NYL @ HOM game 2: holiday fireworks
In the duel of the number five starters, the Grays try to get to a winning record and the Giants try to remain at the top of the standings.
The Giants have another furious start to the game, scoring two on a walk, a single, a double and a sac fly. However, Grays centerfielder Baro ties the game with a twomrun homer in the bottom of the first.
In the third, the Giants continue to hit hard in a two out rally. A badly mishandled line drive makes Baro look bad at first, but when Spoony Palm homers two at bats later, it turns out Baro only robbed him of a grand slam. The inning becomes a big one when the bottom of the Giants order wakes up and pitcher Holland helps his own cause with an RBI double scoring and Charleston coming to bat for the second time in the inning but grounding out to Carr to end the inning with a 7-2 lead.
In the fourth, that becomes an 8-2 lead as Beckwith scores on a passed ball. The beats continue in the fifth - Cockrell can't quite dispatch the Giants' bottom of the order, walking Bankhead who is advanced by a sac bunt from Holland and single from Charleston before Beckwith belts a screaming liner over the left field fence for another three runs. Then Scales advances to third as replacement short stop air mails an unnecessary throw into right field and is brought home by a Suttles line drive.
Suttles scores on two more close singles, and with Bankhead single the Giants bottom three come to bat once again in this inning. The inning ends with a strikeout for the pitcher Holland and a score of 16-2.
Will Cockrell even be able to eat the remaining innings at all? The sixth sees him load the bases once again on an error, a walk and a bloop single, but this time he manages to pitch out of the jam with two Ks and a grounder to third. After that, either Cockrell has found his bearings again or, more likely, the Giants are stepping off the gas a little after all the fireworks.
In the last two innings, the Grays even manage to get a few men on base, steal a couple of bases and score three runs to make the final result a slightly less devastating 16-5 which leaves a little bit of hope that the Grays might still be alive even while two of their starting players are injured. But the fourth of July fireworks were clearly provided by the visiting Giants who bat around twice and record a monster performance with 16 runs (15 earned) on a total of 23 hits.
Box Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
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| New York Lincoln Giants | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 23 | 0 | |||||||
| Homestead Grays | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 3 |
New York Lincoln Giants
2B- M Suttles (2), S Bankhead (1), B Holland (1) 3B- R Parnell (1) HR- J Beckwith (1), S Palm (1) Sac- T Scales (1), B Holland (1) SB- O Charleston (2) Homestead Grays
HR- B Baro (1) SB- N Robinson (1), B Monroe (1)
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