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The Kansas City Royals faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for game 3 of the ALCS on October 12, 1976.
The best of five series was tied at one game apiece.
This is the national broadcast of game 3 featuring announcers Ernie Harwell and Ned Martin.
Inside Hywens, ball runner John.
6-90, one day game today from the Phillies and 6-90.
And the Chief Benashley Championship Series, three victories for none.
Here's the pitch. He claims there's a bite from up center, it's in for a hit.
That comes over to field it. Brett racing for third before we go to second.
Man on first, man on third. One man down, Royals lead 1-0.
Mayberry getting his second hit of the playoff. Moving Brett into third.
You notice Ernie how without any hesitation at all, Brett went right on into third base as they ran on Roy White's arm.
And they'll do it on Mickey Rivers the same way.
And anything hit out there, usually a runner with that play in front of him will kind of wait a minute to see if there's a chance.
But there was no sweat at all. He just went on in there and White 3 wins the second.
Here's Hal McRae now who finished second through his teammate Brett in the batting race, but he's 0-7 in the championship series so far.
He's had one walk. Right-hander against the right-hander.
Alice delivered to the lay. Cut him in the neck to slide a fool in.
Royals lead it, one to nothing in the opening inning. They got a man at first and a man at third.
Grant Jackson throwing in the Yankee both end, the left-hander.
As they fly ball him into medium depth right-hander. Now it's a little shorter.
Maddox comes in, makes the catch. His Brett heading for home. He's a throw to the plateThe monster, he slides and he is safe.
Maddox was not too good a throw. A good throw might have picked him off.
The Royals now lead it to the loving. Mayberry held it first.
It will be a petrified fly off the batting of Gray for the second out. Getting Brett home after the catch with each score from third.
Royals still in the jumping for a inning.
East Polkette batting 3-3-3The left-hander batting right fielder with 2 for 6 for the series.
And the three runs batted in. That's a cop down the Kansas City club in that department.
East of the left-hander batting. Tom Polkette.
He takes the ball. It gets by Muntzen. There goes Mayberry to second. We'll wait for the score decision on that one.
The pitch is a little bit low and toward the end side of the left-hand batter.
It is a cast ball.
Billy Martin has gone out to the mound now to talk for Daly and with his special Muntzen.
The Royals have jumped in for up. They've got a 2-0 lead over the Yankees.
Incidentally, the Yankees now have opened up the left field bleachers for the first time since they've reconstructed Yankee Stadium.
And that will expand the capacity to about 57,000The original capacity around 54,000 in this ballpark.
Up they've opened up those bleachers now in the left for the first time.
The conference is over at the plate. One and all the count on Polkette. Man on second base, Mayberry.
And the Royals have a 2-0 lead in the very first inning.
Third game of the championship series. It's tied right now, 1-2.
Cut in the mid. That was a fast ball about belt-high from Doc Ellis, Yankee right-hander.
Mayberry with a fair-sized lead on second.
Polkette leaning and waiting. Here it comes. He swings a bonnie ball to first base hit.
Inside the bag, Carom's off the seat. In the score, easily comes Mayberry. Here's Maddox who's slow to second.
Not in time. He's five-pin head first. It'll be a double.
Maddox went over to play it on the Carom and he slipped a little bit.
I believe it would have been a two-bagger anywayThe official score gives him two.
And it is three-nothing in favor of the Royals.
And Tom Polkette goes on the two and he doesn't get out of it.
Didn't play that much against Boston this year, but he comes fully credited with a live bat.
And he's a hard-nosed player too. He's run into a few fences and he's a short career.
And paid the price, but they say he's quite a batter.
This point, White, the right-hand batting infielder.
Royals lead at three-nothing against Doc Ellison, the Yankees.
There's Ellison. Slider is outside.
White has one hit for six.
Now the set and the pitch gets a strike on the inside corner.
Rivers has played just about every hitter to hit to the opposite side.
He's over in the right center down, the right-hand batting White.
And it's ready to deliver. Here's a swing and a miss on the breaking ball.
One and two to count on White.
Three to nothing to the Royals in front.
As Tom, he takes the ball, catches the swing and fire and held off.
Two to the count on White.
Native of Kansas City.
Oh, Kett meeting down our second. Ellis delivers.
Here's a ball. White, fastball.
Over and away. Three and two.
Doc Ellison's had a struggle here in the opening inning.
He's given up three runs and three hits.
He's into the walk.
Now Kett, going to be three-two.
He's a top-up in the inning. It's over near first base.
He's established his hundred. He has it and the side retires.
Three runs on the three hits for the Royals.
No Yankee errors. One man left.
And in the middle of the first inning, Kansas City three, New York coming to bat.
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PBS Radio Sports is bringing you the play-by-play action in the American League Championship.
There's more to comeThe World Series starts October 16th. That's 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.
Andy Hasler, the hard-crowing left-hander, goes to work by teammates.
It's taken to a 3-0 lead. He'll be facing Mickey Rivers leading off for the Yankees.
The Yankees are tired tonight and their famous pinstripes.
They started wearing those pinstripes across their one-time owner, Jacob Rupert.
Thought that Babe Ruth looked a little too fat and pinstripes might make them seem thinner.
And they've worn them ever since.
Mickey Rivers leaning and waiting. He's a speedster.
Braddison close at third base. Hasler about ready to go into action.
Hasler with a 5-12 record this year. He didn't have any record against the Yankees, one and all.
Here's the pick outside, ball one.
Outfield to the left on the Mickey Rivers. 3-0 to the Royals in the lead in the opening inning.
Now to wind up by the left-hander, the pick on the way. He takes the ball outside.
So the Yankee fans are coming to life a little bit now in the opening inning.
Brad in very close. He's about two or three yards into the under grass.
Inside at third base. Now Hasler, the tall left-hander, picks and delivers.
It's a strike on the inside corner.
Hasler's carry about even with a bag and wide of it over first base.
Leadoff man Rivers waits on a 2-1, but over here it comes.
He takes the fastball wide, a 3-1 on Mickey.
Hasler says he feels good now, though he's had back trouble.
He was hurt when he tried to restrain Don Baylor.
You'll remember in that break at the Oakland.
And he has a poultice on his back to keep him in shape.
There's a strike call. He's got a curve over.
Hasler has been consulting with the hypnotist.
A gentleman named Dr. Ekin Allen, A-L-L-Y-N in Los Angeles,
who helped out Mari Wills, Roberta Fomente, and Ken Norton, among others.
Here's a 3-2 serve now to Rivers.
He claims a bounty ball, hit wide at third.
His contact with it for the first.
Down in time, Rivers kicks it out.
Speed, and Mickey Rivers picks up the single for him.
Man on first for New York, nobody down, and it'll be Roy White to swift batter.
Roy, one of the top hitters in the first two games, hitting 375.
That's three-three.
Two of them double, and he has two runs by the end.
So Rivers, who has tremendous speed,
taps one on the left out of the infield and beats it out.
Royals lead, clean up in first inning.
Here's a strike call.
George Maloney said so. He's a playdumb by.
Buck Martin is going out to talk again with his competitor, Andy Hasler.
One thing he might be saying, honey, is that he took a look down there,
and a long look at Rivers, who was well off the bag at first.
He bluffs the throw down there, didn't throw, and then he kept looking at Rivers,
and maybe he wanted to stay to half, or hey, watch him over there.
Now White digging in, strike one count on him.
He's set by the left-hander, half-frame looks over the first.
He pitches at the bunt, missed, throw to first, he's safe.
That was close.
Bill Haller, umpire, right on top of the player.
Strike two with a count on White.
In the Yankee system, the Billy Martin system,
The runners do not go unless they get permission from the bench.
They have to get the sign.
Rick Haller coaches his third, Elston Howard, the first base coach for the New Yorkers.
Royals play the Yankees first inning clean-hubbing at Yankee Stadium.
Now they're set by the tall left-hander, half the river's go.
The pitcher's swung on and fouled away.
That one hit on a high hop and bounced over the Yankee right-hander into the box seat.
The first call was even thrown out by...
Cincinnati won their game this afternoon at Riverfront Stadium,
7-6 over to Philly.
They gain a three-game sweep over to Philly and win the National League tennis.
They won those games 6-3, 6-2, and today they won 7-6.
Our congratulations to the Cincinnati Reds.
White digging in now, waiting on a strike two delivery from Haslund.
Rivers go where the lead doesn't go.
The pitch is wide, and the count is 1-2 now on Roy White.
Brett Deeper at third base with two strikes on the batter.
Hot-Tec and Randolph, the two-stone combination about in double play depth.
And Mayberry trying to keep Rivers close, but Rivers has a team-sized lead at the moment.
The pitch to White is outside.
Rivers holding on at first.
Haslund trying to get the breaking kick over, and the miss on that one.
Throw to first to Mayberry, and the bat easily is Rivers.
Now White is spread out at the plate, waits on the next delivery.
He takes outside, that'll make it 3-2.
You know they really keep an eye on Mickey Rivers over their first base.
Royos lead the Yanks, 3-0 in the opening inning.
Rivers with a bigger lead.
He goes, the pitch is put on, missed.
Throw to second by Martinez.
He is out at second.
It is a double play.
White covered the bag and took the tie down, Rivers cut down on the seal attempt as Roy White struck out.
That makes it two down, but the race is empty.
And here is Thurman Munson, a very fine, hanky-panky.
Munson hitting 3 for 10 and even 300 for the series.
One RBI and one extra base hit, that was a double.
Right hand about a wedding and Hasler deals a breaking ball outside.
Hasler has good speed, a fast ball that runs away from the right hand batter, down and away to him.
Royos 3-0 New York coming, first inning.
Yanks took back, they've got the race is empty now in two downs.
There's a cap foul right down in the dirt at the plate.
Good throw net by Martinez right on the target.
If there had to be right on the target too, the Rivers going,
they could have got a pretty good jump, but not an exceptional one.
But it was a good fast ball and that was a good one to get off the bases for Kansas City.
And a half for Chakarie Stein with Martinez ready to work again.
They won one delivery, Munson takes a half cut.
He'll check with Hasler and he says he won a cross if he strikes.
Maloney at a plate umpire took a look to the umpire first base, Joe Haller.
Check on that one and Haller said he went across.
22 to count on Munson.
Hasler, he's a big guy, ready to go to work again.
He rocks into action, he pitches, there's a bombing foul down past Hickhouser, the third base coach.
There's going to be a difference in a World Series crowd and a playoffs crowd.
They're more excited here than they are in a World Series.
They sort of sit on their hands a lot of times in the Janky Stadium World Series.
They're different folks. I believe you're right about that.
It's more of an extension of the regular season too.
Here's the pitch. He takes a high curve.
22 to count on Munson.
Cowan's a set of fielders slightly over the left.
Wofford fairly deep in left field on Thurman.
Hasler looks him over, goes into action again.
The pitch is high again. That's the fastball.
3-2 and Hasler wants another ball to work with.
The Royals picked up three runs on three hits in the opening inning.
Wofford to Wolford, a single by Brett.
Got Wolford in after he stole second.
Mayberry single, sent Brett to third.
McRae knocked him in with a sacrifice five and Pochette doubled in Mayberry.
Here's the windup, the full count pitch.
He swings it back to right, going back, Pochette, he's there, he has it, and the inning is over.
The Yankees with no runs.
One hit, no errors, nobody left.
And at the end of the first inning, Royals 3-7.
When you say ball, one hit, no errors, nobody left.
And at the end of the second inning, there's only one run by the Yankees.
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The first inning here at Yankee Stadium tonight.
Pockets, Martina, San Wilford, also will be the first three batters to face Doc Allen.
The managers have not yet named their players for game four. They say they'll do it when this game is over,
but speculation is it'll be Larry Gura, probably, for Kansas City.
And if the Yankees are lose, they'll probably come back with Patrick Hunter.
Should they win, Billy and Martin more than likely would use the Holtzman or Figueroa.
Fifth Pockets at the plate.
A little right hand batting shortstop facing Doc Allen.
And it's a strike call.
Fairly batting 286, that's two for seven in the series so far.
A couple of ex-teammates against each other. They were both at Pittsburgh together.
There's a strike, we got a quick slider over.
Two strikes on Freddy Pockets.
He stands fairly deep in the batter's boxThe outfield plays in the straightaway.
The Yankee are back now. Fred takes the fastball very wide.
Very wide.
They're nothing royals. They got three in the opening inning.
They're batting now in the secondThe Yankees started off as if they might do some damage.
Single by Rivers, but then a strike out and he was cut down stealing.
Bounding ball wide at first.
Chambliss makes a good stop.
Throw to Ellis covering and it is out of first base.
Good play by Chambliss and Ellis combining.
Chambliss had to go very wide, almost into the hole between first and second.
Here's Buck Martinez on the right hand batting second.
One down, nobody on second inning. Royals ahead, three nothing over the end.
Martinez has one for six, but he has seven in two runs.
He batted 148 against the Yankees during the regular campaign.
Ellis has slowed up his pitching phase a little bit.
He was working a lot quicker in the opening inning.
Here's a tighter across, good pitch, strike called on Buck Martinez.
One out, nobody on.
Second is signed by Ellis. He delivers.
There's a swing and a miss. That one about ladder high.
Just about a capacity crowd here at the remodeled Yankee Stadium.
Martinez waiting on the next delivery. Here it comes. He takes the strike.
That one got the outside corner and he walks back to the bench to strike out victims.
Two strikeouts for Doc Ellis.
Here's Wolford who started the three run surge in the first of the day from ball.
Seaboard coaches at first, for Kansas City.
Chuck Hiller coaches at third. There's a bombing ball up the middle going for Stanley.
Back of second he has it, throw to first, he's got it.
Another good play by the Yankee infield and the Royals go down one, two, three.
At the end of one and one half innings, Royals three Yankee snubbing.
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Lou Penella coming about and getting his usual Lou green.
Something that follows him wherever he goes.
They're not going up and out of there pronouncing his first name.
He thought of an extended fashion on how to have.
So now I was two for five. That's about a mark of 400.
And has not quite ready to deliver yet.
Wally Moses told me that he accidentally received one of the greatest ovations ever accorded to play in this ballpark.
He was a battered Yankee Stadium when it was announced over the PA that Mussolini had been overthrown.
He's premier of Italy.
That was a real deal.
Here's Penella stepping in now.
Royal Spring, New York nothing.
And the fifth, Pasquale delivers. It's been close.
Big, strong-looking left-hander, Andy Haspel.
Started the year, you remember, with a California Angels.
Here's the windup and Haspel delivers. There's a bounding ball over his glove.
Potec comes up with it. Throw to Mayberry. Good play.
Got him. Potec ranging wide to his left.
And Ned Frank White almost had a shot at that ball too.
It looked as though either one of them could have made the play, but it was easier for Potec.
He was crossing to his left and he had the play in front of him in the bag in front of him and of course has a stronger arm.
Here's Chris Chambers now. He's hit play for the last nine games of the regular season and the first two in this series.
And he's the top hitter on this club in this series, 5.56.
5 for 9.
Left hand about a waiting on Haspel.
And he takes the fastball outside.
Chambers also batted 383 against Kansas City 15 during the regular season.
And a couple of home runs.
Left hander against the left hander. One out. Royals lead 3-0 in the second.
Here's the slider outside. Almost went for that one, but checked off.
Brad White of the Tigers third.
Chambers a close stance batter.
Waiting on Haspel's two-0 pitch.
Swing hard smash on the ground. A white at second. He has it. Throw to Mayberry.
And they are two down.
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Along with Ned Martin, this is Ernie Harvada, Yankee Stadium.
Three-nulling Royals, second inningThe Nettles get bat. Two out for the Yankees. Nobody on.
Left hander batter takes a breaking pitch low.
The home run champion of the American League, Greg Nettles, has one hit or double in seven turns at bat in the championship series.
Takes the ball high to shoulder. Two-and-oh, the count on Greg.
Hartrack has moved to his right side. Moving over toward the bag at second from the shortstop position.
There's a low one outside. Three-and-oh on Nettles.
Nettles had only one of his home runs against Kansas City.
And he batted 143 against the Royals picking through the year.
He takes a strike right through the heart of the plate above the knee. Three-and-one, the count on him.
Royals lead the Yanks. Three-nulling. Yankees batting. Two out. None on. Second inning.
There's a half-cut. Let's get the rulings. It is ball four. He walks in.
Humphrey Maloney checking with the third base. Humphrey Larry McCoy. And he said he did not go across. It'll be a two-out walk.
That's the first pitch in by Hartrack.
And here is Elliot Maddox, the right-hand batting right fielder from the University of Michigan.
Big 10 batting champion in his collegiate days.
Maddox with one hit and four trips in the championship series.
Nettles slightly to first base. Maddox backs away an inside fastball from Haslund.
Three runs, three hits to the RoyalsThe Yanks have no runs on one hit.
They've got an infield hit off Reuthers leading it off in the first inning.
Haslund with a set position on the mound.
In close, they're picking in close and low on Maddox.
Against New York this year, Haslund didn't have any decisions.
And he worked a total of 18 innings. He allowed 10 hits and two runs.
One of them was earned.
And his walk to strikeout ratio was good. He walked five and struck out 10.
Now the little conference is over.
Martinez down to give the sign, two-oh pitch to Maddox.
He takes his strike. There he's got the breaking ball.
Two and one, the count on Elliot Maddox.
Maddox out about a year and a half with injuries.
Our Nettles are trying to get a little longer lead at first base.
It's a two-one pitch coming up.
Maddox swings and hits one off his footThe ball bounds down toward Mayberry, South territory.
Two-two, the count on Maddox.
Maddox hit the old ballpark about fill now.
I believe they finally did it.
At first when we came on, there were a lot of blues going in those seats.
But they've come close to capacity and probably will tomorrow too.
And this more than likely now will be the biggest crowd of the year in the New Yankee Stadium.
They drew over two million.
They led the American League and paid attendance.
The bench is trying to move Pochette over toward center field from right a little bit.
Now Maddox swings and fouls it away.
Pochette was hugging the line a little bit too much down in the right field corner.
Riding her dog and killer and all of them were waving their captain arms.
Planck may try to get Pochette to move over toward center field a little bit more.
Still a two-two count on Maddox. Three nothing lawyers lead.
Two outsThe Yankees have the Nettles at first base.
The pitch is hung on and this is sucking off.
And that's the tires the Yankees with no runs.
No hits. They had a lot. No errors. One man left.
And at the end of two innings, Kansas City three, New York nothing.
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You're tuned to your CBS Radio Network station for games three in the American League Playoffs.
And that means you'll be tuned to the only radio spot for the World Series.
Starting Saturday, October 16, CBS Radio Sports brings you exclusive radio play-by-play coverage.
Follow the series on radio right here.
Rock Ellis on the mound for the Yanks now, 3-0, the Royals lead.
Royals coming to bat in the first half of inning number three at Yankee Stadium.
Game three of the American League Championship Series.
The Yankees took the first one in Chatter City 4-1.
The Royals came back on Sunday night tied with a 7-3 victory.
Yesterday was an off day and action resumed here tonight in New York.
First big championship game in Yankee Stadium since 1964.
While here's Collins at the plate, he struck out his first trip against the Yankee right-hander Doc Ellis.
There's a fastball in close around the knees.
Collins has good all-around ball play and he's in center field because of the injury to Amos Odey.
Here's the motion, the pick by Ellis, swing and a foul ball hit into the Royal dugout and it bounds out.
Ellis a 1-0 against the Yankees this year.
He won 17 in last state.
Here's the pitch, he swings a bounding ball up the middle, a big hopper.
Randolph deeped second, has it, throw to first.
He is there in time and it's a base hit.
Collins beat it out.
Randolph did well just to get to that ball and then he couldn't get much on him.
He was so deep back at second base.
And when he hit for Collins, that is the fourth Royal hit.
Here's George Fred who is eating up the Yankee picking in this series.
He had a single and drove in the first run of the opening inning.
He now has five for eight.
That's 6.25.
Man on first tower, he doesn't go.
The pitch to Brett is a strike.
And once again we see Rivers over to the left field side of Settick on George Brett.
Brett is the dream of a batting coach.
He does not try to put a home run every time.
He'll go with a pitch, he won't try to pull everything.
And he's got a good knowledge of the strike zone.
Falls over to first but Collins is back with ease.
Now the strike one pitch to George Brett.
He takes the fastball outside, one and one.
Mayberry waiting at the on deck.
Mayberry waiting at the on deck circle.
Ellis keeping a rather slow pace now.
Royals lead the Yanks 3-0.
We're in the third inning in New York.
There's a pitch out but Collins is not moving.
2-1 they count on Brett.
Brett stepping out looking down at third base coach Hiller.
Brett batted 3-0-8 last season.
Now the pitch is caught on and hits down to third base.
It'll be foul.
Brett got his chance back in 73 when Paul Shaw was put out of action.
He came up and played his first major league baseball at that time.
And went down later and came back to save.
Some people say Ernie that they kind of look good to watch him pitch.
Because he's ambidextrous.
He can throw equally as well with the left hand as he can with the right.
That would be fun.
2-2 to count on Brett.
Ellis delivers.
Here's a ball outside.
Only one pitcher in major league history has ever done that in a competition.
A fellow named Tony Malane.
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Yeah, about 1890 I think it was.
Here's the pitch. Runner goes. Bounding ball up the middle.
Randolph has it in second.
Touches the bag. Throw to first. Double play for the end.
Oh, that ball was hit right in the right spot for New York.
They had the hit and run on.
Brett bounced one over the head of Ellis.
Randolph breaking with the pitch.
Moving over to his right toward second.
Grabbed it. Touched the bag.
And then he threw to first.
And Brett was out by a good margin for the D.P.
Now sometimes the hit and run will work for you then.
And sometimes it will backfire just like that.
This may bury the flake now.
He had a single his first time up.
There's a strike on the outside corner.
Doc Ellis fed him a fast ball.
Now this time Revers is playing him over in right center and very deep.
The infield has shifted over on him too.
There's a ball outside.
Stanley is playing over on the right field side of second.
Randolph is back in short right field.
And Chambers near the line at deep first base.
Only medals on the left side of the infield.
Here's a bounding ball up the middle.
Stanley grabs it back a second for the first.
And the shift pays off for New York.
A tricky hit away from Mayberry.
No runs on one hit. No errors.
Nobody left.
And in the middle of the third, Royals 3-0.
The final of the third, Royals 3-0.
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And the former Nashville legger, Winnie Randolph will lead off the New Yorkers.
And the third, the Royals have a 3-0 lead over the Yankees.
They've got all three of them.
Doc Ellis in the opening inning.
Fender Hassler ready to deal him in to Randolph...
who is looking for his first hit in the championship series.
He batted T96 against Kansas City during the regular season.
Randolph and McRae are the only two regulars that would house his so far in the playoffs.
Here's the right hand batting Randolph at the plate and half for the big strong looking left hander ready to go into action.
Three nothing royal, yanked it back in the third.
There's a strike, that's breaking down on the lander.
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The game is now at the end of the third inning with the Kansas City Roros
holding a 2-0 lead over the New York Yankees.
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Royals got three in the first.
The Yanks just returned with two here in the fourth.
It's a fastball outside.
High and away to Greg Nettles, 2-2.
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The 2-2 fifth.
He took it low.
That was a curve.
3-2, they count on Nettles.
Now has to check his time with sector Martinez.
Wind up the pitch on the way.
Swing and a miss.
He struck him out on a curve.
God retired but the Yankees get two on the double by Pennella.
The home run by Shambles.
Two runs, two hits, no errors.
Nobody left and at the end of the fourth inning,
Royals three Yankees two.
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We go to the fifth inning of game number three in the American League Championship Series.
This one at Yankee Stadium.
The first here in New York after the two teams divided their first two games
in Royals Stadium in Kansas City.
Doc Ellis on the mound for the Yankees.
And the hasler is the pitcher for Kansas City.
And now Ellis getting ready to pitch to the Royals in the fifth inning.
It'll be Freddy Potec that leads it off.
Followed by the number nine batter, Buck Martinez.
And then the leadoff man, Jim Wolford.
Potec bounced out the first base his first time at bat.
Samus made a good play going wide to his right over toward second base.
And Ellis also made a good play combining with Samus as he raced for the mound to take the 12 from Chris.
So here's the rubber shot top Potec who is spotful with the glove already.
Now comes up with a bat.
Ellis looking around at his infield alignment.
Now he's ready for action. He pitches and Fred takes his sights.
Now the floor of the game was all Kansas City for a while and now it seems to belong to the Yankees.
Potec swings a bombing ball up the middle. It'll be through for a hit.
Ellis made a method to grab that ball as it went by but he couldn't get it.
And Potec is down with a single.
In four to five innings the Royals have put their leadoff man on base against Doc Ellis.
But only in one inning have they scored. They got all three of their runs in the first.
Here's Buck Martinez who's took a called third strike.
He has only dripped to the plate.
Nattles is in close in case Martinez wants to bunt.
Shambler's holding on the bag with Potec and there's a throw over there.
Fred gets back safely.
Excellent base runner, Freddy Potec.
Shambler's trying to keep him close to the bag at first.
One run lead for the Royals, three to two.
It's a ball in too close on the catcher Martinez.
It'll be followed by the leadoff man Wilford here in the Royal fifth inning.
Candice Philly with three runs and five hits and no errors.
And the Yankees have two runs, three hits and no errors.
Now the set by Ellis, the right hander, pitches out but nothing happens.
Potec's holding it first.
Freddy had 51 steals in the regular season and they nipped him 15 times.
Jacksson and Dick Sidrow throwing the Yankee ball in now.
Left handed and the right handed.
The first Potec is back easily.
He and Odey are the only Royals who are allowed to go strictly on their own on a steal.
He goes, a 50 is one on miss.
Here's Munson's throw.
He is out at second.
And Potec doesn't believe it.
He's putting up a big argument with Tronc.
Stanley came across, took the throw.
It was a high throw on the right field side.
Freddy thought he'd split under it.
But Odey, the second of ace on fire, signaled him out.
And there'll be an argument out there.
Why did his ball get gone out?
Go have your two coaches.
Close play, I think they're arguing that he had split past the tag and the tag never had been made.
The throw was there and so was Freddy.
And he was awfully mad for a moment and immediately Hiller came out to take the heat off Potec so he wouldn't be ejected from the game.
You've got to do an awful lot of course to be ejected from a World Series.
Freddy was not quite that skinny, but he had a few things to say to our French, the second base on fire.
And that Jimmy Martin's gone out now and he's taken up an argument with Bill Haller exactly about what I couldn't say.
I don't know either, Bill. You'd better stop it. These things are going your way right now.
Anyway, Potec is out on the steal attempt.
And a very tough argument out there around second base is over.
But Martin continues his discussion with the first base on fire, Haller.
He keeps pointing out towards second.
And the argument continues down there just inside of first base.
As of right now, I don't see any Royal runner down there, so Billy has had his say.
Maybe he wants him to watch something about base running or somebody going out of the line or not.
That project didn't go out of the line.
Martinez at the plate and they count on him as two balls and one strike.
The action resumes here, 3-2, the Royals in the lead.
They're batting in the fifth inning against Doc Ellis.
Bounding ball hit to Randolph. He has a nice, easy hop, throw to Chambliss, and there are two down.
That's all he can show, Scott, in fourth time.
That'll bring up the leadoff man, Jim Wolford.
Jim has walked him short a run and bounced him shortstop.
That gives him hope of one official in the night.
He has one hit and eight turns so far in the series.
Right-hander against the right-hander. He starts the run and takes the ball wide.
Ball one.
3-2, Royals lead the game. We're in the fifth inning in New York.
Tryck, Ellis at the outside corner. Ellis has settled down a little bit.
He's had good defensive support tonight.
Neither team has made an error so far.
They cut in a miss on a knee-high pitch, and the doubt now is one ball and two strikes on Wolford.
Now Cowan's right on deck for KC.
Now the look of a sign for Ellis. Here's the windup on the pitch.
He swings, fly ball, sort of feel. Rivers backing up. He's there. He has it.
And the five retire.
One run, one hit, no errors, and nobody left in the middle of the fifth inning.
The score is Royals lead the Yankees 2.
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Halfway through the game here at Yankee Stadium, we're going into the last half of the fifth inning,
The Royals three runs five hits, no errors. New York two runs three hits, no errors.
And it's my pleasure now to bring in my colleague, a longtime voice, to the Boston Red Sox, Ned Martin.
Thank you, Ernie Hywell. And here we go in inning number five, bottom half.
The Yankees trailing by a run. And you get the feeling it's somewhere along the line.
This game is going to develop into a beauty because there is a tension.
Each team has played well, has hit in timely back in time.
There have been no errors. There's been one pass fall, but that didn't really figure any out there in runs.
Elliot Maddux will lead it off. He struck out swinging to end the second inning.
Andy Hassler's only real mistake was a ball out over the plate to Chris Shambler,
who landed in the right center for a two-run homer.
Right before that, the hit by Panella was a ball that just eluded George Brett at third.
He went over to backhand it, flipped away from him, and then got involved in that ground rule double ruling.
Maddux stands in, right-handed batter. Andy Hassler all set to pick to it.
Left-hander kicks and throws and curves him down and in, ball one.
Again, an appeal. More appeals toward the corner umpires tonight than there have been in the first couple of games on check-swing.
A plate umpire will tell you that's probably his toughest call.
Ground ball, shortstop way again. A busy Freddy Patek up and over in time.
Maddux grounds to short. Freddy Patek continues to have heavy traffic down there at shortstop.
Five assist for him and a putout.
Charlie Randolph grounded to Patek in the third.
Right-handed hitting the second baseman for the Yankees.
The hit by Hassler and it's up high, ball one.
Hassler can throw hard, features a fast ball that's...
...sinked for the most part.
Will run away from the right-handed batter and tries to keep it around the knees.
But he's got good velocity on it, unlike a lot of sinker ball pitchers who just keep it there and change speed.
The next pitch is high, ball two, and the count is two and over to Randolph.
Hassler has a sinking fast ball and a slider.
2-0 pitch.
Fast ball way outside to Randolph, ball three.
So Willie has the count entirely his way, three balls, no strikes.
Royals three, Yankees two, bottom of the fifth inning.
Hit it.
Strike called right there.
Randolph now checks off with third base coach Dick Hauser.
Hitter take on three and one.
One out.
Hassler works inside ball four.
Randolph on with a one-out walk and he represents the tying run.
Bringing to the plate the number nine hitter, Mickey...
...Fred Stanley.
He's already in the flip sometime when he's confused that it's Mickey Stanley.
The Evergreens, center fielder, infielder, whatever you want with the Dodgers.
The veteran along with Fred Stanley, the Yankee shortstop.
Fred pops up to Patek in the third.
Big lead by Randolph.
He shoots back to first on a throw over there.
Willie Randolph can steal a base for you also.
He gets back and another throw over there and Nelson Howard is claiming box.
It is not ruled a box, but L.A. Howard immediately went up to Bill Haller and said,
Hey, what about that move to first?
But it was declared a legal throw over there and no motion toward the plate made.
Here's the fifth to the plate.
Strike called on Stanley.
Shortened up on the bat and took a fastball inside corner.
In the royal bullpen, their first action, left-hander Tom Hall and right-hander Marty Tappen.
The count is all in one with Stanley.
He backs out asking for time.
Now sets himself.
Randolph leads away from first, a four or five step lead.
A curve ball, but a bad miss for a strike.
They did call it a strike.
They haven't put it on the board yet.
Nope, he called the ball.
One ball, one strike.
One and one.
It appears that the strike call had been given, but it's one ball, one strike now with one out.
Barely seeing about advancing that run to second base or hitting behind the runner.
Good lead by Randolph.
Back he goes to first.
Low throw dug out by Maybury.
Tight ball game.
He's trailing three-two as they bat in the fifth.
Randolph goes into a good-sized lead at first base.
Which is high and tight.
Two and one.
Depending on the runner, as a matter of some, runners like to take a lead like Randolph takes.
Some get a better jump and will take only about a four-step lead.
Some like Randolph take five-steps.
Tommy Harper, who's a fine base dealer in the American League for years, likes a five-step lead.
Others will get a walking start.
Some like Lou Brock try to move the top part of their body.
And that's what they call the jump instead of the feet.
It's the lean.
Here's the pitch.
Inside, ball three.
Time call by Maybury as he goes to the mound to talk to his sister, Hassler.
Trying to settle Andy down now.
There's one out in the Yankee fifth inning.
Willie Randolph at first.
The count is three and one to Stanley.
And Dick Hauser, the third base coach, just had his word with Fred Stanley.
Randolph had 37 stolen bases in the regular season.
In the bunch toward first, it's foul, strike two, three and two.
Stanley tried to push one down the first base line.
Randolph was holding wide at first.
So now a three and two count.
We'll watch Randolph on this one with one out.
Both teams now playing it close, tight, trying for inside baseball, getting a run.
So one run ball game now, and the Yankees can play it differently.
They needed the home runs from Shambler, first of all.
Go to first.
Randolph was dancing around out there at first.
I don't believe at that particular time he had a notion of going.
But he drew the throw over there.
Three and two to Stanley.
In field at double play depth around second.
Hit, runner goes, fouled off.
Randolph was on his way, but will have to come back.
Three and two.
And that moon, which is a waning moon, not a waxing moon,
but a moon we saw with a left field fence in Kansas City over the right field fence, rather,
is coming up over the left field fence here at Yankee Stadium.
Over the river and over the drive.
Three and two.
Here goes Randolph, ground ball right side.
Mayberry plays it alone, has to go to first, steps on the bag,
and Randolph moves into scoring position.
Stanley did his job well as far as hitting behind the runner,
but big John Mayberry was right there to field it and prevented him from going into right field,
which would put Randolph at third.
So Randolph holds up at second base, and he is in scoring position with two outs.
Then I was wandering over to the press box, and most of the people over there seemed to think the argument by Billy Martin
might have been because the project threw his helmet when he got up and started the argument.
Maybe Billy wanted to put out the game.
Billy will press every advantage in a ball game.
Pitches outside to Mickey Rivers, ball one.
Rivers is one for two, had an infield hit, was short in the first inning,
and thrown out trying to steal on a double play as it turned out when White struck out into a double play.
Last time up, Mickey Mickey fouled out the third.
The 1-0 pitch to him by Hassler, ground ball right side, taken by Frank White.
Fires to Mayberry, that's all.
Rivers grounds out second to first to end the fifth for New York.
No runs, no hits, they leave one and threw five full innings.
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The Royals coming up from the top of the sixth inning, leading the Yankees 3-2.
They got their three runs right off the bat in the first inning off Doc Ellis.
On a walk, a stolen base, a single, another single, a pass ball, a sacrifice fly, and a double.
The Yankees came back later on in the fourth inning on a two-run homer by Chris Tamblitt,
a pistol run of the playoff series.
The National League Championship Series is all over.
For the second straight year, the Reds sweep their opposition.
They did it to Pittsburgh last year, they did it to Philadelphia this year.
Today going up with three runs in the ninth inning to win 7-6.
As Ernie said, our congratulations to Sparky Anderson and his Cincinnati Reds.
Check swing by Al Cowans as they go into the top of the sixth, it's fouled off, let us strike one.
Al FitzMorris, a right-hander, is throwing now in the bullpen for Kansas City.
These fellows just haven't seen in ballgames yet.
Short series and the starters have gone along except for Leonard. There's a foul tipped.
Stepping into the Cowans, now struck out in the first and singled in the third.
All the series so far, three for ten.
Doc Ellers, settling nicely since the first inning.
Cowans grounds one to the left side, stabbed by Nettles going to his left, falls down, gets up and throws him out.
Nice play by Greg Nettles.
He used to come hard with the brush of good hit no field, but he has fielded his position very well this year.
He made a fine play that time, going far to his left, knocking the ball down, loving it rather, and then falling to his knees and writing himself to make the play.
He's seen some good fielding plays in the infield by both sides and it's gained a nice.
George Breda, singled home a run in the first, pitches down low to him, ball one, and he grounded into a double play on a hit and run in the third.
Brett, five for nine on the series.
There's a drive in the right field, a hit, a solid line drive, and he's two for three in this game.
Now, six for ten. He continues to wail away at Yankee pitchers.
Hitting them about as effectively as Philadelphia's Jay Johnstone did against Cincinnati.
He went seven for nine against Reds pitching in their series, National League, but it didn't do any good at all.
Brett has six hits in the series and so does Sambler for the Yankees.
A lead in hit production.
John Mayberry is one for two. He's singled and grounded out.
By Ellis. Ground ball to first.
Sambler steps on the bag, throws the first, a run down, back to his first base, tagged by Randolph.
Three to six to four.
Three to six to three to four is the way the run down went, and it turns out to be the double play because Sambler took off the fourth.
And it had to go three to six to four with Willie Randolph making the play to put him out. So it's a double play ending the inning.
No runs, one hit, and nobody left.
And at the middle of the sixth inning, the score remains.
Kansas City three, New York two.
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There are many, many celebrities here tonight. Big people. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Lowell Thomas is here to watch the series.
This game and my man, Frank Sinatra. He's here tooThe chairman.
And they're seeing quite a ballgame as the Royals lead the Yankees three to two with the Yankees coming to bat in inning number six.
A game that is very important to both clubs. I would think especially so to the Kansas City Royals because they know that tomorrow afternoon, win or lose tonight, they are going to face Catfish Center again.
Roy White has struck out into a double play and grounded the short. Freddie Potek has made some outstanding plays in short. Meadow just made one a third. A good run down on the double play ball that just took the Royals out of the inning.
And they're playing it on God's grass here.
They do like is outside and high ball one.
On the third.
Teddy Teddy ball player for the Yankees through the years.
Take that outside ball too.
Playing him about straight away with the center fielder out.
Left center.
We mentioned before during this period a better left handed hitter than right.
But one of his big hits in this set was the opening day double the game for the Yankees off Larry Gura.
The ball low.
There's a careful at all by Maloney.
It's three and one now to fight.
Various and sundry people have been up in the Royals bullpen mostly just get them work.
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The Yankees stadium with the Kansas City Royals leading the New York Yankees 3 to 2 the Yankees batting in the sixth inning.
White Munson and Pennella up against Andy Hasler.
Hasler has given up only three hits.
So one of them that big blast by family.
The homer with Pennella aboard.
All came with two out.
The White ball for right leads with a walk in the sixth.
Second walk on Hasler tying run at first and a big man coming up.
Herman Munson.
Munson has gone three for twelve in a series.
Tonight he is lined up the right field and grounded the short.
Now Patek and White confer around second base as to the matter of coverage in the event of a ground ball.
Or an attempted move toward second by Roy White.
Munson getting set.
Now Tommy Hall and Marty Patton get up again to throw in the bullpen for the Royals.
Left and right handed.
Munson has gone through with the Blutens at home plate and here's the pitch.
Five on the right field is going to be trouble.
It's going to be up against the wall on one hop.
White is coming around and being held at third.
Double for Munson. Two on, nobody out.
Herman Munson has gone to the opposite field with a long drive that took one hop on the dirt out there and banged against the wall.
Dick Hauser, the third base coach with nobody out playing it very safely, held the runner, Roy White, not wanting to run into an out at home plate and spoil a potentially big inning.
The runners are at second and third and Whitey Herzog is coming out.
He is not sending Galen Cisco this time, his pitching coach.
He's looking out for the bullpen.
Hall and Patton have just gotten up to throw and Whitey would like to buy some time if indeed he doesn't make the move.
He's going to call to the bullpen for the right hander.
Marty Patton, the bulldog right hander, is going to come into this ball game right now with Lou Pennella, the designated hitter, scheduled up.
Now we'll see if Billy Martin changes around to his left-handed hitters, something he did not do with his right-handed hitters in Kansas City.
So Andy Hassler leaves the ball game. He went strong really by the names but gave up a walk and a double here and so goes five close innings, going to two men, facing two men here in the sixth inning.
He has given up four hits and two runs, responsible for a couple of runners, walked through and struck out two.
New picture coming on and right now for a brief news update, we return you to CBS News in New York.
I'm Rita Sands reporting on the CBS Radio Network.
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Back at Yankee Stadium, this is Ned Martin with Ernie HarwellThe Yankees have a threat going here in the sixth inning. Kansas City leads by a score of 3-2.
The Yankees have Roy White at third and Thurman Munson at second with nobody out.
Carlos May is going to back so Billy Martin is making his move.
He will back for Panella and Marty Patson is taking his warm-up, Ernie.
Well, Marty, the 33-year-old veteran, probably the talkie right-hand pitcher, is the regular season record. He had a earned run average of 2.49.
He won eight games and lost 14, and he had 15 starts. So he has been used both as a reliever and a dirty pitcher.
He's taking his tune-up crosses right now. Billy Martin, meanwhile, has come out to speak with his third base coach, Dick Houser.
The Yankees with a big threat, they go by a run, 3-2. They've got a man at second, they have a man at third, and there's nobody out.
And Carlos May has been inserted now as a pitch batter for Luke Panella. So Martin gets the left-hand batter up against the right-hander Marty Patson.
And let's go back to Ned Martin. Okay, a big spot right here for Carlos May, who's become the designated hitter and locked into that spot.
And they're going to put him on. They're not going to mess with him. They will walk in intentionally below the bases and set up a fourth and or double play situation.
Marty Herzog will not pick to May a tough left-handed hitter in a spot like this.
Carlos has been in this series now. He came into it with two hits and five times at bat.
And they are putting him on, so the intentional walk will be given right away.
Some people say, why bring in a pitcher to do that? One reason is that it gives him a little bit more time on the mound in the game situation, getting himself into a rhythm there.
Mark Lattell has joined Tom Hall in the bullpen now for the Royals. And now, let's see, here comes Whitey again.
Herzog is moving with Chris Samworth up there, and they won't tell me Hall right this moment.
Marty Patson has been the long and short-release man, a spot starter, and actually during September, when the Royals were really having their troubles, he was about their most effective pitcher.
But his job tonight is done, and he will lead in favor of Tom Hall, a left-hander who has been in postseason play and World Series before.
So, Carlos May, the now designated hitter, gets the intentional walk. They've loaded the bases, and Marty Patson has a rather peculiar tour of duty here this night.
Comes in with his four intentional pitches outside the strike zone and then goes to the dugout.
So, actually, Patson will not be a very part of an inning, although, should May score, his run would be charged to Patson.
So now, Tommy Hall is coming in, left-hander, he will pitch when he gets ready to Chris Samworth and Greg Middell.
Tom Hall has won one and lost one so far in the regular season, and he made 31 appearances.
They were all in relief, and he had one save. He's the former Minnesota twin and Cincinnati Reds pitcher.
Taking over now for Marty Patson, who came in and gave up the intentional walk and then leaves the contest.
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If ever anybody had a job to do, it's this thin left-hander, Tom Hall, now. He's coming into a bases-loaded, no-out situation.
And some of the folks here in New York, Bowingson, he was a one-time Mets pitcher in addition to the other clubs that we mentioned.
And that little con-pav at the mound, and my penis out there to talk to Hall, and he'll take you soon enough to like him.
This afternoon, the Cincinnati Reds completed a three-game suite of the National League Championship series,
going three runs in the ninth inning, the beat the Fulbright's to the league 76.
Cincinnati had won the two earlier games by scores of 6-3 and 6-2.
So now they'll wait to see who wins the playoffs here in the American League, and then the World Series will get underway as we mentioned on Saturday afternoon in Cincinnati.
Bases loaded, it'll happen this way, White, he'll walk to opening inning.
And Munson's life will double down the right field line. It looks for a moment as if White might be able to score.
Those kids played the ball pretty well off the wall, and Hell White at third base.
Munson cruising easily into second for the second double of the series.
And then May was inserted as a pinch hitter for the designated batter, the right-hand hitting Lucenella.
May, the left-hand batter, was lost.
And now that brings up the man who has produced the two Yankee runs, Chris Kamlitz.
With the bases loaded, nobody out and his net again.
Tommy Hall worked with the Mets last year, won four and lost three.
He has had this championship playoff experience though.
He was with the Minnesota Twins in the 69 playoff, with the Minnesota Twins in 70 also, where he got in a couple of ball games, and with Cincinnati in 72 and 73.
Now he faces the rough tough Chris Kamlitz with the bases loaded and nobody out.
Yankee's frail by a run.
Here it is. Kamlitz takes the breaking ball for a strike.
What they try to do is jam Chris Kamlitz with hard stuff up and in, and then try to back him off the plate a little bit, and then throw him breaking the stuff away,
which is a normal kind of playoff, but you try to get him more back in motion, to really jam him hard, or curve him a lot.
There's a foul ball out of play down the third base line, and now quickly Tommy Hall is ahead of Kamlitz, 0-2.
Another left-handed hitter, Greg Nettles, is on deck.
Big crowd eating this one up right now.
The Yankees have come from a 3-0 deficit to trail 3-2 and have all those people on base.
Paul the flim left-hander from North Carolina, whines and throws, waste the fastball outside.
When he first came up into the major, he could throw very hard, using whip-like arms.
He's been primarily a relief pitcher in his career.
One ball, two strikes.
Infield pokes behind him, they're a double play depth around second base.
One-two pitch, bouncing ball to second, this will score a run.
Let's throw to second base, that's all it can get, one out, and it's tied up 3-3.
White scores, Kamlitz gets his third RBI.
In front of his second base, Carlos May was fourth, the only player they had, White to Potec, 4-6.
The ball was not hit sharply enough to turn the double play.
So Roy White scores a tying run.
Munson moves in the third base, save at first on a fielder's choice, is Kamlitz.
There is one out now with runners at the corners and Greg Nettles up.
Duk Martinez, motioning to John Mayberry, about playing with Nettles there, a pull hitter, an uppercut hitter.
Nettles has walked and struck out.
Andy Hassler has gone, that run is charged to him, the one that just scored.
He's also responsible for Munson at third.
The other Royals really want to turn the double play.
Ball works for Nettles, it's high and outside, ball one.
Ben Gori throwing in the bullpen, Lattell has been out there with him, butt swinging, and the count evens up one and one to Nettles.
Left-hander Steve Menjoy is the primary left-hander in the bullpen for Whitey Herzog, and the hard-throwing youngster Mark Lattell.
One and one to Nettles.
Munson off first, Munson off third, sweet three.
It is.
Line drive to center field, and it is in there for a base hit.
Here comes Munson with a go-ahead run, runners at first and second on the Yankees lead, 4-3.
Mike Nettles slamming one that hit right in front of center fielder Al Collins.
For a moment it appeared that Collins would catch the ball, but he held up, and the ball dropped right in front of him for a clean single.
Goering Munson and sending Shambliss to second, and now Whitey Herzog is out again.
He wants the other left-hander, Menjoy, right now.
He does not want the right-hander to face Elliott Manick, he wants Menjoy.
So Tommy Hall faces two batters in his fifth, gets one of them out, a run of score that is not charged to him.
Pitches to two batters and gives up one hit.
He is responsible for a base runner.
The two runs that have scored are charged to Andy Hasler, who is complete record now, 5-6, gave up four hits and four runs.
The Yankees have gone ahead for the first time in this ball game and are still fussing around with runners at first and second and only a couple of one outs.
And Manick, Randolph, and Stanley scheduled up.
Though it's still not over, as Whitey Herzog has seen a free run lead put it away, and the Yankees playing like the Yankees they have all year long are in command at this point.
It's the sixth inning with the Yankees leading the Royals 4-3.
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So, Hansler has gone, Patsy has gone, Hall has gone, and Steve Mingare is on for his second appearance in the playoffs series to face Elliot Manick when he does come up.
Mingare during the regular season then had a 5-5 record. All his appearances were in relief. He was in the 55 games and he came up with 10 saves.
After which Monson's single, a Sam
His only appearance in this series, the one you mentioned, came in the second game when he released Swidow in the ninth inning.
He got the final batter made on a strikeout and picked up a save in the Kansas City victory in game number two of the series, a victory for the Royals that evened it at that point one and one.
The Royals were out in front early in this game. They got three in the opening inningThe Yankees came back with two on a home run by Shambler from the fourth.
And they picked up another pair here in the sixth inning and they are still alive with one out and two men on.
And Steve Mingare takes over.
We've seen in this series a show that can come back from a definiteThe Yankees, of course, were out in front all the way during the first game.
The Royals came back to win it in the second, although the Yankees had come back to go ahead. And the Royals had a strong three nothing lead with Hasler looking good, but that's all gone.
Elliott Maddox has struck out and grounded a short.
It's hit by Mingare, a ball outside.
Mingare, a smaller swept bender, with good breaking stuff, keeps the ball down.
And now the slider and the sinker.
Check on left-handed hitters.
Right now, picking the right-handed batter, Elliott Maddox.
This ball, the sinker ball, will tail away from the right-hander. There's one outside, ball two.
So it's two and nothing to Maddox.
And the winning drawing here with three, four pitchers having worked here in this inning.
Two only, five batters. Now six. Six batters, four pitchers.
Talk about the wheels spinning in the dugout.
Here's a set by Mingare, and set one is called.
It comes in across that inside corner.
It's two and one to Maddox.
One thing among several that went wrong with the Philadelphia Phillies and their national display-off losses
was a failure of the bullpen to respond, a bullpen that had worked so hard all year.
See how Kansas City does now. Curve is outside, ball three.
Three balls, one strike for Maddox.
At second base, Chris Gambler. At first, Greg Nettles.
Three-one-six, rides in and has popped up down the right field line, curving foul, and is going to be out of play.
Long strikes in the towers, three and two.
Full through Maddox with Randolph on deck.
Right-lead the inning with a walk, went to third on Munson's off-field double.
That exited Andy Hasler. Marty Patliss brought in the pinch.
Six to Carlos May, who was batting for Panella in the D.H. spot, walked in intensely, then left the game.
Tommy Hall works with Sam Wood, got a field of choice and a run scored.
He got the single and Nettles, and now it is Mingori, three and two, to Maddox.
Here it comes.
Fly ball in the right center, in the gap, they hit.
Coming out there by Callan. A run will scoreThe throw comes in to White.
Runners at second and third is five-three, New York.
A double into the right center field alley by Elliott Maddox.
Scoring, Sam Wood, and sending Nettles to third, and the Yankees are running wild here.
And again, from the dugout, comes manager Whitey Herzog.
He is down to about his last man out there, except for Doug Bird.
He's going to bring Mark Lattell in while this game is still close.
The bullpen has not worked for him.
The bullpen, which had been effective throughout the year with fellows like Patton, Hall, Mingori, Lattell, so far has fallen down tonight.
So, Mingori, which is no part of an inning, gives up one hit, is responsible for a run.
The run that's scored by Sam Wood is charged to Marty Patton.
So, Patton, which is no part of an inning, gave up no hits, one run, one walk.
And anything that's left now is charged to Hall and Mingori.
So, Steve Mingori, facing the right-handed batter, gives a bank hit to the right center field.
And we'll see in the morning, Ernie, or after the game, whether the people who like to second-guess these things and look at it in hindsight will say,
why did they bring Mingori, a left-hander, in, if they tell Elliott Maddox, the right-hander, unless they fear that maybe a left-handed batter will be installed by Billy Marcus.
Well, there'll be plenty of time for that, and I'm sure a lot of colors and ladies here will take a panic of the old American pastime to right-the-second-guess.
Here's the country-lotel, as they're calling, big right-hander coming into play, L-I-T-T-E-Double-L.
He won eight and lost four in the regular season, and had 60 appearances, and all of those were in relief except one time he started.
The town had 16 saves through his credit throughout the 1976 season.
And now they have a little conference coming on for you, Paul.
And we're getting a practice of big-legged, and I can't tell you that. He picked the one batter that went on in Norwich, and he's on the walk.
The runs going in, and Hattler, Patton and the thick-finning, all here in the thick-finning.
Mingori in the thick-finning, and now L-I-T-E-L, they make a hard-throwing right-hander in the thick-finning.
Not too many left out there now in the royal bullpen, and as far as he heard, the royal manager starts to spin the Yankee tide here.
He picked up three runs to pick the lead, and he survived the three.
The total's right now, he's seen the thick-finsThe Yankees, five runs, thick-fins, no errors.
The Royals had three runs, thick-fins, and no errors.
Doc Ellis, incidentally, has gone all the way for the Yankees, and he's settled down after a thick-fins first-finning.
Looks like he might not survive that opening inning when the Royals picked up three runs on three hits.
Then he's allowed only three singles since then, and he's been hated by two Yankee double plays since that first inning.
Well, the Yankees riding high now. They've got a two-run lead. Let's go back to the end.
All right, it'll be Willie Randolph up. Randolph has rounded it short and walked.
Still only one out. That was on a fourth out.
Ramblers forcing May at second base, and on that even, a run short.
Now the Royals will bring their infield in. They have to. They don't want any more runs possible to cross.
Keep it on a two-run basis, but right now the Yankees are in the seat. They are driving.
Infield in all the way around. Pottsack two steps off the grass. Everybody right out the edge of the grass.
Pitch to Randolph. Fastball strikes off. Patel can hum it. He is maybe as fast a right-handed relief pitcher as there is in the American League.
More than Missouri.
Here's the studies working from a stretch with runners at second and third.
Pitching. Inside fastball. Ball one. One ball, one strike.
Now this is a kind of spot where Billy Martin likes to use the old squeeze once in a while. I'm sure that the Royals will be looking out for it.
Well, think about it. They really have it somewhat in their favor because they are drawing in.
To the point they're not beaten. But Martin does a lot of things.
One ball, one strike. Here's a step by Patel.
Drops to the belt. There's a squeeze. A sense it fouls.
Well, they tried itThe infielders were looking for it a little bit because they had Brett charging from third, Mayberry from first.
They had the pitchers coming straight in, Patel. And they had Freddy Pottsack trailing the play and covering third.
But it didn't work and now the count is one ball, two strikes. So Randolph didn't get the bunt down.
And we'll see what the league's like now.
Mainly the All-American expedient of getting a two-base hit with the two or both runs.
Al Fitzmarsh gets up the throw and a royal bullpen. Fitzmarsh is out there. So is Doug Byrd.
Yankees lead 5-3, batting in the sixth inning. It's been a long one. Here it is.
And they took this foul on a checked swing by Randolph.
He was in on it and just picked this bat and got away from Martinez.
Count one ball, two strikes.
With all of this, there have been just two hits, there's been three hits this inning, a double by Munson, a single by Nettles, a double by Maddox.
There have been two walks, one intentional.
Now we're ready again as Latel looks to third.
So the plate strikes three, swinging a slider.
Latel has a good hard slider and he used it that time to strike Randolph out.
So the youngster comes on and fans his first batter and now here is Stanley.
Fred Stanley is 0-2.
Stanley pops the shortstop and grounded the first. Martinez is out talking to Latel.
One thing that you don't do is let down on the number nine hitter. There's a fellow like Stanley, which some clubs have.
And he hurts it. He is 4-9 at this point in this series.
That's three hits in one game. They don't play in the bowl.
Cowens is over toward right center.
Low outfield is pushed around to right. They get in the left field line.
But Betts banned the pitch to him.
Slider away, ball one.
Jackies lead by two. They've scored three runs in this sixth inning.
They've got their other two in the fourth. On campus there's two run homers.
The Royals picked up three on the top of the first inning right off the bat off Doc Ellis.
But Ellis has stepped it out since.
Hitter.
By a fastball you could hear that one pop into the glove of Martinez, but it was out of the strike zone.
Two balls, no strikes.
Two on that thinking Stanley. Mickey Rivers on Betts.
There's the fetch.
And the pitch. Ball three. Almost hit him.
One thing that you would think the Mattel would not want to do is walk the number nine hitter
and bring up Rivers, the left-handed batter who can kill you in a lot of ways.
Now it would bring up Mickey with the bases loaded.
If you win one pitch you're doing that.
Three and nothing to Stanley.
There it is.
Betts called, three and one.
Now Fred Betts with Hauser at third.
He wants him to take another one.
Or go for it if it's right around the wheelhouse somewhere.
One balls, one strike.
Schambler for third base.
Or Nettles for third rather.
And Nettles at second.
Here is the three-one pitch. That is ball four.
Bases loaded.
Mattel walks Stanley.
He's at first.
Nettles at third.
And the ninth man of the inning coming up, Mickey Rivers.
Rivers has had one hit in three trips.
An infield single and a third.
Well the infield moves back now.
Not even worrying about anybody except Rivers himself.
They don't move back deep.
They shorten up a little bit at short and second because of Mickey's speed.
But there is a play at any base.
So they don't necessarily have to go for him.
And he shortens up and takes high and he's trying for a ball.
Galen Cisco, the pitching coach now is sent out by Whitey Herzog.
He talks to his pitcher and is trying to calm the youngster down.
Mattel is just 23 years old.
And a sort of situation like this, probably is adrenaline is really running.
That might run the ball out of the strike zone a lot.
He's showing very hard but missing high, wild high.
Last year he won one and lost two in brief activity for Kansas City after spending a year in Omaha.
Cisco and George Brett and Buck Martinez are all out there talking to Mattel.
And now they leave simply.
Catch him on the tailgate and runs back toward the dugout.
It was about as welcome as a bough of electric eels to a pitcher in this situation.
There it is.
Buck's called.
Rivers just kind of floating the bat back and forth in pendulum style.
He's fishing on that one all the way.
One ball, one strike.
Rivers, as we've mentioned, does not often walk.
He did Sunday once and surprised everybody.
There's a fish.
Strike swinging.
The challenge by a fastball from Mark Littell.
The doubt is now one and two to Rivers.
One ball, two strikes.
Here's the set.
Fly ball, back of shortstop, back of third.
Over for Potts Hatchey.
He's got it in fairground to end the inning.
So it mercifully ends for the Kansas City Royals in the sixth inning.
As nine men come to bat for New York, they score three runs on three hits.
There were no errors and three were left.
And the score at the end of sixth is Yappie five, Royals three.
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Six in a total agreed like this.
The Appie's five runs and a six-pitch.
The Royals three runs and six-pitch.
Doc Ellis, the beneficiary of all these riches, is now taking his warm-up,
ready to pitch to Hal McCray, Tom Pochette, and Frank White.
Doc, which are very shaky in the first inning, gave up the three runs.
He got the side in order in the second.
Pitched to only three men in the third, hated by a double play ball.
Runner got on in the fourth inning on a hit batsman.
He was out stealing.
Pochette singled a roll from the fifth.
He was out stealing.
And it was a single by Brett in the sixth.
And he was caught in a double play.
So the infield and Munchen have backed Ellis up.
The Royals have gotten people on base in every inning but the second, but they trail five-three.
In the bullpen for New York now, realizing that maybe Ellis has had a long, long stay in his drug out
while his team was getting the runs, Cidrow and Lyle are warning.
Left-handed Sparky Lyle, right-handed Mitch Cidrow.
So Whitey Herzog, who is making all the moves, getting every pitcher he possibly could in there,
and has kept this thing relatively close when one big hit, other than the double by Maddux,
especially if there's been a big one by Rivers, could have put this game out of reach, or just about.
Well, there's plenty of time left in this one.
We're at the top of the seventh.
McCray the batter hasn't been up officially.
Sacrifice Lyle and hit by a pitch.
Fly ball right field.
Not deep enough.
Underhead is Maddux.
Kelly has one hand. That's all.
McCray flies to right. That's one away.
Tom Pulchett has doubled in his drug out.
He doubled home a run in the first inning.
Said three hits and eight times up in the series.
That's the end of the batter.
Now the Royals must need to get people on base, and trailing by two runs,
because they can still run a little, but maybe not as much as when they were ahead.
Can't take too many chances. They have to get back in that thing.
The strike is called on Pulchett.
They get him in on a one-run basis, and they can try to advance that man to second base.
Right now they need two to tie.
Change up by Ellis. Bounce foul past Earth.
Scott came in with a good change that time and had Pulchett off balance.
He was swinging way ahead of it.
Nothing in two to Pulchett.
He's going to back right on deck, but he's not going to back.
Cookie Rohas has come out and is kneeling on deck, and will back for white. Cookie Rohas.
At this point, Whitey Herbog needs off end.
Check swing by Pulchett. Gets away from Munson. Ball one. One ball, two strikes.
The hits are even here, but the Yankees have a big one.
The one that's not the equalizer, but the different hit is the homer by Sammler.
It's a two-run jobThe Yankees are leading by two runs.
Tipped by Ellis. Little pop foul, third base side is going to be out of play.
Over the Royals dugout on the third base side.
One ball, two strikes.
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Strike three, swinging.
Doc Ellis with the slider, running in on Pulchett, strikes him out.
That's four strikeouts for Ellis.
Two out and Cookie Rohas batting for Frank White.
Cookie Rohas, his second appearance, has a pink hitter in this series.
Right-handed batter, the veteran who for many years held down second base here, and of course in the National League,
had some fine years with the Philadelphia Nills.
The pitch is outside and high for a ball.
He was a fine second baseman. He played with one of the best shortstop, the best fielding shortstop in the National League, Bobby Wine.
Pitch is outside for a ball, and some wags somewhere wrote about the fun, the plays of Wine and Rohas.
That's pretty bad. Down ball to second. Picked up by Randolph, throws to first, that's all.
Cookie Rohas, downs out second to first, and it's one, two, three in the seventh for the Royals.
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Coming in now, you may have heard that on the box box right here in the booth, a new record for Yankee Stadium 2, 56,808.
What were the people in left center field, the bleachers open, as Ernie told you earlier, for the first time.
That added on to what the capacity had been, 54,002. 56,808 tonight at Yankee Stadium.
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Batting left-handed this time, takes a strike from Littell.
White has struck out, rounded out, and walks. He has scored a run.
Tomorrow afternoon, it will be Capsaic Hunter against Larry Gura, same matchup as in game one.
Pitch inside to White. One ball, one strike.
Herman Munson on deck.
And Mr. Munson has been instrumental tonight. He's thrown out two runners.
Coming back from his dismal Sunday, pitches inside for a ball, two and one.
It's two out two on opening day, Saturday, then the three-two away on Sunday for throwing errors.
But he's gunned down a couple tonight.
And the Royals running game has been taken away from them.
Dry ball, center field. Not too deep coming in toward right center is Cowens.
And Al Cowens makes the catch. Everybody was out there. They had Patek ranging far from short.
And the outfielder's coming in, but with Cowens, ball all the way.
Herman Munson has lined to right, rounded to short, and doubled to right.
A very big double setting up all this scoring in a thick finish.
It was after a leadoff walk to Roy White, and the double got the starter, Andy Hansler, out of there.
Munson, Nevada, with Carlos May on deck. One out, Yankees leading 5-3, seven finish.
That's New York.
Now the pitch. Queen strikes.
Yatelle has a lot of cool for a youngster.
Earlier in the season, people saw Whitey Herzog go to the bullpen and bring this fellow in in tight spots.
They were wondering why a youngster, but then when they saw him throw, they knew why.
So one strike delivery. Line drive, they hit the left field.
Over and toward the line is Wolford, and holding it first with a long single is Munson.
He just muscled that one out there. A line drive, they hit the left.
The Yankees have a runner with one out.
So the Yankees have cut some people on base off every pitcher that they have faced since the first hit off Letell, and the seventh for New York.
Carlos May up. That is for Panella, the D.H. bottom of sixth inning, and was intentionally walked.
Didn't work too well.
He was forced later on, but two runs surrounded that.
Patek and Rojas, the double play-dots.
Pucquerojas playing second base now after batting for Frank White.
The pitch. Five strikes tall, right at the shoulders.
Fastball, rolled right in there, and nothing in one.
Outfield straightaway on May, took way up on the bat.
Red glove on the right hand and a white glove on the left.
Fastball up and away, ball one, one ball, one strike.
Patek banged out proud at Yankee Stadium for the first game in this new ballpark of a playoff nature.
The strike itself, however, has seen others, many others.
Here's the threat by Letell, for the first, not in time.
Rojas is the second baseman, Patek at short, and George Brett at third.
Wolford, Cowans, and Poquette left the right of the outfield.
The pitch. Strikes tall outside corner. One ball, two strikes.
Picture of Mark Letell and the catcher is Buck Martinez.
If you're looking to the top of inning number eight, Patek, Martinez, and Wolford will be scheduled up for the Royals.
Got to get into that 90-foot game again.
Strikes free, swinging. May is out of there, two away.
Second strikeout for Letell.
The hand for Chris Dambler.
He is knocked in free of the five Yankees runs, two of them with a homer in the fourth, and another with a fielder's choice in the sixth.
He is one for three.
Six for 11, six for 12 on the series, batting 500.
Munson edges off first, not a big lead. No threat to go.
There's a high pop foul over toward the third base dugout. Martinez near it, but it bounces right on top of the dugout and into the ground.
One strike.
The Cincinnati Reds are national league champions again, defeating the Philadelphia Phils seven to six this afternoon at Cincinnati.
Big, nice inning. They were trailing six to four. It appeared the Phils were going to stay alive.
They had Ron Reid in there. It's been their best reliever all year.
And immediately, bang, home run, George Foster.
Next man up, bang, home run, Johnny Bentz.
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So they will wait, play inter-squad games, and see what happens here.
It'll start Saturday in the National League City, Cincinnati.
Six, let her go. Swing, strike, and a foul.
And Munson, as they had a play going, will have to come back. She was not going as a stealer.
They had Shambler swinging, and tried to get permanent jumpers if they were to step a few over there.
The counter is 0-2 to Shambler.
That's him bleeding, 5-3.
They're batting at a 7.
The foul appears down for the time.
Goes to first, a hard throw over there, but Munson is only two steps off.
Gets back easily.
Now the fifth, and the pitch.
Ground ball, right side, a hit.
Almost hit Munson, who will go to third.
Runners at first and third, two out.
Chris Shambler, right in the middle of things again, strokes the single to right.
Munson was moving, and almost was hit by that bouncing ball.
Of course, that would have been the third out.
But now the Yankees are riding again, with runners at the corners and two away, and Greg Nettles up.
Nettles had a big hit in the sixth inning, singling home a run to keep things going.
Nettles is one for two officially, is walk one.
Yankees leading 5-3 and threatening for more.
Two out, two on, seven thinning.
Royal infield, shading Nettles toward right, playing very deep in the infield.
And Mayberry guarding the line at first base, playing behind Shambler.
Time called, Martinez out to talk to Lattell.
Now back behind the plate.
Greg Nettles, go for Brooks, kind of hitter, American League batting champion in 76.
Now Lattell is ready and throws, and it's outside low, ball one.
Elliott Maddox on deck. He's been heard from tonight, a double driving and a run.
One ball, no strikes.
Right fielder Tom Puchet playing very deep for Nettles, as well he might.
And here it comes, check swing, it's outside, ball two.
Two and nothing.
Royal pitching staff struggling.
Somewhat of a disappointment I would imagine to Whitey Herzog,
except for the brilliant job turned in Sunday by Paul Swidor.
And not a bad job really on opening day by Larry Gura.
Pitch to Nettles, a check swing foul off his foot, and it rolls out to third base,
where it's picked up by Brett and Nettles is down.
That one right off his right foot, either off the instep or the toe,
and he's seen so many times, what about it will do that.
Some hitters will wear a protective flap on his shoe.
Now help from the Yankee trainer with some ethyl chloride sprayed,
who's dead in the pain as Nettles just hits his home plate.
And that gives the hotel time to do a little extra warming up, loosening up as Greg Nettles.
You know Larry, sometimes you wonder, especially in cold weather,
not that it's that cold or nice, but in the spring when a hitter does that,
how he can ever stand again.
It's hard, but they do it and they manage to stand.
Their man on hand is looking him over now.
He's on his feet again, he seems to be all right.
You wonder how they can get back in there and take a full stride,
but they're so used to it I guess, and the spray doesn't help.
The count is two and one to Greg.
He has walked, struck out, and is single.
Line drive single, it fell right in front of Al Cowan in the sixth inning.
He's almost ready to catch it.
The tell to the stretch, the pause, and the pitch.
Now here it comes, right up our way, only above us.
Look at you now, the Nettles.
Munson at third base and Sam Bliss at first, two out.
The tell working very, very deliberately.
Reads his sign from Martinez.
Now gets set.
There it comes, there goes Sam Bliss, fouled back.
Sam Bliss moving to second base, has to return,
and the Nettles took a big cut and fouled it to the screen.
Two out remains, two balls, two strikes, two outs and two on.
Yankees five, Royals three.
Royals got three in the first, the Yankees two in the fourth, and three in the sixth.
Two-two.
Nettles was waiting, leveling the bats back and forth, long looked by Letell.
Young right-hander, so Sam Bliss goes again and again, it's fouled off,
and Chris will take off another foul, and the two coming back.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs.
Al Fitzmaur working doggedly in the bullpen for the Royals.
He hasn't been used or yet in this series.
And of course he was one of the main starters that Whitey Herzog had this year.
Fitzmaur, Doug Burr coming out of the bullpen to be a starter.
And of course, Leonard, Dennis Leonard.
Two-two delivery, round ball foul outside of first, past Shelley Howard.
Sam Bliss was holding that time at first.
Two-and-two.
It was a big three that they had, and Marty Paxton was a starter later on.
They all were trying to take up slack, the slack left by the injury and eventual operations on Steve Fosby,
potential 20-game winner.
He went off without half a season.
Here comes Diego Shambles.
There's a ball.
A bluff towards second, a throw to third.
Not in time.
Goal and base for Chris Shambles.
Martinez went through with a bluff, hoping that Munson would take the bluff and move off the back.
But Thurman was off in a little bit.
He drew a throw down there, but not in time.
Shambles gets the steal.
Gunners at second and third, and the count is three and two now to Nettles.
The free kick now would make it even more serious for the Royals, who trail by two.
Time called by shortstop Fred Potec.
And he moves over to talk to his pitcher.
Nettles, a left-handed batter up.
Now, what do you want to do?
Do you want to walk him?
James, this left-handed hitter up.
And load the base, setting up the force.
Also risking the walk, and then take your chances with right-handed hitter Elliot Maddux, who is two up next.
But then, if that happened, it's very possible that they could back for Maddux and put Oscar Gamble, a left-handed hitter in there, who can be tough on right-handed pipping.
Three and two.
Be very careful is what they say.
Careful of Nettles.
The windup.
The three-two pitch.
Ground ball, the first base, taken by Maybury, plays it alone for the final out.
The Yankees do not score, though they do have a threat going.
Nettles drowning out to Maybury unassisted.
No runs in the bottom of the seventh inning.
There were two hits and two men left on base.
At the end of seventh, the score of the Yankees five, the Royals three.
Now, Jim Palmer, the Baltimore pitcher today, was named the winner of the fourth annual Joe Cronin Award.
Palmer has won 20 more games now for six of the last seven seasons, including a league-leading 22 victories this year.
They had a ceremonial presentation of the award made prior to the game, near the night between the Yankees and the Royals.
And Mr. Cronin is celebrating his 70th birthday on this date.
The award is for, quote, significant achievement in baseball, end quote, and that's sort of a rough equivalent to the player of the year presentation.
This season, Jim Palmer won 22 games for the Orioles, the most in the league.
He also topped the American League in innings six, and the game started, and he was fifth with his earned run average of 2.51.
Jim is among the leading candidates for the Cy Young Award for 1976.
And if he gets it, he'll be the first American League to win it three times.
You're tuned to your CBS Radio Network station for game number three in the American League playoffs,
and that means you're tuned to the only radio spot for the World Series.
Starting Saturday, October the 16th, CBS Radio Sports brings you exclusive radio play-by-play coverage.
Follow the series on radio right here.
Well, a lot of folks talking about the Cincinnati Rays and what a fine ball club they are,
and deservedly so, prove themselves the best in baseball over the last couple of years.
They will face the winner of this series, of course, starting Saturday afternoon.
But a word about the Philadelphia Phillies, who did an excellent job and were an awesome baseball team for most of 1976.
They won 101 games, just one less than they read to beat them in the playoffs.
You'll hear from the Phillies for quite a few seasons to come.
Freddy Potech bounces one foul as we start the eighth inning.
Potech has ground it out and singles.
The Royals trail the Yankees five to three.
We're running out of track here at the eighth inning.
Potech, Martinez, and Walpers scheduled up, and Martinez will not bat.
Jamie Quirk is on deck.
Left-handed hitter, as what he heard is, I feel that he better go to his bench.
It's one and one now, the Potech.
Foul back.
One ball, two strikes.
Jack Ellis has gone all the way for New York.
Picked himself a strong ball game since the first inning when he was cold at the start.
Drive the third, nice play by Nettles on the trap hop, he throws him out.
Good play on a ball that exploded at his feet.
He stayed right with it, and throughout Potech, one away.
Two good plays by Nettles in this game.
Here is Jamie Quirk, left-handed ten-shitter, coming on to bat.
Batting for Buck Martinez, there will be another catcher in the bottom of this inning.
Jamie?
There will be another catcher in the bottom of this inning.
Jamie Quirk, left-handed hitter.
All the years, 246.
And limited duty for the Royals, but he helped out too.
Picked his outside to him for a ball.
One ball, no strikes.
And the pick to Quirk gets a high foul ball out of play, third base five.
Let's pause here ten seconds for safe identification.
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Back at Yankee City, a med-marching here with Ernie Harwell.
Yankee is leading the Royals 5-3.
We're in the top of the eighth inning, and Jamie Quirk is batting for Buck Martinez.
He was the top left-handed ten-shitter for the Royals this year.
Inside, a slider from Doc Ellis.
Two balls, one strike.
His first full year in the majors, and he backed up George Bledis, third.
Also played a couple of games at first base.
Down foul off to the right.
Two and two.
Two balls, two strikes.
He goes to work, and it's way high, off the glove of Munson, who looks out at him,
and says, that's not what I called for.
Those bullpens are busy with Lyle and Tidro and the Yankee fan, and Dennis Leonard,
who started the Sunday game right-handed, going with Paul Splittor in the Royals bullpen.
The count is two and two, and the scoreboard has three and three up there.
It's not easy, is it?
For a while it was two and three, and then they changed it to three and three.
Ellis working to Quirk.
And a way outside pitch is off the edge of the glove by Munson.
Bill is having a time with Ellis right now.
Three balls, two strikes.
And her dog is coming out to talk to the plate umpire, George Maloney.
He has had his word, and I don't know what that was either.
Danny Quirk from Whittier, California, stands in three and two.
Fixed by Ellis, a foul ball.
He went for a pitch around the knees, or maybe lower, but it was close enough to go for.
And the count hangs at three and two.
Jim Walford on deck.
I just saw one of the policemen, and I don't know what that was for.
They just went over and got a baseball, and I guess they're going to say it's illegal.
Strike three, swinging.
Doc Ellis with a shaking fast ball strikes out, then hitter Jamie Quirk.
They are two away.
Jim Walford is up.
He has walked, rounded out, and flied to center, and Billy Martin wants a word with Ellis.
Johnson is out there talking, and Nettles is over from third.
Yankees now just four outs away from a very big, big win in this playoff series, and an edge.
A big edge going into tomorrow afternoon.
Walford, 0 for 2.
He's going to run in the first inning, when it appeared for a while as if the Royals were going to
hit and run and run away from the Yankees and hide, but that is not to be.
Strike called, slider hitting the outside corner.
Ellis working smoothly now.
A 1-2-3 inning in the second, again in the seventh.
Ball back, one ball, one strike.
Two outs away, nobody on.
Ellis reads the sign and goes to work.
Ball outside, 2-1.
Al Cowan is on deck.
Low and outside, ball free, 3-1.
No doubt about it, the Royals do miss Amos Odo.
Regardless of what's said or what Lovato has shown, you just don't get a player of that caliber out in a series like this and not feel it.
Ball four, Walford is on, and that is not to knock Jim Walford.
He's done a good job playing the outfield and being on base a while.
Brock Ellis walks his second batter.
He's hit one.
And now, as it turns out, the tying runs at the plate for the Royals.
Al Cowan, who does not hit the long ball, is one for free tonight, singled in the third.
The Royals have not been able to lay back and wait for the long ball this season, mainly because their main home run hitter,
John Mayberry, has had an off year.
Hits the Cowan inside, ball one.
Ellis is fan five while walking, too.
Strike, one ball, one strike.
25, Royals three, Royals batting in the eighth.
Two out, one on.
Infield deep, the set by Ellis, and the pitch is fouled back by Cowan.
So he is behind one and two.
And he's been pitched outside by Ellis all night long, breaking stuff away, and it's given him trouble.
He managed one hit, leadoff single in the third, but he was doubled up after that.
And Nettles made a good playoff in the sixth.
There's a drive over short, but stabbed by Stanley for the final out.
Nice play by Fred Stanley. He went to his left, leaked a little bit, and speared a hotline drive.
And Cowan is hitting in tough luck tonight.
That's all for the Royals in the eighth inning.
No runs, no hits, one left.
In the middle of the eighth, the score of the Yankees five, the Royals three.
Introducing three new full-size cars from Buick, the 1977 Les Sabres, Amectra, and Riviera.
Something very special has happened to them since last year.
There's a new livery in the spring.
They're impressively agile, easy to maneuver, and they're compact, and they offer better gas mileage.
In APHS, the new Les Sabres was standard V6 in automatic transmission.
Got 25 miles per gallon on the highway, 18 in the city.
Amectra and Riviera was standard V8 in automatic transmission.
Got 22 on the highway, 15 in the city.
Now these figures are estimates. In California, their lower annual mileage may vary.
But those are remarkable mileage numbers for luxurious six passenger automobiles.
Amectra and Riviera are the full-size cars of the future.
The only other change is the only change in the sitting for Whitey Herzog.
The Royals are trailing the Yankees, five to three, and the Yankees will be at bat in the bottom of the eighth inning
in the lower third of their order coming up against Marc Lattell.
Maddox, Randolph, and Stanley scheduled up.
Yankees with two big innings, the fourth from the sixth with two in the fourth and three in the sixth.
And the Royals got their three runs in the first, so there's been the big inning concept tonight.
Lattell has not done badly since coming on.
He came on to put out all kinds of smoldering and raging fires in the sixth inning with a strikeout, a walk, and a pop-up.
Then got out of a self-made jam in the seventh.
He had given up a couple of base hits, but he got medals out, and that's to care of that.
Remember that tomorrow on the CBS Radio Network, Game 4 will be broadcast right here on radio with the Yankees against the Royals,
airtime 3.07 Eastern Daylight Time, 2.07 Central Time.
Tomorrow, Game 4, 3.07 Eastern Daylight Time.
Elliott Maddox first up, one for three. He doubled home a run in the sixth inning.
Tomorrow, it'll be Captain Hunter for the New York Yankees, trying for a second series win.
And Larry Gura will come out, try to hold the board as it stands now for Kansas City.
The Royals do have one more chance here tonightThe pitch is inside the Maddox ball once.
Mattel leading the sign and going to work on Maddox. Foul ball out of play, so at the right side and toward the upper deck, into the upper deck.
Three decks at Yankee StadiumThe middle deck are lower, just below press row and radio, though, here.
Kind of a mezzanine type deck.
Slide or outside, two balls, one strike.
Big upper deck, and it goes straight up like a lot of the new parks, like the one in Anaheim,
which gives everybody a clear shot of the field, good spot, even if you are in the third deck. There's a called strike.
There was an unevenness in center field earlier in the year. They first landscaped this ground, re-landscaped it.
Check swing capper to the mound, picked up by Mattel. He throws Maddox out. One away.
Willie Randolph is up. He's Hitless. He's Hitless in a series, 0-2 tonight and 0-9 in the three games played so far.
Turns the ninth play around second base, though.
Turns the double play as well as anybody can imagine. Good fielding second baseman.
The pitch. Fastball blazed inside, ball one.
Yankee's leading 5-3 over Kansas City.
Bottom of the eighth inning, one out. Round ball passed the mound this time and into center field.
First hit for Willie Randolph in the series.
It whistled past the mound and floated on the grass, but not enough.
And Rojas, crossing to his right, contact to his left, did not catch up with it.
Randolph gets his first playoff hit.
The third hit off Latel, and Fred Stanley is up.
Stanley has popped up, ratted out, and drawn a walk.
Yankee's with their two big innings, leading 5-3.
Trying for more. They have been buzzing around here ever since the fourth inning.
After three very strong innings had been worked by Andy Hasler, the starter.
So the first base, not in time.
Randolph at first, one out.
Latel works, and it's way outside, not a pitch out.
A ball.
In the Royal Knights, their last chance, they will have their middle three up.
They're the belt of their batting order, Brett, Mayberry, and McCray.
Latel to Stanley, runner goes.
Throw to second base, and he's taped.
Stolen base, Willie Randolph.
The pitch was a ball. It counted one ball, one strike for Stanley.
A strike rather, and a stolen base for Randolph.
Put a Yankee in scoring position. Willie Martin, ever trying to get that extra edge.
Never letting up.
One ball, one strike to Stanley.
Pre-run game, a lot different from a two-run game in any ballpark.
Get a man on in a pre-run game, it still isn't enough.
It is. Fly ball, shallow right center.
Coming on is the ice fielder, Pochette, who makes the play and throws in the pocket.
He called off Cowan, who had broken for the ball, but it was in the domain of the right fielder.
Stanley flies to Pochette, two out. Mickey Rivers up.
Rivers is one for four, infield hit of the first inning.
Rivers has three hits and 13 times ups in this series.
Six to six low and outside, ball one.
Randolph with speed into his leadoff second base.
Lattell checks him out and throws to the plate, strike swinging.
Rivers hasn't had the ball out of the infield tonight really, his hit was too shortstop on the first inning.
Since then he's fouled out, ratted out, and popped up.
Fets way over at the plate, pushing the basket.
Lattell kicks and throws, ground ball to second.
Up with it's rojas, over the first low throw, dug out by Maybury and that's the end of the year.
The Yankees in the eighth inning have no runs, one hit, they leave one.
And at the end of eight innings the score is New York five, Kansas City three.
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Still beached wood age.
Still brewed proudly by people who care about college.
Budweiser, the king of beers for a hundred years.
And I support headquarters St. Louis, Missouri.
Well what's new for baseball fans once the postseason game ends?
That's easy to hot stove lead.
That's always a fun time with a season to rehash trades and expansion.
Talk about rookies.
And what's the one thing that'll make your hot stove lead season more assuring?
Knowing that you've already made plans for your season tickets for 77.
Those plans are as close as a telephone.
Make a call to any club's ticket department and have your tickets set aside.
Do it right away.
Businesses will find their season tickets very useful for entertaining.
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Sparkey Lyle has been brought in by Billy Martin to work the ninth inning.
Figuring that Doc Ellis has thrown a lot of pitches.
Maybe it's maybe retiring a little bit.
Stiffening up some and he wonders the fresh arm in there.
Particularly the pitch to Brett and Mayberry who are left-handed batters.
It will be the first two hitters this inning.
Doc Ellis went eight innings, gave up six hits and three runs, walked two,
struck out four, he struck out five, and he hit a batter.
And just a fine ball game after the rough first inning when they scored three runs off him.
So Lyle now is seven and eight on the year with a 2.26 earned on average.
He's on to work.
And he is warming up right now.
He'll face Brett, Mayberry, and McCray.
PBS Radio Sports is bringing you the play-by-play action in the American League Championship.
And there is more to come.
The World Series starts October 16th.
That's next Saturday.
And you'll hear exclusive radio coverage play-by-play of the 1976 World Series
right here on this PBS Radio Network station.
Lyle has completed his warm-up.
He is making his first appearance in this playoff series.
Dick Kidrow is the only other Yankee reliever to make an appearance.
He worked in Sunday's game.
First man up will be George Brett, and he is two for three.
Brett is now six for ten in this series.
He has knocked in one of the runs tonight and scored one.
And Lyle is here to save it.
Brett, left-handed hitter, lays back, and Lyle pitches inside and high at ball one.
Sparky to the windup, throws high and inside again, ball two.
Lyle was not used much in the second half of the season.
Mainly he said, and he admitted, that Grant Jackson had done a super job from the left side
along with right-hander Kidrow.
High ball three.
So he said, I haven't had much work, but I'm ready.
Sparky has the good slider.
That is his outfit.
Ball four.
Brett walks. He's on base again for the third time he's on base.
That means that Mayberry is a tying run, as will everybody be as long as the man is on here.
The Yankees lead it five for three as the Royals try to do something here in the ninth inning.
They're battling now.
Backed up here with a five-three score against them in game three.
And the prospect of going against Katz their center with a deciding game, if that's the case, tomorrow.
There's a strike to Mayberry, taking on that first pitch.
John has had one hit in free-trip, the single in the left center field in the first inning.
Wow, works again, and there's a long drive to right field, but it hangs up.
Under it is Maddox. He comes in, he's got it, and there's one away.
It started out well, but it just died, and it sounds as if Mayberry may have broken his back.
I think he did break it, man. He got the wood on it, but then the wood cracked on it.
Yeah, that held it all up. It just died out there.
So there's one away as Big John was trying to tie it up right there.
Now it's Hal McCray, and McCray is due.
Right now he is the only member on either team of the starting pitch players not to have a hit in this series so far.
He is 0-4-8. He did have a sacrifice fly in the first inning tonight to drive in a run.
He was hit by a pitch in the fourth.
He is 0-4-1 in this game, 0-4-8 on a series.
In field, a double play depth, the pitch is high, ball one.
Focky Lowe from Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania.
Originally, Lowe carved back into his feet by McCray.
One ball, one strike.
One thing, as we told you, that Charlie Lowe has said about McCray,
he's just trying to tone him down a little and try not to have him go for the long ball too much, just hit the way he did all year.
There's a fly ball going foul down into right field and in the crowd.
One ball, two strikes.
Bled at first base, one out. Yankee bullpen as left-hander Grant Jackson, right-hander Dick Kidrill working.
There's been a lot of work in those bullpens tonight both sides.
They're all warm. They're ready to go.
Everybody's been up just about.
Steph Bird in the Kansas City pen.
Lowe has the count his way.
One ball, two strikes to Howell McCray.
The look short first and the pitch to the plate is high.
Ball two, two and two.
McCray, a right-handed batter up there, and Tom Pochette, a left-handed batter, is on deck.
There it is. Foul again.
McCray, a left-handed batter, is on deck.
Tom Pochette, a left-handed batter, is on deck.
There it is. Foul again.
McCray trying to go to the opposite field on an outside pitch.
Yankee five, Royals three, top of the night.
A lot was done in the ninth inning by the Cincinnati Reds today.
Hills had a two-run lead, and the Reds just overcame it.
Lyle Reddy pitching to McCray and foul back.
Well, one half of Howell McCray's dream has come true.
The Cincinnati Reds, whom he used to play for, won their side of it in the National League.
What he has wanted to do is get into the World Series against them.
They're the team that traded him away.
Good pitch.
Foul again, spoiling an outside fastball.
But there's a way to go for Mr. McCray to get that.
His team's got to get up on his back, from his back, and try to beat the Yankees in the playoffs.
Time left.
The step by Lyle.
The pitch.
Fly ball right field.
Back forward is Maddox.
Towards the line, he's got it throughout.
McCray did go to the opposite field, but lifted it up there.
Now there'll be a pen-pitter for Puchet.
David Nelson, an infielder, has gone aback for Tom Puchet.
Nelson is a right-handed hitter.
Nelson on the year in limited play.
Hit 235.
He used to be very, very fast.
He's been hampered by injuries.
Got in 78 ball games for the Royals.
Had one homer in 17 runs batted in.
Had four doubles and a couple of triples.
David Nelson has been around in the majors.
Last team he played for, the Texas Rangers.
Very likeable seller.
Been a valuable boy.
Got a have on all the clubs he's played with.
David Nelson, the Royals down to their last out.
Try to hang in there.
Get one up on the Yankees, but they trail by two runs.
The Yankee bench.
How's the Yankee bench?
The Yankee bench.
How's her motioning nettles at third to come in a half step.
Nettles can send me.
Nelson can still run.
There's a ground ball.
His short third, it is a foul ball off the foot of Nelson.
Runner at first is George Brett.
Led the inning with a walk, but he has stayed there on two fly balls to right field.
Nothing in one, defensive hitter Dave Nelson.
While in there trying to nail it down for Doc Ellison.
He throws and it's a foul again.
This time up into the upper deck along first base line and a nice catch
by a young shoe, almost lost it but held on.
Nelson has played with the Cleveland Indians.
He's played with Washington Senators when they were still in Washington in 1970.
Moved to Texas later.
And now here.
Yankee crowd roaring, sensing a win.
As Lyle gets in, the count is 0-2.
Here's the pitch.
A ball high, fast ball upstairs and the count is 1-2.
Not only are they cheering but they're up on their feet.
There's a little pop foul, first base side and it's going to be out of play.
Samblers gave it a good try.
It was just one row past the outstretched glove of Samblers.
There's hardly any foul room after you pass first base.
Foul room goes to practically nothing.
A little isosceles triangle down there toward the foul line.
Samblers had no room.
Crowd all up standing.
Nelson waiting for the 1-2 pitch from Sparky Lyle as the Yankees try to make it game three.
The winner, period.
Foul ball back.
The Yankees leading 5-3 in the ninth.
They have out hit the Royals 9-6.
The Royals are just nuts except for brief flashes on Sunday in the first inning today.
But anything's about mounting any consistent attack.
Nelson wants time.
Lyle looks down.
Get.
He throws.
Down foul off to the right again.
Past Steve Bowes, the first base coach.
A lot of foul room.
One on one, Lyle and Nelson.
The on deck hitters took you real hot.
Lyle again with another baseball.
Comes up on top.
Looks down.
Plants the cut of tobacco in the left cheek.
Now time's all by Nelson as Lyle takes too long.
Baby asks for time and backs out.
Crowd riding with the Yankees.
Playing it for all they're worth here at Yankee Stadium 2.
One ball, two strikes.
The pause.
And the pitch.
Fouled again. What else?
It's into the first base stand this time.
Nelson just kicking off those foul balls like the late Nelly Fox used to be able to.
Luke Apling in the old days.
Richie Ashburn, guys with your foul balls almost at will.
One ball, two strikes.
Lyle looks down again.
Thread off first.
Pitch to Nelson.
Ground ball to shortstop. Stanley up.
Over to second.
Game's over.
Yankees lead two games to one.
Baby Nelson finally forces a runner, Brett, to short to second.
And in the ninth inning, for the Royals, no runs, no hits, one left.
Final score in game three.
The Yankees 5 the Royals 3.