The Archive · 1939

Rain Allows Only One Major Baseball Game Bees Defeat Phillies by Single Run

New York, Apr. 19.

Unfavourable weather today caused postponement of all major league baseball games with the exception of the Boston Bees—Philadelphia Phillies opener, which Boston won, 7-6. The game was played in Boston.

The Bees trailed until the ninth innings, when Debs Garms' single sent Alfonso Lopez across the home plate. putting the count at six all.

The deadlock in the twelfth innings, when Al Simmons single brought Garms in, With the exception of the Reds—Cubs game which was postponed due to cold weather, all other major league games were postponed because of rain.

The Bees used a large staff of pitchers, but it remained for Posedel. who came up to the mound in the tenth innings, to pull the Boston team through to a narrow victory in the twelve-inning tussle.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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