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DARLING RACKS UP SIX HITS AT HIGHLANDER
OLYMPIC CF BATS A PERFECT SIX FOR SIX AS TEAM SCORES LATE RUNS TO WIN BY SEVEN

WORCESTER, MASS. (July 15, 1880) - C.B.C. strugglers Highlander & Olympic contested the second game of their Week Ten series at the Worcester Fairgrounds on Thursday, with visiting Olympic using a late attacking surge to ensure victory:

There was loads of action early, as five Olympic Runs over the first two innings, with CF Charles Darling collecting run-scoring Hits in both, was responded to with a seven-run rally by Highlander in B2 during which the Runs were scored on a mix of Singles, Errors, & a Passed Ball. Olympic then hit back with a four-run rally in T3 featuring four run-scoring Hits – Single from Darling, Doubles from P Ray Christianson & LF Leland Lewis, & Triple from 2B Noah Skiles – to make it a 9-7 game in favor of visiting Olympic by the end of the opening three innings.

The middle innings were filled with goose eggs, but the scoring picked back up in T7 when a Passed Ball and a Triple by Paul Robertson plated two Runs to give Olympic an 11-7 lead. The visitors then responded to a Highlander tally in B7 with a Run during T8 and three more in T9, with the key Hit a run-scoring Single by Darling, to take a 15-8 lead and guarantee the win.

The ninth-inning RBI Single marked the end of a fantastic afternoon for Olympic CF Charles Darling:

• T1: 1-run Double to CF off W. McClure
• T2: 1-run Single past 3B off W. McClure
• T3: 1-run Single to RCF off W. McClure
• T6: Single to CF off R. Cook
• T8: Single to LF off R. Cook (R)
• T9: 1-run Single to CF off F. Brown
• TOTAL: 6/6 (2B), 1 R, 4 RBI, 7 TB – 81 GMSC (BAT: 5th)

Darling’s first career six-hit game raised his Average to an excellent .359 (.883 OPS), with 50 Runs, 41 RBI, and a sterling 2.6 Batsman WAR through 47 games. So far this season, Darling has been Olympic’s best player and one of the top Batsmen in the C.B.C.

Both teams remain in the lower half of the C.B.C. standings after the result in Worcester. Olympic is 7th at 17-30 (18 GB), while Highlander is in 6th at 19-28 (16 GB).