Red Sox @ Rangers
May 30, 1979

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Bottom 10 R H E
Red Sox 2 7 0
Rangers 2 12 1
Bottom 10 R H E
Red Sox 2 7 0
Rangers 3 13 1

Richie Zisk Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .240
OBP .750 .304
At Bats 2 154
Hits 1 37
• Singles 1 29
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 4
Walks 2 14
RBI’s 0 17

Dick Drago Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 1 5
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Arlington Stadium - May 30, 1979
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Single
Dick Drago
Carlton Fisk
Carl Yastrzemski
Jerry Remy
Butch Hobson
Stan Papi
Jim Rice
Fred Lynn
Dwight Evans
Richie Zisk
Pat Putnam
Al Oliver

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Boston Red Sox 2 7 0 9
Texas Rangers 3 13 1 11
Winning Pitcher Jim Kern
Losing Pitcher Dick Drago
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Richie Zisk
Attendance 16,618
Time of Game 3 hours 3 minutes
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Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

End of Game

Zisk hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Oliver scores. Putnam moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 10 Putnam is walked intentionally.
Bottom 10 Billy Sample pinch hits for John Ellis. Sample bunts towards first. Yastrzemski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Sample for the out. Oliver moves to second.
Bottom 10 Oliver hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 10 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Rice hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Lynn hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 10 Papi hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Papi scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Grubb hits a ball on the ground towards short. Papi fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 9 Carlton Fisk now catching. Dick Drago now pitching. Wills hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 9 Jim Dwyer pinch hits for Mike O'Berry. Dwyer takes first base on ball four. Hobson moves to third. Evans moves to second.
Top 9 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and races to the third base bag for the out. Hobson moves to second.
Top 9 Hobson is walked intentionally.
Top 9 Fisk bunts towards the mound. Kern fields it and throws to first for the out. Yastrzemski moves to second.
Top 9 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Norman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Papi scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Sundberg hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Dick Drago now pitching. Zisk hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Lynn strikes out.
Top 8 Papi hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Bill Campbell now pitching. Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Ellis hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Oliver moves to third.
Bottom 7 Oliver hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hobson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Mike O'Berry now catching. Grubb hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Top 7 Jack Brohamer pinch hits for Gary Allenson. Brohamer hits a line drive towards short. Norman reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Evans takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Hobson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Fisk scores. Hobson moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 7 Jim Kern now pitching. Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell throws to second for one, and Wills throws the ball away attempting to make the double play. Fisk moves to second.
Top 7 Yastrzemski takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Norman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Remy fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Sundberg bunts towards the mound. Torrez fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Rice hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lynn hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Oliver. Lynn reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Papi hits a line drive into left field. Grubb settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards first. Yastrzemski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Putnam for the out.
Bottom 5 Ellis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Papi scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Oliver hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Evans throws the ball in to Papi who tags Oliver trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Bell scores.
Bottom 5 Bell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rice. Bell reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Grubb hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 5 Allenson hits a popup towards third. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ellis fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Hobson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Wills strikes out.
Bottom 4 Norman hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Zisk moves to third.
Bottom 4 Sundberg is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Allenson fires to second and picks off Putnam for the out.
Bottom 4 Zisk hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Putnam moves to second.
Bottom 4 Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Torrez fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Putnam scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Yastrzemski for the out.
Top 4 Rice hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Ellis is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Oliver hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Bell hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 There goes Grubb. The throw from Allenson to Papi and they have Grubb trapped. The throw over to Yastrzemski, who applies the tag for the out.
Bottom 3 Grubb takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Lynn hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Papi strikes out.
Top 3 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards first. Putnam scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Remy for the out. Allenson moves to second.
Top 3 Allenson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Wills hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Remy reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Norman hits a popup towards first. Yastrzemski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Sundberg hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Zisk moves to second.
Bottom 2 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Putnam strikes out.
Top 2 Evans strikes out.
Top 2 Hobson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ellis fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Ellis hits a line drive into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Oliver hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Grubb moves to second.
Bottom 1 Bell hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Grubb takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 There go the runners. The throw from Sundberg to Wills covering second. The throw back to home, and Lynn is out at the plate.
Top 1 Yastrzemski hits a popup into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Rice hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Lynn moves to third.
Top 1 Lynn hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Remy scores. Lynn moves to second.
Top 1 Papi hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out. Remy moves to second.
Top 1 Remy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.