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The Cincinnati Reds faced the Oakland A's at Oakland Alameda County Coliseum for Game 5 of the 1972 World Series on October 20th.
The A's led the best of seven series, three games to one.
This is the NBC Radio broadcast of Game 5 featuring announcers Jim Simpson and Al Michaels.
Well, the gentleman to my right, the room I have worked in support of Japan and on the World Series, is the voice of the Cincinnati Reds.
And his team is down three games to one, and obviously he's got some thoughts about that. Here's Al Michaels.
Thank you, Jim, and hi everybody. And of course the Reds have their backs to the world today.
They need a win today and then a win tomorrow if we go back to Cincinnati and a win again on Sunday in Game 7's Take It All.
And they've become one of the few teams in World Series history to do it if they could come back with three games to one deficit.
Just to review what's happened in the World Series so far, Saturday, Game 1 at Cincinnati, Gene Tennis hit two home runs to account for all the scoring.
Ken Holtzman, Raleigh Fingers, and Vita Blue held the Reds to a fair of runs and the A's won Game 1, 3-2, with Holtzman getting the win, Gary Nolan taking the loss.
Then on Sunday, today belonged in good measure to campus Hunter and Joe Rudy as the A's made it two in a row at Riverfront Stadium, leading the Reds 2-1.
Rudy hit a home run which was the deciding run. It came in the third inning.
Hunter, meanwhile, pitched eight shutout innings, gave up a run in the ninth inning, and then Raleigh Fingers came on to get the save.
Final score was Oakland 2, Cincinnati 1.
Monday was a scheduled off day, Tuesday of course. Game 3 was scheduled and we were right up till game time when it started to rain.
The game was postponed because of wet grounds and Game 3 was played on Wednesday night, and the Reds picked up their only victory in the World Series,
scoring a run in the seventh inning, and back of Jack Billingham and Clay Carroll, the Reds flanked the A's 1-0.
Blue Moon Odom was the losing pitcher.
Then yesterday, game number four, last night, and the A's with two runs in the ninth inning came from behind.
The Reds 3-2, and they did it with one out.
Base is empty. Gonzalo Marches came up, single the center.
Gene Tennis single the left.
Then two pinch hitters, Don Mincher and Angel Mangrel came up, and Easton the first pitch singled.
Mincher tying the game, Mangrel winning the game, and the A's had a dramatic 3-2 victory.
Today would have been Gary Nolan's turn for the Reds, except Gary has been modded through the latter part of the season with a sore shoulder and arm,
and so Nolan cannot make it to the post today. Gary is finished for the 1972 season.
He will not pitch again in the World Series, and the next time Nolan will pitch will be in Florida in the spring of 1973.
So instead of risking it with Gary Nolan, who is unable to make it, and instead of going with Ross Gimbley,
who could conceivably pitch today, Mark Anderson has called on right-hander Jim McLaughlin.
If he is like anybody else on the Reds staff, he is probably closer to Jack Billingham than any other pitcher.
He's a sinkerball pitcher. He's got a good slider. He needs good control, and he needs to keep the ball down like Billingham must.
And of course Billingham gave a strong example of what he is like at his very best on Wednesday.
It was Billingham who went eight innings, Clay Carroll picked up in the ninth inning, and Jack got the win as the Reds' CCA is 1-0.
So McLaughlin is that type of pitcher. He is what you might call sneaky fast or deceptively fast.
He is not really a strikeout pitcher, and the average roll may be six every nine innings,
but of those six, four or five are usually called third strikes.
So he is deceptively fast, and of course the Reds are hoping that he's at his best or close to his best today,
and can work long enough so that even if he's only able to go five or six, Pedro Borbon, Clay Carroll, and Tommy Hall are ready to pick up at a moment's notice.
Meanwhile, the Reds are taking a look at Catholic hunters. They saw enough of Hunter on Sunday, I think,
and are hoping that the experience gained from looking at Hunter, watching him for almost the entire game on Sunday will pay off today.
He is a man that very few of the Reds have faced before, and I know some remarks were made by the Reds that they were not impressed with his stuff that much,
but we'll see what happens today now that the Reds have had a chance to take a look at Catholic hunters.
If we go to a 16, it'll be played tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock Eastern Day Lifetime at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
Ross Grimsley will pitch for the Reds, and Rick Williams has announced that if there is a 16,
light up blue will get the start tomorrow for Oakland.
If the Reds win today and win tomorrow, we then go to a seventh game, which will be played Sunday at Riverfront Stadium.
Again, game time, 1 o'clock Eastern Day Lifetime. Jack Billingham will start on Sunday in game seven for the Reds.
It will be Blue Moon Odom for the A's.
So far, the Shurys dominated by pitching, dominated by really a lack of hitting on the part of both clubs.
As we look at the stats, the Reds have averaged a run and a half and six hits for each of the four games.
The A's, meanwhile, slightly better. They've averaged two runs a game.
So the Reds have felled the A's to eight runs in four games, the opponent has downed three games to one in the World Series.
The Reds have been introduced, and they are now set to introduce the Oakland A's with Nick Williams,
The manager taking his place along the third-base line.
The World Series sold out in Oakland, and I know, Jim, there was some conjecture when the A's beat the Tigers in the American Lakes playoffs.
A lot of people were wondering if they would sell out in Oakland, or would it be an embarrassing situation with maybe 40,000?
But they were sold out before any of the three games started, and they did it in a hurry.
A lot to underrate the great game of baseball and the obvious attraction of the World Series is,
but there might be some among those here that would like to say to their children or grandchildren,
we sat in on the first professional championship in the history of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay area.
That's right. In the game of baseball, the Giants were in the World Series in 1952,
but in the game of professional basketball, professional hockey, professional football,
there has never been a major championship in the San Francisco-Oakland area.
Oakland can put it off today, Al.
Dad-based hunter going for the A's, Jermyn Loughlin for the Reds.
As far as hitting is concerned in this series, we talked about the lack of it.
There have been a couple of individual standouts, however, for the Reds.
Tony Perez, the top hitter, threw four games. He's 7 for 14.
And Johnny Bench has had a good series. Bench is 5 for 14.
But the big thing with the Reds, and we've talked about it on each of the broadcasts,
is that the first three men have been unable to get on with any consistency.
If you look at the stats, and that's all you have to look at,
Pete Rose, the leadoff hitter, 1 for 15. Joe Morgan is 0 for 13.
Bobby Coleman is 3 for 16.
So Bench and Perez have delivered, but there's been nobody on base when they have.
For the Reds, their leading hitter in the series, average-wise,
would be Dick Green, who is 4 for 11.
Joe Rudy has the most hits. He's 5 for 15.
Gene Tennis, of course, has four hits, and three of them have been home runs.
He hit only five during the regular season.
He has three in the World Series, two on Saturday in Game 1,
and one yesterday to give the A's a 1-0 lead.
Right now, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, located behind second base,
and the National Anthem.
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or National Anthem, and we'll be back with a lineup of great players.
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The worst place is to find yourself, mostly.
You find yourself and you find your own hangups and you try to correct them.
Actually grow up is what I boil down to.
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The lineup for today's game for the Cincinnati Reds,
Pete Rose leading off in left field,
Joe Morgan at second base,
Bobby Tolan hitting third in center,
Johnny Bench in the cleanup spot catching.
At first base, Tony Perez batting fifth,
Dennis Menke at third base,
Jason Geronimo in right field, Geronimo hitting seventh,
Darrell Cheney the shortstop,
and Jim McLaughlin fishing.
First ball being thrown out, back of the eighth dugout now by the president of the American League, Joe Cronin.
The lineup for the A's, Bert Campaneras at shortstop leading off,
Matty Alou in right field,
Joe Rudy in left field hitting third,
Mike Getshene at first base,
Sal Bando at third base,
George Kendrick in center batting sixth,
The catcher Gene Tennant,
Dick Green at second,
right-hander Jim Cappdich-Hunter catching,
Bob Engel of the National League is displayed on fire,
Bill Haller of the American at first,
Chris Pellicudis of the National at second,
Jim Honachuk of the American League at third,
Mel Steiner, National, Van der Lefse Align,
Frank Humont, American on the right field line.
Bill Grenier takes the beer.
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Cappdich-Hunter, crappy fellow who won 21 games this year,
21-7 with the A's.
They're a big winner, making his way to the mound.
Seems to pitch well when the pressure is on,
and certainly is on today.
He's got a chance to nail down the World Championship for the Oakland A's
if they try to win it in five,
and they'll try to keep the red, the first three,
especially off the base pass, and Hunter hosting Blue Fingers
and the red, Blue Moon Odom.
They've done it all series long, but the red has different ideas,
trying to bounce back, trying to send the World Series back to Cincinnati
for a six game tomorrow.
Hunter against McLaughlin, and for the play-by-play,
at the start of today's fifth game of the World Series, Jim Simpson.
Thanks, Darrell.
Hunter, the second game, worked eight and two first,
only gave up one run, six hits, took out six, and lost three.
In the playoffs against Detroit, he shot at both the first and fourth games,
got no decisions, at 15 in the third inning, six,
allowed only two runs, 10 hits, and a 1.17 to earn an average.
So just a little bit more than a run in two games against Detroit,
and the one against Cincinnati on the average.
Steve Rose, prepare to stand as we pause 10 seconds for station identification.
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This is SCN Radio at 790 and 1420.
Jim Simpson with Al Michaels back in Oakland, top of the first-
fifth game of the series, Rose batting left-handed against the right-hander,
Hunter, as the only hit among the Rose, Morgan, Nolan trio
to the top three in the rest batting order when they met last Sunday.
Hunter swings on the first-fifth, Rose does, then to Luke Dewey.
The right fielder is looking up, and it is a home run.
One minute opening Cincinnati.
As Al told you, both Medcure and Marquez last night,
swung on the first-fifth to win the ball game in the last of the ninth innings,
and Al also starts off pointing on the first-fifth and hitting a home run.
That's the key, of course it's the key thing to hit the first pitch of the game for a home run,
but especially so Jim being as a reds, we're a very down ball club.
Last night and this morning, very down.
Yo, Morgan, all for 13, that's Jim, and there's a strike.
One spot needs to have a thing that applies to capture a hunter.
That is, the plate is 17 inches wide, 15 inches long for the hitter.
I'll take the inch on either side.
The breaking pitch is right back to capture a hunter who throws him off.
Battling up Bobby Sollen, who's double last night,
drove in the only two runs that Cincinnati has.
He rolls as Jeff scored his first run, driven in his first run of the series.
Morgan has only scored one run, driven in none.
He led the majors that run, scored, and walked,
and Sollen hasn't scored at all yet, but did drive in two last night.
Another nothing on the road home run.
Catfish Hunter on the non, one of the great competitors in the game of baseball,
as the American League in percentage of wins, 75% of the games he won.
Sollen, that's not a chance, and Bandos in on the grass,
breaking pitch misses on the outside corner.
Hunter has a fine fastball, but if you want to talk about a pitching, it is controlled.
He nips the corner, ready back with the fastball, swinging a miss.
He's got it up by Sollen, it's one ball, one strike.
Set it out Bobby with a breaking pitch, the miss came back with a fastball.
One ball, one strike.
Catfish just doesn't like the ball in the middle of the plate,
but he got it in the middle of the plate to Pete Rose, and he hit it out of here.
Popped up by Sollen, cap it out of the green, cap it out,
he's got it at the edge of the grass, and goes for the second out.
The roll started things with a long, long run, but Morgan and Sollen have drawn weekly,
and popping to the shortstop.
And that will bring up Johnny Betts, again with nobody on.
Betts has no RBIs, he led the majors in RBIs, no home runs, he led the majors in home runs,
has fired this, but has been forced to lead off an inning eight times in the fingers four games.
Catfish kind of throws him the breaking pitch, he's got the outside corner, strike one, Betts looking.
Tony Perez, dealing on Betts.
A's win it today, it's all over. Cincinnati would love to go back to Cincinnati for game six tomorrow.
Fastball just misses on the outside corner, it's one ball, one strike.
Perez was saying that Hunter did not overwhelm them, but Hunter is not an overwhelming pitcher.
He is a competitor, and he hits the edges of the plate.
And back, and there's one foul, back over the screen, back to home plate, one ball, two strikes.
Not a hot day in Oakland at all, nor is it chilly, temperature in below 16, it is overcast, the lights have been on for some time.
This was scheduled an off day, but the run out on Tuesday meant that we had to play today.
Back with a breaking pitch, and Betts goes down swinging.
One run on the road, home run, that was the only hit, no errors, and none left.
We go to the last of the first, Cincinnati 1 and Oakland helping.
Ah, no score, this machine's fixed.
Listen to your conscience, you'd better retire from gambling, kid.
If you'd get off my shoulder, I could get better English on a pinball.
You can't retire unless you're a realist.
Oh, stop bugging me, who wants to retire or realist anyway?
In Cincinnati there is no civilian fine institution or company that can equal service retirement.
I'm young, I can make it.
Civilians retire at 65 if they're lucky, that's their gamble.
You can retire at 38, either work on the outside or get retirement pay.
Come on, baby, score, score.
You're lost, you're tempted.
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Debson at the Oakland Coliseum, game five of the 1972 World Series,
led leading 1-0, Pete Rose is the first pitcher of the game over the right center field fence for a home run.
But then campus Hunter, he got Morgan on a check swing grounder back to the mound,
Bobby Toland popped out, Hunter then struck out back.
And now Jim McLaughlin goes to work on Campanaro, Jalou, and Rudy in Houston.
McLaughlin, nine and eight on the year, last hit one score this inning on our third of the night,
The last time he started, September the 23rd, and he lost the ball game, lasting only two and a third an inch.
And having been down on the bench so much, one of the most difficult things for any pitcher,
with no work at all, to try to come back and have his control.
Campanaro's right-handed batter hits the first 6,000-dollar playoff for the right.
Manke at third base, well in on the grass, for the very speedy Campi Campanaro.
So it's three for 15.
Jim Nujeres, no RBIs, and Campi has scored no runs.
He tried to steal a Johnnie Betts once, but the ball dropped right back to McLaughlin on the mound, and he throws out Campanaro.
Battling up Matty Jalou, Jalou has the distinction of playing in both World Series games,
played in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay area.
1962, he was a member of the San Francisco Giants.
Here it is 1972, he is a member of the Oakland Afros.
One to 13 in the first.
One to nothing the rest, we are in the last of the first.
Big curveball, and that is way outside.
Just not outside, Ben Shethard reached way out to get the breaking ball that never came in.
They play a loop around to the left, and there's a ground ball to the left side,
James DeChuck's up there and throws on and has the lead by Clement.
Puffman has both Puff and Harrison, a little hitting the ball into the ground.
Joe Rudy hitting three for 15.
Five for 15, the last time that Rudy was in the ball game with Jim Papsichutter,
he hit the home run that won it for Hunter.
The other run in that game was driven in by the pitcher, Jim Hunter, who is quite a competitor.
Rudy, right-handed batter, 3-0-5 during the regular season.
As Laughlin, of course, was a former American Lakers with the California Angels.
Rudy with a closed stand, they're playing him straight away today,
and there's a fastball that catches the outside corner.
Normally they've been playing Rudy pulled around a little bit to the right,
but with McLaughlin in there today, they're thinking that Rudy is liable to pull the ball a little bit more,
so they're playing him straight away.
With two outs, Rudy up, Menke has gone back off the edge of the grass at the first base.
Curveball from McLaughlin misses down low, one ball, one strike.
They're doing nothing to score.
Irv Noran coaching over third base to the A's and Jerry Adair at first base.
Back with a fastball, it's Ron Powell down the right field line and hits off the wall
and goes to the fair-chair, where Cesar Geronimo will have to retrieve it off the warning track.
Now McLaughlin is ahead of Rudy, one ball, two strikes.
And now, two strikes down, Nolan has moved over to the right center field
and has his arms outstretched looking at Johnny Bench.
And it looks as though he's signaling to Bench why he was playing him more straight away.
Now he has moved to the right center field.
Awaken perhaps by that line drive foul on the right field line.
Mike with a breaking pitch and Rudy strikes out of McLaughlin, not having pitched him nearly a month.
Gets the side one, two, three.
At the end of one, it's Cincinnati one and hopefully nothing.
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Return the address and ZIP codes.
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Remember, mail moves the country and ZIP code is the main one.
The death letter office is the main one.
Honorary to Drona Perez who leads everybody and hits the mystery.
714 hitting 500.
Very intimidating right-handed batter.
Honorary right-handed pitcher throws and there's the drive down the line in left field.
It may make it in the corner.
It is bouncing off the wall.
Rudy's there.
He's going for a second, Rudy drops the ball and in the second base goes Perez.
Both ball hitting.
A double for Tony Perez.
I didn't even have the chance to say that on Sunday in Cincinnati Perez intimidated Hudders.
He was two for three plus to walk and scored the only one scored against Caster Hudders.
One or nothing in this game and now Minkin is the batter.
Rudy has looked down to Alex Graham as the coach of third base.
Coach Sugar is the red coach over at first.
Red's trying to get back in the series.
They lead one to nothing and they've got a man on here and that breaking pitch just misses the corner outside.
Hudders, known for his control, has made a couple of pitches today that the reds have jumped all over.
Rowe is hitting his first pitch for a home run in the first and Perez is pulling it sharply down the left field line in the third.
He's got a big run, this pitch is outside, he has not hit the corner and it is 2-0.
As quick as Mark Anderson might be to go to the bullpen today, managers equating might be the same.
They don't want to go back to Cincinnati.
Hudders looks back at Perez, the runner is ready and throws and there's a swinging strike.
Two balls, one strike.
Frankie can hurt you with the long ball on occasion.
Hunter has been working him strictly to the outside corner.
He missed twice and that swinging strike was on the outside corner of the play.
Hunter ready?
Throws and there's a bun up the middle.
He's going to first base as he took a look at third and the sacrifice works as Perez moves into third base.
Hunter took a quick look, might have had the man perhaps at third base and went for the sure out.
Geronimo getting 0-91 and now Bando's coming on to say something to Hunter and the EMC was talking among themselves.
Geronimo 1-11, one RBI in the series.
Let's have a batter.
Reds expect great things of this youngster, part of that big Houston Cincinnati trade that worked out so well to both teams.
Bando's been on the grass.
Geronimo's there swinging at a breaking pitch, strike one.
Only one of the ballgames, a late off home run on the top of the first five, Pete Rose.
Only a second hit of the series and the first time he's scored a run or driven in the rough.
Out of looking into his catcher, Gene Tennant now stares over at Perez at third base and now Rose is striking an out of there fastball high and dry with one ball, one strike.
Geronimo who's one base hit.
A quarter run also hit a vicious line drive.
Helling it to right over in Cincinnati but they nevertheless play him around to the left to hit to the opposite field.
On her back and there's the ball popped up down the left field line.
Over comes Rudy still running.
In foul territory has it for us.
Jost and now there's two out and Perez does not challenge the armor of Rudy.
And that'll bring up Darrell Jeaney.
Jeaney over six in the series.
Quick hitter, fast left hander that throws against the right hander's hunter.
And though is signaling in to Williams in the dugout to see how they're going to play.
And this is the way they're going to play.
They're going to put Darrell Jeaney on and get to the pitcher McLaughlin.
It has been a month since McLaughlin has batted in the ball game.
Not a bad hitter for a pitcher, 126 lifetimes, has had three lifetime home runs.
There's ball three now to Darrell Jeaney, Perez over there at third base.
Van both standing right alongside of him and now ball four.
Jeaney takes first with two out, one is at the corners and here comes the pitcher Jim McLaughlin.
Now tennis, Van Bell and Hunter, you will find that Ray Jimfield confers quite a bit.
They have all kinds of plays, all kinds of contingencies,
and they never let anybody just remember what they're supposed to do.
They always get together and decide what it is they're going to do.
Jim McLaughlin, for example, tried to squeeze home the run and made it safely that way.
McLaughlin, right-handed batter, right-handed pitcher, he's in and ready.
One-to-nothing to Reds, we're on the top of the second.
The crowd rather quiet here, the Reds are threatening again, and there's a breaking pitch at the center field.
And they're coming on fast, still coming, and they get there and hit it.
On the dead run.
No runs on, one hit, no errors, and two to the left.
Ignore now that the last of the second inning is still, since 91, an open and nothing.
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Along with Jim Simpson, Al Michaels of the Oakland Commiseum, Reds on top, one to nothing,
and Jim McLaughlin who made the last out in the second, Catfish Hunter working out of trouble,
gets set to face Epstein, Bandell, and Hendrick in the bottom of the second inning.
Here again is Jim.
Mike Epstein has been 0-10 in the series.
He's walked four times.
Left-hander batter dropped down into batting order last night.
Again, for left-hander, Don Gullis.
Now again, batting clean up the spots, normally used by Reggie Jackson,
The fine-slugging center fielder of the A's who was injured in the final game of the playoffs in the top of the series.
Epstein ready, and he gets a breaking pitch down low, ball one.
Bob Engel, you know everybody has things that they like to remember in their careers in their life.
Bob Engel, as a national league, is working his first World Series game calling balls and strikes in his career.
Down low with the pitch, gets 2-0.
So Bob Engel will remember this day, October the 20th, 1972.
1-0 in the score.
Epstein's deep in the batter's box, looks over the pitches a little bit more than most power players have.
And he looks at that one and it's just big stay outside.
3-0 to Epstein.
Epstein looks down the north.
He has a lot of power, led the A's in an all-munt.
Now, after all, it is too low, McCall from Michigan low.
So we're talking about when you've been on the bench for a long time, McCall is the hardest thing to get back.
He's often habit in the first.
Four dip, he's on 4-50.
And Al Salabando, team captain, 3-4-15 of the series.
And two of those dips last night.
That's it.
Let's read it by a run.
Rose is home run.
Eleventh man in the World Series, just to lead off a game of the home run, the last man to do it, was Tommy Achey of the Mets three years ago.
Down low and out of the strike zone.
Low and away.
And that's five great pitches.
And they're leaving Pedro Bourbon.
They're taking fastball pitches.
Crossover warm-up.
People have the reputation of being the quickest hook in the upper Midwest.
The quickest hook in the south, Sparky Anderson will use that.
It was pretty good today.
Yankee Mississippi gets the many-counts to go.
The drive to center field, Bobby Dorn going back toward the warning flag.
Back up is there now.
And as the Mets team was nearly at second base, they must hop back to first.
Long drive by Salabando.
And that will bring up George Hendricks.
One for 13.
Hendricks, the 23-year-old youngster, has short flight.
He's in center field because Reggie Jackson is injured, and he'll get a hand because of the fine job he did with Steven Aude and the runners at first and third running.
When he rakes in, it takes the Gatlin sinking line drive to him the second inning.
One to nothing to risk.
One out.
Edson is first base.
Gray is holding him off to fix the Hendricks' strike at the knees.
Dorn again, Ed looks good.
The manager's thick with him.
He's right on the top step of that dugout.
Ed and Jolies are shooting out beyond the dugout roof.
The Gatlin ready.
Jolies breaking this.
Gray and Low, one ball, one strike.
Robon continues to walk, and the Cincinnati bulls it, and now the A's fans come alive a little bit.
Their team is down one to nothing.
As the scoreboards begin to shake, go, go, go.
McLaughlin is ready for the one-one pitch pass ball.
It hits about two feet in front of the plate and bounced up to Johnny Benson.
Two balls, one strike.
Robon takes some of the dirt out of his spike.
Yanks on his knee, wipes his hands, steps on and looks in the bench.
Two balls, one strike.
That's team not particularly fast, but nevertheless they check him over their first base with a throw to Perez, and Mike was only a few feet off the bat.
The Hendricks swung around to the right to hit to the opposite field.
Here's the pitch, and he hits to the opposite field.
Down the right to your line, over comes Geronimo, and it's near the line and fouled by about five or six feet.
Geronimo never got to it, but Hendricks laced that ball the opposite way.
Two balls, two strikes for George Hendricks.
Dean Tennant, who has hit three home runs for this World Series, he's on deck.
Two and two, McLaughlin's going in.
Robon continuing to work in the bullpen.
McLaughlin now ready.
Fast ball down the middle.
It has knocked up the third base line.
McLaughlin comes over, throws the first base and loses the ball.
That's the running state.
I don't know if he would have had Hendricks or not, but the ball simply flipped out of McLaughlin's hand and bounced to the left of the mound.
Here is a base hit.
Down the second is Epstein, and here is Dean Tennant, home run last night.
Two home runs in the first game.
Only the second setter and Roller Coors into the hit three and a little three, and Tennant steps in.
The other one will be there back in 1956 against the Barks.
One to nothing Cincinnati, the tying run for the A, down at second base with one out.
There is the possibility of a double play, and the Reds are looking for it.
McLaughlin looks in, throws to Tennant, it's high.
Nearly up in the eye, one ball.
Tennant's right handed batter, leans out over the plate.
McLaughlin ready, throws, tying away, and it's 2-0 to Tennant.
It's green on Beckett's, Dennis Winkie dashes into McLaughlin.
In McLaughlin's problems, you can almost anticipate, perhaps he'll get out of this, perhaps he'll go all the way,
but he has not started a game in nearly a month.
He's only hit one inning in nearly a month, and control is something you just don't have every day, even when you pitch in regular rotation.
2-0. McLaughlin is ready, throws, one ball left in, back to the blue.
Home run, reports for United, clean the line up.
Dean Tennant, knowing that McLaughlin was in trouble,
he could not get the ball over the plate.
He just picked up on a thoughtful fastball and was right down the middle and pulled it.
No doubt about it, throws went to the wall, but it was long gone.
And the age that can wrap it up today leads 3-1.
And here's Dick Green with one out.
The ball controls, it's popped up, behind home plate.
Beckett takes off his mask, but doesn't get chasing the balls in the seat.
Tennant's hit five home runs all year long.
That's his fourth of his World Series, and he wanted to bring him to the lineup with his bats.
Dave Duncan on the bench is the finer field in his country.
Her ball misses the inside degree.
One ball, one strike.
Paper has been thrown up and is fluttering down from many portions of the stands.
The A's field, perhaps not likely so.
At least their fans do it all over. Ground ball, make it back into the third base,
goes on over the first and lets the second out.
And that will bring up Jim Casticella, who now comes up with a 2-1 lead.
And in his last 13 games, Potter has hit safely an 11 of those 13
and tells a 2.26 lifetime batting average.
In the second game of the World Series, he goes in the post-run of the ball game
with a base hit.
So they respect Connor and blame the ball a little bit.
Really straight away, but stated ever so slightly towards the left.
Breaking fifth, catches the outside corner.
Dean Dennis has tied a World Series home run for four home runs in a series.
Waiting here for the other three. Breaking fifth, catches the inside corner.
The other three, in 1926, Babe Ruth, in 1928, Lou Gehrig, in 1952, Duke Snyder.
Snyder did it again and then Hachbauer in 1958.
Potter strikes out.
But the A's get a hand as they lead the field.
Three runs score on two base hits, including the fouling home run of Dean Dennis.
The A's are nonetheless. And at the end of two, Oakland three, Cincinnati one.
Black is beautiful.
It takes a lot of people, so it's red.
Help them feed, help them feed them.
And brown to other people, working on the fields, changing the shoes and lights.
These rules, it takes every color.
Help the people on the team.
Help other people.
That's what it's all about.
Doing their best.
When they have to turn the people to turn around.
Help other people from discrimination.
And moving out of the way, and beyond the way.
The temptation.
People, putting it all together.
Help the people. That's the score.
Help other people.
That's what it's all about.
Doing their best.
They give a card to the most valuable player in the world's jury each year.
And I'd say at this point here, Dean Dennis, well, he's almost in the driver's seat.
Out here, Steve Rose, he led off and forward on the first hit from Hunter.
And then he comes in on the grass to third, realizing he'll red-feed on and Rose will try to get on.
And told this one, a breaking pitch to right field for Bay 6.
Rose again, first ball hitting, and Hunter's control today, even though he has only lost one man about intentionally,
he's not been finding those corners.
But there's a saying about chapter 100, you've got to get him early.
If you do not get to him early, tell him you get to him.
The jury's a season-long earned run average, third best in the American League of 2.04.
And it's allowed only a little bit better than a run, and he's shot the two playoff games against Detroit
and then the first World Series game that he's hit.
Rose leading off, here's Morgan, who is over 14 in the series.
He's in there, and he pops this one up to judge centerfield.
Cappadarros and Green are back, Green takes it, and that's one up.
And he will repeat again, that's Dean Sennett, who says Howell was talking about the possibility
of him being the most viable player.
You never know what's going to happen in the World Series, but at least Howell, he's got his name on their record books,
and when you scan down the four home runs that are series in two names like,
Ruth, Gary, Snyder, and Bauer, Sennett's going to have a pretty good winner and a pretty good life.
Here's Tolan, pops out.
The Cappadarros, that short shot back in the first, swings on the first pitch,
and that's the best looking one at that ball we've seen.
He blew that right by Tolan.
Strike one, the Bobby Tolan.
Trito on the score, we're at the top of the third, the A's lead it.
If they win the day, the series is all over.
Ready with the pitch, then puts something off first, then again Tolan foul-hits it.
And it's two strikes.
One ball, two strikes.
From now, chatting brightly here in Oakland, one of the rare talents that has,
this is the drive to left field, back goes Rudy to the warning track, standing on the warning track,
and leaps up over, long drive to the opposite field by Bobby Tolan on a one-two pitch.
That's a fast ball, he just didn't get all the way around.
We call 30 seconds for a station identification.
Every Sunday evening.
Well, when manager Dick Williams called that fast ball,
Tolan not completely get around on, goes hard at left field, he got his bullpen working.
Now the batter is Johnny Bench, and he's up with a man on base.
That's been a rarity in this period for Johnny Bench.
He's got Rose at first with two outs.
Bob Walker and Dave Hamilton are warming up in the A's bullpen.
Hamilton on the left hander, Walker on the right hander, three to one to score.
A lot of misses with the fast ball outside, and there's just quickly doing nothing to Johnny Bench.
The outstanding thing about Captain Shutter is his control.
He hasn't walked anybody except the one man intentionally, but he doesn't do any good pitches over the plate.
Now he puts something off the breaking pitch, and that's a strike right down the middle.
He's not hitting that strike with a breaking pitch.
That's not where captains like to put the ball.
He wants that outside or inside hint to the 17-inch plate.
Not down the middle as that breaking pitch was.
Two balls, one strike. Rose again leading off at first base.
Caps in holding him there, and there's the ball.
Henry's got a little slow take on it.
Cabin air goes out, and Cabin air's taking over here for the third out.
Henry's just got through to practice the incentive field.
The ball for fifth to best.
James Warnie at no hours, and Rose left at third base.
We go to the last of the third, and it is Oakland 3, Cincinnati 1.
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There are breaking camp and leaving for the wild when it's a-calling.
Follow the rugged road.
River ends between two hills, follow the rugged road.
There's another river flowing on the other side.
Follow the rugged road.
Oh, the scouts are there waiting, they're leaving some to ride.
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Henry Cabin air is in the third inning.
Down the back of the top of the picture of the first,
and Cabin is now three to six feet in the jury.
He hasn't scored a run, he's the man that makes the offense go,
but nobody's had an offense going in this series.
All of it, low score, one-one ball game.
Mark Anderson said last night,
he could have shut me to reach for just six runs in four games, I can't believe it.
Again, Mickey moves it on the dash at third base.
Cabin air is right-handed batter ready, and he looks to make a good pitch as he swings at it.
Cabin is in front.
Cabin will be suspended for the first week of next season
because of the fast-throwing incident in the playoffs.
Another breaking pitch.
Mickey backhands it.
It is a foul ball.
The ball is not sharply hit.
Mickey did a good job to get his breath on the ball
and would have been able to throw it out, but it was just the pulse of foul on it.
The drop-in quickly ahead of Cabin air is Olin Duce.
Drop-in ready, and throw to the back ball.
Misses on the inside on ball two strikes.
Well, this is the prettiest day that we have had since flying to Oakland, California, Sunday afternoon.
Play much of the week.
There's a curved strike three called a cabin air.
Second strikeout from McLaughlin.
Howdy-a-loo, one for 14 and the third.
Hands up.
That's leaded by two and the last two for third.
Well, Lou, the left-handed batter, has everybody expecting him to hit the other way.
Lou beats out a lot of ground balls.
Bunches lay on.
Watches the pitch go low to ball one.
Well, Lou and Maxwell were incalculable in their aid to the rest of the A's
because they've been with the Cardinals and in Cincinnati.
They were able to tell us about how to play the empty net.
The eye to the right field.
Over goes Geronimo to his right.
Now, let's come in, 10 or 12, Debson-Hassett for the second out of the Oakland Terrors.
Battling up Joe Rudy.
Rudy struck out of the McLaughlin curve ball to end the first inning.
Here's a Californian from the death zone, five to 16 now in the third.
Mike Depstein swinging the bat on Debson.
Rudy with a 181 hit, let the American League in the strike-shortened season just include it.
He's off and fastball and flying the other way down the right-field foul on and that's serving foul.
Rudy did the same thing back in the first inning.
Tolan had been playing him in left-center field.
And after they saw Alon Roger down the right-field line,
Tolan quickly switched over to right-center field.
He's starting out Rudy right there.
That's what he's been playing except for that couple of strikes in the first inning.
Everybody's been trying to get him to hit to right.
Tolan was moved to right back in the first.
He is hit by a fastball.
Rather than have gotten out of the way of that one, Rudy was on him so fast it just hit him up above the rib cage.
And again the lack of work is showing in McLaughlin.
Back in the second inning he lost Epstein on four-bitches and made two good-a-bitches to Dean Tennant.
With a 3-1 long run and that's the game 3-1.
Now here's Epstein.
Mike looked over everything in the second inning and let off with that walk as McLaughlin missed from his fourth-place finish.
Now the two-twenty-broke-in again to get busy.
The outs in the third. Man on. Epstein waits and does not go around.
On a pitch and now they're calling for the field play down to Jim Honigsticke third base and he says,
No, he didn't go around that slow a lot.
Then quickly pointed with his left hand down to Honigsticke third base.
One ball, no strikes to Mike Epstein.
He went to the University of California to try to pull back there before he became a minor league player of the year
on the Baltimore and Washington and in Oakland.
Back to the fastball, it is too low to Epstein. 2-0.
Epstein is a great student of the kind of hitting that Ted Williams likes to talk about.
Find out that pitch is best pitch of the day and key off of it.
Epstein looks over a lot of pitches trying to key more than most big snuggers as he said before.
Back with the fastball, it gets away from Bents but Bents going nowhere as Johnny quickly bounces on it.
But it is 3-0 and Epstein has been up there now twice in this ball game and has seen seven pitches out of the strike zone.
Looking down the field with 2-0, he's got the red light to wail away.
He is a left-hander to the... Rudy is on.
There are 2-0. McLaughlin has to come in with a pitch.
And then with the fastball, he's swinging and down to the bull airs hitting on the 3-0 count.
No runs, no hits, no errors and Rudy left on base.
At the end of 3, the tonight lead will have the trails open 3-1.
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You can cast on the drugs. If you're thinking about drugs, think about this.
What do you do when the music stops?
Where are you then? Where are you then?
When you drop full-blown on all the mountains?
Where are you then, my friend?
What do you see when your pupils contract?
You're out in the outing at the oil lag.
And you're not quite home and the joy falls in packs.
Where are you then, my friend?
You can choose to change the world, but go back and use your head.
Straight and in the right place.
If you choose drugs instead, where are we then, my friend?
Where are we then?
3-0 Oakland 3 runs, 2 hits and no errors.
Cincinnati 1 run, 3 hits and no errors.
All the scoring accounted for on homers.
Rose with the bases empty for the reds.
Tennis, a 3-run homer for the A's.
Rose is out of sling for the breaking pitch.
Strike one.
Tony has more hits than anybody else in the series.
He's 8 for 15.
Tony is 3 for 4 plus a walk against Catfish Hunters in the two games.
The Reds hit the homer in the 1966 All-Star game off on it and won it for the National League.
Now Hunter throws the breaking pitch outside and again that is way outside and that again continues to spell out that Hunter does not have that 10-point control that he's known for.
One ball, one strike.
In fact, with something off the breaking pitch, it's down low and it's 2-1.
Dave Hamilton and Bob Walker were up and throwing back in the third inning.
Nobody's throwing there now.
She balls one strike to Perez.
Hunter backs, throws the fastball, grab it toward Kaplan, ends the trip, makes it on the third half, guns it to first base and Perez is out.
Dennis Manky up for the second time. He's back to play Perez over to third base back in the second inning.
Manky has shown us some feeling at third base in this series.
He's done a fine feeling third baseman and he saw some feeling when Joe Rudy in the center game robbed him of an extra base hit with a leaping grab in Cincinnati to save the ball game in the last of the ninth inning.
Hunter back and there's a drive.
Left field, back to Rudy. After all, looking up, it's gone and it's 3-2.
All one coming on home runs and Manky has hit one here through Cincinnati.
Manky hit nine during the regular season.
Then he's had his problems in the World Series, one for 13, plus a sacrifice in the second inning and out it goes.
And all of the runs in the game are counted for an over.
Rose and now Manky with a base is empty for the Reds.
Tenets for the A's. Jim the Reds in game five of the playoffs were down 3-1 to Pittsburgh and came from behind to win the game.
So they'll have to do it again with their backs to the wall in the series here in game five.
Well, I don't know. It's out to Rudy. That open bullpen is busy again. First pitch is outside.
Well, we expected to see lack of control from Jim McLaughlin because he hasn't hit.
Hunter is the man that you expect to see good control. His pitches have been too fine and they're picking on him.
And then a couple of home runs. There's a breaking pitch. Geronimo brings the misses on and it's one ball, one strike.
One and one. Amel and left-hander. Locker right-hander throwing in the open bullpen and there's a fastball that's fouled off the mask of Jim Tenets.
It's one ball, two strikes. Oakland now leads by a single run.
But what's new? All of the games prior to this have been won by a single run. 3-2, 3-1, 1-0, and 3-2.
One ball, two strikes. Geronimo left-hander deep in the box. Wait, take something off this pitch and it's fouled off to the left.
Geronimo has scarcely got his bat out there and just punched the foul to the left. Still one ball, two strikes.
One out on the Cincinnati force.
And they're ready to throw again and there's a breaking pitch but it's by and away and it's 2-2.
Tenets did a 3-1 home run. You couldn't hear yourself think. On the home runs by Rose and Menke, Oakland, Tennessee, and Magrads, it's going to be quiet as you would expect.
The pitching throws the fastball and the foul back. Still two ball, two strikes. Young Cesar Geronimo who has had one hit in 12 times the bat in the World Series.
Darrell Chaney, the foot-kitting shortstop, is on deck.
Well, the Reds are hanging in there, a trail by a run, and there's a drive that is just foul.
It was right on the line until about a foot before the third base bag and then skips foul and Jim Honigic, third base umpire, quickly called it foul.
Conner with a new baseball, flips into Tennessee's catcher.
In the pitch, Dennis foul again to the screen and we've got the same old count. Two balls, two strikes.
Rose home run in the first to make it 1-0.
In the second, after Epstein walked and Henrik was on with an infield hit.
Tenets get their fourth World Series home run to make it 3-1.
And this was the Cincinnati for it Menke is just home run to make it 3-2, Oakland.
Back to the pitch at the breaking pitch, Dennis fouled off the left again as Geronimo continues to babble, Jim catches Hunter.
With time he is out in open, the lights that were turned on an hour before the game began remain on.
Hunter back and this is in on the hands of the breaking pitch and he might have killed somebody in that Cincinnati dugout.
Way out in front of a breaking pitch, you know, in his hands and the pull that followed the Cincinnati dugout and his teammates are waving their red caps at him.
Usually they get white fouls in the way of those.
As Geronimo continues to guard that place, Hunter ready to throw again and throws a fastball and guess what? It fouled off again.
They'll see him too.
With the bases empty and one out of the Cincinnati for it.
I'd like to welcome all of you who are listening in Europe, South America, Harlem, Chips to Sea, the Far East, Japan.
The 2-2 pitch, fastball and he fouled it to the screen again.
Well, it was a short ball game until these are Geronimo's steps in.
He and Hunter firstly are making it a long ball game.
Hunter now ready to get another new ball and take something off this one hand, it fouled off to the left.
And pretty soon, Allen Rolfe, our standard pitcher, will send over a little piece of paper that will say he has fouled off more pitches than anybody else in the World Series history.
That might be the only statistic that Allen Rolfe doesn't have.
It is still 2-2 to Geronimo.
Ah, he got him looking at a curveball strike three.
Guessing the fastball, Geronimo saw the curveball duck in and over the plate.
Strikeout number two for Hunter. And now what's too odd here is Chaney, who has furrowed their third base and one out of the second inning was lost intentionally last time up.
The Reds trail by a run.
We're on the top of the fourth at Oakland.
The A's lead the series three games to one. They win the very one.
Seventy-two baseball pieces all over.
Hits the fastball straight away center field.
Hendrick with his glasses down and rather deep.
Rick Lime Drive also down at the O'Chaney. One run on the only yet-manky first World Series home run.
Well, there's none left. We go to the last of the fourth.
The A's lead the Reds three to two.
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Now, Michael, this is Jim Simpson at the Oakland Commissary.
When the A's come up in the bottom of the fourth, it'll be Bando, Hendrick, and Tennyson. It figures to be Jim McLaughlin's last inning.
Ted Ulander was down on deck to hit for Max Paccini got on the board in the fourth inning.
So it figures to be Jim's last inning of work as he tries to hold the A's close.
It's A2 Oakland. Here's Jim Simpson.
All right, Al. After an empty drill walk of the second, Bando on a 105th throw.
Hold him very deep in center field for a long drive.
He's low for one, late for 15 in the third.
Right hand of batter, the team captain.
McLaughlin ready and throw over a third ball that gets to the outside corner, strike one.
Bando has 16 game-winning RBIs during the regular season, and that led the A's.
Strike one hits fastball, beat it to the ground for its third base, but it's foul and will be picked up over there by Menke.
Bando with those 16 game-winning RBIs during the regular season has no RBIs to meet the World Series, nor has he scored a run.
But there are a lot of people who can point to the same kind of statistics.
O'Lean Peele at 80 almost went for a breaking disc. It was blown away. One ball, two strikes.
Bando checked at the last moment.
Now they have 15 home runs during the regular season.
Back again with the fastball that is way outside, and it's 2-2 to Bando.
In the open fourth, the Reds trail the A's by running three to two open.
Lots of sunshine. Outfielders keep dealing with their glasses.
This ball again hits in front of the plate and bounces up the bench.
This is the first full-count of the ball game we've had by either pitcher.
Three balls, two strikes to foul Bando.
He had a three and 0 countThe F-Team, he was given the red light and ground to the first base.
Three to pitch is way outside.
Bando rolls to once.
Second once, give it up by the glass.
And then they bring up Hendricks.
And again that red bullpen gets busy. Hendricks nubs the ball to the left of the mound in the second.
And I doubt that McLaughlin could have thrown him out.
But as he came up with the ball, the ball flipped out and Hendricks was given a red base disc.
More ball is the man throwing again for the Reds.
Well, Hendricks is now 2-14 in the series.
McLaughlin's creeping in. Hendricks slugs around the front at the breaking pitch and is outside, ball one.
In games like we've seen through the first four, one run is something to have.
But if you can get a three run ball, you'd be home free, at least the way the games have gone before now.
McLaughlin's in the breaking pitch as he tries to punt.
Now he's next to keep Bando, who runs fairly well, close to first base.
One and 0 to Hendricks.
McLaughlin begins to creep in again.
Here's a bit of a jaggy mixture.
Outside and low.
Well, one of the rules will come, not necessarily always true, if you want to.
Here comes Falky Anderson.
If you want somebody to prepare to punt and try to get the ball up high, then you'll pop it up.
McLaughlin has been missing low all the way.
And it's 2-0.
That's about 30 seconds for station identification.
Two, one, zero.
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Falky Anderson has done something he really wanted to avoid.
He has to bring a new pitcher in.
And it's Pedro Borbon.
And the reason he was hoping McLaughlin could get out of the inning was that he was going to hit for him.
In a sense, now the way things stand, Borbon either has to lead off in the fifth inning,
or Anderson has to use a pinch hitter and then go again to the bullpen.
It's probably to Tommy Hall, as Borbon has called on.
So he was hoping that McLaughlin could get out of the fourth inning.
He went 0-2 on Bando and then walked him, and now McLaughlin goes 2-0 on Hendrick and has to fall in for the fourth time in five games.
Borbon worked last night in the fifth inning, 58th inning, moved up a hit, and then in the ninth, retired the first man.
And Marquez got a base hit off Borbon.
Adrian was trying to do the run, but the winning run was trying to play carol,
as he took the loss with the ace coming from behind two and the nine.
So Borbon had to work on Hendrick, two and out of the count, Jim Simpson.
Now this is the third job in the series that a pitcher has been working on a batter,
and has been taken out before he's completed pitching the fast batter.
Borbon, think of all suchness, catches the outside runner with his fast ball at this point.
Borbon, I'm sure you know by now, he's followed the world series, has the swinging fast ball,
and he's constantly hitting the ball into the dirt if he's right,
and he has been right for most of the series and much of the seasons.
Field one now, the count.
Now, it's going around the butt, butt up the first base line, and it's off the ball to Borbon.
They flip over to Morgan covering as Perez picked it up, and the sacrifice worked.
The sacrifice punt would be one to three to four. Now the second attempt, and here comes Dean Dennis.
Dennis, who hit two home runs in the first game, is going to be put on.
He hit two home runs that in the space of the last 24 hours last night in the day,
and the third base open, he's going to put him on.
A lot of people like to get out there in the ninth inning rally by the A's last night as they pick up two runs to win.
Ken has got a very important single up the middle in that rally to keep it alive.
There's ball three to him.
Landell is down at second base, there's one out on the fourth.
There's ball four, Oakland leads three to two and looking for more.
Dick Green is out on deck, but right there with him is Gonzalo Marquez, and Green is going back, and Marquez is coming off.
Marquez is a pick-up that has been two for three.
And last night, with one out on the ninth inning, Marquez started things off with a single up the middle.
Here's Joe DiGiore.
Marquez, the left-hander hit it.
Goes up there to swing the bat.
The single he got last night was off the pitcher he faces today, Moore Bones.
The rallying goes and there's a ball pulled just outside the first base line.
Perez was not driving the line back hopefully, as the ball stayed past him on the ground, and the runners will have to return.
The game deal is a double play death.
They've got an excellent chance with a good thinker ball, Pitcher Bourbon, the man working.
And up's Randall, pulls up to the ball, the ball is the third base, the headlong part, and everybody says that it is 4-2 open, as Randall scores 10-1 to the bird with a hit first five, and Marquez has done it again.
Jim Hunter, a fine hitting pitcher, is coming up.
Hunter runs for four in the World Series as an RBI to the credit.
And Gondrella Marquez, who runs, and now Alan Lewis races out, and he will run to Marquez to get some elevation.
It is now three to four, all as a sentry, and all in difficult situations.
The end deal, looking into the dugout now, they are in close to the corners at the moment, still looking for the double play in the middle of Sadie and Morgan back up.
Perez is rolling Alan Lewis, making even with the bag at third.
And there's the offensive bump, and they've got Kenneth hung up off third base. He is tagged out there, and Kenneth pushes a little on Nick, who is down to second base, goes Alan Lewis.
Hunter missed the bump, and they caught Kenneth off third base.
Marquez is the leather, Lewis is down to second base, and it's one strike to Hunter. All the two to score.
Six runs in this ball game, and that's the most that have been scored in any ball game, and we're not yet half open.
Breaking pitch from Bourbon, a curved ball.
And Hunter looking at it, quickly two strikes. Kenneth really put a head-drip block on Minke, and Minke tagged him out of third base.
The fastball just misses outside. It's one ball, two strikes. Tom Hall is up and throwing in the Cincinnati 4-0-10.
Nobody acted in the age. They would have Hamilton Walker up throwing on Peter for the cage.
There's a ground ball down the right side, and a bear in the coaching box at first base will take it.
Bobby Brown in 1947, Husky Rhodes in 1954, Carl Warwick in 1964, all have three pinch hits for the series record.
And as on Bollum or Kessler's, names of athletes.
It's live. Pennefield, Bollum is there, and light's going to be there, and comes in a few steps and one hand-drip for the third half.
The one-one scores on just one base hit. No off-leash coffee, no errors, and one man left.
At the end of the fourth, the A-4, the red suit.
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The second baseman for the A's is Kubiak, and in the bullpen for the red, right-hander Gary Nolan is going alongside the left-hander Tom Hall.
Al Gedeem, our nerd, is going to be in the series in the fifth inning of the Sunday game he came up batting for Ralph Grimsley against Capsaic Hunters,
and lined the devil to the opposite field. That's his one for two.
And now, a batter, Bando in at third base, on a ready and for the mature ball of the stays outside.
All one for Ulanders. Four runs on just three hits, but one of them was a three-run home run.
No errors for Oakland. Two runs both on Oakland. Four hits to go out for Cincinnati.
All bowed away by Ulanders. One ball, one strike.
And the top of the turp of what might be the final game of the 1972 World Series.
The Reds would come from behind all year long. If they do, we go back to Cincinnati.
If they don't, it's all over.
One ball, one strike, and a fast ball is out of the tree.
One and two to Ulanders.
Gary Nolan and Hall continue the war.
Nolan was scheduled start of the day, as John indicated, had some trouble with the shoulder,
and was often got the call of it very well, considering that he has not worked much.
And he hung that one big hit to Dean Tennant. If this is inside, it is two-two to Ulanders.
And on a right back with a fast ball, it hits foul off to the left,
twisting toward the Oakland dugout and bounces a few feet in front of Sal Bando,
who is pursuing it, and then up into the command.
Two-two to Ted Ulanders. Long time member of the Minnesota Twins,
who wants to cleave him, and then arm down to Cincinnati.
A rancher, out in Texas.
Two balls, two strikes.
They plan to hit to the opposite near, and that's hit to two-all.
The Hunter fast ball misses low. Three and two.
And this is the first time the Hunter has done all the way on the batter.
The three-two goes to these rows in the fast ball.
It's none of that. Dean has blocked it, waves off on her, and Ulanders up.
Battling up Pete Rose.
Now you wonder if Pete Rose comes up just how good or how bad
Hunter will make this first pitch three.
First pitch in the first inning, Rose-Holmers.
First pitch in the third inning, Rose-Lyne.
They're single-choppy to right field.
Quick hitter. Eight consecutive years of 300 hitter.
He is a good one.
Battling left-hander against Hunter.
Holter leads it by two in the top of the fifth.
Hunter is ready, and Rose is swinging the first time in history.
It's like Hunter's just digging fast ball.
A strike for Pete Rose.
What competitors made that match up there?
Hunter and Rose, two of the best in baseball.
Foul out of play, off to the left.
Fast ball again.
The second fast ball in a row that Hunter has thrown, Pete Rose.
Joe Morgan, hitler's in the third.
Holter 15 thus far, swinging about on the check.
There's long waves around the left, even though he's homer.
There's the pitch.
That's what I thought he had, ball strike three.
Just off the counter, just Bob Engel.
One ball, two strikes.
I would say, Henrik and Rudy are playing Rose around to the left,
and yet Rose fold his homer on the right and fold his finger to right.
Hunter might have told him that was my fault, he won't fold the ball again.
One ball, two strikes.
Rose in the curve ball just misses the inside.
And it's two-two.
Pitch is just off the outside corner and then the curve ball just inside.
And then he throws, he sets back in.
Hunter, the product of Berksford, North Carolina,
going to lift his row, fast ball, check, swing, it's outside, second straight, full count.
Hunter's control despite the fact he's drawn the three-two-two looks much better
in this fifth inning than it has all along.
Those pitches that have missed have just been out of the strike zone.
They haven't been way out side or way inside or way high or low.
Comes back and there's the ground ball, camp it out, comes back to second base.
As it rolls to get to CD Rose, that has him by half a cent.
Two out on the Cincinnati fifth and Joe Morgan, hit the list in the series.
And he has ground it back to the pitcher and tossed up to the second baseman this game.
The A's infield now, the green was batted for by Marquez, the depth in the first,
Kubiak is second, Cabaneta is short, Vandor third, now two remains the same.
Rudy in left, Henrikens center, Alou in right, Tennis now, crashing the time to Hunter's pitcher.
Order two, Oakland, top of the fifth.
Hunter throws the curve ball outside.
Tennis goes out to talk to Hunter.
But unlike other innings when Hunter's had a little problem, they've had men in the bullpen.
Apparently the feeling is on the bench here that the captain has better control now than he had in the early game.
And for the Reds, that could mean bad news.
Ready again, tennis behind the play, throws the fastball low and inside and it's 2-0.
Epstein guarding the line at first, a big hole between Epstein and Kubiak.
Breaking pitch is outside and it's 2-0.
Makes that 3-0.
Oregon takes tennis way outside and Joe draws the walk.
That is the second walk given up by Hunter and the other one was an intentional walk.
This is on four pitches and with that in mind, quickly Williams goes back to the bullpen.
Now, by the blue is Binnermost bullpen all through the series,
but if we go to Cincinnati tomorrow, blue will be the open pitcher.
Amel and it is there now and Raleigh Stingers has replaced Bob Walker as the right-hander in the open bullpen.
Here is Bobby Tolan 0-2 to go, Henryk Leather-Rudy deep to the running track last time up.
There goes Morgan running and there's a drive to right field.
Morgan is on his way around second base to third base.
Alludes over that Morgan will go all the way from first base.
Now they've got the man off first base that nobody is covering there
and because of Morgan running on the ground at his 4th of the 3,
Tolan was able to take the long turn at first base as Morgan was running all the way.
And with nobody there, he was able to get back in plenty of time.
Now last night when Tolan doubled, Morgan was running on the pitch
and two runs were able to score on Bobby Tolan's double.
Today with Morgan running and Tolan swinging, he scores all the way from first on a single.
And Jake Williams is coming out. He may have seen enough.
Utter looks pretty good at the top of this inning getting you landed and Rose with pitches although he was behind the batters.
Then he quickly lost his control and on four pitches lost Morgan.
Tolan hit the first pitch he saw and lined a single to right.
Four to three and the Reds have tripped back within a run again
and now they're saying we want Raleigh Fingers to pitch to Johnny Bentz.
Fingers walks back and Fingers is going to come on in.
Fingers has been part of the picture Al.
One-fourth and two-third innings has not allowed a run in only one hit.
And he's a terrible pitcher too. That's the thing that should have been so impressive.
He's pitched in all five games third day in a row.
He has the two off days as everybody did Monday and Tuesday.
But Fingers is coming on for his first appearance in the World Series and an early spot in the game, Jim.
For him he's normally a late manThe hand is for Hunter.
But Jake Williams walks him in in this situation to use Johnny Bentz as a batter.
Two-man to get right here. Trying to run his first base.
The Reds are of course able to pick up a run here but that's because of the speed of Joe Morgan.
He walks, immediately went him and Bobby Tolan single normally.
Morgan would have gone as far as third and that's all but he had a good jump.
Ball died on the grass and we had to come in and pick it up.
And Tolan despite being held to a single picks up a run back at end with Morgan scoring all the way from first base.
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Johnny Bentz will be the batter. Bobby Tolan the first base. Two down, fifth inning. Here again Jim Simpson.
Johnny Bentz you led the major leagues and home runs and RBIs as leader in the World Series.
This is the spot for Bentz and the Reds and Airfans in a four to three ball game in the top of the fifth inning.
First ball game which we've had as many as seven runs.
This is by Barnarday the most loosely picked ball game of the series.
Fingers right hander ready. Shares over and there goes the runner Tolan.
Here's Dennis who's thrown out of second base and he's in with his Tolan base.
The ball slips away but Tolan has the throw beaten.
Tolan base and the tying run is now down to second base.
The pitch was a strike to Bentz.
Four runs, just three hits.
Doris for Oakland, three runs tied at Doris for Cincinnati in the top of the fifth.
They play bench around to the left end very deep.
Ampanair's back at the edge of the grass at shortstop.
Mando deep at third base. Here's the pitch just outside the breaking pitch. One ball, one strike.
Five consecutive games for Robbie Fingers.
And in seven postseason wins going back to the playoffs he's allowed one run, five hits and ten innings that he has worked.
Which then remains busy. Fingers looks back throws that sweeping pitch and left the strike on the outside corner.
Bentz is playing and I don't believe that Bob Engel, the home plate umpire, is saying that you went around but rather it caught the outside corner of the play.
Bentz is down, one ball, two strikes.
Robbie Fingers tying run, Tolan very fast out of second base, good lead off second base.
Fingers nods his head, he's ready.
Here's the pitch. Fowl jumps off the end of the bat of Johnny Bentz.
Yes, good, get a piece of him.
One and two.
Cincinnati got a run in the first, John Rosen home run.
Kenneth is three run home, they got Oakland on top.
Nobody's caught him at third, he's caught a run in the fourth and Cincinnati's got added a run here in the fifth.
It's four to three.
One to the bench.
Fingers looks to Tolan, comes back and the batsman's trying to look out and it's a foul ball.
One in front of the plate but it hits the plate and Bentz now must go over.
Well, the Cincinnati batsboy runs all the way over to the Oakland dugout and gets the bats back from the Oakland batsboy and hands him the bench.
Bat one far, one ball, two strikes.
Cincinnati ball ten busy, Oakland ball ten busy.
The ball gets away from Kenneth, it's blown away.
Tolan comes around third base, flips third, he now gets back fourth third base.
They're standing at home plate as Johnny Bentz.
Ball two strikes to Bentz.
Out of this.
Now the time run is the third base.
Here's the fifth run, the best of all out of the third ball in the out-guard corner.
He's dug out two times in this game and this is not happening a good period for him to get around.
He has the opportunity but he hasn't been the kind of one-on-one score on the one-base hit by Tolan.
Tolan was left at third base to go to the last of the fifth and ultimately Cincinnati by a single run four to three.
How many bats will it take to do that too many deep runs?
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This is the fifth inning, Campanera, saloon, rooting.
And the Reds are the sixth-round events.
And the Reds are still hanging in there, Al Michael.
Thank you, JimThe new pitcher will be Tom Hall.
He's the third pitcher of the afternoon.
Jim McLaughlin started to take a more blowing in the fourth,
and now we see Tom Hall making his second World Series appearance
in the bottom of the fifth.
All were two innings, allowed no runs, three hits in D2 on Sunday.
Bert Campanera, grounded out in the first inning, struck out in the third.
Three for 17 in the World Series.
Right-hand batter with Mickey playing in on the ground for third.
The line by Hall in the first pitch,
breaking ball in first strike, going one.
Close to the edge, familiar with Tom Hall.
He spent a few years in the Minnesota Twins
and was traded last winter for a Wayne Granger.
Ten and one during the regular year.
Campanera's in the five-by of deep left group,
The T-Lows backing up on the one,
and reaches up to make the catch at the end of the track.
Great play by Rose, the Reds playing Campanera's Saloon,
seen racing back on the 10-run.
Makes the one-handed catch at the end of the track.
So Campanera's gets robbed.
One out of the fifth inning and up comes Mattie Allou,
grounded out and flying out in two trips.
Allou's hit a long World Series.
One for 15, left-hand batter.
Straight hitter, outfield around third left.
All to the plate in shot ball one.
Everybody in the infield is shallow,
Mickey in on the grass about 70 feet from the plate.
Cheney and Morgan halfway, Perez even with a bag of birds.
All back 1-0 and the Pigs flung on a comebacker.
All up with it, Rose to first, two down.
You'll see the batter.
Struck out in the first, hit by a pitch in the third.
Angel Bourbon with one inning,
charged with no runs, one hit, one walk, no strikeout.
Jim McLaughlin has been charged with all four A's runs.
Gene Tennant's a through run homer in the second and then McLaughlin walks Bando
with Bando scoring in the fourth.
Joe Rudy, five for 16 of the World Series, right-hand hitter.
Outfield is straight away.
All to the plate and Rudy chops the foul off to the left.
Oh, and watch, if we have a text game,
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Line up, Rose, the A's pitcher,
rocks Winsley for the Reds.
Strike one touch to Rudy, breaking grip missing inside.
It's Reiner, one and one.
All very thin, they call him the Blade,
but he throws about as hard as anybody on the staff.
It's the Reds' first complete game this year.
Came out as a bullpen to do it after the season was a month old.
One one-fifty blew it by him, swung on him.
That's the one and two.
All one of the more valuable Reds this year
because he was a short man, a middle man, a long man,
and every once in a while he made a start.
Ended one during the regular season.
One two, Rudy swung on him.
That's strike three.
Got him on a slider and down go the A's in the fifth inning.
Oakland down one two three,
and that's the first time that's happened since the first inning.
At the end of five balls, open four, Cincinnati three.
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From the Oakland Coliseum in California,
let's pause 37 for station identification.
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The typical World Series ballgame, Green Back.
It is a 1-1 ballgame at the moment with Oakland leading 4-3.
Concepcion is running down with a red bullpen.
Girl France, Katie, will be down at 4.
Here in the sixth inning, Perez will lead it off and here's how much.
Tony Perez doubled in the second,
grabbed it out in the fourth, takes down low, 4-1.
Katvish Huckter cannot win the game.
It didn't workThe minimum five is fingers game to win.
Raleigh coming on with two out of the fifth inning to strike out pitch.
One out pitch, missing low ball two, two to no.
Minky on deck, then Geronimo.
Wings Simpson and Gary Nolan in the red pen.
Two out pitch, Perez Granger is the grounder on two hops to Campanera.
A play and the shortstop gets it. One away.
Danny Frankie coming up, sacrifice in the second.
Homer to left in the fourth.
Two for 14 in the World Series.
The Reds got a run in the first on a Homer by Rose.
The A's back with three in the second on a 3-1 Homer by Ennis.
Minky Homer in the fourth.
To make it 3-2, the A's got another in the fourth and the Reds go up to
Minky Fischer, strike on one.
Geronimo on deck.
One out, base is empty. Strike one pitch on the way.
Strike on the outside corner.
Going two.
And double participation, that's the difference in the game right now.
A run scoring single in the fourth, the title World Series record, his third pitch in.
Minky's three in the second, down he goes.
Boy, a finger jump on right-handers.
The final left-handers will see what they can do with him as Geronimo comes up,
due to be followed by Chaney.
And then the Fischer's spot.
Misha Geronimo bowled out to the left fielder Rudy in the second, struck out in the fourth.
One for 13 in the World Series.
Minky brings to the high fly ball to left field, Rudy flicks the glass and now starts to stumble to maintain the challenge and makes the cat packing up.
Geronimo flies to left, the Reds go out quickly in the sixth inning.
No runs, no hits and nobody left at the end of five and a half it remains.
A's four, Reds three.
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Along the Texas border in World War I and II, the United States Army was there.
That's the proud tradition of the man in Army green.
Courage called to action, though his name might not be seen.
Heeding every challenge, he's proud to serve his land.
He knows the job is here, that's why he's an Army man.
So there must always be a closure, though his name might not be seen.
Proud of his position, he's proud to wear the Army green.
The best, stay with the best, stay with the Army.
The Reuben and Tom Hall begin to pitch for sixth inning against Epstein, Bando and Henrich.
Marty Anderson already has a few white enters.
Goal and then Simpson's going in the left, who's this?
They're down by a run.
The Reds trying to hang in and continue the World Series and send it back to the Cincinnati for a sixth game tomorrow.
Epstein's set seven, here's how.
Mike Epstein walked in the second, grounded out on the three-o pitch in the third.
He's taking off for the first time, he takes the curve for a strike on the outside corner, on one.
Epstein hit list in the World Series, go for 11.
But he got on base and scored on 10, this is Homer today in the second inning.
Strings at the grounder on two hops, the Perez is first, waves all the way, makes the play on the system.
One first baseman gets the other and Hall has sent down all four men to his base.
One out in the sixth inning, here's Sal Bando, five deep to center in the second and walked in the fourth.
Bando the 18th leader in RBI's this year in 77.
Now the Lightning's coming into the strike on the outside corner, on one.
Oakland four runs, three hits.
Cincinnati three runs, five hits in the sixth.
Hall back to the plate, Bando grounds into the left side,
making sure he hops the ball in front of Cheney, throws him out.
Two down, sixth inning, five straight for Hall.
And this figures to be Hall last inning unless Cheney homers the leadoff in the seventh.
Hendrick to batters.
George Hendrick, an empty of bit in the second, sacrificed in the fourth.
Right hand batters takes the slider up and in ball one.
Hendrick in the world series, two for 14.
Base is empty, two down in the sixth.
Popped in the air, in south round off to the left is playable Dennis Mickey,
near the coaching box, makes the catch to retire the side.
So the pace of the game quickens as the A's go down one, two, three, quickly in the sixth.
And the Reds come up in the seventh, lift the score, Oakland four, Cincinnati three.
Good old Harry, what a host. When Harry throws a party, nobody goes home.
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How come Bill and Gene are two terrible sweethearts?
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How come Bob's a little trouble driving?
How come everybody who felt so good last night, feel so bad this morning?
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Maybe good old Harry is a pusher, a neighborhood pusher.
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Hager left hander, and as Alex and Tony are rallying fingers, the late honey pitcher is really tough on right-handed batters.
If you don't believe it, that's Johnny Bench when he left the side one stranded and third base and the fifth and struck out looking at a finger-curve ball.
Hager left hander steps in and here's Al. By the way, Al, we do have a defensive change.
Mike Egan has the impending custom of the late inning has taken over the first base for Mike Heskey.
Joe Hago for one in the world series came to the Reds in late May in a deal to send Bernie Clabo to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Hager batting for Janie, can shut the arm real, but a very short stomp in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Lally fingers to the plate with a breaking pitch missing, ball one.
And the ball meant for the Reds, Clay Carroll and Wayne Simpson. Concepcion is out on deck to bat for Tommy Hall.
Here's a 1-0 pitch on the way, Hager chops it foul.
One and one.
Outfield is deep and around to it right, Mando is deep in with the back and third.
One-one pitch on the way, off-speed pitch outside, ball two, two-one.
Fingers appearing in every game in the world series.
Game on today in the fifth inning in relief of Munter.
He struck out bench, has a side-down one-two-three in the sixth, working on phase, rooting off in the seventh.
Two-one pitch on the way, missing, ball three, three-one.
Now McRae is in the red dugout and has a batting helmet on.
He could come up to bat for Hall next, but Concepcion is on deck.
Eight fouls at bat, three and two.
Fingers lined and the three-two pitch on the way, it's one-nine,
grab the slow and hot amount charged by Kubiak.
He short hops the ball close and he's going to get them on the way.
Joe Hayes down the bat.
And it looks like it'll be Concepcion to bat for Tommy Hall.
It is as if we're at church stop.
The man of platoons, Darrell Cheney, comes up to attention with one out of the seventh inning.
So it's De Sempton or Carroll in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Dave Concepcion from Venezuela, two-foot-five in the world series,
right-hand batter waiting at the plate, takes a back ball for a strike on the outside corner, on one.
Concepcion to two-home-nine this year, two home runs, 29 runs batted in.
Fingers lined, strike one pitch on the way, breaking section for a strike going through.
On deck is Pete Rose.
Fingers feet apart on the rubber, takes the shot from Cheney,
locks into his lineup in the strike two pitch on the way, back ball just missing, ball one, one and two.
One out, nobody on.
The one-two pitch on the way, breaking ball missing outside, ball two, two into the count.
Three runs, five hits and no errors for the A's.
Three runs, five hits and no errors for the Reds.
Fingers lift the sign into his lineup and the two-two pitch on the way, missing inside, ball three.
To another four count, he goes three and two on Haig, Haig grounds out and now fingers three and two on Concepcion.
Then Riley calls time to tie his two.
Riley calls time to tie his two.
Outfield, Concepcion toward right.
Mando close to the line and Began close to the line and Burrish.
Three-two on the way, swung on, lifted to the eight of center field.
Hendrick has plenty of room, starts to back up now and it's up to two and makes the dive.
Steve Rose enters the game one for a fifteen, hits the first pitch of the game for a home run.
Then he's singled in the third, grounded out in the fifth.
So Rose two for three today.
Three for eighteen in the World Series.
Switch hitter batting left-handed, Rose waits at the plate.
Fingers with a sign, delivers and Rose takes a sign.
Good one.
The wind and it's fine.
Rose angry with the car.
He's climbing back in.
Fingers checking with tennis.
And he's lined up in the back of the line.
Rose skipping out of the line.
Bishop low fluffy is white.
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Then he's running to one roof and generally opportunities.
They just don't make things like they used to, right?
You don't get what you pay for.
Service keeps getting worse and worse.
Honey, it's always the other guy who's slower, careless.
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As we come back, we'll let you listen to the crowd let us sing it.
Here's the new pitcher, the commander sent the Mets to the dugout
for the 37th time during the regular season for last night.
He gave up the bingo to Simmons, Mincher, and Manwell
in the last of the night.
And he was the losing pitcher in the last of the night.
And here's the game today.
The face, Dean Simmons.
Ed Zidjak and Lollie Fingers.
Dean Simmons, probably the most valuable player in the world
series to this point, so Lollie Fingers will get a lot of consideration.
Zidjak on the outside corner.
Dennis, the true home run in the second, his fourth home run in the world series.
Drew an intentional watch in the fourth.
One for one, swing to the curve, ground it, player inside third,
and backhanded by Mekki, throws him out, one away.
So many things have happened in this series,
but I think one thing that's been overlooked is the play of Dennis Mekki.
He has swept up everything in sight, everything in his way in this series.
One out of the sevens innings, Ted Kubiak, hits for the first time in the game,
slips hitter up left-handed.
Dick Green started, Marquez hit for Green in the fourth and single.
Now Kubiak for the first time in the game, takes the pitch outside ball one.
Ted Kubiak during the number two oh five.
First time he's been up in the series.
One oh five to Taps, he's left it about, now falls in on it,
he picks it up and has no play.
Legs down, flipping on the grass, going down,
and an easy out is turned into probably a base hit with the other scores.
Kubiak an infield single, and Raleigh Fingers comes up.
Raleigh Fingers up for the first time in the series, right-hand batter.
Fingers six for 19 during the regular season, it was one ball, one two runs battered in.
Minkie ready to charge in the third.
Fingers around the front, lays one down, and one to the plate.
Same time, just rose to first in time.
Back of eyes work as Kubiak rose to second.
Legos two-four, Morgan covering, bench to Morgan.
Kubiak now at second, and a two down, up comes work, half an error.
Right by Minkie charging in, and momentary confusion when it looks like
bench is going to let Minkie take an advice first of it,
and then Ben picks it up and threw out fingers to first with Morgan covering.
Third camera there, it's all for three.
Three for 18 in the World Series, right-hand batter.
Minkie even with a bag of third.
Breaking ball over for a strike, all in one.
Carroll making his fourth appearance in five games.
Back to his lady son, Kempeneris pops it up and foul-grab back toward the screen.
Ben's giving Chase has no play.
And the count is going two.
The Reds are on back.
When the Reds bat in the eighth inning against Fingers,
it will be the two, three, and four hitters, Morgan, Trollen, and Bench.
Oakland leading four-three.
The Reds took the lead in the first inning.
Rose to Homer, the A's back with three in the second.
The Reds with one in the fourth.
The A's with one in the fourth.
The Reds one in the fifth.
The Reds are on the eighth spot, and Kempion saying in the game it should stop.
And Kempion hitting in the ninth spot.
Carroll's at strike two, but John DeWaay called strike three.
Got him on a fast ball on the inside corner and the inning is over.
The Kempeneris strike shot.
The A's go down in the seventh inning.
No young, one hit.
Kubiak left with second.
And at the end of seventh ball, Oakland fourth, Cincinnati three.
On the early frontier, distances were great, winters were long,
and you could count on your neighbors to help you.
Today things are different, and when you need help,
where is the neighbor you can really count on?
Who pitches in when there's a catastrophe?
Who gets the word to a young serviceman that his daughter is just from born?
Who makes sure there's a blank when it's needed?
Who teaches blind kids to swim?
Who does all of those things that most other folks have never seen time for?
Well done, neighbor.
Close by, your Red Cross volunteer.
Now maybe you haven't got a lot of hours to give to the American Red Cross every month,
but thank you.
Where do you fit in?
Neighbor, neighbor.
We've got a 30-second for station identification.
Have you heard about the party coming up in November?
The Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are throwing the party, and you're invited.
They're calling it the general election.
Price of admission, one vote.
Your voting officer has your application, a federal postcard application for voting.
Andy can answer your other questions, too.
Now all you have to decide is who you want to receive that vote.
Along with our life, this is Jim Simpson back in Oakland, California,
The Cincinnati A's in a one-run ball game that is never over until the final hour.
Oakland can always try it, but when you look down the line,
you can see the startups and considering how hard, as soon as this on the right hander,
this should be their inning.
Morgan, tell them and then.
Joe Morgan, the batter, leading off, one to box, takes the pitch up five, ball one.
One and no-decount, Joe Morgan, grabbed it out in the first,
knocked it out in the third, locked it in the fifth.
He is 0 for 15 in the World Series.
Fingers, lines, and the 1-0 pitch on the way.
Morgan takes five, ball two.
In the second, ball three, right-hander Bob Locker and left-hander Dave Hamilton.
In the red, then, Wayne Simpson.
Fingers ready, back to the play-zero.
Morgan makes a try, good one.
Fingers came on in the fifth.
He's made seven men, retired them all.
He's struck out, too.
The right-hander ready, and the 2-1 to Morgan is a five, ball three, 3-1, to count.
Bobby Sullivan waiting on deck.
Four hits and no errors for the A's.
Three runs, five hits, and no errors for the Reds.
Off, you're cheating. Morgan scores left.
3-1, push down the way, way inside, ball four.
Until the Reds have a tying run on base, Morgan leaves off with a walk,
and I would have to say he is almost dispensed to go.
Bobby told in the batter, Morgan was going the last time he walked in the fifth inning,
and because of it, the Reds picked up a run.
Toland singled the right center, and Morgan, because he was going,
was able to score all the way from first on the singles.
Conference at the mound, Campanaris, Mando, tennis, and fingers.
Bobby Toland popped out in the third, flyed out in the third, singled in the fifth.
Now, Campanaris leaves the meeting, and Dick Williams takes his spot in the World Series,
The American League World Cerebellis.
Only four people can be at the mound at any one time.
Williams makes one of his frequent appearances at the mound to talk about
The possible one-by-totals, perhaps, just what he'll be doing as far as Morgan is concerned.
Holding Joe close if they can.
Morgan second in the league during the regular season and stolen bases to Lube Rock.
Morgan a big lead at first, still not by Egan.
Mando went on the grass at third.
Toland waiting, his fingers come set at the bell, a glance at first,
and a throw to first base, driving Morgan back.
Morgan with one steal in the World Series.
Big gap in right center in the outfield, another throw to first base,
and Morgan back in on his stomach.
Toland waiting at the plate with Johnny Banks, who up next.
Another throw, three in a row to first base.
He's at peak in his first, Kubiak at second, Campanera at the short, Mando at third.
Rudy in left, Hendrick in center, Alou in right.
Fingers throw to first base again, Morgan back in on his stomach once more,
so he's gone over there four straight times.
Open leading, four-three.
Ross Grimsley hustling down in the reds' fence.
Pitch on away a pitch shot, nothing doing, ball one, one and O.
Grimsley's supposed to be tomorrow's starter,
but Spocky Anderson's going to have Grimsley start heating up in the reds' goal fence.
No worry about tomorrow later.
Here's the one-O, there goes Morgan.
The pitch is a strike, it's all not in time.
He has it stolen, and so the tying run is at second base.
Tolan bluffing a bunt, letting it go by the pitch in for a strike,
and Morgan stealing second base, his second stolen base in the World Series,
and it puts the tying run in scoring position with nobody out,
but count one and one on Tolan.
Campanera's playing close to the runner as Morgan takes a short lead from second.
Here's the stretch, and the pitch to Tolan around the body misses for a strike.
One and two.
Tolan out of the box, adjusts his helmet, climbs back in,
stays well up in the box, holds the bat high.
Fingers on the rubber, checks the tennis.
Morgan a short lead at second, fingers set.
One-two pitch to Tolan, Bobby at the line drive,
they sit in the right-center field.
Joe Morgan around third, Alou slips far down.
The run scores, Tolan goes to second.
Through the reds tie the game, and the goal head run is at second with nobody out.
Bobby Tolan with two strikes, a base hit to right field.
Joe Morgan coming in to score, Alou slipped and fell down,
The ball rolled behind him, and Tolan goes to second.
Johnny Bench will be the batter as the reds tie the game.
It is Cincinnati 4, Oakland 4, and the eighth inning.
It's a single and an error charged to Alou, first error in the game.
One and one. Bench the batter, he's 0-3, facing fingers for the second time.
Bobby to the plate, Bench front, and it is either a foul ball or batter's interference.
They call it a foul ball, and here comes Dick Williams.
Bench hunting, and he wants the first base up by our haller brought in for his observation on the play.
Engels says no, it's simply a foul ball.
Bench had he touched the ball in fair territory, would have been out on batter's interference.
Williams looking for markings before he heads back, puts up a mild feed, and then heads back to the dugout.
So it's simply a striking account as 0-1.
Mandel very deep at third, and Bench trying to punt his way on.
At worst, trying to get Tolan over to third with Perez on deck.
0-1 account.
Fingers set, a glance at second, and the fake Bench brings him into 0-2.
Grimsley and Simpson in the bullpen for the Reds, Locker and Hamilton in the ace pen.
Tolan at second, nobody out.
Fingers is set, here's a strike two pitch on the way.
Bench swings, grounded to Mandel at third.
He looks Tolan back, throws the first for the out.
One away.
So to get Bench, Johnny is now 0-4 today, and up comes Cody Perez, who's doubled in the second,
grounded out in the fourth, grounded out in the sixth.
Cincinnati, four runs, six hits, and nowhere.
Oakland, four runs, four hits, and winner.
By far the most offensive production for either club in the World Series.
We had 3-2, 2-1, 1-0, 3-2 last night.
Today a slugfest, 4-4.
Fingers to the plate, Perez takes a breaking ball down low, ball one, slider missing, 1-0.
Perez is 8-4, 17 in the series.
Bobby Tolan to go ahead and run at second.
The next pitch to Perez is fouled back, and the count is 1-1.
Menke is on back.
One day ace bat at the bottom of the eighth inning.
They have their two, three, and four hitters, Alou, Rudy, and then Higgin,
who came on for Epstein in the seventh.
Cincinnati, four, Oakland, four, in the eighth.
Fingers set, check, Tolan, back he comes, and Perez,
check, Slane comes around and misses, one and two.
Wicked slider, breaking step to the right-hand batters.
The Reds have been unable to do anything with it.
The left-handed batters have been the ones who have done the damage on fingers.
He's had the right-hander beating out of his hand.
No pun intended.
Fingers set, one-two pitch on the way, Tolan goes,
The next back-fielder to go to third, and they do not get him.
He is 8-4 third, and Sal Vando is really mad.
Bobby Tolan, here at third, Williams out to argue, and Perez strikes out.
So there's two down, and the go-ahead, Rudy Sal, third.
Sal Vando taking an almost perfect throw from Tennes,
a low throw actually that just in front of his lobby,
he was able to dig it out, and Tolan able to get in.
On the call by the third baser, up by Arhanichek.
The replay on TV might incur the wrath of a few Oakland fans, you might say.
Looks like he had him.
Williams, after arguing with Arhanichek, goes to the mound to talk to fingers.
Niki is the batter.
Niki sacrificed in the second.
Holbert in the fourth, struck out in the sixth.
Two down, Bobby Tolan at third, a 4-4 tie, 8-8.
Fingers set, and the pitch to Niki is one on a net for Schreiner, 0-1.
Downfield around toward left, infield back, except Vando at third, he's even with the bag.
Fingers working out of a stretch.
Tolan a short lead, and the pitch on a lay, Niki's like a shot to Niki with the play, 0-2.
Geronimo on back.
Fingers set, strike two for Johnnaway, Niki swings around the mound outside third.
The Reds with single runs in the first, fourth, fifth, and he on the eighthThe A's with three in the second, one in the fourth.
A 4-4 tie, two out, Tolan the third, eighth and eighth.
Fingers set, looks to Tolan, back he comes, and the pitch just dropped the plate outside, 0-1.
One and two.
The right hander is set, here's the one-two pitch on the lay, swung on, popped foul out of play, back of the plate.
Niki is 2-4-15 in the World Series, he is 2-33 during the regular season, nine home runs.
50 runs down to them, most productive month was August.
Fingers set, and the one-two pitch on the lay is just swing foul. Niki just getting a piece of wood,
fouling it off, staying alive, protecting the play with two strikes, one and two to count.
The Reds are trying to gain here in the eighth, Morgan Wachs goes second, scored on a single by Tolan.
Fingers ready again, one-two pitch to Niki, swung on, and missed out of play.
So the Reds find a game and then Fingers sets the door with Tolan a second and nobody out, he gets the pitch to Rez and Niki,
and the Reds have to settle for one. One hit, one A's there, the run is earned, and one runner left on.
At the end of seven and a half, 594 Oakland 4.
Hey, you're a huge snorting man, stop picking up dreams that you'll never see, start putting tomorrow to the end of the day.
What you doing, bro? Do you feel you're wasting your time? You gotta go on, get out!
Gonna be the Navy, Navy today, Gonna join the Navy today.
California with our Michaels, this is Jim Simpson, this is the fifth game of the World Series, Oakland leads three games for one, and this is just like all the rest. Apparently it will be decided by one run, it's the first four words.
The number two, Banner Matty, Alou, leads off and takes a strike at the bottom of the eighth inning, it'll be Alou, Rudy, and Higgins to face Clay Carroll,
Ross Grimsley throwing in the Cincinnati bullpen. Carroll into his lineup and a strike one pitch on the way, is down side, ball one, one and one, so Carroll and Fingers, that's a record, just as it was last night, one one on the way, misses down side, fastball spinning away, ball two, two and one.
Alou, 0 for 3, he is 1 for 16 in the series, 2-1 on the way, he's capped on the ground, slowly right side, the red ball, down foot to Carroll, covering just in time.
Confusion on the part of the red, Perez didn't know whether to go back to first to cover there and let Morgan or Carroll take it, or whether to go over and pick it up, he hesitated, then continued on, and flipped and fell down,
and from his stomach through to Carroll, a perfect throw and Clay's right foot on the bag, just ahead, and Alou going in, one away.
Rudy the batter, we see more guys fall down on the grass in this series, but that's understandable because of all the rain the field took, including the rain out we had on Tuesday night, that was the 10th great day of rain in the Bay Area, so it's still slippery, it's muddy.
Rudy is the batter, struck out in the first, tipped by a pitch in the third, struck out in the fifth, 0 for 2 today, 5 for 17 in the World Series.
Right hand batter with a very close stance, he takes outside ball one, for one of the very few times today there's no activity in either ball pan at the moment.
Let's score, 84, one out and the bases empty, the next pitch was tight and it got even, 1-1. On deck is Mike Egan.
Carroll locks to his motion, back to the plate, gliders slug on in this 1-2.
When the Reds come up for the night, they are due to send up Geronimo the 7-hitter, then Carroll who is batting in the 8-spot and Concepcion hitting in the 9-spot, Jack Billingham starts to throw in the ball pan for the Reds.
1-2 on the way, missing outside, 2-2. Billingham due to be the starter if we go to game 7 on Sunday.
Carroll winds with 2-2 to Rudy, breaking pitch is very high in the air to left center field, it's deep, it's very playable, Rose is there, calling makes the guys.
Two down in the 8-hitting, Rudy getting good roads but just getting under it a bit.
Mike Egan, up for the first down in the game, went in defensively for Epstein in the 7-hitting. Epstein was 0 for 2 today and 0 for 12 in the series.
Mike Egan hits 3-29 during the year, had one home run time run Saturday.
Left-handed batter, Carroll first hit misses low ball one. Egan is 0 for 3 in the World Series.
Two out, bases empty, game's out of the game. Carroll back to the play, in first night, 1-1.
Carroll, born in Clanton, Alabama, makes the Tharman grade in Florida.
Rocks to his motion, deals 1-1, breaking pitch, grounded for his second field is by Morgan as he ranges to his right, Rose not in time.
Egan deeps it out.
So the air is down to the go-ahead run on base with two down as Mike Egan deeps out an infield roller.
Very close play at first base. Bando the batter, Salas slide out, walks, grounded out, 0 for 2.
Bando 3 for 17 in the series.
Good power, copy of the left, good left, making Will back at third.
Carroll yields a back ball of 5 or 1, 1-0. Cincinnati 4, Oakland 4, 2 down. Egan at first base, in the 8.
Carroll's set, a glance at the runner and a pitch on the way is lined in the centerfield for a face-off.
Mike Egan, around second, on his way to third when the throw comes in to Morgan in second.
So the air is in the go-ahead runner third.
Joyce Hendricks being called back, let's see if they send up Mincher to left-handed batter.
Yep, that's what it'll do, it's going to be Mincher batting for Hendricks.
And John Mincher, one of last night's heroes, hit the first pitch from Carroll last night out in the right center for a base hit that tied the game of the night's winning.
And then Montgwelle, the base hit, didn't want it.
And Mickey and Morgan visit Carroll at the mound as John Mincher gets set to come up for the second time in the World Series.
The A's have gotten enormous strange value from their bench in the regular season.
And of course here in the World Series, today another example, Gungelo Marches came off the bench in the fourth inning, a base hit that drove in at that point.
The run that looked like it might be the difference until it let's tie the game in the eighth inning.
Spocky Anderson is going to the mound, walking very slowly, killing Hammond Grimsley in the bullpen.
Anderson's got to figure if he wants to bring Grimsley in here, will the A's then go to the bench and perhaps send up Dave Duncan or another right-handed batter.
So while Spocky's kind of late, we'll pause 30 seconds, workstation identification.
Ever find yourself locked in, so to speak, out of touch with what's happening in the world around you?
There's a way to unlock that door and at the same time voice your opinions on the problems which concern you.
The general election is coming up in November and that's the time when your voice, the voice of the voter, should be heard.
Don't blow your chance. Think about the election now.
And when November rolls around, you'll have the key to unlock the door and make yourself heard.
That's fever!
Spocky Anderson has decided that he would rather have Ross Grimsley fetch their Angel Mangrelle and to have Clay Carroll face Don Mincher.
That's what's happened as Grimsley has been waved in from the bullpen and of course, not that brilliant with the option of going to the bench again.
He has exercised it as Angel Mangrelle who delivered a game-winning hit last night will come on to face Grimsley.
So Carroll has to come out here in the eighth inning after using an eight-feel hit to Hegan, a face hit to Bando.
The game tied 4-4 in the eighth.
Grimsley loosening up and Mangrelle will bat for Mincher who is announced as a hitter for Hendrick in the eighth with a very deep exit.
You know, given the threats of course in the National League playoffs against the Pirates,
one of the things that are much discussed about Fiskburgers here is their great bench.
In fact, they had so many runners with over 160th here, a total of nine, and a team like everybody,
including those on the bench at 300, but the year you spent is the most impressive, extremely impressive.
They have only 160th so they have 17 others and Dick Williams utilizes everybody.
That's right, Allen, if you talk to anybody on the eighth, then they don't look to anybody as a great hitter.
I think Hegan had a phenomenal average as a hitter, but the open A's of the Farfall Puppets somehow fight back, somehow scratch back.
They don't overwhelm you with a big inning.
They don't jump way out in front of you, but they hang in there with a good 15 and somehow a good 15 in the World Series, they manage to win it.
Last of the ninth, last of the eighth in the late innings, they play off, they win extra innings, and white against Detroit.
Lost one of them in tenon, one another in inordinate.
That's the kind of arc that they are, and the situation is now that we are in the last of the eighth inning,
but Hegan over at third base, and it was Jimmy Hussle that allowed him to beat out his infielder,
and the last of the single left field, Hegan going on to third base, number two up, is now Gensry coming in at a third Oakland meeting.
Three games to one, so they win this, the four fours are now, it's all over, and the seven eight nine batters are coming into the ninth.
Right now it's all even, but Gensry scheduled a pitch tomorrow, now the pitch today.
I want to stop the city there.
Angel Mondrell, pinch hitter, at two forty-six during the regular season, five home runs, thirty-two runs, batted in.
Ross Gensry, second appearance in the series, signed at Sunday's Game Word Five innings, gave up two runs, six hits.
Hegan at third, Bando at first, two down, game tied in the eighth.
Gensry checks and delivers the pitch at five ball one, one and O.
Dean Tennis, on deck, Jack Sillingham throwing in the reds, no action at eight eights.
Alfeo to Shae to his right, making even with a bag of third.
First night in the county, one and one.
Each club now is six hits.
Four six and O for the reds, four six and one for the A's.
Gimsley at the belt, checks the runners, deals one, water pick is grounded to Morgan at second.
Go up with it, throws the first and the time retired.
So Gimsley gets the job done, Mondrell grounds up, and the A's lead to go ahead and run the third.
No runs, two hits, two runners left, the reds come up with the night with the score.
Cincinnati four, Oakland four.
The choice is yours.
You can't change the world, or you can't go out with drugs.
If you're thinking about drugs, think about this.
What do you do when the music stops?
Where are you then?
When you drop the whole world on a mountain top?
Where are you then, my friend?
What do you see when your pupils contract?
You're out in the alley, at the oar lags, and you're not quite home, and the trade falls in packs.
Where are you then, my friend?
You can choose to change the world.
At the back, you move your head straight and in the right place.
You can choose drugs instead.
Where are you then, my friend?
Where are you then?
Now we go to the ninth inning.
It is four to four.
To repeat again the stage itself for what could be the final game of the 1972 World Series.
Oakland leads three games to one.
Cincinnati's time to babble back and go back to Cincinnati which they would deny.
Already, Parky Anderson has been forced to change his pitching plan.
Well, Ginsley coming on and released today.
He is the scheduled opening pitcher tomorrow.
And Billingham should have guessed it, and he has been working out.
Molly Fingers wins.
They've asked to see the ball.
It will be the seven, eight, nine batters.
And of course, we have a new center fielder.
Angel Mandel has drawn the center fielder.
Ninth inning, Geronimo steps in.
Fingers looks back as one of the umpires down the right field,
Arne-Frank Humann, is walking slowly toward the line.
And now Geronimo says he's ready, and here's the game, and here's out.
Desarge Geronimo swings and grabs it into right field.
The first pitch is a face hit, and the reds have the potential winning run on base.
So Desarge Geronimo, a single to the right, Ross Grimsley is now coming up, starts to come up.
McRae is coming out of the dugout.
And let's see if Grimsley will bat and then McRae for Concepcion or whether...
McRae will come up for Grimsley.
They're going to let Grimsley get it, and McRae is down on deck.
So Grimsley obviously up there to bat, left-hand batter waiting.
And already Desarge Grimsley arcing the air, and Fingers, what's it drop?
Throws the first, and it pulls Kobyak on first base.
They get the outflow, but down the second, those Geronimo.
Fingers thought he'd be cute and get perhaps a double play, and it cost him.
He almost threw the ball away.
Kobyak, a great play, to lunge and grab it, and then tag Grimsley going by.
Geronimo hung out to drive between first and second, was able to get the second.
So it looks like a break for the A's turns into a break for the Reds.
Play goes 1-4, and the Reds have the go-ahead run at second.
Now, let's see, will it be Concepcion?
Yep, he's going to come up and bat for himself.
He's sitting in the nine spot.
Rows will then be on deck.
They get busy in the bullpen again.
Left-hander Dave Campbell, who's been up and throwing about 30 times in the World Series,
but has yet to appear, and right-hander Bob Locker.
Dave Concepcion, fly it out as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning.
Right-hander, two per six in the series.
Pitch on the way, he's way outside and backhanded by tennis ball one.
Geronimo at second base, one out of the ninth inning.
When the A's bat in the round of the ninth, they're going to send up tennis Kobyak and fingers.
Rollie back to the plate outside, and the count goes to two and nothing.
Vando goes to the mound.
Fingers normally are shrug man in relief.
He's pitching every game, and this is the third day in a row, he said.
Dick Williams will go to the mound.
Tennis and Vando joining the conference with Fingers.
I don't think there's any question now that he has lost his stuff.
I think it's the question of, hey, Rollie, calm down.
You know you made a bad move there.
You had the man at second.
You had an easy play at first.
You barely did get the man at first.
The fact of the fact that the front works in an odd way is calm down.
Take it easy.
Two and all, you're facing right-handed fast.
Williams back to the dugout.
Contest zero and after checking with grandness,
he's waiting at the plate.
Fingers are set, a glance at second, and the two O's are on the way.
He's grounded foul outside third.
Two and one.
The Reds and the A's in game five, Oakland leading three games to one.
The Reds trying to stay alive.
Crowd today, 49,410.
Third day in a row, same picture.
Here's the two one, but John DeWay, swung on a ground ball,
fielded by Fander at third, but he drops it, then picks it up,
throws in the third, Heegan comes off first,
and just the oddest shape and falls down.
The Reds have two on and two out.
Bando short-hopped the ball, then juggled it.
It rolled behind him.
He recovered through low in the dirt,
and Heegan had to come off the bag, off first base,
or just the odd left side.
They will give Bando an error, E5.
The Reds have runners in first and second, with one out,
and he rolls the batter.
He's homered, single, grounded out, fly it out.
Bando in channel at third.
Rose, quick-shitter batting left-handed.
Fingers to the plate, and Rose takes low and inside, ball one, one and O.
Great airline drama going on right now.
The Reds know they're going back to Cincinnati,
and the Reds fans know they're going back, but nobody else in this park
covering the World Series knows where they're going tonight.
The catch on the way is up high, ball two.
350 media representatives, most of whom are planning to go back
to Cincinnati for Game 6, but they don't know where they're going
until this one's over, including Jim Simpson.
The stretch, here's the two-o to Rose.
He swings, lifts his foul, back of third, second deck out of play.
One run.
Rose today, facing Hunter, hits the first pitch of the game for a home run.
The tennis, a three-run homer in the second.
Reds battling from behind, caught the A's and the A's.
Hits the road, feet top to foul, and the count is two and two.
On deck is Morgan.
Geronimo at second, Concepcion at first.
One out of the ninth inning, Reds for open four.
Hamilton and Locker in the A stand.
Nobody in the Reds stand.
Fingers checking the stretch.
The two-two picks for Rose.
There's a wide drive, base hit on the center field.
On ball charges, Geronimo, a round third.
Come at home, he soars down to third.
The Concepcion Rose dives into second, and the Reds have the lead.
Peeves Rose, a single to center, one run battered, and Geronimo scores.
Concepcion to third, and Rose to second on the throw.
It is five to four, Cincinnati.
So Peeves Rose picks up his third head of the game.
He entered the game one for 15.
Dick Williams goes to the nine.
Morgan will do the batter.
He has the left hander, Hamilton, in the bullpen.
And Hamilton will come on.
To the Reds, on the break of extinction in the 72 series,
The eighth inning tied, and the ninth inning takes the lead.
It is five to four, Cincinnati.
And Dave Hamilton, who has been up and throwing in every game at least twice,
finally gets to appear in the World Series.
Well, I tell you, when they come to mark against the Olds and A's,
should they lose this ballgame, it all started with Geronimo let off
with a first-fixed line drive single to right.
But then when he was driving, he bunted along by the pitcher gently.
The ball was popped up in the air.
Now what Fingers tried to do was to let it hit in front of him,
and go to second, and then come back to first.
He let it hit second, but Geronimo had not reached second,
nor was anywhere close.
They still could have thrown to second.
They elected instead to throw to first base.
And it was just in time there, but the sacrifice Buntlet
grinsley set out to execute did work after all in rather bizarre fashion.
And Newman Bando had a problem, and Drew Molo and Drew Eganoff
threw first base back.
That's what meant that first and second, of course,
and then of course Rose had come on, and here's Newman in another run here,
and he has three to five to go, and Pete Rose, who had a little luck going,
one for 15 before today, has had three base hits today,
including a home run, in five times a bat.
And the other two times there was a good, fine play by Cappadocia
shortstop to get him in the fifth, and he drove Rudy very deep in the seventh.
So Rose has really been tween the bats as the Reds have been tween near extension.
Extension, extension, help me.
They would be extinct in the 1972 World Series.
They have three games to runThe interview comes in,
and we can remember that in yesterday's ball game,
The Cincinnati Reds came up with two in the eighth inning,
but lo and behold in the bottom of the ninth, the A's came up with two runs.
So we don't know what's going to happen, but at this moment,
The Reds have a leg on everybody going back to Cincinnati
and answering your question about where does the May Day go.
Joe Morgan coming up to base Hamilton, Hamilton appearing for the first time
in the series. He was 6-6 with a 2-9-4 earned run average during the regular season,
which he started at Iowa in the American Association.
Infield is in, squeeze is a possibility.
Concepcion down the line from third and Rose off second,
and the pitcher on the way to Morgan is very high. A fastball missing, one and all.
Again, when the A's come up in the bottom of the ninth,
Tennes, Kubiak, and the pitcher's pot.
They've already used Marquez, Mincher, and Manguella as pinch hitters.
Hamilton back to the plate, a five, all two, two and all.
On deck is Bobby Tolan.
Joe Morgan is hitmish in the World Series, but he's been a key man today.
His speed has paid off twice. He's walked twice and scored twice.
Here's the two on the way. Morgan swings, it's a high pop-up,
and the A's are shallow right, a little coming in,
waiting in medium depth right field, makes the catch.
Here comes Concepcion, here's the throw, he's out of bounds.
Double play.
There's Concepcion dragging up on a medium depth fly ball to right field,
and cut down at home nine to two on a double play to take the red.
Out of the inning after they take the lead.
Cincinnati settles for one run, two hits.
There's one error, one runner left on.
The Oakland A's come up at the bottom of the ninth with the score.
Cincinnati five, Oakland four.
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Oakland Leeson games three games to one.
Ross Brimpley, Red Tanner warming up, can hold on.
We go back to Cincinnati for game number six tomorrow afternoon.
The first will be a change in the pitching plan to Sparky Anderson
who had intended to start Brimpley.
Friday Blue will start tomorrow if needed,
but the man who has been something else again for Oakland,
our home run in this World Series.
Two in the first game won last night, a three-run home run in this game,
Dean Tanner.
He's off to nice innings for the Oakland A's.
They fail five to four.
Here's how.
Gene Tennes, home run in the second, drew an intentional walk in the fourth,
grounded out in the seventh, takes a fastball of five, all run.
The Reds, five runs, eight hits and no errors.
Open, four runs, six hits and two errors.
Kubiak on deck, then the pitcher's spot.
Brimpley back to the plate, fastball outside, ball two, two and oh.
Jack Billingham in the red school band.
Tennes out of the box checking with Irv Noran, third base coach.
Reds outfield deep and around toward left, Menke guarding the line to third.
on the way.
Tennes takes five, all three, three and oh.
Brimpley,
in the innings lineup and the three oh pitch on the way, a strike on the outside corner.
Three and one count.
The Reds time the game on the eight, taking the lead on the ninth, trying to hold on.
Brimpley in the innings lineup and the three one pitch on the way, it's high, ball four.
So the eight has a fine run on base and the winning run at the plate,
Kubiak is coming up and Dukin has come out on deck.
Kubiak, switch center,
put a little chopper back to the mound with Carroll fielded in the seventh and Carroll slipped and fell and
Kubiak beat it out for a hit. Good punters, Menke in on the grass at third.
Kubiak around the box, missing first site, oh and one.
Dukin waiting next after Dukin and Campaneras.
The eight is trying to get Tennes to second base, Gene off to his lead at first, Elva Koubea.
Brimpley set, back to the plate, he's done Kubiak, one, two, three, four and Koubea makes the catchers one away.
So Kubiak, normally a good putter, cannot deliver this time and Dave Dukin comes up for the first time in the series.
We talk about a forgotten man, here's a fellow who started the season as the number one catcher.
Gene Tennes then took over because he had the hot bat and of course Tennes is becoming a national hero in this World Series.
But keep in mind, Dave Dukin, 19 homers, 59 runs batted in.
Rocky Anderson is going to the mound, he has Jack Willingham in the bullpen, Dukin is the right handed batter.
And Anderson wants the thinkerball specialist who performed so brilliantly the other night against the A's.
So I don't know who's going to pitch for the Reds tomorrow if we have a six game, it might be Jim Simpson.
Willingham, normally a starter, did relieve five times during the regular season.
Brimpley, normally a starter, did relieve a couple of times during the regular season.
As we have seen now, tomorrow's pitchers, as Alan said, and Sunday's lifted pitchers, come to the plate.
The tying run is on at base and of course in the last of the ninth inning,
you always look to the winning run at home plate because it would be all over.
Cincinnati would have no more chances to score in 1972.
As of this format, the edge is in the favor of the Reds.
The tie is now deleted, five to four with one out, the tying run at first base and Duncan,
a right handed pitcher, drew up, walking back now to talk to Campaneras.
Remember, Willingham did so well.
They're going to have another runner, Lou Moon-Odom, who was a pinch runner last night in quarter route,
and he was a pinch runner 28 times during the regular season, very fast at first base.
Duncan, there's talk to Campaneras.
He's getting his warm-ups in his five-four ball game, the fifth being played in brilliant sometimes in Oakland, California.
Willingham had quite a game here, down two games to none as they were.
He worked better than eight innings, gave up just three hits, struck out seven, walked three,
left in the ninth inning, was just the third on Wednesday night.
He continues to warm with Johnny Benz.
And now, clean on fire, Bob Engel says that's all.
So here comes Jay Duncan with one out, in the ninth, and Lou Moon-Odom on at first base.
Jay Duncan coming up, 19-0 month this year at 218.
Not only is Pocky Anderson used tomorrow's scheduled pitcher, Sunday's scheduled pitcher,
but yesterday's setter, Don Gullett, is throwing in the bullpen right now.
Locker, Elie said. It is five to four Cincinnati.
Lou Moon-Odom, the pinch runner, the tying run at first.
The winning run, Duncan at the plate, right-hand batter, Willingham is set, and delivers, and it's down low, ball one.
Campaneras on back.
Odom at first base, held on by PerezThe outfield is deep and around toward left, making Garza line a third.
Willingham set, back and sudden to the pitcher's right, a check swing, it's over anyway, at the knees, one and one.
If there is a sixth game tomorrow in Cincinnati, air time at 1245 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Willingham at the bell, two to one, one breaking, gets a line drive, it's a clear ball, that'll help you run into the quarter.
Low second on, Odom goes to third, the throw goes to second.
So the Oakland A's have a tying run at third base, and a world championship run at first base, with one out at the bottom of the ninth inning, and Campaneras the batter.
Will Duncan gets up off the bench, his first activity since the playoff, and in his first World Series appearance, he singles the left down the line.
Odom goes to third, Campaneras the batter, and he will check with Irv Norton, the third base coach.
Campaneras, 0-4, grounded out, struck out, lied out, and struck out. He is 3-19 in the World Series.
We have one of the best butters in the American League, and seven of the best on the A's at the plate.
We've got perhaps the fastest butter, Allen Lewis accepted, Lulu Odom, at third base.
We've got a one-round. Odom at third. Don't get it first.
The infield is playing in, except conceptually halfway at shortstop.
Making it to the edge of the grass. Morgan back a couple of steps from the edge of the grass.
The Reds holding the runner at first. Campaneras the batter, and the pitch gone away as the breaking pitch moves down the right field line, foul dropping in the bullpen out of play. 0-1.
Another one-run game. First game was 3-2, and it was 2-1, and it was 1-0, and then last night it was 3-2, and today is 5-4 Cincinnati at the moment.
The line run to third, winning runner first, one out, Bellingham's set. Back to front, 0-1. A vicious strike, a breaking pitch.
At the knees, and Campaneras is up, set about to call. It's now 0-2.
Maddie Allou, left-hand batter, waiting on deck. Outfield, a round toward left.
Campaneras waiting. Odom is short lead at third. Here's the set, right pitch, that's gone away. Popped in the air, right side of the infield. Morgan is calling and makes the catch and fouls.
Odom is coming home, a throw home, and he is Odom at home, and he goes to Cincinnati. Odom tries to tag up, and he's thrown out at home.
As Joe Morgan makes the catch and fouls round, so the play goes F4-2, and the game ends on a double play, and boy will they be second-guessing everything that happened in the ninth inning today.
The big play by fingers. Now Odom tags at third. I don't know whether Noran sent him home or whether he came home on his own, but he is thrown out.
Joe Morgan made a fine play and fouls territory to make the catch and then on the round and was able to throw home in time to nail the runner.
Morgan slipped as he got the throw away, but still strikes the bench, and Odom cut down as he fled into home.
So the game ends on a double play, 4-2, and the Reds in a four-BTA. So this, of course, has been a great World Series, all one-run gameThe Reds stay alive.
We go back to Cincinnati tomorrow. Final score today is the Reds 5 and the Oakland A's 4.
When the seven-leveeer out there pops a ten-one total round, it's nasty as your football every day. It's your deceiving anyway, but he can't get that popper, can he? Sure he is your disc-clawed every day.
You're disc-clawed, you're disc-clawed, you're a fool every day. If you could say the real is stealing all the play.
We hope the test gets me a lucky, but I'm hard as that. It's a please-off, it's a please in every way. You're disc-clawed, you're disc-clawed, you're a fool every day. If you do say the real, you'll steal it all away.
And remember, may the Lord bless the country.
The fourth to four means nothing nowThe ninth inning was it all. What happened in the ninth inning was, borders on the Incredibles. It was a four-to-four ballgame in the ninth inningThe Reds up, Geronimo, single the right field. And then the attempted sacrifice by Glimpy was topped up in the air.
It got sketchy, and then actually Geronimo was off first base. Fingers let us bounce in front of it. Then instead of throwing to second base, as Geronimo then took off for second base, he threw to first base and barely got the run of air. So that sacrifice much did work.
Then Bando had a chance, Geronimo, but he threw wide. But it was not an unrun run because Pete Rose got a third hit of the day and cleanly drove in Geronimo from second base.