Tommy Holmes two-run triple in the bottom of the 7th broke a 4-4 tie as the Montgomery Burns defeated the Fremont
Furtraders in Game One of the 1942 World Series.
Fremont took a 1-0 lead in the second, before the Burns roared back with three in the bottom of the frame . Mel Ott
got the Furtraders back to within a run with a solo homer in the third, but the Burns got the run back on a Harry
Danning home run in the 6th.
Fremont managed to tie up the game in the seventh when Buddy Blair hit a two-run home run off of Mort Cooper. Cooper
(1-0) was picked up by his teammates in the bottom of the seventh. Holmes, fresh off an injury, got his third hit of
the game, a two-run triple that gave the Burns a lead they did not relinquish. Surprise starter Lon Warneke was
adequate in his start, but Bob Carpenter took the loss. Three Fremont errors lead to two unearned runs in the game.
The Burns got the win, but at the cost of Frank McCormick, who left the game in the first with an elbow injury. He
will not be available the next 4 days.
10/2/1942, FRE42-MON42, Briggs Stadium
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1942 Furtraders 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 10 3 6 1
1942 Burns 0 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 x 6 12 1 9 1
Furtraders AB R H BI AVG Burns AB R H BI AVG
Pesky ss 5 0 0 0 .000 Novikoff lf 5 0 0 0 .000
Blair 3b 4 1 1 2 .250 Clift 3b 5 0 1 1 .200
Ott rf 4 1 2 1 .500 DiMaggioJ cf 4 1 2 0 .500
FlemingL 1b 4 0 0 0 .000 Gordon 2b 4 1 1 0 .250
McCullough c 4 0 2 0 .500 McCormck,F 1b 1 0 0 0 .000
Judnich lf 4 1 0 0 .000 Merullo ss 3 0 0 0 .000
Knickrbckr 2b 3 0 1 0 .333 Holmes rf 4 1 3 2 .750
Phelps ph 1 0 1 0 1.000 Cronin ss 3 1 2 0 .667
Moore,T cf 4 0 3 1 .750 Danning c 4 2 2 2 .500
Warneke p 2 0 0 0 .000 Cooper,M p 3 0 1 1 .333
Vaughan ph 1 1 0 0 .000 Campbell ph 1 0 0 0 .000
Carpenter p 0 0 0 0 .000 Lanier p 0 0 0 0 .000
Salvo p 0 0 0 0 .000 Humphries p 0 0 0 0 .000
Reese ph 1 0 0 0 .000 37 6 12 6
37 4 10 4
Furtraders INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Warneke 6.0 10 4 3 1 3 107 71 4.50
Carpenter L 0-1 0.1 2 2 1 1 0 13 8 27.00
Salvo 1.2 0 0 0 0 1 16 12 0.00
8.0 12 6 4 2 4 136 91
Burns INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Cooper,M W 1-0 7.0 9 4 4 0 5 102 69 5.14
Lanier H 1 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 13 8 0.00
Humphries S 1 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 15 10 0.00
9.0 10 4 4 0 7 130 87
FRE: Vaughan batted for Warneke in the 7th
Phelps batted for Knickrbckr in the 9th
Reese batted for Salvo in the 9th
MON: Merullo inserted at ss in the 2nd
Cronin moved to 1b in the 2nd
Campbell batted for Cooper,M in the 7th
E-Blair, Judnich, Knickrbckr, Merullo. 2B-Ott, Moore,T, Phelps. 3B-Holmes.
HR-Blair(1), Ott(1), Danning(1). K-FlemingL 3, Judnich 2, Knickrbckr,
Moore,T, Novikoff, DiMaggioJ, Cronin, Cooper,M. BB-DiMaggioJ, Cronin.
GWRBI: Holmes
Frank McCormick was injured for this game and 4 more days
Temperature: 55, Sky: clear, Wind: left to right at 9 MPH.