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August 16, 1977

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White Sox 10 13 2
Yankees 9 11 0
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Yankees 9 11 0

Brian Downing Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .500 .283
OBP .750 .419
At Bats 2 106
Hits 1 30
• Singles 1 24
• Doubles 0 2
• Triples 0 1
• Home Runs 0 3
Walks 2 26
RBI’s 0 16

Ken Clay Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
0 3 1
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Yankee Stadium - August 16, 1977
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Out
Ken Clay
Thurman Munson
Chris Chambliss
Fred Stanley
Graig Nettles
Bucky Dent
Roy White
Mickey Rivers
Lou Piniella
Brian Downing
Jim Spencer
Oscar Gamble
Eric Soderholm
Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 0 Outs

Downing hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Top 9 Spencer is walked intentionally.
Top 9 Oscar Gamble pinch hits for Chet Lemon. Gamble hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Orta scores. Nordbrook scores. Soderholm moves to third. Gamble moves to second.
Top 9 Tim Nordbrook pinch runs for Lamar Johnson. Ken Clay now pitching. Soderholm takes first base on ball four. Orta moves to third. Nordbrook moves to second.
Top 9 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Orta moves to second.
Top 9 Zisk hits a fly ball into right field. Piniella settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Bannister tags and scores.
Top 9 Orta hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Downing scores. Bannister moves to third.
Top 9 Bannister hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of White. Bannister reaches second base with a double. Downing moves to third.
Top 9 Sparky Lyle now pitching. Garr hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Munson settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Downing hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 9 Spencer hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 9 Lou Piniella now playing right field. Lemon hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 White hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Randy Wiles now pitching. Rivers hits a fly ball into left field. Garr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Stanley hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Dent scores.
Bottom 8 Dent hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Garr. Dent reaches second base with a double. Johnson scores.
Bottom 8 There goes Nettles. The throw from Downing and he is out, Soderholm applying the tag. Johnson moves to second.
Bottom 8 Cliff Johnson pinch hits for Carlos May. Lerrin LaGrow now pitching. Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Chambliss scores. Nettles moves to second.
Bottom 8 Dave Hamilton now pitching. Nettles hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Chambliss moves to third.
Bottom 8 Lou Piniella pinch runs for Reggie Jackson. Chambliss hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Piniella scores.
Bottom 8 There goes Jackson. The throw from Downing and he is safe. Jackson steals second.
Bottom 8 Jackson takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Soderholm hits a ball on the ground towards third. Nettles fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play.
Top 8 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Zisk hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Guidry fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Munson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Barrios fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 White hits a line drive into right field. Zisk picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Zisk. Stanley goes all the way around to score. White moves to third. That run is unearned.
Bottom 7 Rivers hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Stanley takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Dent hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Orta hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Bannister hits a line drive into right field. Jackson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Garr hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Stanley settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 7 Downing takes first base on ball four.
Top 7 Spencer hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 6 May hits a fly ball into right field. Zisk settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 6 Nettles hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bannister scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Chambliss hits a fly ball into left field. Garr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Lemon strikes out.
Top 6 Soderholm hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Zisk tags and scores.
Top 6 Johnson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Zisk moves to third.
Top 6 Zisk hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Jackson. Zisk reaches second base with a double.
Top 6 Orta hits a fly ball into left field. White settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Jackson strikes out.
Bottom 5 Munson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 White hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 5 Rivers hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 5 Stanley hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 5 Bannister strikes out.
Top 5 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Guidry fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 Downing hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Dent hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 May hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta fields it and throws to second for the out.
Bottom 4 Nettles takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 4 Chambliss hits a ball on the ground towards first. Spencer scoops it up and throws to first, with Barrios covering, for the out.
Top 4 Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Stanley scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 4 Lemon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Dent fields it and throws to second for the out. Zisk scores.
Top 4 Soderholm hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Zisk moves to third.
Top 4 Johnson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Zisk moves to second.
Top 4 Zisk takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 3 Jackson hits a fly ball into center field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Munson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 White hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Rivers hits a fly ball into left field. Garr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Orta hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Guidry fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Bannister hits a line drive into left field for a base hit. Downing scores.
Top 3 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Guidry fields it and throws to first for the out. Downing moves to second.
Top 3 Downing takes first base on ball four.
Top 3 Spencer hits a fly ball into center field. Rivers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Stanley hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bannister scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Dent hits a line drive into center field. Lemon picks it up and fumbles the ball. That's a base hit and an error on Lemon. Jackson scores. Chambliss scores. Dent moves to third.
Bottom 2 May hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Barrios fields it and throws to first for the out. Jackson moves to third. Chambliss moves to second.
Bottom 2 Nettles hits a fly ball into left field. Garr settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Chambliss takes first base on ball four. Jackson moves to second.
Bottom 2 Jackson hits a line drive into right field for a base hit.
Top 2 Lemon strikes out.
Top 2 Soderholm hits a ball on the ground towards third. Nettles fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 2 Johnson hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Guidry fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Munson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Soderholm fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 There goes White. The throw from Downing and he is out, Orta applying the tag.
Bottom 1 White takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Rivers hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Orta scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 1 Zisk strikes out.
Top 1 Orta strikes out.
Top 1 Bannister takes first base on ball four.
Top 1 Garr hits a ball on the ground towards first. Chambliss scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Garr for the out.