Paul's Strat blog

I've been doing a 1954 AL replay for years. As-played all the way. Much help from fellow Strat replayers Jon Grauer and Buck Jones. Just played my first game with V11: Red Sox at White Sox, game 1 of Sunday 9/12/54 double header. Red Sox won 5-2. A big blow to the White Sox as they drop to 4 games behind the first place Indians, pending the outcome of the Indians' double header with the Yankees. Jimmy Piersall hit one out in the top of the 8th to give the BoSox a 4-2 lead.

Then bad base running cost the White Sox any chance they may have had to come back in this game. With his team trailing 4-2 in the bottom of the 8th, Jim Rivera was caught stealing second. One out later, Ron Jackson was picked off first base by Tom Brewer.

In the top of the 9th Ted Williams hit one way out of the park to put a little icing on the cake. The box score:

BOXSCORE: 1954 Boston Red Sox At 1954 Chicago White Sox             9/12/1954
(Game 1)Brewer with the complete game victory; Williams, Piersall go deep

  Red Sox            AB  R  H RBI AVG     White Sox          AB  R  H RBI AVG
  B.Goodman 2B        5  1  2  1 .272     C.Carrasquel SS     4  0  0  0 .242  
  T.Williams LF       5  1  3  2 .344     N.Fox 2B            4  0  0  0 .326  
C-K.Olson LF          0  0  0  0 .274     M.Minoso LF         3  1  2  0 .292  
  J.Jensen CF,RF      4  0  0  0 .289     J.Rivera RF         2  1  0  0 .274  
  H.Agganis 1B        4  0  2  1 .235     R.Jackson 1B        3  0  0  0 .216  
  G.Hatton 3B         2  0  0  0 .242     D.Johnson P         0  0  0  0 .171  
  J.Piersall RF,CF    4  1  1  1 .281     S.Lollar C          4  0  1  1 .253  
  S.White C           2  1  0  0 .282     J.Kirrene 3B        3  0  1  0 .143  
  B.Consolo SS        2  1  0  0 .223     E.McGhee CF         4  0  0  0 .278  
  T.Brewer P          4  0  0  0 .180     B.Keegan P          2  0  1  0 .082  
                                        A-W.Marshall PH       1  0  0  0 .333  
                                          S.Consuegra P       0  0  0  0 .128  
                                        B-P.Cavarretta 1B     1  0  0  0 .357  
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---      
         Totals      32  5  8  5                 Totals      31  2  5  1

A-Pinch Hit For Keegan In 6th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (1B) For Consuegra In 9th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Williams In 9th Inning

Red Sox......... 1 2 0  0 0 0  0 1 1  -  5  8  2
White Sox....... 0 0 0  2 0 0  0 0 0  -  2  5  0

Red Sox (59-82)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
T.Brewer WIN(11-9)        9       5   2   1   6   4   0 143   3.67
Totals                    9       5   2   1   6   4   0

White Sox (94-50)        IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
B.Keegan LOSS(12-9)       6       5   3   3   5   2   0 102   3.19
S.Consuegra               2       2   1   1   0   0   1  23   2.71
D.Johnson                 1       1   1   1   0   0   1   9   3.44
Totals                    9       8   5   5   5   2   2

ATTENDANCE- 46,088 DATE- Sunday, September 12th 1954 TIME- Day WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Frank Umont, Bill Grieve, Charlie Berry, Ed Hurley
T- 2:03
LEFT ON BASE- Red Sox: 7  White Sox: 9
DOUBLE PLAYS- Red Sox: 0  White Sox: 2
ERRORS- B.Goodman, S.White
DOUBLES- B.Goodman(20th), T.Williams(19th), M.Minoso(27th)
HOME RUNS- T.Williams(27th), J.Piersall(8th)
STOLEN BASES- M.Minoso(23rd), J.Rivera(42nd), J.Kirrene(1st)
CAUGHT STEALING- J.Rivera
SACRIFICE HITS- B.Consolo
WALKS- J.Jensen, G.Hatton-2, S.White-2, C.Carrasquel, N.Fox, M.Minoso, J.Rivera,
       R.Jackson, J.Kirrene
HIT BY PITCH- B.Consolo, J.Rivera
STRIKE OUTS- G.Hatton, T.Brewer, C.Carrasquel, E.McGhee-2, B.Keegan
GIDP- J.Jensen, S.White

Ted Williams went deep and had 2 RBI and Tom Brewer completed the game without
help from the bullpen as the Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox by a
score of 5 to 2.

Brewer(11-9) contributed a very nicely pitched game.  He surrendered only 5
hits and 6 walks in 9 innings.  Boston had a total of 8 hits for the game.

Bob Keegan(12-9) was the losing pitcher.  He pitched 6 innings allowing 5 hits
and 5 walks.