The Joy of Sox · Mar 26, 2021
Greatest Linescore Of All Time? (Part 2)
Roughly ten years ago, I posted about a remarkable minor league linescore from 1922 (Virginia League):
Richmond - 131 232 0 - 12Norfolk - 131 232 0 - 12Last night, looking through issues of The Sporting Life from 1887, I found another linescore that is equally remarkable. It's from a Western League game on May 8:
Lincoln - 450 331 203 - 21 20 4Omaha - 450 331 200 - 18 20 4Not only do the teams match each other for eight innings, but they ended the game with the same number of hits, putouts, assists, and errors! (Although I'm curious why they both don't have 27 putouts.) Each catcher also made two errors. Both teams had all nine batters get hits and eight players on each team scored.
