Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — MANY HITS WITHOUT SCORING [ARTICLE]

MANY HITS WITHOUT SCORING

Pirates Made Three Triples, a Single, and Two Passes Without Counting a Run. r/ \ “ '•ls it possible,” asks a Joliet, 111., fan, “for a team to make three triples, a single, and get two bases on balls in inning and then fall to score a run?” ' Not only Is it possible, but such an incident actually happened back in 1892. . 4 „ The Pirates were playing the Cubs in Pittsburgh, with Pittsburgh at bat The first three Pirates tripled. Two died trying to stretch their drives to homers. Then came the two passes, filling the bases. The next batter drove the ball along the third base line. It hit the Pirate runner coming in and he was out under the “hit-by-batted-ball” rule. The batter, however, officially was credited with a single.