Pirates @ Phillies
May 25, 1956

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Pirates 6 7 0
Phillies 3 8 3
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Pirates 6 7 0
Phillies 3 8 3

Bill Virdon Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .224
OBP .333 .295
At Bats 2 85
Hits 0 19
• Singles 0 14
• Doubles 0 3
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 1 8
RBI’s 0 9

Ben Flowers Season Stats

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Connie Mack Stadium - May 25, 1956
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Ben Flowers
Andy Seminick
Stan Lopata
Solly Hemus
Willie Jones
Granny Hamner
Del Ennis
Richie Ashburn
Elmer Valo
Bill Virdon
Frank Thomas
Dale Long
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Virdon hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Flowers, and towards Hamner, who fields it and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 7 Bob Skinner pinch hits for Hank Foiles. Skinner hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Freese strikes out.
Top 7 Ben Flowers now pitching. Thomas hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Walls scores. Long moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 7 Long hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Walls moves to second.
Top 7 Walls hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Hemus misplays the ball. That's an error on Hemus. Groat scores.
Top 7 Groat hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Valo who is chasing the ball. Groat reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 6 Hamner hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Jones hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Valo hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Valo for the out.
Top 6 O'Brien hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 King bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Top 6 Virdon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Lopata fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Foiles hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Ennis hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Lopata hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Hemus hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Virdon. Hemus reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Ashburn hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Freese hits a popup towards third. Jones settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Thomas hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Long hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 5 Walls takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Groat hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Hemus settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Simmons hits a fly ball into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Seminick hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Hamner hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Nellie King now pitching. Jones hits a fly ball into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 O'Brien hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hamner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Dick Cole pinch hits for Ron Kline. Cole hits a ball on the ground towards second. Hemus picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Hemus. Thomas scores. Freese scores. Virdon moves to third. Cole moves to second.
Top 4 Virdon takes first base on ball four. Thomas moves to third. Freese moves to second.
Top 4 Foiles strikes out.
Top 4 Freese hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Thomas moves to second.
Top 4 Thomas takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Long strikes out.
Bottom 3 Valo hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Ennis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Lopata strikes out.
Bottom 3 Hemus hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Virdon who is chasing the ball. Hemus reaches third base with a triple.
Top 3 Walls hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Groat strikes out.
Top 3 O'Brien is called out on strikes.
Top 3 There goes Kline. The throw from Seminick and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 3 Kline takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Ashburn hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Seminick scores. There goes Simmons trying to get to home. Virdon throws the ball in to Foiles who tags Simmons who's trying to score from second, for the out.
Bottom 2 Simmons hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Walls. Simmons reaches second base with a double. Jones scores. Seminick moves to third.
Bottom 2 Seminick hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Jones moves to second.
Bottom 2 Hamner hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Jones hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Valo hits a popup towards short. Groat settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Ennis hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Virdon hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Hemus settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Foiles hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Freese hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Seminick settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Lopata hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Hemus is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Ashburn hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Thomas hits a fly ball into left field. Ennis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Long hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Walls takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Groat bunts towards the mound. Simmons fields it and throws to first for the out. O'Brien moves to second.
Top 1 O'Brien takes first base on ball four.