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Braves 1-0 Dodgers (10): Stan is the Man in extra innings!
We had two of the best pitching performances of the season. The WHOLE season. After 9 innings, it was still 0-0, and someone's 0 had to go. It was the Braves 0, as Stan Musial hit a walk off home run to right center to lead off the bottom of the tenth. Virgil Trucks was the hard luck loser for the Dodgers, giving up just that one run and 2 hits over 9 innings, but the third hit of the day for the Braves was the walk off. On the other side Johnny Schmitz lived up to his
nickname, leaving bear tracks all over the Dodgers lineup, allowing 1 hit and 3 walks, while striking out 7 in a rare extra-innings complete game. Goody Rosen had the only hit for the Dodgers
Dodgers (0-1) 000 000 000 0 -- 0 Runs, 1 Hit, 0 errors
Braves (1-0) 000 000 000 1 -- 1 Run, 3 Hits, 0 Errors
W: Schmitz (1-0), L: Trucks (0-1)
HR: Musial (1)
None Out when winning run scored.
Cubs 6-2 Reds: Cubs bats smack 14 hits in opening day road win.
It was opening day for the Reds, but it was open season for the Cubbies bats, as all 8 fieldsmen for Chicago had at least one hit. Dutch Leonard was good, scattering 5 hits and 1 walk for two runs (only one earned) for the Cubs.
Cubs (1-0) 100 001 130 -- 6 Runs, 14 Hits, 1 error
Reds (0-1) 000 000 110 -- 2 Runs, 5 Hits, 0 Errors
W: Leonard (1-0), L: Hughson (0-1)
Phillies 2-0 Giants: Phils Fight Off multi-hit games from 3 giants players in shutout win
The National League side from Gotham had plenty of hits. Hal Newhouser had four of them. Frankie Gustine had 3, and Rudy York 2. Four times they had a runner in scoring position with two outs. But Hal Newhouser danced his way out of the jam each time, in throwing a 11-hit shutout.
Phillies (1-0) 100 000 010 -- 2 Runs, 7 Hits, 0 errors
Giants (1-0) 000 000 000 -- 0 Runs, 11 Hits, 1 error
W: Newhouser (1-0), L: Passeau (0-1)
HR:Gillenwater (1)
Cardinals 7-6 Pirates: St Louis barely holds off late charge.
It was high drama in St Louis on opening day, as the Cardinals had cruised to 5-2 and 7-3 leads, but the Pirates scored three in the ninth, before super-saver Randy Gampert got Phil Masi to fly out to the deepest part of the ball park, rescuing the game for Ewell Blackwell. Bob Feller only went five innings for the Pirates, giving up all the runs in the fourth.
Pirates (0-1) 000 110 013 - 6 runs, 12 hits, 0 errors.
Cardinals (1-0) 000 050 02x - 7 Runs, 9 Hits, 1 Error
W: Blackwell (1-0), L: Feller (0-1), SV: Gumpert (1)