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August 6, 1968

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Twins 5 7 1
Orioles 2 5 2
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Twins 5 7 1
Orioles 2 5 2

Don Buford Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .286
OBP .333 .364
At Bats 3 217
Hits 1 62
• Singles 1 45
• Doubles 0 7
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 8
Walks 0 25
RBI’s 0 21

Al Worthington Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 5 14
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Memorial Stadium - August 6, 1968
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Al Worthington
John Roseboro
Rich Reese
Rod Carew
Cesar Tovar
Ron Clark
Bob Allison
Ted Uhlaender
Frank Kostro
Don Buford
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Buford hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 7 Curt Blefary pinch hits for John Morris. Blefary strikes out.
Bottom 7 May hits a line drive towards short. Clark reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Uhlaender hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Reese takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Tovar strikes out.
Top 7 Curt Motton now playing left field. Don Buford now playing second base. Davey Johnson now playing shortstop. Elrod Hendricks now catching. Dave MWorthington strikes out.
Bottom 6 Elrod Hendricks pinch hits for Paul Blair. Al Worthington now pitching. Hendricks strikes out.
Bottom 6 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Robinson scores. Robinson moves to third.
Bottom 6 Robinson takes first base on ball four. Robinson moves to second.
Bottom 6 Powell strikes out.
Bottom 6 Robinson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Motton scores.
Bottom 6 Curt Motton pinch hits for Mark Belanger. Motton hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Uhlaender. Motton reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Frank Kostro now playing right field. Buford hits a ball on the ground for an out.
Top 6 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Carew hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Etchebarren fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Allison hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 6 Frank Kostro pinch runs for Tony Oliva. Roseboro bunts between the mound and first base. Morris scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Roseboro for the out. Kostro moves to second.
Top 6 Oliva strikes out.
Bottom 5 Morris is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Etchebarren strikes out.
Bottom 5 Blair hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Carew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Uhlaender hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Morris fields it and throws to first for the out. Clark moves to third. Merritt moves to second.
Top 5 Tovar hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Carew tags and scores.
Top 5 John Morris now pitching. Merritt takes first base on ball four. Clark moves to second.
Top 5 Clark hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Carew moves to third.
Top 5 Carew hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Buford. Carew reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 4 Robinson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Robinson is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Allison strikes out. There goes Roseboro. The throw from Etchebarren to second, and Roseboro is out.
Top 4 Roseboro takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Oliva hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Robinson throws the ball in to Belanger who tags Oliva trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Bottom 3 Belanger hits a fly ball into center field. Uhlaender settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Belanger hits a popup, foul, towards first. Reese settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Reese.
Bottom 3 Buford hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Brabender hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tovar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Etchebarren fires to third and picks off Reese.
Top 3 Uhlaender hits a ball on the ground towards first. Powell scoops it up and throws to first, with Brabender covering, for the out. Reese moves to third.
Top 3 Reese hits a ball on the ground towards first. Powell juggles the ball. That's an error on Powell. Tovar scores. Reese moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 3 There goes Tovar. The throw from Etchebarren and he is safe. Tovar steals second.
Top 3 Tovar hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Merritt hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Etchebarren strikes out.
Bottom 2 There goes Blair. The throw from Roseboro and he is safe. Blair steals second.
Bottom 2 Blair takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Johnson strikes out.
Bottom 2 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tovar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Clark is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Carew is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Allison hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Clark scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Robinson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Belanger strikes out.
Bottom 1 Buford hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Merritt fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Roseboro hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Brabender fires over to first and throws the ball away. That's an error on Brabender. Oliva moves to second.
Top 1 Oliva hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Uhlaender strikes out.
Top 1 Reese hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Tovar scores.
Top 1 Tovar hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Robinson. Tovar reaches second base with a double.