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June 27, 1961

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Orioles 5 10 1
Athletics 2 4 0
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Athletics 2 4 0

Jim Gentile Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .288
OBP .500 .413
At Bats 4 212
Hits 2 61
• Singles 1 34
• Doubles 0 10
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 1 17
Walks 0 43
RBI’s 3 62

Jerry Walker Season Stats

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3 3 2
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Municipal Stadium - June 27, 1961
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Home Run
Jerry Walker
Joe Pignatano
Norm Siebern
Jerry Lumpe
Wayne Causey
Dick Howser
Deron Johnson
Gene Stephens
Leo Posada
Jim Gentile
Jackie Brandt
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Gentile hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Brandt takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Snyder is called out on strikes.
Top 9 Wayne Causey now playing third base. Leo Posada now playing right field. Jerry Walker now pitching. Deron Johnson now playing left field. Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Hank Bauer pinch hits for Lou Klimchock. Billy Hoeft now pitching. Bauer hits a popup, foul, towards first. Gentile settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Howser strikes out.
Bottom 8 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Pignatano moves to second.
Bottom 8 Pignatano takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Haywood Sullivan pinch hits for Gerry Staley. Sullivan strikes out.
Top 8 Estrada 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 8 Adair hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Hansen strikes out.
Bottom 7 Posada strikes out.
Bottom 7 Lumpe hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Howser scores. Siebern moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 7 Siebern takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 There goes Howser. The throw from Triandos and he is safe. Howser steals second.
Bottom 7 Stephens hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Klimchock hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Adair settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Earl Robinson now playing right field. Howser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hansen fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Hansen.
Top 7 Triandos hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Throneberry hits a fly ball into left field. Posada settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Gentile hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gentile for the out. Snyder moves to third. Brandt moves to second.
Top 7 Brandt bunts towards third. Johnson fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Snyder moves to second.
Top 7 Gerry Staley now pitching. Snyder hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Johnson hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Triandos settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Pignatano takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Wes Covington pinch hits for Bill Kunkel. Covington hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Adair settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Posada is called out on strikes.
Top 6 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Estrada bunts towards the mound. Kunkel fields it and throws to first for the out. Hansen moves to third. Adair moves to second.
Top 6 Adair hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Hansen moves to second.
Top 6 Hansen hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Bill Kunkel now pitching. Deron Johnson now playing third base. Triandos hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Lumpe hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Adair scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Siebern hits a ball on the ground towards first. Gentile scoops it up and throws to first, with Estrada covering, for the out.
Bottom 5 Stephens hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Triandos settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Throneberry strikes out.
Top 5 Gentile hits a long drive deep into right center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 5 Brandt takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Snyder is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Klimchock hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Adair settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Howser takes first base on ball four. Ditmar moves to second.
Bottom 4 Ditmar hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Pignatano hits a popup, foul, towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Bertoia hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Adair settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Estrada is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Adair hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Hansen hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Posada is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Lumpe hits a fly ball into center field. Brandt settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Siebern takes first base on ball four. Klimchock moves to second.
Bottom 3 Stephens hits a fly ball into right field. Throneberry settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Klimchock hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Triandos hits a popup, foul, towards third. Bertoia settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Throneberry hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to second for the out. Snyder scores. Brandt moves to third.
Top 3 Gentile hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern fields the ball and throws to Ditmar covering. Safe. Robinson scores. Snyder moves to third. Brandt moves to second.
Top 3 Brandt takes first base on ball four. Snyder moves to second.
Top 3 Snyder hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Robinson moves to third.
Top 3 Robinson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Estrada strikes out.
Bottom 2 Howser hits a popup, foul, towards first. Gentile settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Ditmar bunts between the mound and first base. Estrada scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Ditmar for the out. Posada moves to third. Pignatano moves to second.
Bottom 2 Pignatano takes first base on ball four. Posada moves to second.
Bottom 2 Bertoia hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Adair settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Posada takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Adair hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Hansen hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 2 Triandos strikes out.
Top 2 Throneberry hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Throneberry for the out.
Bottom 1 Lumpe hits a fly ball into left field. Snyder settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Siebern hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Snyder. Siebern reaches second base with a double. Stephens goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Stephens takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Klimchock hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Adair scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Howser hits a fly ball into left field. Snyder settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Gentile hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Pignatano settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Brandt hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Snyder hits a fly ball into center field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Robinson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.