Tigers @ Athletics
July 14, 1940

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Top 9 R H E
Tigers 2 9 2
Athletics 5 10 0
Top 9 R H E
Tigers 2 9 2
Athletics 5 10 0

Frank Croucher Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .231
OBP .250 .231
At Bats 4 13
Hits 1 3
• Singles 1 3
• Doubles 0 0
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 0
RBI’s 0 1

Nels Potter Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
6 6 0
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Shibe Park - July 14, 1940
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Out
Nels Potter
Frankie Hayes
Dick Siebert
Al Rubeling
Joe Gantenbein
Bill Lillard
Bob Johnson
Sam Chapman
Dee Miles
Frank Croucher
Birdie Tebbetts
Billy Sullivan

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Detroit Tigers 2 9 2 8
Philadelphia Athletics 5 10 0 11
Winning Pitcher Nels Potter
Losing Pitcher Johnny Gorsica
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Nels Potter
Attendance 21,030
Time of Game 2 hours 15 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Croucher hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Potter fields it and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Birdie Tebbetts pinch hits for Al Benton. Tebbetts takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Metha hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gantenbein fields it and throws to first for the out. Sullivan moves to third.
Top 9 Sullivan hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Johnson. Sullivan reaches second base with a double.
Top 9 Fox hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Rubeling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Johnson hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Sullivan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Chapman hits a fly ball into right field. Fox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Miles hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Gantenbein hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 York hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lillard fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 8 Greenberg hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Gehringer moves to second.
Top 8 Gehringer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 McCosky hits a popup towards first. Siebert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Potter hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Sullivan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Lillard takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Rubeling hits a fly ball into right field. Fox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Hayes scores.
Bottom 7 Hayes hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Fox who is chasing the ball. Hayes reaches third base with a triple. Johnson goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 7 Siebert hits a popup, foul, towards first. York settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Scat Metha now playing third base. Al Benton now pitching. Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Croucher hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Earl Averill pinch hits for Johnny Gorsica. Averill hits a fly ball into right field. Miles settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bruce Campbell pinch hits for Red Kress. Campbell takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Sullivan hits a fly ball into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 There goes Fox. The throw from Hayes and he is safe. Fox steals second.
Top 7 Fox hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Chapman strikes out.
Bottom 6 Miles hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gorsica fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Gantenbein bunts towards the mound. Gorsica fields it and throws to first for the out. Lillard moves to third. Potter moves to second.
Bottom 6 Potter hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Rubeling scores. Lillard moves to second.
Bottom 6 Lillard hits a ball on the ground towards unknown player. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Hayes scores. Rubeling moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 6 Rubeling hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hayes moves to third.
Bottom 6 Hayes hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 York hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Potter fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Greenberg hits a fly ball into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. McCosky scores.
Top 6 Gehringer hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McCosky moves to third.
Top 6 McCosky hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Siebert hits a ball on the ground towards first. York scoops it up and throws to first, with Gorsica covering, for the out.
Bottom 5 Johnson is hit by the pitch. Miles moves to third. Chapman moves to second.
Bottom 5 Chapman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Miles moves to second.
Bottom 5 Miles hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gorsica fields it and throws to home to get Potter. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 5 Gantenbein hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Potter moves to third.
Bottom 5 Potter hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Fox. Potter reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Croucher is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Gorsica hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gantenbein fields it and throws to first for the out. Sullivan moves to second.
Top 5 Kress hits a fly ball into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Fox scores.
Top 5 Sullivan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Fox moves to third.
Top 5 Fox hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Lillard hits a popup towards short. Croucher settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Rubeling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Croucher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Hayes hits a ball on the ground towards short. Croucher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 York hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Greenberg hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gantenbein fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Gehringer hits a fly ball into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Siebert hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Johnson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Chapman hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Miles hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Gantenbein hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gorsica fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 McCosky hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rubeling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Croucher hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Gorsica strikes out.
Top 3 Kress strikes out.
Bottom 2 Potter hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Lillard hits a ball on the ground towards short. Croucher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 There goes Rubeling. The throw from Sullivan and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Bottom 2 Rubeling hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Hayes hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Sullivan hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Fox hits a fly ball into right field. Miles settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 York hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Siebert hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Miles moves to second.
Bottom 1 Chapman strikes out.
Bottom 1 Miles hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gorsica juggles the ball. That's an error on Gorsica.
Bottom 1 Gantenbein hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Greenberg is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Gehringer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rubeling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 There's a wild pitch. McCosky moves to second.
Top 1 McCosky takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Croucher hits a popup towards third. Gantenbein settles under it and makes the catch for the out.