Yankees @ Orioles
September 2, 1968

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Bottom 9 R H E
Yankees 4 4 0
Orioles 2 5 1
Bottom 9 R H E
Yankees 4 4 0
Orioles 2 5 1

Paul Blair Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .209
OBP .000 .276
At Bats 0 373
Hits 0 78
• Singles 0 49
• Doubles 0 22
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 0 33
RBI’s 0 34

Steve Hamilton Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 1 10
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Memorial Stadium - September 2, 1968
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Strikeout
Steve Hamilton
Jake Gibbs
Mickey Mantle
Horace Clarke
Bobby Cox
Tom Tresh
Roy White
Joe Pepitone
Bill Robinson
Paul Blair

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
New York Yankees 4 4 0 8
Baltimore Orioles 2 5 1 4
Winning Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre
Losing Pitcher Dave Leonhard
Save Steve Hamilton
Game Winning RBI Mickey Mantle
Attendance
Time of Game 2 hours 26 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Paul Blair pinch hits for Elrod Hendricks. Blair strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Tresh scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 9 Powell hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Mantle hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Gibbs hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Clarke takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Moe Drabowsky now pitching. Hamilton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Drabowsky fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Rettenmund takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Buford hits a fly ball into center field. Pepitone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Chico Fernandez pinch hits for Wally Bunker. Fernandez strikes out.
Top 8 Cox hits a fly ball into right field. May settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Tresh bunts towards the mound. Bunker fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 May strikes out.
Bottom 7 Johnson hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Hendricks strikes out.
Top 7 Pepitone hits a popup towards short. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 White hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Buford scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Frank Robinson now playing left field. Mantle bunts towards the mound. Bunker fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Tresh scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Buford scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Steve Hamilton now pitching. Frank Robinson pinch hits for Curt Blefary. The ball gets by Gibbs for a passed ball. Buford moves to third. Rettenmund moves to second.
Bottom 6 Rettenmund hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Buford moves to second.
Bottom 6 Buford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Gibbs hits a popup towards short. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Buford scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Wally Bunker now pitching. Stottlemyre hits a ball on the ground towards short. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Fred Valentine pinch hits for John Morris. Valentine strikes out.
Bottom 5 May hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White who is chasing the ball. May reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 5 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Tresh fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Hendricks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Cox strikes out.
Top 5 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Morris fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Tresh hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Robinson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Powell hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 4 Blefary hits a fly ball into center field. Pepitone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Rettenmund is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Pepitone is called out on strikes.
Top 4 The ball gets by Hendricks for a passed ball. White moves to second.
Top 4 White takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Mantle hits a ball on the ground towards short. Johnson fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 4 Merv Rettenmund now playing center field. Don Buford now playing second base. Davey Johnson now playing shortstop. Gibbs takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Buford hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Stottlemyre fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Morris strikes out.
Bottom 3 May hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mantle scoops it up and throws to first, with Stottlemyre covering, for the out.
Top 3 John Morris now pitching. Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Top 3 Stottlemyre hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Belanger. Tresh scores. Robinson moves to third. Cox moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Cox is walked intentionally.
Top 3 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Mantle scores. White scores. Tresh moves to third. Robinson moves to second.
Top 3 Tresh is walked intentionally.
Top 3 Pepitone hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Mantle moves to third. White moves to second.
Top 3 White hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Mantle hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of May. Mantle reaches second base with a double. Clarke goes all the way around to score.
Top 3 Gibbs strikes out.
Top 3 Clarke hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Hendricks strikes out.
Bottom 2 Robinson hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 There goes Powell. The throw from Gibbs and he is safe. Powell steals second.
Bottom 2 Powell takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Stottlemyre hits a line drive towards short. Belanger reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cox is walked intentionally.
Top 2 Robinson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 There's a wild pitch. Pepitone moves to third. Tresh moves to second.
Top 2 Tresh takes first base on ball four. Pepitone moves to second.
Top 2 Pepitone takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 White hits a ball on the ground between the mound and first base. Leonhard scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats White for the out.
Bottom 1 Blefary hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Belanger is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Buford hits a fly ball into center field. Pepitone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Mantle hits a fly ball into right field. May settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Gibbs hits a fly ball into left field. Blefary settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Clarke hits a fly ball into center field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.