BEFORE the BUMS 5/26/1890: Cleveland Spiders Bow to Brooklyn Bridegrooms at Washington Park

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.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Tuesday, May 27, 1890

GAME #24

Monday, May 26, 1890

Cleveland Spiders vs. BROOKLYN BRIDEGROOMS

WASHINGTON PARK

Bridegrooms Take Second Straight from Spiders

The game was played in light to moderate rain at Cleveland's insistence in front of 178 Brooklyn loyalists watching on.  Returning to the mound making a second straight start against the Spiders, Bridegroom right-hander Bob Caruthers surrendered single runs in the eighth and ninth innings on eleven scattered hits and two walks with three strikeouts for the win.  First baseman Dave Foutz 

delivered home Hub Collins in the third, and catcher Tom Daly doubled and scored in the fourth.  The Bridegrooms added two runs in the seventh, and left fielder Darby O'Brien cleared the bases as part of a four-run eighth.  With the victory, the Bridegrooms gain one-half game on the Phillies.

• FINAL: CLE 2; BKN 7
• RECORD: 14-10 (.583); 2nd place, 1.0 GB of Philadelphia Phillies