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Red Sox
@ Tigers
Tiger Stadium
June 15, 1961
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The information below contains details about the Major League Baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red Sox, played on June 15, 1961 at Tiger Stadium.
Game Summary
| Date | June 15, 1961 |
|---|---|
| Visiting Team |
Boston Red Sox
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| Home Team |
Detroit Tigers
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| Winning Pitcher | — |
| Losing Pitcher | — |
| Save | — |
| Game Winning RBI | — |
Game Info
| Date | June 15, 1961 |
|---|---|
| Day of Week | Thu |
| Day / Night | D |
| Visiting Team | Boston Red Sox |
| Home Team | Detroit Tigers |
| Visiting Starting Pitcher | Bill Monbouquette |
| Home Starting Pitcher | Jim Bunning |
| Ballpark | Tiger Stadium |
| City | Detroit |
| State | MI |
| Attendance | 4,706 |
| Time of Game | 2 hours 34 minutes |
| Umpires | HP: Frank Umont 1B: Bob Stewart 2B: Charlie Berry 3B: Joe Linsalata |
Boston Red Sox Lineup
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Chuck Schilling | Second Baseman |
| Gary Geiger | Center Fielder |
| Carl Yastrzemski | Left Fielder |
| Vic Wertz | First Baseman |
| Jackie Jensen | Right Fielder |
| Frank Malzone | Third Baseman |
| Russ Nixon | Catcher |
| Don Buddin | Shortstop |
| Bill Monbouquette | Pitcher |
| Pinky Higgins | Manager |
Detroit Tigers Lineup
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Jake Wood | Second Baseman |
| Bill Bruton | Center Fielder |
| Charlie Maxwell | Left Fielder |
| Rocky Colavito | Right Fielder |
| Norm Cash | First Baseman |
| Bobo Osborne | Third Baseman |
| Dick Brown | Catcher |
| Chico Fernandez | Shortstop |
| Jim Bunning | Pitcher |
| Bob Scheffing | Manager |
All Plays in Game
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Red Sox
@ Tigers
Tiger Stadium
June 15, 1961
Top 1
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Schilling vs. Bunning
Schilling hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Wood settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Geiger vs. Bunning
Geiger strikes out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Yastrzemski vs. Bunning
Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cash scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Yastrzemski for the out. Geiger moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: -2-
Wertz vs. Bunning
Wertz takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Jensen vs. Bunning
Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play
Bottom 1
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Wood vs. Monbouquette
Wood hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Bruton vs. Monbouquette
Bruton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Maxwell vs. Monbouquette
Maxwell hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Colavito vs. Monbouquette
There goes Bruton. The throw from Nixon and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: --3
Colavito vs. Monbouquette
Colavito takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1-3
Cash vs. Monbouquette
Cash hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Nixon settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play
Top 2
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Malzone vs. Bunning
Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards third. Osborne fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Nixon vs. Bunning
Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Osborne fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Buddin vs. Bunning
Buddin takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Monbouquette vs. Bunning
Monbouquette is called out on strikes. View Play
Bottom 2
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Osborne vs. Monbouquette
Osborne hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Brown vs. Monbouquette
Brown hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Fernandez vs. Monbouquette
Fernandez takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Bunning vs. Monbouquette
Bunning hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play
Top 3
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Schilling vs. Bunning
Schilling hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Geiger vs. Bunning
Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cash fields the ball, tags the runner, and throws to second to catch Schilling for the double play. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Yastrzemski vs. Bunning
Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play
Bottom 3
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Wood vs. Monbouquette
Wood hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Bruton vs. Monbouquette
Bruton hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Maxwell vs. Monbouquette
Maxwell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Maxwell for the out. View Play
Top 4
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Wertz vs. Bunning
Wertz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Jensen vs. Bunning
Jensen hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Malzone vs. Bunning
Malzone strikes out. View Play
Bottom 4
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Colavito vs. Monbouquette
Colavito strikes out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Cash vs. Monbouquette
Cash hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Osborne vs. Monbouquette
Osborne hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play
Top 5
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Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Nixon vs. Bunning
Nixon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Buddin vs. Bunning
Buddin hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Nixon moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Monbouquette vs. Bunning
Monbouquette bunts towards third. Osborne juggles the ball. That's an error on Osborne. Nixon moves to third. Buddin moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 0 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 123
Schilling vs. Bunning
Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez fields it and throws to second for the out. Nixon scores. Buddin moves to third. View Play -
Red Sox, 1 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1-3
Geiger vs. Bunning
Geiger takes first base on ball four. Schilling moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 1 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 123
Yastrzemski vs. Bunning
Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 1 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 123
Wertz vs. Bunning
Wertz hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A grand slam home run. View Play -
Red Sox, 5 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Jensen vs. Bunning
Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bunning fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play
Bottom 5
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Red Sox, 5 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Brown vs. Monbouquette
Brown hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 5 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Fernandez vs. Monbouquette
Fernandez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 5 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Thomas vs. Monbouquette
George Thomas pinch hits for Jim Bunning.
Thomas is called out on strikes. View Play
Top 6
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Red Sox, 5 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Malzone vs. Woodeshick
Hal Woodeshick now pitching.
Malzone hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. View Play -
Red Sox, 5 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Nixon vs. Woodeshick
Nixon strikes out. View Play -
Red Sox, 5 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Buddin vs. Woodeshick
Buddin hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Colavito who is chasing the ball. Buddin reaches third base with a triple. Malzone goes all the way around to score. View Play -
Red Sox, 6 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: --3
Monbouquette vs. Woodeshick
Monbouquette bunts towards first. Cash juggles the ball. That's an error on Cash. Buddin scores. Monbouquette moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: -2-
Schilling vs. Woodeshick
Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Monbouquette moves to third. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: --3
Geiger vs. Woodeshick
Geiger takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1-3
Yastrzemski vs. Woodeshick
Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Fernandez fields it and races to the second base bag for the out. View Play
Bottom 6
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Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Wood vs. Monbouquette
Wood hits a fly ball into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Bruton vs. Monbouquette
Bruton hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Monbouquette scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Bruton for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Maxwell vs. Monbouquette
Maxwell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Maxwell for the out. View Play
Top 7
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Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Wertz vs. Woodeshick
Wertz hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Woodeshick fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Jensen vs. Woodeshick
Jensen hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Malzone vs. Woodeshick
Malzone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Nixon vs. Woodeshick
There goes Malzone. The throw from Brown and he is out, Fernandez applying the tag. View Play
Bottom 7
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Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Colavito vs. Monbouquette
Pete Runnels now playing first base.
Colavito is called out on strikes. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Cash vs. Monbouquette
Cash strikes out. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Osborne vs. Monbouquette
Osborne hits a ball on the ground towards first. Runnels scoops it up and throws to first, with Monbouquette covering, for the out. View Play
Top 8
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Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Nixon vs. Woodeshick
Nixon takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Buddin vs. Woodeshick
Buddin hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Nixon moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 7 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Monbouquette vs. Woodeshick
Monbouquette hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Woodeshick fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Woodeshick. Nixon scores. Buddin moves to third. View Play -
Red Sox, 8 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1-3
Schilling vs. Woodeshick
Schilling takes first base on ball four. Monbouquette moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 8 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 123
Geiger vs. Woodeshick
Geiger takes first base on ball four. Buddin scores. Monbouquette moves to third. Schilling moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 9 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 123
Yastrzemski vs. Fox
Terry Fox now pitching. Bobo Osborne now playing first base. Ozzie Virgil now playing third base.
Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Monbouquette tags and scores. That run is unearned. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Runnels vs. Fox
Runnels hits a popup, foul, towards third. Virgil settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Jensen vs. Fox
Jensen hits a fly ball into left field. Maxwell settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play
Bottom 8
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Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Brown vs. Monbouquette
Brown hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin misplays the ball. That's an error on Buddin. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Fernandez vs. Monbouquette
Fernandez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Brown moves to second. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Virgil vs. Monbouquette
Virgil hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Jensen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Wood vs. Monbouquette
Wood hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin fields it and throws to second for the out. Brown moves to third. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1-3
Bruton vs. Monbouquette
Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Monbouquette fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play
Top 9
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Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Malzone vs. Fox
Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez misplays the ball. That's an error on Fernandez. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Nixon vs. Fox
Nixon is called out on strikes. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Buddin vs. Fox
Buddin hits a fly ball into right field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Monbouquette vs. Fox
Monbouquette is called out on strikes. View Play
Bottom 9
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Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Maxwell vs. Monbouquette
Maxwell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Colavito vs. Monbouquette
Colavito hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Morton vs. Monbouquette
Bubba Morton pinch hits for Terry Fox.
Morton strikes out. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Osborne vs. Monbouquette
Osborne hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Jensen. Osborne reaches second base with a double. Colavito goes all the way around to score. View Play -
Red Sox, 10 - Tigers, 1
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: -2-
Brown vs. Monbouquette
Brown hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play
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Box Score
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Game of 6/15/1961 -- Boston at Detroit (D)
Boston AB R H RBI Detroit AB R H RBI
Schilling C, 2b 4 1 1 1 Wood J, 2b 4 0 0 0
Geiger G, cf 2 1 0 1 Bruton B, cf 4 0 1 0
Yastrzemski C, lf 4 0 0 1 Maxwell C, lf 4 0 0 0
Wertz V, 1b 3 1 1 4 Colavito R, rf 3 1 1 0
Runnels P, 1b 1 0 0 0 Cash N, 1b 3 0 0 0
Jensen J, rf 5 0 0 0 Fox T, p 0 0 0 0
Malzone F, 3b 5 1 2 0 Morton B, ph 1 0 0 0
Nixon R, c 4 2 1 0 Osborne B, 3b-1b 4 0 1 1
Buddin D, ss 4 3 3 1 Brown D, c 4 0 0 0
Monbouquette B, p 3 1 0 1 Fernandez C, ss 2 0 1 0
Bunning J, p 1 0 0 0
Thomas G, ph 1 0 0 0
Woodeshick H, p 0 0 0 0
Virgil O, 3b 1 0 0 0
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
35 10 8 9 32 1 4 1
Boston 000 052 030 -- 10
Detroit 000 000 001 -- 1
Boston IP H R ER BB SO
Monbouquette B (W) 9.0 4 1 1 2 5
Detroit IP H R ER BB SO
Bunning J (L) 5.0 4 5 1 3 3
Woodeshick H* 2.0 4 5 4 4 1
Fox T 2.0 0 0 0 0 2
* Pitched to 5 batters in 8th
E -- Nixon R, Osborne B, Cash N, Woodeshick H, Buddin D, Fernandez C
DP -- Detroit 1
LOB -- Boston 8, Detroit 6
2B -- Osborne B
3B -- Buddin D
HR -- Wertz V
SB -- Bruton B
CS -- Malzone F
SH -- Monbouquette B 2
SF -- Yastrzemski C
PB -- Brown D
T -- 2:34
A -- 4706
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