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September 7, 1978

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Bottom 9 R H E
Dodgers 3 11 0
Astros 2 7 0
Bottom 9 R H E
Dodgers 3 11 0
Astros 2 7 0

Wilbur Howard Season Stats

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Terry Forster Season Stats

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Astrodome - September 7, 1978
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Pickoff
Terry Forster
Steve Yeager
Steve Garvey
Davey Lopes
Ron Cey
Bill Russell
Dusty Baker
Bill North
Reggie Smith
Wilbur Howard
Jimmy Sexton

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Los Angeles Dodgers 3 11 0 10
Houston Astros 2 7 0 8
Winning Pitcher Burt Hooton
Losing Pitcher Mark Lemongello
Save Terry Forster
Game Winning RBI Vic Davalillo
Attendance 7,846
Time of Game 2 hours 13 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Wilbur Howard pinch hits for Keith Drumright. Yeager fires to first and picks off Sexton.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Jimmy Sexton pinch runs for Bob Watson. Landestoy hits a fly ball into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Bob Watson pinch hits for Mark Lemongello. Watson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Bochy hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Garvey hits a fly ball into center field. Puhl settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Smith hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Drumright scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Jesus Alou now playing left field. Julio Gonzalez now playing third base. Enos Cabell now playing first base. Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Reggie Baldwin pinch hits for Dave Bergman. Baldwin is called out on strikes.
Bottom 8 Jesus Alou pinch hits for Denny Walling. Alou hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Steve Yeager now catching. Terry Forster now pitching. Bill North now playing center field. Cabell hits a popup towards first. Garvey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Lopes hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 8 Myron White pinch runs for Joe Ferguson. Vic Davalillo pinch hits for Burt Hooton. Davalillo hits a fly ball into left field. Walling settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Baker tags and scores.
Top 8 Ferguson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Baker moves to third.
Top 8 Monday bunts towards the mound. Lemongello fields it and throws to first for the out. Baker moves to second.
Top 8 Baker takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Cruz strikes out.
Bottom 7 There goes Puhl. The throw from Ferguson and he is safe. Puhl steals second.
Bottom 7 Puhl hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 Drumright hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hooton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Landestoy hits a fly ball into right field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Cey hits a popup towards third. Cabell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Garvey hits a popup, foul, towards first. Bergman settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Smith hits a fly ball into right field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Lemongello hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lopes settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Bochy hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to home to get Cabell. Walling moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 6 Bergman hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hooton fields it and throws to first for the out. Cabell moves to third. Walling moves to second.
Bottom 6 Walling takes first base on ball four. Cabell moves to second.
Bottom 6 Cabell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Drumright scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Lopes hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Walling. Lopes reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Hooton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Ferguson hits a fly ball into center field. Puhl settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Cruz hits a fly ball into center field. Monday settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Puhl hits a fly ball into right field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Lemongello tags and scores.
Bottom 5 Drumright hits a ball on the ground towards unknown player. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Lemongello moves to third. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 5 Landestoy bunts towards the mound. Hooton fields it and throws to first for the out. Lemongello moves to second.
Bottom 5 Lemongello hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Monday strikes out.
Top 5 Baker hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 5 Cey strikes out.
Top 5 Garvey hits a line drive towards third. Cabell reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Bochy hits a fly ball into center field. Monday settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Bergman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lopes scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Walling hits a popup towards third. Cey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Smith hits a ball on the ground towards first. Bergman scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Smith for the out.
Top 4 Russell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Hooton moves to third. Lopes moves to second.
Top 4 Lopes hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Hooton moves to second.
Top 4 Hooton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Ferguson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Drumright fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 4 Monday hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Cruz takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There goes Puhl. The throw from Ferguson and he is safe. Puhl steals second.
Bottom 3 Puhl takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Drumright hits a ball on the ground towards first. Garvey scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Drumright for the out. Landestoy moves to third.
Bottom 3 There goes Landestoy. The throw from Ferguson and he is safe. Landestoy steals second.
Bottom 3 Landestoy takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Lemongello hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Baker hits a fly ball into right field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Cey strikes out.
Top 3 Garvey is hit by the pitch. Lopes moves to third. Smith moves to second.
Top 3 Smith hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Lopes moves to second.
Top 3 Russell hits a fly ball into right field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Lopes hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Bochy hits a line drive towards third. Cey catches it and steps on third to double up Walling.
Bottom 2 Bergman hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Walling moves to third.
Bottom 2 Walling hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cruz scores.
Bottom 2 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lopes scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Cruz moves to third.
Bottom 2 Cruz hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Baker. Cruz reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Hooton hits a popup towards first. Bergman settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Ferguson strikes out.
Top 2 There goes Monday. The throw from Bochy and he is out, Drumright applying the tag.
Top 2 Monday takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Puhl hits a fly ball into right field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Drumright hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lopes scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Landestoy hits a ball on the ground towards first. Garvey scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Landestoy for the out.
Top 1 Baker hits a ball on the ground towards short. Landestoy fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Cey takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 There goes Garvey. The throw from Bochy and he is safe. Garvey steals second.
Top 1 Garvey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Russell scores.
Top 1 Smith hits a fly ball into center field. Puhl settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Russell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Walling. Russell reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Lopes hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Drumright scoops it up and throws to first for the out.