Clipping:Scoring a walk-off home run
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| Date | Sunday, July 18, 1880 |
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| Text | A curious controversy has arisen in connection with the game of July 11 in which Cleveland beat Chicago 2 to 0. It will be remembered that up to the last half of the ninth inning neither side had made a tally, and that Cleveland then scored two runs on a base hit and a home run immediately following. The Cincinnati Enquirer man was the first to declare that the record of this game should be 1 to0 instead of 2 to 0, and Anson coincides with that opinion, and for this reason: The League rule is plain and imperative in saying that, “If the side last at bat in the ninth inning scores the winning run before the third man is out, the game shall then terminate.” The instant the first runner touched the plate the game was ended by a score of 1 to 0,--there can be no doubt of that,--and the man following who hit for four bases was “left” at whatever base he had just passed when the winning run was made, and is not credited with a home run. Chicago Tribune July 18, 1880 [from answers to correspondents] According to the letter of the League ruling the play, Dunlap's hit—yielding so many base-hits—counted only so far as the winning run was scored, and when Glasscock reached the home-plate that ended the base-running of the game, and Dunlap is only entitled under the League rule to a three-base hit. New York Clipper July 24, 1880 |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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