 10-12-0/1-6-2, as every Yank player, including pitcher Spud Chandler, had at least 1 hit.

August 2 - Lefty Gomez wins 22^nd (22-1, 1.32) as he pitches no-hitter until the 9^th.  1^st hit is pinch hit double by Luke Sewell with none out.  Chisox go on to score 3 runs in 9^th, but they fall short, losing 5-10-1/4-3-1.  Chisox put tying run at 3^rd, but are unable to score it.

Nats beat Browns, 16-14-0/6-14-3.  Every Nat player, including pitcher Wes Ferrell, had at least 1 hit. 

August 6 - Cubs' Tex Carleton (8-2, 3.51) 1 hits (6 walks) Braves, 6-9-0/0-1-1 in opener of twin-bill.  Only hit is 2^nd inning single by Tony Cuccinello.

August 11- Joe DiMaggio goes 4-4 (2B, HR, 3 RBI) in nightcap against Bosox as Yanks win, 11-14-0/3-12-0.  Joe now batting .404,36, 114.

August 13 - Nats beat Bosox, 16-15-2/7-13-1.  Cecil Travis (.322) 4-5, 3 runs, 3 RBI.  Tigers beat Browns, 15-16-2/2-9-1.  Rudy York (.307, 20, 54) goes 4-4, 2 HR, 2B, 3B, 7 RBI, 3 runs, 13 TB.

August 14 - Cleveland's Johnny Allen (6-2, 2.83) 1-hits Chisox (3 walks), 3-11-1/0-1-0.  Only Chisox hit is single with 2 outs in 6^th.  Tigers and Browns split, with Tigers taking nightcap, 20-26-3/1-6-3.  All 13 Tiger players had at least 1 hit.  Pete Fox (.332, 5, 54) 5-6, 6 RBI, 2 2B, HR, 2 runs.  Detroit 6 HR, including 2 by Greenberg (33, 137, .394), Fox, Goslin, Laabs, Rogell.  

August 15 - Giants beat Phils, 18-19-0/5-15-2.  Hank Leiber 5 RBI. 

August 17 - Lefty Gomez (24-1, 1.29) wins his 24^th, beating the Nats, 3-7-1/2-4-0 in another CG victory.  Yanks come back from 3-2 deficit in 9^th in nightcap to tie Washington at 3 before Joe DiMaggio homers with 2 out to give Yanks the sweep.  Yanks take nightcap 5-3.  DiMaggio has now hit safely in 32 straight, 1937's longest streak (his previous best was 28 games in '41).

August 18 - Tribe sweeps Browns, taking nightcap, 18-25-0/5-14-1.  Every Cleveland player, including pitcher Hudlin, had at least 1 hit.  Odell Hale (4 runs) and Bruce Campbell both had 4 hits. 

August 19 - Bosox beat A's, 21-26-0/2-6-3.  Every Boston starter, including pitcher HJohnny Marcum, had at least 1 hit.  Dom Dallessandro, Ski Melillo had 4 hits.  Gene Desautels and Dallessandro had 4 RBI.

August 22- Tigers beat Browns in opener, 21-27-2/5-15-0.  All 9 Tigers had at least 1 hit, including pitcher Roxie Lawson.  Hank Greenberg (.388,34, 147) 2B, HR, 6 RBI.  Gee Walker (.361, 18, 106) 5-6, HR.

August 24 - Joe DiMaggio ties replay hitting streak record (George McQuinn, 1938, 38 games) as he goes 3-5 (all singles).  Joe is now batting .410, 39, 126.  NY loses to Chisox, 6-2.

August 25 - DiMaggio's streak ends at 38, same as George McQuinn's, as NY loses to Chicago (Thornton Lee, 13-7, 2.39) , 5-3.  Joe goes 0-4, and "drops" to .406.

August 26 - Dizzy Dean wins his 20^th (20-3, 1.96), beating the Phillies, 5-1.  Every Card starter, including Dean, had at least 1 hit.

August 29 - Yanks beat Browns, 15-21-1/2-10-0, as every Yank starter, including pitcher Malone, has at least 1 hit.   Bums beat Reds, 17-20-0/2-10-1. 

August 31 - Browns take 2 from A's, winning nightcap, 17-26-5/10-14-3.   Every Brown player, except pitcher Lou Koupal, had at least 2 hits, and 6 of the 8 had at least 3 hits (Tommy Heath and Sammy West both had 4 hits).

 Lefty Gomez's 30th win (9-25-1937):