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August 5, 1953

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Dodgers 3 9 1
Braves 4 11 0
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Dodgers 3 9 1
Braves 5 11 0

Eddie Mathews Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .299
OBP .500 .397
At Bats 3 335
Hits 1 100
• Singles 1 50
• Doubles 0 16
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 31
Walks 1 54
RBI’s 0 78

Erv Palica Season Stats

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County Stadium - August 5, 1953
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Walk
Erv Palica
Roy Campanella
Gil Hodges
Jim Gilliam
Billy Cox
Pee Wee Reese
Don Thompson
Duke Snider
Carl Furillo
Eddie Mathews
Sibby Sisti
Bill Bruton
Jack Dittmer
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Mathews takes first base on ball four. Dittmer scores. Bruton moves to third. Sisti moves to second.

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Bottom 8 Sisti takes first base on ball four. Bruton moves to second.
Bottom 8 Warren Spahn pinch runs for Walker Cooper. Bruton bunts towards the mound. Palica fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. There goes Spahn trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Bottom 8 Walker Cooper pinch hits for Ernie Johnson. Cooper hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Crandall scores. Dittmer moves to third.
Bottom 8 Dittmer is walked intentionally.
Bottom 8 Erv Palica now pitching. Gordon hits a line drive into left field. Thompson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Crandall hits a line drive into right field. The ball bounces into the stands for a ground rule double. Adcock scores.
Bottom 8 Adcock hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Thompson. Adcock reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Thompson hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Furillo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 8 Campanella strikes out.
Top 8 Sibby Sisti now playing shortstop. Ernie Johnson now pitching. Hodges strikes out.
Bottom 7 Pafko hits a fly ball into right field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Mathews is walked intentionally.
Bottom 7 Harry Hanebrink pinch hits for Jim Pendleton. Hanebrink hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gilliam misplays the ball. That's an error on Gilliam. Crandall scores. Dittmer scores. Bruton moves to third. Hanebrink moves to second. Two runs are unearned.
Bottom 7 Bruton takes first base on ball four. Crandall moves to third. Dittmer moves to second.
Bottom 7 George Crowe pinch hits for Max Surkont. Crowe strikes out.
Bottom 7 Dittmer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Crandall moves to second.
Bottom 7 Gordon strikes out.
Bottom 7 Crandall hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Snider hits a line drive into right field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Reese strikes out.
Top 7 Gilliam hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Dittmer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Adcock hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Pafko hits a fly ball into right field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Don Thompson now playing left field. Mathews hits a fly ball into left field. Thompson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Erskine hits a popup, foul, towards first. Adcock settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Don Thompson pinch runs for George Shuba. Cox hits a popup towards short. Pendleton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Shuba takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Furillo hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Campanella hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Pendleton hits a fly ball into right field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Bruton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Surkont moves to second.
Bottom 5 Surkont hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Dittmer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Gordon hits a line drive into left field. Shuba settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hodges hits a fly ball towards center. Bruton catches it and throws to first to double up Snider. Gilliam scores.
Top 5 Snider hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Gilliam moves to third.
Top 5 Reese bunts between the mound and first base. Surkont scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Reese for the out.
Top 5 Gilliam hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Crandall hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gilliam fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Adcock strikes out.
Bottom 4 Pafko hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Mathews moves to third.
Bottom 4 Mathews hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Erskine strikes out.
Top 4 Cox hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pendleton fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Shuba hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Furillo hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Pendleton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gilliam scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hodges scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Bruton for the out.
Bottom 3 Surkont bunts towards first. Hodges scoops it up and throws to first, with Gilliam covering, for the out. Dittmer moves to second.
Bottom 3 Dittmer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Campanella hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Hodges hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Snider hits a popup towards short. Pendleton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pendleton scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Gordon hits a popup, foul, towards first. Hodges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Crandall hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Adcock hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Gilliam strikes out.
Top 2 Erskine hits a popup towards short. Pendleton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 There goes Cox. The throw from Crandall and he is safe. Cox steals second.
Top 2 Cox hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Shuba hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Dittmer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Pafko strikes out.
Bottom 1 Mathews hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gilliam scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Pendleton moves to second.
Bottom 1 Pendleton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 1 Bruton takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Furillo hits a line drive into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Campanella hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Snider moves to third.
Top 1 Hodges hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Gilliam scores.
Top 1 Snider is walked intentionally.
Top 1 Reese bunts towards the mound. Surkont fields it and throws to first for the out. Gilliam moves to third.
Top 1 Gilliam hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of Gordon. Gilliam reaches second base with a double.