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Friday, May 25, 1888
Detroit Wolverines (15-11 .577 1 GB in 2nd place in the Liberty League) at
Cleveland Spiders (12-14 .462 4 GB in 7th place)
Al Rice, Det. (23-7.6) (R 7-3 1.94 6.9-1.0-6.3 H/9-BB/9-SO/9) vs. Artie Boucher, Clev. (25-6.1) (R 3-4 4.94 11.6-2.2-2.9)
Won - 4 to 3
We pulled this one out by the skin of our teeth. Down 3 to 2 with 2 outs in the top of the 9th, RF Hi Bowman (24-5.5) stroked his 1st hit of the day knocking in 2 runs to give us the lead.
Rice allowed 7 hits, 1 walk and struck out 1. At bat, he had 2 hits and an RBI. He is now batting .293 on the season.
He struck out 12 last game and lost; he struck out 1 this game and won.
Boucher, that great hurler, gave us 7 hits, 5 walks and struck out 3. 3 of our 4 base stealers were thrown out.
We made 4 errors and Cleveland made 5.
3B Dave Odekirk (23-6.5) hit an RBI double and stole a base.
For the Spiders, C Charlie Harris (27-5.9) will miss about a week with a pulled muscle.
Liberty League:
Cincinnati (4) at New York (9): Miah Turner (27-5.3) (6-3) over John Stevens (31-8.2) (6-5). Turner allowed 5 hits, 1 walk and struck out 4.
Louisville (8) at Boston (11): William Little (27-6.0) (7-4) over William McLeod (29-5.6) (6-5). 14 errors in this one. CF Pat Stafford (27-5.4) had 2 hits with a home run and a walk and 5 RBIs. For the Bourbons, RF Tom Panozzo (23-2.0) hit his 3rd home run of the year.
Grand National Association:
Chicago (4) at Brooklyn (3) in 11 innings: Pat Seguin (24-4.4) (9-3) over Al Green (25-3.8) (4-9). In 11 innings, Seguin allowed 6 hits, 2 walks and struck out 5. Green allowed 7 hits, 2 walks and struck out 10. Green and Seguin's ERAs are nearly identical.
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