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JOHNSON GOES FOR THE CYCLE VS NASSAU COUNTY
FORMER GOTHAM REGULAR HITS FOR N.B.B.O.’S FIRST CYCLE IN JUST OVER A YEAR

BROOKLYN (May 30, 1875) - Continental finished their home series against perennial underachievers Nassau County on Sunday in Brooklyn Championship action, and the home team came out on top:

Continental opened the scoring with two runs during the bottom of the 1st, and after Nassau Co. responded with three runs the hosts took the lead right back and surged forth to a seven-run victory over a team that has finished last or second-to-last in Brooklyn no less than a dozen times.

There were two four-hit performers for Continental. First was 3B William Denham, who finished 4/5 (2 3B, 8 TB) with three Runs & RBI each. However, he was overshadowed by the other four-hit man, new RF Edward Johnson:

• B1: SOLO HOME RUN (I-t-P) to RF off E. van den Broek (R)
• B3: Leadoff double to LF off E. van den Broek (R)
• B4: 1-run Triple to RF off E. van den Broek (R)
• B6: Reached via Base on Balls by E. Estes (R)
• B8: Single to CF off E. Estes
• TOTAL: 4/4 (CYCLE, 10 TB), 4 R, 2 RBI, 1 BB, 1 OF AST

Johnson hit for the Cycle, doing the hard part, the Home Run, first and the easy part, the Single, last. It was the sixteenth in N.B.B.O. history and the first since Hiram Britton’s for Portland (4/6, 3 R, 4 RBI) on May 16th of last year. There has yet to be a Cycle in either the A.P.B.L. or N.B.B.O.

Johnson, who spent the previous four seasons as the regular CF for Gotham in the A.P.B.L., is off to a fantastic start so far in his first season back in the N.B.B.O., where he played for Kings County in 1869 & 70. Johnson is batting .370 with a .984 OPS and fourteen Runs Batted In through fifteen games, and he is on pace for 5.4 WAR.

As a team Continental has started the season strong, going 10-5 through the first three weeks of play to end up part of a three-way tie atop Brooklyn with Atlantic & Eckford. Nassau Co., on the other hand, is 4-11 and in their familiar position of last place.