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August 16, 1969

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Yankees 4 6 0
White Sox 3 6 0
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Yankees 4 6 0
White Sox 5 7 0

Bill Melton Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .245
OBP .333 .321
At Bats 2 392
Hits 0 96
• Singles 0 57
• Doubles 0 20
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 17
Walks 1 43
RBI’s 0 64

Jack Aker Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
7 4 9
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Comiskey Park - August 16, 1969
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Home Run
Jack Aker
Frank Fernandez
Joe Pepitone
Horace Clarke
Jerry Kenney
Gene Michael
Roy White
Jimmie Hall
Bobby Murcer
Bill Melton
Gail Hopkins
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Melton hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Hopkins hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Hansen hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Kenney hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Wood fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Murcer strikes out. Herrmann drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Murcer out.
Top 8 Wilbur Wood now pitching. Pepitone hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Morales settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Buddy Bradford pinch hits for Gary Bell. Bradford hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Morales hits a popup, foul, towards third. Kenney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 McCraw hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Aker fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Fernandez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Melton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 White hits a fly ball into right field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Michael hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Berry strikes out.
Bottom 6 Herrmann hits a ball on the ground towards first. Pepitone scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Herrmann for the out.
Bottom 6 Jimmie Hall now playing center field. Jerry Kenney now playing third base. Melton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kenney fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Aker strikes out.
Top 6 There goes Hall. The throw from Herrmann and he is safe. Hall steals second.
Top 6 Jimmie Hall pinch hits for Ron Woods. Hall hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hopkins has Pepitone trapped. There's the throw to Herrmann and over to Melton, who tags Pepitone for the out. Kenney moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 6 Jerry Kenney pinch hits for Bobby Cox. Kenney hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hansen fields it and throws to second for the out. Pepitone moves to third.
Top 6 Murcer hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Fernandez scores. Pepitone moves to second.
Top 6 Pepitone hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit. Fernandez moves to second.
Top 6 Gary Bell now pitching. Fernandez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Hopkins hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Hansen hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Williams moves to third.
Bottom 5 Jack Aker now pitching. Williams hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. McCraw scores. Morales scores. There goes Held trying to get to third. White throws the ball in to Cox, who tags Held for the out. Williams moves to second.
Bottom 5 Woodie Held pinch hits for Danny Lazar. Held takes first base on ball four. Morales moves to second.
Bottom 5 Morales hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McCraw moves to third.
Bottom 5 McCraw hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 White hits a fly ball into center field. Berry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Michael hits a popup towards short. Hansen settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Clarke hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 5 Burbach is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Woods is hit by the pitch. Cox moves to second.
Top 5 Cox takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Berry hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Herrmann hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Melton takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Hopkins hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Murcer is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Pepitone hits a fly ball into center field. Berry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Fernandez hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Herrmann settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Hansen hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Fernandez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Lazar bunts towards the mound. Burbach fields it and throws to first for the out. Morales moves to second.
Bottom 3 Morales takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 White hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Morales settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Michael bunts towards the mound. Lazar fields it and throws to first for the out. Clarke moves to second.
Top 3 Clarke takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Burbach is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 There goes McCraw. The throw from Fernandez and he is out, Michael applying the tag.
Bottom 2 McCraw hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Herrmann scores.
Bottom 2 Berry hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Herrmann moves to second.
Bottom 2 Herrmann hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Melton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Woods hits a popup, foul, towards first. Hopkins settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cox strikes out.
Top 2 Ron Hansen now playing shortstop. Murcer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morales scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Hopkins hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Aparicio hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Williams takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Pepitone hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Fernandez strikes out.
Top 1 White strikes out.
Top 1 Michael hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Clarke moves to third.
Top 1 Clarke hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.