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August 9, 1970

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Orioles 12 15 3
Yankees 9 13 2
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Orioles 12 15 3
Yankees 9 13 2

Bobby Murcer Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .248
OBP .500 .354
At Bats 4 419
Hits 1 104
• Singles 1 69
• Doubles 0 15
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 18
Walks 2 68
RBI’s 0 57

Dave Leonhard Season Stats

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Yankee Stadium - August 9, 1970
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Out
Dave Leonhard
Elrod Hendricks
Boog Powell
Davey Johnson
Brooks Robinson
Mark Belanger
Don Buford
Paul Blair
Merv Rettenmund
Bobby Murcer
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Murcer hits a fly ball into right field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 11 Dave Leonhard now pitching. Merv Rettenmund now playing right field. Clarke hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Johnson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Hendricks hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke fields it and throws to second for the out. Robinson moves to third.
Top 11 Merv Rettenmund pinch hits for Terry Crowley. Rettenmund hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Blair scores. Robinson moves to second.
Top 11 Robinson bunts towards first. Cater picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Cater. Buford scores. Blair moves to second.
Top 11 Mike Kekich now pitching. Powell strikes out.
Top 11 Blair bunts towards the mound. Klimkowski fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Buford moves to third.
Top 11 Buford hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Robinson scores. Buford moves to second.
Top 11 Ron Klimkowski now pitching. Frank Robinson pinch hits for Eddie Watt. Robinson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Woods. Robinson reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 10 Jake Gibbs pinch hits for Jack Aker. Gibbs hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 10 Kenney is walked intentionally.
Bottom 10 Baker hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Blair who is chasing the ball. Baker reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 10 Woods strikes out.
Top 10 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Baker fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 10 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Baker fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 10 Hendricks takes first base on ball four.
Top 10 Crowley hits a fly ball into right field. Woods settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Ellis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 9 Cater is walked intentionally.
Bottom 9 There goes White. The throw from Hendricks and he is safe. White steals second.
Bottom 9 White takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Murcer hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards first. Powell scoops it up and throws to first, with Watt covering, for the out.
Top 9 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Powell hits a line drive towards first. Cater reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Jack Aker now pitching. Blair hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Jim Lyttle pinch hits for Lindy McDaniel. Lyttle hits a fly ball into right field. Crowley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Kenney hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Woods scores. Kenney moves to second.
Bottom 8 Baker hits a ball on the ground towards first. Powell scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Baker for the out. Woods moves to second.
Bottom 8 Woods takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Mark Belanger now playing shortstop. Ellis hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Ellis is thrown out after the base hit.
Top 8 Buford is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Watt strikes out.
Top 8 Salmon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Cater hits a ball on the ground towards first. Powell scoops it up and throws to first, with Watt covering, for the out.
Bottom 7 Eddie Watt now pitching. White hits a line drive towards first. Powell catches it and steps on first to double up Murcer.
Bottom 7 Murcer takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 There's a wild pitch. Clarke moves to third.
Bottom 7 Clarke hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Buford. Clarke reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Hendricks strikes out.
Top 7 Lindy McDaniel now pitching. Crowley hits a popup towards first. Cater settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Thurman Munson pinch hits for Gary Waslewski. Munson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Kenney is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 There's a wild pitch. Woods moves to third. Baker moves to second.
Bottom 6 Pete Richert now pitching. Baker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Woods moves to second.
Bottom 6 Woods hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Jim Hardin now pitching. Ellis hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 6 Cater hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Murcer moves to second.
Bottom 6 White hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Murcer hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Gary Waslewski now pitching. Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Powell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Blair scores. That run is unearned.
Top 6 Blair hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney juggles the ball. That's an error on Kenney. Buford scores. Blair moves to second.
Top 6 Buford hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White. Buford reaches second base with a double. Salmon scores.
Top 6 Drabowsky bunts towards first. Cater scoops it up and throws to first, with Clarke covering, for the out. Salmon moves to second.
Top 6 Frank Baker now playing shortstop. Steve Hamilton now pitching. Salmon hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Clarke hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Curt Blefary pinch hits for Mike McCormick. Blefary hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Woods scores. Baker scores. Kenney moves to third.
Bottom 5 Frank Baker pinch runs for Pete Ward. Kenney takes first base on ball four. Cater scores. Woods moves to third. Baker moves to second.
Bottom 5 Pete Ward pinch hits for Gene Michael. Moe Drabowsky now pitching. Ward takes first base on ball four. Murcer scores. Cater moves to third. Woods moves to second.
Bottom 5 Woods takes first base on ball four. Clarke scores. Murcer moves to third. Cater moves to second.
Bottom 5 Ellis strikes out.
Bottom 5 Cater hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Clarke moves to third. Murcer moves to second.
Bottom 5 White hits a popup, foul, towards short. Salmon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Murcer takes first base on ball four. Clarke moves to second.
Bottom 5 Clarke takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Mike McCormick now pitching. Hendricks hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 5 Crowley hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 5 Robinson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Powell takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Blair hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Buford hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Woods. Buford reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Kline hits a ball on the ground towards short. Salmon fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Kenney strikes out.
Bottom 4 Michael takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Woods hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Lopez strikes out.
Top 4 Salmon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Woods settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Ellis strikes out.
Bottom 3 Cater hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson misplays the ball. That's an error on Johnson.
Bottom 3 White hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Murcer hits a line drive into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Hendricks hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cater scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Hendricks for the out.
Top 3 Crowley hits a popup, foul, towards third. Kenney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards short. Salmon scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Kline strikes out.
Bottom 2 Lopez fires over to first and throws the ball away. That's an error on Lopez. Kenney moves to second.
Bottom 2 Kenney hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out. Woods moves to third.
Bottom 2 Michael hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Woods moves to second.
Bottom 2 Woods takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Powell strikes out.
Top 2 Blair hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Buford moves to second.
Top 2 Buford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Lopez strikes out.
Top 2 Salmon hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 2 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Hendricks hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Ellis strikes out.
Bottom 1 Cater hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Murcer moves to third.
Bottom 1 White strikes out.
Bottom 1 Murcer bunts towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 1 Clarke takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Clarke hits a popup, foul, in back of the plate. Hendricks settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Hendricks.
Top 1 Crowley is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Powell moves to second.
Top 1 Powell takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Blair is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Buford hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.