Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-13
TWO RECORDS
SHATTERED in
RECENT SERIES
Base on Balls and Left on
Base Marks Broken by
Macks and Tigers
EIGHTY-FIVE PASSED

The past series between the Athletics
and Detroit was not only productive of
new worlds record for bases on balls,
but another mark was made which prob
ably has never been equaled in baseball.
A careful search of the files of Sporting
Life, which has published the box, scores
of every major league game since 1882.
was made last night, and there Is no past
record for bases on balls which even ap-
proaches that made by the Detroit and
Athletics hurlers during the four-game
stay of the Tigers in this city.
There have been several series in the last
S3 years in which there were two or thres
poorly pitched games, where the twlrl-
ers passed an unusual number of men,
but the nearest approach to the mark hung
up in the last series was compiled by the
Brooklyn and Pittsburgh pitchers In
three-game series at Pittsburgh, which
started on June 20, 1893, and ended on
July I. In this series the pitchers
passed SO men, "a of the free tickets be-
ing issued in the second game of the series.
This had been the high single game rec
ord until the present series.
Not only was the worlds record for
series broken but the single game mark
was beaten twice in the four games be-
tween the Mackmen and Tigers. In the
four games S5 bases on balls were given,
while two batsmen received free transpor-
of almost % free trips to first bnse per
game, which Is all the more remarkable
when one considers that the art of pitch
ing Is supposed to have advanced within
the last 20 years.
Worlds Record
The other mark which probably also
Is q worlds record was made in leaving
runners stranded on the bases. In the
four games 95 men were left on bases,
which proves one of two things-either
the pitchers really had world of stuff"
when able to get the ball over or the two
teams played poor baseball. Most likely
the latter is the case, as there was no at
tempt made at inside play by either team
during the series.
yesterday the Individual game left on
base record was broken when 20 Mack
men and 16 Tigers were left stranded.
making a total of &c. The Athletics did
not have a man left on base in two OF
the IL innings, which leaves them an
average of more than two men left to
an inning for the other nine innings,
which probably is the oldest record ever
made in this respect
Prior to yesterday the Athletic pitchers
had passed 80 men in three games, and
in the final game Crowell and Sheehan
added 10 more, making total of 49
bases on balls given by the Mack pitchers
the four games. Detroit's pitchers had
given 21 passes and one batsnan had
been hit in the first three games, James,
Erickson and Dubuc added 10 passes yes
terday, while Boland hit one man. making
a total of SO bases on ball an dtwo hit
batsmen for the Detroit pitchers. All
told the pitchers of the two teams issued
SIS bases on balls and hit two batsmen
during the series.
In the first game of the series the Ath-
letics had IL men left on bases, While
Detroit had 10; the second game the count
was Q for the Mackmen and IL for the
Tigers; the third was, Athletics, g. De-
troit, S; while yesterday 20 Mackmen were
stranded to 16 of the Tigers, making the
grand total of s5, All things considered
1t was the most remartable or all freak
series in the history of the game,
The IT men left on base for the Ath-
letics in nine innings equals the worlds
record established by the Phillies IN 1902
while the SO men left on base by the two
teams broke the previous record which
was held by the Tacoma and Seattle
teams of the Northwestern League, on
September 8, 1913.