Reds @ Giants
September 17, 1948

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Top 7	R	H	E
Reds	5	5	1
Giants	3	4	1

Top 7	R	H	E
Reds	5	5	1
Giants	3	4	1

Johnny Vander Meer Season Stats

	Game	Season
Average	.000	.152
OBP	.000	.233
At Bats	2	66
Hits	0	10
• Singles	0	8
• Doubles	0	1
• Triples	0	0
• Home Runs	0	1
Walks	0	7
RBI’s	0	1

Ken Trinkle Season Stats

Wins	Losses	Saves
4	5	6

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Polo Grounds - September 17, 1948

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Out

Ken Trinkle

Wes Westrum

Johnny Mize

Jack Lohrke

Sid Gordon

Buddy Kerr

Bobby Thomson

Whitey Lockman

Willard Marshall

Johnny Vander Meer

Dewey Williams

Count: - , 0 Outs

Count: - , 1 Out

Vander Meer bunts between the mound and first base. Trinkle scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Vander Meer for the out. Williams moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:

Top 7 Williams takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 6 Thomson strikes out.

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

Bottom 6 Benny Zientara now playing second base. Mize hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 6 Stallcup hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr fields it and throws to second for the out.

Top 6 Sauer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr fields it and throws to second for the out. Adams scores.

Top 6 Wyrostek hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mize fields it and throws to second for the out. Adams moves to third.

Top 6 Kluszewski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Adams moves to second.

Top 6 Ken Trinkle now pitching. Adams is hit by the pitch.

Bottom 5 Gordon hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 5 Lockman hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Sauer. Lockman reaches second base with a double. Layton scores.

Bottom 5 Lohrke strikes out. There goes Kerr. He's safe. There goes Layton. Here's the throw, and he's safe.

Bottom 5 Les Layton pinch hits for Andy Hansen. Layton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Kerr moves to third.

Bottom 5 Kerr takes first base on ball four.

Bottom 5 Westrum is called out on strikes.

Top 5 Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hansen fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 5 Hatton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mize scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Hatton for the out.

Top 5 Andy Hansen now pitching. Vander Meer strikes out.

Bottom 4 Thomson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Adams settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 4 Marshall hits a line drive towards right. Baumholtz chases it down, and drops it. That's an error on Baumholtz.

Bottom 4 Mize hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Williams settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 4 Gordon hits a popup, foul, towards third. Hatton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 4 Williams strikes out.

Top 4 Stallcup hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run. That run is unearned.

Top 4 Sauer hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Westrum settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

Top 4 Wyrostek hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lohrke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 4 Kluszewski hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

Top 4 Adams hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr misplays the ball. That's an error on Kerr.

Bottom 3 Lockman hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 3 Lohrke hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Vander Meer fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.

Bottom 3 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Adams scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 3 Kerr hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 3 There goes Baumholtz. The throw from Westrum and he is out, Kerr applying the tag.

Top 3 Baumholtz is hit by the pitch.

Top 3 Hatton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mize scoops it up and throws to first, with Jones covering, for the out.

Top 3 Vander Meer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Bottom 2 Westrum strikes out.

Bottom 2 Thomson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Adams fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Mize scores.

Bottom 2 Marshall hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Mize moves to third.

Bottom 2 Mize takes first base on ball four.

Top 2 Williams strikes out.

Top 2 Stallcup hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 2 Sauer strikes out.

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

Bottom 1 Lockman strikes out.

Bottom 1 Lohrke hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hatton fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 1 Wyrostek hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lohrke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

Top 1 Kluszewski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Hatton scores.

Top 1 Adams hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gordon fields it and throws to first for the out.

Top 1 Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mize scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Baumholtz for the out. Hatton moves to second.

Top 1 Hatton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.

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Johnny Vander Meer Season Stats

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Vander Meer bunts between the mound and first base. Trinkle scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Vander Meer for the out. Williams moves to second.

Reds @ Giants
September 17, 1948