Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-06-09
WEAK AT THE BAT.
The Reasons for W ashingsoa's Many
Defeats.

no" THE BOOSTERS WON YESTERDAYS GANr-orHER
coSrksns rEsTEspaY-REcoRp or rHk wEEk-
NOTES OF INTEREST ABOUT CLUES AND ri-ArKks-
BASE HIS AND ERRORS
Yesterdays game between the washington ana
indianapolis cluos-which, by the way was won
os the latter, TO l-showed conclusively that
uhiess the senators manage TO hit the ball safely
occasionally the best OF nelding such rs they did
yesterday, VIII never help them In their struggles
70 ger OUT OF the last notch Therein lies the diff
ference between one error ana a single pasc-hit.
mnich great many think are about equivalent.
Mhlle an error may give a man one base hit is
nAen 10 give some one else two or maybe three.
and very often a score. No one could have wished
10 see better game than that OF yesterday. but
somehow or other the assembled thousand did not
appreciate us quality, and sat In silence clingfng
haix n,h, Se.n 10 ,ne iororn hope that some
else IN, Tie the score. But, alas Tor the vanity
OF human hopes! The Hoosiers went 20 work
Win Will IN the inst Inning and pounded out
run by means OF three hits In the third the
senators man Sged TO get a man around the bases
Sy Bassetts error and Dailys high throw 90 second
oaseman reached third before the BAH was re-
turned, and scored on a put out At first The
ss.1rs scored anot ner earned run In the sixth
there was but a monotony OF goose eggs 10 he
painted on the boards although AT times there
were men on bases for both sides and hits would
have brought In runs. In the sixth shoch made a
double, but IL avafed him nothing for the next
oatUers Old the regulation act or going out Shoch
who had been spiked In the wrist by Glasscock
way to wiimot Who Sc in aS fate si his
Appearance sdSs nee by ,au, rafting two Dagger
shoch's, went for nothing as there were ALREADY
two men out and Mr.. o'Bnen tried 10 nft the bah
over the fence and struck out. Daily had
hard luck In batting hitting three hard drives TO
LETT held that were taken IN b. Seery after long
run, runs; oDay pitched good game; striking out
hlts. The sharp playing OF the Mashingtons kept
the Hoosers puZling 10 know where TO place
thelr hlts, put they managed 10 drop them safely
Just often enough TO win by one run. The Sena-
tors made four hits, Hoy coming In for two, and
Shoch and NilinOt for one double each The In
nanapolis men made five errors while there Is not
misplay OF any Kind TO be given 10 the states
men. Inus does the wheel Of fate grind US.
OTHER GAMES YESTERDAY.
Detroit surprised the Boston people by tying
the score IN the ninth inning and winning the
game In the fifteenth by a score OF IL to5 IL
was the longest game OF the season. and was
marked by free hitting and error making The
champions had one OF their batting streaks In the
nfteenth inning and pounded out six runs before
they concluded they had enough. The batteries
were Garrison and Kelly and Getzein and Benz
nett. Boston made l2 hits and errors and De-
trolt 10 bits and errors. There were four home
runs made.
Philadelphia won from Pittsburg. 3 10 O. by Buf-
nngton's steady work, by their free battling OF
CALVIN, and by their great reldlng Pittsburc
made hits and errors, and Philadelphia . hits
and 3 errors
The New Works astounded Arson and their own
friends by roundly trouncing the leaders by a
score OF 10 10 ,. It was a perfect Waterloo and
mSerdoly one-sided. Welch ana Ewing and Van
Haltren and Darling were the batteries. New
York made :s3 hits and errors, and Chicago 4
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