Tuesday, September 27, 1938

Tigers bats lead way in twinbill sweep over Browns

TIGERS 8-7, St. Louis 7-3
at Detroit, MI

Game 1
STL   400 001 011 = 7-10-0
DET  400 000 031 = 8-15-0
WP- Rowe (10-7); LP- Cole
HR- Kress, STL (1st inning; 2 on, 2 out); McQuinn, STL (9th inning; 0 on, 1 out)

Game 2
STL   000 000 201 = 3-8-2
DET   220 000 03x = 7-14-0
WP- Coffman (5-3); LP- Cox
HR- Cullenbine, DET (1; 8th inning; 2 on, 1 out)

The Tigers scored 15 runs and banged out 29 hits in sweeping a doubleheader from the last-place Browns. Hank Greenberg didn't add to his home run total of 56, but Roy Cullenbine hit his first---a pinch-hit, three-run homer in the eighth inning of the nightcap to break the game open. In Game 1, the Browns jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning, but the Tigers' potent offense answered with four runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning. The Browns tied the game, 7-7 in the ninth, but Birdie Tebbetts' single in the bottom of the ninth drove home Billy Rogell for the victory. The Tigers are 12-6 on this 20-game home stand.

TIGERS: 83-66; Home: 43-36; Away: 40-30


Cullenbine's first homer of the season broke game 2 open