Pirates @ Giants
September 11, 1946

Back Home
Visual
Play By Play
Text
Play By Play
Audio
Play By Play
Box
Score
Lineups
and Summary
Bottom 7 R H E
Pirates 7 8 0
Giants 4 7 1
Bottom 7 R H E
Pirates 7 8 0
Giants 4 7 1

Johnny Rucker Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .275
OBP .333 .307
At Bats 3 109
Hits 1 30
• Singles 1 23
• Doubles 0 6
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 5
RBI’s 0 5

Johnny Lanning Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 4 1
 FIRSTPLAY/PAUSE  REPLAYLAST/BOX  
Close
1 ▲ ▼ 2 ▲ ▼ 3 ▲ ▼ 4 ▲ ▼ 5 ▲ ▼ 6 ▲ ▼ 7 ▲ ▼ 8 ▲ ▼ 9 ▲ ▼
Polo Grounds - September 11, 1946
•
Out
Johnny Lanning
Bill Salkeld
Elbie Fletcher
Burgess Whitehead
Lee Handley
Frankie Gustine
Ralph Kiner
Jim Russell
Maurice Van Robays
Johnny Rucker
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Rucker hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fletcher scoops it up and throws to first, with Lanning covering, for the out.

Return to all plays in text
PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 7 Goody Rosen pinch hits for Woody Abernathy. Rosen hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fletcher scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Rosen for the out.
Bottom 7 Blattner hits a ball on the ground towards short. Gustine scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Kiner hits a fly ball into left field. Gordon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Gustine hits a fly ball into right field. Marshall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Salkeld hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Van Robays hits a ball on the ground towards third. Thomson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Thomson hits a popup towards short. Gustine settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Young strikes out.
Bottom 6 Gordon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Handley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Woody Abernathy now pitching. Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Fletcher hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kiner scores. Handley scores. Fletcher moves to second. Two runs are unearned.
Top 6 Whitehead hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blattner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Lanning bunts towards third. Thomson fields it and throws to first for the out. Kiner moves to third. Handley moves to second.
Top 6 Handley hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Gustine scores. Kiner moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Kiner takes first base on ball four. Gustine moves to second.
Top 6 Gustine hits a ball on the ground towards third. Thomson juggles the ball. That's an error on Thomson.
Bottom 5 Lombardi hits a ball on the ground towards third. Handley fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Marshall hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rucker scores.
Bottom 5 Kerr hits a ball on the ground towards third. Handley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 There goes Rucker. The throw from Salkeld and he is safe. Rucker steals second.
Bottom 5 Rucker hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Bill Salkeld now catching. Johnny Lanning now pitching. Thompson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Whitehead settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Junior Thompson now pitching. Bill Salkeld pinch hits for Bill Baker. Salkeld hits a fly ball into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Van Robays hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Russell moves to third.
Top 5 Russell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Fletcher scores.
Top 5 Fletcher hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Marshall who is chasing the ball. Fletcher reaches third base with a triple. Kiner scores. Camelli goes all the way around to score.
Top 5 Whitehead hits a fly ball into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hank Camelli pinch hits for Ken Heintzelman. Camelli takes first base on ball four. Kiner moves to second.
Top 5 Handley hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Blattner settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Kiner hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kerr fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 4 Blattner hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Baker fires to first and picks off Thomson.
Bottom 4 Thomson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Young hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 4 Gordon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Maurice Van Robays now playing right field. Lombardi hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Gustine hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blattner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Baker hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Elliott hits a fly ball into center field. Rucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Russell hits a fly ball into right field. Marshall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Marshall hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Gustine fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Bottom 3 Kerr bunts towards the mound. Heintzelman fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 3 Rucker hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fletcher scoops it up and throws to first, with Heintzelman covering, for the out.
Bottom 3 Koslo hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fletcher scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Koslo for the out.
Top 3 Fletcher hits a fly ball into right field. Marshall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Whitehead hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Blattner settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Heintzelman takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Handley bunts towards the mound. Koslo fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Baker fires to first and picks off Thomson.
Bottom 2 Blattner is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Thomson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Gordon scores. Young moves to second.
Bottom 2 Young hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Gordon moves to second.
Bottom 2 Gordon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Lombardi hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Kiner is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Gustine hits a ball on the ground towards third. Thomson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 There goes Baker. The throw from Lombardi and he is out, Kerr applying the tag.
Top 2 Baker takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Marshall hits a fly ball into center field. Russell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Kerr hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Rucker hits a popup towards short. Gustine settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Elliott hits a popup, foul, towards first. Young settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Russell bunts towards the mound. Koslo fields it and throws to first for the out. Whitehead moves to second.
Top 1 Fletcher hits a popup towards third. Thomson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Whitehead takes first base on ball four.