The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-19
PUSHED THEM HARD
indianapolis Gives Pittsburg a
Very Close Finish.
An Eighth Inning Rally that Surprised
the Big Leaguers and Enthused
the Crowd.

indianapolis braced up again yesterday
and gave the big Pittsburgs an argument
that pleased five hundred spectators ex-
ceedingly. Mauck was the home teams
pitcher, and he bothered the visitors not a
little. They did not hit the ball out In the
slashing fashion of the two preceding
games, and errors cut quite a figure in the
seven runs they secured, Mauck himself
doing some Of the bad work. The Indian
apolis boys got their eyes on the ball pretty
frequently, but hit In hard luck until the
eighth, when they went at Ehret rough
shod and batted in five runs by the clean
est kind OF stick work. 1t was a great
inning, and the crowd enjoyed the hard
hitting immensely. Leidy, Graham and De
vinney did some nice work in the field.
and nearly everybody took crack at the
ball in the eighth. The Pittsburgs put up
good ball throughout, but their hard hit
tiers didn't loom up 10 any extent. Smiths
home run in the ninth inning was the
rankest sort of a scratch. The hit would
have been a single had the outfield been
in the right condition. The grounds need
attention in that direction, and the sooner
the management expends a little money
there the better 1t won't take much to
level off the outfield so that the fieders can
get hold of the sort of hits Smith made
yesterday. and run around without imrni-
nent danger OF breaking their legs
McTammany went TO base on balls as a
starter, yesterday, but was forced at Sec
ond by AIillss hit to pitcher The latter
stole second, but the next two batsmen flew
out. With one out for Pittsburg, Donovan
got base on balls. Beckley flew TO Gray,
scored, after having reached third on a
dropped throw by Mills. Stencil flew to
Leidy Devinney got pretty nearly around
In the second, after getting a base on balls
but was caught between third and home
Mauck scored the first run for Indianap-
oils, getting first on balls, second on a
Wild pitch, third on sacrifice and home
on Sugden's bad throw to second to head
off Leidys steal. The latter had gone to
Plttsburg picked up couple Of runs Oh
on balls i and Nichols two.bagser e to left
mTe wild Efr thro% Of 81 ns sx5a
err which he had stopped cleyerly. singles
by Lyons, Bierbauer and Sugden. and
Maucks wild throw TO second.
Mills got a nice two-base drive TO left in
the seventh. but that was as far as he went.
The Indianapolis prospect was shade Oft
good, hard double to the left field fence,
which Stencil threw in somewhat indis-
criminately, and Graham kept on to third.
Gray fouled out TO Sugden, and then the
sport began Flock reached first on balls.
and Leidy each hit clean and safe, the re-
suit being five runs, four Of them earned.
Mcrammanys hit was a satisfaction TO the
crowd, because he caught one of Ehret's
quick returns, of which that authenticated
pitcher makes a speciality, and placed 1t
safe In left field. Graham flew TO Glass
burg tried hard to score in the eighth
Stencil starting with a double, but he
caught at third on Lyons's grounder,
and there was no damage done. In the
ninth, however Shiebeck was substituted
at the bat for Ehret and hit safe to left.
Smith followed with another in the same
direction, which struck n lump of dirt, car
omed over Leidy's head and rolled on to
the fence, Smith making the circuit, with
Shiebeck ahead of him, and scoring the
winning run. Pittsburg used Nichol in the
box for five innings and then substituted
Ehret. The former was effective, but as
is seen, Ehret was hit hard. Score: