Tuesday, July 8, 2008

June 6, 1969...GAME 49 (BAL 4, SEA 3)

The Pilots lost a heartbreaker to the league leading Orioles. Up 3-2 the Pilots surrendered 2 to Baltimore in the bottom of the 6th and that was it. Gary (Bell) went 7 strong innings and only yielded 4 runs to the mighty O's. Gelnar and O'D finished out the 8th. McNally gave up 3 runs in 5 inning to Seattle and looked shaky. Unfortunately Marcelino Lopez looked like a vintage McNally in 3 innings of 1 hit work. Pete Richert, the lefty who does better vs righties, came on to notch his 3rd save. The Orioles scored 2 in the 6th as Brooks Robinson doubled home Frank Robby and Boog Powell.
Bouton Bite: "And why is it, I ask myself, that baseball players are allowed to smoke during a game and that it's all right to sneak a smoke in the runway or even to go back into the clubhouse for a goddam cigarette, but if you take a candy bar out to the bullpen you get all kinds of static."

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