Orioles @ Tigers
July 12, 1970

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Orioles 3 6 2
Tigers 7 9 1
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Orioles 3 6 2
Tigers 7 9 1

Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .263
OBP .250 .328
At Bats 4 171
Hits 1 45
• Singles 1 27
• Doubles 0 6
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 10
Walks 0 16
RBI’s 0 30

Tom Timmermann Season Stats

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2 1 11
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Tiger Stadium - July 12, 1970
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Strikeout
Tom Timmermann
Bill Freehan
Al Kaline
Dick McAuliffe
Don Wert
Cesar Gutierrez
Willie Horton
Mickey Stanley
Elliott Maddox
Merv Rettenmund
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Rettenmund strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Dick McAuliffe now playing second base. Grich hits a line drive towards short. Gutierrez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Gutierrez hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Etchebarren fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Dick McAuliffe pinch hits for Ike Brown. McAuliffe takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Wert hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 There goes Freehan. The throw from Etchebarren and he is out, Grich applying the tag.
Bottom 8 Eddie Watt now pitching. Bobby Grich now playing shortstop. Freehan takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Frank Robinson pinch hits for Mark Belanger. Tom Timmermann now pitching. Terry Crowley pinch hits for Frank Robinson. Crowley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Brown scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Etchebarren takes first base on ball four. Motton moves to second.
Top 8 Johnson strikes out.
Top 8 Motton hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Blair scores. Powell moves to third.
Top 8 Powell hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Blair moves to second.
Top 8 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Blair hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Horton hits a popup towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Moe Drabowsky now pitching. Maddox hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into right field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Don Buford pinch hits for Marcelino Lopez. Buford strikes out.
Top 7 Belanger hits a fly ball into center field. Stanley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Stanley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Lolich hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Gutierrez hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lopez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Brown strikes out.
Top 6 Etchebarren hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Brown fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 6 Motton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Wert fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Powell strikes out.
Bottom 5 Wert hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Etchebarren settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Freehan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Marcelino Lopez now pitching. Horton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Robinson hits a popup, foul, towards first. Kaline settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Blair hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Gutierrez fields it and races to the second base bag for the out. Etchebarren scores. Belanger moves to third.
Top 5 Jim Palmer pinch runs for Chico Salmon. Rettenmund strikes out.
Top 5 Chico Salmon pinch hits for Jim Hardin. Salmon takes first base on ball four. Johnson scores. Etchebarren moves to third. Belanger moves to second.
Top 5 Belanger takes first base on ball four. Johnson moves to third. Etchebarren moves to second.
Top 5 Etchebarren takes first base on ball four. Johnson moves to second.
Top 5 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Kaline hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Maddox hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hardin fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 4 Stanley hits a fly ball into left field. Motton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Lolich is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Motton strikes out.
Top 4 Powell hits a line drive into right field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Robinson hits a fly ball into center field. Stanley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Jim Hardin now pitching. Gutierrez hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Motton. Gutierrez reaches second base with a double. Blair throws the ball in to Johnson who relays the ball to Robinson who tags Gutierrez trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Horton scores. Brown goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Brown hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Horton moves to second.
Bottom 3 Wert hits a popup, foul, towards first. Powell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Freehan hits a line drive into right field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Horton hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Kaline hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 3 Blair hits a popup towards short. Gutierrez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Rettenmund hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Belanger moves to third.
Top 3 McNally is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Belanger takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Etchebarren hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Brown settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Maddox hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Stanley hits a fly ball into right field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Gutierrez tags and scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 2 Lolich bunts in front of the plate. Etchebarren juggles the ball. That's an error on Etchebarren. Gutierrez moves to third.
Bottom 2 Gutierrez bunts towards first. Powell juggles the ball. That's an error on Powell. Wert scores.
Bottom 2 Brown bunts towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out. Wert moves to third.
Bottom 2 Wert hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Motton. Wert reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Freehan hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Wert fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Motton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Wert fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Powell strikes out.
Bottom 1 Horton hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Kaline hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Maddox strikes out.
Bottom 1 Stanley hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 1 Robinson hits a popup towards third. Wert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Lolich spins and fires to second, and Blair is picked off.
Top 1 Blair hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Brown misplays the ball. That's an error on Brown. Blair moves to second.
Top 1 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into center field. Stanley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.