Orioles @ Royals
July 22, 1970

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Top 9 R H E
Orioles 3 5 0
Royals 3 8 1
Top 9 R H E
Orioles 3 5 0
Royals 3 8 1

Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .286
OBP .500 .348
At Bats 3 189
Hits 2 54
• Singles 1 31
• Doubles 1 9
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 12
Walks 0 17
RBI’s 1 34

Ted Abernathy Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
4 2 4
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Municipal Stadium - July 22, 1970
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Ted Abernathy
Ed Kirkpatrick
Bob Oliver
Cookie Rojas
Billy Sorrell
Jackie Hernandez
Lou Piniella
Amos Otis
Pat Kelly
Merv Rettenmund
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Ed Kirkpatrick now catching. Billy Sorrell now playing third base. Ted Abernathy now pitching. Rettenmund takes first base on ball four.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Dick Hall now pitching. Billy Sorrell pinch hits for Ellie Rodriguez. Sorrell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Rojas takes first base on ball four. Piniella scores. Oliver moves to third. Kirkpatrick moves to second.
Bottom 8 Eddie Watt now pitching. Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits for Paul Schaal. Kirkpatrick takes first base on ball four. Piniella moves to third. Oliver moves to second.
Bottom 8 Oliver hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Kelly scores. Piniella moves to second.
Bottom 8 Piniella hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Kelly moves to second.
Bottom 8 Otis hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Kelly hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Jim Campanis pinch hits for Ken Wright. Campanis hits a popup towards first. Crowley settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 McNally hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Etchebarren hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Hernandez is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Rodriguez strikes out.
Bottom 7 Rojas hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Crowley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Ken Wright now pitching. Robinson strikes out.
Bottom 6 Schaal hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Oliver hits a fly ball into right field. Robinson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Piniella hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Blair hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields it and throws to second for the out. Belanger moves to third.
Top 6 Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Belanger moves to second.
Top 6 McNally bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Top 6 Belanger takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Otis strikes out.
Bottom 5 Kelly hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Fitzmorris hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rettenmund. Fitzmorris reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Terry Crowley now playing first base. Merv Rettenmund now playing left field. Frank Robinson now playing right field. Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Etchebarren hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rojas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards first. Oliver juggles the ball. That's an error on Oliver. Robinson moves to third. Robinson moves to second.
Top 5 Terry Crowley pinch hits for Curt Motton. Crowley strikes out.
Top 5 Robinson takes first base on ball four. Robinson moves to second.
Top 5 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Blair hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Rodriguez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Rojas is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Schaal hits a popup, foul, towards first. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Rodriguezdrops the ball. It gets behind him. There goes Etchebarren. The throw to Fitzmorris covering the plate. The slide. Etchebarren is out.
Top 4 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Johnson tags and scores. Etchebarren tags and moves to third.
Top 4 McNally bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Top 4 Al Fitzmorris now pitching. Belanger takes first base on ball four. Motton scores. Johnson moves to third. Etchebarren moves to second.
Top 4 Etchebarren takes first base on ball four. Motton moves to third. Johnson moves to second.
Top 4 Johnson takes first base on ball four. Motton moves to second.
Top 4 Motton takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Oliver hits a popup towards short. Belanger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Piniella strikes out.
Bottom 3 Otis hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kelly scores.
Bottom 3 There goes Kelly. The throw from Etchebarren and he is safe. Kelly steals second.
Bottom 3 Kelly takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Butler 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 3 Robinson hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Robinson takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Blair hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Rojas settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into center field. Otis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Hernandez hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Rodriguez hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Schaal moves to second.
Bottom 2 Rojas hits a popup, foul, towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Schaal hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 McNally hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Belanger hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Etchebarren hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Johnson strikes out.
Bottom 1 Oliver hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Piniella hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Rettenmund. Piniella reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Otis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Belanger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Kelly 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 1 Motton hits a line drive towards short. Hernandez reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Kelly settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Rettenmund tags and scores.
Top 1 Blair bunts towards the mound. Butler fields it and throws to first for the out. Rettenmund moves to third.
Top 1 Rettenmund hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Otis. Rettenmund reaches second base with a double.