Day 40

The standings                              
                                                W      L    Pct.     GB
Baltimore                               24       7     .774     ---
Washington                           17     12     .586      6
Brooklyn                                14     18     .438    10.5
NY Giants                              10     18     .357    12.5
NY Yankees                           10     23     .303   15


Day 40 results
Baltimore 4, NY Yankees 2
WP: D Brown (3-1)
LP:  Shawkey (0-6)
Save: Cooper (1)
HR: Oms (5)

NY Giants 3, Washington 2
WP: Bentley (3-2)
LP: Johnson (5-2)


Day 41 games
Brooklyn (Doak 3-2) at Baltimore (Winters 3-1)
Giants (Nehf 1-4) at Baltimore (Williams 2-0)

Day 40 recaps
Baltimore 4, NY Yankees 2: Alejandro Oms led off with his fifth homer of the season and Dave Brown allowed two runs on four hits in eight innings. Ben Taylor drove in two runs and Oscar Charleston scored a pair. The Yankees got their runs on consecutive doubles by Babe Ruth. Bob Meusel and Wally Pipp in the seventh inning.

NY Giants 3, Washington 2:Jack Bentley went the distance, allowing one hit over the final seven innings, and drove in the winning run with a ninth-inning single off Walter Johnson. Bentley allowed four hits, three of them in the second, when the Senators scored their two runs. The Giants got two unearned runs in the fourth as Sam Rice and Ossie Bluege were charged with errors.


Pitcher use notes

Baltimore:  Bell and Rogan rest until Day 42. Donaldson rests until Day 43. Brown rests until Day 44. Cooper faced two hitters on Day 40

Brooklyn: Doak rests until Day 41. Grimes and Vance rest until Day 43. Osborne pitched one inning on Day 39.

NY Giants:  Barnes and McQuillan rest until Day 44. Bentley rests runil Day 45. Jonnard, Dean, Huntzinger and Maun each pitched one inning on Day 39

NY Yankees: Pennock and Bush rest until Day 42. Shawkey rests until Day 45.
 
Washington:  Ogden rests until Day 42. Johnson rests until Day 44.