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August 18, 1968

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Leo Cardenas Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .228
OBP .500 .287
At Bats 1 334
Hits 0 76
• Singles 0 59
• Doubles 0 11
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 4
Walks 1 27
RBI’s 0 27

Joe Niekro Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
12 7 2
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Wrigley Field - August 18, 1968
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Single
Joe Niekro
Randy Hundley
Ernie Banks
Glenn Beckert
Ron Santo
Don Kessinger
Willie Smith
Adolfo Phillips
Billy Williams
Leo Cardenas
Johnny Bench
Chico Ruiz
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Cardenas hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Ruiz scores. Bench moves to second.

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Top 6 Chico Ruiz pinch runs for Fred Whitfield. Helms hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Beckert reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Bench hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Whitfield moves to third.
Top 6 Whitfield takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Kessinger hits a fly ball into center field. Jones settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Niekro is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Phillips hits a popup towards third. Perez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Beckert scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 There goes Rose. The throw from Hundley and he is out, Kessinger applying the tag.
Top 5 Rose hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Nolan strikes out.
Bottom 4 Hundley hits a fly ball into center field. Jones settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Santo hits a popup, foul, towards first. Whitfield settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Banks hits a popup towards third. Perez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Cardenas hits a ball on the ground towards third. Santo fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Helms hits a ball on the ground towards third. Santo fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Bench is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Whitfield hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Beckert scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Perez hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Smith bunts towards first. Whitfield settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Williams strikes out.
Bottom 3 Beckert hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Helms scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Beckert fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 3 Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Rose bunts towards third. Santo fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 2 Kessinger strikes out.
Bottom 2 Niekro takes first base on ball four. Banks moves to third. Phillips moves to second.
Bottom 2 Phillips takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Hundley strikes out.
Bottom 2 Santo hits a fly ball into right field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 There goes Banks. The throw from Bench and he is safe. Banks steals second.
Bottom 2 Banks hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Nolan is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Cardenas takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Helms hits a popup towards first. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Bench hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Whitfield hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 2 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger misplays the ball. That's an error on Kessinger.
Bottom 1 Smith hits a popup, foul, towards third. Perez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Williams takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Beckert hits a popup towards short. Cardenas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Kessinger hits a popup, foul, towards short. Cardenas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Jones hits a popup, foul, towards first. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. Phillips settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Rose hits a fly ball into left field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.