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How you doing everybody? LeBoudreau with the leadoff man from Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada, for the last appearance of the Cubs in Montreal, and they're going to send number 33, Bill Barnum.
He's going to go against number 33, Wayne Twitzell, for the Montreal Expos. The leadoff man is brought to you by Easygo Service Station, serving you throughout Chicagoland.
We'll be talking to our guest, a gentleman who's certainly gained a milestone in his career as a Major League ball player, and there's going to be many, many more milestones for this fine gentleman.
Tony Perez of the Montreal Expos in just one minute.
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Tony Perez is our guest. Tony reached that milestone that I mentioned earlier by driving in his 1200th RBI, and only three other men in baseball as active that has driven in that many, Willie McCovey, Carl Yastramsky, Tony Perez, and Willie Stargell, who is on the Disablist right now.
And that is a great milestone and one that you should be very proud of, Tony. Yes, I am. Really, I was looking for this the whole year, and I didn't know if I could reach it this year because I wasn't playing for Cincinnati.
You know, we get a lot of men on base over there, and here in Montreal we don't have the same kind of offense that Cincinnati have, but I've been lucky this year, and I get a man on base, and I came through with that, but I need a run.
And really I'm proud to be in that group, in me, at 1200 RBI, really. I think any ball player should be proud of himself. Absolutely. That's a great milestone.
And more to come because you have several years left, I'm quite sure, in this game of baseball. Since the All-Star game, you've been swinging a hot bat. Was there anything that you changed to bring that about?
No, I didn't change at all. I think early on in the year I was trying too hard to help this ball club, and this is a young ball club, and I was trying to get my experience and trying to drop in more runs and trying to hit more home runs.
And really the pitcher was beating around me, and I was swinging a lot of better pitches. And then after the other start break I said, well, Tony, you better go back and do what you were doing in all your career.
You know, go to the opposite field, go to the right field and hit a ball or whatever. And I've been doing that lately, and really I got good success off.
And I think mentally you've sort of relaxed more in the atmosphere here in Montreal because it must have been a shock to you when the trade was first accumulated between Cincinnati and Montreal.
Well, it surprised me a little when I hear about it, but after that I said, well, if Cincinnati wants to trade me because they've got somebody else younger and they can do the job. I just said, well, Montreal wants me.
And, you know, they go to a new stadium and they want to build a contender here. I might help. And I took the challenge and said, well, I'll go and see what I can do.
Well, I think you're going to be a contender in the near future, if not next year. All you need is about two pitchers that can give you 15 to 18 wins. You've got a veteran ball club with a very young outfield, but this year will help them tremendously and experience. They have great ability, don't they?
Yeah, I think they got a young ball club, especially in the outfield. And we lost a lot of games. We made a lot of mistakes this year, but I think they will learn and next year I know we're going to play better. And like you said, we need a couple of pitchers that can give us a win and another guy on the bullpen, you know, a good reliever.
And really that's what we're looking for. And I think we're going to be a contender soon. Tony, when you first come over here and come into this ballpark, Olympic Stadium, it's a huge area. But then after you play a few games here, the ball seem to carry well, don't they?
Yeah, they both carry good. You got a hitter, but they still carry good. And I had them the year watching, but now, you know, in the middle of the year, it's still warm and things like that. I think the atmosphere is better and they both carry very well.
Now with a man next to you like Davy Cash, of course, you had the great one Morgan on your right also. This means that they can carry the glove quite well and carry the territory so you can guard the line a little more.
Oh, he's right. Davy got a lot of ground and really, you know, he helped me like Morgan did. And I think I can play the line better. And Davy really helped this ball club because he got the experience and he helped me and everybody in this club.
You made a play last night that saved the run, going to your right backhand of the ball and tossing it to the pitcher. It looked like it was a base hit all the way. And these little plays, execution means so much. When you execute, you win.
Well, you got to be ready anytime you are laying in and you're tied. You got to, you know, the game is tied. You have to, you have to be ready for anything here close to you and maybe play.
Tony, you have 80 some RBIs. You're looking for that 100?
What I'm looking for, really, I'm looking for is 90 because you know I have 10 straight years, got the record 10 straight years. You know, to draw me more than 90. And I need five. I had 85 and I really looking at the 90. But I give 100 much better.
I think you will. You've got a lot of ball games left for you and several right here in the home ballpark. And these fans have been terrific this year. You're going to draw over a million, 400,000.
Yeah, I think so. I think we're going to break that record. They say here under the first year, 59 and really depend being gray. And this is a good baseball town.
I want to thank you very much for coming over and talking with us and offer all of us to you. Congratulations on a great job.
Thank you, Lou.
Tony Perez, fine gentleman and who's reached the milestone in his career driving in 1200 RBIs. And as you heard him, he has led the league. He has a record of driving in 90 or more runs batted in for the last 10 years.
So actually, perhaps it was a great trade for Montreal Expos with the Cincinnati Reds. We'll be right back after this message.
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The Chicago Cubs are on the air. Good evening everybody and welcome once again to Major League Baseball.
And let's hope tonight we're going to be able to report a cup victory for you. Seems like it's been forever today.
And tonight they meet the Montreal Expos for the final time in the season and while they hold an edge over this club for the season series, beating them 10 out of 17.
In the last eight meetings Montreal has had the big edge. The Expos have knocked off the Cubs six times in the last eight meetings between them this year.
That's enough of that. Bill Bonham with a 3-0 record against Montreal for the season.
Will be trying to even up for the year against the Expos tonight. A cup veteran right hander is now 10-11 and he goes up against Wayne Pwichell.
Big right hander started the season with the Philadelphia Phillies and right now he has a dime store record, 5-10 for the year.
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Weather conditions are a little more suitable for baseball. Here in Montreal tonight we don't have that wintry wind blowing in around the stadium. Even the players last night were talking about it after the ball game and today they had never felt this cold.
Even those who have been up in the old ballpark, Jerry Clark, as they did here last night. And they were cold at the plate too because after the third inning when Larry Bittner led off with a home run, his third against this ball club this year, from that point on, Cubs managed only two hits.
And of course as you know by now, dropped one in twelve buttings, the last four in three to two.
Tonight young Mike Gordon is going to be doing the catching again. He's the catcher that Cubs just brought up from Wichita.
Worked in last night's ball game and he'll be Bonham's battery mate tonight. But leading off for the Cubs will be Ivan DeJesus at shortstop.
Larry Bittner, who was sixth for twelve in his last three ball games, will be batting second playing in left field with Bill Buckner over at first base hitting third. Jerry Morales, who did not start last night, tonight will be in center field and hit in the clean up position.
And of course, the first baseman, Steve Mercer batting fifth, playing in right field. Steve Anabares will be at third base hitting sixth. Manny Trio at second, batting seventh. And the rookie, Mike Gordon, with Bill Bonham ten and eleven for the year.
Maybe cash to lead off at second base. The rookie up from Denver, Stan Pappy, he ATI, will be at third, hitting in the number two spot. Andre Dawson hitting in third position. Dawson, the center fielder.
Here's a fellow that helped break our hearts last night. Tony Perez, first baseman, hitting in the clean up spot. Alice Valentine in right field batting fifth. Gary Carter doing the catching, followed by the left fielder, Warren Cromarty.
Cromarty hitting seventh. First fire at the shortstop, hitting eighth. The pitcher, battered right hander, Wayne Twitchell.
Pittsburgh and the St. Louis Cardinals are underway in their first game tonight at St. Louis.
And they're in the fourth inning. John Candelaria going for the Pirates against Eric Rasmussen for the cards.
And there is no score in the fourth. That's the first of their finite doubleheaders. You know by now they were rained out last night.
The New York Mets at Philadelphia tonight have Craig Swan pitching against Randy Lurch, both have won eight ballgames for the respective ball clubs this year. Swan is eight and eight and Lurch eight and five.
And of course we'll be at New York tomorrow to finish a suspended game caused by the blackout.
And then a regular game tomorrow evening.
And a single game on Saturday followed by a Sunday doubleheader. That too caused by the blackout. Earlier today at San Francisco, before a pretty slim turnout, 1612.
Houston defeated the Giants 6-3. The gene fence coming on and getting a split win against Ed Helicki.
Ed Herman got his first homer of the year, Bob Watson Homer. Now the National Anthems.
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Wayne Tretchel twenty nine years
of age.
Then his career in the majors
started with the Phillies came
over this year this ball club
ten games under the 500 mark and
this year he's five and ten.
Oh and one against the Cubs.
He lost to the Cubs earlier this
year while he was with the
Phillies.
But he has come on strong in
his last two ballgames and this
big fellow from Portland Oregon
there does some basketball
appreciating in high school in
the offseason has won his last
two ballgames defeating the
Pirates in the New York Mets.
So he's been getting into the
groove.
Yvonne DeJesus last night one
for six steps in hitting two
sixty three three homers thirty
four runs batted in with a
rookie right hander played up
fire Andy Olson what you'll get
society here's the pitch takes
the fastball it's in too close
and we're underway in Olympic
Stadium in Montreal as the Cubs
try to end a five game losing
streak.
But you're missing inside of the
first one the windup here's a
fastball missed at the knees
outside ball to no strikes.
Harry Dunlop coaching at first
base.
Penis Lowry at third first base
umpire Doug Harvey.
Here's the windup and the pitch
takes it high ball three the
leadoff man one more we'll get a
man on.
Crow Marty Dawson and Valentine
and left center and right Tony
Perez at first cash at second
here's the pitch there is a
strike call better high way and
Yvonne not too thrilled with
that call.
Cash at second fire at short
stop and the rookie up from
Denver Stan Pappy playing the
third wind up and the big
fellow three one pitch taken
first strike.
It's a lot off after getting
behind and now he's run the
count for this is a completely
carpeted surface here except
right around the bases.
So the windup in the three to
delivery takes outside a
breaking ball and he winds up
coaxing a walk to lead off the
ballgame.
It's one of the big fellows
problems this year.
He has walked 60 men and 152
winnings striking out 111.
Larry Bittner mentioned in the
last three ballgames six hits
in 12 at bats four runs batted
in and last night he got his
tenth home run of the year that
was leading off the third and
that was a final cut run of the
night.
Now a two ninety five hitter
for the season with 53 runs
batted in throw the first base
and Yvonne is back in plenty of
time.
That's Leonard I'm firing at
second base tonight and Nick
Colossus third down the line
three hundred twenty five feet
to a high bright green wall.
Quiches first pitch that takes
a strike a fastball tomorrow of
course will be at New York
finish the suspended game cause
for the blackout and Herman
Franks and Barney Schultz is
pitching coach still not quite
sure who will start that
suspended game tomorrow.
Depending on who has the arm
that isn't tired I guess curve
by Twichell and he misses low and
inside ball one strike one kind
of a slow worker straightaway
center field it's four hundred
and four and the power rally is
three hundred seventy five feet
here at Olympic Stadium.
All one strike one pitch coming
up the Hays is pretty good lead
doesn't go but her takes in a
tie ball to strike one on Larry
we're going to have to wait a
while to let Ted Turner capture
the America's Cup.
He didn't get across the finish
line in time today under the
five and a half hour time limit
even though he had a big lead so
they have to run it over.
He has this goes better on the
hit and run swings and fouls it
out of play ball to strike to
you know thank you.
Five and a half hours you've
got to do the whole thing over
again.
The last time they had to do
that.
Well he told me it was in 1958
and just declare this one today
on no race.
Lucky should have gotten a crew
out there and they could have
blown hard enough to get that
thing across due to delivery
fastball and Larry with a big
swing fouls it back and then had
to catch his batting helmet as
it came popping off his head.
That's infielder Bobby Valentine
by the way underwent successful
surgery yesterday at two bone
spurs removed from his right
ankle Bobby Valentine.
Here's the pitch swing and a
foul comes back into the back
stop.
Back in nineteen seventy three
when Bobby who started his
career with the Dodgers had
moved down the coast to the
California Angels seventy three
and separate a broken leg and
those bone spurs were a result
of that.
They got him earlier this year
from San Diego in the Dave
Kingman deal and Kingman from
the Padres go to first to
California played 10 games to
the Angels and now the big
fellow is back in New York with
the Yankees.
They got him on waivers to two
pitch coming up that their
swings and a line drive in the
right field for a base hit the
haste is left to stop at second
base.
Now it's Valentine powering the
throw in and the Cubs have
runners at first and second with
nobody out and Bill Buckner the
batter.
Situation last night when he
sacrificed in the off inning
that if he had not been able to
sacrifice in that first pitch
that he was going to they were
going to put the hit and run on
to the next one.
He said it's probably just as
well they did have me sacrifice
because he said I was swinging
the bat so badly.
See what they have a left handed
hitting veteran do now.
Buckner batting to ninety seven
for the year was officially 0
for 5 last night as 11 homers
this year and driven in 58 runs
club runners at first and second
with nobody out on a walk and a
single off Wayne Quitchell.
Here's the pitch takes and it's
a strike on the inside corner at
the belt but with a hundred and
nine base hits this year Jerry
Brownice who has been battling
a slump in the on deck circle
over in the third base side
carpet looks like it's still
soaked from the heavy rains that
fell here yesterday.
All one delivery Buckner swings
pulls a ground ball to cash could
be a double play over the spire
the relay and it is double play
one hundred and nineteenth of
the year by the Expos hold a
hard ground ball to Davey Cash
the H.S. is on a third but
they're too gone and Jerry
Morales stepping in.
He's stepping in and oh man.
Need a base hit now or an error
while pitcher pass ball to get
on the scoreboard.
Brownice batting to 90 then
homers 68 runs batted in and his
last RBI came at San Francisco
when he hit that 10th homer of
the year.
That was August the 26th and
that is a powerful long slump
right under leveling that bat
rather nervously now cocks it
high.
Here's the pitch by Tweedle and
he takes a strike at the knees
on the outside corner.
A walk a single but Buckner
pulls a hard ground ball onto
the carpet to cash they converted
into a double play.
Oh one delivery curve and he
almost threw it away back ended
by Gary Carter ball one strike
one.
Gary Koosman slid to start the
suspended game for the Mets
tomorrow and they regularly
scheduled game to follow it.
Herman Franks and Barney Schultz
still not sure.
One one delivery swung out at a
high pop foul it is out of play
behind the Montreal dugout one
and two on Morales.
They're not quite sure who will
start that suspended game
tomorrow.
Well it depends on who doesn't
have a tired arm who has to be
used here tonight.
Rick Russell is scheduled to go
against Koosman in the regular
day scheduled game.
Nino Espinosa who drove in a run
last night against the Phillies
shut him out on three hits and
scheduled a pitch one of the
game Sunday against the Cubs two
out of one two pitch breaking
ball low and outside ball to
strike to what you're a big
gangly fellow and sometimes he
looks like he's just kind of
shot putting the ball.
Come on little guy get a hit to
off runner at third and to to
delivery curveball low and
outside it's three and two.
Bobby Mercer the on deck circle
and let's hope that he'll bat
here in this first inning as the
Cubs try to get on the board
and still shooting for their
seventy sixth win of the year.
Glitcho glances over at third
steps back the right hander
winds three to pitch swung on
and it pulls the ground ball to
the third baseman Stan Pappy
throws the president of the dirt
gets away from him the Cubs take
the lead and Morales will wind
up at second base.
Well that be a run batted in an
error against Tony Perez or
against Stan Pappy on a throw
by the third baseman.
I have a little help though.
What about it.
We'll take it.
It's all we can get.
Well they got their hundred
and nineteenth double play of
the year in this inning.
That is the much hundred and
seventeenth error.
Pappy when he was at Denver this
year playing under Jim Marshall
and they won their championship
with a shortstop.
Man pretty upset with himself
after that bad throw that went
into the dirt and Perez trying
to back end it couldn't handle
it Mercer steps in and he takes
switch his first pitch low and
inside ball one like Morales
Mercer has been in a slump in so
far as driving in runs and do
not credit Morales with a run
batted it on that one.
Bobby last night one for four
hitting two six hundred and
four hitting two sixty eight
tender.
I told up in a swing he can't do
it ball one strike one.
The pitch was down low and in on
him.
Morales last got an RBI on
August the 26th.
Mercer's last one came on
August the 22nd.
Ramos in scoring position as a
result of the air and the Cubs
leading one to nothing with two
off which was one one pitch a
slow curve into the dirt.
Morales.
All to strike one and he said
don't control the batman
whatsoever.
Steve on a various in the on deck
circle the outfield around to
the right and deep for Mercer
the look at second that
Morales here's twitches pitch
takes the fastball inside above
the knees ball three strike one
perspire the shortstop playing
to pull up the middle and he is
going to get a little bit of a
little bit of a
toe just on that white strap of
a designate for the outfield
grass would start.
David Cash has planted his feet
right astride that line over the
right side of the infield.
Three one delivery with two out
and Mercer swings and he fouls
that one back out of play ball
three strike two five decisions
between the Cubs and the New
York Mets this weekend and then
the Cubs will go to Philadelphia
to close out this lengthy road
for the Cubs and the New York
Mets.
They're going to play the
first base game of the year
Friday before coming back home
to open up next Friday at
Wrigley Field final home stand
of the year three to pitch
swung out and a little bouncing
ball back to the pitcher picks
it up with a little underhand
possible the first base and the
Cubs are retired in the first
inning.
Thanks to some Montreal help
they get a run on a walk one hit
and a half.
At the end of a half putting a
play bounce off to the bounce
thinking his 11th win of the
year with the score the Cubs
won Montreal nothing.
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You'll be pleased in here against
the Expos and won at Berkeley
Field against them.
Worked a total of 17 innings
against Montreal given a twenty
three hits and eleven runs.
Three and oh and one other stock
he wound up with no decision.
Just as he did in his last start
of the season Saturday at
Wrigley Field against the Mets
not involved in the decision
there he left with the ball with
the Cubs leading the ballgame
but they wound up losing it by
a score of seven to two.
Bottom hundred eighty eight
innings of work and one hundred
eighty two base hits for the year
and an earned on average of just
over four.
Big right end delivers a swing
and a miss by Davey Cash on a
slider away strike one count
cash one for six last night
veteran hitting two eighty nine
driven in thirty nine runs as
no homers there's a swing and a
ground ball base hit the top on
a fastball and drilled it to the
second base side of Manny Creel
October Allison center field to
each team with one hit and the
rookies Dan Pappy was guilty of
that struggling air and would
have retired the Cubs in the
first inning without any run
coming across steps in.
Let's see what they're going to
have him do.
Twenty six year old right hander
hope for six last night.
They have a sacrifice in the
twelfth inning forced the man at
second.
Then he scored the winning run
on a cripple looked out at his
helmet taken off with a high
inside fastball going up up in
the carpet in front of the plate
picks it up looks again down at
coach a third to get his sign
bottom's last victory game against
San Diego August the sixth goes
to first base.
Davey Cash back in plenty of time
at the head first slide a little
left bottom had a little shoulder
problem for a while.
Right as Devers and Mrs. with a
fastball loan away to the rookie
Stan Pappy Andre Dawson tripled
and drove in that winning run
last night in the on back circle
over in the first base side
bottom with a runner at first
nobody out a two old pitch coming
up as a base hit.
That's my name.
Real out in the center field and
happy given the green light on
two and all drills one to the
second base out of real runners
that first and second nobody out
here's last night hitting here
all for the Expos big right hand
or Andre Dawson to its last night
including that game winning
triple that gave him his 58th run
batted in for the year.
Dawson batting to 78 with 16
homers bottom looks at the runner
second delivers a curve but it's
too high ball one.
Dubs in a bit of a jam here in
the first inning on two singles
by Debbie Cash and rookie Stan
Pappy is a stretch the delivery
one out he hit one on the fist
about it.
Bucke coming over to the dugout
and he grabs that ball one handed
runner tag from second goes to
third the throw not quite in time
he's in there with a head first
line but there anticipated that
by Davy Cash but there wasn't
anything he could do about it.
We'll the native throw cash got
in there ahead of the tag by
on a bear with alert baseball
tying around at third and Tony
Perez stepping in he should wind
up this year the only man in
Major League history to drive in
90 or more runs for 11 consecutive
seasons as 85 this year hitting
295 for the year.
Throw the first and Pappy back in
time since the All-Star break
Mr. Perez hitting 349 there's a
pitcher swing at a best to pull
off on that one.
He's jumping on it.
Whereas last night was one for
four 18 homers is here.
Why is that right foot deep in
the batter's box almost in the
corner of it.
That post dance it's working the
fingers on that bat bottoms every
time takes it inside ball one
strike one.
You've got to be pretty thrilled
loading it with the anticipation
of achieving that mark and RBI
90 for 11 straight year.
He is and he's mighty proud of
that twelve hundred RBI record
also that either bottom of made
a throw to first base to keep
Pappy close one out one one did
every takes it low ball to
strike one.
Now the Spamans I and do up next
tying run over a third
represented by veteran Davey
Cash.
The kids could use a double
player to say the least rookie
Mike Gordon doing the catching
sets up bottom pitch for his
takes in at the strike letter
high away from him.
All to strike to get a few cup
fans reading here tonight
putting the Matthews family
Bill and Gerta Matthews bottom
to pitch rest takes the fastball
into tight ball three strike to
well he's done an outstanding
job both in driving and runs and
with his batting average of two
ninety five he is one father
that is prone to strike out a
lot.
Let's see a bottom can dispose
of him here with one out runners
at first and third three to
delivery.
Let it go.
Swing and a miss Gordon throw
bounces gets away from three of
those to center field.
Happy gets up and goes to third
and Davey Cash drops up the
line with the tying one of the
ballgame we were hopefully
anticipating he struck out and
happy going on the pitch.
Good have been nailed.
Gordon felt short of the mark
bounce pass real into center
field.
They're on that throw of course
and here's that a fine playing
and hitting a hard shot that
skips off of Steve Monteveras
and then bounces over into the
box seat and that's going to be
a ground rule double and let's
see if Monteveras is going to be
all right as Montreal has taken
the lead.
Valentine getting a very hard
shot came off of that wet carpet
he's already had one in the eye
this year and I hope he didn't
get another one there.
Oh that one just glanced off of
the bill of the cap.
Number 72 and runs by the game
for the year.
For Ellis Valentine with a
double on the first pitch drone
and the Expos have a two to one
lead in the bottom of inning
number one.
Valentine decides that he can do
without the batting element.
Gary Carter to be the hitter and
let's pause a moment for
station identification.
This is the W.G.N. Chicago Cubs
baseball network and this is W.G.
and Radio Chicago at one minute
past seven.
Two singles and a double and
each team has been guilty of an
error and we're in the first
inning.
There's a swing and a high fly
ball around us on the run so
Bobby Mercer and it's much to
his hair.
How's it end to retire the side.
But two runs and two runs.
And the bases brought two runs
on three hits one cover one man
left in the bases and at the end
the one mockery all leads the
Cubs 2 to 1.
Think you could eat 40 bananas
in 39 minutes.
Anthony Pig did it.
He set that record in 1967 says
so right here in the Guinness
Book of World Records.
How could anyone eat so much so
fast.
This is Mike Pyle saying we'll
find the answer to that.
But there are some records that
are easily explained.
For instance the current record
for selling new Oldsmobile.
It's held by while olds and
Libertyville while sells more
new Oldsmobile than any other
dealer in the world.
Why.
Why do people come from Chicago
from all over the state even
from neighboring states to buy
their new Oldsmobile from while
you won't find the answer in the
record book but you will find it
in Libertyville Illinois home
of the world's largest Oldsmobile
dealer while old plan to drive
out real soon.
You'll probably get out to
Libertyville faster than it
takes.
Anthony Figg eat 40 bananas while
those selling out all or eighty
eight to ninety eight at never
before and never again low prices.
The amount of errors is going to
be leading off the Cubs here
against Wayne Pichel.
He's heading to ninety five with
0 for 6 last night.
We dropped a few points before
the Yankees hit any trail than
the rookie catcher.
Boston is New York tonight.
Louis Tion going for the Red Sox
who dropped the first two games
of that big series against the
Yankees Mike Torres 16 and 12
for the year going for the
Yanks.
Baltimore at Toronto Grimsley
against Plancy for the Blue Jays
and there's no score at Toronto
bottom of inning number two and
Oakland has taken a four to
five lead at Kansas City at the
end of two innings of play in
their first game by the blue for
the A's six is 15th one of the
year tonight against Andy
Hassler who's nine and five and
has to yielded two runs in each
of the first two innings.
Kansas City in danger of having
that long winning streak of 14
in a row snap and that first
game of the twine I double
header at Kansas City tonight by
the Oakland A's Baltimore by the
way is shooting for its eighth
place tonight.
They've moved into second place
last night as the Yankees
particularly Reggie Jackson
disposed of Boston once more
Baltimore now two and a half out
of the Red Sox three and a half
there's a swing at a deep drive
in the left center field little
Warren Cromarty races out reaches
up all that in one end and out
of errors is out on a long line
drive to the left fielder to
open up the second inning Manny
Creel stepping in.
He was 0 for 5 last night.
He's got a good pace.
Seven homers for the year 56 runs
batted in.
You know pitchers aren't the only
ones that need a good change of
pace.
Everyone ought to follow the
routine just a little bit and you
can do that yourself by spending
a fun field day out of friendly
Wrigley Field and then there aren't
very many of them left for this
season either.
First pitch trio is going to take
all the way and it's a strike at
the knees.
The Cubs will be entertaining the
Pittsburgh Pirates and the
apparent Eastern Division
champion Philadelphia Phillies on
the next home stand that starts
one week from tomorrow against
Pittsburgh.
That's for again the Phillies
they'll do teams will be there to
extend the club home stand through
the 28th of September.
But you'll reach his back
delivers a slow curve and trio
looks at it for strike to only
six games left in the home
schedule.
Nothing into the count.
Now he swings and fouls that one
off the middle Gary Carter.
Still own two in the Cubs second
baseman Phillies got a run in the
bottom of the first inning
against the Mets tonight on
behalf of the left hander Randy
Lurch.
Great Swan going for the Mets
who are now batting in the top of
the second inning and trailing
one to nothing at Philadelphia.
Oh to delivery fastball swung on
fouls it back up another one.
Fouls it back up under the back
stop this afternoon as we
mentioned earlier Houston knocked
off San Francisco six to three
fence getting the victory over
Ed Hallecky and the Houston
Astros very hopeful winding up
in second place in that Western
division picked up a half game
with that one.
There's a curve ball and he takes
it outside one and two pick up a
half game against the Cincinnati
Reds.
There are three games behind him
pending the outcome of the
Cincinnati game tonight at Los
Angeles one out and a one to
delivery takes the fastball high
ball to strike to what you'll
an awful lot of basketball when
he was in school out of Oregon
and occasionally still
officiates that game in the off
season to to delivery swung out
a fastball off the end of the
back those fouls into the seats
of the first base side.
The Cubs were gifted with a run
in the first inning started out
promisingly with a walk and a
single and Buckner grounded
into a double play ball.
Morales had a grounder to the
third baseman whose throw was
errant and permitted the Haysers
to score and Morales to reach
second.
Then the inning ended with
Mercer tapping out weekly the
pitcher.
Here's a swing and three a
pulitzer ground ball back
headed by Spire long throw.
He is safe at first base.
Spire having to make that peg
from beyond that stripe on the
that would designate the outfield
grass and Creos on with an
infield single with one out in
the second inning.
Hit number two for the Cubs
brings up the rookie catcher
Mike Gordon at St. Louis the
Cardinals batting in the bottom
of the sixth inning of their
first game against the Pittsburgh
Pirates and the Pirates are
holding a one to nothing lead
and Tony Garofalo the cup
trainer has to come out now to
attend a Manny Trejo looks like
he might have hurt an ankle
running that one out.
Well this is two for two two
innings and Tony's out twice.
Yeah he must have set an all
time record this year.
But the new facilities that
they have here and the Cubs were
here in the first two trips they
were using temporary quarters
to say the least.
But now the visiting clubhouse
has been pretty much finished
off and that he almost has enough
room in there by God for all of
the fellows that need to be
treated looks like Creos going
to decide he'll stick it out
one away and Mike Gordon the
rookie catcher made a throw
bouncing into second base left
handed hitter who was hit last
night and three at bat and then
earlier in the air was all for
four with the Cubs so he is
looking for his first major
league hit a strong left hander
comes from the state of Maine
just 24 years of age and only
celebrated that 24th birthday
just a few days ago.
Trail with a pretty good lead
at first base against Wichita
fires and misses low and inside
ball one center fielder and a
Dawson shallowed up considerably
for Gordon who did not have a
good hitting year with the Cubs
farm club at Wichita.
Here's a pitch swung on out of
the middle Carter and the count
goes to ball one strike one.
Well the Mets tied up the
Phillies with a run in the top
of the second inning at
Philadelphia.
Now the Phillies at bat in the
bottom of inning number two and
it's one to one.
John Candelaria going for the
Pirates tonight at St. Louis in
the first game against Eric
Rasmussen one one pitch swung on
a bouncing ball to Davey Cash
gets it close to second and no
chance for a relay to first base
Davey having come over near or
over towards first base and in
before he could pick up that
ground ball off the bat a trail
who's forced at second Gordon
reaches and Bill Bonham stepping
in shown that he swings the back
pretty good this year he's
hitting two forty one with 14
hits and three runs about it in
the score with the Cubs fighting
here in the top of inning number
two Montreal two and the Cubs
won bottom bending low from the
waist.
Pitchell's first pitch to him a
swing and a miss the fastball
by in the roster book that the
Cubs have available.
You can read all about not only
Bonham but the rookie over at
first base Mike Gordon 0 1
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a breaking ball outside they ask
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the coaching staff statistics
about everything you'd like to
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Herman Franks and all of his
coaching staff to out in the one
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week from the mile one two pitch
curve into the dirt gets away
but Gordon is not going to try
to advance and Carter hustling
after that ball finally retrieved
it about 30 feet over in the
first base side so the count
goes to two and two on bottom
with the runner at first base
Montreal with a two to one lead
the Expos have beaten the Cubs
six times in the last eight
meetings between these two teams
they lead here two to one here's
the pitch bottom swing to the
bouncing ball past the pitcher
but Spire has it steps in the
bag at second Gordon is forced
and the Cubs in the second
inning have no runs one hit one
man left and at the end of one
and a half innings to play in
the final meeting between the
two teams exposed with a two to
one lead
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Warren Cromarty left-handed hitting outfielder.
With an eight game hitting streak, he'll be leading off bottom third of the batting order to face Bill Bonham.
Cromarty was one for three last night, and he's hitting 281 for the year.
With five homers and 48 runs about it in.
While the Cubs have been in a tailspin, that's just prior to the All-Star break,
the Montly All-Ball Club now since the 1st of July has won game over the 500 mark.
The Cubs hopeful of finishing out the rest of this 1977 season on the upfeed.
They need a victory here and a few of them in New York and the Philadelphia,
and then they'll be concluding the season with competition against the Pills and the Pirates.
Still locked at 75 wins for the year.
Little Warren Cromarty stepping in and Bonham's first pitch.
Swung out, a hard ground ball.
Kelleher at second base goes to his right, picks it up and throws to first.
So McKelleher has replaced Matty Treo, who got that infield single that came up limping, then stayed in the ball game.
And Kelleher was taken off the disabled list just recently, making his first appearance in the field.
He has come in a couple of times as a pinch runner.
Remember he took a bad hopper that came up and broke the thumb on his hand.
That day they had brooded an error against him and then later that night they changed it to a single.
Little Mick back in the lineup at second base here in the second inning and he's just come up with a nice play to retire Cromarty.
Now Chris Spire, the shortstop stepping in, drove in a run last night with a sacrifice fly.
And the right-hander takes the first pitch of strike.
He is not hitting well this year, batting average for Spire, the former giant of just 2.32.
Five homers, swings, fouls, a pass ball. A lot of play to the right side.
The RBI that he got last night was only his 31st of the season.
That includes his work with the Giants before he came over here for Tim Foley.
Bottom's next pitch is a pass ball too high. Ball one, strike two.
Kansas City Royals with that sweep last night have taken a nine game lead over the Chicago White Sox.
One-two delivery. Curve ball low and outside. Ball two, strike two.
Cincinnati still hanging tough. Came up with a victory last night over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
But time is sure running out on the Reds.
Two-two pitch. Looks at a strike.
Took a long off with that one and Chris Spire just watched it float by a letter high for bottom's second strike out of the night.
And that will bring up the pitcher, Wayne Quitchell.
Next Monday night, which is to be an off night for the Cubs between New York and Philadelphia,
going to be the big benefit dinner club.
Or benefit dinner of the variety club I should say. It's the Evanston Country Club.
Pass ball to Quitchell and he takes it inside at the letters.
Well, they'll have a golf outing during the day. That one's completely sold out.
To understand that there's still some tickets available for the dinner.
Here's the swing and Quitchell pulls the ground ball out of errors to his left.
He's got it. Straightens up and pegs and Quitchell kind of loping down the line.
The shot down to retire the side in order.
If you'd like to try to go to that dinner on Monday, phone Les Lear in Chicago at 828-1190.
And here at Montreal's Olympic Stadium at the end of two innings of play,
the X-Bowls lead the Chicago Cubs 2-1.
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The Taekwondo Karate World Championships will be on 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Vince White and Louis Boudreaux here with you at Olympic Stadium in Montreal
in a much better turnout than they had last night,
a crowd last night of just over 5,200, the smallest in the year here.
But they have grown well at this new edifice, over 1,300,000.
And this ball club, Louis, certainly is on the rise, isn't it?
Yes, it is. They don't need too much to help this ball club become a contender,
which means that the Eastern Division will be quite an improved division in the near future.
The Yankees get, or Mets get straightened away, and this ball club, and of course our ball club,
will challenge Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis,
certainly is on the upgrade with the young ball club they have.
Here's DeJesus leading off the third inning, walked in the first inning.
Touchdown on the mound, the Cubs have one run, two hits.
Exposed, two runs on three hits.
Both ball clubs have committed one air.
Fake bunt on the first pitch, but the ball is called a strike by Playdumpire Andy Olson.
DeJesus will be followed by Bittner and then Buckner.
Strike one pitch on the way, curveball outside, just missing it, it's one and one.
Exposed will break their all-time attendance mark this year.
One-on-one pitch by the big right-hander popped up behind the plate.
Carter there has room, he has it.
One out as DeJesus pops out to Carter, the catcher, in foul territory.
Bittner lined a single into right field and looked as if the Cubs are going to take care of Twitchell very early.
But with runners on first and second, Buckner hit into a double play.
Now here's Larry Bittner, former expo, stepping in the batter's box.
First pitch by the right-hander, fastball strike called, knee-high over the outside corner.
Exposed play, Bittner straight away.
One strike pitch, inside and low, and it's one and one.
Gary Carter doing the catching, Twitchell formerly with the Philadelphia Phillies on the mound.
The right-hander into the lineup and the pitch, swing and a fly ball deep to center field over Dawson's head.
He's going back, going back, leaps, it bounces against the wall.
Bittner around second, he will go to third.
Instead, he tags up as what a throw that Dawson threw from the warning track over 400 feet away from the plate.
And one hop and a short hop all the way to probably a third to hold Bittner to a double.
Bittner now getting closer to that 300 mark in average.
He started this ballgame hitting 295, and he has two for two, and that was his 25th double of the season.
He's on second base with a tying run for Buckner.
That's the third hit off Twitchell.
There's no doubt about that one. It was well tagged.
Dawson, a very fine outfielder who can go back on a ball very well and with great speed, couldn't catch up to that one.
Curved ball taken by Buckner inside, ball one.
This guy really has some pains at the plate.
He had a sore wrist, sore ankle, pulled a hamstring earlier during the year.
He has a record for throwing bats at baseballs being pitched to him.
There's a strike called, and it's one and one now to Buckner.
Bittner at second base, one out, third inning.
Buckner still has his sign from Carter.
Checks Bittner at second, and here's the one ball, one strike pitch.
Curved ball, a swing, and a foul ball into the dugout behind first base.
Buckner really pulled that one.
And now one ball, two strikes.
This is where Buckner is at his best with two strikes out of him. He guards that plate.
If he is pulled on the pitch, he normally will throw the bat at the ball, try to foul it.
He swings and fouls that one in the same spot behind first base in the exposed dugout.
So the count remains one and two.
After the Jesus popped out, Bittner doubled over the center fielder's head and is on second base.
Twitchell taking a little more time on this particular sign. Now he's ready.
Here's the pitch to Buckner. Curved ball, another one hit into the dugout.
Three successive foul balls hit into the exposed dugout.
These are very long dugouts here at Olympic Stadium.
Now the outfielders are pulling around a couple of steps.
Twitchell is ready. He sets the kick and the pitch. Swing and a miss.
He gets Buckner on a low-breaking curve ball for the first strike out of the ball game for Twitchell.
So with two outs, it's going to be up to Jerry Morales.
He was safe on the throwing here by the third baseman Pappy, which allowed the Jesus to score from third base with two outs in the first inning.
Then Montreal came back to score two in the bottom of the first inning.
It's now two to one exposed.
First pitch to Morales. Curved ball, tapped foul, back to the screen.
Strike one. Morales and Mercer have been stuck on the RBI column.
Morales with 68 RBIs, Mercer with 82.
Morales levels that bat over the plate as Twitchell gets his sign from Carter.
Bittner extends his lead at second base.
Here's the 0-1 pitch now by Twitchell.
Sidearm pitch outside.
He really lowered the boom then as he dropped his arm around his knees and fired the ball outside.
One and one to count.
Carter going out to talk to his pitcher.
One and one to count to Jerry.
Twitchell shakes his head yes. He's a slow worker.
The pitch out in the way. Overhand curveball for a strike call.
Broke sharply over the outside corner. One ball, two strikes.
Bittner extending his lead at second base. He's down the Astro curve.
Expos aren't paying any attention to him. Twitchell's the only one that's really looking at him.
Now the pitch. Fast ball low outside. Two and two to count.
Seems as if the Expos are keeping the fast balls away from Morales and giving him a lot of breaking stuff.
Sliders and curveball.
They're counting out two and two.
Here's the pitch. Swinging a foul ball down the right-tail line. It's out of play.
Morales guarding that play.
Two outs. Bittner on second.
Bittner has two of the three hits off Twitchell so far tonight.
Hit right here to pick up a run. Here's the pitch. Curveball.
He swings and misses on a high curveball outside, striking out.
Twitchell strikes out two in the third inning after the double by Bittner.
No runs, one hit. One man left on base.
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Both teams have batted around in two innings.
So in the third it will be the leadoff hitter Cash, then Pappy and Dawson for Montreal.
Let's pause five seconds for station identification.
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And this is WGN Radio Chicago at 729.
Cash singled up the middle in the first inning as did the hitter next up, Pappy.
Let's see how Bonham handles him at this particular time at the plate.
Throws the curveball to open up and it's outside, ball one.
Cash struck out three times yesterday and that is somewhat of a record.
He does not strike out very often.
Here's a swing and a line drive to right field.
Mercer moving in and he drops the ball.
The ball went into the light.
They give him an air. That's a tough air.
He came in, had the ball, then all of a sudden that ball was into the light.
He reached up his glove and the ball dropped out of it.
Mercer wasn't even watching the ball as he turned his head from it as it went into the light.
But they give him an air.
Second cup air of the evening.
And here's the young third baseman, Pappy, at bat.
Cash, a good base runner.
The stretch by Bonham.
Here's the pitch.
Strike called over the inside corner.
Cash has 20 stolen bases leading the Expos in that department.
He gets on base quite a bit.
Here's the pitch to Pappy, curveball he ducks away from and it's inside.
One and one to count.
Cash has 169 hits with 49 bases on balls.
So you know he's on base quite a bit.
So at a first he has to dive back and does so safely.
One of the premier leadoff men in baseball, Dave Cash.
The one and one pitch now by Bonham.
Here he goes. Here's a swing and a miss.
There's Gordon's throw low into the dirt.
But the play is backed up beautifully by Kelleher as Gordon will have to raise his sights through two throws tonight have been into the dirt at second base.
Cash is credited with a stolen base.
Here's 21st and only a fine defensive play by Kelleher who went behind the play to back it up prevented Cash from advancing to third.
So he's on second now with nobody out.
The count of one ball two strikes on the hitter.
Bonham sets. Here's the pitch.
Fastball inside two and two to count.
That stolen base breaks a career high for Cash.
He's had 20 stolen bases equaling his career high in 74 when he was with the Phillies.
The stretch the two and two pitch lead up.
Swing and a fly ball to right field.
Cash is tagging up.
Morales is there. Gubs it.
There goes Cash to third. Goes back to third as Morales' throw carries to Ontiveros.
Cash changed his mind as Morales the outfitter played it well.
Backed up and then moved in to gain momentum as he caught the ball.
And he wheeled to third to hold Cash at second.
Went out and here's Dawson at bat.
Dawson popped out to Buckner and foul territory his first time at bat.
Montreal leads two to one. We're in the third inning.
Bonham looks in, gets a sign from the young catcher Mike Gordon, then checks Cash leading off second base.
First pitch now to Dawson. Curved ball for a strike call.
That one broke beautiful over the outside corner.
The Cubs play Dawson straight away. It was his triple last night that broke up the ball game in the twelfth.
Fast ball low, one and one to count.
Montreal two runs, three hits. Cubs one run, three hits.
Dawson a right-handed hitter, waits the pitch, swing and a miss on a let-up.
One ball, two strikes.
Perez in the on-deck circle.
Cash now extends his lead at second base under the AstroTurf. The pitch on the way is a swing and a tap foul.
Now to Ossie Virgil, third base coach.
Tosses it into Olson and wants Olson to take a look at it and he throws it out.
On the bars as deep at third as is DeJesus deep at shortstop position.
And at the right side it's Keller who has replaced Trio who turned an ankle or hurt his leg running out his infield hit in the second inning.
And Buckter is on the first. Here's the pitch by Bonham. Curved ball and he gets them.
And what a curve ball that was. Bonham has a good curve ball tonight.
That's three strikeouts for Bill.
Now with two outs, here's Perez who struck out in the first inning.
With Perez stepping in the batter's box, comes the outfielders back up a few steps. They play straight away.
We're in the third inning with Montreal leading 2-1. Bonham into the stretch.
Now he kicks, here's the pitch outside, ball one to Tony Perez.
Perez is very durable, guys. This is his 138th game.
Here's a swing and a one hopper right to Buckner. He has it as it skidded off of that Astor turf.
But Buckner made the play and then runs up and touches first base for the out.
In the third inning, no runs, no hits, one air, one man left on base.
And now at the end of three innings of play, it's Montreal 2-1.
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In the fourth inning, Cubs will send Mercer, Andavarez, and Kelleher to the plate.
Mercer shot an easy ground ball to Twitchell to close out the first inning.
Bobby is overdue. Ended this ball game, hitting 268.
Wayne Pucho on the mound for the Expos. This is his 27th start. He's only completed one game.
He's allowed 16 home runs to be hit off of this serving.
He's a side armor. He's been coming up and over mostly to left-handed hitters tonight.
Here's the first pitch now to Bobby Mercer. Overhand fastball for a strike called over the inside corner.
Perez deep at first, Cash deep at second for Bobby.
Valentine's over near this foul line. He's only about 25 feet off of the right field foul line.
Swing and a pop foul. Back out of play.
Two strikes to Bobby Mercer. Andavarez waiting in the on-dack circle.
Twitchell has his side. Now takes that long windup and here's the pitch.
Curved ball, tap foul down past Harry Dunlop.
Mercer's leading off the fourth inning. Cubs, after tonight, 17 games left.
Six with the Pirates, three at home and three at Pittsburgh to close out the season.
Six with Philadelphia and five with New York. Here's the pitch inside.
Ball one, strike two. Five with New York coming up this weekend.
And when the Cubs get back home, they play Pittsburgh three games, Philadelphia three games.
One and two pitch. Curved ball, a swing, a line drive down the right field line, but it's coding foul.
Into the exposed bullpen. So the count remains one and two.
17 left. Boy oh boy. Then we'll be waiting for spring training again.
The pitch popped up over the third baseman's head.
Pappy backs up under it, calls forward in fair territory and grabs it.
Mercer pops out to the third baseman.
And out, Onoveras, who lined out to Cromartie.
And Onoveras has been hitting the ball well on this road trip.
Even though that batting average certainly hasn't gone up too fast.
He's hitting 295. Entering this ballgame.
So Twitchell gets his sign from Carter and is all set. Nobody on base. One out.
The pitch on the way. Curved ball, strike called.
Twitchell keeping that ball in on Mercer and on Ontaveras here in the fourth inning.
The pitch once again. Another curved ball. That one is inside.
Ball one, strike one. Now the count with one out and nobody on base.
Twitchell's ready. One and one pitch.
High inside, ball two.
Comes at 110 games in this series with Montreal.
He was beating Montreal early in the season.
Two and one to count to Ontaveras and the two and one pitch on its way.
High outside, ball three.
Ball three, strike one. Twitchell has walked one man. That was the leadoff hitter in the ballgame to Jesus.
There's ball four. That's his second walk of this ballgame.
So Ontaveras walk. That brings up Kelleher his first time at the plate.
Kelleher is batting 228. No home runs, eight RBI.
He replaced the injured Treo. This is his first time at bat. He was talking about his thumb is still tender.
He's going to have a little sponge wrapped around the bat that he uses.
Here's a swing and a foul back under the screen. Strike one.
Kelleher a good hit and run man as Perez is playing behind Ontaveras at first base.
Exposed two, Cubs one. Here's the pitch curve ball low, one and one to count.
All runs have been scored in the first inning.
Cubs with the help of a throwing air by the third baseman scoring their one run.
And the Expos came back to score two in the first inning.
Kelleher takes a strike over the outside corner and it's one and two.
Twitchell mixing them up. Curve ball sliders and that fastball.
Now Kelleher is ready. So is Twitchell. The pitch on its way.
Swing and a line drive foul down the right field line.
By a youngster. Made a nice catch.
Get that hand from these folks.
He was playing Kelleher perfect.
Went right to him. One ball, two strikes to count.
Kelleher swings and drives a base hit into left center.
Comardi after it bounces past him going all the way to the wall.
Ontaveras around third. He will score the tying run.
There goes Kelleher for three. He had no relay.
And Mickey Kelleher, a substitute coming into the lineup.
Triples into left center.
Driving in Ontaveras with a tying run.
And that's the fourth hit off Twitchell.
And for Kelleher that is only his second triple.
So Mickey has driven in his ninth RBI of the season.
And he represents the lead run at third base.
Lowry over there asking for a little time. Asking if Kelleher to whistle.
That's the first time he's been around those bases in a long while.
He's on third now with a lead run.
And here's young Mike Gordon at bat.
And the Expo infieldy end.
First pitch by Twitchell.
Popped up foul territory.
Near the Cubs dugout.
But Pappy will not have room.
Toronto has taken a 40-0 lead over Baltimore.
Baltimore striving to stay ahead of Boston in second place to battle those Yanks.
Baltimore trails New York by two and a half games.
I think they have four or five games left with Boston.
Here's the pitch to Gort. Popped foul out of play.
Two strikes now on Mike.
With a chance to put the Cubs out in front here with Kelleher on third and one out.
Twitchell taking his stretch. He's not going into his windup.
Here's the two-strike pitch now to Gort.
Fast ball. He wasted it outside. It's one and two.
Fourth inning. Two-to-two ball game.
Twitchell looks in, gets a sign from Carter.
Kelleher has a walking lead from third base.
Here's the pitch. Curved ball tapped down to the third baseman. Kelleher's going to try to score.
He scores as Pappy goes to first base.
Running by Kelleher, as I mentioned, he had a walking lead off of third base.
And as soon as that ball went to the turf, Kelleher came charging in to score without a play.
And the infield was playing in.
So Gordon gets his first RBI, and the Cubs now have taken the lead three-to-two.
Two outs, and here's Bonham at bat.
First pitch to Bill. Swing and a foul out of play.
Bonham forced Gordon, who was on first, in the second inning at second base.
The pitch. Outside and low. One and one to come.
Boston leads the Yankees one-to-nothing at the end of two-and-a-half.
Here's the pitch. Outside, ball two-strike one.
They're in the ninth inning at St. Louis in the first game of their twilight night doubleheader, with Pittsburgh leading four-to-one.
The next pitch is fouled to the screen, and now it's two-and-two on Bonham.
Nobody on base comes and scores two runs here in the fourth inning to take the lead.
Three-to-two.
Two-and-two pitch. Fast ball for a strike called over the outside corner. Bonham is called out on strike.
But not before the Cubs, with a walk and a triple. Score two runs, one hit. Nobody left on base.
So with the Montreal Expos coming to bat in the fourth inning, Cubs three, Montreal two.
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Valentine will lead off, then Carter and then Comartie as Bonham down at the one-run lead. Valentine doubled in the first inning. It was in the first inning that Montreal scored their two runs and touched Bonham for all three hits.
Valentine doubled down the third base line.
Bonham is ready. Here's the windup and pitch. Strike call.
There's a curveball for a strike call down and Bonham is getting a sign once again.
The pitch on the way. Another curveball and a swing and a foul off of the glove of Gordon.
Treo jammed his right ankle going the first base on that infield hit in the second inning and consequently he had to be taken out of the line-up.
Keller came in and tripled, driving in a run and then scored the lead run. Here's a swing and a high pop-up in the short center field. Keller going out calling for it. He's under it. He has it for the out.
Keller making his feelings and his playing felt here against the Expos, putting a little life in that line-up for the Cubs.
Backed up a throwing play by Gordon on the steal by Cash in the third inning, whereas the ball would have gone into center field and Cash would have advanced to third. Then he tripled in a run and scored another run.
Here's a pitch. Fastball inside, ball one. Carter is batting. He flied out to Mercer in right field in the first inning. The wind-up and pitch by Bonham is a lead-up and it's a ball that went off the glove, although Olson made no sign whatsoever that it was a foul ball.
So we'll have to wait and see what the call is. The board has it one and one.
Here's a swing and a miss by Carter on a down and fastball. Gordon, young catcher, mixing them up beautifully. Lead-ups, curve balls, and the fastball. When you mix them up and the pitcher has control, which Bonham has thus far this evening, it makes that fastball much faster. There's the curve ball into the dirt.
One out, nobody on base, fourth inning for the Expos with the Cubs leading 3-2.
The Cubs would like to win this one and go into New York with a victory under their belt. The Cubs have lost five in a row and in doing so haven't been playing good baseball.
There's a lead-up. Oh, there's one hit deep. If it's a fair ball, we're all tied up. Kiss it goodbye.
Bonham lead-up was high and inside, and Carter planted it out of the ballpark.
Then to the left field, that's his 26th home run of the year. His 70th RBI. 14 home runs off of Bonham.
Brand new ball game, 3-3.
Now here's Cromarty, grounded out to the second baseman in the second inning.
Curve ball for a strike called by Cromarty.
There's no doubt about Carter's home run as long as it stays fair.
There's a check swing and the ball is high.
One and one now to count on this fine young outfielder who has a chance of being the Rookie of the Year in the National League.
There's a swing and a pop-up down the foul line at back of third base.
On the first down on the warning track, reaches up one-handed and makes the catch. Fine play by Anta Veras.
Now with two outs, here's Spire at bat. He was called out on strikes his first time at bat.
3-3 ball game. We're in the fourth inning.
Spire batting eighth for Dick Williams.
First pitch to him by the Bonhamers foul back to the screen. Strike one.
Chris has been in several spots in this expo lineup, second, sixth, eighth. There's a curve ball he backs away from but it breaks sharply over the plate for a strike.
That's an indication of how good a curve ball Bonham has tonight as it's breaking very sharply when Spire backs away from the pitch.
Another curve ball, that one broke outside. Ball one, strike two. One run in on Carter's 26th home run of the year.
That was his 70th run batted in. Fast ball inside, it misses.
Two and to the count.
Bonham is ready to wind up and kick and the pitch is inside. Three and two.
Full count on Spire. Twitchell drew up next. Cubs would like to retire Spire to lead off the inning with Twitchell.
Here's the pitch, curve ball, and he asks for the appeal and he swings and misses as Harvey gives the appeal to the Cubs.
Spire strikes out for the fourth strikeout for Bonham. But in the fourth inning, one run on the home run by Carter, one hit, nobody left on base.
At the end of four, we're all tied up and the score is Cubs three Montreal three.
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Cubs will have the top of the batting water up, Yvonne DeJesus. They come to bat here in the fifth inning in a ballgame that's now tied 3 to 3.
Vince Boyd back with you. Minnesota Twins, I see, took a 2 to nothing lead in the first inning over the White Sox.
Boston is leading. The New York Yankees won to nothing in the third.
And Kansas City at the end of five in their first game, trailing the Oakland A's 4 to 2.
Oakland had batted in the sixth inning against their rookie McElbury, who's come out of relief in the Hassler for the Royals.
Yvonne walked and scored in the first inning, came in on an error, and he's fouled out, so he's 0 for 1 tonight.
Twitchell's first pitch in the big rot hinder fires a strike right at the knees. Pirates look like they're going to take that first game down at St. Louis.
They are carrying a 4 to 1 lead over the cards in the ninth inning.
Twitchell's curve swung out of it, the string out of it beautifully, nothing in 2.
And Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt has just wound up his 35th home run of the year.
It came in the bottom of the fourth inning against the New York Mets with two mates aboard, so the Phillies have jumped out in front 6 to 2 at the end of 4.
There's a swing and a high pop foul. Third baseman, rookie, poppy is under it. He's there and he makes the catch.
So there's one away. Larry Bittner will be the batter. He has a single and a double so far tonight.
Yankees failed in the bottom of the third inning, so the Red Sox still carry a 1 to nothing lead as they go to bat at Yankee Stadium in the fourth.
And get this, Earl Weaver who had come out at time had been called in the Baltimore-Toronto game in the fifth inning when Weaver was out protesting a call.
Big argument ensued. And get this, here's a swing and a ground ball to second baseman.
Bittner is going to be retired. Davey Cash makes the pick up. That game between Toronto and Baltimore has been co-operative in favor of Toronto under Rule 4.15, which I've got to look up when I have the time if I can find the rule book.
The rule book.
Be with it again in a moment.
Thank you, John.
That's a wild one, isn't it?
Game co-operative in favor of the count of leaders.
We'll get that rule for you. Send to the engineer, Johnny Stubbs, has a chance to look it up for me.
Well, they're two gone on the first pitch of all to Bill Buckner. There is one that's too high, ball one or ball two on him.
He hit it with a double play in the first inning. After DeJesus had walked, Bittner singled him to second. Got the third on the double play.
And then tallied when Morales hit a ground ball and the third baseman, Stan Pappy, threw it away for a two-base error.
The Cubs earned a run in the fourth inning on a walk to one of errors with one out.
A triple by Mickey Kelleher who came in on Mike Gordon's top ball to the third base side of the mound. Two-oh did every to Buckner and he takes it to strike.
Inside corner at the knees, ball two, strike one on Buck. Here from Belvedere, Illinois, enjoying the ball game, Molly and Frank Cameron.
Thank you, John.
Takes that one and it misses inside.
Apparently the rule that is applicable here tonight, much they try out of Blue Jays, won the ball game on a forfeit.
Three-one delivery. Buckner swings. It's a high foul on the third base line. Long run made by the third baseman and he can't get to it. It's into the box.
It fails when a team fails to obey within a reasonable time the umpire's order for removal of a player from the game. It may be forfeited.
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I wouldn't say it's specific. I'm going to assume that.
There's a swing by Buck and it drives down the right field foul line and it bounces foul out of play.
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Three-two delivery. Buckner goes after it. It's a high fly ball and it should be hauled in.
Dawson is over there and the center fielder makes the two-handed catch to retire the Cubs in order in the top of the fifth inning.
The Montreal Expos coming to bat in the bottom of the fifth with spas a moment, however, for station identification.
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Wayne Puechel is to lead off for Montreal in the bottom of the fifth that is tied three-to-three.
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Why that game was forfeited when Earl Weaver came out and had a prolonged argument with the umpires.
Sim play and we'll be getting the details for you and pass them along to you just as soon as we're able to get them.
Wayne Clutchell stepping in to lead off against Bill Bonham.
The first pitch is a ball a little bit low.
Ray Burris has been decided is going to pitch the game that he started against the New York Mets.
It was suspended because of the blackout. He's going to try to finish it up.
Tomorrow night he'll carry a two to one lead with one out in the sixth inning.
There's a strike ball one strike one down and the pitcher, Wayne Clutchell.
Third ball. Today there's a ball outside.
Here's what the first bulletin on that forfeits is. Two one pitch a fastball and he misses a little low.
Three and one down the pitcher.
Game was forfeited after manager Earl Weaver pulled his team off the field in protest over a top of them.
There is a breaking ball for ball four on three and one.
Bonham throws a breaking pitch and he has put Wayne Clutchell on with a walk to lead off the fifth inning.
That's the first walk he's given up tonight and it has to go to the pitcher.
Weaver pulled his team off the field in protest over a tarp which was being used to cover a pitcher's mound in the left field bullpen.
Hmm. Well if that isn't weird.
Davey Cash has single reached on an error tonight and he scored a run steps in the right hander swings drives a fastball foul down the right field line out of play.
You know when it's all over with that just may cost the Baltimore Orioles a chance at a division championship.
It's really something. Oh one delivery. Look out a fastball and he has to jump back out of the way.
Pete Browberg is now started to warm up in the cup bullpen down the left field line.
All one strike one after a walk to the pitcher Wayne Clutchell in a ballgame that's tied at three a piece. Each team with four hits and there is ball to lay inside.
Running it first and nobody out. Bill gave up a homer to Carter with the bases empty in the fourth inning. 2 1 delivery. There's a swing and a double play ball. DeJesus has it flips to counter here's the relay and they got him.
Cubs coming up with a double play ball and Clutchell just couldn't get in stride quickly enough to make a tough at all for McKellar to get rid of that ball after DeJesus fed him perfectly. So the bases are empty here in the fifth inning with two gone and the rookies stand pappy stepping into the batter's box here in a moment.
He's single stole second in the first inning and eventually wound up scoring a run on Valentine's two base hit and he lined up to Morales in the third right handed hitter.
Kelleher in its second base as Creel started the ballgame. Here's a swing and a drive down the right field foul line it is fouled and out of play. Buckner racing hard down the line back to the infield.
This couldn't quite get to it in time neither could Mercer nor Kelleher Creel coming down the line on a single jammed his ankle on the bag at first base. He stayed in to finish out that inning on the bases.
Then they had to take him out of the ballgame so Kelleher is in there.
And Buckner and not embarrassed at the corners Kelleher and DeJesus middle right infield Mike Gordon the rookie doing the catching. Bittner gross and Mercer in the outfield and bottom starts to wind up the 0 1 delivery swung on and a deep drive to Mercer in right field but Bobby is under it has plenty of room.
Reaches up and he hauls it in to retire Montreal in the fifth inning with no runs.
No hits in the inning. Walk in a double play so there's nobody left on and at the end of five the winnings are played. It is still tied 3 to 3.
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Jerry Morales is going to be leading off as the Cubs come to bat here in the top of the sixth inning tied 3 to 3.
Larry Kussman will be the probable starting pitcher for the Mets tomorrow night in that suspended game and he's also scheduled to start the regular game that will immediately follow that one.
Pat Zachary the probable starter against the Cubs on Saturday in New York with Nino Espinosa and Jackson Todd pitching in the double header on Sunday and it was Espinosa last night who defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 1 to nothing and a three hitter.
And the little guy has singled in the only run of the ballgame.
Ray Burris scheduled now to go in the suspended game tomorrow night. Rick Russell will start the regular scheduled game against Kussman and then that Herman Franks pitching coach Barney Schultz.
There's a swing by Morales and a deep drive left field. Go back going back going back. It's gone over the wall. A bell ringer for Morales gives the Cubs a 4 to 3 lead.
His 11th home run of the year his first one since August 26 when he got his last run batted end of the year.
And he has just given the Cubs the lead 4 to 3 with a shot over the 375 foot mark.
Now let's see if Mercer can regain the reign.
Bobby has tapped out to the pitcher and popped up to the third baseman.
Morales with his 11th bell ringer of the year.
His 69th run batted end of the season.
First pitch and Mercer takes and it's a ball a little bit low.
Glitch will in the wind up and Mercer takes that one for ball two.
Dual pitch coming up to Bobby with the Cubs now back out in front by a score of 4 to 3.
Here's a pitch a swing and a deep drive at the right center field. That's not as deep as I thought it was. It's much too high.
Valentine is there and he grabs it.
One away in the sixth inning. That'll bring up Steve Onoveras who walked and scored on McKelligar's triple in the fourth inning.
Cubs now with five hits off Quitchell who has struck out three men and walked two so far tonight.
And the Cubs trying to beat him for the second time in the season.
McQuitlin delivers. Too high. Ball one.
Phillies batting in the bottom of the fifth inning and they lead the New York Mets 6 to 2.
One-oh delivery. Takes it inside just above the knees.
That's a broad ball going in from the bullpen. That a pitch against the Phillies in the bottom of the fifth inning.
And they curve and he checks his swing and that's too low. Ball three on Steve Onoveras and they just might let him go after this one.
Three-oh delivery. He'll take ball four. Too low.
Rock number three issued by Quitchell and with one away here in the sixth inning and the Cubs leading, McKelligar in this situation, same spot on the fourth inning, drilled a triple and brought in out of errors from first base with it.
Those of you who might have missed it maybe be kind enough to give us a replay.
Yankees batting in the bottom of the fourth inning. Boston Red Sox with a one-to-nothing lead over New York.
Quitchell's first pitch swung on. Ground ball fouled in front of Harry Dunlop coaching at first base.
Earlier tonight it was reported that Alvin Dart is not going to be retained as the manager of the San Diego Padres.
I want to emphasize that that was only a report. Oh one delivery. He pushes a butt and fouls it over under the carpet in the first base side out of the reach of everybody.
Last time we talked to Alvin about it he said he just had a handshake out there with Buzzy Bessie and Ray Kroc.
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Got to find somebody who'll take that contract over.
Oh two deliveries. Swing and a foul off the bare hand of the catcher Gary Carter.
That forfeited game once he gets the victory for Toronto.
Leaves him with a record of four and six and Grimsley is the loser for the ninth time this year for the Orioles. Game forfeited.
Here's the pitch. Fast ball high and tight to make.
Oh one strike two. He was kind of looking for that one.
One and two with a run around at first base Steve Anabares.
Wayne Quitchell delivers. Got to her swings and there's a high fly ball.
Cromarty going back. He'll have room for this one. He is there reaches up. Hauls it in. Anabares gets back to first base.
And there are two gone and Mike Gordon will be the hitter now for the Cubs.
Well Reggie Jackson who was the hero in last night's New York Yankee victory.
After failing twice to sacrifice running the count to three and two. Reggie ended the ballgame with a home run with the man on.
He has just homered for the twenty seventh time this season came in the fourth inning with the bases empty tonight and that would tie up the ballgame one to one in the bottom of the fourth.
Reggie Jackson. According to the stories here he also made two spectacular defensive plays last night.
As a swing and Gordon files one back into the seats out of play.
Make up that little roller in the fourth inning with Kelleher on a third base. Nick was able to score. So this rookie got his first major league run batted in.
And exactly a bullet that he hit. But it had had it been. Maybe somebody would have been there to catch it.
Oh one did every he takes it high ball one strike one.
The Yanks and the Red Sox are tied and Baltimore had their game lost to Toronto on a forfeit of all things.
But you're ready with a one one delivery. Gordon swings and misses and a sharp breaking curve down and into the rookie.
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There's the pitch swung out and missed and Gordon fans to retire the Cubs in the sixth inning.
Jerry Morales lead off Palmer gives the Cubs a lead. Walk in the inning one man left on the bases while you're thinking about the answer to that one.
Give you time also to listen to this at the end of five and a half innings of play here at Montreal the Cubs lead the Montreal Expos four to three.
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Sparky Lyle has come out of pitch with the New York Yankees in the fifth inning.
Reggie Jackson's home in the bottom of the fourth has tied it one to one up.
While relieving Mike Torres will be key out of the hill for the Red Sox.
Andre Dawson to lead off the third man and manager Dick Williams batting order here at Montreal.
Right headed hitter fouled out and struck out so far tonight against Bonham.
But last night he was a hero with a triple that won the ball game in the bottom of the 12th inning.
Give him his 58th run batted in the 11th time this year that Dawson has driven in the winning run for the Expos.
Only Gary Cotter has done it any more often than this kid.
Cotters batted in the winning run a dozen times. Takes the first pitch high for a ball.
Here's the windup. There's a swing and a tap foul right at the feet of the catcher.
That did not score in the top of the sixth inning at Philadelphia. The Phillies still carry a 6 to 2 lead.
Ball one strike one to count.
Wind up by Bonham. There's a swing and another tap foul right at the feet of the catcher.
At Chicago tonight the Minnesota Twins who last night shut out the White Sox 7 to nothing have a 2 nothing lead.
At the end of two innings of play Jeff Zahn trying to even up for the year.
One time Cub left hander going against another former Cub Steve Stone is 14 and 10 for the year.
Bottoms 1-2 pitch a half swing the ball hits the batter's bat goes into the seat foul over by the dugout on the first base side.
You've been thinking about who those brothers were 14 years ago today who played in the National League and the outfield at the same time.
You got it huh? Figured you would. The Alou brothers yep.
Let up and he looks at us right. Beautiful pitch by Bonham.
That for Bill is his fifth strike out of the night.
Tony Perez steps in he struck out in the first inning on a 3-2 pitch.
Stan Pappy the runner at first took off Perez struck out but Mike Gordon made a throw that was into the dirt.
And then Valentine brought him in with a double.
First pitch by Bill a fastball swung on he fouls it way down the right field line.
The Alou brothers Philippe, Matty and Jesus all played briefly in the San Francisco giant outfield the same time in a regular game 14 years ago today.
September 15th of 1963.
Philippe of course was a fellow who stayed around for the longest period of time.
Here's a swing and a tap on a batter's charging in he picks it up throws and Tony Perez who's not exactly free to put was pegged out.
They're too gone to the sixth inning and that'll bring up that was Valentine. Double in amount is seventy second run batted into the year.
Toronto a winner out of forfeit.
Over the Baltimore Orioles tonight Earl Weaver pulled his team off the field in protest over at Carpalam which was being used to cover a pitcher's mound in the left field bullpen.
Oh wouldn't that be a weird way to lose a division championship.
And it's sure possible.
The Orioles you know in second place starting tonight only two and a half behind the Yankees.
First pitch this right hander takes the fastball ball one.
Yeah most Valentine the hitter bottom delivers and there's a strike with a fastball by the way on Saturday.
September 24th a week from this coming Saturday when the Cubs are at home it's going to be a special gift for you.
There's a swing and a drive over the shortstop set in the left field they said on a curve ball.
Now this Valentine represents the tying run over first base with two off.
Here comes Gary Carter grilled his 26th homer hold it over the left field wall in the fourth inning with the bases empty.
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Fastball swing on he's got a base hit down the left field line coming over to cut it off Larry Bittner and the runner will have to hold that second base as Carter grills a sharp single and credit Bittner with some good hustle to keep that ball from getting beyond him.
Had it then this ballgame would be tied as it is it's still the Cubs for Montreal three at Montreal now has put runners at first and second with two gone and Warren Crowe Marty little left hander go for two.
We're going to have a pinch runner.
Well it's Valentine is that a sore ankle he had to leave the ballgame last night.
We are in the sixth that's Lloyd reporting and we hope you're enjoying the broadcast the Cubs try to break their losing streak here against Montreal before heading into New York for five decisions with the Mets over the weekend.
Johnny Stubbs our engineer Jackman of the top producer
Expose now with a half dozen hits off bottom
to coming in succession after retired the first two batters in this inning and for Marty with an eight game hitting streak takes the first pitch a ball outside of this little up tender
Dennis lamp right hander now throwing in the cup bullpen
for Dick Williams as a righty and a lefty throwing in his bullpen here's the pitch crow Marty takes a fastball inside
will back in any
the lefty down the right field line in their bullpen and Freddie holds worth the right hander
bottom is far behind to it all with the tying run at second to go ahead run at first Montreal threatening in the bottom of six with two out and the two will pitch for Marty swing ground ball to the shortstop the H's bubbles
and up rose hit the force play at second to retire the side nice recovery by a bond issues.
Gary Carter just an instant late getting in there to keep the ending alive.
Hard hit ground ball three bond or dropped it picked it up fired quickly to cover her no guns to hit Montreal leaves two men on and at the end of six full innings of play here at Olympic Stadium.
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Sam I hear so came in as a pinch runner will stay in the play right field here in the seventh inning.
We have another detail now on that corporate of that Baltimore Toronto game to the Blue Jays.
The umpires gave Baltimore manager Earl Weaver 15 minutes to resume play.
And when he did not that's when the game was forfeited. Weaver said he wanted either a top of them to protect his bullpen or he wanted them to remove the top of them that was protecting the bullpen of the Blue Jays.
And that certainly doesn't seem like too much of a request.
Of course we weren't on hand. We don't know all the details.
Certainly they will file a protest. Lou on that forfeit that is really a stunner.
Well it's dog days and you never know what managers will do nowadays when they get in a close race.
But I can't understand that if he has his two pitchers warming up.
There's no reason that the bullpen should not be covered for Toronto.
If Toronto's warming up they have to take off the tarp to warm up.
But if the bullpen is not being used I can see no reason for not protecting it.
Now we don't have any details on that.
Well that's what you said in the story.
I didn't say anybody was warming up.
Well the story we got over there was that Baltimore had two pitchers warming up.
Oh I didn't have that.
I thought you were reading the thing.
No that's the story.
Oh that explains it.
And here we're in the seventh inning and Bill Bonham is going to lead off and he takes it for a pitch of ball.
I can't understand we were doing that and
we're not doing a ball game that's not being played with some action in between the foul line.
He can lose the pennant and a position by that.
And he's got his team right up there in contention.
But that loss could be the difference between Baltimore winning or losing that Eastern Division.
1-1 to the Braves.
And he takes a strike.
Wayne Critchell yielded a homer to Jerry Morales leading off the sixth inning.
There's a curve ball swung on at a high pop foul.
Gary Carter the catcher coming to the screen.
He does not have room and it's back on a player.
Cubs with five hits have committed two errors tonight.
The Montreal Expos three hits or three runs rather on six hits and they've been guilty of an error.
They permitted the Cubs to get on the board in the first inning.
Cubs with one hit in the first inning.
One in the second.
One in the third.
One in the fourth.
And the homer on the sixth inning.
Now the pitch to bottom and he takes it high and tight.
Foul ball came down apparently and hit some customer right in the forehead.
It came back up over the screen behind the plate and he's going back for a little first aid attention.
2-2 delivery.
Fast ball, a swing and a tap foul.
Carter races out onto the carpet to retrieve it.
Here are the details on the story which we had not seen earlier.
Orioles trailing, you knew that, four to nothing in the last of the fifth.
And we were asked to play dumb fire.
Larry Barnett, a veteran, to order a topolum removed which was covering the pitcher's mound in the Toronto bullpen.
Down in the left field corner.
The drop was there to protect it from a steady rain.
Here's a swing and a ground ball, pass the pitcher, but the shortstop Spire behind second has it, throws and he's got it.
Nice play by Spire.
Directly behind second base.
At the time of Weaver's complaint, the Orioles had two pitchers warming up in their bullpen in right field.
And Weaver felt it was unfair.
At the bullpen of Toronto, their mound was covered while the ball of ours was getting soaked from the rain.
And he pulled his club off the field into the dugout.
Barnett gave them 15 minutes, as the rules say, to get back on the field.
When they did not, he ordered the game forfeited.
Well, now that clears it up for me anyway, but I don't understand why Weaver.
His bullpen was being used.
Yeah, if his bullpen was not being used and he didn't have a cover, then I can see.
He should have asked for an umbrella over those fellows, Luke.
Well, he shouldn't have warmed up his pitchers and see what would have happened.
Well, sometimes those managers get a little flaky, you know.
Yeah, so I said, it's dog days and manager days. You don't know what they'll do.
They'll get to the tight pennant race.
They'll get to the left shoe on the right foot and things like that.
It was a curved hazer that swung out of this.
I went to the wrong hotel room one time, 48.
Hopefully it swung out and fouled.
Well, I don't know what's happened to our friend Mr. Brickhouse, but we're in a new hotel here today,
and I'd take a little walk today and I was coming back to the hotel.
It's going to be 50 yards, no more than that away from it, quarter of a block,
and I see Jack walking in the opposite direction on the other side of the street.
I hollered over to him and he, miles to come on over.
I walked across that narrow street. He said, where are you going?
I said, I'm going to the hotel.
Well, he said, no, I'm going to the hotel.
I said, well, if you are, you're going to have to go around the block.
He said, you mean that isn't it right over there?
Well, it's got broadcasters too.
He said, what are the apartment buildings?
I said, Jack, that's an apartment building.
If you're interested in going over there to buy one or something or rent one, go ahead.
He said, that's not our hotel.
Now, this is in the daytime.
Had it happened after the ball game last night, after he had stopped for some refreshments,
then I could understand. It was broad daylight.
After that trip from St. Louis and yesterday last night's 12-inning game, anything's got to happen.
That's a good old man.
I took him by the hand and let him back into the hotel lobby.
Gave him a little sack of jelly beans. He was happy.
0-2 pitch.
It just takes a curve and it's low. Ball one, strike two.
Come through batting here in the seventh inning with one out.
The bases are ripped.
And Yvonne, who walked and scored on the error in the first inning,
0-2 tonight, fouled out twice to the catcher.
Relay the rivals. They got to see a repeat.
1-2 delivery.
There's a swing and a miss and a curve.
That broke sharply away. Kind of signed our team with that one.
Let's pause a moment for station identification.
This is the WGN, Chicago Cubs baseball network.
And this is WGN Radio Chicago 835.
Larry tonight has a single and a double and a ground out.
He had two hits last night, including his tenth home of the year.
So he has four for nine up here at Fontial.
This guy has eight hits now in his last 15 trips to the plate, eight for 15.
Now batting 297 for the year.
The first pitch from Tretchell was a ball too low.
Well, the Pirates won that first game at St. Louis tonight,
despite a cardinal rally in the bottom of the night that fell one run short.
Pirates are winner 4-3 in the first one.
1-0 delivery.
Takes it low.
John Candeleria held on to get his 16th win, gets five losses.
Eric Rasmussen tagged with his 15th defeat of the season after 10 wins.
And story, Candeleria now 17-5, gets the win, 4-3 in the opener.
That's a score here, 4-3 favor the Cubs.
Bittner takes Wichita's next pitch low, ball three.
At the end of five, Boston and the New York Yankees remain tied 1-1.
And Texas has just hit California with four runs to take a 4-1 lead at their ball game tonight.
And Hargrove, a homer, is 16th of the year for the Rangers in the second inning.
So that's increased their lead to 5-1 in the bottom of the second.
There's ball for Bittner.
So Larry draws a walk.
The Bavarians, first base, second half.
Wins lead to the Sox, 4-0 at the end of two and a half innings in Chicago.
And at the Oakland A's, five, Kansas City three, at the end of six innings of play in their first game tonight.
Bittner with a walk, keeps the inning alive, and here comes Bill Buckner.
We're going to have a pinch runner now.
Jose Cardenal is going to run for Bittner at first base.
Jose, who is way down in the bullpen, down the left field line, is going to take plenty of time.
The little fella finally reaches the carpet on the first base side of the infield.
We are in the seventh with the Cubs leading 4-3.
Jose Cardenal running at first base.
Expos about hit the Cubs tonight, 6-5.
But the Cubs have the lead.
Each team with one home run so far tonight.
Buckner looking for his first hit of the night, twitchle into the stretch of the livers.
There's a swing and a deep drive down the right field line.
And it is a foul ball.
Up into the yellow seats, down the right field line.
He was out in front of it just a little bit too much.
Joe Jose trotting back to first base.
And Buckner getting back into the batter's box.
Marmite Ray Burris is going to be the starting pitcher in the suspended game against Jerry Kussman of the New York Mets.
And we'll have the regularly scheduled game.
And meet the Mets again Saturday in a single one and a double hitter on Sunday.
Here's the pitch.
Takes the pass ball.
It's just outside.
Ball one, strike one on the Cubs' first baseman, Bill Buckner.
Our broadcast tonight will be getting underway both on WGN and on our network at 6 o'clock.
Here's the pitch.
Kerr blowing inside.
Ball two, strike one.
Hugh Gawm, runner at first base.
Big, gangly Wayne Twichell.
Trying to get out of the seventh inning, he retired the first two Cubs, his mound opponent, bottom.
And to Jesus.
Struck the Jesus out with a good sidearm curveball.
Then walked Bittner and Cardinal running for him.
And a count of ball two, strike one on Bill Buckner.
Twichell taking an awful lot of time.
He looks again down to Gary Carter.
Act as though he's never seen that side before.
Now the big fellow's ready.
Hands at the belt, kicks delivers.
Buckner takes it too low.
All of that to throw a ball.
Houston tried to move into second place in the National League Western Division.
The San Francisco Giants this afternoon at Candlestick Park, 6 to 3.
And the Reds playing the Dodgers tonight in the West Coast.
Two out, 3-1 pitch.
Buckner swings, pulls the ground ball.
Perez backhands it, comes back to first base.
Unassisted put-out, retires the side.
Hard hit.
But he couldn't get it by.
The veteran first baseman Perez.
No runs, no hits.
One man left.
Now this ballgame moves to the bottom of the seventh with the Montreal Expo fans standing for the stretch.
Cubs 4 and the Expos 3.
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Well, they're looking for a pinch hitter here.
Of course, fire is to lead off.
And a pitcher due up next.
Adele Unser has already stepped out in front of the dugout into the on deck circle.
Back for the pitcher.
Spire has spanned twice tonight against Bottom, who has registered five strikeouts.
He gave up three hits in the first inning.
And a home run in the fourth with the bases empty.
With two out in the sixth, he gave up two singles.
Delivers to Spire and the right-hander takes it inside, ball one.
And he got out of the inning when Comarty hit a hard ground ball to the shortstop.
Yvonne DeJesus, who forced him at second base, forced Potter at second base.
There's a ball a little low.
Bottom beginning to show signs of trouble out there.
He is behind on Spire 2-0.
Binder winds, here's a pitch swung on a high bouncing foul on the third base side.
Jose Cardinal, who came in to run for Bittner, is staying in to play left field.
Gubs with Morales in center.
He has a homer tonight.
And in right field is Bobby Mercer, and he is playing his old teammate Spire to swing late, guarding the line and right against him.
Here's the pitch.
He's out of serve and it's outside. Ball, three, strike one.
Bell with only one complete game this year, and that was his first start of the season.
There's a fastball swung on. He pulls a foul on the third base line.
Ball, three, strike two.
Cap in that forfeited game. Toronto four runs, five hits.
Baltimore, no runs, two hits.
Somebody tuning in like, what forfeited game? What do you mean that forfeited the game?
Well, forfeit Major League Games when you're in a pennant race.
Well, they did.
Here's the swing and a bouncing ball. The haste is coming in to his right. He's got it.
Here's the peg, into the dirt, gets off the club of Buckner, and Spire is going to reach.
Yvonne circling in until his right, threw that ball into the dirt, and he is charged with a throwing error,
permitting Spire to reach.
That's the tying run at first base, and Dale Unser, who had been in the batter's box or in the on-deck circles,
now, pulled back and Twitchell will be sent up there in a sacrifice situation.
Under the forfeit rule, all the players' records stand in that ball game tonight between Baltimore and Toronto.
It's the third cup error of the night, by the way. Here's the pitch. Twitchell pulls the bat back from a ball inside.
He walked leading off the fifth inning and then was rubbed out on the double play ball.
Now, rookie Mike Gordon, first baseman, Buckner out there to talk to Buck at the bottom.
We don't need any mistakes tonight.
He just committed one last night that was very costly, proved to be the tying run in the ball game, and eventually sent it into overtime,
and Montreal pulled it out in 12 innings.
Buckner charges up the line, and this time, Twitchell swings at the pitch and he misses.
Oh, one strike one.
The Pirates, the winner at St. Louis, in their first game tonight, 4-3. Candleria over Erie Craspenson.
Wayne Twitchell, count of one-on-one on him. He's going to bunt, and he pulls the bat back and bottom, misses outside.
Ball two, strike one on him.
Buckner coming over to talk to him.
Reggie Jackson's 27th homer of the year in the fourth inning tonight tied up the Boston Yankee game at the end of five, one-to-one.
Texas leading California, five-to-one at Texas in the bottom of the third.
Throw to first to keep the runner close.
And Oakland leading Kansas City. Here's the pitch.
Twitchell pushes him up on the air, bottom, barehand pick up, world's throws to DeJesus,
has to return to second to step on the bag, and there's no chance to get Twitchell.
There's a weird one as Spire apparently thought that ball was going to be caught in the air, and he was heading back to first base.
I thought, Lou, we had a good shot at a double play there.
Yes, it could have been a double play. He had bottom thrown perfectly to DeJesus, but it pulled him off the bag.
I was glad to see DeJesus be sure of that lead man. He went back and touched second base.
Dote the fielder's choice for Wayne Twitchell.
And there's one out with Davy Cash, the hitter.
He's reached in an air, a single, and he's hit into a double play tonight.
Right-handed hitter and a tough one.
Bottom over the top of the curve, and it caught the outside corner for a strike.
And it's Oakland 5, Kansas City 3, in their first game.
It's in the bottom of the seventh inning at KC, and Vita Blue has gone the distance so far.
Bottom-six curve, low, all-one strike point.
Dennis Lamp standing out at the Cub Bowl pen is ready if needed.
Bottom has been the tough customer here so far tonight. We're in the bottom of the seventh.
1-1 delivery. Swung out, a drive. Mercer going back into his right. Bobby is there, reaches up, he hauls it in.
And Twitchell drives on back to first base. They're two gone.
The high deep drive to right off the bat of Davy Cash. That brings up the rookie, Stan Pappy.
Single, got credit for his stolen base in the first inning and scored a run.
Came in eventually, and Ellis Valentine's double.
And he lined out to Morales, who plays him to swing late, Jerry over in the right center field for him.
That was in the third inning, and then in the fifth inning, he flied out to Mercer, who guards the right field line against him.
Cardinal moving several more steps off the left field line.
First pitch to him, and he takes the curve that's outside of the knees, ball one.
Two gone.
Mike Gordon, the kept catcher tonight, has to know Stan Pappy pretty well.
Both were in the minors this year. There's the swing and a liner, caught by Steve Montemarie.
Some beautiful catch. He has just robbed this rookie of an extra base hit.
Absolutely fantastic reactions by Steve Montemarie on a bullet off the bat of Stan Pappy.
And the Montreal Expos are shut out in the seventh inning.
No runs, no hits. One error, more than made up for by that great, great catch by Steve Montemarie's one man left on.
And at the end of seven, the Cubs are still leading four to three.
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Wayne Quetzal's still in the ballgame. He gave up a home run to the leadoff man for the Cubs in the sixth inning.
Let's see if history can repeat because that leadoff man here in the eighth is Jerry Morales.
He got his 11th home run of the year on his last one on August the 26th out of San Francisco, came off Jim Barr,
and accounted for his last run batted in until here tonight.
Quetzal finishes his warm-up classes.
Brought us to be followed by Bobby Mercer and Steve Hanovera.
Time for those magic numbers to be talked about now.
And it's getting powerlessly near the end.
The 1977 season for the Cubs to win a championship, their magic numbers starting tonight against the Philadelphia Phillies is four.
Any combination of four cup defeats or Philadelphia victories in the Phillies will have eliminated the Cubs mathematically.
First pitch and Jerry takes the ball into close.
Against the Pirates, magic number 10, combination of 10 pirate losses, Philadelphia defeat, or victories rather,
would eliminate Pittsburgh, their nearest competitor.
Cardinals' number is the same as the Cubs starting tonight, but it is now down to three for St. Louis.
There's the ball, ball two, no strikes. Bobby Mercer the hitter.
2-0 pitch.
Twichell gets a strike call right at the knees on the outside corner, ball two, strike one.
For the White Sox, the magic number going into tonight's action is 10.
There's a swing and a tap on the first base side of the mound picked up by Twichell.
Big lot of tosses over to first base.
He looks so uncoordinated, hard to believe that he was a very fine basketball player and a pitcher in the major leagues, but he gets the job done.
You'd think sometimes he's going to trip over his own feet out there.
Bobby Mercer 0-3 tonight.
1-7 in the series stepping into the batter's box.
Twichell winds the right-hander's pitch, strike call.
Took a little bit off of that one.
Baltimore has no more games remaining to play with the Yankees this year.
There's a bunt the temp by Bobby and he fouls that one back to the screen.
Somebody getting on it from the dugout and he said, well, what am I going to do?
He said, I'm going to get a hit.
Might as well try to reach for the bunt single.
Nothing or two to count on him.
Red Sox have three left with Baltimore.
The Yankees and Boston have two left to play at Fenway Park this year.
Playing their last one against one another at Yankee Stadium tonight and it's tied in the sixth inning 1-1.
Baltimore has no more cracks at the Yankees.
They have to play Boston six times, three at home and three at Fenway Park.
Twichell delivers that one outside.
He wasted it.
Ball one, strike two on Mercer with one out.
The bases are ripping.
The Cubs here in the eighth lead 4-3.
Twichell winds the big fellow's next pitch swung on.
Drive down the right field line, coming in forward to Santa Hears,
and he makes the catch in fair territory just out the area of the Montreal bullpen.
Little fella's got fast feet.
Mercer retired and a rather nice play.
That'll bring up Steve on the various whose walk twice tonight and scored a run.
Especially Steve is 0-1.
Royals going into tonight's action have 11 games left to play at home and eight on the road.
They're getting two of those 11 underway tonight, and they're losing the first one to the Oakland A's.
So after tonight, Kansas City will have nine at home and eight on the road.
There's a curve and a swing and a miss.
Nothing at two.
I'm sure your foul ball won't be bad.
Stocks playing tonight, have 10 more to play at home this year and six on the road,
two of them up at Minnesota.
But they have none to play with Kansas City.
There's a swing and a miss, as Steve went after a pitch down around his knees on the inside corner.
But Twichell has just brung up his sixth strike out of the night.
And the Cubs in the top of the eighth inning go down 1-2-3.
Montreal coming to bat against Bill Bonham, who's sprinting out to the mound.
Cubs leading 4-3.
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Andre Dawson, Tony Perez, Sam Bahias, 3, 4, and 5 then, in thick, wet, and batting order,
are scheduled to face Bill Bonham here in the bottom of the eighth inning as he is looking
for his first victory since the 6th of August.
And here it is, the 14th of September.
That's when he beats San Diego.
August the 6th.
He got his 10th win of the year.
It's a good ball against the Mets in his last outing Saturday at Wrigley Field.
Here's the swing and a high-fly ball.
Morales started back.
Now he's running in hard.
And he finally catches up with that ball and makes a belt buckle catch.
Did not get a good jump on the ball, but he used those little legs of his to come in just
as hard as he possibly could to make the catch.
And Dawson is out of there.
That'll bring up Tony Perez, who is 0 for 3 tonight.
In the very first start this season for Bill at Philadelphia, he went all the way and got
the victory.
Now this is his 31st start of the year.
There's a swing and a bouncing foul past Aussie Virgil, the third-base coach.
And Bill is still looking for another complete gain.
Maybe, maybe he'll get it tonight.
He has not exactly been given a big cushion.
Score of 4 to 3.
He's allowed 6 hits.
The Cubs have a total of 5.
They've fastball taken first strike over the outside corner, nothing in 2.
When he left against the Mets on Saturday, he had a 2-1 lead.
When the ball game was over, the Mets won it 7-2.
Kerrball outside, ball one, strike two.
Galloway into Jesus.
Shading towards the outside corner of the infield.
Here's a swing and a ground ball, back of third.
Ferris has it, throws, and he is safe at first base.
The Flyers rule out a fair ball.
Let me tell you, that had to be just fair by inches, very, very deep at third base.
Effie Frias is going to run for Perez at first base.
He's a fellow with any speed at all that would not have even been close at first base.
It was very, very deep at third and had to be hugging the chalk line.
It's an infield hit, and he represents a tying run at first base.
Effie Frias.
Dale Unser is now going to bat for Sam Mejias, who had come in to run for Valentine.
The night ending Valentine nursing a sore ankle,
and Unser, left-hander, now pinch-hitting with one out.
Dale takes in the first pitch, to him is a ball, too low.
June 4th of 74, the Indians forfeit.
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And the fans over there just became absolutely unruly and out of complete control,
and Cleveland had to forfeit the ballgame.
Oh, they drive it to left field, Jose is there, Cardinal comes in a couple of steps.
Makes the one-headed catch, Unser is retired, two-gone.
Runner at first base, four to three scorecubs.
Gary Carter stepping in.
This is a pretty much different situation.
The manager, Earl Weaver in this case, of Baltimore tonight, got so upset.
He had his pitchers warming up in the bullpen.
There was nobody warming up in the Baltimore bullpen, and there was a copeland covering their bullpen,
and he wanted that removed because it was raining like this.
And it wouldn't do it, he argued and argued, and finally the umpires, that's it.
Larry Barnett, crew chief there and a good veteran umpires.
And I'm sure that he had warned him several times that if you don't cease and desist,
you're going to lose this on a forfeit, and that's what happened.
Orioles had won seven in a row and ten out of their last eleven.
Tonight it's a forfeit.
It moved into second place last night.
Now a 1-0 delivery.
He takes a strike right at the knees.
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Kyler, a home run, a single tonight in three trips to the plate.
Right-hander, after walloping that home run in the fourth, his 26th of the year,
stood plants fixed in the batter's box.
First base side of it, watching it disappear out of sight.
There's a curve to him and he takes it low.
Ball two, strike one.
He might have thought for just a moment that he had pulled it too much.
Maybe it might go foul.
From here it looked like he was just standing in sheer admiration.
Two out, a runner at first.
Four to three score Cubs.
And a count of ball two, strike one on Cotter, a right-hander.
Bottom in the stretch, steps up the pitching rubber to check that runner again.
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Last game of the year between these two teams.
There's a swing and a drive at the right center field.
That's trouble.
There goes the run around, second on his way to third.
Ball bounces off the wall.
Here comes that tying run around third.
Here is the throw.
And it finally winds up in the hands of DeJesus.
The ball game is tied.
Cotter with a double in the right center field.
Seemed to be a little like that throw came in over the cutoff.
Missed the cutoff vanitally, but I don't think we would have been able to throw
the pinch runner out pre-hots.
He was running around third when I noticed the ball was thrown over Kelliher's head.
That Carter has been murder against Cotter.
He sure has.
The only time he got it tonight was in the first inning when he flied out to Mercer,
who right now is standing way back against the wall,
shoulders against it, thinking, what in the world do we have to do to win a ball game?
Now Morales is going over to talk to Cardinal.
Well, Herman Franks is going out to make a couple of changes in the batting order.
And one of them, of course, is going to be the pitcher.
In addition to bringing in Bruce Sutter, Herman has brought in Greg Gross to play right field,
replacing Bobby Mercer.
So Sutter will hit in Mercer's spot, the number five spot of the batting order.
And Gross will hit in the number nine spot,
and he is going to be the third man up in the top of the ninth inning.
Now with the man at second base.
The left-handed hitter, Warren Cromarty, in there.
Sutter to second base on an appeal.
Maybe that runner had missed on his way from first to third.
I didn't think he had. That's where I saw him.
Here's where DeJesus has taken the appeal.
The umpire's not going to give it to Kelliher.
Kelliher was out in right center, so he can tell Kelliher, you didn't see the play.
He was out in right field for the relay.
Here's the pitch to Cromarty, and he swings and misses on a good forkball.
I was positive I saw him step on second, but I wasn't too sure about third.
But he was flying all the way.
Game is tied at four feet.
Cromarty checks his swing, takes the ball, low it inside, ball one, strike one on him.
Sutter's stretch. Here's a swing and a miss.
Same spot, low and inside, swung on a miss for strike two.
Bottom of the ninth cannot pick up a victory.
He could only be charged with a loss.
And he left the weight a while longer before posting his 11th win of the year.
Sutter's pitch, very slow and inside.
Cromarty won't go after it. It's two and two with two off.
Runner at second base, score tied, four to four, bottom of the eighth inning at Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
And an infield single by Perez. Here's a swing and a check swing.
The pitch and a check swing, rather.
And Cromarty, they say, held up in time for three strike two.
Infield single by Perez on a ball that was barely, barely foul deep at third.
And then with two out, Carter got his third straight hit, a double, driving in the tying run.
Two out, three-two pitch. Cromarty swings, pulls the ground ball.
Kelleher is there, picks it up, passes to Buckner.
In time for the out, he was shading him way over to the right side of the infield by Kevin.
And Sutter retires the side, but they tie the game with a run, two hits, one man left on.
And at the end of eighth, Cubs coming to bat. Montreal four, the Cubs four.
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We have a new first baseman, Dale Launcher.
We have a new shortstop, Pepe Frias, and a new right fielder, the third one of the night, Jerry White.
Nick Callagher to lead off.
He's to be followed by the rookie catcher, Mike Gordon, then Greg Gross.
He's over the pitch, and he takes it high.
And if he could happen to pull one down that left fielder line, he could run all night
because Cromarty is almost in a line with first and second base.
That's how far off the left fielder line Cromarty is.
There's a ball a little bit low, two and 0 on it.
There's the strike ball right at the knees, ball to strike one.
They're not exactly pleased with Olson's call on that one.
The New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, ooh, blant.
Boston hit them with six in the sixth.
No homers reported.
There's a swing and a foul back out of play.
So it does not appear as though the Yankees will ever lose sweep that series.
Red Sox with a 7-1 lead at the end of six innings of play.
The New York Yankees had their game forfeited through Toronto tonight.
2-2 pitch, takes the ball, low it outside, it's 3-2.
Boston hold on to win that one.
And if they don't, Don Zimmer may blow up Yankee Stadium.
There's a pitch that misses low, ball a four.
So McCutcher opens up the ninth inning by drawing a walk, a fledge hook.
That'll bring up rookie catcher Mike Gordon, which will stretch the pitch.
He's going to bunt, pops it up in the air.
Grabbed by the catcher, Carter, whirled, but he has no play at first base.
Cutter, very, very careful.
And Mike Gordon, unable to sacrifice, pops one up about seven or eight feet away from the plate
on the third-base side, grabbed in foul territory by Gary Carter.
Nick Williams is called time, going after them out, as Puchel seems to be having a lot of trouble
keeping the mud out of his spikes suddenly.
Will McAdony is going to come in.
It's an awfully good success, particularly against a couple left-handers in relief this year.
And Puchel is leaving in the ninth inning with the ballgame tied 4-4.
And he's getting a good round of applause from this crowd.
It's tonight's number, 7,369 pace.
They're really giving us a big guy.
Well, Gene Klienz is now going to be brought in to pinch it for Greg Grouse against the left-hander,
Will McAdony.
He and everybody else was veered in relief last night for Montreal.
Hound the Cubs like they were little babes.
Klienz hitting 2-99 for the year.
Three homers, 37 runs about it in.
The last game the Cubs won came on his pinch-hit homer.
And that was last Friday at Wrigley Field, shot in the ninth inning.
Since then the Cubs have wound up on the loss side five consecutive times.
When they were up here in Montreal in the latter part of June,
they had themselves a seven-game winning streak,
the sixth and seventh wins coming at the expense of this ball club.
And then Montreal threw a shutout at the Cubs to end that seven-game winning streak,
which is the Cubs' longest of the year.
And now the five-game losing streak is the longest endured by the Cubs so far,
and they're trying to end it here at Montreal tonight.
Klienz steps in and Gene takes McAdony's first pitch inside for a ball.
Montreal, for the last couple of months, has been playing good ball.
Not outstanding, but certainly a whole lot better than they did the first couple of months of the season.
There's a swing and a bouncing ball to the third baseman.
Pappy has it. The rookies pegged the first in time.
DeDeleon, sir. Pugon, a runner at second base.
And now it's up to Yvonne DeJesus to break the tie.
Klienz bouncing up the third.
Kavahar at second base.
Yvonne walked and scored in the first inning off Tweedle.
After that, he fouled out twice and struck out.
Kerrig in a big right-hander, throwing in to Montreal both in.
McAdony in the left deep is going to face DeJesus.
Goes into the stretch. Kavahar pretty good lead at second.
Here's the pitch. Swung out and a liner caught for the shortstop.
Hit it right to Pappy Frias.
And that retires a side in the ninth inning.
Line drive to short.
No runs, no hits. One man left on.
And the Montreal Expos come to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning
against Bruce Sitter, and it's all tied at four apiece.
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Jane Klein stays in the game to play in right field.
Stepping into the batter's box for the first time tonight is Jerry White.
Came in to play right field.
In the top of the inning, a little left-hander.
Left post of this year down in the minors.
It's two for five since being brought up from Denver.
Sitter in the windup. Jerry White takes in. It's a strike.
Well, the Philadelphia Phillies.
One step nearer eliminating both the Cardinals and the Cubs and perhaps the Pirates tonight with a victory over the New York Mets.
Sitters next pitch is a ball too low.
Cardinals after losing their first game tonight in Philadelphia, defeating the Mets 8-2.
1-1 delivery. Swung on at a high foul. It's got to be out of play down the left field line.
Magic number now for the Cardinals is at 2.
And should the Cubs lose here tonight, it would be the same for the Cubs.
Pirates won their first game at St. Louis 4-3.
The Philadelphia victory reduces their magic number in eliminating the Pirates to 9.
There's a swing and he pulls the ground ball over the pitcher's mound. The Hays who's charging in throws. He can't get him.
That guy is awfully fast, let me tell you.
The Hays who's wound up almost on the dirt around first base.
Charging in for that tap over the mound.
Made a very fine play, but that Jerry White can fly down the line.
And he is on with an infield single.
And they tied up the ball game and the eighth inning was won out.
And Tony Perez reached for the ground ball back of third base that had to be just barely on the chalk.
And he managed to lay it out.
Despite a good play by Anabaris.
That led to the tying run of the ball game because with two men off, Gary Carter then doubled and brought in the pinch runner Pepe Frias.
Now we're in the ninth tied at 4-4.
Will McEnany came on to relieve.
And called by Dick Williams. He wants to talk to this man down there at first base.
Was it Jerry White, anything wrong with him or not after he went all the way down that line and came back?
Did anything really move?
No, not only one correction, now we get two corrections in a ball game.
That's important.
Getting late in the season.
It's Oakland sixth.
Now Kansas City instead of one comes up with three in the sixth inning, one in the seventh to tie that one up.
At the end of the seventh.
Well now they get all the way up to the eighth. It's a tie.
They tell me it's a tie now.
Oakland didn't score.
Three, six, nine, ten they got now.
Did they?
Exactly.
Oakland did not score in the top of the tenth yet.
Here's a bun of temp and it is foul.
On the first base side that's strike two count.
If we can believe this report, the A's are batting in the bottom of the tenth inning and the game is tied six to six with Oakland.
That's their first game.
Next correction coming up.
You can rely on this. The ball game here is tied four to four bottom of the ninth inning.
And the Expos, one last night and twelve of the winning run on it first.
On the various coming up the line back and then he tries to drop a bun and he fouls it back out of play.
He is not too good a bunner.
That is posted as a strikeout for Bruce Duder.
We move to the top of the batting order, Davy Cash to speedy Jerry White on it first base.
Cash against Bonham Singles leading off the first inning.
And he wound up scoring their first run of the night. They picked up two runs in that inning, one in the fourth and one in the eighth.
Throw to first and White back in time.
Cash at the moment a 288 hitter.
He's one for four officially this evening.
He'll wait for time here because he has to get that dirt to his locking in the batter's box.
Now the right-hander is ready and Sutter looks over it first.
Delivers and a strike call.
Breaking ball over the outside corner.
Jerry White by notice has kind of a nervous little habit over there when he takes that lead.
He puts his fingers on his left hand.
He was constantly shaking and this time he doesn't do it.
And he's driven back to first base with a throw by Bruce.
The Expos have beaten the Cubs six out of the last eight games.
These two teams have played against one another.
Here's the pitch. Cash takes it, the ball inside.
That levels the count at one and one.
The Wins are leading the White Sox tonight five to two.
Bottom of the fifth inning.
Boston looks like they're finally going to salvage a victory at Yankee Stadium.
They lead seven to one.
In the bottom of the seventh there goes the runner.
Cash swings and fouls it back.
Boy, that kid can fly, can he? Oh, yes.
Sutter into the stretch. Delivers.
Cash swings and misses it. A good fork ball.
That takes Garadavy.
Two gone.
Let's walk up here and fire the big spot.
Here's the rookie third baseman, Stan Pappy.
D-A-P-I.
Just up from Denver.
California Angels coming back at the end of four.
Down at Texas it's the Rangers five.
California three.
That's at the end of four.
Here's the pitch.
Too high, the runner goes. A throw by Gordon Hyde.
Off the glove of Kelleher, backed up by DeJesus.
And it's a stolen base.
Taking a rifle to nail him.
He went flying into second.
To the Expos with the potential winning run in scoring position with two off.
Sutter now working on a count of one and all on the rookie.
Delivers and he misses inside.
Ball two.
Swung out, ground ball, fast pitchers found, and Montreal, like those, are going to win it.
Rallis flips the ball up, doesn't even try to make a throw as rookie Jerry White
comes streaking in from second base with the winning run.
He hits that ball just to the third base side of the mound.
DeJesus plow over into the hole.
Had no chance in the world to get to it.
Once it got by the mound, forget it.
Stan Clapping is the hitting hero for this ball club tonight as the Montreal Expos
extend the Cubs losing streak to six straight games.