Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-28
I"BASEBA[L LUCK
LOST BROWNS
THE GAME
BEST PLAYING EVER
SEEN IN TRINIDAD
One Of Colorado City's Best
Fans Says the Sunday Game
Was Too Close for Comfort.
Bouquets for Browns.

Baseball luck" according to the
Trinidad fans, Is all that lost the AL
Duquerque Browns the game at the
Colorado town last Sunday That the
Browns put up the best exhibition ever
seen on the Trinidad grounds is the
enthusiastic statement made by the
Trinidad Chronicle News, which says
of the game:
Playing away from home, on
strange grounds, the Albuquerque
Browns put up the best exhibition of
baseball Sunday that has ever been
seen In Trinidad, after throwing the
game away half a dozen times Satur-
day. They lost yesterday merely on
baseball luck, Triniday getting the
winning run in the ninth inning-be-
ing compelled to go to bat in the
ninth for the first time since the Can
yon, Texas, game.
Two to one was the final score, and
that Trinidad got 1t was because they
got the lucky hits in their inning in
stead of Albuquerque doing it.
pitchers battle was practically
what the game was yesterday, Metz
and Galgano being about the most
evenly matched pair of pitchers that
ever worked on Central park diamond.
Until the fifth inning not hit had
been made by Trinidad's sluggers off
Galgano, while the visitors during the
game were able to get but four scat
tered scratch hits off Metz. Metz
walked two men and hit one. Gal
gano walked five and hit none, but
Metz had the best of it on strike-outs
tanning ten to Galgano's six, the big
Italian having difficulty in making the
Trinidad fellows go to the bench with
out anything to show for their time al
bat
The game was, to quote one of Trim
idad's best fans, TOO close for com.
fort" The visitors We're complete
surprise to the big crowd who hat
turned out expecting to see the
Browns wiped off the earth after the
showing that they made on Saturday
With Metz in the box the buncI
that had been pie for Nash seemed
regular custard, but the fans got thu
surprise of their lives. Trinidad play
ed errorless ball, while the visitor
had five errors chalked up agains
them. Had Metz had the same kline
of support behind him that Galgant
had, the score might have been diff
ferent.
1t was in the fifth that the first rui
was scored. Craig was first up an,
beat out bunt, but went out ol
Harper's fielder's choice. Metz wa
walked and Johnny Green lined out
pretty single. 1t was up to Captain
Webster who had formed a habit o
scoring the men on bases. He drop
ped pretty Texas Lacquer just bacl
of the shortstop. and Harper scored
The captain was forced out at second
with Metz forced out at third.
The one run remained on the boar
No al fph OF d paf IA htV
had flied, Shea was hit by the bal
He successfully stole second on ba
throw of Brierly's, and went to thr
on McDonald's single. He scored o
the throw-in- of Kunz's high one t
left The next out was easy.
Trinidad should have scored in tn
eighth, for though Green was throw
out. Webster's single was dropped an
McClelland sent him to third with
pretty two-bagger Nehoff flied t
shortstop, too close in for Webster t
come home, and Briefly was throw
out
Albuquerque came up to bat in tn
ninth, and the first two balls throw
were landed on for high flies and ou
The third man struck out. In Trim
dads half Sweet flied first up. Graf
sent a hot one to short, which wa
muffed and then thrown badly to firs
GalganO, In trying to catch Craig OF
first, threw the ball wild, and, wit
Craig on second. Harper was passed
Metz reached first on what the Wis
itors tried to make double, catchin
only Harper Johnny Green was nel
up. and, showing Judgment not locke
for in an amateur, Galgano delibel
ately walked him. for three men o
bases AZ this stage Of the game wa
no worse than two, and Green was to
dangerous man TO let hit the ball.
II was up to Captain Webster agai
and he made good. After two strike
had been called on him he lande
sduarely on the sphere and sent
whiz@'po 10 left. scoring Craig. an
the men laid down their gloves.
It was the best game, the most el
cifinF and the most closely played
any this season, not even barring Il
league games.
The visiting players were all
them I'm much better form yesterda
their long trip from Albuquerql
probably having much TO do with u
rotten exhibition of baseball that thu
put up saturday
If the Albuquerque Browns play pa
at home like they played II yesterdi
when the Trinidads go there In tv
weeks. there will probably he son
sad news to send to Trinidad.
The score OF the game:
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