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May 11, 1956

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Bottom 8 R H E
Phillies 5 8 0
Pirates 2 5 0
Bottom 8 R H E
Phillies 5 8 0
Pirates 2 5 0

Preston Ward Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .304
OBP .667 .414
At Bats 2 23
Hits 1 7
• Singles 1 7
• Doubles 0 0
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 1 5
RBI’s 0 7

Jack Meyer Season Stats

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2 0 0
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Forbes Field - May 11, 1956
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Out
Jack Meyer
Andy Seminick
Marv Blaylock
Ted Kazanski
Willie Jones
Granny Hamner
Del Ennis
Richie Ashburn
Glen Gorbous
Preston Ward
Dale Long
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Ward hits a fly ball into left field. Ennis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Thomas strikes out.
Bottom 8 Long hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Skinner strikes out.
Top 8 Hamner strikes out.
Top 8 Ashburn hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Meyer bunts towards first. Long scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Meyer for the out. Kazanski moves to second.
Top 8 Danny Kravitz now catching. Luis Arroyo now pitching. Kazanski takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Freese hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Danny Kravitz pinch hits for Nellie King. Kravitz hits a fly ball into right field. Gorbous settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Groat hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Atwell strikes out.
Top 7 Seminick strikes out.
Top 7 Jones hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Nellie King now pitching. Gorbous hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long scoops it up and throws to first, with King covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Walls hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hamner fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 6 Ward takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Thomas hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Meyer fields it and throws to first for the out. Freese scores. Skinner moves to third. Long moves to second.
Bottom 6 Jack Meyer now pitching. Long takes first base on ball four. O'Brien scores. Freese moves to third. Skinner moves to second.
Bottom 6 Skinner takes first base on ball four. O'Brien moves to third. Freese moves to second.
Bottom 6 Eddie O'Brien pinch runs for Dick Cole. Freese takes first base on ball four. O'Brien moves to second.
Bottom 6 Dick Cole pinch hits for Roy Face. Cole takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Ennis hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Blaylock hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 6 Hamner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Kazanski scores.
Top 6 Roy Face now pitching. Ashburn strikes out.
Top 6 There's a wild pitch. Kazanski moves to third.
Top 6 Negray bunts towards first. Long scoops it up and throws to first, with Freese covering, for the out. Kazanski moves to second.
Top 6 Kazanski hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Groat hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Seminick settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Atwell hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Walls hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Seminick hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Jones takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Gorbous hits a ball on the ground for an out with unknown description.
Top 5 There goes Ennis. The throw from Atwell and he is safe. Ennis steals second.
Top 5 Ennis hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Blaylock strikes out.
Bottom 4 Ward hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Kazanski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Thomas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hamner fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Long hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Kazanski fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Hamner hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Ashburn takes first base on ball four. Jones scores. Kazanski moves to third. Negray moves to second.
Top 4 Negray takes first base on ball four. Kazanski moves to second.
Top 4 Kazanski is walked intentionally.
Top 4 Seminick hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Jones hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Skinner who is chasing the ball. Jones reaches third base with a triple.
Top 4 Gorbous hits a fly ball into right field. Skinner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Skinner is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Freese strikes out.
Bottom 3 Law takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Groat hits a fly ball into right field. Gorbous settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Ennis hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Freese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Blaylock hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Negray moves to second.
Top 3 Hamner strikes out.
Top 3 Ashburn hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Atwell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Negray hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Atwell hits a line drive towards first. Blaylock catches it and throws to second to double up Ward.
Bottom 2 Walls hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out. Ward moves to second.
Bottom 2 Ward hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Kazanski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Ward fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Seminick hits a fly ball into center field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Jones takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Gorbous hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Freese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Ennis hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 1 Thomas hits a popup, foul, towards third. Jones settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Long hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Skinner hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Kazanski scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Freese strikes out.
Top 1 Blaylock hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Freese scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Hamner hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Ashburn hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Law fields it and throws to first for the out.