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September 5, 1951

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Smoky Burgess Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .253
OBP .333 .318
At Bats 3 178
Hits 1 45
• Singles 1 40
• Doubles 0 1
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 17
RBI’s 1 18

Gerry Staley Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
10 12 1
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Wrigley Field - September 5, 1951
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Gerry Staley
Del Rice
Stan Musial
Red Schoendienst
Billy Johnson
Solly Hemus
Peanuts Lowrey
Chuck Diering
Wally Westlake
Smoky Burgess
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Burgess hits a popup towards the mound. Staley settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Cavarretta hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 8 Jackson hits a fly ball into left field. Lowrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Diering strikes out.
Top 8 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Lowrey strikes out.
Bottom 7 Sauer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hemus fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Hermanski hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Jeffcoat hits a fly ball into right field. Westlake settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Miksis hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Staley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Westlake strikes out.
Top 7 Musial hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Bob Rush now pitching. Hemus strikes out.
Bottom 6 Frank Baumholtz pinch hits for Johnny Klippstein. Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hemus fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Smalley hits a popup in front of the plate. Rice settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Burgess hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Jackson scores. Cavarretta moves to second.
Bottom 6 Cavarretta takes first base on ball four. Jackson moves to second.
Bottom 6 Jackson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Sauer hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Hermanski hits a fly ball into right field. Westlake settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Staley hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Klippstein fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jackson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Diering hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Jeffcoat hits a fly ball into left field. Lowrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Miksis hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Klippstein strikes out.
Bottom 5 Smalley hits a fly ball into center field. Diering settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Johnny Klippstein now pitching. Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Lowrey hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Hemus scores. Westlake moves to second.
Top 5 Westlake takes first base on ball four. Hemus moves to second.
Top 5 Musial hits a popup towards first. Cavarretta settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Schoendienst hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hemus takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Burgess hits a fly ball into center field. Diering settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Cavarretta hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Jackson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Sauer hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 4 Hermanski hits a fly ball into left field. Lowrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Staley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Rice hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Johnson scores.
Top 4 Diering hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 There goes Johnson. The throw from Burgess and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 4 Johnson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Jeffcoat hits a ball on the ground for an out with unknown description.
Bottom 3 Miksis hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Hatten strikes out.
Bottom 3 Smalley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hemus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Lowrey hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Westlake hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis fields it, and throws to get the runner. And he throws it away. That's an error on Miksis. Hemus scores. Schoendienst scores. Two runs are unearned. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 3 Musial hits a ball on the ground for an out with unknown description. Hemus moves to third. Schoendienst moves to second.
Top 3 Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Staley moves to third. Hemus moves to second.
Top 3 Hemus takes first base on ball four. Staley moves to second.
Top 3 Staley hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Burgess hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schoendienst scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Cavarretta hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schoendienst scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Jackson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hemus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards second. Miksis scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 2 Diering hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Johnson moves to third.
Top 2 Johnson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Lowrey hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Westlake strikes out.
Bottom 1 Sauer hits a popup towards short. Hemus settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Hermanski hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Diering. Hermanski reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Jeffcoat hits a fly ball into left field. Lowrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Miksis strikes out.
Top 1 Musial hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Schoendienst hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Hemus hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.