Costly Errors!
Maybe those old time gloves just don't cut it.
Costly Errors!
This game was called “THE GAME” by The Philadelphia Inquirer in real life:
The replay version was, umm, not quite the same.
Fumbled Into Defeat
We went into the 11th inning of this game with the score tied at 1.
It wasn’t much of an offensive contest. The teams had combined for a mere 13 hits to this point. Both runs came in the first inning, and both teams had squandered opportunities to score as the game progressed.
Rube Oldring led things off for the Athletics against relief pitcher Doc Newton:
The curse of the “little e” struck again, and this time the error was charged to Jake Stahl. This was the 4th error that New York had committed in this game, which clearly wasn’t as sharply played as its real life counterpart.
That brought up Jimmy Collins, who is the wrong Collins to have up in this situation:
Blame Newton this time around. His wild throw allowed Oldring to score, ending this game in a wild walkoff that we’ll be talking about for a while.
It was your average, old fashioned 11 inning game with 5 sacrifice bunts, 3 stolen bases, and 1 man caught stealing. Jimmy Dygert wound up going the distance for Philadelphia, striking out 8 in the process.