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TWO SIX-HIT GAMES IN LOWER LEAGUES ON THU.
MCNALLY MASHES SIX HITS FOR LAKE ERIE; UNGERS CLUBS SIX HITS FOR KEYSTONE

FALL RIVER, MASS. & PHILADELPHIA (May 10, 1877) - It was a big day for big batwork in the lower leagues on Thursday afternoon, as there were a pair of five-hit games and two six-hit games between the N.B.B.O. & P.C.B.L.

Thursday’s five-hit games came from new Utica 1B James Lanagan (5/6, 2 R, 4 RBI) in their 14-5 win at Frontier in N.B.B.O. play and Pt. Richmond LF William Detmer (5/6, 4 R, 1 RBI) during his team’s 12-11 home victory over Sons of Ben in the P.C.B.L.

The first six-hit game of the day was completed during Lake Erie’s smashing 23-3 win at Sportsman’s in the second day of the Inland Championship. Five members of the Lake Erie lineup had 3+ Hits during the game, and RF Phillip McNally finished with six:

• T2: Bunt Single to P off J. Dietrich
• T3: 1-run Single to LF off J. Dietrich
• T4: 1-run Triple to LCF off J. Dietrich (R)
• T5: Single past 3B off L. Taylor
• T6: 3-run Triple to LCF off L. Taylor (R)
• T8: Single past SS off L. Stocks (R)
• T9: Fly Out to CF (1 out)
• TOTAL: 6/7 (2 3B, 10 TB), 3 R, 5 RBI, SB, 100 GMSC

The performance by McNally marked the first 100+ Game Score of the season in the N.B.B.O., and it came on just the second day of play in 1877.

The day’s other six-hit game occurred in the P.C.B.L., where Keystone LF Jeffrey Unger was the hero as his team beat Yorktown 13-12 in ten innings:

• B1: Fly Out to CF (2 out)
• B3: Leadoff Single to CF off J. Pennington
• B5: Leadoff Single past 1B off J. Pennington
• B7: Leadoff Double to CF off J. Pennington (R)
• B8: Leadoff Single past SS off J. Pennington
• B9: Single to RCF off T. Humphries (R)
• B10: Walkoff 1-run Single past 2B off C. Lieberson
• TOTAL: 6/7 (2B, 7 TB), 2 R, 1 RBI, GW HIT, 65 GMSC

It was total coincidence that Unger led off four different innings for Keystone, but he took advantage and started their half of the 3rd, 5th, 7th, & 8th with hits. Unfortunately, the batsmen behind him in the lineup were cold and he only came around to score one in the four innings. Unger’s game-winning Single in the 10th was his only RBI of the game.

If Thursday was a sign of things to come for the two competitions below the A.P.B.L. on baseball’s totem pole, then there could be a wild season of attack-minded baseball to come.