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May 7, 1961

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Red Sox 11 10 1
Twins 9 11 1
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Red Sox 11 10 1
Twins 9 11 1

Billy Gardner Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .284
OBP .250 .354
At Bats 4 74
Hits 1 21
• Singles 1 17
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 8
RBI’s 0 4

Billy Muffett Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 2 0
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Metropolitan Stadium - May 7, 1961
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Out
Billy Muffett
Russ Nixon
Pete Runnels
Chuck Schilling
Frank Malzone
Don Buddin
Carl Yastrzemski
Gary Geiger
Carroll Hardy
Billy Gardner
Earl Battey

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Boston Red Sox 11 10 1 7
Minnesota Twins 9 11 1 7
Winning Pitcher Mike Fornieles
Losing Pitcher Camilo Pascual
Save Billy Muffett
Game Winning RBI Chuck Schilling
Attendance 23,389
Time of Game 2 hours 56 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Muffett fields it and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Lemon hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Killebrew tags and scores.
Bottom 9 Battey hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Dobbek scores. Killebrew moves to third.
Bottom 9 Billy Muffett now pitching. Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and races to the third base bag for the out. Dobbek moves to second.
Bottom 9 Dobbek hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Green moves to second.
Bottom 9 Pete Runnels now playing first base. Green takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Fornieles hits a ball on the ground towards third. Killebrew fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Top 9 Buddin takes first base on ball four. Nixon moves to third. Hardy moves to second.
Top 9 Hardy hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Nixon moves to second.
Top 9 Nixon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Runnels scores.
Top 9 Pete Runnels pinch runs for Vic Wertz. Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. Versalles scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Runnels moves to second.
Top 9 Wertz takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Harmon Killebrew now playing third base. Don Mincher now playing first base. Bill Pleis now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Versalles hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Don Mincher pinch hits for Don Lee. Mincher takes first base on ball four. Allison moves to second.
Bottom 8 Bob Allison pinch hits for Billy Consolo. Allison takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 8 Lemon takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Versalles scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Schilling hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Lemon. Schilling reaches second base with a double. Nixon scores. Hardy scores.
Top 8 Fornieles strikes out.
Top 8 Buddin bunts towards the mound. Lee fields it and throws to first for the out. Nixon moves to third. Hardy moves to second.
Top 8 Hardy bunts towards the mound. Lee fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Nixon moves to second.
Top 8 Billy Consolo now playing third base. Nixon is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 7 Battey hits a popup, foul, towards first. Wertz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Killebrew hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 7 Dobbek hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Green hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Versalles hits a line drive towards third. Malzone reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lee fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Wertz strikes out.
Top 7 Don Lee now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Hal Naragon pinch hits for Chuck Stobbs. Naragon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops it up and throws to first, with Fornieles covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Bertoia hits a popup towards first. Wertz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Versalles scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Fornieles hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Battey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Killebrew hits a long drive deep into right center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 5 Dobbek hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops it up and throws to first, with Fornieles covering, for the out.
Top 5 Buddin hits a popup towards short. Versalles settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hardy hits a fly ball into right field. Dobbek settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Nixon hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Dobbek. Nixon reaches second base with a double. Wertz scores. Malzone goes all the way around to score.
Top 5 Malzone takes first base on ball four. Wertz moves to second.
Top 5 Wertz hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Chuck Stobbs now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops it up and throws to first, with Stobbs covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Green hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Paul Giel pinch runs for Elmer Valo. Mike Fornieles now pitching. Versalles strikes out.
Bottom 4 Elmer Valo pinch hits for Camilo Pascual. Valo hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Lemon scores. Bertoia moves to second.
Bottom 4 Bertoia hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling fields it and throws to second for the out. Lemon moves to third.
Bottom 4 Gardner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lemon moves to second.
Bottom 4 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Geiger for the out.
Top 4 Schilling hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A grand slam home run.
Top 4 Monbouquette takes first base on ball four. Buddin moves to second.
Top 4 Buddin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Bertoia. Malzone moves to third.
Top 4 Hardy hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Nixon hits a fly ball into right field. Dobbek settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Malzone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Battey is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Buddin. Green scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 There goes Green. The throw from Nixon and he is safe. Green steals second.
Bottom 3 Dobbek hits a popup, foul, towards third. Malzone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Green hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Versalles scores.
Bottom 3 There goes Versalles. The throw from Nixon and he is safe. Versalles steals third.
Bottom 3 Versalles hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Yastrzemski. Versalles reaches second base with a double. Pascual goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Pascual takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Bertoia hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Wertz strikes out.
Top 3 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Geiger hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Gardner hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops it up and throws to first, with Monbouquette covering, for the out.
Bottom 2 Battey strikes out.
Top 2 Schilling hits a popup, foul, towards first. Killebrew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Monbouquette bunts in front of the plate. Battey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Buddin takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Hardy hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Pascual fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Dobbek hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Green strikes out.
Bottom 1 There goes Versalles. The throw from Nixon and he is safe. Versalles steals second.
Bottom 1 Versalles hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 The ball gets by Battey for a passed ball. Malzone moves to third.
Top 1 Malzone hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Wertz hits a long drive deep into right center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 1 Yastrzemski takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Geiger strikes out.
Top 1 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.