Astros @ Phillies
July 17, 1975

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Bottom 11 R H E
Astros 5 9 2
Phillies 5 13 1
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Astros 5 9 3
Phillies 6 13 1

Jay Johnstone Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .358
OBP .600 .444
At Bats 4 179
Hits 2 64
• Singles 1 46
• Doubles 1 11
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 5
Walks 1 28
RBI’s 1 32

Ken Forsch Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 6 2
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Veterans Stadium - July 17, 1975
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Out
Ken Forsch
Cliff Johnson
Bob Watson
Larry Milbourne
Doug Rader
Roger Metzger
Wilbur Howard
Cesar Cedeno
Greg Gross
Jay Johnstone
Larry Bowa

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Houston Astros 5 9 3 7
Philadelphia Phillies 6 13 1 11
Winning Pitcher Tug McGraw
Losing Pitcher Ken Forsch
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI (none)
Attendance 18,026
Time of Game 3 hours 4 minutes
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Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 1 Out

End of Game

Johnstone bunts for an out. Bowa goes all the way around to score. That run is unearned.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 11 Ken Forsch now pitching. Bowa hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 11 Enos Cabell pinch hits for Wayne Granger. Cabell hits a fly ball into left field. Luzinski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 11 Milbourne strikes out.
Top 11 Tug McGraw now pitching. Metzger hits a popup, foul, towards first. Allen settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rader fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Tom Hutton pinch hits for Ron Schueler. Hutton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Milbourne scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Boone hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rader fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Rader hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bowa fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 10 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 10 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schmidt fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Cedeno hits a popup towards first. Allen settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Maddox hits a popup towards first. Watson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 There goes Schmidt. The throw from Johnson and he is safe. Schmidt steals second.
Bottom 9 Schmidt hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Allen hits a fly ball into left field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Larry Milbourne now playing second base. Wayne Granger now pitching. Luzinski strikes out.
Top 9 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schmidt fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Howard hits a popup towards short. Bowa settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Larry Milbourne pinch runs for Tommy Helms. Ken Boswell pinch hits for Joe Niekro. Boswell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Cash scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Milbourne moves to third.
Top 9 Helms hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Luzinski. Helms reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 8 Johnstone hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Helms scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Bowa hits a popup, foul, towards third. Rader settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Niekro fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Metzger hits a fly ball into right field. Johnstone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Rader takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Schueler fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Ron Schueler now pitching. Bob Boone now catching. Watson hits a fly ball into center field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Ollie Brown pinch hits for Steve Carlton. Brown hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 McCarver takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Maddox is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Schmidt hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Helms scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Cash fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 7 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schmidt fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 7 Howard takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Allen hits a popup towards first. Watson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Luzinski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Johnstone moves to second.
Bottom 6 Johnstone takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Bowa hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Tommy Helms now playing second base. Cash hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Helms settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Niekro hits a fly ball into center field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Tommy Helms pinch hits for Rob Andrews. Helms hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Johnson scores.
Top 6 Metzger hits a ball on the ground towards first. Allen scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Metzger for the out. Johnson moves to second.
Top 6 Rader hits a fly ball into right field. Johnstone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Carlton strikes out.
Bottom 5 McCarver is walked intentionally.
Bottom 5 Maddox hits a fly ball towards center field. Cedeno makes the catch and then fumbles the ball. That's an error on Cedeno. Allen moves to second.
Bottom 5 Schmidt hits a popup towards first. Watson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Allen hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bowa fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 5 Cedeno hits a popup towards short. Bowa settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Gross hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Luzinski hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Johnstone hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Bowa hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Cash tags and scores.
Bottom 4 There goes Cash. The throw from Johnson and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Bottom 4 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Joe Niekro now pitching. Carlton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 McCarver hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 4 Howard hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schmidt fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Konieczny strikes out.
Top 4 Andrews hits a fly ball into center field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Maddox hits a line drive towards the mound. Konieczny reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Schmidt takes first base on ball four. Luzinski moves to third. Allen moves to second.
Bottom 3 Allen hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Luzinski moves to second.
Bottom 3 Luzinski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Johnstone scores.
Bottom 3 Johnstone hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Gross. Johnstone reaches second base with a double. Cash scores.
Bottom 3 Bowa hits a ball on the ground towards first. Watson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Bowa for the out. Cash moves to third.
Bottom 3 Cash hits a line drive off the glove of Rader, and into shallow left field. Cash reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Carlton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Metzger strikes out.
Top 3 Rader is thrown out by unknown player in unknown way.
Top 3 Rader hits a line drive to left field. Luzinski throws towards Bowa. Bowa fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Bowa. Cedeno scores. Watson scores. Johnson goes all the way around to score. Rader moves to third.
Top 3 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Cedeno moves to third. Watson moves to second.
Top 3 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Carlton fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Howard scores. Cedeno moves to second.
Top 3 Cedeno takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Gross is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Howard hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Johnstone. Howard reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 McCarver hits a ball on the ground towards first. Watson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats McCarver for the out.
Bottom 2 Maddox takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Schmidt hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 2 Allen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Luzinski takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Konieczny strikes out.
Top 2 Andrews strikes out. There goes Metzger. The throw from McCarver to Cash, and back to Allen, who tags Metzger out.
Top 2 Metzger takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Johnstone hits a fly ball into left field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Konieczny fires to first and picks off Bowa.
Bottom 1 Bowa hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Cash hits a popup towards short. Metzger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Rader strikes out.
Top 1 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Cedeno moves to third. Watson moves to second.
Top 1 Watson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cedeno moves to second.
Top 1 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bowa fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Gross strikes out.
Top 1 Howard strikes out.