Week Five

Sunday: Legends 9, 1924 Phillies 0
WP: Mathewson
LP: Glazner
HR: Schmidt (6)

Christy Mathewson allowed three hits and the Legends compiled 18 in the rout. Johnny Bench was 4-for-5 with two RBIs, a run and a double. Honus Wagner had three hits, including two doubles, and scored twice.

Monday: Legends 8, 2017 Tigers 0
WP: Sutton
LP: Zimmermann
HR: Mays 2 (7), Musial (8)

Don Sutton threw a three-hit shutout, and Willie Mays homered twice, singled, scored three runs and drove in three. Stan Musial hit a three-run homer. Sutton walked one and struck out seven and retired the final 11 men he faced.

Tuesday: Legends 2, 1924 Braves 0
WP: Dihigo
LP: Cooney
HR: Wagner (2)
Martin Dihigo threw a one-hitter for the Legends' third straight shutout. He walked one and struck out five. Honus Wagner homered off Johnny Cooney, who allowed seven hits and two runs in eight innings. Stuffy McInnis' seventh inning single was the only safety for the Braves.

Wednesday: Legends 8, 1969 Padres 2
WP: Hoyt
LP: J Niekro
HR: Schmidt (7), Bench (5), O Brown (1)

Mike Schmidt. Honus Wagner and Johnny Bench each drove in two runs the back up Waite Hoyt's four-hitter. Ollie Brown's fourth-inning homer was the first run ended a 33-inning scoreless streak by Legends pitching. Hoyt struck out eight and walked one; one of the two runs he allowed was unearned.

Thursday: Legends 18, 2009 Orioles 1
WP: Roberts
LP: Berken
HR: Ruth (11), Mays (8), Schmidt (8), Musial (9)

The Legends battered eight Baltimore pitchers for 19 hits and 10 walks. Willie Mays and Babe Ruth homered in the first inning, Mike Schmidt hit a grand slam in the third inning and Stan Musial hit a three-run homer in the sixth. The Legends scored at least once in each of their first six innings. Robin Roberts went the distance, allowing seven hits, walking two and striking out five.

Friday: Legends 6, 2009 Pirates 5 (10 innings)
WP: Fingers (3-0)
LP: D McCutchen
HR: Bench (6), Mays (9), Schmidt (9)

Mike Schmidt homered in the bottom of the 10th to cap the comeback win. Legends starter Amos Rusie walked five men in a four-run second inning and seven men in total in 8.2 innings. Willie Mays led off the seventh with a homer to pull the Legends within one run, and Johnny Bench homered to lead off the bottom of the ninth to tie it. Rollie Fingers retired four of five hitters and was credited with the victory.

Saturday: Legends 7, 2017 Giants 3
WP: McGinnity
LP: Moore
HR: Sandoval (1), Aaron (12), Musial (10), Morgan (3)

Henry Aaron and Stan Musial hit back-to-back homers in the Legends' four-run fourth, an inning in which the Legends hit for the cycle. Aaron totaled four RBIs for the game, and Ted Williams scorred twice. Iron Man McGinnity scattered 11 hits in eight innings, with all 11 coming in his final five innings of labor.