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On October 19, 1976, the Cincinnati Reds visited the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 3 of the 1976 World Series.
The Reds led the best of seven series two games to none, and this is the CBS radio broadcast of Game 3 featuring announcers Marty Brenneman and Wynn Elliott.
Game 3, Yankee Stadium with Elliott with Marty Brenneman, and it's about to happen.
At the plate right now, P. Rose, captain of the Cincinnati Reds, has handed out the lineup for his squad.
Billy Martin, unlike the first two games, is out in person to hand the New York Yankee squad to the umpires.
Billy Williams behind the plate on third base. The American Leafs, Dave Phillips.
Bill Deegan of the Sand League is on first base. Lou DeMuro of the American League is down the race field line.
Bruce Froming, second base. And Lee Weier of the National League is out in left field.
The umpires are now distorting themselves around the field. The Yankees have gone back into their dugout.
A couple of them were up loosening up. Fred Stanley, they've been standing around during the introductions, and it's a little cold down there.
The first ball tonight is going to be thrown out by none other than the incomparable Joe DiMarcio.
Joe, whose last series here was in 1951. I see him. He's standing right in front of Louis Kuhn, the commissioner, just this side of the Yankee dugout.
Joe's just shaking hands with the commissioner. He's going to throw out the ball. It was back in 51.
And so apropos, that was the 51st series game that he had played in his career.
Back in 1951, Joe DiMarcio's last World Series.
As he gets ready to throw the ball out, he does so, just like one month ago.
Now a repeat. Now Tham takes the balls and reclaims them to Joe, a Hall of Famer of course.
I'll never forget 51. It was the end of DiMarcio's career as he repeats for the photographers.
If you remember who began that year? For the New York Giants, a kid who used to run out of his cap in center field.
Came up from the cotton fields of Alabama. One of the great all-around players of all time, Willie Mays.
And for the Yankees that year, it was the buster, Mickey Mantle, the beginning of a new baseball era.
But now, we're just moments away from the beginning of the third game of the World Series here in Yankee Stadium,
where it'll be Doc Ellis pitching to Thymond Mumsum with Pete Rose, first to back for the Cincinnati Reds.
The Reds lead the series, two zip. Let's place them again. Metals, third, Stanley Short.
Willie Randolph at second. Shambles at first base. Roy White on left, Mickey Rivers and Oscar Gamble.
And it'll be Doc Ellis and Thymond Mumsum behind the plate.
Billy Williams of the National League, Pete Rose taking a few preliminary swings.
And Marty Brownemans, who normally spends his time in that lovely city of Cincinnati.
I can't help think, Marty, it's too big to be a small town and it's too small to be a big town,
so they settle for being just right. We love them.
Well, I have to agree with you, Will. It's, I guess, the best kept secret in the United States, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Well, we're doing our bit now to unlock that secret. It's a great town.
Doc Ellis taking his warm-ups to his catcher Thymond Mumsum.
When Elliot, of course, setting the stage for this, the third game of the 1976 World Series.
And while a lot of folks among the news representatives are talking right now about a possible Cincinnati sweep,
I don't think that at this point, despite the fact the Yankees are down two games to none,
you could say they had their backs to the wall.
Although, Sparky Anderson said earlier today, when? If we win tonight, we're going to sweep this World Series.
If we lose tonight, it's going to go six and possibly seven.
Well, Doc Ellis is a pitcher that keeps the ball low, which is, of course, valuable on this kind of natural breath,
because the ground balls are going to be slowed down.
The whole thing about Doc is what will his temperament determine?
Will he be calm enough to pitch his game, or will he, it wouldn't be too uncommon to be upset or nervous for the time like this.
Pete Rose standing off just to the right of home plate.
Doc Ellis has finished his warm-ups, and Rose will leave things off for Cincinnati as he did throughout 162 games during the regular season,
three over the Phillies in the playoffs, and now for the third straight time in the 76th World Series.
Ellis to the wide, the pitch is taken for a strike, and this game is underway.
And that was the loudest strike of the year. That, in fact, it was.
Rose, of course, a switch hitter batting left-handed against Ellis, with the doctor getting quickly out in front on strike two ball on the outside quarter.
Ken Griffey is in the on-deck circle. He'll be followed by second baseman Joe Morgan.
Ellis sites the side for Munson and in with a two-strike delivery.
Just missing down and in to Rose, who steps away from the plate and says something to play-dump fire Billy Williams.
The outfield for the Yankees giving Rose a lot of real estate in right center.
Oscar Gamble playing him straight away in right.
That one hit to shallow right center. It'll fall for a base hit.
So Rose takes a big turn at first base as Gamble quickly whips it all back into the infield,
and Rose has opened this game with his first base hit in this 1976 World Series.
Not his most robust. I thought it shot him right on the handle.
Doc was trying to jam him, but he had enough handle hit in there to mop it right over the head of Willie Randolph.
And if not running, at least the Reds are off. That'll bring up Ken Griffey.
He also is without a hit up to this point. Griffey's been to the plate eight times.
No hits. He's not going to run.
Third baseman Greg Nettles plays him in on the edge of the grass as Ellis checks Rose
and gets a strike over at the knees on the outside quarter.
Around the Yankee infield, they've got Shambles at first, Randolph the rookie at second base.
At shortstop, Brett Stanley, the third baseman, as we mentioned, Greg Nettles.
The infield from left to right, Roy White, Vicki Rivers, Oscar Gamble, and Munson behind the plate.
Here's a throw to first. Rose is back.
Ellis, 6'3", 31 years old, born in Los Angeles, California, now makes his home in Pittsburgh.
He misses outside as the count evens to Griffey at one ball and one strike.
The Reds winning the first two games of this series at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati,
5-1 the first game final, and 4-3 on Sunday night as they bested the Yankee ace
catfish hunter on Tony Perez's bottom of the ninth inning single.
Griffey a bouncing ball. Shambles has to leap. He'll have only one play and retires Griffey.
He looked for it second base, but Rose had any play there beaten, and then had to quickly recover,
go quick left to beat Griffey to the bag. So the Reds have a runner in scoring position on one-off.
It'll bring up second base with Joe Morgan.
Joe's had an interesting series, probably the two most important blows he struck in the series.
He didn't touch the ball. He was intentionally walked.
That was the last play, or the next to last play in Cincinnati in the ninth inning in the second game.
And you remember the walk he got just before Perez hit to Dick Allen. Marty, here's the pitch.
Rose at second base. The pitch comes high to Morgan, of all.
Joe has had three hits. He's been up eight times, has exploded the only home run in this World Series,
first inning game one off Doyle Alexander.
They outfield play in him pretty much straight away.
That was a backward glance at second. In with a 1-0 pitch.
Ball two is low. Two balls in those strikes.
Joe took a look at the latefield porch here at Yankee Stadium, and the Reds worked out last night
talked about the glee of being able to play in this park for half of a 162-game season.
He could pull that ball.
But Ellis right now is a pitch away from walking him as he comes high on ball three.
Seventeen-game winner Doc Ellis labeled bad news in his days with the Pittsburgh Pirates
coming over to the Yankees under no-nonsense manager Billy Martin.
And boy, had himself some kind of first year in the American League.
At one time, Marty, he won seven straight, and he was probably the best pitcher on the Yankee staff midseason.
He needs a strike on Morgan. Joe with a green light, a bouncing ball, the first play by Shambles.
He gets the out on Morgan. His rolls rolls into third base standing.
So two down. As Marky Anderson from the Cincinnati dugout third base side did something that time,
he's done very, very often over the course of the season.
And that's given his big hammers a green light on the 3-0 pitch.
And both the outs in this inning, peculiarly enough, have been unassisted.
High bounces almost Baltimore chops to Shambles at first.
And here's the big gun of the 1976 series.
They call him the big dog in Cincinnati, veteran Tony Perez, five for nine, as Wynn said,
the most proficient hitter so far, swinging in a foul ball on Ellis' first offering.
Five hits and nine times up. He's knocked in a pair of runs and has an opportunity to do just that right here.
If he can come up with a two-out base hit on Doc Ellis. We're in the top of the first inning, no score.
Game three of the 1976 World Series from Yankee Stadium.
Rose with a lead. They outfield, punching the alleys on Perez, who swings on an Ellis fastball, and again fouls it on. Strike two.
You know him better than I, Marty, but Perez being the biggest guy on the squad seems to be the most affable.
There's always a grin on that big face.
Wynn, I'll tell you, he's probably the classiest athlete I've ever come in contact with.
I don't know that anybody who's ever come in contact with Tony Perez doesn't just simply love the guy.
Waiting on the 0-2 pitch. He sends a high pop into shallow right field. Randolph back, gamble is in. Who's going to play it?
Randolph's second base hit squeezes it, and the Reds are out on the first inning.
No runs, one hit. Rose lets Randolph at third.
After a half inning of baseball, the Cincinnati Reds nothing. The New York Yankees are coming to bat.
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I can tell you what you heard at the completion of that first inning. I'm a fan of old standing.
I can't tell you what the baseball player feels down there because I threw my arm out when I was only knee-high to a peanut plant.
But I can tell you what it's like to be in the stands rooting or standing or sitting in your living room now,
catching this game on radio and biting your fingernails.
If you're a Yankee fan, you did silently at home what the 54,000 folks did here in the studios.
They just let their breath go in a ooh when that butterfly went the right field.
Because the Yanks looked like they might be had on the first inning with Z-Bros on third.
And now long, tall, lean. I love to listen to those cartridges in the dressing room.
Pat Vackery is out to base. Mix it quick.
And you can hear a different kind of exhalation now.
D-H-A-R-G-E is what it says on the board.
Okay, Marty.
Okay, it's Mickey Rivers standing in with Rose playing an extremely shallow third base.
Zachary delivers. Mickey Rivers' bouncing ball foul, pass first base.
When you talk about the keys so far in this World Series, you talk about the ability of Ratch pitching to keep Mix the Quick Rivers off the base bat.
He's been up nine times officially. He has come away with nothing.
And this is one of the big things that Sparky Anderson talked about coming in.
Here's a bust, third base side. Zachary quickly up throwing and he got it.
Oh, Perez dropped the ball.
The throw was to the inside of the bag, right into the oncoming river.
Perez had it and then he didn't have it.
And Mickey Rivers is going to be on as he drops one off the left side of the mound.
Zachary came up, had time to get him, but his throw was to the inside.
And Mickey Rivers on the coughed up ball by Tony Perez is on it first.
Actually he added Marty, but as he ran by, Perez's glove was still out there in front with the ball and Rivers' body brushed the arm of Perez and knocked the ball out of his head.
It was not deliberate. It just happened that way.
So we're awaiting the official scoring ruling on that play.
Will it be a base hit for Rivers? Will it be an error charged on the play?
Here's Roy White, the Yankee left fielder.
Two hits and seven times up in the series.
And they've scored an error on the pitcher, a throwing error against Pat Zachary.
Zachary delivers to White down and away for a ball.
Tony Perez at first as we set the reds defensively.
Joe Morgan at second.
David Concepcion at shortstop and Rosen on the grass at third.
On outfield, the foster left.
Geronimo Center, Griffey Wright.
Betts sets a target behind the plate for Zachary who turns and throws onto first.
Rivers, who stole 43 bases in 50 tries during the regular season, is on.
Has attempted one steal in this World Series, was gunned down by Johnny Betts in Cincinnati.
The outfield giving, switch hitting Roy White a lot of room in left center.
There's the throw and they've got him picked off. Woohoo!
They caught Mickey Rivers leading the wrong way and Zachary with that good move for a right hander
had him dead to Wright's coming back.
I was about to say, Marty, that you can always tell when Mickey is going to steal.
He loosens up his wrists and hands and lets them flap.
Just as Zachary was turning to throw, Mickey was faking a move towards second.
And you know how impossible it is to change all your musculature to come back.
He was not able to do a second time thrown out.
Two balls and no strikes and a high and away fast ball to Roy White.
So Pat Zachary can now direct full attention to the man at the plate and that he has picked off Mickey Rivers.
The kick and the pitch swung on and fouled down the first baseline.
Two balls and a strike got him.
With catcher Thurman Munson in the New York Yankee on deck circle.
Marty, the so-called pressure tactics of both these champion teams
hasn't been the most brilliant this series.
Three reds have stolen, two were thrown out and Rivers of course twice.
Two on delivery, down and inside and Pat Zachary on the miss breaking ball is behind Roy White at three and one.
Yankee Stadium jams the capacity.
This is the first of three scheduled games, tomorrow night, Thursday night if necessary.
And then should it go further than that, the series will shift back to Cincinnati.
Strike is called.
Better high fast ball.
Full count, Pat Zachary against Roy White.
Marty, Pat was saying in the dressing room the other night,
he's going to throw as hard as Don or as with as much guile as lefty Norman.
What is his stock in trade?
Well, he's got a good sinking fast ball wind that he tails away from the hitters.
Here's a high pop on the three-two pitch.
Now Zachary directing traffic signals for Pete Rose to play it as he comes between the mound and the plate to squeeze it for out number two.
You know they say it's the job of the pitcher to direct the action around the plate on a pop like that.
Pat was a little indecisive because when the ball went straight up, he pointed to Johnny Betch.
Then when he saw Johnny back off, he changed his mind and pointed to Pete Rose.
Well, Pete was coming in like it was Christmas anyway, as he always does.
That'll bring up Thurman Munchen with two odds.
We're talking about Zachary's repertoire.
He's got a slider.
He's got an outstanding change-up, which really was, well, had a whole lot to do with the fact that he won 14 games this season
and included among those 14 wins was five victories over the Dodgers.
Fast ball is up and in to the right-handed batting Thurman Munchen.
Munchen two for eight, a run bad of this.
The outfield for Cincinnati will play him straight away.
Geronimo may be a step or two toward the gap in left center.
Strike is called.
By plate umpire Billy Williams, it's one and one.
No score at the bottom of the first inning.
Two Yankees are out, although Mickey Rivers reached on a Zachary throwing error
before the Reds' rookie right-hander picked him off of first base.
White a popped a rose off a 3-2 pitch, and now Zachary one-wining to Munchen.
Bouncing ball will be foul off third.
Zachary is very, very high strung, young man, from Richmond, Texas.
He now makes his home in Waco, Texas.
But realizing a dream come true tonight as he starts game three of the World Series,
quite a climax to his rookie year.
Here's a bouncing ball over the mound by Morgan, base hit Munchen, center two.
And that's the first hit for the New York Yankees in game three here at Yankee Stadium.
For Munchen, it's his third out of nine tries, so he's batting a flat 3-3-3.
Up comes the guy that Marky Anderson says is the guy they fear the most, Shambliss.
They pitch him outside. He's been hitting it in the left center.
And of course we all know he can pull.
Big strong left-handed batting, Chris Shambliss with Munchen at first base.
Thurman Munchen, by the way, has now hit safely in all eight of the Yankee postseason games.
Batting 4-0-6 with 13 hits and 32 times up.
Two down, Munchen with a short lead against a holding Tony Perez.
Off-speed pitch missing away to Shambliss a ball.
On deck is the designated hitter, Carlos May.
Zachary with a slow come down of about the kick and the pitch.
Ball two, two balls and no strikes.
Chris has hit safely in his last 16 games, Marty. He's been on a terrific streak.
He's a guy, of course, who ended it all against Kansas City with that ninth inning leadoff home run
in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series.
Swing at a foul tip to Johnny's bench is met and Chris Shambliss, in the inimitable words of
Red Second baseman Joe Morgan, was spinning on that pitch.
Trying to take Zachary out of here. Two balls and a strike.
Shambliss levels a bat, now waiting.
The pitch on the way to the plate. Low and outside, ball through.
At times this past season, Pat Zachary had a problem early with getting his control together.
I can see one of his main problems is himself. On that pitch, which was wide, he disgustedly
had everybody in the park know he was disgusted. There was a signal from the bench.
Calm down and he nodded okay.
Three one fifth. That ball is hit off the left field foul line and will carry back into the upper deck here at Yankee Stadium.
So Pat Zachary has gone as far as he can go and now Yankee manager Billy Martin has come out and is
involving himself in a conversation with first base umpire Bill Deegan.
Howard the Yankee first base coach is also involved and Billy Martin is really upset.
I think the motion that Martin has made to the umpire on first base, which is Bill Deegan of the American League,
is that Zachary is not coming to a complete stop before he pitches to the plate.
That is part of the modern baseball rule. You have to come to a complete stop before you can throw to the plate.
If you're going to throw to first base, you must face first base. Your foot, the lead foot, must face in that direction
before you can make the throw. Martin, who is a master at misdirection, may believe that Zachary is balking.
On the other hand, he may know that Zachary has not got the most equal of temperament and he's out there
possibly to upset the kid with a count three and two and shamblers at the plate.
You'll never know because Billy won't tell you, but this is the kind of, this is the way Martin manages.
If he can get any kind of an edge within the rules, and within the rules, he'll do it.
Well, he's gone back to the Yankee dugout.
That's Zachary looking down to Johnny Vetch three and two on Chris Shambler's two-odd months in the first base.
And the pay-off pitch with a runner going, he's putting him out with a high fastball.
The Yankees are done and hitting number one. They come away with no runs or hits.
One Cincinnati era and one Yankee Munson left at first base. At the end of one full, the Wrench nothing, the Yankees likewise.
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So it's the first inning over here at Yankee Stadium on the third game between the Reds and the Yaks.
Both teams threatened somewhat in the first half of the first. Pete Rose single, then two infield ground balls got him to third,
and the dangerous Tony Perez was taken out on a fly ball to right field.
Then for the Yankees, a late throw or an errant throw by the pitcher Zachary as Mickey Rivers attempted to get on by a bunt.
It was called an error. I think it was one of those things.
The ball arrived in time, was right on the bag, but Rivers and Bruckney Perez knocked the ball out of his hand.
What are you going to do? So you call it an error.
Then a fly out by White, a single by Sarman Munson.
Oh, Rivers was picked off immediately after getting on, and then the strikeout by Champless.
And so as we go to the top of the second party, it's nothing, nothing.
Danny Drayson, the designated hitter for the Cincinnati Reds for openers against Doc Ellis, pitches high for a ball.
This, of course, the first look for American League fans at a designated hitter for the National League.
Cincinnati fans saw it for two straight days.
Drayson looks at it low and outside, ball two.
Danny had a double and an infield hit in game two of the series on Sunday night.
Left-handed batter, and there's a strike in taken by Drayson, two balls and one strike.
George Foster is on deck, and then it will be the Reds catcher Johnny Bench.
Nothing in the top of the second. Ellis working quickly.
Drayson with a swing and a foul ball that will roll to the near end of the Yankee dugout.
The Reds trying to do something that no National League team has done in 54 years, and that's win back-to-back World Championships.
John McGraw's New York Giants in 1921 and 1922, the last team to do it.
Ball three and a full count.
Drayson trying to get on to open the Cincinnati second inning.
Ellis kicks and throws, and that pitch is hit off the pitcher's glove, but fielded by Willie Randolph.
Quick throw is high, and Drayson is going to be safe.
It took Shambles off the bag and really had to climb the ladder to keep that ball from ending up in the seats behind the Yankee dugout.
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They scored that one to then field a hit for Danny Drayson. The ball deflected off the glove of Doc Ellis that took some of its momentum away,
but it looked like Willie Randolph had enough time with a good throw to get the out at first base.
It was high, and Drayson has gotten a hit for himself.
I would have given it an hour. That will bring up George Foster. Right-handed batting power hitter.
Drayson is going to be running on a pitch, and the ball gets away from Munson.
Now the question is, was it bunted by a foul by Foster, or whether Munson just allowed the ball to get away?
Apparently no contact made, and Drayson has been credited with a stolen base.
From our position behind the plate, that was a real tough one to see whether it actually hit the bat,
but of course the umpire being right there, Billy Williams said no, and Drayson has his stolen base.
That is the fourth of the series for the Reds.
And for the second time in as many innings, the Reds have a runner in scoring position.
Pitch to Foster taken for a strike. They've got nothing in two on the board.
That cannot be right. If it was a foul ball, Danny Drayson could not have ended up at second base with a steal.
That would be one ball and one strike. Foster three for seven in the first two games.
He's knocked in a run. Nobody had a runner at second base, and now as Ellis comes set and straddles a pitching rubber,
he steers Drayson back toward the second base bag.
Ellis into his stretch, and the pitch. Foster fouls this one back out of the netting behind home plate.
One ball and two strikes. Johnny Fetch will be up next. The Reds trying to become the first club in this third game to dead home plate.
Pete Rose as far as third base in the first inning, but Perez with a pop up to Willie Randolph at second
to get Doc Ellis out of that little bit of a problem.
And now again dealing to George Foster. Here's a fly ball hit well to right center field.
Gamble on his horse will not be able to run it down. That's going to get Drayson around third and onto the plate
as Foster goes in standing up at second base.
So the Reds have scored on an infield hit by Danny Drayson at stolen base and a double of the right center field gap by George Foster
to give the Cincinnati Reds a one-nothing lead.
And that was a well hit shot. Just to the right is the 385 mark. It jumped high over the wall, hit the concrete,
and came back on the playing field. And the American League umpire in right field, Udu Muro, raised his arm.
That's all. And that's all that Foster would have gotten at any rate.
So a ground rule double, an RBI double for Foster. Here's a line drive. Off the glove of the first baseman,
Shambliss through the first and that is time.
Doc Ellis coming off that mound like a shot. He got to first base with a Shambliss leap that hit off the end of that big first baseman's
mid-brand off on the outfield grass came up with it. The throw did not get Johnny Bench and George Foster moves on to third.
So the Reds, who have scored one time in the inning, have sent three batters to the plate and all three have reached safely against Doc Ellis
and the New York Yankees. The batter will be center fielder Cezanne Geronimo.
And if baseball is a game of inches, that one was a hit of a half-inch because it did tear him off the glove of Shambliss.
Big guy that he is was quite not able to sky hook it. Geronimo, left-handed batter, hit.307 during the season the first time in his
professional career that he's been a.300-plus hitter. Way outside from Ellis of all.
We've got activity underway in the New York Yankee bullpen out in deep left center field. It's left-hander Grant Jackson throwing.
Nettles plays even with the back at third as Foster leads that way. Johnny Bench comes off the back at first. Randolph Stanley a double play depth.
And Doc Ellis digging a big, big hole for himself as he drops down to Geronimo with two balls and no strikes.
A run is home for the Reds. We're in the top of the second. It is one-nothing Cincinnati.
Geronimo takes the strike.
David Concepcion is on deck. The Cincinnati shortstop and number nine batter.
Geronimo taking a look at third base coach George Sugar to pick up the sign. And now Ellis ready with the next pitch.
And here it comes. It's ball three.
So Doc Ellis having problems in the second.
Three balls and a strike to count on Geronimo.
Outfielder Mickey Rivers who can pick them up and lay them down with the best of them in Major League Baseball playing Geronimo the other way.
The pitch coming swung out and fouled and the count is full.
It has been most surprising to the Cincinnati Reds the defensive alignment of the New York Yankee outfield in this World Series to a number of their hitters.
Of course the walkie talkies much in evidence tonight down to our left. Client King, Carl Keele manning the microphones or the headsets you might say to Yankee coach Gene Michael in the New York dugout.
Here's a smash on one hot play by Stanley onto Randolph. Throw the first. Not in time and a run is home.
Now the multitude of umpires behind the first base back contending that Randolph's quick throw to Shambles beat Geronimo but not so says Bill Deegas.
With Foster in from third the Reds up the lead to 2-0 as the force out is made on Johnny Vetch at second base.
A good play by Freddie Stanley on a hard hit one hopper.
An excellent play and that was the third time this inning that there's been a play around first base that has been of some controversial nature.
The very first batter in the inning Dan Greesen hit one off the glove of Ellis. The shortstop did or did not reach in time.
Then there was the ball that went off of Shambles glove and here's the action.
Geronimo running on the pitch, Concepciona foul back.
Credit Geronimo with a RBI score to Fielder's Choice. Bench cut down at second base Stanley to Randolph 6-4.
And now Greg Nettles coming in from third base to talk with Doc Ellis who requests and gets a new baseball from plate umpire Billy Williams.
Dimensions here at Yankee Stadium 3-10 down the left field line or 3-12 rather down the left field line, 3-10 to right.
3-87 as it juts out from the left field foul pole then 4-30.
The deepest point of the park out in deep left center by the Yankee ball path.
Throw to first base by Ellis.
4-17 to straightaway center.
3-85 to the power alley and right center field.
Concepciona right handed batter.
The pitch coming from Ellis and it's taken for a strike on the inside corner 0-2.
As it was in the old days an excellent park for dead pole hitters.
And in Cincinnati's case Johnny Bench and as we mentioned earlier Joe Morgan a right handed hitter and a left handed hitter.
Would love to be able to play in this ball park.
The runner goes the pitch is swung on and foul.
Concepciona just throwing his bat at the ball almost in order to make contact.
Is Marky Anderson doing what he said he would do in this World Series and that is test the arm of Thurman Munson.
Which at times can be very erratic and it is something that has shown up at times so far in this series.
But Marty so far in this inning it hasn't been a particularly robust attack that's gotten these runs.
It's the champions taking advantage.
Throw to first base and Geronimo has to dive back ahead of the swipe tack by Shambler.
Grant Jackson continues his deliberation to the Yankee bullpen.
The Reds have scored twice in this inning.
There is only one man out.
Geronimo getting quite a lead at first base.
Ellis stretches the runner goes they call for a pitch out.
Here is the throw to second and Stanley lets the ball get away from him.
They had him out by a country mile at second base.
And Stanley allowed the ball to hit off the heel of his glove and picked up by Willie Randolph.
That should be scored an error on Stanley because it was a no contest play at second base.
Munson guests right he called for a pitch out but they scored a stolen base.
That's the third time tonight I've disagreed with the official score.
There was no question that the play was there.
Stanley in his eagerness to get the ball down had the ball hit the thumb of his glove and it went off.
There was daylight between the base and the base runner but there he is on second and in scoring position again.
So Concepcion with a count of 1-1 the pitch is swung on and fouled.
And I've got to concur with you when we've seen three plays here that certainly would appear to have been scored another way.
The Reds will now have gained credit for two stolen bases in this inning.
Which in tomorrow morning's newspaper will look like a slam against the arm of Thurman Munson.
But at least in that case that's not so at all.
Ellis with the advantage.
Here's the fly ball hit to left center field.
Charging is the left fielder white as Geronimo gets the green light coming around third and on into the play.
And now the ball getting away from Stanley on the throw in but picking it up is settled so whole Concepcion at first.
It is 3-0 Cincinnati.
And I know that Billy Martin must be inside a little bit irate
because he talked in the two games in Cincinnati about the flares that the Reds had in that pair of games at Riverfront Stadium.
And Cincinnati is flaring Doc Ellis and the Yankees to death here in the second.
By a flare that's a fancy name for a half-hearted Texas leaguer that just flukes over the infield.
In fact Roy White charged the ball as though he were afraid it was going to bounce over his head like it normally would have in Cincinnati.
And he let it bounce to him.
He rose up for the second time in his many innings.
He looks the ball into Munson's mitted slow for ball one.
Griesen open with an infield hit to second.
Stole second base.
Foster with the only well-hit ball in the inning.
A double to the right center field alley to make it 1-0.
This one is bounced to the left side.
Stanley backhand.
Flips to Randolph one.
Throw to Chambley.
That's a double play and that's the inning.
David Concepcion rolling around at second base as he tried to take Randolph out.
But apparently he's all right.
Although Concepcion's shaking his left arm as he came in hard on Randolph.
And he may be a little bit shaken up.
In the inning, the Reds get three runs on four bases.
No Yankee errors.
And one, nobody left on base.
So at the end of an inning and a half, it's the Reds three, the Yankees nothing.
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As in the first game at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, the second inning has proven fruitful indeed for the Cincinnati Reds.
In each game they had four hits and scored three runs.
The first game, however, they're hitting a little more robust.
Today it was taking advantage of everything that happened on the infield.
The one blow that really was worth it was that blow to right center field by George Foster.
The rest were singles that died over the infield or were thrown erratically or were beaten out along the base path.
No matter how you did it, the Reds always do it.
And they lead breathing up there as the Yankees come up for their second turn at times.
As it was in the top of the inning, it'll be the designated hitter leading things off.
Carlos May, we might tell you that Davey Concepcion is all right.
Not a short stop for Cincinnati.
The pitch to the left-handed Batting Bay, a call strike.
Reds trainer Larry Starr was out for quite some time during our commercial breakaway,
and Concepcion now flexing that left arm was judged to be well enough to remain in the game.
The 0-1 to May.
Swung on and that's bounced just off to the left of foul ball as Johnny Betts comes up with it on a hop.
That's Zachary being touched for a two-out hit in the first inning by Thurman Munson
after allowing Rivers to get on through his own throwing error,
but promptly picked Speedy Mickey Rivers off the first base bag
and into the inning with a flourish, a high fast ball that got Chris Schambler struck out swinging.
Here's a ground ball to Bruce Perez backs a step.
He waved Zachary off and Beats made it a bag and a foot race. One down.
You know, Marty, Mickey Rivers being picked off first base in the first inning
might be the height of frustration for the New Yorkers.
In the previous games, he wasn't able to get there, and here he did get there,
and before you could take a breath, he was out.
And unless Rivers is on those base paths to upset the pitcher,
and in this case the young Zachary, a good deal of the Yankee attack is signed off.
He makes things happen for this New York club.
Here's another man who makes things happen, and Greg Nettles.
He led the American League in home runs with 32.
Left-handed batter starts to go around on a breaking ball,
but checks the swing in time as Billy Williams gets help from third base umpire Dave Phillips.
4-1.
I think it's only fair to note that in this series so far Greg has hit in the two double plays.
One for seven is a hitter.
Two RBI.
The one-oh to it. That's a fast ball high, ball two.
Swinging a bat in the Yankee on-deck circle is right fielder Oscar Gamble.
Base coaches for the Yankees, Elston Howard at first, Dick Hauser at third base.
A slow coming, and that is one on a high deep drive, but it'll be foul down the right fielder line.
The Cincinnati book on Greg Nettles, a high ball hitter, and Zachary threw one up in his eyes that time,
and it could well have cost him.
Nettles blowing into his hands on a very, very cool night in New York City.
Back in the batter's box as Zachary sends in the 2-1.
That has grounded the first base and foul between the bag and the coaching box.
They had a hot water bottle in the Yankee on-deck circle earlier,
but as we look down now at Oscar Gamble we see no evidence of it.
Well, they have portable heaters under the seat.
I don't know what the implication of that is, but at least it keeps them warm.
I don't know what portion of the Yankee anatomy is getting the good of it, but it is under the seat.
Two and two the count on Nettles. Here's a pitch.
He checks the swing on a slider inside. Full count.
It is 3-0 Cincinnati as we play baseball in the bottom of the second.
They have bounced out to Tony Perez on assistant and Tony now playing deep for Nettles.
Here comes the payoff, and it's high and away as Nettles is on with the first walk allowed by Zachary in the game.
Marty Gregg is not only the home run champion of the American League,
but he has a very settled idea of what he's worth.
He played well over half the season, you know, without signing with the Yankees.
He was one of the option players, and then finally he and Yankee management came to an agreement.
So he pretty much knows who he is and what he can do,
and he has had a fantastic year at third base as a fielder.
I haven't seen anybody play the bag as well since the halcyon days of Brooks Robinson.
Now that may be a little sacrilegious, but he was diving and swooping.
He was great at third base this year.
Oscar Gamble, the batter, Joe Morgan came in from second base to talk with Pat Zachary.
Gamble batted only 232 during the season, but he can play long ball.
He had 17 home runs and knocked in 57.
One on, one on. Zachary with a check of the runner at first base.
He pitches and Gamble swings and fouls. This one out of play.
I think Oscar hit the longest ball out of Yankees, certainly a hit this year,
way up on that second deck where I see a sign out. So pervasive is the idea of,
winning may not be everything, but it certainly ameliorates one's feelings.
There's a sign out there that says Brooklyn loves the Yankees.
Took a long time for a sign like that to, I guess, be flown in this ballpark since the tree grew there.
In field, a double play, Depp.
Gamble takes the strike. And so Zachary will be advantage if nothing in two.
Tomorrow night it's going to be right-hander Gary Nolan for Cincinnati,
the winningest pitcher on the Reds' staff. He had 15 of them.
One of 10 or 7 pitchers to be in double figures wind-wise for the Reds.
And it'll be single, singer baller Ed Siguroa, a right-hander for the Yankees.
Pitch is up high, one ball and two strikes.
Zachary certainly has a hitty, hirky, jerky movement,
especially when he wants to really put the mustard on it.
He screws up his arm and then he comes over with a wrist snap.
More often than not, it's off target.
He pitches, and the off-speed pitch is low for ball two.
So he has gambled in a hole and two strikes, and now will be delivering the two two-pitch.
You referred to him in the pre-game show win as cadaverous,
and I think that's a pretty good description of it.
I didn't mean that negatively. 6'5", 175 pounder Zachary.
Here's a flat ball to center field.
Geronimo started in, now drips a bit back and off to his right, the spirit.
Gamble hit it on the button, but Geronimo flagged it down,
and there are two Yankees out here in the second.
And stepping in is second baseman Willie Randolph.
Marty, what I meant is when you reach a certain age and certain parts of you go to pot,
you look with some scant at a young man who can still wear a belt size 30, you know.
But he did remind me of Lefty Grove in a quarter of a century ago, long tall, and with an Adam's apple.
Second baseman Randolph, one hit six times up in the World Series.
Pass ball is high, ball one.
The Reds score three times in the top of the inning.
May bounced out to begin the Yankees second.
There was a walk to Nettles, gamble is lined to center.
Randolph a right-handed batter.
He swings and he misses.
Bench comes up as if to throw down to first base.
Nettles had blocked the break toward second, but quickly pulled up short and went back into the bag.
One ball and one strike.
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Ply ball, left field, lost her tracking and pounds a glove and that's the end of it.
The second inning numbers for New York.
No runs, no hits, they stray into one.
At the end of two, complete at Yankee Stadium.
Cincinnati three and New York nothing.
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We're going to the top of the third inning with the Cincinnati Reds,
as they did in the first game, holding a three-run lead.
They have taken the lead in each of these three games.
However, tonight, with Doc Elison the mound for the New York Yankees,
this big crowd of 54,000-plus hopes that he regains his composure.
He will set the Reds down from here on in and can stay in the game.
This is a designated hitter, makes that possible, while his Yankees conceivably can chip away at Zachary.
That's what they hope and pray.
Mr. Grippy, Ken, by first name, comes to the plate.
That's a few things to say to Ken Grippy.
Billy Williams, the plate umpire, they doodle around, clean up things.
You can see the black rim on the outside of the plate, that beveled edge.
The speedy Ken Grippy, a 29th draft choice, 29th round.
A young man who certainly looms as one of the superstars of the future in the National League,
to pitch high a ball to him.
He batted 336 and lost a batting title on the last day of the season
when cup third baseman Billy Matlock had four base hits,
but still a super year for this kid from Denora, Pennsylvania.
And that should ring a bell, ball two.
Dan Musial, of course, from that Pennsylvania city,
and this young man trying to make a name for himself in this game of baseball is off and running.
Marty, you had to have brains to trade for Foster and Morgan,
but you had to have luck to pick this kid up.
Absolutely win. No question about that.
Here's a strike taken by the left-handed batter, two and one.
He bounced down to first baseman Chambliss in the opening inning.
So Don Gullis trying to get his packets together after a rough second,
as Grippy checking his swing and it cost him a strike, two and two.
As I recall it, the only first draft choice that's due with this current red organization is Don Gullis.
Johnny Bench was the number two choice.
That's exactly right. Bernie Carbo, that year that Bench was drafted number two, was drafted number one.
Three balls and two strikes on the pitch wall and outside.
And when he hit that three-run home run in the eighth inning of the sixth game last year,
I'm sure he didn't rank that high with the Cincinnati Red organization.
He was going to be bitter for the Red Sox.
payoff pitch is chopped to third baseman Nettles.
Nice pick up on the short hop and his throw is in time.
That's the kind of play by Greg Nettles against very, very quick running Jen Griffiths.
That's the kind of play that he has been pulling off all year.
That was a bouncer on the Cincinnati turf.
For lack of it, it would have gone a mile in the ears.
It was. Nettles, who was playing him quite far back, had to come in on the dead run,
scoop it up with the glove hand and without breaking stride, gut it over to Chambliss
and that's what you call an eyelash play.
Last year's national league most valuable player and, well, you talk to many of the folks
who are charged with the responsibility of voting, says he's going to do it back to back
and that's second baseman Joe Morgan.
The change from Ellis' high of all.
If anything, he had a better year in 1976. He hit 27 home runs.
He batted 320.
Here's a foul strike into the middle of Monson, one and one.
And knocked in 111 runs to rank second behind teammate George Foster.
All that in a total of 141 games, which means he missed completely 21 more games.
Two and one.
Ellis and the Yankees trailing Zachary in the reds, three to nothing.
We're in the top of the third.
Both feet planted firmly on the rubber has his sign and has Morgan fouling it off
over toward the Cincinnati dugout.
Count even at two balls and two strikes as Morgan converses with Yankee catcher Thurman Monson.
Did not have a hit, Joe Morgan, in the three-game sweep over the Philadelphia Phillies.
He's hitting on a two-two pitch from right-hander Doc Ellis.
It's on the way to the plate. It's cut on and bounced right side.
Randolph has it. He throws the first two outs.
Out or not, Morgan is an example of doing the best you can with what you've got.
Of course, he's got everything, but it's all wired together.
Electronically, the signal's all meshed.
And what does he weigh, 160?
165 pounds on a 5'7 frame, and it's hard to envision a guy who can pack that kind of power into that kind of physical build.
The opposite is this guy, Tony Perez.
Pitch to him, swing and a miss.
Perez popped out to Randolph in the first.
Down five for ten in the World Series.
It's been either feast or famine for Tony Perez in World Series play. Last year, he was 0 for 15 before getting a hit.
Sight to swing it.
But when he came out on it against the Boston Red Sox in game five at Riverfront, he came out with a vengeance with two home runs.
And of course, it's a big two-run homer in game seven off that Bill Lee blooper pitch that erased the three-nothing Boston Leeds.
He strikes out, and impressive.
One, two, three, three for Doc Ellis.
The Reds are out of order.
And to the roar of this Yankee Stadium crowd at the end of two and a half, Cincinnati three to Yankee seven.
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Right now all of Rome are concerned with the top of the third inning or the bottom of the third inning.
And the New York Yankees do trail 3-0, and their sparkling shortstop, Wed Stanley, who by midseason had won a competition with Mason as to who was going to be the Yankee shortstop.
And in the latter part of the year, despite his reputation as a light hitter, docked in with a lot of consequential blows, which we could keep up right now.
According to the Yankee fans, they'd be delighted.
So Stanley, the number nine batter in the Yankee lineup, is ready to go, and so too is Pat Zachary, the psychos call.
9-1 and 2 for the Yankees in the third inning, Stanley to be followed by Mickey Rivers and Roy White. The Yankees looking up on the 3-0 deficit.
That pitch is low, and the count is one ball and one strike. Stanley 1 for 4 in RBI.
Zachary rocks to the line. The pitch, strike two called on the outside corner, and that pitch right there is the pitch that made Zachary a 14-game winner. A slider away, and at times he had a sold-out sign on that outside corner against right-handed batters.
He has Stanley swinging on the pitch, and it's going to fall back into the seat.
Marty, he was the best pitcher for the Reds in a lot of part of the season. Far and away when, he started out the season in the Cincinnati Bullpen, he got an opportunity to strike one a game in Wrigley Field, and had back-to-back starts against the Dodgers before over-full crowds.
One in Cincinnati, one in Dodger Stadium, and one handily both times. Here's the chopper to the mound. Zachary definitely cradles it in his midsection, and flips on to Perez, one down.
I had the feeling, and I don't attempt to read Sparky Anderson's mind, but I had the feeling that had not Zachary been the comparative youth that he is at 24, he would have started him in the playoff series as the first pitcher. I think on the basis of quality, he deserved this spot.
Well, he was far and away the most consistent starter from beginning until end for Cincinnati.
Mason, Mickey Rivers who reached on Zachary's throwing out of the first swing and a miss. There's a change that had Rivers way out in front.
Mickey looking to Dick Houser in the third base coaching box.
Rose again as he has been every time this man has come to the plate playing shallow at third, and Rivers bounces that way, but it finds its way to the Cincinnati dugout. Strike two.
The only two regulars in this World Series without a base hit, Mickey Rivers is one, and Ken Griffey, the Cincinnati right fielder, is the other one.
But Griffey is more than made up with it, with his feet, as he did in the ninth inning in Cincinnati to force the error by the shortstop and eventually came home with a winning run.
Going two on the way to Rivers. Swing and a foul. Johnny Best could not hang on to it. That's the only thing that kept Rivers from being struck out, so the count holds at two strikes.
The Yankees trying to become the seventh team in World Series play to bounce back from a 2-0 deficit. The last team to do it was the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1971 against Earl Weaver's Baltimore Orioles.
Rivers strikes out swinging. Betts drops the ball, trying to tag Rivers, and now throws on to Tony Perez to complete the strikeout, the second of the game for Pat Zachary.
Marty, just before the last game of the Kansas City Series, the owner, George Steinbrenner, of the Yankees had a private conference with Mickey Rivers, and he came out and had four straight hits, and the presumption was that he was all excited and urged on by the owner.
I understand they had the same kind of a meeting last night. And apparently there were conflicting viewpoints on the meeting. Steinbrenner felt like it was profitable. Mickey Rivers seemed to be a little bit perturbed over it.
Call strike is in to Roy White.
Rivers was quoted in the New York newspapers this morning as saying, some people get into a slump and there's nothing you can do about it.
One ball and one strike. The title of that turn is Cry Me a River.
White popped out to Rose in the first inning. Zachary trying to retire him and order the Reds lead in this game, 3-0.
Strike two called. Zachary throwing bullseye. The Yankee hitters in the third.
White out of the batter's box now climbs back in as Johnny Bench sends out the sign and Zachary sends in the pitch. Check swing, ground ball foul at first.
The Yankee crowd has not had a whole lot to get excited about. Cincinnati sending six batters to the plate in a three-run second. And as wind pointed out, the second inning has become a good luck charm for the Cincinnati Reds in this World Series.
One ball and two strikes. This thing outside Zachary, two and two. And for those who have a second inning in the pool, maybe they want enough to build one. I would think so.
White looking at a straightaway Cincinnati outfield. He checks his swing on a change of five, all three. Zachary has gone three-two to a number of Yankee batters here in the early inning.
Marcus Barky Anderson pays a great deal of attention to and of course with a man by the name of Raleigh Eastwick in his bullpen. When you get to the late innings talking about the eighth and ninth, you can look for that possibility.
Here's ball four high. Zachary is surrendered his second walk. That will keep the Yankee third going for Katja Thurman-Munson who is the possessor of the only New York kid at first and he's single to center two.
Alrighty, this guy can pull the ball under the left field stand but recently, because they've been pitching him outside as an intelligent hitter, which he is, he's been riding the ball to right with power.
It's not impossible for him to reach the stands but he has also been reaching the empty part of the green. Now Pat Zachary is down on his right knee pointing to the bottom of his left.
Evidently it's nothing physical. It's probably the spikes. He's taken the spade out and cleaned out the spikes. The shortstop and Katja Bench are immediately out there with memories of Don Gullit and the ripped tendon there.
But he's okay as the young man from Texas.
The inevitable comparison has been made in this World Series between the two catchers who claim to be the best in baseball, Johnny Bench and Thurman-Munson.
Munson will not have any talk at all concerning that subject. He says Johnny Bench does his thing and I do my thing.
And both have a strong argument in their own right.
So a runner at first is white on the two-odd walk and here's Zachary's pitch to Thurman, a swing and a miss.
Munson, a much more disciplined hitter than Johnny Bench in the sense of exactly what Wynn Elliott was talking about just a moment ago. He will go to right field.
Johnny Bench, the book on him, a dead pole hitter. He feels like he's paid to hit home runs and drive in runs and on a rare occasion will go to right as we saw earlier in the series in Cincinnati.
Swing and a miss. Zachary effectively keeping that ball down to Munson with good results at two strike count.
In the last two World Series catchers have been emotionally so important. Who will ever forget the catcher for the Boston Red Sox in his home run Carlton Fisk in the sixth inning rather than their sixth game?
Munson has had three hits in nine times up. He hits one to center but Geronimo should play it and he does to end the inning.
The Yankees still runs, no hits. One man left on and after three pulls it remains Cincinnati 3 and New York nothing.
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Want to know what designated hitters do between innings? Well if you're Carlos May and you're the Yankee designated hitter, you go up and warm up the pitcher until Darman Monson could get the tools with his trade back on.
Speaking of Monson, catchers have been so prominent in World Series play. A guy in the Yankee dug-off in the name of Yogi Miller. Almost impossible to strike him out.
Almost impossible to throw a pitch anywhere in the park that he wouldn't go after. And Elton Howard, the first base coach. We mentioned his first appearance in a World Series first time at bat. He hit a home run.
I don't want to go back into the ice age, but I remember Gabby Hartnett with that home run just before the sky fell in to win the year's play for the Chicago Cubs.
It set them in and Bill Dickey winning a World Series was to go on and on, but I'm not going to because the first batter is up, Marty.
That batter will be Danny Dreeson, the designated hitter who's opened up the three run second with an infield hit to second base. A pitch to him is wide a ball.
When you talk about the 29th round draft choice Ken Grippi some years back, this man out of Hilton Head, South Carolina, was signed as a pre-agent by Cincinnati.
He swings and hits one at a time. Deep right center field and it's out of here for a home run. Danny Dreeson taking the ground to her as he jumps on a fastball from Doc Ellis.
And deposits that shot into the seats in right center, the second home run of this World Series, and the Reds shoot their lead out to a 4-0 count.
Marty, I think it would be a real test of character now to ask Parky Anderson what he thinks of the designated hitter. If he were to jump up and down in his gentlemanly manner like he does and say I think it's an abomination,
I would respect him as a man above and beyond the call of duty, but right now I think he feels a little warm about the ball thing.
That will bring out George Foster. Of course the Reds have been outspoken in their denial of the designated hitter. They do not like it and they would hope that it never comes to the National League.
I think in the next year or so they're going to be disappointed in that feeling. The pitch is in for a strike to Foster.
But I've said it before, but I think the designated hitter is more honest than those cheap triples that bounce off the Reds turf, those fly balls that land ten feet in the back of the shortstop and then bounce equally high over the fielders head.
Here, you can't have it both ways. No, that's true. One strike on Foster.
Allison with a pitch. Foster hits a line drive fielded on a hop deep behind second by Randolph. He throws and he got it. Super play by Willie Randolph.
If you're a second baseman you can't make a better play than this young man from Brooklyn, New York, just paid.
And Marty, where the Yankees as a result of the home run by Threeson could be at the point of disintegrating at least spiritually, that's the kind of a play, mentally, that could bring you back in and say well all is not lost.
We can still make a play like that. We can still do it.
And you talk about the comparisons between playing on natural grass and artificial turf. That ball's a base hit in Cincinnati.
Here's Johnny Bech foul at third. They've got double barrel action in the Yankee bullpen.
Dick Tidro, a right-hander, has joined left-hander Grant Jackson.
The Reds four, the Yankees nothing. A Threeson home run to the bleachers in right center to kick off this fourth inning.
And Foster thrown out on an out of sight play by Willie Randolph deep behind the second base bat.
Bech goes to right field. That's going to be a base hit. Slicing drive away from Gamble. Bech has taken the turn and he's in a hole.
As Gamble shotgun one back to the infield and Freddie Stanley.
Cotton has bounced out of the Yankee dugout and we may well be in line for a New York Yankee fishing change right here.
I don't think there's any doubt about it. The Yankees cannot afford to go down three-zips.
They are well on their way now trailing four-nothing amidst the third inning.
Only one out, Johnny Bech, confounding the Yankee dual.
Had a wrong anticipation of the kind of a hit he is. Flap the line drive single into the corner in right field.
His second right field hit of the series. The previous one in Cincinnati.
A screaming drive. The parabola of which looked like it was going into the stands at the last second little English and came down and bounced off the wall.
And his second hit in this World Series through the right field corner.
At the moment we're not sure who's coming in because the tableau at the plate, or rather at the rubber, is still Stanley Munson, manager Billy Martin.
And now making the long tour around the perimeter of the Yankee right field.
It will come down the first base side and when the door opens it will be number 25 Jackson.
The New York Yankees.
Here he comes, Grant Jackson coming out.
Grant, who came to the Yankees in a trade from Baltimore for Rudy May and Chippy Martinez.
He came along with Kenny Holtzman. Kenny Holtzman, of course, the forgotten man in this series.
He neither would leave nor started. And for a man with all that World Series experience,
Holtzman has said he would do whatever the managers told him to do. And so far the managers told him to just sit there like little Jack Horner.
But Grant Jackson, who in the latter part of the season, Marty, was the most effective New York Yankee reliever.
And by that I mean he could go six and seven innings.
He's now come in, I believe this is his second appearance in the series, his first. He appeared in the playoffs and was effective then.
Now then Alexander, Lyle, Hunter, Ellis and Grant Jackson. I know, excuse me.
And Grant was up on his feet so many times in the bullpen when Hunter was staggering in that second game.
Here's Grant, left-hander. He's closed smoke, as we used to say in the old days. Now it's velocity.
I think because so many college kids have come into the big leagues, the language has sort of been upgraded.
It's now velocity instead of speed. It's location instead of control.
The one thing I wish they would change, I don't know why they say you go three, four, four.
When we were kids we said three out of four. The three, four, four is the biggest flag that I don't buy.
But let's see what Grant Jackson can do with the rest of this Cincinnati lineup, Marty.
He's going to be facing Cesar Geronimo, who reached on a field of his choice in the second inning to pick up an RBI.
Johnny Betch at first base, a run in, one out. Fits, missing high of all.
Jackson, a native of Ohio, he hails from Fasdoria, Ohio. Six feet, 190 pounder.
That makes his home in Cago as Puerto Rico.
He gets the inside corner as Geronimo steps away from the plate. The count evens at 1-1.
Wynn talked about his pitching exploits during the season. Overall he was 7-1 with a 2.54 earned run average and 34 appearances, all but two in relief.
Before dealing with the plate, he deals to Shamless and Betch with a quick step back.
Dick Tidro continues to loosen up in the Yankee bull pass.
And now they've got Betch picked off. The throw to Shamless, the throw to Stanley, and Betch is out sliding.
Now Johnny Betch was going on the fifth. Jackson threw that way and Betch is a dead duck. 1-3-6.
You can go half a year and not see anybody picked off, Basin. In this game tonight in the first four innings, we've seen two picked off.
Mickey Rivers and the Anks and now Betch.
So now two away. And this pitch is inside a big breaking ball, two balls and a strike.
Geronimo, in addition to batting home a run in the second, also scored one of the Cincinnati three runs.
He swings and hits one to right coming in gamble. He makes the cut, Jeff Dye, and that's all for Geronimo and that's all for the Reds.
One run on two-base hit. The run scoring hit the home run by Dreesen.
And after three and a half, it's the Reds four and the Yankees nothing.
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The left-handed meat of the New York Yankee batting order
is coming up here to play the fourth inning.
Chris Chambers, Merlin May, Greg Meadows, and Oscar Campbell.
And with that porch, within reaching distance of all of them,
may I be allowed to say that they like their porch chopped?
No, I don't think I'd better say.
Marty, you better come on.
That's Zachary securing the knowledge,
and he has a four-run lead with which to work.
Get ready to deal with Chambers for the second time.
Zachary won the first inning battle as he struck him out on a 3-2 bounce ball.
And they are up in arms at Yankee Stadium.
They want to see some offense from the Bronx Bombers.
Here's Chambers and here's Zachary.
Swung on five-a-mound, makes it 6-0-3.
The seventh game straight game, and with Chris has hit safely.
He set two records in the late championship series of 0-5-11.
He rose hell that record in 1972.
He came up with nine.
And Chambers batted all-mate runs to break a record formally held by Henry Aaron,
who had seven in 1969.
Carlos Faye grounds it out to Tony Perez as the lead-off batter in the second.
He's in now with Chambers at first.
Zachary ready.
The pitch taken over the plate but below the knees, ball one to Carlos Faye.
Whatever a welcome is, the New York crowd is now making it ring.
And they are.
50 seats in this place tonight, I'll tell you.
Like his call, one-on-one.
That base hit for Chambers is fourth in the World Series.
Johnny Benchley and everybody was sixth.
Tony Perez has five, and Foster joins Chambers with four apiece.
One-warning.
Swing and a foul on the screen.
So Zachary, a head-on designated, hitter, Carlos Faye, one ball and two strikes.
That hit by Chambers, only the second in the game for New York,
the other being a first-inning single by Thurman Munson.
While the Yankees, or rather the Reds, have had seven in scoring their four runs off the departed Doc Ellis.
Right-winging, and that's a strikeout for Zachary, his third in this game.
Mark one-up for the kid in that instance because Carlos Faye is not an easy strikeout.
He's a very discriminating hitter and very often will take two to wait for the one.
That time he never found it.
One down now with Greg Nettles, who was a base runner in the second inning through one of two runs that Pat Zachary has given up.
The infield, a double play depth, the fastball is up.
Four-one.
Zachary seemed to slip a bit on the mound that time.
Marty, he looks back at it as though to say nasty.
Checking in with Johnny Bench.
Down and in. Two balls in those three.
Don Gullick, the first game winner for Cincinnati.
He of course suffered the dislocated tendon that eliminates him from any more World Series competition in 76.
Swing and a foul that will be out of here, back into the upper deck behind the plate.
Jack Millingham retiring eight batters in a row in relief. Freddie Norman under frigid weather conditions in Cincinnati Sunday night picked up the game two victory.
And now Zachary trying to do it here against the Yankees to give the Reds a three-nothing lead in this World Series.
They lead it four-nuffing. Outside and high, three-and-one.
You know Marty, with a four-run lead and a man on first base and you've got one out, it's not the most dramatic of moments.
Yet the fanaticism of the crowd, their constant murmur, their egging on the Yankees has put this a little out of context I think for the young pitcher.
He's going too hard. He needs a strike and he does not get it.
He walks right back over to the high heater.
Sending Shambler's on down to second base and now the Yankees are trying to serve something up at the forefitting with two eyes.
One out and Oscar Gamble at the plate. I think the crowd has done it.
Now the pitching coach Larry Shepard has come out. I think he feels it too.
It's a constant din, this hubbub. The emotion of the crowd has gotten to Pat Zachary.
Like I said before, a man on first, you've got a four-run lead, one out. You're not going to trip into position because of that.
But with Netto's up and he of course knows he's got the 30-plus home runs, Zachary's started reaching back and letting it fly.
Well all of the very best of the pitchers, the most experienced, can maintain their location or their control in that kind of a situation.
So Larry Shepard has come out. I presume to tell him don't act your age. Act like the tough pitcher you are.
Now this Gamble is coming up. He's a free swinger.
I'll try to jam it over there. Make it nibble. Make him make the mistake. Stay with it.
Okay Marty. Okay, here's Gamble. Zachary checking Shambler's at second. The pitchers in for strike one call.
This man has the capabilities as we pointed out earlier tonight with one swing of the bat to get his club back to within one run.
They've got Shambler's at second base. They've got Greg Nettles at first with one out.
Zachary ready with the 0-1 delivery. That's up high for a ball. When he gets back down and rears it, he goes high all the time, Marty.
I'm sure Larry Shepard was out talking prime early with his follow through and just what you're speaking of here when the fact that he has been up with so many of his pitches.
And this Yankee club, a predominantly high ball hitting team. Two balls and a strike. That's just was on.
Johnny Bich looking into the Cincinnati dugout. We might tell you that with a 4-0 lead despite the Yankees having two men on, nobody yet throwing into Cincinnati bullpen.
Waiting is Oscar Gamble. He swings and pops it back behind the plate, but Johnny Bich watching it right out of here.
Apparently somebody missed out on the souvenir because that ball was in the upper deck and now it dropped down out of the screen just below us.
And a momentary release in the tension that the Yankee fans have themselves created and I think with effect on the young pitcher.
The kind of thing builds within you and here they come again. The infield looks for the bouncing ball. The two-fifth.
Checkswing foul ball. Gamble hesitated on it, not knowing exactly what to do with it.
And he gains a reprieve of sorts on the checkswing foul, a count holding at two balls and two strikes.
New up next, second baseman Willie Randolph. The first threat that the Yankees have posed in this game.
Gamble swings and again fouls. He's proven to be a tough customer for Pat Zachary as Zachary continues out to throw strikes and Gamble wastes him with foul balls.
And everybody's forgotten that it's cold out. I would say that is a most accurate statement.
It's actually not as cold as it was in Cincinnati on Sunday night. The wind has died down considerably in New York City.
Here's a line drive into center field. That's a hit. Here comes a run around and third.
Geronimo Franks it forward to play. Cut off by Tony Perez. The run is in.
A face into center field by Oscar Gamble and it's four to one as the Yankees have come up with their first run.
Devils goes to second base. Willie Randolph will be the batter.
And New York trying to battle back in game three as they did in Cincinnati in game two when they fell behind three to nothing.
And that pitch seemed to me to be high but little out over the plate.
Gamble instead of trying to pull it into the porch in right field, stroked it on a line into center field and it came within a whistler of bouncing over the head of Geronimo.
That has gone way out to the 417 mark. That would have been two in and Gamble at least on third.
And now the exuberant Yankee patrons and the porch in right field absolutely that Yankee sally with some ticker tape.
Well it's wider than ticker tape. I guess it's softer than ticker tape. It ain't ticker tape.
We've got activity for the first time tonight in the Cincinnati bullpen. Right hander Pedro Borbón is throwing along with left hander Will McEnany.
Now we've got Ellie Hendricks running in for the Yankee bullpen in left center field toward the dugout.
So Billy Martin maybe thinking this should be sometime in this inning. We'll have to wait and see.
Hendricks has now reached the Yankee dugout and has gone to the rack where they have the helmet. Here's a picture Randolph down and away for a ball.
Hendricks has been through the mill minding of the member of the Orioles. He's a left handed batter. He can reach the porch and I presume he has more patience or at least as much as the weak hitting by Stanley.
The one-o to Randolph. Swung on and popped up. That's going to be playable by Johnny Betch as he comes toward the red line deck circle and beyond and he's got it.
Throughout number two.
Randolph a high foul pop to Johnny Betch. As Pat Zachary begins to breathe a little bit easier and while Fred Stanley is the scheduled batter he will not hit.
It will be Ellie Hendricks coming on as the Yankee pinch hitter. Now we're going to get a convention of Cincinnati players around the mound.
Johnny Betch, Tony Perez, Joe Morgan all crowding around 6'5 Pat Zachary to talk over I'm sure the book on Ellie Hendricks.
Hendricks was more or less a throw in in the deal with Baltimore. The main of Chattel's of course were Holtman and Doyle Alexander.
But he came along as part of the package and gave the Yankees their third catcher. They have Fran Healy from Kansas City.
And Ellie Hendricks of course the one with the most experience. Much more experienced than Healy.
As I say Hendricks has been through the mill. The championship mill is a member of the championship of Baltimore Orioles.
He is a left handed hitter. He is slightly and spindly of build but he can put it together like Morgan can and if he gets all the synos on it he'll go.
And he's done it before and of course that's the whole theory right now. Do it again. Four home runs on the year 9 RBIs.
That at all what 160. But in this spot experience.
Hendricks waiting and the pitch is outside ball one. Well the book on Hendricks he's a low inside fastball hitter.
So that's the area in which Pat Zagre does not want to throw the baseball.
A run in, two on, two off. Pitch on the way to the plate. Swung on and hits very high.
Into left center field Foster is under. Waiting and makes the catch for the inning ending out.
For the Yankees in the fourth inning a run. On a couple of hits they lead two on.
Through four complete. Cincinnati four, New York one.
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As we go into the top of the fifth inning here at Yankee Stadium when Elliott and Marty Brown,
there will be a defensive change for the Yankees of course.
We have Fred Stanley out because of Henrik Stinch inform. In to play shortstop for the Yankees will be Jim Mason.
Mason actually started off the year as the regular Yankee shortstop and was displaced by Stanley.
So we have Mason at short. And similar to how to left field I see various patches of more green, greener than green.
Which is the result I suspect of the ground keepers replacing some of the torn up turf after Shamblers put the Yankees in the World Series.
Marty. When I was told earlier today they put down approximately 1500 square feet of new turf as a result of the exuberant Yankee fans after Shamblers' home run.
Here's David Concepcion who delivered a run scoring single in the second. He takes a strike from Lefty Jackson.
So Grant Jackson beginning his first inning after coming on in relief of Ellis in the last frame.
Full breaking ball is outside. One ball and one strike.
Sit down the way. Swing and a foul back to the screen.
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Jackson pitching to Concepcion and the ball again is fouled.
Marty it doesn't seem to me as though Concepcion is favoring the left elbow at all.
No it doesn't. I'm sure that gave Sparky Anderson a great deal of concern momentarily when Davey fell.
He strikes out swinging on a pitch out away from him.
Good pitch by Grant Jackson. He had Concepcion chasing a bad ball.
So Jackson rings up his first strike out and the second for Yankee pitching in the game as we go back to the top of the red batting order for Pete Rose.
I wonder if the best designated hitter in the history of the National League will stay in there now that they have a left handed pitcher.
Well if Jackson stays in our listeners can look massively to Bob Bailey to come on and hit.
We'll have to wait and see. Call a strike to Rose who's had a hit in two times up.
In the second he ended that inning with a ground into a double play.
He swings and chops one along the first baseline. Up Hudson throwing to Chandler.
Tell her to two out.
So Grant Jackson has saved three batters. He's retired them all as Pete Rose says something going by the mound to Jackson and or a third baseman, Greg Nettles, who is standing over there.
Kenny Griffith still without a hit in the series he bounced the first. He was robbed of an infield in the third inning and an out of sight play by Greg Nettles.
That's four Yankees one were in the top of the fifth. Swing and a fly ball left center field.
Vicki Rivers. He'll watch Roy White play it and that ends the inning.
The Reds are out one two three for the second time tonight. We are halfway through game three of the nineteen seventy six World Series.
The Reds with the advantage over the Yankees at four to one.
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Four and a half innings to go.
The first half innings will bring up the New York Yankees who threatened in the last inning, got their one run on two hits,
had the crowd roaring as Ellie Hendricks came up with two on to pinch it from the left side of the plate
but couldn't do it wide out to left field.
So this should have put a winner to the 1976 third game series go on.
And once again the Yankee Rooters come to it to exhaust their team on.
First up, the guy that's gotta do it, if the Yankees are gonna do it at all, Nicky Rivers.
And you can hear the expected roar in the background from jam-packed Yankee Stadium fans as Rivers cuts on the first pitch
and sends it back to the screen a foul ball.
Nicky 0 for 2 was on in the first inning through a throwing error by Pat Zachary, was picked off and then struck out swinging in the third.
Pat Zachary, Robson Deals, swung on, Luper, Concepcion back, reaches up, Yankees face it left field.
So Nicky Rivers has finally solved the riddle with a fly ball to the shallowest part of left field.
Concepcion gave it a run for its money but the ball just fell over his outspread glove for a wrong field single to left.
And I thought I heard the splintering of Rivers' bat on that play.
He just reached out and just placed it, a wee Willie Keeler type hit, just over the outstretched hands of Concepcion
who then fell rather heavily on his left side but he got up without any ascension being taken.
You wanna manage a little bit, you send Rivers with your club three runs down, we'll see.
Here's the pitch low to Roy White.
White popped out in the first inning, Rose squeezed it, got a walk in the third.
And once again we've got activity in the Cincinnati bullpen with left-hander Will McEnany up for the second time in his many innings.
He's not gonna go this time.
Ball is high, ball two.
I think I'll have to be seconded in the way Rivers holds his body as to whether he's gonna go or not gonna go.
I'll go out on a limp, that time I knew he wasn't gonna go. Let's watch him.
If you watch the plate, I'll watch him.
Zachary behind, two and nothing on the left and the right.
He's not gonna go.
That one is high and inside, ball three.
Well right now Pat Zachary having a hard time enjoying his prosperity.
He is leading by three runs, he's got a little bit of a lead in the first inning.
Now Pat Zachary having a hard time enjoying his prosperity.
He is leading by three runs, but he saw the Yankees get the plate on him in the last inning.
Has given up an opening single of Rivers here in the fifth and is a pitch away from walking Roy White.
Joe Morgan has been to the mound, he now goes back to his second base position.
He's lost no strikes, Dermot Munson will be up next, the fifth.
That's ball four.
Zachary has just surrendered his fourth ball.
And I think the crowd is speaking for itself.
Now there's action in the Cincinnati bullpen.
Will McAdanny as we reported out is drawing.
Dermot Munson who tonight is single and lined out to center field is the Yankee batter.
Zachary trying to get it together.
Munson taking his time, moving into the batter's box.
Zachary has a little bit more time on the mound to think about what's happening here.
Rivers takes his walking lead at second.
Roy White is off the first base bag and the pitch to Dermot Munson is on the way.
Swung on line drive, Perez has it, goes to second, double play.
Things have gone all Cincinnati's way in this World Series and again it happened.
As Munson, it's a slicing line drive that Perez played and a quick throw to Concepcion makes Vicki Rivers a dead duck at second.
And only because Rivers is so fast and was taking advantage of this moment and was so far off second, he was unable to get by.
And what's to say?
Here's Chris Jambliss.
Swing and a miss.
Missed down and out of the way for the big left handed batter.
Jambliss born in Dayton, Ohio which is just up the road about 40 miles or so from Cincinnati.
The son of a Navy chaplain and a man swinging a torrid bat for the New York Yankees.
One ball and one strike to it.
Well, they'll be shoulda, coulda, wouldn't that play in the dressing room later.
A half foot higher from Munson that would have been in the right field at least one run.
As it is two out with White still at first base.
This one fouled away by Jambliss.
One and two the count.
The Yankees trailing the Reds four to one.
Cincinnati getting a three spot in the second.
A solo home run for Danny Dreeson in the fourth.
The same inning in which the Yankees scored their only run to date.
Missing with the Fitz, two and two.
Pat Zachary against Chris Jambliss.
Zachary a visit to the rising bag on the back slope of the pitching mound.
Yanks have reached him for four hits.
A reg of that seven off of starting pitcher Doc Gellis.
Grant Jackson has not given up anything in relief.
The break even pitches on the way.
He's struck him out swinging with a change up.
He dropped down a bit on Jambliss and pulled a string on him to record strikeout number four.
New York's fifth inning, no runs.
One base hit, one man is left.
And as we move to the Cincinnati sixth inning, it's the Reds four and the Yankees one.
The top of the sixth inning.
Marty?
Okay, well Joe Morgan will start it off with the Reds.
He's batting 300 in the World Series.
Three hits in ten times up.
Two for extra bases, a home run of triple.
Grant Jackson delivers to the left handed batting second base for the Bulls.
Jackson has faced four batters, he has retired four straights.
As Morgan taking the inside high fastball, two and nothing.
Here's a man you have to pitch to.
Joe Morgan, one of the most disciplined hitters and knowledgeable hitters insofar as that strike zone is concerned.
Every year walks over a hundred times.
He's just taken a strike on the inside edge.
Two balls, one strike with Jackson dealing.
Swing and a miss.
Came right overhand with that big breaking ball.
You could call that pitch a curve change that Jackson throws.
And he has Morgan out in front, two and two.
And now Joe's stepping out as Jackson goes to the windup.
Batter and pitch are ready.
Morgan with a bat handle foul ball that will be out of the screen.
Tony Perez watching the action from the Cincinnati on deck circle.
Munson hanging a sign and now with Jackson taking too much time on the mound, Morgan steps away once again.
The activity that has been so prevalent for Cincinnati both and Will McEnany has now ceased.
He pops him up. Let's see if Munson has a play as he races to the base of the screen and it falls on top and out of his reach.
You know, Marty, Joe Morgan is not only the complete baseball player physically, but mentally he is so much the realist.
He faces things as they are.
In the dressing room the other night somebody asked him, how about this series?
You're two up and now. He says, I savored the moment as of the moment.
I don't know how long this team is going to stay together, how long I'll be with it.
So I live and I love this moment. Tomorrow is another day.
Pretty good philosophy.
Again the 2-2 pitch. That's a fastball and that's a strikeout.
Morgan is arguing with Billy Williams.
Williams calls him out as Morgan's turning around and Joe felt like he was able to check his swing, but Williams says, no you did not.
Making two strikeouts tonight for Grant Jackson as a very disgruntled Joe Morgan goes back to the Cincinnati dugout pocket to himself.
Jackson doing the job for Billy Martin's Yankees.
Tony Perez is over two.
There's a change up that stays high for ball one.
Perez is popped out to the second baseman Randolph.
He gets struck out swinging.
Up and in ball two.
Swung on and knocked down by Jackson. He picks it up third base side of the mound and throws him out.
Good play by Grant.
Ball was hit hard. He deflected it off to the third base side of the pitching mound.
Perez a grin on his face as he runs by Jackson and onto the Cincinnati dugout.
I can imagine. He knew one that time.
Before the series started it was down at the batting cage with Perez and company and even though you can hardly understand him, he really gives up with the ribs.
Danny Dreeson two for two tonight. Jackson drops down on him with a fastball that eludes Thurman Munson.
After reaching on an infield hit and all of a sudden scoring in the second, Holmer to the right center field bleachers in the fourth inning strike his call.
And he remains the only designated hitter in the history of the National League. He was not replaced by Bailey.
Ball bouncing up there. Munson playing it on the hot ball too. Two and one.
So the Cincinnati offense has quieted down considerably after doing all of its damage against other Doc Ellens.
Jackson having trouble with the left handed batter. Danny Dreeson with a count of three and one and Foster on deck.
We're in the top of the sixth inning. The Reds lead the Yankees by three.
Jackson collecting his thoughts, bends at the waist to get the sign and comes with a pitch.
Swung on, flat ball, right center, rivers in. He'll not be able to play it. He short hopped the ball and here comes Dreeson to second.
He's going to be safe.
Play at second base. As Jim Mason took Mickey Rivers' throw and Danny Dreeson will be credited with a two base hit.
Mickey Rivers was not supposed to have an arm but twice in this series his throws have been right on the money but not with the velocity required to nip the man.
A throw to the plate he was beaten. And now a throw to second.
Had he had a little more muscle you remember he had hurt his shoulder in the latter part of the year and he's not been able to throw as well as he usually does.
But that was just an eyelash away from catching that man at second.
Now the Reds felt like they could run not only on Mickey Rivers but also on Roy White and just about anybody else that Billy Martin sent to the Yankees' outfield and so far that scouting report has been most accurate.
And attention Sparky Anderson, the designated hitter that you don't like has got three hits tonight.
That he does. It is many times up. Here's George Foster. Foster is one for two. A double a knock home a run.
And Rob DeVoevayson on the play by Randolph his last time up. Now as Jackson stretches Foster as he did so many times during the season steps out on the pitcher.
Greason checking the whereabouts of Randolph and Mason. The fits to the plate. That is high. Four one.
Foster batting four forty four. Four for nine.
All nine Reds by the way in this World Series have at least one RBI.
Swing and a miss.
And Jackson simply playing good old fashioned hardball with Foster on that pitch.
Count his level to the ball in one strike. Foster has knocked in two runs in this series.
Trying to get Greason home to again give the Reds a four run lead. Low end side ball two.
Foster getting a firm toehold with that back right foot. Waving the bat around and now has it cocked.
He swings and pops it in the air. That could be a problem. Randolph going out. Gamble coming in. It's going to be caught by Oscar Gamble a running catch.
As he ventured forward the foul line in right field. To get Foster's fly ball and end the Cincinnati six. No runs one hit one left.
They play five and a half. It remains the Reds four the Yankees one.
After the six inning here at Yankee Stadium Marty Bremelman and Wynn Elliott as the Yankees come to bat trailing four to one.
Young Pat Zachary has held them in check with just four hits in the first five at bats for the Yankees.
Where as a combination of Yankee patroos Doc Ellis and Brad Jackson have given up eight.
Despite the three run lead by Cincinnati they have not dominated the game as such.
They got three runs in the second inning very quickly with four hits.
Then a home run by Dreeson a counter for all four of their runs.
The Yankees have threatened twice in addition to getting their run.
And of course the fulmination by the crowd has made it seem like the Yankees have perhaps done more than they actually have.
But you get the feeling the game is closer and that anything can happen in this latter part of the game.
All right Marty. Okay Wynn Carlos May 0 for 2 a ground out to first a strike out swinging.
Dueling Pat Zachary to lead off the Yankees six and it's in there for strike one.
New York has been relegated to a one run four hit roll to the first five rounds off this young Texan.
Swing fly ball center field there Cesar Geronimo he's got it one away.
I don't mean to animate that Geronimo reminds me of Damage you in the sense that as his all around capacity as a player.
But he moves like Joe used to and the fluidity of his steps.
I found out as a kid that if you run on your heels out there you know the ball jumps up and down.
And it's not going to hit you in the face as well as catch it.
You have to run on your toes and that's the way he does it.
Greg Nettles with a drive to deep right field but the ball curving and it'll be fouled into the upper deck.
Zachary has had all sorts of trouble tonight with this man.
He is walking twice once in the second once again in the fourth.
Nettles from beautiful San Diego California now makes his home in Costa Vista.
The strike one pitch swing and a miss Zachary has struggled through two rough and rocky innings.
The Yankees scored a run against him in the fourth inning.
They put their first two men out of the fifth before he incites Munson to line into a double play and retire Shambles on a strikeout.
He has just struck out medals on three pitches.
That's his fifth of the game and as he works on a possible one two three six he'll go to work on Oscar Gambler.
What are the percentages Marty because you watch the teams every day.
When a guy hits a foul home run like Nettles did then not by much he almost never comes back and gets a base hit.
Well if he's a smart pitcher he'll put that back in his memory bank and remember not to throw it again.
And in that case Zachary did not. He was able to get the ball down.
Got him on strike two swinging on an off speed pitch and then punched him out with a fastball away.
Ball is high to gamble.
One for two a run scoring single in the fourth inning.
Reds over the Yankees four to one two outs Yankees sixth inning swing fly ball shallow right Morgan racing out.
Ripley coming in Morgan falls and that's the inning.
The Yankees are out in order for what is the first time in this game.
And as we move to the final three innings of action at the Reds over the Yankees four to one.
Proving that the exception proves the rule if I may be redundant.
The next batter up Johnny Betch was a guy who hit a foul home run.
I think it was in 1972 in the National League playoffs against the Pirates.
The most exciting moment which he set in his career.
He hit a foul home run against the Pirates. Remember he told a story that his mother was in the first row and said get one with it Johnny.
And he said I wish it was that easy.
On the next pitch he straightened it out and tied up the National League playoffs.
Much as he did against the Philadelphia Phillies just the other day.
And this is Johnny Betch Marty.
He's riding a hot bat win two for two tonight.
Grant Jackson comes with that curve change at Mrs. Low.
Betch had an infield hit in the second inning.
And then lined a single to right in the fourth.
It was probably thrown out stealing.
Two balls and no strikes.
He's had his physical problems this year as may Marty.
Well it's pretty much a carry over from what he had last year.
He had shoulder surgery in Oklahoma City at the end of last season.
Strike is called to it.
And Ted Kwasuzki the Reds batting instructor says that the bad habits that Betch fell into as a result of that problem shoulder last year.
He was not able to get out of this season.
Two and two on a swinging strike.
But I'll tell you, Frankie Anderson predicted that he would have a fine playoff and a fine World Series.
And the man has proven to be a prophet in the case of Johnny Betch.
Because he is swinging a hot bat for Cincinnati.
Is that that angry looking red weld on his left shoulder?
Yes.
Jackson is even with him at two and two.
Taking a long time to get Munson's sign now delivers and Betch stays alive with a foul back.
Nobody has scored since the fourth inning when Greesen played long ball for Cincinnati and the Yankees came back to get a run.
We're in the top of the seventh inning.
Doc Ellis started for New York was relieved by Jackson in the fourth.
And the two two pitch is coming.
That's low.
We talked about the temperature earlier.
They say it's gone up a degree or so.
It's now at 50 degrees here in New York City.
I think partly because of the Yankee fans.
Hey, Off-Bitch.
Here's a high fly ball but full foul into the upper deck along the third base side.
So Grant Jackson with a new baseball and Johnny Betch is about to climb back into the batter's box.
Young man who has made the town of Finger, Oklahoma nationally famous.
He hits one.
Nice play by Jackson.
He throws the first and I'll tell you he fielded that ball with his back to it.
He stuck out his glove and took a hard hop.
It's stuck in the webbing of his head and he turned it into, well for want of a better term, a routine out at first base.
He never saw it.
He just had that glove behind him just below his posterior as he was ducking to his right and the ball stuck in the webbing of his glove.
And he turned around and said, how do you do?
And he threw it over the first base.
He defied Johnny Betch of what would have been a continuing perfect night at the place.
This pitch a breaking ball that goes off Munson's glove and it's ball one on Geronimo.
Geronimo with a couple of nicknames on this incident.
He clothed the Chief in reference to his last name and they also referred to him as Tony Blake.
Call strike.
Tony Blake, the magician of TV fame.
Bill Bixby played the role a couple of years back and that's where his innate ability to get base hits anywhere between the white chalk lines.
You'll go to left field on you, right field on you.
There is no area that is untouched by a Geronimo baseball.
And he has the ball on center field wherever it goes too.
He's one of the best fielders in the game.
He's behind at one and two.
Breaking ball inside.
One out in the Cincinnati seventh inning.
Geronimo hit listen two times up in the game.
Swings and fouls.
In the series he's one for seven.
Has an RBI.
Jackson kicks and throws.
Geronimo swings and another foul ball that will be out of play.
The Reds had five hits in the first couple of innings.
Since that time in the last four turns they have had three and two of them came in the fourth inning.
One of them a recent home run.
Curve stays in tight to the left hander battered full count.
Doc Ellis was not able to do it but Grant Jackson has.
The three two pitch.
Stuck in on swinging with a good fastball.
Jackson has his third.
And the two out hitter will be David Concepcion.
He's single and not going to run in the second.
He's stuck out swinging against Jackson in the fifth.
I thought I was right.
Geronimo came to this club along with Joe Morgan in that trade to Houston.
Ball one.
Jack Dillingham, Joe Morgan, Cesar Geronimo, Ed Armbrister and Dennis Menke.
For Tommy Helms and Lee May.
Foul is out of here.
Flying down the right field line one and one.
One of the biggest trades.
I guess you could say win of all time in terms of putting everything together.
The missing ingredients, that's when the Reds took off.
Geronimo actually was a throw in of the deal.
Jackson with a one one pitch.
Concepcion started to go but held up in his ball two.
The Yankees have pulled off some pretty good trades that have made this club from the angels.
They've got Figueroa on their center field of rivers.
That will be played in center field as River is racist back.
He camps under it and Grant Jackson has done it again.
The Reds are out in order.
No runs, no hits, nobody left on.
We move to the New York seven.
The Reds four, the Yankees one.
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Well, Grant Jackson has done his job as a relief pitcher as he's come in here for the Yankees in three and a third innings.
He's only given up a single hit and no runs.
He's had a magnificent play on Johnny Betts in the last inning when he stabbed his backhand without seeing it.
In fact, after he made the stop, he looked at the ball, looked at his glove sort of unbelievably, saw he had it and threw him out.
Now that Jackson has held the reds, the Yankee fans on their feet in this last half of what they hope will be the seventh inning, they trail four to one.
Marty.
Okay, here's Willie Randolph as the Yankee fans have taken the traditional seventh inning stretch.
Randolph is 0 for 2, a fly ball lap to pop out and foul ground, collared by Johnny Betts.
Call strike on the outside corner.
Rose is in on the grass at third base.
He's trying to come back with the same pitch but missed with it, blowing outside, and there's one ball and one strike.
Jim Mason is on deck.
And then they lead off batter Mickey Rivers.
They fool him with that pitch up and in and Randolph more or less swung at it in self-defense and fouls the back of the Yankee dugout.
Zachary has given up four hits. He has struck out five. He has walked four.
And he's ahead of the second baseman Randolph at one and two.
Knock in his head to pick up Johnny Betts' side and to the plate.
Check swing foul ball.
You cannot like the Yankee chances very much if they go down and defeat tonight. And they're trailing by three runs in the seventh.
He's struck him out.
Randolph's turning around trying to hold up but committed himself and Zachary now showing signs of gaining a second win.
He has retired six batters in a row since the fifth inning walk to Roy White.
And that was a gee I wish I had it back swing by Willie Randolph, just an indication of the tension on the part of the young kid,
knowing that they've only got three more riddings and they trail by three runs.
Facing an equally young Pat Zachary, just 24, and Pat has done his job, at least so far.
Held him to four hits in one run and just as soon as it seems as though the Yankee crowd is going to get him up, he brings him down to earth.
Here's Jim Mason, the shortstop up for the first time in this game and in the World Series of Ball Joy.
Mason, 26 years old from Mobile, Alabama.
Left handed batter.
Swing, fly ball, deep right field, Griffey watches it go out of here. Home run.
That may well be the biggest thrill in this young man's major league career.
A World Series home run, a line drive to the lower deck and right field and it's four to two.
And he came into the game as a replacement for the man who's nested him for the position, Fred Stanley.
I have remarked at the time that Mason had the job at the beginning of the year.
He's always been a better hitter than Stanley, but in no sense a home run hitter.
But Stanley, the better fielder, along with Randolph, has given the Yankees a real adroit second base double play combination.
And if you're going to have a championship team, that's what you need.
You don't need a home run hitter at shortstop unless your name is a Joe Cronin or a Brent Stephens or a Honus Wagner, but those are long gone.
What you need is a fancy fielder, the guy that will hit his 260, 270.
That's what Stanley had done, so Stanley had won the job.
But Billy Martin, in the fourth inning, sensing an opportunity for a Yankee rally, removed Fred Stanley with two men on and inserted Elrod Hendricks, the left-handed catcher.
Hendricks was unable to come through.
I was at the point of saying that the key point in the game from a Yankee stadium, from a Yankee standpoint, was in the fifth inning when Mickey Rivers singled by just plopping the ball over the shortstop's head.
White had walked, and with the crowd coming to the moment and big Thurman Munson up, Thurman went with the ball, slashed it down the first base line, but not high enough to get out of the clutches of Tommy Perez.
He caught it and doubled Mickey Rivers on second base.
That seemed to put the Yankees to sleep until just now when Jim Mason line-drived it into the right field stands.
And here is Mickey Rivers up, one in, one out.
Rivers won for three, pitches high for ball one.
They were forced away as the ground crew here at Yankee Stadium had to come out and tidy things up a bit.
toilet paper being thrown out from the upper deck in right field as a result of Mason's haul run.
Up high and away, ball two. Jim Mason, by the way, hit only one home run the entire regular season.
And that shot he hit to right field was going to turn off Pat Zachary, who may be a bit unnerved by it all.
Ball three.
And once again, we witness them stirring around in the Cincinnati bullpen.
Johnny Betch sauters out to the mound to talk with Pat Zachary.
As right-hander Raleigh Eastwick will get up, or rather Will McEnany make it, left-hander McEnany now throwing for Cincinnati.
How quickly the complexion can change in this national part-time call baseball.
In the opening of this inning, the crowd came to its feet as the young Willie Randolph came to the bat.
He couldn't restrain his eagerness and he shoulder struck at a third strike.
And so it seemed like the inning as it started might end.
But then Jim Mason with one whack has put the Yanks back in. They trail four to two.
And Mickey Rivers is off. He gets a walk.
Zachary has now walked five batters.
Roy White will be at the plate, concept the own.
Out in front of second base, saying something to Pat Zachary as he grows started in from third to the mound.
Marty, I don't think the Rivers will go.
This crowd would love to see him take a shot at it.
Roy White looks at a strike.
He's gone on two times with walks. In fact, White and Greg Nettles are the two men that Zachary has had the most trouble with control-wise.
He's walked both batters twice in the game.
He would now like to get White to hit the ball on the ground at somebody.
Throw to first, but safely back at Rivers.
Cincinnati four, the Yankees two and the bottom of the seventh inning.
The O-one pitch to White, a check swing ground ball. Rose comes up throwing to second base, and that's all they're going to get, the four shot on Mickey Rivers.
Rose with a nice play on his glove side. The ball was hit, but a not so hot throw to second base. It was high and came very close to pulling Morgan off the bag.
Herman Munson will be the batter. He is single and three times.
And all the while, Will McEnany continues to get ready in the Cincinnati ball pit.
With an opportunity to tie the game up in the fifth inning, Munson hits the ball to right, but not quite high enough to elude Perez, and it turns into an almost clock-breaking double play against the Yankees.
He can tie it up again. That's if he loses the ball.
Big, strong right-handed batting Herman Munson watches the pitch go low for a ball.
Zachary is in the seventh inning.
And now Pedro Borbona, right-hander, is once again teaming up with McEnany in that red bullpen.
1-0 to count on Munson with the pitch on the way.
Check swing, ball two.
Of course can speculate. Should he lose Munson?
Will Sparky Anderson go down and bring on McEnany to face Chris Shambler?
Zachary has had pretty good success against the left-handed batter tonight in that Shambler has had a base hitoff on him, but in his other two plate appearances Zachary has struck him out.
And Shambler has had very good success against left-handed pitchers.
Something that Sparky Anderson knows all too well. The 2-0 delivery to Munson. He swings and he fouls it outside of first base, but Perez will not have a play.
Munson three hits eleven times, all singles in this World Series and RBI, batting 273.
Yankees have scored in the inning a one-on home run to right field by Jim Mason.
That was followed by a base on balls to Rivers, but White hit into a force out at second. Roy White the base runner.
Munson a line drive hit the right field. Ball takes a big hop off the natural grass and Griffey plays it and here comes Sparky Anderson.
And if you think one pitcher is worth a thousand words, listen.
Anacanada has already been summoned from the Cincinnati Bullpen. And Pat Zachary, who was trying to become the first National League pitcher to go the distance in a World Series game since Steve Blass of Pittsburgh turned the trick against the Baltimore Orioles in 1971, cannot do it.
And while we have the pitching changed, let's pause for a brief update from CBS News in New York.
This is Doug Poling reporting on the CBS Radio Network. Campaigning in New York's Harlem tonight, Jimmy Carter stressed the need for jobs and housing.
Carter said two and a half million people have become unemployed since President Ford took office.
President Ford today accused Carter of advocating spending cuts that would weaken the nation's defenses.
And in New York tonight, Secretary of State Kissinger defended the president's record on human rights.
Eleanor Clay Ford, one of the world's wealthiest women, died in Detroit tonight at the age of 80.
Despite the Lockheed scandal and other problems, the State Department this evening reported the relations between the United States and Japan are in good shape.
Three of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the U.S., Britain, and France, have vetoed a draft resolution which would have imposed an arms embargo on South Africa.
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This is Doug Poling, CBS News New York.
Okay, Doug, and the news of the world, at least the sports world, is concentrated right on the pitching mound here in Yankee Stadium at this moment,
as the Yankees, now trailing by two, have been on first and second. Two are gone, and young Will McEnany has come in to relieve Pat Zachery.
McEnany, one of the two put-down twins of last year's champions, he and Eastwick were almost automatic firemen as the Cincinnati Reds monitored their championship last year.
Eastwick, still in good form. McEnany, as I understand it, Marty, somewhat of a disappointment this year.
Didn't have quite the magic, had quite a healthy ERA, 4.27 or something, and his record, as I read, it was 1-4. What was it actually?
Well, he was a kid that had a whole lot of trouble in 1976 when, and it was, I guess you could say, a humbling year for Will McEnany.
His record was two wins and six losses with a 4.88 earned run average after a magnificent season, as you pointed out, in 1975.
He and Raleigh Eastwick were indeed the gold dust wins for Cincinnati out of that bullpen.
A young man from Springfield, Ohio, which is very close to Cincinnati, and a young man who fits very well in the World Series against Boston last year,
in five appearances, he had a 270 earned run average with one save. He saved that seventh game, and now in a pressure cooker situation.
Two men on, two men out, and Chris Shambliss, who can reach the seat with no problem at all if he gets his pitch, is at the plate.
Left-hander against left-hander, the pitch on the way, and Shambliss takes them all low.
Roy White, the lead runner, Thurman Munson at first base.
Shambliss grounds one to Perez. That should be the inning. He leads McEnany, who takes the throw and taps the bag.
So Will McEnany enters the game and throws two pitches. He retires Shambliss, and the Yankees' seventh is history.
One run, two hits with two men stranded, and after seven full, the Reds four, the Yankees two.
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Back in Yankee Stadium, the top of the eighth inning now. Grant Jackson once again to the mound.
And the best two-way hitter in baseball today, Mr. Peter Rose, the only man on the field who has a lifetime batting average of over 300.
Oh, it must be about 312 or 15 now that he's in his 11th year. This time batting right-handed against Grant Jackson.
And what'll he do? Well, he's a better hitter left-handed when than he is as a right-handed batter.
But as you pointed out, this man's career numbers speak for themselves.
If you talk about lead-pipe Hall of Famers, you've got to figure Pete Rose is going to be very close to the front of the line.
Here's a pitch from Jackson. Line drive, base hit. Rose was waiting on an overhand off-speed curve.
And Lyons went into center field for his second hit of the night.
If you ever saw a disciplined hit, that was it. He was leaning in for the fastball, maintained his composure as it came in with a slow curve, timed it just right, and you heard that healthy quack as it went on a line into center field.
That's hit number nine for Cincinnati. And only the second base hit off of Grant Jackson, who, up to that single by Rose, had retired 10 of 11 hitters.
Ken Griffey's still looking for hit number one, but he'll have to wait a moment longer as Jackson works the first base.
Top of the eighth inning. Reds would like to get some more. Tother throw to first.
Jackson bound and determined to keep Rose as close to the bag as he possibly can in this situation.
Griffey has bounced out twice and has flying to left field.
Out of the plate. And that's low as Munson goes to both knees to keep that ball from getting through.
Fitching line on Pat Zachary, by the way. Six and two-third innings. He gave up two Yankee runs on six hits with five walks and six strikeouts.
Strike on the outside corner. Good pitch. One-one to count.
Doc Ellis started for New York. He went three and a third. The Yankees got to, Reds rather got to him for all four of their runs on seven hits.
And Ellis had a strikeout with no walks.
Griffey tries to bun his way up. Throw to first. They didn't get it.
Munson a good quick snap throw and Rose had to come in the side door.
Split back at first on the right field side and just eluded Chris Shambles's glove.
On to strike two on the bun attempt by Griffey. Nettles now backs up to play a normal third-base position.
Line drive in the hole and on into right field. Rose looking back at Gambels, going to try to get to third.
The blow cut off by Mason and Rose in safely with a head first line.
The Cincinnati Reds are knocking on the door here in the eighth inning with runners on the corners and nobody out for Joe Morgan.
As Sparky Lyles and Dick Tidro begin to loosen up for New York.
Suddenly the Reds are striking at the door again and I couldn't help but think as I watched Griffey at the plate, he had never seen Jackson before.
What do you do when you've never seen a pitcher before? Well there's this scouting report on what he throws.
But basically as Griffey himself said before the start of the series that he was going to face Tidro for the first time or rather Alexander.
He says you look for the ball, you look at the ball.
But if a guy is throwing a fastball 90 miles an hour, do you know how much time you have to see the ball? Listen.
That's how fast. Less than half a second.
The Yankee infield comes in for Joe Morgan. A ground ball, base hit right over the first base back.
Rose drops in to score from third. Griffey goes to third base and Morgan will go standing up at second with a run scoring double.
Cincinnati has added a run on three consecutive eighth inning hits to bring about the ouster of Grant Jackson.
As Billy Martin makes a slow walk towards the mound and apparently is talking with Chris Shambliss about I would imagine whether or not he thought the ball was fair or foul.
Oh it went right over the bag. I don't think there was any question about it.
And as I was explaining what a batter does when he has never seen a pitcher before, he looks for the ball.
Prior to this inning Grant Jackson held them in command and had given them but one hit.
But the Reds started seeing things. They kept pecking away.
And in this particular inning what they saw must have been about as big as a grapefruit because on three swings, three hits.
Pete Rose waiting on a slow breaking curve, smashes on a dead line in the center field.
Then Ken Griffey, a line drive in the right field with Rose belly bumping in the third base.
And then Joe Morgan, a line shot on the ground that is, a bouncer with plenty of speed over the base.
Trickling out in the right field and now men on second and third.
Which again has brought a pitching change for the New York Yankees.
This is the third of the night.
The Yankees somewhat quenched in spirit I would think at the moment after having drawn within two runs of the World's Champions.
Now again find themselves trailing by three.
Nobody out in this top of the eighth inning and men on first and third.
Well, what can you say?
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And as Marty had anticipated it's Dick Tidrell, number 19, coming in from the Yankee bullpen.
And he will face the rampaging Reds.
Tidrell along with Jackson had been the stalwart relievers for the Yankees in the latter half of the season.
Even replacing the ubiquitous Sparky Lyle who at the start of the season was presumed to be the mainstay of the relief corps for the Yankees.
But Tidrell from Cleveland, although he started fairly regularly in the early part of the year with Doc Ellis coming on,
Tidrell went to the bullpen and it was he from the right side and Jackson from the left side who maintained the big Yankee lead that they had posted halfway through.
And the Yankees, one of the few teams in baseball during this past year who didn't really have a consequential losing streak.
He was on the money as was the club almost all year.
But now it's a different day or a different night.
They're playing a team from a different league.
A club whose batting order is just as strong if you looked in the mirror as you do looking ahead on.
Doesn't make any difference.
The bottom guy, Geronimo, batted 3.08.
And as Marty explained, he's the joke on the team.
Insofar he seems to needle his hits.
You can sell them wherever there is an empty spot on the diamond.
And the Reds have struck quickly as they did in the second inning with four hits and three runs.
They have three straight hits.
They have one in and two in scoring position.
And it doesn't really make any difference who's coming to the play.
The man on second was last year's MVP.
They gave four balls intentionally just the other night, but all they did was bring up the leading RBI man in the Reds' history.
And that's he at the plate now.
Tony Perez is the name of the man, and the Yankee infield is really pulled in now as Tidro sends it in and Perez takes a breaking ball, ball one.
Tidro had a losing record, but that doesn't tell the story.
He was four and five with a 263 earned run average.
He was in 11 game-saving situations and chalked up 10 saves, fouled out of play by Perez.
You can't do much better than that.
Ten out of 11 times he saved ball games for New York.
But in a very unenviable spot right now with Griffey at third, Morgan in second, two guys who can really run.
And with the defense playing in, insofar as the infield is concerned, Perez waits on the 1-1 pitch.
The Reds now lead it 5-2 with none out and can break this game wide open here in the eighth inning.
That's swung out and fouled again as Perez went after a pitch down and away.
So Dick Tidro wearing number 19 on the New York Yankee pinstripe has his work cut out for him because after Perez,
you've got a man who will be coming up that's working on a three-for-three night and Danny Dreeson.
Perez back in the batter's box as Tidro toes the rubber and checks in with Munson.
The pawns and the pitch.
Ground ball hits a short. They're going to come to the plate.
Now they've got Griffey caught in the run down. Back at yours, they tag no play at third on Morgan.
Now they run Griffey back for third and Munson tags him out.
Well a very, very head-draft play by Greg Nettles. He couldn't pull it off.
But had he been able to get, well Morgan rather, sliding into third, the Yankees had themselves set up for a double play.
Morgan was safe at third, but they ultimately get Griffey in the run down with Perez going all the way to second base.
And if you're scoring to play, like play-by-play announcers usually say, that went from six to one to five to one.
And Griffey went to the bench.
In the meantime, of course, Perez, nobody paying any attention to him, went to second base.
So the only change that's been in the situation is men on second and third, but now there's one up.
It's Danny Dreeson who will get the intentional one.
A left-handed batter that will fill the bases with reds and mean that Tidro will be pitching the right-handed batting George Foster.
Make that six to two to five to two. Munson with a tag out of Ken Griffey.
And so Tidro has gotten a big out as he gets Perez to hit the ball on the ground, directly at the drawn-in shortstop Jim Mason.
Dreeson waiting on intentionally throwing ball four, and there it is.
I said six to one to five to one, but of course I said that's what baseball announcers say.
Of course the catcher is number two.
Base is loaded, one man out.
You'll have Nettles, Mason, and Randolph playing a double-play depth while Chris Shamblers will play inside to run her at first base, Dreeson.
Foster is doubling three times up.
Tidro will work out of the stretch. Foster steps away from the plate, puts a bat head on the plate, and now waits.
Tidro checking the runners and the pitch to the plate by the right-hander misses inside to Foster the ball.
Morgan at third base, Tony Perez at second, Danny Dreeson at first.
They are the Cincinnati base runners with one out and a run in.
The one-oh swung out and hit hard to left field.
There's Roy White. He short-hopped the ball and it comes three. Morgan scores.
The base is remain loaded. It is six to two Cincinnati, and I'll tell you Roy White had all sorts of trouble with a ball that apparently had a lot of action on it.
He went to both cities. He short-hopped it and then bounced away from him.
The Reds have another run home and again lead by four runs in the game.
They give Perez a run scoring single.
The batter is Johnny Bench. Two singles and three times up.
He swings and bounces one to third. Nettles will step on third and go across to Schambler who digs it out to get the double play.
Nice play by Chris Schambler, and Cincinnati is out on the eighth inning, but they get two runs on four base hits.
No errors and two men left on. At the end of seven and one half, it's Cincinnati six, New York two.
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Last of the eighth inning, the Red 60 Yankees two.
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That last play, the ground ball just inside third base,
that nettle snare stepped on third and then through to first base.
The first baseman, Shambler, short hops it and makes the play.
It was a duplicate of the opening inning play by George Brett
from the Kansas City Royals against the Yankees.
But of course, as you know, the play and the short hop was not snare by John Mayberry
and that was the beginning of the downfall of the Royals.
I guess that's what they mean when they say that's the way the ball bounce.
Here's Carlos May to lead off the eighth inning for New York.
Time running out on the Yankees in this game as McEnany comes up
and in with a fastball that has May spinning out of there in a hurry.
The number one hammer in that Cincinnati bullpen is now throwing.
Carlos May hit listen three times up.
Takes it low and inside, ball two.
McEnany has problems in this eighth inning.
Barky Anderson will not hesitate a second to go down and bring out Eastwick.
Here's a smash backhanded by Concepcion, long throwing to Perez and plenty of time
and there's one away.
Good play by the shortstop.
Carlos not the fastest man on the Yankee roster and it was by a couple of steps.
Here's Greg Nettles.
Officially he's 0-1 but he's been a baserunner twice in the game with walks.
The Yankee is jammed on the pitch and will send a foul top out of play
directly back of the plate.
Right-hander Pat Zachary is a pitcher of record for Cincinnati at this moment.
And you've got to go back a few years to find the last rookie pitcher to start
and win a World Series game, one ball and one strike to Nettles.
That pitcher was New York Mets Gary Gentry who on the 14th of October 1969
knocked out the World Series 1 over Baltimore.
Breaking ball, a jack swing foul or was it?
The ball got Johnny Betts.
Did Nettles make contact?
Apparently he did.
Make a count of a ball and two strikes.
And the plate umpire, Billy Williams, is very gentlemanly taking time rubbing up
the ball which will give Johnny a time to recover.
Incidentally you mentioned Gentry's win.
Of course that was the miracle year for the Mets so it took a miracle for him.
A rookie to win.
Where this year with Zachary on his way to a win you don't need a miracle
when you've got eight guys up in the field like that.
Gone with the kind of thunder the Cincinnati Club has.
Back at any pitches and misses with a delivery two and two.
The reds at one time led four to nothing.
It was then four to one, then four to two.
It is now again a four run advantage for the reds at six to two.
Here's a smash to right field but serving and foul.
That's his second foul home run in successive times with that.
The previous time he struck out.
Count is two and two.
Let's see what happens here.
Back at any kicks and throws and here's a hard smash field at the hole
and it's not off of Morgan.
It rolls to foul ground in right field.
Dettles will go to second base and he is in flat.
It's not me in the slide because Morgan and Griffey converge down the ball
and Joe Morgan very alertly indicating the third base had left and left uncovered.
Quickly got a throw into Concepcion as Foster came running into left field
to cover the bag in the event the Dettles had ideas.
And Morgan was given an error on the play even though to me it seemed like it was a bad hop
at the last second that caught him up with the cradle of his arm.
And the crowd I think seems to, no they're not agreeing with me,
they're just saluting Funella that comes up whose surname is Lou
and they go Lou, Lou, Lou like they used to go Moose, Moose, Moose for Skawron.
Skawron was the home run hitter for this Yankee aggregation
and they're hoping that Lou will do the same.
He's been sitting for Oscar Gamble.
Funella from Tampa, Florida the spring training home of the Cincinnati Reds.
Right handed batter with Dettles at second base on the two base end by Morgan.
Funella grounds one to shortstop.
Dettles will go to third as Concepcion gets the out at first, two down.
Willie Randolph will step in now.
He's wired out, knocked out and he's stuck out at three times.
So Randolph in the series is one for eight.
The Yankees have had but six hits.
All off this gun is Will Matt or rather Pat Zachary McEnany came on in the seventh
to get Shambles to bounce out.
And should the run come across here for New York and the first set of Dettles at third
it would go down as an unearned run but a run nevertheless.
Swing and a miss.
Six runs, 12 hits, two errors for Cincinnati.
Two runs, half a dozen hits and endless baseball for the hometown team.
There's a chopper foul off her.
Billy Martin hands in his back pocket, facing in a Yankee dugout.
Right now he sees his club only four outs away from going down to a three-nothing deficit
in this World Series.
Fly ball hit the left center field.
Foster racing back, still on the run, swos to a trotted Mexican.
Running grab by George Foster in left center deprives Randolph of what certainly would have been
an extra base hit.
And in the inning no runs, no hits, one error, one left.
We have complete lay in the Yankee Stadium, the Red Soot, New York too.
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Honey, honey, did you take the car down to Eddie's station for a muffler?
It's really getting bad.
Uh huh.
Did you have to leave the car?
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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.
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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?
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Back at Yankee Stadium, the ball that Willie Randolph hit the left center was headed towards the absolute deepest part of this irregularly shaped but beautiful stadium.
430 feet into left center, and it would have taken a man with a lot more muscles than Willie to reach that fence.
In fact, before the refurbishment of this stadium, I think that part of the left field fence, I forget the actual measurements, but it was out in Westchester County somewhere.
And I don't think anybody ever really lost a ball.
Jimmy Fox hit one in the left field once, Marty, that went way up in the second deck and landed halfway up.
Nobody in history has ever hit a ball out of Yankee Stadium.
Here's Arjun Ranamoh for openers in the 6th and 99th inning at 6-2 regs, and Tidro the right-hander struts him out with a fast ball down and outside.
Change for the Yankees in right field now, Luke Fenella.
He's replaced Oscar Gamble after hitting for Gamble in the eighth inning.
Two and nothing.
Ranamoh without a hit in three times, but he's batted home a run and reaching on a fielder's choice in the second and scores.
That went a jam job, and as Ranamoh popping it up and into the seats behind the Cincinnati dugout.
If you're thinking ahead to the New York Yankee ninth inning, think Jim Mason, Mickey Rivers, and Roy White.
At least schedule the bat. About one-third of the Yankee Reuters are not thinking ahead. They've left the park.
That they have. A lot of empty seats in Yankee Stadium. Right line drive over third, base hit.
Roy White waiting on the ball. Ranamoh will hold it first base, and right there, Wynn, is an idea of what we were talking about earlier.
This man, a left-handed batter, but he will go anywhere for a base hit.
He has a beautiful inside-outside swing on those low outside balls, like the Champlers will do or like the Mickey Rivers will do.
Of course, it's a sign of a thinking hitter.
That's the 13th hit in the game for Cincinnati, and that's a high water mark of this World Series today.
Davey Concepcion, he's had one of the 13 hits, a single that produced a run in inning number two.
He grounds one to third. Dettles turns on to Randolph. He turns it over to Champlers. That's a double play.
Anything down that third baseline, this year at any rate, turns out to be the surest out in the business.
As Greg Nettles, well on his way to a Golden Glove as far as I'm concerned, was just a picture of defensive perfection as he started that double play.
The man is absolutely money in the bank defensively. Not a high average hitter, never has been, but has always been noted for his power.
This year he led the heap with 32 big ones in the American League.
T. Rose is looking for his third hit. He was without one in the first two games, but a single twice tonight.
That pitch fooled him, a late swing and a foul back.
He got a single as a left-hander and a single as a right-hander.
Tidro, the third Yankee pitcher, Ellis went three and a third. Grant Jackson went three and a third, giving up four hits, three strikeouts, two runs.
Tidro strike one pitch. He'll get down the left field line, but it'll be out of play.
Rose, who has been an outstanding postseason performer for Cincinnati last year's MVP in the World Series against Boston,
has had a slow back coming around in his 1976 edition, but with two tonight.
Show signs of coming out of it after a big series against Philadelphia.
He's in a big O2 hole. Tidro's taking a lot of time. Down the wind and down the pitch.
Check swing, liner, in and then out of the Cincinnati dugout. He almost got Big Tech Wazewski.
Standing over by the Reds bat rack. Mr. Muscles, of course, was great in Cincinnati history, but as he himself will tell you,
his greatest thrill was playing in the World Series, except for the Chicago Whiteside.
One of the all-time favorites in Cincinnati. Boy, I'll tell you, the guy has had a long and glorious career with the Reds and is an outstanding batting instructor.
Rose strikes out swinging. Tidro has retired the Reds with rapid dispatch in the ninth inning, making 1-2-3.
And as we go to the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees are four down, the Reds six, New York two.
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Okay, Marty. Okay, we're on a pitch hitter for Jim Mason, who homered in the seventh inning.
Right-handed batting Otto Valazza against left-handed Will McEnany, who's on in the ninth inning now to try and nail it down.
The first pitch is in for strike one call.
Red six Yankees two, Valazza batting 266 during the regular season with a couple of homers.
Doc Jintjen runs.
He swings and he misses.
Quickly a two-strike cow with Vicki Rivers on deck. And how quick and fleeting is fame.
Mason, who brought this crowd to its feet for the home run, has replaced Kortz. He's facing a left-handed pitcher, or would be.
That pitch is a high-and-away fastball.
Eastwick all the while continues his loosening up chores for Cincinnati just in the event.
McEnany with a one and two. And again he goes outside. Two rolls and two strikes.
Cincinnati relief pitching continues to be excellent in this World Series.
First it was four-bone Saturday, then Billingham Sunday, and now McEnany tonight as he has Valazza swinging and fouling out of here.
And prior to the series there was no question that the Reds were the better hitting club, but the dope was that the Yankees had the better pitching.
That has not been the case so far in this series, and of course the Reds pitching was underrated all year long.
This ball briefs. Anytime you win 102 games, I don't care how much fun you have, the pitching has to play a part.
The one thing that the Reds did not have, and have not had for a number of years, is a big, big hammer. A saber. Or a hunter. Or a pitcher like this.
Three and two to count. He struck him out swinging. Actually a foul tip that Johnny Betch hung onto. Bill McEnany pitching very well tonight in relief of Pat Zachary, has punched out on Ovalazza and will go to work on Mickey Rivers.
Not to be unfair to John Gullit on that staff. He has all the equipment and could have, should have been the hammer as you call him, but he's been hurt. And that has held him back. That is true.
Rivers a base hit tonight. Looks like a strike occurred.
He's been on actually three times in the game. An error in the first inning got him a board, a base hit in the fifth inning, and a walk in the seventh. Blind drive. Morgan cannot get it. Five minute to right field.
That's the first hit off Will McEnany, because he came on in the seventh inning to retire Chris Shamblin.
Now it's going to be Roy White, the switch hitter. He's facing McEnany for the first time. His O2 is watch white.
He's playing 222 in the World Series with two hits and nine times. The Rivers takes the lead. McEnany looks that way and throws to the plate. White takes it low for ball one.
The Yankee bullpen is quiet. The Reds bullpen is active. Right hand to Ovale Eastwood.
Pop-up may be a play for Perez over down to find the Yankee dugout, and he has it. So two men out.
And the Yankee hopes in this third game now rests on the bat of Katja Thurman Munster. He will try and keep him alive.
Munster is single, lined out white. Munster into a double play in the fifth inning when he lined up Perez and single again in the seventh inning.
Munster adjusting his batting glove. McEnany waiting patiently on the mound as a burly Yankee catcher steps in for the fifth time in the game.
Two men out. Runner at first base, Rivers, the Yankees trail. The Reds 6-2. McEnany looking around at the spacious outfield grasses in Yankee Stadium and now delivers.
Munster shoots one to the right side of the infield. He has his third hit. And Rivers goes to second and holds right there.
So we come full cycle. With a two-out wrong field hit by Munster, it brings up Chris Shambliss, the first man that McEnany faced back in the seventh inning when he got him to tap out eagerly, Perez to McEnany cover.
For a right-handed power hitter, Thurman Munster has made himself into the best wrong field hitter in the league.
Munster's had a hit tonight and the pitch storm is taken down and away for ball one. The Yankees by no means are giving up. They have had a lot of staying power in this World Series. They keep coming at you.
And now Johnny Bench is out from behind to play pointing out towards something in the outfield and Sparkey Anderson is coming out.
I don't know whether there's something that appears to be wrong with Ken Griffey. Cesar Geronimo has gone over to look at him.
And now Sparkey Anderson is running onto right center field to check on Ken Griffey as Joe Morgan and George Foster go out that way.
Yes, I didn't see anything happen, but two attendants have come out on the field. There's some stray paper there which they are recovering, but our attention was riveted on the drama here between Pitcher and Caster.
We suddenly noticed that Griffey walked slowly over towards their center field and made Cesar Geronimo. Then the umpires came up, Sparkey came up.
I think more in a matter of an inquiry. I know Sparkey was apprehensive about the possible deportment of the New York Trans.
But we haven't seen anything that we can report and I hesitate to conjecture at this point. I don't think that was it.
It's conceivable that Griffey got something in his eye, but that would only be guessing two. We're 350 feet away.
Griffey is okay. Shambles will step back into the batter's box with a count of one ball and no strikes.
So the Yankees coming up with a couple of ninth inning hits from Mickey Rivers and Thurman Munson with two men out.
And Shambles will try and keep it going. Here comes the pitch. That's low for ball two. Two and nothing.
Got another left-handed batter coming up after Shambles and that's a designated hitter, Carlos May.
Ball strike. Two and one.
Cincinnati looking in. Runners take their lead at first and second. The pitch to Shambles. One-on-five ball left field.
George Foster toward the line and this one belongs to the Reds.
Here in the ninth inning, New York with no runs on a couple of hits as Cincinnati's Reds move to within one game of winning their second consecutive World Championship.
Tonight, they defeat the New York Yankees in the third game of the series by a final score of 6-2.
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So the Reds make it 3-0 in series games. They defeat the New York Yankees for the score of 6-2, 6-13 and 2 for Cincinnati, 2-8 and Zip for the Yankees.
And tonight was a matter of the Cincinnati Reds did it when they had the chance. They had two big innings.
If two run innings can be called big, actually the second inning they scored three runs.
They got four hits in that inning and they tested in for three runs.
In the eighth inning after the Yankees had started to threaten the Reds got four hits again and put it away with two additional runs.
The Dan Greaveson home run in the fourth inning was the additional run making for six.
The Yankees had their chances. They had men in scoring positions three or four times and were unable to cash in.