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The Detroit Tigers faced the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park for a Friday night game on April 15, 1983.
Detroit was managed by Sparky Anderson and they were a team on the rise.
The farm system had produced a young crop of talent throughout the center of the diamond including Lance Parrish, Jack Morris, Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell.
They had finished over 500 in each of Anderson's four seasons and were looking to make a run for the AL East Pennant in 1983.
Chicago was managed by Tony LaRusso and they were looking to make a push for the AL West Pennant after LaRusso brought them out of the cellar and turned them into a third place team in both 1981 and 82.
This audio recording is from the Chicago Radio broadcast featuring announcers Joe McConnell and Early Win.
Without giving away any spoilers, this turns out to be an extremely exciting game from one viewer or another. So at the end of this game we've also added the ninth inning call from the Tigers radio broadcast featuring announcers Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey.
Here in the top half of the first inning, Joe McConnell along with Early Win.
Well, he's chicken if he takes that way out, Joe and Bunt put a cold night.
Fastball strike called a high inside corner like challenging the hitters much more this year he used to try to pick and finesse his way down and away a lot.
Keep that ball away even for the left handed hitters but now he's coming in with it this year.
There's a swing and a little wrist foul looped out of play on the third base side behind the White Sox dugout the board has two balls and a strike.
I could have sworn that Joe Brickman on play up by a shot that right arm up just a little bit late after that second pitch but apparently not.
I think you're right Joe I think he did.
And you're right also with hard challenging Johnson there because he really popped a good pass and right it on his handle boards got two and one will just have to wait him out here.
White rocks into the wind up here's the pitch swung on a little squibber passed about rolling on the grass rebound up to the first he got him out.
Where does our charge in and make a quick pickup. He used the glove and threw a quick side arm underhand left to Walker at first to get Johnson by a stride.
Bernard made the only play he could. I don't think he could have held on that ball and got a good hold on it if he tried to catch it with his hand as slippery as everything is tonight as well as it is just lost it.
He just barely had time to go from glove to hand to Larry Herndon big tall lanky right handed hitting left fielder hitting three twenty four up to a good start.
He had a good year last year for the Tigers coming over from the San Francisco Giants he has twelve hits and thirty seven at bats two homers and six runs batted in his one for eight with an RBI against the White Sox.
Boyd starts him off with a slow curve that hangs inside just below the knee ball one.
I feel fairly deep and just a bit around to the left favoring Herndon's power.
Crosswind here tonight blowing out of the West at 14 it'll help the balls to write there's a swing and a foul field back up on the net behind home plate and it jumps up off the net into the seats below us here the open deck the gold seats here at
the Mesquite Park in the count is even a one on one down to Herndon he was 0 for 4 against like in Detroit temperature 45 degrees game time on the lakefront we're about five minutes away here at 40 degrees at O'Hare and it's supposed to get down into the 20s tonight.
Swing and a miss on a pitch down and in one and two the camp to her did with two out nobody on the top half of the first inning.
Boyd a chunky right hander at 6 1 about 222 that full full beard bushy hair sticking out at each side of the baseball cap the big leg kick and the delivery check swing didn't mean to hit it rolls it foul down the first base side.
And solo is still the first base coach for Sparky Anderson's Tigers Billy Consolo and longtime third base coach Alex Gramis still over there. Gramis himself a former Major League manager.
So Larry Gerr got his third win this afternoon on opening day spoiling the Brew Crews first game at County Stadium and prison Mary picked up his third save.
So the veteran left hander off to a fine start.
One and two the camp to her didn't straight up and down stance slightly spread straight.
Good heart slider thrown by the right hander.
One two three inning for the Tigers and their half of the first inning at the Mesquite Park one half inning in the books Detroit nothing the White Sox coming to that.
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Defensively the Detroit Tigers will have heard it in left lemon and center Wilson and right.
Our Johnson the glove man at third travel a short win.
You're at second Rick Leach at first and big Lance Parish the catcher right hander and milk milk Wilcox 32 years of age.
He's got a birthday coming up next week on the 20th of April.
Now there's eleven big league season came up with the Cincinnati Reds in 1970 spent three years at Cleveland partial year with the Cubs in seventy five he was sent down to Wichita.
And since joining the Tigers he's been the most consistent right handed starting pitcher in baseball.
Over the last five years he has won between twelve and thirteen ballgames and has lost between nine and twelve he was thirteen and twelve.
And twelve and ten thirteen eleven twelve and nine and eighty one even though that was a strike interrupted season last year he was twelve and ten.
He's a highball pitcher has a good forecourt to his slider pitcher most of the most of the way and occasionally will help up on a fastball.
He is six and seven against the White Sox with a loss earlier this year and he's one ninety big league ballgames.
He can be cute at times.
He'll face Rudy Law Tony Bernard and Harold Baines a trio of left handed swingers.
Rudy hitting two twenty two with four hits and eighteen at bats one of them a double two for four against Wilcox in Detroit for Rudy and he had that two base hit against Wilcox.
They play him around to the left of the outfield expecting him to hit late.
That's stiff legged open stance.
Wilcox rocks into that double puff wind up here's the pitch and the breaking ball is high ball one.
Sox trying to make it three straight over to twine there three and one against the East with all three losses three of the four losses against the Texas Rangers in that opening sweep down in Texas.
Rudy goes after that pitch a bit late slices it foul upstairs right below us here over the top of the net.
The count is a ball and a strike.
Kurt Gibson the big play put it right fielder Gus who was injured a bit in that recent series at Detroit with the White Sox went under what arthroscopic knee surgery on Monday could be available to play they say possibly this weekend.
They took a tiny piece of cartilage out of his knee.
He's going to be all right.
Which is a bit close at the day ball to strike one to count to Rudy Law leading it off in the bottom of the first for the White Sox.
Well I don't see how he could run as fast he does with something in his knee or something wrong with it.
You know Wilcox is one of the guys very few guys that gets away with picking high consistently.
There's a one half liner belt high to travel.
He's got it over the first and Rudy's out by a step flag on that line.
He was nothing more than a blur running down from home plate to first base.
In fact all the people in the know about baseball say that you can't win consistently by pitching high.
It is tough to do all right.
No doubt about it.
Wilcox losing to the White Sox.
Worked six and two thirds innings gave a big hit six runs for earned in Detroit.
Dennis Lamp was a winner that day.
Here's what you're getting second.
Sackard Tony Berners-Arndt is it safely in six straight.
He's been counted only in the opener is hitting three twenty three with ten hits and thirty one at bats a double a triple a homer and five runs batted in.
He takes strike at the knees all one.
He's already the left handed hitter hitting only two thirty five he's much better average wise as a right handed hitter so far this year.
In fact his home run was hit here as a right handed swinger on opening day last Tuesday.
Wilcox pumps and deals swung on smashed up the middle high bounce over the bag taken by travel over the first they got him out.
That ball hit the pitching rubber went right by Wilcox and that came up miraculously almost for travel who never would have made the play had the ball on the ground.
No I thought for a moment it had hit Wilcox but when I saw he didn't flinch I knew it didn't hit him.
Well that ball looked like it was ticketed for center field.
Instead slowed it down and everything just right for travel travel made the play behind the bag and Berners-Arndt was out by two steps.
Here's right fielder Harold Bayes.
He's hit safely in six out of seven.
Two ninety two average for Bayes seven hits twenty four at bats still looking for that first home run.
He and Glenn Wilson are the Tigers who tied for the early lead in triples with two apiece.
He feels a foul upstairs behind old play out of play going after a little high pitch.
The count is on one.
Bayes with six RBI's two for three including one of his two triples and three runs batted in against Wilcox.
Last Sunday in Detroit.
The pitch on the way to Bayes.
He swings and pops a foul again third base side.
It's going to drift back into the third row.
The upper deck below the luxury boxes on the third base side the count is on to one of the things that may have changed.
Those people thought are those who didn't know about pitching high and winning is the slider and a sticky fastball.
If you got those two you can get away with it.
Wilcox on to fastball high one and two to camp the base with two out nobody on Luzinski on deck.
Took a tour of one of these luxury boxes out here and they're all sold out but to they expect that they might be sold for the weekend.
Well they've got those big heat lamps out there for those outside seats and they really are nice.
There's a chopper to the right side glove wide of the bag by leech underhand flip to Wilcox reaches back for it and makes the play at first.
A three one put out on Bayes and a one two three inning for Milt Wilcox against the White Sox in the first.
After one completed at Kavisky Park no score the Sox and the Tigers.
After the game it's Jimmy Pearsall on WMAQ.
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You set a record for American League catchers of the year with 32 off runs last season.
We'll step in to lead off the Tigers second. He's hitting just 148 this time around.
Four hits, one of them a double and 27 at bats, four RBIs.
He was 0 for 2 against Hoyt. He's 1 for 5 on the ribby against the White Sox.
Check swing on a slider, low and away. Ball one.
Hoyt took something off of that pitch. Outfield deep and around to the left.
So is the infield. Back on the rim of the grass for Parrish.
He'll be followed by Johnny Grubb the DH tonight and Gibson stead and then Glenn Wilson.
Big sweeping curve over but low. Ball two. The cap to Parrish leading off the second.
No score. Neither team has had a base runner yet.
Hoyt has now struck out nine men in 17 in the third innings.
He leads the Sox staff in innings pitch. This is his third start.
There's a deep drive. Right center field in the gap. It's hooking a little bit towards Paine.
He's way out there on the warning track and he plays it off bullpen number two.
Out on the right center field wall. The throw comes back in at Parrish.
He's in the second base standing with a long opposite field double.
Hoyt tried to stop that pitch. That's why Hart was throwing his breakers though.
Trying to keep it away from him. Keep him off stride.
Taking something off of it.
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Johnny Grubb left-handed hitter. An outfielder by trade in the lineup as a DH.
Came over just before the start of the year for right-handed reliever Dave Tolpik who was sent to the Texas Rangers.
Grubb hitting 429. Three hits and seven at bats and he waves and misses.
Had a good secure down just below the knees. The count is on one.
Grubb has three RBIs and a double among his three hits.
And he knocked in a game winner up at Minnesota in the first two games of the year.
Outfield straight away and medium deep. Parish at second. Nobody out.
We're in the top half of the second inning. Hoyt working out of the stretch for the first time.
The big leg kick and he deals. Low it inside. A ball and a strike to Grubb.
The number five hitter in Sparky Anderson's Tiger lineup today.
More like football weather here in Chicago. Temperature expected to drop into the 20s tonight.
And it's probably under 40 degrees here. Now start of tonight's ballgame.
Hoyt delivers to Grubb. Swing and a foul tip into the dirt. Fist couldn't hang on. One ball and two strikes.
It must be tough on a catcher to be catching a guy like Hoyt tonight.
Good fastball and first back there was nothing but a little sponge between his hand and the leather.
That ball pounded in there. Really rough on a sickleball pitcher.
There'll be a lot of bees in the bat handle as well. Here's the pitch. Bouncer to the right side.
It's sharply backhanded by Walker. Nice play.
Wiel throws to Hoyt who staggers but caught the ball down around knee high.
And continued across the bag at first for a rather tricky 3-1 put out. Parish moved to third.
It's very tricky and that was Walker's fault. It was a little bit because he threw the ball overhanded.
And instead of running into it a little bit, he threw the ball just about knee high.
Maybe a little bit below to Hoyt.
The best thing a first baseman can do is run in a little bit, toss the ball underhand and get it up about shoulder high.
He was backpedaling away from the bag at an angle to flag that one down.
He's a right-handed fielding first baseman although he bats left-handed from the plate.
He had time though to turn around and toss that ball underhand.
Here's Glenn Wilson, right-handed hitting right fielder. A swing and a miss.
A little bit late and a pitch down around the knees all at once.
He was 1-4 with an RBI and a triple when he faced Hoyt in Detroit.
He's hitting 3-20 with 8 hits and 25 advance.
He has a double, two triples, tying in for the league lead with Harold Baines.
He has also hovered this year and he's knocked in 7 runs already.
Slight crowd straightaway stance. He takes a pitch down low.
Just a bit closer to the knees for a ball.
One ball and one strike. Parish at third, one out.
We're in the Tigers' second. No score here early in Chicago.
Tigers beat the Yankees 2 out of 3. They lost last night.
The White Sox now have won 3 out of 4 after dropping their first 3 in Texas.
Two against this ball club.
Fastball low, ball 2.
Chad Lemon, former Sox outfielder on deck.
He's the number 7 hitter for the Tigers tonight.
Our congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks who outskated the Minnesota North Stars 7-4
before 17-5 at the stadium this afternoon.
They've taken a two-game lead in their best of seven second round Stanley Cup playoff series.
High ball to right field. That ought to score the run.
Near the line and it falls. Oh foul by less than a foot.
Boy Gus, I thought that ball was in there for sure,
but it just drifted across the foul line and dropped out of Baines' reach in foul territory.
So Parish will have to go back to third.
I was sitting in the same seat with him because I certainly thought it was fair
and it didn't go foul but just a couple of feet.
You know, we're going to have to readjust a little bit this year
with the home plate and the entire infield moved out further away by 8 feet.
We have a little bit different angle to judge down the foul lines here.
A year ago the ball that looked like that would have been fair,
but this one dropped foul by maybe 10 inches or so and so White got a break.
Yes, they're also closer this year.
That was Worry City right there.
Looked like a blooper nobody could get to.
Wilson cracked his bat on the previous swing,
so he comes back to the plate now with a blank-tire rag and a new handle.
One on one out, Parish over at third for the Tigers here in the top of the second inning.
Tomorrow afternoon Floyd Bannister will get another start after being shelved from the mound
and is outing here on Tuesday.
Bannister will pitch against the ace of the Tigers staff right into Danny Petrie,
who's 2-0 already.
There's a swing deep, drive right center field in the gap.
That's going to score the run even if it's caught.
Long way out there, up off the wall and one bounce.
Wilson around second, going for three.
Here's a relay to the third base back.
He is in there with a slide, he is safe.
Just a bit to the outfield side was Bernisard's relay.
Otherwise, they might have had Wilson on a close play,
but he tripled in the gap to right center.
His third free-banger of the year and he takes over the American League lead,
and that's his eighth run batted into the Tigers lead, it's one to nothing.
That was the same one that Parish hit, same spot.
Only thing was it was about 20 foot shorter.
It hit at warning track there, just at the base of the wall,
about 10 or 15 feet slow, but Parish is hit up on top of it, almost on top.
Darn, your home run for Parish, but that one was well hit, no doubt about it.
Now, a runner at third with one out and a run in.
Here's Chad Lemon, two for four, including a ninth inning homer in Detroit against Hoyt.
He's hitting free-23 with 10 hits and 31 at bats.
One homer, one RBI, first pitch, he whacks a foul upstairs.
The unknown player on the first base side of the screen is Hoyt came inside,
hand high, with a good fastball.
Well, tonight's a perfect night to challenge those hitters by throwing the ball in on the fist.
Yeah, there'll be some of them back away from that.
They don't want to feel those bees.
Got to get it inside though, you can't get it out over the plate.
Jet crowds that plate with a slightly open stance.
Swing and a foul chop into the dirt, right by Lemon's feet.
The count is on two. Outfield straight away and fairly deep.
One-nothing Tigers late here in the top of the second inning on a couple of extra base hits.
A leadoff double by Parish and a one-out triple by Glenn Wilson,
scoring them both almost to the identical part of the ballpark in the deep gap in right center.
Infield is pulled in, hoping to cut down Wilson in the third if he tries to score.
There's a little loop in the right field. That's going to score Wilson a base hit for Jet Lemon.
Fielded out there by Harold Baines, and the Tigers lead it to the nothing on Lemon's second RBI of the year
as he just inside out of that pitch and flared it in the right field over the pulled-in infield.
Well, here we go again.
Oh, it's first two outings. He picks well enough to win both of them.
But he's being cuffed around a bit here in the second inning of this ballgame tonight.
Two-nothing Tigers. Here's Rick Leach, former football quarterback at Michigan and native of Ann Arbor.
Left-handed hitting first baseman at 286 average on the year.
Two hits and seven advanced. Two RBIs.
Straightaway stance, slightly closed.
Quite goes over to first base to keep Jet close to the bag.
Leach did that play against the White Sox the day Hoyt pitched in Detroit.
Hoyt to the belt. Look at first, and he steps off the rubber.
Ian Cheddar playing games over there.
Still only one out here in the top of the second. Hoyt had a one-two-three inning in the first.
But he's running into a bit of trouble here in the second as the Tigers have nicked him twice.
Two runs on three hits. Still only one out.
I feel straightaway for Leach and medium deep.
Ground ball, beat into the dirt foul. Gloved by Greg Walker over near first base coach's box.
And the count is all one down to Rick Leach. He's the number eight hitter.
Alan Trammell, the shortstop, is one down.
Hoyt appears to have good stuff tonight, Joe, but a lot of times a guy will have good stuff.
He'll know he's got good stuff.
And he depends on it. Challenge the hitter a little bit too much with just everything.
Not wearing the right clothes.
And it gets him in trouble.
Leach steps back in there. The Red Sox beat the Rangers at Fenway four to one.
So Texas now drops to six and three.
And at the moment, Oakland tied with them for the Western Division lead.
Both clubs at six and three. There's a line drive left field.
Base hit for Ricky Leach.
Hittle comes into shallow left, picks up the ball.
And rounding second and hanging on there is Chet Lemon.
That's a fourth Tiger hit of the inning.
That was a solid line drive to the opposite field.
Right now, let's pause to remind all of our stations, you're listening to the Chicago White Sox Radio Network.
This is your radio station, 67 WMAQ Chicago, coming up right after tonight's game.
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Well, Fisk goes out to have a word with Hoyt.
Runners at first and second. Still only one out.
Four hits of the inning off Hoyt.
Tigers came in hitting 3-0-8, a man.
Wow, that was built up with a great start at Minnesota.
Here's Alan Trammell hitting 3-45 with ten hits and 29 advance.
He has three doubles, six runs batted in.
0-3 previously against Hoyt.
And 2-6 an RBI and a run batted in against the Tigers this year.
Right-headed hitter.
They play a medium in the outfield. Here's the pitch.
And he jumps away from the pitch that comes inside Belt Hive.
All-one.
Alan Trammell from Garden Grove, California makes his home now in San Diego.
Has had a couple of back-to-back years.
Not too well at the plate. He's hit.258 in each of the last two years after hitting.300 in 1980.
The pitch to Trammell.
There's a wide sweeping curve and it's in there.
Knee high on the outside corner for a call strike.
Joe Brickman shot the right arm of the air and the count is even at one and one.
Dibzhinsky at short tonight getting his first strike for the White Sox.
Hoyt looking in to get the side.
Trammell at the plate.
Bat cocked over his right shoulder.
Double steal. Swing and a miss.
Rout of third. Plenty of time.
Hit first time and Chet Lemon is out.
Trammell swung late trying to protect the runners as Parky pulled a double steal.
But even a head-first dive and third couldn't save Chet Lemon on this peg.
Right on the bag to Vasselhoff.
Well, Parky's trying everything, isn't he?
That ball was inside to Trammell and he just couldn't handle it.
That's the second out.
Now Leach is at second.
Trammell still at the plate with one ball and two strikes to go.
Tigers are now six and one.
Tigers are now six out of 11 on the base pass.
Chet 0 for two.
Here's the pitch to Trammell.
Swing and a miss.
He tried to check his swing cutting this.
He missed the breaking ball all the way.
Two strikeouts in the game for Hoyt.
It could have been worse, but the Tigers did score two on a total of four hits and one left.
After knitting and a half in Chicago, it's Detroit 2, the Sox nothing.
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The U.S. Auto Club drove three 1983 Honda Civic 1300 FE hatchbacks around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway until they ran out of gas.
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Big boys are up for the White Sox here and they're half of the second.
Luzinski, Kittle and Walker to face Milt Wilcox who has a 2-0 lead.
Raggedy 261 with four RBI's.
First pitch to the chunky right-handed hitter, a strike at the knees.
Good slider for Wilcox.
Luzinski has a couple of doubles this year, six hits and 23 at bats.
And he is tied for the league lead with Mike Ivey of the Tigers.
And game-winning RBI is with two.
Swings and scribs, one foul.
Down the first base side, they're going to let a roll that stays foul about 30 feet from home plate.
Harris was running the pounce on it and it rolled back.
Little back-up English there and caught any part of the shot to the stripe.
Luzinski, two for seven.
Including a game-winning RBI in Detroit against the Tigers that came against Jack Morris who was beaten last night at Yankee Stadium.
One for three though, Luzinski was against Wilcox, the man he's facing here tonight.
There's that double quick pop, pitch a curve, hide away.
One ball and two strikes.
Wilcox has got that short-arm delivery but he's got a kind of a double pump down around belt high as he brings the ball in his arms up into throwing position.
Outfield around to the left, sells the infield.
Big gap up the middle, pitch to Luzinski, swung on, broken bat, little pop fly, first base side drops into coaches' boxes.
Leach can't get there in time.
Got holes and one ball and two strikes to Luzinski, the leadoff batter here in the home half of the second.
It is a little bit different trying to judge the fly ball.
The ball goes into the air anywhere, infield or outfield.
I thought that one might have a chance to be fair and be caught.
Wilcox goes to his mouth on the grass portion of the infield behind the cutout circle around the pitcher's mound.
Apparently they haven't gotten permission although I'm sure they're able to blow into their hand on the mound tonight with the chilly temperatures.
Luzinski waiting, Wilcox into the windup.
Here's the one-two delivery.
Loan away, gets away from Parrish.
Ball into the dirt, couldn't handle it.
Ball two, strike two.
Wilcox might have been trying to get a little something on beside the warm air.
Well, Toronto got two in the first in New York, the Yankees came back with four in the second and they lead it four to two down to third in Yankee Stadium.
Billy Martin's club in the basement right now with a three and five start.
Here's the pitch to Luzinski, swung on and popped up right over the plate.
Parrish tosses the mask away, running down the line, gloves it in foul territory just about 20 feet away down the first base side.
One gone.
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Here's the man of the hour of the week at least, Ron Kittle.
Who in the last three games has hovered three times and knocked in a league high of 12 RBIs.
He checks swings and it's inside corner, about high for a call strike.
Kittle started his onslaught last Sunday against the Tigers and Jack Morris when he hit a three run homer into the upper deck in left.
He swings and misses, all in two.
Kittle was hitless in three at bats in the first game of that series against Wilcox.
He's hitting 3-0-8.
Tied to the league lead in home runs with three and leads the league.
In fact, he leads all of baseball with 12 RBIs, all in three games.
He had six here yesterday.
Swing and a miss.
Oh, he's got on three pitches. Wilcox threw him a sharp breaking slider down high and away.
Two-one.
Wilcox gets his first strike out.
He didn't mess with Kittle at all.
Here's another rookie left-handed hitting Greg Walker.
He's been a teammate of Kittle's the last couple of years in the minors.
In fact, they've been roommates.
Walker one for nine, a triple down in Texas with two RBIs, a 1-11 average.
Should have shaken off the effects of that disastrous opening night by now.
That pitch is inside a fastball just below the letters.
Ball one.
Walker with great power.
Good swing. He's a left-handed hitter.
They play him straight away and deep.
Rocking back and forth, waiting for Wilcox's delivery.
Little Scribber off the handle.
Grabbed under the third base side by Johnson.
Sidearm flip across the diamond and Walker is gone.
Little roller to the third baseman, Howard Johnson.
No runs, no hits, nobody left.
Wilcox with two innings of play has put down six straight Chicago White Sox hitters.
After two, Tigers two, Sox nothing.
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Top of the order for the Tigers here to third.
Little Lou Whitaker, who fouled out the Kittle and left, takes a curve in there,
about high inside corner for a call strike.
Again, shortened up on the handles, zipped a butt, and Vance Law came hurrying in from third.
They play him way around to the left, expecting him to hit late.
White delivers.
Check swing, didn't mean to hit it.
Taps it foul off to the third base side.
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High fly ball left center field.
Rudy Law coming in and over, and he flags it down for the first down.
Whitaker is gone.
One out here in the Tiger third.
They bunched all four of their hits, scored their two runs in the second against Hoyt.
Here's Howard Johnson who tapped out on a little roller to Bernisart at first.
The first time up.
Bernisart made a nice play on it to get him.
2-0 Detroit, we're in the third.
Locking into the windup is Hoyt.
The pitch to Johnson, a sicker, a bit low, ball one.
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Bouncer to the right side, a one hopper taken wide of the bag by Walker.
He'll make the play unassisted and Howard Johnson's gone.
And there's two out here in the top of the third.
Hoyt's had no problems with the first three hitters, Gus.
It's been the bottom two thirds of the order that's given him problems.
Yeah, but, Joe, you notice that there's no weak spot in this Tiger lineup.
Every once in a while in the lineup you expect to find a 220 or a 240 hitter.
But so far the Tigers don't have one of those.
Larry Herndon struck out swinging to end the first inning his first time up.
Hoyt starts him off with a big wide sweeping curve and it's in there.
Knee high for a call strike. That pitch looked like it was on rails.
Without a sharp break you're kind of a slow sidewinder bend.
I feel straight away and deep for Herndon. He's got that upright straightaway stance.
This time Hoyt turns it over and runs a fastball down and in for a ball.
And the count is even a one and one.
Larry Herndon, a good year last year, knocked in over 90 runs for the Tigers at 23 homers.
Check swing, the pitch is low. The Fiss asked for an appeal.
And Nick Premigan at first base denies it. Two balls and a straight.
Herndon and Enos Cabell both came over by way of San Francisco in the Schatzader deal.
Two and one pitch. Curve and a beauty in there at the knees for a call strike. Two and two.
Lamar may have to go to that pitch a little bit more often.
He looks like he's got a good fastball. I don't know whether he's getting the right location on it or not.
Two balls, two strikes to Herndon. With two out and nobody on here in the top of the third, Tigers by a pair.
Hoyt with a high leg kick in the delivery. A curve, a swing and a mercy.
He struck him out again on a breaking ball.
Hoyt has knocked three strikeouts and three innings.
He's gotten Herndon twice. No runs, no hits, nobody left. Midway through the third.
Tigers two, Sox nothing.
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Fisk, Vance Law, and Jerry Dibzhinski to face Wilcox who has bowed down six straight hitters here tonight.
We're at the bottom of the third, Joe Picado along with early Lynn.
Roger with us. There's a swing and a high soft pop up into the left field coming on his hermit and he makes the catch and shot a left.
As Fisk went after the first pitch, he tripled and had two for three against Wilcox in Detroit.
Getting 222 with two RBIs coming in. So there's one gone and that's seven in a row retired by Milt Wilcox, a native of Honolulu.
Here's Vance Law hitting 208. Five hits and 24 advance to RBIs.
Over two with a run batted in against Wilcox.
Vance won for seven with an RBI against Detroit.
They play him straight away in the infield and the outfield.
Although she had just a bit, maybe a step or two in the hole and deep at short is Trammell. Here's the pitch to Vance Law.
Fast ball just a bit close about Lunderheide. Ball one.
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There's a sharp one hopper to Johnson at third. Easy play and there's two gone.
Got to kick out of the notes tonight. The Tigers notes they said that Wilcox was the only native born Hawaiian on the Tigers ball club wearing number 39.
That's a big deal, isn't it?
Jared Dibzhinsky is going to get his first at bat in the regular season. He's been in five ballgames either as a pitch runner or as a late defensive replacement for Scott Fletcher at short.
In eighty ballgames with Cleveland last year, he hit two thirty one with no homers. Twenty two runs batted in. He doesn't have any power. He has only one major league home run.
He also had a few games early in the year, thirty of them precise with the Charleston Charlies. He looks at a pitch into the dirt ball one.
Jared Dibzhinsky, the Dipper with those wicked like legs or maybe be more correct to say, rickety like legs.
He has got the best set of bowed legs in the big leagues. He swings and loops a foul into the lower seats behind the tagging first base dugout.
He's going to try to go to right tonight. He's going to be a bit rusty up there and the count is one of the one he cracked his bat on that one.
Joe got it on the handle a little, I guess. Wilcox crowd him a little bit. That might be what he tapes up and uses for BP.
By the way, speaking of BP, Britt Burns was sent down to Florida Tuesday after being introduced here at opening day through batting practice yesterday.
He's going to throw BP four times. He's going to pitch in four instructional games, work to get his strength back up and Tony is hoping to use him.
Possibly in New York. He's due to come off the disabled list as early as Monday, but he won't be ready by then.
Although there's nothing physically wrong with him. He's just got to rebuild that strength. Pitch is up and in ball two down to Dibzhinsky.
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Two gamer. There's a spinner right back to the bat on one hop. Wilcox feels it falling down, gets back up and throws him out.
Nine in a row, retired for the Tiger right hander. Again in the third, nothing going for the White Sox and after three the Tigers lead it two to nothing.
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One of the same three guys that got in trouble in the second inning will start things off for the Tigers here in the fourth.
Lance Parrish doubled the right center and scored the first of the two Tiger Rams in the second, his first time up against Hoyt.
Parrish now two for six on the year against the White Sox.
Hoyt delivers to the big right-handed hitting catcher. That breaking ball is wide, ball one.
Well, Mr. Steve and Alexander, the two starting pitchers in the Yankee-Toronto game in New York having problems.
Now five to four, Toronto on the fourth.
There's a line drive whacked into left field, past the glove of Jerry Dibczynski.
Parrish pulled that one sharply, a sinking liner between short and third and the left and he's two for two.
Hit number five off Hoyt.
That'll bring up Johnny Grabo bounced out.
Walker to Hoyt covering it first, but on the play Parrish was able to move to third where eventually he scored when Wilson tripled him in.
I have no idea how hard Parrish hit the pitch to the first time, up right center about 410 feet.
Now he drilled one in the left field.
Well, he had only four hits in 27 of bats till tonight, so he was due to break out of it and he's two for two.
And this one, upfield straight away and deep for Grubb.
Tall, likey left-handed hitter, feet fairly close together, deep in the box, slightly closed stance.
Hoyt takes his foot off the rubber, now turns and flips over to first base driving Parrish back.
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Right to the belt, here's the pitch to Grubb.
A curve and a beauty in there, just above the knees inside corner for a call strike, and the count is even a one-on-one.
Grubb has been around. He's hit over 300 twice in his big league career, once with the Padres when he first came up in the last league.
He managed to hit over 300 a couple of years ago with the Texas Rangers. He was also previously with Cleveland.
Hoyt goes over to first to keep Parrish around the bag at first.
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Pitch out, runner wasn't going. They must be spelling something here.
Parrish, not much of a threat to Steele. They might have been looking for a hit-and-run that time.
Two balls and a strike now to count the Johnny Grubb.
I think it has to be the hit-and-run. I think it had it on last time when Grubb was up.
Makes contact when he got Parrish around a little bit.
Well, all Grubb was supposed to do that time was pull the ball to the right side and advance the runner, which he did.
There's a little slow tap to second. That's going to advance the runner, too.
Bernisart up and over to Walker at first in time to get Grubb.
No chance to get the lead man as he packed his bat on that little roller to Bernisart at second.
Grubb, on Parrish at second.
So Grubb, even though he's 0-2 in the box score, did advance the runner both times.
That'll bring up Glenn Wesselt, who tripled the right center his first time up his third triple of the year at his eighth hour behind.
He later scored as well.
Now he stands in. This time, Parrish is on with one out.
Parrish at second instead of third.
We're in the fourth inning. Tigers lead it 2-0. The pitch point to Wilson. A tap to the right side.
A three hopper to Bernisart. He waits on it. Throws and Wilson is out by a step.
Parrish moves to third.
Now the ball got away.
Yeah, Parrish didn't see it.
The ball got away and Greg Walker chased it down.
I looked down to put the out of the book. I don't see, I don't know what happened there.
Well, you can't call a play over with a white Sox until it's back to the pitcher's mound.
Deb Zinske was way over there backing somebody up. I don't know what happened.
He might have got a hold of the ball somewhere over there.
Oh, Walker thought it was three outs.
Walker turned and flipped the ball to Bernisart and Bernisart had turned away.
Well, here's Chad Levin who's single in a run his first time up. He's got a runner at third now with two outs.
That's what happened. Walker thought that was a third out of the inning.
Boy, that's got to be embarrassing for a rookie who's already had trouble making the defensive plays over there.
Yeah, it certainly doesn't make your stock go up in it, does it?
No.
Well, he steps out of the box for a minute now. Parish at third with two out here in the top of the fourth inning.
Oh, Walker would have found a hole. He could have crawled into it if the runner had scored on that play.
There's a breaking ball in there for a call strike.
Bell high right into the hands. That jammed Levin.
Oh, it was a very dangerous pitch for Lemon though up around letter high.
Of course, you'll have to hit him on the elbow with it.
Chad now three for five this year against Hoyt, one for one tonight and three for eight on the year.
Against the White Sox, his former teammates. There's a swing and a foul chopped down and back.
It jumped over Fishead and rolls back to the base of the screen.
On to the count as Hoyt staying hand high and inside against Lemon.
In the bottom of this inning, the White Sox will set up the top of the order.
So far they haven't had a baserunner in three innings.
One complete turn at bat against Wilcox.
Bannister and Petrie tomorrow and then on Sundays wrapped up with the Tigers,
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Now there's a rain delay in New York.
Here's the pitch to Chad Lemon, fastball high.
They're in the fourth inning at Yankee Stadium.
Toronto jumped off to a two-nothing lead.
The Yankees caught him down.
Toronto is ahead again five to four when the Reigns have held up play.
The stretch by Hoyt, the one-two pitch to Lemon.
Fastball outside, two and two.
And Hoyt is using the stretch now with a runner at third and two out.
He seems to prefer pitching out of the stretch with a runner at third.
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There's a swing and a miss.
He struck him out on a change-up curve, a wide-sweeping breaking ball.
And that's the fourth strikeout and one in inning for Lamar Hoyt.
No runs, a wasted single and a man left.
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As we go into the home half of the fourth inning, the White Sox will send up their top three hitters.
Law, Berndes, Ayrton, Baynes to face Wilcox for the second time.
Milt, the right-handed from Detroit, is retired nine straight.
And the White Sox have only had one ball out of the infield, and that was a shallow flight of left off the bat of Carlton Fisk leading off the third.
Rudy Law tapped out the short.
He's hit the best ball off Wilcox, a sharp one-hop liner, belt-high to trample it short to start the ballgame in the first inning for Chicago.
Wilcox sort of a broad-beam right-hander looking in to get the sign from Big Lance Parish, his catcher.
The right-hander delivers.
Swing and a miss, there was that fork ball, and Rudy swung over the top, 0-1.
Wilcox has one strikeout so far.
He fanned Kittle on three straight pitches midway through the second.
Well, Hoyt now has not four strikeouts for the third time this year.
He's had four in all three of his starts, and he's gotten his four tonight, or at least four in the first four innings.
Either pitcher is issued a walk.
The 0-1 count pitched out to Rudy Law.
A fast ball just a bit outside as Parish tried to yank that one over the outside edge but didn't get the call from Joe Brickman, one-on-one.
Rudy Law who can fly on the base pass, but he has to get on first.
Tigers lead it 2-0 here in the bottom of the fourth.
Wilcox with a double pump with a delivery.
A curve load and side ball too.
Sharp breaker down and in.
Over in the National League, they're in the fourth at Bush Stadium in St. Louis.
The World Champion Cardinals off to a 4-1 start despite a couple of rainouts leading the Mets tonight 3-0.
Montreal has a 1-0 lead over Windlass Houston in the fourth.
At Houston, the Astros have lost nine straight.
Pitch to Rudy.
Spike on the outside corner at the knees.
That pitch was right on the black.
That evens the count at 2-2.
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Wilcox shook off the first side as the one he wants from Parish.
Here's the 2-2 delivery.
And a breaking ball.
Looked like the slider or maybe the fork ball on inside a full count down of Rudy Law leading off the fourth for the White Sox.
Wilcox has just recently started that fork ball, Joe, and it helped him quite a bit with the secret he has.
A little difficult for the batter to pick it up.
Here's the payout pitch to Law.
He swings and pops it up foul to a third base side.
Howard Johnson over near the camera box.
Can't reach it. Out of reach.
Gets the top of the White Sox dug out, bounces high in the air, comes down and about the back row of the first set of boxes.
So the count holds at 3-2.
Ball had to fight the wind to get out of play as the wind coming over the top of the double deck stadium here, blowing out to right.
14 mile an hour out of the west at game time.
Now Rudy steps out as Wilcox rubs up a new ball.
He turns his back on the batter. Full count here leading off the bottom of the fourth.
Sox needs some base runners.
Wilcox had a 3-0 lead early in Detroit against the White Sox, but the Sox came back to knock him out in the seventh and post a 6-3 win.
Lyon got the victory.
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Here's the payout pitch to Rudy Law.
He pops it up again. Foul territory this time.
There will be a play.
Parrish over near the on deck circle for the Tigers.
He hauls it in.
Ten in a row, retired by Wilcox.
You know Wilcox has a long record of hanging in there for a while, being tough.
And you can get to him finally.
I don't know if he gets tired or not, but he's a consistent pitcher to be, you know, gotten to it late in it like he has been.
First year might have been 12-9 two years ago when the season was shortened by a month and a half for the strike.
He's been right at 12 or 13 wins in each of the last five years.
Here's Bernisard. He bounced the short his first time up.
Got a six-gamer intact here tonight.
Check swing. It's high. Ball one.
I followed him all through his career, Joe.
I was scouting for Minnesota when he was pitching for Minneapolis.
And he had that same tag on him down in the minor.
Pitch to Bernisard and he waves and misses at a letter high pitch.
That might have been the sicker, although it was up.
And the count is even at one and one.
But he's come on been a good pitcher for the Tigers.
The other play at the Metrodome tonight, Gus and Frank Viola has a one-nothing lead in the third.
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They got the roof pumped up.
Yeah, the roof didn't come down. This time they closed the airport.
One-one pitch to Bernisard. It's high and away. Ball two.
Viola, that talented young left-hander, they signed right off the college campus a year ago.
Twins are right now three and five and in a virtual tie for the basement with the Mariners.
Both are two under. White Sox are one under. So they're a half game up out of the basement.
Strike at the knees. Good slider, two and two.
Reggie Jackson has homered, I believe, for the California Angels in the fourth.
That would tie the score up there. That's Ken Force pitching for the Angels.
There's a shot, ground ball. The Whittaker is right.
He moves over, picks it up, and Bernisard is out at first.
Hit it sharply, but a skimmer.
Just about four steps to Whittaker's right. Two gone.
That was Reggie's first four-bagger of the year, and it ties the score in the fourth at Minnesota.
Here's Harold Baines. He was thrown out.
Leech to Wilcox covering at first base.
This is his first time up.
Wilcox pups into the motion.
Brings it up high and away. Ball one.
For a guy that's a high ball pitcher, he's certainly going to, not a ground ball, Joe.
He's got seven put outs on ground ball so far in the ball game.
Yeah, he moves it around. He comes upstairs with it, but he throws a lot of pitches around the knees as well.
Baines, jammed with that pitch, fouls it away right up in front of Nancy Faust.
High on the upper deck on the third base side, right under those outdoor seats on the luxury boxes.
Wilcox is certainly not the most graceful pitcher you ever see.
He looked like he had to put a lot of effort into all his pitches.
Looks like he's pumping himself up.
He does.
The pitch to Baines, down and in. Ball two and strike one.
Harold hit four homers and knocked in 13 runs against the Tigers last year, but he had three of those homers.
And eight of those RBIs and one ball game here one night, the seventh of July a year ago.
What a night that was.
Two and one to count.
Baines leading out over that play for that widespread slightly closed stance.
Here's the pitch by Wilcox. He fouls it back upstairs off the window of the owners box.
Here on our press level, the guy don't play, so the count is two and two. Baines a bit late on that pitch. It was up and away.
Looks at the handle of his bat before he settles back into the batter's box.
Two and two to count. Wilcox trying to put down his 12th straight batter here with Dugan in the fourth.
The deliberate swung on field foul coming right back below us.
Landing in the open goal seats and rolling back down the net.
They couldn't hold it. Can't hold it two and two.
Some fan is really getting the good natured ribbing here.
You know, we got a good crowd on hand here tonight considering the coldest of the night.
A lot of them here to see the fireworks, I assume.
There's a bouncer down the first base side glove by Leach behind the bag.
He runs up and makes the play unassisted and that's four perfect innings for Milton Wilcox.
He has retired 12 straight.
And at the end of the four here at Chicago, the Tigers still lead it two to nothing.
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Just below the belt for a called strike and a late call it was by Joe Brickman.
0-1. White has had the one bad inning where the Tigers butch four of their five hits to score two runs.
That came in the second. Those are the only runs of the game.
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Allen Trammell one of four strikeout victims for Hoyt on a check swing third his first time up.
One gone here in the Tiger fifth. The big right handed starts him off with a wide sweeping curve a bit low in the way.
Ball one. Tigers about hit the White Sox five and nothing can lead it to nothing here in the top of the fifth.
Wilcox has pitched a perfect game through four.
Fastball inside a bit close just above the knees. That straightened Trammell up out of that crouch and a count his ball too.
Trammell the number nine hitter in the Tiger order.
Lou Whitaker the leadoff batter on deck.
To and on a travel swung on fly ball looked in the right field. Vane's jogging in.
Waiting for it. He puts it away. There's two gone.
Too many fly balls to either outfield or night.
It's only the third outfield put out for the Sox outfield. One by each of the three fielders.
Kittle and Whitaker every or rather Whitaker has been retired by Kittle and Rudy Laws.
He steps in there. He found out the Kittle in the first and he fly to shadow left center in the third.
Two gone here in the fifth.
Fastball strike call good pitch just above the knees inside corner as point crossed up Whitaker and came inside with a hard one.
Oh and one. Whitaker's matured now. He had his best year at the plate a year ago.
Little guy pumped out 15 home runs. Most of them at Detroit. That pitches down and in a ball one and one.
Before that the most he'd ever hit in a year was three.
There's a curve and a beauty right in there at the knees for a call strike one and two the cup.
I believe Whitaker pulls more in Tiger Stadium than he does anywhere else.
They've got a short porch to right field. Yes sir. So I guess he can pull when he wants to.
One two pitch to Whitaker. He tried to pull that one and nubs it foul down the first base side of the ground and the count holds at one and two.
Well if he can pull when he wants to I don't know why he wouldn't pull here when especially the ballpark them playing the other over to the left like they are.
He's got a lot of space in right center and he can hit the ball with a third to right center.
Of course he's the guy who's trying to pull the pitcher comes inside with it. For the most part they'll work him away.
Now he has a sign. Here's a one two pitch to Whitaker and he misses low and away with that one two and two.
Tomorrow afternoon Floyd Bannister against Dan Petrie. Here's the pitch.
Swung on and a roll foul past the on deck hitter.
Larry Herndon.
What took a little off that one had him out in front and he pulled that one right back in the on deck circle for the Tigers.
You know we've talked about Hoyt's five on one record with the Tigers.
Lamp four and all against Detroit all the last two years. He goes Sunday.
Dan Petrie is six and one against the White Sox.
The only time he beat him was with that two out two run pitch homer by Hairston here last year.
There's a dry roll to center field.
Boy did Whitaker get a hold of that one and he really spanked it cleanly in the center field.
A solid line drive hit. That's his 13th hit of the year.
And the Tigers have a two out single here in the fifth hit number six off Hoyt.
Whitaker hit a rope to center.
Howard Johnson has tapped the second and rolled out the first unassisted.
He's 0 for 2 and 0 for 8 on the year against the White Sox.
He hit 316 last year after starting the year at Evansville.
And that's why they platoon him a lot at third base although he is a switch hitter.
He has been batting nothing but left handed up here so far in the bigs this year.
There goes the runner Whitaker.
Ground ball. Pulled foul down the first base side.
Scattering moving the first base coach Billy Consolo out of there although it wasn't hit that hard.
Talking about moving, Dan Mars had to move on Whitaker's line drive.
Kind of flinched.
The hit and run was applied there but Johnson fouled the pitch off.
0-1 Whitaker at first with 2 out in the top of the fifth inning.
Hoyt had retired five in a row.
Alomar has a sign from Carlton Fiske's catcher.
Johnson waiting with that batcock tie over his shoulder.
There's a fastball strike. Throw to second and time.
Yes, they got Whitaker as Jerry Dibsinski put the tag on him.
Whitaker now 3 out of 5 on the bases.
Tigers 0 for 2 tonight. No runs, one hit.
Nobody left. We reached the halfway point here.
Midway through the fifth at Koniski Park the Tigers lead it 2 to nothing.
The Tigers lead it 2 to nothing.
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Well it's time to go to work on this guy.
Here's Leszczynski who foul out to the catchers.
First time up he takes a check swing and a pitch a sicker a bit low.
Ball one. Leszczynski, Kittle and Walker in that order.
12th in a row have been mowed down by the right-hander Milt Wilcox
who has a 2-0 lead here in the bottom of the fifth.
The pitch to Leszczynski, a swing and a miss and a count is even a ball and a strike.
BALL
Mel Hall, a fine fleet-footed rookie outfielder for the Cubs.
Gonna be put on the disabled list it looks like.
There's a pitch, long away ball to the count to Leszczynski.
One of the preseason baseball magazines.
Hall was listed as the top rookie candidate coming into either league.
Kittle was rated tenth.
Here's the 2-1 pitch.
The ball takes, strike two, go.
Good pitch, knee-high outside corner and that evens it at 2-2.
Well he's got Leszczynski searching up there.
He hasn't had a good rip at him yet.
Like we have met many hitters that has.
No, he's keeping everybody off-ball.
2-2 delivery, fastball.
Peel foul coming back and it's gonna land right on the roof,
skidding over the top of the roof behind home plate.
2-2 the count to Leszczynski.
He delivers a little quick, has that fast pump.
And then he changes speeds on him.
Post-boned and filling tonight, the Phillies and the Braves.
So another arena, there's a slow curve over for a call, strike three.
Leszczynski caught flat-footed.
Second strike out of the game for Wilcox.
Let's hope the 13's the unlucky number for him.
And here comes Kittle.
Kittle struck out on three pitches this first time up.
He went down hacking.
Wilcox really pulled the string on that slow-breaking ball to Leszczynski.
Yeah, he feed you that hard-breaking stuff and the sinker.
And when he takes something off of that breaking pitch, he's tough.
He's got about two different deliveries and about five different pitches.
And if you're a guess-hitter, boy, you got your work cut out for you.
He throws Kittle a sinker, but it's low, ball one.
Like a guy playing bridge, you got to remember the cards.
Better count them.
Yes, sir.
Well, he threw me this one last time, threw me the other one before.
I feel him feel both deep around to the left.
There's a pitch and it is low, ball two.
To it out, a Ron Kittle, one of the few batters ahead of Wilcox
who has not walked a man nor has he been close tonight.
He did have a three and two count to one batter, Rudy Law, leading off the fourth.
Now the wind up and here's the pitch.
Kittle swings and misses and a breaking ball down around the knees.
Two balls and a strike.
Johnson's only about four or five steps off the line and deep at third.
Trammel on the edge of the grass.
Whitaker pulled around at second and deep.
So's the outfield.
The pitch to Kittle.
Swung out.
He had a good one.
The pitch to Kittle swung out.
He had a hack and he files it back to the wire.
To it too.
That was a good fastball away.
Kittle trying to go back to the middle then.
Two balls, two strikes with young Greg Walker on deck.
Wilcox shakes off the first side from Parrish.
Now has the one he wants.
To it to the Kittle.
Kirby got him out looking.
Oh, Kittle rocked back on his heels and that ball snapped right over the heart of the play.
Two in the inning and three strikeouts for the game from Will Wilcox.
Well, he has been a dandy here tonight.
There's Walker who tapped out to Howard Johnson at third.
His first look at Wilcox.
Walker in a major league uniform.
Looks like he's about 17.
He's got that boyish looking face.
He swings and misses.
Ball popped out of Parrish has met.
Walker almost fell across the plate with the force of his cut.
All in one.
Trying to loosen up that right shoulder before he stepped back in.
A bone chilling night here at Kineski Park.
Although the wind fortunately is not gusting like it was yesterday.
There's a swing and a little looper.
And Leach right in front of Whitaker hauls it in.
Just a little spinner.
A bad handle spinner.
For a minute it looked like he was headed for right field.
But Leach crossed right in front of Whitaker to glove it.
And that's 15 men in a row through five innings put down in order.
By Wilcox.
At the end of five here in Chicago the Tigers lead it 2-0.
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Howard Johnson, the number two hitter in the Tiger Order, has popped out twice.
He was at the plate when Whitaker was thrown out attempting to steal a base in the last inning.
We'll lead it off here in the sixth.
Warr in on the edge and shallow at third.
Here's the pitch.
Swing and a foul tipped into the dude.
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Wilcox has thrown only 59 pitches through five innings.
Firing 15 straight batters.
There's a little loop or foul into the Tiger first base dugout on the second hop.
All into the cap to Howard Johnson.
Herndon and Parrish to follow.
Tiger's got four of their six hits in both runs in the second.
And a hit in the fourth and a hit in the fifth.
Point delivers.
Almost hit him.
That pitch was down and in right at ankle high.
And Johnson had to walk the tightrope to get out of the way of that one.
One ball and two strikes.
That was a good attention getter.
Got Johnson's attention.
Try to straighten him up.
Going to deliver it.
Fastball ripped up the middle.
Base hit and a center field on the ground.
So Johnson lays off the Tiger's six with a smash just to the glove side of Hoyt.
And to the right field side of the bag at second it went out in the center field.
That's two straight hits off Hoyt now.
Counting the one the Whitaker got with two out in the fifth.
However, he didn't seem to get his attention too much though.
He stepped into that pitch and lined it right in the center.
Well hit ball.
Hit number seven for the Tigers.
And they have a lead off man on.
Sparky's tried to steal a couple times tonight.
And unsuccessful both times.
Here's Herndon who has struck out twice on curve balls.
See what Hoyt feeds the left fielder this time.
A curve and it's just a bit wide at the bell.
Ball one.
That was a much tighter breaking curve.
You got Herndon on those wide sweeping breakers the first two times up.
He checks with third base coach Alex Grammis before he steps back in.
Two nothing Detroit.
And the sixth Wilcox has been masterful tonight for the Tigers.
Retired 15 straight through five.
Hoyt turns and throws to first driving Howard Johnson back to the bag.
That was only Howard's third hit now on 16 at bats this year.
One for three tonight.
His first hit at nine at bats this season against the Whitesides.
He stretches late a bit at first.
Walker holding.
Herndon might try to putz the ball through the right side.
Here's the pitch.
Swing and a foul down and back.
A ball on the strike.
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The Angels now with a four to one lead at the Metrodome in Minnesota against the Twins in the sixth inning.
Reggie is homing up there.
The stretch for the right hander Hoyt.
Here's the pitch now.
Herndon swings and misses a sicker down around the knees.
One and two to count.
Good low breaking ball.
Hoyt trying to fan him for the third straight time.
He has four strikeouts tonight.
Wilcox has three.
Neither pitcher has been close to walking a batter as of yet.
In fact Hoyt hadn't gone to ball free on anybody.
One and two to cap to Herndon with that.
Ball upright stance.
Feet straight away widespread.
Hoyt turns lobs to first.
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Here's the pitch.
Swing and a pass.
He struck him out as he pulled the strike on a breaking ball.
Quick snap throw to first.
Johnson is back.
That's three straight times.
Herndon's gone down swinging and five in the ballgame for Lamar Hoyt.
One out here with a man on first here in the Tigers sixth.
Here's Parrish.
Well Herndon has been duck soup for the big guy Lamar Hoyt.
But Parrish has been trouble.
He has doubled.
Singled and scored a run.
He's two for two.
Both times he's let off an inning he has hit safely.
Now he's up with a man on and one out here in the sixth.
Check swing and the pitch is a bit low and Parrish in checking his swing staggered out across the plate.
I gotta believe Parrish had intention to go in for the long ball because he had trouble stopping that swing.
Looks like he was loved.
Yeah he was.
He was ready for it.
They've resumed in New York.
They're down the fifth the Blue Jays with a five to four lead over the Yankees.
They had a slight rain delay there.
Swing and a foul back to the wire and Parrish goes down on his right knee.
Boy did he unload on that cut.
One ball and one strike.
He's trying to yank one out of here.
Well he's about due to hit one.
He hasn't homered yet this year and he had 32 last year to set a single season American League record for a catcher.
Maybe you're trying to go for the cycle.
On one swing.
No.
But he's got a.
You think he wants to get the hard part now.
I think the hard part for him would be the three bagger.
Yeah he's got half of it already.
Quick throw to first Johnson.
Almost leading the wrong way.
Drove back in there.
Head first.
The ball and the strike.
They got the lance Parrish.
They may have the steal in mind with Parrish at bat.
Got that up right close dance on a quick throw to first and again Johnson dives back in under the tag.
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Right hander doing Lamar Hoyt gazing in to get the side.
The stretch and the pitch.
Parrish swings one left field way back is kind of over his head off the wall and a hop gets away.
That's going to score the runner Howard Johnson being waved on in and Parrish pulls in a second base with a run scoring double.
It's three nothing Tigers.
Parrish hit a rope over Kittles head off the left field wall out there in front of the bull ring and a short hop.
Parrish is three for three tonight with two doubles.
Boy he's been some kind of trouble and he hasn't been fooled on anything.
He kept the pitch he almost went over the plate and fell down on like he might have been trying to go for the real long ball there.
But he hit that ball hard enough.
All he had to do was get it a little bit more into the air.
That gives him three doubles on the year.
That's his fifth RBI three nothing Tigers hit number eight off the bar Hoyt.
And Parrish has been almost a one man wrecking crew here tonight with a pair of doubles and a single a run scored and a run batted in.
Parrish is at second with one out.
And here's Johnny Grubb who's tapped out twice.
First pitch a check swing on a fastball a bit high just above the letters ball one.
We're in the sixth the Tigers now with a three run lead.
And so far Mr. Wilcox hasn't given the White Sox an inch.
There's a smash up the middle.
That's a ski wheels throws wide in the bag the runner is safe.
That'll be a hit.
That's a ski world three hundred sixty degrees.
He loved that ball deep behind the bag at second but his throw tail towards the home plate side and pull Walker off the bag and Grubb will be given credit for a hit.
Butters at first and third.
Now that was if you went over to the grass right behind second base he had a world around Joe said make a complete turnaround to throw the ball had to do it in a hurry.
But he didn't make the good throw that has hit the bird nine off point and we got a couple of pitchers heating up in a hurry and the White Sox bullpen.
Oh wait a minute they're going to get to be a ski an error.
Oh boy that is one tough error on the Zitzke in this kind of weather tonight.
Here comes Dave Duncan.
Dave Duncan the pitching coach comes out to have a word with light.
So change your score sheets throwing air on the Zitzke.
He did a great job in getting to the ball but the throw of course looked like it would have had the hitter grub beaten and so the throw allowing the runner to reach.
Yes he did.
He made a good stop went over behind second base and made the throw.
He would have had to make a perfect throw if he got him and I don't know if he got him then or not.
He might have had him by half a step or a step.
According to the scorer's decision he would have had him and so that's why they charged the air.
That is a very tough error.
All right.
Here's Glenn Wilson he's tripled in a run and scored.
He's one for two last time up he bounced out to second.
Sox need a double play here.
First pitch a swing and a miss.
As White took something off of that pitch pulled a string on it and White.
Fooled the hitter Glenn Wilson that time.
Butters at first and third one out here the Tigers sixth the runners in.
Parrish over at third he's three for three the big bat tonight for the Bengals.
Over at first is Johnny Grubb.
White working out of the stretch.
Swing and a miss on a pitch down and then Wilson waved at that one.
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If Wilcox goes another inning or so.
On to the cat.
To Glenn Wilson here's the pitch fastball inside he had a hop out of the way of that one.
One ball and two strikes.
The last no hitter pitched in this ballpark was September 10th 1967 by right handed Joel Harlan.
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So it's been 16 15 and a half years since they've had a no hitter pitched in this ballpark.
Pitch is a bit low on inside and Wilson laid off of it.
Two balls and two strikes to go.
Ted Rowe is one of the two pitchers heating up for the White Sox.
It's all right hander.
And a lefty.
Might be Kevin Hickey.
Two to deliberate.
Just a little bit low.
Fisk couldn't hang on and a full count now to Glenn Wilson.
Johnny Grubb with a three run lead over at first will probably be off with a pitch.
Parrish of course will hold at third and see what happens.
Full count to Glenn Wilson.
The stretch there goes the runner at first.
The pitch is swung on a comeback right to the mound.
They've got the runner caught in the box at third.
Point throws to Fisk who runs it back to third.
You want to make sure you get a man here out of the baseline.
He's called out.
They didn't tag him that time.
They didn't have to.
Parrish ran out of the baseline.
So Fisk will be given credit for the put out.
And the Tigers have runners at first and second.
Nobody moved to third on the play.
So fielder's choice by Hoyt on the ball hit back to the box.
A one hopper to Hoyt off the bat of Glenn Wilson.
A one to fielder's choice.
Wilson safe at first. Rub stayed at second after he broke for third.
So that's one run down.
The fourth of the year the first one.
The White Sox have turned to their favor.
I don't think I'll ever forget that play at second base yesterday.
Two gone now.
Runners at first and second.
Here's Chet Fleming who's singled in around in the second.
Struck out his last time up.
Hoyt to the belt.
Looks at second.
The pitch a fastball strike call.
The ball is high outside corner all in one.
That's the last no hitter pitch to the American League was on the 15th of May in 81 by Len Barker.
Against Toronto that was that perfect ball gave me through against the Blue Jays.
I saw that game Joe and boy he had great stuff.
About 13 strikeouts that game.
I reckon he did.
For the swing and a loop on the right field that's going to score a run.
Bates picks it up in the right field corner.
The runner from second and hit first time at second.
Oh and it's second base.
Chet Lemon out trying to stretch a RBI single into a double as Bates cut him down.
Chet second hit second RBI of the game and the Tigers add to their lead.
They double it here in the sixth with two runs on three hits in an era.
One man left and at the end of five and a half,
Detroit leads it 4-0.
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So far tonight the White Sox haven't had a lick to cheer about or even get excited about.
Wilcox has retired 15 straight hitters through five innings.
He's thrown only 59 pitches and now he has a 4-0 lead working for him as we go to the bottom of the sixth.
He'll face the tail end of the order.
Fisk, Law, and Dabczynski. Fisk lied to shadow left his first time up.
And that has been the only ball hit out of the infield against Milt Wilcox.
Tonight has been letter perfect.
The pitch on the way to Fisk, up and in, a bit close for a ball, ball one.
Nolan Ryan has pitched a fifth career no-hitter for himself on September 26th at 81 by beating the Dodgers 5-0.
That is the last previous no-hitter in the big leagues.
And there's a breaking ball on the way, ball two to Fisk.
Tigers have four runs on nine hits off Hoyt.
He's had two bad innings, the second, which he gave up two runs on four hits.
And in the top half of this inning, the sixth, he gave up two runs on three hits in an error.
One of the four runs off Hoyt is unearned.
That was a tough error on Jerry Dabczynski.
To another count to the leadoff batter, Carlton Fisk.
Here's the pitch for the right-hander.
Fastball just a bit high, ball three.
Right now, I'll take base runners anywhere we can get them, Gus.
And a case like this, yes, Joe, we gotta take it.
We need a bunch.
So he's gotta be taken for sure.
Real pitch to Fisk, fastball right down the pipe at the knees for a call strike, three and one.
Wilcox now makes his off in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
Here's a three-one delivery.
Strike at the knees, the slider.
Now the count is full, three and two.
Wilcox has three strikeouts, no walks.
Second full count of the night.
This one to punch Fisk leading off the bottom of the sixth.
Now he calls time, just as Wilcox starts his motion.
Angels now with a five-run lead at the Met, the Metrodome, six to one in the sixth over the Twins.
There's a swing, pop foul, gonna be out of play, first base side.
This misses the upper deck, bounces off the camera deck, suspended from the mezzanine, and drops into the lower deck.
Still three and two to Fisk.
Red to the count, Fisk waiting. Wilcox into his line, appears the payoff pitch.
Swing and a miss, hey, struck him out on that slip pitch, that's the porkball, a sinker.
And that is three strikeouts for the last four batters and four on the night for Wilcox.
He seems to be getting tougher.
So that's 16 Monroe retired, that brings up Vance Law, who bounced out to third his first time.
Vance is gonna break it up right here.
Wilcox is throwing harder tonight, and I believe he, you know, consistently, and I've seen him in quite some time.
Not letting up. The pitch to Vance Law, fastball strike, felt high inside corner, 0-1.
Maybe he knows what he's going for, and they say you're not supposed to know it.
Wilcox delivers to Law, a curve, and it dropped just a bit low. That was a beauty, a sharp...
Breaking ball, down and in, but it just missed the strike zone, 1-1 to count.
Vance Law taps the dirt out of his spikes with the end of his bat, now settles back in there.
Law, an avid pupil of batting instructor Charlie Lowe, rocks back and forth on his feet.
Here's the pitch, and it's a bit high with a slider, ball two and strike one, as Wilcox
patted his glove after he threw that pitch, he knew it was up.
The pitchers, especially, are very superstitious about having one going, no hitter going, and somebody
misses it on the bench. One time, a pitcher had, a Cleveland pitcher had a no hitter going,
somebody walked down to him and said, hey, you know you got a no hitter going?
Swing and a miss, who? Law swung right through that pitch and accounted for two to Vance.
And sure enough, the next inning, he got a hit off of him.
What did you do to the guy?
Everybody was about to kill him.
How long did you carry a no hitter into a ball game?
Oh, I've gone into the ninth, eighth time or so, seventh few times.
Never made it though.
Not in the majors.
Swing and a miss, he pulled the string, and Law was out in front of off-stripe and waved
that at Fiddley on that darting breaking ball down and away.
Five strikeouts for Wilcox.
Four in the last two innings.
Jerry Dibczynski has got a bat now.
He tapped to the mound his first time up.
Wouldn't it be funny if Dibczynski in his second at bat this year break up a perfect game.
Wilcox has retired 17 straight with five strikeouts, four in the last five batters in fan.
We're in the bottom of the sixth.
The Tiger right hander working on a 4-0 lead as well.
Well, it would certainly be a pleasure to all of us to see the Dibber get something started here.
Pitch is a strike at the knees.
He watched that one all the way into Parrish's myth.
I think it was pretty evident that I've never seen Wilcox as tough as he is tonight.
The 0-1 pitch to Dibczynski, a swing and a miss.
Oh, he went after a letter high fastball.
Went down to one knee, onto the count.
And as Wilcox threw that pitch, he done a little dance.
Yeah, I think he wanted it back as soon as he let it go.
I think he was worried.
That pitch was right up in the wheelhouse.
On to the count.
In fact, I think Wilcox has gotten away with a couple of pitches this inning.
Here's the 0-2 pitch to Dibczynski.
Oh, a late cut and a swing and a miss and a fastball.
He struck out the side.
Six strikeouts in the game, five in the last two innings.
And at the end of six innings of play here, Wilcox working on a perfect no-hitter.
The score, Detroit 4, the White Sox nothing.
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We go to the seventh and to call it for you, here's early.
And it's a tough job tonight.
Lamar Hoard having a little bit of trouble.
First pitch to the batter, Mark Leach, the first baseman, is inside corner, breaking pitch for a call strike.
Hoard's been in trouble two innings.
The second inning, two runs, the sixth inning, two runs, and the Tigers lead 4-0.
Pitch is inside to Leach.
Now the count is even, 1-1.
On the other side of the corn, Milt Wilcock, who's really breezing along.
Never seen him have better stuff than he's had tonight, and it's quite evident with the no hitter he's got going, the perfect ballgame.
Pitch swung on by Leach, and that's a drill down the left field line.
Foul, going to go down into the seat.
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The pitch swung on by Leach, he went after a bad pitch, and he strikes out.
So that's strikeout number six for Hoard in the ballgame.
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Lamar hasn't had bad stuff by any means, he's had good stuff, but Lance Parrish has solved it every time he's been up to the plate.
He's three for three tonight, he's scored one run, driven in one.
This is Alan Trimble, a shortstop, takes the first pitch over for a call strike by Hoyt.
Hoyt has six strikeouts, Gus, but he's fanned Herndon three times.
Yeah, he should have scattered those around, maybe got Parrish once or twice.
Yeah.
And he windspires, that's what is outside.
Now this has been Wilcox and Parrish night.
Parrish is really having a night for himself.
Hoyt looking in, getting the sign.
Trimble is ready, he swings on a breaking pitch high, misses for a strike two.
Let's give up a couple other base hits at different innings, that's a swing on a high breaking pitch, going into center field,
really long coming in, he can't get it, just a little blooper out behind second base.
Now Trimble is on, that's the tenth hill of the ballgame for the Tigers.
And the Tigers have another base runner, a little bloop single into center field, Texas Laker.
We'll go back to the top of the batting order, Lou Whitaker.
Whitaker is one for three tonight, had a fly ball into the left side of the field, caught by Ron Kittle.
Now I do believe we're going to have a pitching change as Tony LaRusso comes out,
and he's going to let the left-hander, probably Jerry Kuzman, come in to pitch to Lou Whitaker.
Yes, he is taking Lamar Hoyt out, and we're going to get a new pitcher, so we'll take this time out and be right back.
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Well, veteran left-hander Jerry Cousman, 40 years young, comes on to relieve Lamar Hoyt through 96 pitches
in working six and a third innings in his quest for a sixth career victory over the Tigers,
which will not be forthcoming tonight.
Hoyt gave up four runs at the moment, three earned on 10 hits.
He struck out six, did not walk a batter.
And as Gus mentioned, he had two bad innings, the second and the sixth,
when the Tigers bunched seven of their ten hits for all four runs.
Cousman has no wins nor losses, but he picked up a save in three innings of shutout relief
of Dennis Lamp against these Tigers in Detroit.
This is his third appearance. He's worked four innings, given up five hits, three runs, all earned a 6.75 ERA.
Cousman with 191 lifetime victories, including 11 last year.
He was the most effective starter for the Sox in the final two months of the year.
He won seven of his last nine.
So he's on in relief now to try to keep the Tigers at four and hoping, of course,
the White Sox bats will wake up here in the last three turns against Wilcox
and can turn this ballgame around.
Looked like Hoyt had good stuff, however, the stats do not show it with 10 hits in there,
but he was throwing the ball very hard.
Now Cousman comes on, it'll be a little different change of pace probably.
He won't throw as hard as Hoyt did and or near as often.
He'll sneak that fastball in there once in a while, but he's going to pitch to the left-hander now.
Lou Whitaker, the second baseman. Whitaker is a left-hand batter.
Infield is going to shorten up the double play with the runner on first.
That's Alan Trammell. And only one away.
Of course, Whitaker will be playing footsie with Vance Law down at third base trying to drag him in.
Cousman goes to first base, the ball gets away from Walker, goes down the line,
and there goes Alan Trammell going down to second base.
And he's in there safely.
Cousman made a quick throw at the first base.
And it was a low pitch, which is where he should be over the first base to try and catch the runner off.
Now Walker didn't hold on to it.
Didn't bounce very far, rolled down to the edge of the grass.
However, in the meantime, Trammell, wide awake, took off for second base.
So he's on second base, one away.
It's going to be an error on Walker. That's his third of the year.
Cousman is all set. He's got the sign delivered and Whitaker swings and he misses.
Our official score tonight, Dave Nightingale, formerly of the Chicago Tribune, now of the Sporting News.
Cousman and Walker should have handled it.
Cousman looking in. Trammell's got a good lead.
And a pitch, swung on.
And Cousman's going to take it on the first hop, throw to first base.
And they got Whitaker.
In the meantime, Alan Trammell comes on over to third base, but there's two away.
That put out was made to picture the first baseman.
Now we'll see if they're going to bring, let Howard Johnson come up to.
No, they're going to pitch it. He's going to go with the right-handed hitting third sucker.
Tommy Brookens, Sparky not satisfied at all with a four-run lead.
And now right-hander Steve Mura, who has yet to pitch in a regulation game of the White Sox, heating up in the bullpen.
Brookens swings a good bat.
He's got the best contact most of the time, and he's also a pretty good glove man around third base.
Brookens had a couple of hits against the White Sox in Detroit.
He's hitting 4-0-9 with nine hits and 22 at bats, one homer and four runs batted in.
Johnson was one for three with a run scored.
Now Cousman's got his work cut out for him, trying to save that run.
White Sox have got to stay in there.
Wilcox is too strong tonight to let another run come in, or anymore.
A good pitch by Cousman, just about knee-high breaking pitch. It's over for a called strike.
Count goes to one on Brookens.
He will no doubt pitch very cautious to Brookens.
Trammel planted on third with Cousman putting him in the set position.
He's hitting a grounded down to third base side foul.
So Cousman is way ahead of Brookens. Count is on two.
Cousman probably play mousy with Brookens, trying to mess him up there.
Has a little bounce down to third base side, beat into the ground, it's foul.
Barely rolled down to the third base coaching box.
Another pitch inside, a little breaking pitch, looks like a slider.
So it's still a one-two count on Tom Brookens.
Third baseman will be third baseman when the Tigers take the field again.
Cousman pitches from the set position again with a run on third.
Pitch and it's outside.
Now it's one and two.
It's a four to nothing ball game here at Comiskey Park.
They were the Tigers. They have ten hits and the White Sox have none.
Cousman kicks, delivers, ball swung on and miss, he struck him out.
So Cousman comes in and puts out the fire with a strikeout, strike it out, pitch hitter.
The Tigers got a hit, they got no runs, they leave one man on base.
After six and a half innings, the Tigers four and the White Sox nothing.
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I'm early win with Joe McConnell here at Comiskey Park where we have quite a game going tonight.
After all the wild hitting and scoring ball games we've had,
we've got a game going now that is a perfect game for Milt Wilcox.
Only thrown 74 pitches so far.
Pitching a perfect game, has retired the first 18 batters to facing.
Rudy Law steps into the batter's box to be the first man in this inning
followed by Berndesard and Harold Bain.
First pitch is high and outside for ball one by Wilcox.
Wilcox hasn't walked anybody.
He's only been three in 201 batter.
Third baseman playing in on there to the grass so that Law can't bunt.
Now Wilcox gets the pitch over and count is even at 1-1.
It's 4 to nothing.
They have a total of 10 hits and the White Sox have nothing.
They say that you can get to Wilcox if you stay with him,
but he's staying with everybody tonight.
All the hitters and nobody's gotten to him so far.
Pitch is outside a seeker.
And Rudy Law is now ahead of Wilcox, two balls and a strike.
Outfield shifted over to the left as they do normally on Rudy Law.
He has a lot of space on right center field and a lot of space down the right field line.
Wilcox winds and he fires.
A breaking pitch inside and low.
And it's three balls and a strike.
This is the first time he's been three and one, I do believe.
Last inning, the sixth inning, Wilcox struck out the side.
Struck out Carlton Fifth, Vance Law, and Jerry Dabdinski.
Struck out a total of six.
Goes into the pump, winds and delivers.
Law swings the grounder going down the first base side,
taken by the first baseman, leaps and Rudy Law is out by the first baseman unassisted.
That's one away.
So now that is 19 batters retired in a row.
And it'll bring up Tony Bernizard.
Tony is a switch hitter.
Got about left-handed against Wilcox as he's done all night.
Tony is 0 for 2 as everybody else.
Who is not 0 for 3.
Grounded out to the shortstop first time.
Then he popped up to the...
or grounded out to the second base, but his second time up in the fourth inning.
Wilcox winds delivers.
And a high pop-up on the first base side in foul territory.
And the first baseman leaps calling for it.
He almost jumps into the air to get it.
And he takes it in foul territory.
That's out number two.
That is 20 batters in a row.
Looks like the players themselves know that there's a perfect game going.
And you play in a perfect game.
We'll get your name in the record books for sure in big press.
This will bring up Harold Baines, right fielder.
Baines grounded out to the...
first baseman, thrown over to the pitcher the first time up in the first inning.
Then he grounded out to the first baseman unassisted in the...
back and the four.
Pitchers on the inside corner breaking pitch by Wilcox for call strike.
The players will dive and run and jump and everything to catch a ball in this ball game.
Swing and a foul going down the left side.
And that's going to be out of play on the left.
The White Sox dugout just down below it.
I guess it's every player's dream to play in a perfect game.
If you're on the winning side only.
Wilcox has been the master tonight.
So far, the Sox don't have much time left.
Wilcox winds, he fires, Baines swings, pops up back over the...
Sox dugout to our left.
That was going to go into the upper deck.
0-2 on Harold Baines, two men away here in the bottom of the seventh inning.
The pitch and a way outside ball one.
Wilcox being ahead on two sides, if Baines wanted to go fishing, he'd have to have a long line.
That pitch was about three foot outside.
Airplane Baines, kindly straight away in the outfield.
The pitch, Baines swings and he's drilled one into left field.
Hearned and started back, then he had to stop and he takes it for the out.
21 batters in a row.
As Baines winds to left field for the third out here in the bottom of the seventh inning.
We will go into the top of the eighth with the Tigers leading 4-0.
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Well here we go to the eighth inning.
The first pitch Kuzman delivers to Herndon Lowen inside ball one.
Herndon struck out three straight times against the starter Lamar Hoy to work the first six of the third innings.
Kuzman came on, wiggle out of any further damage in the seventh,
replacing Hoyt with one on and one out and knocked his first strike out of the game.
But the story now is secondary.
Milt Wilcox is the story of tonight's ball game. He has pitched perfect baseball through seven innings.
He has retired 21 consecutive White Sox batters.
And has a four to nothing lead here in the top of the eighth inning.
And Kuzman delivers to Herndon. Fast ball at the knees for a called strike.
Kuzman looks plenty quick tonight, Gus.
I imagine he'll feel pretty fast and pretty strong tonight in this cool weather.
See if he can handle Herndon as good as Lamar Hoyt did.
One on one the cap, the left-hander kicks and deals.
Curve ball lined in the right field. That ball is trouble.
And it is a fair ball just inside the line.
Rolling up against that low boxy Reilly out there as Bates picks it up.
He's going to send him back to second I believe.
Sparky Anderson out there with first base up by Nick Bremigan who called fan interference.
That'll be a ground rule lead off double down into the right field corner off the bat of Larry Herndon.
That's the first time we've seen that happen this year.
That's one thing that fans shouldn't do is interfere with plays on the field.
We've been saying that forever.
Yeah, I know it.
I don't understand it myself.
Someday one is going to run into a fielder trying to feel that ball and probably get hurt.
Or else hurt a fielder.
Here's the big bat for the Tigers tonight. The guy who's catching the perfect game.
Lance Parrish. He has doubled twice and single. He has scored a run and knocked it around.
He's played a part in all the Tiger offense tonight.
Now he's up with the runner at second. Nobody out here in the eighth inning.
First pitch, slow curve and a beauty over the outside corner.
Knee high, all in one.
Herndon at second.
Nobody out.
We're in the eighth inning. The Tigers lead it 4-0. That was the 11th Detroit hit.
Herndon at the plate has rather Parrish at the plate has three of them.
Guzman working out of the stretch delivers. Fastball. He almost chased it into the dirt.
And he did.
Tried to check his swing. Nick Bremigan shot the right arm in the air. His fist looked down there.
And so the count is two strikes on Parrish.
In the Sox eighth, it'll be Luzinski, Kittle and Walker.
And if Wilcox retires them in the ninth, it would be the bottom third of the order.
Probably a couple of pitch hitters following Fisk.
Guzman to the bell. Check second. Here's the pitch. Swung on high.
Fly ball, twisting foul. Way down the upfield side. Back out of play into the upper deck.
Bounced off the top of the auxiliary scoreboard. He wound up in the walkway down in the lower deck.
So the count holds it on to Parrish.
The last time the White Sox were no hit was on the 1st of August, 1962.
Here at Comiskey Park, Bill Manbuket, a class of little right-hander for the Boston Red Sox, beat them 1-0 in 62.
It's been a long time. 21 years.
Swing, little tap down the third base side. Fair ball. No. Rolls foul.
Just as it got to the bag, there would not have been much of a play on Parrish at first.
That ball stayed fair.
So the count, still on to the Parrish.
Muro, the right-hander, was up and throwing. Guzman, the second pitcher used tonight.
Burned it at second. Nobody out. We're in the eighth.
In case you've just joined us.
Milt Wilcox has a perfect game through seven innings. He's retired 21 consecutive batters.
We're in the eighth. Right-leading, 4-0.
Guzman to the back, the left-hander kicks and deals. Swung on, bounce, foul again.
Pass third base coach Alec Grimas. Still on to.
One team has gone longer than the White Sox without being a no-hit.
You know who that club is, Guz?
Nope.
New York Yankees. The last time they were shut out was when I was in college by Hoyt Wilhelm in 58.
Last time they were no-hit.
There's a line drive foul.
Yanked into the low seats down to third base side off the bat of Parrish.
As Guzman took a little bit off of that breaking ball and Lance was out in front.
That was a guy, Wilhelm, that I expected to pitch a no-hitter every time he walked out.
Well, he didn't start too many. That was one of the few starts he ever had in his major league career.
He came out of the bullpen to face the Yankees late.
In fact, it was September 20, 1958 and shut him out in Baltimore.
Shut him out, he no hit him.
There's a high pop-up off the bat of Parrish.
Foul-tipped or at best coming back near the railing.
One hand's right up against the wall.
And that is the first ball we've seen caught this year that definitely would have been out of reach a year ago.
That was a tough catch and he backhanded the ball leading over that low boxy drilling over the first row.
Well, that's a moral victory to get Lance Parrish out.
First time he's been gotten out tonight.
Good piscis time for that one.
One gone, runners still at second.
Here's Johnny Grubb who reached out a rather good a pull grub.
It's going to be Johnny Walkenfuss, a right-handed hitter batting for Johnny Grubb.
He was 0 for 3 tonight although he did score a run.
He reached on the tough throwing error against Jerry Dibzhinski the last time up.
Walkenfuss hit 300 for the Tigers a year ago.
He's hitting 214 this time with 3 hits and 14 at bats to RBI's.
Walkenfuss has got that unorthodox stance.
Left foot right in front of the right foot.
Strides into the pitch, takes a change-up curve in there at the knees for a call strike.
Guzman to the stretch. Here's the pitch.
Swung on, high deep drive, left field.
At the wall is Kittle and he hauls it into the warning track.
The ball died. It was a little bit too high to go.
Yesterday that ball might have hit the roof.
That ball would have traveled a lot farther yesterday than it did tonight.
When he first hit it I thought it was going to go out.
He got good wood on it, just lifted it too high.
Too gone. Kittle caught that ball right at the base of the left field wall.
That'll bring up Glenn Wilson who has tripled in a run and 3 trips tonight.
Also scored. He tripled and knocked in the first run of the ball game,
which right now stands as the game winner in the second inning,
and then scored on 11 single last time up.
Get a one hopper back to the mound and they ran down, parrish it through.
One for three. Swung on, line drive, right field,
Mates coming on, coming on, plays it on a hop.
Here comes a throw to the plate. Here comes the runner.
He is safe and going to second on the throw to the plate.
There's Glenn Wilson and it's 5-0 Detroit.
Dead run charged to Jerry Guzman as Wilson drives in his second run
of the ball game in his ninth of the year with a single to right.
The Tigers are taking any little bit of mystery that might have remained
in this ball game out. It's going to be Wilcox now.
A big story for the last two innings. Here comes Laroussot.
That may be it for Guzman who has just surrendered his first run tonight.
And the Bluebirds are on Tony's back again.
That's it for Jerry Guzman. He leaves having given up a run earned on two hits.
Tigers now with five runs, 12 hits in the ball game.
And Steve Bure, a right-hander who won 12 ball games for the World Champion Cardinals last year
and was acquired with the White Sox as payment for the loss of Steve Kemp
in the free agent re-entry draft, is coming on to get his first assignment
as a member of the White Sox since the regular season began.
We'll be back in just a moment.
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Dave Bureau is making his first appearance for the White Sox in the 83 season forever.
He's six foot two, a right-hander with 190 pounds.
He's the same size as Joe Toyo, 12 and 11.
He had the earned run out with a 4.05. He got in 35 ball games last year.
That's seven complete games. Pitched 184 headings.
He gave up 196 hits, walked 80 batters, took out 84.
I'm sure he'd much rather come in at a ball game as that.
The guy, as Wilcox says, with the hits tonight, he hasn't given up any hits.
As we've said a hundred times, I guess, he's pitching a perfect ball game.
So he's just going to come in and try to hold him here and hope that the White Sox can get something started.
They trail by five now. It's five to nothing for the Tigers.
The Tigers come on with a barrage of hits. They are a good-hitting ball club.
They've scored a lot of runs just about all year except a time or so.
Good-hitting ball club.
They're 28 years of age, a native of New Orleans.
That makes his home in Metairie.
Just married.
Over the winter.
He's 29 and 38. His big league career.
He came up with a pod race late in 78 for the Cardinals last year's best year.
Well, he's going to face Chet Lemon, who is single, twice knocked in two runs tonight.
Chet is two for three against his old teammates.
He's batting here with a runner at second and two out.
Vera delivers up and in the lemon.
Ball one.
Steve did not have a good spring, and the Sox really were in a quandary as to what to do with him when Brit Burns went down with that mysterious virus.
The virus in his left shoulder, the final week of spring training, and so they kept Vera on the roster.
Otherwise, they were going to have to release him as a free agent.
Take their chances on somebody else claiming it.
There's a fastball strike.
He got into Whitey's doghouse late last year, did not pitch in the playoffs nor the World Series.
And everyone was wondering what happened to Vera, the fifth starter.
It was so very effective in the middle portions of the season for the Cardinals.
There's a slider and a beauty.
There's a sharp breaking curve that had Lemon rocking back and bent on his heels, and the count is one and two.
Vera was hit hard during the spring.
In fact, he even gave up a two-run homer and came against the Bulls of South Florida.
That was his final spring outing.
Down the stretch here is the one-two pitch.
Dounced in, gets away from fifth, and the runner goes to third.
That'll be a wild pitch as Vera snapped that one off into the dirt.
So Wilson advances to third with two out.
They're uncharged to Guzman, and of course if Lemon would drive in his third run of the ballgame, that too would be charged to Jerry.
He worked an inning in the third.
Gave up two hits.
So far one run, he struck out one.
We're in the eighth, five-nothing.
It's been all Detroit and Milton Wilcox here tonight with a lot of help from his friends.
Basically Lance Parrish and Chet Levin, the guy at the plate.
Vera looking in to get the side.
Two and two to count.
The right-hander working out of the stretch.
Swung on.
One-hop liner knocked down by Bernazard.
Picks it up quick for the first.
Head first, I have saved, but first to run scores.
Chet's third hit at third RBI of the game.
The ball hit it out of Bernazard's glove as he tried to backhand it.
By the time he picked it up, he couldn't get much on the throw.
Bernazard was going away from first base when he knocked that one down.
It was a hard hit.
Smashed down just to his right.
So he had to go over to the right, going away from first base.
Couldn't get much on the throw.
Of course, Levin is not the slowest man in the league.
He dove head first in the first base.
It's one of the few times he's been safe on that maneuver.
That run charged to Kuzma.
Runner at first with two outs, six-nothing Tigers.
They've had three two-run innings tonight.
They second, the sixth, and here in the eighth.
The pitch is a bit low.
Ball one to Rick Leach, who is single and three trips.
He's also bounced a second and struck out.
They say you have a much better chance by continuing to run.
You lose at least a full step by sliding in head first.
They tried to tell Chet that about over a five-year period.
Which is high ball two.
13 hits now for the Tigers.
He was right one time.
So that doesn't make it unanimous, I guess.
Well, I'm not sure he was right.
He beat the play, but maybe he'd have been already by the bag.
I think he would have, Joe.
You're working out of the stretch.
The 2-0 delivery to Leach swung on high, pop up left side.
Vance Law at third base.
Bras is back in the fair-tip.
He takes it for the third out.
The Tigers pad their lead once again.
Another two goes on the board for Detroit.
Two runs on three hits.
We go to the bottom of the eighth.
Wilcox with a perfect game.
The Tigers lead it six to nothing.
Next we go to the fair in our second half.
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But it certainly hasn't been too cold for right-hander Milt Wilcox who has retired 21 consecutive batters.
It has a 6 to nothing lead to work with as we head to the bottom of the 8th.
Luzinski, Kittle and Walker in that order. Luzinski has found out to the catcher Parrish and struck out on a change of curve.
Wilcox has struck out 6. 5 of them coming in the 5th and 6th innings.
Milton Edward Wilcox into the line up here is the pitch.
A strike at the knees. Here's a note, Gus a year ago on his birthday the 20th of April he had a one hit shutout against the Royals.
Well tonight he's no hitting the White Sox through 7. A couple of days in advance of his birthday. 5 to be exact.
Luzinski out in front of off-strikes. Two strikes to count.
Well I'll tell you one thing, you're going to see everything he's got for the rest of this ball game unless something happens.
Until something happens. He's really going to work on the batter.
Oh, two-pitch to Luzinski. It's a breaking ball a bit wide at the letter.
One ball and two strikes. You can tell by looking at him he's really pumped up too.
Wilcox rocking back and forth. Last steps into the line up. One-two pitch to Luzinski. Curve just a bit low.
That snake just dipped below the knee. Ball two and strike two.
Fans are booing now. I think the fans that are here, we've got a good crowd on the end.
Well as long as the White Sox are going to lose they might as well see a bit of history.
This will be the headline game tomorrow. Make no mistake about it. One way or the other.
Wilcox in the two-two pitch on the way to Luzinski. Checks, wait, strike, three, go! He's out of there!
That's seven strikeouts for Wilcox at twenty-two minute a-row gone.
Yeah, he's making good pitches. He come in there with that breaking pitch that time to the ball.
Here's Kittle. He has struck out twice tonight.
His string of three games with home runs and RBI's in jeopardy. Needless to say,
White Sox have not had a base runner. Wilcox has not pitched out of the stretch tonight.
And we got one gone on the eighth.
Kittle waits at the plate. Here's the pitch for the right-hander. Swung on, high-fly ball.
Medium deep right center. Giving ground as Chet Lemon waving everybody away. He's got it!
Five steps in front of the warning track. Got him deep right center. And there's two gone.
Twenty-three in a row now. That is only the second ball hit to the outfield tonight.
Now here's Greg Walker. He has bounced a third and popped up to the first baseman leech on a broken bat blooper the last time up.
I got a feeling this might be the guy. I said earlier I thought Vesla was going to break it up,
but he fooled him badly with a change of breaking ball that struck him out.
Here's Walker. One hit all year. He'll have an advance over to tonight.
Wilcox delivers. Fast ball high and away. Ball one to Greg Walker.
Well, Walker is overdue and he's capable, needless to say, Wilcox is a little bit overdue to get a hit against him.
However, he's really pumping. You can tell he knows he's got it.
The pitch to Walker. A slider in there. A high slider into the inside corner for a call strike. What a one.
And you're getting to the point now where you're sure that umpire is not going to take anything away from him.
The umpire is going to try to call, make good calls all the way. He's not going to give him a lot, I don't think.
Here's the pitch Walker takes just off the corner at the knee. Just a bit low. Ball two and strike one.
Because it's too far away right now. You've still got four out. Anything can happen in one inning.
Two gone here in the bottom of the eighth. Wilcox flirting with the history of the baseball book.
Now the right hander into the wind up here is the 2-1 pitch. Walker swings and misses on a water high fastball. 2-2.
Wilcox, a member of the Cubs back in 75. They thought he was washed up then. But he's put five fine years together.
A very consistent fourth, fifth starter for the Tigers. Two and two to count. Walker waiting at the plate.
Wilcox into the line up. Here's the 2-2 pitch. Fastball. Strike free call. He's got it going through eight.
Eight strikeouts for Wilcox on a call. Third strike. Fastball knee high. Inside corner.
That 24-minute-a-row has gone down here at Comiskey Park tonight. At the end of eight, Detroit 6 to the White Sox.
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Joe Mercado and Gus Wendt as we go to the ninth here in Chicago.
The Tigers lead at six to nothing but the story is Milt Wilcox three outs away from a perfect game.
Here's Trammell leading off against Steve Murad. He takes a letter high fastball for a call strike.
Trammell is single and three trips.
He'll be followed by the top of the Tiger order.
What a cure in Brooklyn. Bill Wilcox has thrown just 96 pitches through eight innings and struck out eight.
There's a looper hit down the right field line drifting foul Walker a long run can't reach it up against the type role advances into the lower seats.
So it's all to not a travel leading off the night.
They're going to have a pool feed of course with Wilcox if he gets the no hitter tonight.
We will probably get all probability try to get Lance Parrish because we're set up in the clubhouse now.
There's a pitch down low ball one and two to count.
If somebody breaks up the no hit bet for the White Sox tonight then we'll probably try to talk to him as well.
So stay tuned to our postgame show tonight.
There is a breaking ball and it's just a bit high.
Brickman was all set to ring up Trammell and then for some reason didn't throw the right arm to the count.
During the wind up the two to pitch swung on smashed up the middle base hit in the center field hit number 14 for the Tigers and Trammell has two hits tonight.
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Hit number two off Muir and his first ever appearance for the White Sox.
Here's Lou Whitaker one for four with a little tagger lead off batter.
Single in the fifth inning and was out attempting to steal.
Muir to the belt here's the pitch to Whitaker outside of all ball one.
Gus we have netted hits on our side of the ledger but the Tigers haven't come up short tonight.
They've found it at 14 of them.
That's a lot of hits in one ballgame.
We've seen quite a few here lately.
Stretched by Muir.
Here's the pitch Whitaker shot ground ball on the whole backhanded by Dibsinski on the second for one.
That's all I get the relay is much too late to get the force.
Trying to figure out.
With the bottom three hitters in the lineup coming up in the bottom of this inning.
Wilcox will face Harald and Fisk leading off.
Well I'm sure you're going to say at least two pitchers.
Yeah one at least two.
I think Squires might be Tony's choice.
Good contact man.
The bat for Vance Law and then Harrison would probably pitch it for Dibsinski.
Well you have to go right down the line because many many times there's been more than six runs scored in one inning.
Pitch is high a fastball to Tommy Brookins who struck out against Kuzmin.
In the seventh inning Brookins batted for Howard Johnson who was one for three as the starter at third base.
Trying to figure out why Steve Murik comes straight overhand it nearly all the time.
Maybe it's to get the seeker a lot.
The ground ball passed him out out to short Dibsinski shovels the bird as hard for one over the first.
And with two gone that'll bring up Herndon with a runner aboard.
To gone here in the top of the ninth.
Herndon has doubled and four trips scored one of the two runs in the eighth inning against the starter tonight he struck out three straight times.
The Rocks have had two chances at double plays tonight but both times the ball hits off not hit hard enough really.
Yankees and the Blue Jays are tied at five in the ninth in New York.
That was a slight brain delay there in the early middle innings.
Here's Herndon with two out.
Brookins at first in the tagger night.
The pitch to Herndon into the dirt block by a punch.
You know Hoyt through 96 pitches in sixth to third innings.
Wilcox has thrown 96 pitches in eight perfect innings against the White Sox.
That's how good he has been.
He has not walked a better.
Nobody has reached.
Here's the pitch now and a strike at the knees Larry Herndon one ball and one strike.
One and one the count two minutes after 10 here in the Windy City a cold Chicago land tonight.
The pitch to Herndon it's a bit low ball to strike one.
Anytime you have a game like this is going to be a low number of pitches made but I've seen hits and ball games with well Tommy John once made 76 pitches in Baltimore.
Pitch nine innings and he gave up his head.
Mr. Herndon is field foul upstairs on the first base side.
The ball's two strikes.
They're underway at the second inning out the kingdom in Seattle the A's the Mariners no score.
Milwaukee's opener was spoiled by Larry Gerard the Royals today four to three before more than fifty four thousand at County Stadium Cleveland and Baltimore Post.
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Jim Palmer will get his first start of the year tomorrow.
Angels lead by six at the Met.
Here's the pitch bounces in gets away from this.
That'll be another wild pitch by Vera has second.
The second base.
Vera has uncorked two wild pitches here in an inning and a third this first appearance of the year.
Now with two out Brookings in scoring position second and a count of three and two to Larry Herndon.
We have had a walk tonight.
Either side.
A lot of strikeouts eight for Wilcox six for one for Kuzma a total of fifteen.
Herndon has fan three times.
He's waiting.
Europe looks and gets a sign hung out by Carlton Fisk right hander checks the runner at second.
Here's the payoff pitch to her and then he pops it foul again coming back and it's off the window of the press box to our right.
The Rangers are housed here in the upper deck still free and to.
Red Sox beat the Rangers at Fenway today four to one.
Should catch up on all the rest of the American League activity today.
Now the stretch by right hander Steve Vera the pitch is swung on and popped up in the right field going out as Berners aren't coming on Harold Bates.
He's got it.
And we got to the bottom of the night.
One hit one tiger left bottom of the night.
Three to go.
A perfect game so far for Wilcox as Detroit leads it going into the home half of the night.
Six to nothing.
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Joe McConnell and early win, all set to bring you the final inning, the final half inning here at Kavisky Park.
Possible history in the making.
Whiteheader Milt Wilcox, five days shy of his 33rd birthday, has retired 24 consecutive White Sox banners tonight, free to go for a perfect game.
He's got a six-nothing lead.
Carlton Fisk, one of two banners to hit the ball out of the infield tonight.
A fly ball to the left and a strikeout.
It is two previous tips to the plate tonight.
Wilcox has struck out eight. He has walked nobody.
In fact, he's only gone to ball three, a total of twice tonight, both on a full count.
Fisk waiting before he steps in.
A battle of nerves now.
Wilcox looking in to get the side.
The right-hander into the wind appears the first pitch at the bottom of the night.
Swung on, fly ball left field, coming over and in is heard and he's waiting.
He's got it, two more to go.
That's 25 in a row, retired by Milt Edward Wilcox.
You know, I was watching him on the monitor sitting on the bench and he was sitting there wiping out, face with a towel,
keep dry all sitting by the pitching coach, as expected, as expected, Mike Squires batting for Vance Law,
who bounced out and struck out on two trips tonight.
Squires did not have a hit all year.
Wouldn't it be ironic if he's the guy that breaks it up with one out of the night?
And you can tell that Wilcox is just chomping at the bit to get back on the mound.
Squires, 0 for 6 this year. 0 for 2 in pinch-hitting roles.
He started one ballgame in Detroit.
He's a tough contact hitter, a left-handed batter.
They play him just a little bit left to center.
The infield around to the right, maybe three steps.
Wilcox into the line-up. Here's the pitch to Squires.
A sicker is a bit low on inside ball one.
And the fans here, 19,483 of them, here to watch the ballgame of the first fireworks display of the year,
are all pulling for Wilcox now. They want to be a part of history.
Ball on the count to Mike Squires.
Wilcox into the line-up. Here's the pitch.
Spanky, check, swing, loop, or foul under the upper deck in the third base side.
A ball and a strike.
Wilcox has never been sharper, at least in this reporter's opinion.
He's mixed up his off-speed breaking ball, high-fast ball, slider, curve.
He has had superb control and command over all of his pitches today.
He tugs on the bill of his cap, steps up on the pitching rubber.
One ball and one strike to Mike Squires.
25 men up, 25 men down.
Wilcox takes a deep, cool breath of fresh air here in the Chicago.
A right-hander into the line-up. Here's the pitch.
Slug on and foul back right in front of us into the upper deck.
One and two down to Squires.
Jerry Herston already on deck.
Another irony about Squires, if he should be the guy to break it up,
if anybody does, Squires is a native of Michigan.
Born, raised, went to Western Michigan, that is hometown of Kalamazoo.
Well, Mike is just trying to make contact. He's not swinging hard.
He's going into the ball.
Here's the one-two pitch outside of all.
One deep and close, two and two to count.
Now the fans, this is one of the rare times when the fans are really into the ball game on the side of a visitor.
Two balls, two strikes to Squires. One out, nobody on, bottom of the ninth.
Wilcox with a perfect game going. Leading.
The score really incidental at this point because it's one side and Detroit has a six-nothing edge.
Wilcox gets the side from his catcher, Lance Perry.
So right-hander into the line-up. Here's the pitch.
Outside and high, ball three in the count of four.
Yeah, you're wondering if they're pulling the umpire for calling out a ball.
The ball is up above the shoulders on Squires.
No question about whether it was a ball or not.
Well, he can't go any farther with Squires. It's three and two.
Wilcox kicking and scraping around the rubber.
He's got to be as tight as a mainspring out there.
He's got the side. The right-hander into the line-up. Here's the payoff pitch.
Swung on. Ground ball. Head to the first base.
But Leach, he runs up the line and there's two out of the ninth.
One more to go.
Twenty-six up and twenty-six down.
There have only been a handful of perfect games pitched in Major League history.
The last guy to do it, ironically enough, was the last guy to pitch a no-hitter in the big leagues.
Len Barker.
And Gus was there then. He's there now.
And here's Jerry Hurston switch hitting out the ball.
Fitzhitter for Jerry Dibsinski with two gone in the night.
Yeah, I've seen one already and this one here and both of them have been against me.
Budding pitched one.
Charlie Robertson to the White Sox in 1928. Pitched one at Tiger Stadium in Detroit.
And that was the only perfect game in many years until the World Series and Don Larson.
There's a smash at the middle.
Base hit! Jerry Hurston!
Break's up! Bill Wilcox has been for immortality with two out in the night.
He had retired twenty-six in a row.
And Hurston hit the first pitch at the middle, his first hit of the year.
I kind of thought he might be the man to do it.
He's a good pitcher. Comes off that bench swinging.
Well, Wilcox was one man shy.
It was a clean single, fortunately.
And he's been a great player.
And that's a picture of the Jetson's head ball shot out over the second base bag in the center field.
So, with two out of the night, Hurston breaks up.
Wilcox is good for a perfect game.
And that'll bring up Rudy Long.
And you can see Wilcox. He just kind of, been down forward and threw his heart down towards his feet.
Out of the stretch for the first time is Wilcox to Rudy Long.
Bouncer to first.
Leach has got it. He runs to the bag.
A one-hit shutout for Milt Wilcox.
The Tiger dug out empty.
Hand shakes all around for the veteran right-hander who pitched a one-hitter almost a year ago.
Five days shy of a year ago on his 32nd birthday against Kansas City.
Tonight, five days early, he pitches a brilliant one-hit shutout to beat the White Sox.
Losing a perfect game mid with two out of the night on a base hit by Jerry Hurston.
Final score as the Tigers take the opener of this three-game series.
Detroit 6, the White Sox nothing.
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Milt Wilcox, a 32-year-old right-hander due to have a birthday in five days, had a brush with destiny tonight.
And with us in the victorious Tiger Clubhouse is his catcher, Lance Parrish,
who provided all the offense the right-hander needed with three hits and RBI and a run score tonight.
Lance, boy, the adrenaline had to really be pumping in that ninth inning.
Oh, it was. It was really exciting, let me tell you.
Have you ever caught a no-hitter in the big leagues before?
No, I haven't. No, I haven't.
And I was hoping that I'd get the opportunity tonight, but I guess that's just the way fate has it.
Well, I'll tell you, he couldn't have pitched a better ball, gave me through only 105 pitches.
He struck out eight, didn't walk anybody, only went to ball three on three batters.
What did you talk about in the dugout before you came out to pitch that fateful ninth inning?
I didn't say anything to him. I was afraid to. I just wanted to let him go through his usual routine
and get a chance to keep himself relaxed and whatever he needed to do.
And I just tried to keep it away from him as much as I could. I didn't want him to think about it.
And he went out and did a heck of a job, but that's too bad he didn't get it.
It looked like he had command of just about everything he threw tonight.
His off-speed stuff looked great. He was up a few times.
He might have gotten away with a couple of pitches early, but really there wasn't any kind of a thing close to a hit
until Baines got a hole-in-one with two out in the seventh.
Well, this is by far the best game I've seen Milt throw.
He's come close on occasion to throwing ball games close to this, but nothing like it.
I was excited just as well as everybody else was, and I was really hoping that he'd get it.
And gosh dang it, he didn't do it, and I feel really bad for him.
But he did pitch a super ball game, and he got the W, and that's what counts.
Did you catch that one hitter he threw last April 20th against the Royals?
You know, I don't know if I did or not, to be honest with you.
Can't remember, huh?
Well, obviously, even though he had pitched a previous one hitter a year ago,
he didn't come as close to immortality as he did tonight.
Well, this would have been just as much of an excitement for me as it would have been for him.
You know, I was hoping and praying there that he'd let one more out to go, and it didn't happen.
But, you know, he pitched a super ball game. He has nothing to be ashamed of,
and I'm very proud of him just like everybody else is.
Well, it's got to be a big win for your ball club as well,
because the White Sox have been very tough for your team to handle,
not only earlier this year, but last year as well.
Well, they certainly have, and I hope that this is going to change the tide a little bit.
They've been awful rough on us, and I hope this turns things around for us.
Lance, thanks for coming on with us after the ball game. Congratulations.
All right. Thank you.
You know, the catcher sometimes deserves almost as much credit as the pitcher
for calling a great ball game.
We'll be back to talk to the villain as far as the Tigers are concerned.
Pitch hitter Jerry Hurston, who broke up the perfect game bid with two out of the ninth with a pitch single.
He's waiting in the White Sox clubhouse,
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the first pitch standing by
with us today I would imagine a
very subdued clubhouse is White
Sox pinch hitter par excellence
Jerry Hurston who picked tonight
of all nights to get his first
hit of the year it came with two
outs nobody on in a perfect game
bet by right handed Bill Wilcox
and Jerry you came up swinging
you jumped on the first pitch.
Yeah I was in inside the
clubhouse you know being keeping
the ball and I was taking a few
practice swings and Jerry Kuzma
he told me Jerry just take it
right up the middle and I said
okay because I was up on that
first pitch and fortunately it
was a fastball right there and I
just swung and days hit up the
middle.
I haven't checked the record
book but have you had that much
success against Wilcox in the
past.
Well the only time I ever faced
him was in the minor leagues and
it was only a couple of games
that I faced him and I guess I
got a few hits there here and
I think that's the only thing
that I could have done.
Have you ever been in a
situation where you came up in
the ninth inning at home with a
fans all wanted you to make out
no never.
But you know the situation like
that you're not going to
understand the fans understand
the fans they want to see this
no hitter perfect game whatever
and you know they were really
cheering for the other team and
once I came out to warm up the
pitcher and I told the wrong guy
you know so I know that they
were really excited and it was
really a thrill to be associated
with an occasion like this and I
was really giving them my best
shot and fortunately I was able
to get a hit well I had pride at
stake for our team you know we
wanted to rush hitting ball
clubs in the major leagues and
you know everybody was pulling
for me and you know I was just
trying to do my best.
Well your name is going to be
linked with Wilcox's tomorrow I
can assure you of that and of
course you'd trade it all in for
a victory tonight.
Right.
Well good luck Jerry and maybe
tomorrow's going to be hot for
you the next couple of weeks.
Hopefully so I feel real good
now.
All right.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Jerry Hairston who broke up
Wilcox has been for a perfect
game with two out of the night
with a clean pitch single up the
middle.
The only base runner the White
Sox had against the red hot
right hander the Tigers pitching
in 35 degree weather here
tonight.
It certainly wasn't any holding
Wilcox back who threw only 105
pitches to get his one hit shut
out victory.
We've also added the ninth inning
call from the Tigers radio
broadcast featuring announcers
Ben Harwell and Paul Carey.
Here's Carlton Fisk the first
man to face Milt in the ninth
inning.
Fisk so far batted twice he's
flied to left the soft fly and
the last time up Wilcox struck
him out.
Three to go and it'll be a
perfect game for Wilcox.
He has seemed to very composed
and he seems to be on the brink
of this historic moment.
Now he heaves a sigh looks in to
get his side.
Here's the pitch on the way
Fisk swings there's a fly ball
to left.
Here comes turned and digging
he's there he's got it and it's
two to go.
A soft fly down the line and
left field picked off by Larry
Herndon.
Fisk is out.
And Mike Squire the left hand
batting first baseman comes up
now as a pet hitter.
He'll be batting for Vance Law
Squires is the batter he's
hitting for law Vance law
Squires with no hits and six
hits so far in the season.
Wilcox is two outs away from
perfection in this game.
He's got a six to nothing lead
Squires waiting at the plate
milk goes into the motion
delivers a fastball low ball
to one out nobody on night
setting here it comes and Squires
swings and bows it away.
That one in the seat to the left
of the plate one and one the
other Jerry Harrison waiting on
deck.
Vinsky is the next schedule
batter here in the ninth inning
Tigers lead at six at nothing
one out Chicago batting
Wilcox has a perfect game and
the right hander delivers.
He's got a three and a foul back
to the screen.
One into the count on Squires
Wilcox has been behind only on a
couple of batters.
He got behind a three and oh on
Carson fifth leading off in the
sixth inning and got him on
strike.
That was his biggest obstacle
that he got by in this
game so far now I say one two
pitch the Squires.
He takes the wide one to the
count on him one out in the
ninth inning a no hitter and a
perfect game on the line for
Wilcox two more batters to go
squires with a two to count on
him one out and a four to count
on him.
He's got a leaning in Wilcox has
a sign here's the wind up is the
fifth Squires takes it is
outside.
Oh count on him.
That was a breaking ball.
Wilcox takes his cap off backs
off the mound looks at the
ball two spikes on the pitching
plan scrapes around a little bit
Squires back in the batter's
box the Tiger dugout very very
anxious to wind up the three to
fit swing bounding ball the
first league has it on assisted
out at first and one to go and
Wilcox will have a perfect game
on the line Gary Harrison will
be inserted now as a fan batter
in the ninth inning he's a
quick batter he'll be batting
left handed against Bill
Wilcox and what a performance
Wilcox has put on two down in
the ninth inning the Tigers
have been down to six and
nothing twenty six batters in a
row have gone down before the
slant of Wilcox Harrison has no
hits in six trips in the season
looking for his first one the
crowd on his feet the pit he
swings face it to the field
Harrison coils a bit a grimace
on the mound Harrison bang the
ball through the middle for a
single change of Dave Harris and
Tommy Bridges remember Tommy
Bridges of the Washington of the
Detroit Tigers Dave Harris of
the Washington Senators Tommy had
a no hitter in the ninth inning
Jerry Parrott came to bat and
bought it with two down in the
night and Jerry Harrison does it
here in Chicago taking the no
hit perfect game bid out of the
grass of Wilcox at the very last
dramatic moment.
Harrison on first now six to
nothing Tigers and Rudy Law the
leadoff man up and he swings a
bonding ball to first make has
it makes the play on assisted a
brilliant performance by Wilcox
who missed the perfect game only
to get the ball because of a
pitch single with two out in the
ninth inning by Jerry Harrison
in the ninth it's no runs on one
hit no errors and one man left
and the final score the Tigers
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