====== May 30, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	The Athletics played their first double header of the season, a Decoration Day affair in Cleveland, and came away with a sweep

•	In the morning contest, the A's scored three runs on just four hits and a pair of [[Guardians|Cleveland]] errors to win, 3-1

•	In the afternoon game, limited to eight innings by darkness, the A's led after three, 5-1, and coasted to an 8-2 win

•	The afternoon game featured a 15-minute rain delay in the seventh inning that was punctuated by a wild seat cushion throwing fracas that ended with stadium cops wading into the bleachers

•	There were only two police officers on the scene and one of them required assistance from Cleveland manager Jimmy McAleer to rescue him from the unruly crowd

===== Today's Games ======

|**May 30, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Game one|||||||||||||| |
|Philadelphia Athletics (10-17) at Cleveland (8-19)|||||||||||||| |
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| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|PHL|  1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  -  |  3  |  4  |  1  | |
|CLE|  0  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  -  |  1  |  4  |  2  | |
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|Ballpark|League Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Cleveland, Ohio||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|3,500||||||||||||| |
|Managers|Connie Mack (PHL), Jimmy McAleer (CLE)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Eddie Plank (PHL), Bill Hart (CLE)||||||||||||| |
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|**May 30, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Game two|||||||||||||| |
|Philadelphia Athletics (11-17) at Cleveland (8-20)|||||||||||||| |
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| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|PHL|  0  |  2  |  3  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  3  |  0  |  -  |  8  |  11  |  0  | |
|CLE|  1  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  -  |  2  |  9  |  3  | |
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|Ballpark|League Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Cleveland, Ohio||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|7,500||||||||||||| |
|Managers|Connie Mack (PHL), Jimmy McAleer (CLE)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Bill Bernhard (PHL), Ed Scott (CLE)||||||||||||| |


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