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May 13, 1876
Louisville Grays (5-3) at Chicago White Stockings (7-1)
As Chicago still trails New York by a half-game heading into the week-end, they host Louisville, currently third in the National League. The new Grays are led by two former Chicago players - pitcher Dan Collins and first baseman Jim Devlin.
Louisville lineup
George Bechtel, rf (.256)
Jim Clinton, cf (.225)
Jimmy Wood, 2b (.400)
Tom York, lf (.189)
Jim Devlin, 1b (.389)
Scott Hastings, c (.306)
Chick Fulmer, ss (.216)
Bill Hague, 3b (.286)
Dan Collins, p (3-2, 3.18)
Chicago lineup
Paul Hines, cf (.231)
Davy Force, ss (.250)
Levi Meyerle, 3b (.350)
George Hall, rf (.324)
Jim Foran, 1b (.368)
Jim Tipper, lf (.267)
Fergy Malone, c (.176)
Joe Quest, 2b (.313)
George Zettlein, p (1-1, 2.25)
Chicago drew first blood in the bottom of the first on an RBI single by Levi Meyerle. An RBI double by Bill Hague in the top of the second evened the score at 1, then in Hague's next time up in the fourth inning he singled home Jim Devlin to give Louisville a 2-1 lead.
Meanwhile, Collins pitched strongly in the early innings, with six strikeouts of Chicago hitters in the first five innings. However, in the bottom of the sixth inning Jim Tipper got a two-out, two-run base hit to give the lead back to the White Stockings.
In the eighth inning, Chicago still led 3-2. Jim Devlin led off the inning with a solid line drive to center field. Paul Hines was able to run it down, but injured his knee on the play and had to come out of the game. John Peters had to go into center field - a position with which he was unfamiliar. Then, with two out and no one on base in the top of the eighth, Chick Fulmer was able to hit a long fly ball that went over Jim Tipper's head and Fulmer made it all the way around the bases for a home run - Fulmer's second home run of the young season, and the third of his career. The game was now tied at 3. It got worse. A throwing error by Joe Quest followed by a fielding error by Jim Tipper gave Louisville another eighth-inning run. George Bechtel and Big Jim Clinton got back-to-back hits, and suddenly it was 5-3. Jimmy Wood singled home Bechtel and it was 6-3, before finally Chicago got that third out.
Fergy Malone got a two-run single in the bottom of the inning to make it 6-5, but they could get no closer. The disastrous eighth inning had cost Chicago the game.
New York also lost, so the top of the standings remained bunched.
Louisville 6, Chicago 5
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