Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-27
RElTz' BOX-EORK.
TEE LITTLE INFIELDER SURPRISES
THE BALL sHARPs,
And Pitches the Sacramento Lads Into
victory-ziegier Has an on Day
Very Close Scores.

The Sacramentos demonstrated yesterday
that they can win game with an ordinary
amount of batting on their part. They are
better fielders and work together more
effectively than any nine in the League
but so far their failure to bat the ball has
lost them more than the majority of games
Yesterday they made nine hits, and won q
hard-fought and interesting battle. The
game was well attended, and when Reitz,
the Sacramento fayorite, stepped into the
box to do the pitching for the Senators, the
audience were agreeably surprised to dis
cover that the little second baseman had
talent as pitcher, besides being an A No.
in6elder.
Reitz started in nicely. ard during the
entire game puzzled the best batters of the
Oakland nine by his unusually wide out
curves and deceptive drop-balls. Only five
hits were made off his delivery, and the
three Dagger credited to Stickney was q
scratch hit along the line into right field.
Reitz never lost his head, and though the
infield made some rank errors he pitched
steadily and with good control of the ball.
In watching bases he was not as careful as
he might have been, and as he undoubt-
edly would be had he been as accustomed
to box-work as are the other pitchers. On
account of big leads given the base run
ners, Bowman, who caught a splendid
game, was unable to throw them out at
second base.
Meegan's pitching was up to his usual
standard, but he was poorly supported in
the infield. Farrell. at shortstop, made
some very rank misplays. but credit is due
to him for several brilliant stops. He had
eleven chances and erred in three of them.
The all-round work of Roberts, the reli-
able left fielder of the Sacramentos, was by
all odds the feature of thegam He fielded
his position to perfection, and rot one fly
ball was knocked into the left garden that
did not find him ready to receive it. The
manner in which he fielded hot grounder
knocked along the third base line into Il e
left field, by Lehman, brought forth vocif-
erous applause from the audience The
hit was thought to be good for three bags,
but Roberts corralled it and the runner
made only first base on the drive. Beside
doing brilliant work in the field, he led at
the bat and scored three rafting bits. The
first was a home-run, the second three
Dagger and the third single. Both Cedar
and Goodenough scored on the three base
hit.
DAILY and Cedar played well, and though
the latter received an error mark, the
chance was very difficult one and might
well have been recorded as hit. Some of
Days stops where hard hit and deceptive
bouncing grounders, and he handled them
very neatly. Zeigler was somewhat "off;n
but he is hard worker and did not de-
serve to be Kissed at He has done too
much to bring good pine together in this
city to merit any such reception as he re-
ceived yesterday, and the few in the grand
stand who did not like his PLAYING were
not in sympathy with the rest of the au-
dience. He, like all other players has his
''ofl' days. Smith made two errors on
first base, and McHale in right field had
little to do. He ended the game by catch
ing liner driven out into right field by
Farrell.
The Oaklands' infielders, with the ex-
ception of Stickney, all made errors which
materially assisted them in their defeat.
Stickney led in batting and msde two out
of the five hits. Hill and O'Ne;ll played
their positions in the outfeld we'll. Dun.
gan, in the right garden, made one brill
liant catch of liner, but was not as effec.
tive as usual in batting.
The game was watched with deep inter-
est by the audience, aud it would have
caused no great surprise had the Oaklands
tied the score in the ninth inning. They
had man on second base with two outs,
and short single would have had the eff
feet of tying the score. but Farrell, the
batter, failed to hit safely and victory was
for the Senators. Following is the score :