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The Boston Red Sox faced the Washington Senators at D.C. Stadium for opening day on Monday, April 12, 1965.
Boston was a below average team, having finished no better than sixth place in the previous five seasons.
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.
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.
They were managed by Gil Hodges, who took over the club midway through the 1963 season.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's been a great new phase of baseball for me, the one that I've enjoyed so far this spring.
Seeing this opening day crowd brings back memories of 1952 when I pitched against the Washington Senators in the old Griffith Stadium.
At that time, President Truman threw out the first ball, and at that time Truman had a 3-0 record,
and we did beat the Washington ball club on that day, breaking President Truman's record also.
So it brings back fond memories for me, and it's certainly a great day for baseball today.
Both ball clubs are loosening up and going through their preliminary throwing to tough ballgames.
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.
Back with us again is Ned Martin. Ned's going to give you the starting lineups in just a moment.
Let me say, ladies and gentlemen, we always open the season with anticipation, with a great deal of happiness, but this year was sadness.
Our companion of five years, a dedicated broadcaster, a gentleman, a loyal friend, Art Gleason is not here,
and this is a sad opening for us that Art is not with us.
He died last November, and we are dedicating from our broadcast booth this 1965 series of broadcasts to the late Art Gleason,
one of the finest men I have ever known, not only in sports broadcasting, but in any field of life.
And now here's Ned Martin for the starting lineup.
Thank you, Curt, and good afternoon, everybody.
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.
A lot of the faces are the same, but in different positions.
Here's the starting lineup before this opening day crowd as the Senators take the field.
Red Sox have Petracelli at shortstop leading off.
Lenny Green in center field, batting number two.
Kyle Yastremski in left, hitting third.
Donnie Conigliaro in right field, batting number four.
Lee Thomas at first base, batting number five.
Felix Mantia at second base, hitting sixth.
Frank Malzone at third base, batting seventh.
Bob Tillman, the catcher, hitting eighth.
And Bill Mambo Ketch, the pitcher, batting ninth.
Mambo with a fine spring and a fine second half of the year last year,
particularly against these Washington Senators who shut them out three times.
For the Senators, Don Blasengame is the second baseman leading off.
Ken McMullen over from the Dodgers is at third base, batting number two.
Bob Chance at first base, hitting third.
Frank Howard in left field is in the cleanup spot.
Don Locke, the center fielder, batting number five.
And Locke was one of their best hitters this spring.
Willie Kirkland, veteran right fielder, batting number six.
Mike Brumley, the catcher, hitting seventh.
And the sharp-fielding Eddie Brinkman at shortstop, batting eighth.
And Phil Ortega is doing the pitching.
Ortega had a tremendous spring after coming over from the Dodgers,
finished up with an earned run average this spring of about 1.96.
And he gets the starting knot from manager Gil Hodges of the Senators,
a right-hander with plenty on the ball out from around the Mesa-Stochdale area.
The umpires for this opener, behind the plate Joe Paparella at first base, Ed Hurley,
at second base, Frank Umont, and at third base, Bob Stewart.
So here it goes, 1965.
Is it going to be a long, hot summer for either of these teams or both?
We don't know.
It's only ours to tell you about it and wait and see.
Rico Petracelli leading off for the Red Sox and here for the play-by-play third doubters.
All right, Ned, 21-year-old Rico Petracelli from Brooklyn, New York, standing in.
He's turned himself into a switch hitter.
He's playing left against a right-hander Ortega, who's primarily a fastball pitcher.
They're playing Petracelli to the opposite field and the first pitch of the season is outside for ball one.
Lenny Green is crouched on deck and in the hole is Carl Yastremski.
Petracelli stands deep in the box, slight crouch, takes a strike call, looks like a slider and accounts one and one.
The one on the grass is McMullen, the third baseman, and chance is in tight at first in case of a bite.
A one-one pitch to Petracelli, he takes it high and outside, ball two.
Petracelli has no doubt about his fielding abilities.
And Billy Herman, in trying to tighten up the club defensively, is giving him a shot at short.
There is a doubt about his bat and the kids will have to prove that.
The pitch is swung on and fouled back, but he is a marvelous fielder with great range, good power hands, and a strong arm.
And if he can hit even a little, he could be a coming major league star.
Two and two, the count's to Rico Petracelli.
The wind today is blowing crocs from third to first.
A bright sun out, a stadium packed here, a beautiful sight on opening day.
All right, Ortega gets you a sign from Mike Brumley.
Here's your stretch in the pitch.
It is swung on and fouled out of play.
So we have the count still two and two.
Over there in President Johnson's box we see Joe Cronin, the president of the American League, and Mike Higgins,
vice president with the Red Sox sitting over there.
Mike Higgins is an old friend of Lyndon Johnson, some Texas.
Brings up a famous story I'll have to tell you about later, about Johnny Orlando.
Here's the wind up in the pitch.
It is a foul.
No, he struck him out.
Struck him out.
Looked like a foul tipped.
Petracelli swung him in.
Brumley dropped the ball, then tagged in.
So Ortega strikes out the first batter he faces of the season.
And it is Lenny Greenup now who had a fine spring training with the Red Sox.
He went in with the Red Sox on a minor league roster.
Rochester on a look-see basis and was so impressed that the Red Sox signed him.
Green had been with Minnesota and the Angels.
He was a regular two years ago.
Left hander batter takes high, ball won.
Then along came Jimmy Hall, hard-hitting young outfielder.
They put him in center field, Green on the bench.
And to get on that bench sometimes, your timing goes.
Green still thinks he's a major league ball player.
He pops it up.
It's out in the shallow left.
Backing up is Blinken in the shortstop.
He's under it and Blinken grabs it for out number two.
Ortega has quickly disposed of the first two batters, two up, two down.
Carl Yastrowski up.
Carl will be batting left against the right-hander.
They outfield playing Yastrowski straight away.
Three-eighty-nine hitter last year after winning the American League batting title the year before.
A slow ball is high for ball one.
But they can make sure they're more than I thought, Mel.
That's the last pitch of the slow curve.
He relies mainly on the fast ball.
And the fast ball does sink a little, which can make him very effective.
Here's a 1-0 pitch.
There's a swing and a foul ball going out of play.
One ball, one strike.
The swinging weight on him, Mel, he must be quick.
All three left-hand hitters have been late.
Huckaselli was late.
Green was late.
And now Carl has fouled one back of the third base.
Coaching box.
And of course he is a little quick.
He's making a little stuff on the left-hand hitters.
One-one delivery is a slow ball tapped out to short.
Change of pace pitch.
Lasting game over to Chance at first.
And Ortega breezes through the first inning.
Throw to Red Sox.
That three-up, three-down.
And it'll be into the first half inning.
The score is the Red Sox nothing with the seveners coming to bat.
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Bill Mambo gets out of the mound throwing in his warm-up pitches.
Washington will send up in the last of the first inning.
Lasting game, McMullen and Bob Chance.
In the President's box, Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Representative John McCormick of Massachusetts, the Speaker of the House.
Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan, the House Minority Leader.
Senator Mike Mansfield, the Senate Majority Leader.
Senator Everett Dirksen with his curly gray hair flying in the wind.
The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Wayne Morris of Oregon.
George Smathers of Florida, representing Wilbert Mills of Arkansas.
Down blasting game, swings in the first pitch and pops it up.
It's down the foul line, backpedaling is Thomas, tough chant.
And he one hands it beautifully, going away from home plate.
That wind kept carrying the ball back and the big crowd here in Washington gives him a hand.
So it doesn't take long for us to have the first feeling, Jim, of the 1965 season.
That was a tough play for Lee Thomas.
That ball kept drifting with the wind and Lee had to go a long way to make a one-handed catch,
stretching as far as he possibly could.
It was a great play on Lee's part.
Well, he must be thrilled with that one and not his new position he's played there before.
Well, the Angels, but the Red Sox is now at first base.
Ken McMullen is up.
McMullen, a right-handed batter, takes the first pitch, high ball one.
Well, if Mambo Kett pitches half as good against the Senators today as he did last year, it could be rough.
He has a string of 36 shutout innings against the Senators coming into today's game.
They knocked him out in the game last May 10th.
They knocked him out again on May 27th last year.
And then he started pitching shutouts against Washington.
The slider is over there for a strike call.
He blanked the Senators seven and nothing on four hits in July 13th.
Blanked them on six hits July 17th last year.
Blanked them in September 22nd and again on October 3rd.
Last time, 12 and 7 against Washington.
Inside fastball.
Two balls and a strike to Ken McMullen who comes over from the Dodgers.
In fact, they're kidding and calling the Senators now the Dodger Farm Club.
Gil Hodge is the next Dodger.
Don Zimmer, McMullen, Frank Howard, Phil Ortega.
Two balls, one strike.
One out, nobody out, and no score here in Washington.
He swings at a high pitch and fouls it upstairs.
The count is two and two.
The Red Sox have Jastremsky on the left.
Lenny Green in center, Tony Conigliaro on the right.
Now zones at third, Petrocelli is at short, Mantee is at second, Thomas is first.
Mamboquette pitching, Kilman catching.
This is a thick opening game assignment for Bill Mamboquette.
Two-two to count.
Pitch on the way to McMullen.
Swings and he gets a foul.
That will be in the seats and back of first base.
Ray Thomas racing over there but can't get to it.
McMullen last year where the Dodgers hit 209 and hit 234 with the Spokane ball club.
Five opening assignments for Smell Pornel.
It's quite an honor to get that opening day assignment.
Yes it is.
It's quite a thrill to be able to pitch also in front of the President and the Vice President of the United States.
It's a thrill to all pitchers.
It's one that brings many chills before the ball game.
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.
Strike three call, a slider, knee-high corner on the outside corner, two downs, and Bob Chan's coming up.
Well the Sounders made some tricks.
This is a player involved in one of them.
They sent Chuck Gittin to the Cleveland Indians for Bob Chan and Woody Hale.
This is a left-handed batter.
As a rookie last year we thought he was one of the best hitters in the league.
He hit 279, knocked in 75 runs, and had 14 homers.
He's got power.
In fact there's some real power in this Washington ball club.
Chan, Howard, Don Locke, Kirkland, Jim King, they've got a lot of power.
Two downs, nobody on.
Mambo overhands a pitch and it crowds the left-hander.
Ball one.
Playing in straight away.
Bob Chan lives now in Jersey City, New Jersey, is born in Statesboro, Georgia.
And he's still a youngster, he's only 24 years old.
A 1-0 pitch to him, there's a let-up outside, ball two.
Doing nothing.
Of course one of the hallmarks of Mambo catch pitching is control.
He'll usually walk if he's right, only one or two men a game.
Last year he had a disappointing season.
After winning 20 the year before, he came back to win 13 last year and he was 14.
A 2-0 delivery, wing and a miss on a shoulder-high fastball, two and one.
Mambo just couldn't get straightened out.
He had a terrible start.
And then the last six weeks of the season he started a pitch.
A Mambo-kid of the year before.
I really hope he picks up where he left off last year.
Two balls and a strike to Bob Chan.
Nobody on, no score, last of the first inning.
The right-hander strives and comes in.
There's a line shot in the left center.
There's a first-base hit of the season.
Lenny Green runs in, picks it up, Chan makes the turn and holds it first.
So Chan is on with two outs.
And Frank Howard is coming up.
Here is, probably along with Dick Raddus, one of the two monstrous men of the Major League.
Frank Howard weighs 255 pounds, stands 6'7".
He was a basketball star at Ohio State.
He got a $105,000 bonus from the Dodgers a few years ago to sign.
He lashed it down to Malzano at 30, digs it up, throws it to second, in time, four stops.
And the Senators are out. That ball hit hard on one hop down to Malzano.
Going to the last of the first, Washington had no runs, one hit, there were no errors, and one man left.
At the end of the first inning, the score is the Red Sox nothing and the Senators nothing.
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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.
And other openers today, and there are a lot of new things in baseball.
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.
New York plays in Minnesota today.
Detroit to Kansas City, Cleveland and Los Angeles. Chicago and Baltimore will open tomorrow.
There's a long foul down the left field line by Canigliaro out of play, strike one.
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.
Tony Canigliaro. I got a kick out of him. I'll talk about it here in a minute.
Here's a pitch to Canigliaro. Take it outside.
I was reading, the U.P.I. had a poll of leading sports experts around America about baseball.
They thought it was a national sport. They won one delivery to him inside because also had many young stars.
They said list the young stars, list some of the best players.
Twenty-five players mentioned. They didn't even mention this kid, Canigliaro.
Talk about young star. I think this kid's got a chance to be one of the greats.
Two-one delivery to him outside ball three.
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.
That's quite a compliment. I'll say it is.
A three-one pitch to Canigliaro. There's a line shot in the left base hit for him.
Well, Tony is on with a line drive to the left.
He had three-sixty-eight in spring training, led the club in homers, RBI's, everything.
He doesn't get hurt. Now that's the thing we want to watch. He got hit twice, broken arm blast here.
But I think we'll all watch and see a blossoming of a great star in this league.
Lee Thomas is up now.
Notting left-handed.
The pitch to Lee is outside a ball one-and-nothing.
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.
Not that man, there he goes. Pitch is a strike. Here's a throw. It's wide. He's safe. Canigliaro steals second.
Wide throw by Brumley to Brinkman, but Tony had a great jump on Ortega.
He's on second base with a count one-and-one to Lee Thomas.
Outfield playing Thomas straight away.
No score, second inning. Ortega overhands a pitch that's outside ball two. Two-and-one.
Thomas first came over to the Red Sox in that trade with the Angels last year.
He sent Luke Clinton to Los Angeles, played right field, had some troubles out there.
The two-one pitch. A ground ball hit down to first. Canigliaro is holding a second.
Chance throw to Ortega covering, and there's one out.
Ball hit on the ground to the right side, and Canigliaro held a second.
Felix Mantia is up now, but his very surprising 30 home runs last year,
and everybody's wondering if he can match that performance.
He thinks he'll do all right. He doesn't predict how many homers he'll hit.
He predicts he'll hit a few.
Runner on second, one out. Ortega's pitching to Mantia. It's low for a ball, one-and-nothing.
We had a lot of newspapers suddenly blowing out on the field. It's disgusting today.
This is a circular stadium, complete circle, and it is protected by the wind somewhat.
A one-oh pitch swings late and fouls it off. One ball, one strike.
The National League today, the Dodgers are playing at New York against the Mets.
San Francisco is at Pittsburgh, Milwaukee at Cincinnati, St. Louis at Chicago, and Philadelphia at Houston in a night game.
Luckily, I guess, in Houston it's a night game.
I'm waiting to see the ball in the daytime there, if the sun shines.
That'll be the first time a game's ever been postponed because of sunshine.
Here's the one-one pitch. A high fly and a shallow left.
Frank Howard's looking up in that mean sun, waiting for it under it and takes it.
And Nicolairo holds it second.
We have two down.
Right or not, Frank now's on.
Old Man River has done that dependable day in, day out, year in, year out job for the Red Sox.
The Dodgers are 34, starting another season in Boston.
They're going to give Frank some rest this year now and then.
Probably spelling with Bersu and move things around.
Figure if he can play 125, 130 games, he'll, with some rest, he'll be an even better performer.
And maybe can prolong his career a bit longer.
Inside, a ball, one and nothing. Bob Tillman on deck.
Canigliaro's on second, two down.
No score in the top half of second.
Daffy will be playing Melzone deep and toward left.
A stretch by Ortega, in he comes with it.
It's low, a ball, two and nothing.
Two balls, no strikes.
We have no game tomorrow. The two teams will be playing here on Wednesday.
And then we'll be home to open the season next Saturday against the Baltimore Orioles.
Two and all to count.
The pitch, outside, ball free.
Three and nothing now to Melzone.
Incidentally, Jerry Vale will sing the national anthem, popular recording star next Saturday.
Arthur Fiegler will conduct some colorful ceremonies in the first Saturday opener in the history of the American League.
At Fenway Park next Saturday.
Baltimore, good ball play. Baltimore and the Red Sox.
A stretch, three-o pitch, ball four.
Our first walk of the season.
Canigliaro's at second. Melzone's at first. They're two down.
And Bob Tillman up.
Bob didn't hit much in spring training. He had a rough time.
He had a good season last year though.
And developed into one of the better catchers in the American League.
They're hoping he can repeat this year.
Bob hit 278 last year with 17 homers, 61 RBI.
Swing sends the ground ball to shortstop Brinkman.
Boots the ball. Can't make a play any play.
Brinkman booted it.
And the bases are loaded.
Canigliaro's on third.
Melzone's on second.
Bob Tillman's at first.
An easy hopping ball that just as Brinkman went to scoop up,
he rolled up his arm and he dropped it and he couldn't make a play.
Well, here's Bill Marblecat's first chance to help himself at the plate.
He's not much of a hitter, but he's a good runner.
Two down. You think he might put a squeeze on?
I doubt it at this time.
Those swinging pitchers are dangerous.
Kyle Ball back, strike one.
I would say that Bill's looking for the good fastball now,
and he had a good cut at the last one.
The ball's just swinging, you're a threat, and Bill's certainly doing that.
And they should load a two-out for the Red Sox, top half of the second.
One strike on him.
Ball up high, one and one.
Well, I said a squeeze with two outs is very unlikely, but let's face facts,
because this guy is the greatest hitter in the world, as Jimmy G used to say.
So as long as he's playing, he's dangerous, Kurt.
One ball, one strike to Marblecat.
Petrichele's on deck. Here comes the pitch.
It's outside, ball two, two and one.
And now the hometown Washington fans are starting to mumble a bit.
Two balls, one strike.
Mason loaded two away, second inning, no score.
A combo waiting. Ortega tries to pop this one right in there, and he misses.
Blowing away for ball three. He thought he had it over.
Three balls and one strike.
Three and one. This is a tough situation.
Mason loaded two down for a pitcher, and this is the spot that you have to throw the strike in.
Here it is. Strike two called.
And here's our first three and two, the Big Windu situation of the year.
Two down, runners will be going on the pitch. The bases are loaded.
Ortega into the lineup. There go the runners, and the pitch is swung on and fouled back.
Count stays three and two to Bill Mambo-Katz.
Camigliano opened the inning with a single. He stole second.
Thomas grounded out. Mantia pops up. Malzone walks.
And Ed Brinkman booted Bob Tillman's easy ground ball to load the bases.
Now Ortega has run the counts of three and two against Bill Mambo-Katz.
A walk to give Mambo here the first RBI of the season.
Here comes the delivery. It is strike called. He's out.
Mambo started to toss away the bat at the inside corner, and Ortega gets out of the jam.
In the second inning, the Red Sox had no runs. One hit.
There was one Washington Air, and three men left.
At the end of an inning and a half, the score, Red Sox nothing and the Senators nothing.
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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.
Of the opening day pitcher schedules, we have only Mambo Kets, Al Jackson of the Mets, Larry Jackson of the Cubs,
Juan Marichal of the Giants, Bob Beale of the Pirates, and Gary Peters of the White Sox,
who had the honor of pitching opening days last year, who will repeat this year.
We have three new managers in the American League, five new managers in the National League,
and baseball will be played indoors for the first time tonight.
That is Major League Baseball, the championship game.
Don Locke, big power boy, hit.248 last year with 28 homers. Right-handed batter takes inside a ball, one and nothing.
Locke has had a brilliant spring training, predicting his greatest season this year.
Outfield playing him deep and toward left.
There's a pitch to Amy, swings and misses on a low slider. One ball, one strike.
Each team has had one hit.
Bob Shantz singling for the Senators and Tony Conigliaro for the Red Sox.
A one-one delivery.
There's a long drive. Forget about that one. It is gone.
Upper deck home run.
Boy, that ball was hit.
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.
He tagged what looked like a waist-high fastball in the upper deck in Westfield.
They have President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey up on their feet, applauding him as he crowded into the dugout.
Right call of the knees to Willie Kirkland.
So the Senators are out in front, one and nothing.
Well, we can see what they mean now about Locke.
They're going to have a great year. They think he'll hit 40 home runs this year.
That's just about as far as a man can hit a ball with.
Pitch is low inside.
The wall at that point is 381 and that ball traveled into the upper deck, which puts it well over 400 feet.
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.
Willie Kirkland up, nobody on, nobody out. Left-handed batter.
They've changed him all around this year.
He's a fellow that gets for power, but he's been hitting for a low average the last two or three years.
He hit 212 last year.
He used to be with the Indians.
Two and one to Kirkland.
Mike Brumley is on deck.
The time calls.
Kirkland has something in his eye, I believe.
Now trying to get back in there.
One to nothing, Washington ahead, last half of the second inning.
An eye steps out again and umpire Joe Paparella is going to try and do a little doctoring.
Here comes the trainer of the Senators out in the field.
And while they try and remove something in his right eye, we'll take time for station identification.
This is the Red Sox baseball network.
You're listening to WAAB AM and FM in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Fun Radio at 1440 on the dial.
The time is 2 o'clock, the temperature 42 degrees.
Back in action here, the 2-1 pitch is outside to Willie Kirkland.
Ball free.
Bases are empty, nobody out. Three and one to Kirkland.
That home run seems to have shaken Mambo Cat up a bit.
Here's the pitch it is, ball four, he walked him.
So Kirkland's on.
And the batter is catcher Mike Brumley.
He was at 244 last year, not much power, he had two homers, he sprays them all around.
He hits a lot to left center and left field.
And that's where they're playing him right now.
Play time is holding at first base against Kirkland.
Ed Brinkman is on deck.
Working out of the stretch, Mambo Cat's pitch, strike calls.
Nothing and one to Mike Brumley.
Eddie Ost is coaching at third.
And Joe Pignatano at first, former catcher with the Dodger.
Here's the delivery.
In there, strike call, throw to first, but just getting back at Kirkland.
Fairly close play at first base.
Mambo Cat now ahead of Brumley, two strikes.
Kirkland playing a safe at first.
The stretch, pitch on the way.
Strike three, call a good fastball on the inside corner to let her.
Strike out number two for Mambo Cat.
One out for the Washington Founders here in the second.
And the batter now is Ed Brinkman, the shortstop, batting right handed.
With Phil Ortega, due up next.
Washington leading here one to nothing on Don Locke's tremendous home run in the last half of second inning.
Mambo Cat is runner at first.
And in there, strike call, four strikes in a row now delivered by Mambo Cat.
Nothing and one.
They're playing Brinkman, who hit 224 last year as they pull hitter to left field.
One strike on him.
Mambo Cat 15.
A breaking pitch dips down and in.
A ball one and one.
A fan sitting along third base way and left field.
And out on the center field, upward deck bleachers are out in the brilliant sunshine today.
While in back a home plate and along first base and right field, they're in the shadows.
A one-one pitch, there goes the runner.
And with a swing and a miss, Tillman's throw to Petrocelli, out at second base.
Kirkland is thrown out on a good throw by Tillman.
Petrocelli took the throw and made the tag.
It was a swing and a miss by Ed Brinkman trying to protect the runner.
Oh, Tillman throws out the first runner trying to go down on him this year.
Two down for Washington.
The base is empty.
And our count to Ed Brinkman is two and two.
Mantia comes in and says something to Mambo Cat.
He has a Latin English accent.
He speaks English.
Oh, I love to hear him talk.
He's got a very attractive accent.
He speaks English very well.
Two to the count.
Pitch.
Try to curve it outside for ball three, three and two.
Al Walker's first weather report of the year.
Temperature is 81 degrees here in Washington.
81.
How about that on opening day?
Humidity is only 18 percent.
Usually it's very humid here, but this is one of the most comfortable days I could ever remember, being here in Washington.
Three and two to Ed Brinkman, and the wind is 25 miles an hour.
As the ground ball taps out to second baseman Mantia, he digs it up, throws the first, Senators are out.
They had one run on a leadoff homer by Don Locke.
One hit, there were no errors, nobody left.
Score at the end of two innings, Washington one and the Red Sox nothing.
Opening day at Fenway Park next Saturday afternoon.
Baltimore and the Red Sox.
2.15 is game time.
Joey Vail will sing the National Anthem.
Arthur Feeler will be conducting.
We have colorful opening ceremonies.
Harvard Band will start entertaining at 1.45.
The Harvard Band playing the National Anthem.
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?
I think Saturday is a good opening day for you.
Take your family.
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.
We'll see you at Fenway Park next Saturday afternoon.
Well, what do you think about the first two innings, Mel?
So far we're seeing great pitching on the part of Noah Tager with his fast sinker and Billy Mamboquette mixing speed.
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.
The infield is playing very slow and we notice that the infielders are moving in a step or two on the fast runner.
The outfield also is playing slow due to the recent rains in the Washington area.
Now back to Kurt Gowdy.
Now I wouldn't be surprised if the ground ball hits through the infield.
They're not rolling much. Somebody might try and go for two in this game, especially with the tight one in the late inning.
Yes, it's possible because the ball isn't rolling too good in the outfield.
Here's Petrocelli up swings and misses on a fastball for strike one. Petrocelli struck out his first time.
This is the top of the Red Sox batting order. Petrocelli, Lenny Green, and Carl Yaspemsky, third inning.
Ortega right ends the pitch over for a strike call, a fastball, nothing and two.
One run, two hits, one error for the Senators. No runs, one hit, no errors for the Red Sox.
Petrocelli in a hole, two strikes.
The pitch to him, a curve low and inside, a ball, one and two.
The Washington fans had an added treat yesterday. The Dodgers were in here for a three-game exhibition series.
Sandy Kovacs came on the pitch in the fifth inning yesterday, a one-two delivery.
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.
Petrocelli, overanxious, strikes out on a pitch up around his eyes. That's twice in a row he's struck out.
One out, nobody on, and Lenny Green the batter.
Kovacs came in with all the publicity about arthritis and he may be done.
He faced ten batters and struck out five.
Here's the delivery. It's in there, strike call. I don't believe there's much doubt about it.
Healthy, here's the greatest pitcher in baseball, Kovacs.
He struck out 18 men in a game, nobody's ever done that.
Three no-hitters in a row, three successive seasons.
One strike to Lenny Green, third baseman playing shallow on him.
There's a little tapper hit down to that third baseman drawing in.
McMullen throws to first and Green is out.
Two down in the third inning.
And so far the top of the order has it sniffed Ortega.
Two down, nobody on, and Carl Yastremsky is up.
Tony Canigliaro beyond best.
The out-of-pitch bounce is in the dirt up against the screen, ball one.
One to nothing, Washington leading on Don Locke's tremendous homer in the last half a second.
Ortega winds and throws. Yastremsky takes it outside, ball two.
Two to nothing.
Good balls, no strikes.
Yastremsky had a good spring training also, hitting well over 300.
Here's the 2-0 delivery, and he takes that one high for ball three.
Three to nothing now. Ortega walks Mel Zon in the second. That's his only walk so far.
They just changed the count. It's wrong in the scoreboard and umpire Papparello signals.
Out of the 3-0 delivery. He bores that one over for a strike call, three and one.
You know early you're always suspect of these starting pitchers early in the year of going nine innings.
Well that's true. Of course if they get enough work in spring training it will help.
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.
Of course if you encounter bad weather in the early part of the season it makes it very troublesome for your pitching staff.
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.
Alright here's Kanigaleiro up. He's had the only hit for the Red Sox.
There's a little looper. May drop right center. It's in a base hit.
Yosemite is coming on the third and Kanigaleiro now is two for two as he drops it in to shallow right center.
He hit that one off the end of the bat and dunked it out in the right center but it's a base hit.
Now the Red Sox at the base that loaded in the second fail to score.
Now they have runners on first and third here in the third with two down. Both times with two down their sweaters come up.
Lee Thomas grounded out to the first baseman his first time.
Each team now has two hits.
Felix Mantia is on deck.
Ortega with a stretch working to Thomas.
Swings and fouls a fast ball back out of play. Strike one.
Drempski at third. Kanigaleiro at first. Two away.
What a way to start a season for Kanigaleiro now two for two.
Seems as though Tony brought that hot bat along from spring training.
He had a very good spring training. Hit the ball well throughout the entire training season.
And of course in this ball game he's two for two.
Here's that Tony's off to a good start and we'll have a good year.
Here's the one strike pitch to Thomas.
There's a high pop foul off to the left.
Rumley's chasing it and can't get to it.
It drops in about five or six rows right down below it.
See Dick O'Connell of the Red Sox vice president.
Jack Hayes, partner of Brian Bader and Gould and Tony for the Red Sox.
At least we have Tom Dowdowd and now we've got some Red Sox routers here.
Got Senator Kennedy here today rooting for the Red Sox too.
I guess President Johnson's probably rooting for Washington, huh?
Pitch is high for a ball one and two.
One ball, two strikes.
Funny thing about this town.
There are so many transits live here come from all over that they always,
many of them come out and root for the visiting ball club.
Government work.
Here's the stretch now, the one-two delivery.
There's a long belt by Thomas, hit deep.
That ball is going, going.
It is gone.
A home run for Lee Thomas over the scoreboard in right center.
And the Red Sox are out in front by a score of three to one.
Two down, Yosinski walks an eagerly error, single to right.
And Lee Thomas felt the home run, just under the scoreboard in the middle area,
just under the upper deck out there over the 378 mark.
Three to one.
And two homers have provided all the scoring.
And Tia's up now.
He's flying out his first time.
And that bases on ball started it.
Pitch is outside with two down or take a walk, Yosinski.
Boy, those walks will get you in trouble.
They'll do it every time.
That's one of the things that pitches hate, but can do very little about.
Pitch is low and we may have a little action springing up here in the Washington bullpen.
Do an O to Mantia.
Now zone on deck.
Red Sox are ahead now, three to one.
Or take a working.
Pia takes low.
Or take a having trouble finding home plate.
Gil Hodges during out there to that bullpen.
He'll be anxiously watching Ortega here.
This kid got a $75,000 bonus four years ago by the Dodgers, Ortega.
And Pia goes after it and misses.
He was born in Adobe Hut, little town of Gilbert, Arizona, just outside Mesa.
He's a Yaqui Indian of Mexican defense.
Never quite did it with the Dodgers, although he still has a lot of promise.
With a good arm he has.
The pitch.
There's a long belt by Mantia.
That ball riding deep and it is gone.
A home run by Mantia into the Red Sox bullpen over the 381 mark.
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.
Mantia hit three homers here last year.
He only hit 30 last year, more than one year last year than he'd ever hit in all his major league career.
And he starts opening day here.
But Thomas and Mantia now have back to back home runs.
Red Sox ahead four to one.
And a little blasting games coming in to talk to Ortega in the batter of Frank Melzone.
Bob Tillman is on deck.
Melzone walks his first time up.
Ortega's pitch is high and away, ball one.
One and nothing.
Both Thomas and Mantia hit his fastball.
Here's the one-oh pitch.
It's outside for ball two.
Two and nothing.
Two balls, no strikes.
Now they wind up in delivery.
Foul ball back out of play.
Two and one to Melzone.
Three homers already in this ball game.
Actually, Mel, this is a good ball park to hit on runs in.
The thing is that the ball won't carry if you get it up high.
Down low the ball seems to die some.
Melzone hits a change up, pops it up in a shallow left.
They had him off balance.
Brickman backs up and takes it.
Besides that, but the Red Sox had four runs in the third inning on three hits.
No washers and errors, nobody left.
Score at the end of two and a half.
It's a shot for Senators 1.
Cigarettes to Grellon.
The mud and smoke found at all the right places with all the right people.
We're ready to go now on the last of the third inning with the Red Sox out in front four to one.
Four runs, four hits for the Red Sox.
One run, two hits for the Senators.
Now to take over to play-by-play, Ned Marks.
Washington trailing four to one now.
And their pitcher, Phil Ortega, will hit for himself.
Nobody warming up on the Washington bullpen.
Ortega bats right.
Mambo's first pitch to him is a called strike on the outside corner.
Ortega was shaken up a little bit by the home run blast of Thomas Mancia.
But Gil Hodges going with him as long as he can.
Ground ball to the right side, scooped up by Mancia at second base.
Felix throws him out.
There's one away.
Ortega grounding out second to first.
Now the top of the order, Don Blassingame.
A pesky little hitter who last year hit well for the Senators and had a fine spring.
One of the top hitters on the ball club this spring.
Came over from the National League and won himself a home right here in Washington.
Been a good leadoff man for them.
Chokes up about an inch on the bat.
Malzone comes in a couple of steps with Blassingame up there.
Don is a good hitter.
Curve ball breaks in and over, called strike one.
Mal, you were talking earlier about the 1952 opener.
How did you see that game?
When I was living down here I remember it.
That was great memories.
When Pierce Hall was playing short wasn't he?
That's right.
Jimmy Pierce Hall had shot stop for it.
Fastball is outside and the count is one and one.
They had Lepsey over and St. Schoenberry and a few of those younger boys.
At the time Lou Boudreau was experimenting with Jimmy Pierce Hall.
He thought that Jimmy would have great range as an infielder and move him to the shot stop position.
Later Jimmy found his way back out to the outfield.
He sure did.
There's a blooper in the shallow center field bringing Lenny Green on in a hurry.
Lenny's there.
He makes the catch.
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.
Here's Ken McMullen, third baseman for the Senators, formerly with the Dodgers.
He took a third strike in the first inning.
This is the Dodger alumni over here this year where they've got them all over the place including their coaches now.
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.
This ball club is confusing for me to look at after seeing these many fellows with the Dodgers.
And of course as you mentioned Pignatano and the coaching box.
They're just about all over this ball park.
Well since Hodges came here he's been on a pipeline from Los Angeles called strike to McMullen, count on two.
Gill the old Dodger and I imagine has a little thing working with Luzzy Buffet.
He's out there and says, all right, if you don't want him, give him to me and we'll build here.
Well it has helped us watch this ball club quite a bit.
It's going to be a good club to watch this year.
They're exciting.
They've got power.
This ball moves inside.
The count on Ken McMullen is one ball, two strikes.
I tell you they say Locke can hit 40.
Well if Howard ever gets on track this is not a bad park for him either.
He may hit 50.
That's big selling.
Rambo Ketch delivers and it's just tied inside.
Two balls, two strikes.
I was talking about Howard.
What a problem he presents to the opposing pitcher.
Size alone is enough to scare you.
Yeah, but he's got a great strike zone, hasn't he?
He has, but he covers that strike zone pretty well with that big bat of his.
They say no.
We'll get to that in a minute.
The pitch to McMullen is fouled down the right field line going out of play.
We're talking to some of the Washington writers and John McClain, the Washington broadcaster,
said what kind of spring did Howard have?
Well it's not been good.
He hit only one home run.
He said he's been over swinging which has been his trouble all along.
Anybody with that kind of power can do it just normally without overdoing it.
He's a confusing hitter, Ned.
You can fool him with throw stuff and yet he can reach out with that tremendous power,
hit the ball out of the ballpark.
He's very tough to pitch to because you just don't know what to do, what to throw.
I need to take my time to get him out.
McMullen lifts one high in the air to left center field.
Yastremski having trouble with the sun is over there, but he's got on to the ball
and it makes the catch in left center.
McMullen popping out to Kyle Yastremski and the 1-2-3 innings for Bill Marble
can't get the Senators in order in the third.
Score at the end of three innings is the Red Sox 4 and the Senators 1.
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Three innings have gone by and the Red Sox have four runs on four hits, played errorless ball.
Washington one run, two hits, and one error.
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In the National League, the Giants and Pirates are scoreless at the end of three innings,
Marischal against Veale.
That's the only other game that's underway right now.
Bob Tillman leads off with the Red Sox as we move to the top of the fourth.
Tilley reached on an error in the second inning, an error by Brinkman, the shortstop.
Tillman takes a strike from Ortega.
The count is one ball, one strike.
As Kirk pointed out, Tilley had a tough spring.
He hit about 190, which was in complete contrast to his spring a year ago.
Ground ball hits the third on the changeup, gobbled up by McMullen.
He's tossed a chance in plenty of time and Tillman is out.
One away, third to first, and Mambo-Kett coming to the plate.
What they expect, said Billy Herman, is Tillman made himself a hitter last year
and he has no doubt that Bob will be up there around the 280, 290 mark as he was most of last season.
Mambo-Kett took a third strike his first time up.
Ortega's pitch to him is in there, called strike one.
He just joined us. Washington scored first on Don Locks' homer into the upper deck in the second.
Mambo reaches for one and taps it on the ground on the right side.
Blasting game up with it at second, throws him out by a step.
That was a grasscutter, not a hard hit.
Two away.
The Red Sox scored all four runs in the third.
When with two out, Jaskremski walked.
Kanigaleo got his second single.
Then Thomas hit a three-run homer followed by Mantia's base is empty homer.
That has been the long ball that's brought it to the Red Sox.
Here's Rico Petracelli.
Struck out twice, he swings at the first pitch, strike one.
Rico, who won himself an opening day job with his work of field,
considered a step or two faster than Bersou, still has to hit big league pitching,
hit 170 in spring training,
and there's a foul off the end of the bat, all in two.
But I think you're going to like this fellow around short at Fenway.
He has great range, gets the ball away quick,
and has provided a lot of us with short stopping.
That will take its place with Versalli's, Kubeck, this fellow here, Brinkman,
anybody in the American league,
as far as the mechanics around the position are concerned in the field.
He pitches inside ball one, one and two.
That Rico has great balance and great range, good quick hands.
He makes the tough play look routine,
and it's really something to see to watch this young fellow move around the infield.
One-two pitch to him, moves outside two.
Well, he's trying to get the seal at the plate, too, Mel, by switch hitting,
and he's batting left now against Ortega.
He came into baseball as strictly a right-handed hitter.
Two-two delivery, jumps him back from the plate, ball three.
Bob Gibson goes for the Cardinals this afternoon against Larry Jackson of the Cubs.
The Dodgers lead the Mets 2-0 after one inning in their ball game.
Cincinnati and Milwaukee, Kloninger will go for Milwaukee, and O'Toole for Cincinnati.
Three-two delivery to Petrocelli, foul back, and Rico hangs in there, free ball, two strikes.
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Ortega gets another baseball. The Arizona Indian youngster looks in for the sign from Mike Brumley.
Wines and Fires three-two, it's fouled at the plate by Petrocelli, who hangs tough.
Billy Gardner coaching down a third base for the Red Sox, and Len Oakrey is coaching it first.
Oakrey coming in from the bullpen to fill in for Pete Runnels, who had an ulcer operation recently
down in the Pasadena, Texas. He will be rejoining the club in another month or so.
Ortega is the full count pitch once again. He misses this time, and Petrocelli waits him out for a walk.
While he trots to first, let's pause for a station break. This is the Red Sox baseball network.
Back in D.C. Stadium, Red Sox with a man on and two outs, the batter is Lenny Green.
He looks at the first pitch up high, ball one. Red Sox ahead four to one. We're in the top of the fourth.
Petrocelli with a walk as at first base. Ortega bends in for the sign.
There it goes. There goes the runner, high for a ball, throw to second.
Petrocelli slides. He is out. Brinkman slaps the tag on him.
Play going from the catcher to the shortstop covering, and the attempted steal backfires.
That's all for the Red Sox.
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So three and a half innings is the Red Sox four and Washington one.
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We mentioned earlier there are some Red Sox fans here.
One of them is Senator Edward Kennedy, who is here rooting for the Red Sox today,
and we ask him to come up and say hello to you all.
First of all, how are you feeling, Senator?
I want to very, very well.
It's a delightful day down here, and I'm glad to be up with you.
I remember your being up with you last year, the opening game, the home game of the Red Sox,
when Tom Yawkey and the Red Sox organization were kind enough to give the proceeds through the Kennedy Library.
So I'm a great fan, always have been, and it's good to be up here on opening day.
That's right, and I told Billy Herman he'd be here today, and he said, well, wish him luck.
I said, well, maybe you want to wish Billy luck, too.
Oh, I certainly do.
I think they certainly have got a lot of huff-hulls up today and great hitting power.
I think it's going to be a great year.
I always enjoy following them.
We don't always get the chance to get out here, but we've got a great start of the season.
I have, you'd think that I might have some split loyalties today being in Washington and playing the Senators,
but there's no problem for me.
Good. Thank you very much, Senator Kennedy.
Glad to see you're feeling better and stronger every day,
and we're ready to go now on the last of the fourth inning.
And that's the offset here with Maumouquette pitching.
The first pitch by Bill Maumouquette is swung on and missed as Bob Chance takes the first cut.
Chance got a single left field, got the first hit of the season, actually,
dumped the single in there in the first inning.
He's a hitter and he takes the pitch outside, one ball, one strike.
You remember very well the opener that Senator Kennedy was talking about last year at Fenway
when everybody came and watched the Red Sox beat the White Sox.
Line dry off the left field.
Chance may get more than one on this one.
The ball sinks in the grass, picked up by Yacenki.
Chance trying for two to throw is not quite in time as he beats the attack by Van Pia.
He almost nailed him at second base.
Van Pia, I don't believe, knew that Chance was going to be coming in there.
Felix was off the bag and then made a belated dive for him,
and Chance slid in under the throw, which was a good one by Yaz, for a two-base hit.
So that's two for two for Bob Chance.
That ball ordinarily, Mel, would have gone all the way to the fence,
but on this day it just died in that grass out there.
That's right, the slow outfield killed the ball.
It all had to come in on the ball and make a barehand pickup and a quick throw to second base.
The throw was just to the right of the bag.
Chance slid to the left of the bag.
It just didn't get in under the tag by Van Pia.
So the Senators are cooking something here with a man at second, nobody out,
and the batter is Mike Howard, Big Hondo as they call him.
The Dodgers called him.
This is a menacing-looking man, I tell you.
Facially he resembles Arnold Early a little bit on the red side.
Pitch is inside and high to him, ball one.
A man with this power can be fooled easily, but the brute power makes up for the many mistakes
that he may make in trying to attack the pitch.
You remember seeing that World Series on television a couple of years ago
at Homer E. Ed in L.A. against Whitey Ford?
I think it was.
It was somebody else, but nobody's ever matched that one.
Pitch is down low and outside.
2-0.
He hit a tremendous double or triple against Ford in Yankee Stadium,
which was out near the flagpole and all the monuments there,
and then he went to Los Angeles and hit one into the upper deck,
which hovers over the bullpen in Chavez Ravine,
which is about as far as anybody has hit that ball in that ballpark.
He's a shotgun up there.
This spring, they say, they've always been hitting the top of the ball.
He's hit everything on the ground.
Mambo gets delivery, breaks outside, ball three.
Mambo being careful.
Now it has such tremendous size that that looks like a tooth-taking hand.
Kind of like Boog Powell from the other side,
Powell of Baltimore.
Makes that bat look little.
Howard had only one spring training home run.
That was hit in Mexico City.
He wore weights in his shoes for a couple of weeks to try to,
he took off 30 pounds of weight, and that's no mean feat.
He picked ball four.
Senators have runners at first and second, nobody out.
That was the second walk off Mambo.
Bob Stillman out to talk to Mambo Ketch.
And the hitter is Don Locke, who drilled one into the upper deck
in the second inning for the Senators' run.
Twenty-eight home runs last year for this fellow.
Steve Rydzik, a right-hander, is throwing now on the Senator bullpen.
If it gets down as far as the pitcher, this inning and the batting order,
they may hit for Ortega.
Locke crouched to the plate.
Hanson Howard lead away, and the first pitch is a call strike one.
Frank Howard at first base.
We were saying he took off 30 pounds.
He came in weighing 274, way overweight.
Now it's 248, 250, which still is big.
He worked very hard to get himself in shape.
Bob Chet leads away from second.
Howard with a big lead off first.
Locke hits one up in the air.
Sky-high to shallow center.
Lenny Green looking up, waiting for it.
Makes the catch.
The runner is holed as the throw comes into Petrocelli.
Locke flies to center.
There's one down.
Willie Kirkland, he walked in the second inning
and was cut down trying to steal a moment later.
Nice to see the slim trim Al Walker here again with us this year.
He's gone into his annual diet and is down to 248 himself.
Kirkland batting from the left side.
Chance off second. Howard off first.
Mambo comes to the belt.
His pitch is lofted high into the infield.
Back to the plate now.
Now it's being called infield fly.
Malzone drops the ball.
Throws to second.
Mancilla tags everybody and it's out.
Looks like an infield fly rule was called first.
Malzone dropped the ball.
It started out in foul ground behind home plate.
It dropped it at over.
Infield fly rule was called by plate umpire Paparello.
Although Malzone dropped the ball, it doesn't make any difference.
The batter is out.
He threw to second base.
And the runner at second chance is off the base.
He was tagged out and it's a double play.
That's the way it goes.
Infield fly rule called with the batter out.
And the runner at his own risk, Chance, taking the runner off the base.
So he is out.
At the end of four innings, it's Boston four runs, four-inch no errors.
Washington one run, three hits and one error.
Leading off for the Red Sox is Lenny Green and coming back in is Kurt Gotti.
Well the fans are still buzzing about that double play.
And so many times a year we get questions on the infield fly rule.
We just saw a good example of it there.
Lenny Green's up.
He takes a slow curve for a strike call from Phil Ortega.
With runners on first and second or first, second and third, less than two outs.
The batter hits what in the judgment of the umpire is a fly ball that can be handled by an infielder.
The batter is automatically out.
And runners advance at their own risk.
A swing and a miss.
Strike two.
So Kirkland hit the pop-up.
He was automatically out when the umpire called infield fly rule affair.
And Bob Chance, who was on first after Malzone dropped the ball, ran down to second and threw the man to you,
who first stepped on the bag and then tagged him.
The two strike sets.
And the drive hit right down the right field line.
Let's see if it's fair.
It's a fair ball bouncing in the corner.
And let's see.
Oh, just clear defense.
It's just clear defense for a home run for Lenny Green.
The stands jut around in the corner and we couldn't see the ball in the corner.
We saw it bounce in the over defense.
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.
A home run for Lenny Green right down the line.
You can't hit him down the line any truer than that.
That was fair by about a foot.
And that's the third home run for the Red Sox in this game.
Which is outside, ball one.
The Red Sox lead now by a score of five to one.
Green is homered.
Lee Thomas has hit a free run.
Homer Felix Mantias homered.
And Iglial Zondek pitches low.
Ball two to Carl Yastremski.
You can see why Lenny Green worked his way into the starting lineup.
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.
Their pitch is outside, ball three to Yastremski who is grounded out and walks.
Steve Rydzik is warming up in the center bullpen.
Free balls and no strikes.
Here's the pitch.
Ball four, it's low.
Yastremski's on.
And Tony Kanigla-Harrows coming up.
Kanigla-Harrows single to left, he's single to right.
He's two for two.
At Lenny Green you couldn't pull a ball down that line like that in the better, Mel.
Lenny's a real aggressive hitter.
He attacks the pitcher all the way.
He goes out after that fast ball and of course in that case he did the same thing.
He went out, got the fast ball, pulled it down the right field line.
That ball went right into the corner just over the 3.35 sign.
There goes the runner.
It's a slow ball for a strike, a high throw, and safe for second is Yastremski with a stolen base.
Billy Herman really has him running.
That's two stolen bases in the game.
Kanigla-Harrows in the second, Yastremski here in the fifth.
Pepper Shelley was thrown out trying to get out of the four.
But he has him moving.
So we have a runner on second.
That takes off the double play situation, fourth double play.
Kanigla-Harrows hits a little roller down toward third.
Ortega picks it up with a bare hand.
He's out at first play at first base.
Over to third goes Yastremski.
Ortega ran off the mound, picked that one up with his throwing hand,
and got him on a very close play at first base.
One out, Yastremski's on third.
And Lee Thomas up.
Thomas grounded out in the second.
Bell with a three-run homer in the third to right field.
Five to one.
Red Sox ahead here in the top of the fifth inning.
Felix Mantee on deck, infield in.
There's a sharp runner to second.
Blossing game looks.
Yastremski back to third and makes the play over to first and is two down.
Now Thomas couldn't get the ball up in the air that time.
Two down, Yastremski's still on third.
Felix Mantee up, is flied out and hit a home run.
The Red Sox broke their own home run record last year.
They bowled at 186 homers.
Second in the majors.
They led the league in hitting all year but finished eighth.
Billy Herman, knowing this, has tried to improve the team defensively, add more speed.
Today we've seen two stolen bases.
I think they stole how many? Eighteen all of last year, something?
Swinging a miss.
Looks like a little bit different type of attack, and one that's going to help especially defensively.
No substitute for speed in any sport.
One strike to Mantee.
Yastremski on third, two down.
There's a high fly down the left field line.
Frank Howard chasing it over by the fans.
He doesn't have a play on it.
It's a foul ball.
Fans were contesting Howard for the ball down the left field line.
So the count to Mantee, now two strikes.
Nice telegram from Cliff Holt and the Atlanta Refining Company in Philadelphia.
He always thinks of us every year at the start of the season.
Hand it to us. Here's the pitch.
Inside, ball won.
Here's one on your 15th year with the Red Sox.
Hope that you have happiness and the gladness we had together.
Good luck for another season, your pal, Johnny Orlando.
Play delivery.
Ground ball to third.
Look at this, Ken McMullen fires the first.
Mantee is out and the Red Sox are retired.
In the fifth inning, one run for the Red Sox, one hit, a home run by Lenny Green.
There were no errors and one man left.
Well, we've gone halfway in the opening game of the 1965 season,
and the score is the Red Sox 5 and the Senators 1.
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The Marigans, if you would like to know how you feel about this, Darren.
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Uh, uh...
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They're furious.
I'm so sorry.
Uh, oh.
What?
If you'd tell them about the bottle of Marigans of beer.
Oh, you've really confused me.
Well, I'll just drink this ball.
We're now in the last of the fifth inning.
Mambo-Ket will face the bottom of the senator order.
Brumley, Brinkman, and Ortega, and they may hit for Ortega because
Ribzic is warming up in the senator bullpen.
Now, I started to say earlier, Johnny Orlando was clubhouse for the Red Sox
for years and years. He was there when Mel was there.
One night we were playing a night game here.
Mike Higgins was an old friend of Lyndon Johnson, uh, at Texan,
and Mike was an outstanding athlete down there in Texas,
and his brother, Ox, ran the sporting goods stores all over Texas,
and he was a very close friend of Lyndon Johnson,
who at that time was a United States senator from Texas.
We were at the, played a game, oh, this must have been seven, eight, or nine years ago.
Pitch was in there, so I called, you were with the ball club then.
And one night two men came into the clubhouse after the game
and asked to see Mike Higgins.
And Orlando said nobody allowed in the clubhouse, which was the rule.
The pitch popped up out in the shallow left field backing up a set of cellies under it.
He makes the grab and there's one away.
And so he said, listen, we're, uh, we're close friends of his,
and also I am Senator Lyndon Johnson, and the other one was Sam Rayburn,
the speaker of the house, and Orlando said, I don't care who you are,
Eisenhower, who you are, out.
So he kicked them both out, and every time I see him,
I always remind him about the time he kicked out the future president of the United States
out of the Red Sox clubhouse.
Ed Brinkman up, swings and fouls it back, track one.
A score of five to one, Red Sox ahead last to the fifth inning.
Brinkman grounded out his first time.
A pitch is ground ball to shortstop, Malzone up with it, can't get it.
Peppertelli just misses on a phenomenal play.
Malzone went to his left, the ball got under his glove.
Malzone covered a lot of ground with flashing in front of a shortstop.
Peppertelli backed him up with a trickle off his glove and nearly threw.
Brinkman out, it is scored as a base hit.
And now we have a pinch hitter, Joe Cunningham, is going to bat for Ortega.
And now for three, Joe Cunningham.
Joe Cunningham batting left, will hit for Ortega.
With a runner on first, Brinkman won out, last to the fifth inning.
Don Blanton games on deck.
Ambo checks his runner, the pitch to left-handed Cunningham,
the swing and the miss and a fastball.
Cunningham came to the Senators last year with Bill Cowan going to the white side.
Both veterans, first baseman.
He's a slashing type of hitter.
Slashes line drives to all fields.
One stretch coming.
Five runs, five hits for the Red Sox.
One run, four hits for the Senators.
The pitch is inside a ball, one and one.
Also a telegram here to myself, Mel, Ned, Engineer Walker.
World's a luck to you for a most successful season.
Leo Clodier, baseball dinner director of Manchester, New Hampshire.
I want to thank Leo for his telegram.
Hello, Janitor, what's being done?
Incidentally, we are on the Armed Forces radio network today around the world.
And I guess this game is being carried, let's see, six hours difference in Germany.
Right now it's seven minutes to nine there.
They're listening to the opening of the Major League season at night.
Over there many of our Miami bases around the world.
One ball, one strike.
Pitch is ball two the other way around over in Japan in the Far East.
Early in the morning.
Two balls and one strike, says Joe Cunningham.
Bring them on first, one out.
Two blasting games on deck.
Stretched by Mambo in the pitch.
Twins and misses on the fastball.
Strike two. Two balls, two strikes.
You don't think there aren't plenty of secret servicemen around this place.
Or they're all over down here by the dugout.
Two to the count.
Delivery is a swing and a rest.
He struck him out on the high slider.
Strike three.
Cunningham's out.
That is strikeout number three for Mambo.
Two down for the Senators.
And here's a little blasting game coming up.
Blast the game, it's fouled out and flied out.
He is a deadly punter.
He can drop that ball on a dime down the third baseline.
O'Malzone moves in tight on him on the grass at third.
He hit 267 last year.
Ken McMullen's on deck.
Ed Brinkman on first, two away.
Your pitch.
Ground ball, hit out to Petruchelli.
Scooped it up.
Fires the first, he's got him, sides out.
No runs.
One hit, there were no errors.
One man left.
And now Walker just said he's got a good arm.
That's right, Al, you can fire that ball from shortstop.
Down at the end of five innings, our score is the Red Sox five and the Senators one.
Well, how about telling the fans about that new Red Sox yearbook, Matt?
It's out now, Kirk.
As a matter of fact, it's been out for a couple of days.
And it's on sale now throughout newsstands and outlets all over New England.
Fine yearbook this year with all the stories and pictures of the Red Sox.
There are attendance followers, people in the front office, people on the field.
It's on sale at newsstands throughout New England with all the pictures, autographs,
and information about the organization.
Fifty cents plus a dime for postage will get you a Red Sox yearbook by mail.
Just send that to Red Sox yearbook Fenway Park, Boston, 15.
They've got a new color pack deal out this year.
Last year when we offered eight pictures for 50 cents, they're all gone by the middle of July.
And they couldn't take care of all the late orders.
Well, in 1965 right now you can get 16 full-color, full-size autographed color pictures
of your favorite members of the Red Sox for just one dollar plus a dime for postage.
These color pictures will be ready.
They're ready now too.
You send a dollar plus a dime for postage to Red Sox color pictures at Fenway Park, Boston, 15.
Incidentally, remember you get a full-size, full-color picture of one of your favorite Red Sox players
absolutely free in every copy of the Red Sox 1965 yearbook.
The 65 yearbook on the cover this year is sort of a film clip sequence of Dick Raditz
from center field pitching to a batter. Very well done.
So take a glance at the 1965 yearbook for the Red Sox.
Steve Ritzig, right-hander reliever, has come on for the Senators as the Red Sox come up on the sixth.
Frank Malzone will start it off with the Red Sox in the sixth inning.
Frank has walked and popped up.
Frank's batting in the number seven spot this year. Malzone, Tillman, and Mamboquette.
Veteran Steve Ritzig, the right-hander.
So Ortega pitched five innings, allowed five hits, five runs.
He was bellied for three homers by the Red Sox.
He walked three and he struck out three.
Malzone hits a high fly to Fairleigh Deek Center.
Don Locke racing back, draws a beat on it, and hauls it in.
And Deek straightaway center.
One out.
Here's Bob Tillman up. He reached in an air and he's rounded out to third.
Mamboquette, the pitcher, coming out on deck.
Five to one, the Red Sox ahead in the sixth inning.
And for you fans in New England listening, we'll see you next Saturday at Fenway Park when the Red Sox meet the Orioles.
Sidearm pitch is low and away to Tillman, ball one.
Checking on walks, four walks Ortega gave up.
A 1-0 delivery.
One ball and strike to him now.
Here's the 1-1 delivery.
Strike called, outside corner fastball, one and two.
One ball, two strikes.
They play Tillman deep and toward left.
Rizik double-fumps, comes in outside of ball two and two.
What are the 81 degrees if you've joined us late here in the nation's capital?
Brilliant, sunshiny day.
Almost like a day in late June or early July.
Two and two is the count to Bob Tillman.
Sidearm pitch is swung on him, that's strike three. Tillman strikes out.
Two down for the Red Sox.
And Bill Mamboquette coming up. He has struck out and rounded out.
0 for two.
Here's the windup in delivery.
Ground ball hit to the right side. Blasting game, digs it out of the dirt, flips over to Bob Chance at first.
The Red Sox are retired one, two, three in the sixth.
At the end of five and a half innings, our score is the Red Sox five and the Senators one.
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Before we move to the last of the sixth inning now, let's pause for station identification.
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The time is one minute past three o'clock at the temperature outside our studios, 42 degrees.
This is Kurt Gowdy, Ned Martin, and Mel Farnell back with you in Washington, last of the sixth inning.
And Ken McMullen is leading off for the Sanders. He's batting number two in their lineup, the third baseman.
He has struck out and flied to left.
First pitch to him is a foul ball back into the stands, strike one.
McMullen's had a red hot spring training. He's had 15 games in a row in the spring.
Five runs, five hits for the Red Sox. One run, four hits for the Sanders.
Don Locke hit a homer for the Senators in the second.
Thomas Amantia hit homers in the third. Lenny Green in the fifth for the Red Sox.
The Red Sox got four big runs in the third.
And the pitch is popped up to the shortstop.
Rico Petracelli comes in under, makes the grab, and there's one away.
And his new bride, after just a month or two, sitting down by the Red Sox dugout, watching her husband gather that one in.
What a thrill that must have been for him today to open the Major League season, Mel.
It's quite a treat for young Rico. Rico is a young fellow that never stops hustling.
He's one that tries awfully hard. He's one of the first to the ball, one of the last to leave.
And this young fellow works hard, and if work proves anything, he should be a great ball player.
One out, nobody on. Here's a fellow that's given Bill Mambo cat trouble, Bob Chance.
He is single and double, left-handed batter.
Mambo starts him off with a slow ball outside, one and nothing.
Frank Howard's on deck.
We're in the last half of sixth inning.
A 1-0 delivery.
There's a hard ground ball to Thomas at first. He lobs it over to Mambo cat covering, and we have two down.
Notice that President Johnson has a big, long piece of paper down there. It's not a scorecard.
And he's passing it around, and they're all huddling on it.
And then he'll point to it and lean back and say something to a couple of more of them.
It's a very bipartisan box down there, by the way, both Democrats and Republicans.
That may be the latest report from Vietnam, Kirk. It could be.
Hey, it's on Martin's income tax.
Frank Howard, up, hit it to a fourth play and walks.
Here's the pitch to Howard, big right-handed batter takes a strike called, nothing and one.
Two down, nobody on, last to the sixth inning.
Five to one Red Sox.
Oh, this Howard's thick.
No balls, one strike.
They're way over in that infield toward third on him.
Manthee is playing almost back a second.
Here's the one-strike pitch.
He swings and misses on a fastball for strike two.
No balls, two strikes.
Mom Bouquet has walked two.
He walked Kirkland in the second and Howard in the fourth.
He has struck out three.
It's two-strike pitch.
A ground ball, the third base for Malzone and back of the bag.
A long throw for him.
The time of stretch is in, grabs it, and the sides retire.
A slow curve ball that had Howard off his timing, and he tapped the two-hopper and back a third.
A long throw by Malzone, but it got Big Howard, and the Senators are retired in the last half of sixth inning.
We have three down at the end of sixth.
Our score is Boston 5 and Washington 1.
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We're in the seventh inning now, ladies and gentlemen.
With the top of the red-stock batting order up, Rico Petticelli will start it off.
He has struck out twice and walked.
He's facing veteran Steve Ribzic.
Petticelli, Green, and Yastremski.
Pitch to the switch hitter is cut on.
There's a long drive in the deep center.
Lock backing up, back, back, under, and grabs it out there in a warning pass.
And the youngster hit that ball a long way, but the straightaway deep center.
One out.
He has some power in the minor leagues now.
He hit a lot of runs in and home runs two years ago.
Rico will jump up now and then and hit the long ball for you,
both from the right side and left side of the plate.
He's a little fellow, but has a lot of power.
Of course, his problem now is making contact a little more often.
And I'm sure by playing every day he will improve that.
When he greens up, he pops a short, ground it out, and hit a home run down the right-field line.
Batting left-handed, the pitch is ball one.
Other games are underway.
The American League, Minnesota is leading the Yankees one-and-nothing at the end of an inning and a half,
bouting against Cotts.
They're afraid they'd start that one in the snow this time of year up there.
The pitch is over for a strike call one-and-one.
Detroit plays Kansas City tonight.
Cleveland's at Los Angeles tonight.
Chicago and Baltimore hope for their season tomorrow at Baltimore.
One ball, one strike to Lenny Green.
One out, nobody on.
Green hits a drive down the right-field line again.
This ball is another home run.
A line drive by Lenny Green right down the line into the corner.
And Green has now hit two homers in this game.
He was the second leading batter in spring training.
The Twins and the Angels thought he was washed up, but he's out to disprove that fact.
Larry Claflin was kidding him in the dugout today.
He said, Lenny, the way you've been looking, you've got a chance to be the comeback man of the year.
Well, if one day does it, he is.
He's had two home runs already today.
Pitch is low, ball one.
Four home runs by the Red Sox in this opening game, and you can't credit Fenway Park for this one.
Lenny seems though he found a target down in the right-field corner.
Those two home runs that were hit weren't any more than five yards apart.
One out, nobody on.
Yastremski's grounded out and walked twice.
Six to one Red Sox.
Yastremski takes a fastball over, strike called.
They've got one, two, three, four.
Four lefties and five right-handers in the line.
It's good balance in that batting order right now.
A one-one delivery.
There's a high fly by Yastremski down the left-field line.
Howard chasing it, curving toward the fans, and dropping foul out of play.
One ball, one strike.
Steve Ridzik throws quite differently from the last time that I saw him,
when with the Phillies Steve was an overhand pitcher.
However, since then he has hurt his arm and is now throwing more from the side
and has added a little jerky deceptive motion to his delivery.
One ball, two strikes to Carl Yastremski.
One out, nobody on.
Seventh inning.
Six to one Red Sox ahead.
Ridzik comes in.
Yastremski takes it inside.
Ball two, strike two.
Three of the homers, one by Mantia, two by Green, have been with nobody on.
Thomas hit one with two on.
And Locke hit one with nobody on for the centers.
There's a swing and a miss.
He strikes out on a fastball.
Two down.
A low fastball around his knees.
Conigliero, a single left, single right, and grounded out.
He's two out of three.
Over the National League, the Dodgers are leading the Mets three-nothing into three.
Drysdale against Jackson.
Willie Davis and Drysdale have hit homers.
Giants and Pirates, no score at the end of six.
Marischal against Ville.
Milwaukee and Cincinnati, no score at the end of an inning and a half.
Flanninger against O'Toole.
Conigliero hits a foul off the fist on the ground down the third base line, strike one.
St. Louis playing at Chicago.
Philadelphia at Houston in the new dome tonight.
Two down and a seventh inning for the Red Sox, nobody on.
One strike to Conigliero.
Lidzic double pumps and then comes in.
And there's a long smash by Conigliero.
Way up, midway in the upper deck.
What a clap by Conigliero.
Tony, who hit 24 last year and missed seven weeks of the season with two broken bones.
It's that one, midway in the upper deck.
And the Red Sox have hit five home runs today.
Conigliero now has three hits in this first game.
How could they leave him off that list of young stars in baseball?
What foul we're seeing today, Kurt.
I don't know what Billy Herman told the boys before the game,
but I sure hope that he continues to repeat.
Lee Thomas takes the strike.
One, two, three, four, five homers by the Red Sox.
They're ahead seven and one and they're still buzzing.
Conigliero's smash was longer than Locke's.
It was halfway in the upper deck in left field.
Here's the one strike fresh.
He knocks Thomas down.
Thomas goes down.
It's thrown right at his head.
He dropped the bat.
One ball, one strike.
This Red Sox power today reminds me of the William Stevens,
go-pulling door error.
In every cut they present a threat for the opposing pitcher.
One ball, one strike.
Two down.
Seven to one Red Sox in the seventh.
Thomas takes outside.
Ball two.
You know, Thomas, two years ago, with the Angels,
had a great year when he played first base.
He had 24 homers, knocked in over 100 runs, hit 290 something.
Boy, they could duplicate that at first.
Wouldn't that be something in that lineup?
Of course it is.
It's a mighty big word in sports.
There's a curve in there for a strike, two and two.
Two balls, two strikes.
Just look down some.
Right over there in that presidential box is pointing up in left field
where Conigliero hit that tremendous home run.
Two balls and two strikes.
Two down, bases empty.
A two-two delivery.
He struck him out on a high fastball.
The Red Sox are retired.
But in the seventh they had two runs, two hits.
A line drive homer by Green and a king-size clout by Conigliero,
way in the upper deck in left field.
There were no errors and nobody left at the end of six and a half
with a seventh inning stretch on.
The score is the Red Sox seven and the Senators one.
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We're going now to the last of the seventh inning.
Bill Mambo-Ked will face Don Locke, Willie Kirkland, and Mike Brumley.
Seven to one, Boston leading Washington, play-by-play by Ned Martin.
And your healer, Don Locke.
Don Locke leading off against Mambo-Ked.
Senators have just four hits in the ball game.
Locke has the biggest home run in the second inning, accounting for the Senators' one run.
Takes a high pitch for ball one.
Red Sox have seven hits.
Five of them have been homers.
Two other hits have been singles by Conigliaro.
Pitch to Locke, misses inside.
Two balls, no strikes.
There was a scuffling around down the presidential box.
Everybody was getting up.
There was a bottom of the seventh and the Washington fans stood up.
So the president stood up.
And all around him as the cameras word and clicked.
Two holes account.
Locke swings and misses. Two balls, one strike.
The play-by-play of 43,554.
43,554 here today.
Locke is out there with a general turn in Washington.
Locke takes a strike on the outside corner of Beauty, a slider, and the count is two and two.
This is the largest opening day crowd for D.C. Stadium, incidentally.
And of course, definitely the largest crowd we've ever seen down here with the Red Sox playing.
Mambo's 2-2 pitch.
Misses low and away, ball three.
Three and two.
Locke is homered and fly to center.
He'll be followed by Kirkland and Brumley.
Mambo Ketch, been just about as good as he's had to be.
He's got just three strikes out. He's walked two.
He's had the ball in the strike zone.
Making them hit. They've been popping up a lot on him today.
So his fastball is hopping some.
Locke swings and misses strike three.
One away in the seventh.
Four strikeouts for Mambo.
Willie Kirkland has walked, and he popped up into that double play in the fourth inning, the infield fly,
with two men on in which Malzone dropped the ball, but then through to second,
Manatee had tagged the runner Chance who had moved off second base.
And that was the only double play of the game.
Pitch to Kirkland, and Willie lets it go down low, ball one.
Earl Wilson will pitch the game day after tomorrow here,
and right-hander Bus Narum is scheduled to go for the Senators.
Those same two will work on the weekend at Fenway.
There's a high pop fly.
First base side, Lee Thomas near the bag, the wind blowing it now,
and Manatee makes the catch as Thomas gave way to Felix who had a better bead on the ball.
Kirkland pops to Manatee, and they're two down, and Mike Brumley comes in 0 for 2.
Minnesota picks up another runner in second.
They lead the Yankees 2-0 at the end of 2.
The Cardinals are out in front of Chicago Cubs, 5-0 at the end of an inning and a half.
It's the Giants nothing and Pittsburgh nothing.
The end of 6-1-1 half inning, fine pitchers duel.
Gibson going for the, or let's see, the Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Marischal for the Giants.
Pitch to Brumley is on the corner, called strike one.
And Bob Beale going for the Pirates in that shutout so far.
Milwaukee Cincinnati scoreless after 2, Brumley takes a pitch inside, ball one.
And as Kirk told you, the Dodgers leading the Mets 5-0.
Now at the end of 3-1-1 half innings, there's the Dodgers, got a few home runs going for them.
Drysdale has helped his own cause with a two-run over.
Pitch outside, ball two, two balls, one strike.
Chicago and Baltimore will open tomorrow.
And of course tonight in the American League is Detroit at Kansas City and Cleveland out on the coast against the Angels.
Mambo winds fires, Brumley pops it up to the left side, Mal's going down the line, waiting.
He's in foul ground now, he makes the catch.
And it's an easy 1-2-3 inning for Bill Mambo-Ked, who now has retired eight in a row.
Stepping across the score at the end of 7 is the Red Sox, 7-man, Washington 1.
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Felix Van Peele leading away for the Red Sox on the top of the eighth.
In the Red Sox bullpen, just in case, right-hander Jack LeMay, but left-hander Arnold Earley are throwing.
Red Sox with a fine six-run bulge right now.
Pitch to Mantia moves outside, ball one.
Felix is flying to left, hit a home run, and grounded a third.
He's pulled the ball today.
This is one of his favorite ballparks.
Hit three homers here last year, has one already this season.
Ritzig moves outside with a flat curve and it's ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
As Mel Parnell pointed out, Ritzig has changed his style of pitching.
This is a fellow of Mel that is a hard worker.
He was a good relief pitcher for Washington last year.
He and Ron Klein were their hardest workers.
He'll battle you.
Throw to Mantia, gets a strike over.
Two balls and one strike.
Felix Picadup with Malzahna on deck.
Ritzig winds, throws, and misses inside, ball three.
Red Sox ahead seven to one by dint of a three-run homer and a bases-empty homer in the third.
A home run in the fifth and two home runs in the seventh.
Homers are counting for all of their runs.
Wind up and pitch, strike called on the inside slice, the count is three and two.
Three balls, two strikes.
Ritzig takes the sign.
Caulfield laying around the left on Mantia.
Ground ball the third, cooped up by McMullin.
Trolley's his throw to first.
In time, there's one away.
Second time, Mantia's grounded out the third base.
And Malzahna comes up.
Walks off the short and flies very deep to center.
This McMullin plays a, they worried about his third base play.
They figured that they got his bat instead of a glove.
They gave up John Kennedy to the Dodgers, who is a superior fielder to McMullin.
But they say that McMullin will do the job around third.
Malzahna tries to get away from a pitch and it bounces foul off his bat down the third base line.
Looking at McMullin, Mel, and a couple of those ground balls, he takes a little windup to get it over.
He's got a good arm, but he takes a little time to get it away.
Yes, he takes a full step before throwing.
He feels the ball, takes one step in the direction he's throwing,
and tries to get a little more body to his throw.
Well, I guess a third baseman can afford that better than anybody else.
Anyway, he gets the ball faster, hit at him, and has a little time.
Pitch to Malzahna, swung on and missed, strike one.
Malzahna in what must be about his eighth opener for the Red Sox.
Steve Rydzik kicks, throws, and Frank peels it foul back.
Nothing and two.
Minnesota leading the Yankees 2-0 at the end of 2-1 half now,
and Pittsburgh to nuts going, pardon me, in the seventh.
Giants and Pirates are nothing-nothing at the end of seven innings.
Left-hander Frank Kreutzer is warming up in the Senator bullpen now.
Malzahna looks at a pitch, breaking low and away.
One ball, two strikes.
Senator Outfield around the left on Frank, where they always play him.
I hear every club that he faces just about,
unless he's against an overpoweringly fast pitcher,
they'll play him as a dead-pole hitter.
Second base in the blasting game is shading the bag a couple of steps.
Malzahna swings and misses, strike three.
He's fooled on a breaking pitch.
Rydzik gets his fourth strikeout since coming in there.
It's been either feast or famine with him.
He's had four strikeouts and given up two homers
in the two and two-thirds that he's worked.
He's probably a little tough on the right-hander.
It appears that he would be very tough to pick up
with that jerky motion in his delivery.
Powerball by Bob Tillman, strike one.
That's right, he's tough to, he looks faster than he is actually.
That's true.
Malzahna was fooled the first time he looked at Rydzik,
and of course Tillman was also fooled on the last pitch.
Bob started into the pitch, and at the last minute
it appeared to be a self-defense swing.
Tillman wraps the ground ball toward short.
Cut off by McMullen, the third baseman.
Kansas throws in plenty of time.
Good play by McMullen, and the Red Sox are down in order in the eighth inning.
The end of seven and a half, the score is Red Sox 7 and Washington 1.
Going to the bottom of the eighth inning now.
Eddie Brinkman will lead off for the Senators,
and looking down at the on-deck circle it looks like Jim King,
who will pinch hit for the pitcher Rydzik.
So they'll pinch hit the left-handed hitting Jim King for Steve Rydzik,
then go to the top of the order.
Rydzik pitched three innings while he was in there.
Eddie Brinkman, right-handed hitting shortstop, is always one for two.
He had an infield single in the fifth.
Mambo Kett kicks and throws, and his pitch is right in there called strike one.
Brinkman, one of the classier fielding shortstops in the league,
and the Senators figure that if he hits 240 or 250 for them, he'll help them.
He has had an error today, which is a rarity for him.
He hits the short, shot the short, one-handed by Petracelli, throws the first inside.
Rico towards the hole, made a couple of steps.
It was not that he went so far, but that he got a tough hop
because it bounced right in front of him and off to the side.
That's right.
Rico shows a very quick hand that he possesses.
That ball was hit real sharp.
He was playing to go through the hole, and when the ball made contact at the infield,
it bounced to the rear of Rico, and the quick hand, he reached back,
spared the ball, and a perfect throw to Lee Thomas to retire the hitter.
Jim King, the pinch hitter, lost the first pitch high in the air in the right field.
Thomas back, Mantia back, Kanigale arrow in, and Tony C. makes the catch about five yards in fair.
Jim King, pinch hitting for Steve Rizik, hits the first pitch up in the air,
and Kanigale arrow made the catch.
Two down quickly in the ninth, and Mambo is a machine out there.
In the final of the eighth inning, said the top of the ninth, it's the eighth inning.
Two gone, blasting game is the hitter.
Hole for three.
He is fouled out, fly to center, and grounded out.
Mambo delivers.
Ground ball hit toward Mantia.
Felix up with it, throws him out, and another easy inning for Mambo.
Let's see, that's nine, ten, eleven men in a row he's retired.
Nothing across in the eighth inning.
The score at the end of eight innings of play is Boston 7 and Washington 1.
Opening day at Fenway Park.
Remember coming up on the 17th, this coming Saturday, Easter weekend,
and a big weekend for all of you to get out, take the family.
You've got Saturday and Sunday afternoon games against the Baltimore Orioles,
and then a Patriots Day doubleheader against these Washington Senators,
all in the afternoon at the four-game home stand before the Red Sox hit the road.
Red Sox ticket offices open during the week from nine to five at Fenway Park.
At eight thirty on Friday night for your convenience.
So make plans to be there Saturday, especially opening day against the Orioles.
The game time will be at two fifteen.
The Harvard Band will be performing along with the conducted by Arthur Siedler
of the Boston Pops.
Jerry Vail will sing the national anthem, one of the Wings and Zone,
and Big Dilling coming up at Fenway starting Saturday.
We'll see you there.
Right now let's pause for face identification.
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Left-hander Frank Kreitzer is coming on the pitch.
All the Washington Senators as we move to the top of the ninth,
with the Red Sox having seven runs, seven hits, and no errors.
In one run, four hits and one error.
All seven Red Sox runs as a result, directly or indirectly, of homers.
They've got five homers today.
Two by Lenny Green, one by Kenigley Arrow, one by Thomas, and one by Mancia.
Thomas' home run came with two men on.
And the Washington run also as a result of a homer.
That was by John Locke in the second inning.
Steve Rydzik went three innings in relief, gave up two hits and two runs.
They were both homers.
Walked nobody, struck out four, and Frank Kreitzer, who used to belong to the Red Sox,
came over as the throw-in pitcher on the scour and deal, along with Joe Cunningham,
will pitch the top of the ninth.
Kreitzer, who used to belong to the Red Sox organization,
pitched briefly with the Red Sox and now with the Washington Senators.
First man he'll face will be the pitcher Bill Mambo-Kett.
Mambo then cut for Selle and Green, and we're ready to go, Kirk.
Mambo has struck out, grounded out twice.
He's 0 for 3.
And he should get a good hand for the beautiful game he pitched here on opening day
when he stepped into that batter's box.
At the end of eight innings, the Red Sox, seven runs, seven hits, and no errors.
The Senators have one run, four hits, and one error.
Letting Kreitzer take some extra warm-up pitches.
No game tomorrow.
We'll be broadcasting from here on Wednesday afternoon.
No game Thursday and Friday.
The Red Sox will be at home Saturday against Baltimore.
And there's the hand for Mambo-Kett as he's announced to the crowd.
Throw left-hander, face to the right-handed batter.
First pitch, a swing and a miss on a fastball for strike one.
Kreitzer last year won two and lost six with Washington.
He'd won three and lost one with the White Sox.
He's high and wide with that one.
One ball, one strike.
Bob Hefner and Jerry Richie, Jay Richie are warming up in the Red Sox bullpen.
I think they're just working out though.
The 1-1 delivery is a curve over for a strike called the Mambo-Kett.
One ball, two strikes.
The base is empty as Mambo-Kett leads off in the ninth.
A 1-2 pitch is high for ball two.
Two and two.
Minnesota's leading the Yankees now.
It's two to nothing at the end of three and a half innings.
Here's a 2-2 pitch.
Sextree calls.
Mambo-Kett knew he just turned around and walked away.
It's a real pitcher's duel going on at Pittsburgh between Marischal and Veale.
No score between the Giants and Pirates at the end of eight.
Cardinals lead the Cubs five to two at the end of two.
The Dodgers six, the Mets one at the end of four and a half.
Rico Petruchelli now batting right-handed,
taps the ground ball foul to the right of home plate for strike one.
He struck out twice and hit a long fly ball to center field and walked.
One out, nobody on.
Lenny Green's on deck.
Chrysler is the third pitcher of the game for the Senators.
A foul on the high curve back out of plate strike two.
The first five innings, Rizik pitched three innings.
Ortega threw three home run balls and Rizik threw two.
Two strikes, in comes the pitch.
He fouls it back out of play.
A no ball, two strike count to Rico Petruchelli.
One out, nobody on.
All right, Chrysler to the left-hander with a big high kick,
throws and strikes him out.
That's the third time Petruchelli struck out.
Brumley drops the ball, picks it up, throws it down to chance.
We have two down and Lenny Green up, has popped the short,
grounded out and hit two home runs in almost the same identical spot.
Line drives right into the right field corner.
Green getting a hand.
I wonder if he can make it three, Mel.
Left hand, a little tougher for him right now.
Here's a pitch to Green over his head for ball one.
He was ducking under that one.
That's one he'll never hit out of here, Kirk.
That pitch is behind you.
One ball, no strikes.
Two down, nobody on here in the ninth inning.
A one-oh pitch to him.
Green takes a strike call.
One ball, one strike.
The Senators in their last bid in the last of the ninth will have
McMullen, Chance, and Howard up.
A one-one pitch to Lenny Green outside for ball two.
Two and one.
Two down, bases empty.
Green hits out of a slight crouch.
He swings and misses on a fastball for strike two.
Two balls and two strikes.
Kreitzer can throw hard.
He's a hard-throwing left-hander.
He went from the Red Sox organization.
He was drafted by Chicago, and they traded him over here to Washington.
The two-two delivery.
Now back, of course they have two great left-handers already in that Chicago staff.
Gary Peters and Juan Bizarro.
I wouldn't mind having them.
We can use them.
One's a 20-game winner.
They're there at 19.
Two balls, two strikes.
He pitches a foul ball.
He poured a fastball in on him, and he just got a piece of it and fouled it up against the screen.
Throw the count two and two.
Two, three.
The two-two delivery is a strike three.
Swinging Kreitzer struck out the side.
And that's all for the Red Sox in the top of the ninth inning.
At the end of eight and a half, it's the Red Sox seven and the Senators one.
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Last of the ninth inning, Bill Mambokeh trying to go the distance here in his opening game.
Has given up four hits in the first eight innings, one run.
That was a home run by Don Locke in the second.
And Mambokeh in the ninth will face Ken McMullen, Bob Chance, and Frank Howard.
The number two, three, and four hitters in the Washington lineup.
Same lineup defensively.
That's about the best defensive lineup the Red Sox have.
That's why they've started the season.
Try to strengthen the defense.
So there are no changes there.
They don't have to platoon for any one late in the game.
Here's a pitcher that's in there for a strike call.
Nothing in one.
Now President Johnson's still here and Vice President Humphreys, they haven't had too much to excite them from the home crowd today.
But they've seen six home runs in this game.
They won strike delivery, foul ball, and I know one thing, they all got out and got some nice air today.
It's better than being inside there in that White House today.
Uh-huh. That old stuffy White House. Isn't it nice to be out here in this fresh air?
Today was a beautiful day for it.
Two strikes to McMullen.
He's leading off last to the ninth inning. The two-strike pitch to him.
There's a long blast. That one is out of here and it is a home run for McMullen into the Red Sox bullpen.
We're at the end of the ball.
Bob Chance up. Takes eye on outside. Ball one. He's single, double, and ground it out.
Somebody just brought a youngster, a boy about seven or eight years old, and sat him down there next to President Johnson.
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.
One away.
Here's Frank Howard coming up now. He's hit into the fourth play, walked, and ground it out.
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.
Bombo overhands him. He hits a towering pop-up. That might have hit the dome in Houston.
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.
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.
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.
Seven to two Red Sox. Last of the ninth inning.
We have our first extra inning game of the season. The Giants and Pirates are in the tenth inning, no score over at Pittsburgh.
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.
Rick Raddatz is warming up right now for the Red Sox. Willie Kirkland on deck for the Senators. Two down.
One strike pitch. Swings and fouls a fastball back out of play. Strike two. Nothing and two.
Two strikes, two down. 43,554 attending this game. Paid attendance.
Always a few freebies. Two strike count.
Pitch to Locke. Outside, try to get him to go for a wide slider. He wouldn't do it. One ball, two strikes.
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.
We'll be on the air Wednesday. Red Sox and Senators, Earl Wilson will be pitching for the Red Sox.
And Buster Naram for the Senators will be on a 125 on this station Wednesday afternoon.
A two and two pitch. Not a ball to the mound. Mambo Kett has it. There's the throw to first.
Mambo Kett goes all the way. Lee Thomas flips him the ball, congratulates him as the Red Sox, in very impressive fashion,
have won their opening game of the 1965 season. They had strong pitching today by a rejuvenated Mambo Kett.
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,
which you always do when you get a combination of pitching and batting.
We'll be back with a wrap-up right after this message.
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So the first one's in the books, and the Red Sox here before President Johnson.
Defeated Washington 7-2 on a gorgeous sunny afternoon in the nation's capital.
Before Ned Martin wraps it up officially for us, let's get Mel Farnell coming in on the game.
Well the highlight of today's game was the pitching of Billy Mambo-Kett in the long ball power of the Red Sox.
Billy was in command all the way, had a good fast ball, a good curve ball, makes these pitches well.
Stayed ahead of the hitter and made the hitter hit his pitch.
The long ball power of the Red Sox was outstanding with Lenny Green leading the way with two home runs.
Solo blast by Lee Thomas, Tony Canigliaro, and Felix Mancilla.
The Red Sox hit the ball very well throughout the ball game.
The defensive play of Rico Peticelli was quite a highlight of the game.
Rico made quite a few defensive plays and looked very good defensively.
And now back to Kurt Gowdy.
All right Mel, that's number one out of the way for you,
and it'll be easier for Mel on the rest of the way.
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.
And now here's Ned.
Turtles on the game, Red Sox seven runs, seven hits, no errors, and four left.
Washington two runs, five hits, one error, and three left.
Mambo of course the winning pitcher all the way his first of the year.
And let's see, that's two runs and 45 innings, the last 45 innings that he has pitched against these Washington Senators,
counting the last four games last year and this one.
Loser was the starter Phil Ortega who had trouble with the home run ball.
He gave up three of them.
He went five innings and lost the game.
Rydzik worked three and gave up two homers.
And Frank Kreitzer came on and struck out the side of the ninth.
The Red Sox was either feast or famine was them.
They hit home runs or they struck out.
They had five homers and they struck out ten times.
On Wednesday it will be Earl Wilson against Bus Narum as we get a first look at Earl this year.
Mambo Kett and Wilson will lead the pitcher Saturday and Sunday against Baltimore.
And we're going to look at Jim Lombard and Earl or Dave Morehead on Monday in the Patriots Day doubleheader against the Senators.
Other scores quickly Minnesota leading the Yankees four to nothing at the end of four.
In the National League the Dodgers leading the Mets six to one at the end of five and a half.
The Giants and Pittsburgh nothing nothing at the end of the regulation nine.
And Cincinnati leading Milwaukee one to nothing at the end of four.
It's the Cardinals five and Chicago Cubs four at the end of three innings.
We saw just about everything today.
The home run, the Presidents, we saw the Red Sox steal two bases.
We saw a couple of fine defensive plays by the new shortstop Petrocelli.
A great play by first baseman Lee Tallis.
And Tallis had the RBI lead with a three run homer.
But Lenny Green had the most home runs.
He got two in his first appearance officially as a Red Sox ball player.
Files to our Red Sox seven and Washington two.
Ned Martin along with Kurt Gotti, Mel Parnell and our engineer Al Walker saying so long from Washington.
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