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July 10, 1953

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Bottom 12 R H E
Athletics 2 10 1
Red Sox 2 11 0
Bottom 12 R H E
Athletics 2 10 1
Red Sox 3 11 0

Jim Piersall Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .200 .255
OBP .200 .305
At Bats 5 330
Hits 1 84
• Singles 0 65
• Doubles 0 12
• Triples 0 5
• Home Runs 1 2
Walks 0 19
RBI’s 1 26

Marion Fricano Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 4 0
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Fenway Park - July 10, 1953
Marion Fricano
Ray Murray
Eddie Robinson
Cass Michaels
Pete Suder
Joe DeMaestri
Gus Zernial
Ed McGhee
Dave Philley
Jim Piersall
Tom Umphlett
Sammy White
Dick Gernert

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Philadelphia Athletics 2 10 1 8
Boston Red Sox 3 11 0 14
Winning Pitcher Ellis Kinder
Losing Pitcher Marion Fricano
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Jim Piersall
Attendance 22,657
Time of Game 3 hours 26 minutes
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Piersall takes first base on ball four. Gernert scores. White moves to third. Umphlett moves to second.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 12 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri fields it and throws to home to get Stephens. Gernert moves to third. White moves to second.
Bottom 12 White is walked intentionally.
Bottom 12 Kell bunts towards third. Suder fields it and throws to first for the out. Stephens moves to third. Gernert moves to second.
Bottom 12 Gernert hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Stephens moves to second.
Bottom 12 Stephens takes first base on ball four.
Top 12 McGhee hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 12 Fricano strikes out.
Top 12 Murray hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 11 Goodman hits a line drive towards left. Zernial catches it and throws to second to double up Bolling.
Bottom 11 Kinder bunts towards first. Robinson fields the ball and throws to Fricano covering. Safe. Bolling moves to second.
Bottom 11 Bolling hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 11 Piersall hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Michaels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 DeMaestri hits a popup, foul, towards first. Gernert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Michaels strikes out.
Top 11 Suder hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 White hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Michaels scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Kell hits a line drive towards third. Suder reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Zernial strikes out.
Top 10 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Gene Stephens now playing left field. Philley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Gernert hits a popup, foul, towards first. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Floyd Baker pinch hits for Hoot Evers. Baker takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Goodman hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of McGhee. Goodman reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 9 Kinder hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Bolling hits a fly ball into center field. McGhee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Piersall hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 9 McGhee hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Fricano bunts towards the mound. Kinder fields it and throws to home to get Suder. Michaels moves to third. Murray moves to second.
Top 9 Murray is walked intentionally.
Top 9 DeMaestri hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. White settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Ellis Kinder now pitching. Michaels hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Evers. Michaels reaches second base with a double. Zernial scores. Suder moves to third.
Top 9 Suder hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Zernial moves to third.
Top 9 Zernial hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Piersall. Zernial reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 8 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 8 White hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Kell strikes out.
Top 8 Robinson hits a popup towards third. Kell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Philley hits a popup towards third. Kell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 McGhee hits a fly ball into left field. Evers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Gernert hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 7 Evers takes first base on ball four. Goodman moves to second.
Bottom 7 Goodman takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Michaels scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Fricano strikes out.
Top 7 Murray hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 DeMaestri hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bolling hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Piersall hits a fly ball into center field. McGhee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Michaels hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Suder hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Robinson scores.
Top 6 Zernial hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Umphlett. Zernial reaches second base with a double. Piersall throws the ball in to Gernert who tags Zernial trying to return to first, for the out. Robinson moves to third.
Top 6 Robinson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 White hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Kell hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Gernert moves to second.
Bottom 5 Gernert hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Evers hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Goodman hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Philley hits a fly ball into left field. Evers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 McGhee hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Fricano 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 5 Murray hits a fly ball into left field. Evers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Nixon strikes out.
Bottom 4 Bolling hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of McGhee who is chasing the ball. Bolling reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 4 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Umphlett hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 4 White strikes out.
Top 4 DeMaestri hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Michaels hits a popup towards short. Bolling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Suder hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Zernial moves to second.
Top 4 Zernial hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Robinson strikes out.
Bottom 3 Kell hits a fly ball into center field. McGhee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Gernert hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Michaels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Evers strikes out.
Bottom 3 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Michaels fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Michaels. Nixon moves to second.
Bottom 3 Nixon takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Philley 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 3 McGhee hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to second for the out. DeMaestri moves to third.
Top 3 Fricano strikes out.
Top 3 Murray hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. DeMaestri moves to second.
Top 3 DeMaestri hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Bolling hits a popup towards first. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Piersall hits a popup towards first. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Umphlett hits a fly ball into center field. McGhee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Michaels strikes out.
Top 2 Suder hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Nixon fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Zernial hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Zernial for the out.
Bottom 1 White strikes out.
Bottom 1 Kell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Suder fields it and throws to second for the out. Goodman moves to third.
Bottom 1 Gernert takes first base on ball four. Goodman moves to second.
Bottom 1 Evers hits a fly ball into center field. McGhee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Goodman bunts towards the mound. Fricano fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Philley strikes out.
Top 1 McGhee hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Goodman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.