Yankees @ Rangers
August 17, 1973

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Bottom 8 R H E
Yankees 1 9 1
Rangers 6 11 0
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Yankees 1 9 1
Rangers 8 12 0

Dave Nelson Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .274
OBP .500 .311
At Bats 4 427
Hits 2 117
• Singles 2 92
• Doubles 0 19
• Triples 0 2
• Home Runs 0 4
Walks 0 24
RBI’s 0 36

Tom Buskey Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 1 1
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Arlington Stadium - August 17, 1973
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Home Run
Tom Buskey
Thurman Munson
Matty Alou
Horace Clarke
Graig Nettles
Gene Michael
Roy White
Bobby Murcer
Johnny Callison
Dave Nelson
Elliott Maddox
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Nelson 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 Maddox hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Burroughs scores.
Bottom 8 There's a wild pitch. Burroughs moves to third.
Bottom 8 Grieve hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Clarke settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Billings hits a ball on the ground towards third. Nettles fields it and throws to first for the out. Burroughs moves to second.
Bottom 8 Johnny Callison now playing right field. Burroughs hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 8 Ron Blomberg pinch hits for Felipe Alou. Blomberg hits a ball on the ground towards first. Spencer fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first, with Brown covering. It's a double play.
Top 8 Hart strikes out.
Top 8 Nettles hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Munson moves to second.
Top 8 Jackie Brown now pitching. Munson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Sudakis strikes out. Munson drops the ball, but quickly picks it up and throws Sudakis out.
Bottom 7 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Spencer scores.
Bottom 7 Spencer hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Alou who is chasing the ball. Spencer reaches third base with a triple.
Bottom 7 Harrah hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Nelson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Buskey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Murcer hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Nelson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 White strikes out.
Top 7 Alou takes first base on ball four. Clarke moves to second.
Top 7 Clarke hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 7 Jim Spencer now playing first base. Bill Sudakis now playing third base. Michael hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Nelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Maddox hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Grieve hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Burroughs tags and scores.
Bottom 6 Billings hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Burroughs moves to third.
Bottom 6 Burroughs hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Murcer. Burroughs reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards third. Fregosi fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 There's a wild pitch. Munson moves to second.
Top 6 Hart hits a fly ball into right field. Grieve settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Nettles hits a fly ball into right field. Grieve settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Munson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Tom Buskey now pitching. Sudakis hits a fly ball into center field. Murcer settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Johnson hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White. Johnson reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 5 Fregosi hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Nelson tags and scores.
Bottom 5 Harrah bunts towards first. Alou scoops it up and throws to first, with Clarke covering, for the out. Nelson moves to third.
Bottom 5 Nelson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Nettles picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Nettles. Grieve scores. Maddox goes all the way around to score. Nelson moves to second.
Bottom 5 Maddox takes first base on ball four. Grieve moves to second.
Bottom 5 Grieve hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 5 Murcer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Nelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 White hits a ball on the ground towards third. Fregosi fields it and throws to second for the out. Clarke moves to third.
Top 5 Alou hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Clarke moves to second.
Top 5 Clarke hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 5 Michael hits a fly ball into left field. Burroughs settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Billings hits a ball on the ground towards third. Nettles fields it, steps on third, and throws to first for the double play.
Bottom 4 Burroughs takes first base on ball four. Johnson moves to third. Sudakis moves to second.
Bottom 4 Sudakis hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Johnson moves to second.
Bottom 4 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Fregosi hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Alou hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Nelson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Hart hits a popup, foul, towards first. Sudakis settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Nettles hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Nelson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Munson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Harrah hits a line drive towards third. Nettles reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Nelson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Maddox moves to third.
Bottom 3 Maddox takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Grieve hits a ball on the ground towards third. Nettles fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 3 Billings takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 There goes White. The throw from Billings and he is out, Harrah applying the tag.
Top 3 Murcer hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Nelson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 White takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards third. Fregosi fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Burroughs hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Sudakis strikes out.
Bottom 2 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Michael scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Clarke hits a fly ball into center field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Michael hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Munson scores. Hart moves to third.
Top 2 Alou strikes out.
Top 2 Hart hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Nelson fields it and throws to second for the out. Munson moves to third.
Top 2 Nettles takes first base on ball four.
Top 2 Munson hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Maddox. Munson reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 1 Fregosi strikes out.
Bottom 1 Harrah hits a popup towards first. Alou settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Nelson is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Murcer hits a popup towards short. Harrah settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 White hits a fly ball into center field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Alou bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Top 1 Clarke hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.