{"id":33319,"date":"2020-05-02T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/?p=33319"},"modified":"2020-05-06T21:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T01:34:51","slug":"negro-leagues-game-of-the-day-on-this-date-in-1928-may-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/negro-leagues-game-of-the-day-on-this-date-in-1928-may-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Negro Leagues Game of the Day on This Date in 1928 (May 2nd)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Wednesday, May 2nd \u2013 The Kansas City Monarchs conclude their series with the Memphis Red Sox at Lewis Park. The series is tied at 2 game apiece.<br \/><br \/>Here are the starting lineups:<br \/><br \/>Kansas City Monarchs:<br \/>1. Leroy Taylor. RF<br \/>2. Dink Mothell, 2B<br \/>3. Newt Allen, SS<br \/>4. George Giles, 1B<br \/>5. Eddie Dwight, CF<br \/>6. New Joseph, 3B<br \/>7. Frank Duncan, C<br \/>8. Reginald Hopwood, LF<br \/>9. Andy Cooper, P<br \/><br \/>Memphis Red Sox<br \/>1. J.C. McHaskell, 1B<br \/>2. Kid Lowe, 3B<br \/>3. Larry Brown, C<br \/>4. Pinky Ward, CF<br \/>5. Dan Thomas, 2B<br \/>6. Earl Gurley, RF<br \/>7. Saul Davis, SS<br \/>8. Wesley Hicks, LF<br \/>9. Sam Jackson, P<br \/><br \/>Kansas City once again jumps out ahead of Memphis, scoring 5 runs against Sam Jackson in two innings. Cliff Bell relieves and holds the Monarchs to 3 runs over seven innings.<br \/><br \/>Future Hall of Famer Andy Cooper goes five innings, giving up only 1 unearned run and 1 hit, but walking SEVEN batters. Twenty-one year old Chet Brewer, already in his fourth season, relieves and goes four innings, giving up only a hit batter, while striking out five.<br \/><br \/>Dan Thomas had the only hit for Memphis, while Leroy Taylor goes 3 for 5 with a double and three runs scored for Kansas City.\u00a0 Final score:\u00a0 Kansas City Monarchs &#8211; 8, Memphis Red Sox &#8211; 1.<br \/><br \/>Other NNL and ECL Scores:<br \/>No other major games scheduled.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_33325\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33325\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33325\" src=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chet-Brewer-Monarchs-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chet-Brewer-Monarchs-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Chet-Brewer-Monarchs.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-33325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chet Brewer Kansas City<\/p><\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, May 2nd \u2013 The Kansas City Monarchs conclude their series with the Memphis Red Sox at Lewis Park. The series is tied at 2 game apiece. Here are the starting lineups: Kansas City Monarchs:1. Leroy Taylor. RF2. Dink Mothell, 2B3. Newt Allen, SS4. George Giles, 1B5. Eddie Dwight, CF6. New Joseph, 3B7. Frank Duncan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15673],"class_list":["post-33319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-negro-leagues-baseball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33327,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33319\/revisions\/33327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}