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The Oakland A's face the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium for Game 1 of the 1972 World Series on October 14th.
This is the NBC broadcast of Game 1 featuring announcers Jim Simpson and Monty Moore.
Patrick Kapanerich at 2.40 on the season. Love the American League as Monty said with 52 stolen bases will step in.
For those of you overseas who may not know this story, Kapanerich was guilty of throwing a bat in the playoffs with Detroit pitcher Laren Legro.
Before that he was suspended for the rest of the playoffs. Re-entended for the World Series but will miss the first seven games of next year.
With Kapanerich next to go Nolan ready for the first pitch right at the knee.
Now Nolan is a fine control pitcher. Gary has to be a fine control pitcher.
Fischings had iron problems in 68 and 69. He doesn't have the fast ball that he usually has.
He comes back with a curve ball at a play foul outside the third baseline.
He does have to make the good pitcher. He does have good control.
If he does not make the good pitcher, does not have the good control, then Gary Nolan is in trouble.
The Reds don't have the reputation of finishing men again but with the bullpen Pedro Burbon, Tom Hall, one of the strikeout artists he is,
and of course Clay Carroll who sets the record for most saves in the Major League,
they give the best bullpen just as soon as needed. They never hesitate.
Nolan, a young 24 year old, born in California, now lives in Cincinnati with a count of two strikes to Kapanerich down low and score one.
No score. Kapanerich leading it off in the World Curious first game of 1972.
Cloudy skies, savager, humanist, 16, Nolan back with a fast ball and it's hit out to left field between 19-10-7 and Kapanerich is off.
Well they talk about the speed and the hustle of the Cincinnati Ball Club which stole 140 bases this year as contrasted to the Detroit Tigers who stole only 17.
When you talk about speed and hustle, Kapanerich has done his thing. He is on space.
Now Gary Nolan and Johnny Bentz must be very careful.
Gold, he's a batter, hits 305.
Latin American making hits with 181, hits 250 during the play-up.
Right-hander hitter as is Kapanerich, lays left field up.
Looking down to Irv Norris, third base coach for his side.
Kapanerich is on his first base. We'll check him.
Bentz knows it. Nolan must keep him close. That's just a great arm but Nolan has to keep him close.
Kapanerich with a good lead draws the throw. Not far enough away to have to slide back in.
Capacity crowd here with the lights on and they are counting them on these seats this morning.
They could have the largest crowd ever at Riverfront Stadium.
Nolan is ready, throws a fast ball, lays to center field. Bobby Coleman couple of steps over his way, lower deep center field and takes it for the first shot.
Kapanerich is reached the first.
Rudy hitting the first pitch, the straightaway center field and that will bring up Matty Allou.
Allou brought over from the Cardinals by the A's who at the end of the season hit 281 for Oakland but he was hitting better than 300 for St. Louis and he's got a better than 300 lifetime average.
And in the playoff Matty Allou simply tore up the Tigers. 381, four doubles, still the base and that all hitters with eight hits.
Pitch is wide for the base. Kapanerich has now had his fourth hit in a row. He was 3-3 in his last game before the back throwing incident.
He has come back after the suspension and has gotten his fourth hit.
Allou swings, falls the ball at the plate. As a matter of fact it has also tanned umpire fifth Palakoutis behind the plate.
Left hand should be left thumb.
Palakoutis bending over behind home plate.
One ball, one strike, two to one out. Kapanerich on the first base. No choice.
And the game is going to be a big strong right hander.
The last time these two met was in the same ballpark last June a year ago and Oakland did to no hitter.
There goes Kapanerich. The ball is hit to right center field.
And backing up is Morgan and Hazzard and Kapanerich are going to be double on.
Kapanerich wins. The top of the street is the ball was hit.
And as you can see he doesn't realize that the infielder hit played that far back.
A regular infielder without all his artificial self would have been in culture and that might have dropped him for a Texas League hit.
Instead Morgan was back there in front of time and doubled off Kapanerich.
No runs, one hit, no errors and none left. In the middle of the park turning there is no score.
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This is Marty Moore with NBC's Jim Simpson at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
where the Reds are coming back for the first time.
And Jim, Marty Banks got a look at what the A's got to do a lot with the Lyrica Blade and Campanella Thrin.
Maybe they have a sign between themselves that the winner of that camp is going to try to steal.
And I don't believe the hit and run was on. They do a lot of things on their own.
All right, Marty. It will be Ken Holtzman, 19-11 on the year to face the first hitting Pete Rose,
who led the majors in hits this year with 198.
3-07 is average this year, but that's usual for Pete.
The first pitch from Holtzman is outside ball one.
Holtzman does not have an overpowering fastball. He has got an excellent fastball.
With the Cubs, when he pitched his no-hitter here, there's a fastball that was a good-looking fastball,
and it's the swinging strike, one ball, one strike.
When Kenny was with the Cubs and pitched that no-hitter in June of 1971, he went primarily with the fastball.
But he has an excellent curve, good control, and if you're looking curve, he can sweep that fastball right back in.
Danger on this one, short hop by Bandor 3rd base, the throw to Epstein, 1st,
and there's one out on the Cincinnati 1st of this quarter's game.
Epstein is 1st, Green is 2nd, Campanella is at short, Bandor 3rd, Joe Rudiata left, George Hendrick replacing the injured Reggie Gashin
who is out for the season and the series in centerfield. Manny Lewin-Wright, the antenna flying the play-dome.
Holtzman now will pitch to Joe Morgan. Morgan led the majors and walks with 115, the majors and runs with 122,
hits 292, 16 home runs, 73 RBIs, left-handed batter swings, and fouls are back to the feet.
The key, Manny, as we look ahead, for those who lose for the Open A's, should be their left-handed pitches.
It's Holtzman and Blue, can take care of Rose, who's a better hitter from the right side.
Morgan is a left-hander and told on a left-hander, Oakland's got a whale of a chance.
Change our best, the pitch is down low, it's one ball, one strike.
It's Joe Morgan, none are other one out and no score in the last of the first.
Holtzman ready, another off-speed pitch strike.
Jim, we didn't mention it before the game, but the A's are without their top left-handed reliever, Dale Noe,
who broke a thumb in the last couple of weeks of the season, and I'm sure they'll sorely miss him.
He can not only get left-handers out, he can hold runners on.
One and two to Morgan, left-handed batter, hooks on this, change up, and holds it way south, way out in front.
Manny, I notice the camp in the Areson Green, as you must do in this artificially-tripped park,
they're playing very deep, as we said, almost short-right in left field.
Is there any concern, real concern about this field as they came east from Oakland?
Hey, we're all very anxious about it. We play on only one artificial turf in the American League, and it's not all the way.
One shoot-pitch, round ball, that's team behind first base, single to Holtzman.
I've got it, steps on first, and they're two down in the Cincinnati first inning.
Arby Coleman, 283, another left-hander hitter, 8-0-1, 82 RBIs.
Can you imagine pulling your killing tenon not once, but then when you come back, doing it again,
and then coming back, and you come back here to steal 42 bases.
Now, Tullin, like Morgan, having a little foot problem, he jammed his foot.
Morgan had to have some shots in his foot during the playoffs series.
Either one getting the kind of speed, and they have it back by now, during the playoffs if they have throughout the season.
Johnny Bench was the leading basekeeper in the playoffs.
Open ready and throw a fastball foul back to the screen by Bobby Tullin.
Overcast day, and now I don't think I see an SEC anywhere.
We said they were selling standing room only.
This has been sold out for some time.
They are sold out in Oakland for the three games Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Tullin tries to punt his way on, trying to get Sando back at third base, but college is lost.
Two strikes to Bobby.
Cincinnati, 2-3 in previous World Series play.
We said they haven't won since 1940.
Very fast aggressive ball club, excellent bullpen, going against a team that's Archie Anderson,
who loves his National League chances most like a National League team than any other Indian American league, the Oakland A's.
Ground ball, and this foul goes behind first base, a near first base coach, George Sugar, by Mike F.C.
Alex Grammis, the coach of third base for the Reds, George Sugar over at first base.
Oaksman's record against the Reds, and remember he was a long-time pitcher for the Cubs, 8-3.
He has been able to control the Reds.
Two strikes to Tullin.
Oaksman ready to throw.
That's end of throws.
Outside corner to play, and fouled away that way by Bobby Tullis.
Oaksman yesterday in talking about this, said, I'm 8-3 against him.
He said, you know that I've only fixed one complete game against Cincinnati in my career, and that was the no-hitter.
And now you know Gary Nolan, who was on the losing end of that one-to-nothing ball game,
The one run he gave up was unearned.
That must have been some pitching duel to see.
Two strikes hit from Oaksman, and this is Robert F. Schultz up.
Kavanaugh's way back.
He needs a long run to beat Tullin, and does, just beating by a seventh first base.
Now Ryan Kisararis has gone to the first inning here at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati in the World Series
to score Oakland nothing and Cincinnati nothing.
With me in the studio is Peter Bryan, one of the world's fastest-talking announcers.
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In Cincinnati for Game 1 of the World Series, this is Monty Moore with Jim Simpson.
We were just talking here between innings about the depth of the play of Kempi Kavanaugh,
who has one of the strongest arms of any shortstop in baseball.
It is really an explosive arm, and he was all he could do to get that ball to first base,
throwing from as deep as he was in left field.
Jim and I were just wondering, do nationally shortstops play that deep?
They play deep, but they charge the ball more, Monty.
Kempi was waiting for the ball, and especially against the speed of a Bobby Tullin,
who also drove from the left side of the plate.
You can't wait.
It gets out there quickly, but if you're that deep,
it's just as though you're playing in deep, or rather in shallow,
and you're not charging the ball in the regular field.
Here's Mike Epstein, and he takes a slow curve for a strike.
Epstein looks and hit a 20-inch home run during the regular season.
A home run that tied a game with Detroit in the playoffs on Wednesday,
and in the cleanup spot with Jackson Vigin.
Back ball deep to right field.
A carry out there.
Geronimo goes back, looks up, and makes the catch to get to the wall.
Gary Nolan's fastball was out and over the plate,
and Epstein lined it deep to right field.
3.30 down each line here, 3.75 in the power alley, 4.04 straight away.
And those who know say for some reason or another, here in Cincinnati,
in right center field, the ball seems to carry more.
This is cold to right field.
Here's Sal Bando, team captain, third baseman, right-handed hitter.
He hits at your right center.
Geronimo this time, Tiffany drifts back five or six steps,
and they're quickly two outs in the open second.
All the way up, George Hendricks.
As Epstein is batting four, because of the absence of Reggie Jackson,
so George Hendricks is in the lineup.
Playing center field, and batting six.
1.82 during the regular season.
Not used that often.
Right-handed batter.
Tall, young man, great speed.
Takes a curve that bounces in the dirt and away from the bench
and pass, plate on par, first color.
Go on.
Nolan against Coltsman, no score, second inning.
Riverfront Stadium.
Nolan, the right-hander ready, and throws the fastballers down low.
We said Gary's a type that has to spot her stitches.
If he doesn't make the good pitches, he can be hurt.
Tomorrow's stitches.
In a moment.
Nolan ready to throw.
Fastball is at the knees.
Now in the last of the legs, they lean over that inside shoulder of the catcher,
and this is a lowball lead.
In the American leg, the umpire leans right over the top of the helmet of the catcher,
and he gives you the high strike.
Back again, swinging strike.
And it's two balls, two strikes.
Hendricks made the one-handed,
I had it all the way, final put-out of the American McFly option, Detroit, on Thursday.
Two or two pitch throws in the curve.
It's down near the dirt outside of the plate.
And it's three and two.
They've all two strikes.
First time we've been to a full count in this World Series.
And young George Hendricks, who admittedly is nervous about playing,
is facing young Gary Nolan who comes back with a fastball in that situation.
It's too low, and ball four.
That's the first third-game walk of the ball game.
The second time the A's have had a man on.
And here is Gene Tennant.
Gene Tennant's on his way into the lineup of the A's with his bat in the late season
when Dave Duncan called it.
Tennant's went 0-15 in the playoff.
Finally in the final game after being 0-15,
committing the error that allowed the run that helped keep him in the tensioning on Wednesday.
Fastball is outside, ball one.
And then his fastball allowed Detroit his only run in the final game on Thursday.
And Aaron Apasso, 0-15 Tennant, stepped up,
strokes the base hit that won the pennant for the Oakland A's.
One ball, no strikes.
Hendricks' feet off first, and there's a breaking pitch,
and he's out in front of it and fouls it off to the left.
Nearly in back of home place.
One ball, one strike.
Again, it's in a situation here where Dick Williams has wheeled his second baseman in.
As I look into the A's' dugout, I see Gonzalo Marqués picking out a bat
with Dick Green on deck.
If Tennant gets on here, Green may not match his first time at bat in a series game.
One ball, one strike.
Ready and throw, the curve is saved and cried.
It's 2-1.
But Marqués prefers to.
He knows the A's are well.
And those of you who follow the A's, Dick Williams has probably used as many as four second basemen,
starting the man as soon as he comes to bat and considering for it.
Devolved one strike, fastball, deep left field,
Rolls goes back, looks up, and in he comes.
A home run for Gene Pennis, and it is 2-0, Oakland.
Well, I'll tell you this, Marty Moore.
Gene Pennis was the goat on Wednesday and early Thursday, but he has been a hero since.
Yes, and I'll tell you, Jim, he was hitting the ball very sharply right before the playoff series.
It was incredible that he didn't get any base hit, but you know, you saw the series.
He hit about seven line drives that were caught in that playoff series.
There's Dick Green, batting for himself, line for ball, and then he hit third base.
And that's it, and the Oakland second, but they come up with two runs,
and Nolan was not getting those good pitches and got hurt.
Two runs on one base hit, the home run by Pennis.
No errors and none left.
We go to the last of the second.
Oakland leads, Cincinnati 2-0.
They should make it to the Kempelmen order, more than anything to a lady,
more than send a writing spell for, more than just a lie.
Just get a little offer, a little to a lady, and what it means is,
it's what we need to arrive.
Kempel will a regular Mayfall and Garamatic.
There's something about stopping in at McDonald's for a snack in the afternoon or evening.
Stopping in for a note at McDonald's fries and a nice and cold Coca-Cola.
So after school, after shopping at the game, try it at McDonald's fries and a nice and cold Coca-Cola.
It's a nice place in your day.
So get a little offer, get a little way, you'll make it on the road.
The Oakland A's are leading 2-0 after two runs.
Jerry Nolan lost George Hingek on a three-foot jump, walking hand, and doing perfectly.
He lives in Ohio, only about 110 miles from here in Lucasville,
only one end of the left field home run area to give Oakland a 2-0 lead in the top half of the second inning.
And Jim, who was really funny watching Cheney around the lobby trying to satisfy all of his relatives and friends with tickets here today.
Well, they're happy if he had enough tickets.
Here's Johnny Bench to face Jenny Holtzman.
Outside in Lohan, Holtzman.
Bench, of course, hits that home run, last of the ninth final game of the Cincinnati Pirate, nationally clear off,
tied it up, and the Reds went on to win it.
Bench led the national league in home runs and RBIs with 4925 down low from Holtzman, 2-0.
While we were talking, Monty, about the fact that if Holtzman could handle Rose Morgan and Tullin, keep off the bases,
he can picture wrong Johnny Bench just a little bit.
But the big thing is, Bench is going to get his home run, keep those other fellows off base.
All far he has done it.
Swinging foul for third base, for Alex Rammus, the third base coach, we'll pick it up.
To the nothing, we are in the last of the second.
Out in the bulk then, Wayne Granger, a right-hander, is already up and throwing, and our Wayne Simpson, I'm sorry, how could you forget that man?
Granger in the American league, but he was here for a long time.
I'm talking about Simpson. He involved one strike.
Foul ball is outside, and now it is three and one to the dangerous Johnny Bench in this 2-0 game.
Bench got a low combo on the outside from Dave Justy on Wednesday in the final game and just stroked into the right field seat.
And that's fastball. He started for third base, and Pellicutis is on back.
Three and two, and Marnie and I were talking about this before the game, Pellicutis of the National League is one of the slowest draws in Major League Baseball.
Sometimes he'll sit there with four, what seems to be an eternity, before he calls the pitch.
Bench was on his way, and Critz said, that's the strike. It's three and two, comes back in the foul pitch.
Out of the screen, still three and two to Johnny Bench.
What a career this youngster's had out of the great state of Oklahoma.
He was a valuable player a couple of years ago when the big red machine was really cracking, shut off last year.
Heard the boos of the crowd here in Cincinnati, but that's all it came this year.
Forty home runs, that's the one that he got that helped him win the tennis.
125 RBI. Three-two count, back to the fastball, line drive, all stand on third base.
Thanks. On his way around first base, picked up by Rudy out there, Johnny Bench hold at first base.
They're first base, one on long. That brings up Tony Verad, getting a 283.
21 home runs, 90 RBI's, that bothered him last week with a bad hand.
He had only 200 in the playoff. Big strong right-handed.
Now it becomes very clear why you like to keep Rose Morgan and tell them off those bases.
Johnny Bench is going to get his base hit. Bench, who dropped first base,
is hoping for the fastball on the outside corner, the Perez, strike one.
Bench not noted for speed, nevertheless stole two bases to leave the Rebs in the playoffs.
Eskine holding on at first base.
Kenning Johnness hits a man of the strike on the outside corner, two strikes.
John has the excellent curve ball. Excellent curve. He'll stay in.
And when he starts guessing on him, he'll shoot that fastball right past him.
Alston staring over Bench. Rose's fastball is too low and inside one ball, two strikes.
Well, I would imagine, Monty, that they have Joe Maxwell and Matty Alua, the Cardinals, on your ball.
They played here, did they? They helped a lot, so they gave them some fists.
They held their own little conference here yesterday with several of the eighth players telling them
video sequences of this park and this scene.
Down ball, bando over, fastball, and stops at second base. Back-to-back base hit.
Now, here's one of the different fastballs hits, about where there would be a skin of the end field
in any other park or district. And when it hits on that artificial stretch, it flies.
You can't wait for demolition up here. It's going to tip on through.
Two to nothing is the red bar. They now have two men on base.
And Dennis Mekke coming up. And Mekke takes a long look down to Alex Glamis to see what it is they must use.
Now, bando now walks over to Sasha Quinn-Holtzman.
Might be talking about how they're going to play this. Should there be a bunch?
Jim, the A's have three or four theories on a trick defense for a bunch situation.
Not a trick, but just sort of a fundamental thing.
Many times, bando will charge if they're looking for a bunch.
And he always goes over and talks to the pitcher before he gives the time for the other end field.
Ready to hit Mekke. And out of the strike zone. Ball one.
Fence down at second base. Reds on at first. Reds failing by two.
They are the favorites in this series. One and all. The A's are likely to have otherwise.
That's all I can about to be. Holtzman looks in.
And Holtzman looks at Chris Kalecudis they have met before.
And was eight years with the Cubs in the National League.
Last time out, Holtzman pitched four innings.
Now, four hits and the Cubs are going to run toward the playoffs.
That ball is outside and he is flipping three and oh and a fifth away from walking the base of the road.
So, Senes runs out to Sasha Quinn-Holtzman.
Reds still have tension down to the bullpen.
And now we see people getting up to go down to the bullpen.
And I would imagine without even looking at Raleigh's fingers, it's going to be one of the first men out of it.
He's the man and ordinarily Raleigh is a late inning reliever.
But in the big playoffs games and here in the World Series, they put him throwing, be ready early, big guy, you may get your call.
Three and all. Holtzman will be aiming and taking all away.
And it's a slider on a three and oh fifth.
First strike one. The ball's one strike.
Mando backs up a little bit at Thursday.
Don't mean to over emphasize this playing field, but it makes a lot of difference.
Back to the fastball and it's now down for the A's bullpen and glove down there by fingers to picture who's warming up.
So many things happen on this artificial turf and especially if you are not used to it, as the A's are not, you'll likely get hurt until you learn.
Three and two. Beautiful ballpark and this thing is just loaded.
Two to nothing. Here's the pitch is down low.
Oh boy, the base is loaded.
We have 30 seconds for station identification.
You don't have to give up.
So good.
Ohio Rivers.
Right here.
The
bullpen stays in.
Two runs, two hits, no errors for the A's, no runs, two hits, no errors for the Reds who are threatening and bears second.
Back to the fastball, out to short left field, goes back, says he's got it and holds the runners and that is a big outs for Kenny Holtzman because now the double play can get the A's out of trouble.
Now he's down to the number eight batter and Baird can set the odds.
A 2-0-9 hitter, 2-0-9, 29 out of the eye.
In there is an indication of how these infielders play even on a double play situation. That ball was clearly on in left field and the second base umpire called the infield flywheel almost the force.
It got past the infield. How many times have you seen an infielder go fast to wave off an outfield? Many times the outfielders charging in and meeting headway.
Campanella explains to Zeke he was almost as good as Joe Reed at the beginning. All bases are loaded, time is in calls for the moment as Campanella and Green were discussing what it is they're going to do and how they're going to play around second base and whether they're going to go with the throws.
Base is loaded, one out, Contepsio on in, Holtzman ready, fastball, catches the outside call, this is site one, the Contepsio. Nolan the pitcher is on deck.
With a number 8 and 9 batters up, you can see what a big out the Geronimo pop up to Campanella's was. Holtzman ready again. Rose takes something off it and blinds the crowd.
Thank you Maude, American Big Umpire says they've had the spec out of the way of that and that again went into the bulls end of the age and then out into left field bouncing off the wall down there.
Contepsio jumping all over a change up and was way out in front of it, two strikes throw to it. Now you wonder whether Holtzman goes with a good curve.
Does he come in with a fastball? Does he take something off his fastball? Contepsio is ready, he comes in with the fastball and it's lined foul to the opposite side all across first base and well up in the peak.
Still two strikes. Nolan jacket on, on deck and there's two nothing ballgames.
Well we understand we're being heard in Asia in the wee hours of the morning in Europe late at night and of course across the United States on a Saturday afternoon.
Fastball he jammed in that foul by short arch. Still two strikes to Contepsio and there the doing a fine job of battling a fine pitcher.
Nice in game winner Kenny Holtzman. Holtzman usually doesn't walk too many, less than two per ballgame but he lost the bases loaded when he put in Mancie on it, bouncing bench to third and Perez down to second.
Now he's in around that strike zone all the time with Contepsio and ready to throw again.
He's back with a sinking pitch that's one ball and a four one. One ball, two strikes.
Holtzman is out here at the Riverfront Stadium primarily for national leaders and Cincinnati Red Rooters. He felt the invention Perez and Mancie reached if they were in business and could tie up this two nothing ballgame but at the moment Holtzman is battling the number eight batters and he's got one out.
Looking double play if he can or strike out changes on that and it gets misses outside. In and out of the glove as he and Contepsio picks it up.
Two strikes. Marky Anderson said well if we should lose this series I'm going to give more credit to the American League than I have been given.
You know since 1965 the World Series was alternated between leagues and 65 was an agile edge, 66 the American and so on and if the pattern continues Monty your ballclub is in business.
It should be the American League here. Two-two ground ball. High hop and half an air. Gets the green. Rays back to first base. It's two to one.
Contepsio drives in the first. Over to third base goes Perez. High hop and half an air. It's a charge in.
Well agreed but by the time Dix gets the throw off to first base and the Mike Epstein and Contepsio on pass was there in his two to one. Now Gary Nolan is up.
Now Fandor calls time and walks through Dr. Holtzman again.
Nolan as a hitter throughout the year 117 rolled in a couple of runs. Pass ball catches the outside counter to Gary Nolan. Strike one.
Long run by Gene Kenneth to the top of the inning. Two run on Earth with the A's on top and now the Reds have battled back to get one on Tuesday.
Fandor walks and then force outs. Holtzman throws a good fast ball and he's way out in front of Nolan is.
Holtzman goes to the right line. Two strikes. Perez at third. Contepsio on first base. Now two outs.
Holtzman is in the check at first base. Set position. Bob has hit a couple of times. There goes the run at first and this foul catches the plate.
And so Contepsio on latch come back.
Turning Contepsio on down testing Gene Kenneth of course. What kind of play are they going to have? Are they going to throw food or second base?
Are they going to miss Mr. Perez there at third base? Make sure he doesn't score.
Two strikes out once more. Holtzman throws foul back and Contepsio almost joined again.
Gene, as you look out on the field you can see where a double steal defense would be harder to set up because the short stuff in second base and their both lanes are deep.
They've got a runner break. They've got a longer ways to go even to cut off the throw from the catcher than they would on normal serve.
They've almost got a runner start to get to the bag. He is the man at first base does. So far deep out in right field and left field.
Two strikes. Here is where Holtzman wants the strike out.
Jim with a two strike pitch had just missed his out try. It is one ball two strikes.
Alitoudis gave it a long look and the position behind home plate.
Perez is just taking a step or two off of third base and Contepsio on the last two pitches has been going.
He's gone again and swinging a net strike three.
One one scores on two base hits. They're low errors and men left it for some derbies. On to the first two innings of the 1970s first game of the World Series.
Holtzman made Cincinnati 3 to 1.
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Jim, you know I think it's interesting to compare the feelings of these two teams as they go into this World Series.
Cincinnati players, when they went into the World Series in the 1970s, because it was the first time for them, they were just happy to be there.
And they really didn't feel too badly about losing.
They all were saying yesterday, now that we've gone through the batch, we want to win.
The A's on the other hand were very happy to be here.
And I think you're going through somewhat the same thing Cincinnati did in 1970.
Many hopes from those A's lead it off against Gary Nolan.
The first pitch is a fastball.
All any pitcher likes to start out hanging in and throwing to the opposing pitcher because that, in most cases, is near an automatic out.
So that takes off in case they're baselunners.
A lot of different plays with one out.
Here's Campaneras who let off with a single and then was caught down near second base on our easy little off-side as Jim Morgan to second baseman in short right field for a double play.
Campaneras makes the curve on the inside corner, strike one.
And that curve started out for a third base and then came down the line and then just under his hands.
Good curve from Gary Nolan.
Comes back with another curve, but this one was down low outside and it's one ball, one strike.
A's lead the Reds 2-1.
We're on the top of the third at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
Campaneras waits for Nolan's pitch.
It's a fastball, the first one he's seen in this time of year.
High up under the chin, a two-ball, one strike.
Campaneras, as Mommy said, won the base-stealing championship on the last day of the season.
Dick Williams put him in.
They found out that Davey Nelson of Texas had stolen three tonight before the Campaneras went in and swiped them and won it right back.
Base hit for Campaneras.
They can't keep him off the base.
Davey's spot, long drive, right side, meant he had third base and out in the short left field.
Surprising, Jim, to see him throwing so many curveballs to Campaneras.
Even though he didn't make it late, he has a breaking ball hitter and Nolan threw him free last then.
And Campaneras has hit two curveballs for base hits in this game.
Campaneras on at first base and that is his fifth consecutive hit.
I think he said last time that was his fifth.
He went three for three in his last game.
Now he's two for two in this game, last game of the playoffs, first game of the World Series.
He is now five for his last five times in that.
Joe Rudy stepping in now, the right-hander, 300 hitter of the age.
It's the first pitch he saw in the first inning and left him a lazy fly to center field.
Rudy steps in.
Nolan, the right-hander, working to him, throws him a high-pass ball and it's ball one.
One out, Campaneras will keep an eye on him over at first base where Tony Perez is holding him there.
Gary A. there, the coach there, Irv Norn, coaching a third base.
Rudy has stepped out.
Nolan looking in.
Gary very seldom finishes the ball game.
But that's both, and other heads are something else with Tom Hall, Clay Carroll, and Adler Wormont.
Ready with a fastball and he's got him swinging and fouling it at the plate.
One ball, one strike to Joe Rudy.
Perez at first, Morgan at second, Concepcion at short, Manke at third, Rose is out on left,
probably told him to center field as he saw Geronimo at right field, bench to Sessier.
Now ready to flash the signal to Gary Nolan, the pitcher.
One ball, one strike, two to one to score, Oakland, and the top of the third.
Nolan with a long-looking advance down the stretch.
Campaneras is on his way and he throws him a breaking pitch and down goes Campaneras out.
Let's jump him down to second base.
And I want to tell you, that takes some kind of arm when you throw a change of curve
and have a man that can get the arm that comes on Campaneras to second base.
Morgan puts a tag on it.
Two outs, Rudy's still at bat, it's two balls, one strike.
Big play right there in this two-to-one ball game, taking Campaneras off the bases.
Gary Nolan ready, throws the fastball, ground ball to Manke at third base,
hits it on the second out, throw over to first base and Gillette's around the finish.
Nolan's one hit, no airs and nobody left John Vick.
They go to the last of the third.
Cincinnati, trails Oakland two to one.
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The Elfin Hays Dixieland Band, the swingers are here in Cincinnati.
Next down in Kelly Green and Gold and we can believe it, they're getting ahead from the Bones on the Cincinnati side of the field as they play.
They've got great.
The Reds lead it off in the last of the third inning for the Reds to play up into one.
Rose bounce to Bando, first time up.
Swift hitter batting right-hander to cross against Penn O'Kmere.
We made a point of saying that we believe that the A's are the standard series and upset the odds.
O'Kmere and Biter Blue, the other left-hander, are going to have to do the job.
First pitch is down Rose.
You should not say the right-handers don't have to be effective too, but if the left-handers can control Rose, who is better from the left side, Morgan and shoulder left-handed swingers have got a great chance.
Out of place, Kenneth chases it down the high-dome play.
Now it gives up on it and let the roll back toward the swing.
A ball one strikes, a roll.
He's led everybody in most base hits in the playoffs.
Nine, four fifty average against that entire Christian's Fair.
Three oh seven on the year and we told you he led the majors in hits with a hundred and ninety-eight.
At the count of one and one.
Morgan raised, grew up and now plays in Cincinnati.
High bounce to Bando, third base has to wait for it to come down.
Morgan on the first base and just does have him.
It's on that artificial turf that I mean it took a hop.
Bando couldn't do anything about it.
He simply had to wait for it to come down.
When it dared he grew out speed rows.
Here's Jill Morgan, back in the first inning, grounded to Epstein at first base.
Morgan is the man that I'm sure the Oakland scouting reports say, as everybody does, this is the man that's got to keep off the bases.
Fifty-eight stolen bases, second only to Lou Brock of St. Louis with a lead of sixty-three.
One hundred and twenty-two runs, one hundred and fifteen walks and there's a strike to him.
Brought by Hoechlin.
Strike one to Jill Morgan.
Morgan's batting average in the playoffs against the Pirates is two sixty-three.
Doesn't sound like much, right?
But he's scored five times.
He gets on and scores.
The strike one pitches foul off to the left, down the line and in the defense.
Two strikes to Morgan.
And that has been activity in both both ends.
Wayne Simpson, going for Cincinnati.
Raleigh Singers for the A's and both both ends are quiet now.
Two strikes to Morgan and it's foul out of play again.
Cincinnati has a better one and loss record against left-handers than against righties.
They operate on left-handers and two of the important men in Dick Williams pitching plans are left-handers.
They're pitching today and Bida Blue who will probably pitch the fourth game back in Oakland.
Two strikes to Bittrum Holtzman.
Throw the fastball down low, lined out to left field.
And in comes Joe Rudy and takes it.
Two out of the Cincinnati third.
Rudy made a great diving catch of a foul ball.
Off into the strike game in the playoffs series.
Doesn't just appear complete baseball player.
He can field and he can hit.
Arnie Tolan grounded to Campanaris and remember that play back in the first inning.
Campanaris was so deep he did not charge the ball.
And with his greater arm and his campy hat he just did get Tolan to feast to his first base.
Tolan, that's not a batter, holds the bat very high.
First pitch to it.
Hits it off the fifth, fouls it off.
And there may have a play on it over to the open dugout and then hits on the roof and bounds into the field.
Now they're trying to make this some kind of series, Monty.
There's probably one writer called your Oakland team.
The Oakland Hays.
For those of you who may not know what we mean.
They're the muck that's showing today out in Oakland.
The owner, thanks for the $100.
They're the player that's your muck back.
And 99% of them grew them and still have them.
The 50 members of all players used to be back in the gay 90s.
Round ball fouled on the first base line.
Glove by F.K. there.
And so they're trying to make this the mob young Oakland team.
They're against the quote the straight Cincinnati team.
This does not have the flamboyant uniforms that the A's have.
They're red and white and look much like they did 20 years ago.
And they're no mustaches or long hair.
They're the Cincinnati team.
So they're having a lot of fun with that.
A two strike pitch.
It's going to total line drive.
Can't believe it's time to play for the Goa's Outlet Club.
Base hit.
The Bobby Goa.
Their match brings up Johnny Bentz.
There's a hit.
Give it up by Altman.
Bentz has one of them back in the second inning.
Two out of the Cincinnati third.
A two.
Red one.
First game of the World Series.
Bentz worked the count to three and two last time and then lined up fastball.
And half an error.
It says almost drawn it all in left field.
That's an exaggeration.
He is very deep at shortstop.
It's told him to decide to dash down to second base.
He's jumping to field and he's still 42 bases.
Green and Campanella's have a long way to go to get there.
He's leaning one way by fastball.
And they tell me, at least the Schelling report, that when Fulham leans toward second base, he's not going.
If he leans back toward first base, it's a habit.
He may be going.
Last time he was leaning toward second.
Let's see what he's doing here on the ball.
One count and they got him picked off.
Now to second base this way and he is out of second base.
The throw went from Holtzman.
Left team down the green and they picked off Bobby Jordan.
He said we had to run it out.
And so now he is off the bases and the inning is over.
No runs, one hit, no errors, and nobody left on base.
At the end of three, Oakland 2, Cincinnati 1.
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This is Marty Moore with Jim Simpson at World Series Game Number 1.
Oakland is leading 2-1.
We've talked a lot about the speed of these two teams.
We've had two attempts at fields already, and they have both been shot down.
And when you talk about speed on a ball club, I think, Jim, you're talking about more than the show on bases.
You're talking about what showed up here in the first round that Cincinnati scored.
A man faster than a beat on a double play ball.
That is team speed better than show on bases.
All right, Marty, here is Matty Alou who popped up into a double play, believe it or not, back in the first inning.
Morgan backed up, took it, and got Campon Erika who was on his way, left hander batter, and he went to the breaking point, strike one.
Like statistics, I think nearly every baseball game, and especially the World Series, always filled with statistics.
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The team that has won the first game of any World Series has gone on to win the World Series 40 times.
The team that has lost the first game of the World Series has only won 28 times in the 68 previous World Series.
Fastball, and that's how it's played.
Ross Grimpley goes tomorrow, and that is a fissure, a left-hander against a fine right-handed fissure, won more than 20 games,
and a fish hunter, and the alternate.
That's tomorrow's matchup.
Two strikes down to Alou.
The President of the Baseball Writers Association of America is Max Nichols of the Minneapolis Star. He is the chief scorer here.
Earl Lawson of the Cincinnati Post, representing Cincinnati and Ron Bergman of the Oakland Tribune,
has a three-scorer for this 1972 World Series.
Two strikes to count to Alou.
Back with a fastball, and he fouls it to the screen.
One still to go, and two to Alou.
In the second inning, opens George Hendrick, walked on the three-two pitch, and Gene Kennis had a fastball for the first World Series home run of this year,
to make a two-to-nothing, and then the bottom of the second, Cincinnati came back, has a fastball,
not only tied the air, but fouls it down, and it's very low, but it's fair, and Perez, the first three.
One down.
Cincinnati got its run for the second on singles by Bastian Perez and Manky's walk, and then,
and Sepsion grounded into a force play, and Bench scored the only Cincinnati run from third base.
Mike Epstein, last time up, lined the ball deep to the right field fence, where Geronimo went back to the bench and took it, about 370 feet away.
Epstein has power with a 26-home run during the regular season.
Left-handed batter facing the right-handed, Gary Nola.
Don ready to throw, and the pitch is in under the hand, inside ball one.
Jim Hisslich, that really takes on importance now that Jackson is out. It might mean they can flick around him in certain spots now.
Fastball is foul-backed. One ball, one strike.
Now, when you consider that final game of the playoff series, Epstein was hit on the hand by a pitch,
trying to get out of the way of a high inside pitch, and for a while we thought he was out.
And then, just moments later, Reggie Jackson sliding home, full-hands during muscles in his legs.
Every ground ball to the left side, there is Niki, and so Epstein out.
And of course, Jackson was out, and Epstein was able to stay out in play.
Kind of a tick-swing ground ball to the left side by Epstein, and Niki just a slow popper on the second half and easily threw it out.
Kyle Bando, last time up, went with the pitch, the first pitch, and flied to right field.
Now for the second time in the 2-1 ball game, a B.A.'s lead here in the top of the fourth, and there's a big lollipop curve that misses its ball on.
Nolan has good control, pretty good fastball, not like it used to be before it arm-pumped.
He comes back with a fastball and popped up to the right side.
Joe Morgan is there. Now Morgan is way out in right center field, but that's where the second base in play.
As it, and around gets Ferreres, and last in the middle of the fourth inning, it's still Oakland 2 and Cincinnati 1.
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That's the Matty Ridge. Big guy, Donnie Bancho, will lead off the fourth inning against Kenny Hoffman.
Hoffman and Nolan are a lot alike. They're both considered control pitchers, and yeah, they say, Jim, that once a control pitcher who defends so much on it gets out of the early innings and doesn't get hurt too badly, though, that a lot of line drives in.
You'll nearly find the man, and the rhythm will become tough later on.
Donnie Bancho has the bat taken right out of his hands in the third inning when all of us picked off first base, right?
He was on his way, and Hoffman threw over there to Epstein and gunned it down to green to put the tag on it, and Donnie just had to go put the gear on.
He's once again now the lead off the fourth. He's one for one and has scored the only Cincinnati run.
First pitch is outside ball one. Back of the fastball is up high, and it's 2-0 to Ben.
Archie Anderson, like you, this could be right. Calls Donnie Bancho the greatest baseball player in America today.
2-0.
Consider that he is not yet in his mid-courty. What a ball player is going to be.
This is outside, and it is 3-0. Hoffman has had some control problems.
He went to 3-2 on Bench in the second before giving up the line drive, and Bancho carried him to 3-1, and then walked.
He hasn't walked that many, and this is a fastball. Bench again striding toward first base.
Now, like you, this is stay here. Three balls, one strike.
Now you know that Bench is going to be looking for his pitch.
And then, as you know, Hoffman knows it, is ready to throw it.
Another strike, and again, Bench was on his way.
There's that slow call I was telling you about, Monty.
It's like a videotape replay, slow motion.
Now, like you, it's very slow, very deliberate.
They set his mind, and then left the snow.
3-2 to Ben. He had a 3-2 pitch last time, and strangled him.
Cops it with a foul behind.
Oh, great.
3-2.
And now, after the fourth of the first World Series game of 1972,
both teams coming in are mostly drained from their playoff with the Detroit Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The adrenaline is flowing again now as we begin the series, back with a 3-2 pitch, and that's ball four.
Tenness sort of a strike three.
Bench draws the walk, and that is the second walk, given up by Hoffman.
And here comes Tony Perez, who lined the single left field last time, up after Bench's single.
A's two, Rebs one.
Perez got his far third base, and top right there is Pitcher-Gilino.
They struck out to end the Cincinnati second.
Hoffman ready, draws.
Line drive under the glove of Dick Green to second base, and that's on his way around second base.
Takes it up, the throw in by Maddie Lewis, two second base, runners at the corner, first and third,
with run out, and Manke again coming up.
Tying run at third base, Raleigh fingers it up, and on his way out to the bullpen again for the Oakland A's.
Second time he's warmed up.
Manke walked on the 3-1 pitch last time.
That was a line drive, and as deep as Green was, racing to his right behind the bag,
it's still got under his glove, on out to right center field where Alou picked it up and fired it in for the cutoff man's ring.
Bench heading for third all the way.
Manke.
That was the first ball for Campanaro, the second base.
Back to first base, nine and five, Bench score, five all game.
Well, the Reds will take it any way they can get them.
That's good and preferred set up for the second time, an infield fourth play, scoring, Cincinnati Roads.
And now it's two to two.
Manke's on his first base.
One out, Joe Animo, who passed up to Campanaro, Cincinnati.
That was back in the Cincinnati second.
That's the ball, there's foul off to the left, and I believe it will make the thief come back to Albando as he pursues it.
It's at least a dozen rows deep.
Well, Monty Moore, the second half of this ball game.
Apparently you're going to have quite some ball game.
Maybe we'll be right back like we were in the playoffs.
Never know to the final out.
Sometimes not then, not until a tenth of a inning.
One strike to Geronimo.
Oh, so now taking the long looks.
Pitching, there goes the runner, ground ball, Green had left, comes back to get it, goes on to first base, has Geronimo, but Manke's out at second base.
Green was almost caught out of position as Manke was running on the pitch.
Here's a scouting report, Jim just came into effect.
The second baseman of the A's was still going to cover second base.
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With Mani Moore, this is Jim Simpson back in Cincinnati.
Dick Williams, the manager, has just visited the mound and they have decided to put some tempi on on first base, which is open as Manke is running on the pitch.
And now we'll bring up the pitcher, Gary Nolan.
Of course the Reds fans are not going to like that, but that is just so down as smart and obvious baseball.
First base open.
Manke had a second base.
Concepcion really did a fine job of battling Olsen back in the second.
He had a two-strike counter and fouled off a lot of pitchers, then took a couple and then bounced to Campanella as a shortstop, scoring a run.
There's ball four and Concepcion's draw, Conteca's go walk, and here comes Gary Nolan, the pitcher who is now in a 2-2 ball game and in a position to un-car this game.
Here is Mani Moore.
Olsen walking around the back of the mound, now strides up out of the mound.
He struck out Nolan's swinging last time.
Nolan has reached out a spare hitter.
That's Susie Throws, right-hander.
Manke leads off a second.
Concepcion on his first fastball, fouled off.
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Strike one.
Nolan was taking a pretty good rip, but didn't get to bat around against the Olsen fastball and fouled off to the right.
A's two, Reds two, back with another fastball.
It is 2-0, one ball, one strike.
Kenneth blocks the ball, pops out of his glove, stays in front of it.
One ball, one strike.
A little number from the fans.
Red ball was inside and near the feet for Gary Nolan.
One more.
Olsen ready.
Five-ball right field down the line, curving towards the foul territory and makes it in the feet.
About the first or second row, foul.
Concepcion cuts back across the diamond.
Manke drops from third back to second base.
Again it was the Olsen fastball.
Again, Nolan did not get around on it, but this time it was nearly disastrous for the A's.
One ball, two strikes to Nolan.
He steps back in and takes the practice swing.
Olsen steps on the mound, peers in to Dean Tennes to catch it.
It was a two-run homer for the A's who run fastball against foul off the right.
And Olsen is simply up there challenging Gary Nolan.
One ball, two strikes.
Lolly Fingers is still throwing right-hander down on the bullpen for the open A's.
Manke strides two, three, four, five away from second base.
Olsen ready.
Changes on this one until now on the change-up.
Nolan is way out in front of it and fouls it the other way down the third base line.
Pretty generally speaking, and this is a generality only, there's a breaking pitch that matters who's on.
He's going to pull this foul if it's a fastball that he's pulled on or can't get the batter on.
It'll go the other way.
Away from it.
One ball, two strikes.
Just humping off this, the curve change-up gets him.
It's one run on one base hit, no errors, and Manke left the second to press the on-on at first.
At the end of the four, we've got a five-all game, Oakland two and Cincinnati two.
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Bonnie Moore with Jim Simpson in Cincinnati where we have a tied-up World Series game at two and two.
The Reds got it by tracking and running.
The A's got it on one big swing of the bat by Gene Kinnis.
Both these pitchers are known as control-type pitchers.
Nolan walked less than two for nine innings.
Coachman walked less than two for nine innings for the year.
The walks in this tension-tight ball game have hurt both of them.
Nolan walked George Hendricks ahead of Gene Kinnis' home run.
The start for four innings, Ken Hoekman walked Johnny Bench, and it led to a big run.
So even though you don't walk many, those who walk sometimes come back to haunt you.
Once again, here's Jim.
Thanks, Bonnie. George Hendricks, as he said, did walk back in the second inning.
And Kinnis followed with a line drive home run off the Nolan fastball.
Nolan now brought Hendrick out with a big curve, and George swings and misses, strike one.
Hendrick in there again, for those of you who may be listening.
Not heard. Ready. Jackson injured in the playoff.
So Hendrick is there. Bouncing ball up the middle. Morgan charges second base.
Goes sidearm, and he's out.
All bounce up to Flair. Morgan had to make a throw, and Dick Williams is racing out across the diamond
and says, no sir, he wasn't.
But Jim Honigkich, of the American League by the way, said he is out.
And so is Dick Williams out to argue for Jim Honigkich, now in his sixth World Series.
Jerry Hay there is there.
Morgan had to make quite a play coming in.
Williams kicks up his bag and now goes back.
Well at least I can tell you, Bonnie, if you get to the bottom, the last time a manager was thrown out of a World Series,
that was Earl Weaver in 1969 against the Mets, because nobody could remember that for that.
That was the last time.
Now I am looking at the television replay, and as I see the ball come over, it is, well, I can't tell.
It's that close. It's that close.
Now we'll look again as they're doing a double replay from a different angle.
Ball is down, he in the bag, and he's away.
Which proves, Jim, that even if the umpires had video tape replays, they couldn't always tell.
I couldn't. Not on that one.
Here's Kenes here to do an own run and takes the pitch for a strike.
They are on the top of the fifth at Riverbone Stadium in Cincinnati.
It is 2-2 in game one of the World Series.
Nolan's looking to curve, and he launches down the line very deep inside the flagpole,
and here it is, a home run.
Gene Kenneth, who went all for 15 and then won the playoff game against Detroit,
hit a home run in the second inning of the fastball,
hit a hanging Gary Nolan curve, and has won his second home run in two times a shot in his first World Series.
Jim Simpson, that's the first time in Gene Kenneth's major league career he's ever hit two home runs in one ballgame,
and that was a much different type than he hit on the other one.
The other line drive, this one was a hanger.
It is 3-2.
Well, Kenneth doesn't care let his fastball not recur.
He's lying both of them out of here.
Here's Dick Green.
Hits the first pitch, pops it up, Morgan goes back, Geronimo and Nolan come in,
and Morgan now points to Nolan who takes it for the second out.
And that'll bring up Ken Hoechsman.
Here at 178 this year, six out of the eyes, hair hitting 50.
158 life on average.
Right now he looks back at his catcher Gene Kenneth and just smiles.
Nolan is ready to throw the hole, he's moving low and away, it's low one.
Rather than you consider him out, Avis, we've got to repeat it.
Let's wait for this pitch.
Deep left field, throws backing on the ball, and has it.
And I'll talk about my thoughts about Gene Kenneth again in a moment.
On one on on the Kenneth home run, that was the only hit.
No errors, none left.
They go now to the last of the fifth inning and open the Cincinnati 3-2.
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His error forced him to play second base in the second inning.
Hawk Detroit won that exciting fourth game of the American League playoffs on Wednesday.
And then his fast ball in the final game of the American League playoffs,
Hawk Detroit's score is only one of that ballgames.
He was older, 15 at that.
He came back and soaked in a winning single, his first hit in the playoff game.
Now he comes on down here to Cincinnati.
It's a 2-1 homer in the second.
Another home run to break it five in the fifth.
It's 3-2.
And Kenneth is the first man to hit two runs, home run to the Spirit Games
at three for Petrocelli of Boston, did it back in 1967.
And strangely enough, the manager in 1967 at Boston was Petrocelli, did it.
The tennis manager, Dick Williams.
So the last of the fifth we go.
Let's call in the horse of the Oakland A's.
I don't be happy a little bit now anymore.
I'm happy here, but especially with the A's on top of course.
It's 3-2, and here is Mr. Huckle of Cincinnati, Pete Rose.
Dwight Oaksman is in this one to ground out to Sal Bando.
The first pitch is right down the middle of Carl Streit.
Oaksman and Nolan are both around the plate a lot.
And with pitchers like that, you ordinarily see a lot of base hits in a game.
So far we've seen eight hits in the first four and a half innings of this one.
Here's a high fly ball in the deep center field.
He's riding George Hendricks nose back.
He's riding the 4-0 foreside, and he makes the catch.
And watching George Hendricks, you just wonder if he ever really gets fired up.
He is so relaxed on the field, wherever you see him, in the press, in the hotel lobby.
The players call him easy, and you can see why.
You watch him go after the last ball of the last out of the 1972 American League season in Detroit,
a long drive by Tony Taylor, and George just casually went back and kicked it off and ran into the dugout.
Incidentally, he gave that last game ball to Dick Williams.
One out on the fifth, and here's little Joe Morgan.
Third ball in the dirt, it's a ball one.
They tell us Morgan's twitch with his arm.
His left arm sticking right straight up.
And he twitches it down a couple of three times when he goes to the plate as a reminder to himself
to keep the aisle up where he was taught by Harry Walker to keep it.
Swinging strikes on a good breaking ball.
Something else out of the process, Monty, Joe says, I normally twitch it once or twice.
If I do it more than that, you know I'm nervous.
One ball and one strike.
Hopes and whines, here's the fix.
Breaking ball hit on the ground, foul off of first base.
And I can see how these coaches respect the speed of a ball coming off the artificial turf, the first base coach.
Schurter is the, oh, what, 15 feet behind the regular coaching box down the first base line with Morgan up there.
One ball and two strikes.
Nick Green, the 82nd baseman, is playing a softball-type short right field.
Swing and a net strike three and tennis drops the ball, pick it up.
Rose the first for the out.
There are two down here in the fifth inning.
Well, Cain Holtzman's job starting this game, he told us, works to keep Rose, Morgan, and Tolan off the bases.
He has kept Rose off three times, Morgan off three times.
Tolan has been on one out of two.
And I think Jim is very indicative why he said that.
This year, Rose was on base 278 times, Morgan 282 times, and Tolan 220 times ahead of Johnny Bench.
And he's led the league in RBI's, and with that kind of artillery on in front of him, you can understand why.
Here's a pitch for Tolan, a tie-savante, and that's a red stripe.
Now, Marty Iyer, the opportunity to work throughout the year with Sandy Kofax, and Sandy says, well, because Johnny Bench will hang here, and they're going to get their hits.
What you do is keep the men in front of them off the bases if you can.
Holtzman has done an excellent job of that here today so far.
Here's the pitch.
High-five ball, deep left field.
Joe Ridd is going back.
Gill going back.
He's got room, and he picks it off.
Jim, father warning, Trax.
We've gone through five innings, okay?
One of the World Series, and the score is Oakland 3, Cincinnati 2.
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Wherever you are, listening to our broadcast from 2 to Maddie, where the score is 3 to 2, Oakland.
In the second inning, George Henry Drew walked, and then Dean Tennes lined a fastball for a home run, and the Reds were quickly down 2 to nothing.
But in their half, Johnny Bentz led off with a single, Perez single, Menke walked, the bases were loaded,
Concepcion grounded out, with one out, and Bentz scored from third base.
That was the only run for the Reds.
Then the Reds tied it up in the fourth when Holklin walked to lead off batter Johnny Bentz.
Perez singled him on to third base, and again on an infield out, Bentz scored his second run, and that's why they're the 2-0.
That's just a stage for at least the middle innings for Rarks, because this game is far from over.
And here in Oakland, a hunger curve ball, and Dean Tennes hit a high fly ball deep to left field,
and he inside the far float on the left field line for his second home run, he hit it many times with that.
The first time in five years that any World Series player has hit two home runs in one game.
And now, as we go to the sixth inning for Oakland, it is 3 to 2.
The A's lead the Reds.
And in the sixth, it's the top of the batting order.
And they have not been able to keep Kampi Kampanaris off base, coming back from his suspension in the game,
in which he was 3 for 3.
Kampanaris has twice lined single to left field.
Oakland 6 has got a run lead in his money.
Okay, Jim, Kampanaris has called the roadrunner by Oakland fans when he comes to the plate out there.
They have a big million dollar message scoreboard that says, Beep, Beep on it.
And this little guy has been an ecstatic fan for a long time in the American League.
Nolan's first picture under the back ball and it's in there for a call, track after me.
Dennis Minke plays very shallow at third base for Kampanaris, inside the bag,
much as you would see third baseman in the American League playing on the regular grass infield.
Nolan throws way outside the ball.
And I just wonder how many men can hunt wellness in the National League on this artificial turf
that box for base hits very often.
They do it quite frequently, strangely enough.
Bobby Tolan, Joe Morgan, Pete Rose on the case.
They really have to kill that ball a bit. The pitch is outside the ball and it's 2-1 to Kampanaris.
Kampanaris is one of the smaller players in the American League.
At only 5 feet 9 inches tall, he probably receives a smaller percentage of walks than just about any player around.
2-1 pitch.
And an at least he's there by Dennis Minke at third base.
Shallow. Wow, what a play by Minke.
Hensley Kampanaris takes on a low pitch and rips it at the third base for Minke and only because he is 6 feet 2 inches tall would he be able to get that one.
He utilized every inch of arm, Jim.
Kampanaris is out number one here in the sixth inning.
A smash, line drive to first.
That might loosen Minke up a little bit the next time Kampanaris comes up.
Here now is Joe Rudy, who also fronts for base hits quite often and Minke is playing him shallow.
The pitch from Nolan is low and out's that ball one.
Nolan has actually been hit pretty hard here this afternoon.
Several line drives have been caught. Mike Epstein hits one to the wall and writes, Kampanaris just ripped one.
Dick Green hits one to Minke who has really been playing the hot corner today.
1-0 pitch of a curve and a dirt out in front of the plate. It's 2 balls and no strikes.
Johnny Bent shows what great hands he has on that little trick up.
It was a spinning curve ball with top spin on it out in front of the plate about 3 feet.
And he just very calmly reached out and backhand to the ball one hand.
They say his hands are so big he can put seven baseballs in the palm of them.
Here's a pitch. Outside of all it's 3-0.
Doing a lot of respect for Joe Rudy's strength to hit the ball on the right field.
The Reds are playing him deep and over to the right, giving him about 90 feet of the left field foul line.
Rudy hit 19 home runs for the A's this year.
3-0 pitch. He takes a look at it and it's wrecked through the middle of the call, strike 3-1.
Joe Rudy is considered to be the most steady player the A's have.
He led the upfield in a shift throwing out nine runners this season, five of them at home plate.
3-1 pitch. Swing of the hot drive to right field. It is pretty deep but it won't go out.
Geronimo. Back about eight steps, camping under it and makes the captain or two away.
That was two out and a six inning. An open leading 3-2 over Cincinnati in game one of the 1972 World Series.
Here is a man that the A's in a short time gained respect as a fast magician.
He has done more things with the bat in hitting the ball to the opposite field and running the ball different ways.
He's running for base hits to the shortstop. He's running the ball in the air over the third baseman.
Takes the curve down and in, ball one.
Maddie Allou. One of three Allou brothers playing in the Major League.
The second to have played for the A's since they've been in Oakland. The first being Philly Say.
That ball fouled off. Maddie is not known as a home run hitter.
But in about the third game he played for Oakland after coming over from St. Louis late in the season.
He ripped a home run out of the Oakland Coliseum. And in a playoff in Detroit he showed that he has power by hitting the wall 380 feet away and left center field.
The knock ends are big runs.
Nolan's one-one pitch. That ball is a little low, two and one.
James Hennessey has hit two of what modern day ballplayers call long-paders here today. Home run.
Two-one pitch is outside. Nolan seemed to let up on that one a little bit and he is begging fellow here.
He almost ran to the plate begging for a track on that one.
Gary Nolan is home as Orville, California, throws and the ball is fouled off by Maddie.
Into the upward back of this beautiful stadium right downtown in Cincinnati.
The players will take a mighty good catch from this World Series because both stadiums feed over 50,000 and both stadiums will be thrilled for the first four games.
There's the ball and the spirit of Nolan. Mitch's family comes all the way to the backstop and Maddie Allou runs to first.
Mitch taking the ball but Maddie won't challenge that great arm.
Mitch has the ball in his hand at the backstop 60 feet behind home plate.
But Maddie Allou holds on at first.
And now here's Mike Epstein with the second walk that has been given up by Gary Nolan.
The last one he issued that George Hendrick and Gene Tennis hit a home run right behind me.
Mike Epstein, a big left-handed batter who was born in the shadows of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx or New York.
Played football at the University of California, signed a big bonus contract with the Baltimore Oriole Organization.
Never really got to play there because they had a guy bigger than he was named Boo Crowell.
He went to Washington and the A's picked him up in quite a trade last year and he has been quite a find.
Playing against both left and right-handers this year, he's done an outstanding job.
Swings on a breaking ball, Mitch is strike one.
Mike not only has a mustache as do many of the A's players, but he has grown hairs to the extent that it connects with his sideburns.
Now it's out of his race.
Now they're leading away from first race.
Nolan Pitchett Epstein swings through a fastball-missing track two.
Both these clubs went through a fantastic series. I guess you could call it baseball finest hour, 1972.
For the first time since the playoff trial of determining an American League and National League champion was put in, the playoff went to four or five games.
Epstein bounced one foul on first base, no balls to strike.
The Reds had to go five games to defeat Pittsburgh and the A's had to go five games to which went extra innings to defeat the Detroit Tigers.
Nolan Pitchett stands from Johnny Bench and here's the pitch. Outside of all, he's taking something off that's the outside part of the play.
In this big stadium, the players' names really grew up in life's big.
It's like about four feet high letters descended from the center field upper deck.
Pitchett Pitchett has hung on and hit hard to the right side out in the short right field.
The second baseman is up with it, throwing the first for the out.
So here in the sixth inning, the A's don't get any runs or hits. They leave a man on and in the middle of the sixth, the score is Oakland 3-7-22.
Along with Lonnie Moore, Jim Simpson, and Cincinnati, we go to the last of the sixth inning and here comes that man again.
Johnny Bench led off the second with a single, later scored on the midfield out.
It works, uh, any holster for a walk in the fourth, later scored on the midfield out.
And Bench's armor's so great that he lost the ball when Lou walks way behind him, 50-60 feet behind him.
Lou looking over his shoulder decided even though John didn't know where the ball was, he wasn't going to try it for second base.
Bench stepped in and here's the money.
Johnny Bench has taken on a different image here in Cincinnati with his two stolen bases in the playoffs.
Here's the pitch and it's outside of all.
And here in this game, he has been a leadoff man in two different innings.
Then he's turned a single into a run in the second, a walk into a run in the fourth.
The A's would much rather see him as a leadoff man though with nobody on.
Here's a drive and deep to right field.
Way back, that ball was at the wall, it dropped the fence.
Maddie Lee plays it, throws the ball in the second, Bench is on his way with a stand-up double.
Kenny Holston made a high outside pitch to Johnny Bench and he really went with it to the right field wall on the fly.
And they tell me that Bench doesn't hit the ball that I feel very much.
He hits a home run in the playoffs to right and now he gets a leadoff double.
And the A's both in to come back to.
And look who one of them is.
Vita Blute.
Just day before yesterday, Vita's been four innings in relief today around the American Championship against Detroit.
Like next turn to the big right-hander named Raleigh Singers.
And Dick Williams is going to the mile.
He might make a change right here.
Adam Ascincanti both in.
They're warming up Pedro O'Parrone.
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Well, everybody knows the importance of this first game of the World Series.
It can give me the impetus to go on.
And almost 2-1, the team that has won that first game has gone on to win the World Series.
And so we have made some changes.
Kenny Holtzman who has worked five innings plus the leadoff double to Johnny Bench.
He went the other way to right field.
Is now gone.
Holtzman responsible for 2-1, close to the man, 5-1.
Goodly responsible for Bench to the score.
Struck out 3 and walked 3.
And Raleigh Fingers has come on.
Fingers dropped a regular season.
The normal average is 2.51.
And just a fine picture. 21 saves with lesser staff.
In the playoff game, Fingers appeared in three out of the five games there
and came out of it with a normal average of 1.69.
A big tall right-hander and he kept a little extra-trolley to his mustache.
He did one of those flooring mustaches nearly all of the A's have.
And he'll be facing as he comes up Tony Perez when Kenny Holtzman could not get out.
And that's the reason why, one of the reasons why, Dick would implode this bullpen in a hurry.
Bench, the time runs out at second.
Nobody out of the sixth. Perez comes to bat, money.
Raleigh Fingers made two incredible saves for the A's in the playoff series.
In game number one and the last half, the top half of the ninth inning,
Detroit got runners at first and third and nobody out and Fingers stopped them without a run.
And then in Detroit, in the ninth inning of another game,
they got runners at first and third and one out and did not score.
This is the world series, his first ever appearance and the sixth to Tony Perez.
A curve is in there, a tall strike.
Raleigh's big pitch actually is a slider.
He throws it off the sidearm motion, the right-handers are alive.
But he can also come right over the top.
A big loose-jointed guy, the ideal make-up for a relief pitcher.
He doesn't get very rattled.
O-1 pitch, curve swung on and this back to Perez, missed that one a mile.
Dale Cheney is up in the Cincinnati bullpen area, loosening up his arm as he might come in for Concepcion,
with the right-handed pitcher on the mound.
But Williams has a left-hander throwing in the bullpen.
O-2 pitch, fastball foul off Perez, a good right-side hitter.
Took a shot there, I feel, on that one.
His job here is to try to move Johnny Betch over.
Oakland is leading 3-2 in the last half of inning number 6.
The A's play Perez straight away.
Engers kicks it right through in the air, throws a curve and strikes out Perez.
That ball really broke.
Engers strikes out the first man he faces and here now is Dennis Menke.
Menke walked in the second inning.
He hit a ground ball in the fourth with two on in double play position.
However, the A's could not turn the double play because of the high hopper and he knocked in a run for Cincinnati to tie the ball again.
Johnny Betch in second as he almost tore the right field wall down here with the double off Holtzman.
Engers pitch, outside of all.
Neither club really scores big in the playoff.
But both are very explosive fastball clubs.
Really turned into a very pleasant day here, sunshine breaking through once in a while.
Well pitch, Menke takes it and it gets away from Dennis but not very far.
The runner holds on at second.
Geno reached across his body, down and away.
The backhand is falling, it pops out of the net.
A down of two balls and no strike.
Bob Locker has joined by the blue in the Oakland drill pass.
They drove a ball in the shield throwing for Cincinnati.
In case they got down to Gary Nolan's clock in the batting order, Rocky Anderson would probably make a change.
Engers pitch, a strike later high, two and one now.
And a time call by the umpires on the right side of the field.
There's a ball out of the bullpen in Cincinnati that rolls down onto the playing surface behind home plate.
Johnny Bench dropped the dirt part of the pass out at second.
Ground ball fouled into the Oakland dugout.
Dennis Menke now has a two ball two strike catch.
Bonnie in the dugout, Joe Hage is put on a batting helmet.
He may be seen as a replacement for Concepcion if that goes that far here in the six minute pitch.
Engers at the belt, here's the pitch.
Swinging strike three, Rob Menke up there and Raleigh Fingers in the A's, Carl LeCoup among the kids.
It's come out of the bullpen to strike out the two minute pitch.
Now with Geronimo due to bat, Dick Williams is going to the mound and we'll see if he's going to make a change here.
Lolly Odenhill he pitches against both left and right handers.
It has not made a whole lot of difference to him, but Dick might be going to talk with him here about how he pitches to this man.
And then again he might make a change.
These managers have had thorough scouting reports him from scouts who followed each of these clubs through the last three or four weeks.
Well, would you say that? I'm thinking Concepcion. That's the man that I would feel a Joe Hage would bat for.
Geronimo a pretty good hitter, hit a home run in the playoffs, but you never do know if Williams does go to make a change.
Maybe he's going to bat for Geronimo. We'll see.
Williams is still out there talking and apparently Laleigh Fingers is going to stay and he's made no move at all to go off the dime.
And he is standing down the rubber. Now Penitentiary's back for a home break.
Mando strives over the bird. Dick Williams does a couple of extra things to say and then he walks off.
And Geronimo will go for two steps in, two out.
And Kerrbohd is going up a slider of Laleigh Fingers. He has struck out both for Reds and Mike Young. Good looking Kerrbohd.
Down in the open dugout there's an interesting thing. Reggie Jackson, the injured center fielder with a cap on his leg, is in civilian clothes.
And just tonight he gave him permission to be in the dugout. I was just wondering a minute ago if the last A's player to be in the dugout in civilian clothes or last A's man might have been Connie Mack.
First pitch to Geronimo is a fastball put on in this strike one.
They play back in the early days of the A's if Connie Mack managed in street clothes.
Once the early days I was around.
Laleigh Fingers ready to pitch Kerrbohd and it's cut right in there called Pike. It's 0-2 now.
Johnny Bench led off the inning with a line drive double to right.
Laleigh Fingers on in relief. That struck out for Reds and Minky and he's 0-2 on Geronimo.
That's ended battered ready at the plate. Fingers set. Fouled up. Geronimo just trying to get a piece of that ball was swinging late.
Another injured player is in the dugout with a cap on but he is in uniform. That's Vero Nose. Of course not eligible to play nor able to play but he has a broken thumb.
The A's ace looked and is relieved.
This strike count of Geronimo. Fingers over the top of the fastball. It's lined to left and Joe Rudy comes in and picks it off without head high.
Out of the open Laleigh Fingers did quite a job to keep a lead for Oakland. The score as they go to the seventh. The A's three. The Reds two.
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Now we have a pitching scene. Jerry Nolan is gone after working a total of six innings,
giving up three runs and all of them were directly attributable to the two home runs by Steve Jenner.
He allowed four day hits to fill in the course for the homers. He struck out nobody and he walked two.
And Taylor Fourbon, one of his line-of-release hitters, has come on. This has given the pattern of Mark Anderson to thread.
During the regular season as a reliever Fourbon won eight, lost three, earned an average of three, lost one, seven.
But he does have a sinking fastball, Monty. And if he's on, you'll see a lot of ground balls.
That's when he's lost.
Al Bando leads it off and the first pitch is a sinker and it hits the dirt.
Ball one. The A's have seen very little of Fourbon. They saw some of him when he was with the California Angels in the American League.
He never picks much for this, Les.
He throws and it's missing inside. He's what a lot of players, I believe, would call kind of a short-armor out there.
Throwing the ball, he doesn't pick a big wind-up. He doesn't take the arm back very far. He's just right on top of you and, ah, here it is.
Here's the two and 0 pitch.
Bando hits a shot rounder in the deep second baseman.
Up with it is Morgan. He throws the first for the A.
This ball is really a tipping gain on this artificial turf. I can't get over it.
There's been about four balls hit already. It would be easy if they hit on regular turf because of the position of the infielders.
That had been easy out.
One out on the seventh and now here's George Hendricks.
Curve ball and it's in there. It's all strike. Hendricks tried to go and did not.
Gene Tennant. On deck he has swung a big back for the A's today, hitting two home runs.
That ball is hung on and fouled off. It's no ball to strike.
For game three tomorrow, it will be Jim Cappy-Penter, a 21-game winner for the Oakland A's and Ross Gimple, who won 14 for Cincinnati.
Curve in the third. Awaits his, that's just one and two to Hendricks.
Hendricks has good power and he can hit the ball out either way.
Two home runs for the A's to win games on consecutive days against Chicago and Texas this year.
There's a flag ball fouled into the feet over the hand of Red Saginaw on the first-rate side.
After the game tomorrow, these teams will wing to the west coast at the Oakland Coliseum.
Hendricks fouls another ball over the screen coming back this way.
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And Charlie Sunderstolz are to bring a world championship to the Bay Area for the first time.
Hendricks passes one, D5 third, but it goes foul.
Cincinnati has five hits, Oakland has four.
The ball is scheduled about second in the last half of the seventh for Cincinnati, so they may go some more to the bullpen.
One and two pitches, a curve home too high, ball through.
Inside and high to Hendrick, he's bailed out, but the ball hits the bat and goes foul.
Bourbon sets, foul up there, Hendricks is giving him a back.
With a cap through two, Bourbon looks to the plate again. And again Hendricks tries to get out of the way of an inside halfback ball and it hits that while still on his shoulder.
Downhings on it, two and three. A nice pitch, a curve way outside of all three and two. Hendricks is really licking them over here today.
Here's the playoff first and it's hit right up the middle, knocked down by the pitcher, makes his time, throws the first for the second out of the seventh inning.
And now here comes Dean Hettas who has hit two home runs in the game, accounting for all open runs.
The A's have three runs on four hits, they have made no errors.
Cincinnati has two runs on five hits, they played errorless baseball. These runs are both outstanding defensively.
The A's have a lot of miscues and mischief. The pitchers in are playing a kick, win, bounce and ball at each short.
Filling in for the ball as Cincinnati throws it up. And Bourbon has broken down one, two, three and a seven.
The score, Oakland 3-7-82.
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We got out of the last of the seventh inning, and set the on, we'll read it off, against Raleigh Fingers.
There's action in the bullpen, which means that Pedro Boerbaugh, who is known for that sinker ball, and got Mando, Henrik, and Kenneth Ohlsey hit the ball on the ground, may have had it.
And it's just homies that's one inning. And guess who is in the bullpen?
A fellow by the name of Clare Carroll. Over the years, as far as saves are concerned, did nothing more than set a major record with 37 straights.
Action, here's Mando. Raleigh Fingers first pitch today is concept beyond as a fastball that are high for a strike.
Now the big guy, Wyand, here's the pitch. Missed with a curve inside, it's one ball and one strike.
The largest crowd ever to see a baseball game at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, 52,918 here today.
Here's a one-on-one pitch. That on hook is right in there called strike.
Joe Hage is out on deck swinging a fastball for Cincinnati, and sets the on the batter.
He knocked in the first Cincinnati run with a grounder on the infield in the second inning.
Fingers big leg kick. Fastball missed it inside, it's two and two.
Cincinnati Reds, national league champion. The pitch inside fingers misses ball three, and this is a guy who doesn't want to lose.
Ordinarily quirky, Anderson will have a left-handed batting Darrell Keeney in there.
Concepcion going out and batting. The start is 17. Fingers got two flick strikes, he's now down to three-two.
Here is the three-two pitch. Lyon drive left field, Hage hit, and Anderson's attack pays off.
Concepcion lands a shot into left field, a hit to start the inning and putting the tying runner on base.
This is Joe Hage coming on the pinchhead. He had a 2.43 batting average this year with seven homers and 31 runs batted in.
Now they're going to go with Ulander now. So Ulander comes out with a bat. He is a 169 hitter, but an excellent batter.
He played with the Minnesota Twins in the American League and also with the Cleveland Indians.
He is not a long ball thread, he has not hit a homer. He's played in only 73 games for Cincinnati this year.
So they may go to the back right here with Ulander. He is hitting for Bourbon.
Hage goes that up and throwing again. Bob Locker a right-hander, Tida Blue a left-hander.
He's a zero in the Cincinnati fan. He will be coming on. Concepcion leads off first base.
Al Salvando, the A's third baseman, is asking for sunglasses. That denotes a change in weather here.
Still kind of a cloudy day, but Sal doesn't want to take any chances.
Concepcion on first base. Fingers on the track. Here's a big Ulander. Bumped the ball to the first base side.
Picked up at the Capuan Foul Ground. They've got to try it over.
It's Oakland 3 and Cincinnati 2.
Marky Anderson, who had Cheney up in the last inning with a batting helmet on and a batter in his hand to pinch it for Concepcion.
They got down that far, decided to go ahead with a shortstop against the side-arming right-hander, Raleigh Fingers, and on a 3-2 count, he ripped it in the left.
That's the move I'm sure the newspaper man will be swarming down on Anderson to talk about after this ballgame.
Could turn out to be a big one. Ulander at the plate. Cox the bat. There goes the runner. The pitch is a pitch out.
He's out at second. The goal by Gene Tinnis was about as high as second.
We held up because the umpire held up.
Mel Steiner, National League umpire at second base, called at plate. Capuaniers caught the ball pretty high.
Concepcion slid flat, and they're running the replay over here for us to take a look at.
And he looks at it, he got it, Jim.
Now the next batter, Ulander, is up, and he takes inside of all of 2-1.
The A's outguessing the Cincinnati Ricks at a pick-up on and Nails. Concepcion trying to steal.
Now the 2-1 pitch. Strike call a burning fastball through here.
Ed Ulander with a two-ball, two-strike catch. Danger's fetch curve is just missing outside at three and two, and Raleigh's sticking very carefully here.
Here's a pretty good fetch. Hold on, and that's strike three, and he threw that one right by him.
So there are two down now here in the seventh inning, and the batter is Pete Rose.
Danger's has struck out three of the five that he's hit.
Danger's walk and strikeout ratio this year in the American League was incredible. He walked only 32 and struck out 113.
Now here's Pete Rose batting left-handed. He's a swicker. Going right-handed, he gets Kenny Holtzman, and he went 0-4-3.
Danger's fetch is outside of all, and as Jim said earlier on the broadcast, Rose is a better hitter batting left-handed.
Seems to bat out of a much deeper crotch from the left side of the plate than the other way. Very busy with that bat.
Good to him. A fast ball is low at two and oh. Rose, the only player in the National League ever to make an all-star team as a second baseman and as an outfielder.
He made it both ways. Now the two-oh pitch. Inside ball three.
Danger's has been at all three counts on all three batters here in the seventh inning. Holtzman leading Cincinnati 3-2 in the first game of the 72 World Series.
Ball four, Rose walks on four straight.
Dick Williams is going to the mound. As a left-hander, Joe Morgan is here to bat here. And left-hander Kenny Holtzman stopped this guy three times in the game.
On a ground-out, a wide-or-left, and a strikeout.
Well, Jim, what kind of ace-stealing threat is Pete Rose? Does he run as much as the other guys?
Oh, yeah. Of course, Rose is not known as Joe Morgan is with his 58 and Bobby Jordan is with his 42. But Rose is known for his hustle more than anything else.
But he isn't known to steal a base of two. He's stolen 10 this year. 10 out of 13, Warren Rayfield.
I'm wondering as Ida Blue comes in now, Monty. Blue expected to go in the fourth game. And of course, Rick Williams can always change that around.
He wants his first game going for him. And his fourth game starting pitcher, Ida Blue, who had that great finishing pointings up in Detroit on Thursday afternoon.
To help his pitcher, Blue Monodam, step down the track and win the American League Championship, Blue lifted his starting pitcher and has come back in relief.
The rally fingers go. Coming on with bench in the thick, running on second base on a double-up, Kenny Holtzman, struck out two of the three men he got, got out of the inning,
and Tess Gillum went up with a single here. He was out of the inning. Ulander struck out, but when suddenly Cedros flicked around to the left side, fingers couldn't find the plate and Walsh feed on fourth-rate pitchers.
That brings on Ida Blue with a face three. Very dangerous Joe Morgan who was all for three. At all three times, Joe was batting. He was batting against another left-hander, Kenny Holtzman.
So, Jim I was talking with Dick Williams before the game today, and he had not really made up his mind whether or not Blue would fix the third game or the fourth game. And I think this really dictates that he will fix that fourth game.
And with the day off for travel between here and the West Coast, I think Braddock Steven, with a hard work here today, can be able to come back.
The big factor that has been a surprising one for the A's followers in this last couple of weeks of the season is the fact that Ida Blue has been able to come out of that bullpen after being a starter all his career.
And he did it two days in a row in the playoffs. And it's four innings the second day.
And Ida's doing it, but he's also making no bones about it. He wants to be a starter. He says, no question about it. I want to be a starter. I want to start. But he did nail things down for Blue Minotum. And now he hopes to nail things down and keep things going for Kenny Holtzman.
3-2 the score. We have two outs in the Cincinnati 7th. In other words, the Reds are running out of time. We've got a man on base, but this is the way they love to operate, getting and running a very aggressive ball club. And Morgan helps make some jokes.
Ida did not get a start in the playoffs because of his last eight starts in the regular season. He won only one ball game. That was a two-hitter against Texas. And mainly he was put on the bullpen because they all know our ace left-handed reliever broke his thumb while falling down at the plate after hitting a ball to left field.
Pete Rose jumps off first base now with a good lead. Ida down to the bell. Here's the first pitch, Jan. It's a fact called pleasing in the Air Force like one.
I'm sure you'll agree that Ida is the hardest throw on your staff. And they've got one liking over in the Cincinnati dugout, and that's Don Gillis who's scheduled this later on. These are the hardest throwing, and he's got one of them on the mound right now, Ida Blue.
He gets that. Here's the pitch, and it gets away from the catch. It goes all the way to the backstop. Rose goes to second base. Whoa, which is as if it went right through the legs for Team Cat. It should be a big play.
It's a wild pitch on Ida Blue moving the tying runner in the scoring position. So now his work has really compounded in degree of difficulty. Here's a one-on-one pitch to Morgan.
Bouncing ball foul, and he just tried to hit that ball on the ground out past the mound as deep as Cappanaris is playing at shortstop. He would really have to do some charging if Morgan were to pass that ball at a high hopper past the mound, because Morgan can fly.
The ironic twist is Morgan lives in Oakland in the offseason and is in business out there, and was really hoping to play Oakland in the World Series. One ball, two strikes. Pete Rose at second, Oakland leading 3-2.
Two down, seventh inning. Ida hits outside of all it's doing to her. Blue doesn't throw a sidearm, but once in a while he has dropped down near three-quarters against left-handed batter.
Now Ida gets set. Jax Rose at second. Here's the pitch. Foul ball. Looks like a breaking ball.
Dave Hamilton, a young left-hander, has joined veteran Bob Locker, a right-hander, in the Oakland bullfeng. Blake Hill has already completed his work in the Cincinnati stand. He will be coming on for the eighth inning against Oakland.
The score of that eighth inning will depend upon what side of Luke can do right here with Joe Morgan. Around country on the pitch is a curve. He missed with a ball three.
The lieutenant is still holding for mid at the plate.
The Oakland bench is on Chris Telekutis on that goal. Morgan had really been fooled on the pitch. He was not looking for a breaking ball on a 2-2 catch.
But now it is full. A three-ball, two strikes. Pete Rose a few strikes off second base. Ida Blue gets set, kicks the leg, fires, fouled off, and Morgan is hanging tough in there.
He's not taking a big swing. He just wants a base hit here.
Both managers shooting the works in game number one here as if it were game number seven. But this is the World Series. That's the way they play them.
Ida turns and flops the runner back into second base.
He gives the roll over time indicating to Gene Tennesse's catcher he would like to sign Gall over again.
Alley-on left he's set. Here's the pitch. Washing ball four.
Well the rest now have two runners on and two out in here is Bobby Cohen.
Blue ordinarily has excellent control. He walks very few.
Over the season he walked only 48, struck out 111. He's for the runner on now. Here's the pitch to Cohen. Fouled off, second one.
One thing I noticed here, these left-handed batters from Cincinnati hang in there tough against the left-handers.
Donnie Sparky Anderson often says if you look down Rose, Morgan, and Tolliver and the box score and you see a combination of five hits among them, we're going to win the ball here.
There's only been one hit among them thus far, but of course Rose and Morgan have both walked here in the semis, and that's the trouble.
Trying to run around at second base. Lead runner at first to pitch the fill in. A bouncing ball right side of the infield. It is a foul ball.
Very close to the bag at first base.
Now batter has jumped on top of Cohen at no balls, two strikes.
Mike Epstein who feels that ball and fouls down behind the bag at first, walks all the way to the mound.
They end it to find a blue who had broken off the pitching mound towards first base.
A normal move for all pitchers on a ball hit to the right side.
One run lead for the swinging A's of Oakland over the big red machine of Cincinnati.
Boots strikes the count. Cohen carries that bat very high over his left shoulder. Now drops it down. Here's a pitch.
The fly ball foul out of play off the third base line.
The Ritz have had six hits. The A's have had four. The difference in the game, the bat of Gene Tennis, which has produced two home runs into the left field six.
Two throws at second base. Joe Morgan at first. Right of blue at the belt. Holding. Firing. Just missed that fly ball out.
Here in the center. That happens in the national egg money. They lean over that inside shoulder and that outside pitch is in the veins of many batters existence.
Ball two strikes the cat. That's control the curve that fell off.
That's all really interesting. Not having been in the national league and watching batters swing and how they change their swing.
Just trying to hit the ball down under this artificial curve to get the high bounce.
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The Cincinnati Reds have a new pitcher and the Oakland A's are going to have a fence-hitter.
The new pitcher for Cincinnati is the Major League's top three baser.
In history, as far as number of saves recorded in one year, an incredible 37-game save for Cincinnati's play-peril, a right-hander who's so hard.
The fence-hitter for Oakland is Gonzalo Marquez.
The end of the season, hitting 381 for the A's as a fence-hitter basically, and he had two big hits in the playoffs.
Here's the first pitch. Swing and a fly ball to the left field. Out behind shortstop, out in front of the left field, over the shortstop, and Pesciol makes the grab.
Out on one pitch. And now by the blue, we'll bat.
By there, without any question without, is a much better pitcher than any other hitter.
By there, he hasn't done much with the bat this year. He's had two hits and 45 at bat.
A big swing and a boxer foul off first.
A tough competitor. Last year's Cy Young Award winner in the American League. The most valuable player in the league.
Pitch outside a ball from Kale. It's one ball and one strike.
By there, he had contract difficulties this year, did not play for the Oakland Days, and pitched a game until May 24th.
Really was not in shape to pitch until the middle of June. Pitch it outside of all of the two and one.
Ball three, Blake Kell, has drawn the three and one on fire blue. One of only nine major league pitchers to ever strike out more than 300 fighters in one season.
Three one pitch. That's two calls. By there, split around, facing the back.
There's an exception at the outer strike zone, ball four. Blake Kell has issued a walk to line of blue. That's only the third Oakland batter to be walking again.
The serving play, Carol Monique, is what's called the cliché of being a good stopper. A good league pitcher. Fast walk, batter, likes to keep the ball low.
May Carol's problem there was, he only got one pitch down low and the rest were riding high and out of the strike zone.
That's put him in trouble with Campanella. A very dangerous Campanella, coming to bat.
The line of blue is on its first phase and he runs well enough, he's a pitch guy, but he runs well enough that the A's have used him as a pace runner before.
Oakland, in carrying the theme of team's lead along low fire, has used two of their pitchers as pace runners.
John Odom is one of the fastest runners in the major league. Now, five is off first. Here's the pitch to Kathy Campanella.
He's off the ball, out towards the man. Carol is up with it on her one play and that's the first Morgan covering the gun in there and Kathy really getting that ball beautifully.
Now there's two down and it's up to Joe Rudy if the A's are to pick up another run here. Oakland is leading Cincinnati 3-2.
So far, in his first World Series game ever, Joe Rudy has been held and put on a hit. He's flied to center, he's rounded to third and flied to right.
Carol was the most effective Cincinnati pitcher in the 1970 World Series. In four games, he's hit nine innings and did not give up a run.
Only five hits and he struck out 11 batters while walking only two. So his World Series record right now is unpromised.
It will remain that way if he can get Joe Rudy. Final blue is at second base.
Here's a picture of Rudy. A spot in the outside corner. Rudy doesn't pick up this very often.
Right now, the Cincinnati second baseman is playing a good 50 feet deep in right field. The shortstop is playing a good 35 or 40 feet behind what normally would be the running path between second and third.
Carol's set here's a picture of Rudy low and outside of all. Matty Allure of the A's were telling us yesterday, he didn't like baseball on this turf, not because of the balls that shoot on the ground quickly between the infielders,
but because you lose so many line drive hits by the second baseman shortstop playing this deep. And I really see what he's talking about.
Carol pitching to Rudy. Third ball hit deep to left field, but he didn't get a hold of it. As Pete Rose goes over to get under it, he makes the captain after all for Oakland.
In the next inning, the score remains three to two, the A's.
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Early on, the Oakland Pitchers run out to the mound to start their 50-minute time. This fighter, Lew, has dashed to the mound, and when he gets there and he has gotten there, he sees what his job is. Johnny Bent, leading off with a fourth time.
Bent has singled, walked, and doubled as a leadoff man, and has scored the only two runs in their free-to-sue ballgame with Holperm 3. The only two runs for the Reds are scored. They're in the last of the eighth, and this could be the last big chance for the Reds. The heart of the batting order, Bent, Perez, and Manke. Lew is ready and shows money more.
Very few towns in the course of any Oklahomans' life would be not be thinking about an Oklahoma Techers football game on a day like today. Here's Johnny Bent, hitting the first pitch high and beats the Reds, and Matty Lew is backing up to get under 80 years at Losarum, and he makes the catch.
So there's one away. I always tell you to say about Oklahoma and Johnny Bent before the game today. He said, I'll think about Oklahoma Techers football after the first game of the World Series.
One away, say to you folks. We two oldies were talking before the game. Here's Perez with one away in the eighth.
Pidablu cranks it up and fires a 5-0-1. Incidentally, Bent hit a home run off Pidablu in an All-Star game. The one played in Detroit. Here's the one out there. Perez has one off just below our boots. Go-Gad G.O.L. is just over to our right, and he made a...was that a bluff or was he really going to catch it?
One ball and one strike to Perez. He won an All-Star game for the National League with a home run off and a snitcher catches Hunter in an eye. Swinging strike. One ball, two strikes to Perez.
It's the eighth inning third game of the World Series. Oakland leading 3-2 over the highly favored Cincinnati Reds. Now the one and two hits. Five, all-two. Flinders, Tommy Hall, a left-hander out on the bullpen for Cincinnati.
And Darrell Cheney is throwing along with Foster. They're loosening up. Flinders 2-2-6. The blue blazer was fouled off.
Gene Tennis giving the sign and here's the pitch. Curved him in this eye with a ball three. Flinders unusually wild here this afternoon. Very rarely does he get behind batters or just 3-2-6.
It might be very well because he's picked so much in the last week. Four innings day before yesterday. 3-2-6 on the way. Now a ball upstairs.
Jim Hovrin tied your seeding when you picked four innings with a one-round lead. Every pitch you make there's got to be a big one. And that's what batter had to do to hold at championship game.
O'Cann Fisch is on the way to the plate. They drive the center field. Back to Joe Hendrick. He has room, reaches up and makes the catch. And there are two away in the eighth. There's the family right on the button.
Tennis Mentees. Mentees watch, knocks in a run on a ground out and stretch out. Mittenatti leads in hits six to four but the A's lead in again three to four.
It's been a long time to get his sign. Now he has it. Those are slow curves. He drops it in there. Strike back.
Another breaking ball. Strike two. Only this one was thrown much harder. The slider will throw the slow curve once in a while. That time he threw what looks like a hard slider.
The head of the batter at one and two he throws and there's no doubt what that one was. Fide threw it as hard as he can throw it. But he missed inside two and two and Mentee pulled the ripcord and bailed out of there.
Fide holds the baseball in a blue-colored glove. Kicks and fires fouled off.
Mentee hits nine home runs for Cincinnati this year. He had a good year though he batted only 233 knocked in 50 runs.
Part of the big trade with the Houston Astros that also brought Morgan and Geronimo here.
Out of the two-two pitch. Swinging strike three. Fide left him up there with some real smoke. After eight innings of play the score is the open A-three to the Cincinnati Reds two.
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Okay Jim, Mary Lou leads it off the first pitch of the curve ball.
After the second baseman who was not playing deep this time, Morgan throws the Perez and there's one out on one pitch in the top half of a nice inning.
Mary Lou who's been known to drag the bus as the man drew Morgan the second baseman in very shallow that time.
Now Morgan will move all the way back out into right field as the second baseman and here comes Mack Epstein.
Mike Ripp won with the wall in the second inning as the leadoff man. Geronimo fielded right off the face.
Leading home run hitter for Holtzman this year, Mike Epstein, who is out at 26 and he hit one off Mickey Lowlich in the playoffs.
Her ball from Pearl is a little lower than the ball one.
Epstein's damage was very good for a foul hitter this year, 270.
This is nothing outside. Two balls and no strikes.
Mike Epstein the batter's job on the Arizona deck. It's 3-2 Oakland with one inning to go.
Ball three to Mike.
I think for a foul hitter Epstein probably takes more close pitches than any I have ever seen.
A very, very patient at that point. There's ball four. Though the A's have a man on, the second batter the Carol has won.
And here is Sal Bandel who hit only 236 this year, but he had 16 home runs.
And now making an appearance in his first World Series ever as are most of the A's players, but this guy is going to be a surprise especially.
The Panamian Express Alan Leary, a 30-year-old Steve Barnard who is a pinch hitting and pinch running specialist.
The A's brought him up from the minor leagues late in the season.
He made nine stolen base attempts and he was successful on eight of them.
He stole one every two bases one year in the minor leagues in the A's farm system.
Leading out first, he's on his way to second on the first pitch.
He throws it down there. They're going to get him. Oh, and it's stuck out.
The Express is derailed by the Canons.
Danny Betts fires the second base for the second time in a ball game right on target.
So now they're over two down.
Now Bendo has taken ball one. Mitch doing swing and a foul. Strike one at one and one.
It's going to make believers out of camp an' out to steal 52 bases and Alan Lewis with the base-teaming record he has, they are the two men he's thrown out.
One and one. There's a slice foul by Bendo down the right field line.
Boy, those didn't wait very long to catch him. He went on the very first pitch.
Well, there's been four attempts at steal the second base.
Everybody writing about the great, strong base artists on these two clubs and nobody's made it yet in the game.
One and two pitch curveball hanging out there.
Molly Bing, the other broadcaster you are, I know you'll talk out of it,
ask him how he felt about getting his footing on that artificial turf, which is something you do in no other ballpark in the world.
Good to the Bando. A pitch with a curve out foul.
Catch him. It was interesting to me to watch.
Bendo nearly takes a much bigger lead off first base than Campon Erick does.
This time he did not go beyond the dirt part to get out there on that rug.
It will be interesting to find out to him if he cut his lead down because he was afraid of the footing off of that.
Two-two pitch. Bendo takes outside a very close pass ball at three and two.
Curveball to Bando. He takes the bad one.
Strike three swinging.
Carroll goes to mid-bender off to the outside side of the plate.
We go to the layup half of the ninth inning and it's good out for Cincinnati.
Oakland three, Cincinnati two.
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Rockin' Cincinnati, game one, 1972 World Series.
Jim Simpson with Monty Moore.
It's the seven, eight, and nine batters do up.
Geronimo will not come up, the left-handed swinger.
It will be the right-handed swinger Hal McRae.
Go against Leiter Blue.
Straight into the score.
Leiter Blue trying to nail down this number one victory for the underdogs, Oakland over Cincinnati.
In the best of seven series, McRae steps in a right-handed swinger against the left-hander Leiter Blue.
Last of the ninth and here's Monty.
Okay, Jim, McRae's a 278 hitter on the way.
Here's Leiter Blue's first pitch.
And it is in there for a call strike.
The A's made a defensive change at first base.
That scene went off to the fence runner and Mike Hegan, one of his classiest fielding first baseman in the game,
is over at that corner.
Right of six, swing and a foul back-ended McRae.
Take a rip at that one.
Hal McRae got into 61 games for Cincinnati.
He hits five home runs.
And he tried to hit that last one out.
Right eye hit out of the 0-2.
Throws the curve, hit on the ground, left field, right pitch.
The Reds have the time on their own as Leiter Blue on a curveball and a no-ball two-strike shot.
Now they can put beyond what's being a game in there.
Hal McRae, Cincinnati's wolf and crew to work.
William Javier is out on deck.
Can flip the own.
No batters.
McRae the runner at first.
And Tommy Hull starts burning a man again.
Now they're going to run for McRae.
George Foster, who scored the winning round of the National League season,
will go into fifth runs for McRae, a fifth-hitter.
Well, I'm sure by the Blue will be second-guessing himself for throwing that hanging curveball at a 0-2 cap.
Guys who throw a ball that hard certainly did not want to hang a curve on that cap.
McRae made him pay for it.
That's George Foster.
Out first, the pitch is taken and it's outside, ball one.
Foster is still in two bases this year.
Leiter Blue gets set.
Here's the pitch.
The ball is run out towards the mound.
It'll be picked up by Sal Vano, the third base when he throws the pitch to the ice.
He's in the game at second for Oakland for the fourth out there.
Down to second goes George Foster with the tying run.
And here's William Javier coming on to pitch it.
1967 and 1968 were the Cardinals' bodies.
Javier against the Red Sox, DeMinn against the Tigers, had sensational World Series.
He hit.360 in 1967 and was also the feeling hero and came back here at.333 in 1968.
He has been around before and has combined 15 World Series games,
extending back earlier into the 64 Series, a.346 average.
And he's the man that Leiter Blue is facing right now.
Dick Williams is out again.
The situation is he always leads three to two last to the night.
Al McRae has run off with a single.
Foster ran for it.
And conceptually, he'll have to carefully sacrifice him down to second base.
High run at second base.
Javier, not a long ball hitter, but a nice little man in handling the bat.
He's after a place with all that World Series experience.
The great, the well-known Leiter Blue, who was in his first Series game.
He's enthusiastic, but the crowd starts to dwell.
Here's Leiter's first pitch.
Javier takes a look at it.
It's not too much space.
George Foster can take a big lead down off second base.
He's three runs, four hits and no errors.
Since then, he's two runs, seven hits and no errors.
One out last half of the night inning.
Open leading.
Left hit, curve ball, bounce foul.
Leiter got that curve down where he likes to throw the curve to the right-handed batter.
And quickly he is in front of Javier at O and True.
With the infielders at short and second playing so deep,
The runner at second can get a gigantic lead away from the bag.
The 0-2 pitch to Javier is on the way, and there's a fly ball foul going out of play.
A well-played, very exciting first game of the 1972 World Series.
And, Lonnie, I'm sure that those are keeping so letters are aware that double play is not a rarity,
not an improbability, or probability rather, but Foster down at second base.
We're not looking double play since there's no force on any base.
And that means that we can assume that the fellow that everybody in Cincinnati knows is Mr. Clark.
They call him Charlie Huckle.
Pete Rose will have a chance to at least tie this game up.
And don't think the A's haven't thought of that too, but right now,
right of the blue has one center-concentration.
That's on the plate where Julian Javier is standing with a 0-2 cast.
A long comes the arm. Here's a pitch.
Ground ball.
Shores at second base and pitch.
Livia Pueblo to join the third.
He's got him by just this stride.
And over the third goes George Foster.
Where he's scored on a wild pitch.
For the Reds to win the National League Championship.
Now the crowd really starts to yell at hitman Pete Rose.
Dick Williams is going to the umpire behind the plate.
You know, I don't know what the rule is in a World Series.
If the umpire, if the manager goes to the mound twice and won any in the American League,
The pitcher is automatically out of the game.
I don't know what the rule is in a World Series.
And that might be what Dick Williams is talking to Chris Palachudas about.
Because as he's cautious of foul line now, he goes to the mound.
They have a right-hander Bob Locker and a left-hander Dave Hamilton in the bullpen.
It won't make any difference to Rose because he's going to just switch around if another man comes in.
Well again, when you're talking about it won't make any difference to Rose,
Pete is a 300 plus hitter from the left side as he is from the left side, Monty.
His power comes from the left side.
We've been saying he's a better hitter from the left side.
But I don't hear his force of that from the right side.
But we've got to keep in mind he's also a 300 hitter there.
And with Foster first over third base as a tying run,
Pete doesn't need much to get contact at a base hit anyway, even in the empty.
Well, Dick Williams has brought his third base and fouls in the land shallow to protect against the Bucks.
By the bluefish, he bumps at it and fouls it off.
And that's exactly what Dick Williams was talking to Sal Bando about.
Rose, if I recall, won a National League Batting Championship with a first base hit on the last day of the season one time.
And even with two down, he was running for a base hit there.
And Bando is just giving a sign to his factor, an underarm signal,
which would indicate that if a ball's headed to him,
he's going to come to the plate instead of going to first base for the final out, maybe.
One strike to count on Rose.
By the blue wire, here's a pitch.
I bounce and follow me until I get up the hoary.
Kubiak has got it. Rose the first.
He got him and the Oakland A's have won the first game of the 1972 World Series.
The final score of an exciting ball game.
Oakland 3 and Cincinnati 2.
Chrysler Plymouth.
You know, they're famous for their engineering.
Constantly striving to build cars to run better and last longer than ever before.
Like their big, crushed, 73 Chrysler New Yorker.
And this has been going on for a long time.
Did you know the original Chrysler introduced a revolutionary high compression engine?
And it was a Chrysler that adopted the idea of welding an automobile body and frame into a single, solid unit of strength.
And that was only the beginning.
Now you get things like a standard electronic ignition system that's practically maintenance free.
You can even order an electronic digital clock if you want to.
There's an improved system of sound isolation for a new, quiet ride in the reclining seat.
That's what they're talking about when they say, extra care in engineering.
Chrysler New Yorker.
Extra care in engineering.
That makes a difference.
As this very quiet, record crowd of 52,918 file out a year,
quiet because most of them root for the Cincinnati Rams,
they'd like to, before looking at money, to how the ballgame was won with their bats.
Pay tribute to someone that may not get a mention at all tomorrow in the papers,
and that is Ted Kubiak, called on to play in the ninth inning.
Never played in this infield before.
The ground ball of Harvey Air, which moved George Foster to the pin throw of the third,
Kubiak was playing out in the road right field and had to charge in,
and that was a close play, even though Julio does not have the great feet anymore.
And this last hit of Pete Rose, and I'll tell you about the last hit,
it was hit into the turf and up high, Kubiak had to race in,
catch it just above his knees on this dead run,
and then make the quick throw just to get Pete Rose.
And you wonder what would have happened if Rose, who has Charlie Hussle had been batting left handed
in this particular game instead of right headed,
might have made it out, probably would have, would have been a tie ballgame.
But a hat's off to Ted Kubiak for his fine play.
Now as far as the game itself is concerned, winning pitcher is Holtzman, who worked the first five innings.
Losing pitcher, Gary Nolan, who worked the first six innings.
He lost the first game back in 1970, and his downfall in that game
solo home runs to Brooks Robinson, Drew Cowell, and Ellie Hendricks.
His downfall today, home run hit by Gene Tennes, who hit one in the second inning
with Henry Conn based ahead of him, he had won, and then the winning run driven in
as he hung a curve and Tennes hit it out in the fifth.
And so Gene Tennes, who took a lot of laps, but he couldn't sleep too much,
won the ballgame on Thursday for the American League Championship with his only hit of the playoff series,
went two for three today, his two home runs provided all of the runs,
and of course the winning run for the Oakland A's.
With this in handy, it was really all Johnny Vance.
He led off the second with a single, moved up on Gleiser's single,
Menke walked the bases loaded, and when Concepcion rounded out,
Vance scored the first run.
In the fourth inning, Vance tied the game, drawing the wash,
Gleiser's single again, and Johnny huffed him all the way to third.
And then when Menke bounced out, Vance scored the tying run.
That, as we said, was in the fourth, and just the stage for the one-out home run of Tennes in the fifth.
From there on, it was all pitching, as the team used many release pictures,
Morvone did a good job for Cincinnati, A. Claykale, in trouble with Wilder's of all things,
Gill nevertheless did a good job and did not allow a run,
and Vita Blue, who pitched the final four in eighths to nail the American League Championship down on Thursday,
hit in the seventh, to two men, walking one, getting the other on a foul out,
and that was an important man, Bobby Golden, the number three hitter.
That's Vance, Perez, and Menke in the eighth inning, gave up that hanging curve to Al McGray,
The pinch hitter, as Monty described it, and he was back at fifth, he moved on to third,
and obvious ran out, and they were the tying run over third base,
but he got Johnny out, so Vita Rose, the ground, the Cougie actor, made a fine play,
and so we remember now that the team that has won the first game of the World Series from the three to 68,
40 times has gone on to win the World Series.
The Underdog A's have won the first game here, three to two.
We'll continue with today's highlights, one by Oakland, right after this message.