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Kansas City Royals traveled to California to face the Angels at Anaheim Stadium for a Wednesday night game on September 17, 1986.
The Royals were the defending world champions, having defeated the Cardinals in 1985.
They were now managed by Mike Ferraro, who had taken over from Dick Hauser midway through the season.
The team was struggling in 1985, entering this game 16 games out in the American League West that was led by the high-flying California Angels.
California was 23 games over 500 and had a solid nine-game lead down the stretch under manager Gene Mock.
This audio recording is from the Angels Radio broadcast featuring announcers Al Conan and Ron Fairley.
Alright Ron, thank you very much. We go to the ballgame with the Angels trying to reduce that magic number to nine.
19 games left to play, including tonight, and this evening it's Don Sutton going against the Kansas City Royals.
Beating it off Willie Wilson, who had such a marvelous game last night, he went three for five.
And Lonnie Smith on deck had four hits. But the Angels pulled it out nonetheless.
And the first pitch of the game is flung on and pulled forward first, right there at the bag is Rich, and he steps on the bag for the out.
So Wilson first ball swinging as he did last night, but this time he grounds out.
And the center fielder back to the dugout with his average down-of-pick from the 271 mark with which he began the game.
So that will bring up Lonnie Smith, who with his four hits last night lifted his average to 293, and he is hot right now.
He's hit an 11th straight, during which he's hit 511. Sutton with that slow wind-up delivers, and his fastball is inside, 1-0.
So Smith, about as hot as he's been all year long, in fact his average of 293 at a seasonal high.
Sutton right back to him, and there's a line drive, it well to center field, Pettis going back on the ball, still going back on the track.
He makes it over the shoulder catch.
So Lonnie Smith hits it well, but not well enough. Two down, and the opening hitting in Rudy Law will be stepping in.
The former Dodger, former Chicago White Sox, now laboring with the Royals hitting 257.
The Angels with Bobby Gritz at first base again tonight.
Molly Joyner improving with that shoulder, but not yet ready to start. Gus Paladar at second.
Dick Schofield, the shortstop, and Doug the Sensei at third.
Sutton clanks it up, and the first one to Rudy Law is swung on and driven to right center field.
George Hendrick on his horse, he's there, and makes the catch, and it's an easy 1-2-3 inning for Don Sutton.
No runs, no hits, no errors. Nobody left on base, and after a half an inning here at the stadium, it's the Royals nothing and the Angels coming up.
Okay, and again Don Sutton for the Angels, pitching for the Angels. Danny Jackson for the Royals.
Danny Jackson's 10-10, Sutton a nice record this season, 14-9. Another game starting up just about the same time as ours, the White Sox at Seattle.
Floyd Bannister pitching for Chicago, he's 9-11. Mark Langston, 12-11 for Seattle.
And a game that started just a little while ago, and they're still scoreless in the bottom of the second, is the San Francisco-San Diego game.
Let's start up about a half an hour ago.
The light of blue is 9-10, pitching for the Giants. Ed Vosberg, who has no record at all this season, 0-0 on the mound for the Padres.
We might mention that California has some 18 games left to play, including this one.
Actually the Angels have played only 143, so it would be 19.
However, there's one game that they won't play unless it's necessary, and that is a game at Cleveland.
So for all practical purposes, 18 games left in the season for the Angels.
Eleven of them at home, including tonight's action with Kansas City. Another one with KC on Thursday.
Then there are three with Chicago on the 19th, the 20th, and the 21st.
Three with Cleveland at home, the 22nd, the 23rd, the 24th.
Then the Angels have three with Texas on the 26th, 27th, and 28th.
Then a little bit of a road trip for seven games. They go to Kansas City for three games on the 29th and the 30th, and October 1st.
And then finally, winding up the season, four games at Texas where the Angels are playing Texas Rangers on October 2nd, October 3rd, October 4th, and October 5th.
And should the division race really narrow up, and of course they may very well, especially with those four games at Texas,
and should the Angels falter in the meanwhile in Texas and do some good work, they will complete that one game at Cleveland.
Bottom of the first inning, no scores. We begin and Gary Pettis takes the first pitch from Danny Jackson and grounds it to second base.
Frank White right there to field and throws him out. So just like that, one away.
So Jackson ready in a hurry and gets Pettis quite quickly, and Dick Schofield will come up now, hitting.251.
Danny Jackson 10-10 on the year, an ERA of 3.49, trying to become only the second Kansas City starter with a winning record this year.
The other Mark Gubbezow is 10-6. And it's really not the way it figured when the season began.
They had Brett Saberhagen, the Cy Young Award winner, Tyler Leibrand, a big winner last year too.
There's a fastball to Schofield for Sykes on one. But the starting rotation this year has been inconsistent to say the least for the Royals.
The strike one to Schofield is just inside, one ball, one strike. Danny Jackson though has had his good moment.
Though he has 0-1 against the Angels, his defeat was a memorable one because he threw a five-hitter at the Angels, which was his best performance of the year.
The 1-1 pitch is a chopper toward first. Sykeser is there. He weighs off Jackson and beats Schofield to the bag. So quickly two up and two down.
And that will bring up Downing, who was one of the key architects of last night's victory.
He had a base hit in that seventh inning to help the Angels come from behind. And he has been doing it all year long for the Royals.
He's the Angels' leading hitter against Kansas City, hitting.367.
So two out, nobody on, bottom of the first, no score. Danny Jackson, waiting for Downing.
And Bryan settles in. The left-hander staring down at his catcher, Jim Sunberg. Now he cranks it up.
And the first pitch to Bryan is on the inside corner called a strike.
It's Kevin Sykeser at first base tonight, Frank White at second, Buddy Biancolano at the short stop, Jamie Quirk at third.
Strike one has popped up, foul ground, first base side. Sykeser coming down and over, and he makes the catch.
And the side retires. So like Don Sutton, Danny Jackson disposes of the first three batters he faces and does it in a hurry.
No runs, no hits, no errors. Nobody left, and we'll go to the second. Angels nothing, Royals nothing.
Now the Angels are on a little bit of a roll, a mini-roll if you will. They have one, two, and a roll, seven out of their last ten.
And the last one at the hands, they have at the expense of the Royals, if they can start this three-game series.
They started it on Tuesday, and this is the second of the three that we're in tonight.
Bob Boone's two-out single driving and pinch runner Devon White in the eighth inning on Tuesday, and that gave the Angels a 6-5 victory, just eating that one out over Kansas City.
The victory reducing, as you heard, the Angels' Magic number 10 for clinching their first American League West title since 1982.
Now despite Texas' 10-6 triumph over Oakland, California maintained its nine-game lead over the second-place Rangers, going into Wednesday action.
Now Texas has, of course, won again, so that now is a gap to 8-1 half.
In this game on Tuesday, Kansas City had tied the score in the eighth on Bo Jackson's two-run homer.
Loser in the game was Dan Quisenberry. He's two and seven on the year. He retired the first two batters in the eighth before pinch hitter Wally Joyner beat out an infield single just out of Quisenberry's reach.
White ran for Joyner, stole second before Boone lined an RBI single to right. Right fielder Jackson's throw to the plate was wide.
Gary Lucas was the winner in this one. He's 4-0 on the season. Pitched a scoreless ninth inning, he was awarded the victory for that effort.
Donnie Moore, who had yielded Jackson's homer on his first pitch, was the pitcher of record during the California rally, but he was deemed by the officials ineffective, so Gary Lucas got that victory, and of course that is their privilege.
Boy, that first inning went by in a hurry, right? Have you seen it hitting this year? It went faster than that. We didn't even get a chance to spot the defenses in there.
No, I tell you what, you have a bunch of guys down there in that batter's box this evening that are going after that first pitch, and that also tells you one other thing, that both sides know that the guy that's on the mound is going to throw strikes, and so you might as well go up there and go hacking.
Of course Sutton, through the course of the year, has been working under basically a 100-pitch limit, and the Royals going up there swinging in a hurry, they actually play into his hands, because that means he gets the job done on fewer pitches.
Here's Jamie Quirk, to lead things off of the Royals, no score in the second. Sutton delivers, and the first pitch is swung on and fouled away. Quirk is in there for George Brett. Brett started last night for the first time since August 29th, battling a sore shoulder, and obviously it's still a problem because he's not in there this evening.
Quirk with a 2.18 average, five homers, 20 runs batted in, but that's a bit deceiving because lately he's been swinging very well. Sutton right back to him, and the strike one is fisted foul for the base way, and it bounces in front of the aim to dug out and back into the seat.
Boy, you didn't get much of a hack at that one.
I tell you what, that was a weak pop-up. Unless you hit a few of them. He still hasn't come close to my record yet.
What's your record?
I hit one back to the pitcher one night. Well, I'll tell you about that in a second.
Here's a strike two from Sutton, and it's just outside one of two.
You don't have to have that egg-popping contest. How soft you can pop the egg back and forth.
So it doesn't break.
That's probably as hard as I hit it back to the pitcher. It's just barely had enough on it to carry to the mound.
Thanks to whether Quirk is outside two of two.
And you had the full cut, right?
I had a full cut. I came back to the dugout and Drysdale sat down next to me and he says, Ron, that might be the cuniest hit I've ever seen in my life.
Two of two, the count to Jamie Quirk. Sutton delivers, and it dribbles slowly up the first base line.
Sutton's down to get it. He quickly whips it to Gritz covering in time.
That was a tough play because as the ball went up the line, Sutton came down to get it.
Gritz started to go for it, and then when he realized Don was going to make the play, he had to retreat to get into position to take the throw.
But the play goes into book three to one, and that'll bring up Frank White, who's hitting 266.
There's the first one to White, and it's a curveball low. I want to know.
He started to spot that angel defense for you in the first inning, did not do it completely, and would like to do that now.
Here's the 1-0 from Sutton, and White hits a high pop fly over short, shadow left, Schofield backpedaling, and he'll make the catch on the grass.
So two down and Kevin Seitz are coming up.
We mentioned in the interview that Bobby Gritz had first, Palinord second, Schofield is short, stop and Descente third.
In the outfield is Brian Downing and last, Gary Pettis in center, and George Hendrick in right.
Bob Boone catching, and it's Don Sutton on the mound, the winner of four consecutive decisions, although he did not figure in his last out at Chicago.
And he is perhaps pitching his best baseball of the year right now.
His ERA certainly at its low point of the season at 3.77, and he's given up just one earned run in his last 23 and a third innings of work.
Boy, he's been doing well.
His first one to Seitz is a curve ball that's just high, 1-0.
We saw Seitz for the first time last night.
He went 0-4, but he displayed an outstanding swing, certainly impressed some of the angels.
In particular, Moose Fiebeling, the angel hitting instructor.
The 1-0 pitch.
There's a breaking ball in there for a strike, 1-1.
Moose was saying that he looks to be very fundamentally sound and figures he's going to be a good hitter.
And that he has been wherever he has played in the organization for the Royals.
There's one fouled back off a first out of play, 1-2.
In fact, he has not had a pro season where he's hit less than 2.97.
He hit 3.18 this year at Omaha.
Kevin Seitzer filling in for Steve Balboni, who's on the sidelines again tonight with that sore back.
And the angels glad to hear that because Balboni has worn them out down to the last two years.
No score in the second.
Two out bases empty.
The 1-2 to Seitzer is a line drive.
It's short and scooper. Reaches up and pulls it down.
So Seitzer hits the ball hard but has nothing to show for it.
As Don Sutton throws down the Royals in a hurry again in the second.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
Nobody left.
And after 1-1.5, that's a big A.
Angels nothing and the Royals nothing.
Now if you're following the National West race at all, you know that Houston defeated Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
And Houston has done it once again.
And they're just about putting the Reds out of reach here.
Houston now has 183, lost 62.
And the Reds are 74 and 71.
They fall nine games behind the Astros.
And that makes the magic number now for the Astros.
It was 11. It is now nine having defeated Cincinnati.
And here's the way the schedule looks.
So the Astros, of course, they play Cincinnati once again at Cincinnati.
Then they return home to the Astrodome.
And they have three with San Diego on the 19th, 20th and 21st.
They'll be hosting Los Angeles for two games on the 22nd and 23rd.
The Astros will then host the Giants for two games on the 24th and 25th.
And then three games with Atlanta at the Astrodome on October 3rd, 4th and 5th.
Meanwhile, between those Atlanta and Giants games, they'll be going away again to Atlanta on September 26th, 27th and 28th as the Braves host them.
And the Astros also go to the Giants the end of the month and the beginning of next month,
September 30th, October 1st and October 2nd for three games.
And if Cincinnati doesn't rally here, you can pretty well kiss the National West goodbye as far as the Reds are concerned
because Houston is very rapidly now gaining a lock on that particular division.
One and a half innings already in the books here at the Big A.
A scoreless tie as the Angels come up for the second time against Danny Jackson.
Doug DeSensei, George Hendrick and Bobby Gritch do any honors as the Angels try to continue their outstanding play of late.
They have been winning with regularity. They've taken five of the last seven.
The pitch to DeSensei is flung on and fouled off on one.
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DeSensei grounds one toward third, quirk up to get the ball, guns across the sights for him plenty of time, and DeSensei is gone.
So Doug, who started at a bat hitting 260 with 23 homers and 89 runs batted in,
will have to wait until his next at bat to improve on that.
Hendrick hitting 275. The first one from Jackson is in there for a strike on one.
George also with 13 homers, 44 runs batted in, and really the second half of the year he's been making excellent contact.
He swings and hits a high fly ball over third down the left field line, pretty shallow.
Coming in is Rudy Law, and in fair ground he makes a one-hand grab.
So Hendrick is retired, two down in the bottom of the second, and both pitchers mowing down the opposition.
And then suddenly getting the first six he has faced, Jackson the first five, and that will bring up Bobby Gritch, who's sitting 288.
The Angels certainly doing what you'd expect a championship team to do at this time of the year, and that's win and win regularly.
They've taken 16 of their last 20 games, 26 of their last 36.
Not to do better than that, there's a fastball that misses her ball one, want to know.
And you know they're only 10 wins away from tying a club record. The 1-0 pitch, it's a line drive foul down the right field line.
One and one to Bobby.
Back in 82, a Jean Mautlet team established the organizational record for wins in a single season, 93.
Of course, they won the division in the process. With 19 games remaining, including this one, they've got a good shot of setting a new standard.
The one-one to Gritch, gives a ground ball back to the middle into center field. There's the first base hit of the night.
So Bobby is able to single back to the middle, and that'll bring up Rick Burleson, who's at 288 as well.
You know, Ron, Danny Jackson, though his record is 10-10, can be a very impressive pitcher.
He has a good fastball, one of the better sliders in the American League.
And I remember reading some comments made by a lot of the St. Louis players after the World Series last year, and it was Danny Jackson who most impressed them.
There's a ground ball to third, quirk, bobble, picks it up, throws the first in time, and we'll get Ron's reaction on Jackson a bit later on,
because the second inning is over as Jackson is able to get the Angels quickly here in the second inning.
No runs, one hit, no errors. One man left the board, we'll go to the third. Angels nothing, Royals nothing.
And let's check some of the action already completed also in the American League.
Boston, as we mentioned, having beaten the Brewers 4-1, Dennis Oil can void the victor, scattered eight hits,
and Don Valor and Dwight Evans hitting back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning,
and that gave the Red Sox not only the win over Milwaukee, but their 11th straight home victory, 4-1 over the Brewers.
Boston entering the contest with a nine-game lead in the American East,
and this victory now cuts the magic number for clinching the division title to eight,
and that of course pending the outcome of games involving Toronto and New York,
and as we mentioned earlier, both Toronto and New York are in the process of losing right now unless they manage to rally.
Any combination of Red Sox victories and losses by a competitor, of course, will give Boston its first division title in 11 years, since 1975.
Oil can void is now 15-9 on the air. He struck out six batters.
Walk one records his ninth complete game of the season.
Boston had taken a 2-0 lead in the second inning on just one hit.
Baylor drew a leadoff walk. Evans doubled high off the left field wall. That scored Baylor,
and a wild pitch by Mark Knutson put Evans on third, and he scored on Tony Armis's infield out.
Mark Knutson now takes the loss. He is 0-1 on the year.
In the sixth, Baylor belted his 30th home run of the season over the left field wall.
Evans followed by slugging number 24 for him high off the light tower just behind the left field wall at Fenway Park.
We played two innings here at Anaheim Stadium, and boy, we've motored a loss.
No score so far, as both pitchers have been on their game to this point.
Bo Jackson leads it off for the Royals against Don Sutton, leading it off for us, Ron Fairley. Ron, I told you.
Thank you very much, Alan. Hello, everybody.
Don Sutton facing Bo Jackson, who had a good night last night and the first pitch of the inning.
Gives a curveball hit sharply on two hops to Schofield. He knocks it down and goes to first base in time.
Bo Jackson does not have a good start on the bounders block.
But after he gets it going, look out. I don't think there's anybody in the league that can run with it.
And I mean that. Now, Willie Wilson is on this staff, or on this ball club, and he runs extremely well.
As Sundberg comes to the plate, but I'm not too sure at a hundred-yard dash that Bo Jackson cannot run it.
I'll tell you one thing. He makes a routine round ball. Close.
An adventure. That's right. You make a mistake with him running, and he's going to beat it.
Here's Sundberg in the first pitchers, outside for ball one. Sutton has set down seven straight.
You know, Ron, yesterday he hit the home run, and that got most of the attention in the past,
but some of the angels were really more impressed by something else he did.
There's a curve ball over the plate, but a low for ball two. What was that?
You remember when he grounded his shortstop, I think it was the sixth inning against Bird Ruhle, he hit a rocket to Schofield.
Something like one hop. He almost beat that play.
It was a close play. Here's a 2-0 pitch. Swung on and missed for a strike, 2-1.
And that was what they were talking about today before the ball game. That was better tested more than the home run.
Well, you have to admire anyone that takes the physical ability out on the field and does something over and above what anybody else can do.
Here's the 2-1 pitch. And it's lined towards center field. Penance on his horse, and he's there! He almost overruns it.
A line drive into right center field, and Gary Penance with that speed of his own, put on a burst of speed and almost misjudged that and almost overran it.
So there's at number two in the inning, and Sutton has retired the first eighth that he's faced.
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The first pitch to Buddy Biancolano is swung on and fouled back out of play.
But just to continue, I thought just a little bit.
And that doesn't make any difference whether it's on the basketball court, the football field.
When you see someone that has that extra burst of speed, boy, they just kind of pop your eye, don't they?
Well, that's the way that Jackson is. Here's the 0-1 pitch.
And Biancolano swings and misses way out in front of the changeup. And it's quickly strike two.
Both teams this evening all swinging at the first pitch.
Biancolano did it. Bo Jackson did it.
Here's the strike two pitch. And it's swung on and fouled right up the home plate area. The count remains 0-2.
Now if a team wants to do that to Don Sutton, they're going to have problems because he has a tendency to sense that and not throw you anything good to hit.
Don't have to throw a strike first pitch.
Of course, you know, I will say this about Bo Jackson. He is starting his career playing baseball different than probably anybody else,
with the exception of a guy like a Mickey Mantle, but different than anybody else.
Here's the strike two pitch. Tried to turn it over and ran the ball outside for a ball 1-2.
Well, how many rookies have an entire nation looking at them before they've played even two or three games?
Well, even aside from the media aspect of things, here's the 1-2 pitch. A curve ball low, and that's 2-2 now.
Different in the sense is that how many guys start their career that have that kind of physical strength and power to go along with the speed and the running ability and the strong throwing arm.
2-2 pitch is popped up at the home plate area. Boone out near and now Descente coming in and running Boone off of it right in front of home plate.
And that'll do it for Bianca Lana and Kansas City. We'll talk more about that when we come back.
Another 1-2-3 innings. Sutton has retired the first nine that he's faced.
And after two and a half innings of play here at the big A, still no score.
Let's change the subject briefly in case you missed the UPI poll that came out earlier this week.
The top 20 in football. We'll recap them for you briefly. And there have been some changes, of course.
Notably, Tennessee, OSU, and UCLA falling right off the top 20 with Tennessee really taking a drop from number 8 all the way down to below the top 20, having lost to Mississippi State 27 to 23.
OSU was number 12 last week. Ohio State lost to Washington 40 to 7, some kind of loss there, and also fell off the top 20.
UCLA was right at the bottom of the 20, number 19 last week, and was idle but still managed to be edged off the 20.
So here's the way it looks right now. Number 1 is Oklahoma. Number 2, Miami. Number 3, Michigan. Number 4, Alabama. Number 5, Nebraska.
Then it's Penn State, Washington, LSU, Baylor, and Georgia. Number 11 is Auburn. Number 12, Arkansas. BYU number 13. Iowa number 14.
Arizona made the number 15 spot. Maryland is number 16. And then Arizona State, unrated last week, unranked that is, now number 17 on the UPI College Football Poll.
Florida State, also not on the top 20 last week, has made it to number 18. Texas A&M, which was number 7 last week, but because of its loss,
to LSU falls to number 19, and number 20 on the UPI College Football Poll is Southern Cal.
Gus Pollard or lead things out to the Angels in their half of the third inning. He'll be followed by Boone, and then back to the top of the order in Gary Pettis.
No score, bottom of the third inning. Just one hit so far. That a base hit by Bobby Gritch in the second inning.
And then Polador looks at one low and outside ball off. Gus, last night, went two for three. He's batting 360.
Here's the next pitch, and it's a ground ball hit off the hands toward second base on two hops. White has it.
And the short comes to Sainter at first base, and Polador is gone. Four-three in the putout.
That makes one away, and that brings up the hero in last night's game, Bob Boone.
Bob Boone batting 223, seven home runs, and 46 runs driven in. And the first pitch to him is blown inside for ball one.
Also, we were talking in last night's game about the fact of Schofield, Pettis, and Boone as the next pitch goes in and low and inside to an 0.
And in spring training, you knew that that primarily would make up the bottom third of the Angels lineup.
And when you take a look at tonight's play, Pettis has 50 runs driven in. Here's the field pitch, and Boone's out of the back.
Schofield has 54 runs driven in, and then Bob Boone has 46. That makes a total of 150.
Would you take that in spring training to get 150 RBIs out of your bottom third of the lineup? Absolutely.
Here's a 2-1 pitch on the way, and it's high and outside, 3-1. And there's still more games to play, but the point well taken is that the big difference in the ball club this year,
the downing and defense, and the guys in the middle part of the lineup have had good years. There's one that's over first strike and has a full count 3-2.
But that production in the bottom third of the lineup has really been a major factor why the Angels are where they are today.
Boone stepping out. It is three balls and two strikes to Bob. They play him straight away.
Jackson's pitch is on the way, and Boone gets it right off the hands, right back to the pitcher who knocks it down, and Jackson goes to first base, almost threw it away.
And so Boone has got one-three in the putout, and they go back to the top of the order in Gary Pettis.
For Danny Jackson, he is really almost matching what Sutton has done. He has retired eight of nine that he has faced, and Sutton has retired the first nine.
Dennis bounced out to second his only time up. Bunch went along the third base side. In comes the third baseman and a pitcher, and neither one of them can make the play.
Bianca Lata, not Bianca Lata, but Jackson trying to get a handle on the ball and took his eye off of it, and Gary Pettis has an infield bunt for a base hit.
So a two-out single. That brings up the shortstop, Dick Schofield, who bounced out to first base his only time up.
Keep an eye on Gary Pettis. He has 40 stolen bases and has stolen 18 of the last 20. Jackson comes set, and the pitcher played his looper into that field. That will fall for a base hit.
Pettis holding at second base as Rudy Law gets the ball back to the infield. The Angels have runners at first and second.
Well, last night, Angels started to put things together after two men ran. Of course, they had the benefit of a couple of two or three base on balls.
And then they dropped a couple of hits in there, but all that action took place after two men were away.
And here this evening, Hollidor bounces out, Boone bounces out, Gary Pettis and Schofield have now singles.
And so the Angels were the first threat of the game. Downing is waiting, and the pitch is over for a call strike one right around the knees.
Downing, working on a mini three-game hitting streak, has had a good month of September so far, batting right around 400.
The 0-1 pitch is slug on and missed. Downing chasing a high fastball. And now Bryant is behind on a count of two.
Also here in the month of September, Downing has hit three home runs and driven in 11. He has 82 in a year.
Of course, Joyner leads the ball club, followed by DeSensei, who has 89.
The strike two pitch is a call strike three in the inside corner, and Downing cannot pull the trigger.
And so Schofield and Pettis are left on base. And for the Angels, they have two hits in the inning.
They have stranded three so far, and after three complete innings of play, still no score.
The full Senate has made its choices. William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the United States,
and Antonin Scalia has been confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice.
Rehnquist was confirmed 65 to 33. That's the highest number of negative votes given any Supreme Court Justice ever confirmed.
Rehnquist replaces the retiring Chief Justice Warren Burger.
Television evangelist Pat Robertson told a large crowd in Washington,
he will run for President if he gets three million signatures over the next year.
Education Secretary William Bennett sharply criticized Robertson for a comment which suggested
Christian activists are more patriotic and family-loving than other people.
Another bomb exploded in Paris today, this one killing five and injuring more than 50.
It's the fifth terrorist attack in Paris in the past ten days.
The Arab group's claimed responsibility for Famos Blas as the United States' next,
and its statement mentioned skyscrapers and the statue of Lubez.
The New York Mets have become the first team to make the playoffs, taking the National League Eastern Division,
beating the Chicago Cubs 40-0. I'm Mary Margaret Marrige.
Thank you, Mary Margaret, and we'll tell you also, Boston, of course, has beaten Milwaukee 4-1,
and Baltimore and Detroit have done Boston a favor and not done New York and Toronto any favor at all.
Baltimore's beaten New York 8-3, Detroit's beaten Toronto 8-6,
and of course that puts New York and Toronto now a full ten games behind the Boston Red Sox.
And the Red Sox' magic number was for going into Wednesday 9. It is now 7,
as a result of the Boston win and the New York and Toronto losses.
We go to the fourth inning, and Don Sutton will be facing the top of the order,
again, Wilton, Smith, and then Law.
Don, coming out of the chute very strong here this evening, has shut down the first nine that he's faced.
Sutton bills to the windup, and the pitch is a fastball high for ball one.
Just a couple of added notes for you about Don Sutton as he starts again,
and the 1-0 pitch fails high and inside, and the count is 2-0.
His start this evening is 702, that is second only to Cy Young, who has 818 in his major league history.
Don has sixth in strikeouts with 3,423. Two old pitches on the way, and Wilton swings and misses for a strike.
The count is now 2-1. He has ninth in shutouts with 58.
He is eleventh in innings pitched at 4,974 and two-thirds.
Lifetime, three and four against Kansas City. He is on one this year.
Sutton bills to the windup, and the 2-1 delivery is swung on and missed.
That time the screwball heading out in front, and the count is 2-2.
Willie Wilson, with that great speed, has hit safely in sixth of the last seven.
When you look at the Kansas City lineup, their first three batters all can run.
2-2 pitch, swung on and missed, track three.
And Sutton records his first strikeout of the game after falling behind with a 2-0 count.
Then strikes out Wilson. That brings up Lonnie Smith, their designated hitter.
The first three batters in Kansas City lineup, Wilson, Smith, and Lough, they have stolen bases like this, 30, 26, and 13.
Wilson has stolen 30 of 38. Here's the first pitch to Smith.
And he swings and pops it up behind home.
Lonnie Smith has stolen 26 of 34 attempts.
And Rudy Law is 13 out of 19.
And so you can see the key as far as this ball club is concerned, you want to keep the first three guys off the bases.
Here's the 0-1 pitch on the way. And it is just inside, and the count goes to 1-1.
Sutton here at the big A has won nine of his 14 games.
So he has been very effective here on the confines of the big A.
Although he has had his troubles against Western Division teams.
1-1 pitch, inside again, and it goes to 2-1.
Don has won five games against the West. He's won nine against Eastern Division teams.
2-1 delivery is on the way, and it's a curve ball over first strike, 2-2.
Sutton has now set down the first 10 that he's faced.
Lonnie Smith flying out to center field his first time up, working on an 11-game hitting strength.
Here's the 2-2 pitch, and it's popped up behind first base.
Back goes Gritz over his palador, and it's Gus Palador in the outfield grass making the play.
And Lonnie Smith is retired.
That is 11 in a row, set down by Sutton.
That brings up the left fielder, Rudy Law.
Rudy Law.
Rudy Law flying out to right field his first time up. He's 0-1.
Did not play in last night's game.
And the first pitch is low and outside, ball on.
The Texas Rangers won this afternoon against the O'Renaise.
So if the Angels want to hold on to their nine-game lead, they have to win tonight.
There's a pitch that goes outside, and the count is 2-0.
Law batting 2-56, one home run, and 34 runs driven in.
They play him straight away.
Here's the 2-0 pitch by Sutton, and it is on the outside corner for a strike, 2-1.
Sometimes Jim Evans, the home plate umpire, will ring up that right hand and it's pretty much on a delayed call.
Here's the 2-1 pitch on the way.
Curve ball pulled down the right field line, and that is looking foul.
And so the count goes to 2-2.
Kansas City this year did not do what they had done in the previous, oh, who knows how many years.
They have a reputation of getting off to a slow start, which they did this year.
But in the second half of the season, they always come on strong, and that did not happen this year.
One of the few times Kansas City did not put on a good spurt the second half.
There's a drive hit down the left field line, slicing down and giving chase, and it just goes foul.
So Law will have to come back.
It was only foul by about three or four feet.
To give you an example, since the All-Star break, Kansas City has played right at the 500 mark, 28-28.
And within Western Division teams, they're right at the 500 mark.
And those are the two categories where Kansas City has always been very, very tough.
It seems like they have always beaten up the teams within the division,
and they have played extremely well the second half of the season.
Well, that has not been the case this year.
2-2 pitch.
He is low outside, so it's a full count now for him, too.
But don't tell them short. They still have a good ball club.
Just because they start 15-1 half games behind, I think that's a little bit misleading.
Here's the 3-2 pitch, and there's a soft looper just over the head of Schofield in the left field,
downing up with it, getting it back to the infield until the string stops at 11.
Sutton retires the first 11 before giving up a base hit to rid you off.
And so with two men away, that brings up Jamie Quirk.
Quirk bounced out to the pitcher his only time up.
So he is 0-1.
Keep an eye on Rudy Law at first base, as we mentioned, he has 13 stolen bases.
There goes Zoe. The runner does not go, and the curve ball is swung out of mid.
He's down to first base, and Rudy Law has to dive back in.
Back out of 0-1, Quirk batting 216, five home runs and 20 runs driven in.
He is playing third base in place of George Pratt here this evening.
Still no score.
And then with a sign from Boone, a look to first base, and now Sutton goes over to first.
On back is Frank White.
Saddle a little bit more deliberate now, quickly goes to first base again.
The way this game has been going, the way that Danny Jackson's been pitching,
similar to last night, it may not take very many runs.
That is the winning.
Sutton again ready. He holds, and now quickly steps off the rubber and looks the runner back.
So a little cat and mouse game going on in the field right now between Sutton and Rudy Law.
Down again ready. He holds, and goes to first base.
Now that may be a good thing as far as Sutton is concerned,
but the guys playing defense behind him, they're going to get caught on their heels.
Because after a while, they're going to start to expect that Sutton's going to go to first base,
and he'll go ahead and make the pitch, and they get caught.
Here's the next pitch. Pitch out, nothing doing.
Rudy Law is not going, so the count is now 101.
One thing Sutton is displaying though, Ron, is a different look with each step move.
He is not just doing the same thing over and over.
I would imagine for Law, who hasn't seen him in a long time, it's got to be tough read.
I still think Jeff Zahn did it as well as anyone.
Sutton comes set, and the curve ball is popped up down the left field line.
Downing giving case, has a ways to go, and foul territory, and he makes the play.
The quirk flies out to Downing D in the inning.
And for Kansas City, no runs and a base hit.
They leave one, and after three and a half, Kansas City nothing.
Angels nothing.
In case you missed any of the Tuesday action, let's recap those for you briefly.
Then we'll get to what's been happening on a Wednesday stateside.
In the National League on Tuesday, Montreal defeated Chicago 4-1.
It was Houston 6, Cincinnati 1.
Atlanta over LA 3-1.
Philly took Pittsburgh 9-5.
New York over St. Louis 4-2.
And San Francisco meets San Diego 4-1.
In the American, Texas 10, Oakland 6.
Boston took two from Milwaukee on Tuesday.
2-1 the first game, 9-3 in the night camp.
New York over Baltimore 8-1.
Minnesota beat Cleveland 7-3.
Toronto 6-4 over Detroit.
California beat Kansas City in the first of this three-game series with the Royals 6-5.
And Seattle blanked Chicago 7-0.
All kinds of finals in now.
Montreal has beaten Pittsburgh 6-5.
And then Pittsburgh coming back in that doubleheader and whipping Montreal 4-1.
Houston over Cincy 6-1.
St. Louis has beaten Philly 8-5.
Metz over the Cubs 4-2.
Atlanta's defeated Los Angeles 4-1.
We'll give you more scores a little bit later.
San Francisco from L.A. via Airtown.
Bushnell binoculars from Ocean View binoculars in Newport Beach.
McClellan's stay for two at the Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs.
Two sets of four passes to the lap stop in Santa Ana.
To the lap stop, rather, in Santa Ana.
And there's going to be much, much more at September 28th,
and appreciation day right here at the Big A.
There's the sensei and the first pitch is in signed for ball one.
She's our TMBC, Security Pacific, designated hitter for this game,
so you want to keep track of what Doug does.
Danny Jackson winds, and the 1-0 pitch is hit high and deep to the right for this field.
Back goes lost. See you later.
1-0, Angel.
There's not a ballpark in the major leagues going to hold that one.
As the sensei hits his 24th home run of the year, RBI number 90, and the Angels are on top.
You know, Rob, that is an unusual event when Danny Jackson is pitching
because if there's one thing he has been very good at the last couple of years,
and that's limiting home runs by the opposition.
Here's George Henrich, and the first pitch misses for ball one.
He's given up 11 this year before that one. That makes 12 now.
And seven all of last year, and that's a very low total for a starter as he is.
Yeah, you're right about that. Next pitch is over for a strike.
But there wasn't any doubt about that one.
Doug the sensei, the second half of the season, has hit 14 home runs and driven in 43.
Here's the 1-1 pitch, and George Henrich jackknifing out of the way.
That almost got him.
He really had to hurry to get out of the way of that pitch, and the count goes to 2-1.
Well, that ball went about half the way back into those red seats beyond the left field fence
between the 362 and 370 marker.
That's a long way, folks, because those seats don't go up very high,
but they go back far.
And so when you hit one about half the way back into those seats, that's a long way.
Henrich fouls one back. That account remains to him here.
Speaking of that, we saw in batting practice today something that even makes the sensei's home run look a little pale.
Well, you're talking about bow.
That's right. Bow Jackson.
2-2 pitch to Henrich. There's a chopper toward third.
Quirk coming in. He gloves it. Throws the first dot at time.
Henrich beats it out.
So, George Henrich picks up his first set of the game and then brings up Bobby Grich.
Just very much.
There's Bobby. He's one for one.
And the pitch by Jackson. Grich around the butt, and he takes one right around the knees for a strike.
So manager Gene Mott playing little ball here, asking Bobby Grich to bump Henrich along,
and that maybe Berlson or Paladar could drive it around.
Angels on top, one-nother.
What Al was referring to in batting practice prior to the ball game,
there's a toss to first base and Henrich is back.
Bow Jackson hit one about three-quarters of the way back into those seats where Doug just launched one.
And then he almost hit one to dead center field beyond the green carpet.
It went way back there. Grich around the butt and takes this one inside, even up here.
And anyone who's been to Anaheim Stadium and has looked out to center field
and sees the green carpet covering the seats out there beyond the fence
has to just marvel at the fact anyone could hit the ball that far.
I can hit one that far.
Yeah, with your golf club.
But it says title is on the ball.
Yeah, but you might have to pull out the driver to do it.
One ball, one strike. Bobby, one for three last night's game.
In fact, if you take a look at Grichy over the last month, the last 31 ball games,
he has really been hitting well. There's a toss to first base.
The last 31 games, Bobby batting 3-10. He has 31 hits and exactly 100 at bats.
So he really and truly has had a really good 31 game.
A swing and a foul tip off of the mask to the catcher.
Yeah, the count is now 1-2.
Actually, Ron, you go down the lineup.
Pettis, Skocium, downing to Sensei, Hendrick, Grich, Boone.
They've all had good second halves and that's why the Angels have had so many wins.
That's right.
Why don't you just take a look at the last 20 games for example.
Here's the 1-2 pitch and it's found a way off to our right.
And it remains at 1-2. The Angels have won 16 of the last 20.
Well, you've got to win 17 of 20 to gain any ground.
The Angels started that last road trip with a 7-1 half game lead
and they came home with a 9 game lead.
They picked up a game and a half of the Rangers.
Here's the next pitch by Jackson and it's inside with a curve ball.
The count goes to 2-2.
Did you read Larry Parrish's quote in the paper today?
Yeah, I saw that this morning and he says the only hope for the Texas Rangers
is if the Angels have the bottom fall out of them.
That's a fairly good assessment.
2-2 pitch foul straight back again. The count remains at 2-2.
He also added that we're going to have to win just about every game.
Yep.
And that may not be enough.
Two balls, two strikes to Bobby.
He's batting 2-88.
And with that last base hit he's batting 2-90.
There's a curve ball hit well to center field but not well enough.
Wilson is waiting for it.
And he makes the catch and there's that number one.
You know a lot earlier in the broadcast I decided to bring up something.
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...about Danny Jackson who was cut off at the inning where I wonder if I get your feedback on it now.
During the World Series the Cardinals apparently were impressed with the Royal pitching staff
but of all of the starters, Saber Hagen, Zubizar, Jackson, Lebran,
it was Danny Jackson who most impressed them.
What are your thoughts on him as a pitcher?
Well I'm trying to figure out how he's 10-10 because in watching him pitch
I've always thought he's a much better pitcher than that.
There's a tailing fastball outside for ball one to Rick Burlson.
Burley is 0-1.
And having never hit off of him it is tough to really make an accurate evaluation
but based upon what I've seen he should have better numbers than what he has posted.
...that's in the dirt and Sunberg blocks it and then can't find it.
Down to second base goes Hendrick.
There for a second Sunberg looked like the ball was in front of him
but apparently could not see it and then all of a sudden was looking all over the place.
And that allowed Hendrick to go down to second base.
I'm sure they're going to charge a wild pitch.
And the ball was sitting in the batter's box in front of Rick Burlson.
That was a quirk. I should say that. That was a sunburn.
He's a third. ERA of 3.49 though Al. That's not bad.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good as far as they evaluate pitchers today.
2-0 pitch is outside 3-0.
So let's see if Burley's given the green light.
He has been in a slight slump. He's had three hits in his last 21 advance.
Let's see if Gene Mochner's in the green light.
Hendrick with the lead at second base.
And the 3-0 pitch is high, ball four.
That is the first base on balls issued by Jackson.
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It's just Paladoer standing in.
Jackson looks back to second base and the left-hander's pitch is on the inside corner for a strike.
Gus bounced out to second. He's only time up.
Hendrick at second. Burrow's in at first. Angels lead at 1-0.
Jackson with the signs from Sunberg.
And the strike one pitch is on the inside corner for strike two.
And so Paladoer, having a rough time pulling the trigger here, has fallen behind 0-2.
Biancalotta at line at double play, depth near the bag at second.
The strike two pitch is a bouncer toward third.
Quirk has it, two wide for one. On to first base.
The sights here and they turn the double play.
So Paladoer hits into a 5-4-3 double play.
And for the Angels in their half of the inning, they come up with one run and two hits.
A home run by Doug DeSensei, his 24th of the year, a man has left.
And after four complete here at the Big A, Angels won. Kansas City, nothing.
And if you're joining us late, Kansas City Royals visiting at the Big A at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
And of course our play-by-play man, Al Connan, assisted by Ron Fairley on the Angels Network out of KMBC, Los Angeles.
Let's wrap up those scores for you, by the way.
Texas over Oakland, 4-0.
Baltimore defeated the Yankees, 8-3.
Detroit beat Toronto, 8-6. It was Cleveland 5, Minnesota 2.
Boston took Milwaukee, 4-1.
Two games still going on aside from ours.
Bottom of the fourth, it's the White Sox and Seattle scoreless.
Top of the fifth, San Diego leading San Francisco, 1-0.
Earlier in the National League, Montreal defeated Pittsburgh, 6-5.
And then Pittsburgh came back in that second game of that doubleheader, defeated Montreal, 4-1.
Houston took Cincinnati, 6-1.
St. Louis over Philadelphia, 8-5.
Mets took Chicago, 4-2.
And Atlanta beat Los Angeles, 4-1.
Dodgers having a terrible time this year.
And the Mets, by beating Chicago, of course, have clinched the National East.
Here's the way it looks in the American West right now with the Texas win over Oakland.
Texas is now 8-1-0 games behind the Angels.
Then it's Kansas City, 15-1-0.
And then you get down into the big numbers.
Oakland, 18, Seattle, 20, Chicago, 20-1-2.
And Minnesota down in the cellar, 22.
And the American East, Boston leading New York and Toronto now by 10 games as a result of the Boston win over Milwaukee.
And New York and Toronto dropping respectively to Baltimore and Detroit.
Well, we have completed the full inning to play here at the Big A.
Right now the Angels lead it by a score of 1-0.
It'll be White, Sainter, and Jackson to be facing down seven.
Who are pitching a very strong game for the Angels.
And once again, returning to microphone, here's Al Tunnel.
All right, Ron, the Angels with the lead.
Don Sutton trying to make it stand up.
And his first one to White is a fastball little high, one ball, no sign.
Frank popped up to short in the second inning.
And he's trying to get the Royals started here in the fifth.
Sutton into his windup, and the 1-0 delivery is a fastball little high to an 0.
The only run, as you heard Ron describe, a solo home run by Douglas Hinsay, number 24 on the year for him.
And that leads the club.
He also has 90 RBIs now, and he's got a good shot at 100 before the year is over.
That would be a career high for him.
The 2-0 pitch to White is on the inside corner, 2-1.
So the Angels on top, but this one far from over.
A 1-0 lead against a good team like the Royals certainly, well, certainly not enough, you would think.
The 2-1 pitch is outside and high, ball three.
Three-and-one to Frank White.
Both pitchers have been sharp tonight, particularly Sutton has given up just one hit to add a single to the left by Rudy Lohr last inning.
Don builds to the windup, and it's 3-1 to Frank White.
High pop fly behind second base, shallow center field, Schofield and Paladar are there, and it's got Paladar to make the catch.
So White skies to his counterpart, second baseman Paladar, and that will bring up Kevin Seifert.
And those certainly folks at Farmer's Insurance have discovered that...
...
...and here's Sizer.
He's hitting 3-16 in his brief stint as a big leaguer, and he has been very impressive and versatile too.
Sutton starts him, and the first pitch is a breaking ball on the inside corner for a strike, 1-1.
Sizer, we're seeing as a first baseman, but the Royals have used him at third base and in the outfield too.
At time called Bob Boone, some adapt by Sutton to have a brief conversation as they discuss strategy against Sizer and also, undoubtedly, the sign sequence they're using here.
But Sizer's certainly a versatile athlete, and as we discussed before, he has a good compact swing, and that has been noted by both sides of the field.
There's a breaking ball outside, 1-1 to him.
On deck, Bo Jackson, Jim Sundberg after that.
The Angels and the Royals going at it here in the fifth inning, and it's 1-0 Angels.
John Sutton cranks it up, the 1-1 delivery is just blowing away, 2-1.
For Sutton, this is his second start against the Royals this year.
He had a no decision back in June.
He's three in three lifetimes.
Sizer takes a breaking ball a little low, make a 3-1 to him.
It has been a most memorable year for Don Sutton.
He won his 300th game of his career back in June, the 3-1 pitch, and it's high and away, ball four, and Sutton issues a rare walk.
In fact, his first of the game, and Bo Jackson will come up.
Sutton also, with his victory over Oakland in August, completed a rare feat, having beaten every team in the major leagues now.
Just a few days ago, he got his 100th strikeout of this year.
That's 21 consecutive years he's done that.
And what has to be so amazing about all of these accomplishments, Sutton at 41, still going strong.
He has 309 career victories, and he's leading tonight.
Here's Jackson, and he grounds the first pitch to short.
Schofield has it, goes to second for one, on to first and to third, and Gritz digs it out, but doesn't get the call from first-pace umpire, Derwin Marrow.
And Gritz just throws up his arms just to say, why not?
And the answer from Marrow was pretty simple, I don't think you got him.
But the force on Sizer completed six to four, Jackson aboard on the fielder's choice, although the Angels thought they completed a twin killing.
But Bo can motor down the line.
So two outs and Sunberg will step in.
Sutton delivers to him, and it's swung on and fouled away on one.
You know, with all the speed that Bo Jackson has, one day he may become a big base stealer too.
He certainly could learn the mechanics of a quicker start, and he has the raw speed to outrun most catcher's throws.
So among his many potential attributes, base stealing might be one of them.
Boy, it's unbelievable all the things he can do.
The strike one, Sunberg, the text swing, and he went around.
Or did he? Let's double check.
One ball, one strike to count to Sunberg. Platham prior to Jim Evans saying no, he did not.
Two outs, we're in the fifth. One nothing, Angels. Jackson in first base, Sunberg at the play.
And Sutton goes over and drives Jackson back.
Bo Jackson, he can hit for power. He can run like the wind.
It'll be interesting to see how his career goes. There's a fastball inside, two and one.
Really, the American League has been blessed with some great young talent this year.
Asaco, Joyner, Incavilla, Tardable. Some of the young pitches have come along.
Bo Jackson now added to the list. That throws well for the future.
The American League really piling up some stars, and really, I think on balance, if you compare them to the National League,
they've got a better crop right now. That's just my opinion anyway.
Here's the two-one delivery. There goes Jackson. The pitch is inside to throw to Sackett, not nearly in time.
And the ball goes on into center field. Jackson gets up and goes to third, and he makes it there easily.
For Bo Jackson, that is his second stolen base as a big leaguer.
And he forces an error on Boone as well. Well, there's an example of what we were talking about.
He beat that play without any problem at all. He didn't do it in textbook fashion.
It looked like he went in with an awkward head-first slide, but there was no doubt at all that he had made the play.
So the tying run is at third base now with a count three and one on Sunberg. One nothing, angels in the fifth.
Sutton into the windup and the pitch. And it's low, ball four, and that's the second walk Don has issued in the inning.
And that is really rare for him. He came in with only 40 walks all year and some 30 starts,
so you don't have to be a mathematician to realize he rarely walks more than one a game. And here he has walked two in an inning.
And that has been the Kansas City rally in this frame. They don't have a base hit yet.
Buddy Biancolana stepping in trying to provide it. Sutton delivers, and his fast ball is on the outside corner, strike one.
Two outs, runners at the corner for the Royals. Sutton protecting a one nothing lead. Jackson at third, Sunberg at first.
The strike one to Biancolana is a breaking ball that's just outside. Boone holding it there for play-dump fire Jim Evans.
He says, nope, just missed. The total is one sided right now. One run, five hits for the angels. No runs, just one hit for the Royals.
Biancolana popped up to third his first time up and he swings and fouls one at the plate. One and two.
Last night Ron told you that Buddy Biancolana has just two home runs. Both of them came against the angels in a series in June.
One was hit off of Ron Romanek and the other off of Don Sutton.
And thus the angels calling him the babe Biancolana. Sutton has a one and two. Don starts to deliver but time called and Biancolana backs away.
Lots of room in right center for the young shortstop who's been alternating at the short patch this year with Angel Salazar.
Next one is cut out of this, strike three, a fast ball and Biancolana went after a bad one. It was up and in and he couldn't lay off.
Don Sutton gets into some trouble of his own making in the fifth inning but he extricates himself. No runs, no hits, no errors.
Two men left at the corners and we'll head to the bottom of the fifth. Angels won, Royals nothing.
Here's a story you may have missed on Tuesday and we think it might be of interest enough to be worth repeating.
Two children fired employees of the Los Angeles Dodgers and two of their girlfriends have been charged with embezzling more than $332,000 from the Dodgers between 1983 and 1985.
The district attorney's office in Los Angeles says that former payroll clerk Edward Campos conspired with the other employees to credit them for hours that they didn't work.
One of those workers were security guards. The other, the seventh is also a clerk for the Dodgers or was, certainly no longer.
Now Campos who worked for the Dodgers for 18 years is also accused of padding payroll checks and adding the names of two girlfriends and also some fictitious names to the Dodger payroll.
Prosecutors say that Campos got about a 50% kickback on the paychecks and this alleged embezzlement was uncovered by an employee who took over Campos' duties when he became ill in June of last year.
None of the former Dodger employees fired because of this alleged scheme were players. We emphasize that.
So again, some $332,000 allegedly embezzled from the Dodgers between 1983 and 1985.
Well the American League batting race heating up considerably on Tuesday. Wade Boggs was the leader, 351. Don Mattingly right behind him at 348.
They both did nicely on Tuesday. Mattingly a little better. Now it's Boggs, 352. Mattingly, 350.
Welcome back to Anaheim Stadium. I'm Al Connand with Ron Fairley and Dick Nelson. Nice to have you with us as this series with the Royals continues.
Angels leading at one to nothing on Doug the Sensei's fourth inning home run.
And speaking of home runs, with this being the home half of the fifth, it's time to play the Chevy Home Run Contest.
Bob Boone stepping in to begin things. Jackson delivers to him and a breaking ball is swung on a miss on one.
In the jackpot tonight, $300. And our contestant, Susan Kintz of Upland.
Jackson right back to the plate and the 0-1 to Boone is on the inside corner, make it 0-2.
Boone of course the hero last night and he could become a hero tonight to Susan Kintz with a home run here.
Jackson strike two pitch with a fastball outside, 1-2.
If an Angel hit a grand slam in this inning, Susan would win either her choice of a 1986 Chevy Nova or S-10 pickup.
The 1-2 to Bob Boone. It's a line drive at second baseman, Frank Wide, who takes a step or two to his left and makes the catch.
So Boone hits it on the button but is retired and that'll bring up Gary Pettis who has grounded a second and butted successfully toward third.
So one down and Gary's up again.
We're in the Chevy home running, $300 in the jackpot for Susan Kintz of Upland.
Gary Pettis taking his turn. He's hit in 10 of his last 12 ball games so he's been swinging well.
In fact, he's up close to 340 during September. There's a fastball high to him, want to know.
He's had a good last month, Schofield has. So his downing obviously to Sensei.
The Angels collectively have been playing very well.
Jackson's next pitch is cut on a miss, 1-1.
Gary up there right-handed and as you know from this side of the plate he generally does better than from the other.
He's hitting 280 as a right-hand batter, 252 from the left side.
The 1-1 delivery and it's down low to him, two balls and a strike.
Bottom of the fifth inning here at the Big Ag. The Angels enjoying a 1-0 lead.
They won last night trying to win tonight. Fastball is outside to Pettis in the count 3-1.
And Jackson certainly does not want to walk in if he can avoid it.
Though Jackson stole a base in the top of the inning, Gary Pettis would be a good candidate to do the same should he get a board in the bottom of the inning.
The pitch to Gary is flung on a miss, good slider and on the hand, 3-2.
Danny Jackson out of the University of Oklahoma, only 24.
And he figures to be a mainstay for the Royals for some years to come yet.
He cranks it up once more, the 3-2 to Pettis is a fly ball lifted down the right-hander line.
That'll slice though and drift back into the crowd.
So it's still full to Pettis, 3-2. One out, bottom of the fifth, 1-0 Angels.
Arrows facing another left-hander, Lee Brant last night. Jackson tonight.
They're 22 and 21 against lefties this year. Pettis swings over the top of a breaking ball and strikes down.
And that's on the second K for Jackson in the game and that'll set the stage for Schofield who has one hit and two trips tonight.
The Angels, while they are one game over 500 against lefties as we have told you from time to time,
since June 1st they have turned things around against lefties.
They're 19 and 9.
The pitch to Schofield inside, make it 1-0.
Of course everything's been going well for them.
They've won the close ones, they've come from behind, they've gotten great pitching, they've gotten the long ball.
The ground ball to the hole, it's short and through to Lafayette.
Schofield 2-3. Rudy Larrop to get the ball, brings it back in.
So the Angels now with six hits against Jackson, although this one comes with two outs.
And Brian Dowding will get a chance to swing.
And he's 0-2, fouling the first in the opening inning, striking out looking to end the third.
But you know the Angels, 23 games over 500 right now.
They have a chance to do something no other Angel club has done.
There's a fastball outside, check that inside, Dowding 1-0.
And that something is win more than 93 games.
They can get up there even beyond 95 if they stay hot.
The 1-0 pitch and it's down low to an 0.
The magic number for the Angels of course is 10, they'd like to drop it to 9,
but for Gene Maugh, the magic number is different.
The magic number is 7.
He wants them to win 90 games and they're 7 away from doing that.
Jackson's 2-0 to Dowding finds the inside edge, 2-1.
Of course you've heard Gene's explanation for why he feels that's important.
He just doesn't see the Rangers or any other team reaching that plateau other than the Angels.
So they get there, he feels they're home for it.
Schofield drives them through over to first base and you can understand what Jackson's thinking about.
While Pettis gets all the headlines as far as the base stealing is concerned on the Angels,
Schofield can steal his share too, he has 22.
Only been caught about 4 times this year.
Dowding lets them go by inside, 3-1.
1-0 Angels, bottom of the fifth.
2-0 Schofield at first.
Brian Dowding at the plate, trying to find a way to break through on Danny Jackson.
His pitch is high, ball four and the Angels have something building here in the fifth inning.
With two outs, Schofield has single to left, Dowding has walked.
And now here's the sixth day who has already homered in the ball game to establish the 1-0 lead.
Now just a quick math work here.
If the Angels win seven more games for Texas to tie the Angels,
the Rangers have to win 14 of the last 16.
And seven games with 19 to play doesn't seem like that tough of an assignment.
The pitch to the Sensei is way high, 1-0.
Well with each passing day, the calendar working against the Rangers
and Ron's illustration there with the numbers certainly showing you why.
Two on, two out, the Sensei whites.
The 1-0 from Jackson is low and inside, making 2-0.
Danny has already been stung by the long ball off the bat of the Sensei
and he is pitching cautiously only to fall behind.
That time call, his catcher Jim Sundberg comes out to the mound to have a visit with him.
In the bullpen in left field for the Royals, there is some activity.
We can't quite discern who it is, but we can see the ball flying around out there.
And Sundberg comes back behind the dish.
In the inning, Boon lined out the second.
Pettis then struck out, but Schofield singles through the hole on the left side.
Downing walks and now it's the Sensei with the count his way 2-0.
The pitch from Jackson is way high and outside, ball three.
It looked like he reached back for something extra there.
Let him hit. Why not?
He's the one man in your lineup, one of the couple who could break the game open with one swing.
Jackson ready to pitch, but the Sensei is not ready to hit, so time call.
Just as Jackson was about to unleash it.
1-0 Angels, bottom of the fifth.
We're in the Chevy home run contest.
And the Sensei with that home run potential.
Schofield at second, Downing at first, 1-0 Angels.
The 3-0 is on the inside corner, 3-1.
So they may have given the Sensei the green light, but the pitch was not to his liking.
It would be hard to tell whether or not he was because it was a tough pitch to handle.
The 3-1 is a check swing and that's going to cost him a strike too.
Doug started to move toward first base.
But first base up are Joe with Merrill who's already drawn the ire of the Angels from a call last inning.
Doesn't make the Sensei too happy as he brings up the right hand and it's 3-2.
I think Doug would just soon hit anyway.
The base on balls doesn't do anything for you.
As we mentioned after his home run, he has 90 RBI.
Seven shy of his career best, ten shy of the century mark.
A plateau he has never reached.
The 3-2, there go the runners and it's foul tipped into Sunberg, cloud strike three.
And the Sensei is going to argue.
He's going to argue that the ball missed the bat and he was on his way to first base.
But play-doh player Jim Evans says, no, it hit the bat, you're out.
And the inning is over.
So while the Sensei argues, we can tell you we didn't have a winner in our Chevy home run contest.
And our jackpot increases tomorrow to $325.
And there will always be that chance for the big prize, a new Chevy Nova or S10 pickup if an Angel hits a grand slam.
So here in the fifth for the Angels, no runs.
One hit, no errors, they lead two and will head to the sixth inning.
Still, Angels won and the Royals nothing.
And if you're joining us late, this is of course the Royals visiting the Angels at Anaheim.
Danny Jackson starting for the Royals, still pitching with a 10 and 10 record.
And Don Sutton has started for the Angels and he is still doing his thing, 14 and 9 on the season.
And in case you didn't hear the news, the Mets pretty well certifying.
What most of us had concluded some time back have clinched the National East Division with a 4-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
Dwight Gooden pitching a six-hitter.
Dave Magadon went three for four, giving the Mets 95 victories, more than the second place Phillies could achieve even by winning the rest of their games.
There was a crowd of 47,823 cheering under a full moon.
Gooden raised his record to 15 and 6.
Dennis Eckersley took the loss.
Dennis now 6 and 10 on the year and the Mets finally wrapped up a title they could have really formalized some five days ago when they started that series with the Phillies.
Magadon, a late replacement for first baseman Keith Hernandez who is down with a virus,
produced his first Major League RBI with third and fifth inning singles.
Gooden lacking his best stuff in this game, but he struck out seven, walked four, and this is Dwight's 11th complete game of the season.
The enthusiasm of the fans began building with nine outs to go, reached a crescendo with one out to go, and the fans began chanting,
We're number one, we're number one, and so they are.
Gooden struck out when he struck out eight, by the way.
He retired Chico Walker for the last out.
The crowd just went into a frenzy.
Many of them had gone onto the field already in fair territory before the final out, and some 5,000 people were on the field as soon as second baseman Wally Bachman
threw to first baseman Keith Hernandez for the final out, and that was it.
No other National League East team has ever clinched the title that early.
We'll tell you more about that at our next break.
Let's get back.
Here in the sixth inning, Willie Wilson leading it off against Sutton, one nothing angels. Wilson already up there with a count one and one. Sutton kicks and delivers again, and it popped up right around second base.
Shortstop Dick Schofield calling for it, and he makes the catch.
So just like that, a man is gone, and that'll bring up Lonnie Smith, who has flied to center and popped to second.
Bomber Johnson.
Lonnie Smith has been smoking the baseball, as I mentioned, 11 consecutive games in which he's hit.
He takes a fastball high, 1-0.
In fact, he is making a run at the 300 mark, nothing new for Lonnie Smith.
Well, in the National League, he had several 300 years. In fact, his lifetime average in the senior circuit, close to 300.
He swings and foul-tips one into Boone's glove, one and one.
And he looked back on Lonnie Smith's track record.
339 average at Philadelphia in 1980, 324 in 81.
Only hit 257 last year with Kansas City, but much better than that this year, and it appears he's made the adjustment for the new league.
The 1-1 pitch is a fastball high, 2-1.
Ron, we had the bottom of the fifth inning end on an unusual note, a foul-tip call by Pletum Fire Jim Evans, who were strike three to end the inning.
And DeSense argued vehemently, and he would think he would know if there had been a foul-tip.
The pitch to Smith has pulled on the left field line foul, so it's even now 2-2.
And it just seemed to me that that was unusual. Your thoughts on the way that inning ended?
Well, normally if that ball hits the bat ever so slightly, you're going to feel it.
The only thing I'm going on, I took a look at the replay, and Sundberg, the catcher, never hesitated.
He just went flat on off toward the dugout.
So apparently the ball did hit the bat, or at least Sundberg thought so, too.
Here's the 2-2 on the way to Lonnie Smith.
And a strike three call, big bending curve, and Sutton got it in there.
Three strikeouts for him.
Of course you can look at it another way, too, Ron. If you're the catcher and you hear, see right, three, get out of there.
Don't wait to argue about it.
But I think your point's well taken. Sundberg, at least you would have thought, might have hesitated, and he didn't.
And there are times when that ball hits the glove in just a certain way, that it may sound like there's a little tick up there.
Here's Rudy Law with two outs, and the pitch to him is away. One ball, no strikes. Rudy a left-hand swinger.
The Totals in the ball game, while they are tipped the Angels' way.
Not overpoweringly so. Law hits a pop fly in the shallow right-center field.
Pettis, Hendrick, and Pollard are all there, and it's Gary Pettis to put the squeeze on it.
So in the sixth inning, Don Sutton continues to roll. He's only allowed one hit. That was to Law back in the fourth.
And we'll head to the bottom of the sixth. Angels won. Kansas City nothing.
We have a little bit of confusion surrounding that had met Cubs game.
We said that Dave Magadon replaced Keith Hernandez, who was supposed to be down with a virus.
But then our copy said that Wally Backman threw the first baseman, Keith Hernandez, for the final out.
So we're not quite sure if Keith was in that game or not. I'm sure he wanted to be for clinching the division.
We'll see if we can check up on that and find out what was going on.
We did mention that no other National League East team has ever clinched a title this early in the season.
The 1972 Pirates wrapped it up on the 21st of September.
They needed only 144 games, though, opposed to New York's 145.
And with their third division title, the Mets earned the right, of course, to oppose the West Division champions in the National League playoffs.
And we can assume that those will probably be the Astros.
Larry King had a little comment the other night, Larry King on Mutual.
He said it'll probably be harder for the Mets to get past the Astros than it would be for them to win the World Series.
The really big obstacle is getting the pennant in the National League.
And after that, it might just be anticlimactic. So we'll wait and see.
The Astros could very well wind up taking the National.
Dwight Gooden, as we mentioned, was the winning pitcher.
It was kind of chilly in New York as we get into early fall, or late summer, really, I still officially, but early fall.
And Gooden, they found him blowing on his hand a little bit to kind of warm it up.
But he contended with base runners in almost every inning, but did win the game, and that's what's important.
Bottom of the sixth inning at Anaheim Stadium. Good crowd on hand, good ballgame to go with it.
One-nothing, the Angels lead. That home run by DeSensei back in the fourth inning still looming is the difference.
Danny Jackson towing the rubber. He'll go to work against George Hendrick, who is one for two.
Jackson cranks it up and delivers, and his first pitch of this inning is over for a strike called on one.
The Angels trying to take yet another step toward that Western Division championship.
The O-one pitch, and Hendrick waves at the breeze and doesn't get it on two.
And without question, they have their fate in their own hands now.
Jackson right back O-two, and Hendrick takes it away, one and two.
As we mentioned, the home run, the big story tonight, that has been the only scoring blow of the game.
And it would have figured that a home run would be prominent on this date, September 17th.
The one-two pitch. It's a line drive in the right field, but Bo Jackson has a beat on it, and he comes on and makes the play.
Before we tell you about the home run ball and this date in history, let's pause for station identification.
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Got a good game going, and hope you're enjoying it around the world, wherever you happen to be listening.
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Bobby Gritz stepping in here in the sixth inning, one-nothing Angels as Jackson misses outside, one and O.
The Brewers of Anaheim.
Gritz takes one on the outside corner to even things at one and one.
Murielson on deck, Palador hoping for a chance in the hole.
One-nothing Angels in the sixth.
Jackson kicks and comes right back to Bobby in the dirt, and Sundberg knocks it down, two and one to Gritz.
As we were saying before the station break there, this date in baseball history figures very prominently for one individual in particular, with reference to the home run ball.
That man not in the lineup tonight for the Angels, but here nonetheless, Reggie Jackson.
That ball is high to Gritz three and one, because on this date, September 17, 1984, Reggie Jackson hit his 500th career homer.
Gritz waves at the breeze and doesn't get it, three and two.
He hit it against the Royals, but Black was on the mound that day.
And what made it such a special touch was that it was also on this date, 17 years before, that Reggie Jackson hit his first career home run, and he also did it here at the Big A.
Gritz hits a line drive into left field, but Rudy Lohr goes back a step or two, then puts on the brakes and makes the catch, and Gritz is retired for route number two, and that will bring up Burleson.
So Reggie, who has always had a flair for the dramatic, certainly put it all together.
September 17, he hit his first home run at the Big A, and he hit his 500th home run on the same date, 17 years later.
Pits to Burley is a fastball for a strike on one.
Jackson right back to the plate, and Burleson swings and misses on two.
That one.
One-nothing. The angels leading. Jackson to the plate, and Burleson takes just inside one and two.
You know, speaking of Reggie and the flair for the dramatic, I have a feeling he'll be hitting some dramatic home runs before this campaign is over.
The one-two pitch is grounded foul, third base way, still one and two.
Danny Jackson into the windup, and the one-two to Burleson has popped a foul below us here in the press area.
So Burleson's still alive.
Ron told you earlier that though he's hitting around 285, he's been fighting a slump lately.
He's now three for his last 21. His next pitch is high, so two and two.
But that gives you a good indication of how it's gone for Burleson.
He's come down to 285, 286, and if he warms up again, he'll go back up near that 300 level. He's never hit over 300 in his career.
The two-two pitch is high and tight, and it spins him out of there, so they count four.
Two down, bases empty, bottom of the sixth, one nothing angel.
As long as things stand the way they do, we'll be referring back to that fourth inning when Doug the Sensei provided a difference with a solo home run his 24th of the year.
Burleson pulls a foul, third base side, and that kangaroos into the stands, and then skips back a few rows.
Three and two remain.
Outfield giving Burleson lots of room in left center. The infield pretty much straightaway.
Danny Jackson nodding yes to Sundberg. Here's the full count offering.
Brown ball hit on a big hop towards short. Bianca Lana waiting for it.
Guns over the sights are in time, and the inning is over for the angels.
So Jackson's still pitching well. He gets the side in order in the sixth.
We'll go to the Sabbath when Ron returns with the score. Angels won, Royals nothing.
Now this ABC News brief. We have a new Supreme Court Chief Justice, Senator Paul Tribble, announce the Senate's vote.
On this vote there are 65 yeas and 33 nays. The nomination of William Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the United States is confirmed.
The Senate also has confirmed Antonin Scalia to take the seat being vacated by Rehnquist. That vote was 98 to nothing.
The Mets have become the first team to clinch a spot in the major league playoffs. They beat the Cubs tonight in New York 4-2.
25 Soviet UN diplomats are being kicked out of the US by the Reagan administration.
They've got two weeks to get out, and US officials deny that this action has anything to do with the Soviet detention of US reporter Nicholas Danilov.
No claims of responsibility yet for the latest bombing in Paris. A bomb today killed five people and injured more than 50 others.
The same terrorists who say they planted five bombs in the French capital in 10 days say that they're going to start staging attacks in the US.
From ABC News, I'm Marcia Slaughter.
A little football news. The Philadelphia Eagles earlier this week have released running back Ernest Jackson.
He'd run for 1,028 yards last season, but apparently didn't impress his new coach, Buddy Ryan, former defensive coordinator of course, of the Bears.
Jackson was picked up by the Eagles from the Chargers for two draft picks in September of last year. He was Philadelphia's leading rusher last season,
but Ryan and Jackson apparently didn't take to each other. Ryan criticized his blocking, his running, his pass catching abilities.
Well, there wasn't much else to criticize, so Jackson is gone from the Eagles.
Six innings have been played tonight here at Anaheim Stadium. Don Sutton and Danny Jackson putting on a pitching clinic.
And right now the Eagles with the best of it leading 1-0. The only mistake, a fastball to DeSensei in the fourth inning,
and Doug turned it around and sent it deep over the left field offense to provide the scoring.
Sutton meanwhile has allowed just one base hit, that a single by Rudy Law, back in the fourth inning.
And he goes to work now in the seventh against Jamie Quirk. And going to work again for us, take you along with a play-by-play.
Here's Ron. Thank you very much. I guess that's my lead. I got to hold it, right? That's right.
Well, you provided the lead. The least you can do is hold on to it now.
Here's the first pitch to Quirk, and there's a curveball high and outside, ball one.
Quirk is 0-2 in the game. He's bounced out to the pitcher and fired out to left field. Left hand hitter.
Well, now then you have to win something, 1-0. And 2-1. Here's the 1-0 pitch. And it's just outside, the count is 2-0.
I feel a little bit for Bob Rowe and his highlight package, though.
It's going to be one shot. It's going to be short.
And Bob, if you're listening, stretch it out the best you can. Yeah, make it live. Make it live.
Here's the 2-0 pitch. And a loop toward center field could be trouble.
Pettis coming on, and he's going to have to lose a ball for a base hit.
So Quirk starts things here in the seventh inning with a blooper to center field. He's now 1-3.
And that will bring up the second baseman, Frank White.
Second baseman, Frank White.
White this evening has popped up the short and popped up the second base.
Sutton started the game by retiring the first 11.
And then he set down 13 or 14 before getting up a base on ball.
Here's a pitch to White, and it's just outside, ball one.
You have to be careful with Frank White.
When he started his career, he was really not a home run hitter.
However, in the last two years, he started playing long ball.
He has hit 19 home runs this year and driven in 79.
There's a shot that is fouled down the left field line, and that evens up the count.
And that's exactly what I mean right there.
White had that big end of the bat out in front, and he hit it hard.
And then he pulled it foul.
Let's take a look at the last two years at about White in the home run.
There's one that's a big bouncer to Gritch at first.
He goes to second for the force out, and they do not return the throw.
And so couldn't Bobby Gritch with a good play as White bounces one to Bobby at first base,
and he forces Quirk at second.
That is 3-6 in the putout.
And that brings up Kevin Sacher.
But just to give you an idea, last year, White hit 22 home runs.
That is a career high for him, and he's hit 19 this year.
And the RBIs by White, 79, that's a career high.
He's having another good year.
Here's Kevin Sacher, the first baseman stand again.
Kevin, over one, he has lined out the short and then walked.
So he is over one.
Sutton stepping off the rubber.
Sacher is hit in seven of the ten major league games in which he's played.
Really does not have a position as of yet.
Here's the first pitch, and it's a curveball outside for ball one.
Not that he can't play, and not that he's a bad defensive player,
it's just that right now in the scheme of things, he really does not have a set position to play.
And there's a chance that maybe he'll be the left fielder next year.
Maybe he'll play a little bit of first base, depending on how Steve Balboni counts.
There's pitches outside, and the count is now two and up.
Balboni hurt, by the way, along with George Brett.
You take those two guys out of the lineup, and that's their home run and RBI men.
And this team does not have anywhere near the intimidation factor that it has with those two guys, does it?
Two-o pitch, he has swung on and popped up off of first base.
Rich, over near the dugout, is waiting for it, and the ball goes just out of reach.
It goes into the first row, and so the count is now two and one.
On deck is Bo Jackson, angels lead it one to another.
The difference in the ball game, Doug DeSensei's home run.
DeSensei has 24 home runs on the year, that's tops in the team.
Sutton staring down at Boone.
There goes the runner, the pitcher, swung on and hit it to right field, giving ground to Hendrick.
He's there, and he makes the catch, and White has to go back to first base.
And so they had the hit and run on.
And Sizer flies out to right field, that's out number two, and that brings up the right fielder, Bo Jackson.
Now you recall last night, just about this time of the game, actually last night it was in the eighth inning.
And right now it's in the seventh inning, but Jackson with a two run homer to right field to tie the game at five.
And then the angels came right back and they won it, when Boone singled in to right field to drive in Devon White.
So here he is, nothing but power standing in.
And the first pitch is low and outside, ball one.
Jackson is batting 3-13, two home runs, four runs driven in.
He has hit in six of the eight major league games that he has played in.
And there is not a point in any ballpark that he can't hit it out of.
The 1-0 pitch, and Sutton starting to make the pitch, slip to the mound and stop and that's a ball.
He started to make a pitch and then slipped.
And now the tying run is in scoring position.
But as you think it through just for a second, that is a very smart move by Don Sutton.
Because he was in the middle of his wind up and something slipped and he had enough agility in his mind to stop.
Because if he throws the pitch to Jackson and makes a bad pitch, Jackson can hit one out of here.
And so Sutton stopping and now all he has to do, hopefully, is that is get Jackson out.
But he did not want to make that one bad pitch if he had slipped out there in the mound.
Here is the 1-0 pitch and it is blowing off.
No, it is blowing inside. Once again it looks like Jim Evans is going to ring up a strike and the count is now 2-0.
I have seen pitchers on the mound slip and end up throwing it right down the middle of the plate and have it cost them some runs.
Sutton at the belt and the 2-0 pitch. He has swung on and missed for a strike, a fastball right in on the letters.
And the count is 2-1. Sutton has struck out three in the game. He has 111 on the year.
White with the lead at second base. Sutton checking him and the 2-1 pitch is a curveball, swung on and missed strike two.
And that evens up the count at two balls and two strikes.
Now Jackson stepping out, having a quick clubhouse meeting with himself.
And now Bow stepping right back in.
He does have holes. He is just a young man as you well know.
But within time those holes will get smaller and smaller.
Here is the 2-2 pitch and it is a curveball long outside. Full count now, 3-2.
Three balls and two strikes. Jackson stepping out and going through that same thing again.
Sutton staring down.
Bowen flashing the sides. Jackson has struck out.
Since coming up, we will give you that here in just a second.
He has struck out nine times in 30 at bats.
Sutton out with the sides and the 3-2 pitch is high inside. He walked in.
Down to first base goes Jackson. That is the third base on balls.
Issued by Sutton and Sundberg. The next scheduled hitter has been called back.
Let's see who Mike Peraro goes to here.
You have a guy sitting on the bench that wears number five.
And if you know who I am talking about, if you are familiar with Kansas City, that is George Brett.
He is going to be number three, George Orta coming out.
And so it will be Orta batting in place of Jim Sundberg.
Orta, a 283 hitter on the year.
He has made eight home runs and driven in 44.
And he will be batting for Sundberg.
The only score in the game came back in the fourth inning when Doug DeSense hit a home run.
That has been it so far. Kansas City has runners at first and second.
Well, Bo Jackson and his Kansas City Royal teammates conclude their series with the Angels tomorrow night.
And then at Chicago, Cleveland, and then the Texas Rangers all visiting right here at the Big A
during that crucial final homestand.
So don't forget to do your ticket shopping for those games coming up.
First pitch is a curveball over for a strike.
Also, we would like to remind you that the Indians play a twilight doubleheader Monday,
starting at 5.35 right here at the Big A.
That is to make up for that rainout game on this recent road trip in Cleveland.
Here is the 0-1 pitch on the way.
And it is a curveball hit between first and second.
Paladar up with it and he goes to Grinch in time.
And so the defense plays well against Sutton here in the inning.
Mass Paladar comes up with a big play.
And forward. Kansas City, no runs and a base hit. They lead 2, they stranded 5.
And after 6-1-1, it remains. Angels on top, 1-0.
All the other games going on, the White Sox leading Seattle 2-0.
They're in the top of the seventh and in the National League.
It's San Francisco leading San Diego 4-2.
They're in the bottom of the seventh.
The Mets, of course, have clinched the National East.
Finally, at long last, they were supposed to do it Friday,
but better late than never by beating the Cubs 4-2.
This division title is the third in Mets history.
You'll remember back in that historic year of 1969,
the amazing Mets in what may be the most amazing upset of all time in baseball,
won the National League East, beat the Braves in the playoffs,
finished off the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series,
and that after a disastrous year in 1968.
What a turnaround.
In 1973, the Mets won the National East with an 82-79 record.
That is the worst first place finish in the history of divisional play.
They defeated the Cincinnati Reds for the National League pennant
and then lost the World Series to the Oakland A's.
They had a hard-fought series, went the full seven games.
New York entered the league as an expansion club back some 24 years ago in 1962,
and that year they compiled a very unenviable record, 40 wins, 120 losses.
The worst mark, the worst in modern Major League history.
The amazing Mets.
Remember Marv Throneberry.
Let's get back.
One defensive change for the Kansas City Royals.
Now behind the plate, Terry Bell will be doing the catching.
He takes over for Sunberg.
As we look around the infield and the outfield, no changes there.
As Danny Jackson goes back for another inning of work,
he'll be facing Gus Poudoe followed by Bob Bills and Gary Pettus.
Angels lead it by a score of 1-0.
Oh, and we mentioned to you the Texas Rangers won this afternoon up in the Bay Area.
In fact, they sweep that series against Oakland.
They won on a shutout 4-0 over Oakland.
Correa and Williams combined for the shutout.
Baltimore defeated the Yankees.
Mattingly extended his hitting streak to 17 games with Baltimore winning it.
Sheets in Dempsey with home runs.
And the first pitch to Paladar is outside for ball one.
Baltimore is snapping a five-game losing streak.
Boston 4-1 over Milwaukee.
It was the Cleveland Indians 5-2 over the Minnesota Twins.
Detroit 8-6 over Toronto.
Next pitch, misses for ball two.
And one of the game in the American League still going on.
Chicago at Seattle, no score after six innings of play.
In the National League in the first of two games, Montreal 6-5 over Pittsburgh.
Paladar takes one right around the letters for a style.
And then Pittsburgh came back and won the nightcap 4-1.
They split that middle matter.
Houston 6-1 over Cincinnati.
It was New York 4-2 over Chicago.
The Mets clinch the National League East.
Here's the 2-1 pitch by the left-hander.
It is set high in the air, struck well into right center field.
The man waiting for it is Wilson, and he makes the catch.
And there's out number one.
Excuse me, any big surprise that the Mets clinch behind Dwight Gooden?
No. He has beaten the Cubbies eight straight times.
I know that. There's one over for Bob Villan, the count is 0-1.
Let's run out that scoreboard very quickly for you.
St. Louis 8-5 over Philadelphia.
Atlanta 4-1 over the Dodgers. They lose their fifth straight.
And then in San Diego it is San Francisco 4-2 over the Padres.
That's after 7-1-1 Gladden and Gwynn have hit home runs.
There's a bouncer back up over the mound, back headed by White,
who goes to first base hit time, and what a play by the second baseman, Frank White.
An outstanding play, just a nab, boon by about a half a stride.
A chopper back up over the mound, in which White had the backhand,
and then jumped in the air, spun, and then threw accurately to Kevin Sainter at first base.
And he didn't just get anybody. He got a man who scored from second base on a sacrifice fly.
That's right. Flash, boon.
So two men are gone, and that brings up Gary Pettis.
I forgot to ask Booney about that on the pregame.
There's a curveball high for ball one.
He took a lot of ribbing, needless to say.
Well, I should have given him a chance.
How often do you score from second base in a fly ball the outfield?
1-0 pitch, his foul back out of play, and the count is now 1-1 to Gary.
I bet that's the first time in his career. I would bet. I would venture to bet.
I don't like to gamble too much.
Pettis on the evening, one for three.
He has hit in ten of the last twelve games. Here's the 1-1 pitch.
And Pettis bounces one toward shortstop.
Bianca Lana goes to the first baseman Sainter, and that'll do it for the Angels.
A one, two, three, and he has seven in the row, by the way, set down by Danny Jackson.
Make that, yeah, that's correct, that is seven in a row.
No runs, no hits, no airs, and nobody left on base.
Angels have stranded six, and after seven completed innings of play, Angels won Kansas City nothing.
Lots of good college football matchups coming up this weekend, this Saturday,
and one of the more interesting ones, Alabama and Florida.
Alabama number four on both the UPI and AP polls.
Florida number 13 on the AP poll, not on the UPI poll, not because Florida doesn't have a good team,
but because the UPI rules, with the board of coaches voting,
say that no team under probation can appear in the UPI rankings.
But Florida, you know, would be somewhere in there, 12, 13, 14.
Florida coach Galen Hall's main priority for his game against number four Alabama Saturday
is, he says, giving standout quarterback Kerwin Bell some time to throw.
You may remember that Bell was tacked six times in Florida's loss to Miami two weeks ago.
Twenty-three to fifteen was that score.
Hall says we're looking at several things to get Kerwin some more time.
We've tried some quick passes this week in practice, so he doesn't have to take a long drop,
and we've worked some on the shotgun formation.
We've got to be able to get the ball downfield and keep Kerwin off the ground.
Coach Hall says the Gators used their week off to put the Miami loss behind them,
concentrate on preparing for Alabama this weekend, Florida's first Southeastern Conference opponent of the season.
Hall says it was tough to lose to Miami, especially at home, but that game is behind us now.
We've still got a tough schedule ahead of us,
and of course the first game on that very tough schedule is this week against Alabama.
Wonder Royale, batting for Biancolana, number 11.
We go to the eighth inning and batting for Buddy Biancolana will be Hal McCray,
and he'll be facing Don Sutton, who right now is leading by a score of one to nothing.
And to tell you more about that, here's Al Connors.
All right, Ron, the Angels indeed enjoying that one-nothing lead.
Sutton going to work against McCray.
Al McCray stepping in hitting 260 with six home runs and 36 runs batted in.
So he's up there in place of Biancolana.
Sutton working on a two-hitter. He's already posted one two-hitter this year.
That was against the White Sox at Comiskey Park when he threw his 58th career shutout as well.
There's a fastball that misses one and oh.
In fact, if Sutton throws a shutout tonight, and that's still a possibility,
he would move past Ed Walsh into ninth place all by himself on the all-time list of pitchers
who have thrown shutouts in this game.
There's one fouled away by McCray, one-on-one.
Of course, the big leader, Walter Johnson, the big train, 113.
Still seems incredible.
Grover Cleveland Alexander second with 90.
Kristy Matthewsson third with 83.
Cy Young only had 77.
You know, we talk about all those records and the things that would have a rough time breaking.
That might be one right there, 113 career shutouts.
Boy, that does seem unassailable.
There's a pitch in there for a strike, one and two to McCray.
Oh, and then you got Eddie Plank at 70.
Warren Spahn with 63, along with Mordecai Brown.
Tom Siever at 61, and M. Sack at 58.
The one-two pitch is fouled back through the screen, and it's one and two.
I mean, you have guys like Tom Siever and Sutton and Carlton and Nolan Ryan and guys like that.
If they can only seem to have 55 or 60 somewhere in that category,
what kind of a pitcher are you to have 113?
You're in a higher league.
I think you're Walter Johnson.
Yeah, you're Walter Johnson. That's who you are.
One ball, two strikes, the counter, McCray.
Satin to the windup and the pitch, and his curveball misses low, 22.
Well, it's been quite an night for none.
The only base hits, Law with a single in the fourth, Quirk with a single in the seventh.
So just a two-hitter. That's all.
Sutton at 41, making it look easy.
The two-two pitch to McCray is a high drive to deep left field,
doubting looking up, but this ball is gone.
Hal McCray with a pinch hit home run, and we're tied 1-1 here in the A.
I think we might have jinxed on talking about the shutout and the two-hitter,
and it all changes on one swing.
So we're locked up in a tie.
Willie Wilson will step in, and before he does, let's pause for station identification.
This is the Angels Radio Network.
This is the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
So Don Sutton gives up a home run to McCray, and he's going to come out of the ballgame.
Marcel Ackman has gone to the mound, and Sutton, who was working on a shutout,
pitches seven very strong innings, and in the eighth, he makes a mistake, and he'll leave.
He'll leave throwing a three-hitter, giving up just one run.
He obviously has reached the magic plateau of pitches.
Ron's checking on that now, and he will give way to Doug Corbett.
The right-hander Doug Corbett coming on.
He'll take over for Sutton.
Angels Baseball coming to you from Anaheim Stadium with the score now.
Angels won, and the Royals won.
Well, they're still dancing in the streets in New York.
By the way, Marty Bondaroff on his motor scooter heading up Hollywood Boulevard now
and enjoying himself. He's the Duke of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine.
Yes, he is.
He was a little timid when he came from the jungles of the mid-East somewhere or another,
but once he got used to things around in Hollywood, he is called Hollywood Marty now.
Anyway, I'll be sitting in the rest of the way, and perhaps we'll have an extra inning ballgame.
Thousands of people at Shea Stadium swarmed into the field at the New York Mets
Clinch the National League East Division title on Wednesday with a 4-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs,
and their celebration caused a lot of damage.
Chunks of turf were torn out of the infield and thrown into the stands,
and there were other scars from the celebration in the outfield grass.
During the game, taped video messages were shown to the fans as General Manager Frank Cashin,
Manager Davy Johnson, and broadcaster Bob Murphy pleaded for an orderly celebration.
Nevertheless, fans started pouring into the field even before 2nd baseman Wally Backman
fielded the game's last grounder.
Fans celebrated on the field for about 20 minutes after the game ended.
Fifty minutes after it ended, the grounds crew was at work trying to get the field ready
for Thursday afternoon's game.
So they're still celebrating, and the Mets finally clinched it.
Everybody knew that ever since the All-Star break, even before that, that they would eventually do just that.
Aye.
Doug Corba taking over now for Don Sutton who pitches a jam.
Seven innings plus one batter.
throws three hit baseball, but he leaves tied 1-1.
And here's Willie Wilson against Corbett,
and the first one is outside 1-0.
You come to the ballpark as a pitcher
and allow just three hits in a run,
and you figure to win.
But Danny Jackson has been equally tough,
and so Sutton will not figure tonight.
Corbett delivers to Wilson, and he's outside with it.
So the count goes to 2-0.
1-1 tie here on the eighth.
Sutton making his second bid for win number 15,
and he pitched well enough to get it,
but apparently it wasn't to be.
Wilson pulls one foul, pass first and down the line,
so the count's 2-1 to him.
He's 0-3 tonight.
We've told you that Sutton basically works
on a hundred pitch limit,
and tonight in seven innings plus one batter,
he pitches
outstanding baseball and throws exactly 100 pitches.
And so they lift him with the ball game tight.
The 2-1 to Smith is Luke Fowle off the third
and out of play, 2-2.
Did I say Smith?
It's Willie Wilson, Smith on deck.
So Doug Corbett is out there now,
trying to get himself squared away.
Overall, his numbers look pretty good.
He's 3-2 in the IRA of 3.78 with nine saves,
but most of his success was early in the year.
The 2-2 pitch is swung on a miss,
strike three, and he gets Willie Wilson.
Corbett, though, in his last six outings
has struggled mightily.
In fact, in five of those six, he's given up home runs.
Last time out against Cleveland in Cleveland,
he didn't get anybody out facing two batters
and they both got hit.
But he comes on and he gets Willie Wilson
to leave things off for him
with a run already in in the eighth.
Now it's Lonnie Smith in the first pitch
and the first pitch is all the way to the backstop, 1-0.
The 1-0 and Smith lays down a bunt.
It's a dandy at the third base line.
The sensei has to let it roll
and then as it crosses the chalk,
he touches it to make sure it stays foul.
But if that one stays fair,
Lonnie Smith is on with no problem.
It was a beautiful bunt.
One ball, one strike to Lonnie as he comes back.
A 1-1 tie here in the eighth.
Home runs are figured for both teams.
For the Angels, it was to sensei back in the fourth
and for the Royals, it's McCray in a pinched roll
here in the eighth as Lonnie Smith fouls one off.
So 1-2.
It has been a beautiful pitching duel to watch
because both Sutton and Jackson, outstanding.
Corbett now trying to pick up the standard.
1-2, he has Lonnie Smith waiting.
The next pitch is low on inside, 2-2.
A run, six hits and an error for the Angels.
One run, three hits and no errors for the Royals.
The Corbett towing the rubber on the third base side.
Now he straightens up.
His 2-2 to Smith is down low, ball three.
So he had a one and two, now the count's full.
The sensei behind the bag, near the line at third.
Schofield in a step or two at short.
Lonnie Smith can run well.
The 3-2 pitch is chopped wide of third.
The sensei cuts the ball off in front of Schofield,
goes on to Gritch for the out, two down.
And that'll bring up Rudy Law, who's one for three.
When this series began, the Royals were playing
their best baseball of the year.
They had won six out of seven until last night's defeat.
But that was at home.
Now they're trying to pick up that kind of a pace
on the road and all year long they have struggled
away from Kansas City.
In fact, it has been a nightmare for them away from home.
The pitch to Rudy is a little inside, wanna know.
They're 26 and 43 overall away from Royal Stadium.
And remember, this is defending world champs.
The 1-0 pitch is over for a strike called one and one.
Though it's not been a typical Kansas City year,
they started slow and they have not gotten
that second half kick that they usually
are able to count on.
The 1-1 from Corbett is pulled over first
down the right midline and rolling into the corner.
George Hendrick out to dig it out of the corner
and Rudy Law goes into second with a double.
So a two out, two base hit by Rudy Law
and the Royals suddenly have the go ahead run
in scoring position.
And that'll bring up Jamie Quirk who is one for three.
Quirk while he's hitting around 220.
Over the last seven games has hit close to 400.
And that's why you have to be careful with it.
The 1-1 from Corbett is a little bit of a
two out and that's why you have to be careful with it.
So a meeting at the mound, Boone out to talk with Corbett
and now he comes back to the home plate area.
Quirk up there with a chance to give his club
the lead for the first time tonight.
Until this inning began, the Angels were on top
but Hal McCray changed that with a pinch at home run.
Quirk settling in, Corbett checks second in the pitch.
There's a fast ball outside, 1-0.
Angels won, Royals won, we're in the eighth.
Corbett in some trouble now with two gone.
Rudy Law stepping off at second base,
Goffield honking them a little bit.
The outfield playing Quirk to pull
and the 1-0 delivery is down low, make it 2-0.
It doesn't get any easier for Corbett if he loses Quirk
because Frank White's on deck
and of those in the lineup tonight for the Royals,
he has the most home runs.
Now they're gonna take the bat out of Quirk's hand
and with first base open and him being left handed,
they're gonna walk in intentionally.
So there's ball three and ball four follows.
So they're gonna play the percentages
and even though White has the more ominous set of numbers,
the fact that he's right-handed
leaves the Angels to go after him rather than Quirk.
So this is a big crossroads in the ball game right now.
Corbett has two outs but he has two on behind him
and he's facing the Royals' toughest hitter
for power and runs batted in.
And the pitch, ground ball hit toward short,
Goffield has it, he goes the short way to Paladar
for the fourth and the strategy works.
So they walk Quirk, they get the white
and they get the force to end the inning.
Still, Kansas City gets even one run on two hits.
The home run by McCry, the big one.
There were no errors, two men left the board
and after seven and a half at the big A,
it's now Angels one and Kansas City one.
Well, all dressed up with no place to go.
That applies to ABC which finds itself
with a Sunday baseball game of the week,
right down the stretch of the major leagues
but without a pennant race in which to focus.
When ABC first got into baseball,
it was strictly a Monday night affair
so that the network could get a slice of the postseason pie.
ABC was willing to sacrifice poor summer ratings
for a crack at the baseball world
but either the league championship series
or maybe the big advertising rating
Grand Slam the World Series.
Situation was modified when baseball allowed ABC
to telecast a few late September Sunday games.
ABC executives believe that even going up
against the mighty National Football League on CBS and ABC,
the network could fare no worse
with a game between contenders
than it was doing on the generally low rated
Monday night baseball games.
Well, the plan to work well,
ABC telecast the final game of the 1982 season.
Baltimore and Milwaukee with Don Sutton and Jim Palmer
vying for the American League East crown.
The network also had some exciting contests last year
when the eventual nationally championed
St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets
were dueling down to the wire.
But this year's a different story.
The Mets already always a lucrative draw
because of the large New York market
ended the National League East race seemingly
before Memorial Day and of course on Wednesday clinched it.
Scratch the National League East
from the potential Sunday ABC telecast.
National League West seem to be
preferring a race between Houston and Cincinnati.
Exactly your two major markets.
Another tight ball game.
It's going to be night after night.
They may be involved in a scrape.
And they're going to have to try
and come up with the magic again.
Here in the eighth inning,
Dick Schofield will step in.
He's two for three as Jackson goes to work.
Downing and Descente will be coming up next.
And the next pitch is just inside.
Does Schofield want to know?
The Angels on a roll.
There's no question about it.
They've had so many things go their way
and they just want to keep it moving
in the right direction.
Schofield grounds one back to the middle
and Descente field, he has his third hit of the night.
And the Angels have the potential go ahead run on base.
Now we'll see what Gene Mark chooses to do with Downing.
Would he have him sacrifice?
Ryan doesn't do that very often,
but every once in a while he might.
In fact, checking Downing statistics this year,
he has one sacrifice on the season, just one.
But you know, Gene likes little ball
and with the ball game up for grabs,
we'll see if he asks Downing to come through
with another sacrifice.
The shortstop for the Royals, Drake Meyer,
taking over for Bianca Lana,
who was lifted for the pinch hitter, McCray.
They tied the game with the homer.
So make the change in your scoreboard.
Jackson meanwhile will go to first base.
Schofield is back, Dick with those 22 pence
to match the number on his jersey.
And he fouls it up the first base line.
0-1.
Well, Ryan doesn't get a chance to bunt very often,
but it appears that this will be one of those rare times.
At least they had him trying on the first bit.
You know, it's not that manager Gene Mox
does not think that Downing can get a base hit
off of Danny Jackson.
It's just that he thinks that Doug Desense can.
And you give Desense a chance, and Hendrick after that.
If you can move Schofield up, go to first base
and Dick is back again.
Quirk, in on the grass at third by several strides.
And he's got him the line.
The way Downing gets the ball,
that's a dangerous position to be in if he doesn't bunt.
Jackson ready, the strike one,
and Brian's around to bunt again, lays it down.
First base side, down again at his side too,
and his only play is the white covering in time.
And the sacrifice is executed perfectly.
So the fans here at the big A,
knowing that Downing doesn't do that often,
applauding the effort here.
So Gene Mox getting the right kind of out from Downing,
and now the question is, can they make it pay off?
Schofield's in position, a one-one tie here in the eighth,
and Baxter Sensei, who has carried the attack
so many times the second half of the year,
is going to be stepping in.
Before he does though, Mike Ferraro's going to the mouth,
and he's gonna lift Danny Jackson.
So the young left-hander, who has pitted very well,
much as Don Sutton did, is going to leave it to the bullpen
to try and keep the angels from scoring in this inning.
And we're waiting now for the bullpen gate to swing open
and see who comes out.
We would suspect Farr, Steve Farr,
and that appears who it's going to be.
So he's gonna take over for Jackson Angels Baseball,
coming to you from the big A with the score.
Angels won, Royals won.
Well, getting back to that situation ABC has
with the teams that have already sewed things up,
just about sewed it up, the Mets did it on Wednesday,
and the others are right behind.
All right, Hender, Steve Farr loosens up on the mound.
We can keep you informed as to all the prizes
that are building for Fan Appreciation Day.
On September 28th, a bowling ball and bag from Brunswick
will be among those given away.
Sunday, Champagne Brunch at the Summer Tree Restaurant
at the Emerald Avanna.
Okay, while we have a break in the action,
let's look at some final scores in the National League.
Montreal beat Pittsburgh six to five
in the first of a double header.
Pittsburgh even things up in the second game,
winning four to one.
In single-action, Houston defeated Cincinnati
by a score of six to one,
and it was the Cardinals over the Phillies eight to five.
Well, the battle lines have been drawn.
Steve Farr summoned for the blue pen
to try and put out the fire here in the eighth inning.
A one-one tie, DeSensei steps in, trying to change it.
Farr ready at the bout,
and the pitch, DeSensei takes the breaking ball in there
for a strike on one.
With Dan Quisenberry having an off year,
Steve Farr has filled much of the void
for the Royals this year,
as he has pitched very well in a short relief role
for them this season.
He's eight and four, and he already have 2.74.
The pitch to Dug over again, strike two.
And Dug backs away and takes a walk around home plate.
Farr also with eight saves,
and he has some impressive numbers
because in 108 innings so far this year,
he's given up just 86 hits.
That's a very good ratio.
He's had good control too.
He's walked only 36 men during that 108 innings,
and he struck out 82.
Well, he's been tough on just about everybody.
He asked DeSensei, no balls, two strikes.
The pitch is a fastball high, one and two.
Farr, a year ago,
split his time between the Royal AAA affiliate in Omaha
and the Royals, but this year he's become a major cog
in their short bullpen.
DeSensei, waiting one and two.
The Angels trying to regain the lead here in the eighth.
Schofield at second with one out.
Lots of room in right center for DeSensei,
and the one-two pitch is a fastball just inside.
DeSensei, two and two.
Doug was moving away from the pitch,
but it wasn't that far off the plate.
Two and two to count.
DeSensei planting the back foot, now steps in.
The crowd trying to help out in the background.
Schofield being hawked by White, and the pitch.
Check swing, did he go around?
They appealed her first.
No, he did not.
Three and two to Doug.
On deck, George Hendricks.
Quirk, deep and near the line at third.
Farr, a step or two toward the hole at short,
and out to the Rudy Law on left is deep and near the corner.
The three to DeSensei.
It's a ground ball to third, down to get it is Quirk.
He overhands, the sights are in time,
and DeSensei's retired.
And all the while, Schofield has to hold his tacket.
So Jamie Quirk went down on one knee
to make sure that ball didn't get through him.
And the play, five to three.
So two down, George Hendricks due up,
but he will not bat now that a right-hander
has entered the game.
Instead, Gene Mark goes to his bench,
and Rupert Jones will be sent into the breach.
And now it's Rupert Jones' turn.
Hendricks was one for three while he was in there,
and now it's Rupert Jones' turn.
So Rupert swinging the weight at bat,
now putting some prime power on the handle,
he's going to swing the ball like that.
For sure, Rupert will stay in there.
He does indeed pose at bat for two seconds.
He tells he needs a sudden run,
and he goes and drives in.
He runs, the tagline is,
then pull,
fully loaded by the opening,
four serves,
end of base.
So the roll goes to Schofield,
for the fourth interval.
But for now, all right,
the roll has been through,
And as he does with first base open, Terry Bell of the catcher will put up the free pass
sign and they'll take the bat out of Rupert's hands and ask Bobby Gritch to step in there.
And Bobby looking into the dugout as if to say, skip, am I going to bat or are you going
to send up another pinch hitter?
So ball three has been issued, ball four will follow.
So Mike Ferraro, the manager, acting manager for the Royals, is playing his part.
He's going to make Dean Mark make a move and stepping out of the dugout to take over for
Gritch as Wally joins him.
And now just as an added note for you, the Angels have been involved in five of the last
six games, have been one-run games.
The Angels have won four of those and the other one was a two-run ball game.
So the Angels continue to play well in those one-run contests.
And their overall record is what, 27-13, 27-12, 27-12 and that's a very impressive mark indeed.
Now the joiner has been announced to the crowd, Aptocht Ferraro from the Royals dugout and
he's going to the mound and that suggests he's making a change and that he'll bring
in a left-hander to face Wally.
And that's what's going to happen.
So the chant is going up, Wally, Wally, but they'll have to wait to see what joiner can
do as Ferraro is going to play another card in his deck.
It's a one-one tie, bottom of the A, and the ballgame may well be on the line and Ferraro
is pulling out the stops as a result.
Brad Black, who we referred to earlier in our broadcast, having on this date in 84 served
up Reggie's 500th career home run.
Black coming on now, not as a starter as he was then but as a reliever.
So he takes over, Angels baseball coming to you from the big A with the score.
Angels won and the Royals won.
Again going over that game between the New York Mets at home at Shea Stadium and they're
clinching the East Division title of the National against the Cubs.
They certified what others had long ago conceded that they would do that long before the season's
over.
Dwight Gooden pitched a six-hitter.
Dave Madigan went three for four giving the Mets 95 victories, more than the second place
Phillies could achieve even by winning the rest of their games.
With a crowd of 47,823 cheering under a full moon, Gooden raised his record to 15-6.
Dennis Zechersley now 6-10 took the loss.
The Mets finally wrapped up a title they could have formalized five days ago.
Nagadin, a late replacement for virus-ridden first baseman Keith Hernandez produced his
first Major League RBI with third and fifth inning singles.
Gooden lacked his best stuff but struck out seven and walked four in his 11th complete
game of the season.
So left-hander Bud Black has entered this evening's drama and as he does he has some
pretty good numbers too though he's five and seven as everyone averaged 3.35.
He's making his 51st appearance and his 47th as a reliever.
He has seven saves so he and Favre combined for 15.
In 105 innings he's given up 89 hits.
That's a good ratio right there.
And he's walked 36 while striking out 61.
So Bud Black loosening up.
The Angels with two on, two out here on the 8.
And Wally Joyner do up the pinch hit for Grinch.
Ten more games on his final home stand and you can still order your tickets.
Rod brought up an interesting point during the break.
With all of the changes that have gone on in this inning.
Favre was brought on.
He got the 10 save.
Hendrick was lifted for a pinch hitter Rupert Jones.
Grinch is lifted for a pinch hitter Wally Joyner.
Favre gives way to Black and so what has happened is that Mike Ferraro has brought in a right
hander and in the process he has gotten rid of a couple of right handed hitters in the
Angel attack, Hendrick and Grinch.
And now he has another left hander on the mat and it's Lefty against Lefty and at least
percentage wise it would appear Kansas City with the edge.
But that's assuming that Black is facing the average left hand hitter.
Joyner has been anything but that all year.
He's sitting 296 as he steps in.
Two on, two out.
A one one tie on the 8 and Black delivers a fast ball that's low.
Want to know?
So part of the fun of this time of the year is watching the virtual chess game between
the managers as they try to orchestrate their pieces to best advantage.
The 1-0 and Joyner takes in there for a strike and he was bending away from that one.
One and one.
One run, seven hits and an air for the Angels.
One run, four hits and no air for the Royals.
Black, fast ball, slider pitcher and he has emerged as a good one out of the fence.
He takes a glance at the runners.
The 1-1 to Joyner.
Side armor, grounded toward the right side.
Backhanded by White.
He overhands to Siteser in time and the inning is over.
Ferraro apparently makes all the right moves as the manager for the Royals and the Angels
are denied.
No run.
One hit, no air.
Two men left on base and we're going to the ninth locked up in a one-one tie.
In the National League at the Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego that game is again that
final score in the American League.
The Pale Hose Three and the Seattle Mariners nothing.
As we go to the ninth inning a one-one tie.
Let's pause for station identification.
This is the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Doc Corbett concluding his warm-ups as we go to the ninth inning.
The sixth, seventh and eighth men will be coming up for the Royals and that means Siteser,
Bo Jackson and Terry Bell assuming no substitutions for manager Mike Ferraro and Siteser will indeed
come up to start things.
The two starting pitchers gone now.
Sutton and Jackson both pitched well.
Sutton going seven innings giving up three hits and a run and the run came in on the
home run by McCryde.
Jackson went seven in the third, gave up seven hits in one run and that came on a home run
by the Sensei.
So we have another tight ball game and the Angels certainly have been in their share
lately.
Siteser 0 for 2 and a 1.
Corbett ready to go and the first pitch is swung on a top foul at the plate on one.
In the key games elsewhere in baseball tonight, Boston took a giant step toward winning that
American League East Division Championship.
They beat Milwaukee 4 to 1 behind oil Ken Boyd while both Toronto and New York were losing.
The strike won and that's over but low, 1 and 1 to Siteser.
So that means Boston has its magic number reduced to seven.
And they have a big ten game lead in the East.
There's a fastball outside to Siteser, 2 and 1.
Speaking of the division of leaders, in the National League East, New York won their ball
game over Chicago behind Dwight Gooden and they clinched the Eastern Division Championship
there.
Congratulations to the men.
The next one to Siteser has popped into the air.
Shadow left center fielder, Pettis and Downing converging and it's Pettis who makes the catch.
And that will bring up Roach Jackson.
The Angels defensively here in the ninth.
A couple of changes.
Wally Joyner who pitched it for Bobby Gritch in the eighth inning staying in there at first
base.
And Rupert Jones who did much the same for George Hendrick now in right field for him.
So here's Bo Jackson who in a similar situation last night hit a home run to the opposite
field to momentarily give the Royals a tie.
And the Angels subsequently won it in the bottom of the eighth.
And here's Jackson who's already earned the respect of the opposition after a very brief
stay in the big leagues.
Corbett ready and now he'll deliver.
And the first pitch to Bo Jackson is a fastball low.
I want to know.
And while Jackson is a threat for the long ball certainly, he is a threat also for the
base hit.
Even an infield base hit.
And the Angels have the left side of the infield shortened up on him.
The next pitch is swung on a miss and he was trying for the home run right there.
He was thinking downtown.
Big cut, big miss.
One ball, one strike to him.
The Angels with the infield in on the left side and you can understand the thinking of
Gene Mark if Jackson chops one on the ground with his feet he's going to beat it out unless
you play in a little bit.
He already has five infield hits.
A point well taken.
Here's the one-one Jackson and it's just inside.
So while the left side is in, the right side is at normal depth.
Maybe even a little back as far as joiners concerned.
He's almost on the rim at first.
So an interesting alignment and I would guess that that would be the reason why would you
think of any other that would make sense.
The Angels in essence showing respect for his speed as well as his power.
The two-one from Corbett, chopper towards short, cut off by the sensei.
He throws the first in time.
Well the Angels had Jackson to pick it out there and the defense perfectly set up for
him.
So two down and that'll bring up Terry Bell, a young catcher up from the minor leagues.
Bell acquired by the Mariners in exchange for pitcher Mike Kuzmin back in May hit 235
down in the minors this year at the double-ed level with no home runs, 15 RBI.
The first one from Corbett swung on a miss, going one.
A one-one tie, we're in the ninth.
Two out, nobody on.
Terry Bell at the plate.
He does not have a big league hit yet.
The pitch to him is over for a strike on two.
Bell in fact getting his first chance at a big league at bat.
He walked once in a previous plate appearance but that's it.
The O2, the ground ball to short, Schofield to his right, gloves it, sidearm to join her
in time and the ninth inning is in the book.
Doug Corbett has pitted well in relief for two innings and that may be a good sign for
the future.
So the Royals gone in order in the ninth, we'll go to the bottom of the ninth.
Burlson, Paladol, and Boone are due up with the score.
Angels won, Royals won.
Stalled Diger's ace Fernando Valenzuela's bed to become the National League's first
20-game winner.
Bottom of the ninth inning here at Anaheim Stadium.
The Angels and the Royals locked up in a 1-1 tie and the Halos who have come up with so
much magic in the late innings, asked to do it again.
Bud Black though, trying to send it into extra innings.
He has concluded his warm-ups.
The throw has gone down to second base and we're just about ready for this ninth inning
to unfold.
This crowd is some 27,067, not going anywhere, not with the way the Angels have been playing
lately.
And they're hopeful that tonight again they'll be able to go home celebrating a late-inning
rally for the Angels.
Rick Burlson trying to do the honors to start it here.
He is 0 for 2 tonight.
Quirk, inside the bag near the line at third.
Black delivers a fastball that's tied away 1-0.
Seitzer at first base, behind the bag, he's near the line there too as they protect against
the extra base hit.
The 1-0 pitch and that's a change over nicely, 1-1 to Burley.
Checking the outfield alignment.
They are swung around slightly toward right for Burlson, fairly good-sized hole to shoot
out in the alley and left.
The 1-1 to Burlson is swung on, popped in the air in the shallow left-center field.
Willie Wilson coming on, Lonnie Smith is there too and it's...
Lonnie Smith, correction, Rudy Law makes the catch.
Lonnie Smith, assuming a DH roll tonight and it's law on left.
Second baseman, Gus Polidor.
So 1-0-Y and Gus Polidor steps in.
He is 0 for 3.
He had two hits last night.
In fact, he's had a couple of two-hit performances since his recall.
He has not been an easy out although he's hit list this evening.
Now, Wigwagon assigns, Black into his line.
The first one to Polidor is a fastball outside, 1-0.
The Angels have played a lot of extra in games lately.
Remember on the road trip they played one in Cleveland and two in Chicago.
Here's the 1-0 pitch to Black and it swung on and fell back, 1-1.
And the Angels would like to win at regulation here, but unless they can get something going,
next innings would be in the offing.
The Angels, 6-5 in extra innings and Kansas City, 6-9.
The 1-1 to Polidor, change over again, making 1-2.
The Angel magic number is 10.
All the other divisional leaders in baseball tonight won and dropped there the notch or more.
And the Angels would like to do the same.
The 1-2 pitch to Polidor and there's a broken back ground ball slowly passed them out towards second.
White has it and goes to first in time.
There are two down and Bud Black sprawled out on the ground watching that play.
He tried to flag down the little roller and then fell to the turn, but he appears to be okay.
So two up, two down in the ninth inning and Bob Boone will step up.
Bob is 0-3 tonight, but that's deceiving because he might well have had two hits.
After hitting back to the box in the third, he lined the second and the fifth
and then hit a big chopper over the mound behind second in the seventh inning.
Frank White made a nice play on him.
Black sends it home and a fastball is high.
What a no.
Angels won and the Royals won.
Bottom of the ninth inning here at the stadium.
The sensei homered to get the Angels on the board in the fourth.
McCray with a pinch hit blast in the A.
Fastball is high to Boone, 2-0.
So both teams have scored with the long ball
and the pitching really has been outstanding tonight.
Black's taken off a couple of signs. Here's the 2-0 delivery to Boone.
And it's tied away, ball three.
But you know the fact that the two teams have put on a pitching clinic tonight,
that really isn't that surprising because entering this series,
these two teams are the top two in terms of pitching in the American League.
Kansas City with a staff ERA at 3.82.
The Angels right behind at 3.88.
Boone takes one in there for a strike, make it 3-1.
Although Kansas City would tell you though we're leading the league in ERA,
it has not been a dominating type performance.
They've had their problems.
The 3-1 to Boone.
Popped up, foul ground, first base side.
Coming over for the ball is Teicher, but he's going to run out of room
as it goes back into the crowd about five rows.
3-2, the count to Boone.
Come on out in the finale of the series.
Mike Witt, 17-8, goes against Dennis Leonard, 8-11.
Why don't you come on and join us?
It's been great baseball here at the stadium for about a month now.
I'm sure you want to be part of it.
The 3-2 to Boone is a drive in the right field.
Bo Jackson going back, but he's there, and he makes the catch and the side retires.
So the Angels go quietly against Bud Black and the Knights,
and that means we're going to X-Rennings.
And as we look at the scoreboard, the story quite simple.
It's the Angels won and the Royals won.
Well, it's been quite a night for pitchers here at the Big A.
Just about everyone who has filled the rubber has been outstanding tonight
for both sides, and we're locked up in a 1-1 tie as we go to the 10th inning.
Another X-Renning ballgame for the Angels, and they certainly have had a lot lately.
And as we mentioned in the 9th inning, they had three on the last road trip alone,
three of the six ballgames.
And they're going X-Rennings tonight.
And to tell you how the Angels have done in X-Rennings and more, here's Ron.
Thank you very much, Alan. Greg Pryor will lead things off.
He'll be followed by Willie Wilson and then Lonnie Smith.
In X-Renning games, Angels have won 6 of 11, while Kansas City has won 6 of 15 this year.
So the Angels were the slight edge as far as X-Renning games are concerned.
This will be the first plate appearance of the game for Greg Pryor.
Doug Clover, back to the mound for another inning of work.
And the first pitch is over the plate, but a little over ball one.
One ball, no strikes.
One ball, no strikes. Pryor batting 171. No home runs and five runs driven in.
Clover working from the stretch.
In the next pitch is a bouncer foul wide of third.
Couple of hops and then goes into the stand. One ball, one strike.
Angels with a run in the 4th inning and a home run by Doug DeSensei.
And then a pinch hit home run by Hal McRae.
In the 8th inning, that has tied it.
Here's the 1-1 pitch by Corbett and it's in the dirt low for ball two.
2-1.
Don Sutton started with 7 innings. Really pitched a fine ball game.
Whenever you can hold this Kansas City team to just one run for 7 innings, you've done a good job.
Sutton walked three, struck out three, and gave up just three hits.
So a good performance by the veteran right-hander.
Pryor waiting. Here's the 2-1 pitch and it's a comebacker and one easy hop.
Corbett has it and he goes to join her. There's out number one.
That will bring up the lead-off man, Willie Wilson.
And Wilson is over 4 tonight. He has struck out a couple of times.
But it hit safely in six of the last seven games. So this is a very important out right here.
Wilson batting 270. About two or three years ago, he led the American League in hitting.
There's a bouncer to shortstop on two hops.
Schofield with a quick release in time and they get the speedster going down the line.
That is 6-3 in a put-up.
That makes two away and that brings up the designated hitter, Lonnie Smith.
Angels have out hit Kansas City 7-4.
And we're tied at one.
Lonnie Smith, 0-4. He is working on an 11-game hitting streak.
Action out of the Angels bullpen. Cannot see who it is right now.
And the pitch by Corbett is a check swing and it's fouled away.
Lonnie Smith batting 290. Started the game at 290 free.
That's the high point of the season for him there.
All the other games, we have final scores for you.
Ray Chadwick throwing out of the bullpen for the Angels to right-hander.
DeSensei on the line at third. Joined her just a little bit off the line at first base.
The 0-1 pitch is low and outside, 1-1.
Now field of Downing, Pedersen, then Rupert Jones.
Playing Lonnie Smith pretty much straight away.
Here's the 1-1 pitch by Corbett. Hit off the hands, rolled towards shortstop.
Comes in his scope field. He has it.
Skips and throws in time. Another good play by the shortstop.
And Corbett has an easy 1-2-3 in it. No runs, no hits, no errors, and nobody left on base.
And after 9-1-1 here at the big A, we're still tied at one.
Stick on the third defendant, Thomas Carbone, who is a fugitive and was tried in Argentina.
After the 10th inning, they're going to be sending up the top of the order.
It'll be Gary Pettis, Goethe, and Brian Downing.
Game tied at one. Danny Jackson started and went 7-1-3 in it.
And Steve Parr came in and worked one-third of an inning, and now it has been Bud Black.
Gary Pettis will be batting right-handed. He is 1-4-4 this evening.
And as we had mentioned, Gary's swing the bat well lately. He has hit safely in 10 of the last 12 games.
Here's the first pitch at the beginning by the left-hander, and Pettis swings through a high fastball may have chased ball one.
So the count is 0-1 to Gary.
Bud Black, 5-7 against the league, making his 51st appearance of the year.
He's worked in 104 innings at the start of the night.
The next pitch is a breaking ball low on inside. That evens out the count.
One ball, one strike.
Gary Pettis, way around toward right field. There's a huge gap in left center. If Gary can get out in front of one.
Here's the 1-1 pitch on the way, and Pettis hits one off the hands.
An easy comeback here to Bud Black. He has it. He goes on to first base, and there's out number one.
Three and a put out. That brings up Dick Scofield. Scoey's had a good night. He has three hits in his career. He's three for four.
Last year, Bud Black had a record of 10-15, appeared in 33 games, used as a starter.
Completed five, tossed a couple of shout-outs last year, pitched in 205 innings.
The left-hander is 6'2", 180-pounder.
Makes his home there in Kansas.
And the first pitch is on the outside corner, strike one to Scofield.
Black builds to wind up again, and the left-hander's 0-1 pitch is high on outside. That evens up the count.
Bud came to the Major Leagues in 1982, but it was in 83 where he really started putting some victories together.
Here's the 1-1 pitch. A change-up swung on and missed Scofield, really fooled on the pitch.
And the count goes to 1-2.
It was in 83 that Black won 10 ball games while losing just seven, and then came back in 84, won 17 ball games, and then matched year 110.
Scofield waiting, and the 1-2 pitch is on the way, and Scofield takes it high for ball two.
Two balls and two strikes. Black can rush it up there in a hurry. He has pretty good stuff.
His strikeout ratio this year, here's the 2-2 pitch.
He has swung on, hit it a hole, and under the glove of Quirk, on into left field. And Scofield has four hits in the game.
And Al Rydow is checking to see how many times this year Scofield has had four hits in a game, or if he has had one.
That brings up Brian Downing. Downing is 0-2 tonight.
He popped up to first, struck out, walked in the fifth, and sacrificed in the eighth.
And so we have just informed, thank you, Al. This is the first four-hit game for Scofield this year.
The Angels have a winning run on base.
Black comes set, the high leg kick, runner does not go, and it's a tailing fastball outside for ball one.
Well, would you send him on? Would you give him a shot, or would you just figure that Downing is potentially an extra base hitter or a long ball man?
And if he finds the alley, Scofield has a chance to score. What would you do?
Well, Scofield has stolen 22 of 26 attempts. I'd have to say that if he can get a good jump, go ahead and let him go.
But the one thing is you don't want to do is run out of the inning. There's a toss to first base.
Black appears to be one of those left-handers that if he's not looking at you, you better be careful.
There is an unknown quantity in all of this thinking, though, is Terry Bell.
Terry Bell the catcher.
You don't know, and that's one of the scouting reports that Manager Gene Mark has to know.
What kind of a throwing arm does Bell have? And we have never seen him throw.
Black comes set, runner does not go, and the pitch is over for a strike that evens up the count.
In the last 11 games, Downing has been very consistent. He has driven in 11 runs.
As we mentioned to you in the month of September, he's been batting right close to that 400 mark with three home runs.
To go along with that almost 400 batting average.
There's a throw to first base, and that time Bud Black, like so many left-handers, stepped about three quarters.
He did not step to the plate, but he didn't step to first base either.
And that's a borderline bop.
The left-hander comes set again, and Downing slings and fouls one back out of play, and boy, did he have a rip.
You know the outfield is fanned out well for Downing. There's lots of room in both alleys.
There's a big, big hole between Law and Wilson.
Really Law deep and near the line, almost in the corner out there on the left.
That is true, and you've got all three guys out there that can run extremely well. Wilson in center, and of course, both Jackson in right.
So if you hit one between them, you better hit it hard, and you better not hit it very high.
Black again ready, and the pitch to Downing is slung out here.
Downing to the left of you. Back to those goody lawies in the corner. Look out, it's gone!
And the Angels win it, win a loss.
By and downing with his 18th home run of the year, wins it for the Angels in the bottom of the 10th inning.
And Doug Corbett picks up the victory, and for the total, here's how.
Well, another dramatic finish for the Angels, the crowd on his feet.
For the Halos, three runs on nine hits.
They commit one error and leave eight men on base.
For the Royals, one run on just four hits.
They commit no errors and leave seven men on base.
The winning pitcher, as you've heard, is Doug Corbett, and Doug pushes his record to four and two.
The loser is Bud Black. He falls to five and eight.
All of this before 27,067 here in the house tonight, and they'll go home happy again.