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DEADLY TIGER POUNCES ON PORT JERSEY
PHILADELPHIANS BEHIND EARLY BUT DOMINATE AFTER 1ST IN EIGHTEEN-RUN VICTORY

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (May 21, 1875) - At the end of the 1st inning of the game between Tiger S.C. & Pt. Jersey at Hoboken & Oakland Park on Friday the hosts had the lead. After that, it was a mauling by Tiger:

After that opening inning Tiger scored six unanswered runs before Pt. Jersey responded with two in the bottom of the 5th to bring the score to 6-5. After that, Tiger would score the next nineteen runs over the 6th-8th and it was game over.

Three Tiger batsmen had four hits during the game:

• TSC #5 George Moore (RF): 4/7 (all 1B), 2 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 3 SB
• TSC #6 Jack Dubay (CF): 4/7 (2B, 5 TB), 3 R, 1 RBI
• TSC #9 Ivory Norman (P): 4/6 (all 1B), 3 R, 2 RBI

Norman had a strange afternoon. Tiger’s #2 P was no great shakes with the ball (12 HA, 8 RA, 3 ER, 2 BB) even though he went the distance, but his stellar work with the bat helped prolong multiple rallies.

In addition to the trio of four-hit men, Tiger had one player with five base hits and another with six.

The man with six hits was 3B Herbert Ray, who surprisingly didn’t take Player of the Game honors:

• T1: Fly Out to CF (1 out)
• T2: Line Out to 1B (3 out)
• T4: 1-run Single past 2B off R. van der Hout
• T5: 1-run Single past 2B off R. van der Hout
• T6: 1-run Single past 1B off R. van der Hout (R)
• T7: Single past 2B off E. Wentzel (R)
• T8: Double to LCF off F. Metzger (R)
• T9: Single past 1B off F. Metzger
• TOTAL: 6/8 (2B, 7 TB), 3 R, 3 RBI

Instead, P.o.t.G. went to five-hit man Everton Stephens, Tiger’s regular 1B:

• T2: Leadoff Single to CF off R. van der Hout (R)
• T3: Single to LF off R. van der Hout
• T5: Reached via Error by P R. van der Hout (R)
• T6: Reached via Error by 2B J. Keenan (R)
• T6: Fly Out to CF (3 out)
• T7: 3-run Triple to RCF off E. Wentzel (R)
• T8: 1-run Double to LF off F. Metzger (R)
• T9: 1-run Single past 2B off F. Metzger
• TOTAL: 5/8 (2B, 3B, 8 TB), 5 R, 5 RBI, SB

Ray’s 6/8 afternoon raised his average to .452 (19/42; 3 2B, 1 3B) through eight games, while Stephens’ output took his average to .368 (.833) OPS with nine Runs Batted In.

Tiger is currently 3-5, while Pt. Jersey, embarrassment aside, is 5-3.