Baltimore 4 Jersey City 2 – Babe Ruth
Starting Pitcher – Complete Game Victory – 0 for 4 at bat
Babe Ruth kept the Orioles nine game
winning streak alive with a 4-2 complete game victory against Jersey City. He gave up two runs on eight hits. He also struck out 4, walked 4 and threw a
wild pitch. The win improved his record
to 8-5, and the Orioles season record of 32-15.
Note: The quality of the copy of the Baltimore Sun is extremely poor for some dates in June 1914. The statement above reads: Verbout outpitched Babe Ruth, although the latter held his opponents at bay after the second round ... Babe Ruth was [unknown word] up pretty lively in the first two sessions. Four hits, one a triple, netted the visitors two runs. Babe settled down at this stage and held the Skeeters to four hits during the remaining seven innings.
