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April 16, 1959

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Ernie Banks Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .389
OBP .800 .476
At Bats 2 18
Hits 1 7
• Singles 1 4
• Doubles 0 0
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 3 3
RBI’s 1 8

Billy Muffett Season Stats

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Seals Stadium - April 16, 1959
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Single
Billy Muffett
Hobie Landrith
Orlando Cepeda
Daryl Spencer
Jim Davenport
Andre Rodgers
Jackie Brandt
Willie Mays
Felipe Alou
Ernie Banks
George Altman
Al Dark
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Banks hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Dark scores. Altman moves to second. That run is unearned.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Altman hits a line drive beyond first. Cepeda can't hold onto the ball. That's a base hit. Dark moves to second.
Top 9 Dark hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Taylor scores. That run is unearned.
Top 9 Taylor hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Taylor scores. Taylor moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 9 Billy Muffett now pitching. Elston hits a line drive towards short. Rodgers reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Taylor hits a line drive to right field. Alou throws towards the infield. Barclay fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Barclay. Long scores. Walls goes all the way around to score. Taylor moves to second. Two runs are unearned.
Top 9 Walls takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Long hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer misplays the ball. That's an error on Spencer. Banks scores. Moryn scores. Long moves to second.
Top 9 Moryn hits a line drive off the glove of Cepeda, and into shallow right field. Moryn reaches second base with a double. Banks moves to third.
Top 9 Banks takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Hobie Landrith now catching. Curt Barclay now pitching. Altman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Mays hits a fly ball into center field. Altman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Brandt hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Don Elston now pitching. Davenport hits a ball on the ground towards third. Dark fields it and races to the third base bag for the out. Wagner moves to second.
Bottom 8 Leon Wagner pinch hits for Stu Miller. Wagner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Kirkland moves to second.
Bottom 8 Willie Kirkland pinch hits for Bob Schmidt. Kirkland takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards short. Rodgers fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 8 Taylor hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Hobbie hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Walls moves to second.
Top 8 Taylor strikes out.
Top 8 Walls hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Rodgers hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Spencer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Alou moves to second.
Bottom 7 Alou takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Cepeda hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Mays hits a fly ball into center field. Altman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Long hits a fly ball into left field. Brandt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Moryn strikes out.
Top 7 Banks takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Stu Miller now pitching. Altman strikes out.
Bottom 6 Brandt hits a ball on the ground towards third. Dark fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Davenport hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bob Speake pinch hits for Sam Jones. Speake hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Speake for the out.
Top 6 There goes Taylor. The throw from Schmidt and he is out, Rodgers applying the tag.
Top 6 Dark hits a fly ball into left field. Brandt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Taylor takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Hobbie hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Schmidt hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Rodgers hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hobbie fields it and throws to first for the out. Spencer moves to second.
Bottom 5 Spencer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. There goes Alou trying to get to home. Altman throws the ball in to Banks who relays the ball to Taylor, who tags Alou, who came all the way from first, for the out.
Bottom 5 Alou hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Walls hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Long hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 5 Moryn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Banks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Altman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Cepeda strikes out.
Bottom 4 Mays hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Brandt hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Dark hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Taylor strikes out.
Top 4 Hobbie strikes out.
Top 4 Taylor hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Davenport hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Jones strikes out.
Bottom 3 Schmidt strikes out.
Top 3 Walls hits a fly ball into left field. Brandt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Long hits a fly ball into left field. Brandt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Moryn takes first base on ball four. Banks moves to second.
Top 3 Banks hits a ball on the ground towards third. Davenport fields it and throws to second for the out. Dark scores. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Altman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer misplays the ball. That's an error on Spencer. Taylor scores. Dark moves to third.
Top 3 Dark hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Taylor moves to second.
Top 3 Taylor hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Rodgers hits a ball on the ground towards third. Dark fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Spencer hits a fly ball into center field. Altman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Alou hits a fly ball into center field. Altman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Hobbie strikes out.
Top 2 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cepeda races to the bag and beats Taylor for the out. There's the throw to second, and Rodgers drops the ball. Long moves to third.
Top 2 Walls hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Long hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Cepeda hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Mays is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Brandt hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 1 Davenport hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Moryn hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Banks takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Altman hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Spencer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Dark hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Mays. Dark reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Taylor hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.