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September 24, 1961

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Tigers 5 14 2
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Tigers 5 14 2
Angels 5 7 2

Rocky Bridges Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .249
OBP .500 .332
At Bats 2 209
Hits 1 52
• Singles 0 45
• Doubles 1 4
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 25
RBI’s 0 15

Howie Koplitz Season Stats

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Wrigley Field - September 24, 1961
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Out
Howie Koplitz
Dick Brown
Norm Cash
Jake Wood
Steve Boros
Chico Fernandez
Rocky Colavito
Bill Bruton
Charlie Maxwell
Rocky Bridges
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 1 Out

Howie Koplitz now pitching. Bridges hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Thomas scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Bruton for the out.
Top 9 George Alusik pinch hits for Ron Nischwitz. Alusik hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Averill settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Ken Hunt now playing right field. Albie Pearson now playing left field. Fernandez strikes out.
Bottom 8 Koppe hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Averill hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Thomas hits a line drive towards short. Fernandez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Ken Hunt pinch hits for Leon Wagner. Hunt hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 8 Brown hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bridges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Wood is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Boros hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bridges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Art Fowler now pitching. There's a wild pitch. Colavito scores. Cash moves to second.
Top 8 Cash hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Colavito moves to third.
Top 8 There's a wild pitch. Colavito moves to second.
Top 8 Ryne Duren now pitching. Colavito hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Ron Nischwitz now pitching. Thomas strikes out.
Bottom 7 Pearson takes first base on ball four. Ardell moves to third. Yost moves to second.
Bottom 7 Brown fires to third and picks off Koppe.
Bottom 7 Dan Ardell pinch runs for Steve Bilko. Terry Fox now pitching. Yost takes first base on ball four. Koppe moves to third. Ardell moves to second.
Bottom 7 Ted Kluszewski pinch hits for Jack Spring. Hank Aguirre now pitching. Steve Bilko pinch hits for Ted Kluszewski. Bilko takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Bridges bunts towards first. Cash scoops it up and throws to first, with Wood covering, for the out. Koppe moves to second.
Bottom 7 Gerry Staley now pitching. Chico Fernandez now playing shortstop. Koppe hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 7 Maxwell hits a fly ball into left field. Wagner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bruton hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bridges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 There goes Morton. The throw from Averill and he is out, Yost applying the tag.
Top 7 Frank Lary pinch runs for Al Kaline. Bubba Morton pinch hits for Dick McAuliffe. Morton hits a line drive into left field. Wagner picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Wagner. Brown scores. Lary scores. Morton moves to second.
Top 7 Vic Wertz pinch hits for Phil Regan. Jack Spring now pitching. Al Kaline pinch hits for Vic Wertz. Kaline hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Pearson. Kaline reaches second base with a double. Wood scores. Brown moves to third.
Top 7 Brown hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Wood moves to second.
Top 7 Wood hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Averill strikes out.
Bottom 6 Thomas hits a popup towards short. McAuliffe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Wagner hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Boros hits a ball on the ground towards short. Koppe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Cash takes first base on ball four. Maxwell moves to second.
Top 6 Colavito hits a popup towards first. Thomas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Maxwell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Bruton hits a popup towards first. Thomas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Thomas hits a fly ball into right field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Pearson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Yost hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Phil Regan now pitching. Chance hits a ball on the ground towards short. McAuliffe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 McAuliffe hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Chance fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Bobo Osborne pinch hits for Paul Foytack. Osborne hits a ball on the ground towards first. Thomas scoops it up and throws to first, with Chance covering, for the out. Wood moves to third.
Top 5 Brown is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Wood hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Thomas. Wood reaches second base with a double. Boros scores.
Top 5 Boros hits a line drive into right field. That will be extra bases. Pearson fumbles the ball. That's a double and an error on Pearson. Boros moves to third.
Bottom 4 Bridges strikes out.
Bottom 4 Koppe hits a fly ball into right field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Averill tags and scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 4 Averill hits a line drive into left field. Colavito picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Colavito. Thomas scores. Wagner goes all the way around to score. Averill moves to third. Two runs are unearned.
Bottom 4 Thomas hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Wagner hits a ball on the ground towards short. McAuliffe misplays the ball. That's an error on McAuliffe. Thomas moves to second.
Bottom 4 Thomas takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Cash hits a fly ball into left field. Wagner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Colavito hits a ball on the ground towards short. Koppe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Maxwell is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Pearson hits a popup towards third. Boros settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Yost hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Bridges scores.
Bottom 3 Chance hits a ball on the ground towards short. McAuliffe scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Bridges moves to third.
Bottom 3 Bridges hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Maxwell. Bridges reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Koppe strikes out.
Top 3 Bruton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. There goes Foytack trying to get to home. Pearson throws the ball in to Averill who tags Foytack who's trying to score from second, for the out. McAuliffe moves to second.
Top 3 McAuliffe hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Foytack moves to second.
Top 3 Foytack hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Brown hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Bridges settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Wood strikes out.
Bottom 2 Averill hits a popup towards first. Cash settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Foytack fires to first and picks off Thomas.
Bottom 2 Thomas hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Wagner hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Boros strikes out.
Top 2 Chance fires to second, and they've got Cash trapped. There's the throw to Thomas who applies the tag for the out.
Top 2 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Chance fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Colavito hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Thomas hits a popup towards third. Boros settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Pearson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Yost hits a popup towards third. Boros settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Maxwell hits a fly ball into center field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Chance spins and fires to second, with Koppe covering, and Bruton is picked off.
Top 1 Bruton hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Thomas. Bruton reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 McAuliffe hits a fly ball into center field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.