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 #47
Friday, June 20, 1890
NATIONAL LEAGUE PARK
Slugging Bridegrooms Win Eighth Straight
The Bridegrooms arrived in Cleveland with bats at the ready. Facing novice right-hander Bill Garfield, Brooklyn pounded out 17 hits, with five going for extra bases. All nine batters in the lineup struck at least one hit while four different Bridegrooms wielded three apiece. Third baseman George Pinkney
clubbed two home runs, and Dave Foutz added another. After surrendering two runs in the first,
Bob Caruthers held the Spiders scoreless through the seventh. Meanwhile, the Bridegrooms posted ten unanswered runs until Cleveland scored in the eighth. This was the ninth time this season that the league's highest-scoring team has posted double-digit runs. This also marks Brooklyn's season-high eighth consecutive victory.
- FINAL: BKN 10; CLE 3
- RECORD: 30-17 (.638); 2nd place, 3.0 GB of Cincinnati Reds
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