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July 8, 1961

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Bill Skowron Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .272
OBP .000 .323
At Bats 3 312
Hits 0 85
• Singles 0 54
• Doubles 0 12
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 17
Walks 0 20
RBI’s 0 55

Mike Fornieles Season Stats

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5 4 8
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Yankee Stadium - July 8, 1961
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Home Run
Mike Fornieles
Russ Nixon
Pete Runnels
Chuck Schilling
Frank Malzone
Don Buddin
Carl Yastrzemski
Gary Geiger
Jackie Jensen
Bill Skowron
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Skowron hits a long drive deep into right center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Buddin is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Yastrzemski strikes out.
Top 8 Runnels strikes out.
Bottom 7 Berra hits a ball on the ground towards first. Runnels scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Berra for the out.
Bottom 7 Mantle is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Maris takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Kubek hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 7 Mike Fornieles now pitching. Russ Nixon now catching. Richardson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Malzone hits a fly ball into left field. Berra settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Pagliaroni strikes out.
Top 7 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Richardson fields it and throws to second for the out. Green scores. Schilling moves to third.
Top 7 Geiger takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Luis Arroyo now pitching. Schilling hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Berra. Schilling reaches second base with a double. Buddin scores. Green moves to third.
Top 7 Pumpsie Green pinch hits for Tracy Stallard. Green hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Buddin moves to second.
Top 7 Buddin hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Ford hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Boyer hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Pagliaroni fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Blanchard hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Skowron scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Yastrzemski for the out.
Top 6 Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ford fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Berra hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Mantle hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 5 Maris hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Pagliaroni hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards first. Skowron fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Geiger hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Kubek hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Richardson hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Ford bunts towards the mound. Stallard fields it and throws to first for the out. Boyer moves to second.
Bottom 4 Boyer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Stallard hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Buddin hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ford fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Yastrzemski hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Richardson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Runnels hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Berra. Runnels reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Blanchard hits a ball on the ground towards first. Runnels scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Blanchard for the out.
Bottom 3 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin fields it and throws to home to get Mantle. Berra moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 3 Tracy Stallard now pitching. There go the runners. Both runners are safe. A double steal.
Bottom 3 Berra takes first base on ball four. Mantle moves to second.
Bottom 3 Mantle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Maris scores.
Bottom 3 Wilbur Wood now pitching. Maris hits a line drive into right field. That will be extra bases. Jensen fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on Jensen. Richardson scores. Kubek goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Kubek hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Ford scores. Richardson moves to third.
Bottom 3 Richardson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Ford moves to second.
Bottom 3 Ford hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Boyer hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Blanchard hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 3 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 3 Pagliaroni is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Jensen hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Berra hits a popup, foul, towards third. Malzone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Mantle hits a ball on the ground towards first. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first, with Delock covering, for the out.
Top 2 Geiger strikes out.
Top 2 Schilling hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Delock hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Buddin hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Maris hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Kubek hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Richardson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into left field. Berra settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Runnels bunts towards the mound. Ford fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Malzone strikes out.
Top 1 Pagliaroni hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Jensen hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 1 Geiger hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Schilling moves to third.
Top 1 Schilling hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.