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May 9, 1916

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Pirates 4 7 3

Fred Merkle Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .207
OBP .400 .324
At Bats 4 58
Hits 1 12
• Singles 1 5
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 1 9
RBI’s 1 9

Carmen Hill Season Stats

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Forbes Field - May 9, 1916
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Single
Carmen Hill
Walter Schmidt
Doc Johnston
Otto Knabe
Doug Baird
Jimmy Smith
Max Carey
Ed Barney
Bill Hinchman
Fred Merkle
Art Fletcher
Dave Robertson
 
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Merkle hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Robertson scores. Fletcher moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Fletcher is hit by the pitch. Robertson moves to second.
Top 9 Kauff hits a popup towards short. Smith settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Doyle hits a line drive into center field. Barney settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Robertson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Baird hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Hinchman hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Rariden fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 High Pockets Kelly now playing third base. Smith hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Burns hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smith scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 8 Mathewson takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 There's a wild pitch. Rariden moves to third.
Top 8 Rariden takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 High Pockets Kelly pinch hits for Bill McKechnie. Kelly strikes out.
Bottom 7 Johnston hits a fly ball into right field. Robertson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Carey hits a popup towards the mound. Mathewson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Barney hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 There goes Kauff. The slide. Schmidt applies the tag. Kauff is out.
Top 7 Merkle strikes out.
Top 7 There goes Kauff. The throw from Schmidt and he is safe. Kauff steals third.
Top 7 Fletcher hits a fly ball into left field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Kauff hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Hinchman. Kauff reaches second base with a double. Robertson scores. Doyle scores.
Top 7 There goes Doyle. The throw from Schmidt and he is safe. Doyle steals second.
Top 7 Doyle hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Burns scores. Robertson moves to third.
Top 7 Robertson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Mathewson scores. Burns moves to third.
Top 7 Burns bunts towards the mound. Hill fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Mathewson moves to third.
Top 7 The ball gets by Schmidt for a passed ball. Mathewson moves to second.
Top 7 Walter Schmidt now catching. Carmen Hill now pitching. Jimmy Smith now playing shortstop. Mathewson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Joe Schultz pinch hits for Elmer Jacobs. Schultz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Merkle scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Schultz for the out.
Bottom 6 Dan Costello pinch hits for George Gibson. Costello hits a fly ball into right field. Robertson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Christy Mathewson now pitching. Knabe hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fletcher misplays the ball. That's an error on Fletcher. Hinchman moves to third. Baird moves to second.
Bottom 6 Baird is hit by the pitch. Hinchman moves to second.
Bottom 6 Hinchman takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Rube Benton now pitching. Wagner hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Doyle reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Rariden hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knabe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 McKechnie is hit by the pitch. Fletcher moves to third. Merkle moves to second.
Top 6 Merkle hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Doyle scores. Fletcher moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Fletcher hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Burns scores. Robertson scores. Doyle moves to second. Two runs are unearned.
Top 6 Kauff hits a popup towards first. Johnston settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Elmer Jacobs now pitching. Doyle is hit by the pitch. Robertson moves to second.
Top 6 Robertson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Roush scores. Burns moves to third.
Top 6 Burns hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Rariden scores. Roush moves to second.
Top 6 Edd Roush pinch hits for Jeff Tesreau. Roush hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McKechnie scores. Rariden moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Rariden takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 McKechnie hits a ball on the ground towards first. Johnston fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Johnston. McKechnie moves to second.
Top 6 Merkle hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Harmon fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Johnston strikes out. Rariden drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Johnston out.
Bottom 5 There's a wild pitch. Carey scores.
Bottom 5 The umpire calls a balk on Tesreau Carey moves to second.
Bottom 5 Carey hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Barney hits a ball on the ground towards first. Merkle scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Barney for the out.
Bottom 5 Harmon strikes out.
Top 5 Fletcher hits a ball on the ground towards third. Baird fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Kauff hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wagner fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Doyle hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wagner fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Robertson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Gibson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Merkle scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gibson for the out.
Bottom 4 Knabe hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Tesreau fields it and throws to home to get Hinchman. Knabe moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 4 Baird hits a line drive towards short. Fletcher reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Hinchman hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Robertson who is chasing the ball. Hinchman reaches third base with a triple.
Top 4 Burns hits a ball on the ground towards first. Johnston scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Burns for the out.
Top 4 Tesreau hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wagner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Rariden hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knabe scoops it up and throws to first for the out. McKechnie moves to second.
Top 4 McKechnie hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wagner misplays the ball. That's an error on Wagner.
Bottom 3 Wagner hits a ball on the ground towards third. McKechnie fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 There goes Carey. The throw from Rariden and he is safe. Carey steals second.
Bottom 3 Johnston strikes out.
Bottom 3 Carey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Harmon scores.
Bottom 3 Barney bunts in front of the plate. Rariden fields it and throws to first for the out. Harmon moves to third.
Bottom 3 Harmon hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Kauff. Harmon reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Merkle hits a ball on the ground towards third. Baird fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Fletcher takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 There goes Doyle. The throw from Gibson and he is safe. Doyle steals second.
Top 3 Kauff hits a fly ball into left field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Doyle hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Burns scores.
Top 3 Robertson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knabe scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Burns moves to third.
Top 3 Burns hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Barney. Burns reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Knabe is thrown out by unknown player in unknown way.
Bottom 2 Gibson hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Knabe hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Baird scores.
Bottom 2 Baird hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Kauff who is chasing the ball. Baird reaches third base with a triple. Hinchman scores.
Bottom 2 Hinchman hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Robertson. Hinchman reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Wagner hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 McKechnie is thrown out by unknown player in unknown way.
Top 2 Tesreau hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knabe fields it and throws to second for the out. McKechnie moves to third.
Top 2 Rariden takes first base on ball four. McKechnie moves to second.
Top 2 Gibson fires to second and picks off Merkle for the out.
Top 2 McKechnie hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knabe misplays the ball. That's an error on Knabe. Fletcher scores. Merkle moves to second.
Top 2 Merkle takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Fletcher hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Hinchman who is chasing the ball. Fletcher reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 1 Johnston hits a popup towards short. Fletcher settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Carey hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Barney hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Doyle settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Kauff strikes out.
Top 1 There goes Doyle. The throw from Gibson and he is safe. Doyle steals second.
Top 1 Doyle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Robertson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Harmon fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Burns hits a fly ball into left field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.