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On August 12, 1971, the California Angels faced the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for a make-up doubleheader.
This is the local New York radio broadcast of Game 2 featuring announcers Phil Rizzuto, Frank Messer, Bill White, and Whitey Ford.
Hi everybody, this is Phil Rizzuto back at Yankee Stadium as we get set for the second game of this trinite doubleheader.
And in case you missed the first game, a brief recap. The Yankees won a 3-0 behind Fritz Peterson.
The Yankees had 3 runs, 9 hits, no errors. The Angels, no runs, 9 hits and 2 errors.
Fritz Peterson now has 1-12 and lost 7. And Rudy May, the loser, he has won 7 and lost 8.
The Yankees have now won 7 out of 9 and are 18-11 since the All-Star Break.
So they are really going great guns. And the Yankees scored their runs.
One in the first inning, Clavs single was sacrificed to second by Munson.
And Roy White drove him in with a single. And then in the third inning, with one out, Munson single and Mercer single, Roy White double a center fielder driving 2 runs.
So Roy had a hand in all 3 runs, driving in 2 runs and scoring 1.
The other run was driven in by Ron Swabota's ground ball with the bases loaded.
So that's the way the first game ended. And we'll be ready with the starting lineup in just a moment.
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Mickey Rivers will be in right field in that second. Rivers had a pinch at single in the first game. Ken McMullen will be at third base in that third. The number 4 hitter left fielder Billy Cowan. Cowan in left, went 2-3 in the opener.
Jim Fregosi at shortstop in his long layoff. Certainly he hasn't seemed to hurt his timing with the bat. He's had 4-7 in the first two games of the set.
Jim Spencer will be at first base batting seventh and playing center field Ken Berry. John Stevenson will catch. John had a couple of doubles out here night before last. He's 2-4 in the series.
And the pitcher will be Tom Murphy. Murphy a right-hander.
Now for the New York Yankees, Jerry Kenny will lead off and play third. Jake Gibbs batting second will do the catching. Bobby Mercer in center field hitting third. Roy White will bat clean up and play left.
Ron Bloomberg will be in right field and bat fifth. At first base, hitting sixth, Felipe Arlou.
Mark Sprague will be at second base and bat seventh. Clark has had a good series going four for nine. Frank Baker replaces Gene Michael at shortstop in the second game and will bat eighth. And the pitcher is Mike Kekich.
Kekich for the record at six and six. Tom Murphy has a record of six and 13. And now as you can hear, the Yankees take the field.
So it would appear that the California Angels are a little bit more vulnerable to left-hander pitching than are the New York Yankees. The Angels against left-handers have won only 14 while losing 23, including the first game of the series.
The New York Yankees against left-handers have won 20, lost 27. So the Yankees make that now 21 and 27 because they beat the left-hander Rudy May in the first game.
The Yankees against left-handers are six games below 500 against right-handers. They are seven games above. And it's been a long time since the Yankees were as much as two games above the 500 mark.
So it's right about right now. Yankees currently with a record of 59 and 58. Right now this is the New York Yankee baseball network. We pause for station identification.
WGY Schenectady, New York.
All right. I'm just looking back, Phil, to see when the Yankees were two games above 500. And so far I have not found it. I don't know. I don't believe they've been two games above 500 this year. Just a cursory look back through the records.
No shot at it right now. And Mike Kekich will try to do what his softball buddy, Chris Peterson, did in the first game. Although Kekich has not had a shutout this year. Come close twice. He certainly has the one hitter. He pitched a one hitter and lost it. The one hit was a home run. He lost the shutout. He won the ball game. But he'll settle for a win, I'm sure.
Ready for the first pitch in his bill. All right. Sandy Alomar up swings at the first pitch foul hit back. Strike one. Alomar starting 265. And in the first game he went two for four. Alomar with 132 base hits.
Switch hitting second base.
Kekich winds the pitch is fouled just to our right back on the screen. And it's 0 and 2.
On deck Mickey Rivets. Very exciting young ball player with the angels.
Beautiful, beautiful weather for the first game and for this second game. Pitch by Kekich is swung at and missed right grave. He went after a high fastball that took off.
Kekich gets a strike out, the first man he faces. And it'll bring up Mickey Rivets who in a pinch hitting role in the sixth inning of the first game, beat out a little tap in front of the plate. He can really fly batting 259.
That's Dan Batta. Holds the hand slightly apart on the bat. Swing and a miss of the curveball. Strike one. This is a kick that gets out of first base in three and one tenth seconds. I believe the same time that Mickey Mantle had going down the first at one time.
I don't think there's anybody that has ever done it any faster. Another swing and a miss strike too. That is really quick. I think I'm not a good mathematician but if you would project that over a mile it would be like running a three minute mile.
Sidearm curve. Pah just got a piece of it. He really had him fishing for that one. So Mike is throwing Mickey Rivets three different pitches. He has moved up on home plate now. Chokes up on the bat.
Wind up by Mike. Sidearm he held up and gives thought to that hit the corner was going to throw the third. But Mr. Schuyler says no ball one.
Mike ready again. Overhand is timing. Strikeouts in a row for Mike Tekes. What a difference it's made Frank with Mike when he's fairly regular in a turn.
That's right. Mike got a good second half especially a good final month or six weeks last year. That's why because he was pitching regularly.
Checkers continues to claim that if you put him in the starting rotation he'll be a winning pitcher for the Aggies.
Ken McMullen checks his swing and fouls it off strike one. McMullen in the first game went one for four. He doubled in the ninth inning. Ken batting two fifty four. Fifteen homers fifty runs batted in. On deck Billy Conn.
Second game just underway. Change up bounce the third one handed by Kenny and throws him out. Oh Jerry Kenny caught that ball without even looking at it.
Draw is three up and three down and at the end of one half inning the angels nothing and the Yankees coming to bat.
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Well now the California Angels take the field and the right-hander Tom Murphy is ready to work. Murphy has a record of 6 wins and 13 losses. He is making his 27th start of the year.
Comes into this ball game with a rather high earned run average of 4.01. And Jerry Kelly batting in the leadoff spot playing third base ready to lead off against the New York Bulls.
By Frank. Tom Murphy delivers a pitch to Kenny at strike one call. Jerry didn't get to bat in the first game. He went in to play third base in the last inning.
A long, lean right-hander kicks delivers, swinging a foul back on the screen.
Jerry hitting 249. No homers and 14 runs batted in.
Jackie's won the first game 3-0 behind Prince Peterson. The pitch low, one ball two strikes.
He's talking about Murphy being called and then he is. He's 6'3, 180 pounds. 25 years old.
Jerry relaxed and Kenny has the time just as Murphy started to wind up.
This is Murphy's second start against the Yankees. He pitched seven innings out in Anaheim, gave up three runs on 5'5 and struck out two.
A one hopper right back to the mound. Steven brought Murphy up with his flip to first base and there's one up.
Stevenson is doing the catching in his second game. And Jake Gibbs is catching the second game for the Yankees, steps in.
Jake hitting 200. No homers and 17 runs batted in.
The play gives just about straight away. First pitch is high, ball one.
On deck, Bobby Merson.
Merson in the first game went one for three. There's a pitch low, ball two, two, nothing to give.
Jake stands deep in the box, open stance.
Murphy winds and a pitch low and inside, ball three, three and nothing.
He's got a first start to the Yankees and Stan Barks in three to two.
All right, so he's been rough in his other start against the Yankees. The pitch right down the middle.
Three balls, one strike. Didn't have much on that pitch and Figgen Gibbs would be taking.
One delivery, ground ball to second base, Alomar one hand to wheels around, throws the first beautiful play by Sandy Alomar.
How he located first base at all is a mystery. He one handed it turned around and while he was turning through the first, took a base that away from him.
For a non-athlete, that's hard to do. Just try it sometime. Throw as fast as you can straight to your left, stop and turn around and pick out a target that's where.
Unbelievable. All right, here's Bobby Merson. Bobby went one for four in the first game and scored a run.
Riding three thirty-five, checks his swing on a low curve, ball one.
No score where in the bottom of the first inning. First game was a real fast game.
One-oh delivery, a curve in there this time, one-on-one.
Oakland beat the Red Sox nine to two swept the four game series up there and for all intents and purposes knocked the Red Sox right out of the penetrator.
One-one press, lined and a one hand grab by Alomar again. That ball was hit right on the nose. Alomar was going to leap then didn't have to just reach it up and got it.
Three up, three down. At the end of one full inning. It's California nothing and the Yankees nothing.
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Watch that time down. That is not the usual time for the pregame clinics here at Yankee Stadium. 1.15 though, this Saturday.
And the Yankees of course will be playing the Oakland A's.
Rundell scored the end of one inning and now we go to the top half of the second and Willie Cowan up there to lead things off. But this guy hits left hand pitching pretty good though.
He does. He went two for three in the first game against Fritz Peterson, a double and a single. And right now he's batting 320.
So Mike Kekich struck out two of the three men he faced in the first inning. The pitch is low ball one.
Willie Cowan, whose biggest trouble when he was in the National League and with the Yankees was striking out so often has cut down on the strikeout. There's a foul, the hook gives his net and back into the seats. It's one on one.
They play Cowan straight away.
Change up way out front strike two.
Cowan could not stop the swing. It was way out in front of the change up. A ball and two strikes.
Kekich takes his cap off.
Now gets the sign from Giddens.
Curve broken background to the second. Clock is there. Up with it over to first base in time.
One away. Hit him right on the hands with a curve ball. And it brings up Jim Fragosi.
Fragosi went two for four in the first game batting 204 with four homers and 17 runs batted in.
Jim Fragosi, who in some papers has been named as next year's manager for the California Angels. But of course denied by everybody. Pitch to Fragosi is high ball one.
On deck Jim Spencer.
This ball is over the outside corner one on one. You know when these stories come out it's bound to be a little upsetting to a ball player.
Oh, the ball? How about the managers?
There's a swing and a miss strike two. I know it has to bother Fragosi because it looks like something's been planted and maybe he had something to do with it and kind of feels awkward with the manager.
I'm not sure they explain things but you got to feel sorry for the managers. They got Preston Gomez and Bill Rigney and Lefty Phillips are ready to go.
Line to left field and Roy White coming hard makes the catch as he slides down on one knee.
And there are two out. A sinking line drive down the left field line. Two out.
Now to bring up Jim Spencer, the left hand hitting first baseman hitting 235. 14 on his 43 run spot.
And then Spencer went 0-4 in the first game. Peterson struck him out the left two times up.
Both in tough spots with two men on.
No score. Top of the second.
Mr. Spencer is high and tight ball one.
Leonard Coppett from the New York Times is the official scorer tonight.
And there's a second baseman hitting Spencer for a full hitter.
On deck Ken Barry.
Tigers are red hot. They beat Milwaukee 4-3. Mickey Lowledge won his 19th game of the year and they're now in second place. The American League East.
Curve is low. Ball three.
We're nothing on Spencer with two out and nobody on.
Last ball is in there. Strike ball. Kansas City shut out Washington 2-0 in the first game and Cleveland beat the White Sox 6-2.
The Mets lost the heartbreaker last night and 12 innings to San Diego 1-0.
The 3-1 delivery. Foul back and out of play. The upper deck.
You know, those Tigers have now won 13 out of their last 17 long.
Boy, they're starting to put it all together. And of course, it's not too late.
Baltimore had one bad streak there.
You never can tell.
And never give up.
Try to full count on Spencer. The payoff pitch. High, way high. First walk, first base run up to the Angels in their second ball game.
And it brings up Ken Barry. Hitting 2-0-4. Three homers, 19 runs, batted in.
Barry went 1-4-4 in the first game.
Stretched by Keckage. Last ball is in there. Strike one ball.
Felipe Alou at first base holds the bag against Spencer. Change up Luke in a shallow right field of being for a base.
Ronnie Bloomberg loses his cap but up with the ball in a hurry and holds Spencer at second base.
Right off the end of the bat and shallow right. The first hit off Keckage.
It'll bring up John Stephenson, the catcher, who did not play in the first game. Stephenson batting 2-50. Two homers, 23 runs, batted in.
Those Oakland A's couldn't have given Dick Williams a better present, Frank Menden, than winning four straights from the Red Sox who fired him.
That's very, very true. I know Dick's a heavy guy right about now.
His ball club coming in here to Yankee Stadium with a lot of momentum after the sweep up in Boston.
Boy, they really opened that race wide. Kansas City was very close to them there for a while.
But now they are 13 and a half games ahead of Kansas City.
All right, left hand hitting John Stephenson, choking way up on the bat. Runners at first and second, two out, no score, top of the second.
Frank Baker, bluff Spencer back to pitch his line to right field. Bloomberg though is there and reaches up, makes the catch.
It's right on the nose but right on Ronnie Bloomberg.
For the Angels, no runs, the base hit, nowhere as two men left.
And at the end of an inning and a half, it's the Angels, nothing in the Yankees, nothing.
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Well over in the National League, St. Louis at Pittsburgh just getting underway and St. Louis failed to score on the top half of the first.
Steve Carvin will pitch for the Cardinals in that game and Luke Walker for the Pirates.
It's the National League action tonight.
And Baltimore at Minnesota will be a later start.
Kansas City and Washington now scoreless in the bottom half of the second.
Clemens for Kansas City and the rookie Pete Wilberg for the Senators.
Frank Walwido had a perfect game in the first game.
A single and two doubles a walk, drove in two runs and scored one.
And has raised his average now to 289, takes a strike.
Murphy winds the pitch.
And what he's done is to go one through and come up with his throw to first, they got him.
Good play by John Stevenson.
Roy White had a little too much backspin on that ball.
It hit the ground and came back towards the catcher.
Fine play by Stevenson, won away.
And now the hand for Ronnie Bloomberg.
Ronnie did not play in the first game.
He's batting 343, four homers, 16 runs batted in.
He and Felipe Alou during the first game were down in the Yankee clubhouse practicing their swings.
Neither one played in the first game.
Alou is on deck.
Here's the pitch to Bloomberg.
Bounces slowly to first base now Alomar up with a flip to the pitcher covering just in time to get Bloomberg.
Good heads up play by Sandy Alomar and the pitcher, Tom Murphy.
So there are two out and now Felipe Alou hitting 274, four homers, 52 runs batted in.
Let's see, Felipe has got something going, hasn't he, Frank, with RBIs?
He certainly has. Felipe Alou has at least one RBI in his last seven and 12 of his last 13 games.
All right, two out, nobody on now. The pitch to Felipe is low, ball one.
He's had 16 RBIs in his last 13 game appearances.
All right, he and Danny Kader have been red hot in that RBI department.
They play Felipe straight away.
No score, bottom of the second.
Yankees won the first game three to nothing.
Murphy winds. The curve is inside, ball two, two and nothing.
No wind at all blowing, all the flags hanging just straight down, but it's a beautiful night, very comfortable.
The fastball is right in there, strike called, two and one. Hours clock on deck.
Murphy with one leg bent, takes a little too much time. Felipe Alou stepped out of it.
All right, the two-one delivery, just outside, three and one.
It's a tough pitch by Murphy.
The way he starts throwing the ball looks like a right-hand batter after trying to bail out of there.
He's going to throw it right at you.
Now the three-one delivery.
No ball for the Yankees, get their first-base runner of the ballgame.
And that's how the Angels did it with two out in the top of the second.
Spencer Wall and then Burry singles.
So now Horace Clark.
Horace in the first game was one for four.
Singles scored a run in the first inning.
Batting 244, two homers, 31 runs batted in.
Alou has three stolen bases.
Pitch to Clark, high and tight ball one.
Stevenson jumps out of there in a hurry with a runner on, ready to throw with every pitch.
On deck, Frank Baker.
Murphy sets.
Foul up his foot and right over the Yankee dugout, and that hurt Horace.
There's been a rash of them this year.
All doors off the toes.
And Mr. Schallach makes sure Clark feels all right.
Half-nights is it, so they're ready to go.
Spencer holds the bag against Alou.
Throw over there, Felipe back, good quick move by Murphy.
Murphy's set, there goes Alou, he had a running jump.
The throw is not in time.
I said it was a bad slide by Felipe, Fogosi pounding the ground with his glove.
Actually, Alou beat the throw there, but he's flying.
He stopped short of the bag and then he reached out with his hand to tag it.
And Fogosi had an arguing point, but he's safe at second at the stolen base.
Felipe his fourth of the year.
It's two balls and one strike on Horace.
Felipe actually had a running jump that time.
Look at Fogosi, he is still mad out there.
A lot of times the runner will beat the throw there, but sometimes the slide is not a good one.
Try two men out, the pitch to Clark outside with a curve, three and one.
No score, bottom of the seventh.
The stretch by Murphy.
There's the ground ball up the middle, base hit.
Alou is around third, he will score and the Yankees lead one to nothing.
And Ken Berry, almost a good play there.
He's blessed to throw home, hoping Clark would round the bag and go to second, but he did not.
So Horace Clark comes through with an RBI single and the Yankees lead one nothing.
And Jim Fogosi was really letting Art France, the second base umpire, have it again.
Oh yeah, he was rotting the time that ball went to Sutterfield.
Alright, so the Yankees got a break, capitalized on it.
And now Frank Baker, playing in place of Gene Michael, a stick getting a rest in his second game.
Baker batting 125, no homers, two runs batted in.
Quick throw to first and Clark dives back.
It's been a good series for Horace Clark, he's gone five for ten now.
Very good, he has 13 stolen bases on the air.
That was his 110th base hit of the year and 32nd RBI.
The stretch, check of the runner.
The pitch is sliced back into the crowd and out of play.
Strike one.
Horace Clark has 117 lifetime stolen bases for the New York Yankees.
And guess who he is tied with with 13th spot on the all-time Yankee list?
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No.
Babe Ruth.
Alright, here's the stretch, throw to first base and Clark is back.
Come on, I never picked your Babe Ruth, I never thought about Babe Ruth as a base stealer.
A lot of people didn't, you know, and he could actually run very fast.
I'll never forget seeing him when I was a kid, there at the stadium.
He had that, well it was an unusually shaped body that he had a tremendous chest, stomach,
and very thin legs like a racehorse.
The pitcher Baker is outside and it's one on one.
He also had a fine throwing arm.
I've seen him in films, you know, in our two-player force going back in those years.
It looked like he took very short steps.
He did, almost like Twinkle Soles.
By one ball, one strike, two outs.
Clark leads away, he's ready to go, but a quick throw to first he has to come back.
He had ideas that time.
And Spencer bluffs a throw and then reached back to tag Clark.
Not a trickery here tonight.
He missed the first game for both.
He stuffed a ball in his back pocket and tried to get Clark to move off the base.
Low and inside to a mark.
If I had met her, ask me, and that's a good question.
Suppose Clark stepped off the bag and for those he just backed into him and touched him with the ball in his pocket,
would he be out?
I would be inclined to say yes, but I've got to ask the umpire on that.
The pitch is hit in the air to left field.
Billy Cowan pounding the glove is right there.
Makes the catch.
But the Yankees do pick up a run on a base hit, no errors in a man left.
And at the end of two full innings, if the Yankees won, the Angels nothing.
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The ballgame will start at 8 o'clock.
Mel Stuttenmaier, who got rained out yesterday, will be pitching tomorrow night's ballgame for the New York Yankees.
This is the New York Yankee baseball network. We pause for station identification.
This is WGY, a generally metric broadcasting company stationed Schenectady, New York.
All right, Tom Murphy leads off against Mike Tekes.
The Yankees lead 1-0 top of the third.
The pitcher, Murphy, bounced over the head of Kenny McFarl.
A Baltimore chop over Kenny's head.
And there's Murphy batting 143, but he has 8 base hits.
Three of those hits doubled and 6 runs batted in.
It's a pretty good cut of the ball.
He has scored four times right down the end of the bat.
There's a fastball high, 1-1.
On deck, Sandy Alomar.
1-1 pitch. Curve swing and a miss. Strike two.
Package rocked back. Fastball is low, 2-2.
Mike has a good shot.
Mike has kind of a strange follow-through in his left leg, which is the back leg,
when he delivers, doesn't come all the way forward.
Kind of about halfway.
And that's high. Three balls, two strikes.
It leaves Mike in a good position, I would think, to field the ball right back up the middle.
Absolutely.
Although it is a little unusual, it doesn't bother him one bit.
The payoff pitch bounced to third base. Kenny knocks it down,
picks it up, the throw not in sight, throws it away.
And let's see, a fan touched it. He's going to be allowed to go to second base.
Now that was a tough race for the Yankees, because that ball would not have bounced into the box.
It would have hit the railing and bounced to Alou.
And let's see if they give him a hit and an error, or whether it will be a double error.
It could very well be.
Now they're going to give him a hit and an error.
An infield hit.
As Kenny, ranging far to his left, got the glove on the ball,
then picked it up barehanded and his throw way wide of Alou.
And when it hit the railing in the box, the fan reached over and grabbed it.
Yankees had two men there that could have made a play on him at second base.
Not only Alou, but Rodney Bloomberg had raced all the way in for Bryce Field, and he was backing up the play.
Well, that's good. I know he would not have gone to second.
Because he had run right straight down the line.
That's why Bob Shepard makes the announcement here, and that's why we tell you kids and fans sitting in that first row,
don't touch a ball in play unless it bounces into the seat.
By Sandy Alomar, struck out his first time up. Murphy at second, nobody out.
Alomar started a bug, thought he drew the bat back, but Nesta Shalek says no and a strike one.
It was a curve low, almost in the dirt.
Alomar wants to get Murphy over to third, where he can score on a base hit or a fly ball.
Murphy with the jacket on at second, stretched by Kekin.
Fitch swing and a miss, and he was trying to go to right field, oh and two.
On deck, Mickey Rivers.
Yankees out in front, one nothing here, top of the third.
Mike taking a long look in for the sign. He's ready now to the belt.
Fitch bounce to the shortstop, Baker to his right, Bob has the ball, can't make a play.
I don't know whether that hit cranked in the chest or the chin, but it'll be an error on Baker.
So consecutive errors by Kenny and Baker have run it to first and second with nobody out.
And Nevada Mickey Rivers, who struck out his first time up, and the Yankees will be looking for the butt now, and this kid can fly.
Mike has given up one walk in the ball game.
He's ready, and now the playoff pitch. Fly ball, that'll get a one-hole with Bloomberg going deep.
It's under it, makes the catch, and a throw comes in at second base.
Tagging up and scoring is Murphy, tagging up also from second and going to third is Alomar, holding at first is Rivers, and the score is tied.
1-1 on a long sacrifice fly to Bloomberg by Ken McMullin.
So Murphy scores, leading his own cause, and now Billy Cowan, who bounced his second his first time up.
That's what that speed will do for you. Alomar was able to tag up and go to third base.
And Billy Cowan, not too slow a foot. Yankees will really have to hustle to get that double play.
Runners at first and third, pitch to Cowan, strike one call.
On deck, Jim Fragosi.
Beckett checks the runners. Low with a curve ball, 1-1.
Yankees won the first game, 3-0.
Curve, hit in the air to not too deep center field, Bobby Mercer coming on, Baker's back, Baker makes the catch, Alomar, he does.
Oh, the copy that kept coming, he would have scored.
And going to second is Rivers, heads up play by Mickey Rivers.
Alomar tagged up, came better than halfway down the line. Had he continued, he would have scored.
Rivers tagged up, and when Baker's throw was high and Mae Gibbs came back to get it and reached high, he continued on to second base.
That was a break for the Yankees, Frank.
It certainly was, and as you said, it kept coming. There was no doubt that he would have scored.
Baker then saw him coming, realized he had hesitated too much, uncorked the ball in, and he was way wide on the plate with his throw.
All right, they're going to put Fregosi on, an intentional walk, and load him up for Jim Spencer.
They're going to give Baker an error on his high throw to the plate, allowing Rivers to go to second base.
Well, the Yankees have made three errors in this inning.
Here's Spencer of the batter. He walked in the second inning. The bases are loaded with two out the ballgame side, 1-1.
Frank Baker has been charged with two errors in this inning. Jerry Kenny won.
Mr. Spencer, line to right field, Bloomberg coming on and makes the running catch. Oh, that ball was hit on the nose.
Bloomberg got a good jump and caught it right in the breath there.
The Angels score one on two base hits, three errors by the Yankees, and three men left.
And at the end of two and a half, it's the Angels one and the Yankees one.
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All right, Mike Tekich will try to get something started in his own behalf here on the bottom half of inning number three with a score tied one to one.
All right, Frank, and Tekich is hitting 172.
Five for 29, no extra base hits, one run battered in.
Tom Murphy on the mound.
The pitch to Tekich is a curved swing and a missed right wide.
How do you like that, throwing a pitcher a curve on the first pitch?
Murphy's next pitch, another curve. Did he hold up? No, he didn't. It's strike two.
He tried to check the swing. Could not hold up in time, nothing in two.
All right, Murphy looks in for the sign.
Swing and a missed. Again he couldn't check the swing, took a half swing at it and he's out of there.
Tom Murphy picks up his first strike out of the ballgame, brings up Jerry Kenny who hit back to the box.
On deck, Jake Gibbs.
Kenny is a curve over, strike one, call.
The ball really breaks.
He's won the first game, three to nothing behind Fritz Peterson.
Another curve, bounce to second. Alomar gets a nice big hop.
Fires the first, two up.
And now Jake Gibbs. Jake was robbed of a base hit on a fine play by Alomar in the first inning.
Two men are out, all tied 1-1.
Pitch to Gibbs is over, strike one, call.
One strike delivery, low and inside, 1-1.
We'll give you a rundown of all the scores at the end of this half inning.
Swing and a missed, one ball, two strikes.
On deck, Bobby Mercer.
Murphy winds, curve, check, swing, ground. A nice play by Murphy over the shoulder.
Throws to first, Gibbs is out of there. Jake was trying to check his swing.
So the Yankees get down in order in the bottom of the third.
And at the end of three full innings, California won and the Yankees won.
On the scoreboard, Oakland beat the Red Sox 9-2 swept a four-game series from them.
Diego Seguerre the winner and Ken Brett the loser. Tatum and Scott Homan for the Red Sox.
Tatum is a pitcher in first of the year, but Scott is 19.
Kansas City shut out Washington in the first game 2-0, Wright the winner and Schellenbach the loser.
Second game, no score at the end of two and a half, Nelson against Groberg.
The Tigers beat Milwaukee 4-3. Mickey Lowlis winning his 19th of the year.
He's lost a Tatum the loser. Cleveland beat the White Sox 6-2.
Fourth to the winner, Wood the loser, LaVacqua home, and Baltimore and Minnesota later on.
The Mets took San Diego later tonight. Pirates 2-0, Carpenter 2, Carpenter against Walker.
Philadelphia at L.A. later on. Atlanta 5-0, Houston 1 at the end of an inning and a half.
Blasting game against Reed, and those are the only games scheduled.
Here the score is 1-1 as we get ready for the top of the fourth inning.
And just arriving from TV, all ready, all dressed in blue, ready for Sunday.
And vital blue is Bill White.
Hi Phil Rizzuto. See Kenny Barry will lead off for the Angels in the fourth.
Score is tied 1-1.
And I tell you the Yankees are quite fortunate to come out of that last inning after three years.
Yes.
Just allow the Angels one run. Barry's one for one. He's single to right field.
Kenny a right-handed hitter.
Looped the ball in the right field first time up.
Techich is ready. A breaking ball gets the outside corner.
Mike's ready again and a big windup. Over the head the 0-1 pitch. Another breaking ball. Bounced to third.
Kenny with the big hop. Long throw to first. It's high, but a little hazard for the first stop.
With one out, the catcher, John Stephenson steps in.
Stephenson fly the right field his first time. John is batting left-handed.
See, lefty Phillips has Mickey Rivers, a left-handed hitter.
Spencer, a left-handed hitter. And John Stephenson there against the left-handed throwing Mike Techich.
Alomar switches.
First pitch, the breaking ball. Bounced to first base. Alou furloughs it, but he'll have time.
He tosses to Techich covering first. And they're two outs.
That's a good part of playing first base. All you got to do is get in front of him and knock him down.
It's a pitcher's job to get over there.
That's right. And if you've got big shins, I remember Kozuski every once in a while would stick his shin out there to knock a ball down.
That would hurt me, but he was so big.
Johnny Mize, too, stick his foot out, knock it down, reach down, pick it up, and throw to the pitcher.
Ah, here's Tom Murphy, the pitcher. Murphy got an infield hit his first time.
And he scored the only run for California. Murphy bats right-handed, takes down low.
Can he feel that the ground ball drew under the seats? Two balls and no strikes. Inside.
Murphy backs on, out looks down at Rocky Bridges, coaching his third.
This guy looks like he can hit.
The pitch to him, swung on, popped up, and pound territory behind the plate.
Murphy throws the mask away, and he's under and grabs it for the third out. So an easy inning for Mike Kekich.
He gets the Angels out, three up, three down.
And for California in the fourth, no runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on up to three and a half.
New York Yankees one, California Angels one.
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Tommy Mercer will lead off the last half of the fourth inning for the Yankees with the score five, one, one.
Mercer lined the second base, his only time up.
Tom Murphy, all right hander, on the monitor California, Murphy six and thirteen.
Mercer leads this ball club with 71 runs batted and also with 21 homers.
Takes the ball on the first pitch and takes it outside a ball that brought McMone the third base and moving in quickly.
Also Jim Spencer, the first baseman. Outfield plays Mercer deep and around toward right.
There is a gap in left center field as Billy Cowan plays straight away and in shallow left field.
One old pitch, breaking ball, down low.
Yankees picked up their run in the second. Angels tied it up with a run in the third.
Where it is now, one, one.
Mercer lines out base up center field. Bobby Nye one for two.
And he stops at first base and that will bring in Roy White.
Only the Yankees second base into the ball game against Murphy.
Clark single back in the second drove in a lose with stolen second base.
For the only other hit the Yankees have.
Ah, here is White. He tried to front first time but didn't get the ball out far enough and Stevenson catches it and throws him out at first.
Down low ball.
Yankees have now won 59 games of lost 58 as Peterson shut out California 3-0 in the first ball game.
Murphy looking at Stevenson. Now he comes to the bell.
Mercer leads from first.
Pitch popped up over near the Angels dugout. Stevenson after it.
He is near it, can't get to it. It's on top of the dugout.
Both Stevenson and Ken McMullen, the third baseman, were there.
Ball fell just out of reach.
So it's a ball and a strike going White.
Let's see, the same with Cardinals. They're leading the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 at the end of two and a half innings.
So the Cardinals came up with three runs and they're half of the third.
Pittsburgh is going into a little tumble over there.
One went pitched out of White, popped up towards center field. Barry stands and now he comes in a couple of steps.
Waits on the ball and he has it for the first out.
Throw White now over two. That's the first out here in the fourth.
Bring in Bloomberg.
Bloomberg fouls to the second baseman, Alomar, who tosses to the pitcher Murphy, covering his first time up.
That was back in the second inning.
Ronnie bats left-handed, stands close to the plate, has a closed pass.
Now he backs off a bit.
Mercer leads from first.
First pitch is fouled off.
He's going to do fastball, looks like Bloomberg is going to carry to left field.
Score is tied, 1-1, last of the fourth.
Mercer takes the lead from first.
This guy's got a quick move over there.
He's stepped towards first, but he just throws across his body. Now Bloomberg walks back south.
No balls to strike, one out.
Mercer's checked it first.
Pitch to Bloomberg. Inside, a ball and a strike.
A lay-aloo in the on-deck surface.
All these angels pitchers seem to take a lot more time when a runner gets off.
There's a throw to first.
Mercer is back.
Murphy deals to the plate.
That's called no pitch.
Time was called as Bloomberg backed out.
Now Shylock, now Shylock, now talking to the John Stevenson.
You know what I think happened is Ronnie was swinging his bat back.
He tipped to catch his glove.
Now if he had been doing that while he was swinging, he would have been awarded first base.
Right.
So it's 1-1 still. That was no pitch.
A ball and a strike on Bloomberg. One out. Mercer at first base.
Force tied 1-1. We're in the last of the fourths.
Murphy now to the belt.
1-1 pitch to Bloomberg. Swung on, driven towards center field.
Just didn't get it. Got up under it too much.
Sky deep out there. Barry waits on it and grabs it.
Mercer starts to second, but he'll hold up.
They're two outs.
And Alou steps in.
Alou walked back in the second inning. His only time up still second.
He scored on Clark's single up the middle.
The Yankees only run.
Felipe hasn't been up officially yet, although he has scored a run.
First pitch to him is down low. Breaking ball.
Outfield straightens up for Alou. He sprays the ball all over.
Is that right field? The river's a little bit way out there at right field.
He's near the track. Now he comes in a little bit.
He's playing Alou like he should be playing Mercer.
The river is also moving toward the line a bit.
There's a gap now a little bit in right center.
Murphy checks Mercer first.
Looks at him again.
1-0 pitch to Alou. Popped up, and that'll be in the seat foul behind old Blake.
Ball in the strike.
Spencer, the first baseman, holds Mercer there.
Bobby has stolen 11 bases for the Yankees so far this year.
White has stolen 11. In fact, Roy's next stolen base will be his 100 of his career.
1-1 pitch to Alou. There goes Mercer.
Inside, throwing the second. He's called out.
Davis has got the ball down on one bounce to the second baseman, Aloumar.
Perfect bounce. Aloumar grabbed it and put it on a sliding Mercer.
So Mercer's going out from 2-4 for the third out for the Yankees.
And the fourth. No runs on one hit. No errors. Nobody left on base.
At the end of three, four innings of play, the New York Yankees won.
The California Angels won.
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That one bounce skips off the grass of the AstroTurf and gets there quicker, I think.
That was right there, one bounce right into Alomar's hand.
He put it right on Mercer and Alomar will lead off the first of the fifth for the Angels.
Takes the ball.
Alomar's over two. He struck out first time. Got a on an error by the shortstop baker in the third.
What's standing at third there, though?
Kick it. One old pitch almost hits him inside. Two balls and no strikes.
He's short enough for Alomar. Alomar's switch hitter.
Kenny, the third baseman, is in even with the bag at third.
Alou is maybe a couple of steps behind the base pass there at first.
Outfield is in shallow also. That fastball fouled off.
That'll be over the Yankee dugout and in the upper deck on that side, on the right side.
Alomar's a pesky little hitter. He has 132 hits. He scored 36 runs for the Angels.
You're even in 36, hitting just over 260.
Pitch to him. Sky towards center field. That should be easy for Mercer.
Probably loses his hat, but he waits for it and grabs it for the first time.
This is the New York Yankee baseball network. Let's pause for station identification.
This is WGY, a General Electric Broadcasting Company station, Schenectady, New York.
Here's Mickey Rivers with one out. Rivers batting left-handed.
103 left-handed hitters against Skaggage. He's one for two.
Got a bunch single in the third inning. Swings on a high fastball and misses it.
Now look at this Yankee and feels short enough.
Kenny's way in on the little cut curve there at third base. So's Alou.
They're going to take a bunt away from this fellow. Swung on and missed. No balls and two strikes.
Rivers got into the first ball game and got a bunch single as a bench hitter.
He got a bunt base hit in this ball game. Yankees taking the bunt away from him.
The O2 pitch goes. Fastball popped up and foul third quarter of the Yankee dugout.
That ball's going to be out of play. Gibbs is after it, but it's at least 10 rows back.
Still no balls and two strikes on Rivers.
You know, Phil, if this guy can run from home plate to first in 3.1 seconds, Mano was dived at 3.2.
That means he can get there faster than Mickey. Yeah.
And Mickey could really fly when he was younger.
He does get that little quickie jump at the plate.
Took Mickey a little while to get started, but once he did, he could fly.
Sidearm curveball misses one and two.
He scores tied 1-1 when the top of the fifth went out and nobody on.
Line drive, right field, foul right outside the line. That's missed by about a foot.
That was a breaking ball. Rivers hung with it and lined it past Alou,
who was on the right side of the right field line.
And the first base on fire, Don Dinkinger, waved it foul.
California has one run on three hits. Yankees have one run on two.
Yankees ready with the 1-2 pitch. Best ball popped up and foul territory.
Kenny, the third baseman, fouls for it. Waits on it and has it.
Two outs now as Rivers fouls off to Kenny.
And here's Ken McMullen. McMullen 0-1. He bounced the third first time up.
And his sacrifice fly to right field, Joe Ginn the pitcher, Tom Murphy,
back in the third inning for the Angels only run of this ballgame.
McMullen now has 51 runs batted in for the Angels. He leads them in that category.
Spencer, the first baseman, has 43.
McMullen, the big right-handed hitter, chokes up on the bat just a little.
May play him straight away. Gaggage is ready over the head. Curve ball misses outside.
Billy Cowan on deck.
1-0 pitch. Breaking ball held up. Two balls in those strikes.
McMullen had ideas but got the bat back.
Yankees won the first game 3-0 behind Pritz Peterson.
Pritz won his fourth game of the year. He's lost seven.
2-0 pitch now. Ball strike. Best ball.
Two balls in the strike to McMullen.
Pritz had to do a lot of pitching that last inning to keep the shutout going, but he got out of the inning.
High ball three. Three and one.
The Angels put the first two men on, but Peterson got the next three out.
To preserve his victory, his shutout is victory number 12.
3-1 pitch now. Head on low ball four.
Gaggage loses them and McMullen jogs on down the first base.
That's the third walk given up by Gaggage. He's lost one man intensely. That was Pogosi.
Cowan's ahead of Pogosi on the on-deck serve. Billy's 0-2. Bounce the second and pop the short.
Cowan having a good year for the Angels.
Over 300. He came into the ball game batting 320. He hadn't been up that much. Only 127 times.
He has 40 hits. First pitch to it.
Curve ball is one on a miss.
Now on a good high fastball here.
In fact, he could drive that high fastball a long way.
McMullen not a threat to steal, but a little holes in the course with two outs.
Here's the 0-1 pitch to Cowan. Fastball almost hits him inside. He makes him skip rope a little bit.
1-1. Gaggage looks quick.
Looks like he has a good fastball.
Stuck out the first two men he faced and hasn't gotten another one. Looks like he has a good fastball tonight.
Now it comes to the belt. Checks McMullen at first.
Pitches down low in the dirt. Two balls and a strike.
Oakland this afternoon beat Boston 9-2.
Kansas City be watching 2-0. The first game was a double header.
Washington leads the second game 2-0 at the end of 3 over Kansas City.
2-1 pitch to Cowan. Pull on and fouled off. A breaking ball. Counts even 2-2.
So Washington looks to be quick with Kansas City leads the second game 2-0 at the end of 3.
The Detroit Tigers with Mickey Lowich winning number 19 beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3.
Cleveland beat Chicago 6-2. And Baltimore is up in Minnesota.
The game should just about be getting underway.
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Kirkball, fouled on and missed. Stuck him out. So Gaggage picks up strikeout number 3.
And that's it for California in the fifth. No runs, no hits, no errors. One walk and a man left on.
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Well, Lou gets another shot at Murphy in the Yankees' half of the fifth.
The Lou was up when Mercer was cut down trying to steal a second in the fourth.
Leap Phase 2 hasn't had an official time-up. Takes the ball low and away.
Now Lou walks over the base and scores on Clark's single back in the second inning.
Score is tied 1-1.
Murphy's ready. The right-hander deals.
Down low, ball two.
Lou started a swing, but held up. Now he looks down at Hauser.
It says, let's go, swing the bat.
Felipe wearing glasses.
Stands deep in the box, slightly closed pass.
That helped almost straight up and down over the right shoulder.
He almost hits him inside, 3-0.
Murphy walked to Lou the first time.
Tom's also struck out a batter.
Let's see, here's a 3-0 pitch. Will he hit out? No, he's going to take it.
It's Carl Streit.
Or it's Clark on deck.
Murphy looks in to Stevenson.
Over his head, 3-1 pitch. Popped up towards shallow center field.
Barry's hurrying in. Can he get through? He's still running in.
Dives, gets to one-handed, ball falls out.
A little boy in the second base. He is out there.
Felipe hustling around first base.
Well, and in the second, I believe Alomar, the little second baseman,
picked the ball up after it got out of Barry's glove and threw the second,
the Fregoti covering, to get a Lou.
So give a Lou a single to center.
He's out from four to six as he tried to stretch it into a double.
A Lou hustling all the way just was nipped at second base.
I tell you, if Alomar hadn't been out there, Lou would have been at second.
Because Barry was on the ground. Yep.
All right, here's Clark, off one for one with an RBI.
In fact, I think Alomar, for those of you who could have got that ball.
Oh, yes, they gave up too quickly on him.
Now the 0-1 pitch to Clark. Swung on, fouled off, held by the catcher,
he was in the balls and two strikes.
Well, Baltimore at least leads one of them over Minnesota.
Conn Buford got his 16th home run in the first inning up there.
Almost hit him inside. Just missed the house.
One ball and two strikes. Clark batting left-handed against Murphy.
All right in. Four-side, one-one, with the last of the fifths that went out.
One-two pitch is nuked out in the left field. That might be trouble.
Cowan cannot get to it, falls in front of him. So Clark, two for two.
Also on the first base with this second base hit of the ball game and the Yankees' fourth.
That'll bring in Frank Baker, the shortstop. Baker flies to left first time up.
He's playing for Gene Michael, Michael being given a rest the second game.
Gene played the first game. The Yankees won 3-0 behind Peterson.
Throw the first. Clark is back.
Tell you, this Murphy really throws over him and Clark gets it first.
House must have stolen quite a few bases off of him.
Now he stretches. Swung on. Miss.
No ball from the strike.
Clark has 13 stolen bases on the air.
Murphy looking in at Stevenson.
Now he comes to the big stretch. He'll one pitch inside a ball, one-on-one.
Jim Spencer's holding Clark at first.
The angel outfield not too deep.
Now Billy Cowan in left. Kenny Barry in center. Vicki Rivers in right.
Now Murphy comes to the belt. Quick throw to first. Clark dives back.
And Spencer had it go over toward Clark to get the ball and jumped over.
That ball gets loose on that right field line. House will end up at third.
Now the stretch again. Clark leads.
One-one pitch. Bounce over the mound. Fagosi has it. Tag second. Throw to first. Double play.
So Baker bounces into a quick double play and the angels come out of the inning with no runs on one hit.
No errors and nobody left on base.
No runs on two hits. I'm sorry. There were no errors and nobody left on.
So at the end of five, the New York Yankees won. The California Angels won.
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What did I say? The score was 5-5? The score, well it's tied but it's 1-1.
You know a lot of times I'll say something to somebody and say you know what you said and I'll say I don't believe it.
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Jim Fregosi will lead off now on the 6th for the Angels.
And he pops the first pitch up and fouls territory. Gibbs over towards the first baseline.
Waits on it and grabs it. So Fregosi cuts on the first pitch and he fouls out to the catcher, Jake Gibbs.
That'll bring in Jim Spencer. Spencer's over one. He's walked and lined the right field.
I tell you this guy really scares you the way he swings the bat. It doesn't make any difference if it's a left hand or a right hander's throw.
He gets some shots in the first game and one in this game.
He's only batting 235.
Left hander against catcher is the left-handed throw. They play him to pull.
First pitch is down low. Gibbs blocks it. Goes up in the air.
Spencer, what game do you play here at Cain?
The Hurst-Santelot game. When he was still in high school, huh?
He likes his stadium. High ball too. I understand he don't run that game. Just a kid.
Jim Spencer.
Checkers behind now. Two balls and no strikes. Mike deals a 2-0 twist.
Fastball popped up. Straight back. Foul. Out of play.
Atlanta leads Houston 6-1 at the end of 2.
The Metro on the coast. They're playing the San Diego Padres.
See where your old buddy Yogi Barrow's mentioned there's a possible manager out there at San Diego Padres.
Yes, I saw that. I know Yogi wants to manage, but that's a little far away.
Second ball misses inside. 3-1 on Spencer.
Well, nobody on. We're the top of the sixth. Score's tied 1-1.
Kekich is ready. Fastball popped up toward first base in foul territory. A loop.
Right near the wall. Backs up and grabs it for the second down.
Two out. Both on foul pops.
For goal, he fouled out to the catcher. Spencer out to the first baseman.
That'll bring in Kenny Berry, the center fielder.
Berry a right-handed hitter. He's 1-2. Single the right and bounce the third.
Kekich is ready now. First pitch to Berry. Forward center field. Deep to center field.
Mercer cruises to his left. Waits on it and grabs it with one hand.
Well, that's it. Kekich gets the Angels out. Three up and three down.
So at the end of 5-1 half, the score's still the same. The Yankees won. California Angels won.
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Mike Kekich will lead off with the Yankees in the last of the sixth. This is the second time Kekich has led an inning off. He led the third off and struck out.
Mike Battingly handed against Murphy. Murphy's down low with a ball.
They give Kekich a lot of center field, straight away center.
Nicky Rivers is playing him near the line and then shot on right field. Barry's in right center and then shot down low ball too. Left fielder counts straight away and he's in behind the shortstop for Gosey almost.
There's quite a bit of room in dead center field for Kekich.
There's a 2-0 pitch to him now.
Ball 3 high.
3-0.
He's going to have to take this and he doesn't even bother to look at Houser. He knows the sign that he'll get. It'll be red. Stop. Do not swing.
Better not swing because it's 50 bucks.
Then he takes a strike.
He does not look at Houser again. Now he takes a peek at him. Mike will probably take this pitch too.
Murphy's ready. Here's a 3-1 pitch.
And it's taken. Ball falls right too.
Full count now on Kekich.
Mike wants to get on any way he can.
So he took Murphy all the way. Here's a payoff pitch.
Stopped out in the shallow right center. Grabbed by the second baseman Alomar.
That was a little humpback line that Alomar hustle out in shallow right center field and grab.
There's one out.
Mike went as far as he could with Murphy before flying to the second baseman.
Here's Jerry Kenny. Kenny's 0 for 2. He's bounced back to the pitch and he's bounced to the second.
4-5. 1-1 with the last of the 6. Yankees won the first game 3-0.
First pitch now to Kenny. Breaking ball misses inside.
Now time is up. Jake Gibbs on deck.
1-0 pitch. That ball gets the outside corner.
1-1. Upfield straightens up. They play straight away for Kenny, not too deep.
Dallin still in close in left field. River's not too deep in right field.
Kenny backs out again and calls time.
Murphy looking in at Stevenson. Right hander deals the 1-1 pitch.
Line drive left field. Can Cowan get to it? Yes, he's right there. Grabs it.
One time Billy Cowan playing perfectly left field. Made about five quick steps in.
Grabs Kenny's line drive and there are two outs.
We're playing Jerry close all over.
Jerry hits the ball well but right at Cowan. That'll bring in Gibbs.
Gibbs is also 0-2. He's bounced a second, bounced back to the pitcher.
Yankees only have four hits.
Mercer has a single.
Alou has a single. And Clark has two singles.
Gibbs cuts on the first pitch to break the ball. Flings through it. No balls in the strut.
Two outs and nobody on. Four tied, 1-1.
Yankees are batting in the sixth. Bobby Mercer on deck.
Breaking ball bounced toward the first baseman's center. He'll have it easily, such as the play of bags.
And that's it for the Yankees.
Gibbs bounces out of center on his distance. For the Yankees in the sixth.
Three men up and the three men down.
So at the end of sixth, full inning to play. The Yankees have one run on four hits.
They've made three errors.
California Angels have one run on three hits. They've played errorless baseball.
Looking at the scoreboard, Oakland beat Boston 9-2 this afternoon.
Diego Osegi was the winner. The loser, Kenny Brett.
Home run, Tatum for Boston. And Scott got his 19th in the seventh.
So Oakland 9-2.
The Hurricanes have a doubleheader. Kansas City shot Washington 2-0.
Right to winner, Sheldon Fox, the loser.
In the second game, Washington leads 2-0 at the end of 4-1.5.
This afternoon, Detroit moves into second place in the American League East by edging Milwaukee Brewers 4-3.
Mickey Low is what his 19th game. He's lost eight. Marty Patton was loser.
This afternoon, Chicago beat Chicago lost to the Cleveland Indians.
Cleveland 6. Chicago 2. Foster the winner, Wood, the loser.
Baltimore leads Minnesota 3-0 at the end of half an inning.
Buford got a 16th home run and Merv Redeman his tenth.
All the games in the National League are at night. New York to San Diego.
St. Louis 3. Pittsburgh 2 at the end of 5. Philadelphia's out of L.A.
Atlanta 7. Houston 1 at the end of 3-1.5.
So the Williams got his, no that's not good, that's their old ways.
Got his 20th home run for Atlanta and the fourth was one-on.
Those are the only games scheduled. Schedule in now with us.
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Okay Bill White, thank you very much and good evening once again.
Here's the catcher, John Stevenson, to lead off the seventh inning for the California Angels.
He's a left-handed batter. Really spreads out in the batter's box.
Swings in the first pitch, pops it up.
Down the first baseline, ball territory, a loose ball is caught and makes the catch.
Jake Gibbs was bound against it and a loose ball, he lost the ball.
So there's one away on one pitch.
And here's Tom Murphy, the pitcher.
Murphy had an infield hit.
Went to second on Kenny's throwing error and went to third.
Scored on McMullen's sacrifice fly in the third inning.
And he fouled out to Jake. He's one for two.
Pitch time. Change out for a strike.
Jenkins has got a good change of pace tonight.
Out of the left field, not too deep.
Coming hard is White. He's in on one makes the catch.
Andrew, two down.
About an hour will be Sandy Alomar.
Alomar's truck out, reached out an error by Frank Baker and flied to center.
He is 0 for 3.
Right hand hit it.
Against left hand pitching, Alomar is a twitch in it.
Wings in the first pitch, Bob, all the better.
Mercer backs off, he's under it, glove up, makes the one-hand catch over his head, and the side is retired.
And that is the easy of turning so far for Jenkins, who has now retired seven men in a row.
Nothing across for the California Angels at the end of 6 1 half. The score, Yankees 1 and California 1.
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine, nine.
Well, this ball game is the last time the Angels will be in Yankee Stadium this year.
But the Oakland A's come in right after these people.
The Oakland A's will be in tomorrow night, Saturday afternoon, and then bright of blue on Sunday.
All fans with the last name of PLUE, you can prove it, will go to the Blue Booth and they'll get in Grandstand Reserve seat.
All right, Frank Mercer.
Bobbie Mercer will lead off the bottom half of the seventh with the accolades of the 12, the pitch guard's long on a missed strike line.
Mercer keeps shaking his right hand. Looks like he's got his tape now, Bill.
He's got a little bit of a flaster down there and he's a heavy. He does have a piece of tape on him. That hand has bothered him a lot in the double header.
All right, the crowd has come to the right here in the bottom half of the seventh.
Wide out and here's the pitch to Mercer. One ball, one strike.
Wide right, handling right hand and real loose out on the ground.
He's got a little bit of a soft breeze came along and blew him over.
Here's Ray, really looks relaxed. That's the one. That's the kick of the pitch. Ta-da!
And he pops up and is channel left center. Billy Cowan's coming in for it. He's under it so let's see how they're there next weekend.
Now Mercer is retired. The batter will be Roy White.
He's filled out by Stevenson, running for base and leading out for second. Then he's flat on the center field in the fourth so Roy is over two.
Just in as a left hander against the right hander, Tom Murphy.
Murphy, left leg bad. He's got his toe over his left foot. It's like he's just resting on the ground.
There's the pitch that he's got on and it's right back to the pitch where the barrel into the bat went all the way down to first base.
As it throws completely in half and White is thrown out. Murphy to Spencer at first.
Spencer at the ball coming from the mound, the bat coming at him from the plate.
This is the New York Yankee baseball network. We pause for face and identification.
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Ron Bloomberg's about in the mound. The first pitch to him is going out and bowled back off the jump protector of Mr. Schallert.
Right wide.
Door-tied one to one. The Yankees won the first game three to nothing behind Griffin Peterson.
Peterson scattered nine hits to pick up his second shutout.
This is 12-3.
First-second on 12.
Wind up on the own watch. Way outside.
Peterson has now one-twelve and lost seven. He has won his last six decisions.
Now Murphy keeps the ball in the glove. Now takes it out. Hides it behind the right leg.
Starts to widen it. And the pitch. Outside.
The hitter gets just as good for the baseball as Murphy brings his right hand around in the wide net.
The ball looks at the baseball. Goes to slam.
Rips for a good breath behind the pitcher's rubber.
And he's two-and-one delivery.
Wide out the center field, but there he is right there and he makes the catch.
That ball was knuffling a little bit going out toward Barry.
The Tigers retired in order. And now seven Yankees in a row have gone down since Clark's base hit in the fifth.
The second draw at the end of seven is the Yankees won the Angels' watch.
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Last American night, Tuesday, September 7th, it'll be at 8 p.m.
The Red Sox will be in.
And of course, Philippe Lui with the Yankees are from San Domingo.
And then Mononso said he's going to come in, then he's playing down in Mexico.
He is still playing, I mean, yeah.
And then he's a 50-diner managing and playing first base.
Maybe Resudo is right about first bases.
Hi, Mickey Rivers right here, pal.
The first pitch back, strike one.
That's going to be Tuesday, September 7th.
The Yankees are going to be playing the Red Sox.
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It's going to get fucked in hell if they're doing anything in Spanish.
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Night three is called.
Rivers at the last pitch that is called out on strike.
Breakout number four for Mike Kekich.
And the batter will be Ken McMullen.
He was the last angel to reach base.
He walked in the fifth inning.
Kikich has retired eight in a row.
McMullen right-hand batter.
Back ball is in there for a tall strike.
4-1. Door side, 1-1. Yankees won the opener three-nil.
Back pitch, up high, 1-1.
Angels have not done too well this year against left-handers.
They've won 14 but lost 23.
1-1 pitch. Basketball inside, back to the mound.
Yankees against left-handers at 1-21 and lost 27,
including the first game of the twin build in which they beat Rudy May.
Kekich is 2-1 pitch.
High to McMullen. Ball three, three and one.
McMullen now steps back, looks down at third base coach Rocky Bridges.
I would presume McMullen would be on his own with a three-and-one count.
Sully Codd is on deck.
Kekich lines. Here comes the pitch.
Wong-on and lays down the right field line.
Fading foul into the feed.
The count is full, three and two.
Kekich takes the side with both feet on the level.
Rocks back on the right foot to kick the pitch.
Wong-on hit on the ground at third.
Kenny is up with a deep.
The throw to first base, inside.
McMullen is out at first base.
That was a scorcher.
Jerry Kenny took a step to his right, got in front of the ball,
came up with it, and fired on the first.
Sully Codd now.
Codd is grounded out to second.
Fox is short and struck out.
Down went two for three against Peterson in the opener.
Kekich kicks the deal.
High throw ball.
Right is now in a nine-minute row.
And the one-oh pitch.
Fox out on a spark calling for it.
And on the skin of the infield, he makes the catch through
by the other side.
It's ten and a roll for Kekich.
Three up, three down.
Nothing across for the Cowlingos.
At the end of seven and a half, the score,
New York 1 and California 1.
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The record is going to be Boston 9-2.
That's the only one we'll give because we're ready to go, right?
Yes, we are.
Here's the guy at seven-minute, and we're all ready to pitch to Felipe Alou,
who singles in the fifth.
Let's do it.
Cormac in on the ground, a short, played on to Hops,
pass to Regosti, over to first in the dirt,
by Taken by Spencer.
And Alou first ball hitting grounds out short to first.
Try to stay Alou in the fifth, single to center field,
as Ken Berry, one of the few times, did not get a good jump on the ball.
He hit off his glove as he dove for it,
Berry as he went down, hollering to Alomar.
Throw to second, throw to second, Alomar there to main,
and Alou trying to stretch it.
Hops, Clark, he's singled in the fifth,
and Clark is the last Yankee to reach base.
A wide up, and the pitch to him.
Brib ball is over first right.
Black is two for two, single to center and single to left.
Frank Baker is down on this.
Now the 0-1 set.
Clark gets it right back through the box,
but through his right, Alomar flies to down,
looks for the first park is up.
Do away, and Frank Baker will step in.
He'll fly to left and drive it into a double play.
So far over the last six innings.
Now Murphy has faced a minimum of three men per inning.
Good.
Right back to it.
Murphy throws the first base.
Baker is out, and the crowd is retired on an easy inning for John Murphy.
Three up, three down.
Nothing across for the Yankees,
and at the end of eighth the score is New York 1 and California 1.
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Jim Legosi waiting to lead off the ninth inning here.
Legosi has slide to left field on a nice catch by Roy White.
Walks and fouled out the gate.
Legosi a right-hand running.
Take lane just up the middle.
The deep man in the outfield is white and left.
And a big joy.
Low and inside, ball on.
Jerry Kenny guarding the line of third.
He's just a step off the foul line.
Deep.
Infield is deep.
Outfield, as we said, right away with Roy White very deep and left.
Next pitch coming.
Fastball is over for Drake.
It's 1 and 1 on Legosi.
Legosi takes five.
Ball to two and one.
Only two games yet to start.
That's Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York and San Diego in the National League.
Two-one-fifth.
Three balls and a strike to Legosi.
Three-one-good coming.
One on about to third.
Kenny has it on two hops.
Fires the first base in time.
Legosi is out.
That's 11 on the roll for Kenny.
Last man to reach was McMullen who walked in the fifth inning.
The ball game has been in the hands of the pitchers.
The Yankees even survived one inning in which the Angels had two base hits a walk and the Yankees come in three yards with the only scored one run.
Jim Sponsordow has walked line to right and fouled out to a low and first.
Left hand batter holds about high.
Bends at the waist, makes the pitch ten high ball on.
Ready again.
Going to his right and back towards Cuddlefield.
Reached out and backhanded it.
I thought that was a base hit as soon as it left the bat.
Looks like we're looping there.
Off and running as the ball as the bat got to it.
Good catch by the Hawks.
Two down here in the foul of the ninth inning and Ken Berry steps in.
Here's the right hand hitter.
Looks like Gibbs is complaining a little bit about where Berry is planting his right foot.
Now Gibbs is going to give a little grab as Mr. Schavak backs Berry.
He's all right.
First pitch time.
Blowing outside ball on.
Berry backs out.
Now in again.
Check his winds and here's the pitch.
Flash ball for a strike at point of mark.
The base is empty.
Kekich whips it to the plate.
Change up his line.
Overbaker base hit.
Out of the left center field, Bobby Mercer gets to the ball in front of Roy White.
Fires it into second base.
And a single for Berry is the first hit since the third inning for the California Angels.
Kekich has retired twelve men in a row.
Starting with Cowan who struck out to end the fifth.
Got the start in order in the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth, and the first two hitters here in the ninth.
Now Ken Berry, who came in batting 2-0-4, has his second hit in the ball game.
The batter will be John Stephenson, the catcher, over three.
He's lined out.
Blind out, grounded out, and popped out.
Flash ball is low, dug out of the dirt by Gibbs.
Nice save.
Two balls and no strikes.
Hey, with the pitcher up here, Frankie's got to really be alive for the hit and run.
Stephenson has Kekich and the old two balls and no strikes.
He only has one stolen base. I thought he was a lot quicker than that.
Two-0 pitch, long iron and drilled deep at foul down the left side.
Into the three for the foul ball all the way.
Except for Alomar, nobody runs much in this ball club.
Alomar's got 32 stolen bases.
Rivers has five and nobody else in the starting lineup has more than one.
Here's the pitch. Low, fast ball, it's three and one.
The pitcher, Tom Murphy, is on deck.
And the Yankee bullpen will go to work.
Kekich is due to lead off the bottom half of the ninth inning.
There's also some action in left center field out in the Angel Bullpen.
Three-1 pitch coming here.
Long iron, missed by two.
With all the two out, the base runner at first will be released.
Ken Berry will break with the pitch.
If Stephenson gets on, Murphy may not come to bat.
It's warming somebody up out there, let's see.
If Stephenson doesn't get on, it's definite that Murphy will not come to bat.
The pitch runner going, it's wide.
Ball was a catch at the line drive and that ball was matched.
But Alomar did it and the strategy died.
No runs, but they did. No errors, and a man left.
At the end of 8 1 half, the score, the York 1 and California 1.
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The Barrettville White, the Angels have made a change out of shortstop.
Sid O'Brien has replaced Jim Fragosi at shortstop.
And O'Brien with that fifth.
Mike Kekes is going to lead off the bottom half of the ninth inning for the Angels.
Ralph Rock is giving Kekes a chance to win or lose this ballgame himself after going this far.
Fouling only four hits to the California Angels so Kekes will back to lead off the ninth inning.
He has struck out and popped up.
A pitch joy.
Great ball is back, back over the match to his right, Alomar.
Back-handed, can't get it, the ball is on two over second base.
Kekes did not realize the ball got through.
Ball's up at first base.
And still at the right room.
Alomar tried to back-hand it and did not come up with it.
It will be scored a base hit.
That is the Yankees fifth hit of the bargain.
Here is Jerry Kenney, 0 for 3.
The ball is loose out of right field.
That's why time has been called.
It is retrieved by Rivers and returned to the Yankee bullfans from Weston Cain.
Wonder who's warming up out there to throw that ball over the game all the way to the playing field.
By the pitch to Kenney.
He squares off.
He bumps it foul.
They had Jerry Kenney surrounded.
McClennan from third, Spencer from first, the pitcher.
They formed four sides of the box around him.
Of course, the catcher, Stevenson, formed the fourth side.
He was surrounded.
Has three men charged him, even the pitcher.
Going wide now, going.
The wind up by Murphy, the stretch by Murphy, the pitch.
Kenney takes it low this time.
Pulls the bat away from the box.
That is one and one.
Both bullfans stay active.
Jekylltons first base, Spencer holding them on and ready to charge with the pitch.
Stretch by Murphy, here comes the pitch.
Kenney squares, bumps it down to third base five.
McClennan up with it, looks to second, throws to first.
Kenney is just out.
And Jekylltons on the sacrifice, throws to second base.
Throw to play five to four on the sacrifice.
McClennan to Alomar, cover.
And let's see if Jekylltons will make a trip to the mound.
On a play like that.
McClennan and Spencer charge.
McClennan feels the ball near the plate.
He lets it second.
Joy could not get Jekylltons.
Throw to Alomar, the second baseman covering first.
And then the catcher, Stevenson, races down to cover third because McClennan is occupied elsewhere.
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So Philip Sopper is going to make a pitching change.
Bring a left hander in, the pitch begins, but gives, of course, will not pass.
Jake goes back to the dugout.
Jake has already gone back in.
And Philip's just called for a left hander.
John Murphy comes off the mound.
No chance to win it.
He could be a losing pitcher, but you're going to notice this.
That's what he does.
He picks this far, give up only five base hits to know that the best you can get out of it is no decision.
He does get a handshake from somebody as he comes into the dugout.
And that somebody was predated the first base coach.
Bang, well done.
It's going to be Dave LaRoche coming on the pitch.
Dave LaRoche, a left hander, comes on the pitch and, yes, the Yankee pitch hitter has not come out of the dugout.
Of course, no.
Nobody is out there.
Murphy works standing out on that.
Gives could come out as soon as Philip's ways to the left hander.
Gives went back to the dugout.
Frank is going to be munching.
Thurmond will bat for a give.
He can do one or two things. He can pitch to Muntz and try to get him out.
Or he can put Muntz on first base and set up a force.
Of course, you're going to pitch to Mercer and White.
So you're asking to pitch to the Yankees, two big men, if you put Muntz on in this situation.
So Ralph Hough at this point is holding all the jump starts.
LaRoche, a left hander, might rather pitch to Mercer than to Muntz.
We're waiting now for Mike Gaggage to come out.
Gaggage is in the dugout.
Look at him.
Yes, it is.
LaRoche has done a fine job out of the bullpen.
He has a record of four and one and eight saves.
Now the last time we saw this, we were elected to pitch to Alou and Alou got a base hit.
And that won the ball game and scored Roy White from second base.
LaRoche has pitched in three games to get the Yankees by the fifth.
He has a win and a save and this run of years to walk to Evan Muntz and help with Muntz and I.
LaRoche in three and two third innings has won out only one run, giving us four hits to the Yankees,
saved nine to six with Randy Mephrensman and Vicki Martin four to three.
Watch out for the first base, Molly Mercer-Matter with runners in first and second.
Gaggage is second, one to the first.
He does not have extreme speed on the base.
Mr. Mercer, he takes outside and the ball is on.
LaRoche hides the ball behind his back.
Now ready to work and dive, fast and low ball two.
Two balls and no strikes.
LaRoche slips just about on his stride, sometimes to smooth the dirt out on the thrust slope of the mound.
The left hander looks in again to John Stevenson for a side.
Gaggage and Muntz lead away, one out, one to one ball game and to fix the Mercer, Bobby takes the strike.
The outfield is not extremely deep.
Even in right field, Rivers has come in.
Now you know this kid has good speed Rivers.
He wants to be able to field that base in and right field if it should be a base then and got a throw into the plate.
So he is not too deep.
Here's the pitch.
Mercer is playing, gets a drive on the left.
Coming in for it is Sully Cowan, he sets a hundred and Cowan makes the guess.
There are two down.
Mercer is retired on a drive ball to Cowan and barely shadow that field.
The batter will be Roy White.
Right now, source will bat right handed.
Stevenson wants the second baseman Alomar to join the conference of the mound.
Alomar comes in and Alomar, Stevenson and LaRoche have a little meeting.
And they'll soon have a fourth member as Mr. Shylon.
Amble's out that way.
John, I bring Stevenson back with it.
Now Alomar goes back to his position at second base.
Two out.
Roy White the batter.
Roy is 0 for 3.
And the pitch goes in.
One on and it is in the air to center field.
Camping up under it is Ken Berry, waiting for it to come down the side of the retired and do a go to X20.
For the Yankees in the ninth, no runs on one hit.
There were no errors and too many left on base.
So at the end of nine, here are the totals on the ball game.
The Yankees one run, five hits and three errors.
California one run, four hits and no errors.
And Roy White, you got scores of other games?
Yeah, I got them Frank.
Oakland beat Boston 9-2.
The winner is Segui 8-5.
The loser, Brett 0-2.
Ken Tatum and George Waitstock got the Boston two runs with home runs.
Tatum's first shot is 19.
Kansas City beat Washington 2-0 in the first game with double header.
And in the second game, Washington leads Kansas City 2-1 at the end of seventh.
Detroit moved into second place in the American League East as they edged the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3.
Mickey Lowlish won his 19th ball game with the Aries lost eight.
Marty Patton, the loser.
The Tigers have now won 13 of 17.
The half game ahead of the Boston Reds.
Alomar will probably have to bring the bat.
Of course that little fellow's a tough man to double up.
He can run. He's got 32 stolen bases.
Kenny still in close third. Outfield straight away.
Low ball, two strikes on Alomar.
Reynolds at first base.
Now Kekett checks Reynolds at first.
0-2 pitch.
Swung on, popped up.
First base with Alou.
Between first and the mound.
Alou grabs it for the first time.
One away.
Reynolds still at first base.
We'll bring in Mickey Rivers, the right fielder.
Rivers is one for four. He struck out twice, got a bunt single, and fouled out to the third baseman, Kenny.
Rivers back left-handed.
Score is 5-1-1 when it's off to tenth.
Pitched on a river.
A shooting ball, a called strike. Just caught the inside for him.
Alou holds Reynolds at first.
Fellow's got to be pulling that ball past Alou between Alou and Clark.
Now the stretch by Kekett. The 0-1 pitch.
Back ball, cut on a miss.
Low balls and two strikes.
Ken McMullin swinging a bat in the on-deck serve.
Kekett's now ahead 0-2. Looks in at some Muntz.
Right to sign. Thumbs to the belt.
Check Reynolds at first. The 0-2 pitch.
Fast ball, pull on, fouled off. Out of the glove of Muntz.
Still no balls and two strikes.
Now Mike's ready.
The pitch, side on him. First ball, got him.
Bad ball, way outside in the dirt.
Rivers waved at it, and Kekett has picked up a big strikeout.
It's strikeout number five. Thank you, Franklin.
And that'll bring in Ken McMullin.
Two outs now. Reynolds still at first base.
McMullin 0-2. He's bounced out twice to Kenny.
Sacrified fly that drove in the Angels' only run.
That was back in the third, and he's walked.
Kekett is ready. The pitch now.
Fast ball, bounce forward, shortstop. Baker takes the pickoff.
This bounce the clock at second base.
They forced Reynolds there, and Kekett has gotten out of trouble.
And the Angels come up with no run.
On no hit. Took one walk, one man left on base.
So at the end of nine and a half, the New York Yankees won, the California Angels won.
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That looks like a new picture for the California Angels.
It's going to be the big right-hander, Lloyd Allen.
That's the starter child, Murphy, put out with a picture there.
Lloyd Allen, 6'1", 185 pounds.
This is his second appearance in this series.
That is fourth appearance against the Yankees.
Five innings, he is loud. Three runs, seven hits, walk three, and struck out one against the Yankees.
That is the one loss record.
Allen pitched one and two for Zinning.
The night before that, was credited with a save, as he came out of the eighth inning.
Gave up one day six, struck out one man.
Allen now running to work to Ronnie Bloomberg, and it's back to Bill White.
Hi, Frank Leather, Ronnie Bloomberg's 0 for 3.
Allen the right-hander.
First pitch is outside of ball.
Four sides, 1-1, with the last half of the tenth inning.
The Yankees won the first game 3-0, as Fritz Peterson won his 12th game.
Pitched to Bloomberg, head on, the ball in the front.
Ronnie's trying to get this ballgame over with 1-20.
Now the Angels have made a change, have left Tommy Reynolds in it, and he's playing right field.
And they've placed, they've taken off Mickey Rivers, and have put Allen in batting second.
Pitched to Bloomberg, his line foul in the upper deck, on the left side.
One and two.
So Phillips would like to get another at bat for Reynolds, who pinched it for La Roche in the fifth.
The Angels have the tenth.
Now Alize, the right-hander deals to Bloomberg.
Bounce for second base.
Alomar charges it, takes a hop, throws over to Spencer, and Bloomberg is out.
All right, here's the loop.
Felipe Alou is one for two.
He's scored the Yankees' only run.
Felipe's also stolen the base.
He's told second to get himself in the scoring position.
He's told second to get himself in the scoring position for Clark's single of center.
That's the Yankees' only run.
Felipe bounces single of center field in the fifth.
Mitz is the first pitch, that's over.
Felipe looks like he's trying to win with a stroke.
Balls in the strike.
Going on, nobody on. Murphy looking in to see what's going on.
Allen with the swings and misses.
Alou, high fast ball.
No balls and two strikes on Felipe.
Murphy was the starter.
Laroche came off in the ninth.
Now it's Lloyd Allen. Laroche the left-hander, Allen the right-hander.
Go-two pitch to Alou.
Down low, Felipe started to held up just in time.
One and two.
McMullen, the third baseman, now is near the line.
He doesn't want to let a ball get by him on his right.
He wants to hold Alou to his single.
So is the first baseman's center.
Allen's ready, the one-two pitch.
That ball, cut on, fouled off.
That's part of Nester Shylock's chest protector.
Outfield space, Felipe straight away.
Now Alomar, the second baseman, moves over towards second,
bringing him to pull.
One-two pitch.
Give him the right field, down the line.
A long wind by Reynolds. Can he get to it?
One-hands it and just grabs it in fair territory.
Reynolds went a long way for that ball.
He's just got to it and got it in the wind.
Just before crashing into the wall, right down the right field line.
So Reynolds robs Alou, but leaves the double.
And they're two outs now.
Reynolds made a long run and grabbed that ball.
Go away, here's Horace Farr.
Also two for three. He's giving him the Yankees' only run.
Batting left-hander.
All-striking. Allen with an electric mustard on that one.
They play all straight away, an all-field.
Infield also a straight away.
Infield and outfield.
No balls and a strike two outs.
The old one-pitch.
He's got the ball.
Two outs.
The old one-pitch, breaking ball.
Cut on a miss. No balls and two strikes.
Allen's ready. Here's the old two-pitch to Clark.
Misses outside, one and two.
Here's the one-two-pitch now.
Line fouled on the left-field line.
Well, maybe that Leslie Phillips is fortunate he's got that right-handed fielder out there, Reynolds.
He's got Rivers, although he has better speed.
He would have had to reach across his body for that ball. Might not have gotten to it.
One-two-pitch, breaking ball.
Bucks up.
McMullen, the third baseman.
Just a little bit in foul territory.
He waits on it and he grabs it for the third out.
So Clark fouls out to the third baseman, McMullen.
And that's it for the Yankees in the 10th.
Three up and three down.
And at the end of 10th, fourth time, Yankees won, the Angels won.
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Well, this next winning ball game now goes to the top half of inning number 10 by Kekich, still on mound for the New York Yankees top half of inning number 11.
It is, and leading off, Billy Cowan for the California Angels, Bill.
All right, Frank Messer.
Cowan is 0 for 4. Kekich is ready. Breaking ball popped up toward center field.
Mercer's out. Joe Baker, Bobby Eastball for it. Waits on it and grabs it for the first foul.
Cowan. Way on the first pitch. Guys, the Mercer in center field. Well, they're one out quickly now on the 11th.
That'll bring in Sid O'Brien, the shortstop. O'Brien came in in the ninth inning to replace Jim Fragosi, a short.
Fragosi evidently might be having a bit of trouble with that stuff. What? I don't know.
O'Brien, that's right hand. Takes the breaking ball outside.
Four side, 1-1. We're in the top of the 11th.
Kekich is ready. Curve ball cut on a miss.
The Yankees have one run on five hits that made three errors. California one run on four hits, no errors.
Fred Peterson won his football game in the opener as he beat the Angels, shot a mouth, 3-0.
That one pitch now to O'Brien. That ball is fouled off in the upper deck on the right side.
One ball and two strikes. On deck, the first baseman, Jim Fregosi.
O'Brien leaves that battle with a play. Kekich, curve ball, just misses Jim Fragosi.
Close, 2-2. They play O'Brien straight away.
Kenny, hugging the line at third. Two-two pitches outside of ball, way outside, not close.
Full count now on O'Brien.
Dwight is upset with himself for throwing that pitch that far off the strike zone. That wasn't close.
Now Mike looking at it much. Thurman gives him the sign. Mike likes it.
Payoff pitch. Breaking ball foul straight back.
Still three and two.
The Yankees have a little third. Bark at second. Baker at shortstop. Kenny at third.
Yostfield, Dwight, Mercer, and Bloomberg reading from left to right. The catcher, Thurman Munch.
Kekich is ready with the 3-2 pitch.
The ball bounced right back to Mike. Mike snaps it over the first base and they're two outs.
And here's Spencer.
Spencer's over three. He's walked, fly to right, fouled out of the first base, and a little humpback will enter the court.
And here's it, even though he's left-handed, batting against the left-handed pitching Kekich.
Sidearm curveball is outside. Kenny Berry on the fourth side, 1-1, at the top of the 11th.
Not much hitting. Only nine hits to go the ball game. Curveball down low. Two balls in those cracks.
The Yankees have five hits. The Angels four.
Each team has a run.
They picked up their run in the second. When a loose walk, stole a second or two out to the single end by Horace Clark.
Curveball cut on a miss. Two and one.
The Angels came back in the third and picked up the run.
The Yankees played a little loose baseball there. They made three errors in that third inning.
We're lucky to get out only giving up one run. This boy's tied 1-1.
The Yankees ready. Over the head. Two-one pitch. Almost hit him inside a breaking ball. Three and one.
Mike has fished well. Last time out, he lost. Two inches in early, but he only gave up two hits.
Now he's giving up four. Curveball misses inside ball four and Spencer walks.
So Jim Spencer jogs on down the first base.
And that's the fifth walk given up by Keggis. That'll bring in Kenny Berry, the center fielder.
Let's see. Spencer, the guy at first, has no stolen bases.
So you might not have to watch him too closely. But Lou holds him at first, though.
Berry is two for four.
Keggis checks Spencer. He doesn't have a lead at all at first.
Pitch to Berry's bounce to shortstop. Baker loves it. Over to Clark. They force Spencer at second base.
And that's it for the Angels. Keggis holds them off once more.
Four California in the 11th. No runs, no hits. There was one walk and a man left on.
So at the end of ten and a half, New York Yankees won the California Angels one.
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Well Danny Keeter, right hand batter's going to come out and swing for Frank Baker.
Against the right hander, Lloyd Allen, near the bottom half of the 11th inning.
Yankees show a better record at over trying games than to the California Angels.
The Angels in that sprinting have won six, lost eight.
The New York Yankees in that sprinting have won eight and lost five.
Right now Danny Keeter will try to get himself on and see what happens here in the bottom half of the 11th.
Hi Frank Mender. Keeter overall batting 262.
As a pen-kitter he's batting 333, two for six, he has a couple of RBI.
He's then facing Lloyd Allen, the big right hander for the Angels.
And Allen gets the first pitch in a ball strike.
And Gene Michaels in the on deck serve.
That looks like that might be all for Checkage.
How feels he's gone far enough?
The old one pitched down on Keeter. Line foul.
Jack Acker is staying loose out of the Yankee bulls. He was warming up and now staying loose out there.
The first Keeter is a fine runner in case Keeter can get on here.
It wouldn't take anything for Mike to leave that dugout, walk past Michael and sacrifice.
The pitch down to Keeter, up the middle.
Bumboed by the pitch Allen but it's all he probably picks it up and gets Keeter at first.
And Michael will now, he'll hit, he'll hit for Keeter.
He's been playing his pitch fine baseball. He's only given up one run on four hits.
Michael is one for fours this minute, Gene.
That's the 250. Ricky Zeta RBI.
He's got left handed against Allen. Four sides, one-one.
We're in the last of the 11th.
Allen deals the first pitch.
Come on, hits to a left fielder on the line.
Allen's after it. Can he get to it? No!
And that's, and it's a fair ball.
If your ground rule's double, that ball hits.
Under Allen's belt, bounce into the left field stand.
So Michael on his second base with a ground rule double.
And the Yankees have quite a bit of life here.
This four side, one-one.
When he runs his second base, Gene Michael comes through.
So Michael now two for five is a pitch hitter. That's 400.
So the winning run at second base.
And Jerry Kenny's a hitter. They're going to walk him.
They're going to pitch two months.
That's the first extra base hit in the ball game for either 12 or 13.
They're walking Kenny. That's ball three.
There's one out. Michael is second.
It's four side, one-one. The Yankees now have six hits.
The Yankees trying to win two here.
They won the first game three-nothing behind Rich Peterson.
And Kenny now dogs on down the first base.
And Johnny Stevenson reminds Mr. Allen that there's one out.
That Gene Michael's a second. Kenny's a first.
And Munson's a hitter.
Thurman got under this ball game back in the ninth when he sent hits for Jake Gibbs.
He was checking on it a second. And Munson was intentionally fast.
Ursa fly to left and White fly to center to end that.
The Yankees would have got a run there. We wouldn't have been here.
But we're here. The four is tied, one-one.
Munson with the open stand.
First pitch to him. Breaking ball cut off.
And that ball got fast, Stevenson.
And Kenny, evidently, I mean Michael and Kenny, evidently thought the ball was fouled off.
It was not fouled off.
It got about ten yards past Stevenson toward the Yankee dugout.
He jumped on it quickly and held Michael at second base.
No balls and one strike on Munson.
Michael leads in second. Kenny from first.
Gene takes a bigger lead this second. Takes another step off.
Alan still looking at his catch.
And Stevenson, Michael with a big lead at second.
He's checked out. Alomar, we'll try to get him.
Alan backs off with Alomar.
Who was in the second base behind Michael.
He's got back already.
Now Alan looks at.
Gene with a big lead at second.
No one pitched to Munson.
Bounce for a shortstop.
He ties up with it. Holds it second for one. Throw the first.
Munson beats the relay.
So Michael moves to third base.
Munson's on it first. And here comes Leslie Phillips.
They're two outs. The batter's Bobby Mercer.
Leslie may want to left hander to come in here and pitch to Mercer. I don't know.
We'll see it just a second.
He's going to walk Mercer. Loads of bases up. Although Munson's at first.
Let's see what Leslie does here.
Anyway.
Michael is the second.
Munson's at first.
And this is the New York Yankee baseball network. Let's pause for station identification.
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Well, let's see now. Now Nester Shallock stopped talking to Leslie Phillips.
He wants to get some action here.
And they've gone. They've left. Phillips is going to go back to the deck out.
Stevens comes back behind the plate.
They're two outs. Michael's at third. Munson's at first.
Four side, 1-1. We're in the 11th.
They're going to pitch to Mercer.
The
Babbies 1 for 4. First pitch is a called strike.
No balls and strike. Two outs.
Lloyd Allen on the right hand. Ball game on the bases.
First pitch, breaking ball, bounce power on the first baseline. No balls and two strikes.
Spencer, the first baseman, is allowing Munson all the room he wants.
He's playing all the way back there to the grass.
Michael's at third. Munson's at first.
Now Allen looks good and backs off.
Now the stretch. The 0-2 pitch.
Line drive. Let's see if we can get a face hit.
The Yankees win the ball game. Munson tags second.
Michael strikes the plate and that's it.
The Yankees win 2-1. How about that?
Leslie Phillips chose to pitch to Bobby Mercer.
And Mercer aligned the 0-2 pitch in the left center field and the Yankees win two ball games.
So to recap, this inning, first of all, Danny Cater batted for Baker and he bounced that pitch to the first.
Gene Michael batted for Kekett.
And he lined the ball down the left field line and hit and bounced into the seats out of reach of Billy Cowan for ground rule double.
Jerry Kenny was intensely watched.
Munson forced Kenny at second and with runners on first and third, Leslie Phillips elected to pitch to Bobby Mercer.
Mercer hits the 0-2 pitch down the left center field for the Yankees winning run as Michael touched the plate and the Yankees win it.
2-1.
And Frank, how about we go over here and release Phil? You want to give the recap?
Okay, sure. Well, let's look at the total, buddy, right now.
For the Yankees, two runs, seven hits, three hours.
And California, one run, four hits and no hours.
Mike Kekett gets to win. His record is seven and six.
And the Yankees go two games over 500 for the first time this year. They have now won 60 and lost 58.
The losing pitcher is Lloyd Allen. His record is four and four.
The Yankees won the first game three to nothing behind Fred Peterson.
So the Blue Yankee left-handers pitch the victories. Peterson with a shutout in the first game.
And Kekett gave up five hits less than Peterson and had to take a 2-1 extra inning victory.
Loggis Kekett has gone in a ball game this year.
Well, the Yankees now have some momentum going.
So do the Oakland A's coming in for the weekend three-game series tomorrow night, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.
Should be interesting and exciting out here at Yankee Stadium.
You've been putting off going to a ball game this year.
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The action should be thick and heavy here at Yankee Stadium over the weekend.
Saturday night, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.
Well, that's it. The Yankees create the twin bill from the California Angels and extend their record to 60 wins, 58 losses.
The California Angels go out of New York for the last time this year with a record of 55 wins and 64 defeats.
Our broadcast coordinator and status vision is Bill Cain. Our engineer is Frank Steele.
And now on behalf of Bill White and Bill Wichita, this is Frank Buster saying go long from Yankee Stadium in New York.
Once again the final score in the second game was New York 2 and California 1.
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