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May 31, 1979

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Rick Burleson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .253
OBP .000 .310
At Bats 4 170
Hits 0 43
• Singles 0 36
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 15
RBI’s 0 17

Sparky Lyle Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 3 7
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Arlington Stadium - May 31, 1979
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Out
Sparky Lyle
Dave Roberts
Pat Putnam
Bump Wills
Buddy Bell
Larvell Blanks
Billy Sample
Al Oliver
Richie Zisk
Rick Burleson
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

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

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 10 Billy Sample now playing left field. Dave Roberts now catching. Larvell Blanks now playing shortstop. Sparky Lyle now pitching. Remy hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Grubb strikes out.
Bottom 9 Wills hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Sample scores.
Bottom 9 Billy Sample pinch runs for Jim Sundberg. Bill Campbell now pitching. Larvell Blanks pinch hits for Nelson Norman. Blanks hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hobson fields it and throws to first for the out. Sample moves to third.
Bottom 9 Sundberg hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rice. Sundberg reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 9 Zisk hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Allenson hits a fly ball into left field. Grubb settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Bell. Evans moves to second.
Top 9 Hobson hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Matlack fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 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 8 Ellis hits a popup, foul, towards third. Hobson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Oliver hits a popup towards third. Hobson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Rice hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 8 Lynn 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 8 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Bell hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Grubb hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Wills bunts towards the mound. Eckersley fields it and throws to first for the out. Norman moves to second.
Bottom 7 Norman takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Remy hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Allenson takes first base on ball four. Evans moves to second.
Top 7 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 7 Hobson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman misplays the ball. That's an error on Norman.
Top 7 Yastrzemski hits a popup, foul, towards first. Putnam settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Sundberg hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Zisk hits a popup, foul, towards first. Yastrzemski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards first. Yastrzemski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Putnam for the out.
Top 6 Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards first. Putnam scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Fisk for the out.
Top 6 Rice hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Zisk. Rice reaches second base with a double. Remy scores.
Top 6 There goes Remy. The throw from Sundberg and he is safe. Remy steals second.
Top 6 Lynn hits a popup towards third. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Burleson hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Remy bunts towards the mound. Matlack fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 5 Ellis hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards first. Yastrzemski scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Oliver for the out.
Bottom 5 Bell strikes out.
Top 5 Allenson hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up 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 Grubb hits a popup, foul, towards third. Hobson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Wills hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Sundberg moves to second.
Bottom 4 Norman is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Sundberg hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Zisk hits a line drive into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Fisk hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to second for the out. Lynn moves to third.
Top 4 Rice takes first base on ball four. Lynn moves to second.
Top 4 Lynn hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Burleson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Norman scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Putnam is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Ellis strikes out.
Bottom 3 Oliver hits a popup towards short. Burleson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Bell bunts towards the mound. Eckersley fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Grubb moves to third.
Bottom 3 Grubb hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Evans. Grubb reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Remy strikes out. There goes Evans. The throw from Sundberg to second, and Evans is out.
Top 3 Allenson strikes out.
Top 3 Evans hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hobson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Norman is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 There goes Sundberg. The throw from Allenson and he is safe. Sundberg steals second.
Bottom 2 Sundberg takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Zisk strikes out.
Top 2 Hobson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Putnam scoops it up and throws to first, with Matlack covering, for the out.
Top 2 Fisk hits a fly ball into center field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Putnam hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Ellis strikes out.
Bottom 1 Oliver hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Allenson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Grubb hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 1 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Lynn hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Oliver. Lynn reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Burleson hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 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.