Athletics @ Orioles
May 9, 1956

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Bottom 9 R H E
Athletics 4 10 0
Orioles 0 7 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Athletics 4 10 0
Orioles 0 7 0

Hal Smith Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .314
OBP .333 .386
At Bats 2 51
Hits 0 16
• Singles 0 10
• Doubles 0 5
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 1 5
RBI’s 0 4

Art Ditmar Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 2 0
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Memorial Stadium - May 9, 1956
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Art Ditmar
Joe Ginsberg
Rance Pless
Spook Jacobs
Jim Finigan
Joe DeMaestri
Bill Renna
Hector Lopez
Harry Simpson
Hal Smith
Dave Philley

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Kansas City Athletics 4 10 0 5
Baltimore Orioles 0 7 0 5
Winning Pitcher Art Ditmar
Losing Pitcher Jim Wilson
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Hector Lopez
Attendance 9,493
Time of Game 1 hour 50 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Smith hits a fly ball into left field. Renna settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Boyd hits a line drive into right field. Simpson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Philley hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Pope strikes out.
Top 9 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards short. Miranda scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Pless hits a line drive towards first. Hale reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Babe Birrer now pitching. DeMaestri hits a fly ball into right field. Boyd settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Hale hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Wayne Causey pinch hits for Jim Wilson. Causey strikes out.
Bottom 8 Bill Renna now playing left field. Miranda hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Ginsberg hits a popup towards short. Miranda settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Finigan hits a fly ball into center field. Francona settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Simpson strikes out.
Top 8 There's a wild pitch. Renna moves to third.
Top 8 Bill Renna pinch runs for Gus Zernial. There goes Renna. The throw from Smith and he is safe. Renna steals second.
Top 8 Zernial hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Francona 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 7 Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Smith is called out on strikes.
Top 7 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Miranda scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Jacobs hits a ball on the ground towards third. Philley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Bob Hale now playing first base. Dave Pope now playing left field. Dave Philley now playing third base. Bob Boyd now playing right field. Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards third. Philley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Boyd hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Philley hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Ginsberg settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Pope strikes out.
Bottom 6 Bob Hale pinch hits for Bobby Adams. Hale hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Simpson. Hale reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Pless strikes out.
Top 6 DeMaestri strikes out.
Top 6 Tito Francona now playing center field. Ginsberg hits a line drive into left field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Wilson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Finigan fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Miranda hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Tito Francona pinch hits for Chuck Diering. Francona hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Gardner hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Ginsberg settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Finigan hits a fly ball into left field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Simpson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Miranda fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 5 Zernial hits a fly ball into left field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Lopez hits a fly ball into center field. Diering settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Smith hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Boyd hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Simpson. Boyd reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Philley 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 4 Pope hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Jacobs hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Ditmar hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. DeMaestri scores.
Top 4 Pless hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Smith settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 There goes Ginsberg. The throw from Smith and he is out, Adams applying the tag. DeMaestri moves to second.
Top 4 DeMaestri hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Wilson fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Finigan scores. Ginsberg moves to second.
Top 4 Ginsberg hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Finigan moves to third.
Top 4 There goes Finigan. The throw from Smith and he is safe. Finigan steals second.
Top 4 Finigan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Simpson scores.
Top 4 Simpson hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Diering. Simpson reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Adams hits a ball on the ground towards third. Finigan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Wilson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Miranda hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Diering takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Zernial strikes out.
Top 3 Lopez hits a fly ball into right field. Pope settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Ditmar tags and scores. Jacobs tags and moves to third.
Top 3 Jacobs hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Philley. Jacobs reaches second base with a double. Ditmar moves to third.
Top 3 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Wilson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 3 Pless hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Ginsberg fires to second and picks off Boyd for the out.
Bottom 2 Smith takes first base on ball four. Boyd moves to second.
Bottom 2 Boyd hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 DeMaestri hits a popup, foul, towards first. Boyd settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Ginsberg hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Finigan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Adams fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Philley hits a line drive towards the mound. Ditmar catches it and throws to first to double up Pope.
Bottom 1 Pope hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Adams is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Simpson strikes out.
Top 1 Zernial hits a fly ball into center field. Diering settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Lopez hits a popup towards short. Miranda settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There goes Jacobs. The throw from Smith and he is safe. Jacobs steals second.
Top 1 Jacobs hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.