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August 28, 1959

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Wally Post Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .262
OBP 1.000 .317
At Bats 2 382
Hits 2 100
• Singles 2 64
• Doubles 0 12
• Triples 0 6
• Home Runs 0 18
Walks 0 29
RBI’s 0 79

Vern Law Season Stats

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13 7 1
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Forbes Field - August 28, 1959
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Single
Vern Law
Smoky Burgess
Rocky Nelson
Dick Schofield
Don Hoak
Dick Groat
Bob Skinner
Bill Virdon
Roberto Clemente
Wally Post
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Post hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 7 Bouchee hits a line drive into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Koppe hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Law hits a popup towards first. Bouchee settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Virdon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Schofield hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Hoak hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bob Bowman now pitching. Burgess hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Ashburn hits a fly ball into right field. Clemente settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Harry Hanebrink pinch hits for Jack Meyer. Hanebrink hits a fly ball into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Sawatski strikes out.
Bottom 5 Nelson strikes out.
Bottom 5 There goes Groat. The throw from Sawatski and he is out, Anderson applying the tag.
Bottom 5 Clemente is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Carl Sawatski now catching. Groat takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Anderson hits a ball on the ground towards second. Schofield scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 5 Freese hits a fly ball into left field. Skinner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Anderson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Post moves to third.
Top 5 Post hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Skinner hits a popup, foul, towards third. Freese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Law hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hoak scores. Schofield scores. Virdon moves to third.
Bottom 4 Jack Meyer now pitching. Virdon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Schofield hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Post. Schofield reaches second base with a double. Burgess scores. Hoak moves to third.
Bottom 4 Hoak hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Burgess moves to second.
Bottom 4 Burgess hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Nelson hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 4 Clemente hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is bouncing around. Ashburn is chasing the ball. Clemente rounds third and comes all way home with an inside-the-park home run.
Bottom 4 Groat is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Skinner hits a popup towards short. Koppe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Bouchee strikes out.
Top 4 Koppe hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Law fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Ashburn hits a fly ball into right field. Clemente settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Law hits a fly ball into right field. Post settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Virdon takes first base on ball four. Schofield moves to second.
Bottom 3 Schofield takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Hoak hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out. Burgess moves to third.
Bottom 3 Burgess hits a line drive into center field. Ashburn picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Ashburn. Nelson goes all the way around to score. Burgess moves to second.
Bottom 3 Nelson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Clemente hits a ball on the ground towards short. Koppe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Keegan strikes out.
Top 3 Lonnett hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 3 Anderson hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Groat hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Skinner hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Anderson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Law hits a fly ball into left field. Anderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Freese is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Anderson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 2 Post hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Virdon hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Anderson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Schofield takes first base on ball four. Nelson scores. Burgess moves to third. Hoak moves to second.
Bottom 1 Hoak takes first base on ball four. Burgess moves to second.
Bottom 1 Burgess hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Groat scores. Nelson moves to third.
Bottom 1 Nelson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Groat moves to third.
Bottom 1 Clemente hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Groat takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Skinner strikes out.
Top 1 Bouchee hits a fly ball into left field. Skinner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Koppe hits a fly ball into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Ashburn hits a fly ball into left field. Skinner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.