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August 4, 1947

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Stan Musial Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .288
OBP .250 .383
At Bats 4 326
Hits 1 94
• Singles 0 62
• Doubles 1 18
• Triples 0 5
• Home Runs 0 9
Walks 0 48
RBI’s 0 43

Russ Meers Season Stats

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1 0 0
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Wrigley Field - August 4, 1947
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Home Run
Russ Meers
Clyde McCullough
Eddie Waitkus
Don Johnson
Peanuts Lowrey
Lennie Merullo
Phil Cavarretta
Andy Pafko
Bill Nicholson
Stan Musial
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Musial hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Dusak hits a fly ball into left field. Cavarretta settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Russ Meers now pitching. Schoendienst hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Cavarretta strikes out.
Bottom 7 Pafko hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Waitkus moves to second.
Bottom 7 Waitkus hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Lowrey hits a line drive towards first. Musial catches it and steps on first to double up Sturgeon.
Bottom 7 Bobby Sturgeon pinch hits for Doyle Lade. Chuck Diering now playing right field. Sturgeon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Pollet hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Rice hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Marion hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Northey hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Merullo hits a popup towards short. Marion settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cavarretta moves to second.
Bottom 6 Nicholson strikes out.
Bottom 6 McCullough hits a fly ball into right field. Northey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Cavarretta takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Slaughter hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Kurowski hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Nicholson who is chasing the ball. Kurowski reaches third base with a triple. Pollet scores. Musial goes all the way around to score.
Top 6 Musial hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out. Pollet moves to third.
Top 6 Dusak hits a ball on the ground towards short. Merullo fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 6 Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground towards third. Lowrey fields it and throws to first for the out. Pollet moves to second.
Top 6 Doyle Lade now pitching. Pollet hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Pafko hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Waitkus hits a ball on the ground towards first. Musial fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Lowrey hits a fly ball into left field. Slaughter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Ron Northey now playing right field. Erv Dusak now playing center field. Cliff Aberson pinch hits for Emil Kush. Aberson takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Rice strikes out.
Top 5 Marion hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Musial scores. Slaughter scores. Northey moves to second.
Top 5 Ron Northey pinch hits for Terry Moore. Northey hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Kush fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Musial moves to third. Slaughter moves to second.
Top 5 Slaughter is walked intentionally.
Top 5 Kurowski hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Musial hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Pafko. Musial reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Dusak hits a ball on the ground towards third. Lowrey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Merullo hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kurowski fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Nicholson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Schoendienst hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Emil Kush now pitching. Pollet hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Rice hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Moore scores. Marion moves to second.
Top 4 Marion hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Slaughter scores. Moore moves to second.
Top 4 Moore hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Slaughter moves to third.
Top 4 Slaughter takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Kurowski hits a fly ball into right field. Nicholson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 McCullough hits a fly ball into right field. Dusak settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Cavarretta hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Waitkus scores. Pafko moves to second.
Bottom 3 Pafko hits a line drive into center field. Moore picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Moore. Waitkus moves to third.
Bottom 3 Waitkus hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Lowrey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Chipman strikes out.
Top 3 Musial hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Dusak hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Pollet strikes out.
Bottom 2 Merullo strikes out.
Bottom 2 Johnson hits a popup towards first. Musial settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Nicholson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 McCullough hits a fly ball into center field. Moore settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Rice hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Cavarretta settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Marion hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. McCullough settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Moore hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Slaughter hits a fly ball into left field. Cavarretta settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Cavarretta hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schoendienst scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Pafko hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 1 Waitkus hits a ball on the ground towards first. Musial scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Waitkus for the out.
Bottom 1 Lowrey hits a fly ball into right field. Dusak settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Kurowski hits a fly ball into center field. Pafko settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Musial hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Dusak hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Cavarretta. Dusak reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Chipman, and towards Merullo, who fields it and throws to first for the out.