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August 26, 1953

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Cubs 11 13 1
Dodgers 3 10 0
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Bill Serena Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .221
OBP .250 .321
At Bats 4 190
Hits 1 42
• Singles 1 27
• Doubles 0 6
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 0 27
RBI’s 1 33

Erv Palica Season Stats

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Ebbets Field - August 26, 1953
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Home Run
Erv Palica
Rube Walker
Gil Hodges
Jim Gilliam
Bobby Morgan
Pee Wee Reese
Jackie Robinson
Duke Snider
Carl Furillo
Bill Serena
Randy Jackson
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

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

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Jackson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Furillo who is chasing the ball. Jackson reaches third base with a triple. Miksis scores. Fondy goes all the way around to score.
Top 8 Kiner hits a popup towards first. Hodges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Fondy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Metkovich scores. Miksis moves to third.
Top 8 Miksis hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Lown scores. Metkovich moves to third.
Top 8 Metkovich takes first base on ball four. Lown moves to second.
Top 8 Lown takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Jeffcoat strikes out.
Bottom 7 Furillo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Miksis fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 7 Hodges takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Robinson hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 McCullough strikes out. Walker drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws McCullough out.
Top 7 There's a wild pitch. Serena moves to second.
Top 7 Serena hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Fondy scores.
Top 7 Jackson hits a fly ball into right field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Kiner hits a ball on the ground towards short. The ball bounces off Reese, and towards Gilliam, who fields it and throws to first for the out. Fondy moves to second.
Top 7 Fondy hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Snider hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lown fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 6 Reese is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Gilliam hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Palica moves to second.
Bottom 6 Palica hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Miksis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Morgan fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Top 6 Metkovich takes first base on ball four. Jeffcoat moves to third. Lown moves to second.
Top 6 Lown bunts towards the mound. Palica fields it and throws to third for the out. Jeffcoat moves to second.
Top 6 Jeffcoat takes first base on ball four. McCullough moves to second.
Top 6 McCullough bunts towards the mound. Palica fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 6 Serena hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Walker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Serena scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Morgan takes first base on ball four. Robinson moves to third. Hodges moves to second.
Bottom 5 Furillo hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Serena settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Hodges takes first base on ball four. Robinson moves to second.
Bottom 5 Turk Lown now pitching. Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jackson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Snider hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Gilliam scores. Reese scores.
Bottom 5 Reese hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Kiner. Reese reaches second base with a double. Gilliam moves to third.
Bottom 5 Gilliam hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Serena fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 5 Jackson hits a line drive into right field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Kiner takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Fondy strikes out.
Top 5 Erv Palica now pitching. Miksis hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Walker settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Don Thompson pinch hits for Bob Milliken. Thompson hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Walker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Serena scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Morgan hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 4 Furillo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Metkovich hits a ball on the ground towards third. Morgan fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 4 Church hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Bob Milliken now pitching. Jeffcoat hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 4 McCullough takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Serena hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Loes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 The umpire calls a balk on Loes Kiner scores. Jackson moves to second.
Top 4 Jackson hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Kiner moves to third.
Top 4 Kiner hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Hodges hits a popup towards first. Fondy settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Robinson hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Snider takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Reese bunts towards the mound. Church picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Church. Reese moves to second.
Bottom 3 Gilliam strikes out.
Top 3 Fondy strikes out.
Top 3 Miksis is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Metkovich hits a popup towards short. Reese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Loes hits a ball on the ground towards short. Miksis fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Walker hits a fly ball into right field. Metkovich settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Furillo moves to third.
Bottom 2 Morgan hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Furillo moves to second.
Bottom 2 Furillo hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Church hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gilliam scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Jeffcoat hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 McCullough hits a ball on the ground towards third. Morgan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Serena hits a fly ball into right field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Hodges strikes out.
Bottom 1 Robinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Snider strikes out.
Bottom 1 There goes Reese. The throw from McCullough and he is safe. Reese steals second.
Bottom 1 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Miksis fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Bottom 1 Gilliam hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Jackson hits a fly ball into right field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Kiner hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Metkovich scores.
Top 1 Fondy hits a line drive towards short. Reese reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Miksis bunts towards the mound. Loes fields it and throws to first for the out. Metkovich moves to third.
Top 1 Metkovich hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Furillo. Metkovich reaches second base with a double.