Cubs @ Dodgers
August 7, 1918

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Top 8 R H E
Cubs 2 7 2
Dodgers 3 5 3
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Cubs 2 7 2
Dodgers 3 5 3

Fred Merkle Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .316
OBP .667 .360
At Bats 3 380
Hits 2 120
• Singles 2 90
• Doubles 0 24
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 26
RBI’s 1 63

Burleigh Grimes Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
13 7 0
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Ebbets Field - August 7, 1918
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Out
Burleigh Grimes
Mack Wheat
Jake Daubert
Mickey Doolin
Ollie O'Mara
Ivy Olson
Zack Wheat
Hi Myers
Jimmy Johnston
Fred Merkle
Dode Paskert
 
Charlie Hollocher
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Merkle hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Olson fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Paskert hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doolin fields it and throws to home to get Flack. Hollocher moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 8 Mann hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Grimes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Hollocher hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Johnston. Hollocher reaches second base with a double. Flack moves to third.
Top 8 Flack hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doolin misplays the ball. That's an error on Doolin.
Bottom 7 Grimes hits a fly ball into left field. Mann settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Wheat hits a ball on the ground towards first. Merkle scoops it up and throws to first, with Hendrix covering, for the out.
Bottom 7 Claude Hendrix now pitching. Doolin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hollocher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Charlie Deal pinch hits for Paul Carter. Deal hits a popup, foul, towards first. Daubert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 O'Farrell is hit by the pitch. Pick moves to second.
Top 7 Zeider hits a fly ball into center field. Myers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Pick takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Merkle hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Grimes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 O'Mara hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Carter fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Myers hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pick fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Wheat hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hollocher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Paskert hits a fly ball into right field. Johnston settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Mann hits a ball on the ground towards short. Olson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Hollocher strikes out.
Bottom 5 Daubert hits a fly ball into right field. Flack settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Olson hits a popup towards the mound. Carter catches it and throws to first to double up Johnston.
Bottom 5 Paul Carter now pitching. Johnston hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Flack strikes out.
Top 5 There go the runners. The throw from Wheat and Olson drops the ball. That's a double steal and an error.
Top 5 Turner Barber pinch hits for Phil Douglas. Barber hits a ball on the ground towards short. Olson has Pick trapped. There's the throw to Wheat and over to O'Mara, who tags Pick for the out. O'Farrell moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 5 O'Farrell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Pick moves to third.
Top 5 Zeider hits a fly ball into right field. Johnston settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Pick takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Grimes hits a fly ball into right field. Flack settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Wheat hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run. Three runs are unearned.
Bottom 4 Doolin hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Zeider scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Wheat moves to third. O'Mara moves to second.
Bottom 4 O'Mara hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Wheat moves to second.
Bottom 4 Myers strikes out.
Bottom 4 Wheat hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Zeider misplays the ball. That's an error on Zeider.
Top 4 Merkle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Myers throws the ball in to Doolin who tags Merkle trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Mann scores. That run is unearned.
Top 4 Paskert hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doolin scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Mann moves to second.
Top 4 Mann hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doolin misplays the ball. That's an error on Doolin.
Top 4 Hollocher hits a ball on the ground towards short. Olson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Daubert hits a fly ball into center field. Paskert settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 There goes Olson. The throw from O'Farrell and he is safe. Olson steals second.
Bottom 3 Olson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There goes Johnston. The throw from O'Farrell and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Bottom 3 Johnston hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pick fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Grimes hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Wheat hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hollocher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Flack hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doolin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Douglas hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Grimes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 O'Farrell hits a popup towards first. Daubert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Doolin strikes out.
Bottom 2 O'Mara hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Douglas fields it and has Wheat trapped. There's the throw to Pick who throws to Zeider, who tags Wheat for the out. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 2 Myers hits a fly ball into right field. Flack settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 There's a wild pitch. Wheat moves to second.
Bottom 2 Wheat hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Zeider hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Doolin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 There goes Pick. The throw from Wheat and he is out, Doolin applying the tag.
Top 2 Pick hits a ball on the ground towards third. O'Mara fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Merkle hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Daubert is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Olson hits a fly ball into left field. Mann settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Johnston hits a fly ball into right field. Flack settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Mann is thrown out by unknown player in unknown way. Paskert moves to second.
Top 1 Paskert hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Mann moves to second.
Top 1 Mann hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Hollocher hits a line drive towards short. Olson catches it and throws to first to double up Flack.
Top 1 Flack hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.