The baseball community got some bad news that same night (after Game 1). One of the game's early greats, Christy Mathewson, had lost his life. Matty had never fully recovered from inhaling poison gas during World War I. The players from both teams wore black armbands for game two the following day. Coveleski, his back wrapped with tape, would start for Harris. Bill McKechnie, manager of the Pirates, was like the Giants' John McGraw -- a proponent of platooning his ballplayers. He would go with Vic Aldridge, another righty.
Joe Judge, a .314 hitter during the season, but with only eight homers, led off the second inning with a shot into temporary bleachers set up in right field. In the fourth, Coveleski gave up what was already Pie Traynor's second home run of the Series. It was still 1-1 in the sixth when, with two down, Ossie Bluege was hit squarely on the head by an Aldridge offering.
To run for Bluege, Harris sent out a 21-year-old youngster named Buddy Myer, who had all of eight at-bats to show for his big-league career up until then. A collegiate star In Mississippi, Myer had cost Clark Griffith $25,000 in a late-season transaction with New Orleans. Griffith could have gotten Myer for much less back in spring training, when he'd reportedly refused to sign the youngster because he didn't want to pay a $1,000 bonus. Myer would last 17 years in the majors, 15 of which would be spent with the Senators. For the moment, though, he didn't last long on the base paths. He tried to steal second and was erased. With Bluege groggy, Myer was sent out to play third.
When the Pirates came up in the bottom of the eighth, Coveleski had allowed only a bunt single since Traynor's homer in the fourth. Eddie Moore led off the eighth with an easy bouncer which rolled up Peckinpaugh's sleeve. It was Peck's second error in two days -- he had made a high throw to first in game one. After Max Carey grounded out, Kiki Cuyler slugged a two-run homer into the bleachers in right field. Clyde Barnhart then singled, and Peckinpaugh made his third error, failing to pick up a Pie Traynor roller. Although the Nats got one back in the ninth, that was all she wrote -- Washington had lost the second game 3-2.
Ossie Bluege would be unavailable for the next two games, as he was being detained by doctors keeping a close watch over him at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. It was reported by the newspapers that these doctors had never seen a skull as thick as Bluege's, and to that, they felt, the third sacker probably owed his salvation.
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