Tigers @ Red Sox
July 20, 1956

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Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 9 15 2
Red Sox 6 9 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 9 15 2
Red Sox 6 9 0

Jackie Jensen Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .310
OBP .250 .400
At Bats 4 319
Hits 1 99
• Singles 1 76
• Doubles 0 7
• Triples 0 5
• Home Runs 0 11
Walks 0 49
RBI’s 0 48

Steve Gromek Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
5 5 3
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Fenway Park - July 20, 1956
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Out
Steve Gromek
Frank House
Earl Torgeson
Jim Brideweser
Ray Boone
Harvey Kuenn
Charlie Maxwell
Bill Tuttle
Al Kaline
Jackie Jensen
Norm Zauchin
Ted Williams
Ted Lepcio

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Detroit Tigers 9 15 2 8
Boston Red Sox 6 9 0 8
Winning Pitcher Virgil Trucks
Losing Pitcher Willard Nixon
Save Steve Gromek
Game Winning RBI Ray Boone
Attendance 29,806
Time of Game 2 hours 57 minutes
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Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Norm Zauchin pinch hits for Mickey Vernon. Steve Gromek now pitching. Zauchin takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Williams hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Kaline. Williams reaches second base with a double. Lepcio moves to third.
Bottom 9 Lepcio hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Goodman hits a popup towards short. Kuenn settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Brideweser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 9 Tuttle hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 9 House hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Boone moves to third.
Top 9 George Susce now pitching. Boone takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Milt Bolling pinch hits for Leo Kiely. Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Buddin strikes out.
Bottom 8 White hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kuenn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 8 Leo Kiely now pitching. Maxwell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Vernon fields it and throws to second for the out. Aber moves to third.
Top 8 Torgeson takes first base on ball four. Aber moves to second.
Top 8 Kuenn hits a popup, foul, towards first. Vernon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Aber hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Piersall hits a fly ball into center field. Tuttle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Jensen hits a popup into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Vernon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Williams hits a fly ball into center field. Tuttle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Brideweser hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Tuttle hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Boone scores.
Top 7 House hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Boone moves to third.
Top 7 Ted Lepcio now playing third base. Tom Hurd now pitching. Boone takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Al Aber now pitching. Ted Lepcio pinch hits for Billy Klaus. Lepcio hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Maxwell throws the ball in to Brideweser who tags Lepcio, trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Gernert scores. Goodman moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Goodman hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Piersall scores. White scores. Gernert moves to second. Two runs are unearned.
Bottom 6 Dick Gernert pinch hits for Fritz Dorish. Gernert takes first base on ball four. Vernon scores. Piersall moves to third. White moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Walt Masterson now pitching. Buddin hits a line drive into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 White takes first base on ball four. Piersall moves to second.
Bottom 6 Piersall hits a fly ball towards center. Tuttle settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Tuttle. Williams tags and scores. Vernon tags and moves to third.
Bottom 6 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Trucks fields it and throws to first for the out. Williams moves to third. Vernon moves to second.
Bottom 6 Vernon takes first base on ball four. Williams moves to second.
Bottom 6 Williams takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Kaline strikes out.
Top 6 Maxwell hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Piersall. Maxwell reaches second base with a double. Trucks scores. Kuenn moves to third.
Top 6 Torgeson hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Tuttle tags and scores.
Top 6 Kuenn takes first base on ball four. Trucks moves to second.
Top 6 Trucks hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. House scores. Tuttle moves to third.
Top 6 Fritz Dorish now pitching. Brideweser bunts towards the mound. Dorish fields it and throws to first for the out. House moves to third. Tuttle moves to second.
Top 6 Tuttle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Boone scores. House moves to second.
Top 6 House hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Boone moves to second.
Top 6 Boone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Klaus hits a fly ball into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards first. Torgeson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Goodman for the out. Nixon moves to third.
Bottom 5 Nixon hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Maxwell. Nixon reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Buddin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Maxwell hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Kuenn tags and scores. That run is unearned.
Top 5 The ball gets by White for a passed ball. Brideweser scores. Kuenn moves to third. Torgeson moves to second.
Top 5 Torgeson takes first base on ball four. Kuenn moves to second.
Top 5 Kuenn hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Brideweser moves to third.
Top 5 Trucks hits a popup towards the mound. Nixon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Brideweser hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 White hits a popup towards third. Boone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Trucks fires over to first and throws the ball away. That's an error on Trucks. Piersall moves to second.
Bottom 4 Piersall hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Jensen hits a fly ball into center field. Tuttle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Vernon hits a popup towards short. Kuenn settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Tuttle hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Nixon fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 House hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play. Kaline moves to third.
Top 4 Boone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Maxwell scores. Kaline moves to second.
Top 4 Kaline hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Maxwell moves to third.
Top 4 Maxwell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Williams hits a line drive towards first. Torgeson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Klaus hits a fly ball into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Goodman hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Buddin tags and scores.
Bottom 3 Nixon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Buddin moves to third.
Bottom 3 There's a wild pitch. Buddin moves to second.
Bottom 3 Buddin takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Torgeson strikes out.
Top 3 There's a wild pitch. Brideweser scores.
Top 3 Kuenn hits a ball on the ground towards third. Klaus fields it and throws to first for the out. Brideweser moves to second.
Top 3 Trucks hits a popup towards third. Klaus settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Brideweser hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 White hits a line drive into center field. Tuttle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Piersall hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Brideweser settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Jensen hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Vernon hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Tuttle hits a fly ball into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 House hits a fly ball into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Boone hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Nixon fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kuenn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Klaus hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kuenn fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Goodman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards third. Klaus fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Maxwell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Torgeson hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Kuenn hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Goodman settles under it and makes the catch for the out.