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September 5, 1961

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Tito Francona Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .289
OBP .500 .350
At Bats 4 522
Hits 2 151
• Singles 2 106
• Doubles 0 25
• Triples 0 6
• Home Runs 0 14
Walks 0 47
RBI’s 2 69

Galen Cisco Season Stats

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Fenway Park - September 5, 1961
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Double
Galen Cisco
Russ Nixon
Pete Runnels
Chuck Schilling
Frank Malzone
Pumpsie Green
Carl Yastrzemski
Gary Geiger
Jackie Jensen
Tito Francona
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Francona hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Geiger. Francona reaches second base with a double.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Temple hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Cisco fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Galen Cisco now pitching. Latman strikes out.
Bottom 7 Geiger hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Temple reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Schilling takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Carroll Hardy pinch hits for Mike Fornieles. Hardy hits a fly ball into left field. Francona settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Nixon hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Temple settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Phillips strikes out.
Top 7 Romano hits a ball on the ground for a double play.
Top 7 Held hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Geiger who is chasing the ball. Held reaches third base with a triple. Power goes all the way around to score.
Top 7 Power hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Green hits a fly ball into left field. Francona settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Runnels hits a fly ball into left field. Francona settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Jensen hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Temple scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Kirkland strikes out.
Top 6 Essegian strikes out.
Top 6 Francona hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Phillips scores. Latman moves to third. Temple moves to second.
Top 6 Temple takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 There's a wild pitch. Phillips moves to third. Latman moves to second.
Top 6 Latman bunts towards first. Runnels fields it and throws to third for the out. Phillips moves to second.
Top 6 Phillips hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Romano moves to second.
Top 6 Romano takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Temple scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Temple fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Schilling hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Held hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 5 Mike Fornieles now pitching. Power hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it, and throws to get the runner. And he throws it away. That's an error on Malzone. Essegian scores. Kirkland moves to third. That run is unearned. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 5 Kirkland hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Francona scores. Essegian moves to second.
Top 5 Essegian hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Francona moves to third.
Top 5 Francona hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Temple scores.
Top 5 Temple hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. There goes Latman trying to get to third. Geiger throws the ball in to Malzone, who tags Latman for the out. Temple moves to second.
Top 5 Latman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Green misplays the ball. That's an error on Green.
Bottom 4 Conley strikes out.
Bottom 4 Nixon hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Runnels scores. Green moves to second.
Bottom 4 Green hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Malzone scores. Runnels moves to second.
Bottom 4 Runnels hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Malzone moves to third.
Bottom 4 Jensen strikes out.
Bottom 4 Malzone hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Temple scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Phillips hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Romano hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 4 Held strikes out. There goes Power. Here's the throw, and he's safe.
Top 4 Power hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Kirkland hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 There goes Schilling. The throw from Romano and he is out, Held applying the tag.
Bottom 3 Geiger hits a fly ball into center field. Essegian settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Schilling takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Conley hits a line drive into left field. Francona settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Essegian hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Francona strikes out.
Top 3 Temple hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Nixon strikes out.
Bottom 2 Green hits a fly ball into right field. Kirkland settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Runnels hits a line drive into right field. Kirkland settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Jensen hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Latman strikes out.
Top 2 Phillips hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Held moves to second.
Top 2 Romano hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Held hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Power hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. Held scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Latman spins and fires to second, and Yastrzemski is picked off.
Bottom 1 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Essegian. Yastrzemski reaches second base with a double. Geiger goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Geiger takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Latman fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Kirkland hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Essegian hits a ball on the ground towards short. Green scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Francona moves to third.
Top 1 The ball gets by Nixon for a passed ball. Francona moves to second.
Top 1 Francona hits a ball on the ground towards short. Green fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Temple takes first base on ball four.