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June 28, 1978

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Bottom 10 R H E
Mets 8 15 0
Cubs 8 12 1
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Mets 8 15 0
Cubs 8 12 1

Larry Biittner Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .750 .283
OBP .800 .335
At Bats 4 159
Hits 3 45
• Singles 3 35
• Doubles 0 6
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 1 14
RBI’s 0 27

Butch Metzger Season Stats

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1 2 0
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Wrigley Field - June 28, 1978
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Intentional Walk
Butch Metzger
Ron Hodges
Willie Montanez
Lenny Randle
John Stearns
Doug Flynn
Bruce Boisclair
Lee Mazzilli
Elliott Maddox
Larry Biittner
Greg Gross
Dave Kingman
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Biittner is walked intentionally. Gross moves to second.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 10 Gross hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Kingman moves to third.
Bottom 10 Kingman is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 10 Bruce Boisclair now playing left field. Butch Metzger now pitching. Murcer hits a popup into left field. Boisclair settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Montanez hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Kelleher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Kelleher fields it and throws to second for the out. Randle moves to third.
Top 10 Maddox bunts towards third. Ontiveros fields it and races to the third base bag for the out. Randle moves to second.
Top 10 Randle hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Boisclair moves to second.
Top 10 Bruce Boisclair pinch hits for Dale Murray. Boisclair hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 9 De Jesus hits a fly ball into right field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Burris hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Murray fields it and throws to home to get Biittner. Rader moves to third. Ontiveros moves to second.
Bottom 9 Ontiveros is walked intentionally.
Bottom 9 There's a wild pitch. Biittner moves to third. Rader moves to second.
Bottom 9 Rader is walked intentionally.
Bottom 9 Kelleher bunts towards the mound. Murray fields it and throws to first for the out. Biittner moves to second.
Bottom 9 Ron Hodges now catching. John Stearns now playing third base. Lee Mazzilli now playing center field. Doug Flynn now playing shortstop. Lenny RandBiittner takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Flynn hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Kelleher settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Ron Hodges pinch hits for Tim Foli. Hodges hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Henderson scores. Stearns moves to second.
Top 9 Stearns takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 The ball gets by Rader for a passed ball. Henderson moves to third.
Top 9 Ray Burris now pitching. Lee Mazzilli pinch hits for Joel Youngblood. Mazzilli is called out on strikes.
Top 9 Montanez strikes out.
Top 9 Dave Geisel now pitching. Henderson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Murcer. Henderson reaches second base with a double.
Top 9 Maddox hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 9 Mike Krukow now pitching. Randle takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards short. Foli fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Kingman hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Ontiveros scores. De Jesus scores. Murcer moves to third.
Bottom 8 Murcer takes first base on ball four. Rader scores. Ontiveros moves to third. De Jesus moves to second.
Bottom 8 De Jesus hits a ball on the ground towards short. Foli fields it and throws to home to get Kelleher. Rader moves to third. Ontiveros moves to second.
Bottom 8 Rudy Meoli pinch hits for Bruce Sutter. Meoli hits a line drive into left field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Ontiveros is walked intentionally.
Bottom 8 Rader hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Youngblood. Rader reaches second base with a double. Kelleher moves to third.
Bottom 8 Dale Murray now pitching. Kelleher takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Ed Kranepool pinch hits for Paul Siebert. Kranepool hits a ball on the ground towards first. The ball bounces off Biittner, and towards Kelleher, who fields it and throws to first, with the pitcher covering, for the out.
Top 8 Flynn hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Foli hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Stearns hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 8 Greg Gross now playing center field. Bobby Murcer now playing right field. Steve Ontiveros now playing third base. Bruce Sutter now pitching. DavYoungblood hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Paul Siebert now pitching. Biittner hits a popup towards the mound. Siebert settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Greg Gross pinch hits for Gene Clines. Gross takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Kingman hits a fly ball into center field. Youngblood settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Ontiveros tags and scores. Scott tags and moves to third. De Jesus tags and moves to second.
Bottom 7 Murcer hits a popup towards third. Randle settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 De Jesus hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Hernandez scores. Ontiveros moves to third. Scott moves to second.
Bottom 7 Scott takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Guillermo Hernandez pinch runs for Manny Trillo. Mike Vail pinch hits for Lynn McGlothen. Skip Lockwood now pitching. Steve Ontiveros pinch hits fOntiveros hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Maddox. Ontiveros reaches second base with a double. Biittner scores. Kelleher scores. Hernandez moves to third.
Bottom 7 Manny Trillo pinch hits for Larry Cox. Trillo takes first base on ball four. Biittner moves to third. Kelleher moves to second.
Bottom 7 Kelleher takes first base on ball four. Biittner moves to second.
Bottom 7 Joel Youngblood now playing center field. Elliott Maddox now playing right field. Biittner hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Montanez hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Kelleher scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Maddox hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Clines hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Flynn fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 6 Kingman hits a fly ball into right field. Grieve settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. De Jesus tags and scores.
Bottom 6 Murcer hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Koosman fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. De Jesus moves to third.
Bottom 6 De Jesus hits a popup into right field, out of the reach of Grieve. De Jesus reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Randle strikes out.
Top 6 Koosman is called out on strikes.
Top 6 Flynn hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Scott hits a line drive towards the right side of the infield. Flynn reaches out and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 McGlothen hits a popup towards short. Foli settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Cox hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Flynn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Foli hits a ball on the ground towards third. Scott fields it, steps on third, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 5 Stearns hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Montanez scores. Grieve moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 5 Lynn McGlothen now pitching. Grieve hits a ball on the ground towards third. Scott fields it and races to the third base bag for the out. Montanez moves to second.
Top 5 Montanez hits a ball on the ground and there's an error on the play. Henderson moves to second.
Top 5 Henderson hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Kelleher hits a fly ball into right field. Grieve settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Biittner hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Clines moves to third.
Bottom 4 Clines hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Kingman hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Koosman fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Murcer hits a fly ball into left field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Maddox is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Randle hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Koosman moves to second.
Top 4 Koosman hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus fields it and throws to second for the out. Stearns scores.
Top 4 Flynn hits a popup into center field for a base hit. Stearns moves to third.
Top 4 Foli hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Stearns moves to second.
Top 4 Stearns takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Grieve hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 De Jesus hits a ball on the ground towards short. Foli fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 3 Scott hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Holtzman hits a popup towards first. Montanez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Cox hits a fly ball into center field. Maddox settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Montanez hits a fly ball into right field. Clines settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Henderson hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. Maddox moves to second.
Top 3 Maddox takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Randle hits a popup, foul, towards first. Biittner settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Koosman hits a fly ball into left field. Kingman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Kelleher hits a ball on the ground towards first. Montanez fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 2 Biittner hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Clines hits a line drive into left field. Henderson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Kingman strikes out.
Top 2 Flynn is called out on strikes.
Top 2 Foli hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Kelleher settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 There goes Stearns. The throw from Cox and he is out, De Jesus applying the tag.
Top 2 Stearns hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Murcer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Flynn scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 De Jesus strikes out.
Bottom 1 Scott hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Koosman fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Grieve hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Montanez hits a ball on the ground towards first. Biittner scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Montanez for the out. Maddox moves to third.
Top 1 Henderson hits a ball on the ground towards short. De Jesus scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Randle scores. Maddox moves to second.
Top 1 Maddox hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Randle moves to third.
Top 1 Randle takes first base on ball four.