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GRAY HAS HR & 7 RBI IN WIN OVER SUSQUEHANNA
PIONEER’S ALL-STAR SS HAS CAREER DAY IN HIGHEST-SCORING GAME OF THE SEASON

SPRINGFIELD, MASS. (July 22, 1871) – The top two in the Inland Championship battled each other in the fourth game of their Week Twelve series, and the result was the highest-scoring game in the NBBO this season:

The game was a comedy of errors – 29 total fielding miscues, 15 runners stranded in scoring position, 10 Bases on Balls, 5 Wild Pitches, & 3 Passed Balls made for a contest that was exciting but not exactly pristine in quality.

The Player of the Game was Pioneer’s 2x All-Star shortstop Lionel Gray, who put in the best performance of his career:

• B2: Leadoff Single past 3B off J. Gant (R)
• B2: 1-run Single past SS off J. Gant (R)
• B3: 1-run Sac Fly to RF
• B5: Single past SS off A. Bruner
• B6: 1-run Single to CF off A. Bruner (R)
• B8: Ground Out to 2B
• B8: GRAND SLAM (ItP) to LCF off A. Schottel
• TOTAL: 5/6, HR, 4 R, 7 RBI, 8 TB, 118 GMSC

Gray was having a fine day – 4/5, 3 R, 3 RBI – before the especially wild 8th inning that saw the two teams combine to score twenty times. He proceeded to put an exclamation point on the Pioneer win with an Inside the Park Grand Slam – a well-hit fly ball that went over the heads of two Susquehanna outfielders before rolling all the way to the left-center field fence that stands 455 feet from home plate in River View Park.

The victory left Susquehanna two games clear of Pioneer in 1st place in the Inland Championship. The team nearest to those two is Merrimack Mills, who are five games off the pace.