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September 14, 1949

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Jim Russell Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .231
OBP .500 .338
At Bats 4 359
Hits 2 83
• Singles 1 55
• Doubles 1 20
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 7
Walks 0 56
RBI’s 3 52

Bob Rush Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
5 16 2
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Wrigley Field - September 14, 1949
Out
Bob Rush
Mickey Owen
Phil Cavarretta
Emil Verban
Bob Ramazzotti
Roy Smalley
Hal Jeffcoat
Andy Pafko
Frank Baumholtz
Jim Russell
Connie Ryan
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 1 Out

Russell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cavarretta scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Russell for the out. Ryan moves to second.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Hal Jeffcoat now playing left field. Ryan takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Hal Jeffcoat pinch runs for Hank Sauer. Pafko hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Sauer is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 8 Smalley hits a ball on the ground towards third. Elliott fields it and throws to first for the out. Cavarretta moves to second.
Bottom 8 Cavarretta takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Bob Elliott now playing third base. Connie Ryan now playing shortstop. Johnny Antonelli now pitching. Ramazzotti hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Antonelli fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Bob Elliott pinch hits for Sibby Sisti. Elliott hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Stanky takes first base on ball four. Fletcher moves to second.
Top 8 Elbie Fletcher pinch hits for Nels Potter. Fletcher takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Crandall hits a popup, foul, towards first. Cavarretta settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Bob Rush now pitching. Sanders hits a popup, foul, towards third. Ramazzotti settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Smoky Burgess pinch hits for Johnny Schmitz. Burgess strikes out. Crandall drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Burgess out.
Bottom 7 Nels Potter now pitching. Verban hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ryan fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Owen moves to second.
Bottom 7 Owen hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sauer scores. Pafko scores.
Bottom 7 Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Sanders scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Baumholtz for the out. Sauer moves to third. Pafko moves to second.
Bottom 7 Pafko hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Smalley scores. Sauer moves to second.
Bottom 7 Sauer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Smalley moves to third.
Bottom 7 Smalley hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Russell. Smalley reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 7 Cavarretta hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Holmes hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cavarretta scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Holmes for the out.
Top 7 Sauer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ramazzotti fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Russell hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Pafko. Russell reaches second base with a double. Stanky scores. Sisti scores. Ryan goes all the way around to score.
Top 7 Ryan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Stanky moves to third. Sisti moves to second.
Top 7 Sisti takes first base on ball four. Stanky moves to second.
Top 7 Stanky takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Emil Verban now playing second base. Sain hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ramazzotti fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Ramazzotti hits a ball on the ground towards short. Sisti scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Emil Verban pinch runs for Wayne Terwilliger. Schmitz hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Holmes who is chasing the ball. Schmitz reaches third base with a triple. Pafko scores. Verban goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 6 Terwilliger is walked intentionally.
Bottom 6 Owen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ryan fields it and throws to first for the out. Pafko moves to second.
Bottom 6 Baumholtz hits a fly ball into center field. Russell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Pafko takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Crandall hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Sanders strikes out.
Top 6 Holmes takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Sauer bunts towards first. Cavarretta scoops it up and throws to first, with Terwilliger covering, for the out. Russell moves to second.
Top 6 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley misplays the ball. That's an error on Smalley.
Bottom 5 Sauer strikes out.
Bottom 5 Smalley hits a fly ball into right field. Holmes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Ramazzotti scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 5 Cavarretta hits a ball on the ground towards first. Sanders scoops it up and throws to first, with Sain covering, for the out. Ramazzotti moves to third.
Bottom 5 Ramazzotti hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ryan fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Ryan. Ramazzotti moves to second.
Top 5 Ryan hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 There goes Sisti. The throw from Owen and he is out, Smalley applying the tag.
Top 5 Sisti takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Stanky strikes out.
Bottom 4 Schmitz hits a popup towards first. Sanders settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Terwilliger hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Owen hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Sain hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ramazzotti fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Crandall takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Sanders strikes out.
Top 4 Holmes hits a ball on the ground for an out. Russell scores. Sauer moves to third.
Top 4 Sauer hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Russell moves to third.
Top 4 Russell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Baumholtz hits a fly ball into center field. Russell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Pafko hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Russell. Pafko reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Sauer hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Smalley hits a fly ball into right field. Holmes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Ryan hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Schmitz fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Sisti hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Stanky hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Cavarretta hits a fly ball into right field. Holmes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Ramazzotti hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Sain fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 2 Schmitz hits a fly ball into center field. Russell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Terwilliger is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Sain hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Schmitz fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Crandall hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sauer scores. Holmes scores. Sanders moves to second.
Top 2 Sanders takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Holmes hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Pafko. Holmes reaches second base with a double. Sauer moves to third.
Top 2 Sauer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Owen hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Baumholtz hits a fly ball towards center field. Russell fields the ball and throws to third. Ryan drops the ball. That's an out and an error on Ryan. Sauer moves to third. Pafko moves to second.
Bottom 1 Pafko hits a ball on the ground towards short. Sisti misplays the ball. That's an error on Sisti. Smalley scores. Sauer moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 1 Sauer takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Smalley hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Ramazzotti scores. Smalley moves to second.
Bottom 1 There goes Ramazzotti. The throw from Crandall and he is safe. Ramazzotti steals second.
Bottom 1 Cavarretta hits a fly ball into right field. Holmes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Ramazzotti hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stanky fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Ryan hits a fly ball into left field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Sisti is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Stanky hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ramazzotti fields it and throws to first for the out.