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run is 26th of the year. 6th Oletkano hit a grand slammer for Milwaukee and Alexander
did a three run over for Cleveland. Here's the 2-1 pitch. Swing and a one hopper over
to second. Fire has it as he throws the outfield grass and he gets him. And there's one down.
His breath rounds out to second, 4-3. That Cleveland victory snapped a Milwaukee four-game
winning streak. Milwaukee has gone into today's activity, six games out of first. And they
had a chance to pick up a half a game on the idle Boston Red Sox but instead lose a half
a game and they're now six and a half back. Hal McCrae the batter hitting 278, 13 homers,
56 RBIs. Back from the right side, first pitch, one hopper to Kessinger. It's short. Long
throw across, in time, two down. Two up and two down. And when Mr. Proley is on his game,
you'll see a lot of ground balls. We've had two already here in the first inning as Pete
Lecock steps in. Pete former Cubs playing in his first game of this series batting from
the left side. Pete has not played because the White Sox has sent a couple of left handers
to the mound, Ross Baumgarten and Ken Kravitz the last two nights. White hander into the
wind up to the pitch. And it's low of all. Pete was the American League player of the
month in the month of July. Toronto and Detroit we told you is just underway. Those are the
only games in the American League, the two this afternoon and the two night games. Here's
the pitch low of all. In the National League, there are four games. Pittsburgh and Atlanta,
St. Louis and Cincinnati we gave you the probables. Later tonight, New York will be
at San Diego and Philadelphia out at Los Angeles. The Cubs are idle. Here's the 2-0 pitch. Swing
and a foul tip at the feet of the catcher. The Cubs will be opening up the series at
Cincinnati. They've now lost three in a row and five in their last six ballgames. Kansas
City Royals leading the American League West by one percentage point. As California won
last night, defeating the Yankees six to three. Right hander ready, the 2-1 pitch, swing and
a face tip to the left. Got a hold of the pitch on the outside part of the play to the left
hander. Single between short and third. And the Royals have a runner at first with two
outs. Both, despite the fact the White Sox beat Kansas City last night, both the Royals
have a runner. And California been playing fairly evenly. Kansas City won three of their
last four and California's won four of their last five. See how many games the Royals have
left with California. If any. Yep, they've got something up in September. Now college
city, 285 homers, 53 RBI, as I believe we told you. And the first pitch of the breaking
ball low, ball one. And it was all through inside. See here in the month of August, the
Royals will play Texas three over the weekend in Kansas City. Then the White Sox will go
into Kansas City for three. Here's the pitch swinging on this. In September, the Royals
are out in California for four games. And then California goes to Kansas City for three.
That's seven games in a period of about 10 days that they play each other from the eighth
of September to the 17th. Those will be big series. One ball and a strike. Right handed
delivers. Here's the pitch swinging a foul. So he's ahead of them one and two. The three
games that the Royals have left with Texas and the three with the White Sox are their
final games. I guess those two clubs this year. White Sox will play against the Eastern
Division with three games this weekend against Cleveland. Right handed ready. Here's the
one two pitch. Swinging the grounder to second base hit. Lacock stopped the second as Washington
charges the ball with a right handed hitter up fire with played way over. But Collins
goes to the opposite field singles. Lacock holding up the second. Both of the hits by
Lacock and by Collins have been on pitches about waist high on the outside part of the
plate. But they just slapped the opposite field. Now the batter is Darrell Porter, the
catcher hitting 279 homers and 55 RBI. The Royals have not completed play against the
East. They have three more with Detroit. But the White Sox have very little success with
Kansas City has played them about even. The big thing about the Royals, they have a lot
of home games. 16 of their last 21 will be at home against the likes of. Well they got
Milwaukee too. That's late. They've got Milwaukee, they've got Minnesota, Seattle, Oakland, California.
Here's the pitch swinging the grounder to second. Fire to his right. Has it flipped
to the shortstop for the fourth out at second. And Matt retires the side as Collins is forced
out. In the inning, no runs, two hits, no errors, two men left down. So at the end of
a half inning of play here at Tavisky Park, the Chicago White Sox coming to bat at the
bottom of the first. There's no score. Takes them on and begins his warmup thoughts as
they face Ralph Yard, Don Kessinger, and Mike Swyers. Swidor making his 31st appearance
of the year and his 30th start. This will be his fourth start against the White Sox.
They got credit for a 13 to 2 Kansas City victory against the Sox in Kansas City on
the 4th of June. But then he got hammered here, 11 to nothing in the second game of
a double hitter on June the 18th. But then he came right back in Kansas City on the 8th
of August and won 10 to 4. So whenever he has faced the White Sox, there's been a lot
of scoring in the three games that he has pitched. 15 runs were scored in one game,
11 in another, all by the White Sox, and 14 in another. And the first pitch to Ralph Gar
is fouled off, Ralph hitting 281, three homers, 27 RBIs. Kansas City pitchers in the last
five games have gone the distance three times. They've been getting some good efforts out
of their starters. Here's the pitch high and inside of all. Swidor has an earned run average
of four against the White Sox this year. In 18 innings, he's allowed eight earned runs.
Here's the 1-1 pitch way inside of all, backs him off. He's 2-1 against the White Sox this
year, 17 and 11 against the White Sox throughout his career. He did not have a record against
them last year. Here's the pitch, swidor up live all the left. Clint Hurdle playing near
the line is there and he's got it in fair territory. And there's one down. And the batter
will be switch hitting shortstop Don Kessinger, hitting 266 with a homer and 25 RBIs. Defensively
for Kansas City, Pete LeCocque is at first, Frank White at second, Freddy Potek at short,
and George Bledis at third with Darrell Porter doing the catching. Clint Hurdle in left field,
Amos Otis in center and Al Collins in right. Kessinger batting from the right side against
Swidor. White Sox have won six, lost five against the Royals. This is the rubber match
not only of this series and the first pitch is a strike. As the White Sox won last night
after the Royals won on Tuesday night, but it is also the rubber match of the season series
here at Comiskey Park. Here's the pitch. Sox having one three and the Royals having one
three and the pitch was high of all.
Split or delivers the one one delivery, swing and a looper to right, it might drop, it will,
a face hit. Kessinger goes to the opposite field with a single and the White Sox have
a runner at first with one out. Swidor with an earned run average of three point three
two. He has struck out fifty eight in two hundred and three innings and walked thirty
nine. Second high on the club and home runs allowed seventeen. Dennis Leonard has given
up twenty three.
So the batter is Mike Squires. Youngster has hit successfully in nine of his last eleven
ballgames, hitting three fifty nine with seven RBI's and he swings at a big breaking pitch
and misses. Strike one. Toronto and Detroit, no score at the end of one. It's the only
other game in the American League going on right now. Left hander ready, here's the pitch.
Slider misses outside, evens it up one and one. Outfield. Playing Squires almost straight
away. Center fielder shaded just a hair in the right center. Here's the pitch fastball
swing and a miss. They got Kessinger off the bag, a throw to first, he is out. Kessinger
was caught halfway between first and second. Tony LaRusso arguing with Brett Koss, the
umpire at first, Kessinger did not argue. And he is out two to three as he was picked
off. Apparently the hit and run was on and Kessinger stopped when Squires missed. So
he is picked off two to three. Left hander ready, here's the one two pitch outside of
all. Here's the two two delivery, swing and a miss, struck him off, the inning is over.
No runs, one hit, one man left on. With the end of one complete inning of play here at
Kamiski Park, Whiteside, coming royal something. Warren Brown back at Kamiski Park, no Kessinger
was caught coming back to first, it goes down as it caught stealing. They're keeping score
with us as he was thrown out from Porter to LeCocque. Clint Hurdle will lead it off for
Kansas City here in the second inning, no score in the ball game. He'll be followed
by Amos Otis and Freddie Potten. Our greetings tonight to George Makris of Peril Hicks Chevrolet.
George is our Chevrolet salesman of the day. Francis Enderman and the gang from Consolidated
Freightways up in the sky box tonight. And Jim DeLong and friends in one of the bull
friends along with John Seward and friends in the other bull friend tonight. Hurdle left
handed hitting rookie outfielder hitting 269, 6 homers, 53 RBIs, goes after the first pitch,
wants the fly ball deep to right field, curving, curving it is a foul ball. He got a hold of
it, a fully pitch, came within about five feet of hitting that foul pole down there
and there's one strike in the batter. Well former cup Paul Rushell, going to start against
the White Sox in this next series against Cleveland. Here's the pitch and it's a strike.
Rushell started the other night, did a good job but the Indians lost the ball game. He'll
be making his second American League start this weekend. Here's a swing and a grounder
foul to the right side. Indians will be in here tomorrow night. Francisco Barrios goes
against our old nemesis Rick Waits. Saturday Steve Stone will take on David Clyde and Sunday
Ross Baumgarten in an afternoon game will be going against Paul Rushell. It'll be the
second straight game. Here's the two strike pitch inside of all the second straight game
that Baumgarten goes against a fellow Illinoisan. He was matched up against Joliet Larry Gura
the other night and Paul Rushell, camp point product, will be pitching against him on Sunday.
Right hander ready, here's the pitch, swing and a grounder foul. Over at first Squires
has it, Steve Moroes doing the coaching at first for Kansas City. Chuck Hiller over at
third, his dad is here tonight in Johnsburg, Illinois, a lot of his friends and relatives.
A ball and two strikes. Hurdle with the number nine on his back, crouches in the box, stands
way back in it. Here's the pitch outside of all. Ted Henry doing the up-hiring behind
home plate. Probably a little upset, I think he thought he had the corner on that pitch.
Henry is only to be worked at inning and his shirt is practically completely soaked. Here's
the two-two delivery. Low inside of all, three and two. Greg Kosk up-hiring down at first,
Jerry Newdecker at second, and George Maloney at third. This is the rubber game of the three
game set and the rubber game of the series between these two at Comiskey Park. One and
two, one and one in this series, three and three for the year here. Here's the pitch
swinging a fly ball to left. Ralph Gahr comes running in. He's there and he takes it and
there's one out. So there's one down and Amos Otis the batter, inning 266, 15 homers, 62
BIs. Curly did a fine job in his last outing. He went the distance, defeating Cleveland
7-1, tossing an eight-hitter. Made that fine outing, you may recall, against Boston where
he beat them in Fenway Park, four to two. Here's a swing and a miss on the first pitch. But
then his second start was against Kansas City at Kansas City. He hadn't pitched in about
eight or nine days and he got whopped pretty good at four innings and he absorbed a 10-4
beating by the Royals. So this is his chance to even it up against Kansas City. Took the
rise back that time and patted his right wrist and forearm with him, indication that he's
perspiring out there pretty good. Doesn't want to get any moisture on that ball to slip.
Here's a swing and a base hit to right. Foddle Washington comes over, has it on a couple
of hops and gets it back into the infield quickly. As Otis goes to the opposite field,
singling to right. All three hits that the Royals have had here tonight, they've all
gone the other way on Proley. They haven't tried to pull him. But Brett McCrae grounded
out pulling him in the first inning. Porter pulled in and forced the man out. Hurdle hit
the other way against him and now Otis hitting the other way against him. So Hurdle's ball
was a put out by Gar. Freddie Potpeck the batter, here's the pitch to him and it's
slow of all. Potpeck hitting 270, a homer and 40 RVIs. A hot and humid night in Chicago.
Winds coming out of the southwest going from home plate to center field. Breeze of about
eight miles an hour. Proley tosses over to first runner back. White Sox went over the
1,300,000 mark here last night. 1,300,000. Stank corrected, 1,300,000 plus. Come out
of the ballpark this year, really a tribute to the Chicago White Sox fans. Here's the
pitch of strike. You know the White Sox despite the fact they're 20 games under 500 have out
drawn the Cubs this year. I'm not trying to put down the Cubs and their fans by saying
that but just an indication how great and loyal the White Sox fans have been. 1,304,843
and still about 15 more home games to go including tonight. Proley tossed over to first and Otis
is back. Amos with the lead. Right hander ready. There he goes, he stops. Here's the
pitch high and inside, backs him off. Two and one. Otis made a break and then stopped.
Amos has stolen 22 bases this year. He's been thrown out only five times. Pottec who's generally
been the leader on this club. Half the plate here is stolen 33. Their leader is the rookie,
Willie Wilson, 35 stolen bases. Two balls and a strike. Runner at first, one out, we're
in the second, no score. Right hander ready. Runner not going, here's the pitch, swinging
the grounder to short. Kessinger has it on behalf, goes to second for one, the relay,
running time. They get the front man, six to four. Otis came in pretty good. Fire got
it away but his throw was the outfield side of first and Pottec is on with a fielder's
choice. So he may be going here. He's got as I mentioned 35 stolen bases. Frank White
for that. He's pretty good contact this year. He's hitting 274, four homers and 35 RBI.
You talk about a fellow progressing with each year. It has been Frank White. He is one of
the premier second baseman now in the American League. First saw him in 73 for a while when
he was at Omaha, a little better in 74. Early out of the stretch, first pitch to White,
a pitch out, runner not going. He was up with Kansas City for a little bit in 73. He hit
221 for the Royals in 74, 250 at 75. Then he had a slump in 76, hit 229. He came back
to hit 245 last year now, hitting a 274. Swing and a miss and all that time. His defense
is continually improved. Though his batting average fluctuated, his RBI production improved
every year from 5 to 18 to 36 to 46 to 50. Down a little bit this year at 35 with a little
over a month to go in the season. He's been hurt a couple of times. Here's a swing and
a base hit to White. Goes to the opposite field. Pottec holds up at second. Every hit
here tonight, two in the first and two here in the second, have been on opposite field
singles. So the Royals have runners at first and second with two out at George Brett-DeBattery
grounded out to second his first time up. The reason we make a point of these opposite
field singles is the fact to show you what these guys are thinking when they go up there,
the majority of them. This is one thing that I don't know if they get enough credit for
is that hitting-wise, they've got a good defense, they've got good pitching. Their hitters know
what they're doing every time they get up there. Here's the pitch. Swing and a grounder
to first. Brett pulled it and Crowley takes the putout. Every time they have pulled the
ball in the infield, they've grounded out. Every time they've gotten a hit, they've gone
the other way with it. Brett pulling that ball, he still has that bone problem in his
right hand. And Matt retires the side. In the inning, no runs, two hits and two men
left on. So we go to the bottom of the second. Kansas City nothing, the White Sox nothing.
Warren Brown back at Kavisky Park. Lamar Johnson leads it off and he hits the first ball, Splendor
pitch for a strike. Here's the next delivery and it's inside of all. Lamar hitting 271,
eight homers and 57 RBIs. That's high in the club. Meaning the RBIs. Here's the 1-1 pitch.
Foul back upstairs. You're in tune with WMAQ Radio, Chicago, Illinois. Turado scored a
run in the second with the Tigers came back with one in the bottom half of their frame.
Tied it up, 1-1. Pirates at Atlanta, no score. That game in the bottom of the fourth. Here's
the pitch up high above. Pirates right now, the hottest team in baseball. Nine straight
victories. They gained seven games in the last 11 days. Here's a swing and a miss on
the Philadelphia Phillies. So that's the second straight strikeout for Splendor. For the batter
is Eric Soderholm. Soderholm hitting 251, 16 homers and 46 RBIs. Left-hander ready. Here's
the pitch. Swing and a grounder to the left side foul. Paul Splendor went to Quincy College
first two years then transferred to Morningside in Iowa over at Sioux City after going to
high school in Arlington Heights. He's had great success against the White Sox over the
years. Here's the one strike delivery and it's up high of all. The Spectal left-hander,
real gentleman in the first degree. Here's the 1-1 pitch. Swing and a pop-up on the right
side. Pete LeCocque backs up. In fair territory, the first baseman takes it. Had there two
down. Soderholm was honored by the Chicago Chapter of the Baseball Writers of America
this last winter at their banquet. I think the name of the award that he was given. Let's
check it out for you. Mike Colbert the batter, nobody on it, two out. Mike getting 269, no
homers and nine RBIs. Here's the pitcher, the swing and a shot to Leith's left centerfield.
Holt is going back near the warning track and he's got it right at the edge of the warning
track, an extreme left centerfield. That's been the best ball hit tonight by either club
and it goes as a long out. So it's three up and three down in the second. At the end of
two, the White Sox nothing, Kansas City nothing. Lauren Brown back at Comiskey Park as we go
to the third inning. Mike Crowley will face the number two, three and four hitters for
the Royals. Speaking about that award that was given Paul Splendorf by the Chicago Baseball
Writers, it was the Ken Hubs Award for meritorious service and conduct on and off the field.
So it's sort of like the, I guess you'd call it the Lady Bing Award in hockey, the gentleman's
award. Also you have to have credentials on the field as well as off. In other words,
you've got to be a winner in both areas and he certainly is. All right, Hal McCray will
lead it off, the designated hitter. He'll be followed by Pete LeCocque and Al Collins.
The Royals have gotten four hits off of Crowley, two in each inning. Hal McCray grounded out
to short his first time up. Jim Gallagheri from Palookas here tonight. A bunch of fellows
from Joliet along with him. Jim Oberwarchman, Bob Robinson, Jim Wermer, Herb Poler, Warren
Koverec and Jim Rolfe. Here's the pitch and it's a strike. Outfield playing him fairly
straight away. Spencer in center shading just a little in left center. Right hander ready,
here's the one strike pitch. There's a swing and a shot to right and second base has got
him. What a play by Breyer going to his right. The bat split in half. One piece went out
to Satterhove. The ball is to the right of second. Breyer got it about two or three steps
in the outfield grass and then he threw him out. Well, they don't have to saw that bat
and they have to find out if there's any cork in it or not. Which they did yesterday, you
know, and there wasn't a trace of cork in the grave bat. He's either had a good streak
or been in a slump without cork, but that time split it right in half. Here's the swing
and a grounder in the first pitch by Lecoque to Breyer at second. Throws him out. Greg
going to his left this time getting down the outfield grass. So two up and two down. Al
Collins the batter. Singles his last time up as had Lecoque. So probably trying to retire
the side in order for the first time tonight. Danny wants you to check with the weather,
see what the humidity is. Temperature. It's a pretty hot night. The wind's out of the
south west. Expecting rain tonight. Here's the pitch inside of all the call. Stocks lines
are open right now. White Sox will be tomorrow night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon
against Cleveland. Here's the one open swing and a miss. So the county even got one and
a half. Only into the wind up. Here's the pitch. Swing and a chopper to short. Pessinger charges
has it up around the letter. He just got it up around the letters as that ball took a
final high up to him. And it's three up and three down. The first time tonight. Slowly
retires the side in order. We go to the bottom of the third. The White Sox nothing. Kansas
City nothing. Mark Brown back at Comiskey Park as we go to the third inning. The White
Sox pitching staff now has shut out Kansas City for 17 consecutive innings. Claudio Washington,
who got the game winning hit out here last night, will lead it off against Paul Splittorff.
Tomorrow night is back to school night. The first 15,000 school kids getting into the
ballpark will get school kids. Pencils, books, pens, etc. Splittorff goes in the line up
and the pitch to Claudio is low of all. Claudio had half the White Sox tips out here last
night, going three for four and driving in two runs in that eighth inning, getting the
game winning hit. Left hander ready. Here's the pitcher, the swing and a foul out of play.
Ken Griffey has just got a two run homer off of Pete Bukovic. His eighth of the year in
the third and the Cardinals are leading Cincinnati four to two. Kansas City, or rather Cincinnati,
is still batting. Here's the pitch outside of all, three and one. Pirates Atlanta, no
score at the end of five. Claudio leading it off, he followed by Jim Spencer and Greg
Fier. Here's the swing and a grounder to second. White to his left has it and he throws him
out. And there's one out here in the third. White Sox have had only one hit off of Splittorff.
Splittorff, the first player originally signed by Kansas City, delivers to Spencer, swinging
a grounder. Popek has it, a short. He just did get Spencer. Red had cut in front of him,
couldn't get the ball. Thought maybe that might bother Popek a little bit, but it didn't
as the veteran shortstop threw him out. So two up and two down. Spencer hitting two eighteen
with four RBIs. And the batter is Greg Fier. Fier, with nobody on and two out last night,
triggered that three run rally in the eighth inning when he singles. Splittorff originally
signed on October 24th, 1969 with the Royals made his first appearance in September of
the following year after being at Omaha where he won twelve games. Here's the pitch and
it's low of all. He was signed by the Royals that went to Corning in 68, Omaha in 69 and
70 with the Royals in part of 70. Back to Omaha in 71. Here's the pitch and it's low,
came up in 71 with the Royals from Omaha and has been in the big leagues ever since. His
finest year was 73 when he won twenty, lost eleven, completed twelve games. Here's the
pitchers are swinging the grounder to short. Popek has it. Twos in time and it's a three
up and three down inning again here in the third. So, Splittorff has retired seven in
a row. He's faced a minimum nine hitters of the first three innings. We're at the end
of three. I'm Lauren Brown. Harry Terry and Jimmy Pearsall will be along in a minute.
It's the White Sox. Nothing to the Royals. Nothing. Hello again everybody. Harry Terry
and Jimmy Pearsall. We're going now into the top of the fourth of the honey of a ballgame
of pitching to them. Nothing, nothing. Now Porter's going to be leading it off. We've
got about 12,000 people or so here. The White Sox are over to 1,300,000 Mark. Cleveland
Indians will be here tomorrow night. How about school? Back to school, huh Harry? Oh, I
wish it was. I'm going to give out some things that will help you get started. The first
15,000 youngsters come into the park tomorrow night with some equipment to help start school
off, right? Well, I'd like to be going back to school right now and know what I know now.
I don't think I've had as much fun. Oh, I don't know about that. Here's Porter. You
know, today Jimmy swings and he bounce off the first pitch. Today everybody's out blowing.
There you go again. You know, we used to have to sell newspapers and scrub and try to make
money off of it. How many papers did you have? I had a big one right next to a factory. There's
a strike call. I sold papers in front of the church every Sunday morning and delivered
100. Then I had a paper route in the morning and a paper route at night. I used to make
$32 a week. Oh, I used to make more than that. I used to tell the people who worked at the
church, if you say they'd buy papers from me, they might have trouble. You were lucky
to go to school. Two strikes on a ball. I used to get mad on Sunday papers though, Harry.
They were too heavy. The other place was delivering papers early. What? Really? Really?
Holding a 50-ounce record. 50-ounce record. I got the concert tour. Oh, I didn't know
they could be cut. You were with the man? As soon as I went bad, I forgot everything.
Two strikes on a ball. Tigers leading Toronto 4-1 on the fourth. Texas beat Minnesota on
a three-run homer by the Galesburg Black. Jim Sunberg. Cleveland nose-outs. Milwaukee
9-8. I'm also going to pitch about five and a half games behind too. They really come
a long way, I think. They'll beat today. There's the pitch. Went on way back. Might be out
of here. Could be high into the upper deck. That was an off-speed pitch and Porter waited
for it. Looks like he knew what was going to come. And boy, he really felt it. That's
the steepest home run I've ever seen here in the right field stand. Better than halfway
up into the upper deck. Well, that's his tenth home run of the year. And he's come a long
way since he played for Milwaukee. He had a lifetime batting average of about 2.18. And
now he's come over here with Cali Lau. And he's very happy too because he calls his own
ball game. He feels like he's the leader. One night off right now, here's Clint Hurdle.
Mike Broly has allowed five hits, one run. Thanks, Bobby. There's the line drive foul.
And to the right field corner. One strike and nothing. Bob Birtucci who handles a bar
in the bar room. I tell you what, he's a charming looking man. Just gave us a cold can of frozen
beer. He can't be too bad. Here's the pitch strike call. Two strikes and nothing. A home
run by Darrell Porter leading off the fourth inning. And boy, Mike Broly was really unhappy.
He picked up a handful of dirt and threw it down to the ground. He knew he had made a
bad pitch. Here's the pitch a little inside. Colburn asked for an appeal to the third base
up by George Maloney. But he said no, he did not swing. Saint Louis four, Cincinnati three
in the bottom of the fourth. Ball game one to nothing. Here's the wind, the pitch. High
pop fly ought to be caught. Garza waiting in the take. Harry Broly best pitches that
Hart's thinking he's throwing tonight. He's throwing hard. I've seen him throw all year.
When they hit him, it's been on that slow breaking stuff. So there's one away, one in.
Amos Odo's a hitter. The White Sox have already attracted 1,304,843. This is a great game.
This is the sixth best attendance mark for a year in the club's history. There's a put
swing on by Amos Odo's right to the center fielder Spencer, a line drive. That ball sort
of fooled Spencer a little bit, but he got him all right. So after Porter let off with
a terrifically hit a home run. Hurdle a notice of an easy outs and here's Freddie Pata. I
think we ought to check his best as far as to get that ball for cork. He corked it out
of here. Or else check the ball for the rabbit. There's a fast ball open low ball one. Boy,
he's a real, he's a scusted Harry. I hit that ball as hard as I could hit it and it just
wouldn't go anywhere. These guys hit that rabbit. See one ball, no strikes. There's
a strike call. Having watched you play tennis, I know what you're talking about. You say
my well, it's all in good fun. You can fill out of your head. You can slap me. That is
the person. Try to the funny pull back. They appealed to the first base up by and he says
no. Greg cost is the first base up by Jerry New Decker. The second base up by George
Maloney. The third base up by and Pat Henry behind the play. He didn't go after it. Look
like it pulled back. Hi Millie. Remember the Don Kessinger night Friday night, September
the 8th. I know a lot of you Cub fans, there's a ground ball hit for the shortstop. Kessinger
throws them out. One run, one hit. No air, nobody left. We go now to the bottom of the
fourth one to nothing Kansas City. I bet that you too have noticed how much you like beer
commercials. Everybody claiming to find the most expensive ingredients, the best tech
mates, etc. Who really cares? Me, I go by the taste alone. Does it taste good? That's
what I'm here. I bet you that way too. And if so, you have to admit that Stro's beer
tastes good. Maybe it is the unique fire brewing that does it all. I know you're a real beer
lover. You'll love Stro's. There's a good cigar. Line drive into the corner. Face it.
It's on his way to second. Take off for three. Here's the ball. Face. Guy hits the first
hit. Into the right field, Carter. They're claiming I think they're going to appeal to
the miss. First base. Look to me like you step right in the middle of the bat. I'll tell
you one thing, that sure hunkled a triple on that ball. And it sure wasn't even close
to him. And now Carter, he goes. Oh, he's all right. I thought something had happened
the way he was talking to Bobby Knapp, but he's got a good triple. So the time he runs
is up. He's got a good base. Nobody else. Here's Kessinger now. Kessinger lined his
single right his first time up. Here's Paul's foot dog. Is he ready? He's up there. Swung
on down the right field line. Coming over is Cowan for makes and catch. Gaw holds up
the third. More of the third one. Way up the line. One out. I think Harry, why Gaw has
held up on that plate. There's nobody out. But it would have been a tough throw for Cowan
because he's off balance. And with the speed of Gaw, if I was Gaw, I would have tried.
But I guess he figured with nobody out, it was a tough chance. But Cardinal's lead,
Cincinnati, four to three on the floor. Pittsburgh and Atlanta, those score at the end of sixth.
This squire, now he's sanded his first time up. He has bailed in. Fast ball high outside.
Ball one. Wasn't kind of unusual. They were playing back at shortstop for Kessinger that
time. Give him the run. Now the stretch by splits off the fence. Right down the middle
of fast ball for a strike dog. No ball in the strike. Now the stretch can bail in. Here's
the fence. Swings and fouls him. He had a good touch. A good base runner right now is
thinking on third. He's going to go on a ground ball, especially if it hits slowly. But if
he sees a throw, beats him to the plate. He stops and he gets in a run draw for the guy
to hit the ball and get the second. So he's got to be doing a lot of thinking. He's got
to be alert because there's no chance of changing his mind. Two strikes on the ball. High,
pop foul. Into the left-hand corner. Out of play. Bomb off. Even if Pertle could catch
that ball, the odds were he shouldn't because he couldn't have made a play. He's got to
depend on sputoff to strike Squires out in this situation because he did not throw him
out. Sputoff is 1.15, lost tenth. Turn around average 3.32. Out of the sign. In field is
the delivery. Stuck him out on the outside corner. Squires called out on strike. That's
good fuldom. He thought it was wide. Looked like a back step and bumped the outside corner.
Absolutely right, Harry. It looked to me like he turned it over and started it outside about
that foot and it broke on the outside corner. Here's a tough pitch to take. So they're two
strikes out. Now the infield drops back to normal position. You know, last night Kansas
City had the same chance when Otis tripled and then he struck out three in a row. Gravick.
So now it's Sputoff trying to get out of the same situation. Here's Lamar Johnson. Here's
the stretch of pitch. Turn outside. Frank White plays Lamar Johnson right up the middle.
And LeCocque plays almost in the second baseman position. Now the stretch of pitch. Swung
him out. He struck Lamar out the first time on a changeup. First pitch was a breaking ball
changeup but that time he threw him a high fastball and Lamar chased so he's got him
looking for that slow stuff making his fastball much quicker. Here's the pitch. A little bit
inside a fastball. Ball two. Two balls and a strike. Pittsburgh batting in the seventh
of Atlanta. No score. Now the stretch of pitch. Turn ball low. Ball three. Sadder home would
be up there next. Play balls and a strike. Here's the pitch. Watch him. Sorry the last
eight out of nine games we've got pretty good pitching. That one game we were out of in
Cleveland. The last game we were there we got beaten ten to one percent. We've had our
troubles we've had a pretty good streak there. So the pitching seems to be improving more
so than the clutch hitting. But we did get it from Washington last night. This sadder
homie pops up. His last home run was August the third. Now Sputak is ready. Here's the
pitch. Fastball. One ball no strike. Mike Coburn to be up there next. But there's two
outs so something's got to happen here. The pitch. Hey he slices it into right field.
Another man to burn. We got a break on that throw from Collins and he goes his second
and gets sadder home. But a slow runner like Gunsley who just got to the bag he has sadder
home by plenty but he threw towards the plate which is the play. But you're playing baseball
to keep that run from starting. So now we got runners on second and third. Two outs
and Coburn to enter. So it'll look like a streaming line drive at the box car. Sadder
home was jammed. He hit the ball off his fist. Had looped in the chart right field. Scoring
guard. Johnson going to third. Sadder home pulling up in second. What a double to his
credit. And here's Coburn who's five deep. His first time up. Here's the stretch to pitch.
Slow curve low inside ball one. Boy we got a I don't know how hot it is out on the field
but it's murder up here in the booth. I'll go along with that coach. One one five. Here's
the stretch to pitch. Off feed outside. Boy I got a feeling Coburn's going to rip one
off this guy. Because Scudorf is not getting his breaking ball over. His best pitch has
been his fastball and his team straight. Two balls no strikes. Oh he just got under it.
A high pop fly. Boy his swing was there. The left fielder makes the cut. Hiddle. Takes
care of Coburn. Fly ball. Boy Mike had his fit. He does happen to get under it a little
bit too much. One run out of all that. Two hits. No errors. Two left. At the end of four
we're tied at one. Harry Carrey and Jimmy Pearsall. We're going to the top of the fifth.
The Cubs count pack number one fifteen from the Flames are here. Just think why to lead
the way. First pitch he swings. Ground ball to Kessinger. He's got it. Over the first
one nine we've got Bracken neverziejorn Major here it's Colter speak. Touched by pages Slater
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One man out, top of the fifth tied up 1-1.
Boy, it's humid up here.
Instead of playing and sitting up here, I've got to believe.
Well, this booth is just so small, Jimmy.
Here's a pitch.
Strike off.
You know, we've got no room for the two of us to sit comfortably,
and we should have three engineers sitting behind us.
That booth next door, they could knock out.
Now the wind will pitch, and a little bit low.
Dan is crying for us. He's giving us a few tears, John.
You know, he really feels sorry for you and I.
Two balls and a strike. One man out.
Charge front to hitter. Game tied up 1-1.
Now the delivery.
Strong ground ball to the second baseman.
Friar kicks it, picks it up, throws.
It's tied.
Almost booted it too long, but recovered.
You know, it's funny.
He booted that ball and then pushed it to his right out of his glove,
and then couldn't find it for a moment, and he almost lost the runner.
But he knew it was there somewhere, and he kept feeling for it.
A foot double by Eric Soto, almost 47th run batted in this year.
Tied up the ballgame for the White Sox and the boys.
Now there are two out, nobody on. Hal McCray to batter.
First pitch is low. Ball one.
McCray, he of the Cork bat, which turned out to be wood.
Turned out to be nothing, huh?
One ball, no strikes.
Now the delivery.
A little bit low.
We understand Don Sutton, the pitcher of the Dodgers,
who was involved in an altercation with Steve Garvey, the team star of first base,
has called a press conference out on the coast for the purpose of apologizing to Garvey.
There's the pitch long and foul.
Well, I guess it's easy to be jealous of a guy who's got everything,
and that's probably his story.
My only thing about Garvey is whenever I've been around him, he's a perfect gentleman.
He's a top class guy.
Well, I mean, that's what they're jealous of.
Oh, I see.
I also noticed that Buckner said from the Cubs that he called up and congratulated Sutton.
What a sick team.
Well, he was with him, you know. That's what he's probably jealous about.
Well, that's what gets me. Guys who have no involvement getting into the situation.
The only thing Garvey does is play good every day.
How could a pitcher be mad at him?
If Reggie Smith is more valuable than Steve Garvey,
then there's ball four to McRae that brings up Pete McCock.
Then the Dodgers ought to be about 50 games in front.
And Reggie Smith is an outstanding ball player.
Sutton really struggling around 500.
It just seems to me like he's upset with himself more than he's upset with Garvey and took it out on Garvey.
Turns out they live only a few houses away, and the only comment I've heard from Steve Garvey on the situation is
that he didn't like to have his family brought in to us.
And I can't believe I'm for that one.
Here's McCock swing until he fouls it off.
One strike and nothing.
You know, I always felt with my family, I kept my youngsters and my wife up in the upstairs away from everybody
so they wouldn't get involved with the other players' wives.
I just thought that we were any better than anybody, but I thought it was better for me.
Because ball players say things they don't even know what they're talking about to their wives.
Wives say things they don't even know what they're talking about to their husbands.
You know, 90 percent of wives know absolutely nothing about baseball except the trowels.
One strike and nothing.
But they've got to show that they're interested in the livelihood of the man in the house.
Being a white house, they have a lot of information.
Being a white and a ball player is a bore. All you do is sit around and wait.
Here's a pitcher a little bit high.
A ball and a strike.
Two men are out. Boy, anything burns me up.
When a guy says the A, I can hear you rip me.
Where'd you hear it?
My wife told me.
Did she tell you nice things we said about you?
Well, she's in the bathroom then.
One ball, one strike.
But it's not only baseball that way.
Here's a pitch swung and filed out of play.
You know, that's why big corporations, when they hire an executive,
they spend more time checking on the executive's wife than they do on the executive.
They're hiring a very important money because they know what a troublemaking wife can do to a corporation.
Just like you can do to a baseball team.
Two strikes and a ball.
Now, through the first, the runner back.
McCrane, not too much of a threat as a baserunner, but I know he's been around long enough that he can steal one.
Two men are out.
Game tied, 1-1, the pitcher goes around there.
Swung on, a little tap back to the mound.
Holy throws the mound.
No runs, no hits, no errors, one left.
We go to the bottom of the first tied, 1-1.
One drive and down the road, you're moving through a turn, and your car's looking good, it's going up and down in the mud.
Harry Carrey and Jimmy Pearsall, we're going into the bottom of the fifth all tied up, 1-1.
You know, at St. Louis, Jimmy, it was really funny.
I'm not going to mention any names, but if one wife, you know, the wives usually sit in the same section.
Three or four very, very jealous wives.
Used to be really funny.
A wife would show up with a new dress.
They'd start talking how much it'd cost, she'd add a couple hundred, you know.
Now, when the other wife would get home, she'd get her husband, she says,
how come so-and-so's wife can spend $600 for a dress?
Well, I can only spend $100.
And oh, that poor guy, by the time he got to the ballpark, he wished he could go to Australia.
You know, he'd have to put up, so he'd go out and spend $600.
Well, next week, some wife would say she spent $800, right?
One thing about the wives can't hit the field.
Right out Washington, hits a bouncing ball up the middle.
Frank White throws him out, nice play by White.
The ball wasn't hit that hard, but it was hit perfectly, right over the pitcher's head.
And you have to have a little range at second base to come up with that ball.
You've seen a lot of those trickle through in the center field.
But Frank White got over there quickly and made the play easily.
What a turn he did, and Lecoque, who's impressed me with his basketball by this series,
showed me something with his hands.
He's got good soft hands and picked that ball out of the dirt very easily.
Here's Tom Spencer now.
Here's the pitcher, good bounce ball strike called Spencer Boundstock.
His first time up, he's hitting 218.
Bottom of the fifth, 1-1 tie, great ball, yeah.
White's got some beating, beating the defending champ six out of 11.
Here's the pitch ball back.
Right below is here on the second row, a young fan making the catch in his lap.
Pittsburgh got five runs in the seventh inning.
Atlanta's batting in the bottom of the eighth, they lead by to nothing.
They're six days behind and climbing.
Here's the pitch on the white's front.
Here's the tap to the second baseman. White throws him out.
Two up, two down, boy, this foot's off his stuff too.
See, Harry Spencer went from about 350, 60 to 218 in a hurry.
That's one thing in the Major League, Jimmy.
Once those pitchers, you might hit the first time around,
but as soon as you've been in the league, I don't know how the great buying works,
but everybody seems to know what you can and cannot hit.
I remember scouting when I played too.
More money spent on scouts up in front when they didn't spend years ago.
You know, almost every team has an advanced scout.
Into the city before their team, his team comes into the city,
and he leaves a report to the manager on every player,
what he can hit, what he can't hit, what he did hit, how they pitched him.
And so a rookie might go good for a week or two,
but then unless he really has the ability, his average is going to suffer.
There's the pitch swim on by Breyer, bump by.
Short center field, easy catch by Oda.
One, two, three, nothing across.
At the end of five, tied up at one.
Now working his butt behind and then jumping up.
Harry Carrey back in the ballpark.
We're going into the sixth inning, a honey of a ballgame, one-one.
Here on the right side, the beat me.
Defending champion Royals, six out of 11 already in a year.
The size of the world, I think Texas, they're rubbing out of 15.
Harry, we were talking about the scouts up front
and why the opposing teams learn the hitters quicker.
But when we played, we played each other 21 times.
It didn't take much to learn each other.
It was just a matter of who was increasing and getting better in his ability.
So I guess they didn't need the scouts.
Tell me again, on my interviews before the game, I called attention to this banner out there,
some annual Pimmons Chokers, to find out whether they had any reaction about it or not.
Thousands of them said Larry Gura said,
well, he's got to rather be in the playoffs and choke to never get into the playoffs at all.
Which, that's always a very good rebuttal.
Say it, Gura, he's been a surprise and a happy one for Kansas City.
Here's Al Cowans, lightning fast, this fella on a good hitter.
One out of two tonight, Mike Frohle is set.
Fastball over the inside corner and strike call.
Oh boy, does this throw hit the spot tonight.
Frohle really having a good hard fastball in the sinker.
Just jammed Cowans that time, had him completely fooled and he took the pitch.
Cleveland Indians here tomorrow night.
Curveball outside.
I mentioned that Don Kessinger will be honored Friday night, September the 8th.
And I also said that I'm sure a lot of the Cubs fans will want to be represented.
And towards that end, I'd just like to pass along this information.
Here's a pitch foul back.
Ron Santo, you know, who is his teammate with the Cubs,
is on the committee on the Don Kessinger night committee.
But Chuck Shriver, who used to be with the Cubs as a publicity director,
now with Aaron Cushman, public relations firm, is handling the details.
Here's a pitch bouncing ball to Frohle, he's got it easy off.
So you Cubs fans, or White Sox fans, for that matter, or anybody's fan,
you want to participate in that Don Kessinger night,
you might want to get a group of tickets for your friends,
or want to be represented at a free game ceremony,
want to make a gift or something, or have a fan club of Kessingers
that wants to be represented, here's the name, Chuck Shriver.
S-H-R-I-V-E-R, Chuck Shriver.
Here's the phone number, 2-6-3-2-500.
Here's Porter, a line drive, right after center fielder, easy off.
Porter, wait a minute, make that a base hit, a line drive base hit in the center fielder.
Spencer Field is on the one half, I'm looking down at his phone number.
Chuck Shriver, 2-6-3-2-500.
Getting the number again, 2-6-3-2-500.
I asked him to wait until you got that in, Harry.
Porter gets another hit, a line signal to center fielder.
Here's Hurtle now, and he swings and he misses.
Nice shot, John Gibson, Bernie Russell, and Jim Perman, the bootleggers in Oakland,
are here with Eddie Kobecki of Strasbury.
One on, one out.
Hurtle swings, ground ball, swing, out at second, return throw, out at first.
Double play, 3-6-3.
So Hurtle hit a hot smash right at squares, returned it into a double play, 3-6-3.
Beautifully done, no runs, one hit, no errors.
Nobody left, we go into the bottom of the sixth, one-one tie.
Here's Gar to lead it off.
Bouncing ball to start, Potec throws, and boy, what a close play, but he's out.
Let me tell you, John, that's not your line.
We have had occasions this year when runners have walked down the lane,
but you can't say that about Gar.
He's set to double into a triple today.
Hey, they're giving him a great hand for the last one.
That's all it takes to just show these people that you want to play.
The guys that are complaining are guys that just haven't played.
These fans are just hungry to be able to cheer,
and the only time they move is when a player just absolutely forces them to.
Went out, here's Kessinger.
Oh, that's the first time in a long set-tel you're something at this,
that that one you stopped to reflect on it.
Here's a guy who ran 90 feet at top speed, and they gave him an ovation.
These guys that walked down the line, they ought to teach them something.
Here's the foul ball off to the left.
They might get a face hit if the guy doesn't throw it right.
So we get paid in this game by production.
One man out, nobody on.
At least they used to pay that way.
They show up.
Out of sight.
Pass for high.
Kim Sankowski, Shirley Rook, and Son Mike, who's celebrating his 15th birthday are here.
The pitch inside.
Angie Leosi is joined again.
The pitch inside.
A group of 15th and Captain's quarters there, yeah.
Three balls, two strikes.
The delivery.
Kelsinger, that's a high-pump line.
Lecoque grabs it with one hand.
Terry Squire's now playing in his 12th game, has that committed an error?
And they finished that inning off that 3-6-3 double play was really something to watch.
And this is something we didn't see all year.
We weren't getting out of the innings because we just couldn't complete that kind of a double play.
This guy here, I believe, is going to help us next year.
And I like his bat, too.
He hasn't done anything with split top, but this is the first time he's looked at him.
Let's see what he does this time.
Two out, nobody on the pitch.
There's the looping liner in the center field of base-end.
Looks like he caught it to these, he caught it.
Squire's, boy, that wide really covers some ground.
You know, you watch, when you see some of these other ballplayers, you begin to realize really what you've got to have before you win.
That's right, like a Whittaker for Detroit, who changed that Detroit ball club into a contender, along with Camilla and Samuelson short stuff.
Here's Lamar Johnson now, runner at first base, two out.
Let's have a home run, huh, Harry?
That's slow breaking.
Lamar's had eight homers, 57 runs, about an inch, hitting 271.
Oh, that's a good one.
Oh, he's got a good one.
So that strike can up it.
You'll never see that pitch again tonight.
You know, he's got such a hole between first and second, if they stay one and they hit it there, so he don't hit it out of the park.
One strike and up it, Eric Saddle home would be next, so if they hit him, that's all you can give him.
The first, there's a hit in the center field.
Here's a runner on second racing, the third.
The throw cut off.
Staff go to first, Lamar back.
Lamar had to make a dieting belly flop in the first base.
He just fell down and skidded.
Well, this is the way we scored with two outs and a fourth inning to tie it up.
Saddle, with two outs, moved a double to short right field.
Now he comes up again with runners in first and third.
Last night with two outs, we got the winning run.
St. Joseph's School also boys are here in the group tonight.
Two men out, two men on, and here's Saddle home.
Hey, Minnie, we're trying to, boy, you're a tough guy to get, Minnie.
We're trying to get you, where's that mic?
Let's get a ride, get you through a little play by play in Spanish.
Here's Saddle home up there.
Mike Saddle home in Spanish.
He's preparing to throw.
Throw, ball inside, it's a ball inside for Saddle home.
First pitch, wall inside.
Go ahead, come on, we'll do it.
There's a first man in first, second, third, two outs.
The score is tied to a race.
There he is preparing to throw, ball.
Strike corner.
Honestly, from here it seemed that the ball was a little inside, but it seems that he passed the bat and it's a strike one.
The umpire was wrong, you said, umpire was wrong.
Well, I wouldn't say that the umpire was wrong, I don't know.
A ball and a strike.
Okay, man.
Ball, low and inside.
Low and inside.
Two balls and a strike, two outs.
I know that.
Prepare to throw, roll, pass, pass, third base.
Short, slow, and he's going to throw a roll, pass, third base.
It's Hobie.
There he is preparing to throw.
I'm going to try to get a good
start.
Look at his runners.
He's got it!
It's a double!
Right corner!
It seemed that the ball was a little
in the air, but it seems that he
passed the bat and it's a strike one.
The umpire wrong, as you said.
I would say that the umpire is wrong.
No, I'm not saying that.
A ball and a strike.
He's got it ready.
He's got it.
Ball low and inside.
Down and inside.
Two balls and a strike.
Two outs.
He's got it.
He's got it ready.
Roller pass, foul, third base.
Short, slow, and he's got it ready.
Roller pass, third base.
Runners in first and third, two outs,
two balls, two strikes, have Saturday
all in a rolling foul outside
third base.
There he is.
He's got it ready.
Look at his runners.
He's got it.
He's running and...
It's a double ball!
One round in.
Two outs in.
Hey!
Not a hole.
It's a double.
He's done a very, not a very good job
of playing the five-all.
He really lost his
sparing
and the ball hit off the wall
from the left where he was playing.
A double,
a triple-oxidation
powderhawk,
two runs short.
Hang in there, Minnie. Nice shot.
Nice throw, Minnie. Oh, I want to tell you,
certainly can't find a place for him,
but you can't hide him when he hits the ball
and you can't go to him.
All right!
You need him.
They kind of sat on him with a double,
two-army eye.
He takes play down on the throw.
All right!
30 pop-back takes over.
New run.
Three hits.
No errors. One left.
This is Harry Carrey
going over to the television booth
to score here at the end of the sixth.
White Sox 3, Kansas City 1.
Lauren Brown back at Comiskey Park
along with Jimmy Pearsall
as we go to the seventh for the second night
in a row, the White Sox, after nobody on
and two outs, in a rally going
as they just came up with two runs
of the sixth inning.
And Mike Squires, who Paul Splendorf
is on the first two times that he faced him,
looped one into right center
over the outstretched middle of Frank White.
Lamar Johnson singled his center,
sending him to third, and then
Eric Satterholm on a ball that was
catchable hit one at the base
of the wall out in left field, and
it scored two runs and the White Sox
had one way to one. For the second night
in a row now with two outs, we've scored
three runs last night and two runs tonight
to go out in front. So this is what we
haven't been doing and it's nice to see these guys
bearing down with two outs instead of just
saying, well, this inning's over.
Let's get it over with. So we go to the
seventh. It'll be Amos Otis,
Freddie Potek, and Frank White.
What a pitching to Philadelphia
against LA. Tommy Johns,
14 and 9,
against Carlton, 12 and 11
against Philadelphia. They probably have about
50,000 in LA tonight.
Pete Bukovic
in the Cardinals, four, Cincinnati
and Moscow, three.
Here's the first pitch to Otis,
and it's a strike.
Only four
times tonight is
Proley giving up a ball hit to the outfield,
three put outs in the home run by
Porter in the upper deck. Otherwise, he's kept the ball
low. Though Porter didn't single
a ball that dropped in front of
the center fielder in the last inning,
but his success has been
keeping the ball low.
Here's the pitch and it's
low.
That is what Charlie Brown
says the secret of life is, keep the ball
low.
A ball and a strike.
White Sox
trying to
win the three game set here tonight,
as well as the season series
at Comiskey Park. Here's the pitch, swing of the grounder to third.
Sonterholm has it. Throws,
he got him.
Otis is out, five, three.
One, two,
three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten.
Eleven, twelve,
thirteen
put outs tonight
for Squires at first base.
I wonder what the record is.
Boy, Lauren, if you don't know, the kids from Waterbury sure
don't.
Well, just an indication. When that first baseman's
got a lot of assists, a lot of ground balls.
The first pitch to Pottec
is a ball. Freddie has forced the
man out at second and he is grounded out to short.
Outfield plays him
shallow and straight away.
Play him straight up on the infield.
Sonterholm, though, playing parallel to the
bag at third. There's the pitch,
swing of the fly ball to left. Gar coming over
near the line. He's there.
And he's got it in foul territory in their
two downs. Listen, Gar
ran a mile for that ball. He got a good jump and
really hustled, just like when he ran out that
ground ball that he almost beat out. And also
stripping that, stretching that double
into a triple, so he has really
come to play.
So the batter is Frank White.
Batting in the ninth spot
here tonight with a right-hander going.
He is singled and he is grounded
out to short.
Atlanta has been out for a long
time in the bottom of the eighth after the Pirates
have gotten five in the seventh.
Right-hander
Ruddy, here's the pitch, and it's
high and inside of all.
White, who really has improved
his hitting going to the opposite field.
It also busts a lot. May have an
idea right here with two runs behind and
Sadler home playing deep at third. He might
bunt one. Let's see what happens.
Here's the pitch, and it's
low.
Well, he gives no indication that he's going to
bust.
Two balls and
no strikes.
Nobody on, two outs.
Right-hander delivers. Here's the pitch.
And it's low outside, ball three.
Mike has
walked only one man tonight. That was McCray
with two outs and a fifth.
That's the first time that he's going
3-0 on any hitter tonight.
Right-hander Ruddy,
here's the pitch, and it's low of all.
He walked him on four straight pitches. That's
the second walk given up by Mike.
Now, the top
of the order coming up,
George Brett.
Brett, who has not been really
swinging a bad good, went 0-4
last night. And so far,
he has grounded a second
place and grounded on a six at the first
base. So that right thumb
is really giving him trouble.
And we thank
Francis Enderman for the sass
gorilla. What is that?
Sass gorilla. Should I hum it?
Yes.
Right-hander Ruddy, here's the pitch.
And it's a strike in the outside corner.
I don't think he's going to
throw that pitching through a corner. He's
hitting the upper deck. Some kind of a change-up off
speed, either a fast ball, change-up
or a breaking ball. Jimmy, it looked like it was
a hanging curve ball. Was it? That TV, yeah.
It was way up there. It just
when that thing just gets up there even in slow
motion, slower than normal.
Yeah, it was up letter high
and he just popped it in the third row.
Youngster made a great catch out there. Did he really? Yeah,
with a bit.
Well, we ought to put one of our fielders up there.
Right-hander Ruddy, here's the pitch.
And it's outside a ball. Jim Landis
once caught a ball over the fence
here at Kamiski Park and tumbled over when they
had the fence out there. And I think sometime
in your career that happened, didn't it? Yes, but
Landis, great outfielder. One of the
better center fielders that I've ever played against.
Also, they had Barry here who could
play as well as Landis.
I didn't like that fence because they had a little
dip for drainage in front of it. You could
fall in it. Here's the one-one pitch.
Swing on the grounder to...
Nice play!
Makes the unassisted out.
And Brett has tried to pull
purely four times tonight and he's out
four times as a result.
So, no runs, no hits.
One left. We go to the bottom of the seventh
lady. That's the one. Here's Mary Carey.
Here's Mary Carey.
Let me hear ya!
Nice play!
Woo!
Lady by the wall.
Hey!
Have we got
time for you
when you miss your house with us?
Have we got time for you?
Lord Brown and Jimmy Pearsall
back at Comiskey Park as Claudell Washington
takes the ball outside.
Lady
off the
seventh inning. White Dock leading
three to one. Left-handed ready.
Here's the pitch. Swing and a miss.
Evens it up one-and-one.
Well, the Royals after tonight will either
be in first by a half a game or in second
a half a game out. White and
Hurddock made a great compliment to Cravic.
They, the best game, pitched against them
in three years. When he shut them out
last night, treated nothing and struck out nine.
Here's the one-one pitch.
Here's the swing and a hopper over the mound.
White has it behind second.
Trolls out in time as it pulls
Lecombe off the bag and I'm sure that's going to go
as a hit. I'm amazed that White
even got it there in time, but it was off the bag
towards right a little bit.
And it's an infield hit for Claudell.
That's the
seventh White Dock's hit of the night.
And the batter will be
Tom Spencer looking down to Bobby
Kanop for a sign.
He'll try to sacrifice this runner over.
Even if
that throw hasn't on the bag,
Claudell there had it beat out. He was really flying
down that line. Tough play.
Chopped right over the pitcher's mound and White got it.
We're going to get activity in the Kansas City
bullpen again. Here's the pitch.
A bunt popped up.
Squidorf has it, but Washington
didn't get the back. He popped it right for the
pitchers, raced off the mound in a
hurry.
Not a good bunt, but good defense
on the part of Squidorf.
I think even if he didn't get it, the catcher had a good shot
at it.
It was popped right between the mound and home
play. So, one out.
Greg Pryor the batter.
Pryor last night. Now time is called.
Claudell may have heard himself going back to first.
Charlie Saad, the trainer
going out to take a look at it.
Tony LaRusso,
first base coach talking. Can't tell
exactly what the nature of the
injury was.
Larry Dovey, again, that same ankle
I think he's blocking him out.
They're going to take him out. Yep.
He re-injured that ankle.
So, he's going to be out of the ball game.
They're in the seventh inning.
Detroit leads Toronto 5-2.
What a big double header. Toronto
won over Detroit. The data won last night.
They'd have been seven and a half games out.
Detroit. Clean them out at home play.
So, one out. Greg Pryor the
batter.
Pryor last night. Now time is called.
Claudell may have heard himself going back to first.
Charlie Saad, the trainer
going out to take a look at it.
Tony LaRusso,
first base coach talking. Can't tell
exactly what the nature of the
injury was. Larry Dovey
again, that same ankle I think
blocking him out.
They're going to take him out. Yep.
He re-injured that ankle.
So, he's going to be out of the ball game.
They're in the seventh inning. Detroit
leads Toronto 5-2. And what a big
double header. Toronto won over Detroit.
The data won last night. Data been seven
and a half games out. Detroit.
But now they're still nine.
Big loss from Milwaukee. They were only
six out. Texas defeated
Minnesota on a three run home run
in the tenth by Jim Sunberg, four to one.
Bobby Molinaro
is going to come in and pitch one. He is the
leading base dealer on this club.
So, the white side might
have a few more options
but now it's Molinaro. It's Bird
that's brought out, goes to the clubhouse with that
ankle that he re-injured.
You got a left hand
and a right hand are warming up on the both ends.
It looks like
Mangori
and football.
I can't get used to him in that blue youth.
More little darker blue with Texas
and gray with Detroit.
How about those back to school
utilities
for equipment.
It's great. It really is.
Tomorrow night the first 15,000
gets them.
Here's the pitch. We're going to pop up coming back.
Porter has the play.
He can't get it.
He came in too far
it looked like. He wanted to pick up the
fence and then go back off it.
And when he got to the fence
he lost the ball because he was underneath it
and the ball just got behind him.
A great
pitch to like Porter still has the same trouble.
So, Friar gets the life and many times
when this happens,
Gruns will score.
All this drag last night that ignited that
three-one rally in the eighth inning with nobody on it
two out when he singles.
White Sox won it three to nothing. Same thing
happened here tonight with six. Nobody on it
two out. Two singles and a
double. Going a couple of runs.
There goes the runner. Here's the pitch.
Swung to the ground to right side. White has it.
Paladero will stay in second and White
throws out Friar. But they get the runner
in scoring position.
And they're two down.
And the batter, Ralph Gahr
who has tripled in three trips.
Friar could have got a little bit more on that ball. He just
drove it through. White made a move to his
right but the ball was just a high hopper.
But Friar got his job done.
He put that run in scoring position and not a
double play. Well, Leonard Sherman, an attorney
here in Chicago listening to the ball game
while at the ballpark. It's far to me
it was Ken Berry who caught the ball and then
slipped over the fence. Not Landis.
Here's the pitch to Gahr. Put in the ground
for the second. White has it
and he throws him out. So that
retires the side here in the seventh.
No runs.
One hit. One left.
So we go to the eighth. White Sox
in three. Kansas City one.
The time
that keeps coming through
the year of the
soul
only one
Kavisky Park.
Fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty
four here tonight.
And Molinero
is the main to the ballgame.
Replacing
Claudel Washington in right.
And Fad Bosley comes in to play
left field.
So we have an outfield
of Bosley and left.
Center and center and Molinero in right.
In field. Friar is at first.
Friar at second.
Pessinger at short. Satterholm at third.
And Mike Colbert
behind the plate. And we look down
to the Kansas City bullpen.
Marty Patz for the right hander.
And Doug Byrd a right hander.
A warming up. Waleba White Sox bullpen.
Laren Legro a right hander.
And Pablo Torrealba a left hander warming up
for the White Sox. Hal McCray leads
it off in the eighth. White Sox leading
three to one.
He's 0 for 2 tonight. Got on on a walk his
last time up.
Here's a 1-0 picture. The swing and a
one hopper to Kessinger.
Throws him out. It wasn't that easy.
That ball hopped about three feet in front of him
and came up quickly. But he glubbed
it about waist high and throws him out for the
first out of the inning.
Will
Lombardo who's now directing the
Glenn Lombardo and Royal Canadian
Orchestra here tonight
along with other fellows in the band.
Rich Atkins, Les Clark and Rich
Chiminko. Hopefully the White Sox
win here tonight.
Pete LaCocca batter 1 for 3 tonight.
Pitch 1 to left center field in the first
pitch going way back. Spencer
he's there. He's got it.
And keeps left center field on the grass.
The LaCocca gave that a ride.
That is only the fourth put out by
an outfielder here tonight.
And slowly has kept the ball low.
Ken and Patty Kramer. They're four children
of Marion, Illinois at the ballpark.
Ken Burley,
Pinsach. Five years old.
Here
her first ballgame.
P-I-E-T-R-Z-A-K.
And the internal revenue
agents accept organizations and employee
plan divisions are at the ballpark tonight.
And the good old boys
from the community family centers
are in attendance. And we appreciate
Leonard Sherman passing up that note on Ken
Burley. As Jimmy said, not much
different from the defensive abilities of
Jim Landis and Ken Burley.
With great years with the White Sox.
Right hander ready. Here's the pitch.
I think Landis played at this ballpark
more when it was wide
open than Burley did.
Meaning the
defense was not at center field that much when
Landis was here opposed to when Ken
Burley was here. I may be mistaken, but I'm almost
certain that Landis played
more in this park
with a 445 to straight away center.
Al Collins, one
for three tonight, bows off
the first pitch. Here's the second offering by
Burley. And it's outside of all.
The White Sox that shut out Kansas City
for 17 straight innings
before Porter, Holbert, and the fourth.
Now Burley is shutting out.
Since that time, that was a lead off
homer. Here's the pitch swing and a fly ball
lost at the right center. Spencer coming over.
Molinaro coming over and Spencer
takes it. And that
retires the side. One, two, three.
As the Royals go down
in order. And that is
only the second time they've been set down in order
tonight. So we go to the bottom
of the eighth. The White Sox three, Kansas
City one.
The best
point.
Brown back at Tumiski Park as we go to the bottom
of the eighth. Paul Splendor faces
John Kessinger here. White Sox
leading three to one. Here's the swing and a fly ball
left center field of the base hit. Porter's
over to cut it off. Here goes Kessinger
headed for second. Now he stops and goes back
to first. The White Sox get
their lead off man on.
A pair of right handers in the bullpen for
the Royals. Marty Patton and Doug Byrd.
Rather Steve
Foucault continue to throw.
Kessinger with his second hit of the
ninth.
Looking ahead to the Kansas City
ninth Ohio.
Gerald Porter, Clint Hurdle and Amos
Ode. Two left handers
and a right hander to face right
hander Mike Brody.
Mike Squires the batter. He
triggered that two run rally.
And the six inning with nobody on and two out with a
single and the pitch to him is a strike on the outside
Porter. After he had struck out
right almost made a great play on the ball
but it just got over his outstretched
right center.
That Johnson single that
Sonderholt doubled the left as Hurdle
made a poor attempt on the ball. There's a big
break. Here goes the runner outside of
ball. Throw to second. Goes in standing
to stolen base.
Doug Kessinger with a stolen base.
I don't think they really expected Kessinger
to be going here with nobody out and the
fact that he is thirty six years old
that is his second stolen base
of the year. So now the
White Sox with a runner in scoring position
and nobody out.
Here's the pitch.
Outside of all two and one.
White Sox hoping to add an insurance run here
in the eighth inning.
Sox has defeated Kansas City. Six out of
eleven games this year.
Left handed ready. Here's the two one pitch.
And it is fouled off
the left side by
Squires as he was trying to put
Kessinger over to third.
It's the final game of the year between the
Royals and the White Sox here in Chicago.
White Sox will be in Kansas City
Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday night.
We'll have Smootorf going against the Sox
for the fifth time this year.
Not Monday.
Left handed ready.
The two two delivery.
Swing and a foul coming up stairs below it.
And a couple of fans
battle for it.
The man who got it
stuck it gets it. Guy who
touched it first just has a red hand.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Two-tip account.
Smootorf ready. Out of the stretch. Kessinger
with the lead off the second. Here's the pitch
Squires. Put in another foul
this time to the left of it.
Fans dropped it
in the first row of that back
section in the upper deck.
And the fan in the back row of the first section
grabbed it.
So we've had a couple of errors
in the upper deck.
Here in the eighth.
Smootorf ready.
Two-two pitch.
Halt strike free. Stuck him out for the
third time tonight.
Now Mike a little disgusted
but he battled him in that last inning
and last time he was up
and singled that trigger the two run rally
which has the White Sox out at front now
as Whitey Herzog
comes to the mound and right-hander Lamar
Johnson is up.
So he I would imagine
will bring in either Foucault
or Marty Patton
pair of right-handers for both ends.
He wants Foucault
right-hander to come in to face Lamar Johnson
here in the eighth with the White Sox
leading by a score
of three to one. We'll be back
in a minute. Is that you Selma?
Yes it is.
Still on the shopping for the party now?
Yes I am.
Pardon me.
Who is this man?
This man here.
I promised him a
J's potato chips.
See at the market your wife bought all of the J's
on the shelf for your party and the little
you left for me.
J's are not like J's.
J's are made from thinly sliced
fresh whole potatoes.
I brought my wife home for potato chips.
They're cooked in corn oil and cottonseed oil.
Tastes great.
Here you are.
Thank you.
I could finish it outside in the rain.
Would you like another one?
I wonder if you have any milk and house Selma?
Oh sure.
How about a sandwich?
Thank you.
I'll be very happy.
J's the natural potato chips.
You're for real.
Steve Funkkopf comes in for Kansas City.
They've just picked him up on waivers
for the Detroit Tigers.
He replaces Paul Spudorf.
Spudorf went seven in a third innings.
He allowed all white shots three runs.
On eight hits he walked the man
and he struck out three.
And he is responsible for the runner
over at second base.
Now Funkkopf with Detroit had one-two lost four
with four saves.
With an earned run average of 3.37.
They don't have any stats on them
for Kansas City so I will imagine
this is his first appearance
with the Kansas City Royals.
Pittsburgh defeated Atlanta tonight
5-1.
Ten victories in a row for the Pirates.
And they have now moved into an identical tie
for second place with the Cubs.
Both clubs with a record of 63 wins against 62 on.
The Pirates are coming, tra la la la.
Bob Glass is with Associated Press here in Chicago
informing us that the Pirates have a much easier way to go
than either the Bullies or the Cubs.
Lamar Johnson the batter facing Funkkopf
making his first appearance for the Kansas City Royals.
Flylevin was the winner in that Pirate game.
He's now 11-8.
Mikro the loser five and 14.
Here's the pitch.
Here's a swing and a long drive.
Be out of play into the seat.
Lamar touching that ball to the left.
Really not a lot of oop behind him.
And an art foul.
Cincinnati has changed pitchers in the eighth.
Cardinals leading 4-3.
Bears come on the pitch.
Right-hander ready.
Here's the one strike pitch.
Here's a swing and a base hit into the left center field.
Here comes the runner around the score.
Lamar makes the turn at first and comes back.
And it's a 4-1 ballgame.
So Whitey Herzog going with the percentages
bringing in the right-hander to face the right-handed hitter.
And it didn't work.
And that run is charged to Swidor.
So Swidor's total statistics for the night,
seven and a third in each pitch, four runs on eight hits.
The man is struck out three.
And the batter is Eric Sonderholm,
who up until Lamar's RBI singles has driven in all three White Sox
runs tonight with a pair of doubles.
Double Homer running the fourth to tie the game.
Double Homer two in the sixth to get the White Sox to lead 3-1.
Now up there with the White Sox leading 4-1.
And a runner at first with one out here in the bottom half of the eighth inning.
And now Foucault wants to talk to his catcher, Darryl Porter.
Another baseball today.
Cleveland beat Milwaukee.
Andre Thornton, a home run in the 11th, 9-8.
Texas beat Minnesota 4-1, a three-run homer by Sundberg in the 10th.
And tonight Detroit leading Toronto 5-2 in the ninth.
And the White Sox leading Kansas City 4-1 in the eighth.
Check the National League for you in a moment.
Foucault working out of the stretch delivers, and it's up high of all.
The Pirates won their tenth in a row, beating Atlanta 5-1,
moving into a second place tie with the Idol Cup.
Cardinals now leading Cincinnati 4-3.
That game has now moved into the bottom of the eighth.
Right-hander Ruddy, here's the pitch.
Inside of all, ball two.
Metfleet San Diego 1-0 at the end of one.
Philadelphia just underway in Los Angeles.
And we've been informed that pitcher Don Sutton has called the news conference
to apologize publicly to Steve Garvey for the remarks that he made about it
in a newspaper article on the result fight between the two.
Here's the two.
Oh, pitch.
Going alongside the left hurdle is there to his left,
and he's got it about 10 feet in front of the warning track in left field.
And there's two down.
Two out, and Mike Colburn the batter.
He has flied out the center, flied out the left, and popped up the short.
0-3 tonight.
Not only has Sutton made some unkind remarks about Garvey
as well as his family in the newspaper, but he's got a radio show out in L.A.
and he has gone after him on that.
Just a matter of jealousy on the part of Sutton and a couple of the Dodgers,
including Bill Buckner now with the Cubs, who used to be a Dodger.
Here's the pitch swing and a miss.
It was Garvey, you know, who moved Buckner off the first base
and made him expendable.
That's one of the reasons they were able to trade him to the Cubs.
He was upset at Garvey over that.
Here's the pitch outside of all.
How in the world, anybody, if you legitimately get beat out
for a position to be upset or replaced in a job,
it's beyond me.
But at any rate, Sutton, when I give him credit for it,
apologized publicly tonight before that game to Garvey.
Here's the pitch outside of all.
Two balls and a strike.
Never be afraid to admit you're wrong.
Mr. Sutton did that tonight.
Here's the pitch outside, three and one.
Bad one here with foot runners at first and second.
Bring up the left-hander, Bob Molinaro.
The left-hander of the Kansas City Bullpen replaced Pucall
when he came in the ball game, and that's Steve Mingori.
Marty Patton, the right-hander, still throwing.
Right-hander ready.
Here's the pitch.
Here's the swing and a base hit down the left-field line.
Lamar Johnson holds up the second as Hurdle charges the ball
and gets it into the infield.
That's the second hit off of Pucall, and here comes Whitey Herzog.
And he's going to bring in the left-hander, Mingori, to face Molinaro.
So Pucall fits the third of an inning.
He's allowed two hits.
It's responsible for the two runners, Coburn at first
and Lamar Johnson at second.
Four to one, the White backs out in front here.
Mingori making his 37th appearance of the year.
He's won one.
He's lost three.
He's saved seven for the Royals, which his second hide is Robovsky's 16.
And he has an earned run average of 2.68.
So Pucall, making his first appearance as a Royal,
allows two hits that resulted in a run scoring charged to split orbs
in a third of an inning.
Mingori this year has pitched a total of six innings against the White Sox,
allowing only one run on five hits.
He's walked a man and struck out three.
Has the third best earned run average against the White Sox for any of the Royals,
according to their reports, ERA of 1.50.
So manager Whitey Herzog, again, playing the percentages
that backfired on him earlier this inning.
Well, the Fox the Gram reminding the fans that Boston is going to be in concert here
on Saturday, September 2nd.
White Sox will be out of town.
I guess Santana is going to be here also, as well as...
Eddie Bunney.
Well, Len Sherman, who's Leon Sherman, who's listening tonight here at the ballpark,
we're talking about defense.
For some reason I thought that the center field was all the way to 445
as part of Landis's career, but he says no, it was 415 feet when Landis played here.
Then when Mary was here, it stated 415, then they moved it in to about 400.
I guess that's why I remember Landis on the warning track.
Here's a pitch of foot coming in as Brett, he's got it.
Paul Harrow trying to put his way on.
Punched it right into the net of George Brett, and that retires the side.
In the inning, White Sox at an insurance run on three hits, no errors, two men left on.
So we go to the ninth, it's the White Sox for Kansas City 1.
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Lord Brown back at Kaniski Park as we go to the ninth, it'll be Darrell Porter,
Quinn Hurdle, and Amos Otis, two left-handers and a right-hander to face Mike Brolick.
In the bullpen for the White Sox, right-hander Laren LeGro.
White Sox out in front here by a score of 4 to 1.
Now talking about Landis and Berry, two outstanding centerfielders along the ilk of Johnny Mostel years ago.
And we appreciate Leon Sherman's help in that matter.
I didn't get a chance to see those guys that much because I was downstate at St. Louis Cardinal games most of the time.
Working in Springfield and Peoria, and we didn't get too many White Sox color-casts in those days down there.
WMAQ wasn't broadcasting the White Sox in those days.
Darrell Porter tonight is two for three.
He's accounted for the lone Kansas City run with a leadoff homer in the fourth inning.
The White Sox had shut the Royals out for 17 innings when they hit that home run.
White Sox now allowed Kansas City only one run in the last 22 innings.
Schuller shut them out for three and two-thirds the other night.
Wilber shut them out for two innings.
Wilber Wood, Kravick shut them out on three hits and nine innings last night.
And Broly has allowed only one run and eight innings here tonight, and that being the home run by Porter.
Right-hander into the windup.
Here's the pitch, and it's low.
This is the only American League game going on right now as the Tigers have just defeated Toronto 5-2.
Wilcox over more. Jason Thompson, the game's only homer, is 23rd of the year.
Here's the 1-0 pitch, swinging a foul on a play at the upper deck on the left side near the skybox.
One ball, one strike in the batter.
Right-hander goes into the windup.
Here's the pitch.
Swing and a miss, right-two.
That ball moving in on the left-handed hitter.
Kansas City on Porter's home run took the lead in the top of the fourth, 1-0.
But Eric Soderholm doubles home Ralph Gahr, who had tripled in the fourth to tie it up.
Here's the 1-2 pitch outside of all.
And the White Sox on Soderholm's second double of the night.
Sits the lead in the sixth with two runs after Sox had nobody on and two out, and they rallied for two.
Then Lamar Johnson, single homer, running the eighth to make it four to one.
Here's the 2-2 delivery.
Swing to the grounder, right side.
Prior to his left has it.
Throws, he got it.
One out, two to go.
As Clint Hurdle steps up, he has swung out to the left twice.
He's grounded into a 3-6-3 double play and defensively he overran a ball in the left field corner,
dropped to his left at the base of the wall that allowed the White Sox to score two runs.
A ball was catchable.
And that gave the White Sox the lead.
Here's the pitch, swinging a foul out of play as it goes on the roof over the skybox.
Four to one.
White Sox out in front.
They've out-hit the Royals 10 to 6.
Here's the pitch.
Swing to the grounder, takes a high hop into right field of base in.
Prior to his left, couldn't come up with it as it took a high hop over his mid.
And the Royals have a runner at first with one out, and Amos Otis the batter.
Otis one for three tonight.
Boy, Prior got a good jump on that ball that was there, but it high hopped him.
He had to be about 6-3 in order to get that one.
And the batter is Amos Otis, singled in the second, slide out the center in the fourth,
and grounded to third in the seventh.
Washington is going to run for hurdle.
UL Washington running here.
Washington has stolen 11 bases.
They've got Willie Wilson on the bench.
He has stolen 35, but the word is that Washington is the better base runner,
though sheer speed it's Willie Wilson.
His run really doesn't mean that much.
Right hander ready, here's the pitch, runner not going, swing and a foul off to the right side.
Ready, pot deck in the on deck circle.
White Sox leading 4-1 trying to win the series, two games to one.
It's a great season series here at Kavisky Park, 4-3 with a victory tonight.
It would also put the Royals in second place.
Right hander ready, runner not going, here's the pitch, swing and a base hit to the left.
Now the Royals have a trying run up in the form of Freddie Potteck as Pat Mosley gets the ball back into the infield
as Otis pulls the single to the left.
And now Larry Doby, White Sox manager, goes to the mound.
It's not a grow or right hander down in the bullpen.
The White Sox at one time had a slew of left-handed reliefers, but right now
Pablo Torreal with Wilbur Woods.
Left handers in the starting rotation are Baumgart and Craving.
Doby going to keep them in, we're going to get a pinch hitter here.
Steve Braun is going to pinch hit for Potteck.
Potteck was 0-3 against Foley, so Herzog going with the percentages, going with Steve Braun
who they acquired for Jim Colbert from Seattle earlier this year.
Hitting 268 with the Royals with 11 RBIs.
Hitting 248 overall for the year, three homers, 26 RBIs.
He represents the tying run.
We're in the ninth.
Right hander ready, here's the pitch and it's lower ball.
Foley got Porter and Hurdle.
Got out of the base hit, Washington running for him and Otis single to left.
The tying run is at the plate.
Right hander ready, working out of the stretch.
Here's the pitch and that's the strike.
He was up to Braun, one ball, one strike.
Frank White in the on-deck circle.
Legro continues to loosen up, White Sox will bend.
White Sox has turned over one double play tonight, a second in this situation with F the ballgame.
Right hander ready, here's the pitch, swinging it louder to third, going to second for one, relay, not in time.
So Otis, the middle man, has retired five to four.
Larry Dolby walking towards the umpire.
Now he goes to the mound.
Apparently Pryor got stepped on.
Well, they're talking to Foley.
Something happened to Foley.
We're going to get a pitch hitter for Frank White.
I don't know what Foley did to himself.
Paul was grounded to Sotterholm.
Sotterholm on that play, one for the double play, the second on the first, and they didn't get it.
He had a chance to tag the runner, Washington, coming down the line.
But he thought he could get the double play and the White Sox just didn't miss getting it.
So the Royals have runners at first and third, and Laren Legro comes in for Foley here.
With two out and two on, he had the name.
What happened to Foley, we know not.
He might have done something with his ankle the way he was walking off, I don't know.
But Charlie Satt spotted it right away and went out to the mound.
Tom Moquette from Oclair, Wisconsin, a left-hander.
We'll pitch hit here.
And the ninth with representing the tying run.
He's at first and third and two out.
Moquette hitting 205.
He's hit three homers and driven in 25 runs.
Frank White, while he was in there with one for two, he had singles grounded out to short.
And they also got on on a walk.
At the bottom of the ninth at Cincinnati, the Cardinals leading the Reds 4-3.
The Pirates defeated Atlanta 5-1 tonight for their 10th straight.
They moved into a tie for second with the Cubs.
The Reds beat San Diego 1-0 at the end of two.
The Phillies at Los Angeles just underway.
Those are the only games in the National League tonight.
Everything in the American League is over, with the exception of this game.
This afternoon, Texas over Minnesota 4-1.
Cleveland beat Milwaukee 9-8.
And tonight, the Tigers snap Toronto's.
Winning straight to sixth straight, defeating the Blue Jays 5-2.
So Po kept the batter.
And Pete Bukovic and the Cardinals just beat Cincinnati 4-3.
The Reds are all over.
Here's the pitch.
Here's a swing and a fly ball to the right.
Bolinero is there.
This should be the ball game.
He's got it.
That's win.
They have allowed the Kansas City Royals only one run in the last 23 innings of the
season, two games to one.
In the inning, no runs, two hits, no errors, two men left on.
And 14,524 leave the ballpark on a happy note.
The White Sox hit the season series against the Royals here in Chicago, four games to
three.
And we'll be back in just a minute with the Cardinals and the Highline.