Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07
A GREAT DAYS WORK
The Lucky Pittsburgs Twice
Defeat the Unfortunate
WashingtOnS.
NOW TIED WITH BOSTON
For the Coveted Second Place in the
Pennant Race.
THE TEAM STARTS FOR THE EAST.
To-Day the Boys Will Try Conclusions With
Gothams Giants
ANscN'S COLTS ENCOUNTER DEFEAT
PTTTSBURG..... 8 washington........
PITTsBURG-.I3 Washington. ........1 IL
NEW YoHK......12 Chicago......
To-Day the Boys Will Try Conclusions With
Gotham's Giants
ANscNs COLTS ENCOUNTER DEFEAT
The League Record.
A DOUBLE TRIUMPH.
Pittsburg Wins Two Poorly Played Games
From Washington.

From Washington.
Our team Of high-salaried and fairly clever
ball tossers were in a jubilant frame o.
mind last night During the afternoon
they played two games with the Hon.
Danny Richardson and his fellow Senators.
Strange to relate they won both contests,
and as natural sequence tied Boston fol-
second place in the race for the pennant.
1t proved an afternoon of hard, clean
hitting, of wretched fielding and of success
sive surprises. The home team played like
q lot of frightened amateurs, but the visit
ors did even worse. Had they played
even ordinary ball this oddly assorted COM
pany of Washingtonians would have won
both games hands down. But to their
own disgust and the delight of the
assembled populaee the Senators
were unable to turn the trick
During the first seven innings of the first
game the visitors played tine game as it
should be played. They felded cleanly,
ran bases with excellent judgment and
made the most of the few hits scored off
Red Ehret's delivery. But in the last two
innings they went to pieces and the
strangest part of it all was that there was no
apparent cause for the sudden let-down. Up
to the ninth inning young Killen pitched
magnificent ball The crash came in the
final inning
KiIen's Awful Throw.
1t happened in this way: With the score
standing to in Washington's favor Ehret
led off for Pittsburg with scratch single
to right Kelly then stepped to the rubber
and bunted the first ball straight at Killen
The latter had plenty of time to consum-
mate an easy double play by throwing the
ball to Richardson, who was covering second
But to the astonishment of all, Killen
hurled the ball over the shortstop's head
into left field The ball rolled to the fence,
and both runners crossed the plate. 1t was
one of the most remarkable blunders ever
perpetrated on a ball field, and Danny
Richardson was so completely dazed by his
pitchers funk that he could not find words
TO express his feelings.
Naturally the Pittsburg men were jubilsnt
over the unexpected gift and started in the
second game with confidence and dash.
They banged Mtakin's curves very hard at
first, and for an inning or two it looked as
though they intended to earn their second
victory of the day BY clean hard hitting.
But Meakin, who, BY the way, is very
clever pitcher tor a youngster, took sud
den brace and after the second inning did
very good WORK
Why Esper Retired.
On the other hand, Esper was wild and
ineffective from the very first He was
taken out in the third inning, Mark Baldwin
taking his place. Before Badly settled down
to his work eight runs had been piled up BY
the Senators and they were playing with
confidence and dash. They held their long
lead until the sixth, when wretched fielding
Il 4
timely hits gave Pittsburg six runs and the
lead.
Washington rallied in the ninth, but the
effort came too late
Kelly's all-around work, FarrelI's field
ing and the all-around work of Donovan
were the redeeming features of an other
wise dull and stupid afternoon.
Appended are the scores:
FIRST GAME.