Chicago Cubs vs Cincinnati Reds
August 9, 1942 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1942 at Crosley Field. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Chicago Cubs and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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Chicago Cubs 1, Cincinnati Reds 2
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Stringer 2b 3 0 0 0
Russell 3b 1 0 1 0
Dallessandro lf 2 1 0 0
Foxx 1b 2 0 0 0
Nicholson rf 2 0 2 0
Scheffing c 2 0 0 1
Gilbert cf 1 0 0 0
  Hernandez ph 1 0 0 0
Sturgeon ss 2 0 0 0
Bithorn p 1 0 0 0
  Errickson p 0 0 0 0
  McCullough ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 18 1 4 1
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Frey 2b 3 0 1 0
Joost ss 3 0 1 0
Marshall rf 2 0 1 0
McCormick 1b 2 1 1 0
Tipton lf 2 1 0 0
Haas 3b 2 0 1 1
Walker cf 2 0 2 1
Lakeman c 2 0 0 0
Vander Meer p 2 0 1 0
Totals 20 2 8 2
Chicago 000 10–140
Cincinnati 002 0x–280
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Bithorn  L(7-9) 3.1 8 2 2 3 0
  Errickson   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
4.0
8
2
2
3
0
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Vander Meer  W(12-8) 5.0 4 1 1 1 5
Totals
5.0
4
1
1
1
5
  E–None.  DP–Cincinnati 1. Marshall-Joost-Frey-Haas.  2B–Chicago Nicholson 2 (16); McCullough (18), Cincinnati F. McCormick (14); Walker (17).  Team LOB–3.  Team–9.  U–Tom Dunn, Ziggy Sears, Bill Stewart.  T–1:01.  A–15,326.
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