Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-10-11

COOmbs was working easily and the
Red Sox were having a great deal of
trouble hitting his curves, which cut
the corners. He mixed these with a
good fast one.
BRooKLYN-Stengel up. Ball 1.
Foul, strike l. Foul strike 2. Ball 2.
Ball 8. Foul. Stengel fouled to Gard
ner. He took the ball off the tempo
/ rary boxes
/ Wheat up. Ball /. Ball 2. Strike
: 1. Ball 3. Wheat walked. 1t was his
4 second base on balls.
/ Cutshaw up. Strike /. Ball l. Ball
/ 2. Cutshaw out, Mays to Hobby,
Wheat going to second.
Mowrey up. Ball /. Ball 2. Strike
/. Ball 8. Strike 2. Ball A. Now
rey walked.
Olson up. Olson tripled to center
scoring Wheat and Mowrey. The
crowd roared as Olson halted at third
Miller up. Miller out, Scott to Hob
by. Two runs, one hit, no error.
Mays was pitching poorly. He was
in hole most of the time. He work.
ed deliberately, apparently afraid to
give the Brooklyn sluggers a crack
at the ball.
SIXTH INNING, BosToN-Thomas
up. Strike /. Thomas out, Olson to
Daubert
Henrixsen batting for Mays Henrik
sen up. Ball 1. Ball 2. Ball g. Ball
4, walked
Hooper up. Strike 1. Hooper
tripled. scoring Henrixsen. The ball
hit the centerfleld wall.
Janvrin mp. Ball /. Janvrin popped
TO Cutshaw
Shorten up. Strike l. Shorten sin.
gled to centre. scoring Hooper.
Hobby up. Strike /. Ball l. Ball
2. Hobby out, Coombs 10 Daubert.
Two runs, two hits. no errors
When Mays was derrcked he had
been nicked for four runs and seven
hits. The Dodgers took his offerings
with will Foster relieved MAYS. In
the Boston half of the sixth. Coombs
did not appear to be in as bad shape as
Mays, when the latter was lifted.
though he had yielded two runs on
two hits
BROOKLYN -Coombs up. Ball I.
Strike /. Ball ?. Ball 3. Strike 2.
Coombs lined to Scott.
Myers up. The game was delayed
while Umpire O'Day examined the ball.
but it was thrown back to Foster.
Strike I. Foul. strike ?. Ball l. Ball
2. Myers popped to Gardner.
Daubert up. Ball 1. Daubert tripled
to left. but was out at the plate, Lewis
to Thomas. No runs, one hit. no errors.
II was a close play and Daubert APP
peared to be safe until the Boston
players gathered around ODay and
protested loudly. The crowd booed
and Kissed O'Day as play was resumed.
SEVENTH INNING. BOSTON,
Lewis up. Strike /. Strike 2. Ball
1. Lewis out to Daubert, unassisted
Gardner up. Ball 1. Ball 2. Gard
ner drove a home run over right field
fence. The ball sailed clear of the
fence by ten feet.
Scott up. Coombs himself called a
relief pitcher from the centre field
bull pen" He apparently realized
that he was weakening The crowd
cheered as the veteran strobe TO the
dugout. Pfeffer sent in TO pitch for
Brooklyn. Boston got three runs and
seven hits off Coombs Strike L. Ball
1. Scott flied to Myers, who made a
great running catch.
Thomas up Ball 1. Ball 2. Strike
1. Foul. strike 2. Ball 8. Foul. Strike
/ a. H
One run. one hit. no errors.
Coombs had been putting lots of
stuff on the ball while he was in the
box and could not stand the strain.
Pfeffer, who succeeded him. used a
fast ball almost exclusively for the
rest of the inning
Stengel up. Ball /
Strike l. Foul. strike 2 Stengel flied
| n Homer
Wheat up Wheat hit to Hooper.
who dropped the ball after having It
in his hands He was given a single
as Hooper fell to his knees as the ball
hit his hands.
Cutshaw up. Strike Wheat stole
second on wild pitch. The ball fell
from Thomas hands as Wheat started
from first Ball l. Strike 2. Cut
shaw popped to Hobby Hooper and
Janvrin almost messed up this play by
also running after the ball
Mowrey up. Strike / Mowrey out.
Foster to Hobby. No runs, one hit,
no errors.
EIGHTH INNING. BOST0N-Foster
up. Strike 1. Ball I. Strike 2. Ball
O. Ball 3. Famed. The last strike
was called
Hooper up. Strike 1. Ball 1. Foul.
strike 2. Foul. Hooper out, Pfeffer
to Daubert
Janvrin up. Strike ]. Strike 2
Famed. All three strikes were called.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
Pfeffer looked mighty good in this
inning. He mixed a fast breaking
curve with his speed-burners.
! BROOkLYN-Olson up. Olson out
Foster to Hobby. Foster pulled down
his high bounder with one hand by a
leap ir<o the air.
Miller up Ball l. Foul, strike l..
Foul, strike 2. Foul. Foul. Miller
out. Hobby to Foster.
/ Pfeffer up Pfeffer singled to right
The ball hit the fence but Hooper's
quick return held the hit to single.
Myers up Strike l. Strike 2. BAH
]. Ball 2. Famed. He swung hard
at the last one. No runs, one hit,
no errors.
With half an inning to go, the Red
Sox faced a hard task. Pfeffer appar-
emily was in his best form.
NINTH INNING, OSTON-Shorten
up. Ball l. Ball 2. Strike 1. shorten
flied 70 Wheat, who took the BAH on
the line after a hard run
Hobby up. Strike T. Ball /. Hob
by out. Olson to Daubert
n Lewis up-Ball l. Lewis flied TO
Stengel
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