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All right, we told you there wind up is Cash Boat, Johnstone, Wazinski, Allen and Schmidt, Maddox, Oates, and Underwood.
For us, when he stemmed it, St. Guiam, Al Oliver, Willie Studgel, Richie Zesk, Dave Pucker, Richie Hebner, Frank Tavares, and Bruce Keeson.
Keeson, 11 and 11 on the year is 2 and 2 against them. Last time out he beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9 to 1 when he upset Tom Underwood.
That was a tough game going along. All of a sudden we broke it open.
Now the Pirates have got a lot of things riding tonight. It ought to be the loosest they've been able to play practically throughout the year.
From the standpoint of one very simple reason, that they know all they've got to do is win one of these three and it's all over.
And they only have to know one other thing. If they don't win one of these three, they only have to win two of the next six.
Or the Philadelphia Phillies have got to lose two of their next seven. Now somewhere along the line that combination has got to work out to where you find out that you've got yourself a National League Eastern champion.
So let's see how she goes. Cash at 300, four homers, 52 runs batted in. I'll tell you one thing though. Phillies have not given up.
Ball inside. Billy Williams calling the balls and strikes. Andy Olson, Dick Stelow, and Shag Crawford, a great umpiring crew working here. 1-0.
Ball outside. Billy Demar is coaching at third. Delay of 25 minutes officially. Strike.
Happy birthday to Debbie Gosecko of Boswell, Pennsylvania. To Mrs. Susie Witt and Mrs. Pearl Deberg who's 86 years of age. And then to Rust Haven in Duncanville, Pennsylvania.
Bouncer hits down to second. Up comes Renny Stenick. So is one out.
We'll have a noisy, demonstrative crowd on hand. Now there's one other thing I want to tell you.
If we are able to win tonight, we will have Nellie King's postgame show from here with a ball player. And then we will, as soon as we're able to, join John Fitzpatrick in the clubhouse for the celebration and words of wisdom that will drop from our great athletes as they walk around and struck in all their magnificent glory for having accomplished the volley of having won at a game five times in six years.
Wouldn't they be well proud of that if they were to do it? And if they do, we'll be down there to share it with them. Boa, the shortstop at 3-0-7. Two homers, 35 runs batted in.
Bouncing into the dirt, one ball, one strike. Bruce Kason's been a tough one in September. More than that though, in championship series he has yet to be scored on.
Bouncing foul bounce back off the net here. A ball, two strikes. Happy birthday to Bob Monroeville. Bob Wobb Monroeville attending the game today. Happy birthday to the Tess McNamee.
Those Imperials have shot in a great pirate fan. One ball, two strikes. To Boa, batting at 3-0-7. Two homers, 35 runs batted in.
First miss, 2-2. Kason thought he might have had it, apparently the way he looked.
And best wishes to Mrs. Anna Lips of Evansburg, Pennsylvania, shot in a great pirate fan.
2-2 to Boa. Bounced off the right side, speared by Kason. Throws him out. That's the base hitter. Bruce doesn't flag it down.
Now the batter is going to be Jay Johnstone, batting at 3-35-7 homers, 52 runs batted in.
Johnstone left hand batter up inside to him, Lysinski on deck batter. Ball one, two down, none on, no score.
The grizzle is stopped and the fans are still filing in. The pitch is a let up and it drops through for a call strike, 1-1.
Missing outside, ball two, strike one. Don't forget now when you called John Cigna on a touch show tonight,
remember all Shane Deane tonight talked about was playing golf Friday and whether I could borrow a set of his clubs.
That's all it was about. That's in St. Louis, 2-1. High fly left field, deep, disc back, has room, he's under. That's it.
Three up and three down. And we're going out at the bottom of the first inning, no score.
Here's Reddy Stennett standing in now, Tom Underwood at 14-12, 2-89 batting average, 7 homers, 61 runs batted in.
And then best wishes along to Mrs. Raymond Corley on the half of the pass. And the family, West Virginia.
Rennie Stennett at 2-89, Underwood the left hander. He's not an easy mark. High ball on. He was 12-1 at Vets Stadium when we last played him over there.
And we made him 12-2, but it took some doing and took us late in the game before we finally cracked through.
1-0 to count Stennett at 2-89. This one backed up and that fast ball found the inside corner.
Send best wishes along to Rose Rubick in Braddock General Hospital. She's a great Pirate fan and now does one of our radio engineers, Jan Rubick.
And we wish Rose, Aunt Rose a speedy recovery. Two balls and a strike. Here's the 2-1 to Stennett.
Bounced up there to the middle and a one-hand stab by Underwood. He throws him out to Richie Allen.
Defensively, the Phillies have Luzinski in left, Maddox in center, Johnstone in right, with Schmidt at third, Boat short, Cash at second, Allen at first, Underwood in notes.
The battery. It's all over everywhere but here.
Oakland is down to one and they did not get it yesterday as Kansas City held them at bay. But Oakland, I think, plays or entertains Minnesota tonight, in Minnesota, whatever, in the next victory or loss.
And it's all over in the west for the American League. Bouncer, round one, hopping Underwood. He must have been quite a celebrity in some other sport.
He's all over that man like a jitterbug. He jumped up high at that time, sparing the ball and firing for the out here center fielder out over at 2-80.
17, Homer's 81 runs that in there.
There's a strike to him.
Mattie Luz set the major league record most at bats in 698. There's a bouncer to second and Cash throws him out. That's the man I was just about to talk to. Cash has a chance to establish that record and we'll tell you, tie it or break it.
We'll tell you about it when we come back. It's no score.
We're telling you about Dave Cash. He has an opportunity to set a major league record for the most at bats in a season, 698, held by Mattie Luz when he was with the Parks in 1969.
The American League record, Bobby Richardson, 692 at bats and 161 games for the 62 Yankees.
Dave, by the way, Cash also has the longest consecutive game streak in the majors, 334 games, stretching back to 73.
And he's battling Rose and Garvey for the hit title in the National League. Rose has won the title five times. The National League record is 6 by Musial. Now, Cash is in with 101 hits.
As of right now, he has been to the plate 671 times. The record by Mattie Luz is 698.
We're not breaking it in this series, but if he gets up, say, four times tonight and tomorrow night, make a run at it before he's through. I'll tell you that.
All right. Here's Luzinski at 299, 34 home with 118 runs batted in.
He's just flung away around to the left in the outfield. Our infield overshipped it also. Fastball low into the third ball, one to him, no score.
At home, we've only beaten, that is, over there, we've only beaten the Phillies once. In nine meetings over there, we won one game. That's all.
We're up on them here. Four games to two. Foul back. They've handled us with great regularity. They just knocked us over for a loop.
And one thing they can do, even if we win the National League Eastern title, is to go to bed every night and say, well, when we play them, we won't ruin them.
Then we can't do anything but say, you're right. Two balls and a strike. Bounce toward third. It'll hook out foul. Hevner over quickly.
Two balls, two strikes.
Stan Feingold, Dr. Feingold's son Stanley, enjoying his 21st birthday at the Allegheny Club tonight.
There's a delayed call, three and two, so happy birthday to Stan Feingold. Another one of the brilliant Feingolds in the family.
We tap it to the mound, off his foot, foul ball.
OK, Luzinski is all set. Ball free, strike two to Greg. Keeson working here, the game is scoreless. 25 minutes away reigns.
Bruce has the sign from Sankey and the pitch. Hard wrap, base hit through the left side of the diamond. Luzinski bore into it quickly and wrapped it through to left field.
That'll bring up left right hand batter Richie Allen, sleepy at 232, 12 homers, 59 runs battered here. Richie Allen.
I think Mother Allen is down here tonight. I'm sure she is.
Poland Volunteer Fire Department of Poland and Ohio here. There's a smack. Keeson knocks it down, they go one, they go the first, no.
Boy, that was a ripper. So they get a 1-6 on Luzinski. Allen first, no chance of nailing him.
Many U.S. Steel employees completely volunteer for that Poland Volunteer Fire Department. Some 30 members here have taken in the game.
Hopeful of seeing the Buccos clinch. Another National League Eastern title.
And if they do, you can be coming on to take a look at the games. Games one and two are out there. Games three, four and five are here.
Games three and four are at night. Game five if necessary in the afternoon.
There are plenty of seats available and you can get them through Ticketron, G.C. Murphy store out here.
You can buy all the reserve seats and general emissions you want.
Down low to Mike Schmidt at 255, 38 homers. He leads the league in homers, 95 runs battered in.
One ball and no strikes.
And that's swing one and one.
The Buccos won the East in 70, 71, 72, 74.
Check swing, bounce off first, might have broken his back.
In 1970, we had to go out West.
I take that back. 69, the team that opens up the season in the National League Championship Series has never won.
The team that entertains for the first two games has never won the National League Championship.
In 69, the Mets went down to Atlanta where they had the first two games and good night.
They saw you later. In 70, we had it against the Reds and they beat us.
In 71, San Francisco had it out there and we beat them.
In 72, we had it here against the Reds and they beat us.
In 73, New York had it, Cincinnati had it and New York beat them.
Foul back. And in 74, we had it here against the Dodgers and they beat us.
This year, we're going to play the Reds and we've got to go out there and beat them unless Prince's Hidden Vigorous jumps in there somewhere.
I would hate like heck to think my Hidden Vigorous should move a thing like that.
I think in division play, the team that wins the first game is the one that's got the biggest edge, the bigger edge, in my feeling.
In three out of five, I think, gives you an edge. Starting to drizzle again.
Mike Schmidt at 255 and a strike three blew it through him. He was cock looking.
That'll bring up Maddox, the center fielder.
Now, Gary Maddox got hit. He's been hit about four times in the last, in the space of about a week or ten days.
And he's got a bad right thumb and it's hard for him to grip a bat.
He's got something. He has some kind of ball for it, that young man.
Mike Schmidt just put 170 on the books for strikeouts, which he doesn't like, but he sure does have a lot of home runs.
He ground balled a short to fair us up. He'll go to first in a hurry and he gets Maddox.
So we go to the bottom of the second and there is no score.
All right, here's Willie the Star standing in now.
In field shift is on, Star goes to 295. Takes a strike under with a left hander.
Willie, 22 homers, 88 runs batted in.
They stop the shift. They bring Boa over on the shortstop side.
Willie takes high.
Mike Schmidt is off the line about 30 feet deep at third.
Boa is just to the left of second as I view him.
One-one pitch, ball outside.
Cash deep, back toward the outfield side.
Richie Allen very deep on the line at first.
The outfield pinching in on each other, giving him the lines.
Now back.
Luzinski is giving Stodgel a lot of the left field line and right fielder Johnstone doing likewise on that side
so that there's very little gap in right center, left center.
Bobby Bonds of the Giants in 1969 had 187 and Bonds in 70 had 189 strikeouts.
Now, 170 strikeouts for Schmidt so I don't think he can catch him.
I hope for Mike's sake that he doesn't.
Wave into the bush is here.
Three balls, two strikes to Stodgel. No score.
Second inning and here's Underwood's delivery.
He walks him with a curve away.
Feeling the breaking ball outside.
That'll bring up Richie Zisk at 287.
20 homers, 71 runs batted in.
Boston playing the Yankees and there is no score there as yet.
The big one is right here.
Everything's one left in the outfield now to Richie Zisk.
And he hits a pop-up and it'll be Cash going back for it.
Running hard Johnstone but Cash is under.
He's there and there's one out.
That'll bring up Parker, the right fielder, at 308.
24 homers, 97 runs batted in.
The Cobras standing in. Let's see how they'll play him in the outfield now.
They're going to swing the outfield left.
They'll gap him in right center.
The right fielder Johnstone has pulled over to his own left.
There's a big gap.
He plays the line more.
And meanwhile, Maddux with his speed is over in left center.
So he can pull if he has to.
Parker slams foul down the left line. Just misses.
One thing I remember over in Philadelphia, he hit what would have been a triple.
Yes, missed being a triple.
But then late in the game against Underwood, he hit a sucker in the gap in left center.
And I see now that Maddux has closed that up a bit.
Nellie Husting in would remember very well the defensive alignment of the outfield.
Foul away and he got an inside pitch, tried to yank it off the right side.
Couldn't get it there. Strike two. No balls, two strikes.
Continuing the drizzle here and I think we'll play this game in the next downfall.
No score, one out and one on.
It's Dodger that's first in the walk.
We are in the second inning.
The game delayed 25 minutes to begin with.
Now they into the pitch.
He weakly hits one up toward second.
Cash charges.
He has one play only just in time to get him with Richie Allen making the put out.
That'll put Ziskin at the side of the second and bring up Hevner at 247.
15 homers, 54 runs batted in.
Lots of reindeer here tonight.
Not reindeer, the reindeer.
Yellow jackets, red jackets, umbrellas.
Golf equipment.
There's a bouncer to the left side.
They said Dodgers around third.
Here comes the throw by Lisinski.
Cut off.
Hevner's the second.
He's out.
He didn't slide.
We get a run, however.
Hevner single to dow the left center.
He's over in Stajl with a run.
Hevner trying to go to second.
The throw came from Rosinski.
Cut off by Mike Schmidt and thrown up to Dave Cash.
And because he didn't slide, he was out.
And they put the ball on him.
And that retires the side.
We get a run, though.
And at the end of two lead, one to nothing.
Let me just recap for a moment.
Hevner's ball in the left field was hit around the shop.
And when they saw that Schmidt saw that there was no way they were going to get to Stajl,
he cut it off and fired it up to Cash.
Hevner's sliding's only chance is to slide.
I'm not going to say that he would have been out or safe even with the slide.
But in running straight up, he was there where they presented an awful lot of target for Cash to put the ball to.
So anyhow, it's over.
We got a run in for Richie.
And the Bucks lead one to nothing.
Here's Oates at 281.
Foul back.
But again, I can't say the slide would or would not have brought him in there.
Ball one and strike one here, though.
Oh, that ball's hit awful deep to left field.
But this has room.
He's there on the track and is one out.
Pikes lead one nothing.
Tommy Underwood.
Pikes leading one to nothing here in the third inning, one out and then on.
Pitch to him from McKeeson up high, ball one.
Pirates on top, one nothing as we bat here, and they bat in the third.
Raining down, but not that hard, through for the strike.
We'll finish this game one way or another.
If we are fortunate to win tonight, the Pirates will have Nellie's post-game show afterwards to do an interview there.
Now, hustle down to get into the locker room with John Fitzpatrick, who will be aboard to carry the interview there for as long as was reasonable with Danny Mertzau and the Pirate players and all as to how they feel about things and, naturally, the obvious questions that we'll ask about their playing since now.
You wouldn't dare ask them now too much about it until they clinch it.
Two balls, two strikes, and they haven't clinched it yet.
And you never get one of these Philadelphia players, any part of them, to admit this is over.
They're still breathing, my friends.
Check, swing, foul.
And as long as you're breathing, you've got a chance.
Two and two.
Punched a foul down the right line.
And Wendel was a pretty good hitter.
Two and two pitch. There's a ball drilled toward right pocket right there, comes on out, the ball sinks on him, but he grabs it about knee-high.
And catch.
The second baseman standing in has been to play now 671 times.
This is number 672.
World record, 698-90 a loop.
Number of times at bat. Physically at bat now is one thing.
A time at bat is another, and we're talking about times at bat.
It's starting to rain a little harder, and the fans are staying right in here though, one ball and no strikes.
You ever stop to think how many times the day Bruce physically went to the plate the year he drew over near the high fly left center, Oliver drifting back, looking up through the raindrops.
Got it.
We go, I was just going to say, every stop to think how many times Beirut must have gone to the plate the year he hit 60 and drew over 150 some odd walks.
Unbelievable.
So we go to the bottom of the third, and it's to one and nothing Pittsburgh.
That's a game for the Pirates, playing shortstop.
Number 10, Frank Tiberius.
Well, the Spiders standing in there, Frank Tiberius.
Montreal leading the Cardinals 4-3 at the end of eight innings.
Tiberius batting a 2-20, Underwood's delivery backs up but not enough.
Cardinals have tied him up 4-4 in the first of a doubleheader at Montreal, and they got Roboski in again.
This is when it's tough for the Cardinals to play baseball, let me tell you, or anybody.
Two balls, no strikes.
But this is when your pride brings you along.
Two and one, Lane continues to drop.
Fly ball left field, back over the head of the Lazinski going back, and he gets the ball at the wall, it's the farthest I've ever seen Tiberius hit a ball.
That's a home run in Wrigley Field, Nelly.
Just a mad hero, buddy.
He took him to the wall on the boards, that's got to be the longest he's ever, the Spiders, every jerk one.
One out.
Right to the wall he took the ball.
Now Keesom standing in.
Keesom waiting, delivered by Underwood for a strike.
Thurman Menson hit his number 12 in the home run department with one on in the first inning in the Yankee Red Sox game.
It's Rick Wise and Weed Reapers in New York, whoever that guy is, two-nothing, first inning Yankees.
And there is five, their magic number for the Red Sox, five.
They got a pitcher I never heard of, he brought him up, went by Heaven's base there.
Fly ball right field by Stenett, drifting over Johnstone, gets the ball, Keesom holding two down, batter Bissang Gain, Pirates lead one-nothing.
We are in the third.
Red Sox got a tough break in that they've lost Jim Rice, one of their two sensational rookies.
He, along with Lynn, they're both knocking over 100 runs, and he suffered a fracture of the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand,
and he's out for the season as well as any playoffs or World Series games, if they get in.
He's out for it.
High. They're in a very good mathematical position, three and a half game lead over Baltimore with seven games to play,
but the Orioles have been playing like gangbusters, I'll tell you that.
And right now, Red Sox are losing high, the Sankey ball too.
Ball two, no strikes, Keesom at first, Sankey away, Sundaywood six, strike.
Sankey bounced out on a comeback to the mound.
Don't think he liked the last call. He's talking a bit as though it might have been just a bit inside.
He drew a line with his bat, telling Billy he thought the ball was in that far.
Ball two, strike one.
Foul back. Ooh, he's mad now.
And right up into the, where Mr. McCoy is, I guess, Mr. John Galbra.
Mr. Galbra's got a baseball, a hard way.
Gee, all he'd have to do is go after one. I think Danny Murtaugh would give it to him.
I'm almost convinced he would.
Ball two, strike two.
Lettup popped up, shallow right, back cash hard, back cash.
Now Johnstone calls him on.
He's down on the third, leaving Keesom at first after the base hit.
At the end of three, Bucks on top, one nothing.
I might get all I could.
Well, I can, because I think Cincinnati would be burning over here knowing those two games are night games.
Ball three here, the ball. Look out if he gets a board.
He does get a board, and he can steal bases.
And so this now takes away to, that's the first walk.
This takes away, for the moment anyhow, any change-up pitches that Keesom might want to throw to Johnstone.
He wouldn't dare throw that flap pitch up there for fear that on that pitch, cash might be going.
So, did I say cash? I should say ball.
Boa has stolen 24 bases.
He's been caught six times. Johnstone the batter.
Now let's watch. Steigl holding Boa.
Not running, pitches a strike.
Well, let's see too. The sliding pit area is a little muggy.
Just a little bit of a slop due to the constant rain.
That doesn't bother some running a ball or anybody else.
Takes the run, takes high, Johnstone ball, and it brought Sange around ready to throw.
Ball one, strike one.
It also cuts down a little bit on the fake of the runner.
The good guy, the threat to steal, will go out like he's going to steal and stop or keep going.
So that you never know what he is doing.
Throw the first and back safely, Boa.
Score one nothing, Pittsburgh, four pinning. Rain delayed 25 minutes.
Still raining now, but we're playing.
But look the first, there goes Boa's fake and there's a ball hit the left.
Up in the air, it's going back, back, back.
Back in time to get it.
He started up just as much and turned left and in a lord straight back and hauled it in.
What a way. Long drive left twice now.
Johnstone's hit deep. Here's Lozenki who ripped single shot lead to left field on a three-foot pitch in the second.
Red Sox to Yankees.
Ballpark, which now of course is Shea Stadium.
Yankees lead there 2-1 now as Red Sox got a run. Rick Wise and that one.
Bottom of the second, Yankees leading 2-1 home run Munson.
All right, Lozenki with one on, one nothing, Pittsburgh, fourth inning.
Very evening, no doubt about that.
He turned into an evening of delirious joy.
Yankees called. If the Bucks can do it, if they can, we'll have Nellie King's postgame show.
By that time, John Fitzpatrick will get down there and we'll go into the locker room and talk for a while.
So don't leave your network station wherever you're listening.
Yankees called.
Yankees won the game in 1970 on the 27th of September against New York when Doc Ellis beat McAndrew in game number 159 and we were then what, 87-72.
Ball out center.
Ball one, strike two to Lozenki. They're going this time. The ball is fouled back and thank goodness it was because he had second base stolen.
Pirates in 1971 clinched at St. Louis on the 22nd of September with the clock being Bob Gibson in game number 156 and that gave us a mark of 94-62 when we clinched.
Lozenki fouls outside the right line and up in the seat.
Another foul and he was running.
The other member last year is wild finish in game number 162, final game of the season, 11 innings.
The Cubs hit Bobby Robertson in the back of the coconut and we went on to take it.
One ball, two strikes to Lozenki.
And Boa on first base. He holds this time. Ball outside, two and two.
In 1970 we clinched 159th game in 71 and 156th game, 144th game in 1972, 162nd game in the last game of the season.
Hard left side gets by Hebbner.
He said a little. But let me tell you, we've got much fun out there.
Here's Allen. That's the second hit and both of them by Lozenki. Both of them by third.
Allen bounced into a force in the second.
We're in a little trouble here. We've got to get a Hoover.
If you get a Hoover on Richie Allen, you've done something. There's a bounce to the short. The bear stumbles, drops the ball, throws it to first and no, doesn't get anybody.
We lose a double play ball.
Let's see how they rule. Double? He had it.
That was well spanked on one hop. If he comes up with it, he's close to center.
I can't be sure whether he tried to get into second by himself and throw the first or just control the ball or throw it too quickly. I don't know.
Somewhere in there, he lost his opportunity to get anybody.
It did appear that with the slow track and the way the ball was hit sharply, if he's up there, he's got all the time in the world to get Lozenki because he's slow.
But you turn it over fast to get out. Even if you don't get him, you've got two out with runners on the corners now. We've got everybody on there.
That error, charged to him, brings up Mike Schmidt, but the bases loaded. Mike stuck out in the second inning. One to nothing, Pittsburgh.
Now they need a double play. They're back for it.
Ball outside. Kieson's slip. That time's coming off the mound.
Here's one of the tough things. Rooker, in a situation like this, having to pick with the bad weather, streamed and pulled the joint muscle.
It's one of the tough things about the only thing that many argue about with division play in this situation here.
This is the last time the Phillies are in town. They're going to try to make the play the game if they can, and either side could lose a player as a result of this situation.
Bouncing foul, the third. Now we have John Candelari just loosening. That's all he's doing is loosening. But Kemp's occult is loosening, and he's in earnest.
Next Thursday night, it's a big one, the Art Grooney Testimonial. It's a big one, and they've got Franco Harris and Rocky Blyer and many others coming in. There's Eminence Archbishop Fulton and Jay Sheen.
Curve of Beauty, strike two. That's at the William & Hemp Hotel. Next Thursday night, benefiting the Catholic Youth Association, Tommy Foster saying things are moving along very, very well.
Still some seats available at $25, and it's a great charity. And here's Eminence Fink, and I'm believing he has worth every penny of that and more.
One and two. Bounce toward third, heaven it up. There it is. The spinner throws high, throws the first. Double play!
I want to tell you one thing. That high throw had Stenitz sitting up there like a flag pigeon for Richie Allen coming in, and Richie was really boiling in there.
But Renny got it out of there just in time and got it over for the double play. Five, four, three, and old brother. And out of it without a score. And at the bottom of the fourth, still leading one to nothing.
Al Oliver standing in now. That was a very, very big double play in the fourth inning here, I'll tell you that. Put a red circle around it.
Ball one down. Bind drive, left center, it's in the gap. We got a better on the rug for Al.
Wicked smash to the left side. Two base hit. And a double for Scoop C. Oliver.
It's in both they wish it along to Ed Gorgas with Warren Pennsylvania and also Jack Patterson. Now here's Willie the Star standing in.
Stajil Watson scored in the second inning. Time called his underwear, cleans off his tweets. That double was the third hit. And boy, it was a wicked smash by Al Oliver who's got some record going on doubles.
Oliver hit his thirty ninth double of the year. Stajil's lines left field, base hit. Here comes Oliver around third. They're waving him home. He'll score.
Charge of the light brigade. That's 121 year old bugle is running at all. Hang on.
You'll hear it from Cincinnati. I'll tell you that. I got a coach. We go over there. I guarantee you'll hear.
I've arranged for that. Well, I got to say this. I have the arrangements made. We got to score enough runs to let you hear it. Just about it.
Now we lead to the nothing on that single by Stajil is eighty nine run bad again. And let me see who's warming up.
Thirty seven forty three. Thirty seven is Schuyler and forty three is Joe Horn. Schuyler right hander, Joe Horn to the left hander. Two balls and no strike.
Which is upstairs. Ball two and strike one. Here's a look and the two one fit. There's a ball hit deep to center right at Maddox.
Going back, going back. He can't hold it. On his way to third. He'll start. And here comes the throw. Not in time.
Buskers are going wild. They have a rule that double this straight away and that Maddox can't hold it. I got to call it a double.
Seventy two runs bad at and Stajil scoring all the way. And here's the Cobra.
And going out is Ray Ripple my top things over.
Oliver double Stajil single just double and the Pirates quickly now lead through to nothing and Ray Ripple my talking here to tell me and do it with nobody out as the bucks driving here they're going to stay with under what I guess is they got a bunch of a busker waivers around here.
I'm beginning to believe the busker power is all important. I'm beginning to believe I know it.
Anytime you get a lot of ladies mixed up in the town you the way they can show you how to do it. I want to tell you.
Ladies I quickly for the big bad buckos to do it all. Bounced out the second high ball on one of the things the busker power has done for the ladies with no doubt about it has tremendously enthusiastically been greeted by the ball players but one important all the other fans all over the nation.
They've heard the enthusiasm of what's going on. The pitch.
It was on the Kings postgame show went on to point out that there's no question in his mind that it's added at least a hundred and hundred and some thousand people to the part just coming out the way the buskers and route like the Dickens for their back.
One ball one strike.
Nobody out to him.
That's not the right side gets by cash for a base hit.
This is coming up.
The ladies down here waving their buskers and comes Danny Ozark.
And this is a move that I know he's going to make. It would bother him tremendously.
It would bother him tremendously to make this move in Philadelphia and I am I heart with a crime and it does.
Danny Ozark's friend and fan for a long time and I want to win. He knows that that's the name of this game but I don't like the way he's been treated.
I cannot abide the way in which they have repeated in his hometown. They have really ripped it.
Well he's coming out there. They're bringing in Ron. I think it's the last time we're over in Philadelphia. I made a horrible mistake.
I had the wrong guy.
I went through and I told him about it. He fell over.
I'm under with Lee and this is Ron Schubert.
So you do a little thinking I'll be right back right after this.
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I'm going to go back to the batter. I'd say everybody laughing at me here. Dr. Just gave me an inoculation. Oh that hurts.
I like to think it had been better if I had got what's going on.
I'm not getting out there against them. I went out. That's right. I just got a shot and not a drink.
I shot with a syringe no ball to strike the pitch.
I got the first foul now under what it went three innings nobody out here in the fourth one two three four five six base hits against Tom center by Tom he walked one.
I don't strike anybody out.
We could hit up the right side comes out when he throws the ball sharply the second and they get the man there and not in time to get hit.
It's a three six play on Parker.
I'm going to get up to that.
I was a first for everything in there folks.
You never thought your answer would leave a game and get an inoculation would you.
What it did.
People here in the box are a little shocked. They never thought that it happened.
They had to look at it. You know you sit up here you see anything.
You're risky around when you come in in my booth.
The best second we go for station identification I'll get in the morning.
A little cold.
Here's a look.
So not the amount of weight and broke right in for a strike.
I believe it while he's out and will take 10 per station identification a pirate baseball network.
He wanted to run inside that come up there with that syringe.
Need to look like six inches long hanging there that it was for me not to be here.
You're allergic to the silver.
One ball two strikes.
That's a reading here.
Or nothing.
You know we're in the fourth inning.
The ball is in the third inning.
That's a very bad hop and hit him but he held on to it to make the play on having.
Richie courses you know doesn't get a very big lead off the base so plays like that are easy to convert at second base.
A little bit faster or a little bigger lead is going to be costly now.
He's singled out the middle but Richie knows it.
He'd be the first to tell you for some unknown reason you just can't get a bigger lead than that Yankees are leading Red Sox to do and the three and a half swing back.
He said look like he wanted to go out that right side.
Couldn't do it.
Munson hit a home run in that game.
The Cardinals are in the 11th inning of the first game for the four at Montreal no balls one strike three runs are in run it first to best like to.
Oh my.
A ball goes all the way to the backstop and coming over the third base.
This is the best that he's done a while like he wants to come home.
It didn't call time and the coach the catcher just stood there at home plate and didn't do anything on the pitch.
He was a wild pitch out comes Ozark.
I don't know what he's going to talk about.
Nobody called time.
The ball was thrown way inside like it was thrown to Keeson and he got the way from him and came all the way to the backstop.
And it didn't go after the ball and up the second went to the bathroom when he saw that those were standing and went over the third.
So it's a.
Two base while pitch I guess.
Then a pitch from the stretch the delivery curveball stuck him out swinging three runs on four hits no errors and one left and at the end for a bucks lead for nothing.
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Well that fourth inning productive one Oliver double Stoggle single him home.
This kid a ball deep to center over the head of Maddox he got a glove on it bounced off the wall couldn't hold the ball double run batted in Parker single right on the driver driving in a run 98 runs batted in Parker 72 runs batted in this 89 runs batted in Stoggle.
Then that concluded that part of the story. So the parks now have four runs and under what is in with three innings for four runs six hits no strikeouts in the walk.
And for the moment is the picture of record Ron Schuller is born for on the year.
Here's the man that's come in there stop it and we go now to the fifth inning where the game hangs in the balance from the standpoint of being a legally played game.
Here will be Maddox and oats and then there's action again in the bullpen for the fellows.
It is Wayne Simpson former part former red.
Ball inside to Maddox and he has pointed a finger at Jason as though he has challenged him.
And Jason just looked at him and there's an ill feeling here.
Apparently Maddox who has been hit and thrown at several times and been hit about three or four different times is being talked to now by Billy Williams.
Maddox was hit by a fork and he was hit three or four different times in the last five or six games. And I know he feels pretty tough.
Now he may feel that the pitch to Jason by Schuller way inside was something that he was being accused of being retaliatory.
And he put a finger out to warn Jason he did not like that as a strike for the outside corner.
I have to say this I'm not saying that Jason threw tight to him or tried to hit him but I don't blame Maddox for being a bit edgy.
I really don't ladies and gentlemen this young man has been hitting the ribs been hitting the thumb.
He's been hit about three or four different times and all in the space of a week and the last one put him out of action for quite a while.
He had to believe they were after him a little bit.
I don't think however that Bruce threw at I really don't. I just thought he pitched him tight in any event.
Gary felt otherwise and that's the way I reported as Johnny Oates stands in now he find the left field.
That's a leading forward and nothing. This would be no time in the world to wake up the Phillies by throwing at it.
It'd be the last reason I think there's no reason in the world for Jason to be coming close to a Philly hitter on purpose.
You want to wake him up. What I mean by waking them up I mean give them any more reason to beat him than they already got.
One ball no strikes. Remember too we got two more games with him.
You get a mad enough they got a couple of flamethrowers that can drill you.
But you're starved about actions. You got to rethink all these things.
And I'm sure Bruce is thinking of all those things.
You don't think that guy Carlton can't find who we're going to look at him for that week.
Now I'm no little dribbler off third by it's going to be a base hit.
He'll score a maddox easily I think. No they're not going to let him run.
Well they get a little bloop down the left line. There's enough of us hit by oats to make you rich.
One of the weakest looking doubles you've ever seen. You didn't mean to hit it.
It just bloops and went in there. So Maddox goes to third.
Oaks goes to second and here come the Phillies now with nobody out and they're going to have a batter.
Tim McCarver is going to bat in place of Ron Schuyler.
Now it's cancer call to get another game. That's the third hit.
We've got Wayne Simpson as I told you loosening the right hander down the line.
We've got ourselves pretty good game going here haven't we.
It's far up a moment. Here's a guy that down through the seasons against eyeball club's been a very very tough pinch batter.
Tim McCarver swing foul back Tim batting 246 one home or six runs batted in.
Candelaria is joining Kent the Colby in the bullpen.
Now Candelaria was up before and I thought that perhaps he was going to be a pitcher getting ready to start.
Now I think he's firing in earnest to come in and be in relief if needed.
No balls in the strike the left hand batting Tim McCarver steps out just as he can go to deliver.
That's one thing that the umpires allow them to do no matter what.
That are stepped out they just call time. You're not supposed to be able to do that very frankly.
Once the pitcher started his motion.
No balls one strike. This is high one and one.
Gary Maddux drew a walk.
Oates hit a punching checkoff swing type of thing.
A weakest looking swing you'd ever see and he got a little looping double down the left line.
That was two times there's McCarver's swing.
So when you see those little things like that we've seen them in our own ball club had that happened.
Good to see a mid and Tommy Thompson out here for the kill.
What they hope will be the finale a ball one strike two count.
Pack a Palmer lunch and come on out here and enjoy the ranch.
Here's the one to bounce down the first base style has him on a system that will not get a run.
Maddux scores holding at second base is out.
What for.
I guess he felt that he wasn't fast enough to get over the third without style stepping on first and firing a strike the third and get it.
And in this situation with a score of four to one and one out.
Not a bad.
Not a bad maneuver by Johnny.
So the room is driven in and a ball punched up toward short.
So that's so that catch oats has to hold a second.
Played tennis tonight thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy six.
Don't forget we play on again tomorrow night and the night after and we go away for three days and come back for a week practice.
It'll be interesting to find out what Danny Murtagh intends to do once we've clinched.
Be it tonight tomorrow whenever for that week of inactivity that is from baseball.
Boa went out on the comeback of the man drew a war.
Pirate's League for one we're in the top half of the fifth inning.
Well reaching for one hit that's weekly up the short to various charges.
They get a run on one hit.
Stand a runner and the four and a half bucks lead for one.
There's a young man on the hill now Wayne Simpson.
He's a.
We used to have him.
He was with Cincinnati.
He's probably been battling hard for his comeback.
And he's on.
Send our best wishes along today.
Bregan said he's got his daughters here watching the game and reading.
I.
Excuse me I was just arranging here with John Fitzpatrick.
I'm going to go ahead and get a little bit of a look at what we're doing here because Johnny if we win this I'm going to hold up here and hopefully I'll have Bruce Keaton on for Nelly King's postgame show and John will be down in the locker room.
Oh there's a pitch from Simpson inside the Senate knocking back out the plate and we're having a little thing going on here.
One ball no strikes to many.
And the umpire's opinion that's when they're going to step in here and say time.
But first we got to win this thing and we haven't won it by any stretch of the imagination to know.
Outside ball free if we are fortunate to beat the Phillies tonight and clinch it.
I will have Nelly King's postgame show immediately following and I'll hopefully be able to interview Bruce Keaton to talk to him.
Then I'll swing the microphone down to the dugout or into our locker room where John Fitzpatrick.
After we do our proper commercial breaks and all we'll then we'll come back here and go right down to the locker room where John Fitzpatrick will be talking and I'll hurry on down and join him and we will then chat with Danny Wirtzow and the players and all on the different things so that we can give you all of that.
And radio it should be down there to help produce it for us and Bill Richard will handle it up here with Shadam attacking San Giann over to the batter.
Simpson delivers we take off with Senate.
Balls hit the third they only have the one play it's first base one out five four five to three on San Giann.
Senate in the second and molested.
Cardinals Ted Simmons hit his 17th home of the year and the 12th inning went on to make it six four cardinals still batting in the 12th inning of game number one with Montreal.
The fight there and here now is after if we're able to win is for second place money and it's not anything that which you'd see.
Oliver bounce the second double score to run.
Simpson's curve is through there for a strike.
Repeat again if you're just tuning in because you could have been in here late.
My partner Nellie King is bedded with a virus of some sort.
It's got him in bed with a high tension a rough throat.
So we're going to have him.
So he can't be with us particularly if we're able to clinch it tonight because I know how much he would enjoy it.
The thing in there now they get well partner because we're going to have to go at those Cincinnati Reds together.
We're going to need all we can do to nail them one ball one strike strike a good change up.
I'm looking for a sheet that tells me.
Good.
You know that I don't have a record.
Trying to find the standings of the national the American League race.
I think they put everything in we can think of.
But that now we've got to thank you.
All right.
One and two to Oliver.
Foul off first bucks have won eighty nine lost sixty six if we win tonight this will be our 90th victory.
Make us ninety sixty six on this the twenty second of September in game number one five six.
We clinched on one hundred and fifty six game back in 1971 when we won 94 swing by Oliver strikeout.
No foul tip not held by us earliest clinching was the twenty first of September in one hundred and forty fourth game of nineteen seventy two when we won 91 and lost fifty three.
Now that was our record at that point.
We tap out in front of the plate.
Oh it's coming up for throws in time down and over the third stand.
Please remember the records that I'm giving you are they what we had in victories and losses at the time of pinching.
Not what we ultimately finished up with in the year.
Here's schedule he's walked and scored a single to drive in his eighty ninth run.
He has scored twice his next home run will be number three sixty nine.
When he gets that he will be in a tie with Ralph kind of the twenty third place all time major league home run needs to to tie Gil Hodge's twenty second major league.
So he's he'll get back to some more before he's hung up his tweets.
Simpson up high ball on Bucks lead for one.
Fifth inning two down Simpson in relief of Hewlett who relieved underwood Simpson low on a sinking pitch ball to two balls no strike.
And the two delivery up high with a slow soft curve ball three.
Real stardew watching ball for dip underneath the knees.
That's the third walk in the game the second to Wilbur.
The batter will be Richie says he popped up the second he hit a screening double to send it off the boards in and out of the glove of Maddox.
And if Maddox can't catch him ain't nobody going to catch him.
If you'll pardon that the use of the English language or the misuse of it perhaps I should say.
There's one left in the outfield the pitch to him by Simpson almost hits this on the left elbow ball one.
It's been tight. That's all he's doing.
Come on now folks he's with a good pitch.
He just pitched him up in tight.
One and out account there is a curve that's in there one ball and one strike.
One and one the look and the pitch.
The curve strike to his car Mr. Bush the power can cook him before the buck goes out with us when we were out in center field.
Occasions turned into quite another graph. One to pitch this curve just missed that was close. Simpson started off the mound. We have a ball to strike to count.
Runners on the corners and the two to pitch to this he stuck him out on a slow curve ball and that is strikeout number two.
It also retires the side no runs and no hits no errors and two left at the end of five Pittsburgh for and Philadelphia one.
Well just bring up today now it's thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy six paid tonight on a very drizzly night.
I know we undoubtedly have a big audience in the tri-state area because this one can mean the National League Eastern Championship for the Pirates if they can win it.
And there's a lot to it. We are hopeful and the radio rich will be able to get this case in so that we can use him on the postgame show and interrogate him a little bit about the Maddox incident that occurred here tonight and other things and more particularly a plus than a minus type of interview.
On top of that hopefully then join John Fitzpatrick in the absence of our partner Nelly King who's ill tonight in the locker room for the celebration.
Johnstone but to do that first three six nine twelve outs have got to be recorded and the fillies got to be stopped.
There is a strike to Johnstone twice tonight he has flied very deep to left field.
No balls one strike and the pitch thinking delivery long away for a ball one one.
We're all set to invade Cincinnati radio rich will be going over there with us.
Now Godman would be all set for our statistics with Eddie Rathbone and company but first we got to earn the right to get there.
One one delivery. Well two balls in a strike.
If we do and now we'll be bringing you all the action direct from Cincinnati. Couple of weeks from now.
Couple of weeks from last Sunday. Two balls in a strike last Saturday.
Ball three three and one. What's the date of the playoffs rich October.
October 4 5 Saturday Sunday there's a walk to Johnstone.
That walk is the third given up by Jason.
Then on the sixth is a travel date seven eight and nine are the three dates here at night for seven at night for the eighth and the afternoon on the ninth if necessary.
And folks I'd be buying my tickets for you right now.
Seven dollars the box you can get them a limit of four over the counter.
None to the mail ticket John and G.C. Murphy and of course through the mail for reserves in general admission.
Keeson takes a flack at one and low inside ball under Los Inquis and again the bullpen starts moving around to Colby particularly as that.
Los Inquis has two hits in the game both in hard singles to left.
Like this call the beginning the hairy one for Pittsburgh and Keeson was the fourth ball walk.
Johnstone line deep left Los Inquis single Allen got on what should have looked like a double play ball turned into an error and then Schmidt had one.
And having her through but through a little high then it made a great play holding the bag and firing over for the out for the double play.
That was a very very beginning.
We look back on that one if we're doing it.
But fourth will be extremely big.
Candelaria again joins to Colby Johnstone not held by Stodgel pitch to the Zinski one one swing one and two.
And I'll tell you one thing Keeson's keeping that ball down on his knees and away from him.
Now another game going in the arc at the end of five Yankees are leading Boston 2 to 1 with a pitcher I've never heard of Rick wise for Boston Yankee pitcher I've never heard of.
I can only spell it and I'm not sure I can pronounce it.
We'd read you you idea why Keeson I think that he had a curveball strike three.
Ball to strike to swing South hip not held.
Oh Zinski still has life ball to strike to I guess I should correct myself if it was a foul ball not held a foul tip I presume connotes the ball caught ball high three and two.
Somebody wrote Nellie and me about that the other day that a foul tip means when it's caught foul ball means it's not tough.
Anyhow the ball in strike count now is three and two and John stones at first and ball was fouled into the net of the myth.
He's in on the three two pitch they're running ball for we're getting into some trouble.
Johnstone at second and was in skid first and here's Richie Allen bounced into a force play and get on in there and fourth inning.
Time call while they wipe this cleats for Stodgel everybody down now we've got three players borrowing a piece of equipment to get rid of the mud in their cleats.
Stodgel and Keeson are the two really.
They're going in with two on and none out Pittsburgh leading four to one and this thing is anything but over with this ballclub.
I will tell you now anything but over.
The pitch to Richard swing and a foul.
We all had visions.
Winning this thing real fast like one nothing in an hour and 20 minutes celebrate a little bit and go home and settle down and watch in Miami.
Oh no not tonight.
Now we've got to watch this.
Nothing in one the counter Richie Allen.
Two men aboard and nobody out.
It's just high almost throw away one ball one strike candle.
Well that's enter Kent the copy the right hander listening time called as we're going to have a little meeting out there.
John Stone drew a walk and was in ski ran the count for he drew a walk and Richie Allen standing in and the white rich he'd been hitting the ball a ton.
Game delayed 25 minutes due to rain 13000 176 looking on the entire official party minus Bing Crosby.
I'm Johnson John Gallup and got an entire family and biting fingernail down now with this man up there.
Here's the one one knocked him off the plate ball to strike one.
We're going to have Don Osborne come out now and talk here about two and strike one.
We have gone to the sixth inning and with two men on they're going to make a change right here with a ball to strike one count.
They're going to make a change and let's see it's going to be Kent the Colby.
So Bruce Keesom has gone five innings he has allowed three hits.
He struck out one batter.
He has walked for and could walk five if Richie Allen gets a walk off Kent to Colby
because if he should walk Richie to Colby will be not charged with that walk.
Kent to Colby coming in as one one and lost to and he has three say.
Out of the six to none.
He's in can win.
There's no way he can lose this game.
Well you might have missed it earlier due to the lateness of the hour now but a great hand for Bruce Keesom.
I still like to have him on the postgame show regardless if he's available Cardinals six Montreal four at the final.
Ted Simmons wanted with his 17th homer in the 12th inning winning pitcher Alan or a Bosque 13 and three to losing pitcher Woody Fremont 8 and 12.
You might have missed it earlier on Nellie's pregame show we had Charlie Feeney on and I just thought I'd let everybody know because I know that there'll be some people calling John
Signer here in Pittsburgh to talk this thing over about what was written in this morning's post is that by Pally my partner Kelly my friend Charlie Feeney which he properly reported that
Red Chains felt that I intimidated the umpire to the degree that they didn't call balls and strikes properly and there was a situation which yesterday there was an argument with the plate umpire Williams by the Cardinals that he
called ball for on a pitch it was a strike as far as they were concerned right down the slot and Redhead said this as he came out that went to the way Bob broadcast the games and intimidated the umpires.
Well you know I went to that effect then somebody told Charlie that I had exchanged words with Red Chains and what they didn't tell him was that they were comfortable nice words there was nothing anything to do about the ballgame at all and I didn't even know that the Redhead had said anything what you read about in the paper because I met him in the
press room after I'd come up off the had come up off the field and my only conversation was that I borrow a set of his golf clubs when we played with each other in St. Louis next Friday.
But if you read it in the paper you think we had a terrible fight we did not do one about you the third up comes heaven with it there's one the Senate first base double play.
And the second was in school.
I rather check that in their third is Johnstone. Let me have a pencil I just made my seven hundred and fifty six mistakes of my career in the last 10 years.
This now gives me second all time National League announcers in the state.
In the veteran class in the veterans class and I'm a veteran but I made an error.
Thank you.
Nelly had an eraser in there and keeps Nelly my partner keeps erasers from my mistakes.
I've always told him my first I work with him I said Nelly I want you to always carry any racer from my mistakes. Third ball to Mike Smith.
He that double play is the second of the game and believe me it is a huge huge huge double play.
Mike Smith stuck out bounced into a big huge double play back in the fourth inning two down now runner third or one Pittsburgh ball high one and one.
Murtaugh in bringing in to call he brings in the guy that he wants to try to get to throw the type of pitch in which they'll hit the double play that's a sinking pitch.
To call me through what appeared to be a good sinking pitch up there and Richie tabs it hit it hard enough to third they go around the horn on him one one.
Beauty strike to that had Smith bailing out the ball broke right in over the inside corner.
He really popped it.
I didn't come back. One ball and two strikes what are you smoking rich that's no wonder you're having to be the worst of what kind of tobacco is that get your new boatload of some.
What is it. Oh my god a ball one strike to count.
I'm not Smith.
One ball to strike.
But look the pitch.
All the way.
Come to think of it rich I got about.
Thirty five pipes. You like them. You put a new bit in order and greater their beauty and well broken in.
I'll bring you some one ball two strikes.
The Colby checks the pitch.
Boy he throw my wicked side armor and Smith went around and tried to stop.
I got number one seventy one goes into the books for the year.
And that's his record.
Smith strikeouts of one hundred and seventy one.
So we go to the bottom of the sixth inning.
That double play was huge.
For the Red Sox fans.
Where the Yankees are leading two to one.
The Yankees have now made two pitching changes.
They switched up this fellow we agreed to Peggin in the sixth inning and now the Martinez in the sixth inning.
So that's actually six going at somebody.
Here's Parker now the Cobra bounce the second and single the right to drive in.
That's leading for one Wayne Simpson the third pitcher.
We've had a little little hard feeling tonight.
We're going to have Bruce Keason hopefully on the air with us after the postgame show.
I cannot conceive of Bruce deliberately throwing at Gary Maddux.
I cannot under any circumstances.
I know that Gary felt so because he warned him by saying something to him.
But you've got to remember too that Gary's been hit three or four times in the last couple of weeks.
And the last one like Torres right thumb on.
So he felt that maybe they were headhunting on him.
But I'm sure that there's no way Bruce would have been thrown at him.
He's in the first place and Bruce wants to hit somebody he can hit you.
You know he just pitched him tight in my opinion.
I really mean that.
Hello.
I found a play to the left but we do want to have Bruce on anyhow.
And then if we are to win the game following Bruce being on with us we'll stay right there.
I'll switch to John Fitzpatrick for interviewing the players in the clubhouse.
And I'll rejoin I'll come down and join John soon as I can bail out from up here.
Two balls and a strike.
Weekly hit up the left side and over goes both stumbles comes up firing and they call him out of first base.
And I want to tell you something.
If they had a camera on that shot that would be something.
Parker is going to be restrained by if they go on.
They say he's out six or three.
Here's happiness. Single left driving in a run bounce out the short.
That's leading for the one Tom Underwood does far the picture of record.
Richie Allen holding the line on having it.
And a base hit in the right center by Richie coming up for this Maddox and Simpson has given up his first.
That'll bring up Frank Tavares.
Frank is over to.
Tavares fly to left bounced into a force. Pittsburgh for Philadelphia one here in the sixth inning.
Wayne Simpson the right hander throws the strike.
One strike.
So look again and the pitch.
When he took a whack at it.
I'll tell you one thing about Frank.
He had a ball in the third inning as far as I've seen him hit one took the left fielder or the Zinski right to the left field boards.
I never saw him hit a ball that far in my life.
So it's no balls and two strikes.
This weekly hit off the right side diving Allen comes up from the knee slows out and heaven can't believe that.
And he's arguing he better stay in there.
He's going to get thrown out of the game.
They're coming out to get him away from Stella.
This is the second time that Hefner has been called on a second and he can't believe it.
Richie Allen died to his right fell down from a meeting position made a wave of a lot of up towards.
And the fans don't like the call by Stella.
Now Richie do me a favor stay in the game.
If you do that don't throw anything to the rest gets robbed of a base that he should be mad to.
Here comes to call me.
It was a whale of a stop by Richie Allen went part of the right diving for the ball then while on his knees lobbed the ball up over the head of running.
Hefner and the ball got there to both second but haven't thought he was there on time and they ruled him out to call the ball outside.
Now Hefner is upset too because I think he thought he was safe back in the second inning when he ran into second base and knocking in a run there.
So he's over to tonight.
He's pretty well upset about it.
As far as decisions a second or concern a strike one ball and one strike.
They're playing to call these shallow straight away in the outfield.
Here's the pitch Simpson swinging the foul back.
Somebody here in the booth wants me to leave the microphone from back and autograph a baseball.
He forgets that if I do you aren't going to hear me right.
Amazing.
I'm busy right now. One ball two strikes outside to to.
Ball to strike to the.
Can't call it.
Like trees call to him.
Boy he's an answer some kind of unloading on that for gentlemen in blue out there.
But he knew that was going to be happening to him somewhere in his lifetime when he decided he wanted to be an umpire.
I tell you the honest truth.
I don't think I'd have the thick enough skin to do it. I got to give them a lot of credit those guys.
Not only honest that's the first thing about them.
And I mean they're honest.
Don't you ever question that.
They are got to be thick skin to take that weapon from the fans and sometimes from some announcers.
I know some announcers that I know are just terrible.
I had a mirror I'd be looking right at one idea at the end of six and then pitch words on top for one.
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Now your host is your crowd pleasing Ford dealer who has teamed up with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the seventy five drive.
And to call the ghost to Gary Maddux here now.
And the pitch from Kent over the outside corner for a strike the Red Sox have picked up three runs to lead for two into the bottom of the sixth at New York in the second period open leading the Miami Dolphins 14 to nothing in that ballgame.
All one and strike one is the count here on the batter Gary Maddux.
He is in with the run scored he walked in that fifth inning inning we told you that he pointed at Bruce Keeson curveball foul away.
And again I say I'm convinced that Bruce Keeson did not throw it Maddux but I'm not so darn sure after that when Keeson came up.
There was a little bit of hello and how do you do.
I think being close to him like him out happy birthday to gave Dave German who is in our press box.
Down goes Maddux that strikeout comes number three second for the Colby.
All right there's a pitch to the batter Oates.
Thank you Paul Schooley.
I'm trying to get in touch with Bruce Keeson down the locker room.
See whether or not he can go on our postgame show.
One ball one strike Oates the batter.
There's a weaker up the right side it gets by the Colby and stabbing for one hand it's Senna he can't get it and Oates has two for three.
If you took both of his hits and put them together it wouldn't blacken my granddaughter Kimmy's eyes.
She's only 10.
What I'm trying to tell you is that the double he got my fifth inning and the single he just got here is enough to make you weep.
May I quickly add that I think for the Pirates this year I must have seen nine hundred like it.
Maybe not nine hundred but though I've seen and that's your card gave me one twenty two to nothing you.
I saw enough to make you go make anybody want to cry.
Tommy Hutton is going to bat here for Wayne Simpson.
We had some drillers in that twenty two to nothing game but we had some balls with eyes on it some humpback runners some parachutes some quails some fluttering ruptures some really poor kind of thing.
And that's the kind of hits tonight Mr. Oates has put up there but I want to tell you something you take anything you can get.
I don't blame you. I don't blame the Phil's for battling it out either because this got to be a frustrating thing for this fine ball.
They know when our ball club was struggling winning only two out of 14 games at that time they were at home and could have made their move and didn't make it.
Hutton batting at two fifty through two three homers and hits us like he owns it.
Strike his call and I mean hits us like he owns it. Bruce Keason is the pitcher record has gone five innings allowed just one run three hits struck out one and walked for.
Now Kent DeColby with three saves trying to get this one oh one outside one more.
We just heard from Bruce Keason and he is suffering with an upset tummy and feels too well so we won't bother him on the first game show tonight.
We'll get with Dr. Bruce at another time.
Ball one strike one outside ball to.
Ball to strike one here. Look over the first and notes is not being held to call the missers outside three and one. It's only a four one ballgame now we can't horse around.
Stagel come in general bend is a little something. This guy's took the home run the double and the single off us over there in Philadelphia even though we were able to stop it right on him ball three and strike one.
He's walking. That's the fifth walk. I want to say something we're giving him a little too many walks here with only three hits but that's five walks and you keep bringing up this thunder and lightning of cash.
Boa Johnstone was in skin out and you're going to get knocked right on your end and we pull off to double play so far. Five four three five four three both times and they were with two wicked swinging batters up there and Smith and was and Richie Allen.
Now let's see who's warming up. We've got a lefty looks like it was there the pitch low ball on.
Lefty and a woman about that for them right now is Tom Hilder. One ball no strikes we're warming day just two men on one out fly ball in the gap in the right center and it's going to get through and going to go all the way and it's going to knock in at least two runs.
I'll tell you now and any doubt about it. We are not even going to come close to cutting it off. They were gone with a ball slammed into the gap and they're right back into the ball game on an infield single and that walk.
Dave cash drives at home and does he drive at home. 54 runs batted in for him and that had to be sweet for David.
Here's Boa the only one out.
Who would help you. It doesn't want to have any club out celebrations on the radio at their expense. Now Boa 0 for 2.
Bunches and heaven are running up fast bare hands throws him out. Great play. He was running for a base hit.
You've got to be out no sacrifice. I think he was a very fine ruling by Bob Smizic.
Cash is at third base boys out five to three. No sacrifice. He was trying for a base hit. Here's Johnstone lined the left field twice and walk.
Four three Pittsburgh leading now by one run with one out. Got a dribbling base hit.
Hutton drew a walk and Hutton can fly on and say something and when cash hit the ball into the gap in the right center that got by Oliver had no play on the ball.
Hutton was running right up both his back.
Coming right around the score like it was nothing to it. Now two down to Johnstone pitch right. He was going to bump.
Don't ask me why I don't have any idea why he looked like he was going to bump.
Where she had a we're going to see Tom Hilgendorf when we get out of this pickle and we're in a pickle. Let me tell you for three to score.
Pittsburgh with a four. Did he swing. They're going to feel it. They're going to say no he did not.
One ball one strike to the left hand batting Jade Johnstone.
Bouncer the first stagel up beautifully on a great play. Got him at first base on a system. Boy what a play by Willie Stagel.
Two runs on two hits no errors one left at the end of six and a half four three Pittsburgh.
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Right. Well Tom Hildorf is on and he's a left hander and we're ahead by one run going into the bottom of the seventh it's four to three and we'll pass 10 seconds for station identification on the pirate baseball network.
All the good sports are on.
Tom Hildorf is in now to do the hurling.
I told you one thing and it's only Hildorf is one seven and lost three. There's nothing remarkable about what I said except one thing I said to keep giving Philadelphia walks you're going to get hurt and the five walks you go with the five hits gives them the 10 minute on base.
And every time you walk a guy you take away every chance in the world to get him out. So it's not easy.
Now they got an outfield change also they put Hutt in the game and right field in place of John Stone. He remains in the game and thus John Stone's spot will be taken care of.
Hildorf is going to bat third they're going to leave him right in there so they can bat for him to lead off and get Senate fouls back.
In other words the pitcher Hildorf is batting third. This is one time they want him out of there after this inning to just go with a lead off man warming up another left handed.
And you have a number for that guy.
Like to. Well I guess you do it's Randy Lurch. We found it Randy Lurch not Barry but Randy Lurch the left hander warming up.
By leading Hutton in the ballgame and playing out in right field they get a chance to bat him in the eighth hopefully the ninth Senate awaiting high for a ball one and two.
Underwood. Schuyler Simpson and now Hildorf. Hildorf is seven and three on the year one two pitch swing foul and down goes Senate it went right off his foot.
Ball one and strike two.
Here's the one two pitch hard wrap the third backhand beautifully by Mike Smith throws across and he throws down and he tags him for the out.
Senate if he slides his safe but he has no way of knowing that that play is going to bring pull out and off any base with a real fielding play by Mike Smith backhanding that ball was a hard smash he grabbed it the half handed.
And let me tell you something that was a big play here saying you know for three went out and I come back to the man flying out the right field and bounced out the third.
It's four three Pittsburgh here in the seventh inning one out and then on San Gian and Hildorf bouncer for the whole for the left side backhanded by bar leaps up throws doesn't get him.
They said San Gian.
Going deep into the hole backhanded leaps in the air fired did not get his man they said and here is our Oliver hit number eight for the Buccos and in field single Oliver doubled in the gap in left center in the fourth inning scored a run.
He's one for three. The beginning for Pittsburgh was the fourth and the single by Parker driving insist the run by which the parts leaders the one that's holding up now and the Buccos are flying everywhere trying to get a rally riding to get the Buccos up where they can do a little more.
Big gap off the right side saying game being held by Alan cash is over to his right.
Gap in the outfield is in the right center slot. He'll can go at the left hander working pitch her swing Oliver strike one.
Mr. The mile that time breaking curve.
No balls one strike.
But look now the pitch this curve swing and a foul strike two.
Jürgen Dahl on the other two dollars weekly off the left side and again.
No balls two strikes.
Red Sox leading for two over the Yankees and a seven.
Third ball popped up shallow right up over the man who's going to get it Alan comes up and grabs it.
Richie Allen to it'll bring up start you'll be what sort of run he's single to drive in the run and later score run in that fourth inning the inning which the past but three or plus and now lead for the three.
Texas and Kansas City plan where Texas leads one nothing in the five and a half. Minnesota is at Oakland.
It may be that they'll win the national the American League West before they even play the game.
The Kansas City losing if they lose it it's all over.
So tonight just a question of perhaps can the parts get into clenching the same time Oakland clinches.
You'll see straight away the schedule deep Hildegandorf misses outside low ball on.
Now they got Jean Garber up the right handed knuckleballer.
Joe Horn up also start your guys a base hit in the right center same game around second will go to third and the Pirates have runners on the corner.
The battle will be rich is this.
Richie says popped up the second hit a screecher out over second in the deep center in the fourth inning and Maddox running back got a glove on it could not hold it.
Well for the double driving in Stodgel and then this was scored from second base when Parker real door one right in the right field and his 98 run batted in and that run.
That was the run by which the Pirates lead here with two out Stodgel was single tonight sending Sandy in the third time is called and Ray Rimpelmeyer is coming out and just as going back to the dugout.
We may see knuckleballing Jean Garber be called on here.
Let's wait and see.
Rimpelmeyer however is the man that normally does not take a map.
He's looking into the dugout.
Billy Williams says.
What do you want to do.
They say they want to change and they're coming with Garber.
Who is their knuckleball pitcher.
Jean Garber former Pirates.
Garber coming on in the seventh inning with two down.
Gilgundov has pitched two thirds of an inning has allowed two hits.
No strikeouts and no walks is responsible for the two men aboard.
The pitch of record is still Tom Underwood.
But the Phillies are anything but out of this one.
And coming in now to do a lot of pitching Garber he's won nine and lost twelve.
Let me tell you something else about him.
He's been in sixty nine ballgames so this is now game seventy for him.
He has fourteen saves.
So he's done a job for him.
Underwood left after three innings for four runs.
Schuyler one inning no runs.
Simpson two innings no runs.
Gilgundov two thirds of an inning.
There's a first and third his but no charges yet.
And Garber now will go to this.
One of the remarkable things about it when you get a knuckleball if you hit it right it's gone a country mile.
And Pirate fans would hope that this could be the case here.
This is a game that the Bucks need one out of sight to see if they can't get themselves the victory.
Thank you and it would gone in the dugout will become a bag day.
Just he continues to loosen for Pittsburgh.
Go Horner for them and they put that other left handed up Randy Lurch again.
I refuse to say the one is very obvious thing that confronts the Philadelphia Phillies.
The runners at first and third and two down.
What I'm trying to say is they'll use anybody in the house they got on their roster for this one and the one tomorrow or any other game.
Until the sun is set in the west.
But until it sets.
And there's a spot from doing that yet.
We're only in the seventh inning of a game delayed 25 minutes.
13,176 here and nobody leaving.
And in.
At third base he beat out an infield single the short stardom wrapped up drive in the right center.
And then going to third and with two downs this with a double and room batted in weights swings a guy they hit.
And he starts to run the Hylgen dog.
Outcomes Ozark.
The left hander is going to look at Joe Horner just as sure as my name is Robert Prince.
Well I'm what I'm trying to say is I'm running out of things to talk about.
I don't know what else is Joe Horner.
I call time and go to the little boy's room and I'll be back where you listen to the organ music because I'm here about myself and I'm holding on to everything.
All right we got Joe Horner coming in now.
Richard just gave me an idea.
What I can talk about.
I'll tell you what Nelly and I can talk about I know the diver leaves now he went no innings one yet.
No strikeouts no walks and he's responsible for this.
He's a first base star to the courses of second is the responsibility of Hylgen door.
And now Horner the left hander is on with two down.
Joe Horner here in the last of the seventh with two out and Horner.
Bill tells me that some fan called in on the let's talk sports show to John Signer of the left on Johnny's talk show and wanted to know how I can call strikes from where I sit.
And John said well I was up behind the plate and pretty far up he wanted to know maybe himself now I could call strike.
And I said so I could hey we got a real router down.
John.
Boy he's got him going crazy.
Going wild.
Got the babushka.
Tiger fall.
Going down.
Well I want to tell you how I can call strikes.
Ladies and gentlemen in the first place I'm not blind and I am my eyes are trained after 30 years of baseball like every major league baseball announcer.
I can see whether the ball is over the plate and I can see whether or not it's high or low with relation to the ball.
Here come the Buster's and Tiger fall is waving at the Buster's and everybody's going wild.
All over the world.
Okay.
Now here's the Cobra standing.
This place is a busy as a man that again is the new ladies believe you are the ones that did it all with your babushka power the enthusiasm you've generated is unbelievable.
All right.
That's the part that they hit the right.
Well.
They're going wild.
Well Parker face it gives him 98 runs driven in on the year.
Charge the run to Hylken dog.
What does the second base a third base.
Now on the part of the plate.
Parker went into second.
Here's a happy or two for three.
Warner delivers ball outside to know Richie's.
Is that third chargeable the Garber.
Parker's a second chargeable the Warner.
Two no strikes.
To open up inside ball three.
Red Sox are running at the Yankees now.
Four five to two at the end of seven and a half innings three balls no strikes to heaven.
Order into the wind up in the field fair.
He gave them a green light he found it back ball three and strike one to get Shader to crank me up a little bit so I can thank you.
I can rest my hammer a little.
Got that much more left hanging there though we got to drive ball three and strike one.
Let me hear that Google in the moment one more time.
Remember the charge another club on three one pitch up inside knocking down ball for.
Now the bases are loaded with a spider.
That's the fourth one.
Here's the best flag left bounce into two fourth place.
And the 13000 people here ladies and gentlemen are making more noise than I've heard and I don't know how long.
So John Fitzpatrick has come up with an idea if we win this and he'll stay here and do the postgame show with Joe Russo of the Baltimore swing foul back and give me a chance then to go on down into the locker room and get ready for the dead use it'll follow down there.
I asked Jim Russo of Baltimore to be your guest Johnny on the thing.
No balls in the strike.
Thank you. That'll give me a chance to get down and I know I'm going to get so but it'll be worth it.
Here comes the on one outside ball one strike one.
If we can win it.
You'll hear Johnny Fitzpatrick and handling everything up here with the Jim Russo one of the great scouts in all of baseball Baltimore.
This team is not out of it yet. One one swing.
But I will say one thing.
It's hurting now because the Red Sox are running at him to open is not yet started but Texas is beating Kansas City at the end of seven and he's won an epic Texas Wednesday.
It's all over.
Oakland will win and we can win here as a buck goes go at it. Let's go back. Listen to him.
One ball two strikes bases loaded a couple of runs in the pitch and a drive in the shallow side and that comes up.
He's got it.
That was the fly ball in the shallow center field but the Pirates get two very, very big runs on one two three four base it's no errors and three left.
Listen to the roar of the crowd.
Reading their pirate.
A very big one as we have gone through seven innings the Pirates lead now six to three.
Nelly King nothing really serious with Nelly but he's got the.
Gun bug at the wrong time for the flu for him and fever and it's best for him to remain home in their life and get well. And so the Aguazin skinned to cover he works a strike time.
That.
Here's the one ball one strike.
There's a base hit up the middle.
Dick Allen standing in over three.
But out on the front end of a double play and out on the back end of a double play.
Both of them were involved in the five four three executions to call me work to him.
He tried to hammer it out of here and he does it six to five and a.
What a fearful looking swing.
Dave Dusty is now up to Pittsburgh.
This game is not over folks.
Lusinski with his third hit he's battling it every way you can go at you.
Dave Cash with a big blasting double in the seventh inning pulling the Phillies to within one the Pirates striking back getting a lucky infield hit and they did.
Swing strike two.
And then after that with two out Stajel wrapping this wrapping and proctor going at it and they came up with two very big runs with two out the ability to score a couple of runs with two men out was a very big factor.
Nothing in to remind you again in the event we're able to win this game John Fitzpatrick will be on for a few moments with Jim Russo is a very excellent scout of the Baltimore Orioles.
Here's the look.
The O2.
Going down.
Battling up Mike Smith he stuck out Baskin and around the horn double play and struck out he has 38 home runs.
There's a bunch by Mike Smith that bounced all the way straight back.
I wish he'd run about two more like it.
Nothing in one account.
Mike Smith was insured first loose hold on him by Willis Dodd.
Here's the look down and the own one.
That's when I'm going to call the fire the baby by him.
Ladies and gentlemen you might some of you wonder why we wouldn't be clicking say at the call the piece and then what I do for a postgame show.
There's a reason for that.
You're going to get to hear all of them in our locker room if we win.
And you'll get an analysis of what we are faced with if we win by one of the game super sluice and Jim Russo the Baltimore club.
So we give it to both the best of both worlds.
Stay with us.
Why ball looking down the left line and it's going to be a foul ball in the corner and just barely found Mike Smith missed the double by a Nats out.
The score is 63 and let me tell you the two runs the Buccos came back to score in the seventh inning.
Mighty big runs.
Bruce Keeson the pitcher of record if he can hang it in here with the call the take is pumping them.
Now it's headed out.
There's a pitch low.
However he did give up two runs in the seventh inning.
Remember he stuck out about it and Oates got an infield single he walked Hutton and then cashed him up for a double.
Now the Bucs have come right back to give him that two run margin again.
But Mike Schmidt is up there a ball and two strikes was in skid first base one away and here's the one to pitch foul kept fouled at the feet of the plate umpire a ball and two strikes.
Rain continues to drop very slightly just sort of a drizzle.
I've often wondered why there's a people question why you can't call a ball or a ball a strike to the ball from being up 300 feet away you're right back at home plate.
You can tell me I can't see a ball come over the plate.
I can tell whether it's high with relation to pitches you can't tell is too much as a sinker.
You can tell a breaking ball or change up or a fastball slide at one to pitch there is a breaking ball and just missed outside to to.
You ever wonder how a cocktail waitress or a waiter can come up to a table with 15 people and take a drink order and food order and walk back and turn around come back and lay it all right down in front of the way you ordered it.
They're training that's why fly ball shallow right standard back is a tough place then and there you got it close to first base.
No Los Angeles is just back then it made a fine play and shallow right turn and with the strike the star but Los Angeles he got back.
Maddox ran of the short walk and scored struck out.
That's leading six to three. We are in the top half of the eighth inning Maddox a right hand batter to call the checks his runner pitches fly ball out in the right center running hard Oliver slice it on and he got it.
The bottom of the eighth six to three Pittsburgh see John Hallman Forest Hills Motor Company and Forest Hills at George Jacob George Ford and House Dale and Maynard Dilley Marlinton Motor Sales in Marlinton your baseball host has been your crowd pleasing Ford dealer who has teamed up with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the seventy five drive.
All right now they got a new pitcher in John Montague.
The ball is trying to drink it up one two three four five six seven man up is John Montague that is on the hill.
Mind again now the best way to get your tickets for the playoffs is come down here go to Ticketron or over at the G.C. Murphy's.
Really it is the best way you can get all you want of every seat but the box seats in person you only get four of the box you get plenty of reserves the general missions and the youth ticket and I would suggest that you do exactly that now because it's going to be quite a series.
Game three four and if necessary number five two of them at night the other one the afternoon first two at night.
Gabor didn't appear in any he gave up one yet is all but no runs and Joe Horner gave up in one third of an inning no runs one hit no strikeouts and one walk and now Montague a right hander goes to Kobe.
Now it's leading six to three Montague as one and lost one.
We're in the last half of the eighth inning.
He is the seventh man up.
We have a one ball one strike count that's the call the who stuck out back in the sixth.
He's trying to save this game for the Buccos and for Keeson.
He did give up a couple of runs with the first game right back to get him a fair Yankees get back with a run and at the end of eight innings of play Boston leading their five to three where their magic number is five.
If they win it will be four because Baltimore is idle Kansas City is losing to Texas one nothing if Kansas City loses it's all over.
Oldham has clinched the American League Western before they even start to play and they got 20 more minutes yet before they play their game inside ball three.
If we can clinch here.
It will be our fifth National League Eastern title in six years to call it goes down swinging.
And the only other one that we missed on was when we were knocked out of the box the day after the season ended when San Diego came back in Zappa.
The earliest we ever clenched a title was on the 21st of September.
Well this is the 22nd and this is game number one five six.
We clinched with game number one forty four back in seventy two.
But we didn't play as many double headers and all that's one of the reasons why.
One ball no strikes.
He was done it.
So we got everything lined up for you now.
And how it's going to happen and you.
We hope you'll stay aboard and listen to it.
Thank you Johnny Fitzpatrick and one of the things that he and Jim Rousseau the Baltimore club are going to talk about is that a lot of the boo boos that have happened as a result of scouting misplaced in baseball foul
that like a famous woman occurred with Dick Grote and Bill Burdon as a result of a scouting report by Mayo Smith.
And those are the other things Jim of course has got in the Cincinnati club.
You tell us what our problems are there.
The center over three bouncing down a second bobble by the cash keeps it in front of him and throws for the out to a Pittsburgh leading six three and the eight two down the same game.
All right.
And the own to and a strike from the outside corner.
And the first time from Montague seventh pitcher of the night underwood way back went three innings for four runs and is the pitcher record.
This one almost picked up thingy ball to strike one that was a roaring fastball just took off up inside and the baby and he's now Boston leading Yankees five three the magic number if they win will be for Baltimore's
title.
Texas is winning one nothing if over Kansas City if they went over them doesn't need to worry about it and they don't worry anyhow Montague misses because Oakland was playing later on with Minnesota they haven't even gotten in the way we're in the bottom of the
Kansas City still trading nothing to one ball three and two to sing.
Well I guess you know that if we win the National League East we will broadcast the championship series starting in Cincinnati.
Two weeks from yesterday.
There's ball for
the first time in a while.
Well I just made an announcement that keeps me from going into clubhouse.
I gotta have an identification card and I don't have my baseball pass with me.
I can understand that admission to the clubhouse will be by card only baseball writers card
only baseball writers card.
I don't have mine with me and I hope that maybe they'll let the old gunner get in.
I'll bring a microphone and it'd be funny if they kept me out.
They'd be entitled to Mr.
Oliver's up there.
He has a double and fours back.
Well I got a run in the second inning when Stodger walked and two hours later Hevner got a base hit to drive him home.
Then we added three more in the fourth Oliver doubles single style doubles this single Parker and has made it four runs for us the ball all the way to the backstop.
They got a run in the fifth inning when Maddox walk oats got a blue single blue double and the cover bounced out the first base scoring Maddox.
Then they came with two more in the seventh how bad will one out of got an infield single.
How can you walk.
They cashed out a shot into the gap in the right center for two runs and that made it four three Philadelphia trading by one.
But the patch came right back in the seventh inning Hildendorf pitching one out saying he ain't got a lucky infield.
Oliver drives the left he's got a base hit saying he and going to second base will hold and with one out as I say in the seventh inning and got a lucky hit to the infield.
Then the two out Stodger single the dot in gene.
He hit the first pitch for a single to drive in saying again they brought in Hornets.
He had a single out the pocket hit a single out him to drive in start those two runs were very bad.
Now here's Willie the stars.
There's two out.
We have runners at first and second.
Start your walk and scored single to drive in running scored walk and single and scored.
The pitch swing foul what's that no play.
Here's a foul coming up into the booth.
Just about killed Nelly Kings by the organ player.
Read names.
We almost hit him right on the head and bounce right in behind him.
This presented as a son got it.
No balls two strikes.
That's broken that ball down the right field line.
One run.
All of us going to be held as Stodger breaks his back.
That's a blue double on the right field line.
The bell went down the right field line part way the bat handle stated home plate.
Hey Don is going out to get the battle about in short right field the ball blue beyond that in the right field down the line and the Buccos have really got the ball a cloud of charge going.
Oh.
Oh runs driven in now for Richie's.
And the batter will be pocket by Busker powers on the board by Buskers flying everywhere.
Time is called.
They're going to take this guy out and put in the ground dealing at a run point.
Big hand Richie's.
And the Cobra stands in with 99 runs driven in.
Would he like to finish this year with 100 reviews and more and that he'll do.
He lot a runs for Richie says the Pirates lead nine to three as they bang through for three runs and again to around here in the eighth.
Line to foul the left by the Cobra he has two hits both singles in the fourth and again the seventh and two runs driven in.
This now has seventy five rebbe's start your 90.
Marker 99.
They are going wild.
Cobra strikes again is on the board.
And the Cobra is rolling to Lado.
Now he has 101 runs driven in 25 homers.
Pirates lead 11 to three.
They are just throwing the National League here.
They score five.
Kevner two for three the batter ball two and no strikes to him and Montague being ripped in here swings any fouls to the left and out of play.
He's got some bit of power as Parker drove it deep over the right field stanchion.
For his 25th Homer and his fourth run driven in on the night gives him 101 runs batted in for the season the first to get up into the hundred run battered in my.
Ball shadow left running hard Schmidt coming on Lizinski and Schmidt makes a great over the shoulder catch deep down the line and foul territory to retire the side.
Listen to the roar of the pot take the field.
Well they deserve every bit of it.
The Pirates five runs four hits no one left.
We go to the top of the ninth and the Pirates three outs away from the National League Eastern Championship.
Let's go 11 to three.
Well ladies and gentlemen this is another big one for the Buccos.
They are three outs away from saying to you what they've been saying for the last five years.
They are one of the greatest teams in the national league.
Thank you so much to call me those who's two for three.
The Pirates won the National League East in 1970 71 72 74 were eliminated in 73.
The day after the season was over and will win the National League Eastern title here tonight.
The absolute I'm for gettable would be unforgettable for me and my marriage.
Ninth inning fulfills to do anything without the score nine runs and if they do I'll be long gone and you'll have to hear about it in the Mars.
Bogut show because I wouldn't stay around by myself the face of nine run and assault by the Phillies.
I quit strike on a foul back one and two.
I'll tell you one thing.
Don't ever under look at the Phillies over look at Philadelphia Phillies.
Ball to strike to and the pitch bounce off the left side up comes to the seat.
Those one.
Don't ever overlook the fact that the Philadelphia Phillies did not have Steve Carlton at his best for a long time with a bad arm.
Don't ever look.
That's Gary Maddux wasn't hurt for a long time.
Don't overlook that.
Remember they didn't have Richie Allen the full year and they have a team that is just that close.
And there's a bunch of the first hit spout the last moment.
This is happening who walked and scored in the seventh inning.
And then in the game Philadelphia has shown that they are a ballclub that just will be back and that you have to the mail next year.
Boston leading now into the bottom of the ninth at New York six to three.
Their number goes to four if they beat the Yankees.
Baltimore is idle.
Here's the one outside.
Texas is playing Kansas City and in that ballgame into the bottom of the eighth inning Texas leads one to nothing.
If Texas wins the game it's all over.
Oakland will win the American League West without even starting to play.
There's a ball popped up off the first base side foul.
I think it would get up in the seats.
It does.
Bane goes from Minnesota.
Holtzman starting for Oakland.
They're about 10 minutes away from starting.
And it's merely academic if Texas wins it.
It's academic anyhow.
Pirate here leading 11 to 3 1 out as Hutton is a tough batter standing in a one ball two strike pitch from Toccovi bounced off the left side.
Tavarez comes up.
Now it's up to Dave Cash to keep it alive for the fading Phillies.
Dave bounced the second.
Fly to center.
Down to the short.
Hit a very big double in the seventh inning when it drove the Pirates right up against the wall.
Knocked in two runs to make it four three.
Pittsburgh by one run at that point.
The Pirates however came roaring right back with two runs in the seventh and five in the eighth and they won it.
He at that point put him up there 11 to 3.
Pitch to cash.
Spike is gone.
And the fans now on the edge of the seats are rolling and going wild.
No balls one strike.
The call they're reading the sign from Manny San Gian the bucks after their fifth title in six years the pitch.
Check swing foul right side strike two and a scramble for that souvenir of a baseball or the ballgame.
It'll wrap it up for the Buccos at nineteen seventy five two weeks of looking around and then the head on collision and the shootout of all time.
Cincinnati and the Pittsburgh Pirates games one and two there.
Game three four and five if necessary here. You better be getting your tickets.
No balls two strikes to cash.
Two down on ninth inning Pittsburgh eleven Philadelphia three.
The pitch bouncing down to have no backs up.
That's the ball he throws the back side of the title.
No start your drops the ball.
They live yet and I call it prematurely.
The throw was low and heaven is drawing an error.
And that'll bring up Larry Bauer.
He went out on a comeback into the mountain.
He walked he bounced a short and he bounced the third.
So you see I started to tell you the Bucs are the champions of the National League East and Bingo they're not there yet.
That's the first time I've seen a throw by Richie go low.
He normally never makes an error on the throw and I think maybe just by winning the game.
Swing and a miss in his mind it's all over but I'm sure that it is.
No balls one strike.
That's a ball punched out into shallow left coming up for it as Robinson he can't get it.
It drops in and stepping on the second base is cash.
So they got two in a board.
Bauer gets a single Robinson of course playing out in left field.
And now we have who coming up.
It looks to me like it's Mike Rogozinski it is.
Left hand batting Mike Rogozinski.
Now ball.
No balls one strike two men aboard.
And the pitch inside for a ball Pittsburgh leading 11 to 3 the Phillies here as a result of an error have life yet.
One ball one strike.
Rock hanging there.
One and one the pitch strike called.
Now we got a one ball two strike now.
Here we go and the one to pitch fly ball deep right for your back those pocket.
We are the champions of the National League.
That is the situation.
We have won it.
That one the National League championship.
And so we have come up with it.
At the right time.
And we'll tell you the Buccos win it 11 to 3.
All right ladies and gentlemen.
The Buccos have won the ball game and have won the National League Eastern Championship.
John Fitzpatrick will be along soon to talk with Jim Russo one of the great scouts in all of baseball to talk about the problems now confronting Pittsburgh.
Those problems are meeting the Cincinnati Reds because that is not an easy task.
They have earned that much of the right and we'll tell you about this one quickly.
Underwood Schuyler Simpson Hylgenberg Hildegandorf Garber Horner and Montague.
The winner will be for us case in the to call.
We will get to say it and under what will be the loser.
He's 14 and 13.
Parkers Homer and yet one on twenty five hundred and one runs red and in.
So the Pirates have won this ball game by the score of 11 to 3.
All right back at the River Stadium here where the Pirates have won the Eastern Division championship once more by beating the Philadelphia Phillies 11 to 3.
And they go into the playoffs against the Cincinnati Reds our guest tonight Jim Russo Super Scout for the Baltimore Orioles.
Nice to have you with us Jim.
What are your thoughts about the game tonight.
Well John it was a very impressive performance by the Pirates.
Nothing unusual however we know they can hit the ball.
I was particularly impressed by two things tonight.
And incidentally congratulations it was a fine effort and I wish we were in the same boat.
But two things that impressed me tonight was the way your left hand hitters touched up a very good left hand pitcher and Tom Underwood.
And in view of the fact that Cincinnati is putting a lot of hopes in Don Gullett I would have to say that it was very impressive tonight the way your left hand hitters were handling a pretty darn good left hand pitcher and Tom Underwood.
And secondly I thought you tell me came in and did a marvelous job and that certainly has to speak well of the Pirate bullpen for the coming playoffs.
The college has done a good job for us all year long or ever since he's been called up from Charleston West Virginia ballclub Jim Jim speaking about the Orioles how about their chances of catching the Red Sox.
I would have to say that they're to be very honest with you John I think they're rather remote.
We were three and a half games out and of course we didn't play tonight. We had an off night and Boston is in the process of defeating the New York Yankees so they'll gain a half a game which might make it around four games as we go into the final seven games of the season.
So it's a tough task. Our backs are up against the wall but we're playing very good baseball.
Boston just won't give up.