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 Rh similarly won five from Brooklyn at Eastern Park. At Pittsburgh the champions lost five of their ten games with the "Pirates," the Smoky City proving more fatal to them than any other League city in 1893.

The record of the extra innings games played by the champions is as follows:

It is a noteworthy fact that the champions did not win but one extra innings game, and that was with the Cleveland team, their ten innings contests at Cleveland, September 20th, ending with a victory by 4 to 3, Nichols pitching against Young. They only lost one extra innings game, too, and that was with the Brooklyn club at Boston, on May 19th, when the visitors won by 5 to 4 in a twelve innings contest, Stein then pitching against Stivetts.

The record of the highest scores made in victories, and the lowest in defeats, together with the percentage of victories made by the champions against the eleven opposing clubs in the campaign, ends the record of the work done on the field by the Boston club in the pennant race of 1893:

The highest score made in any game with the eastern clubs was 18 to 6 against the Phillies at Philadelphia, on May 23d; and the highest against the western clubs was 18 to 2 against the Chicagoes at Boston, May 29th. Their worst defeat sustained at the hands of any eastern team was that of 1 to 4 at New York on July 17th, when Baldwin pitched against Nichols; while the worst recorded by western clubs against the champions was by the Pittsburghs' 9