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May 17, 1961

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Elston Howard Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .380
OBP .750 .407
At Bats 3 50
Hits 2 19
• Singles 2 15
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 1
RBI’s 1 6

Marty Kutyna Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 0 1
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Yankee Stadium - May 17, 1961
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Single
Marty Kutyna
Pete Daley
R C Stevens
Danny O'Connell
Billy Klaus
Jim Mahoney
Chuck Hinton
Willie Tasby
Marty Keough
Elston Howard
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Howard hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Stevens is called out on strikes.
Top 9 Tasby strikes out.
Top 9 Joe DeMaestri now playing second base. Luis Arroyo now pitching. Keough hits a ball on the ground towards first. Skowron scoops it up and throws to first, with Arroyo covering, for the out.
Bottom 8 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards third. Klaus fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Bottom 8 Mantle takes first base on ball four. Boyer moves to second.
Bottom 8 Boyer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cerv scores. Lopez moves to third.
Bottom 8 Lopez hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cerv moves to third.
Bottom 8 R C Stevens now playing first base. Marty Kutyna now pitching. Yogi Berra pinch hits for Bobby Richardson. Berra hits a fly ball into center field. Tasby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Kubek tags and scores.
Bottom 8 Bob Cerv pinch hits for Danny McDevitt. Cerv hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kubek moves to third.
Bottom 8 Kubek hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long fields the ball and throws to Burnside covering. Safe.
Bottom 8 Maris hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 8 Howard hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Mantle scores.
Bottom 8 There's a wild pitch. Mantle moves to second.
Bottom 8 Skowron strikes out.
Bottom 8 Mantle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Hinton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Top 8 O'Connell takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Klaus hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Howard settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 The ball gets by Howard for a passed ball. Burnside moves to second.
Top 8 Danny McDevitt now pitching. Burnside takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Klaus fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Lopez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Richardson hits a line drive into center field. Tasby settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Marty Keough now playing right field. Deron Johnson pinch hits for Jim Coates. Johnson hits a line drive towards short. Mahoney reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Mahoney hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Daley takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Long hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Mantle. Long reaches second base with a double. O'Connell scores. Hinton goes all the way around to score.
Top 7 Tasby strikes out.
Top 7 King hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Hinton takes first base on ball four. O'Connell moves to second.
Top 7 O'Connell is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 6 Kubek hits a ball on the ground towards short. Mahoney scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Bottom 6 Maris bunts towards the right side of the infield. O'Connell fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 6 Howard hits a fly ball into right field. King settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Klaus hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Burnside strikes out.
Top 6 Mahoney strikes out.
Bottom 5 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Burnside fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Mantle hits a ball on the ground towards short. Mahoney misplays the ball. That's an error on Mahoney. Boyer moves to second.
Bottom 5 Boyer takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Klaus fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Richardson hits a fly ball into left field. Hinton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Daley hits a popup, foul, towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Jim Coates now pitching. Long hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Maris. Long reaches second base with a double. There goes Tasby trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Top 5 Tasby hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hinton scores. King scores.
Top 5 King hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Maris. King reaches second base with a double. O'Connell scores. Hinton moves to third.
Top 5 Hinton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. O'Connell moves to third.
Top 5 O'Connell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Burnside scores. That run is unearned.
Top 5 Klaus hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Burnside moves to third.
Top 5 The ball gets by Howard for a passed ball. Burnside moves to second.
Top 5 Burnside hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Boyer.
Bottom 4 Ditmar strikes out.
Bottom 4 Kubek hits a fly ball into right field. King settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Maris hits a line drive into right field. King settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Howard hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Mahoney is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Daley hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Long hits a ball on the ground towards first. Skowron scoops it up and throws to first, with Ditmar covering, for the out.
Top 4 Tasby hits a fly ball into left field. Lopez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Skowron strikes out.
Bottom 3 Mantle hits a popup towards short. Mahoney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Boyer hits a fly ball into right field. King settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Lopez hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 King hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Richardson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Hinton hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Richardson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 O'Connell is hit by the pitch.
Top 3 Klaus hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Richardson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Klaus fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards third. Klaus fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Kubek hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hinton. Kubek reaches second base with a double. Maris moves to third.
Bottom 2 Maris hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long throws to second for one, and Mahoney throws the ball away attempting to make the double play. Skowron scores.
Bottom 2 Howard is hit by the pitch. Skowron moves to second.
Bottom 2 Skowron hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Burnside strikes out.
Top 2 Mahoney hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Daley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Richardson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Long hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Mantle strikes out. Daley drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Mantle out.
Bottom 1 Boyer takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Lopez hits a line drive towards first. Long reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Richardson hits a popup towards short. Mahoney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Tasby hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 King hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There goes Hinton. The throw from Howard and he is safe. Hinton steals second.
Top 1 Hinton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it and throws to third for the out. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 1 O'Connell hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Maris. O'Connell reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Klaus hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.