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This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history.

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On October 21, 1976, the Cincinnati Reds visited the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium for Game 4 of the 1976 World Series.

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The Reds were going for the sweep, leading the series three games to none.

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And this is the CBS Radio broadcast of Game 4 featuring announcers Marty Brenneman and Wynn Elliott.

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From Yankee Stadium in New York, CBS Radio Sports presents the fourth game of the 1976 World Series on the CBS Radio Network and around the world through the American Forces Radio.

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Hello everybody, Wynn Elliott here along with Marty Brenneman and Brent Musburger getting set for Game 4 on a cold to cool evening between the National League champions, the Cincinnati Reds and the American League champions in New York Yankees.

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Game 4, Yankee Stadium, full house naturally. The opposing pitchers for the Reds, Gary Nolan for the Yankees, Ed Figueroa. One difference tonight, a swirling, capricious wind.

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A wind that starts from the plate, heads out to left field, skirts around the outfield, comes to the right field foul fold and seemingly comes back.

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And what it's going to do in between, nobody seems to know, including a guy who's been here at Yankee Stadium for years, catcher Yogi Berra.

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I wish you'd see the wind blowing that way, it's actually blowing the other way sometimes.

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It does that. The only thing I think maybe catching the ball, do funny thing back here, the ball will come back to you again more, instead of overrunning it.

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Do you ever remember a funny thing that ever happened to you like that?

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Yeah, Reynolds and all hit it.

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The wind was at bat, Yogi dropped it, but on the next pitch, fortunately for both Reynolds and Yogi, Ted Williams fouled it. The exact same spot, the wind was kind of Yogi and he caught it. Well, more of our pregame activities, the wind and the play, after this message.

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Castle towers, shrouded with mist. Streets that knew Napoleon's troops. Echoes of a Chopin waltz. Towns that were old when the pilgrims sailed.

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You talk about the cold, you're not talking about the Cincinnati Reds. Red Hot, they've taken the first three games, and I suspect Brent Muntzberger, that down on the red side of the duck out there, pretty certain about it.

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They have been extremely confident all along, Wynne Elliott, and it is so interesting that during the day when there was no World Series, meaning yesterday, because of the rain here in New York City,

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Sparky Anderson entertained the press by comparing the Cincinnati Reds with the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, and you know who came out the best, at least in Anderson's opinion. He's hoping for a sweep, and he wants people to walk away saying that the Cincinnati Reds are as good or better than any team that ever played this game.

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I don't think anybody can blame him for that. Of course, he admits, as most athletes and observers do, that it's very difficult to compare teams, forces, or whatever of different eras. I think it would be fair to say that the Reds are as good or better than anybody since the expansion era,

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whether they would match up with the teams of the previous eras, who is there to say, because nobody comes back, or at least I haven't heard that they do.

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Well, we're about to get going here with game four, and we'll have more to say about that, of course, in just a moment.

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On the pitching, the hitting, and the fielding, the one thing I've indicated, Brent, may be the wins. And I saw the Cincinnati Reds in batting practice just a moment ago, and I asked a couple of them, how about the win?

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First they went to Tony Perez, and then Pete Rose. Tony?

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Well, you got to hit it good because it's a long way. But I think it was going pretty good. I hit a couple of balls out here in batting practice, and I said, you got to hit it real good because it's a long way.

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Did you say the ball's carrying? Well, when it's been carrying left field, Brett's hit a couple over at 387, Mark, but he always carries good batting practice.

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He's got a great right in there, but it's not stinging as much as that. It's not quite as cold.

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That's how the Reds feel about the win.

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Brent, what about in the Yankees back out in their conference?

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You know, when no team has ever come back in a World Series, trailing three games to 0 to win it, but there's one thing about the New York Yankees, they've always had pride, and that's what I talk to Greg Nettles about.

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I have pride in myself as a player and as a team player, and I like to us, the Yankees, to show a little better than we have the first three games.

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I think we're just going to have to try to get a couple early breaks and take advantage of them.

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This club over here, since Andy gets a break, they take advantage of it, and bam, bam, they score a couple runs.

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We haven't been taking advantage of the few breaks we've been getting.

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Greg, can you put your finger on why you haven't played as well as a team as you did during the season?

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I don't know. You know, it's only been three games, and you go into a three-game slump in the middle of the season, and nobody noticed it.

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They'd be doing a World Series, and it's there for everybody to see.

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But we've fallen behind early in LA games, and we haven't been able to play our aggressive running game.

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So maybe if we can get the lead early today or keep them scoreless for a few innings, then we can play the kind of game we've played all year.

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When I think that Nettles put his finger on a very interesting point, everyone says that the series last year between Boston and Cincinnati was so much more exciting.

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But remember that the Red Sox jumped out ahead of Cincinnati, and the Reds were always coming from behind.

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In this series so far, Cincinnati's gone to the front, and the Yankees haven't been able to apply the pressure.

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Right, Brent? As for that, we'll return in one minute.

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And so we're a moments away from the opening game. Brent Motzberger and Gwen Elliott here.

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For the Yanks, it is the night before tomorrow of which there'll be none if the Reds put this one in the column Mark 1.

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For the Reds, it will be their first average. They've won in four.

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For the Yanks, the figure polar.

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Gwen Elliott, Brent Motzberger, the series in a moment on the CBS Radio Network.

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From Yankee study, Hello Again, where CBS Radio Sports is pleased to present the fourth game of the World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees.

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I'm Elliott with Marty Buterin, or win Elliott with Marty Brownamon, as we're just about ready to get underway.

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You can hear the New York Yankees being introduced, and the Yankee fans, although they know their team is down,

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free zip, have not lost faith nor enthusiasm in their white-clad pink-striped Yankees, and each of them as they come off,

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as regular and substituted like, is getting a big hand as you hear in the background.

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The Reds, already at Denadruz and thoroughly booed, are standing on the sidelines to the left,

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waiting the appearance of the entire Yankee team, which now ports out of the dugout to place itself, position itself along the first baseline.

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And that is the scene here at the new Yankee Stadium, what may be the last of this 1976 World Series play.

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The umpires have also come out on the field, and now we are about to hear the national anthem sung for us by musician Seaman Robert Johnson of the United States Navy.

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Seaman Johnson has performed as a guest vocalist with symphony orchestras around the world in his travels with the Navy.

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He will be assisted tonight by Navy musicians Michael Levy and Chester A. King, both on snare drums.

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Ladies and gentlemen, now to honor America, our national anthem.

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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

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What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming

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Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight

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O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming

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And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air

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Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there

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Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

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O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

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We'll be right back at Yankee Stadium after this word.

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As the field is being cleared on the usual confrontation between Yogi Berra, who's handing in the lineup tonight,

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for the Yankees and Captain P. Rose for the rest, let's set the umpires for you.

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The American League's Bill Deegan will be at the plate. First base, National League, Lee Wired.

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Third base, Bruce Frohling of the National League, there in the dark uniforms.

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Lou Gimurro will be along the left field line in the Crimson of the American League, second base American League, Dave Phillips,

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and the right field, the National League's Billy Williams.

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As for the actual lineups, coming to bat in the top half of the first inning, the visiting and so far winning Cincinnati Reds,

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Pete Rose, third base, Ken Griffey, right field, Joe Morgan, second base, Tony Perez, first base,

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designated hitter Dan Dreeson, George Foster as the left fielder, John Bench, the catcher,

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Cesar Geronimo as the center fielder, and Dave Concepcion as the shortstop.

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And for the New York Yankees, Mickey Rivers, center fielder will bat first, Roy White from left field,

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Sarman Monson, the catcher, Chris Chambliss, first base, Carlos May, the designated hitter,

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Greg Nettles, third base, Oscar Gamblin, right field, Willie Randolph, second base,

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Red Stanley, shortstop, and Ed Figueroa, never before in a World Series, will be the pitcher for the New York Yankees.

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Ceremonies down on the field, the throwing in of the first ball, the ceremonial toss by none other than Mel Allen,

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the voice of the Yankees for 25 years. Mel, who worked in this stadium, at least the old stadium,

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throws it into Sarman Monson and gets it back. Mel, who originated the phrase, going, going, gone,

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at one time broadcast the games of both the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.

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By way of Alabama and soap opera radio, Mel was a fundamental announcer in the business when he went into sports,

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his first lobby. He had been the voice of the Yankees for 25 solid years.

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And there he is, down in the stands, by Commissioner Bully Kuhn and Joe Reichler, as they went their way to the seats.

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And Mel had already thrown the ball out to Sarman Monson. And you'll hear the roar as the Finch-Cypress take the field

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for do or die. Ed Figueroa on the season, 19-9. No starts in the World Series, of course.

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It's the biggest moment in his life. He appeared in the playoffs against the Kansas City Royals.

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He wasn't there at game's end. He has a variety of pitches. He's steady, cool, and very, very popular here in New York.

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Occasionally you will hear in the background the chant, Eddie, Eddie, identifying the crowd's identification with Eddie Figueroa.

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A chant that came by way of Madison Square Garden, originally used in connection with the New York Ranger

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Gold Tenders, with the name of Eddie Jockeman, who was traded to the Detroit Red Wings.

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And upon his return to home ice, or what had been as home ice for so many years, the crowd would greet him

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and occasionally through the game, as he would make a stop or two, would chant, Eddie, Eddie.

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And I think you'll probably hear that chant here tonight. And so Figueroa is taking his ceremonial warm-ups.

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It's not that cold, either that or the heaters are working that much better here in the box.

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At least I've taken the coat off that I wore the other night. It's 51 degrees, I understand.

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And waiting to take his place at the plate. It's the leadoff man for the Cincinnati Reds, 2 out of 10 so far, batting 200.

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The third baseman, Mr. Charlie Hussle, Pete Rose.

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Marty, do you see the black hen down there in front of the Cincinnati dugout?

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He or she just fluttered out from the stands. I don't know if that has any significance at all.

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Is it a Cincinnati Red mascot? I don't think it is, Wynn. If it is, it's news to me.

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Well, maybe it's supposed to be an almond of a hill for the Cincinnati team. Maybe it came out of the stands tonight.

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And so, as you've just heard, our co-host on the broadcast booth tonight, the voice of the Cincinnati Reds, Marty Branema.

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Thank you very much, Wynn Elliott, and good evening, everybody.

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Pete Rose leading it off for the Cincinnati Reds as Figueroa delivers Rose Blum to butt.

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And a backup ruling from third base umpire Lee Weier as Rose did not offer the pitch, so it's ball one.

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The fourth game of the 76 World Series is underway. Rose, as Wynn mentioned, has had a couple of bases.

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The right-hander Figueroa in with the next delivery, swung on, lined over third. Fair ball down the left field line.

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And it bounces apparently up into the seats, which means that Pete Rose will be credited with a ground rule double as he rounds second base.

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The umpire along the left field line, Lou DiMuro, immediately indicated that the ball had bounced into the seats down the left field line.

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So, Rose has opened this game with a big bang for Cincinnati as he jumps on Figueroa's first pitch and doubles out of the wrong barrel to left field.

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An inside-outside swing by Pete as he caught the outside pitch by Figueroa and Craig Nettles is in.

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I don't know if he can settle a guy down as a result of two pitches, but I guess he's telling him that, you know, there's nine innings to go.

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Let's stay right with Ken Griffey.

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So Pete Rose at second base with his third World Series of 76 hit, and all three have come here at Yankee Stadium.

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Left-handed batting Ken Griffey the batter, he shortens up on the bat, drawing Nettles in and Shamblers from the right side, and the strike one called it to these.

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We talked about the trade that brought Figueroa and Mickey Rivers over to the New York Yankees prior to the beginning of this season for Bobby Bonds and the deal with the California Angels.

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He works to Griffey, swinging at a miss.

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Figueroa with a quick no-ball, two-strike advantage here.

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Tremendous trade for New York because both of these guys had productive seasons, Figueroa winning 19, and of course Mickey Rivers considered by many to be certainly a lead-pipe most valuable player candidate in the American League along with a number of the other Yankee ball players.

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Check of Rose at second, the 0-2 pitch. Swung on, slow chopper will be foul off the first baseline.

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And as Griffey heads back toward the plate, Figueroa to the mound. We check New York defensively for you. At first base Chris Shamblers at second Willie Randolph.

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The shortstop is Fred Stanley. Over at third base is Greg Nettles.

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The outfield from left to right, Roy White. Mickey Rivers, Oscar Gamble with Thurman Munson behind the plate.

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Rose has doubled to begin the game, a holding count of 0-2. Figueroa against Griffey as the right-hander fires. The pitch is low for a ball.

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Joe Morgan the on-deck hitter for Cincinnati. And as Wyn mentioned it is indeed do or die for the New York Yankees tonight.

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Three games have been played, the Reds have won all three. And if they win tonight they will be world champions back-to-back years, the first time in 54 seasons.

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It has happened, a National League team winning back-to-back world titles. Ground ball hit the shortstop. They're going to have a play on Rose at third.

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They go to Nettles, he runs it back for a second and puts the tag on him. Griffey slips down, they've got him putting a run down.

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Shamblers to Randolph and he's down.

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Well it's a four base running on the part of the Cincinnati Reds win. Results in a very odd double play, but a double play nevertheless.

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Okay, it merely proves that the Cincinnati Reds are not perfect.

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As the ball was taken by Stanley, he saw he had a chance with Rose at third.

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Back with throw to Nettles, Rose started back. Rose had a mind to keep hung up, but he was motioning Griffey to keep going.

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Come on to second, come on to second, till I hang these guys up. Griffey for some reason or another stayed at first.

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Rose then slipped in the dirt, he was tagged out, the throw to Shamblers had Griffey caught who also slipped and eventually he was run down too. Double play.

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Score at six to five to three to four on the double play and here is Joe Morgan with two outs, swinging and fouling on Figaro his first offering.

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Now quickly the complexion changes. Bloom as a result of Rose's base hit down the left field line and then a bit of scalded work on the bases and the lurt tossing the ball around by the Yankees and it's the Yankees in the sentencing.

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Morgan takes an X pitch high and outside one and one to counties, four for twelve in the series.

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As one of two Cincinnati long balls struck, Danny Treason getting the other one here two nights ago, Morgan homering in the first inning of game one at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.

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Figaro at turning his back to the plate as he looks out towards spacious center field in Yankee Stadium, he's behind two balls in one strike.

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Morgan waiting on the pitch, he swings and grounds one to first, Shamblers bobbles momentarily, now recovers and beats Morgan to the bag in a foot break.

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The first inning for the Cincinnati Reds, no runs, a hit, nobody left on and after a half inning of baseball it's a red nothing, the Yankees are coming to back.

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Still we wait for the Yankees in their first turn at bat here in game four.

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Marty, I'm not sure that there weren't a couple of errors of omission in that peculiar base running by the Reds.

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In the first place, when a ball is hit in front of you as the ball was hit in front of Rose, normally you don't try to go for the forward base.

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He did, however, and he was an easy out. He was an easy out eventually as he ran back toward second.

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He saw he had no chance to make third. He was coaching, waving his arms at Griffey to come up and take second.

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Ken, for some reason or other, because I wasn't watching him, did not do it.

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By that time, Rose had slipped and was tagged out. Then Griffey tried for second.

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He slipped and he was an easy prey for Chris Jambliss, who in no sense is as fast a runner as Griffey, but he got him by the shoulders.

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He went by him and so there was that two-double play.

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So the Yankees come to bat now against right-hander Gary Noland.

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The winningest pitcher on the Cincinnati staff is native Californian in 1976. He was 15-9.

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Quite a story about this guy from Oroville, California.

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It was May 13th of 1974 that he underwent shoulder surgery in Los Angeles for the removal of a calcium spur in his right shoulder.

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And there were those who said Gary Noland would never pitch again.

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Last year he led this club at innings pitch. This season he was a winningest pitcher on the Cincinnati staff.

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Noland's ready to go to work against Mickey Rivers, a long shot, but foul the right field on Noland's first delivery.

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That was the best hit that Mickey's had all series.

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Well, he's had it rough going at the plate and the numbers will tell you just that. Mickey's been to the plate 13 times. He's had only two hits.

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And Pete Rose is playing him exactly as he has played him through the three previous games, and that is very, very tight at third base.

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The strike one delivery is down and in for a ball, and the count evens out one ball and one strike.

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In addition to Rivers here in the Yankee first inning, we'll also take a look at Roy White and Thurman Munson.

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The Yankee fans are hoping many, many more will parade to the plate against right-hander Noland.

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The 1-1 is on the way. That is taken just tight inside.

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So Noland behind the left-handed batting center fielder. Two balls and one strike.

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The Yankees are a free-swinging ball club, and they better be just that against Gary Noland, because this is a guy who has some of the best control in baseball.

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He pops Rivers up on the left side. Concepcion over near third calling. He's got it. There's one away.

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Talk about Noland's control during the 76th season. Gary Noland issued a total of 27 walks.

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27 bases on balls in 239 innings.

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That figures out to about one walk every eight and one-third innings, Marty. That's fantastic.

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That's phenomenal, but on the other side of the coin, Gary Noland gave up a total of 28 home runs, which oftentimes goes hand-in-glove.

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Control, pitchers, and long balls.

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Here's Roy White with one out. Ground ball hit directly at Joe Morgan. He boots it. He recovers, and he gets his man.

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Quickly two out for New York as Rivers has popped a shortstop. Roy White first pitch hitting, a bouncing ball to second baseman Joe Morgan.

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Two out batter will be the catcher for the New York Yankees, Thurman Munson. The most proficient hitter against Cincinnati pitching, Munson has had five hits in 13 at bats. He's knocked home a run.

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Kind of late, Marty, as we pointed out in the previous games. If they pitch him the outside, he will go to the outside.

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Earlier in the year, he was waiting for the inside pitch and reaching the fences. However, in Yankee Stadium, it's very difficult.

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He's got 387 on left center, 430 a little further out. So he's been going to right field.

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Noland works to the plate. It's in for a strike. On the Cincinnati infield, Tony Perez first, Joe Morgan second, Concepcion the shortstop, Rose at third,

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George Foster in left field, Cesar Geronimo in center, over and right Ken Griffey. Johnny Vetch catching the pitches of Gary Noland.

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That is missing outside. It's one ball and one strike. We're scoreless in the bottom of the first. Two Yankees have been retired.

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Noland looking down to Johnny Vetch for the side, sights it, and he pitches. That's ball two, two and one.

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Gary Noland does not like to pitch in cold weather when he is a hot weather pitcher. He likes to perspire and perspire freely. In the early part of a season, he will not pitch very effectively.

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But when the temperature gets over the 80 to 85 degree mark, that's when he starts cooking.

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Munson trying to take a shot the other way, but foul this one back, two and two now.

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And as when Elliott pointed out at the top of the broadcast, Gary Noland pitching in 51 degree weather tonight.

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Should Munson get on with two down, the inning would continue for first baseman Chris Shamblin.

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That field pretty much straight away for Munson Geronimo, shading him maybe two, three steps toward the gap in left center.

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That one is hit. Back at the shallow right center, Morgan racing back. He can't get it. Griffey comes up with a ball and Munson with a two-out single.

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Now has run the bell six times in this World Series. And just about all of his hits to right field. That was in right center. Not particularly powerful.

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That's one of the kind of hits that Billy Martin has been complaining that the Reds have had a plethora of.

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Maybe the tide has turned and the bloopers and the Texas Leaguers and the Bleeders are going to fall in for the Yankees tonight.

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Chris Shamblin's in.

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He's looking for his fifth hit. He's been up 12 times. Big strong left-handed batter with good power.

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Low on inside as Bench has to battle that ball to keep from getting through on him. Ball one and no strikes on Shamblin.

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The Yankees trying to do something that no team has ever, ever done in World Series play and that's to come back from a three and nothing deficit.

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That one is hit over to Cepcion into left center field. That's going to score a run possibly.

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Geronimo up with the ball. Now they're going to wait down. Munson to the plate. Here comes the throw and it's not going to be in town.

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The throw bouncing over the left shoulder of Johnny Bench. Gary Nolan backing up on the play.

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And New York has drawn first plus. On back-to-back hits. A single by Munson and a double to the gap in deep left center field by Chris Shamblin.

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That was a solid line drive to the very deepest corner of this field as this field can be said to have corners.

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It was the 430 foot mark in left center between Foster and Geronimo. Foster finally caught up with it but Mr. Chunky, the emergency catcher of the year, Thurman Munson off with the crack of the bat.

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Of course it was two outs. Never stopped. Dick Hauser kept waving and windmilling those arms. Keep going. Unpermanated.

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In fact the throw in eluded Bench but Nolan backing up behind kept the ball in play.

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And on second base, two outs. Chris Shamblin and to the back the DH of the Yankees, Carlos May.

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Ambles' first RBI in this World Series. He has given the Yankees a 1-0 first inning lead. May a left-handed batter.

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Now Nolan as he comes set straddles the pitching rubber as he looks Shamblin's back to second base.

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May is over six. Nolan working. Ground ball by the mound. Concepcion nice play. He's going and he got him at first base.

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So David Concepcion with a super range that has made him the best shortstop of the National League.

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Not only Rob's Carlos may have evaded it but it is a run-saving play as Chambliss most certainly would have been able to score had that gone through.

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In the inning for the Yankees they get a run on a couple of hits. One man is left and after one complete. New York one and Cincinnati nothing.

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You know, before we got to New York, Spocky Anderson back in his dressing room was talking about the Yanks. He'd been asked to sort of analyze them, and he was asked which was the guy that bothered him most.

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Remember last year he thought Dwight Evans really surprised him, the right fielder, the Red Sox. He said this year it's Chris Shambles.

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When we pitch him outside, he hits the left center, and we don't dare pitch him inside because he'll do what he did at the Kansas City Royals.

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And that's what happened. They pitched him outside, and it was a line drive cash-in shot to left center. Marty?

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Okay, when Tony Perez for openers in the second, knee-high fastball for a call strike.

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Tony five for thirteen. He's not did a couple of runs, but the Yankees handed him a collar here a couple of nights ago.

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He swings and grounds one the other way, but Shambles dicks it out and rolls for the bag, and it's quickly won out.

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You know a word about Tony, the gentle giant, a man who's batted in more runs in history than any other Reds.

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You've got to say something about his equanimity and poise. Every year the talk comes up that this is Tony's last with the Reds,

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and now even more insistent with the emergence of Dan Griesen, who's coming to bat now.

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He can only play first base. He's obviously a solid hitter, and Tony Perez is thirty-five.

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Danny Griesen, the batting star of game three of this World Series. He's single, homered, and double here.

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Pitches on the outside corner for a strike, and I'll tell you, I figure Roy can throw that pitch consistently tonight.

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The Reds are going to have a world of problem with it. Down and away, knee-high on the outside corner.

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Griesen swings on the next pitch, lots of fly ball to left field. Roy White gets there and makes it to second out.

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So Perez of ground ball to first base. Griesen fly ball left two down. The hitter will be left fielder George Foster.

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And Roy White, no Willie Mays, and he wouldn't say he is one, right out from under his cap that one, and he was champed under it.

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Two away in the Cincinnati second, the Yankees lead it one-nothing, the first time in this World Series that New York has scored first.

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So if you're a Yankee fan, that might be a good omen on this Thursday night, October the 21st.

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Foster has knocked in three runs in the series on five hits. He's been up eleven times.

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Now Figueroa walks off the back side of the mound as Foster takes his time stepping in.

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Batter and pitcher ready, and the pitch on the way is missing away for ball one.

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If you're familiar with the Cincinnati Reds, George Foster is doing his excuse-me bit, steps out on every pitch.

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Back in on the one-oh that's taken on the inside for a call strike.

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Talk about trades the Reds have made. This man came over four years ago for Frank Duffy.

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Had a relief pitcher burn Geischer to trade with the San Francisco Giants.

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Two balls in one strike. Duffy, of course, now resides with the Cleveland Indians.

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Geischer no longer in Major League Baseball, and Foster, well named the Player of the Year in the National League on a vote of the players in the Senior Circuit.

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That's up and in, ball three. Three and one. In all honesty, Marty, the Reds didn't quite realize what they had on Foster because it wasn't until about one-third the way through last year,

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and the Reds were comparatively floundering when Sparky brought Pete Rose into third and put George Foster into left field, and from there on they took off.

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That's exactly right. It was in the early days of May.

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Ball four. Foster flips it out over his left shoulder as he gets on the easy way. Figueroa relinquishing his first walk of the night, and that'll bring up catcher Johnny Benz.

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As I assess the wind cards prior to the game, Marty, with the players, the general consensus was it was going to have to be one wallop to make that left field fence.

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The wind is going out that way, but it swerved to the right field side the minute it gets out there, and it's doing tricks.

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They're going to really have to cream it to get into the left field stands. Foster will draw a throw from Figueroa before the right-hander deals with Johnny Benz.

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He's had six hits in this World Series. Set up 11 times, has knocked in a run. Yankees 1, Cincinnati nothing in the top of the second.

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Benz swings on the pitch and fouls it out of here. Should there be a fifth game, it would be played here at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night.

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Marky Anderson has already announced he will go with Freddie Norman.

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And there seems to be some question about the Yankee starter. Billy Martin said Kenny Holtzman, but of course with the rain out yesterday, it would allow him to bring Catfish Hunter back with the five-day rest.

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So you'll have to wait and see. Holtzman, of course, has been the forgotten man of the New York scheme of things. People are wondering daily, where is Ken Holtzman?

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We may see him tomorrow night if the Yankees can win and keep this series alive.

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Another throw to first. Foster appeared to be leaning just a bit towards second base, but he was able to get back.

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He tried Munson's arm in the first game, you remember, Marty, and he was shut down.

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Incidentally, the game tomorrow is scheduled for 6 o'clock if there be one. We'll be on the air at 5.55 p.m.

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Another throw of the fine Mike Marty about that game tomorrow. Commissioner Kuhn has scheduled a game so it won't interfere with the presidential debate.

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And the League of Women Voters has promised not to start the debate in case the game runs over.

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Throw to first again. Of course, there seems to be a lot of question among players from both ball clubs.

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And the question was, when it was announced today, why can't we play in the afternoon?

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So, Boy Kuhn making the announcement that the game will be played at 6 o'clock tomorrow night did not exactly gain favor from not only the Cincinnati Reds, but also the New York Yankees.

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Bigger roll up. George Foster, the baserunner at first, they're playing games with each other.

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Johnny Bench has seen only one pitch he fouled out off this one he fouls back.

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So put the count at two strikes.

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And the undock hitter for the Reds, the center fielder Cesar Geronimo.

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Talked about the fact that Bench has had six hits in the series. He and Thurman Munson, the respective catchers on these two competing clubs, now have had the most hits of anybody.

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Six of these.

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In with the 0-2, the runner goes. Pitch out, call for it. Throw to second. Right on the money and boxes it gets done.

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Thurman Munson, the thrower. Wully Rand off the catcher and that's the inning. No runs, no hits, nobody has left.

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We're in the middle of inning number two. The Yankees won, the Reds nothing.

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Honey, I'm home. Honey, honey, did you take the car down to Eddie's station for a muffler? It's really getting bad.

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Uh huh.

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Did you have to leave the car?

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No.

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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.

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Jim, I didn't leave the car because he said it would take three weeks to get the muffler parts.

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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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Ah, we're like that good old Jerry and me.

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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.

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A week from Friday?

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Uh huh.

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Oh wow, the neighbors, they're going to start complaining.

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No they won't.

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Hmm, they won't?

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After Eddie's and Jerry's, I took the car to Midas. I was in and out in 30 minutes with a new muffler.

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When you're in a hurry, nobody's faster than Midas. We've built a business for people who can't wait. For mufflers or sharks, come to Midas.

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We're specialists. We have to do a better job. And a faster job too.

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We're bringing you the World Series now and in December CBS Radio Sports will bring you the National Football Conference Championship over many of these CBS Radio Network stations for sports at CBS Radio.

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You know, you live by the foot. You can end up by stubbing your toe.

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And that's cost the Cincinnati Reds three base runners in just the opening two innings here at Yankee Stadium tonight. Pete Rose attempting to run into a blind switch of third base.

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Ken Griffey attempting to make second on the same play and George Foster cut down for the second time in this World Series attempting to steal second.

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That time Thurman Munson, whatever George's design was, Thurman out thought him, called for a pitch out and nailed him with plenty to spare.

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As Marquise said, he wants his team to be aggressive. He wants them to run if they get cut down. Okay, we're going to keep running. So far it's cost them.

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Okay Marty, the Yanks are at bat. And it'll be 6, 7 and 8 for the Yankees in the second inning. Greg Nettles will lead it off followed by Oscar Gamblin and Willie Randolph.

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Nettles has been up nine times, has had a hit, has driven across two left-handed batting power hitters. The pitch is in for strike one call from Gary Nolan.

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Gary Nolan, before developing the shoulder problems back in 72, was a hard thrower. When he came up to the reds in the latter stages of his 60s season, here's a foul out of play in the late 60s to be more precise.

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He was one of the hardest throwers around in either league. A power pitcher in every sense of the word. But then came the arm problems.

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Gary Nolan has come back, I guess you could say a pitcher in every sense of the word. He changes speed, he goes inside corner, outside corner, is able to keep the ball down and can throw strikes.

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That one a breaking ball that's low, one and two on Nettles. I've often wondered Marty, why pitchers wait to be injured before they become thinkers and pitchers instead of just throwers.

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Why don't they do it from the beginning? It's happened many, many times. This one a check swing tap or first base side.

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Nolan has it, flips on it for Nettles and easy out.

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I think a good example of a man who can throw as hard as anybody would like to not see, as well as a thinker with Mr. Tom Seavers over in the National League for the New York Maps.

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That was right fielder Oscar Gamble. One hit four times up, an RBI in the World Series. Nolan and the Reds trailing Figueroa and the Yankees one nothing in the second.

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Pitchers swung out and missed and Gamble had himself quite some cuts.

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Griffey deep in right field. Here's the O-1 delivery and that's cut out and popped in the air on the infield.

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Pete Rose moving towards the mound, waiting and he's got it for out number two.

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Let's pause ten seconds for station identification. This is the CBS Radio Network.

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Young's second baseman has found the hits few and far between. In fact, he's had but one and ten times up.

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Nolan throws and Randolph takes a high fastball. This was where the problems began for Gary Nolan in the first inning.

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He got Mickey Rivers and Roy White with no problem with that munch in the single to right center and Shambliss a double a deep left center field to produce a New York run.

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Here's a fly ball hit into center field. Geronimo charges and on the run he comes up with it.

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Picked it right off the top of the grass. And that's all for the Yankees as they are set down in one, two, three orders.

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Depend on it.

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Fourth game of the World Series.

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Fourth game of the World Series, two innings completed, and it's the New York Yankees leading by a skinny margin of a run.

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It happened in the first inning with two out.

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A single by Simon Muntz in the right center and a smashing two-base line drive the left center to the deepest part of the park like Chris Shambliss.

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And chunky Mr. Muntz and beat the crow home, and that's the only run of the inning of the game so far.

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The Reds could have had a threat going in the first, but some faulty base running cut down both runners.

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George Foster was on first base as the second inning came to close, and it did so because he tried to steal second,

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and for the second time in the series was cut down Muntz and too sharp.

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And now as we go on to the top of the third, the same guy up, the first guy up.

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That'll be Johnny Bench with Cesar Geronimo and Davy Concepcion also to hit here in the third inning.

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Figueroa with a pitch and Bench with a take down on outside, making ball one.

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Bench had a good playoff in the three-game sweep over the Phillies.

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He has had an excellent World Series against New York Yankee pitching.

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Check swing foul, bouncing ball over toward the near end of the Yankee dugout first base side.

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So Mr. Figueroa against Mr. Bench, one ball and one strike.

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They give that gelada room in right center.

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He swings on the pitch and pops it up.

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Let's see who will play this one.

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Willie Randolph on the infield grass, back of the mound squeezes it.

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Bench is out number one.

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That ball seemed to go up and come down true because just before the pitch,

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I'm watching the flags in left field.

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They're going out to left field.

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I'm watching the flags in right field.

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They're going out to right field.

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And I'm watching the flagpole and setter and it's swirling around.

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So anything is likely to happen on any ball that went that high in the air.

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But it came down true and Randolph squeezed it.

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Left-handed batting center fielder Geronimo in now.

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Swing and a miss on the first pitch from Figueroa.

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Geronimo, two for nine, he's knocked in a run.

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And Figueroa, signed originally by the club that also resides in New York,

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the match of the National League.

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Here's a line drive into left center field that goes in for a hit.

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Mickey Rivers slips, now comes up with a ball,

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and Geronimo will content himself with a single.

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That's a second Cincinnati hit.

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And we'll bring on the number nine batter, shortstop Davy Concepcion.

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Figueroa, signed as we mentioned originally by the New York Mets,

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but was released by that club in 1968.

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Then he went to the California Angels after being signed by the New York Giant organization.

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And then of course came over to this club, as we mentioned prior to the beginning of the 76th season,

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in the big trade with the California Angels.

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Concepcion checking in with third base coach George Sugar.

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The Reds have the tying run on with one out on a Geronimo base hit,

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and now time is called as Geronimo apparently,

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well now he's going to smooth the dirt out a little bit away from first base.

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Apparently marking a line for himself as to exactly how far he wants to get a lead off of first base.

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He has done that, and now Figueroa will go to work on the right-handed batting red shortstop.

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Infield looks for the bouncing ball, the pitch. That misses away a ball.

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Geronimo does have a stolen base so far in this series.

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David Concepcion, three for eleven, two runs batted in.

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In fact, every one of the Cincinnati Reds have knocked in at least a run.

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That is on the inside corner, strike his ball.

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One ball and one strike.

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Concepcion looking at a straightaway Yankee outfield.

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Figueroa slowing his pace just down a bit as Geronimo takes his lead,

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checked by the Yankee pitcher.

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Concepcion takes a high-pass ball.

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Two balls and one strike.

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He was anticipating a fastball too, Marty Weber used to say.

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He was stepping into the pitch.

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Had it been down, I think it would have been land before he could have responded.

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There goes Geronimo.

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Pitch is taken. Munson's throw, and safe!

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Second base is Geronimo.

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Brady Stanley had to cut in front of the bag to short hop Munson's throw.

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So the Reds are one for two tonight in terms of steals against Munson

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in that he got faster in the second, but Geronimo is stolen against him here in the third.

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So it's a spark he said, even though it's cost him three base runners,

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keep at them, keep coming at them, and now he's put his runner in scoring position

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with just the one out and a very steady Concepcion up at the plate.

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Very steady and very much a clutch hitter for the Cincinnati Reds.

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He led this team in game-winning RBI this past season with 15.

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He swings and fouls off the first baseline, that'll be back into the seat.

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Getting out of the hands of a fan in the upper deck and bouncing back downstairs.

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So the count goes full, three balls and two strikes.

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At Figueroa, getting a taste of World Series action for the first time in his career.

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Fitting under a lot of pressure tonight, I'll tell you.

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The Yankees have to win or else it's all over.

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Here comes a payoff. That's ball four.

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So if nothing else, that walk creates a ground ball double play possibility

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for the New York Yankees as Concepcion walks.

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And it'll bring on the lead on batter Pete Rose, who doubled to start the game.

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He may double down the left field line.

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Figueroa has now walked a couple. He's not struck out anybody.

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Pete Rose, who was the most valuable player in the 1975 World Series,

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the Reds' victory over the Boston Red Sox, now has a chance to tie things up.

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First and second one out, the pitch to him.

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He takes a strike, half-ball of the letters away from him.

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That was exactly the kind of pitch that Pete tickled down the left field line

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on his first time at back.

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Rose surveying the landscape as he steps out and now steps back in.

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A man who has made the number 14 very, very famous in National League play.

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He swings, ground ball slowly hit to the right side.

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Chambliss will go to second. They get the play there.

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Throw quickly back to third, but not in time to get Geronimo,

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who had taken the turn at third base but very wisely came back.

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The middleman, Concepcion, cut down 3-6, Chambliss to Stanley.

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So put Reds runners on the corners and bring up Ken Griffey,

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who hit in that very odd double play in the first inning

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when with Rose at second he bounced to Stanley.

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Stanley then threw to third base, Menendez, to get Rose in a rundown,

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going back to second, and they ended up getting Griffey in a rundown

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between first and second base.

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So Griffey hoping for a two-out hit to tie things up.

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It is 1-0 New York in the Cincinnati third.

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Swing and a miss.

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Geronimo at third base, Pete Rose at first.

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Sigaroa trying to get out of the inning unscathed here.

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The right-hander comes, said he kicks and he fires.

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Griffey hits one off the glove of the pitcher.

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They're going to have a problem. Randolph up, quick throwing to first.

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Got it, good throw.

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Off the glove of Sigaroa, Randolph a strong throw to Chambliss.

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Reds first base coach Russ Nixon did not like the call by Bruce Freming,

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but it's an out and the inning is over.

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No runs, two hits, or rather one hit with a couple left done.

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And after two and a half it remains New York one and Cincinnati nothing.

522
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Peewee Reese who's here at the series would certainly have appreciated that play.

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00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:02,000
The ball hit very sharply, glanced off the pitcher,

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and then sort of trickled and hopped out towards second base,

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and young Mr. Randolph came in and you have to admire his cool.

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He didn't hurry, he didn't panic, he picked it up and gunned it to first

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and just beat the runner by a second.

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As the tying runner was crossing the plate.

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That was a key play for the New York Yankees.

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00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,000
So it's still one nothing, bottom of the third, Marty.

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Okay, when Freddie Stanley, ninth batter in the Yankee lineup, will stand in.

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Gary Nolan retired New York in order of the second,

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and he goes to work on the right-handed batting Stanley.

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The pitch is away, ball one.

535
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,000
Stanley one for five.

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00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:45,000
He's not going to run, he was pinched in the fourth inning by Billy Martin here

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on Tuesday night.

538
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:53,000
That pitch is up, two balls and no strikes with Vicki Rivers on deck.

539
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:59,000
Each club has had a couple of hits here in the early going.

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00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,000
Stanley waving the bat around and now waits and Nolan misses again

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00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:07,000
with a breaking ball, three and nothing.

542
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:12,000
You're mentioning coach Eddard's, Marty, none of the Yankee pinch hitters have come through so far,

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Vellas, Hendrickson, Vellas, but Mason who replaced Stanley in the field hits a home run.

544
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,000
Nolan needs a strike, and he did not get it.

545
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:26,000
His pitch is high and he has walked Stanley on four consecutive pitches.

546
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:31,000
On the basis of his year-long figures in 1976, that's his quota.

547
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,000
One walk in eight and two-thirds innings.

548
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:41,000
But remember Marty said that Mr. Nolan is more of a warm-weather pitcher.

549
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,000
And he is, he does not like cold weather by any means.

550
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:50,000
He'll be facing Mickey Rivers with a base runner and Fred Stanley at first.

551
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:55,000
Rivers over one, a pop to short, throw to first base.

552
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,000
The Reds have attempted nine steals in this World Series.

553
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,000
They have been successful six times.

554
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,000
The Yankees have attempted but one.

555
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:07,000
That was Mickey Rivers and he was thrown out by Johnny Bench.

556
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:14,000
But a tap, did not get it, strike nothing and one on Rivers.

557
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:18,000
And the event that Sparky Anderson has to go to his bullpen early tonight,

558
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:22,000
and by that we're talking about a man to be used in long relief,

559
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:26,000
it in all likelihood would be right-hander Jack Pillingham.

560
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,000
Swing and another pop.

561
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:36,000
This one in shallow left field, Foster there in plenty of time, and he makes the catch.

562
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,000
I'll tell you right, I spoke to Jack before the game,

563
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,000
and I asked him what his thoughts were about tonight.

564
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:45,000
He said he'd be ready, and he feels that at this juncture,

565
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:51,000
Sparky can do as he pleases of course, but he does feel he is the long reliever.

566
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,000
He was the second game winner, Jack Pillingham,

567
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,000
in relief for Freddie Norman in Sunday night's game.

568
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,000
Roy White a ground out to second.

569
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:01,000
In the first inning he's up there now with Stanley at first base

570
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:04,000
and one out on the Mickey Rivers fly ball to left field.

571
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,000
The Yankees lead it 1-0.

572
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:09,000
We're playing baseball in the third inning.

573
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:15,000
Nolan again will throw to first.

574
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:20,000
Now we've got a bright yellow balloon that comes rolling in behind home plate,

575
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:24,000
picked up there by play-dumb fire Bill Deacon,

576
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:29,000
presenting it to one of the Cincinnati Reds' bad boys.

577
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:37,000
It's a pitch to White, strike one call.

578
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000
One out, one out.

579
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:48,000
Jerry Nolan working against Yankee left fielder Roy White in the bottom of the third inning.

580
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,000
Has a sign from Johnny Bench, he kicks and throws.

581
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,000
That's too low.

582
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,000
Mr. Cool, that's Roy White down there.

583
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:00,000
The only man that's been with the Yankee organization from their glory days.

584
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,000
He bats equally well from either side of the plate,

585
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,000
and he has been one of their consistent RBI men.

586
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:09,000
Swings, hits a fly ball, deep right center field.

587
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,000
Griffey goes for the warning track, and standing there makes the catch

588
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:16,000
to retire White on a long belt to right center field.

589
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,000
Brew coming back to the infield and picked up by Dady Concepcion

590
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,000
as Brett Stanley holds ground at first base.

591
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:28,000
That attempt for a home run was just to the left of the porch,

592
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:34,000
which jumped out 353 feet, and I noticed him before in hitting practice.

593
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:37,000
If you can get it down right field, dead right, you've got a better chance.

594
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:41,000
Of course it's closer, but the wind current seems to be going that way.

595
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000
As that hit was made, the flags in right field were swirling toward center field.

596
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,000
So you don't know whether it was held up or not, but perhaps it was.

597
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,000
We talked earlier about the fact George Foster was named the National League

598
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:57,000
Player of the Year in a vote held by the Sporting News.

599
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,000
This man, Thurman Mutsen, got the same award in the American League.

600
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,000
He's up for the second time as the hit has scored the only run of the game

601
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:11,000
and looks at ball one from Nolan.

602
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:14,000
So Gary Nolan trying to leave Freddie Stanley stranded at first base

603
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,000
after walking him for openers.

604
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:21,000
He's got a strike taken by the right-handed batter, one and one.

605
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:25,000
You're wondering about past performance from Gary Nolan in World Series play.

606
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,000
He has not been a good World Series pitcher.

607
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:32,000
His two decisions have been losing ones in the 70s series,

608
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,000
a loss to Baltimore in 72, he was beaten by Oakland,

609
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,000
and a 5.54 World Series earned run average.

610
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:47,000
Two balls and one strike.

611
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,000
Nolan normally constant movement on the pitching mound.

612
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:56,000
He'll go to the middle of his cap, he'll windmill his right arm.

613
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:59,000
Here's his pitch. That shot to right field of ace hit.

614
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:02,000
On to second is Stanley. He takes the turn, will hold.

615
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:07,000
And the Yankees have a couple on as Thurman Mutsen continues to swing a hot New York bat.

616
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:11,000
His seventh hit.

617
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:14,000
And again, sharply to right field.

618
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:20,000
They say baseball is a game of inches, but from a fan standpoint, it's a game of if only.

619
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:27,000
If only Thurman Mutsen's sharp line drive in the third game had been, say, half a foot higher

620
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,000
and had cleared Tony Perez.

621
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,000
That third game might have been in the Yankee column.

622
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,000
It's a game of the vital part in the middle of the game.

623
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:41,000
Just as this hit now arouses the Yankee fans, two outs, two on.

624
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,000
They lead by one, and it's Chris Shambles.

625
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:46,000
The run producer in the first inning with a double to left center.

626
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:50,000
Strike one call to it.

627
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:55,000
So all of Gary Nolan's problems here in the first three innings have come with two men out.

628
01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:00,000
Although he wants Stanley in this third to lead it off, he has given up a two-out single to Mutsen

629
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,000
to create the problem for him.

630
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,000
The strike one pitch.

631
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:10,000
Shambles swings and fouls at home plate as the ball bounces around off the first baseline.

632
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:16,000
That base hit by Shambles in the first inning, he now has an 18-game hitting streak going back

633
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:20,000
into the season and in the postseason play, 16 hits and 34 times up.

634
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:26,000
That figures out to a 4.71 batting effort.

635
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:30,000
Gary Nolan walking around the mound as he goes to windmilling that right arm.

636
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:36,000
He's trying to shake off a little bit of the cold, and many times I would have to say he magnifies

637
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:41,000
in his own mind more than it really is.

638
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:43,000
Two strikes account.

639
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:44,000
The pitch.

640
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,000
Ground ball, hit towards second.

641
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:49,000
Morgan hasn't got away from him and will not have a play anywhere.

642
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:56,000
Throwback to third, safe.

643
01:02:56,000 --> 01:03:01,000
It's going to be another error charged to Joe Morgan, another error in the sense that he was charged

644
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:05,000
with one here on Tuesday night.

645
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:10,000
And that now loads of bases for designated hitter Carlos May.

646
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:12,000
That was a simple ground ball.

647
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:18,000
I think from up here it looked like Joe took his eye off the ball to look at second to see if he had a play there.

648
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,000
He was playing Shambles very deep.

649
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:25,000
And as he took his eye off it, the ball played him and got away, and we've got the bases loaded.

650
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:31,000
And Carlos May, the pitch to May, is up by Vetch looking down to third as if he wanted to throw that way,

651
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,000
but held up instead.

652
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:37,000
So let's see if the New York Yankees can capitalize on the two-out error by Joe Morgan,

653
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:41,000
as we note some stirring around in the Cincinnati bullpen.

654
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:45,000
And it's going to be right under Jack Billingham, who will get up and begin throwing.

655
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,000
Stanley at third, Huntson at second.

656
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:52,000
Shambles the base runner at first.

657
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:59,000
One strike to count, or rather one and nothing to count on Carlos May, and it's called two-out.

658
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:05,000
Joining Billingham, another right-hander for the Reds, May Floborbo.

659
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:07,000
Marty of Nolan has fantastic control.

660
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:11,000
May has limitless patience at the plate.

661
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:15,000
He'll take them and take them and take them and see if he can work for a walk.

662
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:20,000
Nolan needs a strike, and he gets it as he deals one right over the heart of the plate.

663
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,000
Two balls and one strike.

664
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:29,000
Yesterday, or rather the day before, the Cincinnati Reds got the game out of their designated hitter, Grieson.

665
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:34,000
And here's the opportunity for the Yankees to cash in with their designated hitter, May.

666
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,000
Bases full of Yankees, two men out.

667
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,000
Here's a fly ball, hits a left.

668
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:41,000
Foster started in, goes back and glops it.

669
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,000
And the Yankees leave the bases loaded.

670
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000
No run on one base hit.

671
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:48,000
One Cincinnati Arab and three men left on.

672
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,000
It is three. The Yankees won the Reds nothing.

673
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:55,000
You can get shock absorbers almost anywhere these days and good ones.

674
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:59,000
But when you think you need shocks, what you really need is a shock specialist

675
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:03,000
to make sure you get the right shocks for your car and the way you drive.

676
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,000
At Midas, you get a shock specialist.

677
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,000
Who else can you trust to tell you whether you really need shocks at all?

678
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:13,000
Who else can choose from five different kinds of heavy-duty shocks for your car?

679
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:17,000
Who else can install those shocks in 30 minutes or less?

680
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:21,000
Come to Midas. We're shock specialists. We have to do a better job.

681
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,000
Do you have a taste for things that are a little out of the ordinary?

682
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,000
Look, Doris, it has a clock in its stomach and it glows in the dark!

683
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,000
I think we should snap it up, Dick.

684
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,000
Do you like things that are fun but are also functional?

685
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:33,000
Look, Dick, this is fun.

686
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:36,000
Uh-huh, but is it functional, Doris? Do you want to be the talk of the town?

687
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,000
Oh, Dick and Doris, we were just talking about you.

688
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,000
Then the Opel Isuzu is your kind of car.

689
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:45,000
It's not ordinary, it's fun but functional, and people will talk about it.

690
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,000
Did you hear what Dick and Doris bought?

691
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:52,000
The Opel Isuzu, a dandy new small car at your Buick Opel dealers.

692
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:59,000
We played three in game four here at Yankee Stadium, and the score is still Yankees 1 and the Reds nothing.

693
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:03,000
That third inning was a game or an inning for leaving men on base.

694
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:06,000
The Reds had a chance to crack through but Griffey couldn't do it,

695
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:09,000
Randolph coolly threw him out, leaving two Reds on base,

696
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:16,000
and that inning just completed Carlos May, who is now seven for nothing or nothing out of seven tries at bat.

697
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,000
Couldn't bring in anybody with the bases loaded.

698
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:23,000
A fly ball, well hit, but right at George Foster.

699
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:29,000
Carlos May, the designated hitter, has been up seven times, as we say, with no hits,

700
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:32,000
and he's now got a full nine batters to wait before he gets up again.

701
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:37,000
Whatever he's doing now, it must be within the neighborhood of chewing nails.

702
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:44,000
That was his opportunity to do his thing, the only thing he can do, that's all he's asked to do, and it just wasn't to be.

703
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:50,000
And so, we come to the top of the fourth, and it's the second baseman of the Cincinnati Reds,

704
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:54,000
who kind of put his club in a hole, losing that ground ball that time.

705
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:59,000
Okay Marty, okay, wins some big hitters up for the Reds in the fourth inning, Morgan Perez and Dreeson.

706
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:05,000
Joe is 0 for 1, he grounds it out his first time, starts to go, held up, and it cost him a strike.

707
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:11,000
Morgan batting 3-0-8, 4 for 13, a double, a triple, a home run, and two RBIs.

708
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:17,000
So three of his four hits have been for extra bases against New York pitchers.

709
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,000
That pitch is high, one ball and one strike.

710
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:25,000
It's going to be interesting to see how the National League voting goes for the most valuable player.

711
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:29,000
It would appear that the Reds have an edge in the market.

712
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:35,000
Two balls and a strike, Morgan Foster, who had the torrid bat for so long during this season,

713
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:39,000
but slumped and slumped badly the last six or seven weeks of the year.

714
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:44,000
Pete Rose, who led the National League in three different categories, he can pretty much go on and on.

715
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:48,000
But you can't forget guys like Greg Luzinski and Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia.

716
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:52,000
Three and one, the last thing in the world Figueroa wants to do is block this man,

717
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:57,000
because he makes things happen for the Cincinnati Reds.

718
01:07:57,000 --> 01:08:04,000
And now as Figueroa starts to his wind-up, Morgan steps out of the batter's box.

719
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:08,000
Three and one to count, the right-hander for the Yankees, native Puerto Rican,

720
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:16,000
now makes his home in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, out behind him now rubbing up the baseball.

721
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,000
Three and one to count on second baseman Joe Morgan with a pitch coming.

722
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:26,000
That's ball four, and Morgan is on.

723
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:30,000
Joe Morgan, who has six lifetime steals in World Series competition,

724
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:35,000
and if the pattern of managing that we've seen from Sparky Anderson remains consistent,

725
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:40,000
you have to feel that sooner or later Morgan is going to be going.

726
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:47,000
Marty, I have the feeling now Morgan is the second rib that went out about six feet and cleared the dirt.

727
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:52,000
I have the feeling there's bunches of dirt there, maybe deliberate.

728
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:59,000
That's the lead. Tony Perez the batter, and the right-hander will throw the first base.

729
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:03,000
Do you think it's possible that at the point where the Reds would normally take their lead,

730
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,000
there's been extra dirt dumped there?

731
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,000
No, I think that in Riverfront Stadium with the Astroturf,

732
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:12,000
they get the lead according to where the sliding could end.

733
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:14,000
Here's the line trying to left center field by Perez.

734
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:16,000
Rivers on his horse, he'll make the catch.

735
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:20,000
Morgan three-quarters of the way to second, heading on back to first, and will get it standing up.

736
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:28,000
The throw from Rivers almost cleared the head on a bounce of Chris Shambles who went to foul ground to take it.

737
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:33,000
And if Shambles weren't as tall as he is, well over six feet, six feet three or four,

738
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:35,000
that would have been in the stands.

739
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:39,000
That would have been an automatic base advance for Joe Morgan.

740
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:44,000
The one out as Mickey Rivers makes the catch in left center field, a running catch on Perez's ball,

741
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:51,000
and the hitter will be Danny Dreesen who applied to left his first time in.

742
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,000
Morgan with the lead, the pitch to the plate.

743
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,000
Looks like Munson would call for a pitch out.

744
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:59,000
The pitch was low and it's ball one.

745
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:02,000
Talking about the lead that the Reds runners get when they're playing at home,

746
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:06,000
they can pretty well gauge the distance where the sliding fit ends.

747
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:11,000
And the artificial turf begins, of course, with natural turf and a skinned portion of the infield completely here.

748
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:15,000
Morgan is on the way and Munson will not even attempt to throw.

749
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:21,000
He's made in his droughts and fired on back to the mound and Joe Morgan gets a very, very easy stolen base.

750
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:26,000
But he was more than halfway down there by the time the ball came to Munson.

751
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:31,000
He had a seven-foot lead as Figueroa made it obvious he was going to throw to the plate.

752
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:34,000
You know, in order to throw the first you have to step there before you throw it.

753
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:37,000
Joe took off and Munson was absolutely right in not throwing.

754
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:40,000
That was a steal on the pitcher, not the catcher.

755
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,000
Absolutely win.

756
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:46,000
So doing nothing to count on Dreesen, a swing and a pop.

757
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:55,000
Munson throws the mask away as he moves in foul ground and makes the catch.

758
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,000
Danny Dreesen, a foul pop to Thurman Munson.

759
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:03,000
Big out for the New York Yankees and with two down it will be George Foster back for the second time tonight.

760
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:07,000
He had a walk in the second inning and then was caught stealing.

761
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:16,000
I would suspect that with the onset of this pressure tactics on the base paths by all the leading teams in both leagues,

762
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,000
that down in the little leagues and in the instructional leagues and the colleges,

763
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:24,000
that there must be attention paid to how you hold a man on base by the part of the pitcher.

764
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:27,000
Very few of these big leaguers really have good moves.

765
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:30,000
Figueroa looking back toward second now throws to the plate.

766
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:33,000
Foster takes it up and in for ball one.

767
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:39,000
The trend in Major League Baseball has certainly gone toward the speed aspect of the game.

768
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:44,000
We saw it so prevalent in 1976, not only from the Reds who stole over 200 bases,

769
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:48,000
but from the Oakland A's who stole over 300 and the Kansas City Royals.

770
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:50,000
Line drive over Stanley's club.

771
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:52,000
They take it away for it to the plate.

772
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:57,000
Roy White will throw on to second base and the Reds have tied things up here in 1-1.

773
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:01,000
That was an absolute rocket shot off the bat of George Foster,

774
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:05,000
who now leads this club and runs bad at any as four Army I's in the World Series.

775
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:13,000
And that line drive single to left scores Morgan easily and we're not at one run apiece.

776
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,000
You said it.

777
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:18,000
That didn't come out of a pop gun.

778
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:21,000
I'm sure they heard that out in San Diego.

779
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,000
That's one of the thrills of radio broadcasting for me.

780
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:30,000
You hear that whack of the bat and the crowd comes to it just about the same time you do, Marty,

781
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,000
and they know something's happening.

782
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:39,000
If you're living in Cincinnati, you know it's good, and if you're living in New York, you go, bleh.

783
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:44,000
So it's Johnny Betts now with two outs and a run hole.

784
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:49,000
Ball one. Off-speed pitch from Figueroa has just tied.

785
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,000
Each club has had three hits.

786
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:57,000
Each club has scored a run. The Reds own the game's only error.

787
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:04,000
Betts with a pop to second base as a leadoff batter in the third inning.

788
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:07,000
Strike is called.

789
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:12,000
We saw Foster attempt to steal in the second with two outs.

790
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:15,000
It was cut down by Munson.

791
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:20,000
Let's see what might unfold here with two out in much the same situation.

792
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,000
Foster at first, Betts at the plate.

793
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:27,000
Swung on and a long bounce to left field. If it stays there, the Reds have gone out in front.

794
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,000
Home run Johnny Betts.

795
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:36,000
A line-hugger to left field. The only question was whether the ball was going to stay there or go foul.

796
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:39,000
And Betts with a prodigious shot to left.

797
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:44,000
His first long ball of this World Series, and the Reds have bolted out in front three to one.

798
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:48,000
It hit the screen on the fair side of the foul pole.

799
01:13:48,000 --> 01:14:06,000
The screen that would let you know which side it has crossed on the foul pole and is reminiscent of what Carlton Fisk did in the ninth inning, I believe it was, of the sixth game to, no, the twelfth inning of the sixth game in Boston to defeat the Cincinnati Reds.

800
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:20,000
Cesar Geronimo at the plate. Strike one call and the Reds with a big fourth inning have scored three times. And we've got a left-hander working in the Yankee bullpen and Grant Jackson.

801
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,000
One ball and one strike on the high fastball.

802
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:27,000
I said it was going to take a power blow to get into the left field stands and that certainly was.

803
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:32,000
Of course it was to the shortest part of the field, right down the line.

804
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:44,000
Geronimo checks swing, fastball gets him, call strike. It's 312 feet there, but it was some 30 feet high. It would have carried. It was a good flat.

805
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:52,000
Figueroa with the advantage, one and two as he pitches and Geronimo, a ground ball by Nettles, plays the hole by Stanley. Long throw, good play by Stanley.

806
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:56,000
Geronimo is out at first base. A most productive fourth for the Big Red Machine.

807
01:14:56,000 --> 01:15:02,000
They got three runs on a couple of hits. And at the three and a half at the Reds three, the Yankees won.

808
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:13,000
In that Cincinnati Reds top of the fourth, it was the Reds that did their best. A combination of the power running with Morgan forcing the plays by stealing second hunts and test it with the pressure on Figueroa.

809
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:22,000
A solid single by Foster. And then with the Reds also do best because they do so many things well. The long ball by Johnny Bench.

810
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:31,000
A quick look at the statistics shows that out of the 35 hits going home to this, the Cincinnati Reds, 14 of them have been for extra bases.

811
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:45,000
While for the Yankees, I think they made 25 hits, only five of them have been for extra bases. And the only telling blow really, well Mason got the home run the other night, was Shambles' two base hits tonight that scored their only run.

812
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:53,000
So it's been the long ball and the fleet foot that has done it for the Reds so far. They lead three one bottom of the fourth and it's Greg Nettles.

813
01:15:53,000 --> 01:16:00,000
That's back to Gary Nolan leading off the second inning and now the Yankees are going to have to play comeback baseball tonight.

814
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:07,000
They're trailing by a pair of runs as Nolan delivers and a ground ball off to the right of Joe Morgan and into right center field.

815
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:20,000
Greg Nettles with his second World Series hit and face hit number four for the Yankees tonight on Nolan's first pitch in the fourth inning.

816
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:25,000
It'll bring up Oscar Gavile. He popped out to Pete Rose.

817
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:38,000
Bill Degan the plate umpire now running out toward the mound to inspect the baseball that Gary Nolan is playing with before flipping it back to the Cincinnati pitcher.

818
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:44,000
Gavile one of the many left handed batters in this New York attack.

819
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:49,000
This club has certainly proven vulnerable to left handed pitching in this World Series.

820
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:59,000
Swing and a miss by Gavile who does not get shortchanged by any stretch of the imagination at the plate. He can stir up the air around home plate as he did just then.

821
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:07,000
Mark Anderson talking about the fact that he did not have the services of Don Gullit anymore in this World Series earlier today.

822
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:13,000
Ground ball hit the first. Here's the throw to second base and Concepcion drops the ball.

823
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:23,000
They had the out at second on Greg Nettles but Concepcion cops it up and that will be the second error of the night charge against the Cincinnati defense.

824
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:27,000
A team that prides themselves on that part of the game.

825
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:29,000
What are you going to say?

826
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:35,000
That's the second little league type error that the Cincinnati Reds have made tonight.

827
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:43,000
A simple throw from Perez to Concepcion at second. He was not interfered or intimidated by the runner.

828
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:47,000
He just couldn't handle the ball and clicked off the end of his glove.

829
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:54,000
So here come the New York Yankees. Two on and nobody out. Willie Randolph who flied the shallow center the first time up.

830
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:59,000
The Reds didn't feel up at double play. Def is a curve from Nolan. Goes down and outside.

831
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:09,000
Pedro Berbon throwing for Cincinnati and as was the case earlier he's going to be joined by the big right-hander Jack Billingham.

832
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:24,000
Nettles at second base. Oscar Gamble at first. A tying run is on for New York. Strike is called. One on one.

833
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:29,000
Gary Nolan who certainly deserves a better thread and this a better fate rather in this inning.

834
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:38,000
Has to pitch himself out of a jam. Here's a throw down to second. They've got the runner caught. The throw to third and out is the runner at third base, Greg Nettles.

835
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:46,000
The batter, Willie Randolph, wanted to butt that ball. It was up and in. He offered at it as Deegan indicated to strike.

836
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:55,000
Johnny Betts immediately fired down to Concepcion. They got Nettles caught and he was out on the throw from Concepcion to Rose.

837
01:18:55,000 --> 01:19:02,000
He's off to the second time tonight although this time by the other team we've seen inept or mistaken base running.

838
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:10,000
Kind of at this point at any rate throttle a rally. Instead of men on first and second and none out it's just one on and one out.

839
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:22,000
One and two the count. Randolph takes strike three. A breaking ball that got him looking. Gary Nolan rings up his first strike out on an outstanding curve that was breaking down and away from Randolph.

840
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:27,000
But in the opinion of the man who counts, Bill Deegan, it got the outside corner.

841
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:31,000
That not only the first strike out for Nolan, the first strike out of the game for either pitcher.

842
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:38,000
And poetic justice for the pitcher Gary Nolan who shouldn't be in this kind of a jam in the first place.

843
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:45,000
Two down Fred Stanley. Ball one. Stanley on a walk in the third.

844
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:56,000
And the Yankees have really hurt themselves in this World Series. They have been victimized by some awfully poor base running.

845
01:19:56,000 --> 01:20:01,000
Swing and a fly ball to right but Griffey playing him that way. Drips back and makes the catch.

846
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:09,000
So in an inning that saw New York have two men on with nobody out. They come away with nothing, a hit, an error and one man is left.

847
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:13,000
We played four. It's a red three and the Yankees won.

848
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:19,000
Well fans that might prove to be the biggest if only of the evening. It might be the turning point if only of the game.

849
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:25,000
If it's important to strike back after you've just lost the lead. The Yankees immediately struck back.

850
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:31,000
The Yankees since the night of defense put men on first and second with a proud roaring Willie Randolph.

851
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:36,000
If only he had not missed that ball. If only medals had not been caught at third.

852
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:44,000
If he had been able, unless that's the only that time, to advance the runners then that line shot to the right field would have brought a run in.

853
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:48,000
It was still the only one up. That's what I mean by the if only.

854
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:53,000
You don't win World Championships with if only.

855
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:59,000
And here's at Figueroa. Ball one low and outside as Concepcion stands in for the second time tonight.

856
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:08,000
And as Herman Munson starts to throw that ball back to the mound Concepcion has Bill Deegan to look at it, which he does and promptly throws the ball out of play.

857
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:14,000
Concepcion has had one of three walks that Figueroa has served up tonight that came in the third.

858
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:18,000
And that last walk that the Reds had against the Yankee right hander came back to haunt him.

859
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:23,000
Morgan leading off the fourth and he walked, stole second, rode home on Foster's two out single.

860
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:28,000
And he scored on Johnny Bench's home run down the left field line that gave the Reds a margin of lead.

861
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:38,000
Here's a high chop. Off and wide of third is Nettles, side arming to Shamblin, one away.

862
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:53,000
So back to the top of the Reds batting order for Pete Rose, who has doubled and reached on a fielder's choice tonight.

863
01:21:53,000 --> 01:22:03,000
The Reds here tonight are attempting to do something that has not been done in World Series play since 1966 when the Baltimore Orioles swept the Los Angeles Dodgers.

864
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:09,000
A National League team has not done it since 1963 when LA swept the New York Yankees.

865
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:14,000
Strike one called to Rose. I was going to say, Marty, that Baltimore sweep was a tremendous upset.

866
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:19,000
The McAllies, Palmer's and Wally Bunker doing it.

867
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:26,000
Swung on and a flat ball hit back in the left field. Roy White has room to play it short of the warning track and he does.

868
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:31,000
Too quickly out for the Reds. We're in the top of the fifth. They lead the Yankees three to one.

869
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:36,000
The Dodgers sweep over the New York Yankees. Back in the 63ers won the game.

870
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:41,000
Anybody who was aware of it will never forget it. The Yankees only got two runs in the entire series.

871
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:47,000
They were shut out the last three games. It's probably the superlative pitching performance by a staff.

872
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:52,000
Kovacs, Drysdale, and I think it was Johnny Kodrits in that series.

873
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:57,000
Ken Griffey with two out, takes a fast ball away at the letters for strike one call.

874
01:22:57,000 --> 01:23:06,000
Griffey is old for two, hit into an odd double play in the first inning and was robbed of an infield hit that would have scored a run in the third in the fine play by Willie Randolph.

875
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:12,000
Shot foul. Back of the Yankee dugout, or rather the Reds dugout third-base side.

876
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:16,000
So Figueroa ahead at two strikes.

877
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:20,000
The Yankees scored in the first inning.

878
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:30,000
Two out single by Munson who rode home for first base on the long double of left center by Shambles. The Reds getting all three of their runs in the fourth.

879
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:41,000
The strike two pitch. He chased the pitch up and away and again fouls it out of play to the left.

880
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:53,000
Griffey at the plate, not a good world series with the over two night tonight. He is now one for fourteen.

881
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:57,000
Swings and he fouls.

882
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:06,000
At this juncture of the game both ends are quiet and that is something that at least tonight has been a rarity.

883
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:14,000
Grant Jackson up earlier throwing for the Yankees in the fourth inning. The Reds at place at Billingham and Bourbon loosening up.

884
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:25,000
Griffey in the O2 pitch again. Swing and a pop, back of third, going down the line as Nettles and with it all the way in foul ground he squeezes it and the Reds are out one, two, three.

885
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:32,000
No runs, no hits, nobody left on. We played four and a half at Yankee Stadium. The Reds three, the Yankees one.

886
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:37,000
The X can't say that they haven't had their chances. The Reds have given them a shot at it.

887
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:45,000
Let's see what happens now in the bottom of the fifth as we go to the top of the Yankee batting order and it's Mickey Rivers.

888
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:54,000
Rivers over two. He's popped the Concepciona shortstop. He's going to fly ball to George Foster in left field and thus he's two for fifteen.

889
01:24:54,000 --> 01:25:07,000
In series competition Nolan pitches and had the change up. Working to perfection with Rivers way out in front of the swing and a miss.

890
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:12,000
The only easy inning that Gary Nolan has had was the second when he retired the side and ordered.

891
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:18,000
This one a bouncing ball foul off the third and trickling on into the Cincinnati dugout.

892
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:33,000
Yankees left a man on when they scored in the first inning, stranded three. Carlos May lining out to Foster to leave the bases loaded in the third and left one man on after getting their first two base runners without out in the fourth inning.

893
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:39,000
Only failed to score. Grounded foul as the Yankee dugout.

894
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:49,000
So Nolan throwing strikes to Rivers on a holding two strike count.

895
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:54,000
Nolan has struck out one. That ran off on a called third strike in the fourth. He's won one.

896
01:25:54,000 --> 01:26:08,000
Here's the fly ball hit in the shallow right. Grippney coming in but will not be able to get it as the ball falls between Joe Morgan going back and Ken Grippney coming in.

897
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:17,000
That was a needle hit. That reminds me of a hit that Joe Morgan got to win the World Series for the Reds last year in Boston.

898
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:25,000
He just reached out and poked it in the right field instead of swinging away at an outside pitch where he would have just harmlessly hit in the center field.

899
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:33,000
He just reached out and caught it onto the grass. So Rivers is on and the Yanks start another strike.

900
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:41,000
Troy White over to he had won a shot in the third inning only to see it caught by Ken Grippney on the warning track in right center field.

901
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:50,000
And again we're going to get an active Cincinnati bullpen with the same duo. Right hander Jack Billingham and St.

902
01:26:50,000 --> 01:27:05,000
Paul. Dolan will throw the first driving Rivers back to the back. Now the pitch to White. That's high ball one. What do you do? Do you ascend Mickey?

903
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:12,000
I'll tell you when the way things have been going for him I think I take a shot at him. Nothing has gone right for him in this series.

904
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:25,000
They had their backs to the wall. It is against percentage baseball. They're trailing. Here's a called strike but I think I would. Right now it looks as if Billy Martin does not have that in his repertoire but we'll have to wait and see.

905
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:33,000
He just flashed a set of signals could be meaningless. The Hauser. Hauser has signaled over the first. I don't think Mickey's going on this pitch.

906
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:42,000
And on the throw to first base as Rivers steps back. 1-1 to count on Roy White. Rivers has opened the fifth inning for the Yankees with a base hit.

907
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:49,000
White swings and hits a high fly ball into shallow left. Foster is right there as he pounds the glove and he puts it away.

908
01:27:49,000 --> 01:28:04,000
It'll bring up Thurman Munson who's working on a perfect night. A single run scored in the first inning and a single in the third. Munson has been hitting so consistently to right field.

909
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:09,000
It's conceivable the Reds are conceding him that base hit to cut down on his home run power.

910
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:20,000
Allow Johnny Bench in a similar situation. Bench hit the foul pole on the fair side. Munson has the power to do the same thing but they've been feeding Munson those breaking balls on the outside.

911
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:25,000
He's been riding with the pitch and singling and occasionally hitting a double under right field. Let's see what he does this time.

912
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:32,000
That's pretty much the case. The Reds have seen Munson base hit their pitching seven times but Munson has had but one run batted in.

913
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:42,000
They would gladly give up the singles rather than allow Munson to pull the ball and drop one into that short porch in left field.

914
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:49,000
Seven for fifteen impressive numbers for this man. There goes Rivers. Bench is thinking. Bench throw to second.

915
01:28:49,000 --> 01:29:02,000
Did not get a chance for a drive from Mickey Rivers. That stolen base is the first field after 26 postseason games against Johnny Bench and the Reds.

916
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:09,000
The last man to steal a base against Bench was Matty Allou of Oakland in game two of the 1972 World Series.

917
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:19,000
And you just felt he was going to do it with Roy White flying out. They had nothing to lose psychologically. Send him. Get the spirit going again.

918
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:27,000
Now if Munson singles to right field or anywhere they bring in a run. That's only the second stolen base attempt by the Yankees in the series.

919
01:29:27,000 --> 01:29:36,000
And Rivers is trying it both times. Breaking pitch to Munson. Low on outside. Ball one and strike one.

920
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:48,000
What a magnificent record by Johnny Bench though. It's mind boggling really when you consider the fact that you can go back some four years since anybody has stolen against him in World Series play.

921
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:56,000
Boy what an edge it gets the ball club. You've got a guy who can throw like this man. Here's a ground ball by the mound. Morgan Diving.

922
01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:07,000
He can't get it. Here's that River. He'll score easily. Munson continues with a high pass. The Yankees are drawn to another run at 3-2. And again to the right side of the field.

923
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:16,000
This time the right center just to the right of the Diving Morgan. And Munson drives home the Yankees. Second run. They trail by a run on the bottom of the fifth.

924
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:21,000
One on. Still only one out. And power hitting Chris Shambliss to the plate.

925
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:31,000
You really cannot say enough about Thurman Munson. This ball club down three games to none. But if the Reds could win this game and go on to sweep the Yankees.

926
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:38,000
You can say nothing but good things about a man who certainly is the finest catcher in the American League.

927
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:45,000
Here's Shambliss. He swings. There's a shot to left center but Foster is there and makes the catch.

928
01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:54,000
Chris Shambliss trying to play the doubles game for the second time tonight but Foster shading in that way towards the gap. Makes the catch with no problem.

929
01:30:54,000 --> 01:31:00,000
Much like the earlier inning where he smashed the double between them. Foster shaded him over this time.

930
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:09,000
As I explained at the time Sparky knows that outside 50 rides on a line into left center which he did. But this time Foster was right on the spot.

931
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:17,000
Now here's Carlisle May the designated hitter. 0 for 2 in the game. Munson at first base. Breaking ball is low.

932
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:23,000
May was robbed of the hit in the first inning when Concepcion ranged behind second.

933
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:30,000
Hard hit ground ball and then in a definite run producing situation in the third inning. Base is loaded.

934
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:37,000
Two out. A line to Foster in left. Ground ball to second. Morgan gets the benefit of the big hop and throws him out.

935
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:43,000
The Yankees are scoring fifth inning. They get one. On two hits the steal by Mickey Rivers set up the run.

936
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:50,000
And with the runs runner stranded at the end of five complete it's now a one run game. Wretch three. Yankees two.

937
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:57,000
Well we've played through five. And the Cincinnati rest of the league. Dice three two. The difference.

938
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:06,000
Johnny Becher's home run that hit the inside of the left field foul fold in inning number four with the man on.

939
01:32:06,000 --> 01:32:17,000
The Yankee catcher almost replied in time. That is he did in terms of knocking in a run by a short single to right center with the fleets Mickey Rivers casting it in.

940
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:25,000
The difference has been the home run by bench. As we now go to the top of the fifth inning. The Reds are back.

941
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:30,000
And last year's MVP. Joe Morgan the name of the player.

942
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:38,000
And this is the group that faced Figueroa back in the fourth inning that created so many problems for the Yankee right hander. Morgan started it off with a walk.

943
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:48,000
For strike one. Joe is 0 for one. He bounced out to first base in the opening inning.

944
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:56,000
Morgan takes his pitch on the outside corner for strike two and he is openly arguing with Bill Deegan.

945
01:32:56,000 --> 01:33:06,000
Over the call on that. Morgan not liking it a little bit but it makes no difference because he is in a big hole and no balls and two strikes.

946
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:14,000
Figueroa working quickly kicks and throws. Morgan takes this one high for a ball.

947
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:19,000
The Yankees about hit the Reds six to four but trail three to two.

948
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:27,000
As Cincinnati bats in the sixth inning. And that's Figueroa's job right now is to try and keep the Reds right where they are.

949
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:32,000
And hope that his Yankee teammates can muster enough offense to go out in front.

950
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:35,000
Up with a fastball to and to the count.

951
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:41,000
A significant figure to this point in the game Marty is that the Reds have not left a single base runner.

952
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:51,000
Not one while the Yankees have stranded six. Here is a two to delivery. Swung on and lined over the glove of Stanley.

953
01:33:51,000 --> 01:34:00,000
Bay said Roy White comes up quickly with a ball to home Morgan at first base.

954
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:13,000
Morgan has his fifth World Series hit of 1976 as he opens with a line drive over Stanley's glove and left center.

955
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:19,000
That'll bring on Tony Perez. Tony is 0 for 2 with a ground out to first and a fly ball to center.

956
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:25,000
Oh check that figure on the Reds. Marty they left two on in the third inning.

957
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:31,000
Joe Morgan is now hit safely in seven consecutive World Series games by the way.

958
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:36,000
The pitch to Perez is cut on a slow hopping ground ball to third. Nettles will not have a play at second.

959
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:42,000
Instead gets a sure out on Perez at first.

960
01:34:42,000 --> 01:34:46,000
The Reds have a runner in scoring position on an inning opening hit by Morgan.

961
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:50,000
A slow high chop to third that results in Perez being gunned out.

962
01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:54,000
It'll bring on Danny Dreeson. He's flying to left. He's popped to the catcher.

963
01:34:54,000 --> 01:35:02,000
Grant Jackson, addicted throw. A left hander and a right hander respectively loosening up for New York.

964
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:07,000
Dreeson who had the big game here on Tuesday night.

965
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:12,000
5 for 13 in the World Series. A couple of doubles, a home run.

966
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:26,000
Morgan checking the whereabouts of Freddie Stanley as he leads at second and Dreeson swings and misses on the first pitch.

967
01:35:26,000 --> 01:35:32,000
Despite the big night that Dan had here on Tuesday night, Sparky Anderson not changing his opinion of the designated hitter.

968
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:39,000
One iota. Steadfastly standing by his feeling that it does not help the game any.

969
01:35:39,000 --> 01:35:45,000
One ball and one strike. He does concede however that it does make him a much better ball club.

970
01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:49,000
I don't think that can be disputed in any quarter.

971
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:58,000
One and one to count on Dreeson. Figueroa looking at Morgan out of second base with one away.

972
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:02,000
The right hander has a sign. A backward glance at second to pitch.

973
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:09,000
A strike two called. Dreeson takes a quick look at Deegan. I don't see where he had any complaint at all about that pitch. It was letter high.

974
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:14,000
A nice breaking ball and he was way out in front of the first one on the first pitch.

975
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:21,000
That's the stuff that's been bothering him at least this time at bat. See if he can adjust.

976
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:25,000
Figueroa looking intently at Morgan off at second base.

977
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:28,000
Right hander still looks. Now he's ready.

978
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:35,000
Stretching the pitch. Swung on. Popped up. It'll be Randolph to play it midway between first and second.

979
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:39,000
Two down for the Reds with a coming of left fielder George Foster to the play.

980
01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:42,000
It was another breaking ball. Marty had him completely fooled.

981
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:48,000
There goes Billy out to talk to his pitcher.

982
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:51,000
And I don't blame him.

983
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:58,000
Foster was walked the first time. The second time he hit that ball on a line in the center field.

984
01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:01,000
Only gravity stopped it.

985
01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:06,000
Now I would imagine if Billy Martin went out there just to ask Ed Figueroa what he wanted to do.

986
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:13,000
Do you want to walk Foster intentionally with first base open to pitch to bench or do you want to take your chances with Foster?

987
01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:16,000
Against this particular ball club I guess you could toss a coin.

988
01:37:16,000 --> 01:37:22,000
They walked Morgan the other day and Perez wins the ball game.

989
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:29,000
As Wynn mentioned Foster won for one with a walk. He has an RBI and he is the main man.

990
01:37:29,000 --> 01:37:38,000
And so far as RBI is a concern in this World Series he's driven in four and had the chance to once again give the Cincinnati Reds a two run lead if he can base hit Figueroa.

991
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:42,000
Two out. Morgan at second base. Here comes the pitch.

992
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:50,000
And Foster takes it low for a ball.

993
01:37:50,000 --> 01:38:01,000
George batting at even 500. Six hits. Twelve times up. One of his hits for extra base is a double.

994
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:08,000
The 1-0 delivery. Taken on the outside edge for a strike. We pause ten seconds for station identification.

995
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:16,000
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996
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:20,000
Carl Emery the shortest distance between two points.

997
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:25,000
Back into the batter's box. He's waiting on a 1-1 pitch from right-hander Figueroa.

998
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:32,000
It's on the way to the plate. Foster takes it outside. Two balls and a strike.

999
01:38:32,000 --> 01:38:39,000
All the while Grant Jackson and Dick Tidrow continue their deliberations in the New York fullback.

1000
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:47,000
Marty it seems though George is back in his MVP early season form. That is when that cost him a strike.

1001
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:57,000
And he is a man who very rarely argues with umpire calls but very disenchanted over a strike two call by Bill Degan.

1002
01:38:57,000 --> 01:39:03,000
Classed at mile manner George Foster but not so in that particular situation.

1003
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:08,000
Figueroa battling to leave Morgan on his second. It's a 3-2 game Cincinnati in the sixth inning.

1004
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:16,000
The 2-2 delivery is on the way to the plate. Foster strikes out swinging. A big out for Ed Figueroa.

1005
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:22,000
And in the sixth inning the numbers for the Cincinnati Reds. No runs. One hit. One is left.

1006
01:39:22,000 --> 01:39:25,000
Back to five and a half. Reds three. Yankees two.

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01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:32,000
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1020
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:58,000
on many of these CBS radio stations. That was a fascinating battle between Figueroa and Foster's at that time.

1021
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:03,000
George knowing a base hit to bring in the run and reestablish a two-run lead for the Reds.

1022
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:09,000
He had his eye gibleted on every pitch and he would almost fall over the plate as he would watch those

1023
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:15,000
sharp breaking curves from Figueroa just catch that outside black rim. He disagreed on a couple.

1024
01:41:15,000 --> 01:41:22,000
On the third he thought he'd better go anyway but he was fooled. His swing was anything but robust and down he went.

1025
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:26,000
So he come to the bottom of the sixth and the Yankee crowd beginning to rise to it.

1026
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:31,000
It's three-two-risk. Last to the sixth. Here we go Marty.

1027
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:36,000
Okay, when Greg Nettles. Well started off with the New York Yankees. They hit it two times tonight.

1028
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:40,000
The pitch to him is over a curve down low for strike one call.

1029
01:41:40,000 --> 01:41:44,000
Nettles gamble and ran it off.

1030
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:50,000
Gary Nolan who has pitched in trouble in every inning but the second is hoping for better things here in the sixth.

1031
01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:54,000
Ground ball hits the second. Took a big hop and goes over Morgan's head.

1032
01:41:54,000 --> 01:42:00,000
That'll be a base hit. On what started out a raining ground ball.

1033
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:05,000
It took one of those weird high hops. And Nettles designed with a base hit.

1034
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:10,000
Well the Yanks can't complain about the breaks in this game. Error by Morgan on a simple ground ball.

1035
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:14,000
Error by Concepcion on a simple throw from first base.

1036
01:42:14,000 --> 01:42:21,000
And that one looked like a root seeing out and just before it got to Baby Joe it jumped maybe three or four feet over his head.

1037
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:25,000
And so it's Nettles on first base. And it's Oscar Gambler.

1038
01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:32,000
Gary Nolan. Sorry Marty. It's alright. When the Yankees have talked about playing on natural grass as opposed to artificial turf.

1039
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:38,000
Here's a pop. Gambler swinging away on the first pitch and Morgan will play it out near second one away.

1040
01:42:38,000 --> 01:42:44,000
They have talked about the difference of playing on artificial turf as opposed to natural grass.

1041
01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:51,000
And we saw a vivid example of it on Nettles' ground ball. That ball is a routine out on artificial turf.

1042
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:55,000
But here at Yankee Stadium on natural grass it took the strange hop.

1043
01:42:55,000 --> 01:43:02,000
Getting a pebble, hitting the edge of the infield grass, whatever, to go over the head of Morgan.

1044
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:07,000
And with Gambler having popped out on Gary Nolan's first pitch here's Willie Randolph.

1045
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:16,000
0 for 2 with a fly out and a strike out. He swings and bounces foul off third base.

1046
01:43:16,000 --> 01:43:22,000
Nolan has had only one strike out but he got Randolph looking with a breaking ball away in the fourth.

1047
01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:25,000
And that was at a crucial moment in the game.

1048
01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:33,000
Willie had just missed in an attempt at a pop. Nettles anticipating the play had gone from second in the direction of third with an easy out.

1049
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:36,000
And boom boom there were two outs just like that.

1050
01:43:36,000 --> 01:43:39,000
Nolan turns and throws on to Tony Perez.

1051
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:43,000
Nettles who normally is not a threat to field does not take that big a lead.

1052
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:45,000
Had no problem getting back to the bag.

1053
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:49,000
They get Billingham and Corbona. Again on the Cincinnati bulls back.

1054
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:55,000
Randolph a shot to right field slicing foul ground and out of play.

1055
01:43:55,000 --> 01:44:02,000
Two strikes on the New York second baseman.

1056
01:44:02,000 --> 01:44:08,000
There has been nothing but activity in not only the Red Bullpen but also the Yankee bullpen tonight.

1057
01:44:08,000 --> 01:44:14,000
Nice way to keep warm to the guy. Not a bad idea.

1058
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:23,000
We noticed out on the Red Bullpen before the game they have about four stoles out there.

1059
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:26,000
Nolan back on the pitching rubber looking into Johnny Bench.

1060
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:29,000
The Reds up by one run. The Yankees have Nettles at first one out.

1061
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:33,000
Randolph checking his swing. Bench bluffs to throw to first base.

1062
01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:41,000
Ball one, strike two.

1063
01:44:41,000 --> 01:44:46,000
And there's Barry Nolan trying to nail it down for Cincinnati.

1064
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:49,000
Here's a pitch. Line drive center field.

1065
01:44:49,000 --> 01:44:56,000
It will hang up long enough for Geronimo to catch it. Two out.

1066
01:44:56,000 --> 01:45:03,000
Brett Stanley who anchors a New York Yankee batting order being sent up to the plate.

1067
01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:07,000
But Billy Martin it looked like was waiting for Stanley to come back to the dugout.

1068
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:12,000
And we may well be seeing a New York pinch hitter right now.

1069
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:15,000
Stanley had gotten all the way to the plate. Finally Billy got his attention.

1070
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:19,000
It looks like Ellie Hendrick being called in from the New York bullpen.

1071
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:22,000
We saw the same thing occur here on Tuesday night.

1072
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:32,000
It's going to be Stanley lifted in the sixth inning for in all likelihood Ellie Hendrick as the New York pinch hitter.

1073
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:37,000
So Nolan hands crossed or arms crossed standing out in front of the pitching mound.

1074
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:44,000
As Pete Rose over at third base converses with New York third base coach Dick Hauser.

1075
01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:52,000
Over at first Elston Howard the Yankee first base coach talking with the umpire over there, Bruce Fremont.

1076
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:59,000
So Billy Martin who has not been adverse at all to going to his bench string has used pinch hitters numerous times in this World Series.

1077
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:06,000
While on the other side of the coin the Cincinnati Reds have not seen fit to go to their bench one time in this World Series.

1078
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:10,000
Sparky Anderson has gone with the same nine in every game.

1079
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:14,000
Of course with a change of pitchers but has not gone to his bench at least one time.

1080
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:20,000
Well with the exception of the first inning run that the Yankees got here that's the only lead that the Yankees have had.

1081
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:26,000
So the Reds have held the lead ever since Joe Morgan hit a home run on the first inning of the first game.

1082
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:29,000
So Sparky hasn't spelled a message yet.

1083
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:39,000
Of course Sparky says that with the D.H. hitter in there has taken away his prerogative of being a strategist with the Yankees of his pitchers and inserting pinch hitters.

1084
01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:42,000
He hasn't had to do it in this game.

1085
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:46,000
He's been able to stay with his pitchers until they've actually been knocked out.

1086
01:46:46,000 --> 01:46:48,000
Hasn't had to replace him with a batter.

1087
01:46:48,000 --> 01:46:49,000
Here's Elliott.

1088
01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:52,000
He's a left handed batter. He's 0-1 in the World Series.

1089
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:54,000
He swings and misses on the Nolan change.

1090
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:59,000
The Yankee pitch hitters have not had a hit in seven times up.

1091
01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:04,000
Hendricks failed with 2-1 out in Cincinnati in the second game.

1092
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:14,000
Runner at first base, Greg Nettles 2 down and again he has completely befuddled Hendricks who takes a half hearted cut and does not get it.

1093
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:15,000
Strike 2.

1094
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:22,000
Hendricks commits himself with a raised right foot and a reminiscence of Mel on course not nearly as high.

1095
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:31,000
But unless he has gauged the type of pitch it is, he's completely off balance and he missed both those pitches by the proverbial nine.

1096
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:34,000
Back with the 0-2 pitchers, Nolan, and he pops him up.

1097
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:36,000
Tony Perez is behind first.

1098
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:40,000
Now he's in foul ground and he makes the catch to end the inning.

1099
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:43,000
Well the Yankees, no runs, one hit.

1100
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:45,000
No Cincinnati errors, one man left done.

1101
01:47:45,000 --> 01:47:47,000
We are two thirds of the way home.

1102
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:49,000
The fourth game of the 76th World Series.

1103
01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:50,000
It's a one run game.

1104
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:52,000
The Reds 3, the Yankees 2.

1105
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:57,000
It seems all in a class by itself.

1106
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:08,000
Back at Yankee Stadium and if the Cincinnati Reds hold this 3-2 lead for the remaining three innings and sweep the Yankees in fourth straight, they will merely be turning the table on New York.

1107
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:11,000
The Yanks beat them four straight in 1939.

1108
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:20,000
That was the year when Ernie Lombardi in the final game was knocked out of the plate and two or three Yanks ran across.

1109
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:22,000
That was a never to be forgotten play.

1110
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:25,000
They called it the Lombardi snooze, not entirely fair to Ernie.

1111
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:27,000
He had been hit severely.

1112
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:33,000
Incidentally in that game, as I recall it, or that series, Lou Gehrig sat on the bench.

1113
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:35,000
That was his last year.

1114
01:48:35,000 --> 01:48:36,000
He did not play.

1115
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:43,000
He left the game earlier in the year and it was the end of his career of 2130 straight games.

1116
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:52,000
That was a never to be forgotten series as indeed this one will be if it continues along the same way, at least in Cincinnati, and that's Johnny Bench, Marty.

1117
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:55,000
And Johnny Bench is a man who has had the big blow in this game.

1118
01:48:55,000 --> 01:48:58,000
His home run back in the fourth inning with Foster aboard.

1119
01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:01,000
He swings away on Figueroa's first seventh inning offering.

1120
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:02,000
Hits one to right field.

1121
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:03,000
Gamble running toward the line.

1122
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:05,000
Almost fell down.

1123
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:08,000
Righted himself and made the catch.

1124
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:18,000
And looked for an instant as if Gamble was going to go to the seat of his pants as he came in to play the ball, but regained his footing and caught Johnny Bench's high fly ball.

1125
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:23,000
He did skip for a moment but didn't go.

1126
01:49:23,000 --> 01:49:27,000
Zayzard Geronimo is one for two, a single in the third.

1127
01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:29,000
He bounced out to the shortstop in the fourth inning.

1128
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:35,000
And speaking of shortstops, the Yankees have a new one, Jim Mason.

1129
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:40,000
Fouled out of play.

1130
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:42,000
Figueroa has pitched well.

1131
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:44,000
Given Cincinnati only five hits.

1132
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:48,000
But made the mistake to pitch to Johnny Bench in the fourth inning.

1133
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:50,000
That had the Reds out in front three to one.

1134
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:52,000
New York scored one in the fifth inning.

1135
01:49:52,000 --> 01:49:56,000
It's presently a three-two game.

1136
01:49:56,000 --> 01:50:02,000
Strike two called on the inside corner, Beltide.

1137
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:06,000
Neither pitcher noted as a strikeout pitcher and that's held up tonight.

1138
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:09,000
Figueroa has banned one, Foster, in the sixth inning.

1139
01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:13,000
And he has gotten another one as he gets Geronimo looking.

1140
01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:20,000
Inside edge of the plate, strike three is called.

1141
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:26,000
So Ed Figueroa, blowing into his right hand as he stands off the back slope of the mound.

1142
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:29,000
Working on what he hopes will be an easy seventh inning.

1143
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:31,000
He has gotten bench fly ball right.

1144
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:33,000
He has punched out Geronimo looking.

1145
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:37,000
You'll be facing David Concepcion who's 0 for 1 with a walk.

1146
01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:43,000
Figueroa from Puerto Rico is blowing on his fingers to keep his hands warm.

1147
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:46,000
Gets a strike in to Concepcion.

1148
01:50:46,000 --> 01:50:55,000
Concepcion from Venezuela prior to the start of the game in the Warlaps had a stocking cap, a ski cap under his baseball hat.

1149
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:56,000
Strike two called.

1150
01:50:56,000 --> 01:51:00,000
Figueroa moving the ball around with tremendous effectiveness.

1151
01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:02,000
It was strike on the inside of Concepcion.

1152
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:04,000
It's strike on the outside.

1153
01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:10,000
And Davey has just gotten right up into Bill Deegan's face to argue the call on strike two.

1154
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:18,000
He's standing out away from the plate now and pointing emphatically as he tries to make a point to Deegan.

1155
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:20,000
Here's a fifth.

1156
01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:21,000
Here's a line drive.

1157
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:24,000
Faced it into center field.

1158
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:27,000
Concepcion comes up with a two strike single to center.

1159
01:51:27,000 --> 01:51:29,000
Hit number six for the Reds.

1160
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:34,000
As we go back to the top of the batting order for Pete Rose who's 1 for 3, a first inning double.

1161
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:37,000
And those outside sweepers that have been called strikes on him.

1162
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:41,000
Davey just reached over the third one that came and just lined it.

1163
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:45,000
A tap line drive into center field for the bases.

1164
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:48,000
Rose is 3 for 14 in this series.

1165
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:51,000
2-14 batting average in RBI.

1166
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:56,000
Set all three of his hits in the now two games here at Yankee Stadium.

1167
01:51:56,000 --> 01:52:01,000
Go to first.

1168
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:07,000
Don't be surprised as Marky Anderson has Concepcion running in this situation.

1169
01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:08,000
Davey has the lead.

1170
01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:14,000
Figueroa again throws that way.

1171
01:52:14,000 --> 01:52:18,000
And Rose at the plate who rarely ever strikes out.

1172
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:21,000
He's going to put the ball in play more often than not.

1173
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:24,000
And Concepcion who's an excellent base runner.

1174
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:26,000
So let's see what happens.

1175
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:35,000
He's going to the plate and Rose with a take, a strike.

1176
01:52:35,000 --> 01:52:37,000
Yankee bullpen is quiet.

1177
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:39,000
So too is Cincinnati.

1178
01:52:39,000 --> 01:52:44,000
On the top of the seventh inning.

1179
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:47,000
Outfield straight away for the Reds third baseman and captain.

1180
01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:49,000
Here's a pitch.

1181
01:52:49,000 --> 01:52:50,000
He started to go but held up.

1182
01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:52,000
It was just high.

1183
01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:53,000
One and one.

1184
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:54,000
This is how the Reds cost you.

1185
01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:56,000
Sure it's just a man on first base.

1186
01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:59,000
But he's a man who's almost as sure as Beth to steal.

1187
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:01,000
Forces the pitcher to use that much more nervous energy.

1188
01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:02,000
Tenses up the catcher.

1189
01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:07,000
Forces the infield in every way.

1190
01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:09,000
Figueroa long pause at the belt.

1191
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:10,000
Here goes the runner.

1192
01:53:10,000 --> 01:53:11,000
Pitch is taken.

1193
01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:13,000
Munson's throw to second.

1194
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:17,000
They got it.

1195
01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:18,000
Jim Mason took the throw.

1196
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:21,000
Concepcion out easily.

1197
01:53:21,000 --> 01:53:24,000
So for the Reds in the seventh inning, no runs.

1198
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:25,000
One hit.

1199
01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:26,000
Nobody left on.

1200
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:32,000
We move to the Yankees seventh as they stand at Yankee Stadium at Cincinnati three at New York two.

1201
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:36,000
You can get shock absorbers almost anywhere these days and good ones.

1202
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:44,000
But when you think you need shocks, what you really need is a shock specialist to make sure you get the right shocks for your car and the way you drive.

1203
01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:46,000
At Midas, you get a shock specialist.

1204
01:53:46,000 --> 01:53:50,000
Who else can you trust to tell you whether you really need shocks at all?

1205
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:54,000
Who else can choose from five different kinds of heavy duty shocks for your car?

1206
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:58,000
Who else can install those shocks in 30 minutes or less?

1207
01:53:58,000 --> 01:53:59,000
Come to Midas.

1208
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:00,000
We're shock specialists.

1209
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:02,000
We have to do a better job.

1210
01:54:02,000 --> 01:54:03,000
The following is a test.

1211
01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:05,000
Please answer all questions truthfully.

1212
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:06,000
Question one.

1213
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:08,000
Which of these do you like most?

1214
01:54:08,000 --> 01:54:11,000
Robot, dentist, opal-y-suzu.

1215
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:12,000
Question two.

1216
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:18,000
If you and three friends wanted to take a nice trip, would you take turns carrying each other, take turns throwing each other, or buy an opal-y-suzu?

1217
01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:20,000
Question three.

1218
01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:24,000
Given a choice, would you attend a lecture on good posture, hurt your foot, or buy an opal-y-suzu?

1219
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:29,000
If you answered opal-y-suzu to all three, see your Buick Opal dealer and take a test drive.

1220
01:54:29,000 --> 01:54:33,000
Otherwise, see someone else.

1221
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:36,000
So we come to the last half of the seventh inning here at Yankee Stadium.

1222
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:40,000
What the Yankees hope will be a lucky seventh as they trail three to two.

1223
01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:46,000
As Thurman Munson, with his groin and his heading, had the Yankees at the lead or win the game tonight,

1224
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:50,000
the name of Munson will be garlanded with roses around this town.

1225
01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:57,000
Incidentally, I noticed, speaking of roses, looking over the stands, the first tier of them, to the right of the plate,

1226
01:54:57,000 --> 01:54:59,000
there's a love-hate relationship.

1227
01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:01,000
You know how close it really is.

1228
01:55:01,000 --> 01:55:03,000
I'll read you the first sign.

1229
01:55:03,000 --> 01:55:05,000
It says, Pete Rose, I love you.

1230
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:10,000
The second sign says, Bergenfield, New Jersey hates Pete Rose.

1231
01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:13,000
And they're exactly side by side.

1232
01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:16,000
You must be within the same family.

1233
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:24,000
Well, the family of man, Yankee Rooter Division, is on its feet,

1234
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:29,000
has had its seventh inning rest, and may hope to rest yet none,

1235
01:55:29,000 --> 01:55:36,000
as Mickey Rivers starts off for the Yankees, the American League champions, trailing by a rump.

1236
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:40,000
Marty, Rivers is one for three, a single in the fifth inning.

1237
01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:46,000
Full second and road home on a Munson base hit, takes the ball as he bluffs a bunt, or rather a strike.

1238
01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:51,000
Deegan belatedly throwing up his right hand.

1239
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:53,000
He made it happen for New York in the fifth inning.

1240
01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:59,000
They're hoping he can do it here in the seventh.

1241
01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:04,000
Gary Nolan, back on the pitching mound and back to the plate.

1242
01:56:04,000 --> 01:56:07,000
Misses with it, down and in, one ball and one strike.

1243
01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:11,000
Now we've got a new face in the Red Bullpen as we play ball here in the home seven.

1244
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:15,000
Left-hander Will McEnany is up alongside right-hander Jack Billingham.

1245
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:17,000
A swing and a pop, that might have a play.

1246
01:56:17,000 --> 01:56:22,000
Coming back to the screen, still on the move, and diving through the seat as he goes over the railing.

1247
01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:24,000
He could not come up with it.

1248
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:29,000
One heck of an effort by Johnny Bench, who dove into that pass of humanity.

1249
01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:36,000
Down just to the left of our CBS broadcast booth, but had to battle a lot of hands and came away with nothing.

1250
01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:37,000
And dive he did.

1251
01:56:37,000 --> 01:56:44,000
That's the second one in this series, the first one he did get over by first base.

1252
01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:52,000
Nolan is ahead of Rivers, one ball and two strikes.

1253
01:56:52,000 --> 01:57:00,000
Gary Nolan pacing himself as he walks off the mound out toward first baseman Tony Perez.

1254
01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:04,000
May have said something to the Reds first baseman.

1255
01:57:04,000 --> 01:57:06,000
Now he's on the mound.

1256
01:57:06,000 --> 01:57:09,000
Rivers in that unique crouch of his.

1257
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,000
Waiting on the pitch, he lines one.

1258
01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:13,000
Left-center field, Geronimo Foster.

1259
01:57:13,000 --> 01:57:15,000
It'll be Foster to play it.

1260
01:57:15,000 --> 01:57:18,000
One down.

1261
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:22,000
Mickey tried to poke that one in between the fielders.

1262
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:27,000
The left fielder in the shortstop, but he got it just a little too high up in the air, and Foster was able to get to it.

1263
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:32,000
Now the Red infield plays two or three steps back.

1264
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:37,000
They were all in tight in respect to Rivers' speed.

1265
01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:43,000
Anna Roy White, two for 13 in the series and 0 for three tonight.

1266
01:57:43,000 --> 01:57:45,000
Bounce down and fly it out twice.

1267
01:57:45,000 --> 01:57:50,000
Ball to him, it's just time.

1268
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:53,000
Cincinnati getting all three of its runs in the fourth inning.

1269
01:57:53,000 --> 01:57:54,000
New York scored first.

1270
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:57,000
They got a run across in the first inning, another one in the fifth.

1271
01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:58,000
Two balls and no strikes.

1272
01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:10,000
And at this point, Mark Anderson will not hesitate an instant in going to his bullpen if he feels like it's necessary.

1273
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:15,000
Two and nothing to count on the batter, switch hitting left fielder Roy White.

1274
01:58:15,000 --> 01:58:18,000
Coleman takes that big, settling deep breath.

1275
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:23,000
Goes to the wind, he pitches, and he gets a strike in.

1276
01:58:23,000 --> 01:58:31,000
Roy White is not happy about that call, and I'll tell you, Bill Deegan has been the focal point of a lot of controversy tonight.

1277
01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:42,000
Numerous batters on both ball clubs have argued calls.

1278
01:58:42,000 --> 01:58:47,000
The kick and the pitch, swinging at a grounder foul between the bag and the coaching box.

1279
01:58:47,000 --> 01:59:05,000
Played there on a couple of hops by former Yankee great catcher Elston Howard.

1280
01:59:05,000 --> 01:59:07,000
Did you hear that attendance call, Marty?

1281
01:59:07,000 --> 01:59:17,000
It's 56,700. Two to the count, Donovan against White. Fly ball, it's shallow.

1282
01:59:17,000 --> 01:59:22,000
Right center, back forehand in Geronimo, caught by Geronimo on the run.

1283
01:59:22,000 --> 01:59:32,000
That's out number two as Geronimo had to come quite a distance for that ball, but in typical Cezar-Geronimo fashion, he made it look routine.

1284
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:37,000
So here is Thurman Munson and this crowd, and appropriately so.

1285
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:42,000
Give him a big round of applause because he has done his job tonight.

1286
01:59:42,000 --> 01:59:50,000
Three for three. Three singles, he has scored a run, he has knocked in a run.

1287
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:56,000
35 times in World Series competition, a player has had four hits in a game.

1288
01:59:56,000 --> 02:00:06,000
Last time it has been done, in 1973, Rusty's foul by the Mets and Reggie Jackson of the A's, had four hits in a game in that 73 World Series.

1289
02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:14,000
Not only that, but Munson has five consecutive hits after going two for two his last couple of times up on Tuesday night.

1290
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:22,000
Nolan gets a pitch in on him and a bad-handled foul ball trickles to the Cincinnati dugout.

1291
02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:30,000
It's going to be interesting to see if Nolan still pitches him outside, whether they'll give him right field and whether Munson is able to take it.

1292
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:35,000
Well, every batter who comes up for the Yankees right now represents the tie-and-run.

1293
02:00:35,000 --> 02:00:40,000
Reds three, New York two, with two outs in the home seventh inning.

1294
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:46,000
Munson looking for his fourth hit as Nolan serves up the O-one.

1295
02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:52,000
That is grounded foul again, and again it goes to the Cincinnati dugout, strike two.

1296
02:00:52,000 --> 02:01:04,000
Nolan has not had an easy inning since way back in the second when he retired Nettles, Gamble, and Randolph in order.

1297
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:12,000
But here in the seventh inning he's gotten rivers and white on fly balls, one to left and one to center.

1298
02:01:12,000 --> 02:01:21,000
And Ohio's Thurman Munson has a bad cock as Nolan comes to the plate, and he chops this one foul.

1299
02:01:21,000 --> 02:01:28,000
Johnny Bench running off to the right of home plate to pick it up.

1300
02:01:28,000 --> 02:01:43,000
Continue with Dillingham and McAnady, a right-hander and a left-hander for the Cincinnati Reds in their bullpen.

1301
02:01:43,000 --> 02:01:51,000
Munson waving the bat around, Nolan patiently waiting on the mound for Thurman to get back in and get ready.

1302
02:01:51,000 --> 02:02:00,000
He's ready and the two-strike pitch again, missing with a breaking ball.

1303
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:09,000
On deck is first baseman Chris Shambliss who knocked in the first Yankee run with a double in the first inning.

1304
02:02:09,000 --> 02:02:13,000
Nolan to the motion and a pitch. Shot foul.

1305
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:22,000
Munson was taking a shot the other way again, to right field. He's a master at that.

1306
02:02:22,000 --> 02:02:28,000
Every one of his hits tonight have been to the right side, two of them to right center and one sharply to right field.

1307
02:02:28,000 --> 02:02:33,000
In fact I haven't seen Munson pull a ball, maybe one, this entire series.

1308
02:02:33,000 --> 02:02:39,000
They've been giving him that outside of the plate and he's been taking it. All of them line shots.

1309
02:02:39,000 --> 02:02:48,000
Nolan keeps the advantage in one ball and two strikes. Munson swings, heart smash and there's his fourth hit of the game as it goes into right center field.

1310
02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:54,000
Thurman-Munson four for four tonight.

1311
02:02:54,000 --> 02:03:08,000
Six hits in his last six times up and you've got to go all the way back to 1924 when Leon Goose-Goslin had six consecutive hits for the American League Washington Senators the last time that has been done.

1312
02:03:08,000 --> 02:03:13,000
With the base hit by Munson, Sparky Anderson has bounced out of the Cincinnati dugout.

1313
02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:18,000
He is on the Yankee Stadium mound and he has signaled to his bullpen.

1314
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:28,000
He's going to be bringing on left-hander Will McAnany to face the left-handed batting Chris Shamblin.

1315
02:03:28,000 --> 02:03:35,000
Marty, six and two-thirds innings for Gary Nolan. He's allowed the three runs, or rather the two runs and the eight hits.

1316
02:03:35,000 --> 02:03:45,000
Six and two-thirds seems to be magic in Captain Hook's dictionary because that was exactly how long he left Zachary go. Six and two-thirds, six hits and two runs.

1317
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:51,000
And so the situation with Munson on first, two outs in the seventh inning. We're about to have a new pitcher.

1318
02:03:51,000 --> 02:04:04,000
The score Reds three, Yankees two. Back at Yankee Stadium and young Will McAnany of the Cincinnati Reds relief corps is warming up there in the mound as the Yankees have Thurman-Munson on first.

1319
02:04:04,000 --> 02:04:15,000
Two outs in the seventh. They trail by a run. McAnany's previous offense, two and one-third innings. He gave up two hits, one strikeout and allowed no runs.

1320
02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:25,000
This in contrast to his comparative lackluster efforts towards the end of the year in the regular season when his earn run average was some four runs plus.

1321
02:04:25,000 --> 02:04:33,000
But McAnany's pride was touched, as he later said, and he's been one of the two Goldust twins that Sparky could call on at will the previous year.

1322
02:04:33,000 --> 02:04:41,000
McAnany and Eastwood, they had done the job for him. And young Mr. McAnany had done it in mid-series at least so far.

1323
02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:51,000
He now is brought in to face Chris Shambliss, who for a left-handed hitter, Marty, hits left-handers better than average.

1324
02:04:51,000 --> 02:04:59,000
If you get inside to him, he can pull. We've told you a couple of times already, if you get outside to him, he can find that left-center alley.

1325
02:04:59,000 --> 02:05:05,000
In fact, Foster is playing right practically over in left-center. They've given him the left field foul line.

1326
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:13,000
Okay, Marty. Okay, McAnany against Shambliss. Pitch, check swing, ground ball, hit fourth second. Morgan charges up. He throws and that's the inning.

1327
02:05:13,000 --> 02:05:19,000
It's ironic because it was in the seventh on Tuesday night that McAnany came on to face Shambliss.

1328
02:05:19,000 --> 02:05:28,000
He bounced him out for res to McAnany covering, and this time the Springfield, Ohio native throws one pitch and retires Shambliss to get the res out of the seventh inning.

1329
02:05:28,000 --> 02:05:34,000
No runs, one hit, one left, and at the end of seventh full, the Reds free and the Yankees too.

1330
02:05:34,000 --> 02:05:46,000
You know, the Reds are winning this one, four straight. They would become the sixth team in history to do it. It would be the twelfth time it's been done.

1331
02:05:46,000 --> 02:05:54,000
Now, the Yankees, of course, they're the guys that own the patent on that sweeping four-to-oh. They've done it six times.

1332
02:05:54,000 --> 02:06:00,000
They did it twice in a row in 27 and 28 and twice in a row in 37 and 38.

1333
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:11,000
You know, Marty, the Reds, if they win this game, will have won seven postseason games in a row, including last year's against the Red Sox, and they rather would be eight of these seven this year.

1334
02:06:11,000 --> 02:06:18,000
Here's Pete Rose. He was at the plate when Concepcion was caught stealing in the seventh inning. Rose takes a pitch low from Figueroa.

1335
02:06:18,000 --> 02:06:25,000
Pete won for three, a double in the first, reached on a fielder's choice in the third, and a fly ball to Roy White and left in the fifth.

1336
02:06:25,000 --> 02:06:30,000
So the Reds starting pitcher, Gary Nolan, is gone. Figueroa is still out there for New York.

1337
02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:41,000
Swing and a high fly ball. Left center driving, Rivers back. He's tracking it, and he makes the catch.

1338
02:06:41,000 --> 02:06:49,000
We'll bring on Ken Griffey, who's hit less than three times up. The pitching line on Gary Nolan, who right now stands to win it for the Reds.

1339
02:06:49,000 --> 02:07:02,000
He gave up eight hits in two runs, both earned. In six and two-third innings, he struck out a batter and walked one.

1340
02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:15,000
Figueroa serves it up. Griffey takes the strike down, 0-1.

1341
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:21,000
Lieutenant or sparky, Lyle is throwing for New York. They're both bent out in deep left center field.

1342
02:07:21,000 --> 02:07:26,000
Griffey butts third base side. Here is Nettles allowing the ball to roll, and it goes foul.

1343
02:07:26,000 --> 02:07:35,000
Nettles swooped in on that ball. He started to play it, then saw the direction it was going, decided to take a chance, and it pays off as the ball goes foul.

1344
02:07:35,000 --> 02:07:51,000
Three-quarters of the way down, pours the third base back. Ken Griffey, who rarely ever attempts a bunt on artificial turf, but has been known to do so on natural grass, tried it right then and fouls it away. 0-2.

1345
02:07:51,000 --> 02:07:58,000
There was no way they would have gotten it. It was two-thirds of the way down, but the time Nettles got to the ball.

1346
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:09,000
Griffey is one of Sparky Anderson's proudest, what do we call, products. Sparky thinks that he's had a hand, a very definite hand in the development of young Mr. Griffey.

1347
02:08:09,000 --> 02:08:14,000
Well, the youngster had quite a season batting 336 to finish second in the National League this season.

1348
02:08:14,000 --> 02:08:20,000
He has a pitch in on him. He bounces out in front of the plate, picked up by Muntz and rolling to Shambler. He got the out.

1349
02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:24,000
Some indecision on Griffey's part about whether or not that ball was there or foul.

1350
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:32,000
Here is a bulletin from News 88, United Press International report from Hong Kong.

1351
02:08:32,000 --> 02:08:38,000
Mao Zedong's widow and other key radical elements in the Chinese Communist Party have been killed.

1352
02:08:38,000 --> 02:08:42,000
United Press International quoting the official China news agency as saying,

1353
02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:50,000
Mao Zedong's widow and other key radical elements in the Chinese Communist Party have been killed.

1354
02:08:50,000 --> 02:08:52,000
For further details, now back to the World Series.

1355
02:08:52,000 --> 02:08:58,000
...for a strike.

1356
02:08:58,000 --> 02:09:04,000
Morgan, a home run of this World Series in Game 1 at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.

1357
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:21,000
Alexander takes a pitch outside. One ball and one strike.

1358
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:26,000
Figueroa studies a sign from Muntz. Two out, nothing going on for Cincinnati.

1359
02:09:26,000 --> 02:09:35,000
A pitch. Pass ball is high. Two and one.

1360
02:09:35,000 --> 02:09:39,000
Tony Perez dealing in the on-back circle.

1361
02:09:39,000 --> 02:09:44,000
Morgan a swing, a fly ball, right center field. Hit well, but not well enough.

1362
02:09:44,000 --> 02:09:47,000
There is Rivers and on the track he's got it.

1363
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:49,000
Nicky pulling it in at the 3.85 marker.

1364
02:09:49,000 --> 02:09:56,000
The Reds are out 1-2-3 in the eighth inning and after 7-1-1 half it remains the Reds over the Yankees 3-2.

1365
02:09:56,000 --> 02:09:59,000
On his own.

1366
02:09:59,000 --> 02:10:02,000
And we have a new batter for the New York Yankees.

1367
02:10:02,000 --> 02:10:10,000
Switch from the left-hander to the right-hander of course and that's Brent John with the Nella.

1368
02:10:10,000 --> 02:10:15,000
The Nella three hits and eight times in the World Series as he pinches for Carlos May,

1369
02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:21,000
the second-pitch hitter that Billy Martin has sent up tonight. Ellie Hendricks pops out to Tony Perez in the sixth inning.

1370
02:10:21,000 --> 02:10:25,000
Here's McEnany with a pitch to the right-handed hitter and he misses outside ball one.

1371
02:10:25,000 --> 02:10:30,000
Well, we should note that right-hander Raleigh Eastwood, who has not yet made an appearance in this World Series,

1372
02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:36,000
but has been the breadwinner for Sparky Anderson's bullpen is loosening up. He's a right-hander.

1373
02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:43,000
Swung on and hit hard to left. Foster got a late break on the ball, but still will make the cut.

1374
02:10:43,000 --> 02:10:50,000
The Nella hit that ball right on the button. Foster, reacting slowly, came in then quickly

1375
02:10:50,000 --> 02:10:56,000
and had to reach back over his left shoulder to grab the ball.

1376
02:10:56,000 --> 02:11:01,000
That brings up Greg Nettles with one out.

1377
02:11:01,000 --> 02:11:06,000
Nettles is single twice and three times up.

1378
02:11:06,000 --> 02:11:12,000
Stank has called to him to give you some idea how important Thurman Munson and Chris Shambliss have meant to the Yankees in this World Series.

1379
02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:16,000
New York going into this inning was batting 233 as a team.

1380
02:11:16,000 --> 02:11:22,000
That's a pitch low for a ball. Munson and Shambliss collectively have gone 14 for 33.

1381
02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:29,000
Now the Yankees without that fair getting 167 with 16 hits in 96 times up.

1382
02:11:29,000 --> 02:11:34,000
High and inside, ball two.

1383
02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:38,000
So Thurman Munson and Chris Shambliss have really been important to New York,

1384
02:11:38,000 --> 02:11:44,000
despite the fact they are trailing 3-0 in this World Series, you cannot discount their performance.

1385
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:49,000
McEnany a pitch away from issuing a walk. Low outside, three and one to Nettles.

1386
02:11:49,000 --> 02:11:57,000
Marty, if you go back seven times on Munson's at bat, the seventh time was that line shot that Perez turned into the double play on Rivers.

1387
02:11:57,000 --> 02:11:59,000
That's right.

1388
02:11:59,000 --> 02:12:06,000
Ball four and just before McEnany delivered that pitch, Dave Concepcion moved to the first base side a second,

1389
02:12:06,000 --> 02:12:10,000
which meant that the Reds had three players on the right side of the infield,

1390
02:12:10,000 --> 02:12:20,000
but it was academic as the pitch turned out high and Nettles is on for the one-out walk.

1391
02:12:20,000 --> 02:12:26,000
Oscar Gamble, left-handed batter.

1392
02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:31,000
He's popped a third, reached on a fielder's choice, popped out to Joe Morgan at second.

1393
02:12:31,000 --> 02:12:35,000
The Yankees have the tying run on with one out.

1394
02:12:35,000 --> 02:12:39,000
McEnany delivers to the plate, Gamble swings, fly ball, left center.

1395
02:12:39,000 --> 02:12:51,000
Oscar is going to be there and brings it down for out number two.

1396
02:12:51,000 --> 02:12:55,000
Willie Randolph will step in.

1397
02:12:55,000 --> 02:13:01,000
Iblison three times up tonight. Randolph in the series is now one for 13.

1398
02:13:01,000 --> 02:13:08,000
That left-hander McEnany really hurts the Yankees because most of their power, even on the bench, is on the left side.

1399
02:13:08,000 --> 02:13:17,000
Nettles taking his lead. McEnany looks that way, throws to Randolph, had him swinging at a fifth down, strike one.

1400
02:13:17,000 --> 02:13:26,000
Cincinnati trying to make that three-run fourth inning stand up for a win in game four and a sweep in the 76 World Series.

1401
02:13:26,000 --> 02:13:29,000
McEnany delivers, Randolph swings, bouncing ball, shortstop.

1402
02:13:29,000 --> 02:13:33,000
Concepcion throws to Morgan, the force of Nettles, and the Yankee eighth inning is history.

1403
02:13:33,000 --> 02:13:40,000
No runs, no hits, one left. We move to the ninth inning. Cincinnati three, New York two.

1404
02:13:40,000 --> 02:13:45,000
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1409
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1410
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1411
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1412
02:14:43,000 --> 02:15:01,000
If you're a one-inning or a game or two, depending upon what happens, it's hot stove league time for baseball fans. It's time to rehash, talk about trades, potential trades, talk about idiots that run out on the field, all that kind of stuff.

1413
02:15:01,000 --> 02:15:18,000
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1414
02:15:18,000 --> 02:15:31,000
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1415
02:15:31,000 --> 02:15:52,000
And an exuberant fan has just made a reservation for the local jail. His room is all ready, and he's on his way. And there's one inning left in the 1976 baseball season for the New York Yankees at any rate.

1416
02:15:52,000 --> 02:16:07,000
Trailing 3-2, the Reds now come to bat, hoping to protect their lead, and here's Perez. Here's Pigaroa-Sitch, it's over for a call strike. Tony Perez's bat has really been cooled off since the series shifted from Cincinnati to New York.

1417
02:16:07,000 --> 02:16:21,000
He had five hits in the first two games, has not had a hit here at Yankee Stadium. One ball and one strike to him. Tonight, he's bounced to first, flying to center and grounded out nettles to shamblers.

1418
02:16:21,000 --> 02:16:41,000
Barkey Lyle left-hander, Dick Tidrow right-hander. Double barrel action for the New York Yankees in their bullpen. Swing and a ground ball, foul at third base. Perez taking a shot down the line, but the ball goes foul and ricochets off the wall out toward left fielder Roy White.

1419
02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:59,000
The Yankees have had only six hits. And again, the big blow in this game up to this point was the two-run fourth inning home run by Johnny Bench. After Foster, his base hit at Joe Morgan home from second with a single to left, Bench homered right down the line.

1420
02:16:59,000 --> 02:17:07,000
To make it a 3-1 game, New York threw a run closer with one of the fifths, but nobody has scored since that time.

1421
02:17:07,000 --> 02:17:27,000
The wind on the side of the ball, two strikes. The wind continuing to swirl around at Yankee Stadium. Two balls, two strikes. Fastball low and outside.

1422
02:17:27,000 --> 02:17:42,000
The Yankees are working at their ways to get the sign from Thurman Munson and now the break even delivery. He misses with that one, but just by inches, Thurman Munson turns around, argues with Bill Deegan and Figueroa came off the mound. He's really been out of shape.

1423
02:17:42,000 --> 02:17:53,000
He thought it should have been called strike three and I'll tell you, the pitch was awfully, awfully close.

1424
02:17:53,000 --> 02:18:01,000
Tony Perez may well have gotten a break on that pitch. Billy Martin shouting from the New York dugout, he's not happy.

1425
02:18:01,000 --> 02:18:16,000
And the string out, Figueroa against the waiting Perez with a payoff on the way to the plate, swung on and fouled off to the right. And that'll climb out of here into the upper deck and foul ground.

1426
02:18:16,000 --> 02:18:33,000
Yankee Rivers who can run many, many balls down with that tremendous speed playing Perez toward the gap in left center. Oscar Gamble pulled well off the line in right, but still a lot of real estate for Tony Perez to shoot at in right center field.

1427
02:18:33,000 --> 02:18:40,000
He gets a walk on the pitch high and inside.

1428
02:18:40,000 --> 02:18:47,000
So Figueroa in a one run game that has his team trailing has just issued his fourth walk of the night.

1429
02:18:47,000 --> 02:18:55,000
And his first since Joe Morgan walked and ultimately scored as a leadoff batter in the fourth inning.

1430
02:18:55,000 --> 02:19:01,000
Tony Perez who tried to steal once before in this series and was thrown out.

1431
02:19:01,000 --> 02:19:13,000
Dreesen looking for his first hit, he's 0 for 3 tonight. Medals playing in shallow at third base. Dreesen looks at a head high fast ball from Figueroa, ball one.

1432
02:19:13,000 --> 02:19:28,000
Many, many balls down with that tremendous speed playing Perez toward the gap in left center. Oscar Gamble pulled well off the line in right, but still a lot of real estate for Tony Perez to shoot at in right center field.

1433
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:35,000
He gets a walk on the pitch high and inside.

1434
02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:42,000
So Figueroa in a one run game that has his team trailing has just issued his fourth walk of the night.

1435
02:19:42,000 --> 02:19:50,000
And his first since Joe Morgan walked and ultimately scored as a leadoff batter in the fourth inning.

1436
02:19:50,000 --> 02:19:56,000
Tony Perez who tried to steal once before in this series and was thrown out.

1437
02:19:56,000 --> 02:20:09,000
Dreesen looking for his first hit, he's 0 for 3 tonight. Medals playing in shallow at third base. Dreesen looks at a head high fast ball from Figueroa, ball one.

1438
02:20:09,000 --> 02:20:14,000
We made the point earlier concerning Sparky Anderson.

1439
02:20:14,000 --> 02:20:21,000
The likelihood that he would go quickly to his bullpen. You have to feel right now that Billy Martin would have no choice in doing the same thing.

1440
02:20:21,000 --> 02:20:27,000
He can he'll afford to allow the Reds to score one or more runs in this ninth inning and hope to come back.

1441
02:20:27,000 --> 02:20:31,000
Check swing and a strike to it. One and one.

1442
02:20:31,000 --> 02:20:37,000
And he continues to get Sparky Lyle and Dick Tidrow ready.

1443
02:20:37,000 --> 02:20:43,000
Well he's got two right handed batters coming up and Foster and Bench and then two left handed batters.

1444
02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:46,000
One left and then a right.

1445
02:20:46,000 --> 02:20:52,000
And one Figueroa just missing by inches on a couple of pitches.

1446
02:20:52,000 --> 02:21:00,000
One to Tony Perez in that particular delivery to Danny Dreesen that was just high.

1447
02:21:00,000 --> 02:21:07,000
Yankee infield a double play depth. Perez's walk to begin the ninth inning.

1448
02:21:07,000 --> 02:21:12,000
Figueroa an affirmative nod of the head as Munson hangs his side.

1449
02:21:12,000 --> 02:21:17,000
He's got the belt. Check a first pitch. Swung out and fouled.

1450
02:21:17,000 --> 02:21:24,000
That'll be off to the left and out of play. Two and two to Dreesen.

1451
02:21:24,000 --> 02:21:30,000
We've had one run game in this World Series and that of course was Sunday night.

1452
02:21:30,000 --> 02:21:36,000
When Tony Perez single off of Catfish Outer in the bottom of the ninth inning to produce a four to three win.

1453
02:21:36,000 --> 02:21:42,000
And the Reds are in the ninth inning against the Yankees leading three to two in this one.

1454
02:21:42,000 --> 02:21:45,000
Shambles holding against the leading Perez at first base.

1455
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:48,000
Big gap on the right side of the infield for Dreesen who can't pull the ball.

1456
02:21:48,000 --> 02:21:52,000
Here's a pitch. He takes it and bounces away from Munson.

1457
02:21:52,000 --> 02:21:55,000
Rolling toward the Cincinnati dugout at the near end.

1458
02:21:55,000 --> 02:21:58,000
Perez takes a turn and will hold at second base.

1459
02:21:58,000 --> 02:22:02,000
So Figueroa comes up with a very poorly timed wild pitch.

1460
02:22:02,000 --> 02:22:06,000
On the part of his Yankee club as Perez goes to second base.

1461
02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:10,000
Nothing whatsoever Thurman Munson could do about that one as it bounced in front of him.

1462
02:22:10,000 --> 02:22:20,000
Appeared to hit off of his shin guard and bounced over toward the Cincinnati dugout.

1463
02:22:20,000 --> 02:22:26,000
Three balls and two strikes on Danny Dreesen.

1464
02:22:26,000 --> 02:22:32,000
Now time out is called by third base umpire Lee Weier as a first base umpire.

1465
02:22:32,000 --> 02:22:37,000
Bruce Bremen walks over toward the New York Yankee dugout and he's just throwing Billy Martin out of the game.

1466
02:22:37,000 --> 02:22:42,000
Billy Martin has just been pitched out of here.

1467
02:22:42,000 --> 02:22:50,000
Bremen and Martin are nose to nose as Bremen continues to wave Martin off the Yankee Stadium premises.

1468
02:22:50,000 --> 02:22:55,000
I can't imagine why that would have occurred.

1469
02:22:55,000 --> 02:23:00,000
It's a question of a wild pitch.

1470
02:23:00,000 --> 02:23:06,000
When I think possibly that the argument first had to be directed at plate umpire Bill Deacon.

1471
02:23:06,000 --> 02:23:13,000
Because I'm sure Billy Martin feels like he definitely missed one pitch on Figueroa and possibly two.

1472
02:23:13,000 --> 02:23:17,000
Now whether the argument then went to Bremen at first base I don't know.

1473
02:23:17,000 --> 02:23:22,000
Or whether maybe Bremen felt like he had heard enough guff from Billy Martin directed at the plate umpire.

1474
02:23:22,000 --> 02:23:27,000
Words were exchanged and then one on one duel and Martin ultimately thrown out.

1475
02:23:27,000 --> 02:23:34,000
Well probably made no bones about it. It was almost instantaneous the wave of the arm your route.

1476
02:23:34,000 --> 02:23:37,000
And he was a good 30 feet away from Martin.

1477
02:23:37,000 --> 02:23:41,000
Here's a 3-2 pitch to Dreesen swinging a foul ball.

1478
02:23:41,000 --> 02:23:46,000
The wind must be blowing very strongly that way for him to have been able to hear anything that Martin said.

1479
02:23:46,000 --> 02:23:49,000
And Martin came out of that dugout after him.

1480
02:23:49,000 --> 02:23:54,000
The other umpires came to their fellow umpires.

1481
02:23:54,000 --> 02:23:59,000
A push Martin away and Martin is gone.

1482
02:23:59,000 --> 02:24:10,000
Figueroa who walked Perez to begin the ninth inning and earlier wild pitch Tony to second base.

1483
02:24:10,000 --> 02:24:17,000
Throwing strikes to Danny Dreesen and Dreesen staying in and keeping it at 3-2 with foul ball.

1484
02:24:17,000 --> 02:24:19,000
Right hander cranking it up.

1485
02:24:19,000 --> 02:24:20,000
He works to the plate.

1486
02:24:20,000 --> 02:24:25,000
Dreesen gets his second walk that Figueroa has given up in this ninth inning.

1487
02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:30,000
Yogi Bear is coming out of the box and I'm certain that means that Figueroa's had it.

1488
02:24:30,000 --> 02:24:33,000
Yogi has now taken over the Yankee management.

1489
02:24:33,000 --> 02:24:40,000
Incidentally the banishment of Billy Martin is the first since all in the 60s.

1490
02:24:40,000 --> 02:24:45,000
Earl Weaver of the Baltimore Orioles another quick to temper manager.

1491
02:24:45,000 --> 02:24:59,000
Was removed from the premises and now Eddie Figueroa will leave.

1492
02:24:59,000 --> 02:25:09,000
And because we've got the right handers Foster and Betch coming up in that order it's highly likely that Dick Chidro will be the reliever for the Yankees

1493
02:25:09,000 --> 02:25:12,000
although he has not as yet made his appearance.

1494
02:25:12,000 --> 02:25:21,000
It's difficult to see because they come around in a sedan and you can't believe you tell until they get out of the car right down here within our sight.

1495
02:25:21,000 --> 02:25:24,000
But we do have a momentary halt at the top of the ninth.

1496
02:25:24,000 --> 02:25:26,000
There are no outs.

1497
02:25:26,000 --> 02:25:28,000
Perez on second.

1498
02:25:28,000 --> 02:25:29,000
Dreesen on first.

1499
02:25:29,000 --> 02:25:33,000
Both the result of walks by Eddie Figueroa.

1500
02:25:33,000 --> 02:25:39,000
Yogi Bear who has taken over the management of the Yankees with the banishment of Billy Martin moments ago.

1501
02:25:39,000 --> 02:25:45,000
Likely because of some calls at the plate by American League umpire Phil Deegan.

1502
02:25:45,000 --> 02:25:51,000
Although the heat has been from both betches almost equally the Reds have complained from time to time.

1503
02:25:51,000 --> 02:25:56,000
Perez himself complained on his time at bat in which he ultimately walked.

1504
02:25:56,000 --> 02:26:02,000
Both clubs have found fault with the umpiring at the plate in this particular game.

1505
02:26:02,000 --> 02:26:09,000
In fact that's the first time in the entire series that there's been any remonstrations about the umpiring at all.

1506
02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:14,000
In a way it's somewhat ironic that Billy Martin should be thrown out of this game by a National League umpire

1507
02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:22,000
because Marky Anderson told me earlier today that he had been told by other American League managers

1508
02:26:22,000 --> 02:26:31,000
that umpires in this league and the American League take a whole lot more from managers in the American League than they do in the National League.

1509
02:26:31,000 --> 02:26:37,000
And I know that the man who just threw Billy Martin out of here, Bruce Bremen, over the course of a National League season,

1510
02:26:37,000 --> 02:26:41,000
he's going to allow a manager to argue but he's only going to let him go so far

1511
02:26:41,000 --> 02:26:45,000
and if it continues he's going to be listening to the ball game on the radio from the clubhouse.

1512
02:26:45,000 --> 02:26:51,000
And as it turns out tonight Billy Martin is ejected the first time since 1969 when Earl Weaver was thrown out

1513
02:26:51,000 --> 02:26:55,000
and tonight it was done by Bruce Bremen, a National League umpire.

1514
02:26:55,000 --> 02:26:59,000
Well as I said, it had to be a long-range discussion because Martin was in the dugout.

1515
02:26:59,000 --> 02:27:05,000
Froming is the right field umpire and he was two-thirds the way up towards the bow line.

1516
02:27:05,000 --> 02:27:09,000
Whatever it was that Martin said, the wind was blowing in that direction because Froming heard it.

1517
02:27:09,000 --> 02:27:15,000
He made absolutely no question about what he had in mind. He waved his arms, you're out.

1518
02:27:15,000 --> 02:27:22,000
No discussions, no remonstrations about take it easy, no coming close and letting Billy jab at him.

1519
02:27:22,000 --> 02:27:27,000
He said, you're out. And then Martin jumped out of the dugout and headed for the umpire

1520
02:27:27,000 --> 02:27:31,000
and the other three umpires also headed for the field of battle and they interposed themselves

1521
02:27:31,000 --> 02:27:37,000
between the Yankee irate manager and the umpire who did it all and Martin has left

1522
02:27:37,000 --> 02:27:42,000
after throwing a towel in the dugout and he is now in the dressing room.

1523
02:27:42,000 --> 02:27:48,000
The situation on the ball field, the Yanks trailing 3-2 top of the night,

1524
02:27:48,000 --> 02:27:57,000
Perez on second, Griesen on first and Yogi Berra who's been on both sides of the league since.

1525
02:27:57,000 --> 02:28:01,000
He's been in the national league, he's a manager of the New York Mets and of course he was a manager

1526
02:28:01,000 --> 02:28:08,000
of the New York Yankees. They're in a World Series, he didn't win it against the St. Louis Cards as I recall.

1527
02:28:08,000 --> 02:28:15,000
Yogi who holds more World Series records than almost anybody in both the new and old Yankee Stadiums

1528
02:28:15,000 --> 02:28:23,000
is now managing or conducting whatever business needs to be conducted in this last half inning for the Yankees.

1529
02:28:23,000 --> 02:28:30,000
As we see him standing there in the dugout as Tibdo takes them out and Foster takes the batter's box.

1530
02:28:30,000 --> 02:28:35,000
Men on first and second, nobody out. Tibdo's second appearance in the series, he worked two innings

1531
02:28:35,000 --> 02:28:41,000
of two-hit shutout baseball in relief on Tuesday night. He's ready with a pitch to Foster and it's cut out

1532
02:28:41,000 --> 02:28:47,000
and hit in the air to center field. Mickey Rivers circling as Perez wants to tag and go to third.

1533
02:28:47,000 --> 02:28:52,000
The catch is made, here comes Perez toward third base and he's going to be uneasily sliding as Jim Mason

1534
02:28:52,000 --> 02:28:58,000
cut off the throw from Rivers, threw on to Nettles but not in time to get Perez. So the Reds once again

1535
02:28:58,000 --> 02:29:04,000
take advantage of the weak arms in the New York Yankee outfield with Perez moving up a base on the Foster

1536
02:29:04,000 --> 02:29:15,000
fly ball to Rivers. Danny Driesen holding his ground at first base and here's Johnny Bench.

1537
02:29:15,000 --> 02:29:20,000
The so far telling blow in this game, a two-round over on the left field in the fourth inning.

1538
02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:26,000
The Yankee infield will lay back a double play depth. Mason pulled in toward the hole at shortstop.

1539
02:29:26,000 --> 02:29:32,000
Tibdo will throw first to Shambles as Driesen steps back to the bag.

1540
02:29:32,000 --> 02:29:37,000
Driesen who's already tried one steal in the series and was cut down, I suspect is going to try to force things

1541
02:29:37,000 --> 02:29:43,000
by going to second and we'll have Monson with a quick look at third. Here's a pitch to Bench.

1542
02:29:43,000 --> 02:29:49,000
Swung on and hit to a deep left field. That might be a second of the game, it's gone, a home run.

1543
02:29:49,000 --> 02:29:54,000
Johnny Bench with his second home run of the night. The ball bouncing out of the stands in left field.

1544
02:29:54,000 --> 02:30:00,000
Roy White trying to decoy him but the left field umpire Lou DiMero was out there signaling home run

1545
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:06,000
and Johnny Bench has been the man of the hour for the Cincinnati Reds tonight as he homers for the second time

1546
02:30:06,000 --> 02:30:15,000
and the Reds now lead by four runs at six to two. That was a line shot right over the 387 foot mark

1547
02:30:15,000 --> 02:30:23,000
just over the bleacher wall, the retaining wall there. White did his best but he couldn't get to it.

1548
02:30:23,000 --> 02:30:30,000
That's the 24th time that a player has hit two home runs in a World Series game as Geronimo fouls off the pitch.

1549
02:30:30,000 --> 02:30:37,000
The man who holds the record for most homers in a game, George Herman Babe Ruth who hit three of them

1550
02:30:37,000 --> 02:30:44,000
on October the 6th 1926 and October the 9th 1928, he did it twice.

1551
02:30:44,000 --> 02:30:50,000
And somebody in Cincinnati told me earlier Marty that Johnny Bench has not had a particularly good year.

1552
02:30:50,000 --> 02:30:57,000
Well when I'll tell you, right now he's got to be the most valuable player in this 1976 World Series.

1553
02:30:57,000 --> 02:31:04,000
That one has fouled away and the count is one ball and one strike on Geronimo.

1554
02:31:04,000 --> 02:31:10,000
That a much different type of home run. Bench had a high powering drive that hit the screen on the left field foul pole

1555
02:31:10,000 --> 02:31:16,000
with Foster on the fourth and this one a low line drive that just got into the lower deck and left.

1556
02:31:16,000 --> 02:31:24,000
That one fouled out of play. This has been a catcher's series. Both men have been very effective, Monson and Bench.

1557
02:31:24,000 --> 02:31:31,000
Bench is allowed but a single stolen base. As you know Monson has had six straight hits but all of them singles.

1558
02:31:31,000 --> 02:31:37,000
Bench has had the two telling blows in this game. Gave the Reds the lead in the fourth inning with a two run homer

1559
02:31:37,000 --> 02:31:40,000
and now on the ninth with a three run homer.

1560
02:31:40,000 --> 02:31:48,000
Kidrow to pitch to Geronimo. Cut on and popped out of play. Off to the left and a holding count of one ball and two strikes.

1561
02:31:53,000 --> 02:32:01,000
You can close the book on Ed Figueroa. He goes eight plus innings, allows six hits, five runs, all earned with five walks and two strikeouts.

1562
02:32:01,000 --> 02:32:13,000
Three runs across, one out. Kidrow kicks and throws. Geronimo swings on a pitch out away from him and again bounces off to the left.

1563
02:32:13,000 --> 02:32:21,000
I suspect Marty you can leave all of statistics to the print media now, mostly the encyclopedias and the record books

1564
02:32:21,000 --> 02:32:25,000
because the Reds with a 6-2 lead still at bat on this ninth inning with only one out.

1565
02:32:25,000 --> 02:32:31,000
It's going to take the kind of a miracle comeback like the Philadelphia Athletics had against the Cubs in 29.

1566
02:32:31,000 --> 02:32:39,000
Geronimo hits one hard by Shambleson down the right field line going to the corner to play the ball as Oscar gambled

1567
02:32:39,000 --> 02:32:43,000
but the ball bounces up into the seats and Geronimo will get a ground rule double out of it.

1568
02:32:43,000 --> 02:32:49,000
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1569
02:32:49,000 --> 02:32:58,000
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1570
02:32:58,000 --> 02:33:02,000
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1571
02:33:02,000 --> 02:33:07,000
Of all season long and tonight in the fourth game of this World Series it has been no different.

1572
02:33:07,000 --> 02:33:13,000
Geronimo with a double following Johnny Bench's three-run home run that has the Reds out in front 6-2.

1573
02:33:13,000 --> 02:33:20,000
And it's Concepcion who's got a hit in two times up with a one. He swings and he misses.

1574
02:33:20,000 --> 02:33:23,000
Way out in front of an off-speed breaking ball.

1575
02:33:23,000 --> 02:33:31,000
I don't mean to indicate that it can happen but it has happened in that 1929 series.

1576
02:33:31,000 --> 02:33:36,000
The Athletics were trailing 8-0 and the A's came up and scored ten runs.

1577
02:33:36,000 --> 02:33:44,000
That went bounce to third base. That's a fair ball. It goes by to diving Greg Nettles.

1578
02:33:44,000 --> 02:33:48,000
That's going to get another run home as Concepcion rounds third and comes to the plate.

1579
02:33:48,000 --> 02:33:51,000
And that is another ball that has bounced up into the seats.

1580
02:33:51,000 --> 02:33:58,000
And another ground rule double for the Cincinnati Reds. Concepcion drives in a run. It's now 7-2 Reds.

1581
02:33:58,000 --> 02:34:03,000
And Yogi Berra is making his second walk to the Yankee Stadium mound in this ninth inning.

1582
02:34:03,000 --> 02:34:11,000
Nick Tidro simply did not have it as he has reached for a three-run blast to left field by bench

1583
02:34:11,000 --> 02:34:16,000
and then back-to-back doubles by Cesar Geronimo and David Concepcion.

1584
02:34:16,000 --> 02:34:25,000
And so Tidro is leaving as Yogi Berra, then his short stint as the manager pro ten of this New York Yankee club

1585
02:34:25,000 --> 02:34:29,000
makes his second trip in this inning to relieve his pitcher.

1586
02:34:29,000 --> 02:34:34,000
Tidro came on with two men on by virtues of bases on balls.

1587
02:34:34,000 --> 02:34:43,000
George Foster flied out to center field on the first pitch allowing Perez to lumber into third base.

1588
02:34:43,000 --> 02:34:51,000
Then speaking of lumber, Johnny Bench used his to best advantage a line shot just over the 387-foot mark

1589
02:34:51,000 --> 02:34:57,000
just above the leaping Roy White home run, his second of the game, to score three runs.

1590
02:34:57,000 --> 02:35:01,000
Then in rapid succession, Cesar Geronimo, a two-base hit,

1591
02:35:01,000 --> 02:35:09,000
Dave Concepcion another one by the diving Greg Neffels on the third baseline to drive home Geronimo.

1592
02:35:09,000 --> 02:35:16,000
And before you could say 1976, the Reds have scored four runs in this ninth inning.

1593
02:35:16,000 --> 02:35:21,000
There's still only one out and we're back at the top of a batting order with Peeve Rhodes.

1594
02:35:21,000 --> 02:35:26,000
The ninth inning, as Marty has indicated, has been a beginning for the Reds.

1595
02:35:26,000 --> 02:35:32,000
They won the second game that way. You remember, Griffey forced an error, got the second,

1596
02:35:32,000 --> 02:35:39,000
an intentional pass to Morgan, and Tony Perez a line shot on the first pitch to left center,

1597
02:35:39,000 --> 02:35:42,000
and the Cincinnati crowd went home happy.

1598
02:35:42,000 --> 02:35:47,000
Now we understand Brett Musburger's down there in the Reds dressing room.

1599
02:35:47,000 --> 02:36:00,000
Brett, what's going on down there?

1600
02:36:00,000 --> 02:36:07,000
Brett Musburger, are you down there in the Reds dressing room?

1601
02:36:07,000 --> 02:36:14,000
I guess you are, but whatever the mechanics are of the situation, we are unable to reach you.

1602
02:36:14,000 --> 02:36:20,000
So Brett, we'll have to wait until the end of the game because obviously it's going to be a champagne

1603
02:36:20,000 --> 02:36:26,000
for everybody in the Cincinnati Reds dressing room because unless we have a miracle,

1604
02:36:26,000 --> 02:36:29,000
I've been telling you about the Philadelphia Athletics coming up with ten runs,

1605
02:36:29,000 --> 02:36:34,000
the way the Reds are hitting the ball, the Yankees are going to have to come up with ten runs

1606
02:36:34,000 --> 02:36:40,000
in order to get back into this ball game. In the meantime, it's Sparky Lyle out on the mound for the Yankees.

1607
02:36:40,000 --> 02:36:47,000
He came in earlier in this series in relief, I believe, of Doyle Alexander.

1608
02:36:47,000 --> 02:36:51,000
He pitched two innings, allowed a single hit, and struck out free.

1609
02:36:51,000 --> 02:36:59,000
And so even in his short stint, he has been the most effective of the Yankee pitchers in this series.

1610
02:36:59,000 --> 02:37:08,000
Now things have quieted down. Sparky has taken his warm-up, but now they have another momentary haul.

1611
02:37:08,000 --> 02:37:13,000
The door is open to the left field exit.

1612
02:37:13,000 --> 02:37:18,000
A couple of bottles or something of concern to the ground crew has come out,

1613
02:37:18,000 --> 02:37:26,000
and they're up there recovering what's on the ground and about to close the doors just to the center field side of the 387-foot mark,

1614
02:37:26,000 --> 02:37:32,000
a spot which will be remembered for a long time as the spot that Johnny Bench hit his ball.

1615
02:37:32,000 --> 02:37:39,000
Here's Pete Rose, and Sparky Lyle gets the first pitch over on the inside corner, strike one.

1616
02:37:39,000 --> 02:37:43,000
Waks have hurt the New York Yankees and hurt them badly tonight.

1617
02:37:43,000 --> 02:37:47,000
Three walks have turned out to be runs for the Cincinnati Reds in this game.

1618
02:37:47,000 --> 02:37:52,000
Rose swings and misses at a high fastball, strike two. Morgan Waksen scored in the fourth inning,

1619
02:37:52,000 --> 02:37:58,000
and Figueroa walking Perez and Griesen here in the ninth inning. They both scored on Bench's home run.

1620
02:37:58,000 --> 02:38:02,000
Then came the Foster fly out to center, the only out of the inning.

1621
02:38:02,000 --> 02:38:08,000
Back-to-back doubles after Bench's home run by Geronimo and Concepcion made it 7-2.

1622
02:38:08,000 --> 02:38:12,000
Rose a ground ball to second, hit hard but right at Randolph. He throws to Shambles.

1623
02:38:12,000 --> 02:38:20,000
That's the second out as Concepcion moves to third base.

1624
02:38:20,000 --> 02:38:26,000
It'll be Ken Griffey, who's without a hit and four times up tonight.

1625
02:38:26,000 --> 02:38:38,000
Raleigh Eastwick is throwing for the Cincinnati Reds, while Ron Gidry and Doyle Alexander are loosening up for the New York Yankees.

1626
02:38:38,000 --> 02:38:43,000
Runner at third, two men out. Griffey grounds one to first. Shambles lays back plays.

1627
02:38:43,000 --> 02:38:48,000
He'll beat Griffey to the bag, and that's the inning. For Cincinnati, a big, big night.

1628
02:38:48,000 --> 02:38:57,000
They score four times on three hits. They strand one, and after eight and a half, it's the Reds' seventh, the Yankees' two.

1629
02:38:57,000 --> 02:39:10,000
So we're three outs away from the end of the 76th season, and the 76th World Series is the Reds jumping on a variety of Yankee pitchers in the ninth inning for four runs, including a three-run homer by Johnny Thatch.

1630
02:39:10,000 --> 02:39:23,000
Now are seven to two in the lead, and the first National League club since 1922 to win two World Series in a row, turning the tables on the 39 Yankees for doing it four in a row.

1631
02:39:23,000 --> 02:39:32,000
And we understand that the World Series hero, the most valuable player, has already been adjudged to be the guy that's hit the two home runs in this, the final game.

1632
02:39:32,000 --> 02:39:41,000
Mr. Johnny Thatch, I suspect Marky Anderson, however, postgame will say it belongs to all nine of them, including his pitchers.

1633
02:39:41,000 --> 02:39:47,000
Marty? Okay, we go to the bottom of the ninth inning as Will McAnany is back out there.

1634
02:39:47,000 --> 02:39:53,000
First pitch is swung on and fouled out of play. Otto Valdez is pitch hitting for shortstop Jim Mason.

1635
02:39:53,000 --> 02:40:02,000
Well, as Lynn pointed out, Johnny Thatch has already been named the 1976 most valuable player in this World Series.

1636
02:40:02,000 --> 02:40:06,000
The last checking is swing on a pitch away, one and one.

1637
02:40:06,000 --> 02:40:14,000
In all honesty, Marty, the Reds have not overpowered the Yankees at any point until this game, and only through the two home runs that Johnny Thatch is hit.

1638
02:40:14,000 --> 02:40:24,000
The one-one delivery, swing and a foul back. I would agree with that, but that is very small consolation when you get beat four straight.

1639
02:40:24,000 --> 02:40:34,000
Billy Martin has been talking about the blue pits that Cincinnati has had throughout the World Series, and at this point, I don't think anybody is going to really care about that as far as the Yankees are concerned.

1640
02:40:34,000 --> 02:40:40,000
Swing and a miss. McAnany came in with a breaking ball in on his fist and struck him out.

1641
02:40:40,000 --> 02:40:49,000
I think the hallmark in this series has been the utter lack of the New York Yankee hitting. They had their opportunities here until the ninth inning. They left three on and two on.

1642
02:40:49,000 --> 02:40:58,000
They've only had five extra base hits in all four games. You have to go with those two consequential home runs by Vance as being the big close of the series.

1643
02:40:58,000 --> 02:41:06,000
Absolutely. First pitch to Mickey Rivers is lying foul past the Yankee dugout, or Cincinnati dugout, along the third baseline.

1644
02:41:06,000 --> 02:41:15,000
Rivers has won for four. He has scored a run in the fifth inning. Red's relief pitching has been absolutely out of sight in this World Series.

1645
02:41:15,000 --> 02:41:22,000
They have now given up no runs in eight and one third innings. McAnany has pitched four innings of runless baseball.

1646
02:41:22,000 --> 02:41:32,000
Jack Billingham went two and two third innings of no-run ball, and Pedro Borbón did the same in an inning and two thirds. McAnany, he can get his second save in this World Series.

1647
02:41:32,000 --> 02:41:41,000
The strike one delivery of Rivers has come out in line to third. Rose has got it, two out.

1648
02:41:41,000 --> 02:41:51,000
That's the man who last year won the most valuable player in the World Series. Johnny Bench has done it in the 1976 edition, and the Yankees now come down to their final out as Roy White steps in.

1649
02:41:51,000 --> 02:41:59,000
And Pete was playing right in on Mickey's throat, and that ball came a mile a minute. He stuck up his glove, caught it, motioned to Mickey, and that was it.

1650
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:05,000
White takes the first pitch, ball one.

1651
02:42:05,000 --> 02:42:16,000
Cincinnati, an out away from sweeping the 76th World Series, White takes the pitch high, two balls and no strikes.

1652
02:42:16,000 --> 02:42:22,000
They would be the first to sweep since Baltimore did it over the Dodgers in 1963.

1653
02:42:22,000 --> 02:42:31,000
Swung on, high fly ball, the left center should do it. There's Foster, and the 1976 World Championship belongs to the Cincinnati Reds.

1654
02:42:31,000 --> 02:42:45,000
In the ninth inning, the Yankees are out in order as the Reds in this fourth game in sweeping. Billy Martin's New York Yankees do it decisively. Four in the ninth inning and a 7-2 final score.

1655
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Down in the Cincinnati locker room with Johnny Vance. Johnny, congratulations on that terrific performance.

1663
02:43:53,000 --> 02:44:01,000
Oh, it's been so long. Gosh, I can't tell you. It's been a rough year and I just tickled the devil.

1664
02:44:01,000 --> 02:44:05,000
Two-hole nut, Sammy, which one did you hammer the hardest? The first one?

1665
02:44:05,000 --> 02:44:08,000
I was talking about the second one. I really hit hard.

1666
02:44:08,000 --> 02:44:11,000
I was looking to drive the last guy and just hit the ball hard somewhere.

1667
02:44:11,000 --> 02:44:17,000
I can't imagine. I really feel it in all my years. This is the greatest thrill I've probably ever had.

1668
02:44:17,000 --> 02:44:22,000
You were voted the most valuable player and, John, you really deserve it. I'll tell you. Thank you.

1669
02:44:22,000 --> 02:44:30,000
You know, when you play with these guys and they've done the job all year and then you're able to do something just to, you know, make up for everything you haven't done all year,

1670
02:44:30,000 --> 02:44:33,000
this is a great inspiration for me and a great feeling.

1671
02:44:33,000 --> 02:44:40,000
John, not only are you a great athlete, but let me say that you set such a marvelous example for everyone who follows the game of baseball

1672
02:44:40,000 --> 02:44:45,000
as someone in the media who's had to deal with all kinds of athletes. There's no one finer than Johnny Vance.

1673
02:44:45,000 --> 02:44:46,000
Thank you. Thank you very much.

1674
02:44:46,000 --> 02:45:01,000
Thank you, John. Congratulations. Right now, our postgame show will continue in one minute.