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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Earl McNeely hit the ball to third base and it took a bad hop over Giants 3rd baseman Freddy Lindstrom's head. I've never seen anything anywhere that would suggest that this game was not on the up and up. Muddy Ruel may have been slow (he did steal 7 bases though in 1924), but I can envision many scenarios where even a slow player can score on a hit that takes a bad hop over the third basemans head....do we know how shallow the left fielder was playing? How close to the line was Lindstrom playing? Did McNeely's hit go down only as a single because it was a game winning hit when under other circumstances the hit may have been a double?