Clipping:A four-base strikeout
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| Date | Sunday, July 20, 1862 |
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| Text | [Union of Morrisania v. Harlem Club in Morrisania, 7/18/1862] The seventh inning, on the Harlem side, was marked by a peculiar strategy on the part of Liscomb, which happened to prove very successful. He resolved to trust to luck, made three feint strikes at the ball, and ran. The third ball passed the catcher, and Liscomb was well on his way to the second base before Abrams secured the ball, when he threw wildly to the second Liscomb keeping on the run, and a wild throw to the third allowed him to carry his point, and get home safe in his stocking feet. ... In the ninth inning, however, with the game so certain, the Union side slackened up in their endeavors, and Abrams, the catcher, who was somewhat tired from exertion, and whose hands were much swollen, seemed to play carelessly, and let eight balls pass him, on which bases were made, before the inning was closed on the Harlem side. The inning was commenced by Liscomb, who attempted to again carry out the role in which he had been so successful in the seventh. He struck three times and ran, and as luck would have it, the ball passed the catcher and he made the first base. By a wild throw to the second he made the third, and was only put out on the home base by [pitcher] Hannegan. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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