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Brooklyn has much work to do if they are to rectify the considerable damage they caused themselves during their recent and potentially ruinous 4-14-1 road swing through the Midwest. Wednesday afternoon's series opening win over Buffalo is only one small step in the right direction, but a first step nonetheless. Playing in front of their home crowd for the first time in twenty days the Tip Tops prevail by a 6-2 final score over the Buf-Feds at Washington Park. The victory snaps their nine game skid and gets them back to .500 (55-55) with 45 games left in the regular season.
After trading runs in the first, Brooklyn starter Happy Finneran limits Buffalo to just one more run (none earned) on six total hits and two walks with five strikeouts through nine full. Meanwhile the Tip Tops generate five more runs against Buf-Fed starter Al Schultz and reliever Fred Anderson en route to a 6-2 triumph. Right fielder Claude Cooper goes 1 for 4 with a home run. Grover Land and George Anderson each drive in a run. Third baseman Tex Wisterzil is 1 for 2 with a triple and two runs scored. Finneran also helps his own cause going 1 for 3 with a run batted in. Happy notches his tenth victory of the season against seven losses with a 2.38 ERA.
Despite the victory Brooklyn does not gain ground on either first place Indianapolis or second place Chicago and thus remain mired in fifth place, 8.5 games back of the league leading Hoosiers. After posting a stellar 21-8 record in July, the Tip Tops have slumped to 8-15 to date through August. However, if nothing else Bradley's Boys are resilient. This is the same team that on June 27 were in sixth place, eight games below .500 and 9.5 games back of first place. By August 6 they had climbed all the way to within 1.5 games of first place.
And then they headed west ...
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