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June 4, 1940

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Charlie Gehringer Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .272
OBP .000 .379
At Bats 4 81
Hits 0 22
• Singles 0 17
• Doubles 0 3
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 13
RBI’s 0 13

Ed Heusser Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 1 3
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Shibe Park - June 4, 1940
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Out
Ed Heusser
Frankie Hayes
Dick Siebert
Benny McCoy
Al Rubeling
Bill Lillard
Bob Johnson
Sam Chapman
Wally Moses
Charlie Gehringer
Dick Bartell
Scat Metha
Billy Sullivan
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Gehringer hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebert scoops it up and throws to first, with Heusser covering, for the out.

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Top 8 McCosky strikes out.
Top 8 Scat Metha pinch runs for Red Kress. Ed Heusser now pitching. Bartell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rubeling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Sullivan moves to third. Metha moves to second.
Top 8 Red Kress pinch hits for Archie McKain. Kress hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sullivan moves to second.
Top 8 Sullivan takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Higgins hits a popup towards first. Siebert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Campbell hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 7 Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Moses bunts towards the mound. McKain fields it and throws to first for the out. Babich moves to second.
Bottom 7 McCoy hits a fly ball into right field. Campbell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Babich hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 York strikes out.
Top 7 Greenberg hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. McCoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Gehringer hits a fly ball into right field. Moses settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Lillard hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Rubeling takes first base on ball four. Siebert moves to second.
Bottom 6 Chapman hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Siebert hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Sullivan fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Billy Sullivan now catching. Archie McKain now pitching. Hayes takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 McCosky hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lillard fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Bartell hits a fly ball into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lynn Nelson pinch hits for Dizzy Trout. Nelson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lillard fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Averill moves to second.
Top 6 Earl Averill pinch hits for Birdie Tebbetts. Averill hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebert fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Higgins takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Moses hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 5 McCoy hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Babich bunts towards first. York fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first, with Gehringer covering. It's a double play.
Bottom 5 Lillard hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Campbell hits a popup, foul, towards third. Rubeling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 York hits a fly ball towards left. Johnson catches it and throws to home to double up Greenberg.
Top 5 Greenberg hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Chapman who is chasing the ball. Greenberg reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 4 Dizzy Trout now pitching. Rubeling hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Chapman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Moses scores. Johnson scores. Siebert moves to second.
Bottom 4 Siebert takes first base on ball four. Moses moves to third. Johnson moves to second.
Bottom 4 Hayes hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. McCoy scores.
Bottom 4 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Moses hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Campbell. Moses reaches second base with a double. Babich scores. McCoy moves to third.
Bottom 4 McCoy takes first base on ball four. Babich moves to second.
Bottom 4 Babich hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bridges fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Lillard takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Gehringer hits a line drive towards first. Siebert reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 McCosky hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Bridges moves to second.
Top 4 Bartell hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Bridges hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Tebbetts hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. McCoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Rubeling hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Chapman takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Siebert hits a line drive into right field. Campbell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Hayes hits a fly ball into right field. Campbell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Johnson hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 3 Higgins hits a popup, foul, towards first. Siebert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Campbell hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 York strikes out.
Bottom 2 Moses hits a fly ball into center field. McCosky settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 McCoy hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Chapman scores. Lillard moves to second.
Bottom 2 Babich strikes out.
Bottom 2 Lillard hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Chapman moves to second.
Bottom 2 Rubeling strikes out.
Bottom 2 Chapman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Greenberg strikes out.
Top 2 Gehringer hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Babich fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 McCosky hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Johnson. McCosky reaches second base with a double. Bartell goes all the way around to score.
Top 2 Bartell takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Bridges hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. McCoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Siebert hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gehringer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Hayes hits a popup, foul, towards first. York settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Johnson takes first base on ball four. McCoy moves to second.
Bottom 1 Moses strikes out.
Bottom 1 McCoy hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 McCoy hits a fly ball, foul, down the left field line, foul. Greenberg chases it down, and drops the ball. That's an error on Greenberg.
Top 1 Tebbetts hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. McCoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Higgins hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebert fields the ball and throws to Babich covering. Safe. Campbell scores.
Top 1 Campbell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Johnson. Campbell reaches second base with a double. York scores.
Top 1 That's a pickoff. McCosky scores. York moves to second.
Top 1 York takes first base on ball four. McCosky moves to second.
Top 1 Greenberg hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Bartell scores.
Top 1 Gehringer hits a popup towards short. Lillard settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There goes Bartell. The throw from Hayes and he is safe. Bartell steals third.
Top 1 McCosky takes first base on ball four. Bartell moves to second.
Top 1 Bartell takes first base on ball four.