DANNING'S PH 2-RUN HR MAKES WINNER OF HUBBELL
Giants Take Opener in Dramatic Fashion
NEW YORK, Apr. 17 (AP) - Harry Danning's pinch hit two-run homer with two outs
in the bottom of the eighth gave the New York Giants a come-from-behind 4-3 win
in the club's home opener at the Polo Grounds. The dramatic long ball, off
Philadelphia Phillies reliever Snipe Hansen, made a winner of Giants starter
Carl Hubbell, who tossed a complete game, allowing only one earned run.
The Phillies took an early lead. They pushed an unearned run across in the
second when Wes Schulmerich reached on a one-out single, advanced to second an
out later on Jimmie Wilson's single and then moved to third when Irv Jeffries
lined a sharp base hit to left. But when J.J. Moore misplayed the hit,
Schulmerich scored on the error. Hubbell struck out Jumbo Elliott to end
the inning, but Philadelphia had a 1-0 lead.
The advantage was doubled in the third. Dick Bartell's hustle double
opened the frame and, one out later, he scored on Ethan Allen's base hit through
the box.
The Giants got on the board in the bottom of the third with a two-out
rally. Blondy Ryan battled for 10 pitches before drawing a free pass from
Elliott and Bill Terry followed with a walk of his own. Mel Ott then
slashed a single to left, plating Ryan and chasing Terry to third. Travis
Jackson drew Elliott's third walk of the inning but George Watkins bounced to
short, ending the inning with New York trailing 2-1.
The Giants evened the score in the fifth. Terry singled with one out and
Ott's double into the right field corner put runners on second and third.
Jackson was hit by a pitch, filling the bases and Elliott walked Watkins,
forcing in the tying run. At that point, Hansen replaced Elliott and he
induced a double play ball off the bat of Johnny Vergez to keep the score
knotted at two.
The Philles recaptured the lead in the sixth when Lou Chiozza reached to open
the frame on Ryan's error. Allen then drew a walk, putting runners on
first and second with none out. Don Hurst followed by lining out to
center; Chiozza tried to advance to third and appeared to beat Watkins' throw
but he overslid the bag and was called out. But Schulmerich bounced a
single up the middle and when Chick Fullis blooped a base hit to center, Allen
raced around to score the lead run.
Philadelphia took a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the eighth inning. With
one out, Watkins reached when Jeffries booted a grounder for an error.
Vergez rolled out to first with Watkins advancing to second. Danning then
pinch hit for Paul Richards and drove a 1-2 offering deep into the lower
grandstand in left field, just inside the foul pole, for a two-run home run and
a 4-3 Giants lead. Both runs were unearned.
Hubbell retired pinch hitter Mickey Haslin and Bartell to open the ninth, but
then walked pinch hitter Al Todd and yielded a single to Allen. That
brought Hurst to the plate and he bounced one to Ryan at second who completed
the play to end the game.
4/17/1934, PhN34-NYN34, Polo Grounds 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 1934 Phillies 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 9 1 10 2 1934 Giants 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 x 4 6 3 8 2 Phillies AB R H BI AVG Giants AB R H BI AVG Bartell ss 5 1 1 0 .200 Moore,JJ lf 4 0 1 0 .250 Chiozza 3b 4 0 1 0 .250 Ryan 2b 2 1 0 0 .000 Todd ph 0 0 0 0 .000 Terry 1b 2 1 1 0 .500 Allen,E cf 4 1 2 1 .500 Ott rf 4 0 2 1 .500 Hurst 1b 5 0 0 0 .000 Jackson ss 2 0 1 0 .500 Schulmerich rf 4 1 2 0 .500 Watkins cf 3 1 0 1 .000 Fullis lf 3 0 1 1 .333 Vergez 3b 4 0 0 0 .000 Wilson,Ji c 3 0 1 0 .333 Richards c 3 0 0 0 .000 Jeffries 2b 4 0 1 0 .250 Danning ph 1 1 1 2 1.000 Elliott p 2 0 0 0 .000 Hubbell p 3 0 0 0 .000 Hansen p 1 0 0 0 .000 28 4 6 4 Haslin ph 1 0 0 0 .000 36 3 9 2 Phillies INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Elliott 4.1 5 2 2 5 0 96 49 4.15 Hansen L 0-1 3.2 1 2 0 1 1 46 29 0.00 8.0 6 4 2 6 1 142 78 Giants INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Hubbell W 1-0 9.0 9 3 1 4 2 142 87 1.00 9.0 9 3 1 4 2 142 87 PhN: Haslin batted for Hansen in the 9th Todd batted for Chiozza in the 9th NYN: Danning batted for Richards in the 8th Danning moved to c in the 9th E-Jeffries, Moore,JJ, Ryan, Vergez. 2B-Bartell(1), Ott(1). HR-Danning(1). RBI-Allen,E(1), Fullis(1), Ott(1), Watkins(1), Danning 2(2). K-Chiozza, Elliott, Jackson. BB-Allen,E, Fullis, Wilson,Ji, Todd, Ryan, Terry 2, Jackson, Watkins, Hubbell. SH-Ryan. HBP-Jackson. HB-Elliott. GWRBI: Danning Temperature: 64, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: out to center at 8 MPH. Attendance: 37,408 Game Time: 2:18