Mets @ Cardinals
August 8, 1972

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Mets 5 10 1
Cardinals 4 9 1
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Mets 5 10 1
Cardinals 6 10 1

Luis Melendez Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .234
OBP .000 .293
At Bats 1 192
Hits 0 45
• Singles 0 32
• Doubles 0 8
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 15
RBI’s 0 18

Danny Frisella Season Stats

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4 6 7
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Busch Stadium - August 8, 1972
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Home Run
Danny Frisella
Duffy Dyer
Ed Kranepool
Ken Boswell
Wayne Garrett
Ted Martinez
John Milner
Willie Mays
Tommie Agee
Luis Melendez
Matty Alou
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Melendez hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Alou hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Simmons hits a line drive into right field. Agee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Torre hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Mays is called out on strikes.
Top 8 Garrett takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Agee hits a fly ball into center field. Melendez settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Frisella hits a line drive towards first. Alou reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Carbo hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boswell fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 7 Sizemore takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Danny Frisella now pitching. Brock strikes out.
Top 7 Martinez hits a ball on the ground towards short. Maxvill scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Dyer is called out on strikes.
Top 7 There goes Boswell. The throw from Simmons and he is safe. Boswell steals second.
Top 7 Boswell takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Luis Melendez now playing center field. Dennis Higgins now pitching. Milner strikes out.
Bottom 6 Jorge Roque pinch hits for John Cumberland. Roque hits a fly ball into right field. Agee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Maxvill hits a fly ball into right field. Agee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Luis Melendez pinch hits for Jose Cruz. Melendez hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 John Cumberland now pitching. Kranepool hits a fly ball towards center. Cruz catches it and throws to Maxvill who relays to Alou to double up Mays. Sadecki tags and scores. Garrett tags and moves to third.
Top 6 Mays is walked intentionally.
Top 6 Garrett hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Carbo. Garrett reaches second base with a double. Sadecki moves to third.
Top 6 Agee hits a popup towards first. Alou settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Sadecki hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Alou hits a fly ball into left field. Milner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Simmons hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boswell fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Torre hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Martinez strikes out.
Top 5 Moe Drabowsky now pitching. Dyer is walked intentionally.
Top 5 Boswell hits a line drive into center field. Cruz picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Cruz. Kranepool moves to third. Boswell moves to second.
Top 5 Milner is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Kranepool hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Mays hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Carbo hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Sizemore hits a popup, foul, towards first. Kranepool settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Brock hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Grzenda hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Boswell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Joe Grzenda now pitching. Garrett hits a fly ball into right field. Carbo settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Agee takes first base on ball four. Dyer moves to third. Martinez moves to second.
Top 4 Sadecki hits a fly ball into left field. Brock settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Martinez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Milner scores. Boswell scores. Dyer moves to second.
Top 4 Dyer takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Boswell hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Carbo. Boswell reaches second base with a double. Milner moves to third.
Top 4 Milner hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Kranepool scores.
Top 4 There's a wild pitch. Kranepool moves to second.
Top 4 Kranepool hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 4 Mays hits a ball on the ground towards short. Maxvill scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Maxvill hits a line drive into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Cruz hits a popup, foul, towards first. Kranepool settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Alou hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Torre moves to second.
Bottom 3 Simmons hits a fly ball into right field. Agee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Torre hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Garrett hits a fly ball into left field. Brock settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Agee hits a fly ball into center field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Sadecki hits a fly ball into center field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Carbo hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Sizemore hits a fly ball into right field. Agee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Brock hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Martinez hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Wise fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Dyer is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Boswell hits a popup towards short. Maxvill settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Milner hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 1 Ray Sadecki now pitching. Wise strikes out.
Bottom 1 Maxvill hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Torre scores. Simmons moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 1 Cruz hits a fly ball into right field. Agee settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Carbo tags and scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 1 Alou hits a popup towards short. Martinez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Simmons takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 There's a wild pitch. Carbo moves to third. Torre moves to second.
Bottom 1 Torre hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Carbo moves to second.
Bottom 1 Carbo hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sizemore scores. That run is unearned.
Bottom 1 Sizemore hits a ball on the ground towards third. Garrett juggles the ball. That's an error on Garrett. Brock scores. Sizemore moves to second.
Bottom 1 There goes Brock. The throw from Dyer and he is safe. Brock steals second.
Bottom 1 Brock hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Kranepool hits a fly ball into left field. Brock settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Mays hits a ball on the ground towards short. Maxvill scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Garrett hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Carbo who is chasing the ball. Garrett reaches third base with a triple.
Top 1 Agee hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Wise fields it and throws to first for the out.