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July 3, 1956

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Phillies 5 9 2
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Pirates 4 8 2

Dick Groat Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .272
OBP .667 .323
At Bats 3 184
Hits 2 50
• Singles 2 45
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 14
RBI’s 1 9

Jack Meyer Season Stats

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5 3 1
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Forbes Field - July 3, 1956
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Double
Jack Meyer
Stan Lopata
Marv Blaylock
Ted Kazanski
Willie Jones
Granny Hamner
Del Ennis
Richie Ashburn
Elmer Valo
Dick Groat
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Groat hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Ennis. Groat reaches second base with a double.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Ennis hits a popup towards short. Groat settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Lopata strikes out.
Top 9 Blaylock takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Ashburn hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Clemente hits a fly ball into left field. Ennis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Long hits a fly ball into right field. Valo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Jack Meyer now pitching. Thomas hits a line drive towards short. Hamner reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Frank Baumholtz pinch hits for Curt Simmons. Baumholtz hits a fly ball into left field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Kazanski hits a popup towards short. Groat settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Hamner hits a popup towards short. Groat settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Walls hits a fly ball into center field. Ashburn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Jacobs hits a fly ball into right field. Valo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Virdon hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 7 O'Brien hits a fly ball into right field. Valo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Johnny O'Brien now pitching. Jones hits a fly ball into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Valo takes first base on ball four. Ashburn scores. Lopata moves to third. Ennis moves to second.
Top 7 Laurin Pepper now pitching. Ennis takes first base on ball four. Ashburn moves to third. Lopata moves to second.
Top 7 Lopata takes first base on ball four. Ashburn moves to second.
Top 7 Blaylock hits a fly ball into left field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Simmons tags and scores.
Top 7 Ashburn hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Simmons moves to third.
Top 7 Simmons hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Red Swanson now pitching. Kazanski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long scoops it up and throws to first, with Swanson covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Shepard hits a fly ball into left field. Ennis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Groat hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Clemente goes all the way around to score. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Clemente hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hamner misplays the ball. That's an error on Hamner. Thomas scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Long hits a ball on the ground towards first. Blaylock scoops it up and throws to first, with Simmons covering, for the out. Thomas moves to third.
Bottom 6 Thomas hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Valo. Thomas reaches second base with a double. Walls scores.
Bottom 6 Walls hits a line drive into left field. That will be extra bases. Ennis fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on Ennis. Walls moves to third.
Bottom 6 Jacobs strikes out.
Top 6 Hamner hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs catches it and throws to second with Groat covering, to double up Valo.
Top 6 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards third. Thomas fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 The ball gets by Shepard for a passed ball. Valo moves to second.
Top 6 Nellie King now pitching. Valo takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Virdon 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 5 Gene Freese pinch hits for Vern Law. Freese hits a popup towards third. Jones settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Shepard takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Groat hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Law spins and fires to second, with Groat covering, and Lopata is picked off.
Top 5 Ennis hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lopata moves to second.
Top 5 There goes Blaylock. The throw from Shepard and he is out, Thomas applying the tag.
Top 5 Lopata hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat misplays the ball. That's an error on Groat. Blaylock moves to second.
Top 5 Blaylock takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Ashburn hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Ashburn for the out.
Bottom 4 Clemente 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 4 Long strikes out.
Bottom 4 Thomas hits a line drive towards short. Hamner reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Simmons hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Kazanski hits a ball on the ground for an out. Hamner moves to second.
Top 4 Hamner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Hamner hits a popup, foul, towards first. Long settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Long.
Top 4 Jones hits a popup towards short. Groat settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Walls hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Lopata settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Jacobs hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hamner scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Virdon moves to third.
Bottom 3 Virdon hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Ennis. Virdon reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Law hits a ball on the ground towards third. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Valo hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Ennis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Thomas fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Lopata hits a popup, foul, towards third. Thomas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Blaylock hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Virdon. Blaylock reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Shepard hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hamner fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Groat hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Clemente hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hamner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Long strikes out.
Top 2 Ashburn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Jacobs scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Simmons hits a popup towards third. Thomas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Kazanski hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Walls. Kazanski reaches second base with a double. Jones scores. Hamner goes all the way around to score.
Top 2 Hamner hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Jones moves to second.
Top 2 Jones hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Ennis scores.
Top 2 Valo hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Valo for the out. Ennis moves to third.
Top 2 Ennis hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Walls. Ennis reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Thomas hits a fly ball into left field. Ennis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Walls hits a fly ball into right field. Valo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Jacobs bunts towards the mound. Simmons fields it and throws to first for the out. Virdon moves to second.
Bottom 1 Virdon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Lopata hits a fly ball into right field. Clemente settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Blaylock strikes out.
Top 1 Ashburn hits a fly ball into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.