Senators @ Tigers
July 23, 1953

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Bottom 10 R H E
Senators 6 8 2
Tigers 6 12 0
Bottom 10 R H E
Senators 6 8 2
Tigers 6 13 0

Johnny Pesky Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .200 .276
OBP .200 .337
At Bats 5 185
Hits 1 51
• Singles 1 39
• Doubles 0 9
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 16
RBI’s 0 16

Walt Masterson Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
6 8 0
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Briggs Stadium - July 23, 1953
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Single
Walt Masterson
Ed Fitz Gerald
Mickey Vernon
Wayne Terwilliger
Eddie Yost
Pete Runnels
Clyde Vollmer
Jim Busby
Jackie Jensen
Johnny Pesky
Harvey Kuenn
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Pesky hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Kuenn moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 10 Kuenn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger misplays the ball. That's an error on Terwilliger.
Bottom 10 Garver is called out on strikes.
Top 10 Yost hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Masterson bunts towards first. Dropo scoops it up and throws to first, with Pesky covering, for the out. Fitz Gerald moves to second.
Top 10 Fitz Gerald hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 10 Al Kaline now playing left field. Terwilliger hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Bucha hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 9 Walt Masterson now pitching. Lund takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Al Kaline pinch runs for Bob Nieman. Dropo bunts towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out. Kaline moves to second.
Bottom 9 Nieman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 9 Busby hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Jensen hits a fly ball into center field. Delsing settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Ned Garver now pitching. Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Garver fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Delsing hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Boone takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Sonny Dixon now pitching. There goes Pesky. The throw from Fitz Gerald and he is safe. Pesky steals second.
Bottom 8 Pesky hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels fields it and throws to second for the out. Hitchcock moves to third.
Bottom 8 Kuenn hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Bucha scores. Hitchcock moves to second.
Bottom 8 Fred Hatfield pinch hits for Dave Madison. Al Sima now pitching. Billy Hitchcock pinch hits for Fred Hatfield. Hitchcock hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields the ball and can't make a play. That's a base hit. There goes Lund trying to get to home. Yost throws to Fitz Gerald who tags Lund for the out. Bucha moves to second.
Bottom 8 Bucha hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Dropo scores. Lund moves to second.
Bottom 8 Lund hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Dropo moves to second.
Bottom 8 Wayne Terwilliger now playing second base. Dropo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 8 Vernon strikes out.
Top 8 Dave Madison now pitching. Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Pesky fields it and throws to second for the out. Fitz Gerald scores. Shea moves to third.
Top 8 Yost takes first base on ball four. Busby scores. Fitz Gerald moves to third. Shea moves to second.
Top 8 Shea takes first base on ball four. Busby moves to third. Fitz Gerald moves to second.
Top 8 Fitz Gerald takes first base on ball four. Busby moves to second.
Top 8 Gil Coan pinch hits for Mel Hoderlein. Coan hits a fly ball into left field. Nieman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Busby hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Nieman hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Delsing hits a fly ball into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Boone hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Pesky hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 7 Vollmer strikes out.
Top 7 Ray Herbert now pitching. Vernon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Kuenn hits a fly ball into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Pat Mullin pinch hits for Dick Marlowe. Mullin hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fitz Gerald settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bucha hits a fly ball into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Nieman scores.
Bottom 6 Lund bunts and there's an error on the play. Nieman moves to third. Dropo moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 6 Dropo hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Nieman moves to second.
Bottom 6 Pete Runnels now playing shortstop. Nieman takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Pete Runnels pinch hits for Jerry Snyder. Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Pesky fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Yost takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Shea hits a popup, foul, towards third. Boone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Fitz Gerald hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 5 Delsing hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Shea fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Boone hits a popup towards short. Snyder settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Pesky hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hoderlein hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 5 Busby hits a fly ball into right field. Lund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Jensen hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Vernon scores. Vollmer moves to second.
Top 5 Vollmer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Vernon moves to second.
Top 5 Vernon hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Kuenn hits a popup towards first. Vernon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Marlowe hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Dropo scores. Bucha moves to third.
Bottom 4 Bucha takes first base on ball four. Dropo moves to second.
Bottom 4 Lund hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Dropo takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Nieman hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Delsing scores.
Bottom 4 Delsing hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Busby who is chasing the ball. Delsing reaches third base with a triple.
Top 4 Snyder hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Yost hits a fly ball into left field. Nieman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Shea bunts in front of the plate. Bucha fields it and throws to first for the out. Fitz Gerald moves to second.
Top 4 Fitz Gerald takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Boone hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Pesky hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Kuenn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hoderlein scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Dick Marlowe now pitching. Hoderlein hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Busby takes first base on ball four. Jensen moves to second.
Top 3 Jensen hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Yost scores. Vernon moves to third.
Top 3 Vollmer hits a fly ball into center field. Delsing settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Vernon takes first base on ball four. Yost moves to second.
Top 3 Snyder strikes out.
Top 3 Yost takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Aber hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Bucha hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 The umpire calls a balk on Shea Lund moves to second.
Bottom 2 Lund takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Dropo strikes out.
Top 2 Shea hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kuenn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Fitz Gerald is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Hoderlein hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boone fields it and throws to first for the out. Busby moves to second.
Top 2 Busby takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Nieman hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Delsing hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hoderlein fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Kuenn scores. Pesky moves to third.
Bottom 1 Boone takes first base on ball four. Kuenn moves to third. Pesky moves to second.
Bottom 1 Pesky hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Kuenn moves to second.
Bottom 1 Kuenn hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Jensen strikes out.
Top 1 Vollmer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Yost scores.
Top 1 Vernon hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Pesky settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Snyder hits a ball on the ground towards first. Dropo scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Snyder for the out. Yost moves to second.
Top 1 Yost takes first base on ball four.