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ORANGE OUTLASTS EXCELSIOR IN WEEK ONE THRILLER
VISITORS OVERCOME EARLY SEVEN-RUN DEFICIT; STAR C SCHREIBER SETS TWO RECORDS

BROOKLYN (May 7, 1873) – Day two of the 1873 APBL season saw Orange & Excelsior put on a show in Brooklyn’s Carroll Park, with the visitors coming out on top:

By the end of the opening inning it looked like hosts Excelsior would enjoy an easy afternoon, as they scored seven times in the bottom of the 1st on four hits, five Orange fielding miscues, and a pair of Bases on Balls to take a very early 7-0 lead.

However, by the middle of the contest Orange would not only erase the deficit but take the lead, as two runs in the 4th and a seven-run rally of their own in the top of the 5th – the key hit a Grand Slam by C Everett Schreiber – saw the visitors go ahead 9-7.

Excelsior would take a run back in the bottom of the 5th on a Clyde Hudspeth Single and then score twice in the 7th to take a 10-9 lead. In the top of the 8th Orange scored twice on a pair of Excelsior mistakes to retake the lead 11-10, but in the bottom of the 8th Excelsior took the lead back again with three runs – C Albert Goddard’s two-run Double the key hit – to bring a 13-11 lead into the 9th inning.

In the top of the 9th, after a leadoff error, Charles Whitehead Single, and Taliesin Buckley bunt Schreiber came to bat again with the bases loaded, and again he delivered a big hit: a two-run double to tie the game 13-13. Two batters later, PH Frederick Pipkin brought Buckley home with a Sacrifice Fly and Orange was ahead 14-13. No Excelsior batsman went further than First Base in the bottom of the inning, and Orange took the victory.

As mentioned, Everett Schreiber had two massive hits with the bases loaded, and it was part of a history-making day:

• T2: Double to LCF off N. Banfield
• T4: 2-run Double to LF off N. Banfield
• T5: GRAND SLAM to LF off N. Banfield
• T8: Leadoff Single past SS off J. Brown
• T9: 2-run Double to CF off J. Brown
• TOTAL: 5/5, 3 2B, GRAND SLAM, 1 R, 8 RBI, 11 TB, 108 GMSC

Not only did the 5x All-Star belt out the rarest of hits – a Grand Slam – but Schreiber set two APBL records, with his eight Runs Batted In and eleven Total Bases both establishing new single-game bests in the league’s short history.

The season-opening series between Orange & Excelsior ends tomorrow afternoon, with Lambert van Erp battling Jim Creighton at 3:00 PM sharp.