THIS DATE IN MUNICIPAL STADIUM HISTORY AUGUST 13 1955—The Athletics dropped their 4th in a row, falling to Cleveland 5-3. Starter Herb Score all but went the distance for the Indians, giving way to reliever Ray Narleski for the last batter in the 9th. A—29,133. 1957—The A’s began a 20-game (?!?) home stand with a marathon twi-night doubleheader split with the Detroit Tigers, as the visitors took the first game 3-1 and KC prevailed in the nightcap 3-2 in 14 innings. Al Kaline drove in two of Detroit’s runs in the game one with a pair of solo homers off starter/losing pitcher Arnie Portocarrero. Lou Skizas accounted for KC’s only run with a solo homer. In the second game, which took three hours and 45 minutes to play, no one scored after the 5th inning until Hector Lopez singled home Woodie Held in the bottom of the 14th off Jim Bunning in a rare relief appearance. Vic Power led off the game with a solo homer and Mr. Skizas (pictured here) hit his second homer of the night for the A’s. The doubleheader also marked the home debut of new A’s manager Harry Craft, who replaced Lou Boudreau exactly one week earlier in the middle of a miserable 21-game road trip during which Kansas City lost 14 games. The A’s were 6-3 under Craft to that point. A—11,016. 1959--Cleveland took three out of four from the As with a 7-5 win. Kansas City led 4-3 before the Indians blew things open with four runs in the 8th inning . Woodie Held drove in four runs with a homer and a double for the Tribe while Bob Cerv and Zeke Bella each hit 2-run homers and Cerv went 3-for-4 at the plate. A--12,510. 1969--The Kansas City Spurs edged ever closer to the NASL league championship with a 5-0 shutout of the St. Louis Stars before a crowd of 5,359. Goalkeeper Leonel Conde recorded his first clean sheet as a Spur (the 8th shutout ever in Spurs history) and Peruvian Jorge Benitez scored the 8th hat trick ever in team history. KC was 9-2-3 on the season with just two more matches to go. 1972--This didnt happen at Municipal Stadium, but is worth nothing anyway: the Royals executed the first triple play ever in their history against the Texas Rangers at Arlington Stadium. In the bottom of the third inning with Elliott Maddox at first base and Dick Bosman at second base, Toby Harrah tried to bunt and catcher Ed Kirkpatrick fired to Paul Schaal at third to retire Bosman, then Schaal relayed to Cookie Rojas, who tagged Harrah after he rounded first and tried to head for second. Cookie then fired the ball back to Dr. Schaal, who tagged Maddox while attempting to advance to third. The good ol 2-5-4-5 triple play! The Royals went on to win the game 13-4.
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