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KIRBY STARS IN YET ANOTHER PBCC VICTORY
FOUR-STAR LF HAS SIX HITS & FIVE RBI AS LEAGUE LEADERS BLAST INDY BY FOURTEEN

PHILADELPHIA (July 22, 1875) - Philadelphia Baseball & Cricket Club continued their dominance of West Philadelphia with a demolition of Independence B.C. on Thursday afternoon:

There was no shortage of quality performances from the P.B.C.C. batsmen during the game…

• PBCC #1 Robert Chase (CF): 2/7 (both 1B), 4 R, 2 RBI
• PBCC #2 Moody Steiger (SS): 4/5 (2B, 5 TB), 4 R, 2 RBI
• PBCC #6 Harrison Hearst (C): 3/6 (2 2B, 5 TB), 3 R, 3 RBI
• PBCC #7 Harold Pruitt (1B): 3/6 (2B, 4 TB), 2 R, 1 RBI

…but a different batsman had a day far superior to any of those four: LF Walter Kirby.

• T1: 1-run Double to RCF off G. Reese
• T3: Fly Out to 3B (1 out)
• T5: 1-run Double to RF off G. Reese (R)
• T6: 1-run Single to RF off G. Reese (R)
• T8: Leadoff Triple to LCF off W. Hall (R)
• T8: 2-run Triple to RF off E. Busse (R)
• T9: Single past SS off E. Busse
• TOTAL: 6/7 (2 2B, 3 3B, 12 TB), 4 R, 5 RBI, 107 GMSC

Kirby’s 6/7 was the second six-hit game in the P.C.B.L. this season, his 107 Game Score was the second-highest in the league so far in 1875, and his twelve Total Bases set a league single-game record. The historic haul left Kirby a .335 hitter (.850 OPS) on the season, with 23 Extra-Base Hits and 65 Runs Batted In through 52 games.

The win gave Philadelphia B.C.C. a 38-14 record and a whopping +207 Run Differential. They have dominated West Philadelphia so thoroughly through ten and a half weeks of play this season that 2nd-place Germantown has won ten consecutive games and are still eight games behind them. It has been an incredible season for the league’s most prominent club. Now to see to it that it ends similarly.