Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Hard Luck Braves Drop Another Close One To PIrates. Now Two Games Below .500

 GAME 2:

Game MVP:Bobby Shantz

County Stadium    (09-23-2025 08:50:32)       Time 2:22, 76ø, Wind: 11 MPH Out to RF  Day Game

May 23, 1961                  1 2 3   4 5 6   7 8 9      R  H  E
1961 Pittsburgh 20-12         1 0 0   2 0 0   0 0 0      3  8  0
1961 Milwaukee 15-17          1 0 0   1 0 0   0 0 0      2 10  1


Recap

Pit  1st: Scored 1 run on 2 hits.

Pit      Dick Stuart doubled scoring Skinner to take the lead.  Pit  1 MBr 0.

MBr  1st: Scored 1 run on 2 hits.

MBr      Eddie Mathews hit a 433 foot solo HR(10) to tie the score.  Pit  1 MBr 1.

MBr  3rd: Failed to score on 3 hits.

Pit  4th: Sent 7 batters to the plate scoring 2 runs on 3 hits and on one walk.

Pit      Smoky Burgess singled scoring Stuart to take the lead.  Pit  2 MBr 1.

Pit      Bobby Shantz singled scoring Burgess.  Pit  3 MBr 1.

MBr  4th: Scored 1 run on 2 hits.

MBr      Lew Burdette hit a grounder scoring 1.  Pit  3 MBr 2.

Pit  8th: Failed to score on 2 hits, on one walk and an error.

MBr :    Lee Maye K'd with with 2 on, end 9th.


MBr  Eddie Mathews: 2 for 4, HR.

MBr  Frank Thomas: 3 for 4.


Pit  Bobby Shantz threw a complete game for the win: 2 earned runs, 10 hits, 1 BB, 6 K. He's 1-2 on the year.

MBr  Lew Burdette pitched 7.2 solid innings but took the loss: 3 earned runs, 8 hits, 2 BB, 0 K. He drops to 6-3 on the season.

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  E-Mathews(4)

 2B-Stuart(6)

 HR-MBr Mathews(10) off Shantz(2) in the 1st with bases empty, 433 feet

RBI-Pit  - Burgess(14), Stuart(24), Shantz(1)

    MBr  - Mathews(25), Burdette(2)

HBP-Shantz(Pit) by Burdette(MBr)

 SH-McMillan(4)

Great-Groat(12), Clemente(6), McMillan 2(14)

Poor-Groat 2(15), McMillan(3), Maye(2)

OfA-Clemente(2)

LOB-Pittsburgh 8 Milwaukee 8

 DP-Milwaukee 1

GWRBI-Burgess

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