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The Boston Red Sox faced the Detroit Tigers for a Saturday afternoon game at Tigers Stadium on July 8, 1967.
The Red Sox were led by the legendary Dick Williams in his first year as a manager.
Boston entered the game with a 40-37 record.
The Tigers were coached by Mayo Smith in his first year with the Tigers,
having coached the Phillies and Reds in the mid-1950s
before returning to baseball to manage a talented Tigers team that was on the rise.
They entered the game in second place in the AL East with a 43-34 record.
This is audio from the national TV broadcast featuring announcers Kurt Gowdy, Pee Wee Reese, and Sandy Kovacs.
Hi everybody, this is Kurt Gowdy, your play-by-play broadcaster of NBC's Major League Baseball, along with Pee Wee Reese and Sandy Kovacs.
Today we're in Tigers Stadium as two contending teams in the American League collide here.
While the Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox are playing over in Chicago, the Tigers and the Red Sox are going at it here.
And of course the Red Sox have been the surprise team of the American League this year.
A club that finished ninth last year, which has many fine players, right now is in pen and contention
and placed 47 games at home in the last half of the year.
The Tigers went into a bad slump for a spell, losing 14 out of 19, but they bounced back now and have won five in a row.
They defeated the Red Sox last night in 11 innings for their fifth victory in succession,
but I believe Pee Wee Reese and Sandy Kovacs will concur that the Red Sox, with four hitters in the top ten of the league,
came up with three runs to tie the ballgame last night in the ninth inning, and that's the kind of club they are.
You can't count them out without hitting in any game. What do you think, Pee Wee?
Well, Kurt, I'd have to agree with you, because the fans last night here, they had 25,000 of them.
They did not leave this ballpark because they thought that this Boston club does have any quality ball club,
and they showed just that, but they lost another one-one ballgame.
I'm looking forward to seeing this Boston ball club, because we haven't seen them this year. Sandy, about you?
Well, I feel the same way, Pee Wee. They've got some fine players on the ball club, like Kostramski and Petrocelli,
that I've never seen. I've never seen them play, and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
I know I'm going to see some of them in the All-Star game, but I want to see them before that.
Well, it seems like that we do know this Boston ball club, because Mr. Gowdy is always talking about what a great ball club they have,
and of course the Detroit ball club had a few injuries, but they're sticking right in there.
I think they'll stay in there. If they can stay close until K-line gets back, I think they've got a good chance.
It's a little tough on a ball club to lose, you know, the number one ball player on the club,
and possibly the number one player in the league, and stay in there.
It hurts them physically, on the field, and mentally, but if they stay close until his hand is better,
I think they're going to be right up in it all year.
Okay, Kurt, that's it from over here.
All right, today's pitchers here on a beautiful afternoon in Detroit.
Denny McClain, a right-hander, nine wins and nine losses, will be working for the Tigers.
And another right-hander, Lee Stang, three wins, five losses, will be pitching for the Red Sox.
NBC's Major League Baseball will continue from Tiger Stadium, Detroit, as the Boston Red Sox meet the Detroit Tigers.
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Now, the batting orders for today's game for the visiting Boston Red Sox,
at second base leading off will be Mike Andrews.
Batting number two at third base will be Joe Floyd.
In left field, hitting third, Carl Yastremski.
The clean-up man in right field is Tony Canigliaro.
The first baseman is George Scott, batting number five.
Rico Petroselli is the shortstop, batting number six.
Reggie Smith is the center field, batting seven.
Mike Ryan will be catching, and the pitcher will be Lee Stang.
Stang pitching, Ryan catching. The battery today for the Boston Red Sox.
The Tigers will have Lenny Green in left field leading off.
Gary Lumpy in third base, batting number two.
Dick McCallop in second base, hitting third.
Norm Cash in first base, batting clean-up.
Jim Northrook in right field, batting number five.
Bill Frean will be the catcher, hitting sixth.
Mickey Stanley in center field, batting seventh.
Ray Euler, the shortstop, batting eighth.
And Denny McClain will be fishing today for the Tigers.
And the men in blue are walking out, and they're really the men in blue today,
with their lovely blue shirts and blue pants and blue caps
in the American League here in the hot weather.
They take off their jackets.
They're Bill Valentine behind the plate, Marty Springstead at first base,
Johnny Stevens umpiring at second, and Bob Stewart at third.
Wally Moses out representing the Tigers, and Dick Williams,
the rookie big league manager, exchanging a lineup card.
He's looking right at you now over the shoulder of the umpire of the Red Sox.
It's always interesting to note that they make out the lineups in triplicates,
and when they go to the plate, they exchange lineup cards,
where the umpire is having one and each manager is having a lineup card.
Here are the standings right up to the minute now in the American League.
Chicago won yesterday.
They lead the Tigers by three, the Twins by three and a half, the Red Sox by six.
Ladies and gentlemen, our national anthem.
The National Anthem.
In the National League, the Cardinals won last night.
They lead the Cubs now who lost their fifth in a row to Houston by two and a half,
the Reds by four, the Braves by six, and the Giants by six.
The Giants won last night against the Dodgers.
They're sixth out instead of six and a half.
Though we still do have two sizzling races here in the Major League
as we're approaching the All-Star game break.
The Tigers are on the field,
and McLean is about to begin his warm-up pitches on a warm afternoon in Detroit.
The temperature is in the 80s here, it's a little bit muggy.
We have very little breeze.
What breezer is is blowing from home plate out towards second base.
This is one of the prettiest ballparks of the majors,
and incidentally one of the best action or hitting ballparks.
There's a good background here for the hitters,
and the stands are within easy range in left field and right field,
and also a low line drive is out here.
So it's not an easy park to pitch in unless you make those batters hit us straight away,
because there's a very deep center field here of 440 feet.
The idea is to keep the right-handers and the left-handers from pulling,
and to get them to hit into this deep center field.
Now as Denny McLean warms up, let's have Sandy Kovacs talk about the Tigers starting pitcher.
Kurt McLean's basically a fastball and curveball pitcher.
They say he's working on a slider now,
which might be because he has a little trouble with the curveball.
He hangs a lot of them, gives up a lot of long balls, a lot of home runs.
I think he's given up 23 already this year.
And I think the slider might be an easier pitch for him to control.
So he's trying to, you know, get another pitch to go with his good fastball and keep the ball down.
Denny can be awfully tough when he keeps the ball down,
because he's got good breaking stuff and a good fastball.
All right, Sandy, Denny McLean, an accomplished Oregon player,
is now pitching to Mike Andrews, who will be 24 years old tomorrow.
He's one of the old men on this Boston ball club.
Andrews batting 254, has three homers, 16 RBI.
This is his rookie season. He played for Dick Williams at Toronto last year.
He's a line drive type hitter, an excellent punter.
He leads the American League to sacrifice punts for 12,
and he led the International League to sacrifice punts last year.
Andrews, boy, you're scrimpsy for the Red Sox in the top of the first.
And he bloops it out in the center. It's going to drop for a base hit.
He hit a curveball.
Picked up out there by Mickey Stanley, so there goes your no hitter.
The leadoff batter of the game, my hand is on first.
And Joe Foy coming up, batting 231 with 12 homers, 28 runs batted in.
Foy got off to a very slow start.
He has now been hitting over 300, though, in his last 30 game.
He's coming along, and the Red Sox think he'll have a solid second half of the season with a bat.
He's a straightaway hitter, has a lot of power to left center and right center.
Playing cursing with ball one, he's just too big on deck.
These are two of the best batting ball clubs in the American League.
The Red Sox lead the league in batting,
and the Tigers and Red Sox are tied for the lead in home runs in the American League.
They meet you at 78 homers.
The way it's going with those bats, you have some action,
and they both play in ballparks that favor the hitters, Benway Park and Tiger Stadium.
One ball, no strikes.
Fastball is up high, it's two and nothing.
Foy is a New York boy. Foreign Air still lives there.
Last time the Red Sox were in New York while they were playing the Yankees,
his parents' home burned down.
And he went out and helped his parents move.
It's a meaningful weekend for him, one that he'll never forget, ball free.
Foy looks the ball over well. He led the Red Sox to watch last year.
Andrew's the first.
Nobody out top of the first inning.
He walked on four pitches. Now the Red Sox have runners on first and second.
Nobody out.
And Carl Yaspersky coming up.
He's been in a slump.
He's a streaky hitter. When he gets hot, oh, he can be as hot as anyone in baseball.
And he can cool off and have his problem.
He had only one hit in his last 19 times up, but he's still right up there in the batting title race, hitting 313.
Frank Robinson leads the league with 337, Yaspersky's third in batting.
Right away for him, he's pulling the ball more this year than he has in the past.
He used to be almost a dead opposite field hitter.
Right to him.
Vaniglia will be on deck. Andrew's is the second.
Boy up first. Nobody out.
Yaspersky's had 18 homers.
He had 20 the entire season last year. He's knocked in 54 runs.
A one-strike delivery. There's a line shot.
Cash has it. Roach the second.
And back to first.
He was going for the triple play. He had a six-double play at first.
He flipped over to Andrews, and Andrews is double off.
But Ray Euler, the shortstop, making the play.
Cash had visions of a triple play at that time.
He saw he had easily doubled off first.
Boy, all he had to do was run over there and step on the bag.
But he was hoping to get the toss to second and then back to him at first for the triple play.
And that was a fairly close play at second for the double play.
Quickly two down on a line drive, and here's Canigliaro up,
and he's been the hottest batter for the Red Sox.
He's hit five homers his last nine games.
Boy, getting back.
He had also 30 runs batted in in his last 26 games.
In other words, he's been getting an RBI for every ball game.
He got off to a slow start, and then he went into the service for two weeks to set him back.
Right, he's still a baby.
He's had a play with the Red Sox at 64, and he's only 22 years old.
Boy, at first two down, no score.
One ball, one strike.
Canigliaro has not been injured this year.
He's had a penance for getting bones broken.
He's had three broken bones.
High fly, right center.
Mickey Stanley galloping over, all good in and that's a fire as a start.
No run.
One hit for the Red Sox.
There were no errors, and one man left.
Medal of the first inning, our score.
The Red Sox, nothing that baggers are coming to back.
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Lee Stang warming up.
Sandy Kovacs on Mr. Stang.
Kurt Stang is three and five this year.
He's had a sore arm all spring.
They think he's come around now.
He's a sinker-slider type pitcher.
He'll throw that fastball inside and try and move the right-hand hitters back a little bit,
try and make you hit the slider, which is probably his best pitch.
Stang will throw an overhand curveball mostly to the left-hand hitters.
He doesn't throw too many to the right-hand hitters,
but he'll try and throw that straight overhand curveball to the left-handers as a third pitch to them.
Lenny Green, 13th professional baseball season, leading off for the Tigers,
called up from their Toledo Farm Club, and the first pitch is in there for a strike.
K-line out, Gates Brown is out, Willie Horton is ailing.
He may not play regular the rest of the year.
Tigers were just with their outfielders, so they made a trade to get better than Jim Landis
and brought Lenny Green up.
Green was released by the Red Sox.
He hit that on the line to Mike Andrews, and there's one down.
And Green has been hitting that ball since the Tigers brought him up.
That's what he's been coming through for.
Here's Jerry Lumpy, batting 191.
Here's another line drive back there.
Don Wirt, the regular third baseman of the Tigers, has a full hamstring muscle.
The Lumpy's in the lineup.
One-half, nobody on. Ball one.
Remember how small Bobby Shands used to be?
Well, this fellow's not much bigger. He weighs about 162, 63 pounds.
One-oh delivery. Strike.
Peewee, I think by the time he hangs in this ball game when it's over,
he'll weigh about 154, 55 in his hot day.
He understands a good chance of losing a little bit, because it's not inhuman here to drive today,
but usually these little fellows can take it better than the big ones.
Blowing away, ball two, strike one to Jerry Lumpy, Dick McCollough on deck.
These Tigers are loaded with left-handed batters.
We have five of them in their lineup. Two-one fits. Half the letter is two and two.
Stang's been with the twins and the Indians.
Two-two fits. Now we go three and two to Jerry Lumpy.
One-out, nobody on.
Wraps it sharply to George Scott. George makes the play and he's there, two down.
George Scott of Greenville, Mississippi, told us today that his mother's watching him play.
She bought a television set, especially for this game.
My mother's name's Magnolia, and he says, say hello to my mom.
She's looking in, never seen me play in the big leagues before, and he says,
I've got to get a couple long taters for today. I've got to get two long hits and make two good plays in the field for us.
So we'll see how he does today. He's played a fielding first base.
Two down, nobody on, and Dick McCollough up batting, two-fifty-two.
Here the fellow never looks too comfortable to play, does he, T.W.?
No, he doesn't. I would say there's a very unusual stance of you watching now.
He looks like a cigar, cigars go in in that there, but he can swing them back.
He pops it up for this fellow right. Tony Canigliero's there.
And it's an easy one-two-three inning for Lee Stang.
The Tigers three-up, three-down at the end of the first inning to score.
The Red Sox nothing, and the Tigers nothing.
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And here's George Scott now, Greenville, Mississippi up.
Heading 293, he's at 10 homers, 40 runs batted in.
When he gets a hold of one, he can ride it about as far as anybody in the game.
All one doing, it'll be Scott Petticelli and Reggie Smith for the Red Sox in a second.
Little change-up, backhanded by McLean, tosses him out, and we have one down.
Here's the starting shortstop for the American League in the All-Star Game at Anaheim Tuesday, Rico Petticelli.
The strike, he's been out of action about 10 days. He was hit on the wrist, the right wrist. You can see it taped up.
And he broke back into the lineup last night.
One ball, one strike, Petticelli batting 300, has eight homers, 33 RBI.
Red Sox have four of the top 10 batters in the American League.
And he hits that on the line, the shortstop, two down.
Ray Orler has been playing a mess of shortstop for the Tigers the last month.
Reggie Smith coming up, a boy who led the International League in batting last year with a 320 average, is off to a slow start.
But he's starting to come around. He's a switch hitter, batting 216.
He can run, too. He was drafted out of the Minnesota Twins organization by the Red Sox.
Ball one, two down, nobody on, no score, top of the second, MVC's Major League Baseball.
One and one to him.
One-one pitch to Reggie Smith is two and one. Al McLean has allowed 23 homers this year, one every five innings.
Last year he gave up 42 homers, the most homeruns given up by a pitcher in the Major League.
He has that gopher ball problem. Bounding ball to Norm Cash.
Does it on his own, and the Red Sox are three up, three down in the second.
In the middle of the second inning, the score is the Red Sox nothing, the Tigers nothing.
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He didn't get last night's scores here. In 11 innings, the Tigers beat the Red Sox 5-4.
It was Cleveland 6, Washington 3, New York shut out, Baltimore 3-0, White Sox nipped Minnesota 2-1.
The Angels took a double header from the A's 7-2, 8-2. We'll give the nationally scores a little bit later.
And those Angels really got red hot the last month, did we?
They certainly have, Kurt. They were 1,200 or 1,500 just not too long ago.
And it looked to me like Mr. Rigney, the manager, may be in a little trouble.
But right now, he's got that ball club along and they're only 6 behind. They're 43 and 40.
This ball club is ready to move. Glad to see it for Bill Rigney's sake.
And we'll be out in Anaheim Tuesday. That's the home of the Angels for the annual All-Star Game.
It will be seen on NBC television and heard on NBC radio.
Andy and I will be there to cover the game.
And we're looking forward to having Buddy Blattner, the very fine broadcaster of the California Angels,
working with us on both television and radio. Top man, buddy.
There's a high fly, center field, Reggie Smith calling for it. And Norm Cash flies out on the first pitch and the last for the second.
The gray fox coming up. Jim Northrup. He's young, but he's starting to get those gray hairs.
He gets some pitchers gray hairs, too. He's batting 276.
Or Homer's 31 RBI. He'll spray the ball around. He hits with power to left center.
He had the mumps a few weeks ago.
One out, nobody on. Lee Stang's pitch. He's ball one to him. Bill Freehand is on deck.
A strike to him, one and one. Northrup graduated from Elm College, Elm of Michigan.
He won letters in five sports. Quite an athlete. One one pitch to him.
Strike. We're about as close to the playing field here as any broadcast location in the Major League.
Our NBC booth is suspended just above the Tiger on deck circle.
You can almost reach out down there. Looking right down at Bill Freehand now, right down below him.
They're talking about that. You better watch his left-handed hitters, or we may get a little line driving this booth.
And I know that you'll be the first one to jump up there and grab it.
I'll be the first one under the table.
That's right. For years here, I've worked here, Peewee, and you've got to watch out.
These liners, wow, come up here. They really come up here. Strike free to Northrup. Two down.
Slow motion to Northrup's swing.
That's got under that pitch.
Two down, nobody on, and Bill Freehand up.
He'll be the starting catcher in the All-Star game for the American League.
He's on his way to a record that is not too pleasant.
Ball one, he's been hit 12 times this year, and the Tiger record for being hit most times in the season by a pitcher of 17 held by Heine Menouch back in 1923.
We have no score, last to the second.
Ball two.
It looks like every time we show a slow motion shot of a batter, he always swings over the top of the ball.
Wasn't a ball player one time had his shoes built up because he kept swinging over the top of the ball?
Downing ball to Joe Foy at third. Fires across to Scott, and that's it. They're down one, two, three in the last of the second inning.
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Mike Bryan from Haverhill, Massachusetts. Leading off, you'll be followed by Lee Stang, and then to the top of the order from Mike Andrews.
They have no score. Red Sox have the only hit of the game.
We're in the top of the third.
Ball one.
Playing using a lot of slow stuff, mixing it up with his fastball so far.
Ryan caught a game recently. He didn't know it, but he had a dislocated knuckle.
And knocked him three runs during the game.
One ball, one strike, they had to put the knuckle back in place after the game.
Played by the left, that knuckle out of place.
Ground ball to third baseman Jerry Lumpy.
It's flipped across and we have one down.
And officially Stang comes out. It reminds me, Pee Wee, of the 1950 All-Star Game in Chicago.
He probably played in that game. Ted Williams crashed into the wall at Comiskey Park and fractured his elbow.
And they had to operate on him a few days later and they took about, oh, three or four inches of elbow bone out.
And he stayed in that game and swung the bat and got a line by a single with a fractured elbow.
Yes, I do remember that I was there. Of course Williams, imagine he could hit right now. He hit.350 to put him back in uniform.
Ball one. A lot of people wonder about Ted. What's he doing? Where he is?
He makes his winter home in Isla Morada, Florida and he's in Lakeville, Massachusetts right now.
He has a boys' camp there in Cape Cod.
And so he combines between the two. One ball, one strike.
Did Ted Williams ever think about managing the Red Sox? I'm sure he could have had the job if he wanted.
He never wanted to manage. He said he would never want to manage and wanted no part of it.
So they get another Williams. Right.
One out, nobody on. One ball, one strike.
That's right. Williams always said, I might have had a little problem with the press. No.
One ball, two strikes. The Lee Stang, one out, nobody on.
That's a ball, two and two. The twins and the White Sox are underway. No score at the end of the first inning.
Merritt against Johns. Washington scoreless in their first inning. They're playing at Cleveland. It'll be Joe Coleman against Louis Tion.
The rest of the actions tonight in the American League. All three to the opposing figure.
In the National League, the Pirates are leading Cincinnati 2-0 at the end of the first inning.
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Three and two pitch to Lee Stang. A walk-in. Lost him with the head on the count.
The runner-on first, one out. Mike Andrews coming up. You know, before the game we asked Dick Williams, the rookie manager of the Red Sox,
if he thought the Red Sox would stay in contention the rest of the year.
Kurt, I think we'll get stronger as we go along. We've been losing a lot of one-run ball games and winning an awful lot the past couple of weeks.
But this ball club doesn't give up. It's a young ball club. It's gaining experience as the season progresses.
And our pitching is getting stronger as we go along. So I look for us to be up in contention the full year.
Ball one. By the way, Dick's mother, Mrs. Hodl, from San Gabriel Valley in Alph... let's see... Arcadia, California, in Alphadena.
Watching Dick today, we understand. NBC outlet out there.
He played with Dick, did he?
Yes, sir, I certainly did. And I saw him when he'd go for a ball in Edmonds Field. I heard he showed and I think he'd been a real fine outfielder.
Andrews takes ball two, two and one.
It was nice to hear Bobby Dorough, the great second baseman for the Red Sox for a number of years, who's now coaching for him at first base,
say that he thought that Williams had to take full credit for this ball club doing what it has done this year.
He's done a real great job in getting this ball club to be in the country club and to be a real contender.
Andrews hits that fly ball to Nicky Stanley.
And a fielder, two down. Stangs it first. And Joe Foy up one.
This game comes to you from Tiger Stadium in Detroit, live and in color, exclusively on NBC.
We have no score.
We're at the top of the third inning. The Red Sox have two down and Lee Stangs it first.
Foy's still batting two thirty-one.
He's right, he's caught that bad high up there, doesn't he?
Just noticing that, Kurt, we were talking about it a while ago, you know, Stemsky and Reggie Smith, a lot of them have that closed stance a little bit like Ted Williams.
I guess he's taught this ball club his frame of mind, hasn't he?
Not only that, he's worked with them, you know, down the minors. They're the high fly to straightaway center.
Stanley has flipped those sunglasses down.
That's it.
Three put-outs for center fielder Stanley so far. And the Red Sox are all out on the third.
They had no runs, no hits, there were no errors, but one man left.
So in the middle of the third inning, the score, the Red Sox nothing and the Tigers nothing.
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The Tigers bottom of the order coming up in the last of the third inning. Stanley, Euler, and McLean facing Lee Stang.
Stang's 30 years old, lives now in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
The boys facing Mickey Stanley can really play a marvelous defensive out there.
His hitting has been doubtful.
He can go get that ball, batting to 18.
Four homers, 14 RBI.
Ball one. Stang attended Drake University, played baseball, basketball, and football there.
This is his 11th pro season.
He came to the Red Sox last year along with Don McMahon and the trade for Dick Raddatz.
In fact, the Indians have given the Red Sox two starters, Stang and Gary Bell.
They've needed some pitching.
And they suddenly have come up with the best pitching staff they've had in a long time.
They're about third or fourth in the league now in team pitching.
They've played the last 20-some games, nobody has scored over three runs a game on them, or over four.
They're getting good, steady pitches.
High pop-up. George Scott, the first baseman.
Foul ground, one out.
The next batter, batting 208, no homers, 14 RBI.
Laying the pitcher will be up next.
Ball one.
One out, nobody on.
And the third.
Stang's lifetime record against the Tigers is five wins, six losses.
Two and one, Ray Euler, OY LER.
A two-one delivery.
Three and one now.
He doesn't walk many.
He gives up about two walks every night hitting three pitches.
And now he's behind three and one to Ray Euler.
Way in two.
Pretty good crowd here today, Saturday afternoon, Tiger Stadium.
Three-two delivery.
Bounding ball, Petticelli.
And Euler's on.
That's an error, charge to Rico Petticelli.
So, George Scott, Reese analyzed this one for you.
Well, you can take a look.
He got to, he didn't get a short hop.
He got about a three-quarter hop, and that's the toughest play you can get from a shortstop.
And Rico couldn't find the handle.
Say one thing about this, Kurt, this young shortstop you've been telling me about.
He can hit that curve ball.
If he can hit the curve ball, you're going to be a good hitter.
Pressed the button, fouled it off.
Mike Andrews diving in.
Rico's elbow.
We have no score.
After the third inning here, the Tigers have one out, Ray Euler at first base.
And the count is nothing in one to Dennis McLean.
There's a take at the right field.
They're stopping a runner at second.
It's Kanigale Aero Petticelli.
Dennis McLean, a pitcher, against the first hit for the Tigers.
Runners on first and second, and Lenny Green coming up.
He was batting 0-68.
He'll be talking about that one for a month.
Looks like Stang tried to throw him a high fastball, Kurt, making it difficult to butt it.
And a high fastball is probably a little easier to hit it.
Oh, the Detroit Tigers have a threat going on, the last of the third, with one down, runners on first and second.
A strike to Lenny Green. Lined out the second his first time.
Lenny didn't have too far to go to join the Tigers. He was playing at Toledo.
His home is here in Detroit, and he was commuting to Toledo to play minor league baseball.
There's a blooper to left at the base hit.
Coming in the score, the Swenski throw comes through the side of the line.
Holding the second base is McLean.
Lenny Green really filling the bill for the injured Gates Brown and Willie Horton.
There's been quite a job since they brought him up.
The Tigers lead now one to nothing.
Runners on first and second one out, Jerry Lump, he's grounded out his first time.
Ball back, strike one.
I heard that you were talking about a while ago that the cross ball club has put five left-henders to start this lineup.
We saw it here last night.
Dick Williams came to the left-hander the first opportunity he had.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he does it today.
There's no one, no accident to pull up in right now though.
Strike fifth, hammered foul on the ground, strike two.
Now Williams is moaning a daze.
I wish I had a couple left-hander starters to throw at these fellows in this ballpark.
The Red Sox, this Mel Parnell retired.
Oh, I've always had trouble coming up with a left-hander starting pitcher.
They've pushed the ballparks against the left-hander there in Boston,
but they've never been able to get any left-handers on their staff.
Good starters.
You see them against clubs here like the Tigers and the White Sox.
Yankees have a better on all those fellows.
One ball, two strikes.
Do you think the Red Sox maybe sometime built their ball club around their home park in Boston?
I believe most of the time.
I think most clubs do though, don't they, do you?
Do I have to answer that?
I mean you play after games there, you should take advantage of these.
Geography, one ball, two strikes.
Yankees always look for those left-handed full-headers.
The Dodgers, when they moved to L.A., they wanted speed and pitching out there, didn't they, Sandy?
Yes they did, Kurt, and the Yankees always had pretty good left-handed pitching.
Tigers like the left-handed full-headers here.
It's only 325 down the line.
The first thing that came to my mind was the old Dodgers, of course, you can always talk about because playing with them is so long.
We had eight or seven right-handed hitters and we had a right-field fence about 290.
Change-up full, Jerry Loughlin struck you out.
That's right, Snyder was the only one to really take aim on that fence, wasn't he?
That's right, of course, as you've said many of the time, it was a band box anyway.
That way I have to needle you a little bit.
Two down.
Right-hander's at first and second and Dick McCullough's about to flat out his first time.
Tigers are leading 1-0 here and the last to the third.
Ball in, McCullough.
It's funny sometimes what misfortune can do to a person, an organization, or an athletic team.
And misfortune right now seems to sort of spur the Tigers on.
It's right.
They have one-five in a row, seven of their last nine without K-line and Willie Horton and Gates Brown in the lineup.
The boys all knew they all had to bear down harder to make up for their absence.
One-and-one to Dick McCullough.
The Plains at second, plenty of greens at first.
Her ball missing. Two-and-one.
Two down.
Two-one pitch.
Three-and-one going.
Norman Cash on deck.
Into two innings, the Twins and the Whitesides. No score.
Three-one delivery.
Ops it up. Outside of first base, George Scott. Waiting for that one to come down.
So Stang gets out of the jam.
In the third, the Tigers had one run, two hits, one Red Sox error, and two men left.
At the end of the third inning, the score of the Tigers, one and the Red Sox, nothing.
1965. Remember the Indianapolis 500? Rookie Jimmy Clark won in record time.
The entire Northeast went dark in history's biggest blackout.
Women discovered the miniskirt, and Paul Benson tried Ballantine beer for the first time.
It's okay, but I still like my beer better.
Now that bothered us, so we did something about it.
1967, and Paul Benson tries Ballantine again.
Now that's a great glass of beer. What'd they do?
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1967 Ballantine is so good, it's now a premium beer. And it says so right on the label.
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We pause briefly for station identification. This is the NBC television network.
Channel 6 Connected.
Kurt Gowdy, Pee Wee, Reece Sandicoffax with you again from Tiger Stadium.
As we're going to the fourth inning, Yastremski, Kanigaleiro, and Scott up for the Red Sox.
There's Carl Yastremski, won a batting title three years ago.
Before the game, we ask him his chance of winning another American League batting championship.
Well Kurt, I don't want to predict anything. Right now I'm down about 315, 314, somewhere in that area.
Plus you have Tony Oliva coming in on strong, hitting the ball well.
Expect him to improve, and also you have Kalei and Robinson.
It's a tough thing to say. You just go out and put out 100% every day, and let's see what happens.
They all want a pennant.
Well, they all want a pennant, Boston. They want one here in Detroit, too.
They haven't had them for a long time.
Carl hit it and lined into a double play his first time.
Oh, and we have a wire here from Winter Haven, Florida. That's the spring training base of the Red Sox.
Winter Haven, Florida, very proud of the time record of the team, offers heartiest congratulations.
There's a line drive in the gap in right center.
That ball is going back to the wall. Yastremski's going in a second, and he has a stand-up double.
He's led the American League in doubles three of the last four years.
The telegram was signed, George Parton, Jr., president of Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce. Thank you.
Tony Canigliaro flied out to center field his first time.
That was Yastremski's 16th double over here.
You ever hear one of his rock and roll records, Canigliaro?
No, I haven't heard.
What a good rock singer.
How's it out of place, back one?
Last winter, Tony, he's never been much of it.
Yastremski's second, a hunter of fishermen, and a friend of his, a pilot with one of the airlines,
talked him into going over to Africa on a safari.
Tony said it cost me $5,000, but it was worth it.
He had the time of his life, went on a six-week safari.
One ball, one strike.
Must be single, isn't it?
He is.
Dennis McLean pitching to Tony Canigliaro with the Tigers ahead one to nothing.
We're in the fourth inning.
Yastremski's on second, nobody out.
Slow ball, a little bit high, two and one.
Canigliaro, he attacks the ball, he sticks his head right over that plate, charges right into it.
He's aggressive at the plate. Three and one to him now.
Yastremski getting his lead.
Fourth inning, NBC's Major League Baseball. Hope you're enjoying the game this Saturday.
Fly ball out to Mickey Stanley. Yastremski's tagging a second.
Stanley's deep, grabs it, is firing a third.
Good throw, a little bit off. Yastremski's in the third base.
That's the fourth putout for Mickey Stanley.
Now the Red Sox have a tying run at third with one down.
And George Scott coming up, rolled out to the pitcher his first time.
He explains doing one thing to you, he's making those batters hit that ball straight away for the most part.
Yes he is, Curtin. I was thinking that with a count three and one on Canigliaro.
He's been hot lately.
I didn't think he would get too good of a pitch to hit.
Of course that was not a bad pitch, he's a curve ball out away from him.
That fooled him a little bit.
Of course George Scott is no soft touch.
They're appealing a second base.
And the second base umpire, Stephen Gelover to the first base umpire who had called to play.
The second base umpire was going out to watch the play in center field.
So Springstead had been covering, watching the runner tag a second, a strike.
And they said Yastremski's tag all right went on to third, didn't leave too soon.
One strike to George Scott.
Yastremski a third, one down.
Scott hitting 292.
Flows the fastball in there, oh and two.
Scott last year hit a lot of home runs early in the year.
He was going downtown on every pitch.
Now he's just trying to hit the ball back to the middle this year and hit the right field.
He struck out a lot last year.
Every now and then he'll take a big ripple though.
No balls, just strikes.
That hurts Kurt.
You got the man on third and less than two out and you don't get a piece of the ball.
He's got no chance.
I would say he did a pretty good job of pitching too.
He just got through curving Penigliari two or three times there.
And Scott may have been looking for a curveball.
He hit him two fastballs and I guess he was still waiting for that curveball.
He threw him three fastballs, he took all three of them.
And Feticelli takes ball one.
Two down, Yastremski a third.
Yastremski led off this inning with a double.
The Tigers are ahead one to nothing.
Fourth inning.
The Panthers slow and two and oh. The Twins and the White Sox now have gone three innings, no score.
Jim Merritt against Tommy John.
Washington leads Cleveland two to nothing at the end of an inning and a half.
Pirates lead the Reds two to nothing at the end of two and a half.
The only other game's going.
Blaine boring that fastball through. A two and one count to Rico Feticelli.
Rico says his two greatest thrills in life.
He had twin boys here a few weeks ago and ended up being picked for the All-Star team.
Two one pitch.
That one just missed three and one to Feticelli.
Yastremski on third, two down.
Three one delivery.
Tell me that Feticelli's a Brooklyn boy?
Right, he used to go out and he was telling me today, he said, Pee Wee used to be one of my heroes when I was a little boy.
He used to go out and watch you fellas play all the time. He's a Brooklyn boy.
Kurt Pee Wee was one of my heroes when I was a little boy.
Me too. Three two pitch, ball four.
Runners on first and third, two down. Reggie Smith coming up.
The Tigers have one run, two hits. The Red Sox have no runs, two hits.
Smith rounded out his first time, batting 215.
Smith began as a shortstop, went to third base. He has one of the most powerful throwing arms you'll ever want to see.
Ball one. You can get some argument, of course, that's what makes baseball so much fun. You can argue all the time about things.
Red Sox players believe that Smith has the strongest throwing arm of anyone in the American League.
There are the two runners, Yastremski a third, Feticelli a first.
Two down. The plane has walked three so far.
And the plane will be pitching one and nothing to Reggie Smith.
Now it's two and oh.
Two balls, no strikes.
Took a little bit off to him that time, two and one.
Red Sox have lost something. Their last nine losses have been by one run.
Nine one run losses.
Last twelve losses have been by one run. The tenth.
Got to be tenth.
The two-one pitch.
Fly ball to the opposite field.
Lenny Green's waiting for it.
And that's all for the Red Sox in the fourth.
No runs, one hit. There were no errors, two left.
The middle of the fourth inning the score, the Tigers won and the Red Sox nothing.
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Norm Cash, Jim Northrup, Bill Frihan up for the Tigers in the last of the fourth inning.
Cash fly to center his first time up batting 258.
Right, you know you look at Cash, you wouldn't think so.
He's got a football player.
San Angelo, Texas, junior college.
He was drafted by the Chicago Bears one time. The ground ball out to Mike Andrews.
One down. Cash out, Andrews to Scott. Jim Northrup struck out his first time.
We'll be in Dodger Stadium next Saturday for NBC's Major League Baseball, the Chicago Cubs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Four o'clock Eastern Daylight Time.
Ball in.
Tigers won the Red Sox nothing, last of the fourth.
Sharp ground ball down to Scott.
Flips to stand covering, two down.
And Bill Frihan coming up now, grounded out his first time.
One thing that has helped the Red Sox pitching this year has been their best defensive infield in some time.
That's a solid short. Andrews has stepped in, done a good job with the rookie at second. Scott's fine first baseman, employees very steady at third.
Ball one.
And I believe the next pitch will tell you that infield's pretty important, right Sandy?
Yes it is, Kurt. Those great plays behind you make it a lot easier.
We'll strike to Frihan, one and one to the big Tiger catcher, Mayo Smith.
Looking on a new Tiger manager, brand fellow. Two and one.
Kurt, Phoebe and I were talking, you know, made a comparison between Scott and Hodges.
But we decided that Scott handles the pop flies a little better. Gill used to shake under pop flies.
He'd catch bad hobs and ground balls and he hated those pop flies.
There's the ball, hits sharp with a Joe Foy at third.
And they're down one, two, three. We're rocking right along here. A brilliant pitching duel between McLean and Stang.
So at the end of the fourth inning, the score, the Tigers won and the Red Sox nothing.
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We'll be in Dodger Stadium at the surprising Cubs and the Dodgers play next Saturday.
Ron Sano, Billy Williams, Ernie Banks, the Cubs team, and the ever-lovable Leo DeRosha face the Dodgers.
The folks in Chicago and Los Angeles will see the game between Houston and San Francisco.
It's a late game starting 4 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time, exclusively on NBC.
And moving in now to take over our play-by-play, another NBC exclusive, Mr. Pee Wee Reese.
Thank you, Mr. Gowdy. Mike Ryan's the first hitter batting 234.
It's been all pitching with Dennis McLean giving up two hits and Lee Stang giving up two hits, but the score, the Trot won.
The Red Sox nothing. The ever-lovable Leo DeRosha.
I thought you were going to bring me back and say the ever-lovable Pee Wee Reese.
Curveball. Little high ball, too.
Sandy, I guess Leo may be listening down in Houston today.
If you ever happen to play for him, sometimes you don't think he's too lovable.
Well, the only time I played for him, Pee Wee, was when he was a coach.
I didn't play for the best manager. He was a lovable sort of coach.
Two balls, one strike on Mike Ryan, leading things off with the Red Sox in the top half of the fifth inning.
He'll be followed by the pitcher-based standing. A real good swing, no contact. Two and two.
The last time we were in the Trot, we saw Dennis McLean pitch.
I was thinking then that he may have kept his fast ball and he's breaking stuff down a little bit better then, but he's had real good success.
I think he's been up the ball a bit more today. He's gotten the breaking ball up a lot, but it's been taken.
A lot of times, you see that ball hit, you never get to see if the breaking ball is up or not because it gets hit first.
But Red Sox are taking a lot of high curve balls today.
This fellow sitting behind the plate, Bill Frien, has something to do with what that pitcher throws, I'm sure.
And he did a great job on George Scott a while ago. I've thrown him three straight fast balls. Change up in a dandy.
You could see Mike Ryan was out in front of the off-speed pitch of his fast ball.
Two and two pitch. He's made good use of it today, Peewee. He's gotten quite a few hitters on change ups.
And last time we were here, he didn't throw that many. Maybe one or two during the ball game.
He's probably thrown ten or twelve of them already in the four innings.
May Stang walked his only time up today.
Dennis McLean, his only time up today, the line drive base hit out in the right field.
Pitchers. I like a eagle, but Mr. Stang, a good hitter McLean.
Fast ball right in there. The ball strike one. And this ball game is moving right along.
Remember, next Saturday we'll be out in L.A. for a game between the Cubs and the Dodgers.
The Cubs ran into a little snag lately. They've lost five straight.
Let's hope they bounce back.
One strike on Lee Stang.
In there for a call strike two. And McLean said, I'll not walk to you this time.
It's a uniform of Stang. It's quite a bit of perspiration on it. It's hot.
Humid. Dennis McLean talking about Conigliaro.
Freehand moves outside and the umpire started to come up with that right hand.
Said it was a little bit too high. One ball and two strikes.
Kurt, the Conigliaro singer. Dennis McLean's an organ player, isn't he?
Right. They'd make quite a combo together, wouldn't they, in the offseason?
Did he say he just made a record or something?
A lazy looper out in the right field. Jim North repented. Takes it one-handed.
Tony made some records a couple of years ago. I don't believe he made any last year at all.
But he was cutting records a couple of years ago for a company.
Incidentally, McLean, we understand, is opening a new restaurant here.
And they're going to name it the Upper Deck.
There you go. Oh.
The Upper Deck. And they've been kidding him about all the home runs in the Upper Deck.
He's been giving up here, so that's a good name for the restaurant.
While talking about the home runs, it off with Dennis McLean.
He's in pretty good company with Ramis and Robin Roberts. Both of them fine pitchers.
High fastball will get you in trouble occasionally.
Andrew, the second baseman, takes the first pitch, two low, ball one.
Pittsburgh leads Cincinnati 3-0 after three.
And the American League after two. Washington, Cleveland all tied up 2-2.
Minnesota, Chicago after four, no score.
He hit a ripple at that one. One ball and one strike.
White Sox and the Twins. Those White Sox get some kind of pitching.
They are never out of the ball game.
The White Sox, I'm talking about. Curveball, outside.
Two balls, one strike.
On Andrew.
Used to be a shortstop. Moved in the second base and Dixville Williams said that's the spot.
He looks better there and he did a shortstop.
Ball hit right back through the middle. McAuliffe up with the ball.
Flips the ball over Cash and that's all for Andrews.
And that's all for the Red Sox in the top half of the fifth inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors and no one left on base.
We have the four and a half and he's a play. It's the Tribe. One, the Red Sox, nothing.
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Before the game we talked to Mayo Smith and asked him how's the ball club been doing since he lost Al Kalin,
here's what he had to say.
You know, how's your ball club been looking since you lost your star Al Kalin?
Well actually, Pee-Wee, we've won seven and lost two since Al's been out of the lineup.
We were very fortunate in coming up with Jim Landis and also Lenny Green due to the injury to Al and Gates Brown.
The first hitter for the Tigers, Mickey Stanley, the center fielder.
Having a little trouble that bad but he can go get that ball with the best of him.
Lee Stang, first pitch to him is outside, ball one.
For a big fella, he can run.
Has five stolen bases, has not been thrown out.
Batting two seventeen, poor home run.
Ball hit out into right field.
For Nicolai Arrow right there and takes it for out number one.
Not too much action in this ball game, it's been mostly pitching.
And Stang and McLean have taken over.
Euler, the shortstop batting two oh seven.
So this youngster last night, he made two or three some kind of plays.
He can play a lot of shortstop.
Ball hit off the end of his bat, Andrews up with the ball, flips the ball over to Scott.
So it's two up and two down here in the bottom half of the fifth inning.
As the Red Sox whip that ball around the in field.
They have lost three straight.
The Tigers are in second place behind the White Sox.
White Sox forty-three and thirty-one and the Tigers forty-three and thirty-four.
McLean who's got a base hit one for one today.
Takes a look at his third base coach, Tony Cucinello.
Mr. Cucinello said he's going to there. He is old Tony.
He was with Al Lopez for many years.
Every place that Al managed, Tony Cucinello went with him.
Said he's going to play a little golf with Mr. Lopez down in Tampa during the All-Star break.
Take a little bet on Mr. Lopez.
A little grounder out to Andrews. The ball bounces up on him.
He comes up with it over to George Scott.
That's all for McLean and that's all for the Tigers here in the bottom half of the fifth inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors and no one left on base.
The score after five completed in Detroit one, Boston nothing.
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Let's pause now for station identification.
Sunday nights too, it's let's make a deal at 8.30, 7.30 Central Time.
1964, and Bill Curtis tried Ballantine beer.
I like it, but mine tastes better.
1967, and Bill tries Ballantine again.
Hey, that's great beer. What did they do?
We improved it. Ballantine is so good, it's now a premium beer.
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Kim Novak and Frederick March meet in the middle of the night tonight at 1115 here on Channel 6.
Will be the first hitter.
Batting 230 has 12 home runs.
Hit 321 during the month of June.
As you can also see there, the Red Sox have not shown too much of that power today.
Of course, neither have the Tigers.
And sometime the pitching has something to do with it.
Gertrude has some scores.
Later score over in Chicago, Peewee, the twins in the White Sox, no score at the end of 5.
Merritt against Tommy John. They're in the sixth inning now at Comiskey Park.
Alrighty. Joe Foy will be followed by Carl Yostrinsky.
The high fly out in the center field should be no trouble for Mickey Stanley.
And takes it for out number one.
As both clubs are jumping on that first pitch.
Yostrinsky wants to have the umpire to take a look at the ball.
As Mr. Ballentine does.
Mickey Stanley out in center field.
Had a busy day. He's at five foot outs.
Yostrinsky batting 314.
He lined a double in right center his last time up.
But failed to score.
You can see this is kind of a close stance. You'll get those hands high in the air.
Comes down on the pitch.
Fastball in there for Carl Strachan.
Yostrinsky doubled his last time up. He lined in a double play.
His first time up so he's one for two.
Take a good look at this fella.
Not a bad hitter.
He takes one of the hardest cuts in baseball.
Comes around and hits him in the small of the bat.
But he really takes a vicious cut. Always has.
Won a batting title his first year in the Carolina League.
Lost a batting title the next year in the AAA American Association as one American League batting title.
He's always up there in each league fighting for the batting chance.
Little tamper. That pitcher will have to get over there.
Cash flips the ball to McLean covering and that's all for Carl Yostrinsky.
Every time I see Yostrinsky, for some reason or another, he reminds me of Ted Williams.
He used to wear his hat cocked a little bit like Ted always did.
Swing a little bit like him.
Worse when you start comparing someone to Ted Williams when they actually swing at bat.
Not too much of a comparison.
Even though Yostrinsky is a real fine hitter.
Speaking of good hitters, there's a pretty good hitter right here. Tony Conigliaro.
And I wouldn't say that name too often, do we?
And a tough. I'll call him Tony C.
Conigliaro, Yostrinsky, Ettracelli.
Get Reggie Smith up there after a while.
Tony crowds that plate.
See what freehand does here.
Keep that target low a little bit out in front of that good change up at McLean.
It's two away, two strikes on Conigliaro.
We're in the top half of the sixth inning here at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
And the Tigers scored one in the bottom half of the third inning.
Boston has failed to score.
A wide stance by Tony.
And he crowds the plate.
Kerrball outside. One ball and two strikes.
It's a younger brother that's a pretty good ball player.
Right his brother Billy's in the service now, but he's also a coming star.
The fastball foul straight back. One and two is the count.
Pittsburgh now leads Cincinnati five another.
They came up with two in the fourth.
The one and two pitch.
What happens to change up when it gets a little high like that, Sandy?
What's the pitcher do?
I think a lot of times Billy you didn't really want to throw it.
You get it that bad you almost think I'm afraid to throw it here and you never even get it close to the plate.
It's the safest way to throw it probably.
The ball hits pretty hard out in the right center.
Northup goes over. He calls for the ball and takes it.
Way out there. That's all for Penegriero and that's all for the Red Sox here in the top half of the sixth inning.
No runs, no hits, no errors and no one left on base.
And the score after five and a half innings of play, Detroit one, Boston nothing.
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Join us for Sportsman Holiday tomorrow and every Sunday at 5.30, 4.30 Central Time on most of these NB stations.
Who do you think is going to be the host? The old sportsman himself, the old fly fisherman, Kurt Gotti.
What kind of a show is this Kurt? Pretty good?
Good show.
I'm sure it is.
Lenny Green who used to be with the Red Sox.
Doing a real fine job as you heard Mayo Smith say.
The best thing he did was to bring up Lenny Green and get Jim Lannis and now K-line got hurt.
Great job of this fellow.
One ball and one strike on Lenny.
Batting 381.
Hits the ball to all fields.
That pitch was too low.
Two hits by the Tigers and two hits for the Red Sox.
One run for the Detroit.
Not any by the Red Sox. There's a ball hit out into the right field, the right fielder.
The Panigliero cannot come up with it.
Look out, he's going to be batting a thousand.
Pretty hard to do I guess.
Jerry Lumpy.
You'll notice now the Tigers throw five left-handed batters at Stang.
Lumpy chokes up on that bat.
Batting second. They may move this runner.
There he goes. Ball hit on the left field. This ball could be foul.
Lenny Green and he was on his way.
As Mayo Smith had the hit and run on.
That's what you have to do sometime when you lose a fellow like Al K-line and Willie Hartman, Gates Brown.
You've got to hit and run and steal a little bit.
You lose your power, B-Wheel, you've got to try something to score some runs.
Squeeze a little bit.
Runner at first base, that's Lenny Green, the hitter.
Jerry Lumpy swings right to a fastball.
Got a left-handed pitcher warming up.
His name is Lyle.
A good shot right there. You get a chance to see the base runner and the hitter.
Very seldom see him send a runner with two strikes on a hitter.
No one out. Sometimes he'll do it with two men out.
They throw him out, you just have your hitter come leading things off the next inning.
Fastball outside. One ball and two strikes on Jerry Lumpy.
As he checks with the coach, Cuchinela at third base.
Fowler first came up with the Yankees with Kansas City.
Bouncer, and there goes Lenny Green.
Foul ball.
Come on back, Lenny.
One ball, two strikes on Jerry Lumpy.
The Tigers lead this ballgame by a score of 1-0.
Denny McLean against Lee Stang.
There's the young left-hander, Lyle, and he throws pretty hard.
Fastball outside. Two and two.
Lyle, they call him Sparky.
Two and two is a count on Jerry Lumpy.
Watch the base runner.
He didn't go. It's too low. Green and two.
Well, as we've often said, a fellow batting in that second position, he's supposed to be able to handle that bat and get a piece of the ball.
So, if we count three and two, no one away.
I'm sure that they'll send Lenny Green.
That was not his good move. He may come back with a better one on this one.
Gets no one away when the bottom half is six inning.
There goes the runner.
Lazy looper, boy, in foul territory takes it.
Back to first base, Lenny Green.
Have a real nice crowd here today and a lot of youngsters.
The hitter is Dick McCollum.
Always like to walk in a ballpark and
see those young bands.
Dick McCollum.
Takes the first pitch. It's outside ball one. Let's see what he's done today. He's 0 for 2.
Batting 250.
He has 15 home runs.
Going outside ball two.
On at first base.
Lenny Green.
Let's pick George Scott, hold him on.
You can see Dick McCollum did not like that call.
He did a few words.
Mr. Valentine behind home plate.
You can't win, Dick.
All he can do is get an early shower.
Mayo is coming out now. Of course he's not protesting the strike because if you do, you're out of the ball game.
He's out there to protect McAllby. He didn't want to see him going out of the ball game.
There's the super scout.
Mr. Mayo Smith.
That's what he was called his title when he worked for the last five or six years with the Yankees. A real fine person.
Down in Florida.
He goes from inside to outside.
I imagine McAll of right now is thinking that plate must be about 30 inches wide.
Just got the black.
Sometimes when you look at the curveball on the outside, you go out for it and you throw that fastball inside.
Hard to stay on it.
Good pitch right there.
McStang wanted that one, Peewee. I think if they called McCollough out, we might have lost McCollough for the day.
Three and two. One away. Lenny Green on it first base.
I imagine he'll be running.
Flip over there to Stang.
The score one to nothing. Detroit over Boston. We're in the bottom half, the sixth inning in Detroit.
There goes the runner.
Pitch was a little outside. Lenny Green moved down to second.
That's the first walk.
Giving up a lead, Stang, and as Kurt told you, this fellow doesn't walk too many man. Average is about two men.
That's very good.
Here comes my old friend coming out of the dugout.
Sal Magley, pitching coach for the Red Sox.
The barber.
He wasn't your friend when he was with the Giants.
Oh, I'm telling you, I used to hate this man.
I'm talking to Sal about it this morning, Peewee, about coming from the Giants where he and the Dodgers sort of had a running gun battle for years and all of a sudden coming over to pitch for the Dodgers.
And I guess he and Carl Perillo became the best friends after years of hating each other.
Wow, wow, there's a break in the action here at the Tigers today. And the score, Detroit 1, Boston nothing.
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The new pitcher.
Saw him warming up down there a while ago. Al Sparky Lowe.
He was 2-2 at Toronto.
He's a relief specialist from Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania.
Been two games here such as been in Detroit.
I haven't scored off him.
Sandy, how does he throw?
Left-handed, Pee-wee.
Thank you very much. What are you trying to tell me? You haven't seen him pitch?
No, I haven't, Pee-wee. But if he's a relief specialist, I'd have to bet that he throws a sinking fastball.
Probably has a pretty good breaking ball slider.
Most of your relief pitchers are guys that can make the opposing players hit the ball on the ground.
Yes, sir. The great relief pitchers always keep that ball down, it seems like.
They usually have a sinker. Kurt, you have some other scorers.
Minnesota, Chicago, no score at the end of 6. Merritt against John.
Cleveland, 3. Washington, 2. Into 3. T on for the Indians. Pretty relieved Coleman in the second.
Tony Horton, homeward in the third, nobody on for the Indians.
New York to Baltimore, twine-nighter tonight.
Doubleheader Kansas City to California.
The Pirates lead Cincinnati 5-0 into 4-1-1-2.
The only other game going right now in the national.
The first pitch to Norm Cash, the breaking bit.
A wild swing at it. Last night.
What is that pitcher's name? Wasilewski?
Pitching for the Red Sox.
They had Norm Cash up there.
Nick Williams had a left hander warming up down there.
I know he thought about bringing him in.
Had a little trouble and Cash hit one nine miles out in the right field.
For the day, Mr. Williams bringing that left hander in to pitch to Cash and he struck him out.
Runners on first and second down at second base, Lenny Green.
Over at first base, Dick McCallum.
Another left hander, Jim Nothra.
Batting 274.
We have a right hander warming up. It's Brandon.
May see him come in the next inning to pitch the bottom half that line up who's all right handed.
Say one thing, this wow looks pretty good.
There's Brandon.
One ball and one strike. Lenny Green at second base.
At first base, Dick McCallum.
One to nothing.
Troy over Boston.
Lee Stang goes five and one third inning.
Giving up one run so far because the two base runners belong to him.
Pitched a fine ball game, Stang did.
Kurt, tell us something about that All-Star game.
Starts out in Anaheim.
Well, we're going to be underway with it at four o'clock Eastern Daylight Time.
This will be the first time the All-Star game that have been televised into nighttime television.
In the East especially.
A little pop-up. Boy at third base should have it.
He's over near the stands and takes it for out number three.
So Lyle does a fine job for the Red Sox here.
The bottom half is sixth inning.
They came up with no runs, one hit, no errors, and two men left on base.
So the score is the sixth full inning.
Detroit won Boston nothing.
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Fans, next Saturday we'll be traveling to the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles
for the game between the surprising Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
We'll see Ron Santo and all the rest of the exciting Cubs team
and watch Leo Drosser face his old team.
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Kurt, come on in here.
And your Scott hits a ground ball to Euler in a hole, a long throw and he's got him.
That's the play of the ball game so far.
That's the play that shortstop has to make.
Deep in the hole, the long throw from the grass, and still get your man and Euler get it.
That's what the Scouts look for for a young shortstop, don't they Peewee?
Yes sir, Kurt, and they can't say enough of this Euler.
We saw him, you and I did last night, make three fine plays out here
and you can just see what he did right there.
A great play, one of the toughest plays far shortstop in the hole and gets up on that ball.
Pat Bricelli's up now, he's lying is short and he's walked and he takes ball one.
Pat Bricelli batting 298.
The Tigers have one run, three hits, no errors.
The Red Sox have no runs, two hits, one error.
A lone run of this game is an unearned run.
He pops it up, a major leak pop up to the left side.
Waiting for this one to come down is Euler, and that fooled him just a bit.
Slight breeze blowing, looking up at that high sky, two downs.
That one nearly brought rain clouds.
Reggie Smith is grounded out and flied out.
We have 30,000 here this Saturday afternoon,
combined paid and youngsters at Tiger Stadium.
One strike to Reggie Smith.
Four, seven, nine in a row now have gone down before Dennis McLean.
The last man to reach base was Pat Bricelli who walked in the fourth.
Now one strike pitch.
There's a line shot to the left center that's in the gap.
Should be for extra bases. Smith can fly, he may go for three here.
He's holding his second, nearly made an overturn.
Going out to meet the relay in was the shortstop Roy Euler.
It was a double for Smith with two down.
And they're calling Mike Ryan back, and they're going to hit for him.
I believe it will be Jose Tardable, a left-handed batter.
Red Sox now have a tying run of second two down.
Tardable went to the bat rack.
He's batting 252, and he's coming out to hit for the catcher Ryan.
The Red Sox have had three hits, single by Andrews, double by Yastremski,
a double by Reggie Smith.
The Tigers have had three singles.
Lenny Green has two of them, and McLean the pitcher.
So from two to eight in that batting order, the Tigers haven't had a hit.
Occurred a lot of times where you put a pinch hitter in like they would
a tying run on a second base.
It's late in the ball game, it's the seventh inning.
Say we may put him on, but you know that Dick Williams,
if you put Tardable on at first base, you know you're going to bring up a pinch hitter for
Al Sparky Low.
So I'm sure that they'll pitch to Tardable.
The best left-handed pinch hitter, Peewee, the Red Sox have is in the service right now.
Dalton Jones putting in a two-week hit.
Have Jerry Adair available, but they're short on left-handers.
You know, you almost need a scorecard anymore to keep track of these ball clubs
with this two-week service.
If every club has two or three fellows going in and coming out,
Houston at one time had five of them coming in and going out.
Runner on second, two down.
Jose Tardable batting, makes the strike here.
A tight ball game, one to nothing.
Tigers grab the lead in the third.
Last night they were leading four to one going to the ninth,
and the Red Sox tied the game in the ninth and sent it into extra inning.
Here's the one-strike delivery.
It's strike two to the Jose Tardable.
The Tigers and the Red Sox have played eight games this year, and they split four and four.
And since these two teams started playing each other in 1901,
they're all even, and each won 709 games against the other one.
This one will break the tie.
The two-strike pitch, changeup, bowels it off.
Tardable can really fly.
There's Smith, the second two down.
He hits a slow bounder to the infield.
He's very difficult to throw out.
One of the fastest men in the majors.
Oh, and two.
The Jose Tardable.
Reggie Smith, the second two down.
One ball, two strikes now.
Sparky Lyle, the pitcher's on deck,
and they have Darrell Brandon warming up in the Red Sox bullpen.
One ball, two strikes.
Changeup, hit on the ground.
McCollough, the cash, and they're out of the game.
No runs for the Red Sox in the second.
One hit, there was no air, there was one man left.
The middle of the seventh inning to score is the Tigers 1 and the Red Sox nothing.
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interclub history, it shows you how close these two clubs are.
That was going into this season,
and they've each won four against each other this year.
That's about as dead even as two teams can get from 19-1 into the 1967 season.
Well, here we go now, fans, to the last of the seventh,
the home half of the seventh in Tiger Stadium.
Bill Freehand, Mickey Stanley, Ray Euler coming up.
We have a new catcher in for the Red Sox, Russ Gibson.
Sparky Lyle is pitching.
Bill Freehand has grounded out twice, 0-2, adding 277.
Paul Freehand won the ballgame last night, a line drive hit off the left field wall
that dropped dead at the base of the wall, scored the winning run from first base.
One ball, no strike.
Doing nothing.
Hope these clubs will be well represented in the all-star game.
The Red Sox will have four players.
The White Sox will have four players.
The Minnesota Twins, four players.
Brown ball in the hole, scooped up by Joe Boyd.
Nice play, and there's one down.
Mickey Stanley coming up.
Bowled out and fly it up.
The Tigers will have three.
They have three voted.
K-line has been replaced.
The
American League is Frank Robinson is now out of the game.
He's still suffering double vision after having a slight concussion, and Robinson will not play.
Baltimore stars, strike one.
So the starting outfield will now be Dostremsky, Oliva, and Canigliaro.
And I would imagine a man who managed the ball club for Hank Bauer, but he may have to put Dostremsky
in center field because I don't believe Canigliaro will leave a plate center.
Bow ball, 0-2.
So they'll be in the starting lineup without a really natural, regular center fielder.
The American League had four of their pitchers pitch last night in the all-star squad.
Downing, Peters, Chance, and McLaughlin.
They'll be well rested for those boys.
The National League had none of their all-star starters
work last night.
Boy handling the chopper, two down.
Ray Euler coming up.
Marichal is pitching today against Rysdale.
That'll be quite a spectacle.
We're really looking forward to it.
Dewey, Sandy, and I will be out there covering the game for NBC Tuesday, 7 o'clock Eastern Daylight Time.
We'll be joined by Buddy Black, the Angels broadcaster.
Strike one, understand that Gene Autry, the owner of the club,
President Bob Reynolds, General Manager Fred Haney.
They've gone through a lot of preparation.
They're going to play an outstanding host role for all the press and radio and the fans.
It's a beautiful ballpark, by the way.
If you've never seen it in person or on TV, I know you'll be delighted to see it when we telecast Tuesday.
A 1-1 pitch. All off, 1 and 2. Our score here, the Tigers are leading the Red Sox, 1 to nothing, last to the 7.
The way the Angels have been winning, the fans should be in a happy frame of mind out there, too.
They'll go out there Tuesday.
One ball, two strikes.
They went after that bad fastball way outside.
Sparky Lyle blew them down on the 7.
Free up, free down. The end of the seventh inning here in Detroit to score.
The Tigers 1 and the Red Sox nothing.
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Did you ever invite the guests to a wedding and then have to cancel the wedding?
This is what this boy did that is coming up to pinch it for the Red Sox. His name is Ken Poulsen.
And just a couple of weeks ago he was playing for Winston-Salem in the Carolina League.
And he and his fiancee had the wedding date set. They invited about three dozen guests.
And the day before the wedding the Red Sox said, you're in the big leagues son.
So they canceled the wedding for a while and he came up to join the Red Sox. All won.
And his bride said, we can get married any day but my guy can't go to the big leagues any day.
So they put it off for a little while. And here he is, Ken Poulsen, who's hitting for the pitcher right now, Sparky Lyle.
Ball two.
Sounds to me like she's going to make him a good wife.
Yes sir, a good baseball wife and they have to be very understanding.
You better believe it.
Two balls and no strikes.
A strike. He's only 20 years old.
Well, you know, you talk to minor league managers who manage these youngsters and class D ball down below 18, 19, and 20.
Two balls, one strike. Nobody on, nobody out. Eighth inning.
Two and two. And they say, one of the toughest jobs there is when you have to call a young fellow in with a new wife,
or they have a little baby and tell them that they've been sent, they're being sent down and sent out.
It's a tough job, a young married couple of the minors.
And a wife has to be very understanding. Two-two. Bow back.
These baseball wives deserve a lot of credit. They have to maintain two homes when they play.
Usually they're a regular home.
Then they come to the Major League City where their husband's playing, bring the family.
All is foul.
Your wife used to work to keep your home in Louisville, and you come up to Brooklyn.
That's right, Kurt. I was just sitting here listening to you, and you were bringing out some good points,
but I was thinking that I guess you have to be an understanding wife whatever business you're in.
It is a little tough, though. You're making your children in school.
You're putting them in school and taking them out and putting them in here and bringing them out.
They do two-fit. There's a fly ball in the center field.
Broken bat coming on is Ron Northrup, and it's one down.
Top of the order now, Mike Andrews for the Red Sox. Single fly it out and ground it out.
The Tigers are ahead one to nothing in the eighth inning.
The Tigers have one run, three hits, and no errors.
The Red Sox have no runs, three hits, and one error.
Benny McLean has gone all the way. There's Bucky Brandon, and that number 27 is his age.
He's 27 years old today.
He'll be coming on the pitch in the last of the eighth inning.
Mike Andrews pops it up to the left side, calling forward to Euler the shortstop.
Two down.
Boy has walked fly to center field twice. He's 0 for 2.
Playing with a record of nine wins, nine losses.
His last time out was a complete game, beating the Indians 2-1.
He's just three hits in that game.
Slow ball to boys, ball one.
Now the plane's getting into the big boys in that Red Sox lineup.
Boy, you're a sprint, keep the nickel, you're a arrow, start and bet the celly.
Another slow one, ball two, 2-0.
Two away, base is empty.
Fly ball to right field, fairly deep, and Northrop has room as he backpedals to the edge of the warning crack.
He's in the eighth inning.
The up three down for the Red Sox. In the middle of the eighth, the score that is for Tigers 1, the Boston Red Sox nothing.
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Bucky Brandon is making his 18th appearance of the year for the Red Sox.
In the second two lost seven and earned an average of 4.16.
In the last of the eighth inning you'll face the Tiger pitcher Dennis McLean and then Lenny Green and Jerry Lumpy at the top of the order.
And the hand you hear in the background is for McLean who has fired a three hit shutout so far today.
In other games, Minnesota and the White Sox.
Seven, no score. That's the big one.
The top four clubs in the league are meeting here in the weekend.
The Twins and White Sox in Chicago, the Tigers and the Red Sox here.
They're single and grounded out.
Ball went to him.
Fast ball strike, one and one.
Ground ball to Petsasoli.
One down.
Green is lined out and single twice, two out of three.
A 4-0-9 batter.
The Tigers put him in their uniform here and brought him up from Toledo.
He and his mother own a four shot here at the court.
He's been delivering the roses for the Tigers.
Ball one to Lenny Green.
Tigers ahead one to nothing.
Brandon's low with a two to nothing.
We've got a real seat squirmer going on here in Tiger Stadium.
Two and one.
Bounding ball.
It goes safe at first base.
Andrews made a great play backing up that bad hop over the head of George Scott.
Right side of that Tiger infield.
That's two bad hops in it.
Now watch this ball really take a hop over Scott's head.
And Andrews, keep your eye on him on the back up there.
You can see as Kurt said the ball made a sick a bad hop on George Scott.
Andrews never did give up on the ball.
He just kept going.
Made a great play but the time he rolled over and flipped the ball to the pitcher.
Not in time.
Lenny Green can go down there pretty fast.
There goes Green foul out.
Tigers playing hit and run.
Lenny Green now has three of the four hits for the Tigers.
And they're bringing him back to first base.
The Tigers have one away.
They're leading the Red Sox one to nothing.
The Red Sox in the ninth inning will nail the heart of their batting order up
your Stremsky, Kanigale, Arrow and Scott.
That one hit deep in the center.
Reggie Smith on his horse.
Still going.
He's got it.
400 feet from home plate.
The throw in to Mike Andrews.
Smith just outran that one.
Two down.
Right at the warning path.
This is what we mean about this ballpark.
If you'll keep them from pulling here and you've got a center fielder that can run,
those big long 400 foot flies are outs here.
Two down.
Dick McCullough.
Fly to the right, foul out on what?
Low ball, first strike.
I'll tell you one thing about Reggie Smith.
He turned to his left and he kept that ball right on his left all the way.
A lot of times you see an outfielder turn to the left, that ball's on the right-hand side.
It's tough to catch.
He turned right away and just kept going and went right to the ball.
He handled that one beautifully.
And he whirled and got that ball back into that infield too.
Bring him back.
Two down.
One ball, one strike.
Good one.
How's it off of the plate?
Two and two to McCullough.
The two out, many greens at first.
The Tigers won, the Red Sox nothing in the last of the eighth inning.
Brandon pitching two and two when he delivers to the plate.
Now three and two and green will be going on this pitch.
Two down, green will be running.
There he goes, ball four, runners on first and second.
The matter Norman Cash, flying out, grounded out, and struck out.
Tigers have a great pair of fans all the way in the Bahama Islands.
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they've erected a special aerial on their home way over there
deep in the Bahama Islands when they get their NBC games from the Miami State.
And they're great Detroit fans, so imagine they're watching for the Tigers now.
Ball one, Norman Cash, green at second, McCullough at first, two down.
Tigers won, Red Sox nothing.
And now there's ball two and Osinski is starting to warm up for the Red Sox.
Joe Foy is asked for time.
Heated up, third baseman Foy is coming in for two reasons.
One, to try and settle this pitcher Brandon down and to give
Osinski some extra time out on the bullpen.
Just a minute, somebody's going to tell Foy to get back to his third base job
and that's the ball game moving. And here's Valentine about to move out.
Two and nothing to Norman Cash, runners on first and second, two down.
They're not holding at first.
They're just going to get that fastball in there.
I believe he said it was a boy, I should have ripped at it.
Two balls and one strike.
The game is rounding third, the throw by Kanigli Arrows cut off by Scott.
Over to third, McCullough and Cash delivers a big hit for the Tigers.
Instead of a one run ball game now it's a two run game.
A little bit different for a pitcher to work on in the ninth inning.
Makes it a lot easier for him now, Kurt.
He doesn't have that dying run at the plate every time the hitter comes up there.
Especially having to realize today, as hot as it is, he looks like he's a little tired at the plate.
He's walking awful slow back and forth from the mound.
Runners on first and third, two outs.
The Tigers leading now two to nothing, the last of the eighth and Jim Northrop out.
Now struck out, grounded out, and fouled out.
All in.
Flipping the pitch to Sully for the fourth play on Cash.
The side's out but the Tigers picked up a big run.
On two hits, no Red Sox there, the Tigers left two.
At the end of eighth the score, the Detroit Tigers two, the Boston Red Sox nothing.
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The ninth inning fans in Tiger Stadium, the Red Sox have their three, four, and five hitters up their lineup up.
Justremski, Kanigla, and Scott facing Denny McLean who's allowed just three hits and no runs so far in this game.
Alliance score for eight innings.
The Tigers have two runs, five hits, and no errors.
The Red Sox have no runs, three hits, and one error.
Dick Trzyski is going to third base now for the Tigers replacing Jerry Lumpkin.
Justremski is lined into a double play, double the right center, and grounded after first, adding three-thirty.
Live ball looping into the right field corner of base for Justremski to start off the ninth. And now the tying run will be coming to the plate.
Not around first, nobody out. Tony Kanigla up and action now is bringing up in the Tiger Bowl fan.
Right, Marshall and Gladding. Gladdick's number 20, Marshall's 28. Tony Kanigla, light out three times, twice the center, once the right.
Adding 299.
High fly left center, Stanley has flipped the sunglasses down, looking up.
Six putouts for Stanley in center field.
The American League record is 11 putouts by a center fielder.
The Major League record is 12 putouts for a center fielder.
George Scott has bounced to the pitcher, struck out, and grounded out.
On our NBC scoreboard, it's the Red Sox nothing and the Tigers two. Ninth inning, last call for the Red Sox.
All on to Scott. That's the Salas on deck.
Justremski up first, one out.
Two and all. Blaine looks like he's a little tired, Sandy. He looks like he's struggling, Kurt, but the last three, four innings, his pitch probably is best baseball.
He's stayed out of less trouble. He's gone with the fastball a little bit more. His curveball he's made a few mistakes with, but he hasn't thrown as many as we've seen him throw.
The two-nothing pitch to Scott is three and all now, and the Tiger fans now are starting to rumble with uneasiness as the Red Sox have a runner-on first, one out, and a three-nothing count to George Scott.
Thirty thousand fans here today, Tiger Stadium.
The three-oh pitch. Right in there to him, three and one.
Three and one to George Scott. All four. That's the fourth walk by McLean, but his first walk since the fourth inning.
The Red Sox now have runners on first and second, one out.
Enrico Peppaseli up. Peppaseli has lined up the short walk to pop the short.
He pops it up. The infield flyer will call the batter automatically out. Runners advance with their own rest. Two down.
Follow and handle it. And rookie Reggie Smith now, the last hope for the Red Sox. He's grounded up first, flying to left and double, one out of three.
The Smemski's up second. Scott's up first. Two down.
All one to Smith.
Two down, ninth inning. Tigers two, Red Sox nothing.
There's Scott at first. The Smemski's second. And Jose Santiago now warming up in the Red Sox bullpen.
Russ Gibson, the Red Sox, catches the on-deck batter.
Two nothing pitch. He changed up and got it over for a strike. Two and one. There's Santiago.
And Dale Smith watching intently his pitcher, McLean, hoping for that last out, the hardest out to get in the ballgame.
Two and one is the count.
A chopper hit the short. Euler makes the play the ballgame goal.
As McLean is pitched his first shot out of the air.
The tying runs were on here in the ninth inning, but McLean on a hot afternoon had enough to withstand the Red Sox threat.
In the ninth, the Red Sox no runs, one hit, there were no errors, and two left.
So the final score, the Detroit Tigers two runs, five hits, and no errors. The Boston Red Sox no runs.
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Well that was a big run the Tigers picked up in the eighth inning.
When they were leading one nothing, Lenny Green got on with a hit, finally scored our Norm Cash's single.
That made it two nothing because the Red Sox, the Scripps, he led off the top of the ninth with a single.
And the Red Sox might have played a little bit differently with a bunch trying to move a man on into scoring position.
There's your line score again and the Tigers have won their sixth in a row.
And the Red Sox have lost their fourth in a row.
This broke a Red Sox streak though.
Their last ten losses have all been by one run.
That is the last ten games they've lost.
But today they lost by two runs.
Again the final score, the Tigers two and the Red Sox nothing.
We'll continue to review the action of today's game.
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Our statistician today is Ellen Roth.
Our stage manager Jim O'Gorman.
On behalf of B.W. Reese and Sandy Kovacs, Kurt Gowdy saying again the final score, the Tigers two, the Red Sox nothing.