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August 17, 1975

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Bottom 11 R H E
Red Sox 4 13 0
White Sox 3 6 2
Bottom 11 R H E
Red Sox 4 13 0
White Sox 3 6 2

Bill Melton Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .226
OBP .500 .349
At Bats 3 380
Hits 1 86
• Singles 1 64
• Doubles 0 12
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 10
Walks 1 66
RBI’s 1 52

Jim Willoughby Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 1 8
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Comiskey Park - August 17, 1975
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Out
Jim Willoughby
Tim Blackwell
Carl Yastrzemski
Doug Griffin
Denny Doyle
Rick Burleson
Jim Rice
Fred Lynn
Dwight Evans
Bill Melton

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Boston Red Sox 4 13 0 9
Chicago White Sox 3 6 2 6
Winning Pitcher Jim Willoughby
Losing Pitcher Rich Gossage
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Denny Doyle
Attendance 21,995
Time of Game 2 hours 34 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Melton hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 11 Henderson hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 11 Johnson hits a line drive towards short. Burleson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Blackwell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Doyle hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Burleson scores. Lynn moves to third. Doyle moves to second.
Top 11 Lynn takes first base on ball four. Burleson moves to second.
Top 11 Burleson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 11 Cooper hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Evans hits a fly ball into left field. Hairston settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 May 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 10 Orta strikes out.
Bottom 10 Kelly hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 10 Downing hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Rice strikes out.
Top 10 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Gossage, and towards Dent, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Griffin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Dent hits a ball on the ground towards third. Doyle fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Hairston takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Melton hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Tim Blackwell now catching. Fred Lynn now playing center field. Denny Doyle now playing third base. Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Yastrzemski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Henderson for the out.
Top 9 Miller strikes out.
Top 9 Denny Doyle pinch hits for Bob Heise. Doyle strikes out.
Top 9 Fred Lynn pinch hits for Bob Montgomery. Lynn strikes out.
Bottom 8 Jim Willoughby now pitching. Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. Miller settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Bill Lee now pitching. May hits a fly ball into center field. Miller settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Orta takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Rick Miller now playing center field. Kelly 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 8 Rich Gossage now pitching. Burleson hits a popup towards short. Dent settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Cooper hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Evans moves to second.
Top 8 Evans hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Rice hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into center field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Downing hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Dent strikes out.
Bottom 7 Hairston hits a ball on the ground towards first. Yastrzemski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Hairston for the out.
Top 7 Griffin hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Orta reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Beniquez hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Heise strikes out.
Bottom 6 Melton hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Yastrzemski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Henderson for the out.
Bottom 6 Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. Beniquez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Montgomery hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Burleson hits a fly ball into center field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Cooper hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Evans hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 5 May strikes out.
Bottom 5 Orta is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Kelly hits a fly ball into center field. Beniquez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Downing hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. May fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first - double play. Beniquez moves to third.
Top 5 Griffin hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Beniquez moves to second.
Top 5 Beniquez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Dent hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Hairston hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Melton scores.
Bottom 4 Melton hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Johnson scores. There goes Henderson trying to get to third. Rice throws the ball in to Heise, who tags Henderson for the out. Melton moves to second.
Bottom 4 Henderson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Orta scores. Johnson moves to second.
Bottom 4 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 There goes Orta. The throw from Montgomery and he is safe. Orta steals second.
Bottom 4 May hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Orta hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Heise hits a popup into center field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Montgomery hits a popup into left field. Hairston settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Burleson hits a popup towards first. May settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Kelly 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 3 Downing hits a popup, foul, towards third. Heise settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Dent hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Cooper strikes out.
Top 3 Evans is hit by the pitch. Griffin moves to second.
Top 3 Rice hits a line drive into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Griffin bunts towards first. May picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on May. Beniquez scores.
Top 3 Beniquez hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Henderson. Beniquez reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Hairston hits a fly ball towards right. Evans catches it and throws to first to double up Melton.
Bottom 2 Melton takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Heise strikes out.
Top 2 Montgomery hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Henderson. Montgomery reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 There goes Burleson. The throw from Downing and he is out, Orta applying the tag.
Top 2 Burleson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Cooper scores.
Top 2 There goes Cooper. The throw from Downing and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 2 Cooper hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Evans hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Johnson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 May takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Orta hits a line drive towards first. Yastrzemski catches it and steps on first to double up Kelly.
Bottom 1 Kelly takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Rice hits a fly ball into center field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. There goes Beniquez trying to get to third. May throws to Melton who tags Beniquez for the out.
Top 1 Griffin bunts between the mound and first base. Kaat scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Griffin for the out. Beniquez moves to second.
Top 1 Beniquez hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.