Evening star., 1908-12-20
FIGURING BATTLES
OF EXTRA INNINGS

Base ball dopesmiths are still figuring
out some of the strange things which hap
pcned in New York and elsewhere during
the last season.
According to the records New York city
figured in four of the five longest games
of the year. and although the National
Leagues eXtra-inning contests fell ten
short OF their younger competitor S total.
the Pulliam organization had three con-
tests that went seventeen innings. or an
inning longer than any played by the
Johnson aggregationS. There were out
fifty-four games that went over the limit
IN the National to siXty-four in the Amer
lean. and there We're but four tie games,
as compared with seven by their rivals.
OF the three seventeen-inninS games,
one was Il tie. and OF the other two Brook
lyn was unfortunate in each. Boston
and Chicago went to the tie. PfeiSter
being opposed to I.indaman on June t.
Young pitched the first of the other two
record breakers and scored the winning
run himself. he being opposed by Pas
torius. Ten days after DonoVans men
again lost Il long battle. this time to Phil
adelphia. Corridor was the fortunate
slabman while Mcintyre was relieved in
the ninth inning by Rucker, who lost the
game.
The Nationals had only two sixteen
inning Set-toS, and, strange to state. one
game of each league was tie Willis
and Wiltse opposed each other in the tie
game. and the score ended % after
strenuous battle. the teams fighting
around the top of the ladder at the time.
New York also figured in the other six
teen-ilninc battle the Giants defeating
Ed Karger to 4. after the Cardinals
had hammered McGinnity off the S alb.
Young Craniall took up operations in the
seventh, and the Cardinals made but one
hit off the broad-shouldered youngster
from Iowa for the next nine innings.
Larry Doyle broke up the game for New
York.
Each league had one fifteen-inning
game. Miner Brown losing the only con-
test of that duration to Tuckey, the young
Boston SouthpaW. st. Louis gained one
honor. that of winning the only fourteen
inning contest in the league by defeating
Philadelphia in the first game of a Sat
urday, double-header. 3 to =, I1igginboth-
am being the winner and Sparks the loser.
This was the last eXtra-inning game of
the season.
Pittsburg. with Camnitz. Leever ana
Maddox ciating, defeated Boston with
Flaherty opposing them in the only thlr-
teen-inning game. But five games Went
twelve innings in the National, as com
pared to eleven for the American. OF
the games that consumed d dozen in
ilDSS the New CldnIS anu dIl-
KEGS participated in three of them, Win
ming one and losing two Of them. The
Giants won two. Mathewson winning both
these games for the Gothamites. Gin
cinnati also participated In three twelve
inning battles. having the same record
as the Cardinals. each losing two and
winning one. The winning game of each
.eam was at the expense of the other.
Twelve finished games and one tie is
the record of the efeven-innlng set-toS.
l. loo rt,n
victory was won by Raymond's single and
marked Miner Browns first defeat of
the season May 20. Sparks defeated
Lush in the other game, l to O. after
Johnny had held his former teammates
TO seven hits and struck out nine men.
The Nationals had one more ten-inning
battle than it's rival. each league having
twenty-five games that were decided.
But the National had one 90 tie game,
ReuIbach and Richie battling without re-
suit st. Louis was the first team of the
season to play an extra-inning game and
incidentally the last. They lost the first
ten-inning game to Pttsburg on the open
ing day of the season. They also lost
a ten-inning game to Chicago. Reulbach
defeating Fromme. Lush turned the la
bles on Sparks and has 10 victory to
his credit over the southerner. Beehe
also revensed his defeat with Reulhach.
winning ten-inning game after the Cubs
had the McCloskey youngsters to / in
the eighth inning.
Pittsburg had the best record in Win
ming and losing extra -inning games. the
Pirates winning three -fourths of this kind
of contests. They won nine and lost
three Six of these games We're won
while opposed to seconddivision clubs,
and half of the six were won from Bos-
ton. The worlds champions were close
to the Pirates, they having IA mark of
IA. They won one more and lost one
more than Clarkes crew. The Giants
were third. with seven victories and three
defeats 1t can easily be seen how far
the leaders outclassed their antagonists,
as they were the only teams to have a
margin of victories over defeats in extra
inning games.