6/22 - The Wayback Machine In Bucco History

Lotta old Bucco stuff today:

• 1882 - The Reds beat the Bucs at Exposition Park‚ 5-2 in 14 innings, ending the game with a triple play. With runners on first and second‚ Cincinnati SS Chick Fulmer let a pop fly drop, then with the runners in limbo, went around the horn to close out the game. The infield fly rule was put into effect in 1885 by the NL thanks to plays like this, and was crafted into its current form in 1901. 
• 1902 - Bullpen, schmullpen. The Chicago Orphans tied Pirates in the ninth thanks to a pair of Bucco errors and a Bob Lowe single, then battled on into the 19th inning before winning 3-2 on a two-out single, again by Lowe (who was from New Castle). Jack Taylor of the Cubs and Deacon Phillippe of the Pirates both went the distance at West Side Park. 
• 1908 - Honus Wagner smacked his 2,000th hit against Jake Weimer of the Reds during a 4-0 loss at Exposition Park. 
• 1917 - The Pirates held a Honus Wagner Day at Forbes Field to honor the star SS who announced (again) that this would be his last season. The fans were all given ribboned pins attached to the Flying Dutchman's picture (there were no bobbleheads back in the day) and Wagner received an engraved ("Presented to John P. Wagner By His Admirers Friday June 22, 1917 Wagner Day") silver loving cup. The Bucs eked out a 4-3 win over the Cubs, with Honus driving in the walk-off run with a tenth inning single off Hippo Vaughan. 
• 1925 - Max Carey got two hits in each the first and eighth innings as the Pirates beat the Cards at Sportsman's Park, 24-6. The two-hits-in-two-innings feat wasn’t repeated again until Rennie Stennett did it against the Cubs in 1975. The Pirates smacked six homers that game, with two from George Grantham, grand slams by Kiki Cuyler and Pie Traynor and more long balls from Clyde Barnhart and Earl Smith. Every Pirate starter, including the pitcher, had at least a hit and either scored a run, drove in a run, or both. 
• 1927 - LF Clyde Barnhart ran his hit streak to 23 games with a single in an 11-9 win over the Reds at Forbes Field. It would end the following game against the Cubs’ Charlie Root. 
• 1951 - A power failure at Forbes Field delayed the start of the game with Dodgers by two hours, and rain held up play in the sixth inning by another 36 minutes‚ pushing the game’s end to 1:56 AM. Brooklyn’s night owls won easily, 8-4. Of the 24‚966 fans there at the start of the Friday night game, an estimated 10‚000 were still on hand for the bitter end. 
• 2010 - RHP Dovydas Neverauskas pitched for the GCL Pirates during an 11-4 loss to the Yankee rookies, becoming the first Lithuanian to appear in organized baseball.