Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Al Smith doubled, homered, and drove in 3 runs as Cleveland beats Kansas City 5-2 in game one of two.
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 1955 Kansas City Athletics At 1955 Cleveland Indians 9/5/1955
Athletics AB R H RBI AVG Indians AB R H RBI AVG
V.Power 1B 4 0 1 0 .279 A.Smith RF 4 1 2 3 .296
H.Simpson CF 4 1 1 0 .265 B.Avila 2B 3 0 0 0 .253
E.Slaughter RF 4 1 2 0 .302 G.Woodling LF 4 0 1 0 .286
E.Valo LF 2 0 1 2 .360 L.Doby CF 3 2 2 1 .280
H.Lopez 3B 4 0 0 0 .287 A.Rosen 3B 4 0 1 1 .227
J.Finigan 2B 4 0 0 0 .261 F.Fain 1B 3 0 0 0 .273
J.Schypinski SS 4 0 1 0 .133 H.Naragon C 3 1 0 0 .289
B.Shantz C 3 0 0 0 .259 G.Strickland SS 3 1 1 0 .209
A.Ditmar P 3 0 0 0 .116 B.Feller P 1 0 0 0 .160
B.Shantz P 0 0 0 0 .161 A-R.Kiner PH 0 0 0 0 .172
S.Maglie P 0 0 0 0 .000
B-S.Locklin PH 1 0 0 0 .000
R.Narleski P 0 0 0 0 .467
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Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 29 5 7 5
A-Pinch Hit For Feller In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For Maglie In 7th Inning
Athletics....... 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 0
Indians......... 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 - 5 7 1
Athletics (46-88) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
A.Ditmar LOSS(4-14) 6 2/3 7 5 5 5 3 2 5.47
B.Shantz 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.11
Totals 8 7 5 5 5 3 2
Indians (82-54) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA
B.Feller 5 4 2 2 1 0 0 2.82
S.Maglie WIN(1-1) 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 7.64
R.Narleski SAVE(18th) 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 2.53
Totals 9 6 2 2 3 3 0
ATTENDANCE- 23,576 DATE- Monday, September 5th 1955 TIME- Day WEATHER- Average
T- 2:18
LEFT ON BASE- Athletics: 6 Indians: 5
DOUBLE PLAYS- Athletics: 1 Indians: 1
ERRORS- A.Rosen
DOUBLES- V.Power(35th), E.Slaughter(14th), A.Smith(21st), L.Doby(16th),
A.Rosen(12th)
HOME RUNS- A.Smith(19th), L.Doby(29th)
CAUGHT STEALING- E.Slaughter, B.Avila
WALKS- E.Valo-2, B.Shantz, B.Avila, L.Doby, F.Fain, H.Naragon, R.Kiner
STRIKE OUTS- E.Valo, H.Lopez, J.Finigan, A.Smith, B.Feller, S.Locklin
GIDP- A.Ditmar, H.Naragon
WILD PITCHES- A.Ditmar
PASSED BALLS- B.Shantz
WEB GEMS- Top 5th: George Strickland robbed Art Ditmar of a base hit.
Al Smith blasted a homerun and had 3 RBI as the very potent Cleveland Indians
outscored the Kansas City Athletics 5 to 2.
Sal Maglie(1-1) looked good in relief and was the winning pitcher. He
surrendered only 1 hit and 1 walk in 2 innings. Cleveland managed 7 hits in
their victory.
Ray Narleski recorded the save, his 18th. Art Ditmar(4-14) suffered the loss.
He pitched 6 and 2/3 innings allowing 7 hits and 5 walks.