Dodgers @ Cardinals
May 28, 1974

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Top 8 R H E
Dodgers 9 18 0
Cardinals 5 9 0
Top 8 R H E
Dodgers 10 19 0
Cardinals 5 9 0

Bill Buckner Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .316
OBP .500 .362
At Bats 4 171
Hits 2 54
• Singles 2 42
• Doubles 0 10
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 1
Walks 0 12
RBI’s 1 18

Rich Folkers Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
1 0 2
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Busch Stadium - May 28, 1974
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Single
Rich Folkers
Ted Simmons
Joe Torre
Ted Sizemore
Ken Reitz
Luis Melendez
Jose Cruz
Bake McBride
Reggie Smith
Bill Buckner
Bill Russell
Manny Mota
Steve Yeager
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Buckner hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Yeager scores. Mota moves to third. Russell moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Russell hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Auerbach scores. Yeager moves to third. Mota moves to second.
Top 8 Manny Mota pinch hits for Charlie Hough. Mota is walked intentionally.
Top 8 Rick Auerbach pinch runs for Ken McMullen. Yeager hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Smith. Yeager reaches second base with a double. Auerbach moves to third.
Top 8 McMullen hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 8 Cey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Melendez scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Simmons hits a fly ball into right field. Crawford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 There goes Smith. The throw from Yeager and he is out, Russell applying the tag.
Bottom 7 Smith takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Willie Crawford now playing right field. Tom Paciorek now playing center field. Sizemore hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Yeager settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Ferguson hits a fly ball into left field. Cruz settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Garvey hits a fly ball into center field. McBride settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Rich Folkers now pitching. Crawford strikes out.
Bottom 6 McBride hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Melendez hits a fly ball into left field. Buckner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 McCarver takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Tim McCarver pinch hits for Mike Garman. The ball gets by Yeager for a passed ball. Cruz moves to second.
Bottom 6 Cruz bunts towards third. Cey fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 6 Reitz strikes out. Yeager drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Reitz out.
Top 6 Buckner hits a ball on the ground towards first. Torre scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Buckner for the out.
Top 6 Russell hits a fly ball into center field. McBride settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Mike Garman now pitching. Luis Melendez now playing shortstop. Hough strikes out.
Bottom 5 Charlie Hough now pitching. Torre hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 5 Simmons takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Smith hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Bottom 5 Sizemore strikes out.
Bottom 5 McBride hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Melendez moves to second.
Bottom 5 Luis Melendez pinch hits for Mike Thompson. Melendez hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Yeager hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 McMullen hits a popup towards first. Torre settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 There goes Cey. The throw from Simmons and he is out, Sizemore applying the tag.
Top 5 Cey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Alvarado hits a popup towards first. Garvey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Cruz hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Ferguson who is chasing the ball. Cruz reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 4 Reitz hits a fly ball into left field. Buckner settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Torre hits a fly ball into center field. Crawford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Ferguson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Reitz fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 4 Garvey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Buckner scores. Crawford moves to second.
Top 4 Crawford hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Russell scores. Buckner moves to third.
Top 4 Buckner hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Yeager scores. Russell moves to second.
Top 4 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards short. Alvarado fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Yeager moves to third.
Top 4 Sutton bunts towards first. Torre scoops it up and throws to first, with Sizemore covering, for the out.
Top 4 Yeager hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of McBride. Yeager reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 3 Simmons hits a popup in front of the plate. Yeager settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Smith hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Crawford. Smith reaches second base with a double. Sizemore scores.
Bottom 3 Sizemore hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Buckner. Sizemore reaches second base with a double. Alvarado scores.
Bottom 3 McBride hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. McMullen settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Thompson hits a fly ball into right field. Ferguson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Alvarado hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Crawford. Alvarado reaches second base with a double.
Top 3 Mike Thompson now pitching. McMullen hits a ball on the ground towards short. Alvarado fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 3 Cey hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 3 Ferguson hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 3 Garvey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Russell scores.
Top 3 There goes Crawford. The throw from Simmons and he is out, Sizemore applying the tag. Russell moves to third.
Top 3 Crawford hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Russell moves to second.
Top 3 Buckner is called out on strikes.
Top 3 Russell hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Cruz is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Reitz hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Buckner. Reitz reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Torre hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Simmons hits a ball on the ground towards short. Russell scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Sutton is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Yeager takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 McMullen hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 2 Cey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 2 Ferguson strikes out. There goes Garvey. The throw from Simmons to second, and Garvey is out.
Top 2 Garvey hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Smith hits a popup, foul, towards third. Cey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Sizemore hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. McMullen reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 McBride hits a fly ball into center field. Crawford settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Crawford is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Foster fires to first and has Buckner trapped. There's the throw to Sizemore who tags Buckner for the out.
Top 1 Buckner hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 1 Russell hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Sizemore scoops it up and throws to first for the out.