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September 4, 1940

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Bottom 10 R H E
Athletics 5 8 1
Red Sox 5 10 0
Bottom 10 R H E
Athletics 5 8 1
Red Sox 6 11 0

Joe Cronin Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .243
OBP .250 .348
At Bats 4 263
Hits 1 64
• Singles 0 35
• Doubles 0 14
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 1 12
Walks 0 42
RBI’s 1 53

Ed Heusser Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 5 5
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Fenway Park - September 4, 1940
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Single
Ed Heusser
Frankie Hayes
Dick Siebert
Benny McCoy
Joe Gantenbein
Al Brancato
Bob Johnson
Sam Chapman
Wally Moses
Joe Cronin
Ted Williams
Jimmie Foxx
Doc Cramer

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Philadelphia Athletics 5 8 1 13
Boston Red Sox 6 11 0 8
Winning Pitcher Joe Heving
Losing Pitcher Ed Heusser
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Joe Cronin
Attendance 5,600
Time of Game 2 hours 33 minutes
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Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Cronin hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cramer scores. Foxx moves to third. Williams moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 10 Williams takes first base on ball four. Foxx moves to second.
Bottom 10 Foxx hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cramer moves to third.
Bottom 10 Cramer takes first base on ball four.
Top 10 Chapman hits a fly ball into right field. Cramer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Moses takes first base on ball four.
Top 10 Gantenbein hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Tom Carey now playing third base. Brancato hits a line drive into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 DiMaggio hits a fly ball into right field. Moses settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Heving bunts towards the mound. Heusser fields it and throws to first for the out. Spence moves to second.
Bottom 9 Stan Spence pinch hits for Charlie Gelbert. Spence hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Doerr scores.
Bottom 9 Finney bunts towards the mound. Heusser fields it and throws to first for the out. Doerr moves to second.
Bottom 9 Doerr hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 9 Heusser hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 McCoy hits a fly ball into right field. Cramer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Joe Heving now pitching. Hayes hits a ball on the ground towards third. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Johnson scores. Siebert moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 9 Siebert hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Chapman scores. Johnson moves to third.
Top 9 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Chapman moves to second.
Top 9 Chapman takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Moses hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Cronin hits a fly ball into right field. Moses settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Williams hits a fly ball into right field. Moses settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Al Brancato now playing shortstop. Ed Heusser now pitching. Foxx is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Al Brancato pinch runs for Chubby Dean. Gantenbein hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Chubby Dean pinch hits for Buck Ross. Dean takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Dee Miles pinch hits for Fred Chapman. Miles hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 McCoy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Hayes moves to second.
Top 8 Hayes takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 There goes DiMaggio. The throw from Hayes and he is out, McCoy applying the tag.
Bottom 7 Cramer hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 DiMaggio hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Fleming hits a ball on the ground towards short. Chapman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Siebert hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 7 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Chapman hits a ball on the ground towards first. Finney scoops it up and throws to first, with Fleming covering, for the out. Moses moves to second.
Top 7 Moses hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Gelbert hits a fly ball into center field. Chapman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Finney hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ross fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Doerr hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gantenbein fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Cronin hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Gantenbein hits a ball on the ground towards first. Finney scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gantenbein for the out.
Top 6 Ross hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gelbert fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Chapman hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Williams strikes out.
Bottom 5 Foxx hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cramer moves to second.
Bottom 5 Cramer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. DiMaggio scores.
Bottom 5 There goes DiMaggio. The throw from Hayes and he is safe. DiMaggio steals second.
Bottom 5 DiMaggio hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Fleming hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ross fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Gelbert hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 McCoy hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hayes hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Foxx settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Siebert takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Johnson strikes out.
Top 5 Chapman hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Cramer. Chapman reaches second base with a double. Moses moves to third.
Top 5 Moses hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Finney 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 4 Doerr takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Cronin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Chapman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Williams 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 4 Foxx hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Bill Fleming now pitching. Gantenbein hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Ross takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Chapman hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Hayes scores. McCoy moves to third.
Top 4 McCoy hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Williams. McCoy reaches second base with a double. Hayes moves to third.
Top 4 Hayes takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Siebert hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Johnson hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Chapman hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Cramer 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 DiMaggio hits a ball on the ground towards short. Chapman fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Wilson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Gelbert scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Gelbert hits a ball on the ground towards short. Chapman fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Chapman. Gelbert moves to second.
Bottom 3 Finney 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 3 Moses hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Gantenbein hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Ross hits a fly ball into right field. Cramer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Chapman strikes out.
Bottom 2 Doerr hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Cronin hits a fly ball into right field. Moses settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Williams 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 2 McCoy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Hayes strikes out. There goes Siebert. Here's the throw, and he's safe.
Top 2 Siebert hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Cronin fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Top 2 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Foxx hits a fly ball into right field. Moses settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Cramer 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 DiMaggio hits a popup towards third. Gantenbein settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Chapman hits a popup, foul, towards first. Finney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Moses strikes out.
Top 1 Gantenbein hits a ball on the ground towards first. Finney scoops it up and throws to first, with Wilson covering, for the out.