Tigers @ Red Sox
September 23, 1979

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Top 9 R H E
Tigers 1 9 0
Red Sox 2 5 0
Top 9 R H E
Tigers 1 9 0
Red Sox 2 5 0

Ron LeFlore Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .299
OBP .500 .354
At Bats 4 576
Hits 2 172
• Singles 2 134
• Doubles 0 22
• Triples 0 9
• Home Runs 0 7
Walks 0 50
RBI’s 1 52

Dennis Eckersley Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
16 10 0
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Fenway Park - September 23, 1979
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Strikeout
Dennis Eckersley
Mike O'Berry
Carl Yastrzemski
Stan Papi
Butch Hobson
Rick Burleson
Jim Rice
Fred Lynn
Dwight Evans
Ron LeFlore

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
Detroit Tigers 1 9 0 9
Boston Red Sox 2 5 0 4
Winning Pitcher Dennis Eckersley
Losing Pitcher Milt Wilcox
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Jim Dwyer
Attendance
Time of Game 2 hours 17 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

End of Game

LeFlore strikes out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Al Greene pinch hits for Mark Wagner. Greene hits a line drive towards first. Yastrzemski reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Stan Papi now playing second base. Mike O'Berry now catching. Mankowski hits a popup into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Lynn hits a ball on the ground towards first. Thompson fields it, throws to second for one, and back over to first, with Wilcox covering. It's a double play.
Bottom 8 Jim Dwyer pinch hits for Ted Sizemore. Dwyer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Poquette scores.
Bottom 8 Burleson bunts towards first. Thompson scoops it up and throws to first, with Whitaker covering, for the out. Poquette moves to second.
Bottom 8 Tom Poquette pinch hits for Gary Allenson. Poquette hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 8 Morales strikes out.
Top 8 Wockenfuss hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Thompson hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rice. Thompson reaches second base with a double.
Top 8 Summers hits a popup towards short. Burleson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards third. Mankowski fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Hobson hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Whitaker reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Phil Mankowski now playing third base. Fisk strikes out.
Top 7 Gibson hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Whitaker hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. LeFlore moves to third.
Top 7 There goes LeFlore. The throw from Allenson and he is safe. LeFlore steals second.
Top 7 LeFlore hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Peters scores.
Top 7 Rick Peters pinch runs for Aurelio Rodriguez. Wagner bunts towards the mound. Eckersley fields it and throws to first for the out. Peters moves to third.
Top 7 Rodriguez hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Rice. Rodriguez reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into right field. Summers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 There goes Rice. The throw from Wockenfuss and he is safe. Rice steals second.
Bottom 6 Rice hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Lynn scores.
Bottom 6 Lynn hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Gibson. Lynn reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Sizemore hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Wilcox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Burleson hits a fly ball into center field. LeFlore settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Morales hits a fly ball into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Wockenfuss is called out on strikes.
Top 6 Thompson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 6 Summers hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Allenson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Allenson hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Wockenfuss settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Evans hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of LeFlore. Evans reaches second base with a double. Hobson moves to third.
Bottom 5 Hobson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wagner fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 5 Fisk is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 5 Yastrzemski hits a fly ball into right field. Summers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Gibson 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 5 Whitaker bunts towards third. Hobson fields it and throws to first for the out. Rodriguez moves to third. Wagner moves to second.
Top 5 LeFlore is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Wagner takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 The ball gets by Allenson for a passed ball. Rodriguez moves to second.
Top 5 Rodriguez takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Rice hits a ball on the ground towards third. Rodriguez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Lynn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Whitaker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Sizemore hits a popup into left field. Gibson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Morales strikes out.
Top 4 Wockenfuss hits a ball on the ground towards first. Yastrzemski fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Thompson hits a line drive into right field. Evans settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Summers hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Burleson strikes out.
Bottom 3 Allenson strikes out.
Bottom 3 Evans takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Hobson hits a popup, foul, towards first. Thompson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Gibson hits a popup towards short. Burleson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Whitaker strikes out. There goes Wagner. Here's the throw, and he's safe. There goes LeFlore. Here's the throw, and he's safe.
Top 3 LeFlore hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Wagner moves to second.
Top 3 Wagner hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Rodriguez hits a fly ball into center field. Lynn settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Fisk hits a fly ball into center field. LeFlore settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Yastrzemski strikes out.
Bottom 2 Rice hits a fly ball into right field. Summers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Morales is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Wockenfuss hits a fly ball into left field. Rice settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Thompson hits a ball on the ground that hits Summers. Summers is out and Thompson is safe at first. There goes Summers trying to advance. Here's the throw, and he's out.
Top 2 Summers is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 1 Lynn hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Whitaker scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Sizemore hits a popup towards first. Thompson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Burleson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Whitaker settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There goes Gibson. The throw from Allenson and he is out, Burleson applying the tag.
Top 1 Gibson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Whitaker hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Eckersley fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 LeFlore is called out on strikes.