1st October 1875
The fans can now finalise their plans for the MLB Championship Series. Their opponents will be the Philadelphia Athletics. The team started their warm up for this series with an average September with 5 wins and 4 losses. Hopefully the full form will return once the play-offs start.
The batting continued to keep the form up as they scored 64 runs in September. The hot bat in September was Third Baseman Ezra Sutton. Sutton started all 9 games and faced the pitchers 41 times. This saw him hit the ball 14 times and claim 10 runs with 5 RBI's. This gave him an average of .341. He was recognised for these efforts with the NL Batter of the Month award.
Jim Britt had had an excellent season and September was no different. He pitched 72 innings in 9 games to see 66 hits and only 10 earned runs go against him. This saw him have an ERA for the month of 1.25. The NL voters were so impressed they gave him another NL Pitcher of the Month award.
Full pitching stats for September
Full batting stats for September
The White Stockings played 9 games in October
They started with a 1-2 series loss against the Boston Red Stockings. 1-6, 8-11 and 2-1
The second series was a 2-1 win against the Cincinnati Reds. 7-8, 14-5 and 11-3
The final series of the month was a 2-1 win against the Brooklyn Atlantics. 9-2, 10-1 and 2-4
The team will finish the regular season with a final 3 games in October before playing the MLB Championship Series. We will bring you a full regular season round up once these three games have been played.