It’s Pittsburgh’s Dazzy Vance against Chicago’s Al Spalding at Wrigley Field today for the rubber match of the three-game set between these two teams…Pittsburgh took the opener 14-3 and Chicago won game two 2-0…Max Carey reaches on a two-bag error by Ron Santo but otherwise nothing doing for Pittsburgh in the top of the first…In the top of the second it’s a single and nothing more for Pittsburgh…Chicago records two strikeouts, a walk, and a line out to short in their half of the second…Pittsburgh gets runners to first and third in singles by Pie Traynor and Max Carey before Josh Gibson grounds into a 4-6-3 double play to end the top half of the third…Singles by Ryne Sandberg and King Kelly, followed by a double by Cristobel Torriente, result in Chicago taking a 1-0 lead…Kelly is thrown out at the plate by Roberto Clemente trying to score from first in the Torriente two-bagger…After throwing out a runner at the plate in the bottom of the third, in the top of the fourth Clemente is himself gunned down at the plate trying to score from second on a single to right by Bill Mazeroski…Chicago still leads 1-0…The bottom of the fourth started with back-to-back triples followed by three singles, a passed ball, and a walk before two fly outs and a strike out end the bat around inning for Chicago…They now lead 5-0…Vance sets down Chicago in order in the fifth…Pittsburgh loads the bases but again fails to score…It’s time for the seventh inning stretch.
Chicago strands two in the bottom of the seventh…Pittsburgh still struggling at the plate going quietly once again to end the top of the eighth…Nothing for Pittsburgh in the 9th and they are shut out for the second game in a row, falling to Chicago 6-0…Good afternoon from Wrigley.