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FOUR EXCELSIOR MEN CLUB FIVE HITS VS NEWARK
QUARTET OF STAR PERFORMERS LED BY SS CHESSMAN, WHO SET APBL RECORD WITH 9 RBI

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (June 20, 1878) - Yesterday, Excelsior had an easy time of it against Newark at Carroll Park thanks to a five-hit game by CF Boyd Myers. Today, his teammates decided to bat around in a crushing victory:

Unlike yesterday, Newark never had a lead and never came close to having a lead. Excelsior scored four in B1, and after two runs each in the 2nd, 3rd, & 4th it was 10-0. Newark got on the scoreboard in T5, but Excelsior responded to the visitors’ pair of scores with a seven-run rally, and it was 17-2. From there it was just a matter of filling out the scorecard.

Excelsior finished the game with an A.P.B.L. season high of 31 Hits, so it should surprise nobody that they saw a number of star performances from their batsmen:

• EXC 2B Sam Jackson: 5/7 (2B), 3 R, 2 RBI, 6 TB
• EXC LF Troy Oberst: 5/7 (2 2B), 3 R, 2 RBI, 7 TB
• EXC CF Boyd Myers: 4/7 (2B), 3 R, 3 RBI, 4 TB
• EXC 3B Elijah Hill: 3/7 (all 1B), 3 R, 2 RBI
• EXC 1B Gil Cappelletti: 5/7 (all 1B), 2 R, 2 RBI, 1 K

One would think that Player of the Game honors would go to one of the trio of batsmen who had five Hits against Newark, but there was a fourth five-hit man who had a historic day at the plate: second-year SS J.B. Chessman.

• B1: 2-run Single to RF off J. Ratican
• B3: Leadoff Infield Single to SS off J. Ratican (R)
• B4: 2-run Double to LF off J. Ratican
• B5: 2-run Single past SS off A. Lowden (R)
• B6: 3-RUN HOME RUN to LF off T. Berlinghieri
• B7: Reached via Error by 3B C. Ramer
• B8: Line Out to P (3 out)
• TOTAL: 5/7 (2B, HR), 3 R, 9 RBI, 9 TB, 121 GMSC

Chessman’s nine Runs Batted In set a new A.P.B.L. high mark for RBI in a game, and his 121 Game Score was a new season high. Like Myers’ performance yesterday, Chessman’s enormous afternoon could be a turning point for his 1878 season, as going into the game he was batting just .235 (.532 OPS) with 20 RBI, both figures on pace to finish well below his Greenhorn season last year.

The result saw Excelsior remain at 5th in the Metropolitan, but they moved one game closer to 4th-place Gotham. Newark remains the worst team in the A.P.B.L. by one game.