The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-21
Sloppiest Kind of Playing
Let's Them Pile up Runs
BURK'S WILDNESSFACTOR
Thr0wer Gets Himself into
Lots of Trouble.
Game Played by Diggers was a
Farce Tie the Score Then Throw
1t Away 10 the Tenth The Story
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Mansfield, Aug. q. -Mlnsnold tool
the second game of the series froa
the Marion cluD by winning out IL
ten inning game by the score o
6 to .. Davy, the man who wor
Wednesdays game. came to yester
day with a Fly when there was
man on third, sending the winning
run across the plate Flood just be-
fore had hit an apparently safe on'
10 the same place but Tate was lay.
ing away in and Mathay on third
never tried to make home, after
Hughe had caught the bail.
The game should never have gone
into extra innings. At the end OF
the fifth innig we were leading by a
margin of FIVE runs. Up until that
time the visitors rad never been
even within hailng distance. not hqv.
ing been able to advance a man be-
yond second base. However In the
latter half Of the game Bailey was
touched up rather frequently and
when he started the ninth inning by
filling the bases before a man was re-
tired. he was taken out and Bucholz
was sent In to save the game He
apparently made a bad start at the
saving stunt for the first two men
up singled, sending three runs across
the plate and tying mp the score. AZ
Ter Buck once got warmed up though
ne retired the side and came right
back i'm the tenth and pitched good
ball.
The game was a good one up until
the first half Of the ninth. Both
teams had played good ball and as
the locals were safely In the lead
everybody felt sare and happy. Burk
had been outpitched by Bailey and
that rally in the ninth came as a
surprise.
However. we finally won and so
everybody felt happy The Tigers
by winning this game finally sue
ceeded in reaching that half way
mark toward which they have been
striving ever since they lost the op-
ening game of The season. It Is a
curious fact that we should reach
the 500 mark by winning two straight
from the same team that sent us
below the mark by taking the first
game OF the season from US. We
have to- win todays game to stay
above and If we do, there Is no
possibility Of our ever getting below
again.
Bailey pitched the game that every
body who has been following him
expected him TO pitch. He started
away nicely and kept IL up until the
latter half of the game. Then he
commenced 10 weaken and began get
eing into trouble, winding up with
his usual disastrous ninth inning
finish.
The fans never feel certain Of a
game when the dentist is in the box
and yesterdays game only bore out
previous experiences. He invariably
allows the opposing side to pull up
in the last three or four innings, es-
pecially the ninth. These rallies on
their nart usually come after the Tlg-
ers have piled mp an apparently safe
lead, Yesterday with the game
sewed up to 2, even those who
knew his falling considered things
safe. but that usua- windup came.
He pitched good ball up until that
time. Three men got on bases in
the first five innings and none Of
these reached second. In the sixth
he struck out Tate when third and
second bases were occupied. In the
eighth he famed Larue when there
was a man on third. But that aw-
ful ninth inning spoiled his work
and disguised everybody at the game
Burke was both good and bad His
customary fault of wildness lost him
the game. He was in trouble most OF
the way. growing stronger after the
nfth but weakened badly In the
tenth. His work was brilliant in
places and then poor, His two passes
in the tenth proved his undoing,
while II was this same lack OF con-
troll that got him in trouble in the
second, third ana fifth innings when
the Tigers made all of their runs.
Bucholz, who came TO the rescue
of Bailey, really deserves credit for
winning the game. He was the same
old reliable twirfer after he once
got warmed up He got away nicely
In the tenth and II Mansfield had
not won in their half Of that inning
the game would never have resulted
any different for Buck was working
nicely. He proved to be the same
old steady reliable and nervy pitch
or that has made him the Lending
winner OF the staff
In the second inning with one out,
Flood was passed and stole second.
Davy singled through Wolfe Davy
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