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The New York Yankees faced the Boston Red Sox for a Sunday afternoon game at Fenway Park on Sunday, July 4th, 1965.
The Red Sox were an average team, never accomplishing any recent postseason play and not finishing over 500 in nearly a decade.
New York was coming off five consecutive World Series appearances, including a loss to the Cardinals in 1964.
The team was struggling under new manager Johnny Keene, who took over for the Yanks after the firing of Yogi Berra.
This audio recording is from the New York Radio broadcast featuring announcers Fibra Zutto and Joe Gargiola.
The right-hander delivers to Richardson.
The first pitch is in high in the air.
This could be a repeat of yesterday, and it's off the wall, way up there.
Bobby has to stop with a long single.
Lee Thomas made a fine recovery, and we almost had a repeat of a situation that developed yesterday
when Jim Lombard threw that six to Richardson and started to fall again, and he splashed it into the screen for a home run.
This one, though, becomes a long single.
That had to man fuzzing air send way far.
Mambo catch, first pitch of the ballgame, off the wall for a single.
Now here's Tony Kubek.
Kubek takes the ball.
Richardson batting at 275.
Boy, he's had a hot bat.
One home run, 24 RBI.
He's at first base.
Here's Tony Kubek hitting a 204 with two homers and 21 RBI.
The right-hander against the left-hander.
Mambo catch, the right-hand pitcher, Kubek batting left-handed, as he does always.
Hits the first pitch, fouls it, and it's there to feel for a face-hit.
And Pia has it, and Richardson has got to hold his second.
That ball is hit so hard to make it impossible for Bobby to move the dirt.
So three pitchers in the ballgame.
The Yankees have runners at first, but second.
Nobody out in the batter will be Tommy Tretch.
Well, Reg, we had quite a free game, Joe, with Mel Farnell and Keith Ruggles who played here.
Fenway Park about that left field wall, and Bobby Richardson, that's his first time around.
Did they have any significant remarks?
Yes, Jerry, I think you heard them all.
One, the pitchers in this ball.
The pitchers down, and of course Mambo could have gotten up high on this one.
Yeah, he did, and Bobby got hit up high.
Okay, here's Tommy Tretch batting at 282, 12 home runs, 36 RBI's,
at least the Yankees in just about every offensive department.
The pitch to Tretch is an attempt to cross it foul back on the screen strike one.
Tom was not really funing to sacrifice the runners along.
He was trying to beat out a hit.
Now, Trichetti has something to flag to Tretch.
Tretch won the count to Tommy.
Elton Howard in the on deck circle.
Ball game just getting underway.
First two Yankees, Richardson and Kubek, on with Pringle.
Mambo gets set.
Here's the pitch to Tretch.
This one is foul back on the screen strike two.
Tretch has a five game hitting streak on the line.
Kubek came in at the ball game with a six game streak.
Now he's run out to seven.
Boyer leads the Yankees in that department with ten.
The three Yankees are moving along with hot bass.
In fact, the Yankees generally here in this series have picked up the hitting tremendously.
Fifteen runs the first night, six yesterday.
Tretch to Tretch hitter batting left handed.
The runners lead off. The pitch to Tommy is this high in the air.
It's a fairly shallow center coming on to Mancia.
And on the run he catches him on a tight play.
On the dead run, about T-high, Mancia takes one away from Tommy Tretch.
That ball for a moment looked like it might drop.
There's one away and now coming on Ellie Howard.
Combo hit against the Yankees is one and one this year.
She's 15 and nine.
Check that, 15 and 12 lifetime.
One of the two pitchers to have a lifetime edge on the Yankee ball club.
Elston Howard batting at 2.15.
Three home runs.
Seventeen RBI.
He's had two in the last two days, home runs that is.
Ellie takes high and outside.
It's ball one.
One away, Bobby Richardson at second, Tony Kubek at first.
Defensively, Florida Red Sox, Tillman is catching.
Tony Horton at first, Chuck Schilling at second, Ed Boussou at short,
Dalton Jones at third in the outfield, Lee Thomas on left, Mancia in center,
and Conigliaro in right.
A mambo catch set.
Here's the next one to Howard.
In there, strike call one and one.
Red Sox having a difficult time with their outfield.
Yastrinsky out of the starting lineup, the best hitter, and the regular left fielder.
And Lenny Green injured.
Gary Geiger with broken bones in his hands also out.
They've been crippled in the outfield as of right now.
Here's the next pitch to Howard, filed back on the screen, one ball, two strikes.
Right now, Billy Herman, manager of the Red Sox, has had to play as regular first baseman,
Lee Thomas in left, and as regular second baseman, Mancia in center.
One ball, two strikes, Ellie Howard, Richardson at Kubek, moving off the bases.
A pitch by Mambo Kess.
There's a high drive.
It's gonna feel, not cheap.
Mancia with the glasses down, gets under it easily, and takes it.
Bobby tags up just to draw the throw, and then goes back to second base.
Those two down as the runners hold at first and second, and now here's Joe Pepitone.
Pepitone hitting a 2.67.
Eight home runs and 34 RBI.
Now there's an exchange of baseballs.
Pepitone waits for the plate on fire, John Wright, to check it out,
and then it flips it back to Bill Montboquet.
Well, you've got a definite Boston flavor here in our old-timers' acceptances,
which we'll give to you in just a moment.
We'll give it to you right now while Montboquet gets ready.
Joe Cronin, Bobby Dore, and Jimmy Fox have all accepted invitations for the old-timers' day,
July the 31st, at the stadium.
Pepitone takes a fastball outside and it's ball one.
Don't forget, Saturday, July the 31st, old-timers' day at the stadium,
and the opposition, the Cleveland Indians, hottest ball club in either league right now.
They've won 18 of 22.
Bill Cronin, who is the sporting news player of the year in 1930,
Bobby Dore, the sporting news player of the year in 44,
and Jimmy Fox, the MVC in 32, 33, and 38.
Well, he's got a few statistics besides that, batting camp in 33 and 38.
Montboquet to Pepitone, a drive down the right-field line, base hit, it's in there.
Here comes Richardson, two-backs, coming around third,
but is being held up by Frank Spassetti and going into second base at Pepitone.
So the Yankees have a one-to-nothing lead.
Pepitone a double down the right-field line, and that's RBI number 35 for Joe.
One behind the team leader, Tommy Tresch.
Third hit off Montboquet.
Yankees one, Red Sox nothing, top of the first.
Dexter Lopez, sixth batter in the Yankees lineup coming on,
batting at 234 with four homers and 17 RBI.
Now Montboquet wants another base ball.
Oh, the switch is made.
Pepitone a second base, Kubek is third, two-outs, top of the first.
Yankees one, Red Sox nothing.
Bill Montboquet into his windup now.
The pitch to Hector is a strike called on the outside corner.
Yankees will be heading for Detroit right after the ball game.
Got a double header there tomorrow.
They'll be there four days. They've got five ball games in four days,
and then on to Minnesota for a weekend set, and then the All-Star break.
So ten big ball games facing the Yankees between now and the All-Star break.
One strike pitch to Hector fouled off, and the count is no balls, two strikes.
Well, that ball just shot back there.
They have the stand fairly low here and close to the playing field,
so that foul balls, when they go in there, they go in in a hurry.
And I do not advise spectators sitting in the lower areas to take their eye off the ball.
Beautiful day, July the 4th, 1965.
The next one to Hector Lopez on the ground in the hole, base hit.
Two seconds in, here comes Steppes on heel score, and the Yankees are ahead three to nothing.
Hector Lopez, a two RBI single, puts the Yankees out front three to nothing.
Fourth hit off Bill Mongolket.
The batter now, Roger Rapose, hitting a 273.
He's three for 11.
Two home runs and six RBI.
And the rest are open.
Is in action right now as Mongolket running into trouble here on the top of the first.
Jay Ritchie, right-hander, he's made the last two ball games.
Well, Mongolket in big trouble here on the first inning.
Roger Rapose.
He was 0 for 4 yesterday.
Here's the pitch to Roger.
Check, swing, fly into the stands, out of play, strike one.
Roger literally carried the Yankees in that ball game here on Friday night when he drove in four runs.
Clark's the first rally, and a three-run homer wound it up.
The Yankees way out front at eight to nothing, and then they went on to get eight more.
All right, Hector moving off first.
Here's the next pitch to Rapose.
It's in there for a strike.
No ball, two strikes.
Rapose just recently called up from Toledo where he's batting an even 300, as the talentless recall.
63 inches, 195 pounds, hails from the state of Washington.
Where is the number 43 on his uniform?
Straight up stands, the pitch by Mongolket, backs him off the plate.
Ball one, strike two.
Royer in the on-deck circle.
They do not play Rapose to pull right now.
Manchia in center, just a shade to the right of Beckenbate.
Dalton Jones at third has moved in even with the bag and gives Rapose about 15 feet of the line.
Okay, Mongolket again gets the size of Tillman.
That delivers, and Rapose swings and misses, strike three.
First strikeout for Mongolket, and for the Yankees in the first inning, three runs on four hits, one man left.
Score after a half inning of play, the Yankees three, Red Sox coming to bat.
Okay, we move into the bottom of the first inning, Jim Bouton on the mound for the Yankees.
Yankees lead three to nothing, so Bouton has been presented with a nice cushion.
And the only thing we've got going right now in either the American or the National,
Detroit failed to score in the top of the first inning, playing the Senators,
and Cincinnati failed to score in the top of the first, playing the Phillies.
The Phillies had a little extracurricular activity over there the other day.
Here's the first batter facing Bouton, Chuck Dilling.
Second baseman batting at 292, three home runs and seven RBI.
Bouton next pitch off, no ball, two strikes.
Yesterday in Philadelphia, Frank Thomas and Richie Allen, absolutely the hitter,
ended up in a brawl before the game started.
So those things happen in the heat of battle sometimes.
All right, Bouton into the line-up, the pitch to Dilling is a curve that's low and it's ball one.
Now the wind seems to have shifted a little bit toward that left field wall out there,
blowing in as the game started.
Bouton again, the one-two pitch, there's a drive to right field, high in the air.
Hector Lopez moving toward the line, got it going, one hand hit.
The wind stopped that ball, and Hector almost let it get away, but finally caught up to it.
That ball was swiping and was being held up by the wind.
So there's one out.
Now they'll bring up Dalton Jones.
Now the Red Sox have got some pretty young ball players in the line-up today.
Dalton Jones is 21, he's playing third.
Tony Horton is 20, he's a third.
And Canegliaro, the right fielder, is only 20.
There's the first pitch by Bouton to the left hander hitting Dalton Jones, it's low at ball one.
Jones starting at 292.
There's the drive to right field, hard hit.
Lopez backs up this time and takes it two down.
Tony Horton now, 20-year-old right hand hitter, power hitter.
Boy, he's a big guy.
He's got the chubby cheek.
Two outs, nobody on, Bouton ready, delivers a curve that's in there to Tony Horton, strike one.
Bouton is really moving right along.
That's taken any time, gets the time from Howard.
Here's the next run, the big change up outside, one and one.
The one strikes fifth to Horton, uh-oh, the high drive, that's curving fast.
Oh, wicked, over that left field fence, and he hit it.
Boy, he's got a hold of that one and drove it foul about 20 feet over the fence.
Now Bouton ready, one ball, two strikes, it's Tony Horton, two outs, nobody on.
The pitch, the change up is low, two and two to count.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs, nobody on.
Bottom of the first, Yankees three, red shots nothing.
Horton batting at 271, he's got one home run and six RBI's.
There's the drive, the left, that ball should make the wall, it does, well up there.
Dredge grabs it and Horton is held to a single.
So Tony Horton, that's used the left field wall for a base hit, first get off about.
And now here's Felix Mantia, Mantia the American League starting second baseman in the All-Star Game, batting at 324.
Well ball, he leads the American League in RBI's with 58.
Bouton sets, delivers and it's outside, ball one.
Bouton again sets, Dex Horton to pitch to Mantia, ball two, two and oh to count.
Now Jim takes his time just a little bit, sets, delivers and it's outside, three and oh to count to Mantia.
Bouton again to Mantia, ball four and he walks them.
The red shot, runners at first and second with two out of the batter now is Lee Thomas.
Thomas hitting at 273, 13 homers, 38 RBI's.
A single by Horton, a walk by Mantia, red box with runners at first and second.
Lee Thomas the batter, a left-handed hitter against the right-handed pitching Jim Bouton.
Yanks leads three to nothing, here's Bouton's first pitch, it's a curve in there strike one, bottom of the first inning.
Well the National League came up with this All-Star starting lineup today.
Those of you who may not have seen it will give it to you, just hold on.
Bouton sets again, the runners move off to pitch to Thomas, a loud foul way down the right field line, strike two.
Starting lineup for the National League, game to be played in Minnesota on July the 13th.
Corey is the catcher from the Braves.
Banks of the Cubs is at first, Rose of Cincinnati at second, Wills of the Dodgers at short, Alan of the Phillies at third.
In the outfield, Aaron Mays and Stargell, Aaron of the Braves, Mays of the Giants, Stargell of the Pirates.
All right, Bouton, two strike pitch, back Thomas off the plate, one ball, two strikes.
Lee Thomas and Lou Clinton were exchanged even ups between the Angels and the Red Sox the middle of last year.
And Thomas has been a real beauty for the Red Sox ever since.
He's done a whale of a job.
Bouton ready to pitch, the big change up is slapped into left center, long run for repose and stretch.
And nobody can get it, this by Bouton.
Two runs to go to score, here comes Mancia.
And Thomas is in with a looping double to left center.
Let me recap that a minute for you.
That ball is just a looping fly ball in the gap in left center.
Repose on the run and stretch on the run.
Both went for it, both stretched for it, neither got to it, and the ball bounced between the both of them toward the wall.
That allowed Mancia to come all the way from first to score.
So it's the Yankees three, the Red Sox two, and here's Kanigle L., who takes the strike.
Tony C., batting at 260, 15 homers, 36 RVIs, and that is RVI number 39 and 40 for Lee Thomas.
A slow hopper down the third base side foul.
No balls, two strikes, two outs.
Oh, we got one going.
Did Ronald have anything to say as far as the hitting was concerned about that wall, Rick?
It might help a batter up here.
Well, Jerry, you have a great deal of sense.
So far now, in fact, Arm Forces Radio very often takes the soundtracks from our pre and postgame shows.
I'm sure they'll take this because there was so much good talk about that wall.
We'll try and get some of it in later.
Okay.
Two strikes to count to Tony C., Thomas at second base, a fast ball inside as Kanigle L. bounces out of the way.
It's one and two.
For many years, that's been a big story here in Fenway Park.
The big green monster at left field had a big art of one for sure straight on a few weeks ago.
Bits to Tony C. is blowing in the dirt.
Two and two to count. Two balls, two strikes, two outs.
Yanks three, Red Sox two.
Broughton again ready.
That delivers foul behind the plate.
John remains at two and two.
Al Reneth is throwing in the Yankee bullpen.
Yankees came up with three runs in the first on Bill Mamboquette.
Now the Red Sox countered with two off Jim Bouton.
Bouton now getting the sign from Elton Howard.
Thomas moving off second.
The pitch to Kanigle L.
The big green deputy swings a bit to strike three.
He went after that big balloon.
So for the Red Sox, they're in the bottom of the first two runs.
Two hits, one left.
And the score after one full inning of play, Yankees three, Red Sox two.
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Devils real peace, that aspires longer.
But that's the pace you can get.
You get tobacco taste.
Tobacco taste.
So rich and rare.
A real taste.
That's really there.
You get no bad, no fancy stuff.
Real flavor with every bump.
Tobacco taste.
So rich and rare.
A real taste.
That's really there.
And that tobacco makes the best smoke.
They get with Camo and fly real slow.
Have a Camo cigarette.
Much pause right now for station identification.
Your attention please.
You are tuned to Yankee baseball over WOKO radio, Albany, and the Red Sox.
Yankee baseball over WOKO radio, Albany, New York.
Thank you.
Cleve Boyer coming on top of the second inning.
Yankees three, Red Sox two.
Mambo Kets first pick to Boyer is a fastball on the outside corner, strike one.
Boyer moving that average up there, batting at 249 as the game gets underway.
Seven homers, 25 RBI.
Mambo Ket again to Cleve Boyer, swings and misses, strike two.
No balls, two strikes to Cleve Boyer.
Yankees have won ten of their last 13.
They get a big five-game set with the Tigers coming up, and then four games with the Minnesota Twins.
Two strikes to Boyer is outside, one ball, two strikes.
Yankees will be back at the stadium on July the 15th against the Washington Senators.
Here's the next one to Boyer, hit on the ground, a right field base hit.
A high fastball just slapped on the ground between Schilling and Hort, and Boyer's got himself another base hit.
Boyer, that's the way it goes when you got the hat bat, and that is the 11th straight game that Boyer has hit in.
He's got 11 games to go in.
All right, here's Jim Bountain.
Bountain, three for 28, batting at.107.
Mambo gets pitched to Bountain, is bonnet, short first, Boyer, up with it, starts to go to second, changes his mind and flips to Schilling at first.
So a good sacrifice for Bountain, moves Boyer to second base, the play going from three to four.
And now here's Bobby Richardson.
Rich?
Jerry, we've got a little hole here because the catch is out of command.
This is Fourth of July, and I know that this is a very particularly sensitive day for you.
You know, two times in the Marine Corps is quite a pilot.
And I thought that we'd think about something, and we'd ask the audience to think about it, see if they can come up with it, and we'll ask them to think about how many places in the United States do our flags on 24 hours a day, and how many by custom, and how many by signage.
Bobby Richardson coming on.
Fixed to Bobby is in there for a strike, and Bill Mambo gets jumped to foot when he lets that ball go because it was right down the pipe.
Well, Dino One.
Well, our engineer Joe Cooper ought to know one. He's setting a naval boat off of it long enough.
All right, Richardson with a one-strike count.
Boyer at second, one away.
Mambo-Kett curveball is outside.
One and one.
One ball, one strike. One away.
Boyer at second base.
Yanks three, Red Sox two.
Yankees have five hits, the Sox two.
Now Mambo-Kett says something to Chuck Schilling.
Schilling at second base moved in. Now he's going back to his regular defensive position.
Sometimes a pitcher will place an infielder depending on where he wants to pitch him.
Fastball is outside and low. Two balls and a strike. Two and one to count.
Top of the second inning, and now Mambo-Kett and Schilling are discussing something.
Looks like Chuck now takes two steps to his right.
Mambo-Kett has been pitching Richardson outside. First this would be a decoy now.
The two-one pitch to Bobby. A curve is outside. Again, three and one. Three balls, one strike.
But Mambo-Kett wanted to do a Schilling with Richardson, a straightaway hitter.
He wanted to get him over in the hole between first and second.
Bobby will slap the ball out there, as Boyer did, to get on.
Schilling now is where Mambo-Kett would like him to be, and now Mambo-Kett is a happier pitcher.
All right, the three-one pitch on the way to Bobby. A ground ball to Don Joseph.
Nice play on a tough hop to flip to first. There goes Boyer to third, and it's a double play.
That one went from five to three to six. Five, three, six.
And Yanks is out of there, here on the top of the second.
No runs on one hit, nobody left, and the score after one and a half, Yanks three, Red Sox two.
Okay, we're moving to the bottom of the second inning.
Ed Bursue, the shortstop, is coming on. And to that question posed to us by Mr. Red Barber,
we're going to let him give the answer to you at the end of the day.
Well, I did a little research, Jerry, when we were in Baltimore, and that might give a little hint.
I see you're in the right place.
All right, here's Ed Bursue, the shortstop. Yanks three, Red Sox two. Take the ball low, ball one.
Fountain for the Yankees, Mon Bouquet for the Sox. Bursue batting at 224, five homers, 14 RBIs.
Fountain again to Bursue, outside this time, two and O.
Jerry, I think we ought to explain that our radio man from the Navy and for our broadcast,
Joe Cooper, wants to know about does this pertain to naval ships at sea? We say no.
Ed Bursue drives into left field base, a sharp line drive between Boyer and Kubek,
and Bursue is on with a single, here to lead off the second inning for the Spartans.
Sadly, Ed Bursue, who has his master's degree, plans on becoming a coach in California on his retirement.
He said his retirement will depend entirely on how quickly Rucho Pesticelli comes along.
And that's the way of this game. Youth moves the old timers aside.
Bob Filman fouls one off Elton Howard's leg in a strike one.
Yankee three, Red Sox two, bottom of the second inning.
Bob Filman, 28-year-old catcher, batting at 217, five homeruns and 21 RBIs.
Bursue moving off first. The pitch to Filman is a curve down and low, ball one, one and two to count.
These Red Sox have been reeling and stumbling. They have really had some tough times of it.
They're 8-3-D for Dick Raddatz having an offseason, a lot of key injuries to key personnel.
Pitch is a slow grounder, Pepitone has it, over to Kubek for the fourth to second base.
No chance to go back to first to get Filman.
And there's one away as Bursue is fourth to second by Bob Filman.
Play goes from three to six. It's actually a very close play at second base.
Oh, it's right on the end of the bat.
Stores the second base and Bobby Richardson, Pepitone cuts front.
It's time to get to it and flip to Kubek.
So there's one out, here's Bill Mamboquette.
Mamboquette batting at.094, three for 32.
Right hand batter, right hand pitcher facing the right-handed Plants of Jim Bout.
Boyer moving way in, looking for a possible bunt, and there it is. It's fouled back on the screen.
So Billy Herman wants his pitcher to move the man along, and he's going to leave it up to Chuck Schilling to drive in,
in the event that he can move the man to second base on the sacrifice.
Yanks three, Red Sox two, bottom of the second.
Here's Boyer way in. Mamboquette hits a high bunt, one hop in front of the mound.
Boyer has it over to Richardson. Nobody was covering third, and Kubek had to leave second base to move over there.
So it's a good sacrifice for Bill Mamboquette.
Play went from five to four, two outs.
Schilling at second base, and the batter now is Chuck Schilling, who flied to right in the first.
Schilling the catcher, moving off second. The pitch to Schilling at second base is low and outside ball one.
Chuck Schilling, man with the Red Sox, five years.
Fails from the New York area and Long Island.
Bouton again to Schilling, a fast ball in there this time, one and one, one ball, one strike.
And a lot of white, snowy clouds floating across the landstater.
Now Bouton sets again, the next one is Schilling, a ground ball.
Kubek to his left, drops it behind the bag, throw to first.
Down inside, hits up to Hillman, and he is out of the play.
Another throw from Jefferson to Howard.
That's why he went from six to three to two, as a hit for Schilling.
Hillman out, six, three, two.
Set the tone to Howard, and boy the Red Sox, they're in the bottom of the second.
No runs, two hits, one man left.
The score after two full innings of play, Yankees three and the Red Sox two.
Now Mr. Barber, I'm going to turn the microphone over to you, and I think we're all going to be educated just a little bit.
I know, but I got curious, Jerry, when we were at Baltimore on the beginning of this trip,
and I think that the one place to find out where our flag flies 24 hours a day was to watch Fort McHenry.
The first time I had gotten the idea about our flag flying someplace 24 hours a day was when I stood at daybreak on the top of Mount Sotobachi
when I was out at Iwo Jima on a USO tour.
And the commanding officer told me that the flag there flew 24 hours a day
and told me how often they had to replace it because the wind was carried in the shreds.
Well Fort McHenry, of course, was the place where Francis Scott Key, during the bombardment,
wrote the words to the South Sangamana, not the music, but the words.
And so our flag, my sanction, flies there 24 hours a day and also flies in Baltimore at the Mary Pickles Gills home,
which is known as Flag House in Baltimore, which is the home of Mary Pickles Gills,
who with some other ladies made that flag that Francis Scott Key wrote about.
So that's two places in Baltimore.
The third place that the flag flies by sanction is at the Iwo Jima War Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.
But by a harsh rule, the flag flies 24 hours a day over Congress.
It flies by sanction, by custom, at Iwo Jima, by custom over the Arizona at Pearl Harbor,
by custom over the dormitory at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
By custom over the hospital during the Civil War.
By custom at the town square at Teotihu, Mexico, where Pip Carson found the flagpole and nailed the flag up there
so nobody could take it down, even if they lost its limit.
And at the War Memorial in Woonston, Massachusetts.
Well, I've just been educated, Red.
Well, I was educated, Jerry, and I think it's an education that we ought to think about more often than just one day a year.
Very so.
Tony Kubeck is the batter, and right now he has a two ball, no strike count as we move into the top of the third inning
with the Yankees leading three to two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Top of the third.
Next one to Kubeck is lying right field base hit, and Tony is starting to wield that hot bat.
He's been plagued with that bad left shoulder most of the season.
And suddenly now it looks as though Tony has a healthy left shoulder because he's been popping the ball.
That's his second hit of this ball game.
He's single to center field, the score to run on the first.
Opens the third with a single to right.
Now here's Tommy Tresh who flies the center on the first inning.
The sixth hit off Monboquette.
Bill Monboquette, the right hander, sets the fix and corrects it outside ball one.
Kubeck with a false start at first base trying to upset the catcher.
Be amazed what that will do to a catcher when he sees that runner take that one quick step.
He just starts to bounce.
He'll come up throwing sometimes.
Monboquette again, the right hander set.
Tresh, long drive bound on the right field side over the roof.
Well hit way out in front of the ball with Tommy Tresh.
Monboquette seems to be using a lot of breaking stuff today.
He's got a good fastball when he's right, but he's been throwing a lot of breaking stuff.
Slow curve ball.
All right, Kubeck moving off first.
Throw over there, has him back.
Tony Hortz, young first baseman, puts an extra tag on Kubeck just to be sure.
There's Monboquette, gets the ball.
The next one to Tresh is a curve ball low.
Two balls, one strike.
Yankees three, Red Sox two, top of the third.
Monboquette sets a 2-1 pitch to Tresh.
Hits softly into right field, coming on as Kanegle-Earl, and gets under it and takes it,
and took it as though he might not get a hold of it.
That ball almost landed on the ground before he got to it.
Looks like he had it, and he had to take two quick steps to come up with the ball.
Well, that gave the fans their thrill.
Now here's Elston Howard, who flied to center field in the first inning.
It's a 2-1 for one.
Hits the first pitch foul out of play, and a strike one.
Elston Howard, high and outside, which can be a dangerous thing on this part,
because he's strong enough to pull the ball.
Breeze gently blowing in from center field, not too strong.
Here's Monboquette, sets, pitch daily, strike, caught the outside corner, no ball, two strikes.
One away, Kubek with the leadoff single at the first base.
Monboquette again, sets, the next pitch to Howard, checks Wayne Fowl back on the screen.
That ball looked like it might have hit Howard in the knee.
He turned around and got his bat down there, and it just flied off and back on the screen.
So the count remains, but nothing ensued, Elston Howard.
Monboquette with a side from Tillman, the right hander set.
The next one to Howard swings, and this is a fastball on the letter strike three.
That's strikeout number two for Monboquette, a good stuff on Atlin.
And here is Joe Capitone.
Capitone lofts with a double into left center, the score of Richardson and Kubek.
He takes that back, he lofts with a double into left center to score Richardson.
Lopez scored Kubek and Capitone a little later.
Now Monboquette sets and then steps off the rubber.
Watch a little more Rodin.
Two outs, Kubek at first base, Yank three, Red Sox two.
Tillman, Monboquette delivers to Capitone in there and it's a strike.
Tillman, Monboquette moving to that fastball.
He's effective with it.
It's got a good curve, but not when he uses it too often.
Sometimes the pitcher falls in love with a certain pitch.
He gets the tattoo pretty good before he finds out that it's not the one he ought to use most.
There's a fastball and this is outside.
One ball, one strike.
Frank Facetti coaching at third base.
Vern Benson at first for the Yanks.
Slade umpires, John Wright at first, it's Bill Valentine second base, Bill McKinley at third, it's Hank Sore.
Monboquette again, the pitch to Capitone, just misses outside.
One ball, one strike.
Ready again, Monboquette gets the side.
Here's the next one to Capitone, this is outside again, it's three and one.
Monboquette fishing for that outside corner, lifts it on three occasions.
And it's a three-one count to Joe Pepitone.
Tony Kubek at first base, maybe on the move.
Let's see how Johnny Keene places it.
Yankees lead three to two, top of the third.
Kubek with the lead at first, and a throw over there as Monboquette has something of the same thing in mind.
Kubek again with the lead as Monboquette steps off the river.
Now he's back on.
There goes Tony to pitch this, Pepitone is hit high on the air at his great center field.
And Pia's got an underhand where the glass is down and the side is inside.
So the leadoff sent by Kubek went away.
Well the Yankees know where I'm going, one hit one left.
And the score has it two and a half, New York free and Boston free.
So we move into the bottom of the third inning.
Dawkins down, young third base is coming on.
Hilltops, on the now, three to two ball again, Yankees out front.
And here's Redbarbitt, right?
Up there's Jones, and the left hand hitter is going to feel very nice.
So John Bunch, the foul is placed good down.
Dawkins down, another young man, and a fly ball to right field.
The Yankees are leading three to two.
They're talking about the wall, and finally ball it down is what it means for a ballgum.
The ground ball wide up first, up it on the back, to your front, to the back and covering, in time for the other.
What this wall means in Boston, the left field wall, is that no lead will stay.
In other words, any ballgum can come up with a bunch of runs in a inning by a couple of balls that are off of it.
In other words, the man in the green said, well when you came into this league, this was the first thing they told you about this wall.
He said, you've got to play for the beginning.
So the Yankees went out and got three in the red box, and they led back to two.
And here is Horton calling the pitch off.
He's single, he's just not the red box, he's running back in first, to show you how he's going to get up there.
One down.
This is a very vital game for the Yankees.
They've been struggling all season to get even, and they have taken a run at it.
Now they're one game away from 500.
They're a high five all out to a kind of low parry on this run down to down on this and that and through the bounce.
The Yankees can play this and then put the double headed tomorrow, they're in the 500 season.
And the ballgum knows they can't challenge, because they can't run at the big game until they get to it.
That's pretty plain in any walk of life.
You've got to be even before you go forward.
You've got to get out of the hole, you've got to get out of depth.
You've got to get to the high rate ball in the way you want to put it.
Here's men two, you're taking slow, ball one, right hand hitter, Horton first and...
But the Yankees are having a win this one today and have a good week at Detroit, Minnesota.
They're back in it.
There's a high five all out to left field.
Waiting to strike base for the wall, makes it now.
One, two, three, the batsman has a run up to the easy inning, bat in order.
And the four, the end of three, the Yankees three and the...
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With more spirit, right.
Jerry, he's going to fill in on the other game, but on the fourth of July, I've got a little story.
I talked to Bob Bickel, he's got a public relations with the Yankees,
and I said, Bob, I want to get a couple of folks to do our thing, then.
He said to me, I'll be sure that they're in contact with the ball game.
So I think he said, Spitz, you remember a coach around the lake, Buster Mills?
He's got pretty answers right now.
Do you know where he's been from, man?
Real name?
Daniel, or Stuyzen, Daniel.
Daniel Buster Mills.
And in World War II, he got to be a lieutenant.
Do you imagine what went on when he got on the phone and said, didn't you say lieutenant,
Daniel Buster Mills speaking?
Yes, he got a lot of attention.
He's had that problem, and I've got to tell this story in the Navy.
I'd call up to those carpool men and I'd say, this is Captain Coleman,
and they'd say, Navy or Marine Corps?
And I'd call the Marine Corps, I've got a different answer.
I went down a few notches.
Well, let's see, quickly, Senator Speer is tied at nothing after two and a half,
Wario's lead, the Indians two and nothing after two,
Nashville, St. Cally, and Philadelphia scoreless after two,
St. Louis failed to score on the top of the first, playing the.
Now we have Hector Lopez, placed up, as Yankees are playing the Red Sox.
Good one, getaway game.
Yankees are one of the first two.
Driving for their second sweep of the 3-game period at GI.
Just before the road, Yankees got low, taking three from the Angels.
And by the way, the Angels are making life very miserable for the White Sox.
Now Lopez got out of the hospital and flew out to Los Angeles.
In time for that beating last evening, I guess he was with the State and Kansas City.
The White Sox have now lost five in a row, six point one in that.
The complexion of this race has changed so much,
the supporting news that we've got this weekend is already out of date.
I mean it.
You just can't keep up with the way this thing is going.
The White Sox dropping back five straight.
Yankees are hoping to move in.
They're doing good.
Lopez takes a care of the outside.
And I would say that if the Angels can do business where they're going to meet a couple of certain competitors in Detroit and Minneapolis,
we've got to penetrate for the Angels.
Let's say they can do it.
And this one is a key game today.
I'm going to look at the levels.
Lopez swings it to the right, back down to short.
The two all at a very thin time, but two runs down.
Speaking of the problems with recording arrows and training in St. Louis and getting the paper to you,
their big front speed is at eighty-fifths.
And he's running to Greece since they've turned.
I think one of the reasons baseball has this hole that it has is because it's not all that wide so much.
So they come sudden, it's up to the sound.
It's tricky, it's wild.
Boys and girls.
And here is Roger Repose.
Strange and as a loop-a-bop.
And here's McHappell, and it's just happened in a few days.
Young man is suddenly patched up from Toledo.
Boom, home run at Baltimore.
Boom, home run at Boston.
Singleton Boston, sacrifice line Boston, and yesterday the Collin.
Jerry, that's a jolt, isn't it?
Well, it's always a jolt when you go to Hitler's right there.
It just depends on how long it lasts.
Especially if you're breaking in and you just broke in.
He takes the ball inside, ball one.
I don't know whether anybody told Repose this or not, Jerry,
but Mumblecad is an extremely sloppy man when he's got a baseball in his hand.
He's a tough pitcher, and I think, too, it's tough for a youngster to break in with such a flurry.
You know, you can ease into it, but certainly with that big flurry,
you kind of think, well, maybe I have to keep it up.
Nobody can do it.
Mumblecad comes down, and Repose swings it the high fly down the left field line.
It's into the fan foul.
One ball, two strikes.
We have one out here on the floor.
The Yankees are holding on to the fat end of a squeaker, three to two, all scoring in the first inning.
Mumblecad, he works rather deliberately.
PDA for the Boston Mount staff, right time, he's keeping the Yankees.
Fifteen games are lost to them for all time.
Tillman has his catcher, his hit, things up, it's hopped up.
There's got the Tillman right at the plate.
Now a step back, there it is.
Drop.
And Boyam, fake hit, second inning in the right field, 11th-rate game.
The player representing the Yankees.
Red hand batter.
This is over for the strikes.
Mumblecad giving him the slider.
Frank Rosetti, pushing down at the end.
Grand Dances, at the end.
The Yankees are holding on to the fat end of the court, killing Brasul and Jones.
Right hand is set, low outside for the ball, one and one.
And the outfield for the Red Sox, here on a beautiful Sunbent's afternoon.
Lee Thomas is in left.
And he's in center.
Time being called briefly by play down by right.
Boyam, the hitter stepping out, now he's in.
Time is in.
The pitch, point on the ground ball, right back through the 50, back and second in the center field.
And Boyam hits it right through the middle.
The voice behind us, I think you haven't been listening lately, and you're conscious of it,
is the voice on the touch box, public address system.
Not the part, public address system.
Two down.
Boyam, and here's Bouton. Right-handed batter, back to five, second in.
The defense is straight away on the end.
And the double-header is destroyed tomorrow.
How you four goes in one.
Stafford, who has been taking x-ray treatment for a sore right shoulder.
Stafford will warm up for the other game, and if he can go ahead, he will.
If not, then Jannekeen said, please don't ask me who you'll be.
I don't know.
I would say that we've eliminated one possibility, if Stafford can't do it.
And that happened when we saw Rennie jump up and start throwing.
Coach, he hasn't quite eliminated himself yet, but if he's on tap as a long man today and gets in,
he's out tomorrow, 50 blow.
It could be that everyone is hoping Stafford can do it, including Bill.
Now, he has to throw the ball.
He's going to nut it.
He won't, so he's got to wall it for a good point.
But if he can do it, then it looks as though it might be Hamilton.
Touch, in for the strike, turn away.
Speaking about Hamilton, I wonder if people stop and realize that the middleman on the ball top,
a fellow's more on the roster, actually can make a break to your team in the front of the tunnel.
Touch, in for the strike.
Now, if you're a star performer, a front line performer, if you're a regular, you're playing all the time.
There's no problem with you because you're in there.
Your only problem is with yourself.
You have the use of your own talent.
But if you say, I'm Stephen Hamilton, and you're in the bullpen, you can't start.
You have to wait.
You touch, if somebody else can.
There's a ground ball, and hit the second.
Over the first, and that's it.
All rounds, one hit, one left.
Four on, middle of the fourth, single game.
Yankee three, Red Sox two.
Why does Valentine's Day feel like a rocket flight?
Why does Valentine's Day feel like a marching band?
A race that finishes neck and neck, or a ride on a rocket flight?
Why does Valentine's Day feel like a beautiful ball?
Why does Valentine's Day feel like a fireman's ball?
And why does Valentine's Day feel like a tight, you know, windy sky?
There's more spirit to it than to fall.
If you want to start living the life that lies in your spirit, live it with spirit.
Valentine's Day, there's more spirit to it.
Reports for safety identification.
Your attention please.
You are listening to Yankee baseball over WOKO 1460 Albany, New York.
Thank you.
The first is Richardson.
Suddenly got in red hot for the second.
Kupac was hitting steadily.
There's a short and boy, and now his safety is 11 straight at the third.
Passball is low.
Babin throwing it all ahead, one and one.
We have Tom Frank in left field.
Center fielder is John Roger Ripoll.
Right fielder, very valuable, steady man, Hector Lopez.
Tom has fouled it in the dirt, right down by his feet.
Right to one and two.
The wind is blowing from right field to left, from first base to third.
As it is now constituted, it will hop on high, fly ball to left.
Billy Gardner coaching the third, keep Ronald to third.
Right to your corner.
The ball is in play.
Thomas is coming in the second base, open as he please.
It's a battle.
So he has ripped the time around right down to the pickup point.
Start off the last of the fourth inning.
Please Thomas, second double.
Jerry told you the first one, he reached out and hit a high outside change of pace,
and he positioned the ball, floated it.
Between the left and center fielder.
He should have hung the calls on right down to that sixth-feet player.
Number five, and here's Tony from Nicolai Alonzo.
Welcome right-hand hitter.
Renif is in the both hands, and throwing the second time.
Pitchers on the outside.
Ball one.
Johnny Key can't worry about tomorrow in Detroit and the two ballgames there.
He's got to worry about this one here at Boston.
This one that he hopes he can grab to get on the plane with his 500.
Speaking of getting on the plane, we have an active road secretary, Bob Fischl, who'll do that.
Bruce Henry, the regular service secretary, is on the sad journey home.
Mr. Henry's father died.
And Bruce was gone in Detroit.
Up to the arrow.
Outside, ball one.
There's nobody out there in trouble.
He's leading 3-2.
One run does not mean a thing in this ballpark.
Low outside of curve ball.
The Boston fans who have had very little to be optimistic about or happy about, that's here for now.
A drive off the left field.
Boy, he's hit it hard.
Tony Conigriero finally got the Boston fans in a completely sanguinary mood.
And the main man in both sent to the meaning of the word.
When he rips his 16 home run, he takes his RBIs up to 38 and puts the stocks out in front for three.
They have not been in front.
He deposes a fountain just like that.
Dean is out into mound and out of the box then comes Harold Hurnie.
Boom, boom, boom.
You've seen many a ball game, a pitch like this up here in Boston.
I remarked the other night that the classic game that I recall goes back to the opening day of 1950.
The Red Sox had a 9-0 in the fifth inning and we beat them 15-10.
And so often, three and four run lead going into the eighth and ninth inning has dissipated.
It's been destroyed with a few shots here and there.
It doesn't take much.
When you've got the fellows with the power, that's Conigriero, that's number 16 for him,
puts them up there among the league leaders.
There's no question about it.
The only question about the ball was it's there foul.
And it was hit so hard that it started to hook.
And it wasn't fair by more than 6-8 feet.
But brother, it went out of here.
And yet, not only it clipped the wall, but they have a big, high net on top of the wall
because there's a streak in back of this left field wall if you've never seen it,
with scores on the other side.
And of course, Mr. Yawkey is a wealthy man,
but his pocketbook was being packed to put in plate-class wonders until they put that net up there.
So Jim Barton, who has done the tights, the Yankees started with three.
And if you leave, the Yankees still have three, but the Red Sox now have four.
And Renes is in for a 28-4 game all out of the bullpen, and the record is one game won and three lost.
So among other things, this means, according to Dean's thinking and the study of availability,
that it is Whitey Ford and Bill Stafford and or Hamilton,
Stephen Hamilton in the doubleheader at the start tomorrow.
The pitching staff would be all right except for the two games, manana.
Two, nobody outlasted the four.
Renes has come on.
We're going to have some changes among our friends at the four-foot space.
A couple of the writers who will not be on with us, and we'll pick up some new ones tomorrow.
Now here is Bessou, who is 1-4-1.
Bixby Carroll will outside.
Vicki Young of the News stays with us.
Another copy of the Times will go home this evening.
And Joe Dershow will join us in Detroit.
A trip to Bessou.
Leo Levine has just made a trip with us to the Tribune, and he goes to New York.
Hal Rosenthal will join us in Detroit tomorrow.
Gary Mitchell stays with us for the post.
Same for Vardenzie of the Journal, American.
Gil King of the Telegram.
Joe Kropinski of Newsday.
Jim Ogle of the New York Star Ledger.
Foulback.
And while I have this opportunity, we all missed Ruth Henry.
He's got everything set for us to go to Detroit.
He's a person that is, unless you made a road trip with the Yankees, you couldn't appreciate.
He is a very, very efficient and a very pleasant road secretary.
And I've talked with some of the Yankees who have been around, and they say that he's the best one that they've ever known.
This is outside.
Two balls to strike.
The field ahead of us.
Red stock.
Four.
The Yankees have come up a three-inch barrel.
Three.
Brennan for leaving.
Delivers.
Has the ball pushed down to right field.
Right field, Lopez.
Right field awaiting.
And makes a shot.
One out.
And that's a tillman.
The book on Bill Mumblecat, who is a hard man to beat at any time, is that you have more to search if you're going to panel him if you do it early in the bargain.
Once you let him get paneled, he gets increasingly picky.
Tillman picks.
The inside, right up by his hand.
Ball in.
Down ball hits the turn.
It almost knocked Boyer down.
Here's another throw to Boyer's end line.
It was a sharp high bounce that knocked Boyer to his knees.
And if you wish an amplification of the time, hot corner, he is the man I refer you to.
There we have two of them.
Boyer, he gets cut.
Now here's a picture of Bill Mumblecat, right hand batter.
Brennan, but there's two of them.
Ball one.
Beautiful day up here at Boston.
Low inside.
One and one.
I wouldn't be surprised to take all the major accounts.
If you have to pick one for summer weather, this would be it.
And the proximity of Kate Card.
Curve a lot that ball free.
You can hear this third guy, who is the broadcaster up here.
He talks to fishing broadcasters around the hour.
Goes down to a little place on Kate Card all the time.
He's got a couple miles watering.
Such a development strike.
Three and one.
I know when Frank Price was broadcasting up here, he had the lead.
Three one pitch.
Inside, ball four.
So let's get down.
Back to the course.
Red Clarks has gone ahead.
Thomas doubles.
And Camigliano, home run.
And let me say this, that Johnny Kane is not as precipitous about lifting to Boston as you might think just to say a double in a home run.
And he takes his man out when the fill of one run bogies.
You have seen the double and the home run and how hard they were hit.
You wonder how the baseball can stand it.
And here's Chuck Schilling with one for two.
Hit the drive out at the center of the course.
Coming in, coming in, coming in.
Can't get there.
They're stuck there.
They hit.
And one more step.
The lead runner starts to swing away.
Schilling, loose corner to start center.
Now the Red Sox have seven minutes.
Inside at seven.
Here's Thornton Jones, left side hitting.
Young, very patient.
Jones trying to send the drive.
Adjusted the glasses.
Schilling's over two.
Hit the curve, low inside.
Ball one.
Billy Gardner, red base coach, he's had some more stopping.
Spent the last three or four days.
Brennan delivers low.
Ball two.
Two and off.
Now, steady.
Now to the number second as we go to a steep one.
Fine.
There's a line drive now.
It almost cuts the third base coach's head off.
That's close to Gardening, he's got it.
Working back of the players, John Wright, the umpires on the bases,
and Vaman Keehan, McKinley, and Thor.
That feels the steps back into left are going.
Just about slightly.
Brennan 50, Dalton touch, fouls it off.
Two balls, two strikes.
I guess that was a pretty good ball play, a strike down at Philadelphia.
Before the game started last evening out in Plainview,
between Allen and Thomas, and Vic Young has told us that Thomas has been put on the waiver list.
Hey, good job that ball play.
Whenever I hear about a ball play, it's quite a hallways to remember.
Back in the mid-30s, Charlie Jackson was managing a Cincinnati high out a bullpen cut.
One on the action list, a bullpen cut by the name of Gus Ripps,
which used to be a fighting bullpen cut by the public court.
The only guy ever hit was one of his own pitchers, Paul Gargan.
That's right three in Plainview.
That is all for John.
Brennan hits, gets out of the threat.
The man before the red card puts two in the back.
Two runs, three hits, two left.
Four into four, Boston four, and New York three.
Well, Bill Munchat, Bill Munchalget, would be a lot harder to get along with now
as we go into the fifth inning.
He was, in the first inning, behind three.
Then he was behind one, and now he's plus one.
It'll be Richardson, Kulak, and Fred, all of them hitting, start off the fifth inning.
If you want to know, as far as the hard-bitten professional baseball people are concerned,
about batting, they don't care a thing about percentage.
The pitchers, managers, the opposing players, they want to know who's hitting right now,
who hit yesterday, who's hitting today.
And they will leave the percentages to the radio broadcasters who detailed them endlessly,
etc., etc., etc.
And his body, who is one for two, he's hitting right now.
He had a double-slippin' home run yesterday.
He's down ball to third to Hotland, but it's handled by Jones, and over to first, to Hawks,
and we have one out on one thing.
One down.
Now we have Tony Kulak.
In fact, Richardson, speaking of Matt Hidders, has hit in 17 of the last 18 games.
So I guarantee you they talk about him in the clubhouse and in the backhouse.
And Kulak has come back to work, and he's hit safety in seventh grade games,
and he's two for two today, so they know that his number is 10.
They might not remember that Zuzudo used to weigh a 10, but they know who's wearing it today.
Pitchers in there for a strike.
Home ball, one strike, one out.
The Red Sox.
Grousing a little bit about the schedule.
Pitch, put on as a ground ball to second.
Over to first, then to right.
The Red Sox have got to play a morning game tomorrow, Minnesota, and then a night game.
If you think ballplayers like to get up and play a morning game,
you have to let any ballplayers.
Might even warrant, well, I don't know, maybe Susetti wouldn't mind.
But you don't want to hear it stretch.
The Red Sox take a breath five, he's had the ball covered,
he's starting a line, now that's Knoxville and Benton down.
First base, go.
Dress, a quick hitter, and a good one, running up handed.
Jackson Billy Boyd, Bill Monbouchette delivers and a tie and tie, he's got to lean back.
As has been pointed out, but just in case you got in with us,
lots of you do, put on your car radio, coming in a mile away, water on the beach,
coming in a mile the backyard, Monbouchette is beating the anchors 15 times.
Pitch outside, pitch, two and one, two balls, one to set, two outs.
Monbouchette was troubled in the first inning, written on,
get two outs, in the fifth.
And delivers, fresh pick, tie-out, tie ball three.
You see Joe Jackson's column in the New York Times this morning,
on our take on Raymond and his Cuban palm ball.
Very enjoyable.
And it's a fact that the Zumpire made him change his uniform in one inning.
There's a ball, and he hits a foul.
Count it, three and two.
Three balls, two strikes.
Strike hanging in, Monbouchette trying for a one, two, three inning,
first time today, took your work, and there's a high pop-up into short,
that's out of the short, that's the two-and-a-thousand-one.
He has it.
And Monbouchette gets the one, two, three, four then.
The single game in the middle of the fifth is now an official ball game
for the Zumpire, the Zumpire four and the visitors three.
And before I go, Gagliola takes the kill, I will pause the station and get a ticket.
Your attention please.
You are tuned to Yankee baseball over WOKO radio, Albany, New York.
Tony Horton is the hitter.
And Hal Reniff delivers the pitch to Horton, his low ball one.
One ball, no strike. Washington pours, it's strike nothing at the end of four.
Locke, a two-run home, a wicker cam against Nairm.
Two to nothing, Baltimore leading Cleveland, bottom of the fourth,
Pappas against Perry.
Here's the one, no pitch now, it's low and it's two and oh.
Calvert, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Kansas City not yet underway.
St. Louis in the mess, nothing, nothing at the end of one.
Spurkey against Cisco.
The Finanis two and the Phillies nothing, bottom of the fourth,
Nutshell against Polinsky.
Pittsburgh one, Milwaukee nothing at the end of one.
Fisher against Law, Bailey a home run.
Giant should not score, Calvert the first, Herbill against Ewell.
Los Angeles and Houston not yet underway.
And Hal Reniff took enough time for us to run down the scores
and now he's ready with the two-oh pitch to Tony Horton,
swung on and fouled off, out of play,
and it's two balls and a strike.
Red Sharks lead four to three, bottom half to fifth inning.
Nobody on, nobody out, two balls, one strike to count on Tony Horton.
Horton's single and left and scored in the first inning,
flying to right in the third.
Hal Reniff delivers, low ball three.
Three balls, one strike.
Horton takes a look at Billy Gardner, who is coaching at third base.
Now with the kind of power this fella has,
you can bet he's got the green light and he can swing if he likes it.
Here's the three, one, fifth.
He swings and it's a hot shot.
Tony Kupac, one hand over the first in time.
Nice play.
Kupac roams about five quick steps to his left.
Made a one-handed pick-up and fired across the pepper cone in time to get Horton.
So there's one out and it brings up Felix Mantia,
who walked in and scored in the first inning and flies to left in the third.
Reniff to Mantia, tap, foul.
Halton Howard comes up with it.
Red was talking about Ramos and the Cuban pound ball.
I asked him what Ed Hurley said to him in Baltimore that day when
Ed Hurley walked out to him in the mound.
And Ramos said that Hurley asked him to wipe off the ball.
Here's the one-strike pick to Mantia, foul back.
He said, wipe it off when you go to your mound.
And Ramos says, I looked at him and I said,
but Hurley, I'm the cleanest pitcher in the league.
I always wet my fingers before I throw the dirty ball.
For some reason, Hurley didn't appreciate that kind of humor.
Good story on Ramos.
Reniff takes a little bit of time.
Here's the two-strike pick to Mantia.
Right arm curveball, way outside, ball one.
Felix Mantia.
The fellow is bouncing around, but a real tribute to him.
He's come back to where he is, the starting second baseman on the offside.
Wings and misses, he's out on strike.
Reniff took a little bit off his curveball.
Mantia was way out in front.
That's his second out, second strike out for Reniff.
And it brings up Lee Thomas, who is two for two, two doubles.
He doubled in the first inning, goes in two runs, doubled and scored in the fourth.
He's going to hit 273.
He's going to get him up above the 275 mark.
These fouls went off.
Elson Howard got that one right off the right foot.
Strike one.
Ellie just kind of standing there looking down, hoping that her toes are still all there.
The fouls could have come straight down and it stinged more than anything.
Ellie's got the bad big toe to begin with.
She nearly got a nasty one just about a week ago.
Thomas swings and hits one to dead center field.
Roger Rapoads flips the glasses, waits for it, and makes the catch.
One, two, three for the Boston Red Sox in the fifth inning.
And for sure, at the end of five, it's the Boston Red Sox four, the Mid-Idequies three.
A four to three ball game.
And the Red Sox are out in front.
We just gave you the scores, no changes on the scoreboard.
And it gives you the chance to remind you about Old Timers Day.
This will be Saturday, July 31st.
The names of the many great names will be coming in, Joe DiMaggio, Bill Cary, Don Nuccio, Larry Stilby.
One of the old-time favorites, let's put it that way, will be entertaining before, at the same time, Dylan Bartle on his orchestra.
And Tony Martin will be around the same.
So it should be a big day.
And we'll be there, presenting American League, Bobby Dillard, Jimmy Spott, some of the other names.
So that's July 31st.
Before that, the Yankees will be home for a series against Washington, the Red Sox and the White Sox.
And the Yankee Stadium ticket office is open tomorrow from 10 to 5.
So why don't you take a look at the schedule, pick the dates up, and drop by the Yankee Stadium ticket office and pick up your ticket.
Old Timers Day, July 31st, tickets of course are moving fast.
Still plenty of left.
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Elston Howard, lead off here.
Howard flying to center and was out on site.
Real mumbo-jab, lead 4-3.
The right-hander delivers to Elston Howard.
High ball one. One ball, no strikes.
Mumbo-ketch.
Curve ball. Low. Ball two.
Two balls and no strikes.
The Detroit pitchers in tomorrow's game, Lollard-East Pharma, 2-0 pitch to Howard is the strike.
For the Yankees, it'll be Whitey Ford definitely and Bill Stafford.
Stafford is a little doubtful.
Remember, he's just getting over 10 to 9ers from his right shoulder.
But if he feels okay, it'll be Stafford and Ford against Lollard-East Pharma in Detroit tomorrow.
2-1 pitch. Strike two.
Ellie started to swing, held up, but the curve ball caught the outside player.
And the count level is out at two balls and two strikes.
Mumbo-ketch.
As the one-run lead, 4-3.
Here's the 2-2 pitch fouled off out of play, right side.
On the roof beyond first base. Ellie just got her bat out there.
So the count remains at two balls and two strikes.
Once again, the 2-2 pitch went on a bouncing ball.
Eddie Bruce 2 is short, the big hop, the throw in time, and Howard is out.
So there's one out in the sixth, and it brings up Joe Pepitone, who doubled and drove in a run in the first inning,
and he flies to center in the third.
Mumbo-ketch.
Real good slider. He's got real good control of his breaking ball.
Neil Blancho begins his throw for the Yankees.
Pepitone swings a base at the right field.
Pepitone singles the right.
And what that base hit, the first of the two brutes, is for the good old.
Really rooting them in there, Phil.
Well, beautiful day, and a good day to enjoy the ball game.
Here's Hector Lopez.
Pepitone is first.
Tony Horton holds him close.
Lopez, single and drove in two runs and bounced out.
The pitch swung on and missed strike one, and Hector tried to hit one in the right field.
Lopez tried to punch one between the holes.
And a little bit of confusion, maybe, because Pepitone is looking at cross-setting.
Now Pepitone checking with Benson.
Lopez changed the bad ball just to wear a hit-and-run play on.
Leads by Pepitone. The pitch is outside.
One ball and one strike.
There's no answer on the hit-and-run play.
Some hitters like to get an answer most of the time.
Take for granted everybody's got the time.
Pepitone lead at first base.
The 1-1 pitch. Swung on, bouncing ball.
Third base and Jones has it. Over to Schilling.
One out. Over to first.
It is a double play.
A double play. 5-4-3. Schilling.
A very quick pivot at second base.
The ball was not hit sharply, and he had to get the ball on a clear to first base in a hurry, and he did just that.
That ends the sixth inning. No runs. It was one hit. No errors.
And nobody left on base.
Those are scores at the end of five and a half innings.
Bought the Red Sox. Four. The Yankees. Three.
The Yankees.
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Tony Conigliaro, to lead it off. Conigliaro hit a big two-run homer.
To give the Red Sox a four-to-three lead.
Here's the pitch by Renish. Sides a bunt and misses at strike one.
Outside. And it's one and one.
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One ball, two strikes. Conigliaro waits to pitch by Renish as well, unless he struck him out.
That's the third strikeout for Renish.
It came on in the fourth inning after the home run by Conigliaro.
That's for Sue. Tillman, walk-mumble, get a single with Schilling.
That's Jones in the inning. And as we've heard everybody since, here is for Sue.
For Sue's single in the second and fly to the right.
Strike. A good fast ball.
Now they want to look at the ball.
And they're going to change the ball. In fact they're going to throw it out.
Seems like every time there's a called strike now, they want a new ball.
Renish is ready in the pitch. Almost hitting the curve ball.
But Sue turns away from the pitch.
That's one ball, one strike. One out. Four to three in the Red Sox lead, bottom of the sixth inning.
Washington four to one over Detroit in the fifth. Baltimore and Cleveland tied two-two in the sixth.
One-one pitch. Swung on and missed and it strikes two.
Big over three, met nothing in the second.
Cincinnati two foot up, you won the fourth. Pittsburgh on a home run by Bob Bailey leading Milwaukee one to nothing in the third.
Cubs lead a giant four to one in the second.
And they one-two pitch now by Renifer Sue. Swung on and missed. Struck him out. Four strikeouts.
It's an off-season pitch. A breaking ball that Renifer's throwing.
And they one pitch that's been getting the strikeouts on.
And here's Bob Fillman.
Fillman hit it into a fourth play and bounced out.
Here's a fly ball down the right field line. Could be trouble. Hector Lopez coming over fast near the line.
He can't get it. Double.
The ball bounces into the stands with a two-base hit by Bob Fillman.
A high fly ball.
It was fair by a couple of feet and once it hit the hard ground it bounced into the stands which are right next to the foul line.
And Fillman is on with a double.
They play the big guy to pull that ball and Lopez had a long way to come.
Came a mile and a half but it was not enough.
And here is Joe Mambo-Kett. Mambo-Kett sacrificed and walked.
Right handed batter. Red Sox lead four to three. Bottom of the sixth two outs.
Pitch is outside. Ball one.
One ball. No strikes.
Bob Fillman at second base. He's had some problems on the bases.
Ball two.
And I guarantee you that nobody's going to pick him off second.
Because the lead that he has is not much of a lead. In fact right now he's standing on the back.
One, two, three steps off, four steps off, five. That's it. End of lead.
If he'd end up getting picked off I think his wallet would be sliced.
Two nothing pitch is a strike.
Renner for some reason has a problem pitching to Mambo-Kett.
He walked him in the fourth inning.
Two one pitch. Full out and missed. Strike two.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs.
Bottom of the sixth inning. Red Sox are out in front four to three.
Renner Freddie. The pitch.
One out and missed. He struck him out and Renner ends up striking out the side.
Five strikeouts for Renner.
And that ends the inning for the Red Sox. No run to his one hit.
No errors and one man was left on base. The score at the end of sixth.
Red Sox four, Yankees three.
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Roger reports.
The big boy and the pitcher do to hit here in the top of the seventh. Four to three is the score.
Red Sox are out in front.
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The Yankees are in the fourth inning, the Yankees are in the fourth inning.
Roger reports.
Bill Mambo kept delivers the repose, hung on and missed one ball and one strike. Well, they think still that they've got a little bit of a focus there on this youngster. I think you're right, Joe. But I don't know whether it's going to work.
Although he did strike him out on that same time pitch last time.
Well, hitting and pitching is a constant battle. They're showing them the fastball and changing speed and trying to deal with off-speed breaking pitches. There's a fastball outside. Two balls and one strike.
When you start to hit the pitchers, they change.
And they start to get you out and then you change.
And you start to hit them again and then they change.
And it goes on and on. Like the dog wardrobe with all those changes, Joe.
Strike.
You want to repeat that for the West Coast, though?
Sharks today are rooted to do though.
I like the guy that's down in Cleveland. Two-two pitch.
This one well hit. Center field. Manpia is going back near the warning flag and makes the catch right up against the fence.
Roger reposed. Hit one. Keeps the right center field.
And Felix Manpia made the play right next to the fence.
And there is one out.
Here is Cleve Boyer.
Ray Barker is the on-bet hitter. He'll be the pinch hitter.
Boyer is two for two. He's single to right and single up the middle. Takes the curveball outside. Ball one.
Repose really hit that one. But he hit it in the big part of the ballpark.
Not many home runs hit in the center field section here.
Here's one line drive left center field. That's going to plug the gap.
One-and-a-half off the wall. Boyer around first. He's taking for second. Here comes the throw. The slide. Not in time.
Boyer is there with the double. Three for three for Boyer.
Green Boyer at second base with the double.
That's his 11th double of the year.
And I'm sure you've been hearing all day he's on the 11-game hitting streak. Dick Redditt gets up in the Red Sox bullpen.
Bob Kepenauer is throwing for the Yankees. And Ray Barker comes on as the pinch hitter.
Four to three to score. Red Sox lead. Top of the seven. One man out.
Bob Kepenauer takes too much time and Barker backs out.
And it's ball one. Boyer is now up to 258.
One ball, no strikes. Ray Barker, a pinch hitter with Boyer at second base. Four to three to score. Red Sox lead.
Swung on a little looper in the short center field. Manetier got a bad break. Now he comes in, makes the play.
He put back on the ball. But it was too hard enough to where he could retrace his steps.
And hauls it in. So there are two away and it brings up Bobby Richardson.
Mombochet, very obvious, has a good slider going for him today. He's hitting a lot of the hitters right about at the handle.
And the ball seems to be hitting well, but it doesn't carry.
And that's the spot for the slider, the handle, or the trademark.
Boyer at second base. Mombochet really taking a lot of time.
He's nursing a one run lead. Four to three is the score.
Now he's stuck. Sucks Boyer. Here's the pitch. Strike. One strike.
Sweet Boyer. 18 for 41 in the streak, which is a 439 average.
Ha. One ball, one strike.
Bill Cain figures it up that he has moved up 37 points from 221 to 258.
That Boyer who's on at second base. Bobby Richardson, the count of one ball, one strike.
Pitch by Mombochet is outside. Two balls and a strike.
Four to three. Red Sox lead. Two men out and the top of the seventh.
Red has continued to throw on the Red Sox bullpen. Here's the pitch. Swung on and fouled back.
Two balls, two strikes. The count on Bobby Richardson. Two men out.
Top of the seventh inning. Sweet Boyer at second base.
Very good basehead of the afternoon. A double. Here's the 2-2 picture of Richardson high. Ball three.
Now it's a full count. Three balls, two strikes. Two out.
Mombochet.
Ready now. Check. Boyer is second. Here's the 3-2 picture of Richardson. One round and his.
Second round. Bobby Richardson out on strike.
And that ends the seventh inning for the Yankees. No run. There was one hit. No errors. One man was left.
The score at the end of the sixth and a half inning. Boston four. The Yankees three.
The Yankees four.
The Yankees five.
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Bob Piefenauer is the new Yankee pitcher.
Piefenauer coming on the relief. Reniff did a good job. Jim Bouton started, and after Bouton gave up the home run to Coniglia, Reniff came in and did a real good job of holding the red dot.
The Yankees could stay in this game. And now it's up to Piefenauer to hold them.
And to lead it off, it'll be Chuck Schilling. Schilling, Jones, and Horton.
And now to bring you to play by play, here is Phil Bouton. Thank you, Joe.
Bob Piefenauer, 6285 pounds, making his ninth appearance for the Yankees. He's won one and lost one.
His last relief appearance at Baltimore on July the 1st. First two innings, didn't give up any runs.
Schilling is two for three, flying to right, feed out an infield, single and single is centered. Piefenauer's knuckle is in there, strike one ball.
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Next pitch, swing and a foul tip off the umpire's mask, and Johnny Rice shakes his head a couple of times. That hit him solid.
Nothing and two on Schilling.
Yankees scored three in the first. They've been blank the rest of the way. The Red Sox came up with two in the first and two in the fourth.
Knuckle popped up, Kubek moves back in the shallow center field, bounds the glove, and makes the catch, one away.
That brings up Dalton Jones, who fly to right, bounced to first, and struck out.
On deck, Tony Horton.
Piefenauer tells Pepitone, look out for the bunt, swing and a miss, strike one.
Joe was busy talking to Bill Valentine, so he didn't see the sign, but he'll be ready anyway.
The umpire hit on the ground, foul the first, backhanded by Pepitone. Nothing and two.
The windup, pitch a soft line of right to Kubek, two out. Hit it right off the end of his bat.
Here's Tony Horton, single the left line to right and bounce to the shortstop.
Yankees are out hitting the Red Sox, nine eight.
But the Red Sox lead four to three.
Horton swings and misses an upper ball, strike one.
Piefenauer doesn't waste much time, there's a swing and a bounce up in that head, right in the leg.
Boy, he's really getting wacky.
One in the mask, one in the leg.
Nothing and two, as Piefenauer's throwing nothing but strikes out there.
On deck is Felix Manchere, the two strike pitch, line to left center field, that's going to be in for a base hit.
Off the wall, Tommy Church backing up, up with it, and Horton's in with a double.
The ball's made a good drive for that ball.
He leaped high, but it was over his glove and hit the scoreboard.
Horton doubles the left center, the first hit off Piefenauer, that makes for the Red Sox.
Horton's second base hit, here's Manchere who has walked, lined to left and struck out.
Red Sox leading 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh.
Manchere swings in with his strike one on deck, Lee's coming.
Ramos is up in the Yankee both hands.
Piefenauer's set to live as a foul outside of fair, driving the Yankee dugout.
Nothing and two.
Piefenauer rubs up the new ball.
Now the right hander's set.
His pitch is lined to left field, Church coming in.
He hit the ball and a throw to the plate will not be in time, and the Red Sox lead 5-3.
It's a single for Manchere, the left field, driving in Tony Horton.
And what Church tried to do on that ball was let Horton think he was going to catch it on the fly.
The only trouble was, it's too out and he'd be running anyway.
And then the ball hit about six inches from Church's leg, and he could not get his glove on it.
It actually caromed off both legs, and he had to pick it up.
And that fraction of a second caused him getting the runner at the plate. Thomas takes the ball.
Manchere went to second on the throw to the plate, and for Manchere now that's his 59th room battered end of the year.
He leaves the American League in that department.
Nuppert's one out and missed, one on one.
So it's two out, a double by Horton and a single by Manchere, swinging a miss, strike two.
And as deep in our is getting two quick strikes on all the Red Sox hitters.
Manchere's got quick reds.
Pitch outside, two balls, two strikes.
That was a big run for the Red Sox, puts them two up over the Yankees here on the bottom of the seventh.
Two-two pitch outside, ball three. Full count, three and two. On deck is Kanigliaro.
The stretch and the pitch foul back out of play.
The ball went right into the broadcasting booth where Ted Gaudi and Mel Parnell do the game for the Red Sox.
Three balls, two strikes, two outs. Manchere at second.
Pitch swing and a foul tip.
Off the end of Howard's glove, so Thomas gets a life.
Leon Wagner is just homing in the eighth with one on to give the Indians a four to two lead.
They're still playing the bottom of the eighth out in Cleveland. Terry Pritching.
There's a flying ball going foul down the right field line. Lee Thomas broke his bat.
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Thomas is ready. Keep an hour to live as it's up foul near the Red Sox dugout. Pepperton backhand to Mark Chalongy leaning into the dugout.
Boy, he made that look easy. It was a difficult chance. But the Red Sox come up with one run on two hits. No Yankee errors. One man left.
And at the end of seven full innings is the Red Sox five, the Yankees three.
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They get up to that 500 mark. They're just one game under 500. They win this one and they will be at that magic mark. A trail by two going into the eighth. It'll be Kuvec, Treschen, Howard to face Manboquette.
Manboquette delivers a curve, hit in the ground, a first base, off the glove and then in again and a throw to Manboquette in time.
And Horton caught that ball with his bare hand. He's shaking it now. He went down for that ball and took a wicked hop.
And it hit his bare hand and he juggled it momentarily but was able to hold on to it and flip to Manboquette for the up.
One way. Here's Treschen. He's over three. He's flying to center, flying to right and pops his short.
Horton moves in at first now. Somebody from the Red Sox fans yelled for him to look out for the bondage.
Chris Sasami takes it high, ball one. Howard on deck.
Manbo gets the sign from Tillman. Delivers outside, ball two to another.
Two-nothing pitches, a curve over strike called a good change of curve ball. Thank you for three runs off Manboquette in the first inning.
But since that first inning, he has not allowed more than one man on base in any inning.
A fastball swing and a missed strike to two and two.
Nobody on here in the top of the eighth. Right hander kicks, delivers a foul back out of play.
Still two and two on Treschen. Curve is lying foul outside of first, bouncing into the stand. Still two and two.
Manboquette taking a little extra time. He winds, his curve is outside, and it's a full count, three and two.
Big pitch in the ball game coming up on deck, Elton Howard. Here's the payoff bet.
Drive base hit to right field by Treschen, the arrow in. He's up with it, and Treschen's on with a line single to right field.
And that brings the potential gang run to the plate, Elton Howard.
Ten hits now for the Yankees in the ball game, same as the Red Sox.
Elliott is flying to center, struck out, bounce to the shortstop. On deck is Pepperton.
And Dick Raddus gets up again in the Red Sox full fence.
Treschen first, Boston holding the line, stretched by Manbo.
It's to Howard, high and outside ball one.
He's hit a home run in the previous two games against the Red Sox.
Stretch again.
Treschen's hit a high in the air, and it's going to be off the wall, and just missed him a home run by Inchett.
Tommy Treschen became confused. I think he thought it was in there.
Maybe I'm exaggerating, but it looked to me no more than an insta-beam or home run.
I don't think you're exaggerating at all, Phil. Treschen thought it was a home run, and it was a second base.
He knows now the play's over, nothing he can do.
And Howard, who was running hard all the way, just about got himself trapped between first and second.
That ball missed a home run by a matter of a foot or so.
And I'm telling you, it hit coming down, it seemed to hit just below the top of the fence where the screen meets the fence.
A high drive to deep left center.
And Tommy, who is a real good base runner and very fast, is kicking the bag now down his second base because that was a big play.
Howard would have easily gone to second.
Treschen possibly could have scored with a chance to go to third, and that would have put the tying run at second base.
And the first base to end is Yankee, that first is second, with one out in the batter is Pepitone.
Pepitone is two for three, double a right, fly to center, single a right, and here comes Billy Herman.
And they were stalling to give Raditz a little extra time, and let's see if Herman is going to bring in Raditz.
I tell you, Howard will never come close to getting a home run and ending up with one of the longest singles you've ever seen in his life.
And it had to be quick thinking by Howard to get back to first.
He was better than two-thirds of the way down at second.
You can see his spike marks out there in the infield where he had a stop and turn around.
And the only thing that saved him was when the throw came into second base, Schilling went to tag treks and wasted that fraction of a second.
But while we've got time out there, let's turn it over to Joe.
In other baseball, the Washington Senators lead the Detroit Tigers by the score of 5-3 in the bottom half of the seventh inning.
Withersham, Fox, and Nishwicks all working for Detroit, Narrowman Bridges working for Washington.
Horton hit his 18th home run of the year in the fifth with nobody on, locking a fourth with one man on.
They're going to make a breaking change and that's the reaction that the Airdrieck Raddatz is going in for the Red Sox to replace Bill Mambo's catch.
At the end of eighth inning, it's the Cleveland Indians four and the Baltimore Orioles two.
The Airdrieck Rappers against Perry and the tie, the 2-2 tie was broken by Leon Wagner who hit a home run the eighth with a man on.
In the National League, the Amos Cardinals lead, the New York Mets one of the under four, Perky, Morris St. Louis, Sisko, Miller, and Cole all working for New York.
At the end of eighth inning, it's the home run the fourth with nobody on for the Mets.
Six ninety-four foot off you want to get a seven.
Bill Mambo's catch gets a nice hand as he walks off the field.
Six ninety-four foot off you want to end a seven, Nutshall against Burdette.
Burdette has replaced Polinsky, one of the Phillies, and Harper a home run the fifth with one man on.
Burdette has a six ninety-four and Pittsburgh two.
At the end of five, Fisher against Brennan Law, Rico Cardi a home run in the fifth with a man on.
Bob Bailey hit one for Pittsburgh in the first with nobody on.
Chicago four, San Francisco three at the end of four, Goal and replaced Herbill in the second inning for the Giants and Bob Buell is pitching for the Cubs.
Jim Rayard a home run in the third with a man on for San Francisco.
Don Landrup in the first with one man on for the Cubs.
The Caps will use Austin, Houston will pitch Claude Ramon.
So that's the baseball as Rick Raddatz comes on with base on as the first and second one man out and Joe Pepitone the hitter.
Yes, that's about as long a single as you'll ever see.
Oh, now it is.
That's for sure.
Big break for the Red Sox, but the Yankees still have the threat going.
Pepitone is two for three and Raddatz is making his third appearance today.
He's won four and lost six, but the big fellas having an off year as earned run average is five point five six.
They don't call him the monster for nothing.
He's six five two hundred and thirty five pounds.
All right, Raddatz is ready.
Pepitone steps in.
The Red Sox lead five to three here on the top of the eighth.
Bill Manbouchette worked seven in the third inning.
He gave up eleven hits, didn't walk anybody, struck out three and has been charged with three runs.
The pitch to Pepitone, almost hit him.
Oh man, is Pepitone going down.
And he turns around, looks out at Raddatz, but with a grin.
He doesn't want to make this big fella any madder than he is right now.
I'm telling you, there were quick reflexes by Pepitone.
Stretch by Raddatz.
His pitch, he held up in his tie ball two.
Two and nothing.
And Raddatz was not too happy with that ball.
Right now there's very little that's making Raddatz happy.
Two balls, no strikes on Joe.
The stretch, the pitch, he popped it up.
The infield fly roll is called.
Pepitone is automatically out and Schilling makes the catch.
Joe Raddatz gets a big out and it'll bring up Pepitone, rather Lopez.
That's a single left in the first inning driving in two runs.
Then he bounced a short hit and it was double play.
The stretch remains a second, Howard at first.
On deck, Roger reposed.
And Hector Lopez wants the umpire to take a look at the ball.
He's going to throw it out of play.
Alright, Lopez steps in.
Stretch by Raddatz. His pitch is high, ball one.
Howard at first, stretch at second with two outs.
Red Sox leading 5-3.
The stretch, the pitch is lined up.
Right at least, Thomas.
Thomas had a bend down to catch it.
It's all for the Yankees in the top of the eighth, no runs, two hits.
No Red Sox there, there's two men left at the end of seven and a half.
The Red Sox find the Yankees three.
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Ross Machito is going out to play right field.
In place of Hector Lopez, Hector is standing out there with his hands on his hips.
He has not moved as yet.
We'll let you know when Hector takes that first step.
And Hector's turning around, he's going to go in the bullpen.
Very smart move by Lopez, he's not going to run all the way in the dugout.
The Yankee bullpen is right in the back of him.
Take the glasses off, flip them to Ross Machito.
And Bob Kieffenau will be pitching to Tony Conigliaro, Eddie Pursu and Bob Tillman here on the bottom of the eighth.
The Red Sox leading 5-3.
Conigliaro has walked out twice and almost deep into the screen.
That was an own run with a man on that put the Red Sox out in front, 4-3 in the fourth inning.
And they added another run in the seventh.
The pitch to Tony, high outside, ball one.
Next pitch, swing and a miss.
Strike one, one-on-one.
Conigliaro can never cut down on his strikeouts, he's going to be some hitter.
But he's got plenty of power, there's no doubt about that.
Strike two, you went after a bad knuckle.
He has 16 homers and 38 runs out of them.
Another knuckle, he pops this one up.
Boyer and Howard over there, Boyer falling and makes the catch right alongside the Yankee dugout.
That brings up Eddie Bursu, single or left, lined or right and struck out.
We're in the bottom of the eighth inning here at Fenway Park.
Stephen Howard's first pitch gets away from Howard, back to the screen, ball one.
Jura will give us a wrap-up of all the scores at the end of this inning.
Stephen Howard's next pitch is swinging a miss, strike one, one-on-one, that ball really dense.
For two-ass the time, looks like a butterfly, we have a big yellow butterfly flying around in front of home plate.
The knuckle is outside, sometimes that knuckleball looks like a butterfly coming in.
Boyer dances up there.
I think that Jura not only looks like an all-star announcer, but a Hollywood star.
He wears these dark sunglasses.
Mysterious looking, line drive to right field, Machito makes that shot.
Holy cow, I want to tell you, that knuckle came up with a jam right there.
There was no business catching that ball.
It was a long line drive and he got as low to the ground without sliding as anybody I've ever seen,
and made a running one-hand catch, inches from the ground.
Beautiful play.
He ran almost all the way in the first base after making that play, that's how fast he was going.
Nice film it. One for three, double a right his last time up.
The amazing thing about that, Bill, is he was thinking away from it, and he was running almost parallel to the ground.
Ha, still a new knuckle inside ball two, two and nothing.
Dick Hamilton is throwing in the Yankee bullpen, two out, nobody on, five three, the Red Sox lead.
There's a strike on the outside corner, two and one.
On deck is Dick Raddick.
A good foul to the left of the plate, two and two.
A hand for the Red Sox ball boy, really hot.
He's got about eight balls in his back pocket.
He really looks funny running with his pocket sagging, no more hitting the back of his heels.
Little thumb, the pitch outside, three and two. His body's got the mumps.
He's got bulges all over him.
It's a full count on Tillman.
A line drive base hit the center field. Actually it wasn't a real line drive, he hit it off the end of the bat with a lot of English, but it went right over second base.
Nobody could get it.
Third hit off Tiesenauer, and here is Dick Raddick.
And I guess Raddick is wondering, are they really getting on him here?
A bad hitter though, he's been up 15 times with five base hits.
That's a 333 average, that's a right handed foul going off the end of the bat.
Right on the Red Sox dugout.
Strike one.
He has one home run and one run battered in.
Next pitch is a low one a month.
Tiesenauer's set, the level's low, ball two, two a month.
Each team has 11 base hits.
Tillman with a short lead at first. There's a swing and a miss.
Strike two, two and two.
Tiesenauer gets the sign from Howard.
Now he's ready. Foul tipped, back to the screen.
Tiesenauer rubs up the new ball.
The Yankees will have the bottom third of their order coming up in the top of the ninth.
Knuckler is over, strike three, ball.
The Yankees have a little bit of a ball out.
Shaking his head a little bit, thought it might have been outside.
Well the Red Sox, no runs, one hit, no Yankees errors, one man left.
And at the end of eight, it's the Red Sox five, the Yankees three, and now we turn the mic over to Joe Cooper as we pause for station identification.
Hi, let's hear from Joe G.
Okay, Phil, and the Detroit-Washington game is at the end of seven now.
Washington six to Detroit three, Locker two run home, Horton has a home run, and the fifth with nobody on, that's Horton, Willie Horton, 18th home run of the year.
Fine against Sherry, both in relation.
Final score is Cleveland four, Baltimore two.
Pappas the loser, Terry the winner, Wagner home run the eighth with one man on, that was a big blast, and Cleveland, now they have won 18 of their last 22.
19 out of 23, 18 out of 22, 19 out of 23.
Leon Wagner a big home run, Terry gave up six hits, Pappas gave up only seven, the real pictures battle.
Minnesota will use Pascual, Kansas City will use Talbot in that game.
Chicago and Los Angeles not get underway.
St. Louis four, Mets one, Murky all the way for St. Louis, Krull in relief for the Mets.
Buczak home run the sixth with nobody on, so it's at least a five to one ball game now, St. Louis no batting, Lewis in the fourth with nobody on for the Mets.
End of eight now, it's Cincinnati four, Philadelphia one, Nuts all against Burdette, Burdette in relief for Balenciaga, Harper has a two run homer.
Milwaukee four and Pittsburgh two, Fisher against the law, Padurone a home run the fifth, Bailey in the first, Rico Cardi had one point of brave in the fifth with the man on.
Chicago four and San Francisco three again the fourth ball against McDaniel, Porto in the lead, Carter two run homer, Landerman two run homer.
Los Angeles one, Houston nothing, bottom of the second off team against Ramon.
That's it Bill, all right Joe here's Roger Rappoll, over three today swings and misses a fastball strike one.
Roger has struck out, fouled with a catcher and slides deep to center field.
The Yankees need two to tie here in the top of the ninth, as Ditriders firing those little BBs up there to the plate.
Wines delivered, swing and a fast hit back, nothing in two.
Boyer is on deck and then we'll have a pinch hitter for Bob Pippenau.
Jake Gibbs is running in from the bullpen.
We'll wait and see though.
Raditz came more overhand than we've ever seen him throw, he's been throwing a sidearm almost underhand.
First strike out for Raditz and it brings up Boyer, cleatspin red hot, single in the second, single in the fourth and doubled in the seventh.
Three for three for Boyer who has an eleven game hitting streak.
Please talking to Johnny Wright, he wants to make sure he's settled in the plate before that Raditz is ready to pitch.
Actually Raditz doesn't have to look for a sign, he just rares back and fires.
Pitch to Boyer, please start the front take to strike.
And Jake Gibbs is coming out on deck swinging a couple of bats.
And he's fouled back to the screen, strike two, that's five straight strikes that Raditz has thrown this in.
Three to repose, two to Boyer.
Now when he can throw as hard as he does, there's no sense wasting him.
One out in the top of the ninth, the Red Sox lead five to three. Raditz winds, delivers way outside ball one.
Next pitch is hitting the air to left field, didn't get the good wood on it, Thomas is right there moving in now and makes the count.
He hits that one near the handle, it's two out and here's Jake Gibbs batting for Bob Sheefin out.
Gibbs batting 333, been up six times with two bases, one double.
Bobby Richardson on deck.
He's down to their last out here in the top of the ninth inning.
Raditz delivers his swing and a miss, strike one.
Gibbs takes a couple extra swings outside the bat of the box, trying to get real loose.
Next pitch, swing and a miss, strike two. One fastball is outside, one he crowded up.
So it's nothing in two.
Raditz winds, kicks, delivers foul back off the screen.
He's got that hand already. His pitch low and inside, one ball, two strikes.
Not too many people leaving the ball park, but a few have gotten up and they're standing in the aisles.
The one ball, two strikes pitch. Struck them out. High fastball. Raditz retires the Yankees in order.
Nothing is lost. The ball game is over, the final score, the Red Sox 5, the Yankees 3, and Joe Garagiolo will be right back in one minute with the totals and the highlights.
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Well, the story of this ball game is wrapped up in the pitching of Mom Boquette and Dick Radditt and some timely hitting especially by Conigliaro and Mancia.