NY Times (edited)

NINTH INNING RALLY WINS FOR YANKEES - Box Score

NEW YORK – Tuesday - June 29, 1920. Oodles of excitement flared up in the ninth inning at the Polo Grounds today when the Yanks came from behind with a rush and beat the Boston Red Sox after the Beaneaters seemingly had the game all tucked away in the card index.

A lot of good straw hats were thrown away and vocal cords were stretched beyond recognition. About 18,000 fans were feeling rather gloomy when the Yanks came up to bat in the ninth. Boston was in the lead 5 to 3, and the heavy end of the Yank sluggers had tried in the eighth and failed, but five successive hits bounded from Yankee bats in the ninth inning's big rally.

New York almost handed the game to Boston on the old serving platter in the very first inning. With Ernie Shore on the mound for the Yankees, Harry Hooper walked to start the game, and then Ossie Vitt got a hit to second. Mike Menosky sent the boys along with a sacrifice and Wally Schang walked, filling the bases. If Shore had realized just how badly he was pitching, he would have given Stuffy McInnis a walk, and that would have been only one run. Instead Stuffy gave the ball an awful crack, and it sailed into the left field bleachers for a grand slam home run.

Roger Peckinpaugh walked in the Yankee first, and after Aaron Ward and Wally Pipp had died, Babe Ruth tripled to the right field wall, scoring Peckinpaugh. [Red Sox 4, Yankees 1]

After walking Boston pitcher Sad Sam Jones in the second, Shore was relieved by Hank Thormahlen. In the Yanks' half of the inning Ping Bodie flied to Hooper in right and Del Pratt doubled off the right field wall. The rain began to come down fast and umpire George Moriarty called the game for more than half an hour. When play was resumed Truck Hannah flied to Hooper and Thormahlen rolled to Vitt at second, who handled the ball as if it had been made of dynamite. On this error Pratt scored all the way from second.

In the fourth, Pratt scored again on his single and a double by Thormahlen.

Everett Scott, the first of the Red Sox up in the ninth, hit a home run to the deepest corner of the left field terrace. [Red Sox 5, Yankees 3]

Beginning the last of the ninth, Pratt sliced a hit off McInnis at first which clipped Stuffy's feet so badly that it started every corn aching. Hannah chopped a single to left, and Pratt took a long chance and galloped around to third. Muddy Ruel went in to run for Hannah. Frank Gleich was inserted to bat for Thormahlen, and Frank smacked a single down between first and second. Ruel didn't keep his peepers open, and Gleich's hit caught Muddy on his ankle and he was out, Pratt being sent back to third. A tough break. Peckinpaugh slapped a single to left, Pratt raced home and the fans began to roar. Aaron Ward thumped a double to left and Gleich came home with the tying run. Boston manager Ed Barrow rushed a courier to the mound and told Sam Jones to get right off the lot. Herb Pennock came in as his replacement. Peckinpaugh was on third, Pratt was at second, and there was only one out. Wally Pipp, Babe Ruth and Ping Bodie stood in front of the Yank bench waving bats as if they were in an Indian club drill. Pipp went to the bat and the towering figure of Ruth stood in the immediate offing. Ruth bruised Pennock for two home runs last Friday and here he was again coming up in a few minutes. Nothing but a double play could save Pennock from Ruth, unless of course Pipp brought the game to a close right then and there, which is just what Pipp did. He didn't even have to make a hit to win the game. He merely plugged a roller to Vitt at second on the first ball pitched by Pennock. Peckinpaugh had such a big start off third that he scored, beating Vitt's toss to catcher Roxy Walters, and the game was over. [Final: Yankees 6, Red Sox 5]

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