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August 28, 1950

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Al Zarilla Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .344
OBP .500 .447
At Bats 3 343
Hits 1 118
• Singles 1 80
• Doubles 0 26
• Triples 0 7
• Home Runs 0 5
Walks 1 61
RBI’s 2 55

Steve Gromek Season Stats

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7 6 0
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Fenway Park - August 28, 1950
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Home Run
Steve Gromek
Jim Hegan
Luke Easter
Bobby Avila
Al Rosen
Ray Boone
Dale Mitchell
Thurman Tucker
Bob Kennedy
Al Zarilla
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

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

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Steve Gromek now pitching. Doerr hits a fly ball into left field. Mitchell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Dropo scores.
Bottom 8 Dropo hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Tucker who is chasing the ball. Dropo reaches third base with a triple. Goodman scores.
Bottom 8 Vollmer hits a line drive into right field. Kennedy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Pesky scores.
Bottom 8 Goodman hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Kennedy. Goodman reaches second base with a double. Pesky moves to third.
Bottom 8 Pesky hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 There go the runners. The throw from Rosar to Pesky covering second. The throw back to home, and Mitchell is out at the plate.
Top 8 Avila hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pesky misplays the ball. That's an error on Pesky. Hegan scores. Mitchell moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 8 There goes Mitchell. The throw from Rosar and he is safe. Mitchell steals second.
Top 8 Mitchell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pesky fields it and throws to second for the out. Hegan moves to third.
Top 8 Feller takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Hegan hits a fly ball towards left. Vollmer settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Vollmer. Hegan moves to second.
Top 8 Kennedy hits a fly ball into right field. Zarilla settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 DiMaggio hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Feller fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Nixon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Rosar hits a fly ball into right field. Kennedy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 There goes Zarilla. The throw from Hegan and he is out, Avila applying the tag.
Bottom 7 Zarilla takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Zarilla hits a popup, foul, in back of the plate. Hegan settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Hegan.
Top 7 Boone hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Doerr settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Rosen hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Easter hits a ball on the ground towards first. Dropo fields the ball and throws to Nixon covering. Safe.
Top 7 Tucker hits a fly ball into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Doerr strikes out.
Bottom 6 Dropo strikes out.
Bottom 6 Vollmer is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Feller spins and fires to second and Boone drops the ball. That's an error on Boone. Pesky moves to third. Goodman moves to second.
Bottom 6 Bob Feller now pitching. Goodman takes first base on ball four. Pesky moves to second.
Bottom 6 Pesky hits a ball on the ground towards short. Boone misplays the ball. That's an error on Boone. DiMaggio scores.
Bottom 6 DiMaggio hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Kennedy who is chasing the ball. DiMaggio reaches third base with a triple. Nixon goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 6 Nixon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Avila hits a ball on the ground towards third. Goodman fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Mitchell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Benton strikes out.
Top 6 Hegan hits a line drive into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Rosar hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rosen fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Zarilla hits a popup towards the mound. Benton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Doerr hits a popup towards short. Boone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Kennedy hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Boone hits a popup towards first. Dropo settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Rosen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Goodman juggles the ball. That's an error on Goodman. Rosen moves to second.
Top 5 Willard Nixon now pitching. Easter hits a line drive into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Dropo hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rosen fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Vollmer strikes out.
Bottom 4 Al Benton now pitching. Goodman hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Mitchell. Goodman reaches second base with a double. Rosar scores. DiMaggio scores. Pesky goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 4 Pesky hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rosar moves to third. DiMaggio moves to second.
Bottom 4 DiMaggio hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Zarilla scores. Rosar moves to second.
Bottom 4 Vern Stephens pinch hits for Dick Littlefield. Stephens hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Avila settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Rosar hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Doerr scores. Zarilla moves to second.
Bottom 4 Zarilla hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Vollmer scores. Dropo scores. Doerr moves to second.
Bottom 4 Doerr takes first base on ball four. Dropo moves to second.
Bottom 4 Dropo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Goodman scores. Vollmer moves to third.
Bottom 4 Vollmer takes first base on ball four. Goodman moves to second.
Bottom 4 Goodman hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Tucker hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Zarilla throws the ball in to Pesky who tags Tucker trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Top 4 Littlefield fires to third and has Avila trapped. There's the throw to Pesky who tags Avila for the out.
Top 4 Avila hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lemon scores. Mitchell scores. Avila moves to second.
Top 4 Mitchell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Mitchell reaches second base with a double. Lemon moves to third.
Top 4 Lemon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Hegan hits a popup towards short. Pesky settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Pesky hits a line drive into center field. Tucker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 DiMaggio hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Tucker who is chasing the ball. DiMaggio reaches third base with a triple. Rosar goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Littlefield strikes out.
Bottom 3 Rosar takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Thurman Tucker now playing center field. Zarilla hits a ball on the ground towards first. Easter scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Zarilla for the out.
Top 3 Dick Littlefield now pitching. Kennedy hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Boone hits a line drive into center field. DiMaggio picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on DiMaggio. Easter scores. Rosen moves to third. Boone moves to second.
Top 3 Rosen hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Doby scores. Easter moves to second.
Top 3 Easter hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Mitchell scores. Doby moves to second.
Top 3 Doby takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Avila hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Avila reaches second base with a double. Vollmer throws the ball in to Dropo who tags Avila trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Mitchell moves to third.
Top 3 Mitchell takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Doerr hits a ball on the ground towards short. Boone scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Dropo hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rosen fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Vollmer takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Hegan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Kennedy hits a fly ball into right field. Zarilla settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Rosen scores.
Top 2 Jim McDonald now pitching. Boone hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Boone reaches second base with a double. Doby scores. Easter scores. Rosen moves to third.
Top 2 Rosen takes first base on ball four. Mitchell scores. Doby moves to third. Easter moves to second.
Top 2 Easter takes first base on ball four. Lemon scores. Mitchell moves to third. Doby moves to second.
Top 2 Doby takes first base on ball four. Lemon moves to third. Mitchell moves to second.
Top 2 Avila is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Mitchell takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Lemon hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of DiMaggio. Lemon reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Goodman hits a fly ball into center field. Doby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Pesky hits a ball on the ground towards first. Easter scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Pesky for the out.
Bottom 1 DiMaggio hits a ball on the ground towards short. Boone scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Hegan strikes out.
Top 1 Kennedy takes first base on ball four. Easter moves to third. Rosen moves to second.
Top 1 Boone hits a fly ball into center field. DiMaggio settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Avila scores.
Top 1 Rosen takes first base on ball four. Easter moves to second.
Top 1 Easter hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doerr fields it and throws to second for the out. Mitchell scores. Avila moves to third.
Top 1 Doby takes first base on ball four. Avila moves to second.
Top 1 Avila hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Mitchell moves to third.
Top 1 Mitchell is hit by the pitch.