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May 12, 1947

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Braves 1 5 0
Dodgers 8 11 0
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Dodgers 8 11 0

Earl Torgeson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .286
OBP .333 .398
At Bats 3 70
Hits 1 20
• Singles 0 9
• Doubles 1 4
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 0 13
RBI’s 1 19

Ralph Branca Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 3 0
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Ebbets Field - May 12, 1947
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Home Run
Ralph Branca
Bruce Edwards
Jackie Robinson
Eddie Stanky
Arky Vaughan
Pee Wee Reese
Gene Hermanski
Carl Furillo
Dixie Walker
Earl Torgeson
Phil Masi
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Torgeson hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

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Top 9 Masi is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 8 Edwards hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 8 Andy Karl now pitching. Hermanski is walked intentionally.
Bottom 8 Walker hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Holmes. Walker reaches second base with a double. Furillo moves to third.
Bottom 8 Furillo hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Branca scores. Stanky scores.
Bottom 8 Robinson bunts towards the mound. Lanning fields it and throws to first for the out. Branca moves to third. Stanky moves to second.
Bottom 8 Stanky hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Branca moves to second.
Bottom 8 Branca hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Rowell hits a popup towards short. Reese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Elliott hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 8 Hopp hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Reese hits a popup towards short. Fernandez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Vaughan takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Edwards hits a line drive into center field. Hopp settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Johnny Lanning now pitching. Hermanski hits a popup towards short. Fernandez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Holmes hits a fly ball into left field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Neill hits a fly ball into center field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Mike McCormick pinch hits for Glenn Elliott. McCormick hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Fernandez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Walker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rowell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 There goes Robinson. The throw from Masi and he is safe. Robinson steals second.
Bottom 6 Furillo hits a line drive into center field. Hopp settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Robinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Glenn Elliott now pitching. Tommy Neill now playing left field. Bama Rowell now playing second base. Stanky hits a line drive into right field. Holmes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Torgeson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Stanky settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Masi hits a popup towards third. Vaughan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Rowell hits a popup, foul, towards third. Vaughan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Elliott takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 There's a wild pitch. Hopp moves to second.
Top 6 Carl Furillo now playing center field. Hopp takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Branca hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hermanski scores. Vaughan scores. There goes Reese trying to get to home. Holmes throws the ball in to Ryan who relays the ball to Masi, who tags Reese, who came all the way from first, for the out.
Bottom 5 Reese is walked intentionally.
Bottom 5 Vaughan hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Holmes. Vaughan reaches second base with a double. Reiser scores. Hermanski moves to third.
Bottom 5 Edwards hits a fly ball into right field. Holmes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Robinson scores.
Bottom 5 Hermanski is walked intentionally.
Bottom 5 Walker bunts towards the mound. Cooper fields it and throws to first for the out. Robinson moves to third. Reiser moves to second.
Bottom 5 Reiser hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Robinson moves to second.
Bottom 5 Robinson is hit by the pitch.
Top 5 Holmes hits a fly ball into left field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Ryan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Cooper hits a fly ball into left field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Stanky hits a line drive towards third. Elliott reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Branca hits a fly ball into right field. Holmes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards third. Elliott fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Fernandez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Torgeson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Robinson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Torgeson for the out.
Top 4 Masi hits a popup towards short. Reese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Rowell hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Walker. Rowell reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Vaughan hits a line drive, foul, towards first. Torgeson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Edwards hits a line drive towards short. Fernandez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Hermanski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Ryan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Elliott strikes out.
Top 3 Hopp hits a popup towards short. Reese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Holmes hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stanky scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Walker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Ryan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Reiser takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 There goes Robinson. The throw from Masi and he is safe. Robinson steals second.
Bottom 2 Robinson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Stanky hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Masi settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Branca hits a popup, foul, towards third. Elliott settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Ryan strikes out.
Top 2 Cooper takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 The umpire calls a balk on Branca Torgeson moves to third. Fernandez moves to second.
Top 2 Fernandez is walked intentionally.
Top 2 Torgeson hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Reiser. Torgeson reaches second base with a double. Masi goes all the way around to score.
Top 2 Masi hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Rowell strikes out.
Top 2 Elliott hits a ball on the ground towards third. Vaughan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Vaughan is walked intentionally.
Bottom 1 Edwards strikes out. There goes Walker. Here's the throw, and he's safe. There goes Hermanski. Here's the throw, and he's safe.
Bottom 1 Hermanski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Robinson scores. Reiser scores. Walker moves to second.
Bottom 1 Walker hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Reiser moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 1 Reiser hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Robinson moves to third.
Bottom 1 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Cooper fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 1 Stanky hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Hopp hits a fly ball into left field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Holmes hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stanky scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Ryan strikes out.