The 1901 Southern California Hornets saw their six-game winning streak come to an end with two competitive losses of two runs and one run to the Silver Spring Old Baymen. The Hornets are now 6-6 overall.
Fred Clarke had another good series, batting .500 (4-for-8) to raise his season average to .431.
SoCal Hornets Season Statistics
Game #9 — Silver Spring 3, SoCal 1
Harry Howell pitched well, but the Hornets couldn’t muster much offense off A-rated pitcher Red Donahue. Bill Keister drove in all three Old Baymen runs with RBI singles in the first and third innings and an RBI triple in the fifth. Two of the four Hornet hits came in the fourth inning. William Nance led off with a single and he scored on Fred Clarke’s double for SoCal’s only run.
SOCAL HORNETS AB R H BI SILVER SPRING OLD BA AB R H BI
Fred Tenney 4 0 0 0 Herm McFarland 4 0 1 0
William Nance 4 1 1 0 Fielder Jones 4 2 1 0
Fred Clarke 4 0 1 1 Nap Lajoie 4 1 0 0
Roger Bresnahan 4 0 0 0 Bill Keister 4 0 4 3
Harry Steinfeldt 2 0 0 0 Patsy Donovan 3 0 1 0
Algie McBride 1 0 0 0 George LaChance 3 0 0 0
Tommy Dowd 3 0 0 0 James Casey 3 0 0 0
Dick Padden 3 0 1 0 Art Nichols 3 0 0 0
Herman Long 3 0 1 0 Red Donahue AZ 3 0 0 0
Harry Howell CZ 2 0 0 0
TOTALS 30 1 4 1 TOTALS 31 3 7 3
SOCAL HORNETS 000 100 000 -- 1
SILVER SPRING OLD BAYMEN 101 010 00x -- 3
LOB--SOCAL HORNETS 3, SILVER SPRING OLD BAYMEN 6. ERR--Harry
Steinfeldt, Herman Long. 2B--Fred Clarke, Herm McFarland.
3B--Bill Keister. HBP--Patsy Donovan. SACB--Harry Howell CZ.
SB--Dick Padden, George LaChance.
SOCAL HORNETS IP H R ER BB SO HR
Harry Howell CZ [L] 8.00 7 3 2 1 3 0
SILVER SPRING OLD BAYMEN
Red Donahue AZ [W] 9.00 4 1 1 0 1 0
Game #10 — Silver Spring 8, SoCal 7
This game went back and forth. Silver Spring went up 2-0, but the Hornets led 5-2 after three, as Roger Bresnahan had an RBI single in the first and and a two-run double in the third. Harry Steinfeldt’s fifth triple of the season also scored a run in the first inning. Silver Spring bounced back with five runs in the top of the fourth, including a two-run double by Bill Keister, to go back in front 7-5. The Hornets tied the game quickly, as Fred Clarke had a two-out RBI single in the fourth and Dick Padden hit a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Bill Bernhard was exceptional in relief, throwing four scoreless innings. Unfortunately, he couldn’t make it five, as the Old Baymen’s Nap Lajoie hit a solo homer with one out in the top of the ninth. The Hornets couldn’t make another comeback in the bottom of the ninth and lost a one-run game for the fourth time this season.
SILVER SPRING OLD BA AB R H BI SOCAL HORNETS AB R H BI
Herm McFarland 5 1 1 0 Fred Tenney 5 1 1 0
Fielder Jones 4 2 1 0 William Nance 4 1 0 0
Nap Lajoie 5 2 4 2 Fred Clarke 4 1 3 1
Bill Keister 5 1 3 2 Roger Bresnahan 5 2 2 3
Patsy Donovan 5 0 1 1 Harry Steinfeldt 4 1 2 1
George LaChance 4 1 2 1 Tommy Dowd 5 0 3 1
James Casey 4 1 1 0 Dick Padden 4 0 0 1
Pat Moran 4 0 2 1 Herman Long 4 1 1 0
Luther Taylor BZ 0 0 0 1 Bill Reidy CZ 1 0 0 0
Frank Foutz 1 0 0 0 Algie McBride 1 0 1 0
Happy Townsend C 0 0 0 0 Bill Bernhard CZ 2 0 0 0
TOTALS 37 8 15 8 TOTALS 39 7 13 7
SILVER SPRING OLD BAYMEN 200 500 001 -- 8
SOCAL HORNETS 203 110 000 -- 7
LOB--SILVER SPRING OLD BAYMEN 6, SOCAL HORNETS 8.
2B--Fielder Jones, Bill Keister, Fred Tenney, Roger
Bresnahan. 3B--Harry Steinfeldt. HR--Nap Lajoie.
HBP--Fielder Jones. SACF--Pat Moran, Luther Taylor BZ,
Dick Padden. SACB--Luther Taylor BZ, Happy Townsend C.
SB--Herm McFarland, James Casey, Pat Moran, Tommy Dowd (2).
SILVER SPRING OLD BAYMEN IP H R ER BB SO HR
Luther Taylor BZ 5.00 10 7 7 2 1 0
Happy Townsend C [W] 3.00 2 0 0 0 0 0
Kid Nichols BZ [S] 1.00 1 0 0 1 0 0
SOCAL HORNETS
Bill Reidy CZ 4.00 11 7 7 0 2 0
Bill Bernhard CZ [L] 5.00 4 1 1 0 0 1
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