The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-14
A TEAM OF GOOD BATTERs
The Home Nine Have Everything Their
Own Way with the Canadians Pitcher.
Work Warranting Brilliant Probabilities
When the Club Is Pitted Against the Twirl-
ers Of the Lesgue-Base-Ball Notes.

With each game 10 plays the home club gives
additional promise that il will make one of the
best hitting teams in the League the approach
ing season. While it 10 true the work the men
do against the pitchers Of the weaker associa-
tions does not fairly show what they do
against the experienced twirlers of the League.
yet it is of sufficient excellence TO warrant ex-
peetation of much better batting than last year.
Atkisson. who pitched yesterday, has time and
again held down some Of the best hitting clubs
in the country to within half dozen hits; yet
the home batters yesterday virtually played
with him. A feature Of tho Indianapolis club is
the number of long hitters it contasns-that is.
men who frequently make drives for more than
one base. This style of batting Is not
to be encouraged. IS general rule,
but teams with such batters will
be at an advantage on the local grounds this
year on account of the proximity of the outfeld
fences. Not all of the best batters are long and
high hitters of the Seery and Denny stripe. and
the latter are the kind to benefit most by short
fields. A batter like Thompson, for example,
will see many of his hard line drives cut down
to one and two bases, which on other grounds
might be good for home runs
Yesterdays game with Toronto was as pretty
an exhibition of batting on the part of the home
team as one would want to see Sixteen hits.
made his daily home run. and Denny began to
make uD for lost time by sending the ball over
the left field fence twice Then there was quite
an array of doubles, and the single-ease hits
were of the singing kind that make pitcher
feel bad
Boyle did not make much effort to hold down
the batting of the visitors He would pitch
with some exertion occasionally when men
were on bases but at other times gave the In
dianapolis felders well as the Toronto batters
chance. The result pretty work by
the entire field, while Seery made a couple of
nice catches in left. Myers again caught in
great style.
fly TO Thayer, Conner muffed fly from Glass
cocks bat. Shomberg hit for bases, and
Ripley fumbled Denny's ercunder. permitting
Glasscock to score Seerys base hit sent Shom-
berg in. and advanced Denny to third, whence
he scored on Esterbrook's sacrifice This gave
the home team lead of three runs. but the Wis
itors started in rather brashly and tied the
BurK began with pretty single second;
Connor thrown out at first. after difficult
stop. by Bassett, and Decker sent the first
in with double Illness head. Hart
nett, who has shown himself to be very relia-
BILE player, sent Decker in by base hit, and he
himself scored on a seri6ce and Seery's muf OF
Rickley's fly.
The visiting team then stopped scoring until the
ninth inning, but the local men kept making
runs in every inning. In the second Boyle's
base on balls. and singles by Myers, Glasscock
and Shomberg gave two runs Burk was cred.
tied with tumble, and Kearns with wild
throw in this inning. but they did not affect the
right.field fence. Denny hit it over the high
double fence at left in the next inning. sending
in before him Shomberg, who had been hit with
q pitched BALL Esterbrook opened the fifth
with single, stole second, went to third
Bassett's sacrifice, and scored on Dackers over
throw when attempting to catch him Mapping,
Three earned runs were made in the sixth.
Hines was given his base balls, and Glass
cock hit for base. Denny sent them both in
by his long two Dagger to center. and stole
third. Kearns muffed Seery's liner and Denny
scored. but . double by Esterbrook earned the
run. In the next inning Myers started off with
double, stole third and scored while Decker
throwing out Hines at secoud, the latter having
again taken his base on balls Seery began the
eighth with q two-bagger over Thayers head,
aud came in on Esterbrook's drive through
Kesrns After two outs in the ninth Decker
let Shombergs third strike get away from him.
and Denny followed with his second drive over
the left field fence.
The visitors then closed the game with q lit
tie exercise 1T Boyles expense MCLAUGHLIN
began the inning with double; Denny made a
good catch of foul from Rickley's bait Thayer
hit one too hard fer Denny to handle, but that
player, with his usual connmendable disregard
for errors, made an effort to catch his man, and
overthrow, Mclaughlin scoring. Atki sson sent
an easy one to Boyle, who fumbed, and then
Burk sect Thayer and Kearns home with a
two-bass hit to right center. Denny ended the
game with running one-hand pickup of Con-
ner's eroundsr. Below is the score: