Yankees @ Orioles
April 19, 1970

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Bottom 9 R H E
Yankees 8 17 0
Orioles 5 12 2
Bottom 9 R H E
Yankees 8 17 0
Orioles 5 12 2

Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .300
OBP .500 .364
At Bats 4 10
Hits 2 3
• Singles 2 3
• Doubles 0 0
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 1
RBI’s 0 0

Jack Aker Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 1 1
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Memorial Stadium - April 19, 1970
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Strikeout
Jack Aker
Jake Gibbs
Danny Cater
Horace Clarke
Jerry Kenney
Gene Michael
Roy White
Bobby Murcer
Jim Lyttle
Merv Rettenmund

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
New York Yankees 8 17 0 12
Baltimore Orioles 5 12 2 8
Winning Pitcher Joe Verbanic
Losing Pitcher Jim Hardin
Save Jack Aker
Game Winning RBI Pete Ward
Attendance 19,213
Time of Game 3 hours 3 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Rettenmund strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Crowley hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cater scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Crowley for the out.
Bottom 9 Salmon hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 9 Buford hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lyttle. Buford reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 9 Boog Powell pinch hits for Dick Hall. Powell 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 9 Jim Lyttle now playing right field. Etchebarren hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 9 Michael hits a ball on the ground towards short. Salmon fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 9 Clarke hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Kenney scores. Aker moves to second.
Top 9 Aker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cater scores. Kenney moves to third.
Top 9 Gibbs hits a fly ball into right field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Cater moves to third. Kenney moves to second.
Top 9 Kenney hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cater moves to second.
Top 9 Cater hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 9 Blefary hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hall fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Aker fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Robinson hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Blair hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 White strikes out.
Top 8 Murcer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Michael moves to third.
Top 8 Michael hits a ball on the ground towards first. Crowley fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 8 Clarke hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 8 Dick Hall now pitching. Aker is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Jack Aker now pitching. Crowley hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cater scoops it up and throws to first, with Aker covering, for the out.
Bottom 7 Salmon takes first base on ball four. Hendricks moves to second.
Bottom 7 Buford hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Elrod Hendricks pinch hits for Pete Richert. Hendricks hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Johnson moves to third.
Bottom 7 Etchebarren hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Danny Cater now playing first base. Johnson hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White. Johnson reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 Gibbs is called out on strikes.
Top 7 Kenney hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Murcer scores. White moves to third. Blefary moves to second.
Top 7 Pete Richert now pitching. Danny Cater pinch hits for Pete Ward. Cater strikes out.
Top 7 Blefary takes first base on ball four. Murcer moves to third. White moves to second.
Top 7 White takes first base on ball four. Murcer moves to second.
Top 7 Murcer hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Michael scores.
Top 7 There's a wild pitch. Michael moves to third.
Top 7 Michael hits a ball on the ground towards short. Salmon fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 7 Clarke hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Robinson hits a ball on the ground for an out with unknown description.
Bottom 6 There goes Blair. The throw from Gibbs and he is out, Michael applying the tag.
Bottom 6 Blair takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Verbanic hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Leonhard fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Gibbs hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Leonhard fields it and throws to first for the out. Kenney moves to second.
Top 6 Kenney hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Dave Leonhard now pitching. Ward strikes out.
Bottom 5 Crowley strikes out.
Bottom 5 Salmon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Buford hits a line drive towards first. Ward catches it and steps on first to double up May.
Bottom 5 Dave May pinch hits for Marcelino Lopez. May takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Blefary hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 White hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 5 Murcer hits a line drive towards short. Salmon reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Michael hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Etchebarren hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Verbanic fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Joe Verbanic now pitching. Blair hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Verbanic fields it and throws to first for the out. Rettenmund moves to second.
Bottom 4 Rettenmund hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Clarke hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Klimkowski bunts towards the mound. Lopez fields it and throws to first for the out. Kenney moves to second.
Top 4 Gibbs hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Ward tags and scores.
Top 4 Marcelino Lopez now pitching. Kenney takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Ward hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Buford who is chasing the ball. Ward reaches third base with a triple. White scores. Blefary scores.
Top 4 Blefary hits a line drive into right field. Rettenmund picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Rettenmund. White moves to third. Blefary moves to second.
Top 4 White hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Crowley hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Clarke catches it and throws to first to double up Salmon.
Bottom 3 Salmon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Buford moves to second.
Bottom 3 Buford takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Hardin hits a popup towards the mound. Klimkowski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Murcer hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Johnson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Michael hits a ball on the ground and there's an error on the play. Gibbs scores. Clarke moves to third. Michael moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Clarke hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Gibbs moves to second.
Top 3 Klimkowski strikes out.
Top 3 Gibbs hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Kenney hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Etchebarren hits a line drive towards third. Kenney catches it and throws to first to double up Johnson.
Bottom 2 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Robinson scores.
Bottom 2 Robinson hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White. Robinson reaches second base with a double. Rettenmund scores.
Bottom 2 Blair hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Gibbs scoops up the ball and tags Blair for the out. Rettenmund moves to second.
Bottom 2 Rettenmund bunts towards the mound. Klimkowski fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 2 Ward hits a ball on the ground towards first. Crowley scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Ward for the out.
Top 2 Blefary 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.
Top 2 White takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Crowley hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Klimkowski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Crowley for the out.
Bottom 1 Salmon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Buford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Murcer hits a line drive towards short. Salmon reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Michael strikes out.
Top 1 There goes Clarke. The throw from Etchebarren and he is out, Salmon applying the tag.
Top 1 Clarke hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.