Orioles @ Yankees
September 17, 1972

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Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .239
OBP .000 .329
At Bats 3 284
Hits 0 68
• Singles 0 50
• Doubles 0 10
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 0 38
RBI’s 0 21

Sparky Lyle Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
8 4 33
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Yankee Stadium - September 17, 1972
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Out
Sparky Lyle
Thurman Munson
Felipe Alou
Horace Clarke
Hal Lanier
Gene Michael
Roy White
Bobby Murcer
Johnny Callison
Merv Rettenmund
Tom Shopay
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke fields it and throws to second for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Tom Shopay pinch runs for Andy Etchebarren. Don Baylor pinch hits for Roric Harrison. Baylor is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Etchebarren hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 8 Johnson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Lyle bunts towards first. Powell settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Michael hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Lanier hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Alou scoops it up and throws to first, with Lyle covering, for the out.
Top 7 Robinson hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Grich moves to second.
Top 7 Davis strikes out.
Top 7 Johnny Callison now playing right field. Sparky Lyle now pitching. Grich hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Johnny Callison pinch hits for Charlie Spikes. Callison hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Munson hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Roric Harrison now pitching. Alou hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Blair hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into right field. Spikes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Enos Cabell pinch hits for Dave McNally. Cabell hits a fly ball into right field. Spikes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Murcer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 White is walked intentionally.
Bottom 5 Clarke hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Davis. Clarke reaches second base with a double. Peterson moves to third.
Bottom 5 Peterson bunts towards the mound. McNally fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Michael hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 5 Etchebarren hits a fly ball into right field. Spikes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Johnson hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Munson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Hal Lanier now playing third base. Powell hits a popup, foul, towards first. Alou settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 McKinney hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Spikes strikes out.
Bottom 4 There goes Munson. The throw from Etchebarren and he is out, Johnson applying the tag.
Bottom 4 Munson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Alou hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 4 Murcer hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Robinson hits a popup, foul, towards first. Alou settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Davis hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Spikes. Davis reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Grich hits a fly ball into right field. Spikes settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Blair hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 White hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. There goes Clarke trying to get to home. Rettenmund throws the ball in to Grich who relays the ball to Etchebarren, who tags Clarke, who came all the way from first, for the out. White moves to second.
Bottom 3 Clarke hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Peterson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Michael hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 McNally hits a fly ball towards right. Spikes catches it and throws to home to double up Etchebarren.
Top 3 Etchebarren hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Murcer who is chasing the ball. Etchebarren reaches third base with a triple. Johnson goes all the way around to score.
Top 3 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 McKinney hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Spikes hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Munson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grich fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 2 Alou hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 2 Powell hits a ball on the ground towards first. Alou scoops it up and throws to first, with Peterson covering, for the out.
Top 2 Robinson hits a ball on the ground towards third. McKinney fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Davis hits a popup towards short. Michael settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Murcer hits a fly ball into center field. Blair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 White hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Grich hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Blair strikes out.
Top 1 Rettenmund hits a ball on the ground towards first. Alou scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Rettenmund for the out.