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August 20, 1959

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Bottom 9 R H E
Giants 5 15 1
Braves 2 10 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Giants 5 15 1
Braves 3 11 0

Eddie Mathews Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .295
OBP .500 .373
At Bats 4 454
Hits 2 134
• Singles 2 85
• Doubles 0 7
• Triples 0 8
• Home Runs 0 34
Walks 0 56
RBI’s 1 82

Sam Jones Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
15 11 4
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County Stadium - August 20, 1959
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Single
Sam Jones
Bob Schmidt
Orlando Cepeda
Daryl Spencer
Danny O'Connell
Eddie Bressoud
Jackie Brandt
Willie Mays
Felipe Alou
Eddie Mathews
Bobby Avila
Johnny Logan
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Mathews hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Logan scores. Avila moves to third.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Avila hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Logan moves to third.
Bottom 9 Mickey Vernon pinch hits for Warren Spahn. Vernon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cepeda scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Vernon for the out. Logan moves to second.
Bottom 9 Crandall hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Danny O'Connell now playing third base. Jackie Brandt now playing left field. Orlando Cepeda now playing first base. Logan hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Spencer hits a popup towards first. Torre settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Cepeda hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Top 9 McCovey hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 9 Mays hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 9 Brandt hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Jones strikes out.
Bottom 8 Maye strikes out.
Bottom 8 Torre hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Cepeda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Bruton is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Bressoud strikes out.
Top 8 Schmidt strikes out.
Top 8 Alou hits a fly ball into right field. Aaron settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Aaron hits a popup towards short. Bressoud settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Mathews hits a ball on the ground towards first. McCovey scoops it up and throws to first, with Jones covering, for the out. Crandall scores. Spahn moves to third.
Bottom 7 Avila bunts towards the mound. Jones fields it and throws to first for the out. Crandall moves to third. Spahn moves to second.
Bottom 7 Spahn hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Crandall moves to second.
Bottom 7 Crandall takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 7 Cepeda hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Brandt moves to third.
Top 7 McCovey hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Avila settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Mays hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Brandt hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Maye. Brandt reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Logan hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Maye hits a popup, foul, towards first. McCovey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Torre hits a fly ball into left field. Cepeda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Avila scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Bressoud hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Bruton who is chasing the ball. Bressoud reaches third base with a triple. Schmidt goes all the way around to score.
Top 6 Schmidt hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Avila scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Spencer hits a fly ball into left field. Maye settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Bruton strikes out.
Bottom 5 Aaron hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Mathews moves to second.
Bottom 5 Mathews hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Avila hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brandt fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Spahn hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brandt fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Cepeda hits a ball on the ground for a double play.
Top 5 McCovey hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit. Brandt scores. Mays moves to third.
Top 5 Mays hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Brandt moves to second.
Top 5 Brandt hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Bressoud scores.
Top 5 Jones hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Crandall settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Bressoud hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Maye. Bressoud reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Crandall hits a fly ball into left field. Cepeda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Logan strikes out. Schmidt drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Logan out.
Bottom 4 Maye hits a ball on the ground towards first. McCovey scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Maye for the out.
Top 4 Schmidt strikes out.
Top 4 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Bill Bruton now playing center field. Hank Aaron now playing right field. Lee Maye now playing left field. Spencer hits a fly ball into right field. Aaron settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Torre hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bressoud fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Covington hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Mathews moves to third.
Bottom 3 Aaron hits a fly ball into left field. Cepeda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Mathews bunts towards the mound. Jones fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 3 Cepeda strikes out.
Top 3 McCovey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Mays moves to third.
Top 3 Mays hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Brandt hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Jones strikes out.
Bottom 2 Avila hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brandt fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Spahn hits a fly ball into left field. Cepeda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Crandall hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Logan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brandt fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Bressoud hits a fly ball into center field. Aaron settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Schmidt hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Alou moves to second.
Top 2 Alou hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Spencer hits a fly ball into center field. Aaron settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cepeda strikes out.
Bottom 1 Maye strikes out.
Bottom 1 Torre hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Alou. Torre reaches second base with a double. Avila scores. Aaron moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 1 Covington hits a popup, foul, towards first. McCovey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Aaron hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 There goes Avila. The throw from Schmidt and he is safe. Avila steals second.
Bottom 1 Mathews hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Spencer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Avila hits a ball on the ground towards third. Brandt fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Brandt.
Top 1 McCovey hits a ball on the ground towards first. Torre scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats McCovey for the out.
Top 1 Mays hits a fly ball into left field. Covington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Frank Torre now playing first base. Brandt hits a popup towards first. Torre settles under it and makes the catch for the out.