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September 16, 1972

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Bottom 7 R H E
Royals 0 4 1
Twins 11 15 0
Bottom 7 R H E
Royals 0 4 1
Twins 11 15 0

Cesar Tovar Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .256
OBP .500 .326
At Bats 4 488
Hits 2 125
• Singles 2 102
• Doubles 0 17
• Triples 0 5
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 37
RBI’s 0 27

Al Fitzmorris Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 5 2
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Metropolitan Stadium - September 16, 1972
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Al Fitzmorris
Ed Kirkpatrick
John Mayberry
Cookie Rojas
Paul Schaal
Bobby Floyd
Lou Piniella
Amos Otis
Richie Scheinblum
Cesar Tovar
Bert Blyleven
George Mitterwald
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Al Fitzmorris now pitching. Tovar hits a popup, foul, towards first. Mayberry settles under it and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 7 Blyleven hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Thompson scores. Mitterwald moves to second.
Bottom 7 Mitterwald hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Thompson moves to third.
Bottom 7 Thompson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Holt scores.
Bottom 7 Nettles strikes out.
Bottom 7 The ball gets by Kirkpatrick for a passed ball. Holt moves to second.
Bottom 7 Rich Reese pinch runs for Harmon Killebrew. Mike Jackson now pitching. Holt hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Braun scores. Reese moves to third.
Bottom 7 Killebrew hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Tovar scores. Carew scores. Braun moves to second.
Bottom 7 Braun takes first base on ball four. Tovar moves to third. Carew moves to second.
Bottom 7 Carew hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Tovar moves to second.
Bottom 7 Bobby Floyd now playing shortstop. Tom Burgmeier now pitching. Tovar hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Steve Hovley pinch hits for Dick Drago. Hovley hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Joe Keough pinch hits for Freddie Patek. Keough hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Keough for the out.
Top 7 Schaal hits a ball on the ground towards short. Thompson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Blyleven is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Mitterwald hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Thompson strikes out.
Bottom 6 Nettles hits a line drive to right field. That will be extra bases. Scheinblum chases after the ball, picks it up, and throws towards third. Schaal fumbles the ball. That's a triple and an error on Schaal. Nettles moves all the way to home. That run is unearned.
Bottom 6 Holt hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Kirkpatrick hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops it up and throws to first, with Blyleven covering, for the out.
Top 6 Piniella hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Holt. Piniella reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Mayberry hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Carew scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Scheinblum is called out on strikes.
Bottom 5 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 There's a wild pitch. Carew scores. Braun moves to second.
Bottom 5 Braun hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Carew moves to third.
Bottom 5 Carew hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Tovar hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Blyleven hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Rojas hits a fly ball into center field. Nettles settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Otis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Thompson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Drago hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Holt throws the ball in to Killebrew who tags Drago trying to return to first, for the out.
Bottom 4 Mitterwald hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Thompson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Nettles hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Holt hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Patek hits a ball on the ground towards short. Thompson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Schaal hits a ball on the ground towards short. Thompson scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Kirkpatrick moves to second.
Top 4 Kirkpatrick hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Piniella takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Killebrew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Braun hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Carew hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Rojas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Tovar strikes out.
Top 3 Mayberry strikes out.
Top 3 Scheinblum hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Mitterwald settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Rojas hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Drago moves to second.
Top 3 Otis hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Carew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Drago is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 2 Blyleven hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mayberry scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Blyleven for the out.
Bottom 2 Mitterwald strikes out.
Bottom 2 Thompson hits a popup, foul, towards third. Schaal settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Patek hits a popup, foul, towards first. Killebrew settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Schaal takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Kirkpatrick hits a ball on the ground towards first. Killebrew scoops it up and throws to first, with Blyleven covering, for the out.
Top 2 Jim Holt now playing right field. Piniella hits a fly ball into center field. Nettles settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Jim Holt pinch runs for Bobby Darwin. Nettles hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mayberry fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Darwin is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 1 Killebrew hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 1 Braun takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Carew hits a ball on the ground towards short. Patek scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 There goes Tovar. The throw from Kirkpatrick and he is safe. Tovar steals second.
Bottom 1 Tovar hits a ball on the ground towards third. Schaal fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 1 Mayberry strikes out.
Top 1 Scheinblum strikes out.
Top 1 Rojas hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Otis hits a fly ball into left field. Tovar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.