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August 2, 1961

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Athletics 0 3 0
Yankees 8 12 0
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Athletics 0 3 0
Yankees 9 13 0

Mickey Mantle Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .328
OBP .333 .451
At Bats 3 351
Hits 1 115
• Singles 0 60
• Doubles 0 12
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 1 40
Walks 0 81
RBI’s 2 94

Joe Nuxhall Season Stats

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4 8 0
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Yankee Stadium - August 2, 1961
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Single
Joe Nuxhall
Haywood Sullivan
Norm Siebern
Jerry Lumpe
Wayne Causey
Dick Howser
Jay Hankins
Bobby Del Greco
Gene Stephens
Mickey Mantle
Hector Lopez
Tony Kubek
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Mantle hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kubek scores. Lopez moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 5 Lopez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Richardson scores. Kubek moves to second.
Bottom 5 Kubek hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Gardner scores. Richardson moves to third.
Bottom 5 Richardson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Terry hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Skowron tags and scores.
Bottom 5 Gardner hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Stephens. Gardner reaches second base with a double. Skowron moves to third.
Bottom 5 Skowron takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Blanchard strikes out.
Top 5 Nuxhall hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Blanchard settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Del Greco hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Stephens strikes out.
Top 5 Sullivan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Gardner fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Berra hits a fly ball into right field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Mantle strikes out.
Bottom 4 Lopez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Richardson moves to third.
Bottom 4 Kubek hits a popup towards short. Howser settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Richardson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Lumpe hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Blanchard settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Siebern hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Causey hits a popup towards short. Kubek settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Hector Lopez now playing left field. Yogi Berra now playing right field. Hankins hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Terry hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Gardner hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Joe Nuxhall now pitching. Skowron hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Blanchard moves to second.
Bottom 3 Blanchard hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Maris scores. Berra scores.
Bottom 3 Berra hits a line drive into left field. The ball bounces into the stands for a ground rule double. Maris moves to third.
Bottom 3 Mantle strikes out.
Bottom 3 Maris is hit by the pitch.
Top 3 Howser hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Ditmar hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Blanchard fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Del Greco hits a fly ball into right field. Maris settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Kubek hits a fly ball into left field. Hankins settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Richardson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ditmar fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Terry strikes out.
Top 2 Stephens is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Sullivan strikes out.
Top 2 Lumpe hits a fly ball into center field. Mantle settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Gardner hits a fly ball into right field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Skowron hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Blanchard moves to second.
Bottom 1 Blanchard takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Berra hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Mantle hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 1 Maris hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hankins. Maris reaches second base with a double. Kubek goes all the way around to score.
Bottom 1 Kubek hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Richardson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Causey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Siebern strikes out.
Top 1 Causey hits a ball on the ground towards first. Skowron fields it and throws to home to get Howser. Causey moves to second. Score that a fielder's choice.
Top 1 Hankins bunts towards the mound. Terry fields it and throws to first for the out. Howser moves to third.
Top 1 There goes Howser. The throw from Blanchard and he is safe. Howser steals second.
Top 1 Howser hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.