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The New York Yankees faced the Houston Colt 45s for an exhibition game on April 5, 1964.
Houston was managed by Harry Kraft, who had led the team all three years of the franchise's existence.
The Yankees entered 1964 under manager Yogi Berra.
Yogi had just retired as a player and the Yankees needed a new leader to replace Ralph Hauk,
who moved to the front office as general manager after losing the World Series in 1963.
This audio recording is from the New York Radio broadcast featuring announcers Jerry Coleman and Joe Gargiola.
Phil Rizzuto typically announced the Yankees' games on the radio,
but this game appears to have also been broadcast on TV because you can hear Jerry Coleman at one point say,
Phil's over on TV right now.
John Beakley is in right field in the sixth spot.
Walt Bond is playing left field. He'll be hitting seventh.
John Bateman will do the catching, hitting in the eighth spot.
And Jim Owen will be doing the pitching.
The lineup for the Yankees, Tony Kubeck leading off playing shortstop.
Bobby Richardson at second base, hitting second.
Roger Maas in right field.
Mickey Mapple in the clean-up position, playing center field.
Johnny Tress will be in left field, hitting fifth.
Johnny Blanchard doing the catching today, Alston Howard getting a rest.
Blanchard will be hitting in the sixth spot.
And Hector Lopez will be playing third base.
And this is the first game that Lopez has played at third base in two years.
So Hector will be at third, he'll be hitting seventh.
Pedro Gonzalez will be at first in the eighth spot.
And Bud Daley, as we mentioned before, will be doing the pitching.
The umpires for the game, behind the plate, American League umpire Frank Umont.
Mel Steiner of the National League at first.
Cal Drummond of the American League will be at second.
And Chris Teletutas of the National will be at third.
So that's the way the lineup shape up here as the Colts and the Yankees are just a few moments from getting underway here.
This will be the next to the last Sunday that the Yankees will be an exhibition play.
They'll be opening the season on April 14th, Tuesday, against the Boston Red Sox.
And that will be the Gala Welcome Yogi Day.
Also on opening day we'll see the presentation of the American League's Most Valuable Player Award to Alston Howard
and World Series Awards for American League Championship Awards to the members who are on the 1963 Yankee pennant winning team.
So why don't you make a point of coming on out on April 14th, Tuesday, to see the Boston Red Sox, Big Dick Stewart, Bill Mamboquette,
and many of the other fine stars there, the American League batting champion, Carl Yastrimsky.
As the Yanks and the Red Sox open up the 1964 campaign at Yankee Stadium.
I have a few notes here that might be of interest to you people as we're waiting for the umpires to come out.
The Yankees will be playing an exhibition game at 7.30 p.m. in Denver on Monday evening, June the 8th.
And this will be sort of a homecoming for several of the Yankees who played in their minor league days at Denver.
Bobby Richardson, Sonny Kubeck, Johnny Blanchard, and Ralph Terry.
They all played under Ralph's house there when the Denver Bears were in a working agreement with the New York Yankees.
And checking this over here we have Art Fliham Jr., the Yankee ticket representative, will be in the upstate New York area.
He'll be opening for the 1964 season tomorrow in Albany.
And he can be contacted at the Center Inn or by phone at HE67181.
So all of you people who are in the Albany area and would like to make plans to attend Yankee Stadium and see one of the games this summer,
while you may be also in the process of visiting the World's Fair, contact Art Fliham Jr.
and he'll be in Albany tomorrow at the Center Inn or by phone at HE67181.
Also, when you attend the big Yankee opener on Tuesday, April the 14th, and other Yankee games,
be sure to pick up a copy of the all-new Yankee scorecard.
It's more than ever this year, and up to each series averages of all the players will be in there.
And they'll be printed so that you'll have an up-to-the-minute report on how each player is doing on the Yankee ball club.
There'll be many other new features as well, and the scorecard still will be only 15 cents.
Yep, 15 cents, that's all.
So they'll be available only at Yankee Stadium.
For you fans living in the upstate New York area, the Yankees are happy to announce, as we just mentioned before,
that we'll be bringing you all of these games over our Yankee Network.
We hope that you enjoy them as much as we enjoy bringing them to you.
Now the umpires, along with Yogi Berra, the manager of the Yankees, and Jenny Adair,
who's the coach for the Houston Colts, are congregating at home plate.
That umpire in this game, Frank Umont.
Umont has been with the Yankees through most of the spring training season,
or at least some midway mark on.
Looks like we're going to have a pretty good crowd here today.
And we have had some magnificent weather the last three or four days.
Say, a great day for baseball, a great day to go to the beach, a great day for golf.
This is the kind of weather that all of the ballplayers and the managers who come to Florida like to see.
Many times when you run into tough weather in the spring,
as we did on our trip to the West Coast when we were headquartering in Tampa,
we ran into some rain, two days of rain, and then we had some very cool weather.
It makes it tough for the manager because it upsets their pitching rotation.
And usually the youngsters who are trying to make the pitching staff are those who suffer
and just set back and lose their turn.
So we're back on the good weather beam right now, and the Yankees have taken the field.
And there's Bud Daley, who's struggling to regain the form that he had a few years ago
and trying to gain a position on this Yankee ball club.
Bud actually has to fight for a job.
He picked only one inning last year, and that was in the opening game of the 1963 season in Kansas City.
It was a very cool day, and something snapped in Daley's arm.
Consequently, that led to an operation, and he has been on the comeback trail.
He pitched five innings the other day and did a pretty good job.
So he'll be facing the Houston Colts daily, and Blanchard throwing it back and forth, getting ready.
And we are just about set to go.
The next batter will be Eddie Casco, the shortstop for the Houston Colts.
I'd like to remind all of you Yankee fans, those of you on our network, as well as those of you in New York,
that there's a new starting time on Sundays at Yankee Stadium.
For years, it used to be a 2 p.m. starting time.
Now it's down to 1 p.m., so those Yankee games will be starting a half hour earlier on Sundays.
And also, there are six new suburban night games.
These will be played on Thursday nights, single game, 6 o'clock.
It'll give you people a chance who are within driving distance of the stadium to come on down,
watch a ball game, and get home at a fairly early hour.
Suburban night starts 6 p.m. The new Sunday starts 1 p.m.
Regular night games normally will be at 8 o'clock.
Now Frank Umont is looking up there.
We're about set to go.
Coaching at first base for the Houston Colts, Jimmy Adair, and at third base, Lumen Harris.
Lumen Harris has been associated with Paul Richards for many years.
He was with them when Richards took over the Orioles.
He was with them when Richards was with the White Sox.
And when Paul Richards went to Houston, Lumen Harris probably with him.
There's a little Nellie Fox down there shouting at a casco, a little encouragement.
And we're all set to go.
Now, as Bud Daly, the left-hander, on the mound for the Yankees,
gets ready to pitch the first ball of this ball game.
And here it comes, the curveball way outside to Johnny Blanchard, who picks it off.
One ball to count.
Daly has a fine earned run average so far this spring, 2.08.
The one ball delivery to Casco is called strike one, one ball and one strike.
Daly has pitched 13 innings, given up 11 hits and only four runs, three of those earned.
Eight base on balls and three strikeouts, so he's off on the right direction.
Daly delivers. Casco swings and fouls the back.
Strike two, one ball, two strikes to Eddie Casco.
Last year, Casco was with the Cincinnati Reds.
Played in 76 games, compiled a 2-41 batting average, had three home runs, only 10 RBIs.
Right-hand batter wears glasses.
Daly started to pitch and then stopped, of course, there's no balk in a situation like that when there's no one on.
Daly losing his balance, or possibly it was, if Johnny Blanchard was not quite ready to receive the ball.
Now here's the one-two pitch to Casco, the knuckleball outside, 2-2 to count.
Bud Daly, into the windup, the 2-2 delivery to Casco, it's swung on and missed, strike three.
So Daly starts off with an impressive strikeout over the leadoff batter.
Eddie Casco, there's one down, and out here comes Nellie Fox.
The San Diego Panthers, number two, Nellie Fox.
Nellie Fox, the American League's most valuable player in 1959.
Out of the year, the White Sox won the pennant.
Boy, what a ballplayer this fellow's been.
He's been in the major leagues to stay since 1948.
He had a chance in 1946, but only, check that, 1947, but only seven games under his belt.
Daly delivers to Fox and backs him off the plate, one ball to count.
Nellie, one of the great aggressive infielders in the American League for over a decade.
This will be his 16th, 17th season in the major leagues.
Now the one ball delivery to Fox, drilled right at Bobby Richardson's second base,
and that's all knuckled out there as Richardson sort of sidesteps it for a minute.
It looked like he was fighting it, but he got it.
Two up and two down here.
Bud Daly moving along nicely, and now here comes Pete Reynolds.
Reynolds, who had some great years with the Washington Senators,
and then the Boston Red Sox, led the American League in hitting.
At one point, that was in 1960.
Fouls went off to the left of third base in foul territory.
Hector Lopez getting under it. He's got it.
And that takes care of the Colts here in the top of the first inning.
Three up, three down.
The score after a half inning of play, the Colts nothing, the Yanks coming to bat.
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Wow, what a fear that Valentine.
You get a smile every time with a Valentine.
Wow, what a fear that Valentine.
Fear has to be long-sweeping around.
Three up, three down.
You get a smile every time with a Valentine.
You get a smile every time.
You get Valentine's here.
In the last half of the first inning, it'll be Johnny Kubek leading off for the Yankees.
Here's his ball game just getting underway here in Fort Lauderdale, Florida under beautiful, sunny, balmy skies.
None of the Yankees have been tearing that fight off of the ball.
No score.
They're batting 2-0-7 as a team.
Yesterday, they came up with nine runs, five of them in the ninth inning to defeat the Chicago White Sox.
Now, Jim Owens, the right-hander on the mound, delivers a fastball called strike one to Tony.
Yankees have a few injuries. Phil Linds had jammed his thumb in a slide, is unable to play.
And Joe Pepitone, who was hit by a pitch from left-hander Al Jackson of the Mets a week or so ago, is still out there.
There's a hopper.
Reynolds knocks it down.
It goes to Owens' home time, a nice play by Pete Reynolds.
If he knocks the ball down, it was heading for right field.
And then picked it up and got Kubek. So there's one out.
And now, here's Bobby Richardson.
Bateman, for a minute, looked as though he might have had a chance to grab hold of that ball before it went foul.
Richardson did not leave the plate, and had he got it, Bobby would have been a sure-out.
But if you're the catcher running out after a ball like that, we go back to the plate.
And a guy like Richardson at the plate, that's a base hit.
That ball dribbled down there about 35 feet.
Oh, and the one-strike delivery to Bobby is a turn of the flow. Ball one. One ball and one strike.
One-one the count. Richardson, second batter for the Yankees.
We're in the last of the first inning.
Oh, and delivers to Bobby, a line drive fly going toward right field.
Moving under and getting it is Johnny Wheatley.
Bobby hit that ball well.
Got a little bit too much loft to it, so there's two down, and here's Roger Maas.
Maas came up with two big hits yesterday. He was way down.
Getting at 164.
Roger Maas.
Facing Jim Owen.
We're in the last of the first. No score in the ball game.
Owen delivers to Maas. He fouls it back, strike one.
Owen initially came up with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1955.
In 1963 he was with Cincinnati, and then also part of that season spent with San Diego.
Maas takes low and outside. One ball. One ball and one strike to Roger.
Owen's a major leaguer for nine years, has a combined record of 24 wins and 48 losses in the nine-year span.
Owen delivers to Maas, and it's outside. Two balls and a strike. Two on the count.
Mickey Mantle in the on-back circle for the Yankees.
Win once again as it's the Vail here blowing toward that left field fence, saving the right-hand hitter.
Maas drills one, and nice play by Reynolds right down that line, and he races Maas to the back for the put-out.
Pete Reynolds making a nice play going through the line.
That takes care of the Yankees here in the last half of the first inning. Three up, three down.
The score after the first inning of play, the Yankees nothing and the Colts nothing.
You know, tickets for all the 1964 Yankee home games are on sale right now.
There are several simple ways to get your choice of seats for the big games this season.
You can buy tickets over the counter at the Yankee Stadium Advanced Ticket Office, which is open daily Monday through Saturday from 9 to 5.
There's plenty of free parking while you do your ticket shopping.
Tickets also are on sale at the Yankees' Convenient Midtown Ticket Office on the Mesnean of Grand Central Terminal overlooking the main information booth.
The Grand Central Ticket Office is open Monday through Friday from 8.30 to 6 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
Box and reserve seat reservations also are available at all strapped restaurants in the greater New York area.
Don't forget you can order by mail also if you want to. Just send your money ordered to the ticket manager along with your order.
Take care of the New York Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Bronx 51 New York.
Be sure to enclose your check or money order and don't forget to include your own name and address.
Box seats are at $3.50. Reserve seats are $2.50, all taxes included.
And one other thing, please add 25 cents to your total order to cover mailing charges.
In the top of the second inning, no score on the ball game, Bud Daley against Jim Lowen.
Here's Jim Lowen, the center fielder. Win right hand batter. W-Y-N-N.
Fairly compact athlete. Hits the first pitch into short left field. Tommy Trash getting under it easily.
Takes it and we've got one away. For a moment it looked like there was a little more mustard on that ball, but only went out there about 290 feet.
So there's one down and now here's Bob Aspermati.
Bob has been with the Houston Colts since 1962, spending his third year. He hit only 214 last year.
Played in 136 games. Right hand batter, he's the brother of Ken Aspermati.
Takes a strike in there. One strike to count to Bob Aspermati. Born in Brooklyn, New York, 6 feet 285. Big guy.
Hits one out down the line. Lopez over. Behind third, it's called foul.
Nothing in two to count to Aspermati.
Yankees are using Gonzalez at first base today.
And Hector Lopez at third.
Aspermati hits a two hopper to Kubek at short. Throw to first is in time, two down.
Two up and two down here on the top of the second inning.
Those are the kind of ground balls the infielders like. You know, they hug the ground and all of a sudden take that nice big hop about felt high.
They're far enough out of course so that they have time to gauge it.
Sometimes when they take those big hops at the last minute, they end up as errors.
Now Johnny Weakley, the right fielder.
Right hand batter.
Ailes from New Orleans. Daly delivers to Weakley. A curve ball that misses inside. Ball one.
Six feet tall, 200 pounds. Big guy.
Here at Houston, at 225, three home runs, 14 RBI.
As Daly delivers, good called strikes. One ball and one strike.
Bud Daly, boy, he's sharp today, I'll tell you that.
Hitting those corners.
Daly into the lineup. The 1-1 pitch to Weakley. On the ground to Kubek.
He's got the bobble hit. He's up with it again. The throw is not in time.
And that'll have to go as an error to Tony Kubek.
He threw the ball in the dirt, although the throw even had Pedro Gonzalez come up with it.
Would not have been Weakley who went down that line pretty good.
So Tony Kubek charged with the error. Weakley safe at first.
Now here's the left fielder, Big Walt Bond.
Well, he's not trying to get a guy.
Big left hand batter. Came up with a Cleveland Indian two years ago.
Six feet six, 220 pounds.
This is a fellow that the Indians hoped would carry them to, or into contention in a possible flag a few years ago.
He takes a strike called from Bud Daly.
Straight away stance, fairly close.
Weakley on at first base, two down. No score in this game. Top of the second.
Curve ball swung on in this strike two.
That was a flat sidearm changeup curveball and Bond was way out in front of it.
Walt had trials with the Indians in 60, 61, and 62 and was unable to stick.
Curveball sidearm is way outside, ball one. One ball, two strikes.
Last year at Jacksonville in the international leg, Walt had 25 home runs with 82 RBIs at 276.
Pedro Gonzalez playing behind Weakley at first base.
Walt's on the batter. The one-two delivery is a curve that's way outside. Two to the count. Two balls, two strikes.
The field playing deep and shaded slightly to the right. The outfield the same.
Daly shakes Blanchard off for one sign. He's ready to go.
Set. Deliverers to Bond, who fouls it straight back on the screen, and the count holds at two-two.
Tomorrow night the Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers will be going at it here in Fort Lauderdale.
It will be the first night game here in Fort Lauderdale.
We'll be on the air at 7.55 game time at 8 o'clock and we'll be on AM and FM.
Always an exciting contest when the Yanks and the Dodgers get together.
Two-two delivery to Bond is fouled back behind the plate. The count once again remains at two-and-two.
Walter Bond, born October the 19th, 1937 at Denmark, Tennessee.
Two-two delivery to Walt. Oh, it hits him. Where did it hit him?
It looks like it got him right on the right finger there.
Boy, that ball was way inside. Bond had no chance to get out of the way.
He doesn't look like he's injured in any way.
But he started to go down and that ball was about belt-high.
Had no chance to get out of the way and hit him on the right wrist apparently.
So Bond is safe at first base after being hit by the pitcher.
Going down to second is Johnny Wheatley and now here's John Bateman, the catcher.
John Bateman, right-hander. He's a young fella.
Hitting an even hundred. He's had two hits and 20 appearances at the plate this spring.
Hits the first pitch high in the air out behind second base.
Kubek Richardson, mantle conversion. Kubek calls for it, takes it, and that takes care of the Colts here in the top of the second.
No runs, no hits. One Yankee error, two men left.
The score after an inning and a half, the Colts nothing and the Yankees nothing.
Last half of the second inning, Jim Owen continues his warmup on the mat.
He'll be facing Mickey Mantle, Tommy Trash, and Johnny Blanchard in that order.
Mantle batting left-handed against the right-handed Jim Owen.
Mantle, a 235 batter that's far this spring. Eight hits and 34 at bats.
That's 12 walks. And he leads the club and home runs with two.
Nobody except Mantle has hit more than one.
Nick swings and let's us strike one.
The Yankees have only a total of nine home runs so far this spring, and they've won nine games and lost 11.
That's a total of 20 games.
Owen delivers the Mantle a fastball inside. Ball one. One ball, one strike.
The other home run hitters are Pepitone, Gonzalez, Blanchard, Kubeck, Boyer, Lopez, and Trash.
And Maris is in there. There's a strike in there. One ball, two strikes to Mickey Mantle.
One ball, two strikes. Mantle from the left side. There's Owen.
The defenders line up. There's a long drive running into the right center coming in and making a big play as the center fielder Jim Wynn.
How do you like that?
Boy, he stood the stands on his here for that one.
That ball lined up in the alley in right center. Young Jim Wynn coming over and cutting in a little bit.
It looked like he was going to get through and stuck out his glove and got it about a foot off the ground.
A great play to Rob Mantle with an extra base hit.
One down and here's Tommy Tresh.
Tresh takes outside. Ball one.
Tresh hitting at 178 for 47.
A great play by the center fielder Jim Wynn to Rob Mantle.
Inside, Tresh two balls, no strikes.
Two-nothing to count.
Cold infield shaded to the right. No one goes into the lineup. The 2-0 delivery takes it in their strike call.
Two balls, one strike, one down. No score on this ball game. We're in the last half of the second inning.
Tommy Tresh batting from the left side.
That deliver swung on a missed strike two.
Two-two to count.
Tresh last year did 269 with 25 home runs, 71 RBIs.
The 2-2 delivery by Owen swung on a missed strike three and he got him.
That's the first strikeout recorded by Jim Owen. Two up and two down here in the last half of the second inning.
And here's Johnny Blanchard who's doing the catching today.
Moving right along here.
Owen Wynn delivers to Blanchard and it's high, ball one. One ball to count.
Johnny Blanchard who has moved into the number two catching spot behind Elston Howard.
Getting his share of work.
The one ball delivery to John is low. Two and 0 to count. Two balls, no strikes.
Whitey Ford is doing the coaching at first base and over at third, Jimmy Gleason.
Owen into the windup. The 2-0 delivery is outside. Three and 0 to count. Three balls, no strikes.
Johnny Blanchard with two down and nobody on here in the last of the second.
In the on deck circle, Hector Lopez playing third base for the first time in over two years today.
The 3-0 delivery to Blanchard. Call strikes. Three and one.
Jim Owen just away that one in there. Blanchard taking all the way.
Fox is playing almost closer to first than he is to second on Blanchard.
And he's in the right spot. It's a ball bouncing off his chest. He jumps on it and fires the first.
Nellie Fox was playing that 30 feet from first base and that ball, had he stood there, would have hit him in the nose.
And it did. It did bounce off of his chest, but he managed to make the foot out.
So for the Yankees in the last half of the second inning, three up and three down.
Four after two. Two to nothing. The Yanks nothing.
Time now, two o'clock.
Attention, color 13, Jim Fox.
In the top of the third inning, it'll be Jim Owen leading off to the colt here. No scoring again.
Bud Daley on the map for the Yankees. A curve ball that calls strike one.
Jim Owen batting from the right-hand side facing Bud Daley.
Owen's six feet tall, 200 pounds. He's a big guy, squarely built, takes outside.
One ball, one strike. One-one to count, Owen.
Only two baserunners in this ball game, both of them colts, none of them on by virtue of a base hit.
There's a dribbler out toward second base. Bobby Richardson coming in, scoops it up, fires to Gonzalez, and there's one away.
One down, and the batter is Eddie Casco, who led off this ball game by striking out, the only strikeout recorded by Daley.
Casco's a pretty good hitter.
Had a great year with Cincinnati a few years ago, where he was at or above the 300 mark for most of the season.
Daley winds delivers to Casco, takes it inside, ball one.
Casco, born in Linden, New Jersey, now resides in Richmond, Virginia, succeed 185 pounder.
Worst classes that we mentioned before, hits the first pitch on two hops and two low-pitchers win it.
Well, Dexter Lopez had a tough one, a draft cutter, and that second hop didn't come up.
Out of the roulette, they give Lopez an error, so that's the second Yankee error in this ball game.
Boy, that's tough, particularly when you've been standing out on left field for two years.
Dexter Lopez, charged with the error, one down, Casco at first, and here comes Nellie Fox, who lined out to Bobby Richardson in the first inning.
Here with Chicago, Fox at 260, hits the first pitch in the straightaway center, Mantle coming in and goes back a little bit, and he got it.
And he just did get it.
Mickey Mantle started in on the ball, thinking that it was going to be hit lower than it was, and he had to really retreat and hauled that thing down on a leaping backhanded catch.
Boy, that was a double or a triple for sure, had that ball got away from Mantle.
Oh, Nellie Fox is out of there, as he's hit the ball sharply twice off of Bud Daley, lined out to Richardson in the first, and then a line drives to Mantle here in the third.
Now Pete Ruddles, who popped the third, hits the first pitch high in the air in the short left field.
Tommy Truss getting under it, takes it easily, and the Colts are out of there in the top of the third inning.
For the Colts, no runs, no hits, one Yankee air, one man left, and the score after two and a half, Houston nothing and the Yankees nothing.
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You get a smile every time with a Valentine, wow what a beer that's Valentine.
Coming on, we move into the last half of the third inning.
Bottom third of the Yankee order, Lopez, Gonzalez, and Daley, scheduled to hit off of Jim Owen.
The Yankees have yet to put a base runner on.
In fact, neither side has acquired a base hit at this point. Hector Lopez hits one toward Fox, he tries to backhand it, knocks it down, dribbles out toward center field, and Hector Lopez chalks up the first base hit of this ballgame.
Lopez hitting a sharp ground ball to the right of Nellie Fox, play for first.
Owen's giving up the first hit of this game.
Now here's Pedro Gonzalez.
Pedro was originally scheduled to play third base today.
Swings and fouls it back, oh boy and that hurt the catcher, John Bateman, he got that right on the right side.
That's one thing about catching, those fellas take a beating.
You know a lot of things you don't even see, fouls tips that go off the knee or off the toe or off the thigh.
John Bateman taking a little time.
And right now, young Mr. Bateman is not feeling as try as he likes.
Bending over a little bit to get the sensation and the circulation flowing again.
One strike to Kanta Gonzalez.
Hector Lopez on at first base, no score in the ballgame, we're in the last of the third.
Nobody out here in the third inning for the Yankees, that's Owen's deliver to Gonzalez, he fouls it at the plate again, nothing in two to count.
No balls, few strikes.
The Yankees have the only base hit in this game and also have committed the only errors, they've got two.
Nothing in two to count.
Kim Owen pitching low curve ball to Gonzalez, trying to get him to hit that ball on the ground.
Comes another one, hit high in the air to straight away center.
Jimmy Wynn saves it but his glasses takes it one way.
Young Mr. Wynn was a shortstop last year, playing the outfield this season and he's playing it like he played it all of his life.
Made a great catch on Mickey Maddow in the second.
Here's Bud Daley.
Hector Lopez leading off at first, Owen's bunts toward third and will it stay fair?
It's just a double foul.
Bob Aspermany in on the play but the way that bunt was laid down there, he better let it roll foul.
Almost came back for a minute there.
So that's a foul.
Strike one to count to Bud Daley, Hector Lopez retracing his steps to first and we're all set to go again.
Now, Kelly Fox who is now moving more over toward first base.
He was looking for the possible spot where Daley might hit.
Now he's looking for a little more of a bunt and there it goes again.
Daley squared the bunt and went back to hit and took it outside.
One ball, one strike.
So the mental processes are going.
Daley checking Jim Gleason at third base, four signs.
Bob Aspermany playing in close to third.
Lopez leading off at first, the one-one delivery.
Daley squares, takes it right down the middle and didn't attempt to bunt the ball, thought it was inside.
So the count goes to one ball, two strikes.
One and two to count.
Now Jim Gleason flashing some more signs to Daley so it might be that Yogi Bear wants Daley to bunt himself out of there.
There he goes.
He squares away and bunts the beauty in front of him now.
Bateman out.
George second for one, the throwback to first is wild and Fox made a great stop of the ball.
Diving toward the outfield portion of first base to knock the ball down.
So Bud Daley fails to sacrifice Lopez on to second base.
It would be a fielded choice going from two to six.
Castro got rid of that ball quickly and well but wild.
Now here's Tony Kubek the batter, bounce out the first in the first inning.
Swings and misses, strike one.
Daley on at first base.
Two out, no score on the ball game, last half of the third.
Nothing in one, the count to Tony Kubek.
All one set delivers to Kubek who fouls it off to the back boy who knocks it down.
No balls, two strikes.
From Fort Lauderdale, Florida on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the Yankees in the cold.
Owen who's starting to aspire heavily through his uniform gets the sign from Bateman,
delivers to Kubek who lays off at the last minute, ball one, one ball, two strikes.
Tony started to go after that low curve ball and then held up just at the last minute.
Kubek had somewhat of an off season for him last year, hit only.257, had seven home runs, 44 RBI.
One two delivery to Kubek is inside, two and two.
Although that's not the complete story on Kubek because through the first half of the season,
he was struggling around the 200 mark.
Second half he had hit close to 300 to pull his average up and down.
And that happens to players from time to time.
Two two delivery to Kubek, high fly ball into right center.
Jimmy Wynn going over, takes it and that takes care of the Yankees.
Here in the last half of the third inning, for the Yankees, no runs, one hit, no cold errors, one man left.
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I'm starting to say that Bud Daly when he's pitching and he's on, he makes pitching look so easy that everybody wants to be a pitcher.
Just looks like he's playing catch up there with Johnny Blanchard or whoever happens to be doing the catching for the Yankees.
And Daly will be facing Jim Wynn who will fly it out to left field in the second inning.
22 years old, born in Cincinnati, right hand hit a foul is the first pitch back, strike one.
Last year with San Antonio he had 16 home runs in 78 games and in 70 games with the Colts he had four home runs.
Not a big fella, 5'10", 160 pounds.
First pitch is pop foul coming right back up on the roof and out of play.
Nothing in two and there goes the blimp.
You know we're allowed to take rides in that blimp, but I'm passing it up.
You know there's a windy part of the country down here in Lauderdale and those blimps do a little rocking and rolling up there.
The tackle ball hit high and foul down the left field line, the wind will carry that out of play.
Way over the fence, Wynn uppercutted that high fast ball.
On deck is Bob Aspermonte.
Trash and mantle are deep in left field and center field, now it's not too deep in right.
The wind blowing across from right field to left field.
Two strike pitch is strike three dropped by Blanchett, picks it up, throws the first base in time for the out.
So that goes as a strike out, but you give Blanchett an assist and the first baseman a put out, second strike out for Daly.
That's right Joe Cooper just pointed out to me that that blimp is standing stock still just like a helicopter.
How do they do that Joe?
Well they just go into the wind and slow down and the wind is just like a kite.
Now he's moving a little bit.
Here's Aspermonte who bounced to the shortstop, takes a pitch outside ball one.
Looks like a big hot dog with a couple of fins on it.
Curve inside, ball two, two, nothing.
Aspermonte bats him right handed.
Daly pitch a line drive single up the middle.
The first hit for the Houston Colt 45, the line single to center, no doubt about that one.
So that breaks up the potential no hitter for Daly.
Both teams now with one base hit, no score, we're on the top of the fourth.
It brings up John Wheatley who reached down an error in the second inning.
Stretch by Daly, a curve is low, ball one.
You know that's an unusual name, not that Wheatley is an unusual name, but for an athlete.
Something about names that sort of give you power and Wheatley is not one of them, though he is a good ball player.
Check swing fly ball of Richardson.
He traps it and in boosts it, picks it up close to Ritz to Kubek and they get the one.
Bobby had a good idea there.
He's left catching it on a fly, then tried to trap it and he would have had a double play as Wheatley had stopped running.
Fly ball of Richardson.
He traps it and in boosts it, picks it up close to Ritz to Kubek and they get the one.
Bobby had a good idea there.
He's left catching it on a fly, then tried to trap it and he would have had a double play as Wheatley had stopped running.
And then Bobby in trying to scoop it up, had it bounce off the heel of his glove, rolled in the short center field.
But at first base, Aspermatti had a hold up because if Richardson catches the ball on the fly, he can double him off.
So that's a fourth play from four to six.
Richardson's always trying something different.
Here's Walt Bond who was hit by a pitch ball his first time at bat in the second inning.
Hit him right on the right thumb.
Takes a curve in there, strike one call.
Wheatley at first.
Gonzales playing in back of the bag.
Stretched by Delly.
Fastball filed back over the roof.
Nothing in two to count.
Bond, a big left hand batter.
Delly sets.
Sidearm curve way outside, one ball two strikes.
Wheatley with a short lead at first base.
Delly's curve is just inside.
Two balls two strikes.
Delly goes to the rosin bag. On deck is John Bateman the catcher.
Now Delly stretches.
Pitch strike three swinging.
A sinking fastball. Delly's third strike out.
For the Colts, no runs.
One hit, no Yankee errors. One man left.
At the end of three and a half it's the Colts, nothing and the Yankees, nothing.
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Richardson got off to a real fast start this spring.
Was really hitting.
He's given him a little bit of a tailspin on the western swing and has dropped down to 250 right now.
The player's being held up momentarily as we wait for the right fielder to get out there.
And there he goes now.
John Weakley was either getting sunglasses or some minor repairs in the dugout.
Now he's out there.
And Bobby Richardson steps into the batter's box.
On deck, Roger Maris.
Right handed Jim Owens into the wind.
At the pitch for Richardson, a high pop up in back of third.
Aspermonte and Casco after it.
Casco falls for it and makes the catch.
Both Aspermonte and Casco yell it, I have it.
But Teddy yelled just a little louder.
One way here's Roger Maris.
Maris bounced the first base in the first inning.
Jack Mickey Manil.
Pitch to Maris.
A change up right in there.
Strike one call.
Owens curve is high, one on one.
Owens six feet tall, 200 pounds.
Now living in Venice, Florida, the home of early wind.
Curve low.
Two balls, one strike.
And the ball is in the air.
Two balls, one strike.
Two-one delivery is high and away, ball three.
The cold 45s are not overshipped on Maris as much as the American League clubs do.
Three-one pitch is on the outside corner, full count to Maris, three and two.
Jim Wyndon, center fielder, is really deep on Maris.
Here's the payoff pitch.
Foul back on the screen.
Owens with that short windup.
Delivers the ground ball to the shortstop.
Up with it.
Casco, the throw to first in time for the out.
That was a nice play by Eddie Casco.
That was a real grass burning ground ball.
Hugs the ground.
And here's Mantle.
Mantle was robbed of an extra base hit and a fine play by Jim Wyndon, center fielder.
Pitch to Mickey.
Swing and a miss, strike one on Dex on treks.
Q out, nobody on, no score.
Mantle takes a curve high, one on one.
Owens gets the sign from Bateman.
Boy, his uniform is just about so clear through now.
Pitch is a curve, hits the inside corner, strike two, called one ball, two strikes.
Frank Humont calling balls and strikes.
Humont, a New Jersey resident who has migrated to Florida, lives not too far from the ballpark here in Fort Lauderdale.
One ball, two strike pitch.
A line drive to right field and it's in there for a base hit.
Wheatley plays it on one hop and fires it in to Nellie Fox.
Mantle has hit the ball hard twice, robbed of one, gets a single on this one.
That's the second hit for the Yankees, the Colts have only one hit.
Tommie Tresch struck out in the second inning.
There's a swing and a miss, strike one.
On deck, Johnny Blanchard.
Mantle leads away.
The pitcher Tresch hit high in the air to left center field.
Wins and Walthon Efford, Vaughn Caulford and makes the catch high over his head.
That ball's really carried with the wind blowing that way.
For the Yankees, no runs, one hit.
No cold errors, one man left.
And at the end of four, it's the Colts, nothing, and the Yankees, nothing.
Well, remember the big home opener is coming up.
Next Tuesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees will face the colorful Boston Red Sox
and the 1964 Penance Scramble will be on.
Now this is a special opener because it will mark the debut of longtime Yankee favorite Yogi Berra as the Yankee manager.
The Bombers will mark the occasion too because every fan attending the opener will receive a welcome Yogi button
to signify their attendance at his first game as manager.
A big field pregame program will get underway at 1.30 with game time at 2 p.m.
Guy Lombardo and his popular Royal Canadians will be on hand for entertainment before the field program
and for the playing of our national anthem.
Elston Howard will receive the American League Most Magical Player Award,
and all the 1963 Yankees will receive their Penance souvenirs from league president Joe Crumb.
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The Colt 45 will be John Bateman there canceling off.
He popped up to Quebec at shortstop his first time at bat.
Bateman at 6'3", 210 pounds.
He's just 21 years old.
Big right hand hitter.
Fairly square ground ball, Lopez has it on one hop.
The throw to first base backhanded by Gonzalez who put his foot off the bag and then got it back just in time.
Gonzalez handles himself very well at first.
Lopez has, you must remember, has played outfield now and this is the first time he's played third base in about two years.
Although when he did play third for Kansas City and for the Yankees, his arm has always been a little erratic.
As a matter of fact, he made one throw a while and Skowron, reaching for it, caught the ball.
The runner coming down first ran into Moose and Moose came up with a broken wrist.
Skowron to bounce the second base in the third inning, takes the curve outside, ball one.
Daly's next pitch, a ground foul outside of third.
Bumharris in the coaching box, up with it.
Gimmie a dare coaching it first for the Colts 45. On deck, Eddie Casco.
Daly's curve, ground ball hits it third, Lopez knocks it down, picks it up, throws to first base.
And Gonzalez has to come off the bag to catch it and tags Owen.
That was a nice play by Lopez, but again his arm, you've got to get used to that throw at third base and it doesn't only take one day.
The specter took a base hit away from Owen by knocking that hard smash down and turned around, picked it up.
And even though his throw pulled Gonzalez off the bag, Pedro was able to tag Jim Owens coming down the line.
So it's two out here, Eddie Casco, who struck out and reached on an error.
Casco talking with Nellie Fox, they're just talking about the weather, what they're going to do tonight,
giving Owens a little time to get a breather and a dugout.
Frank Umont, the play don't buy a nose, it goes over and breaks up the huddle.
Well you can do that, you can stall a little bit, as long as you don't stall too long.
Foxy with a big grin on his face.
No score with two out, nobody on, and the top of the fifth.
Daly's curve is right in there, strike one, call.
That's right Joe Cooper, we were talking about Johnny Wheatley's name giving you the idea that he's not strong, which is not true.
But that Nellie Fox is really a fox, I'll tell you that.
He knows every trick in the books to get you mad, to aggravate you, to stall.
He really can bother a catcher with his stance at that play too.
The next pitch is low in the dirt, one on one, the count on Eddie Casco.
Daly's curve is inside, two balls one strike.
Pitch hit on the ground to third, Lopez is up with it, throw to first base, this one is a strike and Lopez made all three assists that inning.
Three up, three down, nothing across, the score at the end of five full innings.
The cold forty, whoops, check that, the score at the end of four and a half innings, the cold forty five.
Nothing, nothing ball game.
And we've got a change in left field but we can't get his number.
And Walt Bond who was out there, we told you he got hit on the right thumb by a pitch ball, 28 it is Joe.
Oh, Walt Bond is on the right field and John Wheatley has come out.
Wally Williams is in left field.
So Wheatley who held up the game last inning a little late getting out to left field is out of the game.
As soon as we find out why we'll let you know.
Johnny Bransher takes a pitch low ball one.
Boy, you talk about a small outfielder, this Wally Williams is 5'6", but he weighs 185 pounds.
So he's solid.
Pitch is low to Blanchard, ball two, two and nothing.
5'6", for an outfielder, that is small.
That's small for an infielder, small for anything.
Except for me, he's got me by a half-pinch.
There's a line drive to center field, that's in for a base hit.
Wynn plays it on the second hop.
Blanchard with a line single at center.
Third hit for the Yankees, brings up Hector Lopez.
Lopez singled off Nellie Fox's glove in the third inning.
Williams in 73 games for Modesto last year batted 381.
Didn't appear in any games with the Colts.
The runner's going to ball, it's lined to right field and it's in for a base hit.
The second trying to third is Blanchard,
as well as cut off by Cascaun Blanchard slides in.
A perfect hit and run executed by Hector Lopez,
who is one of the best right field hitters of any right hand batter in the big league.
A line shot to right field.
Blanchard was not fast, but was off with the pitch.
Easily made it to third.
And that'll bring up Pedro Gonzalez, who's flying to center field in the third inning.
So it's a scoreless ballgame, but the Yankees are threatening here.
Runners at first and third, nobody out.
Here's the stretch by Owen.
Pitch to Gonzalez, the ground ball hits it third.
As the money goes to second for one, back to first they won't get the double play.
The ball was not hit hard enough and the run scores.
A run battered in for Pedro Gonzalez.
As Blanchard crosses the plate, the Yankees lead 1-0.
Lopez was forced to second, Gonzalez safe at first.
And now Bateman is going out to talk with Owen.
And we're going to have a pinch hitter, Elvio Jimenez is coming up to bat for Bud Daley.
And Daley had five real fine easy innings.
He allowed just one hit, didn't walk anybody, struck out three, didn't allow any run.
Bateman and Owens are talking things over out on the mound.
Elvio, free swinger, is up at the plate, swinging the back side to loosen up.
On deck is Tony Kubek.
And Jimenez for the Kansas City A's.
Throw to first base and Gonzalez is back.
Here's the stretch.
Pitch swing and a miss at a low curve, strike one.
That was a minor leaguer, he has definitely been a 300 hitter.
Throw to first and Gonzalez back again.
One year he batted under 300, that year he hit 299.
The other years he had some good ones, 329, 368, 310, 331, and 316.
Here's the stretch, pitch is outside, one on one.
Doesn't get many base down balls, though, as we told you he liked to swing.
Another throw to first, Gonzalez back.
Yankees lead 1-0 here in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Ohlins stretches, there he goes, the runner's going to swing,
the miss, a throw to second base, beautiful throw and they got him.
And Gonzalez had a good jump on the pitch of Jim Ohlins, but Bateman made a beautiful throw.
And Gonzalez is caught stealing.
Nellie Fox covered, Fox gets the put out.
So it's two out, and the count is one ball and two strikes on Jimenez.
Here's the windup, the ground ball hits the second base, Fox over, tries to backhand it,
gets it and throws, and I tell you, he doesn't throw.
He started a throw, he tried to backhand the ball, it rolled up his arm,
he caught it before it hit the ground, but then never threw the ball.
And Fox is charged with an error on that play.
The reason they charged Fox with an error, he could have gotten in front of that ball,
he wanted to backhand it and throw quickly.
Tony Kubeck bounce the first fly to center, follows the first pitch off strike one,
and that ball hit Bateman on the arm and the chest, boy he's having a rough day back there.
Catches get those battle wounds out there.
Sometimes they get hit so solidly with a foul ball you can read Joe Cronin,
president of the American League, right on their body.
There's a throw to first, Jimenez is back.
I've seen that happen before.
Stretched by on, curve high, one-on-one.
So it looks like the Yankees might have picked up a little defect in Owen's delivery.
They've got a couple of men running even though they caught the last one stealing.
Bateman's fine throw, cut down Gonzalez.
There's a stretch, throw to first, Jimenez is back.
Again the stretch, pitch foul over the roof out of play.
One ball, two strikes, two outs.
Owen's go to the rosin bag.
On deck, Bobby Richardson.
There's a stretch, another throw to first, Jimenez was about a foot off the bag, he easily got back.
Well maybe Paul Richards has got Owen's working on his move to first base.
Many steps off the rubber.
Now he's stretching.
Pitch, a line drive, base hit to center field, Jimenez with the last second and stop.
He went about 15 feet and then held up.
So Kubeck looks to single to center.
The fifth Yankee hit of the ball game.
And three of them coming here in the bottom of the fifth.
Now with runners at first and second and two out, Bobby Richardson's about it.
Bobby's flying to right and popped for the shortstop.
On deck, Roger Mares, runners lead off first and second.
Pitch to Bobby, there's a curve in there, strike one call.
There hasn't been a walk in this ball game yet for either side.
Owen's set, delivers a swing and a foul-tip strike two.
And into the count.
Marty Ford coaching at first.
Jimmy Gleason at third for the Yankees.
There's a stretch, two-strike pitch, low Bobby, check the swing, there goes him.
And that's the third as the ball bounced off the catcher's chest protector.
But holding it first was Kubeck at the wild pitch charged to Jim Owen.
Curve that hit in the dirt.
I guess Kubeck was not sure that Jimenez was going to run.
And Jimenez did start and stop momentarily.
Might have fooled Kubeck, but Jimenez went to third on the wild pitch.
Kubeck held it first.
It's a one-ball, two-strike counter to Richardson.
Stretch the pitch, a line drive, they set the right field.
Kubeck's score, Jimenez holding it second base is Kubeck.
And Richardson hit that one right off his ear.
It was high in sight.
Locked it to right field, run batted in for Bobby.
The Yankees now lead shooting up.
Cleaned up Roger Maris. Maris bounced the first, bounced the short.
Kubeck had second Richardson at first.
Rich to Maris low inside ball one.
Kubeck and Richardson each have 15 hits to lead the Yankees in that department now.
Rich to Maris, a high fly to right field.
They have plenty of time to get under it.
He's coming on, coming on and he takes it.
For the Yankees, two runs, four hits.
One Houston error and two men left on.
And the score now at the end of five full innings, the Yankees two, the Colts 45 is nothing.
Bill Staffett has come on to do the pitching for the Yankees as Bud Daley leaves after pitching five innings, allowing one hit and no runs.
Staffett is making his fifth appearance for the spring.
He's worked 11 innings, given up nine hits, three runs, all three of the man.
Walked four, struck out seven. He's won two and lost one this spring.
That's a fine end run average, 2.45.
Staffett, as you know, has a real bad year last year.
Staffett won four and lost eight, but he was quite a bit overweight.
He has come down this spring in real good shape.
Nellie Fox blocks the bunt, takes it over to strike.
Fox lying in the second and lying in the center. He's hit the ball hard both times.
On deck, Pete Reynolds.
Staffett's next pitch, slow curve, hit in the air to short center field, Kudek moving back.
He's there and he takes it.
One away. Pete Reynolds, pop to third, flying to left field.
And on deck, Jim Wintz.
Danny Coombs, the right-hander, is loosening up for Houston in the bullpen as Reynolds takes a pitch high, ball one.
Pitch is inside.
No strikes on Pete Reynolds.
Next pitch is fouled back on the screen.
Well, the Houston yearbook has number 37 listed as Danny Coombs,
but we just get a revision of it on a piece of typewritten paper here.
Number 37 is actually Chuck Taylor, who is loosening up in the bullpen.
Two-one pitch is high, ball three.
Staffett into the windup.
Pitch a lying drive, base hit to left field. A typical Pete Reynolds hit.
He falls away and slices the ball to the opposite field.
He lined it between Kudek and Lopez.
So that's the second cold hit of the ball game, the first one off Staffett.
And we've got a runner going in for Pete Reynolds.
John Hoffman, a catcher, is running for Pete Reynolds.
And it brings up Jim Wynne, flying to left field and struck out.
Pitch to Wynne is a curve inside, ball one.
Wynne bats him right-handed.
Staffett sets his pitch, low ball two, two and nothing.
Hoffman's only 20 years old. Boy, they've got some young kids on this team.
Curve over strike called, two balls, one strike.
Hoffman leads away. Two-one pitch hit deep to left field, but curving foul.
Boy, that was a lying drive that hit against the fence in the left field corner, but foul.
Two balls, two strikes.
On deck, Bob Aspermante.
Yankees two, colds nothing. We're on the top of the sixth inning.
Stretch by Staffett. Curve inside, forces him away from the plate.
Three and two to count.
Staffett is ready.
Curve is hit foul outside of fair.
Count holds at three and two.
Bill Leansover gets the sign from Blanchard.
The run out first. Pitch line to left field, foul again. Boy, that wind gets them good wood on those foul balls.
Staffett adds the new baseball.
Yankees will be playing their first night game here at Lauderdale Stadium.
Night against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Here's the stretch by Staffett. Curve inside, ball for a walk.
Moving the second is John Hoffman. That first is Jim Winn.
And that's the first walk of the ball game, I believe, for either pitcher. Yes, it is for either team, rather.
But Daly didn't walk anybody, neither did Jim Owens while he was in there.
Brings up Bob Aspermonte, bounce a short single at center.
Aspermonte is a Brooklyn boy and brother. Ken Aspermonte is with the Red Sox in Cleveland.
Stretch the pitch. Aspermonte a high foul that's coming back on the screen out of play.
Blanche is chasing it, but it hits halfway up the screen.
That's one out, the Yankee infield in double play depth. Yankees lead 2-0.
They've scored both their runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Here's the stretch. Sidearm curve is low. One ball, one strike.
Hoffman leaves off second, Winn off first.
Staffett delivers a curve hit deep to left field, but serving far up would have been way out of here, way, way back.
It hit on top of the batting cage beyond the left field fence.
Winn not only helped that, but hurt it a little bit because he's blowing from right field to left field and it pulled his foul.
Now that ball was really tagged.
Stretch by Staffett. Pitch in the dirt picked up by Blanche.
Two balls, two strikes.
Staffett ready. Pitch foul back on the roof out of play.
Runners lead off first and second.
Pitch is a curve foul back on the screen again.
On deck is Wally Williams.
Two balls, two strikes, one out. Yankees 2-0, cold 45s, nothing.
We're in the top of the sixth inning.
Runners lead off first and second. Staffett's pitch, ground ball hit in the hole.
Threw for a base hit. Coming around third.
The throw to the plate. And not in time, but Stoutendorf Blanche's set going to third base on that throw.
Is Jim Winn holding on first with an RBI single is Bob Atremonte. And that makes it a 2-1 ball game.
In favor of the Yankees.
And it brings up Wally Williams. He's got only 5'6", but a solid 185 pounds.
Runners at first and third with one out.
Stretch by Staffett.
Pitch a fly ball to center field and dropping in for a base hit.
Coming in to score is Jim Winn holding his second as Atremonte. The ball game is tied up.
And little Wally Williams jumps on the first pitch.
Oh, three hits off Bill Staffett here in the top of the sixth inning.
And the cold 45 tie up the score and here's Wally Williams.
First ball is struck out.
Stretch by Staffett. Change up outside, ball one.
Runners off first and second. Another change up swing and a miss strike one, one on one. And what a cut bond that had at that one. He went all the way around and down on hold place.
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Third hit high in the air to right field. Roger Marit is coming in.
Coming on shading his eyes and takes it two ways.
That'll bring up John Bateman, the catcher. Bateman bounced too short and bounced too third.
Staffett's curve hit far outside of third, strike one.
Atremonte a second, Williams at first leading away. Pitch is lined at deep left field, way back there and that ball is off the fence. One run is in the score. Here comes Williams around third.
The throw to the plate is not in time and two runs score on a long double by John Bateman off the left center field fence.
Boy, he's green that way.
Well, Staffett getting touched up here in the sixth inning. And the cold 45s go out in front, four to two.
And Jim Owens is coming out to bat so he might go another inning. Owens has bounced a second and bounced a third.
Curve is low. Last year Bateman hit his weight. He weighs 210 and that's what he hit, 210, but he had 10 homers and 59 runs about it.
It was his first year in the big leagues. He was one of the bonus boys signed by the cold 45s.
Curve is inside.
You might be wrong and that might have been his second year. Nope. That was his first year in the big leagues.
Next pitch is a ball, three balls, no strikes on Jim Owens.
As a matter of fact, Bateman led the cold 45s in home runs with 10 and runs batted in with 59.
Next pitch is ball four to Owens. Second walk given up by Staffett.
And that'll bring up Betty Casco, the ninth man to bat here in the sixth inning. Casco is struck out, reached on an error and bounced a third.
Surprisingly, Bateman led the cold 45s in triples with six.
I said he was a bonus boy, he got $74 to sign. Well, it was a bonus though, but I thought he was one of the big bonus boys.
That's an unusual bonus, isn't it, $74 to sign a contract.
Curve to Casco in there, strike four.
Owens at first, Bateman at second.
Pitch curve outside corner, strike two. I thought it said outside, but thank you, my friend said it nicked the corner.
Nothing in two.
45-4 and the Yankees two.
Pitch is a fly ball to Krubeck, that shortstop right at him, he's got it.
So nine men came to bat and four to cold 45s, four runs, four hits.
No Yankee errors, two men left and at the end of five and a half innings, it's the cold 45s for the Yankees two.
John Hoffman, who went in the run for Pete Reynolds, remains in the ballgame at first base.
And Mickey Mantle, who has lined the center and single right is up and lined to base, it's a center field on the first pitch.
Mickey has hit the ball hard each time.
Archie Moore goes in the run for Mantle.
The hero of yesterday's ballgame and Mantle gets a nice hand as he comes out.
Moore is at first running for Mantle. Tom Tresh struck outside the left field up there.
Take the pitch outside, ball one.
Moore has impressed Yogi Berra with the short time he's been down here.
And he's blowing bubbles, he's chewing bubbles up.
He's not even young, sir.
Take the lead off first.
Tresh, round ball at first, right through Hoffman.
Moving to third base is Archie Moore and holding at first is Tom Tresh.
And I imagine that'll be an error tied to Hoffman.
The bouncing ground ball in Hoffman's glove just didn't get down far enough.
No, they've given him a hit.
They've given Tresh a single.
Rathaus concurs, it's a single.
There's a high pop-up to the infield.
And then Aspermonte shading his eyes, he's under it, and Blanchett has retired on a high pop-up fly.
One away, and it brings up Michael Lopez.
Lopez is two for two, single to a foster glove, single to right field.
Under to first and third, the Yankees trailing four to two. As the ground ball hits the third, Aspermonte goes to second for one.
Back to first base, double play.
And the Colt 45s get out of an inning where they looked like they were really in trouble.
For the Yankees, no runs, two hits, no cold errors, one man left at the end of sixth full inning.
The Colt 45s, four in the Yankees, two.
Thank you very much, Bill.
Before we do get underway, Tom Metcalf is slowly walking to the mound to replace Bill Stafford,
who has some most disappointing outlast couple of outings.
And in center field, Archie Moore.
Threshrather has gone to center and Archie Moore is playing left. Moore will bat and man on the plate.
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Tom Metcalf now pitching to Nellie Fox, fly a ball to right field, and is one-handed by Merritt,
who lost the ball in the sun momentarily. One away.
One down.
John Hoffman, who went in to run for Pete Ronalds in the sixth inning, left-hand batter.
Tom Metcalf, into the windup round comes the arm, the pitch swung on as a high fly ball into center field.
Trash moves over now toward left center and makes the catch.
The two away.
Here's Jim Winn.
Winn fly to left, struck out, walked right-hand batter.
Four to two in favor of Houston. The pitch is in there for a called strike.
Now the pitch, high and inside. One ball, one strike.
Metcalf working rapidly, delivers high and inside.
One count. Four to two in favor of Houston. We're in the first half of the seventh inning.
And the pitch. It's low, ball three, three and one.
Three balls, one strike. Metcalf's pitch swung on.
There's a drive that stays fair, but it's curving foul and goes out of our box.
He really teed off on that one.
He had that good sound.
Tom Metcalf with a full count on Jim Winn into the windup and the pitch.
Fast ball is swung on and popped up in the air foul off third.
Coming on is Lopez and he makes the catch.
Drive's retired in order. No runs, no hits, no errors, no one left on.
The end of sixth and a half innings. It is Houston 4, New York 2.
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Now the last half of the seventh inning, 4-2 in favor of Houston.
Pedro Gonzalez fouls off the first pitch delivered by Jim Owens.
His uniform shirt is just as wet as it can be. In fact, it almost looks like he has a two-tone color uniform on.
The right-hander is delivery. Swung on, tapped right to the box.
Owens tosses over to Hoffman. There's one away.
Tom Metcalf has not come out yet. He's a scheduled batter.
We are awaiting a Yankee batter, and it will be Metcalf.
Jim Owens pitches, swung on. Metcalf hits a hopper to short. Eddie Casco up with it to throw the first in time.
Two away.
Flying overhead. They're giving free rides to everybody. Kubeck looks at a fastball over strike one.
And the next pitch, swung on. There's a high fly ball in the right center. And Bond goes over to make the catch.
So the Yankees go up and out in order. No runs, no hits, no errors, no one left on.
At the end of the seventh inning to play, Houston four runs five hits two errors. Yankees two runs seven hits two errors.
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Now to the eighth inning. Bob Aspermonte comes up.
Right hand hitter.
Bob Metcalf into the wind up and the pitch is going on in foul back.
He's got the short and two bases.
Next pitch is flying on a ground ball is short. Two back charges it goes on over to Gonzalez.
One away. One up one down.
And now the man who Wally Williams who replaced John Weekley.
The single in the sixth inning. Right hand batter. The pitch is inside of the letters. Ball one.
The next pitch swung on. There's a high fly ball into left field. Archie Moorhondred and makes the catch. Two down.
Here's Walt Bond hit by a pitch ball struck out fly to right.
We first saw Walt when he came up with the Indians and in spring training he looked like he was going to be a whiz.
Here's the pitch change up in there for a strike and that's what got him back out of the big leagues that changed the pace.
He stands 6'6 and yet weighs only 2'15 so he's in great shape. High outside for a ball.
I tell you this when he gets hold of one it's off on a good ride.
The left hand batter on the next pitch swings and boy did he take a whiff. Wow.
It seems that ball is still burning from the cut he took.
One ball two strikes. Tom Metcalfe to wind up the pitch is high for a ball.
Chuck Taylor has been warming up on the both hands.
No relation to the former Stanford coach of the same name.
4'2 in favor of Houston at the eighth inning and the pitch swung on and fouled off.
Two men out in the eighth. Coach lead 4'2. Metcalfe into the wind up and comes to the pitch and it's a curve low and inside.
Full count 3'2.
Three balls two strikes. Metcalfe delivers to Bond swings and misses. Strike three.
No runs no hits no errors no one left on and at the end of seven and a half an inch to score.
Houston 4. Chuck Taylor has come in to do the pitching now for Houston.
Jim Owens turned in a good job in seven innings giving up seven hits in two runs four of the hits in the fifth inning.
Got out of a big jam and the six of runners on first and third nobody asked and the Yankees did not score.
Chuck Taylor from Shelbyville, Tennessee 22 years old.
He's the sixth 280 pounder originally signed by the Cardinals traded by them to Houston with outfielder Jim Beacham for outfielder Carl Warwick in February.
Right hander now pitching to Bobby Richardson takes it for a strike. Marathon Beck and Archie Moore to follow.
The next pitch is over strike two. 4'2 in favor of Houston.
That's the last half of the eighth inning and the pitch outside. He throws pretty hard.
That's the one two pitch. Swung on and looped out over second and it is in there for a base hit.
And up comes Roger Maas who bounded out the first, bounded the short and climbed the right.
The right hander to the stretch to pitch to Rog is low and inside ball one.
Yankees have out hit the coach 8 to 5 but trail 4 to 2. Quick throw first Bobby's back.
And the pitch inside for a ball. I respect every individual in every town but I don't remember having run across a town quite like the one that the coach's pitcher lives in right now.
That's the pitch swung on and bowed back out of play. He lives in a town called Beltbuckle. Bill's over on TV right now.
Hey Bill, you know where he lives? Beltbuckle, Tennessee.
Here's the pitch swung on and bowed back.
Here's Bill's hander. Two balls, two strikes. And the pitch swung on. A ground ball hit out by Fox to the right center.
That's the third. Win up the ball, throws on into Fox and again the Yankees have runners on first and third, nobody out.
Just as they did in the sixth inning but failed to score off Yamoans. Archie Moore coming up, he ran for Mantle who singled in the sixth inning.
Four to two, Houston leading. And the pitch inside, ball one.
He throws pretty hard.
He struck out 124 men last year at Tulsa. Walked 68. Now the pitch, accidentally swung on, hit to the third baseman to throw, has to go to first in time to get Archie Moore.
Richardson scored and Mantle rather mass went second. Check swing. Four to three now. One out and Tom Fess coming up.
Here's the pitch, curve inside, ball one. Chuck Taylor in the leaf of Jim Owens who gave up seven hits and two runs and seven innings.
Now the pitch, swung on and popped up foul down the left field line, it's twisting out of play.
Once again the stretch.
And the pitch, it's up high. A 2-1 count on Tom Tresch. Roger Maris on second, last of the eighth. Colts four, the Yankees three.
Taylor delivers, Tresch takes it inside. 3-1, German breaking pitch.
Three balls, one strike.
And the delivery. It almost hits Tresch, he had to jump away from the plate. Ball four.
And up comes Johnny Blanchard who's rounded second, single to center.
And then in the sixth inning with runners on first and third, nobody out, pops up.
And we're getting some action with both ends. Jim Ray, right-hander.
One down, two on. And the pitch, way up high, ball one.
Maris on second, Tresch on first. One out and eight innings.
And the delivery. It's over for a strike, good fastball.
A 1-1 count. One out, two on, one in.
Maris on second, Tresch on first, 4-3 Houston, eighth inning.
Here's the pitch and it's inside to Blanchard. A 2-1 count.
Two balls, one strike.
And the pitch, swung on and popped foul to the right of the plate and it's out of play.
A 2-2 count. Blanchard digs in, Taylor to the stretch. Here's the pitch.
Swung on, bounce, and hit down.
Nice video. Maris down, third comes in to score. On to third goes Tresch.
And it's an error for Hoffman that permits the tying run to come in.
A target ball, pop through it. Hoffman took over for Reynolds at first.
He actually is a catcher.
And may be excused from those bounds.
And Hector Lopez comes up.
He's had two singles and ran it into a double play.
Number four, one out in the eighth inning.
And the pitch, swung on and fouled off.
Ball hits the top of the mask of the catcher, Johnny Bacon.
And then spun off and hits the chest protector, the umpire.
Runners on first and third. And the pitch, swung on and lined out in the center field for a base hit.
Blanchard stops at second as Tresch comes in to score the lead run.
Hector Lopez produces his third hit of the game.
Three runs in this inning, and the Yankees are out in front, five to four.
Blanchard on second, Lopez on first, and Pedro Gonzalez up.
Fly into center, ground into third, and hits to the box.
Chuck Taylor's pitch, little high, ball one.
Good ball, no strikes.
And the next pitch is low and inside, ball two.
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Here's the pitch, swung on and popped foul, and the ball's over near the Yankee dugout.
Out of play.
Regardless of the outcome of this game, I think the real story today is the second successive failure of Bill Stanford.
Here's the pitch, swung on and fouled back.
I expected that Bill might wrap somebody out of the starting four rotation this year after his slump last season.
He got down a good weight.
He looked good in the earlier games.
Last couple of outings he's been tagged.
Chuck Taylor another stretch.
And the pitch, swung on and fouled off.
That's what spring training, of course, is for, to find out where certain strengths and weaknesses lie.
Some you can anticipate ahead of time, some you cannot.
Two balls, two strikes, one out.
And the pitch, swung on and right in the center field for a base hit.
Blanchard rounds third, he comes on in to score, and the cutoff play, and they've got Lopez trapped as the first baseman,
Hoffman, cuts the ball off.
Hector dived back into second.
Lopez, who hits the ball, got down to second base.
But the runner, before he was tagged out by Aspermonte, who picked the throw from the first baseman from the cutoff position,
the base runner is entitled to return to the base he last held in order to avoid being put out.
And therefore, Lopez was safe and they tagged Gonzalez, and Gonzalez who got the hit and drove in the run is out.
Here's Tom Metcalf.
So the play went from Wynn, the center fielder, to Hoffman, the first baseman, to Aspermonte, the third baseman.
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...was two down, takes the strike.
You're not allowed to run the bases in reverse order to make a travesty of the game,
but in order to regain possession to avoid being put out, you're allowed to.
Here's the pitch, and it's in there for a strike.
That's when two men wind up on the base as they did there.
The man entitled to it is the man who had it.
He got back there before he was tagged out.
Now the pitch outside.
And Gonzalez has been just a little bit more alert in the situation.
He wasn't certain whether Lopez was tagged out before he touched the base or not, which is probably the reason.
He could have taken off and gone back toward first and gotten the chase there.
Seemed that happened and the ball's gone away.
Here's the pitch, swung on, bounced out to short.
Hasco up with it over to Hoffman.
End time and the size retires.
So the Yankees came up with four runs.
Four hits.
One error for the Colts.
And one Yankee left on.
At the end of eight innings, the Yankees six, the Colts four.
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In the first half of the ninth inning, Johnny Bateman leads off for the Colts.
One out of three, pops the short down to the third,
and then slammed a terrific two-run double to left in the sixth inning.
Off-billed Stafford, who worked only the one inning, gave up four of the Colts' five hits in all their runs.
Tom Metcalf, who came on in the seventh inning, into the windup and the pitch, swung on and missed, strike one.
There will be a pinch hitter for Taylor.
Ernie Fazio.
Tom Metcalf into the windup, in comes the pitch, and it's right over, strike two.
Now the pitch.
There's a smash to short in the hole.
Kubeck throws high.
Fazio continues a rather Bateman on the second.
Tony had to go way over into the hole to grab that ball and then over through Gonzalez.
So we'll see whether they call it a base hit in an error or an error all the way.
Probably an error all the way.
Now Fazio comes up to hit to Taylor.
And Ernie Caps go on back.
Metcalf's pitch, swung on and bowled back.
Fazio was with the Colts last year, little fellow wide.
Jim Ray in the bullpen for the twins and that's for the Colts, excuse me.
Here's the pitch, high and inside.
Ball one, one and one.
Metcalf's next pitch, swung on, there's a looping fly ball in the short center coming on fast as fast to make the catch.
Looked for a moment as if it might drop for Texas League single, but Tom got a good jump on it.
Eddie Casco struck out safe on an error by Yankee third baseman, Hector Lopez, playing third base for the first time in two years today.
Grounded the third and popped the short.
Casco is a determined ball player.
The pitch is high and inside, ball one.
He's a New Jersey boy, makes his home now in Richmond.
Played against the Yankees in the last Yankee Cincinnati World Series.
The pitch, swung on, there's a high fly ball in the left center.
Archie Moore goes over and makes the catch.
And two away.
And up comes Nelson Jacob Fox.
It's over for a strike, a one and one count.
Johnny Hoffman on deck.
Metcalf's delivery, swung on, there's a ground ball hit to short, long throw necessary, and it is in time.
Back to Gonzalez.
And that ends the ballgame. No runs, no hits, one and one left on.
I'll be back in a minute with the totals and highlights.
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It was a game that, outside of the score, which is relatively unimportant in spring training, but what was important from the standpoint of the Yankees was the fact that Yogi Berra now has a problem with a season open within a week.
One of the men he was counting on most was Bill Stafford, who was brilliant until last year and he had an off season.
But in his last two outings, Stafford has not been the old Stafford, although even going into today's game, he had pitched 11 innings, given up nine hits and three runs.
Saw the Mern, walked four, struck out seven, and had an earned run average of 2.45, but he didn't look too good in his last outing.
And today, well he just worked one inning and that Yogi had seen all he wanted to see for the day, because he gave up four runs and four hits in the sixth inning after the Yankees had finally solved the excellent but sometimes troublesome to a ball club, Jim Owens, for two runs.
But on the other side of the picture was Bud Daley, who in four previous attempts to prove to the skipper that his arm has come around and that he can be of service to the Yankees, had pitched 13 innings, allowed 11 hits, four runs, all of them earned.
Walked eight, struck out three for 2.08 average, which wasn't too bad. And today Bud Daley gave up one hit in five innings, no runs. His control was good.
And then in the sixth inning, Stafford came on, and that's when the Colts got going with one out, a single to walk, two more singles, and then with two outs Bateman was the fellow that supplied the big blow, a double to left center.
And there were four runs home.
So that overcame the Yankees two run lead, built up in the fifth inning off Jim Owens, who pitched pretty good ball himself, who gave up seven hits and two runs in seven innings.
Blanchard and Lopez had singles. There was a force out at second and Blanchard had come on home.
Then there was an error that added to the scoring. Kubek and Richardson added singles in the inning.
And in the eighth inning, singles by Richardson and Maris, and then field out a walk to Trash, and an error by Hoffman, a catcher playing first base today.
And one of three base hits by Lopez and the single by Gonzalez, who played first base, there were a lot of men out of position.
In the total, the Yankees six runs, 11 hits, three errors, four runs, five hits and three errors for the Houston Colts.
The winning pitcher is Tom Metcalf, and the losing pitcher is Chuck Taylor.
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