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Ernie Banks Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .252
OBP .333 .296
At Bats 3 385
Hits 1 97
• Singles 0 56
• Doubles 0 20
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 1 21
Walks 0 23
RBI’s 1 61

Gary Nolan Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
4 2 0
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Crosley Field - August 11, 1968
Gary Nolan
Johnny Bench
Chico Ruiz
Tommy Helms
Tony Perez
Leo Cardenas
Mack Jones
Pete Rose
Lee May
Ernie Banks
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 1 Out

Chico Ruiz now playing first base. Banks strikes out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Cardenas hits a line drive towards third. Santo reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Woody Woodward pinch runs for Fred Whitfield. Bench hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 8 Fred Whitfield pinch hits for Don Pavletich. Whitfield hits a ball on the ground towards first. Banks fields the ball and can't make a play. That's a base hit. There goes May trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Bottom 8 Perez strikes out.
Bottom 8 May hits a ball on the ground towards third. Santo juggles the ball. That's an error on Santo.
Top 8 Santo strikes out.
Top 8 Williams hits a popup towards third. Perez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Johnny Bench now catching. Mack Jones now playing left field. Gary Nolan now pitching. Beckert strikes out.
Bottom 7 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Phil Regan now pitching. Helms hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Regan fields it and throws to home to get Beauchamp. Rose moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 7 Rose hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Williams. Rose reaches second base with a double. Beauchamp moves to third.
Bottom 7 Jim Beauchamp pinch hits for Ted Abernathy. Beauchamp hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cardenas scores.
Bottom 7 Cardenas hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Spangler who is chasing the ball. Cardenas reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 7 Johnny Bench pinch hits for Pat Corrales. Bench hits a popup, foul, towards third. Santo settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Abernathy fires to first and picks off Kessinger.
Top 7 Kessinger bunts towards third. Perez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 7 Holtzman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Phillips hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Pavletich strikes out.
Bottom 6 Perez hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Hundley settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 May strikes out.
Top 6 Ted Abernathy now pitching. Hundley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 6 Spangler takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Banks hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Santo hits a popup, foul, towards first. Pavletich settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Williams hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 6 Beckert hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 5 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Spangler settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Helms hits a popup, foul, towards first. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Rose takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Maloney bunts towards first. Banks scoops it up and throws to first, with Beckert covering, for the out. Cardenas moves to second.
Bottom 5 Cardenas hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Kessinger hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Hundley scores. Phillips scores. There goes Holtzman trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out. Two runs are unearned.
Top 5 Holtzman hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Hundley moves to third. Phillips moves to second.
Top 5 Phillips hits a ball on the ground towards third. Perez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Hundley moves to second.
Top 5 Hundley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Spangler hits a line drive into right field. May settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Banks hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas misplays the ball. That's an error on Cardenas.
Bottom 4 Corrales hits a fly ball into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Pavletich hits a line drive into left field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Perez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 May hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Santo hits a ball on the ground towards second. Helms scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 4 Williams hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Corrales settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Beckert hits a ball on the ground towards third. Perez juggles the ball. That's an error on Perez.
Bottom 3 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Helms hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Rose hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Maloney hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Beckert scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Kessinger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 3 Holtzman bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Top 3 Phillips takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Cardenas hits a ball on the ground towards third. Santo fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Corrales strikes out.
Bottom 2 Pavletich hits a popup, foul, towards first. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Perez hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Hundley is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Spangler hits a fly ball into center field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Banks hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 May hits a ball on the ground towards second. Beckert scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Bottom 1 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Helms moves to second.
Bottom 1 Helms hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Rose hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Santo hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Helms scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Williams hits a fly ball into center field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Beckert hits a ball on the ground towards first. Pavletich scoops it up and throws to first, with Maloney covering, for the out. Kessinger moves to second.
Top 1 Kessinger hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.