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May 2, 1961

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Billy Gardner Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .250 .263
OBP .250 .354
At Bats 4 57
Hits 1 15
• Singles 1 11
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 8
RBI’s 0 2

Luis Arroyo Season Stats

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1 0 3
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Metropolitan Stadium - May 2, 1961
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Single
Luis Arroyo
Yogi Berra
Bill Skowron
Bobby Richardson
Clete Boyer
Tony Kubek
Hector Lopez
Mickey Mantle
Roger Maris
Billy Gardner
Earl Battey
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Gardner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Battey scores.

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Bottom 10 Battey hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Lopez. Battey reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 10 Allison strikes out.
Bottom 10 Luis Arroyo now pitching. Pete Whisenant pinch hits for Dan Dobbek. Whisenant is called out on strikes.
Bottom 10 Ryne Duren now pitching. Killebrew hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 10 Ray Moore now pitching. Skowron hits a fly ball into left field. Dobbek settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Berra takes first base on ball four.
Top 10 Mantle hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A grand slam home run.
Top 10 Maris takes first base on ball four. Lopez moves to second.
Top 10 Lopez takes first base on ball four.
Top 10 There's a wild pitch. Kubek moves to third.
Top 10 Kubek hits a fly ball into left field, out of the reach of Dobbek. Kubek reaches second base with a double.
Top 10 Johnny Blanchard pinch hits for Jim Coates. Blanchard hits a fly ball into right field. Allison settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Billy Consolo now playing shortstop. Richardson hits a line drive into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Green hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Bertoia takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 Pascual hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Don Mincher pinch hits for Jose Valdivielso. Mincher hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Richardson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Boyer strikes out.
Top 9 Skowron hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Dan Dobbek now playing left field. Berra hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Battey hits a line drive into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Dan Dobbek pinch runs for Jim Lemon. Allison bunts towards the mound. Coates fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Lemon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Mantle hits a popup towards first. Killebrew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Maris strikes out.
Top 8 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Green hits a popup, foul, towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Bertoia hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Pascual moves to second.
Bottom 7 Pascual takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Jim Coates now pitching. Valdivielso hits a line drive into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Kubek hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Pascual fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Jesse Gonder pinch hits for Art Ditmar. Gonder strikes out.
Top 7 Richardson hits a line drive into right field. Allison settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Boyer hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Skowron hits a long drive deep into right center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Gardner hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Berra settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Battey hits a fly ball into left field. Lopez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Allison hits a popup towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Berra hits a fly ball towards right. Allison catches it and throws to first to double up Maris.
Top 6 Mantle strikes out.
Top 6 Maris takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Killebrew hits a popup, foul, towards third. Boyer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Green hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Bertoia hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Lopez hits a fly ball into right field. Allison settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Kubek hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 5 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Richardson hits a line drive towards third. Bertoia reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Pascual hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Valdivielso hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer juggles the ball. That's an error on Boyer.
Bottom 4 Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Battey hits a fly ball into left field. Lopez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Gardner fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Skowron hits a fly ball into left field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Berra takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Mantle hits a ball on the ground into right field. Allison picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Allison. Maris scores. Mantle moves to second.
Top 4 Maris hits a ball on the ground into right field, out of the reach of Allison. Maris reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Allison hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Lemon hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Killebrew moves to second.
Bottom 3 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek misplays the ball. That's an error on Kubek.
Bottom 3 There goes Green. The throw from Berra and he is out, Richardson applying the tag.
Bottom 3 Green takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Kubek hits a fly ball into left field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Pascual, and towards Bertoia, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Richardson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Bertoia hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Pascual hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Gardner moves to third.
Bottom 2 Valdivielso hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Battey scores. Gardner moves to second.
Bottom 2 Gardner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Battey moves to second.
Bottom 2 Battey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Boyer strikes out.
Top 2 Skowron hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Mantle moves to third.
Top 2 Berra strikes out.
Top 2 Mantle hits a popup towards short. Valdivielso misplays the ball. That's an error on Valdivielso. Mantle moves to second.
Bottom 1 Allison hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kubek fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. Bertoia scores. Green moves to third.
Bottom 1 Killebrew takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Green hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Maris. Green reaches second base with a double. Bertoia moves to third.
Bottom 1 Bertoia hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Maris hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Maris for the out.
Top 1 Lopez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Kubek strikes out.