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June 21, 1968

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Yankees 8 11 1
Twins 1 6 0
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Yankees 8 11 1
Twins 2 7 0

Tony Oliva Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .273
OBP .500 .325
At Bats 2 249
Hits 1 68
• Singles 0 45
• Doubles 1 15
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 8
Walks 0 18
RBI’s 0 34

Mel Stottlemyre Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
8 4 0
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Metropolitan Stadium - June 21, 1968
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Home Run
Mel Stottlemyre
Jake Gibbs
Mickey Mantle
Horace Clarke
Bobby Cox
Tom Tresh
Roy White
Joe Pepitone
Andy Kosco
Tony Oliva
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Oliva hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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Top 6 Mantle hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 White hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards short. Hernandez fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Stottlemyre hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Cox scores.
Top 6 Cox hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Uhlaender who is chasing the ball. Cox reaches third base with a triple. Gibbs goes all the way around to score.
Top 6 Jim Roland now pitching. Gibbs hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Uhlaender hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Quilici moves to third.
Bottom 5 Tovar hits a line drive into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Jim Holt pinch hits for Jim Perry. Holt strikes out.
Bottom 5 Quilici hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Tresh hits a fly ball into center field. Uhlaender settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Kosco hits a popup, foul, towards first. Killebrew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Pepitone hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 5 Jim Perry now pitching. Mantle strikes out.
Top 5 White takes first base on ball four. Clarke moves to second.
Top 5 Clarke hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Hernandez hits a popup towards short. Tresh settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Look hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Allison hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Stottlemyre strikes out.
Top 4 Cox hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kosco scores. Gibbs moves to second.
Top 4 Gibbs hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew has Pepitone trapped. There's the throw to Look and over to Tovar, who tags Pepitone for the out. Kosco moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 4 Tresh is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Kosco hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit. Pepitone moves to third.
Top 4 Pepitone takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Oliva hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mantle juggles the ball. That's an error on Mantle. Boswell scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 3 Uhlaender hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first, with Stottlemyre covering, for the out. Boswell moves to second.
Bottom 3 Tovar hits a fly ball into right field. Kosco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Boswell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 There goes Mantle. The throw from Look and he is out, Hernandez applying the tag.
Top 3 Mantle hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 3 White hits a popup towards third. Tovar settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops it up and throws to first, with Boswell covering, for the out.
Bottom 2 Quilici strikes out.
Bottom 2 Hernandez strikes out.
Bottom 2 Look hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Stottlemyre fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Stottlemyre hits a popup towards first. Killebrew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Cox hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 2 Gibbs hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Quilici settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Tresh hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tovar fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 2 Kosco hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Allison strikes out.
Bottom 1 Oliva hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Kosco. Oliva reaches second base with a double. Killebrew moves to third.
Bottom 1 Killebrew takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 There goes Uhlaender. The throw from Gibbs and he is out, Clarke applying the tag.
Bottom 1 Uhlaender hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Tovar hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Pepitone hits a line drive into center field. Uhlaender settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Mantle takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 White hits a line drive into right field. Oliva settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There goes Clarke. The throw from Look and he is out, Hernandez applying the tag.
Top 1 Clarke hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.