Cincinnati Reds vs Boston Reds
May 29th 1891
East End Park
 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   R H E
CIN 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 - 5 - 8
BOS 4 1 1 3 2 0 2 7 x - 20 - 5
 
Cincinnati   AB R 1B SB SH PO A E
                           
RF   Emmett Seery       4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
LF   Ed Andrews       5 2 1 0 0 5 0 1
C   Jerry Hurley       4 1 1 0 0 7 1 3
SS   Jim Canavan       5 1 0 0 1 1 3 0
2B   Yank Robinson       4 1 1 1 0 0 1 2
CF   Dick Johnston       4 0 1 0 0 2 0 1
1B   John Carney       2 0 1 0 0 8 0 1
3B   Art Whitney       3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
P   Frank Dwyer       4 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
P   Willie Mains       0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
                           
    Totals       35 9 6 1 3 24 8 8
                           
  Boston AB R 1B SB SH PO A E
                           
CF   Tom Brown       5 4 2 3 0 6 0 0
3B   Bill Joyce       5 3 2 1 1 0 0 3
LF   Hugh Duffy       6 3 4 2 1 2 0 0
1B   Dan Brouthers       4 3 2 1 1 8 1 0
C   Duke Farrell       4 2 2 0 0 4 2 1
SS   Paul Radford       5 1 4 2 0 2 1 0
RF   Arthur Irwin       6 1 1 1 0 2 0 0
2B   Cub Stricker       6 1 2 0 0 2 1 0
P   George Haddock       6 2 2 3 0 1 2 1
                           
    Totals       47 20 21 13 3 27 7 5
 
  CINCINNATI BOSTON
   
Earned Runs 1 14
Two Base Hits Hurley (1) Stricker (1)
Three Base Hits   Farrell (1)
  Irwin (1)
Base On Balls 4 6
Hit By Pitched Balls Carney (1) Brouthers (1)
Struck Out Dwyer (4) Haddock (3)
Passed balls Hurley (1) Farrell (2)
Wild Pitches Mains (1) Haddock (0)
   
Time Of Game Charley Jones  
Attendance N/A  
Umpire 1:49  
 
 
 
American Association
 
TEAMS G W L T PCT GB RS RA
                 
Boston 39 27 12 0 .692 - 333 210
Baltimore 38 24 13 1 .649 2.0 296 230
St. Louis 43 25 17 1 .595 7.5 306 220
Philadelphia 40 19 19 2 .500 7.5 250 253
Cincinnati 44 20 23 1 .465 9.0 273 310
Louisville 44 19 25 0 .432 10.5 256 319
Columbus 41 17 24 0 .415 11.0 233 255
Washington 37 9 27 1 .250 16.5 185 335
 
 
 
Hard And Consecutive Hitting Wins the Game For Boston.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
05-30-1891
 
Boston treated the Reds in a way that should be an example to teams attempting to do better than break even with them. Willie Mains pitched the first inning, but in the second Dwyer was called away from right, where he was engaged in helping to load carts with macadam, which congenial occupation he seemed loathe to leave, particularly as he had a sore arm.

In spite of the trouble that Dwyer has hitherto caused Hubbites he was a comparatively easy mark yesterday. The third game of the series was, like its predecessors, distinguished by heavy hitting, with the exception that the aforesaid heavy hitting was all on the Boston side. Charlie Farrell was as blithe as a bird, and kept calling to Mr. Haddock to "put 'em over and let 'em hit 'em," which rather ambiguous direction the young man successfully followed. While Mains faced the visitors three hit were made, five men reached base and four of them scored. Hurley was not at his best behind the bat. Steals were as plentiful as mosquitoes in New Jersey, eleven men reaching second safely, and some few getting as far as third on the catcher's frantic efforts to throw to Johnston.

In every inning Boston had men on bases, and in only one did the visitors fall to score. One the whole, the game was not highly credible to Cincinnati. Nearly every one of the home team who had much of a chance at the ball in the field managed somehow to worry out an error. One in the seventh was particularly laughable. Joyce hit the ball out, and Johnston in his efforts to get it, gathered up several handfuls of cinders before he finally got the ball, while the crowd smiled and Joyce took second base.

Although the home club put men on bases not infrequently, it was not until the fifth inning that a run was made. Four bad balls put Robinson on base. Whitney struck out, but Farrell dropped the third strike and ran to catch Robinson, who was trying to reach second, and one of the funniest sort of plays occurred. Robinson bobbed about between first and second, but Farrell hesitating to throw, ran clear across the diamond to touch the runner. Farrell's wild throw, however, gave "Robby" second base, and the crowd cheered. In the fourth inning there was a base ball phenomenon as rare as a comet - a runner put out on a fly caught by two men. Haddock knocked the ball away up into
Canavan and Andrews went after it. It dropped into Canavan's hands, bounded out again, and was caught by Andrews.

Brouthers, who seems to have a special knack of getting in the way of Dwyer's curves, was hit once to-day, raising his record to four in two games. Errors and a base on balls, followed by a hit, raised Cincinnati's score by two runs in the sixth and in the eighth an error gave the start to a run which a hit and a sacrifice brought around. One more was earned by the Reds in the ninth. Boston's runs for the most part were due to hard, steady hitting.
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