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July 24, 1969

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Reds 2 6 2
Mets 2 8 3
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Jim Merritt Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .089
OBP .000 .157
At Bats 3 45
Hits 0 4
• Singles 0 4
• Doubles 0 0
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 0
Walks 0 4
RBI’s 0 4

Gary Gentry Season Stats

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9 8 0
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Shea Stadium - July 24, 1969
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Home Run
Gary Gentry
Jerry Grote
Donn Clendenon
Al Weis
Bobby Pfeil
Bud Harrelson
Cleon Jones
Rod Gaspar
Ron Swoboda
Jim Merritt
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

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

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Breeden hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 9 Fred Whitfield pinch hits for Darrel Chaney. Whitfield strikes out.
Bottom 8 Grote hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Ruiz scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 There goes Gaspar. The throw from Breeden and he throws it away. That's a stolen base and an error.
Bottom 8 Gaspar hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Merritt fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 8 Swoboda hits a popup towards first. May settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Clendenon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Jones hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 8 Stewart hits a fly ball into center field. Gaspar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 May hits a fly ball into center field. Gaspar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Rose tags and scores. Ruiz tags and moves to third. Perez tags and moves to second. That run is unearned.
Top 8 Perez is walked intentionally.
Top 8 Tolan hits a popup towards the mound. Gentry settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 There's a wild pitch. Rose moves to third. Ruiz moves to second.
Top 8 Ruiz hits a ball on the ground towards first. Clendenon juggles the ball. That's an error on Clendenon. Rose moves to second.
Top 8 Rose hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 7 Pfeil hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Breeden settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Harrelson hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Rose. Harrelson reaches second base with a double. Gentry moves to third.
Bottom 7 Gentry is hit by the pitch.
Bottom 7 Weis hits a ball on the ground towards short. Chaney scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Grote hits a fly ball into right field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Merritt hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pfeil fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Breeden hits a fly ball into right field. Swoboda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Chaney hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Gentry fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Gaspar hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Ruiz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Swoboda strikes out.
Bottom 6 Clendenon hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 Jones is called out on strikes.
Top 6 Stewart strikes out.
Top 6 May hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Gaspar. May reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Perez hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pfeil fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Tolan hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 6 Ruiz strikes out.
Bottom 5 Pfeil hits a popup towards short. Chaney settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Harrelson takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 5 Gentry hits a ball on the ground towards third. Perez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Weis hits a ball on the ground towards third. Perez fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Rose hits a fly ball into center field. Gaspar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Merritt strikes out.
Top 5 Breeden hits a fly ball into center field. Gaspar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Grote hits a popup, foul, towards third. Perez settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Gaspar hits a ball on the ground towards short. Chaney scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Swoboda strikes out.
Bottom 4 Clendenon hits a line drive into center field. Tolan picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Tolan. Clendenon moves to second.
Top 4 Chaney strikes out.
Top 4 Stewart hits a ball on the ground towards short. Harrelson scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 May hits a fly ball into right field. Swoboda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Jones hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Ruiz scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Pfeil hits a fly ball into center field. Tolan settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Harrelson hits a fly ball into right field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Perez hits a fly ball into right field. Swoboda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Tolan hits a fly ball into center field. Gaspar settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Ruiz bunts towards first. Clendenon scoops it up and throws to first, with Weis covering, for the out. Rose moves to second.
Top 3 Rose hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 2 Gentry strikes out.
Bottom 2 Weis is called out on strikes.
Bottom 2 Grote hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Ruiz settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Gaspar bunts towards the mound. Merritt fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Top 2 Merritt hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Weis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Breeden hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. May moves to second.
Top 2 Chaney strikes out.
Top 2 Stewart strikes out.
Top 2 May hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pfeil juggles the ball. That's an error on Pfeil.
Bottom 1 Swoboda hits a fly ball into left field. Stewart settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Clendenon hits a fly ball into right field. Rose settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Jones hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Pfeil moves to second.
Bottom 1 Pfeil hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Harrelson hits a ball on the ground towards short. Chaney scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Perez strikes out.
Top 1 Tolan hits a fly ball into left field. Jones settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 There goes Ruiz. The throw from Grote, and Weis drops the ball. That's a stolen base and an error.
Top 1 Ruiz hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 1 Rose hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Weis scoops it up and throws to first for the out.