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The Baltimore Orioles face the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium for Game 1 of the 1966 World Series on October 5th.
This is the NBC National Broadcast of Game 1 featuring announcers Bob Prince and Chuck Thompson.
Good afternoon everybody, along with Chuck Thompson. This is Bob Prince,
and I'm meeting you from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California for the 1966 World Series,
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Well here in Los Angeles it is a very sunny and a pleasant day,
and Dodger Stadium is rapidly filling up now as the Dodgers and the Baltimore Orioles,
veterans Dodgers in World Series competition,
although quite a few of their players have not played too many times,
will meet the Baltimore Club, which for the first time brings the great glory of Pinnett Fever
to that wonderful city in Baltimore as the American League champion.
Now here's the veteran voice of the Baltimore Orioles, whose great ball club had a fine, fine year,
and Chuck Thompson will tell us all about it.
Well thank you very much, Bob Prince. Good afternoon, baseball fans.
The Baltimore Orioles did a World Series for the first time in a rather brief history
and are very delighted to be here.
However, the Orioles, winning of an American League pennant,
could not be compared to the Dodgers winning the National League,
and certainly all baseball fans, whether they be routers for the National League or for the American League,
certainly have to dock the cap and a great big round of congratulations to Manager Walter Alston and the Dodgers
for the manner in which they won this 1966 National League pennant.
Baltimore has nothing but a great deal of respect for the tremendous pitching of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
They also respect the great Dodgers' speed and their fine defensive skills.
But quite honestly, Baltimore feels it brings to this World Series the kind of a club that can beat the Dodgers.
The Orioles are a club that has played very consistently throughout the first half of the year,
and the second half of the year ran into problems that beset all ballcups at one time or another
in the course of the baseball year, injuries.
Unfortunately for the Baltimore Orioles, the greater part of their injuries in the second half of the year
befell a very fine pitching staff.
Now, everyone has talked about the superlative pitching of the Los Angeles Dodgers,
and there's not a man in the world who could deny it.
However, in the Baltimore camp, they honestly feel that their pitching has been downgraded.
The Orioles feel their pitching is a lot better than people seem to think that it is.
And this afternoon, a young man who has, well, never played any high school baseball
for the very simple reason that they did not have baseball in his high school in Dillings, Montana,
a young left-hander by the name of Dave McNally,
will attempt to prove that point to the Los Angeles Dodgers and to the baseball world.
The Baltimore Orioles bring into this series not only a very powerful ballclub,
but a very fine defensive ballclub.
And the leader, of course, is a man that I think many people refer to as the greatest third baseman in baseball today
in Brooks Robinson.
And then, in a trade with the National League this past winter, the Orioles acquired from Cincinnati,
Frank Robinson, and I doubt that there's a baseball fan anywhere in the world
who is not only too well aware of the accomplishments of this, the Triple Crown winner of 1966
and the first Cincinnati win in 1966 for the Yankees.
In the background, Bob, I hear the PA announcer coming up with the starting lineups,
and I think they are going to be introduced individually and come on out and stand on the foul line,
and it might be a good idea if we were to try and introduce or announce our starting lineups along with the PA announcer.
They are, first of all, introducing the manager, Hanks Bauer, who, while the world series is nothing new to him,
and when queried, after clinching his first American League candidate as a manager,
how he compared it to winning as a player, he said, this is the greatest goal I have had in baseball.
Now for the Orioles, the leadoff winner will be Luis Aparicio, one of the finest defensive shortstop in all of baseball,
who had as great a year as he has ever had as a major leaguer.
Batting number two will be the Orioles' better fielder and a left-handed swinger by the name of Russ Snyder.
The Orioles baseball fan referred to this man as Mr. Huffington.
He does not have the supportive skills of any one given department.
He's not a great hitter, not the greatest defensive out here.
He does not have the greatest arm, nor the greatest speed,
but he has stayed in the major leagues on sheer hustle and great competitive desire.
The triple crown winner, Frank Robinson, will bat third and play in right field for Baltimore.
Batting number four will be the third baseman, Brooks Robinson.
Batting five is the biggest man on the Baltimore Oriole roster, Boog Powell, the first baseman.
Batting five is the left fielder for the Baltimore Orioles, Kurt Leffrey, and he is a left-handed hitter.
And the number seven hitter in the Baltimore Orioles batting order will be Dave Johnson.
He is a right-handed batter and a rookie.
And the number eight hitter will be another rookie who did a tremendous job for Baltimore,
surprised everyone with his ability to catch on a par with the big leaguers
and to stand the pressure of a pennant drive, a native Californian, the Etchamara.
And then the pitcher, Dave McNally.
This batting order is the batting order that manager Hank Bauer had to throw out the entire 66 campaign
against the right-handed pitchers.
Now tomorrow, Colfax will take them out for the Dodgers and it will be just one or two changes.
Mainly, centerfielder Russ Snyder will come out of the ballgame
and Paul Blair will play in centerfield for the Orioles against left-handed pitchers.
And Alvar, that's the way the Orioles are going to go to battle these Dodgers for 66 points.
Let's see what the Dodgers do against the Bergs.
Well, one thing we know, it's a heavy partisan shout.
And so the Dodgers will be coming out in Waldo Alston in his sixth series as a manager,
has won four and lost one, and holds the record for victories by a national league manager.
Here's Mr. Dodger in the lines of any Maury Wells, the great shortstop and leadoff batter,
and before a knee injury cut him down, a tremendous threat to steal,
and may possibly be doing that in the series.
Centerfielder, one of the fastest men in all of baseball, will be Willie Davis.
He can roam far, and he usually is a dead first ball swinger,
and I'm sure the Baltimore Orioles know all about that.
Now, the right fielder is a very adaptable player.
Sweet Lou Johnson, as you call him, he's been the fellow that just runs out there all the time.
He runs out home runs. He just hustles all the time.
In left field, the Dodgers' real power man, who's working with an Achilles tendon problem,
and that'll be Tommy Davis, a very strong batter,
has had trouble and started to fade a little bit toward the end of the campaign.
A switch-hitting second baseman and a very good one, Jim LeFever,
will play at second base in bat fifth.
LeFever did a lot of weight lifting in the offseason, and that's why he came up with more home runs.
Wes Parker, whom many baseball observers believe has the finest pair of hands of all first basemen going,
will be in the first base, found in batting sixth.
At third base, the one man that I doubt if he'll ever retire.
There have been many calls to replace him, but when they open this season,
it's Jim Gilliam going out there, junior Gilliam, and he'll be playing in third.
The catcher and one of the real top catchers in baseball, John Roswell.
Real smart individual, very, very heady.
And on the mound, a very tough one by the name of Don Drysdale,
jumping off this year to a 13 and 16 record, but when the chips are down, big D is there.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, around the United States and all over the world, we're about ready to go.
Commissioner Eckert is going to toss out the first baseball traditionally,
and he will be set to get underwears.
Right now, let's pause for station identification.
Eight teleneutrile WGYs connected.
Territoga, the authentic bechay behind the yellow label.
The only mix that we know of that people built a city just to be near.
In 1960, I had the extreme pleasure of working the World Series
with the veteran voice of the Baltimore Orioles, Mr. Chuck Thompson,
who will call the front half of this contest for you.
And Chuck, I can only say this.
If this series develops into as wild and a woolly one as the Yankees and the Pirates put on in 1960,
we'll do some talking together.
Well, true, Bob, friends, and it'll probably take a few days before we can get over it.
That was one of the many great World Series,
and it was a great pleasure and a privilege to be there in 1960 as it is again this afternoon.
Well, now to the important business at hand. It's just a matter of moments away.
On the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers is the big, hard-throwing Don Dryer.
His catcher is John Rolster, and I would now run the entire defensive lineup of the Dodgers
so you can kind of set them in your mind's eye.
The first baseman will be Wes Parker.
The second baseman, Jim Lefebvre.
The third baseman, the incomparable Mari Wells, who played out a great handicap this year
and played in a great fashion.
And the third baseman, Jim Gilliam.
In left field, for the Dodgers will be Tommy Davis.
The center fielder will be Willie Davis.
And the right fielder, Lou Johnson.
The umpire at the plate here in game number one will be from the National League, Bill Joukowski.
At first base, the American League's Nester Shiner.
At second base, the National League's Chris Kanekoutis.
At third base, the American League's John Ruskin.
Down the left field foul line from the National League, Mel Steinke.
Down the right field foul line, the American League's Al Gump.
To lead off, the ball to Baltimore Orioles, the right hand hitting shortstop, Luis Aparicio.
Luis hits out of a closed stance about the middle of the box.
He will take the ball to the opposite field frequently.
Center fielder Willie Davis shades a bit toward the alley, toward right center.
As Drysdale winds in the first pitch of the 66 series, it's a strike call and we're underway.
Coaching third base for the Baltimore Orioles is Billy Hunter.
Coaching first base, Gene Woodling.
Drysdale's look to Rose-Berra for the five.
The big right hand is one strike offering.
He is a bit outside, two even to count at one and one.
Aparicio improved his average in 1966 some 51 points.
Sly ball is hit out of the shallow right field coming up on the ball of the right fielder, Lou Johnson.
And he far covered the next pitch after he got a big double.
And Aparicio on a one-one offering flies to the right fielder, Johnson.
One up and one down in the only half of the first inning.
Adding number two for Baltimore, left hand hitting center fielder, Ruff Snyder.
Ruff is a native of the fine state of Nebraska.
He lived in Nelson, Nebraska.
Left-handed swinger, he attended Nebraska University, did Ruff.
So here's a public Baltimore called Mr. Hustle.
Drysdale, first offering, is right down the groove in a strike call.
Third baseman Gilliam, in respect to Snyder's good speed and bunting ability, is up on the edge of the infield grass.
The rest of the infield, up maybe a step or two, and the outfield slanted a bit to the opposite field.
Drysdale delivers inside low.
And the count evens now at one ball and one strike.
One out and none out.
Drysdale to the wide.
The big right-hander's pitch is a ball two rolling inside.
Snyder started to walk on the breaking ball, the hell back of the swing inside.
Two balls, one strike.
The first hit, 3-06 in 1966 with the Birds, second best in the American League.
Two on pitch, the left-hand batting Snyder again misses a little bit low and inside.
On the count now, three balls and one strike.
Well, this is the 63rd World Series.
Dodger fans point to the fact that Dodgers have never lost here in Dodger City.
Drysdale delivers low and inside again, a ball for the Russ Snyder.
Oh, the first baserunner of the 63rd Series if you keep these counters.
The sixth becomes centerfielder Russ Snyder.
And out here is Frank Robinson.
And if you were to try and talk about all of the accomplishments of Frank Robinson in the 66th season with the Baltimore Orioles,
it might take us a couple of minutes.
His first American League season became the sixth player in the American League history to win the Triple Crown.
This is his second World Series.
He hit 200 in the Series of 1961 against the English.
Here's a pickoff of the catcher first base.
Snyder jumps back in time with a throw with a bit to the infield side of the bag, pulling Parker off.
One out, Russ Snyder, the runner at first base, and Drysdale ready to go to work
starting Frank Robinson.
Drysdale throws outside for one.
Snyder leading first with one away on the top of the first inning.
Drysdale's fifth swing up, dry ball well hit fairly deep to left field,
back goes to left field on the warning track, leaves, he does not get it, it's in for a home run.
Frank Robinson, homers, and the Orioles take an immediate two-to-nothing lead over the L.A. Dodgers.
Frank Robinson with a two-run home run, storing Russ Snyder ahead of him,
gives the Orioles a one, or rather a two-to-nothing lead.
And on thinking back to the very first game of the 1966 campaign,
The Orioles open against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, who were tied up 4-4
in the first team-winning of the first game of the year,
and Frank Robinson, homers, to win it for Baltimore 5-4.
Now here is Brooks Robinson with Baltimore leading two-to-nothing with one out.
Drysdale's first pitch of breaking ball into a strike call to Brooks.
If you're not familiar with the measurements of this line ballpark,
330 feet down the foul lines right and left, pitch to Brooks high and inside
to make the count one ball, one strike.
One of the former great third baseman of the American League, George Kell,
referred to this man as the finest player in baseball.
Drysdale to the move, and the 1-1 to Brooks Robinson, swing and another drive.
Well here he's to left, back on the ball, Tommy Davis looking up, is going, going, gone.
Home run for Brooks Robinson, and it's Baltimore 3,
and the Dodgers humping in the very first inning.
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Brooks Robinson has hit his first World Series home run.
This is his first World Series.
And the Orioles now have a three-to-nothing edge over Drysdale and the Dodgers,
and time has called very briefly while the fine veteran, Jim Gilliam,
moves into the mound to talk a bit with his hurler.
And I believe we'll have some bullpen activity now for the LA Dodgers.
Joe Mueller is warming, the Dodger bullpen as Boog Powell, left-handed swinging Oriole,
first baseman, steps in.
Here's a check swing high pop-up, third base side foul,
drifting and foul ground under a junior Gilliam, waiting now at Gilliam Pass
for the second out of the inning.
And Bob Prince, I understand that the Orioles have just tied a record.
Yes, most consecutive home runs in an inning one ball club, several have held it.
Two is the record, Washington and the Yankees did it three times.
So now the Orioles join the most elite circle.
Two down, with none on, the Orioles have scored three times, a walk-around slider,
a two-run home run by Frank Robinson, solo blast by Brooks,
Drysdale pitches high and away, and a ball.
Kurt Fleppery, left-handed Oriole left fielder,
a young man who brings a tremendous amount of competitive desire to the game of baseball.
Drysdale's pitches foul the way out of play.
One ball, one strike.
Two out, none on, Drysdale turns his back to the plate now to take a momentary breather,
and I'm sure there are many fans who are kind of saying to themselves right now,
Drysdale is working with but two days' rest, how true.
Just missed inside, two balls, one strike to the south ball hitting Kurt Fleppery.
Two on offering, cut on a line, drive on to the right field corner, digging hard,
Lou Johnson doesn't get there, has to play it on the first pop,
and Fleppery has pulled a line single at the right field corner.
For the Birds, it will be their third base hit against Don Drysdale in this top of the first inning.
Here is another of the Orioles, celebrated rookies, young Dave Johnson.
He was born in Orlando, Florida, now lives down in San Antonio, Texas.
He has attended Trinity University during the offseason.
Right-handed swinger is Dave Johnson.
In the second inning, Fleppery, the runner at first base, Drysdale delivers, breaking ball then, strike calls.
Cut the out of portion around the knees today.
Johnson looks at an offering long outside.
Weave on the count now at one ball, one strike.
This is Dave Johnson.
The Baltimore Orioles have another fine utility infielder by the name of Lov Johnson.
They also have two pitchers that answer to the name of Miller, John Miller and Stu Miller.
One ball, one strike today, Johnson.
Drysdale pitches, swing and a miss, strike two, one ball, two strikes.
One, two pitch, the Johnson cut out and missed a strike out for Drysdale.
The Orioles, in their half of the first inning, grabbed three runs on the same number of bases, three.
There were no Dodger errors.
One man is left on at the end of the first half inning.
Baltimore, three, and the Dodger, nothing.
And now the Dodgers, who were forced to play catch-up baseball many, many times in their battle for the 1966 pennants,
are forced to do the same thing again in this first game.
And one thing they will do, Chuck, very early in the ball game, while they're down at three, nothing at this point,
they will try for the one run to get themselves back into the position of the bun.
They'll go for that one rather than the big inning.
Well, here's Maury Wells.
Maury, against the left-hand slant of Dave McNally, will be a right-handed batter.
Nated to Washington, D.C., is Maury.
McNally's first pitch is a strike call.
He's got the fastball over the outer portion around the liners.
Brooks Robinson, the third, is just about even with the bag.
Aparicio and Johnson are up a couple of steps.
There's the ball.
Tying outside, the right-hand batting Maury Wells.
The Oriole outfield is punched up against Maury Wells,
they give him the foul line down the left-field side and the right-field side
and he's offered to try and cut off the alleys in left and right center.
Wills fouls the pitch down the first base side and out of play.
One ball, two strikes.
Now the one-two pitch coming down to Wills.
McNally throws fastball that's fouled out of play again,
have it down, a ball, and two strikes to the Dodger leadoff hitter Maury Wills,
followed by Willie Davis and Lou Johnson.
It took Maury Wills a long time to get to the big leagues,
but what a magnificent job he's done once he arrives, eight and a half years in the minors.
Pitch outside, have it count now, two balls, two strikes, two Wills.
Dave McNally does not have any unorthodox pitches.
He has a fastball, a curveball, and a change country.
Two balls and two strikes to count to Maury Wills.
McNally throws high again and we have a full count, three and two.
The one thing Baltimore pitchers hope to be able to do in this series is not to give the Dodgers
that face on balls because of the great Dodger speed and base running ability.
Three-two pitch fouled to the screen behind the plate.
McNally has the sign to the line and the three-two pitch to Wills is a ball four up high
and Wills is down with a base on ball.
And we'll bring to the plate now, the better fielder, Willie Davis.
Long, lean individual, great speed.
This young man is a first ball hitter for the most part.
Wills with a big lead at first.
There he goes, the pitch is taken high for the ball.
The throw to second base, he has got to be safe.
Wills is in with a field.
Well, as Bob Prince told you just moments ago, this is the Dodger style of baseball.
On the very first offering from Dave McNally to the left-hand-hitting Willie Davis,
Murray Wills was gone and in safely with a steal of second.
The time has now been called.
Wills seems to have shaken himself up just a little bit on the slide.
Murray has been operating pretty much with a very heavily taped right leg,
a bad thigh and knee, and I think just asked there for a little time in order to flex his muscles.
But did it take a little more than that I think to get him out of this serious check.
How true.
What a baseball's fine competitor, this Murray Wills.
Now the one-nothing pitch, the left-hand batting Willie Davis.
Swing and a foul out of play coming right up here near the first.
And now a ball and a strike.
Nobody out.
Wills halfway around the second base and the one-one-pitch coming to Willie Davis.
McNally tried to curve, didn't make it, and now there's two balls, one strike.
Andy Etcheverrin has now gone to the mound to visit very briefly with his youngster, Dave McNally.
There's just no way you can really explain World Series jitters.
They affect everyone no matter how many series you have played in
or how many series you have been associated with.
Now the two-one-pitch from left-hand batting Davis.
Wills leads second, the pitch is cut out and popped up.
This one out towards shortstop, Aparecio on the skin of the infield calling for it.
Gloved it for the first out of the inning.
Willie Davis retired on a pop-up to the shortstop, Aparecio.
Now here's the follow-up.
Referred to as the man in the hurry, Lou Johnson.
Man of Lexington, Kentucky.
Lives right out here in the fine city of Los Angeles.
Began his pro career in the Yankee organization.
This is his 14th year as a pro, played for 15 different minor league teams and 13 different leagues.
You think he's not happy to be a Dodger and be here?
You know he is.
Right-handed swinger and McNally's first outing is high and away for all one.
Lou hit 272 in 1966.
That 73 runs that at end.
This one under the club leader, Jim LeFever.
One-hunting pitch coming down to Lou Johnson.
Wills the second with one away.
McNally with a long, hard look toward second and Johnson figures he'll break the spell, steps out.
Wills opened the game with a walk, stole second base.
Willie Davis popped to the shortstop, Aparecio.
Now McNally ready to deal.
1-0 to Lou Johnson.
Southpaw comes off the rubber with a pitch that's cut out.
High five all centerfield.
Tied it with a glass of down-packing toward the alley and left center.
Getting under it.
Steps out, the Oriole centerfielder makes the catch for the second out of the inning.
Two down as Lou Johnson flies to centerfielder, Russ Knight.
Here is Tony Davis.
Born in Brooklyn, New York and now lives here in Los Angeles.
This is his 11th Pro Team and his seventh year with the Dodgers.
The only Dodger to hit 300 this year leading the club with a strong 3-13.
And Tony is a kind of a fellow who has great success against the left-handed pitchers.
He hits 361 against Southpaws this year.
Two down, Wilt second. Pitch coming to Tony. Strike called by plate umpire Bill Joukowski.
Tony has led the Dodgers three other times hitting against left-handers.
61, 62 and 63.
Wilt second with two down.
Left-handed McNally calls to second baseman Dave Johnson racing toward the bag in a pickoff effort and Wilt went back in on the belt buckle without too much difficulty.
One strike to the batter, Tony Davis.
For those of you who may have just tuned in a little bit late, the Orioles with two home runs in the top of the first lead the Dodgers
have nothing in this last half of the first inning.
Now the one-strike pitch to Tony Davis.
Wilt's dancing out at second base. McNally throws swing.
Ground ball hit off a third-day side charging Brooks Robinson.
He has in the shoulder and eye hop throw to foul.
In time to get Tony Davis.
And that's it for the Dodgers in their half of the first inning.
No runs. There were no base hits. No bird errors.
One man left on at the end of the first inning of play to score Baltimore 3, Los Angeles nothing.
From Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, the Oriole and the Los Angeles Dodgers of the 1966 World Series.
And now for his first play to parents ever in a World Series, the Oriole rookie catcher Andy Etchibarron, a native of the state of California,
another of the Orioles' many, bonus youngsters.
And what a fine year he gave the Baltimore Orioles under severe handicaps, numerous injuries.
Right-handed batter is Etchibarron. Drysdale's pitch is a breaking ball that missed outside ball one.
Last year Etchibarron caught in 140 games for the Rochester Red Wings in the International League despite a broken front.
All alone outside to Etchibarron, the count two ball for no strikes.
And some of the Dodger fans just stir a little uneasily.
We did have some very brief bullpen activity on the part of the Dodgers in the first inning in the first of Joe Mueller.
Two nothing pitch for right-hand batting Etchibarron.
Check swing and a ball inside and high, three and oh.
Now the three nothing pitch to Etchibarron. He takes all the way and a strike is called.
Three and one to Andy Etchibarron.
He'll be hollered to the plate by Baltimore pitcher Dave McNally.
Three one pitch. Drysdale deals, swing and a miss.
Strike two, kind of popped that one right by. Oh, God, Etchibarron.
Drysdale looks and the big right-hander to the move. Three-two pitch.
Oh, four, it's high inside. And there's the walk to Andy Etchibarron.
Well, the only other walk that Drysdale issued went to Russ Nider in the first inning.
It was followed by a Frank Robinson hold run to give Baltimore a two-number play,
and then Brooks Robinson followed with a solo hold run to account for the three bird runs.
Walk number two issued by Drysdale.
Here now is pitcher Dave McNally.
Dave is a right-handed batter deep in the box, open stance, and Drysdale to the set.
Below the belt deals the first base. Etchibarron back safely.
Parker holding on the runner over that way.
And now just figure that Dave McNally will be moving Etchibarron along with the buck.
The set by Drysdale. McNally squares the buck, bunks off the first base side of the mound.
Fielded by the pitcher, no play at second base. Throw to first is in time to retire, sacrificing Dave McNally.
Here's the drawing. Pitcher to the second base from covering at first to retire McNally.
One away in the top half of the second inning, Etchibarron halfway around into the plate for the second time is Luis Aparicio.
He was retired in the first inning in a fly ball to the right fielder, Lou Johnson.
Etchibarron for a catcher has remarkable speed. He can move along very well.
A hard look to Rose Burrup of the side. Now turns to the stretch to the set and his pitch.
High fly ball out of the shallow right field. Back to second base and on the right field to Lou Johnson.
Still Johnson getting under it and Lou makes the grab to retire Aparicio.
We have two down as Aparicio retires. The fly ball to right field.
And now here is Russ Feider who against Drysdale in the first inning drew the base on balls.
And Robinson Frank scored him on a two-run home run.
Snyder taking his time settling in at the plate. Drysdale standing behind the rubber. Now toes in looking down for the side.
And the Dodger right had his first offering to Snyder. Cut on line drive base hit over the third base and sent out of the left field.
Etchibarron hits third base. Around third coming home. Throw coming to the plate.
Etchibarron is going to go over standing up and Baltimore leads now by a score of four to nothing on the throw into the plate.
Snyder moved down to second base. Etchibarron scores run number four as Snyder slices a drive into the left field area chased down out there by Tommy Davis.
The official scorer rolls a single for Russ Snyder and he takes second on the throw to the plate.
Bill Moller is now throwing in the Dodger ball pass.
Frank Robinson at the plate for the second time. He homered off Drysdale with a man out of the first pitch.
Swing line foul down the third base side into the Dodger dugout. I hope everybody is okay.
That was a mean foul ball into the spacious Dodger dugout off the third base side here at Dodger Stadium.
He's hitting Orioles of course on the first base side.
Frank Robinson now examining that bat.
Got a vigorously banging first the handle end of the bat on the plate and then the barrel end of the bat and has determined now that it's not splintered and okay.
Now he turns and looks toward the plate on fire, Bill Joukowsky, and they give the bat another squint.
Evidently all right. Frank steps in and we're ready.
Snyder at second base two down in the top half of the second inning Baltimore for Dodgers nothing.
Drysdale's pitch, swing and a high fly ball left field.
Waiting out there Tommy Davis coming toward the foul line, loping in under it now.
The big man is there. He's got it.
Now that's the final out of the inning.
But for the Orioles in that half of the second inning, another run on one base hit.
There are no Dodger errors and the man is left on at the end of an inning and a half to score Baltimore for Los Angeles nothing.
This is Jim LeFevre.
Bill the Dodger is coming on against Baltimore's southpaw Dave McNally in the last half of the second inning with Jim LeFevre.
He'll be followed by Wes Parker and Jim Gilliam.
LeFevre a switch hitter, a right-handed swinger against Dave McNally.
Ball one low inside almost hit Jim right in the right ankle.
He was born in Inglewood, California.
He was a National League Rookie of the Year last season.
Pass ball that's just inside right at the belt.
Now to count two balls and no strikes.
LeFevre waiting now a two-nothing pitch from Dave McNally.
Strike called as the Baltimore left-hander got the inner portion around the letters.
Danny Ozar coaching on the first base side for the Dodgers and Preston Gomez at third.
Two-one pitch to LeFevre.
Swing fly ball, well hit.
Deep left field.
LeFevre going back, looking up.
Forget it.
Now Jim LeFevre.
Now Jim LeFevre with the first Dodger hit of the ball game, hit it all the way, way off in the seats in left field.
And it's now Baltimore four and the Dodgers one and the Dodgers as we mentioned earlier who have had to play catch-up baseball on numerous occasions this year to win their pennants have to do it again this afternoon.
Here is Wes Parker, right-handed swinger against McNally.
Takes a pitch high for a ball.
As we mentioned earlier, the Dodgers have no less than four switch hitters in their lineup this afternoon and one of them at the plate right now on the person of Wes Parker.
McNally's one-nothing pitch.
Strike called to pick up the outer portion around the knees.
The count evened the ball and the strike to Wes Parker. McNally thralls way up high on the ball.
I'm not sure what he was trying to let up on the pitch.
Whatever he was trying to do, it didn't work.
It was a wee bit out of the strike zone.
Wes led the Dodgers in games play this year with 156.
2-1 pitch to Parker.
Swing and a foul ball in the dirt behind the plate.
At the count, two balls, two strikes to the Dodger first baseman.
Now 2-2 pitch coming to Wes Parker.
McNally rocks over the rubber.
A foul, a ground ball down the first base side, fair ball, just down the line, down to the right field corner. Parker going hard around first, legging for two.
And it evidently was kicked off by a spectator down on that right field corner, Frank Robinson.
He could not make any kind of a play.
Bounced into the seat apparently and Wes Parker has a ground rule double, a right-handed hitter.
Hit that ball right on the short line, right down the first base side.
A trickled out foul and first base umpire, Lester Shylock, had to put on quite an adroit and agile move to keep from being hit by the ball and make the call at the same time.
So the Dodgers get a leadoff home run from the repeaters and a follow-up double by Wes Parker and bring to the plate the veterans in Gilead.
And then on the mound with that free field pitcher, Dave McFadden, and toss things over just a little bit following Parker's double and the umpire on the right field foul line, Cal Duffin, went on down to the corner.
It spoke to a spectator about that possible interference and it may have denied Parker the opportunity of a triple if it was there.
One up and pitch now to Gilead.
The ball right outside at the Valley Catwalk really failed.
Dodger fans here at Dodger Stadium come to life.
Now we see a stirring of activity in the Baltimore Oriole bullpen in the right field corner.
Right-hander Mo Drabowski is warming in the Oriole bullpen, McHale deals high on ball three.
The runner at second base, Wes Parker, just spliced a double down the right field line.
And Gilead waiting now on three-hunting pitch from Dave McNally.
The bird left-hander ready to go.
A look back to second, the pitch to the plate is high ball four.
There's the walk to Gilead.
The second walk issued by Baltimore's Dave McNally.
And it brings to the plate the fine veteran Dodger catcher John Rowe Burrow.
John's 14th season as a pro, he has had 10 seasons with the Dodgers.
He's been joining the club in Brooklyn during the 1957 season.
Gilead Drysdale and Kofax are the only others who played for the Dodgers in Brooklyn.
Rowe Burrow, a left-handed hitter against the southpaw pitching of McNally.
There are none out, none out.
Dodger runners, Parker at second, Gilead at first, McNally second.
And the pitch, breaking ball high, ball one.
The Orioles four, the Dodgers one.
We're in the last half of the second inning of game number one.
And the Dodgers have brought pressure to bear on the young Baltimore southpaw, Dave McNally.
McNally ready with a one-nothing, left-hand batting Roseborough.
He takes ball two, a little bit high and inside.
Manager Hank Bauer of the Orioles, throwing a bit nervously down in the dugout.
Now a two-nothing pitch to Roseborough.
Right down Broadway and a strike is called.
John apparently under wraps, took it all away.
Two and one.
The Orioles center field a slider, laying rather deep in center, a bit around toward the alley.
Actually, the outfield's kind of fanned out, guarding all the exits against Roseborough, who may hit the ball anywhere.
Two-one pitch.
Oh, I'm going to miss.
Strike two.
John didn't hold it all on back, I guarantee you.
Two balls, two strikes to Roseborough.
Not out, Dodger runners first and second.
And Drysdale, the on-deck hitter.
And I'm sure all of you are aware of the fact that he's a fine hitting pitcher.
McNally ready to go again.
Two-two pitch to Roseborough.
There it is.
Ground ball just fouled outside of first.
McNally's slight ground ball down the first base side of the cow bowl.
A few moments ago, Baltimore reliefer Mo Drabowski started a warm in the Oreo bullpen.
So now both bullpens have been activated, and we have yet to complete two innings of the first game.
Two-two to count to Roseborough.
McNally ready?
The left-handed throw.
Look out.
And a foul ball.
Hold on a minute.
This bit right over Roseborough's head, and Nick's a bat, and Karen fouls.
And Dave McNally in the Oreos come up with a pretty good break.
Roseborough didn't have to duck very much at all, but that bat was cocked right up behind the left ear,
and the ball picked it off.
Nealius Cabir, a pound foul.
Right now, the game will be held up momentarily, pitching coach Harry Brackin,
one of the great Simmons-Fyne Gala baseballs that's on its way to the mound.
And he will now talk briefly with pitcher Dave McNally and catcher Andy Etchicott.
Bob Brint, we'll check while we have this momentary delay.
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Well, Brackin has made his trip to the mound, and that settles that down.
Naturally, out there being the great pitching coach he is, to cock the young McNally.
It's a two-ball, two-strike count. It's four to one, Baltimore leaning,
but the Dodgers threatening with two on in the second year is Chuck Thompson.
Two and two to the count to Rostar, McNally ready to go.
And here's his pitch. Ground ball, pump foul outside of Furniston, the count holds two and two.
Only three of the Baltimore Orioles active players have ever participated in a World Series before.
Frank Robinson, Stu Millen, and shortstop Luis Aparicio.
Eighteen of the Dodgers have had and felt this kind of pressure before, the two-two pitch.
Fly ball hit off in the alley, right center field going high, left side coming up on the ball field going,
he dives, makes a one-handed grab in the alley and right center field and the runners will have to hold.
Snyder a little slow, tucking the ball, and then finally got a line on it and extended the left side,
full length, and speared the drive of the alley and right center field to take away an extra base hit from John Rostar.
Well, that's the defensive play of the ball game so far.
One out of the inning, and Don Drysdale is not going to bat. He will not bat.
We are going to get Dick Stewart. Dick Stewart, former American leader and he knows McNally,
and Stewart has had in his career success that got left-handed.
And if there's anyone in baseball who is not aware of the fact that Stewart's a power hitter,
that'd be hard for us to say where you've been the last few years.
His greatest year in baseball, of course, was 1956 with Lincoln in the Western League when this
big brawny first baseman hit 66 home runs.
In two American League seasons, he knocked in 118 and 114 runs, led the league in 1963,
finishing second to Brooks Robinson of the Orioles in 1964, and here he is at the plate now,
Dick Stewart pinch hitting for Don Drysdale.
One out, Dodger runners, giving it first, West Parker at second, one run in, Baltimore four,
Dodgers one in this last half of the second inning.
McNally's ready and his pitch to Stewart, high ball one.
So Drysdale now is officially out of the ball game, pitching two complete innings,
four runs, four hits, two offs, and a strikeout.
Ball one, McCown for the right-hand batting Dick Stewart.
McNally ready to go again.
The bird must be fired, swaying in a mist.
McCown is out of the ball and the strike.
Now the one-one offering.
Gilliam leading first, Parker at second.
McNally ready to go.
Swing in the mist, strike two, and McNally seems to have been content to pass ball Stewart.
He was down and in with the first one and then up and away with the second one.
Now is ahead of the card of the ball, two strikes to the pinch hitter, Dick Stewart.
One-two pitch coming down to Stewart.
Nice fly ball, well hit deep right center, Frank Robinson tracking back, still going back, still back along the warning track.
He's there.
Robinson makes the grab deep in the alley against the wall, 390 feet away for the second down of the inning.
After the catch, Wes Parker tags at second and races on to third.
Gilliam holds first base, but Stewart hit that ball almost about as far as you can hit it in that direction and still keep it in the ballpark.
Frank was close to the wall underneath a 390-foot sign in right center before he hauled it in.
Two down.
And now at the place, oh he will, time call right now, Frank Robinson coming in toward his second baseman, Davey Johnson.
And he has something to say to Dave Johnson right now out on the outfield grass.
Dave leads in now at the dead run.
Here's Johnson coming across the skin of the infield, he may go to the mound.
He comes in toward the edge of the infield grass, said something to pitcher Dave McNally.
And now backs off to his normal second base position.
Parker third, Gilliam first, two down, bottom of the second.
And Mari Wills at the plate, he walked on the first inning and promptly swiped second base.
And then McNally got the Dodgers in order. First pitch to Mari Wills, outside, ball one.
McNally's one-hunting pitch to Wills, fly ball foul off the first base side out of play.
Ball and a strike to Mari.
Well, I don't know where you'd go to find a seat in this great and beautiful ballpark in Chavez Ravine, and that includes this booth.
They're all gone. One ball and one strike.
And now to Mari Wills. McNally sets some pros. He's high. Two balls, one strike.
Now Dave wants another baseball.
That's a baron, spent a little time rubbing down the new ball, just in an effort to slow McNally down somewhat.
The tutorial bullpen, still active, right-handed Mo Drabowski, is just staying loose.
Two balls, one strike to count to Wills. McNally sets, kicks and throws. He's way outside of high, three and one.
Last time Dave McNally had a chance to pitch in competition, the same thing happened to him.
He had a very troublesome first three innings. As a matter of fact, he gave up eight hits in the first three innings that he went,
and then settled on from there over the next five to an alpha-three hit.
Now he has a three-one pitch to make to Wills. Here it is, swing and a miss. Wills was going on the three-one.
Tomorrow, three and two.
McNally ready. Here's the pitch. One out of miss. He's struck him out.
He's talking about a pressure performance from a rookie. Dave McNally battles the Dodgers to a standstill.
A leadoff home run to McPheever, a double by Parker, are the two Dodger bases in the inning.
One run, two hits, no Oriole errors, and two men left at the end of two complete Baltimore four, Los Angeles one.
The Orioles will come to that at the top of the third inning against the new Dodger Hurts.
Dryaddale out of the game for the pinching effort of Dick Stewart,
once the first two innings, four base in, two off.
Dryaddale recorded a strike now and is charged for the four runs.
He's on his way now to Joe Mueller.
Mueller, over the year with the Dodgers, appeared in 29 games, pitching 78-2, third in, 73, they said, 22 earned runs.
He walked 14, struck out 31, and pitched to an earned run of 2.51.
Joe Mueller, and the first hitter to face him will be Baltimore third baseman Brooks Robinson,
who holders in the first inning following the two-run home run by Frank Robinson.
Here is Brooks Robinson facing the right-handed Joe Mueller.
He's offering coming to Brooks. I foul on the play, strike one.
Right back, a good breaking ball from Mueller and a quite few calls. Fine-looking pitch from the Dodger right-handed.
Two strike pitch, Brooks fouled away on the ground on the third-day side and a count of holes of two strikes.
Well, it's up close to the attendance here at Dodger Stadium for the first game of the 66th World Series at 55,941.
Two strikes at Brooks Robinson, Chuck Nisk alone outside, one and two.
Joe Mueller now on the mound for the Dodgers, replacing Dryaddale.
I'm quite certain that the ball players are aware of the fact that there's huge attendance here and what they'll have in Baltimore.
There's a little bit more than just a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
A little bit more than just prestige. Now one-two pitch.
Ground ball, hit off the third-base side, charging toward the back, Gilliam with a good bell-high grab.
The throw out of purpose, and trying to get Brooks Robinson for the first out of the inning.
Brooks returns, and ground ball, the third baseman, Gilliam.
Here now, Oriole first baseman, Boog Powell, who in his first ad-bat on a check swing,
bowled to the third baseman, Gilliam.
This is a great big man, the biggest of the Orioles, with awesome power,
and over the last part of the year has battled the injury, bugaboo.
Pitch. Strike called, spoof.
Boog Powell sustained a chip fracture of the ring finger of the left hand against Detroit,
and in the final week of the year, re-injured his right wrist.
So he's got a sore left hand and a sore right wrist.
One strike that inside the big fellow backs off without any trouble, and the count is a ball and a strike.
The ball and a strike to left-hand hitting Boog Powell.
And the 1-1 pitch. Low on the ball, 2-1.
Kurt Bleffery, the on-deck hitter for Baltimore.
1-1 pitch. Just outside low, 3-1.
Boog Powell has in his career with the Orioles hit some of those home runs you call tape measure home runs.
Now your 3-1 pitch. Mowler rocks and throws.
Swing and a miss, strike two, and he didn't hold back. Oh my goodness.
However, Brooks Robinson, or rather Frank Robinson, is the only Oriole ever to have hit a home run completely out of Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
3-2 pitch to Boog Powell. Ground ball, gets right toward the shortstop wheels, comes up on a peculiar hop off the left shoulder.
He made the grab and throw on the first and tried to get Powell.
Threatened a bad hop right by Maher, but with his hook hands he straighted right off the left shoulder and threw him out.
Two down to the Baltimore bird, and now here is Kurt Bleffery.
This is a young man that takes a good deal of kidding on occasion from his teammates, particularly from Frank Robinson.
Frank refers to this fellow as Clank, meaning that he carries an iron glove.
Actually, he is not that bad a defensive ball player.
Mowler, in release of Drysdale, rocks over the rubber and deals.
Ah, pop up. Just went out of the shallow center field on the outfield grass, backing and waiting shortstop Mariwills.
Makes the catch and the Orioles, for the first time today, are three up on three downs.
We got a 2 and a half, for sure. Baltimore, 4, Los Angeles, 1.
Willie Davis.
Well, the Dodgers will come on in the last half of the third inning against Baltimore's Jay McNally with Willie Davis, center fielder.
In the first inning, Davis drops to the shortstop Aparicio.
Dreads had it, and McNally's first stop ringer Willie swinging a high pop up, middle of the infield.
Dave Johnson calling for it. The second baseman gives way now to the shortstop Aparicio.
And Aparicio, on the first base side of second, grabs the pop up for the first out of the inning.
One down and one fifth. Willie Davis.
Drops to the shortstop Aparicio on the first base side of the bag in second.
And here now, Lou Johnson, eighth side of the center fielder, Russ Snider, in the first inning.
Right hand hitter right down at the end of the bat, as Lou change up is in the dirt and the ball.
You know, we never even so much as mentioned the weather out here in Los Angeles this afternoon, and that's an unpardonable crime.
It's beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
One nothing fifth. To Lou Johnson. McNally brings the arm down, rips a fastball and strike called.
Ball of the strike to Johnson.
Two fleecy clouds overhead, a lot of sunshine, and perfect, perfect baseball weather.
One one fifth coming to Johnson. High, a ball, two and one.
Two on fifth, foul ball off of any behind the plate.
To the Johnson, one out and on, last half of the third inning, score Baltimore four, Dodgers one.
And for those of you who perhaps have just tuned our way, the Orioles get off to a big start in the first inning with a two-run home run from Frank Robinson and a solo home run from Brooks.
Added one more run in the second.
High, a three, and this one was really high.
And a few of these changeups that McNally will try to throw will result in a pitch like the one we've just witnessed.
Now a three-two pitch to Johnson. All four.
A walk to Johnson, the third walk issue this afternoon by the Baltimore left-hander Dave McNally.
One out, Dodger runner at first. Here now, here's Tommy Davis.
Tommy went out on a ground ball, the third baseman Brooks Robinson of the first inning.
And this fine Dodger outfielder has really had to battle these injuries in.
Walking out a bit of a lead at first base, Lou Johnson holding with him, first base to Powell.
McNally sets, looks the first, comes to the plate, missing right away with the ball.
The ball is just this great.
A one-nothing pitch to Tommy Davis. Missed low on it, set outside, 2-0 now.
Brooks Robinson at third, apricio, the shortstop, Dave Johnson the second baseman,
ball is first, and McNally ready. 2-0 pitch to Tommy Davis. All three, right away.
Atchievara now walks the ball back out to the mound to his pitcher Dave McNally in an effort of slowing down,
trying to settle him down, and again the fine is gone to the Oriole bullpen.
I believe it will be, most are about to eat.
One out in the Dodger half of the first. Runner at first, Johnson, a count of three balls,
no strikes to Tommy Davis, as McNally is ready to go.
All four, back to back walk, without you again, put the pressure on the bird.
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The account of a lone Dodger run. McNally's sixth swinging enemy, a strike one Lativer,
who has a good deal more power as a right-handed hitter than as a left-handed batterer.
And demonstrated that power as a leadoff fastman in the second.
One strike, the count to right-hand swinging Lativer. McNally is ready to go.
The bird left his pit way outside.
One ball and one strike for the Lativer.
Now, Aparecia on the dead run races to the mound to talk McNally.
Bob Miller is up and throwing in the Dodger bullpen.
Mo Drabowski in the Oriole bullpen.
We're on the bottom of the third.
One out in the inning, Dodger runners first and second, and Lativer waiting now a one-one tip from McNally.
Here it is. King's up. Just nips inside.
Two balls, one strike. Fine looking off-speed cook for McNally, but General Smith a bit inside around 11.
Two on pitch. Low inside ball three. Three and one to Lativer.
And Hank Bauer has now, well, he has one more step to take to get out of the Oriole dugout.
He is right up on the center.
Back in Baltimore, sometimes we call that the launching platform.
Three and one to count to Lativer. McNally second. Big ship coming through it in.
Ball four. He has walked the base of the road.
And Hank Bauer has now come out of the Oriole dugout and is slowly walking to the mound.
No sign has been given to the bullpen as yet. Bauer looks that way, now signs that way,
and it means that the Orioles will bring in Mo Drabowski and the young left-hander Dave McNally
to control problems in the third inning. Walking the base of the road will be lifted.
McNally has pitched two and one third inning. He has allowed a total of five walks.
Walk five for Dodgers. The Dodgers have nicked Bauer two days since, one of those a home run by receiver,
another was a double by West Parker. The strikeout call up for Dave McNally shows one.
Bauer is charged with a one-Dodger run, and is responsible for the three-odd base.
Okay, Chuck Thompson, and they just sent over information from Alan Roth and Jim Simpson,
who are helping us out here statistically, that young McNally has just tossed 63 pitches,
and that is an uncommon number to be throwing up to that plate,
especially when you haven't gone the full three innings.
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Ramo Jabowski would not be a total stranger to the Dodger ball club,
having pitched against them when he was with Chicago.
But for most of these youngsters, however, on the Dodger ball club,
like Lou Johnson and the company, the Fever, and Wes Parker,
you would know, of course, they've never seen him before.
So it's a bases-loaded situation.
He pops Willie Davis up here in the third, and then Chuck Justice's drive walks the bases full,
and he just isn't in your more room as Mr. Parker stands there.
Against Moe Jabowski, who had a fine year with the Orioles,
within 45 days, Jabowski won sixth without a deceit, and pitched to an earned run of 2.81.
Along the way with his relief work, he also made three starts for Baltimore,
and he also picked up four saves as a releaser.
Jabowski, a right-hander who throws hard, and now the foul ball clean,
Wes Parker, he doubles as a right-handed batter on the second.
Jabowski deals, strike call, foot breaking ball.
Everywhere you look, there's a Dodger, Lou Johnson, a third, Tom Davis, a second, and Jim LaFever, a third.
One out of the inning, bases loaded, one strike, pitch,
and the touchdown by the count, evens one ball, one strike to Wes Parker.
And the 21-tip coming to Wes Parker as Jabowski fires, strike two, call, he picks up the other point, and just above the knees.
And I'm sure you heard the crowd reaction.
No words needed.
One and two to Count Parker.
Jabowski's pitch, swing and a miss, he's stuck him out.
Jabowski picks up a strikeout, the second out of the inning.
And now the batter is Jim Gilliam, third baseman who walks in the second inning.
Among five free tickets issued by the Baltimore Starters, Dave McNally this afternoon.
Due down to a Dodger third, Baltimore four, Los Angeles one, bases loaded, and Gilliam looks out to Mo Jabowski.
Jabowski's wind and pitch, swing and a miss, strike one, he just pumped it right by him.
That's a batter inside.
Jabowski looks to third, second on Luke Johnson.
To the wire and the pitch, missed inside low, a ball and a strike.
Now the one-one pitch.
Gilliam gets a false strike over the inner portion of the hand, the ball and two strikes.
Due down and the bases loaded.
The first game of the 1966 series.
Now the one-two pitch to Gilliam.
Jabowski is ready. Here it is.
Just outside two and two.
Jabowski on the follow through just slows, there to the plate, waiting for Etchibar to return the ball.
And we're ready once more.
The two-two pitch to Gilliam with the bases loaded and two outs.
Jabowski rocks, fires, just inside.
That'll fill the cow now.
Tom Prince said no room for Mr. Gilliam.
Johnson at third, Tom Davis at second, Jim LeFevre at first, two out, bases loaded, three-two pitch, gunning, the action player baseball.
Everybody will wheel and go.
Now hitting Gilliam at the plate, foul is kind of deep down there at first base.
Jabowski will work from the stretch, the set and the three-two, foul ball out of court.
Now it's down to junior Gilliam and the tension jump relaxes momentarily now as Jabowski grabs the ruz.
And now it begins to build up as he tolls the rubber to pick up the five.
To the brief stretch, the set, the runners go, the pitch is a four-four inside.
A walk with the bases loaded and the Dodgers at their second run.
This one also charged to the now departed Dave McNally.
And in this minute, the fourth walk by Oriole Pitching and the bases remain loaded with two outs.
The first walk issued by Jabowski.
Four free tickets handed out by Baltimore Pitching in the last half of the third and the Dodgers narrow the gap.
Baltimore for Los Angeles 2.
Here is Roseborough.
Time called as Roseborough backs off momentarily.
The first pitch to Roseborough is a check-bling ball down low.
He started to offer, took a full stride into the pitch and then just passed the bat.
All one.
Bases loaded, two outs, Jabowski throws high, pop up, behind the plate foul.
Etchibarron coming back, looking up on the top front.
The young Oriole catcher makes the grab for the final out of the inning.
Roseborough fouls out the catcher Etchibarron.
The Dodgers in their half of the third, one run without benefit of a base hit.
No Oriole errors.
Three are left at the end of three complete now.
The score, Baltimore 4, Los Angeles 2.
Well, we'll go now to the Oriole, half of the fourth inning.
And the leadoff hitter will be second baseman Dave Johnson to be followed by catcher Andy Etchibarron
and the pitcher Moe Jrabowski in a bound-to-bound Joe Moenert.
He tired the Orioles in order in the third inning.
A push time by the third this afternoon here in the early inning, top of the fourth.
Dave Johnson, a strikeout victim, against Sardar Don Drysdale in the first inning.
Right-handed batter.
He's offering to Dave Johnson, missed outside the ball.
I've always loved the sense of humor of baseball fans.
I couldn't help but overhear that remark.
Now the one-hubbing fish coming down.
Swing line drive deep left field, back of the ball goes Tommy Davis still going back.
He will not get to it.
It bounces in the warning track and then into the seat.
And racing to second base goes Dave Johnson.
Hold on, it didn't get the seat.
It bounced off that screen and then came back out of the playing field.
Tommy Davis had to retrieve it.
The ball was in play all the way.
Bounced from the warning track, hit the screen in front of the bullpen out there.
The left fielder carried him back.
And the umpire melts time.
And right on the scene, Davis, the face call all the way.
Johnson races in with a stand-up double.
Line drive over the head of left fielder Tommy Davis.
The count off the screen and back away from Tommy.
By the time he retrieved, Johnson had an easy double.
And the batter, Andy Etchibarron.
First pitch to Etchibarron.
Ball outside.
The double by Dave Johnson.
The first hit the birds have had off Joe Moller.
Moller ready to go.
Right hander, steps and throws.
Swing ground ball off the first base side of the infield.
Dave Johnson takes third as LaFever makes the pick up of the pros who park her at first and find to get Etchibarron.
Giving himself up.
Obviously trying to hit the ball.
But that first base side of the infield advances Dave Johnson to third with one out.
And up to the plate now pitcher Mo Drabowski and one out.
Runner at third is Dave Johnson.
He is a fine base runner with good speed.
And in this instance the Dodgers will play their infield up all the way around about a step back off the infield grass all the way.
The pitch to Mo Drabowski.
Ball low outside.
Blocker at first giving it third about even with a bag and wide of it of course.
And the shortstop will second base with a fever just a step back off the infield grass.
One out.
Blocker rocks to the line.
Pitch coming to Drabowski.
Ball down low.
Two balls no strikes.
Drabowski has re-quipped the time. Steps out very briefly now back in.
Drabowski hits them as he throws them from the third base side right-hander.
Two balls no strikes.
The pitch coming.
He squares the butt to the pitch low outside for a ball.
Just kind of ran the hands up the bat.
Looked at it all the way and the birds didn't have anything going.
Apparently Drabowski was just taking a bad pass.
Three balls no strikes.
Three nothing pitch.
Muller fires.
Ball four low outside.
A walk to pitcher Mo Drabowski.
Muller's first.
And the second issued, or that was the third issued by Dodger Hurling today.
Just checking the scorecards.
We hope you'll do it with us.
It looks as though there have been nine walks in this ball game so far and we haven't cleared the top of the fourth.
Kind of walking through Dodger Stadium.
Runners at first and third and now the Dodger infield backs off to what could be referred to as a double play depth.
As Aparicio steps in, he's 0-2.
Pitch two, Aparicio low and a good save from Rosebara.
Ball one.
It's Baltimore four, Los Angeles two, here on the top of the fourth.
J. Johnson opened the Oriole, fourth inning with a line double in the left field.
Took third as that could air and grabbed it out to the second baseman.
Then Drabowski walked.
And now the 1-0 pitch to Aparicio, runners first and third.
Here it is.
Look out, get by inside.
We'll be rocked out of the way on the count of two and all.
You feel kind of an uneasy sort of tension mounting among the Dodger fans here.
Miller and Brewer.
Brewer left-hander working in the Dodger goal pen.
Brewer and Miller are both joining in the Dodger goal pen.
Miller, Jim Brewer.
And Aparicio at the plate waiting a 2-0 pitch from Mueller.
Here it is.
High, ball free.
Aparicio now backs out with a quick lift to third base coach Billy Hunter
who is hitting or taking on 3-0.
And you're right.
Here's the pitch.
He takes strike and call.
Three and one.
Now your 3-1 pitch to Aparicio.
Mueller fires, swing ground ball off of third base side short side,
fire to the right, makes a pick up, a throw at second base for one on the first base.
No, they don't get the double play on the run short.
Marley Wills had to go a little way toward the bowl, hard to his right,
glove is slipping on into the feeder.
That's fourth.
Drabowski coming into second base.
Jim fired back to Parker first but not in time to get the 3-D Aparicio who knocks in the Orioles.
Nip run of the afternoon.
The fourth of Drabowski is second base.
Two down and Alavada left-hand hitting Rutsnider who's walked and singles and knocked in a run.
Quick throw to first and this one almost found a spectator.
Parker really had to get up in the air to grab what might have been an error on the part of Mueller.
Aparicio with a good lead to set by Mueller.
Quick throw to first, back safely of Aparicio, diving back this time and a much better throw from Mueller.
Snyder request time, back south looking to first base.
Dodger infield, third baseman Gilliam up on that cut-out portion of the infield
and the other infield is up a step or two against Snyder.
Mueller throws.
He's got a strike call.
Right fielder Johnson kind of holds his own straight away right field to the left-hand hitting of Snyder
but center fielder Willie Davis shades a bit toward left center,
up shallow and favoring the foul line in left field Tommy Davis.
One strike to count to Snyder. Mueller ready. Pitch.
High and outside, one and one.
Jeff you were talking about the bases on balls. Nine here.
The most bases on balls in the World Series is 19.
If they approach that right there, there might be a few late suppers.
Not to mention a few upset stomachs.
And here's a ball inside and low to Snyder. Two and one.
Two and one to count to Snyder.
Two out in the inning. Apresial leading first. Mueller set.
There goes Apresial. Pitch is flung on and fouled out of play.
Apresial breaking with a pitch. Snyder fouled it out of play. Two and two.
Well this first game of the 66th series got off to a quick start with the Orioles scoring three times.
They added the fourth run of the top of the second. The Dodgers came back with one in the second, one in the third.
Now five to Baltimore.
Ground ball hits toward the charging second base of the receiver. It comes up at a belt high hop.
Quick throw to first hit Snyder and that's it for Baltimore.
And they're half of the fourth inning, one run of the inning on one day's fifth.
There were no Dodger errors and the man is left with the end of three and one half inning to play to score Baltimore five, Los Angeles two.
We'll come out as a pinch hitter. Jim Barberry, the second Dodger pinch hitter of the ball game.
Stewart batted for Drysdale and second and now Barberry batting for Mueller here on the fourth.
In 39 games this year, this little man hit 280. He's five, seven and a half.
Born and still lives in Schenectady, New York.
Old Rabowski to the wire and the first pitch to the left-handed batter is a strike called over the inside portion around the knees.
One strike pitch to Barberry, a little tight this time and the ball, one ball, one strike.
He looks at the pitch low inside and the copy ball is one strike.
Jim played in the minors in the Dodger organization for six and a half years, keeping the four being drawn up with the Dodgers early in July.
Two on pitch to Barberry, strike called, two and two for Jim.
Barberry backed out after the pitch and now steps in ready to go again. Rabowski throws low. Volkan, we've had a few of those this afternoon.
When this little man was brought up from Volkan, he was leading the Pacific Coast League in hitting with a.355 average.
Rabowski's three-two pitch to Barberry. Swing and a miss, he's struck in out. Barberry goes down swinging for Moe Drabowski, his second strikeout.
One-hour inning. Time of the order, Mari Wills.
Mari Wills, move around to the first base side of the plate as the left-handed batter. In the first inning, Mari Walsh promptly stole second.
In the second inning, he struck out.
The good Dodger seed has made even a greater threat on the right-hander because of their swift hitters and the added steps they pick up. A striking call from Mari Wills.
Aparicio, rather shallow at short stops. Dave Johnson playing back about normally. Powell just behind the bag at first. Pitch coming to Mari Wills.
Strike two called. Mari ran the hands up the bat and just waved at it. Didn't try to hit it, just looked into the mid of the catcher, Etchimaran.
Left fielder Kurt Leffrey is up extremely shallow and toward the foul line. The center fielder tonight are also shallow.
For the alley and left center, Drabowski's two-strike pitch struck him out. Swing and a miss. Actually a foul tip is signed by Played on Fire's Ickowski and Etchimaran held on.
And Drabowski records his third strikeout, the second out of the inning.
Time of the appeal.
Two down and here is Willie Davis. Popped the short twice.
Two out and on, bottom of the fourth. Score Baltimore five for Los Angeles Dodgers two. The third's five runs, five hits. The Dodgers two runs, two hits.
Foul ball coming back up out of play.
Change up, the tip foul down the first base side toward the Oriole dugout.
The count now two strikes to Willie Davis.
Two strike pitch to Willie Davis. High of all two strikes.
And both for the way the Orioles played Maury Wills. Now Snyder is deep in center field around toward the alley and right center.
Leffrey is laying back deep in left field. Robinson's deep in right pitch. Two high, two balls, two strikes.
And the infield is cut around to the first base side with Dave Johnson the deepest man almost to the edge of the outfield grass.
Two and two to Willie Davis. Drabowski fires. Struck him out. Swing and another foul tip and that's your baron held on. So Drabowski fans the pride at the end of four.
Full of need to play. The score Baltimore five, Los Angeles two.
Well as they batted for Richard Joe Mueller, we'll have a new hurler coming on for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
And here's Chuck Thompson to tell you all about it. It's going to be Bob Miller replacing Mueller who went two innings, allowed a base hit.
Mueller walked about or didn't strike anybody out and is charged with an Oriole run. And on in this place now is Bob Miller.
Miller appeared in 29 games for the Dodgers this year. Check that. Make that 46 games for Miller. 84 in a third inning, 70 base hits.
In the 29th loss, 58 strikeouts to an earned run of 2.79. And at one and lost record, four wins, two defeats.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, now lives here in California. In his 10th year as a pro, he led the National League in games in 1964 with 74,
which is a Dodger record tying Jim Constante's National League record, which has since been broken by Ted Abernathy.
So we have Bob Miller. And the first batter to face Bob Miller will be right fielder Frank Robinson who sparked the birds.
In the very first inning, following a walk to Russ Nider, Frank Robinson exploded for a towering home run in the seats from a left field corner.
And Brooks Robinson matched it with a solo home run.
The first triple crown winner since Mickey Mantle, won it in 1956.
Miller's first offering, low and outside ball one.
In the fine and great city of Baltimore, a lot of people refer to this man as Mr. Hitt.
Given Baltimore the greatest year. The 1-0 pitch to Frank Robinson, high fly ball, center field. Coming in on the ball, Willie Davis.
Still coming, still coming. He's there and he's got it. Side of the retire and a fly ball to center fielder Willie Davis.
And now Brooks Robinson. Over to the first and grab at the third in the third inning.
Miller's first offering to Brooks Robinson, swinging another high fly ball to the same general area.
Here comes Willie Davis charging into the alley and left center. Backpedaling though wills the shortstop.
And it wills the shortstop backing under it for the second out of the inning.
Two up, two down. And now Brooks Powell who fouled to the third baseman in the first inning and grounded to the shortstop in the third.
Miller's ready. The first offering to Powell, low outside ball.
One outing pitch. Quite tall as he picks up the outside portion.
Right around the knee. One and one. Good off-speed pitch from Bob Miller.
He's got it on. Morial's five, Dodgers two at the top of the fifth inning. Powell waits.
Another throw. Inside came out on to Roseboro back toward the screen. A count of two balls, one strike.
Two on pitch to boo Powell.
Swing and a ground ball to Powell down to first base side and a count of two balls to strike.
The 63rd World Series. American League teams have a 37 to 25 edge in series competition.
But the Master League teams have won the last three series and eight of the last 12.
Two-two to Powell. Ground ball down to third base side. It is a fair ball.
One of the bag out of the ground territory in deep left field corner. Powell falls down going around first base.
Gets up and now races to second base and will get in there without attracting a throw.
Powell turned the bag and fell down and then recovered. It's time to move on to the second base for a double.
The sign is called first base coach Gene Woodling. I see the bag has come free down there.
So you get an idea of the size of boo Powell.
You suppose that might have been recorded somewhere on a seismograph as a minor quake?
Boog is a big strong man. As he hit the bag, making his turn to take off to second base, the bag came free.
But boo Powell down on all fours, hands and knees, and he recovered and took off to second base.
While left-hand hitting slices a double down the third baseline, much to the way,
Wes Parker, the right-hand hitter and the second inning for the Dodgers, banged one down the first baseline.
In the program, boo Powell is shown at 6 foot 3 and 240 pounds.
Years ago, when this young man was coming into the Oriole system, his weight was the chief topic of conversation.
And though that's a fine baseball man, Mr. Larry McPhail said that in his humble opinion,
he thought that there were only two things that could keep boo Powell from becoming a fine Major League ball player, a knight and a four.
Major League Baseball set a new attendance record again this year,
but almost 4 million persons who watched America's favorite game in 1966 aren't included in the record 25 million paid attendance.
The big league clubs entertained 3,930,000 free groups as part of their contribution to their community.
Now these groups included youngsters, handicapped persons, senior citizens, service men, hospitalized veterans,
clergymen and workers in community welfare programs.
Well, the bag has been repaired at first base.
Powell at second with a double, two down, and the batter will be Kirk Leppery.
Austin has gone to the mound and is chatting a little bit with Bob Miller.
How about Kirk Leppery, please?
Leppery ripped his first World Series face hit.
He had the first inning a line, singled in the right field.
In the third inning, the left-handed swinger popped to the shortstop.
Miller running to go at his first pitch to Leppery. Ball inside.
Leppery was originally signed a baseball to the New York Yankees.
Miller ready. And the one-nothing pitch to the left-hand batting Leppery.
Inside again, ball two. This man, a very keen judge of balls and strikes, is Kirk Leppery and has contributed many timely walks.
To go along with his power, 23 home runs this year, and as a rookie a year ago, 22 home runs.
Two-nothing pitch, outside high, ball three.
Right-handed Bob Miller working to the left-hand swinging Kirk Leppery, the count three and all.
And there's the ball for outside to give Leppery the intentional walk behind the count three and all, but Rogers would not take the chance.
Reflecting now on the visit of Austin to the mound, talking to Bob Miller.
This may have been just exactly what he was supposed to do, pitching very carefully, and if he'd get behind him, we'll just put him on.
Here now, Dave Johnson, who struck out of the first inning and doubled, in the fourth inning.
The score, Baltimore Five, Dodgers two, two out and two on, top of the fifth inning.
Johnson, a right-handed batter, for the right-hand pitching of Bob Miller.
Check swing, ground ball off the first base side, second baseman Lefever, gobbles it up, throws it out of the first, and that's it for the Orioles, with their half of the fifth inning.
No runs, one base fifth. With no Dodger errors, two men are left on at the end of four and one half innings to play, the score, Baltimore Five, North Angeles, two.
Well, the first game of the 66th World Series, now rolled to the last half of the fifth inning, with the Orioles leading the Dodgers five-two.
And it's my great pleasure to bring the microphone around now in front of an old friend and a greatly respected broadcaster, Mr. Bob Prince.
Bob, good to be with you.
Thank you, Chuck, very good to be with you. And Lou Johnson leads it off here now, and the Dodger fifth, with a five-two, a score, staring him in the face.
Johnson walked in the third. Swings and he doesn't get the first pitch of passball on the outside, oh and one.
Dodger scoring is sort of in a walk-trot fashion here so far today. Lefever, Homerton trotted, and in the third they just walked around enough men until they finally got one in.
So that accounts for their two runs. Baltimore Firepower disclosing a down drive in the first couple of innings. Johnson takes a wicked cut, oh and two.
Lou Johnson playing right field this afternoon for the Dodgers. Mo Drabowski in relief of McNally, ends it inside right off the fifth for a ball, one and two.
Fifty-five thousand nine hundred and forty-one looking on. Beautiful sun drenched southern California. Ball one, strike two, pitch.
There's a passball, he's struck him out, and Drabowski now has recorded four consecutive strikeouts.
Struck out the side in the fourth and leads off the fifth in the same fashion. Six strikeouts in all, five of them for Mo Drabowski.
Here's Tommy Davis who grounded the third his first time up and drew a base on balls in the third with McNally pitching.
And then when McNally walked Lefever, Parker came to the plate to face Kravowski and struck out. Tommy Davis fouling it back, oh and one.
Tommy, you know, won two consecutive National League batting championships before an unfortunate injury struck him down and really hampered his ability to stay in there and swing.
No balls, one strike, five-two, the ball to the more oil is in the bottom of the fifth, one out and none on. Outfield around to the left of Tommy Davis.
Passball is in the filletters, oh and two. National League umpire Bill Joukowsky calling the balls and strikes with Nestor Shalak at first, Chris Pellicutis.
Down to your right, Mel Steiner and Cal Drummond rounding out the fine crew of umpires. A ball, one and two.
A little bit of a gap in the right center field. Here's the one-two pitch and there's a swing and a foul looped over the right out of play.
335 down both lines and then it goes right on out to 370 and ultimately 410 straight away in one of the world's truly most beautiful ball parks, Dodger Stadium.
One ball, two strikes.
Joukowsky working to Tommy Davis to right hand batter. Lines a foul way down the right field line and out of play, one and two.
We've had one World Series record tied here today by Baltimore, successive home runs by Frank and Brooks Robinson.
Put them in the elite with the Yankees in Washington who did it and they flirted with a couple of others. The one-two pitch just upstairs, two-two.
Joukowsky's flirting with one now. He has retired four on strikeouts, the record is six in succession.
And this of course is the only World Series for the time, but he stuck him out. That is strikeout number seven.
So one, two, three, four, five in a row have gone down.
Morris Eller of Cincinnati way back in 1919 had six consecutive strikeouts and that is the record.
Now the fiver, the switch batter who homered in the second and walked in the third. A strike at the belt call.
Mouljou Mousky with five and oh with four saves as a reliever turned in several brilliant efforts, the most notable of which occurred back in July when he relieved Bray Bender with four perfect and he struck out eight, including five straight to defeat Detroit.
There's a looping foul to the left side and back out of play on two.
The homerun by Frank Robinson in the first inning had a man aboard, Russ Snyder who had walked. Then Brooks Robinson tattooed one down the left center line.
No ball, two strikes till the fever. Foul ball down the right line. Hit a curve ball, hit it deep in the right.
Andy Etchibarren walked in the Baltimore second and scored when Russ Snyder singled.
And in the fourth, David Johnson doubled the left, moved over to third on an infield out and scored on a force play hit in by Luis Aparicio.
So that accounts for the five runs for Baltimore. We're in the bottom of the fifth, two down, then on. Five to the Orioles.
They play him straight out. Fitch to the fever, is let up on, he stays outside with it a ball, one and two.
One ball, two strikes lined up. Drabowski delivers, he stuck him out and he ties the record.
That's Fitch, in second he strikes out. As the fever goes down, swinging.
At the end now of five and he's a threat with three up and three down. Baltimore leading the Los Angeles Dodgers five to two.
We've got 30 seconds for station identification.
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So it is Drysdale's game to lose as it now stands and Drabowski's to win as it now stands.
He's going to play Etchiburn, right hand batter, pretty well around to left. They'll gap him in right center field and he bun it right through that one for a strike, oh and one.
Seeing Gilliam deep and Parker awfully deep, it looked like he was trying to push that ball a little bit towards first and get it down there where he could leg it after a base hit.
Chuck Thompson told you earlier Etchiburn is possessed of fine speed.
Here's the O-1 from the right hand pitcher, a big swing on the slider, pulling two.
Another one, speed strike.
Miller already come back with it.
Into the dirt and popped up into the air caught by Etchiburn.
A ball and two strikes.
One ball, two strikes.
5-2, Baltimore as they lead it off here in the sixth inning.
Mob Miller for the better part of the Dodger 66 campaign was Walter Alston's long relief man.
One ball, two strikes.
Looped out over second and Lefebvre can't get it as he went back very magnificently to get to it.
It'll be fielded by Lou Johnson and it's a base hit.
It appeared that he jammed him but he hit a little looper out where Lefebvre just quite couldn't get to it.
Here's Mo Grabowski and the fans here ever mindful of fairness as they always are in Los Angeles, get him a very fine warm round of applause.
There you see the value of the number eight hitter in a baseball lineup.
He can lead it off with a base hit like that.
Your pitcher is in a position to bunt.
There's a lot of different things that they can try.
He bunts the ball and if they foul ball, Etchiburn will be a second and out come back.
A lot of times still your number eight batter and he is truly a most essential man in your lineup.
He can keep that inning going for you and help you keep your pitcher in the ballgame.
And then turn your lineup over where you're right up at the head of the order again.
So Etchiburn getting the base hit here puts Baltimore in a bunting position if they so wish.
No ball, one strike.
Gilliam is up tight at third, ready to charge Parker Holding to the runner Etchiburn.
Slow over by Miller, no damage.
Now the right-handers.
Check the first delivers and Drabowski bunts foul at the feet of the catcher Johnny Roseborough.
Strike two.
No ball, two strikes.
Five to two Baltimore here in the sixth inning and Etchiburn is first on a base hit.
That's the seventh, surrendered by Dodger Picking.
Gilliam is still suspicious and is up close at third.
He bunts it fairly, Miller comes up, he'll go to second with the ball, in time there.
And Etchiburn really had that will happen to get out of the way.
A fine play by Miller on to Wills.
But I'll say one thing, if it was to have been a throw to first, Mr. Wills wasn't going to be able to make it.
Etchiburn really went into it.
So that'll be a force play and the out will go one to six, or a pitch of the short.
Leading Drabowski now to base runner, one away, to Luis Aparicio, who is 0-3 but with an RBI.
Riding in around in the fourth inning on a force play, slide twice to right.
Right hand batting Aparicio, takes inside low bow, sinking type of delivery, sent in by Bob Miller.
Baltimore's Dave McNally went two and a third innings, allowing two runs on two hits,
stuck out one, walking five, and of course that led to his undoing.
One ball, no strikes.
Aparicio fouls to the right out of play, one and one.
They play him fairly straight out and they give him a pretty good gap actually.
They spread to the lines on Aparicio and gap him in right center and left center.
One ball, one strike.
Top half of the sixth inning.
Miller checks on Drabowski and there's a ball hit sharply down in the hole,
a nice backhand stab by Wills on for the out of second and not of time at first.
Almost the identical play in the fourth inning on which a Baltimore run scored
when Wills beautifully went into the hole to backhand the ball over by third.
Got it onto the favor at the time, but the relay on to first could not pick up the speedy Luis Aparicio.
So now Russ Snyder walking out and one of the things he's doing without any question
is giving Mo Drabowski a little opportunity to breathe and relax and get ready.
So he's going back, talking a little bit here to Frank Robinson.
Drabowski being a baserunner of course, a little extra breathing room for him as he walked out.
Now slowly gets back into the batter's box, taps his cleats.
Russ Snyder who walked in the first inning and scored in front of Frank Robinson's booming home run to left,
then singled a drive in run in the second inning and bounced a second base in the fourth
so that he's one for two on the day.
Up high, ball on.
A ball and no strikes.
A free.
Is in low, ball two, two and oh.
Keep all the no strikes.
Russ Snyder left hand batter, they play him as a left field hitter and Tommy Davis favors the left line
with Gilliam upside at third.
The look to Aperisho, pitch from Miller is up high about the bill of the cap, ball three, three and oh.
As we've used the Dodgers over the season, they rarely walk too many men.
Three balls, no strikes.
And the pitch, he walked in and that'll be walk number five.
That'll put Aperisho on into second base.
We're in this foggy now.
We've had 11 bases on balls.
The Dodgers are receiving the benefit of six of them.
And now that's the fifth walk surrendered by Dodger pitching.
And the second given up by Bob Miller since he came on in the fifth.
And now Frank Robinson, who hit a big home run in the first inning and then flied to left and flied to center.
Robinson's home run was his second series home run, having done that as a Cincinnati player against the Yankees in 1961.
Two men on, two men out, five, two and the top of the sixth, Baltimore.
Outfield swung deep left.
Miller steps off the mound, Aperisho gets back into second.
And Mike Fielder Johnson getting Frank Robinson better than 90 feet of the line.
He's way over.
Miller ready and the pitch.
Curvy hung upstairs with it, ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
Oriel scored three in the first, one in the second, one in the fourth.
The Dodgers one in the second and one in the third.
One ball and no strikes.
Robinson knocks a little foul off the first base side, running hard, Roseville, and he'll not quite get to it.
The ball gets into the lowest boxes just down to the left of the Baltimore dugout,
which is located on the first base side here at Dodger Stadium.
Ball one and strike one.
Frank Robinson, he must have wrapped up just about every title in the American League
other than the triple crown that Chuck Thompson told you about.
He naturally led in home runs and runs batted in, runs scored double batting average.
Might even end up with the MVP.
Outside, ball two, sinking pitch low.
Ron Tarnowski, the left-hander for the Dodgers, is now up and warming.
Two balls and strikes.
Robinson still crowding that plate as he did when he was a National League batter.
Two on pitch.
He flung and missed it.
The back went foul way down the left field line.
That's about as long as that scene at bat go foul.
Frank has done this on numerous occasions this year, and actually we feel in Baltimore
he's hung up the all-time record for distance and perhaps the number of times.
I would say that going back over American League players of the past 10 years,
only Minnimanoso has ever thrown one any farther than he has.
I'll tell you one thing, with that swing he blew all the air out of the infield.
Oh, did he cut.
Two balls, two strikes.
He's ready now. He wants a decision here if he can get it favorably, of course.
Two-two pitch, swinging the foul back.
He jammed him nicely on the pitch.
Two balls, two strikes.
Baltimore five and the Dodgers two in the top half of the sixth inning.
Two men on and two men out.
Frank Robinson is the first triple crown winner in the big leagues since Mickey Mandel in 1956
and actually led the league in the late-Major Category, getting home runs, runs batted in,
total bases, runs, and slugging percentage.
Two-two, reach for, pop foul, out of play, and the bats gone out now in between the Pitchers mound and third base.
Two balls, two strikes.
I, of course, have worked many games here at Dodger Stadium, being in the National League,
where Chuck Thompson hasn't had that opportunity, but they have developed a tremendous habit here
of bringing all their transistor radios, and we can hear our voices coming right back in.
It's sort of an eerie thing.
Two balls, two strikes.
And Robinson has called out. He's got to save it.
But it was not a swing, and it strikes three.
Well, the inning showed for Baltimore in the sixth.
No runs, one hit, no Dodger errors, two Baltimoreans stranded.
At the end of five and a half innings of play, Baltimore five and the Dodgers two.
Well, now let's see. Will the 55,941 Dodger Stadium fans see history made?
The burning question is simply this.
Mo Drabowski has struck out the last six batters.
That ties the Major League record we told you about, set back from the early 1900s,
and if he can put away Parker as he did in the third,
he'll establish a new all-time consecutive strikeout record.
Morris Heller of Cincinnati did it in 1919.
So let Parker take the strike.
No balls, one strike.
We're in the bottom of the sixth, five-two, Baltimore leading.
That feels straight away to Parker, a switch batter.
Drabowski's curveball will ask for that field.
Going over to get to it is blepharie, and he'll still it away.
That'll retire Parker, but stop the threat of the record, at least for now.
Now here's Junior Gilliam, who has walked twice and then made third in him when he walked.
The bases were loaded, so he picked up an RBI.
Gilliam, a switch batter.
The ability of the Dodger infield to have the only all-switch hitting infield in the history of baseball
is something because you just do nothing but turn them around when you bring in another pitcher.
Swinging a miss, back one.
Must be pretty discouraging to managers when they know that they can bring in a right or a lefty,
and four fellows aren't going to be hurting too much.
They're just going to turn around.
A playa ball. There are many who try to throw the left-handers against the Dodgers
in order to make them right-hand hitters so that they can at least get the advantage of one less step in their favor.
Here's a foul coming back out of play.
Mo Drabowski with one down.
Drabowski, since walking Gilliam with the bases loaded, has settled down
and has retired the last eight men to face him.
And only one ball now being hit out of the infield, and that was Parker's fly ball to rep.
Here's a looper hit out back of short, Aparicio drifting back on the edge of the grass,
getting under and there are two down.
Dodger's sixth inning where Baltimore leads 5-2 in game one of the 1966 World Series.
John Roseborough is 0-2, but it's not his fault.
A sensational catch by Ruff Snyder in the second inning robbed him of the base hit.
There's a liner toward left and coming up for it, Bleffery, and makes the belt-high catch that retires the side.
So it's another 1-2-3 inning for Mo Drabowski.
And at the end of six full innings of play, Baltimore 5-7-0, the Dodgers 2-2-0.
Well, Chuck Thompson, Mo Drabowski has certainly been a tower strength,
and he's been a well-traveled pitcher, and perhaps in all of his travels,
never thought he'd end up here in the World Series.
Actually, one man responsible for his being in this World Series with the Orioles this afternoon
is not eligible to play in the World Series, is a member of the Baltimore Orioles,
a reserve catcher out the greater part of the year due to injuries.
I'm referring to Charlie Lau.
It was Charlie Lau's recommendation to Baltimore that they obtain Mo Drabowski,
and Charlie went on record at that time saying that if you do,
you've got a fine chance of winning a pennant.
Standing in now to lead off the Baltimore 7s, they lead the Dodgers 5-2 in this first game.
Brooks Robinson, who hit a home run backing up Frank Robinson's two-run homer,
then bounced the third and popped a short.
He's 1-3. Stands there in the right-hand batter.
They'll play him to full.
They gap him in right center, and the Dodger infield on the left side over swings toward the foul line.
Bob Miller works to him. Robinson cuts on a slider, doesn't get it. Strike one.
LaFever is playing back rather deep near the edge of the outfield grass.
Bitched at sink a little ball, Miller appears to be slightly unhappy with the call.
One ball, one strike.
The Dills picked up three in the first, one in the second, one in the fourth. The Dodgers one in the second, then third.
1-1 pitch inside off the fifth. Ball two, two and one.
You're just getting into our broadcast. Don Drysdale wants the front two for four runs.
Mueller the next two for an inning, rather than next two for a run.
And Miller's been on since the fifth. Two balls, one strike.
Robinson, a hard smash toward short, takes the big bill hop for Maury Wills.
He throws across to West Parker and his low eye.
Now Boog Powell then, bowled out the third, grounded to short, double in the fifth inning,
and with his Hondras thundering action, saw first base lose. They had to replace it.
They're going to play him straight out. Right fielder Johnson has deepened his position considerably,
and they're overshifting LaFever and Parker.
And then Rapp off the right side, back on the grass LaFever, he's up and throws him out.
Boog Powell retired second to first, two down.
Kurt Bleppery, single to right, popped up to short, doing an intentional walk, one for two on the day.
Fifty-five thousand nine hundred and forty-one in beautiful Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California,
witnessing the getaway of this exciting classic.
In there for a strike. Sandy Kopacs, of course, scheduled to go tomorrow for the Dodgers,
and Jim Palmer, who will not be twenty-one until the fifteenth of October, will be his opponent.
He's dancing around and is now talking to the plate umpire, Bill Joukowski.
It's a ball, one-on-one.
Best way to get that one is wear shoe polish and then get hit on the foot.
Boy, that's the first time that ever happened in a World Series. They talked and wrote about that for hours.
Nippy Jones from the Cardinals.
One ball, one strike pitch. Curve ball hung up high around his cheekbones. Two balls a strike.
And the two-one pitch. Bleppery takes the curve ball that came in too low, three and one.
Conceivably, this would be Miller's last inning of work, as he is the scheduled batter in the seven.
Baltimore leading five to two, top of the seventh, two out and then on.
Bob Miller on the three-one pitch. The well-free, a big bouncer, hits toward Lefebvre.
He's up and close, second to first, and the out is recorded in the side retire.
So it's three up and three down.
And at the end of six and one-and-a-half innings, the score in this ballgame is five to two in favor of Baltimore.
Dodgers go to their bench and bring up very powerful left-hand-hung Wes Coddington to bat in place of Bob Miller.
Miller, he comes there for today, the first Dodger release pitcher or pitcher to stop the Baltimore club from scoring.
Turning in three fine innings, no runs, allowing two hits.
And getting one strikeout, issuing two off one intentional.
So Coddington comes on now.
Drabowski's in there with a soft curveball to the outside corner, which Coddington took for a strike.
Miller's retired, ten in a row with six strikeouts in there and no hits since the second inning when Parker doubled.
But that wasn't off Drabowski.
That was off young Dave McNally at the start.
Baltimore leading five-two.
The outfield is straight out and deep to Coddington.
Tried to check his swing, but it didn't help.
Strike two.
Drabowski is moving that ball around very nicely.
He's pitching to his spot beautifully.
Up and in, down and away, taking up corners, changing speed.
The 0-2 pitch is a curveball foul back, 0-2.
Baltimore infield, Brooks Robinson at third, Luis Apericio at short.
Johnson at second and Boogfowl at first with Blefary Schneider and Robinson in the outfield.
Drabowski and, of course, Eckeberg in the batter.
Ron Farnaski up for the Dodgers in the bullpen, left-handed.
Coddington strikes out swinging.
That's nine strikeouts and eight for Drabowski.
Maury Wirls punches it one and fouls it off to the left side.
Maury walks, stuck out twice.
The last ten recorded out by Drabowski, seven of them have been strikeouts.
So Maury Wirls is in.
They overshift way to the left to him, takes it high about the bill of the cap of all, one and one.
Brooks Robinson comes up a little bit to guard against the tap down that way.
One-one pitch, the line fouls past Preston Gomez, Dodger third base coach.
One ball, two strikes.
Baltimore leading here in the bottom of the seventh, one out and none on, five-two.
Willie Davis, the on-deck batter.
One ball, two strikes.
Now Drabowski ready to go.
Maury Wirls chops toward third.
Brooks Robinson comes up to get the foul, one and two.
Two records tied here today in case you're just tuning in.
Frank Robinson and Brooks Robinson homering back-to-back in the first inning.
Here's two homers in one inning.
And the sixth consecutive strikeout by Drabowski ties with a long-standing record.
Two balls, two strikes.
Wirls stepping out now asking something of Played Empire Bill Joukowsky, and Wirls wants to have the baseball examined.
Wirls has pulled off all kinds of tricks.
It's one of the reasons why he's such a tough competitor.
He'll do anything he can to distract you.
Two balls, two strikes.
Chopped toward third foul. He took a shot at it.
Frank Robinson, the Oriole right fielder, is about 110, 120 feet off the right fielder.
They don't look for Wirls to pull.
Then they pull Russ Snyder way over, and Lefferee is almost on the left field foul line in very shallow.
It's much the same type of a defense they set up at one time against Richie Eshburn, who is this type of hitter.
Two balls, two strikes.
Here's the 2-2 pitch.
Underneath, just missed with it, three and two.
Three balls, two strikes, and the wind up, and he lost him on a lot.
So that is the sixth walk, second given up by Joukowsky.
And there have been 11 bases on balls so far in this game.
Here's Willie Davis now, who twice has popped up the short and once stuck out.
If you're going to double him up with the Wirls, you're going to have to get it one half or somewhere in a sudden hurry.
There's a liner to left for a base hit.
And in the fast forward, it's Lefferee.
Fires the ball in the third baseman, Brooke Robinson, and the Dodgers have runners at first and second and one away.
Draw the Dodgers.
And the same back here with one away, Wirls draws the walk.
And Willie Davis went to the opposite field on a curve ball and lined the left for a single.
That is their third hit in the ball game and their first since Parker doubled him the second in it.
Now, Lou Johnson, who has inspired the Dodger ball club fans, and he walks and scored in the third and he's wide-attended and stuck out around the walk.
Pitch to Lou. Bunted foul, take one.
He tried to drop that one down third and blow them up for Tommy Davis.
Typical Los Angeles Dodger maneuver. They all do all sorts of things.
And they get away with it enough because if they didn't, they wouldn't be here in the World Series.
Nothing in one to the right-hand batting Lou Johnson. Runners lead at first and second and one away.
Wirls is going. The ball pops up toward third and it's going into foul territory, which will nullify the infield fly rule.
Brooke Robinson makes the catch. But Wirls was going on the play.
So Wirls back at second base and Willie Davis to first.
And Tommy Davis, the left fielder, who's grounded after third, drew a walk and stuck out standing in.
Baltimore leading the Dodgers 5-2 in the bottom of the seventh inning, two out and two on.
Right-hand batting Tommy Davis.
Wirls a good lead at second. Nobody holding a course on Willie Davis at first.
Tommy Davis takes a slider for a strike. 0-1.
No ball. One strike.
Outfield over-shifted to the left for this fellow.
Still one pick. That slider moved outside the ball. 1-1.
Well, the gentleman known out here rather affably as the vulture, Phil Regan, is up for the Dodgers, replacing Taranowski.
One ball, one strike fix.
Get up the middle over the right. Your second base from Johnson. Flips it on to Aparicio. And Willie Davis is in the middle again.
He didn't think that he was out with his speed. He thought he had it. And Chris Palacuti says it was bang, bang, and you're on the other side of it.
A hot play on a bouncing ball right up the middle from Johnson to Aparicio. And, unfortunately, Davis had retired the Dodgers.
No runs. One hit. No others. And two left. At the end of seventh, the Baltimore Orioles lead the Dodgers 5-2.
And now we've got Rod Taranowski and Rod in 55-J.
The Dodgers here, one-sixth, lost seven, a pitch to a 3.18, and we'll face the right-hand-hitting Oriole rookie second baseman, Dave Johnson.
Okay, Chuck, you know, it never ceases to amaze me. Every time you see a real fine play, it's so often that that man leads off the next inning.
And Johnson certainly made an excellent play there on that ball to save the Dodger running, perhaps a big rally. You know.
He leads it off, and he's one for three, a double. Taranowski sends him a little curveball, ball one.
Drozdale, Mueller, Miller, and Taranowski. One ball, no strikes.
Here's the 1-0 pitch, and it's on the corner for a strike called one-and-one.
Taranowski and Platum Power Bill Joukowski engaged in what has to be, several years ago, one of the most humorous things in baseball.
There's a ball right up the middle, a solid base hit.
And here's the Etchiband, who walked and scored, grounded the second, and single the right will now stand in.
Taranowski, walking in from the bullpen, getting ready to first, had taken his ball-all-transistor radio.
He loves to listen to music in the bullpen.
And he had it in his glove, and umpire Bill Joukowski, when he was out and around, was walking around trying to figure out where was the music coming from.
And they finally took the transistor off him and turned it off and put it someplace else.
Andy Etchiband, a right-hand batter. David Johnson is two for four.
Fine young second baseman.
Paul DeMorey and all got this far with four rookies, outstanding ones in their lineup.
Etchiband takes a high ball on.
One ball, no strikes.
Ron checks the runner at first and Dave Johnson. Etchiband preps for this one. Fouls the ball to the right out of play, one and one.
The Bulls scored three times in the first inning, one in the second and one in the fourth for their five runs.
The Dodgers in the second and third, a run each, for their two.
It's five runs, they hit the nowhere of Baltimore. Dodgers two, three and O.
Dresdale, thus far on the hook for it. Joukowski trying to grab the ring.
A strike one. Bunch this one rather hard back to Paranaski.
He goes on a low throw to Wills who holds the ball, has no play available on a fine play where Wills that time just held the base in his position and gets the app.
Chuck Thompson has an interesting note here.
In the first inning today, the Baltimore Orioles scored as many runs as the American League club scored in five previous games at Dodgers Stadium.
Mo Drabowski, I thought, had a pretty good sense of humor too. The phone rang and the KCA's bullpen one night.
The boys said warm up Kraus. They did. The boys belonged to Drabowski.
A foul back on a bunch try, strike one.
Baseball and particularly teams need one or two fellows that are on what they sometimes call the flaky side of life.
The fellows that keep you laughing and don't let you take things too seriously.
And I don't believe in all the years we've all been together in baseball we've ever seen one club that didn't have one or two like that.
Most necessary.
The pressures that are on these young men are truly tremendous.
The ball is one strike.
Mo takes it low for a ball. One and one. Shortened up as though he might be bunny.
Now Parker in to say something to Paranaski. Undoubtedly wants to know when Ron is going to the plate with the pitch so that he will not be breaking in when Ron might be throwing the ball over the first base.
They usually have a sign or two so that the first baseman knows exactly when the pitch is going to come to the plate with it.
Ball one strike.
Mo swings and it's one and two.
Junior Gilliam, very fine Dodger third baseman and a fellow who down through the years has been their glue man.
He is up close to third base still.
One ball, two strikes, Paranaski.
The fourth, Dodger pitcher.
High for a ball and the shortening up as though they brought in both third and first on that one.
Gilliam when he was maybe a year or two younger and batting just in behind Maury Wills would have as much credit for Wills tremendous efforts in stealing as anybody because he could afford to go deep in the strike down and give Wills the shot.
Two-two pitch.
One and foul and that will be a strikeout for Ron Paranaski. Strikeout number three, two down and Luis Aparicio stands in.
He is all for four but with an infield out in the fourth inning he drove in the run.
Baltimore leading by two.
A lot of times Wills would attempt to gauge the motion of the pitcher so that he could steal.
And with a man like Gilliam up there who could afford to go deep into the strike count like nothing in two.
Wills would get that ample and extra opportunity and then if Wills looked like he might be out Gilliam would pound it away and save him.
He did a tremendous job. He truly is one of the game's great performers.
Aparicio.
Right hand batters. Runner at first base, Andy Etchibarren. A strike is called on one.
No balls, one strike.
Russ Snyder, the center fielder, the on deck batter.
Paranaski's ball tailed away that time outside. One ball, one strike.
Dodgers in with seven, eight they said.
And the Orioles are in with eight and the Dodgers in with three.
There's a one, one. There's a line drive right to short. Wills leaps high and grabs it.
Morrie timed that beautifully and leaps high to grab it and retires to serve.
So in the Baltimore ace inning, no runs, one hit, no errors and one left.
And we go now to the Dodger race. Baltimore leading five to two.
Into the Dodger race inning, Lefebvre, Parker and Gilliam. They scheduled three batters.
Baltimore leading five to two.
Lefebvre hit a booming home run in the second inning.
Walked in the third and stuck out in the fifth. He's up left handed against Mo Drabowski.
Dave McNally went two and a third for two runs on two hits.
Drabowski has pitched a very strong, strong ball game since coming on with one out in the third.
His fastball is outside, ball one.
Bill Miller listening in the rope end. I am informed by Chuck Thompson. Here's a one-all.
A strike called. Has had some pain in his shoulder and Hank Bauer allows him to say whether he feels good or not.
And that if he feels loose and no pain, he brings himself in or otherwise he says I can't do it.
One-one. A ball. Two and one.
Gene Blobender, a young right-hander, is up and he has done yeoman-like work for Baltimore who have fought
and clawed their way into their first world series with four or five rookies actually on their uptick.
The two-ball one-strike takes your top step way up she goes and Drabowski telling Brooks Robinson to get it.
Lose that out in front of the mound.
It is rather unusual, Chuck Thompson, to have four or five rookies stay in the ball club and be able to do what they've done.
One of the big reasons the rookies have been able to play as well as they have with Baltimore this year is the steadying influence of men like
Brooks Robinson at third, Luis Aprifield at shortstop, and the magnificent Frank Robinson at right field.
He's kept the kids loose, kept them going.
Here's Wes Pucker. He doubled, struck out, lined to left.
You're just getting into the broadcast with us. In the fourth and fifth innings, Mo Drabowski struck out at sixth in a row.
And that tied a world series record.
And then Pucker lined to left so that Mo lost the opportunity there to establish a new one.
A blind eye of hooking foul down the right field line, strike two.
Wes Pucker is possessed of magnificent hands. He truly is a sight to watch at first glance.
He just moves like a cat and almost any kind of a hopper.
Anything he has what they call top hands and they fall and he strikes there, very fluid.
No ball, too safe.
Just missed upstairs, Drabowski's fastball above the letters one and two.
Wes and his father play in many bridge tournaments in the off-season and they're considered extremely good.
Ball high, two-two, a little kin music at times.
Two balls, two strikes.
Baltimore five, Dodgers two, in the bottom of the eighth, one out and none on.
Shoot two.
Foul straight back.
Well, I think tomorrow would be one day that even the incomparable Sandy Koufax would have to admit that he can't pack him in.
He'll be packed in regardless.
But normally, and it has been a tremendous thing here in the National League, whenever Koufax was going the attendance just went zooming.
No matter what park he appeared in, he was always good for a big house.
Change up, get foul off first.
Good motion by Drabowski and then changed off his curve ball, two-two.
Parker getting out in front of it.
Robinson, Apparicio, Johnson and foul, the Baltimore infield.
Now the two-two delivery.
Fastball stuck him out swinging.
Ten strikeouts and nine of them for Drabowski.
He might command a little ink tomorrow.
Gilliam walked twice and in the third with the bases loaded to drive in the run, popped the short in the sixth.
There are two down.
One strike. They might possibly, somebody, an enterprising reporter, ask Drabowski if he ever pitched a better game.
But it will never be quite as good as the one question asked of Chacey Stengel.
A pie ball when Don Larson pitched the perfect no-hitter when somebody said to him, did you ever see Larson pitch a better one?
Ball on strike one.
Foul back by the juniors, one and two.
Bottom of the eighth in game one, 55,941.
Looking on, Baltimore has five runs on eight hits, the Dodgers two runs on three hits.
Gilliam may switch better.
There's a line of toward left and coming up for it, Bleffery, and makes the belt-high catch that retires the side.
So it's another one-two-three inning for Mo Drabowski.
The score in this ball game is five to two in favor of Baltimore.
Moving now into the top half of the ninth inning, for what Baltimore hopes is for Drabowski is number one, number two, the end of the line.
They lead five to two.
Russ Snyder, Frank Robinson, and Brooke Robinson.
Russ Snyder, the center fielder, walked and scored in the first inning, single the left in the second to drive in a run, grounded the second, then walked.
So at the end of the day, he's one for two.
He's a left-hand batter, facing left-hand pitching Ron Peranowski.
First delivery is a ball bounced over the mound, going up toward second.
Wills comes up behind second, a dart's over there to Westfokker, and there's one away.
One down now to Frank Robinson, who has one for four, but it was a big one, a home run, his second World Series homer, having done so back in 1961 against the Yankees.
But in the first inning here, with Russ Snyder aboard, he found the power alley, which is about just a little bit off the foul line, down both lines.
You have to pull the ball here normally to get home runs.
The spark yields very few on the air.
The outfield swung deep and onto the left.
Peranowski delivers a curve ball, a mighty swing and a foul over into the badger dugout on the third base side, strike one.
That time Peranowski gave him a big motion, put something off his breaking ball.
Outfield swung left.
Fastball lined for left field.
Tommy Davis coming up for it is not going to be able to get to it.
It loops in there for a base hit.
That's the ninth Baltimore hit.
The batter now, Bruce Robinson, without question one of the greatest fielding third baseman in baseball.
And a judge by him ended up being the greatest.
He's one for four. He homered in the first inning.
That's the second hit surrendered by Peranowski.
Gets a fastball strike called at the knees on one.
No ball, one strike.
One away, one on, and it's 5-2 on the top of the ninth Baltimore.
There's Bruce Robinson lining them all he will.
Brilliant play by Little Mollie as he ran over into the hole and leaps up and backhand of it.
Second stellar play by Mollie Will.
So there are two away in the Baltimore ninth.
And Boog Powell, one hit in fourth, bats a double back in the fifth inning.
Standing in, double the left.
Fouled out the third and granted the short and second, these other appearances.
3-2 Baltimore, quick throw to first base, Frank Robinson back.
It's Robinson incidentally, he's caught in the depth base dealer, one of the smarter men maneuvering around out there.
So he's always a threat to be doing something.
Peranowski delivers and he just is outside with it a ball, 1-0.
And the famous St. Drysdale, who is currently on the hook for it, Moller, Miller, and now Ron Peranowski.
Peranowski delivers and there's a dive hit deep to right.
And Johnson comes up just a little bit because he was pretty deep to begin with.
And a little white in that ball, he's popping out of the glove down the line there a little bit, but he held on to it.
And that retires the side.
So in the Baltimore ninth, no runs, one hit, no errors, and one left.
And now to the Dodger ninth inning, Baltimore leading 5-2, Blair.
Manager Hank Bauer has now made a defensive change,
moving Russ Snyder from center field to left in place of Kirk Bleffery.
And Paul Blair has gone into center field.
So if you're keeping a scorecard, Paul Blair would be batting in the number six spot in place of Bleffery and playing center field.
Dodgers now go with Johnny Roosevelt, who is 0-3,
but who was really robbed on a sensational catch in the second inning by Russ Snyder when he made a beautiful play.
On a ball that looked like it was in the gap for extra bases, as Chuck described for you, and Snyder came from out of nowhere.
Dodgers have run fairly in the on-deck circle, a ball high from Mo Drabowski.
One ball on a strike, six, a ball two upstairs, 2-0.
Drew Miller is listening again in the Baltimore bullpen. It's 5-2, but the Baltimore Orioles know about the same Dodger charge in the name, as do nine other clubs in the National League.
Ball three high, 3-0 to Roseboro.
Mr. Barron, I have to have a word and pat Mo.
Mo went to Trinity College and majored in economics and is a stockbroker and watches the market carefully, 3-0 to Spike as he picks up that inside corner, 3-1.
55,941, Drabowski working quickly. Strike two called, 3-2.
Three balls, two strikes, Roseboro, the leadoff batter.
And the 3-2 pitch, he cut him out swinging.
So he went right to the brink of the flank and then came right back down it with three strikes.
That's 11 strikeouts, 10 for Drabowski.
Now here's Ron Fairley, Southern California boy.
Has won some very big ball games for the Dodgers. He's batting at 288.
Plays either first or out in right field. He had 14 home runs, but they were some big ones at the right time and 20 doubles.
And the season just completed.
And away, thinking pitch low, ball wonderful, that's the embattled. Baltimore leading 5-2.
In this first of the 1966 World Series, the 1-0 pitch strikes swinging.
Now Drabowski is picking out of sunlight in the shadow.
And this of course is the added advantage.
See the ball, then all of a sudden it just appears from here. Just up there, ball two, two and one.
For many years, down through the years, and of course you heard it so much because the Yankees were always in the World Series.
He played over there at Yankee Stadium in the fall.
Drabowski started to deliver and Fairley stepped out.
And time was called by Played Empire Bill Joukowski.
But picking in the shadows of Yankee Stadium, batter had a tough time.
And the 2-2 pitch, Fairley fouls it straight back, 2-2.
Two balls, two strikes, one out, none on. Dodger ninth inning, Baltimore five, the Dodgers two.
Now the 2-2 pitch.
What came out swinging?
Phenomenal performance.
I don't need to ask you if he never looked any better.
The answer to the word, no.
Just a magnificent pitching performance by Muller Drabowski.
He struck out six in a row and a fourth and fifth.
He came on in the third with one away.
He gets a little high there to Will, follow on.
2-2, striking outside, walking fast, and in with one stolen base.
There's the strike call, one and one.
Bounce down toward second base, Johnson is up, he fouls, and Baltimore meets the Dodgers in the front game
as Baltimore Oil truck out the rear.
From Muller Drabowski, a sensational pitching performance, and Baltimore takes the front one.
The night city here, three up and three down.
End of the nine, it's all over.
Baltimore five and the Dodgers two.
This is Joe Gargill.
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As the crowd begins to file out at this beautiful Dodger Stadium,
55,941 we're looking on.
There was a tremendous lot of drama that unfolded right here in this first game,
and it sets it up to be one whale of a series, Chuck Thompson.
Before we begin to think about what could happen tomorrow,
as the Magnificent Copacs have scheduled a pitch for the Dodgers,
and the hard-throwing youngster, Jim Palmer, is the pitch for the Baltimore Orioles.
Let's take a look at what took place here this afternoon
and get the figures out of the way first of all.
The victorious Birds with five runs and nine hits.
They did not commit an error. They stranded nine men.
The Dodgers two runs on three base hits.
They did not commit an error. They stranded eight men.
The winning pitcher will be Mo Drabowski, one and all, of course,
in that this is his first series game.
The loser is Don Drysdale, 0-1 in this series as of the moment.
Now, the Dodgers have now lost the opening game of the series ten times
in their 13 series appearance.
You recall last year, the Dodgers lost the opener in Minnesota by a score of 8-2.
Drysdale's composite World Series record now,
three and one in the series at L.A. and three and two overall in the series.
To go back on the Orioles' scoring, and we didn't have to wait very long,
it started in the very first inning.
Russ Snyder, with one out, threw a base on ball.
Frank Robinson then powered his second World Series home run into the lower deck seats,
The left field corner, and just like that,
The Baltimore Orioles were on top of the Dodgers and Drysdale 2-0.
Before the folks could settle back on their feet from the two-run home run
flash off the bat of Frank Robinson,
Russ Robinson banged one into the same area and Baltimore led by a score of 3-0
at the end of the first inning.
The Dodgers threatened very briefly of a first inning.
Maury Wills led off with a walk and, in typical Dodger fashion,
raced down the second base while Willie Davis was at the plate taking a small.
However, Dave McManly, the Orioles' starting left-hander,
retired Davis, Johnson, and Tommy Davis in order,
and they were out of the inning in that manner.
The Byrds picked up run number four in the second inning on a leadoff walk to Andy Etchibarron.
He was sacrificed to second base and scored a Russ Snyder single into left field
and Baltimore led by a score of 4-0.
It didn't last long because Jim LeFevre, leading off for the Dodgers in the second inning,
homered, and it was in this inning that the Dodgers came up with their biggest threat of the day.
With a leadoff home run by LeFevre, Wes Parker then followed with a double,
a walk to Gilliam, and the Dodgers had runners at first and second base with none out.
John Roszler hit a blast, headed to the alley in right center field,
and center field a Russ Snyder of the Orioles, dashed into the gap
and made a fine, diving, tumbling dash to take away the extra bases from Roszler.
McNally then went on to retire Pinchitter Stewart and struck out Mari Wills,
and at the end of two it was Baltimore four and the LA Dodgers one.
The Dodgers came out with a big threat of the second inning to pick up their second run,
and they got it in the easiest possible manner as left-hander Dave McNally, for Baltimore,
retired the leadoff hitter in the third inning, Willie Davis, from the top of the short,
but then just lost his control, and he walked Lou Johnson, Tommy Davis, Jim LeFevre to load the bases.
And that's when manager Bauer went to the bullpen and called upon the veteran Mo Drabowski,
and if you've heard Bob Prince through the last half of the ballgame, Drabowski was just magnificent.
With one out of the bases loaded in the third, he struck out Wes Parker,
then a walk to Gilliam, fourth, Lou Johnson home, with the Dodgers second run of the game.
And following that, Drabowski got Roseborough on a pop-up to the catcher Etcher Barron,
and the Orioles were out of the inning.
From that time on, the Dodgers never threatened.
Drabowski went roaring right along, and at one time had retired 11 men in a row.
He struck out six in a row to tie a World Series record.
He wound up today's effort with a total of 11 strikeouts,
credit one to the starting pitcher Dave McNally, and a total of 12 Dodgers strikeouts.
Drabowski walked only two men, and while he was on the mound,
only one Dodger got as far as second base some after the third inning,
and that was Mari Wills in the seventh inning.
Drabowski finished with a flurry, picking up three more strikeouts in the last two innings,
as he fanned Wes Parker in the eighth inning, and to start the ninth inning got Roseborough,
and pinched her fairly, and then Mari Wills in the bounce-out to Dave Johnson to end the ballgame
and give the Orioles something they desperately wanted in their swing to California, the first game.
Manager Bauer has, and I think all managers do this, with a ball club on the road,
you cannot underplay the significance, the importance of that first win,
that first game, and the Orioles have picked it up here this afternoon at Dodger Stadium.
Going back over the Orioles' scoring, they picked up their fifth run and final run
on the fourth inning on a leadoff double by rookie Dave Johnson, then Andy Etchibar,
a right-handed batter, deliberately hit the ball the first base out of the infield,
which passed Johnson into third base. Mo Drabowski then walked, and Louis Aparicio
hit a bouncer to the shortstop Wills, and Mari had to go kind of hard into the hole to get to this ball,
and he executed the fourth of Drabowski at second base, the only play available,
and while that was going on, Johnson checked in with a bird's final run.
Baltimore 5-2 over the Dodgers in the opening game, and a great win for Baltimore.
Yes, it certainly was, Chuck Thompson, and you and I will get back here together
to theorize a little bit on what the impact of tomorrow's great contest is going to be
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We remind you once again ladies and gentlemen here at Dodger Stadium before 55,941 fans of all the more Orioles got away winging as they defeated the Dodgers 5-2, took Drysdale down and Drabowski on and Chuck Thompson just gave you a very excellent summation of what went on there and we won't get into that anymore as much as the fact that now the Dodgers come back with the strongest
of the strong and their great and superb left-hander who truly belongs in a higher league if there is one he should be in it.
Kofax is one of the most magnificent pitching machines baseball has ever seen or perhaps ever will see.
Winning 27 games and time after time after time.
Keeping the Dodgers very close to the race and then when they had to have him on closing day to get the thing in the hopper he went out on two days rest and did it.
We all know about the great Kofax. We all know about his great ability to pick.
Now of course the psychological advantage which fling to Baltimore were they able to defeat Kofax tomorrow and that would be something else to take back to Baltimore with them for game three in Baltimore.
But what about young Jim Palmer Chuck the youngster that goes against the mighty Kofax tomorrow.
As you said Bob this young fellow reaches 21st birthday until October the 15th but this young man Palmer went the route on September the 22nd with the five hitter to DC Hays and that enabled the Orioles to clinch their first American league pennant.
He beat Kansas City by a score of six to one. Manager Hank Bauer has been quoted as saying about Palmer he will not scare the Orioles all year long.
When you play baseball for a man like Bauer you've got to be able to accept the challenge. Hank has saved them squarely all his life as a player and as a manager.
And the Orioles of course have nothing but the utmost respect for their magnificent Sandy Kofax but it's a challenge that they are looking forward to.
The final score once again in the first game of the World Series here in Dodger Stadium Los Angeles California.
Baltimore Orioles five Los Angeles Dodgers two.
And now speaking for Chuck Thompson this is Bob Brent saying thanks for being with us. This has been an NBC Radio Network production.