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June 21, 1917

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Fred Merkle Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .278
OBP .750 .348
At Bats 3 194
Hits 3 54
• Singles 2 40
• Doubles 0 10
• Triples 1 4
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 21
RBI’s 2 25

Burleigh Grimes Season Stats

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3 8 0
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Forbes Field - June 21, 1917
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Burleigh Grimes
Bill Wagner
Bunny Brief
Jake Pitler
Honus Wagner
Chuck Ward
Bill Hinchman
Max Carey
Carson Bigbee
Fred Merkle
Paddy Driscoll
 
Max Flack
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Merkle hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Flack tags and scores. Driscoll tags and moves to second. That run is unearned.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Driscoll hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ward fields it and throws to second for the out. Flack moves to third.
Top 8 Mann hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Grimes fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Flack moves to second.
Top 8 Flack hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ward misplays the ball. That's an error on Ward.
Bottom 7 Pitler hits a fly ball into center field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Carey hits a popup towards third. Deal settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Grimes hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Driscoll scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Wagner moves to second.
Bottom 7 Paddy Driscoll now playing second base. Wagner hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Seaton strikes out.
Top 7 Elliott hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hinchman who is chasing the ball. Elliott reaches third base with a triple. Deal scores. Wortman goes all the way around to score.
Top 7 Wortman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Deal moves to second.
Top 7 Deal hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ward fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Merkle scores.
Top 7 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards first. Brief scoops it up and throws to first, with Pitler covering, for the out.
Top 7 Merkle hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Carey who is chasing the ball. Merkle reaches third base with a triple.
Top 7 Doyle hits a line drive to right field. That will be extra bases. Bigbee chases after the ball, picks it up, and throws towards Pitler. Pitler fumbles the ball. That's a triple and an error on Pitler. Doyle moves all the way to home.
Top 7 Mann hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Grimes fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Ward 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 6 Hinchman 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 6 Brief hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wortman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Flack hits a fly ball into left field. Hinchman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Seaton hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Elliott hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Wortman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ward scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Wagner hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Seaton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Bigbee hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Carey scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 5 Pitler hits a fly ball into center field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Carey moves to third.
Bottom 5 Carey bunts in front of the plate. Elliott picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Elliott. Carey moves to second.
Bottom 5 Grimes 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 5 Deal hits a fly ball into right field. Bigbee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Williams hits a fly ball into left field. Hinchman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Merkle hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Mann scores. Doyle moves to second.
Top 5 Doyle hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Mann moves to third.
Top 5 Mann hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 5 Flack hits a popup towards short. Ward settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Wagner hits a fly ball into center field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Ward hits a fly ball into right field. Flack settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Hinchman hits a fly ball into right field. Flack settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Seaton hits a fly ball into left field. Hinchman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Elliott hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ward scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Wortman hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Brief hits a ball on the ground towards first. Merkle scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Brief for the out.
Bottom 3 Wagner 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 3 Bigbee hits a fly ball into center field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Deal hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hinchman who is chasing the ball. Deal reaches third base with a triple. Hinchman throws the ball in to Wagner who tags Deal trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Top 3 There goes Williams. The throw from Wagner and he is out, Ward applying the tag.
Top 3 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards first. Brief fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 3 Merkle hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Pitler fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 2 Pitler hits a fly ball into center field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Carey hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Seaton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Grimes hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Flack. Grimes reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Wagner 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 2 There goes Doyle. The throw from Wagner and he is out, Ward applying the tag.
Top 2 Doyle hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Seaton scores. Flack scores.
Top 2 Mann hits a fly ball into center field. Carey catches it for the out, and throws it away. That's an error on Carey. Elliott tags and scores. Seaton tags and moves to third. Flack tags and moves to second.
Top 2 Burleigh Grimes now pitching. Flack bunts towards the mound. Grimes fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Elliott moves to third. Seaton moves to second.
Top 2 Seaton takes first base on ball four. Elliott moves to second.
Top 2 Elliott takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Wortman hits a popup towards first. Brief settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Tom Seaton now pitching. Ward hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Seaton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Hinchman hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Williams, who is chasing the ball. Hinchman reaches third base with a triple. Brief goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Brief takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Wagner hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Flack throws the ball in to Wortman who tags Wagner trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Pitler scores.
Bottom 1 Bigbee bunts in front of the plate. Elliott fields it and throws to first for the out. Pitler moves to third.
Bottom 1 Pitler hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Mann. Pitler reaches second base with a double. Carey goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Carey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 There goes Deal. The throw from Wagner and he is out, Ward applying the tag.
Top 1 Deal hits a ball on the ground towards short. Ward fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Mann scores. Williams scores. Two runs are unearned.
Top 1 That's a pickoff.
Top 1 There goes Williams. The throw from Wagner and he is safe. Williams steals second.
Top 1 Williams takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Merkle hits a fly ball into center field. Carey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Flack tags and scores. Mann tags and moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 1 Merkle hits a popup, foul, in back of the plate. Wagner settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Wagner.
Top 1 Doyle bunts towards the mound. Miller fields it and throws to first for the out. Flack moves to third. Mann moves to second.
Top 1 Mann hits a ball on the ground towards first. Brief fields the ball and throws to Miller covering. Safe. Flack moves to second.
Top 1 Flack takes first base on ball four.