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August 23, 1969

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Athletics 4 8 0
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Athletics 4 8 0

Merv Rettenmund Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .232
OBP .000 .329
At Bats 3 142
Hits 0 33
• Singles 0 21
• Doubles 0 6
• Triples 0 3
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 22
RBI’s 0 20

Rollie Fingers Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
6 5 12
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Oakland-Alameda County Stadium - August 23, 1969
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Strikeout
Rollie Fingers
Larry Haney
Danny Cater
Dick Green
Sal Bando
Bert Campaneris
Tommie Reynolds
Jose Tartabull
Reggie Jackson
Merv Rettenmund
Elrod Hendricks
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Rettenmund strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Hendricks hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Green fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 9 Larry Haney now catching. Rollie Fingers now pitching. Johnson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Bando hits a fly ball into right field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Jackson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Odom scores. Tartabull moves to third.
Bottom 8 Pete Richert now pitching. Tartabull hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out. Odom moves to third.
Bottom 8 Blue Moon Odom pinch runs for Tito Francona. Campaneris hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Reynolds scores. Odom moves to second.
Bottom 8 Tito Francona pinch hits for Paul Lindblad. Francona hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Reynolds moves to second.
Bottom 8 Bob Johnson pinch hits for Phil Roof. Johnson hits a fly ball into right field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Green tags and scores.
Bottom 8 Reynolds bunts towards first. Robinson fields the ball and throws to Cuellar covering. Safe. Green moves to third.
Bottom 8 Paul Blair now playing center field. Merv Rettenmund now playing right field. Green hits a line drive into right center field, beyond the reach of Blair. Green reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Paul Lindblad now pitching. Paul Blair pinch hits for Dave May. Blair hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Roof settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Robinson takes first base on ball four. Floyd moves to second.
Top 8 Robinson hits a popup towards short. Campaneris settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Floyd hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 8 Buford hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Jackson. Buford reaches second base with a double. Jackson throws the ball in to Bando who tags Buford trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Bottom 7 Cater hits a ball on the ground towards short. Floyd scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Bando hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Jackson hits a fly ball into right field. May settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Tartabull hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Cuellar hits a fly ball into left field. Reynolds settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into right field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Hendricks hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 7 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out. May moves to third.
Top 7 May hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Reynolds. May reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Campaneris hits a popup towards short. Floyd settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Hunter hits a long drive deep into left center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Roof hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Reynolds hits a popup, foul, towards third. Robinson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Robinson hits a fly ball into right field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Robinson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Jackson. Robinson reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Floyd hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Buford hits a fly ball into right field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Green hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Cater hits a ball on the ground towards short. Floyd scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Bando hits a popup towards short. Floyd settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Cuellar strikes out.
Top 5 Rettenmund is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Hendricks hits a popup, foul, towards third. Bando settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Jackson is called out on strikes.
Bottom 4 Tartabull hits a fly ball into center field. Rettenmund settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Campaneris bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Top 4 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Campaneris fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 4 May hits a ball on the ground towards first. Cater fields it and throws to second for the out. Robinson moves to third.
Top 4 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Robinson moves to second.
Top 4 Robinson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Hunter hits a ball on the ground towards short. Floyd fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Roof hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Reynolds hits a line drive towards third. Robinson reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Floyd strikes out. Roof drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Floyd out.
Top 3 There goes Buford. The throw from Roof and he is out, Campaneris applying the tag.
Top 3 Buford takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Cuellar hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Green scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Green hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Cater hits a ball on the ground towards third. Robinson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Bobby Floyd now playing shortstop. Bando hits a fly ball into left field. Buford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Rettenmund hits a fly ball into center field. Tartabull settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Hendricks hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Green settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Johnson is called out on strikes.
Top 2 There goes May. The throw from Roof and he is safe. May steals second.
Top 2 May hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Jackson 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 1 Tartabull hits a popup towards short. Belanger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Campaneris bunts towards the mound. Cuellar settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Robinson is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Robinson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Belanger hits a ball on the ground towards second. Green scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 1 Buford hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.