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Tuesday, August 8,1961

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Tuesday, August 8,1961

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year gametype box date visiting Team score home team score box ballpark winning pitcher losing pitcher save pitcher attend. time
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Kansas City Athletics  0 Baltimore Orioles  7 box | pbp Memorial Stadium Steve Barber Bob Shaw -- 0 2:02
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Kansas City Athletics  6 Baltimore Orioles  5 box | pbp Memorial Stadium Norm Bass Hoyt Wilhelm Bill Fischer 14,102 2:16
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Minnesota Twins  6 Boston Red Sox  5 box | pbp Fenway Park Camilo Pascual Bill Monbouquette -- 17,499 2:42
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Detroit Tigers  3 Chicago White Sox  0 box | pbp Comiskey Park I Jim Bunning Frank Baumann -- 32,518 2:14
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Washington Senators II  5 Cleveland Indians  6 box | pbp Cleveland Stadium Wynn Hawkins Dave Sisler -- 5,271 2:44
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Los Angeles Angels  4 New York Yankees  5 box | pbp Yankee Stadium I Luis Arroyo Art Fowler -- 24,084 3:00
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Milwaukee Braves  3 Los Angeles Dodgers  7 box | pbp Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Turk Farrell Lew Burdette -- 30,057 3:09
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Pittsburgh Pirates  10 Philadelphia Phillies  2 box | pbp Shibe Park Harvey Haddix Art Mahaffey -- 0 2:27
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Pittsburgh Pirates  3 Philadelphia Phillies  2 box | pbp Shibe Park Tom Sturdivant Chris Short -- 11,081 2:37
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Chicago Cubs  1 San Francisco Giants  8 box | pbp Candlestick Park Jack Sanford Don Cardwell -- 10,977 2:40
1961 reg season 1961-08-08 Cincinnati Reds  5 St. Louis Cardinals  6 box | pbp Sportsman's Park III Lindy McDaniel Bob Purkey -- 17,660 2:46
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year league division teamname links gp   w   l wpct gbl rf ra diff streak home away div rk lgrk mlb rk in playoff spot end-of-season playoffs
1961 AL -- New York Yankees franchise | log 111 73 38 .658 0.0 592 446 146 W6 28-24 45-14 1 1 1 Yes Won World Series (Reds)
1961 AL -- Detroit Tigers franchise | log 111 71 40 .640 2.0 585 472 113 W1 33-16 37-25 2 2 2 Yes dnq
1961 AL -- Baltimore Orioles franchise | log 114 64 50 .561 10.5 492 445 47 L1 32-23 31-28 3 3 5 Yes dnq
1961 AL -- Cleveland Indians franchise | log 112 58 54 .518 15.5 540 516 24 W2 27-26 31-28 4 4 7 Yes dnq
1961 AL -- Chicago White Sox franchise | log 111 56 55 .505 17.0 529 515 14 L1 18-36 38-19 5 5 10 Yes dnq
1961 AL -- Boston Red Sox franchise | log 116 54 62 .466 21.5 525 589 -64 L1 18-36 36-26 6 6 12 -- dnq
1961 AL -- Washington Senators II franchise | log 108 46 62 .426 25.5 451 510 -59 L5 22-38 24-24 7 7 13 -- dnq
1961 AL -- Minnesota Twins franchise | log 111 47 64 .423 26.0 495 554 -59 W1 23-39 24-25 8 8 14 -- dnq
1961 AL -- Kansas City Athletics franchise | log 111 41 70 .369 32.0 472 616 -144 W1 20-41 21-29 9 9 16 -- dnq
1961 AL -- Los Angeles Angels franchise | log 0 0 0 -- 17.5 0 0 0 -- 0-0 0-0 10 10 18 -- dnq
1961 NL -- Los Angeles Dodgers franchise | log 106 66 40 .623 0.0 519 463 56 W3 34-16 32-24 1 1 3 Yes dnq
1961 NL -- Cincinnati Reds franchise | log 112 68 44 .607 1.0 521 480 41 L2 35-23 33-21 2 2 4 Yes Lost World Series (Yankees)
1961 NL -- San Francisco Giants franchise | log 107 57 50 .533 9.5 535 458 77 W2 30-23 27-27 3 3 6 Yes dnq
1961 NL -- Milwaukee Braves franchise | log 105 54 51 .514 11.5 497 465 32 L2 32-25 22-26 4 4 8 Yes dnq
1961 NL -- St. Louis Cardinals franchise | log 108 55 53 .509 12.0 497 487 10 W6 21-30 33-24 5 5 9 Yes dnq
1961 NL -- Pittsburgh Pirates franchise | log 102 51 51 .500 13.0 487 465 22 W3 26-24 25-27 6 6 11 -- dnq
1961 NL -- Chicago Cubs franchise | log 107 45 62 .421 21.5 493 577 -84 L3 18-37 26-26 7 7 15 -- dnq
1961 NL -- Philadelphia Phillies franchise | log 107 31 76 .290 35.5 400 554 -154 L12 18-35 12-42 8 8 17 -- dnq
18 record(s)