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August 12, 1961

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Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 17 17 0
Twins 3 5 1
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Tigers 17 17 0
Twins 3 6 1

Earl Battey Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .294
OBP .000 .368
At Bats 3 323
Hits 0 95
• Singles 0 66
• Doubles 0 16
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 12
Walks 0 35
RBI’s 0 38

Jim Bunning Season Stats

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13 8 1
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Metropolitan Stadium - August 12, 1961
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Single
Jim Bunning
Mike Roarke
Norm Cash
Jake Wood
Dick McAuliffe
Chico Fernandez
Rocky Colavito
Bill Bruton
Bubba Morton
Earl Battey
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Bubba Morton now playing right field. Battey hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Bunning strikes out.
Top 9 Roarke hits a popup, foul, towards first. Altobelli settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Fernandez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Colavito scores. Cash scores. McAuliffe moves to third.
Top 9 McAuliffe takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Cash hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Green. Cash reaches second base with a double. Bruton scores. Morton scores. Colavito moves to third.
Top 9 Bubba Morton pinch runs for Al Kaline. Colavito is walked intentionally.
Top 9 Kaline hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Becquer. Kaline reaches second base with a double. Bruton moves to third.
Top 9 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Altobelli fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 9 Wood takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Becquer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Allison hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Green moves to second.
Bottom 8 Altobelli strikes out.
Bottom 8 Martin hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Green takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Bunning hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Roarke hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tuttle juggles the ball. That's an error on Tuttle. Cash scores. Fernandez moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 8 Fernandez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kaline scores. Cash moves to second.
Top 8 McAuliffe strikes out.
Top 8 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tuttle fields it and throws to second for the out. Kaline moves to third.
Top 8 Bill Pleis now pitching. Colavito hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Wood scores. Bruton scores. Kaline moves to second.
Top 8 Kaline takes first base on ball four. Bunning scores. Wood moves to third. Bruton moves to second.
Top 8 Bruton takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 There's a wild pitch. Bunning moves to third. Wood moves to second.
Top 8 Wood hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Bunning moves to second.
Top 8 Chuck Stobbs now pitching. Bunning hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Hal Naragon pinch hits for Danny McDevitt. Naragon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cash scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Naragon for the out.
Bottom 7 Versalles hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Roarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Tuttle hits a ball on the ground towards third. McAuliffe fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Roarke hits a fly ball into left field. Becquer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Fernandez hits a popup, foul, towards first. Altobelli settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 McAuliffe bunts towards the mound. McDevitt fields it and throws to first for the out. Cash moves to second.
Top 7 Cash takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Battey hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Becquer hits a popup, foul, towards short. Fernandez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Allison hits a ball on the ground towards third. McAuliffe fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Colavito hits a fly ball into right field. Allison settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Kaline hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Bruton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Wood hits a fly ball into right field. Allison settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Altobelli hits a popup towards third. McAuliffe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Martin hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Green scores.
Bottom 5 Green hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Kaline who is chasing the ball. Green reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 5 McDevitt strikes out.
Bottom 5 Versalles hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Bunning hits a ball on the ground towards short. Versalles scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Roarke takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Fernandez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tuttle fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 McAuliffe hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Martin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Tuttle hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Battey strikes out.
Bottom 4 Becquer hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bunning fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards first. Altobelli scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Cash for the out.
Top 4 Colavito hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Bruton scores. Kaline moves to second.
Top 4 Danny McDevitt now pitching. Kaline takes first base on ball four. Bruton moves to second.
Top 4 Bruton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Bunning scores.
Top 4 Wood strikes out.
Top 4 Bunning hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Allison. Bunning reaches second base with a double. McAuliffe scores. Fernandez scores.
Top 4 Roarke hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lee fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Fernandez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Colavito scores. Cash scores. McAuliffe moves to third. Fernandez moves to second.
Top 4 McAuliffe hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Colavito moves to third. Cash moves to second.
Top 4 Cash takes first base on ball four. Colavito moves to second.
Top 4 Colavito hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Allison hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Altobelli hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Martin hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Green hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Wood settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Kaline is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Martin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Wood hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tuttle fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Lee strikes out.
Bottom 2 Versalles hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Colavito. Versalles reaches second base with a double. Becquer scores. Tuttle goes all the way around to score. Versalles moves to third.
Bottom 2 Tuttle takes first base on ball four. Becquer moves to second.
Bottom 2 Battey strikes out.
Bottom 2 Becquer hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bunning fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Allison takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Bunning strikes out.
Top 2 Roarke takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Fernandez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Becquer throws the ball in to Martin who tags Fernandez, trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Top 2 McAuliffe hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cash hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 2 Colavito hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Becquer. Colavito reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Altobelli hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Martin hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Green hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cash scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Green for the out.
Top 1 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards short. Versalles scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Bruton bunts towards the mound. Lee settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Wood hits a ball on the ground towards short. Versalles scoops it up and throws to first for the out.