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Wednesday August 23,1961This date in baseball
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Tony Ghelfi celebrated a birthday on this date.

Events that happened in baseball on this date. The page was designed to be like a newspaper sports page with baseball-only. All of the basbeall events for this date have been consolidated into this page. Though historically relevant, it is also a great place to review the prior day's events.

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Month	Day	Year

Games on 1961-08-23

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Washington Senators II	4	Boston Red Sox	9	Box	Bill Monbouquette	Marty Kutyna	(none)
Minnesota Twins	4	Chicago White Sox	0	Box	Camilo Pascual	Cal McLish	(none)
Detroit Tigers	2	Cleveland Indians	4	Box	Barry Latman	Don Mossi	Frank Funk
Baltimore Orioles	7	Kansas City Athletics	5	Box	Billy Hoeft	Bill Kunkel	(none)
San Francisco Giants	14	Cincinnati Reds	0	Box	Juan Marichal	Joey Jay	(none)
Milwaukee Braves	6	Pittsburgh Pirates	7	Box	Roy Face	Don Nottebart	(none)
Los Angeles Dodgers	7	St. Louis Cardinals	8	Box	Ed Bauta	Ron Perranoski	(none)

Standings as of 1961-08-23

Record in remaining games at far right

Rk	Lg	MLB	AL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1961 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	1	New York Yankees	126	83	43	.659	--	658	501	157	34-28	49-15	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Roy Hamey	Yankee Stadium I	36	26	10	.722
2	2	2	Detroit Tigers	126	81	45	.643	2.0	658	521	137	37-19	43-27	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Rick Ferrell	Tiger Stadium	36	20	16	.556
3	3	5	Baltimore Orioles	128	74	54	.578	10.0	560	479	81	38-26	35-29	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Lee MacPhail	Memorial Stadium	34	21	13	.618
4	4	10	Chicago White Sox	125	64	61	.512	18.5	576	557	19	22-39	42-22	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Hank Greenberg	Comiskey Park	37	22	15	.595
5	5	9	Cleveland Indians	125	64	61	.512	18.5	577	570	7	27-26	37-35	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	36	14	22	.389
6	6	12	Boston Red Sox	130	59	71	.454	26.0	580	652	-72	19-45	40-26	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Dick O'Connell	Fenway Park	32	17	15	.531
7	7	13	Minnesota Twins	124	54	70	.435	28.0	565	626	-61	26-43	28-27	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Metropolitan Stadium	36	16	20	.444
8	8	15	Washington Senators II	122	50	72	.410	31.0	504	584	-80	22-41	28-31	L5	T S R Log Off Def SP		Ed Doherty	Griffith Stadium	39	11	28	.282
9	9	16	Kansas City Athletics	125	45	80	.360	37.5	517	687	-170	22-47	23-33	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Pat Friday	Municipal Stadium	36	16	20	.444
Rk	Lg	MLB	NL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1961 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	3	Cincinnati Reds	125	75	50	.600	--	577	535	42	40-25	35-25	L4	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	29	18	11	.621
2	2	4	Los Angeles Dodgers	118	69	49	.585	2.5	562	522	40	34-21	35-28	L9	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	36	20	16	.556
3	3	6	San Francisco Giants	120	68	52	.567	4.5	608	498	110	33-23	35-29	W6	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Candlestick Park	34	17	17	.500
4	4	7	Milwaukee Braves	119	64	55	.538	8.0	563	518	45	32-28	32-27	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP	Chuck Dressen	John McHale	County Stadium	35	19	16	.543
5	5	8	St. Louis Cardinals	121	62	59	.512	11.0	541	533	8	26-36	35-24	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bing Devine	Sportsman's Park	33	18	15	.545
6	6	11	Pittsburgh Pirates	117	58	59	.496	13.0	541	517	24	28-30	30-29	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	37	17	20	.459
7	7	14	Chicago Cubs	120	51	69	.425	21.5	552	632	-80	18-42	32-28	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	34	13	21	.382
8	8	17	Philadelphia Phillies	120	33	87	.275	39.5	441	630	-189	19-45	13-43	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Quinn	Connie Mack Stadium	34	14	20	.412

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