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The Kansas City Athletics faced the Detroit Tigers at Tiger Stadium for a Friday night game on September 30th, 1966.
The A's entered the game at the bottom of the AL West with a 71-86 record. The Tigers were a team on the rise with 88 wins.
The full broadcast of this game has been lost, but the exciting innings from the bottom of the 5th through the 8th are presented today from the Kansas City KMCO broadcast featuring announcers Monty Moore and Lynn Ferris.
Well, the Oregon here in Tiger Stadium sending a birthday salute along to Frank Scaff. It's his birthday tonight and also that of Johnny Pondman.
It's not Monty Moore's birthday, but he's sure ready to go.
I'd celebrate if the A's could get them to win this game. Here's Mickey Stanley. Had a single his first time up in the ball game. Right-handed batter. Here's the bitch.
It's a called strike from Odom who's throwing that ball hard here again tonight. Odom has walked one and struck out three.
Wilson hasn't walked anybody, and that's pretty well per usual with him. He's struck out seven.
A nothing-nothing game. The A's and the Tigers, a big ball game for both clubs. Financially a big game for the Tigers.
Here's the 0-1 count. Curve ball swung and popped foul behind the plate. No balls, two strikes.
The Tigers do not have a 300-hitter on the ball club. Al Keline leads with a 290 average. Stanley is right behind with 288. Stanley's played in only 91 games.
They expect that he might be their regular center fielder all next year.
The ball's two strikes. Odom fires way outside with a waste ball. One and two. That one actually knocked the mid off Bill Roof's hand.
The ball stayed in the mid and was separated from Roof about two feet off to his right.
Boy, this is the kind of a night a guy that throws as hard as Odom can make a catcher's hand puff up pretty big before it's all over. It's really cold here.
Here's the one and two bet. Curve ball pops up from the infield. Ed Charles and Phil Roof coming in. They're calling Charles in on the play and Ed makes the catch right in front of Roof.
So there's one away here in the fifth inning of the ball game. Kansas City nothing, Detroit nothing.
Here's Bill Frihan, Tiger catcher, who singles in the second inning.
The Tigers have had three hits, all singles.
Bill Frihan catching in his 134th game of the year.
Here's the line by Odom, the pick on the way. Foul upstairs. Strike one.
In Odom's last three starts, he has pitched two shutouts. He shut out Cleveland by a score of three to nothing.
He then lost the shutout to Washington, giving up a run in the last half of the ninth inning. The score of that game won nothing.
Then he came right back in his next start and beat Cleveland again, shutting them out two to nothing.
Here's the O1 pitch. Stinker's a little low. One ball and one strike.
Odom has given up only two runs in his last four starts.
And he has gone at least seven and two-thirds innings in each of the last four starts.
Here's the one-on-one pitch. A little high on inside, ball two.
With as many days off as the Athletics have had, not having played since last Sunday,
you can see the confidence manager Alvin Dark has in this youngster.
Because he could have chosen anybody on the pitching staff, they're all rested for a big game.
Here's the 2-1 pitch. High. Ball three.
So the Cowlitz three balls and one strike to freehand, with one out here in the fifth inning of a scoreless game.
To indicate how big a game Alvin Dark feels it is, he has his big right-hander Jim Nash in the bullpen tonight.
In case Odom might need some help, here's a 3-1 pitch. Watch out, that's out of play.
So the Cowlitz full of three balls and two strikes.
If Nash does not have to get up and warm up tonight or get into the game, he will be the starting pitcher here tomorrow.
If he does get into the game, and for a brief period of time, he would pitch on Sunday as the starter.
That's a 3-2 pitch to freehand. Inside he walked in.
Freehand is on, that's the second walk issued by Odom tonight.
And the batter is Earl Wilson, the Tiger pitcher.
Wilson, one of the best hitting pitchers in all of baseball, has hit seven home runs this year.
And that's more than some of the Tiger regulars. For instance, Gates Brown and Outfielder has hit only seven home runs, and he's played in 86 games.
Wilson has played in a total of 42 games, counting pitch hit appearances.
Mickey Stanley and Outfielder has played in 91 games and has hit only three homers.
McFarlane the catcher has hit only five homers.
But Wilson is dangerous. Here's the wind of pitch.
The call strikes. No balls and a strike.
Detroit as a team has pounded 176 homers.
Compare that with 64 of the athletics of it this year as a team.
Odom's pitch, Wilson's swing pops it up, short center field.
Monday coming in, Rick's calling everybody else off, and he takes care of it.
There are two down.
That's what you call sawing off a bat in a guy's hand.
Odom hit Wilson right on the fist and broke a bat.
As Wilson comes back trotting behind home plate, he's grinning a little bit.
That's what you call bees in the bat on a night like this.
Boy, you can really sting your hands when one hits you on the fist.
Two down, top of the batting order now. Here's Jake Wood, right-handed batting, second baseman.
Pitch, strike call to Wood. He was taking all the way.
The Tigers nothing, the Athletics nothing. Last half of the fifth inning.
Both clubs have had opportunities.
The A's had runners at second and third, but their runners were there with two down.
0-1 pitch. In the dirt, a nice pick up by catcher Phil Rueck.
One ball, one strike.
The Tigers had runners at first and third with one out in the second inning.
A ball and a strike they got.
Runner leaps at first base. Odom gives him a look, throws to the plate, sinks off too much again.
Ball two.
For the Athletics, Phil Rueck is behind the plate.
Ed Charles back in the lineup at third tonight. Campanier is at shortstop.
Green at second. And Danny Kader at first.
The A's outfield has Jim Gosger in left, Rick Munday in center, and Mike Hirschberger in right.
And pitching for Kansas City.
Young right-hander John Lee Blue Moon Odom, who won five and lost five so far,
throw to first back in time is freehand.
Two and one count.
Another throw to first, and that ball gets away from the first baseman Kader,
but it hit the umpire, red clarity in the leg,
and stayed close enough to first that Kader was able to pick it up with no advance being made.
So the A's got a break.
When the ball went to the right of the A's first baseman Danny Kader and hit the umpire,
red clarity in the leg.
Here's Odom, two-one pick, swinging a foul down by Jake Wood. It's two and two now.
The American League champion Ball of the Orioles were beaten in the first game
of their double-hunter tonight with Minnesota.
They have come up with two runs in the sixth inning of the second game.
The Twins are leading in that one five to two.
Harmon Killibrews hammered a couple of home runs tonight,
for Minnesota is 38th and 39th of the year.
A two-two pitch to Jake Wood, sidearm fastball is fouled out.
It's the first time Odom has gone that far down sidearm tonight.
He really dropped down.
Two balls, two strikes, two down and one on.
Last half of the fifth inning of a five-ball game being played in Tigers Stadium, Detroit.
Odom's pitch, swing and a half-ouncer towards third.
Ed Charles is going to have a hard time throwing his man out.
He flagged it down, throws the first two late.
Charles had to wait on that high bouncer to come down.
And that Jake Wood can really run.
Charles fielded the ball, made a high throw to first base with not too much on it.
And Wood is safe with a hit.
The Tigers are set up now with runners at first and second, two down.
And here is Dick McCallum.
McCallum having a good year for the Tigers again, hitting 273,
with 22 home runs, eight triples, 15 doubles.
The lead runner, Bill Frehand.
The trailing runner at first is Jake Wood.
McCallum shortens up on the bat a little bit.
Here's the pitch, fastball, a strike gets called.
Norm Cash is on deck.
The big man of great concern right now is at the plate, and that's Dick McCallum.
One strike counts.
Odom fires.
Strike two, it's called, that fastball hits the knee.
No balls, two strikes.
That's pretty much the perfect pitch.
It's a tough one for anybody to handle.
But McCallum is looking for a pitch he can pull.
0-2 count, Odom ahead of him, checks the runner, fires to the plate,
sinker again, this time little outside, ball one, one and two.
Close enough that with two strikes on him, many batters will go for that pitch.
A score from the National League headliner tonight, the Dodgers one and the Philadelphia Phillies two.
They're playing at Philadelphia in the seventh inning.
Odom's one-two pitch to McCallum in the dirt, ball two.
So McCallum has hung on patiently with two strikes on him and worked the count to two balls and two strikes.
Bill Freehand, the runner at second base.
Jake Wood at first, no score in the game.
Last half of the fifth inning.
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Odom whips the pitch to the plate, McCallum takes ball three, it's low again.
So McCallum has three balls and two strikes, and with two down, that means the runners will be moving.
So any kind of an extra base hit here could give the Tigers two runs because Wood can really run.
And he'll be breaking with nobody holding against him at first base.
A's manager Alvin Dark has just sent a series of signs out to the catcher, Bill Roof, and he'll relay them to Odom.
There go the runners, here's the pitch. Fastball line to right center field, one run is coming in to score.
Cuts the ball off in right center. Here comes Wood by the score, now they're getting the hole up, but he's got to stop at third.
A great throw by Rick Munday.
The eight center field are raised in the right center field.
Cuts that ball off, it was headed for the fence.
McCallum ends up in second.
The Tigers get a run and the batter is Norm Cash.
Boy, that McCallum has killed Kansas City Fitching as long as he's been in the American League.
And he just unloaded a big one.
Boy, what a play by that Munday in right center field.
Now with first base open, Al Kaelin is the next scheduled batter.
Are these going to pitch to Norm Cash here or not?
Roof is squatting down behind home plate.
Odom goes to the line. Here's the pitch. Cash takes it. It goes in the dirt. A great stop by Roof saves the run.
Frank Scaff, the Tiger manager, is also the third base coach.
He had been waving wood on from the time the ball was hit.
Of course, the runner from second knew he was going to go, so Scaff immediately picked up his runner at first base and started giving him the go sign.
Not realizing Munday could make a pick up as he did in right center field and a throw to the infield.
Here's the one and oh pitch. There's a drive to right, not hitting too hard.
Hirschberger should get it in front of the fence. He's got it.
Blue Moon Odom hit Norm Cash right on the fifth with one. That ball didn't sound too good when it left the bat.
And Hirschberger was able to make a catch right in front of the fence in right field.
So Odom here in the fifth inning sees one run come across the plate. Two hits. Two men left off.
After five full innings of play, the score, Detroit 1, Kansas City nothing.
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Now as we go to the second inning of the ball game, the Athletics have got to play catch-up ball against Earl Wilson,
a man who has beaten Kansas City 13 times and lost to them only four in his big league career.
The A's have had only three singles. The Tigers now have had a total of five hits in the game.
Beckman being by McCollum with the runners moving on a 3-2 pitch.
In the fifth inning, Odom had gotten him no balls, two strikes.
The A's started off now with Kampi Kampanaris, the shortstop.
He's the leadoff batter for the A's and has been most of the season.
Kampi hitting 266. He's hit safely in the last five games in a row, but only one hit a game.
Here's the bench. Strike, it's called from Wilson. He has not walked a batter.
The closest he came was on a 3-1 count to Kampanaris to start the game.
He rallied from that 3-1 count to throw two strikes by Kampi and struck him out.
Now the big right-hander fires again. Kampanaris takes it outside, hits one ball, one strike.
Kampanaris with 49 stolen bases to his credit had a fantastic month of September stealing bases.
Now the one-on-one. There's a drive to center. Base hit for Kampanaris.
His hitting streak now goes to six in a row and the A's have the potential tying run on.
And the man they'd rather have on in this situation than any other man they have on the roster.
Coming up behind him is Mike Hershberger, a good hit and run man.
Mike batting 251 for the year. He's 0-2 in this game against Wilson.
The Tigers will shorten up their infielders just a bit now with Hershberger there.
McCullough and Wood will cheat just a bit towards the middle of the diamond to protect from the double play.
Here's a pitch. It's a little low, ball one. Kampanaris got a big lead off first base but did not go.
Bill Freehand is a good throwing catcher.
Wilson down to the stretch again. Kampanaris gets a lead.
Wilson looks at him a long time. Bobbs his head a couple of times. There goes Kampy. He's a pitch. Swung on and fouled down.
Hershberger fouled it off with Kampanaris going.
Mike seemed to be trying to hit that ball through that big hole on the right side of the infield.
With the first baseman holding Kampanaris and the second baseman over towards second for the double play.
They've really got a big hole on the right side of the infield because with Kampy breaking, second baseman had gone over to cover second that time and he had a full 90 feet to shoot through.
A ball and a strike. There goes Kampy again. A pitch is swung on, bounced to the left side of the infield.
Third baseman has got it. Wood throws the first Kampanaris round. Second goes to third.
He slides in there and he's out at third base. On the throw to Dick McCullough.
Now Kampanaris and McCullough are in a fight, a fist fight going on with Kampanaris and McCullough. Everybody out of folks, I got that under the field.
Kampanaris and McCullough really went at it. Ed Turrows and Earl Wilson are squared away.
Just off to the right a little bit. Kampanaris I believe is hurting the play.
We have some 70 ball players out on the field right now.
There are no arms or fists being swung but believe me there were some swung by Kampanaris and McCullough.
Kampanaris tried to go all the way from first to third on a ground out to the third baseman word.
Kampy slid in the third base and he slid hard. McCullough got up slugging Kampanaris and Kampy went after him.
And Kampanaris now is limping off the field and he's limping pretty badly. He may be through for the night.
You think these guys are not playing this one as if everything depended on it?
The umpire Bob Stewart behind all plates is now arguing with Alvin Dark about something.
I don't know what it's about but Alvin has really got his dander up.
They're out in the middle of the infield. Kampanaris is limping back to the dugout.
Well then that one emptied the benches in the dugout and in the bullpen.
The second one we've seen this year but the first one was with the Red Sox when Kanigli Arrows started out to the mound after being challenged by Lou Krause but he never went out there.
He thought more wisely of it. Jim Nash led the charge that night was the first to go to Krause's side but no punches were thrown.
There were some good ones here and you never saw so many guys out there.
They may have thrown Kampanaris out of the game. I don't know. Alvin Dark is appealing to all the umpires out there.
He went over to talk with Luke Affling after his big argument with Bob Stewart and now Stewart is going out to talk again.
Marty Springsteen at the third base umpire who called the play at third base is now in an argument with Alvin Dark.
Kampanaris trying to go from first to third was cut down on a perfect throw from Norm Cash to Dick McCullough.
Now Kampy slid in hard to McCullough but this is no Sunday School League and McCullough got up and kneed Kampanaris first.
While Kampy was down McCullough jumped out on him with his knee first. Then Kampy got up and went after him.
I don't know what's going on but the way Alvin Dark is arguing I've got to assume that something against Kansas City has happened here.
I'll tell you Alvin's mad. After talking to Springsteen and Bob Stewart he went over to check with Luke Affling and since Luke was so close to third base in the coaches box
I'm sure he wanted to get his version of who started it. And I would have to guess that after getting that
Luke probably reporting that Kampy was kneed has made our skipper all of war furious.
He's really in it with Stewart at home plate. Now pointing down towards third base.
Boy Charles came very close to getting into it with Wilson. Wilson acted as the interceptor to keep Charles.
Ed was trying to get to Kampanaris' A. Kampy had gotten either knocked down or fallen down off balance.
And he was in a bad situation on the ground with several Tigers close to him where they really could have gotten to the A's little guy.
And that's the mark of the old pro. Charles was trying to get to Kampy's side and Wilson cut in and prevented Charles from it.
And Ed wasn't...he was all set to go at it with Wilson.
Oh there's some guys on Wilson in our dugout right now. He just tried to stare down somebody in our dugout.
Well we still as of this moment have to assume that Kampanaris was either thrown out or was hurt badly enough
because Ozzie Shavarria, utility infielder, is going down to the dugout in the bullpen.
Jim Gosger's the batter with two down here in the sixth inning. The Tigers leading 1-0 in a hotly contested battle.
Here's the bitch. Gosger takes high of all one. Mike Hirschberger just slammed his glove down in the dugout as hard as he could slam it.
We've got a mad bunch of Kelly Green and Gold suited Kansas City A's fans.
Alright here's the 1-0 bitch.
There's a drive to the right center field. We've got a tight ball game. Way back, way back. It hit the upper deck.
Gosger ties it up with a home run.
Jim Gosger just pounded one off the roof of Tiger Stadium in right field.
And now it really hurts that Kemp he was out at third base too.
As the A's could have had a lead. But there was no doubt about him being out. It was by how much?
Now here's Ed Charles at the plate in a tied up 1-1 game. Boy I've never seen Gosger hit one that hard.
Here's the bitch. Charles swings away and fouls it off strike one.
You know, Monty Gosger loves to hit in this park. I don't know whether it's just a...I think it's a combination of the park, which has long been home run haven.
And the fact that Jim's home is only 50 miles away. But I didn't want to say anything until it actually happened.
He said before the game tonight when he walked in the dressing room he would hit a home run during this series.
Here's the old one bitch that Charles. There's a smash to right center field. The A's are stirred up at the base head.
Boy they were mad at Kemp and Harris being kicked out of the game or if he weren't kicked out.
He was stopped on by the Tiger shortstop McCullough enough that he's out of the game.
The way Dark was arguing I have to guess from here that he was kicked out though.
Now here's Danny Kader. Charles has just had his second hit of the night. Kader has already had two hits in the game.
Wilson to the stretch here to throw the first. Charles back in there in time.
The home run for Gosger was his fifth of the season with Kansas City. His tenth overall this year.
Counting his play with Boston and the A's.
Here's the bitch. Kader goes around on a slider that's way outside. Strike one.
One strike to count. Hit Charles the runner at first. The A's have had three hits here in the inning.
But across the diamond and back double play.
Got the A's out of it. Here to throw the first. Charles diving back in head first.
Orlando Pena and the Tiger bullpen is up throwing.
The score of the A's one and the Tigers one. Boy did that Gosger wrap the ball hard. It hit the roof of Tigers Stadium here.
One strike count. Big lead by Charles. Here's the bitch to Kader high and inside ball one.
A big National League happening in the seventh inning. Bill White of the Phillies has just hit a three run homer against the Dodgers.
That means the Phillies are leading the Dodgers five to one going into the eighth inning.
One and one count. Wilson pitching to Danny Kader. It's on the way. Kader takes it high ball two.
Since the happening between Campaneras and McCollum occurred on the third base side of the diamond.
That's the Tigers dug outside. So they had their players out there around the fray before the A's who had to come all the way from the first base side could get there.
And they emptied in a hurry. Two one pitch to Kader. Swing and a miss. He chased a bad one way outside. Strike two.
Wilson must have a great slider tonight. Some of the A's players have chased it.
With the catcher having to reach a good distance for it.
Incidentally, Gaskers other home run here in the stadium was hit off Fred Blanning earlier this year.
Two two count to Kader. Throw the first base. Charles back in in time.
The Tigers are the only club in the American League that play Kader as a full hitter.
Their second baseman Jake Wood is playing him as though he were a full hitter.
Kader hits a lot to right field. There goes Charles. Here's a big swing on it. Popped in the shallow left center field.
Mickey Stanley off to his right is going to be there when it comes down. He's got it and that's all for Kansas City here in the sixth inning of the game.
The Atlantic score one run. Three hits. There were no errors and one left on. So we go to the last of the sixth inning. It's Detroit one. Kansas City one.
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All right, here we go now, the last half of the sixth inning. Al Kailine, Tiger right fielder, Billy Dolph man.
We're getting a report on whether or not Cavaneros was kicked out of the game.
Cavaneros was kicked out of the ballgame, we're told. All right, here's the pitch from Blue Moon, to Al Kailine. It's outside ball one.
The press box has announced he was not injured, Monty.
He was limping off. I didn't think he was limping badly enough that he couldn't come back into the game.
And I knew Alvin Dark was arguing about something and it had to be that.
And with some forty players from each side out there, we never did see an ejection sign from the umpire.
Here's the one oh pitch, curve ball is low. Two balls and oh strikes that got to Al Kailine.
Cavaneros slid hard into McCullough and McCullough slammed an extra hard tag on him and bounced up and down on him with his knees before he let Cappy get up.
When Cappy did get up, there's no question about it, he went after McCullough.
Here's the two oh pitch, hot shot foul outside of third base.
So they got his two balls and one strike.
That's only the second incident I've seen Cavaneros involved in, in the big leagues.
When Ed Kirkpatrick of the California Angels ran over Cappy on Cavaneros night in Kansas City last year.
Cappy popped up off the ground and took a whack at him.
He picked up some pretty big guys.
Here's the two oh pitch, Kailine takes it high of all three.
McCullough, I say this, from what we could see landed more punches because Cappy fell down on the first swipe he took at McCullough.
McCullough has got right on top of him.
Here's a three one pitch to Kailine, he'll be going for downtown at five, all four.
So hold on, lose the bleed off man here in the sixth inning of a tied up one and one ball game.
The last man he wants scored, the Tigers only run of the game.
That was in the fifth inning.
Here's Willie Horton, Tiger left fielder.
Horton this year has blasted 27 home runs.
He has an even 100 RBI.
Kailine, the runner at first takes the lead.
Here's a pitch, Horton takes it high of all three.
McCullough, he's got a good lead.
Kailine, the runner at first takes the lead, here's a pitch, Horton bounced it one foul.
That one knocked down in the third base coaching box by the Tiger manager, Frank Scaff.
Here's a score from an American League game in the sixth inning.
The New York Yankees have just scored two runs against the White Sox.
That means the Yankees have tied up the White Sox two and two.
There's only one way that the Yankees could finish ahead of the Athletics this year.
And that is if the Yankees win all three White Sox games and the A's lose all three Detroit games.
If Kansas City wins one game with a three against Detroit here,
there's nothing that any other team could do to keep them from finishing seven.
Here's the pitch to Horton, it's outside, one ball, one strike.
The A's have possibilities mathematically with only three games remaining.
Of finishing tenth, ninth, eighth or seventh.
The Tigers have a chance to finish in second place.
Both clubs wanting those positions badly.
Really having a combating battle here tonight.
Here's a pop-up of the infield by Horton.
Ed Charles calling for it.
By the pitcher's mound, he makes the catch, there's one away in the sixth.
They're going into the ninth inning at Philadelphia in that National League headlight.
And the score is still the Phillies, five and the Dodgers one.
The Giants are not playing tonight.
They were rained out.
Giants and Pirates scheduled to play each other tonight.
Here's Don Wert, Tigers third baseman.
He's 0-2 in the game.
He's struck out in the second, flying up the center field in the fourth inning.
Kaelin, the runner at first.
Odom takes a shot at him with a quick throw over there.
And Kaelin is back in time.
Detroit one, Kansas City one.
Odom's pitch, inside and high.
You can hear that ball hit the mid down below it.
This young fella is throwing hard.
Manager Alvin Dark told Blue Moon if he wins this game tonight, he can go home tomorrow.
With only two days remaining, he would not be used in any ball games.
Here's the one-hole pitch to Don Wert.
Curve ball.
It's over the plate.
Butt high.
Two balls and no strikes.
The Dodgers are in the ninth inning.
The Giants are in the ninth inning.
The attendance here tonight, 4,491.
Odom throws the first and Kaelin goes back in on his stomach this time and almost didn't make it.
He did, but he almost didn't.
Odom has these Detroit runners hanging pretty close over there at first base.
Here's a throw to first and the ball got away from Kader after he made the catch.
He tried to put the tag on and it came out of his glove.
Not very far.
Kaelin stayed right where he was.
Two balls and no strikes.
Here's a pitch swinging a bow down.
So the count is two balls and one strike.
If the Tigers win two of their last three games, they will have won 90 games.
And that's the most they have won at any time since 1961.
The 2-1 pitch, Kaelin is going.
The pitch is going to miss.
Roof throws down to second base.
It goes out in the center field.
Kaelin is up running.
Muddy field, the ball goes toward third.
Kaelin dives in there, head first save.
Al Kaelin steals second and goes to third on the throwing area by the ace catcher, Phil Roof.
The Tigers had a hit and run play on.
Work missed the pitch.
But Roof got a tough one to handle.
It was in the dirt to the outside part of the plate.
Roof came up throwing the ball and he threw it off to the first base side of second.
With eighth second baseman, Dick Green, going over to cover.
He was running the opposite direction to the ball was going.
Muddy came in in a hurry backing up the play and made a strong throw to third.
However, Kaelin was in there with plenty of time to spare.
So now the ace infield has got to come in.
With one out, the Tigers have the lead run at third base.
Two balls and two strikes on word.
Odom really needs a strike out here.
He goes to the full windup, rocks back on the left foot.
Here's the pitch.
It almost hit him at the wild pitch.
Coming back to the screen, the Tigers out.
Kaelin scores the lead run of the game.
So there you have the Tigers out.
Kaelin manufacturing a run.
Without a ball being hit by a bat, Kaelin walked, stole second, went to third on an error
and scored the lead run of the game on a wild pitch.
So now the count is three and two on downward as the Tigers lead two to one.
Odom winds up, here's the pitch.
Outside, ball four.
So work goes down to first base with a second walk issued by Odom here in the sixth inning.
The batter now is Mickey Stanley.
Detroit two, Kansas City one, sixth inning.
Tomorrow's game will be on the air, Kansas City time at 1.45.
Stanley single in the second inning.
By it out to the third baseman.
In the next inning after that, here's a throw to first by Odom.
He almost got Wirt.
Action out of the Kansas City bullpen.
Wet stock up in a hurry and starts throwing.
Odom down to the stretch.
Fire to the plate.
Curveball lined to left center field, base hit.
Mutney charges the ball.
Wirt is going to hold on at second base.
So the Tigers have runners at first and second with one away here in the sixth inning.
The batter now is Tiger Catcher Bill Freehand.
Left-hander Joe Grisenda joins right-hander Wet Stock in the bullpen and manager Alvin Dark is going to the mound to talk to Odom.
Been a tough inning for the youngster.
He started it by walking out K-line.
He has not been able to walk him in and get away with it very many times.
Odom has had an amazing lack of runs scored for him in the games he's picked for Kansas City this year.
The young guy has just not been able to make any mistakes and stay in the game.
The most runs he's scored for him in any ball game was four.
And that happened only twice in the 13 starts.
So he's had as many as four runs scored for him, only twice in 13 starts, 14 counting tonight.
Bill Freehand at the plate, the conference over on the mound.
Odom down at the stretch.
He's going to fire that ball.
High-pouncing ball to the infield.
Shavarria's got it.
Toss it underhand to Dick Green.
He drops the ball at second.
Everybody's safe.
Shavarria tossed the ball about five feet.
A-second baseman Dick Green.
It was an easy play there.
Green was going to try for the double play.
He dropped the ball at second for the error.
The baser loaded and went out in the pitcher.
Earl Wilson comes up.
An error on Dick Green, the A-second baseman.
So it's a wild inning here in the sixth.
The Tigers with a chance to break the game open.
Wilson came up with two men on in the second inning and lined into a double play.
He flied out to center field in the fifth inning.
Bases are loaded, one away.
Wilson cocks that bat.
Here's the line to fix for Odom.
Swing and a miss strike one.
Runners for the Tigers.
Wirt is at third base.
Stanley at second, free hand at first.
The cage is full of Tigers right now.
Here's the line.
Odom fires.
Swing and a foul back strike two.
Wilson got his fix that time.
That's the kind you hit out of the park to get a round on.
A fast ball about letter high.
He just hit under the ball a little bit and turned away from the play talking to himself.
Score two to one Detroit.
Two strikes on Wilson.
Here's the line.
Odom fires to the plate.
Inside and high ball one.
Wilson came into professional baseball in the Red Sox organization as a catcher.
He had such a great arm.
They made a pitcher on him and he has accomplished a lot of things as a pitcher.
He's got them, the ultimate, he fixed a no hitter with the Red Sox.
That got one and two.
Odom rocks back.
Fires to the plate.
Bouncing ball towards short through the middle center field base hit.
Wirt comes in to score.
Stanley is right behind him.
Runners at first and second.
Two runs come in to score on the base hit by Earl Wilson.
Drops the ball at second.
Everybody's safe.
Cavalier tossed the ball about five feet to eighth second baseman Dick Green.
It was an easy play there.
Green was going to try for the double play.
He dropped the ball at second for the error.
The bases are loaded and went out and the pitcher, Earl Wilson, comes up.
An error on Dick Green, the eighth second baseman.
So it's a wild inning here.
In the sixth, the Tigers with a chance to break the game open.
Wilson came up with two men on in the second inning and lined into a double play.
He flied out to center field in the fifth inning.
Bases are loaded, one away.
Wilson cocks that bat.
Here's the line.
The pitch from Odom.
Swing and a miss, strike one.
Runners for the Tigers.
Wirt is at third base.
Stanley at second.
Free hand at first.
The cage is full of Tigers right now.
Here's the line.
Odom fires.
Swing and a foul back, strike two.
Wilson got his pitch that time.
That's the kind you hit out of the park to get around on.
A fastball about letter high.
He just hit under the ball a little bit and turned away from the play talking to himself.
Score two to one Detroit.
Two strikes on Wilson.
Here's the line.
Odom fires to the plate.
Inside at high ball one.
Wilson came into professional baseball in the Red Sox organization as a catcher.
He had such a great arm.
They made a pitcher of him and he has accomplished a lot of things as a pitcher.
He's got a lot of them, the ultimate.
He pitched a no-hitter with the Red Sox.
That got one and two.
Odom rocks back.
Fires to the plate.
Bouncing ball toward short through the middle center field.
Base hit.
Wirt comes in to score.
Stanley is right behind him.
Runners at first and second.
Two runs come in to score on the base hit by Earl Wilson.
So the score now is Detroit four and Kansas City one.
Wilson hit one for just a fleeting second.
Looked like a double play ball.
But Shavarria was playing over a little bit to his right.
And the ball went to Oz.
He's left on out in the center field.
And he's out in the batter, Jake Wood.
So Blue Moon Odom has given up more runs in this ball game than he had given up in his last four games combined.
Right hander throws to Wood.
It's low for ball one.
Boy, you can see how that Earl Wilson could win a lot of ball games with a club like Detroit.
With his own bat.
He's knocked in a lot of runs.
He got to stay in a lot of close games that way.
Here's the one-oh pitch.
Curved ball.
Too low.
Ball two.
Two balls and no strikes to Jake Wood.
The next batter is Dick McCollum who knocked in a run in the fifth inning to give the Tigers a brief lead of one-nothing.
The A's Jim Gosker came back in the sixth and felted one off the roof to tie it up for one-and-one.
Here's Odom's two-oh pitch to Jake Wood.
It's high for ball three.
And Alvin Darker's going to the mound.
That's all for Odom tonight.
The West Stock is coming out of the A's bullpen with a count of three balls and no strikes on Jake Wood.
Runners at first and second.
The Blue Moon Odom comes out of a ball game prior to six innings for the first time in his last seven starts.
And he didn't have too much help here in this inning.
Two errors and a stolen base set up the big inning for the Tigers.
That will be up to West Stock to try to cut it off.
Lynn, Moon officially worked five and one-third innings, tagged for four runs that came on seven hits.
He walked four, struck out three, and threw a wild pitch.
I don't know what these explosions are here.
They're louder than firecrackers.
Going off the first three we heard was while Moon was making some crucial pitches.
And they seem to be coming from the left field stands.
This one that just went off now is right over by the A's dugout.
Moon victimized by shaky defense.
The A's have committed three errors tonight, two of them in this inning.
Boy, a wild pitch hurt.
And walks have hurt Moon.
It all started off when he walked K-line, who stole second.
Roost throw trying to get the Tiger off.
Giller went into center field as he advanced to third and K-line came home on a wild pitch to break the tie and make it two to one.
Moon went on and got Willie Horton to pop up.
Good pitch, too.
But then he proceeded to walk downward.
Mickey Stanley lined a single to center, and then it was freehands ball that was grounded to short to Shaverea,
who flipped about five or six feet over to Dick Green, and Green couldn't hang on to the ball.
That set the stage for Wilson.
Two runs batted in single to center with a count of three and all.
West Stock is in the pitch to Jake Wood.
If he goes on and walks in here, it'll be charged to Odom.
Money.
West Stock in his 35th game of the season for Kansas City.
Will throw off the stretch.
Three-oh pitch.
He got it in there.
Three and one now.
Really a big play when Green dropped the ball at second because had he caught that ball,
even if he didn't get the double play, the infield would have been back on the ball hit by Wilson,
and it would have been gobbled up easily by the shortstop.
As it was, the shortstop was in.
Here's a three-one pitch.
It popped up short right field.
Hirschberger coming in, calling for it.
The runners are going to hold on.
Mack makes the catch and Stock retires the man.
So West Stock out of the bullpen with a three and O count.
Manages to retire Wood.
And West Stock now must pitch to Dick McCollough with two arms.
Yes, sir, the positioning of the infield means quite a bit.
And on the ball, Wilson hit.
It's a routine ball for a shortstop if he's playing his normal position with two down.
But Shavarillo was in, trying for the double play with only one out,
and was not able to get over to the ball Wilson got.
So that was the big error of the inning, and it came on an easy chance.
West Stock has just called Phil Roof out for a short conference.
Freehand leads off second, Wilson off first base.
Stock fires a strike call in the outside corner to McCollough.
Stock scheduled the number four hitter.
The next inning for Kansas City, if the A's got that far,
Alvin Dark has hand or hand in presenting the bullpen.
The O-one pitch, McCollough takes it outside one and one.
West, the job right here is to make sure he doesn't give McCollough a ball he can hit out of the park.
So he's trying to keep it away from him.
Tigers are leading four to one in an explosive game here, just three days from the end of the season.
A pitch, slider outside, ball two.
Norm Cash, the next hitter.
On deck swinging a bat.
This is the eighth man to bat for Detroit here in the sixth inning of the game.
Out of the two-one pitch, ball three.
Three balls and a strike.
Stock really trying to pitch fine here.
Orlando Pena throwing in the Detroit bullpen.
Tigers really need to win this one because the twins are putting it on the Orioles in a doubleheader tonight.
The pitch, ball four, he walked in the base and a loaded.
And that's all for West Stock as Alvin Dark comes out of the dugout to make another move into the A's bullpen.
Going to bring on the left-hander Joe Grisenda.
So Stock pitches to two men, retires one of them.
And it will be Grisenda coming on to try to get a mighty big out.
So while he comes on, let's pause for station identification.
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It's nine o'clock.
At Tiger Stadium in Detroit, this is Monty Moore with Lynn Parris.
We'll be on the air tomorrow at 1.45 Kansas City time and the last game of the season.
Be on at 12.15 Kansas City time on Sunday.
Al Grisenda takes his warm-up tosses here prior to pitching to norm cash with the bases loaded.
Pass along some statistics that we have accumulated from our records that we keep daily on the ball club
that might prove interesting to you as to what kind of year the athletics have had this year compared to last year,
no matter where we finished.
Last year the A's finished in 10th place and only spent one day of the entire season out of 10th place.
It was on September 3rd in L.A.
We won a doubleheader one night and got into 9th place and the next day went back in and stayed.
This year it's been much contrast.
The A's have spent one day in 6th place, two days this season.
The A's were in 7th, 63 days in 8th place.
Actually we've had more than two days in 7th place.
We've had 12 days in 7th, 63 days in 8th, 25 days the A's spent in 9th place and 26 days in 10th this year.
So the A's have spent more time in 8th place this year, 63 days than in any other position.
But we've got a chance if we can win one game in the next three to finish in 7th place.
This man right here in Armcash could have a lot to do with it.
As he's up with the bases loaded, Tiger's already leading 4-1.
They said here he might put it out of reach.
Here's the line, Grisenda throws, there's a fly ball, shallow right center.
That's going to be tough.
Mundy's coming in, not so tough after all, he's got it.
So Grisenda makes one pitch at Armcash and gets it on a fly ball in the shallow center field.
But here in the big sixth inning, the Detroit Tigers get three runs.
Only two hits, two errors, and three men left on.
So the score after six full innings, Detroit 4, Kansas City 1.
All right, let's glance now at scores of other games.
And at Torre, National League dogfight, the Dodgers have gone down to defeat.
They've just been beaten by the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3.
They rallied for two runs in the ninth, but it wasn't enough.
And Bill White is the hero of that ballgame.
He smashed a three-run homer in the seventh inning.
Short, a long-time Dodger nemesis, beats Claude Osteen.
The giant Pittsburgh game has been rained off.
So the Pirates are still alive and still breathing, even though staggering.
Cardinals leading the Cubs 2-0 in the ninth inning.
Atlanta Cincinnati also rained off.
The Mets shut out Houston tonight 1-0.
And the Americans, White Sox have picked up two more runs
and now lead the Yankees 4-2, going into the seventh.
Minnesota has taken a double header from Baltimore, 10-7 and 8-2.
Wow, they really laid it out.
Powerful hitting attack.
Cleveland, California not yet underway.
In the Minnesota double defeat of Baltimore, in the first game,
the Twins pounded out 10 runs that came on 13 hits.
In the night cap, they got nine hits, mounted for an eight-run attack
and winning 8-2.
Mudcat Grant got the victory in the first game, Jim Merritt in the second.
And the Baltimore Orioles Aces, both of them went down to defeat tonight.
The two are expected to open up against the National League Champions next week.
Dave McNally expected to pitch the opener if the Dodgers win, and Jim Palmer.
All right, we go to the seventh inning now.
The A's need three runs to get back in this ball game.
They'll lead it off with Rick Munday, a strikeout victim twice in the game.
Big strikeout occurred in the fourth inning with two on and two out.
And a nothing-nothing game at the time.
Here's the pitch to the left-hand batter, inside ball one.
Two of the runs scored in the sixth inning go unearned.
One ball and no strikes to Munday.
Here's the pitch, foul ball right back below us.
Rick Munday, number one draft choice two seasons ago
among all the free agents in baseball.
Arizona State product, an All-American in college.
In two years in the A's farm system, he has played on two pennant winners.
This year he had 22 home runs, knocked in 72 runs.
Here's a one-on-one pitch.
It's a little low, ball two, two-and-one account.
Rick has had trouble getting the wood on the ball in the last five ball games in which he's played.
He struck out at least twice in every one of them and three times in one.
Pitch, bouncing ball foul outside of first base.
Two balls, two strikes on Munday will be followed by Dick Green and Phil Roof.
Ken Sanders is warming up in the A's bullpen now.
Joe Grisenda did a fine job on cash.
He hit it right on the fist with what looked to be a slider.
Detroit four, Kansas City one.
The A's had three innings left in which to try to get those three runs back, keep it alive.
Now the two-two pitch, that's high ball three.
Wilson has not walked a batter in a game.
That's what makes it so tough to beat him. You've got to beat him with a bat.
He doesn't give you any help.
That guy fires a three-two pitch in there.
Ball four, Munday is on to start the seventh inning.
Wilson finally walked a man.
Odom walked four in the ball game.
And out of the four walks, three scored runs.
Now here's A's second baseman, Dick Green, who's 0 for 2.
Green started tonight's action with a 2.45 batting average.
Here's the pitch. Inside and high, ball one.
Kaffee Cavanaer has kicked out of a ball game for the first time in his big league career tonight.
Because of an altercation on the tail end of a double play in the sixth inning,
Kaffee tried to go from first to third on an infield out.
But the throw now, Dick McCullough put the tag on him and came up fighting.
The pitch fouled off by Green, one and one.
McCullough had the ball well ahead of Cavanaer's getting into third and Kaffee
doing all he could to try to get in there safely.
Slipped hard and he slid high into McCullough, who didn't like it a bit.
Before he let Kaffee up, he had stomped him a couple of times with the knees
and slammed that ball down into his chest.
McCullough could get up, got into a pretty good fight.
Here's the one-one pitch. Green bounced it one out through the middle.
That's in the center field, a hit.
Mundy rounding second, he's digging for third.
And he's going to make it.
No throw on the third base. Stanley bobbled the ball just momentarily out in short center.
So the A's are set up now with runners at first and third and nobody down.
And Larry Stahl will pinch it for Phil Rue.
Larry Stahl batting 249 in his rookie year in the big leagues.
He's been at the pipe 313 times, has 78 hits including five home runs.
I'd like to see history repeat here Mundy.
The very first home run the A's got all year long was off the bat of this youngster right here in this stadium.
Larry Stahl, who's got five home runs the first month of the season and hasn't had one since.
It's surprising to everybody to see Larry got those five that quickly.
He's never been a big home run production man in the A's minor league system.
Green links it first. Mundy at third.
Here's the pitch from Wilson.
Oh, ball one.
But what a ballpark this is for a left-handed batter to be up with a chance to hit the bat.
The easiest home run ballpark for a left-handed hitter in the American League including Yankee Stadium.
One at O'Conn. Wilson throws. That's in the dirt ball too.
Tim Tolton is on deck for Kansas City.
Jack Akers goes to work in the bullpen next to Ken Sanders.
Frank Scaff, Tiger manager, walking across the foul line at third towards the mound.
He has Orlando Pena ready at the bullpen in case he wants to use it.
You're going to see plenty of action among all the pitchers in this three-game series.
Until positions are clenched, the Tigers need at least two wins in the series to clench second place,
and the A's need one win in the series to clench seventh place.
And both managers are going to go all out to try to get those positions.
That's all for Earl Wilson.
Orlando Pena coming out of the Tiger bullpen as Earl Wilson is through for tonight.
So he leaves the game after pitching six innings, and he leaves it with a 4-1 lead.
Well, then we started a while ago going over how the A's have done this year in comparison to last year.
You can look at the losing streaks that the Bobb Club in Kansas City had last year and the ones the A's had this year.
This year the A's have never lost more than five games in a row.
Well, last year the 65th edition of Kansas City A's lost five in a row twice, lost six in a row one time,
the A's lost seven in a row three different times last year, and they lost eight in a row one time in 1965.
So we had actually last year a total of seven long losing streaks.
This year the A's have had as many as five losses in a row only one time.
The longest winning streak last year was four in a row, and the A's did that only one time.
This year the A's have had several four-game winning streaks and several three-game wins in a row
and actually won eight in a row at one time, which is the second best in the history of Kansas City baseball.
The one big factor you've got to look at this year is the athletic scoring.
The A's, in only 25 games out of 157 they played, scored as many as five runs in a game.
That's only 25 times this year have the A's scored five runs or over in a ballgame.
That's not too many. We were shut out 15 times this year.
The A's 20 times scored only one run, 27 times scored two runs, 25 times scored only three runs in a game,
and 25 times scored only four runs in a game.
Eleven times did the A's score more than seven in a game, and our high for the season?
Well, that came one night against the California Angels. The A's won by a score of 14 to 2.
So it's been a lack of scoring ability for Kansas City this year that it's kept the A's from being in that first division.
But it's certainly been the most interesting year and entertaining year in Kansas City baseball history.
Now here is Orlando Pena, a right-hand reliever for the Tigers, former Kansas City A's player,
pitching to Larry Stahl with a count of two balls and no strikes.
That Pena throws every pitch known to baseball.
Here it comes, Stahl takes it outside ball three.
Now Pena throws one more bad one. The walk will be charged to Earl Wilson.
Orlando is the best control pitcher the Tigers have, one of the best Kansas City ever had.
Here's the pitch. There's a fly ball right center field, hit pretty well, way back, way back.
Stanley on the warning track has got the ball in his glove and makes the catch.
Mundy tags up a third and comes across the score.
As Larry Stahl belted one over 400 feet into right center field,
if he had pulled that ball six feet it would have been a home run and the ball game would have been tied up.
But if is a mighty big word.
So now there's one away, the score four to two and the batter is Tim Tulten.
Tulten having a fantastic year for Kansas City with the bat hitting 333.
He's had only one home run. He was off-milled, startled by the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
Dick Green held out at first base.
That goes by the way as a sacrifice fly for Larry Stahl and the run batted in.
Boy he really hit it but here at Tiger Stadium, left center and right center and straightaway center,
are mighty big parts of the ballpark.
Here's Tulten batting for Joe Grisenda.
Runner at first and one away.
There's a drive to right center, it's going, it's going. Bye-bye baseball, we got a tie ball game.
Tim Tulten hitting the first pitch by Peña into the upper deck in right field.
Here's Dick Green stepping on home plate. Right behind him Tim Tulten.
Tulten gets the handshake of the Yankees players and the dugout he goes.
And he's swarmed by Kansas City Kelly Green Jackets.
And they're going to form all game.
Brand new and starting all over again and here's Ossie Shavarria to lead off for Kansas City now.
Boy that Tulten comes off that bench swinging a bat and this time he unloaded one way up in the upper deck.
So it's now Orlando Peña's ball game.
Here's a bit to Ossie Shavarria. He pops it up on the third base side in foul territory.
Here Tiger third baseman makes the grab in there two down.
Shavarria batting because Campaneros was kicked out of the ball game for the first time in his big league career.
Well if you can imagine being kicked out of a game here three days before the end of the season.
The kind of a game we have going here tonight and the kind of a series.
Boy it's great to have something going in the last series of the season too.
Here's Mike Hertzberger now.
Mike is 0 for 3 in the game. A pitch.
It's in there for a call strike.
Ken Tulten second big league home run. This was a man sized over.
It might have been out in Kansas City even.
Here's the 0-1 pitch. Swing and a miss strike two.
Peña ahead of Hertzberger. Here's the 0-2 pitch.
It popped up to the right side of the infield.
Norm Cash Tiger first baseman is there. He's got it.
But the Athletics have come back to tie the ball game in the seventh inning.
Three runs for Kansas City. Two hits. No errors. Nobody left.
So we go down to the last of the seventh inning. The score is the A's for the Tigers four.
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Last hand of inning number seven and coming out of that A's bullpen a guy who has done it before, Jack Akers. Jack Akers, the leading relief man in the American League, comes into a game for the 66th time this year.
He has tied the all-time American League record for saves but Jack comes in tonight with no chance at a save.
If he's a picture of record here tonight he'll either be a winner or a loser.
No save involved because the A's are not ahead right now.
Tim Tauten stays in the game as the A's catcher.
All right, Jack Akers must face, first of all, Al Kaelin.
Akers record, six wins, four losses, 26 saves.
This is the fourth picture used by Alvin Dark. The fixer Kaelin. Strike and get the name.
In Akers' last outing he picked an inning, gave up two hits, no runs.
Five days ago Jack worked in the game.
Now the 0-1 fix from the right-hander.
Spine-arm curve, Kaelin way out front swinging and missing, strike two.
Ball-of-ball game here in the Tigers Stadium in Detroit.
The Tigers got a 1-0 lead. The A's came back to tie it up on a tremendous homer by Gosgar in the sixth.
The Tigers scored three runs in the sixth to take a 4-1 lead and the A's came right back in the seventh with three to tie.
Here's the fix. A little low with a side-arm sinker. One ball and two strikes.
In this, the last of the seventh, it's Kaelin, Horton and Wirtz, the back for Detroit.
Here's his bet. Swing and a miss, strike three, he got Kaelin. Man and he threw a big breaking curve.
The Aker strikes out the man he faces.
Let's now pitch to Willie Horton.
That's score. Kansas City, 4-4 Detroit, last half of the seventh inning.
That's all nice, but with a game like this, you don't notice the weather.
Here's the line, the pitch coming. Side-arm curve, Paul strikes to Willie.
Willie Horton, big guy, is requested from the Tigers that he be allowed to wear Charlie Dressen.
Old number next year. Dressen, the Tiger manager, is the start of the year.
Passed away during the season. Here's the pitch. Swinging, strike two, right over the top of an Aker side-arm kicker.
No balls, two strikes.
Boy, there have been some outstanding defensive plays in this ballgame.
There have been some that have not been too outstanding.
The Conde in center field has made a couple of sparklers.
Aker's 0-2 pitch. Outside, ball one.
One ball, two strikes on Horton. One out here in the seventh.
The bottom of our game should be a Danny 2. Jim Nash against Denny McClain. Here's the pitch.
Side-arm curve, line to left. Horton hung out a rope for a base hit.
Horton way out of the front foot. Reached out across the plate that time and hit the ball between the third baseman and shortstop.
Aker made a fine pitch, but Horton has got such great power.
He just reached out there and one-handed the ball out in the left.
So Horton is on with one out.
And the batter is Don Wirt, who drew a walk in the sixth inning from Blue Mood Old on the starter here tonight.
Oh, the ran into defensive problems behind him and Wild is committed by himself.
Here's a pitch. Low and away, ball one.
One ball and those strikes to Tiger, third baseman Don Wirt.
Frank Scaff, the Tiger manager, actively participates in the game from the third base coaching box while the Tigers are at the plate.
Got that loud foghorn voice.
Here's the pitch. There's a line shot right field base hit.
Horton goes to second and holds on as Hertzberger is upholding.
So now the Tigers have teed off on Aker here in the seventh inning.
After he got K-line, Horton dumped one out in the shallow left and now Wirt has hit one between first and second and to right.
And that brings up Mickey Stanley who's had two hits in the game.
So Aker needs a double play ball thrown here.
Aker, Gary, a left-hander, and Fred Gladding, a right-hander up in the Detroit bullpen throwing.
Score tied 4-4 Detroit with an uprising again here in the seventh.
A fairly well-typical Detroit-Canva City ball game, I'd say.
Boy, if we had some thrillers with this club this year.
Aker throws. Strike it in there.
Artie Shavarria at shortstop as Campaneras was kicked out of the ball game.
And they're getting involved in a fight with Dick McCallop, the Tigers shortstop in the sixth inning.
Aker's no ball, one strike count to Stanley.
Inside and low, it's one and one.
And he's been taunting in the game for Kansas City behind the plate as he benched it for Joe Grisinda
and unloaded a two-run homer to tie it up.
A ball and a strike. Right-handed batting Stanley cocks that bat over his right shoulder.
Aker throws. Popped up outside of first. Danny Cater will have a play on it in front of the A's dugout.
He's got it. Renner's hold on at first and second with two down.
And now the batter will be Bill Frihan.
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The first pitch to Frihan is inside ball one.
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Martin leads off second. Here's the pitch.
That's over a called strike, one and one.
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Acres one-one pitch. Frihan takes it low. Ball two.
Two balls in one strike to count.
Big Tiger Catcher had a single in the second inning. He walked and scored a run in the fifth.
And hit the bouncing ball to shortstop in the sixth inning.
The Chavarilla fielded behind the mound and tossed underhanded to Dick Green at second.
Then allowed Stanley to go in there when Green dropped the ball.
Two balls, one strike count.
Acres chops away on that gun. Checks the runner at second.
Fires to the plate. Bouncing ball towards third. That's foul.
Brother count is two and two on Bill Frihan.
The A's are going to end the season having played only 160 games.
Instead of their 162, Boston and Washington have already ended their season.
It's just a matter of those two teams standing by and waiting to see what happens to Kansas City and New York after their standings.
Two and two count.
Acres down to the belt in the stretch. Frihan ready. Here's the pitch.
Outside ball three.
And now the runners will be going again on a 3-2 pitch.
The Tigers got their first run in the fifth inning with a count of three and two on McCullough and runners at first and second.
They broke McCullough line to single out in the right center field.
Really a big play in the game now is the fact that Mundy was able to cut that off and hold it to a single.
And hold them to one run on the play.
The Horton will break from second.
Work from first. The infield is back for Kansas City.
Acres call his side.
Tulsen gives him the target.
There go the runners. Here's a 3-2 pitch. Swing it on the loop around behind first.
Kader's going back. He's not going to be able to get it.
It falls in there. Here's Wink going to play two later run scores.
That ball was hit no more than ten feet in behind where Danny Kader was playing.
It went over his head and he started back on it and stopped for some reason.
And then started again and by then it was too late.
Dick Green headed over that way but could not get it.
The Tigers have broken the tie and lead five to four with runners at first and third.
When that ball was hit I thought the inning was over for sure.
There's no way in the world that ball could have been falling in there for a hit.
But Kader somehow turned wrong on the ball and never did get back on it at all.
It goes to the hit and a run scores.
Green picked it up and threw to the plate late.
Now Jerry Loughey's coming out as a pinch hitter for the pitcher banger.
Man alive what a weird game this is.
The Tigers are just being handed some runs.
Kader reacted at first as if he didn't see the ball.
He didn't even move after it at first and then he started back and he turned the wrong way on it.
He got his glove going away and it fell about a foot from where he ended up.
Now runners at first and third and here's Loughey up as a pinch hitter.
Acre fires, Loughey takes it inside and I have all one.
Five Kansas City four, last half of the seventh inning.
Acre's fetch, Loughey takes it low ball two.
Loughey's been bothered by bad legs a lot this year but he's hung in there and still played 110 games.
Jerry's average 233 about the lowest he's ever had in the big leagues.
He's a good line drive type hitter, hard to strike out.
Word at third, free hand at first, here's a pitch, that's a strike two and one now.
Two balls, one strike.
Acre's got the sign from Taunton, checks the runners.
He pitches, Loughey takes it high ball three.
Jack making a concerted effort to keep that ball up and in on Loughey.
What a game here at Tigers City and there will be two more in the series and it will all be over for 66.
Three and one count to Loughey, Acre's fetch, there's a drive to right field, falling fast, here's Herzberger coming in, he makes the three-screen catch.
Loughey had a line drive to right but Herzberger playing fairly shallow was able to get to it.
And that retires the side but the Tigers put the lead run up on the board.
Three base hits, no errors, two left. So we call to the eighth to score Detroit 5, Kansas City 4.
Justice victory is important to Kansas City here tonight, so is it for the Detroit Tigers because the Minnesota Twins already have gone on and taken a double header.
And the situation is this, it puts Minnesota's percentage at 550.
They're really waging a dogfight these two teams for second place money which is considerable difference financially per player.
Going into tonight's action, the Twins were just a game and a half behind Detroit.
In effect, right now, they are tied with the Tigers pending the outcome of this ball game.
If Minnesota or if the Tigers should lose this game, the A's able to come from behind, Minnesota would be tied with Detroit.
The only way the Tigers can stay ahead is to hang on here and get a win.
So they're fighting hard for that second place money. The A's are fighting hard to nail down a victory.
They must get one win in this series.
The A's need only one win to nail down seventh place for sure.
Washington and Boston both have finished.
Plumpee takes it low ball two. Plumpee's been bothered by bad legs a lot this year, but he's hung in there and still played 110 games.
Jerry's average, 233, about the lowest he's ever had in a big league.
He's a good line drive type hitter, hard to strike out.
Wirt at third, freehand at first, here's a pitch. That's a strike, two and one now.
Two balls, one strike.
Akers got the sign from Salton, checks the runners. He pitches. Plumpee takes it high of all threes.
Jack making a concerted effort to keep that ball up and in on Plumpee.
What a game here at Tigers State.
And there'll be two more in the series and it'll all be over for 66.
And one count to Lumpy. Akers pitch. There's a drive to right field, falling fast.
Here's Herzberger coming in, he makes a shooting test.
Lumpy had a line drive to right, but Herzberger playing fairly shallow was able to get to it.
And that retires the side, but the Tigers put the lead run up on the board.
Three base hits, no errors, two left.
Though we go to the eighth to score to truck five, Kansas City four.
The victory is important to Kansas City here tonight.
So is it for the Detroit Tigers because the Minnesota Twins already have gone on and taken a double header.
And the situation is this, it puts Minnesota's percentage at 550.
They're really wasting a dog fight these two teams for second place running, which is a considerable difference financially per player.
According to tonight's action, the Twins were just a game and a half behind Detroit.
In fact, right now they are tied with the Tigers pending the outcome of this ballgame.
If Minnesota or if the Tigers should lose this game, the A's able to come from behind.
Minnesota would be tied with Detroit.
The only way the Tigers can stay ahead is to hang on here and get a win.
So they're fighting hard for that second place money.
The A's are fighting hard to nail down a victory. They must get one win in this series.
The A's need only one win to nail down second place for sure.
Washington and Boston both have finished their season.
The Yankees could well end in the cellar.
They're trailing over Chicago and the only way they could really stay healthy is by sweeping that series against the White Sox,
something the Yankees don't figure to do against outstanding Chicago pitching.
In tonight's ballgame, for example, they've been getting a rookie starter in Fred Clages with veterans Pizarro and Wilhelm relieving.
Now this means that Eddie Snanky would have at his disposal Joe Harlan, and he would certainly have Gary Peters,
and he might be able to come back with Tommy John.
John pitched the other night on Wednesday night, but he will be able to come back on Sunday,
so it'll be a tough task for Ralph Hobson.
And if they do end up finishing in that spot in the cellar, it'll be the worst finish since the year 1912.
Hank O'Garry is the new pitcher for Detroit. They have their A's it up, Mickey Lulich and Larry Shering the bullpen.
Here's Jim Gosgur, the pitcher that goes to that side ball on.
Gosgur hit a long home run in the sixth inning. He lined out hard to straightaway center in the fourth.
He's one for three here tonight.
His home run would have gone out of the Kansas City ballpark, maybe even over the Brooklyn Avenue wall.
Here's the pitch. Here's a ground ball hit it right cut off for the second baseman Wood.
He throws him out at first one away.
So O'Garry gets his first man, and that brings up Ed Charles.
Boy, you talk about some sloppy hits against Akers.
The one that Willie Horton got started.
Two strikes on him, a sidearm curve ball thrown way out over the plate, away from him.
He reached out and one handed the ball in the left field.
And Wood got one out in the right field, hitting the opposite direction, and the one by freehand really hurt.
Here's a pitch to Ed Charles.
Spag gets in there.
Lowlitch a left-hander and Sherry a right-hander in the bullpen.
Last home run Ed Charles hit this year was against the Tigers, Denny McClain in Kansas City.
There's a curve. Charles chased it and missed it and cracked it.
That ball went in the dirt.
Ed was up there guessing on that one and guessed wrong.
Charles has hit two home runs against Detroit this year, one here against McClain and one in Kansas City against McClain.
That Tiger 20-game winner will be pitching tomorrow against Kansas City.
Airtime 1.45 in Kansas City.
Low balls, two strikes, one out, eighth inning. Tigers leading 5-4 in a thriller.
Now the 0-2 pitch. Curve ball, swing and a foul out and Charles gritted his teeth on that one.
Sherry got away with one. He hung a curve to Charles and he was guessing right that time, I'll guarantee you.
Just hit over the top of it a little bit.
No balls, two strikes.
And to Sherry Fierce, way outside he wasted his ball one.
The A's have finally come out with four runs in a game, which is the most they've been able to get for Odom all year.
And they got him from Moon after he leaves the ball game.
Here's a pitch. Curve and it's popped up in the shallow center.
Ball's going to be trouble. Stanley going out, can't get it.
Ed Charles dumps one in, in front of the center fielder and behind the second baseman.
They were playing real deep for Charles and Ed gets his third hit of the ball game.
That brings up Danny Kader, A's first baseman. Danny's had two hits.
The A's have had nine hits in the game, the Tigers have had ten.
Kansas City's had two home runs, Detroit has none.
But the difference in the game is basing on balls as it so oftentimes is, that and errors.
Odom walked four in the game and three of the four walks scored.
But still, Odom gave up only three earned runs.
Hank O'Garry now will pitch to Danny Kader.
Tigers swing way around for Kader.
Even in a double play situation, McCollum is playing deep and do his right.
O'Garry's pitch, Kader takes it on the inside, ball one.
West Dock and Joe Crescendo did fine jobs in relief for Odom,
to keep the A's close enough that they were able to come back and tie it up at four all.
Now gotta try to tie it again.
O'Garry fires high and away to Kader, two balls and O strikes.
Rick Mundy is on deck.
The Athletics without Campanera since the sixth inning when he was kicked out of the game.
To an O'Garry, Charles with a big lead at first.
Here's a pitch, Kader takes one down, a shoot, a call, strike.
It's two and one now.
That was a good pitch by O'Garry.
Kader straightens up at the plate, looks down to Luke Appling for a sign.
Here's the pitch.
Power ball outside of first.
Down into the A's bullpen area.
Norm Cash made a headlong dive trying to come up with that ball.
Detroit five, Kansas City four, that's the score.
The Athletics have 171 games and lost 86.
The Tigers have 188 and lost 71.
With only three to play counting this one.
Two-two pitch to Kader.
O'Garry won't be made right now as he steps off trying to catch Charles going.
Thompson goes out of the A's dugout down to the bullpen.
That time is called, Kader steps away from the plate.
He's rechecking with Luke Appling who's coaching at third.
Pitch, swinging, strike three.
Kader chased one and hit the dirt.
O'Garry records the second out of the eighth inning.
That's eight Kansas City batters down on strikes tonight and here's Rick Monday coming up.
Rick hasn't batted against left hand pitching up here very much.
Earl Wilson struck him out twice and walked him once while he was in the game.
Rick definitely has the power to reach the fence anywhere in the ballpark if he gets old to one.
Ed Charles at first carrying the potential tying run of the game.
This is the eighth inning. There goes Charles here to pitch. Monday swings and misses.
Freehand throws the second.
Too late Ed Charles isn't in there with a steal and he's hurt at second base I believe.
Ed Charles swipes second base but he comes up grabbing his side.
Billy Jones is running out there.
Boy did he flatten out to get under that throw.
Ed Charles has now stolen 12 bases this year.
And he's only been thrown out one time all year long.
Now the A's manager Alvin Dart has called Rick Monday back to the dugout.
And he's going to pinch hit with Joe Natic.
Ed Charles walking around down at second base.
Boy he flattened out when he hit the ground and immediately grabbed that left side which he pulled over in Washington.
Alvin doesn't want him to get out of the ballgame if he can help it.
Boy he needs that guy in the game.
Pando's gone into the Army.
And to show the effects of not having Charles on the lineup the team's leading hitter as you know he lost five out of six ballgames all at home.
Games that Charles in which he did not play.
And here tonight in his very first game back in nearly two weeks he's gone three for four.
Here's Joe Natic coming up to pinch hit for Rick Monday.
Alvin left Monday in there knowing he was going to have Charles steal.
And he wanted to help the runners by having the left-handed batter stand in there.
It's a little harder for a catcher to get the ball and throw over a left-handed batter.
All right Charles did it second. A base hit could tie it up.
Here's a flick to Natic.
Curve ball lined to left field base hit.
Charles rounding third.
He touches the bag.
He's heading home.
Harden throws to the plate.
Two late and the ballgames all tied up.
Joe Natic cuts through again.
And Natic has knocked in three runs with his last two base hits.
His batting average now is up around the 260 mark.
It was 257 going into this one.
A big base hit for Natic and the Swing and A's are back in business thanks to a timely stolen base by Ed Charles.
A timely bench hit by Joe Natic.
More than Alvin Dark is really operating here tonight.
And now here's Dick Green.
Green can get hold of one now and give the A's the lead.
Here's a throw to first base Natic back in there in front of you time ahead of the throw.
Gary sets and fires a curve ball.
The green is in there for a call of strikes.
Another thing in favor of Natic too, fans probably don't know, the guy's really been under the weather fighting a very severe chest cold.
He got over in Baltimore.
Sir, he's been pumped full of penicillin on this trip.
He leads it first.
Gary gives him a look.
Bet you it's a Dick Green.
High and outside, one ball and one strike.
Joe's been quite worried about his brother Bill Natic who was the starting quarterback for the Kansas State football team against Army and was hit in the back with a hard tackle or block and is in the hospital at Kansas State University in the infirmary there.
Probably listening in the game tonight.
Joe certainly sends his best.
Here's a pitch to Green.
Curve ball, here's a drive hit pretty deep to left.
It's way back, it's way back.
It is going to home run.
Dick Green tags them all as he hits a two run flat.
His ninth home run of the year and the Athletics are leading again seven to five in the eighth inning.
I'm chuckling at Gary.
The A's love nothing better than getting out of this guy and Gary's had a miserable time all season against Kansas City.
And he served up the golfer ball before the A's.
They tag him hard and he gets real hot very quickly.
When he's benched, Jack, he starts getting on him.
Good to see Green swing the bat.
Here's a pitch to Jack Aker.
The A's pitcher swinging a foul ball strike.
Green hits well in this ballpark too.
This is a park he can definitely reach and he hits that one high and deep into the left center field seat.
Now the pitch to Aker, outside one and one.
Oh what a ball game.
Fans I don't know about you but we're having the time of our life here tonight at Tiger Stadium.
The A's and the Tigers in a Donnybrook and I mean a real one.
Here's a pitch.
Curve is in there.
A call strike to Aker.
Dark has had great success with pinch hitters in this ball game.
Here's a one and two pitch, curved outside to Aker.
The first pinch hitter he used was Larry Stahl.
Stahl batting for Roof in the seventh inning,
knocked in a run with a 415 foot blast to right center field.
Here's a two-two pitch to Aker.
Foul out of play.
Right after Stahl hits that ball out into right center field and with a runner on, Dick Green, who had just singles.
Alvin Dark reached down and brought up catcher Tim Thalsen and he unloaded one up into the right field seats for a two-run homer.
Curve ball, Aker fouls it off.
And then he pulls Joe Nasik off the bench with one strike on Monday and Nasik got a hit to knock in a run.
So Alvin has gone to the bench three times tonight and all three men have had hits or RBI.
There's a pitch fouled off.
Two and two count.
Nasik will stay in the game for Kansas City.
He's out in the bullpen throwing the ball around with Monday leaving.
Boy, that Monday made two great plays defensively tonight.
Here's a Gary's two-two pitch to Aker.
Swinging, strike three and down he goes.
The catch, hang on and hold him for two innings to score Kansas City seven, Detroit five.
The full broadcast of this game has been lost.
The game finished with the Kansas City Athletics scoring one more run in the top of the ninth to win the game eight to five.
The winning pitcher was Jack Aker who extended his season record to eight and four.
And the loss went to Hank Aguirre who fell to three and nine every year.