Scott Fennessy continues his recap of 1905 Cubs/Giants

Scott Fennessy follows up his guest article a couple days ago with another Cubs-Giants game wrap-up from his 1905 replay. 

Good news! Scott will be officially joining The APBA Blog as an regular contributing writer!   – Tom

by Scott Fennessy

If you thought game 1 was good here is the results from the 2nd and final game of this series.  Game 2 starters were for the Cubs "Tornado Jake" Weimer A(Z) vs "Iron Man" Joe McGinnity A(Z).  Where game 1 was a game that was controlled by the hitters, Game 2 was most certainly not.

Both pitchers scatter a couple of runners through the first two innings, but the Cubs break through i the 3rd with a two out rally.  Maloney who is red hot right now slaps a single to right, and steals second.  Johnny Evers drops a soft single to right center scoring Maloney.  "Crab" is now on a 4 game hit streak and is hitting over .350 for the young season.  He steals second as well but Hofman whiffs to end the inning.  Cubs up 1-0.

Weimer is on cruise control through the first 6 and while McGinnity is strong the Cubs had some opportunities in all but the 4th at this point.  The Giants bats finally wake up though as Dahlen singles and steals second.  He scores on a McGinnity single.  Devlin grounds to Casey at third moving McGinnity to second.  Mertes walks setting up the force, but Mike Donlin strikes out and Dan McGann grounds to Tinker and the rally stops with the game knotted at 1 each.

Now things finally start picking up.  The Cubs immediately answer with a Frank Schulte single.  Two outs later he scores on a Weimer single to left.  But Maloney grounds to McGann at first and that ends the inning.  Cubs 2 Giants 1.  In the top of the 8th Chance reaches on a 2 out single and steals second.  He gets a great lead and takes off for third and is thrown out by Bowerman on an absolute rocket that ends the inning.  But as Chance starts back to first waiting for Tinker to hand him his glove third Baseman Art Devlin is still on the ground and in obvious pain.  McGraw makes a beeline for Chance and the two dugouts empty in an attempt to separate them.  Eventually they calm things down and nobody gets tossed, but McGraw can still be heard by Chance from the dugout promising payback.  Devlin’s a tough guy though as this is the 2nd time this year this has happened (J-0) and will be ready for tomorrow’s game.

The Cubs waste a 1 out double by Schulte and in the bottom of the 9th still trailing by 1 McGann hits a hard grounder to Evers at short, the grounder handcuffs him and he gets charged with an error.  With one out things look bleak.  McGraw calls for the hit and run and George Browne comes through like a champ with an RBI double.  Browne had been struggling up to this point but it is his second hit of the game and this one ties the game.  The NY faithful are really charged now but Weimer strikes out Bowerman and Sammy Strang pops up to Kling and for the second straight game we go to extra innings.

Both pitchers continue to dominate with only an occasional runner until the 14th inning.  Donlin gets his second straight hit and moves to third on a beautiful hit and run single by McGann.  McGraw wants to try it again, and Browne hits a frozen rope to fairly deep right field but Hofman makes a tremendous running grab, and fires back to Chance at first for the double play, but unfortunately Donlin scores the winning run.  As both teams start for the locker rooms McGraw steps onto the field and continues to taunt Chance.  Chance has plenty to say in reply, but it cannot be printed and eventually heads to the clubhouse and McGraw wins this round.  These two teams won’t meet again for a while so hopefully cooler heads will prevail.