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On October 17th, 1976, the New York Yankees faced the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium for Game 2 of the 1976 World Series.
The Reds led the best of seven series, one game to none, and this is the CBS Radio broadcast of Game 2 featuring announcers Bill White and Wynn Elliott.
As Mickey Rivers steps in against left-hander Brad Norman, this ballgame is about to be underway, and the first pitch, the fastball is hit in the air to right center field.
Moving to his left is Geronimo. Now Griffey backs off, and Geronimo is in the field and makes a catch. There's one away.
Now it's one-pitch, one-out, and that'll bring on Roy White. Rivers didn't waste any time at all. He jumped on Norman's first pitch.
At the bellwether of this Yankee club, Rivers has knocked on to bat five times without getting on safely. He was on base once on a field of strikes and a bunt, and then was cut down stealing. That does not order well for the Yankees.
If Rivers does not get on base, the Yankees have a lot of double-scoring runs. And here's Wynch and Roy White, 286 in on the air for the Yankees.
He makes a bunt, takes a strike. The umpire is by the way of the American League, Lou Demuro behind the plate. Billy Williams at first base, Bill Deegan at second, Bruce Florming at third, Dave Phillips at left, and Lee Weier at right.
The one-strike pitch is low, one ball, one strike on Roy White. Roy was one for four yesterday. They blame straight away.
Norman looking for side. Still looking. Now the 1-1 pitch to White. Swung on, looped into center field, going back to Morgan, and he makes the catch on the run.
Joe Morgan got a good jump on that little looper in the center field, had their two out.
At the second time Morgan has made that similar play. I think one in the earlier game off of great nettles. He just looped back on center field and took the fly ball and netted right in his clock.
Of course he has, it's said that he is the most complete ball player in baseball, or the most complete player in baseball, and I think that's true.
Joe Morgan can do a lot of things for you. Runs well, hits well, field bases, field disposition, turns the double play, drives and runs. Not much else you can do.
Here's the fellow who's done that for the Yankees. They're much in the catcher. Much in bad at 3-0-2 on the air for the Yankees.
The Yankees at 17 home runs and Joe has been 105 runs, and he has one in the air right side. Morgan going back, Griffey, the right fielder, coming on and calling.
He's under it, and he puts it away for out number three. So the Yankees go three up, three down on the top of the first. Bottom of the first coming up.
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And you sensed at the Riverfront Stadium Cincinnati Red crowd here with a combination of a cheer, apprehension, the whole bit.
They sure enjoyed seeing Freddie Norman put the Yankees down in order then because, as I say, you felt the sort of the tremors of apprehension go through this town this afternoon.
Not on the playing field of the Reds, but the crowd. Guess who's up, Bill?
Pete Rose. Pete Rose will lead off against Catfish Hunter here in the bottom half of the first inning. No score in the ball game, as what Elliott mentioned. Fred Norman got the Yankees out on five pitches in the top of this inning.
Rose is 0 for 2 so far in the series.
Joe's in a run with the sacrifice fly. Hits one in the air left field. White going back. He's got plenty of room. Turns now and he's got it. And there's one away. Well, both teams won, Elliott. They come out tough to slice.
Yeah, I guess they want to get warm in a hurry. Both the first batters went right after the first pitch and hit it in the air.
Oh, there's one out, nobody on. That'll bring on the right fielder, Ken Griffey. He was also 0 for 4 yesterday. Stole a base, though, and Joe's corner run. Griffey batted 336 on the year for the Cincinnati Reds, just behind Bill Madlak of the Chicago Cubs.
And he starts the swing but takes a curveball inside.
Catfish on it normally has good control. He has a good slider, pretty good curveball, not overly fast. Spots the ball well. Here's a 1-0 to Griffey. Fast ball on the outside corner. It's a called strike. It's 1-1.
On deck for the Reds, Joe Morgan.
That'll shorten up a third base for Griffey. Everybody else plays him straight away. Here's a 1-1 pitch to Griffey. Swung on it in the air left center. After it's white, still going. Also, Rivers there. Now white's the left fielder calling, and he puts it away in their two outs.
Well, the first two batters for the Reds have gone to the opposite field.
Hitting the ball where Hunter puts it, and I presume that's where Hunter wants them to hit. Catfish moves the ball in and out when he changes speed as well. As we mentioned earlier, a pretty good pitcher, a heavy pitcher.
And he's got a tough hitter to face now, Joe Morgan, the second baseman. Morgan was 1-4 yesterday. That hit a home run.
It isn't the first inning with nobody on base. Joe Morgan, a left-handed batter. Bowels the first pitch back. No balls, one strike. No score. Bottom half the first inning, two outs, nobody on for the Reds.
Outfield for Morgan, swings around toward right field with Panella deep and in the corner. Here's a one-strike pitch. Low and inside, a ball on the strike.
Nettles the third baseman, Stanley the shortstop. Randolph at second, Chambliss at first. Here's a 1-1 to Morgan. Curve ball, hit foul, upper deck right side. One ball, two strikes on Morgan.
Joe got way out in front of a breaking ball. Yankee outfield has White playing way over in left center, Rivers in right center, and Panella in the corner in right field.
Hunter looks first side. Now he rocks, and the 1-2 pitch. Just missed inside. Two balls, two strikes. Bill, I notice that Joe Morgan, of all the batters, is not wearing batting gloves on this cold evening.
They hit it good, doesn't stick. Flash ball, line base, hit center field for Morgan. Rivers hustles that ball in, and Morgan with a big turn at first base goes back.
When you hit line drives like that, you never feel them. Oh, Morgan on at first base.
Children out, and the Reds now, they expect Morgan to start towards second base. Time is called by second base umpire Bill Deegan. Tony Perez steps in for the Reds. And I don't see an empty seat in the house. Well, yesterday they had 54,626, and we'll be around that figure again.
Perez was three for four yesterday. A double, two singles, and a run batted in. He bats right in. Hunter checking on Morgan at first base. The pitcher goes to Morgan, taking first strike, so the second's too high. Joe Morgan is going second base.
Now Morgan wastes no time at all on the first pitch from Hunter. He took off at 12 second base, so he's in court with two outs to count, no balls in the strike on Tony Perez. And he was there before the ball.
Now Hunter is taking a long look at much of the land off the second base, but trying to keep Morgan close to second base. Here's a one strike pitch. It's high. A ball on the strike on Perez.
Well, as Sparky said yesterday, his club didn't play as aggressively as he liked. They've changed.
Here's a one-one. Swing and a miss as Hunter slipped off the mound. Catfish really fell off the mound as he threw that baseball, and Perez swung through it one ball, two strikes.
Talking to Dick Tidrow about that mound, he says it's one of the hardest mounds he's ever seen, and he feels that's one of the reasons that Don Cullin suffered that tendon pull in his ankle.
Very hard mound. Now Hunter checks Morgan at second, and the one-two. Swung on, popped up. The shortstop Stanley coming on. Now he gives way to Greg Nettles at third base, but the Nettles makes the catch up behind the mound.
Low runs to base hit, the man left on base. That's the end of one here at Riverfront Stadium. The score, the Yankees nothing, the Cincinnati Reds nothing.
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I told you it was a good idea for me to make friends with Eddie. You know, he's a good kid.
Jim, I didn't leave the car because he said it would take three weeks to get the muffler parts.
Oh. Well, then did you take it to Jerry's Motor City? After all, Jerry sold me that car. You know, we went to high school together. Oh, we're like that, good old Jerry and me.
Yeah, well, that's probably why good old Jerry put us very first on the waiting list for an appointment a week from Friday.
A week from Friday? Uh-huh. Oh, wow. The neighbors, they're going to start complaining. No, they won't. Hmm, they won't? Nope.
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Went out in with Bill White back at Riverfront in Cincinnati. End of the first inning, no score. Freddie Norman took care of the three Yankees with neatness and dispatch.
The catfish had a little problem with the top of the Cincinnati order, a solid single to right center by Morgan.
He immediately stole second base, but Perez was not equal, and he popped out to third.
About the mound, Bill, I happened to notice prior to the game that the ground crew was out there with one of those flatteners, you know, the pounders that square a piece of metal and you pound.
Anyway, they were out there on the mound and pounding and pounding and pounding. At the time, I thought that was to keep anybody from digging a hole there, the possibility of that's what did it with Gullet.
Maybe that is their usual custom, I don't know, but Cidro was absolutely right. They make it hard by pounding it down.
And he, Cidro, felt that the way Gullet comes at you, when he really puts that front foot down, the right foot, as he comes at the hitter, that that jarring, continual jarring has got to hurt him.
Evidently, Cidro was watching Gullet from the Yankee bullpen and from the bench.
Top of the second, and Lou Pennella will lead off against Mr. Norman.
Pennella doubled in score yesterday. He batted 281 on the air for the Yankees. Likes to hit the ball to the right side. He bats right-handed.
And the first pitch is low, a ball. They play a little straight away.
Top of the second, no score from here in Cincinnati, second game of the 1976 World Series.
Here's Norman's one-oh pitch.
Hits low again, two balls, no strikes.
It'll be Pennella, Tambus, and Greg Nettles against Fred Norman here in the second inning.
Here's a two-oh to Pennella.
Called strike, a breaking ball, it's two and one.
The blue backs off, he looks at home plate on fire, Louis Demuro doesn't say too much.
At one time, Pennella had probably the hottest temper in all of baseball.
He's really calmed down a bit.
Here's a two-one to Pennella.
Swung on it on the ground, shortstop, and backhanded by Concepcion, but he does not have a play.
Concepcion backhanded that ball way back and the hole just held onto it.
So Pennella got something he doesn't normally get in infield hits.
Pennella on it first base, nobody else. The batter will be Chris Tambus.
Concepcion plays a deep shortstop anyway.
By the time he picked that ball up, he was way out on left field and he decided not to try to throw it.
Pennella was at first by the time he made his decision not to throw it, and a very wise one and an obvious one.
Perez will play behind Pennella.
As Tambus steps in. He was one for three yesterday, a left-handed hitter.
Here's a pitch to him, and it's low a ball.
Just thinking now, we've got an American League umpire, and that's a high ball league.
Norman threw that ball down around the knees, and Morgan now coming on talking to Norman.
And he's probably going to remind them that you've got a guy back there in a maroon jacket.
You don't have that guy in a blue jacket.
Yes, the American Leaguers, their style of preference for the series is the maroon jacket,
whereas the National Leaguers have the dark blue and the old-fashioned cap
affected by the pituitary pirates this year, the 1890s or wherever.
And there is a difference in the umpiring.
For the National League, the strike zone is a lot lower.
Here's the one over to Tambus, and it's low again, two balls, no strikes.
The American League now, and a lot of the umpires are using the inside chest protector,
that's what the National League umpires use.
Here's a 2-0 to Tambus, and it's outside ball three, three balls, no strikes.
Three balls, and no strikes on Chris Tambus.
Lou Pennell on at first base, no outs, top of the second, no score in the ball game.
Here's a 3-0, and it's in there.
Strike, it was taken by Tambus, three and one.
Norman taking a lot of time.
Now he sets.
Checks Pennell off first base.
Here's a 3-1 pitch.
Swung on in there.
Good fastball, bailed in on Tambus, and the count is full, three balls, two strikes.
Now Pennell looks over at Elston Howard, his first base coach.
Now they both look over at their third base coach, Dick Hauser.
Perez still playing behind Pennell.
Here's a payoff pitch.
Swung on in in the air, center field.
Going back is Geronimo, he's got plenty of room now.
Backing up, he's got it.
Pennell halfway down to second base, gets back to first.
There's one away.
That was a well-hit ball, just about 400 feet out there.
The Walden Center is 404.
Remember we told you yesterday this is the symmetrical part.
Down the lines it's 330.
Right and left center are exactly the same, 375.
And dead center is 404.
Here's Greg Nettles, the Yankee third baseman.
Nettles bats left-handed.
He led the American League home run.
This year he had 32 of them.
He was 0-3 yesterday with a run battered, and he drove in the Yankees' only run.
Perez won it 5-4-5-1 for Don Gullich.
Gullich won it, Alexander lost it.
First base to Nettles.
Fastball in the air, left center, back there, the left fielder, Foster.
Backing up, and he's got it.
Tagging at first base and making going to second is Pennell, but he holds it up and comes back.
Two outs.
Taking a look at the flags above the stadium, Bill, you will notice in dead center the American flag and the World's Champion flag are briefly blowing to right field.
But as you look at the flags in right field, they lie limp on their poles, and the flags in left field lie limp on their poles.
So this is another part where the wind cards do tricks.
Yes.
Yankee day in the same kind of a place.
Elliot Maddox, the designated hitter, steps in.
Maddox was 1-2 yesterday and with a three-base hit.
That's right-handed.
Here's a set by Norman and the first pitch.
Ball strike on the outside corner.
Now Perez decides to hole Pennell at first base.
Maddox backs out.
Players are broken out there, Turtleneck for the nice action.
Here's a set now by Norman and the one strike pitch.
Screwball misses outside, it's 1-1.
And like they say, he had a notion on that one.
That screwball is always a tough pitcher from a left-hander.
I don't know how the pitcher keeps his wrist in place when he throws a screwball.
Why doesn't the hand fall off?
He's got a tough pitch for your elbow.
Turn that ball over like that.
You ever see Carl Hubbell?
Yeah.
The 1-1 swung on foul straight back by Maddox, one ball to the strike.
Bill, before your day and before mine too, to be utterly honest,
Chrissy Matheson used to throw it and they called it a fadeaway.
Then when Hubbell came along, they gave it the connotation of screwball.
But I still don't know how you can throw it and still keep your arm fast down.
Well, you've seen their arms haven't you?
Have you ever seen Hubbell's arm?
No.
You know, Carl, I think still is head of the farm system for the San Francisco Giants and is just inside out.
It's just turned around for throwing that screwball so much.
Like a cart screw.
Yes.
Now Norman sets the 1-2 to Maddox.
Swung on a bit.
Got him with the screwball.
Maddox goes down swinging for the third out.
No runs, the base hits, the man left on base.
We're going to the bottom of the second.
The Yankees nothing, the Cincinnati Reds nothing.
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Javier Hunter is out there in the lap.
This is a nickname that was given to him by Charlie.
It's something he's as the public would recognize and identify with.
Jim Hunter, who has done so well, both for the O'Connays and the New York Yankees.
And now the pitches for his club as the Cincinnati Reds come up for their turn at bat for the second time with no score here.
So far both the pitchers have been in command.
A little apprehension on the part of the Reds fans here as Norman gave up a base hit in that half of the second.
But he settled down and got them in order.
So Bill White, each team with one hit as we go to the last half of the second, the Reds have.
All right, Wynellia.
Dan Dreesen, the designated hitter for the Reds, steps in.
Dreesen, the first guy ever used officially as a designated hitter in the National League.
He was 0-4 yesterday, left-handed batter batting a 2-47 on the air for the Reds.
And he takes a fastball for a strike.
They give Dreesen a lot of the left field line as White's playing over in left center.
Hunter right back with the 0-1 pitch.
At its low, a ball of the strike.
It'll be Dreesen, Foster, and Johnny Pinch for the Reds.
In the bottom half of second inning, here's the 1-1 pitch.
Swung on it in the air, deep center field after Dreesen, still going, and it's up against the wall.
Around first base, taking for second is Dreesen.
He'll hold there with a double.
Dan Dreesen got a half-mile fastball and drilled it off the wall.
Deep center of the ball, bounced right back to Rivers, who got it in quickly.
And they held Dreesen down at second base with a double.
He got all that one.
That was strictly power, Bill, strictly power.
It was a highball, as you called it.
And hitting it to center, it just shaded to the left.
Naturally, he didn't get around on it, but he did have the fast part of the bat on it,
and it was all shoulder, muscle, and hunched in there.
It went out on a line.
So Dreesen down at second with a leadoff double.
That'll bring on the left fielder, George Foster.
Foster picked up a couple of bases yesterday, one of them a brown ball,
that hit 20 breads running between second and third.
He batted 3.06 on the air for the reds, did 29 home runs, drove in 121 runs.
And the fastball misses outside, and once again, Catrey Dunner slips on top.
And that blew off.
There's that hard count.
He's digging at it now, as if to answer to your comment,
and probably Dick, of course, told him about the hardness of the mound.
He anticipated it.
It wouldn't surprise me when to see Billy Martin get that Cincinnati Reds bounce through out there
and loosen up some of that mound.
Billy will do that.
Utterset, and the 1-0.
Misses low. Two balls, no strikes on Foster.
On deck is Johnny Bunch.
No score in the ball game.
We're the bottom half of second inning.
Dandreessen down at second base with a leadoff double.
Dunner having a little bit of trouble with the mound here in Cincinnati.
Here's the 2-0 pitch.
Checks the swing. He takes outside. Three balls, no strikes.
Now Foster looks at his third base, goes to George Sugar.
He'd like to get a green light on this 3-0 pitch.
George is not the most agile of looking people.
He's not the sleekest looking guy.
He's not the smoothest operator, but boy is he power and determination.
Here's the 3-0 to Foster.
And it's a called strike at 3-1.
Dandreessen almost threw that ball past Dunner and out of the center field.
That move to Stanley and Randolph.
Up behind Dunner quickly.
Now Catfish steps.
And the 3-1 pitch.
Swung on line in the center field. Base hit.
A round third base is Dandreessen.
And he'll be waved in in the Reds lead 1-0.
As Foster picks up his third base into the series.
A single into center field.
Boring.
Dandreessen to give the Reds a 1-0 lead here in the second inning.
That wasn't the most vicious single that George Foster's smoked this year.
It came just off the end of his bat.
But it did have enough velocity and enough height to get over the second baseman,
Willie Randolph, who was straining to get to it.
And it just dropped in.
Here's Johnny Betch.
Reds break out on top 1-0.
Time has fallen now.
As Foster wants to talk to his first base, Coach Russ Nixon.
And I believe, what, Elliot?
Hands. Hands. Hands.
It's strung a little bit. He did not hit that ball well.
We talked about that earlier.
Right. He got it right on the end of his bat.
And man, his hands must be shivering.
Here's the first pitch to Betch.
Runner going and taking for a ball, throwing on a second,
and they've got a perfect throw much to Randolph.
And there's one away.
Oh, the Reds, touch feeling.
Two to four.
So Foster is cut down trying to steal second base.
The pitch defense was, I thought it was high,
but they've got a strike on the board.
Now Munchen backs around.
He looks at Louis DeMuro.
And away here is the next pitch.
And it's outside.
Backhand is by Munchen.
I was right. It's two balls, no strikes on Johnny Betch.
2-0 on Betch.
Reds have a 1-0 lead playing the second inning.
And the Betch is lined left center base.
White's after it.
It was all between them to the wall.
And out into left center field.
Johnny Betch will hold the second with a double.
So Betch is now three for four in the series.
As the Reds are roughing up Catfish Hunter here in the second inning.
Dan Dreesen went off by doubling off the wall in straightaway center field.
George Foster got him in with a single.
He didn't hit that too hard.
But now Betch rips one into left center.
He's down at second.
There's one away.
And the batterer, Cesar Geronimo, the center fielder.
And the aggressive style of the Reds' base running cost them a run in that instance.
Instead of lying back like the old Yankees did and whack it out.
That time it cost them a run with Foster being knocked out at second.
So Betch on his second with one out. Here's Cesar Geronimo.
Left handed batter.
And he takes high.
And we're going to get some action from the Yankee bullpen.
It's Billy Martin's call time.
Now he wants to duck to Catfish Hunter.
Fred Jackson is going down to the bullpen.
A left hander.
Martin falls much enough right down to shortstop.
Joins the conversation on the mound.
Randolph started it but he backed off.
Reds have taken a 1-0 lead here in the second inning.
They have a run on four hits already off on it.
And Bill, as you noted, twice Catfish has fallen off the mound.
Billy might have seen something in his motion that would cause him to ask Catfish what's going on.
Whatever it is, they've decided it's okay for the moment because Billy has returned to the dugout.
Bill of the 14 hits the Reds have made in this game and yesterday so far.
Seven of them have been for extra bases.
And they can do it.
They can hustle.
They can hit the ball hard.
Here's Geronimo now.
The 1-0 pitch doing.
Outside high, two balls, no strikes.
That Hunter wants the ball.
They've played these are straight away.
White not too deep in left field.
Fetch taking a walk and lead off set.
He's checked by Hunter.
And the 2-0.
High ball.
Three, three balls, no strikes.
Hunter's the kind of pitcher, when he'll get up a lot of runs or he'll give up runs and punches.
But then he settles down.
That's a good baseball.
As soon as he gets to become the cusp of that mound, he'll settle down if he's in there that long.
Here's a 3-0 down to Geronimo.
And it's swung on and fouled back and out of play.
Three and one.
The one thing Catfish has always said about his cone pitching and analyzing his style and his success,
he has iterated it over and over again.
He must have control.
He's got to know where the ball is going.
Fetch off second one out.
Hunter looking at punches for his side.
Now he sets.
And the 3-1 pitch.
Swung on, hit foul left side.
Not a play.
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Now Hunter gets to do baseball and gets a sign and sets.
And the payoff pitch is high, ball four.
Geronimo wants.
Oh, the Reds have runners at first and second with one away.
And the batter of the shortstop, Dave Concepcion.
Bill, Catfish has actually not retired a single batter in this inning.
The only out has been the abortive field by Foster.
We had the double, the single, and a double, and now a base on balls.
And the Reds have runners first and second.
One out has Concepcion stepped in.
He tripled yesterday.
It's four to run.
Fetch doing.
He thinks high, ball.
Hunter having a bit of control trouble here in the second inning.
Yankee set up looking for two.
That old Stanley Randolph-Camlos around the infield as Hunter sets again.
Checks the runners.
The one old pitch.
Line in the right center field.
That's going to fall.
That's going to be a base there.
Then Geronimo, he's going to score.
Taking the third base is Geronimo, and he makes it in there safely.
And the Reds lead 2-0.
Davey just poked that ball in the right center.
He reached out.
It was a high ball, high outside.
And he just poked it, just killed it right in the right center.
That was not a screener.
That was a thinking hit.
And it did its job.
It brought in another Reds run.
Nothing meant on first and third.
And Jackson is really beginning to heat up in the Yankee bulls.
Speed row steps in.
They've been up one fly to wide in left field.
Now they've got to keep their eyes on Contepzion at first base.
Good speed on the bases for the Reds.
Geronimo over at third.
Contepzion on at first.
One out.
Speed row takes inside the ball.
On the board, that speed row did a home run on the first pitch of the game off Catfish
under in the fifth game of the 1972 World Series.
Now Stanley Fitt, down in the shortstop, wants to talk to Catfish.
Of course, this gives Jackson more time to get loose in the Yankee bulls' bench.
Now Rose looks at his third base, goes to George Sugar.
Geronimo at third.
Contepzion at first.
One away.
Reds leading 2-0 in second inning.
Throw the first base.
And back safely at Contepzion.
Reds have scored two runs on four bases here in the second inning.
The 1-0 pitch.
Call strike on the outside corner.
It's 1-1.
Ken Griffey on deck.
Hunter picks it a little slower now.
Now he says, throws the first base and Contepzion has to dive back in at first.
You got to feel when he goes that way, he's got to be thinking about Steelers.
And Hunter knows it because those are not warning throws.
He's really zinging them over there.
Now Contepzion moves up first.
He's got a good side lead.
Another throw to the first base, he's got to dive back in.
Now Rose backs out time as call.
That feed wants that ball inspected by own play down Fireloo Demuro.
And it's all right.
Demuro gives it back to Hunter.
Runners at first and third, one out.
Reds still Yankees nothing, playing the bottom of the second.
Hunter gets another side from Hunter.
Stops at the belt.
And throws the first base and Contepzion once again dives back in.
He's got to be going.
And that was close, Bill.
So much so that Davey asks for a timeout so that he can get a breath when he gets to his seat.
Contepzion takes a big lead there at first base.
Hunter checks it.
Now the pitch.
Hide away.
Two balls and a strike.
Contepzion walks back to first base shaking his head a bit.
He's dirty.
Runners really gone after him over there.
Jackson continues to get loose and the Yankee bulls bend down to the left field foul line.
Now Hunter's ready.
Another throw to first base this time.
Contepzion is back standing.
Geronimo does not take too big a lead off there as Hunter steps.
The runner's going.
The pitch is high.
Throw to third.
Safe at third base as Mutsen almost threw that ball away.
He almost threw it into the Yankee bulls bend.
Down the left field foul line.
Nettles had the time of the ball and he saved the run.
And on air for Mutsen.
A remarkable save by Greg Nettles.
He's over crossing behind the back in between the base runner and the thrill and how he got it I'll never know.
This guy has played such fantastic third base this year, Bill.
And Contepzion down at second.
He gets a stolen base.
And the Yankees now have to bring their infield in to count three balls and a strike on Rose.
Hunter started to wind up but he changed his mind.
He's going to stretch.
Here's a 3-1 pitch.
Swung on and full foul just outside first base.
Three balls, two strikes on Pete Rose.
Geronimo goes back to third base and Contepzion back to sixth.
Now the catch sets.
Runners lead.
Here's a payoff pitch.
Low and inside ball four and the Reds have the bases loaded.
Well, Dreesen started this inning off with a double.
Foster brought him in with a single.
And Foster was cut down trying to steal.
Then Johnny bench doubles.
Geronimo walks.
Contepzion looped the single into right center field.
Scoring Johnny bench.
Geronimo going to third.
Then Contepzion stole second.
Rose walked and we've got the bases loaded.
One out.
And here's Ken Griffey, the right fielder.
He's been up once.
God, DeRoy White and less.
Hunter winds and the first pitch to Griffey.
Fast ball.
It's hit foul left side and out of play.
Now the Reds putting a lot of pressure on the Yankees and Catfish
Hunter here in the second inning.
They lead 2-0.
They've got the bases loaded.
Only one out.
And the National League's number two hitter, Ken Griffey, is in.
Here's a one strike pitch.
High, a ball and a strike.
On deck is Joe Morgan.
Munson flashing signs.
Down the 1-1 pitch to Griffey.
Swung on.
It's foul left side.
Not a play.
A ball and two strikes.
Reds overall have good team speed.
Geronimo can scoop.
Contepzion needs a second base.
He can scoop.
Pete Rhodes runs well.
He's on it first.
As Hunter gets a new baseball and gets a sign from Munson, he's winding.
Here's the 1-2 to Griffey.
High and away.
Two balls, two strikes.
A ground ball to Griffey would be very difficult to double if he flies down there.
And the 2-2 pitch.
Swung on line, center field coming on his rivers.
And he's got it.
Tagging a third base to try to score Geronimo.
The throw will not be in time.
And the Reds lead it 3-0.
A sacrifice fly to center field by Ken Griffey.
Geronimo tagged a third and beat the throw from Rivers, holding a second base with Contepzion.
And that's that role is had to stay at first base.
So the Reds have a 3-0 lead.
With two outs, the batter will be Joe Morgan.
That throw may not have been the strongest in the world, but it was right on the money and was just late by an eyelet.
Morgan, a single to center field in the first solo base, but he was left stranded.
Joe's 2-5 in the series so far, a home run of a single.
Left handed batter.
They blame the ball in the infield and the outfield.
Another set.
And a fifth.
Swung on, popped up foul side on the third base side.
After it is Mutsen still going and he's got it on the run.
Mutsen with a fine running catch.
Next to the Yankee dugout on the third base side.
The Reds score three times.
On four bases, they leave to the non-base.
At the end of two here in Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Reds three, the New York Yankees nothing.
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And so the Reds are off and running as their cohorts had hoped,
and maybe they must be with the Freddie Norman as their moundsman tonight.
Freddie so far has had no trouble in the first two innings.
He allowed just a single, blue pinellas.
For the rest, he set them down at one, two, three.
He's allowed just a one hit and no runs.
While his teammates now have five hits and three runs,
and it looks like Catfish Hunter was going to take the earliest drill he had ever taken in postseason play.
But Billy Martin is stayed with him.
Let's see if Hunter will settle down.
Let's see if Norman can maintain his pace.
And therein lies the story of this game, almost a must game for the New Yorkers.
As they go back to their own stadium on Tuesday, to beat this Cincinnati club four straight is almost an impossible task.
And we've all been saying here, we pundits who know nothing, that this is a must game for the Yanks.
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All right, Winn and Willie Randolph will try to get something started for the Yankees against Freddie Norman here in the top half of the third inning.
The Reds lead 3-0.
First pitch to Randolph.
Fastballed in the air center field to his right.
Geronimo now back a couple of steps, waiting, and he's got it.
One away.
Well, the Yankees aren't wasting much time swinging the bat against Fred Norman.
We had Catfish Hunter for 28 pitches in that last inning, and a total of 40.
Norman now is throwing a total of 13.
Oh, there's one out, nobody on.
That'll bring on Fred Stanley, the shortstop.
Right-handed batter takes a lot of pitches.
They play him to the right side.
Don't play him too deeply.
Here's the first pitch to him.
It's high ball.
Rose, even with the bag at third base, just wide of the bag a bit.
Here's the one-oh to Stanley.
All strike, it's one and one.
And the one-one pitch.
Skoo ball is high.
Two balls and a strike.
On deck is Mickey Rivers.
Reds lead 3-0.
We're in the third inning, one out, nobody on.
Pitch is taken high, three and one.
Now Stanley backs out, looks to Dick Houser at third base, goes, takes a long-looking Houser.
He'll probably take this pitch.
Here's a 3-1.
All strike, three balls, two strikes.
Now Rose backs up at third.
Norman in the winds up, and the payoff pitch to Brett Stanley.
Swung on, hit in the air, left side.
After it is, he can't get to it, it's going to fall foul.
That ball fell about a foot outside the foul line.
Down the third base side.
Stanley all the way around second base now.
Takes a shortcut and comes back and picks up his bat.
We mentioned they were playing Stanley in shallow and they were giving him the left field line.
Ball just this balling fair.
So routine fly ball down the left side.
Yeah, they sure don't play him to get around on it, do they?
No, they count still, three balls and two strikes on Stanley.
Norman on the backside of the mound.
Now he comes back up top and the payoff pitch again.
Swung on and foul straight back.
Still three and two.
Another full house here at Riverfront Stadium.
And an unusual sight for many of them with blankets.
The 3-2 pitch.
Low ball for Stanley Walsh.
That's the first pass issued by Fred Norman.
Stanley on at first base.
He becomes the Yankees' second base runner.
Lupinello was the first.
He got a leadoff hit to deep short in the second.
But then Norman got Chambliss, Nettles and Maddox.
Randolph flies to center and they open this inning.
Stanley walks.
He's at first base.
That'll bring out Mickey Rivers.
Rivers is looking for his first base hit in the series.
He's 0-5, flies to center field in the first inning.
Look at that roll.
It's way in at third base as Norman sets.
And the pitch, outside ball.
Foster over near the Letfield line and then shallow in Letfield.
Geronimo straight away in center.
So is Griffian Wright as Norman sets.
And the pitch.
Swung on.
Loop to Letfield and foul territory.
After Foster on the run, he can't get to it.
Bounces up against the bench in there and bounces back on the field.
So the count on Rivers, a ball and a strike.
They don't give Mickey Rivers that Letfield line because he steps into the pitch and screams it down there.
And it's amazing.
There was Foster only a foot or two away from that one.
Whereas the easy hooper before, he was easily a dozen feet away from it.
A river is everything in life.
Here Wright, when Rivers will take that low pitch and he'll slash it down the Letfield line into the high pitch, now he'll pull it.
So Mickey now gets another bat.
They count a ball and strike on Rivers with one out.
They sure give him an alley in left center.
Reds lead 3-0 with a top half at third inning.
Here's a 1-1 pitch.
Bounce on foul, straight back up against the screen, a ball and two strikes on Rivers.
He's got to lay that ball out to the opposite field.
Yeah, the inside-out side.
Anything down, he'll go that way with.
Rose now backs up at third base with two strikes on Rivers.
Norman taking a lot of time.
Now he's ready.
Check Stanley at first and the pitch.
Curveball, bounce forward first base, Perez has it and he'll take himself at first base.
Moving to second is Fred Stanley.
And with two outs of batters, Roy White.
Roy's been up once, a little looper out behind second base that Joe Morgan ran down in the first inning.
Now pitch out halfway to the mound and he goes the rest of the way. He wants to talk to Norman.
Now John back behind the plate.
The Reds have three runs on five base hits.
The Yankees, no runs on one base hit.
Fred Stanley moving off second base with two outs.
Here's the first pitch to White.
He takes it high.
Now Stanley moves off second and Norman's ready again.
The next pitch, swung on, looped into center field going back is Morgan and Charleston are out behind second.
He's got it for the out number three.
So Roy White once again got it up a little higher this time and Joe Morgan ran it down.
No runs, no hits.
A walk and a man left.
So the bottom of the third to score. Reds three, Yankees nothing.
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So as you hear over the background on the house address system, a string of pearls.
That's what Freddie Norman has thrown at the New York Yankees so far.
The dipsey here and the doodle there.
I'm saying on that was sliding and in shoots and out shoots the way we used to call them just enough to keep the Yankees off stride.
For the second time in a row he's jammed Fred White and he's poodled one under the air that Joe Martin just drifted back and took.
And right now Freddie Norman looks like in complete control of interest as Catfish Hunter third of tenths, the third round.
They roughed him up in the second inning.
Let's see if he's regained his composure and his stuff or is he on his way out the earliest departure in history for Catfish Hunter in a postseason game.
We'll see. Bill?
All right. Winning Tony Perez who popped the nettles at third base in the first inning steps in.
Hunter's first pitch is a slider that's on the outside edge. It's a called strike.
It'll be Perez, Dreeson and Foster against Hunter here in the bottom half of the third inning.
The next pitch high and away, one ball one strike.
Reds three, Yankees nothing, third inning.
Here's a one-one pitch. Outside two balls and a strike.
Don Gullett beat the Yankees yesterday five to one.
Gave up just five base hits. Here's a two-one.
Swung on line right field, that'll be a base hit in front of the Nellis.
Two has it on one hump and Tony Perez will hold it first base.
That's the sixth base hit for the Cincinnati Reds.
Perez goes the opposite field for a single. That'll bring on Dan Dreeson who let off last inning with a double off the wall in center field.
And once again we're going to get some action in the Yankee bullpen down the left field foul line.
Here's the first pitch to Dreeson, a fast ball, it's inside.
Brad Jackson again, the left-hander gets up.
Campbell's playing behind Perez at first base as Hunter sets.
And the pitch, swung on and fouled back.
One ball, one strike on Dreeson.
Last year, big Tony had trouble buying a hit in the World Series against the Red Sox.
It wasn't until the very end when he hit that blooper off Bill Lee that he came to life.
He's been here so far in the first two games, that's his fourth hit in six tries.
Here's the 1-1 to Dreeson, swung on, fouled, left side out of play.
One ball, two strikes.
A right-hander also joins Jackson, the bullpen, Dick Tedrow.
Double barreled action for the Yankees, Dick Tedrow and Brad Jackson.
And they're throwing hard.
Hunter sets the 1-2 pitch, high and away, two balls, two strikes.
Perez, a little walking lead off first, not too big a lead, he's checked.
And a pitch outside, three balls, two strikes.
Now the cat running into a lot of temple now, it's like a buzz saw, these Cincinnati Reds.
They keep coming at you.
See if they move Perez.
Chambliss thinks so, he's going to hold Perez at first base now.
As Hunter checks him.
Runners going, the pitch, bounce toward second base, a cutoff by Chambliss.
He spins throws to Hunter, covering and catfish pitches a bag.
Dreeson's safe, everybody's safe.
High bouncer towards second, Chambliss bounced off backhand of the ball.
Had no chance at all at second base with Perez moving.
He turned around, threw to Hunter, and Hunter just couldn't get to the bag in time.
A base set for Dan Dreeson.
Oh, the Reds now have runners at first and second, nobody out.
And here's George Foster, the left fielder.
Foster, drove in the Reds first drive with a single to center field,
and he was caught stealing in the second inning.
Swings, and he doesn't get a fast ball.
He's got two balls and a strike.
That was the sporting news player of the year in the American League, George Foster.
Bat at 300, drove in 121 runs.
And he might very well get the MVP award of the year.
You know, interesting you're up in the betting of the betting.
The voting last year, he didn't get a single vote.
The one strike pitch is swung on a miss.
Foster tried to hold up on a fast ball, but he went too far.
No balls, two strikes.
What a difference a year makes.
Not one single vote did he get last year, Bill.
It was hard to get a vote with that little Morgan getting all of them.
Bench getting some, Rose getting some.
Happiness is a thing called Joe.
Now on his six.
And a two strike pitch.
High, one ball, two strikes.
The Reds lead 3-0, and they're trying to add to that lead in the bottom of the third.
They've got runners at first and second.
Nobody else.
They count a ball and two strikes on George Foster.
Foster is three for five so far in the series.
Right-handed batter, the Yankees play him straight away.
Runners set.
And a one-two.
Outside blocked by Mutsun.
And no advance by Perez.
Mutsun a good player.
They count now two balls and two strikes on Foster.
And home plate on fire, Louis DiMiro wants to look at that baseball.
He rubs it up and goes back to Hunter.
Good roll and Jackson continue to get loose in the Yankee bullpen.
They count two balls, two strikes on Foster.
And a pitch.
Swung on, popped straight back over our heads and on a play.
On deck is Johnny Betts.
Hunter gets a new baseball.
Foster makes him wait a bit.
Catfish normally likes to pitch fast.
Taking a little more time now between pitches.
Here's a two-two.
Swung on and missed Foster once again with a half swing.
So George Foster goes down swinging for the first out here in the third inning.
And the hand building up is for Johnny Betts.
Betts doubled in the left center in the second.
I think it's scored.
You know, Bill, you were absolutely right.
That was the thing I hadn't noticed.
The catfish usually gets up there, faces it, gets a signal and lets her go on this next to Jim Cotty,
the fastest pitcher in the league, but he hasn't done it tonight.
First pitch to Betts.
In the air, left field coming on is White.
He's got plenty of room.
He's there and he's got it.
Perez halfway down to third base, goes back to second.
And Grayson goes back to first.
Two outs and the batter, Cesar Geronimo, who walked and scored in the second.
Reds have three runs on seven bases.
The Yankees, no runs on one with a bottom half of their inning.
Geronimo hits for wide stance.
First pitch to it.
He takes high.
The batter took a little bit off the change.
Now Cat sets again.
And the one-oh pitch.
Swung on, full foul down the right side.
One ball, one strike on Geronimo.
They played Geronimo straight away.
He's one for four in this series so far.
That was a double.
Here's the one-one pitch.
High and away.
Two balls and a strike.
That was really high and away, about as far as Munson could reach without leaving his feet.
The catfish is not right, obviously.
Here's the set again.
And the two-one pitch.
Texas Wayne takes it high.
Three balls and a strike.
Our deck is saved from Cepcio.
Perez moves off second.
Greason off third.
Here's the three-one pitch.
Outside ball four and once again the Reds have the bases loaded.
That's a third walk given up by Catfish Hunter.
The Reds have Perez at third.
Greason down at second.
Geronimo on at first and the batter is Dave Cepcio who drove in a run with a single right center field in the second inning.
Already when Elliott Catfish Hunter has thrown the 62 pitches.
And we're in the third inning.
I'm trying to read his mind. This is his best.
Cepcio swings at a fast ball and he doesn't get it.
Catfish Hunter is the best he's got whether he's struggling or faltering right now or not.
And I think he feels it if he takes them out psychologically.
It would be a tremendous blow to the Yankee morale.
And the one-strike pitch.
Called strike two a slider, letter high on the outside corner.
No balls and two strikes on Cepcio.
Bases loaded, two outs, bottom to third.
Reds have a three-nothing lead over the Yankees.
They've got Hunter pitching on a better jump.
And Cat now backs off.
He winds and a two-strike pitch.
Swung on and this Cepcio goes down swinging.
No runs on two hits. The Reds lead the bases loaded.
We're playing three and the Reds lead the Yankees three to nothing.
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Three of three. It's three-knocking the Reds.
As Catfish Hunter, one of the brilliant pitchers
in modern times in baseball, is having a real struggle tonight.
He's allowed seven hits and three runs, three bases on balls.
His entire style seems to have changed,
where he's a rapid five delivery, scarcely allowing a battered chance
to get himself set in the box tonight.
He's being deliberate, although on that last battered conception
he went right at him like the Catfish.
I wouldn't tempt you to say the Catfish of old,
but that would be one, two games ago.
But right now the Reds have the game in command.
Lefty Norman has done anything that Sparky Anderson
had hoped he would do.
It's been a tremendous lift for both the Reds team
and the Red crowd here, who now know that they're not going to have
Don Gullard pitch for them the rest of this series.
Lefty gets up on the mound and peers in to the plate
for the New York Yankees.
Their brilliant catcher, Dermot Munson.
Alright, and Munson's been up worse flying to right field.
As the first pitch goes to curve ball, that's in their fourth strike.
It'll be Munson, Penella, and Chambers for the Yankees.
They're the top half of the fourth inning.
The Reds lead three-nothers.
The Yankees have been limited to just one base hit.
They didn't feel hit by Lou Penella back in the second inning.
The one strike pitch to Munson, swung on it on the ground wide a third.
Rose flags it down. Rose off balance, but it'll not be in time.
Big Rose ranging far to his left.
Flag that ball down.
Had to throw off balance as much as he could.
So the Yankees have their second base hit in the ball game.
And also it didn't feel hit when.
A very awkward try by Pete.
He had to go deep to his left.
He had no opportunity to turn.
He threw across his body and was not able to put anything on it.
And although Thurman is not the fastest man, neither is he the slowest.
He beat it by just a toe.
So he's on it first base and Perez will play behind him to batter Lou Penella.
He got the Yankees first base hit back in the second.
A single to deep short.
Penella, two for five in the series.
Reds play it straight away.
On deck is Chris Chambers.
Now Norman backs off.
Penella has been making Norman wait.
Now Norman backs off. He's going to let Penella wait a while.
Reds set up looking for two.
Baz Mutsen moves off first.
First pitch to Penella.
A breaking ball that stays outside.
One ball, no strikes.
Blue split right field with Oscar Gamble.
Penella playing right field against left handers.
Gamble against right handers.
As the one-oh pitch comes on.
Swung on, hit in the air left field.
He was left a couple of step spots there waiting.
He's got it.
One out.
Mutsen back to first base.
Here's Chris Chambers, the Yankee first baseman.
Chambers won for four so far in the series.
Bill, do you remember what you were talking about before the game with this cool weather?
They might allow the Tetris to blow on their hand while they were standing on them.
I don't see that that's happened.
No, a Norman and Hunter go to the backside of the mound to blow on their hands.
Or they come toward the plate.
But you've got to be off that little circular area out there.
First pitch to Chambers.
Swung on, running left center field.
That'll be a base hit.
One hopper to Foster and holding in second is Mutsen.
So Chambers goes to the opposite field for a base hit.
Yankees third base hit and they've been all singles.
They've got runners now at first and second.
And with only one out, the batter is Greg Nettles, the third baseman.
And that's the 16th straight game that Christopher Chambers has hit safely.
That's a marvelous, there's some 24 out of 62 now.
Well the Yankees have got runners at first and second with one out.
They're down three nothing in the fourth inning.
And the batter is Greg Nettles.
Greg has been up once, flying to left field.
He's 0-4 in the series.
And we're going to get some action now in the Cincinnati Red Bull pit.
Here's the first pitch to Nettles.
Swung on it up in the middle.
Mutsen on third base, he's going to try to score and he'll score.
Throw the third on Chambers is not in time.
Now throw back the second.
That's not in time.
Well the Yankees running the bases.
Mutsen scores in second base.
Chambers taking a chance on the arm of Geronimo.
He went on the third, on the throw of the third.
Nettles decided to go on the second.
And the Yankees running the bases well.
Of course now, Reds three, Yankees one.
And right away Jack Billingham and Manny Sarriento get up and start loosening up for the Cincinnati Reds.
Greg Nettles has driven and both runs a Yankee to score so far in these two games.
What Elliot?
And that was an indication that the Yankees can play the running pressure style too.
Now one of the three base runners ever broke stride, especially Nettles as he saw the throw going to third.
He just kept on.
Here's Elliot Manix.
First ball is in, first strike.
The Reds have in field back.
They will not try to cut this run down except for their third baseman, Pete Rose, who's playing even with the bag.
Yankee runners at second and third, one out.
Reds lead three to one.
We're playing the top half before the inning.
Here's a wind by Norman.
And the one strike pitch swung on fouled off.
No balls, two strikes on Maddox.
On deck, Willie Randolph.
Now a single by Munchy.
Another single by Chambliss.
And a single center by Nettles.
Yankees have gotten on the board.
Norman now on the backside of the mound.
Now he comes back up top.
Looks for a sign from Bench.
Here's a two strike pitch to Maddox.
And he takes it inside.
Good slider.
One ball, two strikes.
Now the book on Norman.
He throws the slider to the right-handers inside, then goes away from them with the screwball.
Now Norman is taking a bit of time.
Salmiento and Bellingham continue to warm up.
They're both right-handers.
Here's a one to Maddox.
Swung on and this is a top-five pitch, but he takes Maddox.
Oh, they're two outs.
Maddox has been a play struck out both times.
A key man to get for lefty Norman.
And he did it.
He did it when he had to because this game is up for grabs right now.
Well, you always like to get that run in third base with less than two outs.
Of course, you like to get it in any time.
Yeah.
A runner still in second and third, two outs.
And here's Willie Randolph.
Willie's been up once, fly to center.
Here's the first pitch to Randolph.
Swung on, on the ground, a shortstop.
Grabbed by Concepcion.
Throws off balance inside.
Concepcion, moving towards left, came up with a ball and got Randolph at first base.
Yankee score run on three hits.
They leave two men on base.
After three and a half innings of play, the Reds three, the Yankees one.
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When Elliot and Bill whiteback at Riverfront Stadium, where the Yankees have just broken the ice,
and I say that advisedly, on the top of the point they need to get their first run of the night.
Now I don't know whether the Reds are using a walkie-talkie system to position their defense,
but yes or no, it was the experience, the guile, and the positioning of shortstop Davy Concepcion
on that last play that ended the inning.
He was just playing that step or two closer to the second base than you normally would on a right-handed matter,
anticipating where the pitch would go. He had that step or two jump, was able to field the ball,
and throw the speed he ran off out. And when you talk about defense, that's really defense.
You won't read it in the paper or see it on the scoreboard, but we saw it then. Bill?
All right, one-feet rose against Catfish Hunter, bottom half of fourth. The Reds lead 3-1.
Hunter's first pitch is low, a ball.
Rose has flied to left field and beats Watt, so he's over one.
He's looking for his first base hit in the series. So far he's over three.
The 1-0 pitch is in the air left field. White going back. There the track's still going,
and he's got the ball just before he runs into the wall.
So Rose hits a ball hard, but White runs it down on the track in left field.
And there's one away. And a real good catch by Mr. White out there.
Anticipated just in time, anticipated the nearness of the wall, didn't shy away,
got the glop up in time, and got the best shot that T. Rose has had in this series so far.
Here's Glenn Griffey, the right fielder. He's over one.
Flied to left field and drove in a run with a sacrifice fly.
Curve ball hit in the air center field. Rivers going back. Still going.
Here the warning track now. He turns and he's got it.
Oh, the rats come out swinging here. The 4th inning, they've hit the ball hard twice.
They ran, Rose ran white back on the warning track in left field,
and Rivers just went to the warning track in center for that other two outs.
Neither of those hit balls were right foot, and they were right on the nose.
And they were just within the can of the Yankee fielders who had to go all out to snare them.
Here's Joe Morgan, the second baseman, single center, stole a base.
The first fouled out the much and then the second. One for two. Morgan takes outside.
Reds three, Yankees one, bottom of the fourth, two outs and nobody on.
Hunter's one-oh pitch. Low, two balls, no strikes.
I think now when we're seeing the catfish other than we normally see, he gets that ball and he wants the pitch.
I was just about to make that observation.
He's in the right center field. Morgan might drive for two and the ball will go through the wall.
Morgan might drive for three. He runs second and he'll make it there standing up.
Joe Morgan has stooped with two outs here in the fourth inning.
I think catfish would be better advised to go back and get more deliberate.
You know Morgan hit that ball, went almost straight away center.
The Yankees had rivers over at right center and white and left center and that ball, you know this service is so hard and so quick.
That ball out over second base and all the way to the wall in center field.
So Morgan on a third base, two outs here, Tony Perez.
Perez has popped the third single to the right. He's one for two.
Here's the first pitch to it. Nerve ball popped up in the shallow right center. Coming on, still coming and he's got it on the run.
50 rivers with a fine running catch in right center field for round number three.
No runs of base hit and a man left at third.
At the end of four, the Reds three, the Yankees one.
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The Cincinnati Reds have out hit the New York Yankees 2-1, actually 8-4, and they've outscored them 3-1 through four complete innings.
In that last inning, they schnozzed three in a row, all of which the Yankee outfielders managed to corral.
And that last play by Mickey Rivers was a thing of beauty.
He had to come full steam in the right center, managed to get to the ball.
Remember, he is a left-hander. He had to get his glove hand across his body and just get down it.
And to maintain his balance, to keep him from going right on his face, he had to swing that glove hand with the ball across his body.
It might have gotten away from him and gone half a mile out into the outfield. Fortunately for him, it did not.
So 4-1 Bill White as the Yankees come to bat in the top of the fifth.
All right, well, it's the Yankees now down 3-1 to the Cincinnati Reds.
And Fred Stanley will lead off against Fred Norman. Norman walks Stanley last time he saw him. Stanley this time swings on the first pitch and pops it up off behind second base.
Right there is Concepcion. The short stop and he's got it. One away.
That'll bring on Rivers.
One thing the Reds have done so far, as you mentioned earlier, Wynn, they have kept Rivers off the base.
He's 0-2 in this ball game. He went 0-4 yesterday, though he did get on once.
It was cut down trying to steal yesterday.
The Yankees fly to center field, bounce to first.
Rose once again shortens up to third base.
Curve ball stays high.
One ball and no strikes.
Norman winds and the 1-0 pitch.
Swung on and fouled straight back.
A ball and a strike.
Sparky Anderson going with left-handers.
Went with Don Gullett yesterday and Gullett went with Fred Norman this evening.
And Norman has a 3-1 lead in the fifth inning.
Here's the wind and the 1-1 pitch.
Swung on high, chopper to shortstop.
Charged by Concepcion.
Quick throw to first base and plenty of time.
And they're 2 outs.
And you can see the electricity in the Cincinnati Red Enfield on a ground ball by Rivers.
They waste not the slightest moment.
Concepcion came tearing in to take that ball on the high hopper.
He didn't think he won it.
They respect the speed of the quick.
And now Mickey is 0-7 in this series.
Here's Roy White.
Switch hitter and right-handed against Norman.
And he takes a fastball. The tail's outside.
A ball and no strikes.
White's 0 for 2.
The 1-0 pitch.
Swung on and piled off right side.
A ball and a strike.
The Reds scored all three of their runs in the bottom half of the second inning off Catfish on Earth.
The Yankees came back with more of the top of the last inning.
And the Reds have a 3-1 lead.
They're winning yesterday by a score of 5-1.
Here's a 1-1 pitch to White.
Takes it low. Screwball. Two balls and a strike.
Norman once led the Southern Association in strikeouts.
That's when he was a little bit younger. Threw the ball a bit harder.
Here's a 2-1.
Low again. Three balls and a strike.
On deck is Thurman Mutsen.
Here's a 3-1 pitch to White.
High ball for.
So White walks on a 3-1 pitch.
He's on at first base.
And with two outs, the batter will be Thurman Mutsen, the Yankee catcher and captain.
You know when I noticed before the ballgame that both managers set their captains up.
Billy Martin set Thurman Mutsen up and Sparky Anderson set Pete Rose up with the lineups.
Of course, the hand warmers are in the dugout.
That's where they want to stay, huh?
Oh, Mutsen has flied to right field and he beat out a ball to left of Rose and he scored the Yankees' only run.
And he's been hitting the ball where it's pitched to right.
He has not been hitting home runs like he had earlier in the season.
He's been riding the ball to right.
Here's the first pitch to Mutsen.
He's gone on and bounced right back to normal.
He gloves it, spins, goes on to Perez, every side is retired.
No runs, no hits, a walk and a man left on.
Bottom of the fifth coming up, Reds, three, Yankees, one.
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That's going to be on Tuesday night.
Airtime will be 8.15 Eastern Daylight Time.
Right here on this CBS station, we'll bring you all the World Series play as long as it goes on.
And right now, with a game and a half in the pocket, the Cincinnati Reds are about to come up for their backs in the latter half of the fifth inning.
The weather, shall I say, cooled or semi-cold.
Sitting here up in the press box directly above the plate, it's funny, the upper half exposed to the air, not too cold,
but the lower half not exposed to the air, it's kind of on the chilly side.
And it's like the wind that's blowing around here in Riverfront.
You don't know which direction it's going to end up.
The flag's draped on both sides and fluttering in the center.
And Bill White, all right, went down Dreeson against Catfish Hunter here in the fifth inning.
And Dreeson takes inside a ball.
Dreeson is 2 for 2, double off the wall in center field and scored in the second.
Got a base hit.
An infield hit around first base in the third.
Twings, and he doesn't get a slider.
It's a ball to strike on Dreeson.
Reds leading 3-1, bottom of the fifth.
It'll be Dreeson, Foster, and then Johnny Betts against Catfish Hunter.
Hunter winds, and the 1-1 pitch, swung on it in the air.
Let's see, oh, White going back.
Stopped short of the warning track, and he's got it.
Went away.
Hitting a lot of long fly balls against Catfish Hunter today.
Yeah, usually he has them hitting the ball into the ground.
I think that's been up all night.
He's kept the ball up.
I don't know if it's on purpose or if that mound's making him throw high.
But in a way, there's one away, and here's George Foster, the left fielder.
He said earlier in the year when he was struggling a little, Bill,
you remember he wasn't bringing the ball down enough.
He wasn't coming over enough.
And he also had some arm trouble early in the year, which he kept hitting from everybody.
That's why he ended up with 17 wins and 15 losses after five straight years of winning at least 20.
Foster, one for two, an RBI single is center of the set.
Also struck out in the third.
Hits it from the third, one hopper to nettles.
He straightens up, fires across on the cameras, and Foster's out.
Two away.
So with two outs and no body on, Johnny Fitch will be the batter.
Fitch doubled and scored in the second, five to left field in the third, so he's one for two.
And he's three for five in the series.
A single, double, and triple.
And a run score, two runs scored now.
Fitch got right in and they play him straight away.
Here's Hunter's first pitch.
Good slider on the outside corner, called strike.
Fitch started and held up with the ball just at the corner.
Hunter taking a long time getting signed.
0-1 pitch. Swung on and missed.
Took a little off a curve.
No balls, two strikes on Fitch.
If Johnny could have gone downtown and come back, he was so far ahead of that one.
Well, he wanted to hit it downtown.
Yeah, that was a beautiful tableau.
Here's the 0-2 to Fitch.
Slider misses outside a ball and two strikes.
Bridge lead three to one, bottom half a fifth.
So far they have left six men on base.
Here's the 1-2 pitch.
Fast ball is high, two balls, two strikes.
Just on that pitch, Bill Munson called for the ball low and away and it was way up high.
There's no doubt this mound is giving Hunter a bit of trouble.
2-2, high ball three, three balls, two strikes.
Of course the Reds-Bats are also giving Hunter a little bit of trouble.
Why treat him any differently than anybody else?
They've treated all year.
Here's the payoff pitch.
Curve ball hits foul left side, way up at the seats, and the counter still three balls and two strikes on Johnny Betch.
You don't want to hang that curve ball up there.
Betch will go downtown with it.
Hunter now with the new baseball.
Rox kicks and deals the payoff pitch.
Swung on and got him with a fast ball.
So the Reds go three up and three down for the first time in the ball game.
And at the end of five, you're at Riverfront Stadium.
The Reds three, the Yankees one.
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All right, Bill, we're going to the top of the sixth.
Yanks come up trailing 3-1.
All right, Wendell and Lou Pennella will lead off against Fred Norman.
Pennella got an infield hit in the second fly to left field in the fourth.
I think he's had one chance to get Norman that was back in the fourth, but they only got one run on three hits.
Pennella takes a curve that's too high.
It'll be Pennella, Chambliss, and Nettles against Freddie Norman here in the top half of the sixth inning.
Almost two-thirds of the way through the ballgame.
Pennella takes high again.
Two balls, no strikes.
Norman rocks, kicks and deals a 2-0 pitch.
On the outside corner, a call strike.
It's 2-1.
The Reds three runs on eight hits.
Yankees one run on four.
Red RPIs by George Foster, Dave Concepcion, and Ken Griffey.
Greg Nettles showing the Yankee run.
Pennella now wants to make Norman wait a while.
Clips an imaginary bug out of his eye.
Now he gets back in.
Here's a wind and a 2-1 pitch to Pennella.
Swung on and bowled straight back. It's two balls and two strikes.
Blue Pennella from down in Tampa, Florida.
He's been with a few clubs, Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City.
Always a quality hitter.
Lifetime batting average of 286.
Here's a 2-2 pitch to him.
Swung on, popped straight back again out of play.
And the count remains 2-2.
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So the count, 2-2 on Pennella, leading off against Fred Norman and the Reds in the sixth inning.
The Reds have a 3-1 lead.
Here's a wind and a pitch.
Swung on, hit Pennella, leading off against Fred Norman and the Reds in the sixth inning.
The Reds have a 3-1 lead.
Here's a wind and a pitch.
Swung on, hit slowly toward shortstop and threw in the left field base hit.
And Pennella now will hold it first base.
A very odd base hit.
When he threw his ball at a screwball, just got a piece of it.
A shot between Rose and Concepcion, Concepcion just missed the backhand and staff went on the left field for base hit.
You were following the ball through the left side of the infield and I was following the bat right up the right field line.
It almost got the first base as fast as the runner did.
It was just six feet behind him when he got the first.
And that shows you how fast this carpet is here.
Pennella didn't get anything at all on that ball, but it got through the left side of the infield.
So Lewis on at first base and once again Tony Perez will play behind with the batter, Chris Chambliss.
Chambliss has flied to center of field and singled the left center.
One for two.
And once again we're going to get some action in the red bullpen.
As Chambliss takes outside a ball.
Manny Sarmiento and Jack Billingham get up again, both right-handers.
It's about the third time this ballgame has been up.
Bullpens have been busy.
As Norman now calls time, he wants to tie a shoelace. Ellie Howard overtaking to Pennella at first base.
Perez three, Yankees one.
Sixth inning.
They count a ball and no strikes on Chris Chambliss. On deck is Greg Nettles.
Now Norman gets a sign and sets.
And the pitch to Chambliss. Swung on line, base hit, center field just out of reach of Morgan.
Pennella will go at second base and he'll stay there.
So the Yankees get the first two runners on here in the sixth inning.
Pennella down at second. Chambliss picks up his second base at the ballgame.
He's on at first and the batter's Greg Nettles, the third baseman.
Nettles has wide left field and Nettles has single center driving in around the Yankee runner to fourth.
Chambliss is on some hot hitting streak. That's his 25th hit in his last 62 times at bat.
And he's three for six here in the series.
Including that momentous home run that got the Yankees into the series.
That's the biggest hit of his life.
Well Norman now looking for a sign. Now he sets.
Check to runners. Pitch to Nettles. High ball.
Well they've already given a sign that Billingham and Sarmiento already.
Now Billingham is still throwing but we've got a left hander down there throwing.
Will McEnany? Yes, Will McEnany.
Here's the 1-0. Nettles takes outside. Two balls, no strikes.
Now Brett Norman running into a bit of control trouble in the sixth inning.
Norman so far has walked two and he struck out Elliott Maddox twice as he sets.
The two 0 to Nettles. On the inside corner a call strike. It's 2 and 1.
Brett set their infield. Looking for two. The op feel more or less straight away as Norman now blows on his hands and goes back behind the mound.
Now he says something to Davey Concepcion his shortstop. Now he gets back up top.
The Yankees don't have much speed on the bases but Elliott's second. Chambliss at first. They take their leads.
Here's a 2-1 fish to Nettles. Swung on, popped up right side. Going back is Perez the first baseman foul of territory. Morgan's over there too and Morgan makes a guess.
Joe Morgan over with Tony Perez and he just got up under Perez and tacked that ball. He took charge.
Little guy said to the big guy, what are you doing here? You know I'm the all around MVP. I can do that. And yep, he took it right off the top of his head.
Just let the sure man take it. So Nettles fouls out to Joe Morgan. Just next to the stands in foul territory down the right field line.
Runners stay at first and second and here's Elliott Maddox. And Norman has handled Maddox easily so far. He's talked him out both times. He's faced him. Looks like he got him with screw balls both times.
Now for the little lefty sets. And the pitch to Maddox. Screw balls, a strike.
Reds lead 3-1. Yankees threatening top of the sixth. On deck is Willie Randolph. Norman is ready.
And the one strike pitch. Swung on, Luke foul right side. That'll be about four rows back. And it snowballs two strikes on Maddox.
Well, Norman has gotten out of Maddox both times he's faced him. And that allows him to nibble a bit with that screw ball or try to jam him with the slider.
Norman is a very deliberate worker. Catfish Hunter on the other hand, when he's on, likes to work fast. Now we're ready. The 0-2 pitch. High. One ball, two strikes.
Now Norman decides to take a little walk and blow on the fingers again. Little nippy out there. Got a freeze warning down here in Cincinnati.
High of 46, low of the upper 20s. The 1-2. Swung on line. One hopper to Concepcion. The Morgan for one. Back to first double play.
No runs on to it. A man left. Bottom of the sixth coming up. Reds lead 3-1.
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Back at Riverfront Stadium and we've just seen an exhibition for Freddie Normandy. Had it when he had to have it.
Especially where it concerns Elliot Maddox getting into ground into a double play with two men on.
For the evening it's been kind of a tough one on Elliot. He snuck out twice and then hit into a double play.
Has come up with five men on and has been unable to deliver. But that's the way it goes. Some nights you have it and some nights you don't.
He was unable to get down the first base under any circumstances hobbled by that brace that he wears and it was an easy double play.
Now the Catfish who put the Reds down 1-2-3 for the first time this evening and the last ten comes in. Bill White, what's he going to do?
Well he hasn't been a bad officially hit against Catfish and he fouls the first pitch off. He's walked both times against Catfish.
It'll be Geronimo, Concepcion, then Pete Rose for the Reds. They're in the bottom of the sixth. They lead 3-1.
The 0-1. Last ball is low. One ball, one strike.
Hunter winds and the 1-1 pitch. Chain jump is low. Two balls and a strike.
The Reds score their three runs in the bottom of the second against Catfish. The Yankees picked up their one run in the top of the fourth.
As a 2-1 pitch comes to Geronimo. Fouled off left side, not a play. Two balls, two strikes.
Geronimo walked and scored in the second. Walked and was left stranded in the third.
As a 2-2 pitch comes on. High. Three balls, two strikes.
Cesar batted 3-0-8 in the regular season. Of course his strong point has always been his fielding and the hallmark is the way he lopes after that ball.
They pitch. Swung on, popped up left side. Neto's backing up. Stanley joining him over there and Neto's, the third baseman, makes a catch as Stanley backs off.
There's one away.
Bring on Dave Concepcion, the shortstop, who's single in a run in the second inning and struck out in the third.
Catfish struck him out with the bases loaded in that third inning.
Hunter's settling down a bit now.
Here's the first pitch to Concepcion. Fast ball. It's a golf strike. Davey faked the ball and took it and he turns around and looks at Lou DiMiro.
Here's the 0-1 pitch. Swung on and missed. No balls, two strikes. Concepcion trying to go to the right side. He just got a piece of it much and held it. So it's 0-2.
He's been up ten times in this series so far. Has two base hits. The 0-2 pitch. Pumped foul straight back out of play. Mutsniel will run out of room. The count remains. No balls, two strikes on Dave Concepcion.
Hunter gets a new baseball as he looks in for a sign from Mutsniel. He rocks. Kick steals a two-strike pitch. Line right field after Spinella still going. He's there now and he's got it.
Oh, they're two outs.
And with nobody on base to batter is Pete Rose.
And Rose gets a hand as he steps up. He's over two so far. In this series he's over four. He's flying to white left field twice. Runs very hard to white left field and he's also a walk.
Here's the first pitch to Rose. Swings on it and fouls it straight back.
Well, you probably have discovered too that this is a Pete Rose top.
Oh, he leave Bornear. Bornear lives here. Owns the town.
Well, they've come to love him whether he was born here or not and I can see why.
One strike pitch. Change up is outside of all the strikes. Well, anybody would love a Pete Rose except possibly the New York Hutt players.
I don't think Ken Harrelson likes him too. Well, Buddy Harrelson. I don't think Buddy likes him too, Will.
The 1-1 is a curve ball. It finds the outside corner. It's 2-1.
He's an aggressive player, but in no sense is he a mean player or one who would take advantage of you unfairly.
Well, you have to talk to Ray Fossey too. I don't think Ray Fossey would like to be here.
Well, Fossey happened to be standing in the way. You mean the dance director?
Here's the 1-2 to Rose. Outside, two balls, two strikes.
Yes, I agree. I thought him running into Fossey that way was a little... Well, I'm glad I wasn't there.
Here's the 2-2. Outside, ball three. Well, you've got to play the game hard whether it's an exhibition game, a World Series.
All-star games. That's the way Rose plays it. That's why he's where he is.
The one thing about Pete, I was about to say I would worry about him, but who am I to worry about Pete?
The one thing about him I won't say right now.
3-2. Bet you're spouted back. You can say it now.
It's just that he is so 100% in what he's doing in playing baseball, he can hardly wait for spring training to start the minute the World Series is over, that approach to baseball.
What is Pete going to do in one, two or three years when he can't play anymore?
He'll still be playing. 3-2 bet. Swung on and fouled off left side.
No, Bill, you know as well as most when it, as it does to all men, it comes to the broadcast booth.
Well, you probably, you could do that. You know, Joe Nutsaw works down here for the Reds. They bet you swung on and bet Rose went after Bet.
Bet you got a piece of it, much to the hell with.
Three up, three down for the second time in a row. At the end of six years in Cincinnati, the Reds lead the Yankees three to one.
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You remember that scene in the Broadway smash play Damn Yankees where they had a production member with a dark on the stage and that great dancer came out and danced and sang Steam Heat.
But we could use them right now.
What's the temperature now?
41.
Just right for playing baseball.
Yes, of course.
I remember they tell a story on Ernie Banks that they were playing down in the old park at Houston Coast Stadium. It was about 120 degrees out there. It was not uncovered. I mean it wasn't covered at that time.
Everybody was complaining and Leo DeRoscia said the next guy here to complain I'm going to fine him $500.
So Banks comes over after tripling and scoring and he's sweating and he wipes his brownies. He says, boy it's hot out there.
He looked up and saw DeRoscia and he said, just like I like it.
No money in the banks.
Here's Willie Randolph.
And Willie takes the strike.
We're at the seventh inning. The Reds lead 3-1. Randolph is over 2 against Red Norman. He's flying to center field, bounce to short.
DeRoscia looking long and he's close at third base. Curve ball on the outside corner. Two strikes on Randolph. Now Piedl back up at third.
That's some transition for DeRoscia. Came up as a second base but went to the outfield. Now he's over at third base.
Here's a two-strike pitch. Swung on into center field. It's going to fall. Base set and the front of Geronimo.
And Willie Randolph got an 0-2 pitch in sync with the setting.
Oh, he's on at first base. That's the seventh base hit for the Yankees.
And they've all been singles. Well, Randolph on at first base. That'll bring on Fred Stanley.
Reds lead 3-1, seventh inning. Stanley has walked pop to short.
Understand that DeRoscia's been an all-star at second base but outfielder and at third base.
Stanley takes high. Of course Mike Smith with the Phillies can test some of that.
This Cincinnati Reds team has practically owned the most valuable player award in the last five years with Rose and Morgan and Bench.
I think it's three out of the last five.
Here's a 1-0 to Stanley. And it's low. Two balls, no strikes.
Now Billingham's up again and McAnany's up again, a left-hander and a right-hander. McAnany the right-hander and Billingham.
Check that. The other way around. McAnany the left-hander. Billingham the big tall right-hander getting loose.
As Norman sets. And backs off. Randolph's a good base dealer. He stole 37 bases during the year for the Yankees.
He's got a big lead there at first. Perez holding him.
Now Norman sets. And he'll go to first base and Randolph gets back easily.
Now Norman does a little rub job on that baseball.
Now he sets. And the pitch to Stanley. And they're a called strike. It's two and one.
Aggressive base running by the Yankees got them their run in the inning that they were able to put those hits together in the fourth inning.
The pitch swung on, hit foul right side. That'll be out of play. And the count's two balls and two strikes on Brad Stanley.
Aggressive base running by the Reds has been 50-50 tonight. The first inning of Joe Morgan went down but the Reds were unable to catch him.
In the inning that they scored all their runs in the second inning, George Foster drove a run in and then immediately set off for second. He was cut down.
And that cost the Reds a run because the batters in back of him really started a tattoo. So it's been comes he comes out in pressure baseball tonight.
And the Reds have a three to one lead here in the seventh inning. With Randolph off first base, nobody out.
Here's a two-two. Inside ball three. Three balls, two strikes on Brad Stanley. On deck is Mickey Rivers.
Now Fred Backs off, looks at his third base coach Dick Hauser. He wants to find out if Randolph is going to start towards second base on this three-two pitch.
Garvin taking a lot more time now. Finally gets up on the rubber. Gets a sign from Bench. Bench sets.
And the pitch runner going, swung on. Right base hit down the left field line. Randolph around second base. He's going to be waved in.
He'll score and digging into second base is Brad Stanley. And the Reds lead now has been cut to just one run.
Brad Stanley doubling in the Yankees second run of the ball game. And the Reds lead it three to two.
And you can feel and hear the apprehension and the stands here at Riverfront Stadium.
And I recall many years ago Tony Anthony, a very classy light heavyweight, was hitting his opponent in the first four or five rounds with everything he had.
Finally in the fifth round his opponent started to wobble and he went down. And you could see Tony Anthony, his spirit just come out.
He had won by a knockout and he came over to us and the explanation was, I said, Tony what's the matter? And he said, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him.
If he didn't go down when it was going to be a very long evening. That may be true for the Cincinnati Reds here tonight.
The way they've been hitting the ball but not putting the Yankees away.
They've had them on the ropes but couldn't put them away. You're right. Here's Rivers. Mickey swings and he doesn't get a little fast ball. No balls in one strike.
Fred Stanley down at second base. Nobody out. The Reds have their infield short and up there looking for a punt.
But Rivers swung at the first pitch.
Reds lead 3-2 Yankees threatening seventh inning.
It's a draw even at eight a piece.
Black and Annie and Billingham still warming up.
Here's a set and the pitch. Swung on it and here to center field. Right there though is Geronimo. He's got it.
And Stanley stays at second base. One away.
And so far the Reds have really done an excellent job pitching to Mickey Rivers. He's 0-8.
So with one on, one on, the batter Roy White.
He's pipped twice to second base with Joe Morgan and he's also a walk. So White's 0-2.
Now time is called. Bich wants to talk to Fred Norman.
That's right. That played Geronimo made with his head rather than with his feet or foot.
He was right there and he had the Rivers moves figured out whether it's the bench or not. It's an old walkie talkie thing.
Part of the defense is anticipating and knowing that they must have excellent scouting reports.
Both these teams countered each other quite a bit going down the stretch.
Of course they had to divide their attention between the Yankees and the Kansas City Royals.
Everybody concentrated of course on the Reds because they had theirs made.
Another base hit here and we've got a tie ball game.
Oh, the conference on the mound has broken up as Stanley moves off second with one out.
Reds lead 3-2 in the top of the seventh and here's the first pitch to White.
And he backs off a pitch inside of all of those strikes.
White's been up 17 times. He has five base hits.
That was in the American League Championship Series.
He takes a strike on the outside corner. It's one and one.
So far in this series he's won for six.
Switch hitter. He's in right handed against Norman.
Now the set. And the one-one pitch.
Screwball is low. Two balls in the strike and Norman really wanted that.
Sort of took a little hop when Lou Demiro called that ball down low as a ball.
They count two balls in the strike on Roy White. On deck is Thurman Mutsen.
At Billingham and McEnany he'll pitch the game down in right field.
Here's a 2-1. Swung on, hit foul right side. Not a play. Two balls, two strikes.
Oh, Norman gets a new baseball.
Bill, last night it was yesterday afternoon rather there was kind of a lack of a physical ballgame with the Reds just going around their business and winning the ballgame.
But this one is beginning to heat up a little. You can feel it in the murmurs through the crowd.
Here's the set now and the 2-2 pitch to White. Swung on, base hit left field. Stanley's going to have to hold at third base.
He got a late jump as the throw comes on the pitch and White holds it first.
So Roy White singling through the infield on the left side sends Stanley to third base. He's on it first.
The only one out and the Yankees best hitter up went Elliott.
Yeah, I don't know why but Fred Stanley stopped in mid-flight between second and third as the ball was going by.
Maybe he was afraid it was going to hit him but that hesitation and that stop caused him the momentum that conceivably would have brought him home.
But it's met on first and third now as you've just reported. One out and Sparky Anderson is out for a conversation with Fred Norman.
So is Joe Morgan there, Johnny Bench, in fact everybody but Tony Perez is around the line.
Now a brief update from CBS News in New York.
CBS News. I'm Mike Stanley reporting on the CBS Radio Network.
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Mike Stanley, CBS News, New York.
So the new picture for the Cincinnati Reds as soon as he gets through warming up, that's a euphemism in this cold night here in Riverfront in Cincinnati, is Jack Billingham, 12 and 10 on the year.
Earn run average on the year 4.32, a comparative disappointment in the latter part of the year, and the presumed replacement for Don Billingham should this series go to five games, it has been assumed that he would be the pitcher for the fifth game in New York on Thursday night.
Jack is a great big guy, has a crackling career ball, and has been at his best, regardless of how he's done in the regular season. He has been at his best in postseason play, meaning he comes to play when the money's on the line.
And he has been very effective in World Series pitching. And he better be right now for the Cincinnati Reds, men on first and third. They are New York Yankees and coming to the plate.
Their big gun of the past year, Thurman Munson, Bill White.
And when I let you talk about Billingham, he's been in two World Series and he's given up just one earn run in 23 innings. So he's in now with runners at first and third, only one out.
Reds leading 3-2 in the seventh inning. Now the big fellas sets, and the first pitch to Munson. Fastball bounced over to Mount Snowley. Morgan has it.
He's throwing on the second base. The only plays has, has Stanley scored the third base and we've got a tie ball game. A slow bounce through the second base. Stanley scored easily. Morgan, his only play was that second base. He made it there.
They got the force on White. We've got a tie ball game.
To put on White with 4-6, Stanley scored. So Munson gets a run battered in. He's on at first base and the batter is Lou Pennella.
Pennella has two hits in the ball game, both singles. And he's also flying to left field. He's 2-3. Yankees scratching for runs here in the seventh inning.
Pitch to Pennella. Hit back up the middle. It's Billingham. Morgan bobbles it. Now he touches up at second base and they get the force there on Munson.
I'm sure they're going to have to get Billingham an assist on that. He was trying to get out of the way of the ball and hit him.
So the Yankees score twice in the seventh inning on three base hits to leave a man on base. Bottom of the seventh coming up to score. The Yankees lead the Cincinnati Reds 3.
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The Yankees have tied it up in the top of the seventh. 3 to 3 is the score. The Yankees now have nine hits to the Reds. Jack Billingham came in to replace Fred Norman, did his job, got the two Yankees, hit the ball in the ground.
One, however, had just enough legs to allow Fred Stanley to score from third. So the game now rests between Catfish Hunter and Jack Billingham.
As we check Catfish's record, he has set the Reds down in order. In the last two innings, the last man to get on was Joe Morgan with a triple.
The Catfish, who was really falling on the ropes in the second and third innings, has managed to struggle through. And in the fourth inning, with just that one hit in the fifth in order and in the sixth in order.
But how can you say the meat of the Cincinnati Reds order is coming up? You just close your eyes and have to admit the meat is wherever you start. In this particular inning, as the Reds crowd comes to its seat, it's Griffey, Morgan, and Perez. They want the lead back.
All right, Hunter has retired tonight in the last 11. And as you mentioned, he's retired the last seven in a row. And if Ken Griffey steps in, Griffey is over too. He has driven in a run with a sacrifice five.
Slide to left, slide to set. Left-handed batter. Here's Hunter's first pitch. Hit in the air, shallow center. Right there is Mickey Rivers coming in a few steps now, waiting. And he's got it. One away.
Oh, and why not nobody on the batter is Joe Morgan, the second baseman. Morgan is two for three in this ballgame. And three for seven in the series. He single-hits center back in the first hole, second base.
He fouled out the bunch in the second inning and dribbled a center field in the fourth. Little Joe. Here's the first pitch to Morgan. He fakes a bun, takes outside, ball one. On deck is Tony Perez. Yankees three, Reds three, playing the bottom half of seventh inning.
Nobody on for the Cincinnati Reds. The next pitch, Morgan pops it foul over there the Yankee dugout. Over there is Mutsun. And he reaches in, he's got it. Mutsun in the photographer's section just next to the Yankee dugout on the third base side makes an excellent play.
He took that right out of somebody's lens. If the guy had his camera going, you're going to see the greatest picture ever snap. How about that?
Excellent play by Mutsun. And they're two outs. You see a couple of pretty good catchers here tonight, one Elliott and Mutsun and Johnny Bench.
Tony Perez has popped up single or right fly to center. He's one for three.
Right-handed batter.
First pitch is popped foul out of play right side.
Reds scored all three of their runs in the bottom half of the second inning. Yankees fought back with one in the fourth and added two more in the top of the seventh so we've got a three-three tie.
The one strike pitch swung on a miss. No balls and two strikes on Perez.
You get the feeling, wouldn't it, that the Reds might have let the cat slip off the hook.
Here's a two strike pitch. Just missed outside. A ball and two strikes. You mentioned earlier they had cat on the hook the first two or three innings.
But he's gotten tough. Well out of his last 13 and nine in a row.
And the one-two pitch to Perez. Swung on, popped up right side foul territory.
Tampa's coming on. Mutsun over and it's too far back in. Mutsun runs out of room. The count remains. A ball and two strikes on Tony Perez.
Hey Bill, I don't know who it is but he's sitting with the commissioner just three seats away. Do you know who he is down there? He's got the ball.
He probably owns a baseball team and he's jumping up and down like the end of the world has come because he got a foul for ball.
Looks like Fred Flagg who's been with the National League office for quite a while. I think he's retired now.
The one-two pitch popped up right side. Going back is Randolph calling for the ball. The second baseman's there and he's got it and the side's retired.
Well that's ten in a row for Catfish Hunter. And at the end of seven here at Riverfront Stadium the score is tied.
The Yankees three, the Cincinnati Reds three.
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Catfish Hunter has got his control back. That's the hallmark as I see it right now.
He hasn't walked anybody since the third inning.
If you're a Yankee Rooter, that's just great to know that he's being able to pinpoint those pitches.
But if you're a Cincinnati Red Rooter, keep in mind that the catfish, when he has his control, is always around the plate.
And if you get close enough to the plate here in Riverfront Stadium, at any minute, in any spot in the lineup, it can be goodbye baby.
I think one thing, Warren Elliott, is that catfish has made an adjustment to that mouse.
I think he made the adjustment as the game went on and he started finding just where to step to get the proper height on his baseball, probably around the fourth of that inning.
You're probably right, Bill, because there's no question that he's got his control back on when the cat can put the ball where he wants to.
There's no better pitcher.
So Chris Chambliss played off against Billingham here in the eighth inning and Billingham's first pitch is outside.
Fred Norman's record is complete now. He went six in the third, gave up three runs on nine hits. Lefty struck out two and he walked two.
Billingham's next pitch is a fastball, knee-high on the outside corner, it's one and one.
Chambliss is two for three in the ball game and three for six in the series.
Terror ball on the outside corner, one and two.
It'll be Chambliss, Nettles, and Maddox, or possibly a pitch hitter for Maddox, in the eighth inning.
Fastball is bowled straight back by Chambliss. The count remains a ball and two strikes.
Chris had a good year for the Yankees, batted 293 at 17 home runs and drove in 96 runs.
As the one-two pitch comes on, breaking ball in the dirt, scooped up by pitch, two balls, two strikes.
Yankees three, Reds three, playing the eighth inning.
Billingham winds, kicks and deals a two-two pitch. Low and in the dirt, three balls, two strikes.
Raleigh Eastwick, a right-hander, getting loose for the Reds.
He spread out well in the outfield for Chambliss. He hits the ball all fields.
And the payoff pitch. Swung on, hit on the ground a second. Morgan digs it out, takes his time, flips on the Perez, and there's one away.
The ebb and flow of this game, every time Billingham would miss the play, you'd hear,
And now with the ball safely pocketed by Morgan and the throw, you hear,
Yay! This is what baseball is all about, the ups and downs, the ins and outs.
Who knows what's going to happen next.
Here's another fellow, Greg Nettles, who is one for three in this ball game, and one for six overall in the series.
First pitch to the left-handed batter is low, ball one. Billingham trying to keep the ball down on the Yankees.
Here's a big fellow, six-four, and he rocks. Kicks and deals a one-oh pitch. Low again, two balls, no strikes.
One-oh, nobody on here in the eighth. Yankees and the Reds all tied up at three apiece.
And we're at that part of the game where every pitch, every move, can be the ball game.
Nettles now adjusts his protective covering on his right ankle. Fouls a lot of pitches down off that ankle.
Billingham's two-oh pitch to Nettles. Swung on and fouled back. Two and one.
Nettles led the American League at home runs this year at 32.
He led the American League in batting his own ankle in the playoffs, too, twice in a row.
Remember when Ted Williams, Ted had a special protective covering made for his forward foot there.
This was plastic. I think Nettles might be sponge. Here's a two-one. High and away.
Two balls and a strike on Nettles. But first pitch Billingham got up that high.
Eastwick continues to get loose in the Red Bull pen. Here's a three-one pitch.
On the outside corner, three balls, two strikes. Nettles started the first base.
Balu de Vero called it back, and the count is full, three and two.
And we've got a pitch hitter scheduled to hit next. Carlos May, he'll bat for Maddox.
Here's a payoff pitch to Nettles. Swung on and fouled straight back and out of play.
And the count remains. Three balls, two strikes.
Billingham gets a new ball.
Chep Kuhl not behind second base. Morgan.
D. The pitch. Bounce the first base foul.
Perez grabs it. He lets the first base umpire Billy Williams look at it, and it's all right.
That ball, when it went over first base, Bill, from our point of view here, you couldn't tell our perception whether it was in or outside the line.
The umpire right on the line had to make his decision.
Billy from Bellmark, New Jersey.
Nationally umpire. Here's a payoff pitch again. Swung on and fouled back by Nettles. The count still three balls, two strikes.
Balu de Vero of the American League behind the plate. Billy Williams nationally umpired first. Bill Deegan of the American League at second, and Bruce Fronting of the National League at third.
Dave Phillips of the American League out in left field, and Lee Weier, who was behind the plate yesterday, by nationally umpire. 16 years, is out in right field.
Wayne Wood and Weier broke in as a rookie. Here's a 3-2 pitch. Swung on, bounce foul, first base side, out of play. Still three balls, two strikes on Nettles.
Now Concepcion moves out in the shallow center field out behind second. Here's a wind and a pitch. Swung on, pulled foul outside of first again.
And Lee Weier, the right field umpire, makes a play. But still three balls, two strikes on Nettles. Now Greg calls time.
You know, he's just not spoiling the good ones. He's taken a full cut for those last four or five fouls in a row. And you pointed out that Concepcion is playing a short center field, just a step or two to the left of second base.
And Nettles just went over when Elliott got the hot water bag. He's been up there quite a while, his hands have gotten cold.
Really?
He went over and got the hot water bag, rubbed it between his hands, now he gets back in.
They've got a stove going over there of some sort in the Yankee dugout. I saw them getting it ready before the game.
They're going to burn that dugout down. We saw a lot of flame before the game.
Oh, Billingham now back up top. Now he backs off. He wants to blow on his fingers.
I always wondered what's the difference in loading the ball up behind the mound or on the mound.
Three-two pitch, line, four-five, Tony Perez. Tony Perez, the first baseman at the last moment, leads up and Rob Nettles on the base hit.
Other two outs. We've seen some outstanding fielding so far in this series. Nick Coney.
Well, they fought a long time, Billingham and Nettles. Nettles got a good piece of that ball, lined it down the right side, and Perez leaped up in the air and made the catch.
So there are two outs now, nobody on his course, still tied 3-3 here in the eighth inning. And here's Carlos May batting for Elliott Maddox.
Tony's used to handling the hot shots though, Bill. Remember, he used to be the Reds' third baseman.
Yes. Carlos May, informatics. Here's the first pitch to Carlos, and he takes strikes on the outside for him.
Here's a wind down the one-strike pitch. Curve ball misses outside, it's one-and-one.
You know it's a play. When you heard the description when Bill was trying to follow the flight of that ball, and he said, and there goes a bump.
And he took the bar right at Tony, got the big glove up just in time.
DiMero looked at that baseball, it's all right, he gives it back to Billingham. Here's a one-one pitch to May.
Misses outside, two balls on the strike. Will McEnany, a left-hander, gets up and starts throwing again, along with Raleigh Eastwood.
Reds keep their bullpen going. Here's a two-one. Swung on, bounce foul back to the screen. Two balls, two strikes on May.
Those two young pitchers out there, Eastwood and McEnany, with the two I thought of the relief corps that made the Reds last year, brought them to maturity as they were the real stoppers.
Eastwood's had another good year. The left-hander, McEnany, has not been as effective this year.
Here's a two-two to May. He checks his wing, and he takes outside. Now they check with the third base umpire, Ruth Roaming.
And Roaming says, no, Carlos May did not go too far, so he's got a full count of three balls and two strikes.
I tell you, Carlos took way up on the bat. He doesn't give you, he gets that wood on the ball, he's going to hit it hard someplace.
He's probably one of the most deliberate hitters in the league. Takes a lot of pitches, waits on his pitch.
Here's a three-two pitch. Swung on, chopped the first base, grabbed by Perez. He falls down, now he flips to Billingham.
And they've got Carlos May with the third out here in the eighth inning. Three up, three down. Bottom of the eighth coming up. Scores tied. Yankees three, the Cincinnati Reds three.
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The World Series switches to Yankee Stadium for game number three on Tuesday night, airtime 8.15 Eastern Daylight Time, right here on this CBS station.
The action down on the field switches to the last half of the eighth inning with the Reds coming to bat, the Scorsese tied 3-3, Dan Grieson, George Foster, and John Vench in that order.
And you're going to hear this Cincinnati crowd come with it and to it on every single pitch, because every single pitch can be this ballgame.
And each one of these batters can knock it out of the park on any given pitch.
This is the kind of stuff that baseballers made up. Can you hear them come to it?
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Well, this guy can turn a game around. Dan Grieson, excellent hitter. Double off the wall in center field, scored the second.
Got an infield hit in the third and fly the left field in the fifth, so he's two over three.
He's a D.H.
What'd you call him?
The D.H.
And Hunter's fastball is high. We call him a D.H. over there. Of course, National League fans, a lot of them don't want to use a designated hitter.
And he's two out of seven. Pops just went foul straight back and ought to play a ball and strike to Andre.
You're going to start hearing the rhythmic clap from this Cincinnati crowd now or anything.
This is the kind of a game when I'm home in the living room and I'm involved with one team or the other, I almost find it impossible to stay in the room.
Hunter now with a little baseball looks at Munson for a sign. Now he rocks and the 1-1 pitch.
Swung on, hit deep to center field. Rivers going back and he has room now. He waits and he's got it. And there's one away.
We're talking about the action switching to New York on Tuesday night when Elliott and it will be Pat Zachary against Doc Ellison, game three.
The scheduled pitchers for game four, which will also be at Yankee Stadium, will be at Big O'Rourke for the Yankees and Gary Nolan for the Cincinnati Reds.
Here's George Foster, the left fielder, who's singled in a run in the second, struck out in the third, bounced a third in the fifth.
A right-handed back. That is a retired 11 in a row.
Last base runner, Joe Morgan, who tripled in the fourth inning.
Here's the first pitch to Foster. He takes the strike. On deck is Johnny Bench.
You probably heard in the background, 54,815 are here tonight, most of whom are holding their breaths as Catfish Hunter is facing the guy who's programmed himself into being the MVP this year, Mr. George Foster.
Here's the one-strike pitch to him and it's outside a ball of the strike. One out, nobody on, eighth inning. Yankees three, the Cincinnati Reds three.
Yankees have three runs on nine hits, the Reds three runs on eight. Neither team's made an error so far. Here's the one-one pitch. Swung on and fouled back. A ball and two strikes on Foster.
The electronic scoreboard here at Riverfront over center field is calling for a rhythmic clapping of hands. They're doing it by picturing hands coming together and clapping. Half the crowd is doing it and half aren't.
They're not just keeping one. It's a good way to keep one. Hunter now taking a lot of time, very deliberate. Here's the one-two to Foster. Swung on and met. Foster goes down swinging.
Second time he's gone down swinging in this ball game. Two outs. That'll bring on Johnny Bench who has doubled and scored, flied to left field and struck out.
Fifth strikeout for Catfish Hunter. He got a role as once. Foster twice. Bench once. Dave Concepcion once. Bench one for three. And three for six in the series.
The breaking ball is outside. And the last 12 in a row. Raleigh Eastwick gets up and he starts throwing again. The one-oh pitch. Breaking ball. Line three set left field.
Why to play it back in the second pitch. Bench and Bench will hold on to first base. He almost slipped around in first base but he gets back easily. So Johnny Bench gets his fourth base in the series. He's two for four tonight. And that'll bring on Cesar Geronimo, the center fielder.
Geronimo has walked twice against Catfish. Hunter and Pop the third. So he's 0 for one.
He's straightening up for him the outfield white now moving toward the left field line.
Chambliss holding on Bench at first base.
He got it what 12 in a row before giving up that base hit to Johnny Bench.
Now he's set. And the pitch. Outside of all.
Now Bench is a pretty good base runner.
The next pitch. Fastball bounce right back to Hunter. He backs up. Spears and throws on the first base. They've got Geronimo and the side is retired. No runs on a base hit and a man left on. At the end of eighth. The score. The Yankees three. The Cincinnati Reds three.
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As we go into the top of the ninth inning the score couldn't be any closer. Three to three Bill.
Alright, winning to Willie Randolph. Lead off against Jack Billingham. Randolph is one for three with a run score. And he takes a strike on the outside corner.
Red scored all three of their runs in the second. Yankees picked up one the top of the fourth picked up two more tied up in the seventh.
Curveball bounced slowly fouled outside third. DeBalls two strikes on Randolph.
In the red second, Treason double. Foster drove him in with a single to center. Then he got cut down trying to steal. Johnny Betts doubled the left center.
Geronimo walked. Concepcion got a run in with a single. And Griffey a run in with a sacrifice fly. Curveball is in the dirt. Blocked nicely by Betts.
And it's one and two. Yankees got a run back in the top of the fourth when Mutsun's got an infield hit.
Chambliss single to left center. Nettles single to center field driving in the run. They added two more in the seventh. A single by Randolph. A double by Stanley driving in Randolph.
As Billingham misses outside two and two. Then after White's single to left field, Mutsun hit a bouncer to Joe Morgan at second base. And that scored Fred Stanley from third.
The pitch is a cold strike on the outside corner. Willie Randolph, Scott Ledeen. And there's one away.
Oh, with one out, nobody on. Here's Fred Stanley the shortstop. He's walked, popped up, and doubled in a run and scored a run.
Stanley bats right-handed. They shift toward right field in the outfield form, shorten up for him. Conducted Mickey Rivers.
Here's Billingham's first pitch to Stanley. And he misses down low.
Raleigh Eastwick and Will McEnany continue to warm up in the Reds bullpen. Yankee bullpen has been idling now for the last few innings.
Scott Fish-Hunter has settled down. Looking ahead for the Reds in the ninth inning. They'll have Concepcion, Rose, and Griffey against Scott Fish-Hunter.
Here's the 1-0. Stanley takes it high. Two balls, no strikes.
Billingham won a dozen games during the season, lost 10. Only pitched in relief five times during the season.
As the 2-0 comes on, understrikes two and one.
In 177 innings, he walked 62, struck out 76, threw nine wild pitches. The 2-1 hit in the air, popped up second base side, going back at Joe Morgan.
He's there. He's got it. Two outs.
Here's Mickey Rivers. He's been held endless so far by Cincinnati Red pitching. He was 0 for 4 yesterday, and he's 0 for 4 today.
He's flied to center field twice, bounced to first, bounced to short.
Bill, since Jack come in, he's left nothing. Seven in a row. He's tough. He keeps the ball down.
Fitch to Rivers, and it's a strike.
Yankee three, Reds three, playing the ninth inning. Two outs, nobody on. And the 0-1, Fitch to Rivers.
Bounced slowly toward first base, charged by Perez. He's got it. Turns around, steps on the bag, and the side of the side.
Straight up the green arm of the Yankees.
We're going to the Cincinnati Red half of the ninth inning, this four-hours time. The Reds three and the Yankees three.
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This is Magic Time. It was all for the years. This, their championship club has fought back to make up deficits or situations like this have come through.
Equally so, the New York Nines, and the Yankee Stadium, or wherever they play baseball, that's how they got to be winners of their respective leagues.
That's why they are the champions of their leagues. And this is the stuff that tension and excitement is made of as Catfish Hunter faces Concepcion Phil.
And the first pitch, where there's a breaking ball, is popped up into center field coming on Rivers going back at Randolph, and Rivers is there and makes a guess.
Oh, there's one away. Concepcion jumping on the first pitch, Catfish Hunter, and flying through Mickey Rivers in center field for the first out here in the night.
Now the batter is Pete Rose. So far, Hunter has held Rose Hitlers. He's 0-3. He's flied the left field twice and struck out, in addition to walking in the second inning.
Pete was 0-2 yesterday, so he's 0-5 in the series.
They're motioning Mickey Rivers' backs play a deeper center field, Bill.
The pitch to Rose is in there, a called strike. Maybe they've got those walkie-talkies working after all, what, Elliot?
Or just their baseball instinct. It was Yogi Beran. How long has he been around?
Here's the 0-1. Chain jump outside. One ball, one strike on Rose.
Yanks and the Reds all tied up at the rear piece. The Hicks are also even. They've got nine each.
The pitch is low. Two balls and a strike to Rose. On deck is Ken Griffey.
Hunter Wines and the 2-1 pitch. Swung on it in the air left field. White digging toward the line, still going. Now he stops. He's there and he's got it.
Roy almost overran that ball, going toward the left field line. He had to back up and make the gap. So they're two outs.
Here's Ken Griffey. Griffey on the year for the Cincinnati Reds. Hit a total of six home runs, in case you're thinking about the long ball.
He's 0-3. Fly to left, fly to center twice. Joe going to run with a sacrifice fly to center field. Here's the first pitch to it.
That ball that gets the outside corner a called strike.
Hunter working quickly. The 0-1 pitch. Misses. No, it gets the outside corner. No ball, two strikes.
Griffey sort of walked up on that pitch and took it like it was outside.
But Lou DiMiro got that right hand up so it's 0-2.
Now Hunter with the 0-2 pitch. Outside, bounce low, he towards short. Charge by.
Stanley off balance throw and it gets passed. Now she goes into the dugout and they'll send Griffey on the second base.
Well there is, get a break here and we'll see just how it's scored whether it'll be an arrow all the way or a base hitter in there.
But the winning run now is down at second base with two outs and the batter is Joe Morgan.
And walking slowly out of the Yankee dugout is Billy Martin.
Well when I'm sure Martin's out there talking to Hunter and Munson they're probably thinking about putting Morgan on which would be the normal thing to do in this situation.
And then pitching to the right hand hitting Tony Perez who has been a hot hitter so far in this series.
Whatever they decide to do will be right or wrong without any expertise on my part because if you're going to pitch to Morgan you're in trouble, if you're going to pitch to Perez you're in trouble.
But if you're going to pitch to anybody the Yankees are lucky they've got a pitcher with the name of Chester Hunter.
By the way, Griffey was given an error or Stanley the shortstop was given an error.
That's what allowed Griffey to go down to second base.
And the Yankees now are going to put Joe Morgan on.
A lot of things dictate this. First of all Morgan on the air batted 320.
Hit 27 home runs and drove in 111 runs.
Perez on the other hand although he is fourth rate in this series so far hit 260 with 90 home runs, 91 runs batted in.
And he bats right in it. That's probably 16 at the mark, just what he would do here.
But he is not the all time Cincinnati Red run batter and leader for nothing.
There's ball four on Morgan.
Ball they also want to set the force at a couple of bases.
In fact they can force a guy at third or in second base to go on and throw to first base and get Perez.
The runners at first and second, two outs and here's Perez.
Force by three three as Hunter sets and the pitch.
Swung on right base to left field.
Around third base is Griffey and the throw hole will not be in time.
The Reds win it. 40 Perez jumped on the first pitch with Cathery and ran into left field.
Griffey scored easily for second base and the Cincinnati Reds take their two nothing lead in the 1976 World Series.
Final score here in this second game. The Reds four, the Yankees three.
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Around the world it's already tomorrow morning, but here in Cincinnati at Riverfront Stadium there may be no tomorrow.
For the American League champions, the New York Yankees, as they've just gone down to their second successive defeat.
The first pitch, the big guy on first base who had just leaped some six feet in the air to rob Greg Nettles of his tour hit.
And inning earlier, the first pitch, Tony Perez, with two mates aboard, made no mistake as they say in hockey.
What? In the left field a base hit and the ball game was over.
His fifth hit, a nine times hit back for a big Tony. This has been his series.
A comparative disappointment as we had reported earlier last year before he blew the home runoff of Bill Lee.
This year he has taken charge right from the beginning.
And a more affable, more sincere and likeable guy you can't find than big Tony Perez.
And all the best to him as he has given the best to the Cincinnati Rooters here in these first two games.
Well Bill, it came with a sudden swiftness, that ground ball that quickly out-legged them the thrill by Stanley and whacked them with goals.
You know they had played pretty good defensive baseball up until that air by Brad Stine and the Yankees shortstop.
He had to hurry. He knew Griffey could run.
And you talk about the Cincinnati Reds, these are the things you talk about.
You talk about their speed. They force you to make mistakes.
A slow bounce from the shortstop, Stanley charged, knew he had to get rid of the ball, threw it off balance the ball, got under the dugout of Cincinnati.
Griffey waved on the second base that made Mark walk Joe Morgan.
And then as you mentioned Perez with the big base hit.
It was the speed, the pressure baseball that we have talked about.
We'll be back on Riverfront Stadium in just a minute.
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Well, Bill White, it came with sudden swiftness.
Two were out in the ninth inning.
It looked like Catfish Hunter who had been sailing along after a very rocky middle of the game.
They had him on the ropes in the second inning when they had four hits and three runs.
I suspect during the season Billy Martin would have yanked Hunter, if not in the second inning, in the third inning.
You don't think so?
No, he lets, I tell you, he goes a long way with Catfish Hunter.
I think he feels that Cat has earned that over the many great years he's had.
And he goes a long way with Catfish every time he goes out there.
Well, I said that during the game that he was the best he's had.
I can remember Leo DeRosier in that fantastic playoff game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
And Sal Magley had staggered.
He'd been tired.
He'd done magnificent things, but he could hardly lift his arm.
But he was nominated to start that game.
I remember Leo, we happened to be trapped together in a broadcast show, and he said to me,
When I've got to go at my best.
But you knew he was asking me to say yes, you do.
Because he knew Sal was tied.
Well, Billy knew Catfish was getting lumped here.
But I said it during the game, I agree.
It's just that I had the feeling maybe he would have taken him out.
Well, here, you know, he had that trouble in the second.
I mean, he pitched to a lot of men.
He pitched to six more men in the third, and one, two, three, four more in the fourth.
But then we mentioned that he settled down.
I think that's mom was high for.
He made the adjustment, then retired 12 in a row before giving up that single to Johnny Fetch in the eighth inning.
Of course, there's not much you can do when the ball is bubbled.
He had done his job. He could have been out of the game.