Reds @ Giants
September 2, 1953

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Reds 1 6 1
Giants 4 5 0
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Reds 1 6 1
Giants 4 5 0

Daryl Spencer Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .211
OBP .667 .286
At Bats 2 336
Hits 1 71
• Singles 0 34
• Doubles 1 14
• Triples 0 4
• Home Runs 0 19
Walks 1 32
RBI’s 2 51

Frank Smith Season Stats

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5 1 1
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Polo Grounds - September 2, 1953
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Walk
Frank Smith
Andy Seminick
Ted Kluszewski
Rocky Bridges
Bobby Adams
Roy McMillan
Jim Greengrass
George Lerchen
Willard Marshall
Daryl Spencer
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Spencer takes first base on ball four.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Frank Smith now pitching. George Lerchen now playing center field. Rhodes hits a fly ball into center field. Lerchen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Bell strikes out.
Top 8 McMillan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. There goes Lerchen trying to get to third. Thomson throws the ball in to Hofman, who tags Lerchen for the out.
Top 8 Adams strikes out.
Top 8 George Lerchen pinch hits for Herm Wehmeier. Lerchen hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Thomson hits a fly ball into left field. Greengrass settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Mueller hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Dark moves to third.
Bottom 7 Dark takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Hofman hits a fly ball into center field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Gomez hits a ball on the ground towards short. McMillan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Bridges hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hofman fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Seminick hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Greengrass hits a popup, foul, towards first. Gilbert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Westrum strikes out.
Bottom 6 Gilbert hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bridges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Spencer takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Rhodes hits a fly ball into left field. Greengrass settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Marshall hits a fly ball into left field. Rhodes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Kluszewski hits a popup towards short. Dark settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Bell hits a fly ball into right field. Mueller settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Thomson hits a popup, foul, towards third. Adams settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Mueller hits a fly ball into left field. Greengrass settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Herm Wehmeier now pitching. Dark hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bridges scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 McMillan hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gilbert scoops it up and throws to first, with Gomez covering, for the out.
Top 5 Adams takes first base on ball four. Seminick moves to third. Bridges moves to second.
Top 5 Grady Hatton pinch hits for Bud Podbielan. Hatton is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Bridges takes first base on ball four. Seminick moves to second.
Top 5 Seminick hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Marshall scores.
Top 5 Greengrass hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Westrum settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Marshall hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Thomson. Marshall reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Hofman strikes out.
Bottom 4 Gomez hits a fly ball into left field. Greengrass settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Westrum takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Gilbert hits a ball on the ground towards first. Kluszewski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gilbert for the out.
Top 4 Kluszewski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gilbert scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Kluszewski for the out.
Top 4 Bell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 McMillan hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Adams hits a fly ball into left field. Rhodes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Adams fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Rhodes hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Thomson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bridges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Mueller hits a ball on the ground towards first. Kluszewski scoops it up and throws to first, with Podbielan covering, for the out.
Top 3 Podbielan strikes out.
Top 3 Bridges hits a popup towards short. Dark settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Seminick strikes out.
Bottom 2 Podbielan fires to first and picks off Dark.
Bottom 2 Dark is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 2 Hofman hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Seminick settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Gomez hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bridges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Greengrass hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hofman fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Marshall hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Kluszewski hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Westrum hits a fly ball into left field. Greengrass settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Gilbert takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Spencer hits a line drive into left field. That will be extra bases. Greengrass fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on Greengrass. Dark scores. Mueller scores. Thomson goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Rhodes strikes out.
Bottom 1 Thomson takes first base on ball four. Mueller moves to second.
Bottom 1 Mueller hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Dark moves to third.
Bottom 1 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bridges fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 1 Hofman hits a popup towards first. Kluszewski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gomez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 McMillan hits a fly ball into left field. Rhodes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Adams hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.