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Thursday, April 18, 1901 (Opening Day)

(November 28, 2019) It's time for Opening Day of the 1901 season. Let's play ball!

Philadelphia (NL) (H) 11 Brooklyn 2

Philadelphia started off the 1901 season by pounding last year's Champion Brooklyn Superbas for an easy 11-1 win. Jack Dunn (1-0) went all the way for the win, giving up eight hits and two walks for the day. Brooklyn's defense and starting pitcher Bill Donovan's (0-1) control both abandoned the team in only the worst of moments, opening the door for the Phillies. Catcher Ed McFarland led the Phillies offense with a 4-for-5 day that included two doubles and three RBI's as Philadelphia pounded out seventeen hits at home on opening day.

Jack Dunn
Friday, April 19, 1901

Philadelphia (NL) 5 Brooklyn (H) 4 (10)

After yesterday's opening in Philadelphia both teams boarded a train to play a game in Brooklyn. The Phillies got off to a fast start again, this time taking a 3-0 lead into the third inning. The Superbas rallied back though, finally regaining the lead on centerfielder's Tom McCreery's two-run triple in the bottom of the fifth. Philadelphia pushed across a run in the seventh to tie the score at 4-4, and there it stayed until the tenth when shortstop Monte Cross stroked a one-out single to left, was sacrificed to second by Gene McCann and then scored on a sharp single by centerfielder Roy Thomas. McCann (1-0) then finished his complete-game victory by shutting down Brooklyn 1-2-3 in the bottom of the tenth and Philadelphia found themselves off to a 2-0 start.

St. Louis (H) 8 Chicago (NL) 3

St. Louis exploded for five runs in the bottom of the fourth to blow open a close game and take a season-opening win from their rivals to the north, the Chicago Orphans. Both teams had ten hits on the day, but the Cardinals got the big hits when they needed them, led by first baseman Dan McGann who went 3-for-4 with a triple and three runs scored. Jack Powell (1-0) got the complete-game win over Jack Taylor (0-1).

Boston (NL) (H) 2 New York 0

The Boston Beaneaters opened their season by scoring twice in the first and then letting Kid Nichols (1-0) shut out the New York Giants over unfortunate loser Dummy Taylor (0-1). Second baseman Gene DeMontreville and shortstop Herman Long each picked up a first-inning RBI in a game that featured no extra-base hits and no errors.
  
Saturday, April 20, 1901

St. Louis (H) 4 Chicago (NL) 3

The hometown Cardinals took a 1-0 lead in the third and then first baseman Dan McGann hit the first homerun of the season a two-run shot in the fifth, and Cowboy Jones (1-0) appeared to be cruising to an easy win. Chicago had other ideas and clawed their way back to a 3-3 tie after the seventh. St. Louis regained the lead in the eighth when third baseman Otto Krueger singled home second baseman Dick Padden and that was all Jones needed to nail down the win.

Note: Chicago center fielder Danny Green took a pitch off the hand in the sixth and was replaced in the lineup by Charlie Dexter.

Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati (H) 2

In the season opener for both teams, it was Cincinnati who scored first as the Reds scored twice in the bottom of the first, the big hit being a triple by right fielder Sam Crawford. Pirates starter Sam Leever (1-0) settled down from there as he allowed only two more hits and the Pirates offense slowly slumbered to life, scoring once in the second to keep it close and then regaining the lead with two in the sixth. The Reds loaded the bases in the ninth, but to no avail and Noodles Hahn (0-1) took the loss despite a well-pitched game.

Sam Crawford
Sunday, April 21, 1901

Chicago (NL) 15 St. Louis 1

In the only game of the day Chicago got their first win of the season in a 15-1 blow-out over St. Louis. The Orphans picked up 21 hits on the day and scored early and often. The big hit for Chicago was a three-run homerun in the sixth by first baseman Topsy Hartsel. Jock Menefee (1-0) only allowed a solo homerun to right fielder Patsy Donovan in the sixth and otherwise kept the Cardinals off the board.



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