Baseball is back! With the Canaries hosting the Resolutes, rookie John McGraw lined out to George Wright to get Season 6 underway. With aces John Clarkson and Tim Keefe toeing the rubber, the game moved at a brisk pace. Keefe wasn't quite as sharp as last year's Pitcher MVP, however, and the Resolutes played with a lead for most of the game. The most dramatic moment came in the top of the sixth, when Fred Clarke homered off of Keefe on Opening Day for the second straight season. The Canaries made it interesting in the eighth and ninth against the Resolutes' new closer, Joe McGinnity, but the veteran managed to hang in there to seal a 4-2 road win.
Opening Day for our other two franchises involved the Blue Legs visiting the Haymakers in a rematch of last year's championship series. Playoff MVP Cy Young clearly didn't have his best stuff, and the Legs jumped all over him. Nap Lajoie's two-run shot was the backbreaker in a 6-1 triumph for the visitors. Old Hoss Radbourn, pitching for the Legs, managed to tie John Clarkson's record 21-inning scoreless streak (set at the beginning of last season), but a Bobby Wallace single prevented him from claiming a new record. I guess that's about the only positive takeaway for the Haymakers from that game.
It doesn't get any easier for the defending champs. Tomorrow, the Haymakers visit the Resolutes, where the legendary Christy Mathewson will make his first career start in this league!
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