Orioles @ Royals
July 20, 1972

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Top 10 R H E
Orioles 5 13 0
Royals 5 9 1
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Orioles 7 14 0
Royals 5 9 1

Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .242
OBP .000 .322
At Bats 0 211
Hits 0 51
• Singles 0 39
• Doubles 0 7
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 4
Walks 0 25
RBI’s 0 14

Tom Burgmeier Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
5 2 9
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Municipal Stadium - July 20, 1972
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Single
Tom Burgmeier
Ed Kirkpatrick
John Mayberry
Paul Schaal
Carl Taylor
Cookie Rojas
Lou Piniella
Amos Otis
Steve Hovley
Merv Rettenmund
Johnny Oates
Davey Johnson
Paul Blair
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Tom Shopay pinch hits for Eddie Watt. Tom Burgmeier now pitching. Merv Rettenmund pinch hits for Tom Shopay. Rettenmund hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Blair scores. Johnson scores. Oates moves to third. Rettenmund moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 10 Oates hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Blair moves to third. Johnson moves to second.
Top 10 Johnson is hit by the pitch.
Top 10 Robinson bunts towards the mound. Wright fields it and throws to first for the out. Blair moves to second.
Top 10 Carl Taylor now playing third base. Cookie Rojas now playing shortstop. Paul Schaal now playing second base. Blair takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Otis hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Eddie Watt now pitching. Carl Taylor pinch hits for Bobby Floyd. Taylor hits a fly ball into right field. Crowley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Keough tags and scores.
Bottom 9 Grant Jackson now pitching. Hovley hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rojas scores. Keough moves to third.
Bottom 9 Joe Keough pinch hits for Bobby Knoop. Keough is hit by the pitch. Rojas moves to second.
Bottom 9 Rojas hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 Kirkpatrick hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mayberry scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Powell for the out.
Top 9 Grich hits a ball on the ground towards short. Floyd scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Ken Wright now pitching. Crowley hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Hovley throws the ball in to Mayberry who tags Crowley trying to return to first, for the out. Alexander scores. Buford moves to third. That run is unearned.
Top 9 Buford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Oates scores. Alexander moves to third.
Top 9 Alexander bunts towards first. Mayberry juggles the ball. That's an error on Mayberry. Oates moves to second.
Top 9 Steve Hovley now playing right field. Bobby Floyd now playing shortstop. Al Fitzmorris now pitching. Oates hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Doyle Alexander now pitching. Piniella 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 Mayberry hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Blair. Mayberry reaches second base with a double. Floyd scores.
Bottom 8 Scheinblum hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Hovley scores.
Bottom 8 Bobby Floyd pinch runs for Gail Hopkins. Otis bunts towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out. Hovley moves to third. Floyd moves to second.
Bottom 8 Gail Hopkins pinch hits for Freddie Patek. Hopkins takes first base on ball four. Hovley moves to second.
Bottom 8 Paul Blair now playing center field. Steve Hovley pinch hits for Roger Nelson. Hovley hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Johnson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Knoop settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rojas fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Baylor hits a fly ball into right field. Scheinblum settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Knoop 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 7 Rojas hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Kirkpatrick hits a popup, foul, towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Powell hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Grich hits a line drive towards short. Patek reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Crowley hits a popup towards short. Patek settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Buford takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Piniella hits a fly ball into center field. Baylor settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Mayberry hits a popup, foul, towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Scheinblum hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Palmer strikes out.
Top 6 Oates hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knoop scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Johnson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Knoop settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Otis strikes out.
Bottom 5 Patek strikes out.
Bottom 5 Nelson bunts in front of the plate. Oates fields it and throws to first for the out. Knoop moves to second.
Bottom 5 Knoop hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rojas fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Baylor hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Powell scores.
Top 5 Powell hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Piniella. Powell reaches second base with a double. Grich scores.
Top 5 Grich hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Otis. Grich reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Crowley hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Buford hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Knoop scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Rojas hits a fly ball into right field. Crowley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Kirkpatrick hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Piniella moves to second.
Bottom 4 Piniella hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Otis scores.
Bottom 4 Mayberry hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Scheinblum hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Otis moves to third.
Bottom 4 There goes Otis. The throw from Oates and he is safe. Otis steals second.
Bottom 4 Otis hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Palmer strikes out.
Top 4 Oates hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Johnson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Knoop settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Robinson hits a fly ball into center field. Otis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Patek hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Nelson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Knoop hits a popup towards short. Grich settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Rojas hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Baylor hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mayberry fields the ball and can't make a play. That's a base hit. There goes Grich trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Top 3 Powell hits a popup, foul, towards first. Mayberry settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 There goes Grich. The throw from Kirkpatrick and he is safe. Grich steals second.
Top 3 Grich hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Buford scores.
Top 3 Crowley is called out on strikes.
Top 3 There goes Buford. The throw from Kirkpatrick and he is safe. Buford steals second.
Top 3 Buford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Kirkpatrick hits a fly ball into right field. Crowley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Piniella hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Mayberry hits a fly ball into center field. Baylor settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Palmer hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Nelson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Oates hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Johnson hits a fly ball into left field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Robinson hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Kirkpatrick settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Scheinblum hits a fly ball into center field. Baylor settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Otis is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Patek hits a fly ball into right field. Crowley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Baylor hits a fly ball into center field. Otis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There's a wild pitch. Grich moves to third. Powell moves to second.
Top 1 Powell takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Grich hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Piniella. Grich reaches second base with a double.
Top 1 Crowley hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mayberry scoops it up and throws to first, with Nelson covering, for the out.
Top 1 Buford hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Knoop settles under it and makes the catch for the out.