Cubs @ Giants
August 21, 1945

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Bottom 9 R H E
Cubs 3 8 0
Giants 3 11 1
Bottom 9 R H E
Cubs 3 8 0
Giants 3 11 1

Johnny Rucker Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .264
OBP .250 .295
At Bats 4 318
Hits 1 84
• Singles 1 54
• Doubles 0 14
• Triples 0 9
• Home Runs 0 7
Walks 0 14
RBI’s 2 39

Claude Passeau Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
12 4 0
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Polo Grounds - August 21, 1945
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Intentional Walk
Claude Passeau
Dewey Williams
Heinz Becker
Don Johnson
Stan Hack
Lennie Merullo
Peanuts Lowrey
Andy Pafko
Bill Nicholson
Johnny Rucker
Billy Jurges
Buddy Kerr
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Rucker is walked intentionally.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Jim Mallory pinch hits for Ace Adams. Mallory bunts towards third. Hack fields it and throws to first for the out. Kerr moves to third. Jurges moves to second.
Bottom 9 Jurges bunts towards first. Becker can't make a play. That's a base hit. Kerr moves to second.
Bottom 9 Kerr hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Schemer scores.
Bottom 9 Dewey Williams now catching. Schemer hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Pafko who is chasing the ball. Schemer reaches third base with a triple.
Top 9 Passeau strikes out.
Top 9 Bill Schuster pinch runs for Paul Gillespie. Merullo hits a fly ball into right field. Ott settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Gillespie hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hausmann fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 9 Nicholson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 8 Kluttz hits a fly ball into left field. Lowrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Gardella strikes out.
Bottom 8 Ott hits a popup, foul, towards first. Becker settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Pafko hits a fly ball into right field. Ott settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Becker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Gardella throws the ball in to Hausmann who tags Becker trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Lowrey scores. That run is unearned.
Top 8 Lowrey hits a line drive into right field. Ott picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Ott. Lowrey moves to second.
Top 8 Ace Adams now pitching. Billy Jurges now playing third base. Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Hausmann hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hack fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Rucker hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Schemer scores. Kerr scores.
Bottom 7 Treadway strikes out.
Bottom 7 Red Treadway pinch hits for Jack Brewer. There's a wild pitch. Schemer moves to third. Kerr moves to second.
Bottom 7 Billy Jurges pinch hits for Nap Reyes. Jurges bunts, foul, towards third. Hack settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Kerr hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Schemer moves to second.
Bottom 7 Schemer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Hack strikes out. Kluttz drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Hack out.
Top 7 Passeau hits a fly ball into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Merullo hits a fly ball into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Kluttz hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hack fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Gardella hits a line drive into right field. Nicholson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Ott hits a popup into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Hausmann hits a ball on the ground towards short. Merullo scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Gillespie hits a popup into right field. Ott settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Nicholson hits a popup into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Pafko takes first base on ball four. Becker moves to second.
Top 6 Becker takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Lowrey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Rucker strikes out.
Bottom 5 Brewer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Merullo scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Reyes hits a ball on the ground towards short. Merullo scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Johnson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Hausmann settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hack hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Gardella. Hack reaches second base with a double. Gillespie scores.
Top 5 Passeau hits a ball on the ground towards third. Reyes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Merullo hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Kluttz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 There goes Gillespie. The throw from Kluttz and he is safe. Gillespie steals third.
Top 5 Gillespie hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Gardella. Gillespie reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Kerr hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Schemer hits a popup into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Kluttz hits a fly ball into left field. Lowrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Gardella strikes out.
Top 4 Nicholson hits a popup, foul, towards the right side of the infield. Hausmann settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Pafko hits a ball on the ground towards third. Reyes fields it and throws to second for the out. Lowrey scores.
Top 4 There goes Lowrey. The throw from Kluttz and he is safe. Lowrey steals third.
Top 4 Becker takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 There's a wild pitch. Lowrey moves to second.
Top 4 Lowrey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 3 Ott hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hack fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Hausmann hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Gillespie settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Rucker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Hack hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Brewer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Passeau hits a ball on the ground towards third. Reyes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Merullo hits a fly ball into left field. Gardella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Brewer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hack fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Reyes hits a fly ball into right field. Nicholson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Kerr hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Schemer moves to second.
Bottom 2 Schemer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Gillespie hits a fly ball into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Nicholson hits a line drive towards short. Kerr catches it and throws to first to double up Pafko.
Top 2 Pafko hits a ball on the ground towards third. Reyes fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 1 Kluttz hits a line drive towards third. Hack reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Gardella hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Gillespie settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Ott takes first base on ball four. Hausmann moves to second.
Bottom 1 Hausmann hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Rucker strikes out.
Top 1 Becker hits a fly ball into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Lowrey hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Hausmann settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Johnson strikes out. There goes Hack. Here's the throw, and he's safe.
Top 1 Hack hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.