Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-09
ON TWO DIAMONDS.
THE LEADERS SCORE ANOTHER LAP IN
THE PENNANT RACE.
Sacramento Drops Back IA Peg, and the
Shadow of the Target is
Over Her Path.

San Francisco jumps still further to the
front by taking another game from Sacra-
mento, and she is now so far in the lead
that the other three clubs in the League are
beginning TO fade away in the race Barry
was hit hard yesterday, and so was Burke,
and the fact that only eleven hits were se-
cured off the formers pitching, was due
only to the excellent support rendered him
by his fielders. Sacramento people ex-
pected to see Barry pitch strong game,
but they were sadly disappointed, and it
was not Romeo's" fault that Sacramento
did not win.
Barry had told several persons before the
game that he proposed to give the Sacra-
mento nine "rszzle and a grand sur
prise before he finished with them, but
that did not prove so easy thing as he ex-
pected. The fact of the matter was, he
couldn't fool man in the home nine, and
did not have strike out to his credit.
1t made no difference, however, how he
pitched, for the Sacramentos were beaten,
and that is all there was to it. Burke was
hit too often to win a game, and should
have done better work. At times the balls
pitched by him and Barry would come
over the plate and be gauged with as much
precision by the batters as though they
were as large as watermelons.
Van Court, the umpire, was exceedingly
off, and some of his decisions on balls
and strikes were so vile that the spectators
fairly groaned. Sacramento almost invari-
ably got the worst of il. In the seventh
inning Sylvester stepped into the batters
box, and Barry sent him an inner curve
that nearly took the buttons off the bat
ter's shirt, yet the umpire called a strike"
Sylvester gave him a significant look, and
before he could turn around another ball
came over the plate this time good one),
and there were two strikes against the bat
ter. Another ball came sailing over the
plate, but the bat received it with bang"
and away went the sphere to the corner of
the grounds in left field. Sylvester limped
around the bases and reached the home
plate before the bail was fielded.
Newbert made one error in the game,
but it was costly one. 1t counted four
runs. There were two outs on the San
Francisco side. Hanley knocked an easy
grounder to the Sacramento short-stop, but
alas the ball glided between his legs and
the batter was safe. After this the visitors
raped out four runs, and after two outs
had been made, at that.
Roxburg caught well, but his throwing
was very poor, not weak, but too strong.
In almost every case he would throw over
the second baseman's head, and this.
coupled with one wild throw to McSorley,
materially increased the San Franclscos'
score.
Roberts covered second base as if he had
played that position all his life. He
catches the bail and touches the runner
almost simultaneously. McSorley did
some good work in guarding his corner,
catching a couple of fouls as usual
Sylvester, Goodenough and Perrier all
made remarkable running catches of sky
scrapers. Goodenough, in the third in
ming, took a fly from Swett's bat after
run of probably sixty yards, and his mag
niicent catch brought forth a storm of ap-
plause from the spectators. Perrier's
catch was one of the Flint style-that is,
captured after long run and ''juggle."
The three put-outs by Sylvester in right
field were all difficult ones, but cleyerly
captured.
Shea played fine game, both at the bat
and in the field, but he was fined $5 during
the game for "superfuous chatter" Fol-
lowing is the score:
SACRAMENTO. T.B. BHsH.Po.A. E.