The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-10-07
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sial directly alongside the first baseline Marty Marion remained at regular shortstop position. The outfielders also veered sharply to the right.
 After ignoring two strikes and a called ball, Williams rapped one directly at Musial who easily beat Ted to the bag for the out. York worked the count to three and two and then walked. Doerr, after fouling off an at tempted sacrifice, went out on a high bounder to Schoendienst, York sliding into second.
 Higgins was purposely passed.
 Partee hit an outside curve taken by Schoendienst who tossed him out
 No runs, no hits, no errors, two left on base
 Kurowski fouled off pitch. then slammed a sharp single over shortstop for the first Card inal hit. In contrast to the Red Sox, who appeared to be playing for one run, Slaughter disdained to sacrifice and swung away. After fouling off two pitches, he popped to Pesky. Dusak famed on five pitches. Higgins backed up nicely and made a neat pickup of Mar ions solid rap near third and threw across to Doerr at second to force the sliding Kurowski.
 No runs. one hit, no errors, one left on base.
 Third Inning
 Red Sox-Harris watched third called strike breeze by. Marion handled McBrides hopper cleanly and tossed him out. Pesky knock ed the first pitch into the ground straight to Sehoendienst who flip ped to Musial for the out.
 No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on base.
 Cardinals-Rice looked at ball and strike then lined the second pitch with one bounce against the left field wall and easily made sec ond before Williams was able to get the ball back to the infield. It was the first extra base hit of the game Brecheen feigned bunt, missed the next pitch. then rap ped a drive into right field which Mcbride first attempted to make a shoestring catch of, then changed his mind and decided to play 1t safe on one bounce. He bobbled the ball but was not charged with an error as Rice raced in to score. It was a single and run batted in for Brecheen.
 Schoendienst sacrificed Brecheen to second, and York, despite falling flat on his back after fielding the hunt along the first base foul line, recovered himself in time to throw to Doerr at first for the out. After fculing off four pitches, Moore hit a high bounder to Higgins who threw him out at first as Brecheen moved to third.
 With a two and two count, Mu- sial leaned into a sharp-breaking curve and rapped it on a line out to center field where DiMaggio hauled it in.
 One run, two hits, no errors one left on base.
 Fourth Inning
 Moore trotted over about ten steps to his right to gather in Di- Maggios fly, With the Dyer-shift in position for William, Brecheen thrilled the crowd by striking out Ted with three pitches. The first was fast ball on the inside corn CT, the second screwball, which caught Williams looking at it, and the third, another screwball, which Williams swung at and missed. Rice dropped the third strike and had to tag Williams for the out. York walked for the second straight time. Doerr lined an outside pitch over the head of Schoendienst into right field for a single. York ran to second on the hit.
 Marion fielded Higgins grounder and tossed to Schoendienst at sec- end to force Doerr.
 No runs, one hit, no errors, two left on base.
 Cardinals-DiMaggi had little difficulty with the strong wind blowing in from right field but held onto Kurkowskis hoist about 50 feet behind second base, Doerr waved Mcbride away and raced in- to foul territory along right field to take care of Slaughter's foul fly.
 Harris, experiencing little diff ticulty in controlling his curve ball which kept missing the outside corner of the plate, walked Dusak. Mcbride backed up against the right field wall and gathered in Marion's high drive. No runs, no hits, no errors. none left on base.
 Fifth Inning
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