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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Eleven: Saturday 4 June 1870
Kensington Victoria continue to cling on to the coat tails of the City of London Club in the standings after both teams won 3-0 today. The City Club struggled to put away the last-placed Marylebone Regents with the game close at 1-0 until a two-run eighth made it safe. Kensington scored one in the fifth and two more in the sixth to get past Angel Islington, pitcher Lyn Duncalf allowing just five hits in a complete game performance.
Elsewhere, there was a big comeback at Greenwich as visitors Clapham Common trailed 5-0 after six innings only to score two in the seventh and three more in the eighth to level it. After both teams struggled to score in extra innings, it was Common who snatched the win with a run in the fourteenth. The day's other game between the Old Westminsters and Royal Artillery Barracks was postponed because of the state of the field and will be made up by playing two in one day in September.
Scores:
Marylebone Regents 0-3 City of London Club
Clapham Common 6-5 Greenwich Meridian (14 innings)
Angel Islington 0-3 Kensington Victoria
Old Westminsters v Royal Artillery Barracks postponed
Standings:
City of London Club 11-0
Kensington Victoria 8-3
Old Westminsters 5-5
Angel Islington 5-6
Clapham Common 5-6
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-6
Greenwich Meridian 4-7
Marylebone Regents 1-10
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