St. Louis Cardinals 3 – 6 Cincinnati Reds

18 August 1961 · CIN07

The three rarest things in this game

Rarity	What	Who	Rate
41	Steal of Home	Gordy Coleman	1 in 107 games
19	final score 6–3		1 in 41 games
5	9 innings pitched	Ken Johnson	1 in 12 pitcher-games

Line score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
St. Louis Cardinals	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	6	1
Cincinnati Reds	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	–	6	9	2

Box score

St. Louis Cardinals batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Julian Javier	3	0	0	0	1	0
Bill White	4	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Cunningham	4	0	0	0	0	1
Ken Boyer	3	2	2	1	1	0	HR, 2B
Stan Musial	4	1	1	0	0	1
Carl Sawatski	4	0	1	1	0	0
Curt Flood	4	0	2	0	0	0
Alex Grammas	2	0	0	0	0	0
Red Schoendienst	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Gibson	1	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie James	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Olivares	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	32	3	6	2	2	2

St. Louis Cardinals pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Bob Gibson	4.0	4	4	4	3	4
Bob Miller	2.0	3	1	1	2	2
Lindy McDaniel	2.0	2	1	1	0	1

Cincinnati Reds batting

Batter	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO
Eddie Kasko	4	1	2	0	0	0
Don Blasingame	3	1	0	0	0	1
Vada Pinson	2	2	0	0	2	1
Frank Robinson	3	1	2	2	1	1
Jerry Lynch	2	1	1	0	2	0
Gordy Coleman	4	0	1	3	0	2	3B
Gene Freese	4	0	2	0	0	1
Johnny Edwards	4	0	1	0	0	0
Ken Johnson	3	0	0	0	0	1
Totals	29	6	9	5	5	7

Cincinnati Reds pitching

Pitcher	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Ken Johnson	9.0	6	3	2	2	2

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