Giants @ Dodgers
August 3, 1979

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Top 9 R H E
Giants 3 8 2
Dodgers 11 11 0
Top 9 R H E
Giants 3 8 2
Dodgers 11 11 0

Roger Metzger Season Stats

  Game Season
Average 1.000 .227
OBP .667 .287
At Bats 1 211
Hits 1 48
• Singles 1 38
• Doubles 0 5
• Triples 0 5
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 1 18
RBI’s 1 23

Burt Hooton Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
9 7 0
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Dodger Stadium - August 3, 1979
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Out
Burt Hooton
Steve Yeager
Steve Garvey
Ted Martinez
Mickey Hatcher
Bill Russell
Gary Thomasson
Derrel Thomas
Joe Ferguson
Roger Metzger
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Metzger hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Martinez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Ivie hits a popup, foul, towards first. Garvey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Evans hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 8 Thomasson hits a ball on the ground towards first. McCovey scoops it up and throws to first, with Borbon covering, for the out.
Bottom 8 Hooton strikes out.
Bottom 8 Thomas hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Strain scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 McCovey strikes out.
Top 8 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Ted Martinez now playing second base. Gary Thomasson now playing left field. Strain hits a fly ball into left field. Thomasson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Yeager hits a fly ball into left field. Ivie settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pedro Borbon now pitching. Ferguson hits a popup towards first. McCovey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Baker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Lopes scores. Garvey scores. Hatcher moves to third. Baker moves to second.
Bottom 7 Hatcher takes first base on ball four. Hooton scores. Lopes moves to third. Garvey moves to second.
Bottom 7 Garvey is walked intentionally.
Bottom 7 Russell bunts towards first. McCovey scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Russell for the out. Hooton moves to third. Lopes moves to second.
Bottom 7 Lopes takes first base on ball four. Hooton moves to second.
Bottom 7 Terry Whitfield now playing center field. Phil Nastu now pitching. Hooton hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 North hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Hooton fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Terry Whitfield pinch hits for Tom Griffin. Whitfield hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Ivie moves to third.
Top 7 Sadek hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Yeager settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Metzger hits a fly ball into center field. Thomas settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Evans tags and scores.
Top 7 Ivie hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McCovey scores. Evans moves to third.
Top 7 There's a wild pitch. Evans moves to second.
Top 7 Evans hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. McCovey moves to third.
Top 7 Mickey Hatcher now playing third base. McCovey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Thomas strikes out.
Bottom 6 Yeager hits a fly ball into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Ferguson strikes out.
Bottom 6 Ferguson hits a popup, foul, in back of the plate. Sadek settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Sadek.
Bottom 6 Tom Griffin now pitching. Baker hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Garvey scores. Cey moves to second.
Bottom 6 Cey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Russell scores. Garvey moves to second.
Bottom 6 Garvey hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Russell moves to third.
Bottom 6 Russell takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Clark hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Strain hits a fly ball into right field. Ferguson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 North hits a fly ball into left field. Baker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Lopes hits a line drive towards third. Evans reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Hooton hits a ball on the ground towards unknown player. Fielder's choice made on unknown runner with result that runner safe. Baker scores. Ferguson moves to third. Thomas moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Bottom 5 Thomas takes first base on ball four. Baker moves to third. Ferguson moves to second.
Bottom 5 Yeager strikes out.
Bottom 5 Ferguson is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 5 There goes Baker. The throw from Sadek and he is safe. Baker steals second.
Bottom 5 Baker takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Cey hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 5 Garvey hits a fly ball into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Halicki hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Sadek hits a ball on the ground towards the mound, off Hooton's glove, towards Lopes, who fields it, throws to second, with Russell covering, for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 5 Metzger hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Lopes strikes out.
Bottom 4 Hooton hits a fly ball into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Ivie strikes out.
Top 4 Evans hits a fly ball into right field. Ferguson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 McCovey strikes out.
Bottom 3 Thomas hits a fly ball into right field. Clark settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Yeager strikes out.
Bottom 3 Ferguson takes first base on ball four. Cey moves to third. Baker moves to second.
Bottom 3 Baker hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cey moves to second.
Bottom 3 Cey takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Garvey hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Clark hits a fly ball into left field. Baker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Strain hits a fly ball into left field. Baker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 North strikes out.
Bottom 2 Russell hits a line drive into left field. Ivie settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Lopes hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Hooton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans juggles the ball. That's an error on Evans.
Bottom 2 Ed Halicki now pitching. Thomas strikes out.
Top 2 Greg Johnston pinch hits for John Curtis. Johnston hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lopes scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Sadek strikes out.
Top 2 Metzger takes first base on ball four. Ivie moves to second.
Top 2 Ivie hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Evans strikes out.
Bottom 1 Yeager hits a fly ball into right field. Clark settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Ferguson hits a fly ball into center field. North settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Baker hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 1 Cey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Garvey moves to second.
Bottom 1 Garvey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 1 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Lopes hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 1 McCovey hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lopes scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Clark hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Strain hits a popup, foul, towards first. Garvey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 North hits a fly ball into left field. Baker settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.