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The Cincinnati Reds faced the Oakland A's at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum for Game 3 of the 1972 World Series on October 18th.
The A's led the best of seven series, two games to none, and this is the NBC Radio broadcast of Game 3 featuring announcers Jim Simpson and Al Michaels.
The lineup first for the Cincinnati Reds, Steve Rose leads off in left field.
Gil Morgan at second base. Bobby Tolan in center field.
Johnny Bench-Catchings hitting fourth.
Tony Perez at first base.
Dennis Menke at third base.
Stacey Geronimo in right field hitting seventh.
The shortstop, Darrell Cheney.
And the pitcher, right-hander Jack Billingham.
For the Oakland A's, Bert Campanaris leads off at shortstop.
Mattie Allou in right.
Joe Rudy in left.
Mike Epstein in first base.
Sal Vando at third base hitting sixth.
Right now, the governor of California, the honorable Ronald Reagan, is getting set to throw out the first ball.
Gene Tennis will make the catch, and a wild throw by Reagan.
Heading out towards center field over the head of center.
George Hendrick will hit sixth.
Hendrick in center.
Gene Tennis will do the catching.
Dick Green at second base.
John Blue Moon Odom, the pitcher, he really takes the field.
And we far 10 seconds for station identification.
Lots of people watching on the left of the ball game.
Danfield Freeway backs up at 12th Avenue.
And the interstate northbound backs up at the Fremont Bridge.
Jay Cullen, KGWE Portland.
The plate on fire tonight is Mel Steiner.
Mike Humon is at first base.
Bob Engel at second base.
Phil Haller at third.
Chris Pelletutis down the left of your line.
Jim Connachick down the right of your line.
And here is Tuckham, Blue Moon Odom.
Shock toward the mound.
Getting better, loosing up.
Pete Rose will lead off for the Cincinnati Reds in the first inning.
The Oakland A's on top two games to nothing.
Game three of the 1972 World Series.
And with a play-by-play, here is Jim Simpson.
Alan, this time that we've had off, and in the two surprise victories,
we say a surprise only because Oakland was the decisive underdog.
It jumped out to the last two games to non-league.
And the travel day we had and the day off we had because of the rainouts,
we began to wonder, we began to wonder whether or not the Oakland Athletics,
a young ball club in its first World Series,
the A's would go back through history here in Oakland, in Kansas City,
and back to Philadelphia, go all the way back to 1941, their last series appearance.
If one of this young ball clubs, with a two games to non-league,
will have that kind of tenacity, that kind of search for the juggler vein,
they go ahead and put this away out here in Oakland.
Turn it around.
Cincinnati all year long has been a fine ball club.
Some say if the Pittsburgh Pirates are not the best club in baseball,
the Cincinnati Reds are.
The Reds beat the Pirates.
The Reds have been a very fast, aggressive, base-running ball club.
And so if they were to get back in, and fairly two games to none as they are,
you've got to look for that kind of baseball.
But because of so much rain, the in-field and the out-field are both very slow.
So there's another question for you.
Can the Reds put together the kind of ball, aggressive baseball, they would like to?
Will the field hold them down?
Now John Grewmore told them, if the right-hander pitcher changes the, even on his fastball,
and I don't mean the straight change, he'll take just that much off the fastball.
He's got a dandy curve.
He's got a fastball that rides in on the right-handers.
It looks like a through ball, but it's a fastball.
And he's got another fastball that would go in toward the left-hander.
And also a fastball, not a slider.
Pete Rose, the flick hitter, hit 307 on the season, steps in.
Rose has won for a cluster walk.
And Odom's first hit, Banderlyn on the grass, is a high fastball, ball one.
Odom, in his last three shots, going back to the regular season,
over 19 innings, there's only about one unearned run, eight hits.
And in the playoff, he defeated Detroit 5-0 and 2-1.
Ready for the second pitch to Rose, this is another high fastball,
and Odom is a thinking fastball-type pitcher.
But he's showing his nerve again.
Those of you who have followed the playoff, remember that at the end of five innings in Detroit,
in the final game, Odom took himself out.
He became nauseous with the tension.
He's thrown two fastballs to the crowd thinking Rose.
Tennis is down low, and there's the pitch.
It's got to be outside cover.
That's a fastball that drives in on the right-hander and rolls away from the left-hander to Rose.
On deck is Joe Morgan.
Bander remains in on the grass at third.
Outfield plays a round on the left.
Low-pitched with three balls, one strike.
Now Odom pitches from behind a lot.
That is, he is down three and one, and three and two.
A Hall of Famer by the name of Early Wind used to like to pitch from behind,
thinking that everybody's getting fastballed, and that's when he comes in with a breaking pitch.
And as him hits the pitch, he wants him to hit.
He had one.
Odom right-back, round ball to the foul of the third baseline, and Bander picks it up.
They mention that Rose has one great puck to walk.
Rose, Morgan, and Coler, in 25-times at bat, have been on base five-times, twice by walk,
once on an error, and only twice by base hit.
As Al Michael said, Johnny Bentz, leader in RBIs and home runs, has come up six times
in great appearances with nobody on his red-off.
The three-two pitch ready, and back with the pitch, Coler.
Well, there's Blue Moon Odom loving to pitch from behind, and he got Rose looking for a pitch
that he didn't get.
He got a fastball right down the middle.
Joe Morgan shifts in.
And the Cincinnati Reds say that if Johnny Bentz is not the most valuable player in the
National League, this fella certainly should be.
Morgan hit.992 on the year, left the majors with 115 walks and 122 runs.
But he is 0-for-6, plus the walk, and reaching on an error in the World Series.
And he is 0-for-11 in his last three games.
Fastball kept him in the outside corner.
Morgan, like Coler, in the follow, he's waiting on Jeff Alexander.
Now, score one out top of the first, and just begun the third game of the World Series in
no-suit.
We see no rain anywhere around.
Odom working fast now, getting a little confidence off.
He takes his up-high.
And it's one ball, one strike to Morgan.
Morgan came over that trade from Houston, which sent Lee May and Tommy Helms, among others,
to Houston and brought Morgan and Dillingham to nice pictures among over here.
High and away, and far outside, Gene Kenneth to catch the catch-up, and Odom wants to do
baseball, two balls, one strike.
Now, Kennedy to first base, victory down to second.
Merck Campanera to shortstop.
Sal Bando to third base.
And your Rudy in left, George Hendricks, 23 years old today, out on center field.
Maddie Lewitt-Wrightfield and Gene Kenneth, the one-a-ball game with two home runs behind
the plate.
Odom ready on the 2-1 pitch.
The fast ball is too high, and it's three balls and one strike.
Odom went three and one on Rose, and then keeps the two called strikes.
Well, check that foul ball up the third base line to strike two, and then to call strike three.
Three and one pitch comes in swinging the net on a thinking fast ball.
They've all two strikes to Morgan.
The Reds remember if they ever get back into this series, and they feel they can, must
be Rose, Morgan, and Odom on base.
Odom is standing on deck swinging the bat.
The three and two, Bando backs up a bit of third base.
Swing and a miss on another thinking pitch.
And Odom has struck out the first two.
I think Jimmy could probably count on one hand the number of times this season that Rose
and Morgan have struck out back-to-back.
That'll bring up Bobby Tolan.
A lot of things said, and it always is, around an all-star game or a world series about the
superiority or the lack of superiority of the National League.
They talk about either league.
And the American Lakers, up two games to none, and taking full cognizance of the fact that
Rose, Morgan, and Tolan are fine ball players, just say they're going against the pitching
staff the likes of which they never saw throughout the National League season.
That's just an argument going on.
Tolan hits the first pitch, Johnson up the middle, hop off.
Odom has it, crosses it out, and it's an easy one-two-three inning for Blue Moon Odom and
the Oakland A's.
The Golden Lots to the first.
There's no score.
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Now, Michael is with Gil Simpson back at the Oakland Coliseum.
The Reds did not score in the first.
The A's will come up.
Jack Sillingham working for the Reds.
Tinkerball pitcher, slider, good control, came over in the deal from Newton, led the staff
in almost every department this season simply because he was just about the only man to
be in the rotation all season long.
Gary Nolan had his problems and was in and out.
Don Gullick was six-goal out.
But Sillingham started almost every five days.
There was a brief time at the beginning of the year when he resigned of the rotation.
He started more games than any other Reds 31.
He was 12 and 12 with a 3-1 ADRA.
Here's Jeff.
All right, now, Kampy Kampenow leads it off against the right-hander, Sillingham.
Three-quarter motion, it's flying south on the right-field line and is well dropped by
one of the Cincinnati Bullpen men who did not have a glove on.
Strike one to Kampenow.
Kampenow, for those of you listening around the world that may not have heard,
descended for the playoffs.
They're throwing a bat at the first pitch to Laren LaGrove.
He's allowed to play again in the 4-0 series.
He'll be suspended for the first week of next year as further punitive.
No score, breaking pitch.
It's curveball for him by Sillingham and he's playing it in this, it's a strike two.
0-1 to Kampenow, it's Matty Allou on deck.
No score, last for the first, the third game, Oakland won the first two in the year, the
69th World Series.
Sillingham takes it all, 6-4, comes back with a breaking pitch and Kampenow strikes out 3.
Now both pitches shut off the strikeouts, but for Sillingham, it only took him three pitches.
Matty Allou has been around the national league for a long while, 1-7 best of five.
He has walked and stolen a base and of course came over to the Oakland A's from the St.
Louis Cardinals late in the season, so he has seen Jack Sillingham a lot.
Matty Allou is a fastball pitcher, so we would look for the breaking ball from Sillingham
to Matty Allou, left-handed batter.
Sillingham looks down to Johnny Ventsen, catches it for the side.
Allou waits.
Sillingham ready.
Throw's a fastball, but it's too low.
Tony Perez at first base, Joe Morgan the second baseman, Darrell Ganius shortstop,
Dennis Menke at third, Steve Rose out on left, Bobby Holden in center, Cesar Geronimo in
right, Banks has just flashed his sign to Sillingham, is right back with a breaking
curve that stays outside and low.
2-0 now.
Matty Allou.
Dennis Menke in on the grass at third, whereas in Cincinnati, it is almost fully
carpeted, artificially so here at the regulation baseball field, nothing but green and wet
and soggy grass as a result of 10 days of rain.
Fastball and Allou's swinging and misses.
Sillingham one strike.
On deck is Joe Rudy.
Sillingham set again and ready to throw, throws a fastball and Allou swings and misses
again.
C-ball two strikes.
As we came in today in Sallio, the mule mascot of the ultimate of things roided around and
a helicopter was hovering over the field to dry it out.
Someone said, where have you ever been to a World Series?
In the newspaper, it's in a helicopter, copter and a mule.
Answer nowhere.
Changes on this one and Allou just gets a little piece of it and fouls it off behind the
catcher, Johnny Banks.
C-ball two strikes.
Sillingham took a lot off that pitch.
He is well rested.
Last pitch on our show, the eighth, got 10 days ago.
Rose, Logan and Solomon went down in order.
Sillingham's trying to do the same thing, fastball outside, to the top three of Oakland.
Now, Sillingham, who's got Cappner swinging on three pitches, has gone the full count to
Mattie Allou.
Three balls, two strikes, comes back and throws him the fastball.
Cappner came with short stuff up with his toes on the first and has Allou by five at
six steps.
That will bring up Joe Rudy.
Glad the American Legion hits this year with 181 and a home run that won a ball game on
Sunday afternoon and also made a superb test on a line drive hit by Dennis McGee in the
last of the ninth of that second game that saved a possible tie and a possible win by
Cincinnati.
It's turned it right around and it's an Oakland home leading two games tonight.
Rudy with a closed pass, right-handed batter, and he gets the breaking pitch on the outside
corner or strike one.
Two outs in the Oakland first.
Sillingham has a three-quarter motion.
Kind of cuts that fastball across the plate, trying to get that outside corner.
Rudy stepped out for the moment.
Cappner struck out swinging.
Allou has run about and Rudy standing in with a one-ball, one-strike count.
Just coming off that place he's hitting.
He swings him making just one ball, two strikes.
Alderman Sillingham getting off to impressive size.
They very well could be nervous if they don't look it.
He'll throw it.
He's got the ball around the plate.
Back and ready with the fastball right down the middle, and Rudy is called out on strikes.
And Sillingham took out two of the first three he met as Jib Blue moved out of them.
But the end of one.
It is Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing.
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The doors are closed at second inning.
Now you have to wonder about the time of day and the effect it is having.
The lights are on but they have taken very little effect and it's no secret that it's
probably harder to hit at this time of day than at any other time.
The players don't like to come up.
Everybody except the pitchers that is.
And certainly the first inning was the pitchers.
Johnny Bench will lead it off for the seventh time and nine world tours at that to 1972
as the leadoff man.
They've kept the men in front of them from getting on base.
And there's a fastball up high from Odom.
Bench has had three hits.
He's walked twice and scored two of the three runs that the Reds have scored in the first
two games.
Odom ready again with a one ball one strike hit.
He's down low and away and dug out of the dirt by Dean Sender-Sicekki.
The last six games of that extends back to that great playoff series, Cincinnati-Edwards
and Pittsburgh-Pierce.
The last six games, Johnny Bench is hitting at a 429-foot.
Odom's tearing in.
Jeff Bench 2-0.
Back and throws and Bench fouls it off to the right and it's more of a dugout and bounds
off the dugout roof from the Cincinnati Reds down the first base line and back up to the
three.
Two balls, one strike.
Bench led the Baltimore Ligon home runs with 40.
RBI is 125.
He's only twice come to bat in this series with a man on base.
Two balls, one strike.
No score.
Odom back and throws.
Ground ball.
Fourth third base.
Bando there.
Long throw and has him by 20-32.
Odom has retired to first form and he is safe and that brings up Tony Perez.
Perez has had a pretty good series and Perez is intimidated.
That's his center and finally what about the demise of unearned, the last of the ninth
of the game, second game.
Perez is hitting very well.
Four for seven.
1970.
He had one hit in 18 times at that.
1972 in the World Series.
Four for seven.
Odom throws and the breaking ball.
He stays inside off the ball.
Odom throws a lot of pitches and walks a lot of men.
Another day if you have a two to one ratio of strikes out over walks, that's good.
Odom to 115 and lost.
Here's a pitch back.
Fast ball to low.
Odom thought he had it.
But it's two and O.
Odom struck out 86-50.
But walks 87.
Walks about four or more men per ball.
Perez a big right handed hitter.
Rates for the two and O pitch.
Odom has to come in with it with his fast ball down low again and it's three and O.
On the shelf is Dennis MacKenzie.
Odom taking the shot.
Here he is in the G center.
He gets two home runs in this game.
Odom ready and he's taking all the well-prepared strikes.
Three balls, one strike.
Well apparently the open age will not start white or blue.
Last year's most rival player and tri-young award winner.
But he will be in the bullpen and available whenever the age needs him.
Three and one and there's a swing strike.
Or three balls, two strikes.
As we said Odom will take something off this fast ball.
Not a straight change up.
In other words not a very slow pitch.
But just a little bit slower than the previous fast ball.
And that will have the hitters out in front of the pitch as well.
Back to three and two and there's a drive out to left field.
Joe Rudy drives it in.
And Odom is back to three and two.
And that ball doesn't carry too well here.
And Rudy started back and had to come well in.
He did.
Perez had a big cut at the ball.
I think he broke his bat.
And Rudy started back and almost got caught going the other way.
So Perez lies out and there's a little bit of a play.
And Odom is rolling along a couple of the strikeouts.
He retires five and Odom is facing Menke now.
Menke hits the first pitch.
It's foul.
Backhanded by Bando and back at third base.
Menke is 0-7 close to the wall.
But part of that 0-7 is due to Joe Rudy on the left field in the ninth inning of the
second game when he robbed him of an extra base hit.
Dennis Moody is in the bullpen.
And he's going to be in the bullpen.
And it's going to be a little bit of a play.
And Odom is going to be in the bullpen.
And he's going to be in the bullpen.
And it's one ball, one strike.
Dennis Menke at the top of the second.
Game three of the World Series.
There is no score.
In fact, there hasn't been a base run.
Odom back.
And there's one up the middle.
And chasing it is Green.
It's over to Outstretched Club.
Dogging is Hendrick.
And taking the wide turn is Menke.
And the ball goes into the second base.
And Menke retreats to first.
That's the first base hit.
First base run of the ball game.
You could see the way that he was dying on the grass once he got to the outfield.
The ball had broken that looper in the center field.
But still, Hendrick came on.
And he had just seen.
And it was Green who went out to get it.
As the ball just died.
It's muddy and soggy in the outfield.
And that's the case in just about all of the open field.
And it's a great game.
But dementation happens obviously every other Thursday.
He's on the defensive.
And that's the case in just about all of the open crowds.
I think the real bad spot for him.
And we'll see it tonight at third base and first base.
He has to go over toward the dugout.
They're double their slip and fall down.
Not a threat to go. With Cedaw and the top of the second, no score, and Geronimo the left hander's batter out.
And they're playing Geronimo not to pull the ball at all, although the ball that he pulled down to Higgin at first base was sharply pulled in the ninth inning of that second game.
The opposite of swinging him around to the left. Mando's in on the grass at third base.
Manke with the leadoff, he is not being held, and now he's going down ball, green at second base, comes up with it, side-on to the first base in the round of the inning. Manke is running on the fifth.
Runs one hit, no errors, and Manke is left running between first and second base. He's over the last of the second inning.
Four remain, Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing.
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Now Michael's with Jim Simpson at the open Tanness Inn. Game number three of the 1972 World Series. No score.
One hit in the game, a second-hitting single by Dennis Sentees. Bottom of the second. Mike Epstein the leadoff for Oakland. Here's Jeff.
Epstein 0 for 5. Last three ball games he's been 0 for 8. He has run a walk. He did hit the ball very hard in the first game.
Geronimo made a fine catch on him near the wall in right field at Cincinnati. Epstein hit 26 home runs during the regular season to lead the Cleveland home run.
Billingham the right-hander ready. Epstein is the left-hander batter. Takes outside with a fast ball. Ball 1. Reggie Jackson of course is out.
Rolled a hamstring muscle in the sweat. Epstein has been moved up from the number 5 to number 4.
Batting spot. Curve ball by Billingham misses and it is 2-0. And Mike it is reported, was reported in the newspapers, there's been an argument with his manager Dick Williams about being lifted in the second game.
But he's back and shorting. Takes a break and dips down low. And Billingham is 3-0.
Another Billingham hit that's been wild high. It's all just been low and out of the track zone. 3-0. He's a very fast worker. Comes back and now misses high and away on 4-6. He's walked up 2.
First place runner for the A's in this nothing-nothing game. And Sal Bando, the team captain, won for 8 on the year. He had 16 game-winning RBIs during the regular season but as of late Sal thinks haven't been doing that well.
5 singles. And has last 35 times at bat and has committed 143 over the last 9 games. Bando, like so many others, a freak at it. Right hander that is. Flows around the bunk.
Bunk before coming in at first base. Coming in goes to second base and there's a man there back to first base at first base.
The sacrifice bunk does not work and on the fielder's choice Bando reaches first base. Neither Epstein nor Bando can be called mad men. Epstein, a big man running in that slow footing, was an easy out at second base.
That'll bring up George Hendricks. Hendricks the center fielder and in the lineup with Reggie Jackson Ears. Hendricks is 23 years old today. Right hander batter, 1-6 in the series. He's walked and scored a run.
Bick the breakies. Bick blown away. Benski digit out of the dirt. It's ball one. No runs, one hit. The Benski single. No runs, no hits. No runs, we're open with one out in the last of the second.
Another breaking pick. This one gets the outside summer. Call by no-counter and some of the over-the-maid fans go to work on the Nice and the Gumpires.
Three Nice and the Gumpires, three American and the Gumpires and they rotate, changing assignments every day. It goes seven games. Everybody will have worked at least one time behind home plate.
Another breaking pitch and it is fouled behind the plate. Feet into the ground and bouncing backwards over the head of Johnny Benski. Now with his mask off retrieves it.
Steiner wants to look at it and the umpire keeps the ball in play. One ball, two strikes to Hendricks. Hendricks, he's very little.
Drop to regular season, but a very nonchalant young man. Matter of fact, the over-the-maid, as they call him, easy.
Whatever it is up to George to do, he does it with a perron nonchalant. Breaking pitch, hits right away center field. Shallow Bobby Tolman coming on. Morgan going back. Morgan waves off, told him, and takes it.
And what a deep right center field for the second out and Bando of course goes back to first base.
Very interesting what Dick Williams has got at him. Having Bando, but not often you'll see the number five man sacrificing in this particular situation, but maybe Williams feels the way Odom's throwing, the way the Regiment are hitting, and the Turies, one run might be enough.
That's right. They've only had three runs and one run has been enough as a margin of difference in the first two games. Gene Kenneth, two for seven and you know what the two hit for.
Home runs for first three World Tiers, not the best game. They get the breaking pitch, but it's down low. It looks like they're swotters. And it's one ball, no strikes.
Kenneth, Bando still can't get first base. Rez standing behind him at first base. He's not on the bag now. Well, he's still off the bag at first base. He's holding behind the bag.
Down ball for truck top, fan is there, goes to second base for the fourth out, and Bellingham and the Reds are out of the open second. No runs, no hits, no errors, one man left. At the end of two it's all tied up since the Maddie Nothing opener level.
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Back in Oakland, Switzer to Barrow Cheney, the shortstop. 0 for 2, plus a walk in the series thus far. Batting left-handed against the right-handed.
John Blue Moon Odom steps in to face Odom in this nothing-nothing ball game as he begins third, and Bando moves in at third.
On the grass, Odom ready to throw. There's Ketchers-Eason. A fastball, catches Cheney at the knees. Alex Gramm with the short for Cincinnati over third base. He hasn't had too much to do over there in this series. George Sugar down at first base.
Odom looking in.
He throws fastball and he jammed him off the hands, and it looked like the foul ball went off the foot of Cheney, and rolled George Sugar at the first base. John is out. We're happy to say that after 10 days of rain in the San Francisco-Odom Bay Area, we understand rain is in the neighborhood, but it doesn't look like it's going to rain here.
But all kinds of records for rainfall in the Bay Area in the month of October, going back more than 80 years. Two strikes count to Cheney, leadoff man in the third as Odom has his side.
Right hander from Mason, Georgia, throws and misses outside and rolls. Breaking pitch down and away.
Odom sets the throw again to Cheney who waits. Gets him the big curve, but it's high and away. And a few balls, two strikes to Cheney. Odom went 3-2 on Rose, got him looking at the third base.
And at the forester, you know, got into 3-2 and got him on a reply to left field on which he apparently broke his back. He is behind on many of the batters. That's his pattern of pitching. Doesn't mean that he's off. Comes back with a fastball look out, changes the touchdown of the way. In by the knees, gets off the glove of Tennyson all the way back to the back side.
He's gone 3-2 again. Third time he's gone 3-2. In the ballgame. Batteries of photography. Lining a newly installed fence just in back of home plate on either side. Well out of the field of play, but given the good shot, he changes there and changes out in front of it.
Golden strikes out. Third strike out for Blue Moon Odom. He has a great rep across. Also he comes in from the side, recorder, over the top. Ray Shaw who's scouted open for the Reds.
Compares him in a sense with Marichow. Doesn't have the great stuff that Juan used to have, but he's more like Marichow in the sense he can come at you from three different directions with so many different pitches. Jack Billingham, the hitter. Odom ready. Jack, that's as he throws and grounds the ball up the middle. And Odom has it and easily throws him out.
On one hit Billingham is out. Now I didn't have a chance to say that in 218 previous major leagues at bat Billingham had 21 hits, 20 of those have been singles. Lifetime average of 096.
Here's Pete Rose. Had a 3-2 count on him and just took a look at the third called strike sneak pass him back in the first inning. No score in the Cincinnati third. Game three, open won the first two, 3-2 and 2-1 at Cincinnati.
After rain delay we're back in business. Van Buren on the grass again as a high off-speed pitch. Looks like he changed. Well out of the strike zone. Ball on the road.
Pete who led the National League in hits with 198 will get on them any way he can. He'll bun his way on, he'll drag his way on and he'll slail away. Occasionally delivered a long ball. Back for the fastball but misses inside. It's 2-0 to Rose.
Bill Morgan on deck.
The sun now rings the upper tier in right field. Well out in the seats and there is ball three with Pete Rose and just a smidgen of the left field upper deck out of left field.
The ball is dropping rapidly and as I said the lights are not only on but they've been on for about an hour before game time. 3-0 now to Pete Rose.
Rose is taking or swinging away. Business is to get on base and a breaking pitch misses inside and on four pitches Rose walks and that's the first walk off Odom. Bill again also has walked one man.
There's Joe Morgan. The win in the series is over seven. And in his last 12 at bat he failed a hit.
One hit only in this ball game that was by Manky with two out in the second.
Vanderlip bending over hands on knees at third. Pete Rose leads off at first base. Two out. Odom steps off to get Rose to drop back to first base.
He's still 10 bases and 13 tries under regular years. Not the base giving prep to the Morgan or a total but still he might be going with two outs to try to get him scoring territory.
Giving the bob. He is on his way. High pitch. Slow down to second base and over everybody. Out of the center field and Rose will continue on to third.
Throwing error by Gene Dennis and they might have had him at second base.
But Dennis' throw just continued well out into center field.
And so now with a count one and all to Joe Morgan. Joe Morgan the only run of the ball game if it is to be a run is at third base.
Nobody has gotten nearly that far. Manky reached on a single for the open A's. Epstein drew a walk. Vanderlip forced him so he was on at first base.
That's been it for them. Now Rose has made things happen. That's the aggressive baseball that Trinko had used to.
No second. They didn't credit for that. Goes on for third base on the throwing error by Tennis.
The pitch to Morgan is down low and it is two at oh.
Jim that's a red game and I think any time now the balance of this series that you see any of those first three get on are going to run.
He's set out. Tennis might have gotten Rose. Was not that good a jump. But that became academic.
As the ground ball towards the hole Green knocks it down. Gets up on his knees.
Low body. First three by Dick Green. And all to him. And the A's are out of it.
All on throw hits. One error and Rose left trying to score from third base.
We got her last of the third Cincinnati mother. Oakland mother.
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Mick Green the object of the crowd's affection will leave things off in the bottom of the third inning.
He saved the age to run the reds had a sure run and Joe Morgan in going down to first base may have come up a bit late.
Now he's got a red cleaner after cleaning and Morgan limping noticeably as he moves around to second base.
Now how many times have you seen the man who has made the great play to end an inning lead off the next inning.
Mick Green made the great play and now leaves it off.
He is the eighth man to bat against Billingham in this quarter fall game.
The A's still looking for their first hit.
The John Jack Billingham three quarter arm motion and hits that fastball on the outside corner.
That's for most of the strikes they're called.
Green right handed batter.
Odom the pitcher will be on deck.
Campanella is dealing there now and there's a breaking.
Dick Bunter can't pick it up there.
Kershaw has him easy.
The ball simply died down the third base line only a foot or two away from the plate.
And Bench had an easy chance to get.
Dick Green kind of found his way off.
Well John Blue Moon Odom comes out.
Odom a pretty good hitter.
199 lifetime and any time you get a pitcher around 200 he's a good hitting pitcher.
He's at 12 lifetime home runs, two of those this year.
And can he run 28 times during the regular season as Odom has been used as a pinch runner?
Right handed batter, fine athlete.
Quarter fall game, we're in the last of the third.
Billingham throws and he gets that strike again on the outside corner.
A three quarter motion to the right handed hitter.
It looks like it's bearing in on you and nips the outside corner.
Billingham back and throws again.
This is too far outside and it's one ball, one strike to Odom.
Lead off batter, Kathy Campanella.
She is on deck.
Billingham ready and throws and there's a foul.
It gets back to the legs of the umpire Mel Sonnett.
Picked up by one of the ball boys.
Well we were talking back and forth out and I as Rose was charging in from third on the great play by Green and Morgan's ground ball.
An unofficial trip at Cincinnati.
Would that ball have gotten through or would Morgan or rather Green have been playing so deep he would have been able to get Morgan anyway.
Braking pitch down low in the strike zone but down low.
We've all seen strikes now to Odom.
Next they order to hit the other way not to get the batter out and he swings and strikes out on a curve ball.
That is strike out number three for Jack Billingham as Campanella strikes out number one.
He comes up.
Odom has also struck out three.
On the Odom the surrender of a six.
Each man has walked about.
The third comes Menke breaking pitch fouled and behind the plate and over toward the onbexer.
One strike Campanella.
Billingham ready again.
Back to throw this one's to one ball one strike.
He said that Mel Sonnett is behind the plate.
Down the right field line is Lynn Harnett.
He's the second game in Cincinnati.
He is the veteran of this group and comes to World Series at Keery.
Bob Engel of the Master League down the second base.
There's a curve ball.
Look at the slider.
On the outside corner breaking pitch and it's a called strike.
One ball two strikes.
Bob Engel of the Master League working down the second base.
He's in his first World Series.
Billingham ready in the last of the third and throws an off-feed breaking pitch down under there dug out by Bench.
It is two balls two strikes to Campanella.
No score last of the third.
The Reds very nearly scored making their running game work with Rose going to second.
Stealing second and drawing the high throw from Kenneth and allowing them to go on the third.
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Bench moves outside.
The pitch is outside.
And it's on three and two to Campanella.
With two strikes, Menke is backed up for third base.
With all two strikes.
And going to Campanella to get out and make things happen for the A's in this sort of ball game.
Ground ball, fourth short shot, candy charger, side arms and has for speedy Campanella by four or five steps.
The beginning of Billingham around hipster errors.
Now it's on to three complete innings and it's riding up.
Oakley's nothing.
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Now Michael, Jim Simpson and Jim I know once began to game one of the first questions to be asked is most of the players will be the light at this time.
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Because we've had only one hit through three, we go to the fourth inning, Collin leads off to the right.
Collin swung on the first pitch and rounded back to Odom in the first inning. In the third is Bando, told the left-hander about his plays around his hip to Bum.
It's high and it's one and all to Bobby Collin.
Collin now is one for nine in serious play.
Bando remains in on the grass, making it Collin naturally wants to get on so Johnny Benz can come up and try to drive him in.
John Ball scored the second base in green, easy chance for Green.
The ball stayed down as he closed him out. Instead of taking Zithoff it looked like it hit a little bit of Muff there.
After a second off just got a roll along the ground and Green picked it up and threw out Collin.
Now here's Johnny Benz and the big thing is as Benz, right-handed flutter stepping in, he stepped in with nobody on base.
John Groome Odom is now allowed no earned runs in his last 22 minutes with only one unearned run over that.
Benz, big right-handed batter and there's an overhand breaking pitch that's plenty to miss him.
Right ball.
The A's won the first two games of this 1970 World Series.
Odom ready and the pitch is high and off the glove of Kenneth, one ball two strikes.
I'm sure that wherever you are you have read that no team in the history of seven game World Series has lost the first two at home and then gone on to win a World Series.
Some have won, lost two on the road and come back to win, fouled away and not a play to the right by Benz, but still one ball two strikes.
Nobody's ever lost their first two games at home and then come back to win a World Series.
The Reds would like to make a little history in 1970, but here comes the first.
Odom ready and changes up and he's called out looking on a third called strike.
Change up and perhaps begs his looking back ball, but whatever it was, that's not the pitch that Johnny Benz thought he'd get.
Strike out number four for Odom.
Odom since the walk to road has now retired the next three men in a row and nobody's hit the ball out of the infield.
As a matter of fact against Odom only Perez has hit the ball past the infield and will he set the making of a tether for him.
The two men have gotten the ball out of the infield.
Perez is up there now and the first pitch is high to him ball one.
Perez had a three and 0 count, went to three and two and then broke his bat and swiped softly to short left field.
Drop down to fourth, Odom back ready to throw.
Overhand breaking pitch down Perez, swings and misses.
Odom changes on everything.
A curve ball and a fast ball.
Moves the ball around.
One ball one strike.
Breaking pitch stays high and inside, two balls one strike.
Odom does have a good fast ball, but he does not have the fast ball that he had before he had elbow problems back in 69-70.
He just had a superior fast ball then.
Hitting coach now says he's got an excellent fast ball.
Two balls one strike.
Odom ready to work again to the right hand of Perez.
He changes on it at the end of the throw for a three and Odom and Perez brings in the two ball three strike.
George Hendricks, if he played any deeper, practically would be on the warning flag.
The left center field, expecting Tony Perez who is four for eight in this world too.
Two two pitch fast ball, just misses on the outside corner and that was really a just miss.
Odom gave Mel Schoenner the big stare and it's three and two with two out to Perez.
Here's something with a man like Odom, does he come back with a fast ball, does he go to that big change up curve, what did he come in with?
He changes on a breaking pitch and strikes it off clean.
Now on to Perez, he's on the last of the fourth.
The Oakland fans with a tennis waiting here.
Here's Blue Moon Odom, the score Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing.
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Maddie Allure will start the Oakland fours, followed by Joe Rudy and the cleanup hit of Mike Epstein
in the short of ball games.
Lou works billing end to a three-feet down back in the first inning and then ground it the other way,
the shortstop and changes for him out by 20.
Billing end has struck out three, allows no hit, and walks one.
Oldham has struck out five, allows one hit and walks one.
Lou left hand the batter.
Mike units third base and Lou gets a look at a slow breaking third inside and low.
They blame Maddie the other way in the outfield.
It hits to the other field.
There's the hit down low and it's two-toed to Lou.
No runs in the ball game, only one hit.
Irv Norton, coaching a third base, the ultimate, very easy there at first base.
Billing end running to the road, there's a three-quarter fastball,
a quarter on motion and it's right underneath the court.
Two balls, one strike, and a little bit of a beating.
He's waiting that one out all the way.
As the lead off bat, he's trying to be out just a little while.
Billing end is going to be a good one.
Comes back, ball is just in the field.
George Coleman comes on, still running, is there and has it.
Almost came back to second base.
Morgan never made a move.
George Cheney went out.
Morgan has run a long way.
Joe Rudy called out on strikes to him in the first inning.
Rudy, who had the home run.
Rudy, who had the great set.
Rudy, who was the big man in the second game of his World Series, stepped in.
Joe Rudy has a lot of power, the right and right center.
There's a breaking pitch on the outside corner, looks like a winning end spot.
And so Coleman flings around in the right center.
No score and he's having a heavy hit.
That's about his way on and he's not doing it.
Joe Rudy bumps his way on and brings up the left.
They have a power hitter, Mike F. G.
Mike F. G. is doubting for that.
Billingham has one major problem.
He does not follow through correctly.
He is never in position to see if anything hits back toward the mound.
The Reds have been working with Jack all season long,
but it just seems to be a thing he can't do anything about at this particular point.
So I guess somebody with the A's has got to the Reds notice it and Rudy pays off.
Mike F. G. stands well back in the batter's box.
Looks like a lot of pitches for a big power slugger.
He walked on four pitches last time up.
Rudy leads off at first.
The first pitch is a fastball down low to F. G.
All on.
Rudy Kamara.
Kamara is on deck.
Epstein shares to Irving on the third base.
So a two-assure signal from Dick Williams, the manager,
in the dugout along the third base line.
Billingham, pitching from the stretch.
Under the throw.
Throws, down ball to the right side.
Morgan, over.
Goes to second base for one.
Back to first base.
Not in time.
Epstein is on after bouncing into a fourth play.
And still with one arm, but now with two out, he is down.
Who tried to sacrifice energy to long in the second of him.
Epstein was one out of second, and Bando reached on the field of score.
Bando has been in a horrendous slump in the open age.
Over his last 36 times at bat.
Touching back through the playoffs.
And yet he was the man who won the most games with the winning RBI throughout the regular season.
Epstein leads off at first base.
And a breaking pitch into the outside corner as Bando steps his way to strike one to foul.
Gaze in the yellow shirt.
Selly green batting helmet.
White pants.
White jeans.
Very colorful.
Bando has taller.
He has 15 home runs during the regular season.
Billingham back and a three-quarter motion pitch.
Almost gets away from Ben.
He has to count to keep it in front of him.
One ball, one strike to Dough Bando.
Only nearly 6 minutes of specific time, and the mountains are beautiful at the time,
but it's nice not to have rain.
There's a ground ball behind the place, Dough, and it's one ball, two strikes to Dough Bando.
A run, one hit, no errors.
A run, one hit, and one error for Oakland.
Back to the fourth.
Game three of the World Series.
Goal from one to third pitch.
Billingham, Billingham, he's ahead of the batter, Bando, throws, and there's a foul ball.
Out of play, off to the right end.
Well back into the middle of the game.
Down to first base line.
Still one ball and two strikes.
Bando hardly steps up at the box.
He's ready.
He's still at Billingham.
He steers back at Marquez to his first and throws, and the fast ball gets it.
Bando looking, foul strike three, and Billingham is now put down four.
A run, one bump, eight hits.
No errors, one man left.
At the end of four, it's all the same.
Oakland and the defensive body, nothing, nothing.
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Now, Michael, Jim Simpson, game three of the 1972 World Series at the Oakland Commiseum.
Hitting battle.
Groom Monodum and Jack Sillingham.
They've been top.
We've had a broken back single.
They only hit for the red by Yannick Manke.
A front single.
They only hit for the A's by Joe Rudy.
Fifth inning.
Manke leads off.
And here again, he's hit.
Manke, Geronimo, and Pena in this sort of thing.
Manke, right handed hitter.
Van Bell, not expecting him to slide a bonus way on.
Is playing behind the back at third base.
Autumn was allowed to go for one throw.
Ready to throw and throws a fast ball but it's down low.
One ball, no strikes.
Manke.
Manke got his base hit at the second with two out.
The standard when Geronimo's round around to end that second inning.
Groom Monodum ready again and throws.
And just misses again.
And on the side, two balls, no strikes.
Groom Monodum is 26 years old.
Born and still lives in Macon, Georgia.
His counterpart, Jack Billingham, is 29.
Born in Orlando.
Lives in nearby Winter Park, Florida.
Throw a couple of sevens.
Men hitting tonight.
Fast ball is down low.
And it's three and oh.
Groom Monodum has been here before.
He has been to three and ohs on a couple of them.
But he has watched none of them and he went three and oh off.
Doesn't want to put that leadoff man on base.
The left hander Geronimo coming up.
Groom Monodum ready.
Throws on three and oh.
And taking all the way.
And the pitch is out of the strike zone.
And it's four point on fours.
Groom Monodum.
Walks Manke.
Second base on ball.
And Geronimo who grounded the green a second in the second inning.
Geronimo out.
Left handed hitter.
But again, Hendricks is playing him over.
And has now been waved over even harder into left center field.
Here's the other way.
Jim McFerrin is surprising.
Most of the players play him straight away.
And if anything, they play him to close.
He's been played right but nobody's played him the opposite way this year.
Mando has now moved him on the grass.
As the ball hits down the left field line.
Foul there is Geronimo.
Mando's over.
Rudy's over.
Now both watch it drips in oh.
Just about the second row of the seat.
Well out of reach though.
There's a lot of room down the third base and first base line.
Until you get about 280 feet away.
And then it closes in for the foul line.
Both down the left and right field line.
Geronimo left hander Better has a count of one strike zone.
Manke at first base.
The net team.
Knowing Manke is not prepared to grace the left flank behind the bag.
Now she can toward the bag.
Backs off as Geronimo is ready.
Mando's in.
Geronimo squares around the bump before he even throws.
And the pick is high enough at the strike zone.
Mando has started in because Geronimo is waiting for Geronimo to go into his windup before he's done it.
He was just standing there ready to bump.
One ball, one strike.
The F team came over and yelled something to John Blue Moon Odom.
At the top of the fifth.
There is no score.
They are really playing Geronimo.
They hit it to the opposite field.
Mando is just way around in left center.
Geronimo now.
Tennesse needs to be outside of the play.
Odom throws.
There's a ground ball court for the F team.
The runner will get the second.
And now he flips to first.
Takes the first base.
There goes the one to the third base.
A good shot.
F team had to play right in front of him.
The pitcher goes over.
Green goes over.
He flips the ball toward Green.
And there's the second arrow.
And with none out, we've got one of the first and third everybody's base.
Big, big break for the Reds.
He was a Zed team fielder to the ball.
He didn't know whether the pitcher would be there or Green would be there.
He touched the Green and Zed team, Odom coming over, was looking for Odom as he reached for the ball.
And it came out loose and enabled Mendy to move to third.
And Geronimo stayed to first base.
So instead of one out or under the second, there's nobody out.
Let us just first and third.
Enfield comes in at the corners now.
As Darryl Jennings, who's stuck out, is up.
That's the second arrow.
F team looks to second.
Saw he had no play there.
Geronimo was hustling all the way.
And F team simply had nobody really to throw to.
He had his choice, really.
But which one?
The ball got away from both of them.
Odom ready.
Jennings takes out of the play for one, ball one.
Billy Ham, not a hitting pitcher at all, will be the next to hit.
Rose, however, the leadoff batter, he is on deck.
Kenneth walked up to talk to Odom.
Top of the fifth.
It all started when Mendy walked up for a second.
Geronimo topped the ball toward F team at first base.
He got out to look down to second.
Mendy had a great jump on the ball, was already in there.
F team would not move.
World of throw to first base.
Flipped it underhand to Odom and Green who was emerging on the back.
And the ball got away from both of them.
Mendy, heads up, continued running on the third base.
A ball no strike.
Kamee, quick hitter, batting left-handed, waits for the pitch of Odom.
He throws and there's a foul at the plate, dribbling off towards photographers over to the left side of the plate.
One ball, one strike.
Odom really looking to strike out here now.
If he can get the strike out and Billingham coming up, he has got the opportunity to double play.
Kamee becomes a very important out for him in this quarterfinal game.
Mendy is 0-3 in World Series play.
A ground ball, good score, making even for his base.
Ready with a 1-1 pitch, playing in the midst of the good tackle.
One ball, two strikes.
Now Odom is ahead of Kamee.
Billingham the next batter.
He has struck out five.
This would be his most important strikeout if he can get Kamee.
And around the other way, the Reds don't want it to happen with their weak hitting Josh Billingham up.
Kamee swinging that bat, waiting.
Odom is in the stretch.
He looks to first.
Now it's a breaking pitch, and it is fouled high in the air and off the third base side.
Bando comes over, but it bounds off the top of the A.
He's got a roof at about six-row side.
Still one ball, two strikes.
Bando retreats his hat and heads back to third base.
Kamee steps back in and Odom has a new baseball.
Old score, since the night he's hit, making it third and on the other, Geronimo at first.
The waiting game now, Odom has his sign and is ready.
The one-two pitch, he's struck him out.
And he walks away, strikeout number six.
And that will bring up Billingham, and that will bring in Al Michaels to give me a word here if someone's going down to the dugout here.
And will bring in Al Michaels to tell me if you can't out, can Mr. Billingham bump?
Well, Jack got his problems with the hitter.
That's no secret.
He's probably the worst hitting hitter on the staff.
And he's not a very good butter.
He's laid down a couple this season.
Dick Williams, by the way, is out of command right now.
He's been throwing.
Bando is there.
Odom and Dennis are talking about the possibility.
What's Billingham going to do here?
If they squeeze, I don't think it's going to be the suicide squeeze with the safety squeeze.
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In this game, with one out and runners with the runners, first and third.
They're all ready. Odom looks in and throws.
There goes the runner, the second base. The ball is hit to right field.
In comes Matty Lue in right field and foul.
Four-point catch. Look for it.
There's Geronimo off and running towards second base.
The A's have a lot of plays when they start that time this game, as you most of all thought.
Whether or not to throw through, whether or not to cut it off and give up the run.
But of course, Geronimo was going in an effort to erase the possibility of the double play.
That's the one thing the Reds don't want. That's the one thing the A's do want.
It is one strike. And now Bando, yelling instructions to Green at second base and camping out the shortstop.
What to do should it happen again. Where to go with the ball.
Do you cut off the run? Do you go for the double play?
One strike, kids. Geronimo may be going again. Nope. It's a pit stop.
They thought he might be going again. And it's one ball, one strike. Filling in.
No runs, one hit, no errors for Cincinnati. No runs, one hit, two errors for Oakland.
And there's an error that has Odum and the A's in deep trouble here on the shortstop.
One ball, one strike. Odum's bent over, hands on knees. Looks back at first base.
Hands are dry. Now looks into his second base.
Makes a glance at third base. Not going plenty in a minute. One ball, two strikes.
And now Dick Green walks over from second base.
Say something to Odum. Oakland won the first two games and, in all honesty, they were just like this one. Very low scoring, very close.
The man at third base could be the only one of them all. You never know. It has just been that close with the pitching team.
These two teams are getting it. Odum is ready. One, two, strike.
And now the dangerous deep rows.
With a strikeout and walks comes up. But there are two outs. And Odum can stand back and fly away.
And of course, low as we will recall, back in Cincinnati, the runner at third base was wanting to get him in, if he could.
Finally with two strikes, was forced to fling away. That was in the first game. And Ted Kubiak made quite a play on him to throw him out.
Alex Ramos says something to Menke at third base.
Rowe, having left hand, has stepped in. Odum trying to get out of the biggest trouble that anybody's been in in this ball game.
There goes the runner again. It's down low. Tennis throws to second base and he is, well, he is safe.
Bob Engel down there did not give the save or out, but obviously, Kafeiner has had to come in front of the bag.
And Geronimo simply slid around him. And that is the second stolen base for the Reds in this ball game.
Rowe throws second, back in the third. Now Rowe stares down to Grammys.
First base is open. Two are out. Morgan on deck. One and O that counts to Rowe.
Odum ready to throw. Throw a fastball. Tennis is outside the plate, down on his knees to bring that one in.
The ball's no strike. He wanted to make sure that one did not get away for a wild pitch.
Cincinnati won the most important game of 1972 on a wild pitch. It was a siding game of a national league playoff.
And the runner scored from third base. Two and O now to Rowe.
Odum walking around, taking his time, looking out for both Kafeineros and now in for Deep Rowe.
Rowe is in that deep south from the left side. Tennis moves to the outside front of the plate and there's the ball fouled back to the plate.
Two balls, one strike. O Morgan is not kneeling on deck, he is standing on deck.
That in hand. Best opportunity that anybody has had.
Although Rowe did get as far as third base with two outs. Now they've got men at second and third.
That was number 30, this is number six. Good enough score. Nice and good feeling play by Green.
Fastball hits the other way. Line foul and deep down the left field line.
Rowe did not get around on the good fastball of Odom. Line up foul. Three balls, two strikes.
Now a few strikes and seven strikes out from his pocket. The last few minutes he has struck out.
The A's fans go to work on their favorite pitcher, John Blue Moon Odom, looking for the big pitch.
Odom tears in. Bando is still on the grass at third base. Maybe Rowe might try to get on and bring him to run anyway he can.
But it is two strikes on him now. Two and two. Odom ready and throws a breaking pitch. That is full strike three.
That's a lead. Rowe is serious. A breaking pitch no matter the looking fastball.
A lead at the knee that is caught on on strike. That's our number eight. Odom has lost that first and third.
He's on to the last with the fifth. Hope with nothing.
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Back in Oakland, California, the fans are still applauding Blue Bull Norton and Blue and Cute Rose.
Norton's one game strikeout high, this past season's been eight.
He's already struck out eight.
The Delta's last of the center will be Henry Kenneth and Greene.
And now for the last half of the ball game, the worst of the 690 Reds, Al Michael.
Back at him, Hendrick popped out in the second and in.
Right hand batter, 23 years old today.
In 182 this year, his four homers and takes outside ball one.
Gene Tennis waiting on that.
Al, I just looked at the empty replay.
That's hip to down low, but Rose was in such a trough, it was empty.
Look at the empty replay on color.
The next pitch over for his strikeout was down one and one.
Odom, of course, has something extra to write. He has three as he's a strikeout.
And here's a fellow who averages about four strikeouts per nine innings this year.
Outside ball two.
Turn one account on Hendrick.
Jack Gimham in four innings has given up just one hit.
A one single by Joe Rudy in the fourth.
He's lost one, struck out four.
Two one-ticks.
His first strike in the count is even.
Two and two.
He's played about an hour and eight or nine minutes.
Bottom of the fifth inning, no score.
He's got one hit.
There are two two-picks.
Outside ball three.
Four counts.
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Holton for the A's.
Three-two-picks.
Don and Lepin.
Down goes Hendrick on strike.
That's five for Billingham.
So third team strikeout in the game.
Odom with eight.
Billingham has his step and he's tenaced about it.
Down to the line in the second inning.
Billingham's been raised to a shot.
The A's have picked just one ball to the outfield.
Pop-up by Alou, which really could have been caught by Morgan Asheny, one of the infielders.
Dennis, go for one.
Two-parade in the World Series.
Shakespeare breaking through, blowing away.
Ball one.
The green will be nice.
One out with a Baker's empty.
Bottom of the fifth inning, no score.
A's leading the series.
Two games to nothing.
Billingham and Odom, locked up.
O'House looking out for.
World Series game ever in Oakland.
And it spins.
Jimmie McDonough's one and one.
Billingham especially tough on the right-handed hitters.
Comes in three-quarter and drops down even lower than that from the side.
One-one-pick into a strike.
It's the inside part, whether high one or two.
Billingham working quickly.
Just two picks.
And the one-two-pick, Herb, flung on ground to foul by a third.
The Reds have meant to be a third.
Caney has enjoyed.
Morgan has second.
The Reds are third.
The outfield, Rose on left.
Oakland and Kenner, you're on the more right.
One-two-pick out.
A wide by Billingham and the one-two-pick to Kenner is outside for all two.
Two and two.
Really no threats for the A's so far.
Epstein-Walk leading off in the second.
Bando fourth, Simmons is third.
And Rudy the bun single in the fourth, he's one out.
But he is third.
And the next pick outside in the counter is full.
Three and two on Kenner.
Mickey well by the third.
The outfield, Davis, third left.
Billingham checking with Bengt.
In his lineup and the three-two-pick called strike three.
So there's number six and three in a row for Billingham.
And this time the lineups in the Oakland Coliseum are definitely not the usual.
I thought maybe Billingham and Odom were exceptionally sharp early in the game.
Perhaps because it was a try-light, but at the moment the lineups have taken almost full of that.
So they're doing it on talent now.
Green the batter outside, ball one.
Green trying to bun in the third inning.
Johnny Bengt's going out.
And the next draft is spending most of the season under the table there.
One out there is high ball two.
Had a bad back.
Tried to this season with the A's as if regular second baseman, Ben Kiel, came back in late August.
Had three runs battered there.
Two out, base is empty.
Two under the couch, Odom on back.
No runs, one hit, no errors for the Reds.
No runs, one hit and two errors for the A's.
Billingham into his lineup and their two under green is outside, ball three.
Three and one.
Billingham went to a three ball counter on Epstein in the second inning and walked in.
The only walks were four and two and three.
Jack is normally good control.
And tonight, that's good control.
Three one pitch is a set playing foul off to the right.
Full count.
Billingham with a Dodger chain for many years came up through their minor league system.
Made his major league debut with the Dodgers in 1968.
He was a relief that year.
Then sent to Houston, spent three years there, now with the Reds.
Three two pitch, it's time slowly for a third touch play.
Most of the time he's on half note play.
Then he's slowly coming through the hole.
Make you feel in the ball, see me, but it was slowly hit on the grass to the left of the mound.
And by the time that he came up with it, futile to throw to first base.
So he just held on and green has Oakland's second hit.
Won a bunch single and now an infield hit.
And up comes sector blue moon Odom.
Odom struck out on the third of it.
Odom hit 121 this season.
He had two runs banded in and they came on a pair of home runs.
Right hand batter, Cleveland's in the two, they blew it by 0-1.
Norton, goes in the third.
Jori Adair, that's her.
No score in the fifth, two out.
Here's their strike one pitch.
Breaking ball into a strike, inside corner, nothing in two.
Campanella's gone back.
Odom turns his back on the plate and looks for the off field with his playing Odom around towards right.
Every second there was normal depth, making even with the back of third.
Perez is stepping a half back to green first.
Billingham has the belt.
At last the first and the strike two pitch.
The punter sent missed strike three.
The shot retired as Jack Billingham strikes out the shot.
And now has seven strikeouts through five and we've had 15 in the game.
Two runs, one hit, green left at first, it's an end of five.
Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing.
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Hello again from Oakland, California.
Along with our Michael's sister, Jim Simpson.
We go to the Cincinnati Sticks of the Stolas ballgame.
They're dragging the infield.
Oldham is warming up.
We meet the men who will try to get on base and get Johnny Bench.
He's had a few times in this World Series a chance to drive in some runs.
In this game, Morgan and Toulon are 0-4.
And Bench led off in the second.
So a seven-time and nine at bat came up with none other than one out in the fourth.
Bench has not had a chance to drive in runs.
Morgan and Toulon will have got to get on base.
Again, the Cincinnati Sticks can get it out.
Joe Morgan stuck out in the first, grounded out in the third,
and was limping after he reached first base in the third inning.
He was out on a fine play by Green, but no noticeable limp.
Now as Morgan steps in, time calls for the moment by the third base umpire,
Gil Hallis.
Somebody up and moving around over by the Oakland dugout,
and that situation is cleared away.
Morgan waiting at the play.
First bench is up high, ball one.
Morgan counting the last playoff game against Pittsburgh, now only for his last 13.
0-4-9 in the World Series.
Here's a 1-0 pitch on the way.
Slug on and pop in the air and five ground off to the left.
Bando and Kettis converge. It's playable.
And Bando has it. 1-0.
Morgan John, up comes Bobby Tolus.
Mention that the ladies have hit only one ball to the off field,
a pop-slide or shadow center by a little, looking at the red,
Perez slide to left in the second.
And that's been it for Cincinnati.
Bobby Tolus, rounded to Odom, rounded to Green in two serves.
0-2, 1-10 in the series.
One other ball hit to the off field by the Reds, a looping broken back single by Mention.
Odom to the plate, change in shot.
Ball one.
So in the first five innings, between both clubs, three balls hit out of the infield.
One out, H is at the end of the set.
Odom to the plate, 1-0.
Tolan swings and knickers, turned it over, one and one.
Tolan out on the 19-71.
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Two one-fifths, written tie, ball two, good one, off two-fifths.
Thanks, John.
Odom and Fialen occurred, is allowed one hit.
He's lost two, struck out eight.
The right-hander ready, and there's two one-fifths, who's down low.
Tolan sets the plane, ball three, three at one.
The reg of that two-threat, Rose Watt in the third, so second, went to third on an error, but was stranded.
Then they had runners at first and third, with nobody out of the fifth, but Odom then proceeded to strike out the five.
Three one-fifths, Tolan takes a step swing, they appeal a third, and it is a strike, according to Bill Halleck.
A ball according to Mel Steiner, so the third-base on five.
Over Ruehl, and it's three and two, and of course there's the catcher's option to add the blade on fire to check,
which Steiner did, and Halleckers is trying to do a full-shot, as Tolan comes around.
Odom ready, and there's three two-fifths to Tolan, swung on in line foul, right field drive back in the red flow pan.
And then to the net, Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing, in the sixth inning where the base is empty and one out.
Odom into his lineup, and the three two-fifths to Tolan, swung on and missed, strikeout number nine.
Here comes Johnny Bench, and this is a familiar scene with Bench and the World Juries, coming up with nobody on base.
Only one time in the three games has Bench come up with a runner on, and that was in the second game.
He came up at one point with two on the man at first base, and that's it.
Bench tonight has rounded the third and struck out, he's over two.
Right-hander against right-hander, Johnny swings it, misses, foul, oh and a run.
Will Moon Odom in the regular season, 86 strikeouts in 194 innings, and that's not that impressive, but here tonight in five and two-thirds, nine strikeouts.
Oh, one pitch, breaking ball, a beauty on the outside, far more to.
This is his five-ish season, nine strikeouts.
Odom ready, and the O2 pitch on the way, missing the inside, one into the couch, Perez on deck.
The A's no run, two hits, two errors. The Reds no run, one hit, no errors.
The Wind and the one-two pitch to Bench, in from the side, curve, all strike three.
And the ball to Odom, in from the side, his strikeout, Bench, he strikes out two here in the sixth, he has 10 in six innings.
The Reds go out one, two, three. No runs, no hits, nobody left.
And at the end of five and a half, Cincinnati, nothing, Oakland, nothing.
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No runs, one hit, no errors for Cincinnati, no runs, two hits, and two errors for Oakland.
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Alright, Jim Campanella struck out in the first, sounded out in the third.
Left-handed Dave Hamilton and right-handed Bob Locker are throwing in the A's full time.
Campanella takes outside, ball one.
Jack Fillingham allowing two hits, two fires.
He has seven strikeouts. He's yielded one wash.
Now Lou waits on that.
Stores to be out, rambled in, day off because of rain, no batting practice in two days.
1-0 pitch, down low, ball two.
And the pitchers have dominated tonight.
Odom with a season high in strikeouts, the film was 10.
Fillingham, who doesn't strike out that many, has seven in five innings.
And only three hits in the game, one a broken bat hit and the other two infield hits.
Campanella takes low, ball three. 3-0.
Nenke in on the grass, the third. The 3-0 pitch, this is low, ball four.
So Campanella draws a walk, the second given up by Fillingham.
The A's have a man at first, nobody out.
Mattie Allou, the batter, rounded out in the first, slide out in the fourth.
Nenke in on the grass, the third. Staney and Morgan halfway.
Perez the first, Odom, Campanella, is down.
Alfield, down low, and the round third left.
The stretch and the pitch, he's around the bump, takes his strike as he lets it go by.
And Lou questions the call by Steiner, 0-1.
Campanella with ten strikeouts, most strikeouts by a pitcher in a third game, 17 by Bob Gibson in 1968 against the Tigers.
Next would be 15 by Kofax in 1963, Fanny, pitching the empty Yankees.
Fillingham's set, the checker first, strike one, pitch, is a butt up the line for the third.
Perez the first, Morgan has to come off the bench, and he stays the first base.
They will give bench a throwing error.
And I believe it will be a double error.
An error on bench and then an error on Morgan, E2 and E4.
Rocky Anderson is going to the mound in the bullpen for the Reds.
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Rocky Anderson out of the mound, and as he made his way out, he was catching with Frank Humon at the first base on fire.
Then Bench fielded the bunt, wheeled and fired the first base.
Joe Morgan had to come off the bag on the high throw, so Louis Saver, Campanaris at second.
Then Bench went toward the first base on fire to start arguing.
Morgan started to argue. Perez was coming back the first baseman.
He started on Humon, and nobody called time.
Then Morgan turned and threw to Bobby Coder in the center fielder.
He was backing in behind Campanaris, the runner, but just rolling off his glove.
Campanaris goes to third, and so the A's have their biggest threat.
Here we go. Rudy is the batter.
Stuck out of the first.
Singled in the fourth.
Infia plays in. Rudy swings and misses.
Going one.
A double-air on the flooring. Bench and Morgan, E2 and E4.
And so each club now has two errors.
Joe Rudy, three for nine on the World Series.
Campanaris to third.
Ballot is first.
Nobody out.
Sillingham back to the plate, breaking fifth inside, one and one.
Pedro Borbon, working in the bullpen for the Reds.
Bob Locker, in the A's there.
Hamilton was up.
Now Locker throws the ball.
Now it feels stated to his right.
The stretch and a one-one pitch on the way.
One out of this.
Leaping curve.
One and two.
On back is Mike Epstein.
No score.
Final of the sixth inning.
Berg Campanaris to third.
Maddie Lue is first.
Nobody out.
Sillingham now calls John Wons Morgan to come in.
Mike Epstein waiting on that.
The A's no runs, two hits, two errors.
The Reds no runs, one hit, two errors.
Sillingham hands on knees.
Here is the set.
The one-two pitch to Rudy is going on and grounded third.
Manky does not tag Campanaris but throws the first for the outs.
The Reds almost had a bizarre double play.
They get one out.
Lue goes to second.
Campanaris alertly holds third.
The ball hit right to the back of third.
Manky sealed it and tried to tag Campanaris sliding back in.
But Campy was safe and then Denny alertly got up by the first to get the out there.
So the Reds almost did a double play, settle for one.
And with first base open they will walk Epstein intentionally to road to bases and get to Bando.
A lot of memorable things in this World Series so far, Jim Simpson, in Wally and game three.
Now each team has had its chances out and they've got them again on the course with first base open and one up.
They're putting Epstein, a left-handed springer, to clean up battered 20-2-0 runs on the on-base so they can play for the double play and bring up Sal Bando.
And Bando has not been affected recently, as we said.
He's had five singles now and has had 37 times a back.
A little repeater to come up with a basic load.
He comes up with a basic load and there's only one out.
Bando led the team in game-winning RBR.
He's the captain and he now has a chance here in the quarter-six.
Sal Bando, busted in the second inning, tried to sacrifice Epstein and bunded into a four-shot and then he stuck out in the fourth.
Holds the two. Reds can feel the double play depth except for Reds' first base.
He's hit on the grass. Bando takes down low, ball one.
Base is loaded. Campanera's the third.
Lewis second. Epstein is first.
One out, no score, sixth inning.
Gillingham ready. Back to the play that comes.
And Bando is at ground to the Morgan. Should be two. Goes to short for one. Chaney the first, double play.
And the Reds get out of it.
Sal Bando hits into a four-six-three double play.
And the A's go down into sixth inning.
They had runners at first and third with nobody out. No runs, no hits, two errors, two runners left.
At the end of sixth, no score.
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Back in Oakland, California with Al Michaels, this is Jim Simpson.
Well, everybody has had their chances in this ballgame. They can't go home saying they never have them.
Quite the Reds have had man as far as their base and they'll bring him in.
And now for the first time, Oakland loaded the bases.
The third man put on a dense lead to fill up the double play that's worked out that way.
Still no scores.
We now go to the Cincinnati Sevens in the third game of the World Series.
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All right, Jim, Tony Perez lead drop.
He has hit the most prodigious blast of the game.
A routine fly ball to left field.
Believe it or not, for six things, that's the longest ball that's been hit in the game.
Fly to left and suck out in two steps, go for two.
In the World Series, he's four for nine.
Odom to the plate, down low, ball one.
One and no to count.
Perez, Menkes, and Geronimo in the seventh inning.
Odom ready, back he comes, Perez takes a five, all two.
Two and no.
Odom has blocked two, he's stuck out ten.
The only hit for the Reds, a broken back single by Dennis Menkes in the second inning.
Odom has stuck out at least one Red in every inning except the second.
And the two-oh pitch on the way.
Over the first line, two and one.
Odom coming over the top, three-quarters, giant arm.
He's thrown just about every pitch in his repertoire except the blooper pitch tonight.
Here's a two-one pitch on the way.
Swung on the ground and in the left field for a base hit.
So the Reds have their second hit.
Tony Perez singles to left.
East Club now has two hits.
Then up comes Dennis Menkes.
He singles in the second and walks in the fifth.
And the A's will get busy in the bullpen.
Final blue, hustling down from the A's dugout to start to heat up.
Blue will not start in the World Series.
At least that's the way Dick Williams plans it at the moment.
He'll work out in the bullpen.
And that's where he is right now.
Dennis Menkes, punch, back toward the man.
Odom has it, has to go to first with it.
In time there, Epstein covers.
And down the second goes Perez.
Sacrifice one to three.
The Reds have a tie-breaking run at second.
Perez is there with one out.
Take time to run them all.
They're coming up.
Lolley fingers joining final blue in the open bullpen.
Dave Concepcion will start to get ready in the Reds' bullpen.
The other shortstop, Taney, is due to bat next.
And Clark Anderson may have designed to hit one.
Geronimo the batter, rounded out, reached down in there, 0 for 2.
Left-hand batter takes down low, ball one.
Geronimo Hitless in the World Series, 0 for 9, robbed on a great play by Mike Keegan Sunday.
Hit 275 during the regular season with four home runs, 29 runs behind him.
Hold him ready.
It's check is checking.
And the 1-0 pitch on the way is lined up the middle for a base hit.
The ball's going on the grass.
Perez around third, comes in with fourth.
He falls down but gets up and fairs scores.
Big, big break for the Reds.
As Perez fell down, rounding third, but got up and came in to score.
And it's 1-0 Cincinnati, and only because the grass is so wet in the outfield.
And only because George Hendricks thought he had no chance at all.
And because the cutoff man Green had no idea he hit his back to the play.
He didn't see the runner fall down.
He had the ball, leisurely thrown to him.
By the time it got to Green, he may not have had a play, but still he made no play.
Had no idea.
And as the first one in the ball game, Perez crosses home plate.
Ketter Jean-Tenis just threw up his arms in despair.
1-0 is takes out Geronimo, singles to center.
And Perez, despite falling down, rounding third, scores to make it 1-0.
Chaney the batter, he's struck out twice.
Geronimo at first.
He's held on by Epstein.
Hold him ready and goes to first base, and very nearly sets him off.
Geronimo getting back.
And there's a throw for Bowen, up and throwing again in the Cincinnati bullpen.
So a single by Perez, a sacrifice by Minkie, a single by Geronimo, 1-0 red.
Hold him ready, Atlanta first, and the pitch, Chaney, it's a high fly ball to left center field.
Hendricks moves to his right, waits for it, makes the cut, two down.
All the way they talk about things and rehash things in any World Series game.
This was not a flagrant as when Johnny Pepke held onto the ball in the 46th World Series
and Boston played the Cardinals, but the fact that Hendricks does not huffle on the ball
and Green did not look around is going to be talked about quite a bit.
It's an earned run, but you wonder should it have scored since Perez fell down.
It is a first earned run against Dodum in the last 25 innings.
Jack Dillingham bounced out in the third inning, struck out in the fifth.
Right hand batter hit 170 during the year, hit 070 rather during the year.
No homers, throw to first base, Geronimo back.
Now field skating Dillingham around toward right.
Bando even with a bag of third, another throw to first.
Matty O'Loughlin right field, there's a weird fact, he is playing so close to the right field line
against the right handed batter.
Picks on the way to Dillingham, is chopped on the ground, it is a foul ball.
Right side fielded by Epstein who is standing in clear territory, but the ball foul 0-1.
Reds on top, 1-0 in the seventh inning.
Right side Geronimo at first base, 2 down.
Time call as the ball got loose from the bullpen, the A's fan where Vita Blue is throwing along with Roddy Fingers.
More bone back down now in the reds fan.
Odom ready, 0-1 pick swung on, and that's 0-2. Pidro on back.
Odom at the belt, and a second pick, Dillingham swings and punches his foul.
A lot of memorable plays in the game, the confusion at first base on the part of the A's with Epstein and Green and Odom in the fifth inning.
But Odom worked out of that.
In the play where the Reds either thought they had scrawled time or neglected to,
that might have led to an A's run in the sixth inning.
But Dillingham worked out of that, and Perez falling down and scoring here in the seventh inning to give the Reds a 1-0 lead.
It's like you pitch down the way, Dillingham swings and misses, and down he goes, it's number 11 for Blue Monota.
Reds down in the seventh, but they get a run. Two hits leave one at the end of sixth and a half.
Cincinnati won, Oakland nothing.
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Since there's only been one run in the ball game, and that's just been scored, we better recount again what happened.
Reds got a solid ground ball base, this was a left field, was sacrificed along by Menke,
run of the line to single the center, Henrik did not charge the ball at all.
Reds had been waged in and Henrik had given up, he thought he would score.
He fell down, nobody was looking, who did the cutoff man? Green wasn't looking, and Reds got up and scored.
Very Henrik leads off at the broken bat looper, the left center, Rhodes and Cullen converge, and it's Cullen for the catch.
One away, one pitch, one out of the seventh inning, Dean Pinnix the batter, the number seven hitter, rounded out of the second inning,
stuck out in the fifth.
Jack Dillingham has really been magnificent through sixth and the third, he's allowed two hits, one a bunch single, the other an infield hit.
One ball has been hit to the outfield and that little looper, just out on the grass, it's down to the center, caught by Cullen.
A strike to Dennis, 0-1.
Dillingham has walked three, one intentionally, he's stuck out seven.
Jack back to the plate, back ball swung on, grounded to the short, Chaney stays with it, straightens up, throws him out, two down.
Dick Green is due up, and we're going to see a pinch hitter.
Gonzalo Marquez is coming up.
Green had done one for Cedar Knight, rounding out and feeding out an infield roller for a base hit.
And now Marquez comes up to bat for him.
Gonzalo Marquez, eight for 21 during the regular season.
All eight hits for singles, delivered a big hit in the first playoff game with Detroit.
Left-handed batter from Venezuela takes the ball down low, 1-0.
Dillingham ready, back he comes, Marquez swings and shots it out outside first.
Marquez in the eighth inning on Saturday appeared as a pinch hitter for Green and popped out.
Didn't play on Sunday, so he's 0-1 in the World Series.
1-1 to count, two outs, bases empty, bottom of the seventh inning, 1-0 Cincinnati.
The 1-1 set down the way, off-speed set missing, ball two, 2-1.
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2-1 pick, one down and missed, slider, 2-2.
Marquez during the regular season as a pinch hitter, seven for 15.
2-2 pick down the way, chops foul off his foot.
Blue Moon Odom is due up next, nobody is out on deck for the A's.
By the blue and that's Joe Forland throwing in the bullpen before open.
Raleigh Fenyers had been throwing.
Here's the 2-2 pitch on the way, going on grounded off the glove of Dillingham.
Morgan back in second, is off balance, so not in time.
And the A's have the time run out.
Dillingham, I believe, got just a piece of it as it went by the mound.
Morgan able to glove it behind second, but is so not in time.
Marquez beats it out.
Second is now coming out of the dugout to hit for Blue Moon Odom.
So Odom leaves after working seven and cracking at 11.
Alan Lewis comes in to run for Marquez at first base.
Lewis activated when Reggie Jackson did not play in the World Series.
Lewis is first, held on by Perez.
The time run.
The second, the pitch to Mike Egan is hit in the other center field.
Bobby Holden is there and waiting, makes the catch for a tie on the side.
A's go down on the seventh, no runs are hit, they leave one and at the end of seventh, Cincinnati won, Oakland nothing.
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Then coming to our Michael, we have a couple of changes since Green was batted for.
Ted Kubiak has gone into play second base and since Odom was batted for, guess who?
Byda Blue has come in.
Blue who sealed the playoff championship with his excellent binnings of relief from the final game against the Swets.
Now we've got Kenny Holtzman in the first game of the World Series has come on.
Byda Blue and he'll face the top of the batting order, Rose Morgan and told him as Rose will switch around to the right side.
One of the keys now we've been talking about at both ends is he keeps the highly favored Cincinnati Red.
The left-handers have to be able to handle the top three of the batting order, forcing Rose over to the right side and then getting Morgan and told it.
One-to-nothing on that play back in the seventh inning which Perez fell rounding third base but nobody really threw home considering that he would score easily
and perhaps a missed opportunity, perhaps the game would still be sorted, but it is not.
It is one-to-nothing.
Byda Blue has had to come on in and here comes Pete Rose and here comes Elmer.
All right, then Pete Rose has stuck out twice and walks.
He's batting right-handed for the first time in the game and he hits a line drive backhanded by Kubiak.
Great play for the out.
So it doesn't matter who plays second base for the eight tonight, they're going to do the job.
Dick Green had great play earlier this game of the run and Kubiak comes in, Rose hits the first, steps up the middle and Kubiak had great backhand play for the out.
One down.
And in the first game of the World Series Kubiak came on in the ninth inning and made two plays, one of them a fine play to retire the side.
Again, again, great opportunity, same thing happened tonight.
That is Joe Morgan.
He stuck out, bowed out and three-tips, takes a back ball very high, ball one.
Byda Blue on Saturday in game one, picks up a save.
We're at two in the third inning, no runs, one hit, one walk, one strikeout.
Here's a one-oh-fix, back ball missing high, ball two.
Blue in the playoffs, appeared in four games, we're at five in the third inning, gave up no runs, four hits.
So in postseason competition he has been tough.
Two-oh-fix, a five, ball three, three and over count.
Bando in on the grass, the third.
Poland on back.
Cincinnati won, Oakland nothing, one out, base is empty, top of the eighth.
Blue checking into his lineup and the pitch gives his sight.
Three and one.
beaches banner side started to go to first base and they're levels behind flat
Now field is shading Morgan a bit left.
Hedrick in center.
Shaded toward left there, Loura in right field playing deep
Three-one to southback.
Bandoor third, Rudy in left, Kendrick in center, and Alou in right.
The one by blue and the three-two pitch to Morgan is high, ball four.
So Morgan, who led the majors in walks this season,
draws his first walk of the night
and his second walk of the World Series,
and Bobby Nolan is coming up.
In the bullpen for the Reds, right-hander
Gary Nolan is throwing and he's getting some work between starting figures to work
in the fifth game,
if a fifth game is necessary on Friday afternoon.
Bobby Nolan, grounded out in the first, grounded out in the fourth,
struck out in the sixth.
Blue goes to first base, a high throw, and Epstein has to reach way up to save it.
This is only the second time that Morgan has been on base in the series.
Walked in the first game Saturday,
but he had rows on ahead of him so he didn't steal. He didn't have a chance to steal.
The next pitch is right.
Oh, and one.
He's also been on one other time on an error in checking back, that's right, on Sunday in the fifth inning,
and he did steal a base.
Morgan away to a good-sized lead at first.
Tolan waiting.
Bando in channel at third.
Blue is set, a check of the runner, and the pitch to Tolan is bounded right back through the middle.
It's a day-tick.
Bill Morgan, around second, on his way to third, in there easily.
Tolan goes halfway to second and heads back, and Johnny Banks will come up,
finally, with a chance to do some damage.
Bobby Nolan,
coming up to center, and the big play now is Kubiak, otherwise the Reds would have had a runoff, Blue.
Kubiak, a great play to Rob Rose for the first out.
Then a walk to Morgan, now a single by Tolan.
So the Reds look for insurance,
Bench is the batter, and the A's again will swing into action in the bullpen as Robbie Fingers tries to heat up for the second time.
Johnny Banks, facing Blue Moon Odom tonight, rounded out and stuck out twice.
Looking at Odom's line, he worked seven innings, he gave up one run, three hits, walked two, struck out 11.
Heating at the mound, Bando is there, and Dick Williams is coming out now to discuss the possibilities with Banks.
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After the walk, a hard hit for all the Bulls, a walk to Morgan, and a single by Tolan.
Putting in on first and third, and the right hand of Johnny Banks coming up first.
Catcher Dean Tennes went out, shot to Vita Blue.
Then Tennes was standing around talking, started back, and then Sal Vando came over to start the talk to Vita Blue.
And then when the Empire of Milk Gunners started to wave him away, then Dick Williams came out, and all the while,
Raleigh Fingers was warming up.
So Blue, responsible for the two men on base, he worked a third of an inning, gave up a walk, and hit by far and away.
His least impressive hit-beat performance in either a playoff series game or in a World Series.
The scores 1-0 here in the Cincinnati 8.
Running the base as well as Morgan took off, despite the fact he's had a bad foot,
despite the fact that he pulled up limping noticeably when he was thrown out on the great play by Dick Green.
Morgan Stewart from first to third, running on the one-out pitch to Bobby Cholum, which he lined up in the middle of center field.
Raleigh Fingers who comes in connection with Morton comes on, and Fingers warms up.
Fingers, like, well, you can name them on the Cincinnati ball club, I'm sure, and Jack Villingham was one of them.
Fingers is one of those, and when he gets out there to throw, he is unaware of the importance of the pressure.
He is aware of the situation.
He is aware now that he's got Morgan at third and told on a very fast man at first save.
He's aware, of course, that he's looking for the double play ball and the strikeout that Johnny meant.
And Beck has been struck out in white by right-handers tonight, and those right-handers are the same man, John Bluebird Otis.
First time up, John bounced to third, then he was called out looking at a fast ball of the fourth,
and he was perhaps guessing fast ball of the sixth, and took a curve called strike three.
Fingers who fixed them 65 games during the 1972 season.
That is then very much an evidence for the World Tiers in playoff steps in with one out, then a first and third to fake Johnny Bent.
Now, Robbie Fingers making his third appearance in the World Tirees.
Bent goes for three, told and goes, and Bent swings on the first pitch and bounces straight back.
0-1-1. Fingers worked an inning and a third on Saturday. No runs in the hits came on on Sunday to face Fooley and Javier,
with the tying run on base and retired Javier, the one man he faced to pick up the save and relief of Capsis Hunter.
During the season, Fingers appeared in 65 games. He was 11-9, 21 saves, a 2-5-1 earned run average.
The next pitch, Bent swings top to south, back to a deceitful amount of play in the counter zone two.
Reds won, A's nothing, in the eighth. Gilmorgan is third, Bobby told him in first, one out.
That scene is holding Tolan on. Campaneras and Kubiak are halfway.
Fingers a step back of the bag and about six or seven feet off the line, the third. Perez on back.
Fingers with a sign, Robbie set, and again over to first base.
The rhythm started, blue in the eighth, working a third of an inning. And now Fingers. Dillon Hamer's done all the way for the red.
The stretch and the sack to pick down the way. Breaking ball just missing, ball one.
Tough pitch to lay off with two sacks, but Bent did it and he gets the call. One and two.
Fingers in 65, Gaines is here most on the A staff.
Robbie set, and again going over to first.
Morgan a third, Tolan a first, one out of the eighth inning.
Fingers at the belt. Here's a one-two, Tolan goes, Bent takes outside, Tennis drops the ball, and an uncontested steal for Tolan.
So the reds running on Tennis pick up their third, Tolan base of the game.
Rose stole second in the third. Geronimo stole in the fifth, and now Tolan. The count is two and two on Bent.
The A's infield is now in on the right side. Campanera's halfway on the left side and Vando back of the bag a third.
Fingers working out of his set. Here's a two-two pitch on the way. Got him swinging, but a foul tipped, and in and out of the glove of Tennis.
He just got a piece of it. Foul tipped it and stays alive.
For an instant it looked like fingers had been stuck out, but Geronimo just got a piece, stays alive, and the count remains two and two.
Bench, Major League leader in home runs this year with 40, and it runs Vando in 125.
Three for nine in the World Series. Here's a two-two pitch on the way, foul back again.
One run, four hits, two errors for the reds. No runs, three hits, and two errors for the A's.
Outfield deep and around toward left. Fingers with a sign from Tennis.
The two-two on the way is outside. He comes in from the side, breaking pitch. Bench lays off, full count, and Williams wants to go to the mound.
I was wondering there after Tolan suited on a second base whether or not fingers might be doing one of those intentional, unintentional walks.
Allen with first base open. Maybe now they're discussing whether or not to put him on.
The last couple of times he's thrown Johnny Curbs, one of which just missed for his called strike three.
And it was a curve ball of which Tolan got the good jump and easily sold second base.
A slow curve ball, Tennis had no chance to throw him out, and now with a count three and two and first base open, see what they've decided to do.
When you've got two strikes on a guy like Bench, you want to see if you can get that third. Big man to get. Perez waiting on deck, both out.
Downing Hall was thought to throw in the Cincinnati bullpen, and the pitch on the way to Bench called strike three.
Am I wrong or did Tennis have us run out of it? He was calling for let's put him on base, but it did throw him Bench three.
Johnny pulled on a pitch, now they're going to walk Perez intentionally. And get to Menke with first base open.
Allen, you are so right. There's so many big plays in this ball game and another ball game.
Pickoff play at second base does not work, but the back of Bench, I believe, thoroughly was decoyed.
Tennis put his glove out, and then fingers blazed right down the middle for the call strike three.
Perez will go to first base as soon as the intentional walk is issued, and Menke will come out.
Most memorable game in the sense that I think when you go back and rehash it in a one to nothing game, it usually doesn't take a great deal of time to sum it up.
And going back over this one, so many plays you could go back and talk about and think about and what might have been, what could have been.
Most interesting one to nothing game I've ever seen.
Bases loaded. Two down, Menke the batter, single, walk, sacrifice, and three appearances. Fingers to the plate and Menke takes outside.
One and no the count. Morgan down the line from third. Bobby told him to wait from second.
Tony Perez off from third. And the one oh pitch on the way. Menke fouls it straight back and the count one and one.
One nothing red. Bases loaded. Two out. Eight and eight. One one pitch. Missing up and in ball two.
Fingers is 26 years old. He's from Ohio, born in Steubenville, now makes his home in California in the town of Hewitt.
Six four, one ninety five. Two one pitch. Popped foul off to the right out of play. Two and two.
Fingers has been with the A's since the end of the 1968 season. Part-time starter in 1970, started 19 games.
This year he worked exclusively from the bullpen. Two and two to go. The right hander ready. The two two pitch to Menke, swung on, fouled away again.
The crowd tonight is 49,410. 49,410 for the first World Series game ever played at the Oakland Coliseum. Two two on the way. Swung on and fouled back.
Straight back. Menke making fingers work as Robbie tries to work out of the jam. Reds leading one nothing.
Straight away. In field back with two down. Fingers line. Two two on the way. Swung on, lifted in the air. Right side might be playable. Epstein coming over to the boxy railing has no play. Lands on top of the top as he decided to dive into the stands to make the play but can't come up with it.
Good try by Epstein and he gets a nice hand. Very tough for Mike. Not only is he fighting the ball and the stands but that ground and foul territory is so soggy. Much soggier than the outfield there.
And you can hardly make your way through it. It's like trying to walk through a swamp.
Here's a two two pitch on the way. Menke sling, pops it in the air, foul ground right side. This time it is playable. Epstein is there with Kubiak and it's Kubiak for the count.
Menke fouls out to the second baseman and fingers get out of the jam in the eighth inning. No runs, one hit, no errors. Reds lead three and at the end of seven and a half. Cincinnati one, Oakland nothing.
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They got out of the last of the eighth inning in the top of the open batting order. Some fans out there, the adjuvants of Cincinnati Reds having left the bases loaded, have thrown some streamers out into deep right center field.
Could cause some trouble but then again nobody did one nearly that far tonight. As Alan and I have said, now so much as they're racing out and kind of as they cross the left field line, they're going out to pick up those streamers that are out there because somebody could have hit one out there and of course it could end up being a play.
But then again what else does not happen in this ball game? Men have fallen down. That man who did fall down got up to score the only run of the ball game and the A's were not too alert.
Johnny Benchapin has been decaught on the 3-2 pitch with men at second and third and was called out on strike. And there have been two errors by each team, two on one play by different men for the Cincinnati Reds.
The Reds quite had men as far as third base before they scored a run. On the third time they got one that far. And then of course Oakland had a beautiful opportunity in the sixth inning when they had the bases loaded and only one out.
They got Vando to ground into a double play. So it's one and nothing. It is the last of the eight. It is the top of the batting order. And again is out.
All right Jim Campanaris leaves off. The Lew and Ernie will follow. Jack Sillingham in seven innings has allowed no runs. Three hits. He's blocked three. One of those an intentional walk and he was stuck out seven.
Campanaris stuck out in the first. Grounded out in the third. Walked in the third. Right hand batters. Swing and shot to foul. 0-1. In the bullpen for the Reds. Left hander Tom Hall. Right hander Pedro Borbonas.
Jack Sillingham to the plate. Campanaris another good foul. Off to the right. 0-2.
Game four of the World Series tomorrow. Two left handers. John Gullick and Ken Holtzman. Back two pitch on the way. Outside ball one. Air time 8.20 each in time. Tomorrow night 5.20 out on the west coast. The Reds in the eighth.
One two pitch. That is Chloe Dementia third. And he up with it. Goes to first in time. Campanaris is gone. One out of the eighth inning. Out live the batters. What sort of a man is Jack Sillingham?
Well the Reds call him Rip for short. And that's short for Rip Van Winkle because he sleeps all the time. On planes, on the bus. Everywhere. Where's Sillingham when he's in his room sleeping? If you want him on the road. 10, 12. Up to 14 hours a day.
Pitch on the way. In first strike. 0-1. He's that relaxed. 0-1 pitch on the way. Breaking ball down. Low 1-1. Crowd tonight 49,410. That's a new attendance record for a baseball game at the Oakland Commiseum.
1-1 pitch. He's hit foul off to the right. 1-2. This is also a football park. Home of the Oakland Raiders of the NFL. And they play here on Sunday. And we'll play here again this coming Sunday.
So a busy week for the ground through it. All the rain and the World Series and a couple of football games. 1-2 pitch is down and up the line toward first base. It is a foul ball. Just barely foul. Now Lou, remained at the plate. Never even ran toward first base. And it almost cost him because Sillingham came over to try to field the ball.
And Perez was down with Jack and it just did roll foul. But Perez got to it. Could have been a most embarrassing situation for Lou. Rudy waits on that. And he's close to the bag of third.
1-2 pitch on the way. He's down to the short on three hops fielded by Chaney. Throws, gets him. Two down. But Sillingham has done tonight what he has to do. Kept the ball down. Everybody's been hitting the ball on the ground. Very few balls hitting the air tonight.
He's a thinker, flatter pitcher. Relies on control. And tonight he has been at his very, very best.
Joe Rudy the batter. Stuck out in the first. Singled in the fourth. Grounded out in the sixth. Sillingham to the plate. Ocstein ball one. 1-0.
Reds leading 1-0. In the eighth inning two out faces empty. 1-0 pitch on the way. Line foul right side. Down into the corner. Back of the bullpen. 1-1.
Mike Epstein waiting on that. The Reds one run four hits two errors. The A's no runs three hits and two errors.
Sillingham into his lineup. 1-1 pitch on the way. Just missing outside. 2-1. Sillingham from Florida.
Has a home down there but he also bought a home in Cincinnati. He's going to spend his first winter in the north this year living in Cincinnati. Never seen snow before.
He'll get a chance. Jack Reddy and a 2-1 pitch on the way. He's lifted foul down the right field line. Back out of play. 2-2.
Rudy one for three tonight. Three for ten in the series. 5-3-0-5 during the year. Led the American League in hits.
19 home runs. Reds playing them around toward right. Makes you very close to the line at third. Cutting down the chances of an extra base hit.
2-2 pitch on the way. Capsule. Reds leading 1-0 with a run in the seventh. Perez a single. He was sacrificed a second and then scored on a single by Geronimo despite falling down as he rounded third.
2-2 on Rudy. Sillingham ready in the 2-2 pitch. Breaking ball. Grounded to Manke at third. Dave Riddick straightens up and gets him to retire to size.
Campanera, Sallou and Rudy down one, two, three in the eighth. No runs, no hits and nobody left. The Reds come up in the ninth with the score. Cincinnati one, Oakland nothing.
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All in our Michael's-Ginn-Cincinn-this one to nothing ball game. It's the 7-8-9 hitters for the Cincinnati Reds who lead one to nothing in the ball game.
In the ball game and then when they go to the last of the night, this course should be the same.
Revenmint should be knocked the same.
It is up to Bando and Henrich.
The last gap for the A's trying to go three games up.
Reds are coming back here though.
They saw Geronimo lead drop and pop the foul off to the left out of play.
It was Geronimo who drove in.
They only run in the game in the seventh inning.
He's singled the drive in to Rez.
It's one to nothing, Cincinnati as the Reds try to close the gap.
A's won the first two games in the series.
The Reds trying to take game three.
As Geronimo takes it in the strike, it's an easy count on two.
Blake Carroll works in the Reds bullpen.
Bob Locker and Dave Hamilton work in the Oakland pen.
Here's their strike two pitch on the way, missing up high, ball one.
Chaney on back.
Geronimo one for three tonight.
One for Ken in the World Series.
Singer's ready, back to the plate, breaking pitch, foul by.
One and two.
Don Gullick for the Reds, Ken Holtzman for the A's tomorrow.
Game four, game five if necessary, a day game.
One o'clock coast time on Friday.
One two pitch, flung on foul, pipped into tennis and glove.
Singers get their second strikeout, Geronimo the 13th red to strike out tonight.
Odom had 11 in seven innings.
Here's Darrell Chaney, struck out twice and flat out.
0 for three, 0 for five in the series.
Hit 250 during the year.
Singers to the plate, a strike.
Chaney used to be a flick hitter, but about halfway through this season
he decided to just hit left handed.
Now having his problems, he wanted to concentrate on just one side of the plate.
Next pitch inside, he's got nice to get away, one and one.
Sillingham will be up next.
Singers back to the plate, Chaney takes a breaking ball down low.
Two and one.
The right hander ready and a two one touchdown away.
Chaney swings and golfs it on the ground.
Epstein is first, he stays with it, steps down the bag.
He almost got caught between hots.
Two down.
Back Sillingham, coming up for the red.
And gets a fine hand he's put on some shows through eight innings tonight.
As a hitter, he has rounded out and struck out twice.
Singers ready, comes to the plate, Sillingham fouls it back.
Now when the A's come up in the bottom of the ninth, the four, five and six hitters,
Epstein, Vandal and Hendrick.
Oh one pick outside, count even, one and one.
Two out, base is empty, top of the ninth inning, one to nothing Cincinnati.
Here's a one one pick, long on and missed, one and two.
Singers winds, one two to Sillingham, calls strike three.
And that retires the shot as Sillingham becomes the fourteenth strikeout pick tonight.
Odom with eleven, Singers with three and the Reds out one two three in the ninth.
So the Oakland A's come up in the bottom of the ninth inning with the score.
Cincinnati one, open nothing.
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Well it's all been one run ball game.
Three to two and two to one at Cincinnati after the rain delay yesterday
when a very bizarre one to nothing game tonight.
Epstein, Vando and Hendrick.
Mike Epstein left hand batter, walked in the second,
walked out in the fourth, threw an intentional walk in the sixth.
Jack Fillingham has gone all the way in his first pitch for a breaking ball down low.
Ball one.
In the bullpen for the red.
Left hander Tom Hall, right hander Clay Carroll.
Fillingham ready, back he comes.
Epstein takes down low.
Ball two to a no.
Fillingham has walked three.
One unintentional walk has struck out seven.
He's allowed just three balls to be hit out of the infield.
All fly balls to Toven and Center.
Two open, outside ball three.
Three and oh.
Flakey Anderson is now going to the mound.
First time tonight that Anderson has made his way out there.
Dennis Minkie and Johnny Banks will join the top run.
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Along with Sal Michaels, this is Jim Simpson and to continue the Bazaar,
one-to-nothing third game of the World Series.
Fillingham has just been superb, only in real trouble.
When errors helped set up that trouble back in the sixth inning, he goes 3-0 on Alina Petarevskina and that's all for Josh Fillingham.
And on comes Clay Carroll about whom I know he set a record of saves for the Major Leagues of 37,
but now you're divorced with the Reds and you know a lot more about Clay Carroll than I.
Clay Carroll had a tremendous season.
There was really no point during the season when he was ineffective.
He would have maybe a couple of outings in a row where he would not necessarily do the job.
But over the course of the season, he was about as consistent as any pitcher in the league,
certainly any relief pitcher in the National League, setting a Major League record with 37 saves.
He appeared in 65 games.
Dow had a record of 6-4 and a 2.25 earned run average in 96th innings.
He walked 32 and struck out 51.
So he comes in with a top three ball, no strikes on Mike Epstein.
Get on, no doubt we will see a pink runner.
Sal Bando is on deck.
The Reds are on top 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Pedro Borbon takes Cal's place now in the bullpen, joining Tommy Hall, the left-hander.
Cal has finished warming up.
He's known as the hawking Cincinnati because of his facial features.
And he looks in and takes his side.
A 3-0 pick, a strike, 3-1.
Cal in the 1970 World Series, worked nine innings in relief, allowed no runs.
Here's a 3-1 pitch on the way, swung on, grounded to Morgan, a second.
He stays with it, goes the first, one away.
So Clay Cal comes on to do the job with a top 3-0.
Epstein takes the strike and then rolls off to Morgan.
One away, Bando the batter.
Cal is making his second appearance in the World Series this year.
Worked two innings Saturday, no runs, no hits, two walks, one strikeout.
Bando takes the strike, 0-1.
Sal Bando, bunted into a four-shot, struck out, hit into a double play, 0-3.
1-11 in the World Series, looks for the slider away, 1-1.
Hendrick is on deck.
The next pitch is low and outside, ball two.
Turn to one to count.
Dave Hamilton throwing in the Oakland fan.
Reds one, A's nothing, one out, bases empty, bottom of the ninth.
Allen and his lineup, two-one pitch on the way, swung on a line drive right at Morgan, two down.
So Bando is gone.
And the Reds are one out away from picking up their first victory in the series.
George Hendrick coming up for Oakland.
Hendrick, hopped out in a second, struck out in a fifth, slide out in a seventh.
Time is stars, some fans coming out onto the field.
And Youngfella slides into second, followed by, looks like his twin brother.
And they will spend a pleasant night at one of Oakland's not-too-fine establishments.
No resistance, they were not abrasive at all, they simply slid into second base.
And as the us's came over, they shook hands with them and they're a little away.
Play back in, Hendrick the batter, takes out side ball one, one and oh.
On deck is Dean Tennis.
Now ready, back he comes, the pitch is a set swing and a tie.
And he's touching down, ball two, two and oh.
Two out, bases empty, bottom of the ninth inning.
Carroll ready, here's the two, Oakland swung on, nubbed up the line toward first base.
Carroll has it, looks to Perez and the Reds beat the A's.
Ray Carroll gets the save, Jack Fillingham the win.
The A's go down one, two, three in the ninth.
And Oakland now leads in the World Series, two games to one.
As the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Oakland A's, the final score.
The Pinks are adding one, Oakland nothing.
John Blue Moon Odom is the loser tonight, giving up the only run of the ballgame in the seventh inning.
And Jack Fillingham with superb help from Clay Carroll in the ninth is the winning pitcher.
Fillingham allowed no runs of course, only three hits.
He stuck out seven and walked three and when he went to three and oh on the leadoff batter in the ninth inning,
Marky Anderson went to his bullpen and Clay Carroll who got up,
stood on the ground out, banned on the soft line drive,
there's a short stop and Hendrick ground about the end of all.
Back to that seventh inning, the last inning worked by Odom losing the pitcher.
Perez went off on the ground, singled that field.
Menke laid down the perfect sacrifice, Perez going to second base.
Then Geronimo singled a short center field.
In short, Hendrick picked up the ball, Perez was rounding third base and fell down.
And Hendrick apparently fell, but Perez would score.
And so he just lazily threw the ball into Dick Green.
Green the cutoff man at second base, knocked Odom and Perez had fallen down.
Nor did any of his teammates know who it was, or at least he didn't hear them.
So he didn't turn around and throw home and Perez scored the only run of the ballgame.
But Al Michaels in summing up, that's not all that happened in this one-to-nothing ballgame.
For example, Johnny Bench with two men on base and one out being decoyed on a 3-2 count thinking
perhaps it was going to be ball for intentionally and he took a call strike down the middle.
So many things happened and as you, I'm going to use your word, it was a bizarre one-to-nothing victory,
but nevertheless the Cincinnati Reds are back in the World Series, trailing now two games to one.