Chicago Cubs 1905 replay update: ‘Tornado’ Jake Weimar throws a gem

by Scott Fennessy

West Side Park, Chicago, IL 6/13/1905

The Cubs continue their home stand with game 3 in this now very heated rivalry.

“Iron Man” Joe McGinnity faces “Tornado” Jake Weimer, in what now amounts to a “must win” game for the Cubs. Art Devlin who is hitting under .200 leads off with a booming double into the gap. Mike Donlin (right) slaps a shallow single putting runners on the corners with only one out and it looks bad already. Thankfully Weimer stays calm and gets the final two outs with no score. The Cubs have an equally great start when Billy Maloney drawing the leadoff walk and moving to third on a perfectly placed hit through the vacated spot at second and runners on the corners and nobody out. McGinnity holds strong and no score, and the tone has already been set for this game. PITCHERS IN TOTAL COMMAND.

Weimer gets a 1-2-3 inning and the Cubs waste a potential opportunity when the Giants commit a one out error but fail to score. Still no action until the bottom of the fourth when the now red hot Joe Tinker who rips a triple into the right field corner to start the inning and scores on a Frank Schulte single to center and the Cubs put their first run on the board. Iron Man gets the next three in quick order to shut things down. Still nothing more until the 7th when Johnny Kling leads off with a walk and steals second. The struggling Doc Casey rips a triple into the right center gap and Kling scores. Once again McGinnity stops things cold and the lead is now at 0-2 Cubs. That was the ball game. Both Pitchers pitched well and deserved to win.

For the Giants. In the 7th inning Chance was thrown out trying for third and once again Devlin has a game ending injury. Fortunately he is a J-0 and only misses the final two innings with Neal covering third for him. I thought McGraw’s head was going to explode, and both teams got into your typical baseball fight. Lots of pushing and grabbing and shouting, but after about 5 minutes the umpires get the players back under control and the game continues. Nobody is ejected, but both managers are given warnings. Given the way this season has played out this will be a fight to the finish and the last man standing will win.

McGinnity allows just 2 runs on 5 hits and somehow gets a loss. Weimer was unstoppable today when his team needed him most. He allows just the two hits in the first while striking out 5. He retired 12 straight batters after the single by Donlin until Sammy Strang’s 1 out walk in the 5th. He then retired the next 7 hitters until Bowerman reached on Casey’s error in the 7th.

For the Cubs Tinker and Schulte extended their hit streaks to 7 and 8 games respectively. Kling’s team high 8 game streak ended today as did Chance’s small streak. Emotions on both sides should be very high in game 4.

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