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August 18, 1961

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Ken Boyer Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .318
OBP .667 .380
At Bats 2 447
Hits 1 142
• Singles 0 97
• Doubles 1 19
• Triples 0 9
• Home Runs 0 17
Walks 1 46
RBI’s 0 69

Ken Johnson Season Stats

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3 5 0
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Crosley Field - August 18, 1961
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Home Run
Ken Johnson
Johnny Edwards
Gordy Coleman
Don Blasingame
Gene Freese
Eddie Kasko
Jerry Lynch
Vada Pinson
Frank Robinson
Ken Boyer
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Boyer hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Edwards hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. McDaniel fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Freese hits a fly ball into center field. Flood settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Coleman is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Cunningham hits a popup towards third. Freese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 White hits a fly ball into left field. Lynch settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Javier hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kasko scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Lynch hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kasko scores.
Bottom 7 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Javier scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Kasko moves to third.
Bottom 7 Blasingame bunts towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out. Kasko moves to second.
Bottom 7 Bob Lillis now playing shortstop. Lindy McDaniel now pitching. Kasko hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Ed Olivares pinch hits for Bob Miller. Olivares hits a line drive into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Red Schoendienst pinch hits for Alex Grammas. Schoendienst hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Flood hits a line drive into left field. Lynch picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Lynch. Musial scores. Flood moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 7 Sawatski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out. Boyer scores. Musial moves to second.
Top 7 Musial hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Boyer moves to third.
Top 7 Boyer takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Johnson strikes out.
Bottom 6 Edwards hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Freese moves to second.
Bottom 6 Freese hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Coleman hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Miller fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 6 Lynch takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Cunningham hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 White hits a popup, foul, towards third. Freese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Javier hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kasko scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 There goes Robinson. The throw from Sawatski and he is out, Grammas applying the tag.
Bottom 5 Robinson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Pinson scores.
Bottom 5 There goes Pinson. The throw from Sawatski and he is safe. Pinson steals second.
Bottom 5 Pinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Blasingame strikes out.
Bottom 5 Bob Miller now pitching. Kasko hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Charlie James pinch hits for Bob Gibson. James hits a line drive towards third. Freese catches it and throws to first to double up Grammas.
Top 5 Grammas hits a ball on the ground towards first. Coleman fields it and throws to second for the out. Sawatski moves to third.
Top 5 Flood hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sawatski moves to second.
Top 5 Sawatski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame misplays the ball. That's an error on Blasingame.
Bottom 4 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Javier scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Edwards hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Freese hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Javier fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Musial hits a ball on the ground towards first. Coleman scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Musial for the out.
Top 4 Boyer hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Robinson. Boyer reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Cunningham hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 White hits a popup, foul, towards third. Freese settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Coleman strikes out.
Bottom 3 There go the runners. Both runners are safe. A double steal.
Bottom 3 Lynch hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Robinson moves to third.
Bottom 3 Robinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Pinson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Javier scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Javier hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Gibson hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Grammas hits a ball on the ground towards third. Freese fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Kasko hits a fly ball into center field. Flood settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Javier scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Edwards hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Flood hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Sawatski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Musial is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kasko scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Freese is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Coleman hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Cunningham who is chasing the ball. Coleman reaches third base with a triple. Blasingame scores. Pinson scores. Lynch goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Lynch takes first base on ball four. Pinson moves to second.
Bottom 1 Robinson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Pinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 The ball gets by Sawatski for a passed ball. Blasingame moves to third.
Bottom 1 Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards first. White throws to second for one, and Grammas throws the ball away attempting to make the double play. Blasingame moves to second.
Bottom 1 Kasko hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Cunningham is called out on strikes.
Top 1 White hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 1 Javier takes first base on ball four.