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May 23, 1956

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Bottom 14 R H E
Senators 5 12 0
Athletics 5 8 1
Bottom 14 R H E
Senators 5 12 0
Athletics 5 8 1

Joe Ginsberg Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .243
OBP .400 .353
At Bats 4 70
Hits 1 17
• Singles 1 12
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 1 13
RBI’s 0 8

Connie Grob Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 2 0
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Municipal Stadium - May 23, 1956
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Connie Grob
Clint Courtney
Roy Sievers
Pete Runnels
Herb Plews
Jerry Snyder
Ernie Oravetz
Whitey Herzog
Jim Lemon
Joe Ginsberg
Jim Finigan
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 1 Out

Ginsberg hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Grob fields it and throws to second for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 14 Finigan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 14 Runnels hits a fly ball into right field. Groth settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 14 Sievers hits a popup, foul, towards first. Simpson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 14 Oravetz hits a fly ball into right field. Groth settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 13 Groth strikes out.
Bottom 13 Simpson hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Runnels reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 13 Renna hits a popup towards first. Sievers settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 13 Snyder hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Boyer reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 13 Plews is walked intentionally.
Top 13 Grob bunts towards first. Simpson scoops it up and throws to first, with Boyer covering, for the out. Courtney moves to second.
Top 13 Courtney hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 13 Herzog hits a ball on the ground towards first. Simpson scoops it up and throws to first, with Gorman covering, for the out.
Bottom 12 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 12 Baxes hits a fly ball into center field. Herzog settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 12 Gorman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 12 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Baxes fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 12 Runnels hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 12 Sievers hits a fly ball into right field. Groth settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 12 Oravetz hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boyer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 11 Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 11 Ginsberg hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Runnels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 11 Connie Grob now pitching. Finigan hits a fly ball into center field. Herzog settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Snyder hits a popup, foul, towards first. Simpson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Plews is walked intentionally.
Top 11 Eddie Yost pinch hits for Bob Chakales. Yost hits a ball on the ground towards third. Finigan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Courtney hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lopez. Courtney reaches second base with a double.
Top 11 Herzog hits a ball on the ground towards first. Simpson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Herzog for the out.
Bottom 10 Groth hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 10 Simpson hits a fly ball into center field. Herzog settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Renna hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 10 Lemon strikes out.
Top 10 Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boyer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 10 Sievers hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Ginsberg settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Mike Baxes now playing shortstop. Clete Boyer now playing second base. Tom Gorman now pitching. Oravetz hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Mike Baxes pinch runs for Vic Power. Lopez hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Herzog. Lopez reaches second base with a double. Slaughter scores. There goes Baxes trying to get to home. Herzog throws the ball in to Snyder who relays the ball to Courtney, who tags Baxes, who came all the way from first, for the out.
Bottom 9 Vic Power pinch hits for Joe DeMaestri. Power hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Ginsberg scores. Slaughter moves to second.
Bottom 9 Tim Thompson pinch hits for Art Ditmar. Thompson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 9 Enos Slaughter pinch hits for Spook Jacobs. Slaughter takes first base on ball four. Ginsberg moves to second.
Bottom 9 Ginsberg hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Clint Courtney now catching. Finigan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Plews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Snyder hits a popup towards first. Simpson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Plews hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Courtney moves to third.
Top 9 Chakales bunts towards third. Finigan fields it and throws to first for the out. Courtney moves to second.
Top 9 Clint Courtney pinch hits for Ed Fitz Gerald. Courtney hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Lemon scores. Herzog scores.
Top 9 Herzog hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Renna. Herzog reaches second base with a double. Lemon moves to third.
Top 9 Bill Renna now playing left field. Lemon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Groth hits a line drive into center field. Herzog settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Simpson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Zernial hits a line drive into left field. Oravetz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Runnels hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Sievers is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Oravetz hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Lopez hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Runnels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 DeMaestri strikes out.
Bottom 7 Ed Fitz Gerald now catching. Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards third. Plews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Snyder hits a line drive towards left. Zernial catches it and throws to second to double up Ramos.
Top 7 Plews hits a ball on the ground towards third. Finigan juggles the ball. That's an error on Finigan.
Top 7 Pedro Ramos pinch runs for Lou Berberet. Chakales bunts towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out. Ramos moves to second.
Top 7 Jim Finigan now playing third base. Spook Jacobs now playing second base. Berberet takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Pless hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Ginsberg hits a fly ball into left field. Oravetz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Finigan hits a fly ball into right field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Herzog hits a fly ball into left field. Zernial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lemon hits a fly ball into center field. Lopez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards first. Simpson scoops it up and throws to first, with Ditmar covering, for the out. Sievers moves to second.
Top 6 Sievers hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Groth hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Chakales fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Simpson is walked intentionally.
Bottom 5 Zernial hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Chakales fields it and throws to first for the out. Lopez moves to second.
Bottom 5 Lopez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 There goes DeMaestri. The throw from Berberet and he is out, Runnels applying the tag.
Bottom 5 DeMaestri hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 5 Oravetz hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Finigan reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Snyder 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 5 Plews hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Pless takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Ginsberg hits a fly ball into right field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Finigan hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Berberet settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Chakales hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pless fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Berberet hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Runnels moves to third.
Top 4 Herzog strikes out.
Top 4 Lemon hits a fly ball into left field. Zernial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Sievers tags and scores.
Top 4 Runnels hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Sievers moves to third.
Top 4 Sievers takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Groth hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Simpson hits a fly ball into left field. Oravetz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Zernial hits a ball on the ground towards third. Plews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Oravetz hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Snyder hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pless fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Plews 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 2 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Plews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 DeMaestri hits a ball on the ground towards third. Plews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards short. Snyder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Chakales hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Berberet hits a fly ball into right field. Groth settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Herzog 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 1 Pless hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Chakales fields it, throws to the plate for one, and over to first for the double play.
Bottom 1 Ginsberg is walked intentionally.
Bottom 1 Bob Chakales now pitching. Finigan bunts towards the mound. Chakales fields it and throws to first for the out. Simpson moves to third. Groth moves to second.
Bottom 1 Groth takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Simpson hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Herzog. Simpson reaches second base with a double. DeMaestri scores. Lopez scores. Zernial goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Zernial takes first base on ball four. DeMaestri moves to third. Lopez moves to second.
Bottom 1 Lopez hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. DeMaestri moves to second.
Bottom 1 DeMaestri takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Runnels hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Sievers hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 1 Oravetz takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Snyder hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Plews hits a ball on the ground towards short. DeMaestri scoops it up and throws to first for the out.