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  • Game 1: North Dallas 12 Harlem 11 - WP: Tobin 1-0 LP: ASmith 0-1
  • Game 2: North Dallas 4 Harlem 1 - WP: Passeau 1-0 LP: Gromek 0-1
  • Game 3: North Dallas 8 Harlem 3 - WP: Muncrief 1-0 LP: Mungo 0-1
  • Game 4: Harlem 4 North Dallas 3 - WP: Newsom 1-0 LP: Burkhart 0-1
  • Game 5: North Dallas 6 Harlem 5 - WP: Butcher 1-0 LP: ASmith 0-2

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    LOMBARDI'S HOME RUN GIVES FORTY TITLER

    Ernie Lombardi's tenth-inning home run held as North Dallas defeated the Harlem Knights, 6-5, to clinch the 1945 DBS Championship.

    Initially down 5-2, the Knights scored once in the seventh to close the gap to two, when Nels Potter retired the first two Harlem batters in the bottom of the ninth. After Charlie Keller singled on a full-count fastball, Hank Greenberg strolled to the plate. After a swing and a miss, Greenberg blast the next offering in to the left field seats, tying the game at 5. Lombardi's lead-off home run in the tenth came off of Al Smith. 



    
10/10/1945, NDA45-HAR45, Wrigley Field
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10     R  H  E   LOB DP
1945 Forty             1  0  3  0  1  0  0  0  0  1     6 13  1    10  0
1945 Knights           1  0  1  0  0  0  1  0  2  0     5 13  3    12  0
 
Forty                AB  R  H BI   AVG    Knights              AB  R  H BI   AVG
Galan             3b  6  2  2  0  .500    Walker            cf  6  1  3  0  .381
Lake              ss  5  1  1  0  .167    Mayo              2b  6  1  1  0  .333
Cavarretta        1b  5  0  1  2  .478    Etten             1b  5  0  1  0  .200
Heath             lf  5  1  1  1  .318    Kurowski          3b  4  1  2  0  .318
Estalella         cf  5  1  2  0  .385    Keller            rf  5  1  3  2  .182
Lombardi          c   5  1  4  2  .308    Greenberg         lf  3  1  1  2  .294
Cullenbine        rf  4  0  0  0  .286    Sandlock          c   5  0  0  1  .118
Stanky            2b  4  0  1  1  .235    Newsome           ss  4  0  1  0  .294
Potter            p   3  0  0  0  .000     Nicholson        ph  1  0  0  0  .333
 Butcher          p   1  0  1  0 1.000    Walters           p   2  0  0  0  .000
                     43  6 13  6           Berry            p   1  0  0  0  .000
                                           Peck             ph  1  0  0  0  .000
                                           Smith            p   1  0  1  0 1.000
                                           Dickshot         pr  0  0  0  0  .000
                                                               44  5 13  5
 
Forty                            INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Potter                           8.2 12  5  5  2  2 121  80  8.44
Butcher          W 1-0           1.1  1  0  0  0  0  15   9  0.00
                                10.0 13  5  5  2  2 136  89 
 
Knights                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Walters                          4.0  9  5  5  2  2  71  42 12.91
Berry                            4.0  2  0  0  0  1  44  30  3.68
Smith            L 0-2           2.0  2  1  1  0  0  20  16  6.75
                                10.0 13  6  6  2  3 135  88 
 
HAR: Peck batted for Berry in the 8th
     Nicholson batted for Newsome in the 10th
     Dickshot ran for Smith in the 10th
 
E-Lake, Walker, Mayo, Keller. 2B-Lake, Mayo. HR-Lombardi(1), Greenberg(2). 
SB-Dickshot(1). K-Cavarretta, Stanky, Potter, Kurowski, Sandlock. 
BB-Cullenbine, Stanky, Kurowski, Greenberg. SH-Potter. HBP-Greenberg. 
HB-Potter. 
GWRBI: Lombardi
Temperature: 73, Sky: cloudy, Wind: in from center at 20 MPH.