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May 8, 1948

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Elmer Valo Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .286
OBP .500 .412
At Bats 3 28
Hits 1 8
• Singles 1 6
• Doubles 0 1
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 1 6
RBI’s 0 1

Bob Gillespie Season Stats

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Shibe Park - May 8, 1948
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Double
Bob Gillespie
Aaron Robinson
Tony Lupien
Floyd Baker
Luke Appling
Cass Michaels
Bob Kennedy
Dave Philley
Taffy Wright
Elmer Valo
Barney McCosky
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Valo hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Wright. Valo reaches second base with a double. McCosky goes all the way around to score.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 McCosky hits a ball on the ground towards first. Lupien fields the ball and throws to Gillespie covering. Safe.
Bottom 8 Joost hits a popup in front of the plate. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Scheib hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A grand slam home run.
Bottom 8 Suder takes first base on ball four. Majeski moves to third. Chapman moves to second.
Bottom 8 Guerra hits a fly ball into left field. Kennedy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Fain scores.
Bottom 8 Chapman takes first base on ball four. Valo scores. Fain moves to third. Majeski moves to second.
Bottom 8 Majeski hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Valo moves to third. Fain moves to second.
Bottom 8 Fain hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Valo moves to second.
Bottom 8 Valo hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Michaels hits a ball on the ground towards short. Joost scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Kennedy hits a popup towards short. Joost settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Philley hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of McCosky. Philley reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fain scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Robinson for the out.
Bottom 7 McCosky hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Joost hits a fly ball into right field. Wright settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Scheib hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gillespie fields it and throws to first for the out. Suder moves to second.
Bottom 7 Suder hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Wright hits a line drive towards second. Suder catches it and throws to second to double up Appling. The throw to first to get Lupien, and that's a triple play.
Top 7 Lupien hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Appling moves to second.
Top 7 Appling hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 6 Guerra hits a popup towards short. Michaels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Chapman hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Baker settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bob Gillespie now pitching. Majeski hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Baker hits a fly ball into right field. Valo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Ralph Hodgin pinch hits for Jim Goodwin. Hodgin hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder fields it and throws to second for the out. Philley scores. Kennedy moves to third.
Top 6 Michaels takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Kennedy hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of McCosky. Kennedy reaches second base with a double. Philley moves to third.
Top 6 Philley hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fain fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Robinson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Fain hits a popup, foul, towards third. Appling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Valo takes first base on ball four. Scheib moves to third. Joost moves to second.
Bottom 5 McCosky hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Suder scores.
Bottom 5 Joost takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Scheib hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Kennedy. Scheib reaches second base with a double. Guerra scores. Suder moves to third.
Bottom 5 Jim Goodwin now pitching. Suder hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Fain scores. Majeski scores. Guerra moves to second.
Bottom 5 Guerra takes first base on ball four. Fain moves to third. Majeski moves to second.
Bottom 5 Chapman hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Majeski takes first base on ball four. Fain moves to second.
Bottom 5 Fain hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Wright hits a fly ball into right field. Valo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Lupien hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fain scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Lupien for the out.
Top 5 Appling hits a line drive towards first. Fain reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Valo hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 McCosky hits a line drive into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Joost hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Papish juggles the ball. That's an error on Papish. Scheib moves to third.
Bottom 4 Scheib hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Frank Papish now pitching. Suder hits a ball on the ground towards third. Appling fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Baker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. There goes Philley trying to get to home. McCosky throws the ball in to Guerra who tags Philley, who's trying to score from second, for the out. Kennedy moves to second.
Top 4 Jack Wallaesa pinch hits for Glen Moulder. Wallaesa hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Guerra settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Michaels hits a line drive into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Kennedy hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Philley moves to second.
Top 4 Philley hits a ball on the ground towards third. Majeski fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 3 Guerra hits a line drive into left field. Kennedy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Chapman hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Majeski hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Moulder juggles the ball. That's an error on Moulder.
Bottom 3 Fain hits a fly ball into right field. Wright settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fain scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Robinson for the out.
Top 3 Wright hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fain scoops it up and throws to first, with Scheib covering, for the out. Baker moves to third. Appling moves to second.
Top 3 Lupien hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Suder settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Appling hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Baker moves to second.
Top 3 Baker takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Valo hits a fly ball into right field. Wright settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 McCosky hits a popup towards short. Michaels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Glen Moulder now pitching. Joost hits a popup, foul, towards first. Lupien settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Jim Delsing pinch hits for Orval Grove. Delsing hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Michaels hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Suder catches it and throws to first to double up Kennedy.
Top 2 Kennedy hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Philley moves to second.
Top 2 Philley takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Scheib is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Suder bunts towards first. Lupien scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Suder for the out. Chapman scores. Guerra moves to second.
Bottom 1 Guerra hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Fain scores. Majeski scores. Chapman moves to third.
Bottom 1 Chapman takes first base on ball four. Fain moves to third. Majeski moves to second.
Bottom 1 Majeski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Joost scores. McCosky scores. Fain moves to second.
Bottom 1 Fain takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Valo bunts in front of the plate. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out. Joost moves to third. McCosky moves to second.
Bottom 1 McCosky hits a ball on the ground towards third. Appling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Joost moves to second.
Bottom 1 Joost hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Robinson hits a fly ball into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Wright takes first base on ball four. Appling moves to second.
Top 1 Lupien hits a line drive into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Appling takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Baker hits a line drive into left field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.