Pirates @ Cardinals
August 9, 1947

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Bottom 9 R H E
Pirates 5 9 0
Cardinals 4 8 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Pirates 5 9 0
Cardinals 4 8 0

Erv Dusak Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .309
OBP .500 .406
At Bats 4 165
Hits 2 51
• Singles 2 43
• Doubles 0 5
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 27
RBI’s 0 13

Kirby Higbe Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
8 9 4
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Sportsman's Park - August 9, 1947
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Out
Kirby Higbe
Dixie Howell
Hank Greenberg
Jimmy Bloodworth
Frankie Gustine
Billy Cox
Ralph Kiner
Jim Russell
Wally Westlake
Erv Dusak

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Pittsburgh Pirates 5 9 0 6
St. Louis Cardinals 4 8 0 7
Winning Pitcher Kirby Higbe
Losing Pitcher Howie Pollet
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Hank Greenberg
Attendance 20,320
Time of Game 2 hours 15 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Dusak hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Schoendienst hits a popup, foul, towards short. Cox settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Joe Medwick pinch hits for Howie Pollet. Medwick hits a line drive into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Russell hits a fly ball into center field. Dusak settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Cox hits a popup, foul, towards third. Kurowski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Higbe strikes out.
Bottom 8 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cox scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Marion hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cox scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Dixie Howell now catching. Kurowski hits a popup, foul, towards short. Cox settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Kluttz hits a fly ball into left field. Slaughter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Bloodworth hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Westlake hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kurowski fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Greenberg hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 7 Kirby Higbe now pitching. Northey hits a fly ball into right field. Westlake settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Slaughter takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 The ball gets by Kluttz for a passed ball. Dusak scores. Musial moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 7 Musial hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Dusak moves to third.
Bottom 7 Dusak hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Schoendienst bunts towards the mound. Singleton catches it and throws to first to double up Pollet.
Bottom 7 Pollet takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Kiner strikes out.
Top 7 The ball gets by Rice for a passed ball. Gustine moves to second.
Top 7 Gustine hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kurowski fields it and throws to second for the out. Cox scores.
Top 7 Russell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cox moves to third.
Top 7 Cox hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Singleton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Pollet fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gustine fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 6 Elmer Singleton now pitching. Marion bunts towards the mound. Singleton fields it and throws to third for the out. Kurowski moves to second.
Bottom 6 Kurowski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Slaughter scores. Northey moves to second.
Bottom 6 Northey takes first base on ball four. Slaughter moves to second.
Bottom 6 Slaughter hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Kluttz hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Pollet fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Bloodworth hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Gustine scores. Greenberg moves to second.
Top 6 Westlake hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Rice settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Greenberg hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kurowski fields it and throws to second for the out. Gustine moves to third.
Top 6 Kiner takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Gustine hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Slaughter. Gustine reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Musial hits a popup towards short. Cox settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Dusak hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Pollet moves to second.
Bottom 5 Schoendienst hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Bloodworth reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Pollet hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Marion scores.
Bottom 5 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cox scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Kurowski scores.
Bottom 5 Marion hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Kiner. Marion reaches second base with a double. Kurowski moves to third.
Bottom 5 Kurowski takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Cox hits a popup, foul, towards first. Musial settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Queen hits a fly ball into center field. Dusak settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Northey hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Slaughter hits a popup towards short. Cox settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Musial hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Kluttz hits a popup, foul, towards third. Kurowski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 There goes Westlake. The throw from Rice and he is safe. Westlake steals second.
Top 4 Bloodworth hits a fly ball into right field. Northey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Greenberg scores.
Top 4 Westlake hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Greenberg moves to third.
Top 4 Greenberg takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Kiner hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Gustine hits a fly ball into center field. Dusak settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Dusak hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cox fields it and throws to third for the out. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 3 Schoendienst hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Kiner. Schoendienst reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Pollet hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bloodworth scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Rice hits a fly ball into center field. Russell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Russell hits a popup, foul, towards first. Musial settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Cox hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion fields it and throws to second for the out. Bloodworth moves to third.
Top 3 Queen hits a ball on the ground towards first. Musial fields the ball and throws to Pollet covering. Safe. Bloodworth moves to second.
Top 3 Kluttz hits a fly ball into left field. Slaughter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Bloodworth hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Marion hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bloodworth scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Kurowski hits a fly ball into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Northey takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Slaughter hits a fly ball into center field. Russell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Westlake hits a ball on the ground towards short. Marion fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Greenberg strikes out.
Top 2 Kiner takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Musial hits a line drive into left field. Kiner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Dusak hits a fly ball into right field. Westlake settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Schoendienst strikes out.
Top 1 Gustine hits a popup in front of the plate. Rice settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kurowski fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Cox hits a fly ball into center field. Dusak settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.