Nine Split season opener in Smithtown - game recap
April 28, 2007
The
Roxbury Nine Vintage Base Ball Club took the field last Saturday for the
first of a busy season of vintage ball. Pitted against the Brooklyn Atlantics,
The Roxbury team
delivered a decisive defeat to their city counterparts in the 1864
depiction of the
game. The match got off on the right foot with the Nine tallying six
runs by the top of the second with the Atlantics putting just one on the
board. Archie Biruk
and Jess Raeder crossed the plate in the third, but the Atlantics answered
with two of
their own. Both clubs were silenced in the fourth, fifth and
sixth, until the Nine
exploded in the seventh adding three more runs to the board. The Atlantics
made an
effort to rally in the ninth, but failed to clamp down on the Nine’s
commanding lead
as the game closed with our hometown boys up 11-5.
Game two moved the time clock forward to 1898 with Nine veteran hurler
Mike McAfee on
the pitcher’s plate. It took some time for McAfee to dust off
the winter chill as he
gave up four in the first and a lone run n the second. 
No response
came from the Nine
until the third when Matt Walker drove in two for Roxbury as McAfee
shut down the
Atlantics in the third and fourth. The Nine began their rally in the
sixth only to be
stifled by a sketchy call on a close play at second. Roxbury put up
three more runs in
the sixth and seventh, but the atlantics answered with three of their
own ending the
game with an 8-5 loss for Roxbury.
The Nine are off to Elizabeth this Saturday for an 1891 match against the Elizabeth Athletic Club. May 19th and 20th they return to Central Park to defend the Gotham Cup and will open their season in Kirkside Park on May 26th during “Railride into Yesteryear” For more information on the Roxbury Nine and Railride into Yesteryear visit roxburyny or 607.326.3722.
