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July 4, 1973

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Top 9 R H E
Royals 5 6 0
Twins 3 12 1
Top 9 R H E
Royals 5 6 0
Twins 3 12 1

Steve Hovley Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .259
OBP .000 .352
At Bats 3 158
Hits 0 41
• Singles 0 34
• Doubles 0 6
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 23
RBI’s 0 17

Bill Hands Season Stats

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5 7 0
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Metropolitan Stadium - July 4, 1973
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Bill Hands
George Mitterwald
Joe Lis
Rod Carew
Steve Braun
Jerry Terrell
Jim Holt
Larry Hisle
Bobby Darwin
Steve Hovley
Cookie Rojas
Freddie Patek
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Hovley hits a line drive into left field. Holt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Bill Hands now pitching. Rojas hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. White scores. Kirkpatrick scores. Patek moves to second.
Top 9 Patek takes first base on ball four. Schaal scores. White moves to third. Kirkpatrick moves to second.
Top 9 Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits for Fran Healy. Kirkpatrick takes first base on ball four. Schaal moves to third. White moves to second.
Top 9 Frank White pinch runs for John Mayberry. Gail Hopkins pinch hits for Jim Wohlford. Hopkins hits a popup, foul, towards third. Braun settles under it and makes the catch for the out. Bevacqua scores.
Top 9 John Mayberry pinch hits for Hal McRae. Mayberry takes first base on ball four. Bevacqua moves to third. Schaal moves to second.
Top 9 Schaal takes first base on ball four. Bevacqua moves to second.
Top 9 Bevacqua hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Piniella strikes out.
Bottom 8 Holt hits a fly ball into center field. Hovley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Mitterwald hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Lis hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 8 Hisle hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Braun scores.
Bottom 8 Braun hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Hovley. Braun reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 8 Darwin strikes out.
Bottom 8 Oliva hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Hovley hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Terrell fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Top 8 Rojas hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Patek strikes out.
Top 8 Ray Corbin now pitching. Healy hits a fly ball into left field. Holt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Terrell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Carew hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Drago fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Holt hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Wohlford hits a line drive into left field. Holt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 McRae strikes out.
Top 7 Schaal takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Bevacqua bunts towards the mound. Bane fields it and throws to first for the out. Piniella moves to second.
Top 7 Piniella hits a ball on the ground towards third. Braun juggles the ball. That's an error on Braun.
Bottom 6 Mitterwald hits a fly ball into right field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Lis hits a popup towards the mound. Drago settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hisle hits a popup, foul, towards first. Bevacqua settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Braun hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Hovley who is chasing the ball. Braun reaches third base with a triple.
Top 6 Hovley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Rojas hits a fly ball into center field. Hisle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Patek hits a ball on the ground towards third. Braun fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Darwin strikes out.
Bottom 5 Oliva hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Drago fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Terrell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Healy strikes out.
Top 5 Wohlford hits a ball on the ground towards short. Terrell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 McRae hits a line drive towards the mound. Bane reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Carew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Holt hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Mitterwald hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Lis hits a fly ball into right field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Schaal hits a ball on the ground towards second. Carew scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 4 Bevacqua hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Piniella hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bane fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Hisle hits a fly ball into center field. Hovley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Braun takes first base on ball four. Carew moves to third. Darwin moves to second.
Bottom 3 Darwin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Carew moves to second.
Bottom 3 Oliva hits a fly ball into center field. Hovley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Terrell is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Carew hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Hovley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Rojas takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Patek hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Bane, and towards Terrell, who fields it and throws to first for the out. Healy moves to third.
Top 3 Healy hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Darwin. Healy reaches second base with a double. McRae scores.
Top 3 Wohlford hits a ball on the ground towards short. Terrell scoops it up and throws to first for the out. McRae moves to second.
Top 3 McRae hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Holt hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Mitterwald is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 The umpire calls a balk on Drago Lis moves to second.
Bottom 2 Lis takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Hisle hits a fly ball into right field. McRae settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Schaal hits a ball on the ground towards short. Terrell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Bevacqua hits a ball on the ground towards third. Braun fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Piniella strikes out.
Bottom 1 Braun hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rojas fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Darwin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Terrell moves to third. Oliva moves to second.
Bottom 1 Oliva takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Terrell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Piniella. Terrell reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 There goes Carew. The throw from Healy and he is out, Patek applying the tag.
Bottom 1 Steve Hovley now playing center field. Carew hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 There goes Otis. The throw from Mitterwald and he is out, Carew applying the tag.
Top 1 Otis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Terrell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Rojas takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Patek hits a fly ball into center field. Hisle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.