Cubs @ Giants
August 27, 1968

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Cubs 2 5 1
Giants 8 7 0
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Cubs 2 5 1
Giants 8 7 0

Willie Mays Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .277
OBP .500 .358
At Bats 4 419
Hits 2 116
• Singles 1 78
• Doubles 1 16
• Triples 0 5
• Home Runs 0 17
Walks 0 54
RBI’s 0 59

Willie Smith Season Stats

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0 0 0
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Candlestick Park - August 27, 1968
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Out
Willie Smith
Randy Bobb
Ernie Banks
Glenn Beckert
Ron Santo
Don Kessinger
Jim Hickman
Al Spangler
Billy Williams
Willie Mays
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Mays hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Randy Bobb now catching. Cline hits a ball on the ground towards first. Banks scoops it up and throws to first, with Smith covering, for the out.
Top 8 Beckert hits a ball on the ground towards short. Lanier scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Kessinger hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Hickman hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Bonds is called out on strikes.
Bottom 7 Bolin hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Smith fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Lanier hits a ball on the ground towards third. Santo fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Hundley hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schroder settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Spangler hits a fly ball into right field. Bonds settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Smith is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Schroder hits a ball on the ground towards first. Banks scoops it up and throws to first, with Smith covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Dietz is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Jim Hickman now playing left field. Willie Smith now pitching. There's a wild pitch. Hart moves to second.
Bottom 6 Hart hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cline scores. Mays scores. McCovey moves to third.
Bottom 6 McCovey is walked intentionally.
Bottom 6 Mays hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Smith. Mays reaches second base with a double. Cline moves to third.
Bottom 6 Cline takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Bonds hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 6 Bolin bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Bottom 6 Lanier takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Banks hits a popup, foul, towards first. McCovey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Santo hits a ball on the ground towards third. Hart fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Williams hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 6 Beckert hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Dietz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Schroder hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Beckert scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Dietz takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 There goes Mays. The throw from Hundley and he is safe. Mays steals second.
Bottom 5 Hart hits a fly ball into right field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 McCovey hits a fly ball into right field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Bill Stoneman now pitching. Mays hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Kessinger hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Dietz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 John Upham pinch hits for Jack Lamabe. Upham strikes out.
Top 5 Hundley strikes out.
Top 5 Spangler takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Cline hits a popup towards third. Santo settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Jack Lamabe now pitching. Bonds hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 4 Bolin takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 There's a wild pitch. Schroder moves to second.
Bottom 4 Lanier hits a fly ball into left field. Smith settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Schroder hits a ball on the ground towards first. Banks fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Dietz takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Smith hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schroder fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 4 Banks hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bolin fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Santo hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Hart hits a fly ball into center field. Spangler settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 McCovey hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Beckert scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Mays hits a fly ball into right field. Williams settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Williams strikes out.
Top 3 Beckert hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit. Bonds throws the ball in to Lanier who tags Beckert trying to catch an extra base, for the out. Reynolds scores. Kessinger scores.
Top 3 There's a wild pitch. Reynolds moves to third. Kessinger moves to second.
Top 3 Kessinger takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Reynolds hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Cline. Reynolds reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Hundley hits a fly ball into right field. Bonds settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Cline hits a popup towards short. Kessinger settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Bonds hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Beckert fields it and throws to second for the out. Schroder scores. Lanier moves to third.
Bottom 2 Bolin takes first base on ball four. Lanier moves to second.
Bottom 2 Lanier hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Schroder moves to third.
Bottom 2 Schroder hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Dietz hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Spangler hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Bolin fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Smith hits a fly ball into left field. Cline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Banks strikes out.
Top 2 Santo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Hart is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 McCovey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Kessinger misplays the ball. That's an error on Kessinger. Cline moves to third.
Bottom 1 Mays is called out on strikes.
Bottom 1 Cline hits a ball on the ground towards first. Banks fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 1 Bonds takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Williams hits a popup towards third. Hart settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Beckert hits a popup towards the mound. Bolin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Kessinger hits a fly ball into left field. Cline settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.