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 the New York Giants second straight championship victory over the Association, it would be Brooklyn's last campaign as an AA member club. The following season, the Bridegrooms would make their National League debut where they remain to this day. Welcome to "BEFORE the BUMS" my game-by-game rewind of (the city) Brooklyn's historic 1890 season.
Monday, September 1, 1890
WASHINGTON PARK
Bridegrooms Extend First-Place Lead Over Boston Beaneaters
Upwards of 7,100 fans packed Washington Park for three games against the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, easily the circuit's weakest aggregation, arriving in Brooklyn with an unsightly 19-89 (.176) season record. Only the Cleveland Spiders have scored fewer runs to date than Pittsburgh, whereas the Bridegrooms have tallied the league most.
GAME #108 - Monday's first game was underway by 10:30 am. Byrne's sluggers got to work immediately, tallying early, often, and late. After scoring four runs in the opening frame, the Bridegrooms had amassed a 10-0 lead through the seventh. Starter Bob Caruthers served the Alleghenys goose eggs over the first eight innings. In the ninth, Pittsburgh nearly eliminated their deficit with nine runs but ultimately was held one run short.
- FINAL: PITT 9; BKN 10
GAME #109 - Game two was a tightly contested affair. Brooklyn right-hander Tom Lovett was opposed on the mound by little-experienced Dave Anderson for Pittsburgh. The Bridegrooms opened with a run in the first, and Pittsburgh tied things up in the third. Brooklyn then scored single runs in the fifth and sixth innings. Lovett held the Alleghenys scoreless through the subsequent five frames before ceding one last run in the ninth for his 25th victory this season. Third baseman George Pinkney singled, tripled, and scored twice.
- FINAL: PITT 2; BKN 3
GAME #110 - Brooklyn jumped out to a 7-0 lead by the second inning, from which the Alleghenys could not recover. After three scoreless at-bats, Pittsburgh mustered a run in the fourth and three in the sixth. Afterwhich, starter Adonis Terry held the Alleghenys scoreless over the final three frames for the win, his 19th this season. Center fielder Darby O'Brien and Dave Foutz wielded two hits each, and Oyster Burns homered. In Boston, the Chicago Colts swept two games from the Beaneaters at South End Grounds giving the Bridegrooms a 5.5 game cushion in the standings.
- FINAL: PITT 4; BKN 8
- RECORD: 74-36 (.673); 1st place, 5.5 GA of Boston Beaneaters
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