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The temperature reached 100 degrees in Philadelphia today, the hottest day of the summer.
For the starting lineup and batting order for tonight's fall game, let's touch bases with Ralph Chang.
All right, Bob Murphy for the New York Mets. Tommy Agee will lead off.
Batting second to shortstop Bud Heraldton.
Batting third playing left field clean.
Batting fourth at first base, Glenn Dimmons.
Batting fifth playing right field, Ron Ceboda.
Batting sixth and playing third base, Joe Poy.
Batting seventh and catching, Jerry Grote.
Batting eighth and playing second base, Al White.
And the pitcher,
ninth.
Larry Borough will be the leadoff batter. He'll be playing shortstop.
Batting second to second baseman, Tony Taylor.
Batting third playing third, Don Money.
Batting fourth at first base, Darren Johnson.
Batting fifth playing left field, Joe Liss.
Batting sixth and catching, Tim McCarver.
Batting right field, Byron Brown.
Batting eighth, the center fielder, Larry Heichel.
And the pitcher, Chris Short.
Batting ninth.
The Mets have played the Phillies 17 ballgames.
This is the last game of the year between these two clubs.
The Mets have won 12 and lost five. And here at County Mac City, the Mets have won six of the eight game play.
The Mets start their action with a record of 80 wins and 74 losses.
They are three games back in the Lost Island to the Pittsburgh Pirates to lead over the Chicago Cubs by two games.
Mets are in third place three games back.
And now from County Mac Stadium in Philadelphia, our national athletes.
terminal.
Our Dats for Admin from County Maxx Stadium.
And that's the play to Philadelphia Phillies for the final time this year.
The weather report here at County Maxx Stadium, 84 degrees.
It was up to 100 earlier today.
Humidity 75 percent.
So it is a hot, humid night at County Maxx Stadium.
Light breeze blowing out towards center field.
And this ballgame is just about to get underway.
And here for the play-by-play, Lindsay Nelson.
Thank you very much, Ralph.
Hello everybody, it's Tommy Agee stepping into leadoff now for the New York Mets.
He's hitting 280, 24 homers, 73 runs at it.
We are getting underway 10 minutes late here at County Maxx Stadium.
Because of the lateness, they're turning on the lights.
Here is the pitch.
And it's time for a ball.
Chris Short on the mound has won nine games and he has lost 15.
Left-hander against the Mets.
Here he's won two and lost one.
His lifetime record against them is 11-5.
There's a breaking pitch in for a called strike.
Dick Sello is the umpire behind the plate.
The commissioner of baseball, Bois June, is here tonight.
He was present at a press gathering late this afternoon here at the ballpark.
Here is a 1-1 pitch to Agee.
Swung on and hit deep to center field.
Going back is Larry Heisel.
And he makes the catch way back in left center.
Left his feet to haul down the drive that was hit more than 400 feet by Tommy Agee.
So there's one away.
That'll bring up Bud Harrelson.
Quick hitting shortstop with a 2.39 average.
One homer and 41 runs batted in.
Harrelson batting right against the left-handed Chris Short.
The Phillies are playing an end deal of Deron Johnson at first.
Tommy Taylor at second. Larry Bois shortstop and Don Money at third.
This pitch is a little low.
Leon Johnson is out on deck.
The outfield alignment is Joe Lifton left.
Larry Heisel in center and Byron Brown in right field.
It's a hot night in Philadelphia.
Here's a play and a drive in the air that he's left.
Going back is Lift.
He's way back and he makes the catch at the edge of the warning track.
And that's a blasted two shots here for put out.
As Harrelson sent Lift back to the edge of the warning track in front of the seats out there in left.
Two men out.
Leon Jones is the batter.
Hitting 284. He has 10 homers and 63 runs batted in.
Chris Short delivers.
And it's in the air to right field and Byron Brown is there underneath and waiting.
And all three of the put outs are in the outfield.
You're in the first inning.
Nothing across.
In the middle of the first inning the score is New York maps nothing and the Phillies coming to pass.
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Everybody OK over the home of the Mets for the capital district.
Ray Sadecki is the pitcher on the mound tonight for the New York Mets.
The left hander has a record of 8 wins and 4 losses against the Phils.
This year he's won 2 and he's lost none.
Sadecki's lifetime record against the Phillies is 15 wins and 13 losses.
Larry Poa is up to lead off.
He is a foot-hitter.
Batting right he has an 18 game hitting streak going and it's the longest Philly hitting streak since Pancho Herrera in 1960.
We have the warm-up for the game scheduled at Yankee Stadium now on the Western Union Pickers.
Now here's the pitch.
Point on and it pops up foul and might be playable to Grote.
He gets rid of the mask and Grote moves over and makes the catch.
So Larry Poa has fouled out the touch of Jerry Grote and Tony Taylor is coming up.
Taylor's hitting 290 to 9 all-munchers and 53 runs better than the warm-up.
Joe Coleman for Washington and Rob Gardner a former Mets just back from Syracuse starting tonight for the New York Yankees.
Earlier they had done an indication that the game in New York might be post-ponem because of a power shortage.
As a matter of fact information with Grote's effect that it has had then.
Obviously that is counting by moving as the pitch is warming up.
Tony Taylor, Tadecki fits in for a strike if he moves up his little button.
I'll never forget a comment by Rob Gardner that he made on a post-game show on TV.
He saw himself hit for the first time on TV.
He threw a curve ball and his comment was, my gosh even I could hit that.
But he couldn't.
Here's the pitch and it's high for a ball it's 1-1.
In St. Louis the finite doubleheader tonight between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals at the end of 4 innings.
The Cardinals 2 and the Cubs 1.
Ferguson Jenkins against Bob Gibson.
They were rained out last night.
Two balls one strike to Tony Taylor with Don Money waiting on deck.
Rob had a great year at Syracuse and we certainly want to wish him luck.
He was a fine fellow with a mess.
He's got a lot of delivery and it's not away for a ball.
It's 3-1.
The Nets have an infield here tonight of Don Glenn Dunn in the first base.
Al Weiss at second base.
Bud Harrelson at short and Joe Foy at third.
Leon Jones in left.
Tommy Agyan center.
Ron Swavoda playing right field.
Here's a foul ball back and out of play.
It's 3-2.
The story of Vic Delmer's verbal verize released after last night's game was the big baseball story in here in Philadelphia
in the morning papers.
Which in a fit of pepper Delmer had said that he thought the game was fixed
and thought that umpire should be investigated.
The late to Louis Jones before the game told the press that he thought that the penalty was sufficient.
Here's a swing and a drive into center field for base 6.
And it is on by Agyan.
It'll be extra basis for Tony Taylor.
He's at second on his way to third.
Relay coming in and at third base he is late.
So Tony Taylor is at third.
It is a single and a two base error charged against Tommy Agyan center field.
It was a line drive but Agyan came over to try to come up with it and play it back
and instead he came up empty and the ball went on by.
For a two base error.
A good relay might have made it a closer play at third.
Foy had to come off the back at third to get the relay.
Then drive back across to try to get Taylor and could not.
Don Money's up now.
One man out, run to third.
No score.
Philly is threatening him.
Bottom half of the first inning.
There's a pitch to the right hand batter.
Low for a ball.
Jody Bluffs to throw to third.
Taylor gets back to the bag in a hurry.
It's all right.
1-0 pitch.
Foul back and out of play.
It's 1-1.
It was worth to note that the umpires themselves did not feel that the $500 fine of Selma was sufficient penalty
and that they with their reports of course would work toward his suspension.
Here's a 1-1 pitch.
And it is low for a ball.
2-1.
Tadecki takes the pass and Jerry Grote.
Off his 2-1.
Swung on and foul back.
2-2.
The official temperature in Philadelphia today reached 95 degrees, the highest of the fall season in downtown Philadelphia.
A reading of 100 was recorded in mid-afternoon.
2-2 pitch.
Swung on and on the ground to third.
Boy, I can't handle it.
Off his glove.
The run score.
Throw to first is in time.
The ball is on the edge of the infield grass.
Knocked it down.
Came up.
So he had no play at the plate.
So then threw on to first for the putout.
But the run score.
And now Daron Johnson is the batter.
The Fills are leading by a score of 1-0.
Johnson's hitting.254.
The pitch is in for a cross-strike.
Johnson has 27 home runs and 87 runs battered in.
Joe Foy got to the ground ball all right.
Just did not handle it.
Low for the ball.
No error charge, of course, because he did make the putout at first base.
As far as the Mets are concerned, it would have been much better made at the plate.
Here is the 1-1 delivery.
It's high and away for a ball.
Two balls and a strike.
Joe List is out on deck for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Here's a 2-1 trick.
Fastball in there for a call strike two.
It's two and two.
George Brunette is the starter tonight for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Something of a surprise move.
Carl Morton is starting for Montreal in Pittsburgh.
The pitch is low, three and two.
It had been presumed that Steve Blass would start tonight,
but he's not starting.
George Brunette is.
So apparently Danny Murtaugh is judging his pitchers.
Here's a payoff pitch.
It is low and it's a walk for Daron Johnson.
First walk issued by Ray Sedecky.
Put Johnson on it first and Joe List is coming up.
List is hitting 200, one homer and four runs batted in,
right hand batting left fielder.
That pitch is half of all, if one and all.
Again, Sedecky checks.
Here's a pitch that's foul back and out of play.
So Danny Murtaugh, the Pittsburgh Pirates,
here in the stretch drive has gone into his bullpen
and told that George Brunette hasn't started.
Earlier in the drive up at Montreal,
Leo De Rocha of the Chicago Cubs reached into his bullpen
and pulled out Bob Miller and posted him as it started.
One one-fifth, third ball, little high.
Two balls and a strike now to Joe List.
Daron Johnson leads it first.
Here's two one-fifths, side low and inside.
Three and one to List with Tim McArber next in the order.
Three one-fifths is half of all.
That's the second consecutive walk issued by Ray Sedecky.
Daron Johnson moves to second.
Joe List is on it first, left hand batting catcher.
Tim McArber is coming up with a 2.44 average.
Three homers, six runs batted in.
We pass for station identification.
This is the New York Met Spaceball Network.
This is WOKO in Albany, New York.
Our temperature is 74 degrees.
Cahoe's Savings Bank time is now two minutes until 8 o'clock.
Time to look into a low-cost life insurance savings bank plan
at Cahoe's Savings Bank.
Here's Nelson with Ralph Kanner and Bob Murphy
at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia,
where the Phils are leading the Mets by a score of one-nothing.
Nolan Ryan gets up to throw down on the bullpen for the New York Mets.
Sedecky has walked Daron Johnson and Joe List back to back here
with two men out in the bottom of the first inning.
Mitch Tim McArber is low for a ball.
Now here comes pitching coach Rube Walker out to the mound.
Pitching coach Rube Walker wiping perspiration
as he comes out of the dugout, head for the mound.
For a talk with Ray Sedecky.
The Mets will fly on to Pittsburgh at the conclusion of this ballgame tonight.
Tomorrow is an off day and they will then resume against the Pittsburgh Pirates
on Friday night, a big series at Three Rivers Stadium.
Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon,
we'll be broadcasting and televising all three games from Pittsburgh this weekend.
Then the Mets will be back at Chase Stadium in New York on Monday night
to start a series of four consecutive games against the Chicago Cubs
to close out the regular National League season, the finale set for a 7.05 p.m. start
Thursday night, October 1st.
Now here's a pitch that's low, Sedecky goes behind to it out of McArber.
Mets started the night failing the Pittsburgh Pirates by three
and the Chicago Cubs by one.
Sedecky's pitch, flung on it on the ground to third, Joe Foy up for the ball,
he'll go to first and in time, close play but McArber is out.
So the Phil's got a run, on a hit there was an error, two walks and two left
and at the end of an inning the score is the Phil's one and the Mets nothing.
Plans for a mail order sale of Boston Reserve seats for a possible
National League Championship Series at Chase Stadium have been announced for the Mets.
Mail order applications for Boston Reserve seats must be postmarked on or after
midnight Thursday, September 24th to be considered.
Tickets will be sold only in two game shifts with a limit of two shifts per person.
Upper stand reserves general admission seats are priced at $3 each, $6 per shift.
Reserve seats are priced at $5 each, $10 per shift.
Box seats are $7 each, $14 per shift.
Mail orders for more than two shifts will not be considered.
Only applications accompanied by a certified check, a money order,
or a cashier's check will be considered and should be addressed to
Post Office Box 1970, Lysing, New York, Zip Code 11352.
Each order must include an additional dollar to cover the cost of mailing and handling.
Championship Series is scheduled to open on Saturday, October 3rd
in the City of the Eastern Division winning.
After two games the title moves to Cincinnati over the Western Division champs.
In the event the Championship Series is not played at Chase Stadium,
tickets can be redeemed at any of the more than 300 branches of the Chase Manhattan
or Manufacture's Hanover Trust Company Bank.
Now the Mets come up in the top of the second inning and it's Don Glenn Dunnett.
Glenn Dunnett is hitting 291. He has 20 home runs and 90 runs.
And he's right hand batting.
Facing left hand pitcher Chris Short.
Into the motion. The pitch is on the way. Foul back and out of play is strike one.
The appearance of Commissioner Buick-Kuhn here today had nothing at all to do with
the activities of last night and the dispute that ensued.
Here's a pitch. High and away for a ball.
The commissioner has made it a practice to visit each of the ball parks in the Major League
at least one time. His earlier visit scheduled here at County Max Stadium
had to be postponed and was reset for today.
Here's a one one pitch. Low and hit in front of the plate comes on by.
And just by the plate umpire Dick Sello and the crowd gets a kick out of that.
It's two balls and a strike.
The Phillies are leading here by a score of one and nothing.
Chris Short into the motion.
Foul back and out of play. It's two and two to Clint Dunn.
So the Phillies have announced that the last ball game to be played at County Max Stadium
will be here on the night of October 1st when they'll meet the Montreal Expos.
Two two pitch. Plung on it on the ground is short. A big hop up to Larry Borg.
That's the Darren Johnson in time and Clint Dunn is out.
Ron Swaboto is the batter. He's hitting 230 with nine almost and 40 runs that are done.
There was an editorial today however in a Philadelphia newspaper which said
don't take that enough but too seriously because the same announcement was made
to the closing date last year.
They had presumed that the Phillies would be playing in their new stadium this year
and it didn't turn out that way. As a matter of fact right now all work has been stopped
on the new stadium and there is no completion date, no projection.
That is M. Brickall's strike.
Swaboto appeared as a pinch hitter last night in the ninth against Selma and struck out on three pitches.
This short delivers. Plung on and this hits strike two to Ron Swaboto.
Elmer Carver sends out the sound. There's nobody on.
First strike delivers. Tired a little low so it's one and two.
Joe Foy waiting around there on deck.
Take short takes his cap off to mop the first beration.
One two three. Plung on and this got him with a breaking pitch.
That is the first strike out for short. It's Swaboto swinging two away and Joe Foy is the batter.
Foy is hitting 241 for the year. He's had six almost and 37 runs battered in.
Very short with the pitch. Back ball low and it's ball one.
There was a time when Chris Short was one of the slowest workers in Major League.
He had back surgery and since he'd come back from the operation he worked considerably faster than he once did.
That's M. Brickall's strike. Short used to be the master of moving the dirt around out on the mound.
He'd move it over to one side and then over the other with his cue.
Strange as I say this he's doing the same thing right now.
But one year his teammates presented him with a set of toy gardener spools.
They thought that he could do a little gardening out there.
Has a fastball high and away for a ball. It's two and one.
Two men out. Nobody on base and the field's lead by Escora one to nothing.
Now the two on offering and there's F. Brickall's strike two. It's two and two to Joe Foy.
And that's starting tonight with a record of 80 wins and 74 losses.
The Cubs are 180 and lost 72 and the Pirates are 183 and lost 71.
Two to delivery.
Short strikes out Joe Foy.
Gets the side in order. The Mets have not yet had a baserunner.
Nothing is crossed and in the middle of the second inning the score is the Fills one and the Mets nothing.
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It's safer more businesslike. You can mail a check and you can make deposits and withdrawals at any office of the bank.
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So?
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The Sills will be coming up now in the second inning and it'll be Byron Brown the right fielder to lead off.
They say Ray Tadecki Brown is hitting 250. 10 almost 36 runs added in.
At the end of five full innings the Cardinals 2 and the Chubs 1.
Ferguson Jenkins 20 and 15 against Bob Gibson 22 and 6.
This is in for a called strike.
Montreal is at pitford. Carl Morton 16 and 11 against George Burnett who has no one or lost record with the Parrysons coming over from the Washington Center.
In for a called strike.
The Chubs and the Cardinals are playing a double headed tonight. San Diego is at Atlanta.
Steve Allen against Pat Jarvis who's won 16 lost 13.
Houston's at Cincinnati. Jack Bellingham 12 and 8 against Tony Clonica 14 and 9.
This is inside for a ball.
And the Giants play the Dodgers on the West Coast.
The Chicago Cubs did not score in the top of the sixth. Going to the bottom of the sixth.
Card 2 and the Cubs won first game.
1 and 2 of the count.
To Byron Brown is followed by Larry Heisel.
Washington is in New York. Joe Coleman 8 and 10 against Rob Gardner no record.
Cleveland beat Boston 5 to Steve Hagen over Ken Breck.
The Hawks had his first home run.
Burn Fuller had one and Joe LaHoo had one.
Now 1 and 2 fixed to Byron Brown.
Byron away.
Chicago Whitehawks beat Kansas City 6-0.
Bart Johnson got the win and
Paul Splitgore took the loss.
Charlie McKinney had a home run.
California's at Milwaukee Lady.
2-2 fixed.
Little high.
Detroit is at Baltimore but it's postponed because of a power shortage and they'll play tomorrow afternoon.
Minnesota is at Oakland and the Twins already have clinched the title.
The Pinnits in the Western Division of the American League.
This will be a payoff to Byron Brown and it's on the way.
Hung on and missed.
Lady Sudecki gets this first strike out.
That'll bring up Larry Heisel, the center fielder who's hitting 200 for the year.
9 all-munch and 41 runs battered in.
Championship series in the American League will be between the very same two teams who played for it last year.
Minnesota against Baltimore.
You may recall Baltimore swept in three straight last year to best three of five series.
Denver called strike in the National League last year.
It was the New York Mets against the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets swept in three straight.
Cincinnati has already clinched now in the West.
Braking's a hung on and missed.
Two strikes to Heisel.
He's followed by Chris Short.
The Phils are leading one to another.
Championship series is scheduled to start on Saturday, October 3rd, in each league.
That's half of all.
It's one and two.
World Series will be scheduled to start the following Saturday.
World Series will open up in the National League City this year.
One to pitch.
Half of all.
Two and two.
The Wreckies 2-2 delivery.
Slung on and fouled back.
The count holds at 2-2.
Gary Grote sends out the sign.
This is a curveball missing high.
That goes three balls and two strikes now.
Here is the playoff pitch.
Slung on and hit in the air up the alley on right center field.
It'll be extra basis for Heisel.
He's around first on his way to second.
So a bowler up with the ball plays it back.
It's a double for Larry Heisel.
That ball went all the way to the scoreboard.
Out in right center.
And Quivota played it as it charmed off there.
Pretty short coming up now.
This is 3-50-8 this year at the plate.
He's had two runs batted in.
His average is.052.
The Pills are leading one to nothing.
They have a runner in second with one man out in the bottom of the second inning.
Low and inside for a ball.
Tadecki sets.
Offers 1-0.
Bowled off and out of play.
1-1.
Pretty short as a fellow who bales out up there at the plate on anything tight.
Some pitches that aren't tight.
It's not entirely unusual for a pitcher to play more do than don't.
Swinging the ground ball to third taken by Foy.
He looks to run it.
Throws to first in time.
No advance.
Two away.
Pretty short with the ground ball right at Joe Foy at third base.
Larry Bowie is coming up.
He's been up one time and he fouled out to the catcher.
That's an 18-game hitting streak and an average of.252 with 32 runs batted in.
That's half a ball.
1-0.
Here's the 1-0 pitch.
Back ball fired inside low.
Tadecki goes behind to and out of Bowie and he's followed by Tony Taylor in the order.
2-0 pitch.
Swung on and hit in the air down the right field line.
Cameron over third to stand.
Flynn then is giving case.
It's going out of play.
In the second row of the stands down the right field line.
2-1 is the count to Larry Bowie.
Tick.
Gets a little more tick.
That's one of the things that make RC stand out from the other colas.
A couple of steps and you'll catch the difference.
Royale found colas.
Swing and a ground ball.
He's short.
But Haraldson has it.
Goes across the first in time and the side is out.
Larry Bowie grounding out short to first.
No runs are hit, no errors and one left and at the end of two innings to play the score is the Phillies 1-0.
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We're going now to the top of the third.
The Mets coming up running by one and here for the play by play Bob Murphy.
All right Rob Jerry Grody will lead off against the veteran left hander Chris Short.
Short has retired the first six men to face him.
However the first two men up in the game Tommy Agee and Bud Harrelson both had hard line drives to the outfield overclocked.
And the pitch to Jerry Grody is outside ball one.
Chris Short the tall left hander from the University of Delaware.
Out practically all of last year after undergoing back surgery.
Has come back to win nine games this year.
Had a fastball outside two balls and no strikes.
Al Weiss the on deck batter and then Ray Sedecky.
Short has set two very strong ball games against the Mets this year.
And a line drive hit hard down the right field line a base hit by Jerry Grody.
Jerry around first on his way to second and he pulls in with a double.
Hard hit drive over the head of Darren Johnson down the right field line and into the corner.
The Mets have their first base hit of the game and the tying run is on second.
Al Weiss coming up Al batting at two ten.
Now Chris Short looking in to get his sign from Jim McArthur.
Here's the pitch on the way curve with the knees that cause strikes.
The Chicago Cubs are out of the sixth inning in the same look.
At the end of five and a half the Cardinals two and the Cubs one.
Fishing duel between Ferguson Jenkins and Bob Gibson.
Jenkins a 20 game winner.
Gibson a 22 game winner.
Jenkins has now won 20 or more four years in a row.
And he's the only nice delayed pitcher who can say that.
Had a foul ball hit back upstairs no play.
Montreal got a run in the first inning off George Bruinette.
Bruinette the left hander picked up from Washington has been working out of the bullpen.
He gets his first start and a 16 game winner Carl Morton gets a United for Montreal.
So the extra scratch down a run in the first inning at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh.
Left hander Chris Short with a two strike count on Al Weiss.
Jerry Grote on second nobody out.
And the pitcher on the way fastball strike free call.
First strike out for Chris Short as he gets Al Weiss and brings up Ray Sedecky.
Sedecky a much better than average hitter for a pitcher.
Especially against right handers but in the last game he's up against the left hander in Chris Short.
The first pitching staff Ray Sedecky and Danny Fisela are both left hand hitters.
Both do very well against right handers but have a lot of trouble against southpaw pitchers.
And a ground ball hit down the first baseline foul.
Taken across the line by Darren Johnson no play.
The Phillies scored an unearned run in the first inning.
And the Phillies lead one nothing we're in the top half of the third.
They've done very well against the Phillies this year.
They have won 12 of 17 ball games.
An amazing thing the Phillies nine games over 500 against the Western Division National League teams this year.
Against the Western Division they won 40 and lost 31.
Inside and low to Ray Sedecky one ball one strike.
And the weatherman says more hot weather to mouth.
Chris Short with a count of one and one on Ray Sedecky.
Grody the tying run on second one duff.
And a chopper foul off to the left going toward the dugout of the Philadelphia Phillies no play.
One ball and two strikes.
The Cubs and Cardinals playing a double hitter.
They were rained out last night.
They waited a long time trying to get the game in.
Second game of that double hitter in St. Louis tonight.
It will probably be a rookie South Park Jerry Royce pitching for the Cardinals and Bill Hens for Chicago.
Now short up in pitching position.
The one two delivery.
Swing and a miss.
He's drug him out.
He's got him with a breaking ball.
Fourth strike out for Chris Short the 32 year old left hander.
Now lead off batter Tommy Hachey comes up.
And Tommy hit a long drive.
The left center started the game off.
That was caught on the dead run out of the edge of the warning flag by Larry Heintzler.
Tommy had the game when he hit last night when he singled off Vic Selma in the ninth inning driving two runs in.
This is RBI total for the year of the 73.
Jody leading off second.
Here's the pitch on the way.
Sal back towards the screen.
No play.
It is not a large crowd by any means.
It's not in my opinion.
It is a loud crowd.
The Mets again tonight have a lot of fans down from New York.
All remaining games for the Phillies this year will be played here in County Mike City.
Now the call left hander.
Touch the runner.
Here's the pitch to Tommy Hachey.
Low and inside one ball and one strike.
After the game tonight the Mets have three in Pittsburgh and four back in Chicago including the added game on Monday night the 28th.
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The 1-1 delivery hit hard.
A face-hook to Sunnifield by Tommy Hachey.
For Tommy Hachey, 74th run batted in.
It tires the game up.
And for Tommy Hachey, his 174th face-hook.
And that tires the club record that had been held by Tommy Davis.
174 hits in one face-hook.
Hachey hit the ball very hard his first time up.
And now this time he lands the ball hard in the center field.
A clean base and bringing home Terry Grote.
The game is tied 1-1.
Top of the third inning, Bud House in the batter.
Bud lined out the deep left his first time up.
And it's over.
The ball is a letter.
Grote lead off with a line double down the right field line.
Short then struck out, Al Weiss and Ray Sedecky.
But Tommy Hachey delivering a two-out single up the middle
ties the game up.
At a throw to first, it is not in time.
Filly receiving an eye on Tommy Hachey. Tommy has stolen 30 bases.
Now Chris Short throws to first base.
Did you notice that Tommy Harper joined a very select group?
When he homeward yesterday, his 30th of the year, he also has stolen 30 bases.
There goes the runner at a high fly ball hit the right center.
Byron Brown moves over. He's under it and he has it for the out.
One run, two hits, no errors, one left.
In the middle of the third inning, the New York Mets won and the Philadelphia Phillies won.
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Tony Taylor faces ways for Becky, bottom half of the third inning.
Taylor, more than any other Philly, has dealt damaging blows to the Mets during the course of the year.
With the bases loaded, last night in the last of the eighth inning, he triple-drives and three runs in.
He runs up as if the Bunch takes the pitch at the strike of the inside corner.
And Tony Taylor did not like the call by Big Fellow and Fellow for the chip bank in the batter spot.
It was a lively evening around here last night. Three of the Phillyers were ejected during the course of the ballgame, including the manager, Frank O'Casey.
And it's over, Frank's free call to Tony Taylor.
The Parish did not score against Carl Morton in the last of the first.
At the end of one, Montreal won, Pittsburgh nothing.
On the ground ball, it's slowly moving to his left go-for it, and he throws it across in time for the off.
One out and nobody on. We par for station identification.
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Last of the third inning, the game tied 1-1.
For the facilities, the number three hitter, Don Money, faces Ray Sivecki.
He bounced out the third, his only time up.
At a drive, hit on the other right center field, it'll be a baser.
Just beyond the reach of Al, why is he legged into the outfield trying to get a play?
For the facilities, their third hit off, Ray Sivecki.
And Darren Johnson comes up.
Darren hitting 254, has 27 home runs, 87 runs, got it in.
Here he's going to watch his first time up.
Now the Mets have the infield looking for two in a stride around the left.
That's ball outside, ball one.
Let's play the outfield deep against Darren, who has a lot of power, and they're playing the stride or two-court left.
Runs it in the hole, he's going to get a baser on their Don Money.
Serve inside and low, two balls and no strides.
Not a buzzer there in the ball park.
Certainly not enough breeze to have any effect on the game at all.
The 2-0 delivery, swing and a miss right there, and Johnson, two balls and one strike.
New York one run on two hits, one air. Philadelphia one run, three hits, no air.
The Cardinals lead the Cubs 2-1 in the fifth inning.
Swing and a miss, 2-1-B.
Dan Lewis has been at bat quite a while in the last of the fifth inning.
Sometimes you're a fool, sometimes the transmission is just slow and coming through.
Now the 2-2 delivery, high and away, ball three.
Game time temperature tonight was 84 degrees.
Now Money leads first, let's keep an eye on him, and Sadecki lobs the ball over to Klindetter.
Let's see how Franklin Chase he has to play on.
One man away, Money on third, three and two on Darren Johnson.
At a throw to first, not in time.
Sadecki in the second position.
There goes the runner, here's the pitch lined hard, a base hit to left center field.
A round second is Money, only play the third.
Hagee fouling the ball back in.
The Phillies have runners on first and third.
And this is good group, Walker goes to grab the telephone.
Darren Johnson on three and two with Money on the go, rips the ball hard in the left center field.
Springs up to our left to rookie left fielder.
Nolan Ryan gets up again in the bullpen.
Lift the right hand batter.
Coming off of a good year in the postman.
The infield now hoping for a chance to make two and Sadecki is in trouble here on the bottom half of the third inning.
Money on third, Johnson on first with one man out.
Game tied one-one.
Pass ball, strength one.
Tim McIver beyond the game.
Phillies now have four hits off Ray Sadecki.
Sadecki checks the runners, now the pitch.
Foul back toward the screen and Ray gets out in front with the two-stacks down.
Tony Taylor, the leadoff batter, was retired.
But Money is single to right center and on three and two with Money running, Darren Johnson hammered a hard single in the left center.
Fill for runners on first and third.
Sadecki getting it's time from Jerry Gooder.
And the pitcher on the way just missed the outside corner, one ball and two strikes.
Last time Sadecki faced the Phillies he beat them with a brilliant effort and he struck out Flaub along the way.
Pitching one and two.
High outside for him too.
Brody walks through out in front of the plate.
Nolan Ryan picked up the win and relief in the game last night and Ryan is back to work in the midst of open.
Sadecki has been facing two batters last night.
The 2-2 delivery outside ball three.
Sadecki had a two-stack down and now the count is all the way out at three and two.
Now we'll keep an eye on Darren Johnson the runner on first and see if he goes.
Al Weiss and Buddy Harrelson looking for two.
Here's the pitcher on a go and swinging on air and now hung up.
Foy runs in court home plate and Foy tags him out double play by the Tigers.
Sadecki made the big play on three and two with Johnson running.
Sadecki struck out Joe Liz.
What a big one.
Brody flops the throw to second.
Patten lured money into the track.
Money was caught between third and home and bagged out by Joe Foy.
A big double play for the New York Mets.
Two hits, no errors and one left on.
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Brian Jones leading off against first shortage the fourth inning and the pitchers taking ball one.
Andre all one Pittsburgh nothing at the end of an inning and a half.
The Cardinals two and the Cubs one bottom half of the seventh.
Swing and a miss by Brian Jones one ball one strike.
Brian slide to right his first time up batting two eighty four.
One one delivery by short way outside his two balls and a strike.
Ray Sabecki made a big play when he struck out Joe Liss on three and two.
So he bluffs the throw through to second base and lured money into a trap between third and home.
The two and one swing and a miss by a few balls and two strikes.
Billy scored in the first inning as a result of a base hit and an error.
Let's bag the game in the third inning on his double and a two ounce single by Tommy Avery.
The game turned to a ground ball that is hit down to third. Parable grabbed behind third by money.
The long throw in time. Good arm by Dan Money who's still at that grounder deep behind third almost across the line.
One out of nobody on that one coming up.
John Benin had another unfortunate last night when he's single the base is loaded driving two runs.
Only four of the first year of expansion and low polo ground by Frank Gommers.
Dan is running out for Glendetta to tie or better to record.
Here's the picture on the way. Fastball on a golf shot.
Interesting thing for Glendetta. He has 90 RBI's and 113 ballgames. His ratio certainly has been imperfect.
And the pitch thrown to Don Glendetta. Fastball over, strike, deep ball.
Two veteran left handers hooked up tonight here at County Mike's Stadium.
Whole other year this short has been very tough on the message.
Lifetime mark against the message. 11 wins and 5 losses.
The first time he's delivered well hit fly ball to center field.
Glendetta made good contact but he hit it straight away.
Earlier this year in this ballpark Glendetta became the second man in the history of the ballpark to hit one over the outstriped center field wall.
The only other performer to do it was Ricky Allen.
And nobody on top of the fourth inning. A game even 1-1 in a battle around Swabota.
High and away ball was.
What a girl they have going out in St. Louis with a 220 game winner hooked up.
Ferguson Jenkins against Bob Gibson.
Cardinals leading 2-1 in the seventh.
He holds up on the swings. That's in time. A great slow inside. Deep balls and no strikes.
Brown was struck out his first handed back.
First short has Jenkins over. Let's not walk about it.
And a ground ball hits hard. The whole money comes up with it going off to his left.
And so is my other veteran, Jackson.
The next get on 1-2-3. No runs, no hits, no errors from none left.
In the middle of the fourth inning at County Mass Stadium the New York Mets won the Philadelphia Phillies 1.
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Last of the fourth inning in Philadelphia, the Mets won and the Phillies won.
The Phillies will have Tim McArthur leading off against Ray Sudeck.
It will be Tim McArthur, Byron Brown and Larry Heissel, 6'7", at even the bodyguard.
McArthur is 0-1. He bounced out to Joe Foer on the opening inning.
Due to a broken hand, McArthur has played only 37 games this year. He's sitting at 243.
Left-hander against left-hander, the pitch by Sudecky. Foul ball back under our broadcasting. Loosen out of play, Frank Watt.
Sudecky had to work very hard in pitching out of trouble in the last inning.
It's a hot night and Ray has thrown quite a few pitches.
Brown ball hit hard through the middle of it. He's hit by McArthur.
Foul and the eights here for the blips that back in.
Five hits now for the Phillies and they have their leadoff batter on.
Which means they'll once again raise Sudecky under the gun and will have to be reaching back for the extra.
Well, they're going to the ninth inning in St. Louis with Bob Gibson and the Cardinals leading the Chicago Cubs and Ferguson Jenkins by a score of 2-1.
The hitter is Byron Brown, the right fielder, and the breaking ball is over to strike one.
Nolan Ryan is up for the third time in the next bullpen.
Brown right hand batter. Foul hit back upstairs to counter strike two.
Byron Brown hitting at 2-49. You have to be careful with him. He does have power.
Larry Heisel gives the on deck batter.
Sudecky takes his run in and has the pitch. Strike three called. He got it.
Sudecky's third strike out and he gets Byron Brown on three pitches.
With one away, the center fielder Larry Heisel will be stepping in.
And Heisel hit a hard long double to right center his first time up.
Heisel strikes out a lot, but when he makes contact, he is strong.
Pitch by Sudecky. Swing and a miss. Strike one.
That's one. That's the least one. Last and the fourth inning.
Long drive. He's left and well back, well back and got a home run.
A two run home run by Larry Heisel. And he hit it over the 410 pitch mark.
So Heisel has been a quite doubled and hit a home run. And the Phillies are in front three to one.
Heisel is a home run of the year. A line shot that exploded off the bat.
It almost straight away in the center, just a little bit toward left center.
Larry cleared the wall at the 410 mark.
Heisel has been hurting the Mets in this series.
And now Chris George steps in and now has a two run lead, a pitch by Sudecky.
Down ball that is going foul down the third base line.
Heisel's home run is tense. Last year as the Ritz side lined about half of the year he had 20 home runs.
A pitch by Ray Sudecky and a shot to short. A one hopper handled by Brett Harrelson.
Now he's straightened up, throws to Glendon and short is out.
Low line drive and it was wicked. It directly towards Buddy Houser.
He caught the hop right up in front of his face.
Two outs and nobody on top of the batting order for the shortstop Larry Boer.
Boer, a foot-fitter, has gone over two. Foul down to the catcher, bounce back to short.
He's got a two-game lead in the series.
Filly is three and the Mets one on a two run homer by Larry Heisel.
Got a ground ball he's got to go for it. A third he's up with it.
Throws to Glendon and the Filly is retired.
But they regain the lead scoring two runs on two hits. No errors and then left on.
At the end of four is the Filly three and the New York Mets one.
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The fifth running here in Philadelphia.
Filly's lead by four, three, one on high-field, two run homers.
Joe Foy is facing Chris George. Foy was struck out.
He's three-time up. Joe hitting 240 with six homers.
Going in a miss for the High Heighters.
Joe Hages has no one. Ryan continued to work in the bullpen,
indicating he would put up a thin-killer if the next team gets somebody on.
Quick seven and eight in the batting order due to him.
Now it's high and Foy lays off one ball, one strike.
The Mets scored a run in the third on a double by Grote. He had a two-hour single by Tommy Hages.
Filly scored an unearned run in the first and then added two in the fourth inning on a high-field home run.
Swing and a miss for the Bergen Ball, one and two.
Jerry Grote on deck and then Al White.
The Pirates got a run to tie up the Montreal Expos. They are tied one-to-one in the second.
Swing and a miss for the WI. A fast ball of it is out.
Foy goes down for the second time.
Five strikeouts for Chris George, and the veteran left-hander appears to be throwing very hard.
Now the hitter is Jerry Grote.
Jerry has one of the two hits off Chris George and has scored the miss for us.
It's all over in the St. Louis. The Cardinals defeated the Chubs in the first game of the double header, 2-1.
Bob Gibson beating Ferguson Jenkins.
A fast ball won. The amazing Bob Gibson has now won, 20-1 of his last 24 decisions.
Gibson, in winning his 23rd game of the year, allowed the Chubs only two base hits.
A fast ball to go to you, Frank. One ball and one strike.
Here's the line of score of a St. Louis two runs, seven hits and no errors.
The Chubs one run, only two hits and four errors.
Both hitters went to the roots, Ferguson Jenkins and Bob Gibson.
Gibson is now 23-6.
At a drive in the air, the right center, cutting over Byron Brown, he has it.
Lewis is in the center, Ferguson Jenkins is 120, lost 16.
The Expos and the Pirates are in the top of the third and end of the year, tied 1-1.
John Morton picking against veteran left-hander George Gruner.
Kenny Singleton has come out on deck, going in the nose by Al White, strike one.
Ray Sadeghi has scheduled a bad neck.
Singleton is in the on deck circle.
Two outs and nobody out.
The ball drops underneath for a soft strike to Al White.
And for a short looks like he's going to be hard to handle.
He has not walked a man, struck out five, allowed just two hits.
And the pitcher on the way, just got a piece of it, a foul ball, two strikes down to Al White.
A trail, three to one, half of the fifth inning.
And the pitcher on the way by Chris Short, a fast ball over, strike, three, throw.
Al White has stopped looking for the second time.
He has six strikeouts for Chris Short.
No runs, no hits, no errors, and none left.
And he's always traveled halfway in the middle of the fifth inning, the Philadelphia Phillies three, in the New York Mets one.
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Nolan Ryan comes in the ballgame to take over the pitching last of the first inning.
Ryan's last two outings in the release, he has saved the game for Danny Purceller.
He was the winning pitcher last night, it was the best rally to the ninth inning to win it.
Last night Nolan faced only two batters, retired both.
One is seventh game of the year against Penn Lawson.
For Nolan Ryan, this will be his fourth straight relief outing.
He went to the bullpen on September the 13th.
Tony Taylor, Don Money and Darren Johnson, two, three and four in the third of batting order to hit against Ryan.
In the last half of the fifth inning, Ray Sadeghi did not have his good stuff going for him in the bank.
Ray worked four innings, allowed three runs, picked up, walked through and struck out three.
Ray was a little bit wild in the strike zone.
Tony Taylor has singled a right center, he raced around the third when the ball got by,
he was waiting for an error, then he came in on the ground back. Ryan's delivery is outside ball one.
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And a fastball inside of the letters, two balls with no strikes for Tony Taylor.
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And a line drive down the right field line, a face-tip rolling deep down into the corner,
being pursued by Ryan Svoboda.
And Tony Taylor eased within the second with a double.
Taylor hitting late against Ryan's fastball, hit a right of the sun-drying set and paribied out of breath.
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Don Money, the third baseman, has one for two, single his last time out.
Swing and a miss, strike one.
Money is hitting three oh two.
After Money got his base hit, Johnson followed with a base hit, putting runners on first and third.
Didn't seem a big play in the ball game.
But I think he struck out Joe Lipson three and two and they caught Money.
Wild Pits goes all the way to the backstop.
And moving over to third, Tony Taylor.
Ryan on his third, uncorked to Wild Pits.
In the counters, one and one, the runner goes to third.
And Gell-Heit just gets Ryan Herbal up in the bullpen.
Now the Mets have to bring the infield in.
It's always good to get bounties to the hitter.
Going right into his lineup, here's the pitcher on the way.
High fly ball, it's a deep right field.
It will score a run.
Taylor is tagged up, Ceboda makes the catch.
Here comes the throw by Ron Ceboda.
He's threw it completely over the head.
Very good.
He knew he had to make a very impossible run.
Because he was out there pretty deep.
So Ron is trying to get even more than he possessed on the throw.
So it completely over-drowed his head.
It was a desperation try because Ron knew he was that far out of the infield.
Gell-Heit's lead by three.
He's got a run four to one.
Sacrifice fly and a run batted in for Don Money.
A hard ground ball by Darren Johnson through the hole.
Right field for a base hit.
And then Johnson with Ryan Herbal first pitch and the right for a green finger.
And Owen Ryan runs into trouble as he takes over the pitcher in the last of the fifth inning.
Ryan Herbal throwing hard in the bullpen and here comes Gil Hodgeman.
Gil Hodgeman is on his way to the mound.
Ryan has faced three men.
All three have hit the ball hard.
Taylor doubled on the right field line.
Money hit a fly ball to rather deep right field getting the run home.
And Darren Johnson has singled a ride and Gil Hodgeman takes the ball.
So Ron Herbal comes in the ballgame.
He will be the third pitcher called on by the New York Mets.
The facilities in front by score of four to one, bottom half of the fifth inning.
And while we're waiting on Ron Herbal to come in, let's check with Ralph Koehner and get updated on the other major league actions.
All right Bob Murphy, first let's pause for station identification.
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Ralph Koehner along with Bob Murphy and Lindsay Nelson from Johnny Maxx Stadium in Philadelphia.
That's trailing by a score of four to one as the Phillies bat in the bottom of the fifth inning.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs in the first game of their twilight doubleheader.
2 to 1 as Bob Gibson took the two hitter. It was his 23rd and when he's lost six.
The losing pitcher was Ferguson Jenkins. His record 20 and 16.
Cubs made four errors in that ball game as the St. Louis Cardinals scored two runs in the second and made them hold up as the Cubs got one run in the fourth.
At the end of three, San Diego nothing, Atlanta nothing.
At the end of two, it's Cincinnati four, Houston nothing.
San Francisco scheduled against Los Angeles and at Pittsburgh at the end of two and a half innings, Montreal one.
The Pittsburgh Pirates won.
Raoul Morton 16 and 11 going for the Etpo, George Winnett 0 and 0 going for the Pirates.
In the American League at the end of three, the Yankees three, Washington one, Coleman and Rob Gardner working that ball game.
Dick Billings got a home run in the third with no one on for Washington in the first of the year.
Cleveland beat Boston five to two when he picked it with Hargan, Harrelson, Fuller and Lulú at home run.
White Sox beat Kansas City six nothing as the winning pitcher was Bart Johnson to five hitter.
California scheduled against Milwaukee, Detroit, Baltimore four times because of the dark power toward him.
And Minnesota against Oakland.
All right, Rob, go left the left fielder, right hand batter is up against Ron Herbal. Herbal throws over to first keeping an eye on Darren Johnson.
Herbal leads the National League in a parry.
And a foul ball is back in the series with no play.
For Ron Herbal who has won nine and lost six this year, this marks his 73rd ball game.
Ron Herbal.
And a throw to first by Herbal.
And Gary Gentry is getting up in the bullpen.
The pitch by Herbal, breaking ball in for a goal strike.
The Phillies leading four to one, last in the fifth inning. They have Darren Johnson on first base with one man out.
The batter is still left the left fielder, he's a right hand hitter.
And he holds up on his swing and a jump miss inside.
One ball and two strikes.
Ron Herbal off the stretch, foul ball back to the screen, no play.
The Expos and the Parrots are tied 1-1 with a bus hitting in the third.
Bob Gibson won his 23rd.
Gibson got off to a slow start with Gary with 2-3 on the 18th of May.
Now he's 23 in the sixth.
Pitching one and two.
Under the knees, the count is even on Joe Liff and Herbal thought he had him strug out.
The Parrots are out on the last of the third inning, it's 1-1 if you're in the three.
Swing and a miss, he's strugging out.
Ron Herbal strikes out Joe Liff.
And away the batter coming up, Kim McArthur.
McArthur single to center field in the fourth inning and later scored a run.
The veteran backstab has one for two.
Billy has got two in the fourth inning on the two run homer by Larry Heissel.
And they have added a run off Nolan Ryan here in the fifth.
And a high pop up off McArthur's back.
Boy he cuts down the line and fouls round.
Near the fungo circle he makes the catch and the side is out.
So Herbal comes in to get the Phillies out.
One run, two hits, no errors and one left.
At the end of five in Philadelphia it's the Phillies four and the New York Mets one.
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It's the first inning here in Philadelphia, the Mets are putting up a pen-killer.
And to tell you all about it and follow the action for you, here is Ralph Koehner.
All right Bob Murphy, the Mets trailing by three with four innings to go.
And a pen-killer for the pitcher Ron Herbal is Ken Singleton.
Out in the bullpen, Gary Gentry, he'll be the next man for the Mets.
Chris Short who has given up one run allowed to it while striking out six at the go.
And the left-hander's first pitch to Singleton.
High at fastball, missing ball one.
Singleton batting right-handed.
Batting 258 for the year with five home runs and 26 runs batted in.
Short has not walked the batter in the left-hander back and the pitch is lined over first to base it.
Singleton goes to first base and holds there as the right fielder Byron Brown feels the ball.
And the Mets have one on with no one out.
And the batter coming up is Tommy A.G.
Tommy has accounted for the Mets run when he singled the center field to drive in Jerry Grote back in the third after Grote had doubled.
A base hit by A.G. came with two men out.
His first time up he was robbed of an extra base hit by Larry Heiselman deep center field.
A.G. hitting 281. He has 74 RBI, 24 home runs.
Now short from the set position.
And the first pitch to A.G. A.G. tries to bun it, but it's foul out of play.
Strike one. Tommy trying to get on, trying to get money back deep at third.
So one strike out.
Cubs are losing their ball game. Now one-half game ahead of the Mets.
A record of 80 wins and 73 losses and that's a 180 and lost 74.
They are now two-and-a-half games back of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
And they have one more to play tonight.
One strike out. Short again in the set position and the fifth.
A.G. swings and fouls the ball over toward the Mets dugout going over to Derren Johnson.
The ball's ripping out of play into the stands just out of his reach.
So A.G. with a two-strike count.
After this ball game, the Mets have seven to play.
Three with the Pittsburgh Pirates and four with the Chicago Cubs.
This is game number 165.
This is a 155.
Two-strike count. There are a lot of Mets fans here in this ballpark.
Singleton is not being held on at first base. Johnson's playing about three steps behind him.
And the fifth is outside, ball one.
This is George fighting a fastball outside to count one ball and two strikes.
George this year making his 33rd start. He has one-nine and lost 15.
Against the Mets he has one-two and lost one this year.
This time he has defeated the Mets by 11 times.
The Mets have gotten him five.
George, better enough to enter the one-two fifth.
It is lying in the center of a pitch.
I go for extra bases. It goes on through.
Singleton on his way to third. He is being held up at third.
And A.G. goes in with a double.
So a line shot by the center fielder just to shade toward right center.
That ball hit so hard that Heiso had no chance to get to it.
And the Mets now have the tying run coming to the plate and the batter is Bud Harrelson.
Going out on the top of the sixth inning and the conference at the mound.
Frank Lucchese, the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, is about to talk to his pitcher.
Bill Wilson is now getting out the throw in the bullpen and I believe Grant Jackson is going to join him.
It is Grant Jackson, a left-hander, along with Bill Wilson, a right-hander.
Mets trying to get back in this ball game.
A.G. during his best yesterday, two for five, a two big run better than the one in the ball game.
Here tonight he's two for three.
Harrelson out deep to left his first time up and he's right out to right his next time up.
Four for two and short into the windup. Here's the pitch.
It's way inside a ball. Ball knocked down by McArthur.
Phillies with their infield back.
That's short and second in at first and third.
They lead four to one.
And that's better for the Mets, Cleon Jones.
Now short and odd just goes into the windup and the one-oh pitch.
It is over for a called strike.
Pitch over the inside corner, a fastball, and they count one ball and one strike.
But it's oh for three in this series. Last night he had three walks.
He has set a new Met record for walks in the season.
Total of ninety. One-one pitch, rounded foul, and the count goes up to one and two.
Here's short, turns his back to the plate, looks out toward center field.
Check this spike now. Does a little ground work in front of the pitching rubber.
And then looks in for the sign. One ball, two strikes.
Now he steps back off the rubber and Bud Harrelson steps out of the batting block.
Time call.
Now Harrelson back in and short. Ready to go.
Here's the windup and pitch.
It is inside. Bud takes a close pitch, two balls, two strikes.
Short has had seven complete games this year with his nine wins.
Again he takes the sign, goes into the windup. Here's the pitch.
It is taken inside and oh and the count's full now. Three and two to Bud Harrelson.
Bud represents the potential tying run in this ballgame. No one out.
Top of the sixth inning. Leon Jones on deck.
Runners not too far off. Here's the pitch.
It has hit hard down in the hole. In through to left field.
Singleton starts in third. He had held up to see whether or not the ball would be caught by the shortstop Larry Boyd.
He goes to third. So the Mets get a run. A run batted in for Bud Harrelson. His forty-second.
The tying run is at first. No one out. And with runners at first and third, Leon Jones comes up.
Leon is 0-2 in the ballgame.
Jones has flat out the right field. Rotted out to third. He has 0-4-5 in this series.
Average dropping down to 2-83.
And time call as Chris Short goes out to pick up some paper out in front of the mound.
Now Short ready to go. The first pitch to Jones. Taken high and away of fastball missing ball one.
One ball, no strikes. Jones being played straight away by the outfield. More or less grouped the state toward the alley.
Both in left and right. Now the pitch. High and outside again. Two balls, no strikes.
Bill Wilson, the right-hander, throwing in the bullpen for the Phillies along with left-hander Grant Jackson.
The on deck batter for the Mets, John Glenn-Denham.
AGI at third. Charlton at first. And the 2-0 pitch. It is flung on and hit foul in the air out of play on the first base side. Another count, two balls, one strike.
Ron Stone, an outfielder going down to the bullpen to probably warm up. He has a great arm.
Montreal got a run on the top of the second. Fourth. They now lead 2-1 after three and a half innings. Montreal to Pittsburgh one.
The pitch to Jones. Breaking ball high, ball three.
Jones is counting his way. Three balls, one strike.
Charlton with a short lead at first base. Short with the pitch. Charlton holds the pitch inside. Ball four and that loads up the bases.
That puts the time on its second with no one out. And it brings up the Mets RBI man, John Glenn-Denham.
And now Frank Lucasi is going out to the mound and we will have a pitching change.
Possible chance that an outfielder will go in the ball game as the pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies will be due up in the bottom of the sixth inning.
And that way they can put the batting order in position for the pitcher not to be involved in hitting the bottom of the sixth.
Now coming in is Bill Wilson. Bill Wilson who pitched in last night's ball game. Wilson last night worked two and a third innings, gave up no runs, allowed one hit, struck out two and walked one.
So they are making an outfield change. Coming out of the ball game Joe Liss, the left fielder, and Stone is going in. Ron Stone to play left field.
And they will switch batting positions with Stone batting in the pitching position, the ninth position in the batting order.
And going out of court the pitcher will bat in Joe Liss' spot which was number five. And as the pitchers make this change, let's check out the action in the national and the American League with Bob Murphy.
In the fourth inning of Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Montreal, 2, Pittsburgh, 1.
And now Morton 16 and 11, the Montreal Pitchers. Veterans South Quad, George Burnett making his first start for the Panthers.
As Bob Gibson hurled a two-hitter, the Cardinals defeated the Cubs 2-1 in the first game of the doubleheaders, making up last night's Green-Dot game.
The Cardinals scored both of their runs in the second on back-to-back singles by Luis Melendez and Ted Simmons. Melendez scored on an error by Ron Sato and Simmons scored on a single by Julian Javier.
The only hits given up by Gibson were a triple by Beckard and a single by Puppetton.
Gibson won his 23rd. He now has won 21 of his last 24. Ferguson's intending to lose it.
In the second game, it'll be Bill Hamm, 17 and 13, against Jerry Royce, the Ricky Roughbender, 6 and 8.
San Diego, 1. Atlanta, nothing at the end of the fourth.
Cincinnati, 4. Houston, nothing in the third inning.
Later tonight, the Giants and Dodgers in Los Angeles.
Yankees, 3. Washington, 1. At the end of the fourth, Coleman against Rob Gardner.
Cleveland beat Boston 5-2, stopping the Red Sox winning a three-target in the winter, Brett Saluzer.
Hawkeye Olsen hit a home run, as did Vern Fuller and Joe LaHoodle, the Red Sox.
The White Sox blanked the Royals, 6 to nothing.
And the other games are just getting underway, and the Tiger-Ballimore game was postponed because of the power shortage.
Now we're up for the action here, a big moment for the Mets.
That all set to follow it for you, Ralph Koenig.
All right, Bob Murphy, the base is loaded. John Glenn, then, in the batter, no one out top of the 6.
The Mets need two to tie.
And then, as grounded out and flied out.
Right hand batter, he leads the club and runs better than with 90.
Batting at 290, and the first pitch by Bill Olsen is inside the ball.
Olsen with a record of one win and no losses, making his fifth appearance against the Mets.
He was in last night's ballgame, worked two in the third inning, gave up one hit and no runs.
He has a record of one and all.
There's a hard smash to short. It'll be a double play.
The ball over to Taylor covering at second base, and the throw to first base, a double play.
On the play, the Mets get a run, as AG scores from third base.
That was a one-hop drive, right at Larry Bore, the shortstop.
He took it, and from there on, it was a routine play. They had all the time in the world to make the double play.
And the Phillies pick up two quick outs.
So, Wilson on one pitch, picking up two outs.
And now coming up for the Mets is Ron Cibota. They trail by one.
Ron represents the time run. He is not going to bat.
He has been called back, and we're going to have Dave Marshall bat for Ron Cibota.
That ball was in.
Right on the nose, but right at Larry Bore, the shortstop.
No run batted in on the double play.
Dave Marshall coming up.
Dave, hitting.257, has six home runs, 29 runs batted in.
That run will be charged to Chris Short.
But at this point, he can win the ballgame.
He worked five innings, and the Phillies lead four to three with no one on.
Pardon me, on the play, Harrelton went to third, so he cannot win the ballgame if Harrelton scores.
Dave Marshall, left hand batter, stepping in the batter's box.
Bill Wilson.
Checking the signs. He's working from the set position, not taking any chances.
On Harrelton, the third, the first pitch in there for a golf strike.
One strike down.
Marshall has had two pinch hit home runs this year.
Now Wilson back, and the pitch is high for a ball at one ball and one strike.
One ball, one strike, Wilson's set, here's the pitch.
It's way outside, ball two, two and one.
Now the signs go out.
Marshall checks, goes in the set position, checks Harrelton at third, and the 2-1 delivery.
It is flung on and fouled back out of play.
Two man out, goes to two balls and two strikes.
Two balls, two strikes, the tying run is at third base.
Two man out, top of the sixth inning.
The score is, to tonight, 5,683.
And a 2-2, the pitch to Marshall. It is over, a call, strike three.
And Wilson does quite a job in relief.
He gets Don Glendinander to hit into a double play with a base as ordered, and strikes out Dave Marshall.
In the inning, the Mets score two runs on three hits.
No air, one man left on, and the score in the middle of the sixth inning, the Phillies four, the Mets three.
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74 degrees in the capital of the state of WOKO.
We're going to the bottom of the sixth.
The Phillies leading by a score of four to three, and Gary Gentry is the new pitcher in the ball game for the Mets.
Ray Tadecki started when four-on-one was dropped with three runs. He gave up six hits, stuck out three, walked through.
Nolan Lyon was dropped with one run, giving up two hits in one-third of an inning.
Ron Herbal gave up no hits in no runs in two-thirds of an inning.
We're taking out for a pinch hitter, when the Mets rallied to get back in the ball game.
And now Gary Gentry. Gary with a record of nine wins and nine losses.
This is his 31st appearance.
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And with a right-hander coming in, Byron Brown scheduled up.
The Phillies are going to a platoon system, and Oscar Gamble is going to take over for Brown in the outfield and pinch hit for him.
The Mets have left Ken Singleton in the ball game. He's single to start up the rally.
And of course, he is a quick hitter, and that would give the advantage if they do change pitches later on in the ball game.
Singleton can bat either way.
Oscar Gamble, a left hand batter.
In last night's ball game, Gamble had two hits in four trips to the plate, one of them in triples.
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Gamble hitting 263, has one home run, 18 runs batted in.
And the first pitch by Gentry, low and away, ball one.
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Phillies, ball runs, eight hits. No errors. The Mets have three runs, five hits, and one error, and the one error talks them around.
And here's the swing and the miss, and they count one ball and one strike.
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Now the 1-1 delivery. It is hit out towards second right at Ken Boswell, a soft line drive, and Ken Owl-White, and Owl makes the catch.
That'll bring up Larry Heisdahl with his two run home run, and it broke a 1-1 tie back in the fourth inning.
Heisdahl is two for two in this ball game, a double and a home run.
The average for the year 2004, he has 10 home runs, 22 doubles, 43 RBI.
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He also has struck out 136 times this year, and there's the swing and the miss strike one.
He has played in 119 ball games and has struck out 136 times.
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In last night's ball game, he had a triple and three times up. Next pitch is a ball, and they count one ball and one strike.
Gentry in his 31st appearance.
Now swing and a miss, and it's strike two. One ball, two strikes.
This is Gentry's third relief appearance.
Willis for Metzree, one out, bottom of the sixth. The next pitch, a half swing, and it's called a ball.
Heisdahl checked in time, and counts two balls, three strikes.
Now Gentry leans in, checks out Gotee signs, goes into the windup, and the 2-2 pitch.
It is inside, ball three, and Gentry, three and two to Larry Heisdahl.
Juan Stone is the on deck batter, batting in the ninth position.
Chicago nothing, St. Louis nothing in the second game. Bill Hands against Jerry Royce.
First game Cardinals won two to one as Gibson pitched a two hitter.
Now swinging a foul back, so the count remains three and two.
This last game, everything goes according to schedule, Everett County Mac Stadium.
Ballpark built back in 1909.
Now Gentry taking time before checking the signs, and again his three to five.
And he's been missed in high school, struck out for the 137th time this year.
At the end of four, Montreal to Pittsburgh one.
Pittsburgh did not score in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Carl Morton pitching for the X-Bowls against George Brunette for the Bire.
Now with two minutes, Ron Stone steps up for the first time.
Stone hitting 267, he has three home runs, 38 runs batted in.
He has played in 116 games.
And the fifth by Gentry, a change up, it's over, called strike.
Filly for the Mets three, two men out, bottom of the sixth.
Boyd being moved back to a deeper third base position by the Mets bench.
Now again a change up, this one even slower than the first and it is high and away.
One ball, one strike.
The Mets have been in the top of the game, they have won 28 and lost 23, best in the league.
By 51, one run ball game.
Now at one-one, the pitch is outside, a fastball missing, two balls, one strike.
Gentry back, pitch is going on a miss, a fastball, two and two.
And then on that first base, Weiss at second, Harrelson at short, Boyd third, two-two delivery.
It is a curve ball, a check in the swing, just low and the count goes full of three and two.
Both pitch, but a ball in the outfield, Leon Jones on left, Tommy Agee in center, Ron Cervota in right.
Now the wind up and three-two pitch.
It's at the deep right center, extra bases going over his, Agee playing the ball off the wall,
dropping it, picking it up, but Stone stays at second base as Agee Strong's ball goes all the way to third.
So a three-two pitch and a double by Ron Stone and the Phillies have a runner at second with two men out.
And Larry Bowe coming up.
And we pause for station identification.
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Phillies leading four to three.
They have a runner at second and Larry Bowe are coming up.
Offer to the mound between Gary Grote and Gary Gentry.
Now Grote back to give out the sign.
Boy is 0 for 3 in this ballgame.
He brought an 18-game heading streak into the game and he's batting from the left-hand side of the plate for the first time.
Boy hitting 2-51 for the year.
2 for 3 last night.
And Gentry's fifth.
It is low and outside of all.
Gentry with a record of nine wins and nine losses.
And the right-hander sets up.
The 1-0 delivery.
Ball 2.
This time outside but high and two balls, no sight.
Phillies now have nine base hits in this ballgame.
They have had runners on in every inning.
Left two on in the first one and they're scoring an earned run.
Left one on in the second.
A double play got them out of a jam and a serve and they had two men on.
Now the 2-0 fifth.
Fastball over, called strike.
In the fourth inning they got two runs and a single and a home run.
In the fifth inning they got a run on two hits and left one on.
And here they have a runner at second.
They count two and one, two men away.
And the third-side Gentry.
Inside a ball.
And they count three balls and one strike.
Tony Taylor is the on-deck batter.
He has been hot in the ballgame two to three with two runs scored.
Three balls, one strike.
Gentry sets.
And the pitch.
Ben Brook all strike and the count goes full to three and two.
Gentry has been three and two on his last three batters.
Now the sign is out.
Gentry sets.
And the pitch.
Swung on and foul-tipped and the goatee's dog and strike three.
Gentry strikes out two in the inning, surviving the double.
No runs on the one hit.
And one man left on.
And the score.
At the end of sixth, the Phillies bore the New York Mets three.
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We're going out of the top of the seventh inning.
The Mets trailing by a score of 4 to 3. The Phillies have Oscar Gamble in right field.
He was a pinch hitter for Byron Brown.
The Mets are going to pinch hit for Joel Foy as Wayne Garrett comes up with the play.
Foy had struck out his first few times up.
Garrett a left hand batter, batting 2-51.
Last night's ballgame, Wayne had two hits and five times up, but it was a big hit, a double.
And he takes the first pitch, first ball, strike.
On the mound, Bill Wilson. He came in with a base is older than no one out in the sixth.
Got down from then and on one pitch to hit into a double play with the Mets getting the run.
Then struck out Dave Marshall, a pinch hitter.
On strike pitch, outside, and they count one ball and one strike.
Montreal got a run on the top of the fifth. They lead Pittsburgh 3-1 after 4-1-1.
Martin against Brunette in the second inning.
Cubs did not score, so that game after 1-1-1, nothing, nothing.
St. Louis beat the Cubs in the first game 2-1.
Then a pitch low to Garrett, two balls, one strike.
Two balls, one strike. Wilson with a record of one and all.
End of the windup and the pitch to Garrett.
Taken high in this 3-1.
Britt George started the ballgame for the Phillies, lasted five innings,
was charged with three runs on five hits. He struck out six, walked one.
The walk got him out of the ballgame.
Brought Bill Wilson in.
A 3-1 delivery.
Eyeball four and the Mets have the time run on as Garrett walks.
Wayne Garrett picking up his 73rd walk.
The Mets have the time run at first with Gary Grote coming up.
In the on deck circle, Ken Boswell.
Now Weiss was scheduled up.
Grote has doubled and scored a run in two times up, batting at 2-52.
Mets with the time run at first going out in the top of the seventh inning.
Wilson taking plenty of time before looking in for the signs. Now gets that.
Garrett edges off at first base.
And the pitch. Grote squares, Buntz the ball, foul, strike one.
Mets playing for a tie here in the seventh inning.
By the way, when Tommy Agee doubled in the sixth inning,
it was his 175th extra base hit.
No, base hit, which is a new Mets record.
Mets come in behind and extra base it with 59.
Pitch back, bun it out toward the front of home plate.
It is a fair ball and the catcher, McHarver comes out,
feels the ball, started to go to second.
And then he decided to go to first when he saw he had no chance at second base.
Actually what happened, McHarver charged out and that ball was in back of him.
He had to reach back to get it.
And then lost the chance for a play at second.
So on the sacrifice, 2-4.
It puts the time run at second and brings up Ken Boswell batting for Al White.
Grant Jackson starting to flow on the bullpen for the Phillies, the left-handers.
Boswell in last night's ball game had two hits and four times up,
batting 255 for the year with 44 RBI's and five home runs.
First pitch, high of all.
Bill Wilson, set to go.
A check at second base, Garrett there, and the pitch back to Boswell.
He's behind in the center field, it should be playable.
There is Larry Heisel, he makes the catch.
Garrett halfway, goes back to second, and the Phillies pick up their second out.
That'll bring up Ken Singleton who is batting in the pitcher's position.
He was a pinch hitter in the ball game for Ron Herbal.
He started a 2-1 rally when he singled the right field his first time up.
Pittsburgh did not score on the bottom of the fifth inning,
but he's going to the sixth at Montreal free, Pittsburgh one.
A new pitch in the ball game for Pittsburgh.
Brunette is out, and John Lamb is in.
Singleton batting left-handed, and he takes a strike over the outside corner, strike one.
Singleton got his face hit off Chris Short, batting right-handed.
Ken batting 2.58 for the year, has 50-base hits for the year.
Pitch back, it is high and outside, one ball, one strike.
Phillies lead 4-3, two men on top of the seventh inning.
The Mets have Wayne Garrett on at second base.
Wilson's set, here's the pitch.
High and outside, ball two, two balls, one strike.
Wilson coming to this ball game, and his game had an earned run average of 4.98.
Almost five runs for nine innings.
The 2-1 pitch, flung on and fouled off.
For the catch, two balls, two strikes.
Two balls, two strikes, two men out.
Garrett at second.
And the right-hander sets up, here's the pitch.
It is just outside, and Wilson was on his way to the dugout.
Wilson, on his way to the dugout, thought he had Singleton struck out.
Down now it goes to three and two.
Wilson goes back to the mound.
On deck batting for the Mets, Tommy Agee.
Now the free-two count.
Wilson's set, Garrett at second, here's the pitch.
Flung on and hit, Singleton is struck out, and that ends the inning.
Second strikeout for Wilson, and both strikeouts have come with a runner in scoring position.
No runs, no hits, no errors, a walk, a man left at second,
and the scorer in the middle of the seventh, the Phillies four, the Mets three.
Well, fans, as you well know, time is slowly running out on the 1970 baseball season at
J Stadium, and only four more home dates remain.
One of these dates is fan appreciation night on Thursday, October 1st, when the Mets meet
the Chicago Cubs in the final game of the season at 7-0-5.
And the New York Mets management, by way of showing their appreciation,
will give everyone who attends the game that night an attractive beverage tray,
complete with colorful Met coasters, and it will prove mighty useful around the house.
It's a gift every Met fan will enjoy having.
So why don't you plan to be on hand for fan appreciation night,
Thursday, October 1st, when the Mets go out to regular season at 7-0-5 for the Chicago Cubs.
The Mets will play the first of four against the Cubs on Monday night.
That's a make-up game, game time at 8.
They'll play Tuesday night at 8, Wednesday afternoon at 2, and Thursday night at 7-0-5.
Going now to the bottom of the seventh inning, the Phillies leading 4-3.
The Mets now have Wayne Garrett playing third base, Joe Foy out,
and Ken Boswell playing second, Al Weiss out.
They clend in at first, Boswell at second, Nelson at short, Garrett at third.
In the outfield, Leon Jones on left, Tommy Hage in center, and Ken Singleton in right.
First batter for the Phillies will be Johnny Taylor.
He is 2-3 in this game, a two-run scorer.
He's singled in the first, doubled in the fifth.
Taylor's had four hits and seven times up in this series.
Right hand batter batting 2-95.
He's having his best year ever in the Major League.
Nine home runs, 53 runs batted in.
On the mound, Gary Gentry, he worked the sixth inning, gave up one base, hit a double.
No runs, left one on.
First pitch is inside the ball.
Cardinal's got a run.
Now the 1-0 pitch.
It is lined down deep in the left field corner.
It will be extra-base.
The ball is off of the wall, dropped by Leon Jones, but Taylor goes in with a double.
Ball hit high off the wall, not far from the home run, maybe about a foot.
And Taylor has his third hit of the ball game, his second double, and the Phillies have a runner second with Nolan out,
with Don Money coming up.
Cardinal, in the bottom of the second inning, scored off Bill Hansen.
The Cardinals lead Chicago 1-0 after two.
They won the first game 2-1 behind Bob Gibson's two hitters.
Don Money has a base hit, and a run batted in, and two official times up.
Brandon looking for a sacrifice.
Here's the pitch.
It is taken high, and Bunny positioned ball one.
Wayne Garrett is about even with the bag at third.
Now he moves up just a little bit.
Taylor has good speed on the second.
The pitch back, swung on and missed, and they got one ball and one strike.
Phillies lead 4-3.
They have 10 base hits in the game.
Two off Gentry.
Both hits off Gentry have been doubled.
Picked off Tadecki to starter, two off Ryan.
Now at 1-1, Gentry back to the plate.
Pitch is fouled back, and the count goes to one ball and two strikes.
Dick Selma starts to warm up on the both end for the Phillies.
Selma was the losing pitcher in last night's ball game.
Also lost $500 for his remarks about the umpires, signed by the National League president,
Charles Finney.
Now at 1-2, the pitch by Gentry, again fouled off into the stands over the first base area.
The count stays at 1-2.
At the end of 5, it's Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 1.
Carl Morton pitching for the X-Bow.
John Lamb now in the ball game for the Pirates.
Now Gentry again ready for the 1-2 pitch.
It is inside.
Money has to jump away.
It is actually hitting.
Money is nicked by the pitch, and he is on.
So Gentry now in trouble.
Runners at first and second, no one out, and Darren Johnson coming up.
Johnson has walked in single twice.
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Gary Gentry losing the batter with the count at one ball and two strikes by hitting down money.
Now the Mets are looking for sacrifice.
Darren Johnson, big power hitter, here's the pitch.
He squares around, takes high a ball, and Gentry behind the net.
It's a double-nil.
Aaron Johnson big power hitter. Here's the pitch he squares around takes high a ball and Gentry behind one ball no strike
That was off cutting the warm-up in the bullpen for the men
Now coming out to the mound is Gil Hodges
You know Hodges has been out to the mound many times here tonight
He took the deck the out of the ballgame in the fifth
That's why I love all game in the fifth
And now he's out to talk to Gary Gentry
In this ballgame the Phillies got the early lead when Tony Taylor single to center field a hard smash the center went through
The legs and found the 18 went
For a single and a two-base error for Taylor to end up a third
Now money bounced one down the third with Joe Foy and the rest of the infield in boy had a play at the plate
But bobble the ball and lost a chance to throw out money at home, but he did pick up the out at first base
That's batted up for the run in the third
Phillies took a lead in the fourth on a two-run home run got another run in the fifth and that's got two in the
Six now players in and Johnson takes the pitch inside ball to again Johnson in running position
So again Gentry missing and they can't two balls no strikes
That's one there ballgame last night
The run is at first and second and no one out walk what else and he was trying to buy the 2-0 pitch and it's in first
all strike
And Johnson again in bunny position taking the pitch and the cat now two and one
Johnson with 87 RBI so leading RBI men in the Phillies now a punches one out over first but it's gonna be foul
Aaron Johnson with Don Clamdenin charging took a bunning stance and then as the ball got to the plate he funded it but funded it hard
It was far enough that it was out of the play and he was able to get it out of the play and he was able to get it out of the play
It was far enough that it was out of the dirt part of the infield and it landed foul by about two feet
It would have been devastating Montreal did not go in the top of the sixth they lead three to one as the Pirates bat in the bottom of the sixth inning
So the cat two balls and two strikes from then and drops back not figuring it by Garrett also back at third
Going out the Mets have their infield back for what they hope to be a double play
Here's the pitch it is a check swing ground ball foul on the first base side
The cat stays at two and two the last time up there and Johnson batting against Nolan Ryan had a half swing in line to single the right
First time up he single the center field on a three to pitch first official time up he had walked up to the ball two strikes the Phillies leading four to three
They have runners at first and second with no one out in the bottom of the seventh now gently ready and the pitch
It is a curve ball just outside so gently again three and two this is the fourth time he has been three and two and one complete ending the pitching
And in pitching to six batters
Runners at first and second Taylor fast at second base money pretty good at first here's the pitch the runners going the pitch is popped up
So infield fly the batter automatically out of Boswell for the second base
And Taylor gets back to second money back to first good pitch by Gary Gentry a big pitch
That brings up Willie Montaner batting for the pitcher Bill Wilson
Willie Montaner last night's ball game he was a ten hitter and blew up the single the center field it was part of a big four run in for the Philadelphia Phillies
Montaner batting at three hundred he has that pick that's been 20 times up the Cubs do not go on the top of the third the Cardinals lead one up in after two and a half
Cardinals won the first game two to one behind Bob Gibson two hitters
Willie Montaner has been hitting for the pitcher Bill Wilson that means Dick Thelma will be the next pitcher to ballgame for the Phillies
Runners at first and second Montaner's a left hand batter he has good feet
Gentry backs off the pitching rubber and here comes manager Gil Hodges out we could have Doug McGraw in this ballgame
Doug McGraw warming up in the bullpen and Gil Hodges hesitating before going over the base by now goes on over and goes out to the mound
Gentry stands with his arms folded looking out toward the bullpen
Art Chomsky is going out toward right field
Art Chomsky will be going in the ballgame as Doug McGraw comes in so that means they'll be switching batting positions
Dan Pugh will bat in the fifth batting position and Singleton going out who was in the ninth batting position from an earlier switch
Will see McGraw batting his position and McGraw coming in has a record of three and six this will be his 52nd appearance
Last time out was three and a third innings against Pittsburgh he was a losing pitcher as the Pirates won in the 10th inning by a score of nine to five
Now the Philadelphia Phillies are making the change and to tell you about that here's the Alkynes
Alright, Linton Elton with William Montanez up in a left hand batter and Doug McGraw coming in the ballgame a left hand pitcher
Frank LaCasey the manager of the Phillies has substituted Jim Huddo a right hand batter. HUTTO Jim hitting 187 for the year with three home runs and 12 runs batted in
In the ballgame Art Chomsky has taken over in right field
So the match has Chomsky in right, A.G. in center, Jones in left
Jones just now completing throwing a little bit to keep his arm loose
Phillies have runners at first and second one man out bottom of the seventh inning and they lead four to three
So right here a big big job for McGraw
Doug has a two ball that's effective against right hand batters
And he checked out the signs from Jerry Goody he gets that and the pitch
It is in for a ball strike just before the pitch Harrelson had moved over to second to move Taylor back to second base and then he broke back to his shortstop position
Taylor a fast man at second money on at first Taylor had doubled money with it by a pitch to get on with the count at one ball and two strikes on him
Now at one strike McGraw double check to second here's the pitch
A two ball hit down the short a play at second for Harrelson to throw there in time on the first to double play
So McGraw doing a great job getting out of the ground and do a double play a fine play on the play by Harrelson as he charged the ball field of the ball right on the edge of the infield grass
Threw back to second base to Boswell and Boswell throw on the first base was in time
So it's a six four three double play and any no one one hit no errors and one man left on and the score at the end of seven the studies for the New York Mets three
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We're going now to the top of the eighth inning. The Mets behind by one and now for the play by play and this exciting ballgame.
Thank you very much, Ralph Cannon. Hello everybody. Dick Selma is on the mound now making his seventieth appearance. He was the losing pitcher last night when he worked the ninth inning.
He's been credited with twenty two saves this year for the Philadelphia Phillies. He is a former New York Mets.
And Tommy Agee, top of the batting order, is up the lead off for the New York Mets. Also my last night, Agee singled a right to drive in the tying and winning run.
Here's the first pitch and it's hung on and popped up the first base and right there is Deron Johnson to make the catch.
Last night, Agee swivel one through off the handle to right field. That time he was jammed again and popped it up the first.
The Pittsburgh Pirates did not score in the sixth. Montreal is coming up in the seventh inning leading the Pirates three to one.
Now, Brad Harrelson is coming up for the Mets. He is a switchative batting left. He had a single to drive in the run on the top of the sixth.
Harrelson is one for three here tonight. Dick Selma hard going right hander and the pitch is high for a ball. Third base went down.
Money stays on the grass thinking that Harrelson might set a money's way on. The Phillies are leading by a score of four to three here.
Here's a pitch that is fired and first house strike. It's one-one.
Leon Jones is waiting on deck. This is a one-one delivery.
The ball's gone out and missed. It's one and two. Selma has been fairly effective in late inning relief this year for the Phillies.
He has a blazing fastball. Here's a one-two delivery. Breaking pitch. It misses low and the count goes two and two now to Brad Harrelson.
Two-two delivery. Third ball high and a shot full at three-two. Deron Johnson playing first base over near the line guarding it.
Trying to protect against the extra base with possibilities. This will be a big payoff that's coming here and it's on the way.
Swung on and it's fouled on the left of your line. Ron Stone gives shape but it's in the feed tonight of play.
The count stays full at three and two. The Mets are looking for a base on it. This is a good way to get the tying run on board here in the top half of the eighth inning.
Selma then forwards from the way to get the sign. Here's the three-two delivery. He walked in. High and tight.
So now Harrelson goes to first. The tying run is on. Leap hard for station identification. This is the New York Mets baseball network.
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The Phillies are leading the Mets by a score of four to three. The Mets are batting in the eighth with a runner at first and one man out.
Leon Jones steps into the batter's box. Selma fits in there for a called strike. Jones is 0 for 2 on the walk.
He has slide to right, done it out there in the first and one. He was unhappy with the call on the last pitch by plate umpire Dick Selma.
Dick Selma last night after the ballgame leveled all sorts of charges at the umpires. As a result, he was fined $500 by Doug Feeney, the president of the National League.
This umpiring crew was not entirely satisfied with his apology. Here's a sort of first out in time.
Selma went into the umpire's room before the ballgame and made a personal apology.
Strike one, delivery to Jones. Third ball and a tie, one and one.
Waiting on deck is Don Glenn Dennis.
Darren Johnson is holding against the runner at first base.
Selma sets up one, one, pitch. Front on, foul back. It's out of play and the count's one and two.
Tim McArthur is the catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. He has spent most of their season on the sidelines with a clustered hand.
Teams have been known to run on McArthur.
This will be a one, two pitch. Off the stretch.
Breaking pitch low, it's two and two.
Already tonight the Cardinals have defeated the Cubs in the first game of their doubleheader and the Cards are leading in the second game.
Montreal is leading the Pittsburgh Pirates. That makes this game doubly big here at Johnny McShady as far as the Mexican's concerned.
Breaking pitch, hung on him there, stuck him out. Jones is out, two away.
Now Don Glenn Dement, he's gone 0 for 3 here tonight.
Down it out short to first, fly it to center and down it into a double play.
Glenn Dement was up for the bases, loaded nobody out in the sixth inning.
Billy Wilson was brought in to pitch to him and he hit into a double play.
Wilson picked two innings here tonight, allowed no runs, no hits.
Wilson picked two in the third last night, allowed no runs and one hit.
So big Don Glenn Dement that handles that bat loosely at the plate, gets almost fixed.
It is high for a ball.
Archie Chemsky is on deck.
But Allison's the runner at first.
Almost set.
Breaking pitch, it's his deep and left, way back, could be, going, going.
Home run for Don Glenn Dement off the facade of the upper deck.
And the New York Mets go out in front by a score of 5 to 4 on Don Glenn Dement's 21st home run of the season.
He hit a good film of fastball off the facade of the upper deck.
And left field and the New York Mets are leading in the ballgame for Don Glenn Dement.
That is his third home run against the Phillies this year.
All of them hit here at County Mac Stadium.
His last one is against the Pirates on the 20th of September.
Don Glenn Dement with a two run homer on the Mets have taken the lead.
Arch Chemsky is up there now with two men out.
The pitch is high and tight, locked in back.
The Mets are batting in the top of the eighth and they're out in front by a score of 5 to 4.
Here's a pitch in for a called strike and it's 1-1 to Chemsky batting for his free time tonight.
He did not start the ballgame because the Phillies started the left hander, Chris Scork.
1-1 offering is on the way at the fastball high and tight and it goes two balls and a strike now to Chemsky.
Wayne Garrett is on deck.
Glenn Dement, he hit a shot. It wasn't a fly ball, he ripped it on a lie.
Montreal did not score in the seventh. The Pirates are coming up in the bottom of the seventh.
Montreal still leading 3-1 as a breaking pitch in for a called strike.
Two balls, two strikes to Arch Chemsky.
Left hander, Graer Jackson, up and throwing in the bullpen.
For the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-2 pitch to Chemsky.
He's going on and fouled back. He stays alive at 2-2.
And his action down in the Med Bullpen. Right now Ron Taylor is up and throwing.
Ron Taylor is throwing in the Med Bullpen.
Here's a 2-2 pitch to Chemsky.
He's going on and fouled back. It's out of play.
This is the first time tonight that the New York Mets have been either even or out in front in this ballgame.
A fairly short in the bottom half of the first inning.
And that's good evening it up in the third, but then the Phillies went out in front 3-1 when they got 2-4.
There's a swing and a miss, strike three.
So they got two strikeouts, but he gave up a two-run homer.
So it's two runs on one hit, a walk, no errors, and none left.
In the middle of the eighth inning, the score is the Mets 5 and the Phillies 4.
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The Mets victory is Doug McGraw.
He came in in the bottom of the seventh inning to get Jim Huddo to hit into an inning-inning double play and get the Mets out of a dangerous spot.
It's Tim McRober, left-hand batting catcher, coming up to lead off for the field here in the bottom of the eighth inning.
The Mets 5-run, 6-6. The field 4-run, 10-1.
McRober has rounded out single to center and fouled out the third base.
Doug McGraw into the market.
Pitch is fired low, pass 30 on back, and it's 1-0.
Ron Taylor continues to throw in the Med Volcan.
The Mets have used five pitches here tonight.
Ray Sadecki started, worked four innings.
Nolan Ryan worked the third of an inning, 1-0 pitch.
It's high. Ron Hebel worked two-thirds.
Gary Gently worked one in the third and now Doug McGraw.
2-0 is the count to McRober.
When you have a one-run lead, you don't want to put him on.
Pitch is inside. McGraw has gone behind 3-0.
That brings Doug McGraw in from, or rather, Bud Harrelson in to see McGraw from the post-it shortstop,
and Glenn Dunn is coming over.
This is what happened to the New York Nuts last night.
They were leading by a run, and the fields were coming up in the ninth,
and Dean Kent walked the lead off at it.
Alright, Glenn Dunn goes back to first.
Harrelson goes back to his post-it short.
They count his three balls and no strikes.
The leadoff man, Jim McRober, with Oscar Gamble on deck.
It's fired right down to 5-4, a call strike.
3-1 to McRober.
The 3-1 delivery.
Plung on and ripped down to right field.
It'll be extra basis for McRober.
He's around first down.
He's right at second.
Dempsey is in the bullpen, receiving the ball,
fires it in a stand-up double, leading off the bottom of the eighth,
by Jim McRober.
Dean Kent is getting up to throw in the bullpen for the New York Nuts.
Oscar Gamble is coming up.
Dean Kent is up and throwing in the bullpen.
The Phils have the tying run at second,
and the bottom of the eighth with nobody out.
That was a 3-1 pitch, and it was ripped right down the right field line.
Rolled all the way down into Billy Bullpen in the right field corner.
Oscar Gamble.
And up one down, and he lined out second base.
He's left and batted.
Glenn Dennan in on the grass at first, expecting a sacrifice to step here.
Garrett hanging around to cut out of the grass at third.
Here's a pitch.
Gamble swings and pounds it back.
He's just a full cut.
Oscar Gamble is hitting 262 for the year.
He's at one homer and 18 runs batted out.
That's figuring it's a home club to try to sacrifice him over,
so Glenn Dennan stays about 45 feet away from the plate,
well in on the grass at first.
Mazara takes the side from Grote.
He steps up.
Here's a pitch.
Gamble, ready to swing away, watches low, and it's a ball.
Again, he was not running, and so Glenn Dennan repeats a few steps now.
MacCarver is the runner at second base.
Larry Heisel is on deck.
The Mets are leading 5-4, with the Phillies threatening in the bottom of the eighth inning.
This is the gambles.
Peng on, fouled out to the left side.
On the pitch, Glenn Dennan was charging again.
Pittsburgh did not score in the bottom of the seventh inning going to the eighth.
Montreal 3 and Pittsburgh 1.
Chicago did not score in the fourth.
Going to the bottom of the fourth, it is the Cardinals 1 and the Cubs nothing.
Mets trying to get out of a jam here at the bottom of the eighth inning to protect a one-run lead.
Here's a one-two pitch to Oscar Gamble.
Peng on and tipped back into the goal for Grote for the strikeout.
What are you hanging on? And it is one away.
Doug McGraw got him with a curve ball.
Larry Heisel is coming up.
He's in nothing but trouble for the Mets tonight.
He doubled in the second inning and hit a two-run homer in the fourth,
but was struck out by Jitri in the sixth.
He's at number eight in the order,
and is hitting 2-0-4 for the season, but he's been rough of late and rough on the Mets.
The graph pops a ball in his glove once it's right.
At third base now against the right-hand batter,
Gary Gently, or rather Wayne Garrett, is guarding that line.
The big gap between Garrett and shortstop Bud Harrelson.
That ball is low and it's ball one, the hyper.
He's followed by Ron Stone, a left-hand batting outfielder.
Stone bats number nine in the present batting order of the Philadelphia Phillies.
So Stone is on deck, swinging about loosely.
1-0-5, swung on, and did he hold up?
It was a check, playing.
And Clay Lumpire is asking how the first base umpire,
Dave Davidson, to give him an opinion.
He said he swung the bat.
So it is one-and-one.
Heisel started the playing check to pitch, which is down in the dirt.
And Clay Lumpire, DeCello, had indicated that it was a ball,
then asked an opinion of Dave Davidson at first, who said he took a swing.
It's one-and-one.
McGraw sets up 1-1-6.
That ball hit on the ground to second base.
Boswell is there, up with it, goes to Clint Dunham.
Two away, McCarver moves the third on the infield out.
Now Ron Stone is a left-hand batter.
He is being called back to the dugout.
We're going to get somebody else coming up for him.
They want to play righty-lefty here.
Ricky Joseph, Ricardo Joseph is coming up.
He is a right-hand batter, an infielder by trade.
Ricky Joseph is hitting.229 for the year.
He has three home runs and ten runs batted in.
Rick Joseph is batting for Ron Stone.
This is strictly righty-lefty.
So the Mets are leading by a score of 5 to 4.
The Phillies have the tying run at third, represented by Tim McCarver.
There are two men out.
As Rick Joseph steps into the batter's box, the Phillies are batting in the bottom of the eighth.
McGraw is working straight away.
Pass ball and it's a little low, ball one.
Dean Shantz continues to throw in the med bullpen.
McGraw reads the sign of Jerry Grote.
Here's the pitch just missing, a little low.
McGraw has gone behind 2-0 on Rick Joseph.
Bud Cadgad has been brought in by the Pittsburgh Pirates now in the eighth inning.
Montreal batting, he is a speed picker to work tonight for the Pirates.
Montreal is leading 3-1.
Here's a 2-0 pitch to Joseph.
Surf ball, put on and loose.
It is 2-1.
Dave Lewis did not score in the fourth.
The Cubs are coming up in the fifth inning with the Cardinals leading them 1-0.
The Cardinals won the first game tonight by a score of 2-1.
This will be a 2-1 pitch now to Rick Joseph.
It's on the way.
Check, swing, foul ball to the right side on the ground and out of play.
Down is two balls and two strikes to Joseph.
He backs out of the batter's box, reaches down to get a handful of dirt.
Passes to the side, takes a look at McGraw, moves the dirt out of the batter's box.
That's the edge of the plate.
Moves in now.
McGraw touches the bill of his step.
Takes the ball out of the glove, puts it back in, looks in for the sign now.
He looks at McCarver leading off the bag of dirt.
Here's a 2-2 pitch.
Pull out and loose.
He's stuck it out in the round of the inning.
McGraw runs about three steps off the mound towards the dugout.
And now McCarver has died at third on McGraw's second strike out of the inning.
No runs are hit, no errors, and one man left at the end of eighth full inning to play.
The score is the Mets 5 and the Phillies 4.
Now the Philadelphia Phillies make a change and left.
Scott Reed is in the play left field.
Wayne Garrett is up for the Mets and he fouls it off the strike one.
Mets are batting him the top of the ninth, facing Dick Selma.
Wayne Garrett's been up one time in this game and he threw a walk.
Again Selma into the motion.
The strike one delivery is on the way.
Breaking pitch gets high, one and one.
Selma is the pitcher of record for the Philadelphia Phillies.
There's a breaking pitch outside.
Douglas Raw is the pitcher of record for the New York Mets.
With Garrett at the plate, Jerry Grote is next in the New York Mets batting order.
Selma's 2-1 delivery is put on and it is lined up the middle for a base hit for Wayne Garrett.
Gary Heisler comes over, shoots it up, plays it back.
Garrett turns and holds with a single to center field.
Leading off here in the ninth inning.
That'll bring up Jerry Grote.
Montreal Expos did not score in the eighth inning.
The Pittsburgh Pats are coming up in the bottom of the eighth with Montreal leading 3-1.
Jerry Grote has doubled.
Glad to write and sacrifice.
He takes a look down to Eddie Yost, the sign man of spirit.
Now to see if he is sacrificing Wayne Garrett over the second.
Ken Boswell is on deck.
The Mets are leading 5-4.
The ball is funded up into the air and it is taken there momentarily by Selma.
Now he throws the second for the fourth play.
And the force is made there.
Garrett came back to the back at first.
As the ball is popped up.
Selma had decided that he would let it hit.
And see what kind of a play he could affect in a possible double play.
But Garrett has come back to the bag at first base.
And so then when Selma bobbled the ball.
He picked it up, had an easy play at second because both the Mets base runners were at first.
So it's definitely a fourth play.
The put out goes to the shortstop Larry Boyle.
He assists to Selma.
Grote attempting to sacrifice his funded into a fourth play.
He's the runner at first.
And Boswell is up.
He's got up one time and he fly deep to center field.
Fastball is in for a called strike.
Grote trying to sacrifice.
Popped the ball up out toward the mouth.
There's a swing and a foul ball off a breaking pitch on the ground back at first.
And then D.J. Burr came up with the ball after Darren Johnson had taken a swipe at it and come up empty.
Boswell bats number eight.
And the Mets batting order.
And Chugler's out at nine.
He's windmilling the bat out there on deck.
The count is two strikes to Boswell.
There's a swing and a foul ball back and out of play.
Boswell had decided when he saw that ball popped up that he would try to pull the unintentional mouth and take a shot at getting two.
But he scribbled it off.
No right because when he did get control both the Mets base runners were still at first.
There's a swing and a foul ball down the left field line.
Long run for Scott Reed and he makes the catch and fair character.
He's just coming across the line.
And Grote repeats the first base.
Boswell with a fly ball right down the left field line.
It was a long run for Scott Reed but he got there and made the catch about a foot in fair territory and came across the line.
Doug McGraw is coming up.
Doug McGraw at the place he's here is four for twelve.
He's had five runs out of them.
Grote is at first and two men are out.
The Mets are leading by a score of five to four.
Dick Belmont sets up, checks the runner.
Here's the pitch to McGraw.
He checks on it but does not swing and it's outside for a ball.
Now the AG is waiting on deck.
Aaron Johnson playing behind the runner at first. Grote leads. Clear ball hit on the ground and destroyed.
Big hop to Poa.
He goes to Tony Taylor for the fourth and second and the side is retired.
So the Mets got no runs ahead.
They hit no errors and one man left.
In the middle of a ninth inning the score is the Mets five and the Phillies four.
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At Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh the Pirates did not score in the eighth inning.
Montreal is coming up in the ninth leading the Pirates by a score of three to one.
In St. Louis in the second game the Cubs did not score in the fifth.
The Cardinals are coming up in the bottom of the fifth leading the Cubs by a score of one to nothing.
The Cardinals won the first game of the Climatic 2 to 1.
Right here the Mets are leading five to four.
Doug McGraw will be facing the top of the Philly batting order here in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Larry Boa the switch hitting shortstop will lead off.
He has fouled to the catcher, grounded out short to first, grounded out third to first and struck out.
He's batting right against the left-hander, Doug McGraw.
Wayne Garrett the third person moves under the cut out of the grass at third.
The remainder of the Mets alignment stays the same as it was.
No defensive changes here in the ninth inning.
Jamsky is still in right field.
Doug McGraw, end of the motion.
Breaking vision there for a called strike to Larry Boa.
He's followed in the batting order by tough Tony Taylor.
McGraw again takes a look around, end of the motion, strike one delivery.
Fastball a little low at one and one.
McGraw came in in the seventh.
Got a huddle to get into a double play.
Two-thirds of an inning credit to John Bayer.
Then he worked the eighth inning, so this is the third inning in which he has worked.
Fastball fouled off, it's one and two.
Ball came back into the stand.
McGraw standing just behind the rubber.
Larry Boa back end swinging the bat loosely.
Now McGraw is up and taking the side.
He's into the motion, the one-two pitch.
Breaking pitch, going on and missed.
He's stuck it out.
McGraw went to the scroogey to get the right hand out of it.
The third strikeout for Doug McGraw.
And that has at least temporarily ended the hitters streak of Larry Boa.
He brought an 18-game hitters streak into this game, but he has gone 0-5 here tonight.
He has done the math and the Mets haven't been able to deal with a single.
And then went to third when A.G. committed two-base error on his line drive in the first inning.
He doubled in the fifth and he doubled in the seventh.
He's a right-hand batter, a major league veteran.
McGraw now looks to get the side.
Here's the pick.
And it's time for a ball to Tony Taylor.
He's followed in the batting order by Don Money.
The Mets lead 5-4.
The fielders are batting in the bottom of the ninth inning.
As a fastball down the pipe, a ball strikes.
Got a little mustered on it.
It's one and one.
Dirty sends out the sign.
One-one pick.
Breaking pitch.
It's a little high.
Two and one now to Tony Taylor.
It's a two-one delivery on the way.
Fastball fouled off.
It's two and two now to Tony Taylor.
Doug McGraw, the fifth pitcher to work in this game tonight for the New York Mets,
is the pitcher of record for the Mets at this point.
Mike Selma is the pitcher of record at this point for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Here's a two-two delivery.
It's Taylor.
Breaking pitch.
He had him way out in front as he took a lot off of that one.
And Tony Taylor was set for the fastball.
And he is out swinging.
Two strikeouts for McGraw.
Four in the ball game.
Two in this inning.
So it's two men out of nobody on Don Moniz.
Don Moniz on it out third to first.
Had a base hit.
Had a sacrifice.
Slide it down and a run and it was hit by a face ball.
He's a right-hand batter.
Hitting three-oh-two for the year.
John Fitz swung on and fouled back.
It's out of play.
Dirty comes back halfway, but it's well back.
Strike one to Don Moniz.
The Met Five, the Phillies four.
McGraw again takes 30-five.
Swings into the mercy.
Pitch is on the way.
It's in there for a strikeout.
Breaking pitch.
It's 0-2 now.
Good on Moniz as McGraw broke that ball into the strikeout.
And he swings about a couple of times.
Two men out, nobody on base.
Hugg McGraw now again with the pitch.
It's on the way.
Put that in there.
It's over.
McGraw has struck out the side in the ninth inning.
He has struck out five all-goals.
He is the winning pitcher.
Dick Selma for the second consecutive night is the losing pitcher.
The New York Mets have swept the two-game series in Philadelphia to tighten up the race
in the Eastern Division of the National League and to keep the hopes of the New York Mets
aflame in this minute race in the ninth inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.
We'll be back in a moment with a final summary and totals.
Right now the final score of this four-game is the New York Mets five and the Philadelphia
Phillies four.
The New York Mets have come from behind here tonight to pull one out and a big one to tell
you how they did it.
Here is Ralph Keiner.
Paul, it was the clutch hitting of Don Glendon who has been the hitting star for the Mets
all year long.
He came up and with a two-run home run off Dick Selma put the Mets in front and then
Hugg McGraw came through with a tremendous relief performance to save the ballgame.
For Don Glendon it was his 13th game and it was his 21st home of the year.
Came in the eighth inning.
He now has 92 runs batted in.
McGraw came in the ballgame with runners at second and third and he got Jim Huddle a pinch
hitter to hit into a double play to end the inning in the seventh inning.
He then in the eighth inning gave a leadoff double but then struck out two of the next
three batters in the ninth inning.
He struck out three in a row to pick up his win.
Doug McGraw, it was his fourth win of the year.
He has lost six.
Dick Selma the losing pitcher losing two in a row to the Mets here in relief.
Now with a record of seven and nine.
Dick Selma left the Mets and Mets have defeated him five times in the last two years.
So temporarily the Mets are within two and a half games of Pittsburgh.
The Pirates are batting in the bottom of the ninth inning.
If they lose their ballgame they're trading three to one.
The Mets would be two games back.
In the ballgame the Philadelphia Phillies took the lead in the first inning when they
got an unearned run.
The New York Mets came back to tie up the ballgame in the third inning on a double by
Jerry Grote and a two outfaces by Tommy Agee.
But then on a two run home run by Larry Heitel the Phillies took the lead by a score of three
to one.
They added another run in the fifth inning on a double by Tony Taylor and a single by
Darren Johnson and a sacrifice fly in between and it was a four to one ballgame.
The Mets then got back in the ballgame as they picked up two runs in the sixth inning.
Ten singles and let off with a single to right field.
Chris George was still in the ballgame as a starting pitcher.
Tommy Agee doubled the center field to put Singleton over at third base.
The runners at second and third, Bud Harrelson single on a three to pitch to left field to
drive in Singleton from third base.
Leon Jones worked out a walk in a three one pitch and with the bases over they brought
up Don Glendon and Don hit into a double play in the first pitch with a run scoring and
then Bill Wilson who came in the ballgame struck out Dave Martzow to end the inning.
But the Mets had pulled up with three runs to a four three position.
They then came on to get two runs in the eighth inning on the two run home run by Don Glendon
and in the eighth inning with Dick Stelman the ballgame Tommy Agee popped up the first
base.
Bud Harrelson who has a tremendous walk rate to walk on the three two pitch to put the
time right at first.
Leon Jones was struck out on the curve ball for the second out of the inning.
Then Don Glendon and lined a home run into left field and the Mets went out in front
by a score of five to four and that's the way the ballgame ended.