Thursday Aug 3rd 1871
Philadelphia 11 St Louis 10
Lip Pike and Charlie Gould each drive in three and Pike hits two triple as
Everett Mills hits the leagues very first Grand Slam off Athletics pitcher Wolters. Mills will end up with 5 RBIs for the game.
Friday Aug 11th 1871
Philadelphia 10 St Louis 9
Harry Berthrong drives in three with a fourth inning double as the Athletics squeeze one out despite visiting hitter Harry Wright's four hits.
Sunday Aug 20th 1871
Baltimore at Philadelphia
Athletics 9 Canaries 1
Lip Pike hits his league leading fourth home run. Paddy Quinn has three hits. Joe Bass leads the whole league with 7 home runs for Brooklyn.
Thursday Aug 24th 1871
Philadelphia 8 Baltimore 7 (12)
Harry Berthrong hits a triple and scores on an error in the 12th to help the Athletics win their 5th straight game.
Wednesday Aug 30th 1871
Philadelphia 9 Baltimore 6
Athletics sweep Canaries.
Standings
| American League Standings |
| W | L | PCT | GB |
| Cleveland Forest Citys | 15 | 9 | .625 | - |
| Philadelphia Athletics | 13 | 11 | .542 | 2.0 |
| Baltimore Canaries | 12 | 12 | .500 | 3.0 |
| St. Louis Brown Stockings | 8 | 16 | .333 | 7.0 |
| National League Standings |
| W | L | PCT | GB |
| Cincinnati Reds | 17 | 7 | .708 | - |
| Boston Red Stockings | 13 | 11 | .542 | 4.0 |
| Brooklyn Atlantics | 11 | 13 | .458 | 6.0 |
| Chicago White Stockings | 7 | 17 | .292 | 10.0 |