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August 4, 1971

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Bottom 10 R H E
Red Sox 4 11 0
Orioles 4 11 1
Bottom 10 R H E
Red Sox 4 11 0
Orioles 5 12 1

Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .600 .308
OBP .600 .425
At Bats 5 302
Hits 3 93
• Singles 1 70
• Doubles 1 12
• Triples 1 3
• Home Runs 0 8
Walks 0 58
RBI’s 1 45

Ken Tatum Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 2 8
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Memorial Stadium - August 4, 1971
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Ken Tatum
Bob Montgomery
George Scott
Doug Griffin
Rico Petrocelli
Luis Aparicio
Carl Yastrzemski
Billy Conigliaro
Joe Lahoud
Merv Rettenmund
Don Buford
Mark Belanger

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Boston Red Sox 4 11 0 11
Baltimore Orioles 5 12 1 14
Winning Pitcher Pete Richert
Losing Pitcher Ken Tatum
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Merv Rettenmund
Attendance 26,849
Time of Game 3 hours 12 minutes
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Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

End of Game

Rettenmund hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Belanger scores. Buford moves to third.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 10 There goes Buford. The throw from Montgomery and he is safe. Buford steals second.
Bottom 10 Buford is walked intentionally.
Bottom 10 There goes Belanger. The throw from Montgomery and he is safe. Belanger steals third.
Bottom 10 Richert bunts towards the mound. Tatum fields it and throws to first for the out. Belanger moves to second.
Bottom 10 Belanger is hit by the pitch.
Top 10 Tatum strikes out.
Top 10 Montgomery hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Jerry DaVanon now playing first base. Lahoud hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Hendricks hits a popup towards short. Aparicio settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Ken Tatum now pitching. Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. DaVanon scores. Robinson moves to second.
Bottom 9 Jerry DaVanon pinch runs for Boog Powell. Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. DaVanon moves to third.
Bottom 9 Sparky Lyle now pitching. Powell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Rettenmund scores.
Bottom 9 Robinson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 9 Rettenmund hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lahoud who is chasing the ball. Rettenmund reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 9 Buford hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Griffin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Scott hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Petrocelli strikes out.
Top 9 Pete Richert now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Powell scoops it up and throws to first, with Richert covering, for the out.
Bottom 8 Curt Motton pinch hits for Dave Leonhard. Motton hits a fly ball into right field. Lahoud settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Aparicio scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Hendricks hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Yastrzemski. Hendricks reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 8 Billy Conigliaro now playing center field. Johnson is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Smith hits a popup, foul, towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Aparicio hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Bolin moves to second.
Top 8 Griffin hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Bolin hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 8 Dave Leonhard now pitching. Montgomery hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Robinson hits a fly ball into center field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Powell takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Robinson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lahoud. Robinson reaches second base with a double. Rettenmund scores.
Bottom 7 Rettenmund hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Smith. Rettenmund reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 7 Buford hits a ball on the ground towards first. Scott scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Buford for the out.
Bottom 7 Clay Dalrymple pinch hits for Grant Jackson. Dalrymple hits a popup, foul, towards first. Scott settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Grant Jackson now pitching. Lahoud strikes out.
Top 7 Scott hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit. Yastrzemski scores. Petrocelli moves to second.
Top 7 Petrocelli hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Yastrzemski moves to third.
Top 7 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Smith strikes out.
Top 7 Aparicio hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Belanger hits a fly ball into center field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hendricks hits a fly ball into right field. Lahoud settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bobby Bolin now pitching. Montgomery fires to second and picks off Robinson for the out.
Bottom 6 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Robinson moves to second.
Bottom 6 Robinson is hit by the pitch.
Top 6 Griffin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Lonborg hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to second for the out. Lahoud moves to third.
Top 6 Montgomery hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lahoud moves to second.
Top 6 Dave Boswell now pitching. Lahoud takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Griffin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Scott scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Robinson for the out. Buford moves to third. Rettenmund moves to second.
Bottom 5 Rettenmund hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Belanger scores. Buford moves to second.
Bottom 5 Buford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Belanger moves to third.
Bottom 5 Tom Shopay pinch hits for Jim Palmer. Shopay strikes out.
Bottom 5 Belanger takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Scott hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Petrocelli hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 There goes Yastrzemski. The throw from Hendricks and he is safe. Yastrzemski steals second.
Top 5 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the mound, deflecting off of Palmer's glove, towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Smith takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Hendricks hits a fly ball into center field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Robinson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Griffin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Aparicio hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Griffin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Lonborg hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Montgomery scores.
Top 4 Montgomery hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Rettenmund who is chasing the ball. Montgomery reaches third base with a triple. Lahoud goes all the way around to score.
Top 4 Lahoud hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Scott hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Aparicio fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lonborg fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Buford hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Palmer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Petrocelli strikes out.
Top 3 Yastrzemski takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Smith hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 There's a wild pitch. Aparicio moves to second.
Top 3 Aparicio hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson misplays the ball. That's an error on Johnson.
Top 3 Griffin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Belanger strikes out.
Bottom 2 Hendricks hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Griffin reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Petrocelli fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Lonborg hits a popup towards short. Belanger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Montgomery strikes out.
Top 2 Lahoud hits a ball on the ground towards first. Powell scoops it up and throws to first, with Palmer covering, for the out.
Bottom 1 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lonborg fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Robinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into center field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Buford hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Scott strikes out.
Top 1 Petrocelli takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Rettenmund. Yastrzemski reaches second base with a double. Griffin goes all the way around to score.
Top 1 Smith strikes out.
Top 1 Aparicio is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Griffin hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.