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New York Yankees 8 Kansas City Athletics 3

June 22,1961

Visiting Team

New York Yankees (41-25)

Home Team

Kansas City Athletics (27-37)

Game Date

Year

Game Type

Regular Season

Innings Played

9

Ballpark

Municipal Stadium

Time of Day

Night

Start Time

Attendance

17,254

Time of Game

2:45

Umpires

[HP]: Joe Paparella [1B]: Ed Runge [2B]: Sam Carrigan [3B]: Cal Drummond

New York Yankees 8 Kansas City Athletics 3

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team	record		1	2	3		4	5	6		7	8	9			R	H	E		div-rk	lg-rk	mlb-rk	links
New York Yankees	NYA	41-25		0	5	0		0	1	2		0	0	0			8	12	2		2	2	3	Team Stats/Roster	Game Log	Franchise Page
Kansas City Athletics	KC1	27-37		0	0	0		0	0	0		0	3	0			3	8	0		8	8	14	Team Stats/Roster	Game Log	Franchise Page

New York Yankees - Batting

#	player	pos	age	ba	ab	r	h	bi		bb	so	avg		s-g	c-g
1	Clete Boyer	3b	24.133	R	4	1	2	2		1	0	.226		64	356
2	Tony Kubek	ss	25.253	L	5	1	1	0		0	1	.309		64	608
3	Roger Maris	rf	26.285	L	5	2	4	4		0	0	.258		65	584
4	Mickey Mantle	cf	29.245	B	2	1	1	1		3	1	.309		64	1435
5	Yogi Berra	lf	36.041	L	5	0	2	0		0	0	.296		51	1504
6	Bill Skowron	1b	30.186	R	5	0	0	1		0	1	.269		66	859
7	Johnny Blanchard	c	28.116	L	4	1	1	0		0	0	.273		35	138
8	Bobby Richardson	2b	25.307	R	5	1	1	0		0	0	.240		66	535
9	Whitey Ford	p	32.244	L	3	1	0	0		1	0	.227		17	272
	Luis Arroyo	p	34.124	L	1	0	0	0		0	1	.200		27	159
Totals

Errors: Clete Boyer, Tony Kubek

2B: Clete Boyer (8), Roger Maris 2 (5)

HR: Roger Maris (27)

RBI: Clete Boyer 2 (24), Roger Maris 4 (59), Mickey Mantle (56), Bill Skowron (45)

HBP: Johnny Blanchard (1)

Kansas City Athletics - Batting

#	player	pos	age	ba	ab	r	h	bi		bb	so	avg		s-g	c-g
1	Dick Howser	ss	25.039	R	4	1	2	0		1	0	.272		64	64
2	Jim Rivera	cf	39.335	L	5	1	1	1		0	2	.118		9	1097
3	Leo Posada	rf	25.068	R	4	1	2	0		0	2	.284		43	53
4	Norm Siebern	1b	27.331	L	3	0	0	0		1	1	.292		61	513
5	Haywood Sullivan	c	30.189	R	2	0	1	2		2	0	.302		47	106
6	Deron Johnson	lf	22.340	R	4	0	0	0		0	2	.143		21	27
7	Reno Bertoia	3b	26.165	R	4	0	0	0		0	0	.240		59	567
8	Jerry Lumpe	2b	28.020	L	4	0	2	0		0	1	.264		56	468
	Art Ditmar	p	32.080	R	2	0	0	0		0	1	.048		13	254
	Bobby Prescott	ph	30.087	R	1	0	0	0		0	1	.000		4	4
	Lou Klimchock	ph	21.250	L	1	0	0	0		0	0	.243		35	64
Totals

2B: Dick Howser 2 (18)

RBI: Jim Rivera (3), Haywood Sullivan 2 (27)

GDP: Deron Johnson (3), Reno Bertoia 2 (7)

New York Yankees - Pitching

#	pitcher	th	dec	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	hr		era	whip		s-g	c-g
1	Whitey Ford	L	W 12-2	7.0	6	3	3	3	9	0		3.09	1.05		17	292
2	Luis Arroyo	L	SV 14	2.0	2	0	0	1	1	0		2.49	1.02		27	160
Totals				0.0

Pitches-Strikes-Balls: Whitey Ford (0-0-0), Luis Arroyo (0-0-0)

Kansas City Athletics - Pitching

#	pitcher	th	dec	ip	h	r	er	bb	so	hr		era	whip		s-g	c-g
1	Norm Bass	R	L 4-6	1.2	6	5	5	2	2	1		4.05	1.35		14	14
2	Art Ditmar	R		4.1	4	3	3	2	0	0		4.60	1.30		14	261
3	Ed Rakow	R		1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0		5.26	1.79		13	22
4	Gerry Staley	R		2.0	2	0	0	1	2	0		4.63	1.37		21	451
Totals				0.0

HB: Ed Rakow (2)

Pitches-Strikes-Balls: Norm Bass (0-0-0), Art Ditmar (0-0-0), Ed Rakow (0-0-0), Gerry Staley (0-0-0)