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August 7, 1955

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Harry Simpson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .304
OBP .600 .361
At Bats 4 237
Hits 2 72
• Singles 2 51
• Doubles 0 11
• Triples 0 6
• Home Runs 0 4
Walks 1 22
RBI’s 1 33

Leo Kiely Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 3 4
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Fenway Park - August 7, 1955
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Single
Leo Kiely
Sammy White
Norm Zauchin
Billy Goodman
Grady Hatton
Billy Klaus
Gene Stephens
Jim Piersall
Jackie Jensen
Harry Simpson
Billy Shantz
Vic Power
Bill Wilson
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Simpson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Wilson scores. Power scores. Shantz moves to second. Two runs are unearned.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Leo Kiely now pitching. Elmer Valo pinch hits for Marion Fricano. Valo hits a popup, foul, towards first. Zauchin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Shantz takes first base on ball four. Renna scores. Wilson moves to third. Power moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 9 Power hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Brodowski fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. DeMaestri scores. Renna moves to third. Wilson moves to second.
Top 9 Wilson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Finigan scores. DeMaestri moves to third. Renna moves to second.
Top 9 Renna hits a ball on the ground towards short. Klaus misplays the ball. That's an error on Klaus. Finigan moves to third. DeMaestri moves to second.
Top 9 DeMaestri takes first base on ball four. Finigan moves to second.
Top 9 Finigan hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Gene Stephens now playing left field. Lopez hits a fly ball into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Klaus hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Fricano fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Goodman hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Wilson. Goodman reaches second base with a double. Piersall scores. Brodowski goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 8 Brodowski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Piersall moves to second.
Bottom 8 Piersall takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Marion Fricano now pitching. There goes Hatton. The throw from Shantz and he is out, Finigan applying the tag. Zauchin scores.
Bottom 8 Hatton hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Jensen scores. Zauchin moves to third.
Bottom 8 White strikes out.
Bottom 8 There goes Zauchin. The throw from Shantz and he is safe. Zauchin steals second.
Bottom 8 Zauchin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Lopez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 8 Gene Stephens pinch runs for Ted Williams. Jensen hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Simpson who is chasing the ball. Jensen reaches third base with a triple. Klaus scores. Stephens goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 8 Williams takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Bill Renna now playing right field. Bill Wilson now playing left field. Billy Shantz now catching. Bill Harrington now pitching. Klaus hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Wilson. Klaus reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Simpson hits a popup towards short. Klaus settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Zernial hits a popup towards short. Klaus settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Slaughter hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Wilson scores. Power moves to second.
Top 8 Power hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Wilson moves to second.
Top 8 Bill Wilson pinch hits for Art Ceccarelli. Wilson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Zauchin fields the ball and throws to Brodowski covering. Safe.
Top 8 Bill Renna pinch hits for Joe Astroth. Renna hits a popup towards first. Zauchin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Brodowski hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Hatton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Finigan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 DeMaestri hits a ball on the ground towards first. Zauchin scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats DeMaestri for the out.
Top 7 Finigan hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Lopez is hit by the pitch.
Top 7 Simpson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Klaus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 White hits a fly ball into right field. Slaughter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Zauchin is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Jensen hits a line drive towards third. Lopez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Finigan fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Goodman scores. Klaus scores.
Bottom 6 Klaus hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Zernial. Klaus reaches second base with a double. Brodowski scores. Goodman moves to third.
Bottom 6 Goodman hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Brodowski moves to second.
Bottom 6 Art Ceccarelli now pitching. Brodowski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Lopez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 6 Zernial hits a fly ball into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Slaughter hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Power hits a line drive into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Piersall strikes out.
Bottom 5 Hatton hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. White scores.
Bottom 5 White hits a fly ball into center field, out of the reach of Simpson. White reaches second base with a double. Zauchin goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 5 Zauchin hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Jensen hits a fly ball into center field. Simpson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards first. Power scoops it up and throws to first, with Ditmar covering, for the out.
Top 5 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards second. Goodman fields it, throws to first for one, and over to second, with Klaus covering. It's a double play.
Top 5 Astroth takes first base on ball four. Finigan moves to second.
Top 5 DeMaestri hits a fly ball into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Finigan takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Klaus hits a fly ball into left field. Zernial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Finigan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Brodowski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Lopez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Lopez hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Simpson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Power scores. Zernial moves to second.
Top 4 Zernial hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Ditmar scores. Power moves to third.
Top 4 The umpire calls a balk on Brodowski Astroth scores. Ditmar moves to third. Power moves to second.
Top 4 Dick Brodowski now pitching. Slaughter hits a fly ball into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Power hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Astroth moves to third. Ditmar moves to second.
Top 4 Ditmar hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Astroth moves to second.
Top 4 Astroth takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 DeMaestri hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Finigan hits a line drive into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Piersall hits a fly ball into right field. Slaughter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Hatton hits a fly ball into left field. Zernial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 White hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Simpson. White reaches second base with a double. Zauchin goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Zauchin takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Jensen is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Lopez is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Simpson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Zernial hits a popup towards third. Hatton settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Slaughter 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 2 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards first. Power scoops it up and throws to first, with Ditmar covering, for the out.
Bottom 2 Klaus hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Finigan scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Brewer moves to third.
Bottom 2 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards first. Power scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Goodman for the out. Brewer moves to second.
Bottom 2 Brewer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Power strikes out.
Top 2 Ditmar hits a popup towards first. Zauchin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Astroth is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Piersall hits a fly ball into right field. Slaughter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Hatton hits a fly ball into right field. Slaughter settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 White hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Finigan fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 1 Zauchin hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 1 Jensen takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Williams moves to second.
Bottom 1 Williams takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Klaus hits a line drive to center field. That will be extra bases. Simpson chases after the ball, picks it up, and throws towards Finigan. Finigan fumbles the ball. That's a triple and an error on Finigan. Klaus moves all the way to home.
Bottom 1 Goodman strikes out.
Top 1 DeMaestri hits a ball on the ground towards short. Klaus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Finigan hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Piersall. Finigan reaches second base with a double. Zernial scores. Simpson moves to third.
Top 1 Lopez hits a fly ball into center field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Slaughter tags and scores.
Top 1 Simpson takes first base on ball four. Slaughter moves to third. Zernial moves to second.
Top 1 Zernial hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Slaughter moves to second.
Top 1 Slaughter hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Power hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.