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In Chicago, White Sox faced the Toronto Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto for
opening day on Thursday, April 7th, 1977.
Chicago was managed by first year manager Bob Lemon.
Owner Bill Veek hired Lemon to succeed Paul Richards as the White Sox manager in the wake
of finishing in last place in the AL West in 1976.
Toronto was managed by Roy Hartzfeld and were playing the first game in franchise history
after the league expanded to include the Blue Jays and Mariners for the 1977 season.
This audio recording is from the Chicago Radio broadcast featuring announcers Lauren Brown,
Jimmy Pearsall and Harry Carey.
Well, Gar is greeted by a chorus of moves here in Toronto as he leaps it off.
Gar in spring training.
Wanda Pitting 290, two homers and six Army eyes.
Here is the first pitch ever of the baseball game in the American League and Canada with the Paul Spikes.
You know why at the first pitch Gar took off spring is because they want to put that in the Hall of Fame up here.
In the first ball of the zone.
The first ball.
They were taken into the Canadian Department of Hall of Fame.
The first ball will be taken to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame.
Here's Bill Singer's second delivery.
Look at him.
He's got a piece of it actually.
More up dial with these white home uniforms.
You almost can't see the Toronto outfielders in the snow.
Time's blown.
Right hander goes into the lineup.
Here's the two strike pitch.
Outside of all.
Defensively, Doug Lawson first.
Pedro Garcia is in second.
Peptor Porey is in short.
And Dave McKay at third.
All the trainer comes running out and gives a scraper to the pitcher.
Bill Singer, apparently a little lab moisture got on the mound.
He's got some mud in his cleats.
And Roy Hartzoo just came on as sniffer.
It was okay if they kept it out there.
The scraper.
In the outfield.
John Scott in left.
Gary Woods in center field.
And in right field Steve Bowling.
Here's the pitch.
The plate goes back to the screen.
The pitch is down up with two balls and two strikes.
The snow has stopped.
Here's the pitch.
Off the catcher's mask.
And the count goes full off his chest protector, I should say.
And it goes full now.
Three balls and two strikes.
Now it will be followed by Alan Vanister and George Orta.
I'll tell you, we got a middle of this lineup.
Orta's this center in gambles.
Then when he's not playing Lamontor Johnson.
He puts some people on base.
And he's got some fans in there right now.
So, they got to be careful.
You got to get your good stuff over.
Jim Elsie in warming up 10 breath.
Now Brian Downing trotting down towards the bullpen.
After Dave McKay goes out to the mound to talk to the singer.
The count is full.
Right hander in the lineup.
Here's the pitch.
Up high and outside of all.
Looks like he might have slipped, Jim.
Can you imagine Garg and a three-some ball?
Everybody wants him to walk.
He's just telling it's a new year.
Ralph Garg does not walk often.
The matter is Alan Vanister hit 221 in the spring.
No homers and six RBI's.
White Sox has a team that's 272 down in the spring training.
That's not bad.
I'll settle for that for the year.
We've been running a lot.
I would have to see if there's a way the weather is today.
We want to get her on as quick as possible.
Even if you button right here.
Vanister really looking down.
He wasn't too sure that his run was on, I guess.
Singer working out of a stretch gar with a lead off the first.
A pitch inside of all.
So after getting out in front of Ralph Garg,
and two, Singer now has missed on five consecutive pitches.
Here's the toss over to first and Garg, at that time,
was just to step off the bag.
A year ago, Singer beat the White Sox two times and lost once.
Right-handed livers, here's the pitch,
half-point and a foul.
Into the feet, the first foul ball.
That's what I'm excited about.
A ball with a strike.
Vanister would drag a run right now.
The first base on the canes really back.
One ball and one strike.
Garg with a lead.
Well, in the first, if you just joined us,
right-handed livers, a fast ball.
Two balls and a strike.
At the White Sox, Singer has one-six and lost five against the White Sox.
He was four and one at Texas last year,
and then got traded.
None other than Bert Leiland.
Guys are a rocky medical encyclopedia.
If anything can go wrong with you, it's gone wrong with him.
Here's the toss over to first, runner-back in time.
Outfield, playing Vanister straight away.
Here's the pitch, high and inside with a fast ball.
This is three and one.
Now, Sorrell, in front of the plate, yells something out to Singer.
Last time Singer worked with April 4th, I guess,
and he only worked one inning.
Didn't have much of a swing, so he's showing why he's a little wild.
Three balls and a strike.
Runner at first.
Nobody out.
We're on the first inning in Toronto.
There goes the runner.
Here's the pitch.
Call strike at the inside.
Four and a second.
He is safe as the ball gets away from the second.
Now Garry's trying to go to third.
Here's the throw and he slides in safely.
Garcia did not see the ball because of the snow.
It hit the base and went out, and he completely lost it, Jimmy.
He lost it, and then he couldn't pick it up and get his footing.
He flipped all over the place.
It wasn't that far.
Uh-oh.
And Garry is first.
He's winning the third.
He's hurt his chin or his ankle.
Charlie Sad is down there with him.
Bob Lemon comes out now.
Last time I remember you being on the air with us.
He hurt himself, sliding into second because he's hesitant on whether he should slide or shouldn't.
And I know you talked to him about it this way.
He slipped quite a ways.
You can see his marks, but it's kind of dangerous out there right now.
He just slipped right into the bag full fourth.
He really had to get there in a hurry, and when he swid, he just got too close to the bag.
I don't think he'll be alright.
So it'll be a stolen base and an air on the catcher.
We presume.
Yeah.
We have to find the guy to go. Don't get on me this thing.
Still a runner at third.
And the board has the count three and one, but that was a called strike.
It's a three-two count.
Singer had a 6.6-0 earned run average.
Here's a spring to the fly ball to right field.
Coming over is the right field where he has it.
Here's the throw into the infield and Garholt to third.
Good throw by Steve Goldie in the right fielder.
I'd say that would have been a close play at the plate.
The ball was in front of the plate to the right side.
But Bobby Cunnop held up well up there, and I think partially because of the fact that he just came up with that ankle injury.
And there's nobody out, and all we have to do is hit a ground ball somewhere in the infield.
Everybody's playing back to get this run in as well as that hit the ground.
Or not.
So there's one out in Georgia, or not.
Steps in, or to back at his second base spot.
Time is called momentarily by Ralph Garholt.
Or to hit 338 with a Homer and TenRBI's in the spring.
Infield playing in now with one out.
Right a cut-off run off at the plate.
Here's a pitcher that's going to put a fly ball to third field.
Gary Woods is there. Garholt is packing up.
He's got it. Here goes the runner headed for the plate.
He's going to throw in, and it's not cut off, but Garholt is about five feet in front, and he goes rushing into Richie's zip.
The zip was waiting to tell him whether to slide or not.
And the White Sox has scored the first run in Canada in American League history.
That's a good break for us to get off this front.
Make this club come from behind if they're going to win this vlog.
And we can score runs, and this now coming to the plate is really the guy that can hit one out of here.
Richie's zip.
A welcome addition to the White Sox.
Richie hit 333 in the spring with a Homer and five RBIs.
And a great producer for the Pirates over the years.
Takes a look at the ball. Last year he tied the Pirates with a lead in home runs with 21, and he hits with 168.
There was only one RBI away from being the RBI leader with 89 as he takes a look at ball two down low.
And he also led the club in doubles with 35, and he led the Pirates in game winning RBI's the last three years.
Steve Stone told me, Jimmy, he worried about two guys on the Pirates.
Richie's zip and Al Oliver.
No question this guy has great back control.
Right-hander delivers the two old pitchers are swinging a long drive to center field going way back in woods.
This ball might get out of here. It is scored! A home run!
Richie just in his first American League time at back puts it straight over the fence in center field and it's a two to nothing ball game.
How about that?
Welcome to the American League.
He's my kind of player. I'll tell you that right now. He's going to be asked for the ball, I think.
Bill the Polish Prince gives the White Sox a two to nothing lead.
You know, he hit that ball dead center and still go and went over to center field center. The fence beyond the inside fence.
So it's a two to nothing ball game and Jim Spencer's the batter.
It was hard to tell whether Wood would catch up with it or not. He dripped it back as if he had a play.
But it's no problem getting over that 12 foot fence that extends from the left field corner around to the right field corner.
As of now I'm glad we're playing. Spencer hit 300 of a spring, 4 homers and 9 RBIs.
There's a swing and a bounce there. It's going to get through a base hit just to the right of second base.
Spencer makes the turn at first and will go back.
Bill the White Sox with their second hit of the inning.
Have a runner at first and Oscar Gamble the batter.
Spencer getting Jim right in the fish for that acid serve to the ball just skidded right off the width portion of it.
He didn't hit that ball good at all.
Oscar Gamble just over to the White Sox through the Bucky Denfield.
A left handed hitter.
Oscar had 17 home runs for the Yankees a year ago.
Here's the pitch called strike off the outside corner.
Sciner getting behind has gotten himself in trouble. He has to pitch like he just did to Gamble on the outside corner and down.
Gamble has not played a lot this spring. He had some flu problems and here's a pitch low of all.
Isn't it amazing every time a new player joins a club right away he's in the lineup.
I hope he has a super day for it.
Well they didn't know whether he was going to make it or not. He had given indications that he was going to go home and quit the game.
But he's here today in uniform and play.
With the first inning White Sox out in front. Two to nothing.
A one one count on the batter. Whether it's first or two down. Right handed delivers. Here's the pitch up high of all. Two at one.
Gamble his luggage was lost and he was worried about his gloves.
They say you don't need your glove over here. Just bring your bag.
Two balls in the strike Spencer with the lead off of first here is the pitch outside of all.
White Sox and the Blue Jays will have good Friday off tomorrow.
And with zoom action Saturday and Sunday.
Three balls in the strike to the batter.
Here's a toss over to first Spencer back inside. Chris Knapp will be going for the White Sox tomorrow.
He wants to really look good in spring training especially his last outing. Here's a pitch outside of all he walked in.
That's the second walk in the inning given up by Singer.
He's going to have some activity down in the Toronto Blue Pet. Might be Pete Blokovic.
Looks a little like Pete as he's trotting down there. As is warm up Jack-O-Dot we'll have to wait and see.
Singer throwing much better than he did the first three hitters but as I said before he's trying to hit the corners and not pitching too much this spring.
He's having a struggle. And they go longer with a better like him.
Jerry with pitching gets maybe five runs in a second but he's still in the end every time.
He always knew he'd come back. While we talked about the spring with more of this Spencer and un-gambles.
Now we neglected the bench of this fellow. Eric Satterholm.
Three oh eight hitter in the spring. Two homers and ten RBIs.
Another welcome addition to the Chicago White Sox.
The third baseman Eric Satterholm.
At his best year in 1975 with 286, 11 homers and 58 RBIs.
Takes the first pitch for a ball.
At one time during that year he was on a hot streak hitting 349 and had seven homers and then unfortunately he was injured.
I'll tell you about that in a second singer. Out of the stretch here's the pitch. Look at him.
He accidentally fell into a hole in a construction site.
Flatched your two ribs and without the rest of the year and had cartwheel damage in his left knee.
So he did not play at all last year for Minnesota and thus in effect played out his option.
Look at him open up fastball. And the count goes to a ball and two strikes.
Jim Spencer down his second base. Oscar Gamble at first.
Got a cold afternoon in Toronto, Canada. Right hander ready. Here's the pitch.
Here's a swinger to shot down the left field line and there's a five ball.
And it bounces up into the peak. The last three pitches of Satterholm's ball have been breaking balls and high.
So singers have been lucky to get away with them and that ball that was fair would have been an extra couple of runs.
So the count remains the same. One ball and two strikes.
Jerry Johnson warming up in the bullpen. Here's the pitch.
Here's a swing and a bounce into the shortstop parries. He's got it.
Goes to second to Garcia for the fourth down on Gamble and that's it.
Here in the first inning, the Chicago White Sox come up with two runs on two hits.
There was one air and two men left down.
At the end of a half inning of play, the White Sox two, the Blue Jays coming to back.
I got it. I got it. It's it.
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As for selection, there has assorted prints and solids for girls. Bikini, hip-huggers, or briefs for Mrs. All for great prices.
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We've got to go, mom.
Okay. Bye, dear.
Bye.
Give my love to the twins.
You can feel better than better
Moin Browne, back in Toronto with Jimmy Perisall as we go to the bottom of the first inning,
and Brett, getting ready to get into his warm-up sauce,
as they're putting some dirt around the mouth and the whole plate area.
And as they do a little more ten seconds for station identification.
This is WMAQ Chicago.
WMAQ Chicago...
So getting the warm up socle with Brian Downing, let's take a look at this Chicago White Sox b-fen.
Jim's Texas at Hurryface, George Ordos at Second,ום
return with shortstop and Eric Sotter home at third.
Brian Downing doing the catching.
While on the outfield, Ralph Garin left field,
Seth Lomond is better.
And Richie Ziskin right.
On the mound, Ken Brett, he won 10 and lost 12 last year
with an earned run average of 3.32.
Brett to spring.
1-1 and lost 3 with an earned run average of 5.67.
He had a great outing about a week ago against the Pirates.
And then so-so in his last outing.
I don't think he can motivate himself.
He's the type of guy that's got any pitching in the regular season.
He just can't seem to reach back and fire higher.
I talked to him before the game and asked him how he thought about opening up.
He was thrilled to death.
He's a loosey-goosey guy.
And he'll give you a quick answer if you give him a bad hit question.
All those wordos are.
And I gotta believe he'll put your free ball game.
Well Brett won shutouts in three of his first four ball games that he pitched for the White Sox last year.
His 10 victories was high on the Fox staff.
He also lost 16 in complete games in 26.
Johnny had the best earned run average among the White Sox starters with 3.28.
Johnny Scott leased it off to left fielder.
He played at Hawaii last year where he had 3.15.
15 homers and 82 RBI.
He's the only guy in his four club that can steal bases so he's gotta be very careful when he's on base.
He's a right-handed hitter.
Jackie Moore in the coaches box with 30s with the Texas Rangers last year and Harry Warner coaching it first.
Left-hander delivers and it's a pass ball for a strike.
Bob Miller who was a first-round draft choice by the New York Mets in the expansion a few years back
to put pitching coach on this club.
Here's the one strike delivery.
Goes after a breaking pitch and piles it off and is in the hole 0-2.
Roy Hartfield, a Blue J manager looking to go with youth on his club, also speed.
He's a gambling type of manager and he figures with good pitching and speed and this artificial surface he's gonna win some ball games.
Exhibition stadium is the proper name for this ball.
Park here's a fast ball low just left in the outside corner.
One ball and two strikes.
Outfield playing the batter around the ball up.
Left-hander ready.
Here's the 1-2 pitch inside a ball.
While the announcer is for Toronto, young man by the name of Tom Cheek and the color announcer,
one of Chicago's all-time favorite athletes, early win.
What do you want to say in the game with your sister Chicago?
I'm not sure that it was with the White Sox.
I think he was 43.
Yeah, it took him a long time to get that 300.
Two balls and two strikes as Brett goes into the lineup of delivers a squib and a miss.
He struck him out.
So Ken Brett strikes out the first man that he faces and there's one out of the first inning.
Bob Lemon was telling me he told Wynn, why don't you quit?
Not too many guys that 299 with.
That really threw a good breaking ball.
One of the better breaking balls we've seen in the last three.
Good shot and good play.
That's the stories.
Stories, when he came over here for Lowenstein, didn't he?
Yeah, from Cleveland.
Well, he put San Diego into Cleveland for Lowenstein.
He gets 195 at San Diego last year.
Looks at the first pitch for a ball.
Four homers, 15 RBIs and a called strike in the outside corner.
No has stopped. Hopefully for good.
This winter in Toronto, here's the one-one pitch.
Here's a swing of the foul going back into the seat.
We have a break. The wind isn't blowing at all.
It's been very still now.
It's blowing up because we aren't feeling it.
It's very difficult to tell here about the wind.
Oh, now I see a small flag to our right.
But the national banners for these two countries are out in center field.
Here's a swing of the miss. He struck him out.
10 breath.
And struck out the first two men that he has faced.
And the batter is Doug Holt.
And Jimmy will tell you about him in a moment.
That Sacramento last year, he hit 3-13, 25 homers and 83 RBIs.
Went up to the Texas Rangers, hit 300,
and I was totally impressed with the young man, Jimmy.
He's a self-made young man.
By that, he didn't have too much ability.
He weighed about 30 pounds more and he doesn't know he's a native ball.
And just worked so hard with desire.
Doesn't run too well, but here he is in the big leagues
because he can hit the ball.
He's touched to him and it's way outside of all.
One of the problems he had is the fact that Mike Hardrow,
a rookie of the year, of a couple of years ago, was at first base.
A little better defensively at first, you think, than Hardrow?
I would say so, yes. A lot better.
Left-handed ready. Here's the one-oh-pitch breaking ball for a strike.
Good curve ball.
And he's even up one-on-one.
I'm wondering if the fans, the pressure gets to these fellow that haven't been in the big leagues at all.
With this excitement and all this, we'll make a swing at bad pitches.
Left-handed ready. Here's the one-on-pitch.
Here's a swing at a long drive. This side's going to be out of here.
A warm line into the left-side of the CAC.
And a standing ovation for Doug Elk.
And it's a two-to-one ball game. Listen to this crowd.
So Doug Elk has hit the first Toronto Major League home run in Canada.
After a ritchie's disc, it hit the first in this country in an American League uniform in the first inning.
So it's a two-to-one ball game.
So Doug Elk on a one-on-pitch.
Looks like he might have hung a curve, Jimmy.
That's who it was.
And the first pitch to Otto Vallez.
Formerly of the Yankees, it was a called strike.
Vallez hit 266, two homers, 10 RBIs for the Yankees a year ago.
Here's a fastball. This is outside of all.
What a big swing he has.
He just holds that bat back up over his head.
No matter where the pitch is, he just lets it go.
Left-hander of the lineup. Here's the one-on-pitch inside of all.
Well, you know, we were talking before the game,
he said the ball really wasn't carrying and batting practice,
but with that wind subsiding, no snow.
It has gotten out of here.
And right now, the wind going from home plate to center field.
There's a swing at a long fly ball right center field.
Lemon is back near the warning track, and he's got it right on the warning track.
That ball came within five feet of getting out of here in right center field.
And that's what fires the side of the first inning.
Four Toronto, one run on one hit.
Doug Alps first home run of the year, and nobody left out.
With the end of one inning of play, the Chicago White Sox 2, Toronto won.
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Lane Brown back in Toronto, and they just introduced the Commissioner baseball Bowie Cohn
and the Toronto South Booters.
You think he was in the States?
And the President of the American League, Lee McFail, will get the big hand.
While the American League wanted to come into Toronto,
whereas the National League did not.
And you may recall, Bowie Cohn says, no one's going anywhere until a team gets to Washington.
But Lee McFail and the other American League owners said,
no, we're going to Toronto, whether you like it or not.
They had to get another team with Seattle to avoid that lawsuit.
So here they are.
Chet Lemon will lead it off here on the second inning for the White Sox.
White Sox out in front two to one, the first pitch by singers of fastball.
White Sox with two runs on two hits for Blue Jays, one run on one hit.
We've already had two home runs.
Here's a swinger to ground her to Garcy at second.
She's got it. Goes over to first in time and Lemon's required.
Well, there's one out and Brian Downey in the batter.
He failed to tell you that during the spring, Lemon hit 281 with a homer and seven RBIs.
Brian Downey had a pretty good spring at the plate.
Brian hit 346 with a homer and eight RBIs.
Last night, the American League season opened up at Seattle. Here's the first pitch of fastball high of all one.
Blank, Tana.
Shutout Seattle on nine hits, seven to nothing.
Right hander goes into the lineup. Here's the one-oh-pitch.
They reported the crowd at 57, 732.
57,732.
I know in the Washington paper this morning when I was coming in from after doing the Bulls Bullets game last night from Washington,
and the Tigers are swinging their foul. They reported, and apparently they did here too on a wire service story,
that that was the biggest home opener in the history of the American League.
But Jack Rohammer mentioned to me that Cleveland against the Tigers had around 73,000 just a few years ago
and wanted me to pass that on and set the record straight.
He said he knew it because he played in the ballgame.
A ball and two strikes to Downey. Nobody on one out.
Outfield, playing him around the hair to the left.
Right hander ready. Here's the pitch, up high of all, even to the count two and two.
Outstanding crowd on hand considering the weather conditions.
They sold 44,000 tickets, and I think they're all here.
Right hander ready. The two-to-pitch. Here's a swing and a pop-up to the left side, carrying on into the feet.
And we still wait for the first man to catch it on the fly.
Nobody wants to grab that ball. It is cold.
And there's going to be hockey here tonight.
They run out to see the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second game of their first round series for the Stanley Cup.
Here's the two-to-pitch. Here's a swing and a foul.
Straight back, and the count remains the same.
This is the first round of playoff for the Stanley Cup.
Dan Hozak, our engineer, also handles the controls for Jimmy West.
And Lou Anne Gotti on the Black Hawk games here on M.A.Q.
Here's a half swing and a looper behind the mound. Shortstop charges, throws, not in time.
A half swing by Gotti that just got over the head of the pitcher.
The shortstop Tories came in, through, but too late.
And Gotti is on with an infield hit.
But Dan Hozak handles the engineering on the Chicago Black Hawk broadcast.
Jimmy West, Lou Anne Gotti.
Jimmy or Dan, when they came through Toronto last time, there was no way the White Sox and Toronto were going to play baseball here today.
That was about a month and a half ago, they predicted that.
So the Ontarians and the Black Hawks were wrong.
There is baseball here in Toronto.
The batter-welfth guard tossed over to first and downing dives back in.
Gar walked his first time up and came around to score the first White Sox run of the ball game.
He stole second, went to third on an air, and came home on orders fly ball.
Here's the pitch outside of all.
Just close to the corner.
Mr. Shilak calling balls and strikes.
Joe Brinkman down at first, Rich Garcia at second, and Steve Palermo working third.
Here's the toss to first and the runner-back.
On our ticker, instead of baseball scores, we're getting stock market reports.
So we can't tell you what's going on elsewhere in baseball today.
The Cubs are opening up at home against the Metz, Sieber against Burris,
St. Louis is at Pittsburgh this afternoon, and San Francisco's at Los Angeles.
Three games in the National League.
Right-hander ready, runner-off the bag at first.
Here's the 1-0 pitch, outside of all 2-0.
In the American League, Kansas City is at Detroit, Siddorff going against Roberts,
Texas is at Baltimore, Blyland-Levin going against Palmer.
And you realize in that game at Baltimore, it will mark the first time in 21 years
that Brooks Robinson is not starting at third base.
It's amazing that you've been around 21 years.
Doesn't seem that long.
Here's the next pitch and a false strike is God's.
The second to the 2-0 pitch.
Milwaukee's at New York, Travers against Hunter, Cleveland's at Boston,
Eckersley against Jenkins, and tonight, California at Seattle again, Ryan going against Romo.
The 2-1 delivery way outside of all 3-1.
Alan Bannister in the on-deck circle, and the Snow Plurys have resumed.
Three balls and a strike.
Singer crosses over to first downing back in time.
2-1, the White Sox are out in front if you just joined us.
As you've been with us all the way, they're still out in front, 2-1.
Right-hander tosses a get-over to first and downing dives back again.
All the White Sox will be home on Tuesday.
A special festivities dedicated to the memory of the late Mayor Richard Daly.
A false strike for Gar right across the letters.
Gar was ready to go down to first base, and the count is full 3-2.
Game time opening day, 1-15 against the Red Sox.
Freakin' festivities starting at 12.45, and the first 10,000 fans will receive a replica baseball made out of styrofoam.
Here's a toss over to first and downing just got back in time.
Anticipating that Brian would be off with a 3-2 pitch, Singer went over there again for about the fifth time.
Right-hander ready.
Never tossed a firstie back again.
So the first 10,000 along with the Daly family will have an opportunity to throw out the first pitch on opening day against the Boston Red Sox.
Here's a swing and a grounded to the third base from McKay.
Can't go to second.
For the first in the fair, kicked away.
Brian Downing will go to third, and the White Sox had runners at first and third.
Downing was off to the pitch.
McKay had no chance to get him at second. True role to Doug Alders first that got beyond him.
Not far enough to allow guard to go, but enough to allow Brian Downing to scoot over to third.
So that's the second error of all game against Toronto.
Number seven, the shortstop, Allen Bannister.
And the batter is Allen Bannister who's quite out to right field his first time up.
So the White Sox with a chance to add another run here, a runner at third and less than two outs.
Only one.
Right-hander working out of the stretch of the first pitch to Bannister, the fastball outside.
Allen Bannister a very happy young man.
A number one draft choice twice in his career as a shortstop out of high school.
He did not sign.
Then he went to Arizona State and he was the number one draft choice, but he's really never had the opportunity to play every day as a big league show.
And now that opportunity has been given to him.
He has a little heat on his back due to the fact that Kevin Bell is working out of that position with the minor league club at Iowa.
Right-hander ready. Here's the 1-0 pitchers.
A swing and a shot of beat him in the left field.
Allen Bannister drives home the third run as Downing crosses the plate and Ralph Gar holds up at second.
So Bannister with his first RBI of the year.
The air really set it up because if that not happened Downing would have had to hold at second.
And I don't believe he would have been able to score on that base hit.
And we're going to have activity in the Toronto bullpen again.
So the White Sox back to their two run lead at the 3-1 ball game.
And George Orta who's going to run his first time up is the batter with a sacrifice fly back in the first inning.
In field a double play-dip. Right-hander delivers and it's a breaking pitch for a strike in the outside corner.
So the Red Sox will be in Chicago Tuesday and Wednesday.
Singer ends down at his knees with his hands on his knees getting the sign.
Now he's ready. Here's the pitch. Fastball called. Fight 2.
Orta steps out of the box.
Richie Zisk who pumped a home run into the center field seats.
His first time up is a member of the White Sox awaits in the on-deck circle.
Right-hander ready. Here's the pitch. Here's a swing and a pop-up coming off towards the stands.
It'll be on a play and into the seats.
And the count remains the same. No balls and two strikes.
While these Toronto Blue Jays will be in Chicago next weekend.
It'll be the first time that a Canadian baseball team has played at Camiskey Park.
And in commemoration and a salute to Canada over those three days.
Many special events including a free trip to Toronto for lucky fans and colorful ceremonies on the field.
Here's a point and a miss. Orta just struck out. That's the first strikeout by Singer.
And now there are two down in Richie Zisk the batter.
Another one he did with a light ball throw.
When Toronto comes in on Friday night.
Medallions. A Canadian Maple Leaf will be given away.
A Maple Leaf 10 to the first 10,000 people through the turnstiles.
Here's the pitch to Zisk. Here's a swing and a drive down the left side.
It is a four ball. One man is around to score.
Here comes another land to third and he's going to be held up.
And Richie Zisk goes in with a run producing double.
I'll tell you he doesn't waste any time.
He went after that first pitch and doubled off the left field wall.
And the White Sox are out in front four to one.
Gaur came home to score and Bannister held up a third.
So Zisk two for two and two RBIs.
Number three, a first baseman, Jim Spencer.
Jim Spencer who singled up the Medallions last time up as the batter.
A base hit here could give the White Sox a couple more runs.
Singer leans in and gets his sign.
Jerry Johnson a right-hander continues to warm up in the Toronto bullpen.
Right-hander delivers. Here's a pitch called strike.
Singer was two and one against the White Sox a year ago.
As I recall he was a lot tougher than that against this.
Four to one the White Sox out in front.
Right-hander is ready.
Here's the pitch.
Here's a ball of all. Evens the count up at one and one.
Chris Knapp will be going for the White Sox out here Friday.
Right-hander ready. Here's the pitch.
Here's a swing and a foul.
The Mini Monoso in the coaches box at Firstie-Bobbleton.
Well a year ago the White Sox won their home opener.
Four to nothing over Kansas City.
The board was sensational. A six-hit shutout.
And this man Jim Spencer was the offensive star at two-run homer.
A pair of singles a walk, a sacrifice bump and three RBI's.
Tell you about that opening day line up a year ago and compare it to today.
Here's the one-two pitch a swing and a foul.
Shep Lemon was in center field he used today.
Ralph Gar was in left field he used today.
George Orta was at third. He's at second today.
John Jones was the designated hitter. He's gone.
Buddy Bradford was in right field. Buddy's playing in Japan now.
Jim Spencer was at first. He still is. Bucky Bennett short.
And Bucky's with the Yankees. Jack Brohammer was at second.
Here's the one-two pitch. Here's a swing and a one-hopper right back to the mound.
Singer has it first at first and the Blue Jays are out of the inning here in the second.
In the second the White Sox come up with two runs on three hits.
One air and two men left down.
The White Sox have stranded four in the first two innings.
We go to the bottom of the second. The White Sox four. The Blue Jays one.
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One down back in Toronto, Canada as we go to the bottom of the second.
Ken Brett with a three-run lead here.
Will face the number five, six and seven hitters for the Maple,
I want to say the Maple's feet.
The Blue Jays, Gary Wood, Steve Balling and Pete Garcia.
We're talking about that opening lineup of a year ago, opposed to today.
Mucky Denner as we mentioned was in short and Mucky's now with the Yankees.
Jack Brohamer was in second.
Jack is still with the ball club but not in the starting lineup.
And Pete Varney did the catching.
Pete now with the Atlanta Braves triple A farm club.
Now most of the snow is going off the field.
A little bit of a breeze that we've had.
Has blown it off but yep, there's still some flurries here in Toronto.
Alright, Gary Wood leads it off. He played at Tucson last year, the Oakland Athletics triple A club
where he hit 308, eight homers and 67 RBIs.
Springs and Fowleswood.
Down the right side, one strike and the batter.
Wood's a good looking prospect.
Left hander ready, here's the one strike pitch outside of all.
White Sox with two runs in the first and two in the second here in a very chilly afternoon in Toronto, Canada.
Here's the one one pitch outside ball two.
They've got two Woods on this team, Gary Woods and Al Woods.
Gary, who's batting out, came up with Oakland played in six games last year, he gets 125.
Here's the two one pitch punch to the right side.
He's got a threat off the mound. Spencer has it, dies and misses him, a base hit.
Spencer jumped in front of Brett, thought the ball and Dole trying to get Woods.
And he just missed him and it's an infield hit.
So a runner at first and nobody out and Steve Bowling the batter, played at Spokane last year
and the Wadley Braves organization, at 266, 16 homers and 92 RBI's.
A lot of these kids have very impressive statistics out of the Pacific Coast League,
which is not considered a hitters league.
That out of his stretch for the first time today, here's a sling and a foul.
Oh that's got a sting as it went off of him here in this cold weather.
With Spokane's most valuable player last year, out of Tulsa University, played in 14 games
with a Milwaukee Brewers at 167.
Outfield, plays the right handed hitter around the left, big gap in right center.
We've had two home runs today, Richie's disc and dug off.
And a breaking pitch for a strike, good curve ball.
Bowling in the hole 0-2, Pedro Garcia in the on-deck circle.
Ken Brett, ready? Here's the two strike delivery, a swing and a foul into the seats.
Well I'll tell you, they don't have a screen around the ballpark, they have one directly behind home plate
and those balls whittle into the seats here.
Well our partner, Harry Carey, will be coming along in a moment.
Here's the two strike pitch missed with a breaking ball, ball one.
I'm sure is very pleased to be doing this game today.
And thus holds the distinction of being the only announcer, whether it be American or Canadian,
to announce two openers in Canada for Major League Baseball.
Here's a pitch roll of all.
Harry was announcing for the St. Louis Cardinals and they opened up the National League's entrance into Canada
with the Montreal Expos a few years ago.
And now is the White Sox announcer announcing the first American League game in Canada here today
with the White Sox against the Blue Jays.
Left-hander ready, here's the two-two pitch, swing and a foul.
I guess Dick Dozer, the Tribune, is covering his third expansion opener.
Covered the Cubs at Houston a few years ago.
The White Sox against the Seattle Pilots and the White Sox here today.
Here's a pitch covering for the Tribune, Joe got it with the Sun-Times,
and Phil Hirsch, a newcomer to Chicago, covering for the Chicago Daily News.
Two-two pitch up high of all.
So the count goes full, three balls and two strikes.
Nobody out or runner at first.
This man gets on, it brings up the tying run here in the bottom of the second.
We've got some heating elements up on our ceiling.
Off his bat and back to the screen, the runner is off, and the count remains a three and two.
But I'm not feeling any of that heat. I don't know about Dan Hosek, he's not either.
A beautiful day for football.
Three balls and two strikes.
Still getting the stock market on the ticker.
No other baseball to report out because of it.
Brett Ruddy, runner takes his lead. Here's a toss over to first, the runner back in time.
Spencer was playing behind the runner, and then came back, but Gary Woods was not to be fooled.
Flouries begin again. There he goes, the three-two pitch.
Look at him, close to second. He is safe.
A good score by downing, but Woods got such a good jump that he swithed there safely
to the first Toronto stolen base.
That's the third strikeout by Brett.
He began the ball game by striking out the first two batters, John Scott and Hector Torres,
but then dug off one into the left center field seats, which made it a two-to-one ball game at that time.
Right now it's four-to-one White Sox's Pedro Garcia, who played with Milwaukee and the Tigers last year, steps up.
There's a sling, and they're driving the right field, just coming over, have to play it on a hop.
Here comes the runner around third. Here's the throw, and he is safe.
Go Garcia goes after the first pitch, it singles home.
Gary Woods, and it's a four-to-two ball game.
Garcia had only 29 RBI's last year with Milwaukee and Detroit.
He picks up his first of the year here this afternoon.
So one out of the runner at first, and Dave McKay, who played with the Minnesota Twins for a while last year,
before getting sent down to Sacramento, the Pacific Coast League is the batter,
hit 203 with eight RBI's at Minnesota.
I believe that he is the first Canadian.
Here's a swing and a grounder on the right side of base.
Here goes the runner at second, holding up.
And Toronto collects their third hit of the inning and their fourth of the ball game.
McKay, a right-handed hitter, or there was fold around.
Spencer, holding the runner at first,
lost a big haul on the right side of the infield, and he singled through.
But I think every Canadian who's ever played Major League Baseball has been a pitcher.
And I think Dave McKay is the only one who hasn't been a pitcher.
He's from Vancouver, second, holding up.
And Toronto collects their third hit of the inning and their fourth of the ball game.
McKay, a right-handed hitter, or there was fold around.
Spencer, holding the runner at first, lost a big haul on the right side of the infield, and he singled through.
But I think every Canadian who's ever played Major League Baseball has been a pitcher.
And I think Dave McKay is the only one who hasn't been a pitcher.
He's from Vancouver, Canada, and played at Creighton University in Omaha.
Now Ken Brett has gone to the White Fox dugout and had anyone at a new glove.
He got it. And he goes back to the mound.
Now the Blue Jays have come up with three singles here on the second inning, and it's a four to two ball game.
Rick Sarone.
Rick Sarone out of the Cleveland organization.
Rick Sarone has the batter.
Sarone hit 254 with 11 homers and 49 RBI's at Toledo, the international league last year,
and made the international league all-star team.
Right-handed hitter.
Ian Allen Ashby is also out of Cleveland, handling the catching chores in a good curve ball for a strike.
Brett looks in, gets his sign from downing.
The tying runs on base.
Here's a swing and a shot, grabbed by Madison. Throw over to Spocken.
Madison with a great play, diving to his right, got that on one quick hop, through to Hordes to get Dave Pache.
Outstanding play by Allen Madison, his first chance this afternoon.
Well, that's safe to base it on.
The fans going to decision here.
They weren't too happy with it. They thought that Pache had got neither in time.
Which Garcia uppiring in second thought different?
On the play, Pedro Garcia goes to third, so there are runners.
And the Merzium Bird, and John Scott, who struck out his first time up as the batter.
Let's try to get out of a jam here.
Or the two ball game, the tying runs are on. Left-handed delivers.
Here's a swing and a one hop, we're back to the mound. Brett goes to both knees, flips over to Jim Spencer, and that's what fires the start.
So in the second, Toronto comes up with one run on three hits.
There were no errors, and two men left on.
At the end of two completing the play, the Chicago White Fox Four, Serato Ducez, do a little bit of a spin.
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Long drive back to Toronto as we go to the first inning.
The White Sharks out in front here by a score of four to two.
Now, Oscar Gamble will lead it off.
Let him step in and tell you about it.
Here's to me, Pierce Hall.
Baseball's back in town, they say here in Toronto.
It's off the calls. The scale is coming down right now.
And I don't know how these fairs can stand it.
They don't want to have any beer.
They're not supposed to drink.
So to keep warm, there's about 38,000 people here.
They're just talking to themselves.
But Oscar Gamble stepped in. He walked his first time up.
Gamble came over.
We're not from the end. We were great for him.
He was a resident here.
He's got good power.
He's a left hander here and he crouches at the plate.
He's got good delivers.
He's changed his speed outside ball one.
The third base from the K is way over off the bag.
The shortstop, Hector Torres is really deep
and over towards the bag at second.
The one ball delivery.
It's a fastball outside ball two.
Behind the plate, Mr. Shylock.
White stops leading four to two.
Tremendous home run by Visk Bilsicic
and Gamble goes after it.
He doesn't get it.
Two balls and one strike. There's nobody out.
He's starting to melt a little bit through the snow.
So let's see him out as low as he goes at all.
The two one deliveries going on.
Follow off the left side.
Third base from the K going after it.
Now over comes the shortstop and the K's trying to get a good spin.
Upputting. Young man.
I think as fast as he could.
He's sliding and slipping all over the place.
Wondering whether any of these players might injure themselves.
At second base, Garcia's got his hand in his pocket.
Most of the players have got their hands somewhere in their body
so they can keep their hands warm.
All the first bases very deep.
Coaching at third bases Bobby cannot.
Two balls and two strikes.
Hop on a third inning.
White strikes leading.
There's a pitch.
Hats away now.
He's hitting his line.
Count goes full three and two.
The thing about having a safety difficulty staying ahead of the hitters
has shown probably about 65 or 70 pitches.
Setting an awful lot of time cleaning his cleats.
He's got a heavy instrument out there.
He wipes them off and then cleans them out.
Three balls and two strikes.
On the next spot at home.
The three two deliveries.
Passball going on in Gamble without a clean.
And he stands here who are really excited about baseball.
A lot of strike they had a tremendous strike with to start things off
with all the big three bases that are around.
Only a few hundred people showed up at $35 a hit.
So you see they're really going to support this ballpark.
They've sold 8,900 seasons.
The first pitch to start at home.
Backball is striking the outside corner.
Mr. Shylock trying to keep himself warm jumps around back there.
Harky Anderson.
Start his career as a manager in this ballpark.
And so did Dick Williams.
A lot of good major league baseball players play their career here.
And the fastball's going on.
He's in the hole between the start and the base hit.
So side of home gets a high slider and lifts it.
And the left field for a base hit.
He's one for two.
Brian and Bounty.
We've got a...
That's Chuck Lemmon.
My mistake.
Chuck Lemmon is still here.
There's another view.
Lemmon looking down from there now.
Side of home.
They know where that field is.
He's now at a good lead now.
And they know what a good move.
At the belt.
Delivered.
Fastball on the outside corner called side.
Well out.
Starting to brighten up a little bit here.
But it's raining and hailing.
Infield and double play position.
I see over by the bag of second and deep.
With his asset serve they play very deep.
Here, shakes off one side.
Goes to the belt.
Delivers a breaking ball.
Strike two calls.
And the fans here excited at every pitch.
It's going to be a long season for them.
They've got a ball club that's very green.
Center fielders who are straight away in deep.
There's a pitch inside.
Ball on.
One ball and two strikes.
In left field.
John Scott playing deep off the line.
In right field.
He's bowling.
Okay, Center field most of the spring that they made the change.
And he's playing right field.
He's holding between first and second.
As all holds against the runners.
Side and over.
At the belt now.
There's a pitch going on.
Hit over third.
Hey, foul.
Just foul.
As Ramon the Empire waved the single foul.
So Lemon getting a slider away from Flicton.
He's fetching over the bag with just foul.
And now a singer holding his right hand.
And then he's up.
It's really cold.
It's amazing that these pitchers can pitch at all.
When they're sitting on the bench, they've got hot water bottles and heavy jacket sign.
And towels around their neck.
One ball and two strikes.
One out.
Top of the third inning.
Whitebacks leading 4-2.
Now a singer weighs again.
Go over to signs again.
He's out ready.
Sterone's behind the plate.
He's in the sign.
There's a pitch going on.
Bad ball.
Now I'm having Jason and Giles strike.
Bill Campbell.
And Center Lemon.
But I was swinging.
And both left bad pitches.
Now we're up into the relay.
I catch a land downing.
Downing got a flu kit when he tried to get away from a pitch.
He went over to pitchers head for a little flu single in the infield.
First pitch and a singer swung on him.
Boy, I was a pitch up in his eye that he just fouled back.
It's like blowing force left now.
Offly-Colon is an out-pick.
One strike on Brian Downing.
He's doing a fine job behind the plate now.
Singer looks over first.
There's a pitch inside.
One ball and one strike.
Big hole between first and second.
Downing got a 3-40-6 this spring.
Had one homerun in eight RBI.
They called him the real hard slinger.
He really swung from downtown.
Singer looked over first and delivered a high-breaking ball.
Two balls and a strike.
Got two outs.
Whiteback with two in the first and two in the second.
Blue Jane got their first turn on a homerun by Doug All at the first station.
He did it over everything in left-center field.
3-30 down each line.
3-75 to left-center at 400.
There's a pitch in the dirt.
Then Sorrell makes a good play.
This young man has got a good glow.
Upfires, saying a few words out there.
Singer, you've got to be very careful when you start stepping around that rubber.
Then fix your shoes.
Keep getting filled.
Third base McCabe, deeper third.
Singer, I thought, looked over first base.
Here's a Chris Swarga high-ground ball between short and third for a base hit.
So down he gets a high pitch and just reaches in the left field for a base hit.
Second hit in the inning.
Whiteback's have been on first and second now with two outs.
They're only going to play Ralph Carr.
Carr walked his first time up.
Stole second and scored.
He got out of the air.
From the first base and threw the ball into the dirt.
The catcher now outs talking to Singer.
He's on his one knee right now.
Really trying to clean this, please.
Every time they get a base hit, he cleans them twice as much.
I don't think he's throwing well at all as the blue fin now starts warming up.
If the guys get a base hit right now, I would say that would be all for him.
They've been up about three different times.
Now the rain really coming hard towards the left field side.
Some of these players will really have their trouble getting their footing as you can see the rain coming into the boots.
There's no wind here now.
They just hit to the good spot.
That was the first pitch, one on the guy.
He's out of third base, one in slow. Here's McCabe.
He's up with it. He fires over first. He doesn't get it.
A real close play at all. Not satisfied at all.
And as McCabe didn't think that ball wouldn't hit it, decided to do it two hands with the seeded gar.
He just seeded out. And the bases are now loaded.
So Garwood is great to clean this puckling.
The last step he really jumped at it.
So that's pitch number seven for the White Sox.
And the base to the lower with two outs.
And the down and the two outs.
We've got a lot of line in the White Sox.
He's one for two.
First time up.
Now he's stepped out.
Base to the loaded. I'm dead.
George Orta.
Got a home with third.
Honest second.
Ryan Downing. First pitch.
First ball right down the middle.
Paul Strike-1.
Singer goes first wind up.
Singer won a 116 game.
He's lost a 119.
Last year he was 99 with Minnesota.
And four one with Texas.
So kind of pitch.
At his steps now.
He delivers a fastball tour on the right side.
Everybody off.
And several outs will take it.
So on number two on the right side.
The base is loaded.
And the store after is really happening to play.
Is the White Sox for the Blue Gays 2.
Braddock Brothers.
Hey Campbell.
This is something they all allow.
But during this season they only get eight.
Stop downing the players down to second base.
And that's the try line.
We'll brush the plate off.
Cooking a third base.
Gappy Moore for the Blue Gays.
And a first base.
Terry Warner.
And I can see a lot of people coming out of the right field stand.
Going on into the center field stand with their coverage.
Paulie took out his first time up.
He came over to Cleveland.
When they came back.
Down in the lower steams.
They're looking for food.
We've got a little experience.
Not much of a hitter.
But a real fine fielder.
Brad takes his six.
Oh he's got a down ball up the middle.
And down to guys with Q and K.
And a red ball.
That's filled up the middle by Hector Torre.
And Lauren Brunner brings in some coffee.
Thank you Lauren.
It is really cold.
And that's the fifth base hit given up by Brett.
Anastor making some fine play.
And looking like he can handle that job out there.
That third base has got her home.
George got the Anastor second base order.
He's more happy playing there than anywhere.
Anastor's base in central.
Gregor.
Big right handed hitter.
Hit a homerun last time up.
Last year he had 25 at Factor Middle.
He was the property of the Texas Rangers.
He didn't hold between first and second.
His center holds her in the run.
Torre with a good lead.
With a fast ball high.
And the base hitter has been getting up.
Three of them were giving up on breaking balls.
A high breaking ball.
Gregor got it on deep at third.
That's too far off the line.
The outfield is deep.
Straight away in center is Lemon.
Hit.
Back ball. It's the outside corner.
One ball on one strike. Nobody out.
White clock's leading.
Four to two.
Five or third inning.
Brett looked in for a sign.
Downing behind the plate.
Weed wagging signs.
Good guy to get for a double play because he can't run too good.
But he's got good power.
He can't make a mistake on it.
He's got fires over first base and almost kept him.
Torre just died back safely.
And Warner says a few words to him.
People have a running run out of the park if he gets picked off.
They really want to win.
They're exciting baseball fans.
That's about now.
Hit.
Ah-ha. He wanted to go after the changes.
My turn for a ball.
A year ago Jimmy Brett picked 13 runners off of first base.
And over woods.
It picked 13 off in one year.
So with a combination of those two.
Plus Delcant looked like he had a pretty good move.
He's wearing training.
He'll make those plays.
Those runners on it. Two balls in one strike.
Brett taking his time now.
Shakes off the sign.
Goes to the belt.
He goes over to first base.
And he almost goes as well.
His center has to reach to his right.
His center.
As good as Love Man has ever wanted to be.
Knows how to play the position.
Shaves a lot of errors in those.
He's a ball in the dirt.
All can pick a lot of things.
He's set up now. He wears number 25.
Here's a pitch.
Four nine.
He's out of here.
All the way to the home run.
He's all tight up.
He's all getting the breaking ball out of the way.
He needs the line right over the right field.
And that ball went out in the hurry.
He's going to hit his ballpark.
So that's two home runs for all.
He may own this now.
He's got the ball in the eye.
As two runs scored.
He's leading the lead in the club and everybody.
Now here goes some activity down the bullpen.
And in the bottom of the third inning.
The game is all tied up.
Four to four.
Hit number six.
Three.
Out of the lead.
This guy can hit it out too on you.
He's going to center field deep the first time up.
And he holds his hand up.
After he up on up a little time.
And he takes in.
And he's going to round for a third.
Hit the breaking ball. He rides.
Mario's warming up for the white rock.
Talking with Stan Williams.
He says Mario's would be a long reliever.
Along with Bart Johnson.
The one strike pitch.
Inside corner fastball strike two.
So.
Great foul.
He's up a home run.
It comes out with two great pitches.
A good curve ball going away first.
Have a fastball outside.
One ball of two strikes.
Bottom of the third inning.
Game all tied. Four to four.
Outfield. Big hole in left center.
Garb. Not too deep.
Had the pitch going on a breaking ball.
He took a little off it.
He strikes the lead out.
And that'll bring up Gary Wurtz.
He got a base hit.
First time on the deep total base.
He's going to be able to record a run.
They made a change from
right field to center field with him.
When they found that bowling couldn't do the job.
And they put bowling in right field.
Brett working quick.
Ordered up with it.
Took it over to second base.
Route number two.
Brett.
Getting behind in the hitters.
And I thought that
Paulz had a real good pitch.
I did too.
I was hoping that it would occur a foul.
But it hit it so well that it didn't have time.
This field seems short
and 3-30. I'd like to measure it.
Now the hitters see bowling.
Paulz off the first pitch
and goes behind the plate.
Paulz was up the first time I mentioned.
A little bit I saw him last year.
I was impressed. More so today.
Brett's got four strikeouts.
The one strike pitch.
That's got to wait for him.
He's trying to sounding up.
I didn't quite get where that was.
A strike or not.
One ball outside.
One ball and one strike.
As it goes up on the scoreboard.
There's two outs.
Now Brett looks at it's outstair.
He's within the whole and right center field.
The one-one delivery.
Paulz goes in the dirt.
He's just away from downy.
He picks it up and rubs it up.
So now,
the right side step for getting some runs.
Paulz even.
Four to four.
With this Aceter Flandy.
Two balls and one strike.
There's two outs.
Geronimo Blue Day.
The first games of them in Major League Baseball.
Fastball outside.
Two balls, two strikes and two outs.
Time deck. Garcia.
You know, you look at a guy like this bowling.
He looks like he could hit one out.
He's got a fastball playing on.
The scoreboard was wrong.
I was wrong.
Two.
Three.
We go at Panda Deliverers.
Fastball hit out for a shortstop.
Panda's got a one-half pass over the first phase.
So out on the three.
So not before the Blue Jays get a couple of runs.
And the score out to three points of play.
The White Sox four.
The Blue Jays score.
It's been a huge remit.
That you're standing next to a beautiful,
believing 1977 Chevrolet Chevrolet.
Hanson is the new Blue Jays.
And I'm sure you can see he could get his price.
This Chevrolet Malibu Coupe has a coach window
and a normal coupe roof line.
It has fiberglass radio time.
It has a pork oil suspension.
How do you know that?
It's hidden with your wipers and dozens of other features
to make it a very complete and sized car.
Now what do you think is the price of this Chevrolet?
It's not $6,000.
Not $5,000.
Not even $4,000.
It's $3,885.
That's when you factor in
the terms of just retail prices
and new preparation.
Price higher in California than the tax license destination charge
available equipment additional
$3,885.
Beautiful price.
Beautiful car.
A smart, complete, and sized Chevrolet Chevrolet.
Chevrolet.
Warren Brown back in Toronto, Canada.
As we go to the floor.
The White Sox four runs on eight hits.
The Blue Jays four runs on six hits.
We've had three home runs today.
Richie's disc is solo home run for the White Sox.
And Doug Alves is solo home run for Texas.
I was rather, he's his old 12-year-old
for Toronto and a two-run homer for Toronto.
And now to separate and tell you about it.
Here in the four-fitting is Harry Carey.
Hi, Lauren. Thank you very much.
Hello again, everybody.
Well, just a wow, isn't it?
Well, I'm afraid of the Miss James.
It looks like whoever that class is going to win
and we're on to the class.
They're the home team.
Both teams are going really well.
But for a sensational play
by Alan Ballester, this ballgame
might be already down the drain.
Here we go to the top of the four-fitting.
Here's George Orton to lead it off.
Let's catch this open roll.
Pete Weber finally gets it.
He's going to win.
Pete Weber finally
of Galesburg, Illinois, and South Bend, Indiana.
Here with now working for
Buffalo New York radio station
watching the game.
Here's a picture of the swings in the Missy.
Time for the fourth with the score tied at four.
Bill Singer's gone all the way
against Tim Brett.
Now the pitch is a wow,
but hey, almost it's just
his shot like behind the plate.
Singer has been accused of throwing
footballs.
And the way he's fiddling his balls
is starting and dipping.
And the way the snow has been coming down,
maybe he's throwing
footballs unintentionally.
Two balls in a straight.
We fiddled along,
but there's no doubt that the White Rocks
are going to make the run.
One of the pitching and defense
can hold the opposition,
but he's a good example.
Brett, you're ace, pitcher.
You're giving four runs on the first two innings.
Yet you're only tied, four-four.
There's a picture of
swings on a high drive
twisting in the
foul territory that's
dropped by Scott. The wind
dropped that ball right back to Scott,
who thought it was going to go under the stand.
One away. Here's what he's
used to, he was homing in doubles,
and his first two American leagues
were the White Rocks.
Number 22, the right fiddler,
Richie Zinn.
What a help nobody on. Tied four-four.
Now the wind
up the pitch here, there's
the strikeoff.
You don't have to duck off, it hit his second
home under the game, or Brett.
To tie up the ball game,
he retired by Les Woods and Bowling
in honor and looked better than he had
time previously.
One strike and a
bit.
One out, nobody on, ball game
on the fourth.
That's his, look out, high
and inside.
That is a spectator, he's
frozen
in the leading.
There's a wild one that hits
the ground in front of the plate.
Right hand hitter up there, Richie Zinn.
What a help nobody on.
And that scoreboard is wrong, it should
be at least two balls.
Now, finger gets stuck.
Out of pitch, strong,
and it's in.
The scoreboard is incorrect.
It's two and two.
Two balls, two strikes, one out.
Nobody on, but score
tied.
Now the finger
goes into the wind up the delivery.
He's stuck in the out.
This goes on swinging.
Boy, that's such a lot of balls with
a punch.
The ball is not
as big as the ball,
the ball is not as large
as change the symbol to
gamer on.
White shots, where the aggressor
is.
And now finger seems to have
settled out.
There's puncher one out of two,
going
tied for four.
And now the ball is
in the first.
And then with the
second and third, the second hit
of all, even more sharply,
head for center field, only to
have finger to stab it and throw
him out.
Two balls and nothing.
Off to gamble with the next.
Score tied.
That's how many have got around the
foot.
He's going.
Both coaches.
With their hands in their back pocket.
Let's pause here for station
identification.
This is WMAQ.
Chicago.
Terri-Terry back in Toronto.
Here's the picture.
He's going to be swinging.
Not even to count. Two balls, two strikes.
Spencer going to the long run.
Oscar Gamble will be up there next.
Two better outs, nobody on.
Now the signal given.
Now the pitcher it is.
There's the line.
Shot the right field for the hit.
Almost got over bowling pass.
No center makes it two out of three.
With the line swing of the right.
That's the main hit for the white box.
Here's Oscar Gamble looking for his first hit.
He just joined the white box today.
After being acquired from the New York Yankees.
The Blue Jays have a...
The Blue Jays.
Slogan in the dressing room that apparently comes from
Ray Clapp the owner of the San Diego Padresas here today.
Ray Clapp being the founder of McDonald's.
I think the card one.
There's a pitcher strike call over the outside corner.
Click on. Nothing in this world can take the place of this...
Palace would not.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not.
Unrewarded genius is almost the proverb.
Here's a fed blow outside.
Education will not.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination are omnipotent.
Our ball and a strike.
Well done killer.
A supplemental hit to the Yankees.
Not bothered about the owner, George Steinbrenner.
Whoa!
Ball goes to ball for the strike.
He thinks that Billy Martin is going to be fired by Steinbrenner.
And he thinks Steinbrenner interferes with the Yankees too much.
Two balls and a strike.
Outside ball.
Three.
Three balls and a strike.
Ball game of the fourth.
Out of stretch.
What's that?
Oh! He's going in an awful fit.
That would have been ball four.
A mile outside.
Three balls, two strikes.
That's your gamble.
It used to be with a cup.
That was Cleveland.
Later with the Yankees.
Now the runner's front field is going with the fifth.
Three balls, two strikes.
The strike.
Steps out the rubber.
Gets back on.
Gets that again.
Delivered.
Gammel's swinging his bad pitches.
Three balls, two strikes.
Left hand hitter digging in.
Jim Spencer.
With two outs.
Three and two on the hitter.
Will be going with the fifth.
Now ready?
There goes the runner.
Ball four is low.
He almost went with that.
He held up and died.
Here's Alan Satterholm.
The runner's the first and second at two outs.
Satterholm is the one out of two.
Satterholm is out of hit.
Bandit is out of hit.
Horses are zippers.
This has two hits.
Spencer two.
Gammel has walked twice.
Downing has two hits.
Here's the fifth.
Outside a breaking ball.
Two strikes.
Runner's the first and second.
We're in the top of the fourth.
Now from the belt ready.
Hitch to Satterholm.
Low ball two.
That's lemon will be up there next.
It's not an official ball game yet.
Right hand hitter waiting.
Three balls no strikes.
The strikes.
The press.
I fall inside ball three.
Now right hand has started warming up for the Blue Jays.
Clean up as the counter is Satterholm.
The press the press.
Press over the outside corner for me.
Finger is struggling through like press.
Three balls and a strike.
Down a stretch.
The press.
Here it is.
There's a high fly ball.
That'll be caught.
Left field shot waiting.
We have to do the landing shot.
One hit more.
Two left.
The guard at the bottom of the fourth.
The historic tie.
White shot for Blue Jays four.
The press.
Have you ever noticed?
How much you like they are?
I'll talk about the finest in radio.
Main ray.
A master of the broad.
All I care about is the pace.
Maybe it is.
The unique fire brooming.
I don't know.
But once you face those there.
You know it is.
That's right.
The pace is good.
The operate.
That's right.
When we say we're having cash call.
It's all over Chicago land.
We mean it.
Good morning.
This is Lee Sturwood calling from WMAQ.
You just won two brand new cars.
And three thousand dollars in cash.
What is it?
Well, if you're an organist.
Remind yourself.
Home and day.
We'll be back Tuesday afternoon.
One Sunday's game against the Boston Reds.
And then big bounce.
I'm not talking about the big bounce.
I'm talking about the big bounce.
We'll be entertaining us again.
We're going in the bottom of the Porsche.
I mean.
You know earlier that now they
had a political glomble here.
But whether they could sell beer in the ballpark or not.
Right now it's not.
And all these fans were chanting.
We want beer.
Of course we're a big thing.
and take over 19.
The power plays out.
We won't throw.
Garcia will lead it off.
He's single in a run in the second inning.
Red now finds himself in the tie.
4-4.
The pitch.
Long and he's bothered out of play off to the right.
No slowing but ever so lightly now.
Well, I'll see what Lenny Randall is
his first loser of the year.
$23,407.
He was fine.
Here's the pitch went on.
Fly ball's set afield.
Lemon's coming on in his justice.
He bounces over his head and there goes Landon in the second inning.
Lemon's played that off.
He must not have seen it.
Instead of an easy routine,
fly ball out.
It winds up a double.
Maybe lost it in the stone point.
So there's the go ahead Landon's scoring position.
Where he's very unhappy out there.
Is there a way to gain McCray's?
Runner in the scoring position, nobody out.
And Dave McCay, the third baseman.
Dave McCay, the third baseman.
And Dave McCay, the third baseman.
Landon out with a chance to go ahead.
Line's right, they set.
He's a go ahead, Landon.
Chris touched the ball off.
Firing the ball to Landon.
McCay has the very first pitch
like a bullet in the right center.
Nice play by Chris
Captain from early to the long.
And Fred may not be
meant for this game much longer.
As he ain't set off, there's nobody out here in the fourth.
That's your win to do.
And they have legally hit the ball hard
over their first double
Chinookin's shot.
Double here in the center.
And he's out.
He was robbed on a sensational play
by Bannister.
He takes the fastball for a strike off.
He was hit with a $2,000 fine.
$500 each day.
He moved.
He's out to run it back.
There's a lead by McCay.
We're over there.
Lead back.
Let's see how they're going to play it here
the Blue Jays.
So long took the first pitch for a strike off.
Jackie Moore coaching at first base.
Harry Warner at first base.
McCay, edging off first.
Look at that.
There's a five-on and a seven-on.
That's the base hit.
Off to the front of him.
That is Leonard Diner's first stretch
and nobody else.
Three hits for the roll.
And here comes Bob Lemon.
That's going to be off the breath.
And Bob Lemon is parking to him out there.
We'll have a new trick for it coming in.
That's the other spireos.
They're all huddled around the mouth.
Five to four in papercloth.
That's the spireos.
We'll take over from Brett.
Brett tips three in here.
He allowed nine hits.
Five runs of responsibility
for the man on base to long-term.
He struck out four
and didn't walk anybody.
So, the spireos are right-handed.
We'll take over.
Brett can...
The only decision Brett could get in this game
would be a defeat.
There's no way he could win it
because he did not pitch as a starter
the necessary five innings.
The White House had
been looking for Chicago number 46
and had nine hits from Spelts
and only four left.
The spireos are hard-killing right-handed.
It's pretty sharp as practice starts.
The White House will be back home
against the Boston Red Sox
Tuesday afternoon.
We'll also play Wednesday afternoon.
White House's business manager,
Rooney Schaefer here,
where he opened,
Rooney was the general manager
for the Toronto Leap Maple Leaf.
They were the international race.
They were owned by Jackabt Cook.
Jackabt Cook, who now owns
the Lakers and other things
on the line of law back to the
Lakers, is Don Scott.
He's always interested in
getting things to the franchise of Toronto.
He never cooked.
This Scott,
who's one of the first and second
in the world to get somebody out,
little boys,
and victory, do next.
They're expecting him to bust.
He's placed the fund as if to swing away
and put the pitch inside ball one.
One ball on those strats.
Don is the first to talk.
Our Weston Union ticker is not working.
We can't give you any other scores.
Nothing seems to be working here
in the ballpark.
There's a ball but on the right,
they only get a whole plant there.
And they do.
But Barry owns the starter hall.
Scott's trying to sacrifice.
He's trying to sacrifice.
Well, that leaves runners at first
and second with one out.
And I was bummed hard back to Mario's
but the starter hall had broken in
and he had a retreat.
And Mario's had a hidden moving target.
But he hit him perfectly for the out.
One John,
and the Tori's going to be the hitter here.
We'll see if we can have a big hitter.
Jim Mason.
Jim Mason is going to hit for Tori.
Left handed batter.
Mason will replace Tori to judge box.
Mason was with the Yankees last year.
Hit from 180.
Better hitter than that.
The runners at first and second one gone.
Ryan Downing
moving Lemon older towards the left center.
As Mason steps to the play.
He was blind to forward and save
for the Blue Jays, the ball game,
and the bottom of the four.
And here he is.
Mason no more for his feeling than his hitting.
Left handed batter.
Used to be able to take the Rangers.
The pitch will get outside.
It was the Rangers and the Yankees for the last three years.
There's never had more.
Only had one year's high to 50.
Mario's ready to punch.
Fast follow the load.
Dargoff, who's come into the ball game.
With two homers.
The second one coming with a man on the top,
the ball game, and the third.
He's on deck.
Now the stretch.
The pitch.
Ball off, and he's high.
And now the Blue Jays are in a spot
to break the game wide open.
Already a pick in the lead,
five to four, have run as the first and second.
The pitch is as you may turn up there.
But only one out.
Now Mario's gets cut.
The pitch.
Right down the middle of Goodfile,
small first strike far.
Three balls in a strike.
Runners the first and second, one away.
Five to four, Toronto.
Now the stretch.
The pitch.
High, top ball, out of play.
Into the sand.
Souvenir for someone.
It hit the number of hands.
Or they don't concept from Souvenir's here.
They don't fight walk like you do in other places.
Three balls, two strikes.
I guess that's today the end of House of the Balladies.
It seems the runners will be going on the three to pitch.
Now the stretch.
Three to.
There they go.
The pitch.
Ball four high.
Boy oh boy.
It seems that the runner's trying to have the two men.
Pung up.
Salon and slip.
And put run towards first.
For the bases later now.
And here's the hero of the day.
Dog off.
The motion of the cloud.
The hands are here over there.
Dog off.
The motion of the cloud.
Well, that hurt himself.
But the runner on first base.
Got running.
And the runner on second base.
The runner on starting.
Well, slip and went to his knees.
So they were both here second base.
When the pitch was made to the plate.
And the ball bit of straight.
And it had been out of the inning.
But it was a ball and the bases were loaded.
The infield could have played back to the double plays.
And here's Dog off.
With Wally two out of the ballpark already.
And winded the pitch.
Well, there they go.
What a sunny head.
Holy cow.
And they get to see why he hits over.
Oh.
But Boomer infected.
Out of the Rangers last year.
Gets 25 homers with Sacramento.
He's hitting with Sacramento.
Well, he's run for hard of that pitch.
One out of the shoes.
He had to tighten it again.
One strike and nothing.
Bases loaded.
What else?
All home in the first with two out.
Home in the third with the man on to tie it up.
Don't know.
One strike and nothing.
The wind of the pitch.
Little bit inside the breaking wall.
And the town evens up the ball in a straight.
Francisco Barrios.
That affixed the White Trotter on the trouble.
Infield back hoping for the double play.
The wind of the pitch.
Dog off.
That was a great stop.
Tell a second one.
That a first two.
Double play to get out of the inning.
First place in a leg.
My father.
Oh,
he made a backhand and lunching stop.
Fire door to relate to the first.
And that's the tires aside.
That's twice.
That is the ball game.
And one.
We have to get.
The.
At the end of the four.
It's the blue James of the first five.
The one.
On the course level.
We have to.
The.
One.
And we got.
To.
The.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
One.
Two.
One.
I said it's back and forth.
م
One.
Popeye.
One.
Two.
Harry, carry, Jimmy Fisseloff, back to the ballpark, there's still buzzing about that.
Great play by Diverston that's pumped the white rock to the ball game, and that ball's
through, full and score, there's still running.
But as it is, the white rock's failed by only one, and that's the second time in a comparable
situation today that Diverston kept working to score.
Jimmy, you are in the outfield, and what's the problem with just that phase of all out there,
and those figures, the background, are what?
I don't think he's thinking it's coming to him, because that one ball he throws so far back
was easy, five balls, and the other ball, he just stood there.
Maybe it's the back-on, I don't know this ballpark until I talk to the referee's players,
he's already playing well.
We don't want to be unfair, it's just, that's what we know, but it doesn't seem like the other
off-cooters are this, and the other's doesn't have any...
Well, that defense, y'all, it's done better, her defense has done better, but that's what
happens in the third field.
All right, here's just Lemonado, lead with a line.
Lemonado's nothing out of two, five of four, and the wind up the first, and Lemon takes
a little bit more.
I'm warming up, you got coffee, I don't like coffee.
One ball, no strikes, and he can't, and he'll give me any teeth.
The snow is stopped now, but it's gotten colder here, the pitch fouled off Lemon's foot, and
the count evens above of the strike.
The white box for the first time today are trailing.
They got two in the first, all hit a homer.
They got two on the second, leading four to one.
Blue jade came back with one in the second, all hit another homer in the third with a
man on the tie, and now they're ahead five to four.
That's wonderful.
I'm not sure, his average, he's got a field better in center field than he's been doing
today, whether...
I'm just trying to help him a little bit right now before I second-guess him, but he should
have been...I think he's going to catch those balls.
There's a little bit of a low outside.
The other thing that's great out there is never do that, so you wonder, you know what I mean,
even in bad parts.
Maybe he's an experienced, I don't know, an experienced maybe he shouldn't be here, who knows.
Right there, hit a wedding.
He's over two today trying to get hold of one, the white box is trailing by a run.
Here's Bill Singer's fit.
Whoa, hi, it's...
Not some guy, but he's got back with that little breaking ball.
That was kind of the purpose, since he really drove it back.
Two balls, two strikes.
I can't believe Singer is still in there.
He's been hitting him with the hook.
I should say.
Each team with nine hits.
Two balls, two strikes, the fifth.
Three innings, and he fouls it back.
And he hung in there for the curve ball.
There was up in his eye.
My mother could hit it up in her eye.
It's bigger than a hunger, too.
Two balls, two strikes.
Just limit.
Going out again, it's about for the fifth, a long way to go.
The snow has stopped, it looks like the skies are trying to clear.
Off-date of all, play against Saturday.
Half swing and he fouls it out of play.
Saturday going to be on the air at 12.15, Chicago time, and again, Sunday.
Then back home, Sunday night to play Tuesday afternoon, the home opener against the Boston Redsah.
Two balls, two strikes.
Ball three is high.
Come on, Jeff.
The warm is up.
Lemon with a count of three balls, two strikes.
Now to wind up the pitch here it is.
Swing and he fouls it back here in a good touch.
Harry, you're having a net zero.
He gets it.
I think so, too.
We might be a little bit too far back.
Nice ball for him.
Didn't do a good job here.
They could do something about the weather now.
This is the kind of weather we opened in June, Chicago.
Three, two, pitch.
Fouls it back, he hung that tricky ball, and Lemon had a good cut.
But didn't get it, just fouled it back.
Lemon trying to get on, the strike is submitting.
White's watch trailed by Ron.
He's going to get some runs, he can only barrio's and throw in too good.
Five to four in favor of the play of Bluejay.
Bill Singer gets sucked better in 33 on the right hander.
Lemon digging in.
Three balls, two strikes, a pitch.
It brings and he lines and fouls.
Into the right field stands.
Now he's hanging in the cup.
By the spectators of left.
They don't sell fair here, and they've gone to the corner saloon to get warm.
Three balls, two strikes.
Out of it.
Whoa, he's rocking it out.
Breaking balls, he's bottom of this five.
And Lemon's radioing here, you know what I'm saying?
When you're going bad, that pitch went around the plate,
and he noticed how long it took to miss the call at this, so he wasn't sure either.
So when you're going bad, it gets worse.
Well now, it's a 10-1-1 crossover to the dugout, that hurts.
It's all forward to put a runner up, but nobody out.
Here's Brian Downey, two out of two today.
I feel like we're in the 14th inning.
What's the...
What's the strikeout for Singer?
There's a good sounding foul to the back.
One strike and nothing.
Those boxes over there, Harry, $25,000.
I don't see anybody here to see.
You have to put your own decorations in too.
He can see how the economy appears very good.
One strike and nothing to pitch on the way.
He didn't mean to swing them all, it's his bad foul.
Two strikes and nothing.
One out.
Did I see Nestor Schallink do something today?
Of course, it's the first game of the season of...
We've had five weeks of spring training games.
Has it taken more before calling a pitch I've ever seen him do?
I thought he might have missed that pitch.
There's a good swim on the basis.
A line shot to left for Downey.
That's the way to start the year.
Three out of three.
So there's the tie that went on, with only one out.
Here's Gar.
He got an infield hitting the third.
The save on an error by the third baseman of the second walk
that's scored in the first.
He has him zeroed in on Singer.
Downey has hit the end of the bat, dribbling towards third.
One he beat out.
So Downey on his first base, went away.
He's going to lose from that field to Ralph and Gar.
Ralph can't hold the line.
Out of place.
Why the curve ball?
He misses having trouble with the backspin.
Boy would he be mad if he could hear us talking about his upfire.
He is a great upfire.
One ball and all strikes.
Out of pitch.
Gar ball, right field base hit.
Will the runner go to third?
No, he stops the second.
Gar.
Grewl to single the right.
He's a good singer.
He too will not be able to win no matter how this game comes out.
He's taken out here because he too hasn't had five ball innings yet.
Five to four.
Roy Huckstein, the manager out there, that may be all.
We have a right hander living up in the bullpen, isn't it?
Jerry Johnson, I think.
I'd be, they haven't indicated to the bullpen yet.
Yes, now.
And you've got your fingers, you've got your...
...more to burn in at least how fast it's left.
You have a lot of love ahead of you.
Only four runs, surprising me enough.
He walked green...
...and he struck on five.
Johnson coming on quite a bit.
He's been in baseball since 63.
Last year he was at San Diego in Hawaii.
We had a seven or eight record.
And he picked for the Boyard Field when he managed there.
The ERA was 4.62.
At San Diego he was 1-3.
Jerry stands 62, weighs about 190.
Who's the slider of the all-sticker pitcher?
Because we're all over it.
And they hope that if they get a couple of innings out of him,
when they need them, that's all they're looking for.
I see Charlie Sad, Ralph Gar,
who's trotting the dugout, and Charlie Sad, the White Fox trainer.
I guess just getting the mud out of his fight.
Downing is the second base. Gar will be at first.
You know, there's Jerry Johnson, he's been around.
He's the third baseman originally.
You know that he picks in the big leagues and he's got a lot of money.
He's been picking the big leagues almost 10 years ago with the Philly.
He's modeled a few uniforms.
Salinas, Auburn, Williamsport, Greenville, Jacksonville,
San Diego, Philadelphia, Tulsa, St. Louis, San Francisco, Cleveland,
Denver, Houston, Hawaii.
San Diego. I couldn't read already.
I think you did that well.
I just feel like I give a little bit.
Because he has got the longest record of any pitcher down the track.
He's a pitcher with San Diego.
As Jimmy told you, he had a higher run average.
And he'll be coming in here to face Bannister.
We're going to rumble the base in a second.
Think about if a pitcher has a tough time on his attitude.
If he throws it down and he wants it to be hit on the ground,
and he hits it, they go quickly and shoot through there.
Especially today.
You know, just to show you the fallacy of judging on basis of the starting average.
Bannister has won him today, driving in the run.
He has saved at least five runs.
Maybe who knows how many.
Who knows how far they get it with a guard
and he's not come up with an exactive play.
So with two defensive plays, he's accounted for more runs
than most sluggers drive in on a good day.
And he's going to get better, they tell me.
And he's going to know how good he was.
He doesn't look too strong, but he certainly is making the plays.
And he swings that bet fairly good.
So here's the pitch by Jerry Johnson.
And it's over this drive, oh what.
One ball, a little strained, or it'll be up their neck.
Jerry Johnson, a big right-hander, stands six-two.
He's got to keep out of a double flake,
because we've got to get an order up there.
Or it's up their neck.
We've got to get him up there.
And he's due for one.
Now the stretch to pitch to Bannister.
There's a line drive, there's third base.
No chance to get the double play.
Downing plate is smart and so did guard.
Waiting to see the ball go through first.
Bannister hit a rope, but right after the key.
No, that's too good.
And here's Orca.
He's over the first run for the white box,
and the back of the high fly.
He's nothing out of two officially.
He's stuck out and he fouled out.
Left hand batter digging in.
Oh, for a long one here.
We're in the fifth.
Five to four in favor of Toronto.
I'll take a blue-pairy.
It's anything.
It doesn't take anything.
The zip's due next.
The clouds are coming in again.
Now to stretch the pitch.
Curve ability.
Overhand and curve ball right in there.
I wish I was hidden.
And that curve ball.
Or to look like he was just going to take a pitch
to see what Johnson throws.
One strike and nothing.
Runners the first and second.
The right hander gets set.
From the belt, the pitch.
And he fouled it back and left that low fast ball.
And usually that's where he hits his homeruns with.
Or on.
Sometimes a hitter hasn't seen a pitcher in a long time.
It takes a while to adjust it.
So the pitcher has got the advantage.
That's two strikes and nothing.
Jerry Johnson.
In release.
Waiting now.
From the belt, the pitch.
Low.
Two strikes and a ball.
Or to try to get hold of one of here.
Also the first base were playing very deep.
Second base was on right field.
Now to stretch the pitch.
A little tap.
He was really fouled on the curve ball.
And he barely kicked his ball.
He's given good motion.
I mean he's really reaching back and then throwing up a real slow curve ball.
Oh.
So.
Or to the center hole.
And then he strikes down the ball.
Left hand batter waiting.
At the belt for delivery.
Here it is.
He passed the right to the first base.
He hasn't stepped on the bat.
All run assisted.
That's all that's been hard to run at him.
So around two hits.
No errors.
Too much.
The white track has stranded the 11th in five minutes.
We're going to the bottom of the fifth.
So far the white track full.
Try Lloyd J. Harris lemon crunch fire.
Rich lemon filling topping lemon streusel in a perfect flaky crust.
Flavors frozen in so all you do is bait.
Lloyd J. Harris lemon crunch fire.
Lloyd J. Harris water park.
Water park.
Bat hole in the basin.
You really got to try.
Three-hour home with Lloyd Balani.
Big sister in exciting.
Lloyd J. Harris water park.
Lloyd J. Harris.
Harry Carrie and Jimmy Percival.
They go to the bottom of the fifth.
The drop of water.
He's flying the ball.
The ball came up with the ball.
We won't be crying for an hour.
We've been out here a long time, Harry.
But these fans seemingly they don't go anywhere.
Because they can't drink.
They sit there and they introduce the whitey board.
It was great to hear the enthusiasm.
The whitey board is because they came in standing ovations.
Well they announced for the use of a Harlem frame.
I guess you helped hit them.
I put them here, sir.
Right, right. I struck out a sign for him.
I'll say it.
I got one over on his nose.
The man who fell down.
A white fox.
Railing byron.
Half-foot up.
H-pitcher.
They got four on the floor.
But the very first two in it.
But he couldn't stay in the ballgame.
And now it's up to Barrios.
Barrios came in with a score of five to four.
Runners the first and second and nobody else.
And he got out of the inning thanks to a sensational play.
By Alan Dymastok.
Here's Vallez.
How do Vallez?
He's a designated hitter.
He's having an out-the-crow.
But I guess it has to be 44.
He's got a lot of power.
He's having an out-the-crow. But I guess it has to be 44,000.
I will maybe get some other steam scores, huh?
Danny.
Nobody on it, nobody out.
Out of the left.
Swings, and he misses a breaking ball.
One strike, nothing.
Nobody on it, nobody out.
A lot of it assisted.
A Western Union ticker brings in all the scores.
Which we rely on.
Not working here in Canada.
No doubt.
Up on a strike as a fast ball is inside.
Vallez.
Right hand hitter, good power.
Now to wind up the pitch.
Swings, and there's a big dip.
Vallez singles to left.
And here's Gary Wood.
He's one out of two.
I don't think Barrios is too good either.
He looks to me like this doesn't have his life fast ball today.
They've had 11 base runners and scored five of them.
The white box of that.
15 base runners, scores four.
There goes a runner to pitch inside.
There's a throw at his.
Play by a slow player.
Boy, what an effort by Downey to pitch with way inside.
He had a throw over the batter's head while lunging to his left.
Way off balance. He made a perfect throw.
And they almost had him at second base.
Vallez, on a close play, is roll safe.
He knocked the wind out of himself.
But he's going to stay in it.
Remember we were talking in the spring that Downey would have to release quicker.
I believe he's worked so hard that he's mastered it.
And that play right there, he was stumbling to the left and still threw the ball.
He almost got it. It was a bang bang play.
Somehow they have a man in scoring position with nobody else.
Now let's see what Gary Woods is going to do here.
He's fast to beat on the front earlier in the ballgame.
You know, they only use Vallez against left handers.
They only use Gary Woods against left handers.
But against the right handed barrios, both are staying in the hit.
And Vallez, single the left.
Let's see what Woods is going to do.
He's fast, right back to the mouth, same time base.
Throw the ball. He's off.
Nobody was at third base covering as Sotterholm was coming in towards the front.
And barrios had in his mind to get the runner at third
because of all his fun and throw hard right back at him.
When he rolled a throw to third, there was nobody there, but fortunately,
Vallez held at second base.
So then barrios recovered it through the first and times.
He went on to play, went out.
The hitter wasn't giving himself up. He was running for a base hit.
That's why the runner was not running.
And sounding had gone out to the mound just before the pitch
and said something to barrios to be alive or something.
It hadn't helped him.
I'll bid you holler at him.
I think we're going to have a punch ever here.
Al Woods, a left handed batter, is going to bat for Steve Bowling.
Al Woods, no relation to Gary Woods.
A left hand hitter coming out.
Al Woods from Oakland, California.
He was acquired from Minnesota in the expansion graph.
It was like an arms race.
At the Come in 284 last year.
He's only 23 years old, left hand batter.
Al Woods.
There's barrios getting ready.
Stretch at the mouth of the pitch.
All right, fast ball baller.
Ball, those strikes.
Barrios sitting in the role of the early relief man.
He replaced Ken Brutt before.
But Barrios strikes.
Not a single given.
There's a fast ball for a strike called.
Albus Woods is the left hand hitter.
Gary Woods is the right hand batter.
One out.
A barrios strike to count.
The pitch.
I'm going to hype my foul out of play.
He's in the hole strike too.
I can't get over the Gen Field manner in which they go after a foul ball on a stand.
Very polite, very courteous.
No piling up.
Scuffling.
Unusual.
They haven't used the ball enough.
Two strikes at a ball.
The pitch.
High pop foul coming back into the stand out of play.
Two strikes at a ball.
Five to four in Tabor, Toronto.
They have a runner in second with one away.
Two strikes on a ball to count.
The field was covered by snow when we started today.
Now the signal.
The snow has stopped.
Two strikes at a ball.
The pitch.
Run, run, run back.
Make me out of here.
It could be.
Hitters!
A home run.
A fast ball right down the middle.
And Albus Woods hit in a mile.
And the third home run of the day.
And the manager, Roy Huntsfield,
is sure making the right move at the right time.
It looks to me like Mario's in,
I just don't seem to put two strikes.
Get a guy out of the stuff, pitch, or he can hang those pitches.
I'm a big lead now,
but sure that every inning I get is a white rock.
But those who worried about the white rock pitching,
this game,
it's only his sixth home run to the Comalette.
Yeah, only his sixth home run to the Minor League.
It needs to go last three years.
With the ball back down by Satterholm,
he throws the first one in the up.
Garcia hit the hot smash.
Satterholm will knock the down recovery to throw him out.
The Pinchin are coming off the bench.
And the fellow who, in each of the last two years of the Minor League,
hit a total of six home runs.
Very young and with a game and a game.
He'll save the case two out of three today.
Seven to four at Tavon, Toronto.
Out of signal, Jim.
Into the wind of the pitch here it is.
This is Bruce.
One strike and nothing.
Yeah, the white-sox theory of making a reliever out of balleos,
he throws everything at the same speed.
And until he learns something that will blow the ball off the slide,
he can blow the fastball by him maybe for one time around,
but after that he's in trouble.
It's awfully hard, as I say, Harry, many times,
you can't learn it in the big.
You break people's hearts.
Two strikes and nothing.
Fastball, no one outside.
Toronto scored five off reps, two already off balleos.
Two strikes and a ball to pitch.
In five, both of them die.
Dave McKay, switch hitter.
Batting left hand of the game for the O.
Two to pitch for the ball.
Ground ball, off with an order.
He throws the ball for the out, that requires a slide.
Two to pitch for the out.
Two hits, four, over the left.
At the end of the five, Toronto's seven, the white-sox floor.
I got a story to tell, I'm ashamed to say,
about a car that drank too much.
Like a bar off the shelf to wait for pump to pump.
Goods letting gas in search.
In a way that car was drinking,
I should have thought it in wiki-juts.
But that was before I saw the flag.
You can't bother talking to champions, folks.
Fill her up, fill her up, fill her up with champions.
That's all I feel, broken to pieces, fill her up with champions.
Better miles than the farmers.
I'm not one for bragging.
Six of you, that's what it is. That's cars in an odd way.
Harry Carrey, back in Toronto,
outwards in his first major league time at back.
Hit a home over the manhorns,
hitting a lot of burials and fastballs a mile over the right field wall.
A number of players have hit home runs the first time up.
Bob Bevan, Campy Campaneras,
two to come to mind.
There's Scars.
The Cardinals lead to Pirate 6-3 at the end of 6.
It comes over to Mets 1, nothing at the end of 3.
The Reds last week, Cleveland 3-0, nothing at the end of 3.
Texas is Baltimore United, 1-1 at the end of 3.
Here's Richie Hills, from Leedemann.
Whiteback's been trouble now.
Swayling by 3.
This takes the first pitch of all.
Jerry Johnson now has a chance to be a winning pitcher.
It's his lead to hold.
Now to wind up the pitch.
Here it is.
He missed a fastball over his head.
That he's a counter to the ball on the strike.
He's just home-ridden double his first two times,
struck out of a fourth.
Jerry Johnson delivers. Here it is.
Ground ball headed for left field.
Knocked out by the shot-stop.
Mason, there can be no player.
They did.
Single-all Mason's left.
So that was a good start.
Here's Spencer, who's 2 out of 3 today.
All game of the season.
Here's Spencer.
Now to pitch to Spencer and at the Luebendlohe.
First hit on Jerry Johnson to lead off the 6th.
One ball, no strikes.
Oscar Dam will be up the next.
Now Jerry Johnson, the right-hander gets ready.
Here's the pitch.
Here's Ryan.
Way back to the state fair.
Kevin Powell.
Holy cow.
We need a little help from the wind
to blow him in the opposite direction.
Now hold that ball there.
He really creeped it.
A line drive over the right field wall,
fouled out about a foot.
This is looking for one pitch.
You got it.
That makes great your heart.
Here's two out of three today.
A little bit disappointed on that one.
The county went up with a ball and a strike.
Makes a look at Bobby Canop.
He was looking the other way.
Both hands in his back pockets.
They didn't even know for likewise.
Coaching it first.
Now the stretch.
The pitch.
Outside.
Ball two.
Looks like it's cruising.
Looks like he's turning it over.
He's going to be a little bit of a loser.
Seven to four.
Timely home runs.
By the Bluejack.
There's a half swing he fouled it out of play.
Count evens two balls, two strikes.
We're in the six.
Getting right along.
One of your times of making.
Makes a run.
Count even up two balls, two strikes.
Damn it will be up there next.
Now Jerry Johnson is ready.
From the boat.
Here's the pitch.
Stop him on.
He has faced a bad ball.
That was a screwball with a left hand batter.
He didn't make down it away.
And he was jammed.
I'm gone.
We're in the six.
I think Campbell came here to walk.
I think he came here to walk.
We want runs.
We want runs throws.
He's got a good stretch to the pitch.
He fouled it off.
Campbell has a one good swing.
Looks like he's running away from every pitch.
He probably has a good question.
Three.
Runner first one out.
Satter home will be up there next.
Campbell trying to get hold of one.
Now the stretch, the hesitation.
The pitch.
High.
Not even to the ball of the strike.
Off there tomorrow.
We will be at 12.15.
Saturday afternoon and again Sunday.
The fans want to look at the pictures.
He's like Stu Miller.
He knows Overyard.
There's a curveball high.
Two balls and a strike.
Oh, he does.
All he looks like he's got out there is a prayer.
That screwball is this big.
He jumps.
Has his signal.
The pitch.
Good fastball.
He pulled him up.
After throwing all that jump.
This fastball looks like a Bob Fuller pitch.
But it is.
He didn't even thought the kid was glowing.
Two, two pitch.
Outside ball three.
This is an important man to get off base.
The tying runner is based on plate.
Three balls, two strikes.
Let's see what this is going to do.
He likes action three runs behind.
This takes a long lead off first.
The stretch.
There's a press he holds.
Swung and he fouled it out of play.
Three balls, two strikes.
Maybe he'll gamble.
Maybe he'll homer on this guy.
He's got to use your own power because he really changes things.
35 years old.
Jerry Johnson.
Three balls, two strikes.
Gamble waiting.
Now the pitch here it is.
Plays and he fouled it back.
He had a good rip that time boy.
He was just being fastball.
He got fastball and he had a good cut.
Just sit together and he fouled it back.
Oh, come on.
This has been holding because there are three runs behind.
Why risk running into an out?
Three balls.
Two strikes.
Now the stretch.
The pitch.
Oh boy, he walked it.
He led off on that pitch
and he had gamble off strike
but the pitch is wide.
So, the time runs at the point.
Well, the formation.
He's got a good run.
Here's Eric Schatterholm.
He's had one hit, one out of three.
One is the first and second only one away.
Now the stretch.
The pitch to Schatterholm.
Good fastball at the end.
Like it's called.
About four o'clock here in Toronto.
The game started at 1.30.
We're only in the sixth.
Now the stretch.
The pitch.
Turnball inside and high.
Oh, I'd like to see him hang on an O.
All tied up.
A ball and a strike.
Eric Schatterholm digging in.
Now the stretch.
The pitch on the way.
Outside ball two.
The ball to the strike.
Shep Lemon on deck.
Schatterholm.
Who hits from all all fields.
Now the stretch.
The pitch.
Inside ball three.
We'll take a base off balls.
Now we'll fill the bases with only one out.
Shep Lemon would be up there next.
Let's see if Schatterholm is hitting.
The first and second.
The three one delivery.
Here it is.
Here's the runner.
They've got a score.
They're not even going to play for him.
The ball comes back into the infield.
Schatterholm.
Scoring is this.
Gamble stops at second.
And now it's seven to five.
And still counting.
Toronto.
Toronto only has one left handed pitcher
who plays every day for the dedication.
Howdy, Carrie, with Jimmy Pearsall.
What is the first and second to run in?
Here's the curve ball low to level.
He's in the middle of the infield.
Whitecock, the right hander.
Starting to warm up for the
Toronto Blue Jays.
And Roy Huntfield comes out to
stall a little bit.
Because this will happen in a hurry.
You can book a bit of chance to get ready.
You can talk to him with Hartfield.
He's in the middle of the infield.
He's warming up in the middle.
It will take a lot longer than a guy like
John Boos. He's used to it.
He's used to it.
He's out there delaying a little bit right now.
He wants back off the field now.
Schatterholm.
With Prada, this is a dugout.
He's back out to the first base.
It's 7-5. Oh, for a long run.
Shep Lemon.
Struck out of the fifth.
Struck out in the third.
Rolled out of the second.
He's due. Right handed by there.
Now the stretch by Jerry Johnson.
The pitch.
That's ball inside low ball line.
And Jerry Johnson is just missing now.
Two hits in a walk.
In the city.
He's down it for a run.
Lemon waiting.
Now the pitch here it is.
Swung and he found his back.
And he really had a good rip.
And that evens it up.
Out of all of the strikes.
Lemon letting the pitch get evil with the plate
before he swings. He's got to hit that ball
more out in front because he's getting good
cuts for the ball as I am.
By Johnson off the stretch.
Gamble is safely the second base.
The pitch.
The board says ball three.
I think it should be ball two.
The board keeps it getting.
And that's a temporary board.
That's rather imperfect.
Out of the stretch.
On the boat.
The pitch.
Low walk to ball four.
So the base is loaded.
Only one out and grand downy.
Who's three out of three today.
What a spot to make it a perfect game.
The bases are loaded.
Jerry Johnson on the hill.
He's looking for warming up.
Low downy.
I hope we have about five before he gets ready.
Okay.
Downy.
Gets them all on over.
He feels going to play back for the double play.
Here's the pitch.
Right down with the little fast ball.
That's a good one.
He's down with the little fast ball.
I guess he hasn't seen Jerry Johnson
before he wanted to look at a pitch.
Now he's in the hole. One strike and nothing.
A basic with tires.
Now the wind up the pitch here it is.
Curve a little bit outside.
For the way he throws
he could hang on.
And downy could hit it right out of here.
And downy a high ball here.
He's pre-shotting that high ball today.
Down on a strike.
The wind up the pitch here it is.
Wheeze and he fouls it back and he really had a rip.
Downy.
Had a good pitch to hit man
and he really walked out.
It's a foul to back.
He strikes them all.
Seven to five in favor of Peranto.
You have a count from the six.
Right hand hitter digging in.
Be ready up there.
Now the wind up the pitch here it is.
He didn't mean to swing.
He fouled it back.
And I'm glad he touched it because he could have been
caught out on strikes on that pitch.
Those strikes on the ball.
Johnson was gambling
that he could get the fastball by him.
He only picked away with these strikes to get you in the hole.
He'll keep trying to go outside to make it take the bad ball.
Now Jerry Johnson ready.
Into the wind up the pitch.
Here it is.
Oh, it popped it up on the infield.
It's wild territory.
That'll be an easy out.
Decay is a perfect...
Anything with that.
But here's the round-door.
Basers loaded two outs.
Downy pumped up.
You know when you make $100,000
you gotta hit in this situation.
You don't drive this money too many rounds.
You gotta do it.
I gotta do it right now.
He'll go out.
Here's Gar with the Basers loaded two outs.
7-5 in favor of Toronto.
Now the wind up the pitch.
Hey! All that right back to the mound.
He didn't know he had it.
Gar throws his helmet all over the place.
He had a hot shot.
Jerry Johnson and stuff's the best.
Stamina.
Through the first of the outs.
One run.
Two hits.
There's twenty left.
Fourteen left.
He lands it in six-hitting.
They go down to the bottom of the pitch.
Toronto 7-5.
White Sox 5.
Blue Gables.
White Sox 5.
Blue Gables.
White Sox 5.
And let's welcome back to Toronto.
Long time general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs
to be in an X-M8.
The White Sox Blue Gables.
Harry Carrion.
Jimmy Purcell back in Toronto.
Yes, I mentioned before.
Friends during the winter, that's what we do.
That's what we do.
I really like the taste.
It turned out to be stroze.
I didn't know that the stroze would be as fun for this year.
A real beer drink is like us.
The taste is the thing.
And stroze beer has much more, of course,
like the finest ingredients of the unique.
Fire brewing.
But the one real beer lover to another,
the taste is what brings you back to stroze
again and again.
Stroze is my beer now.
And I hope you'll make it yours.
The Stroze Brewery to Tripe, Michigan.
Look out to the bottom of the 6th.
Ricks around leading it off.
A ball and a splat to come.
Now the line to pitch.
Low.
4-1 a tough break to White Sox Scott.
With the bases low, the guard hit a shot.
Harry Johnson, the pitcher, didn't even see it.
It bounced right to his glove.
And he threw the batter off.
Two balls and a strike.
Lying right base there.
Into the corner, extra bases.
Fuller holds up a second of the double.
All right, I said it. They're hitting sparrows.
Jumping hard as they hit Brett.
He wasn't so injured.
He's not to divert himself.
Maybe it's because he's cold and he's hoops a bit.
It's not weather.
It's not winter long.
He's easy to pick up.
I wish I'd get somebody else ready.
Get somebody to try somebody else.
Don't score, Gary.
Everything's broken down on the whole park.
The pitch.
A curve ball low on outside.
Just figuring out the runners on base
and each hitting for the White Sox.
Now, Barriel's getting set.
Hamilton warming up.
And the right-handed on the two.
I'll get the right-handed. It looks like the curve.
Now the strike.
Two strikes on the ball. The pitch.
He holds up on time.
And the slider's outside.
The White Sox has four base runners in the first inning.
Four in the second.
Three in the third. Two in the fourth.
Two in the fifth. Four in the sixth.
Nineteen base runners in six innings of the scored five runs.
Strike three called. It's Scott.
Good breaking slider.
Scott has caught out on strike the dope before.
That brings up Jim Mason. The shortstop.
One-out-a-man is scoring position.
Mason walked as a pinch hitter in the fourth.
Now the hand in the shortstop. Jim Mason.
Let's have batter up there.
That was never as much of an average.
But as long as you swing that bat, you're dangerous.
That's just about it.
There's a pitch going on a high-fly ball.
Stipping shot.
Go on left field. And he has it.
Go on.
We're gone. And here's all.
Who's in the hero today?
It's tomorrow too.
He'll run for prime minister tomorrow.
Go ahead. Go ahead.
He'll drink up here. Why don't they drink it?
You're purple.
That's settled for a nice cold bottle of smoke.
That'll make you warm inside.
Two-and-a-Rot.
They stop on holding the fourth.
And he was banished to return the base into a double play.
With an unbelievable stop.
Now the stretch of this.
One minute. Oh, what a cut he had.
Boy, I think I'll have to knock the guy like this back a little bit.
The way he's swinging.
Oh, he's sticking in his ribs.
I don't mean to hurt him.
He's just slow and dead.
And certainly he is just rushing at that ball.
Two-and-a-Rot.
Now Barrios gets that.
The pitch.
Slider outside.
Right side's got to stop him.
They scored in every inning.
Subversive.
And this one's not over. Two-and-a-Rot.
Man in scoring position.
Seven to five.
The stretch of the pitch.
One minute he followed back.
I think he tried to change up on him.
It didn't seem to fool.
All to know he had a good cut at it.
Two strikes in a ball.
Right-hand hitter digging in.
Barrios is ready.
The pitch.
Low outside.
Not even without two balls. Two strikes.
Revers six.
On a cold snowy day in Toronto.
Right-hand batter waits.
Not a signal.
Barrios.
At the belt.
The pitch.
Half-swingly followed back.
Doug Alves, who used to be with the Texas Rangers.
They have those kind of reports on this fella in Texas.
A testie hitter with good power.
Do you make a mistake?
I think we've made a couple of mistakes.
Two balls. Two strikes.
Gonna come a lot of stools.
Now to sign.
Barrios pitches.
That is outside.
Ball free.
Three balls. Two strikes.
Boy, if they're gonna get it over, have something on it.
Get first-date open, too.
Three balls. Two strikes.
All takes in.
Barrios ready.
All the big guys. The pitch.
A little tap.
It's gonna go. They're ready.
Roll, roll, roll, roll, ball.
He tapped them all.
Had a fixed bear. He had a big hit.
But they let it all.
And fortunately in one ball,
they say fortunately depending on what happens on the fixed fence.
That's right.
Because this guy is dangerous up there.
I don't, I wouldn't mind if he threw balls for it right here.
Barrios and Hamilton really working,
they're working fast on it, trying to get ready.
Because it's cold.
Hamilton tells me he throws about 30 pitches.
Three balls. Two strikes.
And the bottom of the sixth
will try and throw leaving the white side
seven to five.
Now the sign.
Barrios is ready.
The bench.
Ball four.
And here's Otto Ballers now.
He's thinking about Barrios in the fifth.
That is the first and second two goons.
You gotta see every day,
if you're gonna rock all the time.
Well, let's see.
Rebels a lot of them.
They're trying to get the first five runs.
Barrios with the other two.
So here's Valder.
Valder.
Barrios
hardly has the patience of both of all.
They could effectively be called on the ball.
A lot of pitchers are doing it nowadays
and getting away with it.
Once they stop it, everybody will stop.
But he on is really bad at it.
I've run as a first and second.
Barrios getting ready.
The bench.
In five ball one.
Gary Woods.
On deck.
I hope he doesn't come up for two hours.
Right hand hit awaiting.
Serona lead at second base.
Out of the bench.
Good fastball.
A strike call.
Yeah, something's up on us.
Our ball under strike.
If we're gonna stay in this game, he's gonna get this guy out.
It's one of those situations.
Now the delivery.
Low outside ball two.
Two balls and a strike.
Barrios came into the ball game in the fourth.
This is third inning in relief.
This is the all three outs of the fourth inning.
In the bottom of the sixth.
The bench.
Ball.
Three balls and a strike.
Larry McGraw is down on the ball pass.
He might get off to move around three and one like this.
Spacious outfield.
Out of the side.
The bench.
Whoa!
That brings up Gary Woods.
There's another score for you.
At the end of seven, Candle City six to strike four.
At the end of three, the Yankees won no one key nothing.
At the end of four, Texas won bottom all one.
At the end of four, the Red Sox three Cleveland nothing.
At the end of six, St. Louis six, Pittsburgh three.
At the end of three, the Cubs won the Mets one.
So the Masons are loaded two outs.
That's the third walk given up by Barrios.
He's got to be there.
He's got to be one.
You get this man out, you're still in the ball game.
If he gets a hip, you're just about out of the ball game.
Masons jam two outs.
Gary Woods.
The pitch swings and he files it back twice.
He has done it once.
He beat it out.
A lot of helicopters around.
Two more outs.
Right hand hitters digging in. Masons loaded.
Barrios has got to get this fella.
Gary Woods.
Right hand hitters. The pitch.
Fastball inside just barely missed with it.
Woods under the Oakland organization.
It's three oh eight for two time last year.
A ball and a strike.
Now Barrios is ready.
The pitch.
Oh he missed. Ball two.
He's struggling.
I have fear of fastball pitcher against this guy.
Gary Woods.
They got Larry McGraw and Dave Hamilton in the bullpen.
My fingers a little too early for the McGraw.
Two balls and a strike.
Masons hit and it'll be too late.
They're not going to say things.
The pitch.
Long drive and a set of B11 waiting.
Nice to catch.
They're tired to try.
That ball was just right on the bus.
No runs. One hit.
No errors and three men left.
This is Harry Carey.
He's going to move back over to the television boat.
Jimmy Perisdahl and Lauren will be with you.
The score here at the end of sixth
remains Toronto seven.
The White Sox five.
Perisdahl and Harry Carey and Lauren Brown.
Back in Geronimo.
With the score seven to five.
The Vuce is leading in a top of the seven.
The White Sox with a chance
to try to score and to make some quoted.
They shot right back at the pitcher.
He didn't even know he had any footage left on it.
Here it was.
And the White Sox were out of the inning.
Right now they'll throw an Allen Bannister
over the place.
He's got one hit.
He's over to run in the second inning.
He's one for four.
Bannister playing his sensational shortstop
making two great plays.
Turning one into a double play to get us out of a jam.
Jerry Johnson delivers.
Fastball strike one.
McKay of third.
Mason playing short at the place of Torrey.
Wundahl, the young man with two over
on his playing first base.
One strike pitch.
Oh, Wundahl and one strike.
Top of the seventh inning.
White Sox with 13 hits.
They've left 15 minutes on base.
Ever made an error.
The one-to-one delivery.
Breaking Ball.
D-Ripe.
And a real slow curveball like a blooper pitch.
Johnson, a better.
He's been around a long time.
Playing the big leagues for about nine years
before he went back to the Miders.
Came up to San Diego towards the end of the season.
The one-two pitch.
Breaking Ball outside.
Coaching at third base. Bobby Canna.
White Sox are warning to start something right now
to get back in his ballgame.
They scored two in the first and two in the second.
One in the sixth.
They need two to tie it.
Two-two pitch. One out of fly ball center field.
Center field who is back.
These fans are now taking in his track.
The outfield and the infield now is right up somewhat.
They've had a lot of snow here today.
For a baseball game.
And prior to game time
they were having quite a bit of difficulty
getting the infields all around
both late and first days right out.
The first things we have in this season
the quarter's done then.
The quarter's over four.
Got a great spring.
And the first pitch is outside ball one.
Seventh and eighth.
I'm decked.
Richie's in.
Another pitch going on.
A foul off to the left side.
A line driving to the stands.
The stands here are not covered along the first base line
and third base line.
But out in left field
we're at one time or something
because it certainly looks like
a horse race stable out here.
The pitch is going on.
I'm always decked it. Two balls and one strike.
George Orta.
Looking for his first-page affinity here.
I see it.
Deep at second base.
Outside.
Three balls and one strike.
You can play real deep
on this artificial turf because the ball will scoop.
Most
most insurers would have great
arm play off of each other.
Now, off moves back a few steps
to first base. The three-one pitch
from Johnson. Ball four. It orders on now with one
out and based on ball.
Richie's
disc. Who had a home run
first time at that in the American League.
He has decked the center field over the
quarter for the line over both sides.
Then he doubled the line drive
off the left field wall for an RBI.
Shrugged out in the fourth
and they got a base hit in the second quarter run.
Six.
Down at the end of the bat.
Johnson at the stretch.
Had to grab all of the clean third.
Left ball and hit two good books. Got right in the hole
for a base hit.
So this, having four hits to start things off
for him in the American League.
Jim Spencer.
Spencer's single in the first.
Back to the pitchers.
Singles the center field
in the fourth and walks.
So he's two for three.
He's got a long drive followed his last time up with
a couple of minutes on base.
Down the right field line.
He's handled and warming up.
Left handers. The growers
sit down now.
Number three at first base.
Jim Spencer.
That's the shot out behind the plate.
He rolled a young catcher having a good day.
Got a little bit off his way.
A couple of base hits.
Jerry Johnson giving up a run in two innings
and four hits.
Runners with their lead.
Johnson looks back at second base.
He fires a fastball outside.
As Brookovage warms up for the bullpen.
Spencer steps out.
On deck. Oscar Gamble.
Johnson takes off one sign.
The right hander is six feet one.
He gets the belt, now he delivers.
That ball, followed off, now it's going back in.
First baseman is going to take it.
The catcher's coming out.
First baseman, nobody takes it.
The ball is blown back by the dugout.
The catcher was going over after it.
The first baseman was coming in, and all of a sudden, nobody took it.
It's a play where the first baseman is going to call the catcher off if he can get it.
He was playing so deep, he wasn't able to get close to it.
So a break for Jim Spencer, and a ball that should have been caught.
And the count goes to one and one.
There's one out, we're going to top it at seven, the score is seven to five, blue jays are winning.
They scored in every inning except the sixth inning.
They've got twelve hits, made a couple errors.
Orta, down a second, he's on a no-walk.
Johnson shakes off the sign, looks back at Orta.
To the breaking ball, hit, back to the pitcher.
He's up with it, and fires over to first base and gets it.
And Spencer, pulled on a breaking ball, hits it off the end of the bat.
Johnson off the mound, picks up and fires the first, both runners move up.
Onker, Campbell.
And an RBI the last time, I'll be gentle to you.
He walked the first time up, struck out in the third, walked in the fourth.
He's one for two now with an RBI.
Campbell with great power, hit 17 home runs last year for the Yankees.
They hit right now, the tightest ball came up.
Garcia really deep at second base.
You'll never see a second base more any deeper.
There's a pitch for it on an off-to-left side.
Overcomes the king, overcomes the shortstop.
The cage over, takes it to the top of the three.
A beautiful catch by the king.
And a White Sox goes for it.
And the score after six and a half innings of play,
the Blue J-7, the White Sox five.
And the last rich, this is WMAQ Chicago.
Jimmy Scherzahl with Harry Carey, Lauren Brown,
and with a bottom of seventh and eight.
The White Sox lost the chance to tie things up.
When it was mid-on second and third,
Oscar Campbell popped up in fall territory,
a nice catch by McCann in third baseman.
And Johnson, not throwing too hard for that ball club,
certainly getting away with murder.
If we can hold him like that, there's no doubt in my mind we could catch him
because he can't fool it, hit it that much.
Steve Hamilton now is unreleased.
He's on the barrio.
I was the one who was on the right field.
Al Wood. Al Wood.
Whitefielders.
He had a home run.
Been hitting.
Throwing a run.
Last jury played with Tacoma.
Hamilton takes his time and fires a passball right down the middle, strike one.
Outfield, around towards right, big hole in the center field.
Sotterham off the back of third.
Bannister playing a great shortstop play straight away.
The one strike delivery.
Side arm, Kerbal outside ball one.
One ball in the strike.
Nobody out, bottom of seventh.
Blue Jays leading seven to five.
Bottom of about 35,000 on hand.
There's another breaking ball misses.
As Hamilton goes, he's breaking stuff to last two pitches.
Kerkin at third base.
Blue Jays, Jackie Moore.
At first base, Harry Warner.
The two-one pitch.
That's a ball, a call, a strike.
It's the outside corner and Wood doesn't like it.
Two balls and two strikes.
Lemon straight away in the center.
Lemon having a little difficulty playing.
He's got a field pasture out there.
They have overcast and snow and bad background.
As the pitch is going on, he's off to the left side.
It's 330 down the right field line.
375 to right center.
400 to Jets center.
375 to left center.
Ball seemed to carry pretty good.
Doug Alders hit a couple of home runs.
Wood hit one.
And so is Richie Hitt.
There's a fast ball. Just misses.
The count goes full to three and two.
Three balls and two strikes.
And Hamilton plays the second corner as Wulkevich is warming up in the blowpen.
For Gerrano.
The three-two pitch.
See right 3-8.
So Hamilton strikes out the first guy he faced.
And that'll bring up a guy who's been hitting pretty well.
Pedro Garcia.
Garcia with two hits and an RBI.
The first and the eighth is second.
Single and the second.
Double and the eighth when Lemon couldn't see the ball
and let it fall and it bounced high over his head.
And Richie Hitt's had a feel of it.
The one pitch.
Point on line drive.
In the left center field.
Foul over. Fix it up.
Three base hits for Pedro Garcia.
Last year couldn't get three hits in a month.
He was with Milwaukee in Detroit.
It's 2-17 and 1-98.
It's both ball clumps.
Dave McKay.
Dave McKay. Young and favorite here.
This young man is the best.
Young and favorite here.
This young man is from Canada.
He's come over from the Minnesota Twins.
He played at Tacoma last year.
Hit some 68.
Got a couple of base hits.
Two for three.
At the belt now with Hamilton.
Looks over at the runner. Garcia.
Whatever. Ground ball off court short.
Fanners are up with the fires over the order.
Order can't get it out of his glove.
Kind of a slow roll off court short.
The field is perfectly flipped over.
But in order not to get out of his glove,
the double play wasn't completed.
So it's the first fourth play.
Six to four.
Number nine.
Rick Carone.
Got a couple of base hits.
The double and the singles.
Spring training hit 45.
But he's hitting about 800 against us right now.
Hamilton shakes off his side from down here.
He looks over at first.
Left hander delivers.
Ground ball off court short.
Over goes Sanero.
Fires over to second base for the outs.
So, Toronto.
We finally get about easy.
And they don't score.
At the end of 17's of play,
it's a Toronto Blue J7.
The White Sox 5.
I've got it.
My favorite Twins.
Topless up.
I get everybody to warm round
back at exhibition stadium in Toronto.
And people to bench.
A former White Sox hurler
is pitching for Toronto
and you hear on the 8th in him.
Jerry Johnson went 2 in the 3rd innings
and allowed one run on three hits.
He walked two and he struck out one.
The double White Sox
will have an opportunity now.
They work against their former teammate.
They'll have the bottom half of the order up.
Number seven, eight and nine hitters.
Sotterholm, Lehmann and Downing.
So they are assured of getting the top of the order up.
No later.
Then the ninth inning.
All of these.
The Sox is great.
It's 16 men today.
Got to get some timely hits with men on base.
That's what Toronto has done.
They've clubbed three homers.
Two of them with a man on.
Counting for five of their seven runs.
A right hander and a left hander
are up in the Toronto bullpen.
As Eric Sotterholm leads it off.
First picked by Vuka that's a fast ball for his flight.
Sotterholm is
two for four today.
A pair of singles and an RBI.
Vuka in the lineup delivers.
Down low at all.
White Sox lost two players
in that expansion draft
that has really sad to see go.
Bilstein who won two for four
for Seattle last night
and he's got a lot of doubles in this fellow.
Sotterholm is swinging them in.
Vuka
at an ERA of
3.67 in spring training.
19 and two third innings.
He was 0 and 2 in the spring.
Sotterholm
swings them in because he stuck them out with a breaking ball
on the outside corner.
So there's one out.
And the batter is
Chef Lemon.
He is grounded out.
Struck out twice in one.
A fast ball low.
We're in the eighth inning.
It's getting late in Toronto.
And not any warmer.
Vukavich ready. Here's the pitch called.
Even to count up at one and one.
I knew the minute
Vukavich was up in the bullpen
and it was him even though it's a little distance away here.
Here's a pitch inside almost hit it.
Because Vukavich
works in a hurry.
He gets that ball and he wants to come right back at you.
Doesn't give you a chance.
Just set up Lemon, stayed out of the box for a bit now
to slow him down. Here's the 2-1 delivery.
Called Spike
in the outside corner 2 and 2.
Two balls and two strikes.
Here's the 2-2 pitch.
Swing and a bouncer found.
He's got to be cut off of the coaches blocks at third.
While you really got to admire these Canadians
they have stuck it out most of the way.
I'd say maybe now they're about 20,000 left.
Some just left
a bit ago.
But I'm through the fifth inning.
Everybody was here that
come originally it looked like. Here's a swing and a foul.
He really fooled him.
And Lemon just got a piece of it.
They never have given him the attendance, have they Danny?
I haven't heard any given.
44,000
there was a sellout before the game.
Times the city beat the Detroit Tigers
7-4 today.
Here's the 2-2 pitch.
Pops it foul right back to the screen.
Austin leads Cleveland
3-1 in the eighth inning.
Texas and Baltimore tied up 1-1 in the seventh.
St. Louis leading Pittsburgh
6-1 at the end of six innings of play.
Still don't know how the
there's a spin on this he struck him out.
Well you wonder why I say
I was sorry to see Brookovic go.
There's two good reasons right there.
He has looked better than anybody who has pitched today.
Martin's the only one
throwing the ball hard all day.
Well I'll tell you what
he's got a tiger in his tank.
He comes out there ready to get you.
He is really aggressive on that mound.
And the batter is Brian Downey.
Downey cuts the fastball first right.
All right.
Here's the two to strike.
Pitch up high and all.
Here's the two strike pitch up high and all.
One ball two strikes right
handed in the lineup.
Here's the pitch up high and all two and two.
Just outside Johnstown.
He北ovic is the third pitcher employed
by Toronto
Here's the two two pitch, low.
Low above Onnissavy field
The 2-2 pitch, low ball.
So this is the first time he's had a full count on anybody. Three balls and two strikes.
Right hander ready. The 3-2 pitch, all four he walked in. Bukovic comes off the mound. He thought he had caught the corner in the knees.
So now the tying run comes up to the former Ralph Gar. Ralph, however, goes back to the dugout. He's been out there. I don't know if he went back just to get his foul.
Let's tell you the last time Ralph was up, he hit a shot, but the pitcher didn't realize he had.
Otherwise, this ball game would not be in favor of Toronto by two.
So Ralph went back, wipes the bat off, and now comes out.
And that was the only time that Ralph was not on base. He's walked, he's gotten out of there, he's got two hits.
Then he is grounded out. Actually, not a grounded out. He is lying right to the pitcher.
Here's the pitch. Here's a swing and a foul.
Round two for four. White Sox had out-hits the Blue Jays 14 and 13. I think that's the biggest impress me is the fact they've got 13 hits.
And they have really way laid the ball today. Two home runs by dugouts, a pitch home run by Al Woods.
His first major league time at that. Here's the one strike pitch. Well, that's what it is.
Boy, he took something off of Adam Gah. I was hit by him about ten feet in front of that pitch.
Two strikes to guard. Bukovitch taking his time now. Up with the glove, down to the waist. Here's the pitch.
Here's a swing and a drive in the left field. It's going to drop in there for a base hit. Downing will hold in seconds.
So on a two strike pitch, Gah slices it into left field. And we're going to have a pinch hitter for Alan Bannister.
Looks like Niles Niam and a left-handed hitter. And that's who it will be.
So after Bukovitch struck out two men, he walked down him and Gah gets his third hit of the afternoon.
So the tying runs are on base again. On a white sock, stranded two in the first, two in the second, three in the third, two in the fourth, two in the fifth, three in the sixth, and two in the seventh.
And now have two men on now. Tim Nordbroek loosening up down the right side. He'll come into play shortstop. Niles Niamen.
Niles Niamen. We'll pinch hit here. This is Niles' first appearance since a year ago. He was in eight games for the white socks.
Then he had only 133. Then the ones at Des Moines where he gets 282. They've introduced him as Niles Niamen. Which is easy to do.
Niles NYLS. Elias. No, I was right the first time. NYLS. Here's a pitcher to swing in a grounder right to the first baseman. He's got it. And that's what fires his eyes.
Niles Niamen went after the first pitch and grounded out to the first baseman. And the white socks strand two more. They have stranded 18 today.
In the eighth, no runs, one hit, no airs. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention is...
Two men left on. We go to the bottom of the eighth, Toronto seven, the white socks five.
That's real money. Please gentlemen, your attention, please. Now play shortstop versus...
Lauren Brown back in Toronto. Tim Nordbrook has come into play shortstop. The attendance here this afternoon at freezing 32 degrees with snow flurries, 44,649.
4-4-6-4-9. John Scott will lead it off. The number one hitter in the order. He'll be followed by Jim Mason and Doug Halt.
Dave Hamilton on the mound. Working his second inning, he's allowed no runs. One hit and he is struck out a man. Here's the first pitch to Scott of Swingin' a Fowl.
Jackie Moore, the third pace coach, goes and gets it. White socks were out in front four to one and they fell behind seven to four.
And now it's seven to five with one more shot to go in the night. Here's the one strike pitch inside a ball, even with a count up at one and one.
Well, no baseball tomorrow. But there will be Saturday and Sunday afternoon here on WMAQ Radio. Here's the one one pitch. Good curveball for a strike.
Danny, what's the latest on the blackhawks? What are they playing next?
They're playing tonight. Is it going to be on neutral ice or at New York? At New York.
Left hander ready. Here's the one two pitchers of Swingin' a Long Drive going way back. It is off the wall.
And going in with a double is John Scott. Well, Gar went way back, got to the edge of the wall and I don't really think he knew where he was at.
He just reached up his glove and the ball bounced over. It looked like a ball that should have been caught at the wall, but as is, it turns into a double.
Well, you can hear that blackhawking tonight here on WMAQ.
Number 10 is there's one shot.
He's getting nice in the batter. 0 for 1. Left hander ready. Here's the pitch and it's outside the ball.
One ball and no strikes. Toronto's threatening here in the eighth inning.
Left hander ready. Here's the pitch. A thought out in front of the bow. Third baseman goes to third. Oh, they missed the pass.
Hamilton looked like he had a perfect throw to Satterholm and Scott went under it.
Hamilton and Downing a little upset. Satterholm did not argue a bit, so apparently he missed the pass.
And at first base, he gets it on a fielder's choice and the batter is dug home. All he is done today is hit two home runs, driven in three runs, walked and hit a scorchy, blind drive that Alan Bannister fortunately turned over for a double play.
The situation could be worse than it is right now. Hamilton ready. Left hander delivers. Here's the pitch. Low of all.
Activity in the White Sox bullpen. Laren Legreau, a right hander, fired from the Cardinals, will start loosening up.
Hamilton in his second inning of relief is in trouble. Brett won three innings. Barrios won three innings.
Here's the pitch. Here's a swing and a smash of Mason up the middle. One run is in and Mason holds a second.
Barrios has just driven in his fourth run of the afternoon and it's an eighth to five ball game. Oh, this kid is something.
It's 300 while he was up with Texas at the end of the season last year after hitting 313 with 25 homers and 83 RBIs at Sacramento. A lot of young talent on this club that had great years in AAA may have not been phased at all by this large gathering here in Toronto
or the pressures of being the first American League club in Canada. And now Bob Lemon comes out of the White Sox dugout.
We may have a pitching change here in Toronto. A lot of right handers do up.
Hamilton in a discussion with Lemon downing Satterholm. White Sox can't afford to allow any more runs here with only one more crack. The Blue Jays, that's coming in the ninth inning.
Last year the White Sox won their opener. Four to nothing over Kansas City and that's going to be all for Dave Hamilton. So Hamilton pitches one for 3-hitting.
He's allowed one run on three hits. He didn't walk anybody and he struck out a man. But the runners at first and second are his responsibility and Laren LeGro comes into the Kansas making his first appearance as a White Sox pitcher.
However he is not unfamiliar to the American League having pitched with the Detroit Tigers. Part of 72-73 and all of 74-75. I'm going over to the Cardinals a year ago.
So he'll get in his warm up passes here in Toronto as he does. Let's tell you what we've got. In baseball the sicker messed up here in Toronto.
Detroit defeated Kansas City 7-4. Austin over Cleveland 3-1 at the end of 8. Texas Baltimore in the 7th tied up 1-1. The Cardinals out in Hunnepitzburg 6-1 at the end of 6.
The only thing that we have on that gun game is 1-1 at the end of 3 against the Mets. I'm sure that's the last player long. But I'll apologize. The sickers are not working in Canada.
Laren LeGro comes in. He pitched at Paulson the American Association a year ago where he won 6 of lost 10. And he was all in one for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Making his first appearance as a member of the White Sox. 6 kids 6'5, 230 pounds. Born in Phoenix and Arizona.
Originally the property of the Detroit Tigers. So the first man that he will face will be Otto Vallez. A designated hitter.
One for three today. And he is also one. Well it's funny here. All the people yelling they want beer. Miss Ball Club is owned by one of the largest, if not largest breweries in Canada.
LeBats. Laren LeGro is ready. Working out of a stretch in the first pitch. And it goes off to Chief Protector of Brian Downing. And off to the left ball one.
Lelews is shorting up the funds. Runners in. Runners are at first and second. Nobody out. The Blue Jays have scored in 6 of the 8 innings played today.
One in the first, one in the second, two in the third, one in the fourth, two in the fifth and one here in the eighth. Right hander delivers. And it's low ball two.
In the ninth inning the White Sox will have Orta, Zisk and Spencer. That's why that one run here really hurts. Because if you get Orta on you've always got that shot of Zisk pumping one out of here. Try to tie it up.
But as it is now the Sox are down by three and Toronto Trepene, 2-0 pitch. Fennett, out in front of the plate. Oh, and Spencer and Downing collide. And the base is related.
Spencer came charging in. And the ball is only about 10 feet down the line towards first. Definitely Brian's ball. Orta had covered first on the play. And the two collide.
And it'll go. I presume it's got to is an infield hit. And the bases are loaded. Nobody out.
Wow it really hurts.
I got it, I got it, it's there.
I'm on, follow my favorite Queen's coupler.
And Toronto threatening, 2-0 pitch, got it, up in front of the plate.
Oh, and Spencer and Downing collide, and the bases are loaded.
Spencer came charging in, and the ball is only about 10 feet down the line towards first.
Definitely Brian's ball, Oda had covered first on the plate, and the two collide, and it'll go.
I presume it's got to be the field hit, and the bases are loaded, nobody else.
Two Chicago players collide in, throwing the hit, the bases are loaded, nobody else here is Gary Wood.
One for four on the day, on fly ball into the sixth inning with the bases loaded then for Toronto.
First pitch to them, ball one.
And the shot is almost coming out here, and Toronto's trying to break through those dark clouds overhead,
and the second pitch, and it blows the ball through.
2-0 now, as LeGro has got himself into a real jackpot here, with nobody out of the bases full, the bottom of the eighth inning.
Into the shortstop, they've got one, they've got two, but a run score, and the Blue Jays are on top 9-5,
as Jim Mason's done been from third base, and the batter is going to be Al Wood.
He had a replay, perfect double-play ball, shortstop gets it over the second base, not over LeGro,
but he could get that down to break up the double-play.
Now I'll have another few of them.
Mason's going the ninth Blue Jays run.
Al Wood, first pitch to Carl Streis.
All to third base, two away.
Inside, almost gone away from Abilia Lurk-Ryan-Johnny.
That's the correct word, Johnny, he is very quick back here, and I can see why he only had that one passball in 1976.
Light-hatter deal, ball two, two and one.
Go to your third base, Jackie Moore for Toronto, Harry Warner, go to your first base, good days,
and Al Wood, right now, hits the foul, into the seat.
You know what those hands are hollering now, John, we're number one.
Without beer, and if they can get the White Sox out in the top of the ninth,
Toronto Blue Jays are going to be in first place.
They will have a perfect season going for them.
They won their first three-season games to in Florida against the New York match three to one.
It takes the foul play, both country in two, to Al Wood.
Yenna Holmarn is first to pair into the stadium, and they do a leg back in the fifth inning to get the Blue Jays into the lead.
Well, strikes three out of the net in the inning, a pitch to copy outside corner, a little high.
But they put the clock two more runs, and till the score at the end of eight,
this is the Blue Jays nine, the White Sox five.
Toronto's first century, leading out for the White Sox to the top of the ninth.
George Horton's second base, all the way to off,
and he's left to Jim Srector, a new to final half.
First picture of him is the ball, both ball one.
Order, he has hit the today.
Look at this miss with the second pitch.
The one thing you don't want to do with a four-run lead in the ninth inning is put any man on base with the war.
The third pitch, that's right inside.
So it's two and one.
Look at this, looking quickly again, most of all, ball three.
Well, here's the fan, perhaps it isn't very warm necessarily, but certainly decorative.
The first game of Blue Jays, played at Exhibition Stadium.
Here's the man now with the save in his hands, he took of it.
Three wins, a three strike out the way, and Toronto's first victory.
Leading off for the White Sox to the top of the ninth.
George Horton's second base, all the way to off,
and he's left to Jim Srector, a new to final half.
First picture of him is the ball, both ball one.
Order is hit this today.
Bobby once took a miss with the second pitch.
The one thing you don't want to do with a four-run lead in the ninth inning is put any man on base with the war.
The third pitch, that's right inside.
So it's two and one.
Look at this, looking quickly again, most of all, ball three.
There's the look down of the third base, Coach Bobby cannot pull the signal as to what they're going to do.
They want him on, he swings it.
An easy out to off, one away.
I'm very surprised George Horton swung that three and one pitch, four runs behind in the ninth inning.
And I kind of think that maybe he should take a picture, see if he can get that base on board.
Here's the power in the White Sox, that is ordered with the right fielder.
He hasn't felt four hits, the pair of singles, the two-base hit on a home run in five appearances.
Wings for first six thousand yards.
Gerell's got the mask on, he might have had to look right up at his face.
Here appears to be alright.
A young man of a plate, Richie Visk, who command all kinds of respects from American Lake Citrus.
Look at this, Gerell's still playing the missing suspect move.
I think what made Richie Visk such a good hitter over the last few years, he can hit the all field.
He's stuck on up.
The Toronto Blue Days are one out away from their first victory.
Don, I think we're going to hit quite a roar, I think we can get this next better out.
These fans are just as great today. They're really pulling for these young Toronto Blue Days.
The Toronto Glass, hope that Jim's best of the first baseman, he's got a pair of base hits in five at bat.
Look at this, Barry's drawing a relief of Jerry Johnson who'll get the win.
First hit, one on, the field, God can't get to it.
Johnson's passing and special will take two.
Johnson just put her so away from the third out, but waited too long on the ball.
I think he should have caught the ball really, Don.
It looked like he was going to catch it easy and all of a sudden he went down with that glove and maybe we'll see a replay of it.
He gave off the close to it and hit the other glove.
Well they charged him with an error.
The designated hitter with a man on second base, Jim Spencer.
Look at that, pick it to him, ground ball to the shortstop, up with it, Blue Jason!
The Toronto Blue Days, the beat of the Toronto White House, 9-5 of the crowd, he's all spammed.
It's a pretty much happy Blue Day there, the dugout, all congratulating Pete Hogan which did a fine job and probably did the best job of any pitch crowd on that field today.
Well, God's made a much good jam right down there on the field, applauding the Toronto Blue Day baseball team.
Well the Blue Days scored 9 runs, got 16 hits, committed three errors, the White House 5 runs, 15 hits and no errors, the Toronto wins a 9-5.
Gary Johnson gets the win and the Chicago starter, Ken Brad, is starting along.
44,649 appreciative Blue Jay fans, an exhibition stadium for this opening day victory.
A reminder once again that the Blue Day is a big hit.
Well there are stars in this quarter today, a lot of players who made a fine contribution for the Toronto Blue Days.
I don't think anybody made a better woman than the man who hit two home runs, drug all these with commerce he right now.
But we'll be talking to him in just a moment as they get organized on the field.
This is Major League Baseball 77.
All across Canada, people are joining in on community activities.
This is the day of the big race, just to go over the road quickly one more time.
The rider must be covered and the team pushes counting seats four in number.
Okay, away they go, the annual federation is on.
Enjoy the best of times and the best of beer.
The back 50, you can't save beer any better.
The Toronto Blue Jays are now in the American Baseball League and on a very positive and winning note,
by beating the Chicago White Sox 9-5.
Hey, you kept them in there when things looked a little bleak, not only the weather,
but the way they were playing against the Chicago White Sox and you cracked out those two home runs.
Nobody looked happier than you did when you came back to the dugout.
Well I'll tell you Tom, it's a good feeling any time you get to this, much less two home runs.
I'm just glad that I was fortunate enough to help the team and keep us in the ballgame.
And I'm just glad that we won the home opener for the Toronto fans here.
Listen, you were telling us that although you were hitting a few home runs down south in Florida in spring training,
you were not happy with getting along the line drives you wanted.
I thought you don't need any line drives, you get them up with this stuff all the time.
Well Tom, as you know, I'm sure the home runs are going to come really very scarcely.
They're not going to come that too often.
When you're not hitting home runs or you're not hitting the long ball,
you want to be sharp on the ball anyway and hit the line drives.
In spring training, I started out a few home runs, but the other ball that I was hitting,
I wasn't really getting good wood on, so I had a little concern over that.
But as it worked out today, I smiled on the ball and everything worked out alright.
What was the feeling in the clubhouse like just before you came out?
Everybody was really up for the game.
They really wanted to win. It was kind of a silent, quiet atmosphere.
I think everybody was really getting ready in their own way.
As you know, there's a lot of people on this team that other major league teams didn't protect.
I think that everybody has a feeling that they want to show somebody something
and also that we want to win for Toronto.
Well, we saw some excitement today.
Have that any indication of what we can expect in our major league baseball series 77?
It's coming up over the next summer months and along with the Montreal Expo,
that's how you're in for a heck of a time.
I think so too. I think that we're going to go out and play every game just like this.
We had a lot of enthusiasm and everybody really wants to win.
Always been here in off-free training is how we're going to lose two-thirds of our games.
Then they ask, how many of the other 30 do you think you're going to win?
We don't feel that way.
We feel that we can go out and win every day that we go out, no matter what team we're playing.
That's just the way we're going to take them.
I'm going to give you a medal, a calisthenics up here. If you keep this up, you hit something like 300 homeruns this season.
I hope it's over in here. That would be great. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Tom.
Okay, now let's go back to Don Cheverey and Whitey Farr.
All right, Tom, and our congratulations.
We'd like to add to the young man who hit those two homeruns for the throttle blue jays.
Remarkable win for the team. Adverse weather conditions, Whitey to start the game.
All behind 4-1. It looked to be maybe a long afternoon, but they put it together in a lot of areas.
Are you going to see that with a young team like the Toronto Blue Jays?
They just didn't give up. I tell you, it was an exciting game for me. The pitching was a little shaky on both sides.
Jerry Johnson and Tiki Smokovic fit very well, but it was the kind of game I liked.
There was extra base hits and good fielding plays, a few stolen bases, and I think there was four homeruns today in here.
Yes, three by the Blue Jays, Woods and the court dug all, getting the two back to back to excite this crowd here.
As a great pitcher yourself, I'd like your analysis on how the Blue Jays pitchers look to you.
Well, like I said, the starting pitcher, Bill Singer, had a little trouble.
He couldn't get that keep the ball down. He has to be allowed to be effective.
Jerry Johnson struggled a few innings with the defined job, and then Bukovic came in and just closed the door on the White Fox.
And some of the pitchers impressed me.
They were throwing against the pretty good power, certainly Zisk and Downing, and some of those players,
and Chicago White Fox, by an up-rout guard, they were throwing against some pretty experienced major league hitting.
They were, and you mentioned the cold weather all day today, you know, a little snow before the game started.
And it's a little tough when your hands are cold out there to try and pitch and have good control.
You might have a lot of speed on the ball, or it might break good, but it's a little tough to have good control in cold weather like this.
Well, nobody expects the Blue Jays to win the penalty this year, but what has happened so far is remarkable.
They won their very first exhibition game against the New York Mets.
They beat the Montreal Expo, the first two times they played their new Canadian arch rivals.
They beat the Cincinnati Reds, who were missing only one player of Oscar.
In fact, they set up Johnny Bench to pinch in on that game and key it into a double play,
and the Blue Jays beat the Reds, the World Champions Nine away.
So Toronto fans got a lot to get excited about.
The main thing is, I think, if you watch this team, they're capable of winning, they're also capable of making mistakes, which they will make,
but I think their best potential is to give wide-open, exciting baseball to the fans.
I think they're going to do that, and they're going to look at that paper tomorrow and see they're in first place,
and if they can get off to a fairly good shot, it's just going to build more and more confidence in these young players.
And I think you're going to have an exciting team here this year.
They put in 44,600 on a miserable day today, so you can imagine what's going to happen when the sun shines
and the spring weather finally arrives here in Toronto.
This team is the potential, I think, if they go well, to perhaps hit as high as 2 million in spectators and 77.
I think that can be done very easily, John.
Well, they're off to a great start today on this win over the Chicago White Sox.
The final score is the Blue Jays 9 and the Chicago White Sox 5.