Champions World Series: Philadelphia Athletics over New York Giants (4-2) Awards and honors Chalmers Award Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers, OF Wildfire Schulte, Chicago Cubs, OF MLB statistical leaders Major league baseball final standings American League final standings National League final standings Events April 8 - The Cincinnati Reds, in need of pitching help, sign Jesse Tannehill out of retirement. Tannehill pitches one game, coming on in relief of Art Fromme in the Reds 14-0 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Tannehill is released two days later, ending his MLB career. May 13 Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hits his first career grand slam. After six innings, Detroit leads the Boston Red Sox, 10–1. Nevertheless, Boston comes back to win the game 13–11 in 10 innings. The New York Giants score a Major League record 10 runs before the St. Louis Cardinals retire the first batter in the first inning. Fred Merkle drives in six of the Giants' 13 runs in the first en route to a 19–5 victory. When Giants manager John McGraw decides to save starting pitcher Christy Mathewson for another day, Rube Marquard enters the game in the second inning and sets a record for relievers (since broken) with 14 strikeouts in his eight-inning relief appearance. May 14 – In their first Sunday home game, the Cleveland Naps defeat the New York Highlanders, 16-3, before a crowd of nearly 16,000 spectators. Cleveland's George Stovall leads the offense with 4 hits. June 18 – The Detroit Tigers staged the biggest comeback in Major League history after overcoming a 13-1 deficit (after 5½ innings) to defeat the Chicago White Sox by a score of 16–15. July 19 – former circus acrobat Walter Carlisle completed an unassisted triple play for the Vernon Tigers of the Pacific Coast League. With the score tied at 3–3 in the sixth inning, and men on first and second base, Carlisle made a spectacular diving catch of a short fly by batter Roy Akin; stepped on second to retire Charlie Moore, and tagged George Metzger coming from first. The Tigers won the game, 5–4. With his heroic feat, the speedy English-born Carlisle entered the records books as the only outfielder ever to make an unassisted triple play in organized baseball. June 28 – The new Polo Grounds, a horseshoe-shaped structure, opens. July 24 – An American League all-star team – including Walter Johnson, Hal Chase, and