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New York Yankees faced the Kansas City Athletics at Municipal Stadium for a Sunday afternoon game on September 6, 1964.
New York was coached by Yogi Berra, and they were looking to win the A.L. Pennant for the fifth year in a row.
But they entered this game in third place, three and a half games behind the White Sox and a half game behind the Orioles.
Kansas City was coached by Mel Magaha, who took over the club when Eddie Lopat lost his job when the A's fell to 20 games under 500 in mid-June.
Unfortunately, by September, Magaha had the A's nearly 40 games under 500.
This audio recording is from the Kansas City Radio broadcast, which unfortunately only includes a small excerpt of the game, starting from the bottom of the eighth and continuing until the end of the game.
Not many Kansas City Athletics recordings still exist, so we decided to release this as is so that you can enjoy at least a few innings of broadcasters George Bryson and Monty Moore.
A rim off is better.
One ball and a strike to Callanelli. We're in the last half of the eighth, gotta get some runs. We have this chance and one more to do it.
Segui's best effort is down the drain so far. We have not scored a run.
Gotta do it now. Here's the pitch.
There's a high foul up back of third.
Our attendance here, 21,372. We now have 610,845 paid in the ballpark this year.
21,372 here this afternoon. Beautiful day.
Matthew's at the plate. Roland Sheldon has won three and lost one. I don't know whether they've kept him all year, but he's been very good here today.
Here's the pitch. Foul ball back into the screen.
One ball, two strikes.
Sheldon in the windup. Here comes his pitch.
Little low and outside. Two balls and two strikes.
Everybody finished now except Baltimore and Los Angeles and the Cleveland Chicago second game.
Cleveland leading 1-0. Cleveland won the first game.
The Yankees can sneak a lot closer now. Baltimore loses.
Here's Sheldon's pitch. There's a line drive right field, right at Roger Maris. He's there, he's got it.
Let's have a station break. This is the Kansas City A's baseball network.
KCMO 810 radio, Kansas City, Missouri. Voice of the Kansas City A's baseball and Kansas City Chiefs football.
Five minutes past four.
George Bryson with Molly Moore of Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. The score here, the Yankees 3, A's nothing.
We have but four hits. One out to batter Dick Green who struck out and grounded onto the pitcher.
Now the pitch on the way. Low ball. Jimenez will hit for Segui who will not get a chance to tie the all-time Kansas City strikeout record.
He's going to leave with a dozen.
Now the pitch. Little low this time. Two balls and no strikes.
Native pitcher has given any indication of wildness here today. They've all been ahead with one exception, Q-back.
Segui was behind on him when he hit the ball out of the ballpark. First man up in the inning in the ballgame.
Two and 0 count. Here's Sheldon's pitch. Right in there a strike call, two and one.
Sheldon ready to pitch again. Here it is.
Fastball hit back to Richardson. Throw him into the center field. A base hit.
Bobby took a dive but the ball couldn't come up with it. A line drive, base hit. And we're alive here in the eighth inning.
That's our fifth hit. And the batter now will be Manny Jimenez hitting for Segui.
Manny has a brother playing with the Ritzman in the Yankee organization.
Yankee three, A is nothing. Last half of the eighth, green in first base. Jimenez at the plate. Pinch header for the pitcher.
Here's Sheldon, the right-hander. All ready to go. Here's the pitch to Manny. Swung on a miss, strike one.
No balls and a strike. Manny, a left-hand hitter. Can't hit that ball.
Menfield swung around the right. Double play depth. Here's the pitch. Curveball strike. Ball strike two. Go and do the count on Jimenez.
Sheldon in trouble a little bit in the seventh inning and a little in the fourth inning. That's all. Runner at third and none out. He got us out.
A couple of hits in the seventh. Here's the pitch. There's a bouncing ball foul off down towards first. Capitone comes up with it.
The Cardinals got a run on the last half of the eleventh inning to beat the Chicago Cubs five to four.
The National League schedule is finished. I'll have all the information for you on the scoreboard which will follow the broadcast of this game.
Sheldon in the stretch. Here's the pitch. Jimenez takes it inside. Almost hit him. One ball and two strikes.
Manny thought he had it then. There's a fastball right in on him.
One ball and two strikes on Jimenez.
Sheldon delivers. Manny swings and bounces another one foul off towards first base.
And look at the contenders now. Baltimore and Los Angeles scoreless in the last half of the fifth inning out of Los Angeles.
Cleveland won Chicago nothing in the fourth inning. Out of the second game Cleveland won the first game.
Boy they're big now when the contenders lose.
One ball and two strikes on Manny. Here's his pitch. There's a little looping fly ball that Boyer will tuck away. He's there. He's got it with one hand.
Not much effort there. Jimenez pops out to Boyer and the batter is Cavanaris.
Cavanaris went up three times. Popped out twice and lined out one.
Back to the matter we have not hit the ball on the ground many times. One of them hurt us badly. A double play by Gentile. Now Barrett is going to go out and talk to his pitcher.
George I'll tell you this guy has been getting away with a lot of bad pitches the last two or three innings.
Howard has been yelling at him several times indicating you better get a little more on these pitches.
I've seen our ball players take home run cuts at high hanging sliders or curve balls about six times this afternoon that they've missed.
Boy I'll tell you he has gotten away with murder here today so far and that pitch he just threw Manny right then was just a little lollipop. He managed to get him on the front foot.
That's what they're talking about. I imagine they want to find out if he feels he has that much stuff left. They can't afford to let another guy get on someone and pop one out here on a bad pitch.
Campanaris at the plate right now. Runner at first base.
Dagberto hitting 299 going into this ball game with four homers and 18 RBI. Came out of nowhere to help us out.
Broke in with a bang, hit a home run his first time up in the big leagues and later in that same game hit another home run which put him in a pretty select group of guys. Three who have done it.
Now I'll write sense to. Here's a pitch to him. Has a high fly ball center field. Coming hard is fresh. Should get there. He is there and he makes the catch.
For the eighth inning no runs on a hit and no errors and a man left and the scores will go down to the top half of the ninth inning. Yankees three and the A's one.
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The double header here tomorrow the pitchers Orlando Pena will pitch in the first game for Kansas City and Wally Bunker a sensational 19 year old kid who has won 14 or 15 ball games for Baltimore 15 I believe.
He's been the ace five times this year so we'll play him tomorrow Bob Meyer left hander for the A's in the second game against Dave McNally a left hander for the Orioles.
You stay with us the rest of this American League season and you're going to be able to get a pretty good idea on what's going to happen.
And that's going to happen better wise because we play 13 more games against the pen and contending teams in the American League. We'll play the Orioles two games here tomorrow and four games in Baltimore next weekend.
We play the White Sox three more games here and three more in Chicago and we play the Yankees three more in New York.
A lot of excitement left on our broadcast this year. George and we have some coming on now in the ninth inning to Elton Howard, Cleve Boyer, Roland Sheldon against West Dock who's come on the pitch.
And then we have Steve Sagi who did a very good job but couldn't couldn't get ahead.
There's a strike call.
We didn't score any runs on five hits.
He gave up three runs two of them painted one of them a solid smash a home run by Kubek.
Here's West Dock ready in the pitch.
Outside one ball and one strike.
Why he forward in the Yankee bullpen right now.
Just probably to loosen up.
He's on the strike next pitch.
There's a drive center field a base hit Howard is on.
A three straight hit for Elston Howard.
And the batter now is Cleve Boyer.
Boyer one ball three got a single back in the fifth inning.
I'd like to pick myself a ball club off the other teams to play in this part who hit in this part.
You think right off of Elston Howard is hitting over 400 here the last two years average wise.
Mickey Mantle is another one because he hits in any part.
And then Lee Thomas with the Red Sox man those guys could really wear us out.
Where everybody out here.
He ought to get make up a team of those fellows see what happens.
In the stretch West Dock.
Now the pitch.
Little high ball.
Where in the night sending Elston Howard at first base the Yankees lead three nothing.
They have nine hits the A's have five.
It's been a good ball game the entire series has been exciting.
We've been beaten twice on the verge of it again.
Here's Wesley stretch in the pit.
Missed outside two balls and no strike.
Stock has not been real effective nor sharp the last three or four times out.
And McGahey right now is going to go find out what's cooking.
He has not been throwing the ball real hard and he's not been throwing it where he wanted to.
So McGahey and Stock and Brian are going to talk.
Don't forget now the announcement made a while ago.
A new idea.
Five thousand more kids.
We're going to have a pitching change right now.
You can see that coming.
Five thousand more kids will get a chance to see the Beatles.
Our two dollars general admission tickets going on sale tomorrow by mail only.
Send in your two dollars or four dollars or six dollars however many you want.
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Municipal stadium in Kansas City.
Only five thousand.
Well Modrobowski is going to come on right quick here.
Stock gave up a base hit and had nothing on the ball to get to.
Glee Boyer two balls and no strikes.
Wonder why.
Probably had talked about that Molly in the dugout.
Wes said I'll try but this time it's don't feel loose or something maybe.
At any rate after giving up the single to Alston Howard and two balls and no strikes on Boyer
and took him right out of there and brought in the basket.
The men and play boy will belong to the basket except if he's one.
Hope you're with us tomorrow on our network you might just well drive on in.
Enjoy some nice Kansas City hospitality have a meal in one of our fine restaurants.
Stay overnight tonight in one of the good hotels or motels in our area.
Modrobowski warming up right now.
All ready to go.
Glee Boyer stands in the count two balls and no strikes.
Moose Scowron has hit a home run for the White Sox in the fourth inning with nobody on base that will tie them with Cleveland.
Take a look at Moose Scowron with the White Sox and Frank Thomas with the Pills.
What a job they've done since being acquired by those clubs.
Listen that Scowron's got a chance to break all kind of records.
He was with the Yankees two years ago in World Championship ball club.
Last year he was with the Dodgers in a championship club.
This year he could be on another one.
There's a first pitch to Boyer and it's popped up outside third.
That Charles is on the way over there.
Won't go far enough.
It's back in the seat.
That'd be the one guy on three World Championship ball clubs.
Three different ones in three years.
That's never been done before.
Playing his chips pretty well I'd say.
And he started with Washington.
This year, yeah.
So he's been all over the place.
Last place and first place.
Now to two one fifth.
He got by Brian, went right through his glove, pass ball, down to second base to his tower.
Now they have scored two of their runs on plays like that.
Scored a wild pitch.
Three balls and a strike.
That wasn't a bad strike.
Little bit high, went right through Brian.
But Drabowski, good stuff on the ball.
Three and one.
We've had officially on the books three wild pitches here today.
Three and one count now.
Here's the pitch.
Swing and a miss, three and two.
Now the pitch.
Swung on a miss, he struck him off.
One more.
Now Roland Sheldon is going to be the hitter.
One away, top half of the ninth inning, Elston Howard down at second base.
Well, Sheldon gets a hand and well deserved.
He's fixed quite a ball game here today.
He's gotten by with a few mistakes, but when you're going good, things will happen that way.
Oh, ready to pitch.
Here it is.
High, a ball.
Elston Howard down there at second base.
Thirteen Yankees have struck out here this afternoon, but they still lead the ball game by a score of three to nothing.
Now the pitch.
That's a little low.
Two and all.
Oh, set to pitch again.
Here it is.
Over the outside corner, strike call, two and all.
Score of three to nothing, Yankees lead the A's.
We're in the top of the ninth inning.
We have the middle of our order, the power in the order coming on in the ninth inning looking ahead.
But we've had no power today, really.
Here's his pitch.
Last ball, strike, two and two.
Drabowski with the sign, two balls and two strikes.
Here's the pitch.
Curve is outside.
Three and two.
Foul ball.
A's have five hits, the Yankees have nine.
Three and two, the count on Roland Sheldon, the pitcher up three times, grounded out, struck out twice.
Drabowski stretches, steps off the rubber, Howard goes back.
You know we hit only about five balls on the ground.
There's a strike call.
Strike three.
Fourteen strikeouts against the Yankees, but they still lead in the ball game.
Battle now is Quebec.
Oh, you figure, Monty, if you've got such a good enough to strike out 14 Yankees, you've got to be in front in the ball game.
Well, we've scored seven runs the last two nights and lost both games.
We get out here today and hold them to three and not even in the ball game, really.
All right, Drabowski set the pitch.
Here it is, taking high, ball one.
Cleveland countered, they picked up another run in the fifth inning, they lead to the White Sox now by a score of two to one.
Swung on, hit fouled, I'm going to field line, I'll play.
Tony Quebec and Mo Drabowski in a battle right now.
Mo ready to pitch, here it is.
High fly ball outside third.
Charles, do they have a chance to catch this one?
Nope, it's going to be back in the seats, about four rows.
So now it's a ball and two strikes.
Drabowski down to get the sign from Bill Bryan, all set to go, takes his foot, fires.
Swung on, hit high into the air to left center field, Kapaner is on the run, still going, still going.
He should get there, he is there and he's got it.
Big high fly ball to left field, so in the ninth inning, no runs on a hit, no errors and a man left.
And the scores will go to the last half of the ninth inning, in this one the Yankees three and the A's nothing.
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Oh, going to the last half of the ninth inning, we'll have the stuff now, we can do it.
They've got Ramon and Hamilton in the bullpen.
We'll have Causey, Calvito and Gentile up in the last of the ninth inning.
Money's up, boy.
Here's Causey, he got a triple in the fourth inning and died right at third when they got Calvito, Gentile and Brian out.
Try them again, Wayne, let's see.
Oh, you won't want to forget now, that doubleheader tomorrow afternoon starts at 130 with Baltimore.
Everybody in the park will get a ruler, picture ruler of the age.
Here's the pitch to Wayne, a little high ball.
And it'll be buffet dinner day.
Boy, those meals are going to be, they're not going to be given away right here, you understand.
You're not going to have to eat them here.
Get a certificate for them or something.
So you can go with dying in style.
Here's the pitch.
There's a strike called.
One ball and one strike.
Roland Sheldon ready to pitch again.
Here it is.
A little low, two and one.
Scoreboard will follow and have all the information on all the ballgames played.
They're all over, but two.
Last of the ninth inning.
Three or nothing, we've got to get three at least until we go home a little sad.
Yankees happy.
Here's the pitch.
A little high this time and three balls and a strike.
We have struck out an amazing 14 Yankees.
Still trailing in the ballgame and had to make two mistakes.
And nobody has walked.
That's the amazing thing about it.
Hey, Baltimore might be doing something in the eighth inning.
Angels have changed pitchers to leave us in there now.
No score so far.
Three balls to the strike.
Next pitch.
Ball four.
There's the first base on balls of the ballgame.
Make that the second.
He walked Ryan back in the second inning.
But a field is choice down here.
The batter is Calovito now.
And there goes Yogi.
We're going to have a pitching change right now.
Looks like we're going to have a new man in the new Yankee uniform.
Now, George, I'll tell you about Raymond.
Yesterday, pitching against Chicago in Chicago for Cleveland,
he pitched two and a third innings and got bombed for five runs.
Here he is now with the Yankees.
They've always said put on the Yankee finstripe and it makes a difference.
We'll find out here today.
I'll tell you, that guy's had some great days, though.
He's got real good stuff.
And I imagine that he's coming on this mound right now with a great determination
to show the Yankees that he belongs on the championship ball club.
Roland Sheldon gets a real good round of applause as he leaves.
He's done quite a job against us.
I think his best effort was in the fourth inning when Tasha led off of that triple,
and he got him on two pop flies and a strikeout.
Now, Ramus has come on the pitch and he's talking with Elson Howard now about the sign.
A Yankee uniform, a little strange for Pedro.
Well, he'll face Calvito and Genteel and Bryant, maybe.
Calvito and Genteel standing side by side right down below us now.
I'd like to really get into one and hit one out of here.
Well, Ramus, of course, would like to put out the fire right now.
George's record with Cleveland in seven wins and ten losses.
He has, at Cleveland, thrown 18 home run balls this year.
He has an earned run average of 5.14,
which is the highest on the current Yankee staff and one of the highest on the Indian staff.
For short work, he just might be the man the Yankees need.
We'll know pretty soon because Calvito is standing in right now.
Rocky nearly hit a home run in the seventh inning.
He hit the top of the fence about a foot from the top, a line drive.
A lot of folks may not know that Ramus is with the Yankee ball club.
I noticed his little roar when he was announced, but he just joined them today.
Really lots of speculation about who the two Yankee players are.
He'll go to Cleveland next spring as part of the deal.
Calvito ready to face them now. Ramus in his stretch.
Here's the pitch. Fastball is high, ball one.
He can throw the ball hard.
I don't know what the umpire back of a plate Valentine is after somebody or somebody is after him.
I don't know. I got a kick out of John Stevens today.
He said he's been around the lakes a long. He doesn't have to look to see who talks.
He recognizes all the voices.
Here's the pitch. Calvito takes it low outside. Ball. Two balls and no strikes.
Well, Stevens and Crossetti were after each other.
And Crossetti, you can check out. He's like Bertie Tebbott.
There's no way he can hide that squeaky voice.
All right, Rocky might get one to hit now. Two balls and no strikes.
The score is three to nothing. Yankees lead the A's last half of the ninth inning.
We have a runner in first base.
Pedro Remus on the hill.
He stretches, fires. The curve is in there for a strike. Two balls and a strike.
Remus looks a little nervous.
Can't be, though. He's been around a long time.
I'm sure, though, he'd like to look good.
First time out. Here's the pitch.
Swallowed on a miss. Strike two to a two.
I still bet he is, George. I bet he is just as nervous as if he were a kid
pitching in his first game. He sure looks like it to me.
It's a different thing coming from a tail-in ball club to a Yankee club
right in the middle of a pennant being put in a close ball game.
Two balls, two strikes.
Remus set again. Here she comes.
Curveball hit on the ground. A third baseman, Boyer. Off he's glove. Into left field.
Off he goes down to second and holds on. Let's see how that one scores.
How they score. Base hit.
Calabasas will hit one to Boyer. It could have been an easy double play.
The ball skipped off Boyer's glove for a base hit.
And the batter is Gentile with a chance to tie it up now.
Here we've got her tied up. It's great enough that the Yankees lead the A's.
Jim Gentile at the plate. Popped out twice and hit into a double play.
Calabasas first base. Tosses down on second.
Our sixth hit and Calabasas has two of those.
Make that three. He has three of those.
Here's Remus Fitz. Fastball low inside. Ball one.
Brenneth and Hamilton down on the both and are spectating.
They're not working. They want to watch.
Here's the pitch to Gentile. Swung on and fouled off.
One ball and one strike.
One and one count. Remus on the hill. Takes a lot of time.
Here's the pitch. Gentile swings and misses strike two.
Ball and two strikes.
Tosses down on second. Canoito on first.
Last half of the ninth inning and nobody out. The tying run at the plate.
Remus first appearance for the Yankees.
We'd like very much to bomb him.
In the stretch, Remus. Here's the pitch.
Gentile takes it a little low and it's two balls and two strikes.
Pretty close.
No breeze to help anything now. Just a very gentle breeze.
Won't help a ball hit in the air. It's not anything.
Remus set. Here's the pitch. Swung on a high fly ball down the left field line.
Boyer after the ball. Cannot get it I don't think. It's back in the seat.
Not a roll back. Very high pump fly. Two balls and two strikes.
Gentile can hit them higher and colder than anybody I ever saw.
They get up where the air is cold.
Two and two count. On Gentile, Mantle gives him all of left field. Gives him 110 feet of it. Amazing.
Two and two count.
I think there's about four outfielders out there and each of them would be
a little bit more than one.
I think there's about four outfielders out there and each of them would be playing a regular position.
Add one in left field.
I think there's about four outfielders out there and each of them would be playing a regular position.
Add one in left field. Now the two-two pitch on the way.
Gentile hits it back to the middle. Day 10.
Logy's going to score. Calabito on the way to third.
And we have the tying run in first base.
Gentile singles to center field.
Pardable will go in and run for Gentile. He's the tying run right now. The batter will be Bryant.
So an infield single by Calabito followed by a good solid smash by Gentile through the middle.
I've given us a life here. And except for the two wild pitches and the error,
which are a part of baseball nonetheless, we'd have ourselves a snug ballgame.
Well, snug anyhow. Calabito went to third. Pardable in first. And the batter Bryant.
Bryant can win it right now.
Boy, that Yogi's really in deep thought. I've been watching him real closely. He is trying to make up his mind whether to leave this guy in.
Ramas ready to pitch to Bryant. One swing and we can win it.
Launching ball foul off on the right side. Bryant can do it and Ramas can give up the long ball.
Nobody out here. A walk. Exit. Sheldon. Calabito singles. Gentile singles.
Calabito singles a bit tainted, but they count just the same.
3-1 in the ballgame. Last half of the ninth inning. We got a shot at him right here.
Ramas set the pitch to Bryant. He looks. He stretches. He pitches. Outside. One ball and one strike.
Yogi knows that if he brought in a Hamilton, Doc Edwards would have hit.
Or a Lusik. We'd have a right hand hitter in here. So he might as well go the way he is.
One ball and one strike. Our only thing here, Bryant can't hit the ball out of the park if he gets the right one to hit and win it for us.
Here's the stretch and the pitch. Swung on. A bouncing ball foul to the first baseman.
Had that good cut. It's a ball and two strikes now. Nobody out in the last half of the ninth.
3-1. Yankees lead the A's.
Elson Howard out in front of the play to yell something out to Ramas.
The Grand Canyon Bill Bryant at the plate right now. One big swing to do it.
One ball and two strikes. Ramas stretch and the pitch. Swung on and fouled off. And that hurt Elson.
Not to put right out from under him.
Elson Howard hurt on that one. A little wobbly right now. Must have hit him on one of his legs. I'm not sure.
A ball and two strikes to count on Bryant. Howard was hit on the ankle of the leg of five probably.
Have to walk around a bit. Put the ball and two strikes to count on Bryant.
Bryant wanted to take a look at the baseball, which Valentine did.
One ball, two strikes to count on Big Bear. Tying run at first base and nobody out. Here's the stretch and the pitch on the way.
Had a nice swing. Stopped and climbed. Too low. Two balls and two strikes.
Gotta be to the third. His run now. It's all important. Hard to believe at first base his is. Believe me.
He represents the tying run in the last half of the ninth inning. Enfield double play death. They'll give away the one run to Calabito to try to get the double play.
It's a three to one game right now. Here's Ramas ready. Here's the pitch to build. Swung on, hit on the ground to Papatone. Throw down to second. They got one. Throw to first. Got a double play.
Exactly what they wanted to do. Bryant bounced into a double play. Papatone to Kubik. Back to Papatone. Calabito scores, but as we just mentioned to you, his run doesn't mean very much.
And the batter now is Ed Charles. When you try to visualize what was going to happen, you can just about figure if you hit the ball on Ramas, you're going to hit it on the ground.
Three to two ball game right now. We've had our chances and have not been able to capitalize. So there we are. Here's Ed Charles. It's all up to him right now in the last half of the ninth inning.
Bryant bounced into a double play. Calabito scored from third with our second run.
Here's Ramas in the windup now and the pitch on the way is high inside. Ball on. Three to two Yankees lead the A's. Two out in the last of the ninth.
All three of these ball games have been dandies. All year long we've played the Yankees right on their heels. Made our best baseball against them. Now the pitch.
High inside and it's two balls and no strikes. Darn near a strike and Charles went down.
Oh, we had a real good shot at him. Man oh man.
You want to look back. This ball game right now is not tied because we had a man lead off with a triple in the fourth inning.
You had Calabito, Gentile and Bryant in a row with nobody out to try to knock him in and nobody could do it. That's right.
Do an O count now. Here's the pitch.
There's a high fly ball up in the left side of the infield. Two-deckly shortstop getting under. This should do it. He's under now. He's there. He makes the catch and the ball game is over.
Well, we can drink it in the pop line. But in the ninth inning it's two runs. On two hits and no errors. We left nobody on. And the final score on this one. The Yankees three and the A's two.
Well, to wrap it up, here's the way it goes.
The Yankees started it off with a line drive home run by Tony Kubek on the third pitch thrown by Diego Segui in the ball game.
He had a home run over the 391 foot sign up on the lamb chop hill to give him a one and up in the lead.
The Yankees got another run in the sixth inning when Richardson singled. Went to second on error and error on Nellie Matthews in center field who mishandled the ball.
And then he went to third on a wild pitch and scored on a single by Roger Maris. That made it two to nothing.
The Yankees got a third run in the eighth inning. Richardson singled his third hit of the game, went to second on a wild pitch and scored.
After going to third on a ground out by Maris on a bunt by Mantle to the second baseman, Dick Green. Green took a shot at throwing Richardson out at the plate, but Mantle had bounced the ball too high.
And Green couldn't throw him out because Richardson got a real good jump.
So they actually scored what proved to be the winning run of the ball game on an infield bunt by Mickey Mantle.
The A's had a golden opportunity in the fourth inning when Wayne Causey let off with a triple.
But Colabito then popped up. Jen Teal popped up. Both to the infield and Bill Bryan struck out.
So if you can't score a guy from third with your three big guns, you're in for a pretty rough day anyway.
The A's did manage to rally in the ninth inning when the starting pitcher for the Yankees, Raleigh Sheldon, walked Causey to start the inning.
Then Colabito singled. Wayne held on at second. Jen Teal singled through the middle to drive in Causey and Colabito to third.
We had the tying runs on base, the winning run at the plate, but Bill Bryan, working to count to 3-2, bounced one to the first base with Pemetone, who started the second of two double plays that he did here today.
Then Ed Charles popped up to end the ball game. So the A's now have lost 16 of our last 18 ball games here in our home ballpark.
An unbelievable performance, but for our home fans who have been very, very loyal this year, we had 21,372 here today.
So we lose to the Yankees 7-9, 7-9, and 2-3, all three ball games here at home.
The Yankees moved to within two and a half games of first place, and the White Sox and the Orioles are both in close games.
The White Sox have already lost their first game. Actually, the Yankees moved to within two games of first place.
As of right now, Baltimore and LA are tied up in the ninth inning, nothing and nothing.
So this winds up the Yankee Series in Kansas City for the year. We have the big doubleheader tomorrow against the Baltimore Orioles, starting at 130.
It's Picture Ruler Day, and the A's will have Orlando Pena and Bob Meyer pitching against Wally Bunker and Dave McNally.
Well, looking down on the field now, the fans are filing out. We see four of the Roger Maris children out there with their daddy.
Roger's about to be on television, back to New York City with Jerry Coleman.
This is home for Roger. We mentioned one of his little boys, little Roger, is in a Yankee baseball uniform.
They're about to be on TV. It's a pretty good sight to see back out in the infield.
Well, it's a good series here. We lost all three ball games. We'll have to win all three against the Yankees in New York City a couple of weeks from now in order to even the series with them for the year.
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Well, there's Bob Meyer pitching against Wally Bunker and Dave McNally.
Well, looking down on the field now, the fans are piling out.
We see four of the Roger Maris children out there with their daddy.
Roger's about to be on television back in New York City with Jerry Coleman.
This is home for Roger.
We mentioned one of his little boys, little Roger's in a Yankee baseball uniform.
That'll be on TV. It's a pretty good sight to see back out in the infield.
Well, it's a good series here.
We lost all three ball games.
We'll have to win all three against the Yankees in New York City a couple of weeks from now
in order to even the series with them for the year.
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Thank you very much. Let's take a look at the National League score.
All the ball games are over in the National League right now.
Dodgers beat the Mets by a score of 4-3. The winner was Harry Reid. Junior Gillum had a home run for the Dodgers.
Spalart, the losing pitcher, 9-17. Reid is 1-3. San Francisco, got a run in the eighth inning that beat Philadelphia by a score of 4-3.
Juan Marichal won his 17th of the year against six losses.
Chris Short was the loser. Now check that, Balsin was the loser in relief, a short and a lock.
Harvey Keene and Orlando Cibada had home runs for the Giants.
Tony Gonzalez and Johnny Callison for the Fills, but it wasn't enough.
Giants 4-3, but they don't need to worry too much.
The Reds kept pace, actually, and they beat Milwaukee by a score of 6-3.
Jimmy Maloney with the winning pitcher is now 13-9.
McCool in relief in the seventh, eighth, and ninth.
Lamasca, the loser, is now 13-11. Tommy Harper and Jimmy Maloney hit home runs.
Well, I think that's the first home run that Jimmy's hit in a while. I don't remember him hitting over one other in the major league.
St. Louis beat Chicago by a score of 5-4 in 11 innings, switching one across in the last half of the 11.
Campbell, Paso, and Cowan homered for Chicago.
The winning pitcher was Humphries in the tenth inning for St. Louis.
Lenny McDaniel relieving him the second day in a row was the losing pitcher.
Pittsburgh beat Houston by a score of 1-0.
Vernon Law, his tenth win against Clawbloss, is not a bark, was the losing pitcher in that one.
Well, that's the National X-Dor. He'll be back in one minute with the American League.
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All right, in the American League, Baltimore and Los Angeles, they're playing a single game,
Pappas and Lattman, followed by DeLiebe.
Lattman has been relieved, but nobody has scored.
They're playing now in the top half of the ninth inning.
Baltimore can't seem to get any runs, and they'd better hurry.
The twins beat Boston 2-1.
Thank God they won the ballgame. They had just one hit, too.
The winner was Arrego, with help from Worthington.
Mandu kept to a one-hitter, but became the loser.
Versalegs had a home run, so did Smith.
Tigers beat Washington by a score of 9-3.
Hank O'Garry, the winner, cracked her with the loser.
George Thomas and Don Demeter hit home runs for the Tigers.
Cleveland and the White Sox, in a double header.
Cleveland won the first game 2-0.
Jack Kralik has 11th win against five losses, a four-hit shutout.
The loser was Gary Peters. He's now 16-8.
In the second game, they're right now in the seventh inning,
and Cleveland leading an if by a score of 2-1.
A double-dip loss to the White Sox would hurt them.
Donovan and Stiching for Cleveland, a double-dip loss to the White Sox.
Moose Cowan had a home run in the fourth with nobody on,
so the White Sox only run.
In the ballgame here, Tony Kubek had a leadoff home run in the first inning.
As the Yankees beat Kansas City 3-2.
Segui was a losing pitcher. He's 8-14.
Roland Sheldon, the winner, is now 4-1, with help from Pedro Rema.
Well, that's the baseball story for today.
Hope you're with us tomorrow afternoon at 1-30,
a double header out here between the Kansas City Tigers and the Yankees.
George Bryson, wishing you a pleasant and safe good afternoon.