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August 20, 1976

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Athletics 1 7 0
Red Sox 1 9 2
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Athletics 1 7 0
Red Sox 2 9 2

Butch Hobson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .217
OBP .333 .258
At Bats 3 120
Hits 1 26
• Singles 1 18
• Doubles 0 3
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 7
RBI’s 0 12

Rollie Fingers Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
8 8 19
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Fenway Park - August 20, 1976
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Out
Rollie Fingers
Larry Haney
Gene Tenace
Phil Garner
Sal Bando
Bert Campaneris
Ken McMullen
Bill North
Don Baylor
Butch Hobson
Carlton Fisk
Jim Rice
Cecil Cooper

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Oakland Athletics 1 7 0 4
Boston Red Sox 2 9 2 8
Winning Pitcher Luis Tiant
Losing Pitcher Rollie Fingers
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Butch Hobson
Attendance 30,132
Time of Game 2 hours 24 minutes
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Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Hobson hits a fly ball into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Cooper tags and scores.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 9 Rick Miller pinch hits for Dwight Evans. Miller hits a popup into left field. McMullen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Fisk bunts towards unknown player. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Cooper moves to third. Rice moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 9 Rice hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cooper moves to second.
Bottom 9 Cooper hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 9 Bando hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Matt Alexander pinch runs for Billy Williams. There goes Alexander. The throw from Fisk to Doyle and they have Alexander trapped. The throw over to Cooper, who applies the tag for the out.
Top 9 Williams hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 9 Baylor hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Lynn takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Doyle hits a line drive towards short. Campaneris reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Burleson hits a fly ball into right field. Baylor settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Campaneris hits a line drive towards third. Hobson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 North hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Evans. North reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Haney hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Garner hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 8 McMullen hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Hobson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Rollie Fingers now pitching. Evans strikes out.
Bottom 7 Fisk takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Rice bunts in front of the plate. Haney fields it and throws to first for the out. Cooper moves to second.
Bottom 7 Cooper hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Tenace hits a popup towards third. Hobson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bando hits a popup, foul, towards third. Hobson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Williams hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Yastrzemski hits a line drive towards the mound. Torrez catches it and throws to second to double up Burleson.
Bottom 6 Lynn takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Doyle hits a line drive into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Burleson hits a ball on the ground into left field, out of the reach of McMullen. Burleson reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Baylor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Campaneris hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 North hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Haney hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Hobson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Evans strikes out.
Bottom 5 Fisk hits a popup towards first. Tenace settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Garner hits a popup into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 There goes Bando. The throw from Fisk and he is safe. Bando steals second.
Top 5 McMullen hits a popup into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Tenace hits a popup, foul, towards first. Cooper settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Bando hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Rice strikes out.
Bottom 4 Cooper hits a popup towards short. Campaneris settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Williams strikes out. There goes Baylor. The throw from Fisk to Burleson, and Baylor is out.
Top 4 Baylor hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Campaneris hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Doyle scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Lynn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Doyle hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Haney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 There's a wild pitch. Hobson scores. Burleson moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Burleson hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Hobson moves to third.
Bottom 3 The ball gets by Haney for a passed ball. Hobson moves to second.
Bottom 3 Hobson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Evans is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Tiant spins and fires to second, with Burleson covering, and Garner is picked off.
Top 3 North strikes out.
Top 3 Haney bunts towards the mound. Tiant fields it and throws to first for the out. Garner moves to second.
Top 3 Garner hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hobson juggles the ball. That's an error on Hobson.
Bottom 2 There goes Fisk. The throw from Haney and he is out, Garner applying the tag.
Bottom 2 Fisk takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Cooper hits a line drive into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 McMullen hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hobson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Tenace hits a popup towards first. Cooper settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Bando hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Garner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Lynn hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. There goes Doyle trying to get to home. North throws the ball in to Haney who tags Doyle who's trying to score from second, for the out.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Doyle moves to second.
Bottom 1 Doyle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 There goes Burleson. The throw from Haney and he is out, Campaneris applying the tag.
Bottom 1 Burleson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Williams hits a ball on the ground towards short. Burleson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Tiant fires over to first and throws the ball away. That's an error on Tiant. Baylor moves to second.
Top 1 Baylor hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Campaneris hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 North bunts in front of the plate. Fisk fields it and throws to first for the out.