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  "description": "Babe Ruth blasted his fifteenth homer of the season as the Yankees stretched their winning streak to nine games, while the Reds dropped Brooklyn into third place and the Giants survived Pittsburgh behind the defensive brilliance of Frankie Frisch and Frank Snyder.",
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  "tags": [
    "Yankees",
    "Babe Ruth",
    "Myles Thomas",
    "George Sisler",
    "Mark Koenig",
    "Milton Gaston",
    "Wally Gerber",
    "Bob Meusel",
    "Pat Collins",
    "Eppa Rixey",
    "Dazzy Vance",
    "Rabbit Maranville",
    "Babe Herman",
    "Curt Walker",
    "Edd Roush",
    "Rube Bressler",
    "Wally Pipp",
    "Frank Snyder",
    "Irish Meusel",
    "Bill Southworth",
    "Johnny Morrison",
    "Al Moore",
    "Freddie Lindstrom",
    "George Kelly",
    "Bill Terry",
    "Kiki Cuyler",
    "Kent Greenfield",
    "Glenn Wright",
    "Virgil Barnes",
    "Max Carey",
    "Hal Rhyne",
    "George Grantham",
    "Bill McKechnie",
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  "textContent": "Content From the New York Daily News - Friday May 21, 1926\n\n## Table of Contents\n\n  * Sultan of Swat Crowns Number 15\n  * Dodgers Beaten by Reds, Tumble to Third Place\n  * Giants in Game Fight Turn Back Pirates, 5—4\n  * Advertisements\n\n\n\n## SULTAN OF SWAT CROWNS NUMBER 15\n\n### HOMERS BY RUTH AND PAT COLLINS WIN 9TH IN ROW\n\n#### By MARSHALL HUNT.\n\nNo jinx protruded his sinister head at the Yankee stadium yesterday to frighten the Yankees and terminate their robust winning streak at the end of eight games as happened in Philadelphia recently. Babe Ruth and his colleagues saw to that, and the streak flourishes as the green bay tree. The Yanks' ninth consecutive victory was wheedled from the St. Louis Browns after a trying afternoon in which the Yankees found themselves in several distressing predicaments. The score was not as emphatic as the usual Yankee brand—5 to 4.\n\n26 newspaper portrait of Yankees catcher Pat Collins, whose home run helped power New York to its ninth straight victory during Babe Ruth’s early-season homer barrage.\n\nHeavenly days!\n\nWill there be no end to the home run spree of Mr. Ruth? He swiped his fifteenth of the season into the right field bleachers in the fifth inning yesterday and that blow, which barely enabled the ball to find haven in the cheaper terrace of chairs, to be truthful, tied the score at 2 to 2, and Herman immediately was eight games ahead of his 1921 record.\n\n### Wotta Change!\n\nA year ago at this time Mr. Ruth also was hitting many balls into the right field stands but not to the plaudits and huzzahs of the multitude and they went for naught. He was a lonesome figure, deserted by his comrades, who had gone forth bravely to explore the provinces but to be repulsed at every turn. Then Mr. Ruth was trying to mend a body worn weak by indiscretions.\n\nToday Mr. Ruth is whole and sound, his every move is watched with increasing eagerness, the contrast is vivid and Herman's atonement is on its rambunctious way to completion.\n\n### Heavenly Days\n\n1926 newspaper graphic tracking Babe Ruth’s home run pace, showing his fifteenth homer already surpassing the pace of his legendary 1921 season.\n\nThere were some inferior maneuvers by the Yankee infield yesterday and the pitching of Master Myles Thomas was no bargain, a base on balls in the second eventuating in the Browns' first run.\n\nGeorge Sisler added another in the third, when he smote far to right and three singles in the eighth enabling the Browns to score their fourth run.\n\n### Yes, Yes; Go on.\n\nMark Koenig's double, two bases on balls issued by Milton Gaston, the St. Louis workman, and an error by Wally Gerber were seriously involved in the first Yankee run in round one.\n\nBut let's get down to the meat of matters. Mr. Ruth's fifteenth home run in the fifth, a base on balls to Bob Meusel, his filching of second, a timely blow to right by Mike Gazella and a he-man home run to left by Pat Collins—last, but not least, the admirable home run of Mr. Collins, for that, indeed, proved the convincing argument in the second Yankee-St. Louis debate.\n\nThe score:\n\nBox score from the Yankees’ 5–4 victory over the St. Louis Browns on May 20, 1926, highlighted by Babe Ruth’s fifteenth home run and Pat Collins’ decisive blast.\n\n* * *\n\n## DODGERS BEATEN BY REDS, TUMBLE TO THIRD PLACE\n\n### By JACK FARRELL.\n\nCincinnati, O., May 20.—Unable to cope with the unbeatable combination of good pitching and hard socking of the timely variety, the Brooklyn Robins dropped the second straight to the Cincinnati Reds today by 7 to 2, and also went tumbling into third place in the Heydler circuit.\n\nEppa Rixey, the elongated southpaw opposed Bob McGraw, but it was really no match. Eppa had the situation in hand from start to finish excepting in the third when the Flatbush athletes grouped three of their eighth hits for their first run.\n\n1926 newspaper portraits of Brooklyn Robins pitchers Dazzy Vance and Bob McGraw, who faced the Cincinnati Reds during the National League pennant race.\n\nThat McGraw was the wrong man in the right place for the Reds, was evidenced in the very first inning when the pace-makers got off to a one run lead.\n\nRobert was on the defensive in practically every inning thereafter until Dazzy Vance replaced him in the eighth.\n\nTwo singles, a balk and a force, put the Reds in the van at the outset and a muff by Rabbit Maranville, a sacrifice and a single by Mr. Rixey developed another run in the second.\n\nThe Robins scored again in the ninth when Babe Herman doubled and scored on the Rabbit's single.\n\nIn the fifth McGraw walked Curt Walker, Edd Roush singled and Rube Bressler scored both mates with a triple, scoring himself while Johnny Fewster was tossing out Wally Pipp.\n\nTwo singles, a sacrifice and Pipp's double brought in two more in the seventh.\n\nBox score from Cincinnati’s 7–2 victory over the Brooklyn Robins on May 20, 1926, as Eppa Rixey outdueled Bob McGraw and the Reds climbed the National League standings.\n\n* * *\n\n## GIANTS IN GAME FIGHT TURN BACK PIRATES, 5—4\n\n### DEFENSE WORK SAVES CONTEST IN NINTH FRAME\n\n#### By WILL MURPHY.\n\nPittsburgh, Pa., May 20.—Woefully crippled but fighting every moment, the New York Giants turned on the Pittsburgh Pirates here this afternoon and won the second game of the series, 5 to 4.\n\n1926 newspaper portraits of Giants catcher Frank Snyder and second baseman Frankie Frisch, whose sharp defensive play preserved New York’s 5–4 victory over Pittsburgh.\n\nAlways in front, the victory was nevertheless saved for New York by the brilliant defensive work of Frank Snyder and Frankie Frisch when the Pirates tried to put over the tying run on a double steal.\n\n### Lineup Altered.\n\nOur lads started off with a long-delayed revision of the batting order, which worked out well enough. Irish Meusel was back in left field, the brilliant Bill Southworth having hurt his right shoulder in making a fine diving catch on Wednesday.\n\nThe new lineup pasted Johnny Morrison for four runs in the first inning, fashioned from hits by Frisch and Al Moore, Freddie Lindstrom’s sacrifice fly, a walk, George Kelly’s hit, Bill Terry’s sacrifice and Eddie Farrell’s single.\n\nThe Pirates retrieved two of these in their half of the first. A walk and Kiki Cuyler’s triple marked up one, and Cuyler scored when Kent Greenfield hit him soundly in the back in trying to toss Kiki out at the plate on Glenn Wright’s weak tap.\n\nFrom then until the eighth Master Greenfield was the wonder of all beholders. He seemed in a fair way to deliver his first creditable pitching of the season. In trouble a couple of times, he was rescued by sharp fielding behind him.\n\n### Get Run in Eighth.\n\nBut in the eighth the Pirates nicked Kent for a run, and when he gave his second base on balls, filling the bases with one out, Virgil Barnes was sent for. In this unappetizing situation the wee Barnes made Pinch Hitter Barnhart hit to Farrell for a double play.\n\nA hit by Barnes himself, a walk and Al Moore’s single accounted for a Giant run in the ninth, and, since it was the one eventually needed to win, Master Moore should receive no little encouragement.\n\n### Try Double Steal.\n\nThe Pirates went out after the ball game in the ninth. Two out of three pinch hitters made good, and a run came over on Max Carey’s fly to Meusel.\n\nHal Rhyne caromed a single off the third base bag. Then, with two out, Rhyne on first and George Grantham on third, Manager Bill McKechnie sent out the order for a double steal. Snyder threw without hesitation, Frisch cut off the peg neatly, flipped it back to the plate, and Grantham was out by a foot.\n\nBox score from the Giants’ 5–4 victory over the Pirates on May 20, 1926, highlighted by Frankie Frisch and Frank Snyder’s game-saving defensive play in the ninth inning.\n\n* * *\n\n## Advertisements\n\n1926 newspaper advertisement for Indian motorcycles and Goodyear balloon tires from Six Stern Bros., located at 1790 First Avenue near 93rd Street in New York City.1926 newspaper advertisement for a men’s “Shenandoah” strap watch sold by B. Gutter & Son at 170 Nassau Street near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.",
  "title": "Ruth Reaches Fifteen as Giants Turn Back Pirates and Reds Drop Robins",
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