May 26
Hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day weekend.
1918 – In 3 plate appearances, Walter Johnson helps himself to 2 hits and a walk. On the mound, Johnson pitches a complete game, 4 hitter over visiting Detroit 4-0, extending his scoreless innings streak to 40.
1920 – First sacker Joe Judge is 5-for-5 on the day as the Sens whip Cleveland 13-9 at Griffith.
1930 – The Senators reach their high water mark of the year with a 10-7 shootout win over the Yanks in New York. Joe Judge and Goose Goslin accomplish a major league first by homering back-to-back twice in the same ballgame. The first place Sens move to 26-10, 4 games ahead of second place Philadelphia.
1954 – For the first time in 3 years, the Senators defeat the Yanks’ Ed Lopat. Three successive 2 out singles by the Nats in the bottom of the 9th enables the Nats to slip by New York 2-1. Coming into this tilt, Lopat had won 12 straight against Washington.
1959 – In a swap of outfielders, Washington ships 1958 AL Rookie of the Year Albie Pearson to Baltimore for Lenny Green. Pearson had lost his starting CF job to Bob Allison.
1964 – Despite a cycle from RF Jim King, the Sens fall to the Red Sox at Fenway 3-2.
Senators Birthdays
James Thomas Mahoney B May 26, 1934 Still Living
Second baseman (and occasional shortstop) Jim Mahoney got his start in professional baseball in the Phillies organiztion in 1953. Sometime during that year he was picked up by the Red Sox where he would make his major league debut in 1959, playing in 30 games for Boston.
He was selected by the expansion Senators in the 1960 draft, appearing in 43 games for Washington in 1961.
Traded to Cleveland, along with Dick Donovan and Gene Green in exchange for Jim Piersall, he would appear in 41 games for the 1962 Indians.
He would resurface for 5 games for the 1965 Houston Astros where his major league career would end.
For the Senators he had 26 hits in 108 AB for a .241 BA.
Frank Roland Ragland B May 26, 1904 D Jul. 28, 1959
Pitcher Frank Ragland appeared in 12 games for the 1932 Senators, compiling a 1-0 record, with an ERA of 7.41 in 37.2 innings pitched.
In 1933 he would go 0-4 for the Phillies, appearing in 11 games.
