In a game loaded with wild pitching, North Dallas rolled to an easy 8-3 victory to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the 1945 World Series.
Thirteen walks were issued by both clubs, but North Dallas made the most of them with an 8-2 lead after seven innings. Bob Muncrief (1-0) took the easy victory, but was injured and will miss the rest of the Series. He is the second North Dallas pitcher in as many games to fall to an injury.
Phil Cavarretta and Jeff Heath had three hits apiece for the Forty. Whitey Kurowski had two hits and two RBI for the Knights.
10/8/1945, NDA45-HAR45, Wrigley Field
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
1945 Forty 0 1 2 0 1 1 3 0 0 8 13 2 12 1
1945 Knights 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 1 12 1
Forty AB R H BI AVG Knights AB R H BI AVG
Galan 3b 4 2 2 2 .583 Walker cf 3 1 1 0 .333
Lake ss 6 0 0 0 .214 Mayo 2b 4 1 1 0 .357
Cavarretta 1b 5 1 3 1 .571 Etten 1b 4 0 1 1 .167
Heath lf 5 2 3 2 .429 Kurowski 3b 4 0 2 2 .143
Estalella cf 3 0 1 1 .375 Keller rf 5 0 0 0 .077
Lombardi c 4 0 0 0 .000 Greenberg lf 5 0 0 0 .300
Cullenbine rf 4 1 2 2 .308 Sandlock c 2 0 0 0 .250
Leonard p 0 0 0 0 .000 Berry p 0 0 0 0 .000
Stanky 2b 4 1 1 0 .200 Nicholson ph 1 0 1 0 .500
Muncrief p 4 1 1 0 .250 Gromek p 0 0 0 0 .000
Byrnes rf 1 0 0 0 .000 Newsom p 0 0 0 0 .000
40 8 13 8 Newsome ss 4 0 1 0 .364
Mungo p 2 0 1 0 .500
Orrell p 0 0 0 0 .000
Hayes c 2 1 1 0 .500
36 3 9 3
Forty INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Muncrief W 1-0 7.2 7 2 2 4 1 108 67 2.35
Leonard 1.1 2 1 1 2 1 43 27 6.75
9.0 9 3 3 6 2 151 94
Knights INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Mungo L 0-1 4.1 7 4 4 4 4 96 54 8.31
Orrell 2.1 5 4 4 3 0 73 43 17.18
Berry 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 10 7 8.10
Gromek 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 12 6 3.52
Newsom 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00
9.0 13 8 8 7 4 192 111
NDA: Byrnes inserted at rf in the 8th
HAR: Hayes inserted at c in the 7th
Nicholson batted for Berry in the 8th
E-Galan, Stanky, Newsome. 2B-Galan, Heath, Cullenbine, Muncrief, Mayo,
Kurowski 2, Nicholson. 3B-Hayes. SB-Heath(2). K-Lake 2, Estalella, Muncrief,
Greenberg 2. BB-Galan 2, Estalella 2, Lombardi, Cullenbine, Stanky, Walker 2,
Mayo, Etten, Kurowski, Sandlock.
GWRBI: Heath
Bob Muncrief was injured for this game and 15 more days
Temperature: 56, Sky: cloudy, Wind: right to left at 18 MPH.