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This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history.

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The New York Mets faced the Kansas City Athletics at Connie Mack Park in West Palm Beach, Florida

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for a spring training game on March 24, 1962.

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The Mets were coached by Casey Stengel and were kicking off their inaugural season in 1962.

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Kansas City was coached by Hank Bauer who replaced Joe Gordon midway through the 1961 season.

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The A's were dismal as usual, having finished with 100 losses for the fourth time in 10 years.

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This audio recording is from the New York Radio broadcast featuring announcers Lindsay Nelson, Bob Murphy and Ralph Keiner.

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This is a small prior of the National League. At second place, Joe Lincolotta of the American League

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and around at third, Big Tom Gorman of the National League.

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Right one count, Tepelix Mantia. Wide stance at the plate, stance deep in the back of his bus, John Wyatt.

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Wines and fires. There's a line drive going out into center field.

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Jose Turnable drops the ball in center field.

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And Mantia is on it first as the relay comes on back into the infield.

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It is a line drive in the center. Jose Turnable came in, got his glove on it and then dropped the ball.

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Throw of the Mets. Double base runner on.

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And Rod Tenille is coming up.

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Second baseman Rod Tenille is coming up now.

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Starting for the second consecutive day at second base.

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Tenille brings the batting average of 40-29 into the test and then fall game for the New York Mets

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as the bat contact pitch fails high and it's ball one.

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Phoenix Mantia on it first.

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Just before the ball game, manager Hank Bauer of the Kansas City Athletics is talking about this fella Tenille.

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He thinks it's a good deal of him. Wyatt throws over to first.

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Mantia getting back safely.

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Again Wyatt is up into the test. He's running and now the ground ball foul.

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Hit and run on that time for the New York Mets.

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The Mets this spring have won six games and lost seven.

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They have played six consecutive games decided by one run.

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They have won three of those and lost three of them.

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The Mets have a three game winning streak going. They have defeated consecutively the Detroit Tigers, the New York Yankees, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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The Kansas City Athletics also have won three straight ball games.

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The Kansas City A's managed by Hank Bauer have a spring record of eight victories and five losses.

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Mantia leads it first. He's running again. There's a big ground ball to the right side.

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He's led by first baseman Norm Steven. Kicked away and he is on it first.

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Both runners safe. Runners at first and second.

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Norm Steven, the first baseman, had a big glove on it and kicked it away.

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And so Keneal is on it first.

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And error on Norm Steven at first.

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So now the New York Mets have entered at first and second.

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There's nobody out in Gus Bell, the right fielder, is coming up.

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Defensively the Kansas City Athletics this afternoon have Norm Steven at first base, Jerry Luffy at second base, Dick Hauser at shortstop, Wayne Causey at third.

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Manny Jimenez is in left, Jose Tardible is in center, and Gino Somoli is in right.

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The catcher is Haywood Sullivan and the pitcher is John Wyatt.

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For the Mets, Red Crest is coaching at first base this afternoon.

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Tommy Hemas is the coach around at third.

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Left hand batter, Gus Bell.

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Waiting for the pick. It's low for ball one.

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Gus Bell's springtime batting average, 152.

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Count of one ball to Gus Bell.

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The New York Mets are batting here in the top half of the first inning.

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It's County Mike Field in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Runners take their lead at first and second. Wyatt stretches and pitches.

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It's in there for a call. Strike one. It's one and one now.

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Gus Bell watching it over.

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That is a Casey Singel and Haag Bauer, who played for him for very many years, where the New York Yankees had quite a section before the ball game.

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When they finished early this morning, I asked Haag Bauer what they talked about. He said,

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Now, Gus Bell, back out of the batting box, which is time to get a handful of dirt.

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Count to him as one ball and one strike. There is nobody out here.

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Ball game just getting underway this Saturday afternoon in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Wyatt pitches and this one is popped up to the left side. Coming fast is Manny Jimenez, the left fielder.

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He's under, he's waiting, and he has it. There's no advance.

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One man out at Gus Bell is flying to Jose Jimenez in left field.

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Man Piaf holding it second. Daniel holding it first. And that brings up Mike Thomas, right-hand batter, clean-up man in my education, singles batting order.

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John Wyatt, the starting pitcher this afternoon for Haag Bauer's Kansas City A's, is 27 years of age. He is 6 feet tall with 195.

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Purchased in 1956 from El Paso, the Southwest League.

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He was up with the big club at Kansas City last year. Got into five games and pitched only seven innings in relief, no record.

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With Portsmouth last year, he won nine and lost three.

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All right, Wyatt is into the stretch position. Here's the pitch.

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That's a line drive, and he's going down the line and left a fair ball. Man Piaf turns it, turns it into Jimenez.

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He's got the ball in left, fires it back into second base, and the runners at second and third, one run into the match lead by a score of 1-0.

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Mike Thomas with the stand-up double, just inside the bag and down the line and left.

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It's going Man Piaf on second. Ted Camillo from first to third.

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So the next runner to second and third is Gil Hodges, the first baseman coming up.

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Gil Hodges has a springtime batting average of 222. John Zimmer now in the on-dack circle. There is one man out.

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Gil Hodges set now. Here's the pitch. He takes it high for ball one.

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Gil Hodges getting back into the lineup of the New York Nets here this afternoon. Jim Marshall played the entire game at first base yesterday.

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He just started against the Yankees the day before yesterday. He played about half the ball game, and then Marshall relieved him then.

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The runner's in scoring position. Here is a fly ball going deep to left field.

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Jimenez is going back now. Tagged up at third is Camillo. He's the best man, and he's coming on, and the throw comes in.

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That's Camillo. Comes across standing up. So it's two to nothing. The New York Mets out in front of Gil Hodges.

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Lifts the fast-refied fly. There are many Jimenez in left field. Hodges gets credit for a run batted in.

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And right-hand hitter Don Zimmer comes up. Frank Thomas holding it second on the play.

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New York Mets two, and the Kansas City A is nothing. You're in the top half of the first inning.

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Number 17, Don Zimmer. Don Zimmer, third baseman. Don Zimmer with a batting average of 333 in the third league competition.

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Wyatt checks and fires, and there's one popped up foul on toward first base. Seaborn is digging. Can't get there.

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Norm Seaborn, the first baseman, digging over but could not reach the ball, so it goes as a strike to Don Zimmer.

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Zimmer has been up 39 times, has 13 bases this spring.

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333.

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John Wyatt on the mound, looking in to get the sign out from Tetra Haywood Sullivan.

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One time he was an outstanding key formation quarterback for the University of Florida.

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That's in there in left field for a base hit. Thomas turns it third and is coming out. Jimenez fires the ball in.

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And it is cut off, going to second as Zimmer is sliding in, and he is out at second base.

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The run does count as Frank Thomas crossed the plate, gives Zimmer a single to left to run batted in.

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And he was thrown out at second base.

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So it goes there from seven to five to four, as Wayne Cawsey was the man who backed up to the center of the infield and took the throw.

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And Zimmer is out of there seven, five, three, and the New York Mets go down to the top half of the first inning.

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But they got three runs on two hits. There were two errors and nobody left on base.

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And so at the end of one half, any of the players that score is the New York Mets three and the Kansas City A's nothing.

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Now for a change of pace, a musical medley.

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This is Lindsey Nelson with Bob Murphy and Ralph Kanner at County Night Field in West Palm Beach, Florida, where the New York Mets got three unearned runs in the top half of the first inning.

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And now Dick Hauser will lead off. Dick Hauser, right-hand body, shortstop for the Kansas City A's.

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And on the round today for the New York Mets, right-handed Bob Miller.

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Here's the pitch and the throw for ball one. That's your homey Landry this afternoon.

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Miller's been in three games. He has pitched 13 innings, allowed four runs, 14 hits in the 13 innings. He has lost seven and struck out nine.

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Pitch is in there for a foul strike one. It's one and one now.

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Miller's not getting no victories in one loss this spring.

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New York Mets are counting on him for front line duties. Came to them from the St. Louis Cardinals. There's a ground ball to three base backhanded by Zemmick. Straightens up fires over the first to Hodges. He's out at first base.

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So Dick Hauser has rounded out Don Zemmick to Gil Hodges. From third to first there is one man up and that will bring up Jose Tardubal, G-A-R-T-A-B-U-Double L.

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He's a center fielder in San Diego, Cuba. 22 years of age. Weighs 165 pounds. He's a left-hand batter.

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Bob Miller dips into the full windup. Here's the pitch. He dumps it down the third baseline. Zemmick bare-handed throws over the hydras at first but not in time. He beat it out for base hit.

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A speedster, Jose Tardubal, dumps the ball down the third baseline. Zemmick came in, feels it bare-handed and fired over the first. The play was handled cleanly but just not in time. So it goes as a base hit.

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The Cardinals and that will bring up Jerry Luppy. Formerly with the New York Yankees. Luppy is the second baseman of the Kansas City Athletics. Left-hand batter.

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Number 11, Luppy. Jerry Luppy, second baseman. Gilead is holding against it on a Tardubal at first. One man out for the A's.

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On a sunny, somewhat windy afternoon in West Palm Beach, here's the pitch. It's a call strike for Jerry Luppy.

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Luppy is 28 years of age. From Springfield, Missouri, originally. Throw to first base. Tardubal gets back safely. Hyjee's returned to show the Miller at the mound.

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Luppy's still standing in there at the plate. The pitch, down low. It's 1-1. Luppy was traded to Kansas City from the New York Yankees along with pitchers Johnny Ketchum, Tom Sturtevant, poor pitcher Ralph Surrey, and infielder Hector Lopez. That was 1959, early in the season.

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The pitch fouled off. This is out of play. Touched one ball and two strikes for Jerry Luppy.

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Came up to the New York Yankees for the first time in 1956. Back again in 57. That year in 40 games, he hit 340 for the New York Yankees.

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Jerry Luppy. He was in the World Series in 57 and 58 for the Yankees.

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Miller into the stretch now. Tardubal leads. Here's the pitch to Luppy and there's a fly ball going deep to right field. That fellow's going back, back.

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That's going as far as he can and this was over the wall for a home run for Jerry Luppy.

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One batter, Jerry Luppy, pulling Edwin over the right field fence. Going Tardubal ahead of him. Tardubal is coming across the plate. Here comes Jerry Luppy and it's a 3-2 ball game.

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Two run homer by Jerry Luppy. That will bring up Norm Seaborn, also formerly of the Yankees.

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Number seven, Norm Seaborn. Norm Seaborn, first place win.

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One big swing of Jerry Luppy's bat gets two of the runs back quickly for the Kansas City A's and here is left-hand batter Norm Seaborn.

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Bob Miller into the windup. The pitch goes high for a ball.

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Seaborn's 28 years of age. We're in the bottom half of the first inning.

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The pitch goes high for a ball. It's two and 0 to Norm Seaborn.

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He was traded to Kansas City by the Yankees along with pitcher Don Larson, first baseman Marv Thornberry, and outfielder Hank Bauer,

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our first baseman Ken Hadley, shortstop Joe Demacy, and outfielder Roger Maris. That was on December 11, 1959.

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Pitch goes outside. It's three and 0 now to Seaborn.

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Hank Bauer, of course, has since become the manager of this Kansas City team.

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Three and 0 pitch from Miller to Seaborn. Ball four and he walked him on four-pitch balls.

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That brings up Manny Jimenez, left fielder.

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Jimenez is a left-hand batter, 22 years of age, 6'185. Came to Kansas City from the Milwaukee organization.

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At the call strike one, Manny Jimenez. He was traded to Kansas City by Milwaukee with infielder Ed Charles and catcher Jose Askew and pitcher Bob Scull and infielder Luke Klimchak.

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With Manny Jimenez with Charles and Askew, four, Bob Scull and Luke Klimchak. That pitch is outside for balls.

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Last year at Vancouver, Jimenez hit 325, including 17 home runs.

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Throw over to first, not in time. Norm Seaborn getting back safely.

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We're in the bottom half of the first inning. The New York Mets lead the Kansas City A's by a score of 3-2.

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That's a drive. Base hit in the right field. Guts Bell comes up, up with the ball, fires it back in. Seaborn holds it second.

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A shot out in the right field off the bat of Manny Jimenez. That will bring up Gino Simoli.

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So the Kansas City A's have two runs in and two men on here off young Bob Miller.

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In the bottom half of the first inning, there is still only one man out. Right-handed Gino Simoli is up.

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He came to the major leagues initially with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Time call for the moment as Hobie Landris goes out to check with Bob Miller at the mound.

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Gino Simoli has been around the baseball war since he came up to the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

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He went with them on to Los Angeles. He was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals.

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He went on to the Pittsburgh Pirates, came to the Kansas City A's. Gino Simoli.

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Miller checks. Pitch is low for ball one.

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Arms even, the base runner at second. Manny Jimenez, the base runner at first.

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With an overly close stance, Simoli likes to go to right field and the Mets are playing him, traded to right.

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Now Bobby Miller, end of the stretch and the pitch. Knocked him down as he got out of the way.

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The bat went one way. He went the other inside ball two.

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Simoli looks down at JoJo White, coaching at third for the Kansas City A's to get the sign here.

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Fouled off the bat of Gino Simoli. Two balls and one strike.

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Dario Lodegianni is coaching at first base this afternoon for Hank Bauer's Kansas City A's with JoJo White at third.

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One man out. Miller has the sign. End of the stretch. Runners leading it first and second.

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Pitch to Simoli. It's in there for a call strike. Two-two, the count now.

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He's smoothing out the dirt there in the batting stock, steps back in. Two balls, two strikes.

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Now Miller has set the pitch. It's on the way. And he struck him out. Simoli tried to check his swing.

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He's arguing now with umpire Bill Keniman behind the plate, but it is strike three.

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He's out of there. That is strike out number one this afternoon for Bob Miller.

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Runners holding it first and second. Two men out now. And Wayne Carsey is at third base when it's coming up.

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He's a left-hand batter. Wayne Carsey.

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Bob Miller checks the runners. The pitch, it's outside for a ball.

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Wayne Carsey is 25 years old. He was traded to Kansas City by the Baltimore Orioles along with infielder Bob Boyd,

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catcher Clint Courtney, outfielder Al Polarczyk, and pitcher Jim Archer for outfielders Whitey Herzog and Russ Snyder.

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That was in January of 1961. Carsey with the batcock now. Watches inside for a ball.

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Last year with Kansas City in 104 games, Wayne Carsey hit 276. He had eight home runs.

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Two balls, no strikes to count to Wayne Carsey.

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He's leading it second. Jimenez leading it first. Pitch goes high and it's ball three. Out three and oh now.

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Haywood Sullivan in the on-deck circle for the Kansas City Athletics.

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Kansas City A's have just announced that starting next year they will be training in North Miami, Florida.

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Pitch and it's a called strike one. It's three and one now.

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Two men out, count three balls. One strike to Wayne Carsey.

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Right, Andrew Bob Miller checks them and fires. Inside he walked him and the bases are loaded.

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That is the second walk given up by Bobby Miller.

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He struck out one, the bases are loaded.

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Right hand batter Haywood Sullivan coming up now.

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Kansas City last year hit 242 in 117 games. He had six home runs.

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Had a lot of physical disabilities that Bob Murphy can probably tell us a great deal about.

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There is a pitch fouled off by Haywood Sullivan.

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When he was first signed to a bonus contract by the Red Sox at that time Bill Dickey considered him one of the top catching prospects in 25 years.

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But the big fellow had the misfortune to suffer a slipped disc and had to undergo surgery.

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All right he's standing in there now with a count of strike one and the bases are loaded.

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Two men out.

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Here's the pitch fouled off. It's out of play. Two strike counts.

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Norm Stevens the base runner at third. Manny Jimenez is the base runner at second and Wayne Carsey is the base runner at first.

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New York Mets leading. The Kansas City A's by a score of three to two and we're still in the bottom half of the first inning.

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That's Connie McFeel in West Palm Beach Florida.

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Bob Miller getting the signs from Katja Hoby Landriss.

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Hazard works for the wind up and the pitch way outside.

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Sending Landriss diving out there to make the stop.

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Unpowered Bill Tenenman stops play a moment to brush off the plate.

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One ball and two strikes now to Haywood Sullivan.

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Young pitcher Bob Miller trying to get out of trouble here in the bottom half of the first inning.

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Here's the wind up and the pitch.

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Nice ball inside. Two to the count.

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Two balls, two strikes, two men out. Bases loaded.

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Bob Miller looks over at third. Now goes into his wind up.

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It's the curve ball. A gargoyle short. Mantia has it going to first base. With it in time he's out to retire the side.

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Haywood Sullivan grounded out short to first from Felix Mantia across to Gil Hodgeett and the Kansas City A's go down to the bottom half of the second inning with two runs on two hits.

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No errors and three men left on base. And at the end of one full inning of play the score is the New York Mets three and the Kansas City A's two.

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Right now we're going to the top half of the second inning.

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John Wyatt on the mound for the Kansas City A's and Jim Hickman is up there to lead off.

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Jim Hickman is a right hand batter. Heading 222 this spring.

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Wyatt now into the wind up and here's the pitch.

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This is a fly ball going to right field. Gino Somoli has called. He's moving it underneath and he has it for the out.

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So Jim Hickman has fly to right field and that will bring up catcher Hobie Landriff.

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Number five Hobie Landriff. Hobie Landriff, catcher.

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Landriff is a left hand batter. Has not seen a great deal of action this spring simply because he is the most experienced of the catchers on this squad as far as National League competition is concerned.

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And that is the single that wanted to get a good look at some of these younger catchers.

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Chris Cannizzaro, Choo Choo Coleman.

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Pitcher John Wyatt. Wines and fires. A swing and a miss. It's strike one.

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One man out and nobody on base for the Mets. Batting here in the top half of the second inning.

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The pitch outside for ball.

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One ball, one strike.

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Red Crest coaching it first. Salihimis at third. Cookie Lavageto is handling the bullpen these days.

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Red Ruffing and Rodgers Hornsby left back in St. Petersburg. The pitch is inside. Ball two. It's two and one.

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Red Ruffing and Rodgers Hornsby handling the squad left back at Miller Huggins Field in St. Petersburg to work out while the squad is on this five day swing over to the East Coast.

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They'll be going back Tuesday night to St. Petersburg and take on the Los Angeles Dodgers next Wednesday.

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Here's the pitch to Landriff.

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Hineway. Ball three. Three and one now to Hobie Landriff with pitcher Bob Miller due up next for the New York Mets.

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Most of the Mets have moved out of the dugout and are either seated on the ground leaning back against the fence or on the one bench along the first baseline enjoying the sunshine today.

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There's a fly ball. The left center field. Manny Jimenez has called for it. Jimenez is waiting and he has it for the outdo.

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Two men away. It'll be Miller coming up while we're waiting for him to get up there. We pause now for station identification.

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810 on your dial. WGY. WGFM is connected. He does smoothest rounds around.

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This is Lindsay Nelson with Ralph Cantor and Bob Murphy in West Palm Beach, Florida and Bob Miller is up there now with two men out and nobody on for the New York Mets.

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Miller's a right-hander all the way. So is right-handed. That's right-handed.

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John Wyatt winds and fires and this one just popped up coming over out of play.

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Directly over our broadcasting position located out in the open here at County Back Field.

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We'll take a look at the brownies that came down from North Palm Beach. Tomorrow afternoon we'll be at Sabino Beach to bring you the game between the New York Mets and the Washington Senators.

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Wyatt taking a moment to get the sign here. He has a strike one count to Bob Miller.

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It's in there for a count strike two. Firing that one right down the pipe.

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They're like two men out in the top half of the second inning.

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John Wyatt winds and fires in there for a count strike three. He struck him out.

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That is the first strike out of the day credited to pitcher John Wyatt as he gets the opposing pitcher Bob Miller and in the top half of the second inning.

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The New York Mets go down in order. No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left on base and at the end of one and one-half innings of play the score is the New York Mets three and the Kansas City A's two.

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Going now to the bottom half of the second inning and pitcher John Wyatt is coming up for the Kansas City Athletics. He'll be followed by Dick Hauser and Jose Tardubo.

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Bob Miller still in there for the New York Mets.

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Here's a pitch that's fouled off for strike one.

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This is Wyatt's first time up this afternoon as the Kansas City A's are riding a three-game winning streak and so are the New York Mets.

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Pitch, serve ball, breaking high and it's one and one to John Wyatt.

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There was a great deal of visiting to be done back and forth here this afternoon before the ballgame of course as the writers following the New York Mets wanted to chat with Hank Bauer and Norm Seaborn, Jerry Luffy, those who were formerly in New York.

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There's a swing and a miss. It's strike two, one and two now.

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One ball and two strikes.

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Miller's pitch, swing and a miss. He struck him out. That is the second strike out of the afternoon for Bob Miller as he returned the compliment that Wyatt paid him a moment ago by striking him out.

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So there's one away and Lee Dogg Manthee and Harjit coming up. He grounded out. Manthee to Harjit short to first in the second inning.

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Harjit chokes up a little bit, has lots of speed. Oh, strike one, strikes down the pipe on the bases. He's at terror.

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Miller again delivers, goes high. For ball it's one and one.

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And as the case is single, as Jim Hickman out there in center field this afternoon, he gave John DeMare a pretty good run there for several games.

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And now he has stuck Jim Hickman in to see what this young fellow can do in the outfield.

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Here's a couple of fellows he could play out there, Joe Christopher and of course Ashburn is his number one man out there. It's a call strike to house it.

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Richie Ashburn is a veteran at the center field position.

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One ball and two strikes. Chuck Sitton has called the ball. Hobie Landers almost fired the ball down to third base when Don Zimmer hoping for a strike call, but it goes two-two.

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Both John DeMare and Jim Hickman have shown in Grapefruit League competition thus far they can feel the position, they can throw, they can both run.

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So the question is who can hit consistently enough to step into an outfield bird.

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Guys, the Mets will be counting on the young fellows to step in there of course as the season progresses. That's the idea of building the ball.

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So here's the pitch. There's a fly ball going to left field, left center. Hickman is coming in now. Hickman takes it. And Dick Houser has flied out to Jim Hickman, two away.

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And Jose Tartabal, who's single in the first inning, is coming up. Left hand batter. Two men out, nobody on base. The Kansas City Athletics.

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The New York Mets leading the Kansas City A's by a score of three to two.

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Here's Miller's pitch. Down low for a ball. Don Zimmer, mindful of what happened the last time Tartabal came up, has moved on to step on the edge of the grass at third

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as Tartabal dumped the ball down the third baseline and beat it out last time, showing lots of speed getting down to first as Zimmer handled the ball cleanly but not in time.

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Now here's a line drive going in the right and Gus Bell is right there. Doesn't move and takes it for the outs.

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So Tartabal has lined out to Gus Bell and right and the Kansas City A's go down to the bottom half of the third inning in order.

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Wyatt Houser and Tartabal out with no runs on no hits, no errors, and nobody left on base.

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And at the end of two full innings of play, the score is the New York Mets three and the Kansas City Athletics two.

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We'll be going to the top half of the third inning and the New York Mets will have the head of their batting order up. Felix Mantia, the shortstop.

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He'll be followed by Rod Kniell and Gus Bell.

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Hayward Sullivan throws those down to second to ball around the infield and back out to pitcher John Wyatt.

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Now Felix Mantia steps in to lead off four of the Mets, top of the third.

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Batting order posted in the dugout before the game had Chacon on it, but Chacon did not take batting practice in that position.

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Mantia did and of course Mantia started the game.

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Redhander John Wyatt with the first pitch to Mantia outside for a ball. He bluffed a bunch. Ball one.

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Swing and a miss. It's one and one. One ball, one strike.

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Mantia's D'Casey Stingle spent quite a bit of time visiting with pitching coach Ed Lopat before the ball game.

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Lopat of course was his pitching coach the last year that Stingle managed the New York Yankees.

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Lopat replaced Jim Turner. There's a foul ball coming over and out of play.

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One ball and two strikes.

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Mr. Murphy, who is catching foul balls today? Have we delegated Mr. Kiner for that duty today?

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I think we should rely on the sure hand of Mr. Ralph Kiner, yes.

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If Kiner is so appointed and if struck in the teeth he will be held accountable.

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If I am struck in the teeth, that is.

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All right, one ball and two strikes to Felix Mantia.

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Game to the Mets from the Milwaukee Braves. Wyatt's pitch, a little tight.

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Two balls, two strikes now.

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Mantia was stuck in there at the shortstop position by a manager, Casey Stingle,

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when the Grapefruit League competition was opened two weeks ago this afternoon in St. Petersburg against the Cardinals.

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But it did not take Delio Chacon long to sort of take over at that position.

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Let's take another look at Mantia. Pitch is inside. It's three and two now to Mantia.

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In the great years of the Milwaukee Club, 57, 58, 59, along in there, Felix Mantia had a big hand.

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He was a utility man and stepped in frequently into the lineup, gave them a big lift.

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There's a foul ball back and out of play.

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Three balls and two strikes to Mantia.

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Rod Kaniel is on deck.

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Charlie Neal out of the lineup for the second consecutive day.

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Neal has already shown this spring that he is at top form.

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Here's the pitch. Pitched him tight and he walked in so the Mets have a base runner.

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As Mantia goes to first with the base on balls, that is the first walk given up by pitcher John Wyatt of the Kansas City A's

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and brings up Rod Kaniel, who was on on Seabrook's era at first base in the first inning.

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Rod Kaniel, right-hand batter, so K-A-N-E-H-L.

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Wideshakes. Mantia leads.

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Here's the ground ball, the third base, and it's going on out into left field.

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Wayne Kazee got a glove and it went right on and Mantia goes to third.

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The throw is going to second and he's off the line there.

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And Kaniel goes into second. The Mets have runners at second and third.

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Wayne Kazee got over, barely touched it and he went on out into left field.

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And Mantia continued on to third. The throw went to second base.

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And Kaniel had turned at first, kept right on going, and is in at second base.

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So the Mets have runners at second and third and that's going to bring up Gus Bell with nobody out.

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So the Mets have a one-run lead there, leading by a score of three to two.

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We're in the top half of the third inning and they're going for more here.

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That is scored by the official scorer as a double for Rod Kaniel.

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That is a two-base hit for Rod Kaniel, sending Mantia to third.

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All right, Bell is standing in. It's an open stance. Here's the pitch.

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Blowing away, ball one.

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There is nobody out.

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Bell fly out to left field in the first inning.

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Wyatt's pitch calls strike one, one and one.

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Wyatt looking in to get the sign from Haywood Sullivan.

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Has it now into the windup.

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There's a line drive going into center field for a base hit.

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Mantia has come on to score. Kaniel is coming on to score.

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As Tartabot fires the ball into second base, holds Bell at first,

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but he gets two runs batted in on the line single into center field.

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The New York Mets lead by a score of five to two.

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Gets Bell ripping the ball straight away out of the center field,

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scoring both Mantia and Kaniel.

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There was no sort of the play that came to second base to keep Bell from advancing on the throw in.

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And Frank Thomas is up now.

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Frank Thomas ripped the ball down the left field line in the first inning to drive in the first turn of the ball game.

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Got a double.

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There's still nobody out.

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Gets Bell at first base.

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Wyatt's pitch to Thomas.

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Send him down into the dirt.

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Turned him out of there. It's ball one.

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Bill Hodges is now on deck for the New York Mets.

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Bell takes his lead at first.

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Pitch to Thomas. It is high for Ball. Two and nothing.

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The Mets took a lot of good-natured ribbing from the Dodgers after yesterday's ball game.

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The Dodgers are saying, gee, you guys have beaten the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Why don't you go right on out and take on the Stonems?

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Take on the Giants right now.

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Walter O'Malley said, I'll give you my playing and you can be on your way.

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Pitch is low and away. Ball three.

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So it's out three and nothing now to Frank Thomas looking down to Solly Hemis, the Mets' coach at third base.

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Still nobody out.

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Score five to two, New York leading Kansas City in the top half of the third inning.

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Inside ball four, you're walking.

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That pushes Gasbell up to second.

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Frank Thomas walks down to first.

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That is a second walk given up by John Wyatt and brings up right-hand batter Gil Hodges.

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Turn the sacrifice fly to left field in the first inning.

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A delegation came over today from Boca Raton to support baseball here in West Palm Beach.

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And they've been greeted with a sunny day, a little bit windy.

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Runners at first and second lead.

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And Hodges shortened up, took outside for ball one.

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Hodges looking down to Solly Hemis now at third, shortened up as though to bunt with nobody out.

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Shove those runners up. The Mets lead five-two.

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Wyatt again goes into the stretch.

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Swing and a miss. Hodges took a rip at that one.

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Roger Craig in uniform this afternoon moving around in the dugout area of the New York Mets.

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He and Al Jackson were not in uniform yesterday.

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Ed Virovitz, they were given the day off.

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After the victory over the Yankees, they will be pitched again next Tuesday against the Yankees, Craig and Jackson.

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The stretch and the pitch down into the dirt dug up by catcher Haywood Sullivan.

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Two balls in one strike.

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Kansas City A's have Norm Seaborn defensively at first base, Jerry Lumpy at second, Dick Hauser at short, Wayne Causey at third,

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Manny Jimenez in left, Jose Tartabal in center, Gino Somoli in right.

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Two balls in one strike to Gil Hodges.

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Foul ball. It's out of play.

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So the count is leveled up at two balls and two strikes now.

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Gets fell to base runner at second. Frank Thomas, the base runner at first.

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Here's the pitch. Foul ball. It's out of play.

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The count holds at two and two on Gil Hodges.

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Gil Hodges seemed to know his way around Virovitz pretty well yesterday.

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He's sure he was there for many, many years with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Here's the 2-2 pitch. There's the fly ball going to left field.

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Manny Jimenez moves underneath. He is waiting and he has it. There is no advance.

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Both runners halfway on the fly ball to left.

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So there is one away. It's Hodges. It's fly to Manny Jimenez in left field.

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00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,000
Bell returns to the bag at second. Thomas returns to the bag at first.

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And that will bring up third baseman Don Zimmer.

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Right hand batter Zimmer singles. He's driving around the first inning. Don Zimmer.

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00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:54,000
He watched himself out at second trying to stretch it to a double.

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00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,000
Ball at Hodges hit just now. It was into a strong wind when it left the plate.

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So it might be going deep, but it's held up and Jimenez moved in underneath.

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00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:13,000
This one is popped up bow coming over to the right.

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And got very, very close to Mr. Schiner.

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So it goes as a strike. What became, Mr. Murphy, of our foul ball catchers?

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I think we both got faked out by the telephone pole.

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I think it was a P-8 or something. It was about four feet away.

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And a huge telephone pole about five feet away. We didn't know which way to jump.

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00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,000
All right. It's strike one to Don Zimmer.

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At the plate with one man out and runners at first and second.

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00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:57,000
Rocked him back. It's one and one.

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00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:10,000
One ball, one strike. One man out.

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00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,000
John Wyatt checking now.

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00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:19,000
He's got to work. Here's a pitch. That turned him out of there.

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Two balls and one strike to count to Don Zimmer.

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00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,000
Don Zimmer nailed down the third base position on this ball club in a hurry

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when spring training opened for the New York Mets.

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But he's hustled and he's enthusiasm in a way he's been swinging that bat as well.

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He nailed down that position right from the start.

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00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:47,000
Don Zimmer with a count of two balls and one strike right now.

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The pitch.

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00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:51,000
And as the drive going deep to center field,

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Tartabull is going back, back, but this one is one hop to the wall.

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00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,000
The spell is coming on this court.

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00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,000
Thomas is at third base as the relay comes into the end field.

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00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,000
Thomas holds his third.

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00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,000
It's a double for Zema over the head of Jose Tartabull.

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One hop to the wall. 383 feet away in center field.

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The Mets lead by a score of 62. They have runners at second and third.

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They still only one man out and Jim Hickman is coming up.

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00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:28,000
Zimmer, two for two here this afternoon, and he has batted in two runs, a single and a double.

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00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,000
By Thomas. He's at third base and Zimmer is at second.

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00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,000
Here's Hickman up there.

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He's flat out to right field in the second inning.

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00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:52,000
Jim Hickman with Portland last year was selected by the New York Mets from the St. Louis organization.

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00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,000
And here is a broken bat line drive into left field, dropping in for a base hit.

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00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,000
Spell has come on this court. Zimmer is coming to the plate.

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00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,000
He scores the throw go to second base.

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00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,000
Hickman has a single left and two runs batted in.

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00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:08,000
And now it is eight to two. The New York Mets are in front.

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00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:14,000
As Hickman broke his bat with that line drive out into left field, as it scored Frank Thomas and Don Zimmer,

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00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,000
there is still only one man out.

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00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,000
And Hobie Landriff is coming up. He has a left-hand batter.

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On the way to the plate right now.

434
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:29,000
New York Mets have scored five runs this inning.

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00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:33,000
Off right-hand pitch is John Wyatt of the Kansas City Athletics.

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00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,000
Felix Mantia starts his off with a walk, then Keneal doubled.

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00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,000
Gus Bell single to drive in two.

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00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,000
Frank Thomas walks. Hodges slide to left.

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00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:45,000
Don Zimmer doubled over the head of Jose Tartabola and centers to drive in a run.

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00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:51,000
And Hickman has just single to left to drive in two.

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00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,000
Last time up, Landriff slide to left field.

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00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,000
He's nothing for one.

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00:50:54,000 --> 00:51:04,000
He watches outside for ball one.

444
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:09,000
New York Mets with a big inning here in the top half of the third at West Palm Beach, Florida,

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00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:14,000
against the Kansas City Athletics.

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00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:18,000
And he gets a call strike there as he brought the batter on, tried to check it,

447
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:26,000
but the young guy behind the plate says he went through, so Kennaman causes a strike.

448
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,000
New York Mets beat the Chicago White Sox 8-4.

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00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,000
That's the most runs that they have scored in a single game,

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00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,000
and right now they're leading in this one by a score of 8-2.

451
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,000
So they are at their all-time high right now.

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00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:47,000
That pitch is inside the Hobie Landriff. It's two balls and one strike to Landriff.

453
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:59,000
The Mets came into this afternoon's game with a spring record of six victories and seven losses.

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00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Here's the ground ball going down to first.

455
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,000
Norm Stebenfield did in fair territory, steps on the bag and he's out.

456
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:09,000
Hickman moves to second. There are two men down now.

457
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Landriff topping that one down the line to first, and Norm Stebenfield did the ball near the bag.

458
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Hickman, of course, moving to second, and Bob Miller is the ninth man to come to the plate this inning for the New York Mets.

459
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:32,000
They've scored five runs on four hits in this inning, five runs on four hits,

460
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:37,000
with a couple of walks thrown in.

461
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,000
Hickman takes his lead at second base now.

462
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Right-hander John Wyatt is in picking position. The pitcher's on the way.

463
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:47,000
And there is a line drive over the head of Steben, down the line and right field.

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00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,000
Hickman is turning third and coming out. It's a holy throw.

465
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:55,000
It's coming into first base, and Bob Miller, the pitcher, has delivered with a run better than on a line drive single,

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00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,000
over the head of Steben. He jumped before he couldn't pull it down,

467
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:04,000
and the Mets have batted completely around in leadoff man Felix Mantias coming up.

468
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,000
And now the Mets have scored nine runs.

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00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:14,000
This is the most that they have scored in any ball game ever.

470
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,000
Nine to two, the Mets over the Kansas City Athletics.

471
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:28,000
Felix Mantias started all of this with a walk, coming up for his second time here in the top half of the third inning.

472
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:32,000
Felix Mantias chokes up just a little bit on the bat.

473
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:40,000
The pitcher, Bob Miller, leaves it first. John Wyatt delivers in there for a call strike one.

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00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:48,000
The New York Mets with their biggest inning ever here, the top of the third against the Kansas City Athletics.

475
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:54,000
The Athletics were rained out yesterday at Pompano Beach. Here is a pitcher blowing away.

476
00:53:54,000 --> 00:54:06,000
They were scheduled to play the Washington Senators at Pompano yesterday, but were rained out.

477
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:12,000
Miller leaves it first. The pitch took a lot off of that one, and it is tapped and pulled foul.

478
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:18,000
Wayne Coddy comes over in foul territory to field it and toss it back.

479
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:31,000
The short is one ball and two strikes.

480
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,000
The Mets have scored six runs on five hits.

481
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,000
In this inning, they lead by a score of nine to two.

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00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:43,000
Gordon Jones throwing in the bullpen to the Kansas City A's, right hand to Gordon Jones.

483
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:54,000
The pitch is low and outside. It's 2-2 now to Felix Mantias.

484
00:54:54,000 --> 00:55:03,000
I remember the 1957 season in Pittsburgh when Mantias collided with Bill Bruton on a fly ball to deep short seven.

485
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,000
Bruton was out the rest of the season for the Milwaukee Braves.

486
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:10,000
The pitch is outside and Mantias came back and played a good part of the remainder of the season.

487
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:19,000
It's 3-2 now to Felix Mantias.

488
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:27,000
Two men out, 3-2. Pitcher Bob Miller on it first. He'll be moving with the pitch.

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00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,000
There goes Miller. 3-2 he walked in.

490
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:35,000
So Mantias draws his second walk of this inning.

491
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:40,000
That's the third walk given up by pitcher John Wyatt.

492
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:44,000
Miller is at second. Mantias at first and Rod Kaniel is coming up.

493
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:52,000
He doubled in the third and he's been a ground ball out past Wayne Cousy who tried to backhand it and could not

494
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:58,000
and it went on out into left field and the score is a double for Rod Kaniel.

495
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:04,000
Still two men out, six runs in this inning for the New York Mets.

496
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:14,000
Bow balls, men often out of play.

497
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:19,000
Bow balls get over here in a hurry don't they?

498
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:26,000
Tell you that's the man I'm watching today.

499
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,000
I don't want to lose it.

500
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:34,000
Strike one count to Rod Kaniel. He's been on base both times he's been up.

501
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:43,000
We were saying earlier manager Hank Bauer, the Kansas City A's, was very complimentary of this young fellow before the ball game.

502
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:48,000
Bow ball coming over along the first base line where we're located.

503
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:59,000
A strike two count.

504
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:15,000
Manager Hank Bauer of the A's was saying that he thought Rod Kaniel would make a very excellent utility man because he can be used as an outfielder, as an infielder, second baseman here today.

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00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:21,000
It's in there for a cold strike three. He struck him out to retire the side.

506
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:31,000
So the New York Mets go out in the top half of the third inning on six runs, five hits, no errors and two men left on base.

507
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:42,000
And so at the end of two and one half innings of play the score is the New York Mets nine and the Kansas City A's two.

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00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:52,000
We'll be going now to the bottom half of the third inning. It'll be Jerry Lumpy coming up as we're waiting for him. We pause now for station identification.

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A-10 on your dial, WGY, WGF, and Schenectady to smooth the sound around.

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00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:17,000
This is Lindsey Nelson with Ralph Kander and Bob Murphy at County Mac Field in West Palm Beach, Florida. As we move to the bottom half of the third inning, Jerry Lumpy comes up against right-handed Bob Miller.

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00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:24,000
Lumpy had a two-run homer in the first inning as he drove the ball over the fence in right field.

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00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:39,000
There's the pitch inside to Jerry Lumpy, it's ball. Lumpy is the player representative of the Kansas City Athletics.

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00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:48,000
Wind up and the pitch. There is the ground ball going up the middle for a base hit for Jerry Lumpy. Jim Hickman comes up with it, fires it in, turning and holding it first.

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00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:54,000
Jerry Lumpy with his second base hit of the day, this time a single, on the ground up the middle into center field.

515
00:58:54,000 --> 00:59:01,000
So the Kansas City Athletics turned up Norm Seaborn. Now he walked in the first inning, formerly of the New York Yankees.

516
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:08,000
This is a fellow who had a great deal of trouble with left field, with the sun field at Yankee Stadium.

517
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:15,000
It actually got to be quite a thing with him.

518
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:23,000
Here's the pitch inside for ball.

519
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:33,000
Gordon Jones still throwing in the bullpen for the Kansas City Athletics.

520
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:38,000
Lumpy leads it first, and there's a one-half of the scoring pass, Canneel and on out in the right field for a base hit.

521
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:45,000
Gus fell up with it. Lumpy is digging for third, the throw across the diamond. Lumpy slides in safely at third, holding it first Norm Seaborn.

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00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,000
He ripped that one just outside the reach of Rod Canneel going to his left between first and second.

523
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:56,000
So Seaborn has a single to right, and the Kansas City A's have put together back-to-back singles off Bob Miller.

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00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:03,000
Lumpy now is at third, and Norm Seaborn's at first. There's nobody out, and Manny Jimenez is coming up. He's singled in the first inning.

525
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:09,000
The New York Mets leading by a score of 9-2.

526
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:15,000
This is by far the most comfortable lead that the New York Mets have enjoyed in Grapefruit League competition.

527
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:22,000
This is their 14th game. They actually have been out of only two of those ball games, the first one which they lost 8-0 to the St. Louis Cardinals,

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01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:27,000
and the game that they lost to the Milwaukee Braves, the only two they have really been out of most of the way.

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01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:32,000
Here's the pitch fouled off, a strike one to Manny Jimenez.

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01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:38,000
Coming into this afternoon's game, the Mets had played six consecutive games decided by one run.

531
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:45,000
Lost three straights and then won three straights, all one-run ball games.

532
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:51,000
That is interesting baseball.

533
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,000
Bob Miller now up on the rubber, goes into the stretch.

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01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:59,000
Even at first, Lumpy gets third, takes her lead, the pitch is low and away.

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01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:04,000
One and one, the count now to Manny Jimenez.

536
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,000
Tomorrow afternoon we'll be at Pompano Beach to bring you the New York Mets and the Washington Senators.

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01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:19,000
We'll be on the air at 1.25 Eastern Standard Time, game time 1.30 Eastern Standard Time.

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01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:28,000
Pitch to Jimenez goes outside, it's two and one.

539
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:32,000
There was a lot of baseball talk in the dugout before today's ball game.

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01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:36,000
Veteran manager Donnie Bush was there with manager Casey Stengel.

541
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,000
Veteran scout Ted McGrew on hand.

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01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:46,000
They can take you almost all the way back to double day.

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01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:57,000
Bob Miller, set the pitch low, and it's three and one now to Manny Jimenez.

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01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:07,000
1960 with Austin in the Texas League, he hit 359.

545
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:12,000
Last year with Vancouver, he hit 325 and had 17 home runs.

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01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:19,000
Manny Jimenez, manager Hank Barr said before the ball game he's delighted to have him,

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01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,000
even if he did have to give up pitcher Bob Shaw.

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01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:33,000
In the deal he thought he got actually about three for one in the trade.

549
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:37,000
Bob Miller now leans over to get the sign, has it.

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01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:42,000
This is a three-one pitch on the way, and it's a ground ball, a grass cutter to Mantia.

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01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:48,000
He placed a conel for one to relay the first, he's safe at first base and a run has scores.

552
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:54,000
As Jerry Lumpy crossed the plate, Manny Jimenez beats the relay.

553
01:02:54,000 --> 01:03:00,000
Norm Steven with fours from Felix Mantia to Rod Camille, it goes 64 to scoring.

554
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:06,000
The relay is simply not in time, and that will bring up Gino Somoli, right-hand batter.

555
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:11,000
We have a nine to three ball game now, the New York Mets nine, the Kansas City A's three.

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01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:15,000
There is one man out and a runner at first base.

557
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:21,000
Jimenez has lots of speed, he gets down there in a hurry.

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01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:26,000
Hit to call, strike one, right down the pipe to Gino Somoli.

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01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:30,000
Again they are playing him shaded over toward right field.

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01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:42,000
With that slow stance he likes to go in that direction.

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01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:47,000
A little check and deal, inside football.

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01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:49,000
One and one now, and time is called.

563
01:03:49,000 --> 01:04:00,000
If Hobie Landis wants to go out and confer for a moment with Bob Miller again.

564
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:07,000
At the plate, Gino Somoli conversing with umpire Bill Kennaman of the American League.

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01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:14,000
Gino Somoli was one of the outstanding athletes of the San Francisco area during his school days,

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01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:18,000
and the finest all-around athletes ever produced in that area.

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01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:27,000
Gino Somoli.

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01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,000
Miller is set to work.

569
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:33,000
A pitch, inside for ball.

570
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:37,000
Two and one now to Gino Somoli.

571
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:45,000
Wayne Kazee has moved into the on-deck circle.

572
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:49,000
Kansas City A's have won three straight Grapefruit League games.

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01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:54,000
With a record of eight victories and five losses overall.

574
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:56,000
Howell's strike, got it in there.

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01:04:56,000 --> 01:05:08,000
Two balls, two strikes.

576
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:13,000
President George Weiss of the New York Mets and General Manager Bessie Bavasi of the Los Angeles Dodgers

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01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:18,000
had a long, long talk last night after the ball game.

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01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,000
In there for a call of strike three.

579
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,000
Got him looking.

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01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:27,000
And that is strikeout number three for young Bob Miller, two men out.

581
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:31,000
Manny Jimenez holding it first, and Wayne Kazee is coming up.

582
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:35,000
He walked in the first inning.

583
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:40,000
First President George Weiss of the Mets is likely to be in close touch with General Managers everywhere

584
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as we near the time when clubs will be cutting squads and players will become available.

585
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:52,000
It's in there for a call of strike.

586
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:56,000
When you are building a ball of clubs from scratch, as the Mets are,

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01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:06,000
of course you have to start with the best you can get and then start to build whenever and wherever you can.

588
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:17,000
Jimenez leads. That pitch goes outside because it's one and one.

589
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:29,000
Sunny afternoon in West Palm Beach, Florida.

590
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:33,000
The pitch builds high.

591
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:39,000
Two balls and one strike.

592
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:41,000
The New York Mets leading by a score of nine to two.

593
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,000
In case you have joined us along the way, they got three runs in the top half of the first.

594
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:49,000
Kansas City came right back in the bottom half of the first to get two, and Jerry Luffy had a two-run homer.

595
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:54,000
Then the Mets came back in the top half of the third inning as the veterans started to explode here,

596
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:59,000
and they got six big runs to make it nine to two, and then Kansas City scored one to make it nine-three.

597
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:05,000
That pitch is low. Ball three and strike one now to Wayne Kazee.

598
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:16,000
Kansas City has scored one this inning.

599
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:20,000
This will be a three-one pitch to the left-hand batter.

600
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:24,000
And as a long drive going to right field, Gustav going back.

601
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,000
This one is off the wall. Jim Hickman comes up with it.

602
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,000
Weaves it in. Hillen has his rounding third as the throw comes through the infield.

603
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:38,000
He goes back to the bag as Don Zimmer scoops it up. So it is a double off the wall at the 350-foot sign.

604
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:41,000
For a left-hand batter, Wayne Kazee, who pulled it up there.

605
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:46,000
Bell went back as far as he could go, and Jim Hickman actually took the Ricky Say off the wall,

606
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,000
fired it back into the infield.

607
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,000
Himanek has pulled up at third. Wayne Kazee pulled up at second.

608
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:54,000
And now it's Ketcher Haywood Sullivan, a right-hand batter coming up.

609
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:58,000
Kansas City Athletics have run it at second and third. There are two men out.

610
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:01,000
They have one run in this inning.

611
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:09,000
Haywood Sullivan grounded out from short to first in the bottom half of the first inning.

612
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:15,000
Sullivan, a rangey fellow.

613
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:21,000
Standing in and waiting for the pitch from young Bob Miller of the New York Mets.

614
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:25,000
He looks at Himanek as at second. Kazee, Himanek as at third. Kazee at second.

615
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:42,000
And the pitch goes outside for a ball. It's 1-0.

616
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,000
Runners take their leads.

617
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:47,000
Here's the pitch.

618
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:51,000
Came inside and it's ball two.

619
01:08:51,000 --> 01:09:04,000
Two balls and no strikes to Haywood Sullivan.

620
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,000
Miller works with a windup.

621
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:10,000
Swing and a miss, four-strike one. It's two and one.

622
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:26,000
Haywood Sullivan looking for distance there to cut.

623
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:36,000
Play him almost straight away.

624
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:40,000
It's two-one pitch. Swing and a miss. He's got away and comes all the way back.

625
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,000
Here comes Himanek to the plate and he scores.

626
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:48,000
And now the throw miss is coming back. And another play at the plate and he scores.

627
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,000
So two runs are scored here for the Kansas City A's.

628
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:56,000
With such a windup for you again, here was the situation.

629
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:02,000
Pitch low and away got by as Sullivan took his cut.

630
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:07,000
And it was chased down by Landrace. As Himanez scored, Landrace's throw got away from Miller,

631
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:12,000
went back to the infield, and Wayne Kazee took his turn and came on.

632
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:18,000
And so Don Zimmer came up with the ball, fired it back to the plate, but both runs have scored.

633
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:24,000
So it's three runs in this inning for the Kansas City A's and it is now a nine-to-five ballgame.

634
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:31,000
As Himanez and Wayne Kazee score, the ball never getting very far away from home plate in that exchange.

635
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:40,000
Hayward Sullivan has accounted two balls and two strikes.

636
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:45,000
We have got the official scoring for you as soon as we can get in touch with the official scorer.

637
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:52,000
We are now located in our immediate area here.

638
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:58,000
Scored as a wild pitch and an error on the catcher. That would be on the throw back to the plate.

639
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:03,000
So scored as a wild pitch and an error on the catcher which allowed Kazee to score.

640
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:11,000
Himanez scored on the wild pitch.

641
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:20,000
That's low and away. It's ball three, three and two now.

642
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:24,000
So the Kansas City A's have three runs on three hits and one error here in this inning thus far.

643
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:29,000
And after the third swing and a miss he struck him out to retire the side.

644
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:32,000
That is strikeout number four for Bob Miller.

645
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:35,000
In the bottom of the third the Kansas City A's get three runs.

646
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:40,000
On three hits, one error and nobody left on base.

647
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:50,000
And so at the end of three full innings of play, the score is the New York Mets nine and the Kansas City Athletics five.

648
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:54,000
Thank you very kindly, Lindsey. Better run than Gus Bell.

649
01:11:54,000 --> 01:12:01,000
The leadoff again. Move along that on the forefooting and we've got a real pure sixth ball going in this game today.

650
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:05,000
You usually see a lot of runs scored in this particular part.

651
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:10,000
Bell swings and hits the ball foul back against the fence.

652
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:13,000
Down the left field line, three thirty. Down the right field line, three thirty.

653
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:17,000
They have a rather high green fence all the way around.

654
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:23,000
The wind is usually pretty strong here. Today it's been blowing in favor of the left-hand hitters.

655
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:29,000
Gus is last time up single to center field driving in Felix Mantilla and Rod Camille.

656
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:33,000
Wind up in pitch by Wyatt. Curve that's in there for a call strike.

657
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:36,000
Two strike count on Gus Bell.

658
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:38,000
Nine to five, the score in the ball game.

659
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:46,000
Top of the four inning the Mets have picked up seven bases off Wyatt and the A's have a total of six off Bob Miller.

660
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:51,000
Frank Thomas waiting on Deacon and Gil Hodges.

661
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:54,000
It's already a big day for the veterans of the Mets.

662
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:59,000
Frank Thomas, Gil Hodges, Don Zimmer, and Gus Bell have all driven runs in.

663
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:05,000
Outside one ball, two strikes.

664
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:13,000
Gus now has five RBIs for the spring.

665
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:19,000
Wind blowing hard toward right field, the infield and the outfield swung around the right.

666
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:22,000
A fly ball hits a center field running for it.

667
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:25,000
If the center field are Tartabull and he makes the catch for the out.

668
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:33,000
Tartabull was over in right center and had to return to straight away center to take the fly ball hit by Gus Bell.

669
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:38,000
One away, nobody on. Now in the top half of the fourth inning and the hitter is Frank Thomas.

670
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:42,000
Frank has a perfect day at the plate going. He doubled to drive in a run in the first inning.

671
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:46,000
Drew a walk and later scored in the third inning.

672
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:51,000
Frank came in the game hitting a 333.

673
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:55,000
Six RBIs to his credit.

674
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:59,000
Been a real good spring for the veteran outfielder Frank Thomas.

675
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,000
Wind up pitched by Wyatt.

676
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,000
A high pop up to shallow left center field. Might be tough to reach.

677
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:08,000
Here comes Tartabull. He dives but he has to catch it on a trap.

678
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,000
And it's a base hit for Frank Thomas.

679
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:16,000
There was quite a try by Jose Tartabull, the left handed throwing center fielder of the Kansas City A's.

680
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:20,000
He left his feet, made the head first dive, and he came up with the ball but it was a trap.

681
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:31,000
And so it's a base hit for Frank Thomas. Frank has two for two.

682
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,000
One away and one on. Here comes Gil Hodges.

683
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:41,000
Gil has pulled the ball both times up in today's game. And any time you pull a ball to left field out here this afternoon,

684
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:44,000
you're hitting the ball into the teeth of a mighty strong wind.

685
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:52,000
So Gil is 0 for 2 on two outfield flies to left.

686
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:57,000
Here's the pitch to him. A high fly this time hit down the right field line.

687
01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:03,000
When carrying the ball toward the line it may blow it foul and it does a foul ball out of the park.

688
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:06,000
That ball started out stereo and passed the infield.

689
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:16,000
Still a fair ball but the wind kept sweeping it and carried it over the wall in foul territory.

690
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:20,000
Gordy Jones starts loosening up in the bullpen for the A's once again.

691
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:25,000
This is one of the few free-hitting contests that we've had so far in spring training.

692
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:29,000
Well the Mets their 14th game.

693
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:36,000
They had one game washed out in the third inning because of a real downpour over in St. Petersburg.

694
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:40,000
Norm Sieber now holding against the runner Frank Thomas.

695
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:45,000
Here's the pitch to Gil. Look out. Inside and high. Gil had to get out of the way in a hurry.

696
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:49,000
One ball, one strike.

697
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:54,000
Gil Hodges, one of the classiest guys in baseball, and you never saw any one player get a better greeting

698
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:59,000
from his former teammates than Gil got yesterday in Vero Beach.

699
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:08,000
You can tell the Dodgers are mighty glad to see him.

700
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:14,000
Don Drysdale for one has gone on record as saying, make no mistake about it, but Dodgers are going to miss Gil.

701
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:17,000
Foul back upstairs and out of play.

702
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:25,000
One ball and two strikes now on Gil Hodges.

703
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:31,000
The Mets will be opening their home season at the Polo Grounds on Friday, April 13th against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

704
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:37,000
And of course, seats are now on sale for the opener at all 81 home games.

705
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:45,000
A smash foul pulled down the left field line. Gil's ripping in the best ball today.

706
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:55,000
Jay is playing some catch now, and Ed may give Hodges a spell after this inning.

707
01:16:55,000 --> 01:17:07,000
This is the top half of the fourth inning. Game sent to you with the best wishes of Ryan Gold, extra dry.

708
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:12,000
Now John Wyatt, the right-hander pitches. This is the outside edge.

709
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:16,000
Even count on Gil Hodges at two and two.

710
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:20,000
Salihimas directing traffic on third. He's had a real good workout over there today.

711
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:26,000
The Mets already have scored nine. Their high runout put for the entire spring training season.

712
01:17:26,000 --> 01:17:33,000
Red Crest on the coaching lines at first. Reds two and oh. Two straight wins, coaching at first base.

713
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:41,000
Pitching two and two. In the dirt, good stop by Haywood Sullivan.

714
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:46,000
Kansas City has probably the youngest ball club in the major leagues.

715
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:51,000
After finishing in a tie for tenth, they decided that they had only one way to go, and that was up,

716
01:17:51,000 --> 01:18:00,000
and they are really switching the accent to youth. Their average age will be about 23 and a half.

717
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:06,000
Pitching three and two, the runner goes, and it's a dry foul hit down the left field line and out of play.

718
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:13,000
Now Frank Thomas will have to retrace his steps. The count remains at three and two on Gil Hodges.

719
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:16,000
The A's feel they have a solid infield.

720
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:21,000
Hank Bowers says he compares his infield favorably with that of any American League team.

721
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:27,000
The big puzzle for the A's, of course, is pitching. A couple of spots in the outfield and catching.

722
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:31,000
So they have plenty to work on.

723
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:38,000
Thomas edging away. He's on the go. The three-two pitch, a high fly ball hit into the wind to left field.

724
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:47,000
Manny Jimenez comes in, coming in, and he makes the catch in left field for the A's.

725
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:51,000
Now there are two away in the top half of the fourth inning, and that brings up Don Zimmer.

726
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:56,000
And Zip is off to a real good day, two for two, singled in the first, driving in a run,

727
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:59,000
and then doubled in the third inning to drive in another run.

728
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:03,000
So Don Zimmer, two for two, two runs batted in.

729
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,000
Don also scored a run in the third inning.

730
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:10,000
Zimmer is third baseman.

731
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:15,000
Don, feet not too far apart, up close to the plate, holds the bat off the shoulder.

732
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:24,000
Now to pitch to him. An off-speed pitch that's in there for a strike.

733
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:27,000
Well, you feel almost as terrible as on Christmas Day when you get weather like this

734
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:34,000
after the day we had yesterday over in Vero Beach.

735
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:38,000
Most of the games in this area were rained out yesterday.

736
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:48,000
The pitch on the way, a little bit low, Zip laying off of it, one ball, one strike.

737
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:52,000
Nine to five, the Mets been in front, top half of the fourth inning.

738
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:55,000
Frank Thomas on first, there are two away.

739
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:58,000
Right-hander John Wyatt pitches Thomas running, a line drive to right center field,

740
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,000
it'll be in for a base hit.

741
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Thomas around second, headed toward third, hard to bowl up with it.

742
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,000
Thomas has the green light around third, he'll try and score.

743
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:07,000
No relay throw by Lumpy.

744
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:11,000
The run is in as Thomas crosses the plate, standing up on a right hip and run double

745
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:16,000
to right center by Don Zimmer.

746
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:19,000
Well, Ralph, that's making the hit-and-run play work in perfection.

747
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:21,000
That certainly was well done by Zimmer.

748
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:24,000
He had Thomas going, hit behind him, and hit it hard enough to hit the double

749
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,000
to score him all the way from first.

750
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:29,000
A real, very good play.

751
01:20:29,000 --> 01:20:31,000
That's the tenth run of the ball game for the New York Mets,

752
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:35,000
and they now lead the Kansas City A's by a score of ten to five.

753
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:41,000
For Don Zimmer, he's now three for three, has knocked three runs in, and scored a run.

754
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:45,000
Two doubles and a single for Don Zimmer.

755
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:49,000
Now Jim Hickman is up, Jim lined the base hit to the left field,

756
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:52,000
driving two runs in, his last time up.

757
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:55,000
A swing and a miss, rank one.

758
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:58,000
This fellow, Jim Hickman, is a marvelous defensive ball player.

759
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:00,000
If he hits it all, he's going to be quite a player.

760
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:04,000
He popped everybody's eyes wide open over in Vero Beach yesterday.

761
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:08,000
When he took a fly ball in left field, he was running toward the line when he made the catch,

762
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,000
wheeled instantly, and made a tremendous throw,

763
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:15,000
and he almost got one of baseball's fastest men, Willie Davis, at home plate.

764
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:18,000
Willie had to slide to get in there.

765
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:23,000
A high fly hit down the right field line, galloping toward the line goes Geno Somoli,

766
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:38,000
but the wind carries its foul over on the roof of the tool shed, and it bounces out of play.

767
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:40,000
The Mets now have ten runs on nine hits.

768
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:44,000
We're in the top of the fourth inning.

769
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:50,000
Little Don Zimmer leading the Mets in RBIs down here with eight RBIs in 14 ball games,

770
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:53,000
and actually he hasn't played all 14.

771
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:56,000
He's been in most of them, though.

772
01:21:56,000 --> 01:22:02,000
The batter is Jim Hickman with Don Zimmer on second.

773
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,000
Okay, she's been saying, I've been mighty proud of my pitching,

774
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:08,000
and I'm waiting for my hitters to break out, and they're breaking out today.

775
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:13,000
Strike, a fastball on the outside corner, and Hickman is called out.

776
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:17,000
In the fourth inning for the Mets, one run, two hits, no errors, one left on.

777
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:23,000
At the end of three and a half innings, the score here at County Mike Stadium in West Pound Beach, Florida,

778
01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:31,000
it's now the New York Mets ten and the Kansas City A's five.

779
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:35,000
Now the last half of the fourth inning, and we'll watch to see if the A's have a pinch hitter coming up.

780
01:22:35,000 --> 01:22:39,000
They have been warming up a right-hander, veteran Gordon Jones from the bullpen,

781
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:43,000
and they have their pitcher, John Wyatt, who's been hit hard by the New York Mets,

782
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:47,000
scheduled to lead off in the last half of the fourth inning.

783
01:22:47,000 --> 01:23:10,000
Okay, that's Lucey at first base for the Mets, now replacing Gil Hages.

784
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:16,000
Bill Lashaway has come out of the dugout and may be the pinch hitter for John Wyatt.

785
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:23,000
Lashaway will long be remembered by the Baltimore Orioles because he was one of two players in addition to money,

786
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:32,000
but they gave up to the Los Angeles Dodgers to acquire a slugging first baseman by the name of Jim Jim Teal.

787
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:39,000
Bill Lashaway from Garden City, Michigan, he's 27 years old, a quick-footer who weighs 180,

788
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:43,000
and last year at Omaha he had a good year batting 320.

789
01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:56,000
The Mets are ahead of the A's by the Dodgers along with Gordy Winhorn for Bob Prescott and Jay Ward and Alphelan Spann Johnson.

790
01:23:56,000 --> 01:24:10,000
Bill Lashaway, left-hand hitter waiting. This is over for a call strike.

791
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:14,000
Everybody out, last of the fourth, Mets 10 and the Kansas City A's 5.

792
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:26,000
Bob Miller out of his line to pitch his breaking ball, slug and miss, two-strike count.

793
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:30,000
Tomorrow night the Mets will be saying hello to one of baseball's nicest gentlemen, Mickey Vernon.

794
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:37,000
Mickey now managing the Washington Senators. The game will be at Pompano Beach.

795
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:41,000
One high by Bill Lashaway, one ball and two strikes.

796
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:46,000
The speedy Dick Hauser, the leadoff hitter, waiting on deck, followed by Jose Tardibull.

797
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:55,000
Something about this young team that the A's are experimenting with, if they go with it, it will be a team with a lot of speed.

798
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:59,000
Breaking ball inside, 2 and 2.

799
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:05,000
Two of the veterans of the A's, pitcher Jerry Walker and outfielder Gene Stevens, have been kept on the sidelines with injuries.

800
01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:12,000
Walker heard he's back in the early part of spring training, but he's all right now, and Gene Stevens has been kept out of action with a bad knee.

801
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:21,000
Hit hard on the ground, down to first. Ed Boucher makes the play, waves the pitcher Bob Miller off, and makes the play unassisted.

802
01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:25,000
Went away and nobody on.

803
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:29,000
Here comes Dick Hauser. He had a great rookie season last year.

804
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:34,000
Little fellow was more than they dreamt he would be. He was one of the real base dealers in the Major Leagues last year.

805
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:39,000
He hit 35-37 bases.

806
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:43,000
Hauser, a right-hand hitter.

807
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:50,000
Only Louis Aparicio of the White Sox could fill for more bases in the American League last season than Dick Hauser.

808
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:53,000
Outside and low.

809
01:25:53,000 --> 01:26:01,000
And batting leadoff, he knocked in 45 runs and he hits for a good average.

810
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:04,000
Hauser 0-2 in the game.

811
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:11,000
Looks it over, it's outside and low, ball 2, 2-0.

812
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:14,000
Bob Miller working on the man for the miss.

813
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:17,000
And Hobelandrath behind the plate.

814
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:18,000
Pitching 2-0.

815
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:29,000
Over his head it's taken, ball 3, 3 a-missing.

816
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:33,000
Last year Kansas City played in a very spacious ballpark. They had the fences moved way back,

817
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:36,000
for they figured they would be out-homered by the opposition.

818
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:42,000
The left field fence was about 380 feet. They're bringing it in this year.

819
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:46,000
Ball 4, outside and low, and Miller walks Hauser on four pitches.

820
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:54,000
And now while Jose Tarnabal comes up to hit, we'll pause for station identification.

821
01:26:54,000 --> 01:27:03,000
Stay ten on your dial, WGY, WGFM's connected, it is smooth as found around.

822
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:07,000
Bob Murphy along with Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Keiner from County Mac Stadium,

823
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:09,000
West Palm Beach, Florida.

824
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:12,000
The hitter is Jose Tarnabal, the center fielder.

825
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:16,000
He bunted for a hit on the first and lined a right field in the second.

826
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:19,000
Left hand hitter lines the ball hard into right, a clean base hit.

827
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:22,000
Dick Hauser sprinting around second, he's on his way to third.

828
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:28,000
The throw comes in from Gus Bell, and the A's have runners on first and third.

829
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:31,000
Tarnabal putting together a strong game.

830
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:34,000
He dumped a bunt down the third baseline, beat it out for a hit in the first.

831
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:37,000
In the second he hit a hard liner that Gus caught in right field,

832
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:42,000
and now he's singles with a liner in the right.

833
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:46,000
Now Cookie Lavagetto is sending the sign down toward the bullpen

834
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:51,000
when they get some warmup action for the Mets.

835
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:54,000
The batter is Jerry Lumpy, the veteran second baseman.

836
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:57,000
Lumpy hit a two-run homer in the first and single to center in the third.

837
01:27:57,000 --> 01:28:03,000
He's two for two.

838
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:06,000
Jerry's standing straight up and down, feet not too far apart,

839
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,000
not toward the front of that batter's box.

840
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:11,000
A high foul ball off the fifth, drifting over toward the crowd.

841
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:20,000
It'll be out of play.

842
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:27,000
Runners on first and third, one down, last of the fourth inning, 10 to 5, the Mets in front.

843
01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:33,000
Cleanup hitter Norm Seaborn on deck, and then the left fielder Manny Jimenez.

844
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:37,000
Next pitch, Randhart up the middle of base at the center field.

845
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:41,000
Hauser is in to score. Tarnabal is around second. He'll go on to third.

846
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:49,000
And now it's a 10 to 6 ball game. The Mets lead cut to four.

847
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:59,000
It's Jerry Lumpy, three for three, and three runs batted in.

848
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:02,000
Now we'll have the warm-up action in the Mets bullpen.

849
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:07,000
Right-hander Bob Morad will start getting ready.

850
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:10,000
The game continues at the beginning of side three.

851
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:15,000
Looking for the double play against the tall, ranging, hard-hitting Norm Seaborn.

852
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:19,000
Seaborn has drawn a one-tickle to right-hander.

853
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:23,000
Fast ball in the inside corner, a call strike.

854
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,000
Of course, Seaborn was the key hitter.

855
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:29,000
It's been a very important concern when they traded Roger Maris to the Yankees.

856
01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:40,000
Although he certainly has been far overshadowed by Maris, nonetheless, Seaborn has been Mr. Offense for Kansas City the last couple of years.

857
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:55,000
One ball taken high, one ball, one strike.

858
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:59,000
Last year Seaborn hit 18 home runs and knocked 98 runs in.

859
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:04,000
He led the A's by a wide margin in the power departments.

860
01:30:04,000 --> 01:30:06,000
The same was true the previous year.

861
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:10,000
He drives the right center field hustling for it. If Hickman, he'll have to play it on a half.

862
01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:11,000
It's a base hit.

863
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:15,000
Jose Tardibol is in the score in the seventh run of the game for the Kansas City A's.

864
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:18,000
And they now have runners on first and second, one out.

865
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:21,000
They have two runs in here in the last and the fourth inning.

866
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:22,000
And that's three hits in a row.

867
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:24,000
Tardibol, Lumpy, and Seaborn connected.

868
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:36,000
Jimenez, left fielder.

869
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:39,000
Now the batter is Matty Jimenez, the left fielder.

870
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:45,000
Jimenez, the left-hand hitter, has singled a right, reached on a fielder's choice, which knocked a run in.

871
01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:50,000
This game now closing up. It's 10 to 7 in the next league, get to three.

872
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:57,000
Swing and a miss, a big riffle, and a breaking ball pitched in tight on Matty Jimenez.

873
01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:02,000
Jimenez, very strong looking, left-hand hitter, feet wide apart.

874
01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:05,000
Seventeen home runs in the Coast League last year.

875
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:10,000
Mets have the defense figuring him as a pull hitter as they swing around toward right.

876
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:14,000
Runners on first and second, one man out.

877
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:21,000
Line drive caught by Rod Canille from the Mantilla for the double play that retires the side.

878
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:30,000
A hard line drive that went right to Rod Canille, and Canille pegs the ball to Mantilla for the double play that retires the side.

879
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:33,000
In the fourth inning, Kansas City, two runs.

880
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:37,000
There were three hits. No errors, one left on.

881
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:39,000
So it's four innings complete.

882
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:44,000
We're going now at County Match Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida. The New York Mets, 10.

883
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:50,000
And the Kansas City A's, 7.

884
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:53,000
Four inning total from this plug fest.

885
01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:57,000
For the Mets, 10 runs, nine hits, one error, they've had three left.

886
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:04,000
Kansas City, seven runs, nine hits, two errors, and they've had four left on base.

887
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:09,000
Both starting pitchers, John Wyatt and Bob Miller, were hit hard.

888
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:17,000
And we'll have a new pitcher in the game now for Kansas City as the veteran right-hander, Gordon Jones, comes on.

889
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:20,000
Jones, previously with the San Francisco Giants,

890
01:32:20,000 --> 01:32:27,000
but he came along to the Baltimore Orioles with Jackie Brand in the exchange that sent Billy Lowe and Millie O'Dell to the Giants.

891
01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:30,000
Brand developing into a real star in the offfield for the Orioles.

892
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:36,000
And a year before last, Gordon Jones turned in a very fine job as a short-release man for the birds.

893
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:43,000
He started last year with the Orioles, but when the touchdown date came with the number of young pitchers on the staff,

894
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:47,000
Paul Richards sent Gordon Jones to Rochester in the International League.

895
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:52,000
We hope they've got plenty of Reingold on hand because, well, we're going to be playing ball again here in just a minute.

896
01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:56,000
So why not open up or order up a cold glass of Reingold?

897
01:32:56,000 --> 01:33:00,000
It's beer as beer should taste.

898
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:14,000
Rookie right-hander John Wyatt was hit hard. In four innings, he gave up 10 runs, 9 hits.

899
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:17,000
He walked three and he struck out one.

900
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:25,000
Here to four in the spring training appearances, Wyatt has been very impressive and the A's were quite high on him.

901
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:30,000
O'Dell Andrath leading off against veteran right-hander Gordon Jones.

902
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:37,000
Gordon actually is on the Portland roster. Taking high, ball one.

903
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:41,000
31 years old, not the type of pitcher that can overpower you.

904
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:45,000
He relies on a good swinger and tries to keep everything down low.

905
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:50,000
Infield and the outfield around toward right.

906
01:33:50,000 --> 01:33:55,000
Ball two, two balls and no strikes.

907
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:03,000
Neil Chrisley has come out on the on-deck circle and Neil will hit for Bob Miller.

908
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:08,000
Right in there for a call strike, two and one to O'Dell Andrath.

909
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:18,000
Bob Moorhead cranking up in the bullpen for the Mets. He'll be on the pitch in the last of the innings.

910
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:23,000
Ball three is outside and now Gordon Jones is behind three and one.

911
01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:32,000
Gordon Jones has spent time with the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants and the Baltimore Orioles.

912
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:38,000
Three-one delivery and it's a high pop foul back toward the dugout.

913
01:34:38,000 --> 01:34:43,000
Hoping for a play as Haywood Sullivan, he's waved off by Wayne Cosby and he takes it.

914
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:48,000
Third baseman Wayne Cosby came right over side by side with him and took it.

915
01:34:50,000 --> 01:34:55,000
So it's one away on the top of the fifth inning and the pin center now is Neil Chrisley.

916
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:03,000
There are Neil Chrisley.

917
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:08,000
Number eight Chrisley originally started out in baseball in the Boston Red Sox organization.

918
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:10,000
Batting for Miller.

919
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:16,000
Still looking for his first base hit in spring games. He's been used by KC as a pinch hitter down here.

920
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:21,000
He has good power when he can get a hold of one.

921
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:28,000
Now Gordon Jones looking in to Haywood Sullivan for his sign.

922
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:32,000
Right-hander winds and pitches. Strike on the inside corner.

923
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:38,000
Jones pitched a winter ball and his arms seemed to gain in strength for him.

924
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:42,000
He was striking out more hitters during the winter in winter ball than he normally had before.

925
01:35:44,000 --> 01:35:48,000
Breaking ball inside and low. One ball, one strike.

926
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:55,000
Neil Chrisley hitting. Dick Hauser has swung way over toward second.

927
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:57,000
Back on the rim of the center field grass.

928
01:35:57,000 --> 01:36:01,000
Jerry Lumpy deep on the right side of the infield and Norm Seebern back deep.

929
01:36:01,000 --> 01:36:04,000
Swing and a miss on a fastball.

930
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:09,000
1-2 to count now on Neil Chrisley who's up hitting for Bob Miller.

931
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:18,000
Bob Miller was tagged freely in this game this afternoon.

932
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:21,000
In four innings the blind right-hander gave us seven runs, nine hits.

933
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:24,000
Sidearm delivery, swung on it, missed, he struck him out.

934
01:36:27,000 --> 01:36:30,000
So Gordon Jones fans the pinch hitter Neil Chrisley.

935
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:34,000
Two outs, nobody on now on the top of the 5th. There's Felix Mantia coming in.

936
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:38,000
Felix has been up three times today and been on base three times.

937
01:36:38,000 --> 01:36:44,000
He had a line drive in the first inning that the center fielder Jose Tardibol dropped for an error.

938
01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:49,000
Walk in the third, later scored, Andrew walked again in the third.

939
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:52,000
The third inning the Mets had 11 men up.

940
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:55,000
In the dirt, no damage done, nobody on, ball won.

941
01:36:55,000 --> 01:37:00,000
Well for a team that has played six consecutive low-scoring one-run ball games,

942
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:03,000
the game today is quite in contrast.

943
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:07,000
During those six games there were two one-to-nothing ball games.

944
01:37:07,000 --> 01:37:11,000
Line drive through the hole, a base hit to left field.

945
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:15,000
And so Felix Mantia is on base for the fourth straight time.

946
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:22,000
That's base hit number 10 for the New York City Tigers.

947
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:28,000
That's base hit number 10 for the New York Mets and it brings up second baseman Rod Canille.

948
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:32,000
Rod received it in the first on a boot charged and armed Saban.

949
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:36,000
Then he smacked one down the left field line in the third inning for a double.

950
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:40,000
Was called out on strikes for the final out of the third.

951
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:43,000
Mantia and Canille are both up twice in the third inning.

952
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:49,000
He joined us late, the Mets scored six of their ten runs in the third.

953
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:54,000
Ground ball bounced towards short to his right of his house or he grabs it, throws to Lumpy,

954
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:57,000
and they get the fourth play on Mantia to retire the side.

955
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:00,000
So the Mets are out in their half of the fifth inning.

956
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:03,000
No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on.

957
01:38:03,000 --> 01:38:07,000
We've come halfway and at the end of four and a half innings, the score,

958
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:11,000
the New York Mets 10 and the Kansas City Yays 7.

959
01:38:12,000 --> 01:38:16,000
Now the last of the fifth inning at County Match Stadium, West Palm Beach, Florida,

960
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:19,000
on a real sunny, pleasant afternoon.

961
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:24,000
Bob Moorhead is on now to take over the pitching for the New York Mets.

962
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:27,000
Bob Miller in four innings allowed seven runs, nine hits.

963
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:30,000
He walked three and he struck out four.

964
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:34,000
Last year at Jersey City, Moorhead won five and lost six.

965
01:38:34,000 --> 01:38:38,000
The year before last at Jersey City, he was eight and nine.

966
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:44,000
So Bob has had ample minor league experience beginning in 1957

967
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:47,000
when he pitched at Temple and at Allentown.

968
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:56,000
Geno Samoie leading off against Bob Moorhead in the last of the fifth inning,

969
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:58,000
the Mets out in front by three.

970
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:02,000
Wind up by the right-hander, his pitch, swing, and a miss strike one.

971
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:06,000
Geno playing right field, was up twice in both hands,

972
01:39:06,000 --> 01:39:09,000
he took a call, third strike from Bob Miller.

973
01:39:09,000 --> 01:39:12,000
Geno deep in the box, feet wide apart.

974
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:16,000
Buzzer right in there for a strike two.

975
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:21,000
Geno Samoie has a lot in common with many of the fellows on the New York Mets,

976
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:25,000
and that he has played on some real good ball clubs over the last half dozen years

977
01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:27,000
and been a fourth or a fifth outfielder.

978
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:31,000
And rightfully perhaps field, but he hasn't had every chance to play every day

979
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:33,000
and really blot them out.

980
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:37,000
Outside and low, one ball and two strikes.

981
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:41,000
Geno Samoie facing Bob Moorhead, no relation to Seth Moorhead.

982
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:46,000
The wind up and the pitch on the way, taking the ball two in the count of even a two and two.

983
01:39:46,000 --> 01:39:51,000
Geno Samoie facing Bob Moorhead, no relation to Seth Moorhead.

984
01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:57,000
The wind up and the pitch on the way, taking the ball two in the count of even a two and two.

985
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:11,000
Bob Moorhead makes his offseason home in LeMoyne, Pennsylvania.

986
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:14,000
He was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

987
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:17,000
Strike three called, he whips that one over the outside corner,

988
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:22,000
and Geno Samoie with a third straight time is caught looking at a third strike.

989
01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:28,000
What a win, nobody on. Last of the fifth inning, and that brings up Wayne Causey.

990
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:33,000
Wayne Causey, Mary Call, was one of the flurry of bonus players

991
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:37,000
signed by Paul Richards when he left the White Sox and took over in the dual role

992
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:41,000
as general manager and field manager of the Baltimore Orioles.

993
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:43,000
He's a left-hand hitter.

994
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:45,000
Strike one.

995
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:48,000
Last year Andy Carey opened the season at third for the A's,

996
01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:51,000
then when Wayne Causey got a chance to play, he came through so well

997
01:40:51,000 --> 01:40:54,000
that the A's were able to trade Carey to the White Sox.

998
01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:59,000
Inside and low, one ball and one strike.

999
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:11,000
Bob Moorehead has good size, hard-throwing right-hander.

1000
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:13,000
He's only 24 years old.

1001
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:16,000
Now he winds the pitch on the way.

1002
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:18,000
Ground ball on the right side of the diamond.

1003
01:41:18,000 --> 01:41:21,000
Rod Kinneal is up, but it paves to Ed Boucher and plenty of time for the out.

1004
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:23,000
Two down.

1005
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:31,000
So Bob Moorehead, big blind right-hander from LeMoyne, Pennsylvania,

1006
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:34,000
quickly disposes of Gino Somoli and Wayne Causey.

1007
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:36,000
Two outs and nobody on.

1008
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:39,000
The hitter is 6'4 in Haywood Sullivan.

1009
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:44,000
Moorehead cranking up.

1010
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:46,000
Don Jimsey spits.

1011
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:48,000
Outside and low, it's ball one.

1012
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:51,000
We have a broadcasting perch out in the open today,

1013
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:54,000
and I imagine that we're all three going to look like well-done Maine Lobsters

1014
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:56,000
by the time the game's over.

1015
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:02,000
Outside and low, ball two, 2-0 on Haywood Sullivan.

1016
01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:07,000
The way the weather has been the month of March in Florida,

1017
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:10,000
not too many people are walking around with much of a suntan.

1018
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:16,000
Strike, good fastball on the outside of the field.

1019
01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:19,000
Strike, good fastball on the outside corner, 2-1.

1020
01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:22,000
Ten to seven to score, the Mets leading in the game.

1021
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:24,000
We're in the last of the fifth inning.

1022
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:31,000
Pitching 2-1.

1023
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:34,000
Swing and a miss on the count of either.

1024
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:42,000
Joe Joe White coaching at third and Dario Lodigeni on the lines at first for Kansas City.

1025
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:46,000
And he low-pat as the pitching coach and Hank Bauer the manager.

1026
01:42:47,000 --> 01:42:48,000
Two-two pitch.

1027
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:51,000
swinging.

1028
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:53,000
Very good inning for Bob Moriarty.

1029
01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:54,000
He gets off to a good start.

1030
01:42:57,000 --> 01:43:00,000
No runs, no hits, no errors, none left on.

1031
01:43:00,000 --> 01:43:02,000
Five innings complete and the score,

1032
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:05,000
the New York Mets 10 and the Kansas City A's 7.

1033
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:09,000
Now we move along to the sixth inning at County Mac Stadium,

1034
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:13,000
Westbound Beach, Florida.

1035
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:15,000
Those of you planning to be with us tomorrow afternoon,

1036
01:43:15,000 --> 01:43:20,000
the game will be at Pompano Beach against the new Washington Senators managed by Mickey Vernon.

1037
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:24,000
The Monday game will be against the Baltimore Orioles at Miami Stadium.

1038
01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:27,000
The Tuesday game in Fort Lauderdale against the New York Yankees.

1039
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:31,000
Then after the Tuesday game, the Mets and the Dodger Plains fly back to the other coast

1040
01:43:31,000 --> 01:43:33,000
to their home base, St. Petersburg, Florida.

1041
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:35,000
Now here we go along to the sixth inning,

1042
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:38,000
a fellow coming up to the plate who had a lot of home runs

1043
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:41,000
and a man who had a tremendous amount of home runs, Ralph Kanner.

1044
01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:42,000
Thank you, Bob Murphy.

1045
01:43:42,000 --> 01:43:46,000
All set to go in the top of the sixth with the New York Mets out in front

1046
01:43:46,000 --> 01:43:48,000
by a score of 10 to 7.

1047
01:43:48,000 --> 01:43:52,000
And the first batter, Gus Bell, left-handed batter against Gordon Jones

1048
01:43:52,000 --> 01:43:55,000
who came on in relief of John Wyatt.

1049
01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:58,000
Jones the right-hander to the left-handed batter.

1050
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:01,000
First pitch is called, strike one.

1051
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:06,000
John Wyatt worked the first four innings, giving up all 10 of the runs in the ball game,

1052
01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:09,000
after those coming in the third inning for the Mets.

1053
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:14,000
And then he allowed in that time over his stint nine base hits.

1054
01:44:14,000 --> 01:44:16,000
Gordon out with a slow curveball.

1055
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:17,000
It's outside, ball one.

1056
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:20,000
One ball, one strike.

1057
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:22,000
Jones so far has worked one inning.

1058
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:26,000
He's given up one hit.

1059
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:30,000
Last year with Rochester, he had a 500 record, eight wins, eight losses.

1060
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:35,000
Strike call, a fastball through in the outside corner, one ball and two strikes.

1061
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:43,000
Gordon Jones started his career back in 1949 with Fresno.

1062
01:44:43,000 --> 01:44:45,000
Started out in the St. Louis Cardinal Organization.

1063
01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:52,000
He's 31 years of age right now, 6'1", 190 pounds, lives in Sacramento, California.

1064
01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:55,000
Sidearm fastball, swing and a miss, strike three.

1065
01:44:55,000 --> 01:45:01,000
So Jones takes up his second strikeout, getting Gus Bell, four out number one here in the sixth.

1066
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:05,000
Dave Wickersham is now warming up in the bullpen for Kansas City.

1067
01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:12,000
Donald Schleffhielder.

1068
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:14,000
Frank Thomas stepping in.

1069
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:16,000
Gus Bell now one for four on the day.

1070
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:18,000
He has scored a run and he has driven in two big ones.

1071
01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:20,000
That was in the third inning.

1072
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:24,000
Frank Thomas coming in, perfect day, two for two, also a walk.

1073
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:28,000
He scored three times and he's driven in one.

1074
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:33,000
First pitch to big Frank is a slow change of pace, ball one.

1075
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:37,000
Jones does not throw hard, as Bob Murphy told you earlier.

1076
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:43,000
Relys on a sinking fastball, throws a knuckleball, and pulls around with a slider.

1077
01:45:43,000 --> 01:45:46,000
There's a slow curveball bouncing in the dirt, ball two.

1078
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:52,000
Getting by the catcher, Haywood Sullivan, two and all.

1079
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:57,000
Met's lead by three runs, top of the sixth inning.

1080
01:45:57,000 --> 01:46:01,000
Frank Thomas came on in the game batting 333.

1081
01:46:01,000 --> 01:46:03,000
He had six runs batted in.

1082
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:06,000
So his two for two today will add to that average.

1083
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:11,000
And he now has seven RBIs for the spring training season.

1084
01:46:11,000 --> 01:46:16,000
Frank has missed some RBIs by not more than a couple feet on some long drives

1085
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:19,000
over the left field fence throughout the spring training season.

1086
01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:20,000
Just foul.

1087
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:26,000
Fastball at too high, ball three.

1088
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:34,000
Frank last year had a big year for Milwaukee after being traded there from Chicago.

1089
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:37,000
The three-oh pitch to Thomas, strike calls.

1090
01:46:37,000 --> 01:46:40,000
He was taking three balls, one strike.

1091
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:45,000
Strangely enough, Thomas did not hit well in Chicago, and that has become a hitter's part.

1092
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:49,000
Years ago, the wind blew in most of the time in Wrigley Field there.

1093
01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:54,000
But over the last six or seven years, the prevailing wind has been out,

1094
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:57,000
and it's become quite a hitter's part.

1095
01:46:57,000 --> 01:47:01,000
Ernie Banks doing very well there.

1096
01:47:01,000 --> 01:47:06,000
One of the top hitting short stops of all time.

1097
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:13,000
So now we have a 3-1 situation with Gordon Jones taking time in the mound.

1098
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:17,000
Now the wind up, two Frank Thomas high inside, ball four.

1099
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:21,000
So Thomas is on for the fourth straight time, his second walk,

1100
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:26,000
and the batter stepping in, Ed Boucher, who is in the game as a batter for the first time,

1101
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:32,000
replacing Gil Hodges in the fifth inning.

1102
01:47:32,000 --> 01:47:36,000
Walk number four, picked up by the Mets in the ball game.

1103
01:47:36,000 --> 01:47:42,000
They have a total of ten hits, ten hits and ten runs.

1104
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:44,000
Back to Ernie Banks for a second.

1105
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:48,000
He's now playing first base for the Chicago Cubs.

1106
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:51,000
Fast ball that's high, ball one.

1107
01:47:51,000 --> 01:48:04,000
Boucher, a left-handed batter against the right-handed Gordon Jones.

1108
01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:17,000
Jones stretching, comes back with a slow curve, ball two.

1109
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:23,000
Ed Boucher over to the Mets from the Chicago Cubs, also played there with Frank Thomas,

1110
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:27,000
had his best years with the Philadelphia Phillies.

1111
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:30,000
Left-handed batter with a slightly open stance right on top of the plate.

1112
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:33,000
Next pitch is low, ball three.

1113
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:36,000
Boucher has a slight hitch in his swing, and Rogers Hornsley,

1114
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:40,000
the batting coach for the New York Mets, has been trying to work on him,

1115
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:42,000
trying to get the hitch out.

1116
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:49,000
I've found over my period of baseball that trying to get a hitch out of a swing is almost impossible.

1117
01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:51,000
It's something that's just borned in.

1118
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:53,000
Down too low with a fast ball, ball four.

1119
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:56,000
That moves Thomas up 90 feet down to second base.

1120
01:48:56,000 --> 01:49:05,000
Boucher gets first free, and the batter now, Don Zimmer, and he's had quite a day.

1121
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:08,000
Zimmer here, free base one.

1122
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:11,000
Zimmer, a perfect day so far, a single and a run batted in in the first inning,

1123
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:13,000
a double and a run batted in the third inning.

1124
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:19,000
He also scored in that inning, and a double on a hit-and-run play to drive in a run in the fourth inning.

1125
01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:22,000
Three for three.

1126
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:29,000
Don executed a perfect hit-and-run play with Frank Thomas on first base to drive Frank all the way in from first base.

1127
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:31,000
Her ball outside, ball one.

1128
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:34,000
Zimmer a right-handed batter.

1129
01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:36,000
Mets now with runners at first and second.

1130
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:45,000
They lead 10 to 7, and there's one out here in the top of the sixth.

1131
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:49,000
Dave Wickersham still throwing in the bullpen for Kansas City.

1132
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:53,000
Next pitch to Zimmer, swung on a miss, a vicious swing, strike one.

1133
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:57,000
One ball, one strike, and Sullivan now going out to talk it over with Jones.

1134
01:49:57,000 --> 01:50:02,000
Evidently, he was crossed up in the sign.

1135
01:50:02,000 --> 01:50:08,000
Haywood Sullivan, one of the all-time great football players for the University of Florida, now catching for Kansas City,

1136
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:22,000
started his career with the Boston Red Sox.

1137
01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:27,000
Now Sullivan back behind home plate, giving the sign to Gordon Jones, a right-handed pitcher.

1138
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:29,000
One-one count.

1139
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:33,000
Don Zimmer crossed over, takes outside corner, strike two.

1140
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:37,000
Perfect curveball, breaking on the outside corner, one ball and two strikes.

1141
01:50:37,000 --> 01:50:45,000
Outfield shaded just the shade towards right field, and the center fielder playing very deep.

1142
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:51,000
Zimmer chased him all the way to the 383 foot mark in center field with a double.

1143
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:55,000
There's the ground ball down to the shortstop that goes on through into left field,

1144
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:59,000
going around from third base Frank Thomas and going to third base Lucey.

1145
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:03,000
A throw there, not in time, and Zimmer holds it first.

1146
01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:05,000
Well, we'll have to wait and see how that scored.

1147
01:51:05,000 --> 01:51:07,000
It scored an error.

1148
01:51:07,000 --> 01:51:08,000
They had no chance at two.

1149
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:15,000
The ball was a fairly tough chance, and Hauser going over to his right, got to the ball, and it went on through.

1150
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:18,000
So that adds a run to the ten that the New York Mets have.

1151
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:42,000
The score now 11-7, and runners are now at first and third, and Jim Hickman the batter.

1152
01:51:42,000 --> 01:51:46,000
Jim Hickman, one for three in the day, has a single and has scored a run.

1153
01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:49,000
Right-handed batter, big tall fellow, very good-looking ball player.

1154
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:55,000
First pitch to him is up high, ball one.

1155
01:51:55,000 --> 01:52:06,000
As Bob Murphy told you earlier, this fellow showed us a great arm yesterday on a fine throw from left field.

1156
01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:13,000
Has very graceful actions in the outfield, runs very smoothly, throws very well,

1157
01:52:13,000 --> 01:52:16,000
and if he can hit, he can really add to his future.

1158
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:23,000
There's a pop-up in foul territory, the first baseman, Seaborn, coming over and making the catch to runners' holes.

1159
01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:38,000
So that's out number two as Hickman goes down, and that brings up Holby Landriff the catcher.

1160
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:42,000
Landriff the catcher.

1161
01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:47,000
Holby Landriff, a left-handed batter, stepping in the batter's box.

1162
01:52:47,000 --> 01:53:01,000
Score now 11-7 in favor of the New York Mets, two outs in the sixth.

1163
01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:07,000
First pitch to Holby is a strike called, and we pause now for station identification.

1164
01:53:07,000 --> 01:53:12,000
Strike count, Holby Landriff the batter with two outs, and the next pitch is drilled through the center in the center field.

1165
01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:14,000
A base hit, that'll score one, run number 12.

1166
01:53:14,000 --> 01:53:16,000
There goes Zimmer at a third base.

1167
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:23,000
The throw is not in time, Zimmer makes a head-first slide, and on the throw of the third, Landriff goes on down to second.

1168
01:53:23,000 --> 01:53:28,000
Zimmer with a fine head-first belly slide, getting in there, beating the throw, just barely beating the throw,

1169
01:53:28,000 --> 01:53:33,000
and now the Mets lead by a score of 12-7, a base hit for Holby Landriff,

1170
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:40,000
and that brings up the pitcher for the first time, Bob Moorhead.

1171
01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:54,000
Number 22, Bob Moorhead, Bob Moorhead pitcher.

1172
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:59,000
Two runs in in the sixth inning with two outs, Moorhead a right-handed batter in the batter's box.

1173
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:04,000
Zimmer out at third base, covered with dirt after that head-first slide, Landriff at a second.

1174
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:09,000
First pitch to Moorhead is a curveball outside, ball one.

1175
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:14,000
Well, there was a rumor before the ball game that Gordon Jones was going to be showing off here,

1176
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:20,000
possibly for the benefit of Mr. George Weiss, the president of the New York Mets.

1177
01:54:20,000 --> 01:54:25,000
Jones has not looked too good in his short stint against the Mets today.

1178
01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:35,000
There's a slider that's outside, ball two.

1179
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:42,000
Wind blowing very strongly towards right field.

1180
01:54:42,000 --> 01:54:45,000
Jones able to wind up with runners at second and third, comes back to the plate,

1181
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:48,000
the ball's hit off at the end of the bat, down to the first baseman, Seaburn.

1182
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:55,000
He takes it all by himself, unassisted to retire the side.

1183
01:54:55,000 --> 01:55:00,000
In the inning for the Mets, two runs on one hit, one error, two men left.

1184
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:08,000
And the score at the end of the top half of the sixth inning, the New York Mets 12, the Kansas City Athletics 7.

1185
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:12,000
Score of the ball game now, 12 to 7 in favor of the New York Mets.

1186
01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:18,000
The Mets now with their biggest run scoring output of the spring training season of their history actually.

1187
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:23,000
And they had their biggest inning to date in their very short career.

1188
01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:30,000
They scored six big runs in the third inning, sending 11 batters to the plate.

1189
01:55:30,000 --> 01:55:34,000
Bob Moore hit on the mound for the New York Mets.

1190
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:40,000
Get him ready now to work to the Kansas City Athletics leadoff man.

1191
01:55:40,000 --> 01:55:45,000
And we have a pinch hitter for the pitcher, Gordon Jones, Gordon Windhorn.

1192
01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:49,000
And he takes the first pitch by Moorehead. It's outside, ball one.

1193
01:55:49,000 --> 01:55:57,000
Windhorn, last year, was with Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he hit 242 and 33 times at bat.

1194
01:55:57,000 --> 01:56:03,000
Also played at Omaha for the Dodger organization. He lives in Phoenix.

1195
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:11,000
Pitch to Gordon, hit hard to Zimmer's right. He dies, knocks the ball down, has no play, and that should go as a base hit.

1196
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:20,000
Zimmer made a good try knocking the ball down. Actually saved it from going for two bases, as Windhorn is an exceptionally fast runner.

1197
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:25,000
Windhorn had some fine seasons for Denver in the American Association.

1198
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:34,000
Throw a base hit by Windhorn, officially scored, and a batter stepping in Dick Hauser.

1199
01:56:34,000 --> 01:56:52,000
First base hit off of Moorehead. Hauser now taking on the corner at the knees, strike one call.

1200
01:56:52,000 --> 01:57:00,000
Windhorn not being held on to Boucher. And the next pitch to Hauser, good curveball, call, strike two.

1201
01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:10,000
Boucher playing behind the man, as he does not figure to run, as the Kansas City Athletics trail in the ball game by five runs.

1202
01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:17,000
Bottom half of the sixth inning, and it's percentage baseball to play it safe at the spot and go for the beginning.

1203
01:57:17,000 --> 01:57:29,000
Strike two pitch, just missing a curveball, ball one, one and two.

1204
01:57:29,000 --> 01:57:35,000
Hauser, 0 for 2, was retired on a good play in the first inning by Zimmer at third base.

1205
01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:39,000
Bide out to center field in the second and walked and scored a run in the fourth.

1206
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:44,000
Right-handed batter, fast man. There's a foul ball and on the play.

1207
01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:49,000
Hauser was fooled completely on a curveball and had to throw his bat to get a piece of it and just barely did.

1208
01:57:49,000 --> 01:57:58,000
So he stays alive, a count one and two, as the ball went off the end of the bat while the bat was flying through the air down towards Don Zimmer.

1209
01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:03,000
Zimmer picked it up, handed it back.

1210
01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:09,000
Now that's when you're having a good year when you can throw the bat at the ball and still stay alive.

1211
01:58:09,000 --> 01:58:15,000
One of the first-time great bat throwers and base hitters off of bat throwing was Dixie Walker of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1212
01:58:15,000 --> 01:58:18,000
There's a curve that's down low, ball two.

1213
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:28,000
Many a time in a hit-and-run play with the pitcher pitching out, Dixie would throw the bat at the ball and actually come up with a base hit.

1214
01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:32,000
He was an outstanding hit-and-run man.

1215
01:58:32,000 --> 01:58:36,000
Dixie now living down in Birmingham, Alabama.

1216
01:58:36,000 --> 01:58:45,000
The ball down to Zimmer, he's going to second with it. In time, the first base, in time, not in time.

1217
01:58:45,000 --> 01:58:53,000
They picked the first man up at second base on the force play as Mantia turned it to the second baseman Canelo.

1218
01:58:53,000 --> 01:58:58,000
And then the throw to first base, a close one, and the umpire sits safe.

1219
01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:10,000
I'm sure that manager Casey Stengel might make an appearance in a regular season on a decision.

1220
01:59:10,000 --> 01:59:17,000
Not that we're right or wrong on it, but he'd like to get out. There he is. He's got to say hello to his fans right here in town.

1221
01:59:17,000 --> 01:59:32,000
I'm not trying to umpire the play, but when they're that close, why, you just got to go out and talk to them about it and explain.

1222
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:36,000
So if you're scoring, Windhorn is out 64.

1223
01:59:36,000 --> 01:59:40,000
Dickhouser is safe in the force play at second. There's one out and the batter stepping in.

1224
01:59:40,000 --> 01:59:46,000
Jose Tardibol, left-handed batter, he takes the strike.

1225
01:59:46,000 --> 01:59:54,000
Tardibol played a Victoria last year, hitting 304. In this game, he is two for three.

1226
01:59:54,000 --> 01:59:57,000
One for a base hit in the first inning and scored a run.

1227
01:59:57,000 --> 02:00:02,000
Then lined one to right field that was caught in the second.

1228
02:00:02,000 --> 02:00:06,000
Then single to right field in the fourth and scored a run.

1229
02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:11,000
Pitch is outside, ball one. One ball, one strike.

1230
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:18,000
Tardibol looks like a pretty good prospect.

1231
02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:21,000
Stands with a closed stance right on the plate.

1232
02:00:21,000 --> 02:00:26,000
Holds his bat high in a vertical position.

1233
02:00:26,000 --> 02:00:31,000
Bob Moorehead checking the run at first. He's not being held on. There's a ground ball hit in the hole.

1234
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:39,000
Canille goes over, keeps it in front of him, then can't pick it up as it bounces off of his chest and the battered Tardibol is safe.

1235
02:00:39,000 --> 02:00:49,000
For the play, Howser moved down to second base. They're now runners at first and second.

1236
02:00:49,000 --> 02:00:51,000
And we're waiting now to see how they score the ball.

1237
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:55,000
Second base one.

1238
02:00:55,000 --> 02:01:00,000
It was a fairly difficult chance, but not too difficult.

1239
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:06,000
And still no sign on the board. We'll have to go that it might go as an error.

1240
02:01:06,000 --> 02:01:12,000
Now coming up, Jerry Lumpy. Lumpy with a two-run home run in the first inning has a perfect day going for him

1241
02:01:12,000 --> 02:01:15,000
as he's added two singles to the home run and he's three for three.

1242
02:01:15,000 --> 02:01:20,000
A left-handed batter trying hitting second baseman.

1243
02:01:20,000 --> 02:01:35,000
Runners at first and second, one out. First pitch, two Lumpies fouled away, strike one.

1244
02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:43,000
Now Lindsay Nelson returning from a short trip down to the press box has informed us that it was scored as an error.

1245
02:01:43,000 --> 02:01:50,000
We have no communication at all with the press box where we're broadcasting from and the scoreboard has no error sign evidently.

1246
02:01:50,000 --> 02:02:01,000
One strike pitch to Lumpy is high outside, ball one.

1247
02:02:01,000 --> 02:02:14,000
Lumpy last year battered a fine 293 for the Kansas City Athletics.

1248
02:02:14,000 --> 02:02:19,000
Runners at first and second, Moore had back to the plate outside with a good fastball, but it's ball two.

1249
02:02:19,000 --> 02:02:29,000
Two balls and one strike.

1250
02:02:29,000 --> 02:02:36,000
Moore had in his first jam since he has been in the ball game. He came on in the fifth inning to replace a Bob Miller.

1251
02:02:36,000 --> 02:02:44,000
He has yet to give up anything that looks like a big hit. He has allowed one so far. That was off the glove of Zimmer.

1252
02:02:44,000 --> 02:02:48,000
Now the next pitch is lined to center field. This could drop in.

1253
02:02:48,000 --> 02:02:53,000
The center fielder, Heckman, comes in, traps it, comes up with a ball, and now going over to third base

1254
02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:59,000
after holding up to see if the ball would be caught was Dick Hauser.

1255
02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:06,000
So on the play, the runners move up one base. They are now loaded up, and the batter stepping on is Norm Seaborn.

1256
02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:10,000
That was a fine play by Heckman and center field, charging the sharply hit line drive.

1257
02:03:10,000 --> 02:03:16,000
He got it on the trap. The umpire had to give the sign to indicate it was trapped and not caught in the air.

1258
02:03:16,000 --> 02:03:20,000
And holding up on the bases, the runners did have a chance to move up one.

1259
02:03:20,000 --> 02:03:26,000
So now Morehead in his first big jam, and Lumpy steps in. Lumpy now four for four.

1260
02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:34,000
Make that Seaborn steps in. Lumpy now four for four with his base hit.

1261
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:42,000
Seaborn also a perfect day, two for two. Checks on the swing, but it's called a strike. Curveball by Morehead.

1262
02:03:42,000 --> 02:03:49,000
Norm Seaborn walked in the first inning, then singled to right field in the third, and singled to center in the fourth.

1263
02:03:49,000 --> 02:03:57,000
Last year he had 296 for the Kansas City Athletics. Wurz glasses, bats from the left-hand side.

1264
02:03:57,000 --> 02:04:18,000
Base is loaded. Morehead into the full windup, comes back with a slider that's ball two.

1265
02:04:18,000 --> 02:04:35,000
Morehead taking time. Now swings into the windup. Next pitch is just outside. Two balls now and one strike.

1266
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:42,000
Kansas City has a three-game win streak going for them, as has the New York Mets.

1267
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:51,000
They have an eight and five record this spring. Morehead now into the full windup, comes back with a curve, and it's fouled away.

1268
02:04:51,000 --> 02:05:07,000
Strike two. Two balls and two strikes. One half to score 12 to seven in favor of the New York Mets.

1269
02:05:07,000 --> 02:05:12,000
Outfield fouled way around. Seaborn a full hitter, and they're playing deep in right field.

1270
02:05:12,000 --> 02:05:17,000
The wind holding the ball up in left allows the left fielder to play a little more shallow than normally.

1271
02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:25,000
The 2-2 pitch by Morehead is down low, and that goes to three balls and two strikes.

1272
02:05:25,000 --> 02:05:35,000
1,843 announced as the official attendance here today at Conny Mack Field in West Palm Beach, Florida.

1273
02:05:35,000 --> 02:05:43,000
So now Seaborn and Morehead all the way up. The string is out. 3-2, they battle right down to the line.

1274
02:05:43,000 --> 02:05:48,000
And into the stretch now as Morehead checks the runners, backs off the mound.

1275
02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:54,000
Bob Morehead going into the stretch position to keep the runners from moving.

1276
02:05:54,000 --> 02:05:59,000
Now changes to the full windup as they will not be moving with one out.

1277
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:08,000
Next pitch is checking the swing down on the ground. The play is coming home. Landroth makes the catch on the force play, and that retires out number two.

1278
02:06:08,000 --> 02:06:14,000
On the play, of course, the runners are all moving up. And Seaborn would have had a walk. He tried to check on the swing.

1279
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:20,000
The ball was high out of the way, but couldn't get his bat out of the way, and he dribbled it down towards Zimmer at third base.

1280
02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:30,000
Don up with the ball, took the option of throwing to home plate, and he picked up the force out there.

1281
02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:38,000
So now two away in the batter is Manny Jimenez.

1282
02:06:38,000 --> 02:06:45,000
Jimenez left fielder.

1283
02:06:45,000 --> 02:06:50,000
Manny Jimenez, a left-handed batter with a single and three times up.

1284
02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:56,000
Holds the first pitch foul down towards the right field side, strike one.

1285
02:06:56,000 --> 02:07:02,000
Jimenez with a fine here at Vancouver in the Pacific Coast League last year, hit 3-0-5.

1286
02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:07,000
Has a little bit of the Melat stance, and then he picks up that front foot and sets it down again.

1287
02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:15,000
Malachor sticks his foot way in the air. Jimenez doesn't do that far.

1288
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:25,000
Now Moore head into the full windup. Back with a curve. It's off the end of the bat. Zimmer will come up with it and take the play at third all by himself, and that retires aside.

1289
02:07:25,000 --> 02:07:34,000
In the innings for the Kansas City Athletics, no runs on two hits, one error, three men left, and the score at the end of sixth complete inning.

1290
02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:39,000
The New York Mets 12, the Kansas City Athletics 7.

1291
02:07:39,000 --> 02:07:44,000
Dave Wickersham, now pitching for the Kansas City Athletics, looks in for the sign.

1292
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:48,000
Right-hander.

1293
02:07:48,000 --> 02:07:54,000
Had an 0-2 record at Kansas City last year. Mantia pulls foul, strike one. One ball and one strike.

1294
02:07:54,000 --> 02:08:11,000
He also pitched at 3-4, where he compiled a 14-11 record.

1295
02:08:11,000 --> 02:08:22,000
Wickersham, 26 years of age, 6'3", comes back to Mantia with a slider. He jumps high in the air as Mantia hits it back through the box, hauls it down, throws over to Sebring at first, and he gets his first man.

1296
02:08:22,000 --> 02:08:37,000
The pitcher, number 26, is Wickersham. Wickersham now pitching for the Athletics.

1297
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:47,000
That brings up Rod Kniell, Rod with a double, and four times up. A score of two runs, batting for the right-hand side.

1298
02:08:47,000 --> 02:08:59,000
Wickersham started playing ball in 1955 at Burlington. There's a strike called.

1299
02:08:59,000 --> 02:09:05,000
Sitting down right below us, Mrs. Joan Pason, who threw a very fine party for the ball club last night.

1300
02:09:05,000 --> 02:09:10,000
There's the ball hit out the right field. The right fielder coming on strongly is there, and he makes the catch.

1301
02:09:10,000 --> 02:09:22,000
Coming in quickly, took that ball in shallow right field for out number two. Two up and two down as Wickersham gets his first two, and the batter stepping in is Gus Bell.

1302
02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:33,000
Also Mrs. Don Grant, well, Mrs. Casey Stengel down below us. So the feminine side watching this ball game.

1303
02:09:33,000 --> 02:09:51,000
That was really a nice party we had right here in West Palm Beach. Two outs, the first pitch to Gus Bell is high, ball one.

1304
02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:57,000
Wickersham back to the big left-handed batter with the slider that's down low, ball two.

1305
02:09:57,000 --> 02:10:04,000
Oh, I didn't realize you were such a big shrimp scampi fan last night at that party. Oh, you'd have to go for shrimp scampi the way that tasted.

1306
02:10:04,000 --> 02:10:09,000
You were doing a pretty good job in there yourself. You didn't pass up anything. Oh, I had both feet to trough. I gotta admit that.

1307
02:10:09,000 --> 02:10:16,000
Oh, you were slinging away with both hands. Two ball pitches, call, strike one. Two and one.

1308
02:10:16,000 --> 02:10:20,000
Don't let our sidekick get away with too much either. He was in there pretty good too.

1309
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:24,000
You know, he's kind of a sprinter at that game. I think you and I are kind of stretch runners.

1310
02:10:24,000 --> 02:10:29,000
He's a sneaky eater. You gotta watch him all the time. He's not doing much talking and he's eating all the way.

1311
02:10:29,000 --> 02:10:35,000
Foul chips, strike two, two and two. And we had background music with Lil Yefferab doing the thing.

1312
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:41,000
That's going too far though.

1313
02:10:41,000 --> 02:10:50,000
Two balls and two strikes, two outs, top of the seventh inning. Mets have a lead of five runs. It's 12 to seven.

1314
02:10:50,000 --> 02:11:00,000
Gus fell the batter. Wickersham with a 2-2 pitch, a curve ball that's low and the count goes full, 3-2.

1315
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:08,000
Gus has one hit. That drove in two runs, a single to center field, in four times up.

1316
02:11:08,000 --> 02:11:17,000
3-2 pitch to Gus is outside and high, ball four. That puts Gus at first base.

1317
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:21,000
And brings up Frank Thomas.

1318
02:11:21,000 --> 02:11:34,000
Thomas left the loose.

1319
02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:44,000
Frank Thomas with a double, a single and two walks. He's been on base four times, driven in one run and he scored four runs.

1320
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:57,000
Thomas a busy man. Got a good workout scoring from first base and a hit run play. Curve ball that's inside to Frank, ball one.

1321
02:11:57,000 --> 02:12:03,000
DeMarete now running for Bell. DeMarete running for Bell.

1322
02:12:03,000 --> 02:12:25,000
John DeMarete just in the ball game as a runner for Gus Bell and he'll stay in for him defensively. Curve ball is pulled foul, strike one. One ball and one strike.

1323
02:12:25,000 --> 02:12:34,000
Coming up in the bullpen for the Mets, Joe Christopher, so possibly Casey will give his veterans a little rest here.

1324
02:12:34,000 --> 02:12:46,000
Another ball game coming your way tomorrow. Swing at a curve ball, it's down in the dirt, strike two. Thomas Fuhl went for it. One ball and two strikes.

1325
02:12:46,000 --> 02:12:57,000
All the Mets will play the Washington Senators for the first time and that game will come your way from Pompano Beach, Florida.

1326
02:12:57,000 --> 02:13:05,000
As the Mets make their swing around the east coast of the Florida state, Monday they'll be playing in Miami against Baltimore.

1327
02:13:05,000 --> 02:13:11,000
There goes the runner DeMarete, the foul tip. Will bring him back and the count will stay at one and two.

1328
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:19,000
Thomas swinging at that ball, fouled it off the end of the bat. DeMarete coming back to first base.

1329
02:13:19,000 --> 02:13:29,000
Frank is having a very good swing and an awful lot of the hopes of the Mets will be resting on his big bat.

1330
02:13:29,000 --> 02:13:37,000
Frank is actually looking forward to playing in the polar grounds. He's a very strong pull hitter and the short left field fence there will allow a lot of his balls to go in the stands fair.

1331
02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:41,000
There goes the runner again. This one's off the end of the bat in the right field of base hit.

1332
02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:46,000
DeMarete will get third base with no trouble. The throw goes to second and Thomas gets another base hit.

1333
02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:51,000
That puts him on for the fifth time, his third base hit, and brings up Ed Boucher.

1334
02:13:51,000 --> 02:14:01,000
Runners now at first base.

1335
02:14:01,000 --> 02:14:11,000
Boucher replaced Gil Hodges. Gil had gone 0 for 2. Gil had driven a run in with a sacrifice fly in the first inning.

1336
02:14:11,000 --> 02:14:18,000
Boucher walked in his only time at bat and scored a run. Now running at first base for Frank Thomas, Joe Christopher.

1337
02:14:18,000 --> 02:14:29,000
Christopher running for Thomas. Christopher.

1338
02:14:29,000 --> 02:14:37,000
Now a pickoff at first base. Christopher's going down to second and he's there. Now a total third and he is there.

1339
02:14:37,000 --> 02:14:41,000
Christopher with a lead, broke from first base. They had him in a trap play.

1340
02:14:41,000 --> 02:14:47,000
And when Seaburn took too much time, Christopher beat whatever could have happened. That second got in there safely.

1341
02:14:47,000 --> 02:14:55,000
And then the runner at third base, DeMarete, down the line, almost got picked off as a long throw came over to third but he slid back in safely.

1342
02:14:55,000 --> 02:15:04,000
Now the runners at second and third, as Christopher played heads-up ball, took advantage of a lapse on the Kansas City pitcher's side.

1343
02:15:04,000 --> 02:15:08,000
Actually we can't blame the pitcher too much. It was one of those plays.

1344
02:15:08,000 --> 02:15:16,000
Bookish him on the mound. We'll go on to the full windup. And his first pitch to Boucher is down and outside, ball one.

1345
02:15:16,000 --> 02:15:32,000
That'll go officially as a stolen base for Joe Christopher.

1346
02:15:32,000 --> 02:15:45,000
Ed Boucher to batter. Swings and misses at a slider, strike one. One ball and one strike.

1347
02:15:45,000 --> 02:15:55,000
12-7 game. Mets lead it. Top of the seventh inning.

1348
02:15:55,000 --> 02:15:58,000
Now the right-hander back to the left-hander batter and a drive to right field.

1349
02:15:58,000 --> 02:16:01,000
The right fielder, Somoli, is back near the wall and he makes the catch.

1350
02:16:01,000 --> 02:16:04,000
That ball was not high enough or would have gone over the fence.

1351
02:16:04,000 --> 02:16:11,000
Sharp line drive, every tire is aside.

1352
02:16:11,000 --> 02:16:17,000
In the inning for the New York Mets, no runs on one hit, no errors, two men left on.

1353
02:16:17,000 --> 02:16:23,000
And the score at the end of six and one-half innings of play, the New York Mets 12, the Kansas City Athletics 7.

1354
02:16:23,000 --> 02:16:31,000
Well put Joe Christopher in your lineup out in left field to replace a Frank Thomas and out in right field, John DeMarris.

1355
02:16:31,000 --> 02:16:38,000
Jim Hickman still in center field and defensively for the New York Mets, we have Landroth behind home plate at first base, Ed Boucher.

1356
02:16:38,000 --> 02:16:48,000
Laudanil at second, Felix Mantia playing shortstop and Don Zimmer at third.

1357
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:54,000
And now the first batter for the Kansas City Athletics, Dino Somoli. He takes inside ball one.

1358
02:16:54,000 --> 02:17:00,000
Bob Moyet on the mound for the Mets. He replaced Bob Miller in the fifth.

1359
02:17:00,000 --> 02:17:04,000
One ball pitch to Somoli. His line to the second baseman, Canille, it's off his leg.

1360
02:17:04,000 --> 02:17:10,000
He goes back, picks it up, can't make the play at first base and Somoli will get a base hit on that I'm sure.

1361
02:17:10,000 --> 02:17:16,000
That ball was rifled, a shot to the second baseman's right. Canille went over, the ball bounced off his thigh.

1362
02:17:16,000 --> 02:17:24,000
He did block it enough to get a hold of it in about three steps. Had no chance to make a play at first.

1363
02:17:24,000 --> 02:17:37,000
So Somoli, after striking out three times, gets a base hit and that brings up Wayne Causey, the third baseman.

1364
02:17:37,000 --> 02:17:41,000
Causey, one for two as a double, takes the strike calls.

1365
02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:48,000
Wayne batted 276 for the Kansas City Athletics last year, left-handed batter, not much power.

1366
02:17:48,000 --> 02:17:57,000
He doubled off the wall. He's a spray hitter. There's the ball on the ground to Ed Boucher.

1367
02:17:57,000 --> 02:18:01,000
He makes the play at the shortstop covering second and there's no return in the throw.

1368
02:18:01,000 --> 02:18:06,000
Mantia making a fine catch of a throw that was a little off line and that's out number one.

1369
02:18:06,000 --> 02:18:15,000
Causey safe on the fourth play, feeler's choice. Sullivan, catcher.

1370
02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:28,000
That brings up Haywood Sullivan, big catcher, 0 for 3, has struck out twice and ground it out to the shortstop.

1371
02:18:28,000 --> 02:18:34,000
Haywood was one of the prized pupils of Joe Gordon. When Joe was the manager of the Kansas City Athletics,

1372
02:18:34,000 --> 02:18:39,000
Joe also working hard on being a batting instructor right now for the Los Angeles Angels.

1373
02:18:39,000 --> 02:18:47,000
Curve ball outside, ball one.

1374
02:18:47,000 --> 02:18:52,000
Sullivan last year hit 242 for Kansas City.

1375
02:18:52,000 --> 02:18:56,000
Has good power, does not pull too much, the outfield playing straight away.

1376
02:18:56,000 --> 02:19:07,000
There's a chance of the pickoff play, the throw down to first base is not in time as the curve ball is outside.

1377
02:19:07,000 --> 02:19:12,000
Wayne Causey at first base, not being held on by Ed Boucher.

1378
02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:18,000
12-7 game, the Mets lead it, bottom half of the seventh.

1379
02:19:18,000 --> 02:19:23,000
Moore head back to Sullivan with a curve, it's ball two, down too low, two balls and one strike.

1380
02:19:23,000 --> 02:19:26,000
Ralph I guess is going to check her time, we'll see where it's going by.

1381
02:19:26,000 --> 02:19:28,000
That train's always on time.

1382
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:35,000
It's a four o'clock, huh?

1383
02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:41,000
Two balls, one strike, one out.

1384
02:19:41,000 --> 02:19:50,000
Bob Moorehead with a pitch that's lined in the center field, but Hickman will move over, he does, makes the catch for out number two.

1385
02:19:50,000 --> 02:20:01,000
We pause now for station identification.

1386
02:20:01,000 --> 02:20:07,000
This is WGY, Skonectaday, 8-10 on your radio dial.

1387
02:20:07,000 --> 02:20:11,000
Third pitcher for Kansas City, Dave Wickersham, a right-handed batter.

1388
02:20:11,000 --> 02:20:15,000
Two outs to score 12-7, the New York Mets out in front.

1389
02:20:15,000 --> 02:20:24,000
Right at first base, and there's a bunt down the third base side, but Zimmer was in on it, he saw it all the way, comes up with the ball, makes the throw to first base and they get their men.

1390
02:20:24,000 --> 02:20:34,000
The ball by Don Zimmer, and that retires the side in the inning for the Kansas City Athletics, no runs, one hit, nowhere, there's one man left, and the score at the end of seven.

1391
02:20:34,000 --> 02:20:35,000
No runs, one hit.

1392
02:20:35,000 --> 02:20:39,000
The New York Mets 12, the Kansas City Athletics, seven.

1393
02:20:39,000 --> 02:20:44,000
Right, Bob Murphy, and Don Zimmer steps into the bat, what a day this fellow's had.

1394
02:20:44,000 --> 02:20:50,000
He's single, he's doubled twice, he was on it, and there he is, driven in four runs, a great afternoon for Don Zimmer.

1395
02:20:50,000 --> 02:20:59,000
He's a man better, and he's facing Dave Wickersham, who is the third hurler of the day out there for manager Hank Bowers, Kansas City Athletics.

1396
02:20:59,000 --> 02:21:05,000
The top half of the eighth inning, as Wickersham has the sign, Wines and Fires, and it's a call strike one.

1397
02:21:05,000 --> 02:21:10,000
Bill Kinnaman of the American League calling balls and strikes behind the plate this afternoon.

1398
02:21:10,000 --> 02:21:16,000
Paul Prior of the National League at first, Joe Linsalata of the American League at second, and Tom Gorman of the National League at third.

1399
02:21:16,000 --> 02:21:18,000
That pitch is low and outside.

1400
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:23,000
It's ball two to Don Zimmer.

1401
02:21:23,000 --> 02:21:31,000
He'll be followed by Jim Hickman.

1402
02:21:31,000 --> 02:21:34,000
The New York Mets off to an early lead this afternoon.

1403
02:21:34,000 --> 02:21:36,000
They have never been behind in this ball game.

1404
02:21:36,000 --> 02:21:37,000
Here's the pitch.

1405
02:21:37,000 --> 02:21:39,000
It's inside for a ball.

1406
02:21:39,000 --> 02:21:42,000
The Mets scored three runs in the top half of the first inning.

1407
02:21:42,000 --> 02:21:45,000
The Kansas City A scored two in the bottom of the first to make it three-two,

1408
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:49,000
but then the Mets had their big inning in the top of the third when they got six runs.

1409
02:21:49,000 --> 02:21:53,000
Kansas City came right back in the bottom of the third and got three.

1410
02:21:53,000 --> 02:22:01,000
As the pitch sets low, three balls and one strike to count to Zimmer.

1411
02:22:01,000 --> 02:22:03,000
The Mets got another in the top of the fourth.

1412
02:22:03,000 --> 02:22:08,000
The A's got two in the bottom of the fourth, and then the Mets got two more in the top of the sixth, and that's been all the scoring.

1413
02:22:08,000 --> 02:22:11,000
That pitch is high, and Zimmer is on base for the fifth time today.

1414
02:22:11,000 --> 02:22:19,000
Throwing a base on balls from Wicker Jam, and that brings up Jim Hickman.

1415
02:22:19,000 --> 02:22:28,000
Jim Hickman, slide to right, single to drive in two runs in the third inning, struck out and fouled out to the first baseman.

1416
02:22:28,000 --> 02:22:34,000
Jim Hickman, part of the speed outfield that Managy Casey Singel now has in the ball game,

1417
02:22:34,000 --> 02:22:37,000
the three outfields he has in the ball game right now can move.

1418
02:22:37,000 --> 02:22:46,000
They can throw a fine defensive unit that he has here to protect the lead going into the late innings.

1419
02:22:46,000 --> 02:22:49,000
Dave Wicker Jam into the stretch.

1420
02:22:49,000 --> 02:22:53,000
Zimmer leads. Here's the pitch to Hickman. It's a call strike.

1421
02:22:53,000 --> 02:23:00,000
Hickman, Christopher, and Demerita, the outfielders in the ball game in the lineup right now for Managy Casey Singel's Mets.

1422
02:23:00,000 --> 02:23:05,000
Hickman started the ball game, and has been in there all the way.

1423
02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:08,000
Christopher came in in place of Mike Thomas.

1424
02:23:08,000 --> 02:23:11,000
Numeric came in in place of Gus Bell.

1425
02:23:11,000 --> 02:23:14,000
Here's a ground ball to the shortstop. Dick Hauser up with it.

1426
02:23:14,000 --> 02:23:17,000
Bobbles it. Can't make a play. It ran up his sleeve.

1427
02:23:17,000 --> 02:23:19,000
Both runners are safe.

1428
02:23:19,000 --> 02:23:23,000
As Hauser came over, he simply ran up his sleeve, and Hickman is on.

1429
02:23:23,000 --> 02:23:26,000
On the bobble.

1430
02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:28,000
Zimmer is safe at second. Hickman is safe at first.

1431
02:23:28,000 --> 02:23:30,000
And catcher, Hobie Landers, coming up.

1432
02:23:30,000 --> 02:23:34,000
Left hand better.

1433
02:23:34,000 --> 02:23:37,000
Landers, catcher.

1434
02:23:37,000 --> 02:23:47,000
That is the fourth Kansas City error of this afternoon.

1435
02:23:47,000 --> 02:23:49,000
It is 12 to 7.

1436
02:23:49,000 --> 02:23:51,000
Perhaps you can hear the plane coming directly overhead.

1437
02:23:51,000 --> 02:24:08,000
Has there been anything that hasn't been through here this afternoon?

1438
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:14,000
All right. Now with the plane having passed over, we set the play once again as a workers' jam had taken time out.

1439
02:24:14,000 --> 02:24:16,000
Now he's up on the rubber.

1440
02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:21,000
Checks the runners. They're going as a foul ball. Off to the other Hobie Landers.

1441
02:24:21,000 --> 02:24:24,000
Out of play, and that'll bring them back.

1442
02:24:24,000 --> 02:24:28,000
Zimmer and Hickman off and running on the pitch.

1443
02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:34,000
They return to their bases.

1444
02:24:34,000 --> 02:24:40,000
Then, one time, I was playing down in Mexico, and they held up the game, and coming through the center field fence was one of those little pushcarts

1445
02:24:40,000 --> 02:24:43,000
with two guys going up and down, one on each side, pumping it right through the ballpark.

1446
02:24:43,000 --> 02:24:52,000
Maybe we'll see that again here today. I tell you, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

1447
02:24:52,000 --> 02:24:58,000
Down's Zimmer at second. Jim Hickman at first.

1448
02:24:58,000 --> 02:25:02,000
There is nobody out for the Mets, and Hobie Landers up there. He is one for four this afternoon.

1449
02:25:02,000 --> 02:25:05,000
He drove in a run with a single in the sixth inning.

1450
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:11,000
And now catcher Haywood Sullivan wants to go out and check a sign with Dave Wickersham.

1451
02:25:11,000 --> 02:25:14,000
He'll do that in a hurry. He comes right back.

1452
02:25:14,000 --> 02:25:23,000
One strike count to Landers on the foul ball.

1453
02:25:23,000 --> 02:25:29,000
The Mets leading by a score of 12 to 7.

1454
02:25:29,000 --> 02:25:35,000
Pitch is high and away and popped out of the glove up into the air, but Haywood Sullivan managed to corral it.

1455
02:25:35,000 --> 02:25:40,000
No advance. One and one now.

1456
02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:46,000
This is, of course, the most run scored by the New York Mets in a baseball game.

1457
02:25:46,000 --> 02:25:50,000
Previously, the high was eight against the Chicago White Sox.

1458
02:25:50,000 --> 02:25:57,000
They have 12 now against the Kansas City Athletics.

1459
02:25:57,000 --> 02:26:01,000
Dave Wickersham, six.

1460
02:26:01,000 --> 02:26:03,000
And fires.

1461
02:26:03,000 --> 02:26:05,000
And there's the drive going into center field, well up into the air.

1462
02:26:05,000 --> 02:26:07,000
Tartar Bowl comes over, has it now, tagged up.

1463
02:26:07,000 --> 02:26:12,000
De Zimmer at second, digging for third, a throw across to Diamond Zimmer, heads first in there.

1464
02:26:12,000 --> 02:26:14,000
Grabs onto the bag.

1465
02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:18,000
Don Zimmer with that exciting on-your-chest slide into the bag.

1466
02:26:18,000 --> 02:26:22,000
A la Peppa Martin, Yogi Berra, and a number of others.

1467
02:26:22,000 --> 02:26:29,000
So he has tagged up and moved to third after the catch of the fly ball to center field.

1468
02:26:29,000 --> 02:26:31,000
And it's going to be Bob Moriarty hitting for himself.

1469
02:26:31,000 --> 02:26:34,000
His turn, he's going to hit.

1470
02:26:34,000 --> 02:26:41,000
Runners at first and third now, Hickman at first, Zimmer at third.

1471
02:26:41,000 --> 02:26:48,000
Bob Moriarty is right under all the way.

1472
02:26:48,000 --> 02:27:01,000
It's been a sunny afternoon all the way here in West Palm Beach, Florida, at County Macfield.

1473
02:27:01,000 --> 02:27:12,000
Moriarty standing in and waiting as Dave Wickersham is rubbing up the baseball.

1474
02:27:12,000 --> 02:27:14,000
Here's the stretch and the pitch.

1475
02:27:14,000 --> 02:27:18,000
Buntzit tips it off right into the big glove of Haywood Sullivan.

1476
02:27:18,000 --> 02:27:26,000
So it simply goes to strike one as Moriarty is trying to lay it down.

1477
02:27:26,000 --> 02:27:28,000
Trying to bun it down to first base.

1478
02:27:28,000 --> 02:27:33,000
Zimmer in from third and to move Hickman on up to second.

1479
02:27:33,000 --> 02:27:43,000
Twelve to seven ball game. You never get too many.

1480
02:27:43,000 --> 02:27:46,000
The pitch, there's a ground ball to shortstop.

1481
02:27:46,000 --> 02:27:49,000
Haase is over it. He goes to second for one to relay on to first.

1482
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:51,000
And he got him. Double play.

1483
02:27:51,000 --> 02:27:56,000
And that retires the side as Moriarty hits into a double play from Haase to Lampy to Seaborn.

1484
02:27:56,000 --> 02:27:59,000
From six to four to three if you're scoring.

1485
02:27:59,000 --> 02:28:07,000
And in the top half of the eighth inning, the New York Mets go out with no runs on no hits, one error, and one man left on base.

1486
02:28:07,000 --> 02:28:17,000
And so at the end of seven and one half innings of play, the score is the New York Mets 12 and the Kansas City A's seven.

1487
02:28:17,000 --> 02:28:23,000
This is Lindsay Nelson with Bob Murphy and Ralph Keiner here at County Macfield in West Palm Beach, Florida,

1488
02:28:23,000 --> 02:28:30,000
where we're going to the bottom half of the eighth inning and the Kansas City Athletics will have the head of the batting order, a big house as a leadoff man.

1489
02:28:30,000 --> 02:28:32,000
He's been up three times officially without a hit.

1490
02:28:32,000 --> 02:28:38,000
He walked once and has scored one run in this afternoon's ball game, in which the Mets lead by a score of 12 to seven.

1491
02:28:38,000 --> 02:28:40,000
On the mound, Bob Moriarty.

1492
02:28:40,000 --> 02:28:45,000
Houser shortstop.

1493
02:28:45,000 --> 02:28:49,000
Around the infield defensively for the Mets, in case you've just joined us, Ed Boucher is the first baseman,

1494
02:28:49,000 --> 02:28:53,000
Todd Kniehl is the second baseman, Felix Mantia at short and Don Zimmer at third.

1495
02:28:53,000 --> 02:28:58,000
There's a ground ball to third. Zimmer has it, straightens up, throws to Boucher, he's out at first base.

1496
02:28:58,000 --> 02:29:02,000
Houser has grounded out.

1497
02:29:02,000 --> 02:29:06,000
So there is one away and that brings up center fielder Jose Tartabal.

1498
02:29:06,000 --> 02:29:14,000
He butted safely for a single in the first inning, fly to right, single with a line drive to right in the fourth, and was on on an error in the sixth.

1499
02:29:14,000 --> 02:29:21,000
He's been on three times, he is two for four officially.

1500
02:29:21,000 --> 02:29:35,000
Pitch is in there for a call strike one, give it a little hop, skip, and jump, but it was a call strike.

1501
02:29:35,000 --> 02:29:38,000
And the pitch is outside for a ball.

1502
02:29:38,000 --> 02:29:46,000
Here at County Mac Field in West Palm Beach, Florida, and as Ralph Kanner told you, one of County Mac's finest products is seated here this afternoon watching the ballgame.

1503
02:29:46,000 --> 02:29:52,000
Hall of Fame catcher Mickey Cochran, seated behind the plate here and has been watching the ballgame throughout.

1504
02:29:52,000 --> 02:30:02,000
At pitch he's inside, ball to it's two and one.

1505
02:30:02,000 --> 02:30:08,000
Cochran of course went on from the athletics to manage the Detroit Tigers.

1506
02:30:08,000 --> 02:30:19,000
Pitch is outside, three balls and one strike now.

1507
02:30:19,000 --> 02:30:24,000
Three and one with one man out.

1508
02:30:24,000 --> 02:30:31,000
Pitch to Tartabal in there for a call strike, he was taking all the way, it's three and two.

1509
02:30:31,000 --> 02:30:42,000
And in the case of the number of playing managers, one of the greatest attributes that manager Cochran had was the fact that he had a catcher named Cochran also.

1510
02:30:42,000 --> 02:30:47,000
Here's a ground ball going to first base for Ed Boucher, he feels it makes the play to Moorhead covering, he's out at first base.

1511
02:30:47,000 --> 02:30:51,000
Tartabal grounding out from Ed Boucher to Bob Moorhead, the pitcher covering.

1512
02:30:51,000 --> 02:30:57,000
Two men out and Jerry Loppe is coming up, Loppe is four for four today, he's had a big day.

1513
02:30:57,000 --> 02:31:02,000
He's a home run, a two run home run in the first inning, he's single in the third, he's single driving the run in the fourth and single in the sixth.

1514
02:31:02,000 --> 02:31:10,000
Four for four, Jerry Loppe.

1515
02:31:10,000 --> 02:31:19,000
We're in the bottom half of the eighth inning, the Kansas City Athletics batting with two men out.

1516
02:31:19,000 --> 02:31:23,000
Bob Moorhead into the windup and the pitch down, there's a fly ball going to center field.

1517
02:31:23,000 --> 02:31:28,000
Hickman is digging in, Keneal is digging out, Hickman seems to have it lined up, he's underneath, he takes it on the run.

1518
02:31:28,000 --> 02:31:36,000
Bob Moorhead gets the Kansas City Athletics out in order in the bottom half of the eighth inning with no runs on no hits, no errors, and nobody left on base.

1519
02:31:36,000 --> 02:31:43,000
And at the end of eighth full inning to play, the score is the New York Mets 12 and the Kansas City A's 7.

1520
02:31:43,000 --> 02:31:49,000
This has been a free swinging, free hitting baseball game here this afternoon.

1521
02:31:49,000 --> 02:31:54,000
Something of a change for the New York Mets who have been used to playing them very close to the vest,

1522
02:31:54,000 --> 02:31:59,000
neither barely losing them or eking out the victory.

1523
02:31:59,000 --> 02:32:02,000
Either way you look at it, it's exciting baseball.

1524
02:32:02,000 --> 02:32:10,000
And that's the kind you'll see at the Polo Grounds all season long as National League Baseball comes back to the city of New York on April 13th

1525
02:32:10,000 --> 02:32:15,000
with the Pittsburgh Powerheads coming in for a single game on Friday, April 13th,

1526
02:32:15,000 --> 02:32:20,000
another single game on Saturday, the 14th, and a big double hitter at the Polo Grounds on the 15th.

1527
02:32:20,000 --> 02:32:25,000
Felix Mantia is out to play now for the New York Mets.

1528
02:32:25,000 --> 02:32:28,000
He's been on base four times this afternoon.

1529
02:32:28,000 --> 02:32:32,000
And as the drive going deep to left, Centerfield could be an in-betweener, and it's got to be just that.

1530
02:32:32,000 --> 02:32:34,000
Mantia turns first six for second.

1531
02:32:34,000 --> 02:32:39,000
Manny Jimenez runs it down, whips it in, and Mantia turns second, hoes up right there.

1532
02:32:39,000 --> 02:32:42,000
Felix Mantia with a well-hit ball in between.

1533
02:32:42,000 --> 02:32:45,000
Centerfield to Manny Jimenez and Centerfield to Jose Tartabull.

1534
02:32:45,000 --> 02:32:47,000
It went all the way to the scoreboard.

1535
02:32:47,000 --> 02:32:52,000
So it is two base hits this afternoon for Felix Mantia,

1536
02:32:52,000 --> 02:32:57,000
who is making a bid to reclaim the shortstop position on this Mets team.

1537
02:32:57,000 --> 02:32:59,000
And Rod Kaniel is coming up, the second baseman.

1538
02:32:59,000 --> 02:33:02,000
Kaniel had a double in the third inning. He scored two runs.

1539
02:33:02,000 --> 02:33:05,000
He was on on an error in the first inning.

1540
02:33:05,000 --> 02:33:11,000
Kaniel forced Mantia in the fifth. He's been on base three times.

1541
02:33:11,000 --> 02:33:15,000
Nobody out as Mantia was the first man up for the Mets in the top of the ninth.

1542
02:33:15,000 --> 02:33:26,000
The pitch to Kaniel is in there for a called strike one.

1543
02:33:26,000 --> 02:33:29,000
Dave Wickersham, the Kansas City pitching.

1544
02:33:29,000 --> 02:33:32,000
Herb Moford is not throwing in the bullpen for the New York Mets.

1545
02:33:32,000 --> 02:33:37,000
Herb Moford.

1546
02:33:37,000 --> 02:33:46,000
Pitch is low and it's ball one. One ball and one strike.

1547
02:33:46,000 --> 02:33:49,000
Red Crest, the coach at first base.

1548
02:33:49,000 --> 02:33:52,000
Talking back and forth with a few of the fans there.

1549
02:33:52,000 --> 02:33:55,000
We noticed a moment ago when Geno Somoli beat out of base.

1550
02:33:55,000 --> 02:33:58,000
There's quite a Somoli fan club here in West Palm Beach.

1551
02:33:58,000 --> 02:34:03,000
There's usually a Somoli fan club wherever.

1552
02:34:03,000 --> 02:34:08,000
And he's been around. One ball and one strike to count to Rod Kaniel.

1553
02:34:08,000 --> 02:34:13,000
There's a foul ball coming out of play.

1554
02:34:13,000 --> 02:34:23,000
Two strike count. One ball and two strikes.

1555
02:34:23,000 --> 02:34:27,000
Directly after this ball game, the New York Mets will be moving on into Miami, Florida,

1556
02:34:27,000 --> 02:34:32,000
where they'll be based for three ball games coming up against the Washington Sunnys,

1557
02:34:32,000 --> 02:34:41,000
the Baltimore Orioles, and the New York Yankees.

1558
02:34:41,000 --> 02:34:53,000
Kaniel swinging the bat as Wickersham checks Mantia at second.

1559
02:34:53,000 --> 02:34:57,000
Here's the pitch. Swing and a miss.

1560
02:34:57,000 --> 02:35:04,000
So he struck him out. One man out, Mantia still at second.

1561
02:35:04,000 --> 02:35:08,000
And that will bring up John DeMarritt.

1562
02:35:08,000 --> 02:35:14,000
John DeMarritt came in to run for Gus Bell after Bell walked in the seventh inning.

1563
02:35:14,000 --> 02:35:19,000
So this is DeMarritt's first time up.

1564
02:35:19,000 --> 02:35:24,000
DeMarritt with the open stance up there and waiting.

1565
02:35:24,000 --> 02:35:28,000
Here's the pitch. And there's a ground ball to third taken down there by Kazee.

1566
02:35:28,000 --> 02:35:30,000
He throws over the first in time. Now Mantia's going to third.

1567
02:35:30,000 --> 02:35:35,000
To throw back to third, he's safe at third base.

1568
02:35:35,000 --> 02:35:41,000
So John DeMarritt is grounded out, 5-3 if he's scoring from Wayne Kazee to Norm Seaborn.

1569
02:35:41,000 --> 02:35:46,000
And Felix Mantia waited until the throw started to cross and then advanced to third on the play.

1570
02:35:46,000 --> 02:35:51,000
So there are two men out. Mantia's at third and Joe Christopher is coming up.

1571
02:35:51,000 --> 02:35:59,000
Christopher ran for Frank Thomas after Thomas single in the seventh inning.

1572
02:35:59,000 --> 02:36:03,000
Lots of speed.

1573
02:36:03,000 --> 02:36:06,000
Top half of the ninth inning.

1574
02:36:06,000 --> 02:36:19,000
The New York Mets at Batten leading in the ballgame by a score of 12-7.

1575
02:36:19,000 --> 02:36:22,000
Dave Wickersham with the pitch.

1576
02:36:22,000 --> 02:36:30,000
Call strike to Joe Christopher.

1577
02:36:30,000 --> 02:36:34,000
And the Pittsburgh Pirates are making their stretch drive to win the Finiton 1960.

1578
02:36:34,000 --> 02:36:38,000
And then, of course, they went on to defeat the New York Yankees in the World Series.

1579
02:36:38,000 --> 02:36:41,000
Joe Christopher played a very important part in that stretch drive,

1580
02:36:41,000 --> 02:36:55,000
figuring in several important victories of the Pirates in the days when they were hanging in there.

1581
02:36:55,000 --> 02:37:03,000
Such is Lowell. It's one and one.

1582
02:37:03,000 --> 02:37:17,000
Matter of fact, that year the Pirates had Geno Simoli and Joe Christopher as their extra outfielders.

1583
02:37:17,000 --> 02:37:21,000
Wickersham rubbing the ball up, taking a moment here. No particular hurry.

1584
02:37:21,000 --> 02:37:31,000
Felix Mantia's on at third. There are two men out and he counted one ball and one strike to Joe Christopher.

1585
02:37:31,000 --> 02:37:34,000
It's a call strike, one and two.

1586
02:37:34,000 --> 02:37:38,000
As we have noted, the Kansas City Athletics next year will be training in North Miami, Florida.

1587
02:37:38,000 --> 02:37:41,000
They have signed a 10-year contract to train there.

1588
02:37:41,000 --> 02:37:47,000
And rumor has it, of course, that Lou Parini is going to move his Milwaukee Braves into here,

1589
02:37:47,000 --> 02:37:51,000
West Palm Beach, since he has a housing development nearby.

1590
02:37:51,000 --> 02:37:59,000
That has been the persistent rumor even before the announcement that the Athletics were going to train at North Miami.

1591
02:37:59,000 --> 02:38:03,000
Now Howie Nye is throwing in the bullpen also for the New York Mets, along with Moffitt.

1592
02:38:03,000 --> 02:38:07,000
There's a pitch outside to Christopher. It's two and two.

1593
02:38:07,000 --> 02:38:12,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1594
02:38:12,000 --> 02:38:28,000
Fischl paid attendance here this afternoon, 1,843, turning out on a sunny afternoon to see the New York Mets and the Kansas City Athletics.

1595
02:38:28,000 --> 02:38:31,000
Right-hander Dave Wickersham for Kansas City. Starts his windup.

1596
02:38:31,000 --> 02:38:34,000
Pumps it twice. Now he is set.

1597
02:38:34,000 --> 02:38:36,000
There's a little nubber down to the third baseline.

1598
02:38:36,000 --> 02:38:39,000
Feel it by Wickersham and a bare hand. Throws over the first base, not in time.

1599
02:38:39,000 --> 02:38:45,000
The run is scored by Manthia as Christopher is saving first base, beating it out for a base hit.

1600
02:38:45,000 --> 02:38:50,000
Dave Wickersham came over, bare-handed it, had to get set to throw, and it came up in one big hop.

1601
02:38:50,000 --> 02:38:54,000
But Christopher was across the bag at first. He gets a single and a run batted in.

1602
02:38:54,000 --> 02:38:57,000
Little nubber on the third baseline.

1603
02:38:57,000 --> 02:38:59,000
Boucher here for a baseline.

1604
02:38:59,000 --> 02:39:02,000
So Manthia has scored for the 13th run of the New York Mets.

1605
02:39:02,000 --> 02:39:15,000
They lead 13 to 7, and Ed Boucher is up there with two men out in the runner at first.

1606
02:39:15,000 --> 02:39:19,000
Wickersham checks.

1607
02:39:19,000 --> 02:39:25,000
There is a ground ball going through the hole in the right field for a base hit. Christopher turns, second digs for third.

1608
02:39:25,000 --> 02:39:29,000
The Molley fires it all across, and Christopher safely into third base.

1609
02:39:29,000 --> 02:39:33,000
As they counter the shortstop, cut it off.

1610
02:39:33,000 --> 02:39:43,000
So that is a single to right for Ed Boucher, and brings up Don Zimmer, who has been on base five times today.

1611
02:39:43,000 --> 02:39:48,000
Single, double, double, on on an error, and walked.

1612
02:39:48,000 --> 02:39:50,000
A big day for Don Zimmer.

1613
02:39:50,000 --> 02:40:07,000
Their run is at first and third now, with two men out, and that's leading 13 to 7 over the Kansas City Athletics.

1614
02:40:07,000 --> 02:40:10,000
Charles Wickersham, the right-hander, has the sign now.

1615
02:40:10,000 --> 02:40:15,000
Checks the runners. Pitches inside to Zimmer, and now it's Boucher on a delayed steal.

1616
02:40:15,000 --> 02:40:17,000
He's caught in the rundown between first and second.

1617
02:40:17,000 --> 02:40:23,000
Christopher has crossed the plate, and now Boucher is tagged out.

1618
02:40:23,000 --> 02:40:30,000
The run does count very definitely, since Christopher crossed the plate before Boucher was tagged out.

1619
02:40:30,000 --> 02:40:36,000
As the throw went through on the delay, they got the run across, trying a few maneuvers here.

1620
02:40:36,000 --> 02:40:46,000
Very late, and so in the top half of the ninth inning, the New York Mets got two runs on three hits, no errors, and nobody left on base.

1621
02:40:46,000 --> 02:40:55,000
And so at the end of 8 1⁄2 innings of play, the score is the New York Mets 14 and the Kansas City Athletics 7.

1622
02:40:55,000 --> 02:40:58,000
We'll be going now to the bottom half of the ninth inning.

1623
02:40:58,000 --> 02:41:02,000
Cleanup man Norm Seabird is up to lead off for the Kansas City Athletics.

1624
02:41:02,000 --> 02:41:08,000
Bob Morahead, the pitcher, on the mound for the New York Mets.

1625
02:41:08,000 --> 02:41:11,000
Wines and fires, and the pitcher's outside to Seabird.

1626
02:41:11,000 --> 02:41:17,000
Seabird walks, single, single, and four outs, so he's been on base four times.

1627
02:41:17,000 --> 02:41:22,000
Two for three officially, and the walk.

1628
02:41:22,000 --> 02:41:36,000
Lower and inside, it's ball two to Norm Seabird. He'll be followed by Manny Jimenez and Gino Somoli.

1629
02:41:36,000 --> 02:41:40,000
Morahead's pitch, down low.

1630
02:41:40,000 --> 02:41:44,000
Ball three, it's three and oh.

1631
02:41:44,000 --> 02:41:50,000
Herb Mofford and Howie Nunn throwing in the bullpen for the New York Mets.

1632
02:41:50,000 --> 02:41:54,000
Trying this afternoon to even up their Grapefruit League record.

1633
02:41:54,000 --> 02:42:04,000
It's in there for a called strike. It's three and one, the automatic strike right down the pike to Norm Seabird.

1634
02:42:04,000 --> 02:42:10,000
Now to the ground ball, going to the right side, fielded by Boucher. He's got to play it to Morahead covering, and he's out at first base.

1635
02:42:10,000 --> 02:42:14,000
The seabird goes out three to one if he's scoring. From Ed Boucher to the pitcher, Bob Morahead covering.

1636
02:42:14,000 --> 02:42:16,000
That'll bring up Manny Jimenez.

1637
02:42:16,000 --> 02:42:21,000
Tomorrow afternoon, we'll be at Papadou Beach to bring you the New York Mets and the Washington Senators.

1638
02:42:21,000 --> 02:42:30,000
They're managed by Mickey Vernon. They have ball players like Jim Pearsall and Gene Woodling.

1639
02:42:30,000 --> 02:42:36,000
So we'll have an exciting afternoon for you tomorrow, the Mets and the Washington Senators.

1640
02:42:36,000 --> 02:42:42,000
And on Monday, we'll bring you the Mets and the Baltimore Orioles, and on Tuesday, the Mets and the New York Yankees.

1641
02:42:42,000 --> 02:42:47,000
Here's the pitch to Jimenez. There's nobody out in one man out.

1642
02:42:47,000 --> 02:42:54,000
Against the speed of the left-hand batter, down to him at third, in on the edge of the grass.

1643
02:42:54,000 --> 02:43:01,000
And there's a ground ball to the short stub deep. Manny Jimenez has it. Sidehands it to first to Boucher. He's out.

1644
02:43:01,000 --> 02:43:06,000
So Manny Jimenez hits the ball hard, but directly at Felix Manny Jimenez.

1645
02:43:06,000 --> 02:43:11,000
Sidehands it over to Ed Boucher at first. Two men out. Gino Somoli is coming up.

1646
02:43:11,000 --> 02:43:20,000
Right now, the New York Mets are one put-out away from having evened their Grapefruit League record at 500, seven wins and seven losses.

1647
02:43:20,000 --> 02:43:26,000
Bob Moriart brings it inside for ball one to Gino Somoli.

1648
02:43:26,000 --> 02:43:34,000
The New York Mets lead here by a score of 14 to 7 over the Kansas City Athletics, and we're in the bottom half of the ninth inning.

1649
02:43:34,000 --> 02:43:39,000
As the fly ball's going to right field, it is sending John DeMarritt back. He's near the wall.

1650
02:43:39,000 --> 02:43:46,000
DeMarritt takes it over his shoulder for the out. That ends the ballgame as Somoli flies out deep to John DeMarritt near the wall and right.

1651
02:43:46,000 --> 02:43:58,000
And so in the bottom half of the ninth inning, Bob Moriart has managed to get the Kansas City Athletics out of their in-air order with no runs, no hits, no errors, and nobody left on base.

1652
02:43:58,000 --> 02:44:16,000
We'll have the summary in just a moment. Right now, the final score, the New York Mets 14 and the Kansas City A's 7.