Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-17
CHAMPIONSHIP BALI.
THE SENATORS PUT UP AN ALMOST
ERRoRLEss GAME.
Hapeman Could Not Find the Plate for
Two Innings, and the Result
Was disastrous.

The second inning took the energy out
OF the Stockton team yesterday. And
what club wouldn't have thrown up the
sponge when their opponents started of,
as the Sacramentos did, with a lead of nine
runs? There was some evidence of ginger
in the Gas City team when they appeared
on the diamond, but it vanished entirely
before the game was one fifth played.
Hareman threw the ball everywhere in
the second inning, excepting over the plate,
and he certainly must have been disguised
with himself and the world when he saw
how futile his attempts were to pitch
strike
Stapleton let the wild ones 60 by and got
his base. and Reiiz did the same. Harper
followed suit. Hoffman was in the swim,
too, and Goodenough concluded that
base on balls was as much as he could ask
for. Daily waited, and almost had his base
on four bad ones, when the last pitch took
him in the cap and scared him badly. He,
of course, took his base.
Bowman afterward waited successfully,
and this streak of luck by the Sacramento
coupled with hits by McHale, Roberts and
Reitz, caused the barefooted boy at the
score board to bring his talent in mathe-
mates into use and place nine big talIies
opposite the Sacramento score for that
inning.
Stockton was done for, and Hspeman
put on his Jacket, concluding that it was
about time for him to stop for the day.
Cahill went into the box for the remainder
of the game, and though there was nothing
startling in his pitching, as far as effective
ness was concerned, yet he knew where the
home.plate was, and sent the balls straight
toward it, whether they went over or not.
Patsy could not hold the Senators down as
he wanted to, however, and they added
nine more runs to their score while be
pitched, making the total Is. Stockton
made four lonely tallies.
Hoffman's work was not very brilliant
but why should it have been? He has no
reason to throw his arm off. His club had
the game won, and he did not need to ex
ert himself. He kept the opposing team
in very safe distance.
The feature of the game was by all odds,
the heavy batting. Roberts, Bowman and
even Harper, knocked out home runs.
When the latter accomplished the feat the
crowd yelled for him to come out and take
off his cap, but instead he modestly hid
himself behind the players bench. The
grand stand insisted for nearly ten minutes,
but their eptreaties had no effect.
Bowman and Roberts batting was sort
of cannonading. Both hit the ball hard,
the formers two drives to the back fence
being as long as any hits ever made on that
ground. Roberts fielding was brilliant.
On account of the illness of Cedar, Nc
Hale played at third, and Harper went into
right field. The former made the only
error on the Sacramentos' side, and it &C.
Cured in the last inning on his failing to
stop an cratic bounding ball.
A put out of an unusual kind was made
in the sixth inning. Reitz had reached
first base, and Harper came to the bat. The
former started 10 steal second base, but
Harper struck at the ball that was pitched
and fouled it. He forgot to step out of the
batter's box until Rei,z had returned again
to first base, and the result was that the
ball was thrown to Cahill, and then to
Selma at first, before Reitz had come back
from second base The fault was with
Harper. He should have stepped out of
the box and remained out until Rei'z had
recovered his base. Following is the score: