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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Ten: Saturday 28 May 1870
Sadly for those who hoped to see a close championship race this year, there is just no stopping the City of London Club and there is not likely to be as long as Gilbert Attwell is pitching, or so it seems. Attwell achieved his second complete game shut-out in a row today as the City Club set a new league record of ten successive victories, scoring two in the second and one more in the sixth to beat the Royal Artillery 3-0.
Kensington Victoria are doing their best to give chase, winning their fourth successive game by defeating the Old Westminsters in eleven innings. Victoria let a 2-0 lead get away in the eighth inning but recovered for the win. Elsewhere, Angel scored runs in the seventh and eighth to defeat Clapham Common 2-0 while most of the action was in the first inning at Marylebone. Visiting Greenwich Meridian scored three to open the game before the Regents replied with two, Greenwich adding another in the eighth to seal the win and leave the Regents on a seven game losing streak.
Scores:
Royal Artillery Barracks 0-3 City of London Club
Angel Islington 2-0 Clapham Common
Greenwich Meridian 4-2 Marylebone Regents
Kensington Victoria 3-2 Old Westminsters (11 innings)
Standings:
City of London Club 10-0
Kensington Victoria 7-3
Angel Islington 5-5
Old Westminsters 5-5
Clapham Common 4-6
Greenwich Meridian 4-6
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-6
Marylebone Regents 1-9
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