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 #18
Saturday, May 17, 1890
WASHINGTON PARK
Dave Foutz Remains Hot, Rest of Bridegrooms Not So Much
Pittsburgh evens the series. The Alleghenys posted five runs in the second inning. Afterwhich, it was just a matter of them holding on. Right-hander Bill Sowders limited the Bridegrooms to single runs in the bottom half of the second, third, fifth, and seventh innings and made sure the rest of Brooklyn's hits were scattered. The youngest of Brooklyn's hurlers, right-hander Mickey Hughes yielded six runs on nine hits and three walks with four strikeouts in the loss. First baseman Dave Foutz continued punishing Pittsburgh pitching, wielding another three hits but was stranded on second base in the ninth. He now has seven hits in two games against the Alleghenys. A crowd of 1,597 filed out of Washington Park less than happy.
- FINAL: PITT 6; BKN 4
- RECORD: 9-9 (.500); 4th place, 2.5 GB of Philadelphia Phillies
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