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QUAKER ST’S MORGANTI HAS STELLAR DAY IN HOME WIN
LONGTIME QUAKER ST. CF HAS HOME RUN, FIVE HITS, & FOUR RBI IN WIN OVER REELING ORANGE

PHILADELPHIA (June 16, 1878) - Quaker State, who had lost six straight games before a Saturday home win against Orange, made it consecutive home victories thanks to large rallies in the 5th & 7th as they won by eleven:

For a brief moment Orange had the lead: 2-1 in T3 thanks to a Sacrifice Fly by 2B Charles Whitehead. Unfortunately for the visitors, three Quaker St. runs in B3 followed by six in B5 and six more in B7 left little doubt as to who would win the final game of the series. It certainly wasn’t going to be an Orange outfit that has been simply woeful this season.

Quaker St. had a pair of batsmen with three Hits.

• QS SS George Ellison: 3/5 (3B), 1 R, 3 RBI
• QS 1B William Theriault: 3/6 (all 1B), 2 R, 1 RBI

Another batsman had five, and that was thirteenth-year CF Ned Morganti:

• B1: Single past 2B off B. Svensson
• B3: 1-run Single to CF off B. Svensson (R)
• B5: 2-RUN HOME RUN (ItP) to RF off B. Svensson
• B6: Leadoff Single past SS off J. Dressman
• B7: 1-run Single past SS off J. Dressman (R)
• B8: Ground Out to SS (3 out)
• TOTAL: 5/6 (HR), 3 R, 4 RBI, 8 TB, 90 GMSC

It was his thrilling Inside-the-Park Home Run over the head of Orange RF Jonathan Cobb that put an exclamation point on Quaker St.’s rally in B5 and sent them on their way to victory. Morganti’s afternoon raised his Batting Average to .311 (.793 OPS) with 14 Extra-base Hits (9 2B, 4 3B, 1 HR) and 28 Runs Batted In through 35 games, which are fine marks so far in the debut season of the N.B.B.O. legend.

Meanwhile, Orange is mired in misery. Even though they are allowing the third-fewest Runs in the A.P.B.L. (6.6 RA/G) their record has dropped to 12-24 thanks to an offense that ranks last by more than half a Run per game (5.3 R/G), last in Average (.223) by 22 points, last in On-Base (.256) by 15, last in Slugging (.288) by 19, and last in OPS (.543) by no less than 35 points versus the team ranked 15th (Newark at .578). Last season was the worst in team history, but this one is shaping up to be some measure below that.

The win lifted Quaker St. to 13-23, good for sixth place in the Metropolitan (12 GB) and three games ahead of fellow Philadelphian newcomers Tiger Social Club (10-26; 15 GB).