1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:15,000 The New York Yankees faced the Kansas City Royals at Royal Stadium for Game 1 of the ALCS on October 9th, 1976. 3 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:23,000 This is the national broadcast of Game 1 in the Best of 5 series featuring announcers Ernie Harwell and Ned Martin. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Hello again from Royal Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri where CBS Radio Sports is pleased to present the first game of the American League Championship Series between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Yankees. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:48,000 I'm Ned Martin along with Ernie Harwell and ready for the first pitch in just a few moments, which Larry Dural will make against his former ball club, the New York Yankees. 6 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 The series starting here will be a day game today, of course, a night game on Sunday tomorrow. 7 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Then the series will tip to New York for a Tuesday night game and of course the National League supposedly will open tonight in Philadelphia where we understand that it's raining. 8 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:11,000 But it's not raining here. The weather is perfect. We're set for baseball between these two clubs and we'll be back right back after this word. 9 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Okay, we'll be getting back to Ernie Harwell of the Detroit Tigers and Ned Martin of the Boston Red Sox for all the action of Game 1 of the American League playoffs in just a shuffle of moments. 10 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:33,000 As we mentioned the situation in Philadelphia hanging in the balance on the weather, we did get a late report from the National Weather Service just about 15 or 20 minutes ago 11 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:47,000 indicating that they feel by taking a look at radar weather, they feel that there's a possibility that that rain which is falling in Philadelphia right now may stop at about 6 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time. 12 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:53,000 That's in about five hours. Now they're thinking they might have two hours prior to the start of that game in which there will be no rain. 13 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 So we're just going to have to hang in there with it and see what happens. 14 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Now, the manager, Sparky Anderson, from us is back in lefty Don Gullett to take to get Philadelphia Steve Carlton. 15 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Anderson dropping a small long shell on Friday by saying he may not use the designated hitter if the Reds get into the World Series. 16 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:22,000 The umpiring crew and the managers have broken from home plate and here are the starting lineup for the first game of the championship series in the American League. 17 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:30,000 The C.R. Yankees playing center field and leading off Mickey Rivers. In left field, Roy White batting number two. 18 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:39,000 The catcher, Sermon Munson batting in the number three spot. The designated hitter today, Lou Pennella batting fourth. 19 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Chris Shambliss is the first baseman batting number five. Greg Nettles at third base hitting sixth. 20 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Elliot Maddux in right field batting number seven. Willie Randolph, the rookie second baseman batting eighth. 21 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And the shortstop batting ninth, Fred Stanley. The pitcher for the Yankees will be James Augustus Catfish Hunter. 22 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:12,000 All the players of City Royals under manager Whitey Herzog. It'll be Amos Otis in center field in the lead off spot. 23 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:20,000 George Brett will be playing at third base batting number two. The designated hitter, Al McCrae batting third. 24 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 Lost by just a fraction of a percentage point in that American League batting race on the final day of the season. 25 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Two is teammate Brett. John Laybury at first base batting number four. Al Cowan is the right fielder hitting in the number five position. 26 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Tom Poquette in left field batting sixth. Frank White, the second baseman for the Royals batting number seven. 27 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:54,000 Donnie Freddy Potek at shortstop batting number eight. And the catcher for the Royals is Fuck Martina. 28 00:03:54,000 --> 00:04:02,000 The pitcher, Larry Gura, with a 4-0 record this year and a 2.30 earned run average overall with duty both with the Yankees, 29 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 very limited duty, and with the Royals. The hunters earned run average incidentally 3.53. 30 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:14,000 17 and 15 on the year for Hunter and one and two this year against the Kansas City Royals. 31 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:22,000 The umpiring outfit goes like this. Larry Barnett will be not only Joe Brickman behind the plate. 32 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Once Joe Brickman has given up as Barnett, but Barnett is umpiring at first base. 33 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:34,000 George Maloney is at second base. Bill Haller will call a play at third. 34 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Down along the left field line will be Arch Frank. And the right fielder will be Larry McCaw. 35 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:48,000 So it's Brickman behind the plate, Barnett at first, Maloney at second, Haller at third, and the left field is McCaw in right. 36 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:56,000 The Royals stadium, Ewing Coughlin, the owner of the Royals is making a first pitch. 37 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,000 They're going to throw out two balls this afternoon. 38 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Mark Martinez is catching them. There's Mr. Coughlin. 39 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 And now Mrs. Coughlin will throw out the second pitch. 40 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,000 And there's Mr. Coughlin who brought baseball back to Kansas City as a home-owned team. 41 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:18,000 The Royals stadium holds 40,762 and there aren't too many empty seats right now. 42 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:24,000 This is just down the line, 330 to the foul poles in left and right. 43 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:31,000 It moves out as the 12-foot wall curves around from foul pole to foul pole to the bullpen area 44 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 and past the bullpen areas in right and left center where it's 385 feet, 45 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:42,000 410 feet toward the deepest part of the field in deep right center and center field. 46 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 The wall is 12 feet high. 47 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Beyond the wall, a big green bank with a Royals insignia and Royals and Yankees crest on the lawn 48 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,000 which was not only mowed out there but sprayed and painted. 49 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,000 The outfield on this artificial turf ball field is in perfect shape 50 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,000 as George Thoma has taken care of everything in perfect condition spot. 51 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:14,000 There's a big scoreboard in center field past the big bank where nobody has yet hit one in this ball park. 52 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,000 It goes close to 500 feet if you hit that scoreboard on the fly. 53 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:25,000 The bullpen in left field, the Yankee bullpen in the visiting bullpen in left, and the Royal bullpen in right. 54 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:32,000 And the first base dug up belongs to the home team here, the Kansas City Royals, the Yankees are at third. 55 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Dick Hauser, the third base coach for the Yankees, moves out. 56 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Oli Hower, the first base coach, as the Royals have already taken the field. 57 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Defensively, they will have a battery of Larry Dora and Buck Martinez, 58 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 The first baseman, Big John Mayberry, second baseman, Frank White. 59 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 At shortstop, Freddie Hoteck, and at third base will be George Brett. 60 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:58,000 The left fielder, Tom Blokette, the center fielder, Amos Otis, and the right fielder, Al Cowan. 61 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 So we're set for baseball on a beautiful afternoon from Kansas City, 62 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,000 The first of a series between the Royals and the Yankees, the best out of five. 63 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:15,000 So two games will be played here, one, two, or three will be played in Yankee Stadium in New York starting on Tuesday night. 64 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Right now, it's my pleasure to introduce one of the gentlemen of the game, 65 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 which is something to say at Oxford at some time. 66 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:30,000 A veteran of baseball broadcasting over the years in both leagues with the Giants, the Orioles, the Tigers. 67 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,000 Right now, one of the class people in baseball. 68 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,000 One of his poems is in the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. 69 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:43,000 And a great pleasure for me personally to work with a longtime friend, 70 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 and the voice of the Detroit Tigers, Ernie Harwell. 71 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 Thank you, Ned Martin. I appreciate those kind words. 72 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 And hi, everybody, wherever you might be. 73 00:07:51,000 --> 00:08:00,000 A special greeting to the Armed Forces radio listeners all around the world as we get ready for this classic here in Kansas City. 74 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 The weatherman has blessed us with beautiful weather. 75 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,000 Got a little bit of a breeze. It's blowing from the northwest at 14 miles an hour. 76 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 That means it'll be blowing across the field from the left field toward right. 77 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,000 We've got what the ballplayers refer to as a high sky, no clouds, 78 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:22,000 to form a background for those high pop-ups, the fly balls, and it might be a little tough. 79 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:27,000 Also, it's going to be very interesting to see how the Yankees play here on the Tarleton Surf, 80 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:34,000 which they are not very familiar with, but which is the ball surf for the Kansas City Royals. 81 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 The Yankees are favored in this series. The Royals say that they can win it. 82 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 So let's see. Larry Gura ready to sit. Nicky Rivers at the plate. 83 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:47,000 And the first pitch on the way, it's funny, George Baird, it is a foul ball, 84 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,000 rolling foul picked up by Martinez about 10 or 12 feet down the third base side. 85 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:59,000 The Rivers try to surprise him right off the start with a little block toward third base. 86 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,000 It was a good one, but it finally rolled foul. 87 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000 George Brett coming over now to talk to Gura. 88 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,000 Gura is the left-hander from Arizona, one of the many graduates of Arizona State 89 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,000 who made it big in the Major League. 90 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,000 He had a 4-0 record this year, but no record at all, one and lost against the Yankees. 91 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Rivers batting 286, and he swings and fouls it off on the screen right down below it. 92 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Gura has a fast ball, he's not exceptionally fast. 93 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:34,000 He throws a slider and has an excellent change up. 94 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,000 The players say that he'll throw a change on his change. 95 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Basically a control flipper, he has to pitch the spot. 96 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Rivers waiting, the left hand about his feet, bonding ball to third. 97 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,000 Brett Dressett at the corner, long throw to first, not in time, it gets by Mayberry. 98 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,000 Rivers is taking second, Mayberry chases it all down, 99 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,000 and Rivers flies in safety at second base. 100 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Brett hesitated for a moment, and then threw the first base. 101 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:04,000 He's got to pick off the fleet of Rivers, but he's through while I'm late, 102 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 and we'll wait for the official score of the decision. 103 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 It'll be an error and a single. 104 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,000 Probably that, he would have been better off just holding the ball. 105 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 I believe so, that hesitation you mentioned there, and he was, 106 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 why he did it, whether he couldn't get the ball out of his glove or not, 107 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 or whether he was waiting for Mayberry to come over to cover, 108 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 and John might have been wide of a bag enough. 109 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:31,000 So it's a break right off the bat for the Yankees, and Mickey Rivers has been making them all year. 110 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 And the ball was very close to the line. 111 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 It was not an easy play for Brett at all, but he'll be charged with an error. 112 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Good boy, White, the switch batter batting 286th over the season, 14 homerun, 65 earned by the end. 113 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Gerrard delivers a fast ball, high and outside on White. 114 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Rivers with a single, taking second on the wild throw by third baseman Brett. 115 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Well, the Yankees have an early threat going here in Kansas City. 116 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Outfield is straight up on the right-hand batting White. 117 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Gerrard delivers, it's a ball, then close the fast ball. 118 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Rivers has 43 steals and the 50 chances, and he's the man to be reckoned with on the bases. 119 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Most of the base stealers like to run on this part of the turf. 120 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 They feel they've got a better jump and a better start. 121 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Outfield bunching up the middle on White. 122 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Waiting, Gerrard on the left-hand's one of the plate, it's been too close. 123 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:38,000 3-0, the count on Roy, the Yankee veteran. 124 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Brett is about even with the bag at third and wide up it slightly. 125 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Patek and White have around second as much towards the bag. 126 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Mayberry is playing wide at first base. 127 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 White digging in, spreads out. 128 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 See if he's taking a hitting on this one. 129 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,000 He's taking and it's outside, ball four. 130 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Oh, the Yankees have two men on and nobody down, and Thurman Munson, 131 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:09,000 doubted by many as the most valuable player of the American League coming to bat. 132 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:16,000 That's a big, dirty right-hand batter ready to step in against the left-hand pitching of Jura. 133 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:31,000 Munson hits 3-0-2 for the season at 17 home runs and 105 runs batted in. 134 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Oh, Gerrard in early trouble here against his old teammate, the Yankees. 135 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Infield in double play depth on Munson, outfield around the left. 136 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:48,000 And Garra pitches if they fall out of play. 137 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:55,000 That one reaching the seat for the Nazanin. 138 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Elton Howard is the first base coach for the Yanks, 6,000 coaching at third. 139 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Beautiful day, bright and sunny. 140 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,000 The Yankees with an early threat. 141 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,000 They've got Rivers at second base. 142 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 They've got White at third. 143 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:23,000 That's the pitch. It's a breaking ball low, good stop by Buck Martinez to catch it. 144 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Garra has floated pitching phase now with Munson at the back. 145 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:34,000 No score around the first inning. The Yankees have two men on and nobody down. 146 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,000 That's the kick, the pitch. It's a line shot to the field. 147 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 Rivers coming around third. That's where the ball is loaded. 148 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 And they're holding it third. The bases are loaded. 149 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Ode is coming up quickly with that ball. 150 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Shooting through the carton third. He picked it up and fired him with Jackson Martinez. 151 00:13:50,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Rivers was held at third. 152 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:13,000 So we've got the Macy's, Water City, and a former Kansas City player, Lou Pennella, stepping up. 153 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:20,000 The game time, Cheperdee reading now 63 degrees here in Kansas City. 154 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:29,000 Bird has begun to throw already in the Kansas City bullpen, the right-hander. 155 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Oh, there have been two singles with a walk-in between. 156 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Also an error by Kansas City, and the Yankees have three men on and nobody down. 157 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,000 Here's Pennella, and he's clean and lifted. 158 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,000 There's that change up by Larry Garra. 159 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:47,000 Pennella pulled the trigger much too soon on that one. 160 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Lou batted 281 during the season. 161 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Had three home runs, drove in 38 runs. 162 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Young man from Tampa waiting. 163 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Here's the pitch to Pennella. He takes the strike from the outside corner. 164 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Now, Gura gets the corner there with a fastball. 165 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:19,000 Now, the Scouts say that basically Pennella is a fastball hitter and a lowball hitter. 166 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Now, the windup for the left-hander, the pitch he takes outside. 167 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:26,000 That's with the waste bit. 168 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 No score first inning. 169 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,000 The Yankees have a gigantic threat on against Kansas City. 170 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:39,000 They've loaded the bases with nobody down. 171 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Munson at first base. 172 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 White at second. 173 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Mickney Rivers at third. 174 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 One ball, two strikes out on Pennella, digging in waiting. 175 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Now, the left-hander, Larry Garra, here's the windup in the pitch. 176 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 He swings and fouls it away. 177 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,000 That one off the middle of Martinez to Kesseth. 178 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Pennella is rather hard to guard against in the outfield. 179 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,000 He'll hit to any of the fields. 180 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Sometimes a bad ball hitter. 181 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Rivers keeping an eye on Garra. 182 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,000 He'll be working off the windup here where the bases loaded and nobody out. 183 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,000 No score first inning. 184 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Here's the motion, here's the pitch. 185 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Pennella swings and there's a foul out of play. 186 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:33,000 End of the mezzanine and a man from Raytown will take care of that one. 187 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 That breeze here, that may be a fact. 188 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 It's going pretty hard. 189 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:41,000 Yeah, it is a left-to-right breeze and might help a ball hit down the right field line. 190 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:46,000 It's harder than we thought it was when we came out here. 191 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Kansas City infields still playing back in double play depth. 192 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,000 As Garra goes to work again on the Pennella where the bases loaded. 193 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 The left-hander winds and delivers. 194 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 There's a cut in the middle. 195 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,000 That was a bad pitch. 196 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:10,000 It's like a high pass ball and Pennella goes down on strike. 197 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:16,000 Garra still in trouble now faces Chris Tamlitz, the left-hander batting first baseman. 198 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:22,000 He came to the Yankees, you'll remember, from the Cleveland ball club. 199 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Had a fine year this year. 200 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:33,000 He batted 293, had 17 home runs and 96 runs right at end. 201 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Tamlitz at one time had trouble handling the high pass ball. 202 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:42,000 There's a curve and tight on him. 203 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Ball one to count on Chris. 204 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:51,000 The pitch is loaded for the Yankees, one man down, no score, first inning. 205 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Otis is almost slightly in left center against Chris Tamlitz. 206 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Now the motion of the pitch, he swings and powers it away. 207 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 That one back to the screen. 208 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,000 One and one. 209 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 That was a fast ball and tight on him. 210 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Tamlitz says the only way he's learned to handle that pitch is to use his hands more. 211 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Gora Munson is an expert at that, his teammate. 212 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Getting the hands in even at the last split second. 213 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Base is loaded, one out, Yankees threatening first inning. 214 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Gora Wines delivers, Tamlitz swings to the bonding ball to third. 215 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Brett Gloveson cuts his third, one there for the first. 216 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Mayberry gets past Mayberry. 217 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 Rivers is scored. 218 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Coming around third now is Munson. 219 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:36,000 He's headed home, here's a throw by Cowan for the plate. 220 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:40,000 And he scores against by a martini that's packed up by Gora. 221 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,000 And the Yankees score a couple of runs on the fourth count of the error. 222 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,000 And take the lead here in the opening inning, 2-0. 223 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:53,000 They end up with a man at second base and two men out. 224 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,000 And the batter will be Neville. 225 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Quite a play there, Mr. Martin. 226 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,000 I imagine that would have to be a score. 227 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 The fielders score one run, bat it in, and an error on Brett, 228 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 which is his second of the inning. 229 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 And George has had more trouble this year with the throwing from third base. 230 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000 He doesn't usually make that many. 231 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 He made quite a few errors this year. 232 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 The throwing bothered him. 233 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,000 He said earlier in the season that maybe it was because he was hitting so well 234 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000 that he just lost concentration on his fielding. 235 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:24,000 So the Yankees who might have been out of the inning without a run now have two. 236 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 And Meadows, a tough hitter at the plate, left-handed about to the home run 237 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 seeing him in the American League with 32. 238 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Swings and let's play fly ball to left field. 239 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Both cats fighting the sun and the wind makes the catch and the inning is over. 240 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,000 But the Yankees take the lead as they get two runs on two hits. 241 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 There were two Kansas City errors, one man left for New York. 242 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:54,000 And in the middle of the first inning, it is New York 2 and Kansas City coming to bat. 243 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,000 We've gotten words from the National League on what the league intends to do 244 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:03,000 in the event of a rainout in Philadelphia or in the event of the further worsening weather conditions. 245 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,000 A Philadelphia Philly spokesman said the opening National League playoff game against the Reds 246 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,000 is expected to be played despite forecast of rain. 247 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Bill Giles, the executive vice president of the club, said he had been in constant touch 248 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:21,000 with various weathermen and they indicate that the rain should stop by about 6 o'clock. 249 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 That's in about 4 hours and 45 minutes from now. 250 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 The Phillies have not had a game rained out all season. 251 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:32,000 National League president Chavsini, who will make the decision whether to play or not, 252 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:37,000 said at noon that as a result of the weather report, we don't plan to call the game until tonight, 253 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,000 meaning of course Saturday night. 254 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 He said that's the way we're planning unless the weather report gets turned around. 255 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,000 But I'll tell you one thing, it is not going to be Chavsini who's going to make the decision 256 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000 whether to play or not. 257 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 It's going to be the played umpire because in a situation like this, 258 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:57,000 they always go ahead and authorize the umpire to make that decision for the league president. 259 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:04,000 The league president generally does not have the knowledge and the understanding 260 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,000 on how weather patterns work and how it affects the field of play. 261 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,000 He just says let the played umpire do it in my name and that's exactly what will happen Saturday night. 262 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:20,000 Two costly throwing errors by George Greb of Kansas City, the man at third base, 263 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:25,000 giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead here in the opening inning. 264 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:30,000 And there'd be a curious thing about those throws where they were both in about the same spot 265 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:35,000 and he really didn't have to hurry that one or he would have had a double play. 266 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 I feel sure the ball was sharply hit. 267 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:40,000 He was near enough to the bag to get the force out and enough to go over there 268 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000 The first base to get the runner in shambles who was fast enough 269 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:49,000 but he hasn't blazing speed if he'd have a throw there where the inning would have been over. 270 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Well, Catfish Hunter ready to go to work now and Otis after Greb and McRae 271 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 will be the first three Kansas City batters. 272 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Whitey Herzog has made a change, moving Otis into the leadoff spot 273 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,000 and Whitey Sperius, he wants to get his three good batters right up there at the top 274 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,000 where they will have as many times as bad as possible. 275 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Remember Bobby Bregan used to have the theory that he would lead off with his best hitter 276 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,000 because that man would come to bat more often than anybody else. 277 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Well, here's Otis. 278 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,000 He's got a club record with 40 doubles this year. 279 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,000 He's hitting 279 for the season and Catfish delivers. 280 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,000 It's a breaking ball, ball one. 281 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Hunter, a very fine professional. 282 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:40,000 He has excellent control and a good variety of pitches. 283 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Not overpowering but he's got a lot of savvy. 284 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,000 If they fall outside on Amos, he's got at the bottom and took it. 285 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Shoot it all on the royal leadoff man. 286 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Nattles is fairly deep at third base at this moment. 287 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,000 Yankees lead through nothing. 288 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,000 They got two on the throwing errors by Brett in the opening inning. 289 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Wind up by Hunter. 290 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,000 The pitch is funny. George heard Hunter off the mound. 291 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 He feels it. Here's the quarter first. 292 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 He is out. 293 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,000 Good play by Catfish. 294 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Firing the ball over the chamble. 295 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 It's in time to get the speedy aim of Otis. 296 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Batting second, number five, George Fletch. 297 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Here's the American League batting champion, George Fletch, coming up. 298 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,000 He had a fabulous year. 299 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Lived the league with a 3.33 mark at seven home runs, 67 runs batted in. 300 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Young man who broke into this Kansas City lineup at the age of 20, back in 73. 301 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,000 There's a curve low on the Catfish ball one. 302 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Mickey Rivers is very shallow in center field on the left-hand batting Brett, and he takes the strike. 303 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:03,000 Now Brett was only up to steal a lot following the series, caught him by the batting coach, Charlie Rowe. 304 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Catfish goes into motion again. 305 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 Delivers his a bounding ball to his bird, knocked down by Neville. 306 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,000 He picks it up, throw to bird, got in. 307 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:19,000 He took the hit away from Brett. 308 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,000 So far Ernie, the book has been completely raw. 309 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,000 The Royals would out-defense the Yankees. 310 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:31,000 The Yankees might have some problems defensively, but there's two fine plays, one by Hunter and one by Eddell. 311 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Here's Hal McRae now, who finished second to his teammate in the batting race, Brett. 312 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:41,000 He batted 3.32. Right-hand batting designated hitter takes the pitch in close. 313 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,000 Two nothing Yankees in the opening inning. 314 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 They jumped out in front early. 315 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Right-hander Hunter delivers. McRae swings and fouls it on the screen. 316 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Hal's not a power hitter. He had eight home runs over the season. 317 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Seventy-three runs batted in. 318 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:03,000 He stands deep with his feet rather close together. 319 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,000 One of the few Royals who's had the championship series experience. 320 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,000 He swings and misses on a breaking ball, and the count is one and two. 321 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Two off, over the arm of the Royals. They trail the Yankees, two nothing. 322 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,000 Rivers again playing very shallow, who's open right center on McRae. 323 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,000 Right-hand batter cuts and misses, and the inning is over. 324 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:33,000 The Royals go down one, two, three, and at the end of the first inning, it is New York 2, Kansas City nothing. 325 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,000 A number of college football games on tap, as you might expect on this Saturday. 326 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Let's take a look and see where the ranked teams are playing. 327 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000 In the East, Louisville is at second-ranked Pittsburgh. 328 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Saturday night, Florida State plays at 17th ranked Boston College. 329 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,000 In the South, seventh-ranked Maryland is at North Carolina State. 330 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Fourth-ranked Georgia plays at Mississippi. 331 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 In the Midwest, fifth-ranked Nebraska is at Colorado. 332 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 Eleventh-ranked Ohio State plays at Iowa. 333 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:05,000 Ninth-ranked Missouri is at Kansas State. 334 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 In the Southwest and far west, third-ranked Oklahoma plays at Texas. 335 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,000 That game will be broadcast later in the day over many of these same AFRCS stations. 336 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,000 Eighteenth-ranked Texas Tech is at 16th-ranked Texas A&M. 337 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 West Texas State is at 19th-ranked Houston. 338 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Stanford is at sixth-ranked UCLA, and tenth-ranked Southern California is at Washington State. 339 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:35,000 Not scheduled, 12th-ranked Notre Dame, 13th-ranked Florida, 15th-ranked Arkansas, and 20th-ranked Tulsa. 340 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,000 CBS Radio Sports has written you play-by-play action in the American League Championship. 341 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,000 And there's more to come. The World Series starts October 16th, that's next Saturday. 342 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:55,000 And you'll hear exclusive radio coverage, play-by-play, of the 1976 World Series, right here on the CBS Radio Network station. 343 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,000 The Royals have made a lineup change. Jim Walford goes in to play left. 344 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Cowan moves into center field, and the starting left fielder, Polk Schacht, goes in to play right. 345 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,000 All necessitated by an entry to Amos Mody. 346 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:18,000 He heard his ankle running out that spot on which he was tossed out by Hudders in the last half of the first inning. 347 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Juno Bingley, Yankees lead the Royals in the opening game of the championship series, second inning, and it matters. 348 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:32,000 At the plate, batting 217 for the year, he swings and Polk get out of play. It'll be a high one that'll reach the seat back of first base. 349 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Maddox is facing in right field. A fairly strange position to him, although he's played it before. 350 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:47,000 He was on the inactive list for a year and a half, and he's still somewhat hobbled with a leg injury. 351 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:56,000 No home runs this year. Three runs battered in for Elliott, and he taps the foul on a checked swing. That one back in the middle behind the plate. 352 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:01,000 Two strikes out on him. 353 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:13,000 Larry Gura had a tough time in that opening inning. Ran into a little turbulence as the Yankees picked up two on two hits dated by two errors by Brett. 354 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:21,000 There's a fastball outside. He wasted that one one and two of the count on Elliott Maddox. 355 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:29,000 Maddox, the Yankees, you remember from the Texas team, also been at Washington and Detroit prior to that. 356 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:36,000 And he swings and Polk it away. It'll be in the seat over on the first base side. 357 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:43,000 The outfield is playing around a right a little bit on Maddox, playing him with the ball. 358 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:49,000 Infield is very deep. They'll have a tendency here on the Texas turf to play a lot deeper than they do on natural grad. 359 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,000 Gura, the left-hander, kicks and deals. There's a bounding ball to short it. The pot-hick is over. He has it. 360 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Here's a throw to Mayberry inside, and Maddox is up. 361 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Well, pretty tough, that. Celebrating his 32nd birthday. 362 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:08,000 Causes are ill-matted. Here's Willie Randolph, the former National Leagueer. 363 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:18,000 Willie, one of the many Yankees who's been in the playoffs. 364 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:23,000 Named by the Yankees from the Pittsburgh Ball Club. Right hand about it. 365 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:32,000 It's 267 for the Seasons. Gura left-hands one up, and it's fouled away. That's his change-up. 366 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Randolph, start of the swing, checks it, and then they ball it to bat Mericatay away. 367 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,000 Joe Brinkman getting a knee-base ball from the ball boy. 368 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,000 Outfield a little bit to the left on the right-hander batting Randolph. 369 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:48,000 He swings at a bounding ball wide a third, mixed up by Brett for the first. 370 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:54,000 Good play by George Grant, 20-years left, and short-hopping the hard-grounder. 371 00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:00,000 Oh, there are two down. Nobody on for New York. Bailey threw nothing in the second inning. 372 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,000 And here's the shortstop, Brett Stanley. 373 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Brett, Brett batting 238. From the Seasons start, he and Mason were alternating. 374 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,000 They were being put-tuned by manager Billy Martin. Stanley eventually won the job. 375 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Right-hand batter waiting, and he takes the strike. That's the outside corner. 376 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,000 Something about this guy, he is knocked in 20 runs in a year. I think about 10 of them were against the Red Cubs. 377 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:35,000 He's tough in the clutch. It's a pitch outside on Stanley, and the count even on him at one-and-one. 378 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:40,000 Two-nothing, the Yanks have the lead. We're in the second inning. 379 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Larry Dora, lines and pitches. There's a line shot, right field, base hit. 380 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:54,000 Hope Jett coming up on the rough side to field it. Stanley makes the turn, holes, with a long single down in the right field corner. 381 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,000 That'll give the Yanks their third hit. They've all been singled. 382 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,000 And here's the man who picked up the first one, Mickey Rivers. 383 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:12,000 Rivers finally starts the ballgame and beat it out. 384 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:20,000 Incidentally, when Ned Martin speaks to the Red Sox, he's an authority. He is the voice of the Boston Red Sox. 385 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:28,000 And has been for about 16 years. Here's a pitch to Mickey. He swings and misses. 386 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:36,000 Rivers was safe on the box. Then took second when Brett overthrew his first base. 387 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,000 Then the Yankees loaded the bases. Vanellas struck out. 388 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:45,000 Cambers hit into a fourth shot, but the throw by Brett left two runs in. That's how the Yankees got their two. 389 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:53,000 Here's a wide curve from Dora, and they count even one-and-one on Rivers. 390 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:59,000 Rivers had shoulder problems towards the end of the year, but they ended up subsided. 391 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Two out, one on. The Yankees had two nothing. 392 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:14,000 Stanley with a short-mated first base. And the pitches are struck. 393 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Ava Sotis is out of the game. They made an outfield change here with George about earlier because he sprained his left ankle. 394 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000 He's a very valuable man, and he will be missed. 395 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:36,000 Here's the step by Dora, the left-hander ready, but Rivers, Rivers swings and misses on the changeup. 396 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000 And the inning is over. Stuck him out. 397 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:49,000 The runs won it. No errors. One man left. And in the middle of the second inning, the score, New York 2, the Royals nothing. 398 00:32:49,000 --> 00:33:02,000 Taking a look at other sports news, World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali in an interview published on Saturday has left open the possibility of returning to the ring again despite his announced retirement. 399 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:11,000 But the 34-year-old Ali told a developed newspaper in Germany over the telephone that there would be no other World Championship bout for him. 400 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:15,000 He says, my decision to retire from boxing is definite, and that's it. 401 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Ali says he's made lots of money with his manager, Herbert Muhammad, but he says, now I have made an end. He says I only work and live for my religion. 402 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:36,000 According to Ali, he said if he should enter the ring again, it would be for the sole purpose to financially support his black brethren, to support hospitals and help the poor and the old people of his religion. 403 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:42,000 He said if he could box again, and then only for all of us, he said there would be no other World Championship match for him. 404 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000 He says that is definite. 405 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:53,000 Interesting point, though. How much money would he get just fighting a fight as opposed to how much would he get if he was fighting for the World Championship? 406 00:33:53,000 --> 00:34:01,000 Thank you, Sue. The Kansas City Royals nothing. We're in the second inning here, the first game of the American League Championship Series. 407 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:08,000 Sometimes called the Playoffs Series, although officially the American League Championship Series. 408 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:18,000 And John Mayberry, who was a big home run producer last year, but then slumped off a little bit in his home run production, but still is always a threat. 409 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:23,000 He'll be leading off for the Kansas City Royals. 410 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:30,000 John's averaged 27 home runs and 94 runs out of any since he joined the Royals in 72. 411 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Last year batted 232. Last year he had 13 home runs, but he still managed to knock in 95 runs. 412 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:50,000 Makes strong left hand better, and often they will shift on him, and that's what the Yankees are doing now. They're putting three infielders on the right side, and they're playing very deep on him. 413 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:59,000 Get this to the booze and it's the ball outside. A lot of the opposition pitchers will try to make Mayberry go to the opposite side. 414 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:10,000 And the pitch on the way, it's a strike, got the outside far. 415 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Scouts say that he has trouble hitting the ball down and in. There's a ball outside. 416 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Catch face with a tug of a cap. Now looking in to get the sign, Mayberry steps out of the batter's box. The Yankees have the lead here in the opening game. 2-0 in the second inning. Mayberry waiting. 417 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Hunter delivers. Here's a swing and a miss. 418 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:41,000 In the outfield is White and left for the Yankees. Rivers instead of Madison Wright. 419 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Here's the motion by Catfish Hunter. The pitch is swung on and fouled away. It's down on the third base side. 420 00:35:50,000 --> 00:36:01,000 Going back to that first inning, if you like to keep the score and take a count of such things, Kamlet was recorded as having an RBI on the fourth out-flying error. 421 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Here's a fly ball that's in the left field. White coming in, digging hard. He's there, makes the catch. 422 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:15,000 Soft, short fly to left, picked off by Roy White. Catfish Hunter has stepped down the first four Royals he's faced. 423 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:23,000 Now Ernie on the, in the workout yesterday, Billy Martin wanted to make sure that his outfielders got used to this sun field out here. 424 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:34,000 This time of day between 12 and 2, it's kind of rough out in left field. Not like the old Yankee Stadium days in September, but somewhat like it and you have to be a little careful. 425 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:44,000 Here's Cowan stepping in now. He batted 65 this year. Right hand batter swings and lifts the foul out of play. He'll be directly back in the play. 426 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:52,000 In the end field for the Yankees, Nettles is at third and got Stanley at short. Randolph at second. Kamlet at first base. Muntzer does the catcher. 427 00:36:52,000 --> 00:37:06,000 Yankees lead 2-0 second inning. Here's a fly ball into short center field. Going back is Randolph. He's there and makes the catch. Stanley started for that one and then gave way to his second base from Randolph. 428 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:15,000 The ball just out past second base from short center. The Royal bats have not done anything yet against Hunter. 429 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Tom Polkett has numerous operations and quite a few battles of the offenses around the organized baseball park. Stepping in now. 430 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:38,000 Polkett, on the first rookie, having hit 3-0-2. Having hit over 300 in Kansas City history. Lifts the ball outside. He batted 3-0-2 this season. Had a couple of home runs. 431 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:58,000 He was out almost a month. Ran into offense, chasing a fly ball against Chicago. Here's a fly hit foul in the seats down on the left field side. One and one, the count on Polkett. 432 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:09,000 Yankees 2-0 Royal Snubbing were in the second inning. Nobody on base. The pick is flung on, hit out the glove of Hunter. Here comes Randolph to pick it up. 433 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Got it! Good play. It'll be Hunter to Randolph and Kamlet. And the side retard with no runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left. At the end of two innings, the score Yankees 2-0 Royal Snubbing. 434 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:33,000 Well, the big question in Philadelphia, will it be a green light or a stop sign for the Cincinnati Reds on the base pass or the second stadium? 435 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:43,000 The Reds and Phillies getting set to open a best of five series for the National League Cunnets. And the whole thing may hinge on the Reds runners and their base-stealing attempts. 436 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:49,000 The Reds-Phillies game following the early American League playoff opener, which you're listening to right now on the Parade of Sports. 437 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:57,000 Just a year ago, the Reds chased the Pirates out of the National League playoffs and stole everything but the smile on Katya Mani-Fanjian's face. 438 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:12,000 Mani, the original good humor man, retained that, but not much else. The Go-Go Boys of Cincinnati, second baseman Joe Morgan, right fielder Kenny Griffey and shortstop Dave Contestio, they're all fast and even more, specialist in base-stealing. 439 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:19,000 Obviously, the secret of base-stealing is to get the jump on the pitcher, and that, of course, is after you get on base. 440 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:27,000 And the Reds are very good at that. At Cincinnati, in the National League, was the top-hitting team, finishing at a 280-team batting average. 441 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:44,000 To come the Yankees to bat in the third, they have a 2-0 lead overall, you know. The story so far, the Yankees in the first inning taking the batting, out-crawling errors by George Brett, the Kansas City third baseman. 442 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:50,000 Combining with a couple of hits to the loft, they picked up two runs. 443 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:57,000 Joe Brickman, the plate umpire, has come out and said a word or two to the left-hand pitcher Larry Gura. 444 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:06,000 Gura will be pitching to Roy White, White walk in the opening inning. 445 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:12,000 Royos do not have a runner so far. That basically swanked them in both runs and hits. 446 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:25,000 And the Yankees have two runs and three hits, two twice. And he swings and fouls it away. It will be in the seats over on the first base side. 447 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000 White just about the better and important service on this ball club. 448 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:40,000 Thirty-three years old, he takes the curve. It's been a little bit close. It missed the inside corner, one-and-one. 449 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,000 I feel a little bit to the left on him in the infield back. 450 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,000 And third baseman Brett just behind the bag and wide over the third. 451 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:58,000 White sometimes likes to mock. Here's the pitch. He takes the strike. That was a breaking ball in the inside corner, one-and-two on Roy. 452 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:06,000 White became a swifter very early. In fact, in his boyhood days, he was a swifter when he even started out. 453 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:14,000 He swings and hits a little pop fly off the first. Here comes Mayberry near the seats and he won't get it. It's just into the seat. 454 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:20,000 That ball not hit very high would have been a tough test for John even had it been available. 455 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:25,000 So White has stood up there with a one-two count on him. 456 00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:36,000 Yanks two and the Royals something. We're in the third inning on a bright, sun-shiny day in Kansas City. 457 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:42,000 Jammed house here in the Royals stadium. 458 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:56,000 Noura ready to go to work again now. The left-handed of Axton Wyons for the booze. White swings to the bounding ball deep third. Brett backs up. Here's the call to Mayberry and dimes and White is out. 459 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000 A lot of business, man, on that side of the infield for Kansas City. 460 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:07,000 I think those last two plays that Brett has made have helped him, especially the good one in hitting a goal on the staff hop when he made a good play. 461 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000 And I think now he's straightened out his throwing and that would have to help him mentally. 462 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,000 I would think so because those first two were very tough on him. 463 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Here's Munson. He had a single up the middle, his only chip. One of the real tough hitters in the make of those, Sherman Munson. 464 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000 And from Kent State, swings that they bounding ball to short. 465 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:36,000 Patek is there. They throw to Mayberry in plenty of time and they are two down in the Yankee third inning. 466 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:50,000 That will bring up Lou Pennella. Lou being used by Billy Martin as the designated batter. 467 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:57,000 Billy has managed teams in the two-championship series, Minnesota and Detroit. 468 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:02,000 But each time his team lost in the playoff game. 469 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:08,000 First playoff, a material experience for Whitey Herzog. Here's a ball outside on Pennella. 470 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,000 Fast ball wide at the plate. First time up, he struck out. 471 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:20,000 At that time they were, the bases loaded and nobody down when he fanned. 472 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Now Lou takes a curve in close from the left hander, Larry Gora. 473 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,000 Yankees two, Royals nothing. We're in the third inning. 474 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:38,000 Outfield around towards left and the infield very deep now on Pennella with two down and the bases empty. 475 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:49,000 So Gora goes into motion to the visit. A foul fly out of play back of first base. 476 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:57,000 That's the hander to Gora. He's settled down after that tricky first inning. 477 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:02,000 Lack of support cost him. Pennella waits on the next delivery. 478 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,000 Here it comes. He swings as a little looper in the short left field. 479 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:12,000 May drop in, Wolf was coming hard. Plays it on one hop and Pennella has a two out single. 480 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,000 The last two hits for the Yankees have come with two down. 481 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:22,000 And their first two in the opening innings came with nobody out. 482 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,000 Here's Chris Chambliss coming to bat now. 483 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:30,000 He hit into a fourth in the opening inning and that was the key play of the game so far. 484 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:39,000 After Brett had touched third for the fourth out of Roy White, he threw the ball wild past Mayberry and two Yankees scored. 485 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:44,000 And that's the story here in the early chapters in Kansas City. 486 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:53,000 Chambliss swings and fouls it away right down below. Strike one on Chris. 487 00:44:53,000 --> 00:45:01,000 Here's a little Pennella, the runner's first base. Gora with a pretty good move to first. 488 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,000 Mayberry's not going to hold right on the bag with Pennella. He'll be between the runner and the base. 489 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:14,000 Here's a ball outside, one and one. 490 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:20,000 Chambliss is a close handskitter. 491 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:24,000 That feels right a bit. Here's the pitch on the way. He swings a bounding ball up the middle. 492 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,000 It's the pass. The second base from White in the center field. Pennella holds it second on the single. 493 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:34,000 Stroh comes in to play the pot back. He's in and grabs it. And the Yankees have a two out threat. 494 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:49,000 Runners at first and second and Greg Neville is coming to bat. 495 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:55,000 Neville's the home run team in the American League with 32. 496 00:45:55,000 --> 00:46:06,000 He made the final out of the first inning. His only time is by the way when he's flying the left. 497 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:13,000 Neville's asking Joe Brickman, I believe, to move umpire Maloney over a little bit. 498 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:19,000 That's right. He's in the line of vision of the batter. 499 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:26,000 Oh, he's got a left-hander against the left-hander. 500 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:31,000 Outfield around towards White on Greg Neville. A goer delivers. 501 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:46,000 Swing and a miss on the fastball. This is the first Yankee home run champion since Roger Maris back in 1961. 502 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:50,000 But over the years the Yankees have had more than their share. 503 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:55,000 Now the set of the pitch. He swings and a bounding ball to second. White playing him deep. 504 00:46:55,000 --> 00:47:01,000 The Yankees charges. Gloves it. They throw to Mayberry in the community. 505 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,000 No runs on the two hits. The 1-0 errors. The Yankees to the left. 506 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:12,000 We go to the last half to third. The middle of the third inning. The score. The Yankees to the Royals nothing. 507 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,000 Just one game in the National Hockey League on Friday night. 508 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:21,000 The New York Rangers over Colorado by the score of 5-3. 509 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:25,000 In the World Hockey Association, Indianapolis 4-3 over Minnesota. 510 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:30,000 Winnipeg beat Calgary 3-1. Birmingham 4, Houston 2. 511 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:35,000 Edmonton down, New England 2-0. And Phoenix outgunned Cincinnati 8-6. 512 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:46,000 In the National Basketball Association, and these are all exhibition games, Philadelphia 134, Boston 103, Buffalo 107, Washington 106. 513 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:54,000 Cleveland beat Detroit 100-95. And it was San Antonio 126, Atlanta 102. 514 00:47:54,000 --> 00:48:02,000 In college football, Oklahoma's third ranked and defending national champion Sooners will take on our tribal 14th ranked Texas at Dallas. 515 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:14,000 One of the key football games Saturday. And of course we'll be keeping you right up to date with all of those games as the scores come on into us here at AFRCS in Washington. 516 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:24,000 Enjoying the playoffs? Well enjoy the World Series 2 with exclusive radio coverage from CBS Radio Sports. 517 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:29,000 Starting this Saturday on this CBS Radio Network station. 518 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:45,000 Frank White will lead it off for the Kansas City Royals. Catfish Hunter has set them down six in a row so far here in the bright sunshine in the Royals stadium. 519 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,000 Now the Yankees have a 2-0 lead. 520 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:53,000 Leading off to the Royals, number 20, right-handed Bonnie White. 521 00:48:53,000 --> 00:49:04,000 Graduated from the Royal Academy, this is no more, but started to develop youngsters into Major League ballplayers and he's the only one who made it to the Major League. 522 00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:11,000 Batting 2-29 for the year and White takes a flatter low and away from Catfish Hunter. 523 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:15,000 Ball one, the count on Frank White. 524 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:26,000 The Royals are still looking for their first hit. There's a foul back to the screen, one-on-one on White. 525 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:37,000 White in his third full season there with Kansas City. He was up just a short time in 73. 526 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:44,000 Benethenese leaning over the plate waiting on a 1-1 hit. He bounced the ball, it's foul back to the screen. 527 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:53,000 From the pretty tough pitch to the high and tight. And he bunted it but it went right back and on the screen. 528 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:59,000 Frank White grew up almost in the shadow of the Oro Ballpark here in Kansas City. 529 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:06,000 Over on Brooklyn Avenue, there's a ball outside, a wide curve and the count on White is 2-2. 530 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:11,000 Munson turns and says something to the plate umpire, Joe Brinkman. 531 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:17,000 The Yankees lead in this one 2-0, the Royals are batting in the third. 532 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:22,000 Catfish gets his sign from Munson, works again 2-2 third, one on a bounding ball to third. 533 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:28,000 Big hop for Nettles, Chloe Shambles, she's out. 534 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:33,000 Seven in a row, stepped down by Catfish Hunter. 535 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:42,000 And there's Freddie Potec, a service in the championship series with Pittsburgh. 536 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:48,000 Oh he came over here to Kansas City. First joined the Royals in 71. 537 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:53,000 Merciless wall player. 538 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,000 One out, here's a slider in for a strike. 539 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:04,000 Fred said today, yup I'm 32 but I can still outrun a lovely young guy. And he's telling his life. 540 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:09,000 There's a fly ball at the left, White backing up, he's there waiting, he has it. 541 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:16,000 And there are two down and the first eight have gone down in a row before Mr. Catfish Hunter. 542 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:24,000 Here's Bush Martinez, the catcher, who batted at 28 over the season. 543 00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:31,000 Yank's got a couple in the opening in he. 544 00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:37,000 And they're holding a 2-0 lead right now. 545 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:42,000 Martinez originally with a silly team. 546 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:52,000 In their organization, there's a strike call, Catfish mixing his pitches well to hit the outside corner with a slider. 547 00:51:52,000 --> 00:52:01,000 Now the wind up by Hunter, the pitch on the way, it's a ball outside. 548 00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:06,000 Chuck Diller coaches the third for KC, Steve Boris the first. 549 00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:11,000 Now the motion, the pitch on the way, just a little foul ball in the air, back of first, 550 00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,000 Jammer is chasing but he can't get it. 551 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,000 He's got a bit of a check swing, he didn't get much wood on that one. 552 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:22,000 One and two, they count on Martinez. 553 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:29,000 Catfish Hunter, one of the top pitchers in baseball, never pitched in the minor leagues. 554 00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:35,000 In the long debate, the Tona Club, action 64 his first year but he didn't get into action. 555 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:40,000 Here's Grace Cardona-Ness, he struck him out and the five retired. 556 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:46,000 Once again, the Royals go down one, two, three, no runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left. 557 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:53,000 And at the end of three innings, it is Yankees to the Royals nothing. 558 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:59,000 We have some college football scores in from the East, Boston University and Massachusetts. 559 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:06,000 Massachusetts leading by the score of six to nothing, that's at the end of the first quarter. 560 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:13,000 And I thought we had another one in but I don't see it right now so we'll settle for that as our first college football score of the day. 561 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:23,000 Massachusetts leading Boston University by the score of six to nothing, that's at the end of the first quarter. 562 00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:30,000 Elsewhere in the East, Pennsylvania is playing at Brown, Holy Cross is at Colgate, Princeton is at Columbia, 563 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:37,000 Cornell at Harvard, Army is taking on Penn State, Louisville is at second rank Pittsburgh, Connecticut is at Rutgers, 564 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:46,000 Tulane at Syracuse, West Virginia at Temple, Richmond is at Villanova and Dartmouth is playing at Yale. 565 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:52,000 That's a look at what's going on in college football in the East. 566 00:53:52,000 --> 00:54:00,000 We'll take a look at the rest of the schedule for you the next time we get a chance. 567 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:08,000 Yanks main standing the way two nothing, they've got some perfect pitching from Catfish Hunter through the first three innings. 568 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,000 Step down the nine, loyalty space. 569 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:16,000 Meanwhile the Yankees picked up a couple off the left hand start of Kansas City, Larry Gora. 570 00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:22,000 They got him in the first inning and a bunch single by Rivage, he took second on a throwing error by Brett, white wall. 571 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,000 The German think, German Munchen single a load of aces. 572 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:31,000 Then after Bonilla struck out, the gamblers took a ground ball to Brett, he took third for the ball count, 573 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:37,000 and they took him out of the inning but then overthrew at first base and two Yankee runs came home. 574 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,000 That's the story of the game so far. 575 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:45,000 Along with Ned Martin, this is Ernie Harwell in Royal Stadium. 576 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:49,000 And the batter for New York is Elliot Maddox. 577 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,000 One time University of Michigan star, bounced the short his first trip. 578 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,000 Gora delivers, he backs him off. 579 00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:02,000 Inside fastball around the knees. 580 00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:06,000 Yankees have five hits from the ball being single. 581 00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,000 Kansas City has no hits. 582 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:14,000 Swing a fly ball to right, coming over Poquette, he there has it. 583 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:18,000 That's one away. 584 00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:23,000 Willie Randolph, who has solidified this Yankee infield with some great second basing, 585 00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:28,000 also done a good job on offense with his speed and with his fast. 586 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000 Stepping in now for the New Yorkers. 587 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:35,000 He bounced to third his first trip. 588 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,000 Came to the Yankees, you'll remember, in the Doc Medics field. 589 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:43,000 Now left hander Gora pitches, there's a breaking ball over. 590 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:49,000 He's changed up on his curve and got that ball on the inside corner. 591 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,000 Right hander batting Randolph, waiting on a strike one delivery from the lefty Gora. 592 00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,000 Here's the fastball hit to left field fairly deep. 593 00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:02,000 Going back, whoa, but he's there and he makes the catch on the run towards finish. 594 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:07,000 Left field is very deep here and it is a tough home run part. 595 00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:13,000 3.85, back to that left field alley and a high fence. 596 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:20,000 Here's Fred Stanley, the shortstop who weighed in with a single with two out in the second inning. 597 00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:24,000 Two down in the Yankee fourth. 598 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:28,000 Yanks lead the Royals two-nil-nil-nil. 599 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:33,000 Gora fires, there's a line shot, it'll be up the alley, caved down by Cowan. 600 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,000 It's off his glove, it gets passed and he picks it up. 601 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:42,000 He's going for two and he rounds and holds it second. 602 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:46,000 Tough job to cut that ball off in the alley on this carton curve. 603 00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:50,000 Cowan's got his glove on it and did very well to hold him to two. 604 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:56,000 It'll be a double the first extra base hit of the game. 605 00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:05,000 On the supposedly light-hitting Stanley, the only man with two hits. 606 00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:12,000 Mickey Rivers, he has a bump single and he's struck out. 607 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:18,000 Right up on top of the plate, batting in a crouch. 608 00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:25,000 And he takes the ball outside. 609 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:32,000 That's a real crouch, the old summer cake crouch. 610 00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:36,000 So, following in the batter's box, Rivers with that great speed is, 611 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,000 Brett has to come in a little bit closer third base, 612 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,000 and he swings as they drive to center field, coming hard as Cowan. 613 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:47,000 He has it and that's all for the Yankees in their fourth inning. 614 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:51,000 No runs, one hit, no errors, one man left. 615 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:58,000 And in the middle of the fourth, it's New York 2, Kansas City nothing. 616 00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:01,000 Continuing with a look at what's on the schedule for college football, 617 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:06,000 7th ranked Maryland is at North Carolina State, Virginia Tech is at VMI, 618 00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:10,000 Southern Mississippi is at Alabama, Berman at Appalachian State, 619 00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:16,000 Tennessee taking on Georgia Tech, Georgia, 4th ranked in their latest poll is at Mississippi, 620 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:22,000 Kentucky is at Mississippi State, Clemson is at Wake Forest, Delaware at William & Mary, 621 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,000 and that's it on the day schedule. 622 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:29,000 At night in the South, the University of Chattanooga plays at Citadel, 623 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:33,000 Southern Illinois at East Carolina, Vanderbilt is at LSU, 624 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:39,000 Auburn at Memphis State, Duke at Miami of Florida, McNeese State is at Northeast Louisiana, 625 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:45,000 Nichols State at Northwest Louisiana, and Virginia is at South Carolina. 626 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:50,000 In the Midwest, Ohio University at Central Michigan, 5th ranked Nebraska at Colorado, 627 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:54,000 Arkansas State at Eastern Michigan, Ball State at Illinois State, 628 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:59,000 Northwestern is at Indiana, and Northern Illinois is at Indiana State. 629 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:05,000 Look at the rest of the Midwest and the Southwest and far West a little later. 630 00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:08,000 Well, Mr. Katzmeister Cutter has perfectly done the job so far. 631 00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:14,000 He has a pitch to nine Kansas City Royals, and he's set down nine in a row. 632 00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:20,000 He's had two strikeouts. He struck off McRae, the third batter, in the first inning, 633 00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:28,000 and he got Martinez on strike for the third out of the third. 634 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:32,000 Now he'll be facing a newcomer to the batter's box, Jim Walbert, 635 00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:38,000 who came in to replace Otis in the batting order after Otis sprained his left ankle 636 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:43,000 running the first base in the first inning. 637 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:53,000 Look at the right hand batter. 638 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:57,000 He batted 249 for the season, stands very deep in the batter's box, 639 00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:03,000 feet close together, and Catfish delivers a splatter on the outside corner. 640 01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:09,000 Cutter has mixed his pitches very effectively, and his control has been perfect. 641 01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:20,000 He deals. Here's a cut and a foul off the mid of Munson. 642 01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:29,000 Joe Brinkman looking over that ball, but I think he'll keep it in play. 643 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:34,000 Rivers, the center fielder for the Yankees, plays very shallow on most of the hitters. 644 01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:37,000 He's over in right center now on the right hand batting Wilford. 645 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:42,000 He's got a strike two count against him. Here's a pitch. It's a very wide splatter. 646 01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,000 One ball and two strikes. Not a whole thing. 647 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:50,000 The batter might go for the bat pitch, but he'd have no part of it. 648 01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:57,000 Now the motion by Catfish. He delivers very wide again. 649 01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:01,000 Two to the count on Wilford. 650 01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:05,000 Catfish so far has not thrown a whole lot of pitches. 651 01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:10,000 Now delivers, and it's a tight call. He stood there and watched that one go by. 652 01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:15,000 It's stuck him up. It'll be the third strikeout for Hunter. 653 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:17,000 The first one is going to call first strike. 654 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:21,000 Here's George Brett, who bounce to his counterpart third. 655 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:28,000 Neville's his only time at bat, the American League batting champion. 656 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:33,000 Left hand of batter, who will go to all the fields. 657 01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:42,000 Nice easy swing up there for George, and he takes a wide one. 658 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:48,000 Two nothing, the Yankees lead. Kansas City is batting the fourth inning. 659 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:53,000 And Brett swings as they drive to center coming hard. Rivers can't get it, places it on one up. 660 01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:58,000 And there is the first hit for Kansas City. 661 01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:09,000 And it was a clean one. It's a typical Brett hit. A line drive almost second base. 662 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:13,000 It's a bit of vendetta in the Brett thing too. It's curious he's been so involved. 663 01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:23,000 He gets the first hit. He made the two errors, but he wants to beat the Yankees badly because of their treatment, he said, of his brother, Ken Brett, whom he said they didn't give a real chance to before they traded him. 664 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:29,000 Here's Hal McRae, the designated batter, and he takes a strike. 665 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:34,000 And I was talking to Hal about what he would do between turns at bat as the D.H. 666 01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:42,000 And he said, well, I'll keep busy. A lot of room around the clubhouse. I can run. I can swing the bat. I'll stay loose. 667 01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:46,000 And he says, I'm used to it. I've had a season of it. 668 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:55,000 Strike one to Callum Hal. Run the ball, the pitch is swung on and missed. Throw by Muckin. In the second, he gives out second base. 669 01:02:55,000 --> 01:03:10,000 Stanley, the shortstop covered, puts the bag on the in-clotting Brett after McRae tried to help out with a swing on the outside hit. 670 01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:20,000 Brett tried to go around and come back with a hand grab of the bag, but the throw was right on the butt by Munson, who has a very quick release. 671 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,000 So there are two downs and two strikes on McRae. 672 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:32,000 Hunter, in the door, puts McRae steps out of the batter's box. 673 01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:40,000 Catfish winds and pitches. It's a flat or low and away, one and two. 674 01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:46,000 Formerly with the Cincinnati Reds, the young man who's one time to the L.A. lessons, Hal McRae. 675 01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:57,000 He swings. There's a fly ball down in the corner and ref. It's barely deep. White coming over, fighting to win in the sun, and he can't hold it as the ball finally goes far. 676 01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,000 That was a tough one. 677 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,000 Number one, he was looking up in the high sky. 678 01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:07,000 Number two, the wind was coming in from left field toward right. 679 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:17,000 And third, he was very near the barrier, and he came across that foul line. He got his glove on the ball, but couldn't hang on. 680 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:23,000 All the official score says is a no play, which is the same as saying no error. 681 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:29,000 And McRae comes back to the plate. Two-nothing, the Yankees lead. The Royals are batting with two down and nobody on. 682 01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:36,000 Here in Kansas City, the last half of the fourth, the pitch is fouled away, reached out on a breaking ball. 683 01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:45,000 Bill Peffy of the Daily News in New York, Sid Warden of the Kansas City Star, are the official scorers. 684 01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:49,000 Most veterans of the baseball journalism. 685 01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:56,000 Here's the wind up in the pitch, swing, and there's a foul lifted out of play on the first base side. 686 01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:02,000 Two-nothing, the Yankees, and they got those two in the opening inning. 687 01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:07,000 Catfish Hunter on the mound for the Yankees, is allowed one hit. 688 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:13,000 Gura pitching for the Royals. He's given up a six. 689 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:17,000 Hunter delivers, swing, and a miss on a fastball, and he struck him out. 690 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:22,000 That's the fourth strikeout for Catfish. No runs, one hit, no errors, nobody left. 691 01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:28,000 And at the end of the fourth inning, the score, New York 2, the Royals nothing. 692 01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:33,000 Continuing with what's going on in the Midwest, 11th ranked Ohio State is at Iowa. 693 01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:40,000 Utah is at Iowa State. Missouri plays at Kansas State. Missouri ranks ninth in the latest form. 694 01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:47,000 Western Michigan is at Kent State. Michigan State is at top ranked Michigan. Illinois takes on Minnesota. 695 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:52,000 Eighth ranked Kansas is at Oklahoma State. Fresno State is at Wichita State. 696 01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:58,000 And Purdue is at Wisconsin. One night game in the Midwest. Bowling Green is at Toledo. 697 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:03,000 In the southwest and far west, third ranked Oklahoma is at 14th ranked Texas. 698 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:08,000 18th ranked Texas Tech is at Texas A&M. Wyoming is at BYU. 699 01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:14,000 Oregon and California. Washington at Oregon State. San Francisco State at Fullerton State. 700 01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:20,000 And Colorado State at Utah State. At night, west Texas is at 19th ranked Houston. 701 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:27,000 Stanford is at sixth ranked UCLA. And 10th ranked Southern California is at Washington State. 702 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:34,000 So let's look at how some of the ranked teams are doing Saturday. 703 01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:38,000 Yankees coming to bat on the fifth inning now, it'll be Roy White. 704 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:46,000 And they score the Yankees 2 to the Royals nothing. Let's pause 10 seconds for station identification. 705 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:54,000 This is the CBS radio network. This is the American Forces radio and television service. 706 01:06:54,000 --> 01:07:07,000 Here's Roy White leading it off. He walked in the first inning when the Yankees got the two runs by which they lead. 707 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:14,000 And he bounced the third base when Brad is next in the third. When the fifth inning the Yankees had two nothing. 708 01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:23,000 Quick batting White, swings and misses on a change up from the left hander Gora. 709 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:27,000 Long off his batting helmet, he's going so hard on that one. 710 01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:33,000 Herman Munson waiting at the on deck circle and then it'll be Luke Vanellope about after him. 711 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:44,000 Gora, a wine kick so to this, here's a foul out of play off the bat of Roy White. 712 01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:50,000 Roy a very determined young man. He suffered with polio when he was six or seven years old. 713 01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:55,000 He came back from that disease to make it to the Major League. 714 01:07:55,000 --> 01:08:00,000 Gora ahead of him with two strikes on Roy. Here's the pitch, he takes the wide one. 715 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:04,000 Martinez doing the catching this afternoon with the Royals. 716 01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:10,000 Now Brett is backed up a little bit at third base with two strikes on the batter. 717 01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:15,000 Left hander Larry Gora into motion delivers. Here's a swing and a fly ball lifted to the right going back. 718 01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:21,000 Boquette, he's still going back. He's still going back and reaches up and makes the catch. 719 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:29,000 That ball got up in the breeze and took off and Boquette followed, almost misjudged it, but finally hung onto it. 720 01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:39,000 One out in the fifth inning. The Yankees ahead of the Royals do nothing. Here comes Munson. 721 01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:59,000 Herman with a single in that two-on-first inning. I feel a round of left on him. 722 01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:02,000 Gora delivers, it's a strike call. 723 01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:07,000 We said earlier a lot of people are counting Munson for the Most Valuable Player Award. 724 01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:13,000 The catcher has been Most Valuable in the America League five times. 725 01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:22,000 Mickey Coughlin of the Detroit Tigers, Yogi Berra three times, and Elton Howard once. 726 01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:32,000 The Yankee catchers have dominated the Most Valuable Player Award as far as catchers are concerned. 727 01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:38,000 The Monson may catch for the Yankees this year, the first they've had since Will Gehrig back in 39. 728 01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:45,000 Now we're about ready to go again. Gora into action, delivers, and Munson swings as the world pop up to first. 729 01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:54,000 Mayberry has it, and there are two away in the Yankee fifth inning. 730 01:09:54,000 --> 01:10:02,000 Lou Pennella, who is in the blue man's house. 731 01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:09,000 Lou not really getting booed, they're just saying, Lou, he's funny, you know, he says, where I go, the fans get on me, 732 01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:17,000 whether it's New York or here where he used to play. He said, I don't mind him just razzling me, it's the personal stuff that I don't like. 733 01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:29,000 He's one for two this afternoon, struck out in his single. There's an outside meta, kid. All one on Pennella. Yankees lead, 2-0 in the fifth inning. 734 01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:37,000 Larry Gora, the Kansas City left-hander, delivers. There's a fly ball that'll reach the seats of the foul back in right field. 735 01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:42,000 Swinging late on the Gora fastball, Gora changing up on his pitches so much. 736 01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:56,000 You see, a lot of the Yankees are hitting the ball late. Getting ready for the 12 curve or the change up, and then he'll slip the fastball in on them. 737 01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:05,000 Lou not quite ready, he steps out for a moment. Each of these pitches has had excellent control, only one walk in the game. 738 01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:13,000 Gora rocks Roy White in the first finish. Waiting on a 1-1 delivery now is Pennella, spreading out of the plate. Here's the pitch. 739 01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:20,000 He takes a fastball in close. 2-1, the counter and a loop. Brett is very deep at third now. 740 01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:27,000 Cracked all the infielders are back on the Yankee designated hitter. Here's the windup from the pitch. 741 01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:36,000 He swings on the bounding ball to left. It'll be a hit between Brett and Potec, fielded by left fielder Wolpert, rifle back into Potec. 742 01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:40,000 The Yankees get their seventh hit. The first base is in the fifth. 743 01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:50,000 Pick the singles and the doubles. And here is Shamless to come to bat. He's hit into fourth out and had a single. 744 01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:55,000 That's the fourth straight hit the Yankees have had with two men out. 745 01:11:55,000 --> 01:12:05,000 Their first two came with nobody out and set up the scoring chance. And they capitalized on that two runs and they lead 2-0. 746 01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:12,000 Shamless has one for two off the left hander. Stand-abiding Chris Swington misses. 747 01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:19,000 And looks like a breaking pitch high and away. 748 01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:27,000 A time called at first base by umpire Larry Barnett for a moment. Now we're ready to resume action. 749 01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:32,000 Strike one pitch. Shamless takes the fastball high. 750 01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:38,000 Oh, Gorai has done a good job on the mound. No question about that. 751 01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:45,000 He suffered by a lack of support. In the opening inning when the Yankees got their two runs. 752 01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:51,000 Now ready to deal one and one on Shamless. Here comes, here's a foul out of play. 753 01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:59,000 Swinging late on the fastball. 754 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:03,000 A lot of moaning and groaning when Shamless came to New York in a deal with the Indians. 755 01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:09,000 But he won himself a spot and won the respect of his teammates and the Yankee fans. 756 01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:15,000 The way he's delivered. For now over the lead at first base, one two pitch he goes. 757 01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:20,000 Here's a swing and a miss. The inning's over. 758 01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,000 No runs, one hit. No errors. One man left. 759 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:35,000 And at the end of the four and a half inning the score, the Yankees are two and the Royals nothing. 760 01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:42,000 The American League championship series is one of the most recounted four series I'd say in history. 761 01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:50,000 Each team, the Yankees and the Royals have had their countdowns checking just about everything about the opposition. 762 01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:58,000 The Yankees back in the scouts headed by Bob Cox, the Syracuse manager, Gene Michael who is here in the role of the coach. 763 01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:06,000 Jerry Walker, another scout and Bertie Kevitz, still another scout although Bertie did most of his scouting in the early part of the year. 764 01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:22,000 And the Kansas City Royals in the scouting department against the opposition were represented by Gary Blalock, Al Diaz and the all-time big right-hand pitcher from Philadelphia, Mr. Tom Parrish. 765 01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:37,000 And you can be sure that there are practically no secrets held from the opposition. 766 01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:53,000 Don't forget, fans, starting next Saturday, October 16th, you'll hear the World Series action exclusive radio play-by-play right here on the CBS Radio Network station. 767 01:14:53,000 --> 01:15:00,000 Wow, we've had a half a ball game here and it's been the Catholic under the Yankees so far with a 2-0 lead. 768 01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:13,000 And Kansas City comes about in the last half of the fifth inning and one of my favorites in the broadcasting profession, the voice of the Boston Red Sox, Ned Martin, will take us along the rest of the way. 769 01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:21,000 All right, Ernie Harwell, thank you. Good afternoon again, everybody. It has been Catfish Hunter forever so far out there. 770 01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:30,000 Mayberry's... 771 01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:37,000 He only hit a single by-bred in the fourth and they got him trying to steal. Mayberry takes a fastball outside, ball one. 772 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:44,000 In the four-inning, six. Putter has faced a minimum of 12 batters. 773 01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:55,000 Mayberry flies to left his first time up and he sends a high drive to right field but not deep enough. Under it is Maddox. He's got it for the out and has won away. 774 01:15:55,000 --> 01:16:07,000 Mayberry flies to Elliott Maddox who hardly had to move. Or to...oh, Kent, of course, is the guy who's going to be... 775 01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:20,000 ...played center field. Al Cowan, center fielder, coming up. He popped up his first time up. 776 01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:30,000 Maddox and Wright, river at the center. White and left for the Yankees. Yankees leading to nothing. 777 01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:40,000 Cowan's the right-handed batter. Does not have the long ball power as some of the other players on...there's not too many of course on the Royals ball club. 778 01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:46,000 It'll hit the home run except Mayberry and Cajole Otis. The pitcher's outside to Cowan, ball one. 779 01:16:46,000 --> 01:17:00,000 Cowan is one of the fine defensive right-fielders in the American League. Has an arm, very strong arm. He foul-kits one, the count is one ball, one strike. 780 01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:06,000 He is rated right up there with Dwight Evans, the Boston Red Sox, as a defensive right-fielder in the American League. 781 01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:18,000 Today, of course, after the injury to Amos Otis in the first inning, the brain-dackle that Otis received, Cowan is playing more or less unfamiliar center field. 782 01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:31,000 He can run. One-one pitch to him, slices a foul out of play off to the right, toward the upper deck. A ball and two strikes. 783 01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:45,000 Cowan's stole 23 bases this year. Hunter kicks and throws. Line drive toward right, Maddox goes toward the line, he's got it. 784 01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:51,000 Went away to a few tricks with a line drive, but Elliott Maddox stayed right with it and has two put-outs this inning. 785 01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:58,000 So there's two up and two down. As Hunter continues to work like a machine out there, he has not walked a man. 786 01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:06,000 Tom Fokett came in to play right field after the outfield switch in the first inning. 787 01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:13,000 He grounded out to the second baseman Randolph by way of Hunter, who deflected the ball out toward second. 788 01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:18,000 Left-handed batter and a severe crowd sends a high drive toward left field, shallow. 789 01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:22,000 White slips down the glass, looks into a tough sun and has it for the third out. 790 01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:31,000 One-two-three go the Royals again, and after five innings of play, the score is the Yankees 2 and the Royals nothing. 791 01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:44,000 We still don't have anything new on the weather in Philadelphia as far as the rain conditions for the game Saturday night between Philadelphia and the Cincinnati Reds. 792 01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:53,000 That latest word, National Day President Chav Feeney says that as a result of the weather report, they do not plan to call the game until Saturday night. 793 01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:57,000 He said that's the planning right now unless the weather report gets turned around. 794 01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:04,000 It was raining throughout most of the morning in the Washington area, but it is beginning to clear up just a bit now. 795 01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:11,000 So as a result, that may be up in the Philadelphia area clearing around six o'clock or so. 796 01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:17,000 A storm that dumped nearly six inches of rain on Charlotte, North Carolina in 24 hours. 797 01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:27,000 As for sportsman of Saturday's World Service Life 300 Mile Sportsman Auto Race, that race has been rescheduled for Sunday, October 17. 798 01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:39,000 Officials of the Charlotte Motor Speedway say the annual National 500 Grand National Stock Car Race will go as scheduled on Sunday. 799 01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:49,000 The Boston Bruins went into federal court to stop the Chicago Blackhawks from using defenseman Bobby Orr until the Bruins received compensation from the National Hockey League superstar. 800 01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:57,000 The Bruins have also asked league president Clarence Campbell to ban Orr from playing until an agreement is reached. 801 01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:04,000 The New York Rangers traded backup goalie Dunk Wilson to the Pittsburgh Penguins for cash and future considerations. 802 01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:10,000 Wilson appeared in 20 games last season and had a 4.22 goals against average. 803 01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:19,000 One game in the National Hockey League Friday night, the Rangers knocking off Colorado 5-3. 804 01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:26,000 In the top of the sixth inning, the Yankee third baseman Greg Nettles will lead off. He is 0-2. 805 01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:31,000 The Yankees leading in the game 2-0. They got their runs, one of them unearned in the first inning. 806 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:36,000 Nettles has ended two innings, ended the first and the first. 807 01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:42,000 Gura's pitch is popped up foul out of play, coming back and no chance for Martinez. 808 01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:47,000 Matter of fact, in the five Yankee innings at bat, Nettles has ended two of them. 809 01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:54,000 Mickey Rivers has ended two and Shambler has won all left-handed hitters against the south wall, Larry Gura. 810 01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,000 Gura has scattered seven hits. 811 01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:04,000 There has not been a 1-2-3 inning for him, but the Yankees hold on to just those two runs. 812 01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:10,000 The pitch to Nettles is slammed toward left field, but right there is Wolford. He's got it for the outs. 813 01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:17,000 Nettles flies to left, there's one out of the sixth inning. 814 01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:24,000 Elliott Maddux, 0-2 is up. He grounded the short and flies to right. 815 01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:31,000 Beautiful ballpark as we've mentioned before, as anyone who has seen it or heard about it. 816 01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:37,000 In this Harriette-Spruman complex, there's a bit of a crowd in it, 817 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:41,000 emphasizing city baseball, but there's country in the background. 818 01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:45,000 Pitch to Maddux, slammed up the middle into center field, a base hit. 819 01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,000 Maddux is on with a ground ball single into center. 820 01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:53,000 Hit number eight for New York and number one for Maddux. 821 01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:58,000 The Yankees have a runner on with one out this time, and Willie Randolph is up. 822 01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:02,000 Randolph has grounded the third and flies fairly deep to left field. 823 01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:08,000 The wind is still blowing left to right across wind, which holds the ball off hit toward left. 824 01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:14,000 It's a chuck one. It failed the ball toward right field. 825 01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:18,000 Off of that are White in the fifth inning, Roy White. 826 01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:27,000 Folks have just managed to get it going back. Throw to first, not in time. 827 01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:33,000 Randolph, who can handle the bat very well, can hit to the opposite field, can bunt for a surprise. 828 01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:37,000 There's a can bunt for a base hit. It's got some speed. 829 01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:40,000 Time's all. There's a wisp of paper. 830 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:45,000 Cruises in between the mound and home plate and out toward the third base. Dug out. 831 01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:52,000 Beyond the bank out in the outfield is another huge bank up toward Route 70. 832 01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:56,000 Here's the pitch. Fast ball hits the third. Brett has it. 833 01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:59,000 Over the second one, the first double play. 834 01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:01,000 Around the horn, five, four, three. 835 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:06,000 Hitting over, it goes from Brett to White to Mayberry. 836 01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:09,000 That takes care of that. No runs for hits. Nobody left. 837 01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:17,000 And in the middle of the sixth inning, the score is still Yankees 2 and the Royals nothing. 838 01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:20,000 Okay, let's take a look at some college football scores. 839 01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:25,000 North Carolina State leading Maryland at the end of the first period, 6 to nothing. 840 01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,000 It's White 4-3, Clemson nothing. 841 01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:31,000 Yale 6, Dartmouth nothing. Bucknell and Lehigh are scoreless. 842 01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:34,000 Virginia Tech 3 is VMI nothing. 843 01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:39,000 And those are first period scores in college football. 844 01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:49,000 Elsewhere in college football, not really too much else to report as a lot of those Eastern games are in progress. 845 01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:55,000 Massachusetts 6 to nothing over Boston University also at the end of the first period. 846 01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:58,000 We gave you that score a little bit earlier. 847 01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:08,000 David Graham has rallied from two strokes behind to beat Hale Irwin on the 38th hole for the Piccadilly World Match Play Golf Championship in Virginia Wade, England. 848 01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:15,000 That should be Virginia Water, England. Graham evening the match with an eagle on the 33rd hole and a birdie on the 36th. 849 01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:21,000 And he had to go two extra holes before winning the $42,500 first prize. 850 01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:25,000 Gary Player beat Ray Floyd for third. 851 01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:30,000 You're tuned to your CBS Radio Network station for Game 1 in the American League Playoffs. 852 01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:34,000 That means you're tuned to the only radio spot for the World Series. 853 01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:41,000 Starting Saturday, October 16, CBS Radio Sports brings you exclusive radio play-by-play coverage. 854 01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:45,000 Follow the series on radio right here. 855 01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:55,000 The crowd has come in. It's the largest ever to see a regular Major League Baseball game in Kansas City's history, 41,077. 856 01:24:55,000 --> 01:25:03,000 The next one was 40,435 on August 9th this past year. 857 01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:07,000 Yankees leading 2-0 behind Cash Bridge Hunter and we're ready to go. 858 01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:13,000 In the bottom of the sixth, the pitch is outside and low to Frank White for ball one. 859 01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:17,000 Frank White, the Royal Second baseman, grounded the third in the third inning. 860 01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:22,000 Hunter, working on a one-hitter, pitches inside ball two. 861 01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:26,000 The Kansas City fans waiting for anything. 862 01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:29,000 They would cheer at each fly ball right now. 863 01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:36,000 Hunter delivers and White takes a strike at the knee. 864 01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:43,000 The waterfalls is a big bank of waterfalls out in the center and curving around from right center to center. 865 01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:46,000 Bouncing ground ball to shortstop taken there by Stanley. 866 01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:50,000 Fires in time. Night stop by Stamblin. 867 01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:54,000 Chris had to lean over toward the home plate side of first base to dig that one out. 868 01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:57,000 But dig it he did and White is out. 869 01:25:57,000 --> 01:26:00,000 Short to the first, one away. 870 01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:05,000 Fred Potech is up. Flies deep to left. His only time at bat. 871 01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:09,000 Shortest man in the major leagues, five feet four. 872 01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:15,000 What mighty is he, says. Good strong arm from shortstop. 873 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:21,000 The pitch to Fred is outside a ball. 874 01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:26,000 One hit off, capture shutter, a single by Brett. Clean single in the fourth inning. 875 01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:30,000 And he was a race try to steal or has not been any other baserunner. 876 01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:37,000 Twins strike. Potech is not a good breaking ball hitter but he's improved since he first came up. 877 01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:42,000 There used to be an out on the breaking stuff. Good fast ball hitter. 878 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:49,000 One one delivery to him and he swings at a high fast ball. That time he doesn't get it. 879 01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:55,000 One ball two strikes. Yankees two and the Royals nothing. We're in the bottom of the sixth inning. 880 01:26:55,000 --> 01:27:07,000 Sun splash day in Kansas City. It's up and away for a ball, two and two. 881 01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:11,000 Mata reads the side from Munson. 882 01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:15,000 It is. Foul ball on a slider away. 883 01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:17,000 Freddy just getting a piece of it. 884 01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:20,000 Infield has Dambler at first, medium deep. 885 01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:23,000 Willie Randolph is shading the bag at second. 886 01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:25,000 He's playing a deep second base. 887 01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:29,000 Short stop is Fred Stanley in the third base and Greg Nettles. 888 01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:33,000 Roy White, Mickey Rivers and Elliot Maddux left to right in the outfield. 889 01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:36,000 They're pushed a bit toward right center on Potech. 890 01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:38,000 Ground to third and Nettles has the easy hop. 891 01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:41,000 Throws over the first, two down. 892 01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:44,000 Potech ground into third. 893 01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:50,000 And Hunter is just making it look awfully simple right now. 894 01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:55,000 The 15 is struck out in the third. 895 01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:58,000 The Yankee runs were in the first inning. 896 01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:01,000 And two throwing errors by George Brett had a hand in it. 897 01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:04,000 One of them of course for the one of the unearned runs. 898 01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:07,000 The other one was considered an RBI single for Schamper. 899 01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:09,000 Ground ball. 900 01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:12,000 There's a foul back. 901 01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:17,000 Actually the game should be nothing, nothing right now. 902 01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:21,000 You don't three suppose a double play but that would have been one. 903 01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:26,000 Had not Brett thrown it away. 904 01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:27,000 One strike. 905 01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:29,000 There it is. 906 01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:41,000 Got the corner for a call strike and so in two. 907 01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:43,000 The two strikes it. 908 01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:49,000 A high fastball shown and one ball two strikes. 909 01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,000 Martinez has a little power from the right side. 910 01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:53,000 He's not a consistent hitter. 911 01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:55,000 He's just a 228 on the regular season. 912 01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:59,000 But he has done the bulk of the Royals catch. 913 01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:01,000 One two delivery. 914 01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:03,000 Lifts a high foul out of play. 915 01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:09,000 Hangs in there with a one two count. 916 01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:18,000 The game is not on the waterfalls and they play every picturesque way in the sunlight today. 917 01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:22,000 We saw it last night in the stadium club and the lights behind it. 918 01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:29,000 Very picturesque scene. 919 01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:32,000 One and two to Martinez. 920 01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:34,000 Strike three calls. 921 01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:35,000 Good breaking pitch by Hunter. 922 01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:36,000 He's out of there. 923 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:40,000 Martinez becomes the fifth strikeout victim for Cassidy. 924 01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:43,000 Nothing across and at the end of six. 925 01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:46,000 The score the Yankees two the Royals nothing. 926 01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:50,000 Now for a brief news. 927 01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:52,000 Okay let's take a look instead of some news. 928 01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:55,000 Let's look at some football news and some scores. 929 01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:57,000 We have some more first three scores for you. 930 01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:01,000 Pittsburgh is leading Louisville 10 to nothing at the end of the first period. 931 01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:06,000 Pittsburgh currently the nation's second ranked team Penn State 10. 932 01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:07,000 Army nothing. 933 01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:09,000 That's the first period score. 934 01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:15,000 West Virginia really put into Tampa 21 to nothing at the end of the first quarter. 935 01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:18,000 And Michigan and Michigan State in their traditional game. 936 01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:21,000 And the Wolverines are leading it but not by much. 937 01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:26,000 14 to 10 Michigan over Michigan State. 938 01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:31,000 So that's a look at what we have in college football as far as some late scores. 939 01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:35,000 In case you missed the latest UBI coaches ratings. 940 01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:38,000 Michigan number one with 41st place vote. 941 01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:43,000 And a comfortable lead over second ranked Pittsburgh which has two first place votes. 942 01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:45,000 Oklahoma is third. 943 01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:46,000 Georgia is fourth. 944 01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:48,000 Fifth is Nebraska. 945 01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,000 Sixth is UCLA. 946 01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:51,000 Seventh is Maryland. 947 01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:52,000 Eighth is Kansas. 948 01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:53,000 Ninth is Missouri. 949 01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:55,000 And tenth is Southern Gal. 950 01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,000 Ohio State is 11th. 951 01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:58,000 Notre Dame 12th. 952 01:30:58,000 --> 01:30:59,000 Florida 13th. 953 01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:01,000 Fourteenth is Texas. 954 01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:08,000 And 15th is Arkansas. 955 01:31:08,000 --> 01:31:13,000 Moving this game rapidly into the top half of the seventh inning. 956 01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:17,000 The Yankees leading 2-0 over the Kansas City Royals. 957 01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:23,000 Royals have predicted this will be a series of close low scoring ball games. 958 01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:24,000 So far they've been right. 959 01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:28,000 The Yankees have taken advantage of the errors in the first inning. 960 01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:33,000 Nobody on the Royals side has been able to hit catfish under it all except Brett with the single. 961 01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:36,000 And that's the simple part of this ball game. 962 01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,000 It's as simple as that. 963 01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:40,000 Silent movie so far for the Royals. 964 01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:42,000 Fred Stanley up against Larry Dura. 965 01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:44,000 Here's a high pop. 966 01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:48,000 Right side, back goes Frank White, the second baseman, and he's got it. 967 01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:51,000 Almost misjudged it with poquette behind him. 968 01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:54,000 Winn doing a lot of things with the baseball. 969 01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:56,000 Things get high in the air. 970 01:31:56,000 --> 01:32:02,000 Stanley pops to the second base with Frank White in shallow right, really. 971 01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:08,000 Mickey Rivers up, had a single and scored a run in the first inning. 972 01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:12,000 He grounded to Brett near the third-base line but hesitated making the throw. 973 01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:13,000 Then the throw was bad. 974 01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:15,000 He went as a single and an error. 975 01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:19,000 Rivers went to second and eventually scored. 976 01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:25,000 The third ball popped up, foul ground, and Mayberry is there near the coaching box. 977 01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:26,000 First he's got it. 978 01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:28,000 Dura away. 979 01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:31,000 Larry Dura has missed a fine ball game. 980 01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:32,000 Make no mistake about that. 981 01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:36,000 He has given up eight hits through and catfish has given up one. 982 01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:39,000 That's what he's up against. 983 01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:46,000 Plus the lapse behind him in the first inning and of course no attack for him. 984 01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:52,000 He's out in a hurry in the seventh and Roy White is up. 985 01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:56,000 Third ball on the corner called strike. 986 01:32:56,000 --> 01:33:03,000 White usually hits more consistently from the left side. 987 01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:07,000 The high ball hitter from the left side more often than the right. 988 01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:13,000 Usually you figure left-handed hitters are low ball hitters. 989 01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:16,000 But from the left side he goes for the high and more so. 990 01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:18,000 Now there's something in his eye. 991 01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:26,000 Yankee trainer comes out to check White and Martinez goes out to check with Dura. 992 01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:32,000 Roy has cleared it up now. 993 01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:36,000 Throughout the years, many people, and I guess he's kind of tired of it too, 994 01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:38,000 saying Roy White is the most underrated player in the league. 995 01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:42,000 Well I think he is but he knows what he can do. 996 01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:44,000 There's a bouncer to second base. 997 01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:47,000 Frank White picks it up on one hop, throws Roy out, 998 01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:52,000 and it's a 1-2-3 inning for Larry Dura as he continues to shine. 999 01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:59,000 Nothing across and in the middle of the seventh the score is the Yankees 2, the Royals nothing. 1000 01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:05,000 A spokesman for the Philadelphia Phil says Saturday night's opening nationally playoff game against Cincinnati 1001 01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:09,000 is expected to be played despite forecast of rain. 1002 01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:15,000 Executive Vice President Bill Giles says he's been in constant touch with various lettermen 1003 01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:19,000 and they indicate that the rain will stop by about 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time 1004 01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:22,000 and the game is scheduled for 8.15 p.m. 1005 01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:25,000 The Phil's have not had a game rained out all season. 1006 01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:27,000 The Saturday's game is postponed. 1007 01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:31,000 The series will be pushed back to Sunday and Monday. 1008 01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:38,000 The Kansas City Royals host the Yankees in the game they're listening to right now in the American League playoff. 1009 01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:44,000 Third ranked Oklahoma is favored to whip Texas in their annual shootout in the cotton ball, 1010 01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:48,000 but the emotions involved usually make the game unpredictable. 1011 01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:51,000 The coaches got into the act in the eve of the annual affair 1012 01:34:51,000 --> 01:34:58,000 with Texas coach Dale Royals charging that a former assistant coach at Oklahoma spied on longhorn practices. 1013 01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:02,000 Sooner coach Barry Switzer says that's ridiculous. 1014 01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:10,000 Home half of the seventh at Royals Stadium everybody's up and hoping for something from their ball club. 1015 01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:20,000 Catfish Hunter warming up rather not caring much just doing his job 1016 01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:26,000 and rather oblivious to the cheers and the exhorting of the Kansas City fans. 1017 01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:29,000 Hunter has picked a marvelous ball game. 1018 01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:34,000 Through six innings he has worked. He has faced a minimum of 18 hitters. 1019 01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:37,000 One hit garnered off in. 1020 01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:40,000 George Brett got it in the fourth and was out stealing. 1021 01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:43,000 That has been the Kansas City offense. 1022 01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:47,000 Jim Wolford is the first batter here in the seventh. 1023 01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:51,000 Lead off hitter taking the place of Amos Otis who sprained an ankle in the first inning 1024 01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,000 while trying to run out of punch. 1025 01:35:53,000 --> 01:36:00,000 A putt attempt by Wolford is fouled at the plate strike one. 1026 01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:02,000 Wolford playing in left field. 1027 01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:06,000 They shifted things around when Otis left the game moving college to center 1028 01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:09,000 and sending Colchett from left to right. 1029 01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:15,000 Wolford when he has been playing with the Royals this summer has been primarily left fielder. 1030 01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,000 Pretty good outfielder. 1031 01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:24,000 An in-fielders type arm though if you can run on him if he has to play something deep. 1032 01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:28,000 Right handed batter right now hitting 249 on the year. 1033 01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:32,000 Takes a breaking ball, a curve outside from Hunter. 1034 01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:36,000 One ball, one strike. 1035 01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:40,000 Yankees leading 2-0, seven minutes. 1036 01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:44,000 Fly ball right field, easy chance for Matta Key. 1037 01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:48,000 Holds the hand up says I've got it and takes it for out number one. 1038 01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:51,000 Wolford flies to right. 1039 01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:58,000 Hunter now has retired eight in a row since the single by Brett. 1040 01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:04,000 Yesterday, well it's japed as October 9th but 20 years ago yesterday 1041 01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:07,000 and I bet there's a lot of people who say they were there that maybe weren't. 1042 01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:11,000 Don Larson fits the perfect game in the World Series. 1043 01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:14,000 He beats Sal Magley in the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. 1044 01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:23,000 And of course one of the bright, the main moments of World Series history. 1045 01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:28,000 And Shirley Povitz for the Washington Post wrote in his lead. 1046 01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:33,000 Hell froze over, there were 30 Sundays in a month and Don Larson fits the perfect game in the World Series. 1047 01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:34,000 And a great lead. 1048 01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:37,000 There's a base hit to left field. 1049 01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:42,000 George Brett gets his second hit off Hunter and now the lead lead. 1050 01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:50,000 Man is on with one out in the seventh inning. 1051 01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:56,000 All right the Royal fans coming alive downstairs and all around us 1052 01:37:56,000 --> 01:38:01,000 as Brett lines the second Royal hit off Hunter in the left. 1053 01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:04,000 Brett got the other one singling the center. 1054 01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:08,000 But George has been the most involved Royal player this afternoon 1055 01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:12,000 except for pitcher Larry Gourault who's been well. 1056 01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:17,000 Now with this situation a 2-0 ball game of course, something like that happens 1057 01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:19,000 and the tying run comes to the plate. 1058 01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:24,000 Hunter has taken care of Al McCray easily, striking him out both times. 1059 01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:29,000 Once on the first and once on the fourth. 1060 01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:32,000 McCray bends way over at the plate. 1061 01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:37,000 Fouls the pitch off for a strike. 1062 01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:46,000 McCray finished the season at 332, one point behind teammate George Brett who's now at first base. 1063 01:38:46,000 --> 01:38:48,000 And McCray says he's out of here to last. 1064 01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:50,000 That last day of the season. 1065 01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,000 All over now. 1066 01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:54,000 Here's the pitch. 1067 01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:59,000 Little pop-up right side under it is Randolph and Willie Randolph 1068 01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:02,000 who backpedals and makes the catch lay out. 1069 01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:05,000 So Hunter continues to own McCray pretty well. 1070 01:39:05,000 --> 01:39:09,000 And now here is Mayberry. 1071 01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:15,000 Big John Mayberry, the home run enemy, Royal's order right now. 1072 01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:17,000 Fly to left and fly to right. 1073 01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:20,000 And here's the key man to my way of thinking in this series. 1074 01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:27,000 He has got to deliver and this is a good platform to deliver if he's going to get started on it. 1075 01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:30,000 A lot depends on this guy's big bat in this series. 1076 01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:33,000 Here's Hunter pitching to him. 1077 01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:35,000 High and away for a ball. 1078 01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:39,000 If you get the ball out over the plate to Mayberry he'll kill you. 1079 01:39:39,000 --> 01:39:42,000 He will chase the bad ball down and in. 1080 01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:44,000 He likes that pitch. 1081 01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:48,000 You throw him a strike there and he'll pull it to the right and hurt you. 1082 01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:51,000 If you make it a bad pitch he might chase it and get him that way. 1083 01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:52,000 Easy. 1084 01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:55,000 He swings with the outside high pitch for a ball. 1085 01:39:55,000 --> 01:40:01,000 Strike one. One ball, one strike. 1086 01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:07,000 Mayberry is the guy who came over from Houston a long time ago. 1087 01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:11,000 High and tight. A ball without his new opponent. 1088 01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:15,000 State honors. Report to security. 1089 01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:24,000 Hunter has given up his chair of home runs. He always does. He's a controlled pitcher. 1090 01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:27,000 But not this guy. The high pop-up third base play. 1091 01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:30,000 Hunter is straight nettle. 1092 01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:32,000 He's got it and catches. 1093 01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:34,000 Gets out of the inning. No problem. 1094 01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:38,000 No runs. One hit and one less. 1095 01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:46,000 And at the end of seven innings of play the score is the Yankees 2 and the Royals nothing. 1096 01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:50,000 Now the Yanks representing the East in the lead here to Navi. 1097 01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:58,000 Since the America League began its championship series in 1969, the East has won four seven times. 1098 01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:05,000 Baltimore knocked off Minnesota twice and then Oakland in their first three encounters, Oakland won three in a row. 1099 01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:09,000 Boston broke the tie last October by downing the A's. 1100 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:15,000 Only three times though has the playoffs series drawn more than three games. 1101 01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:19,000 Oakland took the short, you remember, in five games in 1972. 1102 01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:24,000 And then they repeated in five games against Baltimore in 1973. 1103 01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:31,000 And then Baltimore stretched the series to four games against the A's in 1974. 1104 01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:36,000 And the first game considered most important by the two managers. 1105 01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:42,000 And right now the Yankees lead that first game at the end of seven to the Navi. 1106 01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:55,000 Remember, CBS radio sports is bringing you the play-by-play action in the America League championship. 1107 01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:59,000 And there's more to come. The World Series starts October 16th. 1108 01:41:59,000 --> 01:42:01,000 That's next Saturday, week from today. 1109 01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:10,000 And you'll hear exclusive radio coverage, play-by-play, of the 1976 World Series right here on this CBS radio network station. 1110 01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:17,000 This is Ed Martin along with Ernie Harwell at Royal Stadium in Kansas City. 1111 01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:21,000 The Yankees leading the Royals 2-0 on two runs in the first inning. 1112 01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:26,000 There are two innings to go. Larry Gura will face Munson, Cannella, and Stamford. 1113 01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:39,000 And the Royals have bullpen action now, left and right, Steve Mingori, the left-hander, and Mark Littell, the right-hander, throwing there in the bullpen, Justin Gates. 1114 01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:45,000 There was activity in the first inning. Doug Byrd was throwing when Gura got in early trouble. 1115 01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:49,000 The Yankees have left-hander Sparky Lyle throwing in their pen now. 1116 01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:53,000 Kermin Munson is one for three, singled and scored in the first inning. 1117 01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:59,000 Gura fires curveball, line towards short, taken in the air by Potec. 1118 01:42:59,000 --> 01:43:03,000 Right off his shoe top, Munson is out. 1119 01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:07,000 One away, right at the feet of Freddie, but he got it before it hit the ground. 1120 01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:13,000 The hitter, Lou Pennella, has had a good day. He struck out in the first, but has followed with two singles. 1121 01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:17,000 He is the designated hitter. He was talking yesterday. 1122 01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:22,000 He said, you know, my mother's got to be disappointed that I'm not playing right field tomorrow instead of D18. 1123 01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:26,000 And Munson was sitting on the bench and he said, well, how do you think the Royals feel? 1124 01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:29,000 They're kind of sorry you're not out there, too. 1125 01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:36,000 Lou is not going to emulate Al Kaline in right field, and he admits it, but he said, you know, I didn't have a bad year, defensively. 1126 01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:41,000 He played one good game against the Red Strikes, I know, but a hit away or a home run away. 1127 01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:49,000 Pitch is outside for a ball, and the count is 1-0 to Pennella, right-handed back. 1128 01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:52,000 Larry Gura. 1129 01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:59,000 And the pitch lands toward right field, but high enough for Potec to get under. He's got it. 1130 01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:02,000 And there are two away. 1131 01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:07,000 And Pennella's out, and Gura continues to pitch well. 1132 01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:16,000 Baseball people are in their infinite wicks. A lot of times we'll say to a guy who pitches this way, and maybe loses 1-0 or 2-0, he pitches just well enough to lose. 1133 01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:19,000 It makes a pitcher mad. 1134 01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:22,000 Here is Samplett. He is 1-3. 1135 01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:27,000 Had an RBI on the fielder's choice. The big play of the game in the first inning. 1136 01:44:27,000 --> 01:44:29,000 Then another run short on the error. 1137 01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:34,000 In the suing error by Brett. Pitches Huffman in for ball one. 1138 01:44:34,000 --> 01:44:39,000 Samplett had a single in the third, and he struck out his last time up. 1139 01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:41,000 Gura works. 1140 01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:45,000 Drives the right center field toward the gap. That may go through to the wall. It does. 1141 01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:50,000 If he played off the wall by Pocquet. Samplett has two. He's got a try for three. 1142 01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:54,000 Here comes a throw from Frank Whitey. Not in time. It gets behind Brett. 1143 01:44:54,000 --> 01:45:00,000 Backed up by Gura. And in his third with a triple is Chris Samplett. 1144 01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:04,000 Ned Pocquet a little slow getting that ball after he got up the gap. 1145 01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:07,000 And he seemed to be a little not so on about it. 1146 01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:11,000 And it cost him that extra base that Chambliss was able to save. 1147 01:45:11,000 --> 01:45:17,000 Samplett had the play in front of him too. He could see that this was being done a little slowly. So he dug for it. 1148 01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:20,000 It was a good relay throw from Frank Whitey. 1149 01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:23,000 But with the tangle there at third base, an eluded threat. 1150 01:45:23,000 --> 01:45:28,000 However Gura backed it up and defended the run. So there's another two out hit for the Yankees. 1151 01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:33,000 They now have nine hits. And that is their second extra base hit. 1152 01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:39,000 A double by Stanley. A triple by Samplett. 1153 01:45:39,000 --> 01:45:45,000 Nevada now is Nettles fly ball down the left field line. Let's see if it goes there. Foul it is. 1154 01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:55,000 How ball out of play. No chance for Wolford who had a long run as they were playing Nettles to goal. 1155 01:45:55,000 --> 01:46:00,000 Drake Nettles is one of the best fake hitters in the American League. 1156 01:46:00,000 --> 01:46:07,000 Certainly on the Yankees club. He'll hit that hanging curve ball or that's a fake hit a long way. 1157 01:46:07,000 --> 01:46:11,000 Got to pull it earlier. Then uppercut swing. 1158 01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:21,000 And you try to jam it. Try to get that ball with heart stuff up and in around the skin or the letter. 1159 01:46:21,000 --> 01:46:25,000 He's batting with two outs and the man at third. 1160 01:46:25,000 --> 01:46:29,000 Try to check his swing but can't out at the strike. 1161 01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:31,000 Nothing in two to Nettles. 1162 01:46:31,000 --> 01:46:37,000 Samplett at third with what could be an insurance run, an added insurance run for the Yankees. 1163 01:46:37,000 --> 01:46:41,000 He just joined us. The Yankees lead the Royals 2-0 in game one. 1164 01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:44,000 They got their two runs in the first inning. 1165 01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:45,000 Here it is. 1166 01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:47,000 There's a high and tight pitch to Nettles. 1167 01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:53,000 Then five for a ball. One ball to strike. 1168 01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:56,000 The base is loaded and one out. They got their run in the first inning. 1169 01:46:56,000 --> 01:46:59,000 Ground ball to third. 1170 01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:01,000 Then an error. 1171 01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:03,000 Fast ball. Strike three. Call. 1172 01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:06,000 He jammed him all right. Fast ball right in tight. 1173 01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:10,000 And Nettles ends an inning for the third time. 1174 01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:12,000 A strikeout number four for Larry Gura. 1175 01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:15,000 No runs. One hit. One left. 1176 01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:24,000 And in the middle of the eighth inning, the score is the Yankees 2-0 at the Royals. 1177 01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:26,000 After hand it to Larry Gura. 1178 01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:32,000 He has kept his team, the Kansas City Royals, in this game with some excellent thrust hitting. 1179 01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:37,000 After the Yankees got two in the opening inning, due to a couple of errors by Brett, 1180 01:47:37,000 --> 01:47:41,000 Gura had to settle down and got the job. 1181 01:47:41,000 --> 01:47:48,000 Although the Yankees have a hit total of nine, all but three of those hits have come with two men out. 1182 01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:55,000 And the Yankees got their first two runs in the opening inning when Mickey Rivers led up with a bunt single 1183 01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:57,000 with the back of him that throwing an error by Brett. 1184 01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:00,000 White walk. Bunt single to load the base. 1185 01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:05,000 And then with one out after another fan, the one out scammers, hit a ground ball to Brett, 1186 01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:10,000 he touched third for the fourth out, and then threw a wild first base and the two Yankee runs scored. 1187 01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:16,000 So that's what happened here in the Kansas City so far. 1188 01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:21,000 You're here to your CBS Radio Network Stadium for game number one of the American League playoffs. 1189 01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:25,000 So that means you're assumed to be the only radio spot for the World Series. 1190 01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:33,000 Starting Saturday, October 16, CBS Radio Sports brings you exclusive radio play-by-play coverage. 1191 01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:37,000 Follow the series on radio right here. 1192 01:48:37,000 --> 01:48:49,000 Here we go to the bottom of the eighth inning, and time running out. 1193 01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:53,000 And short on the Kansas City Royals who trail two-nothing. 1194 01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:59,000 Kansas Hunter has been magnificent. He's put two-hits shutout ball, and picked to only one batter over the minimum. 1195 01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:06,000 Markie Lyle and Dick Cidro, the left right-handed punch in the bullpen for the Yankees, are warming up. 1196 01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:10,000 First batter up for the Royals is Collins. He takes ball one inside. 1197 01:49:10,000 --> 01:49:13,000 Collins has flopped a second and lined the right. 1198 01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:18,000 Hunter has not walked a batter. He's given up two hits both to George Brett. 1199 01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:24,000 It's like scald at the knees on the outside corner. Hunter is just something out there. 1200 01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:27,000 He is not wasting any time between pitches. 1201 01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:34,000 He's around the corners with that slider. He's got everything right where he wants it. 1202 01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:36,000 It is. 1203 01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:42,000 Bowel ball back. One and two. 1204 01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:51,000 Up on the bank, we were telling you about in the last field, a couple of troopers, it seems, with horses were standing a little while ago. 1205 01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:59,000 It's quite a nice country setting around here. There's a farm with some cows passed from freeway. 1206 01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:03,000 There's a base that's the right field. That will go for two. 1207 01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:26,000 Bouncing around out there, played by Maddox, and in the second base, and trying for third now, is the runner Collins. He's got a triple. 1208 01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:35,000 Al Collins, who, as we told you earlier, can run, went right on around second base. That ball was hit into the corner. 1209 01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:41,000 It looked like a normal double in this ballpark, where you give the guy the corner and play it safe. 1210 01:50:41,000 --> 01:50:48,000 Elliott Maddox waited for it. By the time he'd gotten it, Collins had seemed in the third base ahead of the relay, 1211 01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:55,000 and it's a leadoff triple for Al Collins and the Royals, who have their first really big shot at Hunter here in the eighth inning. 1212 01:50:55,000 --> 01:51:01,000 The out, Tom Bochetta's up, and the slider is inside to him, ball one. 1213 01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:11,000 This is when you see Hunter monetize, pull his back, and become the pitcher that has netted him all the praise, all the money, everything that he's deserved. 1214 01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:21,000 There's that, it's inside, and the guy is doing nothing. Bochetta's grounded out and fly down. 1215 01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:26,000 Al and Kidrow, who had just taken a seat, now get up again in the bullpen and left. 1216 01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:30,000 The pitcher, Bochetta. Ground ball, right side, this will score a run. 1217 01:51:30,000 --> 01:51:38,000 Taken there by Randolph, throws the first for the out, but the Royals score. Two to one. 1218 01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:48,000 One batted in for Tom Bochetta, and now it's a one-run ballgame. Yankees two and the Royals one. 1219 01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:52,000 They get to the RBI with no money on base and one out now. 1220 01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:58,000 Frank White is scheduled up, but they're looking around, and there's going to be a thin-kitter. 1221 01:51:58,000 --> 01:52:06,000 I believe Whitey Herzog is going to go with Cookie Rohant. Cookie Rohant is in the on-deck circle, 1222 01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:15,000 The very popular second baseman here for the Kansas City Royals, a veteran of many seasons here and in the national league. 1223 01:52:15,000 --> 01:52:26,000 Welcome to the Fairborn. And into the Kansas City second baseman's race, number one, Cookie. 1224 01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:31,000 Billy Martin has come out to talk to Hunter Bunchman and the Georgetown Fred Stanley. 1225 01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:38,000 Cookie Rohant, the right-handed batter on the season, gets 2-42 in part-time play at second base. 1226 01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:48,000 No homers, 16 runs batted in, but a decided veteran. Ernie, a fellow who's in this kind of thing, I would go through too, I believe. 1227 01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:53,000 Yes, sir, you're right about that. I was thinking about the triple, that Cowan did. 1228 01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:58,000 It was a tough play for Elliott Maddison. Playing that corner over there, you have to sort of back off 1229 01:52:58,000 --> 01:53:04,000 and let the ball ricochet through you, but that could be off the close, and it gets by at the home run. 1230 01:53:04,000 --> 01:53:08,000 But it was a tough play either way, and the freebacker was a big hit. 1231 01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:13,000 Alright, here's Rohant, and Cookie takes the pitch outside for a ball. 1232 01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:19,000 The nearest thing that Rohant has been to this was when he was with Philadelphia, 1233 01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:24,000 when some of their good balls, Lutz, checked his swing and takes the strike. 1234 01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:30,000 He was with the 1964 Phillies who fell down in the final two weeks of the season 1235 01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:35,000 and lost the pennant to the St. Louis Cardinals. Rohant was in that pennant fight. 1236 01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:41,000 Takes a good breaking pitch for a strike and argues a little bit for the umpire Larry Barnett. 1237 01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:51,000 Rohant's last year to 254 is 271 the year before that, lifetime average of around 260. 1238 01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:58,000 In the dirt, two balls, two strikes. Yankees two, Royals one. 1239 01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:02,000 Bottom of the eighth inning at Royal Stadium. 1240 01:54:02,000 --> 01:54:10,000 Beautifully pitched game by Katz, Hunter, and Larry Gura. 1241 01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:15,000 Rohant batting for white, bowels it back to the screen. 1242 01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:20,000 Cookie has been the kind of particular leader of this club since he came over here. 1243 01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:25,000 He and Freddy Potec for years, for several years in this ballpark, 1244 01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:29,000 led the league in double plays around the second. 1245 01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:34,000 They're highly professional, telling us Rohant. 1246 01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:38,000 Two and two. 1247 01:54:38,000 --> 01:54:48,000 Hunter works. Bowel ball back, foils a breaking ball again. 1248 01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:57,000 Lyle and Cidro throwing in the bullpen. They had to let Lutel and Mengori up for Kansas City, but they've taken a seat. 1249 01:54:57,000 --> 01:55:01,000 Here's a 2-2 offering again. A little pop-up in the infield. 1250 01:55:01,000 --> 01:55:05,000 Dirt, basement, and metal comes into foul ground. He says, I've got it. 1251 01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:08,000 And Munson lets him have it for the second out. 1252 01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:13,000 So Rohant batting for white, fouls out the third. Two down. 1253 01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:23,000 Who's first up? Freddy Potec. Freddy Potec up, flies deep to left and's out of the third. 1254 01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:31,000 Red Sox, never did I think too much about getting him out in the course of several seasons, 1255 01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:34,000 except for throwing the breaking pitch, as we've mentioned before. 1256 01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:40,000 He'll hit the fastball on it, he's got a little power, but has learned to go to the opposite field well. 1257 01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:45,000 Dries court, short pass, short stop into left field. 1258 01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:53,000 Fred Stanley went over and looks as though he might get that, but it's just one of those taunts and serves Kim's handsets. 1259 01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:59,000 And Potec was on, will it do out single? He represents the tying run. 1260 01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:03,000 Mark Martinez scheduled up and he's not going to bat. 1261 01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:07,000 Jamie Horton. Yep. 1262 01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:13,000 Jamie Horton, who we saw a lot of this summer, in the third one's role, 1263 01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:17,000 for the Royals against the Reds. 1264 01:56:17,000 --> 01:56:20,000 He's the designated hitter. 1265 01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:29,000 A left-handed batter, Jamie Horton, who hits 2.46 with one over and 15 runs batting. 1266 01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:33,000 That's quite a name, Jamie Horton. It sure is. 1267 01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:38,000 And I think this fellow's a lot better hitter than the average he's ever met. 1268 01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:43,000 He meets the ball, he's one of the disciples of Charlie Lau, he goes to the opposite field a lot, 1269 01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:47,000 and basically he's a line drive hitter. 1270 01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:53,000 And as far as he's concerned, it would be a good story for him right here in this spot. 1271 01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:56,000 He's from Whittier, California, attended Whittier College. 1272 01:56:56,000 --> 01:57:03,000 Runner going, pitch out, throw to second by Munson, he is out at second base. 1273 01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:08,000 Munson threw low, but it was dug out beautifully by the shortstop Fred Stanley, 1274 01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:10,000 and Clark doesn't get a chance. 1275 01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:15,000 They tried to get the tying run down at second base, but Potek was outside of the deal, 1276 01:57:15,000 --> 01:57:17,000 and that's two that Munson has thrown out. 1277 01:57:17,000 --> 01:57:20,000 This one's two to six, and that takes care of that. 1278 01:57:20,000 --> 01:57:24,000 One run on two hits and nobody left, and we go to, 1279 01:57:24,000 --> 01:57:26,000 they were at the end of eight innings. 1280 01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:32,000 The score is the Yankees two and the Royals one. 1281 01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:35,000 We have some updates on the college football scoreboard. 1282 01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:41,000 A couple of teams that looked like they were not scoring as much as most people thought they would 1283 01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:44,000 in their first period have laid it on in the second period. 1284 01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:48,000 Penn State was leading Army 10-0 at the end of the first quarter. 1285 01:57:48,000 --> 01:57:52,000 At the half, at Penn State 31, Army nothing. 1286 01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:55,000 The Pittsburgh was leading Louisville 10-0. 1287 01:58:22,000 --> 01:58:31,000 The score ends on the first half. 1288 01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:37,000 Elsewhere in the south, we have some additional scores. 1289 01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:42,000 Bill Battle of Tennessee went out to Monday to held a news conference and said, 1290 01:58:42,000 --> 01:58:48,000 hey, look, lay off the team, let's try to get things scored away and go for a winning season. 1291 01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:54,000 A big game against Georgia Tech, and at the end of the first quarter, Tennessee 14, Georgia Tech nothing. 1292 01:58:54,000 --> 01:58:58,000 White 4, 3-0 over Clemson at the end of the first period. 1293 01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:02,000 Virginia Tech leads VMI 3-0, that's the first period score. 1294 01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:06,000 And North Carolina State leads seventh-rank Maryland 6-0. 1295 01:59:06,000 --> 01:59:12,000 That's at the end of the first quarter. 1296 01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:16,000 Two changes defensively for Whitey Herzog and the Royals. 1297 01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:20,000 Kuki Rojas remains in the game, plays second base. 1298 01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:27,000 And the new catcher is John Wathen, W-A-T-H-A-N, who got into 42 games and hit 286 for the Royals. 1299 01:59:27,000 --> 01:59:30,000 He is back of the plate now, replacing Martinez. 1300 01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:33,000 Rojas is second, and Wathen catching. 1301 01:59:33,000 --> 01:59:34,000 Top of the ninth. 1302 01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:37,000 The Yankees lead 2-1. Here's Elliott Maddux. 1303 01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:40,000 Doerr's curve ball is over, calls strike one. 1304 01:59:40,000 --> 01:59:45,000 Maddux, single his last time up, he's one for three. 1305 01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:49,000 Now the margin for the Yankees is an unearned run. 1306 01:59:49,000 --> 01:59:54,000 2-1 New York, we're at the top of the ninth in game one of the American League playoffs. 1307 01:59:54,000 --> 01:59:57,000 The championship series, here it is. 1308 01:59:57,000 --> 02:00:05,000 Fly ball, left center field, hit fairly well, but back forward is Cowan, now plays the wind and one-hands it for the outs. 1309 02:00:05,000 --> 02:00:08,000 Maddux flies through center. 1310 02:00:08,000 --> 02:00:18,000 And the center fielder Cowan, who plays that ball, marks the guy he replaces, Amos Odoos, who one-hands everything out there, and Cowan does too. 1311 02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:28,000 And one game this year in New York, it cost the Royals a game when Cowan tried to one-hand a ball to the wall, and two runs scored and it was a ball game. 1312 02:00:28,000 --> 02:00:33,000 Here's Randolph, ground ball foul, past third. 1313 02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:41,000 One strike, Willie Randolph has grounded the third, fly the left, and ground it into a double play. 1314 02:00:41,000 --> 02:00:45,000 Yankees two, Royals one, top of the ninth. 1315 02:00:45,000 --> 02:00:46,000 Here it is. 1316 02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:50,000 Hits outside, a change up by Gura. 1317 02:00:50,000 --> 02:01:03,000 Gura has scattered to hit, but has not had any of them troubling, except in the first inning. 1318 02:01:03,000 --> 02:01:09,000 Good pitch on the outside corner, and a beef by Randolph to Barnett. 1319 02:01:09,000 --> 02:01:12,000 A brief beef. 1320 02:01:12,000 --> 02:01:19,000 Nobody really has gotten on the umpire as much in this one, it's just been good pitching. 1321 02:01:19,000 --> 02:01:25,000 Fast ball, a little bit high to Randolph, two and two. 1322 02:01:25,000 --> 02:01:32,000 Randolph, named to the All-Star team as a rookie this year. 1323 02:01:32,000 --> 02:01:34,000 The two-two pitch. 1324 02:01:34,000 --> 02:01:43,000 Fly ball, center field, Cowan's after this one, flips down the glasses, cruises back deep and he's got it right at the edge of the warning patch, nearly 400 feet away. 1325 02:01:43,000 --> 02:01:50,000 Randolph with good wood on it, aided by a little bit of a wind, flies to center, two out. 1326 02:01:50,000 --> 02:01:56,000 Brett Stanley is two for three in this one, a single, a double, and a pop-up. 1327 02:01:56,000 --> 02:02:08,000 If you're looking to the Royal Ninth Inning, they will have Wathen, Wolford, and Brett scheduled up. 1328 02:02:08,000 --> 02:02:21,000 Larry Gurer kicks and throws, and misses a little bit outside for a ball. 1329 02:02:21,000 --> 02:02:22,000 Here it is. 1330 02:02:22,000 --> 02:02:32,000 Fast ball, pulled into right field, coming hard and making a trapped play as the right fielder, Pochette, had almost got behind him, and that would have been trouble. 1331 02:02:32,000 --> 02:02:36,000 It's a single by Stanley, his third hit. 1332 02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:44,000 Pochette came on, the ball was dropping in safety, and he had a ball on it, and he just got enough of the glove on it to stop it. 1333 02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:48,000 He trapped the ball, and it had gotten behind him. 1334 02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:53,000 Cowan was not over far enough to be behind him for the backup, and that would have gone a long way. 1335 02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:57,000 Impossible? Well, possibly, and inside the park over. 1336 02:02:57,000 --> 02:03:03,000 Here's Mickey Rivers, who's one for four, single and scored in the first inning. 1337 02:03:03,000 --> 02:03:06,000 Ten hits now for New York. 1338 02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:11,000 Strike swinging and an off-season. 1339 02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:16,000 Gurer has worked a ten-hitter and given up only one earned run. 1340 02:03:16,000 --> 02:03:19,000 But trails where it counts, two to one. 1341 02:03:19,000 --> 02:03:22,000 One strike to Rivers. 1342 02:03:22,000 --> 02:03:37,000 Bent way over at the plate. Take the fish outside of ball. 1343 02:03:37,000 --> 02:03:43,000 Gurer looks down for a time. Stanley off first. 1344 02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:50,000 It is. Strike swinging, he's out ahead of that one, too. 1345 02:03:50,000 --> 02:04:02,000 So the count on Rivers is one ball, two strikes. 1346 02:04:02,000 --> 02:04:05,000 Down the fifth. 1347 02:04:05,000 --> 02:04:08,000 The delivery. Ground ball to the left side. 1348 02:04:08,000 --> 02:04:13,000 Short stop, way to go to second, not in time. Everybody's safe. 1349 02:04:13,000 --> 02:04:16,000 Pochette played it the only way he could. 1350 02:04:16,000 --> 02:04:20,000 Brett went over to the left side, could not cut it off. It was by him. 1351 02:04:20,000 --> 02:04:24,000 Pochette, knowing Rivers is seed, couldn't go over to first for him. 1352 02:04:24,000 --> 02:04:28,000 He flipped to second, could not get Stanley, and it'll go as a base hit. 1353 02:04:28,000 --> 02:04:35,000 And in field hit for Rivers. He is two for five, and Whitey Herzog wants to talk to his battering. 1354 02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:38,000 He's got N'Gory and Lantel out of the bullpen. 1355 02:04:38,000 --> 02:04:42,000 The batter is Roy White, of course, who's a Twitter. 1356 02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:48,000 So much rather than to him right-handed and left. 1357 02:04:48,000 --> 02:04:54,000 Mickey Rivers on it for his base, and Stanley at second on the infield hits the short. 1358 02:04:54,000 --> 02:05:04,000 The Yankees were ready to try to put another run across or two to get an insurance pass going into the ninth inning bottom half. 1359 02:05:04,000 --> 02:05:11,000 White has walked and has grounded out twice and has flied out once, no for three. 1360 02:05:11,000 --> 02:05:21,000 Rivers at first, Stanley at second. White takes the pitch outside of all. 1361 02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:30,000 White is a smart hitter. He makes good contact, and he'll wait. He'll wait on a pitch well. 1362 02:05:30,000 --> 02:05:32,000 Infield deep, they need just one out. 1363 02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:35,000 Fly ball to left field, it's going to be trouble. It's going to be in there. 1364 02:05:35,000 --> 02:05:45,000 For a base hit, bouncing on one hop to Wolpert, a run score. Here comes Rivers to the plate, two runs score, and the Yankees make it four to one. 1365 02:05:45,000 --> 02:05:54,000 A double by Roy White, the clutch hit in this ball game, as he smashes a double down the left side to drive in two. 1366 02:05:54,000 --> 02:05:59,000 All this has happened with two outs, and that's going to be all for Larry Gura. 1367 02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:06,000 Why do you hear his dogs thinking maybe he could get wide out as a right-handed batter, not wanting to pitch to him as a left-handed hitter, 1368 02:06:06,000 --> 02:06:14,000 going one batter maybe too long, and Roy White, the underdog, doubles home two. 1369 02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:18,000 And that's going to be all for Larry Gura. 1370 02:06:18,000 --> 02:06:28,000 Gura leaves the ball game and gets a nice hand. He went nine and two-thirds innings, giving up a matter of 12 hits. 1371 02:06:28,000 --> 02:06:38,000 And four runs. One of the runners, he walked one, he took out four, and he's responsible for a base runner. 1372 02:06:38,000 --> 02:06:45,000 And coming in from the left field, the right field, both men, his right-hander, Mark Lichell. 1373 02:06:45,000 --> 02:06:53,000 On that it's Gura who pitched such a strong game. I had to weaken a little bit here in the ninth inning. 1374 02:06:53,000 --> 02:07:00,000 You know, it's the philosophy of some managers that they do not like to change catches in the late stages of a game. 1375 02:07:00,000 --> 02:07:07,000 A pitcher has his rhythm, he's going along fine, and a new catcher sometimes will not take him along on that rhythm. 1376 02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:12,000 Not blaming John Woffin, but sometimes things like that can happen. 1377 02:07:12,000 --> 02:07:16,000 And in this inning, managers have fly to center, Randolph fly to center. 1378 02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:20,000 And then Stanley, who has been the toughest hitter on the Yankees, single. 1379 02:07:20,000 --> 02:07:28,000 The rest of the follow-up is single, and then White gets two more Yankees runs in with a fly ball double down in the left field corner. 1380 02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:36,000 So country Lichell will be coming in to take over now. He's a hard-crowing right-hander, who this year won eight and lost four. 1381 02:07:36,000 --> 02:07:41,000 He made 60 appearances, and all of those were in relief except for one. 1382 02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:47,000 He did not have a complete game, and he had a total of six plays to his credit. 1383 02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:52,000 The Yankees are now sitting a lot prettier than they were before. 1384 02:07:52,000 --> 02:08:02,000 They've got the lead 4-1, and it's up to Lichell that's got to close the door against further Yankees scoring here in the first half of the night's inning. 1385 02:08:02,000 --> 02:08:10,000 Big, big hit for Roy White, and it doesn't surprise anybody because he's made a backroom in his career with the New York Yankees. 1386 02:08:10,000 --> 02:08:18,000 White came to this ballgolf just a year late until this year and had not faced his championship series glory or anything like it, 1387 02:08:18,000 --> 02:08:24,000 as the Yankees had some lean years after 1964, and White had come with them in 1965. 1388 02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:30,000 But now he's with it, and in this particular game at least, has made the most of it. 1389 02:08:30,000 --> 02:08:39,000 Sherman Munson is up one for four. White is second base, two outs, two runs in. The Yankees leading 4-1. 1390 02:08:39,000 --> 02:08:51,000 Lichell, a youngster who, as Ernie said, can really blow a float smoke. He shows as hard as any relief pitcher in the American League. 1391 02:08:51,000 --> 02:09:01,000 He was entrusted with a lot with this ballgolf this year as a rookie, but he came through nicely with a 16 save. 1392 02:09:01,000 --> 02:09:17,000 Working now to Munson. Little pop foul coming back, maybe some room now for Watson. Near the screen, no, it's on the screen. 1393 02:09:17,000 --> 02:09:23,000 Lichell, who maybe is a release pitcher of the year for a rookie in the American League, 1394 02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:31,000 is aware of the history this season of being up with his stuff when he first comes into the game, maybe because he's so strong. 1395 02:09:31,000 --> 02:09:40,000 As a fastball fails, sometimes fails out of the strike zone. That one failed, and Munson fouled it back. 1396 02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:46,000 Sherman going through all those manners and thrusting the arm out at home plate, wiggling the neck. 1397 02:09:46,000 --> 02:09:51,000 Fouls this one back, out of play, and the count is 0-2. 1398 02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:57,000 In game two, tomorrow night, Sunday night, Dennis Leonard, right-hander, will go for the Royals, 1399 02:09:57,000 --> 02:10:07,000 and he'll be opposed by what many consider the best Yankee pitcher of this year, Ed Figueroa, who made a big run at winning 20. 1400 02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:15,000 Right-hander, a short armor with good thinking stuff, just gets the job done. 1401 02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:25,000 0-2 to Munson's fastball up and in, one ball to the strike. 1402 02:10:25,000 --> 02:10:32,000 Yankees four, Royals one, we're in the bottom of the eighth. 1403 02:10:32,000 --> 02:10:38,000 Figueroa got the first two batters on fly ball to center, but then the single by Stanley opened it up. 1404 02:10:38,000 --> 02:10:45,000 Four rivers with the infield hit and white with the double. 1405 02:10:45,000 --> 02:10:51,000 The delivery, fastball, fouled off by Munson again, couldn't get the bat around, his batter play. 1406 02:10:51,000 --> 02:10:57,000 Sherman riding him up and in. 1407 02:10:57,000 --> 02:11:04,000 One of the pitches in the American League with the best success against Munson is then Mike Torres. 1408 02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:18,000 Now the open days, when he pitched for Baltimore, he pitched very effectively against Munson, and worked in that way. 1409 02:11:18,000 --> 02:11:22,000 Long look now, by Littell. 1410 02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:29,000 Here's the set, and the pitch, a ball outside. 1411 02:11:29,000 --> 02:11:34,000 Now, 10 seconds here for station identification, this is the CBS radio network. 1412 02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:38,000 This is the American Four-Tooth radio and television service. 1413 02:11:38,000 --> 02:11:46,000 You're listening to the voice of information for the American Four-Tooths at 790 and 1420. 1414 02:11:46,000 --> 02:11:50,000 Back at Royal Stadium, Munson the batter with a count of two and two. 1415 02:11:50,000 --> 02:11:54,000 Roy White at second base, two outs and the Yankees nice, and the Yankees leading 4-1. 1416 02:11:54,000 --> 02:12:01,000 Ground ball to shortstop, dug up by Proctech, fires across to Mayberry, Munson is out, and the side is retired. 1417 02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:07,000 But the Yankees do more damage in the night, they get two runs from three hits, they leave one. 1418 02:12:07,000 --> 02:12:14,000 And in the middle of the ninth inning, the score is the Yankees four, the Royals one. 1419 02:12:14,000 --> 02:12:21,000 Okay, last shot for Kansas City here in game one of this American League playoff game from Kansas City. 1420 02:12:21,000 --> 02:12:26,000 Just an important programming note because of the brevity of this baseball game, 1421 02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:35,000 I know that at 1930 GMT Saturday we're scheduled to join the Oklahoma football network for the Oklahoma-Texas football game. 1422 02:12:35,000 --> 02:12:47,000 And for all you stations planning to carry this broadcast, we remind you that we will not join that ballgame until 2000 GMT. 1423 02:12:47,000 --> 02:12:52,000 In other words, at 4 o'clock Eastern time, that's in about 58 minutes from now. 1424 02:12:52,000 --> 02:13:01,000 So we'll rejoin normal programming until that time if the ballgame ends before 1930 GMT. 1425 02:13:01,000 --> 02:13:06,000 So if the ballgame gets over where this game you're listening to right now, within the half hour, 1426 02:13:06,000 --> 02:13:14,000 we will not join the Oklahoma baseball network, football network for that football game for about another 57 minutes or so. 1427 02:13:14,000 --> 02:13:24,000 So that is part of the AFRTS contingency plan regarding this baseball game. 1428 02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:30,000 All right, we're moving now to the bottom of the ninth inning. 1429 02:13:30,000 --> 02:13:41,000 As Kestechana is three outs away from winning his fourth American League championship playoff game, the Yankees are leading four to one. 1430 02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:45,000 And Bob Simpson is going to pinch in. 1431 02:13:45,000 --> 02:13:52,000 Simpson, another of the catchers that the Royals have, will bat for John Woffin. 1432 02:13:52,000 --> 02:13:56,000 Bob Simpson batting left against Kestech Hunter. 1433 02:13:56,000 --> 02:13:58,000 Simpson is a quick hitter. 1434 02:13:58,000 --> 02:14:03,000 On the year, he hit 263 in 79 games. 1435 02:14:03,000 --> 02:14:06,000 Two homers and 25 RBI. 1436 02:14:06,000 --> 02:14:11,000 Hunter works and Simpson pulls the foul off to the left. 1437 02:14:11,000 --> 02:14:14,000 The Royals are down to their last three outs. 1438 02:14:14,000 --> 02:14:21,000 They fail by three runs. 1439 02:14:21,000 --> 02:14:24,000 Simpson up with Wolford scheduled next. 1440 02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:26,000 Kestech Hunter kicks and delivers. 1441 02:14:26,000 --> 02:14:31,000 Little ground ball, his foul outside of first. 1442 02:14:31,000 --> 02:14:37,000 The Yankees lead four to one. 1443 02:14:37,000 --> 02:14:41,000 That's the third base coach for the Royals. 1444 02:14:41,000 --> 02:14:48,000 Yankees leading four to one in the ninth of game one. 1445 02:14:48,000 --> 02:14:53,000 Hunter throws high and away. 1446 02:14:53,000 --> 02:15:02,000 Two strikes. 1447 02:15:02,000 --> 02:15:05,000 Hunter winds and throws and another foul ball. 1448 02:15:05,000 --> 02:15:07,000 It's time back on the screen. 1449 02:15:07,000 --> 02:15:09,000 We've had word from a Philadelphia. 1450 02:15:09,000 --> 02:15:11,000 The rain is letting up there. 1451 02:15:11,000 --> 02:15:13,000 The game probably will be played tonight. 1452 02:15:13,000 --> 02:15:20,000 And most of these CBS stations will take that game at 8.05 with Ralph Keiner and Jerry Coleman. 1453 02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:23,000 Two former home run hitters. 1454 02:15:23,000 --> 02:15:27,000 There's a high fly ball down into shallow left coming on Roy White. 1455 02:15:27,000 --> 02:15:29,000 And he makes the grab. 1456 02:15:29,000 --> 02:15:31,000 Sadly, the shortstop went back. 1457 02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:36,000 But White says, I've got to make kind of a shaky catch because the Sun is still tough out in left field. 1458 02:15:36,000 --> 02:15:40,000 One out in the Royals. 1459 02:15:40,000 --> 02:15:43,000 Jim Wolford is up. 1460 02:15:43,000 --> 02:15:47,000 He has been called out on strike and flied to right field. 1461 02:15:47,000 --> 02:15:54,000 He came on to play when Amos Otis, brain and ankle, running out of a punt in the first inning. 1462 02:15:54,000 --> 02:15:56,000 I don't know how old this will be for tomorrow. 1463 02:15:56,000 --> 02:15:58,000 The pitch is inside for a ball. 1464 02:15:58,000 --> 02:16:01,000 Right there, right off the bat, things went bad. 1465 02:16:01,000 --> 02:16:06,000 This was a bad first inning for the Royals all the way around. 1466 02:16:06,000 --> 02:16:07,000 One out pitch. 1467 02:16:07,000 --> 02:16:10,000 Wolford sends a fly ball to right center field. 1468 02:16:10,000 --> 02:16:12,000 Fairly deep, but Rivers tracked it down. 1469 02:16:12,000 --> 02:16:16,000 Gives way to his right fielder, Maddox, who makes the catch. 1470 02:16:16,000 --> 02:16:18,000 Elliott Maddox makes the put out. 1471 02:16:18,000 --> 02:16:24,000 And now the Royals have two outs in the ninth inning, trailing by a rerun. 1472 02:16:24,000 --> 02:16:29,000 George Gwett, who is accounted for two hits. 1473 02:16:29,000 --> 02:16:32,000 Paul Hunter, he has singled twice off him. 1474 02:16:32,000 --> 02:16:35,000 Two throwing errors in the first inning, paving the way to two runs. 1475 02:16:35,000 --> 02:16:38,000 One of them starts to then hit it. 1476 02:16:38,000 --> 02:16:43,000 Right now, that appears to be academic, although things may have been going differently. 1477 02:16:43,000 --> 02:16:47,000 Roy White, who had a nice inning, added a couple of the Yankees. 1478 02:16:47,000 --> 02:16:52,000 There's a called strike. 1479 02:16:52,000 --> 02:16:54,000 Brett the batter with two outs. 1480 02:16:54,000 --> 02:16:58,000 Al McCrae is on deck. 1481 02:16:58,000 --> 02:17:08,000 This one misses outside a ball. 1482 02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:10,000 Hunter working quickly. 1483 02:17:10,000 --> 02:17:22,000 Slipping victory, throws outside, the count is two and one. 1484 02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:25,000 Bits to Brett, foul back. 1485 02:17:25,000 --> 02:17:30,000 Two and two, there's two outs. 1486 02:17:30,000 --> 02:17:34,000 Hunter has been the money picture that everybody knows he is today. 1487 02:17:34,000 --> 02:17:38,000 He's been on top of the situation. 1488 02:17:38,000 --> 02:17:41,000 Kansas City run came in the eighth inning. 1489 02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:47,000 Caught a triple by Cowans and a ground ball by Fouquet. 1490 02:17:47,000 --> 02:17:58,000 Brett backs out a moment. 1491 02:17:58,000 --> 02:18:03,000 Hunter winds and throws, and there's a line at a left field, another hit for Brett. 1492 02:18:03,000 --> 02:18:05,000 One hopper to Roy White. 1493 02:18:05,000 --> 02:18:07,000 Brett is three for four. 1494 02:18:07,000 --> 02:18:10,000 He goes up the middle a lot into the opposite field. 1495 02:18:10,000 --> 02:18:12,000 They'll use all parts of the field. 1496 02:18:12,000 --> 02:18:16,000 And he has been a sweet swinger against Catfish Hunter. 1497 02:18:16,000 --> 02:18:20,000 So the Royals are still alive in the ninth inning. 1498 02:18:20,000 --> 02:18:24,000 And here's Al McCrae, and he's overdue against Hunter. 1499 02:18:24,000 --> 02:18:31,000 He has struck out White and popped up, as Catfish has handled him well. 1500 02:18:31,000 --> 02:18:35,000 McCrae would like to get on because the on deck hitter is a home run threat. 1501 02:18:35,000 --> 02:18:39,000 There's a punch, drawn the third base line, and fouls. 1502 02:18:39,000 --> 02:18:41,000 It started down the line and fouled round. 1503 02:18:41,000 --> 02:18:46,000 It appears that it might go back into fair territory, so Neville quickly got it. 1504 02:18:46,000 --> 02:18:51,000 Had he let that run and it's gone back to the line, it would have been a base hit. 1505 02:18:51,000 --> 02:18:56,000 McCrae's trying to get on just to provide two base runners and allow the tying run to come to the plate. 1506 02:18:56,000 --> 02:19:05,000 And the guy that has the most ability to hit one out of here is John Maynberg. 1507 02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:09,000 That was with George Brett getting three hits in his ball game. 1508 02:19:09,000 --> 02:19:13,000 That's the 30th game this season, counting in regular season. 1509 02:19:13,000 --> 02:19:16,000 He's had three hits or more. 1510 02:19:16,000 --> 02:19:20,000 He had some four hits games and five hits games, too. 1511 02:19:20,000 --> 02:19:22,000 Here's the big round line drive. 1512 02:19:22,000 --> 02:19:24,000 The third is caught and it's all over. 1513 02:19:24,000 --> 02:19:30,000 Greg Nettles fears the line drive off the bat of Harold McCrae, and the Yankees take game one. 1514 02:19:30,000 --> 02:19:32,000 Well hit ball by McCrae. 1515 02:19:32,000 --> 02:19:37,000 Had it been a little bit higher, it might have been an interesting another couple of minutes, 1516 02:19:37,000 --> 02:19:42,000 but it wasn't to be, and the Yankees takes the initial advantage in game one. 1517 02:19:42,000 --> 02:19:48,000 Okay, so the New York Yankees, four runs on 12 hits and nowhere to run five and none for Kansas City, 1518 02:19:48,000 --> 02:20:00,000 so New York has taken game one.