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The New York Yankees face the Kansas City Royals at Royal Stadium for game 2 of the ALCS on October 10th, 1976.
The Yankees lead the best of five series, one game to none.
And this is the national broadcast of game 2 featuring announcers Ernie Harwell and Ned Martin.
Each manager making a few line-up changes. Why do you hear that? Because of an injury to his set-up deal, Amos Otis,
and Billy Martin because he wanted to get some left-hand power in against the Kansas City right-hander.
The pitchers this evening, Ed Figueroa, will be on the mound for the Yankees,
The native of Puerto Rico with 19 wins and 10 defeats this season, 0-2 against Kansas City,
and a lifetime mark against the Royals of 1-6, and a right-hander, Dennis Leonard, will be pitching for the Royals.
He's won 17 and dropped 10 this year and is 1-0 against his rivals from New York.
The umpires and managers have broken up their conference nowThe umpires station themselves out on a diamond.
And here is the batting order for the New York Yankees. Leading off at instead of field, Mickey Rivers,
hitting second and stationed in left, Roy White, white in left field.
Batting third and catching for New York, Thurman Munson. Munson is the catcher.
The clean-up hitter for Billy Martin's team is Chris Shamblett, the first baseman. Shamblett at first base.
Batting number five, the designated batter, Carlos May, who did not start in the line-up yesterday.
The next hitter is Greg Nettles, the third baseman, Greg Nettles, followed by Oscar Gamble, the right fielder,
a left-hand hitter, in there against the right-hander, Leonard. Gamble and Wright.
The number eight batter is Willie Randolph, the second baseman. Randolph at second base.
And the batting number nine, the shortstop, Fred Stanley. Stanley at shortstop.
For the home team here in Royal Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, it will be Jim Warford leading off.
He'll be in left field. Al Cowan is hitting number two, playing in center field. That's Cowan and setter.
George Brett is the number three hitter, stationed at third base. He had three hits yesterday.
John Mayberry, the first baseman hits clean-up for Lydie Herzog's team. That's Mayberry at first base.
Then comes the designated batter, Al McRae. McRae, the designated batter, followed by the right fielder, Tom Poquette.
Poquette in right fieldThe next batter for the Kansas City Royals is second baseman, Frank White.
White at second base, followed by the number eight batter, Freddie Potek, the shortstop, Potek at short.
And the catcher is Buckner and Smart-Key.
The PA man introducing the Royals here, and they have now taken the field.
And Leonard, the right-hander, coming in from the bullpen, he'll be the last man on the diamond.
The measurements down the left field line, it's 330. It's 385 into the left field area.
And then the 410 into left setter and the right setter.
Moving around into the right center field alley, it's 385.
And the 330 are down the right field line, here in this beautiful ballpark.
Now, Lydie Herzog has a problem with his hitting. His team has been in almost a month-long slump.
They played excellent ball in the first half of the year. They slumped off in the second half.
And Lydie hopes that they'll be the first half team here tonight,
because he needs a victory to get this championship series even at one-one a-piece.
Now, Leonard is taking the mound. He's shotting out and the home crowd gets him a hand.
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Hey, Miss Otis, on the bed.
Lydie Herzog told an Ed Markman, maybe, before the game that he did not think that Otis would appear in the playoff series at all.
He injured his ankle in the first inning running out of a attempt.
Yesterday sprained his ankle. It is swollen quite a bit.
And he will not be used even as a pinch hitter or any other role throughout the series.
Leonard's taking his final tune-up tosses now with Buck Martinez.
And around the infield on defense, it'll be Brett at third, Patek at shortstop, White will be at second,
Mayberry will be at first base, Wolford in left field, Cowens and Sutter replacing the injured Amos Otis,
and Poquette moving over to right field.
And the umpire, Larry Barnett, will work behind the plate.
It'll be George Maloney at first base, Bill Haller stationed out at second, Art Brant will be behind third.
Down the left field line, the umpire will be Larry McCoy.
And down the right field line, it'll be the man who worked behind the plate yesterday,
Joe Franklin.
Day game yesterday and a night game tonight here in Kansas City.
And the Royals hoping that their play will be just that much different day and night.
Well, here's the man who's topped in our profession of baseball broadcasting,
a good friend of mine, and I'm happy to be with him on this series, Mr. Ned Martin, the boy for the Boston Red Sox.
Thank you Ernie Harwell, and thank you for those.
And good evening again everybody on a beautiful night in Kansas City.
It surprised a lot of people because they figured it would be cold tonight.
It was a little chilly toward the end of the game yesterday,
but it's in the mid-70s and almost perfect Indian summer weather.
Denny Leonard pitching against Mickey Rivers who had two hits in yesterday's first game.
He's two for five in the series, blubbed the butt, and it's strike one, he missed it.
He's got 312 on the air with eight homers and 67 runs batted in.
A big, big factor in the Yankees success.
Bends over from the left side, checks his swing and takes ball one.
One ball, one strike.
Leonard throws hard, there's not a batter.
He's got a good fastball, a fastball that will run in on a right-handed hitter and sink down towards him and away from a left-hander.
There's a foul off the left side and the count is still one and two to Mickey Rivers.
Leonard, still a young pitcher, 25 years old, has a good slider too.
But it's the feeling that he needs an off-speed pitch to completely compliment himself, an off-speed pitch, a flip pitch or something like that.
Jack knifing away for a pitch down low and inside is Mickey Rivers, the count is two and two.
Two balls, two strikes, the Rivers were underway here at Royals Stadium.
Big, big game for the Royals and of course for the Yankees too, but the Royals need it.
There's a chopper foul off to the right side and for the first base dugout, the Royals dugout here.
Now the Royals say that the teeter Leonard's pitching is his curveball.
He's got an excellent curve and if he gets it over he can be real trouble. If he doesn't get it over there'll be another story.
The count is two and two to Rivers and the fastball is peeled foul off the left side and Rivers loses his bat popped out of his hand.
Still Mickey is being troublesome up there as usual.
One of the fastest men in the league over from the California Angels and he has put a new dimension in the Yankees this year.
Two-two pitch, outside and high, a fastball and the count is three and two.
Rivers will trouble you once he gets on base too. He's stole forty-three bases during the season and has caught only seven times.
He does not walk much. He comes up swinging. He walked only twelve times in the regular season.
The pitch to him fouled off. Sometimes a lead off batter such as Rick Berlton, Knife of the Red Sox and Mickey Stanley who used to do it with the Tigers occasionally will be a good weight hitter and go for the walk to get on base but Rivers just likes to swing.
Leonard with a three-two pitch. Paul Forey walks in this time and Rivers on base and that starts things being tough for the Royals.
Leonard has a pretty good move to first base. Roy White, left fielder. Roy White, the left fielder who quenched the game just about yesterday late with that two-run double that made the score four to one.
He's a switcher and batting left-handed against Leonard. He's more effective from the left side.
White over the year. Hits two-eighty-six with fourteen home runs. Sixty-five RBI's. He went one for four yesterday and knocked in those two runs. Leonard lobs one over to first base just to keep Rivers on it.
The main thing to try to do against the Royals running and somebody who are like Rivers on this club, the Yankee Club, is to make that first throw over there hard. Well there's the second throw that's hard and Rivers stays.
But give them a good shot right off the bat instead of a lollipop dunk. Then they have a little more respect for you.
White waiting and the pitch to him is slammed foul on the left field side into the crowd. Nothing in one.
Rivers stole five bases against the Royals this year. So he's not unused to that. Major League's had a tremendous year of base stealing.
Over three thousand stolen bases this past seasonThe first time since 1914 and that many have been stolen in baseball. Of course at that time there were only sixteen teams.
There's another lob over there by Leonard and Rivers is right on the bag. Mickey doesn't take a big arrogant lead but he gets a good jump. He swings aroundThe upper part of his body is ready to go.
He edges off and goes back again as Leonard plays catch with John Mayberry.
Rivers can do things like that. He can bother you. He can bother you enough so you lose concentration on the batter. He did that several times this summer. I remember against the Red Sox Club.
He holdsThe pitch out is made. Throw to first base and he stays the first. Rivers was not going but he bluffed going down to second. Martinez had the pitch out going.
And then fired down to first. That's kind of a new wrinkle on the pitch out. Rivers was fairly far off the bag.
But Mickey slipped back in and he beat the throwThe count is one and one to Roy White who is aging quietly at home plate while the throws continue to go to first base.
White likes the ball up and over the plate. There's another throw to first.
White will hit the high inside pitch to learn when he's batting left handed. Usually the left handed hitters like the low pitch inside like Mayberry is the Royals. There's another throw.
Mayberry blocks it. Rivers is off balance and stays on the bag. And the crowd is getting a little restless now as Leonard continues to throw over to first base with nobody out in the first inning and one man on.
Holding and the ground foul by White as first base coach Elton Howard.
Top of the first just underway at Royals StadiumThe wind not as big a factor as it was yesterday afternoon. It's blowing the other way around actually from right to left.
Waterfall over the walls in center field.
Here's the set by Leonard.
And the pitch. White takes the fastball outside and they count on him as two and two.
Leonard had a few things to say today whether he was chiding the Yankees or not. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and he figured that they should have taken him. A homegrown product with a good arm.
But I think he found a home here. He was one of the pitching reasons that the Royals went where they did.
He teamed up with another fastball pitcher, a youngster named Letel, whom we saw yesterday coming out of the bullpen. Two hard throwers.
A youngster who was really hurt by the injuries to Steve Cusby for most of the year and for Paul Splittor for half of it.
Two-two pitch and it's outside and high for ball three. And Rivers is bothering Leonard.
So right at the start, Leonard, concerned by the base runner at first, has now gone three and two to white. Leonard will go full count and throw a lot of pitches in the ball game.
Right hander sets and throws. There goes Rivers. There's a drive in the left field for a hit. Rivers holds the secondThe ball picked up by Walford.
Thrown in the third. Runners at first and second. Nobody out.
Well, I had Rivers going on a three-two pitch and white banging one and mining shot at the left field.
So the Yankees have something going in the first inning as they did yesterday. Runners at first and second. Nobody out.
The batter is Sherman Munson. Martinez goes halfway out. He's going to toss the ball and call something to Leonard.
Munson missed everything for the New York Yankees over the past year. Fine season. Hitting three-oh-two with 17 home runs.
He knocked in 105 runs and finished second in the RBI race to Lee May of Baltimore.
Munson went one for five yesterday. Goes through a lot of motions at the home plate, getting himself fed.
He'll thrust both arms out. Getting himself all spread away. Everything's got to be perfect and here's the pitch to him.
Heels a foul off to the right side and out of play. And it's one strike to Sherman Munson. Rivers is second.
White at first and nobody out and both had activity already for the Kansas City Royals.
Left-hander throwing. They had Mingoria out there early yesterday.
One strike. And here's the set and the pitch.
Going Munson back off the plate. One ball, one strike and Leonard is struggling.
In the first inning yesterday when the, when the guru was in trouble, they had both Littell and Mingoria out there.
It is Paul Splitarm who usually is a starter but because of his injury is coming back slowlyThe pitch is inside to Munson.
The count is two and one and Whitey Herzog sending out his pitching coach, Galen Cisco.
And when Cisco comes out, it means to talk or to buy some time for his bullpen.
When Whitey comes out, just as when Billy Martin comes out, it's usually with the hook.
Cisco's the pitching coach. This roughest fellow Leonard along got him to come on with a top or be a lot more effective pitcher.
And I imagine now he's just trying to settle him down in this first inning. It's always probably the toughest inning for a pitcher, especially a youngster.
And he's having a struggle now. Yankees have done about what they did yesterday except they reversed it yesterday. Rivers had a single and Whitey had a walk.
And today in the first inning it's been the reverse of that, a walk to Rivers and they hit the run single by White.
Now Cisco's gone back to the dugout. Munson back in the batter's box and let's see what happens.
Two and one to Thurman MunsonThe table setters are on. They've done their job in both these games. Rivers and White.
Munson stands in waiting for the two-one delivery. Leonard fires and it's fouled off. Proud of play down the right field line.
Two and two to Thurman.
Munson for the last few years has been living in shadows, maybe created by himself. I don't know. But he knows his worth and that he knows he's good and everybody else knows he's good.
But he always got the feeling for a while that he was being downrated by the likes of one in one year Carlton Ciske of the Red Sox and of course in all years by Johnny Bench of the Cincinnati Reds.
Munson has proven himself right up with air with the best and maybe the best. Fine defensive catcher. Tough hitter in this lineup.
Two and two. Here it is. Ground ball towards short. Potec to White for one to first and they've got the double play.
Holding it third is Mickey Rivers seizing a throw and Mayberry runs it in. Rivers holds it third.
Six ball three double play that helps Leonard immeasurably.
Taylor made double play ball right to shortstop Freddie Potec. He had to come in on it a little bit because it was a not sharply hit.
But Munson was not overly fast down the line. Was an easy man to double then as Frank White suited John Mayberry who gave it a big stretch out toward right field.
Rivers turned the bag at third and bluffed going home trying to tease a bad throw from Mayberry but Big John just held on and ran it in.
Rivers is at third. There are two outs now and Chris Shambliss who went two for four is up. Yankee first baseman a left handed batter with a closed stand.
The fastball is jumped outside ball one. Shambliss hits two ninety three on the regular season. He had seventeen home runs.
Ninety six runs battered and he was right up there among the top five or six at RBI.
Had a fine year overall for New York. They over shift on him a little bit.
Ground ball to second base. Frank White waits for the ball to play in throws the firstThe inning is over.
Shambliss grounds out second to first and the Yankees have no runs. One hit and they leave one.
In the middle of the first inning the Yankees nothing and the Royals coming up.
Okay let's take a look at scores in the National Football League.
Baltimore twenty eight the Dolphins fourteenThe New York Jets seventeen.
Buffalo fourteenThe Cowboys twenty fourThe Giants fourteen. Kansas City thirty three. Washington thirty.
Cleveland eighteen. Pittsburgh sixteen. Cincinnati twenty one. Tampa Bay nothing.
The Detroit Lions thirtyThe Patriots tenThe Minnesota Vikings twentyThe Chicago Bears nineteen.
Houston seventeen. Denver three. New Orleans thirty. Atlanta nothing. Green Bay twenty seven.
Seattle twenty. St. Louis thirty three. Philadelphia fourteen. And it was open twenty seven. San Diego seventeen.
On Monday the San Francisco forty niners are at the Los Angeles Rams.
So those are the scores. We'll check the details the next time we get a break.
CBS Radio Sports is bringing you the play by play action in the American League Championship.
And there's more to comeThe World Series starts October 16th next Saturday.
And you'll hear exclusive radio coverage play by play of the 1976 World Series right here on the CBS Radio Network station.
Right hander Ant Siguroa taking his warm up. As Ernie told you earlier he's had trouble with the Kansas City Royals.
He's in his six in his American League career against his club both as a Yankee and as a member of the California Angels.
He's a short arm right hander. Good at keeping the ball low. He throws the thinker the slider.
Any two of Jim like Leonard could use an off three pitch.
He does not have one. He's very sneaky. He's a lot quicker than he looks.
The first man you'll face will be left fielder Jim Wolford who was put into action yesterday when Otis was hurt in the first inning.
Wolford a right handed batter the left fielder hit two forty nine on the air. He takes strike one.
Wolford had one homer and twenty four on the eyes on the season and was held hitless yesterday in three trips to the plate.
No score. We're in the bottom of the first round ball left side.
A high hopper taking a short stop long throw by Stanley not in time at the base hit.
A high chopper over the glow of metal. He could not have it.
He made the play and tried to get it over there but had not much steam on the throw from deep short.
So there goes Tigger O as no hitter.
Al Callan the center fielder is up.
One for three yesterday had a triple.
When a triple right down the right field line and at that time in the game was very important.
It was a two nothing game at that time.
He finally scored the Royals only run right handed batter to two sixty five on the year with three homers.
This is a called strike on him fastball.
Well you might have thought the Royals are just one of the nights because that lead off single stirred everybody here.
They've been waiting for something to happen. They throw his outside a little bit.
One ball one strike.
Jim Wolford is not a stealing type of ball player.
Although he has gotten some whole Royal Ball Club ran this year he still twenty two bases.
He was caught sixteen times.
The pitch to Callan just up and in.
Way high.
Ball two. Two and one.
It appeared that Callan the right handed hitter was going to try to go to right field with that.
Of course it was not the kind of ball you could unless you swing have an inside out swing.
Chucking with a check with Chuck Hiller the third base coach on any kind of sign and maybe have been relayed.
Here's the set by Figueroa throws the first and back on his knees is Wolford.
The Royals have a base runner nobody out.
Callan is a good size.
Punches the ball around he's not a home run type.
Again a throw to first and they almost had Wolford leaning the wrong way.
Had to dive back on his knees both times. Knees and stomach.
He leads off to the end of the dirt there and the in field. There he goes.
Pitches it foul off to the right side.
They had Wolford going they had a play on and Callan trying to punch the ball to the right side of the infield.
Fouled it off.
The count on him is now two balls two strikes.
The Royals promise that they're going to run.
The only way to try to create something they can't stand back and wait for somebody to hit it downtown because nobody's been hitting it downtown lately.
And they'll try to utilize their speed their base feeling ability which got them here in the first place.
Two and two.
Here it is there goes Wolford again ground ball base hit to the right field.
Wolford turns second hence for third.
It's a single for Callan the runners are at the corners with nobody out.
Well the Royals are starting in a hurry as they had a hit run single beautifully executed by Callan into that hole caused by the runner going and people running all over the infield.
And that is that textbook stuff Ernie.
It sure is it's a beauty and they've got a tough man up there now.
Best hit in the American League George Brett.
Brett had three hits before yesterday on the year a league leading three thirty three he won it on the final game of the season.
Three before in that game and he had three before yesterday.
Left handed batter hits to all fields.
The high fly ball into left field deep enough probably to get a run home.
Roy White has it does not have much of an arm throws in the second base to run scores on the Royals League one nothing.
So Cincinnati or Cincinnati has in my mind after the way they handled the field today.
Kansas City's dog's first blood gets on the scoreboard on two singles and a sacrifice fly run batted in for Brett.
He did it in God.
Mr. Alford scored John Allen.
He buried a big guy John Mayberry over three yesterday.
A disappointing year for him hitting two thirty two on the season.
Only 13 homers are used to hitting 30 or more.
Not been ninety five runs he chops the foul ball off to the left.
In the Yankee bullpen early.
Dix Hidrow a right hander is starting to throw so Billy Martins in this short series as with Whitey Hesha getting people ready in a hurry when a starting pitcher gets in trouble.
One nothing has the city for a sitting Mayberry big left handed hitter.
So the first not in time John was saying down the batting practice before the game said I just haven't hit well all year.
I've got to get back to the way I did he said I've been hitting defensively try to go up the middle into the opposite field.
Wings he tried to pull that with fouls into the mid of Munson.
He's got awesome power.
He can hit the long ball but he just hasn't done it for them.
Then he started to press and everything went wrong.
He didn't change anything.
I just need to try to get back in the groove that I was in last year.
He strikes to it all outside.
They'll pick him away hoping in using to go to left field.
He will really like the ball down and in the good strikes.
But if you tease him with a bad ball down and in he might go for it and miss it.
One to pitch little pop up foul first base side.
Greg Nettles under it and he takes it for out number two.
They jammed Mayberry on that one and he fouled it up in the air.
So John is out and Al McCrae the designated winner is up.
Mac Ray.
He had a rough day yesterday too went over four striking out twice.
But then everybody had a bad day against Catfish Hunter except George Fretz.
One nothing.
Oil is bleeding.
Cowan's at first.
Two outs and McCrae up.
He lost the batting title to Brett in the last day.
He hit 332 on the feet.
Right handed batter takes outside a ball.
Really there's nothing better that could happen to McCrae than for the Royals to win the playoff and the Bennett's.
And then to get into a World Series against his old club the Cincinnati Reds.
He said he wished that would happen.
There goes Cowan.
The pitch is high.
So does second base.
Not in time.
It goes into center field.
Cowan heads for third.
He's got it safely.
Stolen base and an error on Munson's throw.
And the Royals are running now.
A stolen base for Al Cowan.
He can pick him up and lay him down.
Munson who releases very quickly behind the plate.
Sometimes he's erratic with his throwing and that one was low.
Yesterday he was saved at possible error on a fine play by Stanley.
Nobody could get this one.
It went past in the center field backed up by Rivers.
But Cowan has gone on to third.
The count is 2-0 to McCrae now.
Runner at third base and 2-0.
Figueroa throws.
Misses outside.
3-0 to McCrae.
Tom Colquette, a left handed batter is on deck.
Dibro is not throwing anymore in the Yankee full fan but he's kind of wandering around there.
Low outside, ball four and McCrae is on.
First walk off Figueroa.
Number 26.
Number 25.
Here's Tom Colquette.
Colquette.
C-O-P-U-E-T-P.
Tom Colquette, the right fielder.
He started the game at left yesterday and then when Otis was third he moved to right.
That's where he is tonight.
Had a good season at the play.
He was right up there among the league leaders for a while.
Finished with a 3-0-2 batting mark.
He went 0-3 yesterday.
Bats in a deep crouch.
Strike calls.
Outside corner.
So the Royals making some noise early off Ed Figueroa.
Figueroa tried for 20 his last time out was against the Red Sox.
He got 15 hits and seven runs off it.
It's outside of change up attempts and the count is one and one.
Billy Martin in that game at Fenway the last week of the season just left him in.
Hoping the Yankees would score for him and then Figueroa would become the first Puerto Rican ever to win 20 games.
But it was not to be as the Red Sox beating seven to five.
Normally of course Billy would have had him out there early.
Out of it.
One and one.
Hits outside.
Some kind of turnover fit.
The count is two balls one strike.
And Figueroa is struggling.
He would have had a chance to win 20 on the final day of the season but the Yankees were rained out of a double header with the Cleveland Indians.
Two balls one strike.
The pitch to Porquette is slammed into right field.
Take this.
Do nothing.
Go over to third base.
They let it go through and down the third is MacRae.
He takes.
Do nothing.
Hands of City.
Tom Porquette.
Back to single in the right field out of the reach of Randolph.
Scoring Cowan from third.
And there's where your running phase off.
The Cowan stolen base and reaching third on the error.
It was an easy run.
MacRae went around to third base and Figueroa is still in a jam.
Two outs.
Runner to first and third.
And here is Frank White, the second baseman, went over two yesterday.
Royals two.
Yankees nothing.
We're in the first inning in game two.
Wide right handed batter.
Takes the pitch inside.
Spinning him around almost hit it.
Now, Sidro is up and throwing again in the Yankee bullpen in left.
White, who prefers the high ball to hit.
Gets a chopper to his third.
Picked up by Nettles.
Fires across to first in time.
Getting White to finally end the inning.
On a big inning it was.
As the Kansas City Royals pick up two runs, they had three hits with the Yankee error and two were left.
And after one inning, the score is Kansas City two, the Yankees nothing.
Okay, let's take a look at the details of National Football League game Sunday.
The Baltimore Colts getting pinpoint passing from Burt Jones and self defense when it counted.
Moved into first place in the AFC East with a 28 to 14 win over Miami.
Jones passed the one touchdown and ran for another as the Colts boosted their record to four and one.
A game ahead of New England in the AFC Eastern Division.
Quarterback Ken Stable completed 20 of 26 passes for 239 yards and three touchdowns.
As the Oakland Raiders took a 27 to 17 victory over San Diego.
The win moved the Raiders in its all possession of first place in the AFC West at four and one.
Their chargers are three and two.
Linebacker Jim Murlow ran a pass interception back 83 yards for one touchdown.
And quarterback Bobby Scott accounted for two others as New Orleans blanks in the state's prone Atlanta Falcons 30 to nothing.
Denny Leonard has two runs to work with now as he takes his warm up and is ready to face the Yankees in the second inning.
He'll be going against Carlos May, Greg Meadows and Oscar Gamble.
The water falls up between innings as they do here and of course at night with lights behind it making a very picturesque scene at beautiful Royal Stadium.
Harry S. Truman complex here in Kansas City.
On that this game being beamed all around the world by American forces radio so we should send our greetings to all the folks and tell them that we'll be bringing them a little touch of home wherever they might be.
I hope so, yeah. Maybe the guys and girls who are from the heart of America country will be coming back here soon.
And thankfully they'll be coming back without having to go through a war to do it.
Carlos May leading off a designated hitter with a right-hander going for Kansas City.
May replaces Pennella as a D8.
Carlos May batted 259 on the year with three homers and 43 runs batted in.
Came over to the Yankees for the White Sox in the deal that sent Ken Brett to Chicago.
Black calls the left-handed batter.
May as many know had a serious accident when he was in the Marine Corps doing Marine Reserve duty several years ago.
A mortar went off and blew part of his thumb off.
Winked and missed it.
Nothing in two and it changed his whole batting style. When he came up with the White Sox he was a good young hitter.
He's a good hitter now but he has to choke up on the bat.
The thing that has bothered him most about that accident was the throwing to get used to that.
The Yankees have been using him cheaply as a designated hitter.
Takes the low outside pitch, one ball, two strikes.
May's brother, Lee May of Baltimore.
The one-two delivery to him.
Rounded foul passed first.
330 feet down each line here at Royal Stadium.
385 farther out in left and right. 410 towards the deep right center and left center power alleys and center field.
The 12-foot high wall going around from foul pole to foul pole.
The bullpens are at right and center there.
That wall about the same, that screen the same height.
There's a drive to left field. It could be trouble near the wall. It is curving. It is fair ball.
Bouncing on one half against the wall.
The
Wolfer's fires into Pottec, a double for Carlos May leading off the second for New York.
He can wheel that bat.
May doubles deep in the left field corner.
As we've told you before and if you've been to Royal Stadium and know about it,
you give them the double down the left field line.
You don't try to go in after it because it eludes you by maybe a triple or inside the part homer.
That's the second hit off winner.
Yankees in business with May at second base and the batter, Greg Nettles, third baseman hit list in four trips yesterday.
32 homers on the year, the American League home run champion.
93 runs batted in. Fast ball outside.
254 hitter on the year but he's had the power and the production for the Yankees.
An excellent mistake hitter. You make a mistake on a breaking ball and he'll kill you.
Left handed batter.
Homes the bat right down at the end.
And the pitch.
Check swing fouled off.
Breaking pitch by Leonard that time. He rode the slider in on him.
The Royals lead 2-0 as the Yankees bat in the second inning in game two.
Here is the set by Leonard to look back towards second base.
And he throws high outside again. He is keeping it away from Nettles.
The fast balls that are tailing away outside.
That fast ball which we mentioned runs into right handers. This time is running away from the left hander Nettles.
The temperature here at game time we are reminded was 69 degrees officially.
Although some people earlier had said 75 but it's around 69, 70 and very pleasant really shirt sleeve weather here in October.
Two balls, one strike to Greg Nettles.
And here is the double play who is not a threat to do much except just do the best you can in running.
Medium lead off the bag and this is an eyeball three. Three and one to Nettles.
And now Leonard is getting a little mess again.
A double play bailed him out of real trouble in the first inning when the first two Yankees got on.
Big right hander leans in for the sign.
And he walks in. High outside and that was the pattern all the way through on Nettles.
Fast balls up and away.
The second walk issued by Leonard.
Right field at Oscar Gamble is the batter.
Did not play in yesterday's game.
Left handed hitter with a 232 season mark but with 17 home runs and 57 runs batted in.
Generates a lot of power on the left side.
He doesn't look as if he's a power hitter but he can pull them all and hurt you.
Ball split off the left hander is up for the second time in the Royal Bullpen.
And for the second inning in a row the Yankees have their first two batters on.
But here's our May at second base and Nettles at first.
Not much speed on the bases right now for New York.
Double play depth for the infield and the pitch to Gamble is a strike call.
After takes the strike.
Gamble had maybe the world champion afro in sports last year before he came to the Yankees.
And then when he came to the Yankees Mr. Steinbetter said cut it off.
And when the boss tells you to do that I guess you do it.
Cost out to $30 but he said that's fine.
Easy way to lose five pounds, students often say.
I was wondering how he kept the helmet on.
Here's a one strike pitch to him. It's down low for a ball, one and one.
Very personable fellow Gamble.
And Mrs. Oscar Gamble, Juanita Gamble, will be singing the national anthem before game three in New York on Tuesday.
Very pleasant singing voice.
The one one pitch to Oscar, bouncing ball into left field for a hit.
Charged by Wolford, they are sending May.
Wolford throws the plate, cut off by Patek, it's two to one.
So the Yankees are right back in it as Oscar Gamble punches a single through the shortstop hole to drive in Carlos May with a first Yankee run.
And they're holding a second base with Nettles.
We'll be here 10 seconds for base identification. This is the CBS Radio Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
Back at Royal Stadium in Kansas City, this is Ned Martin along with Ernie Harwell.
And we are watching a different kind of ball game so far tonight from yesterday's opener with D.D. Kitching, all of those guys.
Both teams coming out hitting.
The score is Kansas City two, the Yankees one. Yankees with nobody out and runners at first and second.
The hitter is Willie Randolph, second baseman, right handed batter.
Ground ball to short, Patek touches second.
And over the first double play. And over the third goes Gamble, but they get two out.
Or a Nettles goes to third and Gamble is doubled up.
Patek making the play unassisted, stepping on the bag to fourth Gamble and throwing the first against the fleet, Willie Randolph.
Two tough men do double and they did it. And for a second time, a double play helped Leonard immeasurably.
Two double plays turned by Kansas City.
Nettles is at third base. He represents the tying run.
And the batter is Fred Stanley. He went three before yesterday from his number nine spot.
Yankee shortstop, right handed batter, swings and fouls just at strike one.
Stanley is the kind of hitter that you may ease up on him.
Maybe not meaning to, but you don't pay as much attention to him as the tougher hitters in the lineup.
And all of a sudden there he is, singing base hits around.
He did yesterday, played a fine game defensively too.
Pitch is inside. One ball, one strike.
Nettles at third, two out.
Infield back deep now with two away.
They do not play Stanley to full. In fact they play in the push.
The center fielder, Cowans, over toward right center.
Fouls off the end of the bat into the first base dugout.
One ball, two strikes.
The put-off still works in the Kansas City bullpen.
Royals home uniform glistening white against the green of the carton turf here,
which is kept in such excellent playing shape by George Tilmer and his fine ground crew.
A ball and two strikes with two out.
From the stretch, Leonard backs off the mound.
Nettles coming down the line at third, not a long way.
Here's the set and the pitch.
Little pumper towards the right side of the infield taken by White in the air for the final out.
A handle rooper to second baseman Frank White to end the inning.
One Yankee run. They had a pair of hits and they leave one.
And after one and a half innings in the middle of the second inning in the Kansas City Royals 2, the New York Yankees won.
Continuing with National Football League details, quarterback Mike Livingston tossed a 36-yard scoring pass to Larry Brunson in the final second
to give Kansas City a 33-30 victory over the Redskins.
The Chiefs' first victory in five outings, the Redskins have now lost two straights after winning the first three.
St. Louis scored touchdowns after four Philadelphia...
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in the third place in the NFL's all-time career list ahead of San Francisco's Joe Perry.
Don Krocok kicked four field goals and Cleo Miller plunged for a touchdown as the Cleveland Browns
beat the Swamping Pittsburgh Steelers 18 to 16The Steelers are now in the basement of the AFC
Central with a one and four recordThe Browns are two and three.
The bottom of the second is approaching with the Royals leading the Yankees two to one.
The Cincinnati Reds took their second in a row from the Philadelphia Thills at Philadelphia
on a kind of gloomy day today, certainly gloomy for the people in Philadelphia who had such high
hopes for a good jump against the Reds, but they broke through Jim Lombardi's serve. Loney had a
no hitter through five innings, but they came up with four runs of the six knocking him out and
went on to beat him. Pat Zachary the winner, Lombardi the loser, who did see had the game
of Homer for Philadelphia, but the Reds just did it as the Thills fell into some mistakes here and
there. A controversial call and a line drive went off the glove of Richie Allen for two runs,
a call that had never finally ever pushed, deciding it might be a base hit. Freddy Patek up,
he takes a strike on the outside corner. A one charm shortstop for the Kansas City Royals, Pat
Zachary. One for three yesterday, hit 241 on the year and he looks at a pitch outside, ball one.
One ball, one strike. Freddy has learned to go to the opposite field, punch the ball around.
He came up, he has some strength in the plate, but he's not the full type hitter. Fly ball,
straight away center, back four and then in for it is Rivers. Mickey puts it away and Patek is out.
One out of the Royals, second. Number 21, Buck Martinez, the catcher for the Royals,
right-handed hitter. One over two yesterday, before being removed fourth-inch hitter.
Muck is 228 on the season with five homers. Hit Figueroa on the mound, finally weathered a rough
first inning, giving up two runs and three hits. Right-hander works, the fly ball into right field
this time. Under it is Gamble. Oscar puts this one away. Martinez is out and there's two away
very quickly in the Royals second inning. Leadoff man Jim Wolpert started the whole thing in the
first inning with an infield hit to short and he scored the first Royal run. Two apps, nobody on.
All one, thrown to Wolpert, right-handed batter.
And the pitch by Figueroa, foul back to the screen.
Andy Hasler, the left-hander, will go for the Royals on Tuesday night in New York.
8 15 Eastern Daylight Time, the game time there, 7 15 Central.
1-1 pitch, a strike call, flipped across the outside. Conner and Wolpert is down on the
count, one ball two strikes. Doc Ellis will be Billy Martin's choice to go for the Yankees.
1-2 pitch, hit high, ball two, two and two.
Big near capacity crowd again tonight in Royal Stadium. Here's a 2-2 offering, ground ball,
right side, taken the first base by Shambles, plays it alone and the Royals are out 1-2-3.
An easy inning for Figueroa now, nothing is caught and after two innings of play it's the
Royals two and the Yankees one. Okay let's continue with a look at details of games in
The National Football League. Chuck Foreman ran for two touchdowns and Fred Cox floated two field
goals to help the Vikings to a 20-19 victory over ChicagoThe win gives Minnesota a one and a half
game lead over Chicago in the NFC CentralThe Vikings took a 17-0 halftime lead but the Bears
bounced back after the intermissionThe Green Bay Packers down 20-7 in the third quarter rallied
behind the passing of Lynn Dickey and defeated the expansion Seattle Seahawks 27-20. Dickey
threw a 66-yard scoring pass to Steve Odom late in the third quarter then led the Packers to their
winning score midway through the fourth quarter on the Barty Smith six-yard scoring run.
Craig Wendry threw three touchdown passes as Detroit surprised New England 30-10 to give Tommy
Hutch brought the victory in his first game as interim coach. Here we go into the third inning
at Royal StadiumThe Kansas City Royals leading the Yankees two to one. Two rather interesting
innings offensively and Dennis Leonard trying to settle down in the third after two wobbly innings
during which time he has given up three hits two walks and a run but still has a two-one lead.
The Big Oars settled down nicely in the bottom of the second after having a rough first inning.
Leonard finishing his one up with Chuck Martinez. Last year his first full season rally in the
American League he won 16 and lost 7. He's always had a pretty good strikeout to walk ratio. This
past year in 1976 he struck out 148 while walking 70 better than a two to one ratio.
Dickey got the same as a two to one ratio.
Here's Mickey Rivers led the first inning with a walk got as far as third base and died there.
43 still in bases was good for seventh in the American League. Ground ball to second Frank
White as it throws him out one away. So they get Rivers off the base.
Left fielder Roy White.
Roy White comes up and he drilled a single into left field in the first.
But you're batting left tonight against Leonard.
George Brett at third with White up there playing wide of the bag. He is even with a bag that's
about a third of the way down towards second base. It's a little bit low ball one.
He's playing on that inside line which is about the about tantamount to being the edge of the
infield grass on a normal grass diamond. Fly ball right center coming on hard as Cowans and he lets
it drop. Here comes a White in the second baseThe throw is not in time. He has a hustle double.
Now that's a target and third double there Ned. One of those little Texas Lakers did drop in and
Cowans had to play it rather carefully because it can bounce over your head and go for inside the
park home run. But White took advantage of the fact that it was dropping in between the infielder and
The outfielder and he got too off it. He had the play right in front of him. He just went on there.
It was a throw by Cowans who has a good throwing arm was a little bit too lateThe ball almost
did get over his head on the bounce. He had to reach high for it and that's when White
put it into high and went into second base. So it's a pop fly double to center. Cowans had a long
way to come for that one. There's one outThe tying run at second base for New York and Thurman
Munson is up. Yankees have four hits. Off Leonard. They are hitting the Royals 4-3.
White who can run is off second. There's a foul back by Munson. Thurman got it into a six-four
three double play in the first inning. That was a lazy cut by him that time. He's usually a lot more
aggressive than that. It might have been the slider. Nothing in one. Two Thurman.
Yankees running at Leonard for the third straight inning.
Leonard checks off second base. Comes in with his pitch and a fly ball maybe double down into
right field. It's going to drop in thereThe ball is picked up by Pochette. Tying run scores.
It's two to two. A double for Munson and that was not hard hit. He lifted it off the end of the bat
down the right field line. Pochette had to run for it. He could have no chance to try to shoe spring
it. A little pop fly double down the right field line for Munson. Drives in the tying run.
It's all new here. Two to two. Two balls that were really not ripped. This one hit late at the end down the right field line.
And for the third time in as many innings, Paul Splittorff gets up the throw out in right field.
Just starting forwarding his mail out there pretty soon I think. Yeah he's going to pitch a whole ball game
without coming in if this keeps up. RBI double for Munson. White scoring the tying run his side up two two. Here's Chris Shambliss.
Pitch to him is up high ball one. Shambliss rounded to second base in the first inning.
So with all the cheering and the shouting it's still two two now as the Yankees have run right back.
So they've been doing all year. One O pitch. Shambliss checks off and takes it low outside. Ball two.
Leonard has been the most erratic in the early innings. You cannot exactly fault him for these two doubles though.
Can't fault anybody. They just lit in the right place.
Infield over shifted on Shambliss. They abort the swing but not enough and he goes through with it for strike one.
Two balls one strike. Kotek is way over almost directly behind second.
White is playing what you'd be considering almost a short field in softball. He's very deep at second base behind that white line.
And Mayberry is deep and three steps in from the line at first.
There's a ball driven pass between Mayberry and White and this will score MunsonThe fill comes in the second base. It's three to two New York.
Chris Shambliss singles sharply on the ground in the hole between White and Mayberry.
And three straight hits have given the Yankees the lead. They lead three to two.
And Whitey Herzog himself is coming out. That may be all for Leonard.
An RBI single for ShamblissThe Royals who jumped off with a two nothing lead.
Yep, Mr. Leonard is leaving. He has not been effective.
Then Paul Splinoff, the left-hander, will be brought in. Leonard goes two and one third innings.
During that time giving up six hits and three runs. He's responsible for a baserunner.
He walked two and did not strike out anyone. And he's leaving now in favor of Paul Splinoff who's coming in on the card.
Right now, a brief news.
Okay, more from the National Football League. Greg Landry threw three touchdown passes as the Detroit Lions surprised New England 30 to 10.
As we mentioned earlier to give Tommy Hutzpeth a victory in his first game as interim coach.
Landry had rookie tight end Dave Hill on two scoring tosses. A 21 yarder in the first quarter and a three yard pass with just over eight minutes to play.
Charlie Sanders also got a five yard touchdown strike with time running out in the first half.
Ken Anderson hit 10 or 15 for 98 yards and one touchdown to pay Cincinnati to a 21 nothing victory over the windless Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Anderson found tight end Bob Trumpy with a 10 yard scoring toss with less than six minutes left in the opening period.
And fullback Ruby Clark added six more on a three yard touchdown run.
The unbeaten Dallas Cowboys spoiled the debut of the New York Giants in their new stadium by defeating the Giants 24 to 14.
A capacity crowd of more than 76,000 watched that contest.
New pitcher for the Royals with the score Yankees three, Kansas City two. Here in the third inning is Paul Splinoff.
This year he won 11 in last game.
He had 26 appearances and 23 starts.
He worked both in relief and as a starting pitcher.
He's a winningest pitcher in the history of the Royal Ballclub and he was off to a very fine season before he dealt with a finger injury and forced him out of action from mid season until the final week of the 76 campaign.
And he's about ready to go to work so let's go back to that market.
All right Ernie here we go and Splinoff making a comeback as it were in the late stages of the season and now here in the playoffs getting a left arm in against the New York Yankees.
Carlos May is the batter. He doubled his first time up. Curve ball over but low ball one.
May doubles the left and scores the first Yankee run in the second inning.
Mighty Ernie's got more people out there and the Bulls had a right-hander now. There's a called strike.
Doug Byrd who was throwing early yesterday afternoon is now moving in there and Mighty's got everybody warming now.
He's going to run out of tomorrow pretty soon in these things. May hits the ground ball on the right side just over the lunge of Mayberry and out of the reach of White.
A little ground ball single and had eyes and down to second base goes Shambler.
Boy, the hits this inning have been anything but pure doubles and singles. Two pop fly doubles, a ground ball single to right and this one really had eyes as it just took a high hop.
A Tarzan curve hop over Mayberry's glove out of the reach of White who was lurching off to his left.
So May singles these two for two. Shambler is at second base. Runners at first and second. Still only one out and the Royals have had four straight hits.
Seven already for them in the game. Split R facing another left-handed hitter, Greg Nettles. He drew a walk his first time up.
Foul back strike one. Marty Potec gave Shambler a good fake there and he split in. He might have made third base otherwise.
Well, we'll see what happens now with the runners at first and second. This is a situation where the Royals want the ground ball at somebody to get out of this thing with a double play.
Stitches inside moving in. One ball, one strike to Nettles.
Very quiet at Royals Stadium after the exuberance of a couple of innings ago.
There's a curve ball. It fails to break. It's inside. Ball two, two and one.
Overshifted again in the infield on Nettles with Potec shading second. White is not as deep as he was earlier on Shambler.
He's trying to shorten up a little bit and try to get the double play ball. They've had two of them already.
Good is. High fly ball to left center. Walford over. Over also is the center fielder Cowan who has a better arm. He makes the catch and the players, the runners will play it halfway in return.
Nettles flies to center fielder Al Cowan. Two outs now for the Yankees. And here's Oscar Gamble who lined a single to left field to drive in a run in the second.
Yankees leading 3-2. They fill up with one run in the second and two here in the third. Royals jumped early with two runs in the first.
Terry's still looking for his first home run. There it is. Curve ball, fly ball, hits deep towards center but Cowan's is back. He's got it. Well hit by Gamble. That was probably the best hit for all the innings but he's out.
And the Yankees come up with two runs in the third. They had four hits in consecutive if they were. They left two men on base. And in the middle of the third inning the score is the Yankees three and the Royals two.
The Houston Oilers defense staffed by two first time starters completely shut off Denver's high scoring offense to record a 17-3 victory over the Broncos.
Fred Willis' 14-yard touchdown run was all Houston needed to maintain its share of the AFC Center Division League with Cincinnati with a 4-1 record.
The loss was Denver's first in four games and dropped the Broncos from the lead in the AFCThe Broncos scored their only points late in the first quarter as Jim Turner kicked a 31-yard field goal.
So let's take a look then very quickly and see how things went. Baltimore 28, Miami 14, the Chet 17, Buffalo 14, Dallas 24, the Giants 14, Kansas City 33, the Redskins 30, Cleveland 18, Pittsburgh 16, Cincinnati 21, Tampa Bay Zip, Detroit 30, New England 10, Minnesota 20, the Bears 19, Houston 17, Denver 3, New Orleans 30, Atlanta nothing, Green Bay 27, Seattle 20.
St. Louis 33, the Philadelphia Eagles 14, and the Oakland Raiders 27, San Diego 17. Sunday in the NFL. Monday San Francisco at Los Angeles.
The bet for inning number three for the Loyals. They are trailing by a run. Ed Figueroa who has not been sharp except in the second inning. He's had a sliding order there.
After a first inning we saw him give up three hits and a walk. A throwing error by Munson didn't help it.
First up will be Al Callens. Single to right field in the first inning. He's had a run. He's had a field error.
He's had a second base and went to third on the throwing error by Munson. Ed Figueroa ready with a sign from Servan Munson. Callens takes a breaking pitch on the inside corner for a call strike.
Chris Shambles at first base.
Willie Randolph at second.
Fred Stanley at short and Greg Nettles at third.
Foul ball off Cowens' back.
And the count is 0-2.
The left fielder is Roy White,
The center fielder, Nicky Rivers,
and the right fielder, Oscar Gamble.
Yankees have three runs and seven hits.
They made an error and the Royals two runs and three hits.
Bigarola, deals, misses outside.
A ball and two strikes.
The Royals were running in the first inning.
The Yankees, they ran, only their running was in extending
what looked to be singles into doubles.
One ball, two strikes.
There's a checked swing by Cowens on a breaking ball.
Two and two.
Mitch moved outside the strike zone.
The count's two and two to Al Cowens.
Infield back on the left side.
Randolph, he's at second base.
Cowens takes ball three outside, three and two.
Reds beat the Phillies today, six to two.
They're second in a row.
They need just one more.
Out of the next three games to be played,
at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.
Three-two pitch.
Bouncing ball towards the middle.
Stanley has it back of the bag.
A second, he throws him out.
Nice play by Fred Stanley going to his left.
Ball was not sharply enough to get through.
George Red.
Cowens is out, shorts the first, and George Red is up.
He goes home a run with a sacrifice fly
to left in the first inning.
Three to five on the series.
Had 215 hits this season.
In regular season play, a Kansas City Royal record,
team record, and also 14 triples.
Strike calls.
He'll use all parts of the field,
mainly from right center toward left center.
And he can line the ball directly
to the opposite field down the line.
In that way, Figueroa turns one over
and it misses low and outside ball one.
Figueroa works in kind of a no wind up motion.
Only his big, high leg kick or anything,
just throws the ground ball to second.
Picked up there by Randolph going to his left.
He throws Fred out.
Two up and two down.
Usually Figueroa will get a lot of the ground balls
because he can throw the ball down near the knees.
John Mayberry, a fourth.
John Mayberry fouled out to third baseman Greg Nettles
just for his time off.
And they've got the Mayberry shift again.
He says that that shift did not exactly intimidate him,
but it made him get their way this year.
The ball high toward left down the line
is going to be maybe out of play.
Let's see.
A great grab by Stanley or Nettles.
He's got it.
Greg Nettles makes a second catch in foul ground
in the shadow of the railing over there
on a ball that almost got away from him.
He was pulled way over toward third.
Way over toward shortstop from his normal third base spot.
Fine play by Greg Nettles.
Mayberry is out.
The second time he has fouled to third.
A one, two, three inning again for Figueroa.
He's retired seven in a row.
At the end of the third inning,
The score Yankees three, Royals two.
The Cincinnati Reds defeated Philadelphia six, two
to move within one victory
of clinching the second straight
national league championship.
The Reds held hitmills by Jim Lomborg
through five innings,
scored four runs in the sixth
with the aid of a two runner
charged to first baseman, Dick Allen.
The victory gave the Reds a two nothing lead
in their best of five series
and with one more victory needed for a world series birth.
The series now moves to Cincinnati beginning Tuesday.
Lomborg had a two nothing lead
but walked Dave Concepcion to open the sixth.
Concepcion took second on an infield out
and then scored on P. Rose's single,
Cincinnati's first hit and run of the game.
Ken Griffey followed with a single.
Reliever Gene Garber intentionally walked Joe Morgan
filling the bases before Tony Perez
rifled a shot toward first.
Allen flying in backhanded the ball
but it bounced off his glove into short right
and two runs scored to put the Reds in front three to two.
Pat Zachary got the win.
Second baseman Willie Randolph.
Willie Randolph will be first up
for the Yankees in the fourth inning.
Yankees leading three to two.
That was a very good effort
by Greg Nettles on that foul ball.
He never gave up on it.
It didn't look as though he'd get to it in time.
He was right by the railing almost into a stand
and he just stuck out the glove and there it was
and fell down and held onto the baseball.
One of the good, one of the best fielding plays
of this short series so far.
There haven't been any screamers as yet.
Randolph grounded into a double play his first time
and takes ball one for Wallace Widdorf.
Widdorf goes to work.
He has the high kick.
He gets the strike on the outside corner.
Left-hander, winds and curves Randolph down low
and inside ball two, two and one.
And the appearance of a waxing moon I believe coming up.
Over the horizon, gazing at it.
Fly ball deep left field.
Walford back.
He has room.
He's at the edge of the warning signs and he's got it.
375 feet away.
Randolph flies fairly deep to Jim Walford in left field.
That ball hit well but it's just not very much
as Walford's especially at night.
That's what the players have complained about on all teams.
Here's Fred Stanley.
Widdorf pitches inside a ball.
Stanley popped up the second in the second inning.
The Yankees are leading here three-two.
Out hitting the Royals seven to three.
Widdorf works.
Pass ball on the outside slice of the plate
right on the black fur called strike.
One and one.
Widdorf came on to relieve starter Dennis Leonard.
Gave up a hit and then gets two out.
Little pop up to the right side in shallow right
but back forward and they let it get behind him.
He drain him.
A base hit.
A throw to second base.
Not in time.
It gets behind Patek.
Backed up there.
And it's another Yankee pop fly that falls in.
As Frank White and Tom Polquette
stop short of each other and allow the ball
to hit in there.
It took a high hop over Polquette's head
and down the second on the gif went Stanley.
Another rather incredible hit by the New York Yankees
tonight.
Badly played by Frank White and Tom Polquette.
One or the other.
Nobody yelled or something.
White went back after.
It was just a normal fly ball and could have been handled.
But it dropped in between them.
And it's a gif double to Fred Stanley.
I'd have to guess then that it was Polquette's ball.
And then he shot away.
White's probably calling him off.
Funny, it's Polquette's call and his ball, you're right.
But he has the bead on it.
White was very aggressive in going back after.
But they just let it drop.
No error charged.
The curve ball is outside the river.
It's ball one.
Boy, the three doubles with the Royals,
three of the four doubles with the Royals
have been beauty.
The only really legitimate one was Carlos May's
shot to left feet.
In the second.
But the Yankees, they only get the breaks.
So they make them and they also take advantage of them.
Which is why they win.
There is a pitch on the outside corner.
But nope, it's all the ball.
Rivers kind of poked the bat at it
as if he were going to punch.
They checked on him and you feel with third base umpire
Art Frank at the behest of Martinez.
But he said, nope, it's ball two.
So the count is two and nothing to Rivers,
who has walked and granted out.
Yankees with another mild threat here.
The pitch by Split are about side.
Ball three.
Three and nothing to Mickey Rivers.
One out in this inning.
And that out was a legitimately hard hit ball.
Long fly ball.
The rest by Willie Randolph.
Eight hits now for New York.
Here it is.
Strike called at the letter.
Three balls, one strike.
Stanley at second went away.
Rivers, the batter with a three one count.
He tries to punch and fouls it off.
Tries to drop it down the third baseline.
So now it's three and two to make it.
Roy White on deck.
He's perfect on the night.
Stanley does not take a hefty lead off second.
Now he increases it.
Little fly ball, center field.
But Cowan is under this one.
He one hands it.
And Stanley gets back to second base.
Rivers flies to center.
They are two away.
The left fielder, Roy White.
And here is Roy White up.
He single to left in the first and doubled.
Our top fly double to center in the third.
It's a long run by Cowan.
The ball fell in front of him.
So the actives of the pad run at second base.
Leading in the game already.
Three to two.
Have two outs.
And White up.
White turning around now to bat right handed against foul ball
called split arc.
Curve hangs outside.
Ball one.
White left handed against Leonard.
It was perfect with the finger run double.
He's a better left handed batter than White.
And the ball is in the air.
But he did damage as a right hander yesterday.
Doubling to left field and driving home two runs.
The fastball tails outside.
The left handed hitter this year, Roy,
hits 320 as a right hander.
248.
His composite average is 286.
Two and nothing they got to Roy White.
Here it is.
This is a breaking ball.
It doesn't make it.
Ball three.
3 and 0 to White with Mr. Munson on deck.
Yankees leading 3-2 if he just joins us here.
Now the pitch.
3 and 0.
They let the field by.
Did not have the green light.
He takes the fastball for a strike.
3 and 1.
Split arc will throw the breaking pitch a lot.
He has a good curveball.
Won 19 games a couple of years ago.
Drops to the belt.
Throw loose and misses outside.
Ball four.
White gets on base for the third straight time.
That's the first walk given up by split arc.
And the third acquired by the Yankees
against the pitching of the Royals.
Thurman Munson has bounced into a double play
and hit a pop fly double down along the right field line
driving in a run.
He's one for two.
And he's two for seven on the series so far.
Left handed action in the bullpen for the Royals.
Steve Mingori there, ace from the left side.
He has the slider and the good breaking stuff
and keeps the ball down and can really
be troubled on some left handed batters.
I know that Carl Yosemstiel of Austin Red Sox
has had trouble with him a lot in recent years.
As a ground ball to shortstop taken by Patek.
Flips to white.
They've got the fourth for the final out.
Munson forces white at second base.
Patek to Frank White.
No runs for the New York Yankees at the top of the fourth inning.
They did get a hit and they leave one.
They leave two as a matter of fact.
And after four innings in the middle of the fourth inning
was Gores Mill, the Yankees three and the Royals two.
Taking a look at what happened in the National Football League
in case you missed it earlier.
The Baltimore Colts getting pinpoint passing
from Burke Jones and stingy defense when it counted
moved into first place in the AFC East
with a 28 to 14 win over the Miami Dolphins.
Burke Jones passing for one touchdown and running for another.
And he completed 11 of 14 passes for 177 yards,
including 10 completions in a row.
Baltimore's Don McCauley scored twice on one yard plunges.
The Colts took a 28 to seven lead early in the second half
and held off a Miami rally led by 42 year old Earl Morrill
who took over a quarterback late in the first half
when Bob Greasy complained of dizziness.
In late games open 27, San Diego 17,
said the St. Louis Cardinals 33 to 14 over Philadelphia,
Green Bay 27, Seattle 420,
and New Orleans 30 at line of nothing.
CBS radio sports is bringing you the play-by-play action
in the American League Championship.
And there's more to come.
The World Series starting October 16th at next Saturday.
And you'll hear exclusive radio coverage play-by-play
of the 1976 World Series right here
on this CBS radio network station.
Going to the bottom of the fourth inning,
The Royals trail by a run.
They have two runs of three hits.
The Yankees have three runs, eight hits in one era.
And Hal McCray will be first up against Ed Figueroa.
The designated hitter, Hal McCray.
McCray, the designated hitter,
drew a walk in the first inning
looking for his first series hit.
McCray, Poquette, and White.
Figueroa, right hand is his first pitch in
and spilled foul off to the right side
toward the mezzanine deck here.
One strike.
That field about straight away on McCray,
although Mickey Rivers moves a step toward right center.
They don't gap it anywhere.
They bunch him up more toward center field.
And they give him a lot of the left field line.
McCray, Figueroa, throws and misses low and away.
One ball, one strike.
And the charge being founded at Royal Stadium.
McCray bent over from the waste.
Pitch two in, misses outside and low.
Ball two, two and one.
Two one catch here, Hal.
Figueroa, throws, strike call,
picks up the outside corner at the knees.
Good pitch.
Rivers now moves more over toward right center field.
We're in the bottom of the fourth inning.
The Yankees leading the Royals three to two.
And the pitch is waved at and missed
and McCray is out of it.
A slider by Figueroa gets Hal McCray swinging
and that's the first strikeout for the Yankee right-hander.
Tom Pocet.
Singled in a run in the first inning,
bouncing a ground ball into right field.
Two two, two two two two two two two.
One of the three Royals hits.
They score their two runs in the first inning.
Three hits on a walk, sacrifice fly.
Strike call from Figueroa
who is pitching machine-like right now.
Yankees came back with a run in the second
and went ahead with two runs in the third.
The one strike delivery.
Misses outside a fastball.
One ball, one strike.
Two two two two two two two two two two two two.
Tom Pocet.
Base is clear, one out.
Foul ball out of play.
Doctor, 15-22.
And it's one ball, two strikes.
Four and three.
Service.
Doctor.
15-22, call your entering service.
Teams go at it in New York City.
8.15 Eastern Daylight Time Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.
Andy Hasler for the Royals.
Doc Ellis for the New York Yankees.
A ball and two strikes to Pocet.
Here it is.
It's way up high.
Ball two, two and two.
Pocet bends decidedly.
The real crouching type of hitter.
Fouls just went off his hand back through the screen.
Two and two.
Big Oroa in search of what will be his 20th of the year,
but of course it will not be considered
in the regular season as a 20 game season for any 119.
Now the two two offering.
And he lines the short center field coming on rivers
and he makes the grab on his knees.
Mickey Rivers stumbles to the target's earth
but holds onto the sinking line drive for out number two.
Pocet hit the ball well, but Mickey Rivers is right there.
Two up and down in the fourth and Frank White is up.
Royals second baseman grounded the third in the first inning
ending that frame after the two runs that scored.
Right handed batter.
Big Oroa just moving on and on.
Like Tennyson's book.
Here's the pitch and there's a swing and a foul
at the plate.
Nothing in one.
Rivers pulls over more toward right center on White
and he had to floor on the right handed batter.
Big Oroa is getting tougher as he goes along
and he throws high and tight.
One ball, one strike.
A huge message board and scoreboard in center field
in the form of a home plate and a Kings crown.
Here's a foul back our way.
Hey, watch it, Ernie.
Not quite.
Hey, you have to pull a pretty major league foul ball
to get it back up here, don't you, in this part?
Sure do, we're way back.
One ball, two strikes to White.
And on the message board they have everything about the
batter as he comes up his average with some career
remarks about him.
First of all, strike count.
The line score, very informative and very clear.
The pitch is outside and the count is two and two.
And below that is the bank of grass and the surrounding
at the waterfalls.
Just some advertising signs and a bigger bank
in left field.
There's ball three outside, three and two.
Flagpole is in left field by the visitors bullpen
and the wind is blowing that flag now from first
towards third, from the right field foul pole
towards the left field foul pole.
Towards left, where ball could be helped a little bit maybe.
The banks continue past the parking lot over left field
and up towards the expressway and other highway
leading to St. Louis.
Strike three call, White is out.
And again, a big inning for Ed Figaro.
He gets the Royals in order, he has now retired
and in a row gets his second strikeout.
Nothing across and at the end of the fourth inning
it's the Yankees three, the Royals two.
Donnie Allison easily won the 17th annual National 500
stock car race at Charlotte, North Carolina.
That was Allison's first grand national victory
in five years.
He roared under the checkered flag at Charlotte,
12 seconds ahead of Cale Yarborough.
Allison's brother, Bobby, pushed in front of Buddy Baker
a few feet from the finish line to take third
by less than a hood length.
Benny Parsons was fifth, a full lap behind the winner.
Allison averaged a bit over 141 miles an hour.
At Watson's Glen, England's James Hunt
captured the United States Grand Prix
and the finished head of South Africa's Jody Schuchter
and defending world driving champion, Mickey Lauda.
The win cut Lauda's lead on the Formula One
driving championship circuit to three points
with only the Japanese Grand Prix
remaining later this month.
Pittsburgh Cedar quarterback, Terry Bradshaw,
was injured and taken from the field on a stretcher
in the fourth quarter of that Brown Cedars game.
No report on the condition of his injury.
The Yankees coming to bat in the top of the fifth inning.
They are leading the Kansas City Royals three to two,
getting a run in the second inning and two in the third.
In the second inning, they had a double from May,
a walk to the nettles and a single by Gamble.
They got two runs in the third inning.
When with one out, White doubled the center,
Munson doubled him home,
Shambles swingled Munson home,
and there were two runs there.
The Royals got two runs in the first inning on three hits
and a walk along with a sacrifice fly
and a throwing error by Munson.
Yankees try to make it two in a row
to duplicate the ax put on by the Cincinnati Reds
in the National League today as they beat Philadelphia six
to two.
Chris Shambles up a curve is knocked over by Paul Squidor
for a ball one.
It's over the plate but low.
The one-oh delivery.
Low enough, one-two.
Shambles, the left-handed batter,
but they do not blame the pull.
Strike calls, especially with the left-hander going
against him, they have the right fielder,
Fokette way over in the right center field.
Collins is five, six steps toward left center.
They punch up left center field, the gap there.
Ground foul to the left.
Two balls, two strikes to Chris Shambles
who hit one of the crushing blows of many
that put the defending champions of the American League,
The Reds, knocked out of business this year.
Shambles did a home run in the ninth inning,
a game-winning home run against the Red Sox in July
at Yankee Stadium that about did it.
Ground ball the first, picked up by Mayberry
and he steps on the bag alone to beat Shambles.
Shambles grounds out to John Mayberry
and Mayberry is up.
Collins is perfect on the night.
He doubles to left and scored and he singled to right.
Two for two in this series.
And May is up.
Collins is perfect on the night.
He doubles to left and scored and he singled to right.
Two for two in this series.
To the eighth tonight.
Billy Martin, a head-by-run,
still leaving his left-handed platoon in there
with Paul Swidorf, foul-pointed on relief
of the right-hander starter, Dennis Leonard.
Pitch is low, ball one.
Fast ball high, ball two.
May was acquired in the months of May by the Yankees.
As the Yankee hit 279, he wasn't doing much
for the White Sox, they had not been using him.
Frank Collins steps nicely across the outside corner
by Paul Swidorf.
Two and one.
And the Yankees are up.
They're up.
Two and one.
Yankees three, Royals two, top of inning number five.
Blank and a miss, strike two.
Big sweep by May.
Two balls, two strikes.
Carlos came to the Yankees a bit overweight.
He is a husky individual anyway, kind of hefty,
but he needed to take off about 10 pounds, and he did.
The inactivity over in Chicago has put them on,
and he worked hard to get into fighting them again.
Count two and two on it.
Swidorf kicks and throws, and he misses low outside, ball three.
I believe Martinez thought they should have had that call.
Three balls, two strikes.
One out.
Yankees leading three-two as they bat in the fifth.
Here it is.
Foul out of the glove of Martinez, three and two.
Dennis Leonard started for the Royals
and left under fire in the third inning.
Bigger row after a rocky first inning has been letter perfect.
They're firing 10 batters in a row.
Three-two pitch.
Strike three, swinging.
Mays out, they're two away.
First strikeout for Swidorf and for Kansas City, Michigan.
Now here's Nettles.
Greg is the walk and fly out.
Over one.
They do play him to full.
Fast ball outside to end ball one.
They do not overshift on him as they did with the right-hander Leonard in there,
but they do still move him around a bit.
Potec shading second base.
It's low to Nettles, ball two, two and nothing.
Greg is an uppercut kind of swinger.
Thirty-two home runs this year.
A wave on the breaking pitch, and the count is two and one.
Blast Yankee to win an American League home run title to a fellow named Maris in 1961.
Line drive, right field.
They sit, dropped in there, rolling toward the wall,
being played carefully out there by Phouquet,
and an easy stand-up double for Greg Nettles.
There was a real double.
A shot down the right field line.
Two-out double by Nettles.
For the ninth Yankee hit.
That's the third off Splitarm.
The Yankees with a runner in scoring position in two-outs, and Oscar Gamble up.
Singled home a run, his first dial-up, in the second inning, and then flat out in the third.
Yankees leading by a run, trying to get another one.
Nettles moves off the bag at second.
Potek is tucked in behind him, deep, of course, shading second base.
Gamble, a pull hit it up there.
There's a foul back.
Pitchers will try to work Gamble outside and make him go to left.
He likes the ball on the inner half of the plate, and he is definitely a pull type hitter.
They'll throw him away most of the time.
One strike to it.
Here's Splitarm's pitch.
Outside, a fast ball, one ball, one strike.
Black, white, the second baseman, way back, past that outside line.
Pitch on an ordinary diamond might signify the skinned part of the infield.
Fly ball, left field.
Under it, Jim Wolford.
Waiting. He has got it.
And that's all for the Yankees in the fifth inning.
No runs, one hit.
They leave one.
And halfway through the ball game,
in the middle of the fifth inning, the score of the Yankees three and the Royals two.
The Royal's official scoreboard-yiddle combination.
So the Yankees are using pitching tonight after the first inning.
Ruslan Foy at Biggeraw.
He has settled down and has put the ball where he wanted it for the most part.
He's not an overpowering type of pitcher anyway.
A new batonist, 35, 1976 season.
He's shown what kind of pitcher he is.
A very deceptive pitcher who hides the ball well, keeps the ball down, and induces ground balls.
He won't strike out a lot of people, but he'll do it when he needed it.
And he is fan, too, so far.
And the Yankees are really the outstanding pitcher for New York in their drive to the American League East this year.
Just about the stopper after a disappointing, in some respects, year for Catfish Hunter.
Although Catfish shows the money-picker he was yesterday.
And the Royals are facing a fellow like Biggeraw.
We'll have to, we'll have the work cut out for him because he seems to be getting better now.
And is riding along very nicely, although it's just a one-run lead.
We'll see.
It's all through four and one-half minutes.
The totals read like this.
The Yankees have three runs, nine hits, one error.
And they have had people on base all over the place.
They have left a total of six, but they've gotten the three runs to put them out in front.
The Kansas City Royals, two runs, only three hits, and they got all of those three hits in the first inning on Biggeraw.
They've made no errors, and they have stranded two.
And the two that they have stranded look very big right now because they trailed by a run.
So the Royals come to bat in the fifth inning with Freddie Potek heading it off for them
and heading it off for CBS Radio right now and carrying it through the second half of the game.
The boys for the Detroit Tigers, Ernie Harwell.
Thank you, Ned Martin and, hi again, everybody, Freddie Potek.
We'll try to break that string that Biggeraw has now.
He's set down the last ten Royals in order.
Potek with a fly ball to the center field of the river.
His first time is back.
Three to two, the Yankees lead, last half of the fifth inning.
And it's a fast ball outside, high and away from the right-hander at Biggeraw.
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Nettles a little bit back at third base and wide of the bag.
The other endfielders are back.
Potek, right-hand batter, takes the strike.
He started the bat and took it on the inside corner, one and one to count on Fred.
He's claiming that the pitch is high.
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We've had very few disputes in these two games so far.
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Now Fred steps away from the batter's box.
He is a very difficult strike zone.
He is, you're not kidding.
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Now Biggeraw gets his sign, goes into action, the pitch, swung on, fly ball to the field.
The batter is going back, he'll have room, he's there, he makes the catch.
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Catcher Martinez will be the next batter.
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Incidentally, the Yankees averaged more than seven runs per game over their last six games of the regular season.
They won five out of six.
And the Royals averaged only two runs per game over that same period.
And they won one and lost five.
And they came into this championship series.
Here's the right hand batting Martinez, the flake.
He batted 228 for the season.
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Biggeraw delivers, and it's a breaking ball over, strike call.
Yesterday Martinez went over two.
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Yankees, three runs, nine hitsThe Royals, two runs and three hits.
One out in the last half of inning number five, and the bases are empty.
Biggeraw goes to work again.
The rib is a wide one, and they count even one and one.
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A little bit of a different outfield alignment for Billy Martin in this game.
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In contrast to the one yesterday, it's wide in left, rib is instead of it, gamble is in right field.
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Here's a ball high, a breaking ball.
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Biggeraw and trouble in the opening inning. It looks as if the Royals might knock him off the mound, but he's settled down.
And nobody's been on base since that first inning.
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He got a white to end the inning on a ground ball to third.
And from then on everybody's gone down in order.
The pitch is swung on and bowled away, back to the on deck circle.
Two-two on Martinez.
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Cincinnati meets Philadelphia today.
Six to two, the Reds lead in their series, two games to none.
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Yankees lead in this series, one game to none.
Now the two-two pitch on the way. Here it is, he takes the high one.
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Old count on Martinez.
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There'll be no game in this series tomorrow, action will be resumed in New York Tuesday night.
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And the pitchers have been announced for that Tuesday night contest, Doc Ellis for the Yankees, and the Hassler will pitch for Kansas City.
Now the full count delivery. He swings, five-all, hit into right field, fairly deep, gamble goes back, he's there, he's waiting.
He has it and there are two down.
Let's pause ten seconds for station identification. This is the CBS radio network.
This is the American Forces radio and television service.
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Yankees ahead three to two, nobody on the bases, Figaro delivers, and the right-hand batting outfield, it takes the curve wide.
Walford started the first inning, two run third with a singleThe next time up he bounced the first base.
He takes the wide one, the two and all. Figaro are not hitting the plate with the consistency they did in their last couple of innings.
They've got him throwing more pitches.
And the Royals are taking more, but he has still set down the last twelve he faced.
At the end, the now-downs.
Three and all to count on Jim Walford.
Jim, a native of California, makes his home now in the Kansas City area.
But wind up in the pit, he looks to the strike. That was the breaking ball above the knee.
Outfield is a little bit to the right. They've got him slightly over in the right centerThe pitch on the way.
Walford.
That'll be the second walk of Ed Figaro.
After he had set down twelve in a row, he issues a walk to Walford.
He's Cowan who contributes a single to that human-first inning.
The Royals scored two in the opening inning on a single by Walford. He went to third on a single by Cowan.
Came home on a sacrifice fly off the bat of George Brett.
Cowan stole second, went to third on a throwing error by Munson, and he scored on a single by Fouquet.
Now the Yankees came back with one in their second and two in their third to take the lead.
Now the set in the pit.
Bounding ball is short. Stanley has the flip over to the second baseman Randolph in plenty of time and the side retires.
No runs, no hits, no errors and one man left.
And at the end of five innings, the score, the Yankees three, the Royals two.
Racing officials say they have not confirmed that Donnie Allison's victory in the National 500 Stock Car Race has been confirmed.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, that's NASCAR, says Allison's car has not cleared the post race inspection.
A spokesman for Charlotte Motor Speedway says racing officials have told them the car has not cleared inspection.
The reason is the closeness of the measurement of the engine size.
And the spokesman says it will be necessary to allow the engine to cool down and at which time a final measurement will be made.
Veteran racing driver Jackie Ickx was seriously injured in the U.S. Grand Prix in Washington, D.C.
Ickx, a 31-year-old Belgian, suffered a compound fracture of his right ankle and a possible fracture of his lower left leg as well as minor burns.
He lost the wheel during the race at one of the fastest points of the course and slammed into a guardrail.
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Willie Randolph will lead it off with the Yankees in the sixth. They're ahead of the Royals now, 3-2.
Randolph is the only Yankee in the two games who has not had a hit.
Everybody else has had at least one.
Right-hand batter takes a pitch outside from the left-hander Paul Spridolf, ball one.
Wind up by Spridolf. He kicks and delivers and it's in too close, 2-0.
Yankees have had a hit in every inning in this game and they had one in every inning in the first game, except the seventh when they went out 1-2-3.
They've been very consistent. Downing ball to short, one hopper for Potec. Throw the first to Mayberry. He got it.
They throw a little bit wide to the right-field side, but John kept his foot on the bag.
His first family has had a soft line drive to white and second base, and then they've got a Texas League double into right field in the fourth inning.
One of the five Yankee doubles. They have nine hits and five have been two-baggers.
Spridolf working in relief for the start of Leonard. Delivered, here's another pop fly back into short right about the same clock.
Poquette coming in. He has it. And they are two away.
Almost a carbon copy of that matter.
Here's Nicky Rivers, who has walked, bounced to second, and fly to set a field.
Brad will play in close on him inside the bag, looking for the possibility from the speedy left-hand batting Rivers.
Spridolf lines and pitches at the curve ball, last foul down the first base side on the ground.
Yankees have three runs, nine hits, and one errorThe Royals have two runs, three hits, and no errors.
Out the way, Rivers to hit late. They've got Cowans over in left center.
Now Spridolf delivers. Rivers swings as a foul fly hits in the seats and right.
Here, that one belongs to a man from Independence. I believe it did.
It just came from the Truman Library.
Nicky taking his time getting back to the batter's box.
Spridolf came into the game in the third. He's allowed two hits.
Three hits since he came in. There's a pitch outside.
Gave up a single to May, the first man he faced, then doubles by Stanley and Nettles.
None doing any damage. Here's the pitch. Rivers swings, bombing ball, second base,
fights to his left as it fell to Mayberry, and they tied out one, two, three.
And at the end of five and one half innings, the score, the Yankees three, the Royals two.
A tough day on quarterbacks, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback Steve Vodkowski suffered a knee injury
in that game against the New Orleans Saints and left before halftime.
A second year starter from California, Vodkowski went down on a play in which the Saints were penalized
for face maskingThe quarterback completed 4-7 for 49 yards before leaving the game
and was replaced by a third year backup, Kim McQuicklin, with the Falcons trailing 20-0 at the half.
And in that game, the Falcons eventually lost it by the score of 30-0.
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Bob Moose killed in a two-car accident near St. Clairsville, Ohio Saturday night
on his 29th birthdayThe Highway Patrol says Moose was driving south on an Ohio State Highway
about 10 miles north of St. Clairsville when he lost control.
The car went off the road, came back on, and then collided head-on with a car in the opposite lane.
The Patrol said a light rain was falling and Moose's vehicle was apparently traveling too fast for our conditions.
Last half of inning, number six, then the Royal Stadium and the Yankees lead Kansas City 3-2.
George Brett will lead it off. He'll be followed by Mayberry and McRae, the three best hitters on the Kansas City team,
coming up now to look at the slants of Ed Bigarow on.
And quite a lot of flack over George Brett's argument with Billy Martin concerning his brother,
brother Ken traded by the Yankees to the White Sox.
The leading brother combination in baseball history was the famous Della Halle family.
They had five brothers. Big Ed, the most famous, he won a batting title in each league.
And the O'Neals, the featuring Steve O'Neals and brothers, there were four brothers in that combination.
And of course, many famous duos, the Dean brothers, for instance.
Well, Brett, the batting champion in the American League, has drove in the first run for Kansas City for the sacrifice fly in the first inning.
He bounced the second his next time up.
Left hand about a waiting and Bigarow delivers. It's a strike on the outside corner.
That was a change-up for Ed, one of the few he's thrown so far.
Three to two, the Yankees lead six-inning. Brett swings, fly ball to the field. Rivers going back, back, back.
Can't get it. It's off his glove. To the wall. Brett going for two. He's rounding second. Here he comes to third.
Here's a remade at third. He's tied. He is safe.
Rivers went back on the ball. Didn't get back far enough.
Seemed to slightly misjudge it, then took a leap. Maybe it tipped his glove all the way to the wall. And Brett makes it to third.
Here's Mayberry up, tying right at third for Kansas City. Doyle Alexander working in the Yankee ball pen.
Three to two, the Yankees in the lead. Last half of the sixth inning, nobody else.
Mayberry takes the ball in close from Bigarow.
Brett led the American League in triples. And he's on third right now with a three-bagger.
Now the launch in the fifth. Mayberry cuts, line drive, face hit.
Brett will scoreThe ball cut off by Rivers. Mayberry makes the big turn, holds at first, and the game is tied three to three.
Mayberry weighs in with his worst hit of the series, but a big one, he ties the game.
You can hear the Kansas City crowd now yelling, go, go, go.
Their heroes have tied the game in the sixth inning, three-three, McRae at the plate.
Mayberry short-leaded first. McRae swings, a little loop will hit down past first base.
Mayberry may go foul, it does. Cased by Randolph and Campbell, if neither one can reach it.
Kidraugh working in the Yankee ball pen right now. They had him up earlier.
And there he is, the first inning. Now the Royals have bounced back with a run here.
The tie of the game is three-three, sixth inning.
They have Mayberry at first, no way out. Good hit and run, man, McRae at the plate.
Infield is in double play, depth of the Yankee. McRae has walked and fanned so far.
Now the steps by Figueroa. He doesn't have it. Here's a pop foul off the first.
Campbell is digging near the seat and he won't get it. It's a adjustment to the photographer's area in front of the field feet.
Rand Jackson, the left-hander, has now joined with Kidraugh on the Yankee ball pen.
Campbell is going to try to keep Mayberry close. McRae will go to that opposite field from time to time.
That will give him a little larger target on that side of the infield if he wants to catch it.
They have Rivers slightly over to right-center. Game tie, three-three. That's the pitch.
He takes the fast ball in close. That would have been a very tough pitch to try to go to right field with.
One and two, the counter of McRae, standing deep in the batter's box. Now he's tough to wait and play.
Checking his sign with the veteran catcher MunsonThe one-two pitch. He takes a breaking ball wide.
Figueroa has gone all the way for the Yankees.
Had a shaky first inning. Then settled down. Retired 12 in a row.
Now here in the sixth inning, the Royals have picked up a run to tie the game.
Waiting on a two-two delivery at the plate is McRae. Here it comes. He swings as they fly ball to right.
Campbell's coming over near the line. He's there. He has it. Mayberry goes back-tagged and holds it first.
One out, one on. And Tom Fouquet, who's singled in a run in the first shift of the plate, back in the first inning will be the batter.
Second time he's batting five is better.
Willie Randolph comes in to say a word or two to Figueroa for a moment.
After Fouquet, it'll be Frank White.
Yankees have three runs, nine hits, one errorThe Royals have three runs, five hits, and they have no errors.
Fouquet is spread straight away by the outfield.
He's coming by ball. That's better deep. White going back, back, back, back. He can't get it. It's off the wall.
Mayberry coming around third. And he is seeing Wade Holm, who's a relay to the plate.
He's in phase with the double and the Royals take the lead 4-3.
And he's tied to left center. Tom Fouquet brings in the tiebreaker and it brings Billy Martin out toward the mound and it brings a cascade of food from the Kansas City gathering here.
Billy is going to make a change, a motion to the bullpen.
He has the kid row out there, right-hander. And he has the left-hander Grant Jackson.
We just have to wait for the three. We want to bring the kid row in, I believe, Ernie.
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All right, Ed Figueroa was breathing beautifully after the bad first inning.
He went to 12 batters without getting anybody get on base.
Then Wolford broke that up with a walk in the fifth, but nothing happened.
In this inning, though, Brett tripled Mayberry's single and after McRae flat-outs, Fouquet has doubled.
And this kid row is on. So Figueroa goes five in one third inning.
Figueroa's up six-tips in four runs. He's responsible for a base runner. He walked through, he stuck out two.
And gives way now to the eighth of the Yankee staff in relief this year, Dick Kidrow.
And while you're giving that rundown on the statistics, Billy Martin came from the mound.
And of course, there was a lot of hooting from the Kansas City fans.
He was mounted with a wave of the cap, got a mock bow, and then he threw kisses to the insomniac.
Targeted Sparkey Lyle before the game. He said, I haven't really pitched much in the second half.
The reason is because Grant Jackson on the left side had done such an excellent job.
And Dick Kidrow has been super in relief. He's won four and lost five on the year.
And in 92 in the third inning, he was given up 80 hits and struck out 65, a good run average of 2.63 for Kidrow.
A guy that can throw hard. And the book on him is he's better in short relief, I think, Ernie, than in long.
He's excellent the first time around. I figure that maybe the second look at him, you might eventually get to him.
But that's why he's been the eighth and ninth inning relief artist that he has been for the Yankees.
Dick's strong guy throws hard and he's got the control that they really need.
The first man to face him will be Frank White.
Poquette out at second base and so far he's been a big man. Poquette has. He's given him two runs.
And he's the only man with two hits. Bird and Midori are working now in the Royal Bowl Fair.
Kidrow picked up ten saves during the regular season.
Here's White stepping in to face himThe Royals have taken the lead for the first time since early in the game.
Four to three over the Yankees. Sixth inning.
Kidrow delivers. White hits a chopper down to third. Bare ball, fielded by Nettles.
He throws the first to campus. White is out and holding at second his poquette.
Nettles got the high hopper, hit rather slowly. Took a quick look to second.
Checked his poquette back there and threw out the batter.
Red, hottyThe little shortstop setting up now. He hits the ball pretty well, but he's down to the center field of rivers.
Each of the starting pickers has departed. Bigger Roy of the Yankees and the lineman of the Royal.
Kidrow, a native of San Francisco, makes his home now in Kansas City.
28-year-old right-hander.
A couple of good years at Cleveland. Well, the Yankees picked him up. There's a swing and a miss.
That looks like he's slotty. He's got a sinking fastball and a good curve, and he'll use his screwball.
That'll break in on a right-hand batter. Now the pitch. Swing, and he missed that one.
Two quick strikes. Kidrow in control here early after coming and relieving the starter figure.
4-3, Roy used to leave New York. Thick finish.
Now the big right-hander. Kick to the livers. Here's a ball low. That was a breaking pitch.
1-2 on Fred Potech. Outfield plays Fred straight up. And the infield is back at this stage with two out,
and folks get trying to lead off second to base. Here's the set to pitch. He swings a pop foul.
It'll reach the seat. 1-2 on Potech.
The Royal scored first in this game. They got two in the opening gameThe Yankees got one in the second.
Two in the third to take the lead. They held the lead until here in the sixth inning.
That's when the Roy was pushed over to...
Now Kidrow, checking his time with Munson. It's a 1-2 count on Potech.
The pitch is on the way. He swings it, a bounding ball to short. Stanley gobbles it up.
Fire is over to Chambley to hobble the ball, and he saves.
Stanley's had it and hobbled it. And on the third goes Potech. It was a good throw.
He just hobbled the ball, and the contact.
Plus the back save. It'll be an error charge to Chambley.
Nothing wrong with the throw. He just didn't catch it. So here's Martinez to catch your butt, Martinez.
And the same thing each time he came to bat, he flied to right.
That's the second New York errorThe other one belongs to Munson.
4-3, Kansas City. Right called. A fastball on the inside corner.
The Royals have it a single, a double, a triple, and they've been safe on an error this inning.
Right-hand batting Martinez waitingThe pitch is cut on, and he didn't get it.
It was in under the hands, the fastball.
A pitch that's always hard to handle.
Contact to Braddock for his base. Edging off now.
Here's the set by Tidro, and he flits one over there.
He had 51 steals, he led his team, and was caught 15 times during the season.
Now edging off again. Here's Tidro's set position.
Here he goesThe pitch is flung on. A fly ball hit back into short left. Stanley going back.
White on upfield is coming in behind him, and now Dwight, he'll make the catch.
That retires the Royals, but they take the lead. Two runs, three hits.
One Yankee error, and two runners go left on base.
Motor Speedway in North Carolina finally confirmed that Donnie Allison won the National 500 Stock Car Race.
It was Allison's first stock car victory in five years, and he had to wait four hours to have it confirmed.
Of course, we were so excited about it, we had to tell you a little bit earlier than we normally would.
But anyway, he got in there, and he got the victory.
Allison's car was ruled legal after a post-race inspection by officials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
NASCAR officials withheld confirmation of the victory because of what his spokesman called
The closeness in the measurement of the engine size.
Officials waited for about an hour, letting the engine cool before taking measurements,
which showed that it met NASCAR requirements.
Taking a look at the National Hockey League activity, Montreal and Buffalo tied 1-1 in their game,
which is now in the second period, and Boston leads Cleveland 1-0. That game is in the second period.
Here's the seventh inning now in Royal Stadium, Kansas City, the Royals lead the Yanks 4-3.
Both bullfens are busy, Doug the Bird and Steve Mingore in the Royal bullfin,
Joel Alexander and Ken Hoffman heating up in the Yankee bullfin.
Grydoff and Labe will be facing Roy White, Herman Munson, and Chris Shamblett,
The heavy part of the Yankee batting order in this inning. They're number two, three, and four hitters
for Billy Martin's team. Grydoff enters the game.
In the third inning, relieving Leonard, Leonard was touched for all three Yankee runs
and gave up six of the nine hits that they had obtained.
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and the National League Championship Series, two victories to none.
Here's Roy White, heating up. Roy's had a single, a double, and a face-on ball in this game.
And yesterday had a double and four trips. Batting right-handed against the left-handed,
he takes a curve at face-outside. All one, the count on White. Outfield around the left on him, the infield back.
Pop up, right field, going back is White, White. Behind him, Polk Kep, they're both there,
and Polk Kep's the right fielder next to Gets. Almost a little nishap there.
Boy, it's an adventure every time one's popped up to right field tonight when the Yankees are batting.
I think Wolford did call and just, I'm not sure, the last moment, whether White even heard him this time.
Here's Monson. He's heading to double play, double and bounced into a fourth out to shortstop.
Big Husky right-hand batting, driven in over 100 runs in the past two seasons.
Finished the season with a 3-0-2 batting mark. Bounding ball right back to spinoff, good stop, throw to first, deep out.
There are two quick outs in the Yankee seventh.
Chris Dabless will be the batter. Chris with a bounce to second, a single, and a ground out to first.
The only Yankees without a hit tonight are Mickey Rivers. He's been on in the walk.
And Willie Randolph.
Split off left-hands one of the play to say breaking ball low and away. Ball one. Four runs, six hits, no errors for Kansas City.
New York three runs, nine hits. They've made two errors.
Bounding ball left side, maybe a hit. Modek picks it up long throw to Naberik. Not in time.
Freddy Modek was playing over near second.
He ranged wide to his right in the hole, but he had no chance on that ball. This was just too deep.
And Shambliss has an infield hit.
Three Yankees now in the fifth base. And here's one of them, Carlos May.
May and White and Shambliss.
Two down, a man on. That man at first base is the potential tying run for New York.
Royals lead the Yankees 4-3, 7-8.
Good off kicks and deals. Here's a point it'll be foul over toward the Yankee dugout.
A little surprise effort there by Carlos May trying to butt his way on.
These two clubs met in a great many close game. This is typical of the action when these two get together.
Here's a cut and a miss on a breaking pitch.
Close stance hitter, Carlos May. And as Ned Martin told you, he choked the bat a good bit more than most.
Bounding ball past the mound. White charges has it for the first to Mayberry. And the side retires.
The round one hits no errors. One man left. And the middle of the club, that was the Yankees. It's the Royals 4-3.
In case you missed it and checking out how your favorite team did in the National Football League today.
The Baltimore Colts over Miami 28-14The Colts move into first place in the NFC.
And actually make that the National Football League's AFC East. New York Jets over Buffalo 17-14.
Dallas 24, the Giants 14. Kansas City 33, Washington 30. Cleveland 18, Pittsburgh 16. Cincinnati 21.
Tampa Bay nothingThe Lions 30, the Patriots 10. Minnesota 20, Chicago 19, Houston 17, Denver 3.
The Norrland Saints 30, Atlanta nothing. Green Bay 27, Seattle 20. St. Louis 33, Philadelphia 14.
And the Raiders over the Chargers 27-17. That's a look at what happened Sunday in the National Football League.
On Monday the San Francisco 49ers will take on the Los Angeles Rams.
Okay, let's get back to the action at Royal Stadium in Kansas City.
The pay to tenants tonight is $41,091. That's 14.
I don't know how they could get 14 more in, but they did it.
We were talking about the ball not carrying very well at night in this ballpark.
And the Royals hit only 65 home runs in 1976.
And at this stadium there were 72 home runs. Yet the Royals hit 37 and the opposition hit 35.
If you want to go back away, the Chicago White Sox in 1988 hit only three home runs.
The next season, the whole team in 154 games.
See the John Sillis Bell and the picture at one. Three home runs for the whole team.
Jim Walford will lead it off. He's the right-hand batting outfielder.
Royals ahead 4-3. Kid Rowe and relief from Figueroa.
He pitches. There's a pounding ball. Deep short. Stanley backhanded.
Here's a photo first to Cameron. Got him. It was close.
You need a strong arm on this tartan turf net and he showed us one then.
Partick usually on the shortstop of the Royals has considered one of the strongest shortstop of arm that Stanley kind of grows on you.
The more you see him, the more you like him.
And when the season started, he really didn't have the job.
It was sort of a platoon affair between him and Nathan.
Here's Cowan. He's had a single in three turns at bat.
Single in the first inning and then bounced the short the next two times.
Kid Rowe, the big right-hander, now winds into the business and Al Cowan takes the fastball highball one.
4-3The Royals lead the Yanks in the seventh inning.
Outfield straight up on Cowan. He stands deep. Swings and fouls it away.
One-and-one, the Cowan and Al.
The only Royale with two hits is Polketti. He's driven in two runs with a single and a double.
The other hits belong to the first four men in the batting order, one apiece, Wolfman, Cowan, Brett, and Mayberry.
Here it comes. He swings with a bonding ball to short. There's Stanley over again to his right.
Has it long throw and Cameron's got the ball.
David Berkley Cowan ran into Stanley and this couldn't hold onto the ball.
We'll wait for the scorer. There have been two Yankee errors already, one by Munson and one by Cameron.
So it was off to the first base side a little bit and this poor stab was to go over there with his glove hand.
And he was jostled by the runner, I believe.
That's right, and he had to reach up and then the runner, Cowan, ran into the ball.
Here's George Brett at the plate.
They've charged the error to Stanley on the throw.
Stanley's had to reach for it and that's the reason the shortstop got the error.
So to first, Mackinac and Thomas Cowan.
That's the third missed cue by the Yankees.
And that's the third New York 4-3, 7-1. One out, Brett at the plate.
He has a triple in the sacrifice and he's bounced to second.
Throw to first again.
And Cowan's back in time. He's a good runner.
Only two runners on this team going their own.
Freddy Patek and Amos Otis. Otis is out for the series with an injury.
Now the pitch to Brett is outside.
Kansas City sitting them. More field is this.
But everybody except Patek and Otis, for each hitter they'll give a sign saying you can go.
If you don't get that sign, you don't go.
There he goesThe pitch is hung on and missed.
So the second is not in time. It gets high.
Well, Kansas City field. Landau couldn't hold it.
Getting up and moving to third is Cowan.
And on third, one man down for Kansas City.
With a throwing error, charges to Montalvo.
And Cowan will pick up the stolen base.
The second error.
Landau for Kansas City.
With a throwing error, charges to Montalvo.
And Cowan will pick up the stolen base.
The second error.
For Montalvo's game.
They said they were going to run early and they have turned it to their advantage tonight.
And they're on the attack now, forcing the bad throws by Montalvo.
Each time Montalvo made that bad throw, he's just stolen base for Cowan.
And the first inning in here in the seventh.
Now the Yankees are going to be forced to pull their infield in.
One-one pitch to Brett. He backed away.
The pulled-in infield is even more treacherous for defensive purposes on this tartan serve.
Cowan's coming down off third, shut by Tedrow. Two-one-fifth.
Brett Twinkle mounting ball to first.
Chambers coming to the plate. They've got him in a chase.
Cowan's being chased back by Munson.
The throw goes to Nettles. He moves him. Now Tedrow takes the throw near the plate and tags him.
And on the field is choice. Brett takes second to base.
It'll be the first baseman of the catcher to the third baseman to the pitcher.
Three to two to five to one.
That means that the Royals end up with a managed second and two down.
There will be Mayberry who's taking them through the first hit of the series with an RBI single in the sixth inning.
And drove Brett home with the one-two-three tying run at that point.
Four to three, the Royals lead the Yankees now.
Randolph is very deep. He's out in right field on Mayberry.
They're not overshifting on him with that managed second to base.
Brett's getting a king-size lead down our second.
Now gives him a look and he moves back slightly.
Royals four on six hits, Yankees three runs in it.
Mayberry waits on the first hit.
Swing and a bounding ball, deep right field, knocked down by Randolph for the first.
He got him. And playing the position played off, he threw him off from short right field.
Great play by Willie Randolph. No runs, no hits, two errors, one man left.
And at the end of the seventh inning, Royals four, Yankees three.
The Royals who have come back in this ball game have to rely, as they say, on running, which they've exhibited tonight.
Although the play just recorded, the one before the fine play by Willie Randolph showed questionable judgment in sending the runner home.
Now, was it dead out in the rundown?
It didn't matter if the runner got the second base on the field, it was choice.
They still knocked down a runner at third.
You'd rather have him hold there, I would believe, with a drawn-in infield, and Mayberry, like a shambler, would have had to make the play alone on Brett.
You'd still have a runner at third where a wild pitch or an error or something like that might get him home.
But the Royals will run, and they have run tonight.
They've done it all season long, and they call themselves a 90-foot ball run, meaning they don't hit many home runs, which they don't.
They're not that kind of a club at all.
They will run on you, they'll hit and run, they'll steal, and that is the way they play the game on this card, sir, like so many National League clubs do.
You'll watch for more of it in the series.
Now, don't forget, fans, starting next Saturday, October the 16th, you'll hear the World Series action, exclusive radio play-by-play right here on this CBS Radio Network station.
The bullpen's a busy.
They've been out for a while working in the Yankee bullpen and in the Kansas City bullpen in Doug Byrd and Steve Midori.
They've both been playing for quite a while.
Great play there by Willie Randolph on saving off another Kansas City ball.
As we told you, he'd stationed himself out in right field, and Mayberry hit the ball in a spot that ordinarily would have been an easy and clean base hit.
But Randolph ranged wide to his left.
He grabbed it, fell down almost, and threw the man out at first base.
Oh, that keeps it a one-run margin for the Lawyer on the order three, the Yankees batting in the eighth.
His nettles, his walks, wide to center and double.
One of the five Yankee doubles.
Left hand batting third base when he takes the ball to Silverfoot Low, ball one.
Middards started for KC, Spudoff relieving him in the third.
Wind up, here's the pitch.
He takes the cut, and this is trying to hold up, but he went across.
Royals four, New York three, eighth inning.
Ball out of play on the check swing.
Yankees have out hit their opponent, and it's the sixth.
Here's the motion by Spudoff.
Here's a bounding ball passed around, Patek charges near second, slips it over to Mayberry, got him.
Here's Aske Gammel, who has a lot of power.
Aske with a single to second, he's flat out the next two times, once to center, once to left.
Royals ahead, four, three, it's the evening, the Yankees have bat, they've got the bases empty and all the way.
Gammel is scraping around now with his spikes not quite set against the left-hander, Spudoff.
Aske started because a right-hander started for KC, but Smartins kept him in there.
Here's a little number hit foul back in the play.
That one just skidded off the end of the bat.
And we'll get an inspection of the baseball by Larry Barnett.
And he'll toss that one out of play.
Gammel leaning in, waiting on a strike one delivery, swings and fouls it back to the screen.
Track two on Aske.
Since they've remodeled Yankee Stadium, Gammel has hit some of the longest drives in that ballpark.
Started out in the nationally with a cut, then to Philly, then to Cleveland, and from there to the Yankees.
Here's the strike two pitch.
Outside, Spudoff tried for the far corner and didn't grab it.
One and two to count on Gammel. Four-three, Royals lead the Yankees.
Yankees lead in the American League Championship Series, one victory to none.
Here's a bombing ball at third. Deeper spread. Has it. Long throw to Mayberry.
Not a very easy play for Brett. A high hopper deep at the back.
And they are two away.
Interesting matchup there between the two third baseman.
George Brett's native has forgotten his first inning yesterday. He's playing well down there now.
Here's Willie Randolph now home for three.
Right hand batting second baseman takes the strike.
Gammel the only Yankee without hitting the two games.
Spudoff kicks a little bit. There's a change up that's small.
One and one they got on Randolph.
Wind up the pitch. There's a change up that comes in high. Two and one.
Randolph and Nettles that may be outstanding defensive plays on the series so far.
Nettles catching a foul fly near the fence. Randolph throwing out Mayberry in the last half inning.
Here's a fastball wide. Three and one they got on Willie.
Twenty-two years old Willie Randolph waiting. And he takes a walk.
Spudoff missed the far corner. Oh it's two out. Randolph draws a fast.
That'll be the second walk off the reliever Spudoff.
Stanley has been called back for the Vachelou Panella.
Will now be inserted as a pass batter.
And we'll get the customary a new rule here on the post.
I had two for four in the game yesterday.
Both of them single.
And we've got a little confab out there on the mound.
Martinez, Brett, Spudoff talking over the situation.
Now Martinez comes back.
Now he leaves and I move.
I think we're going to get a message.
Dean Michael I believe running down to say something to Elton Howard.
And Elton will relay that message to Randolph at first base.
That's a very unusual maneuver in a baseball game Ned.
Well, Dick Michael had to get into a serious level.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Now Panella has stepped away from the plate and Dick Houser is having a little tic-tac-tac with him.
Well they say don't take a chance if you're not quite sure ask and get it from the horse's mouth.
Now it's Panella at the plate. It's 281 in the regular season.
Out there the year before with an inner ear problem.
Digging in now standing deep at the plate and they flip this over to first base.
They're trying to keep Randolph close. He's back in time.
Royals lead New York 4-3The Yankees are batting in the evening here in Kansas City.
Two out on the 91st base.
Another throw to first and he's back.
Randolph with 37 steals this year. He was caught 12 times and four out of five against the Royals.
He's got a good lead. He doesn't go to pitches of strike.
He went off, flipped the fastball through there and hit the outside corner on Panella.
Two out, walk to Randolph putting the tying run on the bases of the Yankees in the eighth inning.
Set, here's the pitch. It's a pitch out but he's not moving.
Well the count is one and one.
That is very deep at third and as you would imagine he's guarding the line here in the late innings.
Now Panella digging in waiting. It's a one-one delivery coming up.
Here it is. He takes the ball outside. That looks like a change.
Two and one. They count on Luke Panella.
And Martinez wants another confab with his pitcher's split-off.
Buck coming behind the plate again and Panella steps out.
Randolph trying to lengthen his lead at first base.
Now split-off, the left-hander looks over there and the pitch. Panella takes the ball outside.
Three and one.
Working carefully on Lou and now he's gotten behind him.
Mayberry holding on the back with Randolph. He's got a longer lead.
And the pitch is swung on five-all instead of field. Down goes back. He's there. He has it for them.
No runs, no hits, no errors, one man left.
In the middle of the eighth inning, Kansas mid-4, New York 3.
We've given you the scores of games in the National Football League periodically.
Let's take a look at the standings.
In the American Conference East, Baltimore is the leader by one game over New England.
Baltimore has won four and lost one. New England is three and two.
Buffalo and Miami are two and threeThe Jets are one and four.
In the Central, Cincinnati and Houston are both four and one.
Cleveland has won two and lost three. And Pittsburgh is one and four.
In the West, Oakland is the leader with a four and one record.
Denver and San Diego are three and two. Kansas City is one and four.
And Tampa Bay is oh and five.
In the National East, Dallas is the leader at five and oh.
The only unbeaten untied team in the National Football League.
St. Louis is four and one. Washington is three and two.
Philadelphia is two and three. And the Giants are oh and five.
In the Central, Minnesota is four and oh. Chicago is three and two.
Detroit and Green Bay are two and three.
In the West, Los Angeles is three wins, no losses in a tie. San Francisco is three and one.
Those two teams will meet at Memorial College Stadium in Los Angeles Monday night.
New Orleans is two and three. Atlanta is one and four. And Seattle is oh and five.
Two errors by Munson. One by Chambliss and one by the now departed George Sumpfret family.
We've got words from the press box in relation to Mr. Squillof.
He has now gone to the market for a charity video.
Sean is two and 27 when he's home after the break.
In the finger of his throwing hand, here's McRae to lead it off.
Kansas City ahead at four to three over New York.
Mason now at shortstop replacing Stanley for the Yankees.
Kid Rowe on the mound, but it is McRae hits one down to a third.
Nettles has it wide at the back, flips it over to Chambliss and is one away.
Well here is the hitting hero so far for the Royals coming up.
Tom Polkett, he's had a single and a double and he's driven in two runs.
He's the only Royal with more than one hit.
Left hand batting, Polkett at the break.
Kid Rowe in relief for Spigaroa, he came on in the sixth inning.
Right hander kicks and fires, it's a curve in close. All one to count.
Royals four, Yankees three in the eighth.
Outside fastball two and O.
Left hander batting, waiting on the next one, here it comes. He takes the wide one, three and all to count.
Well the seven runs in the game are charged to the two starting pitches so far.
Here's a ball and it's too close to get the walk.
The first walk issued by Kid Rowe, he's not allowed to hit it if he took over the sixth.
It's the third run that the Royals have put on, the other two came on errors.
Here's Frank White who is 0-3 in this game.
Still looking for his first hit in the series, he went 0-2 yesterday.
Polkett trying to get a lead, he's not off air far, Campbell is holding on the bag with him, right hand batting White at the plate.
And he takes the ball in close.
This has been a close game all the way, two nothing Royals, then two to one, then three to two Yankees,
then two runs in the sixth, then the Royals in front, 4-3, that's the way it stands now.
Little lob over the first base by Kid Rowe, the runner Polkett backs with ease.
Yankee outfield is shading White around toward right just slightly, run it goes, a pitch out, he swings and fouls it away.
White protecting that runner, reached out and fouled it away.
After months in call for the pitch out, did that very well too, it was away from him but it wasn't a pitch out,
there was enough away so that he could just fail to distract, he actually threw his bat at it and actually might have saved a runner being thrown out.
Yankees have smelled out that running in this series a couple of times, very effective with it yesterday.
White waits on a 1-1 delivery from Kid Rowe, the throw goes to first instead though and Polkett is back easily.
Kansas City leading 4-3, they're about to be inbidding with the man out and the man out.
There he goes, the pitch is swung on, hit the right field but it'll be foul.
Hitting the barrier and follow the season and then bounding back on the playing field where Gambel tosses it back.
Royals have a lot of hitters who can go to the opposite field, that's the philosophy of the batting coach Charlie Lowe.
And these players are very high on Charlie, they'll listen to him and they'll follow his precepts as far as hitting is concerned.
He believes in not letting the batter over swing, meet the ball, not stop at the home run all the time.
Throw the first, he's back in time.
Kansas City leads 4-3, HC. Polkett edging off again, not much to believe for him, he doesn't go.
The pitch is swung on to Lupa, hit over the head of Randolph in the right field.
Polkett rounding second hits the third, Rivers strips them all back into the second base from Randolph.
The relay man runs it into the empty area and the Royals have run it to first and third.
That brings up Freddy Polkett.
He's had a goal for three in this game, he's tried to set it twice, he was safe on the air.
Nettles comes over to go for a bit to Tidrow for a moment.
Potech had one hit for three yesterday.
He's in the right field in about halfway.
White's trying to get a lead at first base, doesn't go, it's a very wide hit.
More one.
Polkett at third, White at first, one out, Royals lead 4-3, HC.
Now Nettles about to even with a bag at third.
He swings and doesn't get it, one and one.
Kansas City trying to add to that one run margin here in the last half of the eighth inning.
Tidrow goes to the set position, the one-one pitch coming up, here it is.
He swings as they face it to right field.
Polkett, there goes White to third, now Potech going to second is the wildest film, Wilde and holding at third will be the man there.
A run in, 5-3, Royals.
That will be scored as a single and an error charged to gamble who charged the ball and bobbled it.
Aligned Potech to second, it'll be an RBI for Freddie.
5-3, the Royals in the lead.
Runners at second and third still one away.
Martinez-Cabata, that is the fifth Yankee error in the game.
That breaks the American League record in the playoff series for team errors in one game.
Here's a cut and a chip foul off the middleman.
The Royals now have eight hits to push their five runs in.
They've got a two-run lead, 5-3.
The Yankees continue to play their infield and close.
White to third, Potech with a big lead at second, Jibralt pitches, Martinez swings and misses on a breaking ball.
Strike two.
Nobody's going right down the Yankee bullpen.
Jibralt ready, delivers, Martinez has thrown top five back at first, Cabata's digging hard.
He has, he can't get it.
This one run, White scores, it comes to Potech, he scores, the ball goes to Mason, he's chasing the runner back to first base.
Martinez makes it safely, Hunches in all of a knotty tie.
Two more runs in and the Royals win the Yankees, seven degrees.
These hits that the Royals have been getting early are just like the ones the Yankees were getting earlier, little pop flies over the infield,
but I think the Yankees have just compoverated themselves so much in the field they don't know what to do with.
Here's Jim Walford at the plate, now the leadoff man, seven and three, the Royals ahead.
Here's the pitch in too close.
Seven runs and nine hits and no errors for Chandler City.
The Yankees have three runs in it, they've made five errors.
After the first man in this inning, the eighth went out, Oak got walked, White singles in in the third.
He came home on a single by Potech, Potech put the second on the error by Gabbard and the both came in on a single by Martinez.
Monty Monty's got the goal at Randolph, he goes to Mason for one.
Here's no relay, it's a roll by Martinez, gets to Mason from relaying and picking up the V.P.
The goal is one on, two out, and the batter will be Cowan.
Let's pause ten seconds for station identification.
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Here's Cowan's at the plate now, he's had a single and four turns at bat.
He's taking the scoring of the two runs in the opening inning.
73, the Royals in the lead in the eighth.
There goes the runner, the pitch is taken and Mocken's dead handle of all.
If he tried it slow, it got out of his mitt and bounced almost exactly to first base in South territory.
That'll be a steal for Jim Walton.
Three stolen bases by the Royals, two scoring errors by Mocken in this case.
Mid-roll still working and the pitch is one on a bombing ball and nettles, good stop, throw to first to Chambliss and the inning's over.
However, the Royals come up with three, three runs on the three hits, one error, one man left, and at the end of eight innings, Royals seven, New York three.
Lipster quarterback Terry Bradshaw was injured and taken from the field on the stretcher and loaded onto an ambulance on Sunday, early in the fourth quarter of the Brown Steelers game at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland.
With about ten minutes to play in the game, Bradshaw went back to pass and was sacked by Brown's defensive end Joe Jones.
The only problem is Jones slammed Bradshaw's head into the ground while taking him down.
Our Steelers club spokesman says first report had Bradshaw suffering a back injury.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Steve Vodkowski suffered a knee injury in the game against New Orleans. He left the field before halftime.
The second year started from California, went down on a play which the Saints were penalized for face masking.
The quarterback completed four of seven passing attempts for 49 yards before leaving the game.
So, come Sunday for a couple of quarterbacks in the National Football League.
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New picture for Kansas City with the Yankees batting and the Knights hitting and the Royals leading 73.
The left hand is Steve Mangori, who during the 76 season picked up 10 plays and had a record of five wins and five defeats.
Enjoy a native of Kansas City, Missouri, getting a relief assignment here in the second game of the championship series.
Murdoch went five and two-thirds innings, and he allowed no runs, struck out two and walked two.
Gave up four hits.
Mickey Revers will lead it off in the ninth.
Seven-three, the Royals aheadThe left-handed pitches and Revers hits a bounding ball to short.
Kotech charges, fires to Mayberry. He comes.
Just a speedy river by a half-a-step at first base.
It's been Leonard, Lindhorn, and Mangori.
For the Royals, the Yankees have used two pitches, Bigarow and Kiddrow.
Here's Roy White, the quick batter. Roy's had a single and double on the walk, and he's fly to right.
He takes the strike.
Here's the on CBS radio. It'll be the Phillies at Cincinnati at 3.05 Eastern and 2.05 Central.
And Kansas City at Yankee Stadium at 8.05 Eastern and 7.05 Central.
There's a cut in the midst by White. Strike two, the count on Roy.
Digging in right-handed, now one out of the ninth innings, seven-three Kansas City lead.
It's the school ball bending down and away from the right-hand batter.
Mangori, M-I-N-G-O-R-I, Steve Mangori.
Here's a curve in too close, 2-2.
Be with the Indians for a couple of years.
Now checking his time with Buck Martinez on the 2-2 pitch.
White swings with a long foul drive. It'll be in the seat.
Well out in front of that one and pulled it too much.
Royals got two in the first, two in the sixthThe two in the sixth turned it into the lead, 4-3 at that point.
And they batted three in the eighth inning, and now the Yankees are batting in the ninth.
A lot of play. It'll be on the screen behind the plate. 2-2 to count on White.
Field to left, the infield back at this stage of the game, and Brett guarding the line at third.
White spreading out, waiting on the left-hand reliever, Mangori.
Going to wind up the pitch. He takes the ball, and it almost hit him, a breaking pitch.
Full count on Roy.
He's been just about the most interested Yankee hitter in these two games.
Meaning and waiting, the full count delivery. He swings as they fly, lifted a set of cow-inches there.
He's waiting. He has it.
Two out.
Thurmond Munson, the catcher.
Hard hitting, the catcher stepping in now.
One hit and four trips. He's hit into double play to short.
He's doubled, hit into fourth out to short, and bounced back to the pitcher.
Wind up on the fifth. Munson, catch the foul.
Seven for the Royals, three for the New York Yankees, two down on the ninth inning for the Yankees.
Mangori trying to get that final out here in Royals Stadium.
Trying to tie the series at one victory a thief.
Wind up the pitch. He takes the strike on the inside corner, breaking ball.
Munson turning and giving Larry Barnett the family look there.
Now steps out for a moment.
Seven runs, nine hits for the RoyalsThe Yankees have three runs and ten hits.
Mangori tugging his cap.
He needs one more strike.
Two down on the ninth inning.
Here's the motion. Here's the pitch.
Swing, there's a fly ball to center. Off the glove of Patek.
He went back and almost had it. Hit his glove and bounded away from him.
Little humpback liner.
Already got back, got his glove on it, but couldn't hang on. And the Yankees stay alive here.
That'll be a single.
Yankees picking up their 11th hit.
Munson getting his second. There are four Yankees with two hits.
White, Munson, Shambliss, and May. And they all got in order there.
Here's Shambliss up now.
That's hand bat at Springs. There's a base hit to right fieldThe Yankees won't give up.
Stopping at second is Munson on the right field single.
Shambliss, the first man with three hits. And now Carlos May ready to step in.
Two on and two down on the ninth inning.
The 12th Yankee hit.
And there's a conference for bound. Patek comes in to talk with Mingori.
Martinez goes out and talks with Mingori.
The next game in New York, it'll be Doc Ellis against Andy Haslip.
That'll be on Tuesday.
All in bird, working in the Royal Bullpen now.
And here is Carlos May, the left hand batter, designated hitter for Billy Martin's team tonight.
He takes the full serve at fine for Mark.
Strike one, the count on May.
Seven to three, the Royals lead. Two downs.
Two men on for the Yankees in their ninth inning.
They're trying to mount a late rally here.
Swing and a miss. That was a serve that came in high.
Two strikes on May.
Down to the cap by Mingori.
Little left hand is checking his side now with Martinez.
He said, he said, he said swing and a miss. It's over.
In the ninth inning, New York, no runs. Two hits.
No Kansas City errors. Two Yankees left on base.
And the final score, the Royals seven, the Yankees three.
So the Kansas City Royals coming through with a big victory over the New York Yankees.
Seven to three. And as a result, Kansas City has evened the series at one game apiece.
As the action will resume Tuesday at the Yankee Stadium.
That will be an evening game at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, October 12th.
That will be of course, zero, zero, 15 GMT on Wednesday.
That game will be heard on the AFRCS Parade of Sports.
So a big win for the Kansas City Royals after the New York Yankees came back.
And took the lead after Kansas City held an early lead.
But then the Yankees couldn't hold it and some fine hitting Tom Poquette driving in two of those seven Kansas City runs.
And as a result, Kansas City has tied the series as we mentioned by a game apiece.
The best of five American League Championship Series.
The Kansas City Royals have brought joy to their hometown fans here in the Royals Stadium tonight.
By evening the series for the New York Yankees, they won a comfortable behind seven to three victory over the Yankees here tonight.
Of the follows, the Royals had seven runs on nine hits and no errors.
The Yankees had three runs, twelve hits, they out hit the Royals, but they committed five errors.
Leonard discarded for the winning Royals.
Goodoff believed him in the third inning.
He will pick up the victory.
And then Gori gets the save.
With his tonight's inning performance, he came in and got Rivers and White.
But then allowed singles by Munson and Chambley before he struck out Carlos May to end the game and even the American League Championship Series here in Kansas City.
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