Tigers @ Senators
August 21, 1956

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Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 8 13 0
Senators 3 9 1
Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 8 13 0
Senators 3 9 1

Roy Sievers Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .254
OBP .500 .374
At Bats 4 417
Hits 2 106
• Singles 1 60
• Doubles 0 21
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 1 23
Walks 0 76
RBI’s 1 76

Steve Gromek Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
6 5 4
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Griffith Stadium - August 21, 1956
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Out
Steve Gromek
Frank House
Earl Torgeson
Frank Bolling
Bob Kennedy
Harvey Kuenn
Charlie Maxwell
Bill Tuttle
Al Kaline
Roy Sievers
Eddie Yost
Camilo Pascual

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Detroit Tigers 8 13 0 13
Washington Senators 3 9 1 10
Winning Pitcher Steve Gromek
Losing Pitcher Bunky Stewart
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Bill Tuttle
Attendance 3,264
Time of Game 3 hours
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Sievers hits a popup towards first. Torgeson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Runnels hits a popup, foul, towards third. Kennedy settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Plews hits a fly ball into center field. Tuttle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Camilo Pascual pinch runs for Whitey Herzog. Yost takes first base on ball four. Pascual moves to second.
Bottom 9 Whitey Herzog pinch hits for Bob Wiesler. Herzog hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bolling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 9 Maxwell hits a fly ball into left field. Sievers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Bob Wiesler now pitching. Torgeson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Valdivielso scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Gromek scores. Kuenn moves to third.
Top 9 Kuenn hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Sievers. Kuenn reaches second base with a double. Bolling scores. Gromek moves to third.
Top 9 Gromek hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Tuttle scores. Bolling moves to second.
Top 9 Bolling hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Tuttle moves to second.
Top 9 Tuttle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Jose Valdivielso now playing shortstop. Clint Courtney now catching. House hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Plews scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Clint Courtney pinch hits for Tony Roig. Courtney hits a fly ball into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Pedro Ramos pinch runs for Lou Berberet. Olson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. There goes Ramos trying to get to third. Kaline throws the ball in to Bolling who relays the ball to Kennedy who tags Ramos for the out.
Bottom 8 Berberet hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Tuttle. Berberet reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 8 Lemon hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Sievers hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 8 Kennedy hits a fly ball into center field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Kaline takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 There goes Maxwell. The throw from Berberet and he is out, Plews applying the tag.
Top 8 Maxwell takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Torgeson hits a fly ball into center field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Runnels strikes out.
Bottom 7 Plews hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Yost hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kennedy fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Kuenn hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Plews reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Gromek strikes out.
Top 7 There goes Bolling. The throw from Berberet and he is out, Plews applying the tag.
Top 7 Connie Grob now pitching. Bolling hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Ernie Oravetz pinch hits for Bunky Stewart. Oravetz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kuenn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Roig hits a popup, foul, towards first. Torgeson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Olson hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Tuttle hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Plews settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 House hits a fly ball into center field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Kennedy hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kuenn scores. Maxwell scores. Kaline moves to second.
Top 6 Kaline takes first base on ball four. Kuenn moves to third. Maxwell moves to second.
Top 6 Maxwell takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 The ball gets by Berberet for a passed ball. Kuenn moves to second.
Top 6 Torgeson hits a fly ball into left field. Sievers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Kuenn is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 5 Berberet hits a fly ball into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Lemon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Sievers hits a fly ball into center field. Tuttle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Runnels hits a popup towards third. Kennedy settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Gromek hits a ball on the ground towards first. Runnels scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gromek for the out.
Top 5 Bolling hits a fly ball into right field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Tuttle hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kennedy scores. House moves to second.
Top 5 House takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Kennedy hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost throws to second for one, and Plews throws the ball away attempting to make the double play. Kennedy moves to second.
Top 5 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards short. Roig fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 4 Plews hits a popup towards short. Kuenn settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Yost takes first base on ball four. Olson moves to second.
Bottom 4 Stewart hits a line drive into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Roig is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Olson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Berberet moves to third.
Bottom 4 Bob Kennedy now playing third base. Berberet hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Kaline. Berberet reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Bunky Stewart now pitching. Maxwell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Plews scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Torgeson takes first base on ball four. Gromek moves to third. Kuenn moves to second.
Top 4 Kuenn hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Boone scores. Bolling scores. Gromek moves to second.
Top 4 Gromek takes first base on ball four. Boone moves to third. Bolling moves to second.
Top 4 Bolling hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Boone moves to second.
Top 4 Tuttle hits a fly ball into center field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 House hits a popup towards short. Roig settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Boone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Lemon is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Sievers hits a fly ball into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gromek fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Kaline strikes out.
Top 3 Maxwell is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Torgeson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Plews strikes out.
Bottom 2 Yost takes first base on ball four. Lemon scores. Berberet moves to third. Olson moves to second.
Bottom 2 Griggs strikes out.
Bottom 2 Roig strikes out.
Bottom 2 Olson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Sievers scores. Lemon moves to third. Berberet moves to second.
Bottom 2 Berberet takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Lemon hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Maxwell. Lemon reaches second base with a double. Sievers moves to third.
Bottom 2 Sievers hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Kuenn strikes out.
Top 2 Gromek takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out. Tuttle moves to second.
Top 2 Tuttle hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 House hits a fly ball into center field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Runnels hits a fly ball into center field. Tuttle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Plews hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bolling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Yost hits a popup towards first. Torgeson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Boone hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Top 1 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Maxwell moves to second.
Top 1 Maxwell takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Torgeson is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Kuenn hits a ball on the ground towards short. Roig scoops it up and throws to first for the out.