St. Louis Cardinals vs Boston Braves
August 28, 1949 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 28, 1949 at Braves Field. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Braves and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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St. Louis Cardinals 9, Boston Braves 7

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Diering cf 5 1 1 0
Schoendienst 2b 5 1 2 0
Musial rf 5 2 2 3
Jones 1b 5 3 3 3
Slaughter lf 4 1 1 0
Marion ss 4 1 1 1
Rice c 5 0 1 0
Glaviano 3b 5 0 3 1
Pollet p 1 0 1 1
  Wilks p 4 0 0 0
  Staley p 0 0 0 0
Totals 43 9 15 9
Boston Braves ab   r   h rbi
Stanky 2b 4 0 0 0
Fletcher 1b 0 0 0 0
  Rickert 1b 4 1 1 0
Sisti ss 4 1 1 0
Reiser cf 3 1 2 1
Heath lf 3 1 0 0
Holmes rf 4 1 2 2
Ryan 3b 4 2 2 3
Crandall c 3 0 0 1
  Salkeld ph 1 0 0 0
Spahn p 3 0 1 0
  Potter p 0 0 0 0
  Elliott ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 34 7 10 7
St. Louis 500 000 2209150
Boston 032 010 0017102
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Pollet   2.2 6 5 5 2 0
  Wilks  W(10-3) 5.2 4 2 2 2 3
  Staley   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
7
7
4
3
  Boston Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Spahn  L(16-11) 6.2 12 7 7 2 3
  Potter   2.1 3 2 2 0 0
Totals
9.0
15
9
9
2
3

  E–Stanky (13), Spahn (3).  DP–St. Louis 3. Schoendienst-Jones, Marion-Schoendienst-Jones, Musial-Jones.  2B–St. Louis D. Rice (11); Glaviano 2 (11), Boston Rickert (16); Holmes (18); B. Elliott (26).  3B–St. Louis Musial (10), Boston Ryan (1).  HR–St. Louis Musial (26,1st inning off Spahn 2 on); Jones 2 (6,8th inning off Potter 1 on,1st inning off Spahn 0 on), Boston Ryan (2,9th inning off Wilks 0 on).  Team LOB–9.  Team–4.  U-HP–Artie Gore, 1B–Scotty Robb, 2B–Babe Pinelli, 3B–Frank Dascoli.
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