Sheldon The Unlikely Power Source in Brewers Opening Day Win

Detroit, MI - Plenty of anticipation for this opening day matchup despite the teams sub .500 records from a season ago. The biggest free agent signing of the offseason was the Brewers plucking MLB Home Run King Ben Oglivie from the last place Tigers. Well he'd go 0-5 in this game but usually light-hitting 2nd baseman Bob Sheldon would pick up the slack with a 3-run home run in the 6th that vaulted the Brewers to victory. #1 overall pick Chet Lemon made his MLB debut for the Tigers in this one and went 1-4 in a losing effort.





Milwaukee 7, Detroit 5

4/5/1976, MIL76-DET76, Tiger Stadium
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
1976 Milwaukee         1  1  0  0  1  4  0  0  0     7  9  1     9  1
1976 Detroit           2  0  2  0  0  0  1  0  0     5 10  2     8  1
 
Milwaukee            AB  R  H BI   AVG    Detroit              AB  R  H BI   AVG
Yount             ss  4  2  3  0  .750    Herndon           cf  5  1  3  0  .600
Sundberg          c   5  0  1  1  .200    Knox              3b  4  0  0  0  .000
Cooper            1b  5  0  1  1  .200    Johnson           rf  5  3  3  0  .600
Oglivie           rf  5  0  0  0  .000    Madlock           2b  4  1  3  4  .750
Money             3b  4  0  0  0  .000    Pierce            1b  2  0  0  0  .000
 Broberg          p   0  0  0  0  .000     Crawford         p   0  0  0  0  .000
Aaron             lf  2  2  0  0  .000     Meyer            ph  1  0  0  0  .000
 Murphy           p   0  0  0  0  .000     Hiller           p   0  0  0  0  .000
 Bevacqua         ph  1  0  0  0  .000    Freehan           c   4  0  0  1  .000
Manning           cf  4  1  1  0  .250    Lemon             lf  4  0  1  0  .250
Sheldon           2b  3  1  2  3  .667    DeJesus           ss  4  0  0  0  .000
Caldwell          p   2  1  0  1  .000    Billingham        p   1  0  0  0  .000
 Sharp            lf  1  0  1  0 1.000     Humphrey         c   2  0  0  0  .000
                     36  7  9  6                               36  5 10  5
 
Milwaukee                        INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Caldwell         W 1-0           6.1  6  4  3  3  6 119  73  4.26
Murphy           H 1             1.2  3  1  1  0  0  20  13  5.40
Broberg          S 1             1.0  1  0  0  0  0  11   8  0.00
                                 9.0 10  5  4  3  6 150  94 
 
Detroit                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Billingham       L 0-1           5.1  5  7  5  3  3 100  61  8.44
Crawford                         1.2  2  0  0  0  2  22  17  0.00
Hiller                           2.0  2  0  0  2  3  36  23  0.00
                                 9.0  9  7  5  5  8 158 101 
 
MIL: Sharp inserted at lf in the 7th
     Bevacqua batted for Murphy in the 9th
     Bevacqua moved to 3b in the 9th
DET: Freehan moved to 1b in the 6th
     Humphrey inserted at c in the 6th
     Meyer batted for Crawford in the 7th
 
E-Cooper, Knox, DeJesus. 2B-Yount 2, Sundberg, Herndon, Madlock 2. 3B-Cooper. 
HR-Sheldon(1), Madlock(1). CS-Herndon. K-Yount, Sundberg, Cooper 2, Oglivie, 
Money 2, Manning, Herndon, Knox 3, Lemon 2. BB-Yount, Money, Aaron 2, 
Manning, Knox, Madlock, Billingham. SH-Sheldon. HBP-Caldwell, Pierce. 
HB-Caldwell, Billingham. BALK-Murphy. 
GWRBI: Sheldon