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July 4, 1961

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Wrigley Field - July 4, 1961
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Pickoff
Ed Rakow
Haywood Sullivan
Norm Siebern
Jerry Lumpe
Wayne Causey
Dick Howser
Deron Johnson
Jay Hankins
Gene Stephens
Joe Koppe
Albie Pearson
Rocky Bridges
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Rakow spins and fires to second, with Howser covering, and Bridges is picked off.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 6 Pearson takes first base on ball four. Bridges moves to second.
Bottom 6 Ted Kluszewski pinch hits for Ron Moeller. Kluszewski strikes out.
Bottom 6 Bridges hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards third. Causey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Howser hits a fly ball into center field. Hunt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Rakow bunts towards the mound. Moeller fields it and throws to first for the out. Causey moves to second.
Top 6 Causey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Lee Thomas now playing left field. Sullivan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bridges scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Yost hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Lee Thomas pinch hits for George Thomas. Thomas hits a popup towards short. Howser settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Ed Rakow now pitching. Bilko is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Hunt hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Koppe moves to second.
Bottom 5 Koppe takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bridges scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Lumpe hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bridges fields it and throws to second for the out. Stephens moves to third.
Top 5 Siebern takes first base on ball four. Stephens moves to second.
Top 5 Stephens takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Ron Moeller now pitching. Hankins hits a fly ball into right field. Pearson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Pearson 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 4 Earl Averill pinch hits for Ken McBride. Averill hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Sullivan fields it and throws to first for the out. Rice moves to third. Bridges moves to second.
Bottom 4 Bridges hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Rice moves to second.
Bottom 4 Rice hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Yost hits a popup towards short. Howser settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Howser hits a popup towards short. Koppe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Nuxhall hits a fly ball into center field. Hunt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Causey strikes out.
Bottom 3 Thomas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Bilko takes first base on ball four. Hunt moves to second.
Bottom 3 Hunt hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser fields it and throws to second for the out. Pearson moves to third.
Bottom 3 Koppe hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Pearson moves to second.
Bottom 3 Pearson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McBride scores.
Bottom 3 McBride hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Stephens. McBride reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Bridges hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Sullivan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Koppe fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 3 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Siebern moves to second.
Top 3 Lumpe hits a fly ball into left field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Siebern hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Stephens scores.
Top 3 Stephens hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Pearson. Stephens reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Hankins hits a ball on the ground towards first. Bilko scoops it up and throws to first, with McBride covering, for the out.
Bottom 2 Rice hits a fly ball into center field. Hankins settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Yost is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Thomas hits a line drive towards short. Howser reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Bilko takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Howser hits a fly ball into center field. Hunt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Nuxhall is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Causey hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Sullivan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Bridges scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Hunt strikes out.
Bottom 1 Koppe strikes out.
Bottom 1 Pearson 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 Johnson hits a popup towards third. Yost settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Lumpe hits a ball on the ground towards first. Bilko scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Lumpe for the out.
Top 1 Siebern hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 1 There goes Stephens. The throw from Rice and he is safe. Stephens steals second.
Top 1 Stephens hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Howser scores.
Top 1 Hankins is called out on strikes.
Top 1 There goes Howser. The throw from Rice and he is safe. Howser steals third.
Top 1 There goes Howser. The throw from Rice and he is safe. Howser steals second.
Top 1 Howser takes first base on ball four.