• The Athletics lost to the Orioles, 14-10, at Columbia Park

• The Orioles put together a four-run sixth inning to give them the lead for good

• Billy Milligan started the game for the A’s, going six innings and giving up eight runs on ten hits while walking three more

• Wiley Piatt closed the game and didn’t fare much better, surrendering six runs on six hits and six walks

• Baltimore manager John McGraw and his starting pitcher, Germany Schmit, were tossed for arguing balls and strikes

• The team released outfielder Fred Ketchum and first baseman Pat Crisham

• They also acquired left-handed pitcher Bock Baker from Cleveland and signed former Phillies catcher Morgan Murphy

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