EOBHR 1906 REPLAY #38: DAY 12 N.L.
Game 94 Philadelphia Phillies (8-4/2nd) 4-6-2
Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers (6-6/T4th) 1-3-0
All the scoring in this game is bunched in the Phils' 4-run B6th & the Dodgers 1/2comeback of 2 runs 1T7th.
The surprising star of the game is 1 for 29 hitting backup C Jerry Donovan*, who caps the Phils' winning 4-run B6th by taking losing P Elmer Stricklett deep to LF, scoring SS Mickey Doolan (one-out walk, enraging Dodger manager Hugh Duffy, who is on the top step of the dugout....if it is one that had steps back in those great days of yore)... Thereby HOFer Duffy securing a great view of his hurler Stricklett's juicy offering to obscure role player C Jerry Donovan...His decisive 2-run fence-clearing LF blow with 2-out in the B6th. ...
1906 is Jerry's only MLB season, as he actually batted 33 for 166 (.199) with 4 doubles and a decent 15 RBI.
....A moment restaged and reappearing for weeks in Duffy's nightmares....Some imaginative blowhards even saying it chased the HOFer for the rest of Mgr. Duffy's life, along with the look on poor culprit P Elmer Stricklett's pale horrified furtive face, as he quickly scans for quick escape routes from the ballfield.... And away from glowering, stunned Mgr. Duffy!
Shocked Mgr. Duffy screams at his staff: 'Who even IS this Sunshine Superman, this C Donovan??'
Game 93 Pittsburgh Pirates (7-5/3rd) 4-9-1
Struggling, 'seemingly shrinking both in height and girth lately', notes a writer of this era regarding N.Y. Giants (4-8/7th) 1-5-1
5-hole batting LF Dutch Meier the leads Bucco offense with 2 doubles and a single as P Vic Gazaway Willis is photographed gazing off into the distance, connecting with his muse, between each pitch, as he almost wills his Bucs to this important squeaker of win by stingily holding the 'mighty giants, men among boys' to 5 total bases on 5 hits, all in the later innings 6th-9th (i.e., a late-starting dud of a singles-only hardly Giganto offense as far as the N.L. New York franchise management, press, and followers are concerned).
Meanwhile the home, oceanic Blackbeards have scored all four of their runs by the time that the seemingly bent towering ones who once walked the earth finally tally..Albeit even this anomalous run scoring on an unimpressive one-hopper B7th back to winning P Vic Willis on the mound who makes a careless (E1) low throw to 1B Jim Nealon (Nealon 'I could have Nealoned or better nyloned that with those futuristic nylon gloves they permit for some MLBers (or ManLy Baseballers) in the fur-fetch-ed fewtcher, yer fewtcher...)...This miscue one of Vic's few foibles as his Willis dominates the wills of the Giants in a fine effart (effort made with fine artistic flooritches).
The Buc offense?
6th
1. LF Dutch Meier double Dutch over 3rd, RF Bob Ganley then gains the run by bruising a go-ahead single into LCF
2, Vic Willis ('Whar thars a Willis, thars a wayus to a winnus') halps his own cawse with long insurance sac fly CF
3, HOFer Fred Clarke ropes RBI single LCF to make it a 3-0 roadshow lead T6th
Big? Buc comeback (B7th):
'Double Dutch' Meyer 2nd double in two frames (Honus Wagner HBP, Nealon single)