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TOWNSEND HAS FIRST 30-GAME STREAK IN APBL HISTORY
LIKELY INAUGURAL BATSMAN OF THE YEAR HAS HIT SAFELY IN 30 STRAIGHT GAMES

BOSTON (Aug. 16, 1871) – Colonial Conference champions St. John’s have lost their last three games, but in Wednesday’s 9-6 loss at Massachusetts Bay one of their star players made American Professional Baseball League history.

Nelson Townsend hit a Single as the second man to bat in the top of the 1st, and with that hit he became the first player in APBL history with a 30-game Hitting Streak. That was Townsend’s only hit of the day, as he finished 1/5.

That is likely not the only history Townsend will make this year. As of the end of Wednesday’s game, Townsend was the only man in the APBL with a .400+ Batting Average (currently .407), the only man with a 1.000+ OPS (currently 1.084), and he was on the verge of becoming the first batsman in baseball history – APBL or NBBO – to make it to 6.0 WAR in a single season (currently 5.9).

It was thought that if any St. John’s player were to hit those marks in the first season of the APBL it would be the perennially brilliant Konrad Jensen. Jensen has been excellent this season – .352/.460/.484, 72 RBI, 70 SB, 4.3 WAR – but Townsend has simply been in a class all by himself when compared to the best the APBL has on offer.

All Townsend has to do is play average baseball over St. Johns’ final four games, and he’ll have four different pieces of APBL history all wrapped up in time for the first ever Founders’ Cup.