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April 26, 1978

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Jim Essian Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .208
OBP .400 .328
At Bats 4 53
Hits 1 11
• Singles 1 8
• Doubles 0 2
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 1 10
RBI’s 0 8

Tom Johnson Season Stats

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1 3 1
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Oakland-Alameda County Stadium - April 26, 1978
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Single
Tom Johnson
Butch Wynegar
Rod Carew
Bob Randall
Mike Cubbage
Roy Smalley
Willie Norwood
Dan Ford
Rich Chiles
Jim Essian
Steve Staggs
Miguel Dilone

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Minnesota Twins 8 12 3 7
Oakland Athletics 9 15 2 9
Winning Pitcher Joe Coleman
Losing Pitcher Tom Johnson
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI (none)
Attendance 4,127
Time of Game 3 hours 17 minutes
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Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Steve Staggs pinch runs for Dave Revering. Essian hits a line drive into center field. Ford picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Ford. Dilone scores. Staggs goes all the way around to score.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 12 Revering hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit. Page scores. Dilone moves to second.
Bottom 12 Dilone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Page moves to third.
Bottom 12 Page hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 12 Joe Coleman now pitching. Kusick hits a fly ball into center field. Armas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 12 Wynegar hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Top 12 Cubbage hits a fly ball into right field. Thomasson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 12 Ford hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Thomasson. Ford reaches second base with a double. Thomasson throws the ball in to Gross who tags Ford trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Smalley scores. Carew goes all the way around to score.
Top 12 Carew takes first base on ball four. Smalley moves to second.
Top 12 Smalley hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 11 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 11 Edwards hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cubbage fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 11 Rich Chiles now playing right field. Thomasson is called out on strikes.
Top 11 Randall hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gross fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 11 Norwood hits a ball on the ground towards short. Perez fields it and throws to home to get Kusick. Chiles moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 11 Jose Morales pinch hits for Hosken Powell. Elias Sosa now pitching. Rich Chiles pinch hits for Jose Morales. Chiles hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kusick moves to third.
Top 11 Kusick is hit by the pitch.
Top 11 Wynegar hits a fly ball into center field. Armas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Armas hits a fly ball into right field. Powell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Randall scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Essian hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Cubbage hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Edwards scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Ford hits a ball on the ground towards short. Perez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Marty Perez now playing shortstop. Carew hits a fly ball into left field. Page settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Miguel Dilone pinch runs for Gary Alexander. Revering hits a popup, foul, towards third. Cubbage settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Tom Johnson now pitching. Alexander hits a ball on the ground towards short. Smalley misplays the ball. That's an error on Smalley.
Bottom 9 Dwayne Murphy pinch runs for Mario Guerrero. Page hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 9 Guerrero hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Edwards hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cubbage fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Thomasson strikes out.
Top 9 Smalley hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gross fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Randall hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Edwards scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Norwood hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gross fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Armas strikes out.
Bottom 8 Gross strikes out.
Bottom 8 Essian hits a fly ball into center field. Ford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lacey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Craig Kusick pinch hits for Glenn Adams. Kusick hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gross fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 8 Wynegar hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Revering hits a fly ball into center field. Ford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Alexander hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cubbage fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Guerrero moves to third.
Bottom 7 Greg Thayer now pitching. Page hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Edwards scores. Guerrero moves to second.
Bottom 7 Guerrero hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Thomasson scores. Edwards moves to third.
Bottom 7 Edwards hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Powell. Edwards reaches second base with a double. Thomasson moves to third.
Bottom 7 Thomasson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Cubbage hits a fly ball into center field. Armas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Ford hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 7 Bob Lacey now pitching. Carew hits a fly ball into left field. Page settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Smalley hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Randall moves to second.
Top 7 Randall takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Norwood hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Keough fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Armas hits a popup, foul, towards first. Carew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Gross takes first base on ball four. Page moves to third. Essian moves to second.
Bottom 6 Essian takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Revering hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Erickson, and towards Smalley, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Alexander strikes out.
Bottom 6 Page hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Norwood. Page reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Revering scoops it up and throws to first, with Keough covering, for the out.
Top 6 Adams hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gross fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Wynegar hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Keough scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Wynegar for the out.
Bottom 5 Guerrero hits a fly ball into right field. Powell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Edwards hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Thomasson hits a popup towards short. Smalley settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Armas hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cubbage fields the ball and throws to first. Carew drops the ball. That's an out and an error on Carew. Essian scores. Gross scores.
Bottom 5 Gross hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Powell. Gross reaches second base with a double. Essian moves to third.
Bottom 5 Essian hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Cubbage hits a ball on the ground towards short. Guerrero scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Ford hits a ball on the ground towards short. Guerrero scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Norwood scores. Smalley moves to third. Carew moves to second.
Top 5 Carew takes first base on ball four. Smalley moves to second.
Top 5 Smalley hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Norwood moves to third.
Top 5 Randall bunts towards the mound. Keough fields it and throws to first for the out. Norwood moves to second.
Top 5 Norwood hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Revering hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Randall settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Alexander strikes out.
Bottom 4 Page hits a fly ball into left field. Norwood settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Powell hits a line drive into center field. Armas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Adams hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Wynegar moves to second.
Top 4 Wynegar hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Ford scores. That run is unearned.
Top 4 Cubbage hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Edwards scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Ford moves to third.
Top 4 Ford hits a ball on the ground towards short. Guerrero misplays the ball. That's an error on Guerrero. Carew scores. Ford moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 4 Carew hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gross picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Gross. Carew moves to third.
Top 4 Smalley strikes out.
Bottom 3 Guerrero hits a fly ball into right field. Powell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Edwards hits a fly ball into center field. Ford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Thomasson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There's a wild pitch. Armas moves to second.
Bottom 3 Armas hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Randall scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Randall hits a ball on the ground towards short. Guerrero scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Norwood hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Keough fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Powell hits a fly ball into left field. Page settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Essian hits a fly ball into right field. Powell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Revering hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Randall scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Alexander strikes out.
Top 2 Adams hits a ball on the ground towards short. Guerrero scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Wynegar hits a popup, foul, towards third. Gross settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cubbage hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Edwards scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Page hits a line drive into center field. Ford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Guerrero hits a fly ball into right field. Powell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Edwards hits a fly ball into center field. Ford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Ford hits a ball on the ground towards short. Guerrero scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 1 Carew takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Smalley strikes out.