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The St. Louis Cardinals faced the Los Angeles Dodgers for a Tuesday night game at Dodgers Stadium on June 9th, 1970.
St. Louis entered the game in the middle of the pack in the NL East with a 24-26 record under manager Red Schoendienst.
The cards were trying to rebound from their disappointing 1969 season where they finished in fourth place
after two consecutive World Series appearances in 67 and 68.
Los Angeles entered the game with a 30-24 record managed by Walter Alston in his 17th season.
The Dodgers franchise was in the bit of a slump with three straight seasons finishing no higher than fourth place
after three World Series appearances in the mid-1960s.
This audio recording is from the Los Angeles Radio broadcast featuring announcers Vince Scully and Jerry Doggett.
Well hi everyone, this is Jerry Doggett along with Vince Scully and here we are at beautiful Dodgers Stadium
for the game between the Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals.
This broadcast is presented with the permission of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc.
Any reproduction or rebroadcast without the express written permission of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc. is prohibited.
Tonight the Dodgers back home to begin a nine-game home stand and will open up with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Dodgers had a sweep of the three-game series in St. Louis last week
and now hope to keep that going against the Cardinals here tonight.
And to keep things going, hoping to extend the win streak will be Claude Ostin for the Dodgers.
Claude has won five straight, he has a record now of eight and four.
It will be right-hander Chuck Taylor coming out of the bullpen to make his first start of the year going for the Cardinals.
And we'll have the batting orders coming up for you right after this message.
Tricks, Milwaukee and the World.
Here tonight Claude Ostin, eight wins, four losses going for the Dodgers.
Claude with a record of earned run average of 2.48.
He has eight and twelve lifetime against St. Louis.
Taylor, one and three on the year, earned run average of 2.10
and he is one and one against the Dodgers lifetime.
He's been in 21 games and tonight makes his first start.
Batting orders coming up and we're now our national anthem.
And we'll have the batting orders coming up and we'll be back.
The Dodgers and the Cardinals are here on the batting orders.
For St. Louis, Lou Brock in left field, Jose Cardinal in center, Richie Allen at first, Joe Torre playing third, Kyle Taylor in right, the Dodgers take the field.
Continuing the batting orders, Ted Simmons will be the catcher for the Cardinals, William Javier at second base,
and shortstop Dowell Maxwell and the pitcher will be right-hander Chuck Taylor.
For the Dodgers, Maury Wills at short, Manny Moda in left, Willie Davis in center, Wes Parker at first, Bill Grabarca with the third,
Willie Crawford in right, Ted Sizemore at second, the catcher Tom Haller, and pitching tonight, Claude Osteen, the umpire, Sokhory at the plate, Engel, Wendell Stett and Fenton on the bases.
From nine games coming up on the home stand, the Dodgers playing the Cardinals three, the Chicago Cubs will be here for three over the weekend and Sunday will be camera day, this is our camera day here at Dodger Stadium.
They'll be allowed to go on the field and get photographs and autographs. It's going to be a big day Sunday. The Cubs will be in town. The Pirates are in next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then the Dodgers head out on their biggest road trip of the year with four games at Cincinnati and four games at Atlanta.
The Dodgers are home now for nine, already looking ahead to the next trip when they have to play the two clubs involved with them in the center race in the West. Alright, we're all set, time to play ball. The Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals from Dodger Stadium.
And now for the play by play, here has been Scully. Thank you, Jerry. Hi everybody and a very pleasant evening to you wherever you may be. The Dodgers are back home and glad to be here.
However, their record on paper certainly does not indicate that. They have been a much better road club than they have been at home. The Dodgers are eight games over 500 on the road. They're 18 and 10, but as far as home cooking is concerned, somebody's burning the food. They're 12 and 14.
We'll see if they get well or not in this stand. Lou Brock followed by Jose Cardinal and Richie Allen. Claude Osteen's first pitch is high and tight and Brock has to go down. The pitch goes to the screen. One ball and no strikes.
Osteen is coming off his finest pitching effort of the year. He's five another cut out of the Pirates, about as good as a man can pitch. Billy Glebarco hits it on the grass at third. The next pitch is low and away, ball two. So Osteen is behind now. Two balls and no strikes to leadoff man Lou Brock.
Brock hitting 311 and one big change in Brock this year. He is not stealing a lot of bases. Here's the two-hole pitch. Fast ball, tapped up along third base and by the time Haller picks it up by the speed he Brock has the play beaten.
So Lou Brock hit a foul ball on his foot in Houston about three weeks ago and has never really healed. It's still faster than most and he beats out a slow hopper up along third base and the batter will be Jose Cardinal.
But prior to the injury he had stolen, Brock that is, had stolen only nine bases and of course that's not quite the Brock we're accustomed to seeing. So Brock is first base of the squip single and here is Jose Cardinal.
Cardinal the right hand batter, Jose hitting 294. Osteen delivers and a change potted up along third foul and the count on one. Cardinal is another swifty, the way he can fly.
No balls in one strike. The count to Jose Cardinal. In case you missed some of the scores with Duckerman, the Phillies beat Atlanta 2-1.
It's in the down to yet Montreal. It is now 6-4 Cincinnati and they're in the bottom of the ninth at Montreal.
0-1 to Cardinal and Osteen goes to first base with a lob throw to Parker and Brock stays in the bag. Brock has stolen nine bases. He is 9-for-9. 0-1 the count to Jose Cardinal.
Osteen at the belt checking Brock, still looking. Now comes the play and a full swing foul off to the right and out of play. The count 0-2. The Mets beat Houston 2-1. Tommy Seeger got on the right back and won his eighth.
The Yankees beat San Francisco. They're getting ready, Blass and Marichal. The Cubs have got four runs in the first inning of San Diego now at bat. The Yankees beat Minnesota 5-2. The Angels and Baltimore are even at 5-5 in the tenth.
Oakland beat Cleveland 5-2. Kansas City over Washington 8-1. 7-2, Detroit leading Milwaukee at the end of 6-4 to Chicago over Boston at the end of 7-1-2. The strike two pitch to Cardinal outside for 1-1 and 2.
Dodgers with the outfield of Mota Davis Crawford. Grabarckowicz deep at third. Wills hollering over to Shiesmore. And the pitch to play to Grantville wide at third under Grabarckowicz, under Wills and through into Cowell left field.
The block keeps on going and there's no one able to cover second base so Cardinal moves into there. Both Wills and Grabarckowicz just missed the ball. Shiesmore left to cover third.
Osteen left to back up and by the time Marichal will get down to second base, Mota had no play at all. So on a front snake, well actually a top ball for a base hit and now a ground ball that goes for a double. Osteen is in a lot of trouble.
Second and third, nobody out and Richie Allen to bat it. All players say Mota's eyes. That one just did get under Grabarckowicz's club and was deflected by Wills.
Richie Allen, first base open, nobody out. Osteen with a handful of trouble looks to Tommy Haller. He now works out of a windup and comes to the plate and the breaking ball fouled away. 0-1.
The Dodgers were in three wild games in St. Louis and they won all three games, 8-6, 7-6 and 8-6 again. There was a lot of scoring there. One of the big reasons, the Astor Terrapin St. Louis where baseball just had a tendency to shoot by.
For instance, in St. Louis, Cardinal would have had a clean single to the left and not a leg double. That ball would have exploded through to Mota. 0-1, the count to Richie Allen.
Here comes Osteen's pitch down to his feet and it's smothered by Haller and they count one ball in one strike.
The Cardinals are four and a half games back of the league leading Cubs and despite the fact they're two games under 500, indicate the Dodgers quite. They are six games above 500 but they're nine and a half back of the Reds.
So it's a big difference chasing Chicago and Cincinnati.
Here's a 1-1 pitch to Richie Allen. Fast ball, low ball too. Joe Torrey is on deck and it appears that the Dodgers do not want very much of Richie Allen anyway.
Willie Davis retrieving a ball from the bleachers and tried to flip it up and it was dropped so he finally clears it off. It's a tie-knock for the moment. 2-1, the count.
Tommy Haller wig wagging a few signs out. Osteen Ruddy in the 2-1 pitch, swung on and missed like dude. Yeah, Joe Torrey and Carl Taylor to follow.
Osteen has been a red hot pitcher in trouble here in the first inning. Brock topped the ball up along third and beat it out for a base hit and Cardinal had a leg double.
Fawd looks to Brock, goes to the windup and the pitch to Allen is a bouncer foul, a third speared down there by the coach Kissel, that's George Kissel and the count remains 2-2. Dick Sissler coaching at first, managed your red chain deans along with his pitching coach Billy Muppet in the dugout.
Bob Millican handling things in the bullpen.
Osteen leading Haller. Now Fawd into the windup and the 2-2 pitch is 5-4-3. There's a bluff by Haller sending Cardinal back to second base. Luke Brock with an infield single has extended his streak. He is now hitting 12 straight.
He's at third, Cardinal at second, nobody out just the start of the ballgame. Osteen left foot on the rubber, he has a look at Tommy Haller. Nodges and goes through the windup, he was a 3-2 pitch, breaking ball outside 4-4.
Richie Allen draws the walk, base is loaded, nobody out and Joe Corry the batter. The Dodgers of course would hope to get Corry to hit the ball to somebody on the ground.
So they set the infield in double play depth. Corry is hitting 2-99. He has 5 home runs, 31 runs batted in. To Richie Allen at first, Jose Cardinal at second and Luke Brock at third.
The first three men up have gotten aboard. Left side of the infield deep, Osteen from a windup and the fastball a strike on one. Frank Corry the playdump fire. Bob Engel at first, Harry Wendelstead at second and Tony Benson on the line at third.
All over, Cincinnati beats Montreal 6-4. Gary Nolan is now 7-2. Here's a strike on pitch to Corry. Fastball hit down to short, Wills goes to Sizemore. Back to Barker, double play and Brock scores.
They play the infield back and it was just as well they did because Wills had to backhand the ball to hit to his right. So they get the double play 6-4-3. The Cardinals have a run and with 2 out here is Carl Taylor.
Right hand hitter. He's playing over Joe Hakes since left hander Osteen is on the mound. Brock delivers, slow curve over first ice on one. Taylor hitting 2-09.
Right hand batter. Osteen looks as Cardinal comes down the line of this and a fastball outside 1-1. Flash out of Baltimore, Ken McMullin has just did his 8th home run of the year for the Angels so they've broken a tie in the top of the 11.
And one strike to Carl Taylor. And here comes Cardinal to the plate. The throw he has out at the plate. Corry started a flat safe and then set out and here come the Cardinals.
Frank had his palms down and then brought the right hand up. And I think Corry by that kind of a fall he would have feared that Cardinal had the play beaten but missed the play. And then Hallow was able to turn around and pin him. And Cardinal was on his hands and knees pointing to where he thought he hit the play.
So that would have to be the interpretation of Corry that Cardinal had beaten the play but he missed the play and Hallow was able to nail it. So in the first inning the Cardinals have to sell for one run on two hits. Nobody left. And at the end of half an inning the Cardinals won and the Dodgers coming out.
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Bottom of the first inning, the Cardinals have a run. They could have had a lot more when you realize they have the bases loaded and nobody out. And the only run came as Joe Torre rounded into a double play. And then Jose Cardinal out trying to steal home.
And we've got quite an opening act here as Dodger Stadium Lights has turned on again for what should be a dandy home stand. Or, he will, believe it or not, then Manny Moda and Holy David.
Here's Chuck Taylor on the mound. He's 1-3 with the league. No record against the Dodgers this year. 1-1 lifetime. And Chuck into the windup. The first pitch to Will. Going inside, ball one.
Chuck Taylor from Shelbyville, Tennessee.
The next pitch to Will, fouled away and they've got one ball one fight.
Chuck Taylor and young Ted Simmons behind the plate. With Richie Allen, Julian Javier, Dow Maxville and Joe Torre in the infield. There's a button. Why the first? Over to get it is Allen and to late, Will Dagger.
Morrie Wills, jumping about equally distance from first base and the pitching mound. And both Allen and Taylor hesitated. So that when Allen did finally pick it up, Wills had outlegged Taylor to the bag and Richie had to eat the ball. And the battle will be Manny Moda.
Moda and Wills have worked together about as well as Simon and Garfunkel on the last road trip. And Morrie takes outside ball one. Moda hitting 3-0-4. Last year when the two boys came to Los Angeles as Dodgers, it seemed like every time Wills bunted, Moda bunted. We'll see if the pattern holds up tonight. Here's a throw to first driving Wills back.
1-0 the count to Manny Moda. Taylor delivers. There's the punt. Uplung third. Down to get it, Torre. He picks it up, throws, nips him. And on the sacrifice, Wills takes second. So it seems like every time Wills runs Moda bunt and was won out on the sacrifice, here's Willie Davis.
Willie Davis was red hot on the road trip and was finally sidelined with a slightly pulled muscle. Will has lifted his average to 2-99.
Willie, who was in the doldrums for a long time, now has most hits on the ball club. He's even past Wes Parker. The pitch to Willie. Low and away, ball one. Davis has 64 hits. Wes has 63.
Willie takes a 22 base hit on the last road trip. Davis got a pick up Wills. 1-0 Cardinals in the first inning and Chuck Taylor at the belt. Right-hander delivers and a curve ball is down to DeJavuille.
Willie has it and throws him out. And on the play, Wills advances to third. That'll bring up Wes Parker. Wes Parker batting 2-97. Has a left-handed batter and of course you see him the most from that side.
He's hitting 3-33. So the tying run is 90 feet away and the person of Wills has Parker trying to pick him up. Throughout his career as a base stealer, Wills has not been a threat to steal home.
Moria said that he has been unable to ever erase the fear of failure as far as home is concerned. The fifth roll, ball one. DeOtori right up with him near the bag at third.
Chuck Taylor reading Ted Simmons and the 1-0 pitch to Parker. Breaking ball and a ground ball to Javier. Willie has it, does it for Parker and the Dodgers have turned away. No runs ahead, a man left at third at the end of one. Cardinals one, Dodgers nothing.
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Now, in the second inning with the Cardinals leading the Dodgers one to nothing, right fielder Carl Taylor who was at the plate when Cardinal was thrown outside to steal home. So Taylor will start it off. He'll be followed by the young foot-shitting catcher Ted Simmons and second baseman Julian Javier.
He'll start formally with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Those being delivered, fastball for a strike.
Next one, a strike in the count of who and who.
Carl Taylor has three stepbrothers, one of whom is Baltimore Orioles for his baseman Boob Powell.
The next one inside, Carl gets away from it. One and two. He's from Sarasota, Florida.
Six to not 207 pounds.
One and two to Carl Taylor.
He's been a baseball player professionally since 62. He bowed tips a breaking ball and strikes out. So Carl Taylor down on strikes and the batter will be Ted Simmons.
Ted Simmons made his major league debut in the recent Dodger Cardinals series in St. Louis. He's a switch hitter. He's batting 423. He might be the brightest young prospect in the Cardinal organization he takes his fastball lobe on.
In fact, one of the reasons the Cardinals were able to trade away Tim McCarver, the fact that they knew Simmons was just about ready this year.
Here's the 1-0 pitch on the way, spray foul off of the second-deck facade and down below behind the Cardinal dugout in the count one and one.
Simmons hobby is motorcycles. He graduated from the University of Michigan.
Actually, he majored in speech and radio TV hasn't quite gotten a degree yet.
Here's the 1-1 pitch to Ted. Little low on inside ball too, 2-1.
Here's the youngest of four children. His dad is a horse cleaner. Ted Simmons, that's the place.
Oh, it seems 2-1 pitch. Slow curve, line drive foul and Simmons checking the handle of the bat, but it's okay. 2-2.
Simmons has been playing professionally since 67 and actually just for a portion of that year since he hadn't gotten out of school until June.
So he's really just played 68 and 69. Ted Simmons, 51188 pounders, 21. Line drive, that's Robarkowitz.
So Simmons lines the third, two away.
Jordan is on a tear for Detroit. He just hit his third home run of the game, one of the three at Grand Slammers.
They're playing Milwaukee.
Here's Hilly and Javier.
Javier batting 238, right hand hitter. Osean delivers sinker and it's a one hopper short hop by Will who throws him out.
Boy, that thing exploded. Boy, he stayed with it.
So the birds are down in the second in order and at the end of an inning and a half, Titanals 1 dodges nothing.
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Bottom of the second inning with the Cardinals leading the Dodgers 1 to nothing. Chuck Taylor is tuning up to Ted Simmons.
The Cardinals 1 run, 2 hits. The Dodgers no runs, 1 hit. The Billy Grabarkowitz, Willie Crawford and Ted Sizemore.
Grabarkowitz in the crowd to the plate. Taylor's first pitch, down and away, ball 1, 1 and 0.
Grabarkowitz as he stands in the plate is hitting 344. Takes a look at the breaking ball and that's picked off the corner at the knees in the count 1 and 1.
Chuck Taylor comes right back 1, 1 and the breaking ball is low, ball 2, 2 and 1.
So you have 2 Taylors, Carl Taylor in right field, Chuck Taylor on the mound. Chuck played a lot of Tulsa so no doubt Grabarkowitz and Taylor had many battles between them.
There's 1 hit up the middle, base hit. Billy Grabarkowitz singles to center, takes a big turn, he's going for 2. The throw to Javier, he's out.
Billy Grabarkowitz tries to catch Jose Cardinals' placing but Cardinal with the play in front of him nipped him at second base.
So Grabarkowitz down on a hustle try, 1 away and the batter will be Willie Crawford.
So we're starting off to what should be a great home stand. We had Cardinal throwing out attempting to steal home and now in the second inning Grabarkowitz trying to stretch it single into a leg double.
Both men were caught. Crawford takes the strike.
That play went 8-4 of your scoring. Next one missing, 1 and 1 to count to Willie Crawford.
On deck, head size more.
One run, 2 hits for the Cardinals, they loaded the bases with nobody out and the run scored as Joe Torre hit him with double play.
Now the 1-1 pitch to Crawford, pass ball over for a strike, 1 and 2.
The pass ball seemed to be a good sinker.
The next one to Crawford is missing inside, 2 balls and 2 strikes.
He'll his next pitch filed away and he counts 2 and 2.
Chuck is 28 years old and he is 1 of 7 children.
Soft curve is lifted into shallow left field, out goes Maxville, in comes Block and it's Maxville for the catch.
So a little pop fly to down Maxville, 2 out and head size more coming out.
Head size more batting 262.
Right end to Taylor into the wind up and delivers and the pass ball to Globe, all 1 and 0.
Now the 1-0 pitch on the way to Ted, breaking ball is hit into the hole and through into left field.
So the Dodgers have 3 hits but they haven't been able to get anybody home yet.
And with 2 out, Tom Hallow will be the batter and one ball is for space and identification.
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This is Chuck Cecil making way for Dodger baseball tonight.
Here is the music tomorrow evening at 7.
Tom Hallow coming up, Tom hitting 298.
He has all running 14 runs batted in.
Tommy waiting with size more held on by Richie Allen, a throw over there, sending size more back to the bag.
Taylor has the belt and delivers and Hallow fouls it away, all 1 and 0.
Same two clubs tomorrow night.
It will be Joe Mueller going for the Dodgers and Mike Torres for St. Louis.
And the concluding game of the series will be Don Sutton and Steve Carlton.
The Cardinals will be followed by the Chicago Cubs and then the Pittsburgh Pirates.
There's a drive down the right field line, base hit.
Guy Farr on his way to third, a long single for Hallow.
And the Dodgers are spinning their wheels.
They've had 3 hits in the inning but they can't get a run.
They've had 4 hits in the game and it's still one of them St. Louis.
And the batter will be Claude Osteen.
In his last 8 games, Osteen has been hitting more like an all-star outfield.
Over the past 8 games, Osteen has hit 333.
9 hits and 27 at bats and 6 runs batted in.
So Claude has the plate and Taylor delivers and it's swung on and missed on one.
Of course it should be pointed out that Osteen has 4 hits and 4 runs batted in in one game.
That was that overwhelming Dodger victory 19-3 over the Giants.
The next one is outside 1 and 1.
But he is the best Dodger hitting pitcher.
Final score, the Angels beat Baltimore 7-5 in the 11th inning.
Fischer the winner and Hall the loser.
Ken McMullen got them well in the 11th.
Half swing foul by Osteen in the count of 1 and 2.
2 down in the second inning.
The Cardinals leading 1-0.
Dodgers have had 3 hits in the inning, but Ravachowicz who led off with a single.
We're so now trying to stretch.
Here's the 1-2 pitch to Osteen, high and away with a fastball.
Osteen trying to help himself.
He's trying to win his sixth in a row.
He has a good chance to get even here.
2-2 pitch on the way.
Breaking ball popped up.
Next bill is shortstop.
Angle's out, falling, backed up by Lubroch and Maxey makes the catch in the inning as well.
So 3 hits with nothing to show for it and 2 left.
And at the end of 2, Cardinals 1-0.
Osteen in the count of 1.
2 down in the second inning.
He's trying to get a pass to Osteen, high and away with a fastball.
Osteen in the count of 1.
2 down in the second inning.
Osteen in the count of 1.
2 innings run the book.
Here at Dodger Stadium and the Cardinals are leading the Dodgers 1-0.
A run on 2 hits for the Cardinals, no runs, 4 hits for the Dodgers.
Let's go to the third and more play by play.
Here's Jerry Dodgers.
All right, Vinnie and Dowell Maxwell start it off.
Taylor to follow and then Brock.
And called Osteen all set to go to work now.
He retired the side in the order in the second inning.
Dowell Maxwell batting 178.
No home runs, that's 5 runs batted in.
Dowell's had a tough time getting it going this year.
Now Osteen all set to go, the w aimed it from the pitcher on the way.
Taps toward short, Wills comes in fast up with a dirty play.
And Simon Maxwell is out.
So Dowell grounds out short to first.
And the pitcher, Taylor, coming up.
He has none for 2.
Taylor has been in the bullpen all year.
He's been in 21 games but has only 2 at bat.
So Chuck Taylor coming on here in the third inning.
Taylor right hander all the way.
Marnight's second game of the series and then on Thursday night the finale.
Remember Thursday night, several of the off-hasslenots will be honored here at the ballgame.
The Dodgers playing the Cardinals.
Here's the pitcher Taylor, swung on a tap foul off the third base side.
And it is strike one.
Third inning, the Cardinals lead 1-0.
An infield hit.
And a roller that just did get through the infield for a 2-base hit.
Then a walk and a double play got the Cardinals to run.
Taylor wears number 42.
Osteen ready to pitch.
Curve, swung on a miss, strike two.
A good pitch breaking into the right hand hitter.
0-2 the count.
Once again, Osteen checking signs of catcher Tom Haller.
Back ball away and it's ball one, strike two.
Nine game home stand for the Dodgers.
Three with the Cardinals, three with the Cubs, and three with the Pirates.
Then a brief road trip to Cincinnati and Atlanta.
Here's the 1-2 pitch.
The curve is a little high for the ball, 2-2.
The Reds won again tonight.
They beat Montreal 6-4.
Nolan relieved by Kellett, Carroll, and Grainger.
Moore was the loser for Montreal.
2-2 pitch.
On the way.
Back ball, a ground ball wide to third.
Drabakovic there up with it, makes his play across.
It's time to get Taylor 2-0.
So 2-0, 2-2 down, and the batter will be Lou Brock.
He got a little roll up the third baseline in the first inning.
So Brock coming on one for one, is now hit safely in 12 straight games, hitting 3-11.
Top one up the third baseline and beat it out in the first inning and then scored the run.
So Lou Brock is at that.
2-0, third inning.
Here's Osteen ready now and the pitch on the way.
Back ball bounced back past the mound, near second.
Seidmore there, throws in time for the out-of-the-bounds shot.
They're all out on ground balls in the third inning.
Three up and three down and the score at the end of two and a half in the play.
Cardinals won, Dodgers nothing.
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Farmer John's sausage is in a league all by itself.
Now to the last of the third, the Dodgers start with the top of the order, Will Smoota Davis coming on.
Will's beat out a bunch.
He has one of the four Dodger hits.
Maury batting 269, no homer, 16 runs batted in.
The Cardinals now play up on the corner.
Allen in first base, Torian on the grass.
The third, Taylor, picks him.
Maury's at fastball on the corner first strike. 0-1-1.
Dodgers opening the nine-game home stand.
The Cardinals on the road have won 10 and lost 11.
They're 14 and 15 in home.
There's a bouncer hit back over the middle.
They hit the center field.
Will singles in the center, hits number five for the Dodgers and still no runs.
Danny Moada coming up, sacrificed in the first inning.
Moada batting 304.
We'll see if the Dodgers go for the sacrifice now.
In the first inning, they wanted to try to get the one run.
But then Davis and Parker ground it out.
It has strike one count as others.
Moada waiting to high and Will golf first.
This is a breaking ball and it's one ball, no strike.
Moada bluffing that time.
Here's a swing of the foul off to the lead out of play.
Wills was running that time.
So now he comes back.
Moada has a look at third base coach Danny Ozak.
Wills again, a short lead.
Chuck Taylor, right hand pitcher, pitching to Manny Moada.
Here's the look and the pitch on the way to Manny.
Ground ball back to the pitcher, down to second one.
On the first base, double play.
So Moada grounds into a double play started by the pitcher.
Taylor to Maxwell, on to out.
The Dodgers now still trying to get something going.
Moada grounds into the double play.
Two outs and here's Willie Davis at bat.
Willie grounded the second his first time up.
So Taylor has allowed five hits but still no runs.
The Cardinals have converted two hits into a run.
And here's Taylor now checking.
Willie Davis waits.
The Dodgers stadium looks to be in beautiful condition.
Here's the pitch low for a ball, one ball, no strike.
Grass, bright and green.
It's got to be the world's most beautiful ballpark.
Dodgers stadium.
Here's the wind to fan, the one, oh, six.
Off speed, it's swinging a five ball to the left field.
Lou Brock right there, moves in a few steps, waiting, and Lou makes the catch.
The Dodgers are down into the third.
No runs on one hit and none left on.
And the score is three innings of play.
The Cardinals.
Grass, bright and green.
It's got to be the world's most beautiful ballpark.
Dodgers stadium.
Here's the wind to fan, the one, oh, six.
Off speed, it's swinging a five ball to the left field.
Lou Brock right there, moves in a few steps, waiting, and Lou makes the catch.
The Dodgers are down into the third.
No runs on one hit and none left on.
And the score is three innings of play.
The Cardinals won and the Dodgers nothing.
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We've played three innings.
It is one to nothing.
The Cardinals lead one run to it.
The Dodgers no runs and five hits.
The Cardinals coming to bat as we go to play on the fourth back to action in here.
Okay, Jerry, in the fourth inning with the Cardinals holding on to that one to nothing lead despite the fact that the Dodgers have filed up five hits.
They'll have Jose Cardinal and Richie Allen and Joe Torre.
Cardinal, right hand hitting center fielder very fast.
He has a leg double in the first inning.
Breaking ball outside, ball one, one and all.
One and all to Jose.
The next pitch is down at his feed ball too, two and all.
Cardinal waiting on Osteen now.
Claude pitching very carefully, two balls and no strikes.
He has the string, he retires the last seven in a row.
Fastball missed.
Joe pitching so carefully, he's behind three and all to Cardinal.
Jose checking with George Kissel, coaching at third.
Now the three-all pitch, the slender center fielder is in for a strike.
Three and one.
Cardinal built somewhat like a whippet.
He's built for speed.
He's 5'10 and only 150 pounds.
Here's a three-one pitch to Jose.
Fastball hit foul right back of Dick Sisley, coaching at first.
Cardinal is a cousin of Oakland shortstop Bert Campaneras.
And facially he would remind you a little bit of Orlando Cepeda.
Three-two pitch on the way, fastball fouled away and he lost his bat as the ball went in the upper deck.
And Coach Kissel has to come and get it.
So three and two, the count to Jose Cardinal, who's been playing professionally since 61.
He's spent three years with the Angels, he's out of the giant farm system.
And in the last two years with Cleveland.
This is his first experience in the National League since 1964 when he had just 20 at bats.
Cardinal hitting 294 and Osteen's fastball is away 4-4.
So Jose drops to first base and Richie Allen coming up.
Richie Allen walked on a three-two pitch in the first inning.
Allen hitting 304.
We were mentioning before that Chuck Taylor, the pitcher, comes from a family of seven children.
Richie Allen knows what it's like to have a boarding house re-cheese from a family of eight children.
Osteen's fastball is high, ball one and one and all.
He has two brothers who are professional baseball players, Hank Allen, in field with the Washington Senators,
and brother Ron is in the Phillies organization.
One-nothing in favor of the Cardinals, fourth inning.
Cardinal occurs, held on by Parker.
Osteen comes to Allen and the breaking ball gets the inside corner, one and one.
One and one to count.
The next one bowed back, one and two to count to Richie Allen.
Allen waiting, nobody out here in the fourth inning.
The Cardinals leading the Dodgers one to nothing.
Osteen checks Cardinal, a pitch to Allen, he checked his swing and the pitch was away.
So he went three and two and walked in the first at bat, and now Osteen comes right back two and two.
Richie Allen, a singer in the offseason, boy he's made some pictures moan.
The two to pitch, slow curve, bowed away at the end of the sixth.
Allen raising horses and singing at one time, in fact he organized a singing group.
Whether they are still in business when he's playing baseball, we don't know.
The group called the Heavenistics.
Two to count to Richie Allen, Joe Torey on deck.
Now Osteen, Ruddy, a look at Cardinal, decides you better drive him back for the flip throw to Parker.
Cardinals have a run, they loaded the bases with nobody out and the run came over when Torey hit into a double play.
Osteen at the belt, checks Cardinal, a pitch to Allen, is flying to left field.
The motor coming over makes the gap, Cardinal holding on, the flip always hit hard.
The motor was coming to his right and caught it with both hands up over his head, and line drive was just beginning to take off.
It needed a longer runway, and here is Joe Torey.
When you see a big leaguer like Richie Allen hit a line drive just taking off at the left field here,
you can imagine how it must be to be playing up inside the bag at third and have them hit a shot at.
Here is Torey, hit into the double play in the first inning, hits the ball hard, and will set the back end ball to start it.
Osteen's pitch is low, ball one.
Cardinal, an excellent base runner, he has stolen 13 bases in 14 tries, so Osteen really has to watch him.
The 1-0 pitch to Joe Torey, the fastball is going on and missed, one and one.
Torey now has stolen a lot of bases, he has gone as high as 64 in the minor leagues, and there he goes, curve of strike and the throw, no way.
It's off the glove of Sizemore, backed by Will, but he had the bag stolen anyway.
It was in the dirt and on the wrong side, and all Sizemore could try to do was make a quick tag, and he just flicked it and slowed it down.
Cardinal steals his 14th base, he has 14 out of 15, one and two to count to Joe Torey.
Time call, Cardinal not quite ready yet, shaking up a little bit on the play.
It looks like a hand, and it is the left one apparently.
Cardinal has heard his either hand or wrist, and he wears either tape or a sweatband on the left wrist, and George Kissel is saying bring out the spray, so they'll ice that hand a little bit and try and numb it.
They're checking that spray is ethyl chloride, and they'll spray the left hand and wrist, so it's time out, Cardinal gets tended to.
Trainer Bob Bowman is out there spraying it.
So let's say Cardinal steals the base after Richie Allen lined out, the count one and two to Joe Torey, and they're still working on the left hand and wrist, and it's basically the hand.
And now Cardinal explaining what happened to Will.
So Cardinal at second, one and two to count to Joe Torey.
Osteen on the rubbers and off it, and goes to the Rodzen bag, Claude straddling it as he looks into Tommy Haller.
Torey waiting on deck, right fielder Carl Taylor, another right hand batter.
One nothing, St. Louis, four of innings, one out.
Osteen at the belt, and the one-two pitch on the way, breaking ball, grounded fair, backhanded by Grabarkowicz who fakes a throw, then goes to second, and they've got Cardinal.
What a play.
Boy, what a heads-up play by Philly Grabarkowicz.
That is so much better a play than let's say an outfielder or an infielder just blindly making a dive at a ball because there was a great deal involved and only a split second to make a judgment.
Grabarkowicz went deep back in the bag.
He had a play, but only a slim chance, despite the fact Torey is slow, he still had to make a very long throw, but he still faked a throw, and sure enough Cardinal took the bait, and they had him hung out the drive between second and third.
Torey is a board on a field of choice, and Cardinal has nailed six five four from Grabarkowicz to Sizemore, and Carl Taylor takes ball one.
Heads-up play by Philly Grabarkowicz.
The one-oh pitch outside ball two, two and oh.
Two and oh the cows.
Now Osteen delivers fastball for a strike, two and one.
Grabarkowicz made a very good play.
I believe it was on Bobby Bonds up at candlestick when the Dodgers were leading in a big game, 19 to three, and he backhanded a ball near the bag and went after Bonds who was running a third and got him before Bobby could get back.
Here's a two-one pitch.
Over is the bank two.
So Philly Grabarkowicz doing a fine job down there at third base.
Everybody has been talking about his bat.
Naturally, he was hitting up there almost 400s for a long while.
Good boy, his grub has been doing a good job too.
Two and two to Carl Taylor.
Now Osteen delivers.
Breaking ball got him.
Swing it, and the inning is over.
So that's a chance of a fielder helping out a pitcher.
No runs, no hits.
A man left.
At the end of three and a half innings, Cardinal's one Dodgers nothing.
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Bottom of the fourth inning, the Cardinals leading the Dodgers one to nothing.
Boy, it's been a dandy ballgame.
We've had a man thrown out trying to steal all.
We had Billy Brevarklis, the man thrown out, with Cardinal.
We had Billy Brevarklis out trying to stretch his single into a double.
Billy Brevarklis took a great play to nail Cardinal just now.
The Dodgers, meanwhile, have had five hits, but no runs.
So the Cardinals are still leading only on to a one to nothing lead.
Wes Barker, 0 for 1 at the plate.
Takes a look at the first one and the sinker is low, ball one.
Barker has an 18-hitting streak.
Now Taylor comes back 1-0 and a curve on the hands hit right at Javier.
Bill Parker lying to the second baseman.
He was jammed, and the battle will be Brevarklis.
Dodgers had three hits in the second inning, but no runs.
Billy let off with a single, and it was a good heads-up try.
Cardinal plays a very deep center field.
Oh, save field, so he can come in and get him.
He just didn't want a ball hit over his head.
So Brevarklis tried to take the extra base on him, but that's just life.
So it was not a foolish gamble.
It was calculated, and Cardinal was just a little bit quicker
and made a more accurate throw than Brevarklis had counted on.
The strike one-fist, low and outside as he fakes a bunch, 1-1.
A run three hits for the Cardinals.
No runs, five hits for the Dodgers.
Here's the 1-1 pitch on the way.
Breaking ball, flung on a miss, 1-2, a little high slider.
Taylor doesn't like to come up.
Most of his pitches are down.
Here's the 1-2 pitch on the way.
Inside, almost got him with a fastball on the hand.
2-2.
Taylor reading Ted Simmons, now to the windup.
Fastball, popped in the air back of first base.
Richie Allen inside the foul line.
And now just on the line makes the catch for the owl.
A fair ball if you're scoring, two down, and the batter, Willie Crawford.
Willie Crawford popped to the shortstop down Maxville, 0-1.
Taylor's soft curve is high, ball one, 1-0.
Delighted honor the Wilson High School, winner of the LA City Baseball Championship.
They were saluted tonight by the Dodgers, the Wilson players were introduced prior to the game.
Well that's San Fernando Valley State.
Honored guest a little later on June 16th.
The next pitch is strike one and one.
In fact, let me see.
San Fernando Valley, the NCAA National College Division champs of the earlier,
pitches fouled and Crawford broke his bat, he'll have to get another.
So San Fernando Valley will be the guest on a Friday night,
and the CIF champion Lakewood High Baseball team honored on June 16th.
So if you're happy to put the spotlight on some well-deserving youngsters,
and find ball players to boot.
The next pitch is out five, ball two.
Chuck Taylor pitching tonight is going to be busy tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night, since June is dairy month, the annual milking contest will be held before the game.
Jim Brewer against Chuck Taylor.
Curve is hit foul outside of first place.
We told you that Chuck Taylor is one of seven children.
His dad is a farmer.
He probably knows a great deal about milking, and he'll go against Jim Brewer,
who has done his share of milking in Oklahoma.
Here's the 2-2 pitch to Willie Crawford.
Fastball got him and down he goes, flinging, and that's set for the Dodgers.
They're retired in order for the first time tonight.
At the end of four, the Cardinals won, the Dodgers nothing.
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Right now, let's pause for station identification.
This is the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network.
This is Dave Holmes.
I'll tell you all about my Cincinnati doll and how you can send some pins for it
on the Dave Holmes Show tonight on JFI Los Angeles.
Ten, seven, six, seven, six.
To the fifth inning, one to nothing Cardinals.
They have a run on three hits, the Dodgers no runs five hits.
Ted Simmons, Julian Javier, and Dow Maxville.
Simmons, the switch hitting catcher batting right-handed,
hit a bullet at Grabarckowicz in the second inning.
Ted started the night at 423.
Hostin Ruddyen comes to him with a fastball on the hands,
and it's lifted back a third and down the line.
Wills on the run, makes the over-the-shoulder catch.
Fine play by Maury.
He was flanked by Grabarckowicz and Moda.
And without breaking stride, he caught it going away.
One down, and to batter Julian Javier.
Javier hit a sinking line drive that exploded right at Wills' feet.
He shot Hostin through him out.
So, Julian's 0 for 1.
In case you join us late, the Cardinals loaded the bases in the first inning.
An infield single by Brock, a double by Cardinal, and a walk through Allen.
And Brock scored a story hit into a double play.
Curveball is lined to left.
Moda coming in a hurry.
He's got it.
Boy, I'll say one thing, Julian Javier is not being cheated at the plate.
He's getting his rips and he's hitting the ball hard,
but they're gloving him to death.
First it's Wills and now it's Moda.
Many met that line drive head-on out there.
Two down, and to batter down Maxville.
Maxi grounded his short in the third inning.
Hostin's fastball is 5 for 1, 1-0.
Maxville hitting 178.
Takes it away.
Maxville, 5'11, he's 160 pounds.
Two-0 pitch.
Over for a strike.
2-1.
Dow doesn't have to worry about a lack of batting average.
In the sense he is well prepared for the day he calls it a career.
The 2-1 pitch, Maxville takes low ball three.
He has an electrical engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
The 3-1 pitch, Maxi hits it to right field.
The Crawford is there, puts it in the bag and that's that.
So they're gone in the second inning.
One, two, three, at the end of four and a half.
Cardinals one, Dodgers nothing.
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Bottom of the fifth inning, the Cardinals holding on to a slim one to nothing lead.
A reminder in this home stand, it's the most attractive one,
The Cardinals will be here tomorrow night and Thursday night.
Mike Torres, big right hander, goes tomorrow night against Joe Mueller, Steve Colvin.
Mike Turner will go against John Sutton on Thursday.
Then the Cubs will be in Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
And Thursday night, the men from the moon, Captain Charles P. Conrad,
Captain Richard Gordon and several other members of our astronaut team
will be here to see the Dodgers and the Cardinals.
Ted Sizemore takes the strike on one.
The Cubs will be here the 12th, 13th and 14th at Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Remember Saturday night, 7 p.m., ladies.
Pitch to Sizemore low, one and one.
And then finishing up the home stand pre-game next week with the Pirates, the 15th, 16th and 17th.
One and one to Ted Sizemore.
Taylor works quickly and just one one pitch, half ball in for a strike.
Will Vastagel has just hit his tenth home run of the year in the fourth inning with a man on board
at the Candlestick, so they are leading the Giants now 3-0.
One-two pitch on the hand hits the bat and goes into the lower deck,
and it also flattens Sizemore to boost.
So Grabarckowicz was whirled around by a fastball on the hand,
and Sizemore is flattened high and inside, and it's one and two.
Taylor now takes a breather, but here he comes again, and the one-two pitch.
Fastball is hit by the mound, deep to second baseman, the Javier, who throws and gets him for the out.
Sizemore grounding out the Javier.
That will bring up Tom Haller.
Tommy Haller, that will be a hit down the right field line in the second inning.
He takes a strike, but it looks like Taylor now is starting to settle down a bit.
The Dodgers had five hits in the first two innings plus.
Now he's starting to get them out.
The pitch off-speed and over, strike two.
After Will Singleton will open up the third, he has retired six in a row.
And here's Haller and Osteen do up next.
Chuck Ready and the strike two pitch on the way.
High ball one. One and two.
Taylor is making his first start.
He has an ERA of two.
Last year he won seven and lost five.
One of his games is shut out and it was against the Dodgers.
Haller takes a low, two and two.
Oh, he has him down one-nothing in the fifth inning tonight with one out.
Chuck tows the rubber, Haller waiting.
Right hander into the windup and the two-two pitch, fastball away, ball three.
He's gone all the way to Haller.
Sunday is camera day here at Dodger Stadium.
Hope he'll be out for that.
And kids on the 26th, he's got a big one.
Change curve is fouled away down the left field line and back into the lower deck.
On June the 26th, that's helmet night.
What else do we have?
We have astronaut night on Thursday.
We're going to be milking cows here tomorrow night.
Camera day Sunday, helmet night, and game number 1,000, that's going to be a big one.
There's a high foul off third.
Torrey coming to the dugout, to the mouth of the dugout, and the ball goes right down and in.
Alan Foster off the bench to make sure Torrey didn't get hurt.
Three and two.
The celebration of game number 1,000 is July 1st.
One thousand.
Boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Three and two, the count to Tommy Haller.
How many of the thousand have you seen?
Here's the three-two pitch.
Fastball lifted to straightaway center and shallows.
In comes Cardinal. Jose is there to handle it. Two outs.
That's seven in a row now, retired by Taylor.
So he's showing some indication in contrast that he has much better control.
First three innings, Dodgers sprayed them for five hits, but no runs.
The only single play would be the inning, the second when the Dodgers had three hits but could not score.
Here's Kualocene.
Taylor ready and delivers fastball for a strike.
He's pitching ahead of the hitters now, invariably getting the first pitch over.
Where in the first couple of innings he was just the other way around.
Chuck Taylor, the strike one pitch, line drive at Richie Allen and the inning is over.
So the Dodgers now have gone eight straight up and down and at the end of five, Cardinal's one, Dodgers' nothing.
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Through five innings, the Cardinals one run, three hits, no errors.
The Dodgers no runs, five hits and no errors.
So for the moment let's end it with Jerry.
All right, Benny, you've been giving all the special events coming up,
but we can also remind again that the fans on the field at 1130 Sunday morning through 1210,
you've been permitted to go on the field to get pictures and autographs of the Dodgers and Cubs between batting practices.
The annual camera day, Dodger Vivitar Camera Day, sponsored by Ponder and Beth, in cooperation with the Dodgers this Sunday.
A lot of great prizes for the best photos too.
And we've got California's Bicentennial celebrity, the noted artist Nick Volpe, and Nick has just taken us out.
So he is our Bicentennial celebrity here tonight.
All right, we're cut to go into the sixth inning of the ball game.
The Cardinals coming to bat, one-nothing in favor of St. Louis. Back to play here at St. Louis.
Okay, Jerry Chuck Taylor, who has settled down to do a bind job now in the last couple of innings, will lead it off.
Goal for one is a batter. Osteen delivers and the fastball, a strike going on.
Osteen had one play that is now beginning to bother him.
The speedy Lou Brock topped the ball up along third for a base hit.
Strike one pitch, fastball, hit in here to right side of field. Davis moving over.
Under it now and makes the catch.
Willie is not running 100% by any means, but he was able to move over and get under that one easily.
Kirkland, Willie Davis slows down. He's still faster than most anyway.
Here's Lou Brock.
But to give you an idea of how well Osteen is pitching, he has not allowed a hit since Cardinal.
He's pitching to Brock now, had the hit that is really hurting him. The top are up along third.
And there's a bounce of the left of Will. He can't get it.
The Brock rounds one into center field. A fake turn, but Davis is up to get it.
And that will bring up Jose Cardinal.
So Lou Brock has two of the Cardinal hits.
Got it now, double and one.
Osteen at the belt has a look over at Brock, checks him a second time, decides you better drive him back.
Lou is nine for nine in stealing bases, but he does come into the ballgame with a sore foot.
But just like Davis, sore foot and he's still much faster than most.
Brock is short lead and Osteen after him again.
One nothing St. Louis, we're in the sixth inning.
Osteen left foot on the rubber, now set at the belt, has a look at Brock.
Another look. And there he goes.
And the fish is flung on and missed, a throw again low and no way that Will could make a tag.
Johnny Haller, in his haste to get the ball down there, has gotten the ball on the left side of the bag, on the shortstop side.
So one time it was Sizemore and this time it was Will who had to try and go back and get the throw and then come in with the tag and it was too late.
So Lou Brock is ten for ten as he stands at second base, all in one account to Cardinal.
He swung his bat at that fish just to protect the runner and upset the catcher.
Brock takes a good lead and the fish is fouled outside of third as Cardinal got one in on the hands and really turned it around.
0-2.
No balls and two strikes though Osteen.
One-nothing San Luis, the Cardinals are run on three hits, but Hodges no runs on five hits.
Haller flinging signs out to Osteen.
Now Claude at the belt.
Checks a dancing Brock and comes to play with a breaking ball and that's it fouled outside of third.
Stay away, ten balls.
If you're keeping score with us there is a play in the fourth inning that instead of being a field is choice play, if you remember the great play that Grvarkowitz made on a ball hit back of the bag, he went after Cardinal and got him.
It was technically a field is choice but the choice was removed in the score is judgment that Grvarkowitz could not have gotten Torrey.
So Joe Torrey is giving a base hit on that play in the fourth inning. Therefore it is four hits instead of three allowed by Osteen.
0-1-2 the count to Jose Cardinal.
Now the strike two fish breaking ball full foul to George Kissel the third base goes.
But Cardinal is still there.
Little action down in the Cardinal bullpen.
We'll try and pick it off for you.
We're in the sixth inning, the Cardinals won, the Dodgers nothing.
0-1-2 to Jose Cardinal.
Blue block at second base.
One out.
Strike two fish on the way high.
Ball one a fastball at sale.
Nelly Brials perhaps just getting a little work in the Cardinal bullpen.
Brials the ex-Bronx from Santa Clara has been in ten games.
He's only worked 22 innings this year.
The GRA is very high over seven.
1-2 the count to Cardinal.
Osteen looks at Bronx, clawed to the plate and the fish is hit foul or first slicing to the lower deck.
And Parker will run out of room.
The rest of the scoreboard, the auxiliary scoreboard, is three or four rows back in.
But still 1-2.
Friday, June 26th, helmet night.
The San Diego Padres will be here.
The Cardinals are going to be here tomorrow night and Thursday night.
The Cubs will be here Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
And the Pirates Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
1-2 to Cardinal.
Osteen ready.
Bronx going to third.
The fish outside to throw to third.
He's in there.
The little Brock on a tear has stolen second and third.
So he's 11 for 11.
Cardinal has stolen a base in the fourth inning.
He's 14 out of 15.
Boy, the birds might fly, but these birds run as well.
So now the pressure is on the Dodgers.
The infield up on the right side.
Grabankiewicz is up.
Will is about halfway.
And the Dodgers are getting paced to their own favorite weapon speed.
2-2 fish to Cardinal as the curve fouled away.
The little Brock with one out single up the middle.
Stole second, stole third.
The Cardinals with three steals tonight have stolen 30 out of 42.
The Dodgers, of course, are the runningest club in the league.
They've stolen 69 bases.
2-2 to Cardinal.
Osteen looks at Brock.
Osteen will wind up where it's the plate.
Slow curve, whack foul.
So he's been getting breaking blows.
Osteen trying not to give him a fastball or he can at least hit it out of the infield.
2-2 to count.
Dodgers with Osteen and Haller.
And the size more, Wills Grabankiewicz, Mota Davis Crawford in the outfield.
The infield is up now.
Will is right up on the edge.
Grabankiewicz faking to the bag to hold Brock.
And the 2-2 pitch to Cardinal on the fists and foul back, second day.
That was a good pitch.
Boy, that thing really jumped at his hands.
Cardinal just did get a piece of it and fouled it back.
Osteen wandering back of the river.
One run, four hits for the Cardinals.
No runs, five hits for the Dodgers.
One out a runner, a third here in the sixth inning.
2-2 to Cardinal.
Osteen looks at Brock.
Into the windup comes to the plate.
Breaking ball is whacked down the left field line.
Hooking foul into the lower deck.
Boy, he's got a feeling he's going a long way.
Look at the easy swing, and for a 150-pounder, he made the baseball jump.
I guess when you have the coordination of a Cardinal or in golf a Chichi Rodriguez,
The fact that he's 150 pounds doesn't mean a thing.
He can hit it a long way.
So Cardinal back to the plate.
Two balls, two strikes to Jose.
And he has seen a sack full of curveballs up here. That's all Osteen has given him.
2-2.
Foul on the rubber. Brock down the line from third.
Fakes coming all the way.
And the 2-2 breaking ball is it up the middle, face hit.
So Cardinal was either going to learn how to hit the curveball during that advance
or never do anything else, because that's all he got.
Then he finally hit one through for the face hit.
The run is over. It's 2-0 in St. Louis, and here is Richie Allen.
Two runs, five hits for the Cardinals. No runs, five hits for the Dodgers.
Richie Allen has walked and lined out to left fielder Manny Moda.
Osteen looks at Cardinal, and he has his hands full again with another speedster on the line.
And Allen takes inside ball one.
Cardinal stole second in the fourth inning.
Felt so good about it he tried to steal home.
And actually had the play beaten if we interpreted Frank Zaccori safe and then outside.
Zaccori seemed to indicate that Cardinal had it beaten, but he missed the plate.
Here's the 1-0 pitch. Allen hits a foul off to the right out of play.
It carries through the second deck.
So with Brock stealing second and third in the inning,
now Osteen and Haller have to contend with Cardinal, who has stolen 14 out of 15.
Maury Wilt has stolen 19 out of 25.
Willie Davis has stolen 18 out of 23.
Millie Grabackowich 11 out of 14.
We've got some fellas who can run.
Let's do Richie Allen low, and they're all out here.
So make your plans to see the Cardinals and the Dodgers during the series.
Two and one to Richie Allen.
Osteen hands it aside, one out in the sixth inning.
Two nothing, same lose.
Here's the 2-1 pitch.
Breaking ball missed away, ball three.
Allen closed and right-hand battered.
Now, Claude Ruddy looks over at first base, comes to the plate.
Allen takes a strike on the outside corner, three and two.
Well, Richie Allen has been to bat 190 some odd times, and he has struck out 47.
So he is a strikeout risk, in a sense, and Cardinal is speedster.
We'll see if he goes.
He goes slowly.
The pitch is one on a miss, and they've got him on up.
So the Parker, they get him coming back.
Carter now left first base very slowly.
His heart wasn't really in it.
And when Allen won in miss, Jose was about a third of the way to second base.
So he tried to get back to first, and he was hung out to drive from Allen to Parker.
However, two hits and two stolen bases, and the Cardinals have a run.
And at the end of five and a half, it's St. Louis 2 and the Dodgers nothing.
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Bottom of the sixth inning with the Cardinals leading the Dodgers 2-0.
Two runs, five hits, and no errors for the Cardinals.
No runs, five hits, no errors for the Dodgers.
Maury Wills, Manny Moda, and Willie Davis.
The Dodgers had five hits in the first two innings plus.
And Taylor had slammed the lid on the next eight in a row.
Wills hits the ground ball to Javier.
Willie boosts it, recovers, throws and gets it.
And you can see the difference between a veteran infielder and a youngster,
because Javier had the ball run up his arm, but he was as unfluff as he could be.
Corner three and two.
Well, Ricky Allen has been the bat 190 some odd times, and he has struck out 47.
So he is a strikeout risk in a sense, and Cardinal's feature, we'll see if he goes.
He goes slowly.
The pitch is spun on a miss, and they've got him on up.
The throw to Parker, they get him coming back.
Cardinal left first base very slowly.
His mic wasn't really in it.
And when Allen spun and missed, Jose was about a third of the way to second base.
So he tried to get back to first, and he was hung out the drive from Allen to Parker.
However, two hits and two stolen bases, and the Cardinals have a run.
And at the end of five and a half, it's St. Louis 2 and the Dodgers nothing.
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The bottom of the sixth inning with the Cardinals leading the Dodgers 2-0.
Two runs, five hits, and no errors for the Cardinals. No runs, five hits, no errors for the Dodgers.
Maury Will, Manny Moda, and Willie Davis.
The Dodgers had five hits in the first two innings plus.
And Taylor has slammed the lid on the next eight in a row.
Wills hits the ground ball to Javier.
Willie boots it.
The cover is closed and gets it.
And you can see the difference between a veteran infielder and a youngster.
Because Javier had the ball run up his arm, but he was as unclutched as it could be.
The one down, and here's Manny Moda.
Moda sacrificed in the first inning and hit into a double play in the third.
Breaking ball down and away to Moda, ball one.
Manny checked in tonight at 3-0-4, and he's 0-1.
Willie Davis on deck.
Taylor right back with a fast ball at slight down the right field line.
Coming up on board is Carl Taylor, and in foul ground, one handed.
Nice play.
Unfamiliar territory for Taylor, because the one handed of the ball is next in turn.
Where's the box feet? Where's the railing?
Two down, and Willie Davis the batter.
So Chuck Taylor has become a jackal in the hide out there.
He was in a lot of trouble the first couple of innings, and kaboom,
he hasn't allowed anybody to get a board since.
Nine in a row, he has retired.
There's the ground ball to Javier, and Willie will nail Willie in that fast.
Boy, the Dodgers go quickly in the sixth inning.
And at the end of sixth, Cardinals 2, Dodgers nothing.
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All I can think of is it's good to be alive.
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Quite subtle for that.
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Third and sixth inning, two runs, five hits, no errors for the Cardinals, no runs, five hits, no errors for the Dodgers.
Claude Ostin in a battle with Chuck Taylor, and Taylor now has retired to last 11 in a row.
He's gotten tougher and tougher.
Let's go to the seventh, and for more play, here's Jerry.
All right, buddy, Joe Torrey coming on, third baseman batting, home to the order.
And an infield hit rounded into a double play.
So Torrey, one for two tonight.
Here's Ostin to the line-up, man.
That's going to be in for a base hit, might go through, one bounce to the wall.
Torrey around, takes the second, and he's in there with a planned up double.
So Torrey opens up the seventh, and he was a double to left center field.
Number six for the Cardinals, and here's Carl Taylor, the right fielder.
He has stuck out twice tonight.
Simmons on deck, and Javier to follow.
The Cardinals using Carl Taylor in right field, and Chuck Taylor is the pitcher.
Carl Taylor last year was at Pittsburgh.
Now Torrey's at second base.
A leadoff double here in the seventh.
Barker moves in at first base in case the Bunch should be on with Taylor up there.
The pitch on the way, in a little low for ball, one ball, no strike.
The Cardinals lead two to nothing, and they might be playing for an extra run now.
We'll see.
Krabarka wouldn't stay back even with the bag, but Parker was up a step or two.
Now he's back even with the bag.
Ball one count, Taylor waiting.
Ostin checking time.
Todd goes out of the stretch.
Now the look back at the runner and the pitch on the way, it's a little low for ball.
Sizemore was breaking for the bag that time, so perhaps Goodogger's had a play on.
And they did not go through with it.
Ball two to Taylor, two balls, no strike.
Two and 0 to count.
Now once again, Ostin checking.
Torrey away from second base in the fifth to Taylor.
It's in for strike two and one.
Two balls, one strike to Carl Taylor, batting 2-0-9.
One-0-9 runs about it in.
Now he's backed out with the third base coach, George Kitzel.
Good foot throw on the first base line.
Two and one, Cardinals leading two to nothing.
Ostin, that again delivers.
Curve is in there, good pitch around the knees, strike two.
Two and two to Taylor.
Two balls, two strikes.
Torrey short lead.
And once again, Ostin checking with Tom Holler.
Right hand batter waiting.
The 2-2 pitch, full run, I missed strike three.
Stuck him out for the third time.
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The catcher Ted Simmons at bat is lying the short toss up.
Well Simmons, home for two.
We're in the top of the seventh inning, one on and one out.
Now Ostin goes out of the stretch to the right hand batter.
He's over the screen, and it is strike one.
Nice crowd out tonight.
We hope you can make your plans for the year tomorrow when the Cardinals play the second game of the series.
Mike Torres against Joe Mueller.
And on Thursday night, Steve Carlson, the big left hander, against Don Sutton.
A big home stand for the Dodgers here, beginning now with the Cardinals out in front, two-nothing.
The Dodgers bat on the bottom of the inning is Starlet Parker, Verbacca, Woodland, and Salford.
Now again, the look-pick-off play throwback, and it's not in time.
Torrey gets in ahead of the throw that's eyes more.
One-one to count.
One out, one on.
Torrey open the inning with a double.
He's at second base.
Strike one count.
Now again, Ostin getting a sign from Haller.
Right hand batter waiting, the pitch on the way.
Ground ball to the left side.
It's torched up.
Wills drives the runner back, throws the clock in time, and Sillentot drowning out the short.
Throw away now.
The batter will be Javier, lying to left and grounded the short.
Time's up now.
Javier at bat, Maxwell on deck, and manager Walter Austin going out the top to Ostin and Haller.
It might be they will be talking about walking Javier and pitching to Maxwell.
After Maxwell comes the pitcher.
So with the runner at second base, Austin now having a discussion with the pitcher and the catcher.
We'll see the result of the meeting in a moment.
Javier is lying to left and grounded out.
Maxwell is grounded out inside the right field.
Javier is batting 238.
Maxwell is batting 178.
60 points difference.
Neither has a home run.
Javier has driven in 15 runs and Maxwell has driven in five.
They're going to walk him.
So he'll be walking and Maxwell will be the hitter and we'll see if the Cardinals now counter with a pitch hitter.
That perhaps was one of the things that Walter Austin thought about when he went out there.
That he may not get Maxwell, he might get somebody else.
This will be the third walk given up by Ostin.
An intentional walk and Maxwell in the on-deck circle is going to come up.
Apparently he's walking toward the place now.
Ball three and here's ball four.
So now Maxwell will come on and the pitcher Chuck Taylor comes out on deck.
So the Cardinals have two on with two out.
And the batter Maxwell has grounded out and flat out.
The Cardinals lead in the ball game two to nothing.
All right, Ostin ready to go.
Working to Maxwell with a shortstop batting in the eighth spot.
Dorian second.
Javier at first.
The pitch is low.
Pops out of the glove to north bank.
One ball no strikes to Javier.
The pitcher Chuck Taylor on deck.
One-all to count.
Now again the luck of Ostin checking the runner.
Pitch on the way.
Maxwell at the line drive base at the left field.
Here comes throwing around third.
Going to the plate.
It's going to be close.
He is safe but the ball gets by Haller.
Another run in and he's safe.
Lota made a perfect throw to the plate but it skidded through Haller.
Two runs score.
And on the throw to the plate Maxwell takes second.
The show was well ahead of Torrey.
But the ball didn't hop right for Haller.
It got between his legs.
And Torrey is able to score.
Javier follows and he scores as the ball is under Torrey.
And then rolled off to the right of the plate of fifth.
Ostin picked it up and tried to make a dive at Javier but too late.
So the Cargills get two more runs and lead four to nothing as two score on that play.
Javier heads up all the way from third base.
So Maxwell gets a run battered in.
Taylor is the batter now.
Here's the look at the pitch on the way to Taylor.
Swing and a miss for a strike.
So the Cargills pick up two more.
And it looked like Modus throw had him dead.
But it got away from Haller and in the score was Torrey.
And then when the ball got by an error was charged to allow the other one to come in.
And it's great. Here's the swing and a miss strike two.
Haller is given an error for the second run only, not the first run.
Here's the pitch on the way to Taylor.
Curve strike three called and the ending is over.
But the Cargills get a two big run.
There were two hits, one error, and one left on.
And in the score at the end of six and a half on the play, Cargills four dodges nothing.
If you're in a breakfast slump, then Torrey the score.
And when the ball really passed Haller, it got away from home plate.
Haller was on the ground and here came Javier right behind him in the score.
And now Haller was charged with an error.
Alright, the Dodgers ready to go on the bottom of the seventh inning.
With Parker, Drabachowicz, and Crawford against Chuck Taylor,
who was a little wobbly at the start with the pedal down.
Now there's a swing going. A ground ball, punch to short.
Maxwell across in time and it's won out.
Twelve in a row now, retired by Taylor.
And he's made it look easy lately.
The Dodgers had five hits in their first ten hitters.
Were unable to score and now have not been able to get anybody on.
Drabachowicz's bat has singled and popped up.
So Chuck Taylor is going to work.
The crowd tonight is 17,111.
Here's a curve strike and it is 0-1.
Seven innings.
Cargills four, the Dodgers nothing.
Here's the putt of third base side.
Here's Torrey quickly, bare hand pick up.
Throw in time. Good play by Torrey.
Joe Torrey, who has not played third base in the majors until just a couple of weeks ago,
made a major league play on that punch by Drabachowicz.
Came in with a bare hand pick up and throw in time.
Torrey has always had a good arm when he was catching.
Oh, he made a fine play there.
Here's Crawford at bat with two outs in the seventh.
Taylor to the lineup and the pitch to Willie.
Full on and missed strike one. Crawford batting 259.
Torrey is playing third so that the Cargills can use Simmons behind the plate.
There's a change up. Full on and missed strike two.
And also because Shannon is still not ready to play.
If this combination works as is and Shannon gets ready to play,
he can go back to the outfield of Torrey if he's playing well at third.
Now the pitch. Low for ball.
One ball, two strikes. Crawford waiting.
Now Taylor ready to go. The wind is in the pitch on the way.
Full on and hit foul. Lost third out of play.
A ball and two strikes to Willie Crawford.
The Pirates lead the Giants 3-0 there in the sixth inning.
And Maritsov pitching there against Blass.
In between the high pop fly off to the left side.
Down in the corner is blue block and foul territory.
And makes the catch for the after retire of the side.
So Crawford fouls to Brock. They're all out in the seventh inning.
Three up and three down. And the score at the end of seventh inning to play.
The Cardinals four and the Dodgers nothing.
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Moving along into the eighth inning of the ball game.
Cargo's coming to bat. Let's go back to playing.
Here's Vint.
Alright, Jerry. Eighth inning.
Ford and Othing Sandler as Claude Osteen.
Who has been a hot pitcher but he's been outfished.
He'll start it off.
Osteen ready to work now to the leadoff man, Lou Brock, who's had a couple of base sets.
And Brock has scored two runs.
Brock gets the ground ball, pulled it down to Sizemore and said we'll throw him out one away.
It has been Cardinal base running that has led to the Dodger downfall tonight.
It was Brock's speed that set up a run in the first inning.
Then Brock single and stole two bases and scored in the sixth.
And then Joe Torre and Julian Javier both scoring on a very good throw by Manimoda.
The Cardinals have not been flying around, they have been running around.
And the batter is Jose Cardinal who takes the site.
Cardinal perhaps set the key of the evening that the Cardinals were going to run when he was thrown out trying to steal all.
Well, there's a few things that have worked against St. Louis tonight.
Strike one fastball, a sinker, strike two, 0-2.
For Osteen, he knows he's finished.
He figures to be gone.
He's due to bat third at the bottom of the eighth.
So this makes it a very tough inning for him to pitch, knowing he's coming out.
The strike two pitch, fastball high, Cardinal held up 1-2.
Dodgers swept the three in St. Louis, so the Cardinals kind of nail one from the Dodgers.
Cardinal waiting.
Now it feels spread out, really fanned out on Jose.
Now Osteen ready and there's one two pitch on the way.
Fastball in there, strike three, called.
So it is interesting to note that when Cardinal came up to the plate with a runner at third in the sixth inning and won out,
he saw nothing but curveballs.
Breaking ball, breaking ball, breaking ball, breaking ball, and he hit one into center field for a base hit for the run.
But now when he came up with the bases empty, he got sinkers and fastballs and struck out.
So it shows you the difference in pitching with a man on third and with the bases empty.
Here's Richie Allen, sinker for a strike.
Next pitch fouled away, going two.
Half a dozen strikeouts for Osteen, but he's down 4-0 in the eighth.
Richie Allen waiting and there's strike two pitch on the way.
Fastball outside, ball one.
When the Dodgers hit in the bottom of the eighth, they are due to send up head size more Tom Haller and called Osteen's spot.
Both end busy backup.
One two pitch on the way, change high.
A little curveball that stayed up, two and two.
Richie Allen walked, lined out to left and struck out.
Here's the two-two pitch on the way.
Breaking ball grounded foul, back of the heels of third base coach George Kissel.
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Here's the two-two pitch on the way.
Breaking ball grounded deep at third.
Fair ball and it's off Ravarkowitz's glove.
So Allen is safely aboard.
Ravarkowitz, at ease field is the ball.
Would have been almost on the grass back of third.
And if they gave Joe Torrey a hit as they did, there's no other way but to give Allen a hit on that one because
no he really had to go deep to even come close to getting it.
So it's a base hit for Richie Allen and here's Joe Torrey.
Four runs, eight hits for the Cardinals.
No runs, five hits for the Dodgers.
And if you look at it in the proper perspective, the Dodgers have not had a hit since Will Singleton the third inning.
Taylor's retired 14 in a row.
Pitch in the dirt saved by Hallerball.
So the Dodgers were chipping away at Taylor for the first two innings plus.
They had five hits but no runs and boy has he slammed the door.
14 in a row through the seventh inning.
1-0 to Joe Torrey.
Host team ready.
Here he comes low again in the dirt, ball two.
The pitching pattern changes drastically when you think about it here in St. Louis.
In St. Louis, you don't want the men to hit the ball on the ground.
With the Astrosurf, that baseball goes like a startled rabbit.
So out here, you just as soon have the hits all down on the ground with somebody like Torrey.
Host team has been low where you might want to be hitting the ball in the air in St. Louis.
Breaking ball is one-notted missed, 0-1.
2-1 to Joe Torrey.
Two out on the eighth inning, 4-0 St. Louis.
2-1 pitch to Joe.
Steen's fastball that hit foul outside of third and down the line, 2-2.
Joe Torrey started the night at 2-99 and he's 2-3.
Infield single and a double.
Host team at the belt and the 2-2 pitch, Kerrball got him swinging and down goes Torrey.
That's seven strikeouts for Claude Host team, but it is no bomb to his injury because he's down and out.
No runs to hit a man left, but at the end of seven and a half innings Cardinals 4 dodges nothing.
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Bottom of the eighth inning, the Cardinals four runs, eight hits, no errors.
The Dodgers no runs, five hits and one error.
Chuck Taylor has retired 14 consecutive batters since the third inning single by Maury Wills.
And he'll now face Ted Sizemore, Tom Haller, and we'll see about Osteen's spot.
Taylor into the windup and the big right-hander's breaking ball is high and inside, ball one.
They're waving a towel at Carl Taylor in right field.
They want to bring him up, he's playing kind of deep.
And he does get that.
The pitch, inside and high, ball two.
Chuck Taylor is making his first start, so the Dodgers are hoping he'll tire in the later going.
The next run, a strike, two and one.
Taylor has worked only 30 innings prior to tonight, and he's pitched a strong seven.
Two one-fifths, low, ball three.
With his 14 consecutive outs, it should be noted that he has not walked a batter.
So he's behind the first time in a while, a three one-fifths.
Inside, ball four.
That gets him to making some noise here now.
Billy Muffet, the pitching coach, goes over to talk to Red Chandy.
And the battle will be Tom Haller.
He's a little bit of a margin for error, however, he's leading 4-0.
Sal Campisi and Ted Abernathy throwing in the Cardinal bullpen.
The Dodgers have a long way to go.
Haller has singled and flied out.
That ball, a strike on the outside corner.
Now Billy McCool gets up to join Ted Abernathy and Sal Campisi stop throwing.
Now the strike one pitch to Haller, low, one and one.
Normally, a manager looks for two things when a pitcher tires.
If he's basically a low ball pitcher, and Taylor is, his stuff will start to come up.
And of course you always look for velocity or lack of it.
Haller takes low again, ball two.
Here comes the Redhead, the Red Chandy, so that's a mound to see whether Chuck Haller is hiring or not.
The boos you hear in the background are directed, certainly not personally, just at the state of things here at Dodger Stadium.
Cardinal's four, Dodger's nothing.
Chandy's one of the more popular men in the game.
With the fact that he's been sitting on a 4-0 lead, they decided to get on him a little bit.
The Redhead goes cutting back to the Cardinal dugout.
Pete Michelson and Fred Norman are throwing in the Dodger bullpen.
And Red goes down the steps and back into the dugout.
Two and one to count to Tom Haller.
Taylor delivers and it's a little foul off third.
Racing over is Corey. It's doubtful Joe will not have a play.
First row of seats behind the auxiliary scoreboard just beyond the Dodger dugout.
And the count's two and two.
Tom Haller waiting on the play, two balls and two strikes.
They're not going to hold sides more.
Ricky Allen is off the bat.
Taylor delivers and it's foul back.
Haller single down the right field line in the second inning and flies to center in the fifth.
Dodgers had five hits in the first two innings plus which did not score.
And then Taylor retired 14 in a row before walking sides more here in the eighth.
Two-two pitch, round ball down to Javier.
He goes to the shortstop, Maxville.
He goes to first, double play.
Double play, four, six, three.
So two out of the eighth inning.
Now let's see.
Milt Sudeikis has reached the on-deck circle.
He's being called back.
And then John Joshua gets up and goes to the bat rack.
So the young outfielder hitting 255 and he's been in only 19 games.
Joshua will come up and bat against Chuck Taylor.
They wanted Sudeikis as a possible long ball threat.
But if Haller hits into a double play, he's going to go back to hoping for singles.
Here comes John Joshua coming up.
The Dodgers have hit into two double plays tonight.
They are being beaten over the head on double play ball.
Yesterday, or I should say Sunday, the Dodgers hit into three double plays in Pittsburgh.
The night before they hit into two double plays and a triple play.
The last three games, the Dodgers have hit into seven double plays and a triple play.
It's pretty hard to do any scoring on that time.
There's a comeback dropped by Taylor who then throws him out.
So Joshua, first ball swinging is gone.
And so are the Dodgers in the eighth and at the end of eighth.
The Dodgers are in the fourth and fourth.
Taylor and Halle feels good when you've been on the World.
Taylor and Halle feels good.
The old places and faces you've missed are there.
And you know it well can be.
There are stories to hear, stories to tell, and laughs to laugh.
And all the time the glass will get filled and emptied and filled again, it will slip.
Oh, they'll be good times, just so times.
The kind you grab for because you know one time around is all you get.
And you've got to grab for all the just so you can.
The beer you drink, why settle for less?
When you're out of slips, you're out of beer.
Slips, Milwaukee and the World.
Through eight innings, a total draw in the ballgame.
The Cardinals four runs, eight hits and no errors.
The Dodgers no runs, five hits and one error.
And Pete Mickelson is asked to pitch the night inning for Claude Osteen.
Had come in with a six game winning streak.
And although he struck out seven and walked but two and one of the two intentionally.
He started off with his problems in the very first inning when Lou Brock topped the ball up along third base and beat it out.
Cardinal hit a ground ball under Grabarcovich's glove and just off the fingertips of Wills and had died on the grass and left.
And he's a speedster.
So Brock was able to take third and Cardinal took second.
Richie Allen walked to load the bases and Joe Torre hit into a double play.
The run scoring and then a few moments later Cardinal was thrown out trying to steal.
So actually a break or so on Osteen could have survived the first inning easily.
Then in the sixth inning, Brock singled and stole second and then stole third and came home on a base hit.
And in the seventh inning two runs scored on a base hit to left despite a good throw by Manny Moda when Hallow was unable to hold onto it.
And Tommy was knocked flat by Torre.
And as he was sprawled in the dirt Javier came right in behind Torre.
So at first glance you think of four nothing the Cardinals have had it easy but Osteen didn't pitch that bad a game at all.
Now we're in the ninth and Mickelson is pitching to right fielder Carl Taylor who fouls it away.
The Dodgers however looked as if they were going to chase Chuck Taylor right in the beginning.
And boy did he apply the breaks in the third inning.
The Dodgers hit a dry spell of 14 in a row and then when they finally did give Manny Moda a double play ball wrecked them.
Next pitch low and away one and one to Carl Taylor.
Boy that's remarkable though to suddenly realize that the Dodgers have hit into seven double plays and a triple play in their last three games.
The one one pitch on the way good breaking ball strike two.
One and two to Carl Taylor.
He's had a rough night.
He's in there because he goes against left handers and all Osteen did was strike him out three times.
It's really amazing how you try to out think this game isn't it.
The one two pitch side armor ground ball to Parker.
West has it goes to the back for the odds one away.
So Carl Taylor struck out three times against the left handers and ground dot against the right hander.
Let's pause for station identification.
This is a Los Angeles Dodgers radio network.
This is Dave Hall.
We're here every night nine to midnight on 50,000 watt clear channel KFI Los Angeles.
That's Simmons about her lined out popped up and grounded out over three and he'll turn around and hit left handed now.
Nicholson ready and he delivers that one over for a strike.
Nicholson has just about made it back now from being floored by hepatitis and spring training.
It's been a long hard Jewish climb but he is just about caught up with the league like one pitch.
Long ball one on and miss and always gives the crowd a thrill not to say what it has done to young Ted Simmons.
He almost fell out of his uniform on that one.
Ted Grinning said something to Tommy Howard.
Of course Nicholson played at Tulsa Cardinal Farm Club like do that fastball line drive.
They said no one do fastball and that's the thing to tell you.
Nine hits to the Cardinals and the battle will be Julian Javier.
Javier was robbed of a hit and in fact he hit the ball hard twice and had nothing to show for it.
Then they intentionally walked him in the seventh inning and he scored when Haller was flattened by Joe Torre.
If you have a good memory you might remember a classic case of a catcher being flattened at the plate.
Breaking ball is swung on and missed and that flat curve went right out the window and Javier went after it.
If you can go well suddenly it's way back.
The Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees in the World Series and Charlie Keller knocked the great early Lombardi flat.
When the ball rolled away another Yankee scored it might have been Joe DiMaggio but they always talk about it as Lombardi's sleeve when he was actually just decked at the plate.
Well Haller suffered that indignity in the seventh inning.
Strike one-fifths, Javier looks at a big floater that's low one-on-one.
He's just fun to watch. Well not to hit again but he's fun to watch.
As you said on the pregame show, well I have such a crazy motion.
By the posters, Poster Washington, Steve Mickelson.
Javier waiting who he has out of the shore to one hopper lined to left and was more intentionally.
One-one-fifths, fast ball hit down the right field line.
Crawford racing to the line makes the catch and they're going to double up the kid at first base easily.
Ed Simmons is on his way to third. He must have thought they were two outs.
Now he knows differently.
So the young catcher is embarrassed he's doubled up nine-three Crawford to Parker.
No runs, he hits, nobody left and at the end of eight-and-a-half, the Cardinal four dodges nothing.
The other day, Farmer John mentioned he was partial to the double play and naturally we thought he was talking baseball.
But what he meant was the shopper picking up one of his products in the meat department
then pushing her cart over to the delicatessen section for some of his lunches, Farmer John lunch and meat.
Some people it seems don't realize that Farmer John is a complete variety of lunch and meat.
Farmer John sliced cooked ham, Farmer John liverwurst, all meat ballona and many others.
They're as fine and fresh as you can buy because Farmer John makes them with fresh eastern corn-fed pork.
Fresh, fresh right here in the west and fresh, lean, juicy, homegrown beef.
And he uses only natural herbs and spices, never any artificial seasonings or flavoring.
Like other Farmer John products, all his lunch and meats won gold medals at the California State Fair.
So the next time you shop, pick up a package or two of Farmer John lunch and meat.
Take it from me, you like a Farmer John.
Bottom of the ninth inning, here at Dodger Stadium, Ward and other things, St. Louis.
And Mr. Chuck Taylor has been sitting on the Dodgers ever since the third inning.
Maury Wills is the last Dodger to get a base hit and that was leading off the third.
Taylor Walker sides more to break a string of 14 in the eighth inning.
First pitch, low ball on.
Wills Moda Davis, bottom of the ninth, fours, dips St. Louis.
And that's one over for a strike.
Count one and one.
So the Dodgers who have won 18 and lost but 10 on the road, 200 to 500 at home and they're down in the first game.
There's a one hopper backhanded by Richie Allen.
Oh, what a play.
Richie takes it over to the back, one away.
A fine play by Richie Allen, the backhand, a low line drive that exploded.
Short hop backhand has made it look easy and the batter, Manny Moda.
Somebody getting on him, one of his teammates from the Cardinals dugout and Richie grinning and now waiting at the plate.
And here's the pitch to Moda.
That's taken for a strike.
Chuck Taylor has been queening and pressing the Dodgers here in the ninth inning.
One man to get a board since the third.
There's a chapter to Javier.
Bully has this one that will do it for Moda.
Two down.
Despite the walk given to Sizemore, Haller followed by hitting it with double play.
And you go in the third inning and despite the single by Wills, Moda hit it with double play.
So since the second inning, Taylor has pitched to the minimum number of batters.
If he gets Willie Davis, he will have faced only 21 batters in the last seven innings.
The pitch over for a strike, 0-1.
So the Dodgers were unable to strike early and quick and now they're just about done with two out of the ninth.
Strike one pitch to Davis, a ground ball to Javier.
He has it and that's that.
Chuck Taylor got tougher and tougher and better and better and the Dodgers went down the drain.
Four runs, nine hits and no errors for the Cardinals.
And Chuck Taylor, who had his only shutout in the big leagues last year against the Dodgers,
comes right back to do the same for the first time this year.
It was his first start and it was his first away game and he sure made the most of it.
For the Dodgers, nothing more than a small whimper of protest.
No runs, five hits and one error.
Hosting the loser is eight and five, eight and 13 lifetimes.
And Chuck Taylor is the winner.
Taylor now is two and one.
Tomorrow night, Mike Torres and Joe Mueller warm up 740 game time at eight.
Sure hope he makes you plans to be out here with us if he possibly can.
Once again, the final score, Cardinals four, Dodgers nothing.
Now this is the end of the show along with Jerry Doggett inviting you to stay tuned for the fourth game show coming right up.