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June 23, 1971

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Leo Cardenas Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .279
OBP .333 .342
At Bats 3 244
Hits 1 68
• Singles 1 47
• Doubles 0 12
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 8
Walks 0 25
RBI’s 0 33

Blue Moon Odom Season Stats

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2 3 0
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Metropolitan Stadium - June 23, 1971
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Home Run
Blue Moon Odom
Curt Blefary
Mike Epstein
Dick Green
Sal Bando
Bert Campaneris
Joe Rudi
Rick Monday
Reggie Jackson
Leo Cardenas
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

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

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Rudi hits a ball on the ground towards third. Killebrew fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 9 Monday hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Epstein scores. That run is unearned.
Top 9 Bando hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Epstein hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Tovar. Epstein reaches second base with a double. Blefary scores. That run is unearned.
Top 9 Jackson is called out on strikes.
Top 9 Blefary bunts towards the mound. Perranoski juggles the ball. That's an error on Perranoski. Campaneris goes all the way around to score. Blefary moves to third.
Top 9 Ron Perranoski now pitching. Jim Nettles now playing center field. Campaneris hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Holt hits a fly ball into center field. Monday settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Reese hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 8 Killebrew hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Oliva strikes out.
Bottom 8 Carew hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Odom, and towards Green, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Odom strikes out.
Top 8 Green is walked intentionally.
Top 8 Stan Williams now pitching. Rudi hits a fly ball into center field. Holt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Monday hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Oliva. Monday reaches second base with a double. Epstein scores. Bando goes all the way around to score.
Top 8 Bando hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Jackson scores. Epstein moves to second.
Top 8 Epstein hits a ball on the ground towards unknown player. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Campaneris scores. Jackson moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 8 Jackson takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Blefary hits a popup towards the mound. Hall settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Tom Hall now pitching. There goes Campaneris. The throw from Mitterwald and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 8 Campaneris hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Tovar hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Blyleven hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Odom fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Joe Rudi now playing left field. Mitterwald strikes out.
Top 7 Odom strikes out.
Top 7 Green hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Epstein moves to third. Hegan moves to second.
Top 7 Hegan takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Monday hits a popup towards first. Reese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bando bunts towards first. Reese scoops it up and throws to first, with Carew covering, for the out. Epstein moves to second.
Top 7 Epstein hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Cardenas hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bando fields it and races to the third base bag for the out. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 6 Holt hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bando fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards first. Epstein scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Reese for the out. Killebrew moves to second.
Bottom 6 Killebrew takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Jackson hits a fly ball into left field. Tovar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 There goes Blefary. The throw from Mitterwald and he is out, Cardenas applying the tag.
Top 6 Blefary takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Campaneris hits a line drive towards short. Cardenas reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Oliva hits a fly ball into center field. Monday settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Carew hits a popup towards short. Campaneris settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Tovar hits a fly ball into center field. Monday settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Odom strikes out.
Top 5 Green strikes out.
Top 5 Hegan is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Blyleven hits a fly ball into right field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Mitterwald hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Odom scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Mitterwald for the out. Cardenas moves to second.
Bottom 4 Cardenas hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Holt hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Odom fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Monday is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Bando hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Carew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Epstein hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Jackson is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Blefary hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Reese hits a line drive into left field. Hegan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Killebrew strikes out.
Bottom 3 Oliva is walked intentionally.
Bottom 3 Carew hits a fly ball towards left. Hegan settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Hegan. Tovar moves to third. Carew moves to second.
Bottom 3 Tovar hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Blyleven strikes out.
Top 3 Campaneris hits a fly ball into right field. Oliva settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Odom hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Green strikes out.
Bottom 2 Mitterwald strikes out.
Bottom 2 Cardenas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Holt hits a popup, foul, towards short. Campaneris settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Hegan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 There goes Monday. The throw from Mitterwald and he is safe. Monday steals second.
Top 2 Monday hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Bando hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Blyleven fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Epstein hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards first. Epstein scoops it up and throws to first, with Odom covering, for the out.
Bottom 1 Killebrew takes first base on ball four. Carew moves to second.
Bottom 1 Oliva hits a fly ball into center field. Monday settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Carew hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Tovar hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bando fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Jackson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Reese fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first - double play.
Top 1 Blefary hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Campaneris strikes out.