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  "description": "The Yankees' 16-game winning streak came to an abrupt end as Lefty Grove and the Athletics swept a Philadelphia doubleheader. Plus, Paul Gallico reflects on the glory and heartbreak of life on the pitching mound.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-31T12:45:09.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Lefty Grove",
    "Waite Hoyt",
    "Mark Koenig",
    "Mickey Cochrane",
    "Chick Galloway",
    "Bing Miller",
    "Urban Shocker",
    "Lou Gehrig",
    "Sam Gray",
    "Babe Ruth",
    "Al Simmons",
    "Walter French",
    "Jimmy Dykes",
    "Mike Gazella",
    "Pat Collins",
    "Spencer Adams",
    "Earle Combs",
    "Joe Hauser",
    "Walter Beall",
    "Sam Jones"
  ],
  "textContent": "Content from the NY Daily News - Saturday, May 29, 1926\n\n## In This Edition\n\n  * A's Kibosh Yankee Winning Streak\n  * Boo! Take Him Out!\n\n\n\n## A's KIBOSH YANKEE WINNING STREAK\n\n### MACKMEN TAKE BOTH GAMES FROM HUGMEN\n\n _Lefty Groves Again Stops Pennant Chasers._\n\nBy MARSHALL HUNT.\n\nThey sharpened up their butcher knives,\nTheir sabers, long and keen,\nAnd envy filled their evil eyes\nAt sight of sweet Sixteen!\nAll gathered 'round with lustful looks,\nThey whet their guillotine.\nThen Robert Grove released the blade—\nTHERE WAS NO SEVENTEEN!\n\n—Modern Yankee Ballad.\n\nMay 28, 1926, was the exact date when the magnificent sixteen-game winning streak of the Yankees became a two-game losing streak as quickly and dramatically as though it had come under some inscrutable occult control; the precise day when the resplendent Yankee pageant, with its tinsel and blaring trumpets, off to surpass the American League consecutive games record of nineteen, halted, then marched to the rear with muffled drums.\n\nThe pitching duel that ended New York's march toward history. Waite Hoyt and Lefty Grove squared off in the opener of the May 28, 1926 doubleheader, with Grove leading the Athletics to a 2–1 victory that snapped the Yankees' 16-game winning streak.\n\nIt all came about yesterday because they lost two games to the Philadelphia Athletics here, the contest which guillotined their winning streak by a score of 2 to 1, and the next by 6 to 5.\n\nIt was Lefty Grove against Waite Hoyt in the game which ended the procession—the same Lefty Grove who stopped the Yanks not long ago after they had won eight straight. Grove against the student mortician, who should have shared a better fate, for he held the A's to only four hits and might have won had not Master Mark Koenig erred in the second inning, a fumble which gave the Pachyderms an opening, which they seized with avidity.\n\nThe Athletics started out murderously in the second installment, a homer by Mickey Cochrane in the first round and triples by Chick Galloway and Bing Miller in the second causing the removal of Urban Shocker.\n\nLong distance hits by Koenig and Lou Gehrig in the sixth and other bludgeoning in the seventh caused the end of Sam Gray and the Yankees came within a run of tying the score. They fought on, to get two gents on base in the ninth but, alas, there they remained.\n\nAnd, all during the march to the rear the weapon of Babe Ruth was all too silent.\n\nAs chronicled above, it was a fumble by Mark Koenig in the second inning of the first game which left a gap open for the vengeful Athletics to guillotine the beauteous winning streak of the ambitious Yankees.\n\nKoenig gummed up Al Simmons's roller and Al took third on a single by Walter French. Chick Galloway forced out French, but the football tactics of the latter not only ruined a double play which would have retired the side, but permitted Simmons to score.\n\nA single by Jimmy Dykes in the fourth and a triple by French gave the A's their second and winning run.\n\nLefty Grove struck out eight, but he yielded seven hits and how they were wasted!\n\nNine New York gentlemen were left on bases. Opportunity after opportunity to score was piffled away and it was an error in the seventh inning which finally enabled the Yanks to score their solitary run which precluded a shut-out.\n\nDespite the Yankees' doubleheader sweep loss, Mark Koenig and Lou Gehrig supplied some of New York's biggest blows. Koenig tripled and doubled, while Gehrig added a double during the second game against Philadelphia.\n\nMike Gazella singled and Pat Collins walked. Hoyt fouled out. Koenig's single filled the bases. Spencer Adams ran for Collins. Earle Combs tapped to Grove. Gazella was forced at the plate and a double play at first would have succeeded had not Gordon Cochrane made a wild throw to Joe Hauser which let in Adams. Lou Gehrig fanned for the third time.\n\n__The grim arithmetic of May 28, 1926. Box scores from both games of the Athletics-Yankees doubleheader show Philadelphia victories of 2–1 and 6–5, bringing New York's celebrated 16-game winning streak to an abrupt end.__\n\n* * *\n\n## Boo! Take Him Out!\n\n_By PAUL GALLICO._\n\nYou would think that hanging around good ball players would do some good, and I thought it would, because I spent a good part of Wednesday afternoon on the ball field up in Boston watching Walter Beall and Sam Jones warming up, hoping to discover something that would stop an outcurve from breaking the minute it left the hand. Beall and Jones and I are all right handers, but Walt and Sam are much better. I think that stuff about being inspired by watching good performances is the bunk. Mr. Frank Dolan, the redheaded reporter who works up in the front of the paper where we sport people are allowed only on very special occasions, was very soothing about it yesterday morning when I tried out what I had learned, with him as a battery mate, but the bitter truth was only too evident. I’ll never be a pitcher.\n\nPitcher is the best job on a ball club. He works harder than anybody else, but he gets all the attention in addition to his salary. True, he shares it with the batter, but what a bum he can make out of the eager figure waving a stick at him. True, the batter can make as big a tramp out of him by leaning on one in a crucial moment, but it’s the pitcher that starts things. Nothing can happen until he delivers the ball. In my estimation, make or break is in his hands. When he blows, the game blows with him.\n\nIt is a humiliating moment for a pitcher when he gets the eye from the bench and before anywhere from 10,000 to 50,000 citizens he marches off the field. But the ledger is balanced, when some famous batsman strides to the plate before those same thousands, the bases are filled and a hit means a victory, only to prove a toy in the hands of the man on the mound. After the slugging hero has taken his three windies the pitcher can afford to be yanked publicly a few times. He has experienced the sweetest of all sensations, eh?",
  "title": "A's Kibosh Yankee Streak as Lefty Grove Plays Executioner",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-31T12:45:09.993Z"
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