Tigers @ Athletics
September 25, 1961

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Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 6 15 0
Athletics 4 10 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Tigers 6 15 0
Athletics 4 10 0

Leo Posada Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .255
OBP .000 .321
At Bats 3 330
Hits 0 84
• Singles 0 64
• Doubles 0 9
• Triples 0 4
• Home Runs 0 7
Walks 0 34
RBI’s 0 52

Gerry Staley Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 5 3
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Municipal Stadium - September 25, 1961
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Out
Gerry Staley
Dick Brown
Norm Cash
Jake Wood
Steve Boros
Dick McAuliffe
Rocky Colavito
Bill Bruton
Bubba Morton
Leo Posada

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Detroit Tigers 6 15 0 12
Kansas City Athletics 4 10 0 2
Winning Pitcher Hank Aguirre
Losing Pitcher Jim Archer
Save Gerry Staley
Game Winning RBI Vic Wertz
Attendance
Time of Game 2 hours 26 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Posada hits a ball on the ground towards short. McAuliffe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boros fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Siebern strikes out.
Top 9 Staley is called out on strikes.
Top 9 Brown hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 9 Wood hits a fly ball into right field. Cipriani settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Dave Wickersham now pitching. Boros hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Lumpe hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Staley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 The ball gets by Brown for a passed ball. Howser scores. Del Greco moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 8 There's a wild pitch. Howser moves to third. Del Greco moves to second.
Bottom 8 Del Greco hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Howser moves to second.
Bottom 8 Howser hits a ball on the ground towards short. McAuliffe fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Jim Rivera pinch hits for Ed Rakow. Rivera hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Dick McAuliffe now playing shortstop. Gerry Staley now pitching. Sullivan strikes out.
Top 8 Cash hits a fly ball into left field. Posada settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Colavito hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Morton moves to third.
Top 8 Ed Rakow now pitching. Morton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Bruton scores.
Top 8 Reno Bertoia pinch runs for Vic Wertz. Bruton hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Del Greco. Bruton reaches second base with a double. Bertoia goes all the way around to score.
Top 8 Frank Lary pinch runs for Al Kaline. Bill Kunkel now pitching. Vic Wertz pinch hits for Chico Fernandez. Wertz hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lary scores.
Top 8 Al Kaline pinch hits for Hank Aguirre. Kaline hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Cipriani who is chasing the ball. Kaline reaches third base with a triple. Wood scores.
Top 8 Brown hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Archer fields it and throws to first for the out. Wood moves to second.
Top 8 Wood hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Boros scores.
Top 8 Boros hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Posada. Boros reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Cash for the out.
Bottom 7 Cipriani hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Posada hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Johnson bunts in front of the plate. Brown fields it and throws to first for the out. Siebern moves to second.
Bottom 7 Hank Aguirre now pitching. Siebern hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Colavito hits a fly ball into left field. Posada settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Morton hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Fernandez moves to third.
Top 7 Bruton strikes out.
Top 7 Fernandez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 George Alusik pinch hits for Don Mossi. Alusik hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Lumpe strikes out. There goes Howser. The throw from Brown to Fernandez, and Howser is out.
Bottom 6 Del Greco hits a popup towards the mound. Mossi settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Howser hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Brown hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Wood takes first base on ball four. Cash moves to second.
Top 6 Boros hits a popup in front of the plate. Sullivan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Cash hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Colavito moves to third.
Top 6 Colavito hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Morton hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Archer hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Mossi fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Sullivan strikes out.
Bottom 5 Cipriani hits a fly ball into right field. Morton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Bruton hits a fly ball into left field. Posada settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Fernandez hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Posada. Fernandez reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Mossi hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops it up and throws to first, with Archer covering, for the out.
Top 5 Brown hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Posada strikes out.
Bottom 4 Johnson strikes out.
Bottom 4 Siebern hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 4 Lumpe hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Del Greco scores.
Bottom 4 Del Greco hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Bruton. Del Greco reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Howser hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Wood hits a fly ball into right field. Cipriani settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Boros hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Cash is hit by the pitch.
Top 4 Frank Cipriani now playing right field. Deron Johnson now playing third base. Leo Posada now playing left field. Colavito hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Archer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Sullivan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Causey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Morton strikes out.
Top 3 Bruton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Fernandez hits a popup towards third. Causey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Mossi hits a ball on the ground towards third. Causey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Posada hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Mossi fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Siebern hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Brown strikes out.
Top 2 Wood hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Del Greco who is chasing the ball. Wood reaches third base with a triple. Boros goes all the way around to score.
Top 2 Boros takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Cash hits a fly ball into left field. Johnson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Colavito hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Lumpe hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Del Greco hits a line drive towards the mound. Mossi catches it and throws to first to double up Howser.
Bottom 1 Howser hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Morton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Archer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Bruton for the out.
Top 1 Fernandez strikes out.