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CREIGHTON AVENGES TERRIBLE OPENER WITH BRILLIANT 2ND OUTING
HAD WORST OUTING IN YEARS TO OPEN SEASON, THEN WON BIG AGAINST EXCELSIOR

BROOKLYN (May 4, 1866) – Jim Creighton hoped to start the season building off his record-setting end to 1865. Instead, the polar opposite happened in his Opening Day start at Continental, with Creighton allowing a career-high nine Earned Runs on ten hits over 6.1 innings in what ended up being a five-run loss by Excelsior.

Creighton took to the field for start number two on Friday and the results were much, much more favorable:

Creighton helped his squadmates in their battering of Continental pitching, going 1/4 (single) with a run & R.B.I. each while also drawing a base on balls. From the Pitcher’s Area Mr. Creighton was back to his usual standard of dominance:

• CG SHUTOUT, 2 H, 1 BB, 6 K, 97 PITCHES

The home side did themselves no favors here, as eight Continental players combined to commit ten fielding errors and as a result only six of the fifteen Excelsior tallies were Earned Runs.

If Excelsior is to take their third Brooklyn pennant in four years they will need more performances like the one they received from Creighton on this afternoon, and far fewer like the one they saw from him on Opening Day.