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August 31, 1958

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Ernie Banks Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .313
OBP .500 .364
At Bats 3 521
Hits 1 163
• Singles 1 92
• Doubles 0 20
• Triples 0 9
• Home Runs 0 42
Walks 1 42
RBI’s 0 110

Bill Wight Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 1 2
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Sportsman's Park - August 31, 1958
Bill Wight
Gene Green
Stan Musial
Don Blasingame
Ken Boyer
Eddie Kasko
Wally Moon
Curt Flood
Joe Cunningham
Ernie Banks
Al Dark
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Banks is walked intentionally.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Marshall strikes out.
Top 8 Dark hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Henry scores. Dark moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 8 Taylor hits a popup towards first. Musial settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Wight fires over to first and Musial drops the ball. That's an error on Musial. Henry moves to second.
Top 8 Henry takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Boyer hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Musial hits a popup, foul, towards third. Dark settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Bill Henry now pitching. Blasingame is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Cal Neeman now catching. Moon takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Neeman strikes out.
Top 7 Bill Wight now pitching. Cal Neeman pinch hits for Sammy Taylor. There's a wild pitch. Tanner moves to third. Thomson moves to second.
Top 7 Thomson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Tanner moves to second.
Top 7 Tanner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Moryn hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 7 Banks hits a popup towards short. Kasko settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Marshall hits a fly ball into left field. Moon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Billy Muffett now pitching. Dark hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Gene Freese pinch hits for Bob Mabe. Freese hits a popup towards short. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Kasko hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Tanner. Kasko reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Flood hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Green hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Phillips fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Cunningham hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 6 Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks misplays the ball. That's an error on Banks.
Top 6 Taylor hits a fly ball into right field. Cunningham settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Phillips bunts towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out. Thomson moves to third. Taylor moves to second.
Top 6 Taylor takes first base on ball four. Thomson moves to second.
Top 6 Thomson takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Tanner hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kasko scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Musial hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Blasingame hits a popup towards short. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Moon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Moryn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Banks strikes out.
Top 5 Marshall hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Mabe strikes out.
Bottom 4 Kasko strikes out.
Bottom 4 Flood strikes out. Taylor drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Flood out.
Top 4 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kasko scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Taylor hits a fly ball into center field. Flood settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Phillips bunts towards the mound. Mabe fields it and throws to first for the out. Taylor moves to second.
Top 4 Bob Mabe now pitching. Taylor takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Green hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Phillips fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Cunningham takes first base on ball four. Musial moves to second.
Bottom 3 Taylor Phillips now pitching. Boyer hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Musial hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Blasingame scores.
Bottom 3 Blasingame hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Tanner. Blasingame reaches second base with a double. Smith scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Moon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Marshall scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Moon for the out. Smith moves to second.
Bottom 3 Chuck Tanner now playing right field. Hal Smith pinch hits for Sal Maglie. Smith hits a ball on the ground towards first. Marshall juggles the ball. That's an error on Marshall.
Top 3 Thomson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Chuck Tanner pinch hits for Lee Walls. Tanner hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run. Three runs are unearned.
Top 3 Moryn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame misplays the ball. That's an error on Blasingame. Banks moves to second.
Top 3 Banks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Marshall strikes out.
Top 3 Dark hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Green settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Kasko hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Flood hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Drabowsky fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Cunningham scores.
Bottom 2 Green hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cunningham moves to third.
Bottom 2 Cunningham takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Taylor hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame catches it and throws to first to double up Drabowsky.
Top 2 Drabowsky hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Maglie juggles the ball. That's an error on Maglie.
Top 2 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Boyer hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Musial hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Moon takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Thomson hits a fly ball into right field. Cunningham settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Walls hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Banks scores. Moryn moves to second.
Top 1 Moryn takes first base on ball four. Banks moves to second.
Top 1 Banks takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Marshall hits a popup, foul, towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Dark hits a popup towards first. Musial settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Taylor hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.