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On October 16th, 1976, the New York Yankees faced the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium for Game 1 of the 1976 World Series.
This is the CBS Radio broadcast of Game 1 featuring announcers Bill White and Wynn Ellewitt.
The Reds are baseball defending champions. Vicki Rivers takes the first pitch up to high.
Vicki batted 312 for the Yankees on the year. The 8 home runs drove in 67 runs batting leadoff.
He also stole 43 bases. The next pitch is low. Two balls, no strikes.
The umpires, by the way, Lee Weier of the National League is behind the plate.
Louis DiPiro of the American League at first base, Billy Williams, umpiring at second.
He's the National League umpire. And Bill Deegan of the American League at third.
We're swarming in left hand, Dave Phillipson right. There's a strike. Two balls, one strike on Rivers.
It'll be Vicki Rivers, Roy White and Thurman Mutsen against Don Gellert here in the top half of the first inning.
Here's a wind by the left hander and the 2-1 pitch. Pop foul straight back out of play.
And it's two balls, two strikes on Rivers.
Rivers had a fantastic last game against Kansas City as you know, Bill. The first four times he was up there completely upset him.
He fascinates me.
Well, when he gets on base, things happen. As when Pete Rose gets on base for the Cincinnati Reds, things begin to happen.
We count now on Rivers. Two balls, two strikes. Vicki is from Miami, Florida. Still lives there.
Here's the 2-2 pitch. Fast ball, slight foul, left side not a play. Count remains. Two balls, two strikes.
Bill, everything Vicki does is herky-jerky. He seems to be pulled together by wires. And yet when he pulls it all together, it's a fluid River there.
Yes. They play them to hit to the opposite field. The posture over there to the line and left. Here's the 2-2.
One run and a pitch. Oh, Rivers goes down a swing on high fast ball and there's one away.
So Don Gellert coming out with heat and Rivers goes down swing.
That's one way to keep him from stealing.
Don't let him get on the base.
That ball seemed to be a little on the high side and maybe Vicki was a little anxious.
Well, when Vicki is a high ball hitter, most left-handed hitters are low ball hitters.
But Vicki chops the high ball and drives it. The low pitch, he slaps it the other way on the ground.
So there's one out, nobody on. Here's Roy White, a switch hitter. He's in the right-handed against Gullick.
And the first pitch. Too high, a fast ball.
White hit.286 on the air for the Yankees, hit 14 home runs and drove in 65 runs.
Here's the 1-0 pitch. Fast ball is high again. Two balls, no truck.
We're at the top of the first here at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The opening game of the 1976 World Series. There's one out, nobody on for the Yankees.
The outfield straightens up. They play White straight away.
Stealing on deck is Sir Mutt. Here's a 2-0 to White.
Fast ball pops up right side. A foul territory after the far edge defense.
They'll run out of room about two rows back behind the Cincinnati Red Dog on the first base side.
They count on White now, two balls and a strike.
Roy is a remnant from the previous great Yankee days.
He came just as the Yankee magic seemed to disappear back in the late 60s.
He's always impressed me as being Mr. Cool, right or left, nothing seems to bother him.
I don't know what goes on inside, but outside he is always in command.
He has certainly been one of the solid Yankees through the years.
He came up as an infielder, played second base, moved him to left field.
He's done an excellent job. He's a senior Yankee at point of service.
They count on two balls and a strike on White.
Gullit now looking at bench for a sign, gets it and a pitch.
Fast ball bounce faster and off the glove of Rose. Picked up by Concepcion, the throw is hit down.
The Cincinnati Reds come up with a spark where Rose was left.
The ball came off his glove. Concepcion was behind him, picked up the ball and got it to first base and they just get White.
Beautiful reaction by Concepcion because he was actually leaning towards second base. I don't know why.
And then when he saw the cam, you know how difficult it is to change directions with your body on an instant.
He did it with no hesitation on the throw.
So they put out 5'6 to 3 off the glove of the third base that beat Rose.
Concepcion picked it up and showed a fine arm. So they're two outs now, nobody on for Thurm Mutsen, the Yankee catcher.
Mutsen batted 3'02 on the year.
His 17 home runs drove in 105 runs.
Second year in a row Mutsen drove in 100 runs for the Yankees.
And he takes the strike.
That's a load of quality right there around home plate right now.
Oh, Thurm Mutsen and Johnny Bench, who are the best catchers in baseball?
In fact they might be the best in baseball.
The next pitch is down in the third block nicely by Bench. It's a ball and a strike.
Thurm's from Akron, Ohio.
Up a guy.
About to take way up the state between here and Cleveland.
Two outs, nobody on. Top half the first, no score yet.
And the 1'1' pitch to Mutsen. Fast ball.
Ball gets down and away. It's a ball and good strike.
It's the first batter that the Gullis didn't get behind on immediately.
Then of course he's recovered with each one, but he looks fast.
Yes he does. Of course the Yankees know that he has a good fast ball. It's a moving fast ball.
Here's the 1'2' to Mutsen.
Just missed outside. Two balls, two strikes.
The Reds sit up around the infield with Rose at third.
Concepcion the shortstop. Morgan at second.
And Perez at first.
The outfield, George Foster in left.
Cesar Geronimo at center.
And the Ken Griffey out in right.
Johnny Bench fighting side for Gullis.
And the 2'2' pitch. Low. Three balls, two strikes. The count is full.
On deck for the Yankees is Lou Pennella, their designated hitter.
Gullis now on the front side of the mound gets that ball, rubs it up a bit.
Goes back, he'll go to the Rods bag.
Bench backs up at third.
Check that, Rose backs up at third.
Pete Rose.
That's been playing in close.
Here's the 3'2'. Fast ball from Mutsen.
Mutsen got a piece of it. It was held by Johnny Bench.
So Don Gullis strikes out two of the three men he faces here in the south of the first.
And that's the end of one half inning of play.
The Yankees loving the Cincinnati Reds coming up.
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Hey Red Router, I would be encouraged by the way Don Gullich's ball is moving.
If you had plenty of speed it was dipping down.
The Yankees seemed a little anxious.
If I were a New York Yankee Router I'd be encouraged too.
Cause after all it's a miracle of the ninth inning.
Which is much like the Bobby Thompson ending of the New York Giants a few years ago.
The airplane ride and the awakening of the fact that they've got some blood and mostly champagne.
You can expect them to be a little on edge.
But you can take heart you Yankee Rooters.
I've said nice things about the Reds.
I remember the Miracle Mets after they went through that exhausting final game.
Monty Urban for instance, I was with him until 7, 8 o'clock in the dressing room.
I was so tired I didn't even go to the opening game.
I couldn't. I went home.
That son of a gun stole home in that game.
They had enough left, you know, of whenever it is.
So this game has just begun and the excitement my friend is on the way.
Bill the Reds are in back.
Yes they are. Win and here's Mr. Excitement.
Pete Rhodes their third baseman.
Rhodes can play anywhere.
Wouldn't surprise me if they put a mitt on him, gave him a mask and put him behind the plate.
Good hitter batting left-handed against Joel Alexander here in the bottom half of the first inning.
A scoreless ball game so far.
And the first pitch is outside at the ball.
One of the reasons Billy Martin chose Joel Alexander to start the ball game is because a lot of them are speed pitchers.
The next pitch is a fast ball. It's a called strike. It's one and one.
And Martin feels that the change-ups and the curve balls would be the kind of pitch that would give the fast ball hitting Reds the most trouble.
Here's Alexander's one-one pitch and it's outside. Two balls and a strike.
And Joel is good. He is very, very good. As you know Bill he's had a couple of games where he held a team's hip for maybe three quarters of the game, seven, eight innings.
Two-one pitch to Rhodes. This is outside. Three balls and a strike.
He pitched about five games in a row where he went into the fifth and sixth innings without giving up a base hit.
He can be tough.
Here's a three-one to beat Rhodes.
Swung on in the air left center. White moving to his left. The left fielder is there.
He comes in a couple of steps and he backs off and lets the center fielder rivers make the catch.
And there's one away.
So white over there. It looks like the Yankee outfielders are having a little bit of trouble seeing that ball with.
I don't know. I went down there and looked up and of course at that time it was a completely overcast guy but I notice it's clearing up now.
The overcast is on right field and center and left field it's a patch of blue so the conditions seemingly have changed.
In fact we have much more sunlight than we did.
Here's Ken Griffey the right fielder. Left handed batter. He takes the strike.
Ken Griffey from Denora, Pennsylvania batted 336 on the year for the Reds.
Hits six home runs. Drove in 74 runs.
Yankees playing more or less straight away. As a one strike pitch comes on.
A bun is foul. Straight back. Griffey's on a bun is way on. No ball. Two strikes.
I'm sorry Dale. I was going to say I had a question in my own mind.
Was Alexander not having pitched for three weeks and the weather a little on the cold side today that at least in the opening inning he might have trouble with control. So far no.
So I don't think so. You know Doyle pitched that way after the Yankees acquired him from the Baltimore Orioles.
A lot of times he would have to miss a turn because you've got to send Hunter out there all the time.
You've got to send Olson out there. You've got to send Ellis. So every once in a while Alexander would miss a turn. It would not affect his control.
Here's the old two to Griffey. Get in the air. Left field. White coming on. He's there and he puts it away for out number two.
The ball hit hard by Griffey but right to Roy White. So there's two outs and nobody on.
Here at the bottom of the first to score this ball. Even the batter is Joe Morgan.
Morgan batted 320 this year for the Reds. He had 27 home runs and Joe had 111 runs.
In addition to that he stole 60 bases and he missed 22 games.
From Bonham, Texas. Left handed batter. First pitch to him is a strike.
He's the littlest intimidator I ever saw.
He might be the most complete baseball player in baseball today.
One strike pitch is low. It's one and one.
Like to have fun. You remember Bill you were talking about when he found the bench was batting seven today. He said I wouldn't play.
He put me there. Little nil at the bench.
The next pitch is low. Two balls. One strike on Joe Morgan.
Yankee outfield plays in the pool. So does the infield. They've got Stanley shortstop almost behind second.
They give Morgan a lot of the left field line. As the 2-1 pitch comes off. Last ball is inside. Three balls to the strike.
And the Cincinnati crowd warms to the possibility of seeing Mr. Scamper down there in first base.
He can just see them. 3-1 pitch. Swung on to the deep right field. Up for the point.
And the ceremonial trot around all three.
Joe didn't steal a base. He just stole a mark from the World Series headlines.
And he takes his cap off and salutes and stole a horse chair in the stands. And they just love it.
And the Cincinnati Reds, Joe Morgan, pushes club out front, bottom of the first, right in the right field stand.
A parabola line drive. It was full of power. He got it just where he wanted it and put it where it belonged.
Well, he tried to steal a fastball by Morgan. And that's the worst thing you can do.
Here's Tony Perez, the first baseman. He takes outside.
I guess that's why they passed Joe, the Phillies did, in that situation where the bases loaded.
Low. Two balls, no strikes on Perez.
Joe Morgan got a 3-1 pitch and drove it way over the right field fence at the 375 mark.
He gives the Cincinnati Reds a 1-0 lead. You're in the bottom half of the first inning.
They count now. Two balls, no strikes on Tony Perez.
And the next pitch, fastball on the outside corner, it's 2-1.
On the season, the Reds hit 141 home runs. Also had a good running ball club. They stole 210 bases.
The 2-1 pitch is outside, three balls and a strike.
As everybody knows, they can hit the ball. As a team, they batted 280.
The Yankees, on the other hand, hit 120 home runs during the season.
They batted just under 270. 3-1 pitch bounced up the middle.
To his left, down at Kansas, toward Big Sur.
Rivers over quickly. He'll get the ball back in and Perez will hold it first base.
One of the things when the Yankees worry about it, they're worried about it in Kansas City,
they aren't a baseball service. They don't have a worry here with this.
Ball seems to get to them a lot quicker than at home.
Of course they have the natural size or the natural breadth.
But both these clubs are truly, as you indicated in your last remarks, Bill,
not only did they hit the ball out of the park, but it's unusual for a club to be so fast.
Usually the heavy guys are, they're plotters, but neither one of these teams fit that description at all.
Here's Danny Dreesen, the designated hitter, he thinks ball.
That was a source of some controversy here.
The use of the DH by everybody in the series.
Off first is Perez. The one-oh pitch, runners going, throwing out a second and they have Danny.
Brett Stanley putting the tag on Tony Perez, round number three.
But the Reds pick up a run on the home run by Joe Morgan.
They got one other hit, they leave nobody on base.
At the end of one, the Cincinnati Reds won, the New York Yankees nothing.
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Back at Riverfront Stadium, when I was with Bill White here, the score is one-nothing in favor of the Cincinnati Reds after the first inning.
Joe Morgan deposited Joel Alexander fastball into the right field stands and that is the difference.
As both these clubs now, I've had an opportunity to get rid of the butterflies,
especially Joe Morgan. Alexander must know what it's like now.
I understand, Bill, we just found out Alexander did pitch against the Reds at one time or another.
Back in 1971, when he was with the Los Angeles Dodgers, it was his only year in the National League.
He played the Reds three times. Didn't beat them. He was on two against the Reds.
You may know Billy Martin, the machinations of his line.
He's out here talking to the play-down players at the moment. About what? Do you know?
No, I don't. He's pointing over toward the Reds dugout on the first base side.
And whatever they've talked about must have been. I can't think what they could have been talking about.
I think he was asking a question because of the way he held his body, if there'd be such a thing as body language.
I don't think he was being argumentative as such because the Reds crowd only needed his appearance.
Oh yeah, to get it on a little bit. Here's Lou Pennella against Don Gullett, second inning.
And Gullett misses high. The Reds lead one to nothing.
It'll be Pennella, Chambliss, and the Nettles against the left-hander, Don Gullett.
The 1-0 pitch is high again. Two balls, no strikes.
Now Gullett struck out two of the three Yankees he faced at the top of the first. He was wild high though.
Yeah, and he was going two and nothing. He did on the first two batters.
Of course he knows. He goes out there and throws as hard as he can, or as long as he can,
because Mark Yanderson has somebody to take care of him if he can't go too much further.
In his first game in the National League Playoffs, will we let that go?
The 2-0. Foul straight back, two and one.
I was going to say, Don, Bill, in his first game of the playoffs he was overthrowing. He was too strong.
This is what he told us. This is why he was wild.
He had a similar experience in Fenway Park in the last World Series.
In the opening innings he was wild because he was too strong. He had too much adrenaline flow.
Two-one to Bonilla. Swung on line, base hit down the right side.
It was over the corner. Bonilla around first base, digging for second.
Up with the ball is Griffey. He gets it in, but not in time.
So Lou Bonilla has the Yankees first base and in the ball game as he doubles down into the right field corner.
Lou Bonilla down at second base, nobody out. And here's Chris Campbell.
Of course, I'm sure everybody knew what Chris Campbell was doing in that final game against the Kansas City Royals.
The first pitch from Mark Latella, young right-hander, hit it out of the ballpark and the Yankees won that ball game 7-6.
The Royals played excellent baseball in that whole series.
So here's Campbell's hit, left-handed batter. And the pitch to him.
Oh, strike. Chris is from Dayton, Ohio, not too far from here. Born there, about at 293 this year for the Yankees.
He's hit 17 home runs, drove in 96 runs. It's left-hander fairly well, as Gullich said.
He checks Bonilla off second. The one-strike pitch, high. A ball on the strike.
Phil, with Chambliss's close stance, that is the right foot extended so far towards the plate, how does he get around so fast?
Well, he waits a long time, but he is quick with the bat. He likes the ball out away from him.
The curve ball, he doesn't mind it being inside. But that fast ball, he wants to, wants to wait.
Hits the ball mainly left center, right center, as Gullich says.
The one-one pitch, swung on it on the ground to second base, that'll get the runner over.
Morgan digs it out, fires on the Perez, they've got chance. Moving to third base is Lu Penella.
So Penella, third baser, is one away, and it's up to Gregg now.
Reds lead 1-0, we're playing the top of the second.
And let's see how the steady red infield will play.
Looks like they're going to shorten up just a bit.
That's Rose at third, Concepcion on the shortstop. Morgan at second.
And Perez at first, they're shortening up, they want to cut this run down.
Nettles led the American League in home runs with 32, he also drove in 93 runs.
And the first pitch to him, the fast ball, too hot.
So the third, not in time. Diving back in, there's Lu Penella.
Johnny Betch with a quick toss to third base.
Penella just got back, now Dick Hauser, the Yankee third base coach, is telling Penella to be alert.
They've got a rival behind the plate.
Munson does the same thing, quite a bit.
With Yogi Berra sending in a dugout, why don't we ever have three catchers like that on one field at the same time?
Jack Spence just won on a miss. Ball on a strike.
Hey, don't forget that guy coaching first base for the Amish.
You mean Elston Howard?
Yes.
You mean the guy that hit a home run the first time he ever played in a World Series first time at bat?
Another pretty good catcher. You've got Howard and Berra and Munson and Johnny Betch.
And Bill Dickey and Mickey Cochran and Wally Shang and Methuselah.
They got a ball on a strike on Nettles.
Penella on a third one out here, the top half of second inning, the Reds have a one-to-nothing lead.
Fast ball is high, two and one.
On deck for the Yankees, Elliot Maddox.
They play Nettles to pull in the outfield.
I haven't seen anybody play third base in a long time, like, you know, since the days of Brooks when Brooks was great as this Nettles did.
Two one Betches outside a breaking ball, three balls and a strike.
George Foster on the left field is sheated a bit toward left center.
A couple of steps toward right center.
Good feed deep and right.
Here's a three one.
Swung on it deep to center.
That's a good run in. Going back to Geronimo, he's on the edge of the warning track.
He makes the catch.
Penella tags a third base. He'll score easily.
And we've got a tie ball game.
Greg Nettles, a sacrifice flight, a deep center field driving in Luke Penella.
And the game is all tied.
The Yankees won, the Cincinnati Reds won.
And with two outs the batter is Elliot Maddox, the right fielder.
He's released Orange, New Jersey, and a right handed hitter.
First pitch to it.
That ball is swung on.
Went too far. Tried to hold up. It's a strike.
I assume, Bill, that Elliot is completely recovered from his problems with his knee.
Well, the bad right-hand, he wears a brace on it. He can't run as well as he used to.
Curve ball bounced only four thirds, charged by Rose.
Fires on the first base, he's got it.
Rose moving to his left, the front of the concept zone, makes the play.
Yankees tied up with a run on a base hit. They leave nobody.
Bottom of the second coming up.
The Yankees won, the Cincinnati Reds won.
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And we hope that you join us wherever you are around the world.
And catching you up as we go into the bottom half of the second inning, it's all tied up.
1-1, Joe Morgan, the red second baseman, hit a home run into the right field stands in the bottom of the first.
And the Yankees responded when Luke Pernubba doubled the right field, advanced on an infield out to second base,
and was brought home by Greg Nettles' long sacrifice fly into center field.
That's been the action so far. The Yankees have really had the center of the contest.
Of course, the Yankees have had two chances to the reds' one.
And as we return to the action, Bill White.
All right. When Danny Treason, who was up when Perez was cut down trying to steal second base in the bottom of the first,
gets the chance to start all over again, all even, with Doyle Alexander.
Low curve is too high for Treason.
I guess the National League fans are getting their first look at the designated interrules.
Treason is a DH this afternoon for the reds. Left-handed hitter.
It's one deep to right center. Going back is Rivers.
Also Maddox. Rivers is center fielder calling on the edge of the warning track, and he's got it.
One away.
Oh, with one out, nobody on, bottom of the second, that'll bring on George Foster, the left fielder.
And he's at some kind of a year when Elliott batted 3.06 at 29 home runs, and drove at 121 runs.
And a kid of quiet determination and obvious sincerity in terms of who he is as an individual and as a man,
that comes first before being a ball player, and as you've indicated, he is some ball player, too.
Right-handed batter. Takes inside a ball. Foster is from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
On deck is Johnny Bench. Imagine a lineup with Johnny Bench batting seven.
Alexander's one old pitch to Foster. Misses low. Two balls, no strikes.
There's one out, nobody on, playing the bottom half a second. I think the score is tied.
He's one, the Cincinnati Reds one. Here's the two old to Foster. High three balls, no strikes.
You know, Bill, for a kid who is seeking identity like George is, you know, looking for himself as a human being,
I'm kind of surprised by his department around the plate where he deliberately tries to throw the pitcher off
with his in-and-out, you know, pause and I'm not ready yet and anti-fancy stuff.
Yes, well, you do anything you can to get a little advantage. Here's the three old.
Fast ball right in, there's three and one.
Mutsen does the same kind of a thing when he takes a lot of time getting into the batter spot.
And the three one to Foster. Misses low, ball four.
Oh, and one out, Foster walks. He's on at first base. During the season, he's sold 17 bases in 40 attempts.
And that'll bring on the youngster from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Johnny Fetch to catch him.
Fetch had an off year for Fetch, batted 234 for the rest. His 16 home runs, he drove his 74 runs.
Well, he got a big home run in that third game against the Phillies.
Yeah, he said it reminded him of 72 when he did the same thing against Pittsburgh.
I guess he'll be remembered for those two blows.
Fetch to Fetch, get on the ground, back up the middle, stand by the pitcher, the second for one, back to first double play.
Alexander to Randolph, back on to Chris Tamlin. A one, four, three double play in the size of retired.
No runs, no hits, nobody left. At the end of two, the score, the Yankees won, the Cincinnati Reds won.
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I was going to say the third round, but it's only the third inning here in the World Series where the stars tied up.
Yankees won, Reds nothing. If you joined this great, late rather, we feel great that you are able to make it,
and CBS hopes that you will make it for as long as this series goes.
Minimum of four, maximum of seven right now. Nobody's ahead.
Through two, Joe Morgan's right field home run in the first inning.
Bonetta's two base hit to right field advanced on an infield ground ball,
and Greg Nettles brought him home with a sacrifice fly into center field.
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As we get going in the third inning here at Riverfront Stadium, and the little guy from Brooklyn came by way of Pittsburgh.
Prince rookie that I can remember in a long time, maybe if ever, who was on the All-Star squad, little Willie Randolph.
All right, when Willie? About a 267 for the Yankees on the year.
From Brooklyn, born down in Holly Hill, South Carolina.
That's right, and it's on the ground, the concept's the only shortstop who takes it out, flips on the first base, and there's one away.
Randolph, first ball inning, gets the ball higher, but right to concept the O.
He did, and on this turf a few feet either way, and Davey would have had a tough time corralling that ball because it was on the nose.
Here's Fred Stanley, the shortstop. Stanley took over the shortstop position for the Yankees about three quarters into the season.
He had been splitting it with Jim Mason.
That's right in it, and he takes inside a ball. Stanley will take a lot of pitches.
He'll duck under the high pitch, back off the inside pitch, he'll make Gullit draw a lot of pitches.
Here's the 1-0 to Stanley. He takes the strike, it's one and one.
He reminds me of other endfielders who have done it on what has been described as intangibles.
I'm not taking away his fielding, but at the plate he works on the intangibles.
The 1-1 pitch is a call strike, too. First guy to come to my mind, Willie, Eddie Stake, of course.
Sally Healish. That's right. Any number of them. I think he was the guy I had in mind.
The 1-2. Call strike, Brady, a fastball that just got the outside corner.
Gullit has talked up his third strike out there to us.
How about Nelly Fox?
Oh, Nelly with that bottle back, he could put the ball almost anywhere.
I never saw Willie Healer, my father used to tell me about him, but Nelly's batch, remember the barrel of it was almost the same at the fat end as it was at the handle.
He hit one of the fifths and he hit the line drive someplace.
Here's Pinky Rivers, struck out in the first against Gullit. 1-1 to score, top of the third.
Bounce over the mound, charged by Morgan, the second baseman, off balance throw, just in time.
Good play by Morgan, the put out 4-3. Yankees throw three up three down to the top of the third.
Bottom of the third coming up, the scores tied. The Yankees 1-1 to Cincinnati Reds.
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The weather is a little nippy here at Riverfront Stadium so far in Cincinnati, but it hasn't affected the pictures that much.
They've been in control of this game. At least Don Gullis and Doyle Alexander have only given up a run apiece.
As we now rejoin the fray at the bottom of the third inning. And the Geronimo named Cezar.
All right, when? Geronimo is a left-handed batter. He's the center fielder for the Reds.
It's 3-0-7 this year. 50 points more than it last year. It's two home runs, 49 runs batted in.
It'll be Geronimo, Concepcion, then back up top with four feet rows.
As we're in the bottom of the third, we've got a tie ball game. The Reds and the Yankees all tied up in one apiece.
Alexander's first pitch is popped left side. Nettles going back. He's there and he's got it.
Greg Nettles, Yankee third baseman, making the catch. Geronimo got jammed with the slider.
Popped it up to the Yankee third baseman, Greg Nettles. Oh, with one out, nobody on.
That'll bring on Dave Concepcion, the shortstop. Concepcion batted 281 for the Reds this year.
Hit nine home runs, drove in 69 runs.
From Maragua, Venezuela. Another pretty good Venezuela shortstop.
They're broadcasting the game back to Venezuela right by our side.
First pitch is outside a ball. And to Chile and Nicaragua and all the Florida countries down there in South America.
The 1-0, down low, two balls, no strikes. Of course, we're going around the world too.
You know, I was thinking of Luis Alparicio. Pretty good shortstop. Yeah, yeah.
Here's the 2-0 to Concepcion. That ball is in there 2-1-1. One out, nobody on, bottom of the third.
Yankees won, Cincinnati Reds won. Reds have a run on two hits. The Yankees run on one base hit.
White Sox had another pretty good infielder by the name of Luke Abling. He could talk with that fast.
The 2-1, line left center, face it, it might go through.
It's all going to the wall. Concepcion around for a second.
Round second, he'll drop his wing. The ball is going to be close, and he's safe.
Dave Concepcion found the gap between Roy White, the Yankee left fielder, and Mickey Rivers, the center fielder.
All the way to the wall, and he's on at third base with just one away. Here in the bottom half of the third inning.
He just seemed to time that ball perfectly, Bill. His swing was not a real savage, but he just got the wood on it and hit it hard.
And the Yankees now have to bring their infielder, Concepcion at third base.
One out. The game is tied. Yankees won red. Red threatened to go ahead. Speed row is set to 10.
Alexander looking in at Munson for a sign and sets. Fits the road. Change up his moat.
For the fair, Danny, just gets back.
We talked about Ben, and we talked about Munson. They both tried that pickoff at third base.
And that one was closer. Concepcion got his foot on the bag because Nettles got him on the hand almost simultaneously.
That was real close.
George Sugar, the red third base coach, tells Davey Concepcion to be careful down at third base.
Down the set by Alexander. The one on the road. He takes high. Two balls, no strikes.
Yankee infield of Nettles, Stanley, Randolph, Campbell, all shortened up for speed row.
Osbill swung a bit toward right side.
The set again by Alexander. The two older roads. Swung on, hit the air center field. That'll be far enough for a run.
Rivers back. He's got it.
The third base is scoring easily, is Dave Concepcion. And the Reds lead 2-1.
Speed rows, tying to Mickey Rivers and center field, scoring Dave Concepcion from third base.
And the Reds now lead it 2-1. Here in the bottom half of third, two outs down, the batter's Ken Dripie, the right fielder.
Dripie's been up once, line to Roy White in left field. So he's 0-1.
Line fouled into seats down the right side.
Bill, Pete Rose's fly out was no fly. That was a solid hit ball. This one was a solid hit ball by Dripie.
Concepcion was a solid hit ball, all in this inning.
Well, they're touching up, Alexander, just a bit here in the bottom half of third inning.
No ball, the strike on Ken Dripie.
Yankee outfield plays into full.
The end field more or less straight away. The one strike pitch, change up, is low.
A ball on the strike.
One ball, one strike on Ken Dripie.
And a pitch, change up, one on a miss. Full lead with a straight change.
One ball, two strikes.
Now that's Alexander's best pitch, the straight change and the curve change.
You know, the four hits in the ball game so far, Bill, three of them have been for extra base.
The home run was triple and the double.
Vanellas double, Concepcion triple, and Morgan's home run.
The one, two to Dripie. The back ball that just misses inside. Two balls, two strikes.
I think we're going to see a lot of extra base hits, especially here at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.
Balls carrying well.
The two-two pitch, straight change, popped up left side.
Backing up is Stanley. Now he backs off and the third base, Vanellas, is there.
And Vanellas makes the catch for out number three.
The Reds pick up another run on the triple and the sacrifice fly.
They had one base hit, they left nobody on base.
At the end of three, the Reds two, the Yankees one.
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Billy Martin has talked to Gabe Paul. Gabe Paul, we understand, has talked to Commissioner Kuhn.
And we don't know what they're talking about.
And if we ever find out, we'll let you know.
But we thought we would throw that in now so that if anything develops later, why we would have been in it at the beginning.
Well, I see the police and the baseball down behind the Cincinnati Reds.
I got on a telephone.
The Yankee officials are on the Yankee side on the third base side.
While we're going to the fourth inning, the Reds lead 2-1 and Roy White will lead off against Don Gullin.
Roy's been on one bounce stop and he takes high a ball. Roy chopped one to the left of the road.
He's got his glove on it.
Bounce over to Concepcion and Concepcion just gets white at first base in the first inning.
The 1-0 pitch, Paul strikes it one-on-one. Roy's a switch hitter.
Had a good year, bad at 2-86.
Here's the 1-1 to White.
Swung on Paul, straight back just under him.
A ball and two strikes.
The Reds have two runs on three hits. The Yankees one run on one base hit.
We're playing the fourth inning. Roy White leading off against Don Gullin.
Here's the wind and the 1-2 pitch.
Flash ball misses inside, two balls, two strikes.
Got to get the sign from Vich and the 2-2 pitch.
Low, three balls, two strikes.
Joe Morgan got the Reds off with his home run in the first inning with two outs, nobody, huh?
Yankees got a run back in the second.
A leadoff double by Pennella, he went to third on a bounce shot by Chambliss who scored on a sacrifice fly by Nettles.
The Reds right back in the bottom of the third, triple by Concepcion, a sacrifice fly by Rhodes.
Now the Reds had a fairly easy time getting into the World Series.
They beat the Phillies three in a row. Yankees were extended all five games by the Kansas City Royals.
Hey Bill White, you were covering the Yankee Kansas City games.
The Phillies had the lead in every single one of those games and Foster and Vetch had to hit those home.
Line, oh, the third base went up but he makes a grand.
White hits a ball hard, right to beat Rhodes and there's one away.
Don't you like the way I stopped?
I like that.
No, you were busy with the Yankees and the Kansas City Royals.
That last game, well of course the two last games in the playoffs were just fantastic.
Foster comes up in the ninth inning, hits a home run.
Vetch ties it with a home run, they load the bases and then that number dribbler by Concepcion wins the game
and then you guys with Chambliss in the last half of the ninth inning and that questionable play in the top of the ninth inning.
You mean the play at second?
The play at second.
Nobody argued that play.
Not even Al Cowles.
We'll take that up later.
Here's their bunch.
Curveball hits down the right side of the foul back in the sixth.
One out, nobody on here in the fourth inning. The Reds do, the Yankees won. Mutsun has been up once and gonna struck him out with a good tailing fastball.
The Royals showed a lot of moxie in that series.
I think they showed good judgment too and not complaining about that play.
There's been the unpleasantness with the pop bottles, etc., etc. just prior to that, you know.
The one strike Vetch has been in the air to the right side.
Coming on his grippy, still coming. He's there now and he's got it.
And they're two outs.
So the Royals played that series without the guy who might be their best all-around player, Amos Otis.
They played it without their best pitcher, Bud Beale. They had lost all year long.
And they extended the Yankees to five full games before losing.
I think both teams could be very proud of them.
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So there are two outs, nobody on here in the fourth, the batter, Lupinello, who doubled in score in the second.
And getting back to that play at second, now we watch.
Here's a pitch to Lupinello, it's a ball strike.
Again, the city theme song, Bill, was Mr. Otis regrets.
Remember that, Bill?
Yes.
Here's a one strike pitch. Curve ball is outside. One ball, one strike.
Two outs, nobody on. Four of inning.
Lewis put right field duties with Oscar Gamble during the year.
And he also was a DH.
That's got a Leixas sign. The one-one pitch.
That's ball, slice foul, right side.
One ball, two strikes.
I don't know how Pennello got that over to the right side.
It was in high and tight. And that kind of pitch I can remember seeing over my right shoulder,
out of the right corner of my eye, and I had missed it again.
Here's a one-two. Swung on, foul straight back.
Well, Lupinello, you'll take the ball inside. Alvin Dart used to do that well.
An inside-out swing. The ball would be inside, but somehow he'd pull his hands in,
get the head of the batter, and slice that ball to the opposite field.
I can understand that, but not when it's high. You can't do that when it's high.
One and two on Pennello.
Two outs and a pitch. Bounce foul again.
Back to the screen. Pennello hanging in.
And Gullard gets a new baseball. He'll work on it.
Sealing on deck is Chris Cavill.
Reds two, Yankees one. Worth inning.
Gullard still reading signs for pitch. Now he rocks. Kits and deals.
Bounce to first base. Right there's Perez. He'll take it himself.
Side retired. An easy inning for Don Gullard. Three up, three down.
Bottom of the fourth coming up. The score. The Reds two, the Yankees one.
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Back at Riverfront Stadium, we're approaching the latter half of the fourth inning
with the Cincinnati Reds holding a 2-1 lead.
Don Gullit has just had command of this game.
Since Lupinella opened the second inning with the double,
the next nine Yankees have gone down in order.
In fact, he's retired 12 out of the first 13 he's faced.
And now here's the guy that gave the Reds their first run.
Mr. Do-It-Every-Way-And-Do-It-All, the chunky little left-hander
with the twinkling eyes and the high voice.
Joe Morgan.
Joe Morgan, who homers to give the Reds a 1-0 lead in the first half.
Alexander. Reds lead a 2-1.
Bottom of the fourth.
Here's the first pitch to Morgan. Change up this time is low.
I don't think Alexander's going to try to sneak that fastball by Morgan again.
Yankees play Joe to pull, both in the infield and the outfield.
Fastball is fouled straight back.
Got it away that time, put a little dip on it.
Hits a ball on a strike.
Outfield way around toward the right side from Morgan.
Alexander's 1-1 pitch. Change up is high.
Two balls on a strike.
Morgan had 151 hits on the year for the Reds.
30 doubles, 27 all-bronze, 111 runs batted in, and 60 stolen bases.
And he takes high three and one.
And that's the first home run Joe has ever hit in postseason play.
And he hadn't done well in the league playoff, that is, as far as his hitting was concerned.
Three-one pitch to him. Fastball, pop, foul.
That'll be back out of play. No chance for Munson.
And it's three balls, two strikes.
Countless ball on Morgan.
Joe, I mean, Bill, again, you didn't see the battle between Jim Cot and Joe Morgan.
You know, Cot, the quick pitcher, Joe Morgan who likes to flap that left arm and get set.
Cot wouldn't let him flap.
Here's a bayhawk bench to Morgan.
Fastball in the air left center. After his white, he's got a long run.
Still going, he's there now and he's got it.
And white ended up almost in straightaway center field.
And there's one away.
For a little guy, he's got such power, he just reached out with that pitch and went with it.
And smacked it into left center field.
A real good hit when you consider that he was more or less reaching for the ball.
Ball's carrying well here this afternoon. Here's Tony Perez, the first baseman.
Slow curve is a strike. Perez seemed to have centered back in the first.
He was cut down trying to steal second base.
Kamloops was playing behind him.
As the old one-pitch comes on, change up again, foul straight back.
No balls, two strikes on Perez.
One out, nobody on. Bottom half to fourth inning. The Reds lead the Yankees 2-1.
Alexander doesn't like the first sign for Munson.
Now the pitch.
Pitch is outside, one and two.
The big good-natured giant of the Cincinnati Reds, Tony Perez, overlooked quite a bit.
Betch, Morgan, Rose, change up, tough pass to third base, the narrow left field line.
Perez around first base for second. He'll make it there standing as White's throw will come into third base.
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Well Tony Perez, two for two, a single and a double. He's down at second base, there's one out,
and the batter is Andres, and the Yankees now are going to get some action in their bullpen.
Nick Titrow goes down, a right-hander.
L. Rod Hendricks goes out there. There's the first pitch, not Andres. Change up, called strike.
The bullpen, the Yankee bullpen, down the Yankee left field foul line.
The red bullpen down the right field foul line.
Here's the one-strike pitch. Best ball's gone on a miss. No balls, two strikes on Andres.
Danny's been up once, that was in the second inning, he flied to center field, so he's 0 for 1.
Tony Perez down at second base, one man out. Alexander sets, send deals.
Straight change is low, a ball and two strikes.
They played recent to bull.
White way over in left center, Rivers in right center, Maddox deep in the corner in right.
Alexander checks Perez at second. The one-two pitch, get in the air, left center, whites right there.
To his left just a bit, he's got it. Air two outs, and Perez goes back to second base.
That'll bring on George Foster, the left fielder for the Reds.
Alexander walks Foster back in the second inning, so he has the bat officially in.
Foster hit 29 all-runs for the Reds, filled in 120 runs, one run during the regular season.
Right-handed batters, so the Yankees will straighten up in the outfield.
As Tidrow continues to throw in the Yankee bullpen down the left field foul line.
Now Alexander sets, and a pitch, low a ball.
As I recall in the series against the Fills, Bill, George Foster's contribution was two hits,
and both of them into the left field stands. Both of them big hits for the Reds against the Fills.
Alexander wants another sign for Munch, and now he sets.
And the one-oh, breaking ball misses outside, two balls, no strikes.
The Reds had a fairly easy time. They beat the Phillies 6-3 in Philadelphia in the first game.
They beat them 6-2 in Philadelphia in the second game, and the third and final game played here at Riverfront Stadium.
The home runs by Bench to Foster, and the Reds won it 7-6.
Here's the 2-0 to Foster, he takes outside, three balls, no strikes. On deck is Johnny Bench.
Joel Alexander pitching carefully to George Foster, with the Reds leading 2-1, playing the bottom of the fourth.
Tony Perez, who doubled, is down in second there two outs.
Now Alexander sets, and the 3-0 pitch. Swung on, bounced slowly towards third, Neto's charging.
He's out, hits the rim. The runner interfered with Neto, so Perez is automatically out.
I don't know if Perez hit that ball. Of course if he hit the ball, the runner Foster would be given a single.
And we'll give you that when we come back. But right now, it's the end of four. The Reds to the Yankees, one.
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Oh, let's look at that play, the last play that ended the fourth inning. That ball was in the third.
Nettles was getting ready to catch the ball when Tony Perez ran into the ball.
With the ball hitting Perez, he's automatically out.
Nettles will get the put out because he was the closest Yankee fielder to the play, and George Foster will get a base hit.
That's a fine art of deceiving a fielder by attempting to shadow or conceal a ball when they're running against it.
Now, I don't remember 1924, but I just did the special last night, Bill, and Muddy Rule did that to Travis Jackson in 1924,
forced him to miss up a grounder by Walter Johnson. The next baller won the game for the Senators.
All right, here's Chris Chambliss. Line base hit left field.
Chambliss jumps on the first pitch from Don Gallatin, singles, 11.
That's only the second base hit in this ball game for the Yankees.
So Chambliss on it first with a leadoff single here at the top of the fifth, the Reds leading by a score of 2-1.
That was Chris's 12th hit in the postseason play, the 11 with you and the series against Kansas City, and now this one.
Yeah, 11 in that championship series set a new championship series record.
So Chambliss on it first. Nobody out here is bragging nettles. Pitch to him, bounce towards Zach at Morgan's head.
Two concepts yielded one back to first double play.
The Reds turn a quick 4-6-3 double play and quickly their two outs.
You know when, Elliot, they talk about the Reds' power, talk about the Reds' speed, what good teams win it with defense.
Well, these are both all-around teams, Bill, as we've been saying.
Not only do they have the power, not only do they have the speed, but of course the speed is the fundamental beginning of defense.
The outfielders can run around there like it was in the Olympics.
Morgan at second took that ball, turned around on the whirl like Willie Mays did out there in the right field.
These clubs are here because they are so good.
And every single department, if I'd fall them anywhere, Bill, it would be pitching.
Pitching might be a little bit short, especially with the Reds.
Maybe that's only because Mark Anderson has a quick hook. Elliot Maddox takes the strike.
Two outs, nobody on fifth inning. Reds to Yankees one.
Maddox has been up once against Gullet. He bounced the rose at third base, so he's 0 for 1.
The 0-1 to Maddox.
Best ball is in the dirt, blocked by Bench, kicks off Bench.
Lee Weier, the home plate umpire, picks it up and flips it back to Gullet to count a ball and a strike on Maddox.
I think that ball skidded off Johnny's bare right hand.
He's doing the best to be manly about it, but I think he took it.
Might have touched him up a little bit, huh?
Here's a 1-1.
Best ball chopped just inside the third base line.
Bates it and it'll go in the corner.
Maddox around first, digging for second. He'll make it there.
That ball kicks and pops out of left field.
Now Elliot's trying for three. The throw there is cut off by Concepcion.
So Maddox diving into third base with a dribble.
Elliot hit that ball just inside the third base bag.
To left fielder Foster, I thought it would go in the corner, but it hit the wall and bounced out.
Foster was caught in the corner. He had to come back out.
And by the time he got to that ball, Maddox was sliding into third base.
And Gullet, who had been mowing them down nine in a row, has been touched for two hits in this inning.
Of course, Shambles is wrong field single in that double play, which is so important.
They should have put a wooded department.
You know, when you're rooting for a club, which I'm not, but when you're rooting for a club, you always think that.
Oh, they'd only, you know, if they'd only not done this, or if they only had done this.
Oh, Maddox on a third, two outs. Here's Willie Randolph.
Willie takes a strike.
Randolph has been up once, hit the ball hard right to Concepcion, who dug it out and threw him out.
Oh, Randolph is 0 for 1.
The one strike pitch, outside, one ball, one strike.
The Reds have two runs on five base hits, the Yankees one run on three.
We're playing the top half of fifth inning.
Elliott Maddox, third base with two outs.
The 1-1 pitch, outside, two balls and a strike.
I think Gullet wanted that one.
Rose, close in at third base.
Here's a 2-1 to Randolph.
Swung on in the air center field, going back to Ronimo, still going.
Near the warning track, he puts it away for out number three.
Randolph has hit the ball hard twice, and he's 0 for 2.
The Yankees, no runs on two hits. They leave a man.
Bottom of the fifth coming up. The Reds lead the Yankees 2-1.
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And we're going into the last half of the fifth inning of the Reds by virtue of a Joe Morgan homerun.
A Concepcion triple and a fly ball to the outfield hold the lead 2-1 as Doyle Alexander starts in the toil for the Yankees again.
At the batter, the Reds catcher Johnny Bench.
All right, when Bench has been up once, bounced into a double play, started by Alexander.
That was back in the second inning.
Johnny takes the curve ball, it's low.
Bench had 16 homeruns during the season for the Reds.
That ball is bowled straight back inside a play.
One ball, one strike.
You always wonder just how good this player, Bench, would be if he hadn't been cut down by injury so often in his career.
Here's the 1-1.
That ball is high, 2-1.
Classic case in that direction too, Bill, was Mickey Mantle.
Yes, Mickey was always injured.
Lead Reezer.
Reezer got hurt. These fellows have their injuries endemic to themselves.
High, three balls and a strike.
He just couldn't stay away from fences. I mean the wooden kind that were in outfield. He kept running into them.
Rico Cardi is the same kind of player.
That's right.
Three balls and a strike on Bench leading off against Joel Alexander here in the fifth inning. The Reds have a 2-1 lead.
The pitch swung on a miss. The pitch went after a high fastball and swung through it.
Three balls, two strikes.
Don Gullit has had his physical problems.
And as you mentioned before, the Kansas City Rolls would have been a lot better off with Jim Busby.
3-2 pitch, Swalon bowled straight back.
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Here's the payoff pitch. Swalon right center field. That's going to be a base hit in front of River.
And Johnny Fitch will hold it first base.
Johnny Fitch got a 3-2 fastball and ripped it to center field for a leadoff single here in the fifth inning.
Oh, Bench on it first. Nobody out that'll bring on Cesar Geronimo, the center fielder.
And I want you to know that William DeColva White didn't hesitate for a moment.
I had sort of faded out of the way by instinct, as it were.
And Mr. White, who was a left-hander as it was, got up, put that left hand out, and Dougie, you have a ball.
All right. Cesar Geronimo has been a one-pop to third. Alexander sets the deal. It's a fastball. Let's go.
That was the sixth base hit for the Cincinnati Reds.
And the first time in World Series history that I know of that a baseball broadcaster caught a foul ball during the game.
Here's the set now by Alexander and the 1-0 pitch. Chain jump is inside.
Two balls, no strikes.
Rant Jackson, left-hander, gets up and starts loosening up for the Yankees.
Cedro had been up earlier. Now it's Jackson.
Johnny Bench on it first. Nobody out.
The Reds lead 2-1, playing the bottom half of the fifth inning, as Alexander sets.
Checks the runner. And the pitch. Swung on it on the ground to second. Rant's off. Stanley for one.
Back to first, another double play.
The Yankees turn a 4-6-3 twin killing, and they're two outs.
That's a second double play. The Yankees have turned over. The Reds have turned one.
Yeah, that returns in time with the Reds did in the last inning to wipe out Shamless.
Just in time, or the Yankees would have had a run.
Now there's nobody on with two outs. Nevada's Dave Concepcion, the shortstop.
He tripled to left center field back in the third inning and scored on a sacrifice five-by-five feet rose.
And Concepcion takes the strike.
Davey Concepcion, bad at 281 for the Reds during the regular season.
Her ball is outside. It's one-on-one. Concepcion had squared to bunt and took it.
I've got nettles in quickly a couple of steps from third base.
Not too easy to bunt on this service.
Here's a 1-1 to Concepcion. Fastball hit on the ground, a shortstop. Stanley's there.
Picks it up, flips on the first base. They just nip him at first base.
The put-out 6-3. No runs ahead. Yankees turn to double play, and nobody's left on base.
At the end of five, you're at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. The Reds 2, the Yankees 1.
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All right, when Elliott and Fred Stanley will lead off against Don Gullett,
we're playing the top of the sixth, the reds lead 2-1.
Gullett's fastball is high. Stanley struck out in the third.
Oh, he's 0-1. It'll be Stanley Rivers, Roy White against Gullett.
The 1-0 pitch, and they're a call strike. It's 1-1.
We mentioned the first time, Stanley takes a lot of pitches.
Chokes up on the bat, not known for his thick work. Good love, man.
Here's the 1-1. High. Two balls and a strike.
Reds got off to a 1-0 lead in the first on a home run by Joel Borgen.
The Yankees tied it up in the second, a double by Fidele.
Went to third on a bounce off court on a sacrifice fly.
Reds went ahead 2-1 in the third, a triple by Dave Concepcion with one out.
And a sacrifice fly by Pete Rhodes.
So it's 2-1 reds. 2-1 pitch to Stanley. It's low ball three, three and one.
And to complete that recap, Bill, the reds have out hit the Yankees 6-3.
And for the sake of trivia, the Yankees have had both Titro and Jackson warming up.
3-1 pitch to Stanley. It's taken a call strike and the count is full.
Three balls, two strikes.
Both teams win L.A. playing flawless baseball in the field. Good defense.
Pay off pitch. High ball four and Stanley walks.
Oh, that's the first pass issued by Don Gullett.
He's walked one now, struck out three.
As it so often happens, he has walked a man he presumably has least fear from.
Stanley had a pretty good series against the Kansas City Royals.
I believe the Royals spent so much time worrying about Munson and Nettles and Chambliss and White and Rivers,
that he forgot about Stanley. And he had an excellent series.
So friends, that's first base. Nobody out here is Mickey Rivers.
He was struck out and bounced out. Left-handed batter.
And the pitch to Rivers. He bumps right back to the mound.
Going to second base and they've got him there. Good plays by Gullett.
Ball was put in just to the left of the first base side of the mound.
Gullett bounced in and threw a strike down in Concepcion.
Good play by Don Gullett. The put out, one to six.
Now Rivers on the first base. Of course he can run.
There's one out and the batter is Roy White.
Rivers by the way stole 43 bases for the Yankees during the season.
And now comes the confrontation that the people have been waiting for, I think in a sense,
with Rivers on first, facing the pitcher.
Gullett.
And the quick bounces off first. Gullett sets and deals.
And he misses outside.
Reds lead two to one, Yankees, with Rivers at first base.
And one out. See if Martin will start trying to play a little aggressive baseball here in the sixth inning.
Gullett now sets.
And a pitch. White takes the strike. It's one and one.
Bill, both managers pre the playoffs went right to the commissioner and the presidents of each league
about the new ball rules and pointing out that the other guys' pitchers, you know, were definitely here.
Not my pitchers, their pitchers.
That's right, to unsettle them. And I'm watching now to see whether any of it has any effect on a Gullett.
Well, I've got it setting now. I'm looking over first base.
The pitch to White. Hot. Two balls and a strike.
One out, one on. We're playing the sixth inning. The Reds lead two to one.
The whole deal, Bill, is you're supposed to step in the direction of the base you're going to throw to before you throw it.
Well, left-handers always step toward home, throw the first, then step toward first.
Of course, in the springtime they bring out those white lines and they call everything.
But then once the season starts, they take those white lines up and those left-handers start balking again.
Jerry Kuzma used to have a fantastic ball.
Now the set-by Gullett.
The 2-1 pitch. Rivers' going. Is high. Throw down a second. They're going to have a show bargain.
Put the tag on Mickey Rivers.
And he has stopped stealing the put-out. Two to four. And they're two away.
The pitch to White was high.
A perfect pitch for Bents to throw down a second base.
He just got there and threw overhand. A perfect strike to Joe Morgan.
And Morgan slapped the tag on Rivers.
Oh, there's two outs now. Nobody on to count on White three and one.
And the 3-1 pitch. Ball strike two. Three balls, two strikes.
If they needed it, that's going to make the Reds feel pretty good.
And the 3-2 pitch. Swung on line to left center.
After it to the center, Bill Jeronimo, he's there and he's stopped the ball.
White around first base, taking for seconds. And he's there standing up.
Jeronimo thought he had that ball in his glove. It came out, and I think White also thought the ball was tough because he stopped it first base.
Then he shifted gears and went on to second base. And Jeronimo will be giving a two-base error.
Bill, the ball was fading to the right and he was running a full tilt to the left.
As he got to the ball, shoulder high, it just hit off the thumb of his glove. He was running away from it.
And I almost anticipated he would drop it. His glove sort of turned around.
Well, that's the first air of the ball game in a key one.
Because White now down a scoring position. He's potentially the tying run with two outs.
And the Yankees' top RBI man, Thurman Munson-Nevada.
Dullett struck Munson out in the first and got him to fly to right field in the fourth. So Thurman's over two.
Dullett has given up just three bases.
And the left descents. Checks White off second. Fitch to Munson. Swung on.
Right base hit, right field. They're going to have a play. The throw home and they hold White at third base.
Oh, it hit hard. A one hopper to right fielder. Ken Griffey and he threw the whole plate and they held White at third.
Well, the Yankees now runners at first and third with two outs. And the batter's Lou Pennella.
I tell you, the third base coach, Dick Hauser, did the right thing there, when Elliott. He'd have been dead.
The throw was about 10 feet up on third base. But I think Johnny Bench would have been right in line, right on the line.
Straddling the line and he would have been in the way. He would have stopped White.
So Munson on at first. White on at third. Two been out. And Lou Pennella's a batter. Pennella has doubled and he's bounced to first.
And the Reds have gotten the bullpen pretty active now for the first time. Up there is Wil McEnany.
Pennella lines one down the right field line. It's going to be trouble and it's a foul ball. Just missed the line down there.
Goes back in that corner with Elliott and that's about the only place we can't see here in this ballpark.
But we have to look at the right field guy. I'm firing down that right field line, Dave Phillips.
And he gave us the off signal there that it was off line. I can't see down in the corner either.
Just beyond where the Reds are warming up. McEnany and Pedro Borbón are both warming up.
McEnany the left-hander, Borbón the right-hander. We have Yankees on first and third. Two outs.
Top of the sixth. The Reds lead two to one, Bill.
And they count no balls and a strike on Pennella. Gullet now sets. Checks the runners. And the one strike pitch.
And the one strike in the center of field. Morgan backing up. He's got it. Don't worry. A little hookback runner out behind second base.
Made the catch and the side is retired. No runs. One hit, one error and two men left on base.
We're going to the bottom of the sixth. The Reds two, the Yankees one.
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We're going to the bottom of the sixth.
All right, here's Pete Rose against Dwell Alexander bottom of the sixth. Rose takes the punt. Balls down low and bounce back fast much all the way back to the screen. Speed got the bat back. One ball and no strikes. Rose is flying to center field and he drove in a run with a sacrifice fly to center field. So he's 0 for 1 with a run batted in.
Alexander's 1-0 pitch. Best ball is taken. A call strike on the outside corner. It's 1-1.
At the top of the Reds batting order, Pete Rose, Ken Griffey, Joe Morgan.
The 1-1 pitch. Change up. Low. Two balls and a strike.
The Reds have two runs on six hits. The Yankees one run on four. Here's a 2-1 to Pete Rose. Swung on and fouled off left side. That'll be back out of play. They count two balls, two strikes.
To be fair to Alexander, one of the Reds hits was one of those technical hits. Foster hit a ground ball that actually hit Parasin.
By the rules of baseball, it becomes hit, but it was a routine ground ball.
Alexander now has a new baseball. He rocks, kicks and deals a 2-2 pitch. Straight change is low. Three balls, two strikes.
It's about the time when they begin to get to Doyle Alexander. They off pitch. Low ball for.
Almost on cue.
Second pass issued by Alexander. Pete Rose at first base.
No outs. And the batter of the right fielder, Ken Griffey. Griffey has lined to wide and left. He's popped the nettles at third. Nettles now closes in at third base. He's looking for a punt.
And Grant Jackson is on his feet in the dugout.
Yep, he's getting his jacket. He'll be going out there.
Chambliss holding on Rose at first. Pitch to Griffey. A change up. Bounce to Short. Stanley. Randolph went back to first. Will not be his time. And it gets past Chambliss, but it doesn't go too far.
Ball was not hit hard enough to complete the double play, but they did get to fourth and second on Pete Rose, six to four.
Randolph tried to complete the double play anyway, threw it low, but Griffey, he's running down to first base watching the play. He's got good speed, so he beat it out at first. He's there. One out battered Joe Morgan.
Alexander now wants to exchange baseballs and Lee Weier of the National Eclipse of Manila.
As Joe Morgan steps in, Morgan, the homeowner, with two outs, nobody on in the first. He flies left center in the fourth. So he's one for two.
Little Joe from Bonham, Texas.
Here's a pitch to Morgan. Change up is inside.
Once again, the Yankees swing that outfield way around toward the right side. They give Morgan a lot of room out in left field.
It's a ball that way he can run all day long. Griffey off first. He's checked.
The one-oh pitch. Call of strike. Letter high fastball. It's one and one.
Rivers of the Yankee tried. Bench, Bench got him. The Reds have not tried to run on Bunsen yet.
They tried once with Perez. And that first inning when Campbell was playing behind them and Munsen cut him down. Of course, Perez doesn't have that speed anymore.
And he was trying to sneak on the second base, but they got him. Throw the first base and Griffey's back.
Griffey stole 34 bases for the Reds during the regular season so he can run.
As Alexander says. Here's a one-one pitch. High. Two balls and a strike.
A lot of managers, when do not like that guy to run off first with Morgan batting. They want to keep that first base but holding the runner on.
Give Morgan a little more room to pull that ball.
And as of now, I don't think Griffey is now he's edging off a little further than he had been before.
Throw the first base and he gets back.
I wonder if those walkie talkies are up here. Did Alexander hear it?
Here's a set now. Another throw of the first base and Griffey's back again.
Bill, are the Yankees using the walkie talkies that you know of?
I believe they are. They use them only to place the outfielders and place the infielders.
As Alexander said. And the pitch. Call strike. A fastball on the outside corner. It's two and two.
Maybe we better explain, Bill, in case the folks hadn't heard that the Yankees do use walkie talkies up in the press box.
Presumably to talk to the managers down in the dugout who dare upon wigwags like Connie Mack used to and places his outfielders for defensive pressure.
Quote unquote.
Here's a throw of the first base and Griffey gets back.
Of course, the Kansas City Royals caught the Oakland Athletics using the same equipment in a bullpen and they weren't wigwagging the outfielders.
And back again a first base and Griffey. Of course, they had some binoculars in Kansas City.
But I don't think you can steal science from where that visiting bullpen is in Kansas City. They were looking at something else.
Alexander backs off.
One out. Griffey off first. Two-two pitch. Change is high. Three balls, two strikes on Morgan.
Rensley two to one.
Bottom half of sixth inning.
Now Morgan backs out and looks down at his third base coach, George Shutter.
Let's see if they'll move Griffey on the three-two pitch.
He bounces off first. Now takes the half step.
Now another half step.
And he's going. The pitch is hung on and this throw down a second skips up and is bowled by the strike stop.
Stanley and Griffey safe at second base. Morgan strikes out for the second out.
Here Griffey a stolen base. He's down at second.
Munson got rid of that ball quickly. He tailed down a bit. Stanley got in front of it.
Made sure it would not go through him. But Griffey slid unstably at second base.
And if I may, I did notice that that particular throw by Munson was a sidearm throw.
The first one where he got Perez that you reminded us of was an overarm.
When Munson throws that ball sidearm, when Elliott the ball tends to dip and go into the dirt,
if he gets it up, it'll sail in the center of the field.
Griffey now down at second. Two laps and here's Tony Perez, the first baseman.
The line faces in left field. Griffey around third. He's going to score easily.
And the Reds now lead it three to one. Tony Perez jumping on the first pitch to Joy Alexander.
Now singling in the hole between the great metals in third baseman.
And Perez down to shortstop. And Perez is now three for three.
And the Cincinnati Reds lead it three to one.
And the pressure baseball of getting the man in the scoring position.
Griffey stealing second. Put him in a position to score on that base hit.
And once again the Yankee bullpen gets up.
Marky Lyle, the left-hander, and Dick Cidrow, the right-hander.
And Dan Dresden steps in.
And the Cincinnati Reds lead it three to one.
And the pressure baseball of getting the man in the scoring position.
Griffey stealing second. Put him in a position to score on that base hit.
And once again the Yankee bullpen gets up.
Marky Lyle, the left-hander, and Dick Cidrow, the right-hander.
And Dan Dresden steps in.
Pitch to it. Change up is a called strike on the outside corner.
Dresden is over two against Joy Alexander.
He's flying to center field, flying to left.
Alexander sets. Here's a one-strike pitch.
Another change up. Popped up. Third base side foul territory. Mutsen over there.
And he's got it.
Thurm Mutsen, the catcher, made the catch and foul a ground.
Reds pick up another run.
On just one base hit, they leave a man on base.
And at the end of sixth, here at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, the scorer,
the Reds three, the Yankees one.
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as the Cincinnatians chalk up their third run of the game in the last half of the sixth inning.
Not a big batting display for the world's champions,
but they can make so many things work for them in this game of baseball.
The first man up, Rose, gets a walk. He's hopped out on a fielder's choice.
Griffey on first, a speed ball. Steele second as Morgan strikes out and then the single to left.
Cashier's the run and that's how they do it.
It won't be heard around the world, but on the scoreboard it counts as a run.
And they're ahead three to one with top of the seventh as Chris Chambliss gets ready to step in against Don Gullett.
Chambliss has grounded the second and he's single to left.
He's one for two.
Here's Gullett's first pitch.
Swung on a bit.
Now we're seeing something down there that will be important in the late innings when at least that shadow is just around home plate.
That ball's going to get hard to see in another 10 or 15 minutes.
The one strike pitch is a call. Strike two, a fast ball.
Gilled right in there by Gullett.
Pitcher throwing out of the sunshine into the shadows.
Tough for the batter to pick the ball up.
Two strike pitch.
Chris Chambliss couldn't get out of the way.
He spun around and got hit on the shoulder.
So he's on it first base.
That ball got away from Gullett.
He had with a head and a count no balls, two strikes.
Trying to pitch Chambliss up and in.
Chris couldn't get out of the way of the ball.
He's down at first base.
With nobody out in the batter's Greg Nettles, the third baseman.
Nettles drove in the first run for the Yankees back in the second and again the only run the Yankees have scored with a sacrifice fly.
Granted into a double play in the fifth.
So he's 0-1.
Nettles is a left-handed batter.
Gullett, the left-hander, sets.
And the pitch, high.
Peruzza's playing behind Chambliss.
The Royals did that.
And Chambliss stole a base.
In fact, he led everybody in that American League Championship Series and stole a base with two during the playoffs.
I was about to say, Big Chris had a better lead than anybody I've seen in the game so far.
At least a two-step lead over say what rivers it had.
The 1-0 pitch swung on and bounced slowly towards second.
Morgan, takes the runner, throws the first double play.
Morgan, tacked Chambliss as he went by and flipped on to first base for the double play.
Now Chris missed an opportunity to sort of hit Morgan and keep him from throwing that ball at first base as he ran on the inside towards the mound.
Morgan tacked him, then threw on the first base.
I think the base runner there has either got to flatten that second base or just stay there and keep bumping it.
He cannot let him throw that ball at first base.
Those are two outs.
Once again, Pedro Borbón gets up along with left-hander Will McEnady.
It's a second double play.
The Reds have turned over this ball game and here's Elliott Maddox who has bounced a third triple.
He's one for two and takes high ball.
Top of the seventh.
The Reds lead three to one.
He locks nobody on for the Yankees.
In the last three innings, Bill, the Red infield has been a big help to God.
That ball is in a called strike. It's one and one on Maddox.
In the fifth inning, Shambles led off with a single.
Maddox hit into a double play.
Rivers bunted into a forced play in the sixth inning and was cut down by Vance and now this play by Morgan and Perez.
Yes.
The one-one.
Maddox takes high. Two balls and a strike.
Of course, God helped himself back in that sixth inning after he walked Stanley.
Rivers bunted and he got that ball.
He had a chance at second base but he threw down a second and made a good play there getting Fred Stanley.
Big play.
The two-one.
Swung on, fouled back.
Had he not gotten Stanley there, the line drive in the center field that was dropped by Geronimo with a quarter run.
Two balls, two strikes on Maddox with two outs.
In the seventh inning, Gullit now has the new baseball, rubs it up.
Back up top looking for a sign. The two-two pitch.
Swung on, fouled back again.
Just off the wall. Right in the count remains. Two balls, two strikes on Elliot Maddox.
Save for the ball of Geronimo. Approximately overran there in center field.
The defense has been very tight, right on the money.
Come to the aid of the pitcher just when he needed it most on both sides.
It completed a couple of double plays and so have the Aggies.
Of course, it's hard not to field well on this artificial surface.
Here's the two-two. Low one in the dirt. Three balls, two strikes on Maddox.
Not too many bad outs on this surface.
But not much time to make up your mind how you're going to field the ball and what you're going to do with it.
So it's half a dozen, a one, and a dozen of the outs.
It'll get there to you. Quickly.
Both count on Maddox with two outs.
Gullick winds and the payoff pitch. Low ball, four.
Oh, Maddox walks.
That's a second walk given up by Don Gullick.
Oh, Maddox on it first with two outs. He's not a threat to steal.
He's still playing with an E-brace on.
The batter, Willie Randolph, the second baseman, he's hit the ball higher twice, but he's over two.
A sharp ground ball to Concepcion in the third.
Fly deep to center in the fifth.
And the pitch to Randolph is low ball.
Ratch leads three to one, top of the seventh.
Now time is called.
Larry Shepard, pitching coach for the Cincinnati Ratch, goes out.
He wants to talk first of all to pitch.
And then secondly to Don Gullick.
Now Shepard's looking out at his bullpen.
Larry Shepard. Looks like he wants to go back here. Going to let Gullick stay in.
Shepard just went on for a few quick words. He walked slowly back to the Cincinnati Red Dugout on the first base side.
The bench comes back behind the plate.
Bill, in the first game that Gullick pitched in the playoffs, he tightened up in the eighth inning and he didn't pitch in the ninth inning.
But I think at that time it was an injury to his groin rather than his arm.
And maybe Shepard had detected a change in his motion at that point.
Now he's ready. The 1-0. Low again. Two balls, no strikes.
One thing Doc Ellis said coming out, which might be important,
he said that Gullick can throw as hard as anybody in the windup.
But from the set position or the stretch position, he loses a lot off that fastball.
Ellis said that as a former Pittsburgh Pirate.
Yes. Doc Ellis of course, with the Pirates, says he knows these Reds.
Here's a 2-0. High ball three. Three balls, no strikes on Willie Randolph.
He hit Maddox on it, first base, two out here in the seventh inning. The Reds have a two-run lead. They lead it three to one.
And you can hear something called apprehension. It's rippling through the crowd here at Riverfront Stadium.
Well, an empty set. And the three old pitches in there called strike at three and one.
Now Randolph backs off, looks at his third base, Coach Dick Hauser. Hauser looking at it, Billy Martin.
Now he gives a couple of sides to Randolph.
Here's a set. The pitch. Ball strikes two. Three balls, two strikes on Randolph. So Maddox will be moving.
Otto Valdez has just picked up a bat and he's moved under the on-deck circle.
He'll bat for Fred Stanley if Randolph gets on.
Now the set. Runner going. Payoff pitch is high. Ball four.
So Gullick has walked two in a row here in the seventh inning.
The Yankees have runners at first and second with two outs. And Otto Valdez is being set up to bat for Fred Stanley.
Now Morgan calls time. He wants to talk to Gullick.
The third pass issued by Don Gullick, two of them here in the seventh inning. He hit Chambliss.
He had a no-ball, two-strike count on Chris Chambliss as Chris was leading off here in the seventh.
The Nettles was up and he bounced one slowly to Joe Morgan who tagged the Chambliss and then threw on the first base to complete the double play.
Then Gullick lost his control, walked Maddox, then he walked Randolph.
So the Yankees have runners at first and second. There are two outs and Otto Valdez is batting for Fred Stanley.
Valdez is a right-handed batter.
Gullick sets and deals. Swung on and missed.
Jim Mase has gotten up and he starts throwing in the Yankee bullpen.
Of course he'll come on and play shortstop for the Yankees in the bottom part of the seventh inning.
Like you people say, Gullick reached back that time. Valdez, his swing was perceptibly behind the pitch.
Here's a one-strike pitch. Swung on and bowled back. No ball, two strikes.
We mentioned earlier when Elita bought that shadow and it's just about got home plate covered now.
And the hitter, the catcher, and the umpire have a little bit more trouble seeing the baseball as the pitcher's throwing from the sunshine into the shadows.
Two strikes on Valdez. Runners lead off first and second with two outs.
The pitch outside, one ball, two strikes.
Valdez on the year for the Yankees, batted 266 in two home runs and drove in 10 runs.
Only got into 49 ball games.
Now Gullick gets a sign and sets.
The one-two. Swung on and the lead goes down to Lee.
Big strikeout for Don Gullick. No runs, no hits, no errors by the Cincinnati Reds.
The Yankees lead two men on base.
We go in the bottom half of seventh inning into red three, the New York Yankees, one.
When you say, but, you tell the world you know what makes it all the way.
When you say, but, you say you're carrying on to only one, the king of the years.
There is no other one. There's only something left.
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I understand a couple of times I've said this is Riverside Stadium.
Of course it is. It's Riverside Drive and Riverfront Stadium.
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Game two tomorrow night here at Riverfront Stadium.
Airtime 8.15, Eastern Daylight Time right here on this CBS station.
The Yankees have been threatening in the last couple of innings.
They've left five men on, I see, in the last two innings, but have failed to crack through.
The Finch hit it at that time. Mahalo, the last guy going down.
It was a healthy swing, but really not a threat the way he took his cuts.
All right, Bill, we've got a new defensive lineup for the New York game.
We've got a new shortstop. When Elliott Jim Mason comes on to play shortstop, is George Foster steps in for the reds.
Reds lead three to one, bottom of the seventh.
Line, faced in left field by Foster. Foster jumping on a curve ball and looking at the left.
White foul was a ball. Foster started to go to second base, but changed his mind.
Unfortunately for Foster, because White threw a strike at the second base.
So George Foster, a leadoff single here in the seventh, he's not two for two.
Of course, his first baseman was a routine ground ball to third base that Perez, Tony Perez, ran into.
And technically, Foster got a base hit. And once again, the Yankee bullpen gets busy.
It's Tidrow and Lyle. Tidrow, the right-hander, Sparky Lyle, the left-hander.
Here's Johnny Bench, who's one for two, a single to center.
Bench to bench. Back ball is low.
Reds now have three runs on eight base hits. The Yankees one run on four.
Bottom half of seventh inning.
Here's the one out of bench. Swung on line, deep to right field.
The ball is up against the wall.
Bounces back in just past Maddox.
Around first base is Foster. He's going to score.
And Bench takes it to third base with a dribble.
And the Reds lead it four to one.
Johnny Bench going to the opposite field.
Looks like that ball was going to be out of here.
Hit high off the wall and bounced back past Maddox.
And by the time Maddox got the ball back in, Foster had scored from first base.
And Bench is over third with an RBI triple.
And Billy Martin now walking out to the mound.
And that might be all for Doyle Alexander.
Martin wants the left-hander, Sparky Lyle.
Well, Bill, you called it.
You said that it would be the sixth inning.
The pace or the berth might begin to show on a pitcher Doyle Alexander.
You're about an out-lake. But here we are.
Well, that's only because I think the hitters finally get to the point
where they realize that Alexander will not throw the fastball by them.
So the news from Riverfront Stadium here in Cincinnati is 4-1, a change in pictures.
So let's take a brief update from CBS News in New York.
CBS News. I'm Steve Young reporting on the CBS Radio Network.
President Ford and Jimmy Carter exchanged telegrams today.
Carter charged Mr. Ford with making misleading and erroneous statements
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It's reported quiet there today.
Syria's president has ordered his troops to stop fighting.
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Back at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati where Sparky Lyle is finishing his warm-ups
as he has just replaced Doyle Alexander in the bottom of the seventh inning
as the Reds have now gone 4-1 in the lead as a result of Johnny Bench's screening line drive
down the right field line.
It just hit the wall maybe four or five feet below the top,
and I'm told by local observers that back in 1972,
the historic home run that Johnny hit that defeated the Fifth-Bird Pirates
or at least tied up the game at that point, went to the same spot, just that much higher, and into the stands.
So the Reds threatening with Bench on third and Cesar Geronimo at the plate, Bill White.
All right, what? Sparky Lyle coming on in relief of Doyle Alexander here in the bottom of the seventh
with the Reds leading 4-1, Johnny Bench in third base.
Nobody out, Yankees bring their infield in.
Geronimo is over two, left-handed batter.
First pitch to him is Wong-Hunter Ness.
Lyle getting that slider down and away.
Sparky had another excellent year for the Yankees.
He picked up 23 saves and seven wins in 1976.
Here's the 0-1 to Geronimo, outside blocked by Hudson now.
He can't find it and Bitt will score.
Reds now lead 5-1, and we'll see if that's a wild pitch or a fast ball.
Wild pitch, wild pitch charged to Sparky Lyle. Reds now lead 5-1.
And a count on Geronimo with the ball on the strike.
That ball was to the left of Munchen.
He got that ball down there, blocked it, and it kicked back to his right.
He couldn't find the ball, and Bench alertly scored from third base.
The 1-1, swung on line left there, and that's going to be a base that might blow the wall.
He's got to rock it off, and he does, but a round first base and digging in to second is Desire Geronimo.
And the Reds have come alive. Here's the bottom half to 7-8.
Yep. The world champions are playing like it's now.
The game has been even up until this inning, 3-1, and one swipe at the bat by one of the Yankee power hitters could have brought it back in focus.
But with the first three batters, the game has completely changed to Cincinnati now.
That's tripled by Bench off the right field wall after the single.
By Foster followed by this double has now changed the entire complexion of the game.
Now here's David Contefion, and he takes high from Lyle.
Whether it's the lively ball or the lively field, up to 10 hits made for the Reds so far, 5 have been for extra bases, Bill.
Lyle sets again. Here's the 1-0. Contefion fouls it straight back into ball and the strike.
Desire Geronimo down at second base. There's nobody out here in the seventh inning. The Reds lead 5-1.
Now that finishes up by Alexander's record.
The 1-1 has punted out and missed. 1-2.
Alexander went 6-plus, pitched to two runner batters here in the seventh, gave up 5 runs on 9 base hits.
He struck out 1 and walked 2.
Brad Jackson and Nick Tidrell loosening up in the Yankee bullpen.
Geronimo offset.
Here's the 1-2 to Contefion. Swung on and missed.
It's a big, breaking curve ball, and there's one away.
So Contefion strikes out. Geronimo till at second.
And the hand is for Pete Rose.
Rose is 0-1 on the ball game, although he's been up three times.
He fly into center field to lead the ball game off in the first.
He drove in a run, the Reds' second run of the ball game with a sacrifice fly to center in the third, and he walked in the sixth.
This is the first time we've seen him as a right-hander in this game, facing a left-handed Lyle.
Yankees play roller straight away.
Lyle sets, checks the runner, and deals.
Bounce towards shortstop, who is left to Mason.
The left-hander to shortstop goes on the first base of God Rose, and on the play Geronimo goes to third.
So with two outs of batter will be Ken Griffey, the right fielder.
Griffey so far is 0-3.
Lined to left pop to the third base from Greg Nettles and forced to runner at second base in the sixth.
Then he stole a base and scored on a single by Tony Perez.
They have five runs on ten hits, the Yankees one run on four.
Playing the bottom half to seven.
Lyle sets, and the pitch.
Griffey takes low and away. Good stop there by Mason.
He saved a wild pitch.
Wild basically is a slider pitcher.
He keeps that slider down and away from left-handers.
Every once in a while he'll try to hit them on the pitch with a fast ball.
Here's a 1-0. Swung on a miss.
One ball, one strike on Griffey.
Griffey almost won the National League batting title.
Yeah. That last day when he sat it out until he discovered that Madlock was killing the ball,
and then he came off the bench for two times at bat and struck out both times.
Now the set by Lyle. Here's a 1-1 pitch.
Swung on, bounce foul.
And at the photographer's section, just to the left of the Cincinnati Reds, got on the first base side.
A ball and two strikes on Griffey.
Bill, I don't necessarily mean to pertain to Griffey's performance,
but it's been my experience in any sport at any time.
You can't press buttons. I don't care how good you are.
Unless you're out there to give all the time, you can't sit back and say,
well, I'll do it when I want to.
When you do it when you want to, you're found more wanting than wanting.
You're saying it's hard to turn it on and off.
It sure is.
Here's a 1-2 to Griffey.
Swaved at a wide breaking slider.
But the Reds score twice.
On three bases to leave a man on base.
And at the end of seven, the Reds five, the Yankees one.
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This is WBBM Chicago, News Radio 78.
It's one minute past 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 47 degrees, wind northwest, 10 miles an hour.
Here we are back on the banks of the Ohio.
Can't say the side of the Ohio.
The banks of the Ohio, the Riverfront Stadium, the home of the Cincinnati Reds,
and right now the home of the free and the happy Cincinnati fans,
who've seen their clubs put together 10 hits, 5 runs, and committed one error.
The Yanks, threatening occasionally, have only got four hits off Don Gullit in one run.
As we go into the top of the eighth inning, that's the story.
5-1, Cincinnati Reds, and mix it quick up there, Bill.
And Mark Anderson taking no chances.
He's got a couple of guys warming up as Gullit deals high to Rivers.
They go for Bone and Will McEnany, a left-hander and a right-hander.
For Bone, the right-hander, and McEnany, the left-hander.
Rivers so far is over three against Gullit.
Passball popped up behind the plate.
Johnny Bench throws the mask away.
He's got a robe, and he's got it.
Boy, he makes things look easy when Elliott.
That's Johnny Bench.
Yeah, like we said before, when it comes to catchers,
we've got four of them down there that are the golden arms, I suppose.
And looking right down at a bench's face as he was assessing the pop-flies,
he was absolutely serene and confident. There was no question.
No way he was going to miss that ball.
He had a magnet in the glove.
Oh, there's one out, nobody on. Eighth inning, here's Roy White.
He was bounced out, lined out, and got on on an error by centerfielders.
These aren't Geronimo, so White's over three.
Reds lead 5-1, eighth inning.
On deck is Thurman.
Here's Gullit's first pitch to White.
Swung on line, base in left field.
Backing up and getting it on a couple of hops is Foster.
He gets it back, and then White will hold it first.
Boy, the fifth base hit in this ballgame for the Yankees.
White on it first, one out, and the batter third of much.
Bill, on the previous pitch, Don Gullit stumbled on the mound.
I was going to say, had there been a man on base, that would have been a balk.
He has now bent over, and he may have pulled a muscle in the groin
as he had done in the first game, or maybe even Sparky Anderson is out there.
The trainer is out there. It looks like it's in his right ankle or foot.
And right away, Anderson Beckins. He wants the right-hander, Pedro Borbón.
So Borbón will come on, and of course, he'll get as much time as he needs
because Gullit's being taken off because of an injury.
It seemed inconsequential at the time when Don stumbled on the previous delivery,
but obviously he turned his ankle. He turned that right ankle,
and the crowd pumped to its feet here at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati
to salute Don Gullit as he leaves the game after having faced the one batter
or the two batters in the eighth inning, giving up a single to Roy White.
And as I have it, that was the fifth hit of the eight and one third innings
that he has pitched, and he's allowed to single run the seven and one third innings.
And now Pedro Borbón, who has been the backbone of the Cincinnati Red Relief Corps
for a couple of years with the trading of Clay Carroll.
It was Carroll and Borbón who used to carry. Then the kids came, McEnany and Eastwick.
I have a theory about this Cincinnati Red Club.
They've been at the Big Red Machine since 1970, but in all that time they have only won the pennant,
that is the World Series and the championship last year.
They were bested by the Orioles. They were defeated by Oakland.
But it was with the appearance of the two fuzzy-cheeked kids last year,
Eastwick and McEnany, who had fabulous years coming in from either side of the plate,
that relieved pitchers that this club, I won't say matured,
but it gave them just the thing they needed.
Well, it's impossible for Sparky Anderson to change his name to Captain Hook.
He can't be Captain Hook unless you've got somebody to follow up the hook.
And it was those two kids who did it.
Just a theory of mind, Bill, just like on your club, the Yankees.
They're great pennant-winning champions. They've always had great relief pitchers.
Going back to Will Seymour and Joe Faith, Johnny Murphy, it doesn't happen unless you've got that stuff.
And this club is worth the Sparky loud, Dick Tidrow, Grant Jackson.
Well, four-point is ready, and he pitches to Bunsen, and it's up and in the ball.
So Gullard went seven in the third, gave up one run on five, hit struck out four, walked three.
Of course, White's responsibility, Perez playing behind White at first base,
one out here in the top of the eighth.
Pop file, that's back over our head, hits the ball to strike on Muzzin.
If Lefty Gomez is listening out here in San Francisco, mentioning Johnny Murphy must make his left arm tingle.
Now four-point, sets the deal.
Best ball, bounce slowly toward third. Over there's a picture, four-point, throws on the first base, off balance, they've got Muzzin.
And moving into second base is Roy White.
Oh, they're two out to put out one-three. Good play by both.
And we're going to get a pitch for Lou Pennella.
Carlos May is going to bat for Lou Pennella.
Billy Martin going for a left-hander here against a right-handed pitcher.
Now Raleigh Eastwick gets up, along with Will McEnna, he's with the right-hander.
Bill, that was a big out for a four-ball.
That Muzzin, as he goes, this club has been going.
Carlos May takes the strike.
Reds have a five-to-one lead.
Playing the top of the eighth, they're two outs, White is down at second base.
The next pitch, line right field, but right there's Murphy going back now, and he's got it on the run.
Murphy started in, then had to go back and made the catch on the run for the third out.
So the Yankees, though, run to base it, and the White was left at second base.
We're going to the bottom of the eighth, the red spot, the Yankees, one.
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Three, one.
We're back at Riverfront Stadium where we're approaching the last half of the eighth inning with the home team Cincinnati Red, seemingly in command of the game five to one.
Spocky Lyle now in relief of the starter Doyle Alexander and Pedro Borbón who came in to stop out a yanky chance last inning as Don Gullis seemingly turned his ankle after pitching to one batter and had to be removed.
Yank might have had a chance with their big hitter Munson without the pitcher to the first and then a fly ball to right field.
And right now it looks like the champions are in command.
Bill?
All right, when did Joe Morgan, the fellow who's helped the champions, short getting in command, he homered in the first.
And he takes outside from Lyle.
Morgan also flies the center left center to white before and struck out in the sixth.
First time he's faced Spocky Lyle.
Line, Willie Randolph leaps to second base, he makes the catch.
Morgan went down and got a little fastball lined to the second base with Willie Randolph and there's one away.
And the hand is for Tony Perez.
Perez is three for three in this ball game this afternoon with a run batted in.
He's got two singles and a double.
Yanky, flame straight away.
Tony Perez, three for three.
On the air he batted just two sixties.
Nineteen home runs, ninety-one runs batted in.
And he takes a strike on the outside corner.
And to get those ninety-one RBIs he drove in three runs the last day of the season.
Sliders inside, it's one and one.
It's hard for Perez to get much recognition.
He sits around Morgan, Rose, Bench, Twings and he doesn't get a slider.
A ball and two strikes.
In fact, there was some question as to whether he had sufficient recognition with the Reds front office a couple of years ago.
There was a lot of talk about Tony being on the block, whether that was true or not.
Of course, that's brought him on to a good season next year.
The one-two is pop-file out of play right side, counter-mains.
A ball and two strikes on Perez.
On deck is Dandridge.
That's knowing your personality then, Bill.
I mean, not yours, but some people do better when they know their love.
Some people do a little better when they know they're under pressure.
I like to be under a little pressure.
Really?
Yes.
Did your managers know that?
Well, they loved it.
The one-two is foul straight back.
I put the pressure on myself, Wes.
I've got that.
Well, that's the best kind to be self-motivated.
It doesn't make any difference what business you're in.
Lyle gets a new ball.
He works quickly.
The one-two fixer Perez is hung on.
Let's then scoop that ball up and tag Perez, and they're two outs.
Lyle has come on and struck out three.
Oh, they're two outs.
Nobody on for the Reds and the A's.
Then in the batter, Dandridge is the designated hitter.
He's flied to center field, flied to left field, and fouled out.
Over three.
Dandridge will be the D.H. against right-handed pitchers.
Bob Bailey, the D.H. against left-handed pitchers.
As Dreesen takes the strike on the inside corner.
Of course, the Reds lead it 5-1, so Anderson allowing Dreesen to bat against Lyle.
Sliders won't admit it.
No ball, two strikes.
Does he consider that Dreesen is a better hitter downer than Bailey?
More like Dries?
Bounce to first base.
Campbell's fouled the ball, and nobody's covering first.
Lyle did not break off the mound.
And when Campbell's fouled that ball, nobody was there to catch the throw.
And we'll wait to see what the official score says.
I would anticipate that it be two errors.
One that will go on the books to Chambliss, and one will not go on the books to Lyle.
Well, they give one, you're right, when they do give the physical error to Chris Chambliss.
And of course, Lyle not being there, as Chambliss got that ball, looked for it, but there was nobody there.
That's the Yankees first year of the ball game.
And here's George Bostas, a left fielder, runner at first, two outs.
Runner going!
Popped up left side, white coming on, still coming, glasses down in left field, and he puts it away for out number three.
No runs, no hits, near and a man left on base.
And here's the base, here at Riverfront Stadium in Central Valley.
The score, the Reds five, the Yankees one.
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I've been told that one of the hallmarks of the Cincinnati crowd was that they never left the stadium when their team was behind.
Now Bill White is going to take the play.
Bounce to first base, right there's Perez as Campbell's jumped on the first pitch and Perez,
he's going to put the bag and there's one away. One pitch, one out here in the ninth inning. The Reds have a 5-1 lead and this crowd went Elliott.
Not too many of them leaving as you mentioned. They're ahead but they're staying here.
They want to see what the Reds are going to do. The Reds lead 5-1, one out, nobody on. Greg Nettles is back.
Bill, that comes under the heading of how sweet it is.
Yes, you want to stay and enjoy it as long as you can.
Four-bone pitch to Nettles is down low.
Nettles has given in a run with a sacrifice. Flies also bounced into a couple of double plays.
Basketball line and backhanded by Perez at first base.
Two outs, Tony Perez not only having a fine day with a bat but also with the leather.
And they're two outs.
Tony is twice left today by the Lord of Defense and the head man of offense.
Here's Elliott Maddux and we're going to get Maddux called back and Oscar Gamble will bat for him.
So Gamble batting for Maddux here with two outs and nobody on as Patriel Bormbone is just one out away.
Putting the nail in the Yankee's sovereign here in the first game of the 1976 World Series.
Gamble bats left handed and he takes high and away a ball.
And the 1-0 to Gamble. Swung on and foul straight back and that got Lee Weier the whole plate on fire on his right arm.
And it's one and one.
Well when this game is over you'll hear some kind of roar from the Cincinnati Reds fans.
Here's the 1-1 to Gamble. Ball is high, didn't break, hits two and one.
Understand that Anderson used to take Tony Perez out for Danny Driesen.
Late in ball games for defensive reasons.
Well Perez is doing his job with the leather today.
Popped up left side foul territory, Pete Rose over there in the Yankee dugout and the ball game is over.
Oscar Gamble following up to Pete Rose. Yankees go three down to the ninth.
Final score, the Cincinnati Reds win the first game of the World Series here in 1976.
It's a red five, the Yankees won.
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Well, the Cincinnati Reds before their hometown crowd here in Riverfront Stadium got off wing and they won the opening game of the World Series 5-1.
And in the very first inning, the ubiquitous Joe Morgan with one swing at the bat put it into the right field stance.
And that was as many runs as the New York Yankees could get in.
Nine full tries at the bat against the combined efforts of Don Gullit and his reliever Pedro Borbon.
Gullit went seven in the third inning, seemingly twisted his left ankle, gave up the five hits in the only run.
The Yankees could do nothing with the relief try of Borbon.
And that was the story. The Reds didn't overpower the Yankees.
The Yankees didn't give them that much.
It was just an inexorable kind of thing. The champions got the edge and they maintained it.
The Yankees got a run back in the second inning as you recall, Bill, when Panella doubled down the right field line on a long fly in the center field, put them back in the ball game and made it even.
And the Reds went out front in the third inning. You remember how that happened?
Along the third with one out, Davy Concepcion doubled in the left center field and tripled in the left center field. That ball got past the White and Rivers in the sacrifice fly by P. Rose.
Drove in Davy Concepcion.
As you mentioned, when Elliott was all red, you know, we sit up here and we talk, but they do a lot of little things, a lot of little things that make them the ball club they are.
If they don't hit, they can still get on base. They can steal a run here and there as we saw them do it.
They're just a good ball club. Yankee ball club, also a good ball club. But I think the Yankees are going to have to get runs.
I don't think they can depend on winning a ball game one to nothing with the Cincinnati Reds ball club. They're going to have to score runs.
Yeah, I don't think you can count on beating them one to nothing. You really have to beat them. We'll be back to Riverfront Stadium in just one minute.