ROWE, PHILS OUTLAST BOROWY, CUBS IN 11

Double Perfect Game Last into Bottom of 6^th

CHICAGO, May 5 (AP) – Schoolboy Rowe tossed a four-hit, 11-inning shutout and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Chicago Cubs 3-0 at Wrigley Field in the first game of a doubleheader.  Cubs starter Hank Borowy took a perfect game into the seventh inning, a no-hitter into the eighth and a shutout into the 11^th, but was the hard luck loser.  In fact, the game featured a double perfect game until Borowy singled with two outs in the bottom of the sixth.

The game went on without a single baserunner until Borowy’s base hit.  The Borowy bid for a perfect game came to an end when Johnny Wyrostek reached with one out in the top of the seventh on an error charged to Chicago shortstop Billy Jurges.  The Phillies finally picked up a hit when Andy Seminick singled with two outs in the top of the eighth.

The first decent scoring opportunity came in the bottom of the seventh when, with two outs, Phil Cavaretta tripled off the center field wall, but Rowe kept the Cubs scoreless when he retired Andy Pafko on a grounder to second.

Jurges singled with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, but Borowy fanned to end the inning.

Both starters worked perfect halves of the ninth inning, but the Phillies had a shot to break out on top in the 10^th when Jimmy Wasdell tripled to right-center with two outs.  Pete Novikoff pinch hit for Roy Hughes, but lined to Jurges for the third out.

Cavaretta led off the bottom of the 10^th by grounding a single to left, but Rowe stiffened, striking out pinch hitter Charlie Gilbert, retiring Bill Nicholson on a fly to center and fanning Clyde McCullough to end the inning.

In the 11^th, Borowy retired Seminick on a ground ball to short, but Emil Verban lined a base hit through the box.  Rowe hit for himself and vindicated that decision by bouncing a base hit to right, advancing Verban to third.  The Cubs appeared poised to dodge a huge bullet when Skeeter Newsome grounded to a drawn-in Al Glossup at second.  Glossup gunned Vergan down at the plate for the second out, leaving runners on first and second.  But Wyrostek dropped a single in front of Nicholson in right.  The throw to the plate, in an attempt to cut down Rowe trying to score, was wild.  Not only did Rowe break the scoreless tie, but Newsome came around to score as well, with Wyrostek ending up at third.  Del Ennis followed with a double to the left-center field gap, plating Wyrostek with the third run before Frank McCormick grounded out to end the inning.

The Cubs came up in the bottom of the inning trailing the Phillies by three runs and Rowe didn’t mess around.  He struck out Jurges, got pinch hitter Dom Dallessandro on a soft roller to short and fanned Peanuts Lowrey to end the game.

The exceptional effort by Rowe represents the first time thus far this season that a major league hurler has thrown an extra inning shutout.  It was also the first time during this major league season that a game of any length ended without a single base on balls.

5/5/1946, PhN46-ChN46, game 1, Wrigley Field

                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11     R  H  E   LOB DP

1946 Phillies          0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  3     3  6  0     4  0

1946 Cubs              0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     0  4  2     4  0

Phillies             AB  R  H BI   AVG    Cubs                 AB  R  H BI   AVG

Newsome           ss  5  1  0  0  .361    Lowrey            3b  5  0  0  0  .347

Wyrostek          cf  5  1  1  1  .227    Glossop           2b  4  0  0  0  .000

Ennis             lf  5  0  1  1  .300    Waitkus           1b  4  0  0  0  .351

McCormick,F       1b  5  0  0  0  .243    Cavarretta        lf  4  0  2  0  .277

Wasdell,J         rf  4  0  1  0  .300    Pafko             cf  3  0  0  0  .256

Hughes,R          3b  3  0  0  0  .000     Gilbert,C        ph  1  0  0  0  .000

 Novikoff         ph  1  0  0  0  .500    Nicholson         rf  4  0  0  0  .231

 O'Neil           ss  0  0  0  0  .000    McCullough        c   4  0  0  0  .276

Seminick          c   4  0  1  0  .304    Jurges            ss  4  0  1  0  .214

Verban,E          2b  4  0  1  0  .250    Borowy            p   3  0  1  0  .273

Rowe              p   4  1  1  0  .143     Dallessandro     ph  1  0  0  0  .000

                     40  3  6  2                               37  0  4  0

Phillies                         INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Rowe             W 1-1          11.0  4  0  0  0  9 144  94  1.80

                                11.0  4  0  0  0  9 144  94

Cubs                             INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Borowy           L 1-2          11.0  6  3  3  0  6 144 100  3.16

                                11.0  6  3  3  0  6 144 100

PhN: Novikoff batted for Hughes,R in the 10th

     Newsome moved to 3b in the 10th

     O'Neil inserted at ss in the 10th

ChN: Gilbert,C batted for Pafko in the 10th

     Gilbert,C moved to cf in the 11th

     Dallessandro batted for Borowy in the 11th

E-Nicholson, Jurges. 2B-Ennis(1). 3B-Wasdell,J(1), Cavarretta(3).

RBI-Wyrostek(4), Ennis(11). K-Newsome, Ennis, Hughes,R, Verban,E, Rowe 2,

Lowrey 2, Glossop, Nicholson 2, McCullough, Jurges, Borowy, Gilbert,C.

GWRBI: Wyrostek

Temperature: 46, Sky: clear, Wind: in from right at 16 MPH.

Attendance: N/A

Game Time: 2:28