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April 16, 1978

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Bottom 7 R H E
Rangers 5 8 1
Red Sox 8 11 1
Bottom 7 R H E
Rangers 5 8 1
Red Sox 8 11 1

Butch Hobson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .355
OBP .667 .375
At Bats 3 31
Hits 2 11
• Singles 2 8
• Doubles 0 1
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 1
RBI’s 1 6

Steve Comer Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 0 0
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Fenway Park - April 16, 1978
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Steve Comer
Jim Sundberg
Mike Hargrove
Bump Wills
Toby Harrah
Bert Campaneris
Al Oliver
Bobby Thompson
Richie Zisk
Butch Hobson
Dwight Evans
Bernie Carbo
George Scott
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Steve Comer now pitching. Hobson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Harrah fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 7 Evans takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 There's a wild pitch. Fisk scores. Scott moves to third. Carbo moves to second.
Bottom 7 Carbo takes first base on ball four. Scott moves to second.
Bottom 7 Scott hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Fisk moves to third.
Bottom 7 Fisk is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 7 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hargrove scoops it up and throws to first, with Barker covering, for the out.
Top 7 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards second base. Remy fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Top 7 Lowenstein takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Hargrove hits a line drive towards short. Burleson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Campaneris hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Harrah fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Evans scores.
Bottom 6 Len Barker now pitching. Hobson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Carbo scores. Evans moves to third.
Bottom 6 Evans hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Carbo moves to second.
Bottom 6 Carbo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Sundberg hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Thompson bunts towards the mound. Stanley fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 6 Bob Stanley now pitching. Harrah hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hobson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Scott strikes out.
Bottom 5 Fisk hits a fly ball into center field. Thompson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Burleson tags and scores.
Bottom 5 Jim Umbarger now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hargrove fields the ball and throws to Umbarger covering. Safe. Burleson moves to third. Rice moves to second.
Bottom 5 Rice takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 There's a wild pitch. Burleson moves to second.
Bottom 5 Burleson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Wills hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Rice throws the ball in to Remy who tags Wills, trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Zisk scores.
Top 5 Zisk hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Yastrzemski. Zisk reaches second base with a double. Lowenstein scores. There goes Oliver trying to get to third. Yastrzemski throws the ball in to Burleson, who relays the ball to Hobson who tags Oliver for the out.
Top 5 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson fields it and throws to third for the out. Lowenstein moves to second.
Top 5 Lowenstein hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hargrove moves to second.
Top 5 Hargrove takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Hobson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Evans is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Carbo hits a fly ball into left field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Campaneris hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Sundberg hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Harrah tags and scores.
Top 4 Thompson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Scott scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Thompson for the out.
Top 4 Harrah hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rice who is chasing the ball. Harrah reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 3 Scott hits a fly ball towards right. Zisk catches it, throws to Wills, who relays to home to get Yastrzemski at the plate. Double play. Rice tags and scores.
Bottom 3 Fisk hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Rice moves to third. Yastrzemski moves to second.
Bottom 3 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rice moves to second.
Bottom 3 Rice hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Remy scores.
Bottom 3 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Hobson scores.
Bottom 3 Remy hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Oliver. Remy reaches second base with a double. Evans scores. Hobson moves to third.
Bottom 3 Hobson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Evans moves to second.
Bottom 3 Evans takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Wills hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Lowenstein scores. Oliver moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Oliver hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Lowenstein moves to third. Oliver moves to second.
Top 3 Lowenstein hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy misplays the ball. That's an error on Remy.
Top 3 Hargrove hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Carbo hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hargrove fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first, with Medich covering. It's a double play.
Bottom 2 Scott takes first base on ball four. Fisk moves to second.
Bottom 2 Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards second base. Wills fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Bottom 2 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Campaneris hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Sundberg hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Thompson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Rice is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Medich fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris misplays the ball. That's an error on Campaneris.
Top 1 Harrah hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Wills hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hargrove scores. Zisk moves to third.
Top 1 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Hargrove moves to third.
Top 1 Lowenstein takes first base on ball four. Hargrove moves to second.
Top 1 Hargrove hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.