Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1918 — THREE SACRIFICES IN INNING [ARTICLE]

THREE SACRIFICES IN INNING

Peculiar Happening In Recent Phila-delphia-Cincinnati -Game—Another Unique Inning.

It seldom happens that three sacrifice hits are recorded in one inning—the thing doesn’t seem possible—but such was the case in one of the recent Cincinnati-Philadelphia games. In the eighth Inning of this game in Cincinnati, Burns’ bunt; a legitimate sacrifice, and so reedrded, was thrown to third instead of first and intercepted nobody. Fitzgerald’s bunt was chucked wild by Schneider, and nobody was put out Stock’s long fly to left made the third sacrifice of this freakish inning. Tills peculiar happening, however, Is not as odd as a singular feature in a recent game between the Yankees and Browns. In this game a base hit was made in the fourth Inning and yet Allen Sothoron pitched but three balls. Del Pratt was the first batter up. He hit the first ball pitched to center for a clean single. Walter Pipp hit the first ball pitched to him to Jimmy Austin and Pratt was forced to second base by Austin’s throw to Joe Gedeon. Ping Bodie then hit the first ball pitched to him to Austin and a double play resulted, Gedeon and Sisler making the put-outs.