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1972 World Series: Game 4
CINCINNATI REDS @ OAKLAND ATHLETICS
OCTOBER 19, 1972
TIMELINE 34
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Cincinnati Reds
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Oakland Athletics
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Duncan's Pinch-Hit Homer in 8th Snaps 1-1 Game 4 Tie
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Clear skies over the Coliseum and sixty-four degrees — a perfect October evening for two left-handers to work, and work they did. Holtzman needed only seventy-two pitches to navigate seven innings, his sinker finding the lower edge of the zone with the kind of metronomic precision that recalls Whitey Ford at his most economical, the Chairman of the Board carving through lineups in those early-sixties Octobers when the Yankees seemed to own the month. Gullett matched him pitch for elegant pitch: seven innings, three hits allowed, and an earned-run column that read zero — the single run charged against him having arrived through Pérez's error at first base, a grounder that ate up the big man and put Mincher aboard for Mangual's line-drive double into right-center. The game tied 1-1 through two hours of immaculate tension.
Cincinnati had scored its run in the second on a sequence that contained both beauty and cruelty in equal measure: Bench singling on an 0-2 pitch, Menke stroking another single to right that sent Bench all the way to third on Alou's throw, and then Rose grounding into a 6-4-3 double play that scored the run but killed the inning — the kind of play that gives with one hand and takes with the other, and which would prove emblematic of the entire Cincinnati evening. They hit into three double plays in total, each one a small death, each one erasing a baserunner who represented something more.
The game was decided in the eighth by the most improbable of figures: Dave Duncan, a backup catcher who had entered as a defensive substitution, stepping in against Borbon and driving the very first pitch he saw over the left-field fence — 351 feet, barely clearing the wall, a distance so modest that in any other park or any other wind it might have been a long out. But it was enough. Fingers worked the ninth, Bench singled sharply at 107.5 miles per hour to bring the tying run aboard, and then Blue entered to face Menke, who obliged with one final double play — the game's sixth twin killing between the two clubs — and the night was over in two hours and thirty-three minutes, quick and clean and final as a period at the end of a sentence, one more telling of this same Thursday night sealed shut with a single understated swing.
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CINCINNATI 1972 BATTING LINESCORE
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OAKLAND 1972 BATTING LINESCORE
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Player
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AB
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R
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H
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RBI
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BB
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K
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LOB
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AVG
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HR
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RBI
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J. Morgan
2B
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4
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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1
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.250
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0
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0
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B. Tolan
CF
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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2
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4
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.000
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0
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0
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T. Perez
1B
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4
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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1
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.000
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0
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0
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J. Bench
C
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4
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1
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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.500
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0
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0
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D. Menke
3B
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4
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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1
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.250
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0
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0
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P. Rose Sr
LF
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3
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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.000
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0
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0
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H. McRae
RF
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3
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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.333
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0
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0
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D. Concepcion
SS
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2
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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1
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.000
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0
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0
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D. Gullett
P
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2
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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0
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.500
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0
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0
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a-
C. Geronimo
PH
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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2
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.000
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0
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0
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P. Borbon
P
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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.000
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0
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0
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Totals
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31
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1
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6
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0
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1
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6
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11
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a - C. Geronimo pinch hit for D. Gullett in the 8th
BATTING
Total Bases:
J. Bench
2
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D. Gullett
,
J. Morgan
,
D. Menke
,
H. McRae
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs:
D. Concepcion
GIDP:
B. Tolan
,
P. Rose Sr
,
D. Menke
Team LOB:
3
FIELDING
Errors:
T. Perez
Double Plays:
1 (Menke-Morgan-Perez)
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Player
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AB
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R
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H
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RBI
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BB
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K
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LOB
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AVG
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HR
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RBI
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B. Campaneris
SS
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3
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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.000
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0
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0
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M. Alou
RF
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4
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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1
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.250
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0
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0
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J. Rudi
LF
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3
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0
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0
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0
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1
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1
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1
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.000
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0
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0
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S. Bando
3B
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4
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0
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2
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.250
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0
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0
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D. Mincher
1B
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3
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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.000
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0
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0
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A. Mangual
CF
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3
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0
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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.667
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0
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0
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G. Tenace
C
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3
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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2
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.000
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0
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1
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R. Fingers
P
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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.000
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0
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0
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V. Blue
P
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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.000
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0
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0
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D. Green
2B
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3
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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1
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.000
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0
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K. Holtzman
P
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2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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.000
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0
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0
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D. Duncan
C
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1
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1
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1
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1
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0
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0
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0
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1.000
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1
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1
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Totals
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29
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2
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5
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2
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2
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3
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8
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a - D. Duncan substituted for K. Holtzman in the 8th
BATTING
Doubles:
M. Alou
(1, 8th Inning off P. Borbon, 0 on, 1 out)
A. Mangual
(1, 2nd Inning off D. Gullett, 1 on, 1 out)
Home Runs:
D. Duncan
(1, 8th Inning off P. Borbon, 0 on, 0 outs)
Total Bases:
M. Alou
2
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A. Mangual
3
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S. Bando
,
D. Duncan
4
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs:
D. Green
GIDP:
S. Bando
Team LOB:
2
FIELDING
Errors:
K. Holtzman
Double Plays:
3 (Campaneris-Green-Mincher, Bando-Duncan-Mincher, Campaneris-Green-Mincher)
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CINCINNATI 1972 PITCHING LINESCORE
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OAKLAND 1972 PITCHING LINESCORE
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Player
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IP
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H
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R
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ER
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BB
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K
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HR
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PI
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PS
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ERA
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D. Gullett
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7.0
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3
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1
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0
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1
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3
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0
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92
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61
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0.00
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P. Borbon
L (0-1)
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1.0
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2
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1
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1
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1
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0
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1
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9
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7
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9.00
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PITCHING
Game Score:
D. Gullett
71
Batters Faced:
D. Gullett
26,
P. Borbon
5
Ground Outs - Fly Outs:
D. Gullett
10-8,
P. Borbon
1-1
Pitches - Strikes:
D. Gullett
92-61,
P. Borbon
9-7
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IP
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H
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R
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ER
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BB
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K
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HR
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PI
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PS
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ERA
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K. Holtzman
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7.0
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3
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1
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1
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0
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5
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0
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72
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47
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1.29
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R. Fingers
W (1-0)
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1.1
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3
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0
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0
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1
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1
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0
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21
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13
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0.00
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V. Blue
SV (1)
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0.2
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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3
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2
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0.00
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PITCHING
Game Score:
K. Holtzman
72
Batters Faced:
K. Holtzman
24,
R. Fingers
7,
V. Blue
1
Ground Outs - Fly Outs:
K. Holtzman
11-4,
R. Fingers
2-0,
V. Blue
1-0
Pitches - Strikes:
K. Holtzman
72-47,
R. Fingers
21-13,
V. Blue
3-2
Inherited Runners - Scored:
V. Blue
1-0
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GAME NOTES
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Player of the Game:
Ken Holtzman
Ballpark:
Oakland Coliseum
Weather:
Clear skies (64 degrees), wind blowing left to right at 10 mph
Start Time:
6:07 PM Pacific
Time:
2:33
Attendance:
49,419
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