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May 8, 1953

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Bottom 8 R H E
Cubs 0 4 1
Braves 2 5 1
Bottom 8 R H E
Cubs 0 4 1
Braves 2 5 1

Eddie Mathews Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .318
OBP .333 .455
At Bats 2 44
Hits 0 14
• Singles 0 6
• Doubles 0 1
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 1 10
RBI’s 0 14

Dutch Leonard Season Stats

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County Stadium - May 8, 1953
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Intentional Walk
Dutch Leonard
Clyde McCullough
Dee Fondy
Eddie Miksis
Bill Serena
Roy Smalley
Hank Sauer
Hal Jeffcoat
Gene Hermanski
Eddie Mathews
Johnny Logan
Bill Bruton
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Mathews is walked intentionally.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Logan hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Crandall scores. Bruton moves to third. Logan moves to second.
Bottom 8 Bruton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Crandall moves to third.
Bottom 8 Antonelli hits a line drive into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Crandall hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Dutch Leonard now pitching. Dittmer hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fondy scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Dittmer for the out.
Top 8 Miksis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Tommy Brown pinch hits for Warren Hacker. Brown hits a line drive towards third. Mathews reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 McCullough hits a fly ball into left field. Gordon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Adcock hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pafko hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Gordon bunts towards third. Serena fields it and throws to first for the out. Mathews moves to second.
Bottom 7 Mathews takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Smalley strikes out.
Top 7 Jeffcoat hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Serena strikes out.
Top 7 Sauer takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Logan hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Gene Hermanski now playing right field. Antonelli hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Crandall hits a line drive to right field. That will be extra bases. Baumholtz chases after the ball, picks it up, and throws towards Miksis. Miksis fumbles the ball. That's a triple and an error on Miksis. Crandall moves all the way to home.
Top 6 Fondy strikes out.
Top 6 Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Miksis hits a popup towards third. Mathews settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Dittmer hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Adcock hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. McCullough settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Pafko hits a popup towards third. Serena settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hacker strikes out.
Top 5 McCullough hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 5 Smalley hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Gordon hits a popup towards short. Smalley settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Mathews hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Logan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Serena fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Jeffcoat hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Serena hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sauer moves to second.
Top 4 Sauer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Fondy strikes out.
Top 4 Baumholtz strikes out.
Bottom 3 Bruton strikes out.
Bottom 3 Antonelli hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Crandall 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 3 Miksis hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Hacker bunts towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 3 McCullough hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Smalley hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Dittmer hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Adcock hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Pafko hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Jeffcoat hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Dittmer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Serena hits a fly ball into left field. Gordon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Sauer is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Gordon hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Miksis settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Mathews hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Logan hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Bruton hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Miksis settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Fondy is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Antonelli fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 1 Miksis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Mathews.