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ISENHOUR TORTURES TRENTON UTD. WITH SIX HITS
MARYLAND C HAS CAREER DAY THAT INCLUDES FIVE RBI IN DOUBLE-DIGIT HOME WIN

BALTIMORE, MLD. (Aug. 6, 1880) - Maryland & Trenton United, who were Coastal Championship contenders at the midway point of the season, are now playing for pride. They met for the third game of their series at Cecil Calvert Park on Friday afternoon, and it was the hosts who came up big once again and took their third straight multiple-run victory:

Trenton Utd. actually scored first in this one, plating three men in the first inning. However, Maryland bludgeoned them into submission after that, scoring seventeen of the game’s next eighteen Runs while pummeling visiting pitching with 25 base hits. The climax of the afternoon was an eighth inning rally in which Maryland scored eight Runs on nine Hits, and in the middle of it all was a Grand Slam by LF Henry Tarkenton.

Once Maryland was finally done at the plate for the afternoon, the visitors scored a few meaningless Runs in T9 to give Maryland its final winning margin of ten, to go with victories by eight (6-14) and six (7-13) in the series’ first two games.

While Tarkenton provided the 2,062 in attendance with the most exciting moment of the day, that was his only successful swing against Trenton Utd. There were four Maryland players who had three Hits on the afternoon…

• MLD 1B Frank Miller: 3/5 (2 2B), 1 R, 4 RBI, 5 TB
• MLD 2B Peter Boyce: 3/5 (all 1B), 1 R, 1 RBI, 3 SB
• MLD CF Edgar Hearst: 3/6 (2 2B), 3 R, 1 RBI, 5 TB
• MLD RF Fred Harbour: 3/5 (2B), 3 R, 1 RBI, 4 TB

…but there was one Batsman who doubled that output: C John Isenhour.

• B2: Single to CF off P. Dahlen (R)
• B4: 1-run Single to RF off P. Dahlen (R)
• B5: 1-run Single to CF off P. Dahlen (R)
• B7: Leadoff Single to LF off M. Snapp
• B8: 2-run Single past 2B off M. Snapp (R)
• B8: 1-run Single past 2B off G. van Deursen
• TOTAL: 6/6 (all 1B), 4 R, 5 RBI – 111 GMSC (BAT: 1st)

Isenhour’s performance was the best of the season by a Batsman in the N.B.B.O., and the first all year with a 100+ Game Score.

Isenhour has gone absolutely nuts to start August, batting 13/18 over four games with eight Runs, eight RBI, and 0.7 B-WAR. In just those four games he’s raised his Average from .349 to .386 (.882 OPS), and while Isenhour won’t receive any postseason honors since he’s only started 45 of Maryland’s 63 games he’s been quite a revelation during his first season as a member of their lineup.

The result left Maryland 33-30 and Trenton Utd. 28-35. Maryland’s main objective here on out is to overtake intracity rivals Lord Baltimore, whom they are currently one game behind, for 3rd in the Coastal Championship. Struggling Trenton Utd’s objective for the rest of the season is to hold on to 5th, as they are currently five games behind fourth-place Maryland.