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COLUMBIA HAS QUARTET OF STARS AT FRONTIER
FOUR BATSMEN FINISH WITH 3+ HITS AS VISITORS TAKE SURPRISING FOURTEEN-RUN WIN

OSWEGO, N.Y. (July 30, 1880) - Frontier & Columbia entered the third game of their N.B.B.O. Week Twelve series even at a game apiece. On Friday afternoon, visiting Columbia followed up their 12-5 win from the day before with a thorough trouncing of the defending Upstate champions:

This was truly a shocker for the hosts, as 2x All-Star Edward Pelham, who entered the game with an 18-13 record and 3.43 ERA, had the ball. That didn’t bother Columbia, as they began the game with a five-run rally in T1, with the key Hit a two-run Double by 2B Henry Worrell. They followed that up with a pair of Runs in T2, and after a scoreless T3 they plated one in T4 and then ended the contest mercilessly.

Already ahead 8-0, Columbia took their bats for T5 and put eight Runs on the board with an extremely rare multiple Home Run inning. Martin Hales, known to be good with the bat for a Pitcher, led off the inning with a shot over the short fence in Left Field, his third career Home Run in a little over 1,300 Plate Appearances. After LF William Vickers followed with a Triple, All-Star 3B Colin McLean stepped up and hit a two-run Home Run over the same fence. A series of Singles & Errors allowed five more Runs to score, and by the middle of the fifth inning it was 16-0 to Columbia. The rest of the game played out quickly, and Columbia exited Fort Ontario with a crushing 17-3 victory in which they collected 23 Hits.

Hales’ Home Run was his only Hit of the day in six trips to the plate, but he’s a Pitcher. Some of his teammates, on the other hand, gave him plenty of support.

• COL 1B Harold Cotner: 4/7 (all 1B), 4 R, 2 RBI – DEF DP
• COL 3B Colin McLean: 3/7 (HR), 2 R, 4 RBI, 6 TB
• COL CF William Vickers: 5/6 (2B, 3B), 3 R, 0 RBI, 8 TB, 2 SB
• COL RF James Cramer: 4/6 (2 3B), 2 R, 1 RBI, 8 TB

Three other Columbia batsmen – C Allen Tocher, 2B Henry Worrell, & LF Jessup Miller – had two Hits each.

The loss dropped Frontier into a tie for second place in Upstate New York with Eagle, the N.B.B.O.’s surprise team of the year, at 30-28. Meanwhile, the victory moved Columbia, last place each of the past four seasons, alone into sixth at 28-30. Utica is currently the Upstate leader at 34-24.