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WERRA DRIVES IN HALF A DOZEN VS OVERBROOK
PENN OUTFIELDER PUNISHES WAYWARD PITCHING, OTHERS CHIP IN DURING TWELVE-RUN HOME WIN

PHILADELPHIA, PENN. (July 17, 1880) - Defending P.C.B.L. champions Penn B.C. are hosting Overbrook this week. After losing the first two games they won a 13-12 thriller in ten innings on Friday, and they were looking to even the series on Saturday. Penn got the result they wanted, and it was a much easier victory than yesterday’s squeaker:

Overbrook started the game off right, with three Runs in T1 coming home via two Singles and an Error. Penn responded with four Runs in B1 via four different run-scoring Singles, and it was 4-3 with the advantage to Penn at the end of the first inning.

After that, it was just about all Penn at University City Park, as the hosts scored fifteen of the game’s last nineteen Runs. The big inning was the third, during which Penn responded to an Overbrook score in T3 with a six-run rally, one that featured four more run-scoring Singles, to take an 11-4 lead. Penn had an easy time of it from there, with the last of their nineteen Runs scoring during the bottom of the seventh on a Single by C Damian McLaughlin. In the end, Penn finished off Overbrook with a winning margin of an even dozen (7-19).

Penn finished the game with 23 Hits as a team, and four of their Batsmen had three each.

• PENN C Damian McLaughlin: 3/6 (all 1B), 2 R, 1 RBI – 1/3 CS
• PENN 3B Finlay MacKay: 3/6 (all 1B), 1 R, 2 RBI – DEF DP
• PENN CF Francis Byrd: 3/5 (2 2B), 3 R, 1 RBI, 5 TB – OF AST
• PRNN RF Charles Taylor: 3/6 (2 2B), 3 R, 3 RBI, BB, 5 TB

However, it was LF John Werra who earned Player of the Game honors with his display of batsmanship:

• B1: 1-run Single to RF off W. Marrs (SB, R)
• B2: 1-run Infield Single to SS off W. Marrs
• B3: 1-run Single past SS off W. Marrs (R)
• B4: 1-run Base on Balls by T. Nesbitt
• B6: 2-run Triple to RCF off T. Nesbitt (R)
• B7: Single to RCF off J. Smith
• TOTAL: 5/5 (3B), 3 R, 6 RBI, BB, 7 TB, SB – 108 GMSC (BAT: 1st)

Werra’s performance marked the first by anybody in the P.C.B.L. this season with a 100+ Game Score. It raised his Batting Average to a splendid .356 (.878) with 39 Runs, 35 RBI, 2.7 WPA, and 1.6 WAR through 49 games. Werra is currently on track to easily have the best season of his five-year career.

Overbrook remains alone in second place in West Philadelphia in spite of the loss. They are currently one game over .500 at 25-24, five games behind leaders Schuylkill (30-19). Penn is stuck in a three-way tie for last with Germantown & Merion, but at 23-26 they’re only seven games out of first place.