Orioles @ Yankees
August 6, 1971

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Top 9 R H E
Orioles 3 10 3
Yankees 12 13 0
Top 9 R H E
Orioles 3 10 3
Yankees 12 13 0

Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .309
OBP .250 .422
At Bats 4 311
Hits 1 96
• Singles 0 72
• Doubles 1 13
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 8
Walks 0 58
RBI’s 0 46

Fritz Peterson Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
10 7 1
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Yankee Stadium - August 6, 1971
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Out
Fritz Peterson
Jake Gibbs
Felipe Alou
Horace Clarke
Danny Cater
Gene Michael
Roy White
Bobby Murcer
Ron Blomberg
Merv Rettenmund

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Baltimore Orioles 3 10 3 7
New York Yankees 12 13 0 5
Winning Pitcher Fritz Peterson
Losing Pitcher Pat Dobson
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Felipe Alou
Attendance 24,681
Time of Game 2 hours 16 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Buford bunts towards third. Cater settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Salmon hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 9 Etchebarren hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Blomberg hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 White hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Murcer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Johnson hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Motton hits a popup towards first. Alou settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Blomberg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Gibbs hits a popup towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Cater hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Michael scores. Peterson moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 7 Peterson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Clarke scores. Michael moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 7 Michael hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Clarke moves to second.
Bottom 7 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards first. Salmon fields it and throws to first, with the pitcher covering. Pena drops the ball.
Bottom 7 Alou hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Orlando Pena now pitching. Curt Motton now playing right field. Don Buford now playing left field. Blomberg hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Robinson hits a popup towards first. Alou settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Belanger hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Buford moves to third.
Top 7 Don Buford pinch hits for Grant Jackson. Buford hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White. Buford reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 White hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Murcer hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run. Three runs are unearned.
Bottom 6 Gibbs hits a popup towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Cater is walked intentionally.
Bottom 6 Peterson bunts towards the mound. Jackson fields it and throws to first for the out. Michael moves to second.
Bottom 6 Michael hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger misplays the ball. That's an error on Belanger.
Top 6 Salmon hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Peterson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Etchebarren hits a fly ball into right field. Blomberg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Motton is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Alou hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Murcer tags and scores.
Bottom 5 Blomberg hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Jackson fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Murcer moves to third.
Bottom 5 White hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Murcer hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Rettenmund. Murcer reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Blomberg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Jackson scores. Belanger moves to second.
Top 5 Belanger hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Jackson moves to third.
Top 5 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Jackson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Salmon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Gibbs hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Grant Jackson now pitching. Cater hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Rettenmund, who is chasing the ball. Cater reaches third base with a triple. Peterson goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 4 Peterson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Clarke scores. Michael scores.
Bottom 4 Michael hits a line drive to right field. Robinson throws towards the plate. Etchebarren fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Etchebarren. Blomberg scores. Clarke moves to third. Michael moves to second.
Bottom 4 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards first. Salmon fields the ball and throws to Dobson covering. Safe. Blomberg moves to second.
Bottom 4 Alou hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Murcer tags and scores.
Bottom 4 Blomberg hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Murcer moves to third.
Bottom 4 White strikes out.
Bottom 4 Murcer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Etchebarren hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Peterson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Motton moves to second.
Top 4 Motton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Danny Cater now playing third base. Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Gibbs hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Kenney hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Peterson is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Belanger hits a fly ball into right field. Blomberg settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Dobson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Michael hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Clarke takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Alou strikes out.
Bottom 2 Blomberg hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. White scores. Blomberg moves to second.
Bottom 2 There goes White. The throw from Etchebarren and he is safe. White steals second.
Bottom 2 White takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Salmon strikes out.
Top 2 Etchebarren hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Johnson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Murcer hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Gibbs hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Kenney hits a ball on the ground towards first. Salmon scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Kenney for the out.
Top 1 Motton strikes out.
Top 1 Robinson hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Rettenmund tags and scores.
Top 1 Robinson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rettenmund moves to third.
Top 1 Belanger hits a popup, foul, towards first. Alou settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Rettenmund hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White. Rettenmund reaches second base with a double.