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STANICK HAS GAME OF HIS LIFE VS PIONEER
LAKE ERIE 1B FINISHES WITH SIX HITS, FIVE RUNS, & SEVEN RBI IN 35-RUN THRILLER

ERIE, PENN. (June 3, 1875) - Lake Erie B.C., the first club of Franklin Petty, is off to a decent start this season, entering Thursday slightly above .500 through sixteen games. The team took on 11-5 Pioneer at home in the second game of their series, and the result was a fantastic spectacle for the 1,500 or so in attendance:

Visiting Pioneer set the tone immediately with six runs in the top of the 1st, a rally punctuated with an exclamation point via three-run homer by 1B Charles Ross.

Lake Erie responded with two runs, and after a scoreless 2nd they scored seven times over the 3rd & 4th on numerous Singles & Errors to take a 9-6 lead. After a Pioneer run in the 5th Lake Erie scored three more times to make it a 12-7 game, and after two Pioneer runs in the 6th Lake Erie put up a five-run rally, the key hit being a three-run Double by 1B Fred Stanick, to take a 17-9 lead. Pioneer tried their hardest to mount a comeback after that, but an eight-run deficit was too much to erase and the home side exited the victors.

For Stanick, the man with the key hit of the game for Lake Erie, it was the best day of his 3+ seasons in the N.B.B.O.:

• B1: 1-run Single to CF off C. Stone (R)
• B3: Single past 2B off C. Stone (R)
• B4: 2-run Single to LCF off C. Stone (R)
• B5: 1-run Triple to RF off J. Mullin (R)
• B6: 3-run Double to RCF off J. Mullin (R)
• B8: Leadoff Single to LF off J. Frederick
• TOTAL: 6/6 (2B, 3B, 9 TB), 5 R, 7 RBI, 132 GMSC

Stanick’s 132 Game Score represented the best performance by a batsman in the N.B.B.O. in well over five years, while his six Hits, five Runs, and seven RBI all tied team records. Teammate Herman Kramer had six base hits in a game last season, four other Lake Erie men have scored five times in a single game, and Helmut Werner drove in seven runs in a game against Sportsman’s fifteen years ago.

Fred Stanick is off to an absurd start to 1875. A career .323 hitter (.743 OPS) going into the season, through seventeen games Stanick is batting .471 (32/68; 1.119 OPS) with nine Extra-Base Hits and 25 Runs Batted In, all figures that lead or tie for the lead in the Northeastern League. Will he keep that level of performance for the rest of the season? Almost certainly not, but it’s been an incredible few weeks for the Lake Erie infielder.

Lake Erie is 10-7 and one game behind Pioneer, who is tied with Scranton for 1st place in the Inland Championship at 11-6.