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The Los Angeles Angels faced the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium for opening day on Tuesday, April 11, 1961.
Los Angeles was managed by Bill Rigney. This was the first ever regular season game for the Angels franchise,
having entered the league as an expansion team in 1961, along with a new Washington Senators team.
The Orioles were managed by Paul Richards in his seventh year as skipper for the O's.
His first five seasons were mediocre at best, but 1960 showed promise as the Orioles won 89 games
and finished in second place for the first time since 1944, when they were still known as the St. Louis Browns.
This audio recording is from the Angels Radio broadcast featuring announcers Bob Kelly, Steve Bailey, and Don Wells.
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1961 is the baseball battle cry in Baltimore.
It has been done in 1961 as the proud statement of sports fans in Los Angeles.
On this historic date of April 11th of the year 1961, the City of the Angels had strength to its claim as the fourth capital of the world.
Baseball players whose uniforms are lettered to Los Angeles play their first championship game of the American League.
Good morning everybody, this is Bob Kelly, along with Don Wells and Steve Bailey.
We'll radio broadcast all and telecast many of the Los Angeles Angels American League games.
Today the Angels open the 1961 season here in Baltimore's municipal stadium against the Baltimore Orioles.
The Orioles today have the old hometown decked out in all manner of bumping and banners,
exporting last year's second-place birds to themselves one better this season.
Fan response here in Baltimore is somewhat reminiscent of the fan support for football Baltimore Cokes receive at this very same stadium.
And I'm sure that you Ram fans who have watched Ram Cokes games here on television are well familiar with what some of us have called
the world's only outdoor insane asylum.
This town is really for the birds.
Thousands of bumper stickers printed in English, Polish, Italian, Hebrew, and Russian have been reminding the populace for weeks that it can be done in 61.
A downtown tattoo artist reported making a more prominent record of the slogan, On a Man's Chest.
If the Orioles fail to do it in 61, it will go down as a permanent typographical error.
The managers Bill Regney of the Angels and Paul Richards of the Orioles are meeting with the umpires at home plate.
The umpires will be seated behind the plate, learning at the first day, right at second and fourth at third.
And now the lineup for the batting orders for this afternoon's ballgame.
For the Los Angeles Angels, Kenny Yost at third base leads off.
Yost who batted 260 last season.
Then Ash Babadi at second base.
He was Cleveland's regular second base for the last season and batted 288 for the top.
Albie Pierce in right field.
His last year's batting average 244.
Ted Kuzuchi drafted from the Chicago White Bucks where he hit 293 last year.
Big Blue playing first base and batting cleanup for the Angels.
Bob Serves of the New York Yankees where he batted 253 last season.
Will be at left field and bat fifth.
That is somewhat of an ideation from the Angels batting order during the spring exhibition games
where they serve in every game that he played and he batted most of them in the number three spot.
That's this today.
Ken Hook just from the New York Yankees in center field.
Followed by 50 Braquel.
When the Angels acquired their class we can acclaim that Will the Yankees,
reporting them 60-2 far, 4 Braquel, will be at shortstop.
Staying here and playing today despite the fact that just two nights ago
is Father Fritz Braquel Sr., a former big league ball player,
five-seventy of a heart attack.
Del Wright, captain, and the letter in major league of about eight.
And the starting pitcher, the ex-New York Yankee Eli Agriba, a right-hander.
The Baltimore Jocke Brown in center field results, he hit 254 last season.
And he's being followed by Rob Snyder in right field.
Snyder who hit 260 for Kansas City.
Brooks Robinson, who had the classiest fielding in third baseman of the game today.
At third, Nigel O'Reilly, who's taking the field.
After that comes Kim Dunheva first, Gus D'Angelo, captain, Dean Stevens in left field.
Ron Hanson, shortstop.
Bob Brady, second baseman, right-hander, took part of the 15-game winner last season.
Will be Baltimore's starting pitcher.
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Now ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure indeed to bring in my broadcast and family.
On all the Angel broadcasts and telecasts this year,
a fellow who returns to his native California after distinguishing himself as a broadcaster,
he's our boy son from our state season.
Don Wells and Don on behalf of all of us, a lot of good luck to you.
Well the same to you Cal and to Steve, and let's get things underway in a successful way today
here at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore as Eddie Eurosteps in against the Baltimore right-hander, Mel Pappas.
The weather picture today, it's a partly cloudy day, we have a terrific wind blowing in from the left-field corner,
the line up, the first pitch of the season and it's a strike right down the middle.
Holes out by Pappas with that fastball, the knees stand here as rabid as they are, they were rad with every pitch today.
This place is slowly but surely filling up.
Here's the line up and the motion, the curveball, left a bit too high to make it run ball and run strike.
The on-deck man, Ken Ascobatti, then the right fielder, Albie Person,
flying just here in the first inning.
Seating capacity of 50,000 here, they shoot between 30 and 40 today.
It's going at a high, flat, or shallow left-hander field going out forward,
Ronnie Hanson under it now, the short stop there, makes the catch.
Out of that 25 or 30 feet on the edge of the outfield grass, so Eurosteps pops up.
And that is the first out.
Here is second baseman, Ken Ascobatti.
Brooks Robinson at third, Ronnie Hanson at short, mile-breeding at second,
Big Jim Jenteel is at first.
The outfield, Stephens on left, Jackie Brandon center and Snyder is in right.
Gus Briando's back of the plate,
Mel Pappas ready now to concentrate on Ken Ascobatti, one out, one on.
They pitch, check swing, fast and style, to the right side of the plate, strike one.
The outfielders, take Stephens out of left field, or Jackie Brandon center.
They won't have to play too deep out here with that strong wind.
I imagine it's blowing from the left field corner toward right.
During batting practice, the big guys like Bob Serve and Gus Briando
have had a lot of fly balls out there, didn't go anywhere.
There's a swing and a foul, flurring going up into the upper deck.
This ballpark, except for some seats that are located right under the upper deck,
everything is totally unprotected here, no roof on the stadium.
It is a horseshoe stadium and it's 309 feet down the left field line and the left field line,
but it is man up everywhere else, 410 feet to start away center field.
It's a good time for pitchers if you can keep them from pulling the ball
and the curveball low down in the dirt to make it one ball and two strikes.
It's all in his opening day in Baltimore.
The Angels batting here against Mel Pappas.
Mel is taking a little extra time.
The temperature reading is in the 50s today, but Mel is trying to rain.
And the fastball is caught on.
Here's another foul lifted off back of the plate.
The wind blows this one back up on the screen.
Gus Briando's massed off spun around, took a look at it,
and it's still one ball and two strikes.
Stevens the plate umpire, lying at the first, John Wright the second,
and Schwartz is the umpire at third.
The mayor of Baltimore, Mayor Grady, is on a Caribbean cruise,
so he was not present for the opening day ceremonies today.
And the first ball was thrown out by Philip Goodman,
the president of the City Council and acting mayor,
and that ball then was in turn turned over to Gene Autry.
That's a very precious momento of the 61 American Lakes season.
And a swing and a foul at the end of the fast-albie person here on the right side,
who was in the on-back circle, and it's still one ball and two strikes.
The Minnesota Twins and the New York Yankees, their game underway of New York.
Pete Ramus on the bat for Minnesota.
Whitey Ford, left-hander for New York.
Cleveland and Detroit, no score at the end of one.
Jim Perry pitching for the Indians.
Jim Bunning for Detroit.
Kansas City and Boston underway at Fenway Park.
Ray Herbert for Kansas City.
Bill Maumouquette pitching for the Boston Red Sox.
Here's the two-stack delivery coming in now, and he could have been a little bit higher.
Quick curve, and it's ball two and strike two.
So to that, two are out here in the executive box.
Lee McPhail of the Orioles, their general manager.
Here's the two-stack delivery coming in now, and strike three.
Bill Pappas, third of a pitch right at the letter, that Aspermatti has called out on strikes.
Now the right fielder, little guy, played in this ballpark on many occasions.
Albie Pearson, played with Lee McPhail to our right as the manager of the Chicago White Sox, Al Lopez.
We all went over to see the White Sox opener, the presidential opener, with the new Washington Senators yesterday,
and that produced a lot of excitement, a good ballgame.
Here's the lineup and the pitch on the way to Albie.
Not too high for him for ball one.
Brooks Robinson moves in a couple of steps at third.
Guard against that front.
Stevens plays the very shallow left field straight away.
Jackie Brandt off to the right center, and not too deep.
Russ Madder, however, is set deep and near the foul line in right field.
Here's the one-nothing pitch now, down too low, just below the knees, inside for ball two, and it's two balls and no strikes.
Pappas usually is the pappa pitcher who doesn't get underway very strong in the spring, but then he really comes on,
as he did last year in winning 15 games.
Two-nothing pitch, down too low time, ball three, and it's three-and-nothing.
Three-nothing count on Albie.
Triama stepping out in front of the plate.
Offering the ball and some conversation to his right-hander, Milt Pappas.
Here's the lineup and the next one, way inside to him in low ball four.
So Person gets on, our first baserunner of the American League season.
Little Albie on it first, and here's Red Pazewski coming up.
The audience is a coach at first, and Red Paz, coaching at third.
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Big clothes stand-in on this chilly day. He has that heavy sweatshirt on.
No muscles bearing here this afternoon.
Pappas steps down off the pitching rubber as Albie Person has moved out to his lead.
Out to another one now, and they touch on the way to close.
That's ball down low for ball one.
So Pappas now off the target, walking Person on forward delivers.
And he's just had his fifth touch out of the strike zone, firing one low to Tess Wazewski.
The outfield back and straighted well around to the right.
It's swaying in a high foul five. The wind blows this foot out of play down the right field line,
and it travels deep up into the upper deck.
One ball to one strike.
The Orioles are unveiling some 2,600 new field box seats.
This installation also includes the construction of new dugouts here at a cost of about $175,000.
And what it does, it cuts down the foul territory area quite a bit on the third base side, first base side, and behind the plate.
Here's a quick throw to the first base to Jen Peel, and Albie goes diving back to the bag in time.
Second base been marred breathing midway between first and second, right back on the edge of the outfield grass.
Rodney Hanson near the bag at second.
And the motion, the pitch, pass ball lower and close. Good start back free on this.
Let's just throw up the line at the first. And the count is ball two and strike one.
Beautifully landscaped area out in center field near the giant scoreboard there, which is off toward right center.
Ballpark is located in a residential area.
Here's the stretch again, and the pitch to close is swaying along.
And the count stays there out there, and here's good start, baseball, Pazuki, good start.
So just Pazuki just got that off-field pattern here at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
And the Angels lead 2-0.
Here's Pazuki stepping around the bag at third, coming on down the line, in the score.
And the Angels are out at about 2-0, 309 feet down the line.
And that ball was a win, turning it toward the foul pole.
They fair by about 10 or 15 feet and went about 25 rows deep into the open bleacher area out in right field.
So the Angels jumped out to 2-0 lead.
Here's left fielder, Bob Serb, big right-handed hitter, and the pitch on the way.
Pass ball right at the base, strike call.
So Pazuki just went out of here, and the Angels lead 2-0.
Abby Person came in the score with a base on balls with 2 outs.
Next up, Swindler on a tremendous high-fly ball, deep out in right center, turning his back on a jackie plant.
You can kiss it goodbye.
Full run by Bob Serb.
Here we go.
Woo-hoo.
Oh, that's a win.
395 feet away, and he's on the full run all the way around the bases and jacking in.
And the Angels are out in front, clean up again.
They're really shaking up happens.
And this is full-stading now.
A back-to-back home run.
And this is Serb.
And the Angels lead 3-0.
Here's the center fielder, Kenna, still with 2 outs.
What a tremendous beginning here in the first inning.
The Angels out in front, 3-0.
And the curve ball broke down too low during the ball run.
And the right-handed batting center fielder, 300, almost 400 feet away on that tremendous drive by Bob Serb.
The most you'd have to touch, slider right there at the knee, strike.
They make a done ball in one strike.
So Wildness on the part of Pampas is constant.
Here's the next one over a in-to-tight at the knee, about 2 and it's 2 and 1.
And he is getting behind here and is coming to Ken Hunt.
He got Yost on a pop-up, got asked for money, had him call out on strikes.
But then he walked Albie Pursin, that opened the floodgates.
And the pitch outside, ball free and it's 3 and a 1.
We're shaking up the Baltimore bullpen.
They have a right-handed throwing out there, way beyond the 300-mattie foot mark, past the wire fence that borders the outfield.
That is about a 7 or 8-foot wire fence.
Here's the 3-1 pitch coming in now and it's outside to ball four, so Hunt gets on.
That is the fellow pulling out there on the bullpen is John Pampas.
Batting with the color position, he is the right-hander, they jump down.
That's 15, 20, look at all.
The fellow stands 5'11", weighs 190 pounds, so he is throwing in the bullpen.
Here's 50 Burkel stepping in, the stretch and the pitch on the way, stuck called.
That's that corner, nothing can run.
Pampas' contract has been purchased outright from the Little Rock Club of the Southern Association, effective immediately.
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Here's the stretch, the pitch, in too close to Britts.
Little right-handed batter and the counter-stunned ball and one strike.
Three runs to red, Abby Towson-Watt, Ted Flazowski with a tremendous homerun into the bleachers out in right field.
And then Bob Soot, top run over the wire fence, 400 feet away.
Stretch, throw over to first instead.
And then Jason Kenhug, safely back to the bag.
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Here's the motion and the pitch.
Down two more to him.
To make it about two, two and one.
Now guest three on, this is Carl Kahn.
And wants to go out and see more Pampas.
Our next Angel broadcast, we'll have a night game tomorrow.
Warm-up time will be at 4.40 p.m.
Game on KMPC and the Angel Radio Network and on KHJ-TV Channel 9.
The Angels 3-0 here on the first inning.
Mount Conference at an end.
Gus Priandos back at the plate.
Riquel waits now.
Here's the lead taken by Kenhug at first.
Two out on the pitch, swing on foul to enter the upper deck.
Added two balls and two strikes.
Beyond that, Matt is Gail Rice.
The Minnesota Twins failed in the first inning at New York.
The Yankees are now at bat against Ramos.
Bunning is out of the Cleveland-Detroit game.
So the Indians cooking up something now as Regan came out to replace him in the second inning.
Mo Pampas trying to get some heat on his pitching hand there, just blowing on it.
Up on top of the mound and set to go to work with Kenhug after his lead,
about eight or nine feet away from the bag to pitch in, close to him.
Full count three and two.
So Mo Pampas making his first opening day strike, beginning his fourth full Major League season.
Just 21 years of age, he's won more games lifetime, 40 at that age,
than any other pitcher in modern Major League history, except Babe Ruth and Bob Feller.
Right are going, a swing, little pop-up, shortstop side.
Ronnie Hanson there, and Hanson makes the catch to retire the side.
Seven men batted for the Angels, and that is a red-hot beginning here in Baltimore
for the 1961 American League season.
In the inning, there were three runs on two hoods.
Two-run homer by Klosinski, solo homer by Pampas,
there was more errors and one man left.
The score at the end of the first half of the first inning,
the Angels three, Baltimore now coming to bat.
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Now the last half of the first inning at Baltimore,
leading off for the Baltimore Orioles will be center fielder Jackie Brand.
He will be followed by the right fielder Russ Snyder,
and then by the third baseman Brooks Robinson.
To set up the Angels defensively,
Jack Luzinski is the first, Ken Housprabaddy is second,
Pittsburgh College short, Eddie Oster third,
Bob Serve in left field, Ken Houtenstetter in right,
and the battery Eli Gerba and Del Rice.
Eli with the Yankees last year, one six and lost four.
Nothing in one record, lifetime against the Orioles.
On September 26, 1959, Gerba lost in relief while pitching for the Yankees.
He lost to Hal Skinny Brown, 7-2, in 11 innings.
He did not work against the Orioles last year.
So here is center fielder Jackie Brand stepping into the batter's box.
Right handed batter.
The on deck man is the right fielder Snyder.
And the Angels lead three nothing in the last half of the first.
The pitch, that calls.
Put one right in there to make it nothing in one.
Eli this spring had an earn run average of 2.63.
Did some terrific work for the Angels during the exhibition season.
In the 24 innings he worked to line up the pitch.
Snyder, foot outside, one ball and one strike.
Worked 24 innings, gave up a total of 26 hits, seven earn runs,
one 12, struck out 11.
And the earn run mark of 2.63, the best figure posted by any of the Angels pitchers this spring.
The Boston and the one run delivery, dropped down the middle turns,
that calls to make it one and two.
John Stevens to fill and fire.
So Eli has the honor here of being the first Angels pitcher.
Has a two strike count on Jackie Brand.
And the delivery turn, row outside, to make it two balls and two strikes.
The Orioles, they very definitely missed the hitting power of Gene Woodlick.
And the pitchers one on, drive ball, base hit out of the left field.
Between Eddie Ozden, Fitz Mackell and the Orioles have a man on,
Jackie Brand, that one, through the left side of the infield.
So with the man on, here's the right fielder Russ Snyder.
Snyder left handed hitter, with Kansas City in the 1960 season.
And the motion, the pitchers swung it to us by one.
Blinding fastball by Gerber.
Snyder hit 2.60 with the Kansas City A's last year.
Hit 3.13 with them in 1959.
He has tremendous speed, good throwing arm,
and the ability to hit shot line drives to all corners of the field.
Here's the motion and the lineup pitch turn, row outside, to make it one ball and one strike.
Russ was originally a product of the Yankee farm system,
and he found his way to the Kansas City team in one of the many player transactions between the two clubs.
And then he moved to the Orioles along with Wadie Herzog in exchange for Wayne Causey, Clint Courtney, and Bob Boyd.
Makes his home in Nelson, Nebraska.
Yost plays a shot of third, the curve ball, what a two-hot turn.
Ball two to make it two and one.
Joe Rice looked up the line to it first, with Jackie Branch staying right there.
The on-deck man, one of the finest-looking youngsters in baseball today, third base from Brooks Robinson.
Not only great defensively, but he is a tough man to deal with at the plate.
Ball two and strike one.
Nobody out, angels lead, free nothing, last half of the first.
Stretch taken by Gribba and the pitch.
Swung on, ground ball off of the second base side.
Aspermotti goes to second for one, no relay to first.
So the first play is made on the ground ball by Russ Snyder.
Aspermotti came up with that ball, made the toss to Chris Krakow,
but Krow with the speed of Snyder didn't chance the throw back to first.
And with one out and the runner at first here is third baseman Brooks Robinson.
Listen to the welcome this youngster gets.
Snyder is on, on the field of his choice.
One down, last half of the first inning.
The angels out in front, three nothing.
And the motion and the pitch, good curve ball for Snyder.
Brooks Robinson right-handed batter and the pass ball by Gribba.
Blow it outside to make it one and one.
Brooks had a terrific spring.
He wound up hitting 316, 25 hits and 79 times at bat.
He and Hanson and Herzog and Gentile with the leading spring hitters.
Kansas City and Boston, no score at the end of one.
And the pitch, curved and low outside.
Nice stop by Dale Rice, make it ball two and strike one.
The outfield set up straight away, serve, hunt and person.
Robinson wound up hitting 294 over the Orioles last year, 88 RBIs.
And the delivery turn, a swing and a ground ball down to short.
McHale over to Asper body for one, relay to first.
They got it, get plenty of time.
So the infield backs up Eli Gribba with a double play as Eli got Robinson to bounce one right at the shortstop, Fritz Brichel.
Six to four to three to do it.
The Baltimore Starry in the first inning, no runs, one hit, no errors, and with a twin killing, nobody left.
So that is the first double play of the American League season for the Angels.
The score at the end of one, Los Angeles Angels three, the Baltimore Orioles nothing.
This is Paul Richards, manager of the Baltimore Orioles.
The Orioles will be at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles for a three-game series beginning Tuesday night, May 3rd.
You'll be seeing such stars as Brooks Robinson, Chuck Estrada, Gus Triandos, Ron Hanson, and many others.
Remember, the Angels meet the Orioles in a three-game series at Wrigley Field beginning Tuesday night, May 3rd.
Well, thank you very much, Paul, and friends, a reminder that the ticket office at Comfortable Wrigley Field is open daily to serve you on a personal basis.
The junior ticket manager, Billy Jordan and his five staff are there from 9.30 in the morning until 5.30 in the evening.
And you telephone Adams 2-4761 for ticket information or stop in for your seat selections at easy to reach Wrigley Field.
Well, we're getting set now for the second inning.
Hold on to that Western Union tape. Steve just pulled off the Western Union ticker here and that looks mighty good.
We'll have to keep this in our time capsule, Cal.
Ted Klosinski, Homer, LA first, one on.
At Baltimore, sir, Homer, LA first, men on.
And at the end of that first half of the first inning, the Angels three and the Baltimore Orioles nothing.
Now we're moving into the top half of the second. Here's Del Rice leading off and the first pitch to Del, up two high for ball one.
No, Pappas on them on. Del has something in his eye with that wind kicking the dirt around down their round home plate.
And it is still blowing in firstly from the left field corner, blowing toward right.
Those pennants out there are really standing out.
Here's the lineup by Pappas and the one-up in pitch to Del. Low outside, ball two, and it's two balls and no strikes.
The Indians came up with six runs at Detroit.
They knocked out Jim Bunning, the starter, and it's Cleveland six, Detroit nothing.
The Tigers batting and facing Jim Perry in the last half of the second.
Here's the two-nothing pitch and it's outside at the waste ball three, three and nothing.
Activity again in the Baltimore bullpen.
So John Papa, P-A-P-A, is throwing in the bullpen again.
And the delivery down two, low ball four. Rice gets on with a third walk issued by Pappas in less than two innings.
Coming up now will be the Angel pitcher.
Here comes Eli, gingerly stepping up the steps there, the dugout up on the first base side where the Angels are located and moving out toward the plate.
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Eli Gerber steps in now with a round of it first base and nobody out, second inning. Angels lead three, nothing.
Here's the stretch taken by Pappas. They look for the sacrifice, but the pitch, low and close, ball one.
So Pappas still off the target.
Well, it's a chilly day in Baltimore, but it got hot in a hurry there in the first inning.
With a walk to Pearson, the two-round homer by Klosinski and the long poke with the bases empty by Bob Serr.
Stretch again and the delivery on the way, strike call to make it one and one.
Here they expected between 30 and 40,000 people today and from the looks of things, they just about realized that estimate.
Here's the one-one pitch and it's run out in front of the plate. Going for it, Priandas goes to second, got him at second base.
Gerber's safe at first, no throw made. So the sacrifice failed.
Leila had that pitch run out just in front of the plate and on the first base side by a couple of feet.
And Gus Priandas, great, quick, agile receiver he is despite his size,
grabbed that ball and whooped it through to the shortstop Ronnie Hanson to get the force out on Del Rice riding in.
So Gerber on a field of choice. Now with one out, here's the third baseman, Eddie Yoss.
He's started things off by popping out to Hanson in the first inning.
Milk Tappas getting ready to operate on Yoss, got him a curveball in close at the letters for ball one.
In the national league in the game between the Cubs and Cincinnati, Glenn Hobbie starting for the Cubs and the definite starter for the Red Legs, the young fellow Jim O'Toole.
One nothing count on Yoss down the pitch, two low to him, ball two and it's two and nothing.
The Minnesota Twins failed in the second inning. The Yankees are now batting, no score in that game.
At New York, Ramos and Ford. Here the Angels lead three nothing and we're in the first half of the second with a man on and one out.
Here's for Matty on deck. As Yoss saw Tappas taking so much time that Eddie elected to step out of the batter's box.
Grabbed the hand for the dirt, moves in again. Now the two nothing pitch. Two hat to ball, pray and it's three and nothing.
If Yoss manages to get on with the walk, knowing Paul Richards usual pattern, he will probably be out there in a hurry or have Lumen Harris out there to see Tappas.
And the pitch is like coal, did I get pray and why? Of course that thought is going through young Milton's mind right now too.
He doesn't want to see the man from Waxahachie, Texas come out there either in person or send out one of his representatives.
So the stretch and the three one delivery into Taptin and it's ball four.
So that puts two men on.
Now Mr. Richards, seated down there in the brand new Baltimore dugout, hasn't made a move.
Up here is the sign going out to the bullpen, are you ready?
This is made by Lumen Harris, he takes his cap off and he signals out to the bullpen to Harry Brekeen that if he thinks that Richard Tong and the bullpen is ready,
that well if he has trouble here with us for money, they'll have Tappas out in a hurry.
Runners at first and second and the pitch to Kent up too high for ball one.
One nothing count now. Angels lead three nothing and a chance to get some more.
And the GERBA is on at second base, Eddie Oost is at first.
And the motion the pitch swung on, little roller foul up the third base side and it's one ball and one strike.
So in less than two innings, in an inning and a third, Tappas has given up four walks, only two hits.
But what beautiful sights they were, both home runs.
Here's the stretch again by Tappas and the Oriole right-hander changed up on him and got it way up high for ball two and it's two and one.
Two and one count on Ken Aspermati. Ken was called out on strikes in the first inning.
On deck, Albie Pearson.
Here's that stretch again and the delivery coming in now, a fastball swung on back to hard out. Look out there.
Play those charm shots up here boys, you need those plastic helmet ladders out there.
That one came in and ricocheted off both sections of glass landing on Booth and passed over Dick Nelson's head and went right back out of the ballpark.
Like a giant pinball machine. Two balls and two strikes on Ken Aspermati.
Tappas goes to the stretch again and the pitch, check swing, blueprints down the first base side foul and away from Jim Gentile.
Ken Aspermati checked his swing on a high delivery to him and he blew one down the line.
So it's still the native count, two balls and two strikes.
Come on Ken, runners at first and second here with only one out.
Tappas the great young right-hander trying to hang on here and hang inside.
Here's the two-two delivery now, swing and a foul cut back on the screen and it's still two balls and two strikes.
Blubbing out the night game with the Orioles tomorrow night.
Today the Washington Santa Feers and the White Sox who officially opened the season yesterday and Washington had the day off.
And then they will return to action again tomorrow.
And from here we'll be traveling to Boston, then to New York, then on to Detroit, then to Chicago and then back home.
But Los Angeles on April 27th with the Minnesota Twins, here's the two-two putts coming in now, swing, a shot, down by Robinson at third.
Let's see if he has a play of the third or second, fourth play of the second base.
And he lost his fourth to second base.
Here's Bill Rettig coming out and they're going to hop all over John Rice.
Rettig coming out now as Brooks Robinson made a fantastic stop for that ball at third.
Go about for it, knocked it down, it flicked off his glove, rolled behind third by about ten or twelve feet.
He picked the ball up, no chance for a play on Goebel at third so he got that ball to second base, depleting and it was in time.
So Aspermatti on a field of choice and robbed of an extra base hit.
Bill Wigny not going to give up on this easily.
He is still working on second base up by John Rice.
Up and down go the hands and this is the first full-scale argument of the 1961 season.
And now Rigg has turned his back, kicks the dirt like a snorting bull as he comes back from second base.
And the wind kicks up some dirt of its own around the home plate area.
Runners at first and third now with two out.
Without that play at second base, the Angels would have had the bases loaded but they only went away.
Here's Albie Kirstenstep again.
Runners at first and third, two down. Angels lead, clean up again.
The pitcher on the way to Albie, strike right at the knee.
So Brooks Robinson turns in fantastic play number one.
And the motion, the pitch, curve, stack call over the inside edge of the plate to make it nothing and two.
Ball and two count.
The Indians lead, Detroit sucks nothing.
That game in the last half of the third, Detroit batting.
Here's the stretch and the two-strike pitch to Albie.
And again, low and close, one ball and two strikes.
Runners at first and third, Aspermatti is on at first.
Eli Goebel the pitcher on here third.
Stretch again, Pappas delivers and Kirsten takes down low, ball two.
Fastball by Pappas.
Two balls and two strikes.
Now they have two pitchers throwing in the bullpen for the Orioles, a pair of right-handers.
Here's the motion again on the delivery person, swings, line drive, base hit, left center field.
Goebel comes in with a fourth run.
Get Aspermatti, holds the second base and the mighty Mike Albie Pearson shoots a line drive for a base hit to right center field.
Let's pause now for station identification.
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Well, the coach, Lumenhaus of the Orioles has come out to the mound.
And this will be all for Milt Pappas.
They're loading up the convertible out there.
They use the convertible to bring the pitchers out of the bullpen.
So before Ted Flisinski steps in, Ted won't have a chance to face Pappas again.
And of course, that big thought ran through Paul Richards' mind.
He said, well, after he kissed that one in the first inning with the man on,
they're going to deck Milt Pappas at this point.
So the base hit by Albie Pearson that makes this a 4-0 game is the hit that does it.
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Come in, Cal.
Let's check our scoreboard here.
The Chicago White Sox and the Austin Dissidenters on today played yesterday at Washington in the Presidential Open,
and the White Sox win a good 4-3.
At Yankee Stadium this afternoon, the Minnesota Twins and the Yankees are nothing, nothing at the end of 2.
The Bravos pitching for Minnesota and Whitey Ford going for the Yanks.
Cleveland had a big 6-run second inning.
When we fought it back at Tiger Stadium in the last half of 3rd, Cleveland leads the Tigers 6-0.
Jim Perry, 18 game winner for Tribe last year, pitching for Cleveland.
But the Tigers' bunning started knocked out of the box the second inning when Reagan came on.
Kansas City and the Boston Red Sox, nothing, nothing at the end of 1st.
Ray Hubbard pitching for Kansas City and for Boston, Manbo Kemp.
In the National League, the Cubs are at Cincinnati, lobby against O'Toole.
St. Louis at New York, Ebrolio against Vaughan.
The Pirates at San Francisco, win against San Jones.
And tonight at the Coliseum in Los Angeles, the Phillies with Robin Roberts going against the Dodgers with Don Drysdale.
And on behalf of our broadcasting crew and all of the angel organization, we'd like to wish the Dodgers a lot of good luck.
Well, we have a new pitcher out there taking his warm-up throws.
I mean, his young John Papa, PAPA, 5'11, one-nighter, right-hander from Stutford, Connecticut.
He was with Appleton, Wisconsin last year where he was reckoned with 7 and 6.
During spring training, he was 1 and 2, working 24 innings, giving up 23 hits, 14 runs, 11 earned runs, walked 17 and fanned 7.
So he's coming up here with the angels leading 4-0 at the top of the 2nd.
Asked for money on 2nd.
Here's Don 1st and big clue who had a home run, a two-run job on the 1st inning up here and again down.
John Papa is just 21 years of age.
Little right-hander and set to go to work on Ted Klosinski.
Bob Serb on deck.
Runners at 1st and 2nd and with 2 out, curveball and too close to him.
Ted wheeled away from it and it's ball one.
So from Papas to PAPA.
The Orioles roster is already 2 below the opening day 28-player maximum.
So as a result, they have retained this 21-year-old.
Very impressive this spring, 1-7 and lost 6 in class B ball in 1960.
He takes the stretch.
1-0 pitch.
Flu looks at a curve, low and close.
Let up on that pitch and it's ball two, 2-0.
The angels lead 4-0 and the run driven in by the little guy, potent guy here.
In this one in the early innings, Albie Persidy walked in the 1st and scored a run.
He's single to drive in a run here in the 2nd.
Genas Pramati is on at 2nd base.
Albie, a way to his lead at 1st.
Papas got 2-0 on Klosinski and the push in the pitch.
Fastball, swing and a miss.
Mulney had that one in there before you know it.
And the count is 2-1.
Paul Richards sat down in his office earlier when we all went in to visit him.
He had done quite a bit in completely changing around Papas' pitching style this spring.
He's got to help him tremendously in his pitching rhythm and also in his leverage.
And he said there's one thing about his fastball, he said he doesn't appear to be overpoweringly fast,
but that fastball does something.
Did plenty there as Klosinski waved at it.
Here's the stretch for the 2-0 on delivery.
Now swing and there's a long, long poke.
Goodbye baseball and it's way out there.
Go!
I had to check the expression that manager Al Lomaz with the white socks over here.
How about that one Al?
Muscles, huh?
Al said earlier, he said it must be the fact that he's wearing that sweatshirt.
He said if he had those muscles showing, what would he do?
A tremendous poke out of here, a three-run homer by Klosinski and the Angels lead 7-0.
As for body came in, Albie Pearson checked in.
Klosinski with back-to-back homers.
Five RBIs for 10.
He's putting on a one-man performance here for all of the fans.
Here's Bob Serb, a swing and a foul back on the screen, strike one.
And not too many smiling faces at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore.
Three runs in the first inning, four more here on the second.
That is only the fourth Angel hit, but of the four, three had been home runs.
Bob Serb hit a long job in the first inning and the motion, look out, Bob, high and close to him.
And it's one ball and one strike.
One-one count on Bob Serb.
What a day for Klu.
Here's the one-one delivery now, swing, a shot, foul, into the upper deck, down the right field line,
right down one of the exit holes up there, and it's one ball and two strikes.
In the National League in the St. Louis-Milwaukee game at County Stadium in Milwaukee,
Ernie Brodial pitching for St. Louis, Warren Spahn for the Milwaukee Braves.
Two o'clock temperature reading, 51 degrees.
And they're clocking some good strong runs.
We have made reference to them a number of times.
Here's the motion and a two-strike that's led up on it, swung a miss, strike three.
Bob Serb, fooled on that changeup by Pappa, strikes out to retire the side,
but Pluszki gave Pappa a good major league indoctrination lesson there with that long pre-run homer.
So on the second inning, four runs check-in on a total of two hits, two waps in the inning.
There were no errors, and with that home run by Pluszki, nobody left.
The score at the end of the first half of the second are Angels 7, Baltimore nothing.
So you fans who enjoyed the great Pacific Coast League games at Wrigley Field
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Gerber, Bilko, Aspomade, they were outstanding players in the OPCL,
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Carol and I were just discussing, we don't know if they have a tape measure long enough for that one that flew in.
We figure it was about 440 feet away or 450 on the fly because it went into the bleacher area
above the Baltimore bullpen and this is well beyond the wire fence.
It's 380 feet to the point where the low wire fence meets up with the brick wall that they have out there in right field.
And this was well beyond that and about 20 rows up into that section.
So that was one mighty shot by Kwasowski, good for three more runs.
The Angels lead 7-0 and here's the last half of the second coming up.
First baseman Jim Gentile, guy with good power.
You have to treat him with plenty of respect up there at the plate.
Gus Priandus on deck and then the left fielder, Gene Stevens.
Gentile the 1960 while they're pitting 292 with this ball club, 6'4", 215 pounds.
And the fastball by Gerber up high and away for ball one.
98 RBI's last year, he had 21 home runs.
Cincinnati has taken a 1-0 lead over the Cubs at the end of one.
Frank Robinson-Homer to the first inning.
Eli Gerber 1-0 on Gentile, the big luck hand of the hitter.
And the delivery turn, Curbs, long on drive, base hit out of the right field.
Albie Kersen makes the pick up with this ball.
Gentile is on with a second Baltimore hit.
Gus Priandus, listen to this reception.
Gus Priandus 6'3", 220 pounds with the Orioles last year, 269 batting average, 54 RBI's, 12 homers.
He was handicapped with a bum hand.
Bad finger and the curveball, too, and a long drive on into left field.
But the one who holds this ball up, observe, over a couple of steps, makes the catch.
You hit one up into that wind, drive again as it is from left field toward the right field corner.
And those are just routine, practically routine, fly balls.
Any other time, had it been still out there, and the sound of that one, that ball would have been gone.
But that's that terrific wind blowing in.
Gentile on at first.
Here's Gene Stevens.
This is Rodney Hanson, double check on that.
So they've made a switch in the batting order.
Rodney Hanson, first pitch to him by Gerber up high.
So like this, Rodney Hanson, a short stop up there, right-handed batter.
And the strike to him offered by Gerber.
Seven to nothing, the Angels lead, last half of the second inning.
Rodney, 6'3", 190 pounds, hit 255 with the Orioles last year.
Pitch by Gerber, the swing, a little tap at the third-base side.
Eli makes the barehand pick-up, goes to first. He got it.
And the runner, Gentile, goes to second base.
So Hanson is out of there, pitcher to first.
From Gerber to Klosinski.
Fast fielding by Gerber in the trick.
Gentile out at second base.
And here is Stevens.
Cleveland, 6', Detroit, 2' at the end of free at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
Minnesota Twins nothing, the Yankees nothing at the end of free.
Here the Angels lead, 7 to nothing, last half of the second.
Stevens in left field today.
Waddy Herzog on the injured list for the Orioles.
Otherwise he would have been on the starting lineup.
Curveball by Gerber, low and close.
Herzog sustained a broken nose in Richmond Sunday.
He was released from Richmond Memorial Hospital yesterday.
He was out here at the ballpark. I saw him this morning.
He expects to be able to play in about a week.
And the pitch, curve spun on, fouled off to the right side of the plate.
Two out here and a 1-1 count on the batter, Stevens.
Gentile on at second.
Stevens who filled in for Ted Williams with the Red Sox for a number of years.
Tall left-handed hitter, Stan 6'3".
Hit 235 last year with a combination of the Red Sox and Baltimore.
He was traded for Willie Tasbee.
The pitch to him outside by Gerber and it's ball to and strike one.
One of the most sought after young players in America.
And nevertheless he remained with the Red Sox for a period of six years,
serving as an understudy for Ted Williams.
And he found little chance to play enough to realize his true potential.
Joined the Orioles in June of last year, last season.
Stretched by Gerber. They make, no, they don't go for the pickoff.
They deliver down too low for ball three.
Footsie Burkel had moved in behind the baseman of Gentile.
But Gerber instead concentrated on the batter and it's now ball three and strike one.
Gina makes his home during the winter in Oklahoma City.
He's one of the few players in professional baseball to have hit safely three times in a single inning.
He's at the high spot in his career today.
Touch to him outside at the waist for ball four.
So Stevens is on with a first walk issued by Gerber.
Gentile is there at second base.
Here's the second baseman, Mark Breeding.
The second baseman, number one, Mark Breeding.
One of the factors which cannot be overlooked in the success of the 1960 Orioles
was the fine all-around performance of this guy at second base.
One up hitting 267.
Right-hander up here with runners at first and second and two out.
And the pitch by Gerber. Nice one.
Snapped it right in there for a strike.
He drove in 43 runs, hit three homers.
He participated in the lion's share of the record-breaking 172 double plays
reeled off by the Bird infield last year.
Swing on a good slider by Gerber.
And a miss for two strikes.
Boy with pretty good speed and a good baserunner, too.
Breeding led the club and stilled in bases during the 1960 season.
But there's one thing to remember, that Baltimore had never been much of a running ball club.
Two strikes on Breeding now with Gentile at second.
Stevens on at first. Last half of the second.
The Angels lead. Baltimore 7-0.
Here's the pitch on the way, and he checked his swing.
Check it outside.
And it's one ball and two strikes.
One ball and two strikes.
This is Don Wells with Bob Kelly and Steve Bailey at Memorial Stadium.
What a blustery day, but today off to a good start with seven of them up there on the board in the first two innings.
Two-strike delivery coming up now.
Runners at first and second.
And the fastball's swung on.
Ground ball down to short.
Burkel bobbles that ball.
Goes to second. Goes by outside.
There is Chantillo coming in to score.
And the Orioles wind up with runners at second and third.
Ground ball that was hit right at Burkel at short.
Bobbled the ball.
Came up with it.
Still had time to get it to second base to try to gain the force on Stevens, but fits through the ball in the right field.
That'll be a fielder's choice.
And an error for Burkel.
So an error of six.
So make that two errors.
An error for bobbling the ball initially and then the error on the throws.
So a pair of errors on Burkel.
Well, let's see what manager Paul Richards elects to do here.
He's going to make a switch.
At this stage of the game, down by a 7-1 score, he will have to come up with a change.
Lift his pitcher, Pappa, out of there.
And we'll wait and see now.
He's coming up off the bench.
Looks like it's going to be Earl Robinson.
This will be Earl Robinson.
Now he has been recalled.
It's going to be Dave Philly.
Earl Robinson came up, and they called him back.
And here's the great veteran, Dave Philly.
Dave will be up here to swing for the pitcher, Pappa.
Runners at second and third, and with two out.
Dave Philly is a sports hitter, so he will be batting left-handed against the right-hander, Eli Gerba,
from Paris, Texas.
Baltimore, last season, 265 average, and the first pitch to him of strike.
And with the Phillies in San Francisco, he wound up hitting 197.
Dave Philly, born in 1920, down in Texas.
Runners at second and third, one run is in.
The Angels out in front, 7-1.
As an unearned run checked in, two errors charged to Braquel,
first for not being able to come up with Breeding's ground ball,
and then for his throw by Aspermatti in the right field,
enabling Gentile to come in and score.
Stevens on the third, Breeding at second base, two down.
Last half of the second inning.
Here's the motion by Gerba, and the pitch coming in to Davis.
Swing and a foul tipped.
He's got a pace of it, and it's two strikes.
Nothing in two count that Gerba has on Philly.
The outfield and the infield swung well around to the right.
The motion, the pitch, down, too low to him.
Gerba thought he had him.
Started to walk off the mound, and it's one ball and two strikes.
Dave started his organized baseball career in Class C ball in 1940.
Got up to the White Sox in 1941, stayed with the White Sox for a number of years,
251 in fact, for end of the 51 season.
Then went the Philadelphia A's, Cleveland, Baltimore, Detroit, the Phillies, Giants, back to Baltimore.
So much time taken now that Philly steps out of the batter's box.
Davis, 40 years of age, but he is in prime physical condition.
Here's the motion, and the two-strike pitch to Philly.
A swung little pop-up, shortstop side.
Brichelle makes the call for the ball.
Pritz is there, makes the catch to retire the side.
So on the second inning, one run, an unearned run.
One hit, one walk, pair of errors, and there were two men left.
Fans to score at the end of two are Los Angeles Angels 7 and the Baltimore Orioles 1.
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Born in Argo, Illinois in 1924, Big Flu stands 6'2", weighs 245.
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Ted had 10 RBIs in the 1959 World Series against the Dodgers,
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Well, we have another pitching change now made by manager Paul Richards as West Stock,
right-hander, comes in to work for the Orioles, seeing Pappas, Papa, and Stock.
Let's pause now for station identification.
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This is 50,000 watt KMPC Los Angeles, home of the Angels,
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When you look out of the records, there aren't too many home runs hit in this ballpark.
It's a tough ballpark in which to hit homers.
And I think that this is probably one of the most productive days that any team has had.
In fact, I would guarantee that this sets an all-time record for Memorial Stadium
in first and second inning home run production.
The fact that three have been hit in the first two innings of today's game.
7-1 score, the Angels lead, third inning getting underway,
and West Stock, right-hander, faces center fielder Ken Hunt.
Ken walked in the first inning.
He is the sixth man of the batting order, then Brichel.
And the fastball by Stock is down two low for ball one.
Stock with Baltimore last year, wound up winning two and losing two.
He was with Miami to begin with in the 60 season, 1-8, lost six.
He has a sinking fastball, gets it over the plate wall.
And a fastball outside corner.
One ball and one strike.
Born in 1934, stands 6-1, weighs 177 pounds,
but a temp by Hunt, sales foul up on the screen behind the plate.
And it's one ball and two strikes.
A good permanent assignment for Stock in the Baltimore bullpen.
The Angels lead 7-1, starting the third inning.
Here's the two-strike pitch to Ken Hunt.
Hit him, got him right up on the wrist.
Got him on the right wrist as he fell away from that pitch by Stock.
And Hunt hit here, gets on to start things off in the third.
Ma Belli of the coaches first comes over to check on Ken in case he's all right.
Here's the shortstop for Brichel.
That one also, Nick Gus Triandos.
There was one that glanced off the wrist, then the bat of Hunt.
And then caught Gus Triandos just above the wrist, his bare hand.
So time was taken and Gus went out, walked around, talked to Stock for a moment,
now coming back behind the plate.
First Brichel who popped out to Rodney Hanson,
the shortstop to retire the side in the first inning,
steps in now with Hunt on it first, nobody out.
And the next man up there will be the catcher, Del Rice.
Tomorrow's game will be Steve Barber against Ned Garver.
And the stretch, Stock delivers, right-hawing, a swing and a foul fly
out of play down the right field line, traveling into the upper deck.
And it's one strike.
Minnesota, nothing. The New York Yankees, nothing.
At the end of four, the Indians of Cleveland, seven.
The Detroit Tigers, two.
Detroit batting, last half of the fourth.
Kansas City, two. Boston, nothing. Last half of the third.
In the National League, Central 91, the Cubs, nothing.
At the end of two, St. Louis, nothing.
Milwaukee, nothing.
And the Braves are batting in their half of the second.
So those are all the scorers up to date.
Ken Hunt running on that last pitch.
A way to his late at first, drives a throw, Stock whips one over to Gentil.
But Ken went jumping right back to the bag.
Here's the motion and the pitch for Cal Splains, ground ball, third base side.
Robinson over to Breeding for one, relay to Perth, and time, double play.
Make it really, push that ball around the infield.
Robinson to Breeding for Gentil.
And these two clubs even up, a double play apiece.
Pitch for Cal, bouncing one down to the third baseman, Butch Robinson.
Now with two out, here is the catcher, Del Rice.
No walk to start the second inning.
Clouds overhead, that wind continues to sail them across the sky.
That's strong breeze.
The motion by the Orioles, right-hander, Stock.
Pitch one on, drives deep out of the left field.
Breaking back for the ball goes Stevens.
Wind holds this one up, and Stevens makes the catch.
So Rice really pounded one well out of left field, but it was fighting the wind all the way.
In the third, no runs, no hits, no errors.
Down to the double play, nobody left.
Score at the end of the first half of the third, the Angels 7, Baltimore 1.
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Well, we're off to quite a start.
There's the sun trying to peek through again.
Yeah, I tell you, it's been cold every time I've ever been in Baltimore.
I was remarking down there before to the custodian in charge of the front box.
He says, I've seen you before someplace, haven't I?
I guess I've been here with the Rams.
This is the same kind of Baltimore weather I'm used to.
Well, let's see what happens now in the Baltimore half of the third.
Center field with Jackie Brandt steps in.
Jackie, in the first inning, had a base hit.
Hit one between Yost and Burkell in the left field.
Right-handed batter and the motion, the pitch by Gerber.
Swing, same spot, base hit, left field.
Jackie Brandt didn't waste any time up there.
Took a cut on that initial offering by Gerber and pounded one again in the hole between short and third.
Here is the left-handed batting right fielder, Ross Snyder.
He hit and of a fielder's choice, or reached out a fielder's choice, hitting it over force play on the first inning.
So right of the first, Angel's lead, stopping the run.
We're in the last of the third.
Here's the stretch.
Yost coming in from third and the pitch down low for a ball.
One ball to no strikes.
By that I don't mean when I say Yost coming in from third, that down by six runs, that they find any sacrificing out of there.
But Snyder with his great speed could possibly be bunting for the hit.
He doesn't want him to get on.
And the pitch cutoff, late foul tip.
One ball and one strike.
The Orioles last year finished second to the Yankees, trailed them by eight games.
And they were two games ahead of the third place White Sox.
Gerber ready with the one-one delivery.
Curve high and outside.
Ball two and strike one.
So the two-one delivery ready here by Gerber.
High and outside.
Ball three and it's three-one.
So Eli pitching to the left-hander, Rod Snyder, having trouble with him.
And Del Rice goes out to talk to Eli.
Here's Eddie Yost coming over from his spot of third to join the conversation.
Rice coming back behind the plate.
Eddie going back over to the bag.
And Eli takes a moment, gets that glove off, rubs up this ball, and checks around the infield.
Takes his cap off for a moment.
Standing right on the bag, Jackie Brand.
Way to his lead now.
Kwasinski playing off the bag.
Three-one delivery coming in.
Not too high.
Ball four.
Well, they're two-one with nobody out in the third.
And here's Robinson.
We're in the business section of the batting order now with Robinson, Gen Seale, and Friambo coming up in order.
And we're going to see some activity in the Angels bullpen.
Here is Brooks Robinson, right-handed batter.
Hit into a double play.
First time up, pitch to him, strike call.
Work the outside front of the plate, strike one.
Jackie Brand on his second base.
Russ Niter is here at first.
We're in the last half of the third.
Eli Gerber takes that stretch again.
The look toward the lead man at second and the pitch.
Hook outside at the waist.
Ball one and strike one.
Dex Poveger throws for the Angels in the bullpen out beyond the low-wire fence, 390 feet away.
So Gerber one and one on Robinson.
Robinson can on many occasions be a good long ball hitter.
And the next pitch to him, the fast ball in there, caught him by surprise.
Strike two, call.
One ball and two strikes.
Because when that pitch came in, Robbie took a double take on it.
The man at ballpark.
Tremendous acreage there on the outfield, except out of the foul line.
One and two count.
Runners at first and second with nobody out.
Here's the two-strike that's swung on, driven down the right-field line foul.
Five or six feet outside the line.
Albie Pearson, as it comes off the wall, makes a pick-up of it.
So you can put your heart back in its right spot now, and it's a one and two count.
Minnesota nothing, the Yankees nothing.
We're there in the last half of the fifth.
Here we are, the last of the third.
Brooks Robinson, slice one, shot one, foul down the right-field line.
One and two on it.
Eli getting aside from Bell-Rise.
Look toward the lead man again, and the pitch swung on.
Here's the fly ball out in the right field.
The wind is blowing into the foul territory, and it's going to be fouled out of the right-field line.
Missed the foul ball by about 25 or 30 feet, dropping up into the seats.
And it's still one and two.
And Robinson had that more toward the straightaway mark when it was initially hit.
That wind blowing, it probably would have wrapped it right around the foul pole.
One and two count on Brooks Robinson.
He made a great play earlier on a hard smash at the third base side off the bat of Aspermoney.
Ran at second.
Snyder was on it first.
Here's the two-strike pitch coming in.
A lot of fun in it, and didn't miss by more than a hair there.
Two balls and two strikes.
Too high in the pen, you know, the Play-Dumb Fire Steven.
Two balls and two strikes.
Runners at first and second here with nobody out.
Gerber to the stretch again, and the pitch coming in. Curve up over his head.
Ball three, three and two.
The on-neck man is Jen Teal.
So this is a noisy point in today's game with these fans.
Watching Gerber go through a three and two count on Robinson.
Manoeuvres away from the bag at second.
Snyder jumps out to a longer lead at first.
So here's the free-two-and-over coming in.
Fastball's put on grab on the third base side.
Yost over to second for one. Relay to first, and it's a wide caught.
Away from Pazusky, tries to find the ball to run short.
Robinson meanwhile stayed at first.
The throw by Aspermoney will draw an error.
It was down in the dirt.
Pazusky tried to make a swipe pick-up of it.
And as it went off his glove, high up in the air, it dropped behind him and flew wheeled around like a man in a revolving door trying to find that one.
So it's going to be an error for Aspermoney. No RBI.
Jackie Brandt came in to score.
Snyder was forced at second base.
As Eddie Yost made the pick-up of the ball to begin with, the ground ball, and got it to Aspermoney to force out Snyder.
Here is Gentile. Here's a swing and a foul off behind the plate.
The score now, the Angels 7, Baltimore 2, in the last half of the third.
So Baltimore, here is Gentile. Here's a swing and a foul off behind the plate.
The score now, the Angels 7, Baltimore 2, in the last half of the third.
So Baltimore trying to chip away here at the Angel lead that at one time was 7-0.
The Angels were 3 on the first and 4 in the second.
Gentile had a base hit.
Line 1, Shrockley to right field leading off the second.
One strike fits to him.
Snyder by Gerber, half a bit high. One ball and one strike.
Brooks Robinson is on the first.
With one out and they pitch to Gentile, ground ball off of the second base side.
Aspermoney over to second for one and Raquel had the leap up over the sliding Brooks Robinson.
So no possibility of the relay to first. They get the fourth play at second base.
So Brooks Robinson, fourth stop from second baseman Aspermoney to the shortstop, Prissy Raquel.
Gentile reaches on a field of choice and here's the catcher, Gus Priandos.
At the end of five at Yankee Stadium, Minnesota nothing and the Yankees nothing.
Gus Priandos hit one right on the nose but the wind held the ball up in left field in the second inning
and it was an easy catch for Bob Serr.
Step second by Gerber and they pitch on the way to Priandos, down low and outside.
Stopped by Rice to make it ball one.
One nothing cut on Gus Priandos.
Jim Gentile moving away from the bag at first.
Curve ball to Priandos, low and outside and it's one ball to one strike.
Stuller started out of the Yankee organization and he's a big one and a very likeable one too.
One ball and one strike on Gus and they're delivering to the fastball from a long post deep out of the right field
breaking back for it, Albie Turson back near the fence.
Priandos gave Ron a tremendous ride, 375 feet away but hauled on by Albie Turson
and that's all she wrote in the third inning for the Orioles.
One run, one hit, one error and one man left hits an earned run.
And the score at the end, three full innings to play, this is Don Walsh with Bob Kelly and Steve Bailey.
Our Los Angeles Angels 7 and the Baltimore Orioles 2.
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Now let's take a look at the scores of other games in progress.
Milwaukee and St. Louis are scoreless at the end of three.
Brollier against Spons.
Cincinnati, Chicago, 1-1 at the end of two and a half.
Hobby against O'Toole.
For more play-by-play, the Angels leading 7-2 on the top of the fourth.
Here is Bob Kelly.
All right, thank you, Steve. And here's the Angel pitcher Eli Gerber, right-handed batter.
Bothered into a fourth play in a futile attempt to sacrifice the second inning.
West-stock for third Baltimore pitcher, right-handed Lamont works,
and he tries to book this one, foul-fips a fastball into the dirt behind strike one.
The score here at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, is the Angels 7 and the Baltimore Orioles 2.
The Angels batting in the top half of the fourth inning.
The Angel pitcher up here for the second time at bat this afternoon, Eli Gerber.
Now the mound for Baltimore works again, and the fastball is wide.
So the count level's off here, ball one and strike one.
You cannot assume a double play in scoring, and thus,
Baltimore's run of the third inning was scored as an earned run.
Now the next pitch, and it is high and outside, ball two, the count to Gerber, ball two, strike one.
Stock pitched one inning prior to this one in the third.
Hit a batter, but got out of that because of double play, so faced only three men.
The Angels leading by a score of 7 to 2.
Here's the 2-1 pitch, swings a high fly to deep left field.
Gene Stevens drifting way back, and he's got it way back near the screen.
Back pile of the Baltimore bullpets.
So Gerber put a lot of work behind that one, and had it not been going right into a stiff wind,
we'd have the first home run hit by a pitcher in the American League this season.
But it's only an out, one down, brings down the top of the Angels' batting order,
third baseman Eddie Yost, two bats right.
Yost popped the shortstop on the first inning, drew a walk in the second.
He walked 26 times this spring in the exhibition games.
So one out, nobody on here.
The Angels lead 7 to 2.
Stock to right-hander, winds and delivers, and the fastball is right down the plate.
A close, strike one.
They're shaving Yost a little bit around to the right for a late swinger.
The next pitch, fastball, right down there again for a close, strike two.
So Eddie's looking for a couple of good pitchers.
Red Crest coaching a third, Bob Elliott at first.
One out, nobody on.
On to the count of Eddie Yost.
Now, Blake Fitch, he's strong on a change-up curve and misses strike three.
So stock strikes out Eddie Yost on three pitches.
Two down, an out for the Angels in the fourth inning.
They scored three runs in the first, a two-on-one home run by Kluszewski
and a single at home run by Serb and got four runs the second inning.
And got four runs the second inning.
Fitch drove in a run with a spring over on Kluszewski,
so he hit his second back-to-back homer with two on.
Here's the wind-up of the pitch to Kenny Aspermati on a check to swing and took one high.
Kenny was called out on strikes the first inning,
hit into a fourth play, robbed of a base hit on a tremendous stop
by the class of third baseman of the Birds, Brooks Robinson, in the second inning.
And the ball won, no strikes, Fitch and it's wide ball two.
The Minnesota Twins failed to score the top of the sixth inning at Yankee Stadium
after five and a half thirds.
Minnesota nothing and the Yankees nothing.
Here at Baltimore, Los Angeles leading the Orioles 7-2,
two outs and out of the top of the fourth inning, two-nothing.
The count here to Aspermati, the next pitch.
He looks for the good one, right over.
Fast-breaking syncopation around the knees, ball two, strike one.
Short stop, Bronte Hanson playing deep in the hole.
Third baseman Robinson deep for third, close to the line,
swings the ground ball through to left field for a base hit.
Right through the gap there, fielded by Stephens,
goes into the short stop, Hanson cuts off,
and there's a run around here as Aspermati gets the fifth angel hit of the afternoon
on his first year of the season.
Rounds of short single between the short stop Hanson
and the third baseman Brooks Robinson,
and that brings down little Albie Pearson.
The mighty might walked on four pitches in the first inning,
and he lined a single to center field in the second,
so he has scored two runs and driven in one.
Pearson went down the line here to talk to the third base coach, Rob Kress.
So the angels out in front here, 7-2, have a run around first
and Aspermati, and the little left-handed batter Albert Pearson,
the right fielder, stands in.
Stop, right-handed rebound for the Orioles, stretches, looks at Aspermati, pitches,
and gets away from the catcher, wild pitch or a pass ball, Aspermati going down to second,
rounds the bag, goes back in there, and I believe he's going to be charged
with a pass ball against Triandos.
A high fast ball, we've got away from the catcher,
so Aspermati moves into scoring position.
And they caught the Albert Pearson ball well.
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All right, Pearson stands in, and now we have stopped taking a lot of time.
Albert steps out the block back in, pretty close to that plate.
The little guy with a squared stance,
running around second two away here for the Angels.
The stretcher pass stopped, the next pitch to Albie,
takes the good letter half pass ball for a close, strike one,
more winter and strike one.
This is the start of a 13 games and 15 days road trip for the Angels.
This two game series will wind up tomorrow night with a night game,
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There's a change up pitch and a cause strike right into the knees.
So Albie looks at the good one, ball one and strike two.
After tomorrow night's game, we'll have a couple of days off.
Not a single game in Boston Saturday afternoon,
followed by a Sunday afternoon double-hunter at Boston against the Red Sox.
One and two, the count to Pearson, Ash Pumati at second, two down.
The next pitch is high and away, fastball, ball two, two and two.
Eddie Matthews hit a home run for the Braves in the bottom of the fourth,
cutting off Ernie Burial, and at the end of the fourth in that game of the last league,
Milwaukee leads the Cardinals one to nothing.
Ash Pumati at second, two down here, Pearson the batter, two to the count,
a stretch of high stock and a pitch.
Slings a slow bouncer, foul off the right side, hit that one just off the skin of the knuckles.
And the Cardinals hit ball two and strike two.
Following the weekend series of Boston, there'll be on Monday off,
the Angels then play three straight day games against the Yankees at the Yankee Stadium.
Then over to Detroit, the three games,
followed by a pair of night games against the White Sox in Chicago,
and then for the big day at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles,
American League Baseball arrives, the Angels and the Minnesota Twins.
Two to the count here to Albie Pearson.
West back to the stretch, checks that one,
Ash Pumati with a good lead at second, a pitch way inside at low and almost got my friendos.
So a forecut on Pearson, ball three, strike two.
The four-count was the 15-game winner in each of the last two seasons.
Started for Baltimore, but was hit hard.
His wildest and two-hump runs by Kwaszynski and saves home run.
Spelled his downfall.
The Angels leading here by a score of 7-2.
Three and two, the full count pitch coming up the stretch, and here it is.
Swings, there's a high fly at the shallow right.
Going back to the second baseman, Bridging,
side of the right fielder in, and he makes the catch to retire the side.
And the fourth inning for the Angels, no runs, one hit, no errors.
One man left on base after three and a half minutes of play.
The score is Los Angeles 7 and Baltimore 2.
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Eli Gover, ready to go to work here in the bottom of the forefooting.
The angels starting pitcher has allowed two runs, one of them unearned, given up three hits.
He has blocked two batters, struck out nobody as yet, and Ronnie Henson,
Baltimore's rookie of the year in the national league last year,
their fine shortstop and a right-handed batter steps in.
Here's the lineup by Eli and the pitch.
Swings on a second ball and falls into the dirt behind, rolling back to the backstop, strike one.
Henson topped the ball and bounced out in front of the plate and was thrown out by pitcher Gover,
his first time at bat in the second inning.
Now the lineup for the next pitch for Henson, and he takes a lineup pitch outside,
all one and strike one.
Henson will be followed by Gene Stevens and Mark Brady.
Now the next pitch.
Swings a slow bouncer down toward third.
Yost charges a grab that throws to Kluszewski, and he digs it out of the dirt to be out.
From Henson out of there, third baseman Yost to first baseman Kluszewski,
as Eli, keeping that ball down low, got Henson to the top of it.
That softball warming up in the Baltimore bullpen, and here is Gene Stevens.
Big, tall, left-handed batting left-hieler, walked through the second inning.
Gover, the right-hander, winds and delivers, and it's a fastball, a little high,
and getting away from the catcher, Joe Rice, all one.
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Ball one, the county, one out, nobody on. Stevens waits for the next pitch.
He swings, laid on it, fastball, as Gover threw his fastest pitch of the afternoon,
and Stevens swung away, laid on it.
Ball one and strike one.
Now Brady, the second baseman of the Orioles on deck.
Here's Gover's next pitch, and it's a letter pitch lowed inside for ball two.
Third baseman Eddie Yost is playing up on the corner of the grass.
The outfield is fairly straight.
He had just slapped into the right, playing Stevens as a full hitter, but not too much.
Two and one, the count.
The next pitch to him, and he arches away from an inside pitch down by the kneecaps.
Ball three, three and one.
The score of Los Angeles Angels seven and the Baltimore Orioles two.
The Angels scored three in the first, four in the second.
Baltimore got one in the second and one in the third.
Three and one, the county, with one out, nobody on for the Orioles.
So Gover, behind the cap, pups, kicks, pitches, and he walks him high and outside.
Ball four.
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Opening day of the 1961 American League baseball season for the Los Angeles Angels and the Baltimore Orioles.
In the center of the batter's box is the right-handed batting second baseman of the Orioles,
Ma Breeding, with one on first and one away.
Here's Gover's pitch, playing the high pop up behind first base.
Asked for money moving over near the line, and he's got it for the often fair territory
by a couple of feet back on the outfield grass and short right.
Stevens plotting back into first base, and there's two down.
The pitchers do up here.
That one giving up to Stevens was the third pass yielded this afternoon by Eli Gover,
and we're looking for a pitch batter to crown here.
Al Allison, one of the big swuggers, will be appearing with the Minnesota Twins on opening day of Wrigley Field,
April 27th.
Now, he's hit a home run in the top of the seventh inning, 12 Minnesota, 24th,
who gives Minnesota at least one to nothing lead to the top of the seventh inning.
Earl Robinson coming to bat.
Earl Robinson coming up here to bat for the pitchers.
Let's start.
Two down, the angels leading 7-2, runner on first from the bottom of the fourth inning.
Here's the pitch to Robinson, and he checks his way and takes the good one.
Fast-breaking pitch right in there for a call strike one.
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He was found for one of the largest bonuses in Dodger history.
He was purchased from the Dodgers this past December.
Right-handed batter standing in, strike one to count, Goebel works again.
A little pitch is a little outside, way side, ball and the count levels.
At ball one in, strike one.
This is the second pitch batter that has appeared up here this afternoon for Baltimore.
Dilley, that is the pitcher in the second inning and popped up.
Now the stretch.
A one-one pitch to Robinson, swings a high five, center field.
That started back, moved right into his original position, and he's got it to the up to retire the side.
Robinson flies to hunt.
And in the fourth inning for the birds, no runs, no hits, no errors.
One man left on base at the end of the four, the score, the angels 7 and the Orioles 2.
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Well, the angels come to bat here in the fifth inning against the fifth pitcher, the fourth pitcher used by Baltimore, Billy Heft.
We'd like to check over the scores that he had to be done.
They have a convertible in the outfield that brings the relief pitchers in, and since Heft is now just walking toward the mound to take his warm-up pitches,
it gives us an opportunity to check the scores of other games.
Bob Allison's home run in the top of the seventh inning broke a scoreless tie, and Minnesota is out instead of the Yankees at least one-nothing, fighting for it against Pete Ramos.
Cleveland leads Detroit 7-2 after 5-1-1.
Jim Ferry started for Cleveland.
Jim Benning started for Detroit.
Regan in the second, Davihue in the sixth.
Kansas City leads Boston 2-1 after 3-1-1.
Ray Herbert against Bill Maugham Bouquet.
In the National League, there are three openers this afternoon and one tonight.
In the games in progress, Cincinnati leads Chicago 4-1 after 3-1-1.
Hoppy against O'Toole, home runs by Robinson, Rodgers, and Post.
Post hit his with two-ons.
Milwaukee leads St. Louis 1-0 at the end of 4-1-1.
Eddie Matthews hit a home run off Ernie Grolio in the fourth inning.
Warren Spahn pitching for Milwaukee.
Pittsburgh and San Francisco play this afternoon.
Dodgers and Phillies tonight.
All right, here's Kel.
That is the fourth Baltimore pitcher of the day, left-hander Billy Heff.
And he will face Ted Kwasuski, who has had two home runs,
mighty blast into the right field stands, accounting for five RBI this afternoon.
So the Angels lead 7-2 on our left-hander Billy Heff now on the mound for Baltimore.
And some dust got into the eyes of the batter, Kwasuski,
as that wind swirls up that dirt from the skin part of the diamond.
A lot heft into his windup.
Here's the pitch to Big Clue.
That fooled him.
Three-quarter delivery curveball breaking right over the heart of the plate.
He backs away, and it was a good pitch.
A call strike one to Kwasuski.
Fourth man in the Angel batting order here in the top of the fifth inning.
Kwasuski will be followed by Bob Serve and Kenny Hunt.
Now the windup of the next pitch.
Swings a slow buster to the left side.
Nice down of Brooks Robinson. Makes the play easily over to Jen Teal to the out.
Robinson to Jen Teal, third to first, one down.
Well, they finally got Big Clue out of there.
Here's Bob Serve, who hit his 96th home run of his career.
Needs just four more to reach the 100 mark in home runs.
Hit that one with nobody out of the first, struck out of the second.
The southpaw helps work, Sam.
The pitch is a call strike from the outside corner just above the knees.
One out, nobody out.
The Angels at bat here, top of the fifth inning, at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.
The playing serve for a straightaway hitter, and the infield is very deep for him.
The ex-Shanky slugger. Now heft.
Lines and pitches again.
That one hit the dirt before it reached the plate.
Very low, ball one, ball one, and strike one.
Heft was not afforded too much of an opportunity to work often last year.
Here's the next pitch to serve.
Always swinging that little pitch and missed it.
Billy Heft really pulled the chain on that one, and it's ball one and strike two to serve.
The Angels got three runs in the first inning, all produced on home runs,
and four in the second, three of them on Kluszewski's second homer.
Baltimore getting another run in the second, adding another one in the third.
Now the pitch to serve. Strike three, swinging on a fastball.
It struck him out.
So two outs, none on, and that brings on the Angels' center fielder, Kenny Hunt.
The draft confirmed the New York Yankees.
He batted 273 last year at Richmond.
He walked in the first inning today, was hit by a pitch ball in the third,
so this is his first official time at bat.
Heft, the left-hander, ready to work into this right-handed batter.
Hunt swings on a good ball and misses it.
Strike one.
Two outs, none on, the infield and outfield back and straight away.
Heft into his lineup.
A fastball is low and inside.
He's got levels at ball one and strike one.
Little Albie Pearson's done a good job today, drove in a run, also got a walk.
Albie's playing his 300th major league game.
Now the windup, man.
Mike's pitch, the one-one pitch to Hunt, lets up and takes the pitch low.
He starts the swing, checked it.
Another changeup pitch, ball two, strike one here to Kenny Hunt.
They're shading him a little bit around to the right for a late swinger.
That's because of the wind, which is very strong from the left-field corner
or toward the right-field corner.
Now the two-one pitch to Kenny swings as a high fly into the shallow right center,
leading the second baseman going back, the right fielder coming in.
A collision there, but it's an out.
As the right fielder, Snyder, collided with Reading.
Hunt went all the way around to third base, but the ball was caught out there.
I think it was caught by Reading, the second baseman.
So that retires the side, three up and three down.
In the fifth inning, the Angels, nothing across after four and a half innings.
The score remains Los Angeles 7 and Baltimore 2.
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Eli Gerber ready to face the top of the Baltimore batting order
here in the last half of the fifth inning.
It will be Jackie Brandt, Russ Snyder, Brooks Robinson.
Gerber in four innings has allowed two runs, one of them unearned,
given up three hits and walked three batters.
Now Brandt steps out of the batter's box as the big gust of wind swept through.
Now he's back in, a right-handed batter.
Here's Gerber's pitch to him and it's a little wide at the waist.
Ball one.
Brandt has two for two today, both of them singles to left field.
Pull that ball in the first-hand third innings.
Shortstop Raquel playing very deep, but he oh-stop a bit even with the bag,
and there's a good ball right in there, just above the knees.
He looks at a good pitch.
Here's a ball-winning strike one on Jackie Brandt, the Baltimore center fielder.
The score of the Angels seven and the Orioles two in the last of the fifth inning.
Now the pitch, an overhand curve that really pulled him right in there.
He ducked away and that ball really broke.
That would have rolled right off the tabletop and the count is ball-winning strike two.
Nobody out, nobody out for the Orioles last half of the fifth inning.
Gerber out in front with the count delivers, strike three called.
He looks at a good one.
Fast breaking curve right over the outer half of the plate, waist-high.
And there is Eli Gerber's first strikeout of the day in the season.
The one-off of the Orioles here in the last of the fifth inning,
and it brings on the left-handed batting right fielder Russ Snyder,
headed to a fourth play on a grounded ask for money in the first inning and walked in the third.
So he's 0-1 today, now to 260 for Kansas City last year.
Gerber works, strike called.
He ducked away from what he thought was an inside pitch,
but let her high right over the inside corner.
One out, then on, strike one with the count.
Gerber's next pitch, strike called, another big breaking curve ball.
Waist-high, right in there, good pitch.
So Snyder's looked at a couple of good ones there,
and Gerber has the big edge on him in the count, 0-2 on Decker's Brooks Robinson.
Here's Gerber's next pitch.
A waste of the fastball, and it wasn't too wide, just a little outside.
Now one, strike two.
Playing Snyder for a straightaway hitter, now the pitch, a lot of pitch, way outside, low ball too, 2-2.
Rice Shogg coming out in front of the plate, countered Del Rice, outing something to Eli.
Gerber before today had pitched only three innings against Baltimore.
He shakes off two signs from Rice.
Now he's ready for the 2-2 delivery, and here it is.
Wings a line drive down the right field line, foul, right at the corner of the box seats.
So the count owes it 2-2.
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So the count owes it ball two, strike two on the Baltimore right fielder, Russ Snyder.
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Here's the lineup again in the 2-2 pitch.
Slaying the ball, splashed out the left field, served by getting over, and he's there.
Just had to take a few steps.
So Snyder out on a high liner, which served the left fielder, or the Angels, caught over in left center.
Two outs and on, and the batter is the third baseman for Baltimore, Brooks Robinson.
Robbie grounded into a double play on the first of him, hit into a fourth play on the third.
Bubber, the right-hander, kicks and delivers.
Pass ball, swing on a fly ball, and off the deep right center, Huff going way back, way back, and he can't get it.
He missed a little bit.
There's the batter going into the second base, standing up, two base hit.
Huff had a lot of room out there, and Chris was diving at him.
But Huff started to stop, stopped on the ball, and it dropped over his head and rolled to the screen for a two base hit.
It was misjudged by the Angels center fielder, Huff, and he goes out to double for Robinson and brings up Jim Gentile.
So there is Baltimore's first extra base hit of the day.
Jim Gentile, who is singled and hit a no-force play, comes to bat.
First baseman left-handed batter hit 292 last year.
Dangerous man hit 21 homers and drove in 96 runs.
Here's the first pitch going, swing for the high fly ball out into short center field.
Raquel Ascomati, a hunt ball back there.
Raquel, a short stop, takes it in, not retires the side.
Fifth inning, Baltimore.
One runs, one hit, no errors, one man left on base, and the Orioles have stranded five.
We move into the sixth with a score of the Angels seven, Baltimore two.
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At Yankee Stadium in New York, the Minnesota Twins have knocked one forward out of the box in the seventh inning.
They're still batting.
We know they have at least one run in on Bob Anderson's one run,
and Terry has come out of the pitch in the seventh inning for the Yankees.
Here it is Fritz Brichel, a little shortstop at the Eagles, right-handed batter, standing here,
the left-hander Billy Heft, going into this double-pumping motion, delivers.
Sidearm pitch is a strike, catches the outer half of the plate, midway between the belt and knees to this little fellow.
Brichel a 5 foot, 5 and a half inch stockily built shortstop.
He's going 0 for 2, popped the short, hit into a double play.
Next pitch to it.
Checks the swing on a wide fastball.
For ball one, the count levels here at ball one and strike one in this.
Over here at Baltimore, the Los Angeles Angels in their first game of the American League,
leading Baltimore 7-2 in the top of the sixth.
Now the pitch to Brichel.
That's a little pitch high and away from him.
Ball two, two and one.
Heft sets the Angels down in order.
They're middle three in the fifth, but he's now facing the tail end of the batting order in the top of the sixth.
Has a two and one count on Fritz Brichel.
Here's Heft, winding, delivers.
Swings laid on a fastball and misses, strike two, two and two.
Billy Heft did most of his major league pitching for the Detroit Tigers from 1952 to 1959
when he was traded to Boston and to Baltimore.
Played with three clubs in 59.
Here's the 2-2 pitch to Brichel and it's high and away.
Ball three and a full count, three and two.
Nobody out and nobody out.
The Los Angeles Angels in the top of the sixth inning.
Angels getting off to a big early lead.
Three runs for first and four on the second.
The base pitch swings.
There's a ground ball and it's by the shortstop going out to left field for a base hit.
Fielded by left fielder Stevens.
Throws in here, it's the Ronnie Hanson and it's the single for Fritz Brichel.
So there's his first hit of the season.
The first hit off Billy Heft.
The Angels sixth hit of the ball game.
The Orioles have four hits and the batter now is the Angels catcher, Del Wright.
Del walks in the second, flies to left field in the third.
Match right, the left fielder Heft looks at the right.
There's a bunny ball down to the right side.
Pitcher gets it, looks to second and throws to Jen Heal at first to be able to sacrifice for right.
Moving Brichy Brichel over to second base.
So 1-3 on the putout, Pitcher Heft to the first baseman, Jim Jen Heal.
And now that brings down the Angel pitcher, Eli Gerba.
Right handed batter, failed in an attempt to sacrifice the second inning and flied very deep to Stevens at left field in the fourth.
The run out second is Brichel.
Here's the pitch, mugs the ball to the right side.
The pitcher gets it and he's going to first and he is out.
So another sacrifice, Bunt moves Brichel around to third base and brings the top of the batting order up, Eddie Yost.
So on both those sacrifice, Bunt.
Pitcher Heal it through to Jen Heal at first.
Pitcher Heft up here, popped the short, walked to the second and he is struck out swinging in the fourth.
Angels have a runner at third, two away, and they lead here by a score of 7-2 as they really flex their muscles in the first and second and he's.
Wazyski and Serb homered in the first.
Wazyski a three run homer in the second.
Eddie holds the swing, takes the fastball, low and inside, ball one.
Minnesota came up with three runs in the top of the seventh, knocking Waddy Ford out of the box and the twins lead the Yankees three to nothing.
Here's Heft wind up and pitch to Yost and it's in there.
Slider for a call strike, McCown on Eddie, levels at ball one and strike one.
Yost about a 260 last year.
Brichel over on third.
Now the left-hander Heft works again and a fastball's a little high and tight to him, ball two, strike one.
We're on third, two down, now the pitch.
A little pitch and a good run and he looks down in the outside corner waist high, ball two, strike two.
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Now here's a strike three, this is a good one.
Good ball in there at the knees.
The left returners to the side of the sixth inning for the Angels.
No runs, one hit and no errors, one left out.
It'll be in the final of an half.
The score remains, Los Angeles seven and the Baltimore Orioles two.
The Angels seven and the Orioles two, opening day at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, cold and windy.
Here's Gerber's next pitch, a change of three ball inside.
Took something off that one, ball one and strike one.
Triangles will be followed by the shortstop Ronnie Henson and then the left fielder Gene Stevens.
Gerber's next pitch is a little high outside, ball two, two and one.
Gerber's been in there since the start, pitched five innings, has allowed the two runs, one of those was unheard.
He's given up four hits, walked three batters and struck out one.
Artie Lye ready for the two on delivery to Triangles, brings a high pop-up over near second base.
Not a waiting for just for the right of the bag, in the well, one away.
You know, Baltimore finished second of the Yankees last year by eight games, but it was around the 15th of September.
I believe that they were only half game off the pace and then they went into that tragic experience of moving into Yankee Stadium
and seeing the Bratz Bummer's sweep four games.
Well, that went out here, not on, and the fine shortstop Ronnie Henson stepped in.
As the wind blew up, he moved out of the batter's box.
Ronnie has grounded out twice, the pitcher and the third baseman Eddie Ost.
Gerber into the windup, delivers, fastball, plan a bounce to right-up for Kell, the shortstop.
Takes on a big handle on the second half, over to Clue, plenty of time, key down here for the Orioles in the sixth.
He schedules, give one club the opportunity to take a quick, firm lead in the Bennett race that is off to the Orioles.
For during the first-month's play, 20 of 27 Baltimore games are against what are designated by the experts as Second Division Clubs.
Here's Gene Stevens, he's worked twice.
Gene fame as Ted Williams, old caddy with the red socks.
Angels lead here, 7-2 in the last of the sixth.
Here's the pitch to Stevens, takes low, ball one.
Total so far, the Angels 7-1, six hits, three errors.
Baltimore two runs, four hits, and no errors committed.
All windows strikes count. Gerber, Tranks delivers, swings, there's a hard smash to right field for a base hit.
Good half for Marty and Kudusky, field is back Pearson.
Stevens makes his turn, wheels back into first base with a single and there's hit number five for the Orioles.
Here's the second base from Marv Reading up the bat.
Manager Paul Richards describes this fellow as somebody that the opposition never raves about,
but after a ball game are usually completely distraught because he does so much to hurt them the late innings.
Right-handed batter, the pitch down to the dirt gets away from the catcher, there goes the runner to second base,
the ball is retrieved by the pitcher as Del Rice couldn't find it.
If the wild pitch turns to get Gerber and Stevens moves in a scoring position,
and the count on the batter, Marv Reading, all one.
That one got away down to the dirt.
Should Reading get on base there, I believe Succasigian is going to bat for a bit of half the pitcher.
Art Wilhelm, the old knuckleballer, warming up for the Baltimore bullpen.
Now the stretch. Here's the next pitch to Reading.
Try to check his swing and to foul ball.
Nonstop front of the plate after hitting the batter, the count is ball one and strike one.
Gene Stevens on second, two out here for the Byrds in the last of the sixth inning.
It wasn't the Byrds, but it was the Ingles who were really clapping their wings the first couple of innings out here this afternoon.
Now the stretch, one one to count.
The pitch.
Strike, a good fastball, and then sat in front of the batter high.
So Eli Gerber has the edge, ball one and strike two on Marv Reading.
Pitchers at San Francisco, we have them now.
Bob Frem for the Pirates and Sad Sam Jones for San Francisco.
A good hit on that one.
Here it seems the leading Orioles, seven to two.
Baltimore with Stevens on second, two down.
One and two, the count on Reading. The stretch by Gerber. The pitch. Good ball high and inside. Ball two.
Two and two.
Gerber, who prior to today had faced the Baltimore Orioles in only three innings in his major league career.
The seven two-thirds innings here has given up the two runs thus far and only five hits.
Now the stretch, two-two the count to Reading.
Here it comes. Swings there's a high play ball out the left field corner.
Chased by a third, Raquel and Yost, and it is out of play under the lower box seats.
So the count holds the ball two and strikes two.
Incidentally, Ronnie Kline, the former Pittsburgh right-hander, was purchased last night by the Eagles for an unannounced amount of cash
when they say it was Cardinal.
Ron incidentally pitched for our Angel general manager Fred Hayden when the latter was manager of the Pirates.
And Kline reported this morning and is in uniform.
So the Angels acquired some new ball players here in that area.
Another pitcher, Rae Sembrock, and of course their shortstop starting in the season opener today, Pritzy Bacal.
On two-two the count here on Reading.
Stevens who after two downs singled and took second on the wild pitch takes his lead.
Now the pitch. Strike three swinging to retire the side, got him a big bending curve ball.
That's the second strike off for Eli Gerber and at the end of six-thinnings of play after Baltimore failed to score on one run
and left one stranded for a total of six stranded, it is Los Angeles Angels 7 and the Baltimore Orioles 2.
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Well now that the few Angel fans have taken your seventh inning stretch, let's go back to play.
Los Angeles leading 7 to 2. Ken Aspermati leads off and here's Don Will.
Thank you, Steve.
Second baseman Ken Aspermati will lead off here against the left-hander Billy Heft.
Well two of the happiest people in the ballpark today are seated right down below us, Gene Autry and Bob Reynolds.
And they're really happy that the Angels picked up three in the first and four in the second and lead here 7 to 2 as we start the seventh inning.
Lou Johnson ran down into the bullpen area and that is beyond the YFN side in right field.
So Lou waiting for them to open the gate down there while he's held up momentarily.
Aspermati stepping in now. Ken has one hit. Three times a bat. Score the run in the second inning.
And facing the fourth Baltimore pitcher of the afternoon, Billy Heft.
Heft swung on foul back on the screen. Strike line.
Heft to force a screwball at another sudden the few pitches that he's done us this afternoon.
The Minnesota Twins 3. The New York Yankees nothing at the end of 7.
The Cleveland Indians 7. They had a Tri-Tigers 5 at the end of 7.
Bell to Phillips just popped a homer for Cleveland however and the eighth with the man on.
So they had expanded their lead now to 9 to 5 at least at his Cleveland's lead.
Here's the one strike offering by Heft and it's one close, one ball and one strike.
Kansas City 2. Boston 1 at the end of 5.
In the National League, Cincinnati 7. The Cubs 1. That game in the last half of the sixth.
Milwaukee 1. St. Louis nothing at the end of 6.
Pitch again a little close. Ball 2 and it's 2 and 1.
Ken Aspermati, Albie Persson and Ted Klasinski will come up here.
First half of the seventh inning. The Angels lead 7 to 2.
The motion again by Heft and the Pitch. Swung on. High fly ball.
Left hand of the wind out in left field. Coming off with the ball at Stevens.
Going out for it Hanson and the short staff Roddy Hanson caught it fair.
Took it by about a foot. Inside the line. Wall down the foul line.
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Though Albie steps in at the batter's box. Albie walked and scored him a first single.
Drove in around and scored around on the second pitch to him now.
And he ran up on it. Tried to run it. He got a bluff and then he took a good pitch for a strike.
And Albie then flat out in the fourth inning to retire the side.
Robinson pulled in from third as Persson had run up on that pitch by Billy Heft.
Now with one strike on him, a lead up by Billy.
Right in there for strike to make it nothing in two.
One out with nobody on.
Start of a 13 games in 15 days road trip for the Angels.
Here's the two-strike pitch coming in.
Persson takes up a bit high and it's one ball and two strikes.
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Pitch to Persson. Strike, take, call.
Nice side on delivery by Billy Heft that got Persson leading away from the fight.
So Albie is caught on on strikes. Now they're two out in the seventh.
Here's the first baseman, Ted Plaszewski.
Clue hit a two-run homer in the first inning, hit a three-run homer in the second,
and then bounced out to third baseman, Brooks Robinson, leading off to fifth.
Billy Heft, the left-hander, works through Klasinski.
The motion going and the pitch on the way.
Clue swings, little pop-up off of the right side.
Second baseman, Mark Breeding, calling for this.
On the dirt surface of the infield, midway between first and second makes the catch to retire the side.
Clue banged that one right off the handle.
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Jack Assajian comes up here to bat for the pitcher Billy Heft.
The Orioles have been granted a 30-day extension on their conditional purchase agreement on Assajian.
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but they still have the 30-day extension, if he should fail to make the Baltimore roster,
he will be returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers' Focan Club.
Jack Assajian, right-handed batter.
Right-of-man for the Dodgers in the 59 World Series in a pinch-hitting role on a couple of occasions.
Two distance jobs.
Curveball flung, and here's a high pop-up back of the mound.
Coming over for it, Julio Becker just came in to play first, and Becker makes the catch.
One out.
So Julio Becker in there in place of Ted Klosinski.
And Julio, responsible for the first put-out here in the Baltimore half of the seventh inning.
The Minnesota Twins came up with two more runs in the eighth inning on a two-run homer by Reno Bertaya,
and they lead 5-0 over the Yankees.
New York batting in the last half of the eighth.
That homer off Ralph Terry.
Here's center fielder Jackie Brand stepping in there now.
One out, done on.
Angels lead 7-2.
Big motion by Gerber, the pitch lower on the outside for ball one.
So the Angels have scored seven runs on a half dozen hits.
Baltimore with two runs on five hits.
The pitch by Yui, right in there, strike call to make it one-on-one.
Three times today, manager Paul Richards has gone to the bench.
Dave Philly, Earl Robinson, and Chuck Assidion.
And Gerber has disposed of all of them.
High floating curve, and a swing and a foul off this.
Back up on the screen, and it's one ball and two strikes.
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Two-strike delivery coming in now.
Sidearm pitch off the inside edge of the plate to make it two balls, two strikes.
Gerber with a two-strike offering again.
Fed went in there that apparently was up a bit too high.
Kind of showing on the board out there, and indicated now that it's two balls and two strikes.
So it's an even count shown on Brandt.
One out here with nobody on.
Gerber has been terrific. He's scattered around five hits.
Oh, let's see. It is shown now. Full count, three and two.
Plate umpire Stevens just stepped around to the right side of the plate.
Now they've made the correction on the board.
Now by Springer.
Russ Snyder has been up three times, reached out a field of choice in the first inning,
walked in the third, flat out of the fifth.
Kerrball swinging a bounding ball right back by Gerber, base hit in the center field.
So with two out in the seventh inning, that is hit number six.
He gave up a single to Brandt in the first, single to Gentile in the second,
single to Brandt in the third.
The only extra plays in, a double by Robinson in the fifth, single by Stevens in the sixth,
single by Snyder here in the seventh.
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Brooks Robinson, one hit, three times at bat, and the pitch to the right handers.
And then here's a high pop-up on the third base side, Eddie Yost coming outside the line, getting over the bow.
Yost makes the catch, and that retires the side.
So on the seventh inning, no runs, one hit, no errors, one left.
Score at the end of seventh, the Angels seven, Baltimore two.
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Now running down the scoreboard, at the end of 8 at Yankee Stadium, Minnesota now leads the Yankees 5-0.
Wrigley Betoy had a two-run homer in the eighth inning. And at the end of eight innings at Detroit, the score there, the Cleveland Indians are leading the Detroit Tigers 9-5.
But at the end of six at Boston, the Kansas City Athletics leading the Boston Red Sox 4-1.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, of course, or rather at the end of seven innings here at Baltimore, it's 7-2.
The Angels over the Baltimore O'Reals. In the National League in the ninth of the seventh inning, Cincinnati Reds lead the Chicago Cubs 7-1, 0-2 all the way thus far for Cincinnati.
And at the bottom of the seventh inning at Milwaukee, the Braves lead the Cardinals 1-0 on Eddie Matthews, fourth inning home run off Ernie Brodeo.
Warren Spahn has pitch shutout ball for seven frames at the Cardinals.
Pittsburgh field score at the top of the inning at Candlestick Park. So it's the Pirates nothing and the Giants nothing.
They're a bad friend against bad Sam Jones. And the Phillies and the Dodgers strike the Coliseum.
All right, we have a new pitcher. The Angels come to bat here in the top of the seventh inning and serve the batter. I'll tell you about it again, Don Wells.
Clyde Wilhelm is the new pitcher. So we have the oversized mitt now, the catcher's mitt being used by Gus Priandis, this mammoth thing, this mammoth hunk of leather that they use for the Wilhelm knuckleball.
And the leadoff man for the Angels will be left the other Bob Serr. Pete Ramos, who never has too much in the way of success with the Yankees, he has a shutout parade inning.
That's quite a job today at Yankee Stadium. Swing on the knuckle, and a miss for Spike Lee.
Wilhelm is sometimes referred to as tilt. He has a cast in one eye and he leans that head to one side to get that sign, but you can just about figure what he's going to throw anyway.
And the next one bites down in the dirt and it's one ball and one strike. Also called the dancer because of his very elusive knuckler.
In the 60 season, he wound up winning 11 and losing 8. 3.31 earned run marks. Swing on the knuckleball, long shot but foul down the left field line.
Serb smiling now as he steps back to the plate. Conversation with Gus Priandis.
Bob hit a homer in the first inning. A long poke, 400 feet away over the fence out in right center field. Struck out in the second, struck out again in the fifth.
Here are one ball, two strike counts. The eighth inning getting underway and the Angels lead seven to two.
And the next pitch is flung out. There's a high, shallow fly ball out in right field. Moving on for Snyder.
Drifting back a bit now as the wind cuts that ball and he puts it away. So Bob Serb flies to Russ Snyder in right.
One out in the eighth inning. Coming up the center fielder Ken Hunt.
Wilhelm saw service both as a starter and a reliever in the 60 season. Pitch to Kenny Hunt in close ball one.
Ken today has been up there three times. Walked in the first, hit by a pitch in the third, popped out in the fifth.
The motion, the pitch. Knuckles right in there, strike. The flutter ball and it's one ball and one strike.
Richard sometimes refers to Wilhelm as Dr. Hoyt in his traveling medicine show and he puts on quite a show with that knuckle ball.
Here's a swing Albert and a miss. One ball and two strikes. Six feet tall, 190 pounds.
He started out his organized baseball career in 1942. Originally with the Giants. The knuckles low and outside.
Ball two and it's two and two. He had a great year with the Giants in 1952 when he won 15 games, lost only three and had an earned run mark of 2.43.
Wilhelm two and two on Hunt and the pitch swung on. Here's a pop-up on the left side.
Third baseman Brooks Robinson makes the call. Midway between second and third makes the catch.
Now there are two out of the eighth inning. Here is Fritz Brichel.
Popped out of the first inning, hit and a double play on the third, singled in the sixth.
Two down, nobody on and Fritz by Wilhelm, swing and a ground ball off of the shortstop side. One hop to Ronnie Hanson. There's the throw in the dirt.
Duck up, back to the field. Nice pick up to retire the side.
In the eighth inning, three up and three down. That's the Angels story and with nothing across the score at the end of the first half of the eighth, the Angels seven, Baltimore two.
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In outfield change now for the Angels, Lou Johnson replaces Bob Serb in left. So Johnson in left, not in center.
Abby Person in right. No change in the infield. Julio Becker is at first, Aspermati at second, for Kellett Short, Eddie Yost at third.
Del Rice works behind the plate on the mound, Eli Gerber who so far has given up six hits. Five of them have been singles.
The Giants have taken a two nothing lead over the Pirates at the end of one. Friend and Jones. Milwaukee one, St. Louis nothing at the end of seven.
Braves lead in the homer by Eddie Matthews in the fourth. Jim Gentile leads off curveball by Gerber.
And he really hollers in at Stevens as Janssen says that was low and close for ball one.
Well it's shown on the board as a strike.
Double check on it now. Fastball's swung on foul back on the screen. Big cut on that pitch by Gentile.
Scoreboard indicates a nothing and two count.
So unless we get a show of a correction by Stevens with Gerber now taking a look at the board.
Gerber's still looking at it and it may be he wonders about it.
Now it is shown one and one. That's the thing that had Gerber fooled and me fooled for a moment was the fact that the scoreboard still has two strikes up there.
And it's a one ball one strike count. Here's the motion again. Eli led up on one. A swing and a very high fly ball.
Not going anywhere out in right center field. Ken Hunt is there moving in a bit. His left makes the catch.
So Gentile one for four today. He is singled in the second inning.
Here's the catcher Gus Triandos. Gus is fighting the big wind out here today.
The terrific wind that has been ripping across from left to right.
Fly it out in the second. Fly it out in the third. Popped out in the sixth.
Here's the pitch to Gus. Fast ball by Gerber. Letter high but outside and it's ball one.
The Angels lead seven to two. We're in the last half of the eighth inning. Gerber to the rising bag.
Here's the pitcher on the way. Another fast ball swung on, driven out into the field. Lou Johnson in the crack of this ball makes the catch.
Hit it right at Johnson.
Lou started in a step, then gave a step, made the catch.
Now they're two gone in the eighth inning. Here's the shortstop Roddy Hanson.
So what a pitching performance by Gerber.
One extra base hit. Double by Robinson in the fifth.
The motion and the pitch. Big curve that he broke off low and outside for ball one.
And what a day for Klosinski. Five RBIs. That'll put him out in front in the American League in RBIs at the end of first big day of the season.
Here's a strike called. Offered to Roddy Hanson and it's one ball and one strike.
Put him out of the lead in home runs too with a pair in this game.
Here's the one-run delivery offered up by Gerber and it's low outside, ball two to make it two and one.
Remember that Angel Report scores and interviews with American League stars follows every Angel broadcast, every game.
We'll have quite a show for you today.
Ball two and strike one with two out and not on. Roddy Hanson who has been checked in the infield today.
Three times, waits now and the two unpitched to him. Swung out, here's a fly ball, got it out of the infield.
Driven well out to our left-center, Lou Johnson there. Also Kenny Hunt. Hunt makes the catch to retire the side.
So another ball, well tagged but fighting the win. Three up and three down. Nothing across for the Orioles and the score at the end of eight innings of play.
Score in the totals. Our Angels seven runs, six hits and three errors. Baltimore two runs, six hits, no errors.
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Minnesota came up with another run in the ninth inning and they laid the Yankees six to nothing.
Here in the Angel half of the night, catcher Del Rice, the eighth man of the batting order, moves in there against right-hander Hoyt Wilhelm.
Del has been up three times, walked in the second, flied out in the third, and sacrificed in the sixth.
Six hits apiece for these two teams. There's a pitch by Wilhelm high and outside, and it's ball one.
Wilhelm set again and the next one right in there. Strike to make it one and one.
This oversized mid is really something. In the pocket of this catcher's mid, you can put about four or five baseballs.
They made it that size just to be able to give the catchers some help down there.
Swing and a foul. Foul from the first base side. Drops very quickly away from Jim Gentile.
And it's one ball and two strikes.
One and two. One of the new Baltimore coaches is Jim Busby.
The first of the betterment outfielder can be converted back to active player status almost immediately.
Now the two-strike offering to Del Rice popped out of the mid of Triumvus up high. And it's ball two and strike two.
The Baltimore infield today is the same that started last year's opener when the Orioles knocked over the old Washington Senators three to two
before 32,747 fans. Pitched a rise swing and a tap foul left side of the plate.
And after their win in the opener, the Orioles then dropped two in a row to the Senators and then they lost three straight to the Yankees in New York.
Two balls, two strikes. Del Rice up there waiting and the pitch outside at the knee. Ball three. Three and two.
Graham took out on Del Rice. Eli Gerber will be up there next to the pitch.
There's a high foul up over our heads. Tap into the upper deck.
Here at Memorial Stadium, too, they have a mezzanine section.
Just sort of a very brief third tier here that is right under the upper deck portion of the ballpark.
I'd say it's only about, well, it contains about five or six rows of seats.
Swinging the ground ball over the shortstop side. Easy hop for Hanson. Throw to first. Got him.
So Del Rice goes out of there short to first.
Rodney Hanson, two is left to pick that ball up, moving toward the back at second.
Coming out of the dugout now, Eli Gerber.
Here's the hand for Eli. What a job he has done here on opening day.
Richly deserved. The applause that Gerber gets now as he walks up to the plate.
Eli's been up there three times, reached on a fielders choice and scored a run in the second inning,
flat out in the fourth and sacrificed in the sixth. And the pitch low outside, ball one.
Sun is out rather brightly now. The shadow of the upper deck in left field creeps out across the outfield grass.
Out in front of the left field of Gene Stevens. Swing and a foul tipped.
They make it one ball and one strike.
Snyder in right field, Jackie Brown in center, Gene Stevens in left, Robinson Hanson breathing genteel.
Third to first around the infield.
Briandos on the receiving end and Wohelm, fifth pitcher, delivers and a swing and a ground ball.
Swap step side, nice backhand by Hanson, throws down to the pitch.
Gets that right genteel out.
And what a fielding play.
Johnny Hanson to begin with, deep in the hole and short, backhand of the ball,
fired it down in the dugout in front of genteel and Jim with that tremendously long stretch of his,
reached out and made the pick up of that ball and that is out number two.
So in this game you give credit where it is due and it certainly applied there.
Now there are two out here, third baseman Eddie Yost.
Eddie popped out of the first inning, walked in the second, struck out in the fourth and again in the sixth.
Two down, ninth inning and the pitch up high.
To Eddie for ball one.
All the angel scoring came in the first two innings.
Three on the first, four in the second.
The big gun Klosinski and the pitch outside.
Make it ball two. Two and nothing.
The starter for the Orioles went an inning and two thirds.
He walked four men.
Pappa, the number two pitcher, went a third of an inning.
West Stock worked two innings and Billy Heff went three.
Right down the middle for a strike to make it two and one.
Heff was very effective. He worked three innings allowing one hit, no runs.
Struck out three and walked none.
West Stock did a good job too.
Swing and a fly ball off the bat of Yost out of the left field.
Shout about there. Stevens coming out and the shortstop going out.
And Roddy Hanson makes the catch.
Stevens cleared away.
Three up and three down in the ninth inning.
So on the last three innings the Angels have been retired in order.
And with nothing across, score at the end of the first half of the ninth inning
on Los Angeles Angels seven and the Baltimore Orioles two.
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Now at the bottom are half of the ninth inning.
Jane Stevens, the left fielder, will lead off against Eli Gerba.
The Blazon Indians beat the Detroit Tigers today 9-5,
and they opened up an 18-hit attack of the combination of four Tiger pitchers.
The Yankees are batting in the ninth, and they're hurting.
They've been shut out by Ramos all the way.
Stevens about it. He has walked twice and had a base hit.
And the pitch by Gerba put the fast run in there for a strike.
Well over 37,000 fans on a raw day in Baltimore.
Have to see this one today.
The wind up by Gerba and the curve ball is swung and grappled out of the shortstop side.
Verkel scoops it up. There's a total first. He got him up number one.
So Stevens goes out of there short to first.
Coming up now, second baseman, Mar Breeding.
Here's the motion down the pitch. Fastball popped right in there for a strike.
Nothing in one. Well the slogan around here is it can be done in 61, but the object is that it can't be done today.
That's what Gerba wants to see today.
Here's a spike and a miss and an overpowering fastball.
Gerba, the type of pitcher, just gets stronger as he goes along.
He's blown in two fastballs here to Breeding, and quickly he has a two-strike count on the Oriole second baseman.
The wind kicks up quite a bit at Earth around the infield as Gerba prepares to pitch again.
A two-strike pitch, strike, free call. Right in there.
Breeding is called out on strike.
Now they're two outs.
We'll have a batter for the pitcher.
The Giants have a two-nothing lead over the Pirates at the end of two.
This looks like Zupo.
That was Zupo, the catchers of the Baltimore Ball Club.
Mike Zupo, native of San Francisco and a pitch to the left-handed batting receiver.
In too close for ball one. He was with Stockton last year, he had three 19s, had 69 RBIs and seven home runs.
Left-handed batter, the next pitch outside the second one-and-one.
Frank, who was born in San Francisco in 1935, 111, 180 pounds.
Papers, dust flying all over the infield now.
This wind swirls around this giant horseshoe ballpark.
Two out here, nobody on, ninth inning.
And the motion and the pitch by Gerbeth, outside.
So the count has gone three-and-nothing on Zupo.
Here's the pitch by Gerbeth, strike call.
Stable Cardinals have come back to tie Milwaukee now, one-and-one at the end of eight.
The motion and the pitch, high and outside to him, ball four.
Zupo gets on.
So he is the first successful pinch hitter for the Orioles this afternoon.
And here on the ninth inning, he works Gerbeth for a base on balls.
And here's the center fielder, Jackie Brand.
Jackie's single to the first, again in the third, struck out in the fifth.
And Gerbeth cut him down on strikes again in the seventh.
Now they're two out, last out of the ninth inning.
The Angels lead seven to two.
So Gerbeth needs one more up there on the board.
Stretch taken by Eli, and the pitch coming in is swinging a bit.
That's a fast ball again, and it's nothing in the line.
Zupo, Z-U-P-O, he is the runner up at first.
And the next delivery, that takes strike two call.
Quick curve right at the knee, worked the outside edge of the plate, and it's nothing in two.
And on two count, right-handed hitter Jackie Brand.
Zupo, away with his lead, and the next pitch, he just missed with it.
Magically, the entire Angel in field, ready to come off the field.
Burkel started to lead the charge from his spotted short, but it's one ball and two strikes.
One on two count.
Many of the fans have already vacated the premises out here.
Angels lead seven to two, two out.
Here's the pitch on the way down, and it's strike three call.
Jackie Brand is called on his strikes.
Here's Del Reis out, flips that ball to Eli Gerba, gets handshakes all around.
From Yost, from Becker, from Aspermati, from Burkel.
Players coming off the bench now to shake hands with Eli Gerba.
The winning pitcher this afternoon, a distance-going job, a complete game for Gerba.
No high-thinning, no runs, no hits, no errors, and one man left.
So fans, the final score of our ball game this afternoon in a two-hour and 33-minute ball game,
with the Angels leaving a total of three minutes on and Baltimore's stranding eighth.
So for the Los Angeles Angels, the winner in this American League opener for 1961,
here are the totals.
The Angels seven runs, six hits, three errors, and three men left.
The losing Baltimore Orioles, two runs, six hits, no errors.
They stranded a total of eight men, two hours and 33 minutes to complete the game.
Eli Gerba went all the way for the victory, and the losing pitcher,
the starter for the Baltimore Orioles, Milk Pappas.
Final score, the Angels seven, Baltimore two.
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Final score again, the Angels seven, Baltimore two.
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