Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-28
BASEBALL 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
buquerqne 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 i'm 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.
A 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 a 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
gam walked five and hit none, but
Metz a the best of il 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 at
bat.
The game was, to quote one of Trim
dads best fans, Too close for com
fort" The visitors were a complete
surprise to the big crowd who had
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 bunch
that had been pie for Nash seemed
regular custard, but the fans got the
surprise Of their lives. Trinidad play
20 errorless ball, while the visitors
had five errors chalked uD against
them. Had Metz had the same kind
of support behind him that Galgano
had, the score might have been diff
ferent!
1t was in the fifth that the first run
was scored. Craig was first Up and
beat out a buut. but went out on
Harper's felder's choice. Metz was
walked and Johnny Green hned out a
pretty single. 1t was up to Captain
Webster, who had formed a habit Of
scoring the men on bases. He drop
ped a pretty Texas Lacquer just back
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 board
until the eighth, when, after Rathburn
had flied, Shea vas hit by the ball.
He successfully stole second on a bad
throw Of Brierly's, and went TO third
on McDonald's single. He scored on
the throw-in- of kunz's high n TO
left The next ont Nrng ngEN
Trinidad should have scored in he
eighth, for though Green was thrown
out, Webster's single was dropped and
McClelland sent him to third with a
pretty two-bagger. NiehOff flied 10
shortstop, too close In for Webster to
come home. and Briefly was thrown
out.
Albuquerque came up TO bat in he
ninth, and the first two balls thrown
were landed on for high flies and out.
The third man struck out In Trini-
dads half Sweet flied first up. Craig
sent a hot one to short. which was
muffed and then thrown badly to first.
Galgano. in trying to catch Craig off
first. threw the bail wild, and, with
Craig on second, Harper was passed.
Metz reached first or what the Wis
itors tried to make "a double, catching
only Harper. Johnny Green was next
up. and, showing Judgment not looked
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ately walked him for three men on
haees ~ this stage Of the game was
no worse than two, and Green was too
dangerous a man 60 let hit the ball.
II was up to Captain Webster again
and he made good. After two strikes
had been called on him he landed
suuarely on the sphere and sent II
p'hi7-io~ 20 left. scoring Craig, n
the men laid down their gloves.
Il Was the best game. the most eN-
citing pnd the most closely played Of
any this season, not even barring the
league games. .
The visiting players We're all or
them in much better form Yesterday,
their long trip from Albuquerque
probably having much to do with the
rotten exhibition Of baseball that they
put up saturday.
II the Albuquerque Browns play bail
at home like they played IL yesterday
when the Trinidads go there IN Two
weeks. there Will probably be some
sad news to send 20 Trinidad.
The scors Of the game;
Trinidad.