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June 23, 1968

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Denis Menke Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .254
OBP .667 .354
At Bats 1 193
Hits 0 49
• Singles 0 37
• Doubles 0 9
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 2 30
RBI’s 0 16

Dick Hall Season Stats

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2 0 0
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Astrodome - June 23, 1968
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Single
Dick Hall
Mike Ryan
Rick Joseph
Cookie Rojas
Tony Taylor
Roberto Pena
Dick Allen
Tony Gonzalez
Johnny Callison
Denis Menke
Jim Wynn
Rusty Staub
Hector Torres
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Menke hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Torres scores. Staub scores. Wynn moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 7 Wynn is walked intentionally.
Bottom 7 Staub hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Allen. Staub reaches second base with a double. Torres moves to third.
Bottom 7 Torres hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Simpson hits a fly ball into center field. Gonzalez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Dick Hall now pitching. Lemaster is called out on strikes.
Top 7 Joseph hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Menke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Allen takes first base on ball four. Sutherland moves to second.
Top 7 Callison hits a fly ball into right field. Simpson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Rojas hits a line drive into right field. Simpson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Gary Sutherland pinch hits for Woodie Fryman. Sutherland hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Bateman hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pena fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pena fields it and throws to second for the out. Menke scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Rader hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Fryman picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Fryman. Wynn scores. Menke moves to third.
Bottom 6 Menke takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 There's a wild pitch. Wynn moves to third.
Bottom 6 Wynn hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Allen. Wynn reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Staub hits a ball on the ground towards first. Joseph scoops it up and throws to first, with Fryman covering, for the out.
Top 6 Ryan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Torres scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Pena strikes out.
Top 6 Gonzalez hits a fly ball into left field. Watson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Torres hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rojas fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Simpson is hit by the pitch. Lemaster moves to second.
Bottom 5 Lemaster takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Bateman hits a fly ball into left field. Allen settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lemaster fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Joseph hits a fly ball into center field. Wynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Allen hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Callison hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Menke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Watson strikes out. There goes Rader. The throw from Ryan to second, and Rader is out.
Bottom 4 Rader hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Menke hits a ball on the ground towards short. Pena scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Rojas strikes out.
Top 4 Fryman strikes out.
Top 4 Ryan hits a popup, foul, towards first. Staub settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Wynn hits a ball on the ground towards first. Joseph scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Wynn for the out.
Bottom 3 Staub hits a popup, foul, towards third. Taylor settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Torres hits a ball on the ground towards first. Joseph scoops it up and throws to first, with Fryman covering, for the out.
Top 3 Pena hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Simpson. Pena reaches second base with a double. Simpson throws the ball in to Rader who tags Pena trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Taylor goes all the way around to score.
Top 3 Gonzalez hits a fly ball into left field. Watson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Taylor hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 Joseph hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rader fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Allen hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 2 Simpson hits a popup towards short. Pena settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 The umpire calls a balk on Fryman Watson scores. Bateman moves to third.
Bottom 2 Lemaster bunts towards first. Joseph scoops it up and throws to first, with Rojas covering, for the out. Watson moves to third. Bateman moves to second.
Bottom 2 Bateman hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Watson moves to second.
Bottom 2 Watson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Menke scores.
Bottom 2 Rader hits a ball on the ground towards third. Taylor fields it and throws to first for the out. Menke moves to second.
Bottom 2 Menke takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Callison strikes out.
Top 2 Rojas hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Lemaster fields it and throws to home to get Pena. Ryan moves to third. Fryman moves to second.
Top 2 Fryman takes first base on ball four. Pena moves to third. Ryan moves to second.
Top 2 Ryan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rader fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Rader. Pena moves to second.
Top 2 Pena hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Gonzalez hits a fly ball into left field. Watson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Wynn hits a fly ball into center field. Gonzalez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Staub hits a popup towards first. Joseph settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Torres hits a line drive into center field. Gonzalez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Simpson hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 1 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Torres scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Joseph hits a fly ball into center field. Wynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Allen takes first base on ball four. Rojas moves to second.
Top 1 Callison hits a fly ball into center field. Wynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Rojas hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.