====== April 29, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	The Athletics won their first game today, beating [[Red Sox|Boston]], 8-5, at Columbia Park

•	[[Nap Lajoie]] led the way at the plate, going 4-for-4 with a pair of triples

•	[[Bill Bernhard]] got the win, giving up five runs on 13 hits with three strikeouts and a pair of walks

•	Manager [[Connie Mack]] made a lineup change, sitting ineffective first baseman [[Charlie Carr]] and replacing him with [[Socks Seybold]]

•	[[Fred Ketchum]] took Seybold's place in left field

===== Transactions =====

•	The team acquired shortstop [[Harry Lochhead]] from Detroit on undisclosed terms

•	Lochhead was expected to be in the lineup tomorrow, with [[Dave Fultz]] going to left field and Ketchum returning to the bench

•	The team released first baseman [[Charlie Carr]] on or around this date

===== Today's Game =====

|**April 29, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Boston (AL) (0-2) at Philadelphia Athletics (0-2)|||||||||||||| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|BOS|  1  |  2  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  -  |  5  |  13  |  3  | |
|PHL|  0  |  2  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  3  |  2  |  0  |  x  |  -  |  8  |  13  |  3  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|Ballpark|Columbia Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|3,421||||||||||||| |
|Managers|Jimmy Collins (BOS), Connie Mack (PHL)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|George Cuppy (BOS), Bill Bernhard (PHL)||||||||||||| |


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