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June 28, 1959

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Eddie Mathews Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .293
OBP .333 .373
At Bats 3 300
Hits 1 88
• Singles 0 55
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 6
• Home Runs 1 23
Walks 0 38
RBI’s 1 51

Bill Henry Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
5 3 6
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County Stadium - June 28, 1959
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Single
Bill Henry
Earl Averill
Dale Long
Tony Taylor
Al Dark
Ernie Banks
Walt Moryn
Bobby Thomson
Lee Walls
Eddie Mathews
Count:  - , 0 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Mathews hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Averill hits a ball on the ground towards short. Mantilla fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 8 Thomson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Walls moves to second.
Top 8 Banks hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Walls takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Bruton strikes out.
Bottom 7 Pizarro strikes out.
Bottom 7 Bill Henry now pitching. Mantilla hits a popup towards short. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Pizarro spins and fires to second, with Mantilla covering, and has Taylor trapped. There's the throw to Mathews who tags Taylor for the out.
Top 7 Taylor hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Aaron. Taylor reaches second base with a double.
Top 7 Johnny Goryl pinch hits for Don Elston. Goryl hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Roach reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Roach hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Elston fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Crandall hits a fly ball into left field. Moryn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Adcock hits a popup, foul, towards first. Long settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Covington takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Long hits a ball on the ground towards first. Adcock scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Long for the out.
Top 6 Moryn hits a fly ball into left field. Covington settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Averill hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Aaron strikes out.
Bottom 5 Mathews hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Walt Moryn now playing left field. Earl Averill now catching. Bruton takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Pizarro strikes out.
Top 5 Thomson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Roach scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Banks is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Walls hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Dark takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Don Elston now pitching. Mantilla hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Roach takes first base on ball four. Adcock moves to third. Crandall moves to second.
Bottom 4 Crandall hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Covington scores. Adcock moves to second. That run is unearned.
Bottom 4 Crandall hits a popup, foul, towards first. Long settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Long.
Bottom 4 Adcock takes first base on ball four. Covington moves to second.
Bottom 4 Covington hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Aaron hits a fly ball into left field. Averill settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Mathews hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 4 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Taylor hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Roach settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Hillman takes first base on ball four. Averill moves to third. Neeman moves to second.
Top 4 Long hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Neeman hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Thomson scores. Averill moves to second.
Top 4 Averill hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Thomson moves to second.
Top 4 Thomson takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Banks hits a fly ball into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Pizarro hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Mantilla hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Roach hits a ball on the ground towards third. Dark fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Walls hits a line drive into center field. Bruton settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 There goes Taylor. The throw from Crandall and he is safe. Taylor steals second.
Top 3 Mel Roach now playing second base. Felix Mantilla now playing shortstop. Dark strikes out.
Top 3 Crandall fires to second and picks off Hillman for the out.
Top 3 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards short. Logan misplays the ball. That's an error on Logan. Hillman moves to second.
Top 3 Hillman takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Crandall hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Adcock hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Covington hits a fly ball into center field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Long hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mathews fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Neeman strikes out.
Top 2 Averill strikes out.
Bottom 1 Aaron hits a fly ball into left field. Averill settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Mathews hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Bruton hits a ball on the ground towards first. Long scoops it up and throws to first, with Hillman covering, for the out.
Top 1 Thomson hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Mantilla reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Banks takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 The ball gets by Crandall for a passed ball. Walls moves to second.
Top 1 Walls takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Dark strikes out. There goes Taylor. The throw from Crandall to Logan, and Taylor is out.
Top 1 Taylor hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.