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 #55
Monday, June 30, 1890
LEAGUE PARK
Bridegrooms Close In On Cincinnati
The Bridegrooms arrived at League Park seeking to alter their four-game standing behind the first-place Reds. Facing right-hander Frank Foreman, Brooklyn tallied twice in the third and added single runs in the fourth and fifth innings. However, Brooklyn starter Adonis Terry gave it all back in the bottom half of the fifth. But the stalemate did not last long. Hits by Tom Daly, Hub Collins, and George Pinkney
helped generate two more runs in the sixth. Not yet done, triples by Collins and Pinkney in the eighth produced two more runs as the Bridegrooms went on to post an 8-6 victory in the series opener against their old American Association foes.
- FINAL: BKN 8; CIN 6
- RECORD: 34-21 (.618); 2nd place, 3.0 GB of Cincinnati Reds
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