The herald., 1893-05-22
MORE BASEBALL YOU NEVER Saw
The Angels and the Daddies in
Mortal Combat.
1t Took an Extra Inning to Settle
the Dispute.
The Ball Knocked All Over the Lot,
and Fielding That Had Fringe
on 1t Foot Deep at
odd Times.

The last game OF league baseball that
will be played in Los Angeles for three
weeks came off yesterday afternoon at
Athletic park, and it ended the home
series in such blaze of glory and hard
ball playing as has seldom been seen on
anybody's diamond. The widest flight
Of the imagination could not call 1t a
pitchers battle at any stage of the game.
For while ii looked as ii Borchers Was
going to hold the game down to small
number OF hits for his opponents, with
more than enough passes to first base
to offset it. And at many stages OF the
game it looked as though the Angels
errors had irretrievably lost the day,
even if they batted never go well. But
with all these supposititious cases, 1t
looked most of the time as If nobody
could tell which side would win until
the last man was put out and the win
ming run duly recorded.
The score was tied three different
times. The fourth inning for San Fran
cisco saw the score to 5. The Angels
commenced the sixth with the score
standing s to 8; and from the seventh
to the hreg half of the tenth the totals
footed up dozen apiece.
While there were no home runs made,
still it was game of long hitting. Two
triple shots were made-tbree, in fact I;
for Hulen's drive in the third inning
was easily good for three bases, had
Borchers been out of his way. Eight
doubles were made. seven OF which
were credited to the Angel team, and
altogether there were 81 hits made for
total of 49 bases, to say nothing of five
very serviceable sacrifices.
In the fielding line there were all
kinds Of plays - some brilliant, and
some decidedly fossy. The range in
cluded almost everything, from des-
perate attempt to head off base hit,
down through the list of muffs and fum-
bles to the wild throw and the play that
was too slow to be of any use. The
afternoon was simply devoted. Three
hours and ten minutes of the national
game of baseball in all it's various and
devious moods and lenses.
In the very first inning before any
body was thoroughly warmed up, Borch-
ers's wildness lost the game from out the
grasp OF his amiable young employer.
1t was truly pitiful to zee three men
walk leisurely to first, and then have
four nice, large, single base hits crop up.
That WAS just what occurred, with the
parenthetical addition of five very prom
inent-looking runs.
This put the Angels at once upon an
uphill fight, and they had to work hard
to regain lost ground. They earned a
run in the second inning. Glenalligan
hit for three bases, and Puente Pete sac
rihced Then in the third inning
Borchers reached fret by virtue of a
throw by Mr.. Riley that was little off
color. Hulen followed with what should
have been triple If Borchers had not
been on the base line. But McCauley
and Hutchinson each followed with q
single, and the inning netted two runs.
Two more came in the next venture on
hits by Hughes, Wright and McCauley,
with sacrifice by Hulen to make 1t
more binding. This tied the score.
In their half OF this same fourth in
ming the Daddies again took the lead.
Carroll reached fret on Rasty's muff of
ball that was largely out of his terri
tory and Work was allowed to walk to
the initial bag. Ebright's hit scored
Carroll, ard then both Work and the
San Francisco captain reached the plate
on Lohman's inability to hold thrown
balls to head them off. But the Angels
proceeded at once to get these back
Lytie hit for one base and went to sec
ond when Work mnffed Lohman's fly.
A short passed ball advanced Pap to
third and he stole home on Hughes'e
fy-out to right. Rssty was allowed to
canter to first and Hulen found another
two-bagger, giving the Angels just the
three runs needed to tie the score.
Then the local team took the lead.
Glen and Lehman waited in vain for the
ball to come over the rubber. and then
some hitting came to pass, Hughes hit
for one bag and Borchers hit for two.
Rasty got q pair in the draw and the
Kid had single to niger with, and the
Angels we're four runs to the good.
But this didn't last long. In the eev-
enth inning Levy walked down the path.
Carroll and Work singled, filling the
bases. A wild pitch just here bore fruit.
So did two-base hit by Spies, as well
as singles by both Riley and Knell-for
four runs resulted and another tied
the score.
This occurred in the seventh inning
and affairs remained in status quo until
the tenth. Then something else hap
pened and 1t happened hard. Lytle met
the ball on the seam and started it
straight at Mr.. Sharp's feet. That agile
athlete made dive for it, but before his
hands were anywhere near down far
enough the ball was rolling down into
right field. Lytle stopped for wind at
third. Lehman went out easily and
. Buck Hughes was deprived OF an oppoi-
tunity to swat. 1t was then that Lytle
lifted up his voice in the desert and inn
plored Borchers. as he came up to bat,
TO save human life. The cratic
pitcher for the Angels was not equal to
the base hit that would win his own
game, but he hit slow one at ;. Peck
Sharp, and for. fear of not having an
other chance to score Lytle sprinted for
the rubber, united the score and won the
game.
The score is as follows:
x Los ANGELES.
Ag. r. B.H.ss.Po. A. r.
Hulen, Observation-Disclosures. q 1
McCauley, 1o............ s O 3 o z o 1