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The Boston Red Sox faced the Washington Senators at D.C. Stadium for opening day on Monday, April 12, 1965.

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Boston was a below average team, having finished no better than sixth place in the previous five seasons.

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They entered the 1965 season under new manager Billy Herman, who had taken over for the final two games of 1964 after the firing of Johnny Pesky.

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The Senators were one of the worst teams in the American League, having lost 100 or more games in each of their first four seasons as an expansion franchise.

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They were managed by Gil Hodges, who took over the club midway through the 1963 season.

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This audio recording is from the Boston Radio broadcast featuring announcers Kurt Gowdy, Mel Parnell, and Ned Martin.

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Play ball with the Boston Red Sox. Good afternoon everybody, welcome to baseball 1965. A beautiful day here in the nation's capital, temperature in the 70s, a bright sun beaming down, the President of the United States has just officially opened the baseball season by throwing out not one baseball, but two.

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And the Red Sox lost in the catching of opening day baseball because Steve Rydzik caught the first one, tossed out by President Johnson, and Mike Brumley the second.

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So the President is now in the presidential box, and a poor, yucky Indian boy from just outside Mesa, Arizona, Phil Ortega, is warming up for the Washington Senators, and a lad of French-Canadian descent, Bill Mamboquette, is warming up for the Boston Red Sox.

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New manager Billy Herman is down at home plate, along with returning manager Gil Hodges to change the lineup, go over the ground rules, and get the season underway.

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The Red Sox will have in their lineup today a rookie Rico Petrichelli. He'll be the only rookie in. There are other changes though.

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Lennie Green is a newcomer in the lineup. Lee Thomas will be playing a new position. Outside of that, it's about the same. The Senators have rather a new-look team with Vic Frank Howard.

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They have Ken McMullen from the Dodgers and Phil Ortega also the Dodgers, and they're hoping for better things as are the Red Sox.

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And as we get this 1965 baseball season underway, very happy for me to introduce the newest member of the Boston Red Sox broadcasting team,

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a fellow who gave us a great thrill right here in this ballpark back in 1952 when he pitched a three-hit shutout before President Truman.

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I think you've been listening to us enough on the air over many years, time after time we lamented if we could only get another left-hander like Mal Pharr now.

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We've got him back again. Now instead of a great pitcher, he's a broadcaster. Now let me warmly welcome you to the Red Sox broadcasting crew.

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Thank you, Kurt. It's been a pleasure being with you and Ned Martin. Looking forward to a great season. I'm sure it'll be quite interesting.

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It's been a great new phase of baseball for me, the one that I've enjoyed so far this spring.

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Seeing this opening day crowd brings back memories of 1952 when I pitched against the Washington Senators in the old Griffith Stadium.

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At that time, President Truman threw out the first ball, and at that time Truman had a 3-0 record,

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and we did beat the Washington ball club on that day, breaking President Truman's record also.

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So it brings back fond memories for me, and it's certainly a great day for baseball today.

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Both ball clubs are loosening up and going through their preliminary throwing to tough ballgames.

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All right, Mal, and we wish you a lot of luck, and if you're just half as good as broadcasters you were a pitcher, you're going to be a smash hit.

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Back with us again is Ned Martin. Ned's going to give you the starting lineups in just a moment.

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Let me say, ladies and gentlemen, we always open the season with anticipation, with a great deal of happiness, but this year was sadness.

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Our companion of five years, a dedicated broadcaster, a gentleman, a loyal friend, Art Gleason is not here,

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and this is a sad opening for us that Art is not with us.

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He died last November, and we are dedicating from our broadcast booth this 1965 series of broadcasts to the late Art Gleason,

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one of the finest men I have ever known, not only in sports broadcasting, but in any field of life.

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And now here's Ned Martin for the starting lineup.

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Thank you, Curt, and good afternoon, everybody.

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Well, it is a new look Senator Bosselob had on the field that we saw in practice, and several parts of the Red Sox of 1965 are new looks.

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A lot of the faces are the same, but in different positions.

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Here's the starting lineup before this opening day crowd as the Senators take the field.

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Red Sox have Petracelli at shortstop leading off.

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Lenny Green in center field, batting number two.

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Kyle Yastremski in left, hitting third.

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Donnie Conigliaro in right field, batting number four.

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Lee Thomas at first base, batting number five.

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Felix Mantia at second base, hitting sixth.

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Frank Malzone at third base, batting seventh.

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Bob Tillman, the catcher, hitting eighth.

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And Bill Mambo Ketch, the pitcher, batting ninth.

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Mambo with a fine spring and a fine second half of the year last year,

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particularly against these Washington Senators who shut them out three times.

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For the Senators, Don Blasengame is the second baseman leading off.

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Ken McMullen over from the Dodgers is at third base, batting number two.

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Bob Chance at first base, hitting third.

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Frank Howard in left field is in the cleanup spot.

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Don Locke, the center fielder, batting number five.

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And Locke was one of their best hitters this spring.

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Willie Kirkland, veteran right fielder, batting number six.

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Mike Brumley, the catcher, hitting seventh.

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And the sharp-fielding Eddie Brinkman at shortstop, batting eighth.

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And Phil Ortega is doing the pitching.

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Ortega had a tremendous spring after coming over from the Dodgers,

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finished up with an earned run average this spring of about 1.96.

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And he gets the starting knot from manager Gil Hodges of the Senators,

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a right-hander with plenty on the ball out from around the Mesa-Stochdale area.

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The umpires for this opener, behind the plate Joe Paparella at first base, Ed Hurley,

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at second base, Frank Umont, and at third base, Bob Stewart.

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So here it goes, 1965.

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Is it going to be a long, hot summer for either of these teams or both?

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It's only ours to tell you about it and wait and see.

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Rico Petracelli leading off for the Red Sox and here for the play-by-play third doubters.

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All right, Ned, 21-year-old Rico Petracelli from Brooklyn, New York, standing in.

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He's turned himself into a switch hitter.

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He's playing left against a right-hander Ortega, who's primarily a fastball pitcher.

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They're playing Petracelli to the opposite field and the first pitch of the season is outside for ball one.

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Lenny Green is crouched on deck and in the hole is Carl Yastremski.

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Petracelli stands deep in the box, slight crouch, takes a strike call, looks like a slider and accounts one and one.

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The one on the grass is McMullen, the third baseman, and chance is in tight at first in case of a bite.

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A one-one pitch to Petracelli, he takes it high and outside, ball two.

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Petracelli has no doubt about his fielding abilities.

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And Billy Herman, in trying to tighten up the club defensively, is giving him a shot at short.

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There is a doubt about his bat and the kids will have to prove that.

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The pitch is swung on and fouled back, but he is a marvelous fielder with great range, good power hands, and a strong arm.

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And if he can hit even a little, he could be a coming major league star.

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Two and two, the count's to Rico Petracelli.

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The wind today is blowing crocs from third to first.

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A bright sun out, a stadium packed here, a beautiful sight on opening day.

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All right, Ortega gets you a sign from Mike Brumley.

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Here's your stretch in the pitch.

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It is swung on and fouled out of play.

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So we have the count still two and two.

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Over there in President Johnson's box we see Joe Cronin, the president of the American League, and Mike Higgins,

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vice president with the Red Sox sitting over there.

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Mike Higgins is an old friend of Lyndon Johnson, some Texas.

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Brings up a famous story I'll have to tell you about later, about Johnny Orlando.

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Here's the wind up in the pitch.

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It is a foul.

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No, he struck him out.

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Struck him out.

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Looked like a foul tipped.

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Petracelli swung him in.

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Brumley dropped the ball, then tagged in.

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So Ortega strikes out the first batter he faces of the season.

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And it is Lenny Greenup now who had a fine spring training with the Red Sox.

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He went in with the Red Sox on a minor league roster.

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Rochester on a look-see basis and was so impressed that the Red Sox signed him.

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Green had been with Minnesota and the Angels.

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He was a regular two years ago.

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Left hander batter takes high, ball won.

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Then along came Jimmy Hall, hard-hitting young outfielder.

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They put him in center field, Green on the bench.

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And to get on that bench sometimes, your timing goes.

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Green still thinks he's a major league ball player.

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He pops it up.

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It's out in the shallow left.

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He's under it and Blinken grabs it for out number two.

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Ortega has quickly disposed of the first two batters, two up, two down.

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Carl will be batting left against the right-hander.

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They outfield playing Yastrowski straight away.

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Three-eighty-nine hitter last year after winning the American League batting title the year before.

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A slow ball is high for ball one.

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But they can make sure they're more than I thought, Mel.

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That's the last pitch of the slow curve.

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He relies mainly on the fast ball.

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And the fast ball does sink a little, which can make him very effective.

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Here's a 1-0 pitch.

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There's a swing and a foul ball going out of play.

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One ball, one strike.

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The swinging weight on him, Mel, he must be quick.

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All three left-hand hitters have been late.

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Huckaselli was late.

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Green was late.

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And now Carl has fouled one back of the third base.

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Coaching box.

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And of course he is a little quick.

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He's making a little stuff on the left-hand hitters.

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One-one delivery is a slow ball tapped out to short.

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Lasting game over to Chance at first.

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And Ortega breezes through the first inning.

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Throw to Red Sox.

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That three-up, three-down.

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And it'll be into the first half inning.

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The score is the Red Sox nothing with the seveners coming to bat.

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At an evening, after eating, picture taking, coffee breaking, things go right when you light a white light.

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Barbecuing or throwing, double dating, celebrating, things go right when you light a white light.

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While you're hooting or commuting, you're acting your unsaid as the world spreads things go right when you light a white light.

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Bill Mambo gets out of the mound throwing in his warm-up pitches.

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Washington will send up in the last of the first inning.

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Lasting game, McMullen and Bob Chance.

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In the President's box, Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

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Representative John McCormick of Massachusetts, the Speaker of the House.

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Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan, the House Minority Leader.

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Senator Mike Mansfield, the Senate Majority Leader.

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Senator Everett Dirksen with his curly gray hair flying in the wind.

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The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Wayne Morris of Oregon.

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George Smathers of Florida, representing Wilbert Mills of Arkansas.

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Down blasting game, swings in the first pitch and pops it up.

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It's down the foul line, backpedaling is Thomas, tough chant.

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And he one hands it beautifully, going away from home plate.

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That wind kept carrying the ball back and the big crowd here in Washington gives him a hand.

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So it doesn't take long for us to have the first feeling, Jim, of the 1965 season.

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That was a tough play for Lee Thomas.

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That ball kept drifting with the wind and Lee had to go a long way to make a one-handed catch,

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stretching as far as he possibly could.

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It was a great play on Lee's part.

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Well, he must be thrilled with that one and not his new position he's played there before.

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Well, the Angels, but the Red Sox is now at first base.

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Ken McMullen is up.

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McMullen, a right-handed batter, takes the first pitch, high ball one.

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Well, if Mambo Kett pitches half as good against the Senators today as he did last year, it could be rough.

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He has a string of 36 shutout innings against the Senators coming into today's game.

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They knocked him out in the game last May 10th.

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They knocked him out again on May 27th last year.

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And then he started pitching shutouts against Washington.

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The slider is over there for a strike call.

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He blanked the Senators seven and nothing on four hits in July 13th.

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Blanked them on six hits July 17th last year.

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Blanked them in September 22nd and again on October 3rd.

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Last time, 12 and 7 against Washington.

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Inside fastball.

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Two balls and a strike to Ken McMullen who comes over from the Dodgers.

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In fact, they're kidding and calling the Senators now the Dodger Farm Club.

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Gil Hodge is the next Dodger.

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Don Zimmer, McMullen, Frank Howard, Phil Ortega.

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Two balls, one strike.

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One out, nobody out, and no score here in Washington.

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He swings at a high pitch and fouls it upstairs.

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The count is two and two.

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The Red Sox have Jastremsky on the left.

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Lenny Green in center, Tony Conigliaro on the right.

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Now zones at third, Petrocelli is at short, Mantee is at second, Thomas is first.

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Mamboquette pitching, Kilman catching.

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This is a thick opening game assignment for Bill Mamboquette.

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Two-two to count.

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Pitch on the way to McMullen.

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Swings and he gets a foul.

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That will be in the seats and back of first base.

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Ray Thomas racing over there but can't get to it.

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McMullen last year where the Dodgers hit 209 and hit 234 with the Spokane ball club.

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Five opening assignments for Smell Pornel.

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It's quite an honor to get that opening day assignment.

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Yes it is.

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It's quite a thrill to be able to pitch also in front of the President and the Vice President of the United States.

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It's a thrill to all pitchers.

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It's one that brings many chills before the ball game.

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I don't care how long you're around this game, Mallory, any of these sports, you're not nervous there's something wrong with you.

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Strike three call, a slider, knee-high corner on the outside corner, two downs, and Bob Chan's coming up.

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Well the Sounders made some tricks.

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This is a player involved in one of them.

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They sent Chuck Gittin to the Cleveland Indians for Bob Chan and Woody Hale.

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This is a left-handed batter.

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As a rookie last year we thought he was one of the best hitters in the league.

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He hit 279, knocked in 75 runs, and had 14 homers.

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He's got power.

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In fact there's some real power in this Washington ball club.

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Chan, Howard, Don Locke, Kirkland, Jim King, they've got a lot of power.

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Two downs, nobody on.

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Mambo overhands a pitch and it crowds the left-hander.

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Ball one.

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Playing in straight away.

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Bob Chan lives now in Jersey City, New Jersey, is born in Statesboro, Georgia.

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And he's still a youngster, he's only 24 years old.

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A 1-0 pitch to him, there's a let-up outside, ball two.

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Doing nothing.

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Of course one of the hallmarks of Mambo catch pitching is control.

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He'll usually walk if he's right, only one or two men a game.

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Last year he had a disappointing season.

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After winning 20 the year before, he came back to win 13 last year and he was 14.

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A 2-0 delivery, wing and a miss on a shoulder-high fastball, two and one.

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Mambo just couldn't get straightened out.

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He had a terrible start.

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And then the last six weeks of the season he started a pitch.

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A Mambo-kid of the year before.

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I really hope he picks up where he left off last year.

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Two balls and a strike to Bob Chan.

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Nobody on, no score, last of the first inning.

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The right-hander strives and comes in.

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There's a line shot in the left center.

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There's a first-base hit of the season.

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Lenny Green runs in, picks it up, Chan makes the turn and holds it first.

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So Chan is on with two outs.

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And Frank Howard is coming up.

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Here is, probably along with Dick Raddus, one of the two monstrous men of the Major League.

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Frank Howard weighs 255 pounds, stands 6'7".

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He was a basketball star at Ohio State.

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He got a $105,000 bonus from the Dodgers a few years ago to sign.

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He lashed it down to Malzano at 30, digs it up, throws it to second, in time, four stops.

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And the Senators are out. That ball hit hard on one hop down to Malzano.

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Going to the last of the first, Washington had no runs, one hit, there were no errors, and one man left.

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At the end of the first inning, the score is the Red Sox nothing and the Senators nothing.

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At an evening, after eating, picture taking, coffee breaking, things go right when you lie about Ohio.

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Barbecuing, or caring, double dating, celebrating, things go right when you lie about Ohio.

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There's a white owl to fit every man's taste and face.

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And remember, you don't have to inhale to enjoy.

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White owl, great blend, great taste, great choice of shapes.

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Quieting, or commuting, in your arms, as the world spreads, things go right when you lie about Ohio.

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That Sox are coming up now in the second inning with Tony Canigliaro, Lee Thomas, and Felix Mantia, facing Phil Ortega.

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And other openers today, and there are a lot of new things in baseball.

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Usually Monday is left for the presidential opener here in Washington and Cincinnati's opener, but we're having other openers this year on the same day.

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New York plays in Minnesota today.

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Detroit to Kansas City, Cleveland and Los Angeles. Chicago and Baltimore will open tomorrow.

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There's a long foul down the left field line by Canigliaro out of play, strike one.

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Well, all I can say about this boy is he plays somewhat up to what he did in spring training for the year he should have.

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Tony Canigliaro. I got a kick out of him. I'll talk about it here in a minute.

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Here's a pitch to Canigliaro. Take it outside.

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I was reading, the U.P.I. had a poll of leading sports experts around America about baseball.

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They thought it was a national sport. They won one delivery to him inside because also had many young stars.

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They said list the young stars, list some of the best players.

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Twenty-five players mentioned. They didn't even mention this kid, Canigliaro.

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Talk about young star. I think this kid's got a chance to be one of the greats.

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Two-one delivery to him outside ball three.

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I think Ron Santo paid young Tony a great compliment when he said he was the best aggressive young hitter he's ever seen since he's been in baseball.

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That's quite a compliment. I'll say it is.

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A three-one pitch to Canigliaro. There's a line shot in the left base hit for him.

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Well, Tony is on with a line drive to the left.

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He had three-sixty-eight in spring training, led the club in homers, RBI's, everything.

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He doesn't get hurt. Now that's the thing we want to watch. He got hit twice, broken arm blast here.

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But I think we'll all watch and see a blossoming of a great star in this league.

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Lee Thomas is up now.

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Notting left-handed.

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The pitch to Lee is outside a ball one-and-nothing.

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That's not, I think you could say, Canigliaro and Oliva have a chance to take over in the next year or two as the two great stars in this league.

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Not that man, there he goes. Pitch is a strike. Here's a throw. It's wide. He's safe. Canigliaro steals second.

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Wide throw by Brumley to Brinkman, but Tony had a great jump on Ortega.

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He's on second base with a count one-and-one to Lee Thomas.

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Outfield playing Thomas straight away.

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No score, second inning. Ortega overhands a pitch that's outside ball two. Two-and-one.

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Thomas first came over to the Red Sox in that trade with the Angels last year.

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He sent Luke Clinton to Los Angeles, played right field, had some troubles out there.

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The two-one pitch. A ground ball hit down to first. Canigliaro is holding a second.

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Chance throw to Ortega covering, and there's one out.

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Ball hit on the ground to the right side, and Canigliaro held a second.

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Felix Mantia is up now, but his very surprising 30 home runs last year,

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and everybody's wondering if he can match that performance.

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He thinks he'll do all right. He doesn't predict how many homers he'll hit.

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He predicts he'll hit a few.

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Runner on second, one out. Ortega's pitching to Mantia. It's low for a ball, one-and-nothing.

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We had a lot of newspapers suddenly blowing out on the field. It's disgusting today.

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This is a circular stadium, complete circle, and it is protected by the wind somewhat.

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A one-oh pitch swings late and fouls it off. One ball, one strike.

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The National League today, the Dodgers are playing at New York against the Mets.

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San Francisco is at Pittsburgh, Milwaukee at Cincinnati, St. Louis at Chicago, and Philadelphia at Houston in a night game.

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Luckily, I guess, in Houston it's a night game.

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I'm waiting to see the ball in the daytime there, if the sun shines.

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That'll be the first time a game's ever been postponed because of sunshine.

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Here's the one-one pitch. A high fly and a shallow left.

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Frank Howard's looking up in that mean sun, waiting for it under it and takes it.

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And Nicolairo holds it second.

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We have two down.

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Right or not, Frank now's on.

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Old Man River has done that dependable day in, day out, year in, year out job for the Red Sox.

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The Dodgers are 34, starting another season in Boston.

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They're going to give Frank some rest this year now and then.

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Probably spelling with Bersu and move things around.

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Figure if he can play 125, 130 games, he'll, with some rest, he'll be an even better performer.

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And maybe can prolong his career a bit longer.

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Inside, a ball, one and nothing. Bob Tillman on deck.

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Canigliaro's on second, two down.

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No score in the top half of second.

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Daffy will be playing Melzone deep and toward left.

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A stretch by Ortega, in he comes with it.

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It's low, a ball, two and nothing.

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Two balls, no strikes.

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We have no game tomorrow. The two teams will be playing here on Wednesday.

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And then we'll be home to open the season next Saturday against the Baltimore Orioles.

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Two and all to count.

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The pitch, outside, ball free.

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Three and nothing now to Melzone.

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Incidentally, Jerry Vale will sing the national anthem, popular recording star next Saturday.

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Arthur Fiegler will conduct some colorful ceremonies in the first Saturday opener in the history of the American League.

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At Fenway Park next Saturday.

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Baltimore, good ball play. Baltimore and the Red Sox.

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A stretch, three-o pitch, ball four.

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Our first walk of the season.

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Canigliaro's at second. Melzone's at first. They're two down.

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And Bob Tillman up.

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Bob didn't hit much in spring training. He had a rough time.

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He had a good season last year though.

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And developed into one of the better catchers in the American League.

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They're hoping he can repeat this year.

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Bob hit 278 last year with 17 homers, 61 RBI.

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Swing sends the ground ball to shortstop Brinkman.

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Boots the ball. Can't make a play any play.

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Brinkman booted it.

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And the bases are loaded.

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Canigliaro's on third.

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Melzone's on second.

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Bob Tillman's at first.

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An easy hopping ball that just as Brinkman went to scoop up,

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he rolled up his arm and he dropped it and he couldn't make a play.

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Well, here's Bill Marblecat's first chance to help himself at the plate.

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He's not much of a hitter, but he's a good runner.

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Two down. You think he might put a squeeze on?

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I doubt it at this time.

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Those swinging pitchers are dangerous.

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Kyle Ball back, strike one.

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I would say that Bill's looking for the good fastball now,

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and he had a good cut at the last one.

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The ball's just swinging, you're a threat, and Bill's certainly doing that.

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And they should load a two-out for the Red Sox, top half of the second.

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One strike on him.

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Ball up high, one and one.

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Well, I said a squeeze with two outs is very unlikely, but let's face facts,

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because this guy is the greatest hitter in the world, as Jimmy G used to say.

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So as long as he's playing, he's dangerous, Kurt.

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One ball, one strike to Marblecat.

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Petrichele's on deck. Here comes the pitch.

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It's outside, ball two, two and one.

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And now the hometown Washington fans are starting to mumble a bit.

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Two balls, one strike.

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Mason loaded two away, second inning, no score.

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A combo waiting. Ortega tries to pop this one right in there, and he misses.

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Blowing away for ball three. He thought he had it over.

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Three balls and one strike.

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Three and one. This is a tough situation.

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Mason loaded two down for a pitcher, and this is the spot that you have to throw the strike in.

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Here it is. Strike two called.

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And here's our first three and two, the Big Windu situation of the year.

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Two down, runners will be going on the pitch. The bases are loaded.

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Ortega into the lineup. There go the runners, and the pitch is swung on and fouled back.

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Count stays three and two to Bill Mambo-Katz.

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Camigliano opened the inning with a single. He stole second.

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Thomas grounded out. Mantia pops up. Malzone walks.

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And Ed Brinkman booted Bob Tillman's easy ground ball to load the bases.

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Now Ortega has run the counts of three and two against Bill Mambo-Katz.

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A walk to give Mambo here the first RBI of the season.

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Here comes the delivery. It is strike called. He's out.

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Mambo started to toss away the bat at the inside corner, and Ortega gets out of the jam.

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In the second inning, the Red Sox had no runs. One hit.

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There was one Washington Air, and three men left.

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At the end of an inning and a half, the score, Red Sox nothing and the Senators nothing.

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At an inning, after eating, picture taking, coffee breaking, things go right when you light up a white light.

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The newest member of the White Owl Winner's Circle, the New Yorker, the big cigar for the big moments.

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And you don't have to inhale to enjoy. Created in honor of the World's Fair, White Owl New Yorker.

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While you're eating, or commuting, in your arms, at the World's Fair, things go right when you light up a white light.

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All right, we're going to the last half of the second inning. Don Locke, Willie Kirkland, and Mike Brumley will be up for the centers against Mambo Kets.

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Of the opening day pitcher schedules, we have only Mambo Kets, Al Jackson of the Mets, Larry Jackson of the Cubs,

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Juan Marichal of the Giants, Bob Beale of the Pirates, and Gary Peters of the White Sox,

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who had the honor of pitching opening days last year, who will repeat this year.

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We have three new managers in the American League, five new managers in the National League,

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and baseball will be played indoors for the first time tonight.

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That is Major League Baseball, the championship game.

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Don Locke, big power boy, hit.248 last year with 28 homers. Right-handed batter takes inside a ball, one and nothing.

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Locke has had a brilliant spring training, predicting his greatest season this year.

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Outfield playing him deep and toward left.

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There's a pitch to Amy, swings and misses on a low slider. One ball, one strike.

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Each team has had one hit.

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Bob Shantz singling for the Senators and Tony Conigliaro for the Red Sox.

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A one-one delivery.

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There's a long drive. Forget about that one. It is gone.

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Upper deck home run.

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Boy, that ball was hit.

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That was in the upper deck. And that ended 37 shutout innings at Montbleguet at Pittsburgh against Washington, 36 last year and one this year.

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He tagged what looked like a waist-high fastball in the upper deck in Westfield.

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They have President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey up on their feet, applauding him as he crowded into the dugout.

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Right call of the knees to Willie Kirkland.

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So the Senators are out in front, one and nothing.

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Well, we can see what they mean now about Locke.

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They're going to have a great year. They think he'll hit 40 home runs this year.

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That's just about as far as a man can hit a ball with.

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Pitch is low inside.

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The wall at that point is 381 and that ball traveled into the upper deck, which puts it well over 400 feet.

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It was quite a build. It was a waist-high fastball and Locke got a good track part of the bat on it and the ball traveled for great distance.

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Willie Kirkland up, nobody on, nobody out. Left-handed batter.

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They've changed him all around this year.

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He's a fellow that gets for power, but he's been hitting for a low average the last two or three years.

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He hit 212 last year.

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He used to be with the Indians.

432
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Two and one to Kirkland.

433
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Mike Brumley is on deck.

434
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
The time calls.

435
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000
Kirkland has something in his eye, I believe.

436
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:21,000
Now trying to get back in there.

437
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:28,000
One to nothing, Washington ahead, last half of the second inning.

438
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:37,000
An eye steps out again and umpire Joe Paparella is going to try and do a little doctoring.

439
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000
Here comes the trainer of the Senators out in the field.

440
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:45,000
And while they try and remove something in his right eye, we'll take time for station identification.

441
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000
This is the Red Sox baseball network.

442
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,000
You're listening to WAAB AM and FM in Worcester, Massachusetts.

443
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000
Fun Radio at 1440 on the dial.

444
00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:05,000
The time is 2 o'clock, the temperature 42 degrees.

445
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Back in action here, the 2-1 pitch is outside to Willie Kirkland.

446
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Ball free.

447
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Bases are empty, nobody out. Three and one to Kirkland.

448
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000
That home run seems to have shaken Mambo Cat up a bit.

449
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Here's the pitch it is, ball four, he walked him.

450
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,000
So Kirkland's on.

451
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000
And the batter is catcher Mike Brumley.

452
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:44,000
He was at 244 last year, not much power, he had two homers, he sprays them all around.

453
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000
He hits a lot to left center and left field.

454
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,000
And that's where they're playing him right now.

455
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,000
Play time is holding at first base against Kirkland.

456
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Ed Brinkman is on deck.

457
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Working out of the stretch, Mambo Cat's pitch, strike calls.

458
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Nothing and one to Mike Brumley.

459
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:20,000
Eddie Ost is coaching at third.

460
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:24,000
And Joe Pignatano at first, former catcher with the Dodger.

461
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000
Here's the delivery.

462
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000
In there, strike call, throw to first, but just getting back at Kirkland.

463
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000
Fairly close play at first base.

464
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:44,000
Mambo Cat now ahead of Brumley, two strikes.

465
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,000
Kirkland playing a safe at first.

466
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,000
The stretch, pitch on the way.

467
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Strike three, call a good fastball on the inside corner to let her.

468
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,000
Strike out number two for Mambo Cat.

469
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,000
One out for the Washington Founders here in the second.

470
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000
And the batter now is Ed Brinkman, the shortstop, batting right handed.

471
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,000
With Phil Ortega, due up next.

472
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:18,000
Washington leading here one to nothing on Don Locke's tremendous home run in the last half of second inning.

473
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Mambo Cat is runner at first.

474
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:29,000
And in there, strike call, four strikes in a row now delivered by Mambo Cat.

475
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Nothing and one.

476
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:44,000
They're playing Brinkman, who hit 224 last year as they pull hitter to left field.

477
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,000
One strike on him.

478
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
Mambo Cat 15.

479
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,000
A breaking pitch dips down and in.

480
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,000
A ball one and one.

481
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,000
A fan sitting along third base way and left field.

482
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:07,000
And out on the center field, upward deck bleachers are out in the brilliant sunshine today.

483
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:13,000
While in back a home plate and along first base and right field, they're in the shadows.

484
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
A one-one pitch, there goes the runner.

485
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,000
And with a swing and a miss, Tillman's throw to Petrocelli, out at second base.

486
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Kirkland is thrown out on a good throw by Tillman.

487
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000
Petrocelli took the throw and made the tag.

488
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:30,000
It was a swing and a miss by Ed Brinkman trying to protect the runner.

489
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,000
Oh, Tillman throws out the first runner trying to go down on him this year.

490
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Two down for Washington.

491
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000
The base is empty.

492
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:45,000
And our count to Ed Brinkman is two and two.

493
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:53,000
Mantia comes in and says something to Mambo Cat.

494
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,000
He has a Latin English accent.

495
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000
He speaks English.

496
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Oh, I love to hear him talk.

497
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,000
He's got a very attractive accent.

498
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,000
He speaks English very well.

499
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Two to the count.

500
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Pitch.

501
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Try to curve it outside for ball three, three and two.

502
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:19,000
Al Walker's first weather report of the year.

503
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Temperature is 81 degrees here in Washington.

504
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,000
81.

505
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
How about that on opening day?

506
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,000
Humidity is only 18 percent.

507
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Usually it's very humid here, but this is one of the most comfortable days I could ever remember, being here in Washington.

508
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Three and two to Ed Brinkman, and the wind is 25 miles an hour.

509
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:45,000
As the ground ball taps out to second baseman Mantia, he digs it up, throws the first, Senators are out.

510
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,000
They had one run on a leadoff homer by Don Locke.

511
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,000
One hit, there were no errors, nobody left.

512
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Score at the end of two innings, Washington one and the Red Sox nothing.

513
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Opening day at Fenway Park next Saturday afternoon.

514
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Baltimore and the Red Sox.

515
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,000
2.15 is game time.

516
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
Joey Vail will sing the National Anthem.

517
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000
Arthur Feeler will be conducting.

518
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,000
We have colorful opening ceremonies.

519
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Harvard Band will start entertaining at 1.45.

520
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,000
The Harvard Band playing the National Anthem.

521
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Why not make plans to be on hand the next Saturday when the Orioles and the Red Sox open the American League season in Boston?

522
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
I think Saturday is a good opening day for you.

523
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
Take your family.

524
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:44,000
And also remember the Orioles will be there on Easter Sunday and then next Monday, Washington is in town for a Patriots Day doubleheader starting at 1.30.

525
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:50,000
We'll see you at Fenway Park next Saturday afternoon.

526
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,000
Well, what do you think about the first two innings, Mel?

527
00:41:53,000 --> 00:42:01,000
So far we're seeing great pitching on the part of Noah Tager with his fast sinker and Billy Mamboquette mixing speed.

528
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:10,000
Billy, of course, was the one fastball about belt high to Don Locke and Don hit it out of the ballpark with a tremendous clout.

529
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:17,000
The infield is playing very slow and we notice that the infielders are moving in a step or two on the fast runner.

530
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:23,000
The outfield also is playing slow due to the recent rains in the Washington area.

531
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000
Now back to Kurt Gowdy.

532
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000
Now I wouldn't be surprised if the ground ball hits through the infield.

533
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:34,000
They're not rolling much. Somebody might try and go for two in this game, especially with the tight one in the late inning.

534
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,000
Yes, it's possible because the ball isn't rolling too good in the outfield.

535
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:44,000
Here's Petrocelli up swings and misses on a fastball for strike one. Petrocelli struck out his first time.

536
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:51,000
This is the top of the Red Sox batting order. Petrocelli, Lenny Green, and Carl Yaspemsky, third inning.

537
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:56,000
Ortega right ends the pitch over for a strike call, a fastball, nothing and two.

538
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:05,000
One run, two hits, one error for the Senators. No runs, one hit, no errors for the Red Sox.

539
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,000
Petrocelli in a hole, two strikes.

540
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:14,000
The pitch to him, a curve low and inside, a ball, one and two.

541
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:22,000
The Washington fans had an added treat yesterday. The Dodgers were in here for a three-game exhibition series.

542
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,000
Sandy Kovacs came on the pitch in the fifth inning yesterday, a one-two delivery.

543
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:35,000
He goes for a bat pitch and strikes out way over his head, brumly drops the ball, picks it up, throws the chance at first.

544
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:41,000
Petrocelli, overanxious, strikes out on a pitch up around his eyes. That's twice in a row he's struck out.

545
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,000
One out, nobody on, and Lenny Green the batter.

546
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,000
Kovacs came in with all the publicity about arthritis and he may be done.

547
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:55,000
He faced ten batters and struck out five.

548
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,000
Here's the delivery. It's in there, strike call. I don't believe there's much doubt about it.

549
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:03,000
Healthy, here's the greatest pitcher in baseball, Kovacs.

550
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,000
He struck out 18 men in a game, nobody's ever done that.

551
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Three no-hitters in a row, three successive seasons.

552
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:16,000
One strike to Lenny Green, third baseman playing shallow on him.

553
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,000
There's a little tapper hit down to that third baseman drawing in.

554
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,000
McMullen throws to first and Green is out.

555
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,000
Two down in the third inning.

556
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:34,000
And so far the top of the order has it sniffed Ortega.

557
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:39,000
Two down, nobody on, and Carl Yastremsky is up.

558
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:45,000
Tony Canigliaro beyond best.

559
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:54,000
The out-of-pitch bounce is in the dirt up against the screen, ball one.

560
00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:02,000
One to nothing, Washington leading on Don Locke's tremendous homer in the last half a second.

561
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:06,000
Ortega winds and throws. Yastremsky takes it outside, ball two.

562
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:12,000
Two to nothing.

563
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000
Good balls, no strikes.

564
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,000
Yastremsky had a good spring training also, hitting well over 300.

565
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:25,000
Here's the 2-0 delivery, and he takes that one high for ball three.

566
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:35,000
Three to nothing now. Ortega walks Mel Zon in the second. That's his only walk so far.

567
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,000
They just changed the count. It's wrong in the scoreboard and umpire Papparello signals.

568
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:46,000
Out of the 3-0 delivery. He bores that one over for a strike call, three and one.

569
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:52,000
You know early you're always suspect of these starting pitchers early in the year of going nine innings.

570
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,000
Well that's true. Of course if they get enough work in spring training it will help.

571
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:06,000
Here's ball four. Of course with the many pitchers in spring training it's rather difficult to get all of your pitchers in to get enough work to get to the start of the season.

572
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:12,000
Of course if you encounter bad weather in the early part of the season it makes it very troublesome for your pitching staff.

573
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:21,000
He's throwing very strongly. It appears to be very deceptive. He has a curled wrist action which can be very deceiving to the hitter.

574
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000
Alright here's Kanigaleiro up. He's had the only hit for the Red Sox.

575
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,000
There's a little looper. May drop right center. It's in a base hit.

576
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:36,000
Yosemite is coming on the third and Kanigaleiro now is two for two as he drops it in to shallow right center.

577
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:41,000
He hit that one off the end of the bat and dunked it out in the right center but it's a base hit.

578
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,000
Now the Red Sox at the base that loaded in the second fail to score.

579
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:52,000
Now they have runners on first and third here in the third with two down. Both times with two down their sweaters come up.

580
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:57,000
Lee Thomas grounded out to the first baseman his first time.

581
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:04,000
Each team now has two hits.

582
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,000
Felix Mantia is on deck.

583
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,000
Ortega with a stretch working to Thomas.

584
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:17,000
Swings and fouls a fast ball back out of play. Strike one.

585
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,000
Drempski at third. Kanigaleiro at first. Two away.

586
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,000
What a way to start a season for Kanigaleiro now two for two.

587
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,000
Seems as though Tony brought that hot bat along from spring training.

588
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:35,000
He had a very good spring training. Hit the ball well throughout the entire training season.

589
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,000
And of course in this ball game he's two for two.

590
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,000
Here's that Tony's off to a good start and we'll have a good year.

591
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,000
Here's the one strike pitch to Thomas.

592
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,000
There's a high pop foul off to the left.

593
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,000
Rumley's chasing it and can't get to it.

594
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:55,000
It drops in about five or six rows right down below it.

595
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:59,000
See Dick O'Connell of the Red Sox vice president.

596
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:05,000
Jack Hayes, partner of Brian Bader and Gould and Tony for the Red Sox.

597
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,000
At least we have Tom Dowdowd and now we've got some Red Sox routers here.

598
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,000
Got Senator Kennedy here today rooting for the Red Sox too.

599
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,000
I guess President Johnson's probably rooting for Washington, huh?

600
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:25,000
Pitch is high for a ball one and two.

601
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:26,000
One ball, two strikes.

602
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,000
Funny thing about this town.

603
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:33,000
There are so many transits live here come from all over that they always,

604
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:37,000
many of them come out and root for the visiting ball club.

605
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,000
Government work.

606
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,000
Here's the stretch now, the one-two delivery.

607
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,000
There's a long belt by Thomas, hit deep.

608
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,000
That ball is going, going.

609
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,000
It is gone.

610
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:50,000
A home run for Lee Thomas over the scoreboard in right center.

611
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:55,000
And the Red Sox are out in front by a score of three to one.

612
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,000
Two down, Yosinski walks an eagerly error, single to right.

613
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:06,000
And Lee Thomas felt the home run, just under the scoreboard in the middle area,

614
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,000
just under the upper deck out there over the 378 mark.

615
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,000
Three to one.

616
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:15,000
And two homers have provided all the scoring.

617
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,000
And Tia's up now.

618
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,000
He's flying out his first time.

619
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,000
And that bases on ball started it.

620
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,000
Pitch is outside with two down or take a walk, Yosinski.

621
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,000
Boy, those walks will get you in trouble.

622
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,000
They'll do it every time.

623
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,000
That's one of the things that pitches hate, but can do very little about.

624
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:39,000
Pitch is low and we may have a little action springing up here in the Washington bullpen.

625
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,000
Do an O to Mantia.

626
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,000
Now zone on deck.

627
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:48,000
Red Sox are ahead now, three to one.

628
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,000
Or take a working.

629
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,000
Pia takes low.

630
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,000
Or take a having trouble finding home plate.

631
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:59,000
Gil Hodges during out there to that bullpen.

632
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,000
He'll be anxiously watching Ortega here.

633
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:07,000
This kid got a $75,000 bonus four years ago by the Dodgers, Ortega.

634
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,000
And Pia goes after it and misses.

635
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:15,000
He was born in Adobe Hut, little town of Gilbert, Arizona, just outside Mesa.

636
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,000
He's a Yaqui Indian of Mexican defense.

637
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,000
Never quite did it with the Dodgers, although he still has a lot of promise.

638
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,000
With a good arm he has.

639
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,000
The pitch.

640
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,000
There's a long belt by Mantia.

641
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,000
That ball riding deep and it is gone.

642
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:35,000
A home run by Mantia into the Red Sox bullpen over the 381 mark.

643
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:44,000
And the Red Sox are out in front by a score of four to one as Elgato, the cat Mantia, picks up where he left off last year.

644
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:50,000
Mantia hit three homers here last year.

645
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:57,000
He only hit 30 last year, more than one year last year than he'd ever hit in all his major league career.

646
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000
And he starts opening day here.

647
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,000
But Thomas and Mantia now have back to back home runs.

648
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,000
Red Sox ahead four to one.

649
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:12,000
And a little blasting games coming in to talk to Ortega in the batter of Frank Melzone.

650
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,000
Bob Tillman is on deck.

651
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,000
Melzone walks his first time up.

652
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:23,000
Ortega's pitch is high and away, ball one.

653
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:28,000
One and nothing.

654
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,000
Both Thomas and Mantia hit his fastball.

655
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:32,000
Here's the one-oh pitch.

656
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,000
It's outside for ball two.

657
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:41,000
Two and nothing.

658
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:51,000
Two balls, no strikes.

659
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:53,000
Now they wind up in delivery.

660
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:57,000
Foul ball back out of play.

661
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,000
Two and one to Melzone.

662
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,000
Three homers already in this ball game.

663
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,000
Actually, Mel, this is a good ball park to hit on runs in.

664
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:11,000
The thing is that the ball won't carry if you get it up high.

665
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,000
Down low the ball seems to die some.

666
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,000
Melzone hits a change up, pops it up in a shallow left.

667
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:17,000
They had him off balance.

668
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,000
Brickman backs up and takes it.

669
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Besides that, but the Red Sox had four runs in the third inning on three hits.

670
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
No washers and errors, nobody left.

671
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,000
Score at the end of two and a half.

672
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:36,000
It's a shot for Senators 1.

673
00:52:36,000 --> 00:53:05,000
Cigarettes to Grellon.

674
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Cigarettes to Grellon.

675
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:23,000
Cigarettes to Grellon.

676
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:36,000
The mud and smoke found at all the right places with all the right people.

677
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,000
We're ready to go now on the last of the third inning with the Red Sox out in front four to one.

678
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,000
Four runs, four hits for the Red Sox.

679
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,000
One run, two hits for the Senators.

680
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:50,000
Now to take over to play-by-play, Ned Marks.

681
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Washington trailing four to one now.

682
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,000
And their pitcher, Phil Ortega, will hit for himself.

683
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,000
Nobody warming up on the Washington bullpen.

684
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,000
Ortega bats right.

685
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:10,000
Mambo's first pitch to him is a called strike on the outside corner.

686
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:16,000
Ortega was shaken up a little bit by the home run blast of Thomas Mancia.

687
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:20,000
But Gil Hodges going with him as long as he can.

688
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,000
Ground ball to the right side, scooped up by Mancia at second base.

689
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Felix throws him out.

690
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,000
There's one away.

691
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,000
Ortega grounding out second to first.

692
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:33,000
Now the top of the order, Don Blassingame.

693
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:41,000
A pesky little hitter who last year hit well for the Senators and had a fine spring.

694
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,000
One of the top hitters on the ball club this spring.

695
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:49,000
Came over from the National League and won himself a home right here in Washington.

696
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,000
Been a good leadoff man for them.

697
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,000
Chokes up about an inch on the bat.

698
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:59,000
Malzone comes in a couple of steps with Blassingame up there.

699
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Don is a good hitter.

700
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:06,000
Curve ball breaks in and over, called strike one.

701
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:10,000
Mal, you were talking earlier about the 1952 opener.

702
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,000
How did you see that game?

703
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,000
When I was living down here I remember it.

704
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,000
That was great memories.

705
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,000
When Pierce Hall was playing short wasn't he?

706
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:21,000
That's right.

707
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,000
Jimmy Pierce Hall had shot stop for it.

708
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,000
Fastball is outside and the count is one and one.

709
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:31,000
They had Lepsey over and St. Schoenberry and a few of those younger boys.

710
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,000
At the time Lou Boudreau was experimenting with Jimmy Pierce Hall.

711
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:39,000
He thought that Jimmy would have great range as an infielder and move him to the shot stop position.

712
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:42,000
Later Jimmy found his way back out to the outfield.

713
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,000
He sure did.

714
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:47,000
There's a blooper in the shallow center field bringing Lenny Green on in a hurry.

715
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,000
Lenny's there.

716
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,000
He makes the catch.

717
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:59,000
Green had to come away in towards second base but he made the catch about 40 feet back of second base and there are two away.

718
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:03,000
Here's Ken McMullen, third baseman for the Senators, formerly with the Dodgers.

719
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:07,000
He took a third strike in the first inning.

720
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:13,000
This is the Dodger alumni over here this year where they've got them all over the place including their coaches now.

721
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:25,000
It's Pignatano, that fellow named Dick Ninh who was in the Miners last year but got a very important hit for them two years ago called strike on the hitter, McMullen.

722
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:31,000
This ball club is confusing for me to look at after seeing these many fellows with the Dodgers.

723
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:35,000
And of course as you mentioned Pignatano and the coaching box.

724
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,000
They're just about all over this ball park.

725
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:46,000
Well since Hodges came here he's been on a pipeline from Los Angeles called strike to McMullen, count on two.

726
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:50,000
Gill the old Dodger and I imagine has a little thing working with Luzzy Buffet.

727
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:55,000
He's out there and says, all right, if you don't want him, give him to me and we'll build here.

728
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:58,000
Well it has helped us watch this ball club quite a bit.

729
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,000
It's going to be a good club to watch this year.

730
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,000
They're exciting.

731
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,000
They've got power.

732
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:07,000
This ball moves inside.

733
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:12,000
The count on Ken McMullen is one ball, two strikes.

734
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,000
I tell you they say Locke can hit 40.

735
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:18,000
Well if Howard ever gets on track this is not a bad park for him either.

736
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,000
He may hit 50.

737
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:24,000
That's big selling.

738
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:30,000
Rambo Ketch delivers and it's just tied inside.

739
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,000
Two balls, two strikes.

740
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,000
I was talking about Howard.

741
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,000
What a problem he presents to the opposing pitcher.

742
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,000
Size alone is enough to scare you.

743
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Yeah, but he's got a great strike zone, hasn't he?

744
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:47,000
He has, but he covers that strike zone pretty well with that big bat of his.

745
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,000
They say no.

746
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:51,000
We'll get to that in a minute.

747
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:55,000
The pitch to McMullen is fouled down the right field line going out of play.

748
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:59,000
We're talking to some of the Washington writers and John McClain, the Washington broadcaster,

749
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,000
said what kind of spring did Howard have?

750
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,000
Well it's not been good.

751
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,000
He hit only one home run.

752
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,000
He said he's been over swinging which has been his trouble all along.

753
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:13,000
Anybody with that kind of power can do it just normally without overdoing it.

754
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,000
He's a confusing hitter, Ned.

755
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,000
You can fool him with throw stuff and yet he can reach out with that tremendous power,

756
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,000
hit the ball out of the ballpark.

757
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:26,000
He's very tough to pitch to because you just don't know what to do, what to throw.

758
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:30,000
I need to take my time to get him out.

759
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,000
McMullen lifts one high in the air to left center field.

760
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:37,000
Yastremski having trouble with the sun is over there, but he's got on to the ball

761
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,000
and it makes the catch in left center.

762
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:44,000
McMullen popping out to Kyle Yastremski and the 1-2-3 innings for Bill Marble

763
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,000
can't get the Senators in order in the third.

764
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:53,000
Score at the end of three innings is the Red Sox 4 and the Senators 1.

765
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,000
Say does the smoking scene look a little cloudy to you?

766
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,000
Well take heart.

767
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,000
There's a bright spot.

768
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,000
It's the White Owl Miniature Cigar.

769
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:05,000
The White Owl Miniature is a mild cigar, small enough to smoke when you're pressed for time

770
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:09,000
and yet big enough so you won't be tempted to inhale.

771
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:15,000
And the tobaccos in the White Owl Miniature are aged for years to give you unusual mildness and taste

772
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,000
with an aroma that's always welcome.

773
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:23,000
Smoking a White Owl Miniature is a relaxing pleasure and not a nervous habit.

774
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:29,000
And now the poet, Zachary, wrote that cigars are, quote, a kind companion, a gentle stimulant,

775
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,000
a surrender of friendship.

776
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:33,000
You know that?

777
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:37,000
Well today you can call the White Owl Miniature your kind companion.

778
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:41,000
So make the switch to White Owl Miniature, the bright spot in the smoking picture.

779
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,000
Five-pack, just 28 cents.

780
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:54,000
Three innings have gone by and the Red Sox have four runs on four hits, played errorless ball.

781
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,000
Washington one run, two hits, and one error.

782
00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:00,000
Let's see what we have on the White Owl scoreboard.

783
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,000
In the National League, the Giants and Pirates are scoreless at the end of three innings,

784
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,000
Marischal against Veale.

785
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:12,000
That's the only other game that's underway right now.

786
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:17,000
Bob Tillman leads off with the Red Sox as we move to the top of the fourth.

787
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:22,000
Tilley reached on an error in the second inning, an error by Brinkman, the shortstop.

788
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,000
Tillman takes a strike from Ortega.

789
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,000
The count is one ball, one strike.

790
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,000
As Kirk pointed out, Tilley had a tough spring.

791
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:36,000
He hit about 190, which was in complete contrast to his spring a year ago.

792
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:40,000
Ground ball hits the third on the changeup, gobbled up by McMullen.

793
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:44,000
He's tossed a chance in plenty of time and Tillman is out.

794
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:48,000
One away, third to first, and Mambo-Kett coming to the plate.

795
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:53,000
What they expect, said Billy Herman, is Tillman made himself a hitter last year

796
01:00:53,000 --> 01:01:00,000
and he has no doubt that Bob will be up there around the 280, 290 mark as he was most of last season.

797
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,000
Mambo-Kett took a third strike his first time up.

798
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:07,000
Ortega's pitch to him is in there, called strike one.

799
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:15,000
He just joined us. Washington scored first on Don Locks' homer into the upper deck in the second.

800
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,000
Mambo reaches for one and taps it on the ground on the right side.

801
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,000
Blasting game up with it at second, throws him out by a step.

802
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,000
That was a grasscutter, not a hard hit.

803
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,000
Two away.

804
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:28,000
The Red Sox scored all four runs in the third.

805
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,000
When with two out, Jaskremski walked.

806
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,000
Kanigaleo got his second single.

807
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:38,000
Then Thomas hit a three-run homer followed by Mantia's base is empty homer.

808
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,000
That has been the long ball that's brought it to the Red Sox.

809
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,000
Here's Rico Petracelli.

810
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:47,000
Struck out twice, he swings at the first pitch, strike one.

811
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:53,000
Rico, who won himself an opening day job with his work of field,

812
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:57,000
considered a step or two faster than Bersou, still has to hit big league pitching,

813
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:00,000
hit 170 in spring training,

814
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:03,000
and there's a foul off the end of the bat, all in two.

815
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:07,000
But I think you're going to like this fellow around short at Fenway.

816
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:10,000
He has great range, gets the ball away quick,

817
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:15,000
and has provided a lot of us with short stopping.

818
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:22,000
That will take its place with Versalli's, Kubeck, this fellow here, Brinkman,

819
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,000
anybody in the American league,

820
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:28,000
as far as the mechanics around the position are concerned in the field.

821
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:31,000
He pitches inside ball one, one and two.

822
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:34,000
That Rico has great balance and great range, good quick hands.

823
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:37,000
He makes the tough play look routine,

824
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:41,000
and it's really something to see to watch this young fellow move around the infield.

825
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:45,000
One-two pitch to him, moves outside two.

826
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:50,000
Well, he's trying to get the seal at the plate, too, Mel, by switch hitting,

827
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,000
and he's batting left now against Ortega.

828
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:59,000
He came into baseball as strictly a right-handed hitter.

829
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:03,000
Two-two delivery, jumps him back from the plate, ball three.

830
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:07,000
Bob Gibson goes for the Cardinals this afternoon against Larry Jackson of the Cubs.

831
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:12,000
The Dodgers lead the Mets 2-0 after one inning in their ball game.

832
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:21,000
Cincinnati and Milwaukee, Kloninger will go for Milwaukee, and O'Toole for Cincinnati.

833
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:30,000
Three-two delivery to Petrocelli, foul back, and Rico hangs in there, free ball, two strikes.

834
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:35,000
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835
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:47,000
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836
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:55,000
Ortega gets another baseball. The Arizona Indian youngster looks in for the sign from Mike Brumley.

837
01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:01,000
Wines and Fires three-two, it's fouled at the plate by Petrocelli, who hangs tough.

838
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:06,000
Billy Gardner coaching down a third base for the Red Sox, and Len Oakrey is coaching it first.

839
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:13,000
Oakrey coming in from the bullpen to fill in for Pete Runnels, who had an ulcer operation recently

840
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:23,000
down in the Pasadena, Texas. He will be rejoining the club in another month or so.

841
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:29,000
Ortega is the full count pitch once again. He misses this time, and Petrocelli waits him out for a walk.

842
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:52,000
While he trots to first, let's pause for a station break. This is the Red Sox baseball network.

843
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:58,000
Back in D.C. Stadium, Red Sox with a man on and two outs, the batter is Lenny Green.

844
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:04,000
He looks at the first pitch up high, ball one. Red Sox ahead four to one. We're in the top of the fourth.

845
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:11,000
Petrocelli with a walk as at first base. Ortega bends in for the sign.

846
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,000
There it goes. There goes the runner, high for a ball, throw to second.

847
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:19,000
Petrocelli slides. He is out. Brinkman slaps the tag on him.

848
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:24,000
Play going from the catcher to the shortstop covering, and the attempted steal backfires.

849
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,000
That's all for the Red Sox.

850
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:30,000
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851
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:37,000
So three and a half innings is the Red Sox four and Washington one.

852
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:41,000
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853
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:44,000
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854
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855
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856
01:05:54,000 --> 01:06:01,000
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857
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,000
We mentioned earlier there are some Red Sox fans here.

858
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:09,000
One of them is Senator Edward Kennedy, who is here rooting for the Red Sox today,

859
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:12,000
and we ask him to come up and say hello to you all.

860
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,000
First of all, how are you feeling, Senator?

861
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,000
I want to very, very well.

862
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,000
It's a delightful day down here, and I'm glad to be up with you.

863
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:26,000
I remember your being up with you last year, the opening game, the home game of the Red Sox,

864
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:33,000
when Tom Yawkey and the Red Sox organization were kind enough to give the proceeds through the Kennedy Library.

865
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:37,000
So I'm a great fan, always have been, and it's good to be up here on opening day.

866
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:41,000
That's right, and I told Billy Herman he'd be here today, and he said, well, wish him luck.

867
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,000
I said, well, maybe you want to wish Billy luck, too.

868
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:44,000
Oh, I certainly do.

869
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:49,000
I think they certainly have got a lot of huff-hulls up today and great hitting power.

870
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:51,000
I think it's going to be a great year.

871
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:53,000
I always enjoy following them.

872
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:57,000
We don't always get the chance to get out here, but we've got a great start of the season.

873
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:02,000
I have, you'd think that I might have some split loyalties today being in Washington and playing the Senators,

874
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,000
but there's no problem for me.

875
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:06,000
Good. Thank you very much, Senator Kennedy.

876
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:09,000
Glad to see you're feeling better and stronger every day,

877
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:12,000
and we're ready to go now on the last of the fourth inning.

878
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:20,000
And that's the offset here with Maumouquette pitching.

879
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:31,000
The first pitch by Bill Maumouquette is swung on and missed as Bob Chance takes the first cut.

880
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:36,000
Chance got a single left field, got the first hit of the season, actually,

881
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:41,000
dumped the single in there in the first inning.

882
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:47,000
He's a hitter and he takes the pitch outside, one ball, one strike.

883
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:51,000
You remember very well the opener that Senator Kennedy was talking about last year at Fenway

884
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:57,000
when everybody came and watched the Red Sox beat the White Sox.

885
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,000
Line dry off the left field.

886
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,000
Chance may get more than one on this one.

887
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,000
The ball sinks in the grass, picked up by Yacenki.

888
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:10,000
Chance trying for two to throw is not quite in time as he beats the attack by Van Pia.

889
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:15,000
He almost nailed him at second base.

890
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:20,000
Van Pia, I don't believe, knew that Chance was going to be coming in there.

891
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:23,000
Felix was off the bag and then made a belated dive for him,

892
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:29,000
and Chance slid in under the throw, which was a good one by Yaz, for a two-base hit.

893
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,000
So that's two for two for Bob Chance.

894
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,000
That ball ordinarily, Mel, would have gone all the way to the fence,

895
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,000
but on this day it just died in that grass out there.

896
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,000
That's right, the slow outfield killed the ball.

897
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:46,000
It all had to come in on the ball and make a barehand pickup and a quick throw to second base.

898
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,000
The throw was just to the right of the bag.

899
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,000
Chance slid to the left of the bag.

900
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:54,000
It just didn't get in under the tag by Van Pia.

901
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:58,000
So the Senators are cooking something here with a man at second, nobody out,

902
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:03,000
and the batter is Mike Howard, Big Hondo as they call him.

903
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,000
The Dodgers called him.

904
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:08,000
This is a menacing-looking man, I tell you.

905
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:13,000
Facially he resembles Arnold Early a little bit on the red side.

906
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:16,000
Pitch is inside and high to him, ball one.

907
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:21,000
A man with this power can be fooled easily, but the brute power makes up for the many mistakes

908
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:25,000
that he may make in trying to attack the pitch.

909
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:28,000
You remember seeing that World Series on television a couple of years ago

910
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:30,000
at Homer E. Ed in L.A. against Whitey Ford?

911
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,000
I think it was.

912
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:39,000
It was somebody else, but nobody's ever matched that one.

913
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:44,000
Pitch is down low and outside.

914
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:45,000
2-0.

915
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,000
He hit a tremendous double or triple against Ford in Yankee Stadium,

916
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,000
which was out near the flagpole and all the monuments there,

917
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:55,000
and then he went to Los Angeles and hit one into the upper deck,

918
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:58,000
which hovers over the bullpen in Chavez Ravine,

919
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:04,000
which is about as far as anybody has hit that ball in that ballpark.

920
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,000
He's a shotgun up there.

921
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:09,000
This spring, they say, they've always been hitting the top of the ball.

922
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:12,000
He's hit everything on the ground.

923
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:16,000
Mambo gets delivery, breaks outside, ball three.

924
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:23,000
Mambo being careful.

925
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:27,000
Now it has such tremendous size that that looks like a tooth-taking hand.

926
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:30,000
Kind of like Boog Powell from the other side,

927
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,000
Powell of Baltimore.

928
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,000
Makes that bat look little.

929
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:36,000
Howard had only one spring training home run.

930
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:42,000
That was hit in Mexico City.

931
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:45,000
He wore weights in his shoes for a couple of weeks to try to,

932
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:51,000
he took off 30 pounds of weight, and that's no mean feat.

933
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:54,000
He picked ball four.

934
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:58,000
Senators have runners at first and second, nobody out.

935
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:06,000
That was the second walk off Mambo.

936
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:12,000
Bob Stillman out to talk to Mambo Ketch.

937
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:16,000
And the hitter is Don Locke, who drilled one into the upper deck

938
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:19,000
in the second inning for the Senators' run.

939
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:29,000
Twenty-eight home runs last year for this fellow.

940
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:34,000
Steve Rydzik, a right-hander, is throwing now on the Senator bullpen.

941
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,000
If it gets down as far as the pitcher, this inning and the batting order,

942
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:41,000
they may hit for Ortega.

943
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,000
Locke crouched to the plate.

944
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:51,000
Hanson Howard lead away, and the first pitch is a call strike one.

945
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:53,000
Frank Howard at first base.

946
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:55,000
We were saying he took off 30 pounds.

947
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,000
He came in weighing 274, way overweight.

948
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:02,000
Now it's 248, 250, which still is big.

949
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:06,000
He worked very hard to get himself in shape.

950
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,000
Bob Chet leads away from second.

951
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:10,000
Howard with a big lead off first.

952
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,000
Locke hits one up in the air.

953
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,000
Sky-high to shallow center.

954
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,000
Lenny Green looking up, waiting for it.

955
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,000
Makes the catch.

956
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:21,000
The runner is holed as the throw comes into Petrocelli.

957
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:22,000
Locke flies to center.

958
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:29,000
There's one down.

959
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:33,000
Willie Kirkland, he walked in the second inning

960
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:46,000
and was cut down trying to steal a moment later.

961
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:50,000
Nice to see the slim trim Al Walker here again with us this year.

962
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:58,000
He's gone into his annual diet and is down to 248 himself.

963
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:01,000
Kirkland batting from the left side.

964
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:04,000
Chance off second. Howard off first.

965
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:06,000
Mambo comes to the belt.

966
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:09,000
His pitch is lofted high into the infield.

967
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:11,000
Back to the plate now.

968
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:14,000
Now it's being called infield fly.

969
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:16,000
Malzone drops the ball.

970
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:17,000
Throws to second.

971
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:22,000
Mancilla tags everybody and it's out.

972
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,000
Looks like an infield fly rule was called first.

973
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:26,000
Malzone dropped the ball.

974
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:29,000
It started out in foul ground behind home plate.

975
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:35,000
It dropped it at over.

976
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:38,000
Infield fly rule was called by plate umpire Paparello.

977
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,000
Although Malzone dropped the ball, it doesn't make any difference.

978
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:41,000
The batter is out.

979
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:43,000
He threw to second base.

980
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,000
And the runner at second chance is off the base.

981
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:47,000
He was tagged out and it's a double play.

982
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:48,000
That's the way it goes.

983
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:51,000
Infield fly rule called with the batter out.

984
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:55,000
And the runner at his own risk, Chance, taking the runner off the base.

985
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,000
So he is out.

986
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:59,000
At the end of four innings, it's Boston four runs, four-inch no errors.

987
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:02,000
Washington one run, three hits and one error.

988
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:07,000
Leading off for the Red Sox is Lenny Green and coming back in is Kurt Gotti.

989
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:12,000
Well the fans are still buzzing about that double play.

990
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:17,000
And so many times a year we get questions on the infield fly rule.

991
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:18,000
We just saw a good example of it there.

992
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,000
Lenny Green's up.

993
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,000
He takes a slow curve for a strike call from Phil Ortega.

994
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:27,000
With runners on first and second or first, second and third, less than two outs.

995
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:31,000
The batter hits what in the judgment of the umpire is a fly ball that can be handled by an infielder.

996
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,000
The batter is automatically out.

997
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,000
And runners advance at their own risk.

998
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:36,000
A swing and a miss.

999
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:37,000
Strike two.

1000
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,000
So Kirkland hit the pop-up.

1001
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:44,000
He was automatically out when the umpire called infield fly rule affair.

1002
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:50,000
And Bob Chance, who was on first after Malzone dropped the ball, ran down to second and threw the man to you,

1003
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:52,000
who first stepped on the bag and then tagged him.

1004
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,000
The two strike sets.

1005
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:56,000
And the drive hit right down the right field line.

1006
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,000
Let's see if it's fair.

1007
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:02,000
It's a fair ball bouncing in the corner.

1008
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:03,000
And let's see.

1009
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,000
Oh, just clear defense.

1010
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:10,000
It's just clear defense for a home run for Lenny Green.

1011
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:14,000
The stands jut around in the corner and we couldn't see the ball in the corner.

1012
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,000
We saw it bounce in the over defense.

1013
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:24,000
And didn't know whether it's clear defense or bounced over with the way the stands jut out and obscure our view in that corner.

1014
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:27,000
A home run for Lenny Green right down the line.

1015
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:30,000
You can't hit him down the line any truer than that.

1016
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:32,000
That was fair by about a foot.

1017
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:36,000
And that's the third home run for the Red Sox in this game.

1018
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:37,000
Which is outside, ball one.

1019
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:41,000
The Red Sox lead now by a score of five to one.

1020
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:42,000
Green is homered.

1021
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,000
Lee Thomas has hit a free run.

1022
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:47,000
Homer Felix Mantias homered.

1023
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:51,000
And Iglial Zondek pitches low.

1024
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,000
Ball two to Carl Yastremski.

1025
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:58,000
You can see why Lenny Green worked his way into the starting lineup.

1026
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:07,000
Like he was going to be a minor leaguer and he came into spring training, worked hard, had a great spring training, and now gets in a home run here in the opening game.

1027
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:16,000
Their pitch is outside, ball three to Yastremski who is grounded out and walks.

1028
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:19,000
Steve Rydzik is warming up in the center bullpen.

1029
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,000
Free balls and no strikes.

1030
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,000
Here's the pitch.

1031
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:25,000
Ball four, it's low.

1032
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,000
Yastremski's on.

1033
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:31,000
And Tony Kanigla-Harrows coming up.

1034
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,000
Kanigla-Harrows single to left, he's single to right.

1035
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:36,000
He's two for two.

1036
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:42,000
At Lenny Green you couldn't pull a ball down that line like that in the better, Mel.

1037
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:44,000
Lenny's a real aggressive hitter.

1038
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,000
He attacks the pitcher all the way.

1039
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:49,000
He goes out after that fast ball and of course in that case he did the same thing.

1040
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:53,000
He went out, got the fast ball, pulled it down the right field line.

1041
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:56,000
That ball went right into the corner just over the 3.35 sign.

1042
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:57,000
There goes the runner.

1043
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:03,000
It's a slow ball for a strike, a high throw, and safe for second is Yastremski with a stolen base.

1044
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:05,000
Billy Herman really has him running.

1045
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,000
That's two stolen bases in the game.

1046
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:11,000
Kanigla-Harrows in the second, Yastremski here in the fifth.

1047
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:14,000
Pepper Shelley was thrown out trying to get out of the four.

1048
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:18,000
But he has him moving.

1049
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,000
So we have a runner on second.

1050
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:24,000
That takes off the double play situation, fourth double play.

1051
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,000
Kanigla-Harrows hits a little roller down toward third.

1052
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:29,000
Ortega picks it up with a bare hand.

1053
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:31,000
He's out at first play at first base.

1054
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,000
Over to third goes Yastremski.

1055
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:38,000
Ortega ran off the mound, picked that one up with his throwing hand,

1056
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:41,000
and got him on a very close play at first base.

1057
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:44,000
One out, Yastremski's on third.

1058
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:45,000
And Lee Thomas up.

1059
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,000
Thomas grounded out in the second.

1060
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:55,000
Bell with a three-run homer in the third to right field.

1061
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:57,000
Five to one.

1062
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:03,000
Red Sox ahead here in the top of the fifth inning.

1063
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,000
Felix Mantee on deck, infield in.

1064
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,000
There's a sharp runner to second.

1065
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,000
Blossing game looks.

1066
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:14,000
Yastremski back to third and makes the play over to first and is two down.

1067
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:17,000
Now Thomas couldn't get the ball up in the air that time.

1068
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:19,000
Two down, Yastremski's still on third.

1069
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:24,000
Felix Mantee up, is flied out and hit a home run.

1070
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,000
The Red Sox broke their own home run record last year.

1071
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:29,000
They bowled at 186 homers.

1072
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:31,000
Second in the majors.

1073
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:35,000
They led the league in hitting all year but finished eighth.

1074
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:40,000
Billy Herman, knowing this, has tried to improve the team defensively, add more speed.

1075
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,000
Today we've seen two stolen bases.

1076
01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:45,000
I think they stole how many? Eighteen all of last year, something?

1077
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:47,000
Swinging a miss.

1078
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:54,000
Looks like a little bit different type of attack, and one that's going to help especially defensively.

1079
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:57,000
No substitute for speed in any sport.

1080
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:04,000
One strike to Mantee.

1081
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,000
Yastremski on third, two down.

1082
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:09,000
There's a high fly down the left field line.

1083
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,000
Frank Howard chasing it over by the fans.

1084
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:15,000
He doesn't have a play on it.

1085
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:17,000
It's a foul ball.

1086
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:21,000
Fans were contesting Howard for the ball down the left field line.

1087
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:41,000
So the count to Mantee, now two strikes.

1088
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:45,000
Nice telegram from Cliff Holt and the Atlanta Refining Company in Philadelphia.

1089
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:49,000
He always thinks of us every year at the start of the season.

1090
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:51,000
Hand it to us. Here's the pitch.

1091
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:56,000
Inside, ball won.

1092
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:59,000
Here's one on your 15th year with the Red Sox.

1093
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:01,000
Hope that you have happiness and the gladness we had together.

1094
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:05,000
Good luck for another season, your pal, Johnny Orlando.

1095
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:07,000
Play delivery.

1096
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:08,000
Ground ball to third.

1097
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:11,000
Look at this, Ken McMullen fires the first.

1098
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,000
Mantee is out and the Red Sox are retired.

1099
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:18,000
In the fifth inning, one run for the Red Sox, one hit, a home run by Lenny Green.

1100
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:21,000
There were no errors and one man left.

1101
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:25,000
Well, we've gone halfway in the opening game of the 1965 season,

1102
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:32,000
and the score is the Red Sox 5 and the Senators 1.

1103
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:33,000
Hi, Mee.

1104
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:34,000
Hi, Mee.

1105
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,000
I brought you a glass of Marigans and lager beer.

1106
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:40,000
The beer to give you that famous straight from the barrel taste.

1107
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:43,000
To taste the people who really know beer like this.

1108
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:45,000
Gants of light but not too light.

1109
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:48,000
The television cameras around you, how about taking a sip of Gants of beer

1110
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,000
and telling us how you feel about it?

1111
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,000
Maybe you're in the middle of the outfield in the game.

1112
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,000
And they don't play any balls coming this way.

1113
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,000
It might be. I'm playing a game, madam. You've got...

1114
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:57,000
Sorry, Mike.

1115
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,000
The Marigans, if you would like to know how you feel about this, Darren.

1116
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,000
Madam, you've got to get out of here. This is terrible.

1117
01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:04,000
This is never... Oh, may I just get this for... Oh.

1118
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,000
See how I missed that ball. I missed that ball.

1119
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,000
I never... Here, I caught it.

1120
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,000
Oh, thank you.

1121
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:13,000
I'll just throw it back. You've just got to get out of here.

1122
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:16,000
Uh, uh...

1123
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:17,000
Heads up!

1124
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:18,000
They're furious.

1125
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:19,000
I'm so sorry.

1126
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,000
Uh, oh.

1127
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:21,000
What?

1128
01:21:21,000 --> 01:21:24,000
If you'd tell them about the bottle of Marigans of beer.

1129
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:27,000
Oh, you've really confused me.

1130
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:29,000
Well, I'll just drink this ball.

1131
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:36,000
We're now in the last of the fifth inning.

1132
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:39,000
Mambo-Ket will face the bottom of the senator order.

1133
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:44,000
Brumley, Brinkman, and Ortega, and they may hit for Ortega because

1134
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,000
Ribzic is warming up in the senator bullpen.

1135
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:51,000
Now, I started to say earlier, Johnny Orlando was clubhouse for the Red Sox

1136
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,000
for years and years. He was there when Mel was there.

1137
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,000
One night we were playing a night game here.

1138
01:21:56,000 --> 01:22:00,000
Mike Higgins was an old friend of Lyndon Johnson, uh, at Texan,

1139
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:03,000
and Mike was an outstanding athlete down there in Texas,

1140
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:07,000
and his brother, Ox, ran the sporting goods stores all over Texas,

1141
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:10,000
and he was a very close friend of Lyndon Johnson,

1142
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:14,000
who at that time was a United States senator from Texas.

1143
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:19,000
We were at the, played a game, oh, this must have been seven, eight, or nine years ago.

1144
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,000
Pitch was in there, so I called, you were with the ball club then.

1145
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:25,000
And one night two men came into the clubhouse after the game

1146
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:28,000
and asked to see Mike Higgins.

1147
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:32,000
And Orlando said nobody allowed in the clubhouse, which was the rule.

1148
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:38,000
The pitch popped up out in the shallow left field backing up a set of cellies under it.

1149
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:40,000
He makes the grab and there's one away.

1150
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:44,000
And so he said, listen, we're, uh, we're close friends of his,

1151
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:48,000
and also I am Senator Lyndon Johnson, and the other one was Sam Rayburn,

1152
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:51,000
the speaker of the house, and Orlando said, I don't care who you are,

1153
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:54,000
Eisenhower, who you are, out.

1154
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:58,000
So he kicked them both out, and every time I see him,

1155
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:02,000
I always remind him about the time he kicked out the future president of the United States

1156
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:05,000
out of the Red Sox clubhouse.

1157
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:13,000
Ed Brinkman up, swings and fouls it back, track one.

1158
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:17,000
A score of five to one, Red Sox ahead last to the fifth inning.

1159
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:24,000
Brinkman grounded out his first time.

1160
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:29,000
A pitch is ground ball to shortstop, Malzone up with it, can't get it.

1161
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:33,000
Peppertelli just misses on a phenomenal play.

1162
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:36,000
Malzone went to his left, the ball got under his glove.

1163
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:40,000
Malzone covered a lot of ground with flashing in front of a shortstop.

1164
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:44,000
Peppertelli backed him up with a trickle off his glove and nearly threw.

1165
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:47,000
Brinkman out, it is scored as a base hit.

1166
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:51,000
And now we have a pinch hitter, Joe Cunningham, is going to bat for Ortega.

1167
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:57,000
And now for three, Joe Cunningham.

1168
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:04,000
Joe Cunningham batting left, will hit for Ortega.

1169
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:08,000
With a runner on first, Brinkman won out, last to the fifth inning.

1170
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:11,000
Don Blanton games on deck.

1171
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:14,000
Ambo checks his runner, the pitch to left-handed Cunningham,

1172
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:16,000
the swing and the miss and a fastball.

1173
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:20,000
Cunningham came to the Senators last year with Bill Cowan going to the white side.

1174
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:22,000
Both veterans, first baseman.

1175
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:25,000
He's a slashing type of hitter.

1176
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:28,000
Slashes line drives to all fields.

1177
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:33,000
One stretch coming.

1178
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:35,000
Five runs, five hits for the Red Sox.

1179
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:37,000
One run, four hits for the Senators.

1180
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:42,000
The pitch is inside a ball, one and one.

1181
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:48,000
Also a telegram here to myself, Mel, Ned, Engineer Walker.

1182
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:51,000
World's a luck to you for a most successful season.

1183
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:54,000
Leo Clodier, baseball dinner director of Manchester, New Hampshire.

1184
01:24:54,000 --> 01:25:01,000
I want to thank Leo for his telegram.

1185
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:02,000
Hello, Janitor, what's being done?

1186
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:07,000
Incidentally, we are on the Armed Forces radio network today around the world.

1187
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:12,000
And I guess this game is being carried, let's see, six hours difference in Germany.

1188
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:16,000
Right now it's seven minutes to nine there.

1189
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:20,000
They're listening to the opening of the Major League season at night.

1190
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:25,000
Over there many of our Miami bases around the world.

1191
01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:28,000
One ball, one strike.

1192
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:34,000
Pitch is ball two the other way around over in Japan in the Far East.

1193
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:37,000
Early in the morning.

1194
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:41,000
Two balls and one strike, says Joe Cunningham.

1195
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:45,000
Bring them on first, one out.

1196
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:47,000
Two blasting games on deck.

1197
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:49,000
Stretched by Mambo in the pitch.

1198
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,000
Twins and misses on the fastball.

1199
01:25:51,000 --> 01:26:02,000
Strike two. Two balls, two strikes.

1200
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:06,000
You don't think there aren't plenty of secret servicemen around this place.

1201
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:09,000
Or they're all over down here by the dugout.

1202
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:13,000
Two to the count.

1203
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,000
Delivery is a swing and a rest.

1204
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,000
He struck him out on the high slider.

1205
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:18,000
Strike three.

1206
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,000
Cunningham's out.

1207
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:23,000
That is strikeout number three for Mambo.

1208
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:25,000
Two down for the Senators.

1209
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:28,000
And here's a little blasting game coming up.

1210
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:30,000
Blast the game, it's fouled out and flied out.

1211
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,000
He is a deadly punter.

1212
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:36,000
He can drop that ball on a dime down the third baseline.

1213
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:42,000
O'Malzone moves in tight on him on the grass at third.

1214
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:46,000
He hit 267 last year.

1215
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:53,000
Ken McMullen's on deck.

1216
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:57,000
Ed Brinkman on first, two away.

1217
01:26:57,000 --> 01:26:58,000
Your pitch.

1218
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:00,000
Ground ball, hit out to Petruchelli.

1219
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:01,000
Scooped it up.

1220
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:04,000
Fires the first, he's got him, sides out.

1221
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:06,000
No runs.

1222
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:07,000
One hit, there were no errors.

1223
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:09,000
One man left.

1224
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:12,000
And now Walker just said he's got a good arm.

1225
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:14,000
That's right, Al, you can fire that ball from shortstop.

1226
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:20,000
Down at the end of five innings, our score is the Red Sox five and the Senators one.

1227
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:24,000
Well, how about telling the fans about that new Red Sox yearbook, Matt?

1228
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:25,000
It's out now, Kirk.

1229
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:28,000
As a matter of fact, it's been out for a couple of days.

1230
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:34,000
And it's on sale now throughout newsstands and outlets all over New England.

1231
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:38,000
Fine yearbook this year with all the stories and pictures of the Red Sox.

1232
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:45,000
There are attendance followers, people in the front office, people on the field.

1233
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:49,000
It's on sale at newsstands throughout New England with all the pictures, autographs,

1234
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:53,000
and information about the organization.

1235
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:59,000
Fifty cents plus a dime for postage will get you a Red Sox yearbook by mail.

1236
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:04,000
Just send that to Red Sox yearbook Fenway Park, Boston, 15.

1237
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:10,000
They've got a new color pack deal out this year.

1238
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:15,000
Last year when we offered eight pictures for 50 cents, they're all gone by the middle of July.

1239
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,000
And they couldn't take care of all the late orders.

1240
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:24,000
Well, in 1965 right now you can get 16 full-color, full-size autographed color pictures

1241
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:31,000
of your favorite members of the Red Sox for just one dollar plus a dime for postage.

1242
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,000
These color pictures will be ready.

1243
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,000
They're ready now too.

1244
01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:41,000
You send a dollar plus a dime for postage to Red Sox color pictures at Fenway Park, Boston, 15.

1245
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:48,000
Incidentally, remember you get a full-size, full-color picture of one of your favorite Red Sox players

1246
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:53,000
absolutely free in every copy of the Red Sox 1965 yearbook.

1247
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:59,000
The 65 yearbook on the cover this year is sort of a film clip sequence of Dick Raditz

1248
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:04,000
from center field pitching to a batter. Very well done.

1249
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:09,000
So take a glance at the 1965 yearbook for the Red Sox.

1250
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:15,000
Steve Ritzig, right-hander reliever, has come on for the Senators as the Red Sox come up on the sixth.

1251
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:23,000
Frank Malzone will start it off with the Red Sox in the sixth inning.

1252
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,000
Frank has walked and popped up.

1253
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:31,000
Frank's batting in the number seven spot this year. Malzone, Tillman, and Mamboquette.

1254
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:35,000
Veteran Steve Ritzig, the right-hander.

1255
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:45,000
So Ortega pitched five innings, allowed five hits, five runs.

1256
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:48,000
He was bellied for three homers by the Red Sox.

1257
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:52,000
He walked three and he struck out three.

1258
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:55,000
Malzone hits a high fly to Fairleigh Deek Center.

1259
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:59,000
Don Locke racing back, draws a beat on it, and hauls it in.

1260
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:01,000
And Deek straightaway center.

1261
01:30:01,000 --> 01:30:03,000
One out.

1262
01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:10,000
Here's Bob Tillman up. He reached in an air and he's rounded out to third.

1263
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:15,000
Mamboquette, the pitcher, coming out on deck.

1264
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:21,000
Five to one, the Red Sox ahead in the sixth inning.

1265
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:27,000
And for you fans in New England listening, we'll see you next Saturday at Fenway Park when the Red Sox meet the Orioles.

1266
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:31,000
Sidearm pitch is low and away to Tillman, ball one.

1267
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:38,000
Checking on walks, four walks Ortega gave up.

1268
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:43,000
A 1-0 delivery.

1269
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:58,000
One ball and strike to him now.

1270
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:00,000
Here's the 1-1 delivery.

1271
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:04,000
Strike called, outside corner fastball, one and two.

1272
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:07,000
One ball, two strikes.

1273
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:13,000
They play Tillman deep and toward left.

1274
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:22,000
Rizik double-fumps, comes in outside of ball two and two.

1275
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:28,000
What are the 81 degrees if you've joined us late here in the nation's capital?

1276
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:31,000
Brilliant, sunshiny day.

1277
01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:35,000
Almost like a day in late June or early July.

1278
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:39,000
Two and two is the count to Bob Tillman.

1279
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:45,000
Sidearm pitch is swung on him, that's strike three. Tillman strikes out.

1280
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:47,000
Two down for the Red Sox.

1281
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:51,000
And Bill Mamboquette coming up. He has struck out and rounded out.

1282
01:31:51,000 --> 01:32:01,000
0 for two.

1283
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:10,000
Here's the windup in delivery.

1284
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:16,000
Ground ball hit to the right side. Blasting game, digs it out of the dirt, flips over to Bob Chance at first.

1285
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:19,000
The Red Sox are retired one, two, three in the sixth.

1286
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:25,000
At the end of five and a half innings, our score is the Red Sox five and the Senators one.

1287
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:34,000
I never have a chance to give this log a beer chance.

1288
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:37,000
It has that straight from the barrel of tape.

1289
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:40,000
In bottles, can on tap, it's great.

1290
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:45,000
If Scancers got the flavor, never can this flavor.

1291
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:50,000
Scancers to life, but not to life. Straight from the barrel of tape.

1292
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:54,000
That's right, that's Scancers.

1293
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:55,000
Yes, that's Scancers all right.

1294
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:59,000
The beer with a straight from the barrel taste in bottle, can, or on tap.

1295
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:02,000
That's the taste preferred by people who really know beer.

1296
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:04,000
So hi, neighbor, have a Scancers.

1297
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:19,000
Straight from the barrel of tape. That's right, that's Scancers.

1298
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:23,000
Before we move to the last of the sixth inning now, let's pause for station identification.

1299
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:26,000
This is the Red Sox baseball network.

1300
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:35,000
This is Fun Radio at 1440 on your AM dial and 107.3 on your FM band, WWAB AM and FM in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1301
01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:47,000
The time is one minute past three o'clock at the temperature outside our studios, 42 degrees.

1302
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:52,000
This is Kurt Gowdy, Ned Martin, and Mel Farnell back with you in Washington, last of the sixth inning.

1303
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:58,000
And Ken McMullen is leading off for the Sanders. He's batting number two in their lineup, the third baseman.

1304
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:00,000
He has struck out and flied to left.

1305
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:05,000
First pitch to him is a foul ball back into the stands, strike one.

1306
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:17,000
McMullen's had a red hot spring training. He's had 15 games in a row in the spring.

1307
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:21,000
Five runs, five hits for the Red Sox. One run, four hits for the Sanders.

1308
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:25,000
Don Locke hit a homer for the Senators in the second.

1309
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:30,000
Thomas Amantia hit homers in the third. Lenny Green in the fifth for the Red Sox.

1310
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:39,000
The Red Sox got four big runs in the third.

1311
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:44,000
And the pitch is popped up to the shortstop.

1312
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:47,000
Rico Petracelli comes in under, makes the grab, and there's one away.

1313
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:56,000
And his new bride, after just a month or two, sitting down by the Red Sox dugout, watching her husband gather that one in.

1314
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:01,000
What a thrill that must have been for him today to open the Major League season, Mel.

1315
01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:07,000
It's quite a treat for young Rico. Rico is a young fellow that never stops hustling.

1316
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:11,000
He's one that tries awfully hard. He's one of the first to the ball, one of the last to leave.

1317
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:16,000
And this young fellow works hard, and if work proves anything, he should be a great ball player.

1318
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:21,000
One out, nobody on. Here's a fellow that's given Bill Mambo cat trouble, Bob Chance.

1319
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:24,000
He is single and double, left-handed batter.

1320
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:29,000
Mambo starts him off with a slow ball outside, one and nothing.

1321
01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:31,000
Frank Howard's on deck.

1322
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:37,000
We're in the last half of sixth inning.

1323
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:40,000
A 1-0 delivery.

1324
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:46,000
There's a hard ground ball to Thomas at first. He lobs it over to Mambo cat covering, and we have two down.

1325
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:52,000
Notice that President Johnson has a big, long piece of paper down there. It's not a scorecard.

1326
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:56,000
And he's passing it around, and they're all huddling on it.

1327
01:35:56,000 --> 01:36:02,000
And then he'll point to it and lean back and say something to a couple of more of them.

1328
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:07,000
It's a very bipartisan box down there, by the way, both Democrats and Republicans.

1329
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:14,000
That may be the latest report from Vietnam, Kirk. It could be.

1330
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:18,000
Hey, it's on Martin's income tax.

1331
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:23,000
Frank Howard, up, hit it to a fourth play and walks.

1332
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:30,000
Here's the pitch to Howard, big right-handed batter takes a strike called, nothing and one.

1333
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:33,000
Two down, nobody on, last to the sixth inning.

1334
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:36,000
Five to one Red Sox.

1335
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:41,000
Oh, this Howard's thick.

1336
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:46,000
No balls, one strike.

1337
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:49,000
They're way over in that infield toward third on him.

1338
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:53,000
Manthee is playing almost back a second.

1339
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:55,000
Here's the one-strike pitch.

1340
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:59,000
He swings and misses on a fastball for strike two.

1341
01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:05,000
No balls, two strikes.

1342
01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:09,000
Mom Bouquet has walked two.

1343
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:15,000
He walked Kirkland in the second and Howard in the fourth.

1344
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:17,000
He has struck out three.

1345
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:19,000
It's two-strike pitch.

1346
01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:22,000
A ground ball, the third base for Malzone and back of the bag.

1347
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:23,000
A long throw for him.

1348
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:26,000
The time of stretch is in, grabs it, and the sides retire.

1349
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:31,000
A slow curve ball that had Howard off his timing, and he tapped the two-hopper and back a third.

1350
01:37:31,000 --> 01:37:38,000
A long throw by Malzone, but it got Big Howard, and the Senators are retired in the last half of sixth inning.

1351
01:37:38,000 --> 01:37:40,000
We have three down at the end of sixth.

1352
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:47,000
Our score is Boston 5 and Washington 1.

1353
01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:55,000
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1354
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1355
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1356
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1357
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1358
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1360
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1361
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:31,000
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1362
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1363
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1364
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:40,000
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1365
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:44,000
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1366
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:47,000
We're in the seventh inning now, ladies and gentlemen.

1367
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:51,000
With the top of the red-stock batting order up, Rico Petticelli will start it off.

1368
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:53,000
He has struck out twice and walked.

1369
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:56,000
He's facing veteran Steve Ribzic.

1370
01:38:56,000 --> 01:39:00,000
Petticelli, Green, and Yastremski.

1371
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:02,000
Pitch to the switch hitter is cut on.

1372
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:04,000
There's a long drive in the deep center.

1373
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:08,000
Lock backing up, back, back, under, and grabs it out there in a warning pass.

1374
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:13,000
And the youngster hit that ball a long way, but the straightaway deep center.

1375
01:39:13,000 --> 01:39:14,000
One out.

1376
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:16,000
He has some power in the minor leagues now.

1377
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:20,000
He hit a lot of runs in and home runs two years ago.

1378
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:23,000
Rico will jump up now and then and hit the long ball for you,

1379
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:25,000
both from the right side and left side of the plate.

1380
01:39:25,000 --> 01:39:28,000
He's a little fellow, but has a lot of power.

1381
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:32,000
Of course, his problem now is making contact a little more often.

1382
01:39:32,000 --> 01:39:35,000
And I'm sure by playing every day he will improve that.

1383
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:40,000
When he greens up, he pops a short, ground it out, and hit a home run down the right-field line.

1384
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:45,000
Batting left-handed, the pitch is ball one.

1385
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:48,000
Other games are underway.

1386
01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:52,000
The American League, Minnesota is leading the Yankees one-and-nothing at the end of an inning and a half,

1387
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:55,000
bouting against Cotts.

1388
01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:58,000
They're afraid they'd start that one in the snow this time of year up there.

1389
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:01,000
The pitch is over for a strike call one-and-one.

1390
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:03,000
Detroit plays Kansas City tonight.

1391
01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:05,000
Cleveland's at Los Angeles tonight.

1392
01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:12,000
Chicago and Baltimore hope for their season tomorrow at Baltimore.

1393
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:14,000
One ball, one strike to Lenny Green.

1394
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:15,000
One out, nobody on.

1395
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:18,000
Green hits a drive down the right-field line again.

1396
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:22,000
This ball is another home run.

1397
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:28,000
A line drive by Lenny Green right down the line into the corner.

1398
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:33,000
And Green has now hit two homers in this game.

1399
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:37,000
He was the second leading batter in spring training.

1400
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:42,000
The Twins and the Angels thought he was washed up, but he's out to disprove that fact.

1401
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:45,000
Larry Claflin was kidding him in the dugout today.

1402
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:50,000
He said, Lenny, the way you've been looking, you've got a chance to be the comeback man of the year.

1403
01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:52,000
Well, if one day does it, he is.

1404
01:40:52,000 --> 01:40:55,000
He's had two home runs already today.

1405
01:40:55,000 --> 01:40:57,000
Pitch is low, ball one.

1406
01:40:57,000 --> 01:41:02,000
Four home runs by the Red Sox in this opening game, and you can't credit Fenway Park for this one.

1407
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:06,000
Lenny seems though he found a target down in the right-field corner.

1408
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:10,000
Those two home runs that were hit weren't any more than five yards apart.

1409
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:12,000
One out, nobody on.

1410
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:14,000
Yastremski's grounded out and walked twice.

1411
01:41:14,000 --> 01:41:16,000
Six to one Red Sox.

1412
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:19,000
Yastremski takes a fastball over, strike called.

1413
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:24,000
They've got one, two, three, four.

1414
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:26,000
Four lefties and five right-handers in the line.

1415
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:29,000
It's good balance in that batting order right now.

1416
01:41:29,000 --> 01:41:31,000
A one-one delivery.

1417
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:34,000
There's a high fly by Yastremski down the left-field line.

1418
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:39,000
Howard chasing it, curving toward the fans, and dropping foul out of play.

1419
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:41,000
One ball, one strike.

1420
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:45,000
Steve Ridzik throws quite differently from the last time that I saw him,

1421
01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:48,000
when with the Phillies Steve was an overhand pitcher.

1422
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:52,000
However, since then he has hurt his arm and is now throwing more from the side

1423
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:58,000
and has added a little jerky deceptive motion to his delivery.

1424
01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:00,000
One ball, two strikes to Carl Yastremski.

1425
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:01,000
One out, nobody on.

1426
01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:03,000
Seventh inning.

1427
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:07,000
Six to one Red Sox ahead.

1428
01:42:07,000 --> 01:42:10,000
Ridzik comes in.

1429
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:11,000
Yastremski takes it inside.

1430
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:19,000
Ball two, strike two.

1431
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:22,000
Three of the homers, one by Mantia, two by Green, have been with nobody on.

1432
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:25,000
Thomas hit one with two on.

1433
01:42:25,000 --> 01:42:27,000
And Locke hit one with nobody on for the centers.

1434
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:28,000
There's a swing and a miss.

1435
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:30,000
He strikes out on a fastball.

1436
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:31,000
Two down.

1437
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:34,000
A low fastball around his knees.

1438
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:37,000
Conigliero, a single left, single right, and grounded out.

1439
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:40,000
He's two out of three.

1440
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:43,000
Over the National League, the Dodgers are leading the Mets three-nothing into three.

1441
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:45,000
Drysdale against Jackson.

1442
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:48,000
Willie Davis and Drysdale have hit homers.

1443
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:50,000
Giants and Pirates, no score at the end of six.

1444
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,000
Marischal against Ville.

1445
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:55,000
Milwaukee and Cincinnati, no score at the end of an inning and a half.

1446
01:42:55,000 --> 01:42:57,000
Flanninger against O'Toole.

1447
01:42:57,000 --> 01:43:02,000
Conigliero hits a foul off the fist on the ground down the third base line, strike one.

1448
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:04,000
St. Louis playing at Chicago.

1449
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:08,000
Philadelphia at Houston in the new dome tonight.

1450
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:13,000
Two down and a seventh inning for the Red Sox, nobody on.

1451
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:17,000
One strike to Conigliero.

1452
01:43:17,000 --> 01:43:20,000
Lidzic double pumps and then comes in.

1453
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:23,000
And there's a long smash by Conigliero.

1454
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:26,000
Way up, midway in the upper deck.

1455
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:30,000
What a clap by Conigliero.

1456
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:37,000
Tony, who hit 24 last year and missed seven weeks of the season with two broken bones.

1457
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:40,000
It's that one, midway in the upper deck.

1458
01:43:40,000 --> 01:43:44,000
And the Red Sox have hit five home runs today.

1459
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:49,000
Conigliero now has three hits in this first game.

1460
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:53,000
How could they leave him off that list of young stars in baseball?

1461
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:55,000
What foul we're seeing today, Kurt.

1462
01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:58,000
I don't know what Billy Herman told the boys before the game,

1463
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:01,000
but I sure hope that he continues to repeat.

1464
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:05,000
Lee Thomas takes the strike.

1465
01:44:05,000 --> 01:44:08,000
One, two, three, four, five homers by the Red Sox.

1466
01:44:08,000 --> 01:44:11,000
They're ahead seven and one and they're still buzzing.

1467
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:13,000
Conigliero's smash was longer than Locke's.

1468
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:16,000
It was halfway in the upper deck in left field.

1469
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:17,000
Here's the one strike fresh.

1470
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:20,000
He knocks Thomas down.

1471
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:22,000
Thomas goes down.

1472
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:23,000
It's thrown right at his head.

1473
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:25,000
He dropped the bat.

1474
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:28,000
One ball, one strike.

1475
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:32,000
This Red Sox power today reminds me of the William Stevens,

1476
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:35,000
go-pulling door error.

1477
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:39,000
In every cut they present a threat for the opposing pitcher.

1478
01:44:39,000 --> 01:44:44,000
One ball, one strike.

1479
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:46,000
Two down.

1480
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:48,000
Seven to one Red Sox in the seventh.

1481
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:50,000
Thomas takes outside.

1482
01:44:50,000 --> 01:44:51,000
Ball two.

1483
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:53,000
You know, Thomas, two years ago, with the Angels,

1484
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:56,000
had a great year when he played first base.

1485
01:44:56,000 --> 01:45:01,000
He had 24 homers, knocked in over 100 runs, hit 290 something.

1486
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:02,000
Boy, they could duplicate that at first.

1487
01:45:02,000 --> 01:45:04,000
Wouldn't that be something in that lineup?

1488
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:05,000
Of course it is.

1489
01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:06,000
Of course it is.

1490
01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:07,000
It's a mighty big word in sports.

1491
01:45:07,000 --> 01:45:10,000
There's a curve in there for a strike, two and two.

1492
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:14,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1493
01:45:14,000 --> 01:45:16,000
Just look down some.

1494
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:19,000
Right over there in that presidential box is pointing up in left field

1495
01:45:19,000 --> 01:45:22,000
where Conigliero hit that tremendous home run.

1496
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:29,000
Two balls and two strikes.

1497
01:45:29,000 --> 01:45:32,000
Two down, bases empty.

1498
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:33,000
A two-two delivery.

1499
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:35,000
He struck him out on a high fastball.

1500
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:37,000
The Red Sox are retired.

1501
01:45:37,000 --> 01:45:41,000
But in the seventh they had two runs, two hits.

1502
01:45:41,000 --> 01:45:47,000
A line drive homer by Green and a king-size clout by Conigliero,

1503
01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:49,000
way in the upper deck in left field.

1504
01:45:49,000 --> 01:45:52,000
There were no errors and nobody left at the end of six and a half

1505
01:45:52,000 --> 01:45:54,000
with a seventh inning stretch on.

1506
01:45:54,000 --> 01:46:04,000
The score is the Red Sox seven and the Senators one.

1507
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:09,000
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1508
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1509
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1510
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1513
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1515
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:44,000
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01:46:44,000 --> 01:46:47,000
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1517
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:52,000
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1518
01:46:52,000 --> 01:46:53,000
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1519
01:46:53,000 --> 01:47:04,000
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1520
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:07,000
We're going now to the last of the seventh inning.

1521
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:11,000
Bill Mambo-Ked will face Don Locke, Willie Kirkland, and Mike Brumley.

1522
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:15,000
Seven to one, Boston leading Washington, play-by-play by Ned Martin.

1523
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:21,000
And your healer, Don Locke.

1524
01:47:21,000 --> 01:47:24,000
Don Locke leading off against Mambo-Ked.

1525
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:26,000
Senators have just four hits in the ball game.

1526
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:31,000
Locke has the biggest home run in the second inning, accounting for the Senators' one run.

1527
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:35,000
Takes a high pitch for ball one.

1528
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:37,000
Red Sox have seven hits.

1529
01:47:37,000 --> 01:47:39,000
Five of them have been homers.

1530
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:43,000
Two other hits have been singles by Conigliaro.

1531
01:47:43,000 --> 01:47:46,000
Pitch to Locke, misses inside.

1532
01:47:46,000 --> 01:47:50,000
Two balls, no strikes.

1533
01:47:50,000 --> 01:47:53,000
There was a scuffling around down the presidential box.

1534
01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:54,000
Everybody was getting up.

1535
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:58,000
There was a bottom of the seventh and the Washington fans stood up.

1536
01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:01,000
So the president stood up.

1537
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:06,000
And all around him as the cameras word and clicked.

1538
01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:07,000
Two holes account.

1539
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:14,000
Locke swings and misses. Two balls, one strike.

1540
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:20,000
The play-by-play of 43,554.

1541
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:23,000
43,554 here today.

1542
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:27,000
Locke is out there with a general turn in Washington.

1543
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:32,000
Locke takes a strike on the outside corner of Beauty, a slider, and the count is two and two.

1544
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:36,000
This is the largest opening day crowd for D.C. Stadium, incidentally.

1545
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:42,000
And of course, definitely the largest crowd we've ever seen down here with the Red Sox playing.

1546
01:48:42,000 --> 01:48:44,000
Mambo's 2-2 pitch.

1547
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:47,000
Misses low and away, ball three.

1548
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:49,000
Three and two.

1549
01:48:49,000 --> 01:48:51,000
Locke is homered and fly to center.

1550
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:54,000
He'll be followed by Kirkland and Brumley.

1551
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:58,000
Mambo Ketch, been just about as good as he's had to be.

1552
01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:01,000
He's got just three strikes out. He's walked two.

1553
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:04,000
He's had the ball in the strike zone.

1554
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:08,000
Making them hit. They've been popping up a lot on him today.

1555
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:12,000
So his fastball is hopping some.

1556
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:18,000
Locke swings and misses strike three.

1557
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:21,000
One away in the seventh.

1558
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:25,000
Four strikeouts for Mambo.

1559
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:33,000
Willie Kirkland has walked, and he popped up into that double play in the fourth inning, the infield fly,

1560
01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:37,000
with two men on in which Malzone dropped the ball, but then through to second,

1561
01:49:37,000 --> 01:49:42,000
Manatee had tagged the runner Chance who had moved off second base.

1562
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:46,000
And that was the only double play of the game.

1563
01:49:46,000 --> 01:49:53,000
Pitch to Kirkland, and Willie lets it go down low, ball one.

1564
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:56,000
Earl Wilson will pitch the game day after tomorrow here,

1565
01:49:56,000 --> 01:50:00,000
and right-hander Bus Narum is scheduled to go for the Senators.

1566
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:03,000
Those same two will work on the weekend at Fenway.

1567
01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:05,000
There's a high pop fly.

1568
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:08,000
First base side, Lee Thomas near the bag, the wind blowing it now,

1569
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:14,000
and Manatee makes the catch as Thomas gave way to Felix who had a better bead on the ball.

1570
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:20,000
Kirkland pops to Manatee, and they're two down, and Mike Brumley comes in 0 for 2.

1571
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:22,000
Minnesota picks up another runner in second.

1572
01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:24,000
They lead the Yankees 2-0 at the end of 2.

1573
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:29,000
The Cardinals are out in front of Chicago Cubs, 5-0 at the end of an inning and a half.

1574
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:32,000
It's the Giants nothing and Pittsburgh nothing.

1575
01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:35,000
The end of 6-1-1 half inning, fine pitchers duel.

1576
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:39,000
Gibson going for the, or let's see, the Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates.

1577
01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:43,000
Marischal for the Giants.

1578
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:50,000
Pitch to Brumley is on the corner, called strike one.

1579
01:50:50,000 --> 01:50:54,000
And Bob Beale going for the Pirates in that shutout so far.

1580
01:50:54,000 --> 01:51:00,000
Milwaukee Cincinnati scoreless after 2, Brumley takes a pitch inside, ball one.

1581
01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:04,000
And as Kirk told you, the Dodgers leading the Mets 5-0.

1582
01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:09,000
Now at the end of 3-1-1 half innings, there's the Dodgers, got a few home runs going for them.

1583
01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:13,000
Drysdale has helped his own cause with a two-run over.

1584
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:18,000
Pitch outside, ball two, two balls, one strike.

1585
01:51:18,000 --> 01:51:21,000
Chicago and Baltimore will open tomorrow.

1586
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:32,000
And of course tonight in the American League is Detroit at Kansas City and Cleveland out on the coast against the Angels.

1587
01:51:32,000 --> 01:51:37,000
Mambo winds fires, Brumley pops it up to the left side, Mal's going down the line, waiting.

1588
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:39,000
He's in foul ground now, he makes the catch.

1589
01:51:39,000 --> 01:51:45,000
And it's an easy 1-2-3 inning for Bill Mambo-Ked, who now has retired eight in a row.

1590
01:51:45,000 --> 01:51:53,000
Stepping across the score at the end of 7 is the Red Sox, 7-man, Washington 1.

1591
01:51:53,000 --> 01:52:02,000
Say, giving your car every chance to perform at its best, well you're not if you allow damaging deposits to interfere with the efficient operation of the carburetor.

1592
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:08,000
It's a known fact that some gasoline leave deposits around the carburetor throttle plate.

1593
01:52:08,000 --> 01:52:14,000
And as they build up, these deposits can cause rough idling, wasted gasoline, and stalling.

1594
01:52:14,000 --> 01:52:19,000
But that won't happen when you use Atlantic Imperial, the clean carburetor gasoline.

1595
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:29,000
Even if deposits have already accumulated in the throttle plate area, a few tankfuls of Atlantic Imperial will dissolve them and wash them harmlessly away.

1596
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:34,000
And they won't return so long as you continue to use Atlantic Imperial.

1597
01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:40,000
So if your engine doesn't run as smoothly as you'd like, maybe you're not giving it a chance.

1598
01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:53,000
See what happens when you use Atlantic Imperial, the gasoline that cleans your carburetor as you drive and keeps it clean.

1599
01:52:53,000 --> 01:53:01,000
Felix Van Peele leading away for the Red Sox on the top of the eighth.

1600
01:53:01,000 --> 01:53:08,000
In the Red Sox bullpen, just in case, right-hander Jack LeMay, but left-hander Arnold Earley are throwing.

1601
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:12,000
Red Sox with a fine six-run bulge right now.

1602
01:53:12,000 --> 01:53:16,000
Pitch to Mantia moves outside, ball one.

1603
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:20,000
Felix is flying to left, hit a home run, and grounded a third.

1604
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:22,000
He's pulled the ball today.

1605
01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:24,000
This is one of his favorite ballparks.

1606
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:28,000
Hit three homers here last year, has one already this season.

1607
01:53:28,000 --> 01:53:32,000
Ritzig moves outside with a flat curve and it's ball two.

1608
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:36,000
Two balls, no strikes.

1609
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:40,000
As Mel Parnell pointed out, Ritzig has changed his style of pitching.

1610
01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:42,000
This is a fellow of Mel that is a hard worker.

1611
01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:44,000
He was a good relief pitcher for Washington last year.

1612
01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:49,000
He and Ron Klein were their hardest workers.

1613
01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:51,000
He'll battle you.

1614
01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:55,000
Throw to Mantia, gets a strike over.

1615
01:53:55,000 --> 01:54:01,000
Two balls and one strike.

1616
01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:05,000
Felix Picadup with Malzahna on deck.

1617
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:10,000
Ritzig winds, throws, and misses inside, ball three.

1618
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:17,000
Red Sox ahead seven to one by dint of a three-run homer and a bases-empty homer in the third.

1619
01:54:17,000 --> 01:54:19,000
A home run in the fifth and two home runs in the seventh.

1620
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:25,000
Homers are counting for all of their runs.

1621
01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:31,000
Wind up and pitch, strike called on the inside slice, the count is three and two.

1622
01:54:31,000 --> 01:54:37,000
Three balls, two strikes.

1623
01:54:37,000 --> 01:54:42,000
Ritzig takes the sign.

1624
01:54:42,000 --> 01:54:45,000
Caulfield laying around the left on Mantia.

1625
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:48,000
Ground ball the third, cooped up by McMullin.

1626
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:49,000
Trolley's his throw to first.

1627
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:51,000
In time, there's one away.

1628
01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:55,000
Second time, Mantia's grounded out the third base.

1629
01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:57,000
And Malzahna comes up.

1630
01:54:57,000 --> 01:55:01,000
Walks off the short and flies very deep to center.

1631
01:55:01,000 --> 01:55:05,000
This McMullin plays a, they worried about his third base play.

1632
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:08,000
They figured that they got his bat instead of a glove.

1633
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:13,000
They gave up John Kennedy to the Dodgers, who is a superior fielder to McMullin.

1634
01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:16,000
But they say that McMullin will do the job around third.

1635
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:23,000
Malzahna tries to get away from a pitch and it bounces foul off his bat down the third base line.

1636
01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:27,000
Looking at McMullin, Mel, and a couple of those ground balls, he takes a little windup to get it over.

1637
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:29,000
He's got a good arm, but he takes a little time to get it away.

1638
01:55:29,000 --> 01:55:32,000
Yes, he takes a full step before throwing.

1639
01:55:32,000 --> 01:55:36,000
He feels the ball, takes one step in the direction he's throwing,

1640
01:55:36,000 --> 01:55:39,000
and tries to get a little more body to his throw.

1641
01:55:39,000 --> 01:55:43,000
Well, I guess a third baseman can afford that better than anybody else.

1642
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:48,000
Anyway, he gets the ball faster, hit at him, and has a little time.

1643
01:55:48,000 --> 01:55:57,000
Pitch to Malzahna, swung on and missed, strike one.

1644
01:55:57,000 --> 01:56:08,000
Malzahna in what must be about his eighth opener for the Red Sox.

1645
01:56:08,000 --> 01:56:13,000
Steve Rydzik kicks, throws, and Frank peels it foul back.

1646
01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:16,000
Nothing and two.

1647
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:19,000
Minnesota leading the Yankees 2-0 at the end of 2-1 half now,

1648
01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:24,000
and Pittsburgh to nuts going, pardon me, in the seventh.

1649
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:31,000
Giants and Pirates are nothing-nothing at the end of seven innings.

1650
01:56:31,000 --> 01:56:38,000
Left-hander Frank Kreutzer is warming up in the Senator bullpen now.

1651
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:42,000
Malzahna looks at a pitch, breaking low and away.

1652
01:56:42,000 --> 01:56:45,000
One ball, two strikes.

1653
01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:49,000
Senator Outfield around the left on Frank, where they always play him.

1654
01:56:49,000 --> 01:56:51,000
I hear every club that he faces just about,

1655
01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:53,000
unless he's against an overpoweringly fast pitcher,

1656
01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:56,000
they'll play him as a dead-pole hitter.

1657
01:56:56,000 --> 01:57:00,000
Second base in the blasting game is shading the bag a couple of steps.

1658
01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:03,000
Malzahna swings and misses, strike three.

1659
01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:05,000
He's fooled on a breaking pitch.

1660
01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:09,000
Rydzik gets his fourth strikeout since coming in there.

1661
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,000
It's been either feast or famine with him.

1662
01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:14,000
He's had four strikeouts and given up two homers

1663
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:18,000
in the two and two-thirds that he's worked.

1664
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:20,000
He's probably a little tough on the right-hander.

1665
01:57:20,000 --> 01:57:22,000
It appears that he would be very tough to pick up

1666
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:26,000
with that jerky motion in his delivery.

1667
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:28,000
Powerball by Bob Tillman, strike one.

1668
01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:32,000
That's right, he's tough to, he looks faster than he is actually.

1669
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:33,000
That's true.

1670
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:35,000
Malzahna was fooled the first time he looked at Rydzik,

1671
01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:39,000
and of course Tillman was also fooled on the last pitch.

1672
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:41,000
Bob started into the pitch, and at the last minute

1673
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:44,000
it appeared to be a self-defense swing.

1674
01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:46,000
Tillman wraps the ground ball toward short.

1675
01:57:46,000 --> 01:57:48,000
Cut off by McMullen, the third baseman.

1676
01:57:48,000 --> 01:57:50,000
Kansas throws in plenty of time.

1677
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:54,000
Good play by McMullen, and the Red Sox are down in order in the eighth inning.

1678
01:57:54,000 --> 01:58:00,000
The end of seven and a half, the score is Red Sox 7 and Washington 1.

1679
01:58:00,000 --> 01:58:03,000
Going to the bottom of the eighth inning now.

1680
01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:06,000
Eddie Brinkman will lead off for the Senators,

1681
01:58:06,000 --> 01:58:10,000
and looking down at the on-deck circle it looks like Jim King,

1682
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:15,000
who will pinch hit for the pitcher Rydzik.

1683
01:58:15,000 --> 01:58:19,000
So they'll pinch hit the left-handed hitting Jim King for Steve Rydzik,

1684
01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:22,000
then go to the top of the order.

1685
01:58:22,000 --> 01:58:32,000
Rydzik pitched three innings while he was in there.

1686
01:58:32,000 --> 01:58:35,000
Eddie Brinkman, right-handed hitting shortstop, is always one for two.

1687
01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:37,000
He had an infield single in the fifth.

1688
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:43,000
Mambo Kett kicks and throws, and his pitch is right in there called strike one.

1689
01:58:43,000 --> 01:58:48,000
Brinkman, one of the classier fielding shortstops in the league,

1690
01:58:48,000 --> 01:58:57,000
and the Senators figure that if he hits 240 or 250 for them, he'll help them.

1691
01:58:57,000 --> 01:59:00,000
He has had an error today, which is a rarity for him.

1692
01:59:00,000 --> 01:59:05,000
He hits the short, shot the short, one-handed by Petracelli, throws the first inside.

1693
01:59:05,000 --> 01:59:08,000
Rico towards the hole, made a couple of steps.

1694
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:11,000
It was not that he went so far, but that he got a tough hop

1695
01:59:11,000 --> 01:59:15,000
because it bounced right in front of him and off to the side.

1696
01:59:15,000 --> 01:59:16,000
That's right.

1697
01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:18,000
Rico shows a very quick hand that he possesses.

1698
01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:20,000
That ball was hit real sharp.

1699
01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:25,000
He was playing to go through the hole, and when the ball made contact at the infield,

1700
01:59:25,000 --> 01:59:28,000
it bounced to the rear of Rico, and the quick hand, he reached back,

1701
01:59:28,000 --> 01:59:32,000
spared the ball, and a perfect throw to Lee Thomas to retire the hitter.

1702
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:36,000
Jim King, the pinch hitter, lost the first pitch high in the air in the right field.

1703
01:59:36,000 --> 01:59:43,000
Thomas back, Mantia back, Kanigale arrow in, and Tony C. makes the catch about five yards in fair.

1704
01:59:43,000 --> 01:59:48,000
Jim King, pinch hitting for Steve Rizik, hits the first pitch up in the air,

1705
01:59:48,000 --> 01:59:50,000
and Kanigale arrow made the catch.

1706
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:57,000
Two down quickly in the ninth, and Mambo is a machine out there.

1707
01:59:57,000 --> 02:00:03,000
In the final of the eighth inning, said the top of the ninth, it's the eighth inning.

1708
02:00:03,000 --> 02:00:10,000
Two gone, blasting game is the hitter.

1709
02:00:10,000 --> 02:00:14,000
Hole for three.

1710
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:20,000
He is fouled out, fly to center, and grounded out.

1711
02:00:20,000 --> 02:00:22,000
Mambo delivers.

1712
02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:24,000
Ground ball hit toward Mantia.

1713
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:28,000
Felix up with it, throws him out, and another easy inning for Mambo.

1714
02:00:28,000 --> 02:00:34,000
Let's see, that's nine, ten, eleven men in a row he's retired.

1715
02:00:34,000 --> 02:00:36,000
Nothing across in the eighth inning.

1716
02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:43,000
The score at the end of eight innings of play is Boston 7 and Washington 1.

1717
02:00:43,000 --> 02:00:45,000
Opening day at Fenway Park.

1718
02:00:45,000 --> 02:00:48,000
Remember coming up on the 17th, this coming Saturday, Easter weekend,

1719
02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:51,000
and a big weekend for all of you to get out, take the family.

1720
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:56,000
You've got Saturday and Sunday afternoon games against the Baltimore Orioles,

1721
02:00:56,000 --> 02:01:00,000
and then a Patriots Day doubleheader against these Washington Senators,

1722
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:05,000
all in the afternoon at the four-game home stand before the Red Sox hit the road.

1723
02:01:05,000 --> 02:01:11,000
Red Sox ticket offices open during the week from nine to five at Fenway Park.

1724
02:01:11,000 --> 02:01:14,000
At eight thirty on Friday night for your convenience.

1725
02:01:14,000 --> 02:01:19,000
So make plans to be there Saturday, especially opening day against the Orioles.

1726
02:01:19,000 --> 02:01:21,000
The game time will be at two fifteen.

1727
02:01:21,000 --> 02:01:25,000
The Harvard Band will be performing along with the conducted by Arthur Siedler

1728
02:01:25,000 --> 02:01:27,000
of the Boston Pops.

1729
02:01:27,000 --> 02:01:30,000
Jerry Vail will sing the national anthem, one of the Wings and Zone,

1730
02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:34,000
and Big Dilling coming up at Fenway starting Saturday.

1731
02:01:34,000 --> 02:01:35,000
We'll see you there.

1732
02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:38,000
Right now let's pause for face identification.

1733
02:01:38,000 --> 02:01:40,000
This is the Red Sox baseball network.

1734
02:01:40,000 --> 02:01:44,000
This is WAAB AM&FM in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1735
02:01:44,000 --> 02:01:49,000
You're on radio at 1440 where we play the name game, and your first clue will be

1736
02:01:49,000 --> 02:01:59,000
coming your way at fifteen minutes past the hour of four o'clock with a fifty-three dollar jackpot.

1737
02:01:59,000 --> 02:02:03,000
Left-hander Frank Kreitzer is coming on the pitch.

1738
02:02:03,000 --> 02:02:07,000
All the Washington Senators as we move to the top of the ninth,

1739
02:02:07,000 --> 02:02:11,000
with the Red Sox having seven runs, seven hits, and no errors.

1740
02:02:11,000 --> 02:02:14,000
In one run, four hits and one error.

1741
02:02:14,000 --> 02:02:18,000
All seven Red Sox runs as a result, directly or indirectly, of homers.

1742
02:02:18,000 --> 02:02:20,000
They've got five homers today.

1743
02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:25,000
Two by Lenny Green, one by Kenigley Arrow, one by Thomas, and one by Mancia.

1744
02:02:25,000 --> 02:02:28,000
Thomas' home run came with two men on.

1745
02:02:28,000 --> 02:02:31,000
And the Washington run also as a result of a homer.

1746
02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:35,000
That was by John Locke in the second inning.

1747
02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:39,000
Steve Rydzik went three innings in relief, gave up two hits and two runs.

1748
02:02:39,000 --> 02:02:41,000
They were both homers.

1749
02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:46,000
Walked nobody, struck out four, and Frank Kreitzer, who used to belong to the Red Sox,

1750
02:02:46,000 --> 02:02:52,000
came over as the throw-in pitcher on the scour and deal, along with Joe Cunningham,

1751
02:02:52,000 --> 02:02:54,000
will pitch the top of the ninth.

1752
02:02:54,000 --> 02:02:58,000
Kreitzer, who used to belong to the Red Sox organization,

1753
02:02:58,000 --> 02:03:03,000
pitched briefly with the Red Sox and now with the Washington Senators.

1754
02:03:03,000 --> 02:03:06,000
First man he'll face will be the pitcher Bill Mambo-Kett.

1755
02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:14,000
Mambo then cut for Selle and Green, and we're ready to go, Kirk.

1756
02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:16,000
Mambo has struck out, grounded out twice.

1757
02:03:16,000 --> 02:03:18,000
He's 0 for 3.

1758
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:23,000
And he should get a good hand for the beautiful game he pitched here on opening day

1759
02:03:23,000 --> 02:03:26,000
when he stepped into that batter's box.

1760
02:03:26,000 --> 02:03:30,000
At the end of eight innings, the Red Sox, seven runs, seven hits, and no errors.

1761
02:03:30,000 --> 02:03:34,000
The Senators have one run, four hits, and one error.

1762
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:42,000
Letting Kreitzer take some extra warm-up pitches.

1763
02:03:42,000 --> 02:03:43,000
No game tomorrow.

1764
02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:46,000
We'll be broadcasting from here on Wednesday afternoon.

1765
02:03:46,000 --> 02:03:48,000
No game Thursday and Friday.

1766
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:54,000
The Red Sox will be at home Saturday against Baltimore.

1767
02:03:54,000 --> 02:04:02,000
And there's the hand for Mambo-Kett as he's announced to the crowd.

1768
02:04:02,000 --> 02:04:06,000
Throw left-hander, face to the right-handed batter.

1769
02:04:06,000 --> 02:04:16,000
First pitch, a swing and a miss on a fastball for strike one.

1770
02:04:16,000 --> 02:04:18,000
Kreitzer last year won two and lost six with Washington.

1771
02:04:18,000 --> 02:04:21,000
He'd won three and lost one with the White Sox.

1772
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:24,000
He's high and wide with that one.

1773
02:04:24,000 --> 02:04:31,000
One ball, one strike.

1774
02:04:31,000 --> 02:04:37,000
Bob Hefner and Jerry Richie, Jay Richie are warming up in the Red Sox bullpen.

1775
02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:39,000
I think they're just working out though.

1776
02:04:39,000 --> 02:04:43,000
The 1-1 delivery is a curve over for a strike called the Mambo-Kett.

1777
02:04:43,000 --> 02:04:50,000
One ball, two strikes.

1778
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:57,000
The base is empty as Mambo-Kett leads off in the ninth.

1779
02:04:57,000 --> 02:05:02,000
A 1-2 pitch is high for ball two.

1780
02:05:02,000 --> 02:05:08,000
Two and two.

1781
02:05:08,000 --> 02:05:10,000
Minnesota's leading the Yankees now.

1782
02:05:10,000 --> 02:05:15,000
It's two to nothing at the end of three and a half innings.

1783
02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:17,000
Here's a 2-2 pitch.

1784
02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:19,000
Sextree calls.

1785
02:05:19,000 --> 02:05:23,000
Mambo-Kett knew he just turned around and walked away.

1786
02:05:23,000 --> 02:05:27,000
It's a real pitcher's duel going on at Pittsburgh between Marischal and Veale.

1787
02:05:27,000 --> 02:05:31,000
No score between the Giants and Pirates at the end of eight.

1788
02:05:31,000 --> 02:05:35,000
Cardinals lead the Cubs five to two at the end of two.

1789
02:05:35,000 --> 02:05:40,000
The Dodgers six, the Mets one at the end of four and a half.

1790
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:42,000
Rico Petruchelli now batting right-handed,

1791
02:05:42,000 --> 02:05:46,000
taps the ground ball foul to the right of home plate for strike one.

1792
02:05:46,000 --> 02:05:53,000
He struck out twice and hit a long fly ball to center field and walked.

1793
02:05:53,000 --> 02:05:57,000
One out, nobody on.

1794
02:05:57,000 --> 02:06:04,000
Lenny Green's on deck.

1795
02:06:04,000 --> 02:06:07,000
Chrysler is the third pitcher of the game for the Senators.

1796
02:06:07,000 --> 02:06:12,000
A foul on the high curve back out of plate strike two.

1797
02:06:12,000 --> 02:06:24,000
The first five innings, Rizik pitched three innings.

1798
02:06:24,000 --> 02:06:28,000
Ortega threw three home run balls and Rizik threw two.

1799
02:06:28,000 --> 02:06:31,000
Two strikes, in comes the pitch.

1800
02:06:31,000 --> 02:06:33,000
He fouls it back out of play.

1801
02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:44,000
A no ball, two strike count to Rico Petruchelli.

1802
02:06:44,000 --> 02:06:50,000
One out, nobody on.

1803
02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:53,000
All right, Chrysler to the left-hander with a big high kick,

1804
02:06:53,000 --> 02:06:55,000
throws and strikes him out.

1805
02:06:55,000 --> 02:06:57,000
That's the third time Petruchelli struck out.

1806
02:06:57,000 --> 02:07:00,000
Brumley drops the ball, picks it up, throws it down to chance.

1807
02:07:00,000 --> 02:07:03,000
We have two down and Lenny Green up, has popped the short,

1808
02:07:03,000 --> 02:07:08,000
grounded out and hit two home runs in almost the same identical spot.

1809
02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:12,000
Line drives right into the right field corner.

1810
02:07:12,000 --> 02:07:22,000
Green getting a hand.

1811
02:07:22,000 --> 02:07:28,000
I wonder if he can make it three, Mel.

1812
02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:30,000
Left hand, a little tougher for him right now.

1813
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:34,000
Here's a pitch to Green over his head for ball one.

1814
02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:36,000
He was ducking under that one.

1815
02:07:36,000 --> 02:07:38,000
That's one he'll never hit out of here, Kirk.

1816
02:07:38,000 --> 02:07:42,000
That pitch is behind you.

1817
02:07:42,000 --> 02:07:44,000
One ball, no strikes.

1818
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:53,000
Two down, nobody on here in the ninth inning.

1819
02:07:53,000 --> 02:07:54,000
A one-oh pitch to him.

1820
02:07:54,000 --> 02:07:56,000
Green takes a strike call.

1821
02:07:56,000 --> 02:07:59,000
One ball, one strike.

1822
02:07:59,000 --> 02:08:02,000
The Senators in their last bid in the last of the ninth will have

1823
02:08:02,000 --> 02:08:07,000
McMullen, Chance, and Howard up.

1824
02:08:07,000 --> 02:08:11,000
A one-one pitch to Lenny Green outside for ball two.

1825
02:08:11,000 --> 02:08:17,000
Two and one.

1826
02:08:17,000 --> 02:08:23,000
Two down, bases empty.

1827
02:08:23,000 --> 02:08:25,000
Green hits out of a slight crouch.

1828
02:08:25,000 --> 02:08:29,000
He swings and misses on a fastball for strike two.

1829
02:08:29,000 --> 02:08:31,000
Two balls and two strikes.

1830
02:08:31,000 --> 02:08:33,000
Kreitzer can throw hard.

1831
02:08:33,000 --> 02:08:35,000
He's a hard-throwing left-hander.

1832
02:08:35,000 --> 02:08:37,000
He went from the Red Sox organization.

1833
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:42,000
He was drafted by Chicago, and they traded him over here to Washington.

1834
02:08:42,000 --> 02:08:44,000
The two-two delivery.

1835
02:08:44,000 --> 02:08:48,000
Now back, of course they have two great left-handers already in that Chicago staff.

1836
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:53,000
Gary Peters and Juan Bizarro.

1837
02:08:53,000 --> 02:08:55,000
I wouldn't mind having them.

1838
02:08:55,000 --> 02:08:56,000
We can use them.

1839
02:08:56,000 --> 02:08:57,000
One's a 20-game winner.

1840
02:08:57,000 --> 02:09:00,000
They're there at 19.

1841
02:09:00,000 --> 02:09:04,000
Two balls, two strikes.

1842
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:06,000
He pitches a foul ball.

1843
02:09:06,000 --> 02:09:12,000
He poured a fastball in on him, and he just got a piece of it and fouled it up against the screen.

1844
02:09:12,000 --> 02:09:22,000
Throw the count two and two.

1845
02:09:22,000 --> 02:09:30,000
Two, three.

1846
02:09:30,000 --> 02:09:32,000
The two-two delivery is a strike three.

1847
02:09:32,000 --> 02:09:35,000
Swinging Kreitzer struck out the side.

1848
02:09:35,000 --> 02:09:39,000
And that's all for the Red Sox in the top of the ninth inning.

1849
02:09:39,000 --> 02:09:47,000
At the end of eight and a half, it's the Red Sox seven and the Senators one.

1850
02:09:47,000 --> 02:09:51,000
Those 1927 cards were great in their day.

1851
02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:56,000
They had good motor oil in 1947, too.

1852
02:09:56,000 --> 02:10:01,000
And as engines were improved year after year,

1853
02:10:01,000 --> 02:10:05,000
Atlantic developed finer motor oils to protect them.

1854
02:10:05,000 --> 02:10:15,000
Now comes the finest, new Atlantic Imperial motor oil.

1855
02:10:15,000 --> 02:10:21,000
The first oil so good, Atlantic has given it the Imperial name and shield.

1856
02:10:21,000 --> 02:10:28,000
Today's driving conditions increase the amount of dirt and sludge that build up inside your engine to interfere with performance.

1857
02:10:28,000 --> 02:10:35,000
But new Atlantic Imperial motor oil holds dirt and sludge in suspension, helps keep it off engine parts.

1858
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:55,000
None of the new highly publicized motor oils can protect your engine better than new Atlantic Imperial motor oil.

1859
02:10:55,000 --> 02:11:02,000
Last of the ninth inning, Bill Mambokeh trying to go the distance here in his opening game.

1860
02:11:02,000 --> 02:11:05,000
Has given up four hits in the first eight innings, one run.

1861
02:11:05,000 --> 02:11:08,000
That was a home run by Don Locke in the second.

1862
02:11:08,000 --> 02:11:13,000
And Mambokeh in the ninth will face Ken McMullen, Bob Chance, and Frank Howard.

1863
02:11:13,000 --> 02:11:20,000
The number two, three, and four hitters in the Washington lineup.

1864
02:11:20,000 --> 02:11:24,000
Same lineup defensively.

1865
02:11:24,000 --> 02:11:27,000
That's about the best defensive lineup the Red Sox have.

1866
02:11:27,000 --> 02:11:29,000
That's why they've started the season.

1867
02:11:29,000 --> 02:11:32,000
Try to strengthen the defense.

1868
02:11:32,000 --> 02:11:33,000
So there are no changes there.

1869
02:11:33,000 --> 02:11:40,000
They don't have to platoon for any one late in the game.

1870
02:11:40,000 --> 02:11:42,000
Here's a pitcher that's in there for a strike call.

1871
02:11:42,000 --> 02:11:46,000
Nothing in one.

1872
02:11:46,000 --> 02:11:54,000
Now President Johnson's still here and Vice President Humphreys, they haven't had too much to excite them from the home crowd today.

1873
02:11:54,000 --> 02:11:58,000
But they've seen six home runs in this game.

1874
02:11:58,000 --> 02:12:05,000
They won strike delivery, foul ball, and I know one thing, they all got out and got some nice air today.

1875
02:12:05,000 --> 02:12:08,000
It's better than being inside there in that White House today.

1876
02:12:08,000 --> 02:12:13,000
Uh-huh. That old stuffy White House. Isn't it nice to be out here in this fresh air?

1877
02:12:13,000 --> 02:12:20,000
Today was a beautiful day for it.

1878
02:12:20,000 --> 02:12:28,000
Two strikes to McMullen.

1879
02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:32,000
He's leading off last to the ninth inning. The two-strike pitch to him.

1880
02:12:32,000 --> 02:12:40,000
There's a long blast. That one is out of here and it is a home run for McMullen into the Red Sox bullpen.

1881
02:12:40,000 --> 02:13:08,000
We're at the end of the ball.

1882
02:13:08,000 --> 02:13:21,000
Bob Chance up. Takes eye on outside. Ball one. He's single, double, and ground it out.

1883
02:13:21,000 --> 02:13:31,000
Somebody just brought a youngster, a boy about seven or eight years old, and sat him down there next to President Johnson.

1884
02:13:31,000 --> 02:13:41,000
They want no pitch. Swings and hits a high foul over by the Red Sox dugout. It may be playable. Mel Jones over there and grabs it right on the top step of the Red Sox dugout.

1885
02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:44,000
One away.

1886
02:13:44,000 --> 02:14:00,000
Here's Frank Howard coming up now. He's hit into the fourth play, walked, and ground it out.

1887
02:14:00,000 --> 02:14:09,000
Howard, big strong right-hander, hit into the fourth play. First time up. And then grabbed the third again in the sixth, so he's hit that ball on the ground twice to third.

1888
02:14:09,000 --> 02:14:15,000
Bombo overhands him. He hits a towering pop-up. That might have hit the dome in Houston.

1889
02:14:15,000 --> 02:14:23,000
Waiting for it, Petticelli gives way to Mancie as the wind blows it away. That might have tested that new dome. That was a mile up in the air.

1890
02:14:23,000 --> 02:14:31,000
Howard pops up. There are two down now, and the batter is Don Locke, who's hit a home run, flying out, and struck out.

1891
02:14:31,000 --> 02:14:41,000
Seven home runs in this game. Five by the Red Sox, two by the Senators. All of them with nobody on except Lee Thomas, who hit one with two on.

1892
02:14:41,000 --> 02:14:46,000
Seven to two Red Sox. Last of the ninth inning.

1893
02:14:46,000 --> 02:14:53,000
We have our first extra inning game of the season. The Giants and Pirates are in the tenth inning, no score over at Pittsburgh.

1894
02:14:53,000 --> 02:15:04,000
All right, here's the pitch to Don Locke. Locke takes it, a strike called. He was bending away, and a slow curve came in there and ticked that inside corner.

1895
02:15:04,000 --> 02:15:17,000
Rick Raddatz is warming up right now for the Red Sox. Willie Kirkland on deck for the Senators. Two down.

1896
02:15:17,000 --> 02:15:30,000
One strike pitch. Swings and fouls a fastball back out of play. Strike two. Nothing and two.

1897
02:15:30,000 --> 02:15:44,000
Two strikes, two down. 43,554 attending this game. Paid attendance.

1898
02:15:44,000 --> 02:15:52,000
Always a few freebies. Two strike count.

1899
02:15:52,000 --> 02:16:04,000
Pitch to Locke. Outside, try to get him to go for a wide slider. He wouldn't do it. One ball, two strikes.

1900
02:16:04,000 --> 02:16:14,000
Minnesota leading the Yanks now four to nothing at the end of four. Here's the one, two pitch. Outside again, ball two, strike two to Don Locke.

1901
02:16:14,000 --> 02:16:23,000
We'll be on the air Wednesday. Red Sox and Senators, Earl Wilson will be pitching for the Red Sox.

1902
02:16:23,000 --> 02:16:28,000
And Buster Naram for the Senators will be on a 125 on this station Wednesday afternoon.

1903
02:16:28,000 --> 02:16:34,000
A two and two pitch. Not a ball to the mound. Mambo Kett has it. There's the throw to first.

1904
02:16:34,000 --> 02:16:41,000
Mambo Kett goes all the way. Lee Thomas flips him the ball, congratulates him as the Red Sox, in very impressive fashion,

1905
02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:50,000
have won their opening game of the 1965 season. They had strong pitching today by a rejuvenated Mambo Kett.

1906
02:16:50,000 --> 02:16:57,000
They had five home runs. They stole two bases. They had a lot of zip-bots there and they looked like a good ball club,

1907
02:16:57,000 --> 02:17:01,000
which you always do when you get a combination of pitching and batting.

1908
02:17:01,000 --> 02:17:05,000
We'll be back with a wrap-up right after this message.

1909
02:17:05,000 --> 02:17:07,000
Perseverance is a remarkable quality.

1910
02:17:07,000 --> 02:17:08,000
Perseverance?

1911
02:17:08,000 --> 02:17:09,000
It certainly is.

1912
02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:11,000
Think of the great perseverers of all time.

1913
02:17:11,000 --> 02:17:13,000
Robert Bruce and the Spider.

1914
02:17:13,000 --> 02:17:15,000
White Robert Fulton and the Steamboat.

1915
02:17:15,000 --> 02:17:18,000
James Watt and the Tea Cattle. Thomas Edison and the Electric Light.

1916
02:17:18,000 --> 02:17:20,000
Ephraim Twipple and the Red Ball.

1917
02:17:20,000 --> 02:17:22,000
Ephraim who and the what?

1918
02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:24,000
Ephraim Twipple and the Red Ball.

1919
02:17:24,000 --> 02:17:28,000
Heath is one of the truly great perseverers. For years he's been keeping everlastingly at it.

1920
02:17:28,000 --> 02:17:29,000
Keeping at what?

1921
02:17:29,000 --> 02:17:33,000
At his dogged pursuit of a free tank full of gasoline from his Atlantic Red Ball dealer.

1922
02:17:33,000 --> 02:17:38,000
Let me explain. If your Atlantic Red Ball dealer ever forgets to clean your windshield, weather permitting of course,

1923
02:17:38,000 --> 02:17:42,000
or if he forgets to offer to check the oil, your gasoline purchase is free.

1924
02:17:42,000 --> 02:17:47,000
Now this offer may vary in some states, but I might add that Red Ball dealers don't often forget.

1925
02:17:47,000 --> 02:17:49,000
Ephraim Twipple is lost.

1926
02:17:49,000 --> 02:17:54,000
Oh, he's won. Well it's true he's never gotten a free tank full, but he's got the cleanest windshield in town.

1927
02:17:54,000 --> 02:18:00,000
And you will too, if you persevere in driving in for guaranteed Atlantic Red Ball service with its great gasoline.

1928
02:18:00,000 --> 02:18:03,000
You'll be thankful for a tank full.

1929
02:18:03,000 --> 02:18:05,000
Even if you have to pay for it.

1930
02:18:05,000 --> 02:18:11,000
Thank you.

1931
02:18:11,000 --> 02:18:16,000
So the first one's in the books, and the Red Sox here before President Johnson.

1932
02:18:16,000 --> 02:18:23,000
Defeated Washington 7-2 on a gorgeous sunny afternoon in the nation's capital.

1933
02:18:23,000 --> 02:18:28,000
Before Ned Martin wraps it up officially for us, let's get Mel Farnell coming in on the game.

1934
02:18:28,000 --> 02:18:34,000
Well the highlight of today's game was the pitching of Billy Mambo-Kett in the long ball power of the Red Sox.

1935
02:18:34,000 --> 02:18:39,000
Billy was in command all the way, had a good fast ball, a good curve ball, makes these pitches well.

1936
02:18:39,000 --> 02:18:42,000
Stayed ahead of the hitter and made the hitter hit his pitch.

1937
02:18:42,000 --> 02:18:48,000
The long ball power of the Red Sox was outstanding with Lenny Green leading the way with two home runs.

1938
02:18:48,000 --> 02:18:54,000
Solo blast by Lee Thomas, Tony Canigliaro, and Felix Mancilla.

1939
02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:57,000
The Red Sox hit the ball very well throughout the ball game.

1940
02:18:57,000 --> 02:19:02,000
The defensive play of Rico Peticelli was quite a highlight of the game.

1941
02:19:02,000 --> 02:19:06,000
Rico made quite a few defensive plays and looked very good defensively.

1942
02:19:06,000 --> 02:19:08,000
And now back to Kurt Gowdy.

1943
02:19:08,000 --> 02:19:12,000
All right Mel, that's number one out of the way for you,

1944
02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:17,000
and it'll be easier for Mel on the rest of the way.

1945
02:19:17,000 --> 02:19:24,000
So Ned Martin will wrap it up and we'll see you ladies and gentlemen Wednesday afternoon at 1.25 with another Red Sox broadcast.

1946
02:19:24,000 --> 02:19:26,000
And now here's Ned.

1947
02:19:26,000 --> 02:19:31,000
Turtles on the game, Red Sox seven runs, seven hits, no errors, and four left.

1948
02:19:31,000 --> 02:19:35,000
Washington two runs, five hits, one error, and three left.

1949
02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:39,000
Mambo of course the winning pitcher all the way his first of the year.

1950
02:19:39,000 --> 02:19:45,000
And let's see, that's two runs and 45 innings, the last 45 innings that he has pitched against these Washington Senators,

1951
02:19:45,000 --> 02:19:48,000
counting the last four games last year and this one.

1952
02:19:48,000 --> 02:19:52,000
Loser was the starter Phil Ortega who had trouble with the home run ball.

1953
02:19:52,000 --> 02:19:53,000
He gave up three of them.

1954
02:19:53,000 --> 02:19:55,000
He went five innings and lost the game.

1955
02:19:55,000 --> 02:19:57,000
Rydzik worked three and gave up two homers.

1956
02:19:57,000 --> 02:20:00,000
And Frank Kreitzer came on and struck out the side of the ninth.

1957
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:03,000
The Red Sox was either feast or famine was them.

1958
02:20:03,000 --> 02:20:05,000
They hit home runs or they struck out.

1959
02:20:05,000 --> 02:20:08,000
They had five homers and they struck out ten times.

1960
02:20:08,000 --> 02:20:13,000
On Wednesday it will be Earl Wilson against Bus Narum as we get a first look at Earl this year.

1961
02:20:13,000 --> 02:20:17,000
Mambo Kett and Wilson will lead the pitcher Saturday and Sunday against Baltimore.

1962
02:20:17,000 --> 02:20:24,000
And we're going to look at Jim Lombard and Earl or Dave Morehead on Monday in the Patriots Day doubleheader against the Senators.

1963
02:20:24,000 --> 02:20:29,000
Other scores quickly Minnesota leading the Yankees four to nothing at the end of four.

1964
02:20:29,000 --> 02:20:34,000
In the National League the Dodgers leading the Mets six to one at the end of five and a half.

1965
02:20:34,000 --> 02:20:38,000
The Giants and Pittsburgh nothing nothing at the end of the regulation nine.

1966
02:20:38,000 --> 02:20:42,000
And Cincinnati leading Milwaukee one to nothing at the end of four.

1967
02:20:42,000 --> 02:20:47,000
It's the Cardinals five and Chicago Cubs four at the end of three innings.

1968
02:20:47,000 --> 02:20:49,000
We saw just about everything today.

1969
02:20:49,000 --> 02:20:52,000
The home run, the Presidents, we saw the Red Sox steal two bases.

1970
02:20:52,000 --> 02:20:57,000
We saw a couple of fine defensive plays by the new shortstop Petrocelli.

1971
02:20:57,000 --> 02:20:59,000
A great play by first baseman Lee Tallis.

1972
02:20:59,000 --> 02:21:03,000
And Tallis had the RBI lead with a three run homer.

1973
02:21:03,000 --> 02:21:05,000
But Lenny Green had the most home runs.

1974
02:21:05,000 --> 02:21:09,000
He got two in his first appearance officially as a Red Sox ball player.

1975
02:21:09,000 --> 02:21:12,000
Files to our Red Sox seven and Washington two.

1976
02:21:12,000 --> 02:21:18,000
Ned Martin along with Kurt Gotti, Mel Parnell and our engineer Al Walker saying so long from Washington.

1977
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:25,000
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1978
02:21:25,000 --> 02:21:31,000
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1979
02:21:31,000 --> 02:21:39,000
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1980
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1981
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:56,000
Music.