Derringer vs Lanier
St. Louis 5 Chicago 4 (12 Innings)
It was seldom used catcher, Ken O'Dea, who came through with a 12th inning single that plated the winning run for the St.Louis Cardinals and extend their season opening winning streak to 9. Chicago had taken a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the 8th but was unable to protect it as the Redbirds tied the score that would force the extra innings.
Wyse vs Brecheen
St. Louis 8 Chicago 2
After a tight fought game for 6 innings the Cardinals broke the game open with 2 runs in the 7th and 3 more in the 8th. St. Louis scored 2 runs in the 3rd inning to take a 3-2 lead before the Cubs got within one on an RBI single by Andy Pafko to plate Peanuts Lowrey who had tripled a batter before. Danny Litwhiler's 2 run single gave the Cardinals some insurance runs in the 7th and RBI singles by Stan Musial, Ray Sanders and Whitey Kurowski closed out the scoring and stretched the Cardinals' winning streak to 10 games. Musial went 4 for 5 in the game and scored 3 times.
Prim vs Munger
St. Louis 10 Chicago 3
The final score does not indicate the quality of the game that was played. St. Louis led the game 3-2 going into the top of the 8th inning when the Cub's Stan Hack led off the inning with a double and scored the tying run one out later on a Bill Nicholson single. Hy Vandenberg came on in the bottom of the inning and retired the first two batters before disaster struck. Vandenberg suddenly lost his control and proceeded to give up a triple, single, single, walk, walk, single, walk, walk and single before the manager finally removed him. The result was a 7 run inning and St. Louis' 11th win in a row. Danny Litwhiler had a triple and Homerun to lead the Cardinals attack.
Sportsman's Park, St. Louis
Chicago 3 St. Louis 2
All good things must come to the end and for the St. Louis Cardinals it was the outstanding pitching performance but Chicago's Claude Passeau. The righthander kept the high powered Redbirds in check all game allowing only three hits and nearly tossing a complete game. His only mistake came in the 6th inning when he got behind in the count to Whitey Kurowski who took advantage and singled in the only 2 runs the Cardinals would get. After getting the first 2 outs in the 9th Passeau appeared to run out of steam as he gave up a single to Marty Marion and a walk to Pepper Martin and was replaced by Paul Erickson to face a tough out in PH'er Walker Cooper who was trying to tie or end the game and get his brother Mort off the hook for the loss. It wasn't to be as Cooper flied out to left to end the game and end the Cardinals magnificent run of wins at 11 games.
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