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The San Diego Padres faced the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium for a Saturday night game on April 10, 1971.
The San Diego franchise was in its third season under manager Preston Gomez and were still a fairly awful team,
despite improving by 11 games in 1970 after 110 lost season in 1969.
Los Angeles was managed by Walt Alston in his 17th season as skipper.
The Dodgers had been an average team for the past four or five seasons following their success in the mid-1960s,
but showed some signs of life after finishing in second place in the NL West in 1970 with the rise of youngsters Bill Buckner, Steve Garvey, and Bill Russell.
This audio recording is from the Dodgers radio broadcast featuring announcers Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett.
Run the way in a moment, now our national anthem.
Here are the bodybuilders, first for San Diego, Dave Campbell who dropped in second place.
Tommy Dean in first stop.
Terrence Gaston in center field.
Nate Colbert at first base.
Ollie Brown in right.
Al Ferraro in left and the Dodgers take the field.
First counter, Zerro is the catcher.
Ron Swolcom playing third base.
And Dave Roberts will be the first base of the pitcher batting in the ninth spot.
Dave Roberts.
For the Dodgers, Maury Wills is short.
Manny Moda in left.
Wes Parker at first base.
Richie Allen playing left field.
Bill Sudeikis catching.
Steve Garvey at third.
Willie Davis in center.
Bill Russell at second.
And Todd Osteen to do the pitching.
Osteen is one and all on the year, 2-2 last year and 4-3 last time with San Diego.
So second game of the series.
The Dodgers trying to square it up and will get set for the finale tomorrow.
Tom Bevis will go against Don Sutton in the finale here tomorrow.
On the home schedule next week, the Chicago Cubs come in Monday and Tuesday.
St. Louis Wednesday, Thursday and then over the weekend will be the Houston Astros.
Osteen who pitched the shot out in his last outing against the Astros in Houston.
Trying to get the Dodgers even in the series against the San Diego Padres here tonight.
The Padres won last night by a score of 6-3.
A quick check of the scores. We gave the nice way scores a little earlier.
In the American League, Milwaukee beat California 4-3.
Minnesota 5-3 over Chicago.
Baltimore beat Detroit 2-1.
New York 6, Washington nothing.
Cleveland 11, Boston 10.
Oakland 5 and Kansas City 4.
Now we're all set. Time to play ball.
The Dodgers and the Padres are now for the play-by-play.
Here's Wynne Scheller. Vinnie?
Thank you, Jerry. Hi everybody and a very pleasant good evening to you.
On this Saturday night, ladies night at Dodger Stadium.
Dave Campbell, the second baseman, will start it off followed by Tommy Dean and Clarence Gatson.
It was Campbell who lifted the pop-fly last night as leadoff man
that started the undoing and downfall of Bill Singer and the ball club.
Osteen, the only Dodger of the victory and it was a tough 2-0 shutout against Houston.
Ended the wind up in delivers and the fastball is low and run away.
Wilbur Starjo of the Fitzberg Pirates has hit three home runs in his game.
His third came in the eighth inning, so the odds are against him coming to bat in the ninth.
But if they had a sizable rally, he'd probably have one more chance.
The 1-0 pitch to Campbell is low ball 2, 2-0.
Dave Campbell, Tommy Dean and Clarence Gatson.
Campbell hitting.353.
Osteen nods yes to Sudeikis, end of the wind up in the 2-0.
Fastball, line drive, base hit into left center field.
Dave is up with the ball, Campbell a turn and holding.
So Dave Campbell opens up with a criss-single to center and the batter will be Tommy Dean.
Tommy Dean and Dave Campbell are in the starting lineup because the plan for Preston Gomez was scrambled by injuries.
He figured to have Don Mason and Angel Hernandez, his second and shortstop respectively,
but they were both injured and Campbell and Dean are making the most of the opportunity.
Dean right hand batter, Parker holding the bag on Campbell.
Osteen to a stretch, a check of first, he goes over there.
Campbell is going and I think a balk has been called and a balk has been called by first face on fire,
first, Pellicudas. So that means Dave Campbell goes to second.
And apparently Pellicudas claimed that Osteen started at the left hand and his right leg would be the guilty part.
And that the right leg started to come towards home plate and then he threw over to first.
And of course the idea is you must step in the direction you throw.
And Pellicudas pantomiming Osteen's move saying,
that leg started to go towards home when you threw to first.
So it's a balk and Dave Campbell moves to second.
So last night there was a two base error on a pop fly.
Tonight a base hit and a balk.
A veteran pitcher on the mound.
And now Tommy Dean will try and at least hit the ball the other way to see if he can't get his man to third.
Osteen set at the belt.
As we look at second, works the plate.
It's butted foul up along first and the count on one.
Claude Osteen has not committed a balk in a game since 1965.
And that one balk he committed in 1965 had been the only balk he had ever made in the National League.
So he balked tonight and that's a rather momentous occasion for Claude.
One of the things for Osteen about you can't teach an old dog new tricks,
he is trying to learn a new move to first and that might have contributed to the balk.
Dean around a bunt and fouls it the other way off to the left of the plate in the count on two.
But that's the way this season has started.
A fellow who hadn't balked in almost seven years and who balked only three times in the season.
And who balked only once and he started in the National League in 1957.
Balked tonight.
So Campbell is the second, 0-2 the count to Tommy Dean.
The parade of the big boys follow with Gaston, Colbert and Brown.
0-2 to Dean.
Osteen set, a look at Campbell, works the plate and it's low and inside, ball one.
1-2. Osteen 2-2 the Padres last year.
He started five times against them.
He pitched well.
His ERA was 2.4.
And he split four decisions.
Lifetime he's 4-3.
1-2 the count to Tommy Dean.
Osteen is a bell to check if Campbell and the breaking ball is fouled back on a full swing.
So it's still 1-2.
Just the start of the ballgame.
Still full of a care and it's been part of Saturday with it.
Osteen on the rubber, now set at the bell.
Looks at Campbell, checks him a second time and the 1-2 pitch is strike three, called.
Fast ball got the inside corner and down goes Tommy Dean.
One out and Clarence Gaston, the center fielder coming up.
Gaston hitting 2-94.
He had a double last night.
Right hand batter.
He also made a picture play on a line drive by Bill Sabatis.
Turned in a fine defensive play.
Clarence Gaston.
Osteen up on top and set.
On deck is Nate Colbert.
Left hander works the play and there's a ground ball wide, a third Garvey in front of Will.
Close to Falka for the out and Campbell is still a second base.
So we have two down and here is Nate Colbert.
Colbert last year was a one man wrecking crew against the Dodgers.
He hit seven home runs against the Dodgers.
So I figured he would have a key hit last night.
He doubled home three, picked up the three RBIs.
And in four games he has two home runs, a double and seven runs batted in.
The label Handel with care is applied to Nate Colbert.
Fast ball hit down to Garvey.
He has it, sets himself, throws low, dug out by Falka.
No runs, one hit, a rare ball.
The man left his second and at the end of the half an inning.
Padres nothing, Dodgers coming up.
Padres turned away empty handed.
We'll set them defensively for you now.
On the mat, left hander Dave Roberts and behind the play Chris Cannazero.
In the second field is Nate Colbert and Dave Campbell.
The shortstop is Tommy Dean and the third baseman is Ron Swocum.
In the outfield Al Ferraro plays instead of Larry Stahl against the left hander.
In center, Clarence Gaston and in right, Holly Brown.
The Dodgers will have Maury Wills, Manny Moda and Wes Parker.
With left hander Roberts going, Willie Davis has been dropped to the number seven spot in the Dodger lineup.
Dave Roberts from Gallopolis, Ohio.
He'll be 27 a little bit later on.
With San Diego last year, Dave was eight and 14.
Roberts will pitch to Wills, Moda and Parker, bottom of the third.
Dave checking with Cannazero.
Now the left hander ready without a windup.
Works the fastball, swung on and missed on one.
Oh and one to Maury Wills.
Roberts comes back with a fastball that's lifted down the right field line, slicing away from Holly Brown,
but he's over there to catch it and fouls around.
Maury Wills fouls out to Holly Brown, one away and the batter Manny Moda.
Moda hitting 250.
Wills is up there hitting 267.
Roberts delivers fastball low, ball one, one and all.
Roberts last year had one stretch in September, pitched 28 on a third scoreless inning.
He only had five straight victories during that span, beating Atlanta twice and the Dodgers.
The one-oh pitch over for Strykes.
In his first appearance against the Dodgers last year, in relief in April, he retired 18 in a row.
The one-one pitch on the way, off-speed grounded to third and right through Ron Slocum's leg.
Moda makes a turn and holds on and Ferrara gets the ball back into Tommy Dean.
So Ron Slocum, who is listed as a catcher and who filled in for Ed Spizio last night, draws an error.
And Nevada will be West Parker.
West Parker, check-in, hitting 214.
He has three hits.
It does not tell the truth, however, as to how he's been hitting the ball.
He hit the ball very hard in Houston, but he kept hitting it at people.
One-and-oh to count.
One ball and no strikes to West.
Moda off the bag, held on by Colbert.
Roberts does a look. Now the left-hander delivers.
Parker punches one to the right side.
Over to get it is Campbell. He goes to Dean. Back to Colbert, not in time.
Nice fourth play. Campbell and Dean nipping Manny Moda at second base.
Two down. Parker at first, and here is Richie Allen.
Richie Allen played last night and what he did to accommodate that sore foot.
He was wearing one shoe, one size larger than the others.
The pitch to Rich, low ball one.
It supports tonight, however, that the swelling has started to come down and he feels much better.
He's put in a pretty tough week with a bad foot.
Allen has not gotten to go yet. He's one for nine. One RBI.
Roberts at the belt. Dave delivers, and it's swung on and missed.
It looks like he turned that thing over. One-and-one.
Dave Roberts, veteran pitcher. Left-hander has a look at Parker.
Now the pitch to Allen is grounded foul outside of third in the count one and two.
Roberts, a good pitcher, and he's also a pretty good hitter.
The Dodgers will have to keep that in mind.
He had two home runs last year against Montreal and Cincinnati.
He was originally signed by the Pirates, and he was drafted by San Diego.
Next one in the dirt, pushed out in front of the plate in the count two and two.
Dave trying to protect himself for the day when he can't fit.
He spent two years as an apprentice boiler maker.
He's also been an automobile salesman in the offseason.
He also plays the drums, but he figures to have a good career.
He's just really starting out. 27-2 pitch, fastball low, ball three.
So Dave Roberts, with two down, has Parker at first, and he's gone all the way to Richie Allen.
Allen, like any other player, coming to a new ball club.
And of course, he's long since proved himself to everybody in the league,
but you know he's trying extra hard to impress his new friends.
Richie has chased and missed, and he went after a bad ball.
So Richie is pressing, no doubt about it. Strikes out.
An error and a man left, and at the end of an inning, no score.
Easter is almost here, and it's a happy day.
So make the most of it. Have an egg hunt for the youngsters.
Right in your home with spring flowers.
Don your finest binary for the Easter parade.
And by all means, after the ballgame, feast yourself on a plump, perfect Farmer John Ham.
Ham is an Easter tradition, and here in the West, that means Farmer John Ham.
No canned ham has the appetizing appearance and arresting aroma of a Farmer John Ham.
And no other ham of any kind can match its selectively different Western flavor.
Farmer John smoked his ham so slowly over native Western woods
that the flavor goes deep down, right to the last tender, tasty tidbit on the bone.
So look for Farmer John whole ham in their colorful Easter wrapper.
Or if you want just a shank or butt, ask your butcher, which are from Farmer John.
This Easter, celebrate with a finest, a ham that won the gold medal at the California State Fair.
Farmer John Ham, Eastern most in quality and Western most in flavor.
An inning in the books, no score in the ballgame.
On the message board, happy birthday to Mike Shapiro, chairman of the Al Malika Shrine.
And they're having their big night here, August the 16th.
So Mike's celebrating a birthday.
Claude Osteen loosening up the bill to Bakers.
It was a rare day, not only in June, but any month, to see Osteen Bork.
He did in the first inning, but he got away with it without being hurt.
Now he'll be pitching to Ollie Brown, Al Ferrara, and Chris Canagero.
Ollie Brown, right fielder, right hand batter.
Outfield plays him to pull, but Brown all spring has been concentrating on going the other way.
He takes high ball one.
San Diego feels that Brown is on the threshold now, becoming a star.
He would appear to have all the two, great arm, fine outfielder, good speed, good hitters.
Strings chops it to third.
Garvey gloves it, fires across to Bakers, but he out, one away.
So Steve Garvey has been busy.
He has three assists and he's had four outs in the game.
So what are you? Left fielder? Al?
Al Ferrara, the left fielder, coming up.
0 for 3 as a ten-kitter. He gets a chance to start tonight against Osteen.
Larry Scarl has done a fine job in left field.
And Scarl has had a hot bat hitting 375.
But they've put the left-hand hitter down and play Ferrara tonight against Osteen.
Flawed into the windup, left-hander ready and delivered.
Fastball lifted foul down the right field line and slicing off in the corner and out of play.
And the seat's on one to count.
Same two ball clubs tomorrow, remember, the Dodgers and the Padres,
including game of the series Tom Peebus and Don Sutton.
Then during this home stand, the Cubs will be in here Monday and Tuesday night.
The Cardinals will be in Wednesday and Thursday night.
And next weekend, the Houston Astros.
So we have some attractive dates coming up during this first home stand.
We sure hope you'll pick out one or two and drop by.
Osteen to the windup and the strike one pitch to Ferrara.
Off-speed and it's fouled away on a half-swing into the crowd to the right of the plate.
Of all the people to almost get a free ball,
Harold Parrott of the San Diego Padres and the club box had that thing come right to him.
In fact, right by is Black Justices.
Oh, and to the count.
One out, second inning, no score.
Osteen ready and Claude to the windup.
And the strike two pitch on the way outside and high.
Ball one, one and two.
One ball and two strikes to Al Ferrara.
Osteen nods yes to Sudsy.
Garvey deep and on the line at third and the pitch is high and away.
Ball two.
Noddy defensively Claude Osteen and Bill Sudeikis.
The infield of Wes Parker and Bill Russell.
Morrie Wills and Steve Garvey.
The outfield, Osteen.
And the third pitch is high and away.
Osteen to the windup.
And the third pitch is high and away.
And the fourth pitch is high and away.
The outfield, Richie Allen on the left.
Willie Davis in center, Manny Moda in right.
The question mark of course, although Russell has done a good job at second base,
when will Bill Grabarcovich be ready to play?
Only questions and no answers.
Here's the two-two pitch.
Fast ball, hit down the right field line foul and that will peel off into the seat.
Still two and two.
Grabarcovich came up with a sore throwing arm that has plagued him all spring.
He played a little bit here and there.
Played briefly against the Giants and then against the Angels
and then just couldn't lift the arm.
And by last Sunday, there was no way he could play.
Two and two, the count to Al Ferraro.
Oh, staying ready.
And the two-two pitch on the way.
Breaking ball fouled off to the left.
But still two and two to Al Ferraro.
One out in the second inning, no score.
It'll be good. You can join the Dodger Pepsi fan club.
Six games, a t-shirt, a membership card, all for a dollar.
For details, check wherever Pepsi is sold.
Here, kids, that's a great club, the Dodger's Pepsi fan club.
Two-two pitch on the way is low, ball three.
Tomorrow is autograph day at Dodger Stadium, among other things.
You folks are our collectors of autographs.
Every Sunday when the Dodgers are home, it's your day.
Three-two pitch to Ferraro.
Popped in the air on the right side, Russell going out,
Moda coming in, and Manny has the angle and makes the catch.
Two down and Chris Cannazero coming up.
Fourteen Dodgers will be signing autographs and special booths
throughout the stadium from 11.40 to 12.10 p.m. tomorrow.
The Dodgers will be signing tomorrow.
Red Adams, Carol Berenger, the coaches, and Jim Brewer, Bill Buckner,
Willie Crawford, Willie Davis, Al Downing, Steve Garver,
Bill Grabarkewicz, Tom Haller, Charlie Huff, Jim LeFevre,
Keith Nicholson, and Joe Moller.
That's autograph day.
Every Sunday the Dodgers are home, and our first one is tomorrow.
Cannazero, right-hand-hitting catcher,
waits to the plate and Osteen delivers.
High and away, ball one.
Cannazero, hitting 167, a veteran receiver.
Right-hand batter.
Flaud, Nodjia, Sadekis, the 1-0 pitch on the way.
Fastball, Goodwin on the corner for a strike.
Former left-hand pitcher in his playing days,
now working balls and strikes behind the plate, Tom Gorman.
Felikoudis, Harvey, and Dale on the baseline.
Here's Osteen's 1-1 pitch to Cannazero.
Fastball fouled away, second deck off to the right.
Juggled up there, 1-2.
1-2 to count.
Osteen ready, delivers.
Low and inside, ball two.
2-2.
Osteen now decides to take a little breather
so he gets off the mound.
Cannazero to batter with Ron Flocum on deck,
the young third baseman.
Osteen ready, and the 2-2 pitch on the way.
Swung on and missed, straight play,
and the bottom dropped out of that curveball.
So Cannazero strikes out, second strikeout for Osteen.
Padres are gone in order, and at the end of an inning and a half, no score.
Hello, I'm Eddie Bascha,
this year's chairman of Gompers 10th annual barbecue carnival.
Your attendance at this event will mean a lot of fun for you,
as well as much help for the handicaps at Gompers Rehabilitation Center.
The carnival takes place April 18th from 9 a.m. to dusk at 7211 North 7th Street.
Come and enjoy a delicious barbecue beef dinner,
carnival rides, booths, plus the greenhouse, options, and artist alley.
Parking is free, and there's shuttle bus service at the Valley National Bank
in the northeast corner of 7th Street and Glendale.
20 door prizes, including a 1971 Chevrolet Impala,
a General Electric colored TV,
and a three-minute shopping spree at Basch's will be given away.
Tickets are available at Gompers and at all Basch's markets.
I know you'll have a great time, so please plan to attend.
Bottom of the second inning, no score in the ballgame.
Bill Sudeikis, Steve Garvey, and Willie Davis in that order against Dave Roberts.
Pittsburgh in Atlanta, and that ballgame is now in the bottom of the 10th inning.
Wilbur Starjow has hit three home runs in that game.
He has done that twice before.
Starjow hit his three here, including a double.
He almost hit four.
The double hit the base of the box seed running in left field.
He also hit three 1968 in Chicago.
Well, he has three tonight, and they're in the bottom of the 10th in Atlanta,
all tied up at 4-4.
So if that game keeps going, why, he gets another chance.
Sudeikis checks and the pitch is low.
Ball one, one and oh.
The Cubs leading Houston, one nothing at the end of 6-1 half.
Those are the only games in progress besides ours.
Sudeikis tries to time a screwball and doesn't get it.
It's an account one and one.
Sudeikis looking for his first hit of the year.
He's 0-4-5.
Now the 1-1 pitch on the way.
Pass ball low, ball two, two and one.
Now the 2-1 pitch coming up.
Pass ball low, ball three, three and one.
Dodger catcher Tommy Haller has had one at bat a pinch hit base hit.
And Duke Sims is four for nine.
So the catching staff is well represented.
3-1 pitch is driven to deep center field.
Back goes Gaston.
Way back.
He's gone.
The Cubs lead Houston.
Bill Sudeikis gets his first hit of the year, a line drive into the center field.
And the Dodgers lead one to nothing.
Last night the hardest hit ball he got a hold of was a line drive flagged by Gaston.
But this time he hit it where Gaston couldn't catch it unless he bought a ticket.
And here is Steve Garvey.
Roberts ready and the pitch to Garvey who homered last night high ball one.
Two books to be in on AutoScript.
We'll go to Bill Sudeikis and two books to the Salvation Army Youth Center.
72 West Walnuts in Pasadena.
The 1-0 pitch, Garvey hits one foul down the right field.
Line out of play.
Didn't get a round on it.
One and one.
One and one to Steve Garvey.
Roberts ready and the left-hander delivers.
Fast ball and he didn't chase it.
He started to swing and held up.
Ball two.
Two and one.
Now the 2-1 pitch coming up.
Garvey hits the ground ball to shortstop.
Tommy Dean to his right.
Up with it.
The floor across in time for the out.
Let's pause for station identification.
This is the Los Angeles Dodgers Radio Network.
The good side.
KTARC.
Willie Davis hitting seventh in the lineup against left-hander Dave Roberts.
Canagero talking to the infield about the possibility of a bun.
Davis off to a slow start hitting about 188.
And Roberts ready to work.
One-nothing Dodgers, second inning, home run by Bill Sudeikis.
Dave ready and delivers and the fast one is flung on and missed on one.
Roberts keeping that ball down.
The Vice President and General Manager of the San Diego Padres,
Eddie Leishman is here tonight taking in the ball game so they are well represented.
The pitch to Davis outside, one and one.
Now the one-one pitch on the way, taking low and outside ball two, two and one.
Two and one.
Roberts comes back.
Willie pokes it down the left field line.
That's a base hit.
Over to cut it off for Ferrara.
Willie takes a look.
Going for two and a throw not nearly in time.
Ferrara as he tried to set himself just inside the left field foul line to throw,
it appeared as if his back foot flipped just a dab and it was enough to make the throw go off line.
So Willie Davis doubles to left and with one out here is Bill Russell.
Russell batting 250.
Right hand batting.
Roberts checks and delivers.
Off speed and pull to the hole.
Short knocked down by Dean, that's all he can do with it.
Dean tried to short hop and throw and couldn't handle it.
He'll get an error.
With the ball hit ahead of him, Willie Davis had to hold it second.
So still one out, two on and Claude Osteen coming up.
That is the second San Diego era.
Third baseman Ron Slocum booted one earlier.
Two on, one out and here's Osteen.
Claude a pretty good hitting pitcher but he's against the left-handers.
With Wills coming up next, the Padres feel that Alston wants Osteen to get the bunt down.
Moves the men over and then goes for two runs on a base hit.
We'll see.
Colbert's on the grass, Slocum playing caddy corner.
Roberts checks and Osteen is not bunting.
He took all the way, low ball one.
Now he checks with Ozark to see if the bunt's on or not.
Here's the one-hole pitch Osteen.
He looks again. This time it's a strike and a count one and one.
One and one. Russell away from first. Davis at second.
So the Dodgers have two fellows who can fly out there.
Osteen waiting. Roberts another look.
Dean bird dogging Davis. Osteen around the bunt and tries to and misses.
And the count one and two.
Slocum retreated to the bag.
It was up to Roberts to handle the bunt anywhere from the mound of the third base foul line.
And Nate Colbert to do the same on the other side.
We'll see what they have Osteen doing now with two strikes.
Roberts leaning on his right knee and checking. Now straightens up.
Here's the one-two pitch Osteen. Full swing and a miss and down he goes.
Second strike out for Roberts.
That'll bring up Maury Wills who fouled out to right fielder Holly Brown in the first inning.
Preston Gomez up the steps to check the defensive alignment.
Now goes back down into the dugout.
Two down, one nothing Dodgers.
Sadacus hit one in the bleachers and straightaway centers.
Roberts delivers off speed and it's grounded foul outside of third on one.
All through last year and into the spring of this year there was a great deal of conjecture about the Dodgers going out to find a left-hand starting pitcher.
The pitch to Wills, a strike, they throw down to second. Willis going to third to throw.
He's in there and Russell goes to second.
So on an attempted pickoff play the Dodgers pull a double steal.
Willie Davis stealing third and Russell the trailer man easily walked into second.
Anyway in the talk about the Dodgers looking for a left-hander you heard a great deal about Dan McGinn of Montreal and a little bit about Dave Roberts of San Diego.
After seeing how downing pitch this spring however and also seeing little Bobby O'Brien the talk about left-handers seems to have diminished.
Will punches a slow ground ball to Campbell. He's up with it and throws him out and that's that.
The Dodgers get a home run, a double, an error and a double steal and get one run, two hits and leave two.
And at the end of two Dodgers one, Padres nothing.
Hi, I'm home.
I'm in here George.
Hi, who washed the car? I was going to do it tomorrow.
I did, it was such a nice day.
Oh, let a woman near a car even to wash it and you've got trouble.
No George, I remember to close the windows first.
Oh, well that's the spirit.
And I use white wall cleaner on the white walls.
Well, that's the spirit.
And I clean the engine.
The engine? Marge, my points, my plug.
The carburetor, they add a pollution valve. I cleaned it by filling up with Super 76.
Super 76, Union Oil's premium gasoline with five engine cleaners to keep your engine, carburetor and adding pollution valve cleaner.
And remember, a clean engine means less pollution too.
Super 76, eh? You know Marge, sometimes I think you women know more about the modern automobile than I give you credit for.
That's the spirit George.
The spirit of 76 lives at Union Oil.
Two runnings are in the box, the Dodgers leading the Padres one to nothing, a run, two hits, the Padres no runs, one hit and two errors.
From Monday to tomorrow, the same two ball clubs in its autograph day from 1140 to 1210.
And then it'll be the Dodgers and the Padres with Don Sutton and Tom Sebers.
Sebers of course, formerly with Baltimore.
Let's go to the third, one to nothing Dodgers.
And for walk, play by play, here's Jerry Doggett.
All right Billy, and here's Lawrence Loken, the third baseman, Roberts to follow and then Campbell, one nothing ball game.
Now Osteen checking signs, ready to go to work.
The wind up in the pitch on the way, fastball is in there for a strike, 0-1.
Slokum is a right-hand batter, he's had two at bats so far in the year.
Those were in last night's ball game, he replaced Ed Spizio.
Strike one.
Osteen checking again.
Defense plays straight away against Slokum, Roberts is in the on-deck circle.
There's a foul back to the wire, strike two, 0-2 to count.
The final game of the San Diego series comes up tomorrow, Tom Sebers and Don Sutton.
And then the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals come in.
The Cubs Monday and Thursday, the Cardinals Wednesday and Thursday, and then Houston over next weekend to wind up the home stand.
A lot of big ones for you, good exciting baseball.
Here's a foul back into the wire, and it is still strike two.
Kenny Holtzman did a pitch Monday and Milt Papas on Tuesday for Chicago.
And boy Papas has had a real comeback.
Stopping in two.
Osteen waiting.
Foward delivers, back ball high, one ball, two strikes.
The Padres have had only one fly ball so far, fly ball by Ferrara to the right.
From the first two innings, Osteen's had them hitting it on the ground again, and that's his pattern when he's on his game.
One and two, Foward into the wind-ups, delivers.
Stuck him out, turned it over, and he's down on strike.
The third strikeout for Osteen.
Foward feels that his curveball has much improved that time, though he turned that one over at a change of pace.
Kind of a screwball effect of palm ball.
Here's Dave Roberts, the pitcher, coming up.
Roberts walking slowly toward home plate.
Curls from the left side, backs from the left side.
Roberts in there with one out in the third inning.
The Padres move to San Diego from Los Angeles.
They will help the Giants open the home season on Monday at Candlestick Park, which is being rebuilt.
There's a swing and a foul, tip-straight back, strike one.
Candlestick is in the process of being completely enclosed all the way around since the 49ers will now share the park with the Giants.
Nothing in one to count.
Roberts waits.
Osteen pitches a swing and a high pop foul off third.
That'll carry out a play.
In the seats behind the Dodger dugouts, strike two.
Nothing in two to count the pitcher, Dave Roberts.
Osteen ready again.
Into the windup, little low, one ball and two strikes.
Claude has been ahead of most of the hitters tonight.
He's ahead of Roberts now, one and two.
Lions deliver.
Just a little low ball, too, two-two counts.
Tadejka's catching, Osteen pitching. Parker Russell will, Garvey the infield, Allen Davis-Mota in the outfield.
Two-two count.
Now Osteen ready again, deals it off.
A swing and a pop-up on the third base line foul, play-out ball.
Garvey near the coaching line, makes the catch, and that's poor Wyatt.
So two up and two down, and Dave Campbell the batter.
Campbell has the only hit allowed by Osteen.
Ward has 27 lifetime shutouts before this year and one already this year for a total of 28.
He's high on the list of active pitchers with shutouts.
Marisol is the leader, 46.
Gibson has 45.
Two outs, nobody on base. Osteen ready to pitch to Campbell.
Bounced it and it's ball one.
Campbell off to a good start. He has six hits and a.353 batting average for the spring.
One ball and no strikes.
Osteen to the windup again. High ball, too. Two and nothing.
The Dodgers are off to a bit of a slow start with a bat.
They hit 270 as a team last year.
They're hitting 214 now. The Padres are at 231.
The Dodger pitchers have held the opposition to a combined batting average of 190, though.
Here's the 2-0 pitch.
Strikes, two and one.
For the series at San Francisco coming up next week, it'll mean that the Padres and the Giants will have reeled off six games in the first 10 days of the season.
Here's the 2-1 pitch.
Swung on a driven foul down the left field corner and it's a 2-2 count.
The Giants opened up San Diego Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and now the Padres come here for free.
They go to San Francisco for free.
So they're getting off to an early start against their other California ball club.
Now the 2-2 pitch.
Struck him out, and again he turned it over with an off-three pitch.
Four strikeouts for Osteen. Oh boy, that's a big pitch for him.
The Dodgers retired, and they're all out in the third, and the score at the end of two and a half innings, the Dodgers one and the Padres nothing.
Shritz, Milwaukee, and the World.
At 18, I first put out the seed. By 19, I'd sailed around the world.
And now, well, let's just say I've seen and done a lot.
Enough for a lifetime? I doubt it.
But there's always one more port ahead, so I keep going.
I figure you only get one chance at life. Below it, you might as well quit.
Oh, someday I'll go home. But right now, I'll take home where I find it.
And I find it. Where I can order a Schlitz in seven different languages.
And if that doesn't make you feel at home, I don't know what does.
It seems that Schlitz is always one port ahead of me, which is okay by me.
Why settle for less? You're out of Schlitz. You're out of the game.
Tomorrow night's your deadline if you want to order tickets for next Sunday afternoon with the Astros.
Get two tickets for the price of one.
You'll find two-for-one blanks in both the Riverside Quest Enterprise and the South Bay Daily Breeze.
All requests must be mailed by midnight tomorrow.
Send them to the Dodgers, Box 100, Los Angeles 90051.
That's next Sunday, two-for-one day.
Here's Manny Motard-Batt batting second in the order, safe on an arrow, first time up.
Manny so far, three for twelve.
Here's the wind by Roberts, the pitch on the way to Manny, half-swing, and he couldn't hold up.
Strike one. Tom Gorman is deployed on fire.
Pellacudas, Harvey, and Vail working the base pass.
On deck, Parker, then Allen. Dave Roberts ready in the pitch.
Off-speed outside. One ball, one strike.
One-on-one to Manny Motard.
Roberts deals again. Curveball bounce right back to the pitcher.
Roberts goes to first. Motard is out one away.
That'll bring up Wes Parker, on on the fourth play, first time up.
Wes Parker on the scoreboard. They're in the 12th inning now at Atlanta.
Pittsburgh and Atlanta all tied up. 4-4.
The game became tied on the homerun by Aaron in the ninth inning, one on.
Sharjah was knocking all the runs for Pittsburgh with three home runs, one coming with a man on.
Parker takes it low, ball one.
Chicago leading Houston 1-0 in the ninth inning at Houston.
Jenkins against Guertzer, relieved by Culver in the ninth inning.
Now the 1-0 fit. Off-speed low, ball two to nothing.
The Mets beat Cincinnati 3-0 today in 11 innings.
The Reds now have lost three straights. Pacella over Granger, both in relief.
The Giants beat the Cardinals 6-4, three birdie over Royce.
And Mays had another homerun. He's had four home runs and four games and he now has 632 lifetimes.
Philadelphia, in their home opener in their new ballpark, Veterans Stadium, beats Montreal 4-1.
The Angels lost to Milwaukee in Milwaukee's home opener, 4-3.
Wright the loser, Lopez the winner.
2-1 pitch, Lyon back to second base, 2-0 to base up to Parker.
So Parker, Lyon's won the center.
Lutz has been hitting the ball crisply in all of the games this year, but he hasn't had too much luck.
And now he picks up his fourth hit. Here's Ricky Allen, struck out his first time up.
Other American League scores. Minnesota beats Chicago 5-3.
Chicago 5-3. Baltimore over Detroit 2-1. New York beat Washington 6-0.
Cleveland over Boston 11-10. And Oakland beats Kansas City 5-4.
All right, Allen waiting. One out, one on. Roberts delivers.
Pops a foul off first base. Colbert's giving it a chase near the dugout. It's going to be out of play.
Strike one to Ricky Allen. Richards had one hit and 10 at bat.
Allen waiting. Parker on first. Dodgers lead on the homerun by Bill Sudeikis opening up the second inning.
The bottom of the second. Allen swings at a curve. Strike two. Foul tipped it away.
Last half of the third inning. The Dodgers and the Padres.
Now Roberts checks again. Off-speed hits the third. Up with a stroke and down to second one.
On to first base at the double play. Allen hit the ball hard but right to the third baseman and they get the double play.
He's staggered, spoken with the ball. No runs, one hit, none left on. And the score at the end of three innings of play.
Dodgers one and the Padres nothing. You know if someone kept scoring the number of hot dogs.
That's what it's all about.
And you've got to mind the people who like helping other people and you haven't any other way.
Claude Osteen warming up now. We've played three innings. The Dodgers one run and three hits. The Padres no runs, one hit.
Let's go back to more play here Tony.
All right Jerry. The run, the homerun by Bill Sudeikis and Claude Osteen trying to make it stand up.
He'll be working to Tommy Dean followed by Clarence Gaston and then Nate Colbert.
Tommy Dean struck out in the first inning. He's 0 for 1.
Osteen has allowed one hit. Single assented by Dave Campbell leading off.
Claude nods yes into the windup and delivers and the first one is low and away ball one.
One and O. The next one high and outside. Boyle 2, 2 and O.
Tommy Dean right hand hitting shortstop. Struck out in the first inning. Tom weaned in the Dodger organization.
Drafted by San Diego.
Two old pitch on the way. Fastball hit off the end of the stick foul and rolling over towards the Padres dugout. 2 and 1.
You know on June the 6th there'll be quite a ballgame here at Dodger Stadium. Old timers game. The Stars of the 50s against the Stars of the 60s.
And Don Newcomb announced today that he would be delighted to participate in that old timers game.
Chopper back a long first base picked up by Sudeikis as it throws to first to the outs.
It ball that back spin on it. It looked like it was going out towards Osteen and it came back in full studgy but he stayed with it and got his man.
One away and Clarence gas in the batter.
Anyway after Don Newcomb announced that he was going to pitch in the old timers game.
Dodgers did a little research and we find out that Don Newcomb was the winning pitcher in the game that recorded Waldo Alston's first victory as a manager of the Dodgers.
And that would be April the 14th, 1954.
High bounce over the mound near the back comes Wills in a hurry. Picks it up and gets him. Oh what a play.
Maury Wills makes a fine play to nip the speedy Clarence Gaston. And with two down Nate Colbert coming up.
The lead off batter in Alston's first victory as pilot of the Dodgers in 54 was Jim Gilliam.
And he had a home run that day. And I guess it figured that Waldo Alston would be the number one manager in Dodger history.
His first victory as a manager was against the Giants.
Colbert takes a strike on one.
The Dodgers had lost their 1954 season opener to the Giants and a kid by the name of Willie Mays had hit a home run.
Pitch outside ball two.
A lot has changed in 18 years. But Waldo is still managing and Willie is still hitting him. He hit number four today.
The 2-0 pitch down and away. Ball three. 3-0.
Nate Colbert, big first baseman waiting at the plate. Two down, fourth inning. Dodgers one, Padres nothing.
Posteen delivers and it's swung on and missed. Strike two.
I think it felt a little twinge in the right side. Backed out for a moment.
Fod working on the ball, trying to rub a wrinkle in it.
Posteen up on top. Nate Colbert waiting.
Fod nods yes into the windup and the 2-2 pitch is a breaking ball, low ball three. On deck, Olly Brown.
Here's Osteen's 3-2 pitch on the way. Low and inside, ball four. Rolls behind Sudeikis. Colbert trots the first.
So a two-out walk to Nate Colbert and Olly Brown coming up.
You can well understand Osteen kind of pitching around Nate Colbert.
Anybody who hit seven home runs against the Dodgers last year commands a great deal of respect.
Colbert did just that. Here's Olly Brown. He tapped the third in the second inning, 0-4-1.
Dodgers one, Padres nothing here in the fourth inning.
Second game of the three-game series. They'll be after each other at 1 o'clock tomorrow.
Pitch high, ball one. That's Don Sutton and Tom Fevers.
Then during the week at night, the Cubs will be here Monday and Tuesday, the Cardinals Wednesday and Thursday,
and the Astros Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We sure hope you'll be out here with us.
The 1-0 pitch on the way. A little high, ball two, 2-0.
Osteen backed off now just as quickly as up on top of the mound again.
Colbert held on by Parker, cautious lead. It's a tough game.
Dodgers one run, three hits. Padres no runs, one hit. Four in the inning.
Osteen's pitch to strike gets the outside corner, two and one.
On deck, left fielder Al Ferrara.
Dodgers in the second inning had Sudeikis lead off with a home run.
One out later, Davis doubled and Russell was aboard on an error.
Osteen tried to bunt them over, couldn't do it, and struck out, and they negotiated the double steal successfully.
But then Maury Wills rolled out.
The 2-1 pitch, Dolly Brown filed away.
So as far as the Dodgers were concerned in the second inning, it was much to do about one.
They had one run, two hits. There was an error on a double steal and two left.
One to nothing Dodgers, fourth inning.
Osteen has struck out four.
He has walked one and committed a board.
Looks at Colbert, works the plate in the dirt. Short hopped nicely by Sudeikis, ball three.
San Diego was a very good hitting ball club and a lot of socks.
They really got some power.
And the pitcher finds himself pitching very carefully to Gaston, Colbert, and Brown.
And of course tonight you have Al Ferrara in there and he provides some punch.
Osteen ready, Colbert ready to go, and so Claude goes over there with the throw.
And that time he stepped properly towards first.
Chris Pellikoudis called a balk on him earlier and he has his eye on him.
Three and two to count.
Osteen ready and delivers with a run-and-gone line drive at will.
So Olly Brown rips one, but right at more he wills.
No runs, no hits, a man left.
At the end of three and a half, the score, the Dodgers won and the Padres nothing.
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The applause in the background directed to the man about whom we were just talking, Mr. Don Newcomb, who picked up the first victory for Walter Austin April of 1954, a mere 18 years ago.
Let's pause for station identification. This is the Los Angeles Dahlia Radio Network.
The Spade Squad, K-P-A-R-E.
Bottom of the fourth inning, Dodgers leading the Padres 1-0, and the man who gave them the lead is at the plate, Bill Sudeikis.
Off-speed pitch is swung on and fouled, 0-1.
Sudeikis at a low line drive that cleared the wall at the 400-foot sign into the bleachers, just to the left of straightaway centers.
Sudeikis' first home run of the year, 0-1 to count.
Strike one pitch on the way. Screwball over, strike two.
Final score in 12 innings, Atlanta 5, Star Joe Ford.
Atlanta 5 runs 11 hits, one error.
Wilbur Star Joe drove in all four runs for Pittsburgh with three home runs, but his one-man performance wasn't enough.
Next one to Sudsy outside, ball one.
The winning pitcher, Cecil Upshaw.
The losing pitcher, Nellie Brials.
So the Braves have won three out of four.
The Giants have won three out of four.
Pitch to Sudeikis' low, ball two.
Two and two to Bill Sudeikis.
On deck, Steve Garvey.
Fourth inning, one-nothing Dodger.
Roberts ready and delivers, and it's a slowly hit ball up long third and foul.
Roberts' really down effort is already outside the coaching box.
He's got to pick it up, two and two.
Two balls and two strikes to Bill Sudeikis.
Visiting for a moment with Tommy Gorman.
National League West hasn't really been shaken down yet, once around the league for everybody,
everyone is convinced it's going to be a really wild affair this year.
The pitch, low, ball three.
The Cincinnati Reds, and for that matter no one in the West is going to be able to run away.
And one of the reasons that no team is going to run away is the San Diego Padres.
Three, two, pitch, long on and fouled off.
The Padres figure to beat every club in the Western Division and beat them quite often.
They're not going to be a patchy to anybody.
Just the fact that they have improved so much means a greater year for the National League West.
Last year Cincinnati took off and we never heard from again,
but it doesn't figure that could possibly happen again this year.
Here's the three, two, pitch, hop foul to the right of the plate.
Cannazero running out of room, but he's right at the railing of the seat,
gets his mitt on it, can't hold it, then bangs into the railing and rolls over on his side.
Chris, I think, didn't realize that he was running out of room so quickly.
However, it's padded and although he suffered the concussion of hitting it, he's okay.
Chris Cannazero running into the wire, the padded part of it,
in front of the dugout seat to the right of home plate.
Anytime you have that kind of a play here at Dodger Stadium, it doesn't come up that often,
but when it does, most folks, I think, harken back to Earl Batty,
the catcher of the Minnesota Twins in the 1965 World Series,
when Batty hit that padding straight on and he was straight up, so it struck him around the throat.
Today he just fouls another pitch away and it's still three and two.
Earl, a Los Angeles boy, and he shook himself and a lot of his friends up when he hit that thing.
Unfortunately, he was okay.
Three and two to count to Bill Sudeikis.
Roberts ready and delivers.
Sudsy swings, fouls it back out of play.
He's getting a lot of off-speed pitches.
He'll have to supply the power himself.
Screwball, slow curve, and it's still three and two.
Dodgers one, Padres nothing, fourth inning.
Tough game.
Dave checking without a windup.
Three-two pitch, fouled away again.
That goes upstairs above the press box and falls down below, much to the delight of the crowd.
Ladies night here at Dodger Stadium.
Every Saturday night when the Dodgers are home, ladies night.
Sunday, autograph day.
Here's a three-two pitch to Bill Sudeikis.
Breaking ball is low. Billy has won the battle.
He cops the first.
Third baseman Steve Garvey coming up.
He grounded a short in the second inning.
The Dodgers are in their fifth game.
They have had four home runs.
They get three home runs.
One by Buckner, one by Garvey, and the one tonight by Bill Sudeikis.
Garvey takes the strike on one.
0-1 to Steve.
Sudeikis held on by Nate Colbert.
The pitch of the plate is pulled sharply foul outside of third.
Roberts tried to fastball him, but Garvey is one of those kids with a very quick bat.
0-1 to...
...the crowd reacting to a scramble for the foul.
Here's the strike two pitch.
Scubal lifted to right center field.
Moving over is Ollie Brown.
He's there to make the catch.
And getting back to first base is Bill Sudeikis.
A one away in the bat of Willie Davis.
Willie Davis lined a double to left.
He comes up now with a runner at first and one out.
Fourth inning, one-nothing Dodgers.
Dave Roberts and Claude Osteen tonight.
Tom Sebus and Don Sutton tomorrow.
Pitch outside, looks like a slider.
One ball, no strikes.
Little flat curve.
1-0 to Will.
They're not holding Sudeikis.
Roberts delivers fastball.
Hit down to shortstop.
Over to second for one.
Back to first.
Double play.
So the double play, 6-4-3.
No runs, no hits.
Nobody left.
Second San Diego double play.
And at the end of four, Dodgers one, Padres nothing.
Marge, I'm home.
I'm in here, George.
Hi.
Who washed the car?
I was going to do it tomorrow.
I did.
It was such a nice day.
Oh.
Let a woman near a car even to wash it and you've got trouble.
No, George.
I remembered to close the windows first.
Oh, well that's the spirit.
And I used white wall cleaner on the white walls.
Well, that's the spirit.
And I cleaned the engine.
The engine?
Marge, my points, my plugs.
The carburetor, the anti-pollution valve.
I cleaned it by filling up with Super 76.
Super 76.
New in oil, premium gasoline with five engine cleaners.
To keep your engine, carburetor, and anti-pollution valve clean.
And remember, a clean engine means less pollution too.
Super 76, eh?
You know, Marge, sometimes I think you women know more about the modern automobile than I give you credit for.
That's the spirit, George.
The spirit of 76 with the New York.
Through four innings, one to nothing in favor of the Dodgers.
A run, three hits.
The Padres no runs, one hit and two errors.
Willie Davis hitting into a double play is more than just an ordinary happenstance in a ballgame.
Willie hit into only six last year, and he was that bad 593 times.
That averages out to hitting into a double play once every 98 times.
Willie Davis was second in the league as far as tough as to double up.
So in a ballgame, the marks Willie Davis hitting into a double play, why, it deserves a little asterisk next to it.
The toughest man in the National League to double up last year.
His best average or best rate would be Bobby Bonds of the Giants, a pitcher for our low ball ones.
The top ten in order, Bonds, Davis, Rose, Campbell of San Diego, Stobb, Alou, Alley, Menke, Doyle, and Boa of Philadelphia.
The pitch to Ferrara outside, 2-0.
What they do is they take the number of times at bat, divide into that the number of double plays, and they figure out the D.P. rate.
And Bonds, the toughest of all, with Willie Davis second.
What makes it surprising, of course, for Bonds, he's a right-handed batter.
The pitch to Ferrara inside, ball three.
3-0 to Al Ferrara.
Osteen ready, 3-0 pitch over first strike, 3-1.
Osteen has pitched extremely careful to the power hitters in the San Diego lineup.
He walked Colbert once.
Brown almost flipped the hands off Will.
But he has been trying very carefully to pitch.
In fact, he just soon walked him, I think, rather than give them the pitch they're looking for.
Ferrara tired of waiting backs out.
1-0 Dodgers, fifth inning.
3-1 pitch coming up, outside, ball four.
So Ferrara draws the walk.
In talking about the top ten, the top ten control pitchers in the National League last year,
the stingiest as far as giving up walks, Wad Osteen was third in the league.
He averaged 1.8 walks per game.
And the toughest man in that department was Ferguson Jenkins of the Cubs,
followed by Juan Marichal, very closely followed by Marichal.
In fact, we'll give you the top ten as far as control is concerned.
We'll give you the statistics figure with your impressions.
Here's Kanagero, right hand hitting catcher, Osteen to first base, no play.
Jenkins, Marichal, and Osteen.
Then McAndrew of the Mets, Merritt, and Dave Roberts, whom we're looking at tonight,
followed by Pappas, Stone, Perry, and Bunning.
The pitch over for a strike, 4-1.
The ball's one strike.
Claude Dewistretch, set at the belt, looks at first and delivers the ground ball,
down to Russell, he feeds Wells, he fires to Parker, double play.
2-4, 6-3, so two down, third double play in the game, and Ron Slocum coming up.
Ron Slocum backs out for a moment, one to nothing Dodgers, a run three hits.
San Diego no runs, one hit and two errors.
Sudeikis in a crowd, Osteen gives him a reading.
Now Claude Ruddy and the pitch to Slocum, fastball tapper back over the mound,
Wells charging, scoops it, throws, gets him.
Another nice play by Wells, no runs, no hits, nobody left.
At the end of four and a half innings, Dodgers one, Padres nothing.
Flips, Milwaukee and the world.
When you get caught in the eye of a Northeasterner, it can be a pretty hairy thing.
Wings whip up to 130 miles an hour and can crack open the hull of a ship like an egg.
On the waves, the waves are the worst.
They wash over the deck and can sweep everything overboard that isn't backing down.
They throw to you, but the work goes on.
If you happen to be caught topside, you look alright, but survive it.
So you put on your life jacket and hang on and sweat it out till the storm blows over.
Then you celebrate with a slick.
Licks and wipes are one kind thing.
Nobody gets a second chance.
So you'll live it with all the gusto you can, right down to the beer you drink.
Why settle for less?
When you're out of slicks, you're out of beer.
As we go to the bottom of the fifth, the Dodgers leading 1-0, a final score from within the dome in Texas.
The Cubs leading 1-0 going into the bottom of the ninth inning and Houston scored twice and beat the Cubs 2-1.
The winning pitcher, George Culber.
The losing pitcher, Ferguson Jenkins.
So Jenkins has had two decisions this year.
He beat Gibson 2-1 on the tenth inning home run and he loses 2-1 on the ninth inning uprising.
What a year he's starting off to have.
Bill Russell is the batter and takes low, ball one, 1-0.
Russell a board on the other in the second inning.
Tommy Dean unable to handle his ground ball.
Hostin to follow and then Wills.
Now the 1-0 pitch, screwball over for a strike, 1-1.
We told you before about the ten toughest men in the league to double up.
Pitch swung on and missed strike two.
We also talked about the ten pitchers that had the best control and Roberts is one of them.
Last year he would finish in the number six spot, the sixth toughest control pitcher in the league.
Dave's 1-2 pitch to Russell.
Screwball grounded up along third at the bag.
A long throw for Slocum.
He's got a gun but it's too late.
Ron Slocum throwing from on the line and back of the bag and Russell beats it out.
And the battle will be quadro scene.
You might also wonder about the ten toughest fellows as far as striking out is concerned.
The ten toughest to fan.
The toughest man in the league and I guess you would agree.
That would be Matty Allou now with the Cardinals.
You'll see Matty here Wednesday and Thursday night.
Hostin is bunting. He gets it down.
Roberts feels it and the play is the first base to Campbell covering.
So the sacrifice works.
So Matty Allou is the toughest man in the league to strike out.
He struck out about once every 40 times.
Then his brother Jesus is second in the league.
Followed by Glenn Beckard and you'll see Beckard here Monday night with the Cubs.
Then Felix Mian, Tommy Helms, Gary Sutherland of Montreal, Al Oliver of Pittsburgh,
Maury Wills of the Dodgers who is at the plate now.
Last year, struck out about once every 17 times.
So he was the eighth toughest batter in the league to strike out.
Ron Hunt and Art Chansky rounded out the ten.
So Wills up there now with Russell at second and one out.
And Roberts delivers breaking ball low.
Ball one, one and all.
One and all to count, Maury Wills.
Roberts ready, Dave delivers.
Wills hits a chopper to third, speared by Slocum, holds Russell and throws Wills out.
Manny Modo will be coming up, two out of man at second, one to nothing Dodgers.
Modo aboard on the error and hit back to the box, 0-2.
On deck, Wes Parker.
Modo at the plate.
Roberts looks in to get a sign.
Now Dave sets up the belt and delivers.
Manny takes a look at the strike, going one.
Roberts last year against the Dodgers had an earned run average of 2.4.
Breaking ball over for another strike, 0-2.
So he is just as tough tonight as he was all last year against the Dodgers.
The difference, the Dodgers and Osteen are leading by the slim one to nothing margin,
home run by Bill Sudeikis in the second inning.
Strike two pitch to Modo, Roberts ready and Dave delivers.
Bouncer foul outside of first and down the line, still 0-2.
0-2 to Manny Modo.
Now the strike two pitch to Manny, folks foul down the right field line out of play.
Looks like a screwball, so it's still 0-2.
No ball, two strikes.
The strike two pitch, a breaking ball fouled away into the crowd back of the dugout of the Padres.
That's still 0-2.
Roberts ready and the strike two pitch is outside, count of zero on his knees to come up with it.
Two out, fifth inning, one nothing Dodgers.
Russell taking the lead to second base.
Roberts at the belt.
Dave delivers and it's a great foul again outside of first.
Right into a photographer's well, one and two.
Tomorrow San Diego, Tom Phoebus who used to draw Baltimore Oriole checks will work for San Diego against Don Sutton.
Then Leo's boys will be here starting Monday night for two.
Here's the one-two pitch to Manny Modo.
Roberts ready, delivers and it's hit up the middle over second into center field and Russell will score and the Dodgers lead two to nothing.
So Manny Modo rolls one up the middle to pick up an RBI.
It shows you the tough things about this game of baseball.
Roberts is picking up Dandy but that extra run really scrambles out of it and the run was not of his doing.
Had his regular third baseman handled the ground ball he might have been out of the inning.
One, two, three.
Instead, Slocum playing for Speezy-O made a late throw on Russell's ball.
Then a sacrifice, the infield out on a base hit and the Dodgers have a run.
Parker hits one off the glove of Roberts.
He runs after it, picks it up, throws to eight.
And the guy who was pressing so much he could open up a score, Richie Allen coming up to the plate.
In a sense it is a tribute to the city and the area of Southern California.
How badly Richie Allen wants to do something good for the folks.
He is straining and for a fellow who has been in the big leagues as long as he has been, it is kind of amazing.
You would expect him to just take it easy and wait for him to fall in but he has really been trying.
The pitch to Allen in the dirt, ball one.
In fact he struck out in the first inning on a pitch in the dirt and then last time up in the third hit into a double play.
And all of his teammates doing the same thing.
Take it easy.
Well he is up there again with two out and two on.
Two-nothing Dodgers in the fifth.
Roberts ready and Dave delivers.
And Richie hits a shot, one-handed on one hop by Fulcom for the fourth and he is slowly coming out of it.
Ron Fulcom making a fine play to stay with that thing.
And Allen really strung that ball.
He will hit a few more harder and farther too.
One run, three hits, two left and at the end of five Dodgers two, Padres nothing.
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One is Farmer John Sausage.
It is equally enjoyable for breakfast, lunch and supper.
I think you will agree that Farmer John Sausage is different from any you have tried.
As a starter it is strictly fresh and the fresher the sausage is the better it is.
Unlike most bankers Farmer John makes his sausage from fresh eastern corn-fed pork brought out here live.
And U.S. inspected and dress fresh right here in the West.
And Farmer John Sausage is so lean and meaty you can hardly believe it.
Farmer John makes his sausage with all the best meat, not just the trimmings.
And then he seasons it to an old-time Western recipe.
So there is a delicious Western flavor in every marvelous meaty morsel.
Enjoy Farmer John Sausage often for breakfast, lunch and supper.
And you will see why it won the gold medal at the California State Fair.
It is the eastern most in quality and the western most in flavors.
Don't forget tomorrow is Autograph Day at Dodger Stadium.
Every Sunday will be Autograph Day when the Dodgers are at home.
Booths throughout the stadium, conveniently located, will be hosted by Dodger players from 11.40 to 12.10 while the visiting team is holding batting practice.
And your youngster can fill his album with autographs.
We'll get early and ask the usher for the location of the nearest autograph booth.
That's tomorrow and every Sunday.
Alright, back to play. Here's Vint.
Alright Jerry, two to nothing in favor of the Dodgers.
Dave Roberts followed by Dave Campbell and then Tommy Dean.
Roberts, as we mentioned at the start of the ballgame, is a good hitting pitcher.
He had two home runs last year.
I think he had about a half a dozen RBIs. He commands respect.
Dave left hand batter.
Osteen into the windup and the pitch.
She fakes and then does bunt foul in the air, drops untouched in front of the on-charging Garvey.
0-1 to count.
Two runs, six hits for the Dodgers. No runs, just one hit for San Diego.
It was a clean single.
Dave Campbell almost flattened the ball.
A line drive base hit the left center in the first inning.
Osteen ready in the strike one pitch on the hands and fouled away. 0-1 to.
Osteen pitched a shutout of course in his first start against Houston, two to nothing.
And he's leading two to nothing tonight.
It's ironical that last year in his first two starts the other team's pitcher pitched shutouts against him.
Roberts fouls off a big wide curveball and it's still 0-2.
Osteen has pitched a one hitter in his career.
He pitched a one hitter against the Giants here in Los Angeles in the middle of June of 1965.
He also has two two hitters in his career.
Of course it's pretty early to be talking about the one hitter.
That's what he has right now, but he's only in the sixth.
But just in case the thoughts came up.
Claude reading Sudeikis.
Still staring in there.
And now backs up the rubber and suds he goes out to talk to him.
0-1 to the count.
The Padres have got one man to second base.
Campbell singled and balked by Osteen over to second.
Only the second balk in Osteen's National League career.
But he left him right there.
0-1 to the count to Dave Roberts.
Campbell the man who was involved is on deck.
Passball is lifted to deep left center but Davis had a bead on it now and Willie makes the catch.
To Roberts the fly ball went away.
Here is Dave Campbell the possessor of the only San Diego hit.
Campbell came into the game swinging a hot bat at.353 and he's one for two.
One out in the sixth. Tommy Dean on deck.
Osteen into the wind up. Claude ready and delivers. Fastball away.
1-1 and 0.
Osteen checking. Comes back to Campbell 1-0.
Fastball a big bouncer over the head of Garvey but he spears it and throws him out.
Let's pause for station identification. This is the Los Angeles-Sobius radio network.
Your tune to KPAR radio Phoenix, Arizona.
Two down and Tommy Dean who struck out and then nubbed one and was thrown out by Sudeikis as the batter is over two.
Osteen checking. Dean waiting and the first pitch to Tom taken high ball one.
The San Diego Padres of 1970 in a nutshell their longest winning streak five, their longest losing streak eight.
The most runs they scored in a game 17.
Most home runs in a game they hit five. Fits the Dean a strike.
Most errors in a game five.
The longest hitting streak Chris Canazaro had a 13 game hitting streak.
The longest losing streak for a pitcher was Dave Roberts. Fits the Dean outside.
Roberts a good pitcher pitching well tonight. Last year hit a bad spot and lost 10 straight.
Osteen ready and the 2-1 pitch on the way. Fastball grounded to Russell.
Billy up with it cleanly. He flips across to Parker and that's it.
So for six innings Osteen has been very much in command. He's allowed only one hit.
And at the end of five and a half innings the Dodgers two and the Padres.
Bottom of the sixth inning with the Dodgers leading the Padres two to nothing. Two runs, six hits and no errors.
Padres no runs, one hit and two errors. Bill Sudeikis, Steve Garvey and Willie Davis going away.
Dave Roberts.
Without a windup ready and delivers and Sudeikis takes low ball one.
Sudsy Homer in the second inning walks in the foils.
Bill one of a trio the firm that handles Dodger pitching.
The firm of Sim Sudeikis and Haller or is it Haller Sim Sudeikis the pitch inside ball two.
Which remind us Duke Sim had a visitor here at the ballpark who worked out with the Dodgers tonight.
The brother Farrell from Idaho Falls, Idaho to Opich and Sudeikis felt it if it goes straight it's a home run.
But it's fucking and it goes there. Home run.
Bill Sudeikis hits his second home run of the night and we know one thing the catching firm is definitely headed by Sudeikis now.
Two home runs and the Dodgers lead three to nothing. Here's Steve Garvey.
The fifth high ball one.
Here's a one opich and Garvey drives it to left field and deep back to a four hour lease and it's off the wall.
Backed up by Gaffson and Steve Garvey has a bullet double.
Boy did Garvey send that thing out there.
In a hurry. Farrell went racing to the wall and the ball hit just above the brewery where Jim Brewer and company is seated.
Banged off the wall and alert back up play by Gaffson was able to hold Steve Garvey to a double.
Right hander Al Santolini begins to throw in the San Diego bullpen.
We've got some more union all ought to serve.
The war is a study. Two books of union all auto strip to Bill Sudeikis and two books of the boys club of Santa Ana 950 West Highland in Santa Ana.
So the Dodgers have two home runs and two doubles tonight.
Four of their eight hits extra base.
Last year Bill Grabankowicz had two home runs in a game in Chicago.
But they hit two in one game in this ballpark is quite an honor and Bill Sudeikis draws it and very early in the year.
Nobody out. They bring up the corners a bit on Davis.
Robert's ready to pitch to will outside ball one.
Now the one oh pitch on the way to Davis is filed away off to the left upstairs and account one ball in one try.
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One and one account today.
Ravage delivers and Willie around a bunch takes a hook outside ball to do and one.
Sudeikis has his two home runs that I just put together three hits in the fifth inning for a run.
So they lead three to nothing.
Two and one account.
Davis takes high ball three and one.
On deck switch hitting second baseman Bill Russell.
Willie checks into the play three and one account Garvey at second base.
Roberts at the belt checks delivers and it's about to down to short Garvey's going to third.
Dean's only play is the first and he beats Davis by a whisker.
So a 6-3 ground ball with Garvey taking third and with one out the batter is Bill Russell.
They will walk Russell intentionally with Osteen coming up so there's ball one.
Bill Russell gets four wide ones they'll put him aboard.
Osteen will be the batter three to nothing Dodgers in the sixth inning with one out.
Russell throws the bat away and clasps the first.
Preston Gomez comes out to the mound on the run and Claude Osteen makes his way to home plate.
Preston talking to pitcher Dave Roberts.
Campbell and Colbert go back to their position so only the battery with the manager.
And now Gomez walks off the field.
Osteen has struck out and sacrificed.
It is conceivable that the Dodgers could have several plays in the work here.
You could have a hit and run play with Russell going to Garvey holding.
You could have a straight sacrifice where Osteen tries to stay out of the double play and just punch Russell over to second base.
So we'll see now what the Dodgers select to do.
Roberts ready in the pitch Osteen he takes outside ball one.
1 and 0 the count to Claude Osteen.
Next one outside ball two.
So Roberts in a jam he's failing three to nothing.
And he's behind to his opposite number two balls and no strikes with runners at first and third.
Dave left foot on the rubber leans on the right knee now straightens up.
Here's the 2 0 pitch Osteen he's around to bat and does and it's fouled.
He would appear to have been almost batting for a base hit.
Although if anything else it would have turned out to be a sacrifice to get Russell over.
2 and 1 the count and Claude comes back and we'll see what he does this time.
Two balls no strikes.
Osteen checking with Danny Ozar coaching at third.
Russell held on by Colbert takes his lead.
Roberts ready checks and they pitch out but this time Russell is not going.
They were hoping that the Dodgers were going to play sacrifice.
That is a very big gamble.
On a 2 1 pitch you pitch out.
However we told you before that Roberts is an excellent control pitcher.
He had better be to pitch out 2 and 1.
Here's the 3 1 pitch Osteen ball four so it hurts.
Roberts was in the top 10 control last year.
He has walked three men tonight.
But to pitch out 2 and 1 is a tribute to his control with a pitcher at the plate.
But it didn't work and he came back with ball four.
So the bases are loaded with one out and they're going to go to the bullpen.
Maury Wills will face Al Santorini.
So Dave Roberts is coming out.
Roberts goes into the sixth inning.
He works five in the third inning.
And is charged with at least three runs and eight hits.
Sudeikis got to him twice for home runs.
And Al Santorini, right-hander who throws very hard, will come in and Wills of course will turn around and bat left-handed.
So the Dodgers have Osteen at first, Russell at second, and Garvey at third.
And of course the base hit now they would feel they've kind of broken the game wide open.
We've got a little time and a few thoughts to pass along your way while Santorini makes a long walk in.
And here's Jerry to do just that.
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Send orders by mail to Team Night Dodgers, Box 100, Los Angeles 90051.
Or buy tickets the night of the game at a team night booth.
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Order tickets by Ticketron at the store nearest you, or order tickets through mutual theater offices.
And of course at the Dodger ticket office on Stadium Way or by mail to the Dodgers, Box 100, Los Angeles 90051.
All the Dodgers out in front, three-nothing, trying to get some more now.
Santorini warming up, let's go back to the action, and here's Vint.
Now Santorini has picked up quite an investment here.
The bases are loaded with one out.
Dave Roberts went five and a third innings charged with at least three runs and eight hits.
He walked three and struck out two, one of the three walks intentionally granted.
Santorini, the right-hander, worked for San Diego last year but did not have a decision against the Dodgers.
And Santorini, lifetime against the Dodgers, is one and two.
Maury Wills coming up with a base and loaded one out, and the Dodgers have a chance to break it open, leading three to nothing.
However, to use the term break it open against San Diego might be using a term loosely,
because this ball club can come back in a hurry and score runs and punches.
The Vintster Wills hit off a fifth foul or third and slicing into the crowd out of play on one.
The Dodgers, like every other club, have tremendous respect for the power and run production of the Padres.
The next one, the Wills is low, one and one.
We told you earlier that Bill Drabachowicz had two home runs in one game last year in Chicago.
Most home runs hit here by a Dodger in one game.
Lou Johnson hit two here.
Here's the one-one pitch to Wills.
High ball two, two and one.
The most home runs in one game hit by a visiting player here would be Wilbur Starjul of the Pirates, who hit three home runs in a game.
But Bill Sudeikis has hit two tonight.
Garvey, Russell, and Osteen taking their leads in the two-one pitch to Wills.
Fouled away off to the left out of play in the count two and two.
Three-nothing Dodgers, sixth inning.
Santorini checking into the windup.
Two-two pitch to Maury Wills.
Swung on and missed, strike three.
Now there's a big out for Santorini to get Wills.
And with two down, we'll see, is it Moda or Buckner?
It'll be Moda.
Manny looked over in the dugout before coming out.
There's a left-hander throwing in the San Diego bullpen.
We can't pick off his number, but it might be Bill Laxton.
So Santorini strikes out Wills.
That's a big out.
Maury, as we mentioned, is a tough man to strike out.
Once every 17 at-batch last year.
Moda takes the strike on one.
So it's been a memorable night when you think about it.
Dave Roberts in the top ten has walked three, although that's certainly not high, one of them intentionally.
Willie Davis, rare to hit into a double play, and he did tonight.
Wills, who rarely strikes out, has struck out.
Moda takes low, one and one.
One and one to Manny Moda.
Santorini into his wind-up in the 1-1 pitch.
Moda takes low, ball two, and now the pressure is on Santorini.
He has to throw a strike.
He's behind two and one.
Moda, a board on an error at third, hit back to the box in the third and single up the middle to drive in a run in the fifth.
The 2-1 pitch to Manny Moda.
High chopper up along third, tough play for Slocum.
He can't pick it up.
The run is over, everybody's safe.
Ron Slocum had only one chance on that high bouncer.
That was to charge the ball and angle your body so that in one motion you could barehand it and throw.
But the ball also had to come up.
It had to be a pretty high bounce for Slocum to barehand it.
It not only did not come up, but it went off at the opposite angle, and he never touched it.
Parker takes outside, ball one.
So it's a squib single for Moda, and another run batted in for Manny to give him two.
The run is charged to Roberts.
They have now four nothing Dodgers, and the 1-0 pitch to Parker with the bases loaded is low.
Ball two.
Dodgers have four runs, nine hits.
For Padres, no runs, one hit.
Russell Osteen and Moda on the line, and Parker grounds one to Campbell.
Dave on the run is up with it and underhands to Colbert, and the inning is over.
The Dodgers come up with two runs on a single double end home run.
They leave three, and at the end of six innings, the Dodgers four, the Padres nothing.
Well, it's not only what he does, but how he does it.
Well, that's another way of saying a certain person has a lot of spirit,
and it's pretty much the way you'd say a Union 76 dealer has spirit too,
because no matter what a Union 76 man does for you,
you'll probably say he does it with a friendliness and courtesy that makes his place a pleasure to drive into.
Simple things like a map of the city or maybe a little extra air in that front tire
become as important to him as they are to you.
He knows that a lot of friendly help with a small problem brings you back
when your car needs the other things that make it go.
Yes, doing business with a smile.
That's a Union 76 man's way of doing things.
Now, if you like that kind of friendly service, well, drive in and sample our spirit.
The spirit of 76 lives at Union Oil.
Why don't you take advantage of it?
The Dodgers four runs, nine hits, no errors.
Through six innings, the Dodgers four runs, nine hits, no errors.
The Padres no runs, one hit, and two errors.
The finale with the Padres tomorrow at 1 o'clock, Tom Phoebus and Don Sutton.
The Cubs will be in Monday and Tuesday nights, then the Cardinals Wednesday and Thursday nights,
and the Houston Astros next weekend.
And for you youngsters who are particularly interested to begin your collection,
tomorrow, like every Sunday when the Dodgers are home, it's autograph day from 1140 to 1220.
And there are autograph booths throughout the stadium to accommodate you.
About 14 Dodger players will be there to sign books and get your autograph collection underway.
Let's go to the seven. Dodgers four, Padres nothing.
For more play, here's Jerry.
All right, Vinnie, Gaston, Colbert, Brown, right through the heart of the lineup for Osteen now.
Dodgers have given him a little breathing room.
It's four to nothing in favor of Los Angeles over San Diego.
Gaston has grounded out twice.
Stepping in now, right-hand batter, Lawrence Gaston, 294 batting average.
He has one RBI on the year.
Now Osteen checking signs.
The only hit off, Claude, Dave Campbell, opened the game with a single for San Diego,
and that's Vinnie at it right through here.
Here's the pitch on the way.
Nub Fowl off to the right of the plate, strike one.
In Osteen's opening game against Houston, he blanked the Astros and felt that he had a fine curveball.
He made some adjustments in it, and it has been a good pitch for him.
But also tonight he's used the screwball well, or the off-speed pitch, turning it over a bit.
He doesn't really call it a screwball, but it has a similar effect.
Now the lineup and the pitch on the way.
High with a fastball, one ball, one strike.
Gaston the batter.
Campbell's single as the first batter up was a clean hit, bounced right through the middle into center field.
Now the windup and the 1-1 pitch.
High outside ball two, two and one.
Osteen has walked two.
He walked Colbert in the fourth and Ferrara in the fifth.
Two and one count.
Now Osteen ready again and the pitch on the way.
High again, ball three.
That fastball running up and away.
Tomorrow Tom Phoebus and Don Sutton.
The Cubs are in Monday and Tuesday.
The Cardinals Wednesday and Thursday.
The Astros Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Three and one.
Osteen to the windup and the pitch.
Strike called on the fastball.
Three and two.
Trying to keep the ball away from big Clarence Gaston.
Nate Colbert on deck.
Osteen all set now with a payoff pitch on the way.
Checking signs from catcher Bill Sudeikis.
He walked him.
Fastball was outside.
So for the second time he has walked the leadoff batter.
That's the third walk in the game.
Ferrara walked as the leadoff man in the fifth inning.
Here's Colbert at bat.
He has rounded out and walked.
But now the Dodgers set the infield double plate up.
They have turned in one tonight.
The Padres have turned in two.
Garvey, Wills, Russell, Parker with a runner at first base, Colbert.
And the Dodgers leading 4-0 against a very explosive ball club, the San Diego Padres.
They can pile up a lot of runs in a hurry.
Osteen backs off now.
And Parker signals that he will not hold the runner on.
He's going to play behind Gaston at first base.
Strong right-hand batter up there, Nate Colbert.
Off-speed pitch, trickles up the third baseline going foul.
Sudeikis over to Gloveton, gives it back to Osteen.
Crowd tonight, 19,705.
Fine turnout.
Hope you'll be here tomorrow.
Should be a nice day.
And a good game in store.
Sutton and Phoebus tomorrow afternoon.
One o'clock.
One hour, nobody out.
The Dodgers lead it 4-0.
And Bill Sudeikis has hit two home runs for the Dodgers tonight.
One to center field and one right down the left field line.
Strike one count.
Colbert waits.
Here's the pitch.
A little low with a breaking ball.
One and one.
One ball, one strike.
Claude Osteen trying to get off to a good start this year.
One ball, one strike.
Gaston leads away from first base.
Parker behind him.
Colbert waiting at the plate.
Grounded to the right side of the mound.
In comes Russell Ford.
His play will have to go to first base in time.
And on the out, Gaston goes to second.
So Colbert nubs one off the end of the bat and rolls out to second base with Bill Russell.
Here's Olly Brown at bat now.
Brown lined out and grounded out so he is 0-2.
Olly Brown at bat.
Action in both bullpens.
Runner at second, one out, seventh inning.
Dodgers lead 4-0 over the Padres.
Now the pitch by Osteen.
Fastball outside, ball one, just missed.
The Dodgers had the home run by Sudeikis in the second.
An infield hit, a sacrifice, and a single by Moda got another run in the fifth.
A home run by Sudeikis, a double by Garvey, and an infield hit by Moda picked up one more.
The Padres have had just one hit.
They have committed two errors.
The 1-0 pitch, just missed.
Outside to Brown, 2-0 to count.
Osteen trying to keep the ball away from these big sluggers there.
He walked Gaston being careful, got Cobart to nub one off the end of the bat towards second.
And now he's gone 2-0 to Brown, keeping the ball outside.
All right, Osteen ready again.
Sine from Sudeikis, the pitch.
A little high with a slider, ball three, and so all of a sudden,
Clodbs had a little control trouble here in the seventh inning.
He normally would not walk three in a game.
He has walked three now, and he's gone 3-0 to Brown.
If he misses here, he'll give up his fourth walk of the game.
Three balls, no strikes.
Now again, the look, check, and the pitch on the way.
And he lost him, high and outside, ball four.
That's the fourth walk.
There are two on, and Peraro, the batter, has walked and flied to right field.
Jim Brewer throwing in the Dodger bullpen.
He'll have a right-hander and a left-hander in the San Diego bullpen,
as Parker now goes to the mound to talk to Osteen.
So Clodbs walked two in an inning here, and four in the game.
He has struck out four in the game.
The last strikeout that he picked up was in the third inning.
So Peraro at bat, Al is making his first start of the year.
He was 0-3 in three other games.
Two on, Peraro waiting.
On deck, Canisaro.
Here's the pitch.
Strike with the fastball, picked up the outside corner, 0-1.
Day game tomorrow, 1 o'clock.
Seabass and Sutton will wind up the series.
The Reds lost today.
They're the last of the match, 3-2 in 11 innings.
They are 0-3 on the season.
Strike one count.
Osteen working to Peraro.
The infield double played up.
The outfield around to the left and deep in the pitch.
Little high, ball one.
So in the inning, a walk to Gaston, a roll out by Colbert, and a walk to Brown.
Two men on base.
One man out.
One ball, one strike.
The right-hander in the bullpen is Steve Arlen for the Padres.
Does the line drive one hop to Russell up with it down to second one.
On to first base, double play.
Beautiful play.
Bill Russell really started that one.
He took that hot liner on the short hop, going to his left.
Up, spun around, Fed Wilson was really coming across that bag in a hurry.
On the throw to first in time, and the Dodgers turn their second double play.
And boy, that was a pretty one started by Russell.
And Wills was really flying through the air across second base.
4-6-3 on the double play.
The side retired.
No runs, no hits, no errors, and one left in the score at the end of six and a half an inch.
Dodgers four, the Padres nothing.
Milwaukee and the world.
My old man was a seafaring man.
He used to sail these seas like there was no tomorrow.
And he drank his deal big.
He was that man of a slip.
He had a philosophy about life, my old man.
He'd say, you only live once, so you've got to make the most of it.
Yeah, a lot of that stuff with me.
You've got to live life.
Live it with all the gusto there is.
In everything, even in the beer you drink.
Settle for less, not a chance.
A man of slips, not a beer.
Let's pause now for station identification.
This is the Los Angeles Dodgers radio network.
The Spirit Son.
K-T-A-R-C.
Richie Allen coming on in the last half of the seventh.
The crowd's standing for the seventh inning stretch.
19,705 on hand tonight.
Allen tonight has struck out and hit the ball sharply the next two times.
In the third into a double play and in the fifth inning into a forced out,
and he couldn't hit it much harder.
He really ripped it toward the third baseman.
So Allen is off to a slow start.
It's on science now that he is beginning to hit the ball hard.
Here's Allen at bat with Sudeikis on deck.
Now the pitch on the way to Rich.
Inside for ball.
Al Santorini is now pitching for San Diego, replacing Dave Roberts.
Roberts pitched well.
Here's the 1-0 pitch.
Inside for ball.
Roberts worked six into third innings, allowed four runs and six hits.
Make it eight hits.
Next pitch, Laurel for the ball.
Curve ball low and it's ball free to Allen now.
Here's the pitch on the way to Rich and he takes it high, ball four.
Allen is on with a walk.
Here's Sudeikis at bat.
Home run in the second, a walk in the fourth, a home run in the sixth.
Willie Crawford now will go in and run for Allen,
and he'll stay in the game of playing the outfield.
So Allen comes off.
He's still hurting with that sore left foot.
And he comes off now.
So Crawford runs for Allen at first base.
Sudeikis coming up.
Bill now is up from the left side.
He hit his two home runs from the right side.
There's a runner going and the ball is hit through the hole.
It's stretched out backhanded by Dean up at his long throw.
In time on a very close call at first base.
Sudeikis out on a very close call at first.
They played hit and run and he hit the ball at the shortstop.
Dean was breaking to the bag, had to backtrack in a hurry,
made a good play to get to the ball and to throw just in time.
So Sudeikis out and on the play.
Crawford goes into second.
So Sudeikis moves his man over and just misses his third hit of the game.
Here's Garvey at bat, grounded out,
flied out to right and doubled off the left field fence.
Garvey going into the night hitting 182.
He's had three hits now and two have been doubled.
There's a breaking ball low, one ball no strike.
Dodgers lead at four to nothing.
And Garvey is trying to make it five with Crawford on second base.
One ball and no strike.
The game's two hours along and we're in the seventh.
Pitch inside on the corner for a strike and it's 101 right in around the knees.
Good pitch by Santorini.
One ball, one strike.
The last half of the seventh.
A walk to Allen. Crawford runs for him.
He's on second after the ground out.
Good pitch inside, ball two, two and one.
Two and one count.
Again the look and here's the pitch.
A swing and a miss at a hard slider, 2-2.
Santorini pitching to Garvey.
Willie Davis on deck and Russell to follow.
Tomorrow right-handers Don Sutton and Tom Phoebus.
2-2. Santorini delivers.
Garvey hits a high-five ball along the right field line.
Three players going after Dan.
On the line in foul territory, Colbert makes the catch.
Crawford tags that's the third to throw there.
He's in there.
Colbert made a fine running catch on the ball in foul territory.
And Willie Crawford showed heads up by advancing to third after the catch.
Here's Willie Davis at bat now.
A double, hit the double play and grounded out.
One for three.
Runner on at third base, Willie Crawford.
So Crawford is on third after the foul out by Garvey.
Davis has one for three.
Willie had three for 16 going in.
Up now with a runner on third.
Swolcombe, the third baseman, comes up.
The pitch to Willie Deeb.
A play on the line drive, base hit the right field.
That gets the run in.
So Davis gets his second hit of the game and a run batted in.
The Dodgers lead five to nothing.
Crawford scores it.
And that'll bring up Bill Russell.
Bill Russell at bat has one hit, been on on an error, and walks.
So he's one for two.
Russell now a bat left-handed against right-hand pitcher Al Santorini.
Four Dodger players have two hits tonight.
Moda, Parker, Sudeikis home runs, and Davis a double into singles.
So to first, Willie's back safely.
Five-0, Dodgers lead it.
Foud Osteen has allowed just one hit.
It came to the first batter's face.
Another throw to first, and again Willie back-heads first.
The Padres think that he might run if he gets a chance.
And again a throw, and a block is called.
So for the second time tonight, first-face umpire Chris Pellicuttis is called a block.
The first one was on Osteen, on Campbell in the first inning, and now on Santorini with Davis running at first base.
So Davis is at second, and Russell now trying to bring him in.
Santorini delivers, low, ball one.
One ball, no strikes to Russell.
Bill hitting 250 going into the game, and he's one for two tonight.
Davis again moves off now the pitch.
A swing and a miss at a breaking ball, one and one.
Bill batting left-handed.
His experiment as a switch-header was very successful through spring training, and now he gets to put it to use in regulation play.
He is 0 for 5 at the right-hand batter, and 3 for 7 at the left-hand batter, oddly enough.
The pitch, curve low, and it's 2 and 1.
So he is actually better here so far as a left-hand hitter.
Turn-one count, now the pitch. Looks at third base, broken over to grab it for the outtie, broke his bat, and pushed that one to the third baseman.
So Russell is out, side retired.
The Dodgers show one run, one hit, one left, score at the end of 7 and needs to play.
Dodgers 5 and the Padres nothing.
You know, one day recently, Farmer John said,
Say, Vin, why is a person who eats my Farmer John bacon every morning like a fan who listens to every Dodger ball game?
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Willie Crawford is in right field. Manny Motta moves to left. We'll go to the eighth inning. More play. Here's Vinnie.
All right, Jerry. Five runs, ten hits for the Dodgers. No runs, one hit for the San Diego Padres.
The one hit came in the first inning to leadoff man Dave Campbell, and it was a solid single,
a ringing single, or whatever other adjective you want to use to describe it. It was really bellied. Solid base hit.
Osteen now in the eighth inning will work to Kanijero, Slocum, and Santorini spot.
There have been a couple of balls well hit. One by Ollie Brown, but at will,
and one by Ferrara that was speared by Russell and turned into a double play. The pitch low, ball one.
The other outs have been basically routine ground balls or fly balls.
Osteen has struck out for his walk three.
Screwball on the outside corner for a strike. But so far a one hitter for seven innings.
We told you earlier that he has a one hitter against the Giants in 1965 and right here.
Here's the one-one pitch on the way. Claude delivers and it's fouled back one and two.
Osteen has never pitched a no hitter. That honor on the Dodger staff goes to Bill Singer.
One and two the count to Chris Kanijero struck out hit into a double play. Right hand hitting catcher.
Osteen nods yes and the one-two pitch on the way is low, ball two.
Now the two-two pitch coming up. High, ball three.
A full count to Chris Kanijero. Dodger scored in the second, again in the fifth, then twice in the sixth, then once more in the seventh.
Bill Sudeikis has had a big night with two home runs. Both as a right-handed batter.
Three-two pitch is a high drive to Dead Center. Davis going back, way back to the track and makes the catch.
Straight away, center field. As a guess we'd say the ball traveled about 395 feet and then as Willie thought it he took two steps back into the boards where it's exactly 400.
So a long out to center, one away and the batter, Ron Slocum, the third baseman.
Slocum struck out and grounded a short, 0 for 2. Osteen ready and serves one over for a strike on one.
On deck, pinch hitter Ivan Morrell who has tremendous talent. He might have as much talent if not more.
All complete tools if anybody on the team gets one on in this fight too. He's coming off an injury and an operation.
So Ivan Morrell will be hitting for Al Santorini.
0 and 2.
The next one is outside, ball one, one and two.
One out, eight inning, five nothing Dodgers.
Osteen shot out the Houston Astros 2 to nothing and he has the Padres 5-0 here in the eighth.
Here's the 1-2 pitch to Ron Slocum, swung on and missed, strike three.
Five strikeouts for Claude and here comes Ivan Morrell.
All the Padres ready for Santorini. Number 20, Ivan Morrell.
Ivan Morrell is from Panama. He lives in San Diego.
On September 24th, he injured his left knee severely sliding home in Atlanta and he underwent surgery.
Pitch is low to Ivan, ball one, one and O.
Morrell, 6'298 pounder. When he was smaller, he was an undefeated amateur middleweight.
He had many offers to turn professional but he decided to turn pro swinging at baseball instead of at other people.
Here's the 1-0 pitch on the way. Pulled on the ground to third, Garvey plays it off his left hip and throws him out.
So the Padres are gone in the eighth inning and at the end of seven and a half innings, the Dodgers 5 and the Padres nothing.
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Music.
Bottom of the eighth inning, five runs, ten hits and no errors for the Dodgers. No runs, one hit and two errors for the Padres.
We've seen Dave Roberts and Al Santorini and now left-hander Dick Kelly will be coming in.
Kelly at one time with the Braves had a sore arm last year and Kelly will now loosen up, getting ready to pitch to the Dodgers.
Claude Osteen will start things off, then Maury Will and Manny Moda.
Al Santorini picked up for Dave Roberts and went one and two-third innings, allowed one run and two hits.
A walk and a strikeout. He also balked and now Dick Kelly will come in.
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Boy, what is beautiful weather. It's a perfect place to spend the afternoon at the Dodger Stadium.
Claude Osteen takes a strike on one. We told you earlier that Osteen pitched a one-hitter on June 17, 1965 against the San Francisco Giants here in Los Angeles.
You might be wondering when did that hit come and by whom. The strike one pitches outside, one and one.
Osteen surrendered the hit against the Giants to Jackie Hyatt, who now catches for Houston.
Hyatt got a base hit in the second inning and that was the only hit that Osteen allowed.
Tonight the hit came to leadoff man Dave Campbell in the first inning and that's the only hit he's allowed.
Pitchers strike in the count one and two. Interesting note about Jackie Hyatt.
He came up to bat the other night for Houston and got a base hit.
He has been with five big league clubs and he has gotten a hit his first at bat with each of the five clubs.
The next one is inside and Osteen just did get out of the way of it. It was not a fastball. It was not an intimidating pitch at all.
It was just something that got away. Two and two. There's no way that De Kelly's going to be throwing it Osteen.
Two and two the count. Now Dick Reddy and the two-two pitch.
Ground ball to shortstop. Dean takes it on a big hop. Goes across the Colbert for the out.
Maury Wills. Maury Wills coming out.
Wills has handled his position very well. He's 0-4 with the bat.
Dodgers have come up with two double plays and several fine individual plays.
Wills has made a couple. Russell made a dandy.
Kelly into the windup and delivers. Fastball for a strike. Going one.
Kelly ready and his strike one pitch on the way. That's another strike.
Oh and to the count of Maury Wills. Kelly delivers outside ball one. One and two.
One and two to Maury Wills. Manny Mota on deck. Kelly comes back one-two and it's lifted foul off first base and out of play.
Nate Colbert over to have a look but that's all.
Dave Roberts, Al Santorini and Dick Kelly. Tomorrow right-hander Tom Phoebus and Don Sutton.
And Don Sutton.
Then the Cubs, the Cardinals and the Astors.
Kelly into the windup. One-two pitch outside and high. Ball two. That seemed to sail.
I think Kelly wants another ball to work with. Two and two.
He gives it back to Kanagero and Chris will rub it up for him apparently.
Two and two. Two balls, two strikes. Dick looks in to get a sign. Now he's ready.
And the two-two pitch outside and high. Ball three. Three and two. Has anybody here seen Kelly?
He's right out there in the middle of the field. He's from Boston. Where else?
Three-two pitch to Maury Wills. Fouled away off to the right upstairs.
Kelly was plagued by a bad arm last year that kept him out of service just about the entire season.
We mean baseball service now.
Dick originally signed by the Braves. He spells it with an E-Y.
Ground ball down to short. Tommy Dean gloves it off the bill of the cap and throws him out. Two down.
Richard Anthony Kelly. K-E-L-L-E-Y from Boston.
He was 31 in January. He's been pitching professionally since 59.
All right, here's Molda. Two out on the eighth inning. When O'Sheen goes to work in the ninth, he has Campbell, Dean, and Gaston.
Kelly delivers and it's swung on and missed. Going one.
0-1 to count to Manny Molda.
Kelly ready. Strike one pitch outside and high. One ball and one strike.
Five runs, ten hits for the Dodgers. No runs, one hit. Two errors for the Padres. No suspense for this one, however.
Leadoff man Dave Campbell got the base hit in the first inning.
Here's the 1-1 pitch on the way. Foul back. 1-2.
Just under 20,000 here tonight on this ladies night. 19,705.
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Here's the 1-2 pitch to Manny Molda. Off speed, way outside. Ball two. Two and two.
Dodgers score the run in the second, the run in the fifth, two in the sixth, one in the seventh.
Next one very high. Ball three. Bill Sudeikis has hit two home runs.
First time that's been done in a game at Dodger Stadium by a Dodger since Lude Johnson back in 67. We'd lose.
3-2 pitch on the way. Line drive base hit the center field. Gaston up with the ball.
So Molda, who wears number 11, comes up with the 11th Dodger hit. And the batter will be Wes Parker.
Parker is two for four tonight. Hit into a fourth play, single to center, single off the pitcher's glove, and grounded out.
Kelly looks for a sign from Canazaro. Molda off the bag, held on by Colbert.
Left-handed delivers and Parker takes high. Ball one.
Parker waiting the 1-0 pitch to Wes. Breaking ball, hit foul down the right field line, slicing out of play back into the crowd.
One and one. One o'clock game tomorrow, but come spend Sunday with us.
Don Sutton and Tom Feebus.
Now the 1-1 pitch to Parker. Kelly kicks, works the play to change curve outside. Ball two, soon one.
Molda hops off the bag. Parker swinging a bat back and forth. Kelly set at the belt.
Checks in the 2-1 pitch, low, ball three. On deck is Willie Crawford, who came into the game running for Richie Allen in the seventh inning.
Three and one to Parker. Dick Kelly ready. Molda goes. Fast ball is taken for a strike to throw on a bounce.
Dick is set. The 3-1 pitch to Bill Sudeikis. Way outside. He couldn't have hit that from where you are.
And the bases are loaded with force for station identification. This is the Los Angeles Dodgers radio network.
Well, Sudeikis never got a shot, so he's standing at first. Willie Crawford at second, West Parker at third, and with two out here is Steve Garvey.
Grounded out, slide to right, doubled off the left field fence, and fouled out. Kelly ready, delivers high.
Kelly had worked briefly in one outing this year. This is his second, and he's on the wild side. Garvey takes high again, ball two.
He got the first two batters, then Molda singles. Parker walked. Molda stole second base prior to Parker's walk.
Crawford singled home Molda, and a 3-1 pitch to Sudeikis missed by plenty to load him up.
So here's Garvey in the count two and Oda sees. Garvey takes high again, ball three.
Well, I tell you, knowing Alston and the way he thinks, it is conceivable that he would even let Garvey swing 3-0 with two down and a left-hand hitter on deck.
There is a definite chance that Garvey would be allowed to swing. Whether he does or not remains to be seen, but in this spot they might give him the green light.
3-0 pitch to Garvey. He's taking a strike. He started to go to first, three and one. He looks at Ozark now.
We figured that Sudeikis would be allowed to hit 3-1. Figures now that Garvey would. Kelly trying to throw strikes.
Deck to the windup and the 3-1 pitch to Garvey is swung on and filed back.
Okay, full count. Two down, bases loaded. Kelly will work from a stretch. The Dodgers leading 6-0 in the eighth inning.
Kelly to the rising bag for the moment. Now up on top. Full count, two down. Dick working out of a stretch.
And of course the runners are ready, Sudeikis, Crawford and Parker. Dick leans in to read Kanisero.
Garvey waiting. Here's the 3-2 pitch to the young third baseman with the bases loaded. They go and the pitch is in the dirt, ball four.
That makes it 7-0 Dodgers and everybody moves up 90 feet.
Two runs charged to Dick Kelly. He's walked three.
Willie Davis the batter. He is the eighth man to come up in the eighth inning.
What is particularly frustrating to Dick Kelly and the Padres, Dick retired the first two batters.
He got Osteen to shortstop, Wills to shortstop, and then it started. A single, a walk, a single and two more walks.
Bases loaded, two out, the pitch to Willie Low, ball one.
Crawford at third, Sudeikis at second, and Garvey at first.
7-0 Dodgers in the eighth.
Kelly to the windup and the 1-0 pitch swung on and missed one and one.
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The Dodgers and the Padres, the final game of the series. Tom Peebus and Don Sutton.
Here's the 1-1 pitch to Willie Davis, swung on and missed, right two, one and two.
Seven runs on a dozen hits for the Dodgers. And in direct contrast, startling contrast, the Padres no runs, one hit.
And we're in the bottom of the eighth.
Kelly to the windup and the 1-2 pitch is fouled away.
One and two to Willie Davis.
Here comes Kelly and the fastball is low, ball two.
Crawford at third, Sudeikis at second, Garvey at first. Kelly to the windup and the 2-2 pitch is fouled away.
Off to the left, carrying to the second deck.
Davis backs out, now Willie back up again.
Dodgers at the court twice here in the eighth to widen the gap to a seven to nothing lead.
Now the 2-2 pitch on the way, on the hands and fouled away out of play.
What a scramble. Two and two.
So Kelly and Davis battling it out with the bases loaded. Now Willie back up to the plate. Kelly on the rubber.
Dick into his windup. Here's the 2-2 pitch to Davis on the hands fouled back and right through the exit gate.
Willie is keeping everybody busy and it's still two and two.
Kelly reading Kanazero. Now he's ready. 2-2 pitch on the fifth.
The little pot flying to shallow center. Dean going out, Gaston coming in, it drops.
Crawford scores. Tadakis scores on a blue double and it's nine nothing Dodgers.
But Dick Kelly kept putting that ball in on the knuckles and Willie Davis kept filing them off.
And they got another one in on the hands and this time he was able to dunk it into center field for a leg double.
Gaston tried to shoestring it but couldn't do it. So the Dodgers have scored four times here in the eighth inning and they have broken it wide open.
They lead nine to nothing. First base open to batter is Bill Russell. He is the ninth batter of the inning.
And remember all this with two out, he swings a missy.
Thirteen hits for the Dodgers. Russell has one of them.
Kelly to the windup and the strike one fastball over on the outside corner, strike two.
Osteen and Wills made out and then it started. Moda single and stole second. Parker walked.
Crawford singled home a run. Tadakis and Garvey walked forcing in a run. Davis has doubled home two more.
The strike two pitch to Bill Russell. Taken just low and away, ball one, one and two.
Nine to nothing Dodgers, eighth inning.
Garvey is shortly the third. Here's the one-two pitch to Russell. Half swing and a tap or wider first.
Colbert over to pick it up, throws back to Kelly. Good play for the outs. Kelly barehanded that ball.
Good play by Dix and they get the last out, three to one. The Dodgers get four runs, three hits and lead two.
And at the end of eight, Dodgers nine, Padres nothing.
Got everything Marge? Suitcases, maps?
They're all in the car George.
Well it's been a great vacation so far, but tonight we'll be in the...
What's the matter George?
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I know Harry does a good job, but so far from home I don't know who to go to. Nobody's got the old spirit anymore Marge.
George look up a Union 76 dealer in the directory. I bet they're friendly even away from home.
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And at Union 76 we try to make a smile standard equipment. Marge, that Union 76 guy was friendly. He told me what was wrong with the car over the phone.
It was nothing serious then?
Not really, I forgot to take it out of drive. It was clearer than 76 made with Union Oil.
9th inning here at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers 9 runs 13 hits and no errors. Padres no runs 1 hit and that's by leadoff man Dave Campbell in the first inning.
And he will lead off the 9th. 5 against the Giants. That hit came in the second inning. So here is Campbell, he's got the only one.
Osteen spent a long time on the bench in the 8th inning. He was the first man up and grounded out and then sat around and wound up in the on deck circle when the team sent 9 men up to the plate.
Osteen with Bobby Valentine now at shortstop and we go to the 9th inning and the pitch is low ball one.
The Dodgers have Osteen and Sudeikis, Parker and Russell, Valentine and Garvey, Mota, Davison, Crawford in the outfield.
The 1-0 pitch on the way. A drive to left field and deep. Back goes Mota. Way back to the track. It's gone.
So Dave Campbell not only had the only hit, he gets the second hit and breaks the shutout with a home run into the left field bleachers.
And the score, Dodgers 9, Padres 1.
So Dave Campbell hits one into the bleachers. 9-1 Dodgers.
And the batter is Tommy Dean, struck out and grounded out twice. Right hand hitting shortstop 0-3.
He hits one off the end of the stick down to Russell. Bill picks it up and flips to Parker. One away.
Clarence Gaston, the talented center fielder coming up. He's 0-2 with a walk.
Dodgers score the run in the second, the run in the fifth, 2 in the sixth, 1 in the seventh, 4 in the eighth.
And Don Sutton, no doubt, thinking to himself, I wish they'd put a few of those in escrow.
Take them out tomorrow. Talking about tomorrow, it should be a good day and a good ballgame.
Tom Phebus for San Diego. Don Sutton for the Dodgers. And sure hope he'd be out here with us.
Osteen Ruddy and he works Gaston and it's off speed outside, ball one.
Dodgers had a great deal of success against the Padres here last year. They won 6 out of 9.
But rarely did a game come easy for them. The 1-0 pitch, foul back.
They won 5 out of 9 in San Diego and all of those were tough games.
When the Dodgers conclude this home stand, the first stop on the road will be San Diego.
1-1 to count to Clarence Gaston.
Osteen reading Sudeikis. Now comes 1-1 and gets it over. Strike two, 1 and 2.
The 1-2 pitch, screwball fouled away.
1-2 pitch coming up. Fastball fouled away. Deep in the lower deck, back of the San Diego dugout.
Last year, the most runs the Dodgers scored in a game, and they did it twice.
But check me, they did it once last year and once the year before.
19 against the Giants in May, the year before in June of 69 against San Diego.
Ground ball slowly to short. Valentine up with it, flips across to Parker for the second out.
One to go now and it's Nate Colbert coming up.
The leading first baseman is grounded out twice and walk, right hand batter.
1-2, Colbert is high, ball one.
One hole pitch, Colbert takes outside, ball two. Dodgers brazing 9-1 with two down and the bases empty in the ninth inning.
Osteen checking out of the windup. Two hole pitch on the way, swung on and missed, Colbert out in front of it, 2-1.
Here's the 2-1 pitch coming up. Grounded foul outside a third, rolling over to the far corner of the Dodger dugout and right down the runway.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs, ninth inning, 9-1 Dodgers.
On the postgame show tonight, not only will we have our interview and scores of other games, we'll begin answering your questions.
And for anybody who sends in a question that we use on the postgame show, we'll send two tickets free to the Dodger game.
The pitch to Colbert is hit to deep left field, back goes Moda, Dodgers-Davis to the wall, it's gone.
Donate Colbert, who hit seven home runs against the Dodgers last year, muscles one into the bleachers. That makes it 9-2 Dodgers.
Osteen just trying to get the ball over the plate, leading 9-0 going in, has given up home run balls to Campbell and now Colbert.
It will not do more, at least for the moment, than Mus' hair, however, and Ollie Brown coming up.
Here is Ollie Brown, grounded out, lined out and walked. Brown right hand hitting right fielder.
Osteen's pitch outside ball one. Nate Colbert reaching the bleachers, that's his third home run and his eighth run batted in.
Osteen figures that if they hit it, the percentages, seven out of ten, will be caught.
The pitch to Brown outside ball two. Well, he's gotten two out and two out of the playing area.
Here's the two-hole pitch to Ollie Brown, a strike, two and one. Al Ferraro on deck.
Dodgers led one to nothing through four, two to nothing at the end of five, four to nothing at the end of six, five to nothing at the end of seven, and then they got the four and the eight.
Next one outside, ball three. Three and one to Ollie Brown.
Flawed into the windup and the three-one pitch coming up, swung on and missed, strike two. Three and two.
Ollie Brown waiting, Osteen checking. Flawed ready in the three-two pitch on the way.
Ollie Brown ball sharply to Garvey. He has it, straightens up, it's Parker with the throw and that's it. The Dodgers win handily nine to two.
We'll have the totals, the winning and losing pitchers right after this message.
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Their ancestors must have had quite a feast 250 years ago when the hurricane sank a fleet of Spanish galleons, along with $14 million in gold doubloons and pieces of lead.
You can find some of it. If you're even luckier, you live to celebrate it with gusto. And man, that's when you know what life really is.
Because you know you only go around once and you've got to look for all the gusto you can, even in the beer you drink.
And that means Schlitz. Why settle for less? When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer.
The totals on the ballgame, the Dodgers nine runs, 13 hits and no errors. The Padres two runs, three hits, two errors.
He's been all the way. His second victory, his second complete game. He is now five and three lifetime with San Diego. Robert Santorini and Kelly and Robert's the loser. He's 0 and 1.
He is now three and three lifetime with the Dodgers. They have split the two games a rubber game of the series tomorrow, Don Sutton and Tom Phoebus.
Two home runs in the ballgame by Bill Sudeikis and there were two home runs for San Diego by Dave Campbell and Nate Cobras.
It is not very often that a player hits two home runs in one game at Dodger Stadium. Lou Johnson did it in 1967. Jimmy LaFever did it twice in 1966.
Bill Sudeikis who handles Claude Osteen's game and hit the two home runs will be our guest. Jerry will chat with him after this.
But, Rents, again, we want to remind you the final score of the ballgame, the Dodgers nine and the Padres two.
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The Dodgers found themselves in a terrific pitching duel for the first five innings, but home runs by Bill Sudeikis finally eased the load.
Claude Osteen out pitching Dave Roberts and then the game fell apart for San Diego as the Dodgers added four big runs in the eighth inning to take a nine to nothing lead.
Osteen, then trying to just get the ball over the plate, gave up home runs to Campbell and Cobras but got the three outs and walked in with a nine to two victory.
Bill Sudeikis who hit the two home runs had one more chance in the eighth inning to perhaps unload again and be the only Dodger in history to hit three here.
The only player ever to hit three, Wilbur Scargill and Sudeikis had a 3-1 pitch but it was a mile high and outside and he never had a chance to swing the bat.
Well Bill will be our guest and he'll do a little swinging for you while he talks to Jerry Doggett and they'll get together right after this message.
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Well we were wondering how to call the catching firm, those gentlemen who handle the Dodger Fitchers.
Would it be alphabetical which would mean Haller, Simms, Sudeikis or would it be whoever had the big blow?
Certainly tonight it starts off the firm of Sudeikis, Simms and Haller. Let's go to Sudney and to Jerry.
Alright buddy thank you very much. Well Bill I know it was a big thrill to hit two in one game.
It sure was Jerry. First time I ever did it off the major leagues and it really felt good.
How about in the minor leagues did you ever do it Sam?
Yes I did it once in 67. I hit one left hand and one right hand and the year before I started to switch it I hit two in one game.
I guess even one's a thrill though isn't it?
It sure is. I love to see them go off.
Bill the first one went into the center field seat. What'd you hit remember?
I hit a cripple with three and one and it was a fastball up around letter high and it was out over the plate.
The ball I hit last night I hit just about the same you know I hit.
I hit it just as hard but was caught last night. I thought he was going to catch it tonight again. I didn't think it had a chance of going out.
Sometimes you can hit a ball hard and it stays in the pot because I guess it's a low line drive like the one last night.
Gaston made a great play on that ball.
He sure did. He can go get him with the back Jerry.
Bill the second home run was down the line and around the foul pole. Did you think it was going to be foul?
Well when I first hit it I thought it was going to be foul. Then I saw it and I knew it was going to be fair then.
You had a couple of other chances to add three and maybe four. In fact you just barely missed the leg hit and that would be a really big victory wouldn't it?
Well nothing against Chris but I told him you got to watch my speed so be aware of it next time.
Can we just say a few words? Yeah I thought I had a beat off but I never get that close to a bang bang place. I really didn't know.