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July 4, 1953

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Bottom 9 R H E
Senators 8 13 0
Red Sox 4 7 1
Bottom 9 R H E
Senators 8 13 0
Red Sox 4 7 1

Jim Piersall Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .261
OBP .000 .310
At Bats 3 307
Hits 0 80
• Singles 0 63
• Doubles 0 11
• Triples 0 5
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 17
RBI’s 1 25

Sonny Dixon Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 5 2
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Fenway Park - July 4, 1953
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Out
Sonny Dixon
Mickey Grasso
Mickey Vernon
Wayne Terwilliger
Eddie Yost
Mel Hoderlein
Gil Coan
Jim Busby
Jackie Jensen
Jim Piersall

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Washington Senators 8 13 0 6
Boston Red Sox 4 7 1 2
Winning Pitcher Sonny Dixon
Losing Pitcher Mickey McDermott
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Eddie Yost
Attendance 18,355
Time of Game 2 hours 14 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hoderlein scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Lepcio hits a fly ball into left field. Coan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Jensen hits a fly ball into left field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Coan hits a popup towards third. Lepcio settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Vernon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert scoops it up and throws to first, with Hudson covering, for the out.
Bottom 8 Gernert hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hoderlein scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Stephens strikes out.
Bottom 8 Goodman hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Terwilliger hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Busby hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Grasso scores. Dixon moves to second.
Top 8 Dixon hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Grasso moves to second.
Top 8 Grasso hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 8 Hoderlein hits a ball on the ground towards third. Lepcio fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Del Wilber now catching. Sid Hudson now pitching. Yost strikes out.
Bottom 7 Billy Consolo pinch hits for Ben Flowers. Consolo hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Del Wilber pinch hits for Gus Niarhos. Wilber hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 7 Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Dixon fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hoderlein scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Lepcio scores.
Bottom 7 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Gil Coan now playing left field. Lepcio hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Busby who is chasing the ball. Lepcio reaches third base with a triple.
Top 7 Jensen strikes out. There goes Vernon. The throw from Niarhos to second, and Vernon is out.
Top 7 Vollmer strikes out.
Top 7 Gene Stephens now playing left field. Vernon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Gernert hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Evers hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Dixon fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Terwilliger hits a ball on the ground towards third. Lepcio fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Busby hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Flowers fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Dixon strikes out.
Bottom 5 Flowers hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Niarhos hits a fly ball into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Bolling is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Grasso strikes out.
Top 5 Hoderlein hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Ted Lepcio now playing third base. Yost hits a popup towards third. Lepcio settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hoderlein scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Kell hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Bolling.
Top 4 Vernon hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 4 Ben Flowers now pitching. Terwilliger hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Busby scores.
Top 4 Busby hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Umphlett. Busby reaches second base with a double. Grasso scores.
Top 4 Dixon hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Niarhos fields it and throws to first for the out. Grasso moves to second.
Top 4 Grasso hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Yost scores.
Top 4 Hoderlein hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Yost hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Piersall who is chasing the ball. Yost reaches third base with a triple. Jensen goes all the way around to score.
Top 4 Jensen takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Grasso fires to first and picks off Gernert.
Bottom 3 Gernert hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. McDermott scores. Goodman moves to second.
Bottom 3 Evers hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Goodman hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McDermott moves to second.
Bottom 3 McDermott hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Niarhos hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Vollmer hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Goodman reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Vernon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 3 Terwilliger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 3 Busby hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Dixon moves to third.
Top 3 Dixon hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Evers. Dixon reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hoderlein scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Umphlett hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Grasso hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Hoderlein hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Yost hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Kell hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Gernert hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Evers hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Goodman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Vernon hits a fly ball into left field. Evers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There goes Terwilliger. The throw from Niarhos and he is out, Goodman applying the tag.
Top 1 Terwilliger hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Busby takes first base on ball four.