CUBS SWEEP PHILS, EXTEND ‘W’ STREAK TO 11

Club Chases Dodgers for Longest Streak of Season

 

CHICAGO, July 21 (AP) – The Chicago Cubs swept a doubleheader from the Philadelphia Phillies at Wrigley Field, extending their winning streak to 11 games.  The streak is the second longest of the big league season to date, trailing only the 13-game winning streak set by the Brooklyn Dodgers from June 24 to July 7.

 

The Cubs won the opener by a comfortable 7-3 score.  Chicago scored the game’s first six runs and took a 6-0 lead into the top of the sixth.  The Cubs scored two in the first, with Andy Pafko and Marv Rickert driving home runs, and pushed a single tally across in the second on Peanuts Lowrey’s RBI single.  In the fifth, Chicago plated three more runs, on RBI doubles off the bats of Clyde McCullough and pitcher Hank Borowy.

 

The Phillies tried to make a game of it, scoring twice in the sixth and one more run in the seventh—the latter coming on a Del Ennis home run--cutting the deficit to three.

 

But the Cubs added an insurance run in the eighth on Don Johnson’s RBI base hit and went on to win by four.

 

The nightcap was a pitcher’s duel between Philadelphia’s Ken Raffensberger and Chicago’s Claude Passeau, neither of whom factored into the decision.

 

The game was scoreless through six, but the Phillies broke the deadlock in the top of the seventh.  Ennis led off with a base hit and stole second.  Frank McCormick sacrificed the runner to third and Ennis scored on Rollie Hemsley’s long fly to center.

 

The Cubs tied the game in the bottom half of the inning.  Bob Scheffing and Billy Jurges opened the frame with consecutive singles, leaving runners on first and second, but Passeau, after failing to get a bunt down, grounded into a double play, leaving Scheffing on third with two outs.  Lowrey, however, came through with a base hit to left, plating Scheffing with the tying run.

 

Both starters were lifted for pinch hitters, to no effect, and were out of the game by the time the Cubs came to bat in the bottom of the eleventh.  With Lefty Hoerst on the mound for Philadelphia,

Eddie Waitkus led off by grounding a single to left.  Phil Cavarretta followed with an infield hit.  Speedy Lou Stringer pinch ran for Waitkus at second and Dom Dallessandro pinch hit for Pafko.  Dallessandro worked the count full and then slashed a ground ball past third baseman Jim Tabor and down the left field line.  Stringer came around to score, and Dallessandro was credited with a game-winning double.

 

The Cubs will try to continue their already impressive streak when they take on the Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

 

 

7/21/1946, PhN46-ChN46, game 1, Wrigley Field

 

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

1946 Phillies          0  0  0  0  0  2  1  0  0     3  6  2     5  2

1946 Cubs              2  1  0  0  3  0  0  1  x     7 11  0     9  1

 

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

Gilbert,C         cf  1  1  0  0  .195    Lowrey            3b  5  2  3  1  .301

Hughes,R          ss  4  1  1  0  .259    Johnson,D         2b  5  0  1  1  .233

Northey           rf  4  0  0  1  .196    Waitkus           1b  3  1  0  0  .364

McCormick,F       1b  4  0  0  0  .269    Cavarretta        rf  4  0  1  0  .339

Ennis             lf  4  0  2  1  .297    Pafko             cf  4  1  1  1  .262

Tabor             3b  4  0  1  0  .304    Rickert           lf  3  1  0  1  .251

Seminick          c   4  1  1  1  .220    McCullough        c   3  1  2  1  .304

Verban,E          2b  4  0  0  0  .246    Jurges            ss  3  1  1  0  .236

Judd              p   2  0  1  0  .279    Borowy            p   3  0  2  2  .293

 Mulligan,D       p   0  0  0  0  .200     Nicholson        ph  1  0  0  0  .264

 Dinges           ph  1  0  0  0  .211     Kush             p   0  0  0  0  .176

 Mauney           p   0  0  0  0  .077                         34  7 11  7

                     32  3  6  3

 

Phillies                         INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Judd             L 8-5           4.1  7  6  5  6  3  96  47  4.61

Mulligan,D                       1.2  1  0  0  0  0  20  14  7.78

Mauney                           2.0  3  1  1  0  0  27  16  3.30

                                 8.0 11  7  6  6  3 143  77

 

Cubs                             INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Borowy           W 6-6           7.0  5  3  3  3  6 103  60  4.14

Kush             S 3             2.0  1  0  0  0  0  26  18  3.51

                                 9.0  6  3  3  3  6 129  78

 

PhN: Dinges batted for Mulligan,D in the 7th

ChN: Nicholson batted for Borowy in the 7th

 

E-Seminick, Verban,E. 2B-Hughes,R(10), McCullough 2(17), Jurges(4),

Borowy 2(2). HR-Seminick(3). RBI-Northey(36), Ennis(44), Seminick(24),

Lowrey(35), Johnson,D(13), Pafko(18), Rickert(36), McCullough(31),

Borowy 2(7). SB-Lowrey(7). K-Northey 2, McCormick,F, Tabor, Seminick 2,

Johnson,D, Cavarretta, Rickert. BB-Gilbert,C 3, Waitkus 2, Cavarretta,

Rickert, McCullough, Jurges.

GWRBI: Pafko

Temperature: 94, Sky: clear, Wind: in from left at 21 MPH.

Attendance: N/A

Game Time: 2:08

 

7/21/1946, PhN46-ChN46, game 2, 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  1  0  0  0  0     1  6  1     5  1

1946 Cubs              0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  1     2 10  0     9  0

 

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

Hughes,R          ss  5  0  1  0  .258    Lowrey            3b  5  0  1  1  .300

Gilbert,C         cf  5  0  2  0  .207    Johnson,D         2b  5  0  2  0  .237

Tabor             3b  5  0  0  0  .297    Waitkus           1b  4  0  2  0  .366

Northey           rf  4  0  0  0  .194     Stringer         pr  0  1  0  0  .260

Ennis             lf  4  1  1  0  .297    Cavarretta        rf  3  0  1  0  .339

McCormick,F       1b  3  0  1  0  .270    Pafko             cf  4  0  1  0  .262

Hemsley           c   4  0  0  1  .253     Dallessandro     ph  1  0  1  1  .220

Verban,E          2b  4  0  1  0  .246    Rickert           lf  3  0  0  0  .248

Raffensberger     p   3  0  0  0  .152     Secory           ph  1  0  0  0  .286

 O'Neil           ph  1  0  0  0  .350    Scheffing         c   4  1  1  0  .279

 Hoerst           p   0  0  0  0  .000    Jurges            ss  4  0  1  0  .237

 Karl             p   0  0  0  0  .000    Passeau           p   3  0  0  0  .163

                     38  1  6  1           McCullough       ph  1  0  0  0  .303

                                           Meers            p   0  0  0  0  .400

                                                               38  2 10  2

 

Phillies                         INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Raffensberger                   10.0  7  1  1  2  5 120  84  3.45

Hoerst           L 0-3           0.0  2  1  1  0  0   8   4  4.71

Karl                             0.0  1  0  0  0  0   6   3  3.38

                                10.0 10  2  2  2  5 134  91

 

Cubs                             INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Passeau                         10.0  5  1  1  0  3 104  70  2.37

Meers            W 1-2           1.0  1  0  0  0  1  14   9  5.52

                                11.0  6  1  1  0  4 118  79

 

PhN: O'Neil batted for Raffensberger in the 11th

ChN: Secory batted for Rickert in the 9th

     Secory moved to lf in the 10th

     McCullough batted for Passeau in the 10th

     Stringer ran for Waitkus in the 11th

     Dallessandro batted for Pafko in the 11th

 

E-Ennis. 2B-Dallessandro(4). RBI-Hemsley(12), Lowrey(36), Dallessandro(5).

SB-Ennis(2). CS-Lowrey. K-Tabor, Raffensberger 2, O'Neil, Johnson,D,

Cavarretta, Pafko, Jurges, Passeau. BB-Cavarretta 2. SH-McCormick,F, Waitkus.

WP-Meers.

GWRBI: Dallessandro

Temperature: 94, Sky: clear, Wind: in from left at 21 MPH.

Attendance: 23,840

Game Time: 2:06