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With Slaughter racing to third.
That ball drops perhaps 50 feet back of first state.
Goes Metric on second, Slaughter on third, and Big Johnny Mize comes up.
Neil Schaufner, left-handed pitcher, formerly of the Boston D.
Used now generally in bids by the Reds, starts warming up in the bullpen.
They're passing Johnny Mize.
Here's the next pitch outside, ball two.
Johnson goes outside again, ball three.
And here's the fourth one, ball four.
So Mize is publicly passed, putting Mize on first, Metric on second, Slaughter on third, two off, the bases are loaded, and Don Hedges, who is catching this game today, comes up.
Padding left-handed. Mike Gonzalez, coaching at third, Buzzy Weir, coaching at first, for the cards. Johnson winds up.
Here's the pitch to Padgett. Padgett goes for it, the ground ball is, George is picked up by Mize, who crosses to Ronnie Fry, forcing Mize at second.
Padgett's rally to George Stubb-Billy Myers, who crosses to Ronnie Fry, forcing Johnny Mize at second, for the third off.
Ride is retired. No runs. Two hits. No overs, and the bases were left filled.
Now we go to the last half of the first inning. Not much chance to give you any of the colors, but it's a good start.
As the game has already started, the time we came on the air, there's a crowd today that will number pretty close to 30,000 by the time it all gets in.
Some of the reserve seats that have not yet been filled, but the tickets have been sold, and even if the folks don't show up, we'll have the tickets.
There's a crowd, milling around the outside of Crosley Field, trying to get in.
Well, Kurt Davis goes out onto the mound, starts playing experimentally with Mickey Owen, but it'll be Don Padgett who will catch this first game.
The infield for the card was made up of Johnny Mize at first, Stewart Martin at second, Jimmy Brown at short, Don Guthrie at third.
The outfield, Joe Medwick at left, Kelly Moore in center, and Enos Slaughter in right field.
The first three batters to come up for the rest will be Werber, Fry, and Goodman.
Billy Werber is playing in his 143rd game of the season, fitting 292, has been attacked 583 times, and has 169 hits.
Kelly Werber, top of the plate, and it gives a sign to Kurt Davis.
The right-handers wind up, and here's the pitch.
Kurt Ball has hit a high bouncing ball back of the mound, second by Don Guthrie.
The ball is knocked out of his hand as he collides with Davis on the mound.
As he collides with Davis on the mound.
Guthrie is charged with an error.
The ball was a high bounder hit in front of the plate, bounced high in the air, and up to the left of the mound.
Don Guthrie, the third baseman, Jimmy Brown, the short stop, and Kurt Davis all went for it.
The ball was caught out of the air by Guthrie, but he smacked into Kurt Davis and dropped the ball, and is charged with an error.
That brings up Lonnie Fry, playing his 121st game, batting 295, 137 hits, and 464 times the bat.
Here's the first pitch to Fry. He bumps out in front of the mound.
The pitch up by Kurt Davis was rolled to first, covered by Johnny Mize.
Fry is out, and Werber takes second on the sacrifice.
Fry sacrificing, going out Davis to Johnny Mize.
That brings up Ivo Grysma, right fielder, left handed batter, playing his 120th game of the season, batting 325, 147 hits, and 463 times the bat.
Werber on second, the stretch is by Kurt Davis. He looks back a second.
Here's the pitch to Ivo Grysma. He swings and follows the first pitch back into the screen.
As he gets under it, right one.
That's a good one.
Bob Fulman starts warming up on the bullpen.
All the same to his car. Is Werber on second? No score on the game. Last half of the first inning.
One away, stretch by Kurt Davis. Here's the pitch to Goodman. Goodman goes for it.
That's a fly ball out of left center field. Joe Medlich backs out. He's out of it. Takes it. Ball to second out.
Goodman flying off to Medlich in left center field. Ball to second out.
That brings up Frank McCormick, heading into the cleanup spot, playing his 170th game.
He's still looking for his 200th hit. The first hit he gets this afternoon will be his 200th.
He's batting 328, has 199 hits, and 607 times the bat.
McCormick at the plate, fast right-handed. Werber on second, two-ups. No score. Last half of the first inning.
John Padgett in the cross gives the sign to Kurt Davis. He stretches, looks back a second.
Here's the pitch to McCormick. He swings at a curve and misses. Forth, right one.
Jimmy Wilson coaching at first. Manager Bill McKechnie coaching at third. Ball to Cincinnati Reds.
Touch again by Kurt Davis. Here's the pitch to Frank McCormick. A fast volley.
Hits it on the ground. Down to short. It's picked up by Jimmy Brown who gets it over to first to Johnny Mize.
For the third out, the side is retired. McCormick rounding out Brown through Mize.
Side retired. No runs. No hits. One error. One runner is left.
Well, there's one inning of the ballgame out of the way with no score.
Each team having a chance to score, the cards perhaps having a better chance of a two.
One error has been committed. Two hits. No hits so far off Kurt Davis.
Sun is beginning to shine a little bit. Weather is more conducive to football perhaps today.
That is in the shade at least. And it is the baseball.
Hardly, proudly overhead. Little blue sky beginning to show up here and there.
This morning very chilly here in Cincinnati. This afternoon a little bit warmer.
As we go to the top of the second inning with no score, it's Moore, Martin, and Davis the first three batters to come up.
Kerry Moore will be the first batter. Comes up out of the dugout.
The red dugout is to the left of home plate. The cardinal's dugout is to the right of home plate.
The distances, for those of you who are not familiar with this park, to left field is the foul line, about a 20 foot fence.
And the distance is 328 feet. And the ball hit out for today will be hit right directly into the wind.
To the left of the scoreboard, which is in left center field, the distance is 282 feet.
To the right of the scoreboard in right center field, in left center field rather, is 383.
To the right center field, flagpole is 387 feet. To the right field line at the bleachers, 366.
Kerry Moore's up, that's right-handed. The first pitch is high, ball one.
One ball, no strike.
Manager A blade starting off with a base pitcher, Kurt Davis.
The wind has begun by Thompson's fast ball. It's left the back of the plate foul and it comes up into the three.
Now Barty comes back forward but it's way out of his reach.
The guard has one ball, one strike.
The umpire, Larry Gets, throws the new ball out to Bill Werberg.
The umpires are Larry Gets at first. Dave Tonelli at first.
Rick Campbell at second. At third.
Dean Johnson winds up. Here's the pitch to Moore. Moore goes forward and lifts the fouls with that to the plate.
Barty is coming back but it's going back into the stands out of reach.
Back some ten rows back into the stands.
One ball, two strikes to come.
The umpire, Larry Gets, throws the new ball out to Bill Werberg.
One ball, two strikes to come.
Top of the second, no score.
The new ball is thrown out by umpire, Larry Gets to Bill Werberg.
Werberg always returns the ball to the pitcher.
By that I mean the ball is not thrown back to him by any other infielder.
It's always given to Bill Werberg and then...
...backs them out. Here's the windup. Here's the pitch to Moore.
Inside, ball two. The count is even up. Two balls and two strikes.
Gary Moore is the right-handed batter.
Back in the plate again.
Dean Thompson winds up. Here it is.
Fast ball, the tenor McGonagall, he broke his pass.
John McGonagall is short. Picked up by Bill Meyers. Gets it over to first.
To McCormick, he's out.
Moore, Gani, off Meyers. To McCormick.
One away. That brings up Hewitt Martin.
Rather splendid open second baseman. Ball to St. Louis Cards.
One away.
Thompson winds up. He throws the curve ball. It hits weakly on the ground and falls.
Back of Buzzy Ware. This is all the force.
The ball rolls up against one of the officers.
And they have covers posted all along the stands this afternoon.
And any player, or any fielder rather, any spectator who interferes with a fielder or player or a ball in play will be ejected.
The next ball is hit on the ground. The first. McCormick feels it.
Makes the out on a fiscally.
There have been one or two experiences this year where a ball in play has been grabbed by a spectator who wanted a souvenir of the game.
And it has brought about some rather bad consequences.
The announcement has been frequently made of late.
Here across the field of any spectator who interferes with a ball in play will be promptly ejected from the game.
It's rather surprising to see the effect that has on these spectators.
They'll start for a ball and remember that to go right back to their team as quickly as they can.
Leave it alone. Kurt Davis is a pretty fair hitter for a pitcher.
Has been used a bit as a pinch hitter.
On the card, there's a pitch to the right-handed batter.
He pulled his swing as he started for an offside curve and it's ball one.
We're at the top of the second but no score.
First game of the double header.
Thompson throws a fast ball that misses the inside corner.
It's ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Thompson goes back to the rod and back.
Here's the windup.
Here's the next pitch. Fast ball.
It springs and follows it into the dirt.
Back of the plate and it rolls back to the stand.
Two balls, one strike to count.
Two off, nobody on.
Two balls.
Both of them to Dean Thompson and Kurt Davis in the meantime.
Out of the batter's box.
Now he steps back up again.
Here's the windup and here it is.
Fast ball. It's hitting the line.
Out the left field.
Meyer jumps forward but can't get it.
It's a hit.
Here's the windup for Kurt Davis.
That is the third hit off Dean Thompson.
Davis on first with the swing of the bat.
That brings up Jimmy Brown who was brought up by Dean Thompson.
Just became on the air in the first inning.
Thompson takes a stretch.
Davis on first.
Here's the pitch.
Down goes Ford.
It's a ground ball down to second.
Davis on second.
Brown is on first.
Money flies error.
That puts Brown on first.
Davis on second two off.
And brings up Don Guthrich who flied out to Mootberger in left center field.
The first inning is first time up.
Brown is on first with second two off.
Thompson manages to do a trouble in the first inning with two off.
Guthrich that's right handed.
He's the third baseman for the cause.
That's by Thompson.
And here's the pitch.
It's a fly ball to the right of the plate.
Ernie Lombardi goes after it.
Circles around under it and takes it for the final hour.
Guthrich following up to Ernie Lombardi jumps to the right of the plate.
Side retired.
No run.
One hit.
One error.
Now we go to the last half of the second inning of this first game of the doubleheader.
Both games of which we're planning to broadcast this afternoon.
The first three batters will be Lombardi, Kraft and Berger.
Top coat.
Inevitable this afternoon.
Sweaters and jackets.
Not very many people in shirts please.
Now there in the right field pitches where the sun is beginning to bear down.
Just on the mob of humanity.
And they are sitting pretty much in their shirts please.
But in the grandstand themselves out of the section of the, out of the benefit rather of the sun.
You find regular coats, sweaters, feather jackets and things of that sort.
Pretty much enough.
Ernie Lombardi coming up for the first time in the game.
He's got right handed.
He's playing in his 129th game of the season.
At the batting average, surprisingly low for Big Lombard last year.
Was leading the national league and went on to win the national league batting class.
Batting 286 present time.
126 and hits in 441 times for that.
Davis winds up.
There it is.
The fly ball going out toward right field.
Slaughter is going far fast.
He can't get it.
He bounces off the right field pitcher's screen.
Lombardi goes on to second and pulls up a second with a double.
Oh and Lombardi does his 26th double of the season.
For those of you who are not familiar with Crosley Field, may I explain that in all three fields, left center and right field, there is an elevated terrace.
That in left field moves up toward the wall and center field moves up toward the wall and in right field moves up toward the leachers.
A little test possibly two and a half or three feet high.
All the way across the front of the right field.
The leachers members of the screen, hot way up and the ball hit into that screen is in play.
Any ball hit over the screen goes for a home run.
Lombardi on second.
Harry Craft is up right in the batter's center theater.
Craft hitting 258 at the present time.
Here's the pitch to Craft outside ball one.
Harry is playing his 130th game of the season.
Batting average is 258.
Made up of 125 hits in 485 times to bat.
Lombardi on second.
MC is not bothering much with him.
Here's the next pitch to Craft.
It's a curve ball.
Craft swings and misses for strike one.
Right down and Bob Foreman, a left-hander and right-hander respectively, warming up in the right field both hands.
Calls a thing to his card.
Davis gets the sign to Don Lombardi on second.
Here's the next pitch to Harry Craft.
Curve ball, he's got it for it.
Didn't pull his swing in time and it's called a strike.
One ball, two strikes to count.
Harry tried to check his swing on that.
That's double by Lombardi by the way.
The first hit off Kurt Davis.
Commence ball game.
That's by Davis.
Here's the pitch to Harry Craft.
Curve ball misses the outside corner and it's even to count.
Had two balls and two strikes.
No cause.
Last half of the second.
First game of the doubleheaders.
Lombardi taking his lead off second.
Davis looks back third.
No plays being made.
Here's the pitch to Ryan Pride in the left field.
A hit, rolls off to Joe Medlich.
Medlich feels it, fires it in.
Lombardi is held at third.
Harry Craft, swing wing to left.
Lombardi taking third.
That brings up Wally Burger.
Wally playing his 93rd game of the season.
Bouting 254.
Has 79 hits and 311 climbs at bat.
Little conference out there on the mound.
Around Kurt Davis.
Wally's been hitting very well at late however.
The ball is batting average up considerably.
He's batting along in the 320s and low 330s most of the season.
In the last three weeks he's pulled his batting average up to 254.
Runners on first and third.
No score in the game.
Kurt Davis looks into Don Patchett, gets the sign.
There's the stretch by Davis.
Here's the pitch to I. Popfly in field.
Back of the mound.
Little bit of a left of it.
Jimmy Brown follows it in and takes it almost on the mound.
The wind puts that ball in.
Burger popping out to George Duck.
Jimmy Brown.
That brings up Billy Myers playing his 147th game of the season.
Batting average of 280.
Has made up of 138 hits.
In 492 times at bat.
He's batting right handed.
He's grabbed it on first.
A body on third.
Wally.
Don Patchett taking his time while giving the sign to Kurt Davis.
The right hander.
Bill Katzek will wind up with an open base.
There's the stretch.
Here's the pitch to Bill Myers.
Myers puts a high fly out toward left field.
That makes both bats to the fence.
It's over the fence the whole month for Billy Myers.
Here's the pitch to Bill Myers.
Well Billy Myers.
That is his ninth home run of the season.
That puts the reds out in front by the score of 3 to nothing.
Myers all stopping Billy on the back as he goes down to the dugout.
That brings up Gene Hunt.
Right handed batter.
That's as he throws.
Kurt Davis winds up.
Here's the pitch.
Thompson clings and misses for a strike when he tried to check his play.
Too far around.
Or Simpson at his free.
They do as far as nothing.
That ball hit on the top of the left center field fence and bounced out.
And that ball was really crowded because it went right into the wind.
Davis winds up again as the next pitch to Thompson.
Low ball one.
One ball one strike.
Last ball.
One out.
Here's Davis winds up again as the next pitch.
It's a fly ball going into right center field.
It's likely to be in there for him.
It is.
Between George Mutch and Enos Slaughter.
The second baseman in the right theater who came in for that.
It dropped in there.
Or they hit.
Ron Warneke has now been set up with a bulls end of warm up.
Bill Lover coming up.
One out.
And that's a down base on Don Guthrie's error back in the first inning.
What a jubilation down there on that Cincinnati dugout at the present time.
As a result of that home run by Billy Myers.
Here comes the pitch to Bill Lover.
High and inside he had a duck under it.
All one.
Bowman and Shown both warming up on the bullpen.
Right Shown.
To the left hander.
Bob Bowman.
To the right hander.
Lover back in the plate again.
Gets himself up.
Gene Johnson leads off first.
Johnny Myers is not holding him to first.
Here's the pitch.
Curve ball breaks across the plate.
One strike one call.
One strike.
A box full of writing celebrities this afternoon.
Baseball riders from all over the country are here for this series.
David Stegg just left again.
Here's the next pitch to Bill Lover.
The curve ball is lifted into the infield.
A little to the right of the plate.
It's going foul and Don Patchett takes it.
Stegg just out of front of the plate a little bit.
The wind got a hold of it.
The second come 50 to 20 feet to the right of the plate.
By Don Patchett.
We're following up to the catcher.
Foul to second out.
That brings up Lonnie Fry for the second time in the game.
In the first inning his first time up.
He's sacrifice.
David Samai.
Gene Johnson on first.
Two off.
Last of the second is going to Cincinnati Free.
They lose cards.
Three pitches warming up out there now.
Here's the pitch to Fry.
Outside and high.
Ball one.
David Stegg just lets.
Here comes the pitch to Fry.
Strike one.
Call.
Knee high on the outside corner.
The count is even.
Thompson leads off first.
David Stegg is in.
Here's the pitch to Lonnie Fry.
He goes for it.
It's a high drive under the right field.
It's set for a late miss.
It's fielded by Sauter.
Thompson.
Thompson second.
A single.
For Fry.
A single to the right.
Thompson.
Five.
Mike Gonzalez.
Comes out.
And calls in five counts.
At the end of Kirk Davis.
Davis having worked.
Two.
One and two thirds in.
He has allowed.
Five hits.
Has walked none.
Has struck out none.
Runs it out so far.
Three.
Thompson.
For.
They will be charged against the record.
Of.
David.
S-H-O-U-N.
Down comes in.
In the second inning.
Two off.
Well the kind of events so far have been a little bit on the surprising side.
It was expected that this would be a pretty close battle.
And not have anything quite as drastic as the whole number two on occurred.
As early in the ball game as this.
As in the first game of the double header with the Cincinnati Reds leading by the score of three to nothing.
Five counts.
It's the second pitcher to be used.
He's a left hander.
Kirk Davis has given a nice hand by the Cincinnati spectators.
As he walks out of the game.
Goes down the runway.
To the left field stands.
Back to the club hogs.
Bonnie Pryon first and Dean Thompson is called for his jacket which he has put on.
Bonnie Game-Bowman now warming up on the both hands.
Two off.
Goodman slide out to Medwick.
In the first inning his first time up.
Ron is on first to second.
Two off.
Badges up.
Gives the time to Pryon.
Softball throws a fastball.
High ball one.
One ball no strikes to count.
No strikes to count.
Back again by Jones.
Here's the next pitcher to be used.
Half ball high.
Ball two.
Two balls no strikes.
That's that runners on first and second.
And here it is.
Fastball low and outside.
Ball three.
Three balls no strikes to count.
Jones rubbing up the ball.
The ball's hitting again.
Taking a little toll for himself.
Bonnie Warnocki is now left alone out there on the both hand to warm up.
Three balls no strikes to count.
Pryon first.
Thompson on second.
Two off.
Here's the next pitch.
Pryon called.
Crossfire across the plate.
Three and one.
Jones edging from the third base corner of the rubber.
Time has been called momentarily.
The ball got away out there as Warnocki was warming up.
Went into third territory in the right field area.
And has been retrieved.
The play is resumed.
Three balls, one strike to count.
Here's the next pitch to Goodman.
Goodman swings and fouls it up on top of the grandstand real back of third base.
The ball dropped off somebody's hand up there.
Went all the way down into the field seat.
Back of third base.
The new right field position here is complete.
There's a stretch by Jones.
Wins Brown getting in back of Thompson.
But Thompson got back in time.
From an old.
Play was made the next pitch with a fly ball going out toward the center field.
Goodman is going back court.
He's not looking in front of the scoreboard and takes it.
For the third out.
Goodman flying out to Medwick.
For the third outside is retired with three runs.
Five hits.
No overs and two runners for that.
There's two innings of the ball game out of the way.
For Cincinnati free.
This day doing cards nothing.
We pause briefly for station identification.
I could call the field once again to resume the broadcast of the doubleheader this afternoon.
Between the St. Louis cards and the Cincinnati Reds.
It's now possible to complete the record of Kirk Davis and charge him a three run.
The first three batters to come up to base Thompson in the top of the third.
The single games will be played here.
Tomorrow.
And on Thursday.
The last two games of the season by the way.
It caused the field for the Cincinnati Reds.
They finished their season out at Pittsburgh.
Single game Friday, a single game Saturday and a single game on Sunday.
Thompson still numbering up with her inner body.
Here's a little goal coming out of the dugout.
The place is absolutely packed this afternoon.
For those of you who have not been in Causley Field in some time.
They have built a new upper right field for Thadin and a new upper left field for Thadin.
With an estimated increase in the seating capacity of approximately 3,100.
The right field for Thadin is all complete and today is just jam packed.
The left field for Thadin is perhaps half completed.
And they're letting people in there now.
The right starter is up. He's single to center in the first inning.
Here's the pitch to him. He left the fly ball out of the short center field.
Deli Myers, Lonnie Fry going back. Lonnie goes back and takes it.
Second base a beautiful running catch going away.
Sauter popping out to Lonnie Fry back in short center field.
For the first out. That brings up Joe Medley.
Who hit it a bad ball in the first inning on the hit and run.
As Sauter slid out for second.
He reached out for a wide pitch.
And lifted a fly just inside the right field line.
Good for two bases. The first pitch he swings.
Hit the line drive into center field.
It's good for a base hit. Goes out there to Harry Kraft who feels it.
Gets it back into second. It's a single for Joe Medley.
That is his second hit of the game.
A single to center. And that's hit number four off Gene Gump.
Johnny Myers coming up.
The Mises purposely pass in the first inning his first time up.
It's Medvedecan first one away.
Thompson stretches.
Atomic plays back from the base.
Here's the pitch to Myers. Fast ball high and inside.
Ball one. Sun shining quite brightly now.
Although the sky is definitely a little bit hazy.
Again Thompson stretches.
Here's the pitch to Myers.
And they started to fling. Hold it on the low inside hit.
Ball two.
They counted two balls for no strikes.
One away.
Medvedecan first.
Again the second by Gene Thompson.
Here's the pitch to Johnny Myers.
Myers hit the line drive down the right field line.
It's good for a base hit.
Iva Goodman comes over. Intercepts it.
Gets it in quickly.
Medvedecan stuff at third.
Myers goes on to second with a double.
Double to right.
That brings up Johns Hatchett.
Hatchett.
He heads into a fourth play in the first inning his first time up.
Johns is tying a two-lace.
He comes up, looks down to the dugout.
Manager Ray plays apparently calling something out.
And Buzzy Weir is coaching his first.
Calls nothing to it.
Infield plays in.
They're going to pass Johns Hatchett.
First pitch is outside.
Here's the next one outside ball two.
Ball three.
And here's the next one ball four.
Two men have been purposely passed.
That makes it possible for a fourth play at any base.
Brings up Terry Moore.
Moore was thrown out by Billy Hatchett.
He's got a second.
He's got a third.
He's got a fourth.
Brings up Terry Moore.
Moore was thrown out by Billy Myers in the second inning.
He's one out.
Bates is filled.
Millcoffner starts warming up again in the bullpen.
Ball to this and that he read.
Moore right into batters at the plate.
Bates is loaded.
Johnson winds up.
And here it is.
Curve ball inside.
Ball one.
One ball.
Johnson on one again warming up in the right field bullpen.
Johnson winds up again.
Throws a fast ball.
He swings and misses.
One strike.
Neither manager will spare any players in this series.
It's now or never for both of them.
One ball.
One strike.
Johnson winding up.
Balls high.
Ball two.
Two balls and one strike.
One out.
Bates is filled.
Terry Moore is the batter.
Johnson winds up.
Here's the pitch.
Outside ball three.
Three balls and one strike.
Three and one to go.
Johnson takes his line up.
And here it is. Inside ball four.
Moore walks.
Horsing in a rock.
Pedrick scores from third.
Mize moves to third.
Hadget on second.
And that's walk number three given up by Gene Johnson.
Two intentional and one unintentional.
Johnson is asked for a new ball.
That ball is thrown out of the game by umpire Larry Gett.
That brings up Stewart Marks.
He'll grab it off McCormick on the sister back in the second inning.
The score is 93.
Stake the wish cards one.
In the top of the third.
Johnson winds up. Here's the pitch.
Martin Flayne follows it back into the screen for strike one.
O'Barty throws the new ball off the bill Weber.
Weber up to the fifth.
That's all the team's got.
Two Martins.
Left handed batter.
Watch as Thompson wind up.
And here's the pitch.
That ball out of the right field field feet is not in the right field for better.
Strike two.
No balls and two strikes.
Stakes is filled. One out, one run in.
Johnson winds up again.
Throw the fast ball. It's high.
Ball one.
One ball and two strikes is the count.
Gene Thompson winds up.
Here it is.
Inside ball two with a count of demons.
Two balls and two strikes.
Tommy goes back to the deep.
Johnson back.
Back up on the hill again.
O'Barty gets the sign.
Team winds up.
Here it is.
O'Barty outside calling the play.
Ball three.
Two strikes. That brings the big one up to Stewart Martins.
Way in two.
Here's Thompson wind up.
And here it is.
Down ball, down toward first.
McCormick feels it.
Calls to the play to O'Barty and he's fourth.
Johnny Mize is fourth at the play.
McCormick to O'Barty.
They just still feel.
Padgett on third.
Moore on second.
Martin on first.
That brings up.
Johnny Hopp, H-O-double-T.
Johnny Hopp who has the promise at one time of being a great out-beater,
but his arm went bad on him.
He's from the Rochester Red Wings of the International League.
Very fast.
He's hitting four by Chomp.
H-O-double-T.
Johnny Hopp.
Pads is failed. He's not left-handed.
Here's the wind up by Thompson.
There's a pitch to Hopp.
He swings the first pitch.
Follows it back to the screen for a strike one.
Johnny Hopp is about a step.
A man on base as you'll ever see.
Cogs on first.
Moore on second. Padgett on third.
Here's the wind up again by Dean Thompson.
Strike two. Call the perfect curve across the play.
Elbows and two strikes to count.
Score.
Pads three. They do a Cogs one.
We're at the top of the third.
Here's the wind up by Thompson.
And the fast curve messes outside.
Little high for ball one.
One ball and two strikes.
Drops and drops are out the back of him.
Wind up.
Here it is.
Ball two. Ball got away from the body.
Rolled out in front of the plate.
Thompson goes out and picks it up.
Hands it to Thompson who came in for it.
And on fire there he gets it.
In the meantime, dumping off the plate.
Two balls, two strikes to count.
Again Thompson goes back to the right bank.
Basis failed.
Here's the wind up.
Here it is.
Johnny Hopp.
Dugout coming with a basis fail.
Guidery card with one run.
New hit.
No air run.
Basis with a fail.
Now we go to the last half of the third inning for the score.
Christian Addy free. They do a card one.
Joe McKechnie.
About Dean Thompson on his way back to the dugout.
Gives him a little fatherly advice.
You can almost see him.
As he left Dean with the power of his hand, he's automatically made a gesture towards Dean.
He's just saying, you're doing well in there, kid.
Just keep it up.
McCormick, Lombardi, and Kress.
Now the first rebound is to come up.
Had to go to the last half of the third inning of this first game of the double header.
The broadcast directs from Causby Field in Cincinnati.
Bob Bowman, B-O-W-M-A-N, becomes the third pitcher to be used by the card.
He's a right-handed pitcher.
Kurt Davis is pitching back at them.
James is a third of an inning and nothing else.
He fits the lab equipment.
John is pitching over to Ivo Dirk.
One third of an inning and nothing else.
McCormick is up there.
Aver is thrown out by shortstop Jimmy Brown in the first inning.
Bob Bowman, right-hander, winds up.
Throw is tied inside.
Ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
Back against the sign.
Bowman winds up.
And here's the pitch. McCormick lifts a high foul up on top of the left field for Fagan Roof.
That roof out there, by the way, has not been completed.
That's the new section.
One ball, one strike is the count.
Bowman winds up again.
Here's the pitch.
That foul is bowled back to the three.
Right two. One ball and two strikes.
Bowman being the third pitcher to be used this afternoon by the St. Louis card.
Orson's 93.
St. Louis one.
Bowman winding up again.
Here's the next pitch to McCormick.
He hits a line drive.
It goes over the head of Jimmy Brown out in the left field.
A single for McCormick.
A single to the left.
Here's the pitch.
LaBarty coming up. LaBarty double the right at the second inning his first time up. There's the pitch. Here's the pitch. Like one part of the dirt, it's very low.
John Thatcher taking a nice play on it. One ball, one strike.
Ball back at the plate.
McCormick takes a short lead. There's the pitch.
Here's the pitch. Brown ball going out in the right field.
Out of St. Martin Street McCormick on second. Goals to third. There's a fall by Schroeder.
And McCormick slides safely into third base.
A single for LaBarty.
So it's LaBarty on first. McCormick on third.
Harry Kraft is coming up.
Kraft single to the left in the second inning.
That was his first time up.
Del McKechnie calls Harry off to one side. Tells him what to do.
LaBarty keep warming up again on the both ends.
Fall to the cars.
McCormick on third.
Nobody down.
Falling.
Gets the sign. No chance for a wind up.
Here's the pitch to Kraft. Fast ball is high. Ball one.
One ball. No slice.
Again the stretch by Baldwin.
Here's the pitch to Kraft. It's a high hop fly going out into short left field.
Jump back to shortstop position. Jimmy Brown is therefore takes it on the base fast as the wind puts it back in.
Kraft popping out to Jimmy Brown. Ball to first down.
That brings up Paulie Burger who also hops out to shortstop.
And the second inning is first time up.
Fall away.
Burger at the plate.
One is on first and third.
Baldwin stretches. Here's the pitch.
Fowl coming back up towards the both ends people.
We're up pretty high here all the way around the roof of the second deck.
Very subtle. The fall ball gets up there high.
Burger back at the plate.
Stretch by Bob Bowman. Here's the pitch. High inside.
Ball two. Ball one out. One ball and one strike.
Baldwin goes into the rotten bag and back up on the mound.
Bob Weiland has now gone up the both end to warm up.
Here's the next pitch. Fast ball is high. Ball two and they count two balls with one strike.
Burger stands there just waiting.
Baldwin takes quite a bit of time to drop that ball in the palms of his hands.
Get all the feed off the high so the ball won't slip out of his fingers.
He stretches.
Here's the pitch to Burger. Burger lifts the line drive. Fowl to the left field for big hit.
Got it two and two. Two balls and two strikes.
Gil Medvick playing almost back to the left field ball.
Playing halfway up the terrace.
Baller playing a little short. Right header.
They're playing. Burger of course for a left field hitter, a full hitter.
There's the stretch.
And here's the pitch to Burger. Fowl. He's flung over the top of it.
Hit it off the foot of umpire there he gets it.
It bounce up against the Cincinnati Vast Boy who was leaning right alongside of Billy Myers.
Look what he's going to do next turn at that.
Got a main. Two and two.
This moment's pretty quick for a little follow.
Bob Audion first.
McCormick on third. One out.
Here's the pitch to Burger. Ground ball down the third base line. Fowl rolls off of the Cincinnati bullpen.
Out there where Hank Gowdy is. Monitor ball he's surveyed.
He dies a thousand deaths out there Hank Duth during the cost of these ball games.
Two and two to count.
Here's the pitch to Wall-E Burger. Hit the line drive going off to our left field.
It's timed up. Joe Medwick comes in and takes it.
There's the break for the plate by McCormick. The throw in the basket and he's out.
A perfect throw from Medwick to the plate.
McCormick is out.
For the third out.
That's a nice play by Joe Medwick.
Side retired. No runs.
Two hits.
No errors and one runner is left.
Well there's three innings of the ball game out of the way.
For Cincinnati free they do it's card one.
Ahead of the batting order will come up for the card as we go to the first half of the fourth game.
Joe Medwick is giving a hand for that perfect strike he threw to the plate.
The retire McCormick as McCormick tried to throw after the catch.
Fullman, Gutteridge and Spalder will be the first three batters to come up in the top of the fourth.
Jim Thompson so far has one strike out, has one free.
Two intentionally and one unintentionally.
The game has committed one error so far.
Here's another nut that I told you about earlier.
Any person hit a thing with a ball in play will be ejected from the pot.
That means that an over throw of the base and the ball goes back toward the fan.
Any spectator who reaches over and picks up that ball because of course it's in play, will be invited to leave.
To put it to a rematch.
Mr. Brown, that ball is good on the outside corner knee high for a strike called.
One ball, one strike.
Top of the fourth.
Cincinnati free.
There's a windup again by Thompson.
Brown checks his plane.
It's low, ball two.
Two balls, one strike.
The cops knock him out again.
Right-hander winds up.
He throws the fastball at them on the ground for a second.
Brownie Frye feels it.
Takes it out of his mouth, throws to McCormick.
Brown is out.
Brownie outside of McCormick.
That brings up John Gutteridge.
Gutteridge lights up, no hits.
Fly it out to Berger in left center in the first.
Foul out to third in the second.
Windup by Thompson.
Here's the first hit, the fastball hit the line out of the center field.
It drops in there for a hit.
It's beaten on the second half by Mary Craft who gets it back into second.
A single.
To center for Don Gutter.
That's hit number six.
While Dean Johnson.
He has a ball coming up.
Single to center in the first.
And pops out to Brownie Frye back up second in the third.
Gutteridge leads off and then is brought back in a hurry.
As the throw from Thompson over to McCormick.
Almost kicked him off base and McCormick's actually fell over.
Gutteridge trying to retain his own balance as he was going for that throw.
Gutteridge leads off.
Here's the pitch.
Strike one and call.
Well across the plate.
No balls, one strike.
Enos Potter is up for the third time in the game.
There's the touch again by Thompson.
Gutteridge leads off.
Here's the pitch.
Down ball down towards short.
Myers up with it over to Frye.
Frye doesn't bother this throw and Gutteridge takes him out of the play at second.
And it's a fourth play.
Gutter gets away very fast with the plate.
Gutter on first for the field at short.
Three play.
Myers.
Two fly.
Hard baseball will be played in this series.
The Blue Gips are down if they ever were down.
That brings up Joe Medlick.
Gutter is up for the third.
Potter leads off.
Here's the pitch.
One miss by Clark.
Curve ball.
Potter on first and two outs and touch again by Dean Thompson.
Quick throw with it first and Potter dives back.
He's up on his feet again.
Thompson touches again.
Potter leads off.
Curve ball is hit over McCormick's head and lands foul down the right field line by about three feet.
Medlick got a very small piece of that ball.
Hitted up on the handle of the bat.
Long lead at it.
He just thought of pumps it out over McCormick's head and it curves foul.
And it's just three seconds strike.
No balls, two strikes.
Potter, off to a great start on that.
Returns to first.
Joe Medlick back at the plate again.
Set by Thompson.
Potter again leads off.
Here's the pitch.
Foul back into the tree.
Potter's the same.
No balls, two strikes.
New ball is thrown off to Bill Weber and returned to Thompson.
Quick throw to first base again.
Forces Potter to dive into the base.
Thompson just whirled around and fired that ball over that of Frank McCormick and Potter dove back in and extended.
No balls, two strikes is the count on Joe Medlick.
McCormick and Thompson have little huddles.
Now they're both in their respective positions.
There's the pitch, the netted, the ground ball right to the box.
Back of second, bounces off the base.
Set by Myers, Myers to McCormick.
There's that ball flying.
Medlick doesn't like it at all.
Medlick took off his hat.
He's having a good argument out there with up higher base for Nellie.
Dab in hand, he's dropping his ball with it.
He didn't like that.
That ball, security hit, was hit right through the box.
Went out into second base position and hit second base.
Bounced off of the net.
That's the end of the play and Myers had to kick it out of the air in a hurry and fire it over to Furry.
On fire, Dean Clearson continues the discussion there with Joe Medlick.
Medlick is out.
Myers, two look off.
Side retired, no runs.
One hit.
No errors and one runner is back.
Dean Clearson acting as a peacemaker on that top of the wing over to Johnson.
Now Joe, we're going to give you a little attitude on this ball than we probably would normally.
But this is an important theory.
Serve that temper of yours because we don't want to have to kick you out of the game.
This is reminiscent of the World's Fairies game when Joe Medlick was the center of a group barrage.
Now, Stenny Myers, Dean Johnson, and Dale Lover for the rest of the last half of the quarter.
Stenny Myers up for the second time in the game.
In the second inning, he came up with Lombardi on third and Kraft on first and slammed a home run over the left field wall.
Dale Myers, that's right-headed, up for the second time in the game.
Bob Borman, third-fitter to be used for you late-teuners in.
It's Kurt Davis, that's five down in the second and now Bob Borman.
Here's the windup by Borman.
He throws Myers wings and follows it back up under the tree.
So it's strike one.
We're in the last half of the fourth inning, first game of the double-heading.
Borman winds up again, throws high and over the head by Stenny Myers.
The ball bounces out of the glove of Don Padgett, umpire Larry Goetz.
Demands the ball, inspects it, it's all right, and it's thrown back out there to Borman.
Borman winds up, here's the pitch, fast ball is high and inside, ball two.
Borman, the ball is out of the glove, it's out of the glove, it's out of the glove.
Windup, here's the pitch, fast ball is high and inside, ball two.
Two balls, one strike to pick out.
Padgett is given a new ball by Larry Goetz, that is thrown out to Borman.
Two balls, one strike.
Borman winds up, here's the pitch to Myers, Myers follows another one off into the tree.
The count is even up two and two.
Two balls and two strikes.
Borman nods his head to the sign, winds up, here's the pitch to Billy Myers, Myers follows another one up into the tree.
Now the names are the same, two balls and two strikes.
Borman is ready, takes off the sign, and winds up.
Here's the pitch to Billy Myers, fast ball is lifted high in the air, out toward right center at the open.
Brauder goes over, forces under it, and takes it, backed up by Terry Moore.
While the first shot, Billy Myers flying out the quarter to the right fielder, to the right center.
That brings up Dean Johnson, who's very highly regarded here, and he's going to be the first to get the ball.
Brauder to the right fielder, to the right center, that brings up Dean Johnson, who's very highly regarded here in Cincinnati.
A lucky kid picked up on the Southern League last year, brought up here, just more or less in hopes.
Boy, how he has come through the last little while.
He's pitching records for the season, 11 wins and five losses.
He's under the right center in the second inning, his first time up, there's a first pitch to him, he goes for it, lifts the foul, back of the plate.
Don Patchett comes back for it, but he can't get it. Goes under the screen, for strike one.
One away.
Patchett walks slowly back, picks up his cap, puts on his reverse of course.
Get the mask.
Pulls the cap down, back of his ears. Now he's ready.
Here it is, that ball is in the ground, out towards center field, it goes into center field for a hit.
Jumaart came over the ball, went by second base to the right of the bag.
Jumaart came over, tried to feed it, but it was way out of his reach.
That's the second hit, for Dean Johnson.
That brings up Billy Werber, who's been up twice for no hit.
Werber, got on base on Don Guthrie, just there on the first.
Now, we're going to stop on the broadcast of the ball game for just a matter of ten seconds.
We pause for station identification.
Dale Werber's up on the plate, Dean Johnson is getting his jacket on, so we picked a good time for that.
Station back here at the pitch, Werber hits the ground ball, Guthrie takes it at third, over to second, to Jumaart, to Johnny Mize, and it's a double play.
Roger's out.
Werber, hitting the ground ball, it was second on a high jump.
At third base by Don Guthrie, who's through to Jumaart, and Johnny Mize, a double play.
Tied, retired, no run.
One hit, no overs, and no one is left.
And by way of hundreds, that is the 123rd double play, in which the Reds have hit this year.
They have completed 163, and by the way, I left that 200th hit out there.
I was trying McCormick's for a while without too much mention.
That single left, with which he led off in the third inning, was his 200th base hit of the year.
They've been looking for that now for three days.
They expected it Saturday, they expected it Sunday, and it didn't show up.
Joe Medrick just has a little partying shot, and there he gets.
And as the fans get on in, he takes off his cap in a very gracious gesture, and breaks down the dugout that way.
Well, it's Johnny Mize, Don Padgett, and Terry Moore, the first three batters to come up on the top of the fifth inning, with a score of 693.
This ain't who his cards won.
Dean Thompson, remembering up with Ernie Lombardi.
Reds going all three runs, and the second inning off, Kirk Davis.
Lombardi double to right, McCormick, or Klapp, rather, single to left.
Lombardi stopping at third, and then McCormick is on first and third.
Berger popped off to Brown, and Myers hit a home run.
The hit on top of the left center field ball, and Thompson calls for the three runs of all the Cincinnati Reds.
There's no stop there, it's going in the third inning.
One off, Medrick single, Myers double to right, Padgett purposely passed, and then Moore walks the fourth in a run.
Thompson winds up, and here's the pitch.
Pass ball misses the outside part of the play.
Ball one.
Johnny Mize up twice, purposely passed on the first, double to right, and then he's on the second.
Johnny Mize up twice, purposely passed on the first, double to right, and then the third is the next pitch.
Ball up into the upper left field pavilion.
That pavilion, by the way, is pretty well packed, despite the fact that only half the seats are in there.
Probably have all the superstructure work up.
All the flat metal has been laid on which the seats are usually set.
Here's the windup, here's the pitch to Mize.
Low curve is low, ball two, pretty far pitts there by Dean Johnson, but admits.
Two balls, one strike to count.
Here's the windup, here's the pitch to Mize.
Right to call, the fast ball, way high in the outside corner.
Johnny Mize protesting in a small way to see how far he gets.
Count is even up, two and two.
Johnson winds up, here's the pitch.
Down ball, down towards first, is second by McCormick and Pera Pera Chloe, and McCormick steps on first.
Oh, and unassisted out.
Johnny Mize doesn't even know that he run it out.
Mize is making motions with his pipe in the dirt, until if that ball was at least three feet tall, then it's estimated.
Newspapers and document are together, got it, that argument.
In short life, however, Johnny turns under Zeeho, goes back to the dugout.
Ray Blades, stops Johnny on the way in.
Ray solders out to the plate.
Has a little conference with umpire Larry Gettin.
That ball was called fair by both umpire Larry Gettin and the plate, and Dave Pannelli at first.
So there's one out.
John Patchett coming up, there's been a point, no hit.
We're perfectly tasked in the third.
Pops winds up, here's the pitch.
The curve ball is low and outside, ball one.
It's done again, Johnny.
We're on the top of the fifth.
Pops winds up, there's the pitch to Patchett.
He swings, hits the ground ball, down towards second.
Is second by Lonnie Frye.
Frye gets to the first, and McCormick, Patchett is up.
Browning out Frye to McCormick.
Ball to second out.
That brings up Terry Moore.
He's got it up.
Twice in this ball game has no hit.
Once the pitcher leaves it up.
He was blown off by Teddy Myers in the second, and walks in the third.
Terry Moore, right into batter.
Gets up at the plate.
Pops winds up.
And here it is, the curve ball across the plate.
Knee high for strike one, call.
Gene winds up again.
Here's the pitch to Terry Moore.
It's a fast ball, it just misses the outside corner.
It's a little low.
One ball and one strike.
Two off.
Nobody on.
Pops winds up again.
Oh, and inside, ball two.
Two balls and one strike.
Four, seven to 93.
St. Louis one.
Pops winds up.
Gene Johnson winds up.
Ball's a fast ball to this high, and it's ball three.
Strike one, three and one.
Here's Johnson winds up.
There it is.
Ball four.
Terry Moore walks.
For the second time.
And four walks, given up by Thompson.
One demise intentionally.
One detachment intentionally.
And two.
Here's Terry Moore.
Drew Martin coming up.
Flies up, no hits.
That's left handed.
Place not in the batting order.
Here's the pitch to him.
He hits a high fly.
Out toward right field.
Ivo Goodman goes back in the foot of the terrace.
Tuck right into the track to the center of it and takes it.
For the third off.
Drew Martin flying off to Goodman in right field.
Side retired.
No runs.
One runner is left.
And now we go to the last half of the fifth inning.
Fly Goodman in the conic.
The first three batters to come up.
Fans give Gene Johnson a good hand as he comes down into the dugout.
The Cincinnati dugout to the left.
The St. Louis card will dugout to the right.
And boy this place is really packed.
Special attendance in the crowd won't be given out until sometime during the second game.
But it'll be up.
I would say off hand it'll be up in the neighborhood of 31 or 32 thousand.
Perhaps even higher than that.
There are no field seats however today.
No ground rules.
Due to the fact that there's an overflow cloud in the park.
The park is entirely free of spectators.
But they're just jammed into the regular stands.
Standing up back in the aisles.
Could be standing up four and five deep.
A few pavilion quarters.
Upper left field and upper right field pavilion.
Which has just been erected in the last couple and a half or so.
Here across the dear are also well jammed.
They've even stilled out up under the grandstand roof.
Honey Fri is up for the third time in the game.
The perfect days so far are sacrifice.
In the first and the single.
In the second.
That's left handed.
We're in the last half of the fifth inning.
Bob Bowman winds up near the pitch to Fri.
Outside and high.
Ball one.
Fri made a gesture as if he was going to bump.
Don Gutteridge coming into the infield grass.
Bowman winds up again.
Here's the pitch to Honey Fri.
That ball is high.
Ball two.
Two balls and no strikes.
Wind up again by Bowman.
Here's the next pitch.
High ball three.
Bring it all in for Gutteridge.
Activity to both ends.
And a cease.
Two balls and no strikes.
Bowman winding up.
Here's the pitch to Honey Fri.
High and inside.
Ball four.
Honey Fri walks.
And a pass no by any of the three St. Louis Fetcher's.
Again for your late shooters in.
Kirk Davis started this ball game.
And he was five hits and three runs.
Was taken out with two outs in the second inning.
Five shouts came in for one man.
Ben Shound gave way to a pitch hitter.
And Bowman has hit since that time.
Johnny Mize is moved into the inside corner.
While Monique starts warming up on the ball.
And so does Bob Lammond.
Ball to the card.
Goodman has to play just enough play to fly it out the middle.
Both times.
There's the stretch.
Quick throw over the first.
And had that throw been lower they would have had Honey Fri.
That throw was high by Bowman.
Had the throw been down to the base.
Fri would have been out.
Because Bowman outgets him on the motion.
Fri was starting to increase his lead at the ball of the throne.
Fri goes back head first.
He's now taking the dirt out of his uniform.
There's the stretch.
Here's the pitch.
A one down for a third.
A pick up by Don Guterich.
Guterich throws the first to Johnny Mize.
And Goodman is up.
The sacrifice, the fancy try, the second.
Goodman going out.
Sacrificing.
Guterich to Mize.
Fri taking second on the play.
Frank McCormick coming up.
McCormick.
Down it up short on the first.
Single to left.
In the third.
Hit it.
There's the pitch.
There's the pitch to McCormick.
Pass ball is good on the outside corner of Etterhie.
For a quick one call.
Fri.
He's just away from second.
Ball went down over his head to his place.
He throws.
McCormick passes out with a line drive to center.
Terry Moore takes it.
Hardly had to move far.
Ball was well hit but right half Terry Moore.
Good ball.
And bring it up.
Ernie Lombardi who has 2-4-2.
In the right.
In the third.
Newspaper photographers all over the place this afternoon.
5 of them down here that I can see right now.
They're going to pass Lombardi.
Ball went outside.
Next pitch.
Ball to outside.
Very serious.
Ball free.
Lombardi standing up there near second.
Watching the proceedings.
Hands on his hips.
And there's the 4.
Ball 4.
Lombardi on first.
Fry on second.
Terry has one hit and two times.
He's sending left from the second.
Off the top to Jimmy Brown the shortstop.
In the third.
See that's right at it.
Bowman unable to take a wind up.
There's the second.
Bowman he looks back at second.
Here's the pitch to Harry Kraft.
Kraft swings and misses for strike one.
Swing is up high hard.
That's the one Harry likes at fastball.
Bowman stepping again.
Gamma's back at second.
Here's the pitch to curveball.
Lifted high in the air out toward right field.
Daughters start calling back.
Ball as the wind gets out of it.
And hits it back on the terrace.
Bowman was getting a hold of it and had to turn around and go back.
He took it however.
Kraft flying out the floater.
Hard way up the terrace in front of the right field.
No runs.
No hits.
No errors.
And two runners are left.
Now we go to the top of the sixth inning.
Hits Bowman or someone to hit points.
Nevermind.
The captain of the team comes out to talk with a fire there against him.
He's telling who's going to bat for Bowman.
If anybody.
KING.
And hitting.
In the sixth inning.
Bonnie Wanneke is warming up on the bullpen.
He'll be the fourth pitcher to be used this afternoon.
By the St. Louis Cards.
Davis down Bowman.
And we'll wait for the official announcement before Bonnie Wanneke down on the scorecard.
Lynn King.
Little follow.
Very fast.
He's got a lot of speed on this Cincinnati ball cup.
Or this St. Louis ball cup rather.
Little follows.
Here's the lineup for the pitcher Lynn King.
Oh and outside.
Here it is.
The captain winds up.
Here it is.
That ball misses the inside corner.
Ball two.
But King talking up the status if he was going to bat.
Phil Lerber came in fast third base.
Two balls.
No strikes to the captain.
First half of the sixth.
The score is Cincinnati three.
St. Louis Cards one.
Here's the lineup.
Here it is.
No strikes.
Bowman has just finished warming up.
Here's the lineup.
And here comes the cripple.
Strike one.
Three balls and one strike.
King is going to wait for the plate to start his talk first.
He's back at the plate again.
Little follow.
That's left handed.
Here's the pitch.
King walks.
Bombardi by the way doesn't care much about that.
He's protesting.
The umpire.
Bill McEachie comes up out of the dugout.
There's a best man to be won.
Five times.
Come on.
Play it Bill.
It's a game on.
It is on coming up.
King on first.
And the direction.
By Johnson.
Here's the pitch.
Fastball is followed.
And here on the left field.
Give all those up to Bill Webber.
Over to Dean Johnson.
Bill Johnson starts warming up again.
And the.
Next pitch is going to be on the ground.
First and second by McCormick.
And Kelly Myers forcing King at second.
That ball was hit actually towards second base position.
It's very 40 it was tough.
McCormick saying that Fry couldn't come in fourth.
Cut into the infield grass in front of second base position and fielded it.
To the Myers.
King was fourth.
John is on first on the field at choice.
John Gutteridge is up.
Three times up one hit.
John on first.
Here's the pitch to Gutteridge.
Bill Myers takes it to Lonnie Fry at second.
Fry to McCormick.
Double play.
Fry is retired.
John threw himself 10 feet out of the way out there.
Trying to take Fry out of that play.
That is.
Downing to Myers.
Myers to Fry.
Fry to McCormick.
Double play.
No one is left.
Well for the Reds this season that's the 164th completed double play.
The thousand team game tied.
We go to the last half of the sixth inning.
The score is 3-1.
Neighbor of the Cincinnati Reds.
Gutter, Myers and Thompson are the first three batters to come out this way.
Lonnie Warneke.
All stay in the way.
Warneke.
Now take the lead.
Warneke in the sixth inning.
Wally Burger standing around the edges waiting for Wanneke to get numbered up as he throws to Don Tadgett.
Get out the park.
Some of the noise you were hearing in the background this afternoon.
We have metal doors on the dust box.
The broadcast is moving around here.
And with such a terrific crowd.
A lot of people moving in and out.
The doors get slammed shut with the wind.
Wally Burger is up for the first time in the game.
Humped out to Brown.
He's charged up in the second.
That's right off the metric and left in the third.
Here's the first pitch to him.
Curve ball outside.
All one.
Don Warneke and Gutter right-handers.
Half the time.
Here's the wind up and here it is.
That ball falls off his bat.
Gutter batting.
Here's the wind up.
Here's the next pitch.
Roll curve.
Here's the called strike and the fans don't care much about that.
All one says two balls and a strike.
Maybe that ball went off his bat.
Thumbs off the fingertips of Don Patrick.
Burger checked his swing.
Here's the next pitch.
The line drive out in the short center field.
Over the head of Sumar Kruh Paul.
He tries to catch it.
And it drops in there safely for Singles.
A single to center.
That's Doug Bob Weiland warming up again on the ball stand.
Bill Meyers is up.
One hit.
And two times with Adam.
Boy what a hit.
A three run homer.
In the second inning.
Here's the pitch to Bill Meyers.
Outside.
All one.
In field playing and expecting a sacrifice.
He's 11 and 5.
County Meyers starting to get inside corner now.
Wally Burger standing with one foot against the base.
Wally beats off.
Warnocky lifts over.
Here's the pitch.
Strike one called in the outside corner.
One ball one strike is the count.
Warnocky checks his time.
Good catch.
Here's the next pitch.
Meyers ducks out of the way.
Two balls one strike is the count.
Here's the next pitch to Meyers.
He puts Paul up in the air.
And down.
Meyers makes a beautiful diving hit.
A sensational play.
As Meyers left over his feet.
Drove it out and kicked it out of the air just before it hit the ground.
There's a slow play.
Meyers following out.
He catches.
That ball on an attempted run.
Was followed to the right of the plate.
Up in the air.
Not very high.
That's it went over for it realized he couldn't get under it.
And just goes at it.
Picking it out of the air.
From the corner way and.
Dean Thompson comes up.
Twice up.
Two hits.
Turn to the right center in the second and again in the fourth.
Parker on first.
Warnocky.
Getting ready to pitch.
John Gutter is playing into the infield grass.
There's the pitch.
Here comes the pitch.
That ball.
Gutter has had that analyzed perfectly as Thompson did.
Choke up his bat.
Right away.
The pass ball in the outside corner.
There's the touch again.
By Warnocky.
Here comes the next pitch.
Thompson reaches out for it.
He's got it under the dirt and he lost his bat.
That's swinging out of his hand.
By the way we're receiving a lot of number of players up there for which many thanks.
We have in the time.
Unfortunately you will acknowledge them all individually.
But we have acknowledged that one particularly from Tampa.
We want to acknowledge some players from our old home John Buffalo.
There's the touch by Warnocky.
Here comes the next pitch.
Curve ball low and outside.
Ball one.
One ball two strikes to count.
Wally Burger on first.
Warnocky stretches again.
Here's the pitch.
Thompson bumps around back of the plate and then John Gadget kicks it out of the air.
However as it still happens Thompson would have been out anyway.
Running ball on the third strike.
So there's two outs and that brings up Dale Werber.
That's what a patch of the game is.
Doing all kinds of imporstance down there at the plate drawing for those fouls.
Wally Burger still on first with two on the last of the six to score.
Thompson adding three.
Wally Burger has caused one first game of the doubleheaders at Fosley Field.
Dale Werber at the plate.
No hits so far and three times the back.
Here's the pitch to Bill outside.
Ball one.
Back ball hitting the outside corner of the plate.
Warnocky 15.
Takes a little stretch.
Looks over at first.
Here's the slow curve.
Better high for a strike call.
One ball and one strike.
Werber at the bat of Wally Burger on first.
Stretch again by Warnocky.
Again he looks over at first.
Here's the pitch, slow curve, catches the outside corner of the plate for a strike two call.
Werber doesn't care about that.
The plate is the very guess.
One ball, two strikes.
Not vigorously, however, just lets the little mile focus and right back at the plate.
Warnocky set.
Here's the pitch to Werber.
Here's the fast ball, he's training, fouls it back at the screen and the bat steps out of his hand.
Goes back to where Ronnie Fry is letting him one knee.
He's letting dry his hand on the bat.
Steps up to the plate again.
One ball, two strikes to count.
Warnocky stretches.
There goes Wally Burger.
And it's a strike off as Werber, truck out swinging, no play of course has to be made on Burger.
As is the third off.
Got it retired.
No runs.
One hit, no overs and one runner is left.
Well there's six centers of the ball game out of the way.
The first game is a double header.
Let's take inventory and see what's happened so far.
The Reds have three runs.
The Cards have one.
The Reds have nine hits.
The Cards have six.
Each side has committed one error.
The Reds have left seven men on base.
The St. Louis Cards have left ten men on base.
Now we go to the first half of the seventh inning of the first game of the double header of the championship.
There are some St. Louis fans in the crowd.
A few of them are standing up.
By the way the parking lot and parking lot around the causeway field
will probably show you licenses from many, many states in this part of the country.
On the way to the park this afternoon,
driving along in a vertebral parade on Western Avenue.
On the way here to causeway field we saw licenses from Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio of course, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
did I say Michigan?
And of course from Missouri.
Slaughter, Medley, and Mize are the first three batters to come up.
As we go to the top of the seventh, the score is Cincinnati 3, the St. Louis Cards 1.
Two games this afternoon.
Here's the first pitch.
It's a cause for play to the outside corner good for a strike call.
Slaughter, one hit and three times and that is the next pitch.
Strike two call to the outside corner.
Nothing to do with the count.
Dots and winds up again.
It's outside.
Ball one.
One ball, two strikes.
Dots and winds up again is the next pitch.
High ball two and the count is even up.
Two and two.
Slaughter, one hit and three times and that is the next pitch.
High ball two and the count is even up.
Two and two.
Thought about it last night.
Two and two.
Here comes the wind up.
Here it is.
The high top fly back up third base.
Bill Weber goes over the fork.
He lost it in the sun apparently and that's what I'm glad he's taken as a result.
Nobody took it.
He's got it.
Apparently Bill Weber lost that.
He's got it at that point.
It wasn't necessary.
Of course that ball was fighting a breeze all the way out there.
Rather the strong one too.
Count is two and two.
Slaughter back in the plate again.
Dots and winds up.
And here it is.
That ball is followed back up into the upper deck.
This is the screen.
Goes in over under the rafters.
Now the name is two and two.
The ball is thrown into Gene Thompson.
Gene winds up.
Here's the pitch to Slaughter.
He swings and strikes out.
Slaughter striking out swinging.
So that terrible mission went up to third base and that follow ball did no harm.
That is the second strike out.
That brings up Joe Medlich.
Medlich is giving a pretty fair going over.
The next pitch to Medlich is hit on the ground down the first base line.
Out in the right field is thrown into the infield by Lundman.
And Medlich holds up a second with a double.
A double to the right.
That brings up Johnny McDonough.
A double to the right.
That brings up Johnny Mize.
Mize has been up three times in the game.
A perfect pass in the first inning.
Double to the right in the third.
And was thrown off the comic-con assistant in the fifth.
Outfield plays around.
Playing Mize is a goal hitter.
Here's the pitch to Johnny Mize.
Goal. Ball one.
One ball no strikes.
That gives Medlich three for four so far this afternoon.
Two doubles and a single.
A stretch.
And it is.
It is tied.
All two.
Two balls.
No strikes.
Johnson touches his pitch.
Ball up on top of the grandstand roof back on third base.
Right of scramble up on the roof of that ball.
Head of Bill McGee now starts warming up the both ends.
Ball to the card.
Two balls. One strike to count.
Here's the pitch to Johnny Mize.
He hits the ground ball.
Ball to the right of the plate.
Rolls over to the stands.
And the count is two and two.
All baseballs are brought out to one fire there he gets.
Two balls. Two strikes to count.
As the count seconds one away.
Top of the seventh is red by Thompson.
And here it is.
Ball back against the screen.
That is two balls. Two strikes.
No strikes.
Now warming up again for the red.
Chicago Pittsburgh game this afternoon has been called off because of rain.
Here's Thompson's pitch.
Here's the pitch to Johnny Mize.
Ground ball falls back on first base.
Johnson's up against the shoulder of some copper in there.
Maybe going a little barrier.
The field seats.
Thought it was a scramble.
That's it.
One up top there got that ball.
Two balls. Two strikes to the count.
Thompson up the new ball.
There's the stretch.
Quick throw to second.
Hedlick was back in time however as Kelly Myers makes her round back of Hedlick.
Thompson blows around through.
Hedlick goes back into the base.
Goal lead dropped.
There's the stretch.
There it is.
It's a curve ball.
It's a curve ball outside and low. Ball free.
Three balls and two strikes.
Three into his account.
Johnny Mize, quick follow. First baseman for the card.
Stand by at the point waiting.
Here comes the pitch.
Enough to follow. Back up into the upper stand.
Out catches the card.
A squeeze.
Bigman still coming up.
To Johnny Mize.
Thompson ready.
Back up the plate again.
Here's the pitch.
The high fly way up high of the air.
Out of the short right field.
Goodman comes in. Goodman calls for it.
Takes it for the out.
Johnny Mize hitting a little under that.
Looking at very high.
Goodman in short right field.
As Goodman came in, fly it out.
Pretty called for it all the way in.
Farther than that.
Two on. That brings up Don Padgett.
Padgett. Three times up. No hit.
Headed into a fourth play in the first.
Purposely passed in the third.
Headed into another fourth play in the fifth.
I don't know about you out there talking things over with Dean Thompson.
That's a 93. Say the word card one.
Well the boys tried hitting balls.
That didn't quite work.
As I said, fly Thompson.
Here comes the next pitch.
Last ball is ball one outside.
This is Don Padgett batting.
First time he's in pitch two.
Again the press.
Here it is.
Strike one and call.
Better on the outside corner.
One ball, one strike.
Here's the pitch to Don Padgett.
He swings it through the round ball off the plate.
It's picked up by Lombardi.
Lombardi throws the first of a card that he's out.
Padgett. Down the up.
Lombardi. Two of the call.
Side is retired.
No run.
One hit.
Padgett.
He's out.
No run. One hit.
No errors.
And one runner is back.
Now we go to the stretch half of the seventh inning with about 30,000 fans standing up.
We just have a wire from St. Louis saying that they have a large delegation from St. Louis.
Here at the clock. Watch the game.
Score.
Cincinnati 3. The St. Louis cards won.
All your late units in. The arc of the innings in which the scoring occurred and how they occurred.
In the second inning, Lombardi with Kurt Davis pitching for the cards.
Led off with a double.
Out to the right field.
Harry Kraft single to left.
Lombardi pulling up a third.
Berger topped out the shortstop.
Jenny Myers then slammed a home run over the left center field wall.
Or to be exact, on top of the left center field wall.
From which point it bounced on out.
And three big runs were in.
That's all the scoring has been done by the Reds.
For the St. Louis cards in the fourth inning, third inning rather, with one away.
Medwick led off with a sink to the center.
Johnny Myers, double to the right. Medwick pulling up a third.
Don Hatchett was possibly fast.
Turning the bases.
And then Terri Moore, Bec DeWalk, the fourth in.
The only run off Dean Thompson so far.
Thompson started the game. Still in there.
And for the St. Louis cards, Kurt Davis.
Who worked an inning and a third. Then five down to pitch to only one man.
Bob Bowman will work three innings to allow three hits with no runs.
And Lon Warnegy who came in in the sixth inning.
This is the second inning in which Lonnie Warnegy is fit.
He goes to work on Lonnie Fry, Ivo Goodman, and Frank McCormick.
In the last half of the seventh inning.
Lonnie Fry's been up three times.
There's a perfect day at that.
Sacrifice from the first, a single to the right, and a second.
And a walk in the fifth.
There's a windup by Warnegy.
He's out and finds the outside corner.
Stays outside and high at ball one.
Warnegy takes a windup again.
Here's the next pitch to Fry.
Curve ball again fails to find the outside corner to play this ball to.
Two balls for those lights.
The pass to the outside here this afternoon.
They couldn't get many more people than close.
We see it right now with the shoe mark.
Here's to Warnegy's windup. There's a pitch to Fry.
Five-three. Hit the line drive at the right center.
The drop's in there for a base hit.
It's hit by Terry Moore, the center fielder in right center field.
It's a single for Lonnie Fry.
Ivo Goodman coming up.
Goodie up for the fourth time in the ball game.
Fry down the metric. Left fielder in both the first and second innings.
Then sacrifice in the fifth.
Ryan first.
Goodman batting left net is then keeping the batter's box.
Here's the pitch to Goodman. Goodman swings at the high.
Followed back up third base.
John Federer's race is over.
The ball at the stand is going about eight or ten rows back in.
Out of reach.
Simply a high and loud foul.
So balls one strike to count.
Sun again shining brightly and warmly.
Goodman back in the play.
Little goodmicks clapping starting up down below.
The fans want to see it out again underway.
Warnegie presses again.
Fry leads off.
Here's the pitch to Goodman.
He takes it outside. All one.
Shoking up his bat.
Bringing in Northbound Warnegie and John Gutteridge.
One ball, one strike to count.
Gutteridge backs up to the edge of the infield grass.
Pays about two feet inside of the skin part of the third base area.
Close and a little nearer.
Warnegie stretches.
Goodman looks down to third to see whether the punch sign is on or not.
Fry leads off. Here's the pitch.
Goodman swings at the ground ball.
It's taken by Warnegie. Warnegie throws the second to Brown.
Brown over the first to Johnny Myers and it's turned into a fast double play.
Goodman browning to Warnegie who jumped high.
He got that ball in the bounce.
Down to Brown.
Who covered second.
Brown to Myers.
That's the second double play and it was for Reds this afternoon.
That brings up Frank McCormick who has an even 200 hits on the season.
Backs up for the fourth time in the game.
Throwing outside shortstop Brown in the first.
Single to mess with the third.
Lined up to Terry Moore and set her in the pitch.
Warnegie winds up.
Here's the pitch.
Fast ball.
Strike one call.
Be high on the outside corner.
Goodman five. New York nothing at the end of three.
Again the wind up by Warnegie.
Here's the next pitch.
This is outside.
One ball. One strike.
Four on fires for the series.
Barry gets a play.
Kate Pennelly at third.
McCamble at second.
And Beans Ripp.
Here's the next pitch to McCormick. A slow curve.
Inside. Ball two.
Two balls and one strike.
Two balls. One strike. Two off.
Nobody on. That's the seventh.
The wind up by Warnegie. Here's the pitch.
Fast ball. Jump misses outside. Ball three.
Three balls. One strike.
McCormick having a hit on his left shoulder.
Steps out of the bat as Foxe reads inside of his shirt.
Which is a very logical thing to do with a pitch.
Three balls. One strike.
Warnegie winds up.
Here it is. Fast ball.
Back toward the screen.
Back into the screen for that.
Another contact. Just started back.
No chance for it to get it.
Three and two.
Pads in. Getting on his cap.
And pass.
Three and two.
Pads in.
Back at the plate. Gets the sign to Warnegie.
Ball winds up.
And here it is.
The line ball going out toward that field.
Meddick goes back toward the fence.
It's going up against the fence.
Good for excavations of throw and defense.
And the ball is in.
Good for excavations of throw.
Is in the second. McCormick slides and he's in there.
He stayed up on his feet although he stopped to throw his feet.
McCormick doubling off the top of the left field ball.
That would have been out of the park on Wednesday.
Had it not been for that headwind and the way that ball was fighting all the way.
And for McCormick that is his 41st double of the season.
Breaks up Winnie Lombardi.
Bounds it up.
Three times.
They're going to pass him I think.
Yup. Going to pass Lombardi outside. Ball one.
Fans don't care much about that.
They like to see Lombardi pitch him.
That's a hard baseball.
Next pitch outside. Ball two.
Lombardi is regaining his batting eye after that awful two month coffee.
The National League pitchers and managers are fitting in with the Murray Olson and Lombardi respect.
Ball three is in pitch. Here's ball four.
Lombardi on first. The second time he's been cast.
That gives Lombardi a perfect day at bat with a double and a single.
That double by Lombardi was his 26th season.
That double by Frank McCormick is his 41st.
That makes up Harry Clap.
Harry had one hit three times with that.
He's single to left.
In the second inning. Popped off the draw to the third.
Right off the right field in the fifth.
The fifth by Warnocky.
Here's the pitch to Harry Clap.
He swings it to ground ball to short and second by Brown.
Brown tosses it to Stewart Martin.
Forcing Lombardi to second as the side is out.
Clap. Brown into Brown.
Brown tossing to second base to Stewart Martin.
Forcing Lombardi.
Side regard with no runs.
Two hits.
No errors.
And two runners left.
Well there's seven innings at the first game of this doubleheader out of the way.
For Cincinnati 3.
They go to card one.
Dean Johnson goes out to pick up for a left off.
With Moore, Martin and probably somebody to hit for Warnocky.
As the first three batters.
Bob Weiland.
W-E-I-L-A-N-D.
He fans down the lobster way.
We'll remember him of course.
Duffball warming up for the cards.
Moore, Martin and somebody to hit for Warnocky.
The first three batters to come up.
Kelly Moore coming up for the fourth time in the game.
He got it out short in the second.
Walked in the third.
And in the fifth.
That's right handed.
Top of the eighth. Dean Johnson winds up.
Here's the sixth.
Ground ball right through the box.
Out over second in the center field.
It's a hit.
Rolls off the area craft to field it.
And Moore is on first with a single.
And the eighth hit of Dean Johnson.
That brings up two marks.
Two marks is up. Three times no hits.
Go on first. Here's the pitch.
He swings at a fast ball and misses Moore's strike one.
There's the pitch.
Next pitch is outside.
Again the touch by Dean Johnson.
Here's the pitch to Martin.
He swings and fouls it back off.
One player later he gets his chest protector.
He bounces into the crowd.
One ball, two strikes.
There's the touch.
And here's the pitch.
Fast ball is hit right in front of the plate.
Picked out of the air by LaBardy and Fowl territory.
And thrown down to first.
LaBardy very smartly completing the play.
The ball is called foul by Fowl.
There he gets.
One ball, two strikes is the count.
Quick throw to first.
And there's the pitch.
And here's the pitch.
The high fly going out.
Back up first base.
Johnny Fry goes over.
Ivo Goodman comes in.
Fry follows it into the full plan and takes it back there.
Fry with a win chasing that ball.
And the ball is thrown to the right field field field.
To pull that foul down.
One away.
Temple margin.
M-A-R-T-I-N.
Batting for Warnocki.
And the a-penny.
Double margin batting.
That's right headed.
Thompson throws the curve ball inside.
Ball one.
Inside the bit high.
Mills after.
Busy warming up up there on the bullpen on the red.
Bob Wilden doing right plays for the cards.
The pitch fast ball is high and inside.
Ball two.
Kelly Moore is on first one away.
Gonzalez gets the sign.
Whether to hit or take.
Here comes the three pitch.
Fast ball high and inside.
Ball three.
Three balls in those strikes.
Thompson back to the last bag.
That's by James Thompson.
And here it is.
Ball four.
Evermark walks on four consecutive bad runs.
That brings up General Brown.
Martin on first.
Moore on second.
Thompson 93, St. Louis cards one.
In the top of the eighth inning.
With one away.
Thompson touching.
Here's the pitch.
Little old ball one.
One ball in those strikes.
Little note of apprehension in the crowd down below.
Brown is on first and second.
Here's the next pitch to Jimmy Brown.
Brown hits the line.
He takes it.
They go in and nobody attempts to advance.
Evermark is left re-standing.
Right directly back out more.
At second try to give him instructions on what to do.
And he had to duck back in a hurry.
Brown lining up the craft in better field.
Ball to second out.
That brings up Don Gutery.
He's been up four times as one hit.
Out of the eighth inning.
Caller, Thompson 93, St. Louis cards one.
Brown is on first and second.
Here comes the pitch.
Curveball across the plate.
Strike one ball.
Brooklyn, New York tied 5-5 at the end of four.
Chicago and Pittsburgh, great.
Again Thompson stretches.
And here it is.
Half ball he's swung and missed.
Nice shoot.
Curveball to second.
Got to re-step back to the plate again.
Stretched by Dean Thompson.
And here it is.
Outside and low.
Ball one.
One ball, two strikes to Goss.
No southers, self-warming up.
They go to the local proceedings.
There's Thompson stretch.
There's the pitch to Gutery.
Gutery calls.
Gutery just called out on Spikes.
Drive is retired, no run.
One hit, no error.
And two runners left.
And again, Dean Thompson gets a great hand as he goes down to the dugout.
Players down there, wrapping him on the back as he comes down to the dugout.
Now we go to the last half of the eighth inning.
We have another new pitcher.
For the St. Louis Cards.
Bob Weiland.
W-E-I-L-A-N-D.
In the eighth.
Bob Weiland in the eighth.
Dr. Lewis.
John Warnocky.
Bob Weiland in the eighth.
Five pitchers have been used so far by the Cards.
Davis, Schaum, Foreman, Warnocky and Weiland.
Winning runs so far in the ball game.
It's a close to be winning run.
All off, Kurt Davis.
A home run by Billy Myers in that second inning.
After the body, a double to right and a half to single to left.
Myers hit a home run that bounced off the top of the left-center field wall.
Bob Weiland, a south ball.
Comes in to work on Berger, Myers and Thompson.
Wally Berger will be the first batter.
One hit and three times in that.
A total of 11 hits so far.
Off the assorted offerings of Davis, Schaum and Foreman.
Wally Berger getting ready to step up to the plate.
Score Cincinnati 3, St. Louis Cards 1.
First game of the double header.
A jump in at one.
But this is the only game of the two that will be carried on the network this afternoon.
Bob Weiland.
Closer up and winds up.
Here's the pitch to Wally Berger.
High and inside on the fast ball.
Ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
At the get-to-time.
Weiland winding up again.
Here's the next pitch to Wally Berger.
The fast ball and he goes for it.
Following it back to the screen.
Strike one.
One ball and one strike to count.
Bob Weiland, there he gets.
Testing off the plate.
Weiland ready again.
Berger waits for the pitch.
Weiland winds up.
Here it is.
Fast ball.
Berger hits the line.
He's seated by Joe.
Heather concerns the ball to second as a single for Berger.
That's his second hit this afternoon.
A single to the left.
That brings up Billy Myers.
Myers gets a great hand.
He played well defensively.
And it was his home run that put this game to the point where the Reds are out in front.
Attitude Bill McKinney calls to...
No, Vince DiMaggio, rather, is running for Wally Berger.
All in the same family.
Vince DiMaggio.
D-I-N-A-G-G-I-O.
Berger gets a nice hand as he cuts over to the dugout.
DiMaggio on first.
Bunny for Berger.
Billy Myers up at the plate.
One hit.
A throw over to first by Bob Weiland.
Finds DiMaggio only one step away from the base.
He comes back a buddy of John's.
Here's the pitch.
It's ground ball out for second.
Bob is off the chin of DiMaggio.
Hit him right in the chin.
He feels it.
Gets it over to first.
That's a bad hop.
That ball's up spoiled.
A possible double play.
Going off Billy Myers and lift him to the hand.
Jim Johnson gets it.
Johnson stepping up to the plate with two hits.
And three times at that.
He's stretched by Weiland.
DiMaggio one second.
Here's the pitch.
Outside.
Ball one. Not breaking enough to catch that outside corner.
DiMaggio with a short lead.
And then stretches and leads.
Weiland throws outside ball two.
Two balls in those lights.
Looks like the Reds are looking for Cooper at the second game this afternoon.
And here it is.
That ball is lifted high to the right of the plate.
John Patchett follows it over the wind.
He gets it.
Ball to second out.
Following up.
John Patchett.
This ball of Patchett's looks awfully good on those fouls this afternoon.
He's gone for several couple.
Come down with every one that he's been able to get within range.
That brings up Bill Werber.
For the fourth time in the ball game.
Bill has no hits so far.
He's up for the fifth time actually.
They're passing Werber.
To get to Lonnie Frye.
Here's the next pitch outside ball two.
Here's the next pitch outside ball three.
And here's the fourth one.
Ball four.
Werber is purposely passed to bring up the left handed batter Lonnie Frye.
Frye has a perfect day at that.
The sacrifice.
A sender to right in the second.
A walk in the fifth.
And a sender to right batter in the seventh.
Werber on first.
Madgeau on second.
A couple of feet.
Too long.
If I give them anything on which to run, they'll really run.
Wynand looks back a second.
And throws.
Pass ball high and outside.
Ball one.
Wynand back to the last bat.
Now Wynand is ready.
Here's the pitch.
John Wall down for it.
First and second by Johnny Mize.
Mize halts his to Wynand who steps on first.
Ahead of Frye.
On the third up.
The play is Mize.
The pitcher will come.
Side retired.
No runs.
One hit.
No errors and two runners left.
Well we go to the first half of the ninth inning now.
Eight innings have been completed in this ball game.
The score is Cincinnati 3.
The play to which cards won.
And the heart of the batting order is coming up.
In the top of the ninth inning.
Fowler, Medwicks and Mize to base Dean Johnson.
Bill Schauffer immediately starts warming up.
And Vince DiMaggio of course goes to left field.
In place of Wally Burke.
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In his order for the fifth time in the game.
That's one hit so far in four previous times to death.
That was the single to center back in the first inning.
Johnson winds up. There's a pitch.
No ball one.
One ball no strikes.
There's a wind up. Here's the next pitch.
Fast ball is good in the inside corner for strike one call.
That count is one ball and one strike.
We're at the top of the ninth.
Dean Thompson winds up. Here's the pitch.
Right field ball on the outside corner knee high.
One ball and two strikes.
Thompson drops the rotten bag.
Shows the rubber.
The right hander winds up.
Here it is.
That's Kirk looking out for him.
Fowler's try count three.
That's try count number four for Dean Thompson.
Brings up Joe Medling.
Joe has bothered Thompson all afternoon.
He has three for four. Two doubles and a single.
Four times for that.
Thompson winds up.
Here it is.
Outside.
Curve ball breaking too far outside.
Ball one.
Thompson pitches quickly.
Takes a little short wind up.
Throws a fast ball to tie it inside.
Ball two. Two balls in those strikes.
Thompson goes into the rotten bag.
Here comes the wind up.
Here's the next pitch.
Strike one call. Knee high across the outside corner.
Here's the next pitch.
Ground ball going down to a short.
Bill Myers comes in and feels it.
Gets it over to first to find the corner.
Johnny outstretched the first ball to second off.
That brings up Johnny Mye.
You lost.
Nobody on.
Top of the ninth inning.
Thompson winds up.
Here's the pitch to Fries.
Fries hits the line drive out of the left field.
Trying to duck out of the way of the ball.
It goes out to DiMaggio.
He hits the ball so hard that even when he tries to duck out of the way of the disc.
He hits it hard.
He hits the ball so hard that even when he tries to duck out of the way of it, he hits it hard.
Now single to left.
Oh, Johnny Mye.
That brings up Don Paget.
Paget.
Up for the fifth time in the game.
No hits.
That's left-handed.
Fries is on first.
Here's the pitch to Paget.
Ground ball is high.
Ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
That's the highest power out of the upper left field for Bidden.
All curves around just as the upper Bidden drops to the lower Bidden.
And that counts one ball and one strike.
Gadget goes back up on the plate again.
Thompson's Gadget.
And here it is. That curve is high and outside.
Ball two. Two balls, one strike.
And the McGee starts warming up for the end of his card.
No shot there. Warming up.
Bawson's Maddie. Ball is thrown out there for umpire beans.
We're having a look over.
Bidden decides it's okay. Gives it back to Dean Johnson.
Two balls, one strike to Johnson.
Bidden first. Gadget batting.
Dian is called. They're sending out a runner.
Next pitch is a left count.
This is left count. Don't play on it.
Ball is called back.
It was a hit in the right center field but it is not.
Good as such.
Gadget is called back on the plate.
Bide is called back to post.
Dian had been called when that pitch was made by Thompson.
And a runner.
Ray Blaze comes off the walk of this.
We're having a little dispute on this point.
Buzzy Ware is also the coach at first base.
Mike Gonzalez is in there on the discussion.
And the newspaper photographer is here to get a picture of the goings on.
While we have time here, umpire Larry Gets goes over and asks,
umpire Bay Finnelli, yes, time had been called.
And the process is not allowed.
We want to tell you that although we're not going to broadcast the second game of the doubleheaders this afternoon on the NBC Blue Network,
we're standing by to pick up a celebration in the event the Reds take full advantage of the doubleheaders this afternoon.
And that will be broadcast over some of these stations.
The gap at the time of that, of course, that's contingent on a lot of things.
A lot of hits in connection with that.
So Donnie Meijer comes back and the count is two and two.
There's two off.
Meijer is the runner in there running for Donnie Meijer.
They finally replace him.
Blake, L-A-K-E, whoever he may be, running for Mines.
There's two off, two balls, two strikes to go.
John Cashew at the plate, there's the stretch, and here it is.
John Ball going down for a second, a second by Lonnie Fry.
Fry gets it over to first.
There's your ball game.
The Reds need to win only one more game of this series from the St. Louis Cards, and they are the 1939 champions.
Now we've run a little bit over time here.
I'm going to total this up in a hurry and get off the air.
The Cincinnati Reds, three runs, 12 hits, one error.
The St. Louis Cards, one run, eight hits, and one error.
The winning pitcher is Dean Thompson.
That is his self-picture in the season.
The losing pitcher is Kurt Davis.
That's all we have time for this afternoon.
This broadcast has come to you from the broadcasting group in the press box at Clauseley Field.
You're an officer, Roger Baker.
You're the national broadcasting company.