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July 30, 1972

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Bottom 11 R H E
Royals 3 11 0
Angels 3 9 0
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Royals 3 11 0
Angels 4 10 0

Bob Oliver Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .279
OBP .000 .313
At Bats 4 365
Hits 0 102
• Singles 0 74
• Doubles 0 13
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 12
Walks 0 16
RBI’s 0 48

Al Fitzmorris Season Stats

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2 3 2
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Anaheim Stadium - July 30, 1972
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Home Run
Al Fitzmorris
Ed Kirkpatrick
John Mayberry
Cookie Rojas
Paul Schaal
Freddie Patek
Lou Piniella
Amos Otis
Steve Hovley
Bob Oliver

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Kansas City Royals 3 11 0 12
California Angels 4 10 0 6
Winning Pitcher Lloyd Allen
Losing Pitcher Al Fitzmorris
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Bob Oliver
Attendance 13,966
Time of Game 3 hours 11 minutes
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Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Oliver hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 11 Hovley hits a fly ball into center field. Berry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Otis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 11 Rojas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Parker strikes out. Kirkpatrick drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Parker out.
Bottom 10 Cardenas hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Al Fitzmorris now pitching. Pinson hits a fly ball into center field. Otis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Joe Keough pinch hits for Ted Abernathy. Keough hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Alomar scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Patek hits a ball on the ground towards third. Parker fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Mayberry moves to third.
Top 10 Schaal hits a fly ball into right field. Stanton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Mayberry hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 10 Piniella hits a fly ball into right field. Stanton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Allen hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Abernathy fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Hiatt hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Berry hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Alomar hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Abernathy fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Kirkpatrick hits a fly ball towards left. Pinson catches it and throws to Alomar who relays to Oliver to double up Hovley.
Top 9 Hovley hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 9 Leroy Stanton now playing right field. Vada Pinson now playing left field. Otis hits a fly ball into right field. Stanton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Spencer hits a fly ball into right field. Hovley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Oliver is called out on strikes.
Bottom 8 Ted Abernathy now pitching. Parker hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Rojas hits a fly ball into center field. Berry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Gail Hopkins pinch hits for Ken Wright. Hopkins takes first base on ball four. Patek moves to second.
Top 8 Patek hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Mayberry scores.
Top 8 Schaal hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Allen fields it and throws to first for the out. Mayberry moves to second.
Top 8 Mayberry takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Sandy Alomar now playing second base. Billy Parker now playing third base. Jack Hiatt now catching. Lloyd Allen now pitching. Piniella hits a line drive towards short. Cardenas reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Cardenas hits a fly ball into center field. Otis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pinson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Alomar scores. Berry scores. Hiatt moves to third.
Bottom 7 Andy Kosco pinch hits for Steve Barber. Ken Wright now pitching. Kosco is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 John Stephenson pinch hits for Jeff Torborg. Tom Burgmeier now pitching. Jack Hiatt pinch hits for John Stephenson. Hiatt takes first base on ball four. Berry moves to second.
Bottom 7 Sandy Alomar pinch runs for Ken McMullen. Berry hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Alomar moves to third.
Bottom 7 McMullen hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hedlund fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 Steve Hovley now playing right field. Spencer strikes out.
Top 7 Steve Hovley pinch runs for Richie Scheinblum. Kirkpatrick hits a fly ball into right field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Scheinblum is hit by the pitch.
Top 7 Otis hits a fly ball into right field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Steve Barber now pitching. Rojas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Oliver hits a popup towards third. Schaal settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Parker takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Cardenas hits a fly ball into right field. Scheinblum settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mayberry scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Pinson for the out.
Top 6 Hedlund strikes out.
Top 6 Patek hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Spencer. Patek reaches second base with a double. Mayberry scores. Schaal moves to third.
Top 6 Schaal takes first base on ball four. Mayberry moves to second.
Top 6 Mayberry hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Piniella hits a ball on the ground towards third. McMullen fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Kirkpatrick hits a ball on the ground towards first. Oliver scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Kirkpatrick for the out.
Bottom 5 Messersmith hits a fly ball into center field. Otis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Torborg hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Berry scores. Torborg moves to second.
Bottom 5 There's a wild pitch. Berry moves to second.
Bottom 5 Berry hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 McMullen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Spencer is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Scheinblum hits a fly ball into right field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Otis strikes out.
Top 5 Rojas hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Spencer. Rojas reaches second base with a double. Patek scores.
Top 5 Hedlund hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Patek moves to third.
Top 5 Patek takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Parker hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hedlund fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Cardenas hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Schaal hits a fly ball into left field. Spencer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Mayberry strikes out.
Top 4 There goes Piniella. The throw from Torborg and he is safe. Piniella steals second.
Top 4 Piniella hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Kirkpatrick hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Parker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rojas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Messersmith hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Otis. Messersmith reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Torborg hits a line drive towards short. Patek reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Berry hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mayberry scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Berry for the out.
Top 3 Scheinblum hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Parker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Otis takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Rojas hits a ball on the ground towards third. McMullen fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Hedlund bunts towards the mound. Messersmith fields it and throws to first for the out. Patek moves to second.
Top 3 Patek hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Messersmith fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 2 McMullen strikes out.
Bottom 2 Spencer hits a popup, foul, towards the right side of the infield. Rojas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Oliver hits a popup, foul, towards short. Patek settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Schaal strikes out.
Top 2 Mayberry strikes out.
Top 2 There goes Piniella. The throw from Torborg and he is safe. Piniella steals second.
Top 2 Piniella hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Kirkpatrick hits a popup towards short. Cardenas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Parker hits a fly ball into right field. Scheinblum settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Cardenas hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hedlund fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Hedlund spins and fires to second, and Pinson is picked off.
Bottom 1 There goes Pinson. The throw from Kirkpatrick and he is safe. Pinson steals second.
Bottom 1 Pinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Scheinblum hits a line drive towards first. Oliver catches it and steps on first to double up Rojas.
Top 1 Otis strikes out.
Top 1 Rojas hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.