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August 23, 1953

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Jim Piersall Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .272
OBP .000 .324
At Bats 3 481
Hits 0 131
• Singles 0 101
• Doubles 0 19
• Triples 0 8
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 30
RBI’s 0 45

Sonny Dixon Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
4 7 3
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Griffith Stadium - August 23, 1953
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Single
Sonny Dixon
Ed Fitz Gerald
Mickey Vernon
Wayne Terwilliger
Eddie Yost
Pete Runnels
Clyde Vollmer
Jim Busby
Jackie Jensen
Jim Piersall
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Piersall hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Ed Fitz Gerald now catching. Goodman hits a line drive towards first. Vernon reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Vernon hits a fly ball into left field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Bill Henry now pitching. Runnels strikes out.
Bottom 8 Yost takes first base on ball four. Dixon moves to second.
Bottom 8 Jerry Snyder pinch runs for Mickey Grasso. Dixon bunts towards first. Goodman juggles the ball. That's an error on Goodman. Snyder moves to third.
Bottom 8 Grasso hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Sammy White now catching. Ben Flowers now pitching. Terwilliger takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Sammy White pinch hits for Gus Niarhos. White hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Lipon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Consolo moves to third.
Top 8 Billy Consolo pinch runs for Mel Parnell. Umphlett hits a popup towards the mound. Dixon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Parnell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Vollmer. Parnell reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 7 Busby hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Vollmer is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 7 Jensen hits a line drive into left field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Karl Olson now playing left field. Vernon hits a fly ball into left field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Baker hits a line drive towards the mound. Dixon reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Kell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Williams hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Sonny Dixon now pitching. Piersall hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Runnels hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Yo-Yo Davalillo pinch runs for Kite Thomas. Yost hits a fly ball towards center. Umphlett settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Umphlett. Terwilliger scores. Grasso scores. Davalillo goes all the way around to score. Yost moves to second. Three runs are unearned.
Bottom 6 Thomas takes first base on ball four. Grasso moves to second.
Bottom 6 Kite Thomas pinch hits for Connie Marrero. There goes Terwilliger. The throw from Niarhos and he is safe. Terwilliger steals third.
Bottom 6 Grasso hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Terwilliger moves to second.
Bottom 6 Terwilliger hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Busby hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Parnell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lipon scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Goodman hits a popup towards short. Runnels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Niarhos hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lipon hits a line drive to left field. The ball gets by Vollmer. Busby fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Busby. Parnell scores. Lipon moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Umphlett hits a ball on the ground between third and short. The ball bounces off Yost, and towards Runnels, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Parnell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Vernon juggles the ball. That's an error on Vernon. Baker goes all the way around to score. Parnell moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Baker hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 5 Jensen hits a popup towards first. Goodman settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Vernon hits a fly ball into center field. Umphlett settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Runnels hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Yost takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Kell hits a popup towards third. Yost settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Williams takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Piersall hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Goodman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Terwilliger scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Niarhos moves to second.
Top 5 Niarhos takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Marrero strikes out.
Bottom 4 Grasso hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Terwilliger moves to second.
Bottom 4 Terwilliger hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Busby hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lipon fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Lipon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Umphlett hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Parnell hits a fly ball into center field. Busby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Baker hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Grasso settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lipon fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Johnny Lipon now playing shortstop. Jensen takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Vernon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Yost moves to third.
Bottom 3 Runnels bunts towards the mound. Parnell fields it and throws to first for the out. Yost moves to second.
Bottom 3 Yost hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bolling misplays the ball. That's an error on Bolling.
Top 3 Kell hits a fly ball into left field. Vollmer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Williams hits a popup, foul, towards third. Yost settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Piersall hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Marrero fields it and throws to first for the out. Goodman moves to second.
Top 3 Goodman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Marrero hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Grasso takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Terwilliger hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Williams. Terwilliger reaches second base with a double. Busby goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 2 Busby takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Vollmer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Jensen strikes out.
Top 2 Niarhos hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Grasso settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Bolling strikes out.
Top 2 Umphlett bunts towards the mound. Marrero fields it and throws to first for the out. Parnell moves to second.
Top 2 Parnell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Vernon hits a fly ball into right field. Piersall settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Baker fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Yost takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Baker strikes out.
Top 1 Kell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Goodman scores.
Top 1 Williams strikes out.
Top 1 Piersall bunts towards first. Vernon scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Piersall for the out. Goodman moves to third.
Top 1 Goodman hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Jensen. Goodman reaches second base with a double.