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The Oakland Athletics faced the California Angels for a spring training game on March 9th, 1974.
Oakland were the world champions, having won the World Series in both 1972 and 73 under manager Dick Williams.
But Williams had resigned after the 1973 season after disagreements with owner Charles Finley.
The Athletics hired Alvin Dark to manage the 1974 team. He had previously managed the Giants, Kansas City Athletics, and Indians during the 1960s.
California entered the season under manager Bobby Winkles, who had led the team to a 79-83 record during his first season as skipper in 1973.
This audio recording is from the California Radio broadcast featuring announcers Don Dresdale and Dick Emberg.
Talking about opening night, on the 9th of April at the Big Eight, there will be a spectacular finale today. Opening night, a colorful aerial fireworks display immediately following the game. So jot down that game. I bet date Tuesday, April the 9th, the Angels American League opener at the Big Eight.
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We have a pair of American League umpires, one National League umpire working the game here this afternoon. The National League umpire behind the plate will be Dave Phillips. Merle Anthony will be at first base. Hank Morgan-Weck will be around at third.
The A's lead it off with Bill North in center field. Bert Campaneras will be at short stop. Left fielder Joe Rudy will bat third. Last year's MVP in the American League, Reggie Jackson will be in right field.
Gene Tennis will do the catching. Darren Johnson will be at first base. Johnson at first. The designated hitter will be Ray Posse. Rich McKinney will be at third base. The captain of the A's, Sal Bando, has a badly bruised right hand. He was hit by a pitch while taking batting practice.
McKinney at third. And Manny Treo, a man of controversy surrounding the World Series last year, will get his start at second base, although Dick Green has agreed to terms with Charlie Finley after he had announced his retirement.
The Angels do a look as Mickey Rivers in center field lead it off. Rivers in center. Denny Doyle, a very valuable acquisition, will be at second base for the Angels, batting second. Bobby Valentine, and so good to see Valentine back in the lineup, although he would be the first to admit he is not 100% yet.
The first pitch from Rick Rushell of the Cubs yesterday, he was rifle in the center field for a base hit, and he actually had to slide on that bad leg too, and he came up, well, not, he was limping, but he'll run with a limp now, but it didn't hurt him that much.
Bob Oliver will be at third base. Mike Epstein will be at first. He will bat fifth. Holly Brown, another acquisition in the deal with Milwaukee that sent Clyde Wright to the Brewers, will be in right field.
Richie Scheinblum will be the designated hitter. Scheinblum, the D.H. Ellie Rodriguez. Rodriguez, a man that the Angels have coveted for the last three or four years.
Finally, getting him from the Milwaukee Brewers in the Clyde Wright deal will be behind the plate. And the young man from Texas, David Chalk, will be at shortstop, and Bobby Winkelson talking to him says a lot of people are worried about this shortstop slough on the Angels.
He said, I for one am not. This young man can play a shortstop. So we're set to go. The switch hitting Bill North, stepping in from the left-hand side against Billy No-No, Bill Singer.
We begin play for 1974, and again a pleasure to bring to you the big fella, number 53, here's Big B.
Thank you very much, David, and a very pleasant good afternoon. As the first pitch delivered by Bill Singer is a fastball taken up high for ball one.
Now we're underway along this Angel Radio Network. In 1974, Singer has his sign from Rodriguez. The next pitch, a fastball just outside for ball two.
Going around and setting the defense for the Angels, Bob Oliver at third, Dave Chalk is at short, Denny Doyle at second base, and over at first base will be Mike Epstein, the outfielder, Valentine Rivers and Brown from left to right.
Singer checks with Rodriguez, and a 2-0 pitch, a fastball taken high for ball three. So Bill Singer, behind the count on Bill North, who steps out, looks down at his third base, coach Ervin Norton.
Ervin from Pasadena, Arcadia area, blocks the few signs. Here's a 3-0 pitch outside and high for ball four.
So Bill North leads it off with a base on balls, and Bert Campaneras.
Welcome to Bad Campy, last year hitting.254 homeruns, 46 RBIs, North a lot of speed on at first base, Epstein holding.
The infield shortened up, Oliver on the grass at third, Singer goes over to first, and North back in time.
On deck the left fielder Joe Rudy. Campaneras taking his time, moves in now, Singer has his sign set, goes over to first one more time, this time diving back is North.
Now the game just underway, the world champions of baseball, the Oakland A's and the California Angels. Singer again, and they just about had him.
Bill North was breaking the wrong way, Singer this time gave him his good move, and they almost picked him off.
That's the first base umpire, Muril Anthony, right there on top of the play.
Two umpires today on the bases, Muril Anthony at first, Hank Morganweck.
Right now positioning himself out at second base behind the plate, Dave Phillips.
Campaneras once again takes his time, checks down with the third base coach Herb Norton, and of course Alvin Dark, the new manager of the Oakland A's, much like Dick Williams.
They will hit and run, they will squeeze, they will steal, Singer's set, checks the run at first, there he goes, the pitch swung on him, Mr. Thordak, second!
They don't get him, and North did not slide, Dave Chalk taking the throw, and we'll have to see if North is okay, he is.
He went in standing up, Dave Chalk as he applied the tag, pushed North over, so it will be a stolen base for Bill North, and the count right now, 0-1 to Bird Campaneras.
Oakland A's speed on display right there, North with 53 stolen bases last year, and he can fly, Singer tried to keep him close three or four times, but he got a good jump this time, and he stole it standing up.
Singer into the stretch as he checks North out of second base, Campaneras fronts it right back to Singer, up he has one play to Epstein, and time to get Campaneras in on the play, Bill North moves over to third.
So, as we were saying, Alvin Dark, as like Dick Williams, very fundamental managers, they will not pull too many tricks out, they will try and go for the runs right there, Campaneras moving his runner from second to third with nobody out,
and now the A's have the go-ahead run here in the first inning at third base.
The infield will play back, and Joe Rudy will be the hitter, that will be a sacrifice for Bird Campaneras.
Joe Rudy last year, hitting 270, the first pitch is swung on, and this strike went to fastball, as Bill Singer rode that one up and in.
He had 12 home runs, 66 RBI, Joe Rudy, one of the members of the Oakland A's who did not win his arbitration battle with owner Charlie Finley.
Singer working out of the stretch, North away at third, Singer set, checks the runner, the next pitch just outside for ball one.
Down even, one ball and one strike. The infield straight away, the outfield is saved.
Oliver just behind the bag at third, off the line. Singer checking signs into the stretch, he checks North at third, a 1-1 such a fastball, up and in for ball two, two balls in a strike.
On deck, Reggie Jackson. Worse stock, the A's pitching coach is coaching over at first base.
As we said before, Irv Noren over at third, Singer once again delivers a 2-1 pitch, a breaking pitch called strike two.
Rudy started, then held up, the count evens out, two balls, two strikes. On a beautiful afternoon, Angel Stadiums in Palm Springs, California.
A very slight breeze, ever so slight, kind of blowing out of the East and well, maybe the Northeast.
Here's a 2-2 pitch, they got him looking such peace. Good fastball on the outside corner, catches Joe Rudy looking, and Bill Singer now has two away.
And that a big out.
That is the first strike out of the year for Bill Singer.
Bill North, if you joined us late, let off with the base on balls, he stole second, he was sacrificed to third by Bird Camp and his.
Joe Rudy has just been caught looking. And Reggie Jackson stands in. Singer from the full windup now, there's a little looking five ball left in the field.
Here Litch is going to drop, Mickey Rivers comes on, North will score and the World Champion A's take a 1-0 lead.
Jackson did not hit that ball well at all, it jammed him, but Reggie, a strong left hand hitter, fought the ball off, looped it into left center field where Mickey Rivers had no chance whatsoever, or Bobby Valentine, the left fielder.
The A's take a 1-0 lead as Gene Tennis will stand in. Gene hit.258 last year, Singer working from the stretch goes over to first to drive Jackson back.
Singer once again from the stretch, the first pitch is just inside ball one and Ellie Rodriguez is a little hesitant behind the play, getting the ball back to Singer, I think Ellie thought he had it.
Singer again into the stretch, he checks Jackson goes over and Reggie diving back in time.
Tennis in his articles, here's another player that did not win his arbitration battle either, once again Singer goes over to first and once again Reggie Jackson diving back.
And Gene said, well, he said I didn't win my arbitration battle and so I just don't believe I'm going to do much catching for Mr. Finley in the old Sunnys, but today he is back there.
There's another throw to first and once again Jackson is back.
Singer into the stretch and the pitch is swung on and missed the fastball.
The county's in depth at one ball and one strike.
Tennis as we said before at 258 last year at 24 home runs 84 RBI.
The infield back straight away, Mickey Rivers slightly in left center.
Singer's set, checks the run of the one, one pitch, a breaking pitch, off speed pitch, gets to the outside corner, first strike, two calls.
The world champion Oakman A's.
Leading the Angels here, just the top half of the first inning, game just underway, one to nothing, Singer goes over to first, Jackson again diving back.
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One ball, two strikes.
Singer's next pitch is check swing, fastball taking it up high and away for ball two, the county evens the two balls, two strikes.
Two outs, Jackson at first, A's one, the Angels nothing.
On deck, Darren Johnson.
Singer once again to the stretcher, the two two pitch, fastball right back up and right below us, look out.
Oh, well everybody's got to have spring training.
Harry Dalton standing right next to us, he says, you give a little and you know I gave a little.
He gave a lot as right.
Count remains the same, two balls, two strikes.
Here's Singer's two two pitch, just outside with a fastball, ball three.
So the count goes full in with two outs, three two count on James Tennes.
He will be off and running.
One more time, Mike Epstein moves in behind, Singer's set, here's the three two pitch, winner goes, it hits him, it's a slider.
Eugene Tennes on hit by the pitch, that would have been ball four anyway.
And the A's have runners at first and second, Jackson at second, Tennes at first and Darren Johnson will be the hitter.
Yesterday in the A's 13 to 3 win over San Diego, they had five home runs, Eugene Tennes had two, and the hitter up here right now, Darren Johnson had one.
First pitch is a breaking pitch, fouls right straight back, 0-1 to Johnson.
The man out of second base had one, Reggie Jackson.
And the catcher, Ray Fossey on deck, also he had the fifth.
Singer has his sign from Rodriguez, dancing out of second is Jackson, next pitch a fastball, foul off of the mask of LA Rodriguez, and Singer out in front, 0-2.
No balls, two strikes.
Singer checking signs with Rodriguez, has the one he wants, he goes to the belt, he checks Jackson out of second base, big shot, starting to move in behind, a fastball, swing on him, missed, tech three, and that will do it for the A's.
So Phil Singer, back at Darren Johnson, in the inning for Oakland, they come up with one run on one hit, there were no errors, they lead two, and the score after the first half inning of play, it's the Oakland A's one, and the California Angels coming to bat.
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Back here at Angel Stadium in Palm Springs, fight a blue, taking his warm-up sauces.
And the Angels will send up Mickey Rivers, Denny Doyle, and Bobby Valentine in that order.
The A's scored one run in the first inning. The Angels did bad, so we'll set the defense for the world champion.
At third base will be Rich McKinney. At shortstop will be Bird Campaneras.
Out at second base, Manny Triglio. And over at first base, Darren Johnson.
The outfield, Joe Rudy in left, Bill Northen Center, Reggie Jackson in right, and the battery, Gene Tennant, and fight a blue.
Fight a blue last year, 20-game winner for the A's, 120, lost nine, earned an average of 3.28.
Against the Angels, he was at 500. He won two, he lost two, and had an earned run average last year against the Californians, 3.58.
Well, Mickey Rivers leads it off, fight a blue. Into the windup, the first pitch, a front down at third base, I don't go foul.
Gene Tennant is hopping out of there in a hurry, but that ball just rolling foul. Had that ball been fair, been very godful, they would have got Rivers, who has excellent speed.
Mickey, last year, after having a fine year at Salt Lake City, came up to the parent club, the California Angels, where he hit 3.49.
He did not have a home run, but he had 16 RBI.
Coaching down at third, the newcomers to the Angels this year, Witte Herzog, and over at first, Sawley Parker.
Time call right now, manager Alvin Dark moving out alongside, and a cheer outside of the dugout.
Blue wind, here's the one strike pitch, a line drive hit to center field, right in the nose, coming on North, he got the ball.
Rivers, who has 3.22 second, goes up to the ball, a strong running time.
Mickey Rivers, right there, displaying his speed and excitement.
That manager Bobby Winkle's hopes will be on display for the 1974 season.
A line drive, Bill North made an excellent try.
The ball just popped out of his glove as he hit the ground, it rolled right in front of him, he got up in a hurry, and he threw a strike to Manny Trillo.
But the great speed of Mickey Rivers enabled him to get under the tag with a fine slide.
And Denny Doyle right now, checked at the first pitch as he squirted around the front, taking a little bit low for ball one.
That'll be rule of double for Mickey Rivers.
Blue at the bell, he checks Rivers at second, and next pitch to Doyle, a good run up the first base side.
Darren Johnson has only one play, that's the tag Doyle as he goes by, and over the third goes Mickey Rivers.
Well, the Angels find themselves in the same position as the A's were in the first inning.
Bill North led off with a base on balls, he stole second, then Campanier sacrificing the third.
For the Angels, Mickey River leads off with a double, he has sacrificed the third by Denny Doyle.
And a fine round of applause for the number three hitter in the Angel lineup, Bobby Valentine.
Blue into the lineup, the first pitch is fouled back to the right and out of play.
All-in-one to Valentine last year, up until May 17th when he broke his leg against the same world champion Oakland A's,
trying to make a catch of a home run off of the bat of Dick Green.
Bobby hit 302 at a home run, 13 RBI.
Blue winds, here's the one strike pitch, just outside for ball one.
One ball and one strike, it's the A's one, and the Angels nothing, one out in the last of the first.
The infield back, they will give up the run.
Blue working out of the full windup, Rivers down the line at third.
Here's the one-one pitch, a breaking pitch popped to the right side, will curl foul, and that will go back and out of play.
So blue ahead of Valentine, one ball and two strikes.
Bob Oliver.
Now with the two strikes, manager Alvin Dark will bring his infield in.
And the logic behind this right here, you feel that he's got a pitcher out there with good control,
and making it, he's got to hit his pitch and protect the plate.
Here's the one-two pitch, line drive at the right field, that will be a base hit.
And the Angels, as Mickey Rivers scores from third, Bobby Valentine going the opposite way.
A line drive base hit the right field, and we are tied at one.
Well that's good to see, Don, Valentine hanging in there.
I can't think of a man who could have possibly spent a more frustrating last nine months than Bobby Valentine
since the 17th of May when almost the time that he got out of the hospital, started working and working and working,
and there's a lot of sweat and pain and I'm sure a few tours that have gone into that base hit over the last nine months.
Boy that is so true, Dave. And Bob Oliver goes after a breaking pitch,
and away does it get it for strike one, Bobby Valentine at first base.
So he has his first base hit, make that his second base hit of the spring.
He had one yesterday, his first time up in Oldville on the first pitch, his first RBI of the spring.
Blue at the belt, the pitch to Oliver, ground ball hit the third, McKinney backs up, plays it on the big hop,
goes to three oh high, he's safe at second, he's at it third.
A throw by McKinney, and Merle Anthony, the first base umpire, gave the out sign,
and Oliver is standing at first base. Well we'll see what happens now.
Now he changed his decision, he's calling straight, well he has not, he's calling out, he was out.
Well on the play it'll be, rule five, four, three, the put out on Oliver, Valentine safe at second base.
Now there's two gone, and Mike Epstein stands in against his former teammate,
he goes after a fast ball, doesn't get it for strike one, and again Bobby Valentine forced to go down painfully
and make the slide, but there he is, dancing away from second base, apparently no harm done.
Bob Oliver, I don't know, should have beaten that ball out I think.
The one strike pitch is hit off the hands to the left side, over by the A's dugout,
that will swirl around, hits the light tower, and comes right back down into the glove of Gene Pinnis,
but of course it hits the light tower and is out of play.
Funny play David, I'll tell you the ball that McKinney had to back up late on the big hop, he threw high to Trio,
Trio had to go high and near to haul it down on the shortstop side of the bag, and it was a very close play at first base,
kind of a little funny call by Murrow Anthony at first, he gave it that little jabbing shot.
But Oliver is gone and Valentine remains at second base.
We are tied at one, two outs in the last half of the first inning.
One ball, two strikes, the F-Team, make that 0-2, here's the two strikes, the flying guard,
hit deep to left center field, slicing away from North, still slicing and he makes a diving kick.
A diving kick by Bill North, and that retires the side for the Angels, and it saves the A's a run.
But in the inning for the Angels, they come up with one run on two hits,
they were known as they leave one in the score after the first inning of play,
the World Champion Oakland A's won and the California Angels won.
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When you say both, it means you want the beer that's got a taste that's no better.
When you say both, you tell the world you know what makes it all the way.
When you say both, you say you're carrying out to only want the key of peace.
There is no other way, there's only something else, because the key of peace is leading on the rest.
When you say both, it means you've said it all.
You'll face right-hander Bill Singer who winds the first hit, and that hit him up in the shoulder.
Talking to Bill Singer before the game, he said he just hadn't been able to cut it loose yet.
And that is so understandable this early part of the spring.
And you probably see that more so with power, he says, he would put Bill Singer in that caliber.
So Ray Fossey hit by the pit, that's the second one by Singer, and Rich McKinney stands in.
The first pitch of fastball taken up high for ball one.
Epstein holding Fossey at first base, the infield in double play depth,
the infield of Oliver Chuck Doyle and Epstein from third to first, the outfield of Valentine Rivers and Brown.
The next pitch is a high pop on the right side, Denny Doyle going back,
getting his eye just crossed in the foul territory, makes the catch.
Fine play by Denny Doyle going right over to the fence.
Rich McKinney, retired and one gone for the A's as many, Trio will stand in.
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Trio steps in, now steps out, he checks down to the third base, Coach of Norrin.
Fossey away at first, one gone, the top of the second.
First pitch is Slider delivered inside and Loverball won.
Trio last year at Tucson hit 312, eight home runs, 78 RBI.
The 1-0 pitch is hit off the hand, popped on the right side once again.
Denny Doyle in behind Epstein and makes the catch.
Now for the singer, it's Ray Fossey with the first pitch, a Slider that kind of backed up on him.
He gets McKinney and Trio to pop to Denny Doyle, will go to the top of the order in Bill North.
North watches first time at bats, 12 seconds, scored the A's first run.
We are tied at one, we're in the top of the second, two out.
Now Epstein will move in behind Fossey with a left hand hitting Bill North standing in.
First pitch a fastball, up in the air goes Rodriguez to haul it down.
One ball and no strikes.
Beautiful afternoon here in Palm Springs.
Yesterday a little cloudy overcats right in the morning.
There goes the runner, the pitcher calls, strikes it, throw it at Trockett, second day, get Fossey.
Ellie Rodriguez right there showing the signs that Bobby Winkle said the Angels could not do last year,
throw runners out, he guns down Ray Fossey, the A's are gone in the second.
In the inning no runs, no hits, there were no A's, they leave nobody.
And the score, after one and a half, it's the A's won and the Angels won.
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And that includes daily service from Los Angeles to Denver too.
Well we're set to move into the last half of the second inning.
A newcomer from the Milwaukee Brewers in the trade, Ollie Brown, will stand in.
Vita Blue into the wind up the first pick of that ball, catches the outback corner.
That one's off.
Here's the one strike pitch, off speed curve ball taking low, ball one, one ball, one strike.
There are some other scores for you down at Bureau Beach, Florida.
The Atlanta Braves and the Dodgers tied up at three apiece after eight.
The next pitch is fouled back to the right side.
That will go back and out of play.
Steve Garvey, get a home run in the eighth inning with nobody on.
Mike Worm in the seventh inning with one arm for the Braves.
At Bradenton at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, they've done at Beach Houston and Montreal,
St. Petersburg, the New York Mets, and the St. Louis Cardinals.
The next pitch is fouled off of the mask of Gene Tennesse, and that shakes him up just a little bit.
Gene kind of checking the ivories a little bit.
Moving around, see if they're all in place.
The Cat, one ball and two strikes, Ali Brown.
At Winterhaven, it's the Phillies, two, and the Boston Red Sox, one.
That's after two.
Scottsdale, Milwaukee, and the Cubs, no score yet.
At Yuma, Arizona Western, and the San Diego Padres, no score.
Tucson, San Francisco is at Cleveland.
For Lauderdale, Baltimore, and the New York Yankees, it's Sara Sota.
After five, we'll give you that score in a minute.
Here's the one-two pitch.
That's hit off the hands on the left side.
In foul territory goes Rich McKinney, the third baseman, shading his eyes from the sun, and makes the Cat.
So with one guard, we'll pause for station identification.
This is the Angels Radio Network.
And this is KXTC, Glendale, Phoenix, Arizona.
The time is one o'clock.
Back here at Angel Stadium in Palm Springs, Richie Schindblum, the designated hitter, takes a change, high and away for ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
Schindblum last year, hitting.328.
Right of blue's next pitch, a line drive, hit foul.
Looking down the left field line, Schindblum a switch hitter, hitting from the right side, off the left-handed pitching, a right of blue.
Some other scores at Sara Sota.
It's Kansas City 8 and the Chicago White Sox 3.
That is after five.
After six is Detroit 4, Minnesota 1.
There's a ground ball hit off the hands, just foul.
Rich McKinney making the play behind the bag, flips it back to right of blue, and the count moves.
One ball and two strikes.
And in that game, Minnesota and Detroit, Borgman, a home run for Minnesota, in the six with nobody on.
On deck, Ellie Rodriguez.
Right of blue shakes off a sign from tennis, now has the one he wants.
Here's the one-two pitch and off-speed curveball outside for ball two.
So the count evens up.
It's two balls and two strikes.
We're in the last half of the second inning, we are tied at one, the world champion Oakland A's and the California Angels.
Here's the two-two pitch from blue.
It is inside and low, ball three.
So the count goes full of Schindblum, three balls and two strikes.
Schindblum against left-hand pitching last year, hits 267.
And against right-handed pitching, hits 357.
The next pitch, a ground ball hit off the end of the bat over the hole, Cabanera,
bobbles the ball, picks it up, throws, not inside.
Now, Burt Cabanera has had the ball stay down on him, throw just behind him.
And by the time he got it to Sharon Johnson, his first fake, Schindblum across the bag,
it will be an error on Burt Cabanera's, and you will not see that happen too often.
So with one gone, Schindblum at first and Ellie Rodriguez will stand in.
Rodriguez in the eighth spot in the batting order, on deck in the ninth spot, Dave Chuff.
Rodriguez last year at Milwaukee, hitting 268.
He did not have a home run.
He had 30 RBI.
One gone, last half of the second inning.
We were tied at one, infield and double play, depth.
Blue, into the stretch, he checks the runner.
The pitch is a high-five ball at the center field.
Bill North has to retreat a few steps, glove up to shade the sun and make the gap.
Now there's two gone, and Dave Chock will be the hitter.
Dave, hitting 232 with the Angels last year, did not have a home run.
He had five RBI.
Today, the youngster out of Dallas, Texas, 5'10", 175 pounder, Rich McKinney,
about a step behind the bag at third, now moves up even with the bag.
Blue goes to the set position.
The first pitch to Chock is a fastball.
That's taken down a little bit away from ball one.
Chock checking with the third base coach, Wadi Herzog.
Wadi flashing a few signs.
At first base, Richie Schindblum is checking with his third base coach.
He goes, the pitch swung on and is dropped by Tennant.
And let's see, it is not a foul ball.
The umpires move up, and they count one ball, one strike.
So Schindblum moving on the pitch.
Richie will be credited with a stolen base.
And they count even one ball, one strike to Chock.
So the Angels have the go-ahead run out at second base, with two gone the last of the second.
They're tied at one by the Blue Spins and Whirls, but nobody there.
On deck, the laid-off hitter, Mickey Rivers.
Blue kind of bobs his head up and down, as if to say,
let me see that sign again from his catcher, Gene Tennant.
Into the stretch, and here's the next pitch.
He's hit off the hands into short right field.
Coming on, Reggie Jackson going out many-three-oh.
It is Reggie Jackson for the catch, and the side is retired for the Angels.
In the Angels' second, there were no runs.
There were no hits.
There was one air, and one man left on base.
And the score, after two complete,
it's the Angels' one and the A's one.
One, two, three.
You will see.
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Now we're getting ready to move along to the top half of the third inning,
and to bring you the action, give you a new pitching change, here's Dave Nehar.
All right, Donald, thank you, and again, good afternoon, everybody,
on this magnificent Saturday afternoon in Palm Springs.
The Angels, after the first two innings of work by Bill Singer,
send a young man to the mound who still remains a question mark,
and hopefully the questions will be answered on Rudy May in 1974.
Rudy May this year literally is fighting for a job as the fourth Angel starter
with all the pictures that the Angels have in camp,
and manager Bobby Winkles at this early date has just about got settled in his mind
that it's Ryan and Singer and probably Frank Tanenna, and the fourth spot is up for grabs.
Here is Switch hitting Bill North, fighting from the right-hand side.
He cues one off the end of that foul up the first-base side.
Westcock, coaching at first base, picks it up and tosses it back to Rudy May.
North started out in 1973 for the Open Days as their designated hitter.
He played in 12 games in the early going for Open as the D.H.,
and then he took over in center field and he never lost their job
until he suffered the injury on the 30th of September.
Pitch goes all the way to the backstop.
North had shortened up that zifter bunk.
A ball and a strike on Bill North.
The Open Days embroiled in controversy all last year, all during the offseason,
and all during the spring of 1974, but all they do is hammer out a lot of hits
and a lot of runs and they win, like yesterday, 13-3.
1-1, pitch to North.
Back ball outside.
Two balls and a strike on Bill North, the man with a great speed who stole 53 sacks
for the World Champions last year.
May then down, gets a sign from Rodriguez.
The left-hander's pitch is a ground ball toward second.
There is sure-handed Denny Doyle.
He picks it up and throws out Bill North by 15 feet.
So North is the first May victim here in the third in a 1-1 tie,
and here is Bert Campanera.
After North had stolen second base off Bill Singer in the first inning,
Campanera sacrificed Bill to third base,
and then North scored on Reggie Jackson's dying quail slicing into left-center field.
Ragabetto, Campanera.
Then the pitch to him is a fly ball to right field.
Back on the ball is Ollie Brown a couple of steps to his right,
backpedaling and makes the catch two down.
The Oakland A's attempting to become World Champions in baseball
for the third consecutive year.
The New York Yankees were the last club to win as many as three consecutive World Championships,
and actually the Yankees ran off five in a row.
The Yankees were the World Champions of baseball in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1953.
Here is Joe Rudy, a singer strikeout victim, his first time up.
The pitch to him down low in the dirt.
Rodriguez picks it up after it goes off his shin guard.
One ball and no strikes on Joe Rudy.
Rudy hitting at 270.
Twelve home runs, 66 RBIs.
As Don Dysdell pointed out, Rudy, one of those who did not win arbitration,
was Charlie Finley, nine of the A's, one before the arbitrator, and the pitch,
low on outside, two balls and no strikes.
Two, go Rudy.
Five, one in arbitration, four lost.
Rudy was one of the losers.
Joe, as we keep saying from year to year, probably the most underrated, the Major Leaguer.
The pitch to him is a ground ball toward third.
Oliver gets a convenient second hop, throws him out by about five feet.
So an easy one, two, three inning for Rudy May here in the third.
No runs, no hits, no errors, nobody left.
We go to the bottom half of the third.
It's the Angels one, the A's one.
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Move along now to the bottom half of the third inning at Angels Stadium in Palm Springs.
In this 1-1 tie, the Angels send the top of their batting order up to face left-hander Vi to blue.
They'll have Mickey Rivers, Denny Doyle, and Bobby Valentine in that order.
And it was that threesome that produced the Angels' first run back in the first inning to tie it at 1-1.
Mickey Rivers hit a line dry that practically drove through centerfielder Bill North in the first inning,
and he ended up at second base with a double.
The line in the pitch to Mickey shortens up as if the run takes it low and inside, ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
National League umpire Dave Phillips calling balls and strikes.
American Liger Merle Anthony is at first base, and another American League umpire Hank Morgan-Weck is at third.
And the pitch delivers a swing out of it.
One ball and one strike.
A ball and a strike as blue gets his sign from Tennesse, and the pitch went on line dry right centerfield.
That'll fall in for a base hit, maybe two.
Here is Rivers-Ralford on his way for second.
North up with the ball, and Mickey Rivers in at second base with a stand-up double.
Well, this is the year for Mickey Rivers, everybody says.
And here in the first game in Palm Springs, Mickey has a pair of doubles.
A lead-off double here in the third, and here is Denny Doyle.
Doyle laid down a beautiful, sacrifice, he dragged it up third base to Tenn Rivers to third his first time up,
and let's see if he is up there with those same instructions here in the same circumstances in the third.
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Blue spits the oil around the bound he does this time, foul off the third-base side.
The ball is one strike to count on Denny Doyle.
Doyle picks up from the Philadelphia Phillies as payment in Billy Grabakowicz's deal.
A couple of other ball players eventually ended up from the Angels with the Phillies to complete that deal.
So Doyle up on the bat about an inch or so, around the bunt does, off the head of the bat, foul again.
The ball is two strikes on Denny Doyle.
Doyle a feisty little fighting type ball player.
You're going to love Denny Doyle when you come out and see him play either here in Palm Springs or at Anaheim Stadium.
Don't forget that opening night against Billy Martin's Texas Rangers is just right around the corner, April the 9th.
Blue at the belt, checks Rivers, pretty good lead at second base, and he comes to the plate.
Doyle swings and misses, strike three.
So for Vita Blue, that is his first strikeout of the game.
Rivers still at second, and here is Bobby Valentine.
Valentine given quite a greeting as he returned to the Angel livery for 1974 when he first came up in the first inning
and sent a line drive base hit in the right field to drive in Mickey Rivers with the Angels one of the game.
Blue at the belt, and the pitch to Bobby swung on and flared foul off to the right back out of play.
Tomorrow the San Diego Padres end here in Palm Springs to take on the Angels.
The National League for the most part this year is using the designated hitter in spring training.
However, the San Diego Padres are one of those clubs that will not go along with it, so we will not see the DH out here tomorrow afternoon.
A strike on Valentine as Blue goes to the belt, Rivers the lead, and it's 1-1 tie and the delivery on the way.
Strike off, Blue took just a little something off the fastball.
Two strikes on Bobby Valentine.
Buddy Herzog coaching down at third, and what a plus an addition this veteran is for the Angels coaching staff in 74.
Saldy Parker is over at first.
The stretch by Blue, the two strike pitch out of Valentine high, down to third goes Rivers, a throw to third in plenty of time
to get the sliding Mickey Rivers, and it looked like Mickey did not get that good of a jump.
So Rivers is erased from Gene Tennis to Rich McKinney.
Two to five if you're scoring with us, two down in the count on Valentine, a ball and two strikes.
Pitch was high and inside, just the perfect place for the catcher Tennis to shoot down Mickey Rivers.
Blue now of course working from the full wind up, and a 1-2 delivery to Bobby.
Curve swung on, line drive thinking in a hurry in center field, but there is North to play it on a hop, and Valentine is two for two today.
They had a base hit yesterday.
So the unsuccessful steal of third base by Mickey Rivers kind of stings right here in this situation as Valentine loops one into center field.
And here's McBob Oliver.
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Blue's one ball pitch to Oliver's popped right up the shoot on the left side of the infield, Bert Campanera shading his eyes from the desert sun, and he finally makes the catch.
The Angels are gone in the third. No runs of base hit, no errors, and a man left.
And the score after three full, it's the Angels won, the A's won.
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And trying to put the back down in that hole, and is having trouble putting the sack in. First base umpire Murrell Anthony is standing there, along with West Dock, the pitching coach, trying to anchor the sack at first base, and apparently it has been done now.
And we'll play baseball.
Bill Singer, meanwhile, after finishing up his first two innings of work doing one sprint out in right field, from right to center field and back again.
Now the signs of spring. What a beautiful day we have. This could not be more perfect.
Yesterday in Aultville, the wind blowing either straight in or from left to right field, I'm estimating, but it had to be 35, 40 miles an hour.
Here's May's first pitch to Reggie Jackson, the ground ball into the hole through for a base hit on the right side.
So Jackson is two for two as he hammers May's first pitch into right field.
First base hit off Rudy May, and here is Gene Tennant, who was one of two men hit by Bill Singer in the two innings that he worked.
Tennant's hitting.258 last year, with 24 home runs and 84 RBI.
The Oakland A's winning the American League West, subsequently the playoff, of course, with Baltimore and then the World Championship, with the New York Mets, but it was not that easy for Oakland last year.
As a matter of fact, the Chicago White Sox led the American League 51 days last year.
The Angels were on top for a day, Kansas City on top for a few days, and the pitch flung on to the ground ball, hot shots, and shortstop Valentine.
He goes to Doyle, and the Angels have their first double play of 1974. Nicely turned over, David Chalk to Denny Doyle to Mike Epstein.
Six for three of your scoring, two down, and here is Darren Johnson.
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Darren Johnson takes the pitch low and outside, one ball and no strike.
Darren, doing a fine job as the A's designated hitter last year, hitting 246, but he had 19 home runs and 81 RBIs, swing and a miss at a fastball by May, and it's already in the glove of catcher Ellie Rodriguez.
A ball and a strike, and there are many general managers in the American League West that think there's a lot of room at the top this year.
Step into shallow center field, a second baseman Doyle going out, center field to Rivers coming in. It is Rivers for the catcher, we cry out a sigh.
So the A's and the fourth turn to side on a base hit. No Angels errors with the twin killing nobody left, and as we go to the bottom half of the fourth, the Angels won and the A's have won.
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After three and a half innings of play, we have a 1-1 tie. The A's will make a change of pitchers. John Blue Moon Odom coming along.
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A 1-1 tie. We go to the bottom of the fourth, and for more play, here's Dick Enberg.
Thank you, Dave. A 1-1 tie and Blue Moon Odom tuning up with Cantor Gene Tennant.
The A's got their run at the top of the first inning. Alitov walked to Bill North. He stole second base, moved to third on Campanieros' sacrifice, and came home on Jackson's looping single to center field.
The Angels tied it immediately in the bottom of the first inning. When Rivers doubled off North's glove and center field, moved to third on Doyle's sacrifice, and came home on Bobby Valentine's single to right field.
Rivers with a pair of doubles in the game, and Valentine two for two, a pair of singles off starter Vita Blue, who has finished his three innings, allowed one run in the four hits.
Mike Epstein starts it for the Angels, bottom of the fourth inning. Big Mike lined out to the center fielder North his first time up. North with a fine play. Fastball is high, ball one.
Tennis behind the plate, the infield for the green and gold clad A's. McKinney at third, Campanieros at short, Manny Trio at second, Darren Johnson at first, with Rudy North and Jackson playing around toward right for Epstein.
Pitch is high again, two balls and no strikes. Dave Phillips behind the plate, the other American League umpires today, and Merle Anthony at first base, and Hank Morganweck over third.
Odom reads tennis, swings into that elaborate windup, kicks and deals. High ball three. Odom has a record of problems with control, especially early in the season.
And he's been high on the first three deliveries to Epstein. Mike might be green light at three and oh, let's see. Here it comes. He takes the strike.
Across the letters, caught the outside corner, three and one. Wiley Herzog, newest member of the Angels coaching staff down at third, relaying the signs from skipper Bobby Winkle.
Daldy Parker moves over to first base in 74. The pitch, strike two called. Epstein caught, that one was outside.
And so did some of the grandstand umpires, so getting themselves tuned up for the coming season as well.
Full count to Epstein. Olly Brown and Ricky Scheinblum to follow. Here's the pitch. Low, ball four.
Now Epstein draws the leadoff walk from Blue Moon Odom. And here's Olly Brown. Filed out to third baseman Rich McKinney his first time up.
While Denny Doyle saw very little left-handed pitching with Philadelphia last year, and probably will see much more this season, Olly Brown saw just a bit of right-handed pitching. He was used primarily as a swingman.
He fouls this one out of play. Brown probably to be used for tuning against the left-handed pitching.
Throwing number 14 on the back of his Angel White. One-one tie, bottom of the fourth inning. Odom from the set looks over at Epstein to pitch.
Flies one over the outside corner, O and two.
Skip Lockwood continues to fire down on the Angel Bullpen in right field. He'll be pitching in the top of the fifth inning.
Left field set for two. Odom looks over at Epstein. The two-strike pitch. Foul back on a check swing.
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Olly Brown, lean, lanky, right-handed hitter. Where do we stand? That right down on the end.
Odom has the sign. The two-strike pitch is swung on and popped up behind short. Out goes Campaneras. In comes Rudy. Campy still going out and he can't make the play.
Epstein moves in to second. He'll be in there in time as Rudy plays it to the second base from trio.
That ball carried much farther than it appeared it would. Rudy doesn't pick it up. It was late coming in. Campaneras staggering under it and he did not come close to catching the ball.
Still had it about five feet away. So Brown drops in at Texas Lakers and the Angels with no one out in the fourth inning have a chance to gain the lead.
They had that opportunity in the third when Rivers let off with a double but was trying to steal third and then Valentine with a meaningless single with two outs and Rivers gone from the base pass.
Here's Scheinblum. He switches around hitting left-handed against Odom. The pitch by Blum is upstairs, ball one.
Scheinblum safe on Campaneras' area. It's only time up. And then on a hit and run stole second base and that is new.
Scheinblum in seven major league seasons has never stolen a base.
Enfield looking for two. The pitch swung on a line right center field. That's going to be in for a base hit. Epstein is around third. He'll score. Jackson bobbles the ball.
Scheinblum to second base. He's in and stopping at third is Brown as the Angels wade through to one.
Call of the double all the way. There was a bit of confusion in the Oakland Enfield. No one covered second base.
So even had Jackson come up with a cleanly and fired hard into second. They could not have gotten Scheinblum. So credit Richie with an RBI double.
Brown moves around to third base and Epstein scores from second. The Angels in front two to one. Still no one out.
Runners to second and third in the batter is catcher Ellie Rodriguez. Fly to center field. It's only time up.
Outfield plays him toward right center. Give him the gap in left center field. Odom from the full lineup. Here's the pitch. Breaking ball high.
Enfield playing back up the middle. Campaneras and Frio. McKinney three steps behind the bag of third.
But Johnson, the first baseman, is playing in on the grass. Odom swings into the wind up the pitch. Low with a fast ball. Two and O.
Double moon Odom off to a rough start. He walks Epstein. Brown loop to single to left. And then Scheinblum with a line double to right center field.
Two to one Angels. Bottom of the fourth inning and here's the pitch. Right. A slider across the letters on the outside edge.
Two and one to Rodriguez to get to 68 with the Milwaukee Brewers last year.
Boring number six on his Angels uniform. Brown from third. Scheinblum from second. The two-one delivery.
Line drive center field. Racing over is North. He makes the catch. Tagging is Brown. Here comes the throw. Brown to the plate. He scores.
The Angels lead three to one.
So Rodriguez gets the run in with a line shot out to center fielder Bill North. Holding on to play at second base with Scheinblum.
Rodriguez delivering and the Angels have a two-run lead here in the bottom of the fourth inning. As Dave Chalk getting ninth in the order, steps up.
The young Texan right-handed hitter up on the handle of the bat. Scheinblum away from second base. Odom from the stretch to pitch.
Bonded and missed. Chalk trying to catch McKinney back in the field to third base.
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One strike pitch by Odom. Bonded and fouled into the glove of Pennis and apparently off the glove and then the wrist rolls away. Two strikes on Chalk.
The Angels tomorrow. Chance to see Nolan Ryan for the first time this spring. Frank Tanana, the young heralded left-hander for the Californians and Rich Hand, scheduled to work against the Padres.
Two strike pitch to Chalk. Breaking ball high one and two.
Then the Angels will move on to Arizona. Play the Cubs and the A's Cleveland over there early next week before returning to their desert home here in Palm Springs.
One and two, the count to pitch. Top foul behind the catcher, Pennis, rolls halfway to the backstop screen.
The Angels with a couple of runs off Odom here in the bottom of the fourth.
Scheinblum's double following a walk-up seen in the single by Brown. Scheinblum driving in one run and the other coming home on Kelly Rodriguez's sacrifice fly.
Two strike pitch by Odom. Chalk looks at a high change and Odom has an excellent change, tantalizing. He really pulls the strength.
John, who's had some bad luck in his life, wears number 13 on the back.
The pitch fouled into the glove of Pennis. Strike three. Pennis on his way to the dugout, but hold on, Geno, there's another route to go.
That's two away and it's part of the whole learning process. Another season begins.
First strike out for Odom. We're going to pause for station identification. This is the Angels Radio Network.
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Three to one. The Angels lead the A's, bottom of the fourth, and in two outs, Scheinblum at second. And the first pick to Mickey Rivers is outside.
Blue Moon Odom on the line, looks back at second and here's the pick. Ground ball to the left side, right at Kampiner.
He scoops and feeds it to first for the out and the inning is over.
Rivers out short to first. The Angels get two runs, two hits, and lead one. And after four full here at Angels Stadium in Palm Springs, the Angels three, the world champion Oakland A's one.
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After four innings, the total is the Angels three runs, six hits, no errors of left four. Oakland, one run, two hits, one error, and the A's have stranded two men.
Skip Lockwood becomes the third Angel pitcher following daughter Bill Singer and Rudy May May with two solid innings, based only six men.
A loud one-based hit, didn't walk nor struck out anyone. And now Lockwood, one of the members of that big trade with the Milwaukee Brewers, comes in.
Could be a very important part of this season. Lockwood could be used as a starter or as a long reliever.
As excellent stuff, a natural sinker, he was signed for a hundred thousand dollar bonus by Charlie Finley as an infielder out of Boston, Massachusetts, and then couldn't hit the curve ball, became a pitcher.
Feeds the fastball inside to Ray Fossey, the A's designated hitter today. Fossey hit by a pitch and thrown out trying to steal his only time up.
Lockwood delivers on the outside corner with too low, two and oh. So the battery of Lockwood and Rodriguez, they know each other well.
Skip right-hander, has his sign, into the windup, kicks and deals, and it's swung on in this, two and one.
Lockwood, six feet tall, broad-shouldered 190. His two-one pitch, Fossey, thousand out of play.
At Milwaukee, in the last four years, Lockwood was five and twelve, ten and fifteen, eight wins and fifteen losses, and last year won five and lost twelve.
But in those four years, the DRA, a very respectable 3.75, sends this one outside. His problem has been command.
He has good pitchers. It's just a matter of being able to get them in the strike zone and in the spots in that strike zone.
It will be the most effective for him, keeping the ball low primarily.
The pitch, Fossey swings and pops it up behind short. Chalk says, come on in and get it, and Valentine says, I'm trying to fight the sun, makes the catch for the first out.
Fossey with a routine fly to left, one out. Here's Rich McKinney, right-handed hitting third baseman.
To give you an idea of the kind of stuff Lockwood has, in 72 he had two one-hit games. A man who can pitch that kind of ball game has to have great stuff.
And when he can put that together with good control, Danes will feel that he might be the real key to the trade.
First pitch in for a strike, comes right back and McKinney sends it very high to center field. McKinney watches the rivers coast in under it and makes the catch.
Two gone as Lockwood induces Fossey and McKinney to fly out. And here's the number nine hitter Manny Trio, right-handed batting second baseman.
He pops to Denny Doyle this first time out.
Here's Lockwood, fidgets with a bill of that angel cap, now has his sign from Rodriguez as the pitch. Swung on, pops up again. Epstein near the bag, now comes down on the infield grass and makes the catch just in fair territory.
So Lockwood had the A's hitting under his pitches in the fifth inning, as Fossey, McKinney, and Trio make out on the fly. One-two-three inning, and at the halfway mark of this one, four and a half innings in the book.
It's the Angels three, the Oakland A's one.
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Denny Doyle will start it for the Californians in Southern Californians in the bottom of the fifth inning. Doyle is sacrificed and he is struck out.
He faces the right-hander, Blue Moon Odom, gave a pair of runs to break the tie in the fourth. They play Doyle straight away.
Odom gets his sign from catcher Tennes. Wines kicks the pitch. Ground ball up the middle. They hit the center field.
Up with it is North, he gets it back into the cutoff man, and Denny Doyle has his first hit as an Angel.
College single up the middle. Rings up left fielder Bobby Valentine, two for two. He singles to drive in a run in the first inning off side or right of Blue,
and then single again to center field off Blue in the third. For the Angels, that's their seventh hit.
Valentine closed stance, deep in the batter's box. Odom checks the runner. There goes Doyle. The pitch is swung on to miss.
A throw by Tennes to second, and Doyle is out of there. So the hit and run backfires as Valentine Emily unable to make contact,
and Tennes throws out Doyle at second. That's the second man that Tennes has gunned down.
Manny Trio with a tag at second base, so Doyle is a race. Valentine with one strike on him, and now Odom goes to the full windup.
The pitch slides it away one and one.
Sal Bando now with the Oakland ball club, but he bruised the middle finger on his throwing hand and was sent to Oakland for X-rays.
He's okay. High two and one to Valentine.
Dick Green will be reporting to the A's camp in Mesa. After his perennial holdout, he has been satisfied with contract terms,
but he's not with the club this weekend.
The pitch by Odom. Valentine swings, rounds it foul past third, backhanded by McKinney.
Two balls and two strikes on Bobby Valentine. One out, bottom of the fifth, three-one, the Angels lead the Oakland A's.
Oakland storming past San Diego yesterday, 13-3 in Yuma. Jackson, Fossey, Darren Johnson, Homering, and Gene Tennes hit two,
including a grand slammer.
The wind, the 2-2 pitch. Valentine nubs it foul.
Breaking ball away from Bobby.
Oliver on deck.
Rudy May getting in some running along the outfield fence in right field.
Bummo Odom winds the 2-2 pitch. Change is lined into left field for another hit. Valentine is 3-3.
The straight change didn't fool Valentine, and he's not been particular about where he's hit the ball.
He's singled a knock-in around the right, then singled a center, and now he laces one to left field.
What a kid.
I believe the Angels that have him on the 25-man roster of Valentine had to hit out of a wheelchair.
Oliver up. Angels with a couple of base hits here in the fifth inning that Doyle erased on the misfired hit-and-run.
Foul, high, and out of play. Off to the right.
A lot of construction here in the Angel Stadium area. They have leveled the parking lot and the rodeo area off to our right.
Going to make a new auditorium, build a new auditorium here for the Springs.
What a day. Big jet airliner back at the center field fence landing at the Palm Springs Airport.
Pitch outside, one-and-one to Bob Oliver.
Yes, sir, it has to go in the book as one of the beautiful sights that a person can see in this country of ours,
to be in Palm Springs on a day like this with fantastic mountains, snow caps.
I can't remember seeing more snow.
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A pitch. Hold on a minute. Oliver trying to go to right field with first baseman Johnson holding on Valentine at first base,
and a big gap that way. Bob could not make contact.
One ball, two strikes to count. One out, Valentine at first base. Bottom of the fifth, 3-1 Angel.
Odum sets, checks the runner. The pitch. Ground ball toward third, could be two. Up with it McKinney.
Over to Trio for one. Back to first base, not in time to double up Oliver.
And again, Trio very nearly came off the bag too soon at second base.
Valentine limps off as again he is forced to go into that hard slide breaking up the double play.
He's getting a chance to test that leg in a hurry here in the spring.
Two gone. Oliver safe on the fielder's choice.
And here's Mike Epstein. He's flying to center. A fine play by Bill North, a diving backhanded cat.
And Mike Wacht to lead off the two around the fourth inning. The Angels game to lead 3-1.
Johnson a step behind Oliver at first. Odum checks there anyway the pitch.
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The pitch, Epstein not going up the third base line and a curl foul.
Just queued that one off the end of the stick. Two strikes on big Mike.
Ali Brown would be next.
The Angels with a total of eight hits. Two in the first.
And then two more in each of the last three innings.
Hatfield deep toward right.
Odum is ready. Looks over at Oliver. Two strike pitch. Breaking ball too close.
One and two.
Buddy Herzog down at third base. Shouting some encouragement to Epstein.
Skipper of the Rangers last year and a welcome addition to Bobby Winkle's staff here in 74.
Odum's one-two delivery. Change chess misses inside.
It appeared to be high enough. Caught the knees but just off the inner edge.
Oliver edges off the bag at first base. Two outs. There he goes. The pitch swung on. Eight hits.
Center field. Oliver keeps trying on to go on to third as Epstein delivers the hit.
North runs the ball in from center field. It was hit off the end of the bat but had great direction.
Right over the pitcher's head, Odum landed at the edge of the outfield grass and rolled to a stop in shallow center field.
Oliver running all the way. The Angels have three more hits here in the fifth inning but have yet to score.
Epstein with his first hit of the spring and that's now a total of nine in the game for the Angels.
Five of them off Odum in two innings.
Olly Brown, he's singled the Texas Laker to left field off Odum in the last inning.
Runners at the corners, two outs. Odum from the stretch and the pitch.
Brown looks at a strike. A good fast ball.
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The pitch, swung on and missed. Another fast ball on the outside corner.
Two strikes and Brown and Odum goes to the fast ball.
Three-one, the Angels lead.
Now to score, Philadelphia leading Boston 2-1 after two innings.
2-1 Cleveland over the Giants after two.
Ground ball toward short. Into the hole goes Campon Earth. It's played a second base in time for the outs.
And that's it for the Angels. So they have a three-hit inning without scoring and they leave two.
And after five, Angels three, DAs one.
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After five innings, the Angels lead the Oakland A's 3-1.
Skip Lockwood into his second inning of pitching.
We'll face Bill North, Bert Campon Earth, and Joe Rudy, the top of the Oakland order.
Other scores in exhibition baseball today in Florida.
It's the Tigers 4 Minnesota 1 in the seventh inning.
Kansas City 8 with the White Sox 3 in the sixth inning.
They're called to Tucson, Cleveland with a 2-1 lead over the San Francisco Giants in the third.
At Yuma, Arizona, Western College, one San Diego Pondres nothing after one.
And we'll double-check on some of the basketball action, the first round of the NCAA playoffs as well.
The court shows here that game, USC, UCLA tonight here on most of these same stations.
Bill North, switch hitter.
He walked and scored the A's run in the first inning, tries to bun his way on and fouls it off against the screen behind the dugout of the A's on the third-base side.
North walked in the first inning, leading off against Bill Singer, stole second, moved to third on a sacrifice and came home on a base hit by Reggie Jackson for the A's run.
Lockwood winds the pitch, in at the feet of North, it's 1-1.
Nolan Ryan, Frank Kanana, Rick Shan tomorrow for the Angels, and we see Hic Lang, right-hander, beginning to warm up for the Angels.
He probably will pitch just one inning.
Also down in the corner, John Doherty, Morris Nettle's a couple of rookies getting ready as if they might be coming in.
Breaking ball hangs high and away, and it's 2-1 to Bill North.
Angel pitching, allowing only two base hits through five.
Ground ball up the middle, knocked down by Lockwood.
He races after, picks it up, fires the first and gets in.
Good play.
Bill North with a low-line drive to the glove side of Lockwood.
Good actions by Skip.
He reached down, knocked the ball down, floated down, and rolled behind him, down in the grass behind him on, and Lockwood, spinning away, was able to get to the ball in time and fire a strike to Epstein just in front of Bill North.
One up.
The pitch to Campaneras is a strike, a fastball call.
Lockwood has retired four men in a row.
Right-hander ready, pumps, the pitch.
Swung on and fouled high over our head.
Two strikes on Campaneras.
Joe Rudy on deck for Oakland.
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The pitch, breaking ball bounces in off Rodriguez's shin guard.
One and two.
Good to see one of the great men in baseball, Freddie Fitzsimmons.
Giants and the Dodgers, the Braves, ground ball, the third.
The Dodgers cover up with it easily on the second half and fires the Epstein for the yard.
Two away.
Five in a row, retired by Lockwood, and stepping in left fielder Joe Rudy.
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Rudy is struck out and grounded to Oliver.
Lockwood winds the pitch.
Little low, right down the middle but below the knees of Rudy.
Tall, right-handed batter.
Outfield plays Rudy straight away, infield the same.
He hits all field.
The pitch bowled out of play and it's one and one.
Good pitch by Lockwood. He kept that ball away from Rudy.
Reggie Jackson would be next going on.
Angel's lead, three to one, two outs and the Oakland six spinning as Lockwood kicks and deals.
A long drive to left field. Back goes Valentine. Back, back, back. It's over his head against the fence.
One hop against the fence and Valentine plays it cleanly into second base but there's Rudy with a stand-up double.
Now the Oakland fans have a chance to hear a Chalovic base hit out the bat of Joe Rudy as he lines one over left fielder Bobby Valentine's head.
Two outs. That brings the tying run to the plate.
Reggie Jackson who is two for two.
Until Rudy's hit, Jackson, the only man with a base hit in the Oakland lineup.
He looks an RBI single to center field to drive him the ace only run in the first inning and grounded one sharply through the right side his last time up against Rudy May.
Lockwood from the set position, the pitch.
Low, bow on, a fast ball.
Outfield, a round toward right and deep.
It's three sixty-three down the lines here in Palm Springs so if you hit one out you hit the ball hard.
Four hundred feet to center field.
Rudy from second, tucking in behind him, the shortstop Dave Chucks or Lockwood backs off the rubber.
Quickly played game, we're in the sixth inning, the ball game not quite an hour old.
Lockwood ready, the pitch. Jackson takes it high, two and oh.
You can see Reggie coiling up as if he's going to lash out.
Try to tie it with one swing. Two and oh to count.
Gene Tennes on deck.
Two gone, Rudy out at second base, Lockwood looks back at him and the two oh pitch.
Jackson looks at it in the dirt.
Three and oh, that one took a funny bounce in the dirt off the shin guard of Rodriguez and then skipped up and hit Jackson in the jaw.
Fortunately at that point most of the velocity out of that pitch.
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The pitch.
Round balls, no Doyle can't get it, he'll throw up his pin.
Here comes Rudy around third, the throw to the plate, going to be close.
He is safe. No he's out.
Here comes the miss the plate.
The late call, Rudy miss the plate. He didn't fly and knowing was helping him out.
And Rodriguez plays the old statue game.
He aftered his own, there was no play coming in.
The ball came off Doyle's leg, rolled behind second.
Shot to shortstop, range to his left, picked it up, fired into Rodriguez.
Rudy had he made a fly, would have beaten it easily, but came in fanning, tried to leap over Rodriguez,
missed the plate and Rodriguez made the tag for an out.
A big play as the Angels escape the six without an Oakland run scoring.
No run, two hit, you have to give Jackson a base hit on the play and one man left.
And after five and a half it remains Angels three Oakland one.
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They have officially ruled that Doyle be charged with an error.
There was a twisting soft liner to Doyle's right, he could not quite come up with it,
but the Angels get the out of the plate anyway and it remains three to one.
Dave Nehouss, Don Drysdale and Palm Springs, bottom of the sixth, here's Dave.
Thank you, Dick.
Richie Scheinblum leads it off and takes a change curve for a strike for the Angels.
A three to one ball game, the Angels lead the A's in a fast play ball game in the bottom half of the sixth.
John Blumman, Odom, going into his third inning of work and the fifth to Scheinblum, a high floater.
Boy, he really pulled his string on that one.
Odom with a big motion and then almost arced the ball across the plate.
It was across the plate but it was high.
Ball and a strike and Odom's pitch flung on and a fly ball to right field coming in and sprinting on the ball.
Now holding up his right fielder, Reggie Jackson.
He makes the back for out number one.
One up and one away, that will bring along Ellie Rodriguez.
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Ellie Rodriguez for the Angels.
Odom into the line and a pitch to Ellie, a fast ball outside.
Ball one, one ball and no strikes.
Rodriguez drove in a run in the fourth inning with a sacrifice line drive to center fielder Bill North.
He's right out to North in the second.
So he's all for one.
Odom's one-all pitch to him.
Strike over the outside corner.
A Chinese call by home plate umpire Dave Phillips.
Phillips himself on his very warm afternoon in Palm Springs.
A little conditioning program as he is in a warm-up jacket behind the plate.
And the pitch, a curve blowing outside.
Two balls and a strike to Rodriguez.
John Blue Moon Odom.
The A's defensively have McKinney at third.
Chappanare's short.
Trio is at second.
And Aaron Johnson around at first.
The 2-1 pitch now to Rodriguez.
Line drive.
They pitch center field and the older guy really popped one into center field on about three or four hops to center fielder Bill North.
But for the Angels, they continue to pound the ball.
That is their tenth hit in the ball game.
And their sixth hit off of Blue Moon Odom.
With one down, we'll see how manager Bobby Winkle's pleasure with David Chalk adds to play.
Chalk has flied out and struck out over two.
Right-handed batter.
Odom at the belt.
Checking Rodriguez at first.
Goes to first base.
Back in plenty of time standing up as Ellie.
Mickey Rivers will be next.
The Angels with one run in the first to tie and then two in the fourth to go ahead.
Throw to first base again and back just standing up as Ellie Rodriguez.
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Odom checks Rodriguez at first.
There he goes.
The pitcher's swung on and missed the throw through to second base three or pulls it down.
Not in time.
The throw is on the first base side of second base.
Matty Trillo almost overran the ball, had to reach back and catch it.
And then Ellie Rodriguez slid in underneath the tag.
So Rodriguez, who is certainly not noted for his speed, picks up his first steal of 1974 in the Cactus League.
The Angels have a runner at second base with one out.
One-on-one on David Chalk and the pitcher has swung on and caps off the plate at the third base line foul.
Two strikes.
One ball and two strikes.
Whitey Herzog throws it over to Rich McKinney playing it third for the A's.
We mentioned earlier and a couple of times throughout the broadcast,
Al Bando is suffering a bone bruise on the middle finger of his right hand while taking batting practice for the A's earlier in the week.
One and two on Chalk.
Rodriguez with his lead.
Odom comes to the plate.
A fastball is capped off the plate.
Coach Shortstop, Kapaneris charges, picks, throws.
Just in time to get David Chalk and easily on the play down to third goes Ellie Rodriguez.
It's a strong throw from Burt Kapaneris.
Just a nip gave Chalk his first big.
The Angels with a fourth run of the ball game only 90 feet away.
And here's Mickey Rivers.
Mickey, a pair of doubles his first two times up.
Mickey doubles off the midsection of Bill North and center field his first time and then hit one in the gap in the third.
And the pitch to Mickey, a fastball inside.
One ball and no strikes and then he's capped out to Shortstop, Burt Kapaneris his last time up.
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The stretch.
Mickey waits and the pitch now, fastball a little over in the shallow left field but playing him perfectly is Joe Rudy.
He's there, backs up a couple of steps to pull it down to retire the tie.
So in the sixth the Angels again turn to side on a base hit.
They move a man as far as third base in the person of Ellie Rodriguez.
No Oakland errors.
The Angels leave one.
The Angels have left at least one man in every inning.
They left two in the fifth and after six.
The Angels three and the Oakland A's have one.
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The new angel pitcher will be Richard Otto Lange, a young man from Michigan with a broad shoulders and a good fastball.
So skip lock with those two innings.
Gives up no runs on one hit.
Did not walk a man.
Nor strike out a man.
Angel pitching has been superb.
Pitch on the way to the Oakland leadoff man here in the seventh inning, Gene Tennant, is a slider outside.
One ball and no strikes.
The Angels, the single run in the first, two in the fourth, the A's were the only run in the first.
The line in the pitch to Tennant by Lange swings.
And it's a snicking fastball.
One ball and one strike.
Lange, last year with the Angels after being called up from Salt Lake City, did quite well.
Tennant right down on the knob of the bat.
Dick Lange's 1-1 delivery to him now.
A fastball strike called and that had some mustard on it over the outside edge.
One and two on Gene Tennant.
Lange checking with Rodriguez.
The wind and the pitch on the way just checked his swing, took it outside, hit Tennant.
Lange, 1-2 and lost one with the Big Club last year.
He was 7-6 while pitching at Salt Lake City.
The line by Lange and the pitch swung on, ripped foul down the third baseline,
backhanded by a member of the A's and a bullpen.
Two balls and two strikes.
The Angels have made some defensive changes.
Sandy Alomar has gone into play second base.
Bob Oliver is still at third.
Schalk is still at shortstop.
And the pitch swung on and kept foul at the plate.
I believe it's John Doherty over at first.
For the Angels in the outfield as we check it.
Sam Ashford has gone into left field.
Lee Stanton is in right field.
And Neville's, Ward-Sendleton Center, swung on, pops up over our heads, back out of play.
Two balls and two strikes.
So I'd rather doubt if you're keeping score with us in this first broadcast of the year,
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He counts two balls and two strikes on tennis.
Broad-shouldered right-handed livers and a ground ball toward the hole, cut off by Oliver.
He straightens up and Big Bob throws out Gene Kenneth.
One down.
So Doherty is at first.
Sandy Alomar at second.
Maoli has gone in to play shortstop instead of David Chopp.
Oliver is the only remaining starter in the infield.
Sam Ashford in left field.
Here's Darren Johnson and the pitch to him by Lange is strike call, 0-1.
Morris Neville is in center.
And Lee Stanton is in right.
The wind and the pitch to Johnson changed, hammered high straightaway left center field.
Coming in on the ball is Ashford.
Sam shielding his face from that hot desert glare and makes a catch.
Two down.
Here's Ray Fossey.
Fossey was hit by a pitch off by Bill Singer in the second inning and then he flied out to left.
The mule, most likeable young man that bought himself a home during the offseason in the Bay Area in Danville, California.
The pitch swung on, a little looper in the center field off the fifth.
Charging in a hurry, his nettle, he's got outstanding speed, but even he cannot get to that ball as it drops in front of him for a base hit.
Fossey talking to him, said he bought the house and it was an old home, I guess something out of the Victorian era or something like that.
Fossey did not realize that he had any carpentering ability, but he spent almost every hour awake refurbishing that new house.
And he said he got quite a bit of self-satisfaction out of it.
Rich McKinney has popped up and flied out to center, right at it better.
The pitch by Lang, a fastball taken low and outside.
The Angels now with ten base hits.
Angel pitching has given up five.
Flying at the belt, steps back off now as he drives Fossey closer to the bag being held on by young John Doherty at first base.
This young man is a great promise for the future for the Angels playing first right now.
The pitch, McKinney takes low and outside.
We'll have to wait and see how manager Bobby Winkles has made the changes as far as the lineup is concerned when they come to bat.
If it's straight up and down, Alomar would lead off the bottom half of the seventh for the Angels that second day.
The stretch in the pitch, McKinney swings and lashes it foul off the head of the bat down the right field line.
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And the snow level is very low here in the Springs making a spectacular background.
The pitch swung on and driven high into center field straight away.
Neville's coming in on the ball, Morris is there, and he makes the catch to retire the side.
So in the seventh for the Californians, or rather for the Oakland A's, they come up with no runs on a base hit.
No Angel errors and they leave one.
And as we go to the bottom half of the seventh inning, it's the Angels three and the A's have one.
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Number 32, Darrell, bottom of the eighth inning.
Go to the bottom half of the seventh.
The Oakland A's pitch their third man of the afternoon.
The veteran left-hander, Darrell Noe, Sandy Alomar to lead it off.
Little switch hitter batting right-handed against Noe.
There's a line in the pitch by Darrell.
It swung on and ripped on one hop to the shortstop.
Down with a tailgate is a new Oakland shortstop. We'll have to get him.
That's not Bert Campanaris out there at short right now.
It is number 20 who happens to be Jack Heideman.
So Heideman is the new shortstop.
Alomar has gone 6-3.
Left-hander, Darrell Noe.
Here's a young man, Sam Ashford, the pitch to him.
Back ball down a long way.
One ball and no strike.
Ashford, just a youngster.
Samuel Lee Ashford, Jr., the sweeping curve, is low and outside to the tall left-handed batter.
He's 6'1", 180 pounds.
From Ensley, Alabama, and last year at Salt Lake City, he hit a robust 3-5-0.
The line in the pitch to Ashford, curve high and outside.
Two balls. They have a strike out there to Ashford.
Ashford had two home runs and 25 RBIs. He played in only 40 games with Salt Lake City, 73 games with El Paso.
And the pitch to Sam jammed him inside and low. Ball three. Three balls and a strike.
At El Paso, Ashford hit 3-36.
Had four home runs, 37 RBIs.
Ashford will be 23 years of age on the 22nd of this month, and he swings and pops it up into foul territory.
Third baseman for the A's goes over near, tries the backhand and can't do it.
A's also have a new third baseman.
Manny Treo has moved over from second to play third.
Which, of course, means we have a new second baseman.
Treo is at third. Heidemann is at second.
There is nightmare here in the early games, of course, when the managers try to give all the youngsters a chance to play.
Three balls and two strikes on Sam Ashford.
Ashford runs well and obviously carries a good bat.
The three-two pitch is a chain, swung on and missed.
So Ashford strikes out against the veteran left-hander, Darryl Knowles.
Two down, and here's Bob Oliver.
Subiak at second base, taking over from Manny Treo, who moves to third.
Big Bob Oliver, rounded into a double play, popped out.
He's on on the fielder's choice.
The wind in the pitch to Ali.
Low and outside, ball one.
One ball and no strikes.
Susilo has gone into left field for Oakland.
The wind in the pitch, way outside.
Two balls and no strikes to Oliver.
Angel Mangual has gone into center, and Vic D'Avalio is in right.
The two-all pitch to Bob Oliver by Darryl Knowles.
The curve is swinging in a mess, breaking in on the fist of the big fella.
Two balls and a strike.
The Angels with a run in the first, two in the fourth,
and the Angels have out hit the Oakland A's ten to five.
Knowles checking with his battery mate, says okay,
and the two-one delivery now to Bob Oliver is a fastball,
ram toward third, backing up on the ball and backing in.
It is Treo, the long throw, just in time to get Oliver.
Treo having a little problem with it, backhanding and dropping,
but still having time to pick it up and throw out Bob Oliver,
and the Angels gone one, two, three here in the seventh.
A run, no hits, no errors, nobody left, and after seven it's the Angels three, the A's one.
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We go to the eighth inning of play here at Angels Stadium in Palm Springs.
On this lovely afternoon, the Angels have a 3-1 lead over the Oakland A's.
Going into his second inning of work is Dick Lang.
Manny Trejo leads it off for the Oakland A's.
And for more play, again, here's Big D.
All right, thank you very much, David.
As Dick Lang delivers a fastball, taking on the outside corner for called strike one.
Has his sign right back, and one strike pitch foul right back up over our head.
Oh, Rick's still amazing.
The new catcher for the California Angels, trying to set the defense again.
Oliver at third, Maoli at short, Alomar at second, Doherty at first.
Here's Lang's two-strike pitchers slider just outside for ball one.
One ball and two strikes.
On field, Sam Ashford in left, Morris Nettles in center, and Lee Stanton right.
The battery of still amazing in line.
McWine, the next pitchers slider just outside for ball two.
The count evens up at two and two.
Now that is one thing here in the spring you kind of have to bear with us
because that's when you see just about every member of that 40-man squad.
The next pitch slider, got him looking, strike three call.
The Manny Trio looks at a good slider by Dick Lang,
and that is at number one for the A's in the eighth inning.
We will go to the top of the order, and the new center fielder taking over for Bill North will be Angel Manguel.
But talking about these full rosters, these managers have to take a look at every player.
They want to see what they can do, so consequently it takes us a while to catch up on all the changes.
The first pitch by Dick Lang is a breaking pitch outside for ball one.
Lang Wines, the 1-0 pitch, taking low with a fastball, ball two.
Manguel, last year in 74 games with the A's, hit 224.
Lang Wines, here's the 2-0 pitch, that's taken low for ball three.
Now Lang, after striking out Trio, falls behind Manguel, three balls and no strikes.
Angel looks down at his third base, coach Ervin Norton, stands back in, here's the 3-0 pitch, that's high.
He walked him on four straight pitches.
That's the first base on balls given up by Dick Lang, just the second by Angel pitching this afternoon,
which is very, very good at this phase of the spring.
And Jack Heidemann, the new shortstop, will be the hitter.
Lang working from the belt to pitch to Heidemann, ground ball to Oliver, backs up, plays it on a tricky hop,
he goes to Alomar for one, back to Dornier, double play.
Nice play by Bob Oliver, he stayed right with that in between hop, got the handle, and the Angels turn over the double play.
The A's are gone in the eighth inning, no runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left.
And the score after seven and one half, it's the Angels three and the A's one.
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We move along now to the last half of the eighth inning, John Doherty, young left-hand hitting first baseman standing in.
Darryl Nose delivers a breaking pitch outside for ball one, the catcher Ken Hoseley, the new catcher for the Oakland A's.
Nose has the sign, winds, and the next pitch is swung on and missed a fastball strike, one-one ball, one strike.
John Michael Doherty from Warburn, Massachusetts, next pitch a curveball taken for called strike two, one ball, two strikes.
He's a 5'11", 185-pounder, he bats from the left side the same as he throws.
The next pitch a little ground ball, back to Nose, off his leg, and he cannot make a play.
We'll have to see how they score it. That ball right back to Darryl Nose, it stayed down on him, it did not come up.
I believe that they will probably score that an error, but whatever, John Doherty is at first base.
Nobody out, and Lee Stanton taking over for Olly Brown will be the hitter.
That will be an error on the pitcher Darryl Nose.
They'll set the pitch, the Stanton is fouled at the plate, 0-1.
While Olly Brown was in there, Olly was one for three.
Now it's Lee Stanton, on deck the designated hitter, Richie Shineblue.
Nose leaning in, checking signs, into the stretch, the next pitch a good change, swung on and missed strike two.
Darryl Nose pulling the string on Leroy Stanton, and he's ahead.
The ball's in two strikes.
Nobody out, and the Angel ate the infield and double play depth.
Nose at the belt, checks the runner, the next pitch breaking pitch, hangs outside for ball one, one ball and two strikes.
The infield for the A's now consists of Trio at third, Heidemann at short, Kubiak at second, and Darren Johnson at first.
Nose goes over to first, and back in plenty of time is Doherty.
The outfield of Alou Manguel and Davalio from left to right.
Ken Osley behind the plate, Darryl Nose the third Oakland pitcher on the mound.
Nose set, the next pitch to Stanton is foul away, just off of the glove of the catcher Ken Osley.
Hounds at the glove, the ball going back to the backstop.
Stanton remains with one ball and two strikes.
On deck the switch hitting Richie Shineblue.
Nose set, here's the one-two pitch that's fouled away again at the plate, and the count remains at one ball and two strikes.
Lee Stanton last year hit 235 for the Angels.
One thing that Angel management has been waiting for is Stanton to possibly come through with the bat power that they've been looking for.
Next pitch, line drive, ripped up the alley in left center field, over in a hurry to get it is J. Alou on his way to third is Doherty.
The throw goes by Kubiak, comes all the way to the plate, is picked up there by Ken Osley, and the Angels have runners at the corner.
Doherty at third, and Lee Stanton at first base.
Now the Angels leading three to one, trying to get some more.
Runners at the corner, nobody gone, and they're half of the eighth.
They lead it three to one, and Richie Shineblue standing in.
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Shineblue standing in, Noels first pitch, a change down low for ball one.
The A's infield once again will move back.
They will try and get the ground ball, they will try and get the double play, and with doing that, they will sacrifice a run possibly.
Shineblue hitting from the right side off the left-handed pitching of Darryl Noels.
Doherty at third, standing at first, the next pitch hit off the hands, and the third baseman trio goes to second for one.
Kubiak drops the ball.
Doherty scores, and David first base is Richie Shineblue.
Well, there's a play right there.
I don't know how much many trio has played third, but there just about is no way.
That is a one ball right there.
The infield will play back, they'll say make the ball be hit hard.
That ball was not hit hard, and trio, possibly during the course of a year or after manager Alvin Dark might talk to him,
should have come to the plate with that ball because he possibly could not have gotten the double play.
One run in, and Rick still mashing, swings and fouls the first pitch right at the plate.
Stanton is safe at second base as Kubiak dropped the ball.
Shinebloom is at first with a feel of choice.
And John Doherty scores.
Here's the one strike, but there's a high drive hit deep to right center field.
Going back, Manguo still going back.
He shades his eyes with a glove, tagging at second, moving to third is Lee Stanton.
As Manguo throws in behind the runner, Richie Shineblue, who had to huckle back into first base.
Once again, the Angels have runners at the corner with Lee Stanton at third, Richie Shineblue at first.
There's one gone, and Rudy Maoli will be the hitter.
Rudy Maoli taking over for Dave Chock.
Dave was over three on the afternoon.
This will be Maoli's first time at bat this afternoon.
The Angels four and the Oakland A's one.
Rudy Maoli, born in Troy, New York, now makes his home in Covina.
First pitch of breaking pitch outside for ball one.
Rudy hits from the left side.
Last year with the Angels at 2-23.
They have two home runs, 23 RBI's.
Johnson holding Shineblue at first.
Noll sets the next pitch on the outside corner with a breaking pitch.
County was up at one ball and one strike.
Even with a bag at third off the line, a time call.
The ball gets away out of the A's bullpen.
Third baseman, Hank Morganweck, retrieves.
Noll has his sign at the bell.
Here's the one-one pitch.
It's hit off the hands foul, curving down the left field side.
Goes back and out of play.
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They moved on farther east.
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The one-two pitch line drive hit the right center field.
Going over to Davalio.
Makes the catch right off the shoe top.
The throw back to first base.
There's nobody there.
Stanton scores and Shineblue hustling back to first base.
Has to stay right there as the catcher, Ken Osley, backs up the play.
So the Angels scoring another run.
They now lead it 5-1.
That will be a sacrifice and sacrifice fly for Rudy Maoli and an RBI.
Fine catch in right field by Vic Davalio.
He took that one right off of the shoe tops.
Now there's a youngster right here that people are going to see a lot about.
I think in Southern California, Morris Nettles.
Nettles goes over to first and Shineblue is back.
This young man from Los Angeles.
First pitch of patch ball.
Swung on and missed strike one.
Nettles last year at El Paso hit 331.
Led the league.
Had the most hits with 156.
And he stole more bases.
He had 41.
Rolls at the belt.
Pitch to Nettles.
A fastball.
Swung on and missed strike two.
Still the one thing you've got to try and help these youngsters along.
Of course, they're anxious to play.
They're playing against the world champions.
They want to try and impress.
But sometimes you've got to get them keyed down just a little bit.
Ball is sliced down the left field line.
That will curl back and out of play.
They have to impress.
They want to impress.
And looking at it business-wise, the manager Harry Dalton sitting right next to me right now, they have to impress.
And it's tough.
Noles nods his head.
Yes, Shine blew him away at first base.
Pitch to Nettles.
Curved ball.
Got him looking just on the outside corner.
Strike three.
Noles didn't care for the call too much.
Morris retired, but the Angels come up with two more runs on just one hit.
There was an air, and one man left in the score after eight.
It's the California Angels five and the Oakland A's one.
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All right, we're set to go here at Angel Stadium.
The California Angels are a four-run lead.
We move to the top of the ninth inning, and Jay Allou will lead it off Dave Sells, the new pitcher.
Allou going after the first pitch, a two-hopper to send the LMR.
He throws him out.
So one gone for the A's here in the ninth inning.
3,091, a fine turnout this afternoon.
One gone, Vic D'Avalio will be the hitter.
D'Avalio's short left-hand hitter reminds you so much of Mattie Allou.
Sells winds the right-hander's first pitch, a fastball for a strike.
Bob Oliver right up on the grass at third base.
There's a line drive at the left field coming on Sam Ashford.
Right there, makes the catch for out number two.
Two gone, and Ken Hoseley, the catcher, will be the hitter.
Hoseley, strong right-hand hitter, Dave Sells, one out away from preserving this win for the Angels, be their first to the spring.
This is just their second game yesterday. They fell short two to one to the Chicago Cubs.
The next pitcher called strike to Hoseley, one ball and one strike.
Sells' next pitch is fouled at the plate. The count moves to one and two.
Dave Sells' next pitch got him swinging strike three. Ken Hoseley strikes out, the ballgame is over.
The Angels win the first of the spring against the world champion Oakland A's, the Angels five, and the Oakland A's one.
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Well here are the totals for today's game. For the California Angels five runs on 11 hits they committed two errors and they leave eight.
For the Oakland A's they have one run on four hits they commit one error they leave three.
The winning pitcher was Rudy May and the losing pitcher was John Blue Moon Odom.
And the attendance this afternoon, 3,091, a fine crowd here at Angel Stadium.
As the Angels win the first game of the spring they are now one and one. This is their first win here at Angel Stadium.
And Bobby Valentine, a young man trying to come back at himself a great afternoon. He was three for three.
Bobby is going to be our special guest on Angel Report and that will follow in just a moment.
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