1949 Pittsburgh Pirates Replay

July 18. Gm# 82 Shibe Park Philadelphia 6 Pittsburgh 3

5 RUN THIRD INNING SINKS CHAMBERS IN BUCS LOSS

Cliff Chambers(7-4), the Pirates best moundsman ran into trouble against the Phillies yesterday, when he allowed five runs on six hits in the third inning, four of them in a row.

Though the Bucs matched the Phils with 9 hits, they could only manage 3 tallies in the 6-3 loss. Eddie Bockman(6) delivered a pinch hit homer in the bottom of the sixth.

Pittsburgh now heads to New York to take on a powerful Brooklyn Dodger squad.

National League scores: Cincinnati 6 Boston 1; Brooklyn 3 Chicago 0; New York 7 St. Louis 4

Standing of the Clubs

St. Louis/84/53/31/.631

Brooklyn/83/52/31/.627

New York/82/44/37/1/.543

Boston/86/44/41/1/.517

Philadelphia/84/42/42/.500

Pittsburgh/82/36/46/.439

Cincinnati/82/34/48/.415

Chicago/85/28/57/.329