====== May 17, 1901 ====== ===== News ===== • Down a run in the ninth, the [[Twins|Senators]]' Pop Foster tied it with an inside-the-park home run, then later in the inning, Bill Coughlin hit an outside-the-park single with two men on to give his team an 8-7 walkoff win over the Athletics in Washington • It wouldn't be until 1920 that major league baseball score a hit like Coughlin's as a home run • The A's commmitted seven errors • It was the team's fifth loss in a row and the eighth in their last nine games • Still trying to find the answer at shortstop, manager [[Connie Mack]] played both [[Dave Fultz]] and [[Phil Geier]] at the position but neither looked very good • Back in Philadelphia, the Court of Common Pleas denied the Phillies' request for an injunction that would have prevented [[Nap Lajoie]], [[Chick Fraser]], and [[Bill Bernhard]] from playing for the Athletics • According to the court, the issued turned on the reserve clause, saying that giving the team control over a player in perpetuity or releasing them with just ten-days notice demonstrated a lack of "mutuality'' between the two parties and persuaded the judges to rule against the team • Only Lajoie was named in the ruling, but by prior agreement it was construed to be applicable to Bernhard and Fraser, too ===== Today's Game ===== |**May 17, 1901**|||||||||||||| | |Philadelphia Athletics (5-12) at Washington Senators (10-6)|||||||||||||| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | R | H | E | | |PHL| 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | 7 | 10 | 7 | | |WTN| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 8 | 13 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |Ballpark|American League Park||||||||||||| | |City|Washington, DC||||||||||||| | |Attendance|3,165||||||||||||| | |Managers|Connie Mack (PHL), Jimmy Manning (WTN)||||||||||||| | |Starting pitchers|Wiley Piatt (PHL), Bill Carrick (WTN)||||||||||||| | ---- [[may-16-1901|< May 16, 1901]] [[1901 calendar|Back to Calendar]] [[may-18-1901|May 18, 1901 >]]