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May 7, 1961

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Red Sox 8 6 1
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Vic Wertz Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .667 .289
OBP .667 .385
At Bats 3 45
Hits 2 13
• Singles 1 9
• Doubles 0 1
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 1 3
Walks 0 6
RBI’s 2 10

Don Lee Season Stats

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Metropolitan Stadium - May 7, 1961
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Strikeout
Don Lee
Earl Battey
Harmon Killebrew
Billy Gardner
Reno Bertoia
Zoilo Versalles
Jim Lemon
Lenny Green
Dan Dobbek
Vic Wertz
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Wertz strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 7 Don Lee now pitching. Yastrzemski 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 6 Hal Naragon pinch hits for Chuck Stobbs. Naragon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops it up and throws to first, with Fornieles covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Bertoia hits a popup towards first. Wertz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Gardner hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Geiger 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 6 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards short. Versalles scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Fornieles hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Battey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Killebrew hits a long drive deep into right center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 5 Dobbek hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops it up and throws to first, with Fornieles covering, for the out.
Top 5 Buddin hits a popup towards short. Versalles settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hardy hits a fly ball into right field. Dobbek settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Nixon hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Dobbek. Nixon reaches second base with a double. Wertz scores. Malzone goes all the way around to score.
Top 5 Malzone takes first base on ball four. Wertz moves to second.
Top 5 Wertz hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Chuck Stobbs now pitching. Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops it up and throws to first, with Stobbs covering, for the out.
Bottom 4 Green hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Paul Giel pinch runs for Elmer Valo. Mike Fornieles now pitching. Versalles strikes out.
Bottom 4 Elmer Valo pinch hits for Camilo Pascual. Valo hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Lemon scores. Bertoia moves to second.
Bottom 4 Bertoia hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling fields it and throws to second for the out. Lemon moves to third.
Bottom 4 Gardner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lemon moves to second.
Bottom 4 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 4 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Geiger for the out.
Top 4 Schilling hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A grand slam home run.
Top 4 Monbouquette takes first base on ball four. Buddin moves to second.
Top 4 Buddin hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Bertoia. Malzone moves to third.
Top 4 Hardy hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Nixon hits a fly ball into right field. Dobbek settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Malzone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Battey is called out on strikes.
Bottom 3 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Buddin. Green scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 There goes Green. The throw from Nixon and he is safe. Green steals second.
Bottom 3 Dobbek hits a popup, foul, towards third. Malzone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Green hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Versalles scores.
Bottom 3 There goes Versalles. The throw from Nixon and he is safe. Versalles steals third.
Bottom 3 Versalles hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Yastrzemski. Versalles reaches second base with a double. Pascual goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 3 Pascual takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Bertoia hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Wertz strikes out.
Top 3 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Geiger hits a fly ball into center field. Green settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Gardner hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops it up and throws to first, with Monbouquette covering, for the out.
Bottom 2 Battey strikes out.
Top 2 Schilling hits a popup, foul, towards first. Killebrew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Monbouquette bunts in front of the plate. Battey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Buddin takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Hardy hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Pascual fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards third. Malzone fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Dobbek hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Green strikes out.
Bottom 1 There goes Versalles. The throw from Nixon and he is safe. Versalles steals second.
Bottom 1 Versalles hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Nixon 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 1 The ball gets by Battey for a passed ball. Malzone moves to third.
Top 1 Malzone hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Wertz hits a long drive deep into right center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 1 Yastrzemski takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Geiger strikes out.
Top 1 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Bertoia fields it and throws to first for the out.