June 29, 1971 Det. vs. Bal Boxscore

Les Cain (6-1) and the Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles 9-3 taking both games of a short 2 game series in Baltimore and opened up their largest division lead of the season to 3.5 games. Cain had his consecutive scoreless inning streak stopped at 20 when he gave up 1 run in the 2nd inning but the Tigers battled back to tie the game at 3 in the 5th inning and exploded for 6 runs in the 9th to win the game.

Strat-O-Matic Report

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BOXSCORE: 1971 Detroit Tigers At 1971 Baltimore Orioles             6/29/1971
 
  Tigers             AB  R  H RBI AVG     Orioles            AB  R  H RBI AVG
  D.McAuliffe 2B      3  2  1  2 .214     D.Buford LF         5  0  0  0 .318  
  J.Northrup CF       4  1  1  0 .243     P.Blair CF          5  0  1  0 .249  
  G.Brown LF          4  2  1  2 .400     M.Rettenmund RF     2  0  0  0 .301  
  B.Denehy P          0  0  0  0 ----     F.Robinson 1B       3  1  0  0 .274  
  N.Cash 1B           4  1  1  1 .290     B.Robinson 3B       4  1  1  0 .277  
  W.Horton RF,LF      4  0  1  1 .268     D.Johnson 2B        3  1  2  0 .321  
  B.Freehan C         5  1  2  1 .288     M.Belanger SS       4  0  3  1 .289  
  D.Jones 3B          4  1  1  0 .305     A.Etchebarren C     3  0  1  2 .262  
B-A.Rodriguez 3B      0  0  0  0 .209     P.Dobson P          4  0  0  0 .143  
  E.Brinkman SS       4  0  0  0 .216     D.Boswell P         0  0  0  0 ----  
  L.Cain P            3  0  1  0 .227                                          
A-A.Kaline PH,RF      1  1  1  0 .279                                          
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         Totals      36  9 10  7                 Totals      33  3  8  3
 
A-Pinch Hit For Cain In 9th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Jones In 9th Inning
 
Tigers.......... 0 0 0  2 1 0  0 0 6  -  9 10  1
Orioles......... 0 1 2  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  3  8  1
 
Tigers (47-29)           IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
L.Cain WIN(6-1)           8       8   3   3   5  10   0 134   1.76
B.Denehy                  1       0   0   0   1   0   0  19   0.69
Totals                    9       8   3   3   6  10   0
 
Orioles (42-31)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA
P.Dobson LOSS(10-7)       8 1/3   9   6   6   2   4   1 124   2.53
D.Boswell                 0 2/3   1   3   2   3   0   0  26   4.76
Totals                    9      10   9   8   5   4   1
 
ATTENDANCE- 20,925 DATE- Tuesday, June 29th 1971 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- John Rice, Jim Odom, Marty Springstead, Larry McCoy
T- 2:44
LEFT ON BASE- Tigers: 6  Orioles:10
DOUBLE PLAYS- Tigers: 1  Orioles: 1
ERRORS- D.Jones, P.Blair
DOUBLES- L.Cain, P.Blair(10th)
HOME RUNS- D.McAuliffe(12th)
SACRIFICE FLIES- A.Etchebarren
WALKS- D.McAuliffe-2, J.Northrup, G.Brown, W.Horton, M.Rettenmund-3,
       F.Robinson-2, D.Johnson
HIT BY PITCH- N.Cash
STRIKE OUTS- D.McAuliffe, J.Northrup, N.Cash, D.Jones, D.Buford-2, F.Robinson-2,
             A.Etchebarren-2, P.Dobson-4
GIDP- G.Brown, B.Robinson
WILD PITCHES- D.Boswell
 
Les Cain struck out 10 batters and Bill Freehan had 2 base hits as the Detroit
Tigers topped the Baltimore Orioles by a score of 9 to 3 at Memorial
Stadium.
 
Detroit scored the decisive runs in a big top of the 9th inning when they
tallied 6 runs on 4 hits.  Detroit rapped out 10 hits for the night.
 
Cain(6-1) got credit for the victory, pitching 8 innings and allowing 3 runs.
Pat Dobson(10-7) was charged with the loss.  Cain was humble when questioned
about his performance, 'Well, I felt pretty confident in my pitches tonight.
But, I had great support behind me and I just threw what was called.  That
was an extremely well called game!'

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