Yankees @ Tigers
June 2, 1968

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Joe Pepitone Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .278
OBP .333 .381
At Bats 3 72
Hits 1 20
• Singles 1 13
• Doubles 0 4
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 0 12
RBI’s 0 11

Denny McLain Season Stats

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8 1 0
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Tiger Stadium - June 2, 1968
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Home Run
Denny McLain
Jim Price
Bill Freehan
Dick McAuliffe
Dick Tracewski
Ray Oyler
Willie Horton
Mickey Stanley
Jim Northrup
Joe Pepitone
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

Pepitone hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 8 Mantle hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. McAuliffe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 White strikes out.
Bottom 7 Oyler hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Tracewski hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Price hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Joe Verbanic now pitching. Freehan hits a popup, foul, towards third. Cox settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Clarke hits a popup towards short. Oyler settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Dick Howser pinch hits for Fritz Peterson. Howser hits a ball on the ground towards short. Oyler scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Cox hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Gibbs is called out on strikes.
Bottom 6 Horton strikes out.
Bottom 6 Northrup hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Kosco. Northrup reaches second base with a double. Stanley goes all the way around to score. Northrup moves to third.
Bottom 6 Stanley hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. McAuliffe scores.
Bottom 6 McAuliffe hits a ball on the ground into right field. Kosco picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Kosco. Tracewski scores. McAuliffe moves to second.
Bottom 6 McLain bunts towards the mound. Peterson fields it and throws to first for the out. Tracewski moves to second.
Bottom 6 Oyler strikes out.
Bottom 6 Tracewski takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Tresh hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. McAuliffe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Kosco takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Pepitone hits a ball on the ground towards first. Freehan scoops it up and throws to first, with McLain covering, for the out.
Top 6 Mantle strikes out.
Bottom 5 Price hits a line drive into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Freehan hits a fly ball into center field. Pepitone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Horton hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 White hits a fly ball, foul, into right field. Northrup settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Clarke hits a line drive into center field. Stanley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Peterson hits a fly ball into right field. Northrup settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Northrup hits a fly ball into center field. Pepitone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Stanley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Tresh scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 McAuliffe hits a ball on the ground towards first. Mantle scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats McAuliffe for the out.
Top 4 Cox hits a fly ball into center field. Stanley settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Gibbs hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Stanley. Gibbs reaches second base with a double. Tresh scores.
Top 4 There goes Tresh. The throw from Price and he is safe. Tresh steals second.
Top 4 Tresh hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 4 Kosco hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tracewski fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 4 Kosco hits a popup, foul, in back of the plate. Price settles under it, and drops the ball. That's an error on Price.
Top 4 Pepitone hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 McLain hits a fly ball into center field. Pepitone settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Oyler bunts on two strikes. And it's a foul ball, for strike 3.
Bottom 3 Tracewski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Mantle hits a popup, foul, towards third. Tracewski settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 White strikes out.
Top 3 Clarke hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. McLain fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Price hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Freehan hits a ball on the ground towards third. Cox fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Horton strikes out.
Top 2 Peterson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Oyler scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Cox hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. McAuliffe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Gibbs hits a line drive into left center field, beyond the reach of Stanley. Gibbs reaches second base with a double. There goes Tresh trying to get to home. Stanley throws the ball in to Oyler who relays the ball to Price, who tags Tresh, who came all the way from first, for the out. Gibbs moves to third.
Top 2 Tresh hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Northrup hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Clarke fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 1 Stanley hits a fly ball into right field. Kosco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 McAuliffe hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 1 Kosco hits a ball on the ground towards short. Oyler scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Pepitone hits a ball on the ground in front of the plate. Price fields it and throws to first for the out. Mantle moves to second.
Top 1 Mantle hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. White moves to third.
Top 1 White hits a ball on the ground towards third. Tracewski fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Clarke hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.