Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-31
ODDITIES OF BASE BALL RACE
Freak Results Of the Season in Major
League Contests.
HARDEST PUNCH THE BEST
COIncIdeaees Oct OF the Ordinary
Two Remarkable Batting streahs
by Pittsburg-Galme with
SIX Runs from One hit.

SIX Runs from One Hit.
In base ball it sometimes happens that
Providence isn't N the ride with the
~strongest batteries. In the long run the
team with the hardest punch stands a
fine chance of getting there, but there
will be a goodly number OF instances in
the meanwhile in which harder hitting
viii go hand in hand with defeat because
Of weakness in some other respect. Every
year produces a certain proportion OF
games I'm which a team outbats It's oppo-
Lnent decidedly, but loses. Cases of teams
doing the more hitting and yet losing are
too Common for notice, but there are
other cases in which one team has been
so decidedly superior, yet lost. as to put
the game in the oddly class.
For instance. on April "a. last. the St
Louis Cardinals flogged the Cincinnati
pitcher for eight hits and Cincinnati made
only one-half as many, yet the Cincin-
natis made three runs TO st. Louis's two
and the Cardinals put up as good a field
ing game as their opponents. There are
Of course bases on balls and punched hits
TO account for a few hits accomplishing
more than a greater lumber; but even
so, such a proportion as this one is un-
usual and freakish. st. Louis got a sim
liar dose from Chicago the very next
day, outbatting their opponents, ten hits to
five, but losing by a score OF 5 90 4.
A game OF April T was notable not for
any ~paradoxical phase, but for the rare
completeness with which one team beat
the other, the beaten team being vastly a
better team on the whole season. The
winners wers the weak Boston Doves and
the losers the Giants. The Giants were
obliterated in all departments. They made
no runs, two hits and seven errors. while
the Bostons whaled out fifteen hits, ten
men scampered home and the fielding was
without a law. That was about the
most thorough ~drubbing the Giants got
last season.
The Brookiyns made six runs from six
hits on April %, while the Phillies were
plucking one lonesome tally from eight
bingles, The Pittsburgs won a double
header from the Cubs in Chicago in May,
and an odd happening in the second game
was the way figures were reversed. Chit
cago made no runs. six hits and five err
rors. Pittsburg made six runs, five hits
and no errors-6, 8 and 0, as against Q,
6 and 5. on May 8 the Giants swatted
Mccarthy of Boston for IN even dozen
~safeties, but netted only one run there
from. They won the game. however. It
was the second clash OF a double-header
the Giants making two runs off six hits in
the first encounter.
Hits and Runs.
The Boston-C Cincinnati game Of May Ii
was conspicuous for it's action. There
were eighteen runs, twenty-three hits and
ten errors, and five pitchers were involved.
Two days later a total OF twenty-seven
hits in the Boston-C Cincinnati game yieldod
OILY five runs, nearly six hits to a run.
On May II and IS there was a curious
/ frequency OF lis in conjunction with Is.
The Pittsburgs made eleven hits, eleven
runs and one error, and the Giants and
Cinclnnatis each made eleven. hits and one
/, error The Giants played invincible ball
} against Cincinnati on May 10 and made fif-
teen runs from eighteen hits.
, The Brooklyns beat the Bostons twice
on May % by a 4 to 1 score, and in each
game there were twelve hits and two err
rors. On June 5 and 6 games between The
Now Yorks and Cardinals were instances
5 OF one team getting all there was out OF
it's hitting. The New Yorks made a total
r OF twenty runs and twenty-four hits, go
ing down the line and hammering five
E pitchers. sixteen hits for the Brooklyns
S to ten for the Pittsburgs on May Il did
$ not prevent the former from losing, and
they made only one error TOO.
The slugging Pirates cut loose with two
4 remarkable batting streaks in June. For
seven games in succession they made hits
/, as follows; II, IL. Is, 10. IS, ~, a total Of
SO in seven days. Beginning again on June
n "a, they made double figure hits as follows
y in six successive games: u. 10. u. II. 10.
q IA, a total OF Is. That was the best sus-
g tanned batting of the year. They made
a twenty-six hits in two games on June 81.
A On the same day the Cincinnatis made
3 twenty-five hits in two games. The win
d ming teams made a total OF fity-one hits.
y On June "a there was a total OF seventy
h nine hits In the four games played Tina
u was an average OF close to twenty a
game, great stick work.
y Sparse scoring attended tho six games
Of July 5 on the part of the losers. They
made only five runs altogether, and on
p July 6 in four games the losers made only
three runs in all. The Pittsburgs accumu-
% lated twenty-elght wallops against st.
y Louis In two games on July Is. The
q Brooklyn played two errorlsss games on
N July H. st. Louis, Pittsburg and Boston
a also played without an error on that day,
The Brooklyns shut out st. Louis. 1 to o
u twice on July "a.
T. Won with Less Hits.
Although outbatted eight hits TO four by
Brooklyn on August 10. the P~ittsburgs
n scored twice as often as their adversaries
Again on August 10 the Pittsburgs were
d outbatted, eleven to six. by the Philies
le but beat them. 2 to 1. The lift and run skin
se OF the Pirates accounts In a great measure
N for their victories when Outbatted. August
le % and q were batting days. In the eight
games no less than rs base hits were pul
in pickle, over twenty hits a game.
With three hits and five errors on Sep,
TENDER p the Giants made four runs anG
beat the Cardinals, who made twelve hitl
and only two errors. The Chicagos anS
h BroOklyns beat each other 4 TO l on Sep
m TENDER q, and In each game the WHINE
10 made elght hits and one error. an unusua
colneidenoe Of numerals. Three OF the foul
games on the 94th produced heavy scorinl
A. in proportion to the hits-sixty-two HIT
m and forty-nine runs.
Things went by threes In the Detroit
Chicago game OF April Is. The Tigers mad,
N three runs. three times that many hits anS