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July 4, 1953

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Senators 2 9 2
Red Sox 7 9 0
Top 9 R H E
Senators 2 9 2
Red Sox 7 9 0

Ed Fitz Gerald Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .258
OBP .333 .303
At Bats 3 124
Hits 1 32
• Singles 1 25
• Doubles 0 6
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 7
RBI’s 0 15

Bill Henry Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 0 0
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Fenway Park - July 4, 1953
Out
Bill Henry
Del Wilber
Dick Gernert
Billy Goodman
Floyd Baker
Milt Bolling
Hoot Evers
Tom Umphlett
Jim Piersall
Ed Fitz Gerald
Pete Runnels
Eddie Yost

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Washington Senators 2 9 2 6
Boston Red Sox 7 9 0 5
Winning Pitcher Bill Henry
Losing Pitcher Walt Masterson
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Jim Piersall
Attendance
Time of Game 2 hours 13 minutes
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Fitz Gerald hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Runnels hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Yost moves to third.
Top 9 Yost hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Jensen hits a line drive into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Floyd Baker now playing third base. Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Henry hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger fields the ball and can't make a play. That's a base hit. There goes Piersall trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Bottom 8 Bolling is called out on strikes.
Bottom 8 Piersall takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Umphlett hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Baker scores.
Bottom 8 Floyd Baker pinch runs for George Kell. Wilber hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Baker moves to third. Wilber moves to second.
Bottom 8 Kell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Kell reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Vernon strikes out.
Top 8 Terwilliger hits a popup towards short. Bolling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Busby hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Gernert hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Evers hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Masterson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Goodman hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Goodman reaches second base with a double. Henry scores.
Bottom 7 Henry hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Busby. Henry reaches second base with a double. Umphlett scores. Piersall scores.
Bottom 7 Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Piersall hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Piersall reaches second base with a double. Wilber scores. Umphlett moves to third.
Bottom 7 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels misplays the ball. That's an error on Runnels. Wilber moves to second.
Bottom 7 Wilber hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Masterson strikes out.
Top 7 Fitz Gerald hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 7 Runnels hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Kell hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Gernert hits a popup towards short. Runnels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Evers strikes out.
Bottom 6 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels misplays the ball. That's an error on Runnels.
Top 6 Yost strikes out.
Top 6 Jensen takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Vollmer hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Vernon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Henry 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 5 Bolling hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Piersall hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Terwilliger hits a popup towards short. Bolling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Busby strikes out.
Top 5 Masterson bunts towards third. Kell fields it and throws to first for the out. Fitz Gerald moves to second.
Top 5 Fitz Gerald hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 4 Umphlett hits a popup towards first. Vernon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Wilber hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Kell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Runnels 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 4 Yost hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Jensen hits a popup towards first. Gernert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Vollmer for the out.
Bottom 3 Gernert strikes out.
Bottom 3 Evers hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Goodman hits a popup, foul, towards third. Yost settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Vernon hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Goodman settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Terwilliger hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Busby hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Henry fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Masterson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Henry strikes out.
Bottom 2 Bolling strikes out.
Bottom 2 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Fitz Gerald is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Yost hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 2 Jensen strikes out.
Top 2 Vollmer hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Masterson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Wilber hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Busby. Wilber reaches second base with a double. Goodman scores. Gernert goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Kell strikes out.
Bottom 1 Gernert takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Evers hits a fly ball into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Goodman hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Goodman reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Vernon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Terwilliger hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Evers throws the ball in to Goodman who tags Terwilliger, trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Top 1 Busby strikes out.