Pirates @ Reds
July 25, 1962

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Smoky Burgess Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .338
OBP .667 .395
At Bats 3 219
Hits 2 74
• Singles 1 52
• Doubles 0 12
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 1 8
Walks 0 22
RBI’s 2 40

Bob Purkey Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
15 3 0
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Crosley Field - July 25, 1962
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Home Run
Bob Purkey
Johnny Edwards
Gordy Coleman
Don Blasingame
Eddie Kasko
Leo Cardenas
Jerry Lynch
Vada Pinson
Frank Robinson
Smoky Burgess
Bob Skinner
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Burgess hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Skinner takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Groat hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Blasingame hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Mazeroski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Kasko strikes out.
Bottom 7 Purkey bunts towards the mound. Lamabe fields it and throws to first for the out. Cardenas moves to third.
Bottom 7 Cardenas hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Skinner. Cardenas reaches second base with a double. Edwards scores.
Bottom 7 Jack Lamabe now pitching. Edwards hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Skinner who is chasing the ball. Edwards reaches third base with a triple.
Top 7 Virdon hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Howie Goss pinch hits for Joe Gibbon. Goss 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 7 Mazeroski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kasko fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Joe Gibbon now pitching. Coleman strikes out.
Bottom 6 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Blasingame scores. Pinson moves to third.
Bottom 6 Lynch hits a popup towards first. Marshall settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Pinson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Blasingame moves to second.
Bottom 6 Blasingame hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Kasko strikes out.
Top 6 Logan hits a popup towards short. Cardenas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Marshall 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 6 Clemente hits a popup towards third. Kasko settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Burgess hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 5 Purkey hits a fly ball into left field. Skinner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Tom Sturdivant now pitching. Cardenas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Coleman scores. Edwards moves to second.
Bottom 5 Edwards hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lynch scores. Robinson scores. Coleman moves to third.
Bottom 5 Coleman is walked intentionally.
Bottom 5 Robinson hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Virdon. Robinson reaches second base with a double. Lynch moves to third.
Bottom 5 Lynch hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. McBean fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Mazeroski scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Skinner hits a popup towards first. Coleman settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Groat hits a fly ball into left field. Lynch settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Virdon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Kasko hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Purkey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Cardenas hits a fly ball into right field. Clemente settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 McBean hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kasko fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Mazeroski hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Logan hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Marshall hits a ball on the ground towards first. Coleman scoops it up and throws to first, with Purkey covering, for the out.
Bottom 3 Edwards hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. McBean fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Coleman hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Mazeroski fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Clemente hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Burgess hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McBean scores. Groat moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Skinner hits a popup towards third. Kasko settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Groat hits a ball on the ground towards short. Cardenas misplays the ball. That's an error on Cardenas. Mazeroski scores. McBean moves to third.
Top 3 Virdon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Logan scores. Mazeroski moves to third. McBean moves to second.
Top 3 McBean bunts towards the mound. Purkey fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Logan moves to third. Mazeroski moves to second.
Top 3 Mazeroski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Logan moves to second.
Top 3 Logan hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Lynch hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Mazeroski fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Pinson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. McBean fields it and has Kasko trapped. McBean throws to third, and Logan tags Kasko for the out. Blasingame moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 2 Blasingame hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kasko moves to third.
Bottom 2 Kasko hits a ball on the ground towards third. Logan fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Cardenas scores.
Bottom 2 Kasko hits a popup, foul, in back of the plate. Burgess settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Burgess.
Bottom 2 Purkey hits a ball on the ground towards third. Logan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Johnny Logan now playing third base. Cardenas hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Skinner. Cardenas reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Marshall strikes out. Edwards drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Marshall out.
Top 2 Clemente hits a popup towards third. Kasko settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Burgess hits a fly ball into center field. Pinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Edwards hits a fly ball into center field. Virdon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Coleman hits a fly ball into left field. Skinner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Blasingame scores. Lynch moves to second.
Bottom 1 Lynch hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kasko scores. Blasingame moves to third.
Bottom 1 Pinson hits a fly ball into right field. Clemente settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Blasingame takes first base on ball four. Kasko moves to second.
Bottom 1 Kasko hits a ball on the ground towards short. Groat fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Skinner 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 1 Groat hits a ball on the ground towards third. Kasko fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Virdon hits a popup towards short. Cardenas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.