Yankees @ Tigers
April 26, 1961

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Yankees 8 11 3
Tigers 9 11 3
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Chico Fernandez Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .281
OBP 1.000 .324
At Bats 3 32
Hits 3 9
• Singles 2 7
• Doubles 1 2
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 2
RBI’s 1 3

Bill Stafford Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 0 2
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Tiger Stadium - April 26, 1961
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Single
Bill Stafford
Elston Howard
Bill Skowron
Bobby Richardson
Deron Johnson
Tony Kubek
Hector Lopez
Mickey Mantle
Roger Maris
Chico Fernandez
Charlie Maxwell
Steve Boros
Norm Cash
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Fernandez hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cash scores. Boros scores. There goes Maxwell trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.

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Bottom 7 Charlie Maxwell pinch hits for Dick Brown. Mike Roarke pinch runs for Rocky Colavito. Maxwell takes first base on ball four. Roarke scores. Cash moves to third. Boros moves to second.
Bottom 7 Bill Stafford now pitching. Boros is hit by the pitch. Colavito moves to third. Cash moves to second.
Bottom 7 Cash hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Bruton scores. Kaline scores. Colavito moves to second.
Bottom 7 Colavito takes first base on ball four. Bruton moves to third. Kaline moves to second.
Bottom 7 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Bruton moves to second.
Bottom 7 Bruton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Wood hits a popup towards short. Kubek settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 7 Maris hits a popup towards short. Fernandez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Joe Grzenda now pitching. Howard hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 George Thomas pinch hits for Paul Foytack. Thomas hits a ball on the ground towards first. Skowron scoops it up and throws to first, with Ford covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Fernandez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Mantle throws the ball in to Kubek who tags Fernandez trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Bottom 6 Brown hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Skowron strikes out.
Top 6 Mantle hits a fly ball into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lopez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Richardson moves to second.
Top 6 Kubek hits a line drive into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Richardson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Boros hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Richardson fields it and throws to second for the out. Kaline scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 5 Colavito hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Richardson misplays the ball. That's an error on Richardson. Kaline moves to third.
Bottom 5 Kaline hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Bruton hits a fly ball into left field. Lopez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Ford is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boros fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Maris hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 5 Paul Foytack now pitching. Howard hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Wood hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Bubba Morton pinch hits for Don Mossi. Morton hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ford fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Ford. Brown scores. Fernandez moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 4 Fernandez hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Brown moves to third.
Bottom 4 Brown takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Boros hits a fly ball into left field. Lopez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Mantle hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boros fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Lopez hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Cash hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Richardson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Colavito hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Kaline hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Bruton hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Kubek hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Richardson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood fields it and throws to second for the out. Maris scores. Johnson moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Ford hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Maris moves to third. Johnson moves to second.
Top 3 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Wood misplays the ball. That's an error on Wood. Maris moves to second.
Top 3 Maris takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Howard hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Mossi fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Wood is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Mossi strikes out.
Bottom 2 Fernandez hits a line drive for a double. There's an error on the play. Boros scores. Brown goes all the way around to score. Fernandez moves all the way to home.
Bottom 2 Brown bunts towards the mound. Ford fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Boros moves to second.
Bottom 2 Boros hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Cash hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Colavito hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Skowron strikes out.
Top 2 Mantle hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Kubek hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 1 Kaline hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Skowron scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Bruton for the out.
Bottom 1 Wood strikes out.
Top 1 Richardson hits a line drive into right field. Kaline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Ford hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Mantle scores. Skowron scores. Maris moves to third. Two runs are unearned.
Top 1 Johnson strikes out.
Top 1 Maris hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Mantle moves to third. Skowron moves to second.
Top 1 Howard hits a fly ball into left field. Colavito settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Lopez tags and scores. That run is unearned.
Top 1 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez misplays the ball. That's an error on Fernandez. Kubek scores. Lopez moves to third. Mantle moves to second.
Top 1 Mantle hits a ball on the ground towards short. Fernandez misplays the ball. That's an error on Fernandez. Kubek moves to third. Lopez moves to second.
Top 1 Lopez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Richardson scores. Kubek moves to second.
Top 1 There goes Richardson. The throw from Brown and he is safe. Richardson steals third.
Top 1 Kubek bunts towards third. Boros fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Richardson moves to second.
Top 1 Richardson bunts towards third. Boros fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.