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KESSLER METES OUT SIX HITS AT MASS. BAY
FLOUR CITY LEGEND HAS LEAGUE’S 2ND SIX-HIT GAME OF 1876 DURING EASY WIN IN BOSTON

BOSTON (Aug. 19, 1876) - Flour City and Massachusetts Bay are playing the final series of the year for pride at Oceanside Park, and Flour City took the second game with dominant work after the opening innings:

It was 1-0 to Mass. Bay after three innings but Flour City scored in every inning after that, starting with three runs in the fourth and only stopping after a dozen runs to exit 12-4 winners.

One man had six of the visitors’ fourteen hits, and it was legendary batsman Samuel Kessler:

• T1: Single to CF off T. Ricks (SB)
• T4: Leadoff Single past 1B off T. Ricks (R)
• T5: 1-run Double to CF off T. Ricks
• T7: Leadoff Double to RF off T. Ricks (R)
• T8: 1-run Single past 3B off T. Ricks
• T9: 1-run Single to LCF off P. Dittmer
• TOTAL: 6/6 (2 2B, 8 TB), 2 R, 3 RBI, SB, 83 GMSC

The 6/6 day by Kessler was the second six-hit performance in the A.P.B.L. this season, with the other coming from Mass. Bay 3B Albert Stoffers on June 3rd (6/6, 2B, 5 R, 3 RBI), part of another series between Mass. Bay & Flour City in Boston.

With one game left to play in his twentieth season, Kessler is batting .321 (.731 OPS) with 23 Extra-Base Hits (18 2B, 4 3B, 1 HR), 82 Runs Batted In, and 2.1 WAR. All indications are that he’ll be back with Flour City, his fourth team, for season #21 next year.

Flour City is 46-43, good for fourth place in the Colonial Conference with one game left. Mass. Bay is 47-42, one game ahead. If Flour City wins at Mass. Bay tomorrow, then Flour City will finish third in the Colonial via the Head-to-Head Tiebreaker.