Reds @ Cardinals
May 4, 1972

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Johnny Bench Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .236
OBP .000 .343
At Bats 4 55
Hits 0 13
• Singles 0 7
• Doubles 0 3
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 10
RBI’s 0 10

Joe Grzenda Season Stats

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0 0 0
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Busch Stadium - May 4, 1972
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Out
Joe Grzenda
Ted Simmons
Joe Hague
Ted Sizemore
Joe Torre
Ed Crosby
Lou Brock
Luis Melendez
Jose Cruz
Johnny Bench
Bobby Tolan
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

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

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Tolan hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Melendez who is chasing the ball. Tolan reaches third base with a triple. Concepcion scores. Rose scores. Morgan goes all the way around to score.
Top 8 Morgan is hit by the pitch. Concepcion moves to third. Rose moves to second.
Top 8 Rose is walked intentionally.
Top 8 Joe Grzenda now pitching. Carroll bunts in front of the plate. Simmons fields it and throws to first for the out. Concepcion moves to second.
Top 8 Concepcion hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Geronimo scores. Menke scores.
Top 8 Cesar Geronimo pinch runs for Bernie Carbo. Menke hits a line drive into center field. Melendez picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Melendez. Geronimo moves to third. Menke moves to second.
Top 8 Carbo takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Jose Cruz now playing right field. Al Santorini now pitching. Perez strikes out.
Bottom 7 Clay Carroll now pitching. Torre strikes out.
Bottom 7 Jim Merritt now pitching. Alou hits a ball on the ground towards first. Perez fields the ball and throws to Merritt covering. Safe. Brock moves to third. Sizemore moves to second.
Bottom 7 Sizemore hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Cruz scores. Brock moves to second.
Bottom 7 Brock hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Crosby scores. Cruz moves to third.
Bottom 7 Jose Cruz pinch hits for Scipio Spinks. Cruz hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Crosby moves to third.
Bottom 7 Crosby hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Melendez hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Bench settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Hague hits a popup towards short. Concepcion settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bench hits a ball on the ground towards third. Torre fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Tolan hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Simmons fires to third and picks off Morgan.
Top 7 Morgan hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Alou who is chasing the ball. Morgan reaches third base with a triple. McGlothlin scores. Rose goes all the way around to score.
Top 7 Rose takes first base on ball four. McGlothlin moves to second.
Top 7 McGlothlin hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Simmons hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morgan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Torre hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Morgan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Alou hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Morgan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Concepcion hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. The ball bounces off Spinks, and towards Sizemore, who fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Menke hits a ball on the ground towards short. Crosby scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Carbo hits a fly ball into center field. Melendez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Sizemore hits a fly ball into right field. Carbo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Brock hits a fly ball into left field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Spinks strikes out.
Top 5 Perez strikes out.
Top 5 Bench strikes out.
Top 5 Tolan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 5 Morgan hits a fly ball into center field. Melendez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Crosby hits a fly ball into left field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Melendez hits a fly ball into right field. Carbo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Hague hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Simmons moves to second.
Bottom 4 Simmons hits a ball on the ground towards second base. Morgan fields it and races to the second base bag for the out.
Bottom 4 Torre hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Rose hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 McGlothlin hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Spinks fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Concepcion strikes out.
Bottom 3 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Morgan scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Sizemore hits a ball on the ground towards short. Concepcion scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Brock strikes out.
Top 3 Menke hits a popup towards short. Crosby settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Carbo takes first base on ball four. Perez moves to second.
Top 3 Perez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Tolan scores.
Top 3 Bench hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 There goes Tolan. The throw from Simmons and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error. Rose scores.
Top 3 Tolan hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Rose moves to third.
Top 3 Morgan hits a fly ball into center field. Melendez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Rose takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 2 Spinks hits a fly ball into center field. Tolan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Crosby hits a ball on the ground towards first. Perez scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Crosby for the out.
Bottom 2 Melendez hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rose. Melendez reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Hague hits a fly ball into center field. Tolan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 McGlothlin strikes out.
Top 2 Concepcion hits a fly ball into center field. Melendez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Perez moves to third.
Top 2 Menke strikes out.
Top 2 Carbo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Perez moves to second.
Top 2 Perez hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Simmons hits a ball on the ground towards short. Concepcion scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Torre hits a ball on the ground towards third. Menke fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Alou hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Sizemore scores.
Bottom 1 Sizemore hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Carbo. Sizemore reaches second base with a double. Brock scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 1 There goes Brock. The throw from Bench and he is safe. Brock steals second.
Bottom 1 Brock hits a ball on the ground towards first. Perez juggles the ball. That's an error on Perez.
Top 1 Bench hits a fly ball into center field. Melendez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Tolan takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Morgan strikes out.
Top 1 Rose hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore scoops it up and throws to first for the out.