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The Chicago Cubs faced the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium for game 2 of a Sunday doubleheader on June 8th, 1975.
The Cubs were managed by Jim Marshall, who was looking to improve the team from their 96th loss season in 1974.
Cincinnati was managed by Sparky Anderson, and the Big Red Machine was trying to make it back to the playoffs in 1975,
after finishing second place in 1974 with 98 wins.
This audio recording is from game 2 of the doubleheader, featuring Cincinnati radio broadcasters Marty Brenneman and Joe Nutsall.
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Now, for all the play-by-play action of Cincinnati Reds baseball, we go to Marty Brenneman and Joe Nutsall.
Hello again everybody from Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Joe Nutsall and yours truly Marty Brenneman,
welcoming you back to the second game of the Sunday afternoon doubleheader.
At the house in the first game, the Reds on Johnny Bench's seventh inning home run with Joe Morgan-Ave on board,
gave the Reds a 2-1 victory, Gary Nolan the winner and right-hander Rick Rushell the tough luck loser.
Here in the second game, Clay Kirby will go for Cincinnati after his fourth victory of the year.
And for the Chicago Cubs, it will be a left-hander, formerly with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and that would be Jeff Zahn.
We'll be back with the second game lineups in just a moment.
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Okay, if you're ready now, here are the second game lineups, first for the Chicago Cubs,
their leadoff batter will be shortstop Rob Sparing.
Hitting number two and playing left field is champ Summers.
Batting in the third slot is third baseman Bill Matlock.
Hitting number four and center field, Rick Mundy.
Andy Thornton will be at first base batting fifth.
Hitting number six, playing right field, his first appearance in this series is Jerry Morales.
Manny Trillo batting seventh and playing second base.
Hitting eighth and catching, George Midderwall.
Batting number nine and pitching for Chicago is left-hander Jeff Zahn.
Again going over the cup batting order in the second game, it's Sparing at shortstop,
Summers in left field, and Matlock at third.
Mundy in center, Thornton at first base, and Morales in right.
With 3-0 at second, Midderwall catching and Zahn pitching.
Before the Cincinnati Reds, leading off and playing third base is Pete Rose.
Batting second and playing shortstop Dave Concepcion.
Hitting third at second base, Joe Morgan.
Batting number four, playing left field, Johnny Bench.
Tony Perez at first base but will hit fifth.
Batting number six and center field is George Foster.
Merve Redman will be in right field, batting number seven.
Hitting eighth and catching, Bill Plummer.
Batting nine and pitching for the Reds in game number two is right-hander Clay Kirby.
Once again for Cincinnati, it's Rose at third base, Concepcion at shortstop,
and Morgan at second.
Bench in left field, Perez at first base, and Foster in center.
With Redman in right, Plummer catching, and Kirby on the mound.
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The Reds are on the field, Clay Kirby, last out as he makes his way
towards the Riverfront Stadium mound.
Not only do we have a capacity house here at Riverfront Stadium this afternoon,
we've got a standing room only crowd, and Joe, they saw quite some game in number one.
Well, the way it ended up, I tell you, is really a little shaky,
particularly after Joe had trouble.
It looked like he really lost his balance or stumbled on the ground ball by Garrett,
and then Don Kessinger, who is a guy that you don't strike out,
and just more or less lays the bat on the ball, tries to hit it somewhere,
and you have to be a little concerned, but Gary did a good job on him,
and he got a nice, soft fly ball to Geronimo at the end of the game,
but both of them pitched excellent baseball.
You just can't ask to see a better-pitched ballgame than Rick Ruschel worked,
and of course Gary Nolan, and Rick making that one bad pitch, really, to Johnny Bench,
and I tell you, I don't think John is going to hit him much harder than that.
That was just a shot out of his ballpark, but a tough loss for Rick Ruschel
and a big win for Gary Nolan.
Really, well, it's just amazing the way that young man can pitch.
I don't think he threw five balls down the center of the plate all day,
or it sure didn't seem that way.
As a result of the victory, the Reds have now won 15 of their last 18 games,
and they are in the ninth inning at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia,
with Philadelphia hanging on to a 4-2 lead over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
If that game should end up in Philadelphia's favor,
the Reds would have one full game edge on the Dodgers
in the National League Western Division race,
and while the clay curvy can jerk us a good one up here in the second game,
we can make it a game and a half lead.
Well, as we said before the game, you can't win two if you don't win the first one,
so we got a good chance to win two.
Manager Jim Marshall shakes things up a bit here in the second game.
Kessinger sitting it out.
Jose Card now sitting it out.
He was in left field in the first game.
He's a good example for Alice into the lineup for the first time in this series.
Spurring a right-handed batter.
Seen him once or twice so far in the series, batting 192.
The pitch on the way from Kirby is hit hard, and Rose hands it a third.
Line drive, and I'll tell you, it looked like it was headed toward left field,
but Pete went down to his left and made the play on it.
The play never ceases to amaze with his defensive work that has gotten better
and better and better at third base.
One out, and here's left fielder Champ Summers,
who delivered a ninth inning pitch single off of Gary Nolan in game number one.
Summers batting 240.
Left-handed hitter.
Got Rose playing just a bit in the third base as Kirby fires,
and Summers takes strike one.
Playmaking his 11th appearance of the year and his eighth start.
Breaking ball is hit in the air to center field.
Foster drifting back, looking skyward, makes the catch, two away.
Batter will be third baseman Bill Madlock.
Now we congratulate the Reds' director of promotion, Roger Rulu,
who is charged with a responsibility every time a doubleheader is played here
to provide between-game entertainment.
I'll tell you, we heard a group that really could lay out the sounds between games today.
The East Central High School Marching Band from Brookville, Indiana.
Better say St. Leon, too.
Okay, St. Leon.
You tell me to say it, I'll say it.
Here's Madlock with two out.
Batting 333, the pitch.
Well, Kirby bounces one up there and away from Plummer.
That's quite an interesting story, isn't it, Marty?
I think they have something around 800 students and 230 of them in the band.
Must play six-man football.
Well, they double it up a bit.
1-0 delivery. Hit hard and by Concepciona.
A hit to center field by Bill Madlock, who, boy, continues to swing a very, very hot bat for Chicago.
He had three hits in the first game and that base hit right there, his sixth,
in the four games played here at Riverfront Stadium.
So the inning extended for center fielder Rick Mundy.
Mundy batting 294.
Has five homers and 25 RBI's.
Madlock, short lead at first base.
Kirby checking, delivers, taking high ball one.
Defensively for Cincinnati, Perez at first, Morgan at second.
Concepciona shortstop, Rose at third.
Johnny Bench in left field.
George Foster in center and Merv Redmond in right.
Plummer behind the plate.
And the 1-0 to Mundy is swung out and missed.
A ball and one strike.
Kirby, a pitcher known for taking his time out on the mound.
Coming back with a 1-1 pitch and Mundy fouls this one over the screen behind the plate.
One ball and two strikes.
Well it might sound redundant but boy it certainly bears pointing up again how super the pitching has been for Cincinnati lately.
Five times now in the last seven games.
Red starters have gone the distance.
Gary Nolan did in the first game, beating Rushell in the Cubs 2-1.
Mundy hits a fly ball back in the right field.
Redmond will have room to play it.
He makes the catch and that's it for Chicago in the first inning.
No runs, one hit.
No errors with one man left on at the end of a half inning of play in our second game.
The Cubs nothing.
The Reds are coming back.
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While the young man charged with the responsibility of trying to get the Cubs one win in this four game series is the left-hander Jeff Zahn.
Six-one, 180-pounder from Los Angeles, California.
Zahn, 29 years old, acquired along with pitcher Eddie Solomon from the Dodgers on the 2nd of May for right-hander Burt Hooten.
And Zahn coming into this game has won one and lost two with a 583 earned run average.
And of those decisions, two of the three have been with the Cubs.
He's won a game, he's lost a game.
And a 521 ERA as he makes his fourth start on the Chicago uniform does not have a complete game.
He'll be facing Rose first, then Concepcion, then Morgan.
At the bottom of inning number one, here's a pitch to Pete, swung on and fouled off to the right and out of play.
Rose going 0 for 3 in the first game was hit by a pitch.
He's batting 293.
Zahn appearing in 21 games last year with the Dodgers starting 10.
He's one and one with Pete Rose and really put together a very impressive 203 earned run average.
In those 21 appearances, one three out of eight decisions.
Now the one-one pitch and that's low ball two, two and one.
22 innings this season, he's given up 24 hits.
Has struck out seven, has had control trouble, walking 14.
No score, bottom of the first just underway in game number two before a standing room only house.
Ground ball off the glove of Zahn, fielded by Sparing.
Quick throwing onto Thornton and Pete is out at first base.
If you score our games, let us score that one one, six to three.
It hit off Zahn's glove, Sparing near a second.
The shortstop came up with it and got the outplay at first base.
Here's Davy Concepcion who had a nine game hitting streak stopped in the first game going 0 for 3.
In fact, the Reds were limited to only four hits in game number one, but Johnny Bench had the big one.
Seventh inning homer with Joe Morgan on.
David a 2-9-2 batter, pitch ball one.
Zahn with the wind up and David is out in front, ball two, two and nothing.
Well, we've got a final in on the Los Angeles Philadelphia game and the Phillies have beat them.
The Eagles have scored a win over the Dodgers at Philadelphia this afternoon,
so we got a one full game lead over the men of Walter Alston.
Here's a 2-0 pitch to Concepcion.
It's in for a strike just below the letters two and one.
Final score, 4-2 Philadelphia.
Lomborg the winner, Sutton the loser.
They had 41,334 at Veterans Stadium.
2-1 pitch, swung out on a bouncing ball to Sparing at shortstop.
1-0 on the first, two down.
That'll bring up Joe Morgan.
Totals in that Philadelphia win, four runs, five hits, two errors for the Phillies, two, six and three for LA.
Morgan batting 333.
He had that all-important leadoff walk off of Rushell in the seventh inning and then Bench's home run followed.
Joe with seven homers and 32 RBIs.
Jetson has gotten Rose and Concepcion on ground balls and here's a pitch to Joe, ball one.
Defensively for the Cubs, Thornton Trio, Staring and Madlock, Madlock their infield.
Summers, Mundy and Morales left center and right with Middlewall behind the play.
Bluff-Sebunt takes ball two, an interesting and to all three batters in the first inning.
Zahn has fallen behind 2-0.
Behind now to Morgan with Bench on deck.
Left-hander stares for the sign and delivers.
Call, strike, 2-1.
That Philadelphia victory has capped off a very, very dismal road trip for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It may well be their worst in a couple of years.
They will be limping back to LA to begin a home stand that will encompass ten games.
Ground ball right side and through a base hit.
The diving Andy Thornton could not come up with it.
So Joe Morgan with a two-out single to right, it brings up Johnny Bench and he should get quite some hands.
Thirteen home runs, 45 RBI's.
He leads the National League in the home run figure and the major leagues in the RBI total.
Bounding 2-81.
Morgan with both feet on the carpet at first to pitch to Bench, backs him off the plate.
You win some, you lose some, what can I tell you?
Zahn bending at the waist to get the sign.
Lances it, Morgan throws the first, Joe breaks towards second, throw that way, hit him and he is in safely at second base.
Well he had the gigantic lead and Zahn threw the first.
Morgan immediately broke to second base and the throw from Thornton to the shortstop sparing covering hit Joe in the back.
That'll be scored, a stolen base for Morgan is 25th of the year.
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Lots of pregame fun awaits Cincinnati Reds fans on Farmers Night at Riverfront Stadium.
The Reds meet the Padres Saturday, June 28th on Farmers Night.
Joe Morgan in scoring position at second base with two down, the one out of Bench,
slow hit ground ball left side, Madlock cuts it for a sparing, running throw, got him and the side retires.
No runs, one hit, one man is left and through one complaint it's the Reds nothing and the Cubs nothing.
Josephine, I'm home.
Well it's about time Napoleon.
Say what are you hiding under your coat, Prussia?
Uh-uh.
Constantinople?
No.
A loaf of French bread maybe, what is it?
A new toaster.
We don't need a new toaster.
Listen Josephine, I got it free for opening a savings account at the bank across the boulevard
and all I had to do was deposit $5,000.
You call $5,000 for a toaster free Napoleon?
Sometimes I think you're short on brains too.
You've got to look hard for the right bank, one with the services we need,
with plenty of security, nice people and a good solid reputation.
And you want to chuck all that for a new toaster?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Yeah, so did Waterloo.
At First National Bank of Cincinnati, we don't give away toasters or frying pans or premiums of any kind
because our business is banking.
Pure and simple.
We can help First National Bank.
We can help Cincinnati.
No score as we go to the top of the second inning in our second game.
It'll be Andy Thornton, the Chicago first baseman to start things off against Clay Kirby.
So after getting the first two men out of the opening inning,
reach for a single to center by Billy Madlock, but retired Monday in a fly ball to right field.
Game still in progress in New York.
The Atlanta Braves leading the New York Mets 6-1 through 5-1-1.5 innings of play.
Atlanta coming up with five big ones in the fifth inning and one more in the sixth.
They drove Tommy Hall out with a five-run fifth.
Rod Gilbert had a home run his first of the year in the fifth inning with nobody on for Atlanta.
Texas scoreless in the top of the first and game two at Cleveland after the Indians won the first game 3-2
behind rookie Eric Reich.
Pitch on the way to the plate and it swung on and pop foul.
No play for Bill Plummer.
Kirby with the strike one delivery. That is up high a fastball, one and one.
On deck for Chicago, right fielder Jerry Morales.
Kirby throws and Thornton takes a strike two, one ball and two strikes.
Reds outfield straight away for Andy Thornton who is batting 3-38.
Kirby shaking off Bill Plummer's side, looking again, shakes it off again, now nods ahead yes.
And the pitch high and tight, two balls and two strikes.
In the night, doing it Montreal, the Padres hold a 5-2 lead with Joe McIntosh on the mound
and in the fifth the Cardinals have a 2-1 edge on Houston.
Swung on and hit very high into left center field, Concepcion back,
Foster coming in and Davey makes the catch for the first out.
Jerry Morales will be at the plate and as we mentioned earlier Morales has not seen any action at all in this series.
Prior to this plate appearance now he hit by a pitch on Thursday against the San Francisco Giants
and as a result was not a starter in any of the first three games here.
Morales batting 2-78.
Pitch joined from Kirby below the knees, ball one.
Morales this season has one home run and 22 runs batted in.
Swung on, fly ball center field, hit pretty well, Foster still backing, reaches up and makes the catch.
Too hot for Manny Trillo.
Trillo carries a 2-53 batting average into our second game, he's playing both ends.
Heath Thornton, Monday, swing and a miss. In the American League in the eighth, Minnesota and Boston are tied to run a piece.
Baltimore leads Kansas City in the eighth inning, one-nothing.
The Yankees a 2-0 lead over Chicago in the eighth.
Strike two called, Minnesota at California about to get underway.
Jim Colburn for the Brewers against Ed Figueroa and not yet underway.
Detroit at Oakland, Coleman against Holtzman.
Two out here in the second, no score.
Strike two pitch, check swing on a pitch inside.
Nitterwall, the Chicago catcher on deck.
Kirby throws and that just misses the outside edge.
The count is even at 2-2.
In case you just joined us, the Reds took the first game 2-1.
Now trying to sweep the Cubs in this four-game set.
Line drive, left center field, Johnny Betts there, he makes the catch and the side retire.
Three out, three down for Chicago, their fate in the second and that's it.
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Tony Perez opening our second takes the ball from Jeff Zahn, the left-hander.
Tony batting 215, swings and hits a line shot over the glove of Sparing.
A base hit left center.
Quickly up, bobbling the ball as left fielder champ Summers, but Tony settles for a lead-off
base hit.
Perez marking his return to the Reds lineup for the first time in 13 days.
The starting lineup in the first game and comes through with his first hit on this twin
bill.
George Foster coming plateward.
Reds have now found the mark twice against Zahn for base hits.
Foster hitting 281, nine homers, 17 RBIs.
Zahn looking, checking Perez, pitching.
4-1.
Zahn angled behind the plate in our second game with Harry Wendelstad at first, Dutch
Renard at second base, and Doug Harvey at third.
1-0 delivery to Foster.
Hit down the left field line, but curving foul.
Ball and a strike to George Foster with Tony Perez at first, nobody out.
He played baseball in the second inning.
Inside, 2-1.
Well, the Giants beating the Pirates in the first game of the double-edder at Pittsburgh
today means that the Cubs don't lose any more ground, they still remain a game back.
Three balls, one strike to George Foster.
The Cubs are now 28-24, Pittsburgh 27-21.
The New York Mets, if they can pick up a win, actually the Mets can move to within a half
game of the top spot today.
3-1 on the way to Foster and a check swing foul to the screen.
While in our division, we're 33-22, the Dodgers are 33-24.
They've lost two more games than we have now, and they're a full game back.
3-2 pitch, Perez goes.
It's swung on and foul off Foster's left foot, rolling along the third baseline where it's
picked up by Coach Alex Gramis.
Don appears to be quite happy being with the Chicago Cubs.
He simply got lost in the shuffle in LA.
Used sporadically by Walter Olson, a sometime starter, a sometime reliever, and getting
a chance to get fairly regular work with Jim Marshall's club.
Let's see if Perez goes here.
3-2 the count and Jef Zahn will throw that way before delivering to the plate.
Now the 3-2 pitch, Perez goes, swung on, foul back again.
Tony checking things out with Alex Gramis as he returns to first base.
Not field, straight away for Foster.
In field, a double play down.
3-2 pitch, Perez on the move.
That's ball four outside.
So we've got two men on with nobody out and Merv Rettman coming up.
Say his last two times to the plate.
Eighth inning double off the wall and left last night and a single in the first game
today after coming on to the eighth inning to play right field.
He's hit the ball very, very hard.
Merv batting 216, no home runs and five runs batted in.
Playing right field in our second game and has a chance to get us on the board against
Zahn and the Cubs.
He hits a very high fly ball.
He just missed that pitch.
Shallow left field, Summers under and makes the catch.
What a way.
Here's Bill Plummer.
Plummer batting 063 has been to the plate a total of seven 16 times with one hit and
one run batted in.
Playing in his 11th game of the season.
Perez leading at second base.
Foster off the bag at first.
No score in the home second inning.
Pitch, ball one.
Marneit, the Pittsburgh Pirates coming in for the first time.
A couple of left handers throwing in that game.
Freddie Norman against Jerry Royce.
A match with last Wednesday night at three rivers and sure you remember that game, the
Pirates won a two to one.
He's not getting a hit until the seventh off Royce, here's a foul ball out of play.
One and one to count.
They will be going in the series opener tomorrow night beginning at 8 0 5 and on Tuesday night
Pat Darcy will get the call against Sutton Sam McDowell.
Don Gullitt opening up the Cardinal Series here on Wednesday night.
Jeff Zide to Bill Plummer, a ball in one strike.
Pitch, grounded foul outside of third and on into the Chicago dugout, strike two.
Perez opening the inning with a base hit.
Foster getting a walk, Rettman with a fly ball to left.
Zide throwing and Plummer checks his swing on a pitch down and away, two and two.
Zide with a long look and now steps off the pitching rubber.
Plummer steps away from the play.
Now batter and pitcher ready to go again.
Count even at two balls, two strikes with one man out.
Plummer checks it, fast ball high and a full count.
We point it out Zide has had some control trouble having walked 14 batters in 24 innings
prior to today's start and has already issued a walk here in the second to Foster.
Plate curvy is on deck, here comes a three two pitch.
Runners stay, it's one out of a base hit center field.
Here comes Perez rounding third, heading toward the plate.
Mundy back to the infield to throw to second and with Perez in the Rams take a one nothing
lead.
Base hit center field by Bill Plummer scoring Tony Perez, Foster to second holding there.
A one nothing reds lead and now plate curvy will probably be up there trying to get both
in the scoring position for the next batter, up he rode.
Second RBI of the year for Bill Plummer, the reds get on the board first.
Madlock looking for the bun at third base.
Zahn has been touched for a hit, a walk and a hit with one man down.
Curvy squares, bunch through it, strike one.
Milwaukee, California underway at the big A in Anaheim, no score after a half inning.
Thornton also in at first base.
Zahn readies himself, curvy bunched foul and it's oh and two.
No balls, two strikes, a run home.
Curvy not having any success at all on Zahn's first two pitches and getting the runners
advanced.
Now Madlock backing up a bit at third base.
Now starts in as is Thornton and that ball has popped up in the air, but it is fielded
by the third pitcher.
He sees Foster not going anywhere.
He had pretty much given Foster third base when he fielded that bun on a hop, but seeing
that Foster had not come to third, he simply threw on to Madlock to get the force play.
George of course having to hold up to see whether or not that ball might be caught in
the, in the air.
Well George might have been sort of blocked from the ball.
Marty the angle that Zahn was between the ball and Foster in the fight possibly, George
really can see the ball bounce is the only thing I can think of because the first thing
he wanted to do is go back to second when Zahn had the ball.
So two men out as Foster is forced to third base one to five.
Here's Pete Rose with a smash back up the middle in the first inning deflected by Zahn
and Pete was thrown out by the shortstop staring.
The pitch to Rose is high and inside as he spins around and out of there.
Rose walking around at the plate talking to Bob Engel and Steve, George Midderwald.
Rose of course hit by a pitch in the first game by Rick Rushell in the bottom of the
first inning.
Two men on, two men out, a run in.
Two balls, no strikes.
Zahn to the rising bag.
Now sites a sign from Midderwald and his two nothing pitch is swung on and hammered foul
off to the right and out of play.
For this home stand we'll be in Chicago Friday, Saturday and Sunday for single games against
the Cubs.
2.30 on Friday afternoon, a 2.15 starts Saturday, 2.15 starts Sunday.
We'll then be back in for three against Atlanta.
Go on the road for a six date Houston and Atlanta.
Ground ball left side, the shortstop delivers onto the second baseman for the four south
of Enzi in it.
But the Reds get one run on two hits.
We leave two men on base and at the end of two the Reds won the Cubs nothing.
Watching the Reds win at Riverfront Stadium has always been a great way to spend the day
and one sure way to add to that enjoyment is going to fishes before or after the game.
It's all part of the tradition.
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Because not only does frishes offer a wide variety of great tasting treats from sandwiches
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When you drive into frishes there is never any waiting for curb service.
You simply press the button on the speaker and your order is taken immediately.
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So the next time you're on your way to the game, curb your appetite.
Visit your nearest frishes drive in restaurant.
Play Kirby and the Reds leading one nothing as we move to the top of the third inning.
George Mittelwald the Chicago catcher and number eight batter to start it off and here
where the action is Joe.
All right Marty, Mittelwald with a 290 batting average, a couple of home runs and 10 RBI.
Reds scoring a run in the second inning.
Tony Perez single, a walk to Foster and a single by Bill Plummer, the center to score
Perez from the second base with the one run in the game.
Play Kirby making his eighth start of the year.
Reds winning the first one two to one.
Fine pitches battle with Gary Nolan and Rick Rushell.
All right Mittelwald steps in to lead off the third for Chicago.
Mittelwald, Zahn and Sperring do up here in the inning.
Mittelwald swings in the first pitch and pops it foul.
Rose chasing it, Plummer chasing it over to the Cubs dugout and that drops in the seats
behind the Cubs dugout.
0-1.
Reds and the Pirates tomorrow night, 8.05 game time.
Kirby the 0-1 to Mittelwald, that's the breaking ball that's just high, 1-1.
Dodgers losing to the Phillies 4-2.
1-1 delivery, that's up high, another breaking ball and the count goes to 2 balls to strike.
Jeff Zahn on deck.
He has the sign from Bill Plummer and the 2-1 on the way, high and inside, 3-1 the count.
Mittelwald looks to Irv Norrin, the Chicago third base coach, gets the sign.
Kirby checking in with Plummer and the 3-1 on the way.
That's ball four, up high and first walk issued by Clay Kirby, Mittelwald leading off here
in the third.
Picture Jeff Zahn to the plate.
Zahn has been up five times this year without a base hit.
Mittelwald leads at first, throws in shallow at third to stretch, pitch, Zahn squares to
Bunt and fouls it straight back and into the seat, all in one.
Standing room on a crowd this afternoon and hoping for a sweep of the double header for
the Reds.
The 0-1 Zahn again squares to Bunt, does first base side, Perez up, he'll throw to Morgan
covering at first base and moving on to second, George Mittelwald.
Play going 3-4 on Zahn, credit Zahn with a sacrifice, one away and Rob Spurring steps
in.
Spurring let off the game with a bullet that Pete Rose took off to his left at third base.
Spurring a 185 batting average, set one RBI.
Kirby sets, delivers and Spurring takes under the knees a ball.
Thomas Summers waiting on deck with one out, one 0 delivery, strike called, fast ball gets
the inside corner, one and one.
Hatfield straight away to Spurring, Kirby ready and the 1-1 on the way, swung on and missed,
slider away.
Kirby a ball, two strikes with Rob Spurring.
Mittelwald with a good lead at second, the 1-2, that's just high, a breaking ball and
Kirby wanted that, pound evens at two balls, two strikes.
Well in a week from Thursday the Reds will be playing their top farm club, the Indianapolis
Indians at Indianapolis.
Here's the 2-2, Spurring swings and fouls, a breaking ball, pound holding at two balls,
two strikes.
Morgan and Mittelwald talking down at second base, I think David had ideas of maybe just
flipping in behind George with his attention to Morgan.
2-2 to count, Kirby to the belt and delivers and Spurring swings, shot at deep rows.
So I guess Rob better start trying somebody else out, that's twice his lined hard to
rows at third base.
Two away now and Champ Summers steps in.
Summers with a fly ball to Foster in center field in the first inning.
Summers will up-tanded batter, a 2-31 batting average.
A little bit of a stretch, delivers to Summers, that's a strike at the knees on the inside
corner.
Summers has had two RBIs, a double, a triple.
Mittelwald at second with two away, Reds leading one to nothing.
Rebound to the plate, Summers swings and fouls straight back, a play quickly on front of
Summers, no balls, two strikes.
Well you have to say a slow worker.
Looks into Plum, shakes off a side, shakes another off.
Still looking and now Summers backs away from the plate.
Kirby shakes one, two sides off, now asks for time and wants Plummer to come to the mound.
Plummer looks up at the scoreboard and sees the count of 0-2 so, well we don't know.
Plummer talking with Kirby still at the mound, now Bob Engel heads out and the meeting breaks
up.
Clay has no balls, two strikes with Summers and Mittelwald at second base.
Alright, Clay checking in with Plummer, now the stretch.
The 0-2 delivery, hats flung on and hit into center field, George Foster coming in a couple
of steps, he has it and that's it.
In the hitting for the Cubs, no runs, no hits, no arrows.
One runner left on base and at the middle of the third the Reds won, the Cubs nothing.
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Dave Concepcion deleted off in the third for the Reds.
Dave had his nine-game hitting streak stopped in the first game, going 0 for 3.
Jeff Zahn, ready to go to work to Concepcion in his first pitch, is down low a ball.
David in the first inning, grounded to sparing at shortstop.
A 290 batting average for Concepcion.
Zahn works.
David takes a strike.
Ball 101.
Concepcion, Morgan, and Bench do up here in the third.
Zahn in the wind and delivers, and Concepcion swings and pops it up foul down the right
field line.
Andy Thornton chasing it, makes a nice play.
He's back to the infield and on the run, makes the catch.
Fine defensive play by Chicago first baseman Andy Thornton for the first out and the third,
and Joe Morgan steps in.
Joe singled in the first inning and was actually picked off at first base, but did not break
stride, went on to second.
And Thornton's throw hitting Joe in the back, and they credit Morgan with a stolen base,
his 25th of the year.
Zahn works and Morgan takes it inside a ball.
Fine ball, no strikes to Joe Morgan.
Morgan delivers up high and it's 2-0.
Reds have had three hits off Zahn, and he's walked one, walking Foster in the second inning
when the Reds got their one run.
Zahn's 2-0 delivery and Morgan takes this one also inside.
Three balls, no strikes.
Second event, John Dine.
Zahn has the sign, the 3-0.
Morgan takes a strike to the knees in the inside corner.
Three and one.
Signed 3-1 delivery.
Morgan looks at that one inside, ball four.
Second walk issued by Jeff Zahn.
So Morgan's at first base, on for the second time in the game, and Johnny Bench steps in.
John hit a little check swing bouncer that Bill Madlack charged and threw him out on
for the third out in the first inning.
Now Andy Thornton is over to the mound to talk with Zahn.
Now that first game, a 2-1 victory for the Reds, the 23rd one run game the Reds have
displayed this year and we were talking to some of the Cub players during batting practice
today and we told them that and they couldn't believe it.
First pitch to Bench is high and outside a ball so.
Morgan with a good lead at first base.
He has both feet on the carpet.
Zahn, the stretch and throws over there and Morgan steps back.
A ball, no strikes to Bench.
John with his 13th home run of the year in the first game to win it for the Reds.
Now has 45 RBI and a 2-80 batting average.
He swings and misses a high fast ball, 1-1.
Reds leading 1-0 here in the second game.
A ball, a strike to count to Bench is on the stretch, the stretch throws over the first
and Morgan is back standing.
Tony Perez kneels on deck.
Now this game is far from the pace of the first game.
Again, a throw to first base and Morgan steps back.
Second game played in two hours and one minute.
But this one is not quite the same pace.
Again a throw to first base and again Morgan is back.
Zahn paying a lot of attention, another throw there, almost picked Andy Thornton off that
time.
So Jeff paying a lot of attention to Morgan.
Here's the pitch up high to Bench, 2-1.
Into the belt, the 2-1 delivery, swung on and missed, not even 2-2.
Zahn looking in the middle wall, has his sign, the stretch, and up.
Joe again with a big lead, sign the stretch and the pitch, Morgan does not go and the
pitch is swung on and filed to the screen by Bench.
Well, how about number 14?
Little excitement around the orchard.
Bench swings and misses, Morgan goes but they don't get him and Joe is in with a stolen
base and for Morgan that is number 25.
They got number 26.
26 stolen bases now for Morgan and 31 attempts.
Bench striking out, or Zahn his first strikeout, stepping in is Tony Perez.
Tony singled in the second inning leading off and scored on the base hit by Bill Plummer.
Zahn ready, delivers to Perez inside with a slider.
Tony in the first game of the doubleheader was 0-3, 7 home runs and 31 RBIs for Perez.
Zahn outfield playing Tony straight away.
Zahn delivers and Perez takes a strike this time on the outside corner to the knees, 1-1.
Dodgers losing, the Reds now a full game up on Los Angeles and a chance to make it a game
and a half for the win here in the second of the doubleheader.
1-1 on the way, Perez swings, hits it into the right center field, that'll call you in
for a base hit, here comes Morgan, he'll score and it's a 2-0 ball game and Perez is 2 for
2.
Tony Perez winding one into right center field for Tony his 32nd RBI of the year.
Hit number 4 off Jeff Zahn.
Morgan scoring from second base and of course, Joe with a big steal of second on the strike
out of Johnny Vance and we're going to have activity in the tub bullpen.
Eddie Watt heads on to throw, George Foster swings in the first pitch, pops it up, Bill
Matlock in the tub bullpen has room and makes the play.
The Reds are out but we pick up a run on a base hit.
After the no errors, one runner left on base and at the end of 3, the Reds 2, the Cubs
nothing.
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I know you're having trouble getting Matlock out on this series.
He's had a hit his first time up today, and he'll be leading it off, as Joe said
here in the top of the fourth inning.
In the American League today, Jim Palmer pitched a one-hitter against the Kansas City
Royals as the Orioles prevail.
1-0 in that game, Baltimore getting only four hits off of Steve Busty.
Palmer his ninth win, Busty seven and five on the year.
Matlock, Rick Bundy, and Andy Thornton is how their lineup.
Ending number four against Clay Kirby who has given up only the first inning single by Madlock has walked the batter no strikeouts
Play throws and Madlock takes outside ball one
Right hander checking he delivers that swung on bounced over the head of Rose and a lot feel for a base set
So Bill Madlock continues to wheel the hot bat for the Cubs. That's his second hit today
Second hit of the game for Chicago
Be more precise at fifth hit
Today for Mr. Madlock what were the three in the first game?
Here's Rick Mundy and a fly ball that drove Rettman back just a couple of steps shy of the warning track in the first inning
Rick batting 292
Kirby ready with the pitch and it swung out and missed well he just played good old-fashioned hardball with that one
Reds in field a double play depth and the sunglasses start to come out and full force now
They head for that treacherous time of the day when the Sun starts to set
Oh one delivery swung on and popped up outside a third heading toward the seat Rose joined by Davey, but no play
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Two strikes to count the pitch foul ball out of play
Two-nothing Cincinnati out in front a run of the second on a base hit by Bill Plummer scoring Tony and then Perez driving in the second run of the last inning
Getting Morgan in from second base
Madlock at first nobody out in the fourth swung on grounder foul between the bag and the coaching box at first
Counts day is 2-7
Madlock at first nobody out in the fourth swung on grounder foul between the bag and the coaching box at first
Counts day is two strikes
Andy Thornton on deck Rick Mundy at the plate Billy Madlock on at first
Kirby getting his act together mentally on the mound checking in with Plummer pitching popped up shallow left field
Consensi on backing on it calling and he makes the cut one away
That will bring up Andy Thornton who popped out to Davey as a lead off batter in the second inning
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Thornton batting 333
Checking his swing and it cost him strike one
Kirby starting this game in some fast company with the way the Reds starting pitching has been the last week
Not a good job so far. The big overhand breaking ball does not break. Stays up head high to
Andy Thornton. The ball one strike.
Like the Cubs that scored a run in each of the first three games here and have had a
total in three games of only 18 hits. Five Friday, five Saturday, eight first game today.
High and inside. Ball two and Thornton looks quickly out toward the mound. That was a fast
ball in on him. Now he walks away from the plate. Kirby has fallen behind to the Chicago
first baseman. Two balls, one strike. Gave up a base hit to Madlock to start the inning.
Monday has popped out to David. Cincinnati outfield just shaded a bit around toward left.
Thornton waiting. He takes outside. It's three balls and one strike.
Kirby throws and that is strike two on the inside corner. So the Cubs down by two here
in the fourth inning. Let's see what Madlock's going to be doing. A 3-2 count on Andy Thornton.
Nobody out or rather one out in the inning. Kirby staring intently in as Madlock gets
a short lead. Now inches away just a bit further from the back at first base. Here comes the
3-2 pitch. He's going. It is swung on and fouled out of the middle Bill Plummer. Down
the count stays. Three balls, two strikes. In the National League through seven, the
Cardinals lead the Astros four to one. Reggie Smith's had a homer in that game with a man
aboard. Interesting to note that with the Cardinals picking up Willie Davis, he has
been playing right field lately with Reggie Smith on it first to give the Cardinals some
additional offensive punch. Davis with a couple of hits last night. We'll be seeing them on
Wednesday. Now Kirby after getting the sign from Plummer came set, stepped off the rubber
and Madlock quickly back into the bag. 3-2 pitch. It's on the way and Madlock stays this
time. It's ball four inside. So Thornton gets a second walk that Kirby has given up. The
Cubs have him at first and second base for the right fielder Jerry Morales. Only time
up in the second at a fly ball to Foster in center field. Now let's have a hard one hopper
to Concepcion. Two men on, one man out. Here's a fly ball hammered back into deep left center
field. Back is to a bench on the warning track. He leaps up and cannot catch it and it hits
off the fence. Foster quickly up with the ball. Here's a run home as Madlock scores the first
cup run. A double to left field by Jerry Morales. And it's two to one Cincinnati as Thornton
goes to third. That ball missed getting out of here by about three feet. Bench made a
leaping attempt at the fence in left center field and Foster credited him with making a
fine play. He came over from center, took that ball off the fence and got to throw quickly
back into the infield. But the Cubs have scored their run down. They've got two in scoring
position and Pedro Borbon will begin to loosen up in the Cincinnati bullpen. Really looked
like that ball was going to get out of here when it left the bat. But Kirby rolling along
pretty well in the first three innings as run into problems here in the fourth. He's
going to be facing Manny Trio. Runners at second and third. The pitch to him has swung
on and shot foul. Trio trying to go the other way with that pitch away from him. Borbon
loosening up and we're going to get further activity in the cup bullpen as Eddie Watts
starts to throw. Getting down toward the tail end of the Chicago order. One ball, one strike
to Trio. Kirby's next pitch is fouled just off the end of the bat. Strike two, one and
two. Decepcion in from shortstop to have a quick word with Kirby. Borbon leading at third
base and second, Jerry Morales who has just doubled across the first Chicago run. Kirby
throws, pitch swung on, a looper into left center field. That is going to fall for a
hit. In to tie it up and here comes Foster's throw to the plate as Andy Thornton with Morales
going to third. A ball hit off the end of the bat by Trio. Run scoring single and the
Cubs have tied it up at 2-2. Third Chicago hit in the inning. Now George Midderwald,
the number eight batter who drew a walk leading off the last inning against Kirby. Kirby delivers,
swing on a base hit left field. In from third, Jerry Morales in Chicago leads at 3-2. Now
Clay Kirby has gone completely bananas here in the fourth inning. Chicago base hits ringing
out and they have scored three times. Still only one man has been retired. And now Sparky
Anderson is on his way to the mound and that may well be all for Clay Kirby this game.
The call has gone down for right hander Pedro Borbon and I'll tell you Kirby went downhill
right now. So Borbon making his way out of the red bullpen. We've got a break in the
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Well we've talked so many times about the fine science of pitching and what creates
a situation whereby a guy all of a sudden loses it and conversely all of a sudden finds
it in a given game. Today it was on a negative side for Clay Kirby. He went through the first
three innings giving the Cubs only one hit. All of a sudden here in the fourth inning
the roof caved in on him. A single by Madlock, a one out walk to Thornton, a double off the
wall and left field by Morales got a run home, a single by Trio made it 2-2 and a base hit
by Midderwall made it 3-2 Chicago. And now we're looking at right hander Pedro Borbon.
Making his 22nd appearance of the year, Pete has won two, lost one with a 3-9-7 earned run
average. And as he comes out of our bullpen right hander Raleigh Eastwick begins to throw
down there. Jeff Zahn at the plate. Rose looking for the butt and here it is third base side
Borbon is up. He throws on to first. Morgan covering to get the out as the runners move
along. Scoring 2-4 on the Jeff Zahn sacrifice and we go back to the top of the order for
a short stab Rob Spurring. He's lined to third twice in this game. Three runs in. Runners
at second and third two out. Fly ball right field hit well. Redmond digging toward the
line and it's going to be a foul ball. Now the young Chicago shortstop hit that ball
well the other way but just foul. The paid attendance today 50,311 bringing the total
season, the total attendance for this series to 135,681. The largest series attendance
in Reds history in April, May or June. That ain't bad. PD with the 0-1 delivery. Line
drive right field Redmond will make a diving catch. What a fine defensive play by Merv
Redmond as he went sprawling on the astroturf. Made the catch and hung on to save two runs
and they gave him a standing ovation because it was quite some play by the Reds right fielder.
The Cubs get three runs on four hits. They leave two men on base and in the middle of
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Banner day is coming up Sunday June 29th. The Reds meet the Patres in a big double letter
and the fourth annual parade of banners will take place between games. Everybody is encouraged
to enter the competition and join the fun. Rules are simple. Banners must be carried
by not more than two persons. They must have a baseball theme and must be in good taste.
A $250 cash prize goes to the winning banner. There will be additional cash prizes for runners
up. For more details call or write the Reds office. Start making your plans and get to
work on your banner soon. Well as is the case more often than not the man who made the big
defensive play is first up in the inning. Merv Bretman with a fly ball to right field. Morales
will catch that ball. Well that was not quite the catch that Bretman made on Spurring's
line drive but still a pretty good play. Bretman retired on a line drive to right field. Here's
Bill Plummer. Cubs are leading 3-2 for Jeff Zahn in the home fourth inning here in Cincinnati.
Plummer had her RBI base hit to center field in the second inning. Now the Cubs up by a
run. They were leading by a run 1-0 up until the seventh inning of the first game. There's
ball one inside. Bench's home run turned it around. Gave Gary Nolan his fifth straight
victory. 1-0 pitch. Kyle Pop off the end of the bat. No play for Andy Thornton. Here's
a pitching line on Clay Kirby. Three and a third innings. He gives up five hits. Three
runs all earned. Walks two hitters. Raleigh Eastwood still throwing in our bullpen. Four
bone is on deck. The 1-1 pitch. Check swing ground ball to first base. Thornton has it.
He'll get the out himself. Two down. We'll pause for station identification on the Cincinnati
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shop corner of 6th and Monat downtown Cincinnati. Four bone with two down and nobody on will
come on and hit for himself. Pitch low and into in ball one from Jeff Sein. Pedro's been
up seven times. Has had a hit. Sein trying to retire to side in order for the first time
in this game. There's a strike at the knees to the flumping butter for bone one and one.
Three runs five hits the Cubs. Two runs four hits the Reds. Ball two is high. Reds got
a run in the second. Another in the third. The Cubs sending eight batters to the plate.
Scoring three times off Kirby in the fourth inning. Ground ball on a big hop to the first
the second baseman. Now the pitcher covers and gets there in time. Heads up play by Jeff
Sein. He got off that mound very quickly because Andy Thornton gave indication he was going
to play the ball saw that he couldn't. It was taken instead by trio and on the throw
to Sein for a bone is retired. Three up three down and through four complete at Chicago
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Pedro Borbón getting ready to work his first inning in this game and he'll be facing champ
Summers the Chicago left fielder and number two batter.
Summers the only man who did not bat in that three run Chicago fourth inning and they lead
by a run three to two.
0 for 2 in the game with two fly balls to center field.
Talking about the attendance for this series in this game the season's paid attendance
total now is 654,513 for Cincinnati well ahead of last year's base.
Pass ball delivered inside.
1-0 pitch swung on and bounced to second.
Morgan has it.
He throws to Tony 1-0.
Bill Matlock working on a perfect second game two times up two hits and a run score.
Jumped his batting average all the way up to 340 and that is right there among the league
leaders if not in fact leading the pack.
Kirby gone after only three and one third innings today.
Matlock takes it well inside from Borbón.
Red Bull pen not getting a great deal of work lately.
Swung on and that's grounded to Joe.
Throw to first two out.
Back to back ground ball to second off the bats of champ Summers and Billy Matlock.
Rick Mundy the two out hitter in the fifth inning.
Fly to right and popped to short.
Dodgers losing four to two today at Philadelphia.
Reds winning the first game a game up on them and hopefully can come back here in the second
game and move a game and a half out in front.
Swang and a miss.
Borbón simply threw that into the middle of Bill Plummer before Mundy had a good cut
at it.
One ball and one strike.
I would imagine that ball might be just a bit tough to pick up at this stage of the
game.
Here's a fly ball hammered to left center.
Foster going to his right and he makes the catch to end the inning.
Three up and three down.
We go to the bottom of the fifth inning.
The Cubs three and the Cincinnati Reds two.
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We'll be sending the top of the order up here in the home
fifth inning.
Pete Rose is 0 for 2 in the game against the throwing
of left-handed Jeff Zahn.
We'll start it off.
Zahn has given us but four hits, and that was the total
complete in the first game.
Cubs out hitting us 8 to 4 and still winning on Vetch's
home run 2 to 1.
Pete has been thrown out 1, 6 to 3 on a hot smash up the
middle deflected by Zahn in the first inning and then hit
into an ending force play on Kirby in the second.
Rose batting at even 290 as he steps in.
Here's the pitch to him, and it's taken on the inside of the
letters for a strike.
Swung on and hit into left field of ace set for Pete.
Rose hitting that one off the end of the bat.
Fifth Cincinnati hit and now David Concepcion up with a
potential tie and run on his first base.
Davey 0 for 2.
Then thrown out 6, 3, sparing to Thornton and popped out to
Thornton and fouled ground in the third inning.
Eddie White will resume his activity in the
Chicago full pass.
David with a nine-game hitting streak stopped in the first
game and now looking for his first hit in the double header.
The pitch going, pass ball missing.
Atlanta and New York into extra innings at Chase Stadium tied
up at 6 apiece.
Single game there today.
Swung on, pops out, heading back behind the Reds dugout
and in.
Mad scramble for that ball.
A ball and a strike.
Joe Morgan now moving on deck.
We've got Rose at first.
3 to 2 Chicago, fifth inning.
John again goes to taking a great deal of time.
We have an easy inning of it in the fourth.
He throws on to first and feet steps back ahead of the throw.
How about field straight away?
Davey waiting on the 1-1, takes it too low a ball.
Decepcion has driven in 27 runs.
He has three homers and has had five game-winning hits.
That's second only to Joe Morgan's seven.
Rose has five, Perez four.
Betts, his home run of the first game,
gave him two game-winning hits this season.
High and inside, three and one.
Now should Zahn lose Decepcion, a lot of good things
could happen.
Morgan, Betts, Perez coming up.
Why the cup bullpen has been going,
I'd like to dip into that one again.
Swing and a miss.
It's all a full count.
Eddie Watt working, getting ready.
Jim Marshall seems fit to go that way.
Zahn trying to protect the one-run lead,
checking Rose leading at first.
He goes, the pitch is now swung on,
hits a deep right center field.
Monday going back, back to the plate,
looking up, it's off the wall.
Here comes Rose.
He gets the green light.
Crio takes the throw, and no throw to the plate.
It's a tie game on a David Double.
He hit that one, and it's a tie game.
It's a tie game.
He hit that ball and hit it well off the fence
and right center field.
Rose was moving, and as a result,
scores all the way from first base to tie the game.
Davey delivers on his 28th RBI of the year,
and now Joe Morgan will try to fracture this 3-3 tie.
He has single-watched stolen two bases and scored a run.
The pitch on the way, and it is butted foul.
Morgan, with his two steals today,
should lead the National League,
dependent upon what Cedeno has been doing in Houston.
Joe and Cedeno are in the lead.
Houston, Joe and Cedeno were tied before today with 24 apiece.
Morgan has had two.
Sign checking Concepcion.
The 0-1 pitch, butted foul off the third base line at strike two.
A two-strike count on Morgan,
as he has tried twice in vain to put a butt down.
Nobody out with a run home to tie the game up.
Single by Pete Rose, a double high off the wall,
and right-center by Dave Concepcion.
Zahn going to work again against Morgan.
He comes set, he throws.
Joe takes a fastball high.
Here's a final score in the National League.
Padres over the Expos, 5-2.
Cardinals leading Houston 4-1 there in the night.
Final score, 5-1, St. Louis winning it.
Morgan bounces this one off of his foot, rolling into fair ground.
Played on fire, Bob Engel quickly calls it a foul ball,
takes a look at it, throws that one out of play, and gives on a new one.
Count holding at one and two on Joe Morgan.
Long look back to second base, the pitch swung out and foul straight back.
Doug Flynn has now started to loosen up in the Cincinnati bullpen.
Morgan stays away from the plate just a bit longer than usual, and now steps back in.
Let's see if Jeff Zahn will make another mistake.
Ball two.
Two balls, two strikes.
Donnie Bench on deck, Jeff Zahn on a world of trouble here in the fifth.
Bradson tied it up, go ahead and run it second.
2-2 count on Morgan.
Joe swings and pops it up.
Danny Trio will play it at shallow right field.
He has it one down.
Johnny Bench will be in, but Jim Marshall is on his way to the mound.
Well, do we get a look at the right-hander Eddie Wada?
Will Zahn stay around and pitch to Bench?
I would think not.
It's been a long, long series for the Chicago Cubs.
They came in after having taken the last two games in a three-game series with San Francisco.
Proceeded to lose 5-1 Friday night.
Gullet beat them 8-1 yesterday.
Billingham got them in 2-1 in the first game today with Nolan doing a number on them.
It's going to be all for Jeff Zahn.
Jim Marshall will go to his right-hander, the veteran Eddie Wada.
Zahn goes four in one third inning.
Lasserey had six hits.
All three runs in against him will go into the earned category.
He struck out a hitter and walked two.
This for Eddie Wada will be appearance number three in the four-game series.
Looking at Eddie Wada's figures, and they are small indeed in terms of appearance.
Is this his third in all three against Cincinnati after having had his contract purchased just four days ago from the Wichita Arrows,
the Wichita clubs, AAA ball club, and the American Association.
No wins, losses, a 27 ERA in one inning.
He has given up a hit, three runs, and walked three batters.
He had serious control trouble yesterday.
Coming on to work the sixth inning, gave up a hit, walked three, and had all three of those six inning runs charged against him.
Although there were others who also had similar control problems.
Frailing, walked a hitter in the third of an inning. Bobby Locker walked a hitter and gave up two hits in an inning and one third.
Three to three to score.
Cincinnati getting out in front two to nothing with a run in the second, one in the third.
It cuts tying in with three in the fourth, and we have come back to tie it up here in the fifth on a single by Rose and a double by Consencio.
And Morgan has popped out, and Eddie Wada will be working to Johnny Bench.
Updating some scores in the second game, and that San Francisco Pittsburgh doubleheader threw five.
The Pirates lead it two to one. Richie Hefner has had still another home run.
His second of the day with a man out of the fifth inning.
Atlanta and New York are tied at six apiece through ten completed.
San Diego and Montreal tied one-one at the end of two in their second game. Dave Price Levin against Steve Rogers.
The Patriots won the first game five to two, and the Cardinals have beaten Houston five to one.
Eddie Wada is ready to face Bench, who has bounced to third and struck out swinging.
The pitch to him, taking a ball too low.
They said, we'll send the Reds back out in front.
That is a call strike, and it's one ball and one strike to Johnny Bench.
One-one delivery, swung on a line, shot foul. Passed the bag at third and on down to the Chicago bullpen.
Ten brailling, a left-hander begins to throw.
Bench with his 13th homer of the year and the game-winning blow in the first game.
Now has 45 runs batted in this season.
His closest pursuer before the doubleheader started today, Dave Winfield of San Diego with 30, well, Luzinski with 39,
and Winfield with 38, Garvey at 37.
Wada in relief of Jep's eye, out in front of Bench and pitching, missing away, two and two.
David, a good lead at second, does, missing with that pitch.
Bench started to go, held up, full count.
Lock toes to rubber, puts into his catcher middle wall.
Three-two pitch, swung on and full foul, down the left field line and out of play.
By the way, Bench has been swinging the bat in the last few games.
It's a safe bet to say that the shoulder problems that plagued him so long,
an early season collision at the plate with San Francisco's Gary Matthews are behind him now.
Seems to be swinging free and the result would be evidence to that statement.
Here's a ground ball, basic up.
They're getting it the other way and David is in to send the Reds up by a run.
Now they play that over-shift of sorts against Bench, who normally is a dead-full hitter
and he simply puts that ball to the right side of the Chicago infield.
He's got his 46th run down the end of the year and gives the Reds a 4-3 lead.
The pitch, instead of trying to pull it, he continues that while he'll press a few people up.
Tony Perez is 2 for 2. Ball to it.
That's RBI is the 8 for Johnny Bench in this series. Tony fouls it away.
One ball, one strike, two runs across. The Reds back up by a run.
Eddie Watt working with Tony Perez.
The 1-1 pitch, swung on and fouled off the bat handle and out of play.
Watt will rub up the new baseball as Perez waits patiently off the plate.
Tony's up his average to 225 with singles in the second and third. That third inning base hit produced a run for us.
Two balls and two strikes.
The Reds have now had seven hits in the game and Jeff Zines totals a complete four in a third inning.
Six hits, four runs, four earned runs, two walks and a strikeout.
There goes Bench. Picked his bounce, five-third and a foul ball.
Well, that was a near miss for Tony Perez.
Johnny Bench got the green light to take off. He cuts back across the infield.
Tony gets ready to wait on the 2-2 pitch from Eddie Watt.
Watt again goes to taking a lot of time.
Here he goes again. Bench stays this time and that strike free call is Watt got it over away from Tony and Perez knew it.
Second out of the inning and George Foster coming to the plate.
Yatsie has walked and popped out the third.
Eddie Watt windmilling his right arm on the mound as Foster steps in.
Reds four, Cubs three, still hitting in what has been so far a two-run fifth inning.
Call, strike one.
Both starting pitchers out inside of five full innings.
Kirby went out in three and a third. There's a call, strike two.
Jeff Zahn's day ends after four and one-third innings.
A lot of being made to have to wait on the mound by Foster.
A strike two count. Pitch outside and low. One and two.
A right-hander is joined. The left-hander frailing down in the club, Cubs bullpen.
Here's a one and two pitch. That's too low. Oscar Zamora is the right-hander throwing.
Now Eddie Watt checking in with a plate umpire. Bob Engel to pick up the correct box on George Foster.
Johnny Bench leading at first base. And the pitch on the way.
That gets by the catcher-mitter wall and Bench will go in at second.
Wild pitch has been charged to Eddie Watt.
Oh, if Yahtzee can produce a hit in this situation, we will have a run cushion with which to work.
Two balls, two strikes, two outs, two in. Bench at second as a result of the wild pitch.
Cub pitcher into the motion, delivers strike three call on the inside corner and Foster is caught looking.
In the inning for Cincinnati, statistically two runs on three hits.
The man lacked down and after five, the Reds four, the Cubs three.
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Well, Pedro Bourbon stands to get a win in this game if he can continue his work against the Chicago Cubs.
He came on in the fourth inning and got the last two batters out after the Cubs had put three on the board against Kirby and then got them out in order in the fifth.
Doug Flynn has come in to play second base, replacing Joe Morgan, the only change for the Cincinnati Reds.
And the batter will be Andy Thornton to open up inning number six.
Thornton has popped the short draw on a walk and scored one of the Cubs three.
Four bone throws and it swung on and fouled right back over the screen and down into the crowd.
Don't forget, tomorrow night, the Reds still home.
In fact, four more games in this home stand.
The Pirates tomorrow night at 8.05.
One and one to Thornton. Freddie Norman and Jerry Royce will hook up.
They'll be back Tuesday night and then Wednesday and Thursday the Cardinals will make their first visit to Riverfront Stadium.
Here's a fly ball hit back in a deep left center field.
Looking up and that ball is off the wall.
Here's Foster quickly throwing into the infield and nobody covering the bag.
Both Flynn and Concepcion had gone out toward the outfield and a two-base hit for Andy Thornton to start the sixth inning.
I think Andy had that one, uh, chalked up the HR pool.
Well, he had gone into that home run trot as he left home play and then realized the ball did not get out.
But still a two-base hit for Thornton, the tie-and-run and scoring position for Jerry Morales.
Morales got the Cubs scoring underway in the fourth inning after a single by Madlock and a walk to Thornton.
He doubled off the fence in left center.
Raleigh Eastwick will begin to loosen up again.
Reds four, Cubs three.
Big pitch in the dirt. Flummer digs it out.
Ball one.
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Bourbon dealing the 1-0 to Morales. He tries to bun and fouls it at the plate.
One ball and one strike. Runner and second is Andy Thornton, a double to start the inning.
Sixth Chicago hit in the game and the first off of Bourbon.
Kirby the starter with three and one third innings, gave up all the Chicago runs on five hits.
Two balls and one strike.
Bourbon a quick worker. High pop in field. Pete Rose calling. He goes near the mound to play the ball.
One away.
Manny Trio at the plate is one for two, a base hit to score a run in the fourth.
Talk so much about the starting pitching lately, how good it's been, but really when Sparky has had to go to his bullpen,
more often than not in this recent surge for the Reds that have seen him win 15 out of 18, the Relievers have done a job also.
He brings a heavy fastball to the plate that Manny Trio swings and misses on.
One ball and a strike and a pitch below the knees.
Thornton now at second base as Flynn and Concepcion play the Captain Mouse game with him, a swing and a foul at the plate.
Trio behind to Bourbon one and two.
A large delegation of rosy Reds here today. It's Rosy Reds Appreciation Day.
Just missing outside, two and two.
Matthew Marshall is going to get his bullpen ready again. Two balls, two strikes, one out, one on.
Another foul, this one off the face mask of the catcher Plummer.
Oscar Zamora gets working again.
Trio waiting. Bourbon throws. Here's a smash right side. Perez diving, comes up with a ball.
That was a soft line drive, hit midway between first and second base.
And Perez with a diving catch of it to retire Manny Trio. Unfortunately for Thornton, he had not strayed too far off the bag at second.
So two away in the inning. Bourbon a third of the way home toward leaving Thornton at second base after Andy had opened the inning with a double of left center field.
Middle wall is walked and single a run in. It was his hit that brought about the ouster of Kirby. Strike one swinging.
TV check-in, throwing. Strike two on a swing and a miss. Both good fastballs.
Bourbon a strike away from ending the sixth.
High and outside. Well the Minnesota Twins have, at least today, stopped the Boston Red Sox Express, 7-5 that final.
The Yankees beat Chicago 4-1, so New York only two games back in the American League East.
Strike him out swinging, ball dropped by Plummer. He picks it up, throws on down to Perez to complete the strikeout and retire the side.
No runs, one hit, no arrows, one lap. We're in the middle of the sixth inning. It's the Reds four and the Cubs three.
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Bottom three batters in the Reds order. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Merv Rettman will start it off.
Fly to left and Rhonda Bavay sit on a running catch by Morales in the fourth inning of Merv's Line Drive.
Reds are up by the scanned margin of one. Four to three as Eddie Watt throws and Rettman takes ball one.
Joe Flummer, Pedro Bourbon to follow. Both bullpens at least for the moment quiet.
Rettman popping it up outside of first base. A play maybe for Andy Thornton.
Over near the dugout and runs out of room. He ran into that fence in front of the Reds dugout about bell time.
Completely bent over and now being helped into an upright position as the Chicago trainer comes out to take a look along with our trainer Larry Starr.
I can't imagine that, well I don't know, I would think maybe just the wind was knocked out of him but he appears to be limping.
Marty I think Andy hit his knee against the railing and his post through along the railing there and quite possibly Andy banged his knee against that post.
But apparently he's going to be alright just the shock of it. But fence doesn't move too much.
Making sure Andy Thornton is well enough to remain in the game. Jim Marshall has come out and he'll now head on back to the dugout and Thornton will stay in.
A one and one to count on Merv Rettman.
The Reds have had seven hits in this game. The Cubs have had six. Both clubs have played Errolis baseball. One-one delivery. Two low, ball two.
The Braves and the Mets are now in the twelfth inning. Still tied at six apiece.
Swung on, pop foul. Back behind the plate. Middle wall coming back and he'll not have a play.
Pittsburgh out in front of San Francisco two to one. They're in the seventh. The Pirates try to gain a split of that double header.
And in another twin bill at Montreal, the Expos lead the Padres three to one in the fourth. Montreal lost the first game five to two.
Full count.
Watch three-two pitch. Grounded right side and through for a base hit.
Ball just passed him out and out of the reach of Manny Trillo on into center field. Rettman's first hit in the game.
Bill Plummer has had a base hit to knock in a run. Our first back in the second and then bounced out to Andy Thornton at first base in the fourth inning.
Be nice to add a couple of runs. Lead two to nothing. Trillo three to two and then went out in front four to three. That's our score in the sixth inning.
The Cubs bullpen has been up and down in this game. Zamora back to start throwing. Call strike away from him.
Zamora has been a lot of work without being in a ball game. It's the absolute truth. He's gotten enough work already this season.
One guy certainly can't complain about not getting any work. And has done a good job for Chicago.
Checking the pitch. Rettman goes. Pitch is swung on. Popped up. Loot in the shallow left. A hit for Plummer.
Here comes Rettman. He'll try to go to third. The throw that way is not in time. It gets by the third baseman.
And then picked up by the pitcher, but that'll allow Plummer to go to second base.
It'll be a base hit for Plummer. An error on the left fielder, Champ Summers. That allows Plummer the extra base.
That throw took Madlock off the bag. He had to go to foul ground to try and grab it. It got by him and hit the wall in front of the Chicago dugout.
Rolled along it. Finally picked up by Eddie Watt, but by that time Plummer was standing on second base.
And it looks like we're going to get a pinch hitter with runners at second and third and nobody out.
Terry Crowley has selected a bat and he's in the on deck circle to bat for Bourbon.
He's going to hit the ball to third and he's in the old base.
Well, I just got in a report here in the radio booth that Joe Morgan left the game because of a bruised shoulder.
That was the reason that Doug Flynn came on to play in the upper half of the inning.
Terry Crowley has picked up fouls.
Marty Joe leaving the game was on the pickoff by Jeff Saund and Andy Thornton's throw hit Joe on the left shoulder.
And that's where the problem popped up.
Chicago infield is in. Runners at second and third, none out.
And Crowley, who has been our most productive pinch hitter this season, is in against Eddie Watt.
A ball to it.
Terry batting 4-12 in all-in-pinch hit situations. It's had seven hits and 17 times up.
Three doubles a run batted in.
He's batting for Pedro Bourbon.
Reds with a big opportunity in the sixth inning.
Swung on and foul. One and one.
Pedro Bourbon goes two and two-thirds innings. He gives the Cubs one hit.
And he chalks up a strikeout.
Redmond at third. Plummer at second. None out. One-one to count on Crowley.
Here's the pitch.
Low and inside. A left-handed hitter at Crowley. Two and one.
Watt back to the plate. That's ball three outside.
Now you've got Pete Rose on deck. And unless Watt can get a pinch over, he's going to be coming up.
Pete is in a bases-loaded situation.
The 3-1. Swung on, hit into left field. It is a base hit.
One run will score. Here's Plummer coming on to third, sliding safely.
And Crowley with a pitch single to lap makes it 5-3, aren't they?
Terry Crowley, who has been called on many times early in the season, but not a great deal lately, comes through in the clutch here in the sixth.
He gives way to pitch runner Ed Armbruster at first base.
Jim Marshall coming to the mound, and that's probably going to be all for any Watt.
Watt gave up a hit to Redmond, a single to Plummer on the hit-and-run ball that just dropped in over the outstretched glove of Don Kessinger.
Some are through Wiley at third base, allowing Plum to go to second. And now Crowley, a single into left field, getting Redmond home with a fifth Cincinnati run.
On will be right-hander Oscar Zamora.
Well, this is kind of a strange... I haven't seen that in a long while. It's the way Hornsby used to take pictures of.
Marshall hadn't gone to the mound yet, but Eddie Watt standing there and just probably looked down the bullpen and slapped his right arm.
Zamora comes on. There's going to be two changes. Tim Hoseley, it looks like, is going to go in to catch, and the new pitcher is Zamora.
But Marshall, he didn't say a word.
So Oscar Zamora, he has seen other duty in this series. Yesterday, Watt won and then gave up one hit.
This is second appearance in the series, and as Joe mentioned, Tim Hoseley becomes a new Chicago catcher,
which means that Hoseley will be hitting in the number nine spot in the Chicago batting order, and pitcher Zamora will be hitting in the number eight position.
Hoseley will be leading off the seventh inning.
Five to three, Cincinnati run in here in the sixth inning. Still nobody out with runners at first and third. Zamora making appearance number 20.
He has a three-and-one record with a two, five, seven earned run average and also six of the 13 saves that Chicago pitching has accumulated.
In fact, he has six and Darrell Knowles has six, so they've been the tandem out of the Cubs bullpen this season.
Raleigh Eastwood, still working in the Cincinnati bullpen, will be our pitcher in the top of the seventh.
Bourbon, two and two-thirds innings, gives up a hit, strikes out a batter, and as we pointed out, he stands to be the winning pitcher in this game.
Three straight hits. Rentonman, Plummer, and a pitch single by Terry Crowley to score run number five and give the Reds a two-run cushion.
Pete Rose in the on-deck circle, waiting to hit. He's one for three in the game with a single leading off the fifth inning and scored a run.
Zamora still taking his warm-ups while Tim Hoseley gets the catching gear on and the Cup dugout. He's coming on now.
Pete has played on fire, Bob Engel. If we're ready to resume play again, Engel says let him throw a couple down to Hoseley and then we'll get back at it.
The pitcher and catcher will talk things over. Ken Fraling still throwing for Chicago in their bullpen.
Fifty thousand three hundred eleven today for a double header that may well turn out to be a Cincinnati sweep, but things continue to go right.
Not only a sweep of the twin bill, but a sweep of the four-game series against the Chicago team that came in here on top of the heap in the Eastern Division, the National League.
Okay, Pete is in. Here we go again. First and third not out. Rose takes ball one high from Zamora.
Eastwick finishing up, comes out of the Cincinnati dugout. Cubs infield in and Rose looks at a strike, one and one.
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We'll mark those dates now. Two balls and a strike to Pete Rose.
Up next will be Dave Concepcion, arm brister running for Crowley at first, Plummer at third.
Five free reds, sixth inning. Rose swings and pops it foul and into the seats left side.
Level of count, two balls, two strikes.
Zamora looking into Hoseley.
Rose, arm brister goes, pitch is grounded foul.
Arm brister getting the go sign at first base. Rose with a foul ball and he comes back and the count remains two balls and two strikes.
Zamora stretches, arm brister goes again, that is outside, ball three and arm brister in at second base without benefit of a throw.
He has a stolen base. It's his second of the year.
So that's the ill hit and we'll score a pair. Rose hits a high fly ball into center field. That's going to be deep enough to get Plummer in.
He makes a catch, here's a tag, Plummer coming home, arm brister going to third in safely. Six to three.
Two runs in in the inning and the batter will be Dave Concepcion who doubled the right center in the fifth to tie the game up off of Chicago starter Jeff Zahn.
And with third base still occupied by Ed Armbrister now, the Cub infield stays in with one man out.
That run charged to the departed Eddie Watt.
David takes the curve ball high from the right-hander.
Dougie Flynn is on deck. He'll be getting his first at bat in the game.
1-0 pitch, call strike.
Samora glancing at third base. Swing and a miss by Concepcion and he's behind one and two.
Three straight hits for one run and a sacrifice fly with another run home.
He's scored two runs in each of the last two innings and still batting here in the sixth with a chance of getting another one.
Strike three call. Concepcion can't believe it.
He finally does and now leaves the plate as Doug Flynn comes up.
Concepcion stood around so long at the plate I thought I'd miscalculated on the count.
Looked like he was going to stay around for another pitch.
I wanted to make sure maybe Mr. Engel would change his position.
Here's a strike to Flynn. Doug getting 2-44 as one homer and five runs batted in.
Strike two is there.
Cub infield back now at normal depth with two men out.
This young man has really been a very valuable addition to this club. He's played, played well.
The times in which he has started games, which have been of course very few, he's come up with some big hits for us.
One and two to count on him.
Samora trying to get the final out of the inning.
Arm brister at third. Flynn looks at a call, third strike and that's the inning.
Four cents an ante, two runs, three hits, one arrow, one left.
At the sixth hole it's a red six and the Cubs three.
Spargy Anderson came out of the red dugout after Doug Flynn had been called out on strikes and spent a couple of minutes giving play down player Bob Engel a piece of his mind over I'm sure not only the calls to Flynn but also to Concepcion.
That little conversation is now broken up.
We've got a new pitcher on the mound as the Cubs come to bat in the seventh inning.
Back to tell you about him and call the action again Joe Nutsol.
Hi Marty, it's Raleigh Eastwick making his sixth appearance in four RBI's.
Hoseley, Sparing and Summers do up for the Cubs in the seventh.
Reds leading at six to three.
Eastwick delivers the pass ball, misses inside.
Pedro Borbon worked two and two-thirds innings allowing one hit and striking out one.
Stands now, Pedro would be the winner.
Strike in at the knees from Eastwick to Hoseley, one and one to count.
Reds have out hit the Cubs ten to six.
Eastwick delivers, Hoseley swings, ground ball by Rose in the left field, base hit.
Ben Chappell the ball returns to the infield and that is hit number seven for Chicago, the first off Raleigh Eastwick.
That brings Rob Sparing to the plate, boy I tell you this guy has to wonder what you have to do to get a base hit.
He tried Rose twice with line drives, decided well, no luck there.
They took a shot at Merv Rutman this last time up and Merv made an outstanding defensive play to retire.
First pitch is high and inside, Sparing leans away, one and oh.
Eastwick delivers, that's swung on and popped in his shell and going out is Flynn, dug back, pedaling, Hasrel makes the cut.
Flynn at second base.
Here's Champ Summers, 0 for 3, he's twice hit fly balls to center and is grounded to second.
Joe Morgan taken out of the lineup in the sixth inning, Joe hit in the back in the left shoulder by a throw from Andy Thornton.
And boy I tell you, if it hits you in the right spot there, it gets quite sore.
Pitch to Champ Summers gets the inside or outside corner called strike.
Blake Carroll on the Cincinnati bullpen throwing, the 0-1, just under the knees, count evens one and one.
Now they're still at it in New York, Braves and the Mets tied 6-6, 13th inning.
1-1, Summers swings and chops it foul with the plate.
Raleigh out in front, a ball, two strikes this summer.
Tim Hoseley at first base was won away.
Tony Perez plays a couple of steps behind Hoseley.
Eastwick looking in to plumber the stretch.
A 1-2 pitch, high and outside, count evens 2-2.
The Reds jumped in front, 2-0, a run in the second, a run in the third.
The Cubs came back with 3 in the fourth to take a one-run lead.
The Reds right back with 2 in the fifth, 2 in the sixth, and they lead it 6-3.
Now the 2-2 pitch, swung on and that's bounced foul off to the right.
I'm holding it, two balls, two strikes.
Now the Pirates trying to hang on to split the doubleheader with the Giants.
2-2 again, that swung on again, bounced foul.
Pirates leading the Giants 2-1 in the ninth inning.
Giants winning the first game 3-1.
Two balls, two strikes to count.
Bill Madlock on deck.
He's had a hot bet.
There's a swing, ground ball, Pirates has it.
He goes to Concepcion one throw back the first, not in time.
And they get the 4th of Hoseley at second base to play going 3-6.
Two away now and stepping in is Bill Madlock.
Madlock is 2-3 in the first game, he had three hits and four times in the plate,
so he's had five hits so far in the doubleheader.
His last time up we got him out though.
He grounded to Morgan at second base in the fifth inning.
The off field playing Madlock straight away.
Eastwick sets and delivers.
Madlock takes just low a ball.
Right now the sun is shining through the upper deck and right on home plate.
As John pointed out yesterday in the start of the game,
here's the pitch, flung on and pulled foul off the third baseline.
It's not even one-on-one that the backdrop out in the center field in the seats
I guess caused more problems than maybe the shadows.
One-on-one to count.
Eastwick delivers and Madlock looks at it, it's low, two-on-one.
Dreads with ten hits, the Cubs with seven.
One error in the ball game and that belongs to Champ Summers.
The Cubs, two-one delivery, low and outside.
Free ball to strike now to Madlock.
Waiting on deck is Rick Mundy.
There are two outs.
Eastwick's three-one pitch.
Madlock swings and misses a high fast ball, full count.
Summers at first base will be on the move with the pitch with the count falling two away.
Well, there's some all-star ballots flying around.
Here's the three-two, flung on and bounced to Perez at first.
He weighs Eastwick away, goes to the back and retires.
The Cubs here in the seventh, no runs.
They're going to hit them.
One runner left on base in the middle of the seventh, the Reds sixth, the Cubs three.
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Before the Reds come up to play in the bottom half of the inning,
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Johnny Bench deleted off for the Reds in the seventh.
John is one for three in an RBI.
John singled in the fifth inning when the Reds scored a couple of runs to go back in front.
Moore's first pitch is blowing outside the ball.
Oscar into the wind and the 1-0 delivery.
Swung on, shot by the charge top into left center field over is Mundy.
Gets by him and on his way to second his bench and he'll hold right there.
And we'll wait and see.
Mundy went a long way after the ball and we'll see if they give him a double.
Apparently, we'll have to wait.
And they're going to give Johnny Bench a double and for John that is his 17th double of the year.
John's second hit of the game.
Bench shot, second base leading off here in the seventh.
Tony Perez at the plate.
Tony is two for three in an RBI.
Bench and Johnny Grob now tied for the league lead in doubles with 17.
John leads the National League in home runs.
RBI's tied for doubles.
Bench at second lead, Zamora sets and delivers to Perez.
That's swung on and that could be number eight.
Going back and there she goes.
Tony Perez re-wrapped that one and no doubt about it, Zamora very upset with himself,
but a big one for Tony and we now lead it by a score of eight to three.
Tony Perez is eight home run of the year and those two RBIs gave him three for the game and a total of 34.
Tony really enjoyed that one.
Second hit off Zamora and both runs of course charged to Oscar and he put a mark.
All right, here's George Foster.
George, 0 for 2 in a walk, swings and misses.
Slider, 0 and 1.
The Reds leading it now eight to three.
Twelve hits for the Reds, Zamora works, Foster swings and pops it foul back at us.
And if we hear a cheer we know it's a cod, if we don't there's a scramble.
Apparently there's a scramble.
Zamora out in front, 0 and 2 to George Foster.
The 0-2 delivery, just missing low and offside, 1 and 2.
Seisai Geronimo loosening up in the Reds bullpen and he'll undoubtedly go to center field.
Foster takes low, count evens two balls, two strikes.
Freddie Dorman and Jerry Royce to Mara Knight here at Riverfront, two-two pitch,
long line bounced up the middle off the glove of Zamora, sparing up with it.
Quick throw and they got it.
Zamora just getting the tip of his glove on it and deflecting it just a bit towards sparing and shortstop.
Rob up with it and got the throw away in a hurry for the first out.
During the play goes 1-6-3 on Foster, one away, and Merv Redmond to the plate.
Redmond one for three, hit the ball hard each time up.
First pitch to him is down low ball.
Zamora, this is his 20th appearance of the year. Redmond swings, hits one deep to left field.
Going back to Summers, reaches up, makes the one-handed catch right in front of the 275 marker.
And I tell you, Merv Redmond has been tapping that ball hard.
Two away now and that'll bring Bill Plummer to the plate.
Bill is two for three in an RBI. In the last time up in the sixth inning,
had a hit-and-run single, a little looper over sparing into left field with Redmond at first base.
Two outs, the base is empty. Zamora delivers and Plum looks at it outside of all.
Raleigh Eastlick on deck. Eight to three, Reds lead.
The 1-0, Plum swings on it, doesn't get it, one and one.
The Reds win this one, it'll be the second double header that we've swept this year.
Give us 34 wins and 22 losses. Plum swings and fouls one right over our head.
And down it goes.
One and two to count.
Zamora works, Plummer takes, low on outside, down evens two-two.
A wind, the two-two to Plummer. Swung on and hit the left field and Summers is there backpedaling
and about a step from the warning track falls it in.
And in the inning for the Reds, they get two runs on two heads. A big one, a two-run homer by Tony Perez.
No errors, no one left on base. And after seven, the Reds eight, the Cubs three.
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Watching the Reds win at Riverfront Stadium has always been a great way to spend the day.
And one sure way to add to that enjoyment is going to Frisch's before or after the game.
It's all part of the tradition. Why Frisch's?
Because not only does Frisch's offer a wide variety of great tasting treats from sandwiches to full course dinners,
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Now the seven-inning totals look like this.
The Reds have had eight runs on 12-inch, and the Cubs have had three runs on seven-ins.
Rick Mundy will lead it off in the eighth, and back for the action, Marty Brenneman.
Rick Mundy, 0-3 in the game, his last time up here to line drive to Foster in center field back in the fifth inning.
Raleigh Eastwick, the third pitcher to work in this game for the Reds, with Clay Kirby the starting pitcher.
Going three-and-a-third, Pedro Borbon working two-and-two-thirds innings of one-hit shutout baseball,
and it is Pied who stands to get the win if his five-run Reds lead stands up over the next inning and a half.
Mundy to be followed by Andy Thornton and Jerry Morales.
Eastwick giving up a base hit to catcher Tim Hoseley starting off the seventh inning, but nothing after that.
Now we've got a change in center field.
Cesar Geronimo has come in defensively, replacing George Foster.
Tall, lanky Raleigh Eastwick working to Mundy, and he grounds him to the right side.
There's Flynn, and there's Perez, one away.
Thornton is one for two with a walk.
He doubled back in the sixth inning, walked and scored a run in the fourth, and popped out to shortstop in the second.
Eastwick working, and it's taken low and inside, ball one.
A big, big day for Cincinnati up to this point.
Question about that.
Call strike at the knees, one and one.
Now it feels straight away for Andy Thornton who hit the ball very well in the sixth inning.
Eastwick keeping it down to him, and it's two balls and one strike.
Meanwhile, at Shea Stadium, the Mets are batting in the bottom of the 14th inning, tied with the Atlanta Braves at six apiece.
All three, three and one.
Thornton out of the batter's box.
Now Eastwick checks in with Plummer. Here's a 3-1 delivery.
That swung on and missed. Got the pitch up to him, and Thornton had the home run cut, but he did not get it.
That's ball four low.
Andy Thornton becomes the second man to reach on right-hander Eastwick.
One down in the inning with first base occupied and Jerry Morales coming in.
Fly it out, double a run in, and popped out to third base.
Third walk given up by Reds pitching in this game. Kirby gave up two for bone none.
Call strike one. Fast ball.
One ball a strike. Plummer digging it out.
Second game of the San Diego-Montreal doubleheader. It's the Padres trailing the Expos by a score of 3-1 after five and a half.
San Francisco three runs in the ninth inning to take a 4-2 lead over Pittsburgh.
Now the Giants are bidding to pick a pair.
Here's a shot back into left field. Going back is Betts. Looking up, it is out of here a home run.
Jerry Morales with a two-run home run to left field to draw the Cubs to within three runs. It's now 8-5.
That's for Jerry Morales' second home run of the year.
He has three RBIs in this game and the Cubs are down by three as they reach Raleigh Eastwick for the two-run homer.
Here's Manny Trio as Clay Carroll goes down to start throwing. Ball one.
Ball strike in the outside corner. A ball one strike to Trio who has had a hit, an RBI and three times up.
Last time at that soft line drive between first and second, Perez made a fine play on it.
Call strike two. Cubs have had eight hits. The Reds have had 12.
They lead by three with one out and two runs in. Bases empty in the Chicago eight.
There's a pop on the left side. Rose calling for it. Concepcion coming over by him and calling Pete off the ball.
David makes the catch. Two away.
Pitcher's scheduled a hit, but Pete Lecock will be the Chicago pinch hitter.
Lecock who started in the first game in right field, one 0 for four has had one hit and six times up in this series.
A pitch single yesterday's game.
Left handed batting outfielder, first baseman hitting two 38. Cubs with two runs.
Cubs with two runs into the eighth on a walk to Thornton and a home run to left field by Morales.
Lecock looks at a fast ball away.
Ground ball over the man. Oh, spared by Eastwick. Nice play and throwing on to Tony to retire Pete Lecock.
In the inning, two runs ahead. Nobody left. And in the middle of the eighth inning, it's the Reds eighth, the Chicago Cubs five.
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Cincinnati Reds will be teaming up with Bob Braun for a big special at Riverfront Stadium.
The date is Tuesday, June 17th. There'll be a clinic in Riverfront at 11 o'clock in the morning and the Bob Braun show will follow.
No charge for admission, but you must have a ticket.
Send a stamp, self-addressed envelope with your ticket request to Reds Bob Braun Day, Fox 5050, Cincinnati.
Left-hander Ken Frayling is the new Chicago pitcher as the Reds come to bat for hopefully the last time today.
We're leading 8-5 in the bottom of the eighth.
And pitcher Raleigh Eastwick is standing in to get the inning underway.
Frayling delivers and Eastwick takes strike one.
Frayling, the fourth pitcher, Zahn, Watt, Zamora.
Strike two on a swing and a miss. No balls and two strikes.
Hoseley sets a target on the outside part of the plate. The pitch comes that way but misses.
One ball, two strikes. This pitcher faces pitcher in the bottom of the eighth inning.
And there's a swing and a miss. Strike three. Ball pops out of Hoseley's mid.
Or is it a strike swing? Yes it is. Throw on down to first base.
So Eastwick a strike out and now Pete Rose will be at the plate.
It is one for three with a sacrifice fly coming in to sixth inning.
This defeat is taken on the outside edge for strike one.
Missing away one and one.
Two balls and one strike on Pete Rose.
Reds only three outs away.
Top of the ninth inning from sweeping the double header and taking four straight from Chicago to move a game and a half out in front of the Dodgers in the Western Division.
There's a strike joint, two and two.
Davey Concepcion waiting on deck. Frailing, Rose swung on fly ball right field and out of play.
Hoseley a former product of the Detroit Tiger organization, most recently with the Oakland A's, is ready to get the ninth inning started.
Eight to five to score. Eastwick trying to nail it down. A third win of the year for Pedro Borbón if he can subdue him here in the ninth.
He winds, delivers and Hoseley takes ball one away.
One-oh pitch taken outside a ball, two and nothing.
Actually both of these games have been come from behind efforts for Cincinnati. We trail one-nothing in the first game before Benches-Homer in the seventh inning.
And we were behind at one point in this one. There is ball three outside.
Of course it's not over yet.
Eastwick has yet to throw a strike.
Three balls and nothing on right-handed batting Tim Hoseley.
Robb sparing on deck. There is a call strike.
This would be the second doubleheader win of the year for Cincinnati and the fourth twin bill we played. Ball four low.
Eastwick walks his second batter in two plus innings of pitching. He'll face Sparing. At least he's a schedule hitter but he's been called back and it looks like Cardinal is going to be the Chicago pinch hitter.
Cardinal playing the first game. Started out the day batting three twenty-six with five homers and twenty-six RBIs that wore a size four collar in game number one.
So his average standing at three twenty as he comes up in a pinch hit role against Eastwick.
I tell you the Cubs threw quite a scare into us in the first game. They loaded the bases in the ninth inning down by a run but Gary Nolan got Kessinger in a line out the center field to win that one.
Cardinal taking a lot of time before stepping in. He talks momentarily with a plate umpire Bob Engel.
He's down at first. Lead off walk. Cardinal bangs a bat on the plate. He's ready and so is Raleigh. Swung on ground ball. Fair ball at third. Throw on to second. They got the force out.
Tim Hoseley who came in pretty hard on Doug Flynn and credit the rook with hanging right in there.
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Dargie Anderson has come out of the Reds dugout and he signals that he wants another pitcher to come in and try and finish this one off. It'll be left hander Will McAnany.
Raleigh Eastwood goes two and one third innings. He allows the Cubs a couple of hits, two runs.
No strikeouts and two walks and it'll be McAnany and we talk about the work this young man has given us every time he comes in.
Worked twenty one and two thirds consecutive innings without allowing a run. That's dating back to the 20th of April. The string covers fifteen appearances.
McAnany with the lowest earned run average on the club of 104. A 1-0 record and this is 21st appearance.
Corbone with an appearance earlier in the game now leads the pitching staff with 22. Clay Carroll has 21 and now McAnany in has his 21st.
Champ Summers scheduled a hit but Ron Dunn is swinging two bats in the on deck circle so apparently he will be a pinch hitter.
Dunn a right handed batter as opposed to the left handed swinging Summers.
Brad's out in front eight to five. During the specially big second game for one Tony Perez.
Marked his return to the Reds lineup for the first time in almost two weeks in game one. One hitless but during the second game he is single twice.
Holmered and four times up to knock in three runs.
McAnany indicates that he is ready to work and it's going to be Ron Dunn coming on to pinch hit.
Young Dunn batting 231 as one Holmer and four runs batted in for this 1975 Cub edition.
McAnany checking Cardinal at first base. The pitch to Dunn of all outside.
Well everything else now over.
Except San Diego Montreal they're still underway besides ours here two balls and no strikes.
Clay Carroll still throwing. There's a strike to him two and one.
Don't forget to stay tuned immediately following our game broadcast on most of these same stations.
Joe Nuxall the star of the game show and I'll be back to recap all the scores of all the games on scores and comments.
Fly ball left field hit well bench backing he reaches up and makes the cut.
Well not the most artistic endeavor in the world but he made the play on it.
That ball was hooking on John as it left the infield.
He went back reached up and there it was two away.
Tummies coming down to their final out and the batter will be third baseman Bill Madlock as he vids to keep the ninth inning going.
And like two for four.
McAnany working Madlock gets a shot Pete has it at third and this one belongs to the red.
Here in the ninth inning for the Chicago Cubs who have just been swept four straight by the Cincinnati Reds.
No runs no hits a man left down your final score in game number two.
The Reds eight the Cubs five stay tuned we'll be back in just a moment.
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So.
Monday afternoon doubleheader before a capacity house of fifty thousand three hundred and eleven that's seen the Reds take a pair from the Chicago Cubs two to one in the first game on Johnny Bench's 13th homer of the year in the seventh with a man on base.
And here in the second another come from behind win for the Reds eight to five the final score as Pedro Borbon working in relief of play Kirby the second of four pitchers as it turned out in this game for our Reds becomes a winner.
The Reds go to the second place three and one will McEnany gets a save his fourth and Jeff Zahn the Chicago starter was a losing pitcher.
His record goes to one and three eight runs 13 hits no errors seven left for the Reds five runs eight hits an error and seven stranded for Chicago.
The Reds go thirty four and twenty two on the year.
Boy we've come home to take a pretty good ball club for straight with of course the Pittsburgh Pirates coming in tomorrow night for the first of a two game series.
We'll be back for more in just a moment.