The next ball also came straight and Ty thought to fool them by bunting. He did, and almost perfectly, as the ball didn’t roll over six feet in all. Black was nearly at the plate before Ty got started to first but as hard luck would have it the last foot of the distance the ball rolled outside the foul line and it was “Two strikes” and everybody went back to where they were before. Then it was a study to watch Mellen and Robb.
Would Mellen send another one straight over and try to make him think it would curve or would he send one up wide of the plate and make it curve in, or would it be a high one that would drop to the strike level at the plate? It was a great guessing match that lasted for several seconds.
Then slowly Mellen began his wind up. The ball started for the plate. It was coming straight over. Was it possible that Mellen had decided to take a chance on his hitting it safe? Ty thinks he’ll fool him on that. He will just put that ball over the fence. He pulls back his bat to meet it squarely. He makes a savage swing at it and listens for the crack of the bat. Instead he hears a thud—and Ty knew he had struck out, and the game was lost to Lowell by the score of 4 to 2.
BOX SCORE
| Jefferson | AB | R | H | PO | A | E | Lowell | AB | R | H | PO | A | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laird, 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Everson, 2b | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
| Beach, cf | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Larke, lf | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Church, 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | Talkington, cf | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hollins, ss | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | Robb, rf | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| La Joy, 2b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Hagner, ss | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Warcford, lf | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Case, 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | |
| Twitchell, rf | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | Delvin, 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| Brest, c | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | Gibbs, c | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | |
| Cam, p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Radams, p | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Mellen, p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Black, p | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Huyler[A] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 31 | 4 | 12 | 27 | 11 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 11 | [B]25 | 16 | 1 |
| Jefferson | 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0—4 |
| Lowell | 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0—2 |
- Two Base Hit—Gibbs, Twitchell.
- Three Base Hit—Robb, Beach.
- Home Run—La Joy.
- Sacrifice Hits—Brest, Case, Cam.
- Stolen Bases—Hagner, 2; Larke, 1.
- Left on Bases—Lowell, 10; Jefferson, 6.
- First Base on Errors—Lowell, 1; Jefferson, 1.
- Double Play—Hagner, Case—Everson, Case.
- Struck Out—by Radams, 3; by Cam, 3; by Mellen, 2; by Black, 3.
- Bases on Balls—off Cam, 3; off Radams, 4.
- Hits—off Cam in seven innings, 8; off Radams in seven innings 11.
- [A] Batted for Radams in seventh inning.
- [B] Cam out bunting third strike. La Joy out; hit by batted ball.
It was now one game apiece and it would take a third to decide the championship.