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NYL SEES PAIR OF SIX-HIT PLAYERS OVER THE WEEKEND
MERCURY CF JONES HAS SIX HITS ON SAT. & COLUMBIA C MCNABB HAS SIX PLUS A HR ON SUN.

NEW YORK CITY & OSWEGO, N.Y. (Aug. 2-3, 1873) – Over the weekend the NBBO saw a pair of batsmen crack six hits in the New York League side of the competition.

First up: Mercury BBC greenhorn CF Clarence Jones, who pulled off the feat in a much-needed victory over Union at the Morrisania Grounds on Saturday by the score of 16-8.

The game was relatively close going into the 7th inning, with Mercury ahead 10-7 over their hosts. However, six runs over their next two times to bat sealed the win for Mercury and gave Union a home loss they did not at all need.

There was one clear star performer for Mercury, and that was the aforementioned Jones:

• T1: Single to CF off G. Woods
• T2: 1-run Triple to LCF off G. Woods
• T4: Single to RCF off G. Woods (R)
• T5: 1-run Single past 2B off B. Johnson (SB)
• T7: Single to LCF off J. Waters (SB, R)
• T8: 1-run Single to CF off J. Waters (SB, R)
• TOTAL: 6/6, 3B, 3 R, 3 RBI, 3 SB, 8 TB

Clarence Jones has had a very up-and-down Greenhorn season for Mercury, but overall he’s been a solid player for the third-year NBBO team. Jones is batting .293 (.727 OPS) with 44 Runs Batted In, 41 Stolen Bases, and 1.4 WAR with eleven games left to play in 1873.

The victory left Mercury three games under .500 at 28-31, but more importantly they are still alive for a playoff spot as the win meant they were seven games behind NYC leaders Harlem with just over two weeks left to play. Union’s loss saw them slip from 2nd place to 4th, putting them three games behind the leaders.

Next up: Columbia C/1B Johnathan McNabb, who delivered six hits and more in a 13-10 win at Frontier on Sunday.

As with Jones in the Mercury v Union contest, six-hit performer McNabb was the clear star of Columbia v Frontier:

• T1: 1-run Single past SS off C. Bancroft (SB, R)
• T3: Leadoff Single to LF off C. Bancroft (CS)
• T5: Single to CF off C. Bancroft (R)
• T6: Single to LF off C. Bancroft
• T8: 2-RUN HOME RUN to RF off R. Benson
• T9: Single to RF off H. Smith
• TOTAL: 6/6, HR, 3 R, 3 RBI, SB, 9 TB

The performance was by far the best of McNabb’s three-year NBBO career, as the Columbia regular is considered a lighter bat and his current average of .285 (.649 OPS) is a career high. The Home Run was the first of his career.

The win moved Columbia into a tie with Minuteman for 4th place in Upstate New York, six games behind leaders Utica with ten left to play. The loss dropped Frontier back into a tie for 2nd with Syracuse, four games below the leaders.