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May 2, 1956

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Top 9 R H E
Athletics 0 3 0
Red Sox 2 8 1
Top 9 R H E
Athletics 0 3 0
Red Sox 2 8 1

Harry Simpson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .244
OBP .000 .262
At Bats 3 41
Hits 0 10
• Singles 0 7
• Doubles 0 0
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 1
RBI’s 0 8

Tom Brewer Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 1 0
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Fenway Park - May 2, 1956
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Out
Tom Brewer
Sammy White
Mickey Vernon
Billy Consolo
Frank Malzone
Don Buddin
Gene Stephens
Jim Piersall
Jackie Jensen
Harry Simpson
Gus Zernial

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Kansas City Athletics 0 3 0 4
Boston Red Sox 2 8 1 9
Winning Pitcher Tom Brewer
Losing Pitcher Art Ditmar
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Jackie Jensen
Attendance 3,825
Time of Game 1 hour 59 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Simpson hits a line drive into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Zernial hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 9 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Brewer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Billy Consolo now playing second base. Power hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Brewer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Bill Harrington now pitching. White hits a fly ball into right field. Simpson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Buddin takes first base on ball four. Stephens moves to third. Piersall moves to second.
Bottom 8 Piersall takes first base on ball four. Stephens moves to second.
Bottom 8 Stephens takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Clete Boyer now playing second base. Tom Gorman now pitching. Vernon hits a fly ball into center field. Lopez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Enos Slaughter pinch hits for Art Ditmar. Slaughter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Bill Renna pinch hits for Spook Jacobs. Renna hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 DeMaestri hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 7 Goodman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Brewer hits a line drive into left field. Zernial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Ginsberg hits a fly ball into left field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Finigan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Simpson hits a line drive into left field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 White hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Ginsberg fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Buddin hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Piersall hits a line drive into right field. Simpson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Zernial hits a line drive into left field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lopez hits a line drive into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Gene Stephens now playing left field. Power hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Ted Williams pinch hits for Dick Gernert. Williams hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Jensen is walked intentionally.
Bottom 5 Vernon hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Simpson. Vernon reaches second base with a double. Brewer scores. Goodman moves to third.
Bottom 5 Malzone hits a popup, foul, towards third. Finigan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Goodman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Brewer moves to second.
Bottom 5 Brewer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Brewer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Jacobs hits a ball on the ground towards first. Vernon fields the ball and throws to Brewer covering. Safe.
Top 5 DeMaestri strikes out.
Top 5 Ginsberg hits a ball on the ground towards first. Vernon scoops it up and throws to first, with Brewer covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 White hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Buddin takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Piersall hits a fly ball into right field. Simpson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Gernert strikes out.
Top 4 Finigan hits a line drive into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Simpson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Brewer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Zernial hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Finigan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Vernon hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lopez. Vernon reaches second base with a double. Lopez throws the ball in to Finigan who tags Vernon trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Bottom 3 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Lopez strikes out.
Top 3 Power takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Ditmar strikes out.
Top 3 Jacobs hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Brewer hits a popup towards third. Finigan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 White strikes out.
Top 2 DeMaestri hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Ginsberg 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.
Top 2 Finigan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone juggles the ball. That's an error on Malzone.
Bottom 1 Buddin strikes out.
Bottom 1 Piersall takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 There goes Jensen. The throw from Ginsberg and he is safe. Jensen steals second.
Bottom 1 Gernert strikes out.
Bottom 1 Jensen hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Malzone scores. Vernon moves to third.
Bottom 1 Vernon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Malzone moves to third.
Bottom 1 Malzone hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Goodman hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Ginsberg settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Simpson strikes out.
Top 1 Zernial hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Lopez is called out on strikes.
Top 1 There goes Power. The throw from White and he is out, Goodman applying the tag.
Top 1 Power takes first base on ball four.