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August 5, 1961

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Athletics 3 10 1
Red Sox 10 11 0
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Athletics 3 10 1
Red Sox 10 11 0

Vic Wertz Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .750 .280
OBP .750 .367
At Bats 4 254
Hits 3 71
• Singles 1 44
• Doubles 1 14
• Triples 1 2
• Home Runs 0 11
Walks 0 36
RBI’s 4 52

Bill Kunkel Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 1 3
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Fenway Park - August 5, 1961
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Out
Bill Kunkel
Ozzie Virgil
Norm Siebern
Wayne Causey
Deron Johnson
Dick Howser
Jay Hankins
Bobby Del Greco
Gene Stephens
Vic Wertz
Gary Geiger
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Wertz hits a fly ball into right field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 8 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out. Geiger moves to third.
Bottom 8 There goes Geiger. The throw from Virgil and he is safe. Geiger steals second.
Bottom 8 Geiger takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 8 Schilling hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Causey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Virgil hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Schilling settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Stephens hits a fly ball into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Johnson hits a popup towards third. Malzone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Siebern hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Yastrzemski. Siebern reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 7 Conley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 7 Buddin bunts towards third. Johnson fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe.
Bottom 7 Hardy hits a fly ball into right field. Stephens settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Nixon hits a line drive into left field. Hankins settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Causey hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Hankins hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit.
Top 7 Howser hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Kunkel hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Del Greco hits a line drive into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Wertz hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hankins. Wertz reaches second base with a double. Geiger scores.
Bottom 6 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards first. Siebern scoops it up and throws to first, with Kunkel covering, for the out. Geiger moves to third.
Bottom 6 There goes Geiger. The throw from Virgil and he is safe. Geiger steals second.
Bottom 6 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 6 Schilling takes first base on ball four.
Top 6 Virgil hits a ball on the ground towards short. Buddin fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 6 Stephens hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Johnson strikes out.
Top 6 Siebern hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Conley hits a ball on the ground towards third. Johnson fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Buddin strikes out.
Bottom 5 Wayne Causey now playing second base. Deron Johnson now playing third base. Ozzie Virgil now catching. Hardy strikes out.
Top 5 Causey is called out on strikes.
Top 5 Hankins hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Nixon settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Howser hits a fly ball into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Del Greco tags and scores.
Top 5 Kunkel hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Del Greco moves to third.
Top 5 Del Greco hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Bill Kunkel now pitching. Malzone hits a popup, foul, towards third. Causey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Wertz hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Geiger scores. Yastrzemski moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 4 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Schilling scores. Geiger moves to second.
Bottom 4 Geiger hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Lumpe. Conley scores.
Bottom 4 There's a wild pitch. Schilling moves to second.
Bottom 4 Schilling hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Conley moves to third.
Bottom 4 Conley hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 4 Mickey McDermott now pitching. Buddin hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Pignatano is called out on strikes.
Top 4 Stephens hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Lumpe hits a popup towards short. Buddin settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Hardy hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Nixon hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Walker fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Malzone hits a popup towards first. Siebern settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 There's a wild pitch. Wertz scores.
Bottom 3 Wertz hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Del Greco who is chasing the ball. Wertz reaches third base with a triple. Geiger scores. Yastrzemski scores.
Bottom 3 Yastrzemski hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hankins. Yastrzemski reaches second base with a double. Schilling scores. Geiger moves to third.
Bottom 3 Geiger hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Schilling moves to third.
Bottom 3 Schilling takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Siebern hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Causey hits a line drive into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Hankins hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Walker scores. Howser moves to third.
Top 3 Howser hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Walker moves to second.
Top 3 Walker hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 3 Del Greco hits a line drive into center field. Geiger settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Conley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Howser scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Buddin hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 2 Hardy hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Hankins. Hardy reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 2 Nixon hits a fly ball into center field. Del Greco settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Malzone hits a ball on the ground towards third. Causey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Pignatano hits a ball on the ground towards first. Wertz scoops it up and throws to first, with Conley covering, for the out.
Top 2 Stephens hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Lumpe hits a popup towards third. Malzone settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Wertz strikes out.
Bottom 1 Yastrzemski hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Lumpe fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 1 Geiger takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Schilling hits a ball on the ground towards third. Causey fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Siebern hits a fly ball into left field. Yastrzemski settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Causey hits a line drive into right field. Hardy settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Hankins hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Schilling scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Howser moves to second.
Top 1 Howser hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.