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This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history.

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Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Atlanta Braves at Atlanta Stadium for a Monday night game on April 8th, 1974.

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The crowd was packed on this night for one reason, or rather, one person, Hank Aaron.

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Hank had tied Babe Ruth's all-time home run record on opening day in Cincinnati,

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and this was his first game of the season in Atlanta, and he was still sitting on 714.

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Los Angeles was managed by Walt Ulston in his 21st season with the club.

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The Dodgers were still an excellent team but kept falling short,

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having finished in second place in the NL West in each of the previous four seasons,

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thanks in most part to the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati.

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Atlanta was managed by Eddie Matthews in his third season as manager.

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Eddie was part of the one-two home run punch of the 1957 World Champion Braves,

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along with 23-year-old Hank Aaron.

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Most of you are probably familiar with the Atlanta radio broadcast of this game,

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featuring Milo Hamilton as the announcer,

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but this audio recording is from the KABC Los Angeles Radio broadcast,

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featuring announcers Vince Scully and Jerry Doggett.

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And Jimmy Lahren against Ron Reed.

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While everybody concentrates on Aaron naturally,

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the Dodgers trying to keep our winning streak alive, and David Rolfe takes the side.

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There is considerable pressure on everybody involved, particularly the umpires.

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In what could be Aaron's finest moment, we also have the threat of rain.

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The strike one fits. He's outside one-on-one.

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The second base umpire is Dave Davidson.

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It is his fifth year in the National League.

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Thankfully at first it is his third year in the league.

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Eddie Sudeol, I assume, is the crew chief. He is the veteran of the quartet.

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There's another strike below.

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Eddie is the second base umpire in his 17th year in the National League,

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and a third lead wire in his 14th year.

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So I would think that the second base umpire, Eddie Sudeol, has a big responsibility tonight.

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I mean, just imagine if Aaron hits it, and then we start to get rain in the third and the fourth inning.

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You wouldn't want to carry that load on your shoulders.

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Ron Reed's 2-2 pitch to Davey Lokes is filed away.

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Davey went to a fine start, as are the Dodgers.

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Lokes at 333 is 5-4-5 and still invasive.

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The Dodgers had pretty much their own way with Atlanta.

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They won sixth out of eight here, and all nine played in Dodger Stadium last year.

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Reed set his foul back and Salos Lucila at two balls and two strikes.

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It is a strange night in baseball.

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Normally, the celebrations are conducted after the fact,

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and yet before the ballgame tonight, all of the balloons went skyward,

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all the praise, all the speeches, all the punting.

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And of course, it just seems right, I guess, in the sense that the Dodgers could be involved in the record breaker.

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They've been involved in so many.

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There's 4-3 to Davey Lokes.

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Jerry and I have considered ourselves extremely fortunate to have been involved in so many exciting moments,

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but particular milestones in record breakers.

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The 3-2 pitch is 5-3-4, and Davey was drawn to first base.

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So one away, and Bill Buckner the batter.

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Going way back to the drama of a Bobby Thompson home run, which was memorable, but not a record breaker.

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Going through the first Dodger World Championship, which was memorable and, in a sense, a record breaker,

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since it's the only one for the borough of Brooklyn.

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Bill Buckner takes ball one outside.

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Then the move across to California.

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And then the tremendous individual accomplishments by men in Dodgy Interform.

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And you go back and think that Maury Wills breaking the Great Thai Cubs record,

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and nobody ever thought that would be broken.

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And even Hoyt Wilhelm had to finish up his career with the Dodgers,

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and every time Hoyt came in the game, he broke the record of Cy Young,

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and no one ever thought that record would be broken.

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The 1-0 pitch to Buckner is about to hover the mound.

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Back is second. Johnson has it.

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For both the first and second.

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Then leave it up to the Dodgers to be involved in two perfect games,

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and for extra window dressing, one of them for the World of C, in the World Series,

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when Don Weisson pitches man to C.

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Followed that up with the perfect game of Sandy Kovac.

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Then along came Don Drysdale with his string of consecutive scoreless innings.

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And now the Dodgers are on hand, and we'll find out about the base.

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The pitch to Jimmy Wynn is low, ball one, 1-0.

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Aaron is hitting fourth in the lineup.

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Ron Reed comes back to the plate, 1-0, and the breaking ball is low, ball two, 2-0.

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Gallo Centerfield has been painted in the stars and stripes,

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and the outline of the United States.

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They had various youngsters' positions showing where Aaron hits,

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100, 200, and all the way to where he is now.

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The pitch to Jimmy Wynn at spike, and the count to 1-1.

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The press box is literally bursting at the seams.

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Reportage has come from as far away as South America.

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Here's a 2-1 pitch. There's a high pop fly on the right side,

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and it'll be Mike Lumb waiting and waiting and makes the catch.

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The crowd has seen the Dodgers be close up, and now they get a little itchy

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because maybe Henry will come up in the first inning.

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At the score at the end of the half an inning, Dodgers nothing,

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Rays coming up, Ralph Dodd starting off,

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and Al Downing cheering a spot light of his own now.

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The quiet left-hander nicknamed Gentleman Al,

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waiting for a piece of paper to be grabbed around home plate and put away,

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and Ralph Dodd smacks his head and stuffs it in his hip pocket,

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and we're about ready.

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With the wind coming in just, we might have swirling paper in just throughout the evening.

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All right, Ralph Dodd to plate.

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Al Downing into the windup, left hand ready and delivers,

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and there's a bounce right back down.

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One-handed throws him out.

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What a way, and Mike Lumb the batter.

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One of the things that Downing has to do is to pitch his game despite the crowd.

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You know how this crowd will react if Downing tries to hit a corner and misses with Aaron,

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and every time it's ball one or ball two or ball three,

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the crowd will just lose something awful,

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and he will certainly have to hold on to his professional dignity and concentration.

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The pitch to Mike Lumb is high, ball one,

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so there are all kinds of angles of pressure attached to this one tonight.

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Can he shoot all the umpire?

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Al Downing the pitcher, and of course the man himself.

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The pitch to Lumb is low, ball two, two and all.

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Downing checking into the windup, and the 2-0 pitch on the way is given to Deep White Field,

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looking down the line as it goes foul.

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And Mike Lumb, the kid from Hawaii, really shook him up,

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but he pulled it foul.

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Let me count two and one.

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On deck, J.L. Evans.

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A stellar crowd in Atlanta.

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And Al Downing is going back to work, one away, first inning no score.

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Now Downing into the windup, and Al delivers and gets the strike on the inside corner, two and two.

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Downing was a nine-game winner last year against the Braves.

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He was two and all against Atlanta last year, five and all night time.

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Now the 2-2 pitch is hung on a high chopper back to Downing.

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He grubs it, throws him out.

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Two down, and here is Darrell Evans.

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Evans, a strong home run threat in his own right.

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Evans has four hits, including a home run and four RBIs, so he's already been up to his old tricks.

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And of course out on deck, as they call him in Georgia, the Hammers.

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And it's up to Darrell Evans now to extend the inning.

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Oh, that's a waste for inning number two to see Henry.

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Downing into the windup.

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They have a modified shift on Evans.

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If Browns won the Wolfe, he's up with it, and we won't see Henry till next inning.

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And the tension will not just a little bit longer.

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So the Braves are gone on Brown balls, and at the end of an inning, no score.

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Now we go to the second inning here in Atlanta just to complicate matters

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and to increase some pressure on the senior umpire, Ed Seudahl.

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A light rain begins to fall.

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We're not sure of the up-to-the-minute weather forecast.

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They talked about first tornadoes, then they rose out two hours ago.

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Then they talked about possible showers.

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And then finally they were saying it looks like we'll be all right.

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So it could be that we're just getting the edge of a storm, which has gone by this area.

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Joe Ferguson is followed by Willie Crawford and Ron Say, and Ron Reid delivers.

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That's four for Sykes.

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Well, if you possibly can, don't go wandering off now,

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because Henry Aaron is due to lead off the second inning.

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Here's the strike one pitch. That's in there for Sykes, oh, and two.

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How would you like to be caught on a hot dog line?

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I wonder if anybody would dare go to the confession stand between now and Aaron's time.

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Here comes a strike two pitch outside for one, one and two.

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The raindrops causing the well-prepared crowd to put on raincoats and opening up umbrellas.

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Here's the one and two pitch hung on a mission down north Ferguson.

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So Ron Reid strikes out his second, and the batter is Willie Crawford.

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Willie Crawford comes into the game hitting 400.

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What a marvelous thrill it must be for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert and Henry's mom and dad up from Mobile,

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sitting in the club box, waiting for their son to break an all-time record,

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the pitch world ball one, one and all.

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There's a vast difference, however, between the two men involved, Dave Ruth and Henry Aaron.

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If you're old enough, you might remember during World War II,

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there were stories coming out of the South Pacific that the Japanese infantry,

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trying to find out where the American emplacements were, figured out what could we do

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to get the Americans angry enough to holler back and then we'd know where they are.

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So did they touch? They touched Bay Blues.

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Boy, you really have to be something when you have a reputation for greatness.

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Here's a down ball that Charlotte and Crawford have gone through away.

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Let's pause quickly for station identification.

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This is the Los Angeles Dodgers radio network.

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Down, second inning, no score.

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Henry Aaron is due up first and the bottom of the second.

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They beat the tile into the dirt and the gout on one.

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It is barely a rain, a light mist would be more like it.

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A very strong wind blowing out to right, but the ballpark is completely enclosed

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and the wind should not be a factor.

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The pitch to say, slider outside, one ball and one site.

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Jim Gilliam coaching it first.

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Tommy LaShaw it over third.

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Ron Reed ready and the 1-1 pitch on the way.

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And the inside corner for site, one and two.

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The wind swirling the bunting draped along the railing going down the right field foul line.

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Here's the 1-2 pitch to say, hung on, hit off the back of Reed, deflected to learn who stepped on the bag.

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And it also took his sack as he turned around in his follow through and the play goes 1-3.

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And don't you know it's waiting hard now.

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What an ironic twist.

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And at the end of an inning and a half, no score.

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Bottom of the second inning, no score in the ballgame.

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In a light rain in Atlanta, the senior umpire, Eddie Soutar, has huddled with the umpires

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swinging two bats, waiting his first, who knows how many dramatic that's got, to Henry Aaron.

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Aaron is standing a good 30 feet away from the home plate while Al Downing makes his warmup starters.

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The crowd of course begins to look for us as Henry takes his shot and then another.

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And as he begins to walk up the home plate, the crowd gives him a standing ovation.

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He throws the shot, practice round that away, and the perlillion number 44 checks into the batting box

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to a standing ovation here in Atlanta.

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Joe Ferguson, now son, but leaned over and evidently said something.

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And Al Downing, who also is 44, who sat on the bench when Roger Maris both debuted one year

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much at 51 in all runs, now Downing slips down Aaron's bat.

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Al ready and delivers and the first one is outside for one.

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We told you before, every time Downing will miss, the bat will move.

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Al checking and Ferguson, wigwagging a few times out, the one-hole pitch to Aaron is taken for a fight.

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Outside corner and the knee is one and one.

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Henry has two all-runs against Downing last year, in April in Los Angeles, later on here.

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Downing splitting into the raindrops and the one-one pitch to Aaron is bounced in front of the plate.

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There the crowd now flies the budget.

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For Downing, he doesn't want to walk, Aaron, he doesn't want anybody to find the abusing fingers.

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He's just not a pitch he's gained.

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Dave Davidson trying his best he can to concentrate on the strike zone.

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And there's Henry all the while, focus face, bumping that word back and forth.

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Two runs, that ball is low.

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Al ready.

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Aaron I'm sure is hitting at all times, whether the count be two and oh, three and oh, three and one.

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Downing checking, Aaron waiting and the three-one pitch is outside for one.

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And not right now, Henry, and he's got the first place.

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The land is lost and the batter will be the Santa Fealter, right-hand batter, Gusty Baker.

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Gusty Baker comes into the game hitting two-thirty-one, right-hand hitting Santa Fealter, good running speed, good power, had a fine year for Atlanta last season.

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Al be holding the bag on Aaron who takes his lead, making a waiting of the plate and downing deals and gets the site.

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They have heralded Henry Aaron up to the X-ray light.

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They have written everything imaginable and have shared everything imaginable about him.

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They've even published a 40-page supplement to the local newspapers to tell about Aaron.

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And the press kit is immense, all about Aaron, the pitch to Baker outside.

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And Jerry was reading it a little before and spotted a note about Aaron the baseliner way back in his Jacksonville days.

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And on a great night, it might not be bad for your melody sake to point it out, a high chopper headed ahead of Ron Say in the left field for a hit.

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Aaron goes to guard before the right-footer and Henry Aaron scores the first of Baker and they get him.

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Jesse Baker, a head-first guy, is shaken up.

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And Baker gets up very slowly and almost broadly as he hits the bag hard.

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He'll get a base hit, Buster will go on error, and Aaron will run short and it's one for nothing in Atlanta.

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No run batted in, of course.

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Anyway, when I was just a kid in Jacksonville in his third year in professional baseball,

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they tell a story about the game he played where three times during the game he stole second base.

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The pitch to Davey Johnson is foul and the count's 0-1.

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Well, what makes it a memorable story is each time a young Henry Aaron stole second base

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and each time the second baseman pulled a hidden ball trick on him and tagged him out.

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He's had a lot of memorable days. It has to be a forgettable one for jurors.

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The pitch to Davey Johnson outside, one ball and one strike.

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One and one. The count's to Davey Johnson.

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Now downing back to the plate and it's lifted into center field.

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Coming up is Jimmy Winn, still covering and makes the catch.

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A little fly ball to center, two down, and that'll bring up the catcher, Vic Perrell,

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who joined the break from the Boston Red Sox at the start of the season.

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He played at Fort Nugget last year. He makes his home in Georgia.

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Joe Ferguson holds his hands and arms apart and then brings them together

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as if he's playing an imaginary accordion, and that's what he wants.

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And Jimmy Winn is waved slightly over towards right center,

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and then Ferguson holds his hands up and says, that's fine.

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Downing, checking with Fergie, into the windup, works the plate, and he bounces.

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One and one.

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Rainy night in Georgia, but that is only four potatoes concerned with the entrée,

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and that is Mr. Henry Arn.

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The one hole pitch is low, ball two.

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No clues when you miss the strike zone to Vic Perrell,

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but when you miss the strike zone to Henry Arn, it tears the skies down.

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Braves leading one to nothing in the second inning of Jam-packed House.

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Now the two-hole pitch on the way is the ramble sharply,

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speared by Russell, a full turn, he throws him out.

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Excellent play by Bill to get Perrell.

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One run, one hit, one error.

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Nobody left, and at the end of two Braves, one Dodger's nothing.

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We can dug in a couple of scores quickly.

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The Giants kept the door, and they knocked off Cincinnati today, four to three.

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The Aquisto beat Nelson, Redmond, and Maddox all runs.

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And numerically, they were just one game scheduled.

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The Yankees beat Cleveland, five to three.

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So we're all alone tonight, and rightfully so, as Henry Arn is one away from making Babe Ruth's record.

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He needs one, and boy, I don't know what they're going to do here after the great free game show.

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I don't know what they can possibly do if and when he hits it.

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Let's go to the third, one nothing and a lot of foreplay by play.

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Here's Jerry Doggett.

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All right, Benin, Steve Garvey steps in, Ron Reid delivers, and Steve swings, and looks at strike one.

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Reid looks to be keyed up for the ball game tonight, and of course, the big crowd,

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and the fact that this is a big night for the Atlanta Braves,

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and Reid seems to be really psyched up so far.

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It's a high-bouncing ball to third, Evans waits for a hop, a pivot on the grass.

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Three, three.

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Garvey keeps it out as Darrell waited for the ball, and then had to re-grip it,

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and he's too late with it, and Garvey lakes it out.

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So the Dodgers get their first hit of the game, an infield single, and here is Bill Russell.

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Made a fine play on Corral to close out the second inning.

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The run that the Braves have is unearned, as the Dodgers had an error by Buckner on the play.

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Not allowed in to score, he would not have scored on the foul ball by Johnson,

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if he had stayed at third base.

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In fact, he would not have gone to third, had Buckner not fouled the ball.

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Here's the pitch coming in low with ball one.

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Russell backs out now, has a look at third base, Coach Tommy Losurda.

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Al Downing is out on deck.

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A two-weaving in Georgia.

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No rain at the moment.

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The pitch comes in two, low ball two, that's two balls and no strikes.

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This might be the biggest crowd we've seen in this ballpark.

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The Dodgers back in the Copac days, when Atlanta first came into the league, had some big crowds.

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Now the 2-0 pitch, taking first strike.

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Two and one to Russell with Downing on deck and Lopes to follow.

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The Braves lead one to nothing.

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The Dodgers covered the Braves last year 15 out of 17 times.

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Atlanta won one and lost two in Cincinnati.

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The Braves played a little bit of one-on-one three games.

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Here's a curve ball and a par ball in the right center field.

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Lorell up going for it.

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Dyer and Besson still going and Dyer can't get it.

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He backs his other ball.

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Here is Tommy going to third.

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Russell drops a second base on a long double to right field.

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So Russell gets one up in the booth and drives it over Dyer's head in the right field.

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Baker tried to catch up with it.

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He couldn't get to it.

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Garvey had to wait to see if the ball would be caught.

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And when it dropped, he came on to third and had to stop there.

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So the Dodgers have a drop, a single and a double, and Al Downing will be the batter.

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So for Russell, a two-base hit.

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Still came into the game hitting.364.

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Here's Al Downing stepping in now.

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Al, right hand batter up in the pitch for Reid. A swing and a miss strike.

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Where does he got a breaking grip?

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Davy Nicks on deck and Bill Buster to follow.

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Downing the batter's box, waiting now.

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Ron Reid checking signs once more.

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Stretch from the look on the pitch to Al.

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Oh, and a miss strike too.

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Al is a hitter, hit 135 in the National League, and 0.88 last year he had three RBIs.

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There's a swing and a foul off to the right out of play, and the count is still strike two to Downing.

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Al had five hits, still the more doubles.

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His lifetime average is 129, 135 in the National League.

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And now to the counter, Al, runners on his second and third.

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As Alon Jogs, very good to set a field.

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That'll get one in. Russell started back to the bag, and now he'll have to stop at third.

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It looks for a moment like the shortstop Robinson might have a play.

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So rather than get caught in a dummy play, Russell broke back toward the bag, and then was able to come only to third.

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But the Dodgers get caught up on Downing, Al's a single to center, and the ball game is all even.

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Runners on his first and third, and the batter now will be Davey Lope.

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So Al Downing helps himself with a single into better field, and the rain is beginning to come some more.

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Boy, the rain has been starting and stopping here consistently, and we had a real downpour about three hours before the game.

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Right now, Downing gets the windbreaker on, waiting for Davey Lope.

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He has a towel in his hand off to the right, wiping off the bat.

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And the pops open the umbrellas. It's a wet night in Georgia.

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Here's Davey Lope's attack. Davey's struck out, first time up.

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Nobody out, the Dodgers have runners out at the corners.

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The pitch on the lane, Davey takes high from Reed ball one.

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One of all to count. That'll be a shame for the rain tomorrow, this festival occasion.

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A huge crowd, one of the biggest in the Braves' history.

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It's the Davey ground ball to third, and they'll go to the first to try to get Russell in a run down, and he's tagged out.

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Russell's broke for home, and instead of going for the double play, Evans went for the front runner and gets it.

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Lope is on first, Downing is on second, Russell is out from third base to the catcher.

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One away, and the batter will be Buckner.

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It's surprising at this stage of the game that Evans didn't go for the double play,

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but he figured that he would better get the runner to the ice, and that's what he did.

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All right, here's Buckner at bat, Billy grounded out, his first time up.

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Down call now by Mike Lom, the first baseman.

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Lom is checking something with Reed, call time, and he wanted to keep the paper.

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Flying around in the outfield. All right, there's a whole bunch of it in left field.

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Here's the pitch on the way to Buckner. Wow, a third out of play.

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All games had one run third inning, Downing on second base, and Dainty Lope's on it first.

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The Dodgers are perfect three in our opening this season against San Diego.

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The Padres will entertain Houston tomorrow night in their home opener in San Diego.

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Strike one count, the Dursals still with us. Here's the pitch.

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Fast one is away, and it's a ball one strike one now to Billy Buckner.

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Buckner's hitting 222, he has only two hits and nine at bats so far in the year, and one run batted in.

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The wind is blowing from left toward right and it's at a pretty good clip.

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Now the pitch pops up foul, our third, third to a parry.

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There, Lom comes through the coaching lines, he's there and he has it.

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So Buckner pops up foul to third baseman Evans, and Jimmy Winn will come on now.

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Winn pops up to first baseman Lom his first time up.

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Jimmy has a great start, seven hits, seven RBI, three home runs,

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and he's hitting 538. A win off to a great, great start.

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Now our drop, runners at first and second, ball game is even at one run.

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Ron Reid ready to pitch to Winn, half swing, checked up, ball won.

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Well Winn has really gotten off to a good start for the Dodgers.

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This is the first of a four game series in Atlanta.

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Paper again blowing across the infield, curve is low and it's well too.

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There are big pieces of paper in the outfield as if they were parts of newspapers.

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In the infield, the plastic wrappers from the hot dogs or the sandwiches.

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Two-oh count, now again the look and the pitch to Winn.

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Round walk, pass third, round the left of the line, drink this.

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Here comes Downing to score, here comes Winn to round three, he's headed home.

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Here's the radar coming in a flick, he would be safe at home on a double by Jimmy Winn down the left field line.

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The Dodgers lead three to one and Jimmy Winn is driven in two more runs.

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Nine on the year as he doubles down the left field line.

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So Winn, a two base hit, drives in Downing and Lopes and the Dodgers are in front three to one.

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Jimmy Winn is really having a blazing start to his year.

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The Dodgers acquired Winn hoping he would knock in runs.

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Boy he's at nine now in four games.

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Here's Ferguson at bat.

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Winn edges off second, redelivered to Fergie and swinging the foul back, strike one.

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Jimmy Winn wraps Winn just down the left field line.

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Standing away from second base, Ferguson waiting, Joe hitting 300 on the year, three for ten with one RBI.

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Back foul is in for a strike and the count goes four and two to Ferguson.

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And on deck is Willie Crawford.

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Grabbing in, still hit, Russell a double to right, Downing a single to center and now Winn a double to left.

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Three to Fergie, half swing strike, all on the side is required.

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Ferguson is out on strike for the second time tonight.

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That is the third strikeout for Winn, but the Dodgers go three runs on four hits.

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And Winn won the surety and the two and a half in is a boy.

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Dodgers three and Atlanta one.

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Henry Irons has not hit the long run tonight, but he has set another National League record.

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He has just scored his 2063rd run, which gives him one more than Willie Mays

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and puts his third on the all-time list behind as Dikos and Babe Ruthen runs sports.

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Henry's name is in a lot of places in the record books, gets one more now,

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as he sets a new National League record for runs sports in a career, 2063.

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The shortstop, Craig Robinson, followed by Ron Reed and then by Ralph Giles,

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who go the far in the last half of the third inning.

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The Dodgers and the Atlanta Braves from Atlanta, Georgia on a damp evening,

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so they keep one eye on the weather.

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And it's just a light mist coming down now.

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By Dyle Downing leading by three to one, ready to go to work for the shortstop, Craig Robinson.

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Robinson last year with Philadelphia hit 276.

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Unless they have written down the numbers wrong.

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Here's the pitch on the way to Robinson, a bouncer foul off to the left, and the count goes strike one.

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On one to count.

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He hit 276 at Eugene and 226 at Philadelphia.

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Strike one's count with a little shortstop.

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He's turned a nudge, Marty Perez, out of the job on the Braves infield.

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Now Downing ready, out of the livers.

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Breaking ball outside, all the way to the backstop, it's got by Ferguson.

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One ball, one strike to count.

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The Dodgers just beginning a long road trip, four here, three in Houston, two in Cincinnati,

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and then back home with the Giants on the 19th of the week from Friday.

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Here's the one-one pitch on the way.

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Back ball strikes, and it is one and two.

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Under all, two strikes to Robinson, batting eight from the order.

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Three to one, the Dodgers lead, over the Braves here.

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The paint drop foul, but the plate and the count is still a ball and two strikes.

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Now ready, Downing checking.

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And then the windup he goes, and the pitch, half-plane, he checks in time, and it's two and two.

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A huge crowd here in Atlanta.

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The Dodgers are involved in some of the top crowds in Atlanta,

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in fact the first and second largest and the fifth largest crowd.

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So the Dodgers play here.

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The top of all three, three and two.

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In August of 1966, the Dodgers and the Braves played the 52,270.

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In June of that same year, they had played the 51,275.

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Here's the pitch, fair or high, and on with the walk of Robinson as wind comes up.

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First walk from Downing, also in 1966.

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On June the 25th, the Dodgers and the Braves played the 47,246.

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On June 25th, 47,000.

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On June 26th, 51,000.

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And on June, August the 9th, 52,000.

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Somebody had floated an umbrella on the field in right field.

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And it apparently got away.

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Willie Crawford had a lot to retrieve it.

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And his umbrella came flying out of the sand.

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So the training capacity is around 53,000, between 52 and 53.

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We don't have the exact number.

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The Dodgers have the high total.

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Here's a tough foul by Reid back into the strange strike one.

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They had announced the foul out prior to the game, but we can see a few vagant seats upstairs.

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So maybe those folks are going outside to get away from the raindrops.

439
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000
Runner at it first.

440
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:04,000
The Braves got a run in the second.

441
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,000
The Dodgers picked up three, and they're half of the third.

442
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Three to one Dodgers over the Braves here in the third inning.

443
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Now Downing working.

444
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000
Reid at bat.

445
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
Say you hit on the grass.

446
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Yeah, he breaks through the plate.

447
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
The pitch is horrible for a ball on the count of one to one.

448
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Reid was around to butt it again.

449
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,000
Going to first.

450
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000
They got it.

451
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Dave Robinson picks off first on a touch through foul by Downing, and he's caught off of that.

452
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,000
So Robinson's caught leaning all the way, and he's picked up.

453
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:57,000
And now Downing can go to work on Reid here in the third inning.

454
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,000
By Ron Reid, waiting at the plate to butt his off now.

455
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000
One ball, one strike, and one man out.

456
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,000
As Downing gets up to go with it again.

457
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,000
And from the pitch on the way, breaking ball outside.

458
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Ball two and it's two and one.

459
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000
The writers and the Dodgers from all over the world are here.

460
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Right here, Reid is down.

461
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000
There are some people from Japan, from Soraka, Venezuela.

462
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
It's all over the United States.

463
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Reid's swinging to the point there, and misses strike two.

464
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,000
It's a two and two count.

465
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:41,000
The report was that there are somewhere between two and three hundred accredited reporters.

466
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:48,000
And I don't know whether that includes photographers or not, but they have those special photographers boxes down on the field.

467
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,000
And of course, every looking penny up here is a cover.

468
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,000
The play on this, Reid strikes out.

469
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000
That's the first strikeout for Al Downing tonight.

470
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:03,000
So the right field way and Ralph Gile will be the batter.

471
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Bounce out and loose time up.

472
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:19,000
Here's Ralph Gile, the roadrunner, stepping in.

473
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Al Downing poised on the mound, into the windup and the pitch on the way.

474
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,000
Inside the ball, one and all.

475
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Downing walked in on the first time around.

476
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:34,000
We asked Al on the free game show what he would do, how he would respond to the blues of the card.

477
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
And of course, there were many when he walked in.

478
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:41,000
He said, I don't know what's going on, but if you're going to let this go and then not see it,

479
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,000
now is our first day free.

480
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,000
I'll tell you if one gets away.

481
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,000
Well, that brings up my book.

482
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Anyway, Downing was saying that he would not, of course, walk around frankly and speak.

483
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,000
And he would feel that he knew that he was trying to put to it carefully.

484
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:07,000
And if they blew it up a little bit, he knew better than later about what he was trying to do.

485
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:15,000
We asked him how he would feel if he was going to do that with an intentional pass here in the situation of warning.

486
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:20,000
I was not happy, but I was, of course, but I really found that he was a good player.

487
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
Here's one about the pitch.

488
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Breaking down as a start down one.

489
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Dying it when the right group player was coming up on the graph and Ronnie didn't get the defense on,

490
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000
so he starts with the second half of the game for the Dodgers.

491
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,000
All right.

492
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Two outs, one on, and a pitch.

493
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Breaking ball, strike two.

494
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000
The Dodgers last year twice lost their 11s to get their Aaron,

495
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,000
and one and two Aaron beat them a game, and the other they got to buy with it and got him up.

496
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:01,000
They lost those two games to the Braves all last year, one of those in overtime here.

497
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,000
They were pulling it right through, and down goes one with five to three ties.

498
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,000
Downing gets them out.

499
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:13,000
No runs, no hits, an error, and a man lost in the score at the end of three.

500
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,000
The Dodgers three with the Atlanta Braves something.

501
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,000
All right, the Dodgers coming on.

502
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,000
It gets Ron Reeves leading three to one.

503
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,000
More flavor spinning.

504
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
All right, Jay.

505
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
Willie Crawford will start it off.

506
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,000
He'll be followed by Ron Say and then Steve Garvey,

507
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000
and Henry Ann will bat second in the bottom of the fourth inning.

508
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,000
It is cold, it is windy, and it is rainy,

509
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:44,000
but the excitement of the moment has kept the crowd right here.

510
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:50,000
Ron Reeves looks in to get his tie, and Crawford waiting in the big right-hander's pitch outside four to one.

511
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,000
Henry Ann scored the run for the Braves in the second inning.

512
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,000
The Dodgers came back with three.

513
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000
One and all to count to Willie Crawford.

514
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,000
Reeves delivers, and he's high this time, all through.

515
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Ron went to school at Notre Dame.

516
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:10,000
Nine basketball players who played some basketball professionally with the Detroit Fishman.

517
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:16,000
The nine are elected to stay with baseball, and it's been a happy choice for him and for the Braves.

518
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Reeves' next one to Crawford is low.

519
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:24,000
That makes it three and all.

520
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:30,000
You know, the Dodgers are going to get a formal protest, I think, not about this game.

521
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Here's a three-all pitch, and Crawford takes his strike three and one.

522
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:41,000
The Dodger uniform on the front, under the script Dodgers, is the player's number.

523
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Downing's number is a very bright 44.

524
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,000
The three-one pitch is on the corner, strike two.

525
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Reeves and Eddie Matthews in particular have complained about the shininess of the numbers on the Dodgers' chest,

526
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,000
saying particularly that it distracts the hitter trying to find the ball when the pitcher delivers.

527
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000
That ball is hung on a mission down in North Carolina.

528
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,000
That's the station identification.

529
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,000
This is the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network.

530
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:25,000
This is the American Forgiveness Radio and Television Service.

531
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:30,000
One hour here on the floor of the inning for the Dodgers leading Atlanta 3-1,

532
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,000
and now what all of us have dreaded is taking place, a couple of kids.

533
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:42,000
And they're not, when I say kids, I don't mean children, come out on the field to shake Aaron's hand,

534
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,000
and now they go up the field.

535
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,000
So time out for the moment.

536
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:59,000
Three runs earlier than two hours for the Dodgers, one run, one hit, and no errors for the Braves.

537
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:03,000
And play at the plate.

538
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Ron Reed checking his toucher, Vic Burrell, in the crowd.

539
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Larm and Johnson, Robinson and Edinsonian Field.

540
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
And today, fouls are back out of play.

541
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:19,000
In the outfield, Henry Aaron and Lef, Dusty Baker and Santa Ralph, Gar and Rice.

542
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,000
It is the first game of a fuller game series.

543
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:30,000
We had a half hour pregame show honoring Aaron.

544
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:37,000
And now we're in the fourth inning. Reed delivers, and Faye hits a high fly ball to the right field.

545
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,000
Coming up is Gar, and he has to back up a little, and behind him comes Dusty Baker to make the catch.

546
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Reed throwing out the right field is evidently strong enough to affect the towering fly ball,

547
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,000
and so Baker went behind Gar to handle it.

548
00:42:52,000 --> 00:43:03,000
And the batter is Steve Garvey.

549
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:09,000
Garvey had an infield single in the third inning. He outlegged a throw from Darrell Evans.

550
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,000
That eventually came around to score.

551
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,000
A change is lifted over first base, slicing foul Larmond.

552
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Good play by Mike Lums. The Dodgers are gone in order and score at the end of the three and a half inning.

553
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,000
The Dodgers three braves one.

554
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Bottom of the fourth inning with the Dodgers leading at ladder three to one,

555
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:37,000
and the crowd again, especially alive because Aaron is coming up.

556
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:48,000
It'll be Darrell Evans to start things, then Henry Aaron, and then Dusty Baker.

557
00:43:48,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Darrell Evans grounded out in the first inning. He's 0-1.

558
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Now downing to a little housekeeping out there on the mound as we retrieve some paper.

559
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:09,000
Because of the wind, my paper's swirling out of the stands,

560
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:14,000
and we have several pieces of paper out on the field right now, but here we go.

561
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:19,000
Downing into the windup, and the pitch to Darrell Evans is low, 0-1.

562
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,000
And Aaron walks in the second inning.

563
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:29,000
It will be interesting when he comes up again how the crowd will react if downing misses the strike zone.

564
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,000
He misses again to Evans ball two, 2-0.

565
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:41,000
Downing has walked two, and he has struck out two.

566
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,000
The Dodgers lead three to one in the fourth inning.

567
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,000
Darrell Evans back up to the plate.

568
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Downing checks his signs, now to the windup, and the two half pitch on the way is a ground ball behind second.

569
00:44:54,000 --> 00:45:01,000
That's where recreation slips Mr. Thraws to right.

570
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:08,000
Because of the lane, Ruffer was positioned to feel the ball, and he slipped on the wet grass.

571
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:15,000
He has gone a draw now, and once again a standing ovation for Henry Allen.

572
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,000
There's a confrontation for the second time.

573
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,000
Aaron walked in the second inning.

574
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:35,000
He needs a fine runner to play now, but we'll see what downing does.

575
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,000
Now it's a pass delivered, and he's low, 0-1.

576
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,000
The Dodgers hold to the pressure.

577
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000
The crowd's booing.

578
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Downing has to ignore the sound effects and stay up with that showing pitch again.

579
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,000
One ball and no strikes, Aaron waiting to help you beat him straight away.

580
00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:02,000
That's the only high drive to beat that runner until he's swept and goes back to the stands.

581
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:31,000
And there he is, down.

582
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:39,000
0-1.

583
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:04,000
What a marvelous moment for baseball.

584
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,000
What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia.

585
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:12,000
What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.

586
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:21,000
A black man is getting a standing ovation in the deep south for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol.

587
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:27,000
And it is a great moment for all of us, and particularly for Henry Aaron.

588
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:35,000
He was met at home plate not only by every member of the Braves, but by his father and mother.

589
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:43,000
He threw his arms around his father, and as he left the home plate area, his mother came running across the grass,

590
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:51,000
threw her arms around his neck, kissed him for all he was worth.

591
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:59,000
And in the Aaron circle of bases, the Dodgers on the NCO shook his hand, and that was a memorable moment.

592
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:08,000
Aaron is being mobbed by psychographers. He is holding his right hand high in the air, and for the first time in a long time,

593
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:19,000
what broke your face of Aaron shows a tremendous strain and relief of what it must have been like to live with for the past several months.

594
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:31,000
It is over. At ten minutes after nine, in Atlanta, Georgia, Henry Aaron has equipped some art sets by Babe Ruth.

595
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:42,000
You could not, I guess, get two more comprehensive men, the Bays, big and gallant and also sociable,

596
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:51,000
and also immense in all of his appetites. And then the quiet, loyal, and immobile Alabama,

597
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:58,000
splendid and safe splendid throughout his career. Ruth, as he put on the poundies and the points,

598
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:07,000
the Yankees put their ballplayers in pinstripe uniforms because it made Ruth look splendid.

599
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:12,000
But they didn't need pinstripe uniforms for Henry Aaron in the twilight of his career.

600
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:19,000
He looked almost the same as he did when he first came up 20 years ago.

601
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:28,000
And so it was a memorable moment before the game, and now at a sweet moment, it is here in the middle of the game.

602
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:35,000
Bill Bartholomew, the chairman of the board of the Atlanta Braves, is speaking over the PA system,

603
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,000
and with the roar of the crowd, there's no way we can pick it up.

604
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:48,000
Aaron has already received, among other things, tonight a $5,000 check for the Henry Aaron Scholarship Fund.

605
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:54,000
So Henry and the Babe, the two greatest home run hitters that have ever lived,

606
00:50:54,000 --> 00:51:00,000
and it's a marvelous, wonderful, enjoyable moment here in Atlanta.

607
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:07,000
I'm so happy, too, that it could be seen all over the United States, that it will be duly reported all around the world.

608
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:14,000
And I'm sure films of it will be seen around the world, and you can hear it, Georgia, around the world.

609
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:35,000
Henry Aaron is now at the microphone.

610
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:45,000
The technical difficulty here in this vast ballpark was for that us from picking it up.

611
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:52,000
Henry, blow up, I say. I thank God it's all over with.

612
00:51:52,000 --> 00:52:00,000
But I'm sure he has thanked God many times that he had to do it to get it all over with,

613
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:06,000
and he becomes the greatest home run hitter in the history of baseball.

614
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:15,000
April 8, 1974, one of the greatest and not the greatest moments in recorded sports history,

615
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Henry Aaron scored the first run of the game, and then hit the two-run home run to tie it up.

616
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:31,000
We're all even 3-3 in the fourth. There's still a lot of this game left. There'll be more at bat found.

617
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:40,000
The Dodger in field, standing around with Joe Ferguson. The outfield, also, except for Jimmy Wynn.

618
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:55,000
The field in the background, directed by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, and I'm sure if you have been following baseball and Aaron and the Braves lineup,

619
00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:04,000
you are aware of the fact that the Commissioner wanted Aaron to play, and of course, his name is Anathema here in Georgia.

620
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:13,000
When the Anathema was made, the Commissioner is sorry he couldn't be here, why that Anathema was meant with a tremendous amount of booze.

621
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:20,000
Henry Aaron was born February 5th. Babe Ruth was also born February 4th or 5th, I believe,

622
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:24,000
so that would make them Aquarians in the age of Aquarius.

623
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:34,000
And Aaron, one war number three, one war 44. One was a left-handed batter, one was a right-handed batter,

624
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:47,000
and evidently, from what we have heard of one and what we have known of the other, they were as different as black and white.

625
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:58,000
Aaron is now gone back into the dugout with all of his teammates. Here on the fourth inning, Darrell Evans hit a ground ball.

626
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:05,000
Russell flipped on the wet grass and could not make a play. He was charged with an error, and then Henry Aaron hit it out,

627
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:12,000
and it was a merciless wallop, or even better, tonight, it was a Ruthian wallop.

628
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:21,000
It sailed out just to the right of the 385 sign, and he really had it through it to hit it out in the rain

629
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:28,000
and with a crosswind blowing from left to right. And there, as Aaron said, it's over.

630
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:40,000
He said, thank God it's over for all of us. We have our own blessings. We feel fortunate just to have been here to see the man do it.

631
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:48,000
And on the message board, another nice thought, that George Herman Ruth also shares this great moment with all of us tonight,

632
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:55,000
because it was Ruth who set the standards of 7-14, and he made the great chase possible.

633
00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:01,000
And so here in Georgia, they salute the boy from Baltimore, Maryland, George Herman Ruth.

634
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:09,000
At the bottom, after the tribute to Aaron, it says, hail to the Bayes. A memorable evening in Atlanta, Georgia.

635
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:20,000
A 3-3 tie, and Aaron has done it, and now Downing is loosening up to Joe Ferguson.

636
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:26,000
What an evening, as we said earlier, what a great moment for all of us.

637
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:31,000
It worked out well, don't you think?

638
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:43,000
Downing is loosening up on a pregame show, trying to cover all the angles. Jerry had said, Downing, what will you do if Aaron hits that big home run against you?

639
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,000
And here's what Al said.

640
00:55:46,000 --> 00:56:02,000
You're on the mound, you make a good pitch, and there it goes, with the 7-14. The crowd cheers, everybody goes crazy. What is Al Downing up to? What are you going to think about?

641
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:17,000
He wouldn't be sad, and he wouldn't be happy, I guess.

642
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:32,000
He's been going so far, and he's going to tremendous job as far as I'm concerned, he's going to tremendous job as 8-4 points up, and when he's 7-15, he's going to deserve it.

643
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,000
Well, he deserved it, all right? He didn't beat him, but he certainly cried out, Downing.

644
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:47,000
Downing was nobody out. Al Downing now out of the dugout, back on the mound, and loosening up.

645
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:58,000
Well, I can get so choked up on one thing. It was an Aaron's home run, we've sure seen enough of those, and it wasn't even the dog in field shaking his hand as he went by.

646
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:08,000
That's got to be one for the book, before when his mom and dad met him at home. Boy, look out. That was really something.

647
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:18,000
I mean, his dad hardly made any money at all in Mobile, Alabama, when he was a little kid growing up, and now all of a sudden, there they are.

648
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:29,000
Henry was the third child of eight born to Mr. and Mrs. Hergadon in 1934 in Mobile, Alabama, a black family.

649
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:36,000
You know they didn't have very much, and now, indeed, I'm sure the tough has run aground.

650
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:46,000
And now as yours do, the world takes another turn, and life moves on. It's 3-3, and the batter is Dusty Baker, and the crowd is decided to help with joy.

651
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:56,000
They can take that side, 4-1. They had a half-hour pregame ceremony, actually only a 10-minute interruption when he knocked it.

652
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:02,000
The 1-0 pitch to Dusty, high ball through to an hour.

653
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:14,000
715 home runs for Henry on, and he did it again for Dodgers here in Atlanta on April 8.

654
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:18,000
The 2-0 pitch is high, ball 3-3, you know.

655
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:31,000
Downing, leading Ferguson into the windup, and the 3-0 pitch, high ball forward.

656
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:46,000
So a 3-3 tie in the fourth inning, and the batter would be J.B. Johnson, who applied to center in the second inning.

657
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Johnson, right-hander, and a home run threat to Zalma, with Baker at first, held on by Garvey.

658
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,000
3-3 tie in the fourth.

659
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:07,000
Downing, ready, and delivers, and the breaking ball is low, ball 1.

660
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:23,000
Johnson backed out for a moment, checking with Connie Ryan, now he's back up to the plate.

661
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:29,000
One ball and no strikes, and Downing delivers, and it's flung on and fouled away, 1-1.

662
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:41,000
There used to be an expression many years ago, in fact it might even have been a song, the Eagles, they fly high in Mobile.

663
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:48,000
Boy, they gotta be flying high in Mobile tonight, for the home of Henry on, for at least his birthplace.

664
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:53,000
1-1, the count to J.B. Johnson.

665
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:58,000
Downing delivers, and it's grounded foul outside of third, and the count's 1-2.

666
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,000
1-2 to J.B.

667
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:16,000
Ready? Johnson waiting.

668
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:23,000
Rick Correll, on deck, nine-court by Eddie Soudal, with a second baseman on fire.

669
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:27,000
They want something picked up from behind the home plate area.

670
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:30,000
1-2.

671
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:40,000
Downing looks over at Dusty Baker, works the plate, and he's lowing inside.

672
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:49,000
He is not sharp, he's struggling a bit, and Mike Marshall, bare-armed as usual, is throwing in the Dodger bullpen.

673
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,000
3-3 tie, bottom of the fourth.

674
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:59,000
Downing ready, and the left-hander's 2-2 pitch coming up.

675
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:02,000
He bounced it, or a three.

676
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:09,000
The Downing has walked through, and he was faker after the home run by Eddie.

677
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:17,000
The official time of the home run was 9.07 p.m. in Atlanta.

678
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:23,000
9.07 in case you're here. 3-2 the count to J.B. Johnson.

679
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:26,000
Nobody else will see what Baker does at first.

680
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:38,000
Downing at the bell. Looks at Baker, he goes, the pitch is low, 4-4.

681
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:43,000
The Downing is really fighting to stay in the ballgame now.

682
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:49,000
Coming up is Vic Correll, the catcher, and going out to the mound is Walter Alston.

683
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:56,000
Red Adams goes out to talk to a pitcher.

684
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:59,000
Alston usually makes the change.

685
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:02,000
Downing is anything but sharp.

686
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:10,000
He might also be suffering some kind of an emotional letdown or reaction to the home run by Alston.

687
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:15,000
But he has been a little wobbly, and they're going right to the bullpen.

688
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:20,000
For Henry Aaron, it's a forgettable night and a memorable one at the same time.

689
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:29,000
Because when they ask him years from now, what was it like the night that Henry Aaron hit the home run with a big spike?

690
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,000
Downing will say, well, I'll tell you one thing.

691
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:40,000
I pitched only two more batters and left them both when I was gone.

692
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:49,000
So Downing standing on the mound, and Mike Marshall comes jogging in from the bullpen.

693
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:55,000
Here in the inning, Kyle Evans is bored on the air, and Aaron really smacked one.

694
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,000
It wasn't a fly ball home run, it just made it.

695
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:03,000
He hit it to a deep part of the park and to deep left center field at the 385 part.

696
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,000
That's the rest of Downing.

697
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:10,000
And Mike Marshall takes over, and they give Downing a standing ovation,

698
01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:18,000
which is indeed a left-handed compliment, the fact that he gave it a battle and surrendered the home run.

699
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:34,000
We'll never know, and Downing would never be able to tell us, but remember the first time Aaron came up, he walked.

700
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:40,000
And the next time Aaron came up, with the crowd booing, the first pitch was 4-1.

701
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:43,000
And somehow, maybe that triggered a reaction in Downing.

702
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:51,000
I'm not going to walk him again, the next you know the big home run was this.

703
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,000
A 3-3 tie.

704
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:57,000
Mike Marshall has come up with a Humpty's uniform.

705
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,000
That's the baseball way of describing it.

706
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,000
He must have forgotten his shirt.

707
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:09,000
He's wearing number 73, and that's a uniform that would be found on the bottom of a trunk

708
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:13,000
on a bus ride from Vero Beach to Sarasota.

709
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:18,000
So Mike comes in wearing 73, he couldn't care less.

710
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:21,000
A 3-3 tie.

711
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:25,000
First and second, nobody else, and Mike Marshall picked up.

712
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:30,000
Jerry Levin did a lot of chattering about Aaron's home run in the big moment.

713
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:33,000
I'm sure you have thoughts of your own about it.

714
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:38,000
Well, one of the thoughts I had was of course that you were talking about the Dodger players taking his turn as he went around.

715
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:42,000
And while the crowd was gathering at home place to wait for him as he got there,

716
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:47,000
Steve Garry, who has been a great inspiration to a lot of young kids,

717
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:51,000
and as it changed up I'm sure, I followed him somewhere,

718
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,000
he stood there and he kind of helped leave the applause, just clapping his hands.

719
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:58,000
I thought that was a little thing of size in the general picture there.

720
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,000
What other thoughts?

721
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,000
He flipped and we weren't neglectful in it.

722
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:04,000
You might wonder about the ball.

723
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,000
It never reached the sand.

724
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:11,000
The brave were all it was retrieved, and when Aaron was 20 feet from home place,

725
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,000
the ball was already in his possession.

726
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:19,000
Marshall checked the runners, the fixed it to Raleigh, waved out a missed on one.

727
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:23,000
I'm not sure who the brave player was because he had a windbreaker on and glasses.

728
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,000
It might have been the film he grew up with.

729
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:29,000
I don't think it was the Hops.

730
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:32,000
Okay, time out.

731
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:38,000
And as Aaron got home and jogged away, a member of the brave had the ball in hand and it threw him.

732
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,000
And in a sense, that was good.

733
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:46,000
Not that we want to deprive anybody of money if the ball was worth that much,

734
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:51,000
but we were quite concerned about the possibility of near-riots,

735
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:57,000
people fighting each other in the less field stands for what apparently is a valuable piece of merchandise.

736
01:05:57,000 --> 01:06:02,000
It never got to the stands and it saved, I think, a lot of possible injuries.

737
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:05,000
The fixed it to Raleigh's low, one ball and one strike.

738
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:12,000
Mike Marshall in the lead for Val Downing.

739
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,000
A 3-3 tie on the fourth.

740
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,000
Henry Aaron has done it.

741
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:21,000
He hit a 2-run homer and a tie against Downing here in the fourth inning.

742
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:29,000
And then, perhaps bothered by that, Val Downing, Warf Baker, and Johnson.

743
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:32,000
Marshall to his stretch, checks the runnys and delivers.

744
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,000
Fastball followed away.

745
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,000
That carries upstairs behind the plate.

746
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:40,000
One and two.

747
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:47,000
Now for the third, it lands down below.

748
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,000
It will be interesting as years go by that they're defending tonight

749
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:56,000
and how many people will have claimed to have been here tonight.

750
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:01,000
But there will be millions who have seen it on television

751
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,000
and countless millions more on newscasts.

752
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:07,000
The pitch is high ball two.

753
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:15,000
In checking, just as their footnote, Tommy House was the one who gave it to Henry Aaron.

754
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:20,000
Where they sure got that ball to him in a hurry.

755
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:26,000
His arm was around his father and Tommy House had the ball.

756
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,000
When he beat us, we caught a phone call.

757
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:34,000
A couple of the Braves tried to pick him up, but they were two of the smaller Braves

758
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:36,000
and they couldn't get him off the ground with all the crowd.

759
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,000
So they finally gave it up as a tough assignment.

760
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,000
Then Aaron walked away.

761
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:45,000
Two and two, the count. Marshall ready and delivers.

762
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:51,000
Very high ball three.

763
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:55,000
Three and two, the count.

764
01:07:55,000 --> 01:08:13,000
Two on and nobody out. A three-three tie in the fourth inning.

765
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:17,000
Mike Marshall checked in with Joe Ferguson.

766
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:22,000
Now the right end is three-two fastball as it fouls outside of third.

767
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:26,000
So it's tied again. Three-three in the fourth.

768
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:30,000
A cool night in Atlanta. A pretty stiff breeze blowing out.

769
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,000
The threat of a tornado was finally canceled.

770
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,000
We've had some rain.

771
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,000
And remember the ballgame is not official yet.

772
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:42,000
It would be a terrible thing, but it's not.

773
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:47,000
The roll is followed by Craig Robinson and then Ron Reese.

774
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:52,000
Marshall checking, Mike deal fastball and a hit down the left.

775
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:56,000
Russell drops it. Everybody's face, figure and stride.

776
01:08:56,000 --> 01:09:00,000
Johnson a second and holding it for Sorrell.

777
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:05,000
I don't know where the Dodgers are taking up over Aaron's home run or what,

778
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:09,000
but Russell dropped a perfect throw to start a double play.

779
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:17,000
And the bases are loaded with nobody out.

780
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:19,000
The bases are loaded and nobody out.

781
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:24,000
Marshall did his job. He got a perfect double play ball.

782
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:27,000
But instead the Dodgers could not negotiate it.

783
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,000
So the bases are loaded with nobody out.

784
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:34,000
Craig Robinson, the shortstop, got all the way to home plate

785
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:39,000
and he's been pulled back to the dugout and that's a road trip here.

786
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:45,000
And they're going to go for a hitter, I believe, to try and get out in front.

787
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:49,000
Frank Cepedino, left-hand hitting first baseman who had been with the Yankees,

788
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:57,000
who's going to come up in bat for Craig Robinson.

789
01:09:57,000 --> 01:10:02,000
So with the bases loaded and nobody out, the Dodgers blowing a big opportunity

790
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:05,000
and now Eddie Matthews doesn't want to blow it,

791
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:17,000
he'll send up a better hitter trying to catch it in.

792
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:22,000
So Frank Cepedino, Cepedino did well against the Dodgers last year.

793
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:26,000
He's all for one, started this young season.

794
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:31,000
Three-three-five, three runs, four hits.

795
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:38,000
The Dodgers have played poorly in the field.

796
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,000
We're seeing how the Braves can catch it in.

797
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:49,000
The Dodgers tried with four areas up the hill.

798
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:56,000
The Dodgers have committed the errors, Buckner and Clay, and two by Russell.

799
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:09,000
One of the errors, by Russell, was understandably slipped in the rain on the grass.

800
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:15,000
All right, Mike Marshall, gets off the mound, looks out at Davey Lopes, then to Ron Say.

801
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:20,000
Say is up, Garvey is up, Lopes and Russell are back.

802
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:27,000
The outfield, Frank Cepedino to pull, and Marshall ready to go to work with it.

803
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:34,000
A three-three tie and the Dodgers are in trouble here in the fourth.

804
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:48,000
The first pitch low and inside, ball one, one and oh.

805
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:57,000
On the count of Cepedino, make it Johnson and Carell out on the line.

806
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:01,000
Marshall plants the right foot on the rubber, he's pitching out of the stretch.

807
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:08,000
They are passing out pictures of Henry Aron to the crowd with the cryptic number 715.

808
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:26,000
Cepedino excites on the count of one and one.

809
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:28,000
One ball, one spike.

810
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:35,000
A three-three tie in the fourth on what is turning out to be a cold night in Atlanta.

811
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:38,000
They're armed as he was in Montreal.

812
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:45,000
That's about one-one pitches in the dirt, ball two, two and one.

813
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:48,000
The Graves have received four awards.

814
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:52,000
The Dodgers have committed four errors.

815
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:59,000
The Dodgers are fortunate that this ballgame is not out of sight, should it be even.

816
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:06,000
The Reddites are all attributed to the Henry Aron night.

817
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,000
Two and one, the count of Cepedino.

818
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:20,000
Marshall ready and Mike Beals, whoa, ball three.

819
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:25,000
Marshall turns his back on a home plate, thinking over things.

820
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:33,000
The infield of Garvey and Lopes, Russell and Say, and the outfield, Buckner, Wynn and Crumper.

821
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:38,000
Not only did the other take the Braves out of a two-out situation,

822
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:44,000
it also puts a much better hitter up at the plate, so that is indeed a damaging one.

823
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:51,000
Ferguson has to pick up a piece of paper in front of home plate.

824
01:13:51,000 --> 01:14:12,000
Three and one, the count. Three, three, five, bottom of the board, the Braves have loaded the bases.

825
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,000
Well, the parable is experiencing some difficulties,

826
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:21,000
and I can tell you for the first time, honestly being the best policy, that this is a problem here at AFRTF.

827
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:26,000
I can hear the incoming heat from my head jet, but you're not getting it somehow,

828
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,000
so it's very possible you're not going to be hearing me.

829
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:33,000
But anyway, if that is the case, our engineer Ralph Walters is trying to figure it out.

830
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:41,000
He says he's got to take it care of, so let's get back to the ballgame.

831
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:45,000
Our show looks to pure Ferguson, now Mike Ruddy.

832
01:14:45,000 --> 01:14:52,000
One, two, three, fastball filed away, our first base out of play.

833
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:59,000
Look, Joe, one and two.

834
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:04,000
Four to three, Atlanta, here in the bottom of the fourth inning.

835
01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:08,000
And Aaron has stolen the show, no matter what the outcome of this one.

836
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:12,000
Headlines across the country, Henry has done it.

837
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:14,000
One and two, the count to Ron Reeves.

838
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:21,000
I shall deliver, screwball, whiffed at Russia, and the NTFI will be called by Sue Dale.

839
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:28,000
Far away.

840
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,000
That brings up Ralph Gar.

841
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:35,000
Almost impossible to double up Gar.

842
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:39,000
He's back to the box and was aboard on an error.

843
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:48,000
There was four to three, Atlanta, here in the fourth inning.

844
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:51,000
And Gar waiting at the plate.

845
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,000
Base is loaded, one away.

846
01:15:54,000 --> 01:16:01,000
And Gar, left-hand batter, checks in with Ron Faye on the grass at third.

847
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:06,000
Marshall's taking a lot of time, he should be out of the inning.

848
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:11,000
Mike deals and he's high and outside with it, 4-1.

849
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:18,000
He did his job, he got the batter to hit into a double play, and the Dodgers missed it.

850
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:28,000
So it's four to three, Atlanta, and they're still swinging here in the fourth inning.

851
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,000
Marshall checking, Gar waiting, now Mike's ready.

852
01:16:32,000 --> 01:16:39,000
One-oh-fix, fastball, flung out and missed in the count of one and one.

853
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:45,000
The old story is pretty high to do it on one-fix in the big leagues, and so Marshall's known for his screwball,

854
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:53,000
but every now and then he shoots that express in the count of one and one.

855
01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:58,000
Johnson, Corral, and Temadino all out on the line.

856
01:16:58,000 --> 01:17:15,000
Ralph Gar trying to pick somebody up, and another left-hand hitter on deck, Mike Worms.

857
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:21,000
The one-one-fix is right to left field, that's where another corner makes the catch.

858
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:33,000
Johnson flags and comes home, and it's five to three, Atlanta.

859
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:37,000
David Johnson carries it home.

860
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:45,000
That run is charged to Downing, and you can close the book on Al.

861
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:49,000
He went three innings and lost five runs.

862
01:17:49,000 --> 01:18:00,000
But one of them, one of the most dramatic hits in all of the game history at baseball, the home run by Henry Ahn.

863
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:07,000
Here's Mike Lumb with two on, two out, four runs over, five through Atlanta.

864
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:11,000
Marshall ready, Mike Dio screwball, flung out and missed on one.

865
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:20,000
I tell you, I'm extremely thankful that Aaron hit it tonight. The over 200 writers who were here,

866
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:28,000
they were dreading the thought, especially Dodger writers, that Aaron might do it on a getaway night.

867
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:32,000
But now they've got plenty of time.

868
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:38,000
The one-one to count to Mike Lumb. Marshall's ball is hit back to Mike.

869
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:46,000
And it's a great job in relief, but the Dodgers play poorly and they surrender four runs on one hit.

870
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:52,000
And one on Ovation in left field when Henry Ahn goes jogging out there again.

871
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:57,000
The score at the end of the four, Atlanta five and the Dodgers three.

872
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:05,000
The fifth inning here in Atlanta, the Braves are leading five to three, and a few people are going home.

873
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:11,000
They have seen what they came to see, and as we told you, it's cold and we bet you'll rain.

874
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:19,000
And for some folks, maybe, okay, we've seen enough time, but the majority of the six are out standing right here.

875
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:22,000
The game is the thing and it is hard to play Atlanta.

876
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:28,000
And the party players have taken over a short stop for Craig Robinson.

877
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:46,000
Well, I bet the temperature dropped 20 degrees from just before the start of the game to now.

878
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:54,000
And giving the statistics on Al Downing, the voice on the PA system in the first box,

879
01:19:54,000 --> 01:20:12,000
Al Downing three innings, five runs, two at four, four, and then two strikeouts and the home run.

880
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:28,000
The fifth inning, the Dodgers five, Dodgers three, Bill Russell has had a rough night,

881
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:43,000
and it'll be Mike Michael, and after Michael, Davey Lopes. Russell swings, doesn't get it, on one.

882
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:50,000
On one to count, back comes Ron Reed and is a high chopper to shortstop.

883
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:53,000
Perez clubs it and throws the first of the outs.

884
01:20:53,000 --> 01:21:02,000
And time to cover the Aaron story for you. We had Downing introduced before the game as to how he would feel

885
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:06,000
and what it would be like and what he would do if and when Aaron hits the home run.

886
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:12,000
And he did exactly what he said. He was going to go in the dugout and sit down and watch the sound on him.

887
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:19,000
Then we have a quote now from Downing as to how it feels in reality now that it has been hit,

888
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:26,000
now that you're all alone in the clubhouse, now that your ballgame has gone down the drain, and here's what he said.

889
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:52,000
I was really 715 for them. I rubbed kind of a pitch through it. I was fast forwarded. I kind of got a down for him, but I didn't get it down and maybe he didn't. I gave it a go.

890
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:59,000
I was trying to get the ball up, but then he hit me. He didn't bother me though.

891
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:05,000
He pitched out and hit you to him in the second inning and then of course two pitches in the fourth inning when he hit the home run.

892
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:12,000
And actually just as he did on the number 714, he hit this one on the first time he swung his bat.

893
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:19,000
Well, I agree with him. He kicked his kick and he's pretty sure that's the pitch he hit before and it seems like he's going to hit it pretty good.

894
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,000
When did you think it was out?

895
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:27,000
Well, when he first did, I didn't think it might be going because I was watching a win and I was watching Buckner.

896
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:32,000
So then the rest of the pitch, I think, I'm going to watch him when he gets the pitch. I knew it was going in.

897
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:39,000
Well, that's Al Downing talking about the other end, the other side of the coin of Henry Irons home run.

898
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:50,000
Russell Browned is short and Marshall Fowldowd and Davy Lopes up there, they count one ball in one side. Reed's fastball is high, ball two, two and one.

899
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:56,000
Brett Patterson, vice president of the Dodgers, thoughtfully went down and got those quotes and we appreciate it.

900
01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:59,000
Thank you very much. I know you do too.

901
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:03,000
Here's the 2-1 pitch to Davy Lopes and it's blown away.

902
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:13,000
Five to three in favor of Atlanta.

903
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:16,000
Three and one to count to Davy.

904
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:21,000
Ron Reed checking with Dick Correll and the right-hander's fastball is inside.

905
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:28,000
So a two-out walk to Davy Lopes and that brings up Bill Buckner.

906
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:38,000
Buckner was the one closest to the home run by Henry Irons and when the ball went out deep at the 385 side,

907
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:49,000
Buckner climbed the fence and he had his back to home plate as he got to the top of the fence desperately trying to catch it.

908
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:58,000
And every foot of that 390-foot home run and every step around the infield, the pitch to Buckner to strike.

909
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:11,000
Oh and one. Oh and one to Bill Buckner.

910
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:16,000
Buckner waiting, now Reed at the bell, looks at Lopes who bluffs and Buckner hits it into right heel.

911
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:21,000
That's going to be a base hit. Over to get at his jaw, Lopes moves into Byrd.

912
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:50,000
So with two out, a walk and a base hit and Dodgers are at first and third and the batter is Jimmy Winn.

913
01:24:50,000 --> 01:25:09,000
Winn waiting and the fastball is fouled back. Oh and one to count.

914
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:31,000
Oh and one to count to Jimmy Winn. Reed at the bell, Ron delivers and Winn takes the strike.

915
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:50,000
The strike two pitch, one on and fouled away. Jimmy Winn battling Ron Reed. Oh and two to count.

916
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:58,000
Oh and two to count to Jimmy Winn. Reed checking, straightens up.

917
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:05,000
And the strike two pitch on the way is a poker back over the mound down to Davey Johnson who steps on the bag to force Buckner.

918
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:10,000
No run to hit, two left and at the end of four and a half, Atlanta five, Dodgers three.

919
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:17,000
Okay, Joe, I was just listening to the PA system getting more notes on Henry Aaron's home run.

920
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:27,000
Mike Marshall into the wind up and the pitch is a strike. Oh and one to Dusty Baker.

921
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:36,000
They were saying the ball had a certain series of numbers on it so there would be no fooling around once it was hit.

922
01:26:36,000 --> 01:26:43,000
And if I heard him right it was 12-12-2-2 marked on the ball.

923
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:47,000
Five to three in total of Atlanta.

924
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:57,000
Dyle Evans, Henry Aaron, Dusty Baker in that order. Evans grounded out and it was a board on the eye. He takes a change, fair blow.

925
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:05,000
And the count one and two.

926
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:09,000
One and two to count to Dyle Evans.

927
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:18,000
And a screwball is popped in here into right field. Davey Lopes backs out, falling all the while and makes the catch. One away.

928
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:25,000
And here is Henry Aaron for the third time tonight, a standing ovation.

929
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:31,000
The third time during the game he had a standing ovation in the pregame ceremony.

930
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:34,000
He had another standing ovation after he hit the home run.

931
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:43,000
So he leads the league in standing ovations. He's had five standing ovations in five innings.

932
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:47,000
The winner is at the plate.

933
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:52,000
Mike Marco hooks in to Joe Ferguson to get a sign.

934
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:59,000
Mike's fair arm scratches up the dirt in front of the rubber then on the rubber. Aaron gets in.

935
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:06,000
There are so many pictures that are marked indelibly in my mind now, back tonight.

936
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,000
Two ball, first like on one.

937
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:13,000
First it was Dan really hitting it. It wasn't a fly ball home run, he really crushed it.

938
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:18,000
Secondly, the Dodger is shaking his hand as he ran around the infield.

939
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:23,000
Fastball to one hopper to stay. Ron has it and throws it out.

940
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:29,000
And then I guess the thing I'll never forget, Aaron's father standing at home plate.

941
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:38,000
An edge in the five. And the father, who had to work so hard and get so little to support his children.

942
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:45,000
And then his mother throwing her arms around his neck, kissing him for all she was worth.

943
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:50,000
I think that was it. That's the scene I remember more than anything else.

944
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:53,000
Hold on a moment.

945
01:28:53,000 --> 01:29:09,000
Mike Marco just flung out on this on one.

946
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:28,000
Marshall back with a screwball, squirted foul off first and the count on two.

947
01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:34,000
Oh and two, the count to Dusty Baker.

948
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:43,000
Marshall hands it his side, checking Ferguson. Now Mike into the wind up and the strike two-thirt, the fastball over strike three-fourth.

949
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:50,000
Marshall has turned in a tremendous job in relief, undermined by the Dodger lapse in defense.

950
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:57,000
And the Braves are out in order in the fifth. And at the end of five, at Lattifive and the Dodgers three.

951
01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:07,000
At the end of five, as the Braves five runs on two hits, the home run, a jury, one of those two hits, the home run by Henry Aaron.

952
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:15,000
For the Dodgers three runs, five hits and four errors.

953
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:27,000
For the Dodgers, Joe Ferguson, Willie Crawford and Ron Frey.

954
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:33,000
Reed both feet on the rubber now and the big guy from LaForte, Indiana, ready to go to work for Ferguson.

955
01:30:33,000 --> 01:30:43,000
And the fastball is high, ball one, one to no.

956
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:51,000
Reed comes back to the plate and it's fouled over the screen into the lower deck. One and one.

957
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:59,000
We've mentioned the weather here in Atlanta. It is very cold. It had rain so it's damp and the wind is carrying a bit of a knife.

958
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:04,000
So a lot of folks have taken off. It's a Monday night. They're going home.

959
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:14,000
The one-one pitch is about to hit down to Marty Perez. The short shot has it and throws out Ferguson. One away.

960
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:24,000
But they saw what they came to see and that makes it quite a night.

961
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:34,000
One down and Willie Crawford's a batter. Ground is enjoyed and struck out.

962
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:42,000
Reed ready and delivers. Fastball, line drive and a fouling catch by Perez but it goes off his glove when he hits the ground.

963
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:49,000
And Crawford is aboard with the base hit. A fine diving attempt for Perez but he couldn't hold it.

964
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:57,000
Crawford aboard and that'll bring up Ron Sey.

965
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:01,000
Ron Sey is back to the box and flies a challenge.

966
01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:07,000
Jerry, I'm just wondering, what are you going to try to do for the post-game show, do you think?

967
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:12,000
We're going to have a press conference with Henry Head and the Hulmer of the Suburbs side near the base.

968
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:22,000
We'll go there and hopefully we can bring at least part of that press conference. There'll be several hundred writers in the room asking questions.

969
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:26,000
We'll do that as much of it as we can. We might let the folks here.

970
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:29,000
I'll use the Scrabble Hulmer and we'll have a little bit around the post-game show.

971
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:34,000
But I think mainly we'll be in the clubhouse and listen to what Henry has to say and answer the questions.

972
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:38,000
That's great. We'll all look forward to that for sure.

973
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:46,000
Crawford now at second as the pitch gets away and Sey takes a breaking ball low.

974
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:54,000
A one-out single wild pitch. Crawford at second. Q&O to counter Ron Sey and it's 5-3 Atlanta.

975
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:58,000
We're lifting the top of the sixth inning.

976
01:32:58,000 --> 01:33:04,000
Reed ready and delivers and there's a half-flame, Crawford back to second base and into center field.

977
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:09,000
Crawford scores and Sey shuts this fling and drives in a run.

978
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:14,000
So for Ronny, things are going just fine. That's his eighth-high B-I.

979
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:19,000
The Dodgers are close now. It's Atlanta five and the Dodgers four.

980
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:22,000
And Nevada will be Steve Garvey.

981
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:37,000
So five-four Atlanta. And here's Garvey infield single and fouled out.

982
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:41,000
Reed ready and delivers. Steve takes low, ball one.

983
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:46,000
The Braves are going to get somebody up on the bullpen. They take the tie ball.

984
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:56,000
One and all to count. Reed ready, checks and delivers. Change is just outside.

985
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,000
Ball two, two and all.

986
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:03,000
This story is not over, not by a long shot.

987
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:09,000
First of all, in order for Aaron's own run to count, it has to be an official game.

988
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:16,000
Can't have an outcome to it. The Vig is flung on a miss. Two and one.

989
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:24,000
And we're in the sixth inning and the Braves are leading five to four.

990
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:27,000
Reed straightens up now, set of the bell. Looks to Sey and delivers.

991
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:33,000
Fastball grounded to third. Jai Levin has it. Down to second for Forest and Etterol.

992
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:36,000
Sey going in hard to tie up Baby Johnson.

993
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:40,000
And to pass the station identification, this is the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network.

994
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:44,000
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.

995
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:58,000
Here's Bill Russell. Russell has it double and grounded out.

996
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:02,000
He's got a rough night in the field, committing two errors, and one of them,

997
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:06,000
Bill Gibbs of Braves, four runs.

998
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:12,000
So Downing was very unlucky tonight. He got no support whatsoever.

999
01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:17,000
Reed, a checker first, and delivers. And the Vig is popped out, back of the plate.

1000
01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:20,000
Carrillo comes back to the backstop screen.

1001
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:23,000
And he can't get it. It's on the other side of the screen.

1002
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:29,000
On one, the count to Bill Russell.

1003
01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:34,000
Danny Forsyth drawing in the Atlanta Bullpen.

1004
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:40,000
X-Mets.

1005
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:47,000
Well, Capra was recently sold from New York to the Mets.

1006
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:52,000
The Vig filed away on two. In fact, there was a note in the papers,

1007
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:59,000
the Mets and the Braves have been involved in something like 24 deals.

1008
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:02,000
24 deals.

1009
01:36:02,000 --> 01:36:09,000
Most recently, the sale of Capra.

1010
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:13,000
Reed, ready, delivers. Fastball, bounce down to Davey Johnson.

1011
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:15,000
Davey has it, goes to first, that'll do it.

1012
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:18,000
The Dodgers are over to get a run on a couple of hits.

1013
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:23,000
The Braves lead the game to 5-1-1 and the Braves 5, Dodgers 4.

1014
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:28,000
Bottom of the sixth inning, the Braves leading the Dodgers 5 to 4.

1015
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:32,000
Mike Marshall and the Leafs starting pitcher, Al Downing.

1016
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:37,000
The headline story, of course, for Henry Irons home run with the man on board in the fourth inning,

1017
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:41,000
number 715, to equip the base.

1018
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:45,000
And now the ball game itself is of great interest.

1019
01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:52,000
Mike Marshall waiting for a Leafs baseball to be retrieved by Willie Crapper.

1020
01:36:52,000 --> 01:37:02,000
Dave Johnson, Vic Carell and Marty Perez in that order.

1021
01:37:02,000 --> 01:37:11,000
Marshall up on top, Jill Ferguson with dragging signs out and Davey Johnson waiting.

1022
01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:15,000
Right hand to the windup and the right hand is first pitch.

1023
01:37:15,000 --> 01:37:28,000
Two ball punted, off to the right and foul, 1-1.

1024
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:35,000
1-1 to count.

1025
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:39,000
The ball's in one's sight.

1026
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:41,000
Joe, reading Ferguson.

1027
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:44,000
Now Mike into the windup and the strike one pitch on the way.

1028
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:48,000
Screwball far back up there, knocked down with a throw by Schell.

1029
01:37:48,000 --> 01:37:50,000
It's trickled through into the field.

1030
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:53,000
Johnson holding with a single.

1031
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:55,000
Received by Puckner.

1032
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:59,000
So Davey Johnson singles off Faye's love.

1033
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:01,000
That was a solid base.

1034
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:05,000
It's safe to say it would have made a fine play to get him.

1035
01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:09,000
Nevada would be Vic Carell a catcher.

1036
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:13,000
We're waiting for Carell, Marty Perez down the on deck circle.

1037
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:37,000
They have a...

1038
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:47,000
Catcher Vic Carell coming up.

1039
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:52,000
Mike Marshall waiting for Ferguson to settle in a crouch behind the plate.

1040
01:38:52,000 --> 01:38:55,000
Carell's fall, it's right hand battered.

1041
01:38:55,000 --> 01:38:59,000
Marshall will look over at Davey Johnson.

1042
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:04,000
Oswell, Atlanta in the bottom of the sixth inning.

1043
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:08,000
Marshall ready to let a screwball probably to say he jumped as it picked it up.

1044
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:14,000
There's the red for a 4-hundred in the Dodgers' next-up and every other is a double play ball.

1045
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:16,000
So they are really having the kidders tonight.

1046
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:20,000
Maybe because of the Aaron influence, but whatever.

1047
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:28,000
Their inability to make a play, plus their four errors have contributed heavily to the Atlanta 5-way lead.

1048
01:39:28,000 --> 01:39:31,000
That was another double play ball.

1049
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:35,000
So Marshall must be wondering about their defense on this club.

1050
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:37,000
He's got everything imaginable.

1051
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:40,000
The Dodgers just can't get him out for him.

1052
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:45,000
Just Perez.

1053
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:47,000
Marshall at the bell and Mike delivers.

1054
01:39:47,000 --> 01:39:55,000
Screwball, exercise, 0-1.

1055
01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:58,000
Marshall is due up first when the Dodgers hit in the seventh.

1056
01:39:58,000 --> 01:40:09,000
So to get ready for that, a possible hitter, Charlie Huff, saw a knuckleball in the Dodger bullpen.

1057
01:40:09,000 --> 01:40:12,000
Marshall checking. Ferguson hangs out of time.

1058
01:40:12,000 --> 01:40:19,000
And Mike delivers. Screwball low, 1-1.

1059
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:22,000
Well, the refs in great faith in Marshall, but also faith in his bullpen,

1060
01:40:22,000 --> 01:40:24,000
because it was kind of early when you think about it.

1061
01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:34,000
You think of Marshall as a defender, but he came into the game in the fourth inning.

1062
01:40:34,000 --> 01:40:38,000
Mike checking with Ferguson. Marty Perez waiting. Ron Reid on deck.

1063
01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:53,000
Marshall, screwball in the dirt. 2-1.

1064
01:40:53,000 --> 01:40:57,000
Marshall straddling the rubber.

1065
01:40:57,000 --> 01:41:02,000
Turn's on, looks over to Perez.

1066
01:41:02,000 --> 01:41:03,000
Mike ready.

1067
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:07,000
The 2-1 pitch is lined right through it for a face-off,

1068
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:09,000
so often ever to get it.

1069
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:12,000
The second and going to third is Terrell.

1070
01:41:12,000 --> 01:41:16,000
And so, because they missed the double play, the Dodgers are in trouble again.

1071
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:20,000
First and third with one out.

1072
01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:22,000
And the batter will be Ron Reid.

1073
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:31,000
Terrell may be a hitter, because Reid has been called away by Eddie Matthews.

1074
01:41:31,000 --> 01:41:35,000
So a base hit to put Ron as his first and third.

1075
01:41:35,000 --> 01:41:39,000
Here in the inning, Johnson's single. Terrell had a double play ball to save,

1076
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:43,000
but Ron was handcuffed and then could only get a fourth.

1077
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:51,000
Now a base hit by Perez, and evidently will have a hitter for Marty Perez, for Ron Reid.

1078
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:56,000
Could be Johnny Oaks, the left-hand hitting catcher.

1079
01:41:56,000 --> 01:42:00,000
And we're waiting. Dave Davidson, a playoff player, walking over near the Atlanta dugout,

1080
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:03,000
and just say, come on now, it's cold out here.

1081
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:08,000
Dave was a wise man, he's wearing a turtleneck.

1082
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:19,000
Les Capra is now throwing in the Atlanta bullpen instead of Danny Purcell.

1083
01:42:19,000 --> 01:42:27,000
And Johnny Oaks, the left-hand hitting catcher, is coming up to hit for Reid.

1084
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:31,000
So each time the Dodgers make a mistake in the last couple of innings,

1085
01:42:31,000 --> 01:42:36,000
Matthews is not only grateful for the mistake, he's going to try and catch it in.

1086
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:39,000
So when Terrell hit a double play ball and Russell dropped it,

1087
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:45,000
he then batted for the Robinson with Cappadino, who walked a fourth over a run.

1088
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:49,000
Terrell saved Mr. Double Play until he's going to try to catch that in,

1089
01:42:49,000 --> 01:42:56,000
and he has Johnny Oaks batting for Ron Reid.

1090
01:42:56,000 --> 01:43:04,000
So Reid went six innings, allowed four runs, seven hits,

1091
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:07,000
and he can be the winning pitcher,

1092
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:13,000
as Capra has been throwing in the Atlanta bullpen along with Danny Purcell.

1093
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:19,000
So Johnny Oaks had the play.

1094
01:43:19,000 --> 01:43:26,000
Oaks is one for eight from that Cincinnati series.

1095
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:33,000
Mike Marshall ready to work to him.

1096
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:38,000
There's at first Terrell at third, the pitch to Oaks, five, four, one.

1097
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:44,000
The Dodgers have given a hard-hitting team enough work and have made enough errors

1098
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:47,000
for a hard-hitting team to knock them out of sight,

1099
01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:54,000
but they're still very much in the game, failing five, four.

1100
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:59,000
Mike Marshall ready for one-off, it's so fast for a left-to-ground ball to Russell.

1101
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:03,000
He's the 12th who juggles, but they get the out at second.

1102
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:09,000
The players are going to argue that Davey was never in possession of the ball,

1103
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:12,000
but Tudor is now indicating safe.

1104
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:15,000
He had called him out, but when the plays came out,

1105
01:44:15,000 --> 01:44:18,000
Eddie's entered, no, he's safe, he juggled it.

1106
01:44:18,000 --> 01:44:26,000
So Davey Lurch juggles the ball, and that's going to be five hours for the Dodgers.

1107
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:32,000
Oh, they are putting up a dreadful defense in this game tonight.

1108
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:38,000
So an E4 play gives the Braves another run, their leading six to four,

1109
01:44:38,000 --> 01:44:46,000
and with runners at first and second here is Ralph Gar.

1110
01:44:46,000 --> 01:44:58,000
So Mike Marshall, taking himself, it's cold enough to think he's pitching for Montreal on a bad year.

1111
01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:03,000
Ralph Gar, he's back to the box, a ball down an error and a fly-out.

1112
01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:08,000
This far ball has got a run long, so he's 0-2 with a run about at end.

1113
01:45:08,000 --> 01:45:13,000
Five Dodger errors. That would be a high or a low, I guess.

1114
01:45:13,000 --> 01:45:18,000
See how many they made in one game last year, six.

1115
01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:32,000
Marshall delivers a butt out of the box.

1116
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:48,000
They are really playing as if they're in shock, and that would be a fine way to play.

1117
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:57,000
So Gora butted, Ferguson had the angle to pick the ball up, and he just dropped it, although they have not classed it.

1118
01:45:57,000 --> 01:46:06,000
That means a half a dozen errors to the Dodgers, whether they can get it all out tonight.

1119
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:10,000
And the batter is Mike Lom.

1120
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:16,000
So the Dodgers commit six errors. That's the high or the low they've ever had.

1121
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:22,000
Russell fields the ground ball and throws the first to get Lom, and the runners move up, and a run comes over.

1122
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:31,000
So the Dodgers keep making mistakes, and the Braves keep picking up the runs, and they're leading now as Monty Perez carries in a run.

1123
01:46:31,000 --> 01:46:41,000
So it's 7-4 in line.

1124
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:53,000
The game is just a batter, and Henry Garrett is on deck. So the Dodgers have committed six errors tonight.

1125
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:58,000
The Braves are leading 7-4.

1126
01:46:58,000 --> 01:47:03,000
And here's Dan Eleven, rounded out, a board on an aricotta.

1127
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:13,000
Fitz Goobel is left to sky, left bird, down the line, say in pursuit, makes the catch for the hour.

1128
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:24,000
In the sixth inning for Atlanta, they get two runs on two hits, and they were erred by Lopes and Bergen.

1129
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:33,000
At the end of sixth, grade seven, Dodgers forward to the sixth inning for Atlanta.

1130
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:40,000
Seven runs, four hits, one of the four hits, a historic home run by Henry Garrett with Atlanta Bulldogs.

1131
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:49,000
But the Dodgers throw those on eyebrow raising, four runs, seven hits, and six errors.

1132
01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:54,000
And here's Roy Capra, down in the Atlanta bulls.

1133
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:57,000
Seven innings, four playing, here's Jack.

1134
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:03,000
Five innings for the Dodgers, it'll be Von Joshua to replace Mike Wetzel, who worked three innings,

1135
01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:07,000
and Roy Mike was hidden picked up by, he goes, he picks up the bird.

1136
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:11,000
He got two runs, and two hits.

1137
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:20,000
And now, he's got only one ball to get out of the end field. That was a classified spot, a shallow left field by Rob Josh.

1138
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:25,000
I hear Capra coming on now to take over for Ron Reed.

1139
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:30,000
Capra, making his second appearance of the year, he has worked in one game, two thirds of an inning,

1140
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:33,000
gave up a run to lose the game.

1141
01:48:33,000 --> 01:48:36,000
Henry Garrett is still in the game in the left field, in case you're wondering,

1142
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:40,000
and he has one more bat he'll be batting in the bottom of the seventh inning.

1143
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:44,000
Here is Von Joshua now, the Dodgers have had a cast yet.

1144
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:47,000
They have not been behind much this year, even in the spring games,

1145
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:54,000
but now they find themselves three down after gifting two more runs to the Braves.

1146
01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:59,000
Actually, all of the runs the Braves have scored are painted except for the one run.

1147
01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:03,000
That was the only clean run they have scored.

1148
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:09,000
The first run was unearned, and in that fourth inning there were a couple of unheard runs.

1149
01:49:09,000 --> 01:49:13,000
The Braves were 20,000 away strike one.

1150
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:21,000
Two more. Here is Joshua Williams, Murray Capra, second time.

1151
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:27,000
Time called now, he's going to the mound to have a cup.

1152
01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:31,000
Got your Vic Correll visiting with Capra on the mound.

1153
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:38,000
Capra is not in the Braves front guy, he was just recently obtained from the New York Mets.

1154
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:48,000
Now the Gubrin's home kind of kept on the field, and some of the civilians here are taking him off.

1155
01:49:48,000 --> 01:49:53,000
They had a few run on the field there today.

1156
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:57,000
This fellow didn't want to leave, and he's getting a couple on season now.

1157
01:49:57,000 --> 01:50:00,000
He's getting us going around the ballpark down in the right field corner.

1158
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:08,000
A 7-4 Braves lead on a wild and windy night in Atlanta and a historic night in baseball victory.

1159
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:16,000
Lee Lacey is out on deck, he was back for maybe much for that.

1160
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:26,000
Joshua is up batting now for Marshall, but Lee Lacey comes out on deck.

1161
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:30,000
7-4 the score.

1162
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:38,000
Time is short for the moment, while we wait for the plan to be escorted up into the park corner in right field.

1163
01:50:38,000 --> 01:50:42,000
Charlie Heff is still throwing in the Dodger pass line down in right field.

1164
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:46,000
Here's Capra, 50-0 Joshua, come on in this, strike two.

1165
01:50:46,000 --> 01:50:52,000
O-N-T is a count.

1166
01:50:52,000 --> 01:50:57,000
Here's the strike, the Dodger who's the Dodger leading middle and spring.

1167
01:50:57,000 --> 01:50:59,000
Now Capra ready to deliver.

1168
01:50:59,000 --> 01:51:08,000
Come on in, this is like a little breaking ball and down goes Joshua.

1169
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:11,000
That's one away, and the batter now will be David Lacey.

1170
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:14,000
David Lacey was up bat, it'll be Lee Lacey instead.

1171
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:20,000
So Lacey's going to get to finish up the game, batting here in the 7th inning.

1172
01:51:20,000 --> 01:51:26,000
Lacey steps in, Lee on the year has not had an attack.

1173
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:32,000
Buckler is on deck and the Dodgers are down, 7-4, but they have really kicked this one away literally.

1174
01:51:32,000 --> 01:51:37,000
They have given up a chance for the Braves.

1175
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:41,000
Now the pitch on the way, breaking ball long.

1176
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:44,000
The Braves have seven runs, they should have only one.

1177
01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:48,000
But that's part of the game, the air is out of all of it.

1178
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:53,000
Lacey, a half-frame foul out of play with Tim, but that pitch from the Capdota 1-1.

1179
01:51:53,000 --> 01:52:01,000
One bar, one strike, Lee Lacey the batter.

1180
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:05,000
I'm sure you'll hear the remarks from Henry Aaron himself.

1181
01:52:05,000 --> 01:52:07,000
He'll be in the locker room.

1182
01:52:07,000 --> 01:52:12,000
When Henry's interview's following the game, it'll be a mass interview, a press conference thing.

1183
01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:16,000
We'll be there to pick up his remarks for you.

1184
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:19,000
Here's the 1-1 pitch on the way.

1185
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:22,000
Lacey takes a third strike out of those 1 and 2.

1186
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:26,000
Kapper comes over from the net.

1187
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:31,000
For Scheller, he's far from the Braves' booth and they're trying to sure hit the bullpen a bit.

1188
01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:37,000
Lacey takes a back ball down low, a ball 2 and a third even to 2 and 2.

1189
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:43,000
Two-ball soup strikes with one out and nobody on, the Braves leading 7-4 here in Atlanta.

1190
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:47,000
Come on, I've done something that goes against Kyle and Murphy.

1191
01:52:47,000 --> 01:52:51,000
Half of the crowd is gone.

1192
01:52:51,000 --> 01:52:53,000
Over half, I would say.

1193
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:55,000
Now the pitch on the way.

1194
01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:59,000
That's bring second, ball three, 3 and 2.

1195
01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:04,000
Both go through in the upper stands in the outfield.

1196
01:53:04,000 --> 01:53:06,000
Most of it all gone.

1197
01:53:06,000 --> 01:53:09,000
There are a few remaining in the lower stands in the outfield.

1198
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:13,000
Quite a good gathering in the home plate area.

1199
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:15,000
Lacey, Kyle's up and back to the line.

1200
01:53:15,000 --> 01:53:19,000
The count is still 3 and 2 to leave.

1201
01:53:19,000 --> 01:53:21,000
They had a great turnout.

1202
01:53:21,000 --> 01:53:23,000
They were just over 50,000.

1203
01:53:23,000 --> 01:53:28,000
They have not announced the paid attendance as yet.

1204
01:53:28,000 --> 01:53:33,000
They do not have a big advance goal for tomorrow night considering the occasion.

1205
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:35,000
Here's the 3-2 pitch.

1206
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:39,000
That's 3-4. Lacey is far out on set.

1207
01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:42,000
Strikeout number 2 for Capra.

1208
01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:45,000
And the battle will be Bill Buckner.

1209
01:53:45,000 --> 01:53:47,000
Buckner is 1-3.

1210
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:52,000
Jerry, we just heard that when the news reached Washington, D.C.,

1211
01:53:52,000 --> 01:53:56,000
President Nixon put in a call to talk to Henry Aaron.

1212
01:53:56,000 --> 01:53:59,000
Aaron, at the moment of the call, was in the outfield.

1213
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:01,000
So they said they would call back.

1214
01:54:01,000 --> 01:54:05,000
When Aaron did come in, they replaced the call in the clubhouse.

1215
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:07,000
Aaron talked to the President.

1216
01:54:07,000 --> 01:54:09,000
He congratulated.

1217
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:12,000
And it's just another note on our number of leaving.

1218
01:54:12,000 --> 01:54:13,000
Fine, Vinnie.

1219
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:14,000
And here's the attendance.

1220
01:54:14,000 --> 01:54:17,000
That should be a new record.

1221
01:54:17,000 --> 01:54:19,000
There's a flung-and-a-fall straight back.

1222
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:23,000
53,775 is the new all-time record there.

1223
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:27,000
So the Dodgers hold the top three cards now in the Atlanta Stadium.

1224
01:54:27,000 --> 01:54:30,000
We told you earlier about the other two that they had.

1225
01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:33,000
So this is the top card of all.

1226
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:36,000
And the Dodgers hold the top three.

1227
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:42,000
And, in fact, the other one was 52,270, then 51,275,

1228
01:54:42,000 --> 01:54:45,000
and another large Dodger got it, 47,000.

1229
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:49,000
So the President has congratulated Henry.

1230
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:57,000
And it's really an absurd occasion in baseball.

1231
01:54:57,000 --> 01:55:00,000
I tell you, that's been all through the wrong tile.

1232
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:02,000
Even last year, at the end of the year,

1233
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:05,000
when he was chasing the record and getting closer and closer,

1234
01:55:05,000 --> 01:55:08,000
Henry's conduct was superb.

1235
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:12,000
And he was a great gentleman about it and very cooperative with everybody.

1236
01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:14,000
Which comes outside the back of the ball,

1237
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:15,000
filled with the two-and-one shot.

1238
01:55:15,000 --> 01:55:19,000
I would imagine that Henry will bat in the bottom of the seven-point inning

1239
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:21,000
and then leave the game and go into the clubhouse

1240
01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:24,000
and wait for the first conference pass of the game.

1241
01:55:24,000 --> 01:55:25,000
Here's the pitch.

1242
01:55:25,000 --> 01:55:27,000
Three-and-one.

1243
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:42,000
Three-ball, one strike.

1244
01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:44,000
Three-one pitch on the way.

1245
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:51,000
And it's taken for a strike, but they're three and two.

1246
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:55,000
Three-ball, two strikes.

1247
01:55:55,000 --> 01:55:58,000
The others kept working here in the relief of Brown-Reade.

1248
01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:01,000
The Dodgers are down by three runs.

1249
01:56:01,000 --> 01:56:03,000
They played give-away here tonight.

1250
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:06,000
Down the pitch, taken low, and Buckner is on with the lock.

1251
01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:09,000
So Billy Buckner draws the lock.

1252
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:11,000
That's the first lock the Dodgers have received tonight.

1253
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:15,000
And it brings the Dodgy win with Joe Ferguson to follow.

1254
01:56:15,000 --> 01:56:18,000
Strong breeze from westward right.

1255
01:56:18,000 --> 01:56:22,000
He's got the wind at the end of the wind, and he hit it well.

1256
01:56:22,000 --> 01:56:25,000
It carried about 385 over the 385 mark,

1257
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:31,000
and the Dow downing said this was off the fastball.

1258
01:56:31,000 --> 01:56:33,000
The line called a moment to pick up some gray papers

1259
01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:37,000
that are blowing around on the open plate area.

1260
01:56:37,000 --> 01:56:38,000
And off the first and back.

1261
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:39,000
There's a pitch to win.

1262
01:56:39,000 --> 01:56:41,000
In the dirt, four-one.

1263
01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:44,000
Billy has a whole run of each game that he's played as a Dodger.

1264
01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:48,000
A great win is driven in. Two runs with a double to left field.

1265
01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:52,000
Big newspaper picked up by second base umpire, 82-ball.

1266
01:56:52,000 --> 01:56:54,000
A couple dribbled stuff to the pocket.

1267
01:56:54,000 --> 01:56:56,000
A one-all count.

1268
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:57,000
Pitch on the way.

1269
01:56:57,000 --> 01:57:00,000
Curve strikes a win in the 10-and-1.

1270
01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:04,000
The Dodgers gave away two more runs in the last half of the first inning,

1271
01:57:04,000 --> 01:57:06,000
and those were a vital run.

1272
01:57:06,000 --> 01:57:09,000
They were almost to catch up to the Braves until they gave those away

1273
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,000
and then fell back to three behind.

1274
01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:13,000
But now they've got a little more of a hill to climb.

1275
01:57:13,000 --> 01:57:18,000
If I count a ice skate, you take one step and flip down.

1276
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:23,000
Wins, takes the strikes on the inside corner, one-and-two to Jimmy.

1277
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:28,000
If the Dodgers lose tonight, that means the Giants are the only unbeaten team left.

1278
01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:32,000
The Giants won today. They beat the Reds four to three.

1279
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:37,000
The Reds are now two-and-two on the year.

1280
01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:39,000
A one-ball, two-strike count.

1281
01:57:39,000 --> 01:57:41,000
Here's the look in the pitch to win.

1282
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:44,000
Jimmy strikes out the five.

1283
01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:46,000
He ties to the Dodgers, and he's got the winning.

1284
01:57:46,000 --> 01:57:50,000
The Topper strikes out the five.

1285
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:52,000
The runs go into one more.

1286
01:57:52,000 --> 01:57:53,000
The Scorpions, a picture there.

1287
01:57:53,000 --> 01:57:58,000
The Dodgers, former and Atlanta, seven.

1288
01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:04,000
Well, as we told you, the Braves are focusing on Jimmy Scott many times.

1289
01:58:04,000 --> 01:58:10,000
He was entering, stepping in now.

1290
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:17,000
And Charlie Huff, into the lineup, and the knuckleball bounces away, ball away.

1291
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:23,000
Don Dysdale is the number one victim of all 50s of Henry Aaron.

1292
01:58:23,000 --> 01:58:28,000
Don yielded 17, while those teams, 13.

1293
01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:31,000
So Don dubbed him Bad Henry.

1294
01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:35,000
The swing winner of the knuckleball, one-and-one,

1295
01:58:35,000 --> 01:58:41,000
Danny Koufax, allowed seven.

1296
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:44,000
Davey Larkin's out of the lineup because of a strained back.

1297
01:58:44,000 --> 01:58:47,000
They were fecking on that, and that's the word that comes up now.

1298
01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:49,000
The one-one-sixth turn.

1299
01:58:49,000 --> 01:58:51,000
Well, and an up-strike, too.

1300
01:58:51,000 --> 01:58:55,000
Charlie Huff opens up another knuckleball, and Henry,

1301
01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:58,000
I would imagine, has had a relapse.

1302
01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:02,000
I would think that he would just have a letdown after all he's gone through,

1303
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:08,000
all this swing, time called out, he backs out.

1304
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:12,000
Can't help but have another big piece of newspaper come

1305
01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:20,000
mainly in front of the man, and Steve Garvey comes over to receive and pick it up.

1306
01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:25,000
First-rate coach Jim Busby will stuff that piece in his pocket.

1307
01:59:25,000 --> 01:59:28,000
We're certainly glad to be able to sit in on some baseball

1308
01:59:28,000 --> 01:59:30,000
and see the many shows we're on here.

1309
01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:35,000
We've been very fortunate to see several big records shattered.

1310
01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:39,000
Knuckleball will, I'll say, have more room than his big record-setting team.

1311
01:59:39,000 --> 01:59:45,000
Quite well, as he went through the man's time at the time in the late days of his career

1312
01:59:45,000 --> 01:59:47,000
as a Dodger a couple of years ago.

1313
01:59:47,000 --> 01:59:50,000
First, a great performance of the guys, Daly and Koufax.

1314
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:54,000
Knuckleball, top-score six, wrestles from back there to back.

1315
01:59:54,000 --> 01:59:58,000
Here he is on Dutchman Heron, and he's out on the ground ball to score.

1316
01:59:58,000 --> 02:00:01,000
And you've got today the Rovers going to come to the basketball.

1317
02:00:01,000 --> 02:00:03,000
This might be his last appearance here tonight.

1318
02:00:03,000 --> 02:00:05,000
Let's pause for station identification.

1319
02:00:05,000 --> 02:00:09,000
This is the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network.

1320
02:00:09,000 --> 02:00:14,000
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.

1321
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:26,000
Here is Jesse Baker, about a single walk and stretch out.

1322
02:00:26,000 --> 02:00:31,000
That's a ball of little ball, one ball and no strike.

1323
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:33,000
Bottom of the seventh inning.

1324
02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:40,000
I'm trying to think if there are any other records that might be

1325
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:46,000
obtainable here in the modern day of baseball, but I can't let them come to mind right now.

1326
02:00:46,000 --> 02:00:50,000
But I'm sure that there might be some more around.

1327
02:00:50,000 --> 02:00:57,000
Here is the two-horse pitcher on the left, back ball low, and his ball free is up to Baker.

1328
02:00:57,000 --> 02:01:00,000
But this was a big one.

1329
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:07,000
Way on the count.

1330
02:01:07,000 --> 02:01:12,000
Now the hand that went up on the pitch on the way.

1331
02:01:12,000 --> 02:01:15,000
Taking low ball for it, and Jesse Baker is on with a walk.

1332
02:01:15,000 --> 02:01:17,000
That's the first walk given up by the left.

1333
02:01:17,000 --> 02:01:20,000
Baseball, of course, is a secret tradition.

1334
02:01:20,000 --> 02:01:23,000
Down through the years.

1335
02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:29,000
The records have been very meaningful to the fans, as well as the performance on the field.

1336
02:01:29,000 --> 02:01:37,000
So the records are all part of it.

1337
02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:43,000
Here is Davey Johnson, is that an infield hit a walk and a fly out.

1338
02:01:43,000 --> 02:01:45,000
He's one for two to pitch today.

1339
02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:49,000
Another ball high, one ball and no strike.

1340
02:01:49,000 --> 02:01:55,000
The game is about two hours and a half along now, and we're in the bottom of the seventh inning here in Atlanta.

1341
02:01:55,000 --> 02:02:00,000
The rest of the kids and folks are still living in this chilly evening now.

1342
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:04,000
But after Henry's last attack, a lot of folks have to go high, high, and center field.

1343
02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:06,000
There's no runners there.

1344
02:02:06,000 --> 02:02:10,000
It's now late Sunday, and that was a good point to check it out.

1345
02:02:10,000 --> 02:02:19,000
A lot of folks waited for Henry to hit one more, and now they're beginning to wait for the exit.

1346
02:02:19,000 --> 02:02:26,000
Well, there's a new book out that's just been handed to us, the Pro Bowl hitter,

1347
02:02:26,000 --> 02:02:34,000
and the title is simply Aaron, by Henry Aaron, with Berman Bisher, fine sports writer here in Atlanta.

1348
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:39,000
So the autobiography of the greatest pro-run hitter of the modern era is out.

1349
02:02:39,000 --> 02:02:42,000
We have a nice copy of it here.

1350
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:49,000
Let's have Henry autograph that one for me.

1351
02:02:51,000 --> 02:02:56,000
All right, there are two outs.

1352
02:02:56,000 --> 02:03:00,000
Waiting as the catcher, Corral, takes the number ball for a strike.

1353
02:03:00,000 --> 02:03:08,000
Runner at first base, Dusty Baker.

1354
02:03:08,000 --> 02:03:13,000
Last throw to first, not in time, Charlie Hook.

1355
02:03:13,000 --> 02:03:18,000
Trying to keep the runner on bottom of the seventh, the break through seven to four.

1356
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:24,000
The Dodgers would like to spoil the party, but they've been playing a little loose out there tonight.

1357
02:03:24,000 --> 02:03:30,000
They're just playing a power tip back into the strike two, and catcher Rick Corral.

1358
02:03:30,000 --> 02:03:34,000
The Dodgers were 6-0 tonight.

1359
02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:39,000
That's five to the high of Lars Speer.

1360
02:03:39,000 --> 02:03:44,000
Rather than worry about four to the third tonight.

1361
02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:47,000
They just couldn't forget that.

1362
02:03:47,000 --> 02:03:50,000
Now again, Charlie Hust working, Corral waiting, catch on the way.

1363
02:03:50,000 --> 02:04:00,000
Knuckle ball high, one ball, two strikes.

1364
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:07,000
A one and two count.

1365
02:04:07,000 --> 02:04:21,000
Now, a four to first, not in time.

1366
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:24,000
One and two again.

1367
02:04:24,000 --> 02:04:27,000
There's a five ball in the right field coming up to Crawford.

1368
02:04:27,000 --> 02:04:30,000
A catch to the outfield tower of the side.

1369
02:04:30,000 --> 02:04:32,000
So they're all going in the seventh.

1370
02:04:32,000 --> 02:04:36,000
Runner in the front, and one left on the floor at the end of seventh.

1371
02:04:36,000 --> 02:04:41,000
Atlanta seven and the Dodgers have four.

1372
02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:43,000
We have a couple of changes for the break.

1373
02:04:43,000 --> 02:04:45,000
Leo Foster takes over second.

1374
02:04:45,000 --> 02:04:47,000
Aaron comes out of the game.

1375
02:04:47,000 --> 02:04:49,000
We have Baker going into the outfield in right.

1376
02:04:49,000 --> 02:04:54,000
Gar goes to left field, and Lohan offices the new center builder.

1377
02:04:54,000 --> 02:04:58,000
Those changes for all the Braves, as we go along into the evening,

1378
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:01,000
the Dodgers need really to catch up against Crawford.

1379
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:03,000
One play, let's go back to the beginning.

1380
02:05:03,000 --> 02:05:06,000
There are two things occurring here tonight that should be reported.

1381
02:05:06,000 --> 02:05:12,000
One would be a concern to the Braves, a little perhaps it is just the weather.

1382
02:05:12,000 --> 02:05:14,000
First, of course, Aaron hit the home run.

1383
02:05:14,000 --> 02:05:18,000
But since then, there has been a constant exodus.

1384
02:05:18,000 --> 02:05:24,000
By the time this game ends, the ball plot will have just a few spectators in it.

1385
02:05:24,000 --> 02:05:31,000
And it's on the same night that they had the largest crowd in the stadium history, 53,775.

1386
02:05:31,000 --> 02:05:36,000
It will be interesting indeed to see how many will be here tomorrow night.

1387
02:05:36,000 --> 02:05:45,000
They had an advance of about 12,000, and we'll see the turnstile count tomorrow evening.

1388
02:05:45,000 --> 02:05:54,000
The Braves make a couple of changes, and Foster will hit in Johnson's spot,

1389
02:05:54,000 --> 02:05:57,000
and Orfus will hit in Aaron's spot.

1390
02:05:57,000 --> 02:06:00,000
That's a nice thing for a kid named Roland Orfus.

1391
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:04,000
He comes in tonight, and he technically replaces Aaron,

1392
02:06:04,000 --> 02:06:09,000
and he'll hit in Aaron's spot the night that Aaron hits number 715.

1393
02:06:09,000 --> 02:06:12,000
Now, he can tell us, folks, about, yeah, tonight Aaron broke it,

1394
02:06:12,000 --> 02:06:17,000
why I took over for him and finished up hitting number 4.

1395
02:06:17,000 --> 02:06:27,000
Capra's fastball is outside for 1-1-0.

1396
02:06:27,000 --> 02:06:30,000
1-0 to count.

1397
02:06:30,000 --> 02:06:33,000
Capra, who has done a great job of traveling the Dodgers,

1398
02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:42,000
stuck out the side, and the 7th Ferguson swings and goes to get it.

1399
02:06:42,000 --> 02:06:48,000
The weather, as cold and as rainy as it was, did not take the edge off the night.

1400
02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:53,000
It has been a magnificent evening for Aaron and for baseball,

1401
02:06:53,000 --> 02:07:02,000
particularly for the 50,000 who came here to see it, and their wishes were granted.

1402
02:07:02,000 --> 02:07:10,000
Capra, back to the plate, and a little slider is on the outside corner for the second strike.

1403
02:07:10,000 --> 02:07:16,000
Seven runs and only four hits, but one of them heard round the world.

1404
02:07:16,000 --> 02:07:20,000
Seven runs and only four hits, but one of them heard round the world.

1405
02:07:20,000 --> 02:07:24,000
The Dodgers, four runs, seven hits, and a half a dozen errors.

1406
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:28,000
It's about as bad as they've played in any game in a long time.

1407
02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:41,000
Two-two pitch coming up, half-flang with the topside, for a decent follow-up lead.

1408
02:07:41,000 --> 02:07:46,000
Three and two to count to Joe Ferguson.

1409
02:07:46,000 --> 02:07:50,000
Capra on the rubber.

1410
02:07:50,000 --> 02:07:52,000
The other is shaking no, now nods yes.

1411
02:07:52,000 --> 02:07:59,000
And the three-two pitch fastball flung on a missed strike three. Capra has faced five men,

1412
02:07:59,000 --> 02:08:05,000
and he has struck out four of them.

1413
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:14,000
And the batter is Willie Crawford, grounded out, struck out, in field single and short a run.

1414
02:08:14,000 --> 02:08:19,000
Willie won for three.

1415
02:08:19,000 --> 02:08:26,000
Now and out of the game, and his mother and father are no doubt with him, along with his wife.

1416
02:08:26,000 --> 02:08:30,000
And he will be holding a press conference after the game.

1417
02:08:30,000 --> 02:08:36,000
We will try, and of course I'm sure you'll understand there will be a tremendous amount of post-game confusion

1418
02:08:36,000 --> 02:08:43,000
and hubbub as the writers, photographers, newspaper, newsreel men, television men, radio men,

1419
02:08:43,000 --> 02:08:48,000
they will jam a room downstairs, and we will try to cover it for you.

1420
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:51,000
And he's gone down just to do that.

1421
02:08:51,000 --> 02:08:55,000
Just stay with us. The Henry Aaron Knight is not over.

1422
02:08:55,000 --> 02:09:01,000
The one-one pitch fastball outside ball two, two and one.

1423
02:09:01,000 --> 02:09:08,000
In the Dodger Bowl, Ben Jim Brewer is loosening up.

1424
02:09:08,000 --> 02:09:14,000
Plus Capra recently purchased by the Braves.

1425
02:09:14,000 --> 02:09:21,000
Here's the two-one pitch to Crawford, a half-swing foul on the count two and two.

1426
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:35,000
Seven to four in favor of the Braves, top of the eighth inning.

1427
02:09:35,000 --> 02:09:41,000
Capra looks down to get a sign from Vic Carell, the catcher.

1428
02:09:41,000 --> 02:09:46,000
The infield of Mike Lum and Leo Foster, Marty Perez and Darrell Evans,

1429
02:09:46,000 --> 02:09:52,000
the outfield of Ralph Dahl, Roland Office and Dusty Baker.

1430
02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:55,000
Ron Reed is a pitcher of record.

1431
02:09:55,000 --> 02:10:00,000
He went out a winner, and Capra's trying to preserve it for him.

1432
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:07,000
The Dicks have type three called, and so Capra is on the remarkable side.

1433
02:10:07,000 --> 02:10:12,000
They're struck out five, facing six batters.

1434
02:10:12,000 --> 02:10:20,000
And the batter is Ron Tse.

1435
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:30,000
Ron Tse hit back to the box, wide to center, and single. He's one for three.

1436
02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:36,000
Fastball low, backhanded by Carell for one, one and all.

1437
02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:43,000
That strong breeze to right field has been with us all night.

1438
02:10:43,000 --> 02:11:00,000
Now the one-all part is low. Two and all to count to Ron Tse.

1439
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:04,000
Now the two-half pitch to Tse is a high chopper to third.

1440
02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:11,000
The Ducks are in the eight, the end is seven and a half,

1441
02:11:11,000 --> 02:11:17,000
Atlanta seven and the Dodgers four.

1442
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:21,000
Once again to remind you that we will stay with the Dodgers radio network

1443
02:11:21,000 --> 02:11:27,000
right after this ballgame and pick up what the Dodgers may provide for us

1444
02:11:27,000 --> 02:11:32,000
following in the conversation with Hank Aaron in the Atlanta dressing room.

1445
02:11:32,000 --> 02:11:36,000
We told you earlier how the San Francisco Dodgers knocked off the Reds.

1446
02:11:36,000 --> 02:11:40,000
We'll tell you again, Gary Maddux slammed in all four Giants scores

1447
02:11:40,000 --> 02:11:44,000
in a home run and a single to lead the Giants to a four-to-three win over Cincinnati.

1448
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:48,000
That's the win as the Giants fourth of the year, Cincinnati is two and two.

1449
02:11:48,000 --> 02:11:53,000
The American League game involved the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians.

1450
02:11:53,000 --> 02:11:57,000
And the Yankees, scoring heavily in the late innings for the third straight game,

1451
02:11:57,000 --> 02:12:02,000
swept their opening series with the Indians with a five-to-three victory.

1452
02:12:02,000 --> 02:12:06,000
George Medich was relieved in the ninth after giving up a leadoff single

1453
02:12:06,000 --> 02:12:08,000
and he picked up the win.

1454
02:12:08,000 --> 02:12:11,000
What proved to be the winning run in that game was scored in the seventh inning

1455
02:12:11,000 --> 02:12:14,000
against left-hander Tom Hildendorf with one out Ron Bloomberg

1456
02:12:14,000 --> 02:12:17,000
and Greg Nettles for runners-up first and third,

1457
02:12:17,000 --> 02:12:23,000
and Bloomberg scored with Bill Sudeikis for his medal.

1458
02:12:23,000 --> 02:12:28,000
In the eighth inning, Atlanta leading the Dodgers 7-4.

1459
02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:32,000
The Dodgers with Al Downing, and of course Downing served it up,

1460
02:12:32,000 --> 02:12:36,000
number 7-15 in the fourth inning to Henry Ahn.

1461
02:12:36,000 --> 02:12:39,000
Then Downing, relieved by Marshall and then Huff.

1462
02:12:39,000 --> 02:12:46,000
Mike Marshall did a tremendous job in relief, but the Dodgers just kicked the ball around.

1463
02:12:46,000 --> 02:12:52,000
However, it is Downing's game to lose.

1464
02:12:52,000 --> 02:12:57,000
Scott Hoff worked the last inning, and he'll be pitching to Marty Perez,

1465
02:12:57,000 --> 02:13:09,000
then Buzz Capra, and the leadoff man Ralph Gah.

1466
02:13:09,000 --> 02:13:15,000
Scully Hoff ready and the knuckleball is inside, ball one, 1-0.

1467
02:13:15,000 --> 02:13:20,000
The press room looks like a scene out of the front page.

1468
02:13:20,000 --> 02:13:24,000
Riders hanging away on the typewriters, on the telephone.

1469
02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:25,000
What a sight.

1470
02:13:25,000 --> 02:13:32,000
They come back into Charlie Huff, and he flips over to Garvey, one away.

1471
02:13:32,000 --> 02:13:35,000
The battle will be Buzz Capra.

1472
02:13:35,000 --> 02:13:56,000
The Buzz Capra right-hand batter, and Charlie Huff looks down to get his eye,

1473
02:13:56,000 --> 02:14:01,000
and the knuckleball is ready and delivers, and the first one is low and away, ball one.

1474
02:14:01,000 --> 02:14:10,000
Tomorrow night, John Sutton will go after his second victory.

1475
02:14:10,000 --> 02:14:19,000
The next one is low, ball two, 2-0.

1476
02:14:19,000 --> 02:14:24,000
Warm-up time tomorrow will be at 4-10 and game time at 4-30.

1477
02:14:24,000 --> 02:14:26,000
The two outfits, low, ball three.

1478
02:14:26,000 --> 02:14:34,000
The Braves delayed the start of the game tonight by a half-hour because the pregame ceremony is honoring them.

1479
02:14:34,000 --> 02:14:42,000
They'll go back to the normal starting time, which means a 4-30 game, and the airtime for the warm-up show at 4-10.

1480
02:14:42,000 --> 02:14:45,000
The three outfits is low, ball four.

1481
02:14:45,000 --> 02:14:56,000
The Capra scores a one-hour walk, and the battle will be Ralph Garve.

1482
02:14:56,000 --> 02:14:59,000
I'm not sure of the official start of the game.

1483
02:14:59,000 --> 02:15:05,000
It certainly wasn't 8-0-5 local time.

1484
02:15:05,000 --> 02:15:11,000
It's about two and a half hours old.

1485
02:15:11,000 --> 02:15:19,000
Ralph Garve is back to the box, a board on an air out, a scoring flag wall and sacrifice.

1486
02:15:19,000 --> 02:15:21,000
Garve is 0-2.

1487
02:15:21,000 --> 02:15:26,000
He takes a knuckle high that gets away from Ferguson to the backstop.

1488
02:15:26,000 --> 02:15:32,000
The Capra to second base and holding there.

1489
02:15:32,000 --> 02:15:40,000
It'll be a pass ball charged to Joe Ferguson.

1490
02:15:40,000 --> 02:15:53,000
One-on-one recount.

1491
02:15:53,000 --> 02:15:54,000
Now up to a stretch.

1492
02:15:54,000 --> 02:15:56,000
Looks to second, works to play.

1493
02:15:56,000 --> 02:16:12,000
The knuckle is long on and is one-on-one.

1494
02:16:12,000 --> 02:16:23,000
Off again, looks at Capra, works to play way outside, one-handed by Ferguson, wearing that big waffle mitt.

1495
02:16:23,000 --> 02:16:32,000
Two-on-one recount.

1496
02:16:32,000 --> 02:16:35,000
Ralph has a look at second base, and the 2-1 pitch.

1497
02:16:35,000 --> 02:16:40,000
Garve takes a dancer on the inside corner for a strike and nods his head yes.

1498
02:16:40,000 --> 02:16:41,000
Good pitch.

1499
02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:42,000
He bailed out.

1500
02:16:42,000 --> 02:16:48,000
The two got the corner.

1501
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:50,000
Grave scored once in the second.

1502
02:16:50,000 --> 02:16:52,000
The Dodgers got three in the third.

1503
02:16:52,000 --> 02:17:00,000
The Graves scored four times in the fourth, and the big moment was Aaron hitting a two-run home run.

1504
02:17:00,000 --> 02:17:04,000
It was the first time that he swung the bats tonight.

1505
02:17:04,000 --> 02:17:09,000
The first time he swung the bat in Cincinnati was a home run for 7-14.

1506
02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:17,000
And the first time he let it fly tonight, it was number 7-15, because he walked without swinging the bat in the second inning.

1507
02:17:17,000 --> 02:17:26,000
And the first pitch to Aaron in the fourth inning was 4-1, and then he swung and that was it.

1508
02:17:26,000 --> 02:17:33,000
The 2-2 pitch is Chase and Garve looking awkward trying to flag that knuckleball.

1509
02:17:33,000 --> 02:17:35,000
Down he goes.

1510
02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:37,000
And the batter is Michael Arme.

1511
02:17:37,000 --> 02:17:41,000
Lam is 0-4-4.

1512
02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:52,000
The game, the score, the turtles are almost incidental, of course, to Henry Aaron Knight here.

1513
02:17:52,000 --> 02:17:56,000
John Knight, Don Crompton, trying to get the Dodgers back on the right track.

1514
02:17:56,000 --> 02:17:59,000
They've committed six errors tonight.

1515
02:17:59,000 --> 02:18:05,000
The pitch is low, 0-1, 1-0.

1516
02:18:05,000 --> 02:18:12,000
Well, the Dodgers have a tough break after the beautiful weather in Los Angeles, where they went three straight from San Diego.

1517
02:18:12,000 --> 02:18:15,000
They come over here and, oh, what a night.

1518
02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:23,000
Tornado warning, cold wind, rain, the one-hole fit, one on and this one-on-one.

1519
02:18:23,000 --> 02:18:36,000
The field littered with papers, paper bags, partly from the wind and partly from the crowd's enthusiasm when Aaron hits the home run.

1520
02:18:36,000 --> 02:18:39,000
Here's the one-one pitch.

1521
02:18:39,000 --> 02:19:00,000
The Dodgers fouled away in the count one and two.

1522
02:19:00,000 --> 02:19:03,000
One ball and two strikes to Mike Lam.

1523
02:19:03,000 --> 02:19:08,000
Darrell Evans on deck.

1524
02:19:08,000 --> 02:19:11,000
Four atlante here in the eighth inning.

1525
02:19:11,000 --> 02:19:18,000
When the Dodgers bat in the ninth, they'll have Garvey, Russell, and a hitter for Huff.

1526
02:19:18,000 --> 02:19:23,000
Charlie Knuckler fouled away.

1527
02:19:23,000 --> 02:19:37,000
One and two.

1528
02:19:37,000 --> 02:19:40,000
The eighth inning runs four hits for Atlanta.

1529
02:19:40,000 --> 02:19:46,000
Four runs, seven hits, and six errors for the Dodgers.

1530
02:19:46,000 --> 02:19:48,000
Now the one-two pitch on the way.

1531
02:19:48,000 --> 02:19:51,000
Knuckler ball punched down to say Ron is up with it.

1532
02:19:51,000 --> 02:19:54,000
The long throw to Garvey in time.

1533
02:19:54,000 --> 02:19:56,000
So the eighth inning no runs, no hits to man.

1534
02:19:56,000 --> 02:19:58,000
Lesson at the end of it.

1535
02:19:58,000 --> 02:20:02,000
Grade seven Dodgers four.

1536
02:20:02,000 --> 02:20:05,000
So I've told you about the National League and the American League.

1537
02:20:05,000 --> 02:20:08,000
Of course there's a few more things going on.

1538
02:20:08,000 --> 02:20:14,000
That baseball, notably basketball, the National Basketball Association playoffs on Sunday,

1539
02:20:14,000 --> 02:20:20,000
New York 106, capital 105, New York leads that series three games to two.

1540
02:20:20,000 --> 02:20:25,000
Boston and Buffalo also in that Eastern Division, those two teams did not play,

1541
02:20:25,000 --> 02:20:27,000
and that series is tied at two each.

1542
02:20:27,000 --> 02:20:32,000
In the Western Conference playoffs, Detroit tied that series at two games a piece

1543
02:20:32,000 --> 02:20:36,000
with Chicago by knocking off the both 102 to 87.

1544
02:20:36,000 --> 02:20:43,000
Milwaukee clinched its series against Los Angeles by beating the Lakers 114 to 92,

1545
02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:47,000
and the Milwaukee wins that series four games to one.

1546
02:20:47,000 --> 02:20:53,000
So the Milwaukee Bucks will go into the National Basketball Association championship,

1547
02:20:53,000 --> 02:20:59,000
or actually it will be the Western Conference playoff against the winner of the Chicago-Detroit series.

1548
02:20:59,000 --> 02:21:03,000
That was it, Sunday, nothing scheduled Monday in the NBA.

1549
02:21:03,000 --> 02:21:10,000
In the American Basketball Association, just one game played Sunday, New York 116, Virginia 88.

1550
02:21:10,000 --> 02:21:14,000
Nice running at Latter-Lating the Dodgers, seven to four,

1551
02:21:14,000 --> 02:21:19,000
and in the ninth the Dodgers will have Steve Harvey followed by Bill Russell,

1552
02:21:19,000 --> 02:21:22,000
and we'll see about a hitter for Charlie Hough.

1553
02:21:22,000 --> 02:21:27,000
There's Campra on the phenomenal side, it's stuck outside at two innings.

1554
02:21:27,000 --> 02:21:34,000
Smallish right-hander, formerly with New York, trying to finish it up and hand Ron Lee to victory.

1555
02:21:34,000 --> 02:21:46,000
Steve Harvey, aboard on an infield single, has fouled out and hit it to a fourth place hit.

1556
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:58,000
So to the ninth, first game of the four game series,

1557
02:21:58,000 --> 02:22:04,000
the Dodgers playing four in Atlanta, three in Houston, and two in Cincinnati.

1558
02:22:04,000 --> 02:22:09,000
And Buzz Campra, ready to work.

1559
02:22:09,000 --> 02:22:27,000
Right-hander into the wind-up, and the pitch to Garvey, breaking ball in the third ball, one and oh.

1560
02:22:27,000 --> 02:22:37,000
The next pitch to Steve is in there for a strike, one and one.

1561
02:22:37,000 --> 02:22:43,000
And when we get the postgame show, we're going to try and bring you all the excitement

1562
02:22:43,000 --> 02:22:48,000
in the Aaron interview as Garvey five-run onto the right and out of play,

1563
02:22:48,000 --> 02:22:52,000
rattling down below in the count one and two.

1564
02:22:52,000 --> 02:22:59,000
Henry Aaron will hold a press conference for all the writers and media in attendance,

1565
02:22:59,000 --> 02:23:01,000
and boy, there are a lot of them.

1566
02:23:01,000 --> 02:23:05,000
And Jerry will be down there, hopefully, able to get it all to you.

1567
02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:07,000
So stay right with us.

1568
02:23:07,000 --> 02:23:10,000
The one-two pitch is hung on and missed by three,

1569
02:23:10,000 --> 02:23:19,000
and Buzz Campra has struck out a half a dozen of the seven-outs that he has gotten.

1570
02:23:19,000 --> 02:23:23,000
The batter is Bill Russell, double-grounded out twice.

1571
02:23:23,000 --> 02:23:32,000
He's one for three.

1572
02:23:32,000 --> 02:23:41,000
Russell has a look at a pitch high and outside, four-one, one and oh.

1573
02:23:41,000 --> 02:23:50,000
Now, Capra is one-oh pitch, fastball in there for a strike, one and one.

1574
02:23:50,000 --> 02:23:59,000
The throw from Vic Carell goes out into center field, and Marty Brez is a way out to get it.

1575
02:23:59,000 --> 02:24:02,000
One ball and one strike to count.

1576
02:24:02,000 --> 02:24:06,000
One down in the ninth inning, seven to four Atlanta.

1577
02:24:06,000 --> 02:24:14,000
On Henry's ninth, Aaron is number seven, one, five in the fourth inning.

1578
02:24:14,000 --> 02:24:23,000
Is it more home runs in the big leagues than any other man in history as he passes Dave tonight?

1579
02:24:23,000 --> 02:24:26,000
Boy, the city really went on its ear for him in a pregame ceremony,

1580
02:24:26,000 --> 02:24:31,000
and then they went wild when he finally hit it in the fourth inning.

1581
02:24:31,000 --> 02:24:46,000
Here's the one-one pitch to Bill Russell, fastball over at the knees for a strike, one and two.

1582
02:24:46,000 --> 02:24:58,000
Capra into the windup, the one-two pitch is hung on and foul back and out of play.

1583
02:24:58,000 --> 02:25:05,000
Seven-four Atlanta in the ninth.

1584
02:25:05,000 --> 02:25:08,000
Dodgers one-sixth out of eight played here last year.

1585
02:25:08,000 --> 02:25:12,000
They won all nine of the games played at Dodger Stadium.

1586
02:25:12,000 --> 02:25:18,000
One-two slider is hit wide at the tricky hop, Evan stays with it and gets it.

1587
02:25:18,000 --> 02:25:35,000
The Dodgers down at their last out, and it'll be Manny Mota coming up to bat for Charlie Hopp.

1588
02:25:35,000 --> 02:25:46,000
So Manny Mota batting for Charlie Hopp, and for Manny will be his first appearance of the year.

1589
02:25:46,000 --> 02:25:51,000
The Dodgers already used Juan Joshua and Lee Lacey as pinch hitters.

1590
02:25:51,000 --> 02:25:57,000
They each struck out, and so Mota is the third pinch hitter.

1591
02:25:57,000 --> 02:26:06,000
Capra delivers fastball, hits the right side of field towards the alley, but coming over the circuit, up backhanded on the line.

1592
02:26:06,000 --> 02:26:09,000
Fine running catch by Dusty Baker.

1593
02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:14,000
And so on Henry's night, the Braves have beaten the Dodgers seven to four.

1594
02:26:14,000 --> 02:26:18,000
We'll have the turtles right after this message.

1595
02:26:18,000 --> 02:26:32,000
And we invite you to stay with us on the AFRCS Parade of Sports because the Dodger Network, along with hundreds of radio and television and press people, will be in the Atlanta clubhouse.

1596
02:26:32,000 --> 02:26:35,000
Or actually, they probably will not be in the clubhouse.

1597
02:26:35,000 --> 02:26:41,000
They said they have a special room designated for the interview with Hank Aaron after this ballgame.

1598
02:26:41,000 --> 02:26:54,000
And so don't you go away, be with us, because we're going to stay right where the Dodgers network and tune in as they talk with Hank Aaron, who has hit career home run number 715,

1599
02:26:54,000 --> 02:27:00,000
obviously the all-time Major League Hiving, Babe Ruth's record of 714.

1600
02:27:00,000 --> 02:27:04,000
Al Downing of the Dodgers, they pitchers threw that home run pitch.

1601
02:27:04,000 --> 02:27:07,000
Said he would not change his way of pitching and working the ballgame.

1602
02:27:07,000 --> 02:27:13,000
He said there's a small chance of his walking Aaron, which he actually did do the first time Aaron came to bat.

1603
02:27:13,000 --> 02:27:17,000
Downing says he is excited but also knows he has a job to do.

1604
02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:25,000
And Aaron hit two home runs against Downing previously to this season.

1605
02:27:25,000 --> 02:27:29,000
The Dodgers on the ballgame for Atlanta, seven runs, only four hits.

1606
02:27:29,000 --> 02:27:32,000
One of them, Aaron's blow, and no errors.

1607
02:27:32,000 --> 02:27:36,000
For the Dodgers, four runs, seven hits and six errors.

1608
02:27:36,000 --> 02:27:40,000
Aaron has played a role for the year and for quite a while.

1609
02:27:40,000 --> 02:27:48,000
And their inability to pick up the ball or hold it or throw it accurately certainly contributed heavily to Atlanta's victory.

1610
02:27:48,000 --> 02:27:51,000
Tomorrow night, Don Suckma will try and get them back on the track.

1611
02:27:51,000 --> 02:27:56,000
Now, if you possibly can, well, stay right with us because the story is not over yet.

1612
02:27:56,000 --> 02:27:59,000
We've already heard one from Henry Aaron.

1613
02:27:59,000 --> 02:28:08,000
We're going to hear a lot more from him in the special press conference which will be held in a small room put aside just for that duty.

1614
02:28:08,000 --> 02:28:11,000
And it's alongside the Atlanta Braves clubhouse.

1615
02:28:11,000 --> 02:28:19,000
So stay with it and we'll try and pick it all up and send it back to you because it's been quite a night here in Atlanta.

1616
02:28:19,000 --> 02:28:24,000
Once again, the final score of the ballgame, the Braves seven and the Dodgers four.

1617
02:28:24,000 --> 02:28:30,000
Well, now this is Dennis Cully along with Jerry Doggett inviting you to stay tuned for the postgame show coming right up.