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Metropolitan Baseball League
Week Eleven: Saturday 17 May 1873
The 1873 season is shaping up to be the most competitive we have seen to date in the Metropolitan League. We have three teams tied at the top of the standings now, after the Marylebone Regents fell to defeat against the Old Westminsters today. The Regents haven't allowed many runs this year but gave up one in the first and another in the fourth, being able to respond with only one in the ninth.
Unfancied Clapham and Greenwich both took the chance to move level at the top, Clapham overcoming the Royal Artillery Barracks thanks in the main to a three-run third inning, while three in the second were they key to Greenwich's 4-1 home win over Peckham Rye. Meridian have now won five successive games as they defy pre-season expectations of a poor year.
Angel Islington's record against the City of London Club is famously poor, especially at home, but they got the better of the City Club today with a two-run fourth inning proving the difference. Remarkably, it was only Angel's second home win over the City Club in twenty-four meetings in Islington. In the day's other game, last placed Hackney gained ground on the pack after keeping Kensington off the scoreboard in a 3-0 win.
Scores:
City of London Club 2-4 Angel Islington
Royal Artillery Barracks 0-5 Clapham Common
Peckham Rye 1-4 Greenwich Meridian
Hackney Exiles 3-0 Kensington Victoria
Old Westminsters 2-1 Marylebone Regents
Standings:
Clapham Common 7-4
Greenwich Meridian 7-4
Marylebone Regents 7-4
Peckham Rye 6-4
Old Westminsters 6-5
Angel Islington 5-6
City of London Club 5-6
Kensington Victoria 4-7
Royal Artillery Barracks 4-7
Hackney Exiles 3-7
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