The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-15
OF BAD JUDGMENT
A Brilliant Game the Hoosiers Should
Have Added TO Their Victories.
Four Home Runs, Hard Batting and Good Field
ing Fail to Overcome Bad Luck-List Of
League and Association Games.
BASEBALL.

victory Left Them After the Game Had Been
Brilliantly Won.
The loss of yesterdays ball game to the
P~ittsburgs was wholly due to the infefior
work of the pitchers. The local nine did
fine batting, and up TO the eighth inning
the fielding was particularly brilliant. Bas-
sett and McGeachy made sensational plays,
while Sullivan and Seery also did fine
work. Denny played well at third, as did
Hines at first. Glasscock was unfortunate,
he being charged with two errors. Boyle
pitched well up to the fatal seventh, when a
base on balls, two singles and a double
sent three men across the plate. The ter
rife hitting of the Hoosiers, however.
would have pulled them through
had Boyle been kept in the box. In
the eighth Whitney was put in, and the
change, while it could not be foreseen and
was thought to be the best thing to do, was
q great mistake. Whitney was both wild
and ineffective. His poor work had a de-
moralizing effect upon the team. and the
only inning in which he pitched netted the
visitors six runs and the game. The
Hoosiers both outbatted and outfielded the
Pittsburgs. yet lost. The stick work of
llACc DCAuJs OldcoCOCh duo DOl IN vas
remarkable, Hines leading with two home
runs and a single, while Denny followed
with a couple of four-baggers. A singular
feature of the batting of Hines and Denny
was the fact that in each instance they fol-
lowed each other with their hits over the
fence. In short. the team did enough. bat
ting to win two ordinary games. and had
the box talent been of q higher class the
victory would have been easy and com
plete.
The Hoosiers opened on Calvin in the
first inning. After Seery had gone out
Glasscock made a double Smiths tumble
gave Sullivan a life and sent the captain
20 third. Hines followed with a single, and
this, coupled with Kuehne's wild throw, let
In two men. Denny reached first on a
helder,s choice. but was doubled with
Buckley. The second was a blank, but the
third yielded three runs. Sullivan got his
base on balls, and Hines and Denny fol-
lowed with hits over left field fence. The
local men got a single and a double IN the
fourth. but no runs came IN, GlasScOck be-
ing put out at the plate. The team took
another squirt with the stick in the seventh.
a two-bagger by McGeachy and home runs
by Hines and Denny yielding three tallies.
The last score made by the home team was
in the ninth, and was secured on hits by
Bassett. Whitney and SeerY.
The visitors made one run In the first on
hits by Miller and Beckley and q tumble
by Glasscock. Two more were secured in
the second. Boyle giving Smith his base on
balls and Keuhne coming along with a hit
over the fence. Beckley made a similar
drive in the fifth. The HoOsiers had the
game we'll in hand until Boyle weakened
In the seventh and allowed three men to
cross the plate. Hanlon made "a hit. Mil
Ter was sent to first on balls and Beckley
secured a double and Maui a single. At
the opening of the eighth. as already stated.
Whitney went into the box and the result
was very disastrous. Dunlap led off
with a single, Denny retired Smith.
but singles by Calvin and Kuehne filled the
bases. Hanlon flew out to Hines. Then Mil.
Ter was given his base. forcing Dunlap home.
Beckley struck at a ball, which glanced
from his bat and hit him on the foot. but
Lynch said he was entitled TO his base, and
the team, and errors by Glasscock and Bas-
sett and a single swelled the number to six,
N the game was lost. The score is as fol-
lows: