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Atlanta has been a tough opponent for Jack Fisher. Now the hard slider of swinging a miss one ball at his right.
Lifetime against Atlanta, Jack Fisher has won four and lost eleven. This year he's lost one decision to the break.
The Nets of the outfield swung around toward left. Breaking ball in the dirt backhanded nicely by Jerry Grudy in the count even 2-2.
Bill Adair is on the coaching lines at first base. Bob Kennedy, the former Chicago Cub manager, is on the lines at third.
Fishing 2-2. A high pop fly on the left side of the diamond. Hands swindled by Bud Harrelson on the rim of the outfield grass. He has it for the off.
Center fielder Mack Jones won the opening game of the series for the Atlanta Braves with an opposite field home run hitting the 11th inning.
Jones hitting a 2-50 with 11 homers, 32 runs batted in. He goes after a high heart with a strike one.
The Nets of the Yankees in the Mayors benefit game on Wednesday night up at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Game time 8 p.m. Hope you can make it.
Fly ball in the air to the right center. Ron Swabota digging for it throws Larry Stahl and Larry Stahl makes the catch.
The ball hung in the air but it was not hit very deep. Both Swabota and Stahl running at full tilt. Stahl picked it up running at full speed in shallow right center.
Now the all-star Nats of the gas fielder Henry Aaron. Henry hitting 325 shares the home run lead with Houston's Jimmy Winn. He chants 21.
Line drive in the left field up a 30 crack the curve ball. Tommy Davis up with it plays the ball back in.
Swabota single left by Henry Aaron. Now Crane Drew moves over to hold against him defensively.
In the batter is Rico Cardi the left fielder hitting a 2-70. Cardi has 10 homers and 37 runs batted in.
And Fisher throws the first not in time.
Now the sun is breaking through the overcast and the playing field is bathed in a bright sunshine.
Down comes the pitch. Bow ball back to the screen. A one strike down on Rico Cardi.
The weather of the showers the weatherman had talked about had the possibility yesterday or early last night.
Finally arrived after the old timers game was all over. The timing was absolutely perfect.
The flowers are thankful. Here's the pitch on the way. It's inside one ball and one strike. And so are the mess.
The ball is in the air.
Joe Torre waiting on deck.
Many of the baseball people will be heading for the airport after today's game to fly to Anaheim, California for the All-Star game.
Tom Seaver and Ken Boyer will be going for New York. Ken is the player representative and the player representatives will have a session during the All-Star break.
The 1-1 delivery by Fisher fell back over the screen right under our broadcasting booth and the scramble is on as the ball ricochets back downstairs.
Henry Aaron, Joe Torre and Denny LaMaster will be flying to Anaheim to represent the Atlanta Braves for the All-Star game.
The 1-2 delivery hit off the end of the bat foul. LaMaster has been pitching great ball for Atlanta.
After being named to the All-Star team, Denny was hurt and will miss the game due to the injury.
His place on the pitching staff has been taken by Chris Short of Philadelphia.
Pitching 1-2. Ground ball hit down under the glove of Crane Bull on in the right field.
Aaron around second is cruising toward third and the Braves have runners on first and third.
LaMaster base hit the right field by Rico Cartier with all that.
Most of the time I think Crane Bull would just. He never touched the ball. It went under his glove as he went off to his glove's side trying to get it.
And suddenly trouble jumps up in front of Jack Fisher here in the opening inning.
Runners on first and third, two men down and Joe Torre is the batter.
And a drive into the right, a base hit by Joe Torre.
Here's Aaron down the line to score the first run of the afternoon.
Galloping around the third goes Rico Cartier.
And the Braves on three hits in a row have taken the lead 1-0.
That's the third.
That's the fourth.
Number six.
Weasley.
For Joe Torre his 39th run batted in.
Now the hitter is Pete Boyer.
Pete the runner up on the Atlanta ballglove and runs batted in.
He has 49.
Runners at the corners, two men away.
They're retired the first two batters, but three hits in a row and the Braves have a run in.
Now the pitcher on the way, low and outside as the ball was.
Now the phone has been answered down in the midst both then by Harvey Haddix and Dick Salma starts to warm up.
On a day like this it doesn't take long to be warmed up.
Here's the pitcher on the way, curveball over for a strike one and one.
The old timers used to say in baseball on a day like this, Ralph, all you have to do is comb your hair and your arms get loose.
Cover your comb, you can be ready.
That's right.
Hot and humid.
Now Groney's setting up the target, the pitch to Pete Boyer. Gets the outside corner, he was in the black with that, one ball and two strikes.
But Harrelson shaded toward the hole on the left side of the infield against Pete Boyer who has a good stroke to pull the ball.
Bob Johnson plays him to hit the ball toward the middle as he shades over toward second.
The one-two pitch, round ball on the right side of the batman, in front of it is Johnson. He throws the crane to the side of the box.
One run, three hits, no errors, two left on.
And score in the middle of the first, the bravest one, and the New York Mets coming to bat.
Last of the first inning, the York behind, one nothing. Bud Harrelson leads off against the veteran right-hander, Jim Johnson.
But warmly received by the crowd here at Shea's, the play at shortstop has been big league in every way.
For the month of July, Bud Harrelson is now hitting 424.
He now on the year is hitting 291 batting left-handed.
Johnson swings out of his windup, the pitch inside and low, ball wide.
Quite a job by Bud Harrelson when you realize that he never batted left-handed in his life until spring training a year ago.
Now he's hitting 291 on the big leagues left-handed.
Pitched by Johnson, off the outside corner, two balls and no strikes.
Far more right-handers than left-handers in the nice to the leg, and as a result, Harrelson is up about twice as much hitting left as he is right.
The 2-0 delivery, and a drive hit towards the gap, and left center field is thinking in for a base hit.
And Harrelson takes the turn. He's on with a single left center.
He was using that bat from the left side of the plate like a magic wand.
The first part of the year he was using a light bat hitting left-handed.
He went for a bigger bat, a 36-inch, 35-ounce bat. Just started getting that bat on the ball, and Ralph, he's really guiding that ball around.
The nice thing about it is the fact that he hasn't been striking out. He seldom misses a ball.
He's been fouling off the pitches that he's trained at that he hasn't hit, the others he's hit into fair territory.
He's only been striking out about once every ten times at bat.
Drive hit hard to left field by Larry Stahl, racing back as Cardigan, he one-hands the ball back on the edge of the warning track.
But Harrelson has the scamper to get back. He was running on the plate.
Hard hit drive by Larry Stahl, run down in deep left by Rico Cardigan.
That brings up Tommy Davis.
Tommy has really been a wrecking crew against the Atlanta Braves this year.
Against Atlanta, and the two teams have now played 12 games this year, Tommy Davis has a 435 batting average.
Against the Braves, he's had 20 hits in 46 times at bat, and has driven in 12 runs against them in the 12 games.
Here's the pitch on the way, and the breaking ball is outside. It looks like a knuckleball, ball one.
Ken Johnson, veteran right-hander from West Palm Beach, Florida, pitching for Atlanta.
He has a wide repertoire of pitches, including a knuckleball. He has won eight and lost four.
He has a lifetime record against New York of nine wins and five losses.
And this year against him, that's Ken Johnson, tall, side-arming right-hander, has won one and lost one.
There goes the runner, a ground ball hit down to first, bobble by a loop, and he picks it up.
Makes the play at first, retiring Tommy Davis, as Bud Harrelson moves over to second.
Number seven, Eddie Crane, rule the clean-up batter, hitting a 313.
Mets trail, one nothing. We're in the last half of the first inning.
Following the all-star break, the Atlanta Braves will open a homestand against Philadelphia.
And a slow grounder into the dirt foul by home plate. It came back up and struck the bat a second time.
Following the all-star break, the Mets play Cincinnati and St. Louis, then come right back to Shea
for a four-game series against the Houston Astros. A night game on Tuesday night, July the 18th.
A doubleheader on Wednesday, July 19th, on that senior citizens' day.
And a rescheduled game on Thursday night, July the 20th.
A swing and a foul hit as he goes after a knuckleball in the count of three, two.
Thursday night, July 20th, will be batting helmet night, the boys and girls under 16, 16 all-under.
Receiving a replica of the Mets batting helmet as they come into the stadium.
Bud Harrelson leads off second. He's the dying run. He picks the crane, rule a drive of the year to right field.
Bud Harrelson, drifting back to the warning track, takes it for the out.
The Mets had two drives that deep to the outfield that were caught.
No runs, one hit. No air, one left on.
At the end of one inning, the score, the Atlanta Braves won.
And the New York Mets nothing.
Jack Fisher on the mound for New York. Dennis Menke is leading off in the top half of the second inning.
And the hard sliders outside, one ball of no strike.
The Braves, with three hits in a row, picked up a run in the top half of the first inning.
Aaron, Cardi, and Corey had the base hit.
And a curve breaks right over for a strike, one ball and one strike.
And now Menke wants the ball extended by Shaq Crawford.
And the ball is all right. It stays on the game.
We'll keep you right up to date on all of the other action in the Major Leagues this afternoon.
Foul ball, look out Ralph. Right over our head.
Rikishang back down into the field back there.
St. Louis won a big game last night on a home run on the 12th inning by Julian Javiera.
They beat the Phillies 6-4.
Cardinals now have opened up a three and a half game lead over second place Chicago.
Leo DeRosha's Cubs have now lost six three games.
The one two pitch.
Inside is two and two.
The first ball has always been a game of streaks.
Cubs had a marvelous streak, winning seven in a row, lost one, won another seven.
And a smash through the hole, a base hit to the left by Dennis Menke.
Charles made a head-first dive for it and almost came up with it.
But the Cubbies have now lost six games in a row, and they'll rely on Rich Nye,
the left-hander who has seven wins to snap the losing streak in the Astrodome today.
Don Wilson, the author of the no-hit game for the Astros earlier in the year, will be on the mound.
St. Louis and Philadelphia tied 1-1 at the end of two and a half. Larry Joster against Jim Bunnings.
An old friend of theirs, Billy Cowan, homered for Philadelphia, his second home run since being brought up.
And a pitch shot, nothing was on.
A batty, nothing. A Pittsburgh, nothing. At the end of three and a half, Gary Nolan, seven and two.
Nineteen-year-old rookie right-hander pitching for the Reds against ex-net Denny Rybant.
Rybant has won four and lost four.
Later in the afternoon, the Dodgers and the Giants at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
And Woodward, around the bun, had to get out of the way of an inside delivery.
And he missed the miss and no strike.
Later this afternoon, the Yankees and the Orioles will complete a suspended game, the second game of a double-hitter last night.
There goes the runner, and it's a blue-pit down toward third, taken by Charles.
All he has to do is throw the first for the double play.
The Braves are playing hit-and-run.
I believe Ralph thought that ball hit the ground and took a long high hop because he went a second and stopped it.
He didn't know that ball did not bounce.
He can't make an easier double play than that.
One of the prime rules on a double play when you're on first base as a runner is that you take a look at that hitter so you know where the ball's going.
And he certainly didn't do it because he didn't know that ball was in the air.
He had to be told after he got the second and was standing there.
Two outs and nobody on. Ken Johnson, the batter.
Breaking ball by Jack Fisher, low and outside, ball one.
When the second game at Baltimore last night was stopped because of the midnight curfew, it was the Yankees nothing and the Orioles nothing at the end of sixth.
Dillman Busquett was pitching against Wally Bunker.
That suspended game will be completed and then the regular twilight game at 5.30 this evening.
The 1-1 pitch to Johnson, low and outside, two balls and a strike.
The Detroit Tigers have been making a lot of noise again of late.
Victor McCall of the city of 16th home run came in the first inning today.
And the Tigers lead Boston 1-0 against the end of 2. Jerry Pell against Earl Wilson.
Washington 1, Cleveland nothing at the end of 4. First game of the double header.
Phil Ortega pitching against Steve Hargit. Minnesota, Chicago in a double header. It will be caught and whorled in the first game.
And the curve is popped up on the left side of the infield.
But Earl Wilson on the skin part of the diamond makes the catch the side is up.
No runs, one hit, no errors, ten left.
At the end of an inning and a half, the Atlanta Braves won. The New York Mets nothing.
Now here's a word from Rangel.
New York turning by run, last of the second run, Swabota leads off against Ken Johnson.
Ken Johnson is riding a personal forging and winning streak. He hasn't lost a ball game since the 4th of June.
Ron Swabota to the floor.
Ron hitting 259.
Ken Johnson out of his windup. Ron Swabota runs up and tries to foul the ball off against the foot of umpire Shag Crawford.
Ron has really been making some circus grabs in that outfield for New York. He made another one last night.
He's played about as much right field on this homestand as you can ask anybody to play.
Johnson's delivery, a slow curve of swinging a miss and the counter strike too. He fadded around him with that.
Ken Johnson throws so many different pitches at you. It's hard to figure along with him.
That was one right there that Swabota should have hit out of the parking lot. It was a hanging curve ball and sidearm, nice and flat.
Another fad arm delivery and this one is over. Strike three called in the outside corner.
One thing about him, Ralph, is he's got so many different pitches and different deliveries that it's pretty hard to guess on him. You've got to just be ready.
One thing though, Bob, he doesn't throw hard so you can look for the soft stuff. You can actually look for breaking stuff off of him because his fast ball is not fast. He couldn't hurt you if he hit you.
Couldn't puff you this, huh?
Now, it's Charles the batter against Ken Johnson. Fad arm delivery off the outside corner. One ball and no strike.
Bob Johnson, the on-deck batter. Ground ball bounced on the left side, cut off by a third backer, Quig Boyer, the fake Deau Allure, two men away.
Two outs and nobody on. Johnson coming up.
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Inside and high at Bob Johnson. One ball and no strike.
This will be a busy ball club in Cincinnati as we open our next road trip with a twilight night doubleheader on Thursday night across the field.
There's the fastest 50's drum and he wasted it inside and high ball, two to two and all.
Yogi Berra coaching at first and Salty Parker coaching at third.
The 2-0 delivery. A check swing foul balled it down the first baseline.
Frank Howard has just hit his 23rd homerun of the year. It came in the fifth inning with a man on.
Washington leads Cleveland, three to nothing at the end of four and a half.
Frank Howard, Ralph, is really blossoming out. He's on his way to his biggest year by far.
Oh they finally got him to spread out and quit striding and that's been his biggest ball all his life and he would never change. He finally has.
Line drive hit by Bob Johnson and goes over Minkiewski in the left center field for a base hit.
As big as he is, he doesn't need to stride much either.
You remember players like Gus Zernio. They spread out and didn't stride.
Vern Steaver and Gil Hodges had a stance that was a wide spread stance that used just a little bit of a stride
and he finally prevailed on Frank Howard to cut down that big stride where he would get way out in front and evidently that's made the big difference.
If a slugger has a hit to do swing, spreading out is just about the best thing you can do to a doctor that event.
It will keep your balance and that's what you're looking for.
Jerry Grote is the batter against Ken Johnson and he takes inside ball one.
Braves one, Metz nothing were in the last of the second.
Felipe Lou holding against the baserunner Bob Johnson.
He had Jerry fool. He tried to hold up on the swing but he had gone too far and counted even one ball one strike.
Ken Johnson on the mound. The big right hander's pitch is popped into the air between the mound and third base.
Fleet 40 are under it and Fleet makes the cut to the side of the mound.
No runs, one hit, no errors and one left on. And at the end of two innings the Atlanta Braves won the New York Metz nothing.
Now we go to the third inning here at Shady City and the Braves in front one nothing.
And as Felipe Lou runs up to get against Jack Fisher coming up to follow all the action for you, Ralph Keiner.
Thank you Bob Murphy and hi everyone. Felipe Lou the lead off here in the top of the third.
The Braves in front one nothing. Jack Fisher pitching for the Metz.
And the first pitch to the Lou, a curve ball, a wild swing and a miss at strike one.
Frank Howard leads the major leagues in home runs now with his home run today.
His highest total 31 in any one season. Now the pitch backs, slight foul to the right side.
Strike two. Frank now with 23 and the season about halfway through.
He untied the tie between himself and Harmon Killibrew.
From the national league a tie between Jim Wynn and Hank Garrett for the leadership 21.
Felipe Lou popped up the shortstop his first time up batting at 280 a right hand batter.
The two strike pitch by Fisher is popped up again this time in foul territory.
Coming over is Ed Childs to make the play for this first out here in the third.
Now the batter coming up is Mac Jones and we'll pause for station identification.
This is the New York Metz baseball network.
You're tuned to the bright sound in radio. WGY, a General Electric Broadcasting Company station at 810 on your dial.
Schenectady, New York.
Ralph Keiner along with Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson from J Stadium.
The first pitch to Mac Jones, a curve ball down low and Jones goes for it, a swing and strike one.
Braves, one, that's nothing.
In the background announcement that changes the stat sheet here.
Now foul ball on the ground ball swing at strike two.
On the stat sheet they have the Metz in ninth place, virtually in a tie with Houston at 390.
Actually what is the case, the Metz are 17 and one half games out of first place.
Houston is 18 but due to the difference in game plays, Houston leads in percentage.
They have a percentage of 390 and be carried on down one more point for 3904.
The Metz have a percentage of 3896.
Now the next pitch is outside.
Fastball missing, one ball two strikes.
What they have done on the stat sheet was narrow it down to the nearest three number figure and that would put them both at 390.
But technically Houston is in ninth place, 8,000 of a percentage point higher than the Metz.
Now a swing at a curve ball strike three and Jack Fisher gets his second strike out.
Right fielder, Hank.
That brings up Hank Aaron.
Hank Singleton on one pitch his first time up and has scored the only run of the ball game.
And with 21 home runs, 56 runs batted in.
He has scored 67 runs so far this year in 78 ball games.
Batting 328, he grounds the first pitch down to short.
But Harrelson comes up throwing and gets him by about three strikes to retire the side.
One, two, three for Jack Fisher and the score at the end of two and a half innings, the Atlanta Braves won the New York Metz nothing.
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Bottom half of the third, the Braves in front, one nothing, and the Mets coming up.
Jack Fretcher, the leadoff batter for the Mets, batting against Ken Johnson.
Johnson has given up no runs.
He has allowed two hits while striking at one.
First pitch to Fretcher, a breaking ball outside, ball one.
Jack has three hits this year and 35 times up.
He's batting 086.
Johnson, a veteran right-hander with a variety of pitches.
His next delivery is a fastball hit off the end of the bat, down toward first base.
Philippe Ballou comes up with it, trots to the back for the unassisted out.
And the first out here in the bottom half of the third.
That'll bring up Bud Aronson, who has a base hit in one time up.
Bud now batting 272.
Bud's base hit was a looping line drive into left center.
Right now Rico Cardi in left field has moved to about eight steps in the foul line,
and that is a little hard to believe that he can play there for him,
because he's not giving himself a chance on a ball hitting the left center field.
Now they're moving a little bit further away from the foul line.
He's actually protecting foul territory more than fair.
Now a line drive over short in that hole.
It might go for extra bases.
The center fielder has to knock it down in left field.
He doesn't get it, and Aronson goes into second.
So Bud Aronson taking advantage of the defensive position of Rico Cardi in left field,
hitting the ball right directly to left field,
and the center fielder had to come over and stop it from going on through.
Two base hits for Bud Aronson, and the Mets now have the time
to run a second base with one out, and Larry Stahl coming up.
The double by Haraldson, his eighth this year.
He has a forward pace going here in July.
And Johnson in the set position, and the first pitch to Larry Stahl
is a knuckleball over a called strike.
Larry on a hit-and-run play in the first pitch his first time up,
wide out to deep left center field.
In the month of July, Haraldson has been red hot.
The pitch back to the plate is outside.
Again, the knuckleball, it's one and one.
He has had 16 hits in 35 times up.
Larry is batting.457.
One ball, one strike.
And the next pitch to Stahl is called strike two.
Larry doesn't make the move out of the strike zone and took it.
Now backing out of the batter's box, one and two.
Now Johnson taking out the signs from Joe Torre.
In the set position and the pitch, it is popped into left center field,
moving to his left side.
What time to get through the ball is Rico Cardi.
He makes a one-hand catch unnecessarily,
and then throws the ball in and Haraldson,
who was halfway down the line, goes back to second.
Now with two men out, the batter will be Tommy Davis.
Tommy on a hit-and-run play, grounded out the first base his first time up.
On the play, Bud Haraldson moved down to second,
but he was left there in the first inning.
Now he's out at second base for Tommy Davis.
With two men out here in the bottom half of the third.
And the first pitch to Tommy, a swing and a miss, strike one.
Tommy has it safe in his last seven ballgames without one here in this one.
That was 11 for 27, stretch 407 batting average.
Got four for four last night, his one thousandth.
Major Lake Bay said his last time up.
He is the leading batter against Atlanta with 20 hits and 47 times up,
and he has driven in 12 runs against the Braves.
12 runs batted in in 12 ballgames plays.
Now a high knuckleball. Tommy takes it, ball one.
One ball and one strike.
Met to have one sixth of the 12 games played.
The most they have ever won against Atlanta in their history.
Six and one season.
He's done that twice before.
Now a knuckleball, full foul on the line into the fan.
So he can now up to one and two.
One and two as Ken Johnson wipes off his brows, he looks out towards center field.
Braves leading one nothing.
They have one run on four hits, the Mets have no runs in three hits with the runner at second base.
Now Johnson back to the plate and a knuckleball has popped up in the shallow left field.
Going back is Mickey, he might not get to it coming into Cardi.
He cannot get it, it dropped into a base hit and Nelson scores the tying run.
Tommy Davis with a blue pit, a little fly ball that dropped in front of Rico Cardi,
who was playing the deep left field and he couldn't get to it.
The shortstop Mentsy took after it.
He couldn't get to it.
And Tommy Davis picked up his 42nd run batted in, his 13th against the Atlanta Braves in 13 ball games now.
And the batter coming up is Ed Craneball.
Tie ball game 1-1 and a knuckleball to Craneball as low ball one.
And he flied out the deep right field his first time up.
Batting the 3-12.
Now Johnson sets up again and the pitch to the plate is a fastball outside, ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Right now Rico Cardi in left field is playing a very deep left field against the left hand batter.
Center fielder Mack Jones is fairly shallow in center, shaded over toward right.
Now a knuckleball back is outside, it's ball three.
Three balls, no strikes with Ron Sloboda on deck.
And the sign is going out to the bullpen to warm up.
A right hand pitcher.
Three balls, no strikes.
Craneball takes the next pitch outside, it's ball four.
And Johnson walks Craneball, that moves Tommy Davis down to second base in scoring position.
Put runners at first and second and brings up Ron Sloboda.
Number four.
Jay Ritchie, a right hander, is now warming up on the bullpen for the Braves.
A walk given up by Ken Johnson, his first in the ball game.
Ron Sloboda was struck out on a knuckleball, he got Todd Mucky his first time up, batting 257.
And the first pitch to him is a knuckleball that is too low for a ball.
Johnson sets up again, Davis at second base, and Craneball at first.
The pitch back is a breaking ball that's over the outside part of the plate, strike one call.
One and one.
Now Johnson again a look at second.
And the pitch, it is fouled back out of play.
Johnson out in front with a counted one ball and two strikes.
Sloboda has batted in 17 runs so far this year in 58 ball games.
He's at five home runs.
One and two, and Johnson now back again.
A fastball, almost 50 as he turns away.
Pitch way inside, two and two.
That's it, batted in there on purpose.
Trying to make his other stuff look better.
Johnson wasting the fastball inside.
Now he sets up.
And the two-two delivery is a curveball outside, way outside, and the count now three balls and two strikes.
Down deck batter is Ed Charles.
And with two men away, the base runners at first and second will be going with a pitch.
Fine hitting position for runs for border.
Now Johnson sets.
The runners go, the pitch is a curveball hit out toward left center field.
Not too far, going over is the center fielder, Mack Jones.
He makes the catch to retire to the side.
In the inning, the Mets tie it up, getting one run on two hits.
No errors, and two men were left on.
And the score at the end is three.
The Braves won, the Mets won.
The new ballgivers, they go to the top of the fourth, it's one to one.
And the first batter up, Rico Cardi.
Rico with the base hit to right field, his first time up.
Batting 274 with 10 home runs and 37 runs batted in.
Stands with that high bat position, the first pitch, the curveball, and it breaks over, Cardi breaks away from the plate.
Right one.
Jack Fisher pitching for the Mets has given up one run, allowed four hits.
He has struck out one walk none.
And the right hander back with a sidearm slider, the south side.
One ball, one strike.
It'll be Rico Cardi, Joe Torre, and Creed Boyer for Fisher here in the fourth.
And the 1-1 delivery is grounded foul out toward Bob Kennedy, the third base coach.
Bob at one time, a third baseman, later on an outfielder with several ball clubs, White Sox, Cleveland,
and a former managing coach of the Chicago Cubs.
Leo DeRosha, when he took the job with the Cubs, said, I don't care what they call it upstairs, on the field I'm the manager.
He has done that job on the field.
That rotating coach's plan put in by Mr. Wrigley certainly proved to be not good.
Now swinging a ground foul ball.
Ball rolling away in the count one and two.
Cubs have lost six straight ball games, but they're still in second place.
They, before losing the game, were tied for first with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Cardinals now lead by three and a half games, picking up that much ground.
Prince of Daddy's in third, five games back.
Last time they've had a Chicago series was back in 1906.
Now ground ball hit out to third.
A nice hop as it comes up to Ed Charles, making the play an easy play.
So the first base retires, three club cardinals.
One away in the top of the fourth.
Richard checks the second base and comes back to the plate, and misses with a slider down in the dirt.
Back hander by Grote.
Good play by Jerry in the count one and one.
Ball checked out by Shag Crawford and thrown out of play.
Action in the bullpen for the Mets.
Dick Zellmer starting the throw.
One ball, one strike.
Fisher back again.
And a slider's popped up on the second base side.
Bob Johnson goes out to make the call.
Borda runs him off and makes the catch.
Troy goes back to second base.
Boyer back to first.
And with two men out, the batter coming up to second base in Woody Woodward.
Woody hit into a very easy double play.
He can make any double play easily.
On a hit and run play with Mentee on at first base, Woodward hit one right off his hand, a soft little pop fly to third.
Mentee didn't see the ball and went all the way down to second.
And after Giles caught it, he could have walked to first base to put the fourth play in there.
But he threw on over to Craneville for the double play.
First pitch to Woodward, a curve that breaks over, strike one.
Big curve ball by Jack Fisher.
Woodward batting 230.
His first time up with a runner at first base and no one out.
That was in the second.
Billy Hitchcock had him out to bunch with the pitcher coming up next.
They then switched to the hit and run play and the result of double play came after that.
Now foul ball off a fastball.
Ball going back over to Scream, strike two.
0-2 with two men out.
Top of the fourth inning, a 1-1 ball game.
Runners at first and second.
And the next pitch is hit off the hands just like the last one, only in foul territory.
Giles goes over and makes a soft pitch to retire the side.
Fisher getting him twice with a fastball in off the hands.
No runs, two hits.
No errors and two men left.
And the score at the end of three and a half innings, the Atlanta Braves won.
New York Mets won.
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Bottom half of the fourth, the Mets coming up.
Ball game tied at 1-1.
And the first batter for the Mets will be Ed Charles.
Ben Johnson, the pitcher for the Braves, has given up one run and allowed four base hits.
The Mets tying up the ball game in the bottom half of the third.
Ed Charles, the right hand batter, in the first pitch, a curveball over the outside corner, strike one.
Ed grounded out the third his first time up.
He's batting 273.
Pirates have scored a run in the bottom half of the fifth.
They leave Cincinnati one nothing.
One strike pitch, a fastball, a swing for strike two.
At the end of four and a half innings, the Cardinals one fiddled out the one.
Two games in progress in the National League, along with this one.
And a sidearm curve now to Charles, but it's too far outside.
One and two.
At the end of three, Detroit five, Boston three.
First of two.
Down one, two, a knuckleball hits deep to left field.
We go 30 back.
He can't get to it.
It's going and this is a bye.
Ed Charles with his third home run of the year and the Mets have broken the tie.
They lead two to one.
Ed got his first against the Cubs in Chicago against Ray Colt.
He got his second against San Francisco against Juan Marical.
And now his third in the National League against Ken Johnson.
That'll bring up Bob Johnson, who singled his first time up.
He tries to bonnet, but he goes foul strike one.
Johnson down the line after the bunch coming back to get back in the batter's box.
At the end of five and a half innings, Washington three, Cleveland two.
At the end of two, Minnesota nothing, Chicago nothing.
The game is in progress in the American League.
One strike hit that deep but foul down the left field line.
Now it goes up the strike two.
That ball was far enough, but it was foul.
Johnson has two home runs for the Mets.
He has driven in ten runs.
He's batting 333.
23 base hits and 69 times up.
And the next pitch is swung on a Mr. Kerr ball, strike three.
And Ken Johnson gets his second strike out.
That home run given up by Ken Johnson, the 12th.
He has given up this year.
Now the batter is Jerry Grote.
Jerry pops his third his first time up.
He's batting 206.
Mets leading two to one on the home run by Ed Charles here in the bottom half of the fourth.
And the first pitch over the outside corner, a called strike.
Action in the bullpen for the Braves.
Ramon Hernandez, the left-hander, along with Jay Richie, a right-hander, warming up for the Braves.
One strike pitch, a knuckleball swung on and foul.
Ball's getting away from Joe Torey, going back away.
Strike two count.
And at two strikes, Johnson goes sidearm with a fastball that swung on and fouled off.
Jerry Grote being pitched in tight.
And fouling the ball off to the right side.
Count remains at strike two.
And now Ken into the windup and sidearm again, this time a curveball, a full foul.
Grote way out in front, pulling the ball foul over toward the stands, the ball hitting
the stands and going out on the field.
Mets leading two to one, two runs, five hits. The Atlanta Braves one run and six.
And now Johnson ready to go. And the pitch to Grote is a sidearm.
Curveball that's swung on and missed, strike three.
Two strikeouts in a row and with a mess in front, two to one, Jack Pritchard comes up
and we'll pause now for station identification.
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The pitch to Fischer is hit out to shallow right field.
Hank Aaron stated over near the line, has no trouble to get near it, and he makes the
catch to retire to the side.
But in the inning, the Mets break the ties, scoring one run on the home run by Ed Charles,
the only hit in the inning.
No errors and no one left on base.
And the score at the end of the four, the Mets two, the Braves one.
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Ken Johnson leading off against Jack Fisher in the fifth inning, and he hits the first
pitch back up the middle for a base hit.
Ken Johnson lashing out at Fisher's first delivery, and he's on with a clean single
to center field.
Murray has now had seven hits.
And the leadoff batter, Philippe Allou, is coming up.
Allou has popped his short and fouled out the third.
Now Fisher checks the runner at first, delivers, and it's under the knees, one ball and no
strikes.
Center fielder, Mack Jones, the on-deck batter.
Then Henry Aaron.
And a curve ball for a strike, one and one.
And the leadoff batter, Henry Aaron, is coming up.
Henry Aaron, and a curve ball for a strike, one and one.
Nuts would love to win this one today and close out the homestand with a record of eight
wins and six losses.
All five teams appearing on the homestand, top contenders in the Nassau League.
Foul ball, hit down the third base line, no play.
One ball, two strikes.
Nuts open the homestand.
With a two-game series against Pittsburgh.
Then two with Philadelphia.
And four with St. Louis.
Three with the Giants and three with the Braves.
Foul ball, squibbling back over towards the visiting dugout, no play.
New York, two runs, five hits, no errors.
Atlanta, one, seven and oh.
The ballgame in the top half of the fifth inning.
Ken Johnson on first, nobody out.
The pitch to Alou.
A drive, well hit.
The deep left field.
Tommy Davis chasing back.
It may go.
It is gone, a two-run homer.
The Braves take the lead on the ninth home run of the year by Fully Foulou.
A line drive, he pulled a left field that cleared the bullpen area and landed just under the auxiliary scoreboard.
Very quickly.
They take the lead on a two-run homer by Alou.
They're now in front three to two.
Dick Selma on call in the bullpen.
A grounder hit fouled on the first baseline by Mac Jones.
Ninth home run of the year for our leadoff batter, Fully Foulou.
Mac Jones has flied to center and been struck out, nothing for two.
He takes a fastball high, one ball, one strike.
Braves lead in the first inning, one nothing.
The Mets tie the game in the third.
And a fastball high, two and one.
Then New York went in front in the fourth inning on the home run by Ed Charles.
But a single by Ken Johnson and a home run by Fully Foulou has put the Atlanta Braves back into the lead.
Pitching two and one.
He goes after a breaking ball and misses strike two, two and two.
Now Fisher's two-two delivery.
Grounded foul, right straight back.
Gounder remains the same, two and two.
Henry Aradon, ducking Enrico Cardy.
Ground ball hit down the first baseline.
It's fair, grabbed by Crane, really races to the back and makes the play on assistant.
One out, nobody on.
The number three hitter, Henry Aradon coming out.
Aaron's single and the first.
He's got a good shot.
Henry Aradon coming out, Aaron's single left in the first.
Was thrown out by Bud Harrelson in the third inning.
So Aradon has one for two batting a 329.
Now the pitcher on the way.
Long drive, deep to left field, back to O'Shaven.
He jumps and he makes the catch.
Warm hand for Tommy Davis.
Beautiful jumping touch right against the fence in deep left field.
Rico Cardy the batter and the pitcher's high ball one.
Tommy timed his leap absolutely perfectly.
Very height of his leap.
He made a one hand grab high over his head.
And a seven for a strike, one ball and one strike.
Hard to say for sure whether or not the ball would have gone over for a home run had it not been caught or not.
But it was very, very close.
Hard hit drive by Henry Aradon.
The one one pitch down to Cardy.
A grounder hits foul and the Braves have been hitting Fisher hard in the third.
Two outs and nobody on.
The Braves lead three two.
We're in the top half of the fifth inning.
Nineteen year old Jerry Nolan and Dennis Ryaband are hooked up in an interesting pitching duel at Pittsburgh.
The Barrett's lead Cincinnati one to nothing at the end of sixth inning.
St. Louis one, Philadelphia one at the end of five.
Larry Jaster against Jim Bunning a home run by Billy Cowan.
One two pitch down to Cardy a swing and a lefty struck him out.
Bad retire two runs two hits.
No errors none left on.
So we've come halfway at the end of four and a half.
The Atlanta Braves three the New York Mets two.
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Last of the fifth inning New York Trellin by a run.
Bud Harrelson with two for two will be looking for his third hit of the game as he leads off against Ken Johnson.
And Bud with his two for two has now raised his batting average to two seventy five.
And for the month of July Bud Harrelson is now batting four hundred and fifty five.
Bud has been up twice single to left center and double to left center.
The last time he came up Cardi was playing him over about eight strides from the left field line.
This time Billy Hitchcock has moved him back more toward a normal low field position.
A drag run.
Racing after the saloon a base hit.
Bud Harrelson is three for three with a beautiful drag run.
Everybody went for it.
They had no chance at all to get Harrelson.
That brings up Larry Stahl.
That is base hit number six for the New York Mets.
Mets have the speedy Harrelson on first piece the tying run.
Guys are much darker overcast down.
For a while the sun had broken through.
The overcast has returned and it's pretty dark.
Johnson off the stretch.
The pitch was tall and he pops the ball up near third base.
Fleet Boyer in fair territory near third makes the catch.
One out and one on Tommy Davis coming up.
Tommy's Texas Liger to short left field drove home Bud Harrelson.
In the third inning and for Tommy Davis it was his 42nd run batted in.
Balee Balee holding against Harrelson at first.
The outfield swung around to left.
And a high pop foul that might be playable.
Corey coming back near the backstop has a play and grabs it for the out.
Two outs and one on.
Eddie Crane to open again.
Eddie has lined the ball hard to Aaron in right field.
He's going to walk as they pitch around him his last round at bat.
Braves three runs eight hits.
The Mets two runs six hits.
We're in the last of the fifth inning.
The short of first it's down in time.
Veteran Ken Johnson has won eight and lost four.
A knuckleball a little bit high one ball and no strike.
Johnson has been an excellent pitching group.
He hasn't lost a ball game since the fourth of June.
And he has won his last four decisions.
The outfield deep and around to right the runner goes.
Here's the peg by Corey the flag.
Hey he's still second.
But Harrelson with his fifth stolen base of the year sets himself in the scoring position.
Now the tying run is on second.
Two balls and no strikes.
Eddie Crane boo.
And a drive hit toward the gap and left center field.
Cardi Racing for Kansas has to play it on a hop.
In the score is what Harrelson again has had.
And the line drive single to left center field is twenty five.
We've really got an interesting ball game going.
Billy Hitchcock is coming out of the dugout.
J. Richie and Ramona Hernandez are both warmed up and ready in the Atlanta bullpen.
If it's cocky like to make a pitching change at this time.
And that's trail one that I think at the end of the first they tied the game in the third inning.
When Tommy Davis brought home Bud Harrelson the next took the lead in the fourth inning on a home run by Ed Charles.
But in the top of the fifth inning a two run homer by a fully balloon put Atlanta back in the lead three to two.
Now the Mets on a bun single by Bud Harrelson a stolen base and a family by Eddie Crane who have tied the game.
Johnson will stay up.
Ron Swabota is the hitter Ron has struck out and fly the center.
Bud Harrelson with his three for three hitting left handed against Ken Johnson here this afternoon.
Is now hitting three oh three on the year batting left handed.
And a foul pop up behind the plate.
Corey is under it waiting.
Near the fungo circle he takes it for the out and the side is up.
One run two hit no errors one left five innings complete the Atlanta Braves three runs eight hits no error.
The New York Mets three runs seven hits and no error.
Jenny McCarthy's ground crew comes out to manicure the diamond for the second half of the ballgame.
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The buses leave the bus station two hours before and one hour before all mid home game.
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They go to the seventh inning at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh with the Pirates leading Cincinnati one to nothing.
Pitching against Dennis Ryback St. Louis one Philadelphia one there now.
Jaster against Bunny.
Cubs did not score in the first in Houston.
Rich Nye pitching against Don Wilson Dodgers and Giants later this afternoon.
The Tigers lead the Red Sox nine to three at the end of four and they have Earl Wilson on the mound looking for his 10th win.
Bell started.
John Diago in the third and was loose in the fourth and he's a bad fit.
Joe Torrey leading off the sixth inning catches one on the side.
Torrey has been up three times as to have now has been hit by a fifth and it brings up three boy.
Game of the double hitter Washington three Cleveland three after six and a half minutes.
The White Sox lead the twins one to nothing at the end of three in the first game of a double hitter.
Jim Cotter against Joel Horland.
About a 25 game winner last year lost seven of his first eight decisions this year.
Now has won six of his last seven.
If he can win today he'll be back to five hundred with a record of eight and eight.
Leap Boyer the batter and a curve bends into the knee strike one.
Manager West Western has how run up warming up in the bullpen.
Selma has a long man assignment and now as we get to the first inning how run up is up.
Sidearm curve hit foul down the third base line strike to the clean boyer.
We'd have one for two he's single his last time up.
Sidearm pitch fastball just a little bit low one ball two strikes.
Louis picked up two runs from the top of the sixth inning in Philadelphia.
The Cardinals lead the Phillies three to one after five and a half.
They lead the second place Cubs in the national league by three and a half game.
Fly ball it's deep the right center's will go to going at full speed way back running one handed catch.
He flips and ball gets up the ball back in another beautiful play on the outfield by Ron Swabota.
He has played a tremendous right field all through this on the ground has become certainly a top notch outfield.
Ball was hit all the way to the warning track it was at about three hundred and ninety feet in right center.
Dennis Menke has single to left and fly to short right.
Fisher's delivery is over at the knees.
Drag one. Jack has been having trouble fooling anybody the last three innings.
Check swing and a ground ball hit right down to Crane.
He steps on first second tag play double play.
That took off the fourth place.
Harrelson had a tag play on Torrey and he makes it for the double play.
No runs no hits no errors done left.
Ten to five and a half innings to score. New York Mets three and the Atlanta Braves three.
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It is beginning to appear quite possible. That's what it's beginning to appear.
I was a little worried because if you left it down you might be driving yourself a mobile swimming pool.
The special policeman call it a roller skate round ball down the third base like strike one dead.
It may not rain a little but it certainly looks like it has a chance.
Charles Homer his last time up his third of the year in the home run but New York in front two to one.
The greatest one in front on a loose to run over and then the Mets tied the game in the home fifth inning.
Kim Johnson's touch hit on the ground a shortstop fielded by Dennis Benke.
The overhand peg to Philippe Fallu is in time for the off.
Bob Johnson coming up.
The Mets have had some marvelous baseball on this 14 game home stand.
The Mets have won seven and lost six and we have another good game going today.
Breaking ball off the outside corner one ball and no strikes.
After winning the first two games of the Giants series the Mets lost the last game of that series two to one.
Lost the opener of this Atlanta series three to two at eleven innings.
Bounce back to win behind the strong pitching of Tom Seaver last night.
Foul ball back over the screen no play.
One ball one strike to Bob Johnson.
Johnson has single the left center and been struck out one for two.
Wednesday night will be an important night to the Mets as far as their future pitching plans are concerned.
Don Cardwell will be pitching for the first time since going on the disabled list.
And a pop foul outside third. Boyer is shooting over on the warning track and he makes the grab.
Don Cardwell has been sideline since the third of June.
He had an elbow ailment.
The elbow was drained and he was placed on the disabled list.
And then after he started to try and get himself going again when the elbow started to clear up he developed tendonitis in his shoulder.
Jerry Grote has popped the third and struck out.
Ground ball hit down to third. Boyer grabs the hop.
Hurls from deep behind third and the side is up.
Very strong one two three inning by Ken Johnson.
No runs no hits no errors and none left.
At the end of sixth the Atlanta Braves three and the New York Mets three.
And Lindsey Nelson will be with you in just a moment to detail the play.
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Second baseman. Woody Woodward.
Now the Atlanta Braves come up in the seventh inning and it's the number eight man in the batting order.
Woody Woodward he is a right hand batter facing right hand pitcher.
Jack Fisher.
Bob Shaw is throwing down in the med bow pen.
Left handed Nick Kelly is throwing in the Atlanta bow pen.
Now here's a curve ball. In for a call. Strike one.
Through six innings.
The Atlanta Braves three runs. Eight hits. No errors.
The New York Mets three runs. Seven hits. No errors.
Strike one pitch to Woody Woodward.
Blowing away it's 1-1.
Today's baseball quiz.
Since 1900 three pitchers have been 20 game winners playing in both leagues the same season.
Can you identify two of the three?
1-1 pitch. Swung on and hit high into the air.
Back of the third. Drifting towards the stands.
And might be playable. Harrelson is right there and Charles makes the catch.
Just in front of the cylinder on which the tarp is rolled up against the barrier in front of the field boxes.
And now Tito Francona is coming out to bat for Ken Johnson.
Francona is a left hand batter picked up earlier this year by the Atlanta Braves.
From the Philadelphia Phillies he is hitting 267 with three homers and eight runs batted in.
Francona batting for Johnson.
So Ken Johnson is out of the ball game after having pitched six innings.
In which he gave up three runs on seven hits, struck out three and walked one.
The man throwing in the bullpen is Dick Kelly.
Francona settling stuff into the batter's box. One man out, nobody on base.
Jack Fisher with his no wind up delivery starts to work and Francona backs out.
So Fisher breaks off the delivery.
Now a pitch that is low for a ball. Double barrel action now in the mid bullpen.
Right hander Hal Runner. Left hander Don Shaw.
1-0 pitch to Francona. Hit deep to center field. It's way back there.
The ball goes to the warning track and hardens it down.
Ball is hit over 400 feet to straight away center field.
Two men out, nobody on base and Philippe Elou is coming up.
He had a two run homer in the fifth inning that put the Braves temporarily ahead bringing them from behind.
Since then the Mets have scored the run that tied it at 3-3.
Elou is one for three for the afternoon.
Hitting 282 for the season. Here's a pitch foul back and out of play.
Down to strike one.
The answer to the baseball quiz, the three two league 20 game winners in the same season where Joe McEnady is a swing and a base hit in the center field.
For Philippe Elou, Larry Stollup returns it to the infield.
Joe McEnady, 21-18-192. Pat Flaherty, 21-11-194.
And Hanks Baroy, 21-7-1945 when he split the year between the Yankees and the National League Tennis winning Chicago Cubs.
Now the Braves have a runner at first on Philippe Elou's single to center.
There are two men out and Mike Jones is coming up. He's nothing but three left hand batter.
Rainpool comes over to hold against the runner.
Fisher steps and steps off the rubber.
Making pitches outside for a ball.
Fisher has struck out two and walked none this afternoon.
The hit by Philippe Elou was the ninth off Fisher.
Elou takes his lead.
1-0 pitch curve ball high and it's 2-0.
Mike Aaron is waiting on deck.
Now Fisher sets up and throws to free.
Out in time Elou is back safely.
Mike Jones up there with a close stance at the plate.
Fisher again throws to first and Elou is back safely.
Trying to keep a short haul to figuring that Elou might very well be going on a 2-0 pitch.
They might very well play hit and run.
With a score tied 3-3.
Elou has a 2-0 pitch thrown on and fouled off. He wasn't going. It's 2-1.
That's after the defense shaded around toward right on left hand batter Mike Jones who has good power to all fields.
He led off the 11-10 with a home run over the fence into the Braves bullpen and left field right before last.
Bringing the foul ball back to the play and the count is even now 2-2 to Mike Jones.
He's out with Ralph Cantor and Bob Murphy. Chase stayed him in New York and Dick Kelly is coming to do the pitching now for the Atlanta Braves.
He worked for two thirds of an inning last night and was touched for one run on two hits.
He has a record of one win and seven losses.
He's going to be left hander and he'll be working to right hand batter Jack Fischer up to lead off for the Mets.
This is a managerial decision to make right here allowing Fischer to bat in the bottom half of the seventh inning.
Leading off with a score tied 3-3.
Fischer is nothing but 2. 3 for 37 this season.
He's swinging a ground ball to second. Taken there by Woodward and Plato to Alou and there's one away.
Now about Harrelson coming up. He is 3 for 3 in this ball game. A single, a double and then spun his way on.
Listen to the hand for Harrelson. His batting average for the season is 2-78.
He turns around out of that right handed against the left handed Dick Kelly. He's a swish hitter so he's been batting left.
His left handed batting average for the season is 3-0-3.
Take it in for a call strike. His natural side is batting right handed.
Kelly's turned him off with a fastball.
Swinging a ground ball and it's going deep to Jordan on through for a base hit.
Harrelson has four hits as he holds it first. That one was just by Boyer and just by Mingy through the hole in the left.
But Harrelson has gone 4 for 4 and so he's joining Ed Charles, Jerry Grote and Tommy Davis as Mets who have had four hits in a game.
Last night Davis did it for the second time this season.
And he represents Goyard right on it first with one man out. Larry Stahl scheduled up but he's a left handed batter.
Harrelson's batting average for the season goes up now to 2-81.
Tommy Reynolds batting for Larry Stahl. In the month of July, Bud Harrelson has batted 4-86.
And it's your west west from here playing righty lefty as he takes down his left hand batter Larry Stahl and sends up his right hand batter Tommy Reynolds.
A right hander is up and throwing the ball in now for the Atlanta Braves.
Reynolds hitting 187, two homers and four runs batted in.
The score is tied here, the Mets 3 and the Braves 3 with the Mets batting in the bottom half of the seventh inning.
Zalepa Lou comes over to hold against Bud Harrelson.
Kelly ends from the waist taking the sign.
Now the pitch to Reynolds, one hot and fouled out to the right side out of play.
The Mets came from behind to tie the score in the bottom of the fifth when Bud Harrelson effected a drag bunt for a base hit, stole second and scored on Ed Cranebo's looping single to left.
Tommy Davis is taking his cuts in the on deck circle.
Harrelson leads it first as Kelly looks for the sign.
Off the stretch now, pitch to Reynolds, one hot and it is knocked down at second by Woodward to throw the first and it's just time to get Reynolds.
Harrelson moving on to second.
Woody Woodward barely got to that ball, slammed between first and second.
He got his left hander to knock it down, he was on the rim of the outfield grass when he scampered after it, picked it up and threw on Zalepa Lou at first to get Reynolds.
Harrelson moves into scoring position at second base, two men out and Tommy Davis is coming up.
Now Davis is going to be intentionally walked.
The first base open, the pitch is outside for a ball.
It's going to get to the next train, so it's a left hand batter.
So it is an intentional walk being issued here to Tommy Davis.
As the Mets are making a bid with two men out at the bottom of the seventh.
Raymond Hernandez is up and throwing into bullpen now for the Braves.
He's a left hander along with right hander Claude Raymond.
Now ball four and Tommy Davis goes down to first, Harrelson holds it second and Craneful is coming up.
So Craneful will try to hang in there against the left hander now to see what he can do about getting Harrelson in.
He's singled, the left fielder's riding in at the bottom of the fifth.
He's got a ball today, Craneful is one for two on a walk, hitting 315 for this season.
Leonard's lead at first and second, left hander Dick Kelly with the pitch.
And it is hit in the air to the left, Rico Tidy comes up and makes the catch with one hand.
So the side is out, no runs, no hits, no walk, no errors, and two left at the end of seventh.
The score is, Mets three and the Braves three.
Now let's check out scores of other games.
The Braves feel in Pittsburgh at the end of eight innings of play, the Pirates lead the Cincinnati Reds one to nothing.
Gary Nolan started for Cincinnati, Jim Maloney has been used in relief coming in in the eighth inning,
and Dennis Ryban has been in all the way for the Pirates and has a shutout for this point.
At County Rock Stadium in Philadelphia at the end of seven innings, the league leading Cardinals one and the Phillies one.
Larry Jaster for the cards, Jim Bunning for Philadelphia, Grant Jackson relieves in the eighth inning.
Billy Cowan, a former Met, homered in the first inning with nobody on for the Phillies.
At the Astrodome in Houston, Texas at the end of two and a half innings, the Chicago Cubs nothing, the Houston Astros nothing.
The Cubs have lost six in a row. Rich Nye against Don Wilson.
The Dodgers are at San Francisco in a later start.
The American League, the Yanks and Baltimore have to complete again.
They were suspended last night at the end of six innings. There was no score. Billy Mambo getting against Wally Bucker.
In the Yanks and Orioles play a regularly scheduled game that will start at 5.30.
First game of a doubleheader in Detroit at the end of six. The Detroit Tigers nine, the Boston Red Sox three.
Gary Bell for Boston, Jose Santiago in the third, Wasliski in the fourth, Earl Wilson for Detroit.
Dick McCalliff in his sixteenth homer of the season in the first with nobody on for Detroit.
And Wilson, homered in the fourth with nobody on.
First game of a doubleheader in Cleveland at the end of seven and a half innings.
Cleveland Indians five and the Washington Senators three.
Hoyt Sagan.
Frank Howard in his twenty-third homer of the season in the fifth with one on.
He leads the major league to no more.
Duke Kim coming in the fifth and Max Alves in the sixth his tenth.
First game of a doubleheader in Chicago at the end of four. Minnesota one, Chicago one.
Jim got against Joel Horland.
Kansas City get California in a later start.
Hank Evans up now for the Braves and the pitch is low for a ball.
The lights have been turned on here at J Stadium.
Tommy Reynolds stays in the ball game in center field for the New York Mets.
Jack Fisher has been in all the way.
Sidearms and off-speed pitch outside.
Here is the pay of attendance.
Seventeen thousand seven hundred thirty this Sunday afternoon.
And the game that completes the homestand.
Total in the house eighteen thousand four hundred two.
Now Aaron hits one dear to the left. It's going, going and it's a home run.
Henry Aaron with his twenty-second homer takes over the undisputed position of the National League lead in that department.
And only one behind Frank Howard who leads the majors with twenty-three.
Twenty-second home run for Aaron puts the Braves out front four to three.
And it brings out manager Wes Westrom.
Two in the line.
Rico Cardi is coming up. He has right hander Hal Renup down there.
And he's got Don Shaw down there. And the sign goes for the right hander.
So Renup goes over to get the right end in the card.
Fisher will be leaving here after having pitched seven innings and pitched to one man in the eighth.
He has given up four runs on ten hit. Struck out three and walked nine.
Now Renup is making his fifth appearance since coming over from the Yankees.
First two times out, July first and second, he registered wins in relief over the St. Louis Cardinals.
And then registered a save for Fisher against the Giants.
He worked against the Atlanta Braves night before last for one in the third in which he was charged with no runs and gave up only one hit.
It was a ball bounced over the head of Ken Boyer at third by Joe Tory to drive in Hank Aaron with what was the tying run in the night.
Then the Braves went on to win it in the 11th. Renup did not figure in the loss.
Fisher now heads for the dugout.
The Braves have taken a four to three lead here in the top half of the eighth inning.
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That's Senior Citizens Day on Wednesday, July 19th.
This is the final game of this homestand. It is the final game before the All-Star break, of course.
The All-Star game will be played in Anaheim, California on Tuesday.
The Met representative will be Tom Steaver. Representing the Braves will be Hank Aaron and Joe Tory.
Denzel LaMasta wants to have been on the squad, but he came up with a full muscle in the rib cage and he has been replaced by Chris Short.
Out the field, LaMasta nonetheless will leave here and go directly to Anaheim since he lives in California.
Rico Cardi's up, nobody on, nobody out. Braves batting in the top of the eighth.
Howell run it for the first pitch to the right-hand batter and it's low for a ball.
Joe Tory is waiting around on deck now.
Playing a foul ball, backing out of play, it's 1-1. Off the screen, behind the plate.
Then it's 1-1 offering, lead up high. 2-1 to Rico Cardi.
Now the 2-1 delivery. Right in there for a called strike two. It's 2-2.
And the pitch. Brakes high and away. Out full at 3-2.
And up takes the sign from Grote. This is a payoff pitch to Cardi. Hit on the ground towards Short. Charge by Harrelson gets the big hop, guns across the crane.
Joe Tory is coming up. Hey, the Rhine Gold Chug-a-Mug holds 12 ounces of Rhine Gold Extra Dry.
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Pitch is in for a called strike. Tory has been on base three consecutive times today. Single to drive and run in the first inning.
Single to right in the fourth inning. Was hit by a pitch ball in the sixth inning.
So he will be the starting catcher for the National League All-Star Team. Moat into that position by the players of the National League.
Hit your ten for a called strike. This is a count to Tory.
And the pitch. Fast ball low. Jack Crawford, the play down fire picker, that was going to be in the dirt and he wasn't too confident that Grote was going to handle it.
And he was backpedaling out of the way. One and two.
Pitch low and away and it's even now at two-two. On the All-Star Balloting the players vote. But they are not allowed to vote for players of their team.
This will be a two-two delivery. Let up and it is lined to short off the glove of Harrelson. He slips down and trying to grab it and Tory is on it first.
It's a base hit. It was a line shot. Harrelson made a backhand step, had the ball in the glove, but just off the glove and right onto the turf and it's a base hit.
We're getting a base runner now coming in to run for Joe Tory. Bob Euker is running for Tory.
Tory is still in trouble with the framed ankle that had him on crutches for ten days. So he is now out of action until the All-Star Game on Tuesday.
Running for Tory at first base, number twelve. Bob Euker, number twelve. The Atlanta batter, third base batter, please. Boyer.
Third boyer is one for three. Right hand batter up here now with the runners first and one man out. The Braves lead by a score of four to three.
Linnef Jack's the runner. Here's the pitch. Low. Linnef and Boyer, of course, were teammates when both were with the Yankees.
Off the stretch, the 1-0 pitch. Breaking ball high, it's 2-0. Jack Lamabe is up and throwing in the bullpen now for the Mets along with left-hander Don Shaw.
Now the 2-0 pitch. Get on the ground to Tory. Taken by Harrelson over to Johnson. That's one. That's one to throw to first. That's two. A double play.
Harrelson to Johnson to Craneville and the side is out. The Braves got a run on two hits. Nowhere is a non-left. The score in the middle of the eighth inning is the Braves four and the Mets three.
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The warm-ups have begun for the completion of that suspended game in Baltimore between the Orioles and the Yankees. It worked. No score at the end of 6. Chris Peterson is warming up for the New York Yankees and Sue Miller warming up for the Baltimore Orioles.
Right here with the Braves leading by a run, Ron Swabota comes up to lead off for the Mets. Bob Euker stays in the ball game as the catcher for the Atlanta Braves. You'll bat in Joe Torre's spot in the batting water. He ran for Torre.
Left-hander Dick Kelly is still the pitcher on the mound. The Mets try to battle back here in the bottom of the eighth trailing by a run. Swabota up and Ed Charles on deck. Kelly Fitch is high for a ball. Swabota struck outside the center and fouled out to the catcher. Nothing for three today.
1-0 delivery and it's iron away. 2-0.
Now the pitch. Sex, swing, foul, ball and it goes 2-1 to Swabota.
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Three balls in one strike. At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, the Cincinnati Reds have scored a run off Dennis Ryban in the top of the ninth to tie that game at 1-1. So it goes now to the bottom of the ninth. Jim Maloney is working in relief of Gary Nolan.
As we approach the All-Star break, managers figure they can pull those starters like Maloney in there and use them in relief since they'll have the three days of the All-Star break in which to rest.
3-1 pitch. Popped up. At second base, Woody Woodward makes the call and the catch. Swabota's out. Here Charles is the batter. He's 1-3. He had a lead off homer in the bottom of the fourth.
Charles is hitting 276th since coming to the Mets from the Kansas City Athletics.
Graves four, Mets three.
Here's a swing and a miss for strike one. Bob Johnson is waiting on deck.
Now the strike one pitch. High for a ball. It's 1-1.
Dick Kelly takes the sign, deals a pitch. Curve ball. It catches an outside corner. It's 1-2.
Charles back into the batter's lock.
Kelly takes the sign from Bob Uecker and the 1-2 pitch. Swung on. As he strikes out, Charles first strike out to Kelly. Two away for the Mets, batting in the eighth and Bob Johnson's coming up. He's 1-3. He's a right-hand batter.
This has been a ballgame in which the lead has changed hands several times.
Willie Stardill has homered in the bottom of the ninth for the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the ballgame by a score of 2-1 over the Cincinnati Reds and to give Dennis Ryband his fifth win of the year.
Ryband is five and forward with home run number 12 for Willie Stardill. He hit it off Jim Maloney working in relief.
Playing a foul ball. Back to first out of play. Going to the bottom half of the eighth inning at County Mac City. And just now in the bottom half of the eighth inning, the Phils have picked up two runs.
So it is now the Cardinals 3 and the Phils 3. It's out at 3-3. Nelson Brow is working in relief with Larry Duster.
Richie Allen hit his eleventh homer of the season in the eighth with one on for the Phils. A pull even with the league leading card. Here's a strike one pitch to Bob Johnson.
On the ground is Short. Big hop up to Dennis Minkie. Cross to Philippa Lue and the side is out in order.
A run's no hit, no errors, none left. At the end of eight full innings, the score is the Braves 4, the Mets 3. And now here's a word from Rheingold.
For 60 years Malcolm Sharp has been taking New Yorkers for a ride.
You know why they need the road windy and since, but you keep us from racing the carriage.
I remember one time I had Diamond Jim in the cab. Race toward Charlie Simmons all the way down to Gramercy Park.
That was easy then. They want more than just a ride now. They want memories, romance, got freedom elegant.
But you're going to be around for a while in New York. You got to give people what they want.
You've got to know what you're doing and you've got to be good because in this town either you have it or you don't.
Same thing's true of beer. There are 302 different brands of beer trying to make it in New York.
But the only one that's made it to the top is the rich, dry lager Rheingold. Rheingold.
In this town either you have it or you don't.
The Atlanta Braves are coming up in the top of the ninth with Dennis Menke to lead off facing Howe runners. Menke is one for three.
In Cleveland in the ninth inning Ken McMullen is at a three run homer for the Senators and Frank Howard is at a solo homer.
Howard's second homer of the ball game. His 24th hit in the ninth inning. Pitch is low now to Menke.
Frank Howard leaves the Major Leagues in home run with his 23rd and 24th this afternoon in the first game of a double hitter in Cleveland.
Senators still batting. Here's a swing and a ground ball to short. A big hop up to Harrelson and a cross now to Craneville.
One away. We pause for station identification. This is the New York Mets baseball network.
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Bob Murphy and Ralph Kanner at Chase Stadium in New York. Woody Woodward's up. Reynolds fits in there for a called strike.
Woodward is nothing but three in this game. The Braves four and the Mets three. Braves batting in the top of the ninth.
The ball is punted foul on the third baseline. Woodward trying to conceal his punt and beat it out for a base hit.
Two strike count. When the Mets resume National League play after the all-star break, it will be at Crosley Field in Cincinnati on Thursday night
with a Twinnite double header. We'll be broadcasting both games to the Twinniters. Of course, all games for the New York Mets are broadcast.
Reynolds takes the time from Grote. Two strike pitch to Woodward is a curve ball. A little high and a little tight.
It's backing out of the way. It's one and two. Pitcher Dick Kelly is on deck. Reynolds one-two offing. In there for a called strike three.
Reynolds gets his first strike out. Woodward caught looking and that will bring up Dick Kelly with two away.
We'd like to look ahead to the bottom of the ninth. The Mets are scheduled to send up Jerry Grote, the pitcher, and Bud Harrelson.
So Manager Westrom can be expected to go to his bench where he has right-handers such as Ken Boyer, Leon Jones, Jerry Buchak available there.
Dick Kelly watches the pitch inside for a ball. He is four for thirteen. Although he's a left-hand pitcher, he's a right-hand batter.
Low for a ball.
Reynolds two-oh offing to Kelly right in there for a called strike. He was taking it two and one.
Down ball foul. Back of first base. Out of play. Counts even now at two-two.
He's playing at a Mets as Kelly threw his bat at the ball and he traveled all the way out about shortstop. Two strikeouts for Reynolds in the inning as he got to side in order.
No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. In the middle of the ninth the score is the Braves four and the Mets three. Now here's a word from Ryngo.
You can't put the wool over their eyes. You can't get the public around here. You can't put one over on these guys. They'll pop you right out on your ear.
In this town either you have it or you don't. Either you're a pro or you won't get very far. Hey!
There are 302 beers trying to make it in New York from all over. But only one beer has made it to the top. The rich dry lager Ryngo. In this town either you have it or you don't.
Either you're a pro or you won't get very far. Either you have it or you don't. Ryngo.
In the first game of the doubleheader in Cleveland the Washington Senators got five runs in the top of the ninth to lead the Cleveland Indians by a score of eight to five. And in Chicago in the first game of the doubleheader, pitcher Jim Cotter of the Minnesota Twins has homered in the sixth with one on.
The Twins lead the Chicago Whites on five to one going to the bottom of the sixth. Right here the Atlanta Braves lead the Mets by one run. Jerry Grote is coming up to lead off for the Mets. And Leon Jones is swinging back in the on deck circle to bat for Hal Runniff.
Another fine relief performance this afternoon here by Hal Runniff who gave up only one hit in the last two innings and that was a line shot in and out of the glove of Harrell from the shortstop by Joe Tory in the eighth inning.
The Mets are battling back here in the bottom half of the ninth inning. Left hander Dick Shelley with the pitch to the right hand batter and it's in there for a called strike.
Now a chant of let's go Mets.
And a right hander Raymond Hernandez, a left hander, working in the Braves bullpen here in the ninth.
Strike one delivery and it's high for a ball, one and one.
Dick Johnson worked the first six innings of this ball game and was charged with three runs on seven hits. He struck out three and he walked one. And Dick Shelley came on to pitch the seventh and eighth and he's pitching the ninth here.
He took the lead in the eighth and Shelley is a pitcher of record. His record for the season is one win and seven losses.
One one pitch to Grote. Hung on and missed it one and two.
Shelley is taking the sign from Bob Euker.
And he takes a long time for Grote. He backs out of the batter's box.
Now he's back in and here's a one two offering. Hung on and this is Shelley gets his second strike out.
And the challenge will come up to bat now for Hal Runniff.
He is hitting two oh one. Three homers and fourteen runs battered in.
Bud Harrelson is on deck. Harrelson is four for four.
And Harrelson has his season batting average up to two eighty one.
Shelley getting set to work now to right hand batter Cleon Jones.
Pick is low for a ball.
Pittsburgh got only three hits off Nolan and Maloney.
But one of them was on homo by Starjowl in the bottom of the ninth to win it. Here's a pitch in for a call strike to Cleon Jones at one and one.
Braves scored first here this afternoon in the first inning but the Mets tied it in the third and went ahead in the fourth.
And Henry Allen home it in the eighth to make it a four three ball game and that's the score right now.
Atlanta on top. Mets batting in the bottom of the ninth.
Left hander Dick Shelley with the pitch.
Backhand by Woodward he's supposed to break the end time. Jones is grounded out.
And now how is being called back and Jerry Buczak got a bat for him.
Buczak will bat for Harrelson. Harrelson went four for four today but with two men out of nobody on.
Manager Wes Westrom is gambling on getting a long ball from Buczak.
So it is Buczak batting for Harrelson.
Buczak has had seven home runs this year and 18 runs batted in hitting 227.
Now manager Billy Hitchcock is going out to the mound to have a word with his left hander Dick Shelley.
Blaisley four three. Mets batting with two men out of nobody on in the bottom of the ninth.
Now Hitchcock turns and comes back to the dugout.
Buczak settles himself in.
Shelley steps up on the rubber to take the time from catcher Bob Uecker.
Tommy Reynolds is waiting on deck. Here's the pitch and it's high for a ball.
Shelley has given up only one base hit since she came on in the seventh inning.
That was a ground single to left by Bud Harrelson in the seventh.
Tommy Davis was intentionally walking that and he hears a swing and a miss. It's one-one.
He gets that intentional walk. Dick Shelley has retired. Six consecutive batters.
One-one pitch. In there for a call. Strike two.
So with two men out in the bottom half of the ninth inning, nobody on base.
The Braves leading four to three. The count to Buczak goes to one ball and two strikes.
Two and two pitch. Moved him back. It's two and two.
Buczak reaches down and gets a handful of dirt now.
Shelley taking the return throw, walks back behind the rubber.
Mops the ball in the glove and takes out his cap and mops a little perspiration.
Buczak is back in and waiting.
Counts even at two-two with two men out.
Shelley steps up onto the rubber to take the sign.
Buczak swinging the batter as he waits.
Now the two-two offering.
Fung out and hits deep to right.
And going back to the wall is Aaron and it's going, going.
A home run for Shelley Buczak.
The tie is the score at four-four.
Shelley Buczak with his eighth home run of the season on a two-two pitch and it's a brand new ballgame at four-four.
Henry Buczak with his eighth home run. His last one came on the 11th of June at Chicago off Turkheisenstein.
And manager Wes Westrom got the long ball that he gambled for.
Now Tommy Reynolds is up.
Shelley's pitch. High football.
And that's it tied in here in the bottom half of the ninth inning.
And the other thing, statistically Jack Fisher is off the hook. He left the game at pitcher of record on the short side.
He is off the hook now as it's a four-four ballgame in the bottom of the ninth.
And now this crowd is really coming out. They'd like to see the next team going. Two men out.
It's Shelley with a 1-0 pitch to Reynolds and it's low.
Shelley goes behind two and 0.
And a two-two pitch hit by right-hand batter Jerry Buczak and he hit it over the right field fence.
Right over the 371-foot side in front of the scoreboard.
Henry Allen backpedaled to about the middle of the warning track.
And then at the last moment watched it fail over the fence.
A 2-0 pitch to Reynolds. Whoa, it's 3-0.
Ron Taylor is up and throwing in the net ball fence.
Double barrel action still in the braze ball fence. Right-hander Claude Ramon.
Left-hander Ramon Hernandez.
This will be a 3-0 pitch to Reynolds.
He was taking it. It's 3-1.
Tommy Davis is on deck.
Door side 4-4 on the bottom of the ninth.
Jerry Buczak with a pinch homer to keep the mad hopes alive.
This will be a 3-1 pitch to Reynolds.
He watches low and he walks.
Second walk-in hit by Kelly and that's going to get Kelly out of the ball again.
Claude Ramon is going to be brought in here to pitch to Tommy Davis.
And it's a Billy Hitchcock. He's on his way to the mound.
He's already made the sign to the ball fence with the right-hander.
Claude Ramon will be coming in here to make his 31st appearance.
He worked night before last, but two innings in which he allowed Noron to only one hit.
As a matter of fact, he hasn't allowed a run in his last one, two, three, four, five, six, seven times out.
The last time he allowed a run was on June 20th at Los Angeles when he worked two-thirds of an inning and gave up one run on two hits.
That's the only run he's given up since he came from Houston to Atlanta for a Wade-Bassing game on the 16th of June.
So he's going to come in here to pitch to Tommy Davis.
He's just now getting into the electric cart down in the left field corner.
And it's a Billy Hitchcock. He's talking to Dick Kelly.
It looks as though Kelly might get out with a victory, but Jerry Buczak took care of that with his pinch homer over the right field fence.
Kelly cannot possibly be the winning pitcher as he goes out of here now.
Statistically, a temporary beneficiary of the home run is Hal Runnup.
If the Mets were to get a run and pull it out here in the bottom of the ninth, Runnup would then be winning the two.
Two and two-thirds for Kelly. One run on two hits. So he got two and walked through one of them intentionally.
First game is over in Cleveland. The Washington Senators defeating the Cleveland Indians 8-5.
Dick Lyons gets the win in relief. Bailey takes the loss in relief.
Frank Howard hits two homers his 23rd and 24th of the season. He leads the majors in that department.
Ken McMullen had a three-run homer for Washington. Duke Simpson-Max Albers also homers.
In the seventh inning, the Yankees didn't score and neither did Baltimore, and the resumption of that game suspended last night, the end of sixth.
The pinch homer by Buczak was the first pinch homer by a Mets player this season.
And it came at a very appropriate time for the Mets because they had gone about as far as they could go.
Two men out, nobody on, down one run with a 2-2 count.
So Kelly was one pitch away from victory if the pitch had been a strike.
The Mets now have a base runner at first who represents winning runs, Tommy Reynolds.
Tommy Davis is coming up. He grounded out the first base in the first inning on a hit-and-run play that moved the runner up.
He's single to drive in around in the third. He fouled out to the catcher in the fifth and he was intentionally walked into seventh.
Davis is batting 3-0-8 for the season. Last night he went 4-4-4 and got the thousandth hit of his career. Now he has 1,001.
So Davis is out on right-hand pitcher Claude Ramon. He's working to him.
Davis has 10 homers and 42 runs batted in.
A can of let's go Mets. Two men out and a runner at first bottom half of the ninth inning. Ramon is up in fact.
Pitch is flung in and fouled off right off the end of the bat into the Mets dugout and it rebounds out where it's fielded by Yogi Berra on the coaching lines at first.
A strike one count to Tommy Davis.
Now it's over. The first and the metals get back safely. Ed Cranebould is waiting on deck.
Ramon sets up. Goes to first and Reynolds dives back in safely on a close play.
Philippe Ballou thought he might have the audit. He made the sweeping dug and then started to cross the infield.
This fella could have seen umpire making the save sign. Reynolds diving back in to grab that bag with his bare hands.
Scores tied 4-4. Now again a throw over to first.
Rod Ramon trying to keep a short order on Tommy Reynolds.
The runner at first and the score down to bottom of the ninth there's always the possibility of the manager going to the hit and run.
A looper out of the right center field and coming on is Aaron and he can't get it and Reynolds is going to third.
There's the throw and it is taken by Boyle not in time. Reynolds is at third base and Tommy Davis has a looping single to right.
Setting up one at first and third for the Mets and left hand batter Ed Cranebould is coming up.
Tommy Davis might very well have broken the bat on that looper.
Henry Aaron came full tilt he couldn't get to it. Woody Woodward was going back he couldn't get to it.
Now Billy Hitchcock is coming out again. We all want his left hander I imagine Ramon Hernandez to pitch to Cranebould.
Ramon Hernandez is throwing feverishly down there in the bullpen he is a left hander.
Now Hitchcock arrives at the mound to talk to his right hand pitcher Claude Ramon.
See what Ramon has to say about the situation and how he works to Cranebould before making any decision. None has been made yet.
Might very well want to walk Cranebould and pitch to Swabota.
The run that would be moved up to second wouldn't mean anything as the run at third is the one that's the winning run with two men out.
Swabota is on deck. Swabota today has gone 0 for 4. Cranebould today is 1 for 3 in a walk and he's driven in a run and it's going to be the intentional walk to Cranebould.
So that's the strategy he arrives at. He will walk Cranebould and pitch to Swabota.
An intentional pass is being issued that will load the bases with two men out and bring up Ron Swabota.
So Cranebould gets rid of the bat goes to first that moves Tommy Davis up to second. Tommy Reynolds holds at third. The bases are loaded for Ron Swabota.
He goes back to the top step of the doigot. He's talking to manager Wes Westrom. Now comes back up.
Swabota batting with the bases loaded.
The score is 5-4-4. The men trying to pull it out here in the bottom half of the ninth inning.
Right hand pitcher, Claude Raymond working the right hand batter Ron Swabota.
Raymond works straight away taking the side from catcher Bob Euker and now he backs off the rubber and looks around.
There are runners everywhere he looks. First, second and third. Now he sets up on the rubber again to take the side.
Here are runners leading. First, second and third. Here is the pitch to Ron Swabota. It's high for a ball. Ed Charles is waiting on deck.
But one way or the other it's up to Ron Swabota right here. It's the winning run at third and there are two men out.
Reynolds at third, Davis at second, Crane Bull at first. This is a 1-0 pitch.
And there's a check swing that did not go through. It's a ball, 2-0.
A half swing and Jack Crawford said he didn't take it far enough. So now Raymond has gone behind 2-0.
Swabota. Now it's a play. Now measures his stand.
Now Raymond has good control normally. He's a controlled pitcher.
And here is the 2-0 offering. Outside he goes behind 3-0.
You can expect your button that Swabota will be taking this pitch. He's looking down at the side now at Charlie Parker.
Raymond has walked on the eighth man in 41 innings. The bases are loaded.
Two men out. Coitard, 44. The count, three balls and no strikes.
To Ron Swabota. Raymond taking a side now from Uker.
Runners lead 3, second and third. The 3-0 pitch. In there for a ball strike. It's 3-1.
Swabota rakes it down to get a handful of dirt.
And now Charlie Parker is coming down to be sure that Swabota knows what this sign is.
Swabota hadn't looked at him for a while and Charlie was screaming down there to get his attention.
The count is 3-1 to Swabota. The bases are loaded.
So it's up to the manager to decide whether to have him take this pitch or turn him loose to swing if he likes it.
Swabota Raymond. Closed the rubber. Takes a side from Uker. That's baserunners leading at 3, second and third.
Here's a 3-1 pitch. And he walked him. The ball game is over.
Swabota gets a run out of there. And as the winning run comes in, Reynolds crosses the plate.
And this ball game is over. Reynolds was put on there by Dick Kelly, who becomes the losing pitcher.
Ryan Swabota watched the 3-1 pitch over and threw the walk.
He is credited with a run out at the end and the Mets pull it out in the bottom of the ninth after Jerry Buczak had a pinch home and he keeps the Mets hope to lie.
So the Mets win it by a score of 5-4 to close out the home stand and take them up to the all-star break.
In the bottom half of the ninth inning, the New York Mets two runs on two hits.
And there were two men out when the winning run was scored. We'll be back in a moment with the final summary and totals.
Right now the final score is the Mets 5, the Braves 4. We'll be back with more about the Mets in one moment.
There was a time early last season when the New York Mets won their first game of the year from the Atlanta Braves when Billy O'Dell, pitching that time for the Braves,
walked Ron Swabota to force in the winning run. Well, it happened again just a moment ago when Ron Swabota threw a walk with the bases loaded to force in the winning run.
Tommy Reynolds crossing the plate. Dick Kelly takes the loss. And Hal Runneth gets the win for the New York Mets.
His third is coming up from the Yankees at three wins and a save. It was a lulu of a ballgame, the final game of the home stand and the one that takes the Mets up to the all-star break,
as the Atlanta Braves scored in the first inning off Jack Fisher. But then the Mets came back as they picked up one in the third inning and another in the fourth.
But then Philippa Lew had a two-run homer for the Braves to put them out in front in the fifth.
The Mets battled right back to get one to tie it up when Brad Harrelson got his third hit by dragging a bunch the whole second and was knocked in by Ed Cranebough.
So it was a 3-3 ballgame and some long shots of being hit off Jack Fisher, who was not at his very best today.
And Hank Aaron led off the eighth inning with a homer to put the Braves out in front four to three and Fisher went out of the ballgame at that point and Runneth was brought on.
The ballgame went through the bottom half of the ninth inning, 4-3 Braves, and two men were out when Jerry Buczek was brought up to bat for Harrelson.
Despite the fact that Harrelson was 4-4-4, manager Weston figured he had to get a man up there who might hit the ball out.
What Jerry Buczek did just that on a 2-2 pitch, he hit it out over the right field fence to tie the score.
And then Tommy Reynolds drew a walk and that was all for Kelly. As Claude Ramon was brought on, Tommy Davis got a base hit.
Ed Cranebough was purposely passed to load the bases and then Ron Swaboda drew the walks that forced in the winning run and of course the roadie gets a run back again.
So the New York Mets have closed out this home stand against the top teams in the National League on the stand with a record of eight wins and six losses.
The win today by the Mets over the Braves is the seventh. It is the most wins the Mets have ever had over the Braves in any season.
Previously six was the top number for the Mets to win over the Braves in a year.
So the final totals in this ball game, four of the Mets five runs on ten hits and no errors. For the Braves four runs, 11 hits and no errors.
For the Braves, run up is the winner. Kelly is the loser. The Mets pulled it out by scoring two in the bottom half of the ninth inning to win it five to four.