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Brooklyn Dodgers @ Pittsburgh Pirates

1944-05-18 · Day game · Forbes Field · Att: 3361 · 2:25

Pittsburgh Pirates defeated Brooklyn Dodgers 4–3. Pittsburgh Pirates put up 4 in the 9th. Max Butcher earned the win.

Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
BRO	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	9
PIT	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	8

W: Max Butcher L: Rube Melton SV: (none)

Umpires — HP: Larry Goetz · 1B: Beans Reardon · 2B: (none) · 3B: (none) · LF: (none) · RF: (none)

Brooklyn Dodgers — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Frenchy Bordagaray	5	0	0	0	0	0
Dixie Walker	3	0	0	0	1	0
Luis Olmo	4	0	0	0	0	3
Augie Galan	4	1	1	0	0	0
Howie Schultz	4	0	2	0	0	1
Bill Hart	4	0	0	0	0	1
Bobby Bragan	4	2	3	1	0	0
Pat Ankenman	4	0	2	1	0	0
Rube Melton	2	0	1	1	0	0

Pittsburgh Pirates — batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Johnny Barrett	4	0	0	0	0	1
Pete Coscarart	3	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Russell	4	1	1	0	0	1
Bob Elliott	4	1	0	0	0	1
Frankie Gustine	4	0	2	1	0	0
Babe Dahlgren	3	1	2	0	1	0
Vince DiMaggio	3	0	1	2	1	1
Hank Camelli	2	0	0	0	0	0
Xavier Rescigno	2	0	0	0	0	1
Al Rubeling	1	0	1	0	1	0
Tommy O'Brien	1	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Colman	1	0	0	0	0	1
Spud Davis	1	0	1	1	0	0

Brooklyn Dodgers — pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	BB	SO
Rube Melton	8.0	6	3	6
Bill Lohrman	0.0	2	0	0

Pittsburgh Pirates — pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	BB	SO
Xavier Rescigno	8.0	8	1	5
Max Butcher	1.0	1	0	0

Play-by-play

Top 1

Frenchy Bordagaray: 63
Dixie Walker: 5/FL
Luis Olmo: K/C

Bot 1

Johnny Barrett: K
Pete Coscarart: 43
Jim Russell: K

Top 2

Augie Galan: D7/P
Howie Schultz: K
Bill Hart: 53
Bobby Bragan: T8.2-H
Pat Ankenman: S.3-H
Rube Melton: 63

Bot 2

Bob Elliott: 5/FL
Frankie Gustine: 53
Babe Dahlgren: D
Vince DiMaggio: 63

Top 3

Frenchy Bordagaray: 7
Dixie Walker: 9
Luis Olmo: K

Bot 3

Hank Camelli: 9
Xavier Rescigno: K
Johnny Barrett: 2/FL

Top 4

Augie Galan: 8
Howie Schultz: S
Bill Hart: K
Bobby Bragan: 64(1)/FO

Bot 4

Pete Coscarart: 63
Jim Russell: 3/FL
Bob Elliott: K

Top 5

Pat Ankenman: S
Rube Melton: 3/SH.1-2
Frenchy Bordagaray: 53
Dixie Walker: W
Luis Olmo: K/C

Bot 5

Frankie Gustine: 63
Babe Dahlgren: 4
Vince DiMaggio: W
Hank Camelli: 3/FL

Top 6

Augie Galan: 2
Howie Schultz: 4
Bill Hart: 63

Bot 6

Xavier Rescigno: 2/FL
Johnny Barrett: 8
Pete Coscarart: 9

Top 7

Bobby Bragan: T
Pat Ankenman: 63
Rube Melton: S/BG.3-H
Frenchy Bordagaray: 7
Dixie Walker: 3/G

Bot 7

Jim Russell: 63
Bob Elliott: 53
Frankie Gustine: S
Babe Dahlgren: S.1-2
Vince DiMaggio: K

Top 8

Luis Olmo: 7
Augie Galan: 4
Howie Schultz: S
Bill Hart: 64(1)/FO

Bot 8

Al Rubeling: W
Tommy O'Brien: 5
Johnny Barrett: 8
Frank Colman: K

Top 9

Bobby Bragan: S
Pat Ankenman: 3
Rube Melton: 34/SH.1-2
Frenchy Bordagaray: 5/L

Bot 9

Jim Russell: S4
Bob Elliott: E6/TH.1-2
Frankie Gustine: S.2-H;1-3
Babe Dahlgren: W.1-2
Vince DiMaggio: S.3-H;2-H(UR);1-2
Al Rubeling: S/BG.2-3;1-2
Spud Davis: S.3-H;2-3;1-2