The Comeback

Excitement, 1908 style.

The Comeback

I’m going to do something somewhat unusual here. We’re going to jump right to the exciting part.

Cincinnati scored a run in the bottom of the 3rd inning in that classic 1908 style: a walk, an error, and a groundout.

Pittsburgh came back in the 8th with two runs in a slightly more conventional manner: two singles, a groundout scoring one, a sacrifice bunt, and an error that scored a second.

And that set us up for the bottom of the 9th.

9th Inning

John Kane started the bottom of the 9th in an interesting manner:

That brought up Mike Mitchell. I figured it wouldn’t be an awful idea to hit and run with the quick Kane:

That’s why you always look for those first column 11 results.

Mitchell was still up there, of course. I thought about bunting, but decided to swing away instead:

Hitting the ball to the left side was the wrong thing, sadly. Kane stayed at second.

Up next came Rudy Hulswitt:

There it was again: another infield grounder to the left side, and another chance to push the runner up wasted. I should have bunted.

Cincinnati’s last chance was Jake Weimer, a pitcher. I put him in as a pinch hitter because he was a better hitter than any of the position players on the bench:

Well, so much for the comeback.

Boy, Cincinnati is bad.