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MURRAY HAS 5 HITS & 7 RBI IN LOSING EFFORT
STAR LF DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN TO DELIVER WIN, BUT ECKFORD FALLS SHORT IN TEN

BROOKLYN (June 7, 1877) - Star B.B.C. & Eckford of Greenpoint had a fantastic encounter in the second game of their Brooklyn Championship series on Thursday, one that needed a tenth inning to decide the winner:

Visiting Star should have won in the regulation nine innings, but Eckford scored four times in B9 on a series of base hits from Everton Stephens, Miguel Tavarez, Isaac Kelly, & Louis Murray to tie the game 16-16 and force extras. Star made up for the ninth-inning failure with four runs during the top of the tenth, the big moment a three-run Triple by PH Elmer Lumley. Eckford scored twice in B10 but that was all they could get, and Star exited with a memorable 20-18 victory.

Visiting Star had excellent afternoons from each of the first three batsmen in their lineup:

• STAR #1 Ralph Fowler (CF): 3/7 (all 1B), 3 R, 1 RBI, SB
• STAR #2 Julius Tierney (LF): 3/6 (2B, 4 TB), 3 R, 3 RBI, HBP
• STAR #3 Charles Ramer (3B): 4/6 (2B, 5 TB), 4 R, 1 RBI

They also saw RF John White hit an Inside the Park Home Run during the top of the second inning.

However, the Player of the Game was star Eckford LF Louis Murray, who put in a truly outstanding performance:

• B1: 1-run Single past 1B off L. Allen
• B3: Hit into SS-2B-1B Double Play (2 out)
• B5: 1-run Single to LCF off L. Allen (R)
• B7: 2-RUN HOME RUN (ItP) to RF off L. Allen
• B8: 1-run Infield Single to SS off W. Titus
• B9: 2-run Single past SS off W. Titus
• TOTAL: 5/6 (HR, 8 TB), 2 R, 7 RBI, 104 GMSC

Murray, who is batting .422 (1.058 OPS) with 31 Runs Batted In through 22 games, recorded his second Game Score of 100+ through just four and a half weeks of play in 1877, and he has by far the highest Batsman WAR in the N.B.B.O. so far this season, a mark of 1.9 (#2: Ben Gagliardi with 1.5).