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May 17, 1951

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Ralph Kiner Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .329
OBP .667 .459
At Bats 2 79
Hits 1 26
• Singles 0 15
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 1 6
Walks 1 19
RBI’s 3 16

Sheldon Jones Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 3 2
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Forbes Field - May 17, 1951
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Double
Sheldon Jones
Ray Noble
Monte Irvin
Eddie Stanky
Hank Thompson
Al Dark
Whitey Lockman
Bobby Thomson
Don Mueller
Ralph Kiner
Gus Bell
George Metkovich
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Kiner hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Lockman. Kiner reaches second base with a double. Metkovich scores. Bell goes all the way around to score. Two runs are unearned.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 6 Bell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Dickson scores. Metkovich moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Metkovich hits a ball on the ground towards third. Thompson juggles the ball. That's an error on Thompson. Dickson moves to third.
Bottom 6 Castiglione hits a popup towards short. Dark settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Dickson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Strickland scores. Dickson moves to second.
Bottom 6 Sheldon Jones now pitching. McCullough bunts towards the mound. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out. Strickland moves to second.
Bottom 6 Strickland takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Thompson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Strickland settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Mueller hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is bouncing around. Metkovich is chasing the ball. Mueller rounds third and comes all way home with an inside-the-park home run.
Top 6 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards third. Westlake fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Stanky hits a fly ball into left field. Restelli settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Restelli hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dark fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Westlake takes first base on ball four. Kiner moves to second.
Bottom 5 Kiner takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Bell hits a line drive towards first. Irvin catches it and steps on first to double up Metkovich.
Bottom 5 Monty Kennedy now pitching. Metkovich hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 5 Artie Wilson pinch hits for Larry Jansen. Wilson hits a fly ball into left field. Restelli settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Irvin hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Thomson moves to third.
Top 5 Thomson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Lockman hits a fly ball into center field. Metkovich settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Noble hits a ball on the ground towards short. Castiglione scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Castiglione hits a fly ball into right field. Mueller settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Dickson hits a fly ball into right field. Mueller settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 McCullough hits a popup in front of the plate. Noble settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Strickland hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Restelli moves to second.
Bottom 4 Restelli hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Murry Dickson now pitching. Thompson strikes out.
Top 4 Mueller takes first base on ball four. Irvin moves to third. Stanky moves to second.
Top 4 Dark hits a popup towards short. Castiglione settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Stanky takes first base on ball four. Irvin moves to second.
Top 4 Jansen hits a fly ball into right field. Bell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Bob Friend now pitching. Irvin takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Westlake hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Kiner hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 3 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Irvin scoops it up and throws to first, with Jansen covering, for the out. McCullough scores. Castiglione moves to third. Metkovich moves to second.
Bottom 3 Metkovich hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Strickland scores. McCullough moves to third. Castiglione moves to second.
Bottom 3 Castiglione takes first base on ball four. Strickland moves to third. McCullough moves to second.
Bottom 3 Danny Murtaugh pinch hits for Bill Koski. Murtaugh hits a fly ball into left field. Lockman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 McCullough hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Strickland moves to second.
Bottom 3 Strickland hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Thomson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Westlake fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Lockman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Castiglione scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Noble hits a ball on the ground towards third. Westlake fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Restelli hits a popup, foul, towards first. Irvin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Westlake hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Kiner hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Noble settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 There goes Thompson. The slide. McCullough applies the tag. Thompson is out.
Top 2 Thompson hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Metkovich who is chasing the ball. Thompson reaches third base with a triple. Mueller goes all the way around to score.
Top 2 Mueller bunts towards the mound. Koski fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 2 Dark hits a line drive into center field. Metkovich settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Stanky hits a line drive into left field. Restelli settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Irvin scoops it up and throws to first, with Jansen covering, for the out.
Bottom 1 Metkovich hits a fly ball into left field. Lockman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Castiglione hits a fly ball into left field. Lockman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Bill Koski now pitching. Jansen hits a fly ball into center field. Metkovich settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Irvin takes first base on ball four. Thompson scores. Noble moves to third. Lockman moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 1 Thomson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Strickland settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Lockman takes first base on ball four. Dark scores. Thompson moves to third. Noble moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 1 Noble hits a ball on the ground towards third. Westlake juggles the ball. That's an error on Westlake. Stanky scores. Dark moves to third. Thompson moves to second.
Top 1 Thompson takes first base on ball four. Dark moves to second.
Top 1 Mueller is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Dark hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Stanky moves to third.
Top 1 Stanky takes first base on ball four.