====== May 9, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	In a game that featured much umpire baiting, the Athletics lost to [[Red Sox|Boston]], 9-3, at the Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston

•	A’s second baseman [[Nap Lajoie]] was tossed in the top of the first by umpire Jack Haskell for the use of a “violent oath” when complaining about a close call at first base

•	Pitcher [[Wiley Piatt]], who didn’t play, was fined five dollars for the ferocity of the abuse he hurled at Haskell from the bench

•	To adjust for Lajoie’s departure, manager [[Connie Mack]] moved center fielder [[Dave Fultz]] to second, first baseman [[Socks Seybold]] to center field, and [[Morgan Murphy]] made his A’s debut at first base

•	Mack was rumored to be in pursuit of 23-year-old right-handed pitcher Ben Beville, who played last year for Butte in the Montana League and Oakland in the California League

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

|**May 9, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Philadelphia Athletics (4-7) at Boston (AL) (6-5)|||||||||||||| |
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| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|PHL|  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  2  |  0  |  -  |  3  |  9  |  3  | |
|BOS|  2  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  2  |  0  |  3  |  2  |  x  |  -  |  9  |  8  |  2  | |
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|Ballpark|Huntington Avenue Grounds||||||||||||| |
|City|Boston, Massachusetts||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|3,560||||||||||||| |
|Managers|Connie Mack (PHL), Jimmy Collins (BOS)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Chick Fraser (PHL), George Cuppy (BOS)||||||||||||| |


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