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Cleveland Indians faced the Texas Rangers at Arlington Stadium on Wednesday, April 11, 1979.
Cleveland had been a below average team for decades and were coached by Jeff Torborg in his final year with the Indians.
Texas was coached by Pat Corrales in his first season with the Rangers.
The Rangers have been shuffling through five managers in three seasons despite finishing in second place in both 1977 and 78 behind the Royals.
This audio recording is from the Cleveland Radio broadcast featuring announcers Joe Tate and Herb Scor.
The umpires for tonight's game will be John James behind the plate, Mike Thompson at first base, Fred Spen at second base, and the third base umpire is Jeff Brown.
Some interesting comments in the newspapers this morning. All of the Major League Baseball they have some of the umpires who are, I don't know whether they're on strike or they're locked out,
it's a difference of opinion, I appraise it, but they're not working.
And they pick at the ballpark and they are passing out literature outside the ballpark and they are extensively interviewed by television and radio people and of course newspaper people.
Here in the Texas papers this morning one of the umpires was quoted as saying that if Fred Spen umpires in the American League he will never work with him,
he will never ride in the same taxi cab with him, and he will never go anyplace that he is.
Fred Spen is a professional umpire and has been signed apparently to a three year contract by the Major League.
And the other umpires say that when they go back to work they don't say if, they think they know that someday this thing will be settled they'll go back to work.
But they say there's not a Major League umpire presently who will ever work in the same ballgame with Fred Spen so this situation is not good to start with.
And as it is prolonged I think there will be some more hard feelings and some harder feelings go along and it's really not good for the game but for anybody.
And hopefully it will be settled one of these days in the near future.
In Major League Baseball this afternoon in the American League, Toronto is to play at Chicago, it has been postponed because of rain, they'll try it again tomorrow afternoon.
New York is at Baltimore, it is Figueroa against Palmer, each team scored two in the first inning, they have now played three and it is two to two.
Chris Chambers had a home run in that game his first of the year just came in the fourth inning and so the Yankees have taken at least a three to two lead, they're still batting in the fourth.
Detroit is in Kansas City, they'll try it again after being rained out last night.
Billingham against Gura, later on Minnesota's at California, the twins bombed the Angels in Tanana last night eight to one.
Oakland will be in Seattle and Boston and Milwaukee are not scheduled, they'll play their final game in that series tomorrow.
In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals were to entertain the Chicago Cubs and they were rained out.
Montreal and New York played, they went 11 innings just today, they went 14, today they did it in 11 and again it was Montreal winning it by a count of three to two, the same score they beat them by yesterday.
Three runs on tenets and no errors from Montreal, two runs nine nets and one error for the Mets, they had just 5,980 in New York.
It was Rogers, Sosa, Freiman and Bonson from Montreal, Falcone and Lockwood worked for the Mets with the win going to Sosa to save for Bonson and it was Lockwood taking the loss.
Sosa already in this young season has won two and lost one.
Tony Perez had a home run in the 11th inning to win that game.
Cincinnati's at Atlanta tonight, Cincinnati Reds are leading 5-0, Atlanta batting in the bottom half of the third at Yuma against Salomon.
Pittsburgh against Philadelphia, Blylemon against Carlton and they're all tied up at one, they have gone three innings.
The Dodgers will be in Houston with Sutton going against Ken Fosh and San Diego will be in San Francisco and that rounds out the Major League Baseball action.
And in the NBA tonight, playoffs underway, New Jersey at Philadelphia, Atlanta will be in Houston.
And here in Arlington, Texas, they tell us it is 67 degrees, the wind is blowing in from right field but it's right now just a very gentle breeze and it really should not affect the flight of the baseball too much.
Eric Wilkins warming down in the Indian bullpen is opposing pitchers, Ryu Coma has finished his warm-ups and he is in the ranger dugout waiting for the rangers to charge onto the field.
330 feet down the left and right field lines here in Arlington, Texas, 400 feet to center field, 370 in the power alleys and there's an 11-foot fence that circles the ballpark.
There are seats completely circling this ballpark, it is really a one-deck affair and the seats in the outfield are considered their bleacher seats and everything else around the other area are reserves of our seats.
And we will now have the playing and the singing of our national anthem.
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
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Steve Comer on the mound for the Texas Rangers. This young man has had a very interesting story. He went to the University of Minnesota and Comer was not drafted.
In June of 1976 they drafted 786 youngsters from colleges and high schools. They did not add Comer to their list.
And funny things happened in baseball. During the winter instructional league that year in Sarasota, the manager of the Texas Ranger Farm Club needed some help.
And he called the scout, Joe Marchese, up around Minnesota. And he in turn called somebody else and they put a call in to Nick Sievert who was at the University of Minnesota.
He's the baseball coach there. And they asked about Comer. He said, I think he's a pretty good kid. They asked for his telephone number.
It didn't take much to persuade him to head for Florida. Comer then was working in a construction crew.
He went to Florida and what happened after that is history. He was 7-2 in 1976. He went to Tulsa in 77 with 7-4, 6-4 in 1977 with Tucson.
And last year with the Texas Rangers, they won 111 and lost 5 with an earned run average of 2.30. Against the Indians he was 2-0 with an earned run average of 1.59.
Toby Harris set the step in. Steve Comer set the goal. Joe Tate is always ready to go and he's here to tell you that it is.
Nice for baseball. Thank you Herb. Good evening everybody. The right hander, Steve Comer, looks in guts to find from Jim Sunberg, the first pitch of the ball game.
High and inside, off the mid of Sunberg, back to the screen, ball one.
Toby Harris, right hand batter, 3-17 on the year with an RBI, 1-4 in last night's ball game. Comer deals again a swing and a miss. On the count evens it 1-1.
We have had a last minute change for the Texas Rangers at first base. Putnam is playing first base in place of Jorgensen.
1-1 to Harris, low and away, two balls, one strike. I have heard nothing to the contrary. I will assume that Putnam is in Jorgensen's number 8 spot on the order.
Let's wait and see when they line them up offensively. Harris stepping back, 2-1 count on the right hand batter.
Wind up by Comer, 2-1 pitch and Harris looks at a tighter for twice and the count is 2-2.
Comer and Wilkins wear it off in this one tonight at Arlington Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
Comer ready, now not ready, steps back. All set, delivers, Arrah lifts a foul ball, that will go to the right end and it will also go well out of play.
Sunberg giving chase but no chance and the count remains at 2-2. Defensively it is Putnam at first base, Wills at second, Norman short, Bell at third,
Sample in left, Oliver in center, Grub in right, Sunberg catching and on and on the right hander, Steve Comer.
Wind up, 2-2 pitch, Harris takes the fast ball low and a full count of 3-2. Dave Garcia coaching at third base, Joe Nasik on the first base side.
Pay off pitch to Toby Harris, swing and that is struck out.
There's something I haven't seen Joe, sitting in the box seat area a few rows behind the Indian dugout,
Derwin Merrill and Jim Evans, American League umpires. They have their umpiring uniforms on and they're, I wonder if they get in the ballpark.
Rick Manning a left hand batter, this will be his first at bat this season. Bell to the edge of the grass at third, Comer delivers fast ball low ball one.
Rick had a good spring, he finished spring training getting five hits in his last six at bats.
Patti Bonds on deck, wind up with a 1-0 pitch, breaking ball outside and high 2-0.
Comer has not faced a batter since he worked four innings against the Yankees in an exhibition game on March the 30th.
Wind up with a 2-0 pitch, a foul ball well back out of play to the left and the count is 2-1.
Comer 1-11 and lost by, he was 2-0 against the Indians in two relief appearances.
Wind up by Steve in the 2-1 pitch and Manning hits it hard to third. Bell on one knee, back hands up, throw count.
Bell went to one knee toward the foul line, back hand to the ball, straightened up and throughout Manning.
Now there are two outs in the first inning.
On your number 25, Bobby Bonds.
Bobby Bonds, finds four for 18 of the year with a run batted in, oh for four last night, right hand batter.
The outside heard, Comer looks very quick.
Yes he is.
Pitch, foul ball, low ball one.
Throwing the ball well, good flattery, they got Toby Herron.
2-0 pitch and Thornton out, Bonds out in front of a breaking ball and the count is 1-1.
Change up.
One ball, one strike with two outs.
Bonds being played to pull with power and the ball is bundled, fouled back to the base of the screen.
One ball, two strikes.
And they Thornton on deck.
In the top half of the first inning,
Steve Comer looks and gets the sign from Sunberg.
One-two pitch to Bonds, outside.
Two balls, two strikes.
Comer, 6-3, 207 pounds.
Again out in front of the breaking ball and this one is bounced foul over to the third base dugout.
They were somewhat sitting on the dugout steps, picks it off.
Two balls, two strikes.
Bonds kicking the dirt around to the batter's box.
Harris struck out, Manning bounced to third, two-two pitch to Bonds, way outside.
Sunberg leaping quickly to his right, picks it off at a full count of three and two.
Barnight waits against Jenkins in the finale of this series.
And it's off to Boston.
Here comes the payoff pitch.
Bonds swings away and chops his foul beyond the dugout. It's still three and two.
Looks like the umpire has had somebody else's seats there being asked to move.
That's the second time I've seen them move since they came in.
Somebody better check those stuff.
Here's the three-two pitch to Bonds, wraps it back to the shortstop on the third hop.
Norman has it, throws and got him by less than a step.
On the first inning, Steve Comer puts him away, one-two-three.
And at the end of one-half inning, the Indians stuffing and the Texas Rangers are coming to bat.
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Checking the defensive alignment for the Cleveland Indians, Andre Thornton at first base,
Dwayne Kuyper at second base, Tom Verizon at short, Toby Herra at third, Ted Cox in left,
the center fielder Rick Manning, the right fielder, Bobby Bonds,
the catcher is Gary Alexander down the mound, young Eric Wilkins,
Frank Lucchese coaching at third base, first inning at first,
and it will be Will Campbell and Oliver to test Eric Wilkins.
Up Wills, a switch hitter going to the left side against right-hander Eric Wilkins.
Two for eight on the season and 0 for 4 in last night's game.
Herra comes to the edge of the grass at third, just inside the cover of the grass,
and Eric Wilkins winds up and delivers, and the first pitch is Rip Powell to the left,
back up into the chairs, there's a fellow walking along with about 10 hot dogs
and six or seven soft drinks and that thing went right by his ear.
He didn't realize that he was in the flight path until he heard it go by.
Off that it hit, what a miss.
Strike from the couch, wind up, Wilkins throws to Wills,
a line drive right at Dwayne Kiper, one out.
Will smashes a liner right back to Kiper at second base and there's one down,
and it brings on Bill Sample, the left fielder.
Sample 1 for 4 with an RBI on the season and 0 for 3 with an RBI on the sacrifice fly last night.
Sample sporting a red 5 trimmed in blue on the back of his flight home Texas uniform,
the Indians of course in the traveling gray.
Bri will be home next Tuesday against these Texas Rangers at 12.05 at the stadium.
Wind up and the pitch and Sample wraps the bouncer to his left,
Toby Herra picks and throws down in.
Toby Herra ranging along the edge of the grass running towards second base,
made the pick up of an eye of the bouncing ball and then threw a line into first,
and that is 2-1.
This brings on Al Oliver.
Al Oliver was the hitting hero out here last night with 2 colossal flouts
through a 40 mile an hour wind into the seats and right.
A left hand batter, 3 for 8 on the year, 2 homers 5 runs batted in,
2 for 4 last night with 2 homers and 3 runs batted home.
Wind up by Wilkins and here comes the first pitch to Oliver and he takes the strike
of the knees, strike one.
Harold pulled well off the line at third, Outfield pulled around, strike one pitch,
Oliver swinging a moose on a breaking ball, strike two.
I have asked you this before Herb but it seems appropriate to ask again,
do you remember your first start in the big leagues?
Yes I do.
What happened?
Long time ago back in Detroit.
Oh yeah I remember that, way back.
We won the game but it was a struggle.
Here comes the 0-2 pitch to Oliver, high fastball 1 and 2.
I think I walked 10 men.
I didn't wind up many times that day, I was always in the stretch.
One ball, two strikes and two outs.
First inning, no score, Tribe went in order against Coleman.
Wilkins winds up and delivers the 1-2 and Oliver is swinging
and a miss, rock him out.
Good fastball by Eric.
So it's three up, three down against Wilkins and the first we've played one at Arlington.
The score, clear but nothing, Texas nothing.
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The Pirates going long ball in the fifth inning of play hitting a two run homer.
And that is going to put the Pirates on top four to two.
Yankees now have a five to two lead on Baltimore with Baltimore batting in the fifth.
Andre Thornton leads off with a second inning for the Indians.
One for 13 on the year with an RBI one for four last night.
Comer delivers and Thornton hits a bouncing ball to the shortstop. Norman picks it up, throws across and there's one away.
Andre Thornton grounding to the shortstop.
Brings on Gary Alexander, the Cleveland catcher.
Alex one for 13 on the year with an RBI and one for three in last night's ball game.
Dodgers failed in the first at Houston tonight.
Sutton against Ken Porsch and of course the interesting
side light or even highlight to that game is that Ken Porsch who pitched a no hitter
the last time out is going to try and go for two in a row tonight.
Alexander one out, nobody on.
First pitch to Alex going to bump the ball, shoves the bat back out of the way in time.
Ball one, pitch was away.
Kind of opened up the middle for Alex with the center fielder shaded in the left center.
Shortstop Norman pulled over and back.
One old pitch and Alex hits a high fly ball to right field going over is Johnny Grubb toward the foul line. Reaches out, makes the running catch.
Neatly done by Grubb and right two down.
Here's Jim Norris with Manning back on the lineup.
Norris has returned to the DH role and has been moved down to the number six spot of the order.
Jim is six for 16 on the year and one for four in last night's ball game.
Norris is six safely in all four of the Indian ball games.
Also has the team leadership in field with three.
Ted Cox on deck.
Wind up on the pitch, Norris drives it off to the left and it is a foul ball. Strike one.
Strike one to count.
Delan on the grass, the third.
Wind up and strike one pitch.
Fast ball inside, one ball, one strike.
Ted Cox on deck.
Now the wind up on the one-one pitch. Norris fouls it back over the standing screen into the seats in the second section.
This is for all intents and purposes a single deck up there all the way around, but they do have a raised section behind home plate.
There is an upper deck behind it up over the press box, swinging a foul to the screen.
One ball, two strikes.
That has just been recently added here.
And they put this ballpark together back, I believe, in about 1965 for Triple-A ballers, who needed 9,000.
Bouncing ball off the bat of Norris, the third, on a high hop to Buddy Bill who grabs a rifle to first, just in time to get Norris.
And the side is retired again, one, two, three.
At the end of it, inning and a half, it is Cleveland nothing, Texas nothing.
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In the home half of the second inning, Johnny Grubb, Buddy Bellman, Oscar Gamble come to bat this afternoon in the National League.
Montreal won 11 to beat the Mets 3-2 on a 20-per-res home run.
Cincinnati leads Atlanta 5-1 in the fourth inning tonight.
Pittsburgh 4-2 over Philadelphia in the fifth.
Still to be heard from, San Diego is San Francisco and the Dodgers fail on the first of Houston.
Wind up by Eric Wilkins in the first pitch, the left-hand batting Johnny Grubb is low, ball one.
John 2-9 on the year with a home run, two runs batted in and one for four in last night's contest.
Wind up by Wilkins and the pitch to Grubb and John drills a foul to the left back into the seat.
And the count evens it a ball and a strike.
And Grubb also broke his bat.
Toronto and the White Sox reigned out in Chicago this afternoon and will reschedule it for tomorrow.
Yankees 5-2 over Baltimore now in the fifth.
Detroit failed on the first in Kansas City, that's Stubbingham against Gora.
Boston and Milwaukee are not scheduled.
Minnesota plays California and Oakland and Seattle later tonight in the NBA playoff.
Philadelphia leads New Jersey at the end of the first quarter, 33-22.
That is not a surprise, is it?
No, it does not surprise me.
Who do you think is going to win, ultimately?
Washington.
Washington?
Yep. One ball and one strike.
Pitch to Grubb, bouncing ball, shortstopmerizer, gets it on the hop, fires the first.
Grubb is gone and there's one away in the second inning.
And I think I have now probably just put the kiss of death on the Washington Bullets
because I have a great facility for picking wrongs.
They should win it, even in my way of thinking.
Here's Buddy Bell.
Bell won three in the year one for four last night, had a double.
Buddy defensively in these first two games has sparkled a third.
Which is no surprise to us.
That's right.
Wind up, and the pitch to Bell, and hit him.
And inside fastball, put Buddy going by, and Bell has been hit by the pitch.
Now Buddy trots down to first base.
Texas trainer comes trotting out to see if he's all right.
Trainer is Bill Ziegler.
Just a glancing blow.
Well, Bell at first.
Alexander going out to talk to Wilkins with one out and now one on.
Oscar Gamble, the left-hand batting designated hitter, is due.
Oscar won for four on the year one for two last nights.
Jerry Alexander going out to the mound to talk with Eric Wilkins.
Calm him down a bit.
Pitching with the man on first for the first time.
Applause.
Wilkins working from the stretch.
Bell with a short lead at first base.
Andre Thornton holding out the bag.
The pitch is low and away, ball one.
This is the home half of the second inning and there is no score.
Comer put the first six Indians away in order, and Wilkins exposed to the first four Rangers before hitting Buddy Bell,
and now Gamble at bat with Bell at first base.
And the 1-0 pitch. Oscar drooled, went back over the screen into the seat.
The count is even. It's 1-1, and a fan down below. It's made a fine catch.
1-1 count. Gamble sporting a full beard and a clipped afro.
Same amount of hair, just relocated.
Throw over to first base, Bell diving back to the bag.
Didn't have to, it was just a lob throw, but he's taking no chances.
Hit the deck.
And the home plate umpire, John James, goes to work with a whisk broom.
The stretch, and Wilkins delivers the 1-1 pitch.
Gamble takes low, two balls and a strike.
We'll be getting a station break for you here very shortly.
Look for the sign. Wilkins the stretch.
Bell leads it first, 2-1 pitch. Gamble chops the ball foul into the first base.
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2-2 count. Wilkins to Gamble bouncing ball off the glove of Thornton.
Ricket chase off to Kuyper and everybody's third.
Thornton going to his right, got the heel of the glove on the ball.
The vice versa.
Bounce way up in the air.
Charge to Andre Thornton, and now the Rangers have runners at first and at second.
And nobody out. One man out.
This brings on the catcher, Jim Sunberg.
Sunberg, 1-7 on the air with an RBI and 0-3 in last night's ball game.
Right hand batter against the right hander, Eric Wilkins.
One out here in the second inning. The pitch to Sunberg, he poured him a fastball, strike one.
Stretched by Wilkins, runners leading first and second.
Strike one, pitch to Sunberg. Fastball inside.
One ball, one strike.
On deck is Pat Putnam.
First baseman, a last minute substitution in the starting lineup.
Stretch, look back, and pitch. Fastball low, two and one.
Putnam and Sample and Norman will be at least somewhat familiar with Wilkins because of the PCL.
I think he said, he told you last night he pitched against him once.
Stretch, two-one pitch. Fastball inside.
Three and one to count.
Alexander steps out in front of the plate, throws the ball, and a few words of encouragement back to Eric Wilkins.
Eric is not missing by a lot. He's just missing almost in the same spot just above the knees off the inside corner.
Rupp opened the inning with a ground ball to short.
Funnybell was hit by a pitch and Oscar gambled safe on an error charge to Andre Thornton.
Three-one count on Jim Sunberg. Stretched by Wilkins in the pitch, he flips it low, ball for it.
The bases are loaded with one out.
Bell goes to third, gambled down to second. Sunberg on it first.
And out to the mound, Charlie Hartenstein.
The batter is Pat Putnam.
Putnam a left-hand hitter, two for three in the year with three RBIs.
And on top of that, he had a pinch hit single for a run batted in here last night.
At Tucson last year, Putnam hit 309 with 21 homers and 96 RBIs.
So Hartenstein has had a chat with Wilkins and heads back into the dugout.
And Pat Putnam gets ready.
The Rangers have loaded the bases in the second inning and there is, to this point anyway, no score in the ball game.
First pitch, Putnam lifts a foul ball off to the left.
It's Souvenir out of play and the count is strike one.
Bell at third, gambled at second. Sunberg at first.
Wind up in the pitch.
Wing and a miss.
Run for a pitch down below the knees.
That might have been the fourth ball. Looks like the bottom really fell out of it.
Wilkins waiting while Putnam steps back and now steps back.
Wilkins standing erect on the mound, gets the sign, glances over to third.
Here's the pitch to Putnam, foul ball back over the screen into the seat.
And the count is strike two.
Bases loaded, one out.
Wind up on the pitch.
Putnam went for one low, gets away from Alexander.
He goes back quickly, picks it up on the edge of the grass behind home plate and there's no advance of third by Buddy Bell.
Dix gives the ball back to Eric Wilkins and Eric takes that walk back to the mound.
A hit batter and Eric and a walk to blow to the bases for the Rangers with one out on the second inning.
On deck is the shortstop Nelson Norman, the number nine man on the Texas order.
Wilkins cranks up the one-two pitch to Putnam.
Fast ball going inside, two balls, two strikes.
Putnam with a 18 and right at the back of the home plate, steps back and then in.
Rotates the bat and ready.
Two-two pitch, swing and a bouncing foul back to the screen.
That remains even if two balls, two strikes.
On half of the second inning, Rangers won last night's ball, game five to nothing.
Two balls, two strikes.
Here's the pitch to Putnam, a high fly ball to right center field.
To his right, Bobby Bond makes the catcher come and spell the throws going to third base.
Get on over to here, the run scores from third on Cuddy Bell,
slips it up right, Putnam with a sacrifice fly and the Rangers lead one to nothing.
Bell scoring from third base but there's no further advance.
First run of the ball game and it was accomplished without a base hit.
Oh, it's two on and two out, here's Nelson Norman, the shortstop, right hand back.
Norman one for four on the year one for two last time.
Gambled at second, Sundberg at first.
The stretch by Wilkins and the pitch to Norman, swing and a miss.
Strike one.
The deck is pumped willed.
The stretch, look back and the strike one pitch and Norman jammed with a fast ball.
The count is even at a ball when it strikes.
Look in for the side.
The stretch, look back, one one pitch, hit hard up the middle,
Verizon down, ball off his glove into center field, Gambled scores,
ball tops away from Manning but he stays with it.
Sundberg stops at second and it's an RBI single for Norman to make it through to helping.
Tommy Verizon came within about a half a foot of grabbing that ball,
just off the end of the glove.
First hit, second run.
Both these runs will be unearned incidentally.
And that brings up the top of the order.
Eric Wilkins now has just about done it all.
He's had a strikeout, he's walked the batter, he's given up a hit, he has hit a batter.
Sundberg stops at second base.
Bump wills, he opens with a line drive to the second base.
Texas leads two to nothing.
Eric coming into the edge of the grass at third base.
First base side dropping back, follow that stand better.
Stretched by Wilkins with a pitch to Will, swing and a miss, strike one.
Texas two runs, one hit, the Indians no runs, no hits, and an error.
A stretch and a pitch.
Line drive and a center field, a base hit.
Rounding third is Sundberg, here comes Manning, throw to the plate, he is out of the plate.
Line throw by Rick Manning.
Manning fired his strike to Alexander Nutz, puts the tag on Sundberg, sliding in.
And the inning is over, a base hit.
That makes the final total for the frame, two runs, two hits and an error,
with a man left, with two men left, and the score at the end of two innings of play,
Texas two, Cleveland nothing.
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Sunset in the mountains, the sparkling waters in each stream slowly turning to shining gold.
The high craggy peaks quietly glow in the fading light, and the stillness falls like a soft secret snow.
It's time to sit back, relax, and feel good about the day.
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In the top of the third inning, the bottom three of the Indians order,
Ted Cox, Dwane Kuyper, and Tom Berizer against Steve Comer.
Texas now with a 2-0 lead.
Steve Comer has retired the first six men in a row.
On the scoreboard, Cincinnati has now really done a job on Atlanta again tonight.
It is 9-1 with the Braves batting in the fifth inning of play.
And Lucas Sepsioan had a grand slammer in that big four-run fifth.
Ted Cox, got an 0-4 into the year.
Now that can't be. They got him 0-4 into the year and 1-4 last night.
Cox, well, his league stats have him 0-4-8 on the year, but he was 1-4 last night.
That's right.
And in fact, with 2-4-8 coming in, so he is really 3-4-12 on the year.
I'm not sure where they got the 0-4-8.
Well, the other day they had Cage without having hit two.
Here's the pitch to Cox low, ball two.
Now I guess the computer doesn't get any spring training.
The pitch is hit up in the air down the right field line off the bat of Cox.
Putnam back.
Wills over. Wills on the run, the bullpen, the ball dropped.
Wills called Putnam off the ball, but the ball kept sailing away from him.
Putnam actually ended up closer to it than anybody else.
So Teddy is 3-4-12 on the year rather than the 0-4-8 that I had given you earlier.
The count is 2-1-1.
Steve Comery, 11-5 last year.
Teddy Cox discovered his bat was broken and had to go back over to get another one.
Detroit 1-0 over Kansas City at the end of two innings of play on a walking foot home run.
Pittsburgh and Philly are 4-4 with the Phillies batting the sixth inning at Philadelphia.
There's a slap up the middle by Cox at his center field.
A base hit. Comer put his bare hand up in the air and almost made contact.
He ought to be very happy he didn't reach it.
That is right.
There's a shot up the middle at his center field.
That is the first Indian hit of the ball game.
And it brings to bat Dwayne Kuyper.
Kuyper 4-15 on the season with two RBI's, two for four in last night's ball game.
Now Ken Forch will not pitch another no-hitter tonight.
Dodgers got him for a pair on the second inning.
Yankees 5-2 over Baltimore on the sixth.
First pitch, Cox on the go and Kuyper bounced the ball foul back to the screen.
Strike one count on the left hand batting.
Captain of the Indians, Dwayne Kuyper.
Comer looks in working from the stretch for the runner at first base, nobody else.
Here's the pitch and Kuyper takes it low and away.
One ball, one strike.
Comer, the sign from Sundberg.
The stretch, a pitch, Kuyper lifts a fly ball behind the shortstop.
Norman who'd come in goes back but melts back there and puts the ball right off the end of the glove.
But he made the basket catch but the ball was right on the fingertips of his glove and he just hung on.
One away, Cox and Forch retreat to first base.
Tom Verizon, right hand batting, shortstop, nine on the order.
Two for 14 of the year with a run batted in and an 0 for four last night.
The stretch and the pitch and Tommy takes outside, ball one.
We're at the top of the third and the Texas Rangers have taken a two to nothing lead.
Throw over to first base, back to the bag, goes Cox.
Stretch and the pitch, Verizon takes low, Sundberg came up ready to throw but Cox retrieves it to the bag.
The error in the second inning with both runs against Wilkins in the unearned category.
Fine throw by Rick Manning that inning.
It's about to consider Rick has not played since last Monday.
Stretch and the pitch, Verizon bangs the ball foul over into the third base dugout.
Two balls in the strike.
Steve Comer wearing a red 11 on the back of his uniform.
Cox leads it first, one out, one out.
And a throw over to first base, Teddy puts the foot back in the bag in time ahead of the tag by Putnam.
August 5th, Comer went an inning in the third, picked up a four to three win.
August 13th, he was a six to five winner in four in a third inning against Cleveland.
There's a ball off the glove as Sundberg rolls down the third base line.
Sundberg quickly on top of it and there's no advance by Cox.
Two balls in the strike.
When Comer throws that fastball low and inside to the right hand of a low and away to the left hand, it really sinks.
The ball just bore right in on him.
Throw the hair on deck.
A stretch, Comer's three-one, picks to Verizon, Cox goes and the ball is fouled back.
Three-two.
Booked out of three and two.
Verizon keeping an eye on Dave Garcia, the Indians' third base coach.
A stretch and the playoff pitch runner goes.
Verizon lifts the fly ball into center field.
Oliver started back now, he's coming on and makes the running catch.
Cox on his way back to first base to throw.
That's what it's time, goes to the pitcher backing up as it came through the first base and on the bounce.
Two down with Cox safely back at first base.
Al Oliver is rapidly becoming a big hero down there.
Two home runs last night, didn't hurt him any.
And of course he batted 324 last year.
He is one of the better hitters in the American League.
Toby Harrah, Harrah struck out swinging to start the ball game against Coleman.
Over in Salisbury at the Sportscasters and Sportswriters Convention.
Here's the pitch and Harrah takes the strike, strike one.
The host and hostess, Dr. Charlie and Marnie Steinman.
Marnie is a relative of Toby Harrah, they come from Marion High School in Marion, Ohio.
Toby says half the town is my relation.
He hit it at first base and Putnam had to go around the runner to flag that wild pitch down.
He did, Cox at first base.
A stretch, strike one, pitch bounces into center.
Dr. Steinman is in your category.
Herbie turns in five miles a day chugging up and down the streets of Salisbury.
Doesn't look a day over 80.
One ball, one strike.
Throw strikes, throw pitch and a foul fly.
First base side, Putnam chasing and lead a ticket.
It's in the scene.
One ball, two strikes.
We're in the top half of the third inning.
The Indians put the leadoff man Ted Cox on base with a single to center.
The chiper popped up and Verizon flagged a center.
And now Toby Harrah trying to keep the inning alive with a one-two count and Rick Manning on deck.
Comer's a stretch and then he steps back.
Comer works much more slowly with people on base than he does when base is empty.
He surely does.
A stretch, one, two, pitch and another foul fly that was deeper into the seats on the right side.
And the count remains with a ball and two strikes.
Comer doesn't like the baseball that he had and he wants another one.
The home plate up front.
David Clyde I understand released today from Lutheran Medical Center which is good news.
We hope he'll be back with us soon.
He's a fine young man.
We missed seeing him around and he's going to be a good pitcher.
One, two to count.
Here's the pitch and a bouncing foul right over to the on-deck circle and into the seat.
Also good to see Wayne Garland back in an Indian uniform working out.
He is eligible to go off to the Sablist on April the 18th.
So, Bo Diaz.
I think he can get off on the 14th.
I'm sorry, yeah, the 14th.
The Garland's the 18th and Diaz is the 14th.
One ball and two strikes on Toby Harrah.
Stretched by Comer.
Cox leads the first pitch to Harrah outside, brought up first base and Cox scampers back to the base.
Jim Sunberg is a catcher who is not afraid to throw the ball and he throws well.
Now there are some catchers who should be afraid to throw.
That's right.
And they still do.
Sunberg is not afraid and throws extremely well.
Breaking ball inside, three and two now on Toby Harrah.
Comer looks into Sunberg for the sign.
A stretch, pitch, swing and a miss.
Toby Harrah strikes out for the second time against Comer.
The ending is over.
No runs and a hit with a man left at the end of two and one half innings of play.
It is Texas 2, play of another.
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That's a push.
The Rangers sample Oliver and Grubb in the third inning.
Yankees 5 to 2 over Baltimore on the seventh.
Kansas City now 2 to 1 over Detroit on the fourth.
Here it is 2 to nothing Texas and we're in the third inning of play.
Pitch to Sam O'Lo.
Two balls, no strikes.
Al Oliver on deck.
The pitch, foul ball back over the screen.
A simpler end of the sheet.
Fortunately you hear an empty chair.
I think before we come back next time we'll see that other screen put up again.
Somebody's going to get killed back there.
Take us some heavy shots back there.
Looking for the time by Wilkins.
Here comes the 2-1 pitch.
High, high foul fly over the first base dugout.
Thornton to the railing, no chance, six rows deep.
Two balls, two strikes.
Wilkins, Thornton, Alexander all in the neighborhood.
The ball was into the chairs about six rows behind the first base dugout.
Want to say hi to Grandpa from Tony and Gary who are rooting for the Indians down here tonight.
2-2 pitch.
Sample outside, fastball, three count of three and two.
Folks who sent us the donuts last night are right back at it again tonight.
Yes they are.
They greeted us outside the ballpark.
Mike and Peggy Vansik.
Here comes the 3-2 pitch.
Low ball for Sam O'Lough that starts the third inning.
Second walk given up by Wilkins to Al Oliver.
Oliver a strikeout victim to win the first inning of play.
All right, Peggy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jemison are opening in of course again tonight.
Mike and Peggy Vansik are right here at the ballpark rooting for the Tribe.
Throw to first base with Sample back in the back.
They're sitting just down below us.
He has an Indian cap on and she has a shirt with the Cleveland Indians marked on it.
Stretched by Wilkins, the pitch to Oliver wraps it by the mound.
Verizon, the shortstop, flips over to Kuyper for their fourth play on Sample but Duane has no chance to relay.
Head man is gone.
Sample out six to four if you scored shortstop for the second baseman covering.
That's the first out of the second inning.
Puts Oliver at first base and brings on Johnny Grubb.
John bounce to the shortstop for the second inning and then the Rangers want to work the two runs.
Rangers with two runs, two hits.
The Indians no runs to hit and error.
Eric Wilkins looks in for the sign from Gary Alexander.
Grubb a left hand batter, Lovell for lumber as Oliver takes the short lead at first and Grubb raps and
the long by Wilkins to second one, Ryzer throws back the break for the double play.
Eric Wilkins fielding his position very neatly, picks off the one hopper, turns it into a double killing and the inning is over.
No runs, no hits, the walk and nobody left.
At the end of three, Texas two Cleveland up it.
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Figueroa against Palmer.
Kansas City 2-1 over to Troy to the fourth.
Billingham against Gura.
And at the end of six innings of play, Cincinnati 9, Atlanta 3 with Tom Ullman against Solomon, Devine and Scope.
Here is inning number four with Herb Score.
Thank you, Joe. Hi again, everybody. The Indians trailing 2-0.
They will have Manning, Barnes and Thornton to see if they can solve the offerings of Steve Comert.
So far he has banned two.
He's given up just one base hitter single to Ted Cox leading off the third inning.
Manning his first time grounded out to Buddy Bell, but he made a good play on him.
Left-hand batter, pitch to him.
Curve is high, ball on.
Comert, all right-handed, throws.
Ball outside, ball 2-2, 2-0.
Manning backing away, checking with Dave Garcia.
As we mentioned earlier, Manning played on last Monday in Tucson, did not play since that time.
Right over the outside corner, suffering from strep throat infection.
It was a week yesterday, but the Indians came out and took an early workout.
They worked out at 2-30 this afternoon, took some extra batting practice.
2-1 pitch.
Line drive, Buddy Bell makes the play.
Buddy Bell with a spectacular diving grab, a line shot to his right.
He reached the cause, put him around, he landed on the ground, but he hug onto the ball.
Now the Texas fans are seeing what Indian fans have seen for many years.
Buddy Bell takes the base hit away from Rick Manning.
Here's Bobby Barnes throwing out on a close play by the shortstop first time up.
Ball outside, ball, and a super play Buddy's made on Rick Manning.
When Buddy made that catch, Manning just stopped in the base half and stared in his face.
I'm going to blame him.
Slam and a mad sea, pull him with a curve ball.
Ball on the strike, one man out.
Indians trailing 2-0, we're in the fourth.
Tribe will be back here tomorrow night.
And there will be Rick Waits going against Fergie Jenkins.
Down too low, 7.35 game time here, 8.35 in the Eastern time zone.
2-1 pitch, slide and missed outside, 3-1.
Playing Bobby around and left and deep.
Three balls to strike, Andre Thornton on deck.
Indians trying to get something rolling here in the fourth.
Right through the middle, 3-2.
Fomar winds it up.
Fast ball, bounce for a short, cutting over Buddy, grabs it, throws, gets him.
Buddy Bell ranging to his left.
Buddy putting on a pretty good show here tonight.
Two men down in the fourth inning.
And the batter's Andre Thornton.
Andre with a ground ball, a short, his first time up.
Andre in his young season has had one base hit in 14 at bat.
Gary Alexander on deck, inside with a slider, ball one.
Ground ball fouled at home plate, one ball and a strike.
Phillies had a run in the last half of the semis inning.
Here it is now the Philadelphia Phillies five and the Pittsburgh Pirates four.
Pirates are batting in the eighth.
Still fly 11 against Carlton as far as we know.
Ball one, strike one.
Wind up, the pitch, down too low with a slider, two and one.
They want that ball examined.
On the fire behind home plate is John James, he looks it over.
And he says it's okay.
Wind up, two-one pitch, high and outside, three and one.
Two men out, fourth inning.
Indians trying to get on the scoreboard, they trail two-nothing.
The left fielder is damp almost on the warning tramp and he's way around the left fielder.
Line-by-line, left fielder line, it is serving foul.
And you can see why they had him play it over that way.
Into three-quarters in the NBA, Philadelphia 85 and New Jersey 73.
Three balls, two strikes.
Andre Thornton steps in.
That's three infields on the left side of the infield.
Swing and a miss, make three, took something off.
Well, he throws a fork ball in that, but whatever that was, it was a good pitch.
He gets his third strike out, he puts the Indians down one, two, three.
He's now retired six in a row.
And at the middle of inning number four here in Texas, the Texas Rangers two,
the play with the Indians nothing.
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Eric Wilkins will face Buddy Bell after he gambles Jim Sunberg here in inning number four.
And listens with a hand for Buddy.
The Indians here appreciate the fine defensive work.
Wind up by the right-hander.
Fitz to Buddy is inside ball one.
Buddy was hit by a pitch the first time up.
Wilkins surrendered two runs in the second inning, but they were both unearned.
Two nothing, Rangers.
High fly ball, center field, Rick Manning cruising in.
He has it.
One gone in the fourth inning.
Here's Oscar Gamble.
He was safe on Andre Thornton's error.
And that sort of opened the doors for the Rangers to pick up a couple of runs.
And so there was a man out, Buddy was hit by a pitch.
Gamble the first base off the glove of Thornton, put runners at first and at second,
and Sunberg walked to load him up.
A sacrifice fly put in one run.
The base hit drove in another.
Inside ball one.
And it could have been a lot worse.
After the hit by Norman made it two to nothing,
Wills lined a single to center field.
Rick Manning charged in, picked it up, fired to home plate, and he nailed Sunberg.
Down to low with a fastball, two and O.
Wilkins with a fastball, a slider, and a forkball.
Keeps the ball down very effectively, and that works well for him.
Two-O pitch.
Fastball, a bit outside, three and O.
Jim Sunberg beyond deck batter.
Eric has struck out one, he has walked a pair, and he's hit a batter.
He has given up two base hits.
Three-O pitch.
Rick could take inside ball four.
Nothing else could go over the ball.
He was standing there.
Now he goes to first base.
Third walk issued by the Indian right-hander, and here is the catcher, Jim Sunberg.
He threw the base down ball his first time up and then was nailed at home plate
on the throw by Manning.
That's to consider Rick has not really worked out very much since last Monday.
Some throw.
Yesterday was the first day he really worked out since last week.
Go to first, back safely.
Check on the runner at first.
Sunberg takes the fastball low and inside, ball on.
Gamble walk, he's on at first.
On deck, Pat Putnam, left-hand batter.
Sunberg right-hander to throw to first and back safely.
Eric Wilkins in spring training picked off three runners,
and he has a very quick move to first base.
Gamble, not much of a lead.
Down too low.
Two balls, no strikes.
Frank Lucchese coaching at third, flashes the signs to Jim Sunberg.
Check to the runner at first, 2-0 pitch.
Sunberg pops it up, first base side.
Ripping into foul territory is Dwayne Kuyper.
Over on the warning path, he makes the grab.
Andre was there, but he backed away quickly.
Kuyper called them off.
Two-minute down and the batter, Pat Putnam.
He drove a sacrifice flight to right center field his first time up.
Picked up a run battled in, not an official time at bat.
Eric Wilkins and the Indians trail 2-0 here in the fourth.
Eric checks on the runner at first.
Here's his delivery.
Round ball, right side, in the right field, a base hit.
Around second is Gamble.
He'll hang on.
Here's the throw back to second base.
Dive and safe.
Big turn is second by Gamble.
Bobby Bonds fired it in.
Kuyper grabbed the ball and dove for the bag.
Gamble diving back at the same time.
He got there first.
Well, Putnam gets the base hit.
The Indians had him played sort of up the middle.
He drove the ball through the right side.
Nelson Norman, the shortstop who had a base hit his first time up, and he drove in a run.
Third hit allowed by Wilkins.
There's a strike at the knees.
Gamble at second. Putnam at first.
Slider missed, flowing away.
Ball one on the strike.
Nelson Norman batting at 400.
One ball, one strike, delivery.
Swing and a miss.
Good slider.
One ball, two strikes.
Wilkins has one strike out.
He struck out Oliver in the first inning.
One-two pitch.
Swing and a foul back.
Count holds.
Ball one, strike two.
Indians will be in Boston over the weekend and actually Monday too.
They're off Friday.
They play the Red Sox Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning.
They play a 11 o'clock game.
That's the Patriots' day game, and that's the day they run the Boston Marathon.
Shame we're playing because Joe and I would certainly be out running in that.
Inside, ball two, two and two.
You say that every year.
I know.
I'm going to keep saying that every year.
Someday we're going to get an open date and we're both going to look very bad when we don't show up.
We'd look worse if we showed up.
That was true.
Two balls, two strikes, two men out.
I've got to tell you, the fellows are running, and the ladies are running the Marathon.
It's going to be commended.
That is some physical task.
Two balls, two strikes.
Eric backs off.
Don't forget now, the Indians will be home next Tuesday afternoon at 12 o'clock against the same Texas Ranger Ball Club.
And then Wednesday at two.
And Wednesday they have a big behind-the-fence party open to the public.
Swing and a miss, strike three.
Eric Lurkin gets his second strike out and he puts the Rangers down on the fourth inning.
No runs.
The Rangers had one hit.
No Indian errors and two men left.
We have played four.
The score, the Texas Rangers two, the Cleveland Indians nothing.
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We're going now into the Indian champ for the fifth inning.
It'll be Alexander, Norris, and Cox.
They try to get something going against the Rangers in Comer.
Steve Comer's retired the last six in a row.
He retired the first six, then gave up and hit the Cox,
and he's taking the next six right out.
Baltimore's batting on the last of the ninth with the Yankees leading 5-2.
Jerry Alexander, first time up, popped the right field.
Wind up and the pitch.
Swing and a miss.
Right-hander Steve Comer popping the fastball.
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We'll receive an attractive Indians jacket with the New Long logo on it.
That's Sunday, April the 22nd.
Down to low.
And of course that April 22nd game will be played against the Chicago White Sox.
They're in all weekend, the 20th, 21st, 22nd.
First night game of the year will be Friday the 20th against the White Sox.
First night game of the year in Cleveland, that is.
One ball and a strike.
Swing and a miss, right-hander.
If Tom Watson is a favorite in the game,
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The food will be served until the game begins at 2-0-5.
One ball, three strike pitch.
Inside and high.
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Swing and a miss, like three.
Jerry Alexander goes swinging.
That is the fourth strikeout by the right hand.
Here's Jim Norris.
He grounds it out to the third baseman, Buddy Bell.
Norris has hit in all four games played by the Indians.
Bouting average currently at.353.
Lyada catching the outside corner, waste-tire strike.
Buddy Bell is in on the grass at third.
Buddy has taken about two bases with me in these times, both off Rick Manning.
Fly ball to the field.
Oliver's there.
He pounds the glove and he has it.
Two men down in the fifth inning.
That's eight in a row that Comus polished off.
Here's Ted Cox, the only man to get a hit, the only man to reach base again.
Ted Cox getting a chance to play on an everyday basis and he seems delighted.
We're in the fifth.
The Indians are down two to nothing.
Swing and a miss on the curve ball, strike one.
The Pittsburgh Pirates are playing the Phillies and they're going to the ninth.
It is Philadelphia five and Pittsburgh four.
Inside with a curve ball, one ball and a strike.
Dwayne Kipe on deck.
Kipe with that lead donut up on the barrel of the bat using the rosin sack on his handle.
And this one low and outside, two balls and a strike.
They're in Texas, 330 to the foul line, 400 feet to center field, 370 to the power alley.
11 foot high fence, third turn to ballpark.
Outside and low, three balls and a strike.
Right-hander checks the sign, goes to line up.
Bike two, fastball right through the middle.
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Minnesota beating them last night, eight to one.
Swing and a miss, bike three, put something off.
And Cox goes swinging at five strikeouts for Coleman, he's retired nine in a row.
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For the Texas Rangers, at the top of the batting order, Will Sample and Oliver will face Eric Wilkins.
Indians rookie right-hander gave up two runs in the second inning, they were both unheard.
And that is the story of the game thus far, two to nothing Rangers.
Hitting number five, Wills is one for two in the game, takes the fast ball a strike.
Toby Harrah playing at the edge of the infield grass.
Line drive center field, that's a base hit, that may have been the fork ball.
Somebody threw a smoke bomb of some kind on the field behind Rick Manning.
Will gets a base hit, that is his second, that is the fourth.
That is the fourth of Wilkins and he may get some activity in the Indian bullpen, Ron Hanson running down that way.
Left fielder, Bill Sample.
Here's the left fielder, Bill Sample.
Sample has grounded to third, he has walked.
Wills, a definite threat to Seale, leads the way at first.
Pitch is a fast ball too low.
Will last year picked off 52 stolen bases.
Tore to first, he dives back safely, in his rookie year he had 28.
Sample right-hand batter, ball one.
Tore to first and he just gets back.
He almost caught him leaning the wrong way.
Gossage has come on to pitch for the Yankees in the ninth.
They were leading 5 to 2 going into that ninth inning.
Tore to first, back again with a dive.
Wills is quick, so is Eric Wilkins.
The last few throws have been close.
The other secret of being a good baserunner is to be able to get off just as far as you can and still get back.
That's what he's doing, barely getting back.
Inside, two balls, no strikes.
The old sample has checked with Frank Lucchese back in the batter's box.
Two-oh pitch.
Inside, almost hit him.
Good stop by Gary Alexander.
He's tucked down, a ball stale right over the back of his head.
3-0. It might be that Eric is hurrying his pitches because of Wills being on first base and Gary Alexander going out to talk with him.
And Al Oliver's on deck, so things will not get any better.
Check to the runner, pitch, outside, ball four.
That's what you want to do, first and second with nobody out.
And Al Oliver coming up.
That is the fourth baserunner ball prevented by Eric Wilkins.
And in the bullpen, we have Don Hood up and going.
And Dan Skullner is joining him.
Skullner will also throw.
Here's Al Oliver.
And here comes Jeff Torborg.
He's going out to have a talk with Eric Wilkins.
Jeff's wearing a blue nylon jacket as he heads to the mound.
67 degrees when we started, we haven't lost much. It's a rather pleasant evening here in Texas.
Check the scoreboard while we have the chance.
National League, one game rained out this afternoon.
The Cubs at St. Louis in 11 innings. It was Montreal 3, the Mets 2.
Tonight in Atlanta, it is the Cincinnati Reds 9, the Atlanta Braves 4.
The Reds are batting in the eighth.
Pittsburgh's at Philadelphia with the Pirates batting in the ninth.
And the Phillies lead them 5 to 4.
Now the meeting on the mound has broken up.
The Dodgers are in Houston tonight.
At the end of 4, it's all tied up at 3.
Later on, San Diego, San Francisco.
Catch up with the American Leagues at the moment.
Runners at first and at second.
Nobody out. Al Oliver stands in.
He is 0 for 2 in the game.
Line's eyes on the right field line.
That's going to be an extra base hit.
One runner's in.
A round third, racing and holding up is Sample.
In the second base for the double goes Oliver.
For that Sample, he came turning into third base.
Well, Casey was holding him up.
I think it was going to stop.
Al Oliver continues to punish Indian pitching.
He gets a double.
Another run battled in.
It's a 3 to nothing game now.
Still nobody out. Here's Johnny Graf.
Here comes Jeff Garbois.
And that will be all for Eric Wilkins.
So the Indian rookie gets his baptism of fire here in this ballgame.
Eric Wilkins has been charged with giving up a total of three runs.
He has been touched for five hits.
He walked four.
And he's working out too. He also hit a batter.
He leaves with two men on as his responsibility.
Two of the three runs he has surrendered are unearned.
Don Hood is coming on and we'll be back to tell you about Don after we take this time out.
Look under Don Hood making his first appearance of the season.
He's 6'2", 180 pounds from Florence, South Carolina.
Don last year won five and lost six in 36 games covering 155 innings.
An earned run average of 4.47.
This spring, Don Hood in the spring training warfare down in Arizona,
with one and one in five games that included a start at 3.97 ERA,
pitched 11 and one third innings, nine hits, five runs all earned, struck out five and walked four.
And he picks up for Eric Wilkins.
Wilkins' record shows four plus innings.
Three runs, five hits, four walks, and two strikeouts with a hit batter.
And of course the two men on base is responsibility.
Don Hood picks up the sack of rosin, places it on the mound just behind the pitching rubber,
now looks around at the infield to see where they're deployed.
And we'll be facing Johnny Grubb. Grubb has grounded to the shortstop,
hit one back to the mound that started a double play.
Sample at third, Oliver at second, they both have good speed.
Check to the runners to pitch.
Outside and low, ball one.
Lucasi coaching at third.
Brett Coney coaching on the first base side.
Lucasi's shouting something out to Oliver at second.
They have Verizon almost laying behind the bag at second.
Slider over the outside, corner strike.
Alexander plumping a throw to third, sample dives back in.
Len Barker has joined Dan Spilder in the Indian bullpen.
Time call, ball loose on the bullpen area, robs in left field.
Ron Heshey going over to get it.
Philadelphia knocked off the Pirates tonight, 5 to 4.
Buddy Bell on deck, one ball and it strikes the Grubb.
3-0, range is late here in the fifth.
The Indians trying to keep it from breaking it open.
Under the second and the third, nobody out.
The pitch, curve, breaks too low, ball two, strike one.
Breeze blowing in from right field, not nearly as strong as it was last night.
Check to the runners.
2-1 pitch, bouncing ball at home plate foul.
Ball two, strike two.
Dawn Hood gets the new baseball, rubs it up.
Dawn takes the sign.
2-2 pitch, fly ball behind the infield, back goes Kiper.
On comes Bobby Barnes, a tag at third.
Here's the catch by Bonds, here's the throw, the runner goes back.
Bobby Barnes firing at home and Sample holds the third.
One man down and the batter, Buddy Bell.
Bonds to gamble on deck.
We'll send along a space ship break as we wait for Buddy to get in the batter.
Bonds will be here talking with Dawn Hood.
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They're going to put Buddy on and already Pat Corrales has sent John Ellis into the on deck position.
It's Oscar Gamble.
Buddy Bell will be given the intentional walk.
The first walk allowed by Hood, fifth for Indian pitching.
And we'll see John Ellis.
John pinched it last night, flied out.
John has only been to bat that one time.
We'll see what Jeff Torborg does.
He has two right-handers, Barker and Spillner in the bullpen.
John Ellis.
Jeff standing on the lower step of the dugout and here he comes.
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And let's see what he wants.
He wants Dan Spillner.
That's going to be all for Dawn Hood.
His work is brief.
He pitches one-third of an inning.
He walks one.
Does not strike anybody out.
Does not allow a hit.
And Dan Spillner will be on to see if he can stop the Rangers with the bases loaded.
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Right hander Dan Spilner on here in the fifth inning for the Cleveland Indians.
Spilner making his second appearance of the year.
He went two and a third innings of shutout relief against the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.
Spilner, 6'1", 190, right field with both San Diego and the Cleveland Indians.
Spilner to face John Ellis in the fifth with Marker continuing to work in the bullpen.
John Ellis standing in.
Right hand batter, slightly closed stand, deep in the batter's box.
Spilner will work out of the set position.
Runners on all the bases, the pitch.
Fast ball is too high, ball on.
On deck is the catcher Jim Sunberg.
Rangers three, Indians nothing.
We are in the fifth.
The Rangers threatening with the bases loaded and one man out.
Check swing, did he go around?
Umpires first base, does he do not?
The ball is high, 2-0.
John, a very strong individual able to stop that bat.
Ellis hitting for the designated hitter, Oscar Gamble.
Foul ball sliced off to the right out of play.
For the sake of statistical keeping numbers,
the appearance by Ellis goes as an appearance by a TH and also as a pinch hitter.
Two balls and a strike, pitch, inside three and one.
Now Spilner says I'll try a new baseball.
Three balls and a strike, Ellis says his looks to the third base coach Frank LaCasey.
Ellis steps back in.
Spilner sets, three-one pitch, swing and a miss, three and two.
First fastball by Spilner.
Three balls, two strikes.
High pop, back of the plate, it's going to be out of play and will go to the three-two again.
And Spilner, in relief of Don Hood who relieved Eric Wilkins earlier this inning.
Two of the men on base belong to Eric, runner at first, Buddy Bell, belongs to Don Hood.
Outfield not playing Ellis to pull, they're giving him a lot of room on the left field line.
Two pitch, by the center field, back goes Manning, that's going to be deep enough to score the run.
Manning grabs the ball, here comes Sample holding his second as Oliver and it's a four-and-a-half game.
Johnny Ellis gets the job done, he's the sacrifice wide at center, picks up a run battled in.
The run will be charged to Eric Wilkins and the batter now will be the catcher, Jim Sundberg.
Sundberg has walked and he's fouled out to the second baseman down the right field line.
Right-hand batter, slatter over the outside corner strike.
That's going to hurt anything from Baltimore for some time. Baltimore batting in the ninth, railing five to two.
Gossage came in in the ninth and a long time since we had a report.
One strike pitch, swing and a miss, strike two.
In Kansas City the Tigers have taken a three-to-two lead over the Kansas City Royals with Kansas City batting in the sixth.
Two strikes on Jim Sundberg.
Rangers leading 4-0 here in inning number five.
Indians have had only one hit in this game, Rangers have five.
Down too low.
Baltimore tied the Yankees with three runs in the last half of the ninth inning and they'll go to X-Binning.
Jim Palmer apparently still in the ballgame.
Down too low. Two balls, two strikes.
Two men out, two men on for the Texas Rangers.
Dan Spilner trying to get out of this jam.
The delivery.
Down too low.
Three into a full count and the runners will be going.
This inning started with Bump Wills getting a base hit, sample walk.
Oliver doubled on one run.
That was off Eric Wilkin.
Grub fly to right off foot and a walk fell intentionally on James Spilner.
There go the runners.
Foul ball at home plate.
Spilner gave up a sacrifice fly to Ellis.
And now he's 3-2 on Sunberg, runners at first and at second.
Last report, down the road in Houston.
It is 3-3, the Dodgers and the Astros with the Houston Astros batting in the fifth.
The Astros have defeated the Pirates tonight, 5-4.
Colton over Blylevin.
Ball three, strike two.
There they go.
Ground ball, third base side, Harry charging, bluzzard.
Hurry's his throw, they get him at first, the side retires.
In the inning the Rangers pick up a couple of runs, but it could have been a lot worse.
Two runs on two hits.
So we know in the air as the Rangers leave a pair.
They come through five innings here in Texas to score.
The Texas Rangers for the Cleveland Indians, nothing.
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Well, the Indians come to bat in inning number six.
They have only had one hit off this tough right-hander, Steve Comer.
That was a single by Cox in the third inning.
And since that time, he has knocked off nine men in a row.
In five innings, he's faced only one over the minimum.
He's faced 16 batters, striking out five of them.
Dwayne Kuyper, Tommy Verizer, and then Toby Harrah.
Dwayne Kuyper pops up to Buddy Bell his first time.
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That's the best out of three, isn't it?
Right.
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Here's Dwayne Kuyper.
Houston leads Atlanta at halftime, 57 to 51.
I was reading in the paper today, Joe, the fellow who was kind of letting buy into the Houston franchise
says that if he buys it and the deal goes through, he's firing the general manager.
Right.
Line drive, right center field, chasing over's Oliver.
Still going. He reaches out and he grabs.
Dwayne Kuyper out in a fly ball to center.
Here's Tommy Verizer.
That's 10 in a row this right hand has knocked off.
12,784 the attendance here tonight.
Here's Tommy Verizer, right hand batter.
Line drive, left field, back field sample.
He is there and he has it.
Well, if it's any consolation, he needs at least hit the ball hard this inning.
Right, but he hit it hard.
And Verizer just hit it right on the nose, but all they've had is two outs.
Here's Tobey Harry.
He has struck out twice against this right-hander.
You know, baseball is a funny game.
No question about it, Joe.
All the scouting and so forth.
Here's a young man, Steve Comer, who was not drafted.
786 plays were drafted that year and he wasn't one of them.
And here he is in the Major League.
Last year he was 11-5.
Got a note, Herb.
In that New Jersey-Philly game there were seven technical fouls called John Williamson,
Kevin Lockery, and the New Jersey trainer were all brought out of the game.
Oh, what a surprise.
Now that's where things are going bad when they throw the trainer out.
Charlie Strasser, beware.
Fastball on outside.
Two balls, no strikes.
Maybe things got so bad he decided to get out of there.
Could be.
2-0.
Tobey Harry waits.
Takes it inside.
3-0.
Comer has not walked about it yet.
He has struck out fine.
Harry with a 3-0 count, two outs in the sixth inning.
Right through the middle.
3-1.
4-0, that's the score and the Rangers have the fourth.
Two in the second inning, two more in the fifth.
Ground ball foul over near the Indian dugout, goes into the Indian dugout.
Indians on the third base side.
Rangers on the first base side.
Lucia Cineño just hit a three-run homer and Houston leads the Dodgers 6-3 after five.
That was at the expense of Don Sutton.
The Yankees have failed in the tenth, ball of one-hour batting.
Three balls, two strikes.
A windup to Tobey Harry.
Check swing and hits the bat and it's fouled off.
One bounce came into the glove of Sundberg behind home plate.
Some fire to John James.
We'll give home plate a little bit of a dusting.
Three and two.
Homer winds it up.
High ball down the left field line.
It's going to be fouling the seats out of play.
Count remains, ball free and strike two.
Indians have had one hit off the right hand.
He has retired the last 11.
He's retired 17 of the 18 minutes base so he has been more than effective.
Manning the on-deck batter.
The third ball is too low and the Indians get their first base on balls.
They break the string at 11.
There is the first.
Here's Rick Manning.
He has grounded out to Buddy Bell, but he made a good play going to his right for that one.
And then he hit a line shot that looked like it was ticketed for Lisa double.
And Buddy Bell somehow leaps and backhanded the ball.
And here comes the manager, Pat Corrales.
It's pretty tough.
One guy after getting 11 in a row, you're leading 4-0.
You manage to come out to talk to you.
Well, Alexander was a little upset after the quick hook last night.
Well, Corrales, I heard Corrales interviewed on the radio today and he said he really intended
Comer to only go about five or six tonight.
That's all he really hoped for.
He might be just checking to see if he's strong enough.
In fact, Corrales, of course, has paid his dues as they say.
He's been around the Major League a long time.
Player and coach, very fine young man.
He's 38 years old and he knows pitching.
Rick Manning stands in to pitch to him.
It's up high about one.
Buddy Bell in on the grass at third.
He's going to get action on the Texas bullpen.
Ed Farmer is warming up.
Check on them under the pitch.
Swing and a miss.
Whenever I see Ed Farmer, I picture Rod Carew stealing home in Minnesota.
I'll never forget that as long as I live.
Rocky Colavino and I were working TV that summer.
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I said he's going to steal home and everybody in the ballpark go up with Farmer.
Pitch is foul back at a play.
Farmer was going on it and it will be in the seat down below it.
One ball, two strikes.
Rick Manning, left-hand batter with a ball, two strike count.
Colma comes to the plate up too high, two and two.
The Rangers have been in command.
They lead 4-0.
Duman out.
Harris at first.
The pitch.
Line drive, right field.
Coming on is Johnny Grubb.
He spears it.
The Indians hit the ball harder this inning than they have at any other inning.
This game, three line drives and a walk.
Plus three of the line drives all caught.
So in the inning, no runs, no hits, no errors.
A walk and a man left.
The Indians have only left two in this game.
At the middle of the sixth it is Texas four, Cleveland nothing.
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Last half of the sixth inning, Pat Putnam.
Nelson Norman in the top of the batting on a bump will to face Dan Filner.
In Baltimore, Joe Mirabella has come on the pitch for the Yankees in the 10th,
so Baltimore might be stirring something up.
He relieves rich gossage.
Pitch to Putnam's a strike at the knees.
Putnam in the game is one for one with a sacrifice fly.
And a run batted in, obviously.
Wind up by the Indian right-hander.
Slider, breaks low and inside.
It's a ball and a strike.
Four runs, five hits.
No errors for the ranges.
No runs are hit, and one error for the Indians.
Two balls to strike.
Left-hand hitting Pat Putnam.
Fly ball left center field.
Manning cruising to his right.
Teddy Cox is there.
Ted calls and he has it.
One man down in the sixth inning for the Rangers.
And we'll take a look at the shortstop, Nelson Norman.
He's single home a run in the second inning.
And he's struck out swinging his neck time-up.
George Doc Medich now warming up in the bullpen for the Texas Rangers.
Fast ball strike over the outside corner.
Down she'll over the curve ball.
One ball and a strike.
Nelson Norman right-hanging batter.
He has a close stance.
Feet are fairly close together.
Down below the knees over the plate.
Ball two and a strike.
Still no work quickly.
Ground ball back past the mound coming on his verizon as it fires over to Thornton.
And two-minute down, 6-3 on that out.
Two gone in the sixth and here's Bump Will.
He's had a pretty good night.
He lined out to the second baseman.
And since that time he's had two base hits to center field.
He has scored one run.
Switch hit about he left-handed.
Harrop moves in on the grass at third.
Inside and low ball.
Wind up by the Indian right-hander.
Inside and low.
Break your opponent, call that a strike.
This one is off the inside part of the plate.
Two balls and a strike.
On the bullpen, Ed Farmer, who had sat down, is up and throwing again along with Doc Medich.
Ground ball down the right side, screaming into the seats along the right field line.
Baltimore obviously doing something of the tenth because Gossage went into the tenth
and Mirabella and Tedrow have both come on in the tenth.
I would say they have something moving.
Two-two pitch.
Outside it's three and two.
On deck, Bill Samples.
Three-two delivery.
Bouncy ball first base side.
Andre knocks it down, picks it up, throws the Spillner covering.
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No run.
No hits.
No areas.
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Monty Bonds with the seventh inning as the Indians try to get something cranked up against Steve Comer who has given up one hit and one walk over the first six innings of play.
First pitch, Bonds slaps at the third.
Now the pick up high throw but Cutnam reaches up and grabs it.
Bonds retired for the third time on a ground ball.
One away in the seventh and here comes Andre Thorton.
Andy has bounced to the shortstop and struck out swinging in two previous trips.
Four to nothing in favor of the Texas Rangers.
And we're in the top half of the seventh inning.
Wind up by Comer in the pitch and Thorton wraps the ball foul beyond the third base dugout.
Strike one.
Marky Lyle now up in the bullpen along with Ed Farmer.
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Thorton with strike two.
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Sunberg drops the ball, picks it up and tagged Andy.
Two outs in the seventh inning.
Well in the sixth it really began to look as though the Indians might be breaking through on the right-hander Comer primarily because they were at least hitting the ball hard.
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But now in the seventh inning Comer has again appeared to be master of the situation and has two quick outs, nobody on.
And Alexander with the first pitch pops it up foul.
Sunberg and Putnam getting together, Putnam the first baseman makes the running catch and fouls round onto the warning path in front of the first base dugout and the side is reset.
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On half of the seventh inning Sample Oliver and Grubb will test the right-hander Dan Spilner.
We have seen Wilkins, Hood and Spilner for the Indians.
Defensively for the Tribe, Sorted at first, Kuyper at second, Reiser at short, Toby Herod at third.
And the left-hand manning in center, Bonsenright, Gary Alexander catching.
Sample mounts to third of the first inning, walks to the third and walks to the store to the fifth.
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He even dropped the man, he just stepped to his right and he's got the pop ball.
Nothing to it.
Here's Al Oliver with a strike out of Fielder's Choice and a double down the right field line that drove in the run.
High drive, left center field, the cock to his left makes the catch.
Two outs to the seventh.
Spilner has done very well since he had.
Danny, Danny early in the spring looked like he was really popping the baseball and didn't have good velocity.
About the last two times out during spring training he really fired.
And he's going good here again tonight.
Johnny Grubb, a bouncer to the shortstop, a 1-6 for the double play and a fly ball to right.
Spilner throws, Grubb takes the strike.
Strike one.
Now the tandem in the Texas bullpen now, Sparky Lyle and Doc Medich.
Strike one pitch. Grubb fouls one back over the screen into the feet below it and the count is strike two.
On half of the seventh inning, four to nothing, Texas leads.
Pick up two in the second and two more in the fifth.
Wind up and the pitch. Grubb checks wing and too far, strike three.
Oh, Spilner records his first strike out, the third by Indian pitching and the inning is over.
One, two, three, that's eight in a row, retired by Dan Spilner.
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Well, Steve Comer, after going seven fine innings, is relieved.
They're bringing on Sparky Lyle. Joe mentioned a while ago, Comer's not pitched out much recently.
They don't want to force him, take a chance on doing some damage.
He has only allowed one hit over the first seven innings, walked one, struck out six.
He leaves and he can be the pitcher of record on the winning side.
He can't lose it and on to pitch comes Albert Walters Sparky Lyle.
Sparky, 6'1", about 195 pounds. He is now 34 years old.
With the Yankees last year, one-nine and lost three with an earned run average of 3.47.
He is the only relief pitcher to ever be a Cy Young Award winner.
He's pitching 680 games in the Major Leagues, all out of the bullpen.
He will face the Indians here in the eighth.
And he'll face Jim Norris for openers and feed Jim Low a ball one.
Last year was the first year that I can recall that Lyle had trouble with the Indians.
There's a pitch high and it's 2-0. He was 0-1 against the Tribe.
I don't really remember at any time that he showed that mastery that he had previously.
He didn't pitch that much either.
Pitch is a strike to the inside, Saunter. 2-0.
There have been days in the past when Sparky just walked out there, flipped the glove on him, and it would be all over.
Here's the 2-1 pitch. Chopped foul back to the base of the screen. Two balls, two strikes.
Since they've been compiling the save statistics back in 1966, he has saved 194 games.
That's more than any body they're on record.
Mycomer really did a number tonight. Seven innings of one hit ball.
Good thinking fastball, good change up, fine slider, and outstanding control. What more do you need?
Two balls, two strikes. Wind up in the pitch. Norris wraps it in one hop to the mound.
Grabbed by Lyle, runs toward first, flips the ball over to Putnam, and there's one away in the eighth inning.
Now this brings up Ted Cox. Cox slapped a single to center field and struck out in two previous trips.
That's a base hit by Ted Cox, the only hit of Texas pitching tonight.
Medich continues to work in the full time. Wind up by Lyle on the first pitch, strike one.
Sparky Lyle will throw that slider any time, any part of the ball game. Doesn't make it even what the count is, what the situation is.
Strike one pitch inside, one and one.
The ball goes wide, it doesn't break big, but it's quick and it goes down. It goes into the right-hand batter.
Wind up by Lyle, the one-one offering to Ted Cox, chops the ball for the shortstop.
Bell cuts in front of him, body on the run throw, and he's out.
Buddy Bell has put on a bit of a fielding show here tonight for the Rangers.
He made a plan, a line drive off the bat of Manning back in the fourth inning that Manning just could not believe.
Here's Kuiper, a pop-up to the third baseman and a fly ball to the center fielder.
Zips for two on the night. Texas leading four to nothing. They've out hit the Indians five to one.
Wind up, Lyle's pitch, a fastball strike at the knees, strike one.
Putnam at first, Wilford second, Norman at short, Bell in the grass at third, Sample in left, Oliver in center, Grubbin right,
Sunberg catching, Lyle pitching, strike one to Kuiper, check swing, and checked in time. A check for the third baseman, Jeff Brown,
and he says he did check in time. One ball, one strike.
The pitch, again a fastball, again low, two-and-one account.
Tom Verizer on deck.
Wind up, two-one pitch, Kuiper lifts the foul fly out of play to the left side. That'll be at the chairs.
Two balls, two strikes.
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Wind up with a two-two pitch. Kuiper wraps the bouncer back to Wil. Gets it on the second big hot post. The first, Kuiper's gone.
And so are the Indians. One, two, three in the eighth. At the end of seven and one-half innings of play, Texas four, Cleveland nothing.
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In the eighth inning against Dan Spillner, Bell, Ellis, and Sunberg.
And to the both ends for the Indians, Victor Cruz starts to warm up.
Wind up by Stoner and the pitch to Buddy Bell. Foul ball back up into the second section behind home plate. Strike one.
Buddy tonight has been hit by a pitch. Scored the first Texas run.
Glide to center field and was intentionally walked. Takes low. One ball, one strike.
Buddy, one for five in this series. But he has been bordering on spectacular with his glove. One-one pitch.
A strike. Knee high outside corner. One ball, two strikes.
Spillner looks in and gets the sign. Here comes the one-two pitch to Buddy. Low. Two balls, two strikes.
Spillner ranks it up. Two-two pitch to Buddy. D.E. Reich three, knee high.
Alexander fires that ball down to Toby Herra at third. Buddy Bell walks slowly back to the third base dugout.
Two strikeouts for Spillner. That's nine in a row. He's falling short.
John Ellis came on to bat for Oscar Gamble in the D.H. role. Back in the fifth inning of play list with a sacrifice fly ball to center field scoring sample.
So Ellis comes to bat now for the second time and the first time against Spillner. Followed back to screen strike one.
Looking ahead to the ninth, Verizon, Herra, and Manning do against Sparky Lyle.
Wind up in Spillner's pitch. Check swing ball hits the bat. Gips right by the guys gathered at the far end of the third base dugout and up into the seat.
Strike two. Randy Jones against the Count of Montefiusto tonight in San Francisco.
Comes the old two pitch to Ellis. Fast ball inside. One and two.
During spring training, the Count was really firing the baseball.
Spillner ready. Nod to the sign from Alexander. The one-two pitch to John Ellis is low. Two balls, two strikes.
Victor Cruz throwing on the bullpen for the Indians. The two-two pitch to Johnny Ellis. Lips a fly ball into short right center.
Kiper back waving the outfielders away. Makes the back pedaling catch to us.
Jim Sunberg walked and was thrown out on the plate. In the second inning, when a single to center field by Bump Wills set up Sunberg scamper to the plate from second.
And Manning threw him out. Sunberg then bowled out to Kiper in the fourth inning and bounced to the third baseman in the fifth.
Comes to bat here with two outs and nobody on in the home half of the eighth. Texas leading four to nothing. Wind up on the pitch.
Low ball one. Rangers about hit the Indians tonight five to one.
The only base hit, Ted Cox with a single in the third inning. One-oh pitch. D. E. Reich fastball knee high.
Last of the eight. Medich has finished his work in the Texas bullpen. One-one pitch. Sunberg takes low. Two and one.
Pat Putnam on deck. Tomorrow night, Herb and I will be right back here with you. Should be a dandy.
Wake and Jenkins. Eight thirty-five for the first pitch in Cleveland. Two-one pitch here and Sunberg takes outside. Three and one.
Home half of the eighth. Wind up with the next pitch. Sunberg pops it up.
Back goes Hera. Over comes Verizon. The shortstop at the foul line behind third base makes the catch in fairground.
Sunberg pops to the shortstop to retire the side. Three up, three down. And we're going to the ninth at Arlington.
The score, Texas four, Cleveland nothing.
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We have a change for the Texas Rangers at first base. Mike Jorgensen comes on to play at first base.
Baltimore came up with a run in the tenth and beat the Yankees six to five. Stanhouse over Gotthage.
Stanhouse came on in the tenth inning of play.
Rick Dempsey has the game one car behind that one.
Getting his former teammates.
Well here's the ninth. Mariser 0 for 2 with a fly ball to center and a line drive to left takes the first pitch for a strike from Sparky Lyle, strike one.
Fine job of work by the Indian right-handed Dan Spillner. He worked three and two-thirds innings.
He retired. Everybody's he faced.
Marked off 11 men in a row.
Two strikes to count.
And then batter. Wind up by Lyle. Here's the 0-2 pitch. Check swing. Ball foul over to the Bat Boy.
Lyle goes up behind the mound.
Turns his attention to home plate. Wines up and throws and Mariser chops another foul over to the third base dugout. The count remains at 0-2.
Wind up by Sparky Lyle. Now the pitch. Mariser bangs the ball back to Nelson Norman who picks it up and throws him out.
Nelson Norman may be a fine young ball player but it seems to me he'd take a long time getting rid of the baseball. He's got a lot of close plays at first base where you wouldn't normally think they should be so close.
Right. Toby Herra struck out twice and lost once.
He walked in the sixth and ended a spring of 11 in a row retired by Steve Comer the starter.
To say that Steve Comer was impressive is putting him mildly. A one hitter over seven innings. First pitch is a strike to Toby Herra. Strike one.
Seven innings. Comer faced only 23 batters giving up one hit and one walk.
Wind up. Strike one pitch. Herra pops it foul. That one should make the seat behind the first base dugout and it does with Jorgensen and Sundberg coming over.
We're in the ninth. The Indians very rapidly running out of time. Trailing. Fort O'Nuffington.
Toby Herra ready. Lightly closed right hand stance. Lyle wheels and deals and Herra chops the ball foul over in front of the third base dugout.
That boy over there getting a lot of business. End of three. Atlanta has battled back to take an 89-85 lead at Houston in the NBA.
Breaking ball high. One ball, two strikes.
And the one-two pitch. Herra fouls another one out of play to the right.
Down in the Astrodome tonight, Houston leads Los Angeles 6-3 batting in the eighth.
Wind up on the pitch and Toby Herra wraps one down the third base line to Buddy Bell. The long throw in time.
There are two outs in the ninth inning of play.
And this will bring up Rick Manning. Manning has bounced a third and been robbed of a hit on a great diving grab by Buddy Bell.
And then a line to the right fielder of the sixth inning of play.
Left-hander Sparky Lyle against the left-hand batting. Rick Manning, first pitch. Rick takes the low ball one.
Next delivery and Manning takes a strike at the knees. One ball, one strike.
Two outs and nobody on in the ninth.
A one-one pitch. Manning chops the ball foul into the first base dugout. One ball, two strikes.
Lyle waiting now for another baseball on our tenth inning show.
Coming up, her score will be chatting to a man in the know, Dick Butler, the supervisor of umpires.
Find out something about the umpiring situation, I suppose.
Sparky Lyle with a one-two count.
A pitch to Manning. Shoots one foul into the seats on the left and it's still one ball, two strikes.
This is the ninth at Arlington.
Wind up by Sparky Lyle and a one-two pitch to Manning. Swinging a foul back on the screen.
Still a ball and two strikes.
Manning playing in his first game of the year.
Another throat infection has been in the first four outings.
Tonight he has gone 0 for 3 but he's hit the ball hard and he's also made one outstanding throw from the outfield.
Here's the wind up and the one-two pitch. Manning takes high. Two balls, two strikes.
And the two-two offering by Lyle to Manning. Chopped down the first baseline. Lyle quickly picks up the ball.
One-two-three on the ninth. The final score. The Texas Rangers 4 and for the second straight night the Indians nothing.
And we'll be back to wrap it up after this time out.
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For tonight's ball game and the Texas Rangers wipe out the Indians, the Ranger pitching staff has now put together 23 consecutive scoreless innings.
And the Indians have been unable to score in the last 21 innings.
Tomorrow night, hopefully those statistics can be altered. I'll tell you more about that a little bit later.
Here's the way it went tonight. For the Texas Rangers, four runs, five hits, no errors, they left six.
For the Cleveland Indians, no runs, just one base hit. A Tedcock single in the third inning, the Tribe stranded six.
Starter and loser for the Cleveland Indians in his major league debut, Eric Wilkins, 0-1.
Of the four runs, Wilkins surrendered, two of them unearned.
And the winning pitcher, Steve Comer, who pitched the one-hit ball over the first seven innings.
Marky Lowe came on to finish it up. He will not receive credit for a save in as much as he went only the two innings.
But he did put together a fine performance in relief, a typical Marky Lowe show.
So the Rangers have now won three in a row at the outset of the season, and the Indians have gone to one and four.
I'll tell you how the runs scored right after we take this time out.