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August 8, 1979

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Bottom 7 R H E
Rangers 15 16 1
Tigers 5 9 2
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Rangers 15 16 1
Tigers 5 9 2

Aurelio Rodriguez Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .262
OBP .500 .285
At Bats 1 256
Hits 1 67
• Singles 1 46
• Doubles 0 16
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 5
Walks 0 8
RBI’s 1 32

Fergie Jenkins Season Stats

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11 8 0
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Tiger Stadium - August 8, 1979
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Out
Fergie Jenkins
Jim Sundberg
Mike Jorgensen
Larvell Blanks
Eric Soderholm
Buddy Bell
Al Oliver
Mickey Rivers
Richie Zisk
Aurelio Rodriguez
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 1 Out

Rodriguez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 7 Sundberg hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Whitaker settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Soderholm hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Oliver scores. Zisk moves to second.
Top 7 Jorgensen hits a fly ball into left field. Kemp settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Oliver hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Jones. Oliver reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 Lynn Jones now playing center field. Champ Summers now playing first base. Jerry Morales now playing right field. Bell hits a line drive towards short. Wagner reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Greene is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Putman hits a popup towards short. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Morales hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Summers hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 6 Thompson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kemp moves to third.
Bottom 6 Kemp hits a line drive into center field. Rivers picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Rivers. Kemp moves to second.
Top 6 Rivers hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wagner scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 6 Blanks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Sundberg scores. Sample moves to third.
Top 6 Sample hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rodriguez juggles the ball. That's an error on Rodriguez.
Top 6 Sundberg hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Morales. Sundberg reaches second base with a double. Jorgensen scores. Soderholm scores.
Top 6 There's a wild pitch. Zisk scores. Jorgensen moves to third. Soderholm moves to second.
Top 6 Soderholm takes first base on ball four. Zisk moves to third. Jorgensen moves to second.
Top 6 Jorgensen hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Zisk moves to second.
Top 6 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Oliver hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Mark Wagner now playing shortstop. Ed Putman now catching. Bell hits a fly ball into center field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Trammell hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Jenkins fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Whitaker hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rodriguez moves to second.
Bottom 5 Rodriguez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Greene hits a fly ball into left field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Rivers hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Whitaker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 John Hiller now pitching. Blanks takes first base on ball four. Sundberg moves to third. Sample moves to second.
Top 5 Sample hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Sundberg moves to second.
Top 5 Sundberg hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rodriguez juggles the ball. That's an error on Rodriguez.
Top 5 Soderholm hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 5 Jorgensen hits a ball on the ground towards center field. Morales picks it up and throws to third to catch Bellfor the out. Zisk moves to second.
Top 5 Zisk takes first base on ball four. Bell moves to second.
Top 5 Oliver hits a popup towards third. Rodriguez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Bell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Parrish hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Morales takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Summers hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Rivers hits a line drive into center field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Blanks hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rodriguez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Sample bunts in front of the plate. Parrish settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Thompson hits a fly ball into left field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Kemp hits a ball on the ground towards first. Jorgensen scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Kemp for the out. Whitaker moves to third.
Bottom 3 Trammell bunts towards the mound. Jenkins fields it and throws to first for the out. Whitaker moves to second.
Bottom 3 Mike Jorgensen now playing first base. Whitaker hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Sundberg hits a line drive towards third. Rodriguez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Soderholm hits a fly ball into left field. Kemp settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Zisk tags and scores. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Mike Jorgensen pinch runs for John Ellis. The ball gets by Parrish for a passed ball. Oliver scores. Zisk moves to third. Jorgensen moves to second.
Top 3 Ellis takes first base on ball four. Zisk moves to second.
Top 3 Zisk hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Oliver moves to third.
Top 3 Oliver hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Trammell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Rodriguez hits a fly ball towards right. Zisk catches it and throws to third to double up Morales. Morales tags and scores.
Bottom 2 Greene strikes out.
Bottom 2 Parrish hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Oliver. Parrish reaches second base with a double. Summers scores. Morales moves to third.
Bottom 2 Morales hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Summers moves to third.
Bottom 2 Summers takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Rivers hits a ball on the ground towards short. Trammell scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 2 Blanks hits a fly ball into center field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Sample hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Thompson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Ellis scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Thompson for the out.
Bottom 1 Kemp strikes out.
Bottom 1 Trammell hits a fly ball into left field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Whitaker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Steve Baker now pitching. Sundberg hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rodriguez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Soderholm hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 1 Ellis hits a fly ball into left field. Kemp settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Oliver tags and scores.
Top 1 Zisk hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kemp throws the ball in to Whitaker who tags Zisk trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Bell scores. Oliver moves to third.
Top 1 Oliver takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Bell hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Summers. Bell reaches second base with a double. Rivers scores.
Top 1 Rivers hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Kemp. Rivers reaches second base with a double.