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KNIGHT CRACKS HOMER, DRIVES IN SEVEN IN WIN
FLOUR CITY 2B STAR OF THE SHOW AS TEAM BEATS QUAKER ST. BY MORE THAN A DOZEN

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (June 12, 1878) - Flour City, having improved in recent weeks after a miserable start to 1878, went looking for their third straight win on Wednesday afternoon, and it didn’t take much effort against Quaker State to find it:

While Quaker St. did well to parry the hosts’ two-run opening inning with three runs in T2 – the key hit a two-run Home Run by 2B Charles Hull – it was all Flour City after that, with the upstate men scoring sixteen of the game’s final seventeen runs before exiting with an easy home victory.

Flour City had three batsmen collect two hits each – 1B Samuel Kessler, C Sam Shepherd, & 3B Werner Verstegen – but the undisputable Player of the Game was ninth-year Flour City 2B Ralph Knight:

• B1: Leadoff Single to LCF off W. Gifford (R)
• B2: 2-run Single past SS off W. Gifford
• B3: Line Out to SS (3 out)
• B5: 3-run Double to CF off W. Gifford (R)
• B6: 2-RUN HOME RUN to RF off W. Riley
• B8: Single to RCF off R. Christianson
• TOTAL: 5/6 (2B, HR), 3 R, 7 RBI, 9 TB, 111 GMSC

Knight’s seven Runs Batted In were a new season high in the A.P.B.L., as was his 111 Game Score – quite the afternoon for the veteran infielder. Knight’s bases-clearing Double was the big moments in Flour City’s rally in B5, his homer in B6 put the cap on the victory, and all totaled his five-hit performance raised his Batting Average to a team-high .350 (.793 OPS) with 14 Extra-base Hits (12 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR), and 27 RBI through 32 games, figures that put Knight on pace to attend his sixth All-Star Game.

After a terrible 6-16 opening month, Flour City is 7-3 over their ten games so far in June and they’ve won six of their last seven. They are 13-19, which places them 7th in the Colonial Conference (8 GB).

Quaker St. is moving in the opposite direction. The result in Rochester was their fourth straight loss, leaving Quaker St. 11-21 (6th in Metro) and already a dozen games out of first place.