Astros @ Dodgers
August 2, 1976

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Bottom 11 R H E
Astros 4 13 1
Dodgers 4 8 1
Bottom 11 R H E
Astros 4 13 1
Dodgers 5 9 1

Dusty Baker Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .249
OBP .000 .308
At Bats 0 325
Hits 0 81
• Singles 0 68
• Doubles 0 11
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 28
RBI’s 0 32

Gene Pentz Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 1 3
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Dodger Stadium - August 2, 1976
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Home Run
Gene Pentz
Ed Herrmann
Bob Watson
Rob Andrews
Enos Cabell
Roger Metzger
Jose Cruz
Cesar Cedeno
Greg Gross
Dusty Baker

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Houston Astros 4 13 1 12
Los Angeles Dodgers 5 9 1 7
Winning Pitcher Elias Sosa
Losing Pitcher Gene Pentz
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Dusty Baker
Attendance 30,621
Time of Game 2 hours 50 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Baker hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 11 Lacy hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Pentz fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 11 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cabell juggles the ball. That's an error on Cabell.
Top 11 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Cedeno hits a fly ball into center field. Baker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lopes scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Cey hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Garvey hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Buckner hits a popup, foul, towards third. Cabell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Gross is called out on strikes.
Top 10 Cruz strikes out.
Top 10 Davey Lopes now playing second base. Ted Sizemore now catching. Dusty Baker now playing center field. Elias Sosa now pitching. Metzger hits a fly ball into center field. Baker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Sizemore hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cabell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Lopes strikes out.
Bottom 9 Manny Mota pinch hits for Al Downing. Gene Pentz now pitching. Mota hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Russell scores. Lacy moves to third. Smith moves to second.
Bottom 9 Reggie Smith pinch hits for Ellie Rodriguez. Joe Sambito now pitching. Jose Cruz now playing left field. Smith hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Russell moves to third. Lacy moves to second.
Bottom 9 Lacy hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Russell moves to second.
Bottom 9 Russell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Cey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Herrmann hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Andrews hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Roberts bunts towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out. Watson moves to second.
Top 9 Watson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Garvey hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Andrews reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Buckner hits a line drive into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Sizemore hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 8 Lopes hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cabell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Cabell strikes out.
Top 8 Gross takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Al Downing now pitching. Andujar hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Danny Walton pinch hits for Charlie Hough. Walton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Andujar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Rodriguez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Lacy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Metzger hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Russell fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Top 7 Herrmann takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 There goes Andrews. The throw from Rodriguez and he is safe. Andrews steals second.
Top 7 Andrews hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 7 Roberts hits a fly ball into left field. Buckner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Watson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cedeno scores.
Top 7 There goes Cedeno. The throw from Rodriguez and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 7 Cedeno takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cabell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Cey takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Garvey hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Buckner hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Andujar scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Buckner for the out.
Top 6 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 6 Gross hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Andujar moves to second.
Top 6 Andujar hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hough fields it and throws to third for the out. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 6 Charlie Hough now pitching. Metzger hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lacy. Metzger reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Sizemore hits a ball on the ground towards first. Watson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Sizemore for the out.
Bottom 5 Lopes hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Ed Goodson pinch hits for Stan Wall. Goodson hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Stan Wall now pitching. Herrmann hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Andrews hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Roberts moves to second.
Top 5 Roberts hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cedeno scores.
Top 5 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out. Cedeno moves to second.
Top 5 Cedeno hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Gross scores.
Top 5 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Garvey scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Cabell for the out. Gross moves to third.
Top 5 Gross hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lacy. Gross reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Rodriguez is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Lacy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Cey hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Andujar is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Metzger hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Herrmann moves to second.
Top 4 Herrmann hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Andrews hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Roberts hits a line drive towards third. Cey reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Garvey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Buckner strikes out.
Bottom 3 Herrmann throws to Metzger, and they have Lopes in a rundown. The throw to Cabell, who applies the tag, and Lopes is out. Sizemore moves to second.
Bottom 3 Sizemore takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There goes Lopes. The throw from Herrmann and he is safe. Lopes steals second.
Bottom 3 Lopes takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Cedeno hits a fly ball into center field. Lopes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 John hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Rodriguez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cabell fields it and throws to first for the out. Cey scores. Lacy moves to second.
Bottom 2 Lacy hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Garvey scores. Cey moves to third.
Bottom 2 Russell bunts towards third. Cabell fields it and throws to first for the out. Garvey moves to third. Cey moves to second.
Bottom 2 Cey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Garvey moves to second.
Bottom 2 Garvey takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Andujar hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lopes. Andujar reaches second base with a double. Andrews scores.
Top 2 Metzger is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Herrmann hits a fly ball into center field. Lopes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 The umpire calls a balk on John Andrews moves to second.
Top 2 Andrews hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Buckner hits a ball on the ground towards first. Watson scoops it up and throws to first, with Andujar covering, for the out.
Bottom 1 Sizemore hits a popup, foul, towards first. Watson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Lopes hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Roberts hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Watson takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Cedeno hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lopes. Cedeno reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore scoops it up and throws to first for the out.