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Fred Merkle Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .238
OBP .250 .308
At Bats 4 399
Hits 1 95
• Singles 1 66
• Doubles 0 19
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 7
Walks 0 33
RBI’s 1 42

Wilbur Cooper Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
10 5 0
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Forbes Field - August 26, 1916
Out
Wilbur Cooper
William Fischer
Doc Johnston
Jack Farmer
Doug Baird
Alex McCarthy
Carson Bigbee
Max Carey
Bill Hinchman
Fred Merkle
 
Art Fletcher
 
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Merkle bunts towards the mound. Cooper settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 12 Kauff bunts towards first. Johnston scoops it up and throws to first, with Farmer covering, for the out. Fletcher moves to second.
Top 12 Fletcher hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 11 Farmer strikes out.
Bottom 11 Cooper bunts towards third. Herzog fields it and throws to first for the out. Fischer moves to second.
Bottom 11 Fischer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 11 McCarthy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doyle scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Doyle hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Farmer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Herzog hits a ball on the ground towards third. Baird fields it and throws to first for the out. Burns moves to third.
Top 11 Robertson bunts towards the mound. Cooper fields it and throws to first for the out. Burns moves to second.
Top 11 Burns hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Fischer can't make a play. That's a base hit.
Bottom 10 Baird hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fletcher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Johnston hits a line drive into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Hinchman hits a fly ball into right field. Robertson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Benton strikes out.
Top 10 Rariden strikes out.
Top 10 Jack Farmer now playing second base. Doug Baird now playing third base. Merkle hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Bigbee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Bigbee hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Carey is walked intentionally.
Bottom 9 Jack Farmer pinch hits for Hooks Warner. Farmer strikes out.
Bottom 9 Cooper bunts towards the mound. Benton fields it and throws to first for the out. Fischer moves to second.
Bottom 9 Fischer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fletcher misplays the ball. That's an error on Fletcher.
Top 9 Kauff hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Baird settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Fletcher is walked intentionally.
Top 9 Doyle hits a ball on the ground towards third. Warner picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Warner. Doyle moves to second.
Top 9 Herzog hits a ball on the ground towards short. McCarthy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Robertson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Cooper fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 McCarthy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fletcher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Baird hits a popup, foul, towards first. Merkle settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Johnston hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hinchman moves to second.
Bottom 8 Hinchman hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Carey scores.
Bottom 8 Bigbee bunts towards third. Herzog fields it and throws to first for the out. Carey moves to second.
Bottom 8 Carey takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Burns hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Baird settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Benton hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fischer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Rariden hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Cooper fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Warner hits a fly ball into center field. Kauff settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Cooper hits a popup, foul, towards third. Herzog settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Fischer hits a fly ball towards third. Herzog can't make a play. That's a base hit.
Bottom 7 McCarthy hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Rariden fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Merkle hits a popup towards first. Johnston settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Kauff strikes out.
Top 7 Fletcher hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Carey. Fletcher reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 There goes Doyle. The throw from Fischer and he is out, McCarthy applying the tag.
Top 7 Doyle hits a popup towards second. Baird can't make a play. That's a base hit.
Bottom 6 Baird hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Benton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 There goes Johnston. The throw from Rariden and he is safe. Johnston steals second.
Bottom 6 Johnston hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. There goes Carey trying to get to home. Kauff throws the ball in to Rariden who tags Carey who's trying to score from second, for the out. Hinchman moves to third.
Bottom 6 Hinchman takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Bigbee bunts towards the right side of the infield. Doyle scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Carey moves to second.
Bottom 6 Carey hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Herzog hits a fly ball into right field. Hinchman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Robertson hits a fly ball into left field. Bigbee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 There goes Burns. The throw from Fischer and he is safe. Burns steals second.
Top 6 Burns takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Benton strikes out.
Bottom 5 Warner hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fletcher fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Cooper hits a fly ball into left field. Burns settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Fischer hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 McCarthy hits a fly ball into right field. Robertson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Rariden hits a ball on the ground towards short. McCarthy scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 5 Merkle hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Fletcher scores.
Top 5 Kauff bunts towards the mound. Cooper fields it and throws to first for the out. Fletcher moves to third.
Top 5 Fletcher hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Carey. Fletcher reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Baird hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fletcher fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Johnston hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Hinchman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fletcher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Doyle hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Herzog hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Robertson strikes out.
Bottom 3 Bigbee strikes out.
Bottom 3 Carey hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Doyle settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Warner strikes out.
Top 3 Burns hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Benton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Rariden hits a ball on the ground towards third. Warner fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Merkle hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Cooper fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Cooper hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doyle scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Fischer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Herzog can't make a play. That's a base hit.
Bottom 2 McCarthy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doyle scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Baird strikes out. Rariden drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Baird out.
Top 2 Kauff hits a ball on the ground towards first. Johnston scoops it up and throws to first, with Cooper covering, for the out.
Top 2 Fletcher hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Doyle strikes out.
Bottom 1 Johnston hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Benton, and towards Herzog, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Hinchman hits a fly ball into center field. Kauff settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Carey moves to third. Bigbee moves to second.
Bottom 1 Bigbee is hit by the pitch. Carey moves to second.
Bottom 1 Carey takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Warner hits a ball on the ground towards third. Herzog fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Herzog hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Cooper fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 1 Robertson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Burns hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fischer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.