1st August 1871
Just when the Brown Stockings fans thought everything was rosy in their garden, a massive thunder storm called Baltimore turned up to put a damper on things. The St. louis Brown Stockings saw a poor month by the teams standards record only a 1-4 record in July. This caused them to lose the lead in the AL to Baltimore and they now sit 2 games behind in second place.
The batting let things go in July as they struggled to find the form of the previous months. What was worse was that the best of the was pitcher George Zettlein. He posted an average of .462 with 6 hits from 13 at bats and 2 runs and 5 RBI's.
This excellent batting from Zettlein really affected his pitching during the month as his ERA slipped to 5.67. He gave up 55 hits and 21 earned runs in 33.1 innings pitched. The team gave up a total of 59 runs which really hurt.
The players selected for the AL all star team included Pitcher George Zettlein, Reliever Frank Fleet, catcher Charlie Hodes, Second Baseman Cap Anson and the injured Charlie Sweasy, Centre Fielder George Hall and Right Fielder Ed Pinkham.
The starters from this list were Cap Anson and George Zettlein who helped the AL to an 8-2 win.
Full pitching stats for July are below
Full batting stats for July are below
Full game scores for July are below
St. Louis Brown Stockings 8 Cleveland Forest City's 18
Baltimore Canaries 13 St. Louis Brown Stockings 5
Baltimore Canaries 8 St. Louis Brown Stockings 6
Baltimore Canaries 11 St. Louis Brown Stockings 10
St. Louis Brown Stockings 15 Philadelphia Athletics 10
Up next for the Brown Stockings is a completion of the Philadelphia series followed by a 3 game trip to Cleveland
We will hopefully bring you better news of these games next month.