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Tommy Helms Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .333 .282
OBP .333 .316
At Bats 3 440
Hits 1 124
• Singles 0 98
• Doubles 0 20
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 1 5
Walks 0 23
RBI’s 3 50

Joe Niekro Season Stats

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3 2 0
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Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium - September 28, 1974
Joe Niekro
Johnny Oates
Jack Pierce
Rod Gilbreath
Darrell Evans
Larvell Blanks
Ralph Garr
Rowland Office
Mike Lum
Tommy Helms
Doug Rader
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Helms hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Office. Helms reaches second base with a double. Rader moves to third.

PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Rader hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 9 Joe Niekro now pitching. Johnson hits a fly ball into center field. Office settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Frank Tepedino pinch hits for Mike Beard. Tepedino hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Wilbur Howard now playing left field. Blanks hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Helms settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 8 Metzger strikes out.
Bottom 7 Oates hits a ball on the ground towards first. Johnson scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Oates for the out.
Bottom 7 Office hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Pierce hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Wilson hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Gilbreath settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Mike Beard now pitching. Jutze hits a ball on the ground towards first. Pierce scoops it up and throws to first, with Beard covering, for the out.
Bottom 6 Lum hits a popup towards third. Rader settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Evans takes first base on ball four. Gilbreath moves to second.
Bottom 6 Gilbreath takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 6 Garr hits a line drive into left field. Watson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Marty Perez pinch hits for Ron Reed. Perez hits a popup, foul, towards first. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Helms hits a fly ball into right field. Lum settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Rader hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Cedeno moves to third.
Top 6 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Watson hits a fly ball into right field. Lum settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 There goes Cedeno. The throw from Oates and he is safe. Cedeno steals second.
Top 6 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Blanks hits a line drive into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Oates hits a fly ball into left field. Watson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Office hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Pierce hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Helms scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Metzger hits a ball on the ground towards second. Gilbreath scoops it up, steps on second, and throws to first for the double play.
Top 5 Gross hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Wilson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Lum hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Evans hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Wilson fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Bottom 4 Gilbreath hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 4 Jutze hits a popup towards third. Evans settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Helms hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A three run home run.
Top 4 Rader hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. Johnson moves to third.
Top 4 Johnson hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Office. Johnson reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Watson hits a fly ball into right field. Lum settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Cedeno hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 There goes Garr. The throw from Jutze and he is out, Helms applying the tag.
Bottom 3 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards short. Metzger misplays the ball. That's an error on Metzger.
Bottom 3 Reed hits a fly ball into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Blanks hits a fly ball into left field. Watson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Metzger hits a fly ball into left field. Garr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Gross hits a ball on the ground towards first. Pierce scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Gross for the out.
Top 3 Wilson bunts towards the mound. Reed fields it and throws to first for the out. Jutze moves to second.
Top 3 Jutze hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Oates hits a line drive into right field. Gross settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Office hits a fly ball into left field. Watson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Pierce hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Helms hits a ball on the ground towards third. Evans fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Rader hits a fly ball into center field. Office settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Johnson hits a popup towards third. Evans settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Lum hits a popup, foul, towards first. Johnson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Evans takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Gilbreath hits a fly ball into center field. Cedeno settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Helms scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Watson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Reed fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Cedeno hits a fly ball into right field. Lum settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Metzger hits a popup towards short. Blanks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Gross hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Office. Gross reaches second base with a double.