Dean dizzies up the Dodgers

Dizzy Dean pitched a complete game at Sportsman' Park, beating the Dodgers, 6-3, in front of 47,598.  Joe Medwick finished 2-for-4 for St. Louis with a home run and a pair of RBI's.  Tom Zachary gets the loss for Brooklyn; he was hit pretty hard for 4 earned runs over 5 innings.  Brooklyn fell down early in the game and would not come back despite a 3-run 8th inning.

In the 1st inning, after 2 outs were recorded, Frankie Frisch hit a single, then Joe Medwick popped his 2-run home run.  Things continued to go swimmingly for St. Louis in the 2nd inning.  Spud Davis led off the inning with a single, then Chick Fullis doubled.  With runners on 2nd and 3rd, 0 outs, Leo Durocher grounded out to shortstop.  Dizzy Dean walked to load the bases.  Then Pepper Martin hit a sac fly.  Jack Rothrock finished the scoring in the inning with a base hit to plate 1.  

For the Dodgers, Lonny Frey had a 4-for-4 game to move his average up to .329.  Danny Taylor hit his 6th home run on the year for Brooklyn.  Both teams banged out 10 hits in the contest.

BOXSCORE: 1934 Brooklyn Dodgers At 1934 St. Louis Cardinals         8/29/1934
Updated W/L Records: Brooklyn(61-65) St. Louis(66-59)
 
  Dodgers            AB  R  H RBI AVG     Cardinals          AB  R  H RBI AVG
  B.Boyle CF          4  1  1  0 .323     P.Martin 3B         3  0  2  3 .283  
  L.Frey 3B           4  1  4  1 .329     J.Rothrock RF       5  0  1  1 .254  
  S.Leslie 1B         4  0  0  0 .336     F.Frisch 2B         4  1  1  0 .321  
  D.Taylor LF         3  1  1  2 .298     J.Medwick LF        4  1  2  2 .338  
  J.Frederick RF      4  0  0  0 .284     R.Collins 1B        4  0  1  0 .317  
  T.Cuccinello 2B     4  0  2  0 .286     S.Davis C           4  1  1  0 .293  
  A.Lopez C           4  0  1  0 .277     C.Fullis CF         3  2  1  0 .274  
  J.Jordan SS         4  0  0  0 .274     L.Durocher SS       3  1  1  0 .286  
  T.Zachary P         2  0  1  0 .167     D.Dean P            3  0  0  0 .244  
  R.Lucas P           0  0  0  0 .000                                          
A-L.Koenecke PH       1  0  0  0 .349                                          
  O.Carroll P         0  0  0  0 .250                                          
B-J.McCarthy PH       1  0  0  0 .209                                          
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---      
         Totals      35  3 10  3                 Totals      33  6 10  6
 
A-Pinch Hit For Lucas In 7th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Carroll In 9th Inning
 
Dodgers......... 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 3 0  -  3 10  0
Cardinals....... 2 2 0  0 0 1  0 1    -  6 10  0
 
Dodgers (61-65)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA  SCORESHEET
T.Zachary LOSS(8-7)       5       6   4   4   2   3   1  76   4.57  A1 C5
R.Lucas                   1       1   1   1   2   1   0  23   9.45  C6 D2
O.Carroll                 2       3   1   0   0   0   0  35   8.80  D3
Totals                    8      10   6   5   4   4   1
 
Cardinals (66-59)        IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA  SCORESHEET
D.Dean WIN(16-10)         9      10   3   3   1   6   1 137   2.70  A1
Totals                    9      10   3   3   1   6   1
 
ATTENDANCE- 47,598 DATE- Wednesday, August 29th 1934 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
T- 1:51
LEFT ON BASE- Dodgers: 6  Cardinals: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- Dodgers: 0  Cardinals: 1
DOUBLES- B.Boyle(15th), T.Cuccinello(29th), C.Fullis(8th), L.Durocher(20th)
HOME RUNS- D.Taylor(6th), J.Medwick(25th)
RBIs- L.Frey(51st), D.Taylor-2(60th), P.Martin-3(56th), J.Rothrock(54th),
      J.Medwick-2(109th)
STOLEN BASES- J.Medwick(2nd)
SACRIFICE FLIES- P.Martin
WALKS- D.Taylor, P.Martin, C.Fullis, L.Durocher, D.Dean
STRIKE OUTS- D.Taylor, J.Frederick, T.Cuccinello-2, A.Lopez, J.Jordan,
             R.Collins, S.Davis, D.Dean-2
GIDP- B.Boyle
PASSED BALLS- A.Lopez
2-out RBI- J.Medwick-2, J.Rothrock, P.Martin-2
RLISP 2-out- J.Jordan, F.Frisch, C.Fullis, J.Rothrock, L.Koenecke-2
TEAM RISP- Dodgers: 2 for 6  Cardinals: 3 for 10