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Joe Niekro Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .259
OBP .000 .295
At Bats 1 58
Hits 0 15
• Singles 0 11
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 3
RBI’s 0 6

Eric Rasmussen Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 9 1
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Jack Murphy Stadium - August 17, 1980
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Eric Rasmussen
Bill Fahey
Broderick Perkins
Dave Cash
Barry Evans
Chuck Baker
Gene Richards
Jerry Mumphrey
Luis Salazar
Joe Niekro
Rafael Landestoy
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Niekro hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 7 Landestoy hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Richards. Landestoy reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 Ashby hits a ball on the ground towards short. Baker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Evans hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Fahey hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Cash tags and scores. Perkins tags and moves to third.
Bottom 6 Perkins hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Cruz. Perkins reaches second base with a double. Cash moves to third.
Bottom 6 Cash hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Luis Pujols now playing third base. Art Howe now playing second base. Mumphrey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Howe hits a fly ball into center field. Mumphrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Cash scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Eric Rasmussen now pitching. Cruz hits a fly ball into right field. Salazar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Salazar hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Niekro fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Richards hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Willie Montanez pinch hits for Dennis Kinney. Montanez hits a fly ball into right field. Puhl settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Heep hits a fly ball into center field. Mumphrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Puhl hits a fly ball into center field. Mumphrey settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Morgan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Cash scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Baker hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Fahey moves to second.
Bottom 4 Fahey hits a ball on the ground towards first. Heep juggles the ball. That's an error on Heep.
Bottom 4 Perkins hits a ball on the ground towards first. Heep scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Perkins for the out.
Bottom 4 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morgan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Niekro hits a fly ball into right field. Salazar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Landestoy hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Heep scores. Cedeno scores. Howe moves to second.
Top 4 Ashby hits a popup, foul, towards first. Perkins settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Howe is walked intentionally.
Top 4 There goes Cedeno. The throw from Fahey and he is safe. Cedeno steals second.
Top 4 Cedeno is hit by the pitch.
Top 4 Cruz hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Cash scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Heep moves to third.
Top 4 Dave Cash now playing second base. Barry Evans now playing third base. Luis Salazar now playing right field. Heep hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Richards. Heep reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Mumphrey strikes out.
Bottom 3 Salazar strikes out. Ashby drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Salazar out.
Bottom 3 Richards hits a fly ball into right field. Puhl settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Puhl hits a fly ball into left field. Richards settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Morgan hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Evans scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Landestoy moves to third.
Top 3 Niekro bunts towards the mound. Kinney fields it and throws to first for the out. Landestoy moves to second.
Top 3 Landestoy hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Kinney strikes out.
Bottom 2 Baker strikes out. Ashby drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Baker out.
Bottom 2 Evans hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Ashby hits a ball on the ground towards short. Baker fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Howe hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Puhl scores. Heep scores. Cedeno moves to second.
Top 2 Cedeno is walked intentionally.
Top 2 Cruz hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fahey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Heep hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Winfield. Heep reaches second base with a double. Morgan scores. Puhl moves to third.
Top 2 Puhl takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Dennis Kinney now pitching. There goes Morgan. The throw from Fahey and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 2 Morgan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Ashby scores. Landestoy scores.
Top 2 Niekro bunts towards the mound. Mura fields it and throws to first for the out. Ashby moves to third. Landestoy moves to second.
Top 2 Landestoy hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Howe scores. Ashby moves to second.
Top 2 Ashby hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cedeno scores. Howe moves to third.
Top 2 Howe takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 There goes Cedeno. The throw from Fahey and he is safe. Cedeno steals second.
Top 2 Cedeno hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Fahey hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morgan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Perkins takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Winfield strikes out.
Bottom 1 Mumphrey bunts towards the mound. Niekro fields it and throws to first for the out. Richards moves to third. Salazar moves to second.
Bottom 1 Salazar hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Richards moves to second.
Bottom 1 Richards hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Cruz hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fahey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Heep hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Puhl is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Morgan hits a fly ball into right field. Winfield settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.