From the desk: FINGERPRINTS OF DEM BUMS
In baseball's sixth ever World Series clash of 1889, the National League New York Giants defeated the American Association champion Brooklyn Bridegrooms six games to three, and an inter-city rivalry was born. While this marked New York's second straight championship victory over the Association, it would be Brooklyn's last as an AA member club. The following season, the Bridegrooms would make their National League debut. Welcome to "BEFORE the BUMS" my game-by-game rewind of (the city) Brooklyn's historic 1890 season.
GAME #15
Tuesday, May 13, 1890
Philadelphia Baseball Grounds
Broad Street and Huntingdon Street
Bridegrooms Settle for Series Split at Philadelphia
In seizing Tuesday's series finale, the Phillies salvaged a split against the Bridegrooms and did so convincingly. Right-hander Mickey Hughes started for Brooklyn but was knocked out of the box by the sixth. Southpaw Lady Baldwin entered in relief and was treated similarly. The Bridegrooms took a brief 2-1 lead in the top half of the second. But the Phillies answered with single runs in the home second and third and four runs in the fourth. Not yet done, manager Harry Wright's Colts posted three more runs in the sixth. Afterwhich, the teams traded single runs in the eighth for an 11-3 final score. Philadelphia starter Kid Gleason gained a measure of revenge for Monday's onslaught, allowing ten widely scattered hits, keeping Brooklyn scoreless from the third through the seventh innings, and leaving the bases filled with Bridegrooms to end the ninth.
- FINAL: BKN 3; PHI 11
- RECORD: 8-7 (.533); 3rd place, 2.5 GB of Philadelphia Phillies
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