Tommy Leach leads the Bucs to a 5 – 1 win over Boston with three great catches and a steal of home.
On August 17, 1907 — Pittsburgh CF Tommy Leach leads the Bucs to a 5 – 1 win over Boston with three great catches and a steal of home.
Pittsburg won from Boston yesterday at the South End grounds by a score of 5 to 1. Owing to the light rain that fell up to 1:30, the crowd was exceptionally small for Saturday. The grounds were in poor condition, the players having trouble keeping their feet around the Infield. But for a phenomenal catch by Tommy Leach, the visitors would have found trouble in pulling off the game. It came In the third Inning with the bases full and two down. Ginger Beaumont the ex-Pirate, was delighted with an opportunity to show that he was no has-been. He got a ball to his liking and banged it on a line to left center. It looked like a 50 to 1 shot that Beau would make three bases and chase three runs over the plate. – Tommy Leach, about the size of a wine cask and Just as delicious as the contents, dashed across the field like a spark along a trolley wire, and. throwing his gloved hand into the air hooked In the ball. The play was clean-cut and made by an artist, and it put the home team out of the running. The local players hit Lietteld quite freely while Gus Dorner did a good day’s work in the box. As usual, the locals failed to move with proper speed on the bases. While the visitors were ever on the alert. Pittsburg scored one run in the first on Brain’s bad muff. A passed ball and a long fly. The Pirates got two men around the bases in the sixth. Clarke doubled. Tenney allowed Wagner’s grounder to go through him and Brain failed to stop a merry grounder. Boston scored their only run in this Inning on Randall’s double and Ritchey’s single. The visitors scored two more in the eighth on singles by Clarke and Wagner, a steal, and StorKe’s single. With one down in the ninth. Bridwell tripled but clung to his base when Tenney flied out to right.
There Was clever fielding by Leach, Wagner, Tenney. “Batty” and Beaumont. While Clarke, Anderson, Storke, Tenney. Brain and Ritchey did the best stick work The visitors were not forced. While the home players acted like men who had lost their nerve and were willing to take the count rather than go up against vigorous opposition. Pres George Dovey sat in his private box taking his medicine like a true sport while figuring that it was Aug 1 at Pittsburg vi hen ids boys won their last came, and it would take but four more defeats to tie the wonderful record made by the Boston Americans last season.
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