Orioles @ Twins
June 18, 1972

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Top 9 R H E
Orioles 3 5 0
Twins 4 10 1
Top 9 R H E
Orioles 3 5 0
Twins 4 10 1

Don Buford Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .206
OBP .000 .342
At Bats 4 155
Hits 0 32
• Singles 0 29
• Doubles 0 2
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 31
RBI’s 0 8

Wayne Granger Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 0 10
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Metropolitan Stadium - June 18, 1972
Out
Wayne Granger
Phil Roof
Rich Reese
Rod Carew
Eric Soderholm
Danny Thompson
Jim Nettles
Bobby Darwin
Cesar Tovar
Don Buford

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Baltimore Orioles 3 5 0 7
Minnesota Twins 4 10 1 8
Winning Pitcher Jim Perry
Losing Pitcher Mike Cuellar
Save Wayne Granger
Game Winning RBI Bobby Darwin
Attendance 19,435
Time of Game 2 hours 45 minutes
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Buford hits a popup towards the mound. Granger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Elrod Hendricks pinch hits for Roric Harrison. Hendricks hits a fly ball into center field. Darwin settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Phil Roof now catching. Rod Carew now playing second base. Don Baylor pinch hits for Mark Belanger. Baylor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Thompson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Granger strikes out.
Bottom 8 Jim Kaat pinch runs for Tony Oliva. Rod Carew pinch hits for George Mitterwald. Carew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 8 Bobby Grich now playing third base. Chico Salmon now playing first base. Tony Oliva pinch hits for Dan Monzon. Oliva hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 8 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Tovar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Dave Leonhard pinch runs for Brooks Robinson. Crowley hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Tovar throws the ball in to Thompson who tags Crowley trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Salmon scores. Leonhard moves to third.
Top 8 Chico Salmon pinch runs for Boog Powell. Wayne Granger now pitching. Robinson hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Nettles. Robinson reaches second base with a double. Oates scores. Salmon moves to third.
Top 8 Powell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Oates moves to third.
Top 8 Blair hits a fly ball into center field. Darwin settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Rich Reese now playing first base. Oates takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Soderholm hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Darwin strikes out.
Bottom 7 Nettles takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Roric Harrison now pitching. Killebrew strikes out.
Top 7 Buford strikes out.
Top 7 Tom Shopay pinch hits for Doyle Alexander. Shopay hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Belanger is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Thompson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 There goes Tovar. The throw from Oates and he is safe. Tovar steals second.
Bottom 6 Tovar hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Perry hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Mitterwald hits a popup, foul, towards first. Powell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Johnson hits a popup, foul, towards third. Soderholm settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Crowley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Monzon fields it and throws to second for the out. Blair moves to third.
Top 6 Robinson hits a fly ball into left field. Nettles settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Powell is hit by the pitch. Blair moves to second.
Top 6 Jim Nettles now playing left field. Blair strikes out.
Bottom 5 Monzon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Soderholm hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Thompson scores. Darwin moves to second.
Bottom 5 Darwin hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out. Thompson moves to third.
Bottom 5 Doyle Alexander now pitching. Steve Braun pinch hits for Rick Renick. Braun hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Killebrew hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Tovar scores. Thompson moves to second.
Bottom 5 Thompson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Tovar moves to second.
Bottom 5 Tovar hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Oates hits a fly ball into center field. Darwin settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Buford hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Monzon reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Cuellar hits a fly ball into left field. Renick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Perry hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Mitterwald hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Monzon hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Perry fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Crowley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Monzon scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Powell moves to third.
Top 4 Robinson hits a line drive towards first. Killebrew reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Powell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Renick. Powell reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Soderholm hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Darwin hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Killebrew scores. Renick moves to second.
Bottom 3 Renick takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There's a wild pitch. Killebrew moves to second.
Bottom 3 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit. Tovar goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Thompson hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Oates settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Tovar hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Paul Blair now playing center field. Perry strikes out.
Top 3 Paul Blair pinch hits for Merv Rettenmund. Blair strikes out.
Top 3 Oates hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops it up and throws to first, with Perry covering, for the out.
Top 3 Buford hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Mitterwald settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Mitterwald hits a line drive towards short. Belanger reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Monzon strikes out. Oates drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Monzon out.
Bottom 2 Soderholm hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Buford. Soderholm reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Darwin hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cuellar hits a fly ball into center field. Darwin settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Belanger hits a fly ball into center field. Darwin settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Johnson hits a fly ball into left field. Renick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Renick strikes out.
Bottom 1 Killebrew takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Thompson hits a popup, foul, towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Tovar hits a popup towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Crowley hits a fly ball into center field. Darwin settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Oates scores. Powell moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 1 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Monzon fields it and throws to second for the out. Oates moves to third.
Top 1 Rettenmund takes first base on ball four. Oates moves to second.
Top 1 Oates hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Monzon fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Buford hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Monzon misplays the ball. That's an error on Monzon.