Dodgers @ Cardinals
August 23, 1961

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Top 8 R H E
Dodgers 6 11 1
Cardinals 4 7 1
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Dodgers 7 12 1
Cardinals 4 7 1

Ron Fairly Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .296
OBP 1.000 .418
At Bats 0 135
Hits 0 40
• Singles 0 24
• Doubles 0 9
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 6
Walks 1 29
RBI’s 1 24

Ed Bauta Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 0 3
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Sportsman's Park - August 23, 1961
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Home Run
Ed Bauta
Carl Sawatski
Bill White
Julian Javier
Ken Boyer
Bob Lillis
Stan Musial
Curt Flood
Joe Cunningham
Ron Fairly
Count:  - , 1 Out
Count:  - , 1 Out

Fairly 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 Ed Bauta now pitching. Bob Lillis now playing shortstop. Gilliam hits a line drive into left field. Musial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Charlie James pinch hits for Bob Miller. James strikes out.
Bottom 7 Schoendienst hits a line drive into center field. Davis picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Davis. Flood scores. Schoendienst moves to third.
Bottom 7 Red Schoendienst pinch hits for Alex Grammas. The umpire calls a balk on Drysdale Flood moves to second.
Bottom 7 Flood hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wills fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Sawatski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Musial hits a fly ball into left field. Moon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 7 Drysdale hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Miller fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Miller. Hodges scores. Sherry moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 7 Sherry hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to second for the out. Hodges moves to third.
Top 7 Neal takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Davis bunts towards the mound. Miller fields it and throws to first for the out. Hodges moves to second.
Top 7 Hodges hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 White hits a ball on the ground towards first. Hodges scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats White for the out.
Bottom 6 Jim Gilliam now playing third base. Ron Fairly now playing right field. Wally Moon now playing left field. Willie Davis now playing center field. Cunningham hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Neal scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Bob Miller now pitching. Wally Moon pinch hits for Frank Howard. Moon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Ron Fairly pinch hits for Tommy Davis. Fairly takes first base on ball four. Sherry scores. Wills moves to third. Gilliam moves to second.
Top 6 Gilliam takes first base on ball four. Wills moves to second.
Top 6 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas fields it and throws to second for the out. Sherry moves to third.
Top 6 Drysdale takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 There's a wild pitch. Sherry moves to second.
Top 6 Sherry takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Neal hits a popup towards first. White settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Javier hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Drysdale fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Gibson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Spencer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Grammas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Wills scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Spencer strikes out.
Top 5 Hodges hits a ball on the ground towards first. White fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 5 Howard hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 5 Davis strikes out.
Bottom 4 Flood hits a line drive into right field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Sawatski hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 4 Musial strikes out.
Bottom 4 Boyer hits a fly ball into right field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Gilliam hits a fly ball into left field. Musial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Wills hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sherry moves to second.
Top 4 Drysdale hits a fly ball into center field. Flood settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Sherry hits a line drive beyond second. Javier can't hold onto the ball. That's a base hit. Neal scores.
Top 4 Neal hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Cunningham. Neal reaches second base with a double.
Top 4 Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 White hits a line drive towards short. Wills catches it and throws to first to double up Cunningham.
Bottom 3 Cunningham hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Grammas scores. Javier moves to second.
Bottom 3 Javier hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Flood scores. Grammas moves to third.
Bottom 3 Gibson strikes out.
Bottom 3 Grammas hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Howard. Grammas reaches second base with a double. Flood moves to third.
Bottom 3 Flood hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Hodges hits a fly ball into left field. Musial settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Bob Gibson now pitching. The ball gets by Sawatski for a passed ball. Gilliam scores. Howard moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 3 Howard hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Gilliam moves to third.
Top 3 Davis hits a line drive into right field. Cunningham settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Wills tags and scores.
Top 3 Gilliam hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Sherry scores. Wills moves to third.
Top 3 Wills hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Sherry moves to third.
Top 3 Drysdale bunts towards the mound. Simmons fields it and throws to first for the out. Sherry moves to second.
Top 3 Sherry hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Sawatski hits a fly ball into left field. Gilliam settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Musial hits a fly ball into left field. Gilliam settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Boyer hits a fly ball into right field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Neal hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Spencer hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Cunningham. Spencer reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Hodges hits a line drive towards first. White catches it and steps on first to double up Howard.
Top 2 Howard hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 White hits a popup towards third. Spencer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Cunningham hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Drysdale fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Javier hits a fly ball into center field. Davis settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Davis hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Javier scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Gilliam hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Wills hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Javier scoops it up and throws to first for the out.