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May 31, 1948

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Giants 3 8 1
Dodgers 4 9 1
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Preston Ward Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .303
OBP .500 .372
At Bats 4 109
Hits 2 33
• Singles 1 22
• Doubles 1 8
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 12
RBI’s 0 19

Sheldon Jones Season Stats

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3 2 0
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Ebbets Field - May 31, 1948
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Out
Sheldon Jones
Wes Westrum
Johnny Mize
Bill Rigney
Sid Gordon
Buddy Kerr
Whitey Lockman
Bobby Thomson
Willard Marshall
Preston Ward
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Ward hits a popup towards short. Kerr settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Cox hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Westrum hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Gordon strikes out.
Top 8 Billy Cox now playing third base. Marshall hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Reese hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Rigney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Branca hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Whitman scores. Miksis moves to second.
Bottom 7 Miksis hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Whitman moves to second.
Bottom 7 Whitman takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Hodges hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Furillo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Mize hits a fly ball into left field. Whitman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Thomson hits a popup towards short. Reese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Lockman hits a popup towards short. Reese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hermanski strikes out.
Bottom 6 Ward hits a fly ball into left field. Lockman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Jorgensen strikes out.
Top 6 Rigney hits a ball on the ground towards short. Reese fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Kerr moves to third.
Top 6 Kerr hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jorgensen picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Jorgensen. Gordon scores. Westrum scores. Kerr moves to second.
Top 6 Westrum hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Whitman. Westrum reaches second base with a double. Gordon moves to third.
Top 6 Gordon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Marshall hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Mize hits a fly ball into center field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Branca bunts towards first. Mize scoops it up and throws to first, with Rigney covering, for the out. Whitman moves to second.
Bottom 5 Miksis strikes out.
Bottom 5 Whitman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Thomson hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Lockman hits a fly ball into center field. Furillo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Rigney is hit by the pitch.
Top 5 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Hodges hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Furillo takes first base on ball four. Ward moves to third. Hermanski moves to second.
Bottom 4 Hermanski takes first base on ball four. Ward moves to second.
Bottom 4 Ward hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Jorgensen hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mize scoops it up and throws to first, with Jones covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Reese hits a fly ball into right field. Marshall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Kerr hits a popup towards third. Jorgensen settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Westrum hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jorgensen fields it and throws to home to get Mize. Marshall moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 4 Gordon hits a fly ball into left field. Whitman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Marshall hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Mize moves to third.
Top 4 Mize hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Hermanski. Mize reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Sheldon Jones now pitching. Branca hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Miksis hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Lockman. Miksis reaches second base with a double. Furillo scores. Hodges scores. Whitman moves to third. Two runs are unearned.
Bottom 3 Whitman hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Furillo moves to third. Hodges moves to second.
Bottom 3 Hodges hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gordon juggles the ball. That's an error on Gordon. Furillo moves to second.
Bottom 3 Furillo takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There goes Hermanski. The throw from Westrum and he is out, Gordon applying the tag.
Bottom 3 Hermanski hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Marshall. Hermanski reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Ward hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mize scoops it up and throws to first, with Poat covering, for the out.
Top 3 Thomson hits a line drive into left field. Whitman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Lockman hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Rigney hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Poat strikes out.
Bottom 2 Jorgensen hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rigney scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Reese takes first base on ball four. Branca moves to second.
Bottom 2 Branca takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Miksis hits a fly ball into left field. Lockman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Whitman strikes out.
Top 2 Kerr hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Westrum hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Miksis settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Gordon hits a line drive into left field. Whitman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Hodges hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Westrum settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Furillo hits a line drive into right field. Marshall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Jorgensen scores.
Bottom 1 Hermanski takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Ward hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Lockman. Ward reaches second base with a double. Jorgensen moves to third.
Bottom 1 Jorgensen hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Reese hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Marshall hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Whitman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Mize takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Thomson hits a fly ball into right field. Hermanski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Lockman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Miksis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Rigney hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.