The Miracle Inning at Tacoma
Down by nine runs, the Seattle baseball squad defied the odds with a legendary eleven-run outburst in a single inning against Tacoma.
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Tacoma and Seattle each had to show two pitchers in today's contest. Clark Griffith started for the home club and did very well for the first three innings, but in the fourth, Powell’s lads found his curves, and his nerve as well, and sent eleven men around the circuit before three hands were put out. The field play of the Seattle team was almost perfect. Hatfield distinguished himself at short by brilliant work, and Laroque did some very clever playing at second. The double plays of Laroque to Hatfield to Ryn, and Irwin to Laroque to Ryn, were done with lightning rapidity at critical periods. Doubles by Powell, Laroque, Lange, and McGinnis, singles by Hatfield and Lange, Work’s bad muff, Sippi’s fumble, four bases on balls, two wild pitches, one passed ball, and some clever base running on the part of the Seattles made a combination that brought joy to the 400 Seattle people present.
“Cartwright stood out from among his contemporaries like a knot on a snake whip. Nothing rattled him.”
Long before the modern era of professional stadium sports, the Seattle-Tacoma rivalry was being played out on dusty diamonds with a distinctively scrappy, small-town fervor. Today's massive multi-million dollar stadium contracts and sophisticated analytics still rest on the same fundamental local tension: the pride of regional bragging rights on the field.
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