====== April 26, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	After two days of rain delays, the Athletics were finally able to open their regular season, but lost to the [[Twins|Senators]], 5-1, at Columbia Park

•	Roughly 15,000 were in attendance—about 10,000 of whom paid their way in—and 3,000 more were turned away at the gate

•	The A's committed six errors in the field

•	[[Chick Fraser]] had the honor of starting the first-ever Athletics game that counted, walking four and striking out five

•	Because April had been so rainy there was still no grass in the outfield

•	The A's scored their only run in the seventh when [[Socks Seybold]] drove in [[Nap Lajoie]] from third

===== Today's Game =====

|**April 26, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Washington Senators (0-0) at Philadelphia Athletics (0-0)|||||||||||||| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|WTN|  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  2  |  1  |  1  |  0  |  -  |  5  |  8  |  1  | |
|PHL|  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  -  |  1  |  7  |  6  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|Ballpark|Columbia Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|15,000||||||||||||| |
|Managers|Jimmy Manning (WTN), Connie Mack (PHL)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Bill Carrick (WTN), Chick Fraser (PHL)||||||||||||| |


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