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The Minnesota Twins faced the Kansas City Royals for a Friday night game at Royals Stadium on October 1st, 1976.
Minnesota was in third place in the AL West with an 82-77 record under manager Gene Mock in his first season with the Twins.
Kansas City was managed by Whitey Herzog and they were the 1976 AL West champs,
having just clinched the division one night earlier with a shutout win by Larry Gurra over the A's.
This audio recording is from the Kansas City Radio broadcast featuring announcers Denny Matthews and Fred White.
Steve, a left hand batter, he's a D8. Doug Byrd's ready and deal.
Off speed that's the par ball in his flow. One ball, one strike.
Well, will this be the night? Certainly all the ingredients present, including a tremendous shot,
Ron Nickson bowled back at the plate and the count went in two.
Byrd won it all against the Twins. He beat the Twins here at Royals Stadium back in May by the score of 6-3.
The 1-2-5 to Braun on the way.
Top ball popped up, back of short, pop that guy, top, pocket in, and it's top, pocket to make the catch for the win.
Here's Steve Braun out of the par ball to left field.
And here's Roy Wally's with city church stuff. Roy's average, 257, 3-halvers, and 44 RBI.
Wally says joining the Twins has just four hits against the Royals.
The Royals pitchers have handled him well, he's four out of 32.
On the left side of the base against Doug Berher to the pitchers, strike going on.
For Doug Berher, this marks his 27th start of the year. It is his third start against the Twins.
No balls and a strike.
He jumped under way.
Back ball, one way, piled away.
This would weigh down the left of your line and deep into the lower deck, and the count slowly going two.
The most recent outing was a 3-1 loss. That was in Texas on Saturday night, he went 6-0.
Back he counts and the pitch just a little bit inside and world.
One ball, two strikes. John Watson back to the plate.
It was John Watson who caught Larry Cora on Wednesday night in Oakland.
One of two to count. Back comes Bird with a fast ball and slowly has to jump back inside. Two balls, two strikes.
Doug's last victory came over the A's in the Royal Stadium on the 21st of September.
The final score of that meeting, 3-1.
The two pitchers slowly going outside, ball three, three and two.
John of course, and we've said it about every time he's pitched, just doesn't walk anybody at all.
He's walked only 30 this year.
Back he comes and a hot shot is passed contact on into left field.
Tom Fokette over quickly to come out and holds Smalley to a single.
The right Smalley singles to left, one on one out, and here's Rod Carew.
Rod hitting 325. Nine homers, 89 RBI.
The other item of interest in this series, the batting race, Al McCrae the week leader at 333.
And then George Brad at 328. Rod Carew and Wyman Boscott, both of the twins and both hitting 325.
So here's Rod Carew, there goes the runner, the hit run is on, and it's bounce pound outside first, going wide.
Smalley who is running back to first.
Rod with 15 hits against the Royal, 15 out of 48.
No ball to strike, Mayberry holding to the runner.
Dodge pitchers high, one ball, one strike.
The twins have played good ball against the West, they have 148, they've lost 39.
So it's in their own division, they've been tough, throw to first, the runner back.
The Royal shooting for win number 91 tonight, the runner goes, the 50 Carew bouncing ball face to left field.
Smalley around second, puts on the brakes, well kept throws behind him, and he gets back to second base safely.
So Rod Carew bounces one between Brad and Patek, and the twins are two aboard one out, and up comes Wyman Boscott.
Boscott more than any other Minnesota twin, tough on the Royal, 18 hits, nine RBIs.
He has been a terror against the Royal, and especially in Minnesota.
So it's slowly at second base, Rod Carew at first, both with bouncing ball opposite field hits.
Boscott, Brad for the Patek, looks like a double play, right out, Mayberry, double play.
Well, Smalley and Carew got their balls through, but Wyman Boscott not so lucky.
Here's a bounce ball, turns into an ending double play.
Two hits, no runs, a man left, and that's a half an inning, twins nothing, Royal coming up.
Cleveland Blair manager Frank Robinson says he'd like to stay on with the Indians,
but as the Indians wind up their best season in years, Robinson remains without a contract.
Robinson will not play next year, and the Indians reportedly have offered him $80,000 just to manage.
That's a loss of about $100,000 from his reported salary as a Blair manager.
Robinson claims money is not the issue, but he declined to testify just what the key problem is.
Taking a look at tonight's Major League scorecard, of course we mentioned earlier that doubleheader
between the Yankees and Indians was rained out, scheduled in New York, a lot of rain here on the East Coast.
Another rain out also, St. Louis at Pittsburgh, a snow bearing whatsoever on the divisional races.
It boils down to Kansas City winning it tonight to ramp up the West in the American League.
If they don't, then Oakland should win them.
Well, it just gets tightened up a little bit more.
However, we should point out that Kansas City has least time for the Western Division crown of the American League.
If they should end up in the tie, then naturally there would be a playoff between the Royals
and the A's to decide who is going to win the West.
Other games in the American League, Boston, Leeds, Baltimore, won nothingness after three innings of play.
Chicago is scheduled to Texas, now going for the White Sox, his record is 3-1.
Humburgers going for Texas, his record is 10-12.
Minnesota is at Kansas City in our game here tonight.
And Detroit is at Milwaukee, Hiller, and Crappers.
We go to the bottom of the first, no score.
The man trying to prevent the Royals from nailing down their first Western Division title,
his 27-year-old right-hander Dave Golt.
Dave is 6-4, weighs 2'10".
He is 1-2 against the Royals this year. He has pitched better than that.
In his career, five wins and three losses against the Royals.
Golt beat the Royals in Minnesota back on May 22, 5-3.
It was a complete game and he allowed only three hits and a run in the first.
Eight innings, and then allowed two runs in the ninth, but he was very much in command.
And then the Royals announced in March, beat Golt for 1-0 in ten-innings, 10-12 on June 29.
David's ten-innings allowed just one run and three hits.
And then the Royals in 50, beating Golt here 4-2 on August 4,
as the Royals got three runs in the first.
So as you can see, Golt 1-2 against the Royals, but he's been much tougher than his record would indicate.
Tom Buchanan leads off and takes the breaking ball low, ball one.
Tom hitting 3-0-1 to almost 33 RBIs.
He's hitting 2-94 against the Glens.
Now ball 8-6, down to him.
Tom Buchanan almost a single under seven, and the Royals walk in running.
Here's Amos Otis, in the city, 2-8.
He's been by the eyes, and a two-yard run.
Otis, the league leader in doubles, reporting.
The Royals will play Amos Otis to pull quite late.
Tom Buchanan first, nobody else.
You can hear the crowd. They are really much up for this ballgame.
Golt stepping off the rubber, Otis steps out.
2-2, the first baseman holding Tom's pocket ball. And Tom very safely draws the throw and he's straight back.
The Royals try to win the first major league baseball title in 21 years of big league play here in Kansas City.
The amazing thing is, it was found in only the eighth year of existence for the Royals.
Otis bumping a bus, takes low and inside, ball one.
Beautiful night for me, all the temperature in the 80s.
You wouldn't expect an 80-degree night on October the 1st.
No wind at all, the flags are about to fall and left are left.
That is the only left object in this ballpark. Everybody is up for this one.
Golt again steps off, Otis again steps out.
And Tom Buchanan resting on first, 1-0 to count on Amos Otis.
The twins, two hits in the first, but a double play enters.
And now Buchanan will lead off Segal.
Pitch out, nothing happening, ball two, 2-0.
Otis with 40 doubles has established the Royals record.
Atrey and Mayden, he last year had 38 doubles.
Amos broken back looper out for the second base, but he makes the catch.
So Amos, jabs with a pitch, and breaking is fast, it's a lip hop up to Randall.
A one out, and George Ruff coming up. Newtons in 328 with 209 lifts.
Yes, it's going to be five on the eyes and a half a dozen home runs.
The fans are still coming in. This place will be packed.
Tom Buchanan first, one away, to fix the breath, making ball to blow, ball one.
Dave Golt, not an over following pitcher, not at all.
He'll move the ball in and out to fix the George breath, hit hard,
off the ground with a swing shot, falling in a nice save.
And a two-on with one out. It'll be a big hit for George Ruff, a hot play.
Royce Wally, the shortstop going to his right, got his glove on the ball and a knock it down, the down ball.
And Buchanan second, but it's first for Al McCray, the lead leading hitter.
The left-handed Al's average is 333. He almost 72 on the eyes.
He is hitting 396 against the glint. He takes a strike from Goltz on one.
So a hit to leave it up and to a piece.
The Royals, the same opportunity, presented the trend in the top half of the first.
That is, that is the first and second one out.
In that situation, Bobstock rounded it into a double play.
Now we'll see about Al McCray.
Goltz taking it to Petrie rubber, trying to, first of all, dislodge some mud from between his spikes.
At first he was kicking at the dirt in front of the rubber to get it to his liking.
Now Dave's taking a moment to rub a wrinkle in a new ball.
So he's in no hurry. No balls and a strike, right as his first and second.
Wally, Royals batting in the bottom of the first. No score. Here's the bet.
McCray tried to get the bat back, but foul-fifth in the count on two.
Goltz will be left to get on McCray's hands.
No balls, two strikes on Al McCray.
Back trying to become the first Royals player to win the batting title.
Bouncing ball to third might be a double play.
McCray, the second base down, the first base out at first and oh my goodness, his left, hit Bob Randall out at second base.
And Randall lifting off. He almost cut him in half with a lowly body block.
So are the Royals serious about winning tonight?
As Bob Randall is he left back to the Minnesota dugout.
So the bottom half of the inning in as the top half ends with a double play.
Two hits, no runs, a man left. And after one, no score.
A Washington newspaper, the Star, quotes an attorney who handles the pro basketball contract for being angry over the way a couple of teams announced the terms.
The attorney, Donald Dell, represented John Lucas, who signed with the Houston Rockets, and Adrian Dantley, who went with the Buffalo Braves.
According to Dell, Lucas actually got a seven-year contract from Houston calling for a total of one and one-half million dollars.
Houston announced it as a multi-year contract for $850,000.
And Dell says Buffalo announced that they'd pay us $500,000 for five years, when actually it would be $1,100,000 for seven seasons.
Well, not too bad there. It appears though the players came out on top. After all, our pay raise was only 4.83%. We had nothing to say about it.
Texas Rangers' out-ball, Prince Peterson, is recovering from surgery on the west at Englewood, California, hospital two days ago to repair a torn muscle in his left shoulder.
The 34-year-old Peterson, a 20-game winner, was the Yankees in 1970, passing pitch for the Rangers on June 19.
We go to the second inning, no score. Bush, Weininger, Larry Heissel, and Dan Ford will be coming up against the Bears.
Weininger, the trick-treating looking catcher, carries an average of just 60 into the ballgame.
Bush has 10 homers, 69 RBIs.
Dugger out two singles in the first. Bostock rounded into the double play. And Weininger takes a strike on one.
In the ballgame tomorrow afternoon, and remember it's an afternoon game, the 0-1 pitch to Weininger, breaking ball inside, one and one.
Game time is 1.30. Dennis Weiner pitches against Jim Hughes.
And then on Sunday afternoon, Paul Splittorf or Al Fitzmara will go against Bill Singer.
Weininger's started to go, held up in time, ball two, two and one.
The Royals have done very well against the twins, especially here at the Royals Stadium.
The Royals have lost only once to the twins here. They have five victories.
A little bit low, ball three, three and one.
The Royals are ten and five against the twins overall.
Three balls and one strike on the catcher, Bush Weininger.
Back comes Doug Byrd, ground ball, right to his left, good pickup, over the footer, ten-five.
Frank Weis going to his left to take a base hit away from Bush Weininger.
Frank's going to tremendous range.
That time to his left, so long away.
And the batter, Larry Heisel, right hand hitting left fielder.
Larry hitting 269 with 14 home runs, 93 RBI.
Doug Byrd's pitch to Heisel, wider wave than a miss going on.
The Royals played very well defensively Wednesday night in Oakland.
A change or a far ball, lost it all, lost it in hot pursuit, but George just simply runs out of room
as the ball bounces in the box seat and it takes one big hop under the screen.
So a whole group of fans down here in Iowa let the ball bounce in the aisle and then it got away.
It got on the screen and no chance then.
No balls and two strikes on Heisel.
Larry against the Royals this year, it doesn't hit.
That includes a home run and he has nine RBI's.
Breaking ball, one on this, down he goes.
The dark rope went off and Heisel did not have a good swing and Larry just turns and walks back to the dugout.
A two away is Dan Ford, Ford's average is 268.
Dan has 20 home runs, 86 RBI.
Right hander against right hander, the line up by Doug and the pitch, fast ball in on his hands and he fouls it away.
The Royals should treat Daddy Ford very kindly.
Dan Ford has been a one man wrecking crew against the Oakland A's this year.
And in several games Dan Ford has almost single handedly beaten the A's.
He has just worn out the Oakland pitching staff.
So the Royals should be very grateful for the 0-1 pitch.
High five, well hit, deep right center, Otis going back, way back to the wall, he's got it.
Dan Ford, the man who has bedeviled the A's, he has seven home runs against the Oakland staff.
Almost gets it out of Royals stadium, but Otis ran it down in deep right center.
In the inning, no hits, no runs and nobody left.
We go to the bottom of the second, Royals nothing, Queens nothing.
While the Kansas City Royals can clinch the American League West Championship tonight in their home game against the Minnesota Twins,
a victory by the Royals or a loss by Oakland to California was to the trick.
Now we got a call from Freddie White with the Kansas City Royals baseball network and he informed us that
tomorrow's game has been moved up to 2-15.
Of course this is to accommodate television.
That is only if the pen rate is necessary.
However, should Oakland clinch tonight, I don't imagine that that game would be moved up at all,
seeing as how it would be meaningless.
However, during our college football doubleheader tomorrow, we will be passing these scores along to you.
Of course a reminder that that big doubleheader tomorrow, UCLA at Ohio State,
starts at 1-25 Eastern Daylight Time and then Alabama at Georgia.
Quite a big game there in the Southeastern Conference.
That game is started at 4-35 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time to be carried over most of these AFRGF stations.
No score, Royals send a bad in the bottom of the second inning.
The Clans, no runs, two singles.
The Royals, no runs, two singles.
John Mayberry, Al Collins and John Waffin in that order.
Mayberry with 95 RBI that places him sixth in the American League.
John has 13 home runs, his average is 2-35.
Dave Gold, rocks and deals, fighter on the outside, Carter on one.
John in years past has been doing well against the twins.
He's hitting 250 this year, a little tap up along the first baseline,
picked up by Rob Carew right at the back for the outs and there's one guy.
Here's Al Collins, Al hitting 265 with 59 RBI and three home runs.
Al has been sticking the ball for the last two and a half weeks.
Al has changed his batting style and then he takes a strike on one.
You might remember how Collins used to hold the bat back and parallel to the ground,
not anymore.
He's holding the bat straight up, his hands in front of the letters,
he takes outside a breaking ball to the count one and one.
Gold, we open in, half play, one hopper to the mound.
Gold, the Corinnos and Collins is retired two outs.
That'll bring up John Waffin.
John's average is 289, five RBI's, he has 11 hits.
John of course has been used sparingly as Buck Martinez and Bob Simpson
have angled the ball to the catching.
John handled very good up.
Down in Oakland on Wednesday night and he's in there tonight.
Breaking ball is hitting the right field, Dan Ford's coming in,
he's there to make the catch and the Royals go quickly and quietly
in the bottom of the second.
And after two, Royals nothing, Minnesota nothing.
Superstar Dick Allen is expected to be back in uniform tonight
with the National League East leading Philadelphia Phillies host,
the New York Mets and of course as we mentioned earlier in Pittsburgh,
Danny Murtaugh has announced his retirement hence for the fourth time
and Danny is stepping down along with Joe Brown who retired a couple of days ago.
Let's check out the National League scorecard for you right now
and in that New York Philadelphia game,
Philly is leading 1-0 after three innings of play,
Jerry Koostman going for the New York Mets and Tom Underwood for the Philadelphia Philly.
Earlier in the day, Chicago defeated Montreal 3-1,
Bill Fom the winner, his record now 9-13,
and Sandhouse was the loser, his record drops to 8-13.
St. Louis and Pittsburgh was rained out,
Atlanta had Simpson Matty, the big red machine,
leads the Braves 2-1 after two and one half innings of play.
Later starts San Francisco at Houston and San Diego at Los Angeles.
Danny Drennis jam-packed Royal City at those scores,
the total is identical, Trent Snowrun the two-hit,
Royals Snowrun the two-hit, Mike Cubbage, Bob Randall,
and Steve Braun coming up.
So here we go to the third inning, Doug Byrd set to go for more play, here's Fred.
Okay, thank you Danny.
Mike Cubbage, the left-handed batter, steps in, nothing, nothing.
Great air of expectancy at Royal City in the night, a great cloud on air,
the first pitch from Byrd to Cubbage misses away, ball one.
Cubbage hitting.258 with three home runs, 46 RBI's,
like Royce Bolle came over the two-to-twins in the trade with the Texas Rangers for Burt Weilofen earlier this year.
Byrd to Cubbage, Brown ball, that's Frank White, charging at Hazard,
Burt to Byrd and it's one away, one out, nobody on, and let's pause ten seconds for a safe notification,
this is the Royal Baseball Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
Bob Randall steps in, a right-handed batter, the 12-second base from the number nine hitter in the batting order,
Randall hitting.269 with a homer, 34 RBI's, 11 hits against the Royals this year.
Splits out wide, chokes the bat, the first pitch from Byrd, ball inside, ball one.
Danny describes it for you, boy Randall really got hit by George Brett at second base.
George going in, throwing a block, trying to break up a double play and he blew Randall out of there,
they both came away lifting but they're both out there still.
A double pitch from Duck Byrd, Brown ball, high chopper, George has it, straightens up and fires their two out.
Randall out, second to first, Duck Byrd has now retired six in a row,
and with two out, nobody on, it's the late off hitter Steve Braun who flied to left his first time up.
A right, the left to Braun, foul tipped, not bad a free space just for letting it start.
Byrd one to Braun, his average two, 90, free homerun, 60 runs by the end, left hand is better. Byrd delivers.
Breaking pitch for a strike and he's got him in the hole, two strikes to count.
Loyal outfield straight away, Frank White deep at second, maybe very deep at first.
And Byrd ahead in the count, reading signs from Lovett and as said here comes the bit.
Strike three and the inning's over, he got him swinging. The second strike out for Duck Byrd in another one, two, three inning,
he's now retired seven men in a row, no runs, no hits, no errors, none left.
We go to the bottom of the third, the Royals coming between nothing.
All the baseball schedule was light yesterday but there was news from the front offices.
The Atlanta Braves announced that they've rehired manager Dave Brussel for two more years.
That comes despite the Braves' last place record of 69 wins and 90 losses,
which puts them 31 games behind the National League West champs, the Cincinnati Reds.
Braves president Chad Turner says he's optimistic Brussel will do better next year.
Brussel was named Braves manager last October.
Cleveland Indian player manager Frank Robinson has reportedly gotten an offer to return next year.
The Cleveland Plains dealer says Robinson has been offered $80,000 to come back as manager only.
That's a big gut from the $200,000 Robinson reportedly makes this year.
The Major League's first black manager reportedly will talk to deal over with his agents sometime today,
which is Friday, and no decision yet, old Frank, as to whether he is going to accept that offer or not to return
as manager only of the Cleveland Indians for $80,000 a year.
The bottom of the third, it'll be Flip Patek and F. Frank White.
The 89 hitters send back to the leadoff man Tom Pochette for the Royals.
Patek up for the first time in the ballgame, hitting 243 with a haul run and 43 on the eyes.
He's driven in seven against the twins.
Well, he hasn't hit them that well. His average is only 194 against Minnesota 15, but he's had hits that have counted.
Patek, a right-handed batter.
Royals shortstop.
Both are split on top. When the Royals took the field tonight, they came out through a human tunnel of Royals.
Lancers that included Flip, Fidra, Mids, and Ewing.
Copp and the Oil Runners.
The Royals were fed up when they hit the field tonight. They want to end it here.
This is from Goltz inside ball one.
Goltz throws a running fastball, a knuckle curve, a little slider.
Has a funny weaving motion when he delivers. The pitch to Patek is a strike and it's even a one-on-one.
Goltz wobbles his head and his body side to side.
Kind of a distracting motion.
Now the crowd's starting to clab in here in the Royals stadium. A great crowd on hand.
They want to see the Royals get going off everywhere the fifth.
One and Miss by Patek. He's in the hole one and two.
Goltz and Flip, because Ole Miss and the Red Sox and the fourth with nobody on his 17th, fall in on Washington's side 2-2.
Don't forget tomorrow, game time 1-20.
Patek fouls fifth to Fifth and it's one and two.
The Whitey Herzog show at one o'clock tomorrow here on the Royal Network.
And tonight we'd like to welcome once again the Armed Forces Network.
They joined up with the Royals Network tonight.
Some 300 stations strong listening in around the world as the Royals try to nail down the crown and the American League works here tonight.
A win for the Royals would do it, falling back.
The Royals should lose if the A's would lose tonight. It would be over.
The fifth fouls fifth again by Patek and it can't remain one and two.
But the Royals don't want to do it. By letting the Angel's BTAs on the West Coast tonight, that's a net against Blue.
What they want is to win it right here and to take it to the clubhouse knowing that it's over.
Patek giving Goltz the battle as we open the bottom of the third.
One and two front up their fouling pitches off.
Patek field straight away the pitch. Way outside breaking pitch and it's two and two.
Blank wide in the odd deck circle.
Circle setting Goltz for a center field.
Bostock very shallow the pitch.
Low and inside and a full count three and two.
Patek of course a good man to have aboard to start a inning with that great base running ability.
They have stolen 51 bases just one shy of Amidota's team record.
Three and two to Patek and Goltz rubbing the baseball.
Now looks in at Weininger for a side.
Here comes the pitch to Patek.
Little tap towards the mound and Goltz has it.
Underhands to Burtz. There's one away.
Patek trying to check your swing and rolls up.
Burtz baseman.
One out, nobody on to Frank White.
Here's a royal podium.
White steps in. Frank getting 231 with a couple of overs.
Goltz running and delivers.
Adds a strike.
White hitting the plant well. He's hitting 289 against Minnesota.
White added batter halfway up in the batter's box.
The pitch.
Ground ball jumper towards the shortstop.
Ball he has it.
Overhand to Burtz. There's two men out.
White down short to Burtz.
And Goltz has now retired six and a real.
Boy these teams following identical patterns.
They seem clit in the first with two singles.
They seem out on a double play.
They seem down one, two, three in the second.
Nobody has raced yet in the third.
Boquette has singled the stock to ball again for the royal.
Tom at 304.
But that is batter.
Good off to field hitter and they're playing him straight away.
The pitch.
A front.
Back to the mound but Goltz off intercept.
Underhand to Burtz and the inning's over.
Boquette tried to drag it past the mound and couldn't get it there.
The way down one, three and that does it.
No runs, no hits, no errors. Time left.
We'll go to the forest for the royal. Nothing in the plants. Nothing.
All the controversy is still raging over the decision by the referee and two judges that gave
Mohamed Ali a narrow victory over Ken Narkin in their final fight Tuesday night in New York.
Sports writers were showing film clips of the pivotal 15th round which all three officials gave to Ali.
The film shows that Mohamed threw three times as many punches as his opponent in the final round.
However, most of these did not land.
So Ken Narkin's assessment of the referee and the judge's decision apparently,
the decision rather apparently is true that Mohamed threw a lot of punches but all of them only caught air.
Well, after a night of thunder and lightning, the second round of the $135,000 Tejara Invitational
got underway in the rain today but the inclement weather wasn't expected to cause any delay in play.
It's not that heavy, said PGA spokesman Tom Place. We'll keep playing unless it becomes unplayable,
but the scores might be a little higher today.
The golfers teed off at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Should have more on that later on.
We go to the fourth inning scoreless. The hits even a two apiece.
For Minnesota it'll be Smalley, Caroo, and Bostock, the number two, three, and four hitters.
Smalley, a quick hitter, singled his first time up, batting left-handed against Doug Byrd, his average 259.
The outfield playing him to hit the opposite way has an extreme opposite field hitter.
In fact, he's just one foul back up.
Final play, one strike. We've been informed that they are selling standing room only tickets here at Coyote Stadium now.
And out on the hill behind left field, a great army of fans lined up watching this game, sitting way up by the interstate highway.
One strike pitch to Smalley. Breaking stuff missed, one-on-one.
Notice the center fielder way over in left.
So Ketbury shallow near the line in left.
Cowan's the right fielder well off the line against the left-handed batter.
Here's the one-one pitch from Byrd.
Chopped towards Mayberry up the first base line.
John Haffett, he's going to take the play himself as well away.
Slightly out to the first base but unassisted.
And here comes Locke Karoo, who's single-hit first time up.
That lifted his average to 327.
Karoo, a left-handed batter with nine on bronze, 89 on the eyes,
now has 16 hits against the Royals this year and 49 times at the plate.
And if Roy Karoo too is an off the field hitter, but has shortened up his turn.
He's about a fifth piece but pretty well off the line.
The pitch, Chopper up the first base line.
Mayberry has it in through territory and steps it on the bag there too away.
Karoo after Byrd's first pitch wraps out and bumps up.
And two out, nobody on.
Deliman Vostok, who's rattled into a double play his first time up.
Locke Karoo, a left-handed batter and an off the field hitter.
Vostok at 344 now.
Byrd's fifth, here's the pitch.
Takes the ball up high to get a pretty wild whiff of Rice's Chees Soup.
Just then two flattened Rice's Chees Soup wrappers.
In order for handling to blift, Fox 610 leaves some of Missouri.
The pitch to Vostok, ground ball on his foot, hits a foul ball.
And a count now, one ball, one strike.
Vostok, limping around on plate, hammered himself on the foot with that one.
A double header in New York rained out tonight, Cleveland and the Yankees.
Baltimore leading for right-of-side with Boston, 2-2 after 4, 5th homer tied it.
Chicago and Texas, nothing, nothing after 1.
Detroit and Milwaukee, nothing, nothing after 2.
California at Oakland later, Tenana against Blue.
Here we have two out, the top of the fourth, no score.
Vostok, wings and top foul, back behind the plate.
Lawson to the barrier, no play, and the count remains 1-2.
St. Louis to Pittsburgh rained out.
Chicago beat Montreal 3-1.
Bottom of the winner is winner, Chana Al-Salouz, who on Monday got his 32nd homer for the Cubs.
Red leads the Braves 2-1 after 3.
The Mets and the Phillies 1-1, the bottom of the fourth.
Zafran, Tsutsuko and Houston score us after 1.
And San Diego and Los Angeles later.
First ball, two strikes to the pitch from Bird to Vostok, inside, with the...
and a count even 2-2, Vostok.
Had to flatten out to get out of the way of that one.
Denny Sojan, the first Vostok crew of the twins, McCray and Brennan the Royals,
employed in a Red Rock batting race for the American Break Championship.
Nobody's really worried about that on the Royals ball club.
2-2, ground ball, that project, Red has it.
A throwing, and the inning's over.
Vostok out, took the first.
Another 1-2 is waiting for Doug Byrne, he's retired, it's Kenan O'Rourke.
No runs, no hits, no errors, none left.
We go to the bottom of the fourth, the Royals nothing to plan for.
You think.
Angelo Dundee is in shock by Muhammad Ali's retirement announcement,
but says when he hears it from Ali, he'll believe it.
Dundee asks, with all the things I've been through with Ali, how could I be shocked at anything?
Dundee feels that if Ali cannot give 100% of himself, he will retire.
As for the... he thought it was unusual that Ali would select a sad bull to make his announcement,
and unusual for him to make it without informing his trainer first, Dundee says.
Is there anything unusual about Ali? He's just something else.
Atlanta Braves manager Dave Brustle has a new two-year contract.
Owner Ted Turner feels that Brustle will turn it around for the losing Braves.
Turner is very unhappy about the losing season, but is very optimistic about the future.
The Braves finish the season this weekend at Cincinnati.
They are in last place in the National League West.
31 games behind the champion, Cincinnati Reds.
It's the bottom of the fourth in the Royal Stadium of Scorla's ballgame,
and the Royals will send Otis Redditt-McCray as Dave Gold.
The number two, three, and four hitters.
We only have a moment. We want to say hello to Jim Keever, who's quite a Royal fan from Ashota, Kansas.
He's ill and in research hospital.
Here we hope you recover in a ring.
Also, happy anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fort-Senior from Archie Madura.
Their 60th anniversary today.
Happy birthday to Scott Mott, or Hot-Rudder, Scott Mott is the Royal's favorite.
Here we go to the fourth, Amos Otis steps in.
Otis broke his bat in a little looping liner to the second baseman Bobby Randall his first time up.
Mayo hitting 280 with 18 overs, 86 runs batted in.
Amos Whitehead is out of waiting and Gold delivers all into the dirt ball one.
Boy, what a night in Royal Stadium.
It would be a great night for the Royals to put it away.
It's warm, about 85 degrees, no wind blowing.
The hitters will get no help.
Bishes ball two to Amos Otis, 2-0 now.
Royal's third base coach, Scott Giller, is celebrating his 42nd birthday tonight.
I know how he'd like to celebrate it by waving some Royals on by.
What a Royal coaching staff has been so important this year.
2-0 Bits Otis, warm and foul Tim.
That one got Bush Weininger, the twin catcher on the left foot.
Two balls and a strike.
The Royal coaches, Scott Giller, Steve Foros, Galen Siscoe, Charlie Vowell.
From the moment they went to spring training and Bortmeier Florida this spring have worked and worked and worked and worked and worked.
This ball's rough. When are you going to win this game here tonight?
But Colts has been tough.
Then he told you, he's been tough all year.
Otis finally going to start a scoreless ball game in the bottom of the fourth.
Colts, the right hander, is set here for 2-1 Bits.
Strike beat on the outside corner and it's even a 2-2.
George Burtneck.
Here comes the 2-2 Bits.
Inside it hit him.
Otis Vicks on the left leg.
He's a board with nobody else.
We lose these scores.
One of our favorites, Henry Waite, is in the hot middle.
Henry is the sports director for NBC, ABC, CBS, Newsreel Radio, the Armed Forces Network, and all Europeans.
Henry, quite a man around the world, didn't he? He always helped the NBC crew out and then he asked if he was going to help NBC and he said he'd like it, nonetheless.
Why do a better Henry? Henry, you get ballin' to her.
So to Burt, not his side, Otis back.
Brett the hinner is average at 849.
Otis, a tremendous baseletter, as you know. He's stolen 26 bases this year, been caught only seven times.
Vicks by the gold fifth.
The fifth time Avis has been hit this year by a Vick.
He has a safely to throw to Burt, not in time, he's back.
The twin playbletters, an opposite field hitter, they give him a big gap in right center.
If George saw a Vick to fall, he could score Otis.
Now, Gold's making contact with Otis at a huge lead. He had a foot out on the carpet.
That's way less than anybody else's foreign neighbor.
Otis again a big lead. Giroux holding him, throw that way, not in time, he's back again.
Say, Gold has yet to bick to George Brett. George Singled his first time up.
And he now has 210 hits this year.
Hitting over 400 against the planet.
Breaking contact with Gold, and again Otis back. Gold does not like the big lead that Otis has.
Thomas Mann and the American Vegas Bull with a big gap.
Otis leads them very, very well.
Gold goes in with weight to fix that time, and he's 1-0 on Brett.
And now you might begin to keep an eye on Otis.
Brett's wave is about around waiting.
Gold's still looking at Amos Otis as Gold attempts to complete it.
He is really bothering Gold. There's a foot of Burt. He got him, he picked him off.
Amos Otis sent off, and there's one out, nobody on.
Gold's before coming through, but Otis getting played into field and fired, and he got him, it was close.
So the leadoff runner has been wiped out.
And the Royals will have to start over. Gold is running the 1-0 bitch to Brett.
Breaking fix for a strike, and it's 1-1.
So the Royals have lost their base runner. Here's the bitch, Brett.
Right to double, left field, right fair model runner.
Goes around first to set him in second.
He goes right into second base standing up with a double.
His 32nd double of the year.
And the Royals have a man enjoying position with one out on the fourth, and now betrayed to the plate.
And Gold's pickoff of Otis now is very big.
It doesn't seem to be an easy foul that way.
In all likelihood, Amos would have been running on that pick and may have scored.
That's the very worst, the Royals would have run into second and third with nobody out.
But there's a runner in second with one out, and here's how McCray hits the ball hard to ground it into a double play his first time up.
Dressed by Gold for fifth, McCray takes it for a strike.
Back of good opposite field hitter, and Boxock giving him room in right center and in left center, playing him straight away.
But George's out slowly over in the hole.
Going base for Mike Covey.
Nearly deep and off the line.
Oh, about five, six steps.
They open the right side up for McCray.
On the end field, ran all over into the bag now going back.
What's the move behind Brett McCray?
It's a ground ball backhanded by Covey just third.
Ball throw, out at first.
And the third base goes left.
Brett Caru now talking to the first base up line.
Give it straight out, third to first.
Here's Mayberry over one in the ballgame.
He grounded the first base, but Brett now is third with two out.
Dave Gold sets to direct the fifth.
Ball one to Mayberry.
I think what's Caru's unhappy with how McCray, but Caru has got a habit of getting back on the bag.
The fifth.
Mayberry takes ball two.
Al Cowan would be next.
If you've been around and made the legs as long as Rod Caru has, you have to know that you can't take half the bag.
Al McCray has reminded him of that twice this year.
The twin now fighting the shift against Mayberry.
The shortstop ball is over behind the bag and second.
Bob Randall, the second base bat in right field.
Al Cowan over the count, Gold keeping the ball away from him, the fifth.
Ball three, making six inside.
We're in the fourth in storm.
Mayberry trying to drive one home right here.
John, ten wheels from that waiting.
Very deep in the batter's box.
We'll see if they turn him loose on three or if he's taking.
Here's the fifth.
He's swinging and he misses the breaking six, the gap now three and one.
Gold flying at the rubber.
Mayberry again, ten wheels to bat.
Here for threat.
The fifth.
There's a fly ball right field over near the running track at stand four and he's got it and the inning's over.
Mayberry flies to right and the Royals come away empty handed.
No runs ahead.
It's better a man picked off no errors and one left.
And we'll go to the fifth.
The Royals nothing and it winds up.
Zafriano Balotero, the Spain shot a six under far in 67 to take the lead on the first day of the three-day Donald Swalings golf cinema.
Balotero's score equaled the course record set in 1967 by former Belgian champion Donald Swalings for whom the tournament is named.
The Spaniard was two strokes ahead of Lee Alder of the United States who shot a four under far in 69.
American Curtis Strange scored a two under far in 67.
Brian Huckett of Wales posted a far in 73 while John Garnardy of France scored a 74 and Tommy Aaron of the United States a 75.
Brain interrupted Bley with Gary Flair of South Africa and Trula Poussaint of Belgium, the only two other Flairs in the tournament, two holes out.
They will complete the first round on Saturday morning.
Carl Jastrzybski became the ninth oldest Flair to drive in 100 runs in the Pringles season Friday when he drove home Rick Miller with an NPO single.
We move to the fifth in the Royal Stadium of Stortford ballgame.
The Royals have about hit the twin Swedish single but neither team has punched home a run yet.
The Royal Stadium of Stortford is one of the fifths whining at a height of a four by number five, six and seven hitters.
Back to the mound, Doug Byrd once again. Here's Dunnick. Hi Fred.
Butch Weidiger retired on a fine play by Frank White his first time up.
Doug Byrd now has retired 10 straight.
The delivery to the twitch hitting Weidiger is over the globe all right.
Jim McKeen the plate on fire.
One ball no strikes, still Weidiger.
Back comes Byrd in a line drive foul down the right field line.
It bangs off the wall and they two out Collins in the count of one and one.
The Minnesota Hits singles five slowly and right through in the first inning.
The Royals have two singles in the double.
Inside corner to Weidiger one and two.
One ball two strikes.
The fifth to the Minnesota catcher is down and in. Two balls two strikes.
Ballgamer is top of the fifth.
This is game one of the series.
Doug Reddy the two to pitch to Weidiger.
Breaking ball barely missed the inside corner to Nees. Full count three and two.
The Giants leading Houston two to nothing down in Houston.
Uxbridge the season tomorrow. They don't play Sunday.
Offsets fouls down George Brett with room as the ball goes away.
So Weidiger fouls out and up comes Larry Heidl who struck out in the second inning.
Doug hasn't walked anybody that's not news. He has two strikeouts.
The Royals play Larry Heidl slightly to full.
Doug works to the right hand batter.
Weidiger fouls back to the three oh and one.
A scoreless ball game top of the fifth.
The Royals trying to win it.
The oh one pitch. The ball ball or the change fouls back in the count of two.
The ball six strikes on Larry Heidl.
Doug Burr that drinks it all.
And a swing and a miss down he goes.
That was the identical pitch with the identical box that Iso struck out on in the second.
So Doug has his third strikeout of the ball game. He's retired 12th straight.
And the batter Jan Ford.
Ford's wide out to Amos Oden. He's been hitting deep right center field his first strike.
And a dig there. Nothing nothing top of the fifth inning.
The fight a duo shaping up between Doug Burr and Dave Gould.
That ball hit on his hands and he told his foul oh and one.
We mentioned earlier the ball game that Gould pitched against the Royals in Minnesota.
The Royals eventually winning one to nothing in 10 innings back on June the 29th.
It took Ford fine plays in the outfield by Hal McCray.
And then a sacrifice fly by Fred Potec to score McCray with the only run of the ball game.
The oh one pitch.
Low and outside. One ball and one strike.
So Gould has lost twice to the Royals this year and Hal Fitzwarrents beat him both times.
It's a bird trying to get a duck.
Up foul near the Royals dugout.
Waffett chasing it but it's on a play back two rows directly behind the Royals dugout.
All clear for station identification.
This is the Royals baseball midlaner.
This is the American Forces radio and television service.
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top of the fifth.
Base is empty two outs.
One and two the count to Dan Ford.
Juggs bird pitted to the right hand batter.
Hits a left center field and deep.
Back to Sam Fokette over his head and one out to the wall.
Fokette plays the tenor and by that time Dan Ford is second with the two out double.
So Dan Ford.
The man who we mentioned just killing down a one man crusade against the Oakland A's.
Is that worth against the Royals?
And he doubles with two outs.
And up comes Mike Cubbage who rolled out to the second baseman his first time up.
For Dan Ford that would be his 24th to base hit.
The Reds have retired a dozen.
He had not a lot of runners since the double play in the first.
But now Dan Ford hits one in the alley between Fokette and Otis.
At Mike Cubbage a chance to put the twins out in front.
To hit even up a three to base.
The fifth to the left hand batter.
Coming inside ball one.
And all those strikes on Mike Cubbage.
Mike a former Ranger.
Came to the twins in the first line of the trade.
Doug a backward lance of second.
He stepped off the rubber.
Dan Ford did not have that big a lead.
Nonetheless Doug chose to step back and start over.
One and all on Cubbage.
Good making ball.
The strike is one and one.
Gil Sundberg.
The Texas Rangers by Decker and Fomar in third.
And Texas has taken a two to one lead over Chicago.
Tony Perez as Fomar's first symptomatic.
The Reds lead Atlanta three to one.
For Tony Perez his 19th.
One ball one strike on Mike Cubbage.
Dan Ford at second two out on the top of the fifth.
A scoreless ball game.
Doug tried to hit the inside corner and missed.
Two balls and a strike.
Each team had a scoring opportunity in the first inning.
The Cray rolled into a double play.
Simon Botstock rounded into a twin jelly.
Two balls and a strike.
Here's the stretch by Doug in the fifth.
Ground ball up the middle but Motek is behind second.
He's got it over the middle area.
It's time.
Daniel Spivey desires.
Motek was positioned perfectly by Cubbage in his last round towards center field.
That Motek was in front of it.
And that's that.
The two are doubled by Dan Ford.
One hit, no runs and a man left.
We go to the bottom of the fifth.
No score.
Carl Yastrumsky became the ninth oldest player to drive in 100 runs in a single season Friday.
When he drove home Rick Miller with an infield single.
Yastrumsky hit a ground ball to Baltimore first baseman Lee May with two outs in the first inning.
Baltimore pitcher Dave Pagan missed the first base and taking the throw for May allowing Yastrumsky to reach safely.
Miller raced home from second base on the play.
Now Dave Brooks twice drove in more than 100 runs in a single season after he turned 37 years of age.
Others to perform at that feat included Ty Cobb, Ernie Banks, Honor Wagner, Mini Minotto, Hank Aaron, Zach Wheat and Bob Johnson.
Harusaho raced on Friday and saw the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds as favorites for the Major League Playoffs beginning October 9th.
The Reds were made two or three favorites which means they better would put up $3 to win two.
Conversely the Phillies were listed as 13 to 10 meaning a better would put up $10 to win 13.
The Yankees meanwhile were listed at 5 to 8 and the Kansas City Royals at 7 to 5.
Kansas City is the only team which hasn't clinched a divisional title but its magic number is down to one.
And at the rate they're going tonight perhaps it will be tomorrow sometimes before it's decided as to whether the Kansas City Royals have indeed won the Western Division of the American League.
It's not over yet. They're three and a half games ahead of the Oakland A's with three games remaining.
But the Oakland A's have four games to play.
Now let's get back to the Royal Stadium.
By number 5, no score. Al Cowan, John Lawson and Fred Pontec coming up.
Al Cowan goes back to the pitcher his first time up.
No runs, three hits to Thread. No runs, three hits for the Royals.
Needless team is ahead. Golds delivered, breaking ball rolling outside ball one.
You can imagine the Royals are so eager to get a run.
Top foul back and out of play by Al Cowan.
And they got one and one.
Golds working very methodically.
Davis 14 and 14 with the league and ERA at 3.34.
The 1-1 pitch to Al is down and in, ball two. Good one.
Reggie Jackson has just opened for Baltimore and the seventh inning with nobody out is 27.
And Baltimore leading Boston 4-2.
Cowan's this one over the jump stop and the left turn is a big hit.
Now the last one is put down to break.
Cowan's whooping one under the jump stop, right falling.
And the Royals back to the redock man for it for the first time in five innings.
Up comes John Waffentheke.
John a fly ball in the right field his first time up.
John maybe asks a bunch.
Al Cowan off the bag and Al has a pretty good lead.
Waffentheke's going away and he lines his foul outside first and on down the right field line, 0-1-1.
John checking with Thursday's coach Chuck Hiller who by the way is celebrating a birthday tonight.
John a long-looking shot.
All the while Al Cowan's on his first base watching the Royals Thursday's coach do.
The Royals now could go to the butt.
No balls and a strike.
First goal goes over the first to runner back.
No score bottom of the fifth.
One-on-none out.
Waffentheke was not going to body.
He was going to fling away and the pitch came in low in the count one-on-one.
Chuck Hiller going through the spine once again.
Waffentheke back in the batter's box.
Cowan's establishing a lead.
Goal plants the right foot.
Chuck's been with his catcher's with Twyneager.
And now steps back off the rubber.
One ball and one strike on John Waffentheke.
Al Cowan's open the inning with a single into left center.
Al draws the throw just as he was leaving the bag to establish his lead.
So no trouble getting back.
The Royals with just singles and a double off Dave Gold.
Good throw to first.
Cowan's diving back into the bag.
The singles by Tom Fosette and George Brett.
Brett single off the glove of the first-top Roy's Wally.
And the extra base hit was Brett's double in the fourth.
Otis had started the inning being hit by a gold pitch, but the Namers were sent off.
So Brett's double came with one out, nobody a-hawing.
Waffentheke hit the down ball past the victim.
Second base was raised to tag and over to first.
Second base was first.
But Al Cowan was fouled by Roy's Wally who made quite a play.
Wally charging that down ball was past second base.
So he lost any chance he had at the fourth and second base.
As he moved towards the end and sent himself to the goal, he made a quick swipe at Al Cowan.
And he nicked Al in the church for the out.
Waffentheke first won away in the batter of Brett Poptec.
Brett number one, thrown out to the pitcher Dave Gold for the first time up.
So Wally making a very good play in front of second base.
He was able to tag Al Cowan, but he couldn't get Waffentheke.
John runs very well.
Poptec is swinging a miss, throwing one.
No balls for the strike on Brett Poptec.
No reading signs, back he comes and Brett he swings to the breaking ball and misses.
And the count goes to two.
Nothing, nothing.
The Royals down in with four hits.
The clean is at three.
Frank White in the on deck circle.
The stretch of the pitch.
Bouncing ball takes him up here.
Brett Poptec now with a single in the left.
Mike Tumich to third base, but made a headlong dive and came up empty.
Two on one out and here's Frank White.
Frank getting in the ninth spot tonight.
He rolled to the cut top his first time up.
The Royals trying to break this scoreless deadlock in the bottom of the fifth.
Waffentheke second, Poptec at first to hit the light.
Over but low, ball one.
Five hits off Dave Gault.
Dave hasn't locked anybody.
We mentioned earlier he is not an overpowering pitcher.
And he hasn't stuck out anybody.
The one on fifth down into the second base and they'll go for a double play.
It's Wally at second off to third base.
Waffentheke has to stay at third.
Out comes A.Walk.
The Minnesota manager.
He is pointing for first base.
Rod Carrillo coming off the back.
And Rod was on the right field side of first base.
And tried to swipe at Frank White who was already across the base safely.
So they get the fourth shot at second.
There are two guns.
And here's Tom Pochette with Waffentheke third and Frank White at first.
So two on two off, no score.
Royals batting in the bottom of the fifth.
And Tom Pochette has a chance to put the Royals in front.
Not a single in the first inning.
And they try to butt his way out in the third.
Dave Gault came off the mound to pick off the butt.
Tom was trying to drag it out toward the second baseman Randall who is playing deep as he is now.
But Tom didn't run it hard enough to get it past Gault.
Dave threw him out.
Bobby is 33 on the eyes.
He takes down low, ball one.
This standing room only crowd is Loyal City and just poised to explode.
You can see electricity getting involved by 45 minutes before the first pitch was thrown.
And certainly now the 1-0 pitch.
And here's the message. The ball gets away from Lionel Waffenthorne.
And they're helping the Royals. Well it wasn't very pretty.
But boy they'll take it.
Gault throwing that wrenchy ball down into the dirt.
Tom Pochette swinging and missing.
It is going a wild pitch.
And as the ball got away from Lionel Gault, Waffenthorne is concerned by a crisis of 90 feet.
He's now at second.
And the count on Tom Pochette, one and one.
And here's the miss.
Waffenthorne breaking the ball down and in, ball two. Good luck.
We need to stop and consider the day of Gault.
And we've said it, he's not overpowering.
He's a control pitcher.
He doesn't walk many, he doesn't strike out many.
But he's going to score his first keen wild pitch.
And he'll pop back up again. Round five. Knock the ball.
Drop the ball right in front.
Gault will take the drive for third.
And Tom Pochette.
It's good enough we can say with the Royals, Wyman Crockstock to center field it.
With tremendous speed and he tried to run that ball down in left center.
And he made a headlong dive. He had the ball in his glove.
But boy he hit the deck and boy that artificial turf is hard.
The ball came floating loose like a wet bar of soap.
And very quite good.
Tom Pochette made it all the way to third base with a couple.
And Crockstock is first.
He was high as thing and then moving back toward his position in center.
And then suddenly doubled over and is in pain now attended to by the Minnesota Trainers.
The third team lost a manager walking out very slowly.
So the Royals have taken it to the nothing late.
It started with a swingle by Collins.
Lawson bounced into a fourth shot.
The base hit by Fred Hotchett.
Frank White bouncing into a fourth shot.
Lawson going to third.
And John to score on the wild pitch.
And now the double by Tom Pochette off the glove of the diving lion and Crockstock in left center field.
And suddenly it's 2-0 Royals.
Yeah I think there's something very repeating. We haven't talked about it for a long time.
All the talk about rookies of the year.
Tom Pochette has had a lot of consideration.
Maybe because he's played five-0 I guess right handed pitching.
When you think of a great defensive play as he's turned in.
He made 50s out of that. He's hitting over 300.
It's just a darn shame if he gets overlooked.
Now in right field, Gallimaga. I hope it's not claimant.
There is a fan telling the shot we're number one.
Well it's only in the fifth so we're looking on it.
Well we're tied to number one. That counts for something.
That's right.
Meanwhile in center field they are still gathered around Lyman Bobstock.
Dave Goltz the pitcher continues to stay loose.
It would appear that there is a killing war if that would be the correct terminology
between the general admission section in left and the general admission bands in right field.
Several signs are popping up here at the Royals stadium.
There's a sizable sign held up by fans down the right field line.
And the sign there simply says number one, Royals Western Division champs.
It says it all. The Royals are not quite ready to assume that label.
But as we said they certainly have one foot very solidly in the door.
And all they have to do now is to maintain their lead which is 2-0 in the bottom of the fifth.
And they can slam that door behind them and look then to the Yankees.
They will be here at Royals stadium to play the first game of the playoff one week from tomorrow at noon.
Saturday October the 9th and then a Sunday night game on October the 10th.
That brings up a point tomorrow afternoon the Royals and the Twins play.
That game was originally slated to be played at 7.30 tomorrow night.
But it's an afternoon game it will start at 1.30 or more correctly 1.20 because of Nashville television.
And the pitchers will be Dennis Leonard and Jim Hughes.
And then Sunday afternoon Paul Swinorth or Alphys Morris against Bill Singer.
And I think I see Bill Singer loosing in the Twins bullpen now.
So Bill getting ready to pitch here on Sunday doing his throwing in the bullpen.
Lyman Boscak after getting much attention is okay.
He will stay in the ball game.
Dave Colts continues to throw.
That was good to go. Amos Otis with the play.
Bob McKenna turns two out way to the bottom of the fifth.
The Royals just score in two runs.
The right hander throwing now in the Twins bullpen is Bob Johnson.
Otis dropping a fast takes a pitch outside ball one.
They have talked to the second base for the first time up.
In the fourth inning he was hit by a pitch ball.
The Royals have scored two here in the fifth.
Tom Pocet doubles getting Frank Whitehall.
The one old pitch to Amazonas hits a left center field and deep.
That's what Boscak still going back to make the catch near the warning track.
And that retires the drive.
The Royals come up with two runs on three hits.
They lead one and after five the Royals two and the Twins nothing.
Brookie George Burns who led in the final rounds of the World and Houston Open this year.
George the new second round lead of the $135,000 Sahara Invitational Golf Tournament.
They rained six under bar 65 or a 36 hole total of 132.
Playing all day when a rare October desert rain showers followed a spectacular night of lightning and thunder.
Six foot two, 210 pound Burns of Delray Beach Florida took a one shot advantage over second year pro Bruce Lipsky and George Archer.
A 1969 Masters champion.
Lipsky had a 67 while Archer seeking his first victory in four years.
Not the 66 for a 133 score.
Two shots back at 134 were 46 year old Don January.
14 year tour veteran Charles Cootie and Mike McCullough defending champion Dave Hill match Burns to 65.
And with three shots back at 135 and a tie with Miller Farber who had a second round 67.
This is the first time I remember it raining here during the Sahara.
And a bet of 16 of them said tournament director John Romero. It got some rain but not that much said Burns who shot an opening round 67.
It was not enough to affect my game like this morning.
Burns who took a one shot lead over Masters champion Ray Floyd into the final round of the World Open at Pinehurst, North Carolina three weeks ago.
And was in front by three strokes with nine holes to go.
Caught at 7.30 in his round of 32-33 over the bar 71 court.
We move to the fix. The Royals lead two to nothing.
A fan has jumped out of the stands to drape a banner on the warning track in center field.
And now he's being led away.
Well, it's exuberant.
That excitement has overcome him.
Of course that's against the rules.
And the sad part about it is that he won't be around to celebrate.
He managed to take the hand of Amos Odinson center field but it's too bad he won't be around in the 19th England.
Hopefully the Royals can attach that sign to their dressing room, number one.
Bobby Randall takes the pitch from the inside corner on one.
So here we go on the six. The Royals two runs on a half a dozen hits.
The twins no runs three hits.
That's Bird ready and deal.
On the net by Bob Randall, the count on two.
Bob thrown out by Fred in the third inning.
He's the number nine hitter.
Steve Braun and Royce smally to follow.
Top of the six.
Dodgers struck out three. Back he comes.
Fastball, foot on a net, down goes Randall.
He's got a run away.
That'll bring up the twins, VH.
Steve Braun, he struck out in the third.
By the left field in the first inning.
He's the tenth and one out.
Doug started to go into his motion then stopped. Now he's ready.
Footed by Braun, popped up and Doug Byrne hits the depth behind him out.
Now he drops the ball and it's played by George Fett.
Braun trying to drag the ball past the mound and pops it up behind him out.
And Doug Byrne is spreading back in the pitchers now to haul it in.
The quickly two out and here's Royce Smally the slip hitting truck stop.
Royce single in the first, grounded to the first, they've been in the fourth.
Smally one out of two.
The line by Doug in the fifth.
What are they doing going on?
The magic number is one.
They win tonight for the Royals and there will be no magic number.
Roy into right field, face hit.
Al Fowler's over quickly to cut it off and Braun held it with single.
Another Smally, Roy belting the ball into right field.
The Smally two out of three.
The batter Rod Carew.
The Rod single in the first, grounded out in the fourth.
The Royce Smally has half of the twins hit.
The roof starting for the play now goes back toward the dugout.
The assembly would like to do back.
The Royce Smally at first, two out and here comes Rod Carew.
Rod hepting a new piece of rubber now with a fly the line direct to that bat.
Rod Carew one out of two, single in the first.
He bounced out to Mayberry in the fourth.
The threat by Doug Byrne in the fifth.
A half fling and he kicked the foul on the count of one-one.
No balls and one strike on Rod Carew.
Doug takes the time, goes to work and throws a fastball in too tight.
Steven Glory and Mark Lattell working in the Royals full fence.
One ball, one strike on Rod Carew.
Bouncing ball passed the mound, thanks to his right of gun it puts the ball back for the fourth time and that retires the tie.
No runs, one hit. A man west, the Clips now in strand to three.
The Royals come to bat in the bottom of the sixth.
Royals two, twins nothing.
One of the PCA touring pro Charlie Seifert shot a hole in one Friday,
en route to a victory in the Menino-Spanish Centennial Open Tournament for pros at the Northern Ohio area.
Seifert carded a three on the far 69 over 18 holes at the Wedgewood Country Club.
His eighth, the sixth in his career, came on the 192 yard 4-3 17th hole.
Seifert, one of the first black golfing pros, is a sixth iron and the ball went into the cuff on the fly.
He won the use of a new car for one year for the eighth.
It was the first time a hole in one had been recorded in the tournament.
Seifert at 53 years of age is a pro at the Sleepy Hommel Country Club in Becker'sville.
He had been on the pro tour for 18 years and occasionally played in PGA events.
What was the score of the Kansas City Royals leading the Minnesota Twins two to nothing?
Let's go back to the Royals Stadium in Kansas City for the bottom half of the sixth inning.
The Royals two to nothing. Bottom of the sixth.
The Royals two runs, six hits, no errors.
Minnesota, no runs, four hits, and no errors.
It'll be George Fret, Hal McCray, and John Mayberry.
The Royals going in the fifth.
Singles by Allen and Freddie Totec, a couple of points out.
The first run coming across on a wild hit.
And then a triple by Tom Pochette off the glove of Lyman Mounstock to score a Frank White.
The pitch to George Fret is high, ball one.
George and Anthony will single in the first.
He doubled down the left field line in the fourth.
Outside, ball two, Joe Hal.
Bottom of the sixth.
Dave Golt runs the deal.
Way outside, ball three.
So Dave, who hasn't walked anybody, but he's hit a batter.
In danger of walking the Royals' leadoff man.
Three times the Royals have placed their leadoff men aboard.
George takes ball four.
The spread is on, here is Hal McCray.
Hal's rounded into a double play in the first.
And then a run out for the third baseman, Mike Cubby, in last time up there.
One on, nobody else.
Shoot-up of the Royals from the bottom of the sixth.
There goes Fret.
The pitch to McCray is followed back and out of play.
Hal trying to put the gap between the first baseman, Rod Carew, and the second baseman,
Ronnie Randall.
Randall was going over to cover second base, so you can imagine with Carew tied up with a runner.
And Randall breaking for the bag how much room there was between the two for Hal McCray.
Hal fouled it off in the count of one-one.
No ball for the strike.
John Mayberry with the next.
Randall leads the stretch, not running.
McCray hits a Wilkerson Church Center out-goes Bob Randall, the second baseman to tuck it away.
So Hal McCray is down one away.
That will fall on fourth station identification.
This is the Royals face-balling atler.
This is the American Forces radio and television service.
Jenny Matthews in front, right is Royals Stadium.
Ramsey's Royals Stadium.
Royals two, Minnesota nothing.
John Mayberry at the plate.
George Fred at first.
He wants to throw. He was only one step off the bank.
Banner is being carried to and fro throughout the ballpark.
Each in its own way drawing a tear.
Mayberry slams and lofts a high pop-up.
The third baseman Mike Covey is in the foul ground to make the catch.
And it's two away.
So Mayberry fouls out, Fred at first with two downs and a battered Al Cowan.
Al Cowan.
Al is single in the fifth.
He ignited that two in fifth inning.
His first time up, he hit a comeback into the mound.
Tom Vashorek of Solmer's Point Atlanta in his fourth.
Atlanta is playing in Cincinnati with a red plate three to two.
They are in the seventh inning.
Al Cowan takes him.
Fred has 21 stolen bases.
Dave Gulp to the bell.
There goes Fred.
They pitch out.
The shirt stops covering second and the throw is there to get him.
So the twin's guessing right.
The catcher is pitching out and his throw to Smalley was a time to get Fred.
And in the inning.
So for DeViles, no runs, no hits.
The leadoff walk and nobody left.
And the end of six minutes of play.
DeViles to Minnesota, nothing.
Johnny Pesky will be the only coach to return with the Boston Red Sox next season,
according to manager Don Zimmer.
Coaching coach Dan Williams, bullpen coach Don Bryant, and scout coach Eddie Popovsky.
We're down Friday from the Chicago, rather the coaching staff after meeting with Zimmer
Friar to Boston's night game with the Baltimore Orioles.
New coaches will be named before or during the World Series.
Zimmer said the move is not like the firing.
We're all brought here by another manager.
Is this the case of bringing in the people we want?
It's the cruel part of manager.
The first base coach to pass two seasons, that is the Red Sox of 1963 and Ford of 1964.
He rejoined the coaching staff on the urging of the glove.
The first base coach to pass two seasons, that is the Red Sox of 1963 and Ford of 1964.
Happy birthday.
Larry Heisler hitter, heard a trucking out flight, right hander's mannered.
Heisler the 268 with 14 over.
Raise the plan with 14 over.
Mayberry holds the road at first a bit, knocks down the ground of the middle base,
and then in field, that second base with 20 to hold on right there, notice wheels come all back to the end field.
And the twins now have the time left aboard with one after the seven.
And the hitter, Dan Ford, and you have to worry, you have to worry about Dan Ford's power right here.
Ford hitting 268.
20 hold run, 86 runs about an inch.
Seven of those 20 hold runs have come against the Oakland 86 here.
Then he's telling you how much he's helped the Royals.
Well now he's in a position to hurt them, and out comes Galen Sisco, the Royal fishing coach.
Left hander Steve Mentoli, right hander Mark Lattell are working in the Royal Pro-Fest.
Galen Sisco taking a slow walk to the mound, giving them time to heat up a little bit more out there.
The hitter now even at six of beef were under seven, the Royals have hit it up against the twins.
Well while the Royals talk things over on the mound.
Dan Ford is ready to hit.
He has hit the ball hard twice off first.
Fighting her at second, and Heisel at first, and Doug Byrd set the goal, reading signs from John Lawson. The Royals play four feet from the ball.
Dan Ford, a man who can change the whole complex of her ball game with one swing of the bat.
He represents the lead, Russ.
What a tremendous night here at the Royal Stadium.
And Doug Byrd does not want this one to get away.
Doug taking time.
Now he's, here's the pitch.
Right field on the outside corner of the breaking section, it counts even one and one on Ford.
Doug wanting a ground ball, looking for a double play.
Byrd with four strikes out, as won't know her.
Right, one one fifth.
Down into the dirt block, nicely by John Lawson, his two balls and a strike.
Ford has the twins only after they hit five singles and four doubles for the Minnesota Twins tonight.
Ford takes them waiting.
And Doug Byrd running, here's the two one fifth.
Strike, two, ball, and the count's even out.
Ford has struck out 117 times this year.
And Doug Byrd could use one right here.
Ford with a big gap in right center, tried to block it his first time up, but notice how Randall ball.
Byrd's set, here's a stretch to dig to a pitch.
Now a little low, that's a full count three and two, and now Byrd has to make a pitch.
We said he hasn't locked anyone, he's seldom will.
Only 30 men all year in 197 innings.
So the odds are that Dan Ford is going to get a pitch he'll have to swing at.
Early leading sign, the pitch, he walks in, ball four into Mason's order.
That move, the tying run, the scoring position was won out.
The lead run is turned, and Mike Covey did it for the play, and he is bounded out wide.
Lattell and Midori in the ball pit, appear to be running.
Covey, the left-hander batters, sets in at average, 257, three home runs.
Three sixth runs about a dip.
And now Byrd with a man he has to get him to seven.
Left-hander batter waiting.
They just loaded one out the stretch, the pitch.
Just missed the ball, ball one.
And that's certainly a little unhappy, kind of flaps at the ball as it comes back.
Well, the turnovers are double play in this ball game.
They need one here.
Covey does his two-ground balls.
They need another one.
The stretch by Doug Byrd, the one open.
It's a strike, and it can't even one-on-one.
The outfield, straight away, and not deep.
Byrd, he's battling to keep the players off the scoreboard in the seventh.
Here's the stretch, the pitch to Covey.
Just missed, ball two, and it's two and one.
Doug Byrd has him with a breaking six inside, trying to strike those.
Bob Randall in the on-deck circle.
Covey sets on the back line of the batter's box waiting.
Byrd's running, the two-one pitch.
Foul on a play, and it counts even two balls to strike.
And now Byrd and Covey's little battle.
Byrd does not want to go to three and two on it.
He's running, here comes the pitch.
Covey swings, it's a line drive towards right center field at the base end of the ballgame, the lead side.
And here's the third base, it looks like he's going to score at stand four.
He's a round turn, hit it for the play to throw, he is safe.
And the twins wait, wait it to.
Covey's double with a gap in right center field.
And he has cleared the base at the Minnesota Quinn.
He's got a four-pointer score, an iso score, and a four-pointer score.
And with one full, the twins have taken the lead in the seventh.
And here's Bob Randall with a hundred seconds and one out.
So the world's going to have to come from behind.
And a rocket through the gap in right center that kicked off the wall.
The stretch by Byrd to pitch to Randall, foul, but strike one.
It started with one man out, strangled by Weininger and Heisel, a walk to fourth.
And then Covey just rips it.
Here comes the pitch to Bob Randall again, ground ball half-bred.
He checks the letter of second base, fires to Byrd.
In time there are two men out.
Randall out, serves to Byrd, Covey called to second.
And here comes Steve Broad.
Out comes Weininger's on.
That might be it for Doug Byrd.
Looks like what's at his seam and gory will be the new royal picture, and here's the situation.
We're in the top of the seventh, two out and a letter of second for Minnesota, the twins of score three.
With Steve McCoury coming on to pitch with two men out now.
Minnesota three, the royals two.
Steve McCoury out of the bullpen for the royals.
Mingo makes his 54th appearance of the year.
He's one five, one five.
He's safe mid-game.
The children have a 2.35, 84th inning.
Not worth it.
So Doug Byrd is gone, and Byrd can't possibly be the winner now.
He can only be the loser.
But the royals can come back to win it and get him off the hook, or at least tie it.
And Covey will face one down at hitting Steve Broad.
Mike Covey, the big man for the twins at the moment at second base.
His three-run triple is him and the twins' later.
So Broad steps in, 0 for three, and then Gory ready to go to work.
Mingo trying to end it here at the seventh and keep the royals within a run.
Broad's average, 288.
Lee Hall runs 60 RBI, the royals play him straight away.
Mingo reading signs of a threat, but that's his first delivery of the ball outside of low ball one.
Gory's good again, now the 1-0 bit.
Missed away ball two.
So Gory has missed outside with two pitches.
Mingo, who got blindsided with a block and injured his knee in that battle royal on the open the other night.
Mingo, club on his Navy, signed from Wampus.
He said, here comes the 2-0 pitch now.
Broad flings and chops his foul toward the royal dugout.
Two balls and a strike.
Looking ahead to the royal seventh.
It'll be Cowan, Gwadun, and Vodek.
Stretched by Mingo to this.
Chopped foul off the first base side that counts even two and two.
The twins with three hits and a lock in the inning.
Then Gory going 2-0 on them.
Broad is now back to 2-2.
Stretched by the left-hander, down the pitch.
And leaning out of the way, and it's a full count, 3-2.
Broad had to give ground and get out of there.
And then Gory now at 3-2 with Broad.
Here's the stretch.
The pitch.
Fly ball right field. That should do it.
Al Cowan just can't gender it.
Makes the catch and the inning's over.
Broad flies to right, but the twins get three runs on three hits.
No errors. The man left.
And we go to the bottom of the seventh.
It's now the twins three, royal two.
The bottom of the seventh is the royal stadium, three to two, Quins now.
And it'll be Al Cowan, John Watson, and Fred Potec for the royals.
They try to regain the lead.
The royals with two in the fifth.
The twins with three in the seventh.
Cowan steps in, Alan Singles, and bounce out to the pitcher.
Alan Singles, going to the royal two on fifth.
The first pitch from Dave Goltz is a ball, ball one.
John Zucamich over for the Phillies in the ninth inning.
It's first of the year.
The Phillies beat the Mets two to one.
Former Royal King Garber got the win.
Kyle Sips by Cowan, one and one.
Jerry Kuzma's losing that game.
Garber's nine and three.
Kuzma 21 and 10.
This great crowd in O'Neill City, I'm wanting a seventh inning rally.
Right into working into Gwen Fulpitt.
The royals have six in, off Dave Goltz.
The twins have seven in.
They leave way to do.
One more pitch to Cowan.
Ground ball, tap down in front of the plate.
It's going to be a tough play for Leininger, straight to the plate.
The royals have a dying run of order to settle.
So Cowan's on the board with good speed.
We'll see how the royals play it now.
Steve Rye and Al playing center field for the Minnesota Twins.
We play Lyman Plottoch.
Lyman Plottoch apparently tore the ligaments in his left thumb.
So Steve Rye is playing center field.
Here's John Watson.
He's scoring the royals for a grudge.
Safe on a fielder's choice.
He's flying to right.
Cowan has stolen 23 bases this year.
The pitch was in front.
A good one in front of the plate.
Leininger's only play to first, not as Watson, but the runner is second now, Al Cowan.
A sacrifice.
The play going 2-4.
And the dying run is going for the Canadian Alphapritt project.
Now comes left manager Gene Locke.
That may do it for Goltz.
Leininger headed for the mound.
The shortstop, Roy Smalley coming in.
Locke is talking to his right-hander, Dave Goltz.
He has not signaled the bullpen yet.
And he's going to stay with Goltz apparently.
Locke is a hitter.
He has singled and granted out to the pitcher.
Cowan's a single, Walton a sacrifice.
And the dying runner's out there.
Leininger still at the mound talking to Dave Goltz's pitcher.
Locke steps in.
Gene Locke has decided to stay with Goltz.
Frank White at the on-deck circle.
Boyle's trying to sign the game bottom of the seventh.
Goltz reading signs from Leininger on the stretch.
The pitch.
Locke takes the side strike one.
Leading 2-44 with 43 runs about it in.
Locke is taking a look at Al Cowan who has a good lead of seconds.
Now he's ready.
Here comes the stretch, the pitch to Botech.
Leipz left the butt and took a strike.
He's in the hole strike two.
It's a nice to call.
With the play down by her, Gene Locke.
Al Cowan with great speed carries the tying run.
Botech in the hole.
Goltz getting signed.
Here's the stretch for the right-hander, the pitch.
Just swinging a ball high one and two.
Jeff Burrows is homered for the ranger.
In the fifth nobody on his 17th.
Texas and Chicago are tied 4-4.
Red Botech waiting now.
Goltz walking behind the mound to run down the baseball.
Goltz back on the mound.
Botech back at a batter clock.
Run through the count.
Stretch by the right-hander, the pitch.
Well, ball's to foul.
Chuck Hiller, the Royal Third Base coach, there.
The outfield straight away against Botech.
The field is deep dry as hell.
Now Goltz getting ready again as the tie for Burt Weininger.
Here's the stretch, the pitch.
Chuck him out.
There are two men out.
Botech down swinging.
The first strike out of the game for Dave Goltz.
And we're going to have a pitch in for Frank White.
Out comes Cookie Rojas.
The second pitch is for Chris McLean.
Cookie Rojas to beat out a perfect run in Oakland to get the
Royal Third run in a game Wednesday night.
The Royal One 4-0.
A fairing of the Fed getter has two hits and 22 times the weight
of the Fed getter.
The W has been swinging about well the last week.
It's average overall at 238.
Osmo Kitt with me next if Rojas gets the board.
But Weininger is allowed to talk to his sicker,
Bot Kerou, the Burt Base moment on the conference.
Out to the mound to break up the conference is a white up by
our Jim McKean.
Rojas stands outside the batter's box swinging the bat.
Three to ten wins.
If the Royals are to tie it in a seven it's going to be up to
Cookie.
And now Weininger back behind the plate.
Gallants get the lead at second.
Dave Goltz the threat, the first pitch to Rojas.
Cookie takes the ball inside, ball one.
Third baseman Mike Covey deep, barely near the line.
Outfield played away, not deep.
Dave Goltz trying to claim some dirt out of these fights out
behind the mound.
And Cookie shifts out of the batter's box again to loosen up.
Now he's back in.
Dave Goltz the right hander looks to put Weininger for a tie.
Here comes the one-oh pitch to Rojas, ball two.
The Royals, batman to tie it.
Rojas waves the bat around waiting.
Here's the threat to O'Bitt, striking it two and one.
Cookie taking.
So kept kneeling in the odd deck circle.
Tom would have singled and dribbled tonight his three times at the
plate.
Now Goltz off the mound again.
Looks into the twin dugout for a moment, now comes back on top.
Again starts kicking at the dirt around the pitching rubber.
Now he's ready, two and one on Rojas.
Here's the threat and the pitch.
Now Paul Hill at the middle, batting this.
Now coming to round three, right coverley has a chance of
burrowing three.
Here's the throw to second, Rojas in three.
And look at Cookie at second base, crossing his hands,
trying to flex this in the air.
And standing ovation for 40,000 fans of the yard.
Nice fly.
And Foget just put the Royals right back in front.
Rojas is second with two out.
And this stadium is alive.
It is filled with capacity and they are on their free flowing.
Foget still for three steps in.
The stretch of this, it's a ball.
Amos Oda's putting an active Foget kick into it.
And there's action in the Minnesota bullpen.
Foget has been in one of the Royals three runs.
Now Colts, not satisfied with the time, makes contact.
Rojas throw the ground ball right back up the middle to tie the game.
The Royals have come rolling right back.
Now Colts is ready, the one-oh pitch to Foget.
Inside Wilds in.
The third is going to hold on right there.
Johnson and Brugmeier, Johnson on the right hand,
and Brugmeier on the left hand are working on the Minnesota bullpen.
No on Tom Foget now.
Second Wilds pitch in the game, charged to Colts.
The stretch of the pitch to Foget, striking at two and one.
Foget taking it all the way.
Thomas Leeds has averaged a 3-0-5 with two for three here tonight.
And a big run at third base now with two out of the seven.
The Royals now fighting to regain the lead after tying it.
Close to Weineger, right hander to the stretch, two-one to Foget.
Ball high and a three and one.
Left fielder Larry Heisel, center fielder Steve Hyde, extremely shallow.
Boy, if Foget can plant a gap in left center, then he's a good option to be a hitter.
He can run for a while, but three-one pitch.
Foul on a play and a full count three and two.
The lead runs just 90 feet away.
Foget trying to get him home with red notice to the plate in the seventh.
Two strikes and gold, leading signs for Weineger.
Here is the stretch and a bit.
Ball 40 walking.
Here comes Otis, the second walk he's used by Foget.
And now comes DeMott, that's going to do it for Dave Gold.
He wants Johnson, the right hander to pitch to Amos Otis.
So Dave Gold, caving the battle.
He cannot be the winner, he can only be the loser.
Doug Byrd is off the hook.
And as Gold sets for a dugout, here's the situation.
We're in the bottom of the seventh with two men out.
The Royals with runners at first and third have battled back to Dias, the scorer.
Royals three wins three.
Tom Johnson, the right hander out of the Minnesota Bullpen, making his 18th appearance of the year.
And he's been tough.
In 48 innings, he's given 43 hits.
One three and lost one.
His earned run average, 2.64.
Two-face right-handed hitting Amos Otis.
In a 3-3 ball game with two out of the seventh.
And the Royals with runners at first and third.
Two out single by Cookie Rojas, it's tied the game.
Johnson says he's ready.
The right hander backs off the mound to set himself back up on top.
Otis sets in.
George Flick would be next if Otis keeps the inning alive.
Again, the sweet crowd starts to roar in Royals video.
Johnson to the first pitch, Otis.
Outside ball one.
Burtmeyer, the left hander continues to always been going by a right hander now in the Minnesota Bullpen.
John Johnson leading sign from Flick Weijager.
The stretch, Flick's still in.
One and missed, and a count even one and one.
Otis after a breaking stick away.
Otis out of the battered box for a moment, Rojas at third, Burtmeyer gets it first.
Otis trying to put the Royals back on top, as for time out and get to now is Johnson.
Delivered, but the pitch didn't count.
Played out by Jim McKean at call time.
The Royals are now off into the swim, eight to seven.
Now Johnson again ready, here comes the one-one pitch, Otis.
Outside a mobile, too, and a two-and-one.
John Johnson to the Rockin' Bay.
Now kicks at the number.
Otis getting some more time, John.
He's finding love, and now they're getting set.
Here's the stretch, two-one-pitch.
Way and a miss, and a count, even two balls, two strikes.
Otis with a three-run homer against the twins, the last during the Minnesota and the ninth inning beat the twins, eight to six.
Trying to put them on top here, the pitch way outside, and a full count, three and two.
So now Johnson has to make a pitch to Otis, a low to base of the press.
Whether or not Tom Volkett will be going, two out and a three-two count.
That's a decision on the advantage for the Royals.
Oh, what a great moment in the Royals stadium.
Otis out of the batter's box now threats himself.
Tom Johnson ready to pitch, there goes Volkett, a foul, and a count remains three and two.
Volkett will have to go back to first.
A single by Cowan started the inning, Waffin sacrificed to the second.
That was two out, Rohans up at the pitch hitter, Drill will cycle the center to send him home.
Otis again, taking some time getting back in the batter's box.
Now Amos does he, buddy.
Johnson into the stretch, the three-two pitch, strike three, Cowan in the inning over.
A breaking pitch got him looking.
And the inning's over but the Royals have tied it.
One run on two hits.
So where is the two men left?
We'll go to the eighth, the Royals three, twins three.
Well, we go to the eighth inning, tied three, three.
The ball game now belongs to Steven and Cory and Tom Johnson, two relay centers.
Then Cory will face Royce, Molly, Rod Carew, and Lyman Bostock, the number two, three, and four hitters in the twins' order.
To the eighth, the three, three tie, and once again here's Denny.
Hi, sir. Royce, Molly has two hits, single to the first and he's single to the sixth. He grounded out in the fourth.
Royals three runs, eight hits, the twins three runs on seven hits.
A final score for Boston, the Red Sox, seven, Baltimore, four.
Requires the letter, holds for a system loss, may have 15,749 in Boston.
Royce, Molly will be on the right side against Steven Zorich.
Steven has faced one man, he got Steve Braun on a fly ball to the right field to end the seventh, hitting in which the twins scored their three runs.
Require the ball for a strike on one.
So Steve will have to work his way through Molly, Carew, and then Bry.
No balls on strike, here's the pitch.
The screwball outside, one ball, one strike.
Steve's screwball breaking away from the right-hand batter.
One and one, nobody on, nobody off.
Top of the eighth, it's tied three, three.
Outside corner, that time the screwball filed the honor, edge to the count one and two.
John Watham doing the catcher, he took the roll-off, stayed in the game.
He is now at second base.
The third, five seconds short, may vary at first.
And the outfield for Ken Otis and Collins from left to right.
One and two, the count on Royce, slowing.
He's already back in comes, missed the outside corner, two-two.
So Steve's keeping everything away from slowing, and he's run the count to two-two.
Signed him in, here's the pitch.
Popped up, down the right field line, everybody chasing it, it's a foul ball,
and may vary half-quite catch up to it, the ball is trying to top the rail.
And it bounces back deep into the crowd, and the count on slowly, two-two.
The ball just out of reach.
May vary, roll-off, and Al Collins all in pursuit.
Steve Mungore now getting a new baseball from the plate-up buyer, Jim McKean.
The Cincinnati Reds victorious tonight, they turn back Atlanta five to two.
Gary Nolan won his 15th.
Ruthland the loser, they had 20,000 in-sensing.
The two-two pitch to Swalley.
John barely missed, and Mungore looks questioningly at the plate-up buyer, Jim McKean.
Steve saw the pitch with a strike.
Instead of full count three and two, Rod Carew coming up next.
The three-two pitch, another foul ball, this one well back into the ground.
Three balls and two strikes on Roy Swalley.
He's trying to get the truth started at the top of the eighth.
Ben Gori reading signs, left-hander Redding and Geo, fly ball left field.
Tom Fokette to his left, underneath the ball, went away.
Roy Swalley retired on a fly ball in the left field, and it is Rod Carew.
A single in the first, he rolled back to Mayberry in the fourth, bounced into a fourth down to end of sixth.
Jim and Gori to Rod Carew, outside corner, well thrown, 0-1.
The ball's one strike on the Minnesota first baseman.
On the way, this one's slicing down through the senior club and bounces off one of the windows, and the count went two.
The Royals are Jim Carew to left field.
Tapping it to, tying him in.
Bingo, Redding and Geo, breaking ball, whacked into center, base hit.
Rod Carew is aboard. The twins have one on with one out, and Steve Rye coming up.
Steve Rye hitting 256, 22 RBIs and two home runs.
Rod Carew with 48 stolen bases.
Jim and Gori has an excellent move to first base.
And he'll keep Rod Carew as close to the bag as he can.
He comes to the plate, and Rye hits it into right field and down the line for a hit.
How is Miller to get it? Rye's on his way to second base, long throw, base at second base, cookie.
Running the ball back to the infield, as Rod Carew spinning around second going into third base.
So Rye doubles down the right field line, runners in second and third one away, and Butch Weidiger coming up.
Mark Lattell and Tom Hall throwing in the bullpen.
Weidiger is a swift hitter.
There is one out and first base is open for the Royals pocket over at the mound, Rohan Waffen and Edmund Gori.
Out comes Royals manager, Whitey Herson.
Smallie retired on a fly ball into left field.
And Edmund Gori was 0-2 on Rod Carew.
And it appears that he got a breaking ball up, and Rod Carew just threw it into center field.
And a pitching change will be made.
So Mark Lattell will be brought in.
A pitching change in the eighth inning, and the score is the Royals 3 and the Twins 3.
Back at the Royals stadium, it's 3-3 in the eighth, but the Twins have runners in second and third one away.
And Mark Lattell, the new Royals pitcher.
For Mark Lattell, this marks his sixth seed at the base.
Eight wins, three losses, and 16 saves.
Steven Gori has 10 saves, Mark Lattell showing the way with 16.
The Royals are in a tough spot.
The Royals are trying to win it all tonight.
And the Twins, down 2-0 in the seventh, got three runs to take a one-run lead.
Back in, the Royals are on Tuckie Rojas, single to tie it at the bottom of the seventh.
And the Twins now seem intent on grabbing the lead right back.
So Mark Lattell, who can strike you out, but who sometimes is wild, has perhaps the biggest assignment of his young life.
Another youngster, Butch Weineger, is the first man that Mark Lattell will face.
First bases open, George Flett coming to the round, so we'll see what the Royals do.
If you walk Butch Weineger, it would blow the bases, set up a force anywhere.
And the Royals then could gamble on an inning-ending double play.
And that's what they're going to do, they're going to walk Weineger.
On the other side of the coin, this puts more pressure on the pitcher, Mark Lattell.
With the bases loaded in a 3-3 game, there is no margin for error.
So you are forcing Mark Lattell to throw strikes.
Larry Heisel would be coming up.
Larry and Outfielder with power, who will strike out.
And really, it's your classic matchup, strikeout pitcher against a power hitter who will strike out.
There's the ball for the Weineger, and here comes Heisel.
Larry Heisel has struck out twice.
Both times against Doug Byrne, he's singled and scored.
So Larry, one out of three as he stands in.
In the three-ball game, the twins have not hit the Royals 9-8.
With one out here in the inning, Carew has singled dry doubles.
And now the bases are loaded one away.
The Royals then feel the double play depth.
And Mark Lattell facing Larry Heisel.
The windup, the pitch.
Five-all run.
Rob Carew, the runner in third, always a threat to steal home.
15 times in his career, Rob Carew has stolen home.
And Cookie Mohawk coming to the mound.
And a good guess would be that one of the things that Cookie is talking too much would tell about, Rob Carew.
Also, the fact that really there's no margin for error.
You can't be cute now.
You have to rear back and throw strikes.
And give them your best shot, and what happens happens.
So we'll see.
One and 0.
Bases loaded.
Here's the pitch.
Long enough, the backfall of the shot, one and one.
Mark with that outstanding backfall.
His velocity is as good as anybody's on the Royals staff.
He also has a quick shot-breaking slider.
Inside, Watson going to his knees.
And I don't know if John was crossed up or not.
But immediately after crawling that pitch inside, Watson made a beeline to the mound, and he stands in front of the mound.
His right hand on Mark Liddell's shoulder, and they talk it over.
Two balls and a strike, so a very, very big pitch coming up.
Bases loaded.
Top of the eighth, it's tied 3-3.
The crowd quiet.
Crowd test through, itching down the line.
The 2-1 pitch.
Slider followed away in the count to two.
Mark is guarding that base ball.
He wants one that feels just right.
And he doesn't like that one.
Ready hot deck coming in from shortstop to say something to Mark.
You can just cut the tension with a knife at Royals Stadium now.
Two balls, two strikes, bases loaded, one away.
Littell keeping away the eye on Carew.
Here's the pitch.
Sliders down in the breath.
They come home, out at home, to first base.
Base.
Shortstop to Don Laughlin for the fourth out on Roy Carew.
So now there's two down.
And here's Dan Ford.
Dan Ford would fall into the same category as Larry Heisel, our hitter who will strike out.
In fact, Dan Ford has struck out more than Larry Heisel.
Cookie Rojas again to the mound visiting with Mark Littell.
It is still tied 3-3, top of the eighth.
The bases remain loaded.
Dan Ford's right-hand batter takes it.
Still in Black始us at the first base.
5ni fire.
Heade of the draw.
The catch is there.
Dan Ford would fall into the same category as Willie Heichel, our hitter who will strike up.
In fact, Dan Ford has struck out more than Willie Heichel.
To be rowing off the gendarmes, visiting with Mark Liddell, it is still tied 3-3.
At the top of the 8, the basers remain loaded.
Dan Ford's right-hand batter digs in.
Mark Liddell reading signs.
The right-hander from Gettysburg, Missouri, ready a deal.
Fires one-handed left, going one.
Ford flies to deep right center in the second.
He doubled in the fifth.
He walked his score to run in the seventh inning.
So a dangerous hitter at the plate, dangerous Dan.
He wears a big label, handle with care.
No ball, he'll strike.
Liddell ready, here he comes.
Mark Liddell, strike two, going two.
Going two.
Liddell bopping around.
He's taking over his own two-pitch.
And now climbs the hill.
They've supported the idea.
Dan Ford at the plate.
No ball, two strikes.
Wobbitt wig-wagging his way into the mound.
Dan Liddell coming on to first, Wobb Wattiger in depth, and with the bases loaded and no margin for error,
Iso grabbing into the fourth dot and Dan Ford out on strike.
No run, no hit, three to ask.
We go to the bottom of the eighth, five-three-three.
Tom Johnson facing Brunson, LaTrey Mayberry, everybody better get on, Al Taler.
That has several doubles in one.
Royal Sri Lund's eight hits, the twins Sri Lund's nine hits.
Bill Campbell, the right-hander, Tom Burkheim, the left-hander, working in the twin full-fins.
Tom Johnson hits it to Brett.
Outside, ball one, one and all.
The magic number is one.
A change of off the curve ball for a strike in the count one and one.
As Royal's trying to win a division title in only their eighth year of competition in the American League,
the one-one pitch.
Fly back to the picture, make this bigger deal.
Brett Wittos to open the bottom of the eighth.
The winning one is first, nobody else.
Well, Brett whistles one by the mound.
Here's Al McCray.
Al runs for three.
He's downed it into a double play, bounce to third baseman, and hopped out to the second baseman.
Johnson stepping off the rubber, Brett had a good way.
He's looking for the front, he's going to get it, he's hopped up and oh, it's put it by Carell.
And now everybody's getting it.
Brett on his second base, and George had to stop.
Everybody was chasing the ball at one time.
And finally the twins found the handle and were able to get the ball to second base.
So Rod Carell had the ball go by his right foot and then everybody started chasing it.
And finally the twins, traveling, and they got the first out of second.
And of course, they had to hold up.
He thought that Rod Carell was going to catch the ball.
So when it fell, there was still time to pick up the ball and get the first to second.
One away and it's John Mamary.
John is all for three.
Out comes Minnesota managers Dean Walsh.
We look at Tom Brugmeier in the bullpen, also Bill Campbell.
And they're going to go to the left handers.
So Tom Brugmeier, a former royal, will come into the ball game,
a missing change being made in the bottom of the eighth.
The score remains, Royals three and the Twins three.
Here we go, John Mamary against Tom Brugmeier, left hander against left hander.
Collins would be next and Bill Campbell continues to throw in the Minnesota bullpen.
McCray is first and the fifth, going outside to John one and all.
Well, John Brugmeier is 57th of third.
He has eight wins.
There goes the runner, Mamary hits with his center field and he's deep.
That goes Roy, way back in the warning track where he makes the guess.
McCray has half a second.
He has to re-pag on his way back to first.
So Mamary sends Ry to the 410 line in the deeper center field.
Two away will follow for station identification.
This is the American Forces radio and television service.
Benny Matthews and Fred White back in Royals Stadium.
It's 3-3 in the bottom of the eighth.
Royals have Hal McCray and Burns with two out and Bill Campbell,
one of the best relief hitters in all of baseball this year coming in.
Campbell has 16 wins, 19 saves.
He's yielded 144 hits in 165 innings.
You might remember a ball game in Minnesota a few weeks ago.
Campbell starting the ninth inning and the twins leading by two.
And Minnesota's at a three-run home run and the Royals won the ball game on that Saturday afternoon.
So the same Bill Campbell about to face Al Talon.
Fred, another big night for George Brecht.
Benny put together his 28th game of the season with his three or more hits.
This time he's had three or more hits in the game against the Minnesota Tries.
George had 27 hits against his long club now this year.
So George Brecht certainly rising to the occasion here tonight,
giving the Royals the opportunity to take the lead here in the eighth.
He got it started with a single.
He's had a defense tremendous all year long, 28 times now with three or more hits in the game.
So George with three hits tonight now has 212 hits.
And he has inserted himself back here to the top of the American League bag race.
Al McCray went in as the American League leader, but now it is 9-4-4.
The big run is three out of three.
Norman Bobcock, 10-3-3 and the season is over for Bobcock.
He will be sent back to Minnesota as he tore a ligaments in his thumb trying to catch the ball hit by Tommy Volkan at the fifth inning.
Rod Carew, two out of four, so he's certainly has set his name in the house.
Bill Campbell, set the face of Al Talon.
He has two hits tonight and infield hit in the seventh.
He came around the score. He's singled in the fifth.
Retired his first time up on a comeback here to the mound.
Ball breaking ball for a strike or one.
So Campbell quickly establishes the advantage.
No ball, one strike.
Al McCray is third, two out.
Red open the inning with a single to center.
McCray a good lead.
Too big to too Campbell, he steps back off the rubber.
Now a 21-score basis.
But only one since the All-Star game because of the bad leg.
He draws the throw and it's back.
Inside, 3-3.
Royal batting in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Here's the stretch by Campbell. McCray big lead.
There he goes.
Small is the swing and a miss over a slow two.
The ball is rolling away but not far enough to allow McCray to go to third.
Al McCray with a tap and hit for a slide as his 22nd throw of the day.
Talon's going to hold that hole in two but he picked a perfect pitch.
It was a slow breaking ball and all the catcher but Dwyer here to do was wait until he caught it.
And it took a while because of the off-speed bit and the curve of that.
Al McCray getting that little edge for that slow breaking ball right second base.
And now a face hit from the Royals on top of the cat 0-2.
Campbell running, here he comes.
Rupert going right there. Here comes down four and he's got it.
A one-handed catch by Ford and Fanny.
No runs, one hit. A man left the board.
We go to the light, the twins three and the Royals three.
Earlier today Rick Pundy felt that his career high 32nd home run of the season.
Joe Parnham celebrated his 26th and birthday by scattering eight hits over 8-1 third innings.
To leave the Chicago Cubs to a 3-1 victory over the Montreal Expos.
The Cubs scored a pair of runs in the first inning against Don Sandhouse on a walk,
four spindles and a fourth out and Monday finished the score with a solo shot and a fourth.
Parnham walked none and struck out five.
He walked his shutout in the ninth inning on back-to-back doubles by Mike Jorgensen and Larry Parrish.
Bruce Sutter came home to get the final two outs and attempt save of the season.
Montreal's Jose Morales rounded out as an eighth inning ten-shitter to set a major league record
for most ten-shitter appearances in a season with 82.
He earlier had established eight major league records with 25 ten-shits.
The National East Philadelphia Phillies return home today amid reports that the team is involved in
internal disputes before 39th sector by a victory of St. Louis manager Danny Ogarkel,
a 34-minute team meeting.
Ninth inning is 5-3-3.
The scoreboard totaled by Danical.
The twins three runs, nine hits and no errors.
The twins have stranded seven.
The Royals with half-lift six to board.
Mark Lachell getting ready to sit to Mike Covey.
Mark did a magnificent job on the eighth.
After the intentional lock to Wadiger, the bases loaded.
Mike put the ice on a ground ball to force it to plate.
And Dan Ford on strike.
Covey doubled the drive in the three minutes of the run since last time up.
And he takes the breaking ball inside, ball one, one and oh.
Mike's double into the gap in right centers for Wadiger, Heichel and Ford.
The twins on top three to two with the Royals tied the game with a run on the bottom of the seventh.
By and outside, Walters, two and oh to Covey.
Each team threatened in the eighth.
Neither team scored.
So here it is the night.
And boy, the Royals taking their fans through a wringer tonight as they've done for the last month.
The Covey's are on a low pitch, four oh three, three and oh.
The Rock in danger of putting Covey to the board.
Back he comes three oh and it's way on inside, ball four.
So Covey's is on and John Wofford off to the mound.
Bob Waldo coming up.
Bob can handle the bat, he's a pretty good runner.
That would be the second loss surrendered by Lattell, but the first one was an intentional loss.
Bob Randall with the plays, Red and Wofford both going to the mound to talk to Mark Lattell.
One on, nobody out.
The Royals looking for a bunt.
Randall around the bunt.
Takes inside, ball one.
Left hander Tom Hall, right hander Ken Sanders throwing in the Royals bullpen.
Three to three top of the night, Covey's just burned.
Lattell set it to belt, Randall around the bunt, gets it down and it's a good one.
Mayberry's only play will be to tag Randall and he's got a knock through out of the base line.
And Randall comes back for Mayberry.
Bob is certainly no match for John.
Bob was offended by George Press.
And now McCrae grounded into a double play in the first.
So it is a very physical game for Bob Randall.
A sacrifice, three unassisted.
And now Steve Rana, there Steve is overbored.
Go ahead Randall strikes and takes him with jump one out and Rana slowly coming up.
Mark Lattell is to belt.
The fix of Rana outside putter is back one.
And now the big thing, tied 3-3, 0-1 on Steve Rana, left hand batter.
He is the twins' designated hitter.
Lattell with backwards launch and second, here's the fix.
Rana is half-noddled into the Royals dugout.
So the United shoot Mark Lattell, no ball, two strikes.
Rana is a good contact hitter.
He's batted over 400 times officially.
Steve has only struck out 42.
So he'll make contact.
Contact trying to bird dog from a 200-second out of 30 backing off his hotel bishops.
Go outside, one ball, two strikes to Braun.
Steve is giving in 60 runs.
One and two to Braun.
Trying to get him by John Lattell.
Mark Lattell comes to center to belt.
Backwards launch and second.
One hit to John away.
Hit into center field.
It's going to be in for a base hit.
Around third comes Cummings, a throw to the plate.
Mountain tied, the runner to second.
Trent running at him.
George running right at the man.
Now he takes the throw and he's out.
He ran out of the baseline.
But the twins get the lead run across.
And the man who walked in scores.
So Braun behind in the count, who's running the runner in front of Otis.
Four to three, Minnesota.
Two out bases empty, the batter Roy Swalley.
He has single-quites, flying to left, grounded to third.
So that's what the base run ball to the number eight hitter meant.
A four to three Minnesota lead in the night.
And he takes the strike going on.
Back comes Lattell.
Oh, one point of the strike.
The wall to strike.
Cummings has certainly been a factor.
Three out of the eyes.
And now he's scored the go-ahead run.
And he's headed to the royal ninth.
It'll be the lower third of the batting order.
The ocean's edge.
Strike called and that's the inning.
But one great big run is thought to play.
A walk, a sacrifice run, and a loop single.
That's how easily it was done.
One run, one hit.
And nobody left.
We go to the bottom of the ninth.
12-4, Royals three.
The Mormon All-Leagues are now in position to retire.
A heavyweight marketing champion apparently has set the stage for George Foreman, Kenny Norton, and Bob to determine a new heavyweight change.
The New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds are favorites among the Nevada oddsmakers to win their respective divisional titles and face off in the World Series.
The Orioles' owner August Firtz, as he shot and disappointed over the planned levy to get the club by baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, were cappeling with Oakland A's players.
George Byrnes is gunning for his first tournament victory on the U.S. Pro Golf Tour after zipping to a one-stroke lead at the halfway mark in a Fajar Invitational Golf Tournament being played in Las Vegas.
Taking a look at some of the final scores in the American League, Boston seven, Baltimore four, Texas League, Chicago nine, four after seven innings of play, and it was Detroit over Milwaukee five to nothing.
And the Axe League, Chicago three, Montreal one, Philadelphia two, New York one, Cincinnati five, Atlanta two, and Houston over San Francisco five, four.
And the game of the night, four to three Minnesota. Tommy Davis coming out the back. Tommy Davis will be hitting for John Waffin.
Tommy Davis hitting 262 for the year on the three home runs, 26 RBI.
And the offense, get Bill to follow Tommy Davis, and then Cookie Rojas, four to three, Minnesota on top, and Viro Cabell, the twins' best relief pitcher on the run.
The right-hander ready and healed. Breaking ball, well not in Minnesota one. That was an off-beat breaking pitch.
He throws well about every 50 to block actually. Fast ball, curve ball, changes off the curve, throws the screw ball.
That is a breaking ball and a tap back to the pitcher. Over to first, ten time, one away.
The project being called back, and here comes Jamie Clark. Jamie's having 239, one home run, 14 RBI.
Jamie Clark out the back, four front projects.
The angels did not score in the top half of the first against right of loose.
The A's are now batting. Royals batting in the bottom of the ninth, trailing four to three. The twins got three in the seventh and one in the ninth.
Royals two in the fifth, one in the bottom of the seventh to make it a three-three ball game. The twins went ahead, a walk up front, and a hooping single to center.
Campbell pitches the clerk way outside ball one.
The twins are playing Jamie Clark to pull the ball. He's playing the misses in the count one and one.
The twins, four runs on ten is, the Royals three runs on nine is. One ball, one strike, bases that day one out. Campbell the clerk changes down into the second base of the randall.
He's got it, only the first is two down. So it's all up to Sookie Roach to be single to center to tie the game. And the Royals now are down to their last out.
Bill Campbell unleashes the pitch, a big sweeping curve outside ball one, one and oh.
Roy's calling a good stop in the ball with short. Breaking ball inside ball two to Sookie. Tommy Fulcant with the net, four to three twins, five over nine.
The twins trying to delay the Royals celebration. One shot, and it's in with the Royals. So the Royals are still alive. Rojas the clerk, two down, and it comes Louis Wilson to run for Rojas.
And he's going to run, getting by the hands, and right to the goal.
Willie Wilson with tremendous speed, Willie has two stolen bases to lose, two out of two.
That won't help the catcher, but Wininger is sitting Willie Wilson face to face over the second base. Wininger, just a youngster, 20 years old, had all kinds of problems early in the season throwing out runners.
Actually it wasn't all his fault. In most instances, a base runner, a base stealer will steal on the pitcher, not the catcher.
It became a mental thing for Wininger, but he's throwing much better now. Tom Fulcant up there, Willie Wilson draws the throw and he's back.
Tom Fulcant has fatal, simple walks. And the only time he was retired when he tried to better play on, Wilson away, draws the throw and he scammers back safely.
five to the nine, one on two out of this. Off-steam breaking ball, strike on one, Campbell throwing that tantalizing, low curve ball, nothing in one.
The head-steam is up and ten to eight, the tying run at first was two out, Wilson away, the threat, throw to forward, he took dig at that. You know, Willie may be going with a count of one.
Tom Fulcant backing out of the batter's box for a quick look at third base coach Chuck Gillard. And now he's back in there.
Willie Wilson away, the threat by Campbell, quick move to first to run it back. Campbell is quick out there.
Bill trying to keep him close to get his catcher to the end. Left hand hitter waiting at the plate. There he goes, they pitch out, the throw to second base, out, all game is over. The twins have won it. They get strike, they pitch down with a count of one-one.
And Willie Wilson trying to steal the touchdown. So the twins win it four to three and we'll be back right after this.
Well, it appears as though the KZ Royals are going to have to wait to see the outcome of the game between the California Angels and the Oakland A's because they have, again, failed to clinch the Western Division title.
Washington diplomats have a new general manager, John Carpere, who was formerly with the San Jose Earthquake. Diplomats President Steve Dantzanski said employing the 37-year-old Carpere is a close first step towards making the diplomats a first-class Major League operation.
More than 15 applicants were interviewed for a job which came open last month when Keith Dizart resigned before joining the San Jose soccer team two years ago. Carpere was an executive with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Liddy Sobe was a level-on rally to defeat Mark Record of Australia for the first time in her career, one-six-six-four-six-three on Friday to win the $50,000 Torrey-Swee-Luck-Satana Tournament. Right now let's get back to Kansas City for the wrap-up.
Well, everybody was certainly primed to pull the clerk on the Royal Stadium. Minnesota Twins were able to jam it down into the bottle as they edge the Royals four to three.
And all it took was a walk, a bump, and a loopy single to disappoint over 40,000 that were here in the ballpark, paying attendance for 38,482. And certainly to the disappointment of all those and the Royals.
The Twins have edged the Royals and have beaten the Royals for only the second time here at the Royals Stadium this year. The Royals took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fifth.
The Twins came back on a three-run double by Mike Tepes in the seventh inning, to lead by one. The Royals quickly tied it in the bottom of the seventh. Tootsie Rojas rounding a single in the center.
And scored on drawn, loopy, single to center. And that's how the Twins delayed the Royals' celebration by one night at least. So certainly a very disappointing ballgame. But it really was, Jenny.
You had the feeling all night long that the Royals were going to keep away somehow.
A lot of the defenders out here tonight are doing the empty ballpark one of the time labels. There are no days when that thing is on hold. We'll come back to haunt you. It happened here tonight.
The Royals got a two-round single from Tootsie Rojas. They were still alive. But they couldn't get it done.
All you can do is come back out tomorrow, fly them again. It was also that possibility that Frank Sinatra, the angel, won't have a fight of all of the other day. He's not in Oakland, California tonight.
That's before the ballgame. The Royals don't want it that way. They just included it with themselves. They just say, yeah, tomorrow.