The Archive · 1941

With Ninth-Inning Rally

Indians Snatch Eleventh Win — Faltering Athletics Lose Game in Final Frame Dodgers Make It Three in a Row Against Reds

New York, Apr. 30.

EY Weatherly's long double broke up the Cleveland-Philadelphia tussle in the last half of the ninth inning today, giving the Tribe a 6-5 victory over Connie Mack's faltering Athletics. It was the Indians' eleventh victory of the season and tightened their grip on the American League leadership.

The A's took the lead in the first fourth inning and remained ahead until Cleveland's last frame rally. The Mackmen scored one run in the first, two in the fourth and then apparently put the game on ice with another pair of runs in the eighth.

In the seventh, the Indians found their batting jove and pushed over their first score. They collected two more runs in the last of the eighth and then won the game with a three-run rally in the ninth,

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