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  "description": "Muddy Ruel drove in all four Washington runs, including a game-winning tenth-inning triple, while Rogers Hornsby explained why his Cardinals are content to remain near the top of the National League race rather than rush into first place.",
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  "tags": [
    "Muddy Ruel",
    "Ossie Bluege",
    "Harry Rice",
    "Sam Rice",
    "Gene Robertson",
    "Joe Judge",
    "Ernie Wingard",
    "Dutch Ruether",
    "Firpo Marberry",
    "Joe Harris",
    "Dixie Davis",
    "Cedric Durst",
    "Wally Gerber",
    "Roger Peckinpaugh",
    "Marty McManus",
    "Goose Goslin",
    "George Sisler",
    "Ken Williams",
    "Jesse Haines",
    "Cliff Bell",
    "Larry Benton",
    "Dave Bancroft",
    "Rogers Hornsby",
    "Les Mueller",
    "Billy Southworth"
  ],
  "textContent": "Content from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat - Saturday June 19, 1926\n\n## Table of Contents\n\n  * Muddy Ruel Wins It in the Tenth\n-- Bitter Southpaw Duel\n-- Had to Be Good\n-- Wingard Helps Himself\n  * Cards, Braves Meet in Two Games Today\n-- Haines and Bell to Hurl\n-- Hornsby Not Cock-Sure\n-- Smooth Sailing Ahead, Says Rog\n-- Southworth Will Steady Club\n\n\n\n## Ruel's Triple in Tenth Enables Senators to Nose Out Browns, 4-3\n\nSt. Louis Boy's Single in Second with Three On Knocks Out Davis\n\nWingard Then Engages Ruether in Hot Hurling Duel—Melillo's Homer Into Left Field Bleachers Ties Score in 8th Inning.\n\nBy MARTIN J. HALEY.\n\nIt took a young, hustling home-bred lawyer to beat the Browns yesterday. We refer to Muddy Ruel. He rendered a 4-to-3 decision against the Browns in the tenth inning when he tripled down the rightfield line to score Ossie Bluege from first base, but that wasn't all the St. Louis boy accomplished, for in the second inning he singled down the leftfield line with the bases loaded and thus made it possible for the Senators to score their other three runs. In addition, Ruel got another single in the sixth, but it was wasted.\n\nThe Browns, therefore, lost a tough, uphill battle through the batting efforts of one individual, but they had the breaks against them, too, or they would have knotted the count again in their half of the tenth. In this round, Harry Rice doubled to left center with one gone and moved to third on Oscar Melillo's fly to Sam Rice. Then Gene Robertson got hold of a ball hard, but his smash whistled straight to Joe Judge and the game was over, when the latter tagged first base.\n\n### Bitter Southpaw Duel\n\nThe contest was a bitter southpaw duel between Ernie Wingard and Dutch Ruether, but the former was not on duty at the start and Ruether was not there at the finish, Firpo Marberry relieving for the Nats after Joe Harris batted for Ruether in Washington's extra inning. Wingard was not pressed into service until Ruel had touched Dixie Davis for that timely single in the second inning, after Davis had walked three straight batters to jam the aisles. Thus, Davis' wildness actually lost the ball game, but Wingard is charged with the loss, since the score was tied for him in the eighth inning, when Melillo hit a home run into the left field bleachers.\n\nMelillo also had driven in the Browns' second run by singling in the fifth inning to drive in Wingard, who had doubled, and Wingard had accounted for the Browns' initial marker when he singled off Bluege's glove to admit Cedric Durst in the second inning. Durst had reached scoring position on his own single to center, together with Sam Rice's muff of Wally Gerber's line drive.\n\nIt is plainly evident, therefore, that Dutch Ruether was not a victim of wholesale hitting. The ex-Brooklyn left-hander had the \"big guns\" of the local lineup rather well silenced, for he permitted only seven hits in the nine innings he worked, and of these seven four were divided by Melillo and Wingard.\n\nWingard, on the other hand, in addition to being wild at times, was hit often and hard, but his fine pinch hitting and the sparkling defense thrown around him checked every advance made by the champions until the tenth inning.\n\n### Had to Be Good\n\nWingard and his defense had to be good, for the Senators had a runner in scoring position in seven of the last eight innings. In the third Sam Rice doubled off Wingard's glove, with none out; in the fourth, Bluege and Roger Peckinpaugh walked, with none out; in the fifth, Sam Rice tripled, with one out; in the sixth, Bluege beat out a bunt, and after Peck died Ruel singled; in the seventh, Sam Rice doubled, with only one gone; in the eighth, Bluege walked, with none out, and in the ninth Stanley Harris doubled, with two gone. And yet the Senators did not turn a single one of these chances into a run.\n\nChecking the Nats in the third, following Sam Rice's scratch two-bagger, Marty McManus speared Goose Goslin's low line drive with his glove and threw to Melillo, doubling Rice off second. McManus again was playing first base in the absence of Manager George Sisler, whose sore right arm forced him to ride the bench for the second day in succession.\n\nIn the fourth inning, when Bluege and Peck walked, Wingard fanned Ruel, tamed Ruether on a fly ball and made Bucky McNeely force Peck at second. In the fifth inning, Wingard subdued Goslin on a tap to the mound and got Judge on a foul to Benny Dixon, after Sam Rice made three bases with only one gone when Ken Williams missed a glove catch of Sam's fly ball to short left.\n\nThe sixth inning saw McManus aiding Wingard over another crisis. Bluege had bunted safely and Peck was trying to sacrifice, but one of Peck's efforts was a low foul which McManus snared by dashing headlong towards the plate. It was good Peck didn't sacrifice, as Ruel dropped a single in right. Wingard was still in the hole, but he emerged unscathed by fanning Ruether and by making McNeely bounce to Robertson.\n\n### Wingard Helps Himself\n\nWingard helped himself in the seventh. He speared Goslin's ground smash with his glove and trapped Sam Rice, who had doubled, off the midway. It was well, too, for Judge came through with a single. Then the Nats essayed a double steal and were thwarted in their attempt. Gerber's glove-hand stop near second made possible a double play in the eighth and nullified a pass to Bluege. In the ninth, after Stan Harris doubled and Sam Rice walked with two gone, Wingard again speared a hot smash from Goslin's bat and retired the Goose at first base.\n\nThen, in the fatal tenth, Judge opened with a single to right center and was forced by Bluege when McManus made a fast play on Bluege's attempted sacrifice. Peck's fly to Durst made it two out, but Ruel lined to right and when the ball hopped freakishly around the extreme corner of the right field concrete, Harry Rice had trouble fielding it. Despite the delay, Harry uncorked a throw which just missed nailing Bluege at the plate.\n\nThe Browns, aside from the three innings in which they scored, had only two other chances this side of the tenth. Peck gave them an opportunity at the outset when he placed Melillo on second by fumbling the latter's grounder and by throwing the ball into the grandstand. Peck drew two errors on the play. In this pinch, Ruether made Robertson bounce to Bluege and Williams tap to the mound. In the ninth, after McManus singled with no one dead, Ruether retired Durst, Dixon and Gerber in order.\n\nThird of the series today.\n\n* * *\n\n## Cards, Braves Meet in Two Games Today\n\nHornsby Will Send Haines and Bell to Hill—Benton to Hurl One of Games for Bancroft.\n\n_SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE GLOBE-DEMOCRAT._\n\nBOSTON, MASS., June 18.—Showers in the forenoon and threatening weather conditions early in the afternoon caused a postponement of the game scheduled for today between the Braves and the Cardinals. A double-header will be played tomorrow afternoon, the first game to be started at 1:30. Until this year no double-headers were permitted on the first trip around, but a new regulation, in effect this season, provides that postponed games may be played at the convenience of the home clubs.\n\nIt so happened that the game could have been played today. The postponement was announced about 1 o'clock, when the weather conditions were threatening, but two hours later it cleared up and for the remainder of the afternoon the conditions were perfect.\n\nThe fans will be given a double-header for the week-end, so there was no kick over the postponement.\n\n### Haines and Bell to Hurl\n\nJesse Haines and Cliff Bell are in line to work in the box for the Cardinals in the double-header tomorrow.\n\nLarry Benton is nominated for one of the games, but Dave Bancroft had not definitely decided on the other hurler tonight.\n\nAlthough the postponement upset the plan for an early get-away by the Cardinals, Manager Rogers Hornsby thought the day off would be of benefit to his men, who have been going along at quite a clip on the present road trip.\n\n### Hornsby Not Cock-Sure\n\nWhile his club at present occupies third place in the standing and is only one full game behind the leaders, Hornsby is not making any claims as to its being a pennant winner.\n\n\"We are up there now and we have got there by playing at our normal gait, so I do not see any reason why we should not stick there or thereabouts.\"\n\n\"We have no desire to get into first place at this stage of the race; I'd rather be just where we are now than in first place at this time. We have some comparatively young players, and there is no use in putting any extra strain on them so early in the race.\n\n\"If we stick up there for a couple of months, I do not care who is in first place, after that, we ought to give them a battle.\"\n\n### Smooth Sailing Ahead, Says Rog\n\n\"We have some good pitchers and a pretty well balanced team with strength both on offense and defense and there is no reason, so far as I can see at present, why we should go into any prolonged slump.\"\n\nHornsby was queried regarding the hot weather in St. Louis which is said to get ball players in mid-season. \"Oh, I do not take any stock in that. I believe that it is only a handy alibi for some players to explain a falling off in their work.\n\n\"Personally I have not found the conditions there much different from what they are in other places.\"\n\nRegarding the recent trade of Les Mueller to the Giants for Billy Southworth, Hornsby said he believed he had added strength to his club.\n\n### Southworth Will Steady Club\n\n\"Mueller is a fine ball player, but I thought we would benefit by the exchange. Southworth is also a fine ball player, and has had more experience than Mueller, and so ought to have a steadying influence on our young players.\"\n\nThe Cardinals will leave here for Brooklyn tomorrow night. They will play at Ebbets Field on Sunday, and then go to Pittsburgh for one game on Monday, and home for a short stay, playing with Pittsburgh and Chicago.\n\n* * *\n\n## ADVERTISEMENTS\n\nGreenfield's encourages shoppers to remember Dad on Father's Day 1926 with a belt buckle gift suggestion from its Olive and Eighth Street store in St. Louis.Goodyear promotes its durable golf ball in 1926, emphasizing bright color, accuracy, and long-lasting performance for 75 cents.The People's Motorbus Company of St. Louis advertises round-trip transportation to the Open Air Derby via double-deck express buses for one dollar.",
  "title": "Muddy Ruel's Tenth-Inning Triple Lifts Senators Over Browns",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-19T12:55:59.627Z"
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