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METRO HITS HARLEM WITH EVERYTHING IN RECORD WIN
5x NYC CHAMPS SET TEAM RECORD FOR RUNS & HITS IN A GAME; WIN BY MORE THAN TWO DOZEN

NEW YORK CITY (May 28, 1879) - Harlem hosted Metropolitan at Mt. Morris Square to start N.B.B.O. Week Three action on Wednesday, and the visiting attack went absolutely wild as they set team records in a 25-run victory:

Harlem actually scored first, with a fielding miscue granting them a 1-0 lead in B1. Metro responded with ten Runs in T2, and the rout was on. After scoring twice in both the 3rd & 5th, Metro went to bat in T8 and put up sixteen Runs on fifteen Hits. Ahead 33-6 after the end of the eighth, Metro decided they weren’t done and dropped four more runs on Harlem’s heads in T9 to take a 28-run lead that would wind up a 25-run margin of victory.

The 34 Runs & 37 Hits were both team records for Metropolitan. For the first time in team history – this being their 23rd season of play – they scored 10+ runs in an inning twice in the same game, and for the first time in team history they had two players with six Runs Batted In during the same game. Also, their fifteen Hits during the top of the eighth inning was an N.B.B.O. record for Hits by one team in a single inning.

Everybody got in on the fun, especially LF David Phillips and #1 Abraham Evans. The starting lineup:

• MET RF Ernest Keel: 2/5 (2B), 1 R, 1 RBI, 3 TB
• MET LF David Phillips: 6/9 (3B), 5 R, 6 RBI, 8 TB
• MET 1B Ezechiele Cornaro: 3/8 (all 1B), 2 R, 0 RBI
• MET CF Francis Smith: 3/9 (HR), 3 R, 4 RBI, 6 TB
• MET C Mark Lehmann: 4/8 (all 1B), 5 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB
• MET 3B Jacob Abbiate: 2/7 (both 1B), 4 R, 2 RBI, SAC BUNT
• MET 2B Thomas Reece: 4/7 (all 1B), 3 R, 3 RBI
• MET SS Frank Morrison: 3/4 (2B), 2 R, 1 RBI, 4 TB
• MET P Abraham Evans: 5/6 (all 1B), 3 R, 6 RBI, 1 K, SAC BUNT
• MET P Abraham Evans: W (5-0, 1.72), 8.2 IP, 10 HA, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K

Evans is decent-hitting Pitcher, but the 5/6 outburst isn’t something you’d ever expect from the .258 career hitter, who has managed to crank out all of three Extra-Base Hits (3 2B) out of his 161 total Hits during his seven-year career.

Phillips’ afternoon deserves a closer look:

• T1: Fly Out to RF (2 out)
• T2: Reached via Error by 2B (R)
• T3: Reached via Error by 3B (R)
• T4: Single past 2B off E. Haddox
• T6: Leadoff Single to RF off E. Haddox
• T7: Single past SS off E. Haddox
• T8: 2-run Single to LF off W. Kruse (R)
• T8: 1-run Single past 1B off W. Kruse (R)
• T9: 3-run Triple to RCF off A. Hand (R)
• TOTAL: 6/9 (3B), 5 R, 6 RBI, 8 TB, 113 GMSC

With three Runs, three Hits, and half a dozen Runs Batted In over the final three innings, Phillips gave the N.B.B.O. both its first six-hit game and its first 100+ Game Score of the 1879 season.

The smashing victory put Metropolitan above .500 at 6-5. Meanwhile, Harlem is 4-7 after the first day of Week Three.