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May 2, 1958

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Eddie Mathews Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .288
OBP .750 .348
At Bats 2 59
Hits 2 17
• Singles 2 10
• Doubles 0 1
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 1 6
RBI’s 2 13

Don Elston Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 0 1
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Wrigley Field - May 2, 1958
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Walk
Don Elston
El Tappe
Dale Long
Tony Taylor
Johnny Goryl
Ernie Banks
Walt Moryn
Bobby Thomson
Lee Walls
Eddie Mathews
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Mathews takes first base on ball four.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Logan hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Taylor settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 El Tappe now catching. Don Elston now pitching. Schoendienst hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Walls hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Taylor strikes out.
Bottom 8 Frank Ernaga pinch hits for Turk Lown. Ernaga strikes out.
Bottom 8 Del Rice now catching. Dick Littlefield now pitching. Bobby Adams pinch hits for Sammy Taylor. Adams takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Lew Burdette pinch runs for Carl Sawatski. Joe Adcock pinch hits for Carl Willey. Adcock is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Sawatski takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Pafko hits a ball on the ground towards third. Goryl fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Turk Lown now pitching. Roach hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Carl Willey now pitching. Thomson hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Logan fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Bottom 7 Goryl takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 There's a wild pitch. Banks scores. Long moves to second.
Bottom 7 Long hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Walls scores. Banks moves to third.
Bottom 7 Moryn hits a fly ball into right field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Banks hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Taylor scores. Walls moves to second.
Bottom 7 Ernie Johnson now pitching. Walls bunts towards third. Mathews picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Mathews. Taylor moves to third.
Bottom 7 Taylor hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Jim Bolger pinch hits for Ed Mayer. Bolger hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 7 Taylor hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Thomson moves to second.
Bottom 7 Thomson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 Goryl hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Torre hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Aaron hits a ball on the ground towards third. Goryl fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Logan moves to third.
Top 7 Mathews takes first base on ball four. Logan moves to second.
Top 7 Logan takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Long hits a line drive towards short. Logan reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Moryn hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Banks hits a popup towards third. Mathews settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Mel Roach now playing left field. Andy Pafko now playing right field. Walls hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Mayer fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Conley hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Roach scores. Pafko moves to second.
Top 6 Sawatski is called out on strikes.
Top 6 Andy Pafko pinch hits for Harry Hanebrink. Pafko takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Ed Mayer now pitching. Mel Roach pinch hits for Wes Covington. Roach hits a line drive into right field. Walls picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Walls. Roach moves to second.
Bottom 5 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schoendienst fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Chuck Tanner pinch hits for Dick Drott. Tanner hits a fly ball into left field. Covington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Taylor hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Torre hits a line drive towards short. Banks reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Aaron hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Schoendienst scores. Logan moves to second.
Top 5 Mathews hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Conley tags and scores. Schoendienst tags and moves to third.
Top 5 Logan takes first base on ball four. Conley moves to third. Schoendienst moves to second.
Top 5 Schoendienst takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 There's a wild pitch. Conley moves to second.
Top 5 Conley bunts towards first. Long fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Sawatski hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Thomson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Goryl hits a fly ball into right field. Hanebrink settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Long hits a popup towards third. Mathews settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Moryn is hit by the pitch. Banks moves to second.
Bottom 4 Banks hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Sawatski fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Hanebrink hits a popup towards short. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Covington hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 4 Torre hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Mathews tags and scores. Aaron tags and moves to third.
Top 4 Aaron hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Walls. Aaron reaches second base with a double. Mathews moves to third.
Top 4 Mathews hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Logan hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Walls hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schoendienst settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 There goes Taylor. The throw from Sawatski to Logan and they have Taylor trapped. The throw over to Torre, who applies the tag for the out.
Bottom 3 Conley spins and fires to second, with Logan covering, and Drott is picked off.
Bottom 3 Taylor hits a ball on the ground and there's an error on the play. Drott moves to second.
Bottom 3 Drott hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Conley strikes out.
Top 3 Sawatski hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Taylor strikes out.
Bottom 2 Thomson strikes out.
Bottom 2 Goryl takes first base on ball four. Long moves to second.
Bottom 2 Long hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Moryn hits a fly ball into left field. Covington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Hanebrink hits a popup towards first. Long settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Covington strikes out.
Top 2 Torre hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Banks hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schoendienst settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Walls hits a fly ball into center field. Aaron settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Taylor is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Aaron is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Mathews hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Walls throws the ball in to Banks who tags Mathews trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Schoendienst scores.
Top 1 Logan hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Schoendienst moves to third.
Top 1 Schoendienst hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Walls. Schoendienst reaches second base with a double.