Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-21
GlLT-EDGED BALL PLAYING.
OAKLAND DEFEATS THE HOMF cLuR
IN A SPLENDID CONTEST
1t Takes Twelve Innings to Decide +hs
Game-How the Senators
Were Beaten.

Yesterdays game between the Sacra
mentos and Oaklands was a genuine strug.
gle for second place in the League race,
and the Colonels won it. No game this
season was so stubbornly contested, and
the audience that witnessed il were treated
to most exciting finish. There were nine
innings in which the Sacramentos could
not score run, and the Oaklands were
shut out in ten of the innings. but each
club came to the bat twelve times, and the
visitors won the game by scoring in the
first and last innings.
The score stood 2 to l in favor of the
Oaklands at the end of the eighth inning,
but in the ninth Roberts reached the mi.
tial on a hit, went to second on passed
ball and scored on Reitz's clean single to
left field. The grand stand fairly shook
with the applause and cheering, for the
score had been tied. Both clubs were
whitewashed in the tenth and eleventh in
nings. In the twelfth the Sacramentos
made run. Goodenough got first on a
hit, was advanced to third on Daly's hit
and Godars sacrifice, and came home after
Hill, in center field, had caught Stapleton' s
long fly.
II looked as if Sacramento had the game,
but the visitors couldn't see it that Way.
and cane to the bat determined to tie the
score at least G. O'Neill led off with a
single, and then came the play that lost
the game for the home nine. Stickney
batted the ball to Harper, who, after catch
ing it, turned around to throw to second
and force O'Neil out. He lined the ball to
the second bag, but Daily could not cover
1t, and let the sphere go by into left field.
ONel ran home on the error, and Stick
ney went to third. n. O'Neill simply had
to rap out sacrifice, and Stickney scored
the winning run.
An unusually large number of noisy
spectators hung on the small fence in front
OF the grand stand and yelled for amuse-
ment. They Kissed Meegan, the Umpire,
and addressed all sorts of remarks to him.
Whlle he was apparently wrong in one or
TWO decisions, still that was no cause for
spectators to address insulting remarks to
him. he should keep a lookout hereafter
and endeavor to single out the noisy ones
and have them removed from the grounds
Inc Oakiands were certainly not en-
titled to the first run they got 1t was in
the first inning. G. O'Neill was on third
base and DUNCAN hit grounder to DAILY.
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straight to Bowman at the home plate.
O'Neill was touched out when about three
feet off the base, but Meegan called the
man safe. But for this decision, the Sac
ramentos would have won the game, as at
the end of the ninth inning the score
would have stood 2 to in their favor. A
few Oakland people who were present did
not hesitate to say that the man should
have been declared out
Harper allowed but six hits to be made
by the Oaklands, but these, combined with
errors, Were enough TO defeat the team.
Cobb was batted for eleven singles, bat not
more than two were made in any one inn
ing.
Reitz played magnificent game at Sec
ond base, scoring thirteen chances without
an error
Bowman and Lehman were all that
could be desired as backstops Lehman
accepted thirteen chances, and Bowman
ten, and neither made an error. The Sac.
ramento catcher stopped several exceed
ingly wild throws by Harper.
Difficult running catches by Isaacson,
Stapleton, Roberts and Cedar were worthy
OF special mention. Following is the
score: