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The San Francisco Giants faced the St. Louis Cardinals at Bush Stadium for a Friday night game on June 8, 1962.
The game featured a headline matchup by two youngsters that were on their way to Hall of Fame careers.
The Giants were sending Juan Maréchal to the mound versus the Cardinals' Bob Gibson.
San Francisco was off to a hot start, entering this game with a 40-17 record.
But still tied with the Dodgers atop the National League.
They were managed by Alvin Dark in his second year with the Giants.
The Cardinals were an average team throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1962, they were managed by Johnny Keene, who took over midway through the 1961 season.
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Now the lineups for this, the first game of the four-game series with the Giants.
For the visiting San Franciscans, leading the league by a half-game over the Dodgers.
Chuck Heller at second base leading off.
Willie Mays in the center field.
Willie McCovey in right field.
Orlando Cepeda at first base batting fourth.
Philippe Ballou is in left field.
Jim Davenport at third base.
Jose Pagan is at short.
Tom Holler the catcher.
And Juan Morichal, eight and three, is on the mound for San Francisco.
For the Cardinals, Kurt Flood, who had three hits last night in center field leading off.
Javier is at second base, sitting in the number two spot.
Bill White at first base.
Stan Musial in left field, batting fourth.
Ken Boyer is at third base.
Carl Sawatsky is back of the plate.
Julio Gotay is at shortstop.
Doug Clemens is playing right field.
And Bob Gibson, who has won six and lost four, is on the mound for the Cardinals.
Morichal has already defeated the Cardinals in two games and lost to them in neither of his outings.
Gibson is one and one against the Giants.
There go the Cardinals on the field and here for the play-by-play of the ball game.
And his good evening to you is Harry Carrey.
Thank you, Jack.
Hello again, everybody.
All set to play baseball here.
The rains have blown away.
They certainly cut me into our attendance.
It rained all afternoon and boy, I need some rain.
Now our national anthem.
The national anthem.
Now we're all set to go.
Now in the other games, Cleveland leads at Boston 4-0 at the end of two.
Baltimore, New York,
a close score at the end of four and a half.
This afternoon, the Mets broke their 17-game losing streak,
edging the Cubs 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader.
The second game was probably the end of eight innings with the Cubs winning 3-2.
Philadelphia Cincinnati just getting underway.
Los Angeles and Houston later.
Pittsburgh and Milwaukee just about to get started.
Well, Jim Toomey had an early needle going.
He just apologized to the gentleman from San Francisco for not having any wind blowing.
Well, I was really giving one of the great guys of baseball, Eddie Flanning,
the traveling secretary of the Giants for many, many years a real needle for wearing a topcoat to the ballpark.
And man, this is not San Francisco. You don't need that here.
Here is Chuck Keller, the second baseman hitting 281 from McHenry, Illinois.
No homers in 20 runs about a day.
First pitch by Bob Gibson is high and outside.
One ball, no strikes.
Group of some 60 from Belleville, Illinois, out here honoring Red Cheney tonight.
Here is the pitch to Hillaryncy Strykoff.
That is a stockholder in a bowling alley, and also the employees of the bowling alley are here.
One ball and one strike.
The pitch to Hillaryncy.
Foul back and out of play, strike two.
Ladies' Day tomorrow.
Doubleheaders Sunday.
And Ray Sedecki will pitch for the Cardinals tomorrow afternoon.
All the interesting.
Here is the pitch to Hiller High.
Two balls, two strikes.
There are some who think that this situation might have been just what this youngster needed to do.
Get them started.
Two balls, two strikes to wind, and here is the pitch.
Ooh, barely missed with a fastball inside.
All prior, the playdump fire.
Augie Donatelli at first.
Frank Sicori at second, and Tony Benzon at third.
Three balls, two strikes.
Here is the pitch.
Lined in the center.
Flood goes back.
He's there waiting.
Makes the catch.
Hiller lined the flood in center field.
And that's one man away.
Here's Willie Mays hitting second.
Willie McCovey will be next.
Then Orlando Cepeda, then Felipe Lou, then Jimmy Davenport.
Boy, you've got to get good pitching to be peaceful.
Here's the first pitch now to Mays when it's outside.
One ball to no strikes.
One man out.
A ball game in the first.
There's the pitch and he's swung and missed, and the count is in.
Mays with 19 homers, 49 runs.
About it is.
Straddles a plate wide.
Bob Gibson gets set.
Here's the pitch.
Curveball knocked out of the way.
Willie Mays.
One of the great stars of baseball.
Willie now 31 years old.
Here's the pitch.
A little bit low.
All three.
Gibson really pumping that ball hard.
He's had Mays giving ground up the plate.
Now he's down to three balls and a strike.
Here it is.
High pop foul backing out of play, the full count.
Three balls, two strikes.
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Now the wide.
Here's a pitch to Willie Mays.
Foul back again.
It's been pretty tough to earn a living with that plate right at this moment, Harry.
It's a little difficult to see, not quite dark.
They didn't take batting practice and Gibson is firing.
He is really throwing hard as right, Jack.
Here's the wind up the three-two pitch.
Strike him out on a curve.
Mays gave up on the pitch.
Thought it was inside.
It broke sharply right over the middle for a small third strike.
Here now is Willie McCovey.
Too big to be a man and not quite big enough to be a horse.
I bet Mays is thinking about stealing secondary to let balls snap across the plate.
Willie McCovey hitting three-fifteen.
Seven homers and 14 runs batted in.
First pitch is low.
One ball, no strikes.
Redbirds are one to last three in a row.
Big series for the Cardinals.
We need a good series here.
Here's the pitch on the left.
Fastball outside.
Two balls, no strikes.
McCovey, born in Mobile, Alabama, his hobby is reading comic books and seeing motion pictures.
And hitting.
There's the pitch on the way.
Ooh, what a cut he had on a low fastball.
And it is two balls and a strike.
National League rookie of the year in 1959.
McCovey, 24 years old, 6'4".
Here's the pitch on the way.
Swings and he misses the strike.
Too he had a cut.
And that evens it up with two balls, two strikes.
Bob Gibson shooting for his seventh victory of the year.
Now to wind up the 2-2 delivery to McCovey.
Ooh, barely missed outside and Gibson is furious about that one.
Three balls, two strikes.
He was really mourning about the second pitch to McCovey.
The umpire didn't give it to him.
He threw the 2-2 pitch in the very same spot and Friar still wouldn't give it to him.
Now it's a 3-2 pitch again.
Here it is on the way.
Lined in the center of basehead.
And now Gibson is really even more angry as he, as that ball sailed past his head in the center,
he was already marching at Paul Friar.
As if to say, well, if you give him how many strikes, sure he's going to get ahead sooner or later.
Now here is Orlando Cepeda.
Right hand batter.
Last time Gibson faced the Giants, he beat them one to nothing in a thriller.
Now the stretch and the hesitation.
Here's the pitch.
He foul-tipped strike one.
Carl Stowanski behind the plate tonight.
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Here's the pitch and it's a curve outside.
One ball, one strike.
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One ball, one strike.
Here's the pitch on the way.
Curve outside.
Ball two.
Two balls and a strike on Orlando Cepeda.
Billy Faloo will be next.
The Giants leading the league.
Cepeda, 15 homers, 55 RBI.
Now the stretch.
Here's the pitch.
There goes the runner.
Ground ball is short.
Go Ties only play first base.
In time for the outs.
McCovey's broke on the pitch.
Cepeda grounded out.
The Go Ties threw him out.
One hit, no runs.
No errors.
We're going to the bottom half of the first inning.
There's no score in the ballgame.
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Group of youngsters in the Academy in Paragool, Arkansas, watching the ball game.
Here is Kurt Flood to lead it off, Juan Marichal on the hill.
He's already beaten the Cuydos twice this year.
Once four to three.
Stockily-filled right-hander into the windup he goes.
And now the pitch on the way to Kurt Flood.
Kurt ball outside. Tom Hollers behind the plate.
The kid from Lockport, Illinois has moved into the number one catching job.
Here's the pitch on the way.
High ball two.
Two balls and no strike.
Flood hitting 3.26.
Juan Marichal, who is 1.8.
His catcher Tom Holler goes out to talk to him.
Ray Sedecki will pitch tomorrow against Jack Sanford.
Two balls, no strikes.
Into the windup here's the pitch on the way.
There's a good fastball over the heart of the plate.
Two balls and a strike.
Kurt Flood hitting 3.26.
Now Marichal into the wind.
Good delivery.
High ball three.
Three balls and a strike.
Nobody on and nobody out.
Here's Marichal delivering.
Ball four, he walked him. That's the way to start.
I don't know how the air steps up with a runner at first and nobody out.
Ball game in the first inning.
No score.
Juan Marichal against Bob Gibson.
Last time Gibson pitched he beat these fellows one to nothing.
Another time he was beaten by the Giants.
Where he's one and one against them.
He could have given some loss.
Billy O'Dell shut the Cardinals out.
He didn't have a chance.
He wound up six to nothing.
There's the stretch ready to hound the air.
There goes the runner.
A bouncing ball.
The second baseman is going to field it.
There's the throw to first in time.
Hiller had started over to cover second.
Ornerly that might have been a base hit but with the hit run on.
However, it started to run over that way and ran right into the path of the ball.
Which wasn't hit very hard.
We have a man in scoring position with one out.
And here's Bill White hitting 269.
Nine homers and 41 runs batted in.
Man in scoring position, one away.
There's the stretch.
And the pitch by Marichal.
Fastball low and outside, ball wide.
Bill White has always had trouble hitting against his former teammates.
One ball, no strikes.
Man at second base, one gone.
Bill White to hit her, Musi will be next.
Marichal's pitch.
Now, here it is.
After a long delay, time is called and won't count.
After Marichal took a lot of time on a delayed stretch, Bill White stepped out of the batter's box.
One ball, no strikes.
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One ball, no strikes.
Left hand batter Bill White.
Kurt Kloet a long lead.
The pitch on the way by Marichal.
Here it is.
Outside, ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
Marichal with a record of 8-3.
Bob Gibson is 6-4.
One man out.
Hagan holding flood close.
There's the pitch.
He swings in a slow curve and he misses.
Two balls and a strike.
Marichal behind with fastballs.
Pulled the string with 2-0.
Made a real good pitch.
White swung at a miss.
Two balls and a strike.
Swung a long lead.
Pitch to Bill White.
Here it is.
Oh, he made him look bad on that one.
White swung at a very bad ball.
That broke like a screwball, Jack.
Something.
He threw that one chain up and White didn't know what to look for.
And lo and behold, here came another and White really chased it low and away.
Two balls, two strikes.
Now the pitch.
Followed back on a fastball that time.
White just barely got around to follow it off.
That's the thing about him, Harry.
He gets you out-facing him.
He's fast enough to blow the ball right by us.
Two balls, two strikes.
Runner in scoring position.
Two men are gone.
Rather, one man is gone.
Philadelphia, Cincinnati didn't score the first.
Now Marichal is ready.
From the belt.
Here's the pitch.
Swung late, fell back out of play.
About 18,000 or so held down by the weather.
White has never had a good series against the Giants, has he?
One game he won with a grand slammer off Jack Sanford beat him 4-2.
Other than that, Royce is batting average against his former teammates at the very low.
Two balls, two strikes.
Juan Marichal gets his sign.
Glances at second base.
A pitch from the belt.
And here it is.
Ball three high, a curveball.
Three balls and two strikes.
Runner at second, one out.
Bill White, the hitter.
Flora, that just will be edging off second.
There he goes.
Marichal is down to three and two.
Mucy will be next.
One man out.
Now the signal given.
There's the stretch ready.
And the pitch on the way.
Instead he backed off the rubber.
Three balls, two strikes.
Now he's set again.
Here it is.
A smack line drive right back to the pitcher.
Throw in a second base gets away.
And Fletter's safe.
A great play by Marichal.
Boy, what reflexes to catch that line drive.
He left Pagan on the throw.
Pagan couldn't hold them all if they had a, if they had it on the play.
White lines off to Marichal.
There's you still getting a fine hand.
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There's the stretch.
There's a strike, a good fast ball.
One strike and a little more.
Mucy will try to drive this run home.
Two men are gone now.
Lloyd hit that ball hard but right back at Marichal.
What a damn battle waiting.
Now the glance at second base.
Here's the pitch.
On the infield.
Pagan under the ball.
He takes it to retire the sack.
Mucy will clap to Pagan.
So each team had one baserunner in their first inning and didn't score.
It's no hits, no runs, no errors.
One left.
At the end of one, the Giants nothing, the Cardinals nothing.
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Khalid Balu leads it up in the top of the second against Bob Gibson.
There's the windup in the pitch.
There's a fastball high on inside.
This Alu is having a great season hitting 343.
Eight homers and 42 runs out of there.
He also is from the Dominican Republic.
There's a pitch in his striker's door.
Khalid Balu.
Now the pitch.
It's right on by Sawaski to the screen.
Two balls in the strike.
Balu now 27 years old.
There's a windup.
The pitch on the way.
He swings misses.
He evens it up with two balls, two strikes.
Baltimore, New York, no score at the end of six.
Two balls, two strikes, here's the pitch.
He struck it up.
Balu goes down swinging.
That's a second strikeout for Gibson.
Here's Jimmy Davenport hitting 331.
Six homers and 26 runs out of there.
Gibson winds and the pitch all the way.
Foul tip, strike one.
One strike, Kenobo.
Gibson's not fooling around with any trick stuff.
He's just raring back and firing.
One strike, Kenobo.
Here's the pitch.
Low outside fastball evens it up.
One man out, nobody on base.
The ball game on the second inning, no score.
Bob Gibson against Warren Marischal.
Tomorrow afternoon, Ray Sadecki against Jack Sanford.
One ball, one strike.
Here's the pitch.
There's a smash.
Fair ball, might go for extra bases.
There goes Davenport on his way to second.
Mucey's throw away his save sliding.
Davenport slashed a double down the third base line.
Try to bring up Jose Pagan.
Hitting 265, right-handed battle.
Tom Howler, the catcher, would be next.
One man out, ball game on the second inning.
Bob Gibson gets ready.
There's the pitch to Pagan.
Gets away, here's Davenport trying to save the throw.
He is!
Hey, for Thursday.
Go was off.
Sawatski threw off balance.
He could have as much on the throw as he would have liked to have had.
And it was high and a little bit to the foul side of the bag.
So it's a fast ball.
As Davenport takes third.
Now anything would score the run.
The infield has to come in.
One ball, no strikes.
Bob Gibson needs a strike out here.
There's the pitch on the way.
It's low.
Two balls, no strikes.
Tom Howler will be next, hitting 247.
We're in the second inning.
The Giants threaten.
Bob Gibson getting ready.
Into the wind and here's the pitch to Pagan.
High-pop foul.
Here comes White over to the stands.
He might have a play.
He can't reach it.
Two balls, no strikes.
Bob Gibson with a reverent third and only one out.
Giants have made two hits now.
Gibson hasn't stepped on the rubbers yet.
Looks down for his sign.
Here's the windup.
Here's the pitch to Pagan.
Squeeze and wait a minute, foul ball.
It hit his body and then rolled into fair territory.
As Davenport came down the line, Pagan tried to squeeze him home and now we've got a count of two balls and two strikes.
Maybe we can get that strike out here.
The infield is in.
They're like Marish, I'll leave them one run, you know, try to keep them giving them.
Two balls, two strikes.
Gibson winds.
Here's the pitch on the way.
A looping fly ball.
Javier, check.
Hey, great shot.
And Davenport doesn't try to score.
Oh, what a play.
Spun some to the crowd.
He outran that ball, Harry.
Simply outran that ball.
Boy, there's just another indication of the tremendous importance of speed.
With the infield in, that ball looked like nobody could reach it, but Javier outran it, caught it over his shoulder with his back to the infield.
Davenport had he tagged up, might have had a chance to score, but he had come up the line thinking the ball was going to be in there for a base hit.
So there's two out and here's Tom Haller.
Left-handed batter.
Gibson gets that into the windup and here's the pitch.
A bouncing ball, we're out of the inning.
Javier's got it over to first-in time, nice pitch.
And a fine play by Julian Javier.
And so it's one hit.
No runs, no errors on one left.
We go into the bottom half of the second inning.
Giants nothing, the Cardinals nothing.
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This is Harry Carrey with Jack Buck. We're going to the bottom half of the second inning, no score.
Kenny Boyer up there.
There's the pitch. Cardball in there, a strike off.
That is young Sir John Kilman. Get another home run for the Red Sox.
A Georgia Tech Boy.
Boyer hits a bouncing ball down to the second base from Hiller. There's Lefebvre in back.
Boyer rolls out from Hiller to Sepeta.
Kyle Sawatsky in the 3.50 draw.
Baltimore, New York, no score in the bottom of the seventh.
Yankees have used two pitchers.
Ford must have come up with a bad armor back.
Here's Sawatsky. One away. Juan Marishaw gets set.
End of the lineup, here's the pitch.
Cardball outside.
In some ways, this Marishaw reminds you of Callers, former pitching star of the Dodgers.
What reminds me of Erskine is the way he comes directly overhand with his delivery. Here it is. A bouncing ball to Sepeta.
Big hop, he's got it, easy out. Two men up and two men down.
Here's Gotay, and boy this looks like one of those ball games where a run might be a mountain.
Gotay hitting 3.18. No homers in 18 RBI.
Marishaw getting set.
End of the windup, here's the pitch.
Cardball on outside.
Gotay's from Puerto Rico. Marishaw from the Dominican Republic.
Sepeta from Puerto Rico. Pagan from Puerto Rico.
Davenport from Mississippi Southern College.
Lane drive, they hit for Gotay, he's on there.
Gotay rip one in the left field.
Here's Doug Clemens now, playing right field, hitting 2.31.
That Gotay continues to pound that ball.
McCovey's in right, Mays in center, Alou in left.
Clemens cutting up with two out. Cardinal just got that first hit, a single left by Gotay.
Doug Clemens digs in.
Ron Marishaw is ready.
Takes a look over his shoulder.
Now they toss over to first base the runner back.
Now you don't suppose Gotay can beat out Maury Wills for the All-Star team, but he's got to be second in line right now.
He's sure got to be a big candidate for that rookie of the year though.
Now the stretch. Here's the pitch to Clemens.
Pitch out, not going anywhere.
One ball, no strikes.
Gotay leads.
And now Marishaw steps back off the rubber.
One ball, no strikes.
Doug Clemens waving that bat around.
Marishaw's pitch.
Outside ball two, Bob Gibson would be next.
And he's a good hitting pitcher.
Here's the pitch.
Followed it back, he had a good cut on the fastball.
And that makes it two balls and a strike.
Two men are out.
Doug Clemens at the plate.
Hitting 231.
22-year-old rookie outfielder.
Yankees are batting in the bottom of the seventh.
Nothing, nothing with Baltimore.
Two balls and a strike.
Now Marishaw steps back off the rubber.
Two balls and a strike.
Don't buy a lead.
Handle pitch.
There's a high fly ball to center.
That will be an easy eye.
Willie Mays can't find it.
It's passed for Hec.
Hec Clemens around the first, a run score.
And he is in there for the tip hole.
Willie Mays lost the ball in the light.
He's not located at all.
Standing there, and he suddenly looks over towards Philippe Ballot.
As if to say, where is it Philippe?
By the time Philippe could yell to him, the ball had dropped.
A high routine fly ball goes for a triple.
Get a good look at that because, boy, you don't see that happen often.
I want to tell you something that Goatie was not loafing on the routine fly ball to center field.
He was really pumping. He couldn't understand why they kept waving them home, but he scored.
So Julio scored the run.
A triple for Clemens.
And here's Bob Gibson out of the pit.
Low outside, ball one.
And Clemens wasn't loafing a bit either.
He went into third base standing up.
I think a guy thought Keane lost his mind when he sent him off and told him to keep running.
There's the pitch on the way.
Curve high and outside, ball two.
Perhaps the greatest center fielder of all time, Willie Mays, just proved he was human.
A routine fly ball and he couldn't locate it.
He lost it in the gloaming, as it were.
There's the pitch.
Swings and fouls it off the end of the bat and into the giant dugout.
And they scatter like tempens in the bowling alley.
Two balls and a strike.
Two men are on.
Right hand batter.
Here's Maher Charles Petsch.
Try to body miss.
Strike two.
Two balls, two strikes.
The Red Sox, failing Clemens six to nothing.
Just came up with five in the fourth.
And now they trail by only one.
Two balls, two strikes.
Bob Gibson, Nevada.
Hitting two eleven for the season.
A good hitter for a pitcher.
Started out in baseball as a switch hitting catcher.
Two balls, two strikes.
There's the pitch on the left.
Ooh, he had a good cut and he fouled it back.
Two balls, two strikes.
Willie Mays couldn't find.
Doug Clemens routine fly ball.
Lost it either in the lights or in the twilight.
And it went for a triple.
Two balls, two strikes.
There's the pitch on the left.
He struck him out of the curve.
However, the Cardinals pick up a run.
Two hits, no errors, one left.
At the end of two, the Cardinals won and the Giants nothing.
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Willie Mays, when he came in from center field, chatted with Mary Schaul,
probably telling how badly he felt about that.
He never did see that ball until it hit the ground.
Oftentimes, the now-fielder would have trouble picking the ball up off the bat,
but get a line on it when it starts to fall, but he never did see it
until it hit the ground and the Cardinals have a run.
Well, here is Warren Mary Schaul.
The leadoff here in the top of the third, the Cardinals lead 1-0.
There's a strike called.
One ball, one strike, the pitch is a little bit outside.
Two balls and a strike.
Ball game in the third, the Cardinals lead 1-0.
Here's the pitch.
Mary Schaul hits a high pop ball.
Clemens chasing it, so is White.
The ball drops out of play into the stand.
Two balls, two strikes and a pitcher.
Here's Mary Schaul.
And the Dominican Republic.
Mary Schaul is 24 years old.
Here's the 2-2 pitch.
He fouled it back into the upper deck.
Hey, souvenirs now.
One strike.
The leadoff man Chuck Hiller will be next.
Now the line and here's the pitch.
He struck him out on a curve ball.
Mary Schaul fall out on strike.
One gone.
Mary Schaul last year won 13.
He's already won 8 this season.
The Giants have played 57 ball games and they've won 40 of them.
That's a 7-0-2 pace.
If they can continue at that rate, nobody will catch them.
Everybody expects them to slough off a little bit.
One man out, nobody on base.
The ball game in the third.
Chuck Hiller takes a slider low.
One ball, no strikes.
Ray Sadecki pitches tomorrow for the Cardinals.
Larry Jackson and Ray Washburn Sunday.
Here's a strike call over the outside corner.
That evens it up.
One ball, one strike.
One man out.
Chuck Hiller up there.
Ball game in the third.
Here's the time call.
Ray Schaul saying he's got you on that maze and probably why he didn't get any help from his teammates until he threw his hands up at the last moment.
Here's a pitch.
Hi.
You know, Willie has a very, very nonchalant way of catching the ball.
He'll quite often just stand there with his hands on his sides and suddenly cup the hands at the belt buckle for a basket catch.
And that's what I thought he was doing out there on Clemens ball.
Here's a pitch drilled up the middle.
He's hit for Hiller.
Chuck Hiller lined to single center.
Here now is Willie Mays with a runner at first and one out.
He was out on strikes his first time.
There's a leadoff first base by Hiller, the pitch.
He swings and misses straight away.
Mays hitting an even 300.
Nineteen homers, 49 RBI.
Now the pitch, low outside.
That evens it.
One ball, one strike.
One gone.
Mays straddles the plate.
Bob Gibson gets set.
And the pitch, high outside ball two.
Two balls and a strike.
At the end of seven at Yankee Stadium, there's no score between Baltimore and the Yanks.
Mays the batter, one out and one on.
Pittsburgh and Milwaukee rained out.
There's a pitch.
Outside curve, ball three.
Three balls, one strike.
Right hand batter digging in.
Bob Gibson with a one run lead.
End of the stretch.
Three one pitch.
Two it is. And there it goes.
Way back. It might be out of here.
It could be. It is.
A home run in the right center.
There's plenty of home runs here.
So Willie gave us one run and then just got two back.
Mays hit a three one pitch into the right center field for Billion.
And the Giants, just like that, lead two to us.
And you almost knew that was going to happen.
There's the touch now.
And McCovey takes it inside.
Willie Mays, who had given us a run by being unable to locate a routine fly,
just drove in two with a homer.
There's a pitch swung on by McCovey and this.
Man, these guys really get some cuts.
One ball, one strike.
Now the delivery.
There she goes, way back.
Forget about it.
Home run.
Even Holt's a bad and hitter on the roof.
A line drive.
And the Giants lead three to us.
And that's McCovey's eighth.
And here's the payback.
Boy.
They've got some power, believe you me.
The way these guys swing, this ball game looks like David and Goliath.
Here's the payback now.
Here's the pitch.
Oh, what a cut that he missed.
One strike and double.
One man out, three runs in.
The Giants leading.
So pay them.
There's that 15 homers himself.
Driven in 55 runs.
Now the pitch.
High inside and the count evens to the bottom of the stride.
That ball went all the way back to the spring.
Hayes has driven in 51 runs.
So pay them.
Driven in 55.
Now Lewis driven in 42.
There's the pitch inside.
They've got three men on their lineup who have driven in 148 runs between them.
Now the pitch.
Swung and he missed a high fast ball.
The entire Cardinal squad, counting everybody, has driven in 244.
There are three men alone, 148.
That will give you an idea.
Two two-picks outside curve, all three.
Hang about them, even if they don't get good pitching, they can beat you just with power.
Now the windup, three two-pitch.
Here it is.
Fall back.
Rebounds to the field.
A full count of three and two.
Ball game in the third.
Orlando's to pay the weights.
Bob Gibson gets set.
Here's the pitch won.
Popped up on a change of pace.
Gotai is out in short left.
Makes the cut.
He pulls the pay down on a change of pace curve ball.
And now here's Philippe Halleux.
On the Western Union ticker, they have Motai hitting home onto the Giants in the third with one arm.
Here's Alou, a big bouncing ball.
Boy, you're trying to cut it off.
It'll go for a scratch hit.
It's a hit, a high hopper towards short.
Kenny Boyer tried to cut it off, but couldn't reach it.
On Western Union, they have Motai hitting home onto the Giants.
Whoever's sending that report mustn't like me.
It's a kind of deprive them of a home run.
There's a long lead by Alou.
Here's the pitch.
Davenport takes a curved strike call.
One strike to no ball.
Tigers won the first game of a double header from Washington, 7-6.
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The Tigers used five in the first game.
Here's Alou, a lead.
There he goes.
There's a pitch fouled into the upper deck.
Bounces back downstairs.
Adds two strikes to no ball.
The Giants on Willie Mays, 20th home run of the year.
Followed by McCovey's eighth.
Now lead 3-1.
Two strikes, no ball.
Here's Bob Gibson's pitch on the way.
There goes the runner.
Here's the pad.
He is home from the stand.
Alou has got down on the last pitch.
Perfect pad.
Out of here.
Now it is three runs, four hits.
Nowhere is nobody left.
We go into the bottom of the third.
The Giants three, the Cardinals one.
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There's flood deleted off in the bottom of the third.
There's Charles Pitch on the way.
He pulled a plow off to the left.
Friday Ford's arm was bothering him, that's why he left the ball here.
That's still a shutout between Baltimore and the Yankees.
The Yankees bounty in the bottom of the eighth.
One strike and no ball.
Good flood digs in.
There's the pitch.
There's a fly ball in the center.
Willie Mays is there.
That'll be an easy out and he takes it.
Flood, fly, domain.
There's Javier.
He bounced out his first time.
We're in the third three-to-one Giants.
Tomorrow is Ladies' Day, the league leading Giants.
Jack Sanford touching against Ray Sadecki.
One-thirty ball game tomorrow.
There's the line and now the pitch to Javier.
Third ball behind outside.
One ball, no strike.
Boy, these guys really frighten me up and down their lineup with their power.
One ball, no strikes.
Javier trying to get something started.
Marischal rolling along.
The only run he has given, he shouldn't have had.
Now the pitch on the way.
There's the strike.
He came sidearm left-hand to the right-handed batter.
And that evens it up for the ball and the strike.
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Here's the pitch one on, a bouncing ball to Davenport.
The floor to first, Javier is out.
Now here's Bill White.
He lined out his first time at bat.
It cost us a run.
The man was in scoring position at the time.
And the pitch of Marischal made a one-handed stab.
Here's the pitch to White.
Fastball behind outside.
One ball, no strikes.
Two men are gone.
We're in the third.
Three to one in favor of the Giants.
Here's the pitch.
Outside, ball to, Muehsiel will be next.
Two balls, no strike.
Two men are out, nobody on baseball.
Game of the third.
Three to one in favor of the league-leading Giants.
Warren Marischal, the right-hander delivers.
There's a drive, way back.
It made me, it put me, in here, a full drive.
The drive is just here, it's just over the air.
And the card will now trail by only one.
Oh, the left first showing a little bit of their own power.
Bill White reached the, but then you know,
looks like he had a high fastball.
Here's Muehsiel.
Marischal, you're pretty.
Here's the pitch on the way.
Whoa, he was going far too.
But missed an overhand and curveball strike there.
One strike, Kenobo.
Two men are out, one run is in.
The Giants lead by one, three to two.
Marischal delivers.
There she goes, deep in the right center.
Muehs going over off the wall, and will he phase it perfectly at home stand to a long single.
That hit the right center field wall on the line.
Bounce right back to Muehs.
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Battled about the longer single you'll ever see.
Muehs didn't even try to catch the ball, knew he had no chance.
Just waited for it on the rebound.
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Cardinals have a runner at first, one run in, two out, and here's Kenny Boyer.
One Marischal getting ready.
Here's the strike.
Out of pitch.
Go outside, ball one Sawatski would be next.
One ball, no strike.
Well, the Redbirds responding to the challenge of the Giants' third inning power with a little of their own.
Only a run behind, Marischal gets set.
The pitch.
Boyer missed a curve ball a foot.
One ball, one strike.
When the third, right-hand batter up there, one Marischal gets set.
Carl Sawatski would be next.
Out of the stretch.
And the pitch.
Missed a curve ball a hundred foot.
Two strikes and a ball.
Marischal has snapped off two good curve balls.
Boyer digging in.
Marischal is ready.
Here's the pitch.
Just barely missed with a curve ball to snap.
Two balls, two strikes.
When the third, three to two, the Giants lead.
And Boyer to the bottom.
Two balls, two strikes.
Muse sealed the runner at first base.
Marischal takes his time.
Now the two-two delivery on a long delay.
Boyer waits.
Marischal is set.
And here's the two-two pitch.
Stuck him out again.
Boyer goes down swinging.
And it is one run, two hits.
No errors, one left.
At the end of three, now, it's the Giants three, the Cardinals two.
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While we go into the time for the four at the Cardinals, trail three to two.
Jimmy Davenport leading off.
And at your service, Smiling Jack.
Davenport double his first time.
Right-handed batter.
Gibson throws a pitch high for a ball.
Bob Gibson on the mound.
The Giants have tapped him for six hits.
The Redbirds have four.
The Cardinals trail three to two as the fourth inning gets underway.
Davenport is hitting 3.31.
Takes a strike call.
The slider at the knees.
It's one and one.
Davenport is amongst the leaders.
He ranks fifth in the league with a batting average of 3.31.
He's had six home runs.
Takes a pitch high.
Two balls and a strike.
It'll be Davenport, Figan, and Holler.
Nobody on or out here in the fourth inning.
And Gibson's next one.
Foul back on the screen.
Two and two.
This Davenport is a big part of this Giants ball club.
They have the power, of course, of Mays, McCubbies, Cepeda, and Alou.
But this Davenport is a very, very fine third baseman.
Adds a lot of fire to that infield.
And he's a good hitter.
Foul back.
Got a terrific cut. Two and two.
These Giants sure get their swings up there at the plate.
They really chop down on that ball.
Gibson with a 2-2 count on Davenport.
Fire.
Stuck him out.
He went around, tried to hold up on a curve ball, but he got him on strike.
And so Gibson has struck out one in each inning so far.
This is fourth of the ballgame.
Bob trying to become the first seven-game winner on the Cardinals' staff.
Kurt Simmons has missed a couple of times as he tried.
One man out now, and Pagan steps out as Gibson started to work.
Bob works in quite a hurry, as you know, if you've seen him.
He gets that ball back.
He's ready to fire right now.
Pagan popped out his first time.
One of the key plays in this ballgame.
Javier made a good play on the ball.
It's Lowe, the first one for ball one.
Last time Pagan was up there, Davenport was on third base with one man out.
Pagan was the key man, the infield in, and he popped one in the short right.
Looked like it was going to drop for a hit and drive in the run.
Javier caught up to the ball and made a fine play for the putout.
That run never did score.
There's a foul out of play down in the right field corner, and the count to Jose is one and one.
Pagan hitting 265.
That's about all the Giants need from him with the back.
Does a good job with the glove at shortstop.
Has good range, fine arm.
And he can pivot on the double play.
Here's the one-one, and it's downstairs and a bit outside, two and one.
One out, nobody on, fourth inning, Giants three, Cardinals two.
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Pagan hits a foul rolling back.
That evens it up a two and two.
Tom Haller, the catcher, will be next.
In the third with one out, Hiller, Chuck Hiller, single, and Mays,
and McCabe, Homer, for the 20th time this year.
And McCabe, Homer, to make it three to one.
The Cardinals were ahead at the time.
Now it's three to two.
Gibson working too rapidly to shoot Pagan.
He steps out again.
Cardinals got a run in the second inning.
Single by Gotay and a triple by Clemens, and a ball that Mays lost.
Pagan strikes out, curve ball, got him.
Got him looking.
Pagan is called out on strike.
Boy, there was a sharp breaking pitch.
And Pagan took it.
That's the fifth strikeout for Gibson.
And after the Giants made it three to one, the Cardinals saw Bill White,
Homer, for the 10th time this year, to make it a three-two ball game.
That's the way it stands now.
Two off, nobody on here in the fourth.
And Tom Haller, the catcher, left-handed batter is up there.
And he takes it low.
Haller was thrown out by the second baseman, Javier, his first time.
It was Boyer, Gotay, Javier, and White on the Cardinal infield.
Newseal, Pludd, and Clemens in the outfield.
Sawotsky back at the plate, gives the sign.
These Giants have been stepping out on Gibson quite often.
Here's the pitch, way over his head and back to the screen.
The ball missed everything.
It missed Sawotsky's glove, Haller's head, and the umpire's mask.
And it's ball, too.
The Giants have been trying to irritate Gibson by stepping out,
not letting him work as rapidly as he wishes.
Haller takes a strike, but the batter's two-and-one.
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Here's the pitch from Gibson.
He's going on bouncing ball, Javier, big hop, up, throws, gets him, that's it.
Javier throws out Haller, and it's a one-two-three inning.
And you like to see Gibson settle down like that after the slugging of the last inning,
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The bottom of the fourth comes around.
The Cardinals lead it one time, one to nothing.
The Giants took the lead, three to one.
The Redbirds made it three to two.
And now, as they hit in the bottom of the fourth inning, that's the way it stands.
The Cardinals trail by a run.
Carl Sawantzki will lead off.
Meyershaw taking the warm-up tosses.
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Sawatsky swings and pops it up into short center field.
Willie Mays has a beat on the ball. He waits and he has it won out.
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The Redbirds have been out hit 6 to 4. They trail 4 to 3 to 2.
3 to 2 the score, and here's Gotay, who's single his first time.
Willie O's single in the second with 2 out and came around to score.
He was batting 3-18 at the start of the night. Had three hits here last night.
Mara Shawl is the pitcher, and there's a line drive foul down into the left field corner.
Gotay made a bid for a double at one foul.
Mara Shawl has a very exaggerated windup.
Takes a slow windup and he kicks that front foot, the left foot way up high.
Rears back with that throwing arm and comes at you directly overhand.
Real good fastball curve, change of pace. A tough pitcher.
The pitcher's downstairs for a ball. It's 1-1. Gotay started to go, held up.
Julio Gotay, G-O-T-A-Y. Gotay wears number 19, the Cardinals shortstop.
Doug Clemens will be next. The Cardinals need a run. We're in the fourth inning.
Here's the 1-1 pitch in the dirt.
Los Angeles at Houston a bit later on.
Fitted off for your lead, Cincinnati 2 to nothing in the third.
Taylor hit a home run, Tony Taylor.
Pittsburgh and Milwaukee rained out tonight.
Cubs and Mets split a doubleheader this afternoon.
Gotay hits a bouncing foul on the third base line. It's 2-2.
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The Cardinals lost two strikes to count. Gotay crouched at the plate.
Here's the pitch. Strike three call.
A slider stayed on the outside corner. Gotay was looking for the curve.
Marshall's slider got him on strike.
And poor Marshall ends his second strikeout.
He's retired the first two men.
Only once in the ballgame, and we're in the fourth inning, did the Cardinals get the leadoff man out.
Cepeda, the first baseman, is into the mound talking to Marshall.
Marshall, Justin Youngster.
Last year was his first year with the Giants, and Cepeda sort of took him under his wing.
Here's the pitch to Doug Clement. Pop ball out of play, back off to the left.
This started only in 1958. He was born in 37.
Twenty-four years old. He's from the Dominican.
He was married this past spring.
1-13, lost 10 for the Giants last year. He's 8-3 now. The pitch is high to Clement's.
Inside is 1-1. Clement's still looking for his first big league homer.
No homeruns, eight runs batted in, and a 2-31 batting average.
Two out, nobody on. The outfield plays Clement's to pull.
He got a triple in the third when Mays lost his fly ball.
Outside, 2-1.
Clement's hitting in the number eight spot. Gibson will bat next.
The Giants three, Cardinals two.
Cleveland led Boston in one time, six to nothing. Now Boston leads Cleveland eight to six after five.
Two balls in the strike. The pitch to Clement's on the way.
Swung on a shot to very, very deep center field.
Mays going back on the track in front of the wall of Mexico.
Clement hit one about 400 feet in the straightaway center field.
Willie Mays never did turn his back to the infield.
He backpedaled all the way, and while on the gravel in front of the wall,
not too far from the 4-22 mark, he all-in that blast off the bat of Clement's,
and the Cardinals go down an order in the fourth.
At the end of four, it's the Giants three, the Cardinals two.
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We've had a lot of action in this one.
It goes into the fifth inning now. Gibson pitching to his curling opponent, Juan Marischal.
Right-handed batter whom he fanned back in the third inning.
Gibson has five strikeouts in four frames. Swing and a miss by Marischal.
This fellow's pretty good hitter has eight hits for the season, batting 258.
He's driven in five runs for the Giants.
I'll feel playing around to the right for him, and he swings and misses again.
That's two of them.
Here's the final on the Yankee game. They blanked Baltimore 1-0.
He's got the win in relief for Whitey Ford and Wilhelm the loser.
The pitch to Marischal. Ground ball to second base.
Aviere, short hop. Almost booted that one. Throws the first and gets it.
That ball came to Aviere in between hops. Came up to him a little bit, but he fielded it and threw Marischal out.
Around the way off, man, Chuck Hiller.
Hiller lined out to center field to start the ballgame.
Singled in the third and trotted around the bases when Willie Mays, who was in the on-deck circle at the moment,
hit his 20th home run of the year into the right center field pavilion.
Hiller takes a strike. He's up there choked up on the bat, little left-handed batter.
Hitting 281. No homers, 20 RBIs.
This fellow has solved the second base problem for the Giants.
Here's the pitch to him. Low inside, bounces away from Sawatsky. It's one and one.
The Giants tried all sorts of people at second base.
They thought they had the problem solved with glass and game. Weren't satisfied there.
Tell me they have a Bowman point for a while. Now Hiller has it.
There's a pop-up. That should be the second out.
Sawatsky having trouble. Gibson is there trying to help him out and Carl makes the catch.
Carl was staggering around like you didn't know where the ball was.
Gibson was ready to make the catch himself. Finally Carl picked it up and made the catch, too.
It was foul as he grabbed it. Hiller fouls out to Sawatsky and here is, say, hey, Willie Mays.
Willie struck out and homered.
His homer with the man on in the third was his 20th of the year. The outfield very deep, straight away.
Look out. Pitch is high. Ball one. He was ducking out. He thought that Gibson was going to throw at him.
Gibson started off with a curve and Willie ducked out of there. The pitch was over but high.
We're in the fifth. Giants lead three to two. Foul off the end of the bat into the Giants dugout.
They come off the bench.
One and one to Willie. As Harry said earlier, after Willie lost that fly ball that cost the Giants a run,
you almost knew that he was going to hurt Bob Gibson and he did with a two-run homer his last time up there.
Now the count is one and one and Mays takes it outside. Two and one.
Chicago and Minnesota scoreless after four. Yankees beat Baltimore one to nothing.
Later Kansas City at Los Angeles. Red Sox lead Cleveland eight to six in the sixth.
First game of the doubleheader, Detroit seven, Washington six. Pitch is low to Mays.
Mays is really moving around that batter's box.
The count has run to three and one and McCovey will be next.
Marshall grounded out. Miller fouled out. Three-one pitch. Pop foul. Back out of play.
No one can get it. This is three and two to Willie. Ball into the upper deck.
Bounces back down on the playing field.
The Giants leading the Dodgers by a half game. Leading the Cardinals by ten games.
The Cardinals are two behind Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh and Milwaukee will be item tonight.
The Cardinals are three and a half ahead of Milwaukee. Redbirds only two and a half behind third place Cincinnati.
Here's the three-two pitch to Willie Mays and a foul back out of play.
He's giving ground but getting lumber on them, ball. Keeping that bat out there.
The Cardinals and the Giants have played six times and the Giants have won four of them.
Curve ball. Foul tipped strikeout.
A curve ball and then he started his swing. Really didn't take the full swing but the ball hit his bat foul.
Sawatsky held onto it for the strikeout. That's the sixth strikeout for Gibson.
That's the second time in the ball game he has set the Giants down in order. He's retired six in a row.
Cardinals come to bat in the home half of the fifth and the Giants still lead three to two.
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America's most refreshing beer. Bob Gibson is applauded as he walks to the plate.
Juan Marshall is on the mound for the Giants. His mates have backed him with three runs on six hits.
The Cardinals have manufactured two runs on four hits.
Here in the bottom of the fifth inning with the ball game sailing right along, the Cardinals need a run to get back in.
Gibson struck out his first time. Marshall has struck out three.
Walk one allowed four hit. Strike off.
One of the hits a home run by Bill White. That was in the third inning.
Cardinals picked up a run in the second that was given to them.
But it still counts and there's only one behind and here's the pitch to Gibson.
Swing and a miss as Marshall changed up on strike two. That's a dirty trick.
A little change of pace for the pitcher like that.
Nobody on her out. Gibson flooding out of the air coming up here.
No balls, two strikes and Bob Gibson takes it low almost.
Marshall brinned on that one. Paul Pryor calling the balls and strikes.
Donatelli, Socorian, Benzon, a base umpire. Outfield playing Gibson in rather respectable depth.
A pitch to him. Foul ball back here. Harry can't get through it.
Getting closer Jack, getting closer. They just don't come here that often.
One ball, two strikes. Halu, Mays and McCovey in the giant outfield.
The pitch to Gibson. Low outside two and two.
Tom Holler is the catcher. Davenport, Teagan, Hiller and Cepeda around the infield.
For the Giants, Harry Walker number three coaching at first.
Johnny Keene the manager, number five coaching at third.
Gibson leading off here in the fifth trying to strike something for himself.
Hits a foul off to the right. This Marshall has him way off-strike.
But he's still alive up there. Two and two.
The Yankees won Baltimore nothing. Yankees stay in first place in that American League.
One game lead over Minnesota. Minnesota in the White Sox are scoreless in the fifth.
Two balls, two strikes. Gibson waits, swings, lines went in the left.
The ball might drop. Halu coming fast. Can't get it. Base hit.
Gibson dropped a single in front of Halu. Halu is playing quite deep.
Of course everybody knows that Gibson is a good athlete. Strong color, capable of swinging that bat.
That's why Halu was as deep as he was and he couldn't get that one.
Dropped in front of him. That's the lead off man, huh?
Second time in the ball game the Cardinals have put that first man up there.
Now the lead off man in the batting order, Kirk Flood, comes up.
That's a tying run on first, nobody out.
There's a good shot at him here, Jack.
This Marshall is tough.
In the first three innings the Cardinals left a man on in each frame.
They went down in order in the fourth.
Now Gibson starts the crowd to making some noise.
The pitch to Flood swings and fouls it. Goes back to the screen.
Flood hitting 326. He walked in the first inning.
The only base on ball is given up by Marshall.
He's flied out in the third.
The Cardinals scored both of their runs after two men were out in the inning.
Now there's nobody out. Gibson on first.
Pitch to Flood is swung on and trying to go into right field. He fouled it off.
He's trying to have a real good stroke at that ball as he shifted around in the batter's box trying to go into right.
Big hole in right center. McCovey is guarding the right field foul line and Mays is playing Flood just a bit to pull.
So that's where the big space is in the outfield, right center.
But Marshall is way ahead of Flood. No balls, two strikes.
Giant infield looking for the double play ball.
Here's the pitch. Strike, got him. Slider on the outside corner. Flood is called out on strikes.
Marshall had plenty on that one.
That's his fourth strikeout.
Hiller comes in from second base to talk to the giant hurler.
Probably talking about who's going to cover second in case the ball zipped back to Marshall.
Also want to know how he intends to pitch to Javier.
That's the hitter. Javier has grounded out twice.
Davenport already is a step in front of the bag at third.
Javier with a 2-27 batting average. 0-2 in this game.
Two home runs, 12 runs batted in for the year. No home runs here in St. Louis.
It's a ground ball. That's through in the right field.
Gibson's going to try to go to third. McCovey can't make a play on him.
First and third, one out.
That Gibson was really cuddling going around second base.
He knew he had an inexperienced outfielder out there in McCovey.
Javier bounced one through with Sepeda holding the runner close, and Gibson made up his mind.
And he was going to go to third, and there he is with one out.
Javier on his first base and wiped the batter.
Well, Hoolies succeeded in doing what Kurt Fletter tried to do and failed.
That's bounce the ball behind the runner in the right field.
And with Gibson's speed, there's no doubt how the situation would develop.
It's runners at first and third only one away, and Bill White is up there.
And White hit one on the roof his last time.
After lining back to Mary Schaul in the first inning, he homered his 10th home run of the year
with two out and nobody on in the third.
Now he's up there with one out, runners on at first and third.
That's a tying run on at third base here in the fifth inning.
And out of the air, the lead run on at first.
Giants leading three to two.
The infield is halfway in, either for the play at the plate or for the double play by way of second.
The first pitch to Bill White.
Foul off to the left, trying to go into left field with that one.
He fouled it back.
The hits are even up at six apiece now as Gibson had a leadoff single in this inning.
And after a blood band, Avi Ehr got his first hit of the night.
So each ball club has six hits.
The only difference is in the scoring where the Giants lead three to two,
but the Cardinals have these two men on with White and Muzio coming up.
Outfield, a round to the right for Bill.
Hitting 269, 10 home run.
42 RBI's.
Chance to make it 45 right here.
One strike to count.
Here's the pitch to him.
Line drive in left center field.
That's a base hit.
The ball game's tied.
Avi Ehr's going to third base and there's no play on him.
A single by White ties it up.
White gets his second hit.
He really struck that ball beautifully over the head of the shortstop.
They got it in left center.
For his second run back at the end of the night.
Diving in Gibson to tie the ball game 3-3.
Avi Ehr's, scooted to third.
He's the lead run.
White on at first base.
And Muzio is the batter.
You know, we were talking earlier about White not having a success against his former teammates.
He must have hurt us.
Because he has certainly had it here tonight.
He was robbed if he hit his first time on a line drive back to the pitcher.
He would have driven in a run with us.
Then he homered in the third.
And now he just drove in the tying run in the fifth.
Yes sir, the ball game's tied 3-3.
The Cardinals have out hit.
The Giants now 7-6.
Still one man out.
And Muzio up there with Avi Ehr on at third.
And White on at first.
The Giant infield again halfway in.
Not a sold on in the Giant full-pen.
Muzio's single his last time after popping out his first time at back.
A man with six homers and 24 RBI's.
The first pitch to him is on the way from Meyershawl.
A bouncing ball back to the mound and they have Avi Ehr trapped between second and third.
And he dives back and he is out at third.
Meyershawl chased him back through to Davenport.
And Davenport just did get Avi Ehr diving back in.
Muzio tapped one back and the ball almost got by the Giant pitcher.
He snared the ball, chased Avi Ehr back through to Davenport.
And Davenport just did get Avi Ehr diving back in at first.
So it's two on, two out.
White down to second.
Muzio on at first on the field of choice.
And it puts it up to Boyer.
Meyershawl played that ball in fine fashion.
With the one exception and that was he almost held it too long and allowed Avi Ehr to get back to third.
Here's Boyer who has been out twice.
Grounded out, struck out.
Up there, two on, two out.
Ball game tied, 3-3.
Fifth inning.
The pitch.
Popped up foul backing out of play.
Boyer has been easy for Meyershawl.
And this Meyershawl has been tough in the clinches.
Cardinals have three hits in the inning.
They've tied the game.
And a real good opportunity a moment ago.
First and third and one out.
But Muzio hit the ball back to the mound.
And it puts the load on the shoulders of Boyer hitting the number five spot this evening.
Two on, two out.
Meyershawl taking his time.
Nobody down in the giant bullpen.
Dark going all the way with his right-handed.
Runners lead away.
Here's the pitch to Ken Boyer.
A drive to very, very deep center field.
Mays going back, way back near the bleacher.
That ball's out of here.
Boyer wallops a three-run homer with two men out here in the fifth inning.
To put the Cardinals out in front, six to three.
That ball was really hit about 430 feet.
With a count of one strike, he really blasted it.
Mays chased it for a while, then stopped and watched it disappear into the bleacher customers out there.
For Boyer's eighth homerun of the year, three RBIs giving him a total of 40.
Putting the Cardinals out in front, six to three.
Four runs are home here in the fifth inning.
Cardinals six, Giants three, Sawatski the batter.
Boyer really came through.
And here's Sawatski.
Kyle is 0 for 2.
Takes a strike.
Jack, the big thing about that blow, not only gives us the lead,
but it came after Muehseel, it seemingly failed, and it picks up the ball, Claude,
because if one guy doesn't do it, somebody else picks him up.
That's when you're really in a good winning way.
What happened that time, now they're going to occupy the Giant Bullpen down there in the right field corner.
One strike to count to Carl Sawatski.
He has five homeruns for the year.
Here's a pitch from Marischal.
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And here's Gotai, who has the single out of two picks.
Jack, that was in the fifth inning last night, too.
It looks like inning five is a lucky inning.
Nice that it could happen every ball game like that.
Sawatski leads off, and Gotai hits a base hit up the middle.
Sawatski's going to stop at second.
Gotai gets his second hit, and the Cardinals are really bombing Juan Marischal.
He's not bowling him now. That's ten hits.
That's three consecutive hits, and that's six hits in the inning.
Just meeting that ball, stroking it, and the ball is dropping in there and jumping out of here.
Four runs are home. The Cardinals lead six to three here in the fifth.
Have two on and two out, and Doug Clemens is up there.
Clemens, after getting a triple on a lost fly ball earlier, sent Mays back to the center field of law for his fly ball on the fourth,
and Alvin Dart comes out of the dugout, and we might be seeing Bob Bolan in the ball game.
Alvin Dart comes out to talk to his pitcher, Marischal.
Ten hits off the right-hander.
The Giants had a three-to-one lead at one time, and he's been pitching so well this year,
that you almost felt that he was in terrific shape.
Then three to two on a home run by White, and now this inning, single by Gibson, single by Avier, single by White to tie the game.
Boyers, Homer, put the Cardinals ahead.
Salotsky can go tie single, then a new pitcher's coming in.
Jack, we were talking about the Giants' power a little earlier, and they certainly have it.
Mays, McCubbies, Cepeda, Alou, Davenport.
There's certainly nothing wrong with the power exhibited by our Cardinals.
We've had two Homers tonight and a triple.
So three of our ten blows have been for extra bases, and we certainly bunched them here in the fifth.
After Muehsele tapped back to Marischal, a play on which Javier did a tremendous job,
and almost got back in the third safely, it looked like the inning would be over with a tie score.
But Kenny Boyer picked up the slack by Homering into the extreme center field corner of the left field bleachers.
Marischal is leaving the field. Bobby Bowen is going to relieve.
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Bob Bowen appears for the eleventh time this year for the Giants.
He has no record, no wins, no losses.
He takes over a situation, two on, two outs. Zawotsky on at second, Gotay on at first.
Gotay has two hits tonight, and the first man that Bowen will face is Doug Clemens, who has a triple out of two trips.
A left-handed batter hitting 231, looking for his first big league homer.
They outfield deep to the right as Bowen tries to keep the Cardinals from scoring further.
Cardinals lead 6-3, first pitch. Outside, ball one to Doug.
Doug Clemens playing right field tonight, batting in the number eight spot.
Four runs home in this inning. Cardinals have outslugged the Giants 10-6.
That's in the hit department. And lead them 6-3 in the run department, and a chance to get more right here.
And you need all you can get against this ball club.
Bowen to the belt, to the plate to Clemens. Outside, that's ball two.
The pitcher, Gibson, who started the inning with a base hit, would be next.
Bowen pitched on the first of June in New York, gave up one earned run and two-thirds of an inning.
Held the Mets while the Giants won that ball game.
He's the early relief man, along with Duffalo. Stu Miller, their late-inning relief man.
Two on, two outs, two balls, no strikes on number 22, Doug Clemens.
And here's the pitch to him. Way outside, that's ball three.
3-0, Clemens keeps it going, and by the way, he might be swinging right here.
He's labing to let him take a cut at it with 3-0, Jack. This kid can reach that Pavilion roof, you know.
He still has not had his first big league homer, and this would be a terrific spot for it.
With the pitcher coming up next, he might be swinging on 3-0.
Here's the pitch, way outside, ball four, bases loaded.
He never came close to the plate on four pitches.
And Gibson comes up, he started it, he's up for the second time in the inning.
So watch, he moves on to third, he'll tie down to second.
Clemens's on with the walk, and Gibson, who has struck out in single in the ball game so far,
and who now has a 6-3 lead, up there with a chance to continue the rally.
I feel playing him straight away and deep. He dropped a single in left field his first time.
One like that now would mean a couple of more runs.
Bob Bolan, the pitcher, big tall right-hander, works off the full windup in the first pitch to Bob Gibson.
Swings and misses, sinker ball, strike one.
And the big guy, 6-4, 210 pounds.
From South Carolina, Hickory Grove, in relief of Meyershaw.
Runners lead off, first, second, and third.
The next pitch to Gibson, he's going to bunt.
He does, and it goes back way up into the seats for strike two.
If he'd have straightened that one out, it would have been a line drive into right.
He's in the hole now, no balls, two strikes.
Siewatski, Gotay, and Clemens are on the bases.
Gibson guarding that play.
Bolan's windup. Here's the pitch, bouncing fouled on the third base line as Bolan jammed him with a fast ball.
Cardinal 6, Giants 3, we're in the fifth inning.
First game of a four-game series.
And we can promise you a lot of action this weekend, tomorrow afternoon,
a Sunday doubleheader, the pitch to Gibson, foul out of play.
On the roof to the right, tomorrow it's Ladies Day at the ballpark,
a 1-30 ballgame, Ray Sadecki for the Cardinals,
Jack Sanford for the Giants, and a Sunday doubleheader at 1 o'clock.
With some between-game activity.
Make plans, come on out, bring the family.
Let them watch the Giants and Cardinals.
The pitch to Gibson, fly ball left-center, going to be caught.
The inning's going to be over. Alou is there, and he has it.
And the Cardinals score four.
Gibson, fly to left. Four runs for the Cardinals.
Six hits.
No errors, and three men left.
The end of five. Cardinals 6, Giants 3.
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There are two out, a man on third.
The pitcher steps on the rubber, and just as he's about to start his wind-up,
the runner breaks for home.
The pitcher steps off the rubber and throws home to nail the runner.
Now, you're the umpire. Is it a balk or isn't it?
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Now about that call, balk or not, the pitcher did not balk.
As long as he has not started his wind-up,
the pitcher may step off the rubber at any time without committing a balk.
You know, so far this year, prior to tonight,
Bill White against his former teammates had only three hits and 20 times at bat,
a batting average of only 150.
Tonight, he's had two out of three against, driven in two runs,
and should have, could have had another one.
Here's McCovey, first pitch inside ball one.
We're in the sixth, the Cardinals now lead six to three.
The Phillies are murdering the Reds, seven to nothing in the fifth.
Now the pitch on the way, swing and he misses.
McCovey homered in the third.
The Redbirds, out in front, six to three.
That's hand bat awaits the fifth.
There's a strike, a slider over the inside corner of the knees,
and it's two strikes in the ball.
Two years ago, Bill White against the Giants had only 16 hits
and 80 times at bat, a 200 batting average.
Although last year he did very much better, hitting 314 against them.
But this year, he had really been an outland until tonight.
He picked a good time to even up.
The Phillies are leading the Reds, seven to nothing in the fifth.
The Cubs and the Mets broke even today in one-run ball games.
Two strikes in the ball.
Here's the pitch on the way.
He followed tip, and the count stays.
Two strikes, one ball.
Willie McCovey singled in the first, homered in the third.
Tito Francona just homered for Cleveland and tied up.
Two strikes in the ball.
Here's the pitch.
Let off pitch outside.
Two balls, two strikes.
McCovey waits.
Here's the pitch.
He tapped it foul.
He jammed him with a fastball that time right in on his fist.
Two balls, two strikes.
Nobody on, nobody out.
We're in the sixth.
Cardinals out in front, six to three.
Trying for their fourth in a row.
Here's the pitch.
There she goes, way back.
It might be out of here.
Flood near the wall.
It's got a chance, and he makes the play.
McCovey, right deep to flood.
On the warning track and dead center at the 422-foot mark.
That's one away.
Here's Orlando Cepeda, nothing out of two.
Right hand batter.
We're in the sixth.
Bob Gibson gets it.
Here's the pitch on the way.
It's a strike over the outside corner.
Cepeda didn't like it.
One strike and over.
One man out.
It's six to three, the Cardinals.
There's a pitch and he missed the curveball.
Strike two.
Two strikes, over.
Orlando Cepeda, right hand batter.
Hitting 3.30 for the year.
Here's the pitch.
He foul-fifth and barely got a piece of it.
It's one of the few times I've seen Cepeda when he didn't have a good cut.
His back on his heels as he barely ticked the ball far.
One out, nobody on.
Ball game in the sixth.
The Cardinals are leading six to three.
Now the pitch.
A bouncing ball far.
Whitey Laquan coaching at third base recovers the ball.
Wes Westrom coaching at first.
Giant stars of the pass.
Two strikes, no ball.
Now the pitch on the way.
Inside.
Lowry Jansen is the pitching coach.
He, too, used to star for the Giants.
Alvin Dark, the manager, was one of their key players.
Two strikes and a ball.
Orlando Cepeda, right hand batter waits.
Now the wind and here it is.
Curve and he bounces it to short.
No tie on the big hop.
There's the throw in tie.
So that's two away.
Now to bring up Philippe Aillot.
And you know this Gibson, Cepeda didn't hit the ball out of the infield against him last time he faced him in that one to nothing game.
And hasn't hit the ball out of the infield against him tonight.
If you hold that guy in seven times at bat without hitting the ball out of the infield, you are some pitcher.
And Gibson is.
Here's the pitch on the way.
And Aillot swings and misses.
One strike and no ball.
Philippe Aillot.
Gibson's pitch.
Let up and drilled in the left field.
Here comes Muehseel.
He dives, can't reach the ball and the base hit.
Flood recovers and it's a double.
Aillot double pass Muehseel who gave it a great try but couldn't reach it.
The last time that Gibson faced the Giants beat him one to nothing.
Cepeda fan fouled it to catch it twice and hit into a double play.
The bases loaded.
Here now is Jimmy Davenport.
There's a pitch by Gibson.
Curved strike call.
Beauty.
One strike no ball.
Davenport doubled in the second.
Fanned him a fourth.
The Giants have made seven hits.
The Cardinals have had ten.
Here comes Bill White in to talk to Bob Gibson.
Gibson's shooting for his seventh victory of the season.
Last year he won 13.
The score is 6 to 3.
Jimmy Davenport the hitter.
White's conversation with Gibson now has ended.
One strike and no ball.
Right hand batter waits.
From the bow.
Here's the pitch.
It's a fastball a little bit high.
That evens it up with a ball and a strike.
Cleveland has taken a 9 to 8 lead in the seventh over the Reds side.
They once led 6 to nothing.
Now to stretch the 1-1 pitch.
Here it is to Davenport.
Swung and there's a drive.
Muehseel back near the wall.
He's got a room and he makes the catch.
Muehseel went to the left of the wall for Davenport's long drive.
That ends the inning with one hit.
No runs, no errors on one left.
We go to the bottom of the sixth.
It's the Cardinals' sixth.
The Giants' three.
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While the crowd held out considerably by the daylong rain, 16,209 paid.
The Cardinals are leading 6 to 3.
Here's Kurt Flood deleted off in the bottom of the sixth.
Bobby Bolan, a right-hander, taking his warm-up tosses.
Gettin' cooler here. A ladies' day game tomorrow and a doubleheader Sunday.
Reserved seats are now on sale.
The Cardinals are about 59,000 ahead in attendance over a year ago.
Here's a pitch to Flood. Look out! Hit by a pitch ball. Flood is hit by a pitch ball.
Oh, that's a good start.
Pretty mercenary, isn't it?
Kurt isn't hurt, so it's an easy base runner.
And here's Javier who's set up that fifth inning with a single and a right fair.
Runner at first, nobody out. Javier waits. Bobby Bolan, a right-hander.
Looks down, gets a sign. Here's a pitch he's gonna bunt. It's a strike call to Kurt Ball.
One strike and no ball.
One strike and no balls. And a pitch to Julian now. He squares around to bunt.
Now time is call.
There's Flood a lead.
Here's Bolan's pitch. He bunts back towards the mound. It's a beauty. The only play at first base and he's out.
Sacrifice by Javier, beautifully done. The play went from Bolan to Chuck Killer covering the back.
Here's Bill White who's had a great night. He's hit the ball on the nose every time. Two out of three.
You'll see it will be nice.
Cardinal fans are here from Rhineland, Missouri, one of my favorite towns.
Bill White waits. Here's the stretch by Bolan. Now the pitch. Here it is. A curveball low ball one.
Marishaw, Juan Marishaw was knocked out. He had out six runs and ten hits in four and two-thirds innings.
One ball, no strikes. Six to three in favor of the Redbirds. Bobby Bolan getting ready.
Now the stretch, the hesitation. Here's the pitch. He pulled him on a slow curve.
Don Larson, a right-hander formerly with the St. Louis Browns, pitched a perfect game in the World Series with the Yankees.
Now with the Giants limbering up on the bullpen. One ball, one strike. Here's the pitch to White.
Another slow curve, bounced down to the second baseman. Killers got it over to first in time.
Now it's up to Mulesil now. Bob Grestey does sports out in Phoenix, here with his family, watching the ball game tonight.
Phoenix, Arizona. A long way up.
I understand they get our broadcast in there at night.
Here's Mulesil with a runner at third, two gone. Stan has got one out of three.
Left hand batter up there. Ball game in the sixth.
There's a sign. Bolan starts his windup. Now the pitch on the way.
It's in there, a let-up pitch for a strike ball. Here's Bolan throwing a lot of slow stuff.
First time we've ever seen him use that technique. One strike to Noble.
Two batter out, windup in the pitch. He swung and missed the slow curve. Two strikes, Noble.
Two men around, six to three in favor of the Cardinals. Left hand batter digging in. Stan Mulesil.
Bobby Bolan, lanky right-handed. Goes into the windup of the pitch. Fast ball, low.
And it's two strikes and a ball. The ball popped out of Tom Holler's glove, but nothing happened.
Two strikes and a ball.
Bolan is set. Now the windup. Here's the pitch. High outside, another change of pace.
Bobby Bolan comes from Hickory Gros, South Carolina. One of my favorite times.
Six-four, weighs 210 pounds. 23 years old.
Two balls, two strikes. Mulesil trying to get this run home. Bolan is ready.
Time is called, Stan steps out of the box.
Here's the 2-2 pitch on the way. Struck him out of the slow curve. Mulesil goes down swinging.
So it is no runs, no hits, no errors, one left. At the end of seconds, Cardinals six, Giants three.
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Here at the ballpark, the Cardinals have out-hit the Giants ten to seven.
Lead the Giants six to three at the end of six, and we'll pause for station identification right here.
This is the Cardinals. Baseball network.
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This is Harry Carrey with Jack Butt. Here's the first pitch here to Jose Pagan, and it's high ball one.
We're in the top of the seventh. The Cardinals are leading six to three.
Redbirds trying for their fourth in a row.
Now the line. Here's the pitch. He swings, and he misses.
Gibson is fans six.
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Jim Perry or Gaylord Perry is warming up in the bullpen.
Here's a strike two call to Jose Pagan.
Now to wind up, the pitch. A little looping top fly. Javier is there behind second base, and he makes the catch.
Pagan pop to Javier. That's one away, and here's Tom Holler from Lockport, Illinois, former University of Illinois football star.
The Cardinals got rid of an old nemesis tonight, Juan Marichal, who had beaten them twice previously.
Here's the pitch to Holler. It's a fastball low and inside, ball one.
Philadelphia leads Cincinnati, seven to two at the end of five.
Here's the pitch. Inside, count ball two.
Two balls, no strikes on the left-hand hitter. Now the pitch is outside, ball three.
Three balls, no strike. Tom Holler, left-hand batter. Here's the pitch. Way outside, he walked him.
That's the first pass given up by Gibson. Let's see who the pinch hitter is going to be.
Motta, maybe.
Matty Alou. Matty Alou, the younger brother of Felipe.
Twenty-three years old, an outfielder. Dining here for Bobby Boland. Matty Alou is hitting.256.
No homers and four runs batted in. He was hurt for about three weeks.
One man out, a runner at first base. Ball game in the seventh. Here's the pitch.
He takes a strike over the inside corner of the knee. One strike, cano ball. One gone, we're in the seventh.
Footballer Don Owens. Here's the pitch. Lined in the left, the base hit. Matty Alou, single shot play in the left field.
Here now is Chuck Hiller. And then Willie Mays.
You never can have too many runs against these fellows.
Lindy McDaniel has started to warm up. With one out, Gibson walked Holler on four straight pitches.
Matty Alou lined a single left. Here's Chuck Hiller now. He's had one out of three. Let's hand it back to her.
Here's the stretch. Gibson's delivery. Sliced it foul into the stands and he's on the third base side.
Strike one. Hiller hitting.281. No homers and 20 runs batted in.
Lined hard to center. Singled hard to center. Foul out to the catch. Here's the pitch.
He held up in time. The fastball is low. The Cardinals hoping for a double play that would take them out of trouble.
Willie Mays would be next. One ball, one strike. Now the stretch, time call.
Larson and Gaylard Perry down in the bullpen.
Here's the pitch. Foul back. Out of play.
And the count, two strikes in the bull. Chuck Hiller.
Makes his home in McHenry, Illinois. Chokes up on the bat, left-handed batter.
Little fella gets a piece of that ball. Here's the stretch. Two strikes and a ball.
Here's the pitch. Curveball outside. Two balls, two strikes.
And Willie Mays would be next.
Hiller straddles that play waiting. Now Gibson's pitch. Here it is. A ground ball to the right, a face-in.
Here's a man going to score. Out for the ball is Clement. Fires towards the plate. He is safe.
Chuck Hiller singles sharply in the right field.
Haller scored to make it 6-4. And here is Willie Mays.
The tying runs on base, the leading run at the plate.
Zolotsky out talking to Bob Gibson. Might be just trying to stall long enough to give Lindy a chance to get ready.
Gibson got the first man out easily. But a harbinger of things to come was a four-pitch walk to Tom Haller.
His first walk of the game. Gibson will stand out of pitch to Willie Mays.
Willie stands twice. Homer, now here comes manager Johnny Keene out. Lindy McDaniels down in the bullpen getting ready.
And maybe this is going to be the spot for the change. The game's on the bases. The lead runs at the plate.
I believe it will be a new pitcher here.
Johnny Keene talking to Bob Gibson. Also talking to the first base umpire, Augie Donatelli.
And it will be McDaniel being brought in.
I bet what John's saying to Donatelli is, Augie, I could delay this thing by just walking off the field now.
But I'm going to bring in McDaniel. I don't think he's quite ready yet.
So I'm going to talk to Gibson here to give him a chance to get warmed up.
And that's what it is. McDaniel comes in. And Lindy again is in the spot where there's no margin for error, boy.
Willie Mays at the plate. The tying runs at first and second and only one away.
Gibson while he was in there, six and a third inning. Allowed four runs, nine hits, struck out six, walked one, and he departs with two men on the bases.
And that's it.
McDaniel has appeared now in 18 games. He's won two, he's lost three.
You save one ball game.
Bob Gibson is the pitcher of record as of now.
Gummitter just homered for the Phillies with a man on. And so they've increased their lead over the Reds to nine to two.
Willie Mays now faces a fresh pitcher.
Lindy has been pitching very fine baseball these last few outs. Turned in a tremendous job against the Reds, you know, Tuesday night.
Here is Willie Mays, oh, for the double play.
Right hand bat awaits. Maddie Alou is the runner at second base. Chuck Hiller at first base.
There's Lindy getting set. Into the stretch he goes. And now the pitch.
Here it is. I foul. White might reach it. He's racing for it. Running hard. He's there. He makes the catch. Here is Maddie Alou going from second now to third.
After the catch. But we got the big man out. And there's two gone. Runners at first and third.
And White through to the right base to prevent the tying run. Hiller at first base, advancing down to second.
Good face foul. Go tie. Get down on one knee to block that throw from White to make sure it didn't get away.
Allow that runner to advance further than third base. There's one big man, but they get bigger all the time here.
A big huddle going on around the mound. All of the infielders are in on it, except Bill White.
Along with manager Johnny Keene. They're discussing what to do with Willie McCubby.
Runners are at first and third. McCubby, a fastball hitter, a lowball hitter, and those are McDaniel's best pitches.
Stu Miller has gotten ready now. Looks like he's going to take over in the bottom half of the sitting against the card.
McCubby is homered and singled and hit the ball 422 feet, the only time we got him out.
Here's the stretch. And Lindy's pitch to the left-handed batter is a strike, a fastball, just above the belt buckle.
One strike, a no ball. The outfield squared around towards right end, very deep.
One strike, no balls. Left-hand batter waiting. Lindy McDaniel gets set. The pitch on the way down.
And here it is. Followed back. He's way ahead of him. Two strikes, no ball.
And Sawatski goes out to talk to Lindy. And Gotay is backing up McDaniel down there. Sure, Larry.
Actually, he's on the second base side of the bag. If McCubby lines a single or center, Jack, it'll be an easy out.
Gotay is on the second base side of the bag. I wonder if they know where he is.
Two strikes, no ball. Now the stretch. Ready. And the pitch. Here it is. High pop foul again and back.
Boy, he is. He's challenging him with his fastball.
That's right. He's just pumping. He's thrown three fastballs and Sawatski's holding the target just a bit to the inside of the plate, Harry.
But belt high, just pumping that ball.
Two strikes, no balls. Left-hand batter waiting. Tying runs at first and third.
Here's the stretch. And now the pitch to McCubby. And here it is. Low and inside, said the umpire.
Sawatski had started to walk off the field. Paul Pryor said no, and Sawatski's arguing with him now.
He aimed for that inside corner at the knees and just barely missed.
Two strikes and a ball. Runners at first and third. Now the stretch. The hesitation.
Here's the pitch. On the way. Bounces in front of the plate. Nice stop there by Sawatski.
Two balls, two strikes.
Six to four, the Cardinals lead. But the Giants are threatening. They've scored one. They have runners at first and third.
Two out. McCubby the batter. Here's the stretch. The 2-2 pitch.
Now, here it is. He's stuck him out. McCubby missed the high fastball.
And there's a great job of relief fishing, boy. He got maze at McCubby with the tying runs on base.
And it's one run, two hits, no errors, and two left.
We're going to the bottom of the seventh. It's the Cardinals six, the Giants four.
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We're going to the bottom of the seventh and Don Warson is the new pitcher.
Armily with the Browns.
The old Brownies never die.
Here's Boyer to lead off. Warson who pitches without a windup.
There's a strike call to Slater.
Warson 33 years old now.
Stands 6'4", weighs 230. One strike, no balls. Here's the pitch.
A ground ball back off his legs and Boyer's going to be safe.
Warson just didn't get down on that. Ball wasn't hit very hard, but it is a hit.
Warson wasn't in position to feel the ball.
So there's a runner at first now with nobody out and here's Carl Sawotsky.
Redbirds leading 6'4".
Just think, one like that Harry would have spoiled that perfect game he pitched in the World Series.
Boy what a performance that was.
The rarities of all rarities, a perfect game and then they have it in the World Series.
Here's Sawotsky.
Carl has had one hit, one out of three.
Left hand batter up there, the stretch. Here's Warson's pitch.
Swings and he pops a foul back and out of play. One strike and no ball.
Souvenirsville on that.
Warson was a losing pitcher in a ball game in Chicago Wednesday.
Walked four men in, walked four men and forced in the winning run.
Don Landrum drawing the final walk.
One strike, no ball.
Sawotsky to hit it. Boyer at first base.
Now the stretch.
Here's the toss over there, the runner back.
Don Warson.
With the Browns in 53.
The Browns are moved to Baltimore, he was with Baltimore in 54.
Back to the Miners in 55.
Here's the stretch.
Pitch now to Sawotsky. Strike is called, a fast ball to the knee.
Warson was traded along with pitcher Mike Bliska and Bob Turley, catcher Daryl Johnson, first baseman Dick Krahosky, shortstop Billy Hunter, and outfielder Ted Del Garcio and Jim Fridley.
Here's the pitch.
Sawotsky takes it outside.
Far, pitcher Harry Bird, Jim McDonald and Bill Miller, catchers Hal Smith and Gus Triandis, second baseman Don Leppard, third baseman Cal Segrist, shortstop Willie Miranda, and outfielder Gene Woodlick.
Triandis I guess is all that the Orioles have left.
Two strikes and a ball.
Now the pitch outside.
Two and two.
And Turley is all the Yankees have left.
Two balls, two strikes.
The runner at first base is Kenny Boyer.
Boyer hit the three-run homer in the fifth that gave us the lead.
Two balls, two strikes.
Warson gets set.
Into the stretch he goes.
Now the pitch to Ip and steps back off the rubber.
Takes the squeeze of the rising bird.
Gets all set again.
Two balls, two strikes.
The runner at first is Boyer.
Sawotsky waits.
Warson off the stretch.
Now lobs the ball over the first leisurely.
Two balls, two strikes.
Now the pitch.
Again the throw to first though.
They must be expecting Boyer to go.
Two balls, two strikes.
Sawotsky straddles that play.
Warson gets set.
And now the pitch. Here it is.
He kept it foul.
Bob-Oll Boyer with race to second return.
Red Sox are batting in the bottom of the ninth.
Trailing nine to eight.
Cleveland had a six to nothing lead.
Then Boston took the lead eight to six.
Then the Indians with Woody Held and Tito Francona hitting home runs in the seventh.
And now taking the lead, nine to eight.
Two balls, two strikes.
Warson gets set.
And the pitch to Sawotsky.
Foul tipped into a strikeout.
Sawotsky goes down swinging.
Went away.
And here's Julio Gotay. He's had two out of three.
Julio is raising that batting average every day.
Right hand hitter.
One out, one on.
Six to four in favor of the cut.
Now the stretch.
Redding.
And the pitch.
A bouncy ball down the third base line. The only play at first.
There's a long peg in time. Got it.
Jimmy Davenport on a nice play.
Boy, that kid is some third baser.
Well, here's Clemens with a chance to drive in a run now.
Runner at second base with two out.
That ball was hit slowly down the third base line, but Davenport, playing shallow, was able to race in, scoop the ball and fire.
The ball had a lot of stuff on it too, and it came up to Davenport, almost handcuffed him.
Had a great arm though, and he made that play.
A smaller dismount to talk to Larson, reminding him that the pitcher, Lindy McGangin, is due to bat next, and first base is open with Clemens the hitter.
Two men are out. A runner in scoring position, Doug Clemens.
He's had one out of two.
Left hand batter up there.
Now the stretch.
And the pitch.
It's outside ball one.
He's not going to get a good ball to hit. You can almost bet on that.
The base is open.
One ball, no strikes.
Clemens walked in the fifth, flied out in the fourth.
Got a fly ball triple when Mays lost the ball in the lights in the second.
Now Larson gets ready.
And the pitch.
And here it is.
Fast ball outside, ball two.
Two balls, no strikes.
They're going to put them on now.
Clemens is going to be intentionally fast.
They're going to put Clemens on to get to McDaniel.
So it'll be runners of first and second, with two out in the bottom of the seventh.
Cardinals leading six to four.
The Giants have Cepeda, Philippe Allou, and Davenport coming up in the eighth.
There's Lindy coming out.
Runners of first and second.
McDaniel hasn't had a hit this year in seven times.
McDaniel won a first time in the fourth and one.
Catcher Holler goes out the clock to pitcher Larson.
The ball game in the bottom of the seventh.
The Cardinals are leading six to four.
Larson looks down, gets his side.
Now the stretch.
And the pitch.
Strike the curve ball over the outside corner.
One strike and over.
Two men on and two men out.
We're in the seventh.
Six to four, the Cardinals lead.
Don Larson, 33-year-old veteran, gets set.
Half a swing and a foul-tip strike through.
Two strikes, no ball.
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Two strikes, no ball.
Lindy McDaniel waiting.
Now the pitch.
And here it is.
Inside fastball.
Two strikes and a ball.
Bob Gibson started this ball game.
Pitch six, fine innings.
Weakened in the seventh.
Lindy came on to rescue him.
Gibson is a pitcher of record as it stands right now.
Two strikes and a ball.
The right hand batter waiting.
Now the pitch.
And here it is.
Stuck them out.
McDaniel goes down swinging.
And it's one hit and no runs, no errors.
Two left.
At the end of seven, full innings.
The Cardinals sixth, the Giants fourth.
This is Harry Carrey with Jack Buck as we go into the top of the eighth.
Jack, if we can get them out one, two, three here, we might not have to worry about Mays and McCovey again in this ball game.
That's right, but it's a tough order with Cepeda, Philippe Ballou, and Davenport coming up against Lindy McDaniel.
In addition, these Giants have a good bench with fellows like Keane and Bailey.
Long way to go and a tough road to hoe for Lindy McDaniel who starts the eighth inning and the first pitch to Cepeda who's 0 for 3 and it's over but low.
Ball one.
The Cardinals scored the first round of the ball game in the second.
The Giants got three to lead 3-1 in the third.
The Cardinals made it 3-2 in the third.
The Cardinals won ahead 6-3 in the fifth.
It's now 6-4, Cardinals.
Cepeda takes a strike at the knees.
It's 1-1.
Orlando thought it was a bit low, steps out, picks up some dirt.
Lindy McDaniel in relief for Bob Gibson.
The Cardinals have out hit the Giants 11-9.
That's the sort of a ball game we've had here.
A couple of corners of the field.
A couple of home runs for each club.
Mays and McCovey for the Giants.
White and Boyer for the Cardinals.
There's a foul off to the right now to play.
Jack, I wish we could change the rules and bring Gibson back in to pitch to Cepeda.
Yeah.
He did a job on him.
Cepeda ground it out to short, popped out to short, and ground it out to short again.
So he didn't go die.
I've been playing pepper all night.
Cepeda with 15 home runs and 55 RBI.
Willie Mays got his 20th home run here tonight, and Willie McCovey hit his eighth.
Bill White hit his tenth, and Boyer hit his eighth.
One ball, two strikes.
McDaniel trying to get this lead off, man, here in the top of the eighth inning.
And it's low, 2-2.
The Mets and the Cubs split this afternoon.
The Mets won the first game from Chicago, 4-3, snapping a 17-game losing streak.
And then the Cubs came back to win the second game, 3-2.
Pittsburgh and Milwaukee rained out.
Here's the 2-2 pitch to Cepeda.
Struck him out.
He went down swinging on a pitch down around the knees, most likely that forkball.
And Cepeda is 0-4 for the night.
McDaniel has banned the last two men that he has faced.
He's retired the only three that he has faced.
Delip Palu comes to the plate.
Delip is 2-3.
He struck out in the second.
He's single in the third, was out stealing.
And then he doubled in the sixth.
The Giants have only left five men now in the Cardinals' nine.
There's a bouncing ball to third.
Big hop to Boyer.
Good glove.
Good throw.
Two out.
Delip Palu went for the first one and bounced to Boyer.
A perfect hop to him.
Kenny waited.
Had a good grip on the ball, taking his time, took a couple of steps forward first, and
gunned him out.
Two gone.
Only four more outs to get.
Cardinals have only won two out of six against San Francisco.
This year, here's Davenport, a right-handed batter.
He takes a strike, a fastball, and Lindy seems right tonight.
Oh boy, I tell you, this guy's really throwing that ball.
He's humming.
He did quite a job in the seventh to keep the score 6-4, as it is now.
The pitch is in the dirt to Davenport, one and one.
Two out here, nobody on.
Davenport doubled, struck out, and lined out to left.
Good hit, as it's felt amongst the leaders in the league, 3-31, in a fine third baseman.
A ball and a strike to count.
McDaniel's into the windup, picks and fires, bouncing Palu.
Bounced off of Davenport while he was still in the batter's box.
He's in the hole now, one and two.
A lot of excitement in the seventh when the Giants scored a run to make it 6-4, and they
had the tying runs on at first and third, and only one out, and Mays and McCubby coming up.
McDaniel came in from the bullpen and got Mays and a foul ball, and he struck out McCubby.
One of the highlights of this ballgame.
Here's the one-two pitch, and Davenport hits a bouncing foul down the third base line.
Whitey Lockman feels it.
Whitey is coaching down there at third, a fellow who was with the Cardinals briefly.
And Wes Westrom, coaching down at first for Alvin Dark.
One ball, two strikes, and Jim Davenport takes it high, two and two.
The other Giants coach is Larry Jansen, their pitching coach.
Two balls, two strikes to count.
Two out, nobody on, eighth inning.
Cardinals leading the Giants, 6-4.
Davenport the hitter, McDaniel into the windup.
Here's the two-two pitch, and he struck him out.
Called out on strikes, and he set him down one, two, three.
And Davenport wants to argue, but can't quite bring himself to do it.
A good pitch by Lindy on the outside edge, and Lindy has struck out.
Three of the five men is retired.
Down in order go the Giants.
Cardinals come to bat on the bottom of the eighth, trying to get more.
Bobby Gene Smith is getting ready to go in the ballgame.
The Cardinals lead 6-4.
On the bottom of the eighth, everybody's staying around for this one,
because it's far from over.
No lower in the bottom of the eighth than the Cardinals lead 6-4.
Owen Larson, the third Giants hurler of the night, faces little Kurt Blood.
First pitch.
Look out, Kurt, it hit him in the back, and Blood has been hit by a pitch for the second time tonight.
That's the way to get it started, Kurt.
We'll do anything for a rally, Kurt Blood and me.
One time he was plump, but I'm sure that Larson didn't want to do that.
That leadoff man on there, Blood hitting 3.26.
Pardon me, that's the third time this week that he's been hit.
He's going to get paid by the Brews next year.
I don't mean B-R-E-W-S.
Blood on there, Javier up there, and they're looking for the bunt.
This is where the sixth inning started, but the Cardinals couldn't score.
Haven't scored since the fifth.
Javier, pitch out.
But nothing doing as Blood scrambles back to first.
They had a pitch out on, but Sepeda was coming in.
You saw Howler had no one to throw to.
Javonpour charging in from third.
The shortstop begun.
Racing over to cover second.
Hiller, the second baseman, going over to cover first, and Sepeda charging in.
Everybody moving.
Hiller is banking, ready to bank up the throw.
Javier has a thing about it.
Three trips, a key hit in the fifth inning.
Larson stepped off the rubber.
Oftentimes the pitcher will do that to see if the batter will tip his hand.
See if he can move that bat, and the pitcher can learn if the bunt is still on.
Blood on at first, nobody out.
Six-four Cardinals, eighth inning.
To the belt is Larson.
Over the plate, Javier misses as he tries to bunt, and it's one-and-one.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see him swing away here the way they're rushing him, Jack.
He hits that ball on the ground pretty much.
By the way, Eddie Pursue, Homer, in the ninth inning for the Red Sox, and they tied up Cleveland.
Nine and nine.
Blood on at first.
He might be going with a pitch.
They might be putting on a hit-and-run or a plunge-and-run,
because that Davenport is way in from third base.
Larson steps off the rubber.
He's thinking in terms of flood running, too.
That feels shallow for Javier.
He has a look down at Johnny Keane.
The Cardinals trying to add to their two-run lead before going into the ninth inning.
Don Larson, the big right-hander, checks the runner.
Javier is going to bunt.
He takes it low.
Ball two, two-and-one.
He scored a round in bunting position long before Larson threw the ball,
had a good look at it, and took it low.
Nobody gone here in the eighth.
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Boy, they've had some miserable weather up there this year.
It was cold when we were up there last weekend.
They were ice fishing in Lake Michigan.
Cepeda holding the runner flood close.
Larson taking his time.
Larson's done a good deal to slow this game down.
Now he has a sign from Holler.
Two balls and a strike, a good pitch to run on.
Here's the pitch.
Strike called.
He was going to bunt, but took it two-and-two.
Johnny King puts his hands on his hips and looks in at Javier
to say what he wanted to do.
Hit your bat.
Two-and-two.
Bill White will be next.
Blood hit by a pitch ball to start the inning.
Javier with a two-two count.
Here's the pitch.
He's going to bunt again.
He does down the first baseline.
It's a tough one to cover.
First base, and he's safe at first.
Cepeda charged in.
Larson charged over.
Hiller was a little bit late covering.
He thought somebody else was going to get there.
And by the time the second baseman covered the bag,
Javier had scooted those 90 feet, and he was there
with a base hit, bunting on a two-two count.
Well, Hoolie gambled on that and made it work,
and winds up with a base hit beside.
Who finally fielded the ball?
I think it was Cepeda, huh?
Cepeda picked it up.
Larson could have fielded it.
Then when you looked down and saw
Hiller and Javier racing for the bag,
you knew that Javier would be in good shape.
Actually, Hiller got there before him,
but Cepeda had to wait a count before he could throw the ball.
And now the batter is white, and he might be bunting.
Grout making a racket.
Cardinals lead 6-4, two on, nobody out.
Bill White has a single and a home run out of four trips.
He also lined out.
Left-handed batter.
Larson, the right-hander, pitches,
and he swings and misses, strike one.
He was swinging away.
Cardinals figure that if White sacrifices,
the Giants will put Musial on
and have the right-handed hitting boyer up there
against the right-handed batter Larson.
So perhaps taking their chances with the left-handed hitters,
they have White swinging away.
At least he was in the first one.
Here's the next one.
Ground ball foul.
That's strike two.
Goes down into the giant bullpen.
Two strikes to count.
That pitch was in on him, a slider.
White hit it on the fifth foul.
Stan will be next.
That base hit by Avier on the bunk was the 12th Cardinal hit.
They had 18 hits last night against Cincinnati.
And the Cardinals might have started the Reds
in a bit of a tailspin
because Philadelphia leads the Reds now 9-3
in the eighth inning in their ballgame tonight.
Larson has White set up.
No balls, two strikes, and pitches outside, ball one.
It's a 2-1 ballgame with the Dodgers leading Houston
in the sixth inning.
Philadelphia leads the Reds 9-3 in the eighth inning.
Pittsburgh and Milwaukee rained out,
and the Mets and the Cubs put it all ahead.
The Yankees won tonight 1-0 over Baltimore.
Detroit won the first game from Washington,
and they're scoreless in the sixth inning of the second game.
Cleveland and Boston are in extra innings now.
And Minnesota leads Chicago in the ninth inning 2-1.
Out on the coast, the Angels lead Kansas City 1-0 in the third.
That's the other baseball.
Here, Flood and Javier lead away.
Here's the 1-2 pitch on the way to Bill White,
and he hits one up the middle to the shortstop.
Past the shortstop, a base hit, and the run's gonna score.
Javier goes to third base, makes a turn, but stops there.
A base hit by Bill White is third of the night
off the leg of Larson, just past the shortstop take on,
where Bill's third run batted into the night
as Flood scored and Javier raised to third.
There's a big run to pick up, and the Cardinals now lead 7-4,
and a big chance for Moore.
Still nobody out.
A base hit by White is third of the night.
That ball just did get past take on,
and it might well have been a double play ball,
and he's been able to flag it down.
It got on through. Flood scored, Javier raised to third.
Muzeel up, infield halfway in, either for the play at the plate
or for the double play by way of second.
Stan is one for four on the night.
Now the infield comes all the way in.
Infield playing in tight.
Davenport pick on, Hiller and McCovey.
McCovey holding White close.
A lot of room through the right side of the infield.
If Muzeel can pull it, outfield deep to the right.
Two on and nobody out.
Muzeel takes a strike, a good pitch on the outside corner.
Funny on it, served up there by Larson.
One run home.
That was the 13th hit for the Cardinals tonight.
The Cardinals now lead seven to four here in the bottom of the eighth.
Javier and White, two good baserunners on, third and first.
They lead away.
Larson to Muzeel.
Base hit in the left.
Another run scores on a single to the left by Muzeel,
and it's eight to four.
Stan's second hit on the Cardinals, 14th.
Still nobody out.
A hit batsman started it, then Javier singled with a bunt.
White singled.
Muzeel singled to drive in Javier.
Stan's first run batted into the night.
White stopped at second and here's Boyer.
Muzeel lifted for a pitch runner, Bobby Jean Smith.
Right back to the field, Bobby Jean Smith.
This making runs as easy when your big hitters are hitting.
Harry is still one of the prettiest sites in baseball.
To see Muzeel stroke that ball into that opposite field.
Well, that's when he's really hitting, when he can line that ball the other way.
Stan ends with two for five for the night.
Boyer up there, nobody out, and two on.
And he hits a ground ball, double play ball.
Hiller has it, gives the second one out, throw to first, double play.
Boyer hits into a double play.
Hiller to begone, to subeta.
White goes to third.
Bobby Jean Smith running for Muzeel is forced at second.
And Boyer doubled up at first, and that will put it up to Carl Sawotsky here.
Two runs home and the Cardinals lead eight to four.
And you still can't get enough against this ball club.
Carl Sawotsky comes up, he has one for four.
And the ball club has been on base three times but has no hits for the night.
Javier two for four, White three out of five, Muzeel two out of five,
Boyer two out of five, Sawotsky one for four, Gautier two for four,
Clemens one out of two, and Gibson had a hit.
Base hits all over the place here tonight.
White on at third, two out, and the pitch to Sawotsky is a strike.
The double hitter caught the outside corner.
Eight-four Cardinals, first game of the series.
Coming out tomorrow, game time is 1-30, Sedecky against Sanford.
Then a big double hitter Sunday at one o'clock.
Larson checks the runner at third and now pitches to Sawotsky.
A fly ball to very deep center field, going to be caught by Mays in front of the wall, and he has it.
Sawotsky flies to center, and the rally died in a hurry but produced two runs.
On three hits, no errors, one left.
At the end of eight innings, Cardinals eight, Giants four.
Well, the stage is set for the ninth inning here, and Lenny McDaniel is in the ball game,
trying to preserve the win for Bob Gibson, who will become the first seven-game winner of the Cardinals.
If McDaniel falters, Ed Bauda will be the pitcher. He's getting ready down in the bullfath.
McDaniel ready to pitch the top of the ninth.
The Cardinals about hit the Giants 14-9 and lead the Giants 8-4 here in the first game of the series.
Bobby Gene Smith has replaced Museal in left field. That's the only change.
Sawotsky comes out to take the warm-up tosses of McDaniel. For the Giants, it's the last three in the batting order,
starting with Pagan, then the catcher, Holler, and then likely a pinch hitter.
Here to tell you what happens in the top of the ninth, tell you if the Cardinals win it, go behind, or are tied, is Harry Carrick.
Okay, Jack, these are the three men we want to get in a row here so that we don't have to worry about the top of the batting order.
The Dodgers have run into trouble in the sixth at Houston. They were leading 2-1, but they've changed pitchers.
Phillies are winning easily.
Everybody expected that Copax, because of the poor lights in Houston, to have a picnic down there, but he's had nothing but trouble.
That cold ball club really battled you.
Here's Pagan. He's had nothing out of three. First pitch by Lindy. A bouncing ball foul off to the left. Strike one.
Whitey Lockman goes over. The ball rolls by him, and Red Cheney's recovers it. One strike and no ball.
Lindy McDaniel. Lindy the saver today. Here's a pitch. A slow tap. Lindy off the mound has it. Fires the first base in time.
McDaniel throws out Pagan. That's six men in a row that McDaniel has retired without anybody hitting the ball out of the infield.
Three of them he's retired himself on strikes. A fourth he threw out at first base.
Here now is Tom Holler. Nothing out of two. Left-hand batter hitting 2-47. He's had five homers and 12 RBFs.
The pitch on the way. Strike. A good fastball at the knee. One strike and no ball. One out.
Tomorrow afternoon will be Ray Sedecky for the Cardinals and Jack Sanford for the Giants.
Now the pitch on the way. A bouncing ball. White's got it. Lindy covers. White takes the play alone on assist.
Holler goes out wide on assist. And now Ed Bailey from my favorite town, Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, will bring the pitch up.
He's hitting for Don Larson. Larson a very good-hitting pitcher.
Bailey hitting 2-38 for the year with eight homers and 22 runs battered in. Two men are out. Nobody on base.
Nobody's hit the ball out of the infield against Lindy. There's the windup. The pitch is on the way.
He didn't mean to swing. The ball hit the bat and went foul. Strike one.
Cardinals shooting for their fourth in a row.
There'll be seven out on the lost side if they win this one.
Could pick up a full game on both the Giants and the Dodgers and Cincinnati. One strike, no ball.
Now the wind and the pitch. It's a little bit low and that evens it up. One ball, one strike.
It's eight to four. The Cardinals lead.
Now the wind, the 1-1 pitch. He foul-chips strike two. Two strikes and a ball. Redbirds one.
Last night, eight to two. Leading tonight, eight to four. One four to three the night before that.
Ten to nine in extra innings the night before that. Two strikes and a ball.
Here's the pitch on the way. He almost went around.
The far ball went low and Bailey, who had started the swing, held up in time.
So the Giants are still alive. Two balls, two strikes. Two men out and nobody on.
McDaniel is retired. Seven men in a row.
Bill White, the hitting star. Now to wind up, the 2-2 pitch.
High and inside. And Kenny Boyer, the biggest puncher of the ball game, a three-run homer,
who gave us the lead in the fifth that we've never relinquished.
Now it's three and two on Bailey. Two out.
Left-hand batter waits. Here's the pitch. There's the ground ball. Javier's got it.
Here's the throw to White. The Cardinals win. Eight to four.
They're fourth in a row. McDaniel, retired. Eight men in a row without allowing anybody
to hit the ball out of the infield. That's what you call a real job in relief.
Well, we got timely hitting, especially from Bill White, Kenny Boyer, Stan Musial.
Fine pitching. Good relief job. A great relief job. A perfect relief job.
And that, Jack, in a nutshell, is the story of the Cardinals' eighth, the Giants' fourth.
Right. Combined with everything else, blood on base three times, although he had no hits.
He walked once and was hit by a pitch twice. Javier had a couple of hits, including a key hit
in the fifth inning when the Redbirds scored four. White, Musial, Boyer hits.
Sawotsky had only one tonight, but they didn't need him. Kotei continued to hit two hits tonight.
And Bob Gibson contributed a big base hit as he won his ball game, if you have to go to Lindy.
He makes you go to the record book when he was 12-4 in 1960. And this is the way he looked then.
During his 65 games with an earned run average of 2.09, striking out 105 and walking 24.
That's the way he pitched this evening. And the Giants, as it turned out, didn't have a prayer against them.
You get into a slugfest with these fellows, and you've got your hands full.
The McDaniel would have none of it. And he really shut the door on him and won the game for Bob Gibson.
You know, Kurt Simmons and Bob Gibson had been having a little bit of trouble getting past six.
Each had had a couple of tries at it. So now we finally have a picture with seven victories, and it's Bob Gibson.
There are the totals. Eight runs, 14 hits. No errors. Gibson the winner now, seven and four.
And for the Giants, four runs, nine hits, no errors. Juan Marichal the loser.
The first time the Cardinals have been able to beat him this year, and he's now eight and four.
Time of the ball game, two hours and 48 minutes. They're covering the infield now.
We'll be right back at them tomorrow as the Cardinals send Ray Sadecki against Jack Sanford.
And it'll be very interesting to see how Sadecki bounces back after his little difficulty.
Boy, it'd be great to see the youngster hop up with a shutout.
Certainly would. And I'd like to point out that despite the fact there were 12 runs and 23 hits in the game,
there were no errors. And we saw a lot of good baseball here tonight.
The folks can look forward to more of the same tomorrow and then the big Sunday doubleheader.
And reserve seats are still available for both days. Tomorrow, you know, it's a 1.30 ladies' day game.
We'll be with you with the Dugout Show at 1.15, baseball time at 1.25.