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The Oakland A's faced the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium for Game 2 of the 1972 World Series on October 15th.
The A's led the best of seven series, one game to none.
And this is the NBC Radio broadcast of Game 2 featuring announcers Jim Simpson and Monty Moore.
Hello everyone, I'm Jim Simpson along with Monty Moore. Welcome to Cincinnati and Game 2. And it is top-soaked and total neck weather this afternoon.
The aperture right now, 51 degrees, expected to go to 60. But the sun has already begun to sink down below the stadium on the right-field line side.
And again this afternoon, that means as it was in the playoffs, that sun-field and left-field will be very difficult.
Today's victory left-hander Ross Rindley, 22 years old, a 14-game winner, and he won a playoff game against the Pirates, allowing just two hits.
He's already warming up. The right-handed Cat St. Putter, 21-game winner for the Oakland A's, has not yet begun to warm up.
Well, he's got any happy, but it's not over yet because he's got possibly six more games to go.
But he is the boy from the Oakland Athletics. Yay Julie, the red one, game to none. That's calling Monty Moore.
Thank you very much, Jim Simpson, and hello once again everybody.
Certainly it is an understatement to mention the fact that the Oakland A's are not overconfident to win the World Series, but they do certainly feel a lot better at this time than they did yesterday.
They were decided underdogs and to come out and win the first game here on the road in the World Series meant a lot to this ball club.
Joining us on the field now is one of the great men of our profession, sports announcer Red Barber.
And Red has been assigned the duties of emceeing a very special presentation this afternoon that will involve many names, men that you know, honoring the first black athletes in Major League Baseball 25 years ago.
Red Barber at one time was the voice of the Cincinnati Reds, but I'm sure you also know that he had great prominence and fame as the voice of the Brooklyn Dodgers for whom Jackie Robinson played and that he wound up as an distinguished broadcasting career as a broadcaster for the New York Yankees.
Red now in semi-requirements writing books and as we said the commissioner of baseball Jackie Robinson and his family and others years gone by are now just off the pitchers now and there's sunny but cool day in Cincinnati and Red is down there now awaiting the signals that he needs to begin the ceremony.
And now let us get onto the field and Red Barber at one of the greatest baseball broadcasters of all time, the old redhead, Walker Red Barber.
Friends, welcome to the second game of the 1972 World Series. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the entry of the black athletes into Major League Baseball.
Today we are about to honor the man Grant Ritchie selected to lead the way who set a brilliant example for all to follow. He is all-famer Jackie Robinson.
First I'd like to have you meet one of the greatest shortstop of all time and the team captain during Jackie's 10th competitive season with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Harold Kiwi Reese.
And here is the first black man to play in the American League. He had an outstanding career mostly with the Cleveland Indians beginning in the summer of 1947, Larry Soutis.
Say hello to one of the great winning pitchers in Dodger history, a one-time teammate of Jackie, Joe Flach.
And now the president of the Dodgers, Peter O'Malley. Also here to help honor Jackie, the president of the National League, Carl Scott Phoenix.
The very lovely lady standing alongside Jackie is his wife Rachel. Next their daughter Karen, their son David, and their friend Kate Cotter.
And now to present baseball's award to Jackie Robinson. Here is the commissioner of baseball, Mr. Louis Trudeau.
Like you read, Jackie Robinson is something special. Special as an athlete, special as a husband and father, special as a human being.
Baseball is proud of Jackie Robinson, who has dedicated himself to help others in the crusade against drug abuse.
As most of you know, President Nixon named Jackie to his all-time All-Star baseball team. Even more significant, the president singled out Jackie as the greatest all-around athlete he has ever seen.
The president has requested me to read the following telegram. I am honored to do so. Here are the president's words.
Baseball has known many moments of greatness in its long history, but none has been as significant or compelling as that April 15 afternoon, 25 years ago, when Jackie Robinson and eight other Dodgers took the field for his appearance at first base.
Baseball had come of age. It opened its doors to a part of our society which had been wrongfully excluded from the major league.
It is especially fitting that today, in the midst of baseball's most exciting event, the World Series, we pause to honor Jackie Robinson.
His place among the superstars of baseball is already assured. Every fan knows of Jackie Robinson's accomplishments in professional ball.
What is less well known, but also of great importance, is his work with the youth of America, especially in the field of drug abuse.
I am sure that I can speak for every concerned parent in thanking him for this vital contribution to the lives and to the future of our young people.
It is through such dedication and determination today, just as it was a quarter of a century ago, that lives are enriched and strengthened and our country made a better place for all. Signed, Richard Nixon.
Jackie, your untiring efforts on behalf of drug prevention and drug rehabilitation among the nation's youth have been outstanding.
In memory of your son, Jackie Robinson Jr., you have dedicated yourself to helping young people, particularly at Daytop, a drug rehabilitation center in Connecticut, where Jackie Jr. and Daytop gave so much to each other.
I am pleased to have this opportunity to present to you this symbolic baseball honor. Jackie, with congratulations and thanks and all our good wishes.
Thank you very much, Commissioner. I would just like to say that I was really just a spoke in the wheel of the success that we had some 25 years ago.
And personally want to say thank you to a great captain, a guy who was the leader of our ball club and who really set the pace in many, many areas.
And Jackie, thanks so much for being here today. I would like to also say that I would be a real, real pleasure if Mr. Ricky could have been here with us today, but to the members of the family, my entire love and gratitude for the things that he's done over the years.
And I also want to say how pleased I am that my family can be here this afternoon and to thank baseball for the tremendous opportunities that it has presented to me and also for this thrilling afternoon.
I'm extremely proud and pleased to be here this afternoon, but must admit I'm going to be tremendously more pleased and more proud when I look at that third base coaching line one day and see a black face managing in baseball.
On this Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati, Ohio and Riverfront Stadium, the 25 year anniversary of Jackie Robinson's entry into the major league.
Get out Tony Martin, the entertainer with the Ohio State University marching band.
So play and sing for this crowd of better than 52,000 as the teams come out from both the first and third base dugouts to take their place in the sun.
Our national anthem.
A's have come out along the third base line standing just in front of their dugout and the red dressed in white and red of course along the first base line.
And now the announcement for Tony Martin who today I would guess you would call the color a very pink suit.
A black sombrero he's taken off and has fell over his heart and Tony Martin is bouncing for our national anthem sung by Mr. Tony Martin.
Oh, can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
We'll have the starting lineup for game two of the World Series in just a moment.
Well, yesterday's game if those of you that didn't get it, Gene Tennant who is a 225 hitter during the regular season and Lyda Blue who only won six games in the same span.
Well, they led the A's yesterday to a 3-2 victory over the Reds in the opening game.
There were 52,000 fans there in Cincinnati, most of them followers of the Reds, but they were saddened by the outcome.
Tennis crowded two homers to account for Oakland's victory.
At first, Wallop came in the second inning with George Hendrick, a replacement for the injured Reggie Jackson scoring ahead of him.
The second homer broke a 2-2 tie in the fifth and the circuit drive proved to be the winning run.
Tennis was hit with 15 times in a row before he drove in the winning run with a single in the final playoff game against the Tigers.
During the regular season, Tennis had five homers to his credit with only 32 runs batted in.
And both of his homers came off losing pitcher Gary Nolan and they also set a record first two times up at bat in a World Series and he hit home run.
The Ohio State University Marketing Band leaving the field and at home plate.
Pete Rose has brought out the lineup for the Cincinnati Reds.
Nick Williams out there, the manager of the Oakland A's, the umpires today.
Jim Honigstich will be behind home plate from the American League.
Mel Steiner, the National League at first base.
Frank Humanoff, the American League down at second.
Bob Engel of the National League in his first World Series over at third base.
Phil Haller of the American League along the left field line.
And Chris Kolokoutis, he called ball and then struck yesterday along the right field line.
And we will get to those starting lineup for the moment right now from Cincinnati.
Let's pause 10 seconds for station identification.
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Along with Marty Moore, Jim Simpson in Cincinnati, the Oakland A's will lead it off with shortstop Panty Campanera.
Batting second, the right fielder, Matty Allou.
Batting third, Joe Rudy, the left fielder.
Batting cleanup, remember Reggie Jackson hurt himself in the playoffs in Detroit and is out of the series.
Mike Epstein now bats fourth.
Sal Bando of the third baseman bats fifth.
George Kendrick is in center field replacing the injured Reggie Jackson.
Gene Kettis, who hit two home runs yesterday to drive in all three runs and give the A's the open.
Is the catcher and bats seventh.
Nick Green is a second base batting eighth.
And 21 game winner, Capsis Hudders, is the pitcher.
Now Hudders does not have an overwhelming fastball, an excellent fastball, a fine curve, breaking pitch, and Capsis Hudders makes the good pitchers.
Very seldom does he have that ball out over the plate.
Last season, or I should say this season just past, Hudders won 21 and lost only seven, and his seven-fifty percentage led the American League.
While the Cincinnati Reds, foot-feeder Pete Rose will lead it off playing left field.
Rose will be batting from the left side.
This is where he gets best.
And another left-hander is at second base.
And Bobby Tolan is out in center field.
Now these are the three men that the left-handers, Holtzman and Blu, were able to contain yesterday, and Capsis Hudders must contain today if he is to win for Oakland.
Johnny Bench, well Bench had a great day yesterday, but he led off four times, and as everybody knows, the Cincinnati Reds do not win ball games when they've got Bench as a lead-off hitter.
He's the leading RBI man, and he likes to come up with men on base.
And that's how they introduced the rest of the team taking the field.
Tony Perreira will be at first base.
Dennis Lenke is at third base.
Cesar Geronimo is out in right field batting seventh.
And the only lineup team for either side, aside from the 50s of course, is Darryl Keeney, a foot-hitter, will be at shortstop to get him in there with his left-hander bat against the right-handed Capsis Hudders.
Ross Grimpley, a young 22-year-old who won 14 ball games during the regular season and lost eight is on the mound.
Grimpley, as we said, had great success in defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the playoff game, winning in that game 7-1, allowing the two hits, both by, well, incomparable Roberto Clemente, a single and a home run.
Grimpley does have a good fastball.
It is not as good as Don Gullis, who's scheduled to hit game number three, but Johnny Bench says it's just that far away from being as good.
Grimpley may benefit from the fact that he has Jim Honigkic, an American League umpire, behind the plate because Grimpley throws the high fastball, and in the American League they give you the high fastball as a strike.
In the National League they give you the low ball as a strike.
So Grimpley, who has had control problems, may, as we said, get the benefit of Jim Honigkic, the American League umpire, behind the plate.
Grimpley was particularly effective against the Pirates because he was able to get the ball over and was ahead of most of the batters.
He's got a good fastball, does not have a splatter, Monty, but rather he cuts that fastball a little bit, and he's got a fine looking curve.
Problems? Control. If Grimpley's on, the A's are in for a long afternoon.
Can't be capping ours. The weight's on deck and he has been something else again, but the man who's followed him all year long, I'm sure is eager to talk about him and the rest of the A's.
And we've called him again, the voice of the Oakland Athletics, Monty Moore.
Okay, Jim, thank you, and here we go with game number two.
Bert Campanera from Pueblo Nuevo Cuba steps in to start another ballgame.
And he started off beatlessly here yesterday with the crowd booing because of the suspension bat throwing incident that happened in the playoff against the Detroit Tigers.
Campanera has quietened him down with a line drive-based hit to left field.
He starts the ballgame yesterday.
He had two hits and three tries. Campanera is the American League film-based champion, sixth of the last eight years.
Reds are playing him straight away and shallow in the corners.
Here's the first pitch of the game, and it's a strike. There's Jim Haddockick and a crowd roar.
Well-pitched, outstandingly well-defense ballgame yesterday.
Saw the A's running three to two. Here's the pitch to Campanera's high and away hits the ball, one and one.
Grimsley is not a strikeout pitcher, oddly enough. He is this year, picked 198 innings, struck out only 79 batters, even though he throws the ball very hard.
Left-hander to the plate, Campanera drills it foul into the feast over the top of the red dugout, which is located on the first-base side of this beautiful stadium on the riverfront in downtown Cincinnati.
Mattie Allou and Joe Rudy will back also here in the first inning for Oakland.
A very fair park for home runs, 330 feet down the line in left and right, 375 in the foul alley and 404 in dead center, defense about 10 feet high.
Campanera takes the curve low, the first breaking ball that Grimsley has thrown.
They tell us he's very inconsistent about how he pitches. He'll go out one day and be a breaking ball pitcher. The next day he feels better with a fast ball, so he'll go 90 percent fast balls.
Here's the 2-2 pitch and Campanera fouls it back. I would imagine that Johnny Bench, who though is only 24 years old, is considered a veteran, might have a lot to do with what Mr. Grimsley throws out there in this game and others, because he definitely is a leader type.
Here's Opec. Campanera bounces one of the second baseman, Joe Morgan, up with it. Lots of time. He throws him out, one down.
Now here's Mattie Allou. The Oakland A's right fielder, who hit over 300 for the year, mostly with the same-bill cardinals. The A's obtained him from the Cardinals August 27th in a trade for an outfielder named Bill Voss and a minor league player.
Mattie appeared in 32 Oakland games and the A's were winners in 22 of those down the stretch.
Grimsley's first pitch is a curve outside a ball.
Reds infield playing very shallow on Allou, particularly Dennis Menke at third. He is inside the bag and towards home plate.
All strikes over the outside corner and Jim, that looked like they'd cut fastball to me. It was not a slider, but it looked like one and for all intents and purposes could be the same thing.
That basically is how the pitcher throws a slider anyway, is they cut the fastball.
Here's the one-on-one pitch and Allou bounced it on the infield. Dennis Menke over to his left, up with it 20 of time. He gets him at first base there are two down.
Down here is the A's most consistent hitter through the 1972 season, Joe Rudy. Rudy was in the top five hitters throughout the season.
The NA League ended up with a 3.05 average and 19 home runs.
And the Reds counting reports 10-bear outfielders, particularly the center fielder, well over in the right center.
A gaping hole up the alley in left center field for Rudy. They do not expect him to pull the ball.
He has hit several home runs, however, to left field. He's a right-handed batter, a big, strong guy. Lifts weights all winter to stay in shape.
There's a line shot left field base hit. He hit it right through where the shortstop normally would be playing.
And on the pitch, incidentally, the shortstop training broke to his left as he was on the way to the plate.
It was supposed to be an outside pitcher, apparently, and it was not, and Rudy yanked it right by where he had been.
So there's the first hit for Joe Rudy in World Series competition, and it brings to the plate the A's strongman Mike Epstein.
Mike Epstein led the Oakland Ball Club in home runs this year with 26. He had a 270 batting average and knocked in 70 runs.
Joe Morgan, the second baseman for Cincinnati, is almost out of sight. He's out in right field.
Pitch is low and away, that seems.
Their shortstop is playing almost on a line over the pitcher's mound and out around second base.
Dennis Minsky about 20 steps over towards second.
And Perez, the first baseman, is playing right behind Joe Rudy, not holding him off.
Strike call, Epstein. It's one ball and one strike.
Yesterday's game, Epstein did not have a hit. In three at bats, he hit one walk and came close to hitting one out of here.
His first time up, he backed Ronimo through the wall in right field.
Grenfell is back to the curve and it's bang foul, past A's first base coach Jerry Adair.
Adair was a player for Dick Williams, the A's manager, the last time that Williams was in a World Series.
That was in 67 when he managed the Boston Red Sox, two un-American league clinics.
One, two pitchers, a curve outside and high. Two balls, two strikes, Epstein.
Mike really looks them over. He takes a lot of pitches.
He hit a ball yesterday that was headed to right field and on normal baseball fields for the American league would have been a base hit easily.
But here Joe Morgan just went over to his left and threw him out at first base very easily.
Two, two pitch. Curve ball popped up out behind third near the stands. Menti going over. He may have a play on it.
He holds up and can't grab it off. Just short of the stands to the far end of the Oakland A's dugout.
Menti playing over for the left-handed full-hitting Epstein and could not really get a visual sighting on that ball.
Apparently the sunshine, which is very bright right now here in Cincinnati, prevented him from picking it up exactly.
He couldn't really go all the way to the wall after that one.
Two balls, two strikes, two out and one on in the south half of the first inning, game two of the 1972 World Series.
Gently sets the pitch on the way. Very close and Epstein's got to have good eyes to take one like that.
Speaking of Epstein's eyes, he had an eye infection which kept him out of the A's lineup for a period of 12 days this year.
He wears contact lenses and got some kind of an infection in his eye.
Now Perez will back up behind Joe Rudy. Rudy now will be able to get a few extra steps as they don't hold him on at all.
Epstein ready to play. Here's the pitch. Swing and a miss. Change up curve ball. Beautiful pitch by Grimsley.
So in the first inning Oakland no runs, one hit. No errors. There was a man left on.
After a half an inch of play the A's don't score. The Reds come to back.
Well it wasn't surprising that a catcher was the key figure in the opening game of the 1972 World Series.
But it was unusual that the hero was the Oakland A's catcher, not the Cincinnati Reds catcher.
Gene Tennis, who isn't exactly a household name, achieved a remarkable feat by becoming the first player ever to homer in his first two World Series at bats
to give the underdog A's a three or two victory over the Reds.
And that was enough to overshadow Johnny Bench, who collected two hits, walked, and scored both Cincinnati Reds run in the losing cause.
Tennis, whose only hit in the American League playoffs won the final game after his error helped to lose the fourth game,
also made the key play in the field that ruined the Reds' best comeback hope.
He called for a pick out after David Concepcion led off to seven for the singles.
Concepcion was going on a hit and run play and he was gunned down at second.
It was a controversial play because Concepcion insisted he never touched me.
But umpire Mel Steiner said he was tagged out and it was important because the Reds got two walks later in the inning.
Now back to World Series action.
Back in Cincinnati, Jim Sinclair with Monty Moore, a cap-ditch hunter now, taking his warm-up since he's had 21-7 on the regular season,
the best winning percentage in the American League, 7-50.
He started the first and fourth games of the recent playoffs against Detroit, had no decisions,
worked 15 in the third inning, gave up two runs, 10 hits, and his run run average during that 15 in the third inning span, 1.17.
Yesterday, in trying to figure out how the Oakland A's would out as they would play at the Cincinnati Reds,
were the overwhelming favorites, we made a point.
A lot of people felt it was how they handled their left-handers, handled the Cincinnati staff.
Today it is the right-handers and that means they're going to get a rose.
Morgan and Tullin are left-handers before Johnny Bent comes to bat as the first right-handed batter.
Last to the first, there is no score, Rose steps in and showed his muscle.
Hunter had trouble in the early innings in both playoff games against Detroit,
but he's a bulldog of a pitcher and stayed right in there and picked a...
Here's the first pick to beat Rose, and it's inside for a ball.
Eight years and all, this great player has hit over 300 in National League play.
He's held it without a hit yesterday.
Down to a deep crouch, the pitch to him is high, high fly ball out in the left.
Kapaner at the shortstop is back, Joe Rudy may run him off the play, he does,
and he has left fielder put to the way, there's one out.
Now here's little Joe Morgan who lives in Oakland, will be in business in Oakland this coming winter.
And he has really been in big business here in Cincinnati this year.
He had stolen 131 bases the past three years, ranking him among baseball's best base-sealers,
and he racked up 58 more this year for Cincinnati, a definite candidate for most valuable player in the National League.
He gets 292, the pitch to him is inside in low ball one.
He also knocked in 73 runs for the Big Red Machine.
Fastball called strikes, one ball and one strike.
Jim Hunter, a controlled pitcher, and by that I don't mean that he just doesn't walk many.
He's been three a game, but a controlled pitcher in the Major Leagues is one who controls the strike where he wants it.
Curved swinging strike two, and that one really turned the corner.
A's catchers, there you could catch Catfish Hunter in a rocking chair.
Puts the mid up, and the ball is going to be very close to there.
He's having his normal day.
37 starts, Hunter had very few bad games this year.
In the swinging strike three, he blew a fastball by Morgan, the inside part of the plate knee-high.
So there are two down now in the first inning, and here's Bobby Tolan, another of the exciting Cincinnati Red Outfielders.
As Jim Simpson was mentioning yesterday, this guy has had an Achilles tendon tear not once, but twice.
A very serious injury to any athlete, particularly one who explodes away from the plate with the power and strength and speed of a Bobby Tolan.
Bobby had a hit here yesterday at 283 for the season and knocked in 82 runs.
Just ran up on the first pitch, and it is high for ball one.
Mike Epstein, the A's big first baseman, is very, very deep on the right side, and Dick Green, the second baseman, is halfway out in right field.
The pitch, swinging strike, one ball and one strike.
You would look at a defense like this and look at a hitter with the speed of a Tolan and figure that if he could drag the ball by the mound, he would have an easy base hit.
But on this carpet, not so. He just tried it, and he missed. Swinging strike two.
Tolan trying to punt on a Hunter high fastball.
In the first inning, it's about 15 degrees cooler than it was at this time yesterday, but bright sunshine. Now ball back is Tolan. Took a rip at a Hunter fastball. One ball and two strikes.
This left-handed batter can hit the ball out of the park. He hit eight home runs this year and swiped 42 bases.
The batter kicks the white shoe of the A's in the air, throws a breaking ball that is thrown on a miss. The catcher does not see the ball. Now he picks it up, and Tolan standing at home plate is tagged out.
Very disgustedly standing there. He never did start to run. Dean Tennessey, A's catcher, never saw the ball, which he had blocked with his miss.
So, Kempley-Tennessey strikes out Morgan and Tolan. The Reds go one, two, three, and after ending a play, it is nothing and nothing.
Taking a look at an old World Series, only one perfect game has ever been thrown in a World Series, and that's Don Larson's 2-2-0 masterpiece for the Yankees over the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956.
Two other Yankee hurlers came close. Bill Bevens was winging toward that elusive mark in 1947, also against the Dodgers, when Cookie Lovagetto broke up the perfect game with a 2-0 hit in the ninth.
And in 1927, the year of Babe Ruth's 60 home run season, Flinders Southpaw Herb Pannock tried to share some of the glory coming the way of the Bronx Bombers.
With the help of murderers' roles, Pannock knocked 19 games during the regular season, and the Yorkers won the first two games of the 27th series from the Pirates, and Pannock won game three.
Pannock carefully noted the hitting personalities of the Pirates in the first two games, and when his turn came, he was ready.
He retired Glen Wright on a sharp grounder leading off the eighth. The next batter was Pye Treanor. Treanor laced a single to snap Pannock's no-hit in perfect game, and then Bennett chased him home with a double.
But now back to 1972 and Supernatti, Ohio.
Well, we have to comment on just what happened. Bobby Dolan went for a low pitch out of the strike zone, struck out swinging to end the first, and was so disgusted he never ran it out.
He was honest to catch it, didn't know where the ball was, told it might have been fake, and brought up Johnny Bench, the Major League leading RBR man.
Now for the fifth time in the series, which is only a little bit more than the game holds, in the next thing, Bench must lead off again.
He'll have no chance to drive and run, barring hitting a home run. But it's the top of the second, here again as much.
Val Bendo, the A's team captain who led the ball club in game-winning hits with 16, is up to start it off, and he fouls one right under us.
Foul ball coming back over that screen, looks as if it had a shot at us for a while.
Strike one to Bendo. He had a 236 batting average this year, some 40 points under his Major League career average.
But he had 15 home runs, he is a clutch player. Knocked him 77 runs for the A's to lead the team. Takes a good swing and fouls it back.
No balls, two strikes. Ross Grimsley, they say, is as cool as a 22-year-old player could be.
He showed it by pitching a two-hitter at the Pirates at a much-needed time for a good pitching job for Cincinnati in the playoffs.
Now the 0-2 pitch to Bendo knocks him off the plate a little bit, it's 1-2.
Bendo was probably the youngest team captain ever to play in the Major Leagues and be so appointed by his manager.
1968, only his second year in the Majors, he was designated Oakland A's team captain. He has that kind of leadership ability.
A curveball, lying to left-center field, it's a base hit over to cut it off with a leaping grab at Solon.
Grimsley hung a curveball to Bendo, who is a very good breaking ball hitter, and he ripped it to left-center field.
Base hit number two for Oakland and for Bendo his first Major League base hit in the World Series.
Here is George Hendricks, a young fella who has an attitude a whole lot like Grimsley.
He has not been around this kind of competition very much, but it doesn't bother him.
The Oakland A's players call George easy.
He's at four home months this year, batted 182, played very little, bouncing balls.
Off the pitcher's glove, the second baseman Morgan over to the shortstop for one back to first, no double play.
Keeney just missed a double play, and the way they missed it was that Grimsley, the pitcher,
tipped the ball to the second baseman Morgan, who had it, I believe, all the way for what would have been an easy double play.
George Hendricks beats out the throw to first, and he's on for Keene Tennis.
Gives the pitcher an assist on that play, and the crowd starts to buzz a little as Keene Tennis comes up.
You know, they're talking about Tennis pulling something yesterday, and it being such an upset.
There's a high fly ball out into short left field.
Back goes Cheney and comes Rose, and Pete takes it off.
Hendrick goes back over to first base. There are two down.
People in the national league seem to be very startled about the fact that Tennis can hit the ball,
but he has a lifetime big league average of 275, 280, somewhere in that vicinity,
and though he hasn't played much for Oakland this year, he came on very strongly at the end of the season,
and the A's aren't too surprised any time Tennis has a good day.
Here's Dick Green, the second baseman, at a disc removed from his back early in the season,
swinging foul-tips, one strike count on Green.
Dick was off to a super start for Oakland, was hitting 381, went at Yankee Stadium on a night of April 24th,
a very cold night, he hit a ground ball to the left side of the infield and started running to first and just crumpled in a heap.
Turned out he had a 180 disc. They operated on it very quickly, and you might call it miraculous that he's playing baseball here again.
Dick's feeling the swung hit right up the middle, off second base in the center field of base hit for Green.
So Dick Green is on it first, George Hendricks stops at second base, and now the best hitting pitcher in the American League, Jim Catfish Hunter, comes up.
Last year Hunter hit 350 for the Oakland A's, and when he went to the contract table with A's owner Charlie Finley to negotiate his 1972 contract,
they got very close, and finally Hunter said, I'll tell you what, I'll settle for $50,000 only on one condition.
That you call $45,000 of it for my pitching, $5,000 of it for my hitting. Charlie Finley said, you got a deal.
So Hunter is a pitcher who got paid for hitting last year. A big time, swing and a miss, a strike.
Hunter bats him right handed. Very strong guy, 200 pounder. He hits a lot to right field. Finley says, Hunter hits a line drive left field, base hit left field, Hendrick can score.
He's rounding third, here comes a throw to a plate, here comes Hendrick, Finch blocks the plate, but he doesn't get the ball, Hendrick scores.
And the Oakland A's are leading the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 on a line drive, base hit by Jim Catfish Hunter.
The first play we have had at the plate in the World Series, Jim, and I was really interested in seeing how the throw from the outfield gets to the plate in a hurry on the bat.
It sure does, and now we begin to end this game of inches as we always talk about money.
Realized that when Hendrick hits that ball back and was slightly chipped by Ross Rimsley, they'll race any chance for double play.
If he had not chipped it, they would have been out of the inning.
A big, big consideration for sure, and Rimsley chipped it with the glove hand, which is the hand away from the side the ball is going.
He lunged at it. It was a close play at first. You have to hand George Hendrick some credit for the speed and hustle with which he went down that line on what looks to be a sure double play.
The Reds have runners first and second, and here's the leadoff man, Campanaris. A fix to him is a fastball too low at ball one.
One of the few times in the last month or so of the season that an A's second baseman has batted his first time up with a man on base, Rick Green-Dead, kept the inning alive with a base hit.
Now Rimsley's fix to Campanaris is outside in high ball two, and the Little Road runner is looking him over, and right away the bullpen crew goes to work for Cincinnati.
Pedro Borbón, who fixed here yesterday, a right-hander, is up loosening for the Reds.
Green off second, Hunter off first, Rimsley's fix, Campanaris hits one to left center field, base hit, Green rounding third, he's heading home, here comes the throw.
It is going to be close, and he cracks it in the bench, bench holds onto the ball, Green is out.
Pedro throws throughout Dick Green on a base hit by Campanaris, Johnny Bench got that ball about four feet up the line, he was getting a real good head man fake at the plate.
So the Oakland A's score one run in the second inning on three base hits, there were no errors, and there were two left on.
The score after an inning and a half in Cincinnati, Oakland won Cincinnati nothing.
Well, Bert Campanaris was scared witless, he admitted it, he was scared Thursday night, turning over and over in his mind the enormity of what he had done, so he got down on his knees.
He was still frightened and clearly apprehensive as to what kind of reception he'd received when he showed up at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati Friday,
before most of his Oakland A teammates for a final workout before Saturday's World Series opener with the Reds.
Have you seen this? Ask one newsman handing Campanaris the statement that was issued by Louis Kuhn, the commissioner of baseball,
and that statement of course had said that Campanaris would be suspended the first seven days of next season for deliberately throwing his bat at Detroit pitcher, Laren Legeroll in last Sunday's game at Oakland.
Kuhn however was allowing Campanaris to participate in the World Series.
I feel very happy said the Venezuelan board in failed her, it's fair.
In no time at all virtually all the reporters who had been behind the batting cage watched the Reds workout move toward Campanaris,
and Campanaris said beautiful ballpark, we're seeing it for the first time, and now let's get back to that ballpark and more action between Oakland and Cincinnati.
They were probably discussing that play, it took them out of a big inning and that had been the fourth day's hit, that one by Campanaris in the inning, last of the second, one to nothing Oakland to here's month.
Johnny Bentz, a very unusual twist to the first game yesterday, the cleanup hitter ended up the leadoff batter four times, and here he is again today.
Hunter's curveball showing him a strike at the letter.
The National League home run and RBI champion Johnny Bentz.
He hit 40, Homer's knocked in 125 runs.
Hunter's fixed to him a fastball of the outside corner, and he's throwing it in the teacup today. No balls and two strikes.
Jake Williams was very irritated, I believe, at the play of the plate and the fact that Bentz had the baseline so far blocked before he had the ball.
There's a bouncing ball deep behind second throw, the first by Campanaris is not in time.
Johnny Bentz gets the base hit up the middle that Campanaris fielded in short centerfield.
Well as the leadoff man, Jim, Bentz is doing quite a job.
Met off yesterday and had a couple of bases left to walk and of course scored the first two runs as the leadoff man.
I don't think we've pointed out to those who may not have heard yesterday, this is the most completely carpeted field in the major leagues.
Only the sections around each base are uncovered.
Only those sections have dirt. Everything else between the bases is covered.
Bank hit first, here's a fix to Tony Perez and it's fouled up just two eyelaps, strike one.
Perez in yesterday's ball game for Cincinnati had a couple of base hits.
He's knocked in 90 runs, six years in a row in the National League.
Johnny Bentz is fouled two bases and the playoffs has got a lead at first.
Hunter gives him a look, fix to the plate, Perez takes a high hanging breaking ball, it's one and one.
The Oakland A's had five hits off young Ross Grimsley already, but it made them count for only one run.
Hunter throws to the plate, Perez hits a high fly ball up third.
Mando over near the stand, there'll be no play for the A's, Captain.
So the scoreboard ticks off the second strike, it's one ball, two strikes on Perez.
The first baseman, far open, one run, five hits and no errors for Cincinnati, no runs, one hit and no errors.
The last half of the second inning.
Jim Hunter, who has won over 60 games total the last three years, comes to the plate with a fastball, moving Perez back a little bit at two and two.
Hunter says that winning 20 games was a bigger thrill to him than pitching the perfect game, which he did and is the last pitcher in the major leagues to do so, against Minnesota in 1968.
The first ball to Perez takes it high, three and two.
So this could be a mighty big pitch for Jim Hunter, with the runner at first base, Johnny Bench.
Dick Green comes in a little more shallow now at second.
Bench leads away, he might be going here, he's leaning.
Epstein watches him go, the pitcher's outside, ball four.
Jim Hunter gave up a two-strike base hit to Johnny Bench, he hit one right up the middle.
And now Perez draws a walk and a three-two count in the red, as the tying and goal hit runners on.
And here is third baseman Dennis Mimke, who Sparky Anderson calls one of the best puck hitters in baseball.
Now Pando's going over from third base to talk to Jim Hunter.
Deirdre Rose getting two shots at runners at the plate, got one of them.
Dick Green was the runner and he is not close to back to his full running speed, which he was actually a pretty fast runner.
Mimke squares around, bumps the ball foul off the first base line.
Geronimo and Cheney do to come up following Mimke, the reds trying to move Johnny Bench up.
The A's yesterday wore a California gold top to their uniforms, today they're wearing a Kelly Green.
They always wear what Charlie Finley calls a polar bear white pants and they wear white baseball shoes.
They were the first team to deviate in the Major Leagues on the normal black baseball shoes,
but today several Major League teams wear varying colored shoes.
Chicago White Sox wear red shoes.
One strike to count, runners first and second, nobody down, last half of the second inning.
The A's have a pick up play on down at second, the ball goes under center field.
Goad Hendrick in to pick it up, Mimke goes over to third and going to second his foray.
That throw from Hunter went right over the bag, but Johnny Bench coming back in crashed him to Dick Green,
and Green did not catch the ball.
The A's executed that play quite often this year, they would start their shortstop towards third base,
hoping that the runner at second would go over that way, figuring second was not being covered.
Then the pitcher Hunter wheels and covers second with a throw.
Dick Green got over there, the throw went right over the bag, it will have to be an error on the play,
and now the A's infield backs up to pitch to Mimke, swing a high fly ball off first base near the stands,
Epstein is over, no play.
The throwing error by Catfish Hunter, the A's pitcher, moves Bench to third and Perez to second,
and now the Oakland A's would be content to give up a run on a ground ball of the infield,
unless it happened to be hit very sharply to Sal Bando.
Campaneras has a good enough arm that even though he's playing short and playing it very deep,
he could take a shot at the plate.
Hunter working off the full windup.
Here's the pitch, Mimke takes inside of all at one and two.
Hunter really needs a strikeout right here.
Mimke is a tough strikeout.
Shortens up on the bat with two strikes on him, he's up on the handle, four or five inches.
Around comes the arm, Hunter's pitch to the curve outside,
shots quick and he switches on the way with the swinging strike through.
And that's what gets him to the first set of the game.
He's also whether or not to put Geronimo on with an open base and set up the possibility of a double play.
We shall see, he has got his scorecard out, he is talking to the infielders,
and as he does, we call 30 seconds for safety identification.
In football this afternoon, NFL action, in the first period, Cleveland and Chicago,
Thomas has scored a touchdown, 41 yard pass from Douglas to Thomas,
the extra point by Percival, the score now is Chicago 7 and Cleveland nothing.
And in the first period, a touchdown by the Jets, a run by Riggins, the extra point by Halfield was good,
and the score now, New England are, New York Jets 7, New England nothing,
and let's pause now for safety identification.
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That's what he does with Geronimo, hits around him a little bit, not giving him anything too good,
first base is open, we'll see his punch.
Hunter's pitching to a 275 hitter, swinging at him, that's going to be a good live fastball.
So the A's are going right at this fellow, changing cherry to hot bat through the last week or so of the National League playoffs.
So Vic Williams is going to take his chances right here with Geronimo.
Runners second and third, the pitch on the way, swinging, strike two, and Hunter is just challenging the batter now.
He's not being cute, it's just rear back and let her go.
You wonder, Marty, whether or not Vic Williams got paper he took out of his pocket,
might not have been his scouting report, showing and reminding Hunter what's the throw.
No balls, two strikes.
The pitch on the way, curve ball and he pops his foul, out of play.
Yes, it would be a little unusual that a baseball manager might take crib notes for a little conference out of the mound,
but I understand that Williams had just that yesterday in his hands when he went out there, a scouting report.
He also had in his other hand a look at the lineup card to see who was going to be batting next.
When you're playing a team from another league, the A's never even play Cincinnati in spring training,
they train in Florida, the A's in Arizona.
A good swing and a foul out of play.
Geronimo in order to knock in a run.
Just has to hit the ball on the infield somewhere to the right side.
They are so deep that the A's would be content to give up a run in order to get that big second out.
Jim Hunter, the catfish as he's called, throws, misses inside, hits one and two.
He's got Geronimo off with two blazing fastballs, then threw a couple of curves.
One was taken for a ball.
Dean Tennant gives the target. It's inside again, the pitch fouled off.
Geronimo was late swinging at Hunter's first two fastballs, but it looks now as if he has shortened the swing up a little bit,
knowing he's just got to make some contact.
The score is 1-0 Oakland, last half of inning number two.
But the Reds right now are in a great position to score.
These are Geronimo.
Surprised in that trade with Houston.
He's up on the bat handle about three or four inches.
Hunter winds, kicks and throws high, and inside it goes to two balls, two strikes.
This is that curveball fastball off first.
Hunter throws two kinds of fastballs. He'll throw fastball over the top.
That's a riser, and he has an eye that he cuts a little bit.
And it sinks.
It looks as if he was throwing the thinking fastball early to Geronimo.
Two balls, two strikes.
Bents from third, Perez from second, gets the lead.
Hunter's pitch on the way, fouled away.
And this, Geronimo, everything's all fouled up.
Five or six in a row, he's just trying to get some.
Piece of the work on the ball.
The A's right field, and Black Thumb's down except for a little curve out in right where Mattie Allou, the A's right fielder, is standing.
The battle goes on between Hunter and Tennant.
Now the North Carolinian, Kep Lue, swinging quick free.
He's got another one.
So there are two down, and change is the batter with first base open.
And Dick Williams is going out of the dugout towards the mound.
This will be a second trip to the mound in this inning.
And when he was first base open, he's calling him over here now.
You never like to put men on, but the scouting report is on Ralph Grimsley as they hit it.
Not much.
He's only had 14 hits in his life in 117 halfbacks.
All of those have been sinked.
And again, you can look at another way of a baseball man.
The tying run is a third base to go ahead and run a second base as well.
But you would like to get Chaney and shut off inning number three with Grimsley.
And that only opens up a pretty good channel of awareness for second guessing, Jim.
Well, a priority of important talent in that, and money, as long as you've got a one-run lead, you try to keep it.
We'll find out what the answer is going to be.
Chaney has got a hot hearse.
He's a big guy.
He's got a 6'1", 190 pounder. For the year, he hit 250.
There he's got a walkie.
Now, Ralph Grimsley will have it on his shoulders.
I would imagine that there will be people who will ask Dick Williams after the game,
why did you even go to the mound to talk about this?
And Dick will have an answer.
He can bet on that.
If Hunter gets out of this, it will be the kind of shot-hardest pitching that has made him one of the best in the American League.
I don't know what they're talking about, money. Someone asked Dick Williams yesterday.
He, like most of the Oakland A's, wears them fast, and it's slightly gray.
He said when he started the playoffs, it was black.
It's turned. It has been a wild, wild baseball situation in America the last 10 days.
Here's Ralph Grimsley, left-handed batter. Base is loaded.
The pitch for Hunter, high above, 1-0.
And the Cincinnati fans.
Got that enthusiasm with a little vocal support for Grimsley.
Hunter's pitch coming in there.
High fly ball, off-serve, near the stand.
Being chased by Vando and Campanera as he goes into the tree.
Hits the ball on a strike.
Three players and two umpires converge down the same area.
Down the left-field line.
One-on-one the catch.
Grimsley talks about, here's the pitch, strike two called.
Jim Hunter has had an exceptional fastball here in just the second inning.
And he has needed every mile per hour of velocity that he could get on it.
Here's the one-and-two pitch. He's stuck out the flag.
That's Big Hunter displaying fantastic courage with a runner at third and nobody down.
Strikes out Minky Geronimo and Grimsley.
And after two innings of play, it's one-to-nothing go-flags.
The United States has won the Davis Cup.
Stan Smith defeated Romania's Ion Tiriac 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 2-6, 6-0 in a dramatic three-and-one-half-hour tennis battle today in Bucharest.
Takes the title.
And that gives the U.S. team a three-to-one lead in the three-day meet, a cheering hit of the Cubs, no matter what the outcome of the last single match today.
Smith's victory gives the United States the fifth consecutive Davis Cup win.
An achievement that no other team has obtained in the post-war history of the covetous Cubs.
But the reigning Wimbledon champion had more troubles with the 33-year-old Tiriac than he and everybody else expected.
Smith started getting very nervous and lost his service in the second game, allowing Tiriac to move on to a 5-2 lead and take the first set, 6-4.
And the Miami Dolphins go after their fifth straight National Football League victory against San Diego today at the Orange Ball in NFL action.
They go to the top of the third inning, ultimately one-to-nothing, going into second.
Bando let off with a single.
Hendrick down to the ball back.
The Grimsley cuts and possibly took off the double play.
Hendrick reaching on the dealer's choice as Bando reports a second base.
The tennis fight out, the Green singles and then Hunter's singles.
And it was Captain Hunter's single that drove in Hendrick for the only one of the ball games.
Campanera, single, and they sent Green of all, but he was out by a mile.
In all from all year, Monique and Judge Ittard, the President and I, have been a very aggressive ball club on the bases, led by Campy Campanera.
Well, Johnny Bench shot down Campanera yesterday along with fast runner Alan Lewis as they tried to steal second.
Pete Rose today has had two chances at home plate, but obviously Monique, they're not going to change their game plan.
They're running. They're aggressive. They lead one to nothing if we start the third.
The A's team all season has been make it happen, and that's the way they do it.
Matty Ulu, better under the A's, up, and tries to bang one by the third base when it goes foul.
Dennis Minsky playing it very shallow, and Matty likes to go to the left side with an outside pick.
He'll pull the inside pick.
Grimsley delivers. Ulu takes the curve high for a ball.
Matty is 33 years old. He's from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
A great little player, a great little man. He has been outstanding for Oakland.
The curve ball's back tall at one and two.
Matty has appeared in three All-Star games, the Championship Series, and the World Series before this year.
So he has been there.
Grimsley's first. Matty hits it on the ground to Dennis Minsky.
And the red third baseman fires across the Perez.
There's one out in the top after the third inning.
Here's Joe Rudy.
Rudy pulled a sharp grounder through the left side of the infield for a base hit back in the first inning.
It was the first of five hits the A's have so far in the game.
Rudy is one of the slowest players in baseball and getting in through the home plate area.
He always takes a lot of time, sort of regroups as he gets up there.
Grimsley throws a curve that hangs high and outside to Rudy.
Call in.
Joe's one of the very few Major League Baseball players I have ever heard of who really believes in weightlifting as a conditioning process.
Carl Jepcimski had a minor weightlifting program the year he won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1967.
But he doesn't go extensively at it. Rudy does, during the winter only, of course.
Grimsley throws one and oh, and Rudy takes a strike on the outside corner.
It's one and one now.
Back to the game today, these teams will wing to the West Coast where they'll be playing in Oakland, California on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights,
the first time in the history of the World Series. Three games played at night.
Rudy bowels his pick into the upper deck here. It didn't quite reach that far.
Back over the right side of the dugout and almost to the
One and two counts.
Well, the weather in Oakland has been wet, they tell us. It's been raining for four or five days.
I hope the weatherman will turn it off for the night game Tuesday.
Nick Saruti is hit up into the air in the deep left field. That baby is really going to charge it.
And it is going and there she goes. A home run for Joe Rudy.
A large group of Oakland A's fans waving the white and gold pennants as Joe Rudy touches home plate with his first ever World Series homer.
Ramonny, you'd never like to give up a home run, but when you're ahead of the hitter, one ball, two strikes, and you give up the home run, that hurts.
We had mentioned earlier that Joe Rudy can pull certain pitches for power. He's got hit one way up into the seat to get away left field.
Here's Mike Epstein now shooting up in Oakland. Epstein hits the ball sharply at Perez. First tacker, it goes to the bag and steps on it there to that.
The A's led the American League in home runs this year with 134. The Reds hit 124 on the National League. Yesterday Oakland had two. Mando fouls his pitch off to the right side.
Oakland surprising most baseball people, particularly National Leaguers by jumping off to a one game lead here yesterday.
Mando hits the track rather than hit part of the dirt on the pitchers man goes to the shortstop, he fires a cross for the out end. That's all for the A's here on the third inning.
They pick up a run on the Rudy homer. Nobody left in the score after two and a half innings. Oakland 2, Cincinnati nothing.
Coming up in Troll football today, the Miami Dolphins, the only unbeaten team in Troll football, take on the San Diego Chargers in an American football conference flag.
And in other key games, the Kansas City Chiefs, leaders of the AFC Western Division are at home against the Central Division leading Cincinnati Bengals.
The Dallas Cowboys play the Colts at Baltimore and the Washington Redskins battle the Cardinals in St. Louis.
Outwards, Chicago at Cleveland, Houston at Pittsburgh, Los Angeles playing the Winless Eagles in Philadelphia.
The New York Nets, or Nets Jets rather, are at New England, Atlanta, New Orleans, Minnesota hopes to get back in the winning track against the Broncos at Denver.
And Buffalo plays the Raiders in Oakland. And the New York Giants are at San Francisco.
And in the Jets New England game at the end of one quarter, it's the New York Jets 7 and New England nothing.
Chicago leads Cleveland by a score of 7 and nothing. And Miami has just scored. Now it's 3 for Miami and nothing for San Diego.
Good morning, this is Jim Pinson and Monty Ovely and I believe in pointing it out.
This is only the third time in the two games that the Reds have started an inning with their top three men.
Rose, Morgan, and Tullis. They need one of these of them to get on base.
Hunter, pitching to feed Rose now. First pitch to him is lying to left center field. He's on base.
George Hendrick over to pick it up and Rose takes the turn off first and holds on.
Yes, you know what Jim, they said, as long as you can keep this leading up.
And it was certainly a day on the last inning. Pinch and Perez got on, but then the bottom part of the batting order is up.
And Hunter moved them down with Strega.
This Red Bull club is going to come from the High Club all year long. They did it in the playoffs.
And here is Joe Morgan to try to keep it going as Rose is on with a second hit off Hunter.
Morgan struck out his first time up. Little up-handed batter draws the eighth third baseman, Bando, in.
Rose leaps away from first. Hunter to the plate. High pop-up behind the plate.
Gene Tennant's coming back. He may have a play right in front of the screen. He has under it. He's got it. Rose backs it first. He'll hold on.
Gene Tennant's very calmly coming back. He left his mask at home plate.
And right in front of the screen behind the plate, Greek steps and made the catch.
And he's looking right straight up into the sunshine at that spot on the ball field.
One down. Here's Bobby Dolan. The score is open to Cincinnati nothing.
A long home run by Joe Rudy. Gave the A's their second.
Hunter's such swinging strikes. Oh, he's quick today.
I've watched Hunter ever since he made his first pitch in the Major Leagues. He's never picked an inning in a minor.
I've never seen him any quicker than he's been this year.
Rose draws it close. He gets too far off the bag at first.
One strike down.
Swinging strike Dolan way, way out front of a Hunter curve ball.
The Reds have the both end crew up going again.
Big lead for Pedro as it's first he's not going. A pitch is fouled away.
Pedro Barbon
Was up a little while ago for Cincinnati.
This is Wayne Thompson.
Dolan sets it at that very high. A pitch showing high fly ball.
Out behind short. Campanella is going back.
And the A's little short stop puts it away holding Pedro at first there are two down.
Here's Johnny Bench and with open leading by only two runs.
This crowd at Cincinnati starts to get a little excited.
For the first time in the series he comes up with somebody on base.
Hunter really picked him super the last time up so Bench got a base hit.
He got it off a great curve ball low and away from him.
He's got so strong he's muscle the ball up the middle.
A pitch showing there is a fast ball outside.
His home run that I ate the last game of the National League Championship Series went into the right field stand.
But they say very few home runs go that way off Bench's back.
Curve misses low ball boost. So Hunter knows his job right now.
Knots throw the long ball to Johnny Bench who left the National League with 40.
Had one strike at seven home runs in seven days in late May for a National League record.
Here is a big pitch 2-0 way outside ball free.
Johnny Bench looks at the third base coach but I doubt if there's any real reason to do it.
They'll certainly give him the green light to go here if he wants to on 3-0.
Here's the pitch right down the dude he was taking all the way 3-1.
Rose let off the third inning with a single. Morgan and Tullen popped up but now here's the big guy.
Johnny Bench has the play. Hunter's set here's the pitch.
Fast ball hit up into the air and a deep center field. George Hendricks going back with lots of room.
Down it comes. He's got it and the Reds are retired in the third.
No runs ahead. They left the lane on and the score after three innings of play.
Oakland 2-0. Well taking a look at the top 20 major college football teams yesterday and how they fared.
Number one Southern California defeated California 42-14. Oklahoma defeated Texas 27-0.
Number three Alabama defeated Florida 24-7. Ohio State over Illinois 26-7.
Nebraska won Missouri 62-0. Michigan defeated Michigan State 10-0.
Number seven Notre Dame defeated Pittsburgh 42-16.
Number eight LSU defeated Auburn 35-7. Number nine was Auburn.
Number ten Washington lost to Sanford 24-0. Number eleven Texas lost to Oklahoma.
Tennessee did not play. Number thirteen UCLA defeated Oregon State 37-7.
Iowa State lost to Colorado 34-22. Number fifteen rated Air Force defeated Boston College 13-9.
Colorado defeated Iowa State 34-22. They were rated 16.
Penn State over Army 45-0. Arizona State Utah 59-48.
And Oklahoma State lost to Virginia Tech 34-32.
We have Henrikh Tennyson bringing in the Oakland 4th. Oakland leads 2-0.
In the second inning they got a run after Bando's single.
Henrikh reached on the 4th play.
Hennes swiped out but then Green kept it alive with the single.
And Captain Hunter, the pitcher, drove in the first run.
In the third inning Joe Rudy not having a good time this last couple of days.
He was rolled for 13 in the playoff world just before today.
Singled in the first. In the third with one out he hit the towering home run to make it 2-0.
Now the Reds have not been without their chances.
They have the leadoff men on first and second with none out.
And Captain Shucken out of the second.
And then Rose let off with the single in the third and they failed to score.
But now we go to the fourth and here's the money.
George Henrikh the leadoff batter for Oakland takes the call strike.
From Ross Grimsley a 14 game winner for Cincinnati this year.
They have right-hander Wayne Simpson and another right-hander Pedro Borbón throwing in the bullpen.
One strike count to Henrikh. He swings and chops one out towards the line.
Grimsley's got it. Turns and throws the first for the yard.
Henrikh pops the breaking ball.
It bounced about head high. Grimsley off the line and I already got it and threw the first for the yard.
Now here's the ace tacker Gene Hennes.
They call in Genebo to Ohio. The ace player is calling Geno.
The Cincinnati fans were probably calling him something else here yesterday.
He had two home runs.
The first man in a long history of Major League Baseball to hit two homers his first two times up in a World Series.
First pick thrown is down low, ball one.
He's become elated as you say around this game as many times as things have been done that there's ever a first anymore.
Thanks to the outside corner one and one.
As one rider put it here in Cincinnati, not even Babe Ruth, not even Lou Gehrig, not even Dow Maxville hit two homers their first two times up in a World Series.
There's a grounder hit their short. Up for the ball on the short hopper, Janie and his throw to Perez.
And then time, there are two down.
Now he's second baseman Dick Drain.
The last facet of this baseball game is that both centerfielders, Holen of Cincinnati and George Hedrick of Oakland are graduates of the same high school, Fremont High and North Anglican.
Dick Drain hits the ball in the air to straight away right field.
Easy play for Geronimo. Makes the catch and the A's go one, two, three for the first time in a game.
In the middle of the fourth inning it's Oakland two, Cincinnati nothing.
Now it's time to give the small colleges equal time.
In the small college action over the weekend, Delaware number one defeated Connecticut 32 to 7.
Louisiana Tech rated number two defeated Arkansas State 38 to 17.
With North Dakota over South Dakota State 51 to 21.
Cal Poly died Fresno State 24-24.
Jackson State defeated Northeast Louisiana 31 to 14.
Number six Western Illinois defeated Mankato State 13-13.
Livingston State and Western Carolina played to a 14-14 tie.
Carson Newman lost to Gila on 16-9 and Drake defeated Northern Iowa 24 to 14.
Number 10 Fresno State tied Cal Poly 24-24.
Jackson State defeated Southern University 21-17.
Tennessee State, Virginia State.
Tennessee State came on top 49 to nothing.
Nebraska-Omaha lost to Northern Colorado 6 to nothing.
Boise State defeated Nevada Reno 56 to 19 as Hawaii defeated Fullerton State 49 to 15.
Massachusetts defeated Boston University 44 to 15.
And Slippery Rock 17 California Pennsylvania 7.
Let's take a pause now for safe identification.
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And we've got three more teams we forgot to mention.
Western Carolina, number 18 died Livingston State 14-14.
Jackson defeated Central State 27-9 and East Texas State was idle.
Last half, inning number four Tony Perez is up.
Jim Capsaic-Hunter misses high and then tried for the first six, it's ball one.
Perez, Minsky and Geronimo for Cincinnati.
Pitches up high, ball two and Hunter who watched Perez in the second inning moving bank over to second base.
Now it's on to a 2-0 count on him again.
This respect might be certainly from the memory bank of Capsaic-Hunter.
Hunter was pitching in the last half, the longest all-star game in history in Anaheim
when Perez came to the plate for the National League and hit a home run to right field to beat Hunter and the American League.
So the Capsaic never forgets those things and he's pitching very carefully here to Perez.
It's 2-1 to count.
There's a drive up the middle they say.
Perez is on for the Reds as they continue to get that leadoff man on base.
Don Gellich in the Cincinnati ball pan.
2-0 Oakland, that's the third hit for Cincinnati.
Hunter's kept them well scattered, they have gone to the leadoff man in the second, third and fourth innings.
Here's Dennis Minsky who's struck out with runners at second and third and nobody down in the second inning.
Ball to right hander goes back to work in the ball pan.
Minsky takes a fast ball riding in on him for a strike.
The left hander here in Cincinnati is very close to the end of the dugout.
Ordinarily in Major League Park there's a special bench for the pitchers.
They sit in the regular dugout here.
Minsky looking bad on a curve and this is back to.
No balls, two strikes.
Nobody out on a man on.
There's a hard slider that Hunter uses for a waste pick once in a while.
It's outside in low ball one.
Hunter doesn't really pitch around batters too often with an 0-2 count.
Here he goes right after him.
Mitch Minsky is a fast ball right over the middle at Salvay.
Mark Anderson hoping to get down to the pitcher's spot in the batting order and he'll have somebody ready to go if he does.
Here's the pitch. Minsky fouls it off.
Looks that time as if he were trying to go to right field.
The ball was out of way from him a little bit.
Minsky came up in the Major League as a shortstop.
He's moved over and has done a great job at third for Cincinnati.
Here's the pitch. Foul ball down the left field line.
Hunter hung a breaking ball to him that time and Minsky went out after it with a vengeance.
He can hit the ball out. He had nine home runs this year.
And with a 2-33 batting average, 50 runs batted in, batting where he is in the order of Cincinnati is quite an impressive statistic.
Fight on pitch by Hunter. First time in the game he's dropped down there and he missed it outside ball free.
Makes that two balls, two strikes.
He comes to the plate again. A ground ball hits a short. Campanair has got it down to second. They got him there.
Over to first. Got a pair as up team dug it out of the dirt.
Can't be Campanair hesitated a little bit on his throw.
It might have been because Jake Green was playing so deep he had to wait on him to get there at second base.
So there are two down with nobody on and Geronimo comes up.
A's players, Jim I think there's no doubt about it, they have really been shaky on all double play tries here on this artificial turf.
El Monte you got to consider that and you also have to consider that FBA's do win this game and go back to familiar territory with a two game lead at the different ballgames.
Here's Geronimo up now batting left handed and he drags one to the first base side hard. Mike Epstein has got it.
Hunter gets down to the inning and the A's have gone through four here at Cincinnati leading the Reds to nothing.
And last night the National Basketball Association games the New York Knicks defeated the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers handily 125 to 100.
The Boston Celtics with the Chicago Bulls 96-88.
Houston V. Buffalo 121-113.
Kansas City Omaha with its home opener 113-101 over the Detroit Pistons.
Phoenix V. Portland 124-120.
And the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Golden State Warriors 81-77.
Dan Issel and Artis Gilmore combined for 355 points to lead the defending Eastern Division champion Kentucky to a 131-10 route over the Virginia Squires and their American Basketball Association home opener.
And other ABA games Carolina Trunks New York 126-78.
Utah defeated Dallas 106-90. San Diego one over Memphis 135-118.
And Denver defeated Indiana 96-90.
And pro football this afternoon New York Jeff 7 New England nothing.
Houston 7 Pittsburgh nothing.
That's at the end of the first quarter and it's a fly Miami San Diego 3-3 at the end of one quarter.
Along with Baltimore, J.C.B. at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio in a brilliantly sunny, sunny afternoon with temperatures out climbing for 60 degrees.
Red fans more than 52,000 with a little sales shock.
They lost here yesterday 3-2 and they're losing now 2-0.
And some of their big men have gone flat.
As we go to the top of the trip the A's will get off with their 50-cats-a-cunter.
Normally it's forced as we always point out.
This is something the opposing pitcher normally likes because the opposing pitcher at bat normally an automatic out.
Cactus Gunner is the best hitter.
He's hit now safely an 11 of his first last 13 games that he has hit.
And Cactus with a single on the second inning drove in one of the two A's runs this afternoon.
A grimly dreading, both then stay busy with Don Gullick scheduled to pick the game on Tuesday out there warming up.
Mark Anderson may be loosening him up.
Mark Anderson may be saying we can't go out to the coast.
2-0.
Here's a picture of Jim Hunter and it's slow and away, ball one.
Yes, World Series managers often make statements and make changes very shortly thereafter because it is just a seven game series.
Picture Hunter is outside of all.
Yesterday for instance the World Series, the opening skipper Dick Williams had his eighth short reliever Raleigh fingers up very early in that game.
Here's a 2-0 fish.
Hunter takes one right down the middle of Carl Streit.
One of the very little touched upon highlights of this game yesterday by the press across the country was the job that Raleigh fingers did coming in and release.
Picks Hunter, bang shot, lead towards second baseman Joe Morgan.
Over to first, one down.
Now here's a shortstop, Bert Campanella who's had three hits in the series now.
Two hits yesterday and one today.
Campanella told a reporter yesterday after the game, yes I see signs hanging out there once in a while but I don't read English well enough to know what they're saying.
Ross Gimsley looked in to Johnny Beck tearing past the batter, Campanella to face the bind, face it high for a ball.
Yesterday's game, the feed of both clubs which was much written about aspects of these two teams coming into the World Series was shot down on feeling a temp four times.
Campanella tips one up in the air into right center field.
Nolan moving over from one way, Geronimo from the other and the right fielder Geronimo makes the catch.
Gimsley now has retired seven in a row since Rudy's home run.
Here's Matty Allou, he's grounded out twice in this game to the third baseman looking for his first World Series hit of this year.
Little extended batter, the smallest of the three Allou brothers who play in the major leagues.
Matty was saying today that he felt kind of strange being here, he said as long as he was with the Cardinals up until late August he was pulling for his brothers being New York Yankees.
To get in the World Series from the American League and he said boy how things can change.
One strike down on him to fifth, curve ball hits top, into the shortstop, Chaney down, up going to first into the very far edge, big good out.
And we've gone through half the ball game here at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, the score the Oakland A's 2, but Cincinnati read nothing.
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And as we go to the last half of the fifth inning of game number two of the 1972 World Series, here is NBC's Jem Simpson.
Thanks, Lonnie Moore. Darrell Chaney will lead it off and then Ted Ulanda is out on deck and will back to Ross Grimsley who will depart.
As the Reds find themselves in need of runs, they're down 2-0 as we start the last of the fifth.
Chaney was walking intentionally to load the bases to get at Grimsley back in the second and Grimsley struck out.
This time he lines the ball to that center field charging to Hendrick and Fiction.
As Lonnie says, the A's called in easy George and he really eased over there on a pretty well hit ball.
Grimsley is gone as we said Ulanda was up yesterday one time as they think it is and struck out.
Grimsley worked five innings, gave up two on runs, fixed it, struck out one and walked nobody.
Ulanda former American Lakers.
The Reds looking for some runs, that's this Hunter is driven in one run or open, that was in the second.
And then Joe Rudy, Homer's in the third and they have the run for the ball game.
The Reds have had their opportunity. Ulanda left hand about her, facing right hand Hunter,
puts one up, the outie over quickly to Joe Rudy and it's over, got such club.
Ulanda loosens his helmet as he goes around to second base with a pinch hit double.
Four hit off capture gunner and with one out, Dolly Hustle, deep rose comes up.
Rose is one for two, last time up, he lined the first pitch for a single to center field.
Reds are down two to nothing.
There's been absolutely no activity at all today in the A's bullpen,
regardless of the trouble that Hunter's been in and he's been in the little.
Whereas the Reds bullpen has been busy from the beginning.
A's to Reds nothing, Rose to slick hitter batting left handed.
Ulanda down to second base with one out, in the fifth inning.
Breaking pitch, she lifted high to right field and Maddie Allou was there.
Ulanda's not going back to tag up, now simply runs back and they're two outs.
Rose swinging at the first pitch again and now Joe Morgan.
And Morgan has been fooled very badly by Captain Hunter in his first two times at bat.
He curved him for the second strike in the first inning and then blew a fastball right by him
and Morgan struck out swinging.
In the third inning, he popped up to the capture gunner in bow territory.
Joe Morgan, who left the major league and runs scored with a hundred and twenty-two,
hit sixty no munch himself and drove in seventy-three.
Left handed batter, Reds field at E or bench will be the MVP.
Hunter throws, it's fouled off.
Strike one to Joe Morgan.
Reggie Jackson out injured.
We notice he's not using crutches today, but rather a chain.
And now as we look, he is standing with a bat in his hand and civilian clothes
and a field-shouldn't dug out.
Reggie missing, here's the strike one pitch, breaking balls.
That's him get himself in front of it, first base now loses it.
Had the ball, lost it for this long.
As he cut it for the bag, it would have been an easy out instead.
Over to third base goes Hulander and Morgan is safe on the error.
Now stepping in is the man, when I was talking to Monty before the game,
I believe is the key man in the Cincinnati lineup today.
Now I know Johnny Vance is the man who led the league in home runs and RBI,
but he is right handed and Captain Jenner can afford to do a little fooling with him.
But Bobby Shulman, a left-hander, a good hitter, will be up a lot with men on base
and there goes the run at the second base, swing fouls, gets off the mask of Gene Jenner.
They had Morgan who stole 58 bases on his way to second,
hoping the stolen could rip a single and perhaps score both of them and tie this game up.
Jim, you know something I've seen in the Cincinnati Buckeye in this series a lot of,
with those good runners over at first base, their batters swing at that first pitch a lot even.
With the pitcher up the other day and Geronimo trying to steal three straight times,
they have that pitcher with a swing which indicates of course those guys go on their own.
And of course going to run another way, there are many batters around both weeks, Monty,
who don't like anybody running while they're trying to take a good rip at a ball because,
or some, it destroys their concentration.
One strike to Shulman, the left-hander going against the right-hander, Hunter.
Two are out.
Doolander at third, Morgan he was running at first.
He's got one foot on the dirt, the other on the carpet at first base.
Running last time, Hunter, he hit a little set.
There goes Morgan again, the pitch strikes.
Now throw down to third base and back quickly.
Doolander, they just gave Morgan second base on the Shulman base.
No attempt there, they're just making sure they can hold Doolander.
And now Jim Hunter has got stolen down O and two.
So both two strikes, both were swinging strikes.
Reds fans, the Reds themselves feel here in the fifth inning, this is a big opportunity.
They hit good tied up, out of the screen on the fastball.
Two strikes.
Great arms of Johnny Vance with the propellant of yesterday,
and tennis called a pitch out at a opportune time.
Guessing right, he saw the man out of second base.
The ball clubs have not altered the game plan.
The running ball clubs are aggressive and both are playing that way now.
Two strikes, two outs.
And a second and third, a curve ball, text swing by Shulman.
He fouls it off, picked up by George Suggers, first base, Tilt.
The last six Cincinnati Reds,
Johnny was talking about swinging at the first pitch.
The last six Cincinnati Reds have all swung at the first pitch.
Hunter on the mound.
They're playing stolen straight away and deep.
Ready with a two strike pitch just in under the arms.
He lifts him up to the tenon side pitch, one ball, two strikes.
Hunter, as Johnny pointed out to you, not overpoweringly fast, great breaking shot,
he pitches to the spot.
There he shall have him get the ball out over the plate.
They can get a good cut at it.
One ball, two strikes, comes back with the fast ball and it is popped up.
Cappadell shows back, waves everybody off in a very definite manner and takes it.
And they're out of the inning again.
And again they lead men on base.
On one hit, one error, and men left at second and third.
At the end of five, it is open to Cincinnati nothing.
Justin Klopp is looking to the World Series record book and in the 1920 World Series
between Cleveland and Brooklyn, which Cleveland won five games to two,
Bill Lomgan, Cleveland's second baseman, made the only unassisted triple play of
World Series history in the fifth game with runners on second and first.
Clarence Mitchell, the Brooklyn pitcher, hit a sharp line drive to the second baseman.
That was Lombaston.
Bill was running over to cover his bag, stepped on second base,
requiring one runner wheeled around and tagged the other runner who had run down
from first.
Mitchell had the unfortunate experience of hitting into five putouts in his last
two times at bat, and he later drowned it into a double play.
Moving from baseball to golf, John Wyckoff has scored an easy victory over
Lee Trevino to win the Piccadilly World Match Play Golf Championship at
Wentworth, England.
Wyckoff beat Trevino yesterday, four and three in the 36th hole final.
To win the top prize, $21,250.
And now back to Cincinnati in the top half of the sixth inning.
We go to the top half of the sixth inning, and Marky Anderson has gone to the
bullpen to bring out a young right-hander by the name of Pedro Farphone.
He came in and faced three batters yesterday and showing a good overhanded
tinkerball.
He's got three batters that he faced to hit the ball into the ground for easy
outs.
He is 6'2", 185 pounder, and he's from the Dominican Republic.
And this year got him to 62 games for Cincinnati, had an earned run average of
3.17.
Marky 32 struck out 48, which indicates that as a relief pitcher, he just goes
in and basically wants him to hit the ball.
Every World Series that comes along, if a pitching set does a good job on
another ball club, the man who scouted the team before the World Series
started always gets a lot of credit.
And Karen Lawler, one of the great catchers in Chicago's white box history,
defenses whiz behind that plate and a man who knows pitching when he sees it.
And the manager of the Oakland A's AAA club this year at Des Moines, Iowa,
was a man who's been scouting Cincinnati the last week of the season, and on
the way the A's pitchers have done so far, he must have done a pretty good job.
Now ready for action again here on the sixth, and here's Jeff.
Yesterday, buddy, you were talking about the free-up, free-down performance
of Bourbon. He got Bando Hendrick, and more importantly, he cooled off Kenneth,
who had hit two home runs first two times up.
Now he is coming in to thank Joe Rudy, who's singled in the first, and his
home run gave the A's their second run of this ball game.
That occurred in the third.
That's the 3-4-5 batters. That's the thinking fastball pitcher Bourbon,
a right-hander must face, and Rudy's trying to punt his way on good-runner.
Manches declaring that if hitting out of the box, and maybe if he's 50 out,
on his shot to go down, Anderson is coming down.
Now they're looking down the third base on fire, Bob Engle of the National
League getting the Vitton's face.
In other words, they're claiming that Rudy was hit by a battered ball out of
the batter's box in Fairer Territory and should be declared out.
Johnny Bentz took off his mask, with Clark Anderson very quick out,
keeping his defense in the ball game.
And for those of you who are keeping score, you will know that when they go to
the last of this inning, for an incredible sixth time in seven times at bat,
Johnny Bentz will be leading off without a chance to drive and run,
barring the home run, forced into net.
A ball in the right-hander, and they're playing Rudy as Mancheson telling you,
around to the right. He does hit to the opposite field, but the last time up
with a one-ball two-strike shot, he pulled his home run high to left.
Breaking pitch, one of the few that we've seen Bourbon throw, at least in this
series and playoffs championships, is down to the right.
It's two strikes.
The man at the plate, Joe Rudy, left the American League with 181 hits.
The man out in left field, who fielded his single in the first, who watched his
home run throw out of here in the third, Pete Rose, left the majors with 198 hits.
Two strikes to count to Rudy.
Bourbon drops down, throws sidearm, but the ball is up high, and it's one ball
two strikes. Riverfront Stadium is very, very quiet.
This is not what the oddsmakers felt would happen. This is not what the Red
Sands felt would happen. They dropped the game yesterday, and they're losing the
game today. One ball, two strikes, another breaking pitch, he inside the line,
and just does get fouled.
He was talking to you about how Joe uses a weightlifting program to remain strong
all year round, and he hardly said that. And Mr. Rudy showed you some strength when
he muscled that home run in the mezzanine section of Riverfront Stadium.
Bourbon is ready. Rudy back in the box. Right hander to right hander, there's the
back ball, and it's foul-kicked. Bench hold on to it, but it's a strikeout.
Second Oakland A to a struck-out this afternoon, and here's Mike Epstein.
Epstein struck out in the first. He grounded the first in the third. He is 0-5 in the
series, and he committed an error that could have been possibly in the last inning.
But Jim Hunter bore down and got the man. And now we have the age-old Jim Busybody.
Here's that Joe Holden, a right hander, and left-hander, Dave Hamilton.
It is down low and inside, Epstein. 1-0.
Bourbon is ready, and so is the Mrs. Up High, 2-0. Epstein has moved aside for you,
came up to the Baltimore organization. He was the minor league player of the year
at Rochester. Baltimore is fighting for the right of Washington, where he's
enclosed with Ted Williams. And he looks over those pitches very carefully.
That's the strike on the outside corner. Epstein likes to key off what he thinks
the pitcher is going for him that day. For example, Williams would key off a strike.
He could afford to. That was Ted Williams. Epstein likes the period here.
And as Monty says, he takes a look at Lotta. 3-1.
Jim, that bullpen is just sort of a workout session right now. Bob Locker is going out.
Paul and Hamilton are sort of the middle-ending relievers, and now we are beyond that
without them having to work. 3-1 pitch, and Epstein takes the rip.
And it's three balls, two strikes. And the Oakland six.
Why, the Bay Area tonight. Tomorrow is an off day.
We get over that three-hour time difference. Give it a little factor.
Look at the other ballpark. And then they resume Tuesday evening.
That's all that's high and away, and Epstein has drawn the walk.
So, the Pinch Runner, I believe, right here. This is Dick Williams' procedure during the course of the year.
His Pinch Run for Epstein in the late innings if he gets on, and then go with Mike Keegan on defense at first base.
Alan Lewis, the Panamanian Express, a man who is on the roster for the World Series,
and I was the one because Reggie Jackson was injured, goes in to run for Mike Epstein.
Well, you remember, Monty, I remember. Maybe those listening remember.
Yesterday, the same thing happened, and Lewis on the first play tried to steal.
And the second baseman was run down by Johnny Banks. On the first pitch, I should say, since coming in.
As he was running, he was running yesterday for the first time on this nearly fully coveted, artificially-served infield.
And now they check Lewis over first base. Under them two bases he stole one year in the minor leagues.
One out, two nothing. The A's were in the top of the sixth, and Oakland's got a man on with one out.
Breaking pitch, and down though the batter swings a missy.
Down single in the second and then he'll race on the fourth play and ramble to short in the third.
He's one for two.
Bando left the A's with game-winning hits throughout the season with 16 as an adequate check for first base,
but has not driven in or scored a run since the regular season ended and the playoffs and World Series began.
Bando can hit home runs. He had 15 of them. High inside hits, but he goes for it, and that's strike two.
The key as we look at Pedro Borbón today, Monty, is the fact that he is a thinking fastball pitcher,
and he's not getting the ball down low.
He's made the one good pitch to Bando that was low and that was a breaking ball or a thinker, but it was down.
But everything else has been up to him, and as you're saying, those thinker ball pitchers can be hit hard when that happens.
Nobody now, and since that he goes in, I end up looking on from the dugout.
The word is when Johnny Bench, the catcher, could happen to look towards the dugout while in his trouts,
that means he feels that the pitcher has no longer got it, and his manager's talking at him to get somebody ready.
Two strikes now, Lewis not going, hits Dave Hyde with one ball, two strikes.
And with the conference Benchhead with his pitcher might have been as a result of a scouting report.
Both Campanaris and Lewis like to run a lot on no balls, two strikes, which is unusual for base-feelers, but they both like to do that.
Lewis has both feet in the dirt there, he's around first base, not a big lead at all.
LaBone is taking a long look, and there goes Lewis, and there's a swing, a throw by Bench, down to second base, they've got him at second base.
Bando strikes out into a double play, and Bench has put out yet another runner.
All arms, no hits, no Harrison Bench, the bench is on, nobody left on base.
We go to the last of the six, it's Oakland 2, Cincinnati nothing.
Led to elsewhere at the half, Pittsburgh leading Houston by a score of 10-0, at the half, the fair is 7, Cleveland's nothing.
Well, Johnny Bench, another incredible throw, that was a low-breaking ball out away from Sal Bando, and Alan Lewis got a tremendous jump off first base.
Johnny Bench gets overpowered again with another straight throw at a second.
Here we go to the last half of the six, it's Hill 2, to nothing Oakland.
And for the sixth time in his seventh at bat to this World Series, Johnny Bench leads off an inning.
Nobody on the bases ahead of him to drive in, or the Cincinnati Reds.
We do nothing to score, catch the counter, and we have a substitution down at first base, of course.
Bench looks to find his way on, but finds a foul toward Alex Grammich.
And that is it, Mike Keegan, fine defense, the first baseman has come in.
Well, that shows you how, having Bench lead off and change the ball game around.
Instead of a man who has hit 40 home runs during the regular season, and then a game-time home run in the last of the matches, the final game of the National League Championship,
led the majors in RBI, he can't swing away to drive and run because he's leading off.
So Bench is trying to find his way on, so somebody else can drive in him.
In the first he's singled, in the third he's in Hendrickson, very deep in center field.
Swinging on the 3-1-6. Strike one, the count, half ball is popped up, foul, coming back is Kenneth looking up,
now gives up on the ball as it falls in the case behind home play.
Two strikes to Bench.
Funny thing, when Bench bunted, Reggie Jackson came up off the bench down at the far end,
and yelled out on the field to Tony Perezzi on deck batting, and said, what's going on?
Like, Jackson's still talking to him out there.
What's he doing bunting, he says.
Well, the Reds need some runs, they have not had too many, Bench has scored both of them.
Up high.
With the pick, one ball, two strikes.
That's it Hunter, 21-7 on the season back, and he drops down side on with a breaking pick outside,
Bench holds up on it, and he's started to swing, it's two balls, two strikes.
That's about the second time today that we have seen Hunter drop down to the right side.
Funny thing, you know, when you see a left-hander up there, you'll see that first-page coach back down the line a little bit,
feeling it's too much of a lot to pull one foul.
Bench is up there, and sure does feel down. Bench is a right-hander starter.
That's where he can get down low, and now he's on three and two.
Bench got a two-strike single on the second, that is three and one on the third, and now he's up to three and two.
Hunter working very carefully on it.
Hunter has walked two men, one of those intentionally.
There's in the deep hemmage.
Ours is down, and is ready to throw, and throws the fastball to guest misses outside, and ball for Bench is on.
That'll bring a 20 for edge.
Jim Hunter has not been able to retire today.
A walk in the second, and a single in the fourth.
As Marty pointed out, this is the man that beat Foster Center, 1966 Anaheim, in the All-Star game with an extra inning home run.
Two unfixed, two errors for the A's, none of which is hurt.
The Reds are 0-4-0.
Fastball is high on inside.
That catch is the inside corner, and the fans go with Jim Hunter.
Jake Cicela made him think it was a strike, but it was.
Strike one to Perez.
Hunter backs off the mound.
Gellert with God warming up.
Now, Raleigh fingers.
White up Blue is up, and going down to the bullpen again.
Breaking pitch, guest misses outside.
One ball, one strike.
White up Blue has been quite a conversationalist here.
He said he wants to strike, but I would imagine the Oakland A's staff is one of these.
Did we start it?
He was dumping in the final game of the playoffs, and he was dumping else again yesterday.
He's a valuable man to have around, and if they can use him to nail down this second victory, I wouldn't be surprised.
One ball, one strike, and Perez is swinging at a breaking pitch.
It's one and two.
This is a second world series of Mike Began down at first base in 1964 with the Yankees.
He was in the world series.
And his dad, Jim Hegan, was in the world series of Cleveland in 48 and 54.
So far, themselves done well.
One ball, two strikes.
This is fouled off to the right of number that will go all about 15 to 20 rows back in back at first base.
Last of the six.
The Reds going right to the heart of their lineup.
Pence, Perez, and Menke.
The four or five pick-pickers.
They have scored two runs in two days.
Both of those scored by Pence who is on at first base right now.
Hodders ready with the new baseball.
One ball, two strikes.
Foul shift by Perez getting the good swing at a high pitch.
One and two.
The swing is raised straight away and very deep.
Tony hit 21 home runs, 12 and 90 during the regular season.
One and two.
Hodders ahead of him.
Trogens breaking pitch.
Bouncer down the fando.
Four to second base.
Swing comes back to first base.
Base at first base.
One up.
Pence forced to second base.
And out of range of Janice Menke who has had his problems today.
Stuck out swinging on a high fastball in the second and bounced into a double play in the fourth.
He is over five in this series.
Menke, like Perez and Pence before him, a right-handed batter.
The red line-up goes Rose, Morgan and Fulton all swinging from the left side.
Then you get the three right-handers and then you go back to the left side again.
Geronimo and Janice.
On her way.
And so ball is popped up foul.
It will make it in the seats behind home plate.
Now Jack Dillingham was the early choice to go ahead and pitch the third game of the World Series on Tuesday night.
Then we heard that Sparky Anderson might be going with John Gullick.
Gullick was down and warming up.
A little while ago it might have been that he was just loosening up.
Well we'll say Dillingham or Gullick.
But Tuesday it will be Blue Moon Odom for the A's on Tuesday.
Dave Concepcion is going down now to loosen up a little bit.
And the bullpen, pitch Jeff Smithy.
One ball, one strike to Menke.
Geronimo swings with that on deck.
One ball, one strike.
Accidentally hits.
Hunter off the mound, picks it up, bare hands, throws the first fine play as down to second base goes Perez.
That was a check swing and it was just like a perfectly placed punch between the mound and third base.
And Katz is under, he shows me he can feel that position.
He's one of the finest athletes the A's have.
It's amazing the ability to feel the position that the A's entire pitching staff has.
I think John Odom might be one of the finest fielding pitchers to play the game since Bobby Chance of the old A's.
And Katz, they kind of can do it all too.
That was just an incredible play right there.
And I don't believe Bando would have been able to get in there and make the play.
Geronimo has struck out swinging and grounded the F-spin at first base.
Bando has gone down to say something to Hunter.
Keegan and Green are talking halfway between first and second and halfway out on right field the way they have to play there.
And Geronimo's left hand is about a step short.
They lead it through to nothing.
Red's trying to get something to go.
They don't want to leave for the west coast in Oakland and the home park of Oakland down 0-2 in the World Series.
Hunter ready and throws the breaking pitchers down low.
And it's ball one to Geronimo.
Down in left field, the Pirates, a lot of trouble.
Bill Rooney's out there in left field now.
Reds are used to it in the late afternoon.
The sun's right in their face.
As the ball hit high, to right center field, Alou and Hendrick are at it.
Hendrick says, I've got it.
And right center field puts it away.
And again the Reds go down.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
And one man left for Reds at second base.
At the end of sixth, the Ways lead the Reds through to nothing.
His Oakland teammates figure he originally was bat guy, Tiori Penichy.
It comes out Fury Mike Tennant now.
And although the A's must bag the Milky White complexion receiver, shows by his middle name, and has more or less dropped the Fury, he still hits that way occasionally.
I think he's going to be one of the greatest hitting catches there is, said Oakland owner Charles Finley-Sanaday.
Another Ernie Lombardi.
Gene Tennant is not, not yet anyway.
But he did what no other major leaguer ever did before in Saturday's 3-2 opening game win over Cincinnati when he ripped home runs in his very first two-time draft in a World Series.
I had no idea about that at all, said Tennant, who pronounced his name Tennant, as in T-E-N-N-I-S, and who celebrated his 26th birthday only four days ago.
Tennant's grandfather migrated from Italy to the United States, worked in Western Pennsylvania coal mines, and died of them.
His father also worked in the mines nine years and then got out.
His son, near Pittsburgh, rooted for the Yankees as a board, and chiefly because he liked pin strikes and Butler had a Yankee farm club.
Right now, let's pause for station identification.
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Scully Jerky, it's going down to Orleans 14 at Lennon-on-8.
In the first period at St. Louis, Trenton Knight has kicked a 30-yard field goal for the Washington Redskins.
And in the first period, the skins leading the Cardinals three to the right.
This is Monty Moore with Jim Simpson, seventh inning, second game of the World Series, Oakland 2, Simpson adding nothing.
Here's Jim.
George Hendricks, twangs at the first pitch, bounce at the strike one, facing Pedro Borbón.
Hendricks technically offered to bounce into a fourth play but scored the first run ahead of the single of Captain Hunter.
And then shot one back to Grimsley, the first baseman, in the fourth inning.
This is low, ball one, one ball, one strike. Borbón and relief of Ross Grimsley.
We started at once the first five innings and gave up both runs, putting the home run to Rudy.
Bow back. Above our heads, above the first five. It's one ball, two strikes to Hendricks.
Well, we were telling you yesterday that the team that won the first game of the World Series 40 times in 68 tries went on to win the series.
And we'll be driving out possibly those statistics that say if you win the first two, what happens?
Fly ball right field, Geronimo comes in and one hands it for the outs.
That'll bring up Gene Dennis. Two home runs yesterday is all for today.
53,224 which beats the old record set here yesterday of 52,918 and they set a new tennis record in Cincinnati.
Borbón throws a breaking pitch at tennis fouls at the plate. One strike.
Well, without Reggie Jackson, you just wonder how many runs the Open nation scored. Answer is thus far they have scored enough.
Scored three yesterday and two thus far today. They're leading this one two to nothing after winning yesterday's Open in three to two.
Dennis with those two home runs. Borbón with a one, one, pitch.
Dennis with a miss, just strike two. One ball, two strikes. Now there are more than one player.
This is it's two home runs for the World Series game.
Dennis is the first to get two home runs in the first two times at bat.
I bring this up again because our colleague on NBC television, Tony Kruback, has a Yankee get two home runs.
There's a swing and a miss and a pitch outside. He couldn't hold up on it and Dennis strikes out.
Only it's two home runs with the Yankees. Two out now in the Open seventh and Nick Green is the scheduled hitter and is up there.
Cincinnati has not scored in the last 11 innings.
And there's a strike to Green. The only two runs the Reds have scored in this series were on any field force out plays at second base.
Nobody has driven them in with a base hit.
Strike one with pitch to Green and he swings for misses. Strike two.
One for two to Green today, stringled in the second to keep the rally alive with two outs and he's wide to either the four.
Borbón has been most effective in this series as he was in the playoffs.
Strike three, Green looks at it and Borbón has struck out four of the men that he has faced in the last two innings.
A run, hit two errors. We go to the last number seven.
Oakland two, Cincinnati nothing.
Through the first six and a half innings it's Oakland two runs, six hits. They've made a couple of errors.
The Reds no runs, four hits and no errors.
That's to go all the way back to 1933, Jim, to find a pitcher with the same consistency of a cap-based hunter.
That's the last time that a pitcher won 20 games two years in a row.
The first pitcher was one Leslie Grove who was just finishing up on a seven-year streak of 20 wins.
Dale Cheney leads it off in the seventh inning.
On a ready and throw, first strike on the outside corner.
Joe Hage is on deck as the relief pitcher, or rather a ten-killer forward relief pitcher, Pedro Borbón.
Hage was on deck yesterday but never got into the game.
Back of the break he hits, it's too high to Cheney.
One ball, one strike. So Borbón works a very effective two innings.
He lost one but he struck out four.
And Tom Hall, the blazer, is up in the bullpen for Cincinnati.
Cheney swings, fouls this one off, sends it to the left and if one ball, two strikes.
Hall, who had an amazing 10-1 record with Cincinnati, will be the next pitcher apparently as he has now begun to warm up.
One and two, hunter throws, fly ball.
Short left field, Rudy glasses down, coming on now.
Campanass gives way and Rudy has it for the first out of the 697.
And now Joe Hage is the batter.
Hage former cardinal.
And as we said was out on deck yesterday but failing it in.
So it's 2.46 combined average between the cardinals in here.
Hage around and is looking as now stepping in.
Hage is in his head, he was talking to Honestick about something and umpire Honestick was checking his card.
Now, Hunter is ready and throws out side ball once.
He throws his on deck in this two developing ball game which Oakland leads.
Hunter, sun-sealed dining, throws the ball to the foul back four-darts from the first box and it's one and one.
Hunter, correct me if I'm wrong Marty, you've got to get him early am I right?
That's been the case the last couple of months and when he gets going like this his control just gets nearly perfect.
On one breaking pitch and drops right over for a strike and Hage just shakes his head.
Not in disagreement, perhaps in disbelief.
He thought the pick would stay outside but curve rolls over the play.
One ball, two strikes.
Hunter's been ahead of nearly everybody now with a notable exception of Johnny Banks.
This pick is outside of 2-2.
All continues to on, no activity at all in the Oakland Bowl.
For a while there was some activity that involved among others Bob Lawson, Johnny Fingers and White and Blue.
Here's the 2-2 pitch from Hunter.
Breaking pitch and it's lifted high into right field.
Maddie Lou in the shade out there now ventures into the sunlight and takes it for the second out.
Two out now on the seventh and Pete Rose one for three is up.
Rose hung on a 1-0 pitch in the first the last two times up.
He has hung at the first pitch.
Joe Morgan on deck.
Rose stepped in.
Then a signal to the outfielders that there are two away.
That ball is right down the middle of strike one.
Sam Feneres is in short left field very deep and Dick Green is almost in right field very deep.
FG not as deep behind first base on the targeted infield and there's another strike for the breaking pitch.
Oh and two.
I said FG not even in the season of course the first pitch.
Mike DeCardi.
Hunter is kicked off one time.
Takes the next and the two strike pitch is way outside of the fastball. One ball two strikes.
We are in top coach here this afternoon.
Those who have the sunshine I imagine can take them off but at the same time there's 51 and climate.
Not expected to get past 51.
Ball two strikes jammed him in on the fifth and he nubs a foul over the A's dugout down the third base line.
Still one and two to Pete Rose.
Rose was 0-4 yesterday.
He is 1-3 today.
1-7 of the series but the walk.
Scored 107 runs during the regular season but has not scored yet in the World Series.
Breaking pitch outside drum two two. Morgan who led the Macy's with 122 runs during the regular season has not scored.
And therein lies the key to getting the rest if you can.
Keep Rose, Morgan and pulling off those bases and keep Johnny benched away from having a chance to drive them in.
So far they've been successful.
2-1 to the pitch. He strikes out clean.
1-2-3 innings for Scott St. Hunter.
At the end of 7th Oakland leads Cincinnati 2-0.
Well before this series even started, Rigs manager, Sparty Anderson liked to look to the Oakland A's.
But he liked to look to his Rigs even better.
Oakland has an outstanding club, Anderson was heard to say while watching Oakland win the American League penned on television from his office in Cincinnati.
They definitely have a lot of talent he said. They are far and away the best club in that league.
Our scouting reports indicate they have excellent pitching and they have a lot of young, powerful hitters.
But according to Sparty, Oakland isn't the best in baseball.
This team meeting the Rigs is the greatest he said.
We have everything a great team must have. Power, speed, good defense, and tough pitching.
Rigs team captain Pete Rose saw one facet of the Oakland attack which he thought might work in Cincinnati's favor.
Oakland has a lot of right-handed pitchers he pointed out.
This should help our batters. We do well against right-handers.
But, luck fought in games number one and two, the left-handers and the right-handers.
And luck for almost completely timing Cincinnati's hitting on the power. Let's go back.
The scoring in this ball game which right now is open leading two to nothing came this way.
The A's scored first in the second inning.
Sal Bando led off with a single. George Hendrick hit a basher on the infield that the Reds just missed a double play on.
That left Hendrick on at first base. After tennis flying out to left, Dick Green got a base hit.
Moving Hendrick to second base from where he scored on Capsaic Hunters base hit to left field.
The A's got another hit in the inning by Campanella but Dick Green was thrown out of the plate by Pete Rose to Johnny Banks.
The A's got their other run in a lightning-like swing at the back by Joe Rudy, a home run in the third inning.
Cincinnati has had only four base hits and they've been well scattered.
Hunters not allowed more than one hit in any inning.
Hunters have been super sharp throughout the playoffs in 15 innings and two appearances against the Detroit Tigers.
A very fine offensive team. He allowed only two runs.
Now the new pitcher for Cincinnati is left-hander Tom Hall. He's calling the plays a little guy, a six-footer, but he weighs only 150.
An incredible record this year for Cincinnati. Tommy won 10, lost only one and had eight saves.
He struck out 134 batters in just 124 innings. Jim?
Capsaic Hunters with a single in the second, 12 in the first one of the ballgame as Monty just said.
And then he grounded the second in the fifth. Up for the third time, one for two.
Tom Hall calls very thin left-hander, stairs in now ready.
He's got the good curve as well as the fastball and throws in the breaking pitch strike one.
Today's crowd, 53,224, that makes a two-day total of 106,142 at-if.
Cincinnati can come on and extend this thing and they come back here next weekend.
All seats for game six and seven are already sold out. The one-strike pitch point-on fouled off.
There will be some standing room only seats that go on sale as they have been for each morning here, yesterday and again today.
Early as seven o'clock this morning, people were on their way to get standing room only seats here at Riverfront Stadium.
Onward with a count of two strikes to it.
Ready to throw. Up high with a pitch bent and up off his knees to grab that one. It's one ball, two strikes.
The Reds had two runs on seven hits yesterday. Thus far today they have no runs on just four hits.
On ball, two strikes. And I think that the Oakland lead is a ball hit to the right side.
It's reflected by the quietness of the crowd.
The Reds back to the Ephesian Fair territory behind first base and has the pop-up of Hunters.
Everybody gets a half an error. Sounded out on the first, singled in the second and by the right in the fifth.
There has not been a hit of captain Hunters.
There has not been a hit by the Oakland A's since the home run by Joe Rudy back in the third inning. They had one man on with a walk and that's been it.
Ready to throw to Campanella. Then it's down low ball one.
But nearly the same thing happened in yesterday's game.
After the home run by Kenneth, which is the first hit since the third inning, they didn't come close again to getting a hit.
They scored early and made it stand up.
Avanos ran up on the bat.com but the pitch is low and away and it's 2-0.
This is the one man that Tom Hall does not want on base.
Campanella is being gunned down by the throw of Johnny Bench yesterday.
He's thrown out three players thus far in this World Series.
Would love to test him again. There is a called strike. Two balls, one strike.
Campanella is trying to work his way on.
Mattie Allou, left-handed batter, will be the next to face Tom Hall.
2-1-6.
Popped up again on the right side.
Forwarded to Cincinnati dugout. Perez comes over and watches it rip and the feed's about three rows back.
Behind the Cincinnati dugout.
2-1-2.
A's have committed two hours of field this afternoon but neither has Hurston.
They are thick-fitted for their two runs, including the home run.
This infield of Cincinnati Reds the last two years in a row has led the National League in fewest errors.
It is a fine defensive unit.
All is ready. It throws the 2-2 pitch. It's lined out to right center field.
Pullen is over and takes it on the right.
Second out of the Oakland A's.
Fettering up Mattie Allou.
Releases the ball in, nothing down, three times today. Twice been thrown out by Menke in the last time-up. Chaney throwing up.
Allou is a good fastball hitter.
And I would imagine coming from the left side as Tom Hall does and he's got that good curveball.
Mattie's not going to see much of the fastball this time-up.
Two outs. Stands well back in the box now and away from the plate.
And there's the breaking pitch for a strike.
Strike one to Allou.
Menke has moved in some as he always does on Allou. He likes to get on any way he can.
And thinking a man like Hall, he might be trying to find his way on there.
And look, the pitch goes high and away from him. One ball, one strike.
Perez is in, throws that first pitch.
Not steering the pitch, it's lined shot.
Allou that might get past it.
But didn't want him to beat anything out down that way. Another breaking pitch. But it misses and it's two and one.
Two out on the open eighth.
They are in Cincinnati for the second game.
Tomorrow's the travel day. We resume.
But as many night games as are needed to solve this case, to settle it, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Down low, ball shoots between the legs of both Stank and the umpire, Honestick.
Stank picks it up.
And it is three and one to Allou, who looks down to Irv Norton, the third base coach.
On deck having a great day is Joe Rudy.
He's in for three, including a home run that accounted for the second open run.
All is ready.
And throws the breaking pitch, it has him looking all the way at a three ball, two strikes.
On a three and one pitch, Hall.
Good curve ball.
You're not hesitant to use it.
Other than the strike zone, it's three and two.
Hall comes back and throws the breaking pitch.
He lines it down the right field line and is lifting into the seat foul.
Right behind the open mound of the Cincinnati Reds.
Still three and two.
So Hall again threw a little breaking pitch.
The body was too far out in front of him.
The ball was retrieved and given to someone in the seat that flipped up there.
Three and two.
Already comes back this time with a breaking pitch in his foulest plate behind the plate.
And Allou steps up.
Looking ahead to the Cincinnati Apes, Joe Morgan, Bobby Doulum, and Johnny Vance.
In the student offing ball game.
Allou still battling Tom Hall, the blade, who throws the fastball to time line drive.
And it's a base hit.
Well, they couldn't get Matty Allou with the breaking stuff.
And he fouled a couple off.
And they came in with the fastball.
And Matty Allou, a fine fastball hitter, just lined that ball to right field.
Base hit with two out.
And here's Joe Rudy.
Single on the first pitch.
And the first was down a one and deep count to Ross Lindley in the third.
And powered one into the mezzanine in left field.
That was the second run.
He struck out swinging at a fastball in the sixth inning.
One by Pedro Bourbon.
He got a two hits off the shutter off Lindley.
Rudy, right-hander against the left-hander, Tom Hall.
20,000 off.
This game will wind up as the 400th World Series game.
This is really going back in the history books.
But he played with efficiency.
The point is, there had been three World Series games that have resulted in time.
Strike one to count.
Hall checks the runner.
Allou at first base controls and catches the outside corner.
Well, Rudy says, no, to Jim Honachik, but it's O and two.
And Rudy backs off.
The Shadows now have extended out past the first base line.
They've been out beyond the right field line all afternoon.
But now it's deep across the first base line and is edging toward the pitcher's mound.
That will make it increasingly difficult as the afternoon goes on to pick up the ball off the bat out there in left field.
Two strike pitch, breaking pitch down low and away, and it's one and two.
Tom Hall picks up with the deals of Minnesota.
One of the many deals that Bob Howsam made in changing around the 1970s won Cincinnati team that did not produce after it's tenured of 1970s.
Plus the bigger traders, Gil Morgan, brought here when Lee May and Tommy Homes went.
Now it's a play by Rudy, one and two.
Geronimo is also not used in trade and Tom Hall coming down from Minnesota was a big plus also.
One and two.
Can't get over it, Marty.
The riverfront stadium is nearly quiet.
The loudest noise you hear is a plane flying overhead.
The Reds are down to the nothing.
Rudy with a close set hits the right.
Ready, there goes the runner.
And the pitch is high.
Bench goes down and there's the stolen base.
Alou.
Now, as so often happens, Bench is upset, not with himself.
Hall simply forgot that Alou was there.
That is a left-handed pitcher to boost.
There's a big argument around the national league, which is the better catcher, Johnny Bench or Manny Sandia.
Lou Brock, who led the national league in baseball, he said, I have a tougher time against Sandia.
People said, what?
I'm on the bench?
And he said, that doesn't have anything to do with it.
The Pittsburgh staff does a better job of keeping us close to the first base.
And Hall simply forgot Alou, who is now down and scoring character, and that's the first time that they've been able to steal on bench.
The ball's two strikes and the pitch is high and inside to Rudy.
And now with two out, it is three and two to Rudy.
And they're suited up in ball game.
And with a catcher, the catcher, Johnny Bench, the pitching staff might tend to be a little relaxed and say, Johnny will get him.
I don't have to worry that much about it.
Three and two, but Brock, as I said, Manny, prefers to steal on bench, only because he can get a bigger jump.
And most bases really are still down on the pitcher, not the catcher.
Here's the pitch, ball four.
Rudy draws the walk.
And that means now that we're having Mike Eagan.
Eagan is the story, and Manny, you follow the A's and you know the story about the kind of near Mike is after.
He's a utility man, a very fine defensive first baseman and a left-handed pinch hitter.
And this year he hits over a 3.30 for Oakland.
He's just been a super athlete for Oakland, a great attitude, and they use him every way possible.
All right, Alou's down to second. Rudy on the first.
Eagan is the left-hander facing left-hander Hall and swings through the first pitch.
It's strike one.
Hall took something off that first delivery to Eagan.
There's Norton, third base coach, clapping it up.
Towards Oakland, two.
Cincinnati, nothing.
And we are on the top of the eighth inning of game two of the World Series in Cincinnati.
Oakland won the first game, leads the second.
Got a breaking pitch for a strike to Eagan this time, and that was on the shoulder.
It's O and two.
All the very different shells with that breaking pitch.
The left-hander batters.
He kept giving it to Alou, couldn't get him out, gave him a fastball, and tossed it to base A.
Two strikes as Tom Hall peers in.
Now they're breaking pitch, and Eagan on three pitches, goes down swinging.
No runs, one hit. No errors, and two minutes left.
We go to the last of the eighths. The A's lead the Reds to the nothings.
Let's update the professional football school board once again for you.
After half, the Miami Dolphins leading the San Diego Chargers 17-3.
At the end of one period of play, the Jets over New England 7-0.
However, the Jets have picked up two more touchdowns, the Patriots two field goals in the second quarter.
And our score is at least 21-6 in favor of the Jets.
At the half, Pittsburgh with ten points in the second quarter, leading Houston 10-7.
At the half, Philadelphia over Los Angeles 17-3.
At the half, it is Chicago leading Cleveland at 7-0.
And collecting another score, it should be Los Angeles 17-3 over Philadelphia at the half.
The Rams leading the Philadelphia Eagles 17-3 at half time.
At the end of one period of play, Atlanta 14-0, New Orleans 7.
At the end of the first quarter, Washington 3-0 over St. Louis.
Later, Minnesota at Denver, Cincinnati will be at Kansas City, Buffalo will be at Oakland,
and the New York Giants will be on the west coast of San Francisco.
Monday night, Green Bay being entertained by the Detroit Lions.
Right now, let's pause for station identification.
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Serving you from Fort Clayton and Fort Davis, this is SCN Radio at 790 and 1420.
The Chicago Bears now a 10-0 lead over the Cleveland Browns.
That's in the third period right now. Let's go back to the Riverfront Stadium.
Jim Simpson with Monte Brown, Cincinnati, last of the eighth, Joe Morgan.
They call strike one. He'll be followed by Tolan and Bench.
This is Jim Hunter's big inning. If he can keep Morgan and Tolan off the bases before Bench comes up,
it'll be on his way. And Morgan pops it up to short left field.
Rudy glashes down on that tough sunfield, but it's very high and he's got it.
And Hunter has Joe Morgan and has had his number all day.
Has got him. The strikeout, foul out, to the catcher, reached on the man, now left the lazy far to left.
Now Bobby Tolan, he'll go for three. He has struck out and popped the camp on the short white.
This is the inning in which Cincinnati is not who are die yet, but this is their big part of the lineup.
And there's a breaking pitch to Tolan. He swings through at strike one.
Cincinnati was only shut out here at Riverfront Stadium four times in 1972.
The thing's shut out now. Fida Blue and Raleigh Fingers are throwing dust and Kate Hunter needs some help.
The A's want to go home with a two game lead. Back of the fastball and he's got Tolan swinging again.
A big job for Hunter, for any pitcher against Cincinnati, is get those top three men, Rose, Morgan, and Tolan.
Out of them all to gray, Rose has reached once on the base hit, Morgan on an error.
That's been it. The two strike pitch coming to Tolan and he just does get a peek of it and fouls it to the tree.
Two on seven hits and two errors that cost him nothing for the A's. No runs, four hits, no errors.
For the Reds, we are in the last of the eighth inning in game two.
Tolan, bat held high, he's in the shade. Hunter, the pitcher is in the sun and throws the pitch low and away, ball one.
One ball, two strikes. Here's Johnny Bentz, one for two today on deck.
Tolan wants to reach and allow Bentz a chance to tie it at two by hitting one out of here.
One and two, ball is hit to right field. Alou is there, shot it in, now backs up and off to his right.
And again, Johnny Bentz comes to bat with nobody on base.
Well, no matter how this World Series turns out, they're going to say that in the first two games at least,
the Olsen Fishing staff did a superb job of keeping men off base with Johnny Bentz coming up.
And as any Cincinnati Red or their fans will tell you, that is how if you're to beat the Reds you will.
Bentz right-hander, swings on the first pitch, strike one.
Alou and Fingers continue to one, nobody is in the Cincinnati Bullpen.
Two to nothing to score, we are in the last of the eighths.
A curveball that is found out of play and back at first base.
The realization being that if they can retire Bentz here as they go to the ninth inning, it will be Perez, Minkie, and Geronimo.
As Jim Capsis, Hunter Mace must say. 21-7 on the season.
He went 15 in the third inning in the playoffs allowing two runs and only went after 1.17 in the playoffs
and he's allowed nothing so far today.
Curve is outside. Bentz is one ball, two strikes.
On her way, Penis is captured.
Flashes the signal, comes back with a fastball, hits the right center field, ball carries out there
and back goes Alou, warning track, near the wall and takes it, it's just another long out
and Bentz chops between first and second realizing that that is the third out of the eighth inning.
And at the end of eighth, Olsen continues to lead Cincinnati to nothing.
Look at action in the National Hockey League on a Saturday night.
The Montreal Canadiens won their third straight game in the National Hockey League.
They're not their third straight but picked up their third win and they have a try so they have yet to lose
in their first four starts. This one a 6-1 win over the New York Rangers.
The Chicago Blackhawks also did win their fourth straight.
They are 4-0, 4-2 over the St. Louis Blues and the Detroit Red Wings ran their third win in a row,
a 5-0 win over Philadelphia.
In other NHL games, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh beat the California Goldenfields 5-2.
Toronto beat Los Angeles 6-4.
The Boston Bruins beat the New York Islanders 7-4.
Atlanta and Buffalo played to a 1-1 tie and Minnesota and Vancouver tied at 3-3.
Only two games in the World Hockey Association,
San Jose and New York beat Ottawa 8-6, Cleveland beat Alberta 3-2.
Young Chris Everett will battle Australia's Kerry Millville Sunday for the top five
in the Virginia Flim's tennis tournament at Boca Raton, Florida.
Miss Everett gained the finals with a 6-4, 6-2 upset over Billie Jean King on Saturday.
Line scores, we go to the top after the ninth inning.
For Oakland, two runs, they've had seven hits.
They two miscued which didn't cost them.
For Cincinnati, no runs, four hits and no errors.
Now, Pando steps in to face Tommy Hall and once again here is Jim Simpson.
All right, Marnie, Pando one for three, leadoff single in the second inning.
That is working against Tom Hall and takes five inside, ball one.
Hall is the third pitcher, Ross Rindgri started it, gave up the two runs.
Catched this under, the pitcher drove in one and the second.
Moody's home run in the third was the other.
That's the only scoring today.
Hall throws fastball outside, didn't think he'd miss, but Honigich says that's ball two.
2-0 leadoff batter Sal Bando to George Hendricks and Gene Kenneth-Tobalo.
Down ball toward the shortstop, Cheney in, doubles it up, throws on,
and Bando running very well, nevertheless is out by a step or two.
That will bring up Hendricks.
Well, since the World Series has become a seven-game affair,
only five times in the history of the World Series has the team lost the first two
and then come back to win.
But in every case, the team that won the first two did it at home
and then had to go on the road for three games.
Here's Hendricks.
So in other words, as there's a try to Hendricks,
no team has ever lost the first two at home and then come back to win the World Series.
Cincinnati would have to break precedent, back with a change up and it fouled off
and behind home plate and then the team.
Hendricks is all for three today, but reached on the fourth play in the second
and scored ahead of Hunter's run-torn single.
Two strikes to Hendricks.
Some of this record shot of 53,224 have started for the exits,
although the Reds have a history of coming back low inside.
Ben Shrubbett, Beecher's in front of him, knocks it down.
Anybody that remembers the final game of the playoff stampon-jits with the Pittsburgh Pirates
would have to stick around.
These Reds never get in.
One ball, two strikes. You've got to beat them.
They're not going to beat themselves.
All back throws, a fastball line to the right.
Morgan playing very deep. Shrubbett and Shrubbett wanted a dive.
Morgan was playing very deep, had him, Hendricks hustling down the roll away,
and Morgan threw out of the bag and Hendricks is on.
Nichols of the Minneapolis Stars, Earl Austin of the Cincinnati Pro's,
Ron Barnum of the Health and Tribune have a three-score here
and they've given their
I could say World Series base hit. 0-2 yesterday and 0-3 before that. 1-0.
Once the old pre-game baseball, it'll look like a line drive.
Base hit and the Fox scored a ball.
George will take it.
Already, the total tennis with a 1-0 count, a mouth steps off, just to keep Hendricks back.
Imagine Tom is out thinking that George is going,
but wants to keep him close enough to set up a possible double play.
5-0, short left field, Rose coming on, now relaxing on it and has it for the second out.
That'll bring up Nick Green, an important single with two out of the second inning.
5-4, look at the third call strike in the seventh.
Oakland leads it 2-0. We are at the top of the ninth.
The Reds have one more chance with their 5-6-7 batters in the last of this inning.
And then we lose the draw. Everybody taps up and gets out of here and goes out to the fair.
Oakland, California.
The series will resume on Tuesday evening at 8-30 Eastern Time.
Wherever you are listening around the world, and I forgot to say hello to all of you,
who are listening in Europe, Polly, Japan, South America, and the tips of Spain.
All is ready, bowed, behind home plate, near the Oakland dugout,
bench is over, man's off, but that's going to be in the three-five, four-five row.
One strike, the six rings.
They set a record here yesterday in attendance, and they broken that record today.
53,224.
One strike to count to three, right handed batter.
On the day, Monty will have to check his book out.
I'm sure he thought of the news all year long.
One of the last times that one man went all the way at second base for the A's. Not often.
Green didn't do it yesterday.
Kubiak came in and made two important outs in the ninth inning.
Fastball, top court, third base, but it's foul.
It'll be glove, but I'll make you there.
It was during the last series of the year in Kansas City,
and they let Big Dream play all the way one night.
They let down Maxfield play all the way one night and said Kubiak,
just so they could all three get a few times at bat.
What kind of streak did that break, Monty?
How long has it been since that has happened?
Well, it had been something like four or five weeks before anybody played all the way, or since.
Two strikes now, still the big green.
Trenes are out of foul chips.
Henryk was dashing toward second base, never slipped.
And some of the A's have told Monty that they really don't know where to slide on this,
with the coppers almost all the way between first and second base.
I sure as got some work for you, didn't I, Monty?
It particularly bothered him yesterday.
He said I was running along, I just ran out of traction,
and I didn't know exactly when they hit it.
You know, the interesting thing about that second base situation,
Sal Maxfield started five straight games for the A's and never came to bat once.
The A's were behind when he came up every time in the second inning,
and he just never batted for five games.
All right, two out on the ninth, and with the first two strikes, the green.
Now from the set position, now throws, and green lines a foul down the line and deep.
Not in front of a breaking chip.
Balls a foul and deep.
Dick had no home run free RBIs, but because of his backstroke,
he only came to bat 42 times during the regular season.
He was with the ball club for weeks working out before he was finally pronounced fifth okay and put on the roster.
But Jake Williams likes the man like reading in there.
He has got team leadership that one time was the captain of the ball club back in the Kansas City days.
Two strikes to green.
Oakland 2, Cincinnati, nothing, ninth inning, checks the first base,
and it's a high throw, but Perez has no trouble dragging it down,
and Henrik has no problem in getting back in time.
All set again.
Green steps in.
Another check at first base.
Ball has given up two base hits.
That has been warped.
In the two innings that he has worked, or one and two-thirds innings that he has worked,
and he's trying to get out of this so that the Reds can try to come back in the last of the night.
Throws the pitch and there's a drive.
Base hit into center field.
Henrik comes around, told him to hold up a little bit, perhaps to zip the decoy, Henrik,
but the play was right in front of George, and he stopped his second base.
And that brings up Capsaic Hunter.
And no matter whether you're a Cincinnati or San Jose fan, this brother has done quite a job this afternoon.
He's allowed four hits and really never been in any real trouble,
except in the second inning when an infield hit and a walk put him in trouble,
and so what did he do? He struck out the side.
Hunter also has driven in one of the two runs. He has won for three.
All is ready with runners at first and second base.
First pitch is ball one.
All Cheps looks back at Henrik and throws again at the high, and it is quickly 2-0,
and Hunter steps out and looks down to Noon, who looks into Vic Williams and says,
what do we do now?
Jim's going to be interesting to see after the game and the interviews if the story comes out
that Hunter has told maybe one time in his major league career about how he gained such good control.
He said, I learned to throw well by throwing corn cobs at a hole in a barn in North Carolina.
That's for North Carolina, back with a pitch outside.
Great Carroll is up and throwing, and now another pitcher goes down to join him, and Bench comes out.
All to the pitcher Hunter has missed and has not been around the strike zone.
It's not been just off the plate. He has thrown three high or wide pitches.
The captain hooks this Hunter, and it's 3-0.
Throughout 3-0, let us see whether or not they're giving Caps to it.
They're trying to go ahead and swing your way on 3-0,
or whether he is taking to load the bases and bring up a fellow by the name of Campanella.
Don't you think he'd be taking? He is taking, and he draws ball four.
They've walked the bases loaded, and Campanella's just coming up.
Second walk, give it up.
By Hall. Hunter puts on the jacket this early afternoon and walks ever so slowly down the first base,
as Irv Norn crops in to make sure Campanella knows what they're going to try to do.
Parky Anderson paces back and forth in the Cincinnati dugout.
Reds lost yesterday 3-2, are losing here in the night 2-0.
The A's have loaded them up with two outs with both their eight, nine batters reaching base.
A single to Green, and there's a pitch that's out of the strike zone up high, and it's ball one to Campanella.
Green reached on a base hit, and he walks Hunter on four pitches.
The pitcher.
Pitching from the lineup now with the bases loaded, Hall comes right back with a fast ball that is inside,
and it is 2-0.
Hall now just steps back.
Off the mound, goes to the rosin bag. Campanella stares down to Irv Norn, the third base coach who gives him the talk.
That bullpen remains busy for the Reds.
2-0, they don't want another under score here in the ninth inning.
They come back and throws one right down the middle. Two balls, one strike.
This is though Hall then knew that Campanella would be taking all away because he had thrown six pitches that were not in the strike zone and just aimed it down the middle.
2-1.
Campanella's the right-hander batter, bouncing in over the plate.
The center, Hall throws, swings, and a miss. It's 2-2.
Hendrick is at third base, Green at second, Hunter on at first.
Hall has the sign.
Nod.
Throws on 2-2, foul behind the plate.
Still, two balls, two strikes to Campanella.
Defended for the playoff series because of the bat throwing incident in the second game.
Not allowed to play. He's been allowed to play in the World Series, but will miss the first week of action next year.
Under.
Two balls, two strikes.
Hall ready.
Throws the fastball and he gets a bit of it in thousands of the screen.
And that's the pitch that Campanella's wanted. That pitch was out over the plate and Campy had a good swing at it, but didn't get it.
It's 2-2.
Monty, we keep talking about the record crowd here. It seems as though you and I have been sitting here talking to ourselves.
It's just been, I would imagine, one of the quietest of all World Series crowds.
Two balls, two strikes. Hall right back. Throws the blazing fastball and shuts him out.
No runs, two hits, no errors, and the bases are left-loaded. They go to the last of the ninth. The Reds have one more chance.
They trail. Oakland's 2-0.
The United States retained the Davis Cup today on the strength of Stan Smith's clutch performance against Romania's Eon Curiac.
Smith defeated the 33-year-old Curiac in a three-hour match before 6,000 Northe, excitable Romanian fans in Bucharest.
Smith won 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 2-6, 6-6, love, wearing down Curiac in the final set.
There were frequent disputes over line calls as the fans roared their support for Curiac.
With the United States leading 2-1 going into the match, Curiac heads to win for Romania to stay alive in the Davis Cup competition.
Curiac rose to the occasion and played superbly when he leveled a two-set draw with the crowd on its feet,
cheering him very or every point he wanted appeared he might upset Smith.
But Smith, as he has every year for the last five years, hung on to win the decisive point in the Davis Cup victory.
Romania, the first communist country to stage the final round of the Davis Cup, fails to place the domination by the big force in its power.
Since the Davis Cup started in 1900, only the U.S. Australia-Britain alliance have won it.
Well, we go to the last half of the ninth inning, and the man on the Oakland 50 staff who finished the game more times than he started than any other pitcher, Jim Capsaic Hunter.
16 complete games, three outs away from his biggest win of his major league career.
As we go to the last half of the ninth inning, the A's have two runs on nine hits, the Reds no runs on four hits, and here's Jim Capsaic.
All right, Marnie, and Barash is in trouble for Hunter today.
He drew a walk in the second, single-tapped in the fourth, and grounded into a belt by a fourth play in the sixth.
Hunter, pitching, drawing, and is fouled at the screen.
Should Cincinnati lose today, it would be their seventh consecutive World Series loss at home.
They haven't won a home game in the World Series since 1940 against Detroit.
They would like to win this one today.
Hunter right back, breaking, but just missed outside.
Hunter thought he had it.
One ball, one strike. The Peres, the Dennis, making on deck.
Cincinnati was only shut out seven times all season long, the lowest in the national league.
Hunter is trying to do that today.
Back again with the fastball.
Mishra's blowing away, and it is two and one to Peres.
A's lead it through to nothing, but left to fly back to Oakland this afternoon with a two-game ball.
Perhaps they don't know it, but no team has ever lost the first two games at home and then gone on to win a World Series.
Back again, fouled out of play.
The fastball fouled off to the right.
It is two balls, two strikes.
Peres steps out.
Hunter gets the new ball.
The open bullpen is busy.
The red bullpen is busy.
Hunter looks in for the sign.
Ready for the two-two pitch.
Throws the fastball. Line block, half an inch over the clock.
The CCC is playing, and Peres keeps the reds alive.
And now the potential sign on Mishy comes to bat.
That is just the fifth hit.
Off-skins, half-pitch, others.
But it's a big one.
Mishy has struck out on the second, swinging through a far high fastball,
rounded into a double play, and drowned it out.
Mando sets the Williams.
And a big one here is Mishy should hit it on the ground.
Those A's are that trouble turning over the double play here on this pocket.
The pitch, wide to left field, not so good looking up.
He's got it, against the wall.
And now a turning to both plays.
And there's a fielding gem of the 1972 World Series.
Henlich is all the way over left field, dropping Odie on the back.
He went four or five or six feet in the air,
and when he came down, it was what they call an ice cream cone.
A lot of the white was showing.
But Joe Odie catches the line drive of Dennis Mishy,
and that's enough to bring Dick Williams out of there with his score call.
I'll tell you, Rudy has been it.
When we signed on yesterday and started talking about the A's Ball Club,
we said the most consistent performer openers had all year,
both in the field and after play, has been Joe Rudy.
And that is what you call wiping it off the wall.
Just about every World Series becomes famous for defensive plays,
and I think when they make the World Series film highlights this year,
that will be one of the opening shots.
Now Jim Honigson goes off to the witnesses on the mound,
Mishy saying, look, we've got left-hander Geronimo coming up.
You want to face him or there's white or blue out there?
And Andre has given him the word he wants to face Geronimo.
He's sucking up, forcing the ground out, and hit a lazy fly to center field.
Geronimo's here to hit a home run in the playoffs.
Two to nothing will score.
Geronimo represents the fire on.
Perez is at first base.
And he was around second base and wheeling for first.
No idea, nor did I, and I believe very few others thought that Joe Rudy would make that check.
Looks like the Reds are right back in business.
Bando in.
Baseball is chopped up on the 22nd base.
Basketball is fouled away.
Keegan is holding the runner on the first.
Green and Caponaro are back on the carpet, rolling back at second and short.
Bando is in on the carpet in front of third base.
They are playing Geronimo to hit to the other way, the other field.
Mops to pull the ball.
But he pulled the ball.
What a kick!
Made by Keegan.
He's off to the catch up and types the bag.
Keegan has saved a big hit.
That's the reason he goes in the ball game, Jim.
He is just incredible over there.
With the runner being held at first base, it's impossible to think he could get a glove on that ball.
Two are out.
Perez goes down to second base.
Two fabulous, I know that's an overused word, but two fabulous human plays.
Turned in by Joe Rudy, who got much more spectacular.
But of course when Keegan drives that ball down, that saves runners being at first and third.
And now it looks to go how McRae is going to come on.
L.J. not getting a chance to bat.
McRae yesterday had one or two colors I recall on him, the white of blue and blue,
celestial for a base hit.
threw him a little curve ball.
Two out now.
That's his other one out away from winning the second World Series game and putting the Reds down
two to nothing in games and heading for the bonus four part.
Bando raced to the dugout to ask Dick Williams something.
Now he's in back of the bag, near the line, the guard against the extra base hit.
They'll give him the one run, but they don't want the extra base hit.
That ball hit the hole right there.
A long third base come for Perez.
The blue goes to second.
They'll give him the one run.
It's two to one.
The red guard's shut out and now they're alive.
And now the air is coming to bat.
The two out and McRae at first base.
Arby here yesterday was up as a bench hitter and failed to reach base.
He rounded to second base.
That was also in the ninth inning.
Bando is here.
McRae still trying to hit Lee.
McRae hit 18 to Hunter.
Arby are only once or back 91 times in 44 games and that's slightly over 200.
Two on eyes.
Rose is on deck.
Arby becomes a team man.
Hunter can look over at Rose and know that if Arby reaches, not only does Rose come up,
but Arby would be the winning run.
This is the last of the ranks.
He knows that Cincinnati is out of left-handed sentries.
And he also knows that Cathery Hunter might be out of gas because they have hit three
balls here in this inning very, very hard.
So he's going to bring in, I believe, the sidearm right-hander, Raleigh Fingers.
He's going to be calling the Cucamonga Kid.
He's the only man I've ever known who lives in Cucamonga, California, Jim.
But he lives there.
He pitched in a World Series before.
It was the Junior American Legion World Series before he signed a bonus contract with the
then-Canva City organization.
He became the most valuable player in that World Series as he not only pitched well,
but hit well in it.
While Fingers comes on, we pause 30 seconds for safe and identification.
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The Patriots have scored on a 41-yard touchdown run by Carl Gerrit, the extra points by Gogolak
and the Jets now leading New England 21 to 13.
In the third period, a touchdown by Paul Warfield in a 19-yard pass from Earl Morrill, now Miami
24, San Diego 3.
For all these fingers who have some incredible saves in the playoffs against the Detroit
Tigers, he came into one of the games with runners at first and third and nobody down
in extra innings and did not allow a run.
He went into another one of the playoffs games against Detroit with runners at first and
third and won out and did not allow a run.
And he came on here yesterday in the ball game against the Cincinnati Ball Club and
picked one and two third innings, striking out three batters.
He came on with Johnny Bench at second base in a 1-0 game at that time and he kept
Bench from going over to third base by striking out the right-handed batting Perez, then he
struck out Dennis Mincy and then he got Geronimo DeLion out to left field.
He then picked him to the next inning, gave up a single to contest the own, then struck
out Hulander at a critical time and after walking roses, taken out.
Well, this is a beginning, the biggest yet of the World Series.
A lot of fingers in the A's get out of it, they go home with a two-game to none lead.
If the Reds do come back, they will have come back from the brink of disaster and perhaps
shell-shot the open A's and go west with no worse than a 50-50 flip.
Over to first base, Steve McRae.
Fingers ready, two out, two to one to score.
Last of the night, the right-hander prepares to throw, ground, bow, off to the right.
Javier, 209 hitter, remember, during the regular season, rounded out yesterday and is only
a pinching role part of this in this World Series.
But in the World Series of 57 and 58 against Boston and Detroit, was better than a 350
hitter.
Strike one to chop to Javier.
Raleigh fingers out there now checks the first base just to make sure that McRae is close.
He even brings the ball back to it.
Might have had a mix-up on signals there and thought he'd get a little unsure of what might
happen.
Came pretty close to balking right there and I would imagine Mike is going to remind Raleigh,
don't give him that knee bend again.
One strike.
Looking, throwing the break, he hits, swinging a miss, and he's out in front of Javier.
All in two.
Throw in the fastball first to Javier fouled off to the right.
Then came in with a big, slow curve and a throw in two.
Things as Monty described to me as a man that's in this kind of situation, he's never been
in the World Series before, but pressure does not bother.
Doesn't bother any of your real good relief pictures of which Raleigh fingers has won.
Comes back with a breaking pitch low and away, backhanded by Tennyson Madurk.
That is one ball, two strikes.
Oakland two, Reds one.
We are the last of the ninth with two out as Javier steps out.
Hunter worked eight in two third inning, gave up one run, should be responsible for another.
Six hits, struck out six and walks three.
There goes the runner, big curve ball that is popped up in play.
He can come off first base.
As it, Oakland goes home leading two games to none.
Fingers does the job for Captain Hunter.
The entire Oakland team is out on the field in the playing diamond looking for Raleigh fingers.
Two runs, nine hits, two errors for the winning A's, one run, six hits, no errors for the Reds.
Well in the World Series in which the Oakland A's were the decided underdogs.
Everywhere that they were talking about the favorites, they had to favor the tremendous Cincinnati Ball Club.
A very highly talented club.
Both these teams coming right off a very hard five game playoff series to win their way into the World Series.
Neither team really hitting the ball well, but the A's hitting it well enough and getting super pitching.
And today, defense was the name of the game and the lading for the Oakland A's.
Joe Rudy made one of the greatest catches I've ever seen in following this game of baseball.
Mike Egan made a tremendous play at first base, almost turned it into a double play.
And then of course the combination of the great relief work by Raleigh fingers who had to get one man and got him.
But I think Jim, you have to look back to the turning point of this ball game when Jim Hunter in the second inning,
leading only one to nothing, had runners at first and second and nobody down,
and reached back and got all that big extra stuff that he had to have to strike out Dennis Rintje,
these are Geronimo, and then he walked in intentionally to pitch to Ross Grimpley and struck him out.
And that is what you call World Series pressure pitching, and he is the winner today as a result of that.
I will also point out that Joe Rudy not only made that fantastic catch in the ninth inning,
but it was his whole run that won the ball game as it turned out.
That was the game winner in this two to one ball game.
Well the second game of the 1972 World Series now history and the surprising Oakland Athletics,
I had two games to nothing by virtue of their two to one victory.
Of course Oakland the underdogs, but supposed to have good pitching,
probably has good if not better all around dancers, and it is proven true thus far.
The pitching is held up. In the first game of course Kenny Holtzman relieved by Raleigh fingers,
and then fighter blue, and in this game Capsaic Hunter going eight and two third inning,
and fingers coming on to get the all-in fortune play.
So they are getting ready to move back now to Oakland, or move to Oakland for the first time,
a night game scheduled as is the custom as it started in 1971.
During the week three night games in Oakland, and of course the A's are the chance now to win it at home,
before the hometown fans up two games to nothing.
Schedule the pitch for the Oakland A's on Tuesday night when the series resumes,
Johnny Blue Moon Odom is opposition one of two pitchers, possibly James Billingham and possibly Don Gullett.
During the course of this game Mr. Gullett was warming up in the bullpen for Cincinnati,
and whether he was warming up to possibly coming in relief in this game, game number two,
or possibly because he was warming up just trying to get into some work for game number three.
As it stands either Don Gullett or Jack Billingham, game number three for the Cincinnati Reds.
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Thanks once again to Jim Simpson and Monty Moore of NBC Radio.
The final score once again game two, Oakland two, Cincinnati one.
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