Rangers @ Tigers
August 7, 1979

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Top 9 R H E
Rangers 2 7 1
Tigers 8 10 0
Top 9 R H E
Rangers 2 7 1
Tigers 8 10 0

Billy Sample Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .256
OBP .000 .342
At Bats 3 246
Hits 0 63
• Singles 0 45
• Doubles 0 11
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 5
Walks 0 31
RBI’s 0 27

Aurelio Lopez Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
6 2 9
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Tiger Stadium - August 7, 1979
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Out
Aurelio Lopez
Lance Parrish
John Wockenfuss
Lou Whitaker
Tom Brookens
Alan Trammell
Steve Kemp
Lynn Jones
Jerry Morales
Billy Sample
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Sample hits a line drive into right field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Lou Whitaker now playing second base. Soderholm hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Whitaker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Trammell hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 LeFlore hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bell fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Jones scores. Parrish moves to third. Summers moves to second.
Bottom 8 Bob Babcock now pitching. Champ Summers pinch hits for Mark Wagner. Summers takes first base on ball four. Jones moves to third. Parrish moves to second.
Bottom 8 Parrish hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Wockenfuss scores. Jones moves to second.
Bottom 8 Brookens strikes out.
Bottom 8 Jones hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Wockenfuss moves to second.
Bottom 8 Wockenfuss takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Morales hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 8 Kemp hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Trammell hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Sundberg hits a fly ball into center field. Jones settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Putnam hits a popup, foul, towards third. Brookens settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Zisk hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Morales. Zisk reaches second base with a double. Oliver moves to third.
Top 8 Oliver hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 8 Lance Parrish now catching. John Wockenfuss now playing first base. Bell hits a line drive into right field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 LeFlore hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Wagner hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Putman strikes out.
Top 7 Rivers strikes out.
Top 7 Blanks takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Sample hits a ball on the ground towards first. Putman scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Sample for the out. Sundberg moves to third.
Top 7 Aurelio Lopez now pitching. Soderholm hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brookens fields it and throws to first for the out. Sundberg moves to second.
Top 7 Sundberg hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Brookens hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Sparky Lyle now pitching. Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lyle fields it, and throws to get the runner. And he throws it away. That's an error on Lyle. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 6 Wockenfuss hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Rivers who is chasing the ball. Wockenfuss reaches third base with a triple. Trammell scores.
Bottom 6 Morales strikes out.
Bottom 6 Kemp hits a line drive into left field. Sample settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 There goes Trammell. The throw from Sundberg and he is safe. Trammell steals third.
Bottom 6 There goes Trammell. The throw from Sundberg and he is safe. Trammell steals second.
Bottom 6 Jim Sundberg now catching. Trammell takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Putnam strikes out.
Top 6 Zisk hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Oliver hits a line drive towards short. Trammell reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Trammell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 LeFlore hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Wagner hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Putman hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Rivers hits a fly ball into right field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Blanks hits a fly ball into left field. Kemp settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 There goes Sample. The throw from Wockenfuss and he is safe. Sample steals second.
Top 5 Sample hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wagner fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Soderholm hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Brookens hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Wockenfuss hits a popup towards short. Bell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Morales hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 4 Kemp hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Trammell scores.
Bottom 4 There goes Trammell. The throw from Ellis and he is safe. Trammell steals second.
Bottom 4 Trammell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Ellis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Trammell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Putnam hits a fly ball into right field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wagner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 LeFlore hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Wagner hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blanks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Putman hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Oliver hits a fly ball into left field. Kemp settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Bell hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 3 Rivers hits a fly ball into right field. Morales settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Blanks hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brookens fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 There go the runners. The throw from Ellis to Blanks covering second. The throw back to home, and Jones is out at the plate.
Bottom 2 Brookens hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Jones moves to third.
Bottom 2 Jones takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Wockenfuss hits a popup towards first. Putnam settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Morales hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Blanks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Sample is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Soderholm hits a fly ball into center field. Jones settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Putnam moves to third.
Top 2 Ellis hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Putnam moves to second.
Top 2 Putnam hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wagner fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Kemp hits a ball on the ground towards first. Putnam scoops it up and throws to first, with Rajsich covering, for the out.
Bottom 1 Trammell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 LeFlore strikes out.
Top 1 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wagner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Bell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Trammell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Rivers hits a ball on the ground towards first. Putman scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Rivers for the out.