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June 25, 1961

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Top 9 R H E
Red Sox 2 6 0
Athletics 3 4 0
Top 9 R H E
Red Sox 2 6 0
Athletics 3 4 0

Russ Nixon Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .248
OBP 1.000 .296
At Bats 2 113
Hits 2 28
• Singles 1 22
• Doubles 1 5
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 1 8
RBI’s 0 11

Jerry Walker Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
3 3 1
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Municipal Stadium - June 25, 1961
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Out
Jerry Walker
Joe Pignatano
Norm Siebern
Jerry Lumpe
Reno Bertoia
Dick Howser
Leo Posada
Gene Stephens
Jim Rivera
Russ Nixon

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Boston Red Sox 2 6 0 5
Kansas City Athletics 3 4 0 3
Winning Pitcher Bob Shaw
Losing Pitcher Billy Muffett
Save Jerry Walker
Game Winning RBI Gene Stephens
Attendance 13,582
Time of Game 1 hour 59 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Runnels hits a fly ball, foul, into left field. Posada settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Malzone hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Pignatano settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Stephens hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Bertoia hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Pumpsie Green now playing second base. Dave Hillman now pitching. Howser hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Jerry Walker now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into left field. Posada settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Geiger takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 There's a wild pitch. Hardy moves to third.
Top 8 Hardy hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Stephens. Hardy reaches second base with a double. Green scores.
Top 8 Vic Wertz pinch hits for Chuck Schilling. Wertz hits a fly ball into center field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Nixon tags and scores.
Top 8 Pumpsie Green pinch hits for Billy Muffett. Green hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Stephens. Green reaches second base with a double. Nixon moves to third.
Top 8 Buddin hits a popup, foul, towards third. Bertoia settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Jim Rivera now playing right field. Leo Posada now playing left field. Nixon takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Shaw hits a popup, foul, towards first. Runnels settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pignatano hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Posada hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Lumpe tags and scores.
Bottom 7 Lumpe hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Geiger who is chasing the ball. Lumpe reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 7 Covington is called out on strikes.
Top 7 Runnels hits a fly ball into left field. Covington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops it up and throws to first, with Shaw covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Siebern hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Stephens hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 6 Bertoia hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Howser bunts towards the mound. Muffett fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 6 Shaw hits a line drive towards first. Runnels reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Hardy hits a fly ball into right field. Posada settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Shaw fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Pignatano hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Posada hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Lumpe hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Muffett hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Buddin hits a fly ball into left field. Covington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Nixon hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Stephens. Nixon reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Runnels hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Covington hits a popup, foul, towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Siebern takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Stephens hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Nixon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Bertoia hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops it up and throws to first, with Shaw covering, for the out.
Top 4 Hardy hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Howser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Shaw hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Pignatano hits a fly ball into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Schilling for the out.
Top 3 Muffett hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Buddin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 3 Nixon hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Muffett fires to first and picks off Posada.
Bottom 2 Posada hits a ball on the ground towards right. Hardy fields it and throws to second to catch Covington for the out.
Bottom 2 Lumpe strikes out.
Bottom 2 Covington takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Runnels hits a fly ball into center field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Siebern strikes out.
Bottom 1 Stephens is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Bertoia strikes out.
Bottom 1 There goes Howser. The throw from Nixon and he is safe. Howser steals second.
Bottom 1 Howser takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Geiger hits a fly ball into left field. Covington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Hardy is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Schilling hits a popup towards short. Howser settles under it and makes the catch for the out.