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August 15, 1976

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Pirates 8 13 2
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Jose Cruz Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .317
OBP .000 .395
At Bats 4 293
Hits 0 93
• Singles 0 73
• Doubles 0 16
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 39
RBI’s 0 45

Kent Tekulve Season Stats

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4 1 2
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Astrodome - August 15, 1976
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Kent Tekulve
Duffy Dyer
Ed Kirkpatrick
Rennie Stennett
Richie Hebner
Frank Taveras
Bill Robinson
Omar Moreno
Dave Parker
Jose Cruz
Bob Watson
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Kent Tekulve now pitching. Cruz hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Moreno. Cruz reaches second base with a double. Watson scores.

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Bottom 9 Watson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Parker who is chasing the ball. Watson reaches third base with a triple. Cabell scores. Cedeno goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 9 Cedeno hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cabell moves to second.
Bottom 9 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Medich fields it and throws to second for the out. Boswell scores.
Bottom 9 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stennett fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Boswell moves to third.
Bottom 9 Bill Robinson now playing left field. Ken Boswell pinch hits for Bo McLaughlin. Boswell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Robinson. Boswell reaches second base with a double.
Top 9 Taveras hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Bo McLaughlin now pitching. Medich hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Stennett scores. Dyer moves to second.
Top 9 Dyer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Stennett moves to second.
Top 9 Stennett hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kirkpatrick scores.
Top 9 Kirkpatrick hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Cedeno. Kirkpatrick reaches second base with a double. Zisk scores. Hebner goes all the way around to score.
Top 9 Hebner takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Parker hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Andrews scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Zisk moves to second.
Top 9 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Cliff Johnson now catching. Moreno hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Metzger hits a fly ball into right field. Parker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Cliff Johnson pinch hits for Skip Jutze. Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Parker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Andrews hits a fly ball into center field. Moreno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Taveras hits a ball on the ground towards shortstop. Metzger fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Top 8 Medich bunts towards the mound. Larson fields it and throws to third for the out. Dyer moves to second.
Top 8 Dyer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Stennett moves to second.
Top 8 Stennett hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 8 Kirkpatrick hits a popup towards first. Watson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Cruz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Taveras scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Watson hits a popup towards first. Kirkpatrick settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Cedeno hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. There goes Cabell trying to get to third. Parker throws the ball in to Hebner, who tags Cabell for the out. Cedeno moves to second.
Bottom 7 Cabell hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Hebner hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Parker hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Moreno moves to third.
Top 7 Zisk hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Moreno hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Taveras scores.
Top 7 The ball gets by Jutze for a passed ball. Taveras moves to third.
Top 7 There goes Taveras. The throw from Jutze and he is safe. Taveras steals second.
Top 7 Taveras takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Medich is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hebner fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Larson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Taveras scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Metzger hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Medich fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Dyer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cabell fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Stennett hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Andrews catches it and throws to first to double up Kirkpatrick.
Top 6 Kirkpatrick hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Jutze strikes out.
Bottom 5 Andrews hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stennett scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Cruz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Taveras scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Hebner hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Parker is walked intentionally.
Top 5 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Larson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Moreno hits a ball on the ground towards first. Watson juggles the ball. That's an error on Watson. Dyer scores. Medich scores. Taveras moves to third. Moreno moves to second. Two runs are unearned.
Top 5 Taveras hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Dyer moves to third. Medich moves to second.
Top 5 Medich hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger fields it, and throws to get the runner. And he throws it away. That's an error on Metzger. Dyer moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 5 Dyer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Stennett hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Watson hits a fly ball into right field. Parker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Cedeno hits a fly ball into right field. Parker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Cabell hits a fly ball into right field. Parker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hebner fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Larson moves to second.
Bottom 4 Larson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Metzger scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 4 Metzger hits a fly ball towards right. Parker settles under the ball, and drops it. That's an error on Parker. Metzger moves to third.
Top 4 Kirkpatrick is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Hebner hits a popup towards first. Watson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Parker strikes out.
Bottom 3 Jutze is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Andrews hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. There goes Cedeno trying to get to home. Moreno throws the ball in to Dyer who tags Cedeno who's trying to score from second, for the out. Watson moves to second.
Bottom 3 Cruz hits a fly ball into left field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Watson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cabell scores. Cedeno moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Cedeno takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 There goes Cabell. The throw from Dyer and he is safe. Cabell steals second.
Bottom 3 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Taveras misplays the ball. That's an error on Taveras.
Top 3 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 There goes Moreno. The throw from Jutze and he is safe. Moreno steals second.
Top 3 Moreno hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Taveras hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Andrews scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Medich hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Gross is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Larson bunts towards the mound. Medich fields it and throws to first for the out. Andrews moves to third. Metzger moves to second.
Bottom 2 Metzger hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Andrews moves to second.
Bottom 2 Jutze hits a fly ball into right field. Parker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Andrews hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Dyer strikes out.
Top 2 Stennett hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Kirkpatrick hits a line drive towards first. Watson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Cruz hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Medich fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Watson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Cedeno is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Cabell hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Medich fields it and throws to first for the out. Gross moves to third.
Bottom 1 There goes Gross. The throw from Dyer and he is safe. Gross steals second.
Bottom 1 Gross takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Hebner hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Andrews scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Parker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Moreno scores.
Top 1 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards first. Watson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Zisk for the out. Moreno moves to third.
Top 1 There goes Moreno. The throw from Jutze and he is safe. Moreno steals second.
Top 1 Moreno takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Taveras hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.