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.
GAME #127
Tuesday, September 30, 1890
NATIONAL LEAGUE PARK
The National League Champions Are Coming Home
It took extra innings, but the Bridegrooms completed a sweep of the Cleveland Spiders and are now winners of four games consecutively. Facing right-hander Bob Caruthers, Cleveland opened the scoring in the second. Afterwhich, the teams traded runs in the fourth. Brooklyn then seized a 3-2 lead in the fifth. But it did not last. After three scoreless frames, the Spiders tied the game in the home ninth, and into extra innings, they went at National League Park. The Bridegrooms rallied for a run in the tenth, and Caruthers retired the Spiders in the bottom half of the frame for the win. Second baseman Hub Collins and Oyster Burns led Brooklyn with two hits apiece. The Grooms posted a 7-5 record during their final road trip and will arrive back in Brooklyn Wednesday evening, where a celebratory welcome home awaits the 1890 National League champions.
- FINAL: BKN 4; CLE 3 10 innings
- RECORD: 84-43 (.661); *FIRST PLACE, 6.5 GA of Chicago Colts
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