====== May 31, 1901 ====== ===== News ===== • The Athletics jumped out to a 10-0 lead by the end of the top half of the second, but a late [[Guardians|Cleveland]] charge nearly brought the game home and the A's just held on to win their sixth straight, 10-0, in Cleveland • The A's scored seven runs in the first and piled on in the second with a [[Harry Davis]] two-run homer followed by a pair of doubles • The A's had 21 hits in the game which was the high mark for either league so far on the season • Catcher [[Harry Smith]] tried to report to the team, but he was still suffering from a recent illness and manager [[Connie Mack]] sent him home to convalesce until he was well enough to play ball ===== Today's Game ===== |**May 31, 1901**|||||||||||||| | |Philadelphia Athletics (12-17) at Cleveland (8-21)|||||||||||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | R | H | E | | |PHL| 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 15 | 21 | 2 | | |CLE| 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | - | 14 | 16 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Ballpark|League Park||||||||||||| | |City|Cleveland, Ohio||||||||||||| | |Attendance|800||||||||||||| | |Managers|Connie Mack (PHL), Jimmy McAleer (CLE)||||||||||||| | |Starting pitchers|Chick Fraser (PHL), Earl Moore (CLE)||||||||||||| | ---- [[may-30-1901|< May 30, 1901]] [[1901 calendar|Back to Calendar]] [[june-1-1901|Jun 1, 1901 >]]