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Boston Braves @ Cleveland Guardians

1948-10-09 · 1948 World Series · Game 4 of 6 ◀ Game 3 Game 5 ▶ · Day game · Cleveland Stadium · Att: 81897 · sunny, wet · Wind to RF · 1:31

Cleveland Indians defeated Boston Braves 2–1. Steve Gromek earned the win.

Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
BSN	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7
CLE	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		2	5

W: Steve Gromek L: Johnny Sain SV: (none)

Umpires — HP: Bill Grieve · 1B: George Barr · 2B: Bill Summers · 3B: Bill Stewart · LF: Babe Pinelli · RF: Joe Paparella

Boston Braves — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Tommy Holmes	4	0	0	0	0	0
Al Dark	4	0	0	0	0	0
Earl Torgeson	3	0	2	0	1	0
Bob Elliott	4	0	0	0	0	0
Marv Rickert	4	1	2	1	0	1
Mike McCormick	4	0	1	0	0	1
Phil Masi	3	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Stanky	3	0	1	0	0	0
Johnny Sain	2	0	1	0	0	0
Bill Salkeld	1	0	0	0	0	0

Cleveland Guardians — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	SO
Dale Mitchell	4	1	1	0	0
Larry Doby	3	1	1	1	0
Lou Boudreau	3	0	1	1	0
Joe Gordon	3	0	0	0	0
Ken Keltner	3	0	0	0	0
Wally Judnich	3	0	0	0	2
Eddie Robinson	3	0	2	0	0
Jim Hegan	2	0	0	0	0
Steve Gromek	3	0	0	0	1

Boston Braves — pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	BB	SO
Johnny Sain	8.0	5	0	3

Cleveland Guardians — pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	BB	SO
Steve Gromek	9.0	7	1	2

Play-by-play

Top 1

Tommy Holmes: 9/F9S
Al Dark: 2/P25F/FL
Earl Torgeson: D8/L78D
Bob Elliott: 2/P23F/FL

Bot 1

Dale Mitchell: S8/L8S
Larry Doby: 31/G34.1-2
Lou Boudreau: D9/G3L.2-H;BX3(965)
Joe Gordon: 63/G6

Top 2

Marv Rickert: 3/L3
Mike McCormick: 7/F7S
Phil Masi: 6/P56D

Bot 2

Ken Keltner: 63/G6
Wally Judnich: 3/G3
Eddie Robinson: S9/L9S
Jim Hegan: 6/P5D

Top 3

Eddie Stanky: S8/L78
Johnny Sain: 23/BG23/SH.1-2
Tommy Holmes: 53/G5.2-2
Al Dark: 4/P4D

Bot 3

Steve Gromek: K
Dale Mitchell: 53/G56S
Larry Doby: HR/F89XD
Lou Boudreau: 63/G6

Top 4

Earl Torgeson: 31/G3L
Bob Elliott: 53/G5L
Marv Rickert: S8/L8
Mike McCormick: 64(1)/FO/G6M

Bot 4

Joe Gordon: 13/G1
Ken Keltner: 5/P5F/FL
Wally Judnich: K

Top 5

Phil Masi: 63/G6
Eddie Stanky: 63/G6
Johnny Sain: S7/G56
Tommy Holmes: 4/P3DF/FL

Bot 5

Eddie Robinson: S3/G3S
Jim Hegan: 53/BG25/SH.1-2
Steve Gromek: 6/P5DF/FL
Dale Mitchell: 13/G1

Top 6

Al Dark: 8/L8XD
Earl Torgeson: W
Bob Elliott: 64(1)3/GDP/G6

Bot 6

Larry Doby: 43/G4
Lou Boudreau: 8/F8S
Joe Gordon: 7/F7LDF/FL

Top 7

Marv Rickert: HR/F9D
Mike McCormick: S7/L7
Phil Masi: 5/P15
Eddie Stanky: 7/F7D
Johnny Sain: 13/G1

Bot 7

Ken Keltner: 7/F78
Wally Judnich: K/C
Eddie Robinson: 31

Top 8

Tommy Holmes: 8/F8XD
Al Dark: 6/P4M
Earl Torgeson: D57/G5L
Bob Elliott: 2/P1

Bot 8

Jim Hegan: 4/P4M
Steve Gromek: 23/G2
Dale Mitchell: 63/G6M

Top 9

Marv Rickert: K/C
Mike McCormick: K/C
Bill Salkeld: 9/L9

Notes & reviews

Pitch-by-pitch courtesy of Classic Baseball on the Radio Outfield was muddy from heavy overnight showers; the infield was in good shape. The area between the wire outfield fence and the original barriers were jammed with 4,000 standing fans.
Earl Torgeson stumbled rounding 2B
Torgeson: diving stop
Boudreau and 3B Coach McKechnie bitterly argued the call with Ump Stewart.
Dark: nice stop
Over the 380' sign in RCF, into overflow crowd
Gordon tried to duck an inside pitch
Nobody covered 1B
Dark: good running catch
Into lower RF stands
Masi hurt two fingers of his left hand on the foul bunt
Doby: running over-the-shoulder catch
Great catch by Hegan who collided with Keltner at the mound
Dark: beautiful play

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