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TWO FIVE-HIT STARS IN NBBO ON WEDNESDAY
ATLANTIC 2B CRAWFORD & SYRACUSE P WESOLOWSKI RAVAGE OPPOSITION IN DOUBLE-DIGIT WINS

BROOKLYN & SYRACUSE, N.Y. (June 29, 1881) - There was a quartet of five-hit outings across the lower leagues on Wednesday afternoon, and two of them were among the best and most surprising performances of the season in the N.B.B.O.

The first star outing took place in Brooklyn, where Continental & Atlantic began their battle of Brooklyn’s top two teams at Wheat Hill. Atlantic delivered the knockout punch early with an eight-run T2 that propelled them to a ten-run victory.

Four Atlantic players had multiple Hits at Continental, and among the four it was 2B Monroe Crawford whose efforts earned him Player of the Game honors:

• T1: Ground Out to 1B (1 out)
• T2: Single to RCF off H. Shepherd (R)
• T3: 2-RUN HOME RUN TO RF off H. Shepherd
• T5: Single to CF off E. Henry
• T7: 1-run Single to CF off E. Henry
• T9: Infield Single to P off E. Henry (R)
• TOTAL: 5/6 (HR), 3 R, 3 RBI, 8 TB – DP – 83 GmSc (B: 11th)

The result gave Atlantic a little bit of space at the top of the Brooklyn standings, as they are now ahead of Continental by two games and surprising Nassau County by three, with the top seven teams just seven games apart after the opening game of the five-game set.

The other five-hit afternoon, and BY FAR the most surprising of the two, took place in Upstate New York, where Syracuse started scoring in the opening inning against Binghamton and simply never stopped.

Because of a team record TWENTY-TWO ERRORS by Binghamton (NBBO Avg: 5.6 E/G), likely caused by on-off rains that led to delays of nearly an hour over the course of the afternoon, Syracuse needed just sixteen Hits to score the 26 Runs that made up their 24-Run margin of victory at the Salina Street Grounds.

Still, as part of Syracuse’s win one of their players had five Hits, and the man who did it was their Pitcher, Jacob Wesolowski.

• B1: Reached via Error by SS
• B2: 2-run Single to CF off R. Glasser (R)
• B3: Single past 2B off W. Pate
• B4: Single to RCF off W. Pate
• B6: Double to RF off W. Pate (R)
• B7: 1-run Single past 2B off W. Pate (R)
• B8: Sac Bunt to P (1 out)
• TOTAL (B): 5/6 (2B), 3 R, 3 RBI, SAC BUNT, 6 TB – 78 GmSc (B: T-18th)
• TOTAL (P): CG W (8-8, 2.93), 6 HA, 2 R/0 ER, 1 BB, 8 K

Between his batting & pitching, it was one of the most memorable afternoons of Wesolowski’s career.

Jacob Wesolowski isn’t one of those Pitchers that’s also known as an effective Batsman at the bottom of the order. His outburst vs Binghamton raised Wesolowski’s 1881 Average to .229 (.497 OPS) across 80 Plate Appearances, and over his seven-year career his Batting Average is .196 (.442 OPS) with -3.5 Batsman WAR over what amounts to roughly three seasons’ worth of Plate Appearances for a regular Batsman.

The huge win kept Syracuse five games behind leaders Frontier in second place in Upstate New York with a record of 22-14. Meanwhile, Binghamton is in sixth place with a record of 15-21 (12 GB).