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BAILEY BATTERS 10 BASE HITS IN TWO BUSY DAYS
F.C. 1B GOES 5/5 ON FRIDAY, THEN REPEATS THE TRICK ON SATURDAY

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (June 10-11, 1870) – Utica and Flour City split the 2nd & 3rd games of their Week Six series in Rochester, with Rochester winning 13-9 on Friday and Utica winning 7-4 on Saturday. However, that wasn’t the main takeaway from this pair of contests in Upstate New York.

The talk of the 48 hours was Flour City first baseman Julius Bailey, a career .330 hitter (.827 OPS) who has been a near All-Star a couple of times and a respectable batsman for his entire career.

During Friday’s game Bailey was 5/5 with a pair of doubles, and he was part of a six-run rally in the 7th that delivered the win to Flour City. F.C. was on the wrong end of the result the next afternoon, but Bailey’s hot streak continued and he hit 5/5 again.

Bailey’s torrid two days against Utica:

• FRIDAY: 5/5, 2 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI
• SATURDAY: 5/5 (all 1B), 1 R, 1 RBI
• TOTAL: 10/10, 2 2B, 3 R, 3 RBI

The two games raised Bailey’s average to .391 with an OPS of .953, making him one of the leading batsmen in the New York Legue through nearly six weeks of play in 1870. He is 7th in Batting Average, 8th in OPS, and is on pace to finish the season with just over sixty RBI.

Meanwhile, Flour City is 20-9 and three games clear in 1st place in the Upstate New York Championship.