Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-05
NINE MEN AND AN UMPIRE,
Their Work Puts San Francisco
in the Lead.
A Game Which Should Have Resulted
Very Differently.
otherwise a Pretty Exhibition of the
national Game-Ten Innings Needed
to Tell which Club Was
the Victor.

Well, your Uncle Hank is in the lead
this morning. His hired men played
all kinds of ball yesterday afternoon,
and thumbs were UP as often as fingers !;
but by the aid of luck, baseball provi-
dence and the umpire, they finally won
out in the last half of the tenth inning.
The official score shows that the An.
gels did not put up perfect fielding
game by any means, but with one ex-
ception none of the errors were very
material. Avid throw in the last in
ming was responsible for the winning
run.
Balsz and Hoffman were the pitchers,
and each did fair work. The former
was touched up rather lively at times,
especially in the seventh inning; but a
ball that fell two feet into the ioul ter
ritory was called fair, and it figures
therefore as two-base hit. The decis-
ion also practically gave the game to
San Frarcisco. "Peachblow'' Hoffman
has always been an enigma to the local
team. They never have been able to do
much with him at any time, and yester-
day was no exception.
No runs were made until the last half
of the second inning. With two men
out, Rube Levy lined out two-base hit
and stole the third bag. Spies was
given his last base on balls, stole Sec
ond, and both runs were scored by
Peebles's hit to center.
In the fourth the local team got in a
run, thanks therefor being due to an
overdose of bungling. McCauley sent
hot grounder down to Pete Sweeney at
first, and the latter played football until
Pop was safe. Then Glenalvin sent
weak one down to Peoples, which was
duly fumbled also A base-on-balls to
Lytle filled the canvas, and McCauley
scored on the throw in OF Newman's fly
to center.
But it was in the last half of the
seventh inning that Mr.. Mcdonald, um-
pire, won the game. At the same time
Los Angeles lost it. Peoples started out
with neat two-cushion hit, and was
advanced to third on Hoffman's sacri-
fee. At this stage of the game Pete
Sweeney sent fly ball over third base,
which dropped about two feet outside
the foul line. Tredway ambled once to
and took his time about fielding it
in. In the meantime Peoples kept on
running-so did Sweeney. To the sur.
prise of every one, Mcdonald stood pat.
A couple of hits by Sharp and D.
Sweeney, sent in two more runs, Here
resulted total of three runs, two of
them said to be earned, and all on
decision that was in color deep ecru.
The Angels took trick at the bat in
the eighth, and scored couple of runs.
Tredway opened up with two-base hit
to right field. Pete Sweeney gave Nc
Cauley q life ON, first by smuffing
thrown ball, and Glenalvin's sacrifice
scored Tredway. Lytle was given his
base on balls, and Newman's hit to left
scored McCauley.
In the ninth inning after Balsz had
been retired at first, Stafford was sent to
first in trot, but was forced out at Sec
ond by Rasty's short infeld punch. The
side should have been retired by Sharp
with Tredway's pop fly, but it slipped
through his fingers, and Rasty landed
up at third. Then Pop came up with
blood in his eye, and three-bagger
cealed upon his person, which tied the
score.
The last half of the ninth began with
foul fly over the grand stand, which
hid from view the last OF five new balls
used in the game. That ball and an
other one previously sent in the same
direction were soon sent inside the
diamond, but the daddies did not want
to proceed with the game. They in
sisted upon having a new ball with
which to finish the game. There was
considerable wrangling, and your uncle
said a good many little things that
sounded very childish; but eventually
the game was resumed with the old
balls. No more runs were made until
the last half of the tenth inning, when
q high throw by Hulen gave d. Sweeney
life at first. He was sacrificed to sec
ond, and came home on Levy's hit to
left.
Following is the official score: