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DURAND DEALS DAMAGE AT MASS. BAY
QUAKER ST. LF FINISHES WITH FIVE HITS & FIVE RBI; P AVERY IS 3/4 WITH A HOME RUN

BOSTON, MASS. (June 14, 1882) - As part of the A.P.B.L. action on Wednesday afternoon, Massachusetts Bay & Quaker State met at the new Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston for the middle game of their series. Thanks to big rallies during the middle innings, the visitors won in a rout.

The game was fairly even early on, with the teams trading lone Runs over B2 & T3 before Mass. Bay took a 1-3 lead by the end of the third with a pair of run-scoring Hits: a Single by C Alfred Vetere & Double by RF Kevin Duke.

Then, Quaker St. went to work. They scored three times in T4, once on a Double by 2B Burton Ellerby and twice on a Home Run by P William Avery, to take a 4-3 lead. Then came the big rally: an eight-run outburst in T5 during which Avery & All-Star LF Harold Durand both hit two-run Doubles. Now ahead 12-3, the visitors ended the contest by piling on six more Runs in T6 to take an 18-3 lead, with the key hit there a two-run Double by Durand. After filling out the rest of the scoresheet, Quaker St. had earned a dominant thirteen-run away win in Boston.

Mass. Bay #2 William Avery didn’t have his best day with the ball…

• MB P William Avery: CG W (7-13, 4.26), 13 H, 6 R/4 ER, 3 BB, 2 K

…but the fine-hitting Pitcher, who became the first such player to hit for the Cycle in baseball history in 1879 as a member of Knickerbocker, made up for it with his bat.

• MB P William Avery: 3/6 (2B, HR), 3 R, 4 RBI, 7 TB

That said, it was Durand, an All-Star last year during his first in a Quaker St. shirt, who was named Player of the Game for his efforts.

• T1: Single to LF off T. Knapp
• T3: Single to CF off T. Knapp
• T5: Fly Out to LF (1 out)
• T5: 2-run Double to RF off E. Arrington (R)
• T6: 2-run Double to CF off E. Arrington (R)
• T7: 1-run Single past SS off P. Dittmer
• TOTAL: 5/6 (2 2B), 2 R, 5 RBI, 7 TB – 85 GmSc (B: 5th)

Durand is enjoying an excellent second season with Quaker St., batting .399 (1.027 OPS) through 38 games, having scored 29 Runs and been responsible for 34 Runs Batted In. He’s firmly on track to make his second straight All-Star Game.

The result in Boston gave Quaker St. a 16-22 record, good for sixth place in the Metropolitan Conference (7.5 GB). Meanwhile, the loss unfortunately dropped Mass. Bay into a tie for worst record in the A.P.B.L. with American at 12-26. They are already fifteen games out of first place in the Colonial Conference, and desperation is setting in.