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August 1, 1920

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Bottom 9	R	H	E
Reds	2	8	0
Giants	1	8	1

Bottom 9	R	H	E
Reds	2	8	0
Giants	3	9	1

Vern Spencer Season Stats

	Game	Season
Average	.000	.222
OBP	.000	.269
At Bats	3	63
Hits	0	14
• Singles	0	13
• Doubles	0	0
• Triples	0	1
• Home Runs	0	0
Walks	0	4
RBI’s	0	7

Dolf Luque Season Stats

Wins	Losses	Saves
7	6	1

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Polo Grounds - August 1, 1920

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Single

Dolf Luque

Ivey Wingo

Jake Daubert

Morrie Rath

Heinie Groh

Larry Kopf

Pat Duncan

Edd Roush

Greasy Neale

Vern Spencer

High Pockets Kelly

Frankie Frisch

Final Stats

	Runs	Hits	Errors	LOB
Cincinnati Reds	2	8	0	7
New York Giants	3	9	1	4
Winning Pitcher	Fred Toney
Losing Pitcher	Dolf Luque
Save	(none)
Game Winning RBI	Vern Spencer
Attendance	35,000
Time of Game	1 hour 50 minutes

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Count: - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Spencer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Frisch scores. Kelly scores.

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PRIOR PLAYS:

Bottom 9 Kelly hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Roush. Kelly reaches second base with a double. Youngs scores. Frisch moves to third.

Bottom 9 Frisch hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Youngs moves to third.

Bottom 9 Youngs hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rath fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.

Bottom 9 Bancroft hits a fly ball into center field. Roush settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 9 Burns hits a ball on the ground towards third. Groh fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 9 Luque hits a fly ball into center field. Spencer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 9 Wingo hits a popup towards short. Bancroft settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 9 Neale hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doyle scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 9 The ball gets by Smith for a passed ball. Kopf moves to second.

Top 9 Fred Toney now pitching. Kopf hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.

Bottom 8 Lee King pinch hits for Phil Douglas. King hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rath scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 8 Smith hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.

Bottom 8 Doyle hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Luque fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 8 Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards first. Daubert scoops it up and throws to first, with Luque covering, for the out.

Top 8 Duncan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Frisch fields it and races to the third base bag for the out. Score that a fielder's choice.

Top 8 There goes Roush. The throw from Smith and he is safe. Roush steals second.

Top 8 Roush hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

Top 8 Daubert hits a line drive into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 8 Rath hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Doyle settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 7 Kelly hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Rath catches it and throws to first to double up Youngs.

Bottom 7 Frisch hits a fly ball into center field. Roush settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 7 Youngs hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.

Top 7 Groh hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bancroft scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 7 Luque hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Douglas fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 7 Wingo hits a ball on the ground towards first. Kelly scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Wingo for the out.

Bottom 6 Bancroft hits a ball on the ground towards first. Daubert scoops it up and throws to first, with Luque covering, for the out.

Bottom 6 Burns hits a fly ball into left field. Duncan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 6 Douglas hits a fly ball into right field. Neale settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 6 Neale hits a fly ball into center field. Spencer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 6 Kopf bunts in front of the plate. Smith fields it and throws to first for the out. Roush moves to third. Duncan moves to second.

Top 6 Duncan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Roush moves to second.

Top 6 Roush bunts towards third. Frisch fields it and throws to second for the out.

Top 6 Daubert hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

Bottom 5 Smith hits a popup towards third. Groh settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 5 Doyle hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kopf scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 5 Spencer is called out on strikes.

Top 5 Rath strikes out.

Top 5 The ball gets by Smith for a passed ball. Luque moves to third. Groh moves to second.

Top 5 Groh hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bancroft fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Luque moves to second.

Top 5 Luque hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kopf scores.

Top 5 Wingo hits a popup towards short. Bancroft settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 5 Neale hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Douglas fields it and throws to first for the out. Kopf moves to second.

Top 5 Kopf takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 4 Kelly strikes out.

Bottom 4 There goes Frisch. The throw from Wingo and he is safe. Frisch steals second.

Bottom 4 Frisch hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Youngs moves to third.

Bottom 4 Youngs hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.

Bottom 4 Bancroft hits a fly ball into center field. Roush settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 4 Burns hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rath scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 4 Duncan hits a fly ball into center field. Spencer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 4 Roush hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 4 Daubert hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Douglas fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 3 Douglas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kopf scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 3 Wingo fires to first and picks off Smith.

Bottom 3 Smith hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kopf fields it and throws to second for the out.

Bottom 3 Doyle takes first base on ball four.

Top 3 Rath hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 3 Groh hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Douglas fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 3 Luque hits a ball on the ground towards third. Frisch fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 2 There goes Kelly. The throw from Wingo and he is out, Rath applying the tag.

Bottom 2 Spencer hits a popup towards short. Kopf settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 2 Kelly hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kopf fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.

Bottom 2 Frisch hits a ball on the ground towards first. Daubert scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Frisch for the out.

Top 2 Wingo strikes out.

Top 2 Neale hits a line drive into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 2 Kopf hits a ball on the ground towards third. Frisch fields it and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 1 Youngs is called out on strikes.

Bottom 1 Bancroft hits a fly ball into right field. Neale settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Burns hits a fly ball into left field. Duncan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 1 Phil Douglas now pitching. Duncan hits a fly ball towards left. Burns catches it and throws to home to double up Rath.

Top 1 Roush bunts towards the mound. Barnes fields it and throws to first for the out. Rath moves to third. Daubert moves to second.

Top 1 Daubert hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Groh scores. Rath moves to second. That run is unearned.

Top 1 Rath bunts towards the mound. Barnes fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Groh moves to third.

Top 1 Groh hits a fly ball towards right. Youngs settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Youngs. Groh moves to second.

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