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  "description": "Lefty Grove struck out 10 to overpower the Yankees, while the Giants rallied past the Braves and the Phillies hammered the Robins in another action-packed day from the June 29, 1926 New York Daily News.",
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  "tags": [
    "Lefty Grove",
    "Waite Hoyt",
    "Miller Huggins",
    "Babe Ruth",
    "Ben Paschal",
    "Lou Gehrig",
    "Bill Lamar",
    "Herb McQuaid",
    "Nick Braxton",
    "Paul Florence",
    "Larry Benton",
    "Edd Roush Brown",
    "Kent Greenfield",
    "Hugh High",
    "Cotton Burrus",
    "Dave Bancroft",
    "Frank Gibson",
    "Harold Goldsmith",
    "Heinie Mueller",
    "Ross Youngs",
    "Frankie Frisch",
    "Jack Scott",
    "Eddie Gautreau",
    "George Kelly",
    "Al Tyson",
    "Jess Barnes",
    "John McGraw",
    "Ned Porter",
    "Robert Emmet McGraw",
    "Frank Ulrich",
    "Buzz McWeeny",
    "Rube Ehrhardt",
    "Lefty Williams",
    "Fred Leach",
    "Dazzy Vance",
    "Dick Cox",
    "Sammy Bohne"
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  "textContent": "Content from the NY Daily News - Tuesday June 29, 1926\n\n## In This Edition\n\n  * Lefty Grove Left Hands Way to 7–1 Win Over Yanks\n    * Fine Is Fine\n    * Bam Fans Twice\n  * Giants Triumph in Battle With Braves, 3 to 2\n    * All in Vain\n    * So They Won\n  * Phillies Defeat Robins, 9–4, in Alleged Ball Game\n    * Wings Clipped\n    * Fourteen Hits\n  * Advertisements\n\n\n\n* * *\n\n## GROVE LEFT HANDS WAY TO 7—1 WIN OVER YANKS\n\n**Hoyt Starts, but That's All Successors Did, Too.**\n\nPhiladelphia ace Lefty Grove (left) and Yankees starter Waite Hoyt (right) following the Athletics' 7–1 victory over New York at Shibe Park on June 28, 1926. Grove struck out 10 while allowing just one run.\n\nPhiladelphia, June 28. — The Yankees took another on the chin here this afternoon. Lefty Grove simply southpawed them to death and trotted home with a 7 to 1 decision in a game that was all Grove's from start to finish, and figuring both ways from the middle.\n\nMr. Grove allowed only seven hits, struck out no less than ten batsmen and otherwise made himself obstreperous. As some wise cracker once remarked, \"The Yankees are a sucker for a left hook.\" They were yesterday—particularly for the left hook as exemplified by Mr. Robert Grove.\n\n### Fine Is Fine.\n\nWaite Hoyt started for our boys and the best that can be said for Waite is that he stayed in there five innings. He didn't have much to start and what he had the Athletics soon knocked out of him, much to his own chagrin and the discomfiture of Mr. Miller Huggins. But it didn't make much difference whether Mr. Hoyt was good or bad, so far as the result was concerned.\n\nThe only ones of our boys who managed to do any free hitting at all were Babe Ruth and Ben Paschal. Each of these young men connected for two blows—singles. It was Mr. Ruth, as a matter of fact, who drove in the only Yankee run in the first inning.\n\n### Bam Fans Twice.\n\nLou Gehrig lifted a high fly to Bill Lamar, which Bill obligingly dropped, permitting Columbia Lou to reach second. Thence he scored at a canter when Ruth socked one against the right field wall for a resounding single. But all was not glory for the Babe at that. Twice he struck out with gigantic swings. As some guy in the stands remarked: \"Grove struck out ten men, and Ruth was two of them.\"\n\nThe A's lost no time in taking the lead—getting two runs in the first—and thereafter it was only a question of the score. Once Mr. Hoyt had left the game Messrs. Herb McQuaid and Nick Braxton performed in order. Herbie was touched for one run in two innings and Braxton for none in one.\n\nOfficial box score from the Philadelphia Athletics' 7–1 victory over the New York Yankees on June 28, 1926. Lefty Grove struck out 10 and held New York to seven hits in a dominant complete-game performance.\n\n* * *\n\n## GIANTS TRIUMPH IN BATTLE WITH BRAVES, 3 TO 2\n\nBy WILL MURPHY.\n\nThe Braves fought the Giants bitterly for seven innings at the Polo Grounds yesterday. They reverted to their accustomed ineptnesses and the Giants won out, 3 to 2.\n\nPaul Florence, who continues to be a dangerous clubber, opened the scoring with a homer off Larry Benton in the fifth inning. It was a line swat to left center that romped past the agile Edd Roush Brown and rolled to the wall.\n\nGiants pitchers Kent Greenfield (left) and Jack Scott (right), whose combined mound work secured New York's 3–2 victory over the Boston Braves at the Polo Grounds on June 27, 1926.\n\nBenton was throwing in great style, and so was Kent Greenfield. But in the seventh the Braves filled the bases on hits by Hugh High and Cotton Burrus and a pass.\n\n### All in Vain.\n\nManager Dave Bancroft gambled on taking out his pitcher for a substitute batter, and it looked like a good bargain when pinch hitter Frank Gibson doubled, scoring two runs.\n\nBancroft's bargain turned out badly, for his relief pitcher, Harold Goldsmith, could not hold the Giants as Benton doubtlessly would have done.\n\n### So They Won.\n\nMaster Goldsmith was trying his darndest, however. While Heinie Mueller was scoring on Ross Youngs's hit, Goldy stood squarely on the base line for some unknown reason. Meuller had to knock him down and crawl to the plate on hands and knees. Brown's wild throw on that play let Frankie Frisch get into a scoring position at third.\n\nJack Scott pitched the ninth and let the Braves fill the bags with two down. But John fanned the Eddie Gautreau infant for the last out.\n\nThe Giants broke even on cripples yesterday. George Kelly was pronounced cured of his bum knee and may play today, but it was found that Al Tyson broke his right forearm when that member was hit by one of Jess Barnes's pitches Friday.\n\nThe John McGraws yesterday signed pitcher Ned Porter, a University of Florida lad.\n\nTwo games with the Braves today.\n\nOfficial box score from the New York Giants' 3–2 victory over the Boston Braves at the Polo Grounds on June 27, 1926, highlighted by Paul Florence's home run and the combined pitching of Kent Greenfield and Jack Scott.\n\n* * *\n\n## PHILLIES DEFEAT ROBINS, 9—4, IN ALLEGED BALL GAME\n\n**Robert McGraw Smacked For Six Runs at Start.**\n\nAlthough the Dodgers dropped a 9 to 4 game to the Phillies at Ebbets Field yesterday one never would have guessed it by watching the athletes perform. The actions of the rival nines were highly reminiscent of the sort of burlesque that one would expect at a Sunday school picnic when the married men play the single men.\n\nBrooklyn pitchers Robert McGraw (left) and Rube Ehrhardt (right), who followed one another to the mound during the Robins' 9–4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Ebbets Field on June 27, 1926.\n\nThe Phils lambasted young Robert Emmet McGraw for six runs in one and one-third innings and the game was as good as over if any one only knew it.\n\n### Wings Clipped.\n\nNo one seemed to know it, however, least of all the Dodgers, who spent the better part of two hours pecking away at the offerings of Frank Ulrich in a futile effort to swing the tide. Ulrich weakened in two innings in which respect he had it on the four Dodger pitchers, who weakened in five of the nine frames.\n\nBuzz McWeeny, Rube Ehrhardt and Lefty Williams followed McGraw to the mound, and while the scoring realized from their offerings was practically negligible, it didn't ease the agony of the Flatbush fans any, who winced as the additional and superfluous Philly runs were trotting homeward.\n\n### Fourteen Hits.\n\nThe Phillies totaled fourteen hits as they clicked off their fifth straight victory and four of the Quaker safeties were corralled by Fred Leach, among them a homer over the right field wall. Fred accounted for two-thirds of the Slow Town runs, batting in three and scoring three.\n\nDazzy Vance is expected to face the Phillies this afternoon in an effort to put the Dodgers back in the right road. Vance has not pitched in over a week.\n\nChunky little Dick Cox has now hit in his last eight games. The former coast leaguer is making valiant efforts to climb back into the .300 class.\n\nSammy Bohne, the infielder purchased from the Reds, reported to the Dodgers yesterday.\n\nThe score.\n\nOfficial box score from the Philadelphia Phillies' 9–4 victory over the Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field on June 27, 1926. The Phillies collected 14 hits, including Fred Leach's home run, to extend their winning streak to five games.\n\n* * *\n\n## ADVERTISEMENTS\n\nA 1926 Lucky Strike cigarette advertisement featuring horseback riders and the brand's signature slogan, \"Because it's toasted,\" promoting the cigarette's distinctive flavor through its unique toasting process.A National Tire Co. advertisement from 1926 touting major discounts on Firestone and United States tires, complete with a $2 coupon, free service, and locations in New York, Brooklyn, and Newark.",
  "title": "Lefty Grove Fans 10 as Athletics Crush Yankees; Giants and Phillies Also Prevail",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-29T10:30:46.337Z"
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