1st July 1874
The fans of the Canaries are enjoying the teams tough fight for the AL title this season. The AL is extremely close as Baltimore managed a 6-4 month to keep them in joint first place in the AL. They are now level with Philadelphia and only 1 game ahead of St. Louis.
The batting scored a massive 95 runs in June. The best of the batting came from Third Baseman Lip Pike. Pike had 44 at bats in 10 starts. These at bats produced 16 hits, 13 runs and 8 RBI's. This gave him an average of .364 for the month.
The pitching of Cherokee Fisher is as solid as always as he started all 10 games in June. He pitched 83 innings to give up 94 hits and 28 earned runs. This gave him an ERA of 3.04 for the month. The team gave up a total of 59 runs during the month.
The team lost Fred Cone late in the month to injury and will be out for 4 weeks due to an Oblique Strain.
Full pitching stats for June
Full batting stats for June
The Canaries played 10 games in June
They started with 2 losses to the Philadelphia Athletics. The scores were 7-9 and 3-10
The next series saw them sweep the St. Louis Brown Stockings 3-0. The scores were 6-1, 14-1 and 6-2
The third series saw the team beat the Cleveland Blues 2-1. The scores were 13-4, 4-11 and 21-0
They finished with a win and a loss against the Philadelphia Athletics 15-14 and 6-7
The team have 9 games in July along with the All Star break. We will bring you a full report of these games next month.