Base Ball -- Match Game Between the Red Stockings and Atlantics -- June 14, 2020

Evansville Journal, 15-June-1870

The Cincinnati Red Stockings were organized in 1869 as the first fully professional baseball team.  Their record in 1869 was 57-0. 150 years ago, on 14-June-1870, the Red Stockings had their first loss, at the hands of the Brooklyn Atlantics.  The Red Stockings' final record in 1870 was 67-6. 

Base Ball Match Game Between the

Red Stockings and Atlantics.

New York, June 14. -- Fully ten thousand persons were present at the game of base ball between the Red Stockings and Atlantics. The game was close and exciting. At the end of the sixth inning the score stood four to three in favor of the Atlantics. At the end of the eighth inning there was a tie. The score, being five to five. On the ninth and tenth innings neither club scored, but on the eleventh the Atlantics scored three and the Red Stockings two. The excitement as the game drew near an end was intense. The following is the score by innings:

Atlantics 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0,1, 0, 0, 3. Total, 8.
Red Stockings 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 2. Total, 7.