Baseball Almanac - Box Score of 500th Home Run by Harmon Killebrew

Box Score of 500th Home Run by Harmon Killebrew

Harmon Killebrew blasted the 500th and 501st home runs of his career in an extra inning losing effort versus the Orioles. Killebrew became the tenth man to reach the milestone and did it during the first inning off Mike Cuellar. His second shot tied the game during the sixth inning, but the Twins' bullpen was unable to preserve the victory during the extra innings.

"When I watch the games today I see pitches right down the middle called balls. So I don't know where the strike zone is these days. They seem to have a wide plate and a small strike zone." - Harmon Killebrew in an ESPN interview in 1998

500th Home Run Box Score
August 10, 1971
Metropolitan Stadium

Name Pos AB R H RBI

Don Buford lf 3 0 1 0

Mark Belanger ss 5 0 0 0

Merv Rettenmund cf 5 2 2 1

Frank Robinson rf 4 0 1 0

Brooks Robinson 3b 5 0 1 1

Boog Powell 1b 4 1 2 0

Davey Johnson 2b 4 1 1 1

Andy Etchebarren c 3 0 3 1

Ellie Hendricks ph-c 1 0 0 0

Mike Cuellar p 4 0 0 0

Totals 38 4 11 4

Name Pos AB R H RBI

Cesar Tovar lf 5 1 1 0

Rod Carew 2b 5 0 0 0

Harmon Killebrew 1b 4 2 3 3

Tony Oliva rf 4 0 0 0

Leo Cardenas ss 4 0 0 0

Steve Braun 3b 4 0 1 0

George Mitterwald c 4 0 0 0

Jim Holt cf 4 0 1 0

Tom Hall p 2 0 0 0

Brant Alyea ph 1 0 0 0

Ray Corbin p 0 0 0 0

Danny Thompson ph 1 0 1 0

Totals 38 3 7 3

Hitting & Fielding Notes

Double Plays: Minnesota 2.
Doubles: Johnson, Etchebarren 2, Braun.
Errors: B.Robinson, Etchebarren..
Home Runs: Killebrew 2, Rettenmund.
Left on Base: Baltimore 8, Minnesota 5.
Stolen Base: Holt.

Line Score
Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Baltimore	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	11	2
Minnesota	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	7	0

Name IP H R ER BB SO

Mike Cuellar (W) 10 7 3 3 0 5

Name IP H R ER BB SO

Tom Hall 7 8 3 3 2 6

Ray Corbin (L) 3 3 1 1 1 1

Pitching Notes

Hit by Pitch: F.Robinson (by Corbin).

Game Notes

Attendance: 15,881.
Umpires: Flaherty, Rice, Kunkel, Luciano.
Length of Game: 2:37.

Did you know that "the Killer" played from 1954 through 1975 and was never ejected from a single game?

On June 3, 1967, Harmon Killebrew hit a home run against the Angels that traveled six rows into Metropolitan Stadium's upper deck in left field. The three run shot traveled five-hundred thirty feet and hit a seat with such force it broke the back. The Twins painted the seat bright orange and never sold it again!

At the end of the 1967 season, Harmon Killebrew had hit three-hundred eighty home runs and was thirty-one years old, which is more long balls than Babe Ruth had at the same age!

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