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The Kansas City Royals face the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 4 of the ALCS on October 13, 1976.
The Yankees lead the best of five series, two games to one.
And this is the national broadcast of Game 4 featuring announcers Ernie Harwell and Ned Martin.
The ceremony of the first ball talk will be carried out by Mrs. Lou Gehrig,
The winner of the last Yankee captain until Herman Watson was named as captain of the Yankees this year.
Bob Shepard, the public address announcer here in Yankee Stadium.
Now with the introduction of Mrs. Lou Gehrig.
Mrs. Lou Gehrig.
And the Yankee fans are giving Mrs. Gehrig a standing ovation as she gets ready to talk out the ceremonial first ball.
There it is.
Monson, the current captain, takes the talk, hands it back to Mrs. Gehrig, and we're just about ready to get underway.
Again, we've got a mild and sunny afternoon.
We've had clear skies for each one of these four games in the America League Championship Series.
Absolutely great weather.
So just about the start of the series, I would say, would have to be the weatherman.
Kansas City ready to come to bat.
It will be Cowans to lead off, and it's my pleasure to introduce my colleague from Boston,
The voice of the Boston Red Sox, Ned Martin.
Thank you Ernie Harwell, and good afternoon everybody.
And a good afternoon it certainly is from Gotham.
A beautiful day, as Ernie says.
In Kansas City and New York, the weather could not have been better considering the month of the year, and it's continuing.
Al Cowans leading off against Catfish Hunter.
Cowans is three for 12 on the series, a right-handed batter playing center field.
Takes the first pitch outside, ball one.
We're underway from Yankee Stadium.
Cowans, the right-handed hitter, pressed into duty in center field with the injury to Amos Otis in game one.
Hunter misses high with a fast ball, and it's quickly 2-0.
Catfish has a winning record against the Royals lifetime.
There's a strike. He picks up the outside corner.
But as a member of the Yankees, he's beaten them only once in regular season play,
and of course he has Saturday's win in the playoff series.
Cowans takes strike two, a slider on the outside corner, and Jim Hunter is right back with it, two and two.
Tom Poquette is on deck with George Brett to follow.
Hunter winds and throws, and it's pumped foul back.
The grandstand shadow is cutting across the infield from halfway between the third base bag and home plate,
cutting out toward right field.
It has eclipsed already, the first baseman and Willie Randolph at second, Shambles and Randolph.
Hunter is pitching in shadow, and of course the people at the plate are.
Fly ball, center field, pretty well hit.
Mickey Rivers back, has room, and has the ball for out number one.
Challenge flies to fairly deep center field.
Tom Poquette, three for nine in the series, and a 3-0-2 hitter in the regular season coming up to the plate.
Poquette was hitting the ball a long way in batting practice because he's not a home run hitter,
but he was taking dead aim on the 3-53 mark down in right field, but that was a couple hours ago.
Poquette bats from a crouch.
Hunter throws him high and tight ball one.
Catfish just makes pitching a very simple thing to look at him.
He works quickly.
He has control as infielders are quick behind him.
There's a fly ball toward left field.
Roy White draws the bead on it.
He's got it.
And there are two away.
And Hunter begins about the way he did out in Kansas City last Saturday.
That fly to left net gave us an indication how that sun field is going to be,
although the sun is not really out that theoretically bright at the moment.
White did have a little bit of trouble with it, had to shade his eyes with his glove.
In the old days when they started serious games at two o'clock here or 1.30,
it was late in the afternoon when those shadows gave fit to left fielders,
no matter how many times, except for Gene Woodling probably.
But now it's a late start and it will be even tougher, I would imagine.
Here's George Brett taking outside ball one.
Brett has been the hitting standout for the Royals.
He is 6-4-10.
The American League record for hits in a playoff series is 8 by Mattie Allou of Oakland,
and that's in a five-game series.
That's the American League record, 9 by Pete Rose in five games.
Shambler says seven hits for the Yankees.
Here's the pitch.
Foul ball out of play by Brett, a left-handed batter.
One ball, one strike to George Brett, the American League batting champion, 333 hitter.
John Maybury in the on-deck circle to be followed by Hal McCrae.
If it goes that far this inning, two out, nobody on, just underway.
Hunter throws a chopper towards third.
Hunter has it on a hop, throws to first-in guy.
That's all.
Brett was fooled on a hit and hit a Baltimore chop to Hunter as he moved off to his right
toward the third baseline to throw him out.
Three up and three down, and in the middle of the first inning, no score.
Larry Gura, tall left-hander, used to be a Yankee, pitched here for, well, briefly,
hardly at all for Billy Martin.
Not at all, as a matter of fact, and then went in the deal for Fran Healy, the catcher
who was brought over to the Yankees in midseason.
Gura, 4-0, as a member of the Royals, had a hot pitcher for them when they needed him
most, when the team was faltering and their lead was dwindling away as the Oakland A's
made a rush at them.
But Gura was a standout for them.
The other day, he pitched well enough to be in and win most ball games except for the
ninth inning when Roy White cracked a two-run double off him to put it away in a game that
was 2-1 at that time.
He pitched a Gura-like kind of game, giving up lots of hits, but a lot of them were with
two outs, and they didn't bother them that much.
So he goes against the Yankees for the second time in this American League Championship
layoff.
The only two pitchers who have not worked for the Royals, Alphage Morris and Doug Byrd,
they have both been throwing in the bullpen but have not gotten into games.
Mickey Rivers, first up.
He's 3-14 in the series.
All-in-a-year, had a fine season, hitting 3-12.
Bill Haller has just been over conferring with managers, both of them.
Now it's just returned from the Yankee dugout, so I ask for talking to Billy Martin.
Rivers, a left-handed batter.
With his speed, a factor, George Brett moves in on the grass at third.
Mitch to Rivers, shortens up, takes the ball outside.
Lowie Gura on the mound, and Buck Marpenis behind the plate for the Royals.
Gura winds and throws, and misses high, ball two, two and nothing to Rivers.
John Mayberry is the first baseman.
Cookie Rojas, the second base for this one.
Buddy Pacek, it's short and Brett is third.
Mitch to Rivers, strike call, two and one.
The left fielder is Tom Poquette, center fielder Al Cowan, then in right field,
Hal McCray.
He doesn't get to play there very often.
There's a strike as Rivers was running up his own a punt.
He pulled the bat back a little bit, but it was right in there, and Gura is two and two with it.
McCray is playing the left difficult right field here in Yankee Stadium, with the sun field,
as we said, the left field spot, and Poquette is back there.
Two-two pitch, curve ball lifted foul, third base way, Brett at the coaching box, has it, and Rivers is out.
Here's Roy White, number two hitter who is playing left field these days and is one for seven,
one for eight in this series, and that one hit was a two-run double in the opener on Saturday.
Switzer batting right-handed against Gura.
The totals on White are three for eleven, all told.
Here's Roy White, Frank White was one for eight, but Roy is three for eleven.
I know he's had more hits than that double.
Strike one to him.
Play delivery, swing, swinging, strike.
Nothing and two, Gura, who specializes in the breaking pitch and the off-speed deliveries,
changing speed, will not overpower you with a fastball.
Jumping into the count, the windup by Larry Gura, and the fastball is shown outside, one ball, two strikes.
This is the bottom of the first inning and there's no score.
In game four, Yankees needed to win the pennant, the Royals needed to stay alive.
White takes the fastball inside right off the belt buckle.
Two and two to Roy.
Kelston Howard coaching it first, Dick Hauser at third for New York.
Two balls, two strikes to White with Munson on deck.
Gura winds and throws just inside with a breaking ball and it's three and two.
A big count to Roy White, then a good number two hitter for the Yankees.
They've had him batting cleanups some seasons.
Three-two pitch, there's a line drive to left field down toward the corner.
That'll go for extra bases.
Dug out by Pochette.
White's in at second.
He holds.
He's got a double.
Four for 12 in the playoff as he doubles down the left field line.
He hit it sharply, a three-two pitch.
And that was his third double, the 11th double for the New York Yankees in this playoff.
The third for Roy White out of the four hits he's gotten, so he is specialized in them.
Woody Pochette, Larry Gura, and Buck Martinez have all talked things over at the mound.
Now Pochette passes from word along to cookie roll-out, and they want to Hal McCrae, moved a little bit.
McCrae hands both hands out there.
He's been a designated hitter all year.
He's just to say, okay, where do you want me?
Herman Munson is the batter.
Munson is five for 14 in the series.
Right-handed hitter takes a fast ball on the corner for a called strike.
There have been 357 hitters, he says, in there now, five hits, including two doubles.
There's been only one home run hit in this series.
It was hit yesterday, last night, by Chris Shamblin.
Gura sets.
To Munson, foul back, and he's ahead on Munson 0-2.
Gura was ahead of Roy White 0-2, then what's the, goes the count to 3-2 before White doubles.
A thing that happened in the Philadelphia Cincinnati game yesterday was a problem in the night's inning
that Ron Reid had of pitching ahead of the batters.
He was 1-2 to both George Foster and Johnny Bench when they hit the home run.
Gura is now 0-2 with Munson.
Munson a good two-strike hitter.
Wide ball, center field, in comes Cowan.
He's there, more of a line drive than anything.
Cowan has it, two outs.
All pretty well hit by Munson.
White holds the second, and here's Lou Pennella,
who has been a little bit overlooked by people in this series.
He hasn't played every inning, but while he's been in there, he's done well as a designated hitter.
Three for seven.
Three hits and seven times up, including a double.
Sweet Lou, right-handed hitter, playing against his old ball club, Kansas City Royals.
Pennella at one time led the American League in hot temper.
The pitchers hit all the ground past the mound, charged by Patek at short,
fires over to first, and Pennella is out three times at the side.
In the Yankee first, no runs ahead, they leave one.
And after one inning, it's the Yankees nothing, the Royals nothing.
Well, the way...
We were talking about Lou Pennella's temper earlier.
There are many myths and legends about it when he was first up with the Kansas City Royals.
But he be-matted himself mainly when he'd strike out.
He'd come diving into the dugout.
One day he took a complete forward header into the dugout,
because either he had struck out or he'd missed a ball in the outfield.
He'd thrown up bat racks and kicked light bulbs out, but he says,
I've matured now.
I still get mad, but not quite as badly as I did before.
John Mayberry will lead off against Catfish Hunter.
Mayberry, the big first baseman, has two hits in the series, two for 11.
Last night when he came up late in the ball game, and the ninth-day hit won well,
but on the trademark of the bat, it cracked the bat,
and the ball died up in the air in right field.
The fellow, along with Amos Urs, both who have provided the power in this series.
Mayberry, in other years, has provided the power,
but he's coming to the end of an offseason for it.
Hunter moves, and it's high for a ball.
They've got the Mayberry shift on, with three men on the right side of the infield,
as we look out on it.
Greg Nettles playing where the shortstop normally plays.
He's the third baseman, shifted over there.
They work him outside, ball two, two and nothing to Mayberry.
Stanley, the shortstop, is on the first-base side of second.
Ball three.
Mayberry has said that he has been hitting defensively,
and that shift has bothered him to look at it.
Hunter works.
Ball four, he walks Mayberry on four pitches, every one of them, up and away, high and outside.
The first Royal baserunner, John Mayberry.
Howell McCrae.
Howell McCrae is the batter.
He is the only regular still hitless in this playoff series.
He's 0-for-9.
Right-handed batter, playing right field today.
The slider is outside to him, ball one.
McCrae hits.332 in the regular season,
being beaten out by George Brett in the final day for the batting title.
Hunter really took care of him last Saturday in Kansas City,
getting him four times and striking him out twice.
Howell was saying, you've just got to look for the ball away and plan accordingly.
It gets in on you, then you pull it.
Howell's this one off to the right, a ball and a strike.
Hunter doesn't often like to come inside.
He will if you're in there hanging over the plate,
or he'll show you the pitch inside, try to get you to chase it,
and then he'll show you that slider on the outside corner right on the black.
McCrae stands well away from the plate.
Back ball inside this time, ball two, two and one.
Temperature at game time at Yankee Stadium, 67 degrees.
At this point, the win is no factor.
Here's the pitch to McCrae, and he fouls another one off.
Two balls, two strikes.
There's no score here as he just joined us.
We're in the top of the second inning in game four at Yankee Stadium.
Each team has had a base runner, white-headed double for the Yankees in the first.
Mayberry has just walked for the Royals here in the second.
The pitch to McCrae, fouls another one hitting late
and it goes into the mezzanine deck on the right side.
Jamie Quirk, the designated hitter, is on deck.
Mayberry at first.
Mickey Rivers with McCrae, a right-headed batter up, is playing him toward right center.
The gap on him is in left center field.
Pitch two, Hal.
Hits a very high fly ball down the right field line coming forward Elliott Maddux.
Towards the line, he's got it for the out.
Joe McCrae, he does go to the opposite field, but it's at a mile high and is an easy out.
One away.
Jamie Quirk has been up once in this playoff and he's gone out.
0-1 for Quirk, who is used a lot as a backup third baseman and first baseman.
Not a lot, but in the field he's played some and came off the bench quite a bit,
hitting.246 on the regular season as a sometime designated hitter and pinch hitter.
And a fill-in at first and third.
Left-handed batter.
Waves at a pitch that misses outside, and he misses outside by about four inches.
One strike to Quirk.
There's the set.
Butter goes to work and Quirk hits the fly ball to center field, very high.
Rivers coming for this one.
Rivers under it and Rivers has it.
And then maybe a duck back to first and they're two away.
Butter has been hitting by and large, mainly into the air.
Cookie Rohas, the veteran second baseman, starting his first game at second base.
They've had Frank White out there.
Whitey Herzog thinking at that time they wanted the best defensive team if they could get in there,
but now it's a matter of coming down to basics and they need runs.
They figure that Rohas has a better chance maybe of generating something from the play than White.
Pitch is high to him, ball one.
Cookie's been up twice in this series and has no hits.
Right-handed batter strikes all the inside corner.
Cookie winding down into his final days of a fine playing career in both leagues.
Whether he'll come back next year or not, we don't know.
One-one.
There's a drive in the center field for a hit.
Covered by Rivers, Mayberry stops at second.
Runners at first and second, two out.
The first royal hit, Rohas singling sharply into center.
So Mayberry is at second base, Rohas at first and Freddie Patek is up.
A diminutive shortstop.
Three hits and ten times up in this series.
Right-handed batter, likes the fast ball.
But you can get him out on the breaking pitches, good breaking stuff.
He has learned to go to the opposite field in the last two or three years better than when he first came into the league.
Hunter works with two men on and Patek flaps one in the air to right center field.
Could be trouble.
It's in there for Baytich.
Gets away from Rivers.
Mayberry scores.
Rohas comes on to score.
The throw comes in and winding up a second base is Patek.
The Royals go out in front, two-nothing.
Freddie Patek, dumped one into right center field is Mickey Rivers.
When zooming over there, made a dive for the ball, trying to shoestring it.
It hit on the ground, hit off his glove.
The right fielder, Elliot Maddox, had gone to back him up and he'd overrun.
He had gone out more towards center field.
The ball healed off the glove of Rivers and went out toward right.
Maddox finally had to rush, reverse his field and pick it up and Rivers is hurt on the play.
It's a double for Freddie Patek.
Two runs batted in and the Royals take a two-nothing lead off Catfish Utter.
Then Randolph held that relay a little bit long.
There's the question there whether he could have cut down that man at the plate or not.
Probably could not have, but he did hold it a little extra long as he was looking to the plate, but he didn't throw.
Now Gene Monahan, the Yankee trainer, has gone out there to check on Mickey Rivers.
Rivers was hurt, you remember, with an injured shoulder toward the end of the season.
Managed to come back in the last couple of weeks and get ready for these championship games.
And he seems to be all right.
He's on his feet now walking over toward center field along with the Yankee trainer, Monahan.
Mickey made a big dive for that ball, not just trying to catch it, but mainly to get in front of it and hold it to a single and hold it to one run.
Because Mayberry was going to score anyway, running as he was with two outs.
The thing that got the other run home was the fact that the ball did deflect off Rivers' glove out toward right more than where Maddox was.
And Rohr, churning up the back of John Mayberry, came on to score.
So it's 2-0, Royals bucked Martinez up with five seconds second, and Martinez lost one foul out of play along the first baseline.
Martinez has just one hit in this series. He's 1-8.
Went 2-28 on the year, and the Royals would like a base hit out of him right now to, well, kind of redo what they did in the first inning last night.
They got three runs early, but it didn't hold.
Patek, good runner off second base.
Pitch is high to Martinez. One ball, one strike.
Royals two, Yankees nothing. We're in the top of the second.
Game four.
The pitch to Martinez fouled back.
A ball and two strikes.
Hunter, who doesn't usually walk too many people, walked one in this inning, and it hurt him because Mayberry scored.
A two-out single by Rohr and a double by Patek getting the run home.
Martinez sends the ground ball up the middle. He's got the base hit.
Patek comes on. He'll score. It's 3-0.
Martinez, single, sharply on the ground in the center.
A good dive by Stanley going to his left trying to make a spectacular on it, but he was nowhere near it.
And Martinez, single, gets Patek home, and it's 3-0 Royals.
Well, it's been an action in baseball for many years when you're facing one of those real top pitchers, you have to get to them early.
And that's exactly what the Royals are trying to do against Katzbitt here this afternoon.
Well, it's very much the same as a pitcher, an excellent pitcher that used to pitch for your ball club or any.
Mickey Lowlich. It was very definitely that way. It wasn't absolutely, and Whitey Ford and all the others.
All right, here is Cowan taking a strike.
Now Cowan's with a fastball on the inside corner.
No one warming in the Yankee bullpen.
Billy Martin, as he has done all year long, goes a long way with Catfish Hunter.
Cowan's wrapped one in the air to left field fairly deep, but White is there and he's got the sun and he's got the ball.
Cowan's hit the ball hard, but he didn't pull it enough.
And it's a long fly ball to the left to end the inning, but a profitable one for the Royals.
Kansas City has three runs, three hits.
They leave one, and after an inning and a half, the score is Kansas City 3, the Yankees nothing.
The Royals have drawn first blood again in this series.
They did it last night with three in the first. They've gotten three in the second now to hand Larry Gura something to work with.
And the burden right now in this ever-shifting game of baseball rests with the New York Yankees.
Of course, not as much of a burden because they still have a game in hand.
And if they lose today, it means, well, they try it again tomorrow.
And if the game is played tomorrow night, should the Royals win this afternoon, they'll play tomorrow night.
And you'll hear it right here on your CBS radio station at 8.07 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 8.07, 7.07 Central Time.
Tomorrow night, should it go to game five.
And everybody can go out and pitch in that one. That's for the pennants, as it is for today.
Here is Chris Shambliss, who could be aiming at a playoff record.
He has seven hits in the three-game slate so far, seven for 13 on the series.
Gura throws to him and Shambliss takes the strike.
The American League record for hits in a playoff series, as we said, is eight.
Matty Alou of Oakland. Shambliss has seven. Brett of the Royals has six.
There's a foul on the curve, and the count is 0-2.
Major League record, nine, by Pete Rose in five games.
Dave Cash of Pittsburgh had, then of Pittsburgh, had eight hits in a four-game series in 1971.
So that's a four-game record. It's funny because a different series went three and then five.
There's a foul backed by Shambliss.
Chris is no stranger to Royal pitching, though.
He's hit.383 against the Kansas City staff this year in the regular season. 18 hits and 47 times up with two homers.
Knocked in eight runs.
So he has worn out the Royal pitching staff pretty well, doing it again in the playoff.
Up and in with a fastball is Gura. One ball, two strikes.
Royals three. Yankees nothing. We're in the bottom of the second, game four.
Martinez gives a sign, and here's the pitch to Shambliss.
A fly ball to left field. It's in there. There's hit number eight.
Shambliss gets another hit, singling to left field, and he has tied an American League record for hits in a playoff series.
Tied with Matty Alou of Oakland. Alou did it in five games. Shambliss has done it in four.
Chris continues to wrap the ball all over the place. Left, center, right. He had the big home run last night.
And he has been the standout in this series.
Here's Greg Nettles. Yankees coming right back as they did last night, as they so often have done this year when leads have been piled up against them.
They did it against Frank Tanana. They went on to lose the game once.
Nettles takes it high for a ball. Nettles is two for ten on the series, but always a home run threat.
One game that the Angels played here this summer. Frank Tanana, the excellent left hander, had a seven nothing lead, I think.
Seven or eight nothing lead in the ninth inning, and the Yankees tied it up.
Finally, they lost it an extra inning. Strike call to Nettles. One ball, one strike.
Even in the game they lost, and Kansas City on Sunday, the Yankees made it tough in the ninth inning with two base hits.
It is. Good ball. High drive, right field, way back. There she goes. Home run. That protects Greg Nettles. Kansas City three and the Yankees two.
Big, big hit right there. Greg Nettles getting his first home run of the series, and the second one of the series, the other one last night by Shambles, and he really drilled it.
No doubt about it, a high powering shot way back into the upper deck and right in fairly close to the foul pole.
And right away the Yankees come back again and make it a ball game. As a somewhat shell-shocked Larry Gura has to look around while ground keepers in attendance and security people clear the tissue paper that's been thrown from the upper deck out on the field already.
Game being held up as the New Yorker fans have littered the field.
And the Yankees on the same kind of thing last night came back. It took them a while longer to erase that three-nothing lead, and the first two were, it was, the two-run homer by Shambles last night. This time it is a two-run homer by Greg Nettles.
Doug Byrd, the right-hander warming up for the bullpen now for Kansas City. The Royals lead, but now it's only three to two.
That might have been a hanging curve. It looked like it was in tight on him and just hung up there and he ripped it and pulled it and hit it a long way.
Nettles is one of the best mistake hitters in the league. You hang one on him, you try to throw him away with breaking stuff, he's an uppercut kind of hitter, he did that.
And I think it hung his right there and he and Nettles, along with Shambles, but mainly Nettles I believe, one of the best mistake hitters around.
Elliott Maddox is up, still nobody out, two runs home, and it's Royals three, Yankees two, and the bottom of the second inning is still going on.
Maddox is two for eight.
Maddox throws and Elliott takes a strike inside corner to a right-handed batter.
It just doesn't take the Yankees long. Here it is.
Inside and high, a ball, and the count is one ball, one strike.
A trademark of past years, not used as often in this edition of the Yankees as in the early 60s and the late 20s and all the 30s, but utilized to great effect.
Grounded a third, one hopper to Brett, he throws the first for the out.
Maddox, an easy one hopper, is out number one.
Bringing to the plate second baseman Willie Randolph. Randolph, one for ten in the series, got his first hit of the series last night.
So there's a lot to be done by both clubs.
Royals getting to catfish hunter for three and seeing two of those runs come right back at him.
Gura to Randolph, high ball one.
Cincinnati Reds, of course, interested observers and listeners and arm-lookers through this series.
Curve ball inside, ball two, two and nothing.
Now the pitch to Randolph misses high ball three, three and nothing.
Randolph came over to the Yankees from the Pittsburgh organization, fine deal they made, takes the strike.
Came over with Doc Ellis.
Doc Medich went over to the Pirates, one of their things.
Three balls, one strike to Randolph.
Three hits apiece for these teams, wind up by Gura.
Drive to shortstop, pass short, into left field and hit.
And Randolph scorches the ground ball past the drive by Freddy Potech to his right.
So Randolph gets his second hit of the series, third hit of the inning by the Yankees and their fourth of the game.
They're battering Larry Gura here.
Fred Stanley, the shortstop.
He has four hits and ten times up.
Three of them in one game.
Bird continues to throw in the bullpen.
Royals three, Yankees two in the second inning.
Lots happening early.
Royal infield at double play depth.
Potech moving in, four or five steps, pitches inside off the chin of Stanley, ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
Randolph, good base runner, fourth step lead off first.
Down the stretch by Gura, throws to first.
Randolph back.
Kelly Howard, stalking Randolph off and on the bag.
The stretch by Gura and it's inside, one was fluffed, down is ball two.
Now Martinez goes to the mound and lets pause, ten seconds for station identification.
This is the CBS Radio Network.
Back at Yankee Stadium, Ned Martin here along with Ernie Harwell.
The Yankees at bat in the second inning, the Royals of Kansas City leading them three to two.
But it's the sway and flow in favor of the Yankees now as they have gathered momentum here in the second.
A single, a home run, then an out and another single.
Whitey Herzog has just returned from a short visit to the mound with Gura.
Brett was over there, Martinez was out, Herzog has had his say.
Randolph off first base, the pitch, strike call, snapped on the inside corner and the count is two and one to Fred Stanley.
Stanley moves back and gets the sign from Hauser, one of 50 or 60 signs that Hauser is flashing.
A key in there somewhere to what to do, whether to go to right, drop the front, two-two.
Two-one, a lob to first base.
Gura has been treated rather harshly in these two innings.
He's given up two singles, a double and a home run.
Pitching, fouled off, two and two.
Another big crowd at Yankee Stadium today. I don't know if it's as big as last night.
Last night broke Yankee Stadium record.
But they're here and they're all in hoping for the kill.
Here is the set by Gura.
A throw to first.
Mayberry holding the bag against Randolph and Willie getting back.
Center fielder Al Cowans toward right center on Stanley and there's where the ball is hit on the line, a base hit.
Picked up by Cowans, holding it second is Randolph.
And now two are on with one out.
Fred Stanley gets his fifth hit of the series and Gura is in real trouble now.
They have gone right at him in this inning and the hits have not been cheap ones.
A slash line drive to left by Schambler for his leadoff single.
A long high home run by Nettles.
Hard single to left by Randolph and a hard single to center by Stanley.
And Mickey Rivers is up with runners at first and second and one away.
Doug Byrd just about ready in the bullpen if they need him right now.
But Rivers, a left-handed batter, is up. Roy White, who is the switcher, is on deck.
One to second, lead run at first.
Royals leading by a 3-2 score, but that's in jeopardy.
Pitch by Gura, ground ball toward shortstop.
Patek gets the bag for one, that's all he can get.
Does not get the double play on Rivers, although they might have had a shot at it.
Patek was there and Rojas came over.
Patek did not throw to him. He went and touched the bag himself and saw he had no play at first.
Rivers is at first base. Stanley is out. Patek unaffected. Randolph goes to third.
Runners at the corners now, there are two out and the tough Roy White is up.
He doubled the left field in the first inning.
White now, four, hitting 333 in the series.
Dying run 90 feet away, third base Willie Randolph.
Howser has a word for him. Gura backs off the mound.
Billy Martin gesticulating in the Yankee dugout, pulling all kinds of strings, telling him what to do with the runners.
The pitch is outside for a ball.
He's making hand signals, slapping his arms to Randolph, who's over there along with Howser looking at him.
And Randolph a little bit transfixed by what his boss is signaling there.
One ball, no strikes, there are two out. A throw to first base.
Rivers over there, of course, a threat to go and disrupt things a little bit if he could draw a throw from Martinez.
With Randolph having a chance to complete a double steal and go home on a delay.
We'll see how they play it. Here it is. It's low outside, two and nothing to White.
And White has the edge now.
Gura has not looked as effective, nearly as effective with his pitches as he did on Saturday.
He was giving up hits at that time, but that's not where they meant much.
He always got the big man when he needed it.
Two ball, a fast ball over. Two balls, one strike.
I don't know if he's trying to be too cute or finesse or what, but it doesn't seem to be as aggressive as he was.
No, but he's getting that fast ball over and White took that one.
Two and one to Roy White.
In field, back deep now with two away, Pockdeck deep at shortstop.
Moves to first. Gura comes very close to blocking.
Elston Howard complained once about it in the first game.
That's a foot about halfway between first and home.
He does not take that full motion toward home and throw over to first, but he comes near enough to watch it.
Two balls, one strike.
Three to two, the Royals lead. We're still in the second inning. Yankees batting. Two outs.
The delivery chopped over the mound near second.
Rojas has it stepped on the bag to force Rivers to end the inning.
White forces Rivers, second baseman Rojas, unassisted.
Big inning for the Yankees, though. They picked up a pair of runs and they had four hits.
They leave two. And at the end of two innings, it's the Royals three, the Yankees two.
Interesting there to see the reaction on the part of the pitcher, Larry Gura, and his teammates, the Kansas City Royals, after the home run by Nettles.
Last night, the two-run homer by Shamless, who scored three nothing at the time, turned the game around in favor of the Yankees,
and the air thought it went out of the Kansas City balloon after the home run last night.
This time, at least in the second inning, Aguero was equal to the occasion, and he and his teammates were able to hold off the Yankees after those first two runs.
Royals are still missing Amos Otis. He is a tremendous loss for them. He had a lot of home runs, 18.
He was a fine base runner and a great defensive outfielder, but as you know, he's out of action and has not appeared in the series
except in the opening inning when he suffered a severe sprain in his left ankle, running out his first time at bat in game number one.
Trying to beat out a bunt, he stepped on the front of the bag at first and suffered the injury.
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The Royals get a chance to bat. Coming up on the third inning, the Yankees' second inning was a long one.
They sent the seven men to the plate. The Royals sent seven to the plate in their half of the second.
So it took a five-run second inning, both teams, and 14 batters up.
Tom Poquette will be first up against Catfish Hunter.
Poquette fly to left field in the first inning. It'll be Poquette, Brett, and Mayberry.
Already in this game, Chris Shambles has had a hit to tie an American League record for hits in a playoff.
In a total playoff, there's a called strike to Poquette. And he just won short of a major league record,
held by a fellow named Pete Rose, who I understand plays for Cincinnati. Does he ever.
A one-strike pitch. It's outside. One ball, one strike.
Hunter gave up a walk and three hits for the three Royal runs in the second inning.
There's a drive towards center, well hit, but Rivers is right there to take the line drive, and there's one out.
Gets a pretty good shot, thought Hunter. George Brett capped out to Catfish in the first inning.
Six for 11 in the series. Left-handed batter.
That he has been in contact by telephone with his brother Ken Brett a couple of times in the last few days.
Two brothers are very close.
Took a shot, ground foul, off to the right. Down, bouncing off the railing, off an umpire, and into somebody's hands right in the face.
Out along the first baseline.
Nothing in one. Brett the batter with Mayberry up next.
Hunter deals, and he misses low and outside. One ball, one strike.
Brett has good bat control.
Fast ball outside. They pitch him away, he'll hit it that way. He'll use center field, left center, left field.
They move him on the inside halfway, he can pull the ball.
Grounder to second. Picked up by Randolph, fires over to first, that's all. Brett's out, they're two away.
And here's the big guy that started the whole thing in the second inning, John Mayberry.
He walked and scored the first royal run.
The Kansas City Royals leading the Yankees 3-2 in the third inning.
Hunter working to Mayberry, and John hits the high fly ball to the left. Under it, Roy White.
And he's got it for the final out, and Hunter settles down as you think he might.
After a bad inning, getting a side in order. One, two, three.
In the middle of the third inning, it is the Royals 3, the Yankees 2.
Larry Gurr, a rather embattled figure in the second inning, is out to pitch again in the third, and he will face Thurman Munson, Lou Pennella, and Chris Shambler.
The Sun, which was out brightly at the outset of the game, has kind of dipped in under some haziness overhead and few clouds,
and has gone out as brightly, which may help the left fielder.
In this case, Tom Bouquet in this half hitting, and Roy White in the other half.
He's got a high sky.
Sort of a haziness now in New York.
Thurman Munson lined out to center fielder Al Coward as his first time up.
Munson 5 for 15 in the series.
Royals are leading the Yankees 3 to 2, and we're in the bottom of the third.
Gurr ready to work as Munson moves in.
Left-hander kicks and throws. Munson cracks the foul off to the right toward the upper deck.
Now the Sun has come out again more brightly.
Just as weird as it was in its lingering raise, it's coming out brightly.
One strike to Munson.
Gurr will work. Curve ball lined left field hit.
Taking on a hop out there by Bouquet, and Munson is on.
Leading off the third inning with hit number 6 off Larry Gurr.
Whitey Herzog may have had enough, although Bird has just started to throw again in the bullpen.
Here's Herzog coming toward the mound right after the leadoff single by Munson, and he is going to the bullpen.
Doug Bird will come on the pitch, as Herzog has seen enough of Gurr and is getting Larry out of there right now.
So Gurr goes two innings plus, facing one batter in the third.
In that time, as he trots off the field, he gets some booze.
He gave up six hits and two runs. He's responsible for a base runner.
He gave up no walks, and he struck out no one.
And Gurr leaves the game in the hands of Doug Bird, who is making his first appearance.
Doug Bird and Fitz Morris were the only two members of the Kansas City Royals who had not appeared in a championship game.
Now it's only Fitz Morris who has not seen action.
Bird, the right-hander, he's 6'4, weighs 180, coming in now to take over.
Former 20-game winner Steve Busby already depressed about it.
Doug Bird, who started his career with the Royals as a relief pitcher and strictly a reliever, and a very good one for two or three seasons,
he was a big man in long relief from the bullpen, in short relief rather, as their right-hander.
They made him into a starter this year, and early in the season, was highly effective, winning eight or nine ball games.
Then I think the league started to get to him, and maybe he tired with the number of innings he was pitching.
All the year, Bird won 12 and lost 10, and had a 3.37 earned run average.
He had two complete games as a starter, he had two saves as a reliever, he did a little of each.
Although he did start most of his games, of his 39 appearances, he started 27 of them.
He took close to 200 innings, 198 innings, and gave up 191 hits.
Chuck out 107 and walked only 31, has shown good control, either a thinker, slider, pitcher, and a fine competitor.
Right now, his job is to hold the Yankees, who are making noises like they did last night.
Coming from behind, they're within one run, they have a tying run at first base with nobody out,
and they're already out hitting the Royals six to three, where the Royals scored first with three runs in the top of the second.
The Royal pitching, with the exception of Paul Splitorff, and a little bit of the scurry in the first game,
has been disappointing to their followers, and to manager Whitey Herzog.
Most of all, of course, is the lack of runs, big innings.
But the pitching has not come out of the bullpen and stopped people.
We'll see how Bird does.
Manela is first up. Grounded a short stop, he pops a bunt up, and is fouled back out of play.
Manela trying to bust the man down.
Rather unusual assignment for Lew, doesn't bunt very often.
And in that particular instance, showed it, but he fouled it way back, and there was no chance for Martinez to get it.
But Billy Martin, playing one run down, bunting with his clean-off hitter at this stage in the game, in the third inning.
That a manager Martin is. He'll take every advantage. He'll work different ways in different times. He'll change.
Remember to be the kind that's a prototype manager, that the hosting manager can always figure out,
because he'll do things that one time will work, and he may use it again,
and he may not use it again for a while.
A matter of giving what football players call the look to the opposition.
A defensive or offensive look.
Lew Panella has just talked with Dick Hauser, the third base coach.
See what he has him doing now. One strike to Lew, and he is bluffing the bunt again, taking inside for a ball.
It shortened up that time, but the ball was inside. One ball, one strike to Panella.
Rojas, playing up three steps at second base. Throw the first, not in time.
Patek, at the double play angle, at shortstop. Count one and one to Panella.
Bled is even with a bag at third. Six or seven steps in.
The pitch runner going. Fly ball to right field, fairly deep.
Back forward goes McCray, and he's got it.
Al McCray makes the catch, backpedaling in right.
They had the hit and run all that time, with Panella flying out to right.
Thurman Munson is at first base, and here is Chris Shamblin.
The hitting standout of the series so far, with eight hits and 14 times up.
That comes to a rather gaudy 571 batting average in the three plus games.
And of course, a tie for the American League record and hit for a playoff, since they started in 1969.
There's a call strike to it.
Shamblin is a quiet, steady player with the New York Yankees, coming out of his finest year in production.
Two ninety-three. There's a throw to first, not in time.
Shamblin has a closed stance, batting left-handed.
Fouls this one off to the left side, and the count on him is going two.
Doug Byrd on in relief of Larry Gura.
Royals three, and the Yankees two, and the bottom of the third.
Byrd sets it to the mound and gets the sign.
Shamblin is behind on the count, bends a foul ball out of play along the left side again, into the upper deck.
Jumping in two to Chris Munson at first base.
Doug Byrd throws over to first, and then Mayberry picks it off the knee of Munson as he gets back in.
Three-two, the Royals lead in the third inning.
The pitch to Shamblin. Munson goes, throw to second, and he's out by yards.
Putting the tag on Thurman, Munson was Freddie Patek.
Munson came in with a hard fly, but Patek was there, and he is thrown out two to six.
Martinez throws out Thurman, Munson, and maybe a busted sign along the way.
They don't expect Munson to go ever, but he went, and the pitch was a ball.
Shamblin did not offer, but there may have been another Billy Martin trick of some sort.
Try to do something.
It is one and two to Shamblin.
Here's the pitch by Byrd, and as the ground ball to first baseman Mayberry plays it alone, and that's all for the Yankees.
Shamblin grounds out to Mayberry unassisted.
No runs, one hit, and nobody left.
And after three innings, the end of the third, the score is the Royals three, the Yankees two.
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Leading off for the Royals against Catfish Hunter will be Hal McCray, then it'll be Jamie Quirk and Cookie Rojas.
Royals picked up three runs in a second off Catfish on a walk, then after two were out a single by Rojas, a two run double by Patek, and a run scoring single by Martinez.
McCray swings wildly at a breaking pitch, missing a strike one.
McCray's still looking for his first series hit. He's 0 for 10.
Hunter curls and throws, fly ball deep right center field towards the gap. It can't be handled, it's up against the wall, and McCray goes into second base standing with his first series hit, a double.
All mishandled and thrown back to second by Randolph.
McCray almost took off for third as he saw the ball get away from Willie Randolph, the deep cutoff man, but Randolph recovers.
McCray hitting the ball a long way to the opposite field, getting his first series hit.
A leadoff double and hit at the base of the wall at the 385 mark in right center.
And Mr. McCray, who said he's got to go the other way against Catfish Hunter, did.
And he is on second with a leadoff double.
That's the fourth royal hit.
Their second extra base hit.
Now Jamie Quirk, he fly to center of the second. And they play him to pull. Rivers is way over toward right center field.
Big gap in left center. They throw him outside ball one, hoping that he'll try to pull the outside pitch and ground to second base.
Should he ground to second base, that could get McCray over to third.
Swinging the strike.
Now in the Yankee ball play, some activity as big Richard Tidrow starts to throw. Dick Tidrow.
In there, main guy out there. Short relief this season.
Quirk sends a foul ball out of play.
One ball, two strikes.
Quirk, a very important batter up there trying to get McCray over the third at least if he can't get the base hit.
Hunter working on it. Outside. One ball, two strikes, here it comes. Foul back.
One and two to Jamie.
Cookie Rollhouse on deck.
Then the right-handed batters in the royal lineup who have been giving Hunter his trouble.
Pitch to the left-hander, Quirk is outside. Two and two.
McCray at second base. Nobody out. The royals leading three-two and looking for more here in the fourth.
Hunter works to Quirk. And there's a drive into the gap in center field. That's going a long, long way.
Way out to the wall, rolling there to the edge of the warning path. An easy score by McCray.
Quirk's going to try for three. He flies triple for Jamie Quirk and his four-two-two royals.
He hit one to that long, long space there, the wide open green space between Mickey Rivers who was pulled over the right center
and the left fielder Roy White who was not over that far to left center.
The ball kept rolling and finally Rivers ran it down at the edge of the warning path in straightaway center field.
A triple for Quirk. McCray scores and now it's a two-run lead and Billy Martin is coming to the mound to talk to Hunter.
He may want to go right now. Let's see.
One of the ironies of the way the Yankees have been defending against the Kansas City batters
Quirk, perhaps one of the few that they've worked on to pull the ball and he didn't pull it.
He hit it up the alley and left to the field.
They've been pulling and they've been playing the right-handed hitters to go to right field.
But they weren't playing Quirk that way to go to left center. He's a left-handed batter and they figured him to pull.
And he hit it right in that spot. There was an awful lot of room there.
So Quirk gets a big hit in this game, a triple, and that's going to be all for Catfish Hunter
as Billy Martin makes an early move.
Hunter was hit around hard in the second, then came back and got three batters in the third.
But he leaves under fire here in the fourth inning.
So Catfish goes three-plus innings, pitching to just two men in the fourth inning, giving up a double and a triple,
an off-field double and really an up-the-middle triple to a left-handed batter.
So in the three innings that he worked, he gave up five hits.
And four runs. He's responsible for a base runner. He walked one. He had no strikeouts.
And he gives way now to the strong, hard-throwing right-hander, Dick Kidrow.
And Mr. Kidrow, a little of a contest with a record of four wins and five defeats in the regular campaign,
he was a relief for most all the way. He was in two starting assignments and appeared in a total of 47 games.
The Royals getting a three-bagger from the youngster, Jamie Quirk,
sending their team in front of the Yankees here four to two in the fourth inning.
Should the Royals hang on and win this ballgame,
Whitey Herzog will have a decision to make about his pitcher tomorrow.
He was asked before this game, who would be his pitcher?
And he said, well, I don't know, because I may use them all this afternoon.
We'll just have to wait and see.
Billy Martin also has to make a choice because he went with his ace,
Catfish Hunter, in the fourth game of this championship series,
figuring that Hunter could well the Kansas City attack and get the pennant for the Yankees.
Billy Martin said, I have plenty of pitching left. He said, certainly I'm going with Hunter today.
I've got to either Doyle Alexander or Ken Holtz for tomorrow or come back with Figueroa.
And actually, the Whitey Herzog would be, if the Royals do go on to win this,
in a little more trouble possibly with his pitching,
although he could go with Fitzmars, who hasn't been used at all,
and Leonard, who was not effective but still can throw hard.
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This is Tidro's second appearance in the playoff series.
He went on Sunday in the game that Paul Splieroff beat the Yankees.
Tidro came on in relief of Ed Figueroa in the sixth inning and finished out the ballgame,
going two and two-thirds innings, giving up three hits and three runs,
two of which were earned.
He walked one. He did not strike anybody.
He throws hard. He throws a good slider, breaking stuff.
And in some respects, he is a typical late-inning reliever, a good pitcher.
You give him one look, go around the batting order once,
and then maybe get somebody ready because after they see him a while, they go after him.
He had been a starter with the Cleveland Indians before coming over here,
but has been made into a fine reliever in the Yankee system.
Cookie Rojas is up, and the Yankees have the infield in.
Rojas singled in the second inning and scored a run.
The Royals lead by two, trying to make it three.
Nobody out or under a third.
Rojas takes a ball inside from Tidro.
Jamie Quirk at third base.
Very big hit for the Yaks. It may be one of his biggest of the season.
One ball, no strikes to Rojas.
Infield drawn in. Cookie chops the foul back, and it counted as one ball, one strike.
Tidro's got good size.
He was six and three with the Yankees last year in relief.
A 3.13 earned run average.
There's a fly ball to center field to Rivers, and Quirk will tag.
Rivers coming on, makes the catch.
Here comes a throw to the plate. Here comes the runner.
Quirk scores as the throw dies at the pitching mound and bounces into Munson.
And the Royals once again have their three-run lead.
It's five to two Kansas City.
Rojas does his job, sacrifice fly to center,
to Mickey Rivers, who does not have a strong throwing arm.
Almost took a hitch and wound up on that.
Ball was thrown accurately, but then died right at the mound.
A double, a triple, and a sacrifice fly.
Have the Royals out in front of the Yankees five to two.
We're in the top of the fourth inning. Nobody on and one out now.
The batter is Freddy Patek.
Patek had a big hit in the second inning. He doubled to right field, driving in two runs.
The ball went into right center. Mickey Rivers made a dive for it.
It healed off his glove for two bases and two runs scored.
That run is charged to Hunter.
All five runs charged to Catfish.
Fly ball left field, very high into the sun field.
Roy White canters back. He's got it.
Patek's trying for the long one for the little guy, five feet four.
There are two outs now. Thidro has gotten two fly balls from the batters that he's faced.
But Martinez came up and added his important hit in the second inning, a two-out single driving in a run.
The lower part of this order actually from McCray on down now.
The second half of the order has been the productive one.
There is a strike called a Martinez.
Before McCray doubled, or even Kirk tripled, they had a single from Rojas,
a double by Patek, a single by Martinez. Good for three runs.
And a sacrifice fly by Rojas for another one.
The pitch is outside, one and one.
Kansas City five and the Yankees two are in the fourth inning.
The pitch.
Swinging strike.
Buck waved at the breaking ball and the count on him now is one and two.
The semi-circle of sun is on White now in left field and partly on Rivers in left center.
Martinez sends a little fly ball to left center field, coming on his Rivers and he's got it one-handed.
Ball showed a little White out of the glove but he held on to it.
And Martinez is out as Thidro comes on to get three fly ball out.
But the Royals pick up two runs on two hits. They leave nobody.
In the middle of the fourth inning, it's Kansas City five and the Yankees two.
Bottom of the fourth inning is at hand at Yankee Stadium and the Yankees have to go to work again now as they have fallen again behind by three runs.
The Royals picked up three off Catfish Hunter in the second.
The Yankees came back in their half of the second inning on a two-run homer by Greg Nettles who will lead off this inning.
And then the Royals have just scored two more on a double by Hal McCrae and a triple by Jamie Quirk and a sacrifice fly by Cookie Rohawks.
The job of taking care of this game now is in the hands of Doug Byrd who came on to relieve the starter Larry Gore in the third with nobody out and a man at first.
He's got two batters and Munson was out stealing so Byrd is now going into his inning number four facing Nettles.
Uppercut a tremendous homer on his first time up. Takes the ball high.
Greg Nettles three for eleven in this series.
The pitch. Byrd sinks one low and outside ball two.
While Splendorf has been the only pitcher for the Royals who have been able to consistently get out there inning after inning and hold a lead, which he did on Sunday.
Byrd will try to do the same now. There was a lead last night but it was dissipated.
Two and nothing to Nettles. Pitch to Greg is high. Ball three.
Three balls no strikes. Nettles, Maddox and Randolph up this inning.
And the strike is called in the outside corner. Now the Yankees have sent Oscar Gamble out to the on deck circle.
And he will bat for Maddox and stay in the game to play right field. With a right handed on for Kansas City, Gamble, a left handed batter will be installed in the lineup.
Strike two called and right back is three and two is Byrd with Nettles.
Three balls two strikes.
The wind up and the playoff pitch is plumb on and popped up foul. Third base side and going to be out of play.
No chance for Brett or for Martinez.
Three balls two strikes.
Lots of scoring in this one. Game four.
Five to two. The Royals lead the Yankees. The Yankees still have the most hits. Six. They're not hitting the Royals. Six to five.
Here it is. Strike three swinging and he got him on a high fastball.
He challenged him and Nettles went for it. It may have been ball four had he not swung.
And there's the first strikeout for Royal pitching. A matter of fact the first strikeout in the game. Oscar Gamble going to bat for Maddox.
The likeable Oscar Gamble. Left headed hitter with good power.
Batting for Elliott Maddox and will stay in the game to play right field.
Gamble hit 232 on the year but showed good home run power. He's always had it. He bats from a deep crouch and he takes ball one.
Gamble is hitting 250 in this series. One hit in four times up. The pitch to him by Bird swings at an off speed curve and the count is one ball one strike.
One and one to Oscar Gamble batting for Maddox. Willie Randolph on deck.
A delivery by Bird fouled back. I've seen a couple of take home runs that Gamble has hit in in this ballpark this year in the regular season.
He hit one in the upper deck way out where the grandstand ends. In one ball game against the Boston Red Sox.
He can drill it. He loves to pull the ball. They like to have him go to the opposite field if they can. They pitch him high and away. Ball two.
Two and two. Royals five. Yankees two. Fourth inning.
Now the pitch. A little chopper to the right side of the infield taken by Rojas. Underhands to Mayberry for the out.
Gamble is out. Second to first. They're two away.
Here's Willie Randolph. A single sharply to left off Gure in the second inning. Larry Gure started the game and left in the third.
Catfish Hunter started for the Yankees and left in the fourth.
Randolph. Two sixty seven hitter in his rookie season. Pitch to him. Ground ball the third. Taken by Brett.
Wait. Throws. Got it. And a one two three inning for Doug Bird who likes to throw ground balls. He threw two of them that inning.
At the end of the fourth inning the score is the Royals five and the Yankees two.
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Moving to the top of inning number five. The Kansas City Royals leading the New York Yankees five to two. Yankees out hitting Kansas City six to five.
But they have made their hits count. They've had some big ones. They've had their doubles by Patek and McRae and a triple by Quirk.
Still no Kansas City home runs in this series. The Yankees have had two. One today by Greg Nettles with a man on and the two run over by Shambles last night.
Al Cowan at the top of the order first up against Dick Tidro. Cowan has to slide to center and fly deep to left.
Roy White in left field is the only player in front right now.
The pitch. Cowan takes a breaking ball for a strike.
Played umpire Bill Haller calling them balls and strikes today.
One of the good ones in the game.
The one strike pitch. Cowan is really jammed by that pitch.
Tried to abort the swing but it was on the inside corner. He went around halfway and the count on him is 0 and 2.
Tidro came on and immediately put out any fires that had raging potential by getting three fly balls. One of them for a run charged to Hunter.
Pitching to Cowan. Ground ball towards the middle taken by shortstop Stanley. Throws to first for the out.
They had been edging Cowan that way anyway. The ball did not have enough swing on it to get into center field.
Al Cowan is out short to first and won away.
John Proquette has been held Hitler today. He has been held twice to the outfield. Once to White in left and once to Rivers in center. He hit the ball to center field well.
Royals 5, Yankees 2, fifth inning.
Proquette grounds to first base. Shambles takes it, plays it alone. Two outs in a hurry.
So Tidro gets a couple of ground balls. Off the bats for the Royals.
And Brett will come up, Hitler so far. George is grounded to the pitcher and to the second baseman.
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Pitch to Brett, tries to drop a butt down third base way and misses. Strike one.
Nettles was playing relatively deep.
And he'll go back there again, not figuring it. George will try it again.
Nick Tidro.
Goes to work.
There's a slam to the air and left, but White is there and at the edge of a shadow has it for out number three. One, two, three innings for Tidro.
He is retired eighth, sixth in a row. And in the middle of the fifth inning, the score remains. The Royals five, the Yankees two.
It'll be interesting if this series should go five games to see how the managers do handle the pitching rotation or the pitching assignments.
Of course in game five, they've got to pull out all the stops and they cannot even think about Saturday against Cincinnati.
They've got to win the pennant first. And by winning it on a Thursday, they have only one day for a pitcher to get ready to open against Cincinnati.
So Billy Martin, as we mentioned earlier, seems to be in a pretty good way if it goes this way, if he has to play tomorrow, to go with either Doyle Alexander and Figueroa.
Or he could come back with Doyle with Ken Holtz from the left hander. Meanwhile, Whitey Herzog would have to go probably with Al FitzMorris or maybe Dennis Leonard.
He would, he could go with Paul Squidorf, of course. That would probably be the most likely choice in game five if there is a game five.
We're halfway through this game at Yankee Stadium, game four, with the Kansas City Royals leading the Yankees five to two.
Five hits for the Royals, six hits for the Yankees.
And halfway through the game comes to my notice that I have been very fortunate in broadcasting career in the majors to be blessed with good partners.
Kirk Gowdy, Dave Martin, Ken Coleman, Jim Wood, all the people, the ballplayers, Mel Parnell and Johnny Tessian. Hasn't changed at all here in my first chance to get to work with one of the fine guys in this business.
One of the top announcers, the voice of the Toy Tigers, again, Ernie Harwell.
Thank you, Ned Harkin, everybody. It's Stanley at the plate now on the Royals, baby Yankees, five to two.
We go to the last half of the fifth inning. This game belongs to the relief pitchers, Bird and Tidrow.
Tidrow set down six in a row, Bird five in a row since they each came in. There's a ball low to the right hand of adding Stanley.
Five hits and eleven chips so far for Stanley. One for one in this game, a single. And he takes a breaking ball wide, a 2-0.
Bird came in with a game-relieving draw, the shorting pitcher in the third inning with the man on and nobody else.
That man Muntzum was out stealing, then he got everybody else since then. There's the pitchers too close, they'd almost hit him.
Bird's fastball, moving him back and Fred Stanley now has a count of three and all on him.
Their baseman Brett comes over to talk with his pitcher Bird.
That field are now a very tough field, that's the only sunny spot on the field.
The pitch family is taking it to strike, a breaking ball across, three and one on Fred, the number nine batter in the batting order.
The D. Rivers waiting on deck for New York, five to two Kansas City lead. Fourth game of the series.
The pitch is a strike, there's the slider.
Both count on Fred Stanley, now Brett backs up a little bit at third base.
Bird into the wind up, delivers, it's a bonding ball in the high chop, George Beckett, Rojas waits for the next hop so the Birds got him.
Just in time he had to play the second hop, not quite as high as that big first one.
And there's one up and one down in the Yankee fifth inning.
Here's Rivers, the left hand hitting leadoff man, he has fouled a third and hit into a fourth out.
That field will shade him around toward left. The lights have been on here to try to cut down some of the shadows at Yankee Stadium.
Now some debris thrown on the field has to be tossed out by Brett over to third base.
Rivers waiting on the pitch from Doug Bird, here it comes, he takes the ball outside.
Royals picked up three and the second Yankees came back with two in the second.
The Royals got two for themselves in the fourth inning.
Rivers hits a bounding foul over toward the seat just past the Yankee dugout.
Five runs and five hits for the Royals, two runs and six hits for the Yankees.
The door is started, relieved by Bird. The foul is started for the Yankees, relieved by Kid Rowe.
Here's the one-one delivery to Rivers. He swings and hits a high foul that will reach the seat back of first base.
Into the lower deck, down in the right field corner.
New outfield alignment in this game for the Royals, they've got Poquette in left today, Cowens and Cidder-McRae in right.
Here's the one-two delivery, swing and there's a little pop fly back, a short Potec going back.
Poquette coming in and he makes the catch. The left fielder took care of that one.
Here's Roy White at the plate. Roy doubled in the opening inning and then entered the second inning with a force out.
The Yankees were threatening to add to their two-run surge in that inning.
The Yankees got those two runs in the second on a home run by Nettles.
Two home runs in the series so far. They both belong to the Yankees.
Shambliss with one and Nettles with one.
It's a ball, a little bit inside on Roy White.
Switch batter batting left-handed now against the right-hand pitching of Bird.
Five-two, Royals lead, fifth inning at Yankee Stadium.
Here's a ball high to White. Two and O, the count on Roy Munson waits on deck.
Outfield slightly toward right on him. Red balloon floats down right back of umpire Halle.
I think he's going to let it blow away.
Here's the wind up by Bird, the pitch, swinging a foul back in this direction down below it.
Bird allowed the most home runs of any pitcher on the Kansas City staff, a total of 17 over the regular season.
Swinged is a fly lifted to center. Cowens is backing up. He's there waiting. He has it.
And that's all for the Yankees. They go down one, two, three in the fifth inning.
At the end of five, Royals five Yankees two.
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John Mayberry to lead off for the Royals. They are ahead of the Yankees.
Inning number six is Yankee Stadium. Royals five, New York two.
Mayberry walked in the second inning. He was the first runner against Catfish out of the start.
Then he lifted a fly ball to left in the third. They're over shifting on it again.
And Chidwell delivers. There's a high fly ball in the left center field.
White is camping under it and he has it for the outs.
McRae will be the batter now. He doubled in the fourth and then scored on a three-bagger by Jamie Quirk.
Twelve fly balls have been caught now by the Yankee outfielders.
Kansas City hitting the ball up in the air. Great deal this afternoon.
There's the pitch and McRae takes the fast ball in close. Ball one and a half.
Fly to right and then double.
Chidwell, the big right-hander, wheels and delivers.
Here's a line shot up the alley. White digging hard and he cannot get it.
It bounced past McRae going for two. White picks up the ball at the warning track.
McRae rounding second, headed for third.
The relay from Stanley to Nettles not in time. A triple by McRae.
Looks like Harold has awakened, Ernie. He sure has a double and a triple in the last two times at bat.
And Chidwell had retired seven in order before that triple broke the string.
Jamie Quirk, who tripled in the fourth inning to drive in McRae from second, comes up here in the sixth inning.
The Royals have a man at third. One man down, they lead the Yankees five to two.
Enfield pulled in tight for the Yankees.
Chidwell to the set position, the left-handed batting Quirk at the plate.
Swings and taps the ball out of play. In the dirt, back of the plate.
Billy Martin will sometime change his Enfield setup at the pitch.
He'll have them in and move them back or he'll have them back and move them in to play them medium and go one way or the other.
The way he sets them at the start of the pitch doesn't necessarily mean that he won't change.
Right now they're in close, a little bit closer on the left side than on the right.
Quirk waiting on Chidwell's next delivery. Strike one on the count on Jamie. Here it comes.
He swings and as they drive to right field, going over his jamble, he has it.
Here's the tag at third by McRae and he is coming home to score.
Six to two, the Royals lead New York.
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Here's Cookie Rojas batting now with two down and nobody on and he swings as they fly ball to left fairly deep but wide is back.
He's there waiting. He has it and almost bobbled the ball at the last moment but held on until he out.
One run on one hit for the Royals. No Yankees errors. Nobody left. That's the end of five and one half innings.
The score, Kansas City six, New York two.
Along with Ned Martin, this is Ernie Harwell at Yankee Stadium.
Yankees are batting on the last half of the sixth inning, the Royals lead New York six to two.
Munson will be the first Yankee batter here in their sixth inning. He has fly to center and singles.
Both those times at bat were against the starting pitcher Larry Gura.
After the single by Munson, that's when the current pitcher Doug Byrd took over.
And Byrd has set down eight Yankees in order.
The now-all will follow Munson and then it will be Chris Chambers who's been the hottest hitter on either team in the series.
Munson who batted three all-two for the season.
Six for sixteen in the championship series. Big strong right-handed batter faces Byrd and the pitch is hung on and hits him after a face-hit.
He is very tough without sticking his hands. He wraps the single to left between Brett and Kotzeck.
And now Luke Fenella will be the batter.
Luke has bounced to shortstop and hit a fly ball to right. He was asking before the game, how can I get the ball up in the air? I'm hitting everything on the line or on the ground.
Dean Michaels, so she answered, well that's not all bad, but you've got to uppercut the ball if you want to get it up in the air.
Luke's always studying the technique of hitting. He swings, there's one in the air, it's deep in upfield. Going back, it's Po'Kett. He'll have room. He makes the catch.
The one-hander and Munson retreats to first base.
Here's Chris Gambler. He had a single his first time up and then bounced out unassisted to Mae Barry at first.
Gambler's got a couple of eight hits. He has five runs batted in. He tops him at the first.
He has one of the two home runs in the series. Left hand the batter to face the right-hander bird.
Doug Dillett hits a ball outside, ball one. Man on first, Munson. He was thrown out in the third inning on his steal attempt.
Mae Barry holding on the bag with Sherman.
The game is a bounding ball to second. Roll on to project one. Relay to Mae Barry. It is a royal double play and the Yankees are out in the sixth inning.
No runs, one hit, no errors and nobody left. At the end of sixth, Royal Six, New York 2.
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Kid Row on the mound ready to face the Royals in the seventh inning. Kansas City with six runs, six hits and no errors.
The Yankees have two runs, seven hits and no errors. The Royals got three runs in the second off, Starter Hunter.
A walk to Mae Barry, a single by Rojas, moved into second. Then with two outs, Patek doubled into.
Martinez singled in the third run of that inning. In the fourth inning, the Royals had a double for McRae to lead off.
Quirt hit a triple to score him and then he came home on a sacrifice by Rojas.
The Royals got their last run in the sixth inning on a triple by McRae and a sacrifice by Quirt.
The Yankees scored two on a home run by Nettles. Here's Patek and he pops one up back a third.
It will be out of play over into the seat of back a third base.
A scramble for that one and a gentleman from the Yorkers, New York, caught it.
Patek with a double and a flatter left so far.
Kidwell ready for action, kicks from the midders. Here's a curve outside.
One run to count on Patek. Then the bottom part of the batting order that's done the run producing for Kansas City.
Beginning with McRae and from then on down. They've not had a hit from the first four batters.
There's a cut on the miss by Fred. One and two to count on him.
Quirt with two RBIs, Patek with two, Rojas with one and Martinez with one.
All from the bottom part of the batting order.
Kidwell came out of the fourth inning leading the starter catfish hunter.
He pitches. There's a bombing ball to third. It will be foul just outside the bag.
The Yankees have scouts right up a couple of booths away from us and they're using walkie talkies this year.
And generally they have stationed their outfielders for the Kansas City batters to hit the ball late to the opposite side.
But in the case of Patek, the outfielders are playing him to fall.
Now to wind up and the pitch on the way. Swing a little chopper, roll past the mound.
Picked up by Chambliss wide of the bag at first. Kidwell's cover can't hold a throw from Chambliss and Patek is safe at first.
We'll wait for the score on that one.
Kidwell was late leaving the mound. It was a slow roll that just got past the mound.
Chambliss had to go over and field it and it will be scored as a single for Patek.
Got a little in betweener there within the infield.
Gives Patek his second hit.
Ian McRae are the only Royals with more than one hit.
And the only Yankee with more than one is Munson who has two singles.
It's Martinez the catcher who's single in the run in the second inning.
And then fired to the center fielder, Rivers, under four.
Royals with a four-run margin. They're ahead 6-2 over the Yankees in the seventh. Trying to add to that lead.
Patek is a fine base runner. He edges off. Chambliss holding on the bag with him.
He doesn't go. Swearing to Buc Martinez, he takes the ball outside.
Nantals are coming inside the bag at third, playing to the intergrass.
Stanley and Randolph, the shortstop and second base, went up about halfway a second.
Patek lengthens his lead at first base.
Set by Tidwell. And the pitch is outside.
Hide away. Once again Martinez ready to bunt.
Generally the Yankee pitchers are not very adept at holding the runners on.
Martinez stepping out.
Patek trying to get the lead again.
Draws the throw. He's back safely standing up.
Patek is seemingly fast.
He's got a pretty good sized lead. Draws another throw. Gets back safely.
Royals ahead 6-2. They're batting in the seventh inning.
Against relief pitcher Dick Tidwell.
Patek doesn't go. There's a bunt. It's going foul on the ground toward first base.
Gloved there by Chambliss.
And Patek at second base has to come on back.
Well we've not seen the bunt used as a weapon very much in this series so far.
Mainly because one team or the other has jumped out in front with a fairly large lead.
Usually early in the game.
Now the Royals bunting in an effort to add to their four run margin.
After Martinez the Royals go to the top of their batting order. Cowan.
Well let's see if the bunt will be on again. The Yankees think it might be. They're in close.
Patek draws another throw. Back with a slide.
The sunshine is just about left the playing area.
Shining on the fence and deep left center. That's the only spot of sun right now at Yankee Stadium.
Patek draws another throw. Back with a head first slide.
And calls time. He's got to dust himself off a little bit.
Ready wearing gloves. His face running gloves.
Got to save off those hand injuries on slides. He goes this time. The 50 is swung on and missed.
Here's the throw to second. Patek is out.
Good throw by Munson to the shortstop Stanley cutting down.
Well they kept him as close as they could.
And Munson made an excellent throw to Stanley to cut down Patek in the seal attempt.
Martinez tried to help out. He swung and couldn't reach it.
And it's a 2-2 count on him.
Bump digs in again against Kidrow. One out, nobody on for the Royals.
Yankee right-handed Kidrow kicks high to let it do a high foul and it'll be in the seat over on the first base side.
This remodeled Yankee Stadium, they have kept the flavor of the old stadium that was built in 1923.
But they've moved the stands to basically a lot nearer the diamonds. They've made it more symmetrical than it once was.
And they've cut down on some of the playing area.
2-2 to count on Martinez.
Now Kidrow slowed up on his pitching pace. He goes back for the rosin bag.
Here's the windup by Kidrow. The pitch is cut on and beaten foul over toward the Royal dugout.
And Mr. Halle puts a new one in play.
Remember, Kidrow got his start with the Indians. He was the sporting news rookie of the year in pitching in 1972.
Then came to the Yankees, makes his home in Kansas City.
He winds and pitches. Here's a foul in the dirt back at the plate.
2-2 to count on Martinez.
Hunter started, Kidrow on the fourth inning. Royal started their left hand to Larry Gura.
He did not last through the third. Doug Byrd took over for him at that point of the game.
Now Halle getting a ball for Kidrow.
Checking a whole pocketful of them there and letting Kidrow pick out what he wanted.
2-2. That's the count on Martinez. Here's the pitch.
He takes the ball outside. That one barely missed the outside corner.
A fastball. That's time from Kidrow.
He has a sinker, which is a great pitcher relief man. Also uses the school ball from time to time.
Now to wind up and a 3-2 delivery. It's in too close. He walked him.
That'll be the first walk off Kidrow.
Gotta walk one during his descent on the mound.
And now Cowans, the leadoff man, will be stepping in. He's 0-3 in this game. He's fly to center. He's fly to left.
And about to shortstop.
3-15 in the series so far, including his three times at bat in this one.
Alphe will play him almost straight away. Grant Jackson is throwing now in the Yankee both in the left hander.
Now Chambliss will hold on the bag over there with Martinez.
Cowans, right hand batter, fairly deep in the batter's box and he takes the ball in close, ball one.
Polkett waiting at the on deck circle. And the Royals have a four run margin, 6-2 over the Yankees in the 7th inning.
Now Kidrow, with runners on his inning, has slowed his pitching pace.
He sets in the middle. There's a cut in the middle.
The pitch they've been working with on Cowans, the breaking ball toward the outside.
Cowans has played some first base, but basically now he's an outfielder.
This game up to the Royals in 74.
Right hand batter waiting on the 1-1 delivery now from Kidrow. Here it comes.
He swings and balls it away in the seat, flightening drive in the lower deck and right.
The Royals jumped in front of this game. They got three off Catfish Hunter in the second inning.
The Nettles had a two run homer for the Yankees off the starting.
Kansas City pitcher Larry Gore to cut the lead to 3-2.
Now then the Royals jumped in with two in the fourth inning.
That knocked Hunter off the mound. Added one in the sixth off for Leper, Kidrow.
Here's the set and the pitch. Cowan swings and a bounding ball, shot toward Nettles.
He goes to second to Randolph-Wand. Rene to third.
The game is not in time. It's a four-tile.
Cowan, who moves down that line very well, beats the relay.
It'll be a simple fourth to second base. A third to second for the second out.
Shot of a high chopper to Nettles. Nettles has played a fine third base in this series.
Here's Tom Polquette.
Polquette with a wider lap, the flight is centered about that of the first base.
Lef Santabadi, young man from Wisconsin, stepping in.
Bracketed his cheekbone this year running into offense in the game against the White Sox.
He's had about three or four operations in the last two or three years.
Lef Santabadi waiting. They throw it to first.
And back in time is another Cowan.
We're in the seventh inning and Kansas City leads New York 62.
Two down now, the infield back, and they throw it to first to Shamless again.
Shamless continues to hold on the bag.
That gives the about Polquette of a larger target to hit toward over there on the right field side of the infield.
One of the advantages of being a left-hander is a ball outside.
Ball on the counter and Polquette.
Outfield plays him straight away.
Tidrow to the set position.
Lob's going over to first and Cowan's back with ease.
Brett is waiting on deck for KC.
Nick Tidrow ready to deliver. There's a ball in the dirt. Good pick up by Munson.
Piltnendorf, he counts down. Here comes Billy Martin.
Moving up those dugout steps and trotting toward the mound.
Billy's going to make a change immediately.
After Polquette goes to a 2-0 count, Martin has gone to the mound and
he's probably going to bring in Grant Jackson.
That's it. He made a motion with his left hand and the left-hand reliever will be coming in.
So Tidrow will lead the ball game now and Jackson will take over.
Well, we've mentioned earlier about Tidrow, the kind of pitcher he is.
He's an eighth and ninth inning pitcher primarily. He's been used that way in the Yankees system the last couple of years, especially this year.
He's a guy that can come in and get that big out, that big one, two, three outs and maybe go two innings.
But after that, they kind of like to get him out of there and people start to read his motion or do whatever they want to.
So Tidrow will leave as this game is still a four-run issue as Grant Jackson, the left-hander, makes his way to the mound.
Okay, we'll be back to the ball game in a moment as we're in the top half of the seventh inning.
Ben Crenshaw, one of eight past champions, entered, bid to win the $125,000 Texas Open Golf Tournament at San Antonio.
Left-hander Grant Jackson, a veteran of American and National League play, was one of the standout pitchers in the bullpen along with Tidrow.
In fact, the left-handed reason why left-hander Sparky Lyle didn't get as much work as he thought he should have after the All-Star break.
Jackson, to Lyle's own admission, was super.
And on the year, Grant sharing his places between Baltimore and the Yankees when he came over here with Ken Olson in that big trade, on the year, won seven and lost one.
And in an earned run average of 2.54, and with the Yankees to show how effective he has been against them, he had an earned run average of 1.69 with a 6-0 record.
He never has lost a game as a member of the New York Yankees.
He worked 78 innings and he struck out 39, walked 25.
It's his first appearance in the championship series.
He got one start in the last week of the season and the last part of the season, September 24th, when he started a ball game, gave him some work and he pitched a shutout.
Ready?
Well, here's Poquette and Jackson inherits a 2-0 count on Poquette, left-hander against the left-hander.
Grant Jackson, native of Ohio, makes his home now in Puerto Rico.
Lifts over to first again and challenges back savely.
Jackson's had experience in championship series play with Baltimore in 73 and 74.
Here's a ball high to Poquette and they count his 3-0.
Here's the slip over to first base again now, and it was easy for Cowens to get back.
Jackson ready to deliver 3-0.
Here it comes.
He takes a walk and that walk will be charged to Tidrow, the outgoing pitcher, since Jackson came in with a disadvantageous count.
That means that Tidrow allows two walks and is now responsible for the two runners that are on the bases.
Here's Brett at the plate.
The left-hander batting third base when the leading hitter on the royal team is without a hit in this game.
Bounce to the pitcher, he's got it to second, he's by the left.
Two out and two on.
The Royals lead the Yankees 62, 7th inning.
Here's a ball high and they throw to second.
It's not in time.
Cowens slid back safely.
We smudge and throw some guys with a left-hander up there at the plate.
And it's a good chance he could have taken Brett's head off with that one.
That was a strike.
Bill Hallett called that one a strike.
Here's a pitch.
It's a ball outside.
Now the count even, one and one.
Brett hits safely in all the other three games.
Jackson delivers a wide one, two and one they count on George.
Trying to add to their margin, they lead by four, 62 over the Yankees in the 7th inning here at Yankee Stadium.
Yankees lead in the series, two victories to one.
They need one more to win the pennant.
Jackson kicks and deals.
Here's a high one, ball three.
Three and one, the count on Brett.
Not as started, hitter on the fourth.
Jackson in the seventh for the New Yorkers.
Mayberry waiting on deck.
Here's a pitch.
He took it in close, it almost hit him.
And Brett gets the base on balls.
That will hold him up for Mayberry.
Joel Alexander working in the Yankee bullpen now, the right-hander.
So it's Brett at first, Boquette at second.
Jackson has moved to third.
Here's Mayberry.
For the walk and a couple of fly balls to left.
Swing this way, long belt to right.
Maybe if it stays there, it is a foul ball.
Oh, he hit that ball hard.
Big John was using some body English on that one there.
He was about a quarter of the way up the line and trying to wave that ball in fair.
That's the best ball he's hit in this series.
As they say, he got a hold of it.
And the Yankee Stadium fans are still buzzing about that blast,
but it went foul at the last second.
Strike two, that's the count on Mayberry.
Two out bases loaded, the pitch.
He swings and misses.
Two strikes on John.
Bases loaded, two men down.
Jackson Wines pitches his tapper back to Jackson.
He has it.
Here's the throw to first and the inning is over.
Mayberry bounces out.
It's no runs on one hit.
The winner is three runners to the left at the end of the first half of the seventh inning.
The Royals six for Yankees two.
This time at Yankee Stadium, the last half of the seventh inning,
and the Yankees who need one victory to win the Senate right now find themselves down
in this fourth game of the championship series, trailing the Kansas City Royals 62.
Drek Nettles, who hit a two-run homer his first shift of the plate,
and has accounted for the only two Yankee runs,
will lead off against relief pitcher Doug Byrd of Kansas City.
Nettles hit a home run in the second, throwing Chambliss ahead of him.
And then against Byrd, who has relieved the starting pitcher Dora,
and Byrd in the fourth inning, he's stuck out.
Ellie Hendricks is running a fast steal from the Wolfs and for the Yankee dugout.
Nettles getting ready to step in now.
62, the Royals lead the Yankees.
There's a ball outside.
Byrd, who came into the game in the third, working on the home run champion of the league, Nettles.
He swings, there's a high fly to right, not deep.
McRae Zundrich waiting, still waiting.
He has it, and there's one down.
Oscar Gamble with that next.
He came in as a pitch batter for Maddox, the starting right fielder.
That was in the fourth inning, and he bounced to second base.
Six runs, seven hits, no errors for Kansas City.
The Yankees have two runs, seven hits, and no errors.
Time called at the plate by umpire Bill Haller for a moment.
Outfield is moving around to right.
Gamble is a full hitter, and he's got a lot of power.
He swings and bounces back.
Well, we almost had one there, babe.
It's about as close as we're going to get, I think.
Yeah, needed to think a little bit more, but I think we could have had it.
Were you ready?
No, neither was I.
Strike one, the guy on Gamble.
Byrd to right-hander, kicks him to the base.
Here's a breaking pitch, it's low.
One and one to count on him.
Mark LaTel throwing in the KC bullpen now, the right-hander.
Royals lead New York 6-2.
Swing, there's a drive to right, McRae backs up.
Can't get it, it's off his glove and over his head.
Dilton off the wall and Gamble slides in with a two-bicker.
McRae misjudged that ball, I don't know whether his glove touched it or not.
Almost did if it didn't.
Got over his head, went for the wall.
Randolph will be the Yankee batter now with a man on second base.
That is the eighth Yankee hit, a double by Oscar Gamble.
Willie Randolph got a hit in the second inning, a single, and then he bounced to third the next time.
Byrd is now allowed a two-hit lead-off single by Munson in the sixth inning after he got the first eight.
And this one-out double in the seventh inning by Oscar Gamble.
So here's the right-hander batting second base from Willie Randolph at the plate.
Six to two, the Warriors lead.
Is a sighting at the inside corner.
Now, Hannah wants to infect that ball, he's going to take it out of play.
Gamble on second, one man down for the Yankees.
Willie Randolph, a play to hit the ball late.
Over short right a little bit on him, here's the pitch.
He takes a breaking ball outside, one-on-one on Willie Randolph.
The former Pittsburgh Pirates.
Byrd in relief, trying to hold off the Yankees here in the late stages of this one in game number four of the series.
That's it for the right-hander and the pitch, he takes the ball outside.
Two-and-one, the count on him.
Byrd ready for action again, here it comes.
He flings and nubs a little foul on the ground over into the Royal dugout, two-two the count on Randolph.
The Yankees have out hit the Royals, but the Royals have put their together more effectively.
Royals got three in the second, Yankees came back on a two-run hole by Nettles to get their two.
Royals added two in the fourth, one in the sixth inning.
And Byrd in relief has held off the Yankees.
But now the Yankees are threatening in the seventh, with Gamble taking a long leadoff second, one man down.
Set by Byrd, he puts one to second, throws it away into the outfield, picked up now by Cowan, and Gamble will move to third.
Rojas comes behind to take the throw, Byrd threw it on the truck top side of second of eighth and threw it into the outfield.
That will be the first error of the game.
That wasn't a bad count play that they had on, Ernie.
And if he'd thrown it more properly, if he'd thrown it at the bag and at Rojas, he might have had a shot at him, a very slim one.
But Gamble was off the base and they did have a chance at him, but the ball was just thrown too much to the shortstop side.
Now at a man at third, one out, and a two-two pitch coming up to Randolph.
He hits one slowly back toward the mound, picked up by Byrd, he'll throw to first to Mayberry, the run score.
Gamble crossing the plate, and it is now six to three in favor of the Royals.
Kansas City was willing to give up a run there for an out.
They were playing their infield back, and that ball jammed Randolph, the pitch did.
He tried to get out of the way and just took a little number back toward the mound.
Byrd took a look at the plate, but then decided to go to first base.
So it'll be an RBI bounce-off by Randolph, and Ellie Hendricks will come up to back the standings.
The squinder left-hand batting catcher with a 174 batting mark.
Three down, nobody on, it is six to three now, the Royals lead New York.
That ball landed the plate on Hendricks.
Infield very deep on Ellie.
He swings as they drive up the alley right to the field.
Hendricks waves in with a big single.
Brett comes over, golf with Byrd, the Yankees are kicking up their heels.
Francisco, the pitching coach coming out now, walking to the mound.
Martinez is out there.
They've had Latel and Mangori both throwing in the bullpen.
So the Yankees trying to come back here in the late stages, they've got the lead to six to three.
I believe this is Mason coming in from the bullpen.
No, it's Gidry.
He'll be running for Hendricks.
G-U-I-D-R-O-Y. Ron Gidry will be running for Ellie Hendricks, who batted for Fred Stanley.
Oh, the wheels are turning, Mr. Martin.
He's dead, and I think that the appearance of Mark Latel out on the bullpen tells you something about the ways that Whitey Herzog is going to work.
He has used Latel twice already in a series, in a three game.
I believe he'd bring him in right now without the slightest provocation if he needed to get a right-handed hitter out later.
But he also might have to think about tomorrow with his best man in relief being Mark Latel.
Here's Nicky Rivers trying to keep it going for the Yankees. He's off for three this afternoon.
That's that of adding outfielders.
There are two out for the Yankees, and instead of any, they've got a man at first base, that's Gidry, the pinch runner.
The outfield on Rivers around toward left.
Red in close in case Rivers wants to cut him on his way on.
And the pitch. He swings and fouls it away.
Back to the Metsanine behind the play. Strike one on Nicky Rivers.
Bird came into the game in the third. He was very strong. Got the first eight batters in a row.
In a single by Munson, that after six he was a race in a double play.
But here in the seventh, the Yankees are acting up.
It's a bombing ball to right of Mason and Rivers. Gidry turning in second, heading to third.
Here's the throw on McCray, back to the low-hook and strikes the Yankees at Robinson, first and third.
And here comes the manager, Whitey Herzog.
He's a significant change for Kansas City. Whitey's number one problem in this series has been a faltering bullfans.
And now Bird, who started in such great fashion, himself has faltered, but he's going to leave the mound.
It will be men going to coming into fifth, to Roy White. White is fifth batter.
The Yankees have two men on and two men out. It means that they'll have the tying run at the plate.
Well, the job done by Doug Bird was exemplary, but he just seemed to run out of gas here in the seventh inning.
He went four and two-thirds innings of good relief up until this seventh when he has given up three of the four hits he's allowed.
Four and two-thirds, he has given up four hits in one run. He's responsible for two base runners.
He had no walks and one strikeout.
And coming on the pitch now will be left-hander Steve Mingori, who will make Roy White turn around about right-handed.
Left-hander Steve Mingori has come on to work and is making his third appearance in this series.
He got a save on Sunday. He went one inning and gave up two hits, but ended the game by striking out Carlos May.
He pitched no part of an inning in the game last night. He gave up a hit and then left.
So now he's facing Roy White.
White for first batter, batting right-handed, two men on and two men out.
Roy has led the Yankees, seventh inning, six to three.
White with a double and three turns it back. Left-hander Mingori, fifth one over to first, and Rivers is back safely.
The paid attendance today, 56,355, gives a four-game total of 195-331, a record for playoff series in the American League.
Here's the fifth and White swings and rolls one foul right at the plate.
Back one, the count on Roy White.
Oh, it's Mingora, Bird, and now Mingori for the Royals.
The Yankees third and hunter, Kidlow on the fourth and Jackson on the seventh.
A parade of three pitches on each side. The Yankee crowd has come alive here on the seventh.
It's a bounding ball foul just outside of third.
The reason, excuse me, I think the thing, I think that they wanted to get Mingori in right now to pitch to White is to force him to bat right-handed,
where he's not quite as strong as left. And also Mingori is more effective against right-handed hitters than a lot of left-handers are on the staff,
because he has that turnover ball that goes away from him, thicker.
Now he's ahead of White now with a strike to count on Roy.
Here's the set to kick the pitch, gets a ball outside. He was wasting that one, no question about it, one and two.
Gidder is the runner third.
He came in to run Braily Hendricks to single in the pink batter's roll for Stanley.
And Rivers followed with a single to get him to third.
They are two down for the Yankees. The one-two delivery. White swings, there's a fly ball in the right center field.
Cowens is calling for it. He's under it. He has it. And the Yankees are out in the seventh inning.
They get a run, one run, on the three hits, one error, two runners to the left.
And at the end of the seventh inning for the Royals, six for the Yankees, three.
McCray will lead it off for the Royals. They've got the advantage now, six to three over New York, going at the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium, game number four, the America League Championship Series.
The Yankees lead the series, two victories to one.
McCray, who had not had a hit until this game, has picked up a double and a triple his last two times at bat. The first time up he fly to right.
Then the bottom part of the batting order for the Royals to get the hits and knock in the run.
And the number five batter on down.
Grant Jackson, the left hand reliever, kicks and deals at the strike call down McCray.
Jackson got his major league start with the Phillies. That was back in the 65s.
He does it, here's a foul out of play back toward the mezzanine. Strike two, the count on McCray.
He'll be followed by Jamie Quirk and then it'll be Cookie Rojas.
But the Earth Dogs are shuffling his lineup for this game today. There's a ball wide at the plate.
One and two, the count on McCray.
Royals, six runs, seven hits, one error. The Yankees have three runs, ten hits and they've made no errors.
Jackson checking his sign with Sturman Munson.
And McCray backs out of the batter's box for a moment.
Here's the motion, here's the pitch, he's swinging the batting ball to third. Great stuff by Nettles, he gets up, throw to first, got it.
Boy, there's the play of the series right now. It took a double away from Hal McCray.
Looks like St. Roy used to do here, Brooks Robinson, as Dunne and Baltimore Pytrainer used to do.
Or as they might say, McCray doubled down the left field line and Nettles threw him out of first base.
Davey Nelson is coming to bat now, he'll be hitting for Jamie Quirk.
Whitey Earth Dog getting a right hand batter in there.
Ernie, how did Pytrainer play the bag when you broadcast his game? That was Bob Prince.
I wondered if he played close or not.
Here's Davey Nelson, he came in as a snitch batter last night and failed to hit.
He's the one that had the babble with the sparkly lyle there.
In the ninth inning, here's the pitch to Nelson at the ball outside.
Royals leading the Yankees, 6-3, the Royals are batting in the eighth inning.
Jackson delivers, it's a strike called on Nelson.
1-1 McCartney.
Eighth inning in New York, it's a cut and a miss on a fast ball into the hands.
Rocky Rojas waits on deck for Kansas City.
Now Jackson into the wind up the limit with a ball wide and still through the count on him.
The first Royals strike out today.
Here's Hoss stepping in.
Cookie had a single in the second inning.
Not going to run with a sacrifice fly and then fly to left the next time.
Officially he has one for two. The first pitch to Rojas in close on him.
Small one. Right hand batting Rojas at the plate.
Swings and hits a little foul up the series.
1-1 the count on Cookie.
Royals 6-1, 7-1, New York 3-1, 10-1, New Eric.
Royals trying to get the series even.
Jackson delivers, breaking ball in the outside corner.
1-2 the count on Rojas.
Waiting on deck is Freddy Patek.
Here it comes, he swings with a ball right field.
Rojas went with that pitch and just hit a grounder between Randolph and Chambliss and on into right field.
That gives him two hits. McRae has two.
Now the man coming up now Patek has two.
Martinez has one and now Frank White will come out and run for Rojas.
That first base. So Cookie, the veteran, getting a hand as he leaves the base back.
Frank White at first base as the runner.
And Freddy Patek at the plate.
He drove in the first two runs of the double. He's also had a single in the flat or left.
White drives a throw over the first base but he's back safely.
8th inning, 6-3, Royals lead New York.
There's a high foul out of play. It'll be upstairs, first base side.
McRae started this inning with a drive down to third base.
Nettles threw him out. Quirt was batted for by Nelson. He struck out.
And then the next batter, Rojas, had a single right. White came in to run for him.
Now Patek's the batter and the count on Fred is one and one.
And the pitch. He swings. There's a drive to right center. Make it up the attic.
Rivers and Gambles chasing it between the two of them.
Now Rivers gets it deep in right center field. Rounding third is White.
He's coming home and he will score and there's another run for the Royals.
They lead it 7-3. Patek getting his third hit and his second double.
And his third run batted in in this game.
White's scampering all the way home from first base.
So with two out, the Royals are doing damage.
Here's Martinez at the plate for the man at second, two down.
Now this is a hitting attack the Royals have been waiting for.
One of their problems has been the lack of hits over the last several weeks.
Martinez has one for two plus a walk. He takes the ball high and outside.
Nine hits now for the Royals.
There's a foul out of play behind the plate. One and one the count on Buck Martinez.
Well with that run in it means that each one of the three Yankee pitchers has allowed at least a run.
Hunter, Tidrow, and Jackson.
The Royals have worked with three pitchers. Goris started, Bird in the third and Mingori in the seventh.
Now the set by the left-hander Grant Jackson. He pitches.
There's a high pop-up between home and first.
Shambles in fair territory. He has it and the Royals are out in the eighth inning.
However they get a run. One run on two hits.
Now there were no errors. The man left on base.
And in the middle of the eighth inning, Kansas City seven, New York three.
Yankees batting eighth inning. Royals lead seven, three.
Defensive changes for Kansas City.
Walford goes in to play left.
Poquette moves from left to right.
That puts McRae out of action.
And White will be the new second base from replacing Rolla.
All kinds of possibilities tomorrow from a pitching standpoint.
Should Kansas City hang on and win this game over the Yankees seven, three, and even the series?
More than likely Whitey Herzog would go with Split-Off.
Unless something happens between now and the end of the game.
I tell you, Split-Off was out there throwing very hard a moment ago when it looked as if the Yankees were coming back.
You know, this is, for Whitey, it's no tomorrow if he loses this one.
And he was even willing to put Split-Off in there just to win this ball game and then take your chances on Thursday.
And Billy Martin's got some choices to make.
He could go with Ed Figueroa. He could go with Alexander.
Or he could go with Holtzman.
And I imagine he's got a few others in mind.
Right now, the attention is all focused here in the eighth inning on Munson who will be leading off for the Yankees.
Well, the Royals ahead of the New Yorkers seven, three.
Munson has flied a center, then the next two times he's picked up singles, two for three.
He's had seven hits and 17 shifts. He's been one of the stars at bat for the Yankees.
Steve Mendoza, a little left-hander, kicks from the division as a draft of upfield make-or-foul.
It is down to the corner chased by Wolford and it reaches the deep and foul territory.
Munson is very strong with his hands, and he can adjust to that tight pitch about as well as anybody.
Here's a new alignment now for Kansas City. They've got Wolford in left, Cowens in center, Polkett in right.
And the infield has Brett Simmits third, Patek at short.
White is at second base, Mayberry first, Martinez is catching, and then Gorey on the bound.
He's the third pitcher, Whitey Hurtog is used this afternoon.
The Royals ahead, seven to three, the Yankees in the role of trying to battle back now on the eighth inning.
Strike one count, here's the pitch. Munson takes a ball in too close, battling down around the knees, one and one.
Then Gorey working off the third base side of the slab now.
Line to pitch, here's a curve ball in the seat.
Then he kept the ball in close for hands on the fairman Munson.
After Munson, Luke Pennella, Chris Stambliss for the schedule batters.
Then Gorey is facing the heavy part of the Yankee batting order in this eighth inning.
And sort of a quiet, the tentnesses that come over the crowd here at Yankee Stadium now.
Jank sale by four.
Now the applause begins to pick up a little bit and you hear some cheering.
Here's the pitch, he swings a fly ball into short right.
Polkett comes over to right center and makes the catch.
He had a little trouble for a moment, but then he hung on and pulled him in.
Luke Pennella, Luke went out ahead in this game, but he has three for ten now.
After this time at bat.
And it's two singles and one double to his credit.
Double came last night ahead of the Stambliss home run.
Wind up and Gorey delivers a bounding ball to third, it will be fouled by a couple of feet.
Brett playing near the line here in the late inning.
And he'll be fairly deep on Luke Pennella.
I feel around the left on Luke, he digs in again.
It is seven to three, the Royals lead the Yankees.
Here's the wind up by Munn-Gorey, the pitch on the way.
Swing fly ball left to the field.
Cowans and Wolford coming forward.
Wolford there one handed.
And they are two down in the Yankee eighth inning.
That will bring up Stambliss, then the toughest of the Yankee hitters.
He's one for three in this game.
Single in the second inning.
Short ahead of Nettles on the home run.
He bounced the first base from Mayberry in the third.
And he cracks into a double play, second to short the first.
In the sixth inning.
And up tanner against the left tanner.
Very wide curve, all the way.
Ball went on print.
Seven to three Kansas City leads New York.
Eighth inning, two down for the Yankees, nobody on.
It's the ball high and outside.
That was the fast ball.
Pitchers try to keep that ball in tight usually on Stambliss.
Jam him.
He's a two-hole delivery.
It's a ball outside.
It's three at all.
They count on Triss.
Well, he's not getting anything to swing at yet.
And Nettles is waiting on deck.
Yankees have out hit the Royals.
Ten hits to nine, the Royals have the runs.
Seven to three.
Here's a strike.
Breaking ball, got the inside corner.
Oh, you see that breaking ball on any count now.
Two down, nobody on.
Then Gori delivers.
Here's a line foul back at third base.
And it's a full count.
That's a foul, ten seconds for station identification.
This is the CBS Radio Network.
Bill Hanna, playing umpire, putting a new ball in play.
Seven-three, Royals lead eighth inning.
Yankees bat you out.
Nobody on the base, three-two to count on Chambliss.
Here's a windup in the pitch.
He swings and there's a fly ball to left-hitter.
Cowan's going over and back.
Walford there and Cowan makes the catch.
They almost go at it.
So it's three up and three down on our field flies.
In the Yankee eighth inning, no runs, no hits, no errors, and nobody left.
And at the end of eighth inning, Royals seven, New York three.
Cowan's at the plate leading off on the ninth inning.
And Grant Jackson delivers a breaking ball outside on the half-ball run.
Cowan's about ahead in four turns at bat.
Right-hander bat, it takes the cut.
It's a bounding ball to short.
Mason is there now.
He gloved it.
The fellow, Chambliss got him.
Mason, who relieves Stanley after Stanley left for the fence, about to take care of that one.
Now Tom Fokette, three outfielders, hope for three plus a walk will be up.
Royals lead the Yankees, seven to three in the ninth inning.
Here's a breaking ball over for a strike from the left-hander Grant Jackson.
Outfield plays Fokette to the left.
He swings and fouls it on the screen.
Strike two to count on him.
Royals jumped out in front.
They got three in the second.
Yanks came back on the home run by Nettles to pick up two in the second.
And the Royals got two in the fourth, one in the sixth, one in the eighth.
The Yanks picked up a run in the seventh inning.
Now the motion and the pitch.
Swing and a bounding ball to short.
Mason has another one.
Nice hop this time.
So the Chambliss, they're two down.
That will bring to bat George Pratt without a hit.
He's hit in all the other games, but in this one he has only a base on balls, his last shift in the play.
Prior to the walk, he bounced to the pitcher.
He dropped the second, flying to the left.
Here's a curve.
It breaks over.
Strike one on Brett.
Mayberry waiting on deck.
Here's a foul out of play.
Just to be left of the break downstairs.
Two strikes.
Jackson's not wasting any pitches here in the ninth inning.
Royals leading New York 7-3.
Brett steps away from the break momentarily.
Time called.
He's back in now to wait on the strike two delivery from the left-hand reliever for the Yankees, Grant Jackson.
It's a ball.
He gave him a big change up that time.
One and two to count on George.
Rivers over and left-hitter on Brett.
He swings and pouts another one away.
One and two, the count stays.
If there is a fifth game, and now it looks as if there will be,
it will be on the air tomorrow night at 8-07 Eastern Time.
Here's a strike called.
A fastball nips the corner and he's caught out on strike.
They go down one, two, three in the Royal ninth inning.
And we go now to the last half of the night, Kansas City 7-New York 3.
Well, the little left-hander, Mengeri, trying to hold off the Yankee power in the ninth inning.
The Yankee fans sitting here remembering what Cincinnati did to win their three-game sweep
in the National League Championship Series.
As they came from behind with three in the ninth to get into the World Series.
The Royal fans are counting on the left arm of Steve Mingoi as he faces Meadows here,
leading off on the last half of the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium.
Royal 7-New York 3.
Meadows has got a home run.
He has struck out.
He's by the right.
And the fifth.
He swings as they drive to right field.
He's going back, it is over his head and it is in the seat.
A home run for Meadows, a low line drive that clears the barrier,
giving the Yankees another run to cut the lead to seven to four.
Second home run of the game and the third home run in the series.
That's all very much different from the other one.
The first home run he hits is down the line, very high into the third deck.
This one was straight away right field.
Pochette went back and it just cleared the barrier into home run territory.
Lettel throwing in the bullpen.
Now seven to four, the Royals lead the Yankees.
Nettle accounting for three of the four Yankees runs with a couple of home runs.
And the tissue has to be removed again from the playing area.
We'll have Valaz come up the back now.
That's Otto Valaz, C-E-L-E-Z.
He batted 266 for the season.
He's a right-hand batter.
Now Valaz is up with the plate, but Umpar Halle was way over on the third base side
and the plate was not ready to be resumed.
That Otto was ready. I tell you, he's telling me.
Well, they're trying to re-step their outfield now.
The Royals are. There's some tap waving.
Valaz will be played deep and almost straight away.
He's a strong right-hand batter.
And he takes a breaking ball outside.
He's already trying to steal a ball, breaking down on the way.
That Yankee Stadium crowd has come to life here on the ninth inning.
Seven to four. Royals lead.
There's a ball low.
Two and a half, the count on Valaz.
24-year-old outfielder from Puerto Rico.
Mingore checking his time.
The pitch is on the way.
He takes the strike. He's got the inside corner.
Morris and McHale in the bullpen.
Fitzmars is the only Royal who's not seen action in the series.
Valaz was out of part of last year with a broken wrist.
Digging in, close stand sitter.
Then going, here's a fly ball to the left field.
Wolfwood is there. He has it, but he's out.
One down, nobody on.
And Willie Randolph will be the batter.
Seven to four. The Royals lead. The Yanks and the Nights.
It's the strike.
Got his breaking ball in the outside corner.
Sandy Alomar waiting on back for the Yankees.
Missed the outside corner with that one.
And Mingore has gone to a 1-1 count now against the batter Randolph.
Here's the motion by the left-hander, the pitch on the way.
He swings and doesn't get it. One and two.
Randolph single his first time.
Bounced out the next two trips.
Kansas City leading. The Yankees batting on the ninth inning.
It is seven to four. The Royals ahead.
Yankees about hit them 11 to nine.
Bounding ball, short stuff. Hot-tack to his left. Has it, go to Mayberry. Got him.
And they are two down and that'll leave it up to Alomar.
The batter and reserve will be batting for Mason.
The Santos who's the first time at bat of the series.
And that homer that was given up by Mingore, kind of unusual for him.
He gave up only three all year long. Three and 86 innings of relief.
Nettles got all of it.
Alomar batting right-handed.
And some more tissue thrown on the field from the upper deck and left.
It has to be removed and time is called.
So Mingore backs off the mound. He's trying to get that final out.
Alomar batted 239. He hit a lot better right-handed than he did left.
He batted 280 right-handed and 198 left-handed.
He'll be up there right-handed right now.
The Yankees need a big rally if they're going to win the American League pennant today.
And the Royals have to get this final out if they're going to move the series into the fifth game tomorrow night.
Here's the pitch by Mingore. It's a strike call. A breaking ball above the knees on Alomar.
Two down and the Yankee ninth inning. Royals lead them 74.
Mingore delivers. It's a ball. He missed the far corner with a breaking pitch.
One-and-one the count on Sandy Alomar. Ninth inning for the Yankees.
Nettles' home run is pulled in with in three.
In field back except for Brett. He's even in the back of third.
There's a fly ball. Shoot in the game. It's in left field.
Wolfe was calling for it. He's there. He has it.
And we'll go to five games. That's all for the Yankees in the ninth inning.
They get one run on the home run by Nettles. One hit.
Now there were no errors and nobody left.
And the final score this afternoon is Yankee Stadium New York, the Royals seven and the Yankees four.