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Joe Pignatano Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .266
OBP .500 .364
At Bats 2 192
Hits 1 51
• Singles 1 36
• Doubles 0 9
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 29
RBI’s 0 19

Chet Nichols Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 1 3
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Fenway Park - August 6, 1961
Chet Nichols
Russ Nixon
Vic Wertz
Chuck Schilling
Frank Malzone
Don Buddin
Carl Yastrzemski
Gary Geiger
Carroll Hardy
Joe Pignatano
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Pignatano takes first base on ball four.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 6 Deron Johnson pinch hits for Gene Stephens. Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Lumpe hits a fly ball into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Nichols hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Buddin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser fields it and throws to second for the out. Nixon moves to third.
Bottom 5 Hardy hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Nixon moves to second.
Bottom 5 Nixon bunts towards third. Causey fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Leo Posada now playing left field. Malzone hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Siebern hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Causey hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Posada moves to second.
Top 5 Leo Posada pinch hits for Jay Hankins. Posada hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Del Greco scores.
Top 5 Howser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Del Greco moves to third.
Top 5 Nuxhall bunts towards the mound. Nichols fields it and throws to first for the out. Del Greco moves to second.
Top 5 Del Greco takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Wertz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops it up and throws to first, with Nuxhall covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Geiger strikes out.
Top 4 Pignatano hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Stephens hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Nixon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Lumpe hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Schilling hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Nichols takes first base on ball four. Nixon moves to third. Hardy moves to second.
Bottom 3 Buddin hits a fly ball into right field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Hardy takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There's a wild pitch. Nixon moves to second.
Bottom 3 Nixon hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Malzone hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Siebern hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Siebern for the out.
Top 3 Causey hits a fly ball into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Hankins hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Nichols fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Wertz strikes out.
Bottom 2 Joe Nuxhall now pitching. Nuxhall fires over to first and throws the ball away. That's an error on Nuxhall. Geiger moves to third. Yastrzemski moves to second.
Bottom 2 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Geiger moves to second.
Bottom 2 Geiger hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Nichols scores.
Bottom 2 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Causey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 There's a wild pitch. Nichols moves to second.
Bottom 2 Nichols hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Buddin bunts towards first. Siebern scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Buddin for the out.
Top 2 Howser hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 2 Rakow hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin misplays the ball. That's an error on Buddin. Pignatano moves to second.
Top 2 Del Greco hits a fly ball into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Pignatano hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Hardy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Nixon hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Stephens. Nixon reaches second base with a double. Yastrzemski scores. Malzone moves to third.
Bottom 1 Malzone takes first base on ball four. Yastrzemski moves to third.
Bottom 1 Wertz hits a fly ball into right field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hankins. Yastrzemski reaches second base with a double. Geiger scores.
Bottom 1 Geiger hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Del Greco. Geiger reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Stephens hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Nichols fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Chet Nichols now pitching. Lumpe hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin fields it and throws to second for the out. Hankins moves to third.
Top 1 Siebern takes first base on ball four. Hankins moves to second.
Top 1 Causey hits a fly ball into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Howser tags and scores.
Top 1 Hankins hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Howser moves to third.
Top 1 Howser hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.