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The Cincinnati Reds faced the Oakland A's at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum for Game 4 of the 1972 World Series on October 19th.
The A's led the best of seven series, two games to one, and this is the NBC Radio broadcast of Game 4 featuring announcers Jim Simpson and Al Michaels.
Remember as Al calls the game, Holtzman must get his breaking pitches over. If his curveball is over, he does have a fine fastball, and that's a breaking pitch in the strike zone can set up the fastball.
But if his breaking stuff doesn't get over, Holtzman is in trouble. Game 4 Oakland leads the two games to one, and here's Al Michaels.
Alright Jim, Pete Rose, look to the right-handed, takes the first pitch of the game for his side on one.
Thank you, Mott, the playdump fire. Bob Engel is first, Bill Hattie is second, Chris Pellicudas is third, Jim Mott is short down the left field line, Mel Steiner down the right field line.
Rose takes outside on one. One and one to count. Pete is one for eleven in the World Series.
Mando in on the grass at third. The off field is shaded toward left. One-one-fifth, quaking ball, missing long inside ball two. Two and one.
The A's defensively with Ken Holtzman and Gene Tennis. Mike Epstein is first, Dick Green is second, Bert Campanaris is short, Sal Bando at third.
The next pitch to Rose is rounded to Green at second, Myers to first, one-o-lost.
Rose gone, up comes Joe Morgan. In the off field for Oakland, Joe Wieldy in left, George Hendrick in center, Mattie Allou in right.
Joe Morgan had a great year with the Reds, had a great playoff series against Pittsburgh, but in the World Series he is 0 for 10.
He's been on a couple of times. He's locked twice, reached on an error.
So in the two bases, the playing is just a fly ball to left field, Joe Rudy, drifting in underneath it, makes the catch, two down.
Bobby Cole in the batter. For Holtzman, this is his second start in the World Series. He pitched Saturday, worked five innings, but was the winning pitcher by the Blue getting the save.
He gave up two runs, five hits, walked three, struck out three. Two out, bases empty, top of the first inning, no score.
Number four of the World Series with the A's leading two games to one. Fifth game tomorrow afternoon. Bobby Tolan, left hand batter, Mando in shallow.
And Tolan, punch up the line toward first. Holtzman throws to FD, dropped by Mike, Tolan is safe.
The throw had him, but it trickled out of FD's glove, and we'll see how they score. It is the Reds have the game's first baserunner.
Good bump by Tolan, and a nice play by Holtzman down off the mound of Fielders, wheeled around through the first, in and out of the glove of Epstein, and Tolan is safe.
Johnny Bench the batter. Three for ten in the World Series, but he had a long night last night, hole for four, and he struck out three times.
An error is charged to the pitcher, Ken Holtzman on the throw, to allow Tolan to get the first base. Bobby held on by Epstein.
George Sugar is the first base, so is for the Reds. Alex Ramm is the third. First pitch to Bench is lined to right field, and Lew coming on, but it drops in for a base hit.
Tolan around second, he goes to third as the throw is cut off by Green. So the Reds get a break on the error, and try to capitalize, as Johnny Bench, swinging at the first pitch, goes the opposite way in the right field for the game's first hit.
The Reds have runners at first and third, with two down, and here is the hottest hitter in the World Series, Tony Perez. He's five for ten.
Perez last night, singled in the seventh, was sacrificed to second, and then scored on the single by Seysad Geronimo. The game's only run.
Tony's scoring, despite falling down as he rounded third base. Outfield, deep, around to it left, Bando back of the bag of third.
Oaksman Ready comes to the plate, and Perez takes the strike. 0-1. Here in Oakland, 330 down both lines, 400 to straightaway center, 375 to the outing. Bent eight feet high all the way around.
Oaksman Ready, and there's strike one pitcher on the way, is fouled off to the right out of play. 0-2. On deck is Hal McRae.
Now on game five, the Reds have made a change. It's Gary Noland's turn, but he has been stracked. Clark E. Anderson will announce his pitcher after the game, but let's for Jim McLaughlin to be named.
Catfish Hunter will work for the A's.
Two out, first inning. Bobby Tollman in the third, Johnny Bench is first, no score.
Open set, and there's strike two pitch. Bench goes, the pitch is high, and there's no throw to second. So Bench has an uncontested field, Tollman remains the third.
The Reds running on tennis, all series long, and that's to be expected because they were running club against everybody during the regular season.
Oaksman Ready, and the one-two pitch on the way, Perez takes low, ball two, two and two.
Bench is here, the second is the fifth, Tollman based by the Reds in the three-game cross of the World Series.
Tollman down the line from third, Bench off second. Oaksman out of a lineup, the two-two pitch is crossed foul, right side, back out of play.
The Reds as a team hitting 178, the A's as a team batting 178 in the World Series. The Reds have 17 hits in the three games, and the A's have only 16.
Oaksman Ready, here's a two-two pitch on the way, foul back, Ken Oaksman, 26 years old, born in St. Louis, makes his home in Creeve Court, Missouri.
6'2, weighs 175, made his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs in 1965, and stayed with the Cubs through last year when he was 9'15.
Then traded to the A's for outfielder Rick Monday. Two into the count, Oaksman with a sign, and the pitch to Perez is one on the pitch by three.
To the Reds, the Reds have come up empty handed in the first inning, no run, one hit, one error, two runners left at the end of the half inning, Cincinnati nothing, Oakland coming up.
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Johnny Bench was down at second base as Perez struck out at a 2-2 fastball from Holtzman, has just now gotten his gear on and has begun to catch the warm-ups of young Don Gummett, 21 years old,
quite a Kentucky athlete, at one time in high school he scored 12 touchdowns, he scored 47 points in one high school basketball game, an average 25, and he's quite a pitcher.
And in the World Series of 1970, he was in three of those games, fixing a total of six in two-thirds and then gave up two runs, one of those was earned, five hits, walked for, and struck out four.
He'll be going against Campanero, Toulou, and Rudy.
As the Reds' top three men, Rose, Morgan, and Tolan, have not been able to reach base with any kind of regularity, nor have Campanero and Toulou, the top two under the open eight.
The score to score game, last of the first, and you're again down by two.
All right, Jim, Campanero's at 2-4 during the regular season with eight home runs, 32 runs batted in. In the World Series, he's 3-3-11.
Don Gubbett from the town of Lynn, Kentucky, 21 years old, third year of the Reds, comes to the play. Campanero takes a strike after bluffing a bunch. 0-1.
Gubbett making his first start in the World Series. Started two games in the playoffs, lost one, had no decision in the other.
Strike once at John DeWay, Campanero's bunch foul. 0-2.
The Reds defensively, Don Gubbett and Johnny Bench. Tony Perez at first, Joe Morgan at second, Dave Concepcion at short, Dennis Menke at third, the off-field Pete Rose in left, Bobby Tolan in center, Hal McGrady in right.
No score. Model of the first, 0-2 on Campanero's with Emeliw waiting on back.
The line and the strike two pitch, back ball outside, ball one.
Gullis, weak at the start of the season, sent home for tests in May. It was discovered he had subsiding hepatitis. Spent some time in the hospital.
One-two pitch on DeWay, foul DeWay out of play. Then it was a pretty slow road back for Don.
Came out of the bullpen in May and June and they gave him a start in Los Angeles in June and he worked seven innings and looked sharp and then regressed.
Went back into the pen and came out again in August. Pitched well in August and well in the first part of September.
One-two pitch is grounded slowly left of the mound, fielded by Gullis and slips but throws and gets him.
Nice play by Don, who's a fine-fielding pitcher. I don't know if Menke would have been able to throw him out.
Then he's charging in from third and Gullis got there first and despite slipping and falling down had enough on the throw and it was accurate enough to get Campanero's one away.
Matty Allou the batter hit 281 with the A's after he was acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals.
So the Reds are all about Allou who is a former National League batting champion.
Matty in the series, one for test. Menke another grasp at third as Allou takes down low ball one. One and oh.
Allou 33 years old, blank time, Pickley-Gavage 3-10.
The wind by Gullis, one-oh pitch is the fastball popped in here to left field. Rose coming on quickly makes her running pass.
Way tight, meet Rose playing shallow and left on the run during tie-in at Allou.
So there's two down, Rose goes back to his friends in the left field seat.
He's made a few in the Reds three-state out here but actually he's one and one with the signs out there tonight.
He has one pro sign that says Rose Garden, go Reds, but another that says Rose is a pansy.
Two down, Rudy the batter.
Joe in the World Series is 3-3-11 including a home run on Sunday.
Look to the strike of the knee, oh and one. Rudy the American League leader in hits this year.
Average 3-0-5, 19 home runs, 75 runs batted in. Outfield around toward right.
Strike one pitch on the way, flung on and missed, fastball blew it by him.
Oh and two. Bando out on deck. Reds nothing, A's nothing.
Two out, bases empty, bottom of the first inning.
Govett checking with Banks, down into his line up in the strike.
Pitch on the way is down side for a one.
Jury and Daerr coaching a first, Irv Norrin coaching a third.
The wind by Govett, one two pitch on the way, a check swing pop up in the infield near second and Concepcion makes the catch on the skin part.
Jury tie the tie. So the A's go down one two three in the bottom of the first and at the end of one.
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Back again on Oakland, California, under cloudy and increasingly chilly skies with the temperatures dropping into the 50s, Jim Simpson without Michael.
Please begin the second of the scoreless ball game, fourth game of the World Series. Oakland leads two games to one.
Al McGray leads off to the reds. Making his first strike in the World Series. He's been up as a pinch hitter twice and he's two hits.
Takes out side ball one. McGray has five home runs this year, four as a pinch hitter.
One under the count. Oakland back to the plate. McGray swings, rounds it in the center field for Bay fifth.
So how McGray, who calls himself the reds offense's player, is now three for three in the World Series.
You're wondering why McGray, who's a very fine hitter, isn't in the starting lineup with the Reds normally.
It's because the Reds have been trying to find a position for him to play.
He's got a lot of them in right and the third and now's got his problems, but as a hitter he's done a great job this year.
And so Flocky Anderson gives him the start tonight and he responds with a base 33 for three in the third.
Dennis Nekke the batter, around the front, misses for a strike. They throw the first and McGarrick and McGray is able to get back.
Fennish had him hit rock as McGray was hung out to drive, but the throw was in the third.
And Epstein had to block it just to keep it out in front, bound it away from him and it enabled McGray to get back.
So another break for the Reds. 0-1 the count on Nekke. Nekke is 1-4-9 in the World Series.
It's 2-33 this year. Nine home runs, 50 runs battered in. McGray a cautious lead at first.
Oldsman set, comes to the plate and Nekke swings and grabs it to Bando who short hops the third.
He goes to green one and that's off and McGray really takes green out of the play.
This never got his throw away the first base as McGray went barreling in and a finer block you'll never see again.
Also, now Bando had a little trouble getting that ball out of his glove.
Might have been turned over quicker. McGray could have been far enough to line, could have been the double play,
but Bando who short hopped the ball beautifully had trouble getting the ball out of his glove.
Late starting the double play, Nekke fades it first.
Five to four. If Al Davis is the open raider this year, he may have a prospect.
So McGray took out green. Nekke at first base now, Contefion the batter, right hand hitter, takes down low ball one, one and oh.
Contefion is 1-4-2 in the World Series. He striked against left-handers so he played in the first game on Saturday against Oakland.
Davis 2-0-9 during the regular season. Takes the strike and the count is even. One and one.
Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing in their second inning. Dennis Nekke at first base, one out.
He'll spin at the bell. One one-fifth, he pops out out of space. One and two.
Don Gubbett waiting on deck.
Game five of the World Series coming your way tomorrow.
He'll be on the air at 3.45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. After 7.48, probably Jim McLaughlin for the Reds.
Here's the one-two pitch on the way. Grounded slowly toward Vanderweer third. He goes to green for one.
Back on the first, not in time. And again a 5-4-4 shot with Nekke. Erased to second and it's FPR. Now safe at first.
Two down and the Reds' best-hitting pitcher comes up, Don Gubbett.
Flings the bat well, hit 2-11 this year, no home runs. Three runs back at it.
Lucky on the mound, he hits right-handed.
The Reds no runs, two hits and no errors. The A's no runs, no hits and one error.
Oltman's at a check of conception and a pitch. Gullett swings and misses.
On one.
Downfield around third right.
Bando playing back of the bag at third, about eight feet off the line.
Oltman to the plate, Gullett swings and misses.
O and two, two fast balls, both either just down the outside corner or just missing. And Gullett's chasing both. O and two.
F-teen holding the runner at first.
First back two picks to Gullett, down low. One into the count.
Steve Rose waiting on back. Gullett, 21 years old, spent one season in the minors, worked with the Reds in 1970, pitched in the World Series at the age of 19.
Flings it to ground ball, the victory in his second, he flips the campanella for the fourth and the time is tired.
Gullett down, Reds down to the second, no runs, one hit, they lead one at the end of an inning and a half, no score.
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Last night for game three, 49,410, a record for the Oakland Coliseum for baseball jammed in here and looking around this cloud covered stadium tonight.
It is also full and as we go to the last of the second, it's early in the ball game but we can't help but remember, Al, every other game the first two have been decided by one run and they're being stingy again tonight.
No scores, we go to the bottom of the second, Sal Bando in the third of a big slump leads off of the eighth.
Bando is no extra basis in his last 16 games. Right hand batter takes the site.
Sal has not coverage since September 20th, but one of World War I here at Open has no extra basis since the 22nd of September.
Strike one pitch inside. Bando in the World Series one for 12, to be followed by XT and Hendricks.
Now in his last 20 games, counting a playoff, five hits and 39 hits to the plate. One-one on the way, Sal Bando gives him the number four spot in the order, responds with an offensive field hit, the first for the eighth and up comes Mike Epstein.
Mike Epstein is 0-4-7 in the series, to 270 during the regular season, 26 home runs, 70 runs maddened in.
Redby A's in homers, Mike, born in the Bronx, New York, grew up in Los Angeles, went to college in Berkeley nearby, played baseball and football at town.
Now to the plate, Epstein takes the strike, a back ball on the inside corner, 0-1. Reds nothing, A's nothing in the second. Sal Bando at first base.
Not a threat to go to first, takes a little bit of liberty and plays his step back of him. Strike one pitch on the way, lifts Sal back his third out of play, 0-2.
Sal Bando is 18-0 for 10 in his last four games and that counts the last game of the American League playoffs.
Mike big and strong and the Reds play in deep and around to a drive.
Kendrick gone back, Govots checks with bench, gone is ready and the strike is set, there's a breaking ball outside, ball one.
Bando Hussles mainly fastballs, worked on a curve this year, worked on a curve similar to the pitch thrown by Ferd Hilton over at the Chicago Tuckers Knuckle Curve.
And they will do a lot of work on that particular pitch next spring.
1-2 pitch on the way, it's a broken bat, Lippert to Morgan for the out of second and Bando Hussles back to first to avoid the double play.
Bando Epstein breaks his bat, hits a humpback liner to Morgan, Bando back to first and with one down, up comes George Kendrick to center fielder.
George Kendrick, he's signed in every game in the World Series, of course he's Reggie Jackson's replacement.
1-82 during the regular season, four home runs, 15 runs back to them, right hand batter with a close dance, he swings and misses, going one.
No runs, two hits, no errors for the Reds, no runs, one hit and one error for the A's.
Kendrick, 23 years old yesterday, waiting at the plate, now field shading toward right, and the strike, 1-50, is in the third and blocked by Banks.
One and one. Gene Fennis will be next.
If you drive this late, the Reds had a threat in the first inning with two outcoles and were safe on an error, Banks singled and stole second.
But then with runners to second and third, Perez struck out.
In the second, the Gray led off with a base hit, but Holcomb was able to decide to side.
Here in the second, the A's get their first hit off-duty, and the Pitcher's down to first, he's up to the old, steps on second after hesitating, and throws to first to get the double play.
David decided he was going to run over and touch it himself after it looked like he was going to flip the ball to Morgan.
So the Reds get a 6-3 double play and the A's down at the inning, no runs, one hit, nobody left on.
And the Reds are down to second, Oakland nothing, Cincinnati nothing.
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Peter Rose leading off the third, Bunch down in front of the plate, and Tennant throws him out for the first down.
So one pitch, one away as Rose signs to Bunch his way on.
Play goes 2-3, and up comes Joe Morgan. Morgan applied to left in the first inning.
Joe 0-1 tonight, 0-11 in the World Series.
Good speed. Second in the National League in stolen bases to Brock this year.
The range hit the ground ball near second, fielded by Dick Green. The throw is in Dixon. Two down.
So Holtsman has now gotten the last five reds to hit the ball on the ground.
Tennant's given him up two hits in 2-2-3.
He's not allowed to walk, and he has one strikeout. And now he faces Bobby Tolan.
Tolan bunted in the first inning, and was saved by an error by Holtsman.
Tolan 2-13 in the third.
Left-hander working on left-hander. Pitch down the way, Bobby brought to Brock, takes the strike.
0-1. Pando in on the grass.
Outfield shooting, Tolan toward left.
Strike one pitch down the way. Curve swung on and grounded toward first. It's a foul ball.
Fielded across the line by Epstein, and they count nothing in two.
Bobby Tolan from Los Angeles came up with a cardinal.
Played in two World Series with St. Louis in 67 and 68.
Gettin' the series with the Reds in 70, and so this is Bobby's fourth World Series.
Missed draw of last year, twice torn to kill his tendon.
Two out, bases empty, no score, third inning.
The line by Holtsman and a strike two pitch down the way. Misses down side, 0-1.
Then shone back.
Holtsman, feet apart, takes the sign from Tennant.
Left-hander ready, and a one-two pitch down the way. He's grounded foul outside third.
Down into the Oakland Dillpat.
A three-pointer in the field and foul territory here in Oakland.
One of the ball girls getting her hand as she gets the tack in.
Two out, bases empty.
One two-pitch down the way, is knocked on the ground toward Bando at third.
He cuts in front of Campanera as it throws him out. Nice play by Bando.
Bando is still inflicting the ball as he got jammed and rolling it along the grass. Bando makes the play.
And the Reds down one, two, three, and a third. No runs, no hits, and nobody left.
At the end of three and a half it remains. Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing.
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With our mic, Jim Simpson back in Oakland, California.
Last of the third of a sort of small game.
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Well, Michael, the last time that Jim Hulston was on the mound, this fella stepping up to the plate now has two home runs to win the ballgame for.
He was the big hero, Gene Tennis in game number one.
First man in World Series history, the homer in his first two series trips to the plate.
Gene Tennis, right hand batter.
And Johnny Becker then complaining that Tennis was standing outside the batter's box.
So a line is drawn with his back by Blademire Frank Umar.
Tennis back foot on the line.
Take down low from Don Gubbett.
One and all. Tennis, Green, and Hulston in the bottom of the third.
Here's the 1-0 pitch on the way.
In for a strike.
He's held two for ten in the World Series.
Four-fifths home run, so he's 0 for 8.
I think he's first two trips on Canada Day.
During the season he is 2-25.
Five home runs, 32 runs landed in.
Gubbett nods in agreement with Banks.
To the plate, 1-1, and the pitch is bound back.
One and two.
Tennis, 6 footer, 190 pounder from Ohio.
26 years old, swings to the curve, grabs at the third.
Minky, who is on the second hop, is long throw in time.
Went away.
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He is one of three athletics with three hits in the World Series.
The A's, Campanaris and Rudy.
Green is 3 for 8.
Pitch on the way, in for a strike.
Pitch with two hits in game two on Sunday.
One hit last night.
Right hand batter who has spent most of the season on the disabled leg.
Strike once, that's going down, and missed going two.
Green missed over two marks with a herniated disc.
Came back in late August to 286 with no home runs, three runs landed in.
Strike two, pitch on the way, is fouled off a mass defense.
Can't hold it.
Oakland on deck.
Legs nothing, A's nothing.
Game four of the 1972 World Series.
A's on top, two games to one.
Bottom of the third, one out, bases empty.
Gullett to the play-doh, two and Green swings and misses as he takes something off the fastball.
Bench drops the ball, pangs him out and is two down.
So Gullett gets his first strikeout, two down in the third inning.
And up comes the pitcher, Ken Hoffman.
Gullett during the regular season, nine and ten with a three-nine-three earned run average.
John made 16 strikes, two complete games, no set-outs.
Shucks out 96 and 135 innings, walked 43.
Hoffman swings and misses, 0-1.
Hoffman hit 178.
No homers, six runs down at end.
The other day in Cincinnati, 0 for two.
The next pitch, Jeff Muthers for a ball, one and one.
Hoffman to right-hand batter.
After the change to his right, relatively shallow.
Nobody on, two down.
He's a 1-1 pitch on the way.
Line to left field and Muthers is right there and he makes the catch for a time to time.
He's a 1-1, and it's a run out of money, but right it goes and he's the downer at third.
No runs, no hits, nobody left at the end of three-four.
Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing.
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Back in Oakland, it's the fourth inning of a sort of small game, game four of the World Series, Cincinnati-Winston-Ice.
That ensures that we go back to Cincinnati for a sixth game.
And then, Wednesday night, it could end tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll be on the air at 3.45 Eastern time.
And Al Michaels, as I recall, if you came on the air tonight, your pregame comments, you felt this was going to be a very high-scoring ballgame.
Well, it may be, but not to the first third of the game.
Not at all. We've had only three hits. Two by the Reds, one by Bench, the other by McRae.
One for the A's, a base hit by Sal Bento.
We matched last night's game, same type of game we had last night.
Blumwood-Odom, Jack Billingham in control throughout. The Reds getting a run of the seventh, and that was enough.
Johnny Bench, single in the first inning. Now has four hits in the World Series. He's four for 11.
Al feels very deep. And swung over to his left.
Holtzman to the play. Misses out side, ball one.
Holtzman has set down six-three, all on ground balls.
The Reds on deck. McRae to follow.
One O-pitch, down to the on-ball two.
Tim Kimpton mentioned at the beginning, a very over-tasked day on early evening here at Oakland.
Last night we had a big sun problem.
We thought we couldn't beat the ball the first three, four, five innings.
But no problem tonight. The lights taking almost full effect.
Two O-pitches down it up the middle, base hit for Bench.
John, with his second hit of the game. He now has five in the World Series.
Hendrick gets it back in.
Third hit for the Reds in the game, and up comes Perez.
Tony Perez came up with still in the third. Bench at first in the first inning and struck out in the World Series.
He's five for 11.
Perez from Cuba now makes his home in Puerto Rico.
It's 2-83 during the year with 21 home runs, 90 runs that are there.
Bench at first, nobody out.
Coach went into the plate and Perez popped the foul back out of play.
Old one.
Perez is driven in 90 or more runs the last six years.
And maybe a high figure this year for a man who's sit behind the fellow who made the majors in runs that are there, Bench.
Johnny with 125. Didn't leave Perez that many opportunities.
Oakland ready.
Jackie comes and Perez has a drive at deep left center field.
Hendrick back near the track, has room and takes the bat.
Bench touches back to first, run away.
So Perez flies out there deep left center.
That's the longest drive in the two games here in Oakland.
And that's the biggest example, Al, of the fact that the weather here is very bad and the ball is not going at all.
That was good enough to get out of the most ball parks.
And Hendrick with a cut that what Al has grabbed as a deep drive really was only about 350 feet away.
The ball simply dies.
Went away, McRae the batter.
Singled in the second inning, making his first time in the World Series.
How is 3-3 in the series.
Flames at the broken back batter to Calcanares.
Goes to 3 for 1 and that's all.
McRae is in for first.
He might have had a chance to get double play, but it looks like the ball started to roll up the arm of Calcanares.
And he had a settle for just one, getting it to green and time for the fourth shot.
So it can't be juggling, but holds on to get one.
Bench fourth shot at second.
McRae on his first and the batter is Dennis Menke.
He's grounded out in the second inning.
Menke in the series, one for ten.
Reds nothing, A's nothing.
Two out in the fourth inning.
Oldsman South works the place.
Back ball missing high, ball one.
One and O.
Menke in his first view of the reds, part of the big trade with Houston.
Made his major league debut at the Milwaukee Braves.
Went to the club on the move to Atlanta, then traded to Houston.
One O-fifth down the way.
He's lying right at the end of it for the third out.
Menke lines out, got retired.
No runs, one hit.
The reds lead the man.
At the end of three and a half, reds nothing, A's nothing.
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Well, the drop goes on.
A total of five runs scored in the first game of the World Series.
Three more in the second, and only one last night.
That's nine runs in the first three games.
None here in the fourth game of the World Series.
We go to the last of the fourth, open it up.
Down it leads to the top of the batting order, Cappadollis, DeLue, and Rudy.
And here's Al.
First Cappadollis, down it out of the first inning.
Gobert made a nice play to get him.
The champion of the series is C412.
Right-hand batter, good speed, good bunches.
Dinky on the grass, the third.
Gobert to the face, first pitch missing in shot in low ball one.
Down it to the top of the shot.
Get it, back to the very Cappadollis, down it wide, third.
Backhanded by Dinky, falls down, gets up, and throws him out.
Great play by Dinky.
So Cappadollis, rounding one, inside third, and then Dinky,
backhanding the ball, went down, got up, and still got him.
Strong arm.
DeLue the batter, flat out of the first inning, takes in shot ball one.
The batter is 1-4-11 in the World Series.
Get it, back to the face.
DeLue takes a break and takes out shot ball two, a two-ball.
He's not walking anybody, and this is one of the rare times he's been behind on the count.
He has one strikeout.
Down it, ready, and the two-o-pitch, high ball three, Cando.
Joe Udy, we've gone down.
Two-o-pitch on the way, low, ball four.
So the A's have a second baserunner.
The batter, DeLue, drives the first block in the game.
The batter is Joe Udy.
Joe Udy, 0-1, knocked out in the first inning.
DeLue for 12 in the World Series.
He has a two-tour drive, making a 30-minute bat.
Lay it first.
The message is going to get him to go.
Now there's no round-about for Ray.
DeLue's strategy, second first, comes to the pole, and a missed one-on-and-nope.
Down is a good motion to first. That time he had DeLue going back toward the bag as he's delivered to the plate.
Not an easy man to steal on.
Oh, and one a shot.
Cando on that. Cincinnati nothing, Oakland nothing in the bottom of the fourth inning.
One out, DeLue's first base.
Seven-stack, a check for the runner in the top one-press.
A lock to the right, back out of play. 0-2.
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Ball 45 Pacific time. Catfish Hunter will be the ace pitcher and probably Jim McLaughlin for the rest.
Marky Anderson will announce officially the starter after tonight's game.
Strike two pitch on the way. It's high and away, ball one. One and two.
The Reds no runs three hits and no errors. The Gays no runs one hit and one error.
So that was a sign from Ben. Down at the belt, but Lance is first, and the next pitch is high.
Ben throws the first to the ball, gets five for Reds, and rolls down the line.
DeLue is on second.
So Ben's trying to take DeLue on first base.
The ball gets away from Reds, and we'll see who they give the error to.
DeLue goes for second. One out.
The count on Rudy is two and two.
DeLue's set, a look back, and the two pitchers on the way. Way outside.
Back into five base, ball three.
So DeLue gets quickly ahead. No balls, two strikes on Rudy, and now he runs his swing out.
Three and two is Bando waiting back.
No score, four fittings, one out.
DeLue's second.
Rudy's just now climbing back into the very closed stand.
DeLue with a tie on the stretch, and the pitchers at John DeWaite.
Crump on it, missed, strike three.
John Gullis gets his second strike out, retiring Rudy here in the fourth inning for the second out.
And that comes down Bando.
They're going to walk Bando intentionally to find his crump down a base hit in the second inning,
but they're pulling around with Bando. They will work instead to the left-hand batting empty.
So Bando will be walked intentionally to put John at first, DeLue second.
Now, it's also an indication that both managers are saying one run will win any one of these ballgames.
They're not getting a lot of runs. Here it is just for the last of the fourth inning,
and they're putting another runner on base. They just don't want Bando to drive in one run.
This series is sort of ironic to this point, Jim, because the Reds know it is the big Red Machine in 1970,
and this was version number two in 1972.
And when you thought of the Oakland A's in the American League, you thought of a lot of offense this year,
but it has been anything but an offense in World Series.
That scene of batting lined out in the second inning.
Roker's batting hit a cutback liner to Morgan.
He is hit by some of the series, 0-4-8.
Like the 26 homers during the regular season, 70 runs batted in.
Maddie and Lewis second.
Now Bando at first.
Two out in the fourth inning.
No score.
Willett stepping off the rubber.
Watch the new center side from Ben.
Willett's hand is checking.
Now the stretch. The pitch to Epstein, low, ball one.
1-0.
The Reds have had one threat in the first inning.
This is the first time in the game that the A's have threatened.
1-0 pitch out of the way. It's fouled out of play.
1-1.
Epstein originally up with Baltimore and played with Washington.
Mike in the second year of the A's.
Kendrick on deck.
1-1 on the way. Inside nearly nicked him.
Ball two. 2-1.
Gullan now taking more time between stretches as he tries to work out of trouble in the fourth.
The left hander on the rubber.
The stretch. The lookback.
Second and the 2-1 pitch on the way.
He's dropping off the middle slowly.
He's feeling like he's got the old clothes and kicked him.
The Reds shortstop went to the right field side a second and makes a fine play to get Epstein.
And the only way the Reds could get the A's in that inning, get out of the inning on that particular play,
was for a runner like Epstein to be moving down the line, because Epstein had had the time and made a fine play to get him.
So the A's out in the fourth inning. No runs. No hicks.
There was one error. Two runners left on.
At the end of four, Cincinnati nothing. Oakland nothing.
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Back in Oakland, California, in this drought of runs, there have only been five extra bases in the entire World Series.
Three by Oakland, two by Cincinnati. It's nothing to nothing.
It's the fifth inning and Concepcion is the batter and here's how.
Dave Concepcion grounds it out in the second inning.
Takes his strike.
One-one. Double it on deck and then it rolls. The eight, nine, and one hitter is coming up.
No score in the fifth.
Strike one pitch on the way. Outside, one and one.
This is Al Michaels with Jim Simpson. We'll be with you tomorrow.
3.45 p.m. Eastern Day Lifetime, 12.45 on the coast.
Game number five.
One-one pitch, missing the low ball, two. Two and one.
Three hits for the Reds. Bench has two singles.
McRae the other.
The A's with one hit.
Vandell a right field single in the second inning.
Two-one on the way. It's grounded to short. Campanella is up with it.
Goes to first and one short stop gets the other.
Don Guttit coming up.
The Reds the last couple of nights have been giving the pitcher the opportunity to get some more rest in the dugout.
Rose has actually come out on deck into the circle with a number eight man hitting.
And again this is the case. His feet came out with Concepcion hitting.
Occupy the spot in the on-deck circle.
Guttit waited in the dugout.
Don grounded out in the second inning.
Right hand batter. The outfield around toward right.
Guttit around the bunk takes down low ball one.
Guttit at two-eleven during the year.
Three runs battered in.
Eight for 38.
One-oh pitch. Swung on, hit in the air to center field.
Hendrick backs up a couple of steps and it makes a guy. Two down.
The outfield has now retired five straight and 11 of the last 12. Up comes Pete Rose.
Pete Rose grounded out in the first inning and then tried to butt in and was thrown out by tennis in the third.
Over two and one for 13 in the World Series.
The game moving along quickly. We have played less than an hour.
This inning two-out base is empty. Pitch out of the way. Down low ball one.
By the way, tonight for the first time since Sunday, both teams able to take batting crackers, but you never know it.
One and over cast.
Boltzmann ready. Back to the plate. He comes and Rose takes down low. Ball two. Good ball.
Morgan on back.
Boltzmann, excellent control tonight. Been a hit on almost everybody.
No walk.
One strikeout. Two-oh pitch. Left in the air to right field.
The line. A little raking over and moving back on the warning track. A long way to go and the ball hurts.
Near the track. Big deep right field towards the line. Rose down.
Right down in the fifth. No run. No hit. Nobody left at the end of four and a half. No scores.
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Two 4-1 half innings. The Reds no run three hits and one error. The A's no runs one hit and one error.
The Oakland Athletics coming up in the bottom of the fifth inning, and for the play-by-play the rest of the way, here's Jim Simpson.
Thanks, Al Michaels. The A's in the fourth inning had last got a man as far as second base. That was on a walk and an error.
Whereas back in the first inning Cincinnati got a man as far as third base. Nobody has scored. Here's George Hendrick last time up.
Hits the ball very sharply to conceptually on a short stop and turns it into a double play. Hits this one, pops it up to the right side.
Joe Morgan the second baseman back on the grass, waving off everybody, and that's a quick out for Don Govett in the open fifth.
Gene Tunnors, the catcher. That will remind you again of the only two hits that Tunnors has had throughout this series.
The first two times at that in the World Series, first game of the series, E. Homer, once with the man on in his second home run,
won the ball game for Ken Holtzman tonight's A's pitcher. One out and the Saunas open fifth.
Just a long way to left field down the line. All the way to the left he got it. It is 2-1-7, 4-0-0.
Fireworks explode again. Team Boats as the Saunas back in Locust Hill, Ohio.
Fury D. Tennant has hit his third World Series home run in game number four and puts Oakland out in front one to nothing.
Here's Dick Green who's struck out, hits the ball to right field, overcomes Hal McRae, waiting for it in a rather deep right field.
As Green goes the other way and they're two outs. Everything that has happened has happened with dramatic stuffiness.
On the first pitch, Hendricks hopped out. On the first pitch, Tennant's homered. On the first pitch, Green flies to right.
One to nothing and here comes Ken Holtzman the last time up in the third, line to Pete Rose in left field.
The way things have been going throughout this World Series, the margin has always been by one run.
Three to two, two to one, and last night one to nothing.
Delos throws hard, fastball misses outside.
Pedro Borbón, slicker ball, pitcher up and throwing, right hander in the second-night ball pit.
One to no, fastball stays down low. It is 2-0 now but the pitcher can't Holtzman.
Delos, as Hal Michael just told you, has been working on a curveball all year but he is really a hard thrower.
And Tennant's just connected with a fastball out of the plate and pulled it foul down the line.
Down the line is 3-30 and that was the home run.
Two to no to Holtzman, he swings and Brown gets a concept on a short stop up with it and Day throws on to Tony Perez and the inning is quickly over.
The A's have gone out in front on the home run by Dean Tennant. That's the only hit.
No errors, none left at the end of five. Holtzman one, chips a 90-nothing.
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Oakland one, chips a 90-nothing. And before we go to the next setting, we find 30 seconds for station identification.
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Ken Oakland loosening up for the Oakland A's.
He has a 1-0 lead on Gene Tennis' fifth inning home run.
And Tennis has five home runs during the regular season.
Incredibly enough in three and a half games in the World Series he's hit three and all of them have been big.
We go to the third setting, it will be Morgan, Sullivan and Bench for the Reds. Here again is Jim Simpson.
Now one more word about Gene Tennis.
The last by the hip three home runs in one series, Don Fandemmon from the Mets in 1969.
And this one is not over yet.
Now we said at the out step, that's back on Saturday in Cincinnati, that if the underdog A's were the B's,
The key probably would be the left-handers and how they handled the first three men up in the batting order
before pitching around perhaps Johnny Bench.
Bench has now let off eight times in the series.
And Rose, Morgan and Pullen between them have not scored or driven in a run.
And the A's lead two games to one and lead one to nothing in this the fourth game.
Morgan has over two, twice has hit the first pitch.
One fly to left, another time's rabbit.
He's been swinging on the first pitch, once again, often a foul, but it's out of play.
And back at home plate.
So Joe Morgan has had it in his head tonight to go up and swing away at the first pitch.
On deck is Bobby Toler.
Rappers are dipping into the mid-fifties.
If anything, perhaps it's clear just a little bit, but we can see no scars.
Overcast in Oakland, in the inside pitch.
Morgan jumps up and away from the pitch.
It's one ball, one strike.
Mando in on the grass.
Reds trying to get their game going again.
They're very aggressive, base-running game, looking for a long ball.
And had it.
He's swinging it in on a good Oakland fastball.
Oakland has a good curveball, and if he's got it in the strike zone,
can really intimidate you with his fastball.
Matter of fact, when he pitched a no-hitter against these Cincinnati Reds while at Chicago Cups,
The last five and in, he only used two curveballs, that's what this fastball.
Back again with a chain, breaking pitch, and it's down low, two balls, two strikes.
Oakland does not have the exceptional fastball,
but you'd better respect it if you're looking for the breaking pitch.
Two and two.
Oakland, the left-hander, ready, throws the fastball, and then just off the foul,
down the third baseline, and kangaroos into the stands just behind the Oakland dugout.
Still two and two to Morgan, the late off batter, and the Cincinnati six,
one to nothing on the team, tennis homerun in the last of the fifth.
Both left-handers tonight, both with similar minor league experiences.
Don Gullick pitched only 11 games for the minors, and the Oakland 12.
Hit off the fifth, down to second base,
hit green down to one knee, and as Morgan was now over 13 in the series, out again.
Bobby Tolan has been up twice tonight, reached on an air by Epstein in the first baseman,
and then was jammed on a pitch and grounded the band to a third in the third inning.
Rose, Morgan, and Tolan all year long got on to bring up Johnny Bent so he could leave the league in RBI.
Ground ball passed the glove of Oakland, Campanella's back to shortstop,
fires as Tolan by 20, four or five steps, and Johnny Bent,
a pleasant drive, hits in 12-10.
He went the other way with a fastball in the first inning,
singled and later stole second base, an uncontested steal, as Tolan was already at third base,
and then he hit the curve ball off the middle for a base hit in the fourth,
and was erased on a four-touch.
So Bench tonight, 2 for 2 after going 0 for 4 last night,
being caught out on strike the last three times up.
Big right-hander, hits this one, and he may have his third to lose charges.
Out in the outfield, and makes his second remarkable catch of the night.
Before he left deep to Rob, he rolled to end the fifth.
Now he charges toward right center to Rob, Johnny Bent to end the sixth.
Now Rob hits the rail as he goes to the last of the sixth.
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Kathy Cavanares will lead off the Oakland 6.
He is 3 for 13 in the series, all for 2 tonight.
Right hand of batter, the left-handed Gubbett throws, and it's all on.
In the version of Cavanares, Gubbett was over.
Left side of the mound, Gubbett was over, Smith was still managed to go in on.
And Menke made a fine fielding play on him, backhanding his line, shot him to force the throw in on.
Menke's in on the grass now.
Drive, deep left field, throws over, going for the line.
He's in the warning crack, and in foul territory, has it for the out.
About 320 feet away, and it's 330 down the line.
Cavanares is over 3, and here comes Matty Allou, who is really saying the way tonight.
With a straight running, gets against the wall on Rose and the fifth,
and charging the low line at Johnny Bench to end the 6.
Allou is up, he is over 1.
He's caught once, takes a pitch that hops away from Johnny Bench.
In the first inning, Allou hit a thinking line drive, but he rose made a dandy catch on,
running toward the infield.
And then on four pitches in the fourth, Allou drew his walk, got a far second base on the air by Perret.
1 to nothing to score, last of the 6 and 8.
Allou grounds it on one hop to Menke, who's in on the grass at third,
and he has got Matty by nearly half the distance to first base.
Battling up Joe Rudy, jammed in the first and pops his conceptually on the short,
and an old kick down on him in the fourth, works his free-thru,
and then struck out swinging at a Don Gullis fastball.
Joe, as Allou's been telling you, a 3-0-5 hitter during the regular season.
He is 3 for 13 as the game-winning home run in the second game at Cincinnati on Saturday.
Right-handed batter with that closed stance, and they claim to hit the right center,
but Joe Rudy very often does.
Great power to right center field.
Don Gullis ready, Menke in on the grass, the pitch is down low.
One ball to Joe Rudy, 1 to nothing to score, the last of the 6.
Allou and I and everybody that follows these world kids keep waiting for the big outbreak of scoring.
Haven't seen it yet, fastball ground to foul back for the Royal Photographers,
off to the right and then back at home plate.
1 and 1.
Around the hotel lobbies today, you can hear people saying,
well, I failed at least 10 to 4 today.
Somebody's got to get to Holton, or Gullis did not pitch well in the playoffs.
Somebody's going to crack.
Nobody has, and here we are in the last of the 6 in the 1-0 ball game.
1 to 1.
Gullis again ready, has a new ball, throws, and his pitch is down low.
2 and 1 to Rudy, Sal Bando on deck.
Rudy lives in Modesto, California.
He is a California, 26 years old, winds up with an amazing pass from this young and short-time.
A hit for Rudy, his 4 of the series and the third tonight off Don Gullis.
And that will bring up Bando.
Went the other way with a Gullis fastball, finger to right field in the second,
was blocked intentionally in the fourth with a low down on second base.
Bando's hits in his last 40 times at bat have all been singers.
And yet during the regular season he hits 15 home runs.
A swing around for Bando, a full header, swings to the left.
One is working from a test out, staring over at Rudy at first base,
and throws the fastball and is blocked a foul without a playoff to the right.
Strike one for Bando.
Too out in the Oakland State.
Good afternoon, we'll keep repeating for you,
but wherever you are in this country around the world you'll have to think and check your class
according to these 3.45 Eastern Standard Time are broadcast down to ball.
That's 12.45 Pacific time.
Gullis' fastball, a good jumping off of it, is a strike at the knees of Sal Bando,
and Bando is behind 0-2 to Don Gullis.
Young 21-year-old left-hander from Linn, Kentucky,
where his athletic prowess and all-sports legend already.
Gullis' step throws a good fastball, but it's too high, doesn't get the call,
from Frankie Umont, the American League umpire behind home plate,
and it's one ball, two strikes.
The team tennis home run and the fifth inning, the only run of this fall game.
Really pleased with one and nothing.
They would love to go in front.
Three games to one and perhaps wrap it up tomorrow.
Cincinnati's determined to take this thing back to Cincinnati.
The game's on Saturday and possibly Sunday.
Look out high inside fastball as Rudy going to the dirt.
It's 2-2.
Two balls, two strikes, and Joe Rudy got white pants on,
not so white anymore as he took a seat in the dirt.
I think I said Rudy, that is Bando. Rudy's got a first pick.
2-2, throws a good fastball up high, and it is 3-2 to Bando.
The fans have had to find their moments in this World Series in which to cheer.
They haven't been through any fireworks, and they're looking for now,
and there's a pitch grounded left side.
Bando is on with a base hit, and with two outs, Mike Epstein comes up.
That is the fourth base hit for the A's. Rudy is down to second.
Bando at first, they'll have two outs in that scene.
He is back lining to Morgan in the second, and in front of the shortstop in the fourth.
Matter of fact, Concepcion made a fine play on him in the fourth inning,
and that's their going over to the first base by the side of second base.
They're nothing to A's, and they're looking for more with two outs,
and Epstein's playing to the 15 under the hand. It's like one.
Epstein now is all for nine in the World Series.
And stretching back into the final playoff game is much worse off than that in a batting effort.
He did have a home run in the fourth playoff game.
Brake is hit strong and jellied, and Epstein wasn't looking for it. It's 2-2.
Matter of fact, in that fourth game of the American League playoff up in Detroit,
with his one to nothing to third, Epstein hits a home run to side up.
He strikes, hits the drive to right, two wheels.
Tom McWade goes over to his left and takes it, and the inning is over.
Go on, two hits. Rudy's left his second, Bando at first,
and at the end of sixth, it's still Oak with one and six and that eats nothing.
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With Jim Simpson, this is Al Michaels of the Oakland Coliseum.
Game four in 1972 World Tour.
Oakland trying to take a three game to one lead.
They lead here in game four.
It is 1-0-8 on all-run by Gene Tennes.
They go to the seventh.
The res leads off for the reds.
Here again is Jim.
They really want this game.
Now, down in the open, Bullton, as this inning is about to begin.
to begin, white or blue, and Raleigh's fingers are up and throwing.
And Holtzman gets in just that much trouble.
You'll see them go to the bullpen.
Tony Perez leads it off. He is 0-2.
Struck out swinging at a fast ball in the first inning and sends
Hendrick Rabadipin left center field to retire him in the fourth.
Dive to right field, out of the line, and it is their ball.
Perez stops it first thing.
Lefty went down the line.
A little is pulled around for Perez and has no chance, but the ball just died right there in the very soggy field,
and Perez, the potential tying run, is one with a texturally singled right field.
That's the fourth hit.
Al McCrae, who in his World Series career, and that takes him the series back in 1970 when the Big Red Machine was really rolling,
is now 8-4-15 in World Series play.
McCrae, as Al said, considers himself the offensive player.
Takes the ball and pounds it off to the right side, out of play.
And the return throw by the umpire, and quickly, Yumon signals to everybody aboard that that was my throw,
not the throw of the catcher, Dean Kenneth, so no play.
As a matter of fact, Bill Haller, the American umpire down the second base, retrieves the ball.
One strike now to the right-handed Haller McCrae in this one-nothing ballgame.
Open lead it. We are in the seventh.
Mando, even with a back at third and guarding the line, McCrae takes the pitch inside.
It's one ball, one strike.
It is at this stage of the ballgame that that third baseman will start moving toward third base and the line to take away the extra base hit,
leaving a big hole between third and shortstop.
One ball, one strike. Perez, not particularly fast on his first base.
He's the man to fill down last time. Pitchers hit high in the air, in the infield.
Half an hour's run, good on the grass, waves everybody away.
And in front of second base, has it for the first time.
That will bring up Manke.
Manke, the record will show, is 1-4-11.
Remember, on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati, Joe Rudy took an extra base hit away from him in the ninth inning.
A great catch.
And in the fourth inning here, Manke tonight lashed the ball as Mando hauled in a sharp line drive.
Billy is 1-4-11. Comes up now with Perez over first base and one out.
Manke, the right-hander, steps in.
White of blue and Raleigh fingers continue to throw.
The Oakland bullpen, Oakland throws. Now ball right back to Oakland.
Goals for second base to Green. Green gets the ball out of the court and throws on double play.
No arms, one hit. No airs and none left.
We go to the last of the seventh before Hubel and Kraus.
Oakland 1-7-9-0.
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Ken Holtzman and Gene Tennis were the big story on Saturday in Game 1, and so far they have been the whole story in Game 4.
Holtzman, a shutout through 7.
Tennis, a home run, is third to the series. He hit it in the fifth inning.
A's lead, 1-0.
On to number 7.
More play by play, Jim Simpson.
All right, Al, and Vita Blue and Raleigh Fingers continue to warm up even though the A's are at bat.
Holtzman is due a fourth in this inning, and if they have something going, it might be that Dick Williams will back four.
1-0 the game here at Hendricks, who is down and out into a double play and topped up last time up with 0-2,
and takes the first down low from Don Gullick.
Well, as in the case of last night's victory,
Gaps Dillingham and John Blum know to both of them doing an exceptional job, fouled out of play by him.
But as you well know, somebody's got to lose the ballgame.
And on a play in which Perez fell down last night, and because of the roar of the crowd,
no one really threw the relay home for any opportunity they had to get him,
it was Dillingham and the Reds who won that game 1-0.
Now Tennesse's home runners put Holtzman and the A's out in front 1-0.
This off-speed pitch is down low.
Two balls, one strike to George Hendricks.
On that's Gene Tennesse, the last time up at his third major league home run.
Wallace back throws the fastball, foul back to the three.
During the season of those five home runs that Gene Tennesse hit,
two of them were here in Oakland, three on the road.
In the World Series, he is one here in Oakland and two on the road.
The ball's two strikes, right-handed Hendricks with a close stance
and swings and misses at a very good Don Jollard fastball.
Strikeout number three for Jollard.
And here comes Tennesse.
Tennesse rounded the third in the third inning but hit that first pitch,
a fastball out of the plate in the fifth inning and pulled it down the left-field line.
It over the fence about 335 feet away.
Plays on the first pitch here but it's a good, yellow fastball
and it fouls it out of play off to the right.
Went out on the seventh.
Oakland leading two games to one lead to miss the fourth game 1-0.
Each team has four hits.
Each team has committed an error.
Jollard is ready, throws the fastball,
looks like a fulking pitch there, caught the inside of the plate.
Two strikes.
So he cuts the fastball.
More in on the left to the right-hander center.
Back again and this one stays outside.
On all two strikes.
McGreen wandering around behind home plate, near the on-deck circle,
but he is not in it swinging the bat.
Jollard ready, puts it down low to Intuna out of tennis.
They have learned to play steamboat tennis as he is called.
A round to the left.
He has scored three home runs in this series and points at a breaking pitch there and strikes out.
Strikeout number four in the second in this seventh inning and here is Dick Green.
Dick's strikeout swinging at an off-speed pitch in the third and then on the first pitch he's on the fifth.
He flies to Al McCray out of right field.
Game another ball game, hitting 375.
He is now 3-10 so he's getting an even 300 in the World Series.
Breaking pitch again catches the inside corner and Green gives Frankie Mopper a stare.
Dick strike one.
Frankie at third base is in even with the bag.
And they're playing Green straight away, not too deep.
Another breaking pitch but it's low and inside and it's one ball, one strike.
Green with those first two pitches has not seen the good John Jollard fastball yet.
Jollard is ready.
He throws the fastball, it's lined inside the line.
Frankie is pulled off the line.
Over quickly and deep low.
And going for second base is Green.
And the ball is there, he is in straight for double.
Well, two breaking pitches to Dick Green and everybody was looking for a good John Jollard fastball.
Green got it and pulled it inside the line.
Minky was off the line, not counting the line at all and it's for double.
And Ken Holtzman, a scheduled hitter and is walking for it home plate.
Holtzman is lined to last and grounded to short.
Opposite wonder of the ball game has fixed all the eyes throughout the year looking for the biggest perhaps of his career here.
If he can get himself an insurance run.
Green not particularly fast.
Down to second base.
But he'll be running if anything at all is it with two outs.
As the ground ball fouls the plate, strike one to Ken Holtzman.
And the last of the seventh of the ball game is not yet an hour and a half old.
A range of a world series game as the weather crisps up and gets a little bit colder.
They played an awful lot quicker on the average than those played through the hot summer months.
One strike to Holtzman.
That ball is inside Holtzman, raises it back, arches it back, that's nice out of the way, it's one and one.
Irv Norn, third base coach, looking down to green at second. Flashing signs to green.
Gullet ready.
The crowd here at Oakland hoping.
And as the ball popped up to the infield, this is Manky for third base.
He's in on the grass now as green rounds third and heads for home.
Manky puts away Holtzman's little pop-up.
No runs, one hit, the double by Green. No errors and Gray left on base.
At the end of seventh and still Oakland one, since Manny, nothing.
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And before the reds come up, they're ending number eight.
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The attendance tonight at the Oakland Coliseum, same as last night, 49,410.
And they're watching Ken Holsman.
In his attempt to give the A's their free game, still one lead in the World Series.
Blue and Fenger loosening up in the bullpen.
The Reds will send up Concepcion and a pinch hitter, Hooley and Javier.
And P. Rose, eighth inning.
Here again is Jim Simpson.
Well, I remember our discussion last night.
I don't know about the ball game.
We thought it a very bizarre game.
But there were so many things that happened in that ball game.
Some of them very weird and strange.
Tonight, there's been nothing weird, nothing strange.
Here's the homerun by Gene Tennis, an excellent pitcher.
And it's one another.
Concepcion is all for two, right-handed batter.
And as Javier is on deck, the breaking pitch, the curveball.
And that's what we said at the outset.
If Holsman gets the curveball over, he is tough.
He's gotten it over consistently tonight.
And he's started Concepcion out with the curveball.
Vando guarding that line at third base.
Comes back with another breaking pitch.
It's down low.
One ball, one throw.
And it's gotten up to start throwing again, but a left-hander's going in the blazer.
All-time hole.
One-on-one.
There's the ball.
Grab it toward Vando.
Into the hole goes Campaderas.
A long throw to first base.
Safe.
While Vando guarding the line to take away, the extra base hit.
Would have had that playing a normal third base.
But he was guarding the line.
Campaderas had to go deep into the hole.
And his long throw did not get the speed he could set the odds.
And now Javier comes up.
Low line.
You played a tie on the road and went home.
And it rose you up next.
You would imagine now, Michael, that Javier's up there to do one thing, and that's to bun him over.
Get the man to second.
And then the fellas, the one-two-three hitters have to start producing.
Otherwise, the Reds are in trouble.
They've been in trouble.
The rally fingers is warming up.
And rather, what they're going to do, depending upon where the ball is butted, who is going to cover what.
That is the fifth base hit.
Ken Holzman.
Now we note, Almeen's over in Belgrade.
We have a defensive replacement in at first base.
Mike Hegan is going in to replace Mike Epstein.
There's the butt down the third base line.
Banda will have to go to first.
Close to Hegan.
And there's the out.
And now they got him off second base with a bluffing back.
Actually, the runner, Concepcion, had round at second base, but the man guarding him was ahead of him towards third base.
So it was Concepcion nearer to the bat.
So Hegan simply ran him back there.
Good sacrifice by Javier.
Now Pete Rose, who is 1 for 14, has driven a no-run in this series at all, nor has he scored a run in this series.
With one out, has the chance to drive in Concepcion, who has good feet.
Drive him in from second base.
1 to nothing to score.
Rose has switch hit it, round to the right side for Holton.
He's handled him three times in a row tonight, but Alume made a great catch on him in the fifth.
By pence, the wall and right field.
Blue and locker, or rather blue and fingers, are looking in to watch Holton working on Rose in the first pitch of Chulo.
Ball one.
On back is Joe Morgan.
So that infield now is Hegan at first, Green at second, Campanella short, Bando at third, Rudy at left, Hendrick in center, Alume at right,
Kenneth behind the plate, and with a 1-0 count, Holton ready to throw to Pete Rose.
Takeoff play, round to second base, back in 20th time, did not even need to drive with Concepcion.
1-0.
On back is Joe Morgan.
So that infield now is Hegan at first, Green at second, Campanella short, Bando at third, Rudy at left, Hendrick in center, Alume at right,
Kenneth behind the plate, and with a 1-0 count, Holton ready to throw to Pete Rose.
Takeoff play, round to second base, back in 20th time, did not even need to drive with Concepcion.
1-0.
49,410 looking on as last night.
The score tonight was 1-0 as it was last night.
Only the other team was making tonight.
It's open with Cincinnati trying to come back.
Mitch Sturrows is outside.
It is 2-0 to the dangerous Charlie Huffle, Pete Rose.
Now Bando comes over to say something to Holton from now.
Blue and fingers continue to warm up.
The left-hander continues to throw in the Cincinnati bullpen.
Bando still guarding that line at third base.
2-0 to count.
Holton back, right up the middle off the glove of Holton.
Green comes over, side-on to first base to Hegan as 1-0, and the runner, Concepcion, goes to third.
That out is actually 1-4-3 as the ball went off the glove of Ken Holton.
Advancing to third base is Concepcion.
Now Dick Williams is going to come out.
Al, you have watched Cincinnati all year long.
Here's Joe Morgan do-up.
He is 0-13.
The tie run is at third base.
Go around ball, apply ball, count 20 minutes.
That brings up the subject of squeeze play.
How often is it used by Cincinnati?
It's used probably with as great a frequency as with any other club in the National League anyway.
I can't figure the market link this season.
I don't know.
In this particular case, Morgan 0-13.
They're in a slump of late.
Definite possibility.
And certainly that's one of the things being talked about in addition to a pitching game.
He wants Vida Blue to come in to face Morgan.
So that's odd as Vida Blue makes his way in.
Holton's coming out.
Blue is stopping.
And then says, did you really want me, and Dick said, yeah.
Well, Joe Morgan snapped his head back and looked up to the sky when he saw that Vida Blue was coming in.
As John Gullitt is the fastest man on the Cincinnati pitching staff,
but the finest fastball, so is Vida Blue,
who owned the finest fastball he in the Oakland set up and one of the two or three finest fastballs in the entire American League.
The Vida Blue, who was not affected last night when he came on,
but has been affected, comes on in the first quarter, saving it for Holton.
And in the final playoff game, saving that for Hoda.
The hand you hear, of course, is for Ken Holton, who is now left.
Can't lose the game, but that's not the concern of Holton.
They simply want to win for the team.
So far he has given up no runs.
Of course, you can see he'll score.
That run will be charged to Holton.
Five hits, and it's struck out one and walks nobody.
Vida Blue, and of course it was stated by Williams a few days ago he would not shine.
He's come out of the bullpen, as he did in the playoff.
He was so valuable in that role.
The A's going to three starters in the World Series.
Holton and then Hunter will work tomorrow.
And then if we go to Saturday, we'll see about Blue Moon Odom coming back.
Then Dick Williams has to decide whether he wants to bring Odom back with a couple of days left,
The way the series was originally scheduled.
We had an off day on Friday, but no off day now exists.
It's going to be interesting to see who goes in game six.
On the subject of the rest of the game, so while game five for sure,
that's not an if necessary game now.
We'll definitely have a game tomorrow, 345.
Decent daylight time, 445 out here on the coast.
Katre Sunder against probably Jim McLaughlin.
We have had one dramatic moment in this ballgame thus far.
That was the home run by Gene Tennant for the fifth inning to make it one another.
Here is our second dramatic moment.
In the eighth inning, with two outs, a tying run.
And that's the owner's on at third base, White or Blue has come into pitch.
And Joe Morgan who has not a base hit an RBI in the entire series, he takes a strike at the knee.
Morgan steps out, looks down, takes the bat, knocks the dirt off his sleeve.
Looks down to Alex Mamm of coaching at third and steps back in.
Bando is coming on the grass at third base.
They're back on the right side.
Back ball misses outside.
Ball gets away from Tennant, the Blue hustles off the mound.
They cannot get through, Tennant, gets it in front of him.
It's one ball, one strike.
One to nothing in the eighth.
They win this one.
They're not home three, but they'll have a three to one edge.
They need only one more.
In the possible remaining three games to wrap it up, they could wrap it up tomorrow,
but they are not out of the woods yet.
Ground ball foul at the plate.
And it's one ball, two strikes.
The Bay is in White or Blue with that pass ball.
And good curve.
As Morgan, down one ball, two strikes.
Morgan, a left-hander battered, Blue a left-hander fifties.
In the series, Blue has worked two and two third innings in two games
and allowed two hits.
He's saved one game.
One on two, Concepcion down the line at third base.
Ball and high away is left by Tennant.
Nearly the wild pitch.
Remember the wild pitch in the fifth game of the National League Playoffs
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Allowed the runner to score from third base with the winning run
in the last of the ninth inning.
That was almost a wild pitch.
Perhaps it clocked up Tennant, but the ball got away high and away.
It's two and two now.
Two out.
Blue back.
It's over the ball just this time.
Blue takes a long look.
That's Frankie Lockheed's plate on fire.
Now they're going all the way.
It's three and two with two out.
The ball then remains busy.
Dave Hamilton, the left-hander, is joined by all these fingers down there.
Three and two, two out.
Concepcion on the tie run at third base.
Eightth inning.
Blue tears into team Tennant's architecture.
Concepcion bluffs coming down the line.
Vander bluffs for third base.
Blue continues to look.
Morgan swinging the bat.
The side deep had enough.
Stepped out.
Blue steps off.
Concepcion goes back to third base.
Blue goes for the Rosenthal.
Morgan steps back in.
Concepcion leads off third base.
The approval of the sign comes in with the pitch down two-goal.
He has walked Morgan.
And that brings up Bobby Fulton, who is two for 15.
He has reached one on an arrow tonight.
Dick Williams hustles off now to touch it by the blue.
Both bullpens continue busy.
Williams, Tennant, and Bando talking with by the blue.
Tennant starts back.
Williams starts toward the dugout.
Bando goes back now to talk to Camp and Harrison Green to tell them what it is that they've decided upon up to now.
Out of second base, out of first base.
He takes what, under what circumstances, might they throw home.
Colen.
They only need an out, and the Reds only need a run to drive.
They're running and the drive is pulled down to right field line.
It is a four-ball, one-one score coming on the play with Morgan.
Around third base.
Morgan's coming on.
Here comes the throw to the play down here.
And it is two to one, six for 90.
On the line drive, double by Bobby Fulton down the right field line.
Well, Jim, I guess it's just a matter of time before the top three start doing something.
Othren, a nice play to get his glove on the grounder by Rose, which might have gone through.
Morgan drives the walk, and then is off and moving.
And because he was moving, he's able to score on the double by Colen.
And he's been standing at first base when Bobby doubles.
The game would have been only tied right now.
He's been a third.
Johnny Bentz, two for three, hits the ball very hard all three times.
The blue made a fine running catch on him in the sixth inning.
Colen's down to second.
Bentz looks at a breaking system by the blue.
It's strike one.
Well, dramatic step, and we'll point out again that Al Michaels has just pointed out two years.
At knock, Joe Morgan's been off and running.
As the pitch was delivered to Colen, who would not have scored, it would have been one to one with two outs.
Blue steps off.
Plus, Colen back to second base.
Colen, who had not scored a run or driven in a run.
Drove in a run, and Morgan, who had not scored one, scored his first.
Dramatic first for the Cincinnati Reds.
Blue ready to throw to Bentz.
Straightaway center field, high in the air.
Hendricks running in.
Stopped out suddenly and has it to the third out.
Plus, two runs scored on two base hits.
Illinoisers and one man left.
We go to the last of the A's, and suddenly the Reds have taken the lead.
Cincinnati 2, Oakland 1.
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Game 4 of the World Juries.
The Reds 2 runs 6 hits and 1 error.
The A's 1 run 5 hits and 1 error.
And the new Cincinnati pitcher is right-hander Pedro Borbol.
Dick Williams making a move in the A's inning.
Lifting Ken Holtzman for Vita Blue.
Holtzman, you can close the book on Kenny, worked 7 and 2 thirds.
He gave up 1 run, yielded 5 hits.
He did not lock anybody.
And Holtzman had 1 strikeout.
He got Perez back in the first inning.
Vita Blue now the pitcher of record.
The pitcher of record for the Reds is Don Dumbit.
Borbol will try to pick up the save.
Here again is Jim Simpson.
Borbol has a tricky fastball and without the series,
he's got everybody hitting the ball into the ground.
What's waiting is not a lot of hits and a struckout 4.
Campanella goes to 3.
Up to face Borbol, making it on the grass and there's the fastball.
John Loeb right at the knees, a strike 1 to Campanella.
You can go back to your scorecards and you will see nothing but ground balls hit out Borbol when he is left.
Leading 2 to 1.
Up and throws and there's the ground ball.
End of the hole goes to Chepteon.
Up and throws over the first base.
And Perez makes a fine play backing off, keeping his right foot on the bag as he's left to have a good foul territory.
And there's 1-0.
In the opening, that will bring up Maddie Alou.
Who tonight has made 2 dramatic catches and is over 2 plus 1.
Should Cincinnati win this game, it's a surety.
We go on back to Cincinnati for a game on Saturday afternoon.
Alou is playing his condition.
And a Borbol fastball, which this time was up high, shoots a strike 1.
Banking in on the grass, well in front of the bag is Dirk, guarding against the possibility of a Maddie Alou puck.
But he's swinging and drowning into the right side.
Morgan is there and easily throws it up.
And Borbol has got that sinking fastball doing just what it's been doing for most of the year and for all of the World Series, getting the men to hit the ball into the ground.
Now Joe Rody, who popped out in the first when he was jammed, struck out swinging in the fourth, single to the sixth.
That's when the 2-0, the A's had 2 men on and got up, seen on the line drive, the right field.
And that's right.
The only A's run was on the team's end of home run in the second inning.
And of course, Cincinnati just scored 2 on the line drive double by Colton and their half of it's inning in the eighth.
Really the right-handed batter.
Borbol is ready and throws just like Tiffany.
One strike to Joe Rody.
2 on 6 hits, one error for Cincinnati, one on 5 hits and one error for Oakland, and Borbol is ready.
Right-handed throws, drops down a little bit and throws a breaking pitch, but it stays inside to Rody.
And it's ball one. One ball, one strike.
The leading man in fake hits, 181.
The man who led the national league in the majors with 198 is Pete Rose out in the left field.
Ball hit to the right side and it passed the road through both sides of the bag and then back.
And Rody has his second hit of the night.
And Bando, who is 2 for 2, plus the walk is coming up.
That's 2 with the ground ball.
Rose made a move, cut off her shoulder, then scored first and then go for the ball, but it was too late.
Bando, single to right in the second, walks in, takes away the fourth and single to left in the sixth.
All of that was off the left hander, down, juggled across, and now he's facing the right-hander, Borbol.
Rody has gone to the rousing back.
Down by her arm with 2 outs, tie run at first base.
Bando, the right-hander, steps in.
There's the picket outside. Ball one to Bando.
Irv Norton looks in to Dick Williams in the dugout and then looks to Bando, but Bando is looking back at Borbol.
Goes again and there's the ground ball for her.
George Dutton steps in on charges.
We'll go to first base with a close and it's got me out.
Borbol with that thinking fast ball gets them a run 20 at Noes and one left.
We go to the ninth inning of the fourth game of the World Series Cincinnati, late in the 2-1 over Oakland.
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Another one-one ball game as we've had four of them in the World Series to this point.
Three-two, two-one, one-nothing and tonight two-to-one in favor of the Reds.
Nice inning. Perez leads off for the Reds here again as Jeff.
Pérez Blue remains in there. It's his ball game to lose.
Perez, the right-hander, facing Blue, the left-hander for the first time and Pérez is ready and Pérez with the fastball is way high, ball one.
Perez in the first inning struck out swinging in the fastball.
Perez went deep in the fourth inning, catches the fastball and dropped a little Texas leader down the right-field line for a single and a seven.
One for three swings at a low-pitch from Blue and it's one ball, one strike.
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Puts something off that pitch and Perez drops it in front of Blue and right field for a base hit.
Blue changed up on Perez and Tony gets his second straight hit.
That is the second hit off Blue and the seven for Cincinnati.
Leadoff batter is on and here's Hal McRae who is one for three, a single in the second inning.
Now Bando comes over, Dave Hamilton and Raleigh Fingers continue to work into both ends.
It might be that we will see Fingers in pretty much of a hurry.
McRae is the right-hander. Manky is the right-hander.
Here comes Dick Williams. I think we're going to see Raleigh Fingers in even a bigger hurry than what I might have indicated to you.
If this three right-hander is coming up still in a one-run ball game, Williams, I feel sure, Al, is going to go for Raleigh Fingers.
Well, you know, I think they'll start talking about it also today after the game.
They'll talk to Blue about it and Williams, kind of a man like Vyna Broom who has been starting for two years.
Can he go to the bullpen? Can he throw every day? It's a new pattern, a new routine.
A starting pressure at least. I know with the Reds are off season.
They're in a type of groove where you are working every fifth day.
You fetch them and you take two days off and you throw on the side, but you have another off day and then you start again.
Here's a fellow like Vyta Blue, Jim. Can he start all season long as he did last year and as he did most of this season?
He did quite a bit in relief, but still he was basically a starter. Can you then send him down to the bullpen and expect him to be effective as a relief that you're working every day?
Well, he did such a great job nailing down the American League tennis.
At the age of the fifth game against Detroit in relief for John Odom.
Then of course he will lead Ken Holtzman in the first game of the World Series.
Last night when he came in he was not that effective.
Now Raleigh Fingers coming on has been in all three games, so this will make it all four games for him, and that's why he's been three and two-thirds innings.
He's only given up one hit, walked two, and has struck out six of the men that he has faced.
So Fingers the right-hander is out there and McCray is on deck.
And on first base is Perez. It is still a one-run ball game, two to one Cincinnati, and the Oakland A's would like to keep it a one-run ball game and try to tie it or win it in the ninth inning.
And they will have Pegan, Henrik, and Kenneth. So let's get that.
Fingers has been ready. McCray one for three, the single on the second steps in.
Mando moves in toward the edge of the grass at third base.
Fingers steps on and looks into Tennesse's catcher.
Perez is running and they've got him picked off. Throw the first down to second and they've got him.
Perez is not a particularly great baserunner. He fell down rounding third last night, was picked off by Country Miles.
One is three to four.
And McCray is now up there, still looking for the first pitch from Fingers.
And he gets it, a breaking ball, he swings through to miss.
Fingers right back and throws a fastball. A catch at the inside corner and McCray turns and sees the cranky model.
The plate on five. It's too straight. That's right.
Fingers started him out with a breaking pitch, had him swinging, then comes back with a fastball and another hand thrown on the inside corner of the plate.
Big tall, lousy fingers. Ready and drops down side-on and has him swinging in the base and hits it.
Down the ball three-fifths.
Now you can say in a manner of speaking, Al, that Fingers has thrown four times and has two outs.
What a job he's done. I know the Reds are most impressed and Dick Williams thinks he's as good as anybody in baseball.
The Reds, I think, would agree with that at this particular point.
Then it's McCray. 0 for 3. Last one ball right at the third base from Chalabando. Takes the first pitch outside.
Ball one. Two outs now on the ninth inning of a 2-1 ball game.
Rays with one more chance.
Popped up foul out of play. One more chance that is to take a three-game-to-one lead.
Otherwise, if Cincinnati holds on the ninth, two games to two, another game tomorrow afternoon, and then a quick,
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Curved ball just goes near. Two balls, one strike.
There won't be much sleep after tomorrow afternoon's game.
Two-and-one. Drops down again.
Back ball.
That's got a feel. Over goes Rudy. Over goes Henrik.
And it is Rudy who takes it for the outs.
Ball just seems to die out there. That's the second long drive.
It's a left-hander at the field that has sent in nothing more than an easy out.
Run. One hit. No errors. None left.
We go to the last of the ninth. Chester Matty leads open 2-1.
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Well, we go to the bottom of the ninth inning. Pedro Borbón working for the reds,
and David for Don Govett in the bullpen, left-hander Tom Hall right-hander Clay Cowell.
One defensive change for the reds, the new right fielder is state-guided,
so we go to the ninth inning. Hegan Lee dropped for the A's, bottom of the ninth.
Here again is Jim Finchett.
Tired out, Mike Hegan.
First time at bat in this, the fourth game of the World Series.
It's 329 on the year, most of the Finchett are 1-0-1-5 RBI.
Mike is over two in the third. Borbón is ready.
Throw it to the left-hander, and he gets it to the outside corner.
Play ball.
Cincinnati 2. Oakland 1.
Cincinnati wins this will at least be a sixth game series.
Ball grounded right to Menke at third base who is guarding the line.
Hit the other way, and he quickly throws it out, and there's one out of the ninth.
The one run for the A's, the fifth inning home run by Gene Kenneth.
The two runs for the Cincinnati Reds came in the eighth inning.
Coles, told the double inside the line with two outs,
scoring to Cephion and Morgan running all the way from first base
towards the second and the go-ahead run.
Gonzalo Marquez comes out to hit for the right-hander, George Henderson.
Marquez is also a pretty good hitter.
He was the man who built up quite a reputation down in the middle of Lakewood, Iowa.
He came up swinging, what an important playoff game for open eyes.
And there's one for two on the theory.
Left-hander batter, facing the right-hander, Borbón.
He comes up there to fling, takes the breaking pitch, W, inside corner, strike one.
And he's still guarding the line at third.
Well, that's one back at the back.
This is up the middle.
Cephion goes for it behind, and now let's it go through.
Morgan was on a collision course, but Marquez running from the left-hander
side of the batter's back, would have beaten out for the time-out.
The one on is on base, and Alan Lewis, one of the fastest hitters in baseball,
races to first to run for Marquez with Donnars-Gar.
And now, Dean Hennep, who hit his third world series home run tonight,
off Donnars, comes up with one out.
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Last of the night, 2-1, Cincinnati, Dennis, Nevada, Bourbon ready to throw.
Fight Japanese, Bourbon, with a taking back throw.
Alan Lewis always deflects the field.
The first world series that turned too hard was in the first game,
and Cincinnati's going in by the field on the first pitch, and it's going out.
This pitch is up high.
One ball, one strike.
Donnars-Gar runs him down, and now Dennis Lincoln is over to third base on foul.
Good fellow, good at that.
Races in, and say something to Bourbon.
And it might be, keep him on, keep him a little bit closer to the back.
Don't give Alan Lewis such a big jump.
One ball, one strike.
Dennis steps back in, Bourbon is ready again.
Now he looks over to Alan Lewis.
Races on him on.
He's not running.
The pitch is up high.
Two balls, one strike.
The second pitch is Luke Rock to St. Louis, Senate.
Dickens, Clark, the Anderson out again.
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Donnie Betts has got a great arm for the Cincinnati Sandean,
but I have more trouble against Sandean because the entire pitching staff
keeps me closer to first base than does the Cincinnati pitching staff.
Anderson is coming out, and here comes the man out of the bullpen.
Now, Michael, know your figures starting out when they're in trouble.
Clay Carroll is coming in.
He's the man who set the Major League record this year.
Most saved, a total of 37.
A very confident fellow, probably walked in from the bullpen faster than any man in baseball.
He was ready.
He was throwing in the eighth inning.
He was throwing here in the ninth inning.
He was warm, and he was just watching Spocky as Anderson made his way to the mound,
and Spocky gave the sign,
Calisac one more toss, and strives in from the pen.
So the Hawk, as he is known in Cincinnati because of his facial features,
is asked to come out and save this game, which belongs to Don Gullett.
Bourbon, just before he threw that last pitch,
Dick Williams came out of the eighth dugout questioning Bourbon's motion.
He was talking to Frank Umott, the plate up file,
and he was contending that Bourbon was not coming set at the belt long enough,
and that it should be a ball, but to no avail.
Umott said that it was legal, but that's not of any particular consequence right now.
Pedro is out of the ballgame and Clay Carroll on the pitch.
He worked in relief last night, pitched the ninth inning after Jack Billingham shot the ninth.
He went three and all on Epstein, and then Carroll came on to get Epstein on a 3-1 pitch to ground out.
Bando hit a soft liner for the second out, and he got hundred.
So tonight he comes on with a winning run of the plate,
and it counts two balls and one strike on Gene Tennes.
Carroll says he's ready.
Lewis leads off with a good fake.
Got him back toward right field, he's out of the ball, and he was over near the right field line.
And Clay Carroll steps in.
Two balls, one strike, the tenor's too late.
Lewis is not going.
The pitch is down low, and it is three balls and one strike.
And Clay Carroll yells something in at Frank Umont.
Now, Umont is an American League umpire.
And remember, the American League is a high strike zone.
The National League is a low strike zone.
Might have been an Ashley strike.
There's an American League umpire down there.
It's just a low pitch.
Three and one.
Down ball.
Work that spin the hole.
Out of the ball.
Go down the center base and stop there.
Lays the man alive.
The men at first and second and one up.
And Don Mincher coming up to pitch it for the cleaners.
Mincher, in the 1955 World Series, as I recall, as the Minnesota Twins played the Los Angeles Dodgers,
Holbers off Don drives in.
Mincher was an original Washington tenor.
Went with the old tenors when they went to Minnesota.
Since then, it's bounced around a little bit, including the A's before.
And what mid-season official came from the Texas Rays is class II, the Oakland A's.
And Mincher has not yet been up in this World Series.
Mincher doing the season at 216, six home runs and 44 RBI.
Very strong right-hander.
Or rather left-hander, facing the right-hander, Clay Carroll.
Both old teams are busy in this 2-1 game.
One out.
Most out of second.
Tennis on it's first.
Pitch is long away and it's one ball to Mincher.
Mincher steps out, says something to Umott.
Umott's coming out, walking around the plate.
Around Vents, they're now circled and stands behind Vents and Vents is going to step back in.
Angel Manuel is swinging a bat on deck.
The pitch to Mincher, long drive, it's in the middle.
This is a ball to Mincher, it's a fast speeder off.
It's all down in the outfield.
Going all-out.
They're first to third.
The winning run is a third base with one out.
A five ball to win the ball game.
A base that could certainly win the ball game.
The third from out of infield comes in.
Clay Carroll, a man who's been the fager for the Reds all year.
Has come here and given us back-to-back base hits with one out and a man on.
And the last of the night, entrusted to the 2-1 lead.
It's now 2-2.
Nick Whitton's walked out to talk to his third base coach.
He's going to be a good guard.
Going into what he must do, depending upon where the ball is hit.
Manuel is ready to come to bat.
He has dropped in the bat in the World Series yet.
He has played a lot regularly.
It's 2-46, five home runs, 32 RBIs.
He's a right-handed batter.
Mincher is at first base.
There may be a pitt runner for him.
He's not having any speed.
And apparently we're going to get a pitt runner for him.
And that will be Blue Moon Odom, who was used as a pitt runner 28 times during the regular season.
Mincher gets a hand as he tops the top of the field.
And on the way to the dugout, he's tied the game with a single.
No error on Odom when he slips and fell.
As everybody was running on the line drive, the lights didn't appeal.
Odom got a little score easily from second to fourth and Kendall's race to third.
Now Odom takes his place at first base.
You're A-Dare, the coach there, checks.
The Cincinnati infield comes in.
If a run scores, Oakland will lead three games to one in the most dramatic of the World Series games since last night.
This has been a dumb series.
All by one run, three to two on two home runs by Kenneth, two to one on a home run by Rudy.
And then last night, the Reds falling down to save the only run, two to one run, one to nothing.
We are two to two.
Mangel stepped in.
The strategy meetings are over.
Carroll, a big man from the bullpen, a dog around the face Mangel.
Up the other side of the post, a long fly ball with score.
Kenneth and third base.
A drop ball to the infield.
Oakland wins the game.
The Oakland Hays go wild.
Mangel has won it.
Out the infield, not been drawn in.
There's a set possibility of a double play ball.
The ball, the infield was drawn in.
The ball almost jammed.
Mangel, he hit it off the fifth to the right side.
It got through.
Kenneth scored his second run of the night.
Oakland leads three games to one, having won this ball game.
It's all over.
The final score, Oakland three runs on ten hits and one error.
Cincinnati two runs, seven hits and one error.
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The Oakland A's have moved into a commanding three-to-one lead in the World Series
as they come from behind and dramatically beat the Cincinnati Reds tonight.
Three to two, the total for the A's, three runs, ten hits, and one error.
Eight runners left on base for the Reds, two runs, seven hits, and one error.
They stand at five.
Raleigh Fender gets the win and plays down the losing picture.
To review the scoring, in the fifth inning, Gene Tenerty, the home run,
to make it a one-to-nothing Oakland.
It's stayed that way until the eighth inning.
Dave Concepcion led off with an infield left, Lillian Hobbie a sacrifice to the second.
Then Pete Lowe's rounded out with Concepcion going to third.
At that point, Ken Holtzman was lifted.
By the blue was called in.
He walked Joe Morgan, and then Bobby Coleman doubled a right to drive his two runs
to make it two-to-one Cincinnati.
Pedro Borbon worked the eighth inning.
Gordon Radd set the A's down.
In the ninth, he retired the first base by keeping on a ground ball,
but that was the only option the Reds were to get in the inning.
Gonzalo Marquez came up, rounded a single to center.
Then the count went to two-and-one on Gene Tenerty.
Rocky Anderson went to the mound, lifted Borbon, brought in Clay Carroll.
Gene Tenerty rounded a single into left field with Alan Lewis, the fence runner, going to second.
Then Don Mincer, a fence runner, came up, flung on the first pitch,
put it into right center field for a base hit to score.
The fence runner Lewis to tie the game, and it up and Angel Landgwell,
as a pitch hitter for the first time in the series, he gets the first pitch on the ground into right field.
And before anybody knew it, the A's had four straight hits and a victory in game number four.
So the Reds will have to become one of the few clubs in history to lead down three games to one
and take three in a row if they are to be the world champions with game five.
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