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August 5, 1949

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Top 9 R H E
Braves 3 12 1
Cubs 8 15 0
Top 9 R H E
Braves 3 12 1
Cubs 8 15 0

Ed Sauer Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .264
OBP .500 .318
At Bats 3 140
Hits 1 37
• Singles 1 27
• Doubles 0 7
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 1 10
RBI’s 0 17

Bob Muncrief Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 8 3
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Wrigley Field - August 5, 1949
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Bob Muncrief
Mickey Owen
Herman Reich
Gene Mauch
Andy Pafko
Roy Smalley
Hank Sauer
Hal Jeffcoat
Frank Baumholtz
Ed Sauer
Jeff Heath

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Boston Braves 3 12 1 12
Chicago Cubs 8 15 0 4
Winning Pitcher Bob Muncrief
Losing Pitcher Warren Spahn
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Gene Mauch
Attendance 8,994
Time of Game 2 hours 16 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Sauer hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Heath hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Elliott hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Rickert strikes out.
Bottom 8 Muncrief is called out on strikes.
Bottom 8 Smalley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dark scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Bob Hall now pitching. Owen is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Fletcher hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Stanky is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Tommy Holmes pinch hits for Bobby Hogue. Holmes hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Salkeld moves to second.
Top 8 Salkeld hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 8 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Reich hits a fly ball into right field. Heath settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pafko hits a fly ball into center field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Sauer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dark scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Sauer is called out on strikes.
Top 7 Heath hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Elliott hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Rickert strikes out.
Bottom 6 Hogue fires to first and has Mauch trapped. There's the throw to Stanky who tags Mauch for the out.
Bottom 6 Mauch hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Jeffcoat hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dark scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Bobby Hogue now pitching. Muncrief hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hogue fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Fletcher hits a ball on the ground towards first. Reich scoops it up and throws to first, with Muncrief covering, for the out.
Top 6 Stanky hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Muncrief fields it and throws to home to get Sauer. Dark moves to third. Russell moves to second.
Top 6 Jim Russell pinch hits for Red Barrett. Russell takes first base on ball four. Sauer moves to third. Dark moves to second.
Top 6 Salkeld is called out on strikes.
Top 6 Dark hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Sauer moves to second.
Top 6 Sauer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Smalley hits a fly ball into right field. Heath settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Owen strikes out.
Bottom 5 Reich hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sauer scores. Pafko scores.
Bottom 5 Pafko hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Sauer. Pafko reaches second base with a double. Sauer moves to third.
Bottom 5 Sauer hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Baumholtz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fletcher scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Baumholtz for the out.
Top 5 Heath is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Elliott hits a fly ball into center field. Jeffcoat settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Rickert is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Mauch hits a popup, foul, towards third. Elliott settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Jeffcoat hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stanky fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Red Barrett now pitching. Muncrief hits a popup into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Fletcher hits a ball on the ground towards first. Reich scoops it up and throws to first, with Muncrief covering, for the out.
Top 4 Stanky takes first base on ball four. Reiser moves to second.
Top 4 Pete Reiser pinch hits for Warren Spahn. Reiser takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Salkeld hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Dark hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Mauch settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Smalley hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Reich scores. There goes Owen trying to get to third. Rickert throws the ball in to Elliott, who tags Owen for the out. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Owen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dark misplays the ball. That's an error on Dark. Reich moves to second.
Bottom 3 Reich takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Pafko hits a fly ball into left field. Rickert settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Sauer hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Baumholtz hits a fly ball into center field. Sauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Sauer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 3 Heath hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Bob Muncrief now pitching. Elliott hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pafko fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 There goes Mauch. The throw from Salkeld and he is out, Dark applying the tag.
Bottom 2 Mauch hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dark fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Jeffcoat scores.
Bottom 2 There goes Jeffcoat. The throw from Salkeld and he is safe. Jeffcoat steals second.
Bottom 2 Jeffcoat hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Owen scores.
Bottom 2 Bob Scheffing pinch hits for Warren Hacker. Scheffing hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dark fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Reich scores. Owen moves to third.
Bottom 2 Smalley hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Reich moves to third. Owen moves to second.
Bottom 2 Owen hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Pafko scores. Reich moves to second.
Bottom 2 Reich hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Pafko moves to third.
Bottom 2 Pafko hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Rickert hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Mauch scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Fletcher hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Sauer. Fletcher reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Stanky hits a fly ball into right field. Baumholtz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Spahn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Mauch scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Sauer strikes out.
Bottom 1 Baumholtz hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Salkeld settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Mauch hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Jeffcoat is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Warren Hacker now pitching. Salkeld hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hacker fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lade fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Sauer moves to second.
Top 1 Sauer takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Heath hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 1 Elliott hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Stanky scores.
Top 1 Rickert is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Fletcher hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Lade scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Fletcher for the out. Stanky moves to second.
Top 1 Stanky hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.