The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-06-19
BEHIND HOME PLATE
By Doug Stewart

The sale of seats for the Boston
Braves exhibition game here ON July
9 will begin at noon on Monday.
You will find all the details on the
front page,
Bill Loos, who is playing first base
in place of Buck Riddle, who is ex-
pected TO be out of the lineup for
three or four days yet because of a
muscular injury in his leg, is doing
fine job. He plays the bag like a
veteran and is handling everything
that comes his way.
Laguna, the second string catcher
has been taking the place of Loos in
leftfeld, but the Hagerstown Club
has recalled William O'Brien, an
outfelder that they optioned to
Kingston last year, and he was
scheduled to report to the club yes
terday.
With more than one-third of the
season over in the Interstate League,
there isn't a single club that stands
out over the others. AS of Tuesday
morning, the eighth place Sunbury
team was just eight and one-half
games behind the league-leading
Hagerstown Braves, who were just
an eyelash in front of both Whining
ton and York.
Usually, by this time, you are able
to pick out team that looks to have
an edge, but these eight teams have
been beating each other so often
that we could well go down to the
last week of the season with the race
still toss-up.
Normally this type of a pennant
race brings out crowd, since no
club is push-over for the home
team. Here's hoping then that, from
now on out, crowds will begin to
pick up at all the Braves home
games,
My congratulations to the Junior
League, the Pony League, and the
Little League for the fine season all
three of them are having.
Although it is impossible for me
TO get to all of the games, l do
manage to take them in sometimes
and / get tremendous thrill out of
watching these kids in action.
The question of deciding which
are earned or unearned runs is one
of the most difficult jobs for an Of
fetal scorer and the Saturday night
game up at Sunbury, that the Braves
won II to 2, is a good illustration.
Although the Braves batted
around and scored six runs in the
third inning only one of those runs
was earned and here's why:
Jaderlund, the first man up,
grounded out. Jordan walked and
Riddle grounded to short and Jor-
dan would have been forced at sec
ond, had it not been for an error by
the second baseman, and that would
have been the second out, with Rid
die on first. Christian was up next
and he walked, and there would
have been man on first and second
with two away. Loos followed with
a single which would have scored
Riddle from third, for the only earn
ed run of the inning, with Christian
stopping at second. Freund then
flied to center and that would have
been the third out, with only one
run scoring
But here's what actually hap
pened:
Jaderlund made the first out. Jor-
dan walked, and Wilson dropped the
throw on Riddles grounder, with
Jordan being safe at second on the
error and Riddle safe at first. Chris
tan walked, filling the bases, and
Loos followed with a single scoring
Jordan and Riddle, with Christian
going to third. Freund then flied
out to center for the second out, with
Christian scoring after the catch.
Mulcahy was up next and he walked
and then Laguna got home run,
scoring behind Loos and Mulcahy.
Giggie went out, second to first, to