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Here's the deal on today, starting pitcher for the Jays.
Starting pitcher for Toronto in the first game of a four game set.
Hopefully a four game set as Pat Hinken, a young right-handed pitcher with above-arish fastball.
He's one of those guys who's going to cross him the fastball up in the zone,
and he's got what we used to call a drop ball on little leagues.
Curve ball's more of a downer. He throws very few changes.
Basically he's going to throw a four-seam fastball up in the zone.
You're going to see a lot of fly ball outs off him.
He's pitching well. He's going to change planes with a curve ball.
And everyone's going to throw you a two-seam fastball when he's behind the camera.
Basically two-pitch pitchers. Very competitive and a good athlete.
That's the deal on Hinken. Now here's the starting lineup as brought to you by Nissan.
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The Blue Jays, well, this is not a lineup that you'll recognize.
Leading off is a shortstop, Dick Schofield.
Roberto Alomar is the second baseman.
He'll bat second, hitting 308, eight home runs and 38 rebbeys.
Paul Molitor continues the role. He's a DH.
He'll bat third, hitting 344, 14 home runs and 75 runs batted in.
Joe Carter, the right fielder, will bat clean up.
270, 26 home runs and 102 runs batted in.
John O'Rourke's at first base. He'll bat fifth.
293, 12 home runs and 67 rebbes.
Mike Huff gets the start in center field.
He'll bat in the number six position, 302, three home runs and 24 rebbes.
Devon White is out with a strained left Achilles and a sore right knee.
Darnell Cole is the left fielder, will bat seventh.
Batting eighth, the third baseman, Ed Sprague.
And Pat Borders, the catcher, will bat ninth.
For the Yankees, first place in 70 and 42, seven games.
Ahead of the Orioles, Luis Polonia will lead off and play left.
Batting second, the third baseman, Wade Boggs.
Paul O'Neill's in right field, he'll bat third, hitting 364, 21 home runs, 83 runs batted in.
Danny Tartabal's back in the lineup. He missed two games with a sore left elbow.
He'll be the D.H.L. back clean up.
Batting fifth, the Yankee captain and their first baseman, Donald Arthur Mattingly.
305, six home runs, 51 runs batted in.
Mike Stanley's the catcher, he'll bat in the number six hole, hitting 302, 17 home runs and 57 runs batted in.
Bernie Williams in center field will bat seventh.
Williams hitting 291, 12 home runs and 57 runs batted in.
Mike Gallego's the shortstop, he'll bat eight, hitting 241, six home runs and 41 runs batted in.
And Pat Kelly's at second base, batting ninth.
Kelly hitting 278, three home runs and 39 runs batted in.
Pat Henkin for the Jays, 13 and 8, 3.20.
Melito Perez for the Yankees, 9 and 4, 4.03.
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The Yankees have taken the field.
Melito Perez is about to begin his warmups and I'll give you the Yankees defensively.
Luis Palon is in left, Bernie Williams in center and Danny Tartable, check that, Paul O'Neill, not Danny Tartable, is over and right.
In the infield, Wade Boggs at third, Mike Gallego at shortstop.
Patrick Kelly is at second and Donald or Arthur Mattingly, the Yankee captain, is at first.
And as we broke here on the pregame yesterday, this could be, I'll say it will be, could be the last game he plays, especially if it's a long strike.
He said that he would give serious consideration to retiring.
We'll see.
Mike Stanley is behind the plate and Melito Perez is on the mound.
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The umpires, Matt Winans is behind the plate, Rick Reeds at first, Larry McCormick at second, and Jim Evans is over third.
Well, the bags are packed in the Yankee clubhouse, unfortunately, and they are ready to bolt at the end of this game.
Same thing with the Blue Jays, although they'll just leave the stuff that they have in the clubhouse and they'll head home to points unknown.
Most of the Yankees have reservations to go to their hometowns tomorrow.
Buck Showalter will be here tomorrow, hoping his team shows up.
There will supposedly be a meeting between Fear and Rabbits today.
Hopefully it can be worked out in the 11th hour.
It doesn't look good, but let's keep our fingers firmly crossed and hope that we will be with you again tomorrow evening.
Right now, let's sit back and enjoy what could be the last baseball game of 1994 for Yankee fans.
If it is so, well, it's been a pretty good year.
Dick Schofield digs in, Melito Perez is on the mound, and stepping in behind the microphone for the play-by-play, John Sterling.
John?
Hi, thank you, Michael, and once again, good afternoon, everyone.
It's been a very good year, but very incomplete, unfulfilled for Yankee fans, and I might add Yankee broadcasters.
This team has been in first place since sometime in May.
Dick Schofield leads off, right-hand hitter, and Perez throws a breaking ball strike through his slider from the count, 0-1-1.
Normally Devon White, the leadoff hitter, and a peerless one, but White is out with a pulled hamstring.
0-1 to Schofield, a little ground ball to the right side, Kelly feels.
Mattingly gets the first, and the throw is in time, one away.
Mattingly started to go for it, then New Kelly would get there, and a retry to the first, so Schofield is out 4-3.
Schofield at 2-56, four homers and 32 RBIs before the ground ball.
The Toronto lineup is really down now with Devon White out to four players, and they are coming up now.
Alomar, Molitor, Carter, and Olrud.
But the troops in back of those guys have not hit well this year, and Toronto has not scored a lot of runs.
Alomar takes a strike.
Robbie having another great year, hitting a 3-0-8, eight homers, 38 RBIs, and 19 stolen bases.
He's a switch hitter batting left.
Better lefty hitter than righty hitter, usually.
Molito deals 0-1, and the check swing grounder right back to the mound.
Molito throws out Alomar, and they're two away.
Could Alomar walk any slower to first base? What a disgrace.
I know he tapped it back to the mound, and the likelihood of him beating it out is small.
But to sit there and walk back to first base, let's put some effort forth here.
People paid to get into this game.
Maybe they're on strike already.
Well, he is. That's disgraceful.
Here's Paul Molito having a sensational year amidst Toronto's terrible season.
Toronto, the two-time defending world champion, six games under 500.
But it hasn't affected Molito, one of the game's great hitters, and I think a Hall of Famer.
He's hitting 3-44, 14 homers, 75 RBIs, and you want to hear a stat that'll knock your socks off.
Molito has good speed, but he's up there in his 30s.
The right-hand hitter takes a pitch high, has tried to steal 20 times.
He's been successful 20 times.
What a year. The 1-0 is bounced to third.
Boggs feels. Fire is to Mattingly, scooped up by Donnie on a low throw.
And Perez has a 1-2-3 pretty play by Mattingly.
Three up, three down at the end of a half.
The Blue Jays nothing, and the Yankees coming about.
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Right-hander Pat Henkin, the number one pitcher by far on the Toronto staff.
He's had a terrific year. 13-8 and he already had 3.20.
And in the American League, circa 1994, 3.20 is brilliant.
23 games in starts. 169 innings, 151 hits.
18 less hits.
That inning's pitch and tremendous control.
He's walked 56, about three per nine innings.
Three on the nose.
He struck on 143, so a much better than two-to-one ratio.
Maybe a two-and-a-half to one ratio.
And the league hitting just 239. All of his numbers are great.
A right-hander who throws extremely hard.
A lot of high fastballs and a breaking ball.
The pitch to Bologna is fouled off high fastball.
On the count of one.
Boy, you ought to listen and I'll tell you,
the batting averages are the top of the Yankee order.
I mean, is there any wonder that the Yankees, whose pitching is pretty good
and their defense is very good,
are in first place by seven games and have been in first place
since sometime in May.
Bologna, the leadoff hitter at 3.11, one homer and 36 RBIs.
And the next two hitters are hitting 3.41 and 3.64.
And Danny Jarble, the fourth hitter, doesn't hit for a high average.
The pitch to Bologna is a strike, but certainly has the power numbers.
And then after that, there are two more 300 hitters and a 290 hitter.
The 0-2 to Bologna fouled off high fastball.
So when the Yankees come up, of their first seven men,
in effect six are 300 or more, much more, some of them.
And one guy hitting in the two fifties, but with great power.
It'll be an 0-2 to Bologna.
The breaking ball is inside on the count of one and two.
Basically that's what Henkin shows you.
A good live fastball and a big curveball.
It'll be a 1-2. Cut on him.
A fastball Bologna couldn't hit.
Now he couldn't hit it, but if he had hit it, he would have popped it up.
In a way, and only in the variety of pitches, not the way they pitch,
but in the pitches they throw, Henkin is very much like a right-handed Sid Fernandez.
Bologna swung at a pitch.
He almost had a jump to swing at, so there's one away.
And here's Bog, but Henkin throws hard, so you don't have a lot of time to make up your mind.
Bogs is hitting at 3.41.
11 homers and 54 RBIs, and he takes a pitch inside one and 0.
Why is there somebody warming in the Yankee pulpin?
It's a left-hander.
I think it's Abbott.
The pitch to Bogs is bounced to short.
Schofield throws out Bogs, and there are two away.
I get the feeling that this is almost like the last game,
because there's a possibility they would use other players,
or use pitchers, maybe starters in a relief role,
which would be dangerous because if the strike is averted,
well then what happens if you use Scott Kamenicki, who's supposed to pitch tomorrow, who pitches tomorrow?
Is there any chance it would be averted?
Any chance that fear and ravage on behalf of their representatives would say,
come on, let's settle this thing, it's easy.
The pitch to O'Neill is a breaking ball.
Hey, they overshift. O'Neill's a guy who goes to left field a lot.
They overshift on him.
Schofield's shortstop is on the first base side a second.
The third baseman Sprague plays shortstop, and the pitch is a strike.
O'Neill at 364, 21 homers, 83 RBIs.
I think there's a pretty good shift on him, because a lot of his hits go exactly where Schofield is standing.
There's a strike, and the count is one and two.
Two outs, no one on, bottom the first, no score.
And you know a lot of his hits go kind of where Sprague is standing,
between second and third.
Pitch is chopped to the right side.
Alomar feels on the outfield grass, Wurl's throws in time, and that'll do it.
The Yankees three up and three down.
We have played one inning at the stadium, Toronto nothing, the Yankees nothing.
We go to the second.
And here's Joe Carter to lead it off, the CBS Evening News.
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Carter having his normal good year.
This guy is Mr. Consistency. His name is Leon Consistency.
He gets 100 RBIs every year, this year no exception.
Hitting a 270 pitch outside, 26 homers, 102 RBIs.
We can look this up, but to show you how consistent he's been,
I would say in the last eight years Carter has had less than 100 RBIs once.
The 1-0, cut on a miss, and I think that year he had something like 96 or 97 RBIs.
He's a great run producer.
Now the streak started in 86 with Cleveland when he drove in 121,
and the only time he hasn't driven over 100, 1988, he had 98.
The pitch has looped a short, caught by Gallego, one away, split finger.
How many years would that be, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, eight years.
And one year he had 97, 98.
That's pretty close, huh?
And he knew there was a strike coming.
He knew the date, and he's driven in 25 runs in his last 29 games to reach 100.
He has 102 and about 50 games to go.
Here's John Olrud takes inside.
Olrud is not having the kind of year I'm sure that he or Toronto thought he would have,
not a bad year, but after last year, hitting a 293, 12 homers, 67 RBIs,
he lines up base at the right field.
There's the first base run of the game, a clean line drive single by Olrud to right.
Olrud does not run, not run a lick like the others.
Here's Mike Huff.
Huff is filling in in center field today.
Having a pretty good year, he's a right-hand hitter, a line drive type hitter,
but he's hitting a 302, three homers, and 24 RBIs.
And he's been the hottest blue jays since the All-Star break, John.
18 hits in 50 at bats, that's 360.
One thing though, Toronto has had Carter and White in the outfield of course,
in right and center pitch is outside, but Mike, they have tried 800 guys in left field.
And they're big names, there's one thing to brag about your big names in the minors,
but it doesn't mean they're going to hit in the majors.
That's why I usually don't listen.
I'm really from Missouri when it comes to rookies.
The 1-0 way outside, the count to an 0 fastball.
Carlos Delgado down, Sean Green down, they tried them both in left field.
Remember the April that Delgado had?
Oh, unbelievable.
One on, one out, top of the second, no score pitch is low on the count, 3-0.
Let me give you Melito's numbers.
He's 9-4 with an ERA of 4.03.
21 games in starts, 145 innings, 129 hits, so 16 less hits than innings pitch, that's very good.
53 walks, about 3.5 for 9 innings, pretty good.
A 2-1 ratio walks to strikeouts, there's a strike, exactly what you want.
53 walks, 105 Ks, and the league hitting just 239 often.
Melito's been, oh no, a very good pitcher.
Just a step away from being excellent.
It'll be a 3-1 to Huff.
The pitch is fouled away for Space High.
Well, Mike, she loves the guy who gets her hot pretzels.
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You know, the 3-2 to Huff.
High, fastball, ball four.
So Toronto has something building here in the second, a one-out single by O'Rourke, followed by a walk to Huff.
And here's Darnell Coles.
Coles at just 210, four homers and 13 RBI's.
Well, this is kind of a strange-looking lineup for a two-time world championship team.
This is not a great lineup.
Oh, and down to four hitters in their lineup.
The pitch to Coles has a strike.
And that hasn't even been their problem.
Problem's been pitching.
Yeah.
They don't score a lot of runs, though, either. They're way down.
I mean, you wouldn't think that Toronto down in runs, but this year, yes.
And their pitching has been, hey, that's why they're six games under 500.
Baseball is the truest sport. The O'Rourke cut out a miss.
You can't fool anyone in baseball because you play every day.
So if you don't hit and score runs, they'll find it out.
And if you don't have pitching, they really will find that out.
You play every day.
You have to do it on spirit, hustle, drive, determination, guts.
You have to do it on talent. You don't have talent, you can't win.
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Here's Ed Sprague.
He's hitting a 2-38, 10 homers and 41 RBIs.
There are Ducks on the Bond, Ole Root at second, and Huff at first.
Two men out, and Melito deals fastball high 1-0.
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The 1-0.
It's hit in the air to Sennavia.
Bernie Williams back, away back in deep center.
It is over his head and off the very top of the wall.
Two runs will score.
Sprague on his way to third, and he'll be there with a triple.
A two-run triple for Sprague that just missed being a three-run home run.
He hit the top of the wall, 408 feet away.
And Toronto has a 2-0 lead.
You know, Bernie went back on the ball like he was going to catch it.
And then all of a sudden he must have realized, uh-oh, I'm in trouble.
And the ball hit off the very top of the center field wall.
I think he gave up on the ball, John.
I think he thought it was really going to be out.
I don't think he really had any choice.
I don't know.
He did turn the wrong way, first of all.
He was looking over his right shoulder, and the ball was really over his left shoulder.
And then he finally turned around to watch the ball go over the wall,
and it hit near the top of the wall.
Boy, right near.
That borders the catchers, and he takes a strike.
Borders at 253, three homers, 26 RBI's.
So the Yanks, who hit a little slump, which figures after how hot they were,
are behind here, 2-0.
Hicken, there's a check-swing tap right back to the mound.
Perez throws to first in time.
However, Toronto gets two runs on two hits.
The two-run triple by Sprague.
They leave one at the end of an inning and a half, 2-0 Toronto.
Well, the Yankees trail by a deuce on the two-run triple.
Hey, listen, they're very fortunate.
That ball was at the dead center, just to the right field side of the 408 foot sign,
and hit the very top of the wall.
That didn't miss by an inch or so, being a three-run home run.
So Yankees should be thankful for that.
Danny Chartable is in the lineup after missing a game or two, hitting at 257, 18 homers, 64 RBI's.
He swings and lines one to left center field.
On the run is Coles. He makes the catch, and there is one away.
Danny hit it hard, and Coles ran it down in left center.
Hit it too hard, really. It hung up there and allowed Coles to make the catch.
Well, we go to the bottom of the second, and that means it's time for the members only.
Mattingly getting a good hand here as he's announced.
In the American League, only three other games won this afternoon.
Milwaukee, Detroit, 115 start, but it's raining, so they held that up when it started.
Wegman against Moore tonight.
Boston at Baltimore, Sealy against Rhodes, and on the coast, Seattle at Oakland.
Johnson against Darling.
Mattingly takes a strike.
Donnie at 305, six homers and 51 RBI's.
That could be the last game of the season.
And follows it away on the count of one, two.
Seattle at Oakland, 10-05. That's the latest starting game.
And when that game is over, there's no settlement.
That's when the strike begins.
In the National League, the Dodgers are leading.
Cincinnati won nothing bottom of the fourth.
Tim Wallach is 23rd. Martinez against Rio.
This one will start in about five minutes.
San Diego at Houston. Hamilton against Swindell.
The 0-2 has hit up the middle and through to center.
Bielbrough base hit for Mattingly.
So both left-hand hitting first baseman batting fifth single.
With one out in the second inning to put their first men on board.
And here's Mike Stanley having just a marvelous year.
Hitting at 302, 17 homers and 57 RBI's.
5-05 start at Mile High, Atlanta at Colorado.
Maddox going for win number 16 against Painter.
And then the rest 7-35 starts the Mets at Philadelphia.
Hockamay against Valenzuela.
Montreal at Pittsburgh. Henry against Smith.
And St. Louis at Florida. Tewksbury against Rapp.
Strike on the inside to Stanley.
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Henkin deals. Stanley takes a pitch up high.
And the count one and one.
Mike and I looking in the upper deck to our right.
That should be like the Juneau and Blayton first base and there are let's say little league groups there.
The one-one foul all the way.
And they have their let's say leaders or scout masters, whatever, leading them in kind of unified clapping.
Terrific. They're so into it. What a great age.
What a terrific age in your baseball fan. That's the best.
And they have all their little blue t-shirts and they're all looking like and they're all clapping the same way.
It's almost like a shark in front of them.
Well, I'll tell you why I was laughing. It was an old Red Skelton movie that I have in my racks.
It'll be a one-two to Stanley. Swung on and hit in the air to right field and deep.
Carter back. He's there on the track near the wall, makes the catch and there are two ways. Stanley just missed.
You want to get a copy of this in one of those stores that have old movies.
Show it for your kids. They love it. It's called the Fuller Brushman.
There's a little skit with Skelton and Campfire girls who are clapping in a certain way to douse out a fire.
It reminded me of. So two way. And here is Bernie Williams at 291, 12 homers and 57 RBIs.
Toronto leads at two nothing, bottom of the second. Maddingly at first, two men retired.
Bernie batting left handed against the right handed Henkin.
How about this crowd, John?
Good job, huh? It's a marvelous crowd for a week of the Yankees.
Have average in the last nine home games. They have average a little over 40.
I think it's 363,000 for nine games. What would you say today? Maybe 30?
Yeah, definitely 30, 35 right in that era.
An excellent crowd and the owners walking away from all this.
What did they get in Colorado last night? 60, 70?
That'll be a one-oh to Bernie. It's foul back.
What about the players though? Yes, I'm not taking sides.
I want them to compromise. I know a way to do it and so do you.
And the sad thing is, so do they.
They know how to compromise. It's right there in front of them.
Give both parties something.
Give the players free agency sooner and give back arbitration.
That'll get it done.
Immediately, tomorrow at nine, pitch outside.
If I read the small print, Atlanta played in Colorado last night.
They drew 65,000 people.
The people are telling baseball, here's our money, please take it.
It'll be a two-one to Bernie.
Henk and Eels, it's bounced or short. Schofield will take it himself.
Steps on the bag and that ends the inning.
No runs, one hit and one left.
At the end of two, Toronto two and the Yankees nothing.
Dick Schofield.
Dick Schofield leads off for Toronto.
We go to the top of the third, two-nothing Blue Jays.
The pitch fouled away.
Fastball.
Another count, 0-1.
2-2-0 for Toronto, 0-1-0 for the Yanks.
Two runs, tripled by Ed Sprague.
The difference, and here with a play-by-play as we hit the third, is Michael Kay.
Thank you, John.
Home plate umpire Matt Winans calls time.
Schofield stepped out.
Boggs even with the bag at third, about 10 feet off the line, the 0-1.
Swung on ground ball up the middle, base it into center field.
Bernie Williams will field and he'll flip it back into the infield.
So Schofield on with a leadoff single.
Schofield in the leadoff position for the Blue Jays because Devon White.
With a strained left Achilles and sore right and he's missed a couple of games.
And he's sitting out again this afternoon.
He's with the ball club.
He's not on the DL, but he's not in the starting lineup.
Here's Roberto Alomar, who really dogged it in the first inning.
He hit a tap or back to the mound and decided to walk the first base.
I guess he's having his own work stoppage.
The pitch to Alomar is a little bit low, want to know.
Hitting 308, eight home runs and 38 runs batted in against the Yankees career.
Outstanding numbers, 335, four home runs and 25 rebbeys.
He's so brilliantly talented that when you see him dogged down the first base like that,
it gets somewhat annoying.
Perez fires over the first and Schofield back.
This is a guy who many people say,
might be the best player in baseball, even better than Ken Griffey Jr.
in terms of the things that he can do.
And then to see him jog down the first base, well why?
Here's the 1-0, low again, 2-0.
Melito is missed with two splitters.
The lower deck here at Yankee Stadium completely full,
as is the second deck in the third deck while the wings are empty.
But good crowds, really from the foul pole on to the other foul pole in foul territory.
As always, the right field bleachers packed.
The 2-0, there's a strike with a fastball on the outside corner, 2-1.
Sometimes at the top, Melito into throwing the fastball when he's struggling with the splitter.
And when he had that six game winning streak, the reason he had it
was he was featuring the fastball early in the game
and getting ahead in the count. He seemed to always be ahead, 0-2, 1-2,
and then he would go to the splitter later in the game and later in the count.
Perez fires the first, and Mattingly has to make a diving stop
to save an error to Perez, and that's why you hear the crowd applauding,
recognizing an outstanding play. Had a dive to his right,
went down to the ground, rolled over and had the baseball.
Schofield leads, the 2-1, fastball high, 3-1.
So Perez getting himself into trouble.
If you watch Alomar, then you've got Molitor, Carter, and O'Rourke coming up.
Yankees lead the American League East by seven games.
The pitch to Alomar swung on and fell back to the screen, 3-2.
The Blue Jays come in 17 games behind the Yankees,
and it would take a little bit more than a miracle.
Really on the next level for miracle for the Blue Jays,
if there isn't a strike tomorrow, to catch the Yankees.
17 games behind on August 11th, not quite doable.
The 3-2 swung on and popped foul behind the plate into the upper deck.
That's 18 games in the loss column.
So the eighties are 70 and 42, and the Blue Jays,
two-time defending champions, are 54 and 60.
The Red Sox right behind the Jays at 54 and 61,
17 and a half games behind the Yankees,
and the Tigers are at 53 and 61, 18 games off the pace.
Here's the 3-2, swung on and lined to right field.
O'Neill is right there. He makes the play.
Schofield plays it halfway. He'll jog back to first.
So Alomar is now 0-2.
The Blue Jays' big problem this year, if you look at it,
they've had a lot of problems. This is a big one.
They can't win on the road.
They're 21 and 34, and at the Sky Dome, they're 33 and 26.
They've also struggled tremendously against Eastern teams.
Within their division, they're 12 and 22.
They're 24 and 25 against the Central,
and 18 and 13 against the West.
Now compare the Yankees.
The Yankees are 33 and 23 at home, 37 and 19 on the road.
They're 19 and 13 against the East, 25 and 14 against the Central,
and 26 and 15 against the West.
Here's Molitor.
It's the Molitor. It's a fastball up and away 1-0.
He grounded to third. That was in the first inning.
He's 0-1.
Buck Showalter said that if he had to show a kid how to hit,
show kid films, this is the guy he would show.
He said this is the best pure hitter in baseball,
just in terms of mechanics and the way to do it at the plate.
The 1-0, fastball high 2-0.
He's hitting 3-43 at the age of 37.
John mentioned 20 of 20 in stolen base attempts.
14 home runs and 75 runs batted in.
The fact that he is the DH for the Blue Jays
will probably keep him active for a very long time.
He has not lost a thing.
If anything, he's gotten better.
The 2-0 swung on and fouled away on the right side.
And that will make the first row of the upper deck
down the right field line.
The reason he's considered such a good hitter
doesn't stride, doesn't have a big looping swing.
As the ball is approaching, his bat is still
resting on his right shoulder.
And he's got such quick hands, it's all with the hands.
It's impossible to fool Paul Molitor
because he doesn't take a stride.
He just hits from the crouch and swings.
And there he swings and lines one into center field.
Bernie Williams heading over to right center.
Schofield, who was running, has to hustle back to first.
And Williams makes a nice throw to Mattingly.
But Schofield slides back in ahead of the throw.
So two away.
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Molitor just hit a bullet to right center.
And Bernie Williams ran it down.
Here's Joe Carter.
Carter lined out to Mike Gallego in the second inning.
He's 0-1. He taps the top of his helmet,
which means he wants Larry McCoy, the second-base umpire,
to move from the shortstop side to the second-base side.
And the umpire complies.
So two down, one on. The Jays lead 2-0 top of the third.
The pitch to Carter is a breaking ball strike
on the outside corner, 0-1.
Carter's at 2-70, 26 home runs, and 102 runs batted in.
They play Carter to pull.
Bernie Williams shaded toward left center field.
Polonia deep and close to the line and left.
Fastball is inside, 1-1.
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Perez fires the first in Schofield back
ahead of Mattingly's sweep tag.
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Scott Kamenicki, 8-6, 3.76 against Dave Stewart,
7-8, 5.87.
Runner goes, the 1-1 is high.
The throw to second is not in time.
Schofield got a great jump.
Stolen base for Dick Schofield.
The throw by Stanley was high, but that was stolen off Perez.
That was a great pitch for Stanley to try to throw him out.
Fastball, so he was coming out of his crouch.
Fastball high, and he fired high to Pat Kelly covering,
and Schofield was on the bag by the time Kelly came down
to tag.
So now runner in scoring position for Carter.
Jay's already lead 2-0.
Schofield with a big lead at second, the 2-1.
Fastball up and in, 3-1.
Against the Yankees lifetime, well, Carter's almost had a
career year, 26 home runs and 80 runs batted in.
I remember a couple years he was with San Diego.
Take those years away.
3-1 swung on him, blooped in the right field.
Mattingly going back into foul territory, makes the catch
backhanded to end the inning.
Nice play by Don Mattingly, a quick reaction,
and he makes the grab.
So for the Blue Jays, no runs, one hit, no errors, and one
left at the end of 2-1, Toronto to the Yankees, nothing.
Well, the people at the scoreboard, very clever.
The song, Should I Stay or Should I Go?
I think the final song today should be Don't Leave Me
Like That.
We'll see what they play.
Here's Mike Gallego, pillied off Yankees trail, 2-0.
We're in the bottom of the third inning.
And the bottom of the third inning at home, well, that
means it's time for the Delta home run contest inning.
The Yankees hit a home run, John Perry of East Strasburg,
Pennsylvania.
The first pitch is swung on and fouled back.
Can win a pair of round trip Delta airline tickets to
Dallas, Texas.
And the Yankees hit a grand slam this inning.
Well, John can win a European Delta Dream vacation for 2.
Good luck to John.
First home run wins, the 0-1.
Breaking fits, low and away, 1-1.
So the Yankees certainly have their work cut out for them
because Henkin has just a 3.20 ERA, and Yankees trail,
2-0, the 1-1.
Swung on and lined right at Alomar.
He was situated perfectly, one away.
Here's Pat Kelly.
Kelly hitting 2.78, three home runs and 39 runs.
And Diego was at 2.41, six home runs and 41 rubies.
Blue Jays 2-3 and 0, and the Yankees 0-1 and 0.
Bottom of the third, one out, nobody on.
Sprague even with the bag at third, about eight feet off
the line.
It looks like Kelly is low, 1-0.
Kelly said he plans to stay in the New York area for a while,
even if there is a strike.
He might stop down for the talk show at one time.
The 1-0, swung on and fouled back.
1-1, we mentioned that if there isn't a strike,
we'll be here tomorrow evening with the Yankees against the
Jays if there is a strike.
Well, John and I will be down at Mickey Mantle's restaurant
to begin a talk show, which would be on for the most part
whenever the Yankees were going to play, 7-10,
the first three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night,
7-10.
The 1-1, a bunt down the third baseline, a beauty,
charging his spraigue and he eats it.
Pat Kelly with a perfect bunt.
Sprague knew that he had to barehand the ball.
He tried to and bobbled, and Kelly was way past the bag
at that point.
So a bunt-base hit for Pat Kelly.
Here's Lewis Polonia.
He struck out on a high fastball in the first inning.
He's having a very solid season, hitting 3-10,
a home run and 36 runs batted in.
Sprague comes in on the grass for Polonia.
See, against a righty like Kelly, had to play at least
at the bag because Kelly can hit the ball past him.
The pitch to Polonia is a breaking ball away.
Polonia can do it as well, but he's got to slap it that way.
And it gives Sprague a little bit more reaction time.
So the bunt-base hit by Kelly, his second,
or the Yankees' second base hit of the afternoon.
The 1-0, and Polonia calls time.
The scoreboard crew really has a lot of pretty clever songs
that have already been played, and they have a lot of songs
that are going to be played throughout the day.
And I've just got a list of them.
They're so clever over there.
Henkin fires over and Kelly back.
Should I stay or should I go?
That's the one I just heard.
Or We Can Work It Out is going to be next.
End of the world as we know it.
The pitch to Polonia slapped into left field.
Cole's going back, still going back.
He'll have to play it up against the wall.
It goes into the corner.
Kelly goes to third, and they're going to hold them right there.
Polonia's on second with a double.
He gave it a ride right into the left field corner.
You know, Louie does have pretty good power,
and that time he hit the ball over Cole's head.
He also hit it down the line, and the ball just stayed in.
You know, at the very top of the wall after a bounce.
So the Yankees have the tying runs on,
second and third with just one out.
They have two cracks at a base that would tie it with Boggs and O'Neill.
Here's the pitch to Boggs, swung on and fouled back.
Just finishing up the list of songs the scoreboard crew has on tap.
Vacation, couple days off, bye-bye love, go away, see you later, alligator,
and don't go breaking my heart.
Some of the musical messages.
The O'One is slap foul on the left side.
Into the lower deck, it's O and 2.
Boggs grounded out to short in the first inning,
hitting 340, 11 home runs and 54 runs batted in.
Great speed on the bases for the Yankees.
Kelly at third and Polonia at second.
One out, Yankees trail 2-0.
We are in the bottom of the third.
The hits are even at three apiece.
The pitch to Boggs, swung on and fouled away, again up her deck, third base side.
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On deck, Poloneo.
The Blue Jays pretty much played Boggs, honestly, not too much of a shift.
The O2, way high with a fastball 1 and 2, but the one thing they have to watch out for,
Dornell Coles is extremely shallow in left field, and Boggs has great power that way.
He can really get burned out there.
He just got burned by Polonia, and you're right, he is way shallow to cut off the line drive hit.
The 1-2, swung on and drilled to center field.
That should get a run in.
Huff charging in, Kelly is tagging.
Here's the throw, they'll be cut off by O'Rourke.
Kelly slides in, and the Yankees have cut it 2-1 on Wade Boggs' sack fly to center.
Boy, if there was going to be an appeal play, there should be there.
You're allowed to leave when the ball strikes the glove of the off-fielders, so he can't juggle it.
And then if Kelly left at the right time, he just left at the right time.
It's tough to watch two things at once, but I had a better chance, and I'll be darned if he didn't leave a tad early.
I thought so anyway.
Anyway, once the pitch is made, that's the end of the appeal.
Here's Paul O'Neill, the pitch to O'Neill, a breaking ball outside 1-0.
O'Neill grounded to second.
That was in the first, hitting.363, leading the American League in that category.
21 home runs, and 83 runs batted in.
With a runner on base, they do not shift as drastically.
Well, they can't really, because if Sprague was playing where he was playing with no one on base in the first inning,
well, then Pallogna would be able to steal third base easily.
This time, I guess Sprague would be 20 feet off the line, and Schofield is up the middle, but on the shortstop side, not the second base side.
Engen fires the second with Schofield covering, and Pallogna dives back.
Also, they had that same shift, and O'Neill would pointedly hit a ground ball through to get a run in.
Two outs, no one on. You really want him to go to left field.
Engen sets the 1-0, way outside 2-0.
He does have Tartabal on deck. First base is open.
I don't think he's going to come into O'Neill with anything really fat.
Why do that? You'd rather have the righty against the righty.
Although Tartabal did hit a shot in the second inning that was caught in left field.
Here's the 2-0. There's a strike, a fastball on the outside part of the plate, 2-1.
In his last 11 games, O'Neill is 17-41. That's a 4-15 clip.
But if the season ends today, he will probably win the American League batting title.
That's not the way he wants to win it.
The 2-1, outside 3-1.
Yankees trail 2-1, we're in the bottom of the third inning.
Blue Jays 2-3, and O'The Yankees 1-3 at 0.
Jays with two runs in the second, the Yankees with one in already in the third.
Bologna's on second with two outs.
The 3-1 to O'Neill. Fastball high and away he walks.
That wasn't intentional, but it was close.
And here's Tartabal.
Danny Tartabal.
Tartabal, who was hit by a pitch in the first game of the Orioles series,
got out the last two games, and his left elbow is heavily wrapped,
but they took x-rays, x-rays were negative.
He was just severely bruised.
He was hit by Mark Eichhorn.
Here's the picks to Tartabal. Swung and fouled back to the screen, 0-1-1.
Tartabal is at 2-56, 18 home runs, and 64 runs batted in.
Against the Blue Jays lifetime, not great numbers, 11 home runs and 41 runs batted in.
Just 74 hits.
Spring is deep at third, but not very close to the line.
And the outfield there straight away.
Here's the 0-1. Fastball up and in, 1-1.
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The 1-1. Fastball inside, 2-1-1.
On deck, Don Mattingly.
Polonia leads off second, O'Neill off first.
Henkin sets, checks Polonia, the 2-1.
Swung out and hit deep to left field.
See ya, home run, and the Yankees lead 4-2.
Oh, what a shot by Danny Tartabal.
You blink and you missed it. That's how hard he hit the ball.
And it was in the lower deck in left field in a nanosecond.
Home run Tartabal.
I was watching the monitor, Mike, just for a moment.
And they had the shot from the center field camera, so you see the ball coming into the hitter.
Well, in that split second, it was a fastball over the middle.
Tartabal hit it with a sweet spot, and as he swung, you knew it was a home run.
Then the crack of the bat, and the ball wound up.
No 10, 12 rows back in the left field lower seats.
Pitzom Mattingly is a strike right down the middle, 0-1-1. What a shot, John.
He has unbelievable power. That was the right pitch for him in the right spot, and he hit it out immediately.
Pitzom Mattingly is swung on a miss.
John also, okay, also Danny Tartabal just got John Perry of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania,
a pair of round trip Delta airline tickets to Dallas, Texas.
So congratulations, John. He knew it was out right away.
Pitzom Mattingly is way outside.
And he stayed at the plate, got out in such little time, then he went to his home run, tried at home plate.
Pitzom Mattingly is swung on and Rick Fowle outside of first, it's 1-2.
Also, Danny's home run, a Coors Light silver bullet blast, and the Yankees have themselves a 4-2 lead.
They've scored four runs here on the bottom of the third inning.
The 1-2, low and away, 2-2.
Mattingly had a single of center field in the second inning. He's had a good year against the Jays this year, 9-3, 3-91.
The 2-2 swung on line drive right at the third baseman.
Sprague almost hit him in the face, and that'll do it for the Yankees in the third, but they did quite enough.
Four runs, three hits, and no errors, and none left.
At the end of three-full, the Yankees more, and the Blue Jays too.
Well, Melito Perez has himself a lead now, thanks to Danny Tartabal's three-run home run.
Yankees lead 4-2, 2-3 and 0 for the Jays, and 4-4 and 0 for the Yankees.
We go to the top of the fourth inning.
John O'Rourke will lead off against Melito Perez, and stepping back in behind the microphone, John Sterling.
Thank you, Michael.
Perez deals, and O'Rourke bounces it foul.
And the count, 0-1.
O'Rourke ignited the Toronto two-run rally in the second.
He lined a single to right, and then after a walk,
Ed Sprague at the very top of the center field wall for a two-run triple.
And those are the two Toronto runs.
Here's the 0-1. O'Rourke actually threatens months, something he'll never do in a lifetime,
and takes inside 1-1.
The pitch is hit the short.
Gallego feels and throws out O'Rourke, and there's one away.
Boy, Tartabal's home run was special.
I mean, there are very few home runs that when they leave the bat,
almost when he's finished with his follow-through, you know it's gone.
Don Elkhorn, who's been playing for the Yankees,
has been playing for the Yankees for the Yankees for the Yankees.
He's been playing for the Yankees for the Yankees for the Yankees.
When he's finished with his follow-through, you know it's gone.
Don Elkhorn took one step back.
He was almost kind of like, why waste the energy, because that was out.
As he hit it.
I just happened to be looking at the monitor, and as the ball came and the bat swung,
you knew it was home run.
The pitch is a strike to Mike Huff.
Huff walked after O'Rourke's single.
That's at the stage where Sprague's two-run triple.
Sprague's lead 4-2 in the fourth.
Pitch is bounced to third.
Foxfields, even with the back, throws to Mattingly, and they're two-way.
This game has a little pace to it.
So two down, and here's Darnell Coles.
I know Mike told you about it.
If there is a strike, we begin tomorrow night at Mickey Mantles from 7 to 10.
We urge you to come down.
It's at Central Park South between the Plaza and the Samaritz on 59th,
between 5th and 6th.
There is a strike to Coles.
And if you don't come down, just tune to 77 on the AM.
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and we'll talk about anything you want to talk about.
It'll be an 0-1 to Coles, check swing foul, and of course it'll be strike central.
We'll have the Fears and the Ravages talking about the ravages they are doing to the game.
Strike central at Central Park.
Very good, sir.
What nerve.
And what foolishness.
And the crowds are terrific in baseball.
So is the season.
It'll be an 0-2 to Coles.
A slow ground ball, too short.
Gallego hustles, feels, fires, got him.
Whoa.
And Coles got into a dance.
I'll tell you, the first base umpire, Rick Reed, almost called him safe.
Gallego had trouble getting it out of the glove, and he was safe.
A good degree more.
No runs, no hits, no errors at the end of 3 1⁄2, 4-2, Yankees.
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We go to the bottom of the fourth.
Here's Mike Stanley at the leadoff.
And the fastball strike on the outside corner from Hempkin.
2-3 and 0-4 Toronto.
4-4 and 0-4 the Yanks.
If you've tuned in late, Toronto scored their 2 in the second.
A single by Ulru to walk to Huff, and a 2-run triple by Ed Sprague off the top of the center field wall.
The 0-1 strike on the outside.
The count 0-2.
Yankee scored 4 last inning.
With one out, a bunt single by Pat Kelly ignited it.
Then Polonia doubled him to third on the left field line.
Boggs scored one with a sack fly.
O'Neill walked and Tarnable crushed a 3-run home run into the lower seats.
And the Yankees have a 4-2 lead.
For Tarnable, 19th home run, and now he has 67 RBIs.
Breaking ball is in the dirt to Stanley, now on the count 1-2.
Stanley a 3-0-1, 17 homers and 57 RBIs, having his second consecutive outstanding year.
On the member's only scoreboard, there are just three games in the American League.
One of them is this afternoon, but it's raining, holding up play between Milwaukee and Detroit at Tiger Stadium.
The one missed.
If they start, it'll be Bill Wegman for the Brewers and Mike Moore for the Tigers.
Tonight, Boston's in Baltimore, Aaron Sealy for the Red Sox, Arthur Rhodes for the Birds,
and Seattle at Oakland, Randy Johnson against Ron Darling, the 2-2, high fastball 3-2.
That's the American, and the National has a full slate, or within one game of a full slate.
The line by Henkin, the 3-2, fouled away.
This afternoon, they're playing a businessman special in Cincinnati.
At the end of six innings of play, LA 2, the Reds nothing.
It's Ramon Martinez against Jose Rio.
Tim Wallach, it is 23rd home run for LA.
San Diego has begun at Houston.
Here is the line by Henkin, and the payoff is to Stanley.
Struck him out swinging at a fastball, great fastball by Henkin.
So, one away.
At the end of one, San Diego leads the Astros 3-0.
Derrick Bell hit his 14th at two-run home run.
Joey Hamilton against Greg Swindell.
Tonight, Atlanta's at Colorado, Greg Maddox and Lance Painter.
The Mets are in Philadelphia, Jason Huckamy against Fernando Valenzuela.
Montreal's in Pittsburgh, Butch Henry against Zane Smith, and St. Louis in Florida, Bob Chicksberry and Pat Rapp.
Anthony Williams swings and hits a long drive to right center.
On the run is Huff. He makes the catch in deep right center, and there are two away.
Shortstop, Mike Gallego.
Now, two away here is Mike Gallego.
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Gags lined a second his first time. He takes outside 1-0.
The Yankees have a 4-2 lead bottom of the fourth.
Two outs going on, Gallego fouls it away, and that evens the counted 1-1.
I think I'll quote, because it's everything I've said, which may be why it appeals to me, but I think I'll quote a paragraph from Bill Madden's column in the news today.
The 1-1, cut on us, and the count 1-2.
And basically it's what can happen and should happen.
And the funny thing is, obviously, why not have it happen now? Why wait?
The 1-2 hit in the air to left center field.
Donald Larronte is up in left center. He makes the catch.
And that'll do it.
3-up and 3-down.
And at the end of four innings of play, the score of the Yankees, 4-2.
To the fifth.
And the pitch is outside to Ed Sprague.
Sprague had the big blow for Toronto, and he just missed a three-run home run hitting the very top of the center field wall.
Missed by a couple of inches of a three-run homer.
Right-hand hitter. The 0-1 is a strike from Melito on the count 0-2.
Sprague borders their 8-and-9 in the order, and then the top of the order in Dick Schofield.
Three right-hand hitters here in the fifth.
Sprague fouls it away, first base out.
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Sprague swings that missus, strike three.
So there's one away.
Borders a right-hand hitter, takes the pitch low outside, 1-0.
The Yankees with a 4-2 lead in the fifth. The pitch is a strike.
You know, Mike mentioned the songs that they are playing.
We want to give credit to our sound system, the very best there is here in Yankee Stadium.
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John Franzone, Myra Jimenez, Larry Peterson, Eric Wolf, Jennifer Giandolone.
The pitch cut on and missed by Borders. I hope that's correct.
Giandolone, John Lores, Jim Shutterly.
The pitch is hit on the ground foul outside of third.
Lou Zahelsnik, I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Paul Beckerly, Dave Gans, Brian McNulty.
And in absentia, Anthony, the Pest, Defonzo.
Nice nickname to have, the Pest.
Yeah. I've known people like that.
I haven't called them it, though.
Not on the air, anyway. The 2-2 foul, though.
Did you mention that Fierce with the MSG guys?
Yes.
Why isn't he at a table with Richard Ravitch?
I don't know.
Why is he spreading his spin to people?
Yeah, that's all they do is spin, spin, spin.
I'd love to ask him.
So ridiculous.
Now, Perez 2-2 has fouled off.
That got Stanley on the hand.
And Borders, a fellow catcher can empathize and is trying to hold Stanley.
That really hurts. That may have broken his finger.
He is in such pain.
Gene Monahan runs out, and Stanley's a pretty tough cookie.
And that might have gotten a piece of the meat hand.
In fact, it did. There's no question about it.
Usually they hide that behind the glove or behind their back,
but Stanley had it exposed, and the ball was fouled right into his hand.
Oh.
Come on.
How would he keep that behind him without a runner on base?
He's in tremendous pain and is being assisted by Gene Monahan.
Jim Layres will come out and warm up Malito.
He's been there before. He knows just what's happening.
And you never see Stanley like this.
He's almost crawling. He's in such pain.
And he's twisting his head. He's in contortions to try to battle the pain.
He's biting his upper lip right now.
He doesn't even want to look at it.
He's staring out into the outfield, and Gene Monahan is working with the hand.
Now, Buck Showalter is standing over both of them.
You can just see from body language, John, how much pain this guy is in right now.
And I think Nokes has been told to go down to the clubhouse.
It's not a very long run. Very short, as a matter of fact.
And there's a little runway between the dugout and the clubhouse.
Stanley is coming out.
I hope his finger is not broken. His hand is not broken. It could be.
And Nokes is going to put on the equipment and get ready.
The Yankees have a 4-2 lead here in the top of the fifth inning.
There's one out going on. It'll be a 2-2 pitch to borders when we resume.
He followed it off and caught Stanley's throwing hand, his right hand,
maybe in the middle of the fingers, in the back of the fingers.
So Matt Nokes will come in. Or Jim Larris will come in.
And Nokes just went back to get the catcher's glove to warm up Maledo.
And Jimmy Larris will put on the catcher's gear.
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And I wonder why they're not bringing in Nokes with the right-hander pitching.
And the simple answer isn't a real pleasant one,
but they don't feel as comfortable with Nokes in the splitter as they do with Larris in the splitter.
And that's the only reason Larris will catch and not Nokes.
I think Jimmy went in to put on his gear.
Nokes already has on the shin guards. He thought he was coming in, but then Joe Alther said,
no, no, it's Larris.
I don't know why Matt walked back into the dugout. Larris still isn't out there.
Matt should be out there warming up Melito Perez.
Isn't it amazing though how these guys fear and ravage will jump in front of any camera and microphone,
but not stay in a boardroom and negotiate so that this game doesn't go on strike.
I think it's disgraceful they should be locked in a room. The owner should be in the room.
Oh, hey, well, I have a minute. Let me read you this paragraph as Larris comes out,
try to do it quickly, try to get to it quickly.
It's everything that we've been saying on the air.
This is from Bill Madden's column.
And he says, make no mistake.
You have owners really wanted to avert this now certain strike.
All they had to do was get these negotiations off ground zero yesterday.
By ditching the salary cap, they know they'll never get an addressing reform in the salary arbitration system,
which is negotiable.
Instead, owners are going to go to the mat over the salary cap.
And it is sheer madness, not to mention sheer arrogance.
And then he goes on to talk about the great state of baseball and how some owners
are very much against what is going on with their fellow owners.
But there is any question in my mind that the owners can get help in the arbitration system,
which is patently unfair to owners. I would agree with that.
Although the owners put it in. I mean, they're fools, but they made their own mistake.
But it can be rectified. And that is negotiable.
Salary cap is not negotiable. They'll never get the salary cap.
Boy, if I was the other owners who were drawn, like this team and others,
the 2-2 is a check swing foul. So Larry is behind the plate.
And we'll get a report on Stanley as soon as we can.
Didn't look good. Did not look good.
Well, how could it look good if a ball is fouled off the bare hand?
Now the question is, did it break a finger or not? If it didn't, if it's just swelling or whatever.
But it did not look good. You're right. The 2-2 is hit on the ground a second.
Kelly throws out of borders.
And they're two-way.
It's funny. Ironic, I guess is a much better word to use.
Not funny. Ha-ha. Funny. Ironic. Jeff Bagwell gets hurt last night.
Now here Stanley gets hurt. What could be the last game? It's terrible.
So two-way. That'll bring up Dick Schofield.
You know, John, you mentioned arbitration and the one thing that the players always say about arbitration.
The bitch outside.
Well, you know, the owners put it in.
How about the players who sign contracts and after two years they want to renegotiate?
Is that okay? Nobody knocks them.
Now, well, everyone knocks them. The 1-0.
Cut on a miss. If you say to me, John, what you're saying is they're both spoiled and greedy?
Yes. Of course. No one listens to this.
I hope no one halfway intelligent listens to the spin that the fears and the ravages give the pitches low.
Or some of the owners that are losing this money. Losing money, go out of business.
That's what Goldberg's Deli does.
It'd be a 2-1 to Schofield.
This is a profitable business and they have to learn how to share it.
The 2-1 inside 3-1. It's unthinkable.
It could be that dumb to stop a business that is so profitable in its most profitable year.
Baseball's never had this kind of success.
They have everything they want.
It'll be a 3-1.
Perez deals. Strike called to Schofield.
They count 3-2. Two outs, no one on.
Top of the 5th, 4-2 Yanks.
Mike Lupick had a great line in his column today. He said Bud Selig.
First said there was 19 teams projected to lose money.
Then 21 teams.
Then he said it was down to a dozen.
The 3-2 fouled away.
And now there is a suggestion that it could be as few as 6 or 7.
And then Lupick writes, Selig could make the national debt disappear just by talking about it.
Well, as I mentioned, if anyone believes the nonsense that is spewed out from both sides,
that it's a profitable business, the business is booming,
everything is right, now they have to find a way to share it.
3-2 fouled away. And there is a way.
We've been saying it. Madden just said it in the news.
Absolutely. Get rid of the salary cap.
Get help on arbitration.
Sign a long contract.
And let's not hear from you people again for, till the end of the contract.
Then there'll be another problem.
Here's the payoff.
And it's fouled away.
And make no mistake about it.
The problem is both sides are greedily trying to suck up as much money as possible
instead of being both happy in the profits they have.
And if there is, you know, population does shift.
It does in New York.
That's why the Giants are a giant stadium.
Population shifts, etc.
And if in fact Pittsburgh can't make it, Milwaukee can't make it,
I cannot tell you how many cities want a baseball team.
I'll give you some soon.
There's the 3-2 to Schofield inside ball four.
I'll give you some now.
Try this on for size.
Washington, D.C., Buffalo, New York, Charlotte, North Carolina, Memphis, Tennessee, Phoenix, Arizona,
Tampa, Florida, Sacramento, California.
That enough cities to begin?
Orlando.
Orlando, Florida is another one.
So I've just given about, what is that, about eight cities.
You'll find a buyer in one of those cities.
You can't make it?
I'll introduce you to a buyer.
I want a cut.
I want to find his fee.
The pitch to Alomar is up high.
I want to know.
The walk was the second given up by Perez.
And the first led him into trouble.
Four-two Yanks, two outs in the fifth.
Schofield on first pitch.
Alomar takes a strike in the count one and one.
As soon as we get a report on Stanley, we'll let you know.
Now, Molito deals to Alomar.
And he chops one slowly past the mound.
Mattingly feels, flips to Perez.
And time.
Beautiful play by both.
Perez couldn't get it.
Then he went to the bag.
And Mattingly back flipped in the ball.
Perez caught it, found the bag.
And that'll do it.
No runs, no hits, one left.
At the end of four and a half, four-two Yanks.
Matt Kelly takes a fast strike.
It was Kelly who ignited the Yankee four-run rally with a bunt single.
Kelly at 280 as he stands in.
The right-hander Henkin deals.
And Kelly takes the breaking ball low.
And on the count one and one, Yanks with a four-two lead, bottom of the fifth.
That'll be Kelly.
Then the top of the order, the lefty hitters, Luis Bologna, Wade Boggs.
Now Henkin to the wide.
Here's the one-one.
That's high.
On the count two and one.
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Are you melancholy, John?
Yes.
The two-one fouled off.
You know what, a little bit melancholy.
I'm really more angry.
How dumb can they all be?
I've done this before.
I mean, even it's boring to me.
I'm beating the same issues.
Bill Madden in your newspaper, the news I just read, one of his paragraphs, said it perfectly.
We all know how to avert the strike.
The players' side gives in on arbitration.
The owners throw the stupid salary cap away.
And on we go with this great season, the two-two.
Cut on him.
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You know, John and I were talking in the top half of the fifth inning.
We look over in the MSG booth and Donald Fears on without Trout Wigan and Tony Kubek.
And I wonder if you think like I do, why is he sitting there and not across from the table with rabbits there?
Well,
Bologna just gets out of the way of a hard inside fastball.
What does one want to know?
The players' union has said that they are not...
They feel there's no need to talk unless something new is going to be presented.
And I guess they are unwilling to discuss the current proposal.
The 1-0 change.
Wouldn't you think though that fear would sit across from where Ravitch had...
By the way, there should be owners there and say, look, we want to continue the seasons, great season, blah, blah, blah.
The pitch is a breaking ball as high on the count of two and one.
Now, how do we do this?
If you drop the salary cap, what else do you want?
How can we work this out?
Don't you think they should lead that way? The 2-1 is a grounded foul outside of third in the count of two and two.
And then the owners, if they were honest, would say, well,
I can get rid of arbitration somehow.
All right, well, let's work it out.
You know, John, I feel this way every time we go through this, every four years or whatever it is now.
You wonder why they don't lock themselves in a room and figure out at least a way to salvage this season in its entirety.
The 2-2, up high on the count through to then.
They could, they absolutely could. That's what really bothers me.
But it goes on and on. We said it last night.
It's a it's a high priced game of chicken that they're playing and neither side wants to budge.
They're trying to show their manhood, I guess.
You know, they drew 65. They've drawn 125,000 people in Colorado the last two nights for the Braves.
The 3-2 is hit on the ground up the middle fielded at second by Alomar.
He throws the first in time to get Bologna two way.
Nice throw by Robbie, you got rid of it the minute it touched his glove.
Just only have to do is just multiply either 20 or 25 bucks a head times the people come to a ballpark.
The Yankees, for example, have average 40,000 for the last nine games.
Three hundred and sixty actually is about three sixty three.
Just multiply twenty five bucks times three hundred and sixty thousand.
That's how much money they make for games.
Ludicrous. It really is ludicrous. Here's Boggs and the pitcher breaking ball low.
You know, it gets me is John mentions the Rockies.
I don't think Steinbrenner wants to strike. I know McMorris doesn't want to strike.
Reinsdorf probably doesn't want to strike. I think the owners are splintered.
There is struck the box and the players, at least as far as we can tell, are virulently together.
I mean, do you sense that, Jeff?
Yeah, I think that's that's been the issue since the beginning.
That bit's low. Right. That it's really.
You know, I don't I want to throw the term market out because Montreal has a low payroll.
That's a big market and they have all Canada with Toronto to share the TV.
The two won up by another team, another town and who wants baseball, Vancouver and would bid very well for it.
It's really successful teams against non successful teams. Right.
The players are somewhere in the middle.
Here is the three one Boggs lines one toward the gap and left side of the field.
It is a base hit and it goes by Cole and all the way to the warning track.
Booted by Huff Boggs turns second and holes with two outs.
No point trying for third.
So Boggs doubles to the gap and left center with two outs.
You know, Mike, more to the point is Denver and Atlanta.
Are they big cities?
I mean, just I know population has shifted, but they have very successful ball clubs and successful operations.
And Denver is going to be solidifying because they're going to go into a Camden Yards next year.
Baltimore used to be used to decry itself.
They can't make it there because it was surrounded by Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New York on all sides.
Now they're selling out. So has to do them with a ballpark.
It has to do then with the team. The pitch to O'Neill is a breaking ball low.
Hey, the owners really wanted a salary cap. They didn't have to impose it on the players.
What they had to do is take every single one of their dollars, put it in a bundle and split it up 28 ways evenly.
Then everybody's on the same footing, but that's not what they want to do.
And so the strike goes on. It'll be a one-oh to O'Neill.
Swung on and hit in the air down the left field line. Cole's a long run.
He's there to make the catch in the corner and that'll do it.
Maybe see you tomorrow? Yeah, Jeff.
I don't think we'll see you here, but we'll certainly see you at some point at Mickey Mantles.
You'll be on the show. No runs, one hit and one left at the end of five.
It's four-two Yanks.
Cole Molitor.
We go to the six and Toronto has the middle of their order.
They're good hitters coming up.
Paul Molitor, Joe Carter, John Olrude, Malito leading four-two.
Toronto's two runs in the second.
A one-out single by Olrude, a walk to Huff and Ed Sprague's near homer,
a triple off the top of the center field wall to score the two runs.
I'll tell you how the Yankees scored in a moment.
The pitch to Molitor is down low one-and-oh.
One-out going on, bottom of the third.
Paul Kelly has a bunt single, Polonia doubles down the left field line to send him to third.
Bogg scores one with a sack fly and then O'Neill walks.
The wide by Perez.
Here's the one-out to Molitor.
It's hit on the ground, up the middle and through to center field for a base hit.
Now the hit machine keeps on hitting Paul Molitor.
Takes a wide turn but comes back.
And after O'Neill walked two-on-two out, Danny Chartable crushed a fastball
right over the middle from Henkin.
Got it in a bad place and Danny put it in the lower seats and left for a three-run home run.
Four-two Yanks.
You know what gets me about this whole thing, John, when we walk into the stadium there,
people behind the police lines and you know, with the Yankee seven games up on August 10th,
the questions we should hear, you think they're going to hold on?
Who do you think they're going to meet in the playoffs?
Now, the last two weeks, you think the strike's going to be really long?
You think the playoffs will be here? You think?
It's sad. Joe Carter hits a high fly to left field.
Polonia goes toward the line and the ball is going to be way foul and deep in the seats on the count, 0-1.
Well, Mike, everything baseball wanted from their divisional setup has worked.
Classic years from so many players individually and also the big cities they want to do well for TV ratings.
It'll be an 0-1 to Carter. He fouls it off.
New York has a team in first place, the Yanks.
Chicago has a team in first place, the White Sox.
Los Angeles has a team in first place, the Dodgers.
So they got everything they want. It's not enough. Never enough.
And they have a growing big market, Texas in first place.
Yes, oh, Dallas is getting to be a huge market. The 0-2. Cut on and missed.
He struck out. Carter went away. This whole nonsense about big market, small market.
Please, you can't be a smaller market than Baltimore and they sell every seed to every game at Camden Yards.
For Milito, the strikeout was his third.
And here's O'Rourke who has singled and grounded a short.
Yankees with a 4-2 lead here in the sixth.
One on, one out. Milito we mentioned has this unbelievable stolen base percentage.
Which is low. Even a mathematician of my stature,
which is somewhere between 0 and zip, can figure it out.
Milito has attempted and stolen 20 bases this year.
Good job first. Milito checks him over the shoulder and deals on the fastballs high on the count 2-0.
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It'll be a 3-0 to O'Rourke. He might be swinging.
Milito deals and the pitch is high. He walks.
And there are two on and one out. Here's right-hand hitting Mike Huff.
The center fielder, Mike Huff.
So Perez has now struck out three and also walked three.
Huff is 0-1. A line drive tie-pitter.
Yankee is hoping to get the ground ball on the infield to turn 2.
Huff takes a pitch low, 1-0.
And if there is a strike, the first three nights we'll tell you about be Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7 from Mantles.
Here's the 1-0. Fastball strike in the count 1-1.
Let's face it, Mike.
Maybe we feel as sorry for ourselves as anyone else, but what a glamorous year this has been for the Yanks.
They have such a terrific team. I was playing tennis with a guy yesterday and he said it'll be a 1-1 to Huff.
It's in the dirt splitter. The count 2-1.
And one thing that is really captured by the fans is that you know why this year is so great?
Not just that the Yankees are such a fun team to watch. And we know why. They get bases and score runs.
There's so many personalities on the team.
Such a magical year. It could be so great.
Here's the 2-1. That missed outside and Perez is pitching himself into a whole lot of trouble to count 3-1.
So a big pitch is coming up. Huff will be cutting and slashing if he likes it.
Perez certainly wants to throw a strike. One bad pitch and the bases are loaded with 1-0.
Here's the 3-1. He swings and lines one to right center field. No one's going to catch this.
It's in the gap. It's a base hit. One run scores.
Bernie throws to second. It's a double for Huff.
O'Rourke stops at third. Molager has scored on the double by Huff.
It's a 4-3 game Yanks.
The only reason we were able to get that base hit is because Perez fell behind 3-1.
He did not want to walk the bases full, so he gave Huff a pitch right down the middle.
And what Huff did was drill it into right center field.
He didn't even throw a splitter. It was a fastball right down the middle.
And he lets it run. And again, the only reason he had to make that pitch was because he fell behind 3-1.
He did not want to load the bases.
Well, that is the key, isn't it? Strikes.
Always is. And they have Kamenicki up, John.
So how sure are they there's going to be a strike?
Kamenicki pitches today. Who's going to start tomorrow?
So that tells me that someone's told Buck Showalter that it's 100% guaranteed there'll be a strike today.
Here's Darnell Coles.
And the pitch is a high fly to left center. That will tie the game.
Bologna and deep left makes the catch. O'Rourke could walk home.
The throw comes to a third. It's going to go in the Toronto dugout.
No one was there. And I think the run is going to be a lot home. It is.
So Huff scores all the way from second as Bologna threw the ball to the Toronto dugout.
And he didn't even throw close.
And it's 5-4 Toronto.
Bologna. Where was he throwing the ball?
First of all, he was throwing the ball.
First of all, there was no runner going anywhere. He could have lobbed, he could have ran the ball in.
He could have walked the ball in. He could have rolled the ball in.
Instead he wound up and threw it way wide a third. There was no one there.
It went in the Toronto dugout.
Two runs score on the sack fly and Toronto takes a 5-4 lead. My goodness.
I think that's just Tim trying to show off whatever army has because you're right, John, no one was going.
The breaking ball is low to Sprague 1-0. What a goof.
So it should have been a 4-4 game runner at second two outs.
That Toronto leads 5-4. Amazing.
Sprague has tripled in two and struck out.
And the pitch is low.
And the count 2-0.
That's bad baseball right there. Terrible.
Well, that's bad.
I think that Bologna could have done anything with the ball. Anything.
He could have run the ball toward third base.
It'll be a 2-0. Swung on and hit in the air to left center field.
Bologna is there.
He makes the catch, but Toronto gets three runs on two hits and one big fat error.
No one left at the end of 5-1-5-4 Toronto.
As we go to the bottom of the sixth, Domingo Cedeno takes over at second base for the Blue Jays.
So Alomar out and Cedeno in.
Danny Charneval leads off for the Yanks who have blown a 4-2 lead in trail 5-4.
Henken deals.
Charneval takes a fastball at the knees on the outside corner for a strike.
Danny Fideleff then crushed a three-run home run deep in the seats in left field.
The 0-1.
That pitch low.
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There's a strike on the outside.
And Milwaukee and Detroit still sitting there with the tarp on. It's Wegman against Moore.
And if I was the management of Detroit, I'd have them sit there until midnight.
It'll be a 1-2.
He struck him out swinging a high fastball.
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In the National League, the Dodgers lead the Reds 2-0.
They go to the bottom of the ninth inning.
Martinez still in there for the Dodgers.
Rios started.
Carrasco came on in the ninth.
Tim Wallach his 23rd home run.
So again, the Dodgers 2-0.
Don Mattingly is 1-2.
He grounds it foul, first base side.
Mattingly singled up the middle, then lined hard to third.
San Diego is leading Houston 5-0, bottom of the third.
Derrick Bell his 14th home run.
Hamilton in there for San Diego.
Swindell started for Houston.
Mattingly hits a fly ball to center.
Huff is back in dead center field to make the catch, and they're a 2-way.
Dave Varas came on in the third for the Astros.
5-0-5 started.
Lennard, Colorado.
Maddox going for win number 16.
He's 15-6 against Lance Painter, 4-5.
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Jim Weiris, who came in for Stanley when Stanley caught a foul tip on his hand,
takes high 1-0.
Layers at 2-67 on the year.
17 home runs and 58 RBIs.
He's a right-hand hitter.
Henkin deals.
Cut out a miss.
Threw it by him.
The count 1-1.
5-4, Toronto.
Bottom of the sixth.
Two outs and no one on.
5-5 and 0 for Toronto.
4-5 and 1 for the Yanks.
Here's the 1-1.
Breaking ball is high.
No bite to it.
1-1.
Henkin to the plate.
That fastball rides high.
3-0.
3-1, excuse me.
Bernie Williams on deck if Layrits reaches.
Henkin working quickly.
Deals 3-1.
Fastball high.
Ball 4.
Layrits on.
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Bernie Williams 0-2 on the day.
He has bounced out and...
fly into center.
Batting left-handed against the right-handed Henkin.
The pitch is strike on the outside.
On the count 0-1.
Toronto with a 5-4 lead.
Bottom of the 6th.
2 outs.
Toronto on first.
And Bernie takes a strike on the count 0-2.
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That pitch right there from Henkin is the old drop ball that Buck Showalt was talking about in the scanner report.
It's a curveball that goes from nose to toes.
Almost like rolling off the table.
It'll be an 0-2.
Fastball on.
And the count 1-2.
I wonder what's wrong with Roberto Alomar.
Maybe that's why he jogged the first in the first inning.
It could be.
But he ran hard the next time.
The 1-2 to Bernie.
Is it up the middle?
There's a base at the center of the pitch.
And he's got a little bit of a lead.
The 1-2 to Bernie.
Is it up the middle?
There's a base at the center of the field.
Lairitz will hold.
He went around second.
Huff had the ball.
So Lairitz holds up.
The Yanks have the tying run at second.
The go-ahead run at first.
There are 2 outs.
Here's Mike Gallego.
That was that curveball again.
And Bernie got it right on top.
It was a little hanging.
And he wrapped it through the middle.
Bernie's 1-3.
Here's Gallego.
That was a great opportunity.
Boy, these crowds.
The four games so far in this home stand
have been so responsive.
They really have.
Terrific.
And Mike, that would only grow
as the importance of the games would grow
later in the season and playoffs.
Gallego takes a fastball high.
The 1-0 to Gags.
That missed outside.
And Hemkin behind Tuno.
Gallego can zone a certain pitch right here.
He can look, he can take a pitch.
He's 2-0.
He can look, try to zone a fastball.
The 2-0.
There's the fastball.
On the outside corner of the knee.
What a pitch.
Gallego didn't think so, but let's put it this way.
Hemkin, if he got a strike, threw it in the greatest spot
at the knees just on or just off the outside corner,
depending on your perspective.
That's what a 2-0 pitch that is.
The 2-1.
That fastball high.
That's the pitch he wants, 3-1.
First of all, he wants you to go after it.
Secondly, he wants it about letter high.
That's a pop-up pitch as hard as he throws.
So again, Gallego can zone a pitch.
If he doesn't like it, just let it go.
Hemkin, if he misses, will load the bases up.
The stretch.
The 3-1.
Slow ball for.
Slowed it up.
Gallego started to go and held up.
That looked like the pitch he got the first strike on.
Danny Cox starts to warm the Toronto bullpen.
Galen Sisco, the pitching coach, goes out slowly.
They're not going to take Hemkin out.
They're just trying to calm him down.
Tell him, you know you can get Pan Kelly out.
So go get him.
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Cisco's out there talking with Hemkin.
Hemkin with a 3.20 ERA is over that already today.
He's got the bases loaded.
Matt Kelly got two base hits yesterday against Ben McDonald.
Has a very quick bat.
He had a bunt base hit in the third inning down the third baseline.
And then he struck out in the fifth.
A very big moment in the ball game right here.
He's in 279.
Three home runs and 39 runs batted in.
Hemkin ready for the first pitch.
And the first pitch probably the most important pitch.
He deals.
Fouled away down the right field line.
And Hemkin jumps ahead 0-1-1.
Layers at third.
Bernie Williams at second.
Gallego at first.
Layers.
And Gags have walked and Bernie singled up the middle.
Hemkin has walked three, struck out four, giving up six hits.
Here's the 0-1.
Cut on him.
That's breaking ball.
And he's got 0-2.
Good news for the Yankees.
X-rays on Mike Stanley's right hand were negative.
By the way, he was wincing in pain.
That is good news.
You would have thought it would have broken a finger, huh?
Yeah.
That really is good news for the Yankees.
It'll be an 0-2.
Bases loaded two out in the sixth pitch.
Check swing foul back.
You know, Rick Down... I'm sorry, John, Rick Down always says that with two strikes, people think that a hitter has to be careful up there.
But with two strikes, he really has to be more aggressive.
He's got a swing of pitches that are close, not right over the play.
He can't afford to take a strike.
Sure.
I'm just about to say the same thing in a different way.
This one, Hemkin, is dangerous because his high fastball is almost unhittable pitch.
That pitch is way over Kelly's head in the count.
Want to know, it was a breaking ball without bite.
But you know he's going to throw the fastball up the ladder.
They call it moving it up the ladder when he throws a little bit out of the strike zone.
Maybe a little higher than chest high.
Tough to lay off.
The 1-2.
Curveball is lined.
It's set to be a hit as a base hit.
Layered scores.
Herdy Williams scores a two-run, two-out single for Pat Kelly.
And the Yankees take a 6-5 lead.
It just shows you, Mike, that even the major leaguers make mistakes.
Why would he throw a slow curveball when he's got that kind of fastball, rising fastball up?
Just amazing to me.
You let it hitter like Kelly swing in a curveball.
You're doing him a favor.
Well, the book on Kelly is that he can also hit the fastball, but I agree with you.
Henkens fastball so overpowering.
Why mess with a breaking pitch?
Let's give Kelly some credit.
He got a pitch he could drive and he did.
The pitch to Bologna is a strike.
Hey, you know how I mentioned the last nine games, the Yankees have averaged 40.
I'm going to have it broken out, but I think the total is 363.
Well, they drew 37 today.
The pitch is bounced up the middle off Henkens' hand.
Fielded it short and touched by Schofield down the bag to end the inning.
Now the Yankees get off the deck with two outs and no one on, get two runs on two hits.
And lead two, and now at the end of six, it is 6-5, Yanks.
What am I going to make if this jobs?
I'm going to try to have it figured out.
In the last ten games, the Yankees might have drawn exactly with a 37 today, 400,000.
Pat Borders leads off the seventh and takes a breaking ball strike from Perez.
The Yanks with two last inning lead it 6-5.
Now we go to the final three innings of today and who knows?
And with a play by play, here's Michael K.
Thank you, John.
Borders is 0-2.
They're back to the mound in the second and grounded to second in the fifth.
So the Yankees come back for the second time.
They lead 6-5, 5-5 and OJ is 6-7 and 1, Yanks.
The 0-1.
There's a strike with a splitter on the outside part of the plate, 0-2.
Borders is number nine in the order now, 2-53.
Three home runs and 26 runs batted in.
The 0-2 swung on a miss on the splitter.
Larritz blocks it, picks it up and tags Borders one away.
Borders down on strike and here is Schofield.
Schofield's 1-2 with a walk and a stolen base.
Singlede center field in the third and he sandwiched around that a base on balls in the fifth
and a ground ball to second in the first.
Boggs even with the bag at third.
Schofield a threat to Bunt.
The pitch to Schofield.
Breaking ball high, 1-0.
Schofield as a leadoff batter is 6-4, 30.
That's not good.
Low on O.
Blowing away to an O.
6-4, 30 would be, why am I blanking out, 3-4, 10.
2-4, 10, B-2, 100.
The 2-0.
There's a strike, 2-1.
The Sun trying to peek through and overcast Sky.
And it's doing a pretty good job right now.
It's been in and out all day.
John alluded to the crowd at 37,333.
Here's the 2-1.
A splitter a little bit outside, 3-1.
Well my math is certainly lousy, but I believe that the Yankees through last night had drawn
their last nine games 363.
That would make it an even 400.
The Yankees have averaged 40,000 people a game.
The 3-1.
Fastball inside.
Schofield walks for the second straight time.
Why you do that, I don't know.
But he's not trying to walk him.
No he's not.
But I mean that's not good enough to say that he's trying to throw strikes.
And now Billy Connors comes out to get the bullpen sometime.
Dick Schofield is a non-hitter and has always been a non-hitter.
And you can't walk him.
And Perez has now walked him two times in a row.
And every time a walk has gotten him in trouble.
Every single time.
So now Bob Wickman is warming up.
Now that's a direct invitation to trouble.
The Yankees are fortunate that Robbie Alomar left the game two innings ago.
And now Domingo Sedeno, a sweatshooter batting left, will come up.
But he's certainly not Robbie Alomar.
While he was in there Alomar was 0-4-3 and didn't look as if he was really into it.
Maybe he was injured.
We have not received any word whatsoever on why he was taken out of the lineup.
So Domingo Sedeno, 200 hitter with 10 ribbies.
Batting left-handed against the right-handed Perez.
Wickman warming up in the Yankee pen.
The pitch to Sedeno is a breaking ball outside.
We want to know.
Bonds in on the grass at third.
Sedeno on top of the plate but deep in the box.
Mattingly holds Schofield and Perez goes over there and Schofield's back.
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Here's the 1-0.
Fastball outside 2-0.
Yankees lead 6-5 in what may be the final game of the season.
We don't know.
We hope not.
Perez fires over.
Schofield back.
The stadium does look great.
The grounds crew has done a great job on the field this year.
It's a perfect green.
Moden checkerboard in the infield and stripes in the outfield.
The 2-0.
Fastball high 3-0.
The outfield wall a perfect light blue.
The white facade over the ads and the scoreboards in the outfield.
It's a beautiful ballpark.
The 3-0.
Way outside and Perez walks in.
So he walks two batters with one out.
And now runners on first and second and one of the better hitters in baseball coming to the plate, Paul Molitor.
Molitor's one for three.
He grounded the third and the first.
Flied out to center in the third and singled the center and scored in the sixth inning.
And Buck Showalter has seen quite enough.
Out of the bullpen he signals for Bob Wickman.
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So Bob Wickman comes on, try to stop the bleeding right here.
Or stop from bleeding because the Yankees still have the lead, 6-5.
But the Blue Jays have runners on first and second.
And Paul Molitor coming to the play.
Wickman's had a great year so far. 5-4, 3.07.
This is his 53rd game by far the most of any Yankee.
67 in the third inning's pitch.
51 hits, 23 earned runs. He's allowed three home runs.
Walked 26, struck out 54.
And opponents are hitting 2-10 on Bob Wickman.
Here's Molitor.
Hitting 3-44, 14 home runs and 75 runs batted in.
This was one of the great free agent signings in a long, long time.
And really it's this signing that really kicked in the small market teams screaming.
Because Bud Selig wanted to keep Molitor and he simply couldn't compete with what the Blue Jays offered.
The pitch to Molitor is a strike on the outside corner.
A fastball all in one.
Wickman started him off with the 4th seamer up in the zone.
Boggs very close to third base.
Leo 1 swung on and chopped over the head of Wickman.
There'll be one play. Kelly Field fires him out and he won away.
Check that. Two away.
And the runners move up.
Borders have started the inning with a strikeout.
So now both runners are in scoring position for Joe Carter, one of the best RBI men in the major leagues.
It was a sinker and Molitor just got a piece off the end of the bat.
Once it went over the head of Wickman, you knew there was only one play.
That was the first.
Carter is 0-4-3. Lined out to short in the second. Fouled out to Mattingly in the third and struck out in the sixth.
Schofield at third and Cedeno at second. Two outs here, top of the seventh inning. Yankees lead 6-5.
Wickman, the pitch, swung on and blooped again toward first base. Mattingly giving chase. He can't make the play.
He plays it on a hop.
In foul territory near the first base coaching box, Mattingly for the right-handed batter is playing way off the line.
So he got a good jump, but he could not even attempt to dive on that one. He had no chance.
Carter almost fisted it out there. That's exactly what he did.
Boggs again close to the line at third.
Here's the 0-1. Fastball inside, 1-1. Carter a 2-69 hitter.
He has 26 home runs and again 102 runs batted in.
He's got two more ribbies right out there in the person of Schofield and Cedeno.
The 1-1 swung on and driven deep to center field, but Bernie Williams has room.
Moving toward left center, he makes the play for the final out of the inning, so Wickman comes in and does a great job.
No runs, no hits, no errors, and two left at the end of 6-1 half. The Yankees lead the Jays 6-5.
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Danny Cox is on. He was injured for most of the season and that really really wreaked havoc in the Blue Jays bullpen.
Since coming back he's done a good job. This is his 10th game. He's 1-1, 1.72 ERA.
15 and two third innings pitched, seven hits, three iron runs, walked seven, struck out 14, opponents hitting 135.
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So they bring in Cox and he'll face two left-handed batters.
And Danny Tartable, the first one, Wade Boggs, one for two with a sack fly.
Pitch to Boggs is a strike. Boggs hitting 342, 11 home runs and 55 runs batted in.
Leo Wang swung on and popped up left side.
Darnell Cole's looking into the sun and making the catch for the first out of the inning.
Here's O'Neal, 0 for 2 with a walk and a run scored.
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O'Neal swings and misses in the splitter, oh and one.
Cox underwent arthroscopic surgery at the end of March, March 26 to be exact.
Leo Wang, O'Neal squares the bunt and takes a strike right over the middle of the play, oh and two.
And the surgery was to repair an impingement in his right shoulder.
He began a rehab with Dunedin on June 27th and then he was called up to Toronto.
The 0-2 swung on and grounded right side.
Siddeño off his glove, trickles into right field, we'll see how they score that.
O'Neal on first.
I wonder how they'll score that, that could be a base hit, it wasn't an easy play.
And then a 7-error, E-4.
Oh boy, after last night's shot off Mattingly was called an error, I guess that has to be an error.
Here's Danny Tartabal, he's 1-for-3 but the 1 was a big one.
A 3-run home run in the third.
And what a shot it was.
19 home runs now and 67 runs banded in.
The pitcher was swung on and driven to right but foul.
That'll make the seats.
A fan just had a great sign about the strike.
He said please don't strike, Colin.
Stupid is as stupid does, which is Forrest Gump's favorite line.
Yankees lead 6-5 in the bottom of the seventh inning.
5-5 and 1 Toronto, 6-7 and 1 Yankees.
And Cox goes over to O'Rourke and O'Neill back in plenty of time.
The 0 on to Tartabal, swung on a miss.
Looked like a slider diving down and away, 0-2.
On deck, Don Mattingly.
1-on, 1-out, Yankees lead by 1, bottom of the seventh.
Cox steps off the rubber and fires the first and O'Neill's back. Why is he worried about O'Neill?
Tartabal set, close stance, bent at the knees.
The 0-2, swung on and grounded to third.
Filled it there by Spray, goes to second for 1, back to first.
Not in time. Tartabal beat it out.
So score that a force, 5-4 for the second out and that'll bring up Mattingly.
Mattingly 1-3.
Single to center in the second, lined out to third in the third. And flat out to center in the sixth. He gets a big hand.
Hitting 3-0-5, six home runs and 51 runs batted in. On deck, Jim Larritz.
Now, Pipsa Mattingly outside 1-0. Is this Mattingly's last at bat? Well, he certainly played with the possibility.
He said that if it's a long strike, this might be his very last game and this could be his last at bat.
If the Yankees hold on to the lead, then he doesn't bat in the eighth.
That would be sad. Here's the 1-0.
There's a strike on the inside corner, 1-1.
Cox over the first and Tartabal back. Does Cox just throw the first because he wants to? Tartabal and O'Neill aren't going anywhere.
Cox again goes over the first. Tartabal had maybe a step and a half lead.
Cox sends it to Bell, deals the 1-1. Blown away, 2-1.
The Blue Jays scored two in the second. The Yankees answered with four in the third.
The Blue Jays came back with three in the sixth to take a 5-4 lead.
And the Yankees immediately came back with two in the bottom of the sixth and that's where we stand right now.
Yankees lead by 1-6-5.
O'Rourke holding Tartabal at first.
The 2-1 to Mattingly. Swan and line foul. Third base side into the second deck.
The count is even at 2-2.
In front of Mattingly's locker, two huge boxes with all of his belongings.
And not only Mattingly, every player has packed as if this is the last day of the season.
Fan letters, personal belongings, souvenirs, signed baseballs, all in those boxes.
The only thing they can't take, their Yankee uniform. That belongs to the Yankees.
Cox over to first and Tartabal back.
The 2-2 to Mattingly. Just missed with a fastball outside, 3-2.
So that will release Tartabal at first. O'Rourke trying to get Cox's attention, telling him he'll play behind him.
Play halfway. Cox acknowledges O'Rourke and O'Rourke will back up behind the runner.
The runner goes, the 3-2 to Swan and foul back. They'll do it again.
All the baseballs have been signed. They put the baseballs into the sanitary hose.
And they wrap them up in time at the top and 5 or 6, 10 could fit in one sanitary hose.
They have those, they have them in boxes of a dozen.
It really does feel like the end of the season and it's very, very strange here in August.
The 3-2 runner goes, swung on and popped up right field.
Carter right there, the Sun squinting against his glasses. He makes the play for the final out of the inning.
Yankees, no runs, no hits, one error and one left at the end of seven-full. The Yankees 6, the Blue Jays 5.
The first pitch to O'Rourke is outside 1-0. Yankees lead 6-5 as we go to the top of the eighth inning.
5-5 and 1 to Rondo, 6-7 and 1 Yankees, Wickman on the mound and Sterling behind the mic.
And the pitch is a strike at the knees on the outside.
You know Mike, you look at this lineup and O'Rourke is the worry for the Yankees here.
Wickman doesn't want to walk him but he also doesn't want to give him anything and get hit out and tie the game.
I'll tell you why in a moment. The 1-1 is lined to center field.
On the run is Burnie, has to play it on a hop and it gets by him.
It rolls all the way toward the warning track. O'Rourke around second, he'll go to third.
Terrible sloppy play by the Yankees and O'Rourke has a three base hit.
Could be a single and a two base error. Burnie put on the brakes, slipped and the ball went past him.
So it should have been a single to center field has turned into three bases and there's the tying run.
Now I was just about to say that when you look at the rest of the lineup,
they are weakish right hand hitters against a guy who gets right handed.
His right hand is Bob Wickman and they had seven batters before they get to the good hitters in Molitor and Carter.
And you only have two innings.
What was Burnie's deal, jogging after that ball after it went past him?
He didn't go very hard after that.
Yankees play the infield back.
Now O'Rourke takes a strike. If I'm my cup, I choke up and play pepper.
With a shortstop to second baseman and the game is tied.
The Yankees are playing the infield back except for Bob and they will allow the tying run to score.
The 0-1 inside. I don't get that either. Inside corner strike two in the count 0-2.
I don't get it either.
With a guy on third, if they bring the infield in and the guy singles through the infield,
he'd just have a runner on first.
Now what do they call that?
There's no error put up.
There's no error. So it's a triple. Isn't that amazing?
It was a single to center field and Burnie got too close.
Tried to put the bricks on the pitch low.
In this, now they bring the infield in with two strikes.
If I'm on the first couple of pitches, I would have choked up and played pepper with a shortstop to get the tying run in.
That's the old La Russa play right there with two strikes they were charging.
Here's the 1-2. Now they're up and the pitch is grounded foul outside of third.
What they wanted him to do was do what you were telling him to do.
And just choke up and try to hit the baseball on the ground.
And then they would charge and make the play at home.
So O'Rourke gets a gift triple.
The Yankees threw away another run when Polonia, for no reason at all, wound up left field through the ball into the Toronto dugout.
Here's the 1-2. It's in the dirt, blocked by La Russa.
The count's 2-2, slider in the dirt.
In other words, after O'Rourke you had Huff, Cole, Sprague, Borders, Schofield, Sedanier.
And you gotta figure that Wickman and Howe get those guys out.
There's a tying run at third with no one out here in the eighth.
It'll be a 2-2 to Huff.
Wickman deals. Just missed outside.
And the count's 3-2.
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The tying run at third, no one out, top of the eighth. Here's the 3-2. It's bounce foul.
What happens to the Toronto players today?
Explain that to me. The game is over. It's 3-30 in New York about it.
Now about, I'd say the game's over 4-30.
Okay, what happens? They go to the hotel? Right.
And they what, await word at midnight?
They await word, and once midnight approaches or reaches and they're on strike.
Payoff is hit on the ground, up the middle, knocked down.
Gallego feels, throws in time, on a great play.
And O'Rourke doesn't run well, never left third.
Wickman either missed or got a piece.
Kelly knocked it down and luckily deflected it to Gallego, who threw out Hubb.
Once he sees Kelly on the ground, he should be going,
because what's the likelihood of him getting thrown out?
That's awful base running in the Yankees. We're very lucky.
Very. So the Yankees continue to play up.
And here's Dornell Coles who swings at Hammerswine.
Base hit inside a third down the left field line.
It comes rule double. Someone tested O'Rourke's scores and we're all tied at six.
Dornell Coles immediately ties it as he rams a pitch inside third.
Let's face it, this inning never should have happened.
But it did. You know, one more thing.
It's free.
After O'Rourke got the base hit, if he's at first, that hot shot up the middle
probably becomes a DP because the infield's back.
Well, Coles knocks in the run with a double.
Here's Ed Sprague. We're tied at six.
Wickman deals. Sprague takes the strike.
Now Sprague and Pat Borders have a chance to knock in the go-ahead run.
So let's go continue. So the ballplayers stay in New York tonight.
The Toronto players stay in New York and then await word.
Right. They get word. Once they're on strike, then the Blue Jays stop at that moment
paying for their hotel.
So if they want to stay, they're at the grand high, they would have to stay and pay for themselves.
And they have to get home on their own. They're left to their own devices.
Nothing is done by the players. No, no question about that.
I mean by the owners or the traveling secretary. That's not happening.
But they stay here until they know the strike is in effect.
And then they can either stay or go home.
Well, just this is an afternoon game. That's why I wonder.
The O-1 is taken outside. Does the strike, does it actually happen on the stroke of midnight?
Is there a gong that sounds, okay, we're on strike, we don't play anymore?
The gong sounds the final out of that game in Oakland.
Darnell Coles was very good speed, leads off second. He's the go-ahead run.
We're tied at six in the eighth.
Quickman bluffs towards second.
You know what I don't understand? I don't have the answer to this.
The players go home, right?
And then the strike is settled in a week.
Does the team pay for them to get to where they have to be?
That I don't know.
It'll be a 1-1 strike. I have a better question.
Let's say the strike is settled this weekend, which happens after a day or two.
You see this in the real world all the time.
And the players are in Birdbath, Montana and North Overshoe, Vermont.
Where do they go? What game is scheduled?
They just pick up a season?
That'll be a 1-2 to Spray.
I think if there's two games or three games missed,
in all likelihood they'll try to make those games up some way.
That'll be a 1-2 to Spray.
Quickman deals high. I mean, do they say, how do I?
Let's say in a city, let's say the transit workers are on strike.
Well, strike is over and you report to work whatever the next day is,
Wednesday, Thursday at 9 or whatever.
But in baseball they're all going home to every point in this country.
It'll be a 2-2 to Spray.
Quickman deals foul to it.
Okay, they're going to resume. The strike is settled Friday afternoon.
And they're going to resume with the Saturday games.
Is that what they do or do they...?
That's all part of the settlement.
If there is a settlement, I'm sure that will all be discussed.
Once again,
Quickman will deal 2-2 to the right-hand-hitting Ed Spray.
Fetch. Hit on the ground. Wide at first.
Kelly feels in the first base hole. Flips to Mattingly two away.
Coles goes to third.
So there's the go-ahead run at third with two outs for right-hand-hitting catcher Pat Waters.
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Waters over three.
He is a right-hand-hitter.
And, Quickman deals low.
Layritz blocked it successfully.
McCown 1-0. Coles the go-ahead run at third.
Scott Kamenicki continues to warm in the Yankees bullpen.
The Yankees in the bottom of the eighth will have 6, 7, and 8.
Layritz, Bernie Williams, and Gallego.
Quickman to the plate. Foul to it.
The totals are identical. 6, 7, and 1 were in the top of the eighth.
Two outs. The go-ahead run at third base.
The 1-1 is bounced foul outside of first.
Waters has had some weak hacks at Quickman's pitches, kind of fending off the pitches.
And he's behind 1 and 2, looking for something he can hit.
Now the right-hander is set. He'll deal 1-2. Pitch.
Scott Kamenicki. However, Toronto picks up the tying run.
1 run, 2 hits. They leave 1 at the end of 7-1-1.
We're tied at 6.
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Boston against Baltimore.
C-League and Perot in Seattle at Oakland, 10-05. Johnson against Darling.
In the National League, the Dodgers have defeated the Reds 2-0.
Tim Wallach, a home run, is 23rd.
Ramon Martinez goes to 12-7.
Jose Rio drops to 9-6. He takes the loss.
San Diego 6 and Houston 3. Bottom of the 6, Derrick Bell is 14th.
Hamilton still in there for San Diego.
Swindell started for Houston.
Varus came in in the third. Reynolds in the fifth.
5-0 Firestorm has Atlanta at Colorado. Maddox against Painter.
Maddox 15-6, going for number 16.
Danny Cox deals a fastball inside to Laird's, and we're underway bottom of the 8.
Yankees and Toronto tied at 6.
Laird's replaced Mike Stanley, caught a foul tip on the hand.
Everything is apparently okay.
The 1-0.
Brittenball cut on and missed.
Cox has a very good slider. This is outfitch.
Fastball-slider combination.
Laird's has one appearance. He walked.
And that, with two outs and no one on, he walked.
And that triggered the Yankees to run sixth.
The 1-1 outside. That gave the Yankees the lead.
They lost that.
And the 8th were tied at 6 here in the bottom of the 8.
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That breaking ball in for a strike to Laird's.
He did not think. So McCown even at 2-2.
It'll be Laird's, Bernie Williams, and Guy Eggo
here in the bottom of the 8.
Now here's the 2-2. Hit on the ground at third.
The long throw across by Sprague is in time.
There's one away.
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Now one away, here's Bernie.
He is 1-4-3 on the night.
Sprague steals and the breaking ball is in for a strike in the count-0-1.
That missed outside. The count-1-1.
The mall game gone back and forth.
Toronto scoring 2 in the second on a 2-on-triple by Sprague.
Yankee scored 4 in the third.
Boggs scored one with a sack fly.
Charterball a 3-run home run. The Yanks had a 4-2 lead.
But Toronto came back in the sixth with 3, the final run scoring
when Colonia for no apparent reason threw the ball and the Toronto dug out
after a sack fly.
Here's the 1-1. It's fouled down the third base line out of play.
But Toronto had a lead.
And the Yankees scored 2 in the sixth to regain the lead.
Pat Kelly had a 2-run single with the bases loaded.
A 2-out rally.
2 walks and a single loaded them up and Kelly had the 2-run line drive
single to center to make it 6-5.
Then Toronto scored a run in the eighth and here we are.
The 1-2. That bounced up there.
And the count 2-2.
The 2-2. That just missed outside and the count goes full 3-2.
If Bernie gets on, you might have the chance for a stolen base
to put him in scoring position.
It'll be a 3-2 from Danny Cox to Bernie Williams.
1-out, no one on, bottom of the eighth tied at 6.
Here's the payoff. It's bounced toward second.
And here's what Cadenio feels. He throws out Bernie and there are 2-way.
Here's Mike Gallego.
2-2 and here's Gallego.
Gags over 2 with a walk. He takes low.
That walk was a big one. 2-out walk on a 3-2 pitch from Hemkin to load them up
and Kelly had the 2-run single.
Here's the 1-0 and hit him.
Oh boy, and hit him on the arm.
The last thing Danny wanted to do was hit somebody with 2-outs
and put the go-ahead run on base.
So Steve Donahue trots out to administer to Gallego.
Buck Showalter comes out.
It was a fastball inside and it hit Gallego right on the arm.
It may have hit him on the elbow, which would hurt like, you know what?
Hit him in the same spot that Danny Tartabot got hit.
If you would fold your arm or make a muscle right in the corner, right there,
not quite on the elbow but right above it, and that could certainly sting.
And the ball kept tallying in on Gallego, kept coming in, in, in.
He could not get out of the way.
Now he's holding his arm straight out, Steve Donahue taking a look.
Trying to see if he has feeling in his hand.
And it looks like he's going to stay in.
Well, the Yankees have the go-ahead run at first with 2-outs.
Gallego down to base. He will not be running.
The Yankees decide to put out a hit-and-run at some point.
He stays in the game and hears Kelly, who's had a bunch single that triggered
the 4-run rally in the third, and then the line-drive single to center field
to knock in 2 that culminated the 2-run rally in the sixth.
The Yankees and Blue Jays tied at 6 near the bottom of the eighth.
This does one thing for the Yanks. Even if Kelly makes out,
it pushes the lineup around to the top of the order for the bottom of the ninth.
Cox steals and the pitch is striking.
And if Kelly does make out, ironically, both teams will go to the ninth inning
with the top of their order.
But the Yankees, with Alomar out of the game, much more productive top of the order.
You have 2 guys, Schofield and Sedanio, at this point not great hitters, certainly,
than Malagor, batting third, who is a great hitter.
The Yankees would have Polonia, Boggs and O'Neal.
Toronto has 2 lefties in the bullpen. One is old friend Dave Rigetti.
The other is Tony Castillo. Castillo does more of the late-inning work.
It'll be an 0-1 to Kelly.
Cox steals and Kelly takes the pitch high, 1-1.
Kelly just trying to get on base. That would put up a pretty good lefty hitter,
a 300-hitter in Polonia, to try to get the base hit to give the Yankees a lead.
You know, with this 2-run single, John, Kelly and Gallego both now have 41 rubies.
That's not bad for 8-9.
Yeah, especially with 50 games to go. And what does Villardi have?
He must have around there.
Let me see here.
Villardi has 34 and 9 home runs.
No, it's very, a very productive group.
Kelly is hitting around 280.
Gallego around 240.
And Villardi must be in the 270s, I would think.
And also John from shortstop alone, 10 home runs and 52 rubies.
From second base, 4 home runs and 50 rubies.
It'll be a 1-1 to Kelly.
He takes a strike.
Villardi hitting 279 at this moment. So you have two guys hitting 280.
One of them has 9 home runs.
That's very productive. And that's just your 8 and 9. It is your second baseman in shortstop.
Gallego the baserunner at first. There are two men out at the bottom of the 8.
It'll be a 1-2 to Kelly.
Danny Cox deals, swung on and popped up off of first.
O'Rourke in foul territory. Has an easy play and makes the catch.
No runs, no hits. One left. We go to the 9th, all tied at 6.
Bob Wichman's first pitch fouled off by Dick Schofield.
It'll be Schofield. Domingo Sedena, a switch hitter.
Then Paul Molitor. Wichman deals inside.
Count 1-1. We're tied at 6. Both teams 6, 7 and 1.
Schofield is 1 for 2. He has singled his also.
Walked twice. He's done a good job as a leadoff hitter today.
Been on base three times.
The 1-1. Cut on that. Missed.
And a count 1 and 2. I would think the Yankees, they do not have anyone up.
I would think the Yankees would have a lefty up to get ready for Old Rude
if he hits this inning.
The 1-2. He struck a mouse swing, slide her away.
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No one away. Here's Domingo Sedena.
He takes a strike on the count 0-1.
The workman to the plate outside 1 and 1.
Big hitter to keep off base. Danio is switching to batting left.
Hasn't played very much. Hitting in just 200. No homers, 10 RBIs.
You have a great hitter on deck, Paul Molitor.
Here's the 1-1. Missed outside 2 and 1.
The fastball missed outside the count 3 and 1.
Funny, the pitcher doesn't... well, he knows Domingo Sedena is not a threat.
Domingo Sedena has been up at bat once this game. You know, he did. He walked.
Now, Wickman behind 3-1.
The pitch is low, ball 4.
You are begging for trouble to walk a non-hitter against a Hall of Fame hitter, Paul Molitor.
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Sedena, prior to today, had been up 95 times. He had no home runs. He had 2 doubles, 3 triples.
He's at first with 1 out, and here's Molitor.
A hard ground ball, double play ball to short.
Diago to Kelly 1 on the first double play.
6-4-3. No runs, no hits.
And we go to the bottom of the ninth, all tied at 6.
Well, we go to what could be the final half inning of baseball in 1994.
Let's hope it's not. There could be plenty of innings following this.
We could be playing 18 innings just today.
That's right.
Danny Cox stays on in his third inning of relief.
And he will face the Lufties coming up.
Meepolonia, Boggs, O'Neal.
Spragan at third, and Louis takes a slider low 1-0.
Meepolonia has doubled in 4 trips.
That's set up. His doubles set up 4 runs for the Yanks in the third inning.
Cox yields 1-0, hit on the ground a second. Sedena gets a nice hop, throws out Meepolonia 1 away.
So 1 down, and here's Boggs.
Now, Kelly Buntz signal a Bologna double, a sack fly by Boggs for one run.
O'Neal walked in, Charleville hit a 3-run home run. Those were the first 4 Yankee runs.
Some of the things that Donald Fehr said with the MSG Network, he said,
Slowly but surely Dick Ravitch is shutting all the doors.
This is where he wanted it from the beginning.
Good job, Hy.
And then Ravitch answered, I believe we are closer to a strike than we were 24 hours ago.
We regret that the players see no reason to respond to our set of games problems in any way, shape or form.
The Spin Doctors, the 1-0, low 2-0.
Now, this should be interesting. Fehr and Ravitch are scheduled to appear together tonight on CNN's Larry King Live.
They shouldn't do it.
That's garbage. They should be meeting.
It's a pretty good show.
Maybe they can get it done right there on the show. Maybe you need a mediator, a guy who...
So one of the guys doesn't crack. I don't think it's going to get done with the two of them looking at each other.
I know what you're going to say, and I agree with you. They should be together negotiating.
Yeah, they know how to get it done. They already know what to do.
It's been spelled out quietly between the lines.
The 2-0, Hy, on the count of 3-0.
They do seem a little bit too amenable to appearing on every single show in the world.
It's a little ridiculous.
I couldn't agree more.
They stop going on those dumb shows and instead work out a solution. The 3-0 is a strike on the count of 3-1.
Strange. Almost seems like they don't want to get it done.
They know what has to be done. They know where the compromise is. It's so simple.
The 3-1 to Boggs. Hit on the ground foul outside of first, so we have a full count, 3-2, coming from Danny Cox to Wade Boggs.
Bottom of the ninth, side of sixth.
Now the payoff. Swung on and line toward left center. Huff on the run, makes the catch.
And they're a two-way. You know what's really funny about it?
The tremendous need for ravage and fear to portray themselves on their side as the good guys and the others the bad guys.
Who cares? Just get it done. We're all bad guys.
Two outs, no one on. They overload the right side of the infield for O'Neal.
And the pitch got on a miss at a slide of going down. O'Neal, of course, is not about to go to left field for a base hit.
That's not what the Yankees need. They need O'Neal to pump on the seats and win this ballgame.
So Toronto is right at overloading the infield. The O'Wan have bounced up there. They have a count one-on-one.
O'Neal, 0-3 with a walk.
The 1-1. Another slide of low on the count two and one.
The 2-1. O'Neal takes low on the count three and one. Danny Tarnable awaits on deck.
O'Neal is 0-3 today with a walk and a run scored down to 3-61.
There's the 3-1. It's chopped to first. O'Rood backs up fields, flips the cocks covering in time. That'll do it.
We go to extra innings. Nothing across for the Yanks. At the end of nine, we're tied at six.
Bob Wickman deals Joe Carter a pitch outside 1-0. We go to the tenth. We're tied at six.
Then with the play-by-play, here's Michael Kaye. Thank you, John.
Carter's 0-4. The pitch is lined into right center field. Base hit.
Charging is Bernie Williams. He'll play it on a couple of hops and flip it back in.
Carter on with a leadoff single here in the tenth inning.
That'll bring up O'Rood. O'Rood is 2-3. He scored three times. Single to right in the second score.
Grounded a short in the fourth. Walked and scored in the sixth and tripled and scored the sixth in tying run in the eighth inning.
Buck Showalter's out, and that means Bob Wickman's out because Showalter has signaled to the bullpen for the left-hander.
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Well, they bring on Steve Howe to try and keep the Blue Jays off the board.
Howe is 3-0, 1.70. This is his 40th game. He has 15 saves.
And bluntly put, he has had an outstanding year for the New York Yankees.
37 innings, 25 hits, 7 walks, 17 strikeouts. He does nothing but throw strikes.
In the first batter, he will face a very tough left-hander, John O'Rood.
O'Rood, 2-96, 12 home runs and 67 runs batted in. Mattingly will hold Carter at first.
And Howe throws over to first. Carter back.
The reason they had Howe throw over to first, they wanted to see if O'Rood would square if he's bunting.
But O'Rood did not give it away, or he's not bunting.
Howe fakes to first and Carter hustles back.
Howe sets it to the belt, the pitch to O'Rood. He tries to check his swing. Did he? No, he did not.
And he did. Third base umpire Jim Evans.
John Moore, the executive producer and director of Channel 11's fine telecast in the booth,
already plotting his telecast tomorrow night, just in case there's a game.
He can come down to Mantles too.
Now from the third base side of the rubber, deals the 0-1, swung on and fouled away. Third base side, first row of the upper deck
and a gentleman in a suit made the catch. Good play.
Gray suit, red tie.
And he'll be talking about that at work if he tells them that he was at the game.
Darren Hall and Woody Williams warming for the Blue Jays in their bullpen, two right-handers.
Howe takes a deep breath, he sets it to the belt and deals the 0-2.
Strike three. O'Rood down looking on the outside corner. Great fastball, one away.
That's a perfect pitch by Howe. Nothing O'Rood could do with it except look, and he did. Strike three.
Here's Mike Huff. Huff is one for three. Two runs scored a walk, a double an RBI, and two ground balls to the infield.
A righty batter this time against Steve Howe.
The pitch to Huff. He squares the bunt, bunt's in front of the plate foul.
Rolls behind the plate, 0-1. That was not a sacrifice bunt, that was a bunt for a base hit.
Huff spells his name H-U-F-F, unlike the former Marlins pitcher Huff, H-O-U-G-H.
Spells his name like the former great middle linebacker, the Giant Sam.
Number 70.
That man. Huff a 3-0-2 hitter, three home runs, 25 runs batted in. Howe checks the runner at first.
The long look. The 0-1. Fastball a little bit low and inside, 1-1.
The Blue Jays have six runs on eight hits and one error, and the Yankees 6-7-1.
We're in the top of the 10th inning at Yankee Stadium on what could be the final game of the 94th season.
And the two teams nodded at six.
The 1-1. Fastball strike inside corner, 1-2. Howe puts it there, it can't be hit.
If there's not a strike, this is the first of a four game set between these two teams.
And when you looked at this series on the schedule, at the beginning of the year you thought,
well this is going to be really important in the American League East and the Blue Jays are too far back.
The 1-2. Just missed inside. 2-2. Almost the same pitch, but Howe brought it inside just a little bit more.
The Jays coming into this game 17 games behind the Yankees in third place. 18 games in the loss column.
Howe shakes off a sign, shakes off another sign from Laird, now finally gets one that he likes.
And the 2-2. Swung on and booped in the right field, that's a base hit.
Carter is heading to second. He'll stop right there as O'Neal fields quickly and fires back in.
So Huff just fisted it through the right side of the infield for a base hit.
And the Blue Jays have runners on first and second. And Darnell Cole is coming up.
Cole is one for three, struck out looking in the second. Chopped two short in the fourth.
Had a sack fly and an RBI in the sixth inning. And then had an RBI ground rule double in the eighth.
A right handed batter. That's the ninth base hit for the Blue Jays.
Boggs even with the bag at third, maybe a step or two behind and maybe six feet off the line.
The pitch to Cole's. There's a strike on the outside corner, Owen Law.
Every pitch has a purpose. He is throwing great pitches at the knees on the inside and outside corners.
Even the pitch that Huff had to hit on, he just squirted it through. That was a good pitch.
Time. Cole's calls time and Winans jumped from behind the plate as Howe was about to go on his wind.
Howe really works over the gun when he's on the mound. He does not chew tobacco.
He chews bubble gum and really chews it when he's out there on the mound.
Said to the belt, the O1 swung on, popped up right side, not only giving it a look, but that'll make the seats out of play.
Owen too. So how quickly ahead.
This has been a dream season for how he's done everything the Yankees could have asked.
He shut everyone's mouth about the Yankees going out and getting a closer.
But he is one of the staunchest union supporters and he's ready to march midnight tonight or at the end of the latest game.
The game on the West Coast.
Here's the O2 swung on and driven to center field.
Bernie Williams has room, moves toward right center, makes the catch and Carter heads back to second to away.
How to bring up the dangers. Ed Sprague had a two run triple off the center field wall in the second inning, struck out in the fifth,
blind to left in the sixth and grounded to second in the eighth.
He's hitting two thirty eight with ten home runs and forty three runs batted in.
We're in the top of the 10th inning here at Yankee Stadium in New York City and the Blue Jays and the Yankees are tied at six.
Blue Jays have runners on first and second in two outs.
Sprague a right handed batter, the number eight batter in the lineup, the pitch to Sprague.
There's a strike on the outside corner. Oh and one and how is dealing.
Big strong kid. Deep in the box, far away from the plate.
How gets the sign from Larris, the one swung on right back to how he grabs the line drive, flips it up in the air and that'll do it.
Oh, a little bit of luck and how's got a big red on his face for the Blue Jays.
No runs, two hits, no errors and two left at the end of nine and a half. Toronto six, the Yankees six.
The play by how to end the inning. Well, that is today's English leather catch of the day. Get into leather.
English leather cologne and aftershave for men available at CBS. That was a great by what reaction.
I don't know how much of it was locker, how much of it was skill, but it was made a line drive back to the mound.
Well, one thing of a line drive is hit back at you, Mike. You got to move your glove because you know that's not going to get hurt.
And I told Mike this off the air. How caught it? I mean, let's face it.
Look, many flipped all over his head. He lands near the mound and he's walking off and Sprague is there probably cursing a blue street.
And how gave Sprague an ear to ear grin and Sprague probably grin back and probably told him something naughty.
Here's Danny Tartable. The first pitch from Woody Williams is a strike on the outside corner.
So they relieved Danny Cox and Cox did a very, very good job for the Jays.
He bids three innings of scoreless ball. In fact, I think scoreless hit this ball. I'll check that.
The O one swan and a miss slider down and away.
One two Tartable is one for four, the one a three run home run in the third inning. And what a shot it was into the lower deck in left field.
Leo to just missed outside with the fastball one and two.
Let's face it, Sprague very unlucky in a line drive that ticketed to go through the middle for a base that would have brought in the go ahead run.
Sprague practically standing on the line at third and deep the one to strike three fastball outside corner.
Tartable down looking did not like the call and he's having a couple of words with Matt Winans.
Now we've said this over and over, John. Danny stands too far from the plate. He can't reach the outside pitch.
They couldn't reset. That was way.
I've seen worse. That's why he got so upset.
So there's one away and here's Mattingly. Danny Cox allowed two men again on base, one an error by Sadaneo and one a hit fastball.
Here's Mattingly. He's one for four. The crowd on its feet. The picks the Mattingly.
Little bit outside. One and all. Tartable is still barking in the dugout. Well, they're on their feet giving Mattingly a great ovation because of what they heard last night on this broadcast and what they read in the radio.
Read it. They read in the newspapers today that if the strike is prolonged, the one. Oh, swung on and fell back one and one.
If the strike is prolonged and goes late into next year, I don't think it's going to happen for a minute that it could be his last game.
So I think that's why they're giving him this great ovation. And they'd like to see a run on the bottom of the 10th inning. One out, nobody on the game tied at six.
The Yankees, the one one swung on and driven to center field, not deep, right there.
The glove that makes the catch for the second out of the inning.
That'll bring up Larris. Larris came on in the fifth inning when Stanley had to leave the game.
Now, Tip crushed his right hand. They took x-rays, all negative. So that's good news. First time up, Larris walked and scored and then he grounded the third and the eighth.
Hitting 266. He does have 17 home runs. Some power. He could hand it right here and 58 runs batted in.
Williams getting the sign from Borders, the pitch. Strike on the outside corner. Oh, and one.
Williams one and three, three point seven seven. This is his 38th game.
Fifty seven in the third innings pitch, the one strike two on the outside corner. Oh, and two. So Matt Wynand's plate is very wide and Larris takes a walk.
He's shaking his head in the 57 in the third innings pitch. 44 hits, 24 runs. He's allowed five home runs, walk 33. That's a lot.
Struck out 52 opponents hitting 211 off Woody Williams. The 0-2 to Larris just missed outside one and two.
On deck, Bernie Williams, six nine and one for the J, six seven and one for the Yankees. The one two. Low and away, two and two.
Williams takes a walk on the backside of the mound, now climbs back up. He's on the rubber, getting the sign.
He's working from a full windup and he deals the two two way outside with the fastball outside and high three and two.
Again, Sprague practically on the line. The three two is swung on and fouled off right near the on deck circle of the Blue Jays.
Jays had a two nothing lead after two. The Yankees had four runs in the third.
Then the J's took a five four lead after five and a half. The Yankees had a two in the bottom of the sixth.
And they took a six five lead and then the J's scored a run in the eighth inning. Sloppy defense by the Yankees and it's six six. The three two.
Swung on and missed and that'll do it. We go to the eleventh inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left it at the end of ten full innings of play. Blue J six and the Yankees six.
They wipe all the numbers off the scoreboard. It's like a little etch a sketch because they only have room for ten innings.
We go to the 11th and the Yankees and the Blue Jays are tied at six.
And if this is the way the season is going to end, it's certainly going to end in style.
Steve House still on the mound, six nine and one for the Blue J six, seven and one for the New York Yankees for the Blue Jays.
It'll be nine one and two. Borders, Schofield and Cedeno against Abbott. Abbott against Howe.
And as I mentioned, we go to the 11th. That means we turn our lonely eyes to John Bradford Sterling.
John who has weary eyes himself. That boarders will lead it off.
He's the ninth at the top of the order for the Blue Jays. Schofield and Domingo Cedeno.
Borders is over four. He has struck out twice. He hasn't had the ball out of the infield.
He has some power. Right hand hitter. Howe in his second inning deals and the pitch is grounded foul outside of first.
There is an example of a right hand hitter swinging late and he didn't miss a ground ball over the bag at first, which would have been a double down the line.
So we go on and on here in the 11th. If there isn't a strike and boy, we all hope it's averted.
Here's the O one pass ball inside. This is the end of the closers for a day or so.
Wickman pitched two and two thirds innings. Howe is in his second inning. But I think everyone would trade that.
For baseball to resume without a stoppage, the one one is lined to center field. Bernie Williams glides over, makes the catch and there's one away.
I wonder if Kamenicki will be able to go because he got up and threw in earnest twice and he's due to be the starter of mine.
I don't like the hoodie be able to start, but if the game goes very long, you might see Kamenicki or earnest.
Ernie good one away and here is Dick Scofield.
Who is one for three and has walked twice right hand hitter.
The pitch is inside one and a line or I'll be tomorrow night.
If there is a strike where at Mickey Mantles at seven, why you have dinner plans.
Or maybe later, the one oh, come on and fall off.
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It'll be a one one.
Bet you by the count two and one.
We'll try to get everything in. Yes, baseball, the strike.
Football, dream team, Elvis.
You can come in the two one is hit in the air to right field. Don't he'll comes in.
And there are two way. Maybe his his daughter and son-in-law will show up.
That would be neat.
We'll put any kind of guest on and basement.
Get their view on the strike. I really meant the backup quarterback of the 49ers.
Elvis go back. Oh, that's so.
I'm boning up on my football, John. I'm ready. OK.
Well, maybe we can get on the same night Elvis go back and the former Sacramento king and Villanova wildcat Harold Presley.
Very good. The pitch is bounce slowly up third.
Boggs feels fires and gets the Danio.
So how has a one, two, three at the end of ten and a half.
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Bernie Williams, Mike Gallego, and Pat Kelley against Woody Williams as they play wild thing on the scoreboard.
You make my heart sing.
You make...
No, let's not do it.
That's tomorrow night we'll do that.
Yes. Freeform.
Bernie Williams and Acapella. Bernie Williams will lead it off.
Sprague in at third, and the pitch is cut out a miss.
Holy's third baseman come in for Bernie, who I don't think has ever bunned it.
He is 1-4-4 today.
6-9-1 for Toronto, 6-7-1 for the Yanks.
You know, you see all these advanced scouts at the game every day.
Well, I'll tell you what I said to a whole bunch of them.
They all won. Strike. Don Welke, an old group of them were at the table, Herb Stein and all.
And I said, I hope I see what the game tomorrow night's got.
I'm just wondering what scout came up with the idea.
Oh yeah, we got to play Bernie again because he bunts. Who saw it?
I don't know though. Line foul down the third base line of the seats.
Well, you're right about that. I think it's ritualistic.
Guy comes up with a little speed and you play the guy in at third.
But Bernie, to my knowledge, has never bunned a third. I don't think he's ever bunned it anyway.
Now look how far back they play him with two strikes.
So that's where they think they should play him if he's not bunning.
And how much room are they giving him when they think he's going to bun?
The 0-2. High fastball from Woody Williams on the count 1-2.
Henkin, Danny Cox, now Woody Williams, a right-hander.
It'll be Bernie Williams and Mike Gallego, Pat Kelly, the bottom third of the Yankee batting order.
Williams, the 1-2. A little pop fly to the left field.
In his tracks, Coles makes the catch and there is one away.
Here's Gallego, who was hit by a pitch his last time.
But you can see that his left elbow is heavily wrapped now.
Yankees have used only one man off their bench.
And that was Larritz when Stanley hurt his hand in the fifth inning.
I wonder why they don't go for Darrell Ball.
Gag swings amazes.
You've got Boston, you've got Nokes.
You don't want to use Nokes though because he's your last catcher.
That'll be an 0-1. Cut out of us.
Take one more thing, Mike. No one's warming in the Yankees bullpen, so how will pitch a third inning?
I don't think he's pitched three innings in one stint this year.
I think he has.
I'll have to check. I think he might have early.
Okay. Now, Ed, if you tell me so, I'll buy it.
I ain't buying it for a while.
The 0-2, up high 1-2.
Williams to the line. The pitch is up high.
Well, you're going to have to buy. You ready to buy?
Yes.
7-28 against Boston. He remained in the suspended game.
And he totaled three in a third inning pitch.
The 2-2.
Jack, three outside corner.
Guy Ager didn't like the call.
And he mentions it to Matt Winans on the way by.
So there are two down here. It's Matt Kelly.
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The pitch is looped by Kelly DeForest.
Ole Roode cannot make the catch, just a strike.
And of course, a mystic.
And after the show, but after the show, maybe one Coors.
It'd be an 0-1 to Kelly.
The pitch is low. We'll see if I have the holes.
They started the game in Detroit.
The Tigers lead it 2-0 there in the third against Milwaukee.
I knew they'd keep them there forever today.
But the rain stopped and it wasn't forever.
Pitch cut on and missed.
He threw it by him in the count one and two.
Williams is ahead of every hitter.
In the 12th, Toronto has their hitters up that they want to break the tie.
Three of the best in the league, Molitor, Carter, and Ole Roode.
Here's the one-two.
Breaking ball outside, 2-2.
I'll tell you this for Yankee hitters.
Yankee right-hand hitters, the pitch looks outside swinging it.
Good advice.
Mr. Wyman has been calling that a strike about an inch off the corner or so.
Here is the 2-2.
He struck him out swinging and the Yankees are down 1-2-3.
They played 11 innings at Yankee Stadium.
Toronto 6 in the Yankee 6.
We go to the 12th.
And Steve Howe is out for his third inning of relief.
And he faces the top three hitters for the Blue Jays.
Paul Molitor, Joe Carter, the first two right-handed hitters,
and then lefty hitter, John Ole Roode.
6-9-1 for Toronto, 6-7-1 for the Yanks, and on we go.
And with the play-by-play, here's Michael Cain.
Thank you, John.
Molitor is 1-4-5, so not a great Paul Molitor day, hitting 3-42, 14 home runs,
75 runs batted in, has only hit a single in the sixth.
And he did come around to score.
Boggs even with the bag at third.
The Yankees do not shift as drastically late in games to try to cut off the extra base hit.
Buck Showalter doesn't believe in it.
He thinks the majority of the base hits would go the other way.
The pitch to Molitor is a strike on the outside corner of fastball, 0-1.
6-9-1 for the Jays, 6-7-1 for the Yankees.
Oh, that's the scoreboard here.
And here's the 0-1.
Swung on, line drive to left field, coming on Polonia.
He makes the play for the first out of the inning.
Molitor could not have hit the ball any harder, but he hit it right at Polonia.
And now, for the scoreboard elsewhere, the members only, right?
That members only that you hear so much about.
It was a 1-15 schedule start.
Rain held up Milwaukee, Detroit.
They have just begun at the end of two.
Detroit leads Milwaukee 2-0.
Bill Wegman and Mike Moore tonight.
Boston and Baltimore, Aaron Sealy and Arthur Rhodes, Seattle and Oakland,
Randy Johnson and Ron Darling.
Here's Joe Carter. He's 1-for-5 today.
The pitch to Carter is swung on, hit deep to left field.
If it fair, it's gone. It is...
gone! A home run for Joe Carter and the Blue Jays lead 7-6.
That might have hit off the foul, Paul.
Whatever it hit, it's a home run.
Number 27 for Carter and the Jays take a one-run lead.
Well, when he swung and hit it, like the Charterville home run, there's no doubt about it.
That ball was out if it was fair.
It's something and then went back on the field.
And a home run for Carter. Harrell threw a fastball.
Actually, I think it was a breaking ball.
Maybe it was a slider and it hung over the plate.
And it did look like it hit the pole.
The pitch to O'Rourke is a strike on the outside corner.
Hit the screen right down the line.
And then kicked back out onto the field.
The 0-1 swung on. Line drive to center field.
Base hit for O'Rourke.
And the Jays have a runner on with one out.
Mike Huff coming to the play.
In the National League today, Los Angeles shut out Cincinnati 2-0.
2-5 and 0 to 0-7 and 0. Ramon Martinez wanted his 12-7.
Jose Rio lost his 9-6. Tim Walcott is 23rd.
And they drew 33,876 at riverfront.
Billy Conner is going out to talk with Howe.
In Houston this afternoon, Astros just scored 3 in the bottom of the 7.
It is 8-6 San Diego at the end of 7-1 half.
Derrick Bell is homing for the Pondres.
Kevin Bass for the Astros.
John Hudak is pitching now for Houston.
Scott Santis pitching for San Diego.
The other games are tonight.
Atlanta and Colorado will begin in about 20 minutes.
5-0-5 start.
Greg Maddox and Lance Pater.
New York's in Philadelphia tonight.
Jason Huckamy will pitch against Fernando Valenzuela.
Montreal plays in Pittsburgh tonight.
It will be Butch Henry against Zane Smith.
St. Louis at Florida.
Bob Chicksbury and Pat Rapid.
Here's Mike Huff.
The pitch to Huff is a fastball low and inside 1-0.
Huff has had a pretty good day.
He's 2-4-4 RBI run scored on a walk.
Jays lead the Yankees 7-6.
Yankees are in a little bit of a slide right now.
The pitch to Huff.
Swung on and driven to center field.
Bernie Williams has room.
O'Rourke playing it halfway.
Williams makes the catch and O'Rourke goes back to first.
Two away.
After a great road trip.
5-2 on the road trip.
A great start after the all-star break.
The Yankees lost 2 of 3 to the Orioles.
They lost the final 2 in Minnesota.
So that was 4 out of 5.
And now they're trailing here in the 12th inning.
It could be 5 out of 6.
Here's Darnell Coles.
He's 1-4-4.
Two RBI's.
A sack fly and a double.
Now over to first and O'Rourke back.
Coles hitting 2-11.
4 home runs, 14 RBI's.
The pitch to Coles.
Swung on and driven deep to center field.
Bernie Williams going back.
Has room.
Makes the play for the final out of the inning.
But not before.
The Blue Jays score on on Joe Carter's solo home run.
On two hits.
No errors and one left at the end.
With 11 and a half innings of play.
Toronto 7, the Yankees 6.
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Well the Jays bring on that closer.
That would be Darren Hall, a right hander, 1-3, 3.34.
This is his 30th game. He has 17 saves, 29 and 2 third innings pitched.
24 hits, 11 earned runs. He's allowed 3 home runs.
Walked 13, struck out 27.
Opponents are hitting 222 off Darren Hall.
Now once Dwayne Ward was gone for the year, well they had to find a closure and they settled on Darren Hall.
It'll be the top of the Yankee order trying to make up that one run deficit.
The Jays lead 7-6.
The strike deadline's tomorrow, August 12th.
This is the bottom of the 12th.
And let's hope on both, it's not the 12th of never.
You know that home run by Carter hit right in the middle, smack dab on the pole.
Just seen a couple of replays of it.
It was gone when he hit it.
If it was fair and the ball smacked off the pole, no question about that.
Well the Yankees have their lefty hitters.
We have never seen Darren Hall before.
Toronto brought him up after the last time the Yankees played.
Toronto, he has kind of a three-quarter almost sidearm delivery.
And I would think he'd be very tough on right-hand hitters.
So the Yankees have three lefty hitters and four of the first five hitters are lefty here in the 12th.
Sprague in on the grass for Polonia.
The pitch to Polonia is way outside 1-0.
And he's playing very strange in on the grass.
He's in on the grass and very close to the line.
He'll chop the ball right by him.
Here's the 1-0.
Fastball right down the middle of the plate, 1-1.
The Blue Jays, 7-11 and 1.
The Yankees, 6-7 and 1.
Louis hits a lot of ground balls between third and short, so they have the shortstop over 2, kind of backing up Sprague.
The middle's open.
The 1-1.
Swung on line, drive into the right field corner.
That's going to be a base hit and go all the way to the wall.
Polonia around first.
He's heading to second.
Carter Field fires and Polonia's in with a leadoff double.
They're standing on second base, clapping.
A clutch base hit for Louis Polonia to lead off the 12th.
Now we mentioned how many bases.
Clutch bases O'Neill has had this year in Boggs.
Louis has had a lot of clutch hits.
The ball was down and then he opened up quickly and laced it right down the line.
Proving to doubt if he can pull the ball.
He can pull the ball.
And you have one of your fastest, if not your fastest Yankee at second, no one out.
There's no fun coming up.
What you want to do is to have Boggs, O'Neill and Tartable.
And if anyone else gets on mattingly, take three shots of getting a base hit.
You know what? I like your odds.
Take three shots.
If he gets down, tip your hat to Darren Hall.
Polonia with that double now has two doubles on the afternoon.
He's two for six.
Here's Boggs.
The pitch to Boggs, a little bit low, one and O.
On the day, Boggs is one for five with a double and a sack flying and RBI hitting 340.
Eleven home runs and 55 runs batted in.
As John mentioned, Paul O'Neill on deck.
The one O.
There's a strike on the outside portion of the play, one and one.
The base hit by Polonia, the eighth for the Yankees.
They get the left-hander Castillo up along with right-hander Mike Timlin,
but you're going to use the left-hander.
You ought to use them now.
You would think, but they got him up late.
The one one, way outside, two and one.
Hall has become the closer out of necessity.
Dwayne Ward, so many problems with his shoulder, could not start it up this year.
The two one, in the dirt, scooped up beautifully by Borders.
It's three and one.
He kind of slings the ball.
I would think he'd be tough on the right-handers.
Mike, here's an interesting thing.
The Blue Jays have Coles playing straightaway left, way off the line,
and the center fielder, Hump, is playing maybe one step to the right field side of center,
so they obviously feel Boggs will pull Hall.
Here's the three one.
Swan and chopped over the middle, moving over to Sedeno, but Schofield cuts in front.
Boggs beats it out.
Schofield cut in front of Sedeno, fielded the ball, flipped to O'Rourke,
pulled him off the bag, and Polonia goes to third.
Boggs is on first with an infield hit.
Mike, I have no idea.
It was the right play for Schofield, because if Sedeno feels it, he's going away,
but Schofield threw terribly.
Instead of firing it, he flipped it and threw kind of a medicine ball toss to O'Rourke.
That's why Boggs beat it out.
Boggs had it beaten, and I don't know why Schofield must have slipped out of his hand.
The only thing I can figure, that it must have slipped out of his hands.
He could have had Boggs, and he threw a pop fly to first base.
So the tying run at third, which is almost a gimme at this point,
the winning run is at first, and here is O'Neill, and you have O'Neill,
Charterville, and Mattingly.
O'Neill is 0-4-4 with a walk and a run score.
The pitch to O'Neill, outside ball one.
All you need is a fly ball, and you tie the game.
Even a double play, they're playing for the double play.
They will give up the tying run.
The 1-0, swung on and fouled back off the glove of Borders, all the way back to the screen.
They are playing back. I don't blame them.
You don't want to lose the game.
A ground ball anywhere but third, and O'Neill hardly is going to hit a ground ball
at the third unless he swings very late against the run-in,
and they'd love to turn the double play.
The only two things can hurt the Yanks, a strikeout or a pop-up.
The 1-1, swung on and chopped over the middle.
Schofield right there. He'll get two.
Steps on second, fires the first.
Polonia scores, and the Yankees have tied the game at seven on the 6-6-3 double play.
He chopped it right over the middle.
Schofield moved to his left, fielded the ball, stepped on the bag himself,
and fired a strike to All-Rood, and the Yankees tie the game.
And Tartable.
That's a second chopper just like that.
His pitches must really sink.
Here's Tartable.
One for five.
The pitch, it's high, 1-0.
The one, a home run, a three-run shot in the third inning.
The Yankees would like more of the same right here.
Otherwise, we go to the 13th.
The 1-0 from Hall.
High 2-0 on deck.
Donald Arthur Mattingly.
Joe Osanio's in the Yankee bullpen.
He'll be coming on on the 13th.
Tartable with 19 home runs, 67 rebbies.
The 2-0, swung on and missed.
Breaking ball down and away.
7-11 and one for the Jays, 7-9 and one for the Yankees.
The 2-1, swung on and chop foul outside of third.
The count is even at 2-2.
He must have some downward sink on the ball,
because everyone's chopping the ball except for Polonia.
Polonia got a fastball, knee-high, thigh-high,
opened up and lined it down the right field line.
The 2-2, way outside, backhanded by Borders.
The count is full at 3-2.
Two outs, nobody on.
Bottom of the 12th inning, the Yankees and Jays are tied at 7.
The 3-2, swung on and chopped the third base.
Sprague right there, he fields and fires.
And that'll do it here in the 12th inning, but the Yankees do tie the game.
One run, two hits, no errors, nobody left at the end of 12 full innings of play.
Toronto 7, the Yankees 7.
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Well, we go to Lucky 13.
I don't think either of these teams wants to go on strike.
7-11 and one for the Jays, 7-9 and one for the Yankees.
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Well, that'll do it for Steve, huh?
They bring on the right-hander Joe Osanio, and he'll face 8-9-1 in the Blue J lineup.
Sprague, Borders, and Schofield.
13 innings of play here on a Thursday afternoon.
A lot of the crowd is left, they say half.
37,333 was the announced crowd.
So Osanio will try to keep the Blue Jays on the line.
And let the Yankees try to score a run in the bottom of the 13.
Sprague will lead it off.
Sprague, so far today, is 1-4-5 with a triple and two runs batted in.
Almost won the game in the 10th inning.
In retrospect, would have won the game when he lined one right back up the middle.
But Howe made a great play, just a stab of the line drive to end the inning.
So Sprague, who's 1-4-5, hitting 238, and he's going to be the first to score.
1-4-5, hitting 238, 10 home runs and 43 rebbies.
He's ready, Osanio's ready, and John Sterling, as always, is ready with the play-by-play.
And the first pitch of fastball high, 1-0.
Well, if it's the last game, we are getting our money's worth, eh?
Yes, eh.
Well, Toronto's here, you have to say that.
It'll be a 1-0 to Sprague, and the pitch inside, 2-0.
Melito Perez went 6 1 3rd, Bob Wickman 2 2 3rd, Howe 3.
Now, Osanio, who has emerged from absolutely nowhere.
Well, Columbus, but the Yanks didn't know about him.
The 2-0 is corked at deep left field.
Back goes Pallogna to the track, to the wall, it's gone.
Ed Sprague, homers in the left field seats, and Toronto takes an 8-7 lead here in the top of the 13th.
Now, Mike just told you that Sprague could have won the game when he hit that line dry,
that Howe just flicked up the glove and happened to stick in.
That would have brought in a run, while Sprague took it in his own hands this time.
Hey, Homer, deep to left, a mighty shot, his 11th home run.
And what is his 44th RBI?
Remember, he had a two-run triple early in the game that just missed going out in center field,
so Sprague's had a big day.
He hung the splitter, which is hung up right in front of Sprague's eyes as he drilled it.
The pitch to borders is outside 1-0.
Toronto takes the lead, 8-7.
Borders the right-hand heading catcher, the 1-0 is up high on the count, 2-0.
The Aggies will have Mattingly, Larritz, and Bernie Williams as their top three hitters,
and they have two lefty hitters on the bench in Nokes and Boston.
Pitch is popped up to shallow left.
Polonia comes in.
Louis will make the catch, and there is one away.
Shortstop, Dick Cofield.
What a weird game it is in many respects, but it's a great game.
It is, in many respects, it's very weird.
And you can look back at this game if your either team has said,
gee, we should have done this, or shouldn't have done this.
The Yankees made a couple of big goofs in the field today, something they normally do not do.
However, Dick Cofield, the right-hand hitter, is in with one out,
knowing on, Orsaniot deals, and Cofield runs up and takes a strike on the count, 0-1.
Toronto leads 8-7 here on the top of the 13th. Orsaniot will try to hold it at 8.
He deals low and goes back to the screen, the count, 1-1.
Carter a base is empty home run. Sprague a base is empty home run here in extra innings.
Sprague had a two-run triple earlier in the game.
Danny Charneval a three-run home run for the Yanks.
The 1-1. There's a strike on a breaking ball on the count, 1-2.
Now the stretch by Orsaniot, the 1-2. He struck him out swinging breaking ball.
So there are two way a Cofield strikes out.
The second baseman Domingo Cedeno. And here's Domingo Cedeno, the switch hitting second baseman,
who went in after Alomar came out of the game midway through.
Cedeno has walked twice and bounced a third.
There is a strike on the outside corner. At the beginning of the year,
Toronto's sure stop was to have been Alex Gonzalez. He didn't hit.
He's back in the model leagues along with their other hot shots in the minors, Delgado and Green.
Cedeno takes the strike.
Cofield became the number one sure stop and Cedeno the backup for both.
I think in retrospect it shows that the Blue Jays put too much emphasis on rookies.
You can't infiltrate three rookies or two rookies into a starting lineup of a World Championship team
and expect not to miss a beat. They missed the beat.
Well also too, it's very tough to gauge when a guy's ready or not to pitch.
He struck him out swinging.
Cedeno.
But Osanio gave up one run on the home run to Sprague. One hit.
We go to the bottom of the 13th. And Toronto has an 8-7 lead.
He's last chance, Mattingly, Larritz and Bernie Williams against Darren Hall.
So they give Hall another shot. This time he won't go for save, he'll go for the win.
You like lefties against Hall the way he pitches and Matt Nokes has come on deck for Larritz.
So it'll be three lefty hitters initially against Hall.
Try to close it out. Mattingly, Nokes and then Bernie Williams.
And you still have a lefty hitter left for either Gallego or Kelly, Darryl Boston.
Being on deck though is not in the game. So let's say Mattingly,
Homers for example, you don't have to send up Nokes. No one's warming in the Toronto bullpen.
The pitch is fastball low 1-0.
Hall comes somewhere between three quarters inside.
I'm kind of slings the ball. It'll be a 1-0 to Mattingly.
Low 2-0. It looks like it's tough on his arm. Wouldn't you think that?
You would think the way he comes almost buggy with.
How badly do you think Mattingly wants to jack one out of here right now?
Badly. He is one for five on the day. Yankees trail bottom of the 13th, 8-7.
The right-handed Darren Hall deals 2-0.
Low 3-0. I think the Yankees probably made a mistake at swinging some of his pitches.
Had to be at first and third, knowing how.
He does throw everything sinking low. He throws what they would call a heavy ball.
The 3-0. There is a strike on the knees on the count of three and one.
Now they've pulled Nokes off deck and put Darrell Boston there, which I don't understand.
Because you are pinch-hitting for the catcher. Why are you burning an extra player?
You're absolutely right.
It'll be a 3-1 to Mattingly, way outside.
A lot of Hall's pitches go, in effect, down in a way, kind of Scrooge-like from the arm movement, the arm delivery.
You know, you have a very good point. But I guess Buccus wants to put him up in this order for whatever reason.
The reason I don't know.
Because Nokes will be used to hit for either Gallego or Kelly.
And of course, if you don't get that far in the game, the game is over, so it doesn't hurt you.
He also knows that Boston's a pretty good off-speed breaking ball hitter, and that's exactly what Hall's been throwing.
Well, the tying line is at first no one out, and once again, left-handed Castillo.
The pitch to Boston, ground and foul. And right-handed Timlin, get up.
This time they got up Rigetti, John.
Which I don't understand. So it's Rigetti and Timlin.
Oh, it's not Castillo. It's Riggs. It was Castillo before when they sat down.
Oh, that is Riggs. Now they bring up Riggs. That's easy to see.
That'll be an 0-1 to Boston. Mattingly, the tying runoff first pitch outside.
And the count 1-1. One thing I know, you have to lay off the pitch.
I mean, it's very tough to do. The sinking pitch, and most of his pitches are sinking low.
First time the Yanks have ever seen Darren Hall.
It'll be a 1-1. Fouled off.
And the count 1-2. He reached for an outside pitch.
Bernie Williams on deck.
A game that has gone over four hours.
Mattingly, the tying runoff. And of course, Boston at home late. The winning run.
Here's the 1-2. That's low on the count 2-2.
Hall really staying away from Boston. The center fielder, Mike Hup, is playing several steps.
Maybe five, six steps toward left center field. Coles and left just straight away.
It'll be a 2-2. Lays off the outside pitch just in the count 3-2.
Well, Mattingly will not be going because that would be a strike-em-out, throw-em-out double play.
But now Hall has to throw a strike.
So he's got to make the pitch a little more palatable for Darrell Boston.
And now, Gerald Williams goes in to run for Mattingly. And you can bet your boots he will be off.
And no question about it now.
So Mattingly leaves. Gerald Williams goes in to run for him.
And Buck Showalter is holding up a sign saying he is running 3-2.
And no question about it. Why would you do that if you didn't do it before?
So Gerald Williams gets the lead at first. It'll be a 3-2 to Boston.
And a throw over and Gerald jumps on back.
Darrell Boston ready to swing 3-2.
If Hall misses, the Yankees will have the tying run at second and the winning run at first.
And here's the 3-2. Runner goes. Pitch is ground to foul. What a jump Gerald Williams had.
If Boston had struck out, Waters had no chance. He had a fabulous jump against Darin Hall.
You know, conceivably, I'm just guessing, but I bet Gerald Williams has seen Hall before.
Because they both were in the International League last year.
Sure, Syracuse against Columbus. That's a good point.
Gerald inches off. There he goes. The 3-2 hammered. Great stop by O'Rourke. He fumbles it. Goes to the bag.
And touches up. Nice stop by O'Rourke. That would have been a base hit to right field. Boston hit it hard.
You can see why Hall is effective. He gets a lot of ground balls.
The pitch was over the outside corner.
That was a great play, John. He moved so quickly to his right.
Boston really scorched it. Kept it real close to the earth. But a great play moving to his right by O'Rourke.
He stopped the ball, stayed with it, picked it up and stepped on the bag.
And he saved the first and third situation. Indeed.
Now there's a ball on the field, I think, escaped. So Joe Carter will go out right field and throw it away.
Hall's pitches are almost like a right hand side armor who will deliver. Like Mark Eichorn, for example.
Or the guy who used to be with the Mets.
Terry Leach. They come up and sink down and away from the angle in which they are thrown.
You almost have to go with that pitch with the Yankees having been doing the trying to pull that pitch.
The pitch to Bernie is on the inside corner for a strike to keep Bernie honest.
I guess they did that in the top of the inning. Didn't notice. It's starting to get a little overcast.
It's been overcast all day, but a little darker.
The tying run is at second with one out. The Yankees have two shots at it.
There's the 0-1. It's inside. Another slider.
Last two pitches have been sliders down and in to Bernie.
Basically, Hall throws a sinking fastball.
And as I mentioned, they almost, when he delivers the ball to the outside part of the play against the left-handed, they sink almost down and away.
The 1-1. There's a strike. Another breaking ball on the count 1-2.
Good breaking pitch. It might have been a little bit below the knees. That's why Bernie was arguing.
That's where it was caught, but maybe it cascaded over the plate right around the knees.
Yankees have one left-hand hitter next. Left, I should say.
They might use him for Gallego. Let's see. It'll be a 1-2. Just missed outside on the count 2-2.
But Hall has kind of advertised the slider down and in, so Bernie can't go reaching over the plate.
Where Hall probably wants the pitch, I'm just guessing.
The tying run. Gerald Williams leads off second. And the 2-2. He struck him out swinging. They're two-way.
The Yanks are down to their final out. They'll use notes for Gallego.
He changed speeds on that one. Third ball diving down at the last moment. It was kind of up in the zone, but it had enough of a drop to it that Bernie Williams swung over the top.
Also the change of speed got him.
Well, this is it, and here comes Galen Siscoe to probably talk to Hall about how to pitch to Notes.
Notes has never seen Hall before, unless he might have seen him in a spring training game. I doubt it.
And our sound system, we gave him the names, those were the days. Those were the days, my friend.
We thought they'd never run. That's what I thought. I thought they might end October 3rd, and I was hoping maybe October 28th or so.
Wouldn't that be your anniversary? 30th. 30th.
You get your best Biven Tucker ready for that. You're going to have a blowout of that one. Really? Yep.
Alright. The 28th and the 30th. Both. Hopefully the 28th will be the end of the series. 30th for sure.
Here's Matt Notes, two outs. Gerald Williams at second, and the pitch is swung on and driven to deep right center field.
That goes Huff. He's there in deep right center, makes the catch, and the ball game is over. And in 13 innings,
Toronto has beaten the Yankees by the score of 8-7 on the home run by Ed Sprague in the top of the inning.
Notes hit it very well, and Huff caught it on the very edge of the warning track in deep right center field.
The game goes 4-0-6. It also goes 13 innings, and Toronto is the victor, 8-7.
Well, they're going to go. They certainly went out with a pretty funky ball game. A lot of things went on in this one.
Yankees put a little sloppy defense in the outfield, but for the most part, an entertaining ball game, 8-7.
They kept it four more innings, and it should have gone, and if they go on strike, well, that's a pity. That's a shame.
We hope it doesn't happen. We'll make the play. Don't do it. Don't do it. But I don't think anybody's listening to us.
All the fans have been saying the same thing. And about 12 midnight tonight, we'll know for sure what the story is,
and I think we all know what the story is. We hope the story changes.
We hope the ending is a completely different ending than we've been expecting throughout the book.
So this is just the ball game. Tonight is the season.
Well said, Michael. Well, I know I'll see you tomorrow. I just don't know where.
I'll see you either here at 645 for Yankee pregame before the second game of the four-game weekend series,
or I'll see you at Mickey Mantles at 7.
Well, as much as I like Mickey Mantles, I'd rather see you right here.
Right. Well, we'll hope that, and if not, see you at Mickey's. Thank you, Michael.
Here are the totals on the ball game.
For the Blue Jays, as they win it in 13 innings, 8 runs, 12 hits, 1 error. They left 9. For the Yanks, 7 runs, 9 hits, 1 error.
They left 8. Darren Hall wins it. He's 2 and 3. Joe Osanio loses. He's 2 and 1.
They drew.
They drew 37,333. The Yankees in their last 10 games averaged, I think it's almost on the nose, right around there.
40,000 people a game in their last 10 games. So don't tell me business ain't good. Business is good, pal.
With the loss, the Yankees dropped to 70 and 43, and the Blue Jays improved to 55 and 60.
Yankee postgame is next if you have the chance. Stay tuned.
The final in 13 innings today, Toronto 8, Yankee 7, and from Yankee Stadium in New York. This is New York Yankees baseball.
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We go to the highlights of the ballgame. The Yankees lost it in 13. The game went back and forth about 10 different times. 8-7 to Toronto. Blue Jays grabbed the early lead.
The second inning with one out, O'Rourke singled and Huff walked. And with two outs, Ed Sprague came up and he drilled a terrific shot to deep center. Went off the very top of the center field wall, just to the right field side of the 408 foot sign. And went off the wall maybe an inch or two from the very top.
And the Yankees came back for a triple for Sprague, the first of his big hits of the day. And Toronto had a 2-0 lead. But the Yankees took the lead in the third inning. Michael Kay was at the microphone when Gallego lined out and Pat Kelly kind of jump started the Yankee offense with a bunt single down the third baseline.
Luis Bologna lined a double down the left field line to put runners at second and third. Wade Boggs at a sack fly to center field. Kelly crossed and it was a 2-1 game. And then Paul O'Neill drew a walk. So there were two on, two out, two on Toronto and Danny Tartable at the plate.
And then Hanken sets, checks Bologna, the 2-1. Swung out and hit deep to left field. See ya. Home run and a Yankees lead 4-2. Oh what a shot by Danny Tartable.
And Danny hit a three run home run. It was 4-2. However, the Blue Jays came back in the sixth inning against Milito Perez. Molitor's single and with one out, O'Rourke walked and then Mike Huff doubled in a run.
He hit the runners at second and third and made it 4-3. And the next hitter was Darnell Coles. Here's Darnell Coles. And the pitch is a high fly to left center. That will tie the game.
Bologna and deep left makes the catch. O'Rourke could walk home. The throw comes to our third. It's going to go in the Toronto dugout. No one was there and I think the run is going to be allowed home. It is. So Huff scores all the way from second as Bologna threw the ball to the Toronto dugout.
He threw close at his 5-4 Toronto. Yeah and I went on if you heard the play by play I said he could have run the ball in, he could have walked the ball in, he could have rolled the ball in. He wound up trying to muscle the throw to third was way off line. There was no one there.
He threw the ball practically directly into the Toronto dugout and Huff is allowed an extra base. He scored. And so Toronto took a 5-4 lead. But the Yankees regained the lead in the sixth inning. Charleville struck out and Mattingly flied out.
But then Layretts walked. Bernie Williams singled and Gallego on a 3-2 pitch walk. Bases loaded two outs. It brought up Pat Kelly. The 1-2. Kerrball is lined. It's in the field. It is a base hit. Layretts scores.
Bernie Williams scores a two run, two out single for Pat Kelly and the Yankees take a 6-5 lead. So the 6-5 lead lasted until the eighth and then remember Bologna's throwing error, a ridiculous throw into the dugout cost the Yanks a run.
Well, Bernie Williams' bad defensive play in center field cost him a run in the eighth. John O'Rourke led off. He lined a pitch. Well, why don't you hear it? Here's what O'Rourke did in the eighth.
The 1-1 is lined to center field. On the run is Bernie. Has to play it on a hop and it gets by him. It rolls all the way toward the warning track. O'Rourke around second. He'll go to third. Terrible sloppy play by the Yankees and O'Rourke has a three base hit.
It could be a single and a two base error. Bernie put on the brakes, slipped and the ball went past him. So it should have been a single to center field has turned into three bases and there's the tying run.
Yeah, it was going to score a triple. So after an out, Coles doubled down the left field line to tie the game and we went to the bottom of the eighth inning. The Yankees didn't score. Neither team scored in the ninth. In fact, neither team scored till the 12th.
And with one out, Joe Carter hit one deep down the left field line, hit the foul pole for a home run and Toronto had a 7-6 lead. But in the bottom of the 12th, Luis Polonia led off with a double. Boggs had an infield single sending Louis to third and O'Neill chopped a ground ball up the middle, turned into a double play.
And that tied the game at seven and we went to the 13th and now Joe Osanio is pitching and with Osanio on the mound, the leadoff hitter was Ed Sprague. We're calling this the quality play of the game. It's brought to you by the United Auto Workers, UAW and Ford, working together for quality.
The 2-0 is corked at deep left field. Back goes Polonia to the track. To the wall it's gone. Ed Sprague, Homer's in the left field seats and Toronto takes an 8-7 lead here in the top of the 13th.
In the bottom of the 13th, the Yankees did get a leadoff walk from Mattingly. However, Darryl Boston grounded out. Bernie Williams struck out. Matt Nokes flied out and the Yankees had lost the ballgame by the score of 8-7.
8-12 and 1 for Toronto, they left 9. 7-9 and 1 for the Yanks, they left 8. Darren Hall wins it, he's 2-3. Joe Osanio loses, he's 2-1. The Yankees fall to 70 and 43 with the loss. And Toronto improves to 55 and 60.
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