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August 21, 1976

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Orioles 10 22 0
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Orioles 10 22 0
White Sox 10 14 0

Jim Essian Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .219
OBP .400 .304
At Bats 4 151
Hits 1 33
• Singles 0 27
• Doubles 1 6
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 1 18
RBI’s 2 18

Mike Cuellar Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
4 12 1
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Comiskey Park - August 21, 1976
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Single
Mike Cuellar
Rick Dempsey
Doug DeCinces
Bobby Grich
Brooks Robinson
Mark Belanger
Tony Muser
Paul Blair
Ken Singleton
Jim Essian
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Brooks Robinson now playing third base. Doug DeCinces now playing first base. Tony Muser now playing left field. Essian bunts towards the mound. Cuellar fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 12 Brooks Robinson pinch hits for Al Bumbry. Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stein scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 12 Harper strikes out.
Top 12 Singleton bunts in front of the plate. Essian fields it and throws to first for the out. Muser moves to second.
Top 12 Muser hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 11 Kelly hits a popup, foul, towards third. DeCinces settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 11 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Dent moves to third.
Bottom 11 Hairston bunts towards the mound. Cuellar fields it and throws to first for the out. Dent moves to second.
Bottom 11 Dent takes first base on ball four.
Top 11 Blair hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bell fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 11 Grich is called out on strikes.
Top 11 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 10 Johnson hits a fly ball into left field. Bumbry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Stein hits a ball on the ground towards third. DeCinces fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 10 Orta hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Grich scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Dempsey hits a fly ball into left field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 DeCinces hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Kevin Bell now playing third base. Ralph Garr now playing center field. Bill Stein now playing second base. Bumbry hits a ball on the ground towards first. Johnson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Bumbry for the out.
Bottom 9 Jim Spencer pinch hits for Chet Lemon. Mike Cuellar now pitching. Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 9 Essian takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 There goes Kelly. The throw from Dempsey and he is safe. Kelly steals second.
Bottom 9 Kelly hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Garr scores.
Bottom 9 Ralph Garr pinch runs for Jack Brohamer. There goes Garr. The throw from Dempsey and he is safe. Garr steals second.
Bottom 9 Brohamer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Grich fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 9 Hairston takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Tony Muser now playing first base. Dent hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Miller fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Harper hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hamilton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Tony Muser pinch runs for Lee May. Singleton hits a fly ball into right field. Hairston settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Blair moves to third.
Top 9 May is walked intentionally.
Top 9 Blair hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Lemon. Blair reaches second base with a double.
Top 9 Dave Hamilton now pitching. Grich hits a line drive towards third. Stein reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Dyar Miller now pitching. Johnson hits a fly ball into left field. Bumbry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Stein hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Orta hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Bumbry throws the ball in to Grich who tags Orta, trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Bottom 8 Lemon strikes out.
Top 8 Belanger hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 There goes Dempsey. The throw from Essian and he is out, Brohamer applying the tag.
Top 8 Dempsey bunts towards the mound. Carroll fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Bumbry scores.
Top 8 DeCinces hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Bumbry hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Lemon, who is chasing the ball. Bumbry reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 7 Essian hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Bumbry. Essian reaches second base with a double. Dent scores. Hairston scores. There goes Kelly trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Bottom 7 Kelly takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Brohamer hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 There's a wild pitch. Dent moves to third. Hairston moves to second.
Bottom 7 Hairston takes first base on ball four. Dent moves to second.
Bottom 7 Dent hits a ball on the ground towards third. DeCinces fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 Johnson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Grich settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Harper hits a ball on the ground towards third. Stein fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Singleton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Johnson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Singleton for the out. May moves to second.
Top 7 May hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Grich scores.
Top 7 There goes Grich. The throw from Essian and he is safe. Grich steals third.
Top 7 Blair bunts towards third. Stein fields it and throws to first for the out. Grich moves to second.
Top 7 Pat Kelly now playing left field. Clay Carroll now pitching. Grich takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Stein is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Orta takes first base on ball four. Kelly moves to third. Lemon moves to second.
Bottom 6 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards third. DeCinces fields it and tags Brohamer, for the out. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 6 Fred Holdsworth now pitching. Essian hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Grich settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Pat Kelly pinch hits for Alan Bannister. Tippy Martinez now pitching. Kelly hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Singleton. Kelly reaches second base with a double. Dent scores. Hairston scores. Brohamer moves to third.
Bottom 6 Brohamer takes first base on ball four. Johnson scores. Dent moves to third. Hairston moves to second.
Bottom 6 Dave Pagan now pitching. Hairston hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Johnson moves to third. Dent moves to second.
Bottom 6 Dent hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Stein scores. Johnson moves to second.
Bottom 6 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Orta scores. Stein moves to second.
Bottom 6 Stein hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. May fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Orta moves to second.
Bottom 6 Orta hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Dempsey hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. DeCinces moves to third.
Top 6 DeCinces hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Bumbry hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is bouncing around. Lemon is chasing the ball. Bumbry rounds third and comes all way home with an inside-the-park two run home run..
Top 6 Harper hits a fly ball into left field. Bannister settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Singleton moves to third.
Top 6 Singleton hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Hairston. Singleton reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 May hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Lemon strikes out.
Bottom 5 Essian hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Bannister takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Brohamer strikes out.
Top 5 Blair hits a popup, foul, towards first. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Grich takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 There goes Belanger. The throw from Essian and he is out, Brohamer applying the tag.
Top 5 Belanger hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Dempsey is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Hairston hits a fly ball into left field. Bumbry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Dent hits a ball on the ground towards third. DeCinces fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Johnson hits a line drive towards the mound. May reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 DeCinces hits a fly ball into left field. Bannister settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Bumbry hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Lemon. Bumbry reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Harper hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Essian settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Singleton strikes out.
Bottom 3 Stein strikes out.
Bottom 3 Orta hits a ball on the ground towards first. May scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Orta for the out.
Bottom 3 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards third. DeCinces fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 May hits a popup, foul, towards first. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Jesse Jefferson now pitching. Blair takes first base on ball four. Belanger moves to third. Grich moves to second.
Top 3 Grich hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Dempsey scores. Belanger moves to second.
Top 3 Belanger hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit. Dempsey moves to third.
Top 3 Dempsey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 DeCinces hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 3 There goes Bumbry. The throw from Essian and he is safe. Bumbry steals second.
Top 3 Bumbry takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Tommy Harper pinch hits for Terry Crowley. Harper hits a popup, foul, towards first. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Singleton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Essian is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Bannister hits a ball on the ground into right field, out of the reach of Singleton. Bannister reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Brohamer hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 2 Hairston hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Dent hits a fly ball into left field. Bumbry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Paul Blair now playing center field. Ken Singleton now playing right field. Al Bumbry now playing left field. Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 May strikes out.
Top 2 Paul Blair pinch hits for Reggie Jackson. Blair hits a ball on the ground towards third. Stein fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Grich strikes out.
Top 2 Terry Forster now pitching. There goes Belanger. The throw from Essian and he is safe. Belanger steals second.
Top 2 Belanger hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Stein hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Grich scoops it up and throws to first, with May covering, for the out.
Bottom 1 Orta hits a popup, foul, towards third. DeCinces settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Lemon is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Dempsey hits a ball on the ground towards third. Stein fields it and races to the third base bag for the out.
Top 1 DeCinces is hit by the pitch. Bumbry moves to second.
Top 1 Bumbry hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Brohamer fields it and throws to second for the out. Singleton moves to third.
Top 1 Crowley hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit. May scores. Singleton moves to second.
Top 1 Singleton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. May moves to third.
Top 1 May hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Grich scores. Jackson scores.
Top 1 Jackson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Hairston. Jackson reaches second base with a double. Grich moves to third.
Top 1 Grich hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Brohamer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.