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May 25, 1953

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Jim Piersall Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .400 .252
OBP .400 .312
At Bats 5 147
Hits 2 37
• Singles 1 30
• Doubles 1 6
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 9
RBI’s 1 11

Whitey Ford Season Stats

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Yankee Stadium - May 25, 1953
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Home Run
Whitey Ford
Yogi Berra
Joe Collins
Billy Martin
Gil McDougald
Phil Rizzuto
Gene Woodling
Mickey Mantle
Hank Bauer
Jim Piersall
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Piersall hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Kinder bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Top 8 There goes Niarhos. The throw from Berra and he is out, Rizzuto applying the tag.
Top 8 Whitey Ford now pitching. Niarhos hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Martin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Bottom 7 Rizzuto takes first base on ball four. Collins moves to second.
Bottom 7 Irv Noren pinch hits for Bill Miller. Noren hits a fly ball into left field. Evers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Collins takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Berra hits a fly ball into left field. Evers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Rizzuto scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Umphlett hits a line drive to center field. That will be extra bases. Mantle chases after the ball, picks it up, and throws towards third. McDougald fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on McDougald. Gernert scores. Evers goes all the way around to score. Umphlett moves to third.
Top 7 Evers hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Gernert moves to second.
Top 7 Gernert takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Kell hits a fly ball into left field. Woodling settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bill Miller now pitching. Baker hits a ball on the ground towards short. Rizzuto scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Woodling hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 The umpire calls a balk on Kinder McDougald moves to second.
Bottom 6 Ellis Kinder now pitching. McDougald hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it and throws to second for the out. Bauer scores.
Bottom 6 Mantle hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Martin scores. Bauer moves to third.
Bottom 6 Bauer hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Rizzuto scores. Martin moves to third.
Bottom 6 Martin hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Renna scores. Rizzuto moves to second.
Bottom 6 Rizzuto takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 There's a wild pitch. Renna moves to second.
Bottom 6 Bill Renna pinch hits for Bob Kuzava. Renna hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Collins hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Kuzava fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 McDermott hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Niarhos scores.
Top 6 Niarhos hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Mantle who is chasing the ball. Niarhos reaches third base with a triple.
Top 6 Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards third. McDougald fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Umphlett hits a fly ball into left field. Woodling settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Berra hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Woodling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it and throws to second for the out. Mantle moves to third.
Bottom 5 McDougald hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Mantle moves to second.
Bottom 5 Mantle takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Hoot Evers now playing left field. Bauer hits a fly ball into left field. Evers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hoot Evers pinch hits for Gene Stephens. Evers hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Piersall scores. Baker scores. There goes Gernert trying to get to third. Bauer throws the ball in to McDougald, who tags Gernert for the out.
Top 5 Gernert is walked intentionally.
Top 5 Kell hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Kuzava fields it and throws to first for the out. McDermott scores. Piersall moves to third. Baker moves to second.
Top 5 Baker is walked intentionally.
Top 5 Bob Kuzava now pitching. Piersall hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Mantle. Piersall reaches second base with a double. Niarhos scores. McDermott moves to third.
Top 5 McDermott hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Umphlett scores. Niarhos moves to second.
Top 5 Niarhos hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Umphlett moves to third.
Top 5 Bolling bunts towards third. McDougald fields it and throws to first for the out. Umphlett moves to second.
Top 5 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Martin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Rizzuto takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 McDonald is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Collins hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Stephens hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Martin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Gernert hits a ball on the ground towards third. McDougald fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Baker moves to third. Kell moves to second.
Top 4 Kell hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Berra juggles the ball. That's an error on Berra. Niarhos scores. McDermott scores. Baker moves to second. Two runs are unearned.
Top 4 Baker takes first base on ball four. Niarhos moves to third. McDermott moves to second.
Top 4 Piersall hits a fly ball into right field. Bauer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 McDermott hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Niarhos moves to second.
Top 4 Niarhos hits a ball on the ground towards third. McDougald fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Bolling hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Berra hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Baker reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Woodling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it and throws to second for the out. Mantle moves to third.
Bottom 3 McDougald hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Bauer scores. Mantle moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Mantle hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Bauer moves to third.
Bottom 3 Bauer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Martin hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert juggles the ball. That's an error on Gernert. Rizzuto goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Rizzuto takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards third. McDougald fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 McDonald fires to first and has Stephens trapped. There's the throw to Martin who tags Stephens for the out.
Top 3 Stephens hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Jim McDonald now pitching. Gernert strikes out.
Bottom 2 Johnny Mize pinch hits for Tom Gorman. Mize hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Mize for the out.
Bottom 2 Collins hits a ball on the ground towards second base. Baker fields it and races to the second base bag for the out. McDougald scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 2 Berra strikes out.
Bottom 2 Woodling hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. McDougald moves to third.
Bottom 2 McDougald hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Bolling.
Top 2 Kell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. McDermott scores. There goes Baker trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Top 2 Baker takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Piersall strikes out.
Top 2 McDermott hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Mantle. McDermott reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Niarhos hits a fly ball into left field. Woodling settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Mantle hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bauer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 1 Martin hits a fly ball into left field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Rizzuto hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Bolling hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Martin reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards short. Rizzuto scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Gernert moves to third. Stephens moves to second.
Top 1 Tom Gorman now pitching. Stephens hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Piersall scores. Baker scores. Gernert moves to second.
Top 1 Gernert takes first base on ball four. Piersall moves to third. Baker moves to second.
Top 1 Kell hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Martin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Baker hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Piersall moves to second.
Top 1 Piersall hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.