Cardinals @ Reds
June 20, 1961

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Bottom 11 R H E
Cardinals 3 9 2
Reds 3 8 0
Bottom 11 R H E
Cardinals 3 9 2
Reds 4 8 0

Don Blasingame Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .251
OBP .000 .323
At Bats 5 199
Hits 0 50
• Singles 0 38
• Doubles 0 8
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 21
RBI’s 0 12

Bob Miller Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 0 3
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Crosley Field - June 20, 1961
Bob Miller
Tim McCarver
Bill White
Alex Grammas
Ken Boyer
Julio Gotay
Charlie James
Carl Warwick
Joe Cunningham
Don Blasingame
Jerry Zimmerman
Gordy Coleman
Frank Robinson

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
St. Louis Cardinals 3 9 2 7
Cincinnati Reds 4 8 0 10
Winning Pitcher Jim Brosnan
Losing Pitcher Bob Miller
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Don Blasingame
Attendance
Time of Game 3 hours 16 minutes
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Blasingame takes first base on ball four. Robinson scores. Coleman moves to third. Zimmerman moves to second.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 11 Zimmerman hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Miller fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Robinson moves to third. Coleman moves to second.
Bottom 11 Coleman is walked intentionally.
Bottom 11 Brosnan bunts towards the mound. Miller fields it and throws to first for the out. Robinson moves to second.
Bottom 11 Robinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 11 Joe Cunningham now playing right field. Charlie James now playing left field. Carl Warwick now playing center field. Freese hits a fly ball into center field. Warwick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 McCarver hits a popup towards third. Freese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 James hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 11 Joe Cunningham pinch hits for Curt Flood. Cunningham hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Gus Bell now playing left field. Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Gus Bell pinch hits for Elio Chacon. Bell hits a popup, foul, towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Grammas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Kasko hits a fly ball into center field. Flood settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 White hits a fly ball into left field. Chacon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Warwick hits a fly ball into left field. Chacon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Jim Brosnan now pitching. Gordy Coleman now playing first base. Jerry Zimmerman now catching. Gotay hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kasko scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Bob Miller now pitching. Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Grammas fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 9 Jerry Lynch pinch hits for Bill Henry. Lynch hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cardenas scores.
Bottom 9 Leo Cardenas pinch runs for Dick Gernert. Gordy Coleman pinch hits for Bob Schmidt. Coleman bunts towards the mound. Sadecki fields it and throws to first for the out. Cardenas moves to second.
Bottom 9 Curt Flood now playing center field. Carl Warwick now playing left field. Gernert hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Sadecki hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Grammas is walked intentionally.
Top 9 McCarver strikes out.
Top 9 There goes James. The throw from Schmidt and he is safe. James steals second.
Top 9 James takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Elio Chacon now playing left field. Musial hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. James settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Elio Chacon pinch runs for Wally Post. Freese hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Chacon moves to second.
Bottom 8 Post hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Gotay fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Kasko takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 White hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Robinson. White reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Warwick hits a fly ball into left field. Post settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Bill Henry now pitching. Gotay hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Blasingame hits a fly ball into center field. Warwick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pete Whisenant pinch hits for Jay Hook. Whisenant takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Schmidt hits a fly ball into center field. Warwick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Alex Grammas now playing second base. Gernert is called out on strikes.
Top 7 Sadecki hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Carl Sawatski pinch hits for Bob Lillis. Sawatski hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 7 McCarver hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 James hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Musial moves to third.
Top 7 Musial hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Robinson. Musial reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 Boyer strikes out.
Bottom 6 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. James settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Freese hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Post hits a popup, foul, towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 White hits a popup towards short. Kasko settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Warwick hits a line drive towards the mound. Hook reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Gotay hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lillis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Kaskohits a dribbler in front of the plate. McCarver interferes with Kasko who is awarded first base.
Bottom 5 Blasingame hits a fly ball into center field. Warwick settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Hook strikes out.
Top 5 Sadecki hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Lillis hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 McCarver hits a fly ball into left field. Post settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 James hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Schmidt hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lillis settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Gernert hits a fly ball into left field. Musial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Freese scores.
Bottom 4 Freese hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Musial. Freese reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Post is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Musial hits a line drive towards short. Kasko catches it and steps on second to double up White.
Top 4 Boyer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. White moves to second.
Top 4 White hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Warwick hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lillis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Kasko hits a fly ball into left field. Musial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lillis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Gotay hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Sadecki hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Lillis hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 McCarver strikes out. Schmidt drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws McCarver out.
Bottom 2 Hook hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lillis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Schmidt hits a fly ball into left field. Musial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Gernert hits a popup, foul, towards first. White settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Post scores. Freese moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 2 Freese hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Post moves to second.
Bottom 2 Post hits a ball on the ground towards short. Gotay fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Gotay.
Top 2 James hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Musial strikes out.
Top 2 Boyer hits a popup towards third. Freese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Pinson hits a popup towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Kasko hits a line drive into right field. James settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lillis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 White hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gernert fields the ball, tags the runner, and throws to second to catch Gotay for the double play.
Top 1 Warwick hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Gotay takes first base on ball four.