Tigers @ Athletics
July 20, 1952

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Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 7 12 0
Athletics 7 13 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 7 12 0
Athletics 8 14 0

Joe Astroth Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .224
OBP .500 .280
At Bats 3 152
Hits 1 34
• Singles 1 29
• Doubles 0 3
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 1 11
RBI’s 0 13

Hal White Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 3 2
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Shibe Park - July 20, 1952
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Single
Hal White
Joe Ginsberg
Walt Dropo
Johnny Pesky
Fred Hatfield
Neil Berry
Don Lenhardt
Johnny Groth
Vic Wertz
Joe Astroth
Billy Hitchcock

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Detroit Tigers 7 12 0 9
Philadelphia Athletics 8 14 0 11
Winning Pitcher Ed Wright
Losing Pitcher Hal White
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Joe Astroth
Attendance
Time of Game 2 hours 52 minutes
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Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

End of Game

Astroth hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Hitchcock scores.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Suder bunts towards first. Dropo scoops it up and throws to first, with Pesky covering, for the out. Hitchcock moves to second.
Bottom 9 Hitchcock takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 White hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Astroth settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Lenhardt hits a popup towards first. Fain settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Wertz hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Dropo hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 8 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. White fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Thomas hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Pesky scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Johnny Pesky now playing second base. Hal White now pitching. Philley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Pesky scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Hatfield hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Ed Wright now pitching. Johnny Hopp pinch hits for Al Federoff. Hopp takes first base on ball four. Ginsberg moves to third. Groth moves to second.
Top 8 Groth hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Ginsberg moves to second.
Top 8 Ginsberg hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Mullin scores. Berry goes all the way around to score.
Top 8 Berry hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Mullin moves to second.
Top 8 Pat Mullin pinch hits for Dick Littlefield. Mullin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Joost fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 8 Lenhardt hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Wertz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Fain scoops it up and throws to first, with Hooper covering, for the out.
Bottom 7 Fain strikes out.
Bottom 7 Joost takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Hooper is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Astroth hits a fly ball into left field. Lenhardt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Dropo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Joost fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 7 Hatfield takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Federoff hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Groth hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Suder hits a fly ball into right field. Wertz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hitchcock hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Wertz who is chasing the ball. Hitchcock reaches third base with a triple. Thomas scores. Clark goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 6 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hatfield fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Thomas moves to third.
Bottom 6 Thomas hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Groth. Thomas reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Philley hits a line drive into left field. Lenhardt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Joe Ginsberg now catching. Dick Littlefield now pitching. Fain hits a fly ball into right field. Wertz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Don Kolloway pinch hits for Marlin Stuart. Bob Hooper now pitching. Joe Ginsberg pinch hits for Don Kolloway. Ginsberg hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Berry hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Philley who is chasing the ball. Berry reaches third base with a triple. Lenhardt scores. Souchock goes all the way around to score.
Top 6 Bud Souchock pinch hits for Bob Swift. Souchock hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Wertz scores. Lenhardt moves to second.
Top 6 Lenhardt hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Wertz moves to second.
Top 6 Wertz takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Dropo hits a fly ball into right field. Clark settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Kite Thomas now playing left field. Hatfield hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Suder settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Marlin Stuart now pitching. Joost hits a fly ball into center field. Groth settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Kellner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Thomas scores. Hitchcock scores. Astroth moves to second.
Bottom 5 Astroth hits a ball on the ground towards short. Berry fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Thomas moves to third. Hitchcock moves to second.
Bottom 5 Suder hits a fly ball into right field. Wertz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Philley scores.
Bottom 5 Hitchcock takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Kite Thomas pinch runs for Gus Zernial. Clark hits a line drive towards third. Hatfield reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Zernial hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Philley moves to third. Zernial moves to second.
Bottom 5 Philley hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Federoff hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 5 Groth hits a fly ball into left field. Zernial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Wight hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Fain strikes out.
Bottom 4 Joost takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Wight fires to first and picks off Kellner.
Bottom 4 Kellner hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Astroth hits a fly ball into right field. Wertz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Berry hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Swift hits a fly ball into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Lenhardt strikes out.
Top 4 Wertz hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Clark. Wertz reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Suder hits a fly ball into center field. Groth settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Hitchcock hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hatfield fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Zernial hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Philley scores.
Bottom 3 Philley hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Groth. Philley reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Dropo hits a line drive into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Hatfield hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder fields it and throws to second for the out. Berry scores. Wight moves to third.
Top 3 Federoff hits a line drive into center field. Philley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Groth takes first base on ball four. Berry moves to third. Wight moves to second.
Top 3 Wight bunts towards short. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Berry moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 3 Berry hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Fain hits a ball on the ground towards first. Dropo scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Fain for the out.
Bottom 2 Joost takes first base on ball four. Suder moves to third. Astroth moves to second.
Bottom 2 Kellner strikes out.
Bottom 2 Astroth takes first base on ball four. Suder moves to second.
Bottom 2 Suder hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Hitchcock scores.
Bottom 2 Hitchcock hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Wertz. Hitchcock reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Clark hits a popup towards third. Hatfield settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Swift hits a ball on the ground towards short. Joost fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Lenhardt takes first base on ball four. Wertz moves to second.
Top 2 Wertz hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Dropo hits a ball on the ground towards short. Joost scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Zernial hits a ball on the ground towards short. Berry scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Joost moves to third.
Bottom 1 Philley hits a fly ball into left field. Lenhardt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Joost moves to second.
Bottom 1 Fain is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Joost takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Hatfield hits a popup towards short. Joost settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Federoff hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hitchcock fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Groth hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Suder scoops it up and throws to first for the out.