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The California Angels faced the Kansas City Royals at Royals Stadium for a Thursday night
game on September 20, 1979. The two teams were atop the AL West in a tight race for
the pennant with only 10 games remaining. California was on top with the two-game lead
under manager Jim Frugosi in his second full season as skipper. Kansas City was managed
by Whitey Herzog who had led the Royals to three straight ALCS appearances. His audio
recording is from the Kansas City Radio broadcast featuring announcers Denny Matthews and Fred
Whedon.
Making his nice start trying to win his fifth game, he's 4-2 with an ERA of 3.05. Rick Miller,
left-handed batter hitting 284. The first pitch of the night is lifted to center field. Well
hit, the back goes over for plenty of room, one pitch, one out. That will bring up the
Angels third baseman, Carney Landsberg. Landsberg a 294 hitter, he has 17 home runs. 72 RBI.
But in this series, Landsberg just one out of 11. Right-hand hitter, good runner, has
power, Chamberlain's pitch is high, one ball and no strike. Craig you'll recall won his
first three starts, all complete games, but has won just one of his last five starts with
two losses and a pair of no decisions. Swinging a miss by Carney Landsberg in the count one
and one. Well Craig Chamberlain his last start came on Sunday against Seattle. He did not
figure in the decision the Royals winning 5-4. He went 5-2-3, allowed six hits and four
runs. The one-one pitch misses the outside corner, the knees two and one. Follow ball back to the screen off the bat of
Carney Landsberg, two balls and two strikes. I said Craig pitch Sunday, he pitched Saturday
night. That was the 11 inning contest won by the Royals. His last win was at Seattle
on September the 7th. Final score 6-2. Landsberg a fling of a miss, now he goes. So Miller
flies to center, Landsberg strikes up and now Ralph Gar gets his first bad in a California
Uniform. Ralph with a light shock sitting 280. 9 homers 39 RBIs, 86 base hits. He is the
angel's designated hitter tonight. Base is empty two down. Chamberlain's pitch is popped up on the infield.
UL Washington under the ball and UL makes the catch. That retires the side. The angels put out 1-2-3 after half an inning.
California nothing, Royals coming up. Bottom of the first inning, the angels came up empty in the top half of the first.
31 year old right hander Jim Barr on the mound for California. Barr is 9-12 this year with an ERA of 4.17.
His last victory on September the 8th, 3-2 over the Brewers. His last outing was a rematch against Milwaukee
at County Stadium on the 14th. He went 6 innings, was not involved in the decision. The angels won 8-7 and Jim allowed 3 runs.
Making his second start against the Royals. He lost at the big A 13-4 to the Royals in Larry Gura on June the 23rd.
Jim allowed 7 hits and 4 runs and 4-2-3 innings. He's a former National Lager, 6th of the San Francisco Giants.
Eddie Blade at the University of Southern California for Rod Adonis.
Willie Wilson leading off, Willie hitting 3-14 with half a dozen homers and 46 RVIs.
Wilson in this series, 5 out of 16. He has scored 3 runs, stolen 1 base.
On the left side he can try to enter Jim Barr. Trying to give him by downing, Barr's first pitch is a strike, going 1.
Willie leads the Major League in stolen bases, he has 74. These 3 in front of Ronald Moore of the Tigers.
Breaking balls, chopped up to the second baseman Gritch. Flipped over to Rod Caru in time, 1 away.
The batter Hal McCrae, Max Avery 286. 9 home runs, 16-7 runs fatted in.
Hal McCrae having a fine series, Max is 6 for 12. He has driven in 1 run, but he has scored 7 times.
The Angels have not played well at all defensively. Hal takes a strike, a breaking ball that got the outside edge.
The Angels on their current road trip of 1-2, they've lost 6. And they have committed 10 errors in those 8 games.
The opposition with 12 under and runs. There's a strike. So Hal McCrae in the hole, nothing in 2.
Barr at the all-star break was 7-4. Since the all-star break, 2-8.
The 0-2 pitch to Mack is, it's followed into the seats down the right field line.
Jim Barr keeping everything away from Harold.
George Breck will be next.
Hal deep in the batter's box, a long way away from the plate, and he takes it inside.
He was looking away, and he was leaning over the plate, and Barr came up and in.
Hal almost walked into that pitch. Not that it was that close to Hal McCrae, it was close, but he was leaning, and that made the difference.
Another fast ball in too tight, two balls in too strength.
No score, bottom of the first inning. The Angels go home to play Texas, the Royals leave home to play the Oakland A's.
The 2-2 pitch. Struck him out, he finally came back on the outside corner with a slider, and after the two fast balls inside, the slider away got him.
Two-way, here's George Breck.
George has up this average to 3-33.
21 home runs, 103 RBI, and he's having some series.
He is 7 for 12 against the Angels in the three games.
Three RBI's and five runs scored.
Jim Barr's pitch is a slider outside, one ball in no strike.
George continues to lead the league in hits, runs, and triples.
His overall average against the Angels is here, 3-50.
Outside the George, two balls in no strike.
Barr trying to retire the Royals 1-2-3, the 2-0 pitch.
Took something off a breaking ball and got it over.
In 25 innings in this series,
Angel pitching has retired the Royals in order to get the ball out of the way.
In 25 innings in this series, Angel pitching has retired the Royals in order twice.
That's all. George is flinging a miss, and they can't even drive it two balls and two strikes.
The Royals went in order Monday night in the fourth inning, in the sixth inning last night against Nolan Ryan.
But in every other inning in this series, they've had at least one base runner.
The pitch to George is outside, and the count goes full free two.
Three balls, two strikes, bases empty, two outs.
Darrell Porter waiting to hit next.
Sign given by Brian Downing, the line by Barr in the pitch.
He's stuck him out, he kept the ball away from him, and the Royals do go down 1-2-3, Bar gets two strikeouts.
After one inning, at Royals Stadium, no score.
We go to the second inning, no score. Don Baylor, Rod Garoo and Brian Downing coming up against Craig Chamberlain.
The Angels went in order in the first, so did the Royals.
Final score in the first to two at Shea Stadium.
The Montreal Expos scored four runs in the eighth inning, and beat the Mets six to three.
Murray the winner, five and nine, reared in the loser, one and two.
The Pirates lost to the Phillies, so Montreal and Pittsburgh are going to tie for first now.
And at the Expos, when their second game, they leave.
Warm drive, deep refield, that goes Willie, she's gone. A home run for Don Baylor.
His 35th ball run on Craig Chamberlain's first pitch in the second inning.
Don Baylor hit a line drive over the wall in left field.
Baylor had been very quiet in his series, he was just two for 11.
That he muscled up and got it over the wall in left, and the Angels lead one to nothing.
The seventh ball run off Craig Chamberlain this year.
Here's Rod Garoo, and Garoo, like Baylor, has been conspicuous by his absence.
Rod Garoo just two out of twelve.
Craig Chamberlain goes to work on Rod, and it's slowing him side, one ball and no strike.
That gives Baylor 179 hits and 136 RBI.
Why ball center field, Amazota's position perfectly.
Hardly has to move, but he makes the catch.
Here's Brian Downing to capture.
Brian hitting 328 with 11 owners, 69 RBI.
Downing in the series has gone three for 11.
One of the three hits all run.
Outside to the right-handed batter, one ball and no strike.
Bay says empty, one out, one run in.
Chamberlain's pitch to Downing is a strike.
Toronto leading Boston four-nuping after five innings in Toronto.
Tony Salida Homer, former Royal.
Tom Bergmeier, former Royal, now pitching to the Red Sox.
Breaking ball from Chamberlain is fouled away by Brian Downing.
Lower deck on the first base side, one and two on the angel catcher.
Lane A, homer for Baltimore, his 19th in the second inning with the man on Detroit 3, Baltimore 2.
One, two, pitch to Downing, his foul back to the three to Downing really went after that pitch.
He seldom gets cheated.
He swings as hard as anybody in the league.
Steve Kepf swings awfully hard.
Kestremski used to.
Just missed the outside corner to Chamberlain, two balls and two strikes on Brian Downing.
Bob Gutsch to follow.
Don Baylor hit Chamberlain's first pitch of the inning over the wall and left.
The two-two pitch, foul ball back to the screen.
Craig challenged him with a fast ball up around the letter, and Downing's answer was a hard swing and a foul ball.
The angels are hitting 253 against the Royals as a team, and now have 14 home runs.
Here's the two-two pitch.
Lined into left field, Willie on the move towards the foul line, he makes the catch.
That's two out, here's Bobby Gutsch, the second baseman.
Gutsch hit a 295 with 27 home runs, 93 RBI.
The Royals trailing by two games with 10 to play.
Craig Chamberlain's pitch to Gutsch didn't want to go around, but he did.
No balls and a strike.
In the season series, the Royals have won five and have lost four.
The angels have won four out of six here at Royal Stadium.
Chamberlain just missed the outside corner, one-and-one.
One ball and one strike on Bob Gutsch.
A 295 hitter.
The swings and fouls fifth from the count of one and two. Gutsch has 27 home runs, 93 RBI.
Come on out at Oakland, Paul Spuddorf against Rick Limeford.
Saturday afternoon, Dennis Leonard against Matthew, Larry Gura hooks up against Mike Morgan on Sunday afternoon.
Lowering away to Gutsch.
Then it's into out of high and four.
Wednesday night, back home to close off the regular schedule against the A's.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Rick cleans his mistake out and that's the end of it.
One run on one hit, the home run by John Baylor.
We go to the bottom of the second. The angels won, the Royals nothing.
California won, the Royals nothing as we move to the bottom of the second.
Darrell Porter leads off against Jim Barr.
Darrell hit him 291, he has 108 RBI's, the money home run.
And what a very easy as having.
Darrell Porter has gone 6 for 12, has scored three runs and in the three games has 10 RBI's.
Joey's averaged a little better than three runs per game.
Jim Barr retired the Royals in order in the first.
The right hander goes to work on Darrell and finds the outside corner with his slider.
Darrell's is down, the pitch is outside.
Nick Brevick and calling the balls and strikes.
The 0-1 pitch on the corner, outside 0-2.
Darrell still leading the Lincoln walks.
He's gone 107.
The 0-2 pitch missed the outside edge of the kneecaps.
We mentioned Darrell's last three games over his last five.
He's gone 8 for 19.
That figures out to a 421 average.
And it's here to lead 11.
Down ball, hey, 6-0 center.
Darrell Porter down to 4-1 center, the Royals have their first base runners.
Joey's 7 out of 13 in the series and here's Steve Lacoste.
Steve is hitting 284.
Three home runs, 53 RBI's.
Steve's 5 out of 13 in the three games with three RBI's, three run scores.
The tying run at first was nobody out here in the bottom of the second.
The left-handed batter at the plate bar's pitches, outside 1 ball and no strikes.
Richie Dower homers for Baltimore in the second inning of the field, but he out in sight.
Baltimore 5-3 in the second inning of Detroit.
1 ball, no strikes on Lacoste.
The crowd's starting to come alive.
There goes the runner, hitting around and swinging a miss.
Throw to second and Darrell is going to be out.
Bobby Gritch took the throw, so on a hit and run play, Steve Lacoste flung and missed.
And downing throughout Darrell Porter's second base.
And that's the first oil to be thrown out by Brian Downing in this series.
The Royals have nine stolen bases.
That's not a bad percentage if you can steal nine out of every ten times,
but you've got one heck of a running game.
The Pita's outside, two balls and one strike.
Jim Barr's pattern to the left-handed hitter is pretty obvious.
He's keeping everything away as he did that pitch too far away, ball three.
Three and one.
At second game at State Stadium, Scott Sanderson will pitch for Montreal.
He's eight and seven.
Scott makes the start for the Mets.
He's one and one.
Montreal wins if they move past the Pirates in the first place in the National League East.
The three-one pitch to Pita.
Right.
And Pita's unhappy.
Boy, Jim Barr is just making that outside hit and keeping everything down, at least to this point.
Amazotus will be next.
Three balls, two strikes, armed Lacoste.
Here's the pitch.
Bouncing ball, shortstop.
Up with the ball, Anderson on the first-in-time.
Jimmy Hebdo.
He starts to his right, going to the hole for Pita.
Lacoste's down ball.
Two oils gone and here is Amazotus.
Amaz's batting average is 295.
He has 18 home runs, 89 RBI.
Amaz got in the series.
Well, he's four out of 14.
Four runs short and one run bad at end.
Amaz!
Take no given.
Here's the line by Jim Barr in the pitch.
Power ball into the upper deck, down the right field line.
Nothing at one.
Trinal leading Boston sixth in nothing.
Now as Rick Serona's home hurt is seven.
They are in the sixth.
No balls and one strike on Amazotus.
Bar deals off speed breaking ball, grounded to short.
Anderson up with the ball over to Rod Karoo in time.
Side retired.
One hit, no runs.
The Royals leave.
None in the inning.
And the score at the end of two.
California Angels one, the Royals nothing.
The Angels leave one to nothing after two innings.
Before we go to the third, let's pause for station identification.
This is the Kansas City Royals Radio Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
Denny Matthews along with Fred White and producer and engineer at Shepherd
at Royals Radio.
A horse in final game of the series.
The Angels leaving by the score of one to nothing.
Don Baylor's home run is what separates the two teams after two.
So, it's the third we go.
Here's Fred.
All right, thank you Denny.
Larry Harlow leads it off.
To be followed by Jim Anderson, the number nine hitter
than Rick Miller, the center fielder.
Great shape of the winds, the first pitch to Harlow.
Left handed batter swings and misses one strike to cap.
Harlow hitting 205.
No homers, a dozen runs, bad it is.
The Angels missing regular right fielder Dan Ford
who's out with a bruised side tonight.
All outside one to one.
Earlier in the series, Willie Aiken suffered a damaged knee
when sent home.
And today the Angels required Ralph Garh
who's operating as her designated hitter tonight.
One-one pitch to Harlow.
Wing and a miss.
He's losing a fast ball of time.
One and two to cap.
Each team has a hit.
The Angels lead one to nothing.
Their hit on Baylor's 35th home run.
Now, where the Royals have had some offense in this series.
One-two pitch.
All outside two and two.
In the three games played today,
the Royals have scored 26 runs on 42 hits.
The Angels 14 runs with 22 hits.
But through the first two innings tonight,
Jim Barr has looked like a million-dollar pitcher.
The Royals have been ineffective.
There's a line drive in the left center field.
That's going to flood the gap.
Willie Wilson trying to cut it off,
but it's all the way to the wall.
And Harlow at second base, round second,
he's going to try for three.
Here he comes, the throw, not in time.
Willie Harlow triples in the left center field,
and the Angels have their lead off man at third.
Had a chance to get something more done
against Craig Shaberman.
Very nice.
And the way Jim Barr is pitching every run looks big right now.
Jim Anderson, the shortstop, the number nine hitter.
And Craig Shaberman now in need of a strikeout or a pop-up.
The Royals play the infield back.
Anderson hitting 254.
Three home runs, he had one last night.
19 RBI's.
Craig Shaberman has to belt the pitch.
Ball outside, ball one.
Anderson against the Royals, seven for 22 this year.
Right hander against right hander.
Angels lead one nothing, they threaten again.
Here's the stretch and the pitch.
Way outside, ball two to an O.
The pitch again.
Fly ball left center field, Amos Otis running towards the gap
is there, reaches up and makes the catch.
It'll score the run down the line to score comes Anderson.
Red Harlow is Anderson hitting the ball hard in the deep left center field
and sacrifice flying, he drives in his 20th run of the year.
The center field of the Eagles were hitting the ball fairly hard
against Craig Shaberman.
So the early indications in this ball game don't look all that good.
Two to nothing California.
Now one out, nobody on, Rick Miller the hitter.
He was out on the fly ball to center his first time up.
Soon to stadium, check the Royals outfield.
They play him way around the off the way.
Ball misses ball one.
Bottom of the second, Baltimore.
After trailing three to nothing scored five in the top of the second.
They now lead Detroit five to three.
After six Toronto, six Boston nothing.
Minnesota beat New York three to one today.
Ball high two and O.
The Phillies beat the Pirates and Montreal won the first game
of their double header from the Mets.
Or the Expo staying right with the Pirates.
Two old pitch, right call two and one.
Montreal wanted the moment dead even with the Pirates.
The pitch again.
Bowled on a play down the left field line now two and two.
Montreal has played two left games in Pittsburgh.
They'll make one of those up in the double headers tonight.
They have played a ton of double headers.
They have six games to make up.
Starting just about ten days in the game.
They're going to be playing a lot of double headers.
Starting just about ten days ago.
Chamberlain ready to deal but Miller backs out of the batter's box.
The Angels have two hits but one of them is home run by Baylor.
The other triple by Harlow.
They have the two to nothing lead.
Two to pitch.
Hit him on the fifth, he fouls it back out of play still two and two.
Look, Miller hitting a two eighty four.
Right on the back line of the batter's box.
Chamberlain's two to pitch.
Missed the outside corner for a count three and two.
Great Chamberlain hasn't walked anybody but he has not had the control that he normally has.
He's been behind some hitters.
He's obviously missed the spot a couple of times with Baylor and Harlow.
Here's the three to pitch.
Fastball foul out of play.
Still three and two.
Will Salusa cook play dealers?
Going to pick up the sign from Porter.
Here comes the three to pitch to Rick Miller.
Strike three call.
They got him looking.
Strike out number three for Craig Chamberlain.
And here's Connie Lansford who has just strike out victim his first time up.
Chamberlain changing speeds a bit that time.
Got Rick Miller looking on a three to pitch.
Now two out, nobody odd and you'll deal with Lansford at two ninety three hitters.
Right handed batter, aggressive hitter.
Good hitter.
Seventeen homers, he's driven in seventy two.
Bouncing ball to Brett.
George charging.
Lansford can run but the close on time and he hitting his over.
Lansford out third to first.
The angels can run on a hit.
They can actually lead on dribble.
They go to the bottom of the third.
California two, the Royals up there.
Bottom of the third, hitting nothing, California.
Al Cowan, Frank White, UL Washington, the lower part of the order for the Royals.
The Royals have but one hitters, single by Darrell Porter.
Right hander against right hander.
Jim Barr winding the pitch.
Strike on the outside corner of the knee.
Boy he is just making millions of dollars pitches.
Just needling the corners right now.
Now again the pitch.
Inside one to one.
Hey, Jim Barr is going to have that kind of control all night.
Went for a long night.
Downing, put down her sign.
Barr is still looking in.
Now the wide.
Here's the one-one pitch.
Inside ball two, two and one.
Al Cowan four for 12 with four RBI's in this series.
Hit list and three tries against Barr this year.
Barr's only other start against the Royals in California on June the 2030.
Lasted only four and two-thirds innings.
Change of pace and it's in for a strike two and two at off-speed breaking ball.
The Royals won that ball game 13-4.
They scored seven runs in the eighth inning.
After Barr was gone.
Boy he has something so far tonight.
Here's the two-two pitch.
Outside ball count three and two.
The Royals have averaged 14 hits a game in the first three games of the series
and he has just strangled them so far tonight.
Barr winding the pitch to Cowan.
Fly ball pretty well hit the right field but over goes Larry Harlow.
He's there to make the catch.
Cowan's out on the fly ball to right and one out and nobody on to Frank White.
The end of two innings tonight.
There comes with the Cardinals two to nothing.
The ball is in the corner.
Jim Ries as it is 39th all-run and the seventh inning with a man on.
It's now for Rotto 6 plus and two.
The X throws a miss underway with their second game.
Nothing, nothing after the inning.
Montreal won the first game.
The pitch to Frank White.
Bouncing ball high chopper over the first base and there they set left field.
Don Baylor gets it back to the infield.
White holds it first with a single.
The Cardinals have their second inning tonight.
They play two innings in Detroit.
Five to three ball to more after two from Blake.
Here's you well.
They had a tough night last night.
Nolan Ryan struck him out four times.
Four times up.
One for eight in a series now.
He's been playing good shortstop.
Now it's up on the left side hitting 244.
No doubt you will would like to atone some for last night right here.
Bow's one back out of play.
One strike.
Blake at first with 23 stolen bases.
He's been caught just a half dozen times.
They say played at the moment.
The pitch to Washington is outside one to one.
The White House have been doing some running in this series.
Frank doesn't look like he's going right now.
Now he edges away a bit.
Makes a false start.
That blow not in time.
He got back.
Well he started to go.
That bar wheeled and fired the first in Frank.
He was leading towards second.
Really showed some reflexes getting back to first base.
Now he comes over to talk to first base coach Steve Orr.
And kind of gather himself together a bit.
Frank had made his move.
Some reflexes him getting back to first just then.
He was almost picked off.
Well he will soon next.
Barring the double play.
He's got nothing California at the bottom of the third.
Downing through the signs for his right hander.
Bar into the stretch.
Frank likes the pitch.
Well it's going to button this.
He's going to hold now one and two.
So Bar has the advantage in the count.
He hasn't even come close to walking anybody.
He's ready again.
Here's the stretch, the one two pitch.
Throw the first and seventh Frank right back.
I'll tell you what Jim Barr is not lobbing the ball to first.
He's making very serious moves that way.
He's not going to go to the right.
He's going to go to the right.
He's making very serious moves that way.
Bar of Edmunds.
He's 31 years old now.
6'3", 205.
He's in his prime.
Here's...
Bar started to go into his wind-up.
The stretch right there and then back off the rubber.
All of a sudden he seemed to be uncomfortable.
Now we're ready again.
Here's the one two pitch to UL Washington.
Now back to the screen still one and two.
Frank White edges away again at first.
About a half step shy of the artificial turf.
Now Bar ready.
Back off the rubber to run Frank White back.
Boy Bar working like the chickens to keep Frank White close over there.
Now Washington backs out of the batter's box.
Bar trying to help set down the Royal Running Game
which has been quite a force in the first three games of the series.
Again, Frank with a safe lead.
Here's the stretch by Bar.
There goes Frank, the pitch outside.
Downing through the second.
Now he's got a stolen...
quite a duel between Jim Bar and Frank White.
But Frank winds up with his 24th stolen base of the year
and the big one it is because he's in scoring position now.
Trying downing them out to talk to Jim Bar a little bit.
That's Frank White's fourth stolen base in this series
for the Royals number 10.
The only man who's been caught was Darrell Porter in the second.
That was a blessed hit run.
Now two and two to UL Washington.
They hit, cuts the angel lead in half right here.
Bar into a stretch.
Two, two pitch.
Ball three outside full count, three and two to UL.
And Bar just missed that corner.
He's asking the play down fire, Nick Bremigans.
Was that pitch outside?
Bremigans nods his head, yes.
Bar thought he had the corner.
Oh, big pitch coming.
Frank White at second base, one out.
Full count to Washington.
Now UL backs up at the batter's box just a moment.
Bremigans unfolding rather slowly here in the bottom of the third.
The angels in front of the Royals two nothing.
Here's the stretch, three, two pitch.
Now back just below us, still three and two.
This is game number 153, just nine to go after tonight.
The angels go home to play the Texas Rangers three.
They go to Oakland for three with the eight.
The angels and the angels kept together for three in Ennire.
And then the Royals come home to face the eight for three
while the angels go to Texas to finish out the season
with three against the Rangers.
Three, two pitch to Washington.
Bouncing ball back to the mound.
They are going to go to first now.
They looked at second base where Frank White was almost cut off,
but they left it to go to first.
White holds it second.
The play goes one-three.
Frank White is second with two out for Willie Wilson,
who grounded his second his first time up.
You will hit it rather sharply, but right back to the pitcher.
Willie with a sixth game hitting streak, five for 18 in this series.
He was two for two against Jim Barr when he faced him in California.
The boy Jim Barr was a much different pitcher that night.
In fact, Willie let off that game with a single
short and the first inning of the Royals took an immediate lead.
Far from the stretch, the pitch to Willie.
Inside ball one.
Willie, as you know, a switch hitter up on the left side.
In close to the plate, here's the stretch, the pitch.
Ball two outside, two at a.
And Barr not quite as sharp in this inning with his control
as he has been through the first two.
He's not bad, but he's just not as sharp as he was.
Barr fidgeting.
Going to all parts of his uniform.
The Royals and everybody else accused him of loading the ball up.
White, he was thrown out of the game the last time.
Barr pitched against him in fact.
The Royals as well as the second, flanked white back in time.
Wilson's average, 3-14.
A 3-64 hitter against California.
So he's been tapped on the edge.
Barr taking a lot of time.
Goes to his uniform, now to his cap, now to his uniform pants.
And now looks in for the side.
And the stretch, to a pitch to Willie.
Bind base in left field, flanked white, turning around third.
And later for the third and second to keep Willie a first
in the two to one ball game.
Wilson singles and the Royals are on the board.
Wins the game.
Everything is here, now back right.
Once again the stolen base pays the dividend.
Flank white single, steal second.
And Willie Wilson caches it in.
Willie who is stolen more bases than anybody in baseball.
On the other end of it that time, getting the RBI.
And now we'll see what Willie's up to.
Hal McCrae the hitter, he was called out on strikes this
for a time up, Willie has a good lead.
He's at the edge of the artificial curve.
Stretched by Barr, throw the first Willie back.
Wilson is stolen 74 this year.
And he has stolen 34 of his last 35 attempts.
He's edging away.
Hal McCrae, deep in the batter's box waiting.
Throw the first Willie back.
Boy, Barr just carved McCrae up his first time at the plate.
Got two strikes on him pitching away, came in hard flight.
Then got him looking with a slider away.
And Hal McCrae a very intelligent hitter.
Obviously would be up there with a thought right now.
First thought probably is what Willie steals second if he can.
Second thought is he probably can.
Stretched by Barr, Willie not going to pitch his inside.
Ball runs so Barr started him inside that time.
George Brevin, he on deck circle.
Now two to one, California.
He outfields straight away.
Downing puts down the sign.
Bars about.
There goes Willie, the pitch is outside.
Throw the second.
He's got it stolen.
Number 75 for Willie Wilson.
Well the Royals case went earlier.
Now Willie steals it.
He represents the tying one with two out.
And Hal McCrae as the catcher.
Now he's got it stolen.
Now he's got a house and the three red golds.
And he represents the tying one with two out.
And Hal McCrae.
That's a count here's way in two and oh
Only four players before Willie Wilson.
An American league history of ever stolen 75.
Wide Milan at he compromise middle north.
Bill North.
And the crowd giving Willie a standing ovation to pick the match.
Round ball up the middle base, hip center field.
Wilson's going to score on the Royals and pop the Angels in the bottom of the third.
And Willie Wilson clapping in the hip hole plate and look at the dugout.
Oh you would think it's a nice inning.
The running game giving the Royals a big, big lift.
And Jim Barr looking like he had him shut off to the first two.
And all of a sudden the Royals rise up with two singles and two stolen bases make passion both.
And out comes manager Jim Fragosi now to talk to his right-hander Jim Barr.
Hip throughly.
Remember that.
That's the Royals coming back in his inning with some intensity.
And the Royals are running, forcing things and making them happen and then cashing them in.
Two stolen bases in the inning and they cash in both.
And Willie Wilson keys the inning with a two out single that drives home the first run
and stealing a base and scoring the second one.
We mentioned the three who had stolen 75 previously.
Clyde Myland did it twice.
Eddie Collins that was in 1909 and 1911.
Eddie Collins did it in 1910, Bill North in 1976.
So Willie Wilson is only the second American Ligur in the last 64 years
and only the fifth in history to ever do it.
Steal 75 in here.
Now McCrea first with two out here, George Thred.
George struck out his first time up.
Two out, bottom of the third, two two tie.
Action in the California full pen.
The pitch to Brett way outside and high and Barr missing badly with the pitch for the first time tonight.
This is raw baseball.
The wind is no factor.
It's not blowing.
It will help neither hitter nor pitcher.
Barr to Belp.
The pitch to Brett.
Strike on the outside corner one and one.
George comes back showing the good control they had earlier.
George at 332 with 21 home runs, 103 batted in.
Started the night just five points behind Fred Lin and the American Ligur batting rate.
There's the stretch by the right-hander.
One one pitch.
Bouncing ball to the second baseman, Bob Gritch.
Shoubles to the shortstop but the four south, the inning is over.
But the Royals get two runs on three hits with a couple of stolen bases.
They leave a man.
At the end of three, the Royals two to the angels two.
We cover the fourth.
The Royals have caught the angels we're tied to the Royals about hitting four to two.
And leading off for California Ralph Gar.
That's right.
Ralph Gar.
They're partying this afternoon for the Chicago White Sox.
He popped the short his first time up.
The left-handed batter hitting 280.
Nine home runs, 39 batted in.
He is right on top of home plate.
David throws a fastball and Gar waxes it in the right field for a base hit.
Left-handed batter, he had his right foot right on the plate practically.
So Gar singles right and he hit it hard.
The angels get the lead run aboard to start the fourth and here's Don Baylor, who home-run his first time up.
Baylor now hitting 301 with 35 home-runs, 136 batted in.
He leaves the American League and that department.
Jim Rice is in the two run home-run so he's at least eight in front of Rice.
Gar with good speed but not a good base-sealer.
He's stolen two and then caught four times in this year.
He's a step shy of the artificial turf.
Looks like he wants to run to throw to Baylor.
Low block by Porter.
Gar not going anywhere.
Want to know.
The outfield plays Baylor deep in the fall.
Pretty good place to play him.
He went deep with it the first time.
Boy, Baylor a rare combination of speed and power.
He is big, he can run.
What a pitch to him.
High fly ball, shallow center.
Washington backing out the shortstop calling for it.
Makes the catch one away.
Gar will hold it first.
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I've Karoova hit her now.
He was out on a fly ball to center his first time.
Karoova's average 313, 3 homers 43 battered in.
Get hit her.
Chamberlain ready to pitch to Karoova.
Ball high.
Want to know.
The only American Lake final Minnesota B.J. York this afternoon 3 to 1 in a make up game.
Chamberlain to Belchek's guard first to pitch.
Blue takes outside ball 2.
2-2 tied, top of the fourth.
Ralph Gar is first with one out.
And a tough, tough, tough hitter in there.
Two old picks, there goes Gar.
Line down the left field, line twisting foul.
The Angels on 2 and 0 were playing hit and run.
You think Jim Fragosi didn't want that ball to be fair?
He came out of the dugout to look down the line.
Fragosi was about three steps out of the dugout looking it over.
You think both sides think this game means something tonight?
Two balls and a strike to Karoova.
He is 2 for 13 in this series and that scares you a little bit.
Chamberlain now throws the first, Gar back.
The Bits, Karoova hits a high fly ball left field in shallow.
Wilson coming, he's there.
He's got it.
Gar retreats to first to Gar.
Go Chamberlain.
Gets Faber and Karoova now faces Bryan Downing who lined to left his first time up.
Gar is first with two out.
Bryan quiet in the sea a couple of words to Craig Chamberlain.
Boston batting to top of the ninth in Toronto, the Blue Jays lead 6-2.
Baltimore batting to top of the fourth Detroit.
Baltimore five, the Tigers three.
The Orioles magic number is three.
Bryan Downing right handed that her in.
Chamberlain's pitch.
Fast ball for a strike on the other part of the plate 0-1.
Tomorrow night in Oakland, Paul Spidore against Rick Langford.
Whitey Herzog at 9-10 tomorrow night.
Good, the first runner back.
That's it 9-10 and a headed check.
The Orange Angels are home tomorrow night to play the Texas Ranger.
The pitch.
Swinging into this.
I was due to Downing and if he ever take a lift he would fly across home plate.
He almost simply swung the bat so hard.
He's a right-handed batter and he wound up on the first base side of the batter's box.
You think there'll be some scoreboard watching on the West Coast tomorrow night?
Part two of your question.
Do you think the Oakland scoreboard will work?
This is the stretch.
0-2 pitch.
Lowered outside ball.
When you're really taken down that big scoreboard in Anaheim, the big A.
And they're operating with a high school type scoreboard.
They've got it above the left field fence.
A little electric kind.
They'll be announcing the score in Anaheim a lot.
Here's the stretch.
1-2 pitch to Brian Downing.
There goes the runner.
Pitch is popped up.
Now territory playable.
Darrell Porter off of the bat.
He's got it.
The inning is over.
So Grape Stabler works around the leadoff single by Gar.
He gets Baylor to reel and Downing.
Now runs the hit.
A man left to the bottom of the fourth way goes.
The Royal's two and the Angels two.
Bottom of the fourth at 2-2 tie.
Darrell Porter will lead it off.
He's single this first time up.
Offensively in this series.
Willie Wilson is now six for 19.
He's scored four runs.
Kyle McCray is now seven for 14.
George Brevitt is seven for 14.
Darrell Porter seven for 13.
LaCotte five for 13.
Frank White five for 13.
The Royal's have had some offensive work.
Barr to Porter.
Outside took something off of it.
Ball one.
Ordered LaCotte Otis in the bottom of the fourth.
The Royal's about hit California.
Four to three.
They're tied 2-2.
Barnes pitch to Porter.
Breaking ball low two and 0.
Darrell hitting 2-93.
21-20 home runs.
108 RBI.
He's just four RBI's shy of the Royal team record.
112 set by Al Cowan.
2-0 pitch.
Low ball three 3-0.
So Barr who had tremendous control of the first two innings.
Now falling behind Darrell Porter 3-0.
Here's the pitch.
He walked him on fourth three.
Darrell Porter draws the base on balls.
He'll lead off the Royal half of the fourth inning.
So the lead run is on for the Royal.
It was for the Angels to start the top of the fourth.
And Craig Sable and Schecter.
Darrell Porter now has walked 108 times this year.
He's living in 108 runs.
He has scored 96.
Pete Matoc grounded as short his first time up.
As a five game innings three going.
Stretched by Barr the fish.
Strike on the outside corner to Pete Matoc.
So Jim Barr relocated that corner.
Pete with a look at his third base coach, Chuck Hiller,
who rolls through a series of signs for him.
Rod Karoo trying to keep Porter close to first.
Line drive towards the gap in left center.
But Don Boehner closes the gap and makes the catch.
It's actually more of a fly ball than a line drive.
It stayed up.
And Matoc is out.
Porter holds it first.
Now here's Ray Masodos who grabbed it as short his first time up.
And Royal space Barr back in June.
Otos was two for three against him with a home run and four RBI.
Barr got him the first time up tonight.
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Wherever you are in the world tonight, hope you're enjoying baseball in the States.
Pitch outside Otos, California, Asia, Kansas City Royals.
We're at Royal Stadium, Kansas City.
It's a big ball game.
After tonight nine games left in the regular season,
the Angels at the moment two games in front of the Royals.
So this one means something.
Barr at the belt, the one old pitch notice.
Round ball back to the mound might be a double play.
Shortstop has one back to first two and the inning is over.
One, six, three, the Angels turn it over.
So the Royals waste the lead off walking them out of it a four.
No runs, no hits.
Nobody left.
And after four, the Royals two, the Angels two.
We go to the top of the fifth inning.
From California it'll be Gritch, Harlow and Anderson to face Craig Chamberlain.
Royals two, the Angels two.
We go to the fifth and again here's Denny.
I bet Bob Gritch has struck out he's over one in the contest.
Two runs on four hits for the Royals, two runs on three hits for California.
And neither team is there.
Bobby Gritch setting himself at the plate.
The line by Craig Chamberlain and here's the pitch.
It's inside one ball and no strike.
Chamberlain has three strikeouts thus far.
Hasn't walked anybody.
Built it into left center field, they sit willy over quickly to cut it off and Gritch will hang on with a single.
Bob Gritch gets his fourth hit of the series.
Now Larry Harlow's coming up.
Larry tripled and scored in the third inning.
The two California runs, Don Baylor a lead off homer in the second.
Harlow started the third inning with a triple and scored on Anderson's sacrifice play.
So for the third time in five innings, the angels have their lead off man aboard.
Harlow checking with his third base coach, Bobby Keddaff before stepping in.
The Royals are looking for the butt but Harlow's going to swing away and he chops one foul right at the plate.
No balls and one strike.
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No balls and one strike on left-handed hitting Larry Harlow.
Bob Gritch at first caused the throw.
Bob has a very, very conservative lead over there.
Scoreboard totals identical.
Two runs, four hits.
No errors.
Chamberlain's pitch is high.
One ball and one strike.
Shortstop Jim Henderson in the on-deck circle.
This is the fourth and final game of the series.
Royals wait the series two games to one.
Chamberlain's 1-1 pitch to Harlow is lifted to center field.
Well hit, the room parodas backtracking.
Still retreating to make the catch.
Larry Harlow flies to deep center.
One away and up comes shortstop Jim Henderson.
Jim Henderson got Harlow home with a scoring five all the center in the third inning.
Better first, well away.
Top of the fifth inning, game tied 2-2.
A pitch to Jim Henderson is just a bit high when ball and no strike.
Henderson was the angel of second selection in the 1975 June draft.
Worked his way up through the angel system.
Chamberlain's pitch is upstairs, ball two, 2-0.
Galen Sisko pops out of the Royal dugout and heads for the mound.
Brakes mechanics breaking down just a little bit here in the inning.
He's been up to Jim Henderson.
Bob Gritz started the inning with a solid single and Harlow hit the ball hard.
Now Galen's spotting that little mechanical flaws now.
Trying to get Craig back in the groove.
It looks like this is an oversimplification but not following through.
In other words, everything's ahead of the arm and the ball is up.
Jim Henderson meanwhile checking with Bobby Canop, the coach of third, Jim Bragosi,
watching his team from this near end of the angel dugout.
Two balls, no strikes on.
California shortstop Jim Henderson.
Bob Gritz at first, went away.
Here's the pitch, followed straight back.
This one will get the upper deck and it's 2-1.
Toronto defeated Boston 6-2.
Taylor Moore the win or Inko the lost.
Gleiss it is 39-09.
Two balls, one strike to pitch to Henderson.
Popped up, shallow right center field.
Everybody chasing it.
Al Collins coming in to make the play and they're two down.
But Craig able to come back from the 2-0 count to Jim Henderson.
And here's Rick Miller who applied to center in the first, was called out on strikes in the third.
The American League leader in home runs is Milwaukee's Glamon Thomas, he has 42.
Gleiss broke the tie with teammate Fred Lin.
Strike on the upside edge, nothing in one on Rick Miller.
Barney lands for DeFalo, game tied 2-2 in the top of the fifth.
The angels got one in the second, one in the third, the Royals two in the bottom of the third.
Gritz at first, two away, draws its row and is back standing to play rather close.
Chamberlain has a very quick move over to first.
And Gritz just found out all about it.
The first single to strike the fourth inning, that he was unable to move.
The 0-1 delivery, going inside, one ball and one strike.
Here in the fifth, they'll lead off single by Bob Gritz, but now they're two out and he's still standing at first.
So the angels are unable to move their base runners.
Bobbie back to the bag, but oh how the Royals moved their base runners in the bottom of the third inning.
The classic case of getting the most out of the least.
Gritz a little bigger lead, doesn't go, the pitch to Miller is right through there and got one and two.
Rick Miller against the Royals this year has just one hit and eight trips.
A ball, two strikes on the left-handed hitter, Chamberlain's pitch.
It's the outsides on him and it even got two balls and two strikes.
The angels of 182, the Royals of 180.
The angels of loss 72, the angels of loss 70.
Signal given by Darrell Porter, now the 2-2 pitch on the way.
Ball three, three and two.
That was a big pitch for Chamberlain because now with three and two and two out, Bobbie Gritz will be off and running.
Here's Karni Lansford coming up next and Chamberlain about to make a big pitch.
Three and two, two out of the fifth inning. Here it comes.
Brown ball, base hit left-hield.
Gritz even though he was running must stop at second and here's Karni Lansford who has stuck out and bounced through the third baseman.
Lansford is now one out of 13 in this series.
The ball is two out of 14.
Don Baylor is three out of 13.
Two on, two out, a 2-2 tie in the top of the fifth.
Well Craig was on in front of Rick Miller but letting him get away.
The pitch to Karni Lansford is guy to center.
The ball is two out of 14.
Two hits, no runs, a couple of them left.
We go to the bottom of the fifth.
The report says Alan Eagleton has decided to refuse a request from the association to concentrate solely on the association matters.
A 2-2 tie at Royal Stadium. We go to the bottom of the fifth inning and here is Al Cowan facing Jim Barr.
Flying by the right-hander in the pitch.
He started to go for a spider.
Checked his swing but the pitch broke into the strike zone and the count is 0-1.
Barr is 6'3", 215 pounder.
A professional since 1970.
Southern California native.
Glowing outside to Cowan, 1-1. Al fly to right field his first time up.
Jim Barr's best season was 1974 with the San Francisco Giants.
He won 13, lost 9, had an ERA of 2.74.
Seventh best in the National League. Good fast ball in the outside corner and it's 1-2.
Jim Barr owns the Major League record for retiring 41 consecutive batters.
That was back in 1972.
Here's the 1-2 pitch. Breaking ball is down to the shortstop.
Anderson gets the big hop.
Over to Rod Karoo in time 1-0.
Here's Frank Light.
Frank started the Royal 2-1 3rd innings.
He's single, stole a basin score.
The Royals used 3 singles and 2 stolen bases to produce the 2-run.
2 runs, 5 hits for California. 2 runs, 4 hits for the Royal.
Aligned by Barr and the pitch.
The heartbreaking fighters is slowing away. 1 ball with no strike.
Downing hangs out a sign for Jim. Here's the pitch.
5 ball, right center field. Well hit. Back goes Miller, back goes Harlow.
Right is off the wall and down goes Harlow with a heat.
Frank Light around the second on his way to third.
To throw to third, not in time.
Frank Light sips off the wall and right center field.
And I must say this way, Harlow really didn't play the ball that well.
It hit about halfway up on the wall. He would have had time perhaps to get back to the wall,
but he chose to jump.
And he just failed to come down to the baseball.
And the Royals had a chance to take the lead with UL Washington up there.
The Angels now are forced to pull their infield in for the play of the play.
UL got it back to the pitcher his first time up.
Jim Barr asking for time once to talk with second baseman Bob Gritt.
Frank Light is two for two. Let's take the letter triple.
Washington has 18 RBI.
He could produce some nice speed right here. What a big one this is.
He can't field in. The outfield shallow and sheeted toward left.
Far's pitch squeezes on and they sense that Frank Light can chase back to third
and 20 Landford takes him out.
Well, they either picked off the side or gabbled in one, one of the two.
The Royals were going to squeeze on the first pitch.
The Royals pitched out. Frank Light was halfway between home and third when downing caught the ball.
And Brian ran him back toward third, gave the ball to Landford and tagged him out.
Big, big play in a big ball game.
So instead of having the lead run as third and one out, the bases are empty two away.
One ball, no strike. That will go as the caught ceiling.
And for Brian just the seventh time this year, UL swinging away, fouled fifth.
One ball and one strike.
Far getting the sign from downing. Here's the one one pitch.
Breaking ball is twice foul off third into the lower deck one and two.
A ball to strikes on UL Washington.
Ball game in the bottom of the fifth, a two two tie.
The second bar brings it home. Fastball missed away two and two.
Jim was the giant second pick in the summer of 1970.
The giant's first draft choice that summer was a fellow by the name of Dave Kingman.
Two balls, two strikes, two out.
The last two is catcher, the two two pitch to Washington.
Missed, low and outside, three and two.
Well, the Royals have lost the runner at second base.
They've lost one between home and third, but they've also scored two runs by virtue of the stolen base.
Worked both ways.
The foul will be into the crowd, lower deck up to left field line, still three and two on UL Washington.
Three and two, two out. Here's Bar's stitch.
Blind drive into shallow center field, in comes Miller, makes the catch.
And that's the inning. One hit no runs, the Royals, grand done, and the score at the end of five.
The Royals two, California two.
Nationally supermoto.
Danny Matthews at the Royals stadium. We go to the top of the sixth, a two two tie and Ralph Garley's off for the angels.
And then pops a shortstop in the first single in the fourth. Two runs, five hits for the Royals, two runs, five hits for California.
The pitch to the left-handed batter is a bouncing ball, short hop by LaCocchi brings it back to the bag, one away.
Here's Don Baylor, who lined a home run over the wall and left in the second, and then popped to the shortstop in the fourth.
The angels came up with one in the second and one in the third. The Royals scored two in the bottom of the third to tie it.
And here we are in the top of the sixth.
Speed and a ball. There we miss one ball and no strikes for Don Baylor. Don with 35 home runs, 136 runs batted in.
The pitch to the right-handed batter, outside ball two, two and 0.
Don hit 34 home runs last year, so his home run in the second inning tonight. You're passing his total of last year by one.
The two-oh-pitch foul ball back in out of play. 35 is a career high.
Two balls and one strike on Don Baylor. Chamberlain's pitches swung Wade and hit into the crowd, foul no play down the right field line.
People talk Wade out into the corner, but no chance. Two balls, two strikes on Don Baylor.
Rod Caru kneeling in the on-jerk circle. Houston leading Atlanta by the score of 4-0 after 4 in Houston.
The after-ohs two and a half back of the Cincinnati Red. The two-oh-pitch to Baylor struck him out.
So Chamberlain gets his fourth strikeout, and here's Rod Caru. Rod's fly to center and the second fly to left in the fourth.
That is only the 48th time that Don Baylor has struck out this year.
Rod Caru spins one foul into the crowd back of the California dugout in his own run. As Houston leads Atlanta 4-0 after 4 in Houston,
they are just starting in San Diego. The Reds in the Padres. Red Norman for the Reds and Randy Jones for the Padres.
Two small left-enders. The oh-one pitch. Rod drills one into the right field corner. That'll be extra bases.
He wheels around first and into second base with a two-hour double.
Rod Caru's double gives Brian Downing a chance to put the angels back on top. Downing fly to left into the second,
fouled after the catcher in the fourth.
The Tigers sixth, Baltimore sixth after four in Detroit.
Montreal in the Mets, no score after four innings in their second game. Pirates lost in Montreal when they're first.
Montreal in the Pirates in a first place tie in the National League East.
Rod Caru at second two down. The pitch to Downing. Strike on the upside end.
Downing up there in that wide open stance, almost directly facing the pitcher.
Chamberlain's oh-one delivery. Breaking stuff misses away. One ball and one strike.
Downing just looking to pull. You better just concede the inside half of the plate to him.
One one pitch, way outside, two balls and a strike.
If he should get a ball on the inside half of the plate in that kind of a stance, he could drill holes in that left field wall all night.
But Drake has pitched him well so far, a five ball to left to follow ball to the catcher.
He needs to get him here with Rod Caru at second and two out in a two-two ball game.
Way upstairs, ball three, three and one. And Bobby Gritch standing in the on-deck circle watching.
Craig Chamberlain, very intently. Three and one, so the count is downing play.
Chamberlain gets the sign from Porter. The three-one delivery.
He let up and it's blowing outside ball four and runners the first and second for Bob Gritch.
Gritch struck out in the second. He's single in the fifth.
For Craig Chamberlain, that would be the first base on balls that he has issued tonight.
Two on, two out, a two-two game. Top of the sixth.
Bobby Gritch right-handed batter. The outfield straight away.
Chamberlain brings it home. Gritch takes ball outside. One ball in those strikes, they go to work out on the Royal Bullpen.
Darrell Porter has to talk with Chamberlain.
Right-hander, Reedy Martin and left-hander, Gary Christensen go to work out on the Royal Pen.
The angels of that base runner that ever getting except the first.
One ball in those strikes on Bobby Gritch. Rod Caruette second. Brian Downing, the runner at first.
Here comes the 1-0 pitch. What can he miss? And it's a ball in the strike.
A tenths of a moment at Royal Stadium. One and one, here's the pitch. Power ball will get out of play over the Royal dugout and into the seats. One and two now to count.
So the advantage to the pitcher. Attention will continue to mount as we work our way out of the middle portion of the ball game into the late eights.
And we're now in the top of the sixth. So you're getting down your final nine, ten, eleven, twelve out. Power ball back to the screen.
Still one and two on Bobby Gritch.
For Bobby Gritch, a veteran, he's been through the pen and pressures before. He, of course, was with Ballamore from 1971 on that he's in his third year now with the angels.
One and two with two on and two out. Back ball outside and low. Two balls and two strikes. Gritch a three time off star. A four time gold glove winner.
Bob did well against the Royals last year, three fifty-three. Two and two, here's Timberlintzic. He stuck him out. He took a little something off the ball. That's his fifth strike up.
No runs, one hit, a walk and two men left. We go to the bottom of the sixth. The remains, Royals two, California two.
Bottom of the sixth inning, a two-two tie. Willie Wilson leading off. Willie Single to drive in a run. Stola Basin scored in the third. Bounce to second in the first.
Here's the line by Jim Boyer in the pitch. Popped up. Short center bailed. Everybody chasing it. Second baseman Gritch under the ball and Bob makes the play. One pitch, one out.
Here's Hal McRae. Hal Single in a run in the third inning. Struck out in the first. Bar has walked one. He is struck out two. No strikeouts, though, since the first inning.
Two runs, a half a dozen hits for the angels. Two runs, five hits for the Royals. Right hander against right hander. Bar to Hal McRae. It's outside. One ball, no strike.
In Oakland tomorrow night, it'll be Paul Spudorf against Rick Langford. Saturday, Dennis Leonard in Matthew, Sunday, Larry Gura and Mike Morgan.
The one-oh-pitch from Bar. Breaking stuff outside. Two and oh. A perfect night for a ball game. No breeze whatsoever. The temperature in the 70s. Here's the two-oh-pitch.
Bungity miss. Two and one. The Royals have stranded just one runner. That came in the third inning, the inning in which they scored their two runs.
The line by Bar and the pitch. Bungity miss. Jim keeping the ball away from Hal. McCrae asking to play on fire was that a strike? Bremen get answered him verbally.
Two balls and two strikes on Hal McCrae. Here comes the pitch. He struck him out. Hal McCrae goes down swinging. That will bring up Brett. George, the strike-out victim, his first time up, he's rolled into a force play, ending the third inning.
George with 207 hits. 21 of them home run. Bar and pitching in 196 innings has surrendered 22 homers. They sedentary two out, bottom of the sixth, the two-two tie. The lead-up is outside.
Bar really hasn't tried to jam many of the Royal hitters. His patterns of both left-handers and right-handers just keep the ball away. There's a fast ball on the outside corner, one-and-one.
He has thrown the fast ball inside, particularly to a few right-handed batters, but not for strikes. They've been inside. So he's making his living tonight on the outside corner.
One-and-one to George Brett. Right-handed ready in deals. Fast ball misses away, two-and-one. Nick Brevig and calling the balls and strikes.
You talk about pressure on the players, the manager, the umpire. They have to live with the two. Two balls and a strike on George. Here's the pitch. Over but low, three-and-one. A narrow quarter waits in the on-deck circle.
Decent right field is Larry Harlow. Jim Bar is taking over his pitches. The three-one pitch. It's sharply off the glove of Rob Caru in the right field. Brett will make the turn and tries for second. Harlow through to second. He is going to be out.
Anderson held the ball. That was the only question. Brett saying no, he didn't tag me. And Whitey, his side, was a lot of argue. The inning is over. Well, after waiting to see whether they call that a base hit or an error on Rob Caru, probably a base hit. He hit it very sharply.
It is a single. So the Royals one hit, no runs. And after six innings, Royals two, California two.
The Royals stadium. The Angels two runs, six hits and no errors. The Angels one in the second. Home run by John Baylor. One in the third. A triple by Harlow. A sacrifice fly by Jim Anderson. The Royals two in the bottom of the third. A one-out single by Frank White. A stolen base.
A two-out single by Willie Wilson. Tied it. A stolen base by Willie, number 75. And a single by Hal McRae. Tied the ball game. So it's two-two. Quite a contest. To the seventh we go and here again is Brett.
Alright, thank you, Denny. Denny told you the total is identical. Just watching the ball game, the Angels have seemed to have the upper hand just a little bit. They've had a couple of threats the last two innings. They've had two men on. The Craig Chamberlain fought them off.
Now he'll face Larry Harlow who has tripled and hit a ball to the warning track in center. So he's hit it hard twice. Ball outside, ball one. The Angels have hit the ball hard consistently tonight.
They have a home run, a triple and a double. Half their hits extra bases. Harlow fouls one out of play. One ball, one strike. A two-oh-eight hitter but as we said he's counted it pretty good twice tonight.
He tripled the gap in left center. He sent others to the warning track in center. One ball, one strike. The outfield straight away. Craig Chamberlain winding the pitch.
Harlow lines it in the right field base. So again the Angels have the leadoff man aboard. That's one of the reasons again why you feel they've had the upper hand.
This is the fourth time in the ball game not counting Baylor's home run. They've put their leadoff man aboard. He home are leading off the second. So that's five actually.
Now Jim Anderson, the number nine hitter. He's got a sacrifice fly out on the fly ball to right. The Royals will be looking for a bun here.
So it's Harlow, a two-oh-five hitter who is two for three and has hit the ball hard three times tonight who is providing some trust for the Angel offense. Go to first, runner back.
Now the Bun, Anderson. Buns back to the mound. Chamberlain is going to throw the second base. Not in time. The low throw. That UL Washington couldn't pick it up cleanly.
Chamberlain did not hurry really getting to the ball and kind of took his time and then threw across his body. He didn't turn around to throw. Not a good play by the Royal pitcher.
And the throw late to boot. Now out comes Gavilan Cisco. So now the Angels do have something going. Action in the Royal ball pit and the Angels have another threat going.
Left hander Gary Christensen, right hander Rene Martin is throwing in the Royal ball pit.
A sacrifice and a fielder's choice the way they score it. And runners at first and second, nobody out. Now the top of the order, Rick Miller, Carney Lansford and Ralph Gar coming up for California.
And now Jim Fragosi can buzz with Rick Miller if he chooses and get runners to second and third. He will hope with nobody out. The Royal can counter that by putting a play on if they choose.
So we'll see what's happening. While the conferences go on, will remind you of Pat Spears in the leg all by itself because Pat is good naturally.
Now Gavilan Cisco back to the dugout.
Here's Rick Miller. One for three tonight. Singled his last time up and now the Angels wanting no mistakes.
Are going to get together. Third base coach Bobby Cannot calls. Rick Miller up the third base line to talk to it.
And we'll see if the Royal put a play on. Brett is shortened up a third. Piva Cock at first. You all watching the shortstop is over towards third.
So they may have to play on where Washington goes to third and the Royal try to get the fourth out over there.
Hollow with a runner at second. That's pretty good speed.
Brett down the line. Around the bunch. Remember, a bunch of the third base lines are going to go to third. They caught him.
The Royal put the play on and gets a fourth at third.
George Brett was charging down the line and he was looking. Rick Miller right in the eye and Miller put a ball right at him.
So they get the fourth out at third to play going five, six, the shortstop UL Washington covering.
And the Royal forced to third. Anderson goes to second and Miller now at first and Connie Lansford the hitter. He's over three tonight.
Well, I'll tell you, George Brett was looking right down the barrel that time and he made the play.
And Lansford in the stretch by Chamberlain to pitch. Ball inside ball one and the pitch a little up.
Two to tie. Top of the 70. Angels with runners at first and second one out.
Carney Lansford a 292 hitter. Right hander against right hander. Chamberlain ready off the stretch. The one-oh-pitch.
The line in the left field, they sit. Willie Wilson plays it on the short hop. The river around third. The throw is going to be to the plate.
Not in time. Runner scores. And the Angels take the lead three to two. Just the second hit in this series for Connie Lansford, but what a big one it is.
He drives in his 73rd run of the year. And the Angels have taken the three to two lead. Still runners at first and second one out.
And Ralph Garth the hitter. Garth won for three tonight.
So Connie Lansford comes through with a big base hit for the California Angels. And the Royals not out of the woods yet here.
Now out comes Whitey Herzog. Gerald Porter walked out to the mound and looked into the dugout.
So out comes Whitey.
And that's going to do it for Craig Chamberlain. They want the left hander Gary Christensen to pitch to Ralph Garth.
And we'll see if Jim Fagosi counters that move. So the Royals going to make a pitching change. We're in the top of the seventh.
The Angels have letters of first and second one out. A run home to change mate with a score. The Angels free the Royals too.
While the Cincinnati Reds and the Houston Astros battle when Chicago is batting in the top of the ninth inning.
Looky left hander Gary Christensen comes out of the Royal Bullpen to make his sixth appearance of the year. He was called up for Bobo after the September 1st deadline.
He's worked in the third innings given 10 hits to home runs. Has no decisions, no faith.
And he will face Ralph Gar here at Ralph Gar very much. A key man in the ballgame now. The Angels have taken the one run lead.
And they have letters of first and second with just one out. Gar gets the hit. It's Baylor and Carew coming up.
So Gar could really set up a big inning. He is the key man in the ballgame right now. He's won for Glee tonight.
Glee marked ready in the ballpen. Al Rapofsky throwing now. White-handed hitters coming up. This likely the only man that Christensen will face.
Glee to two Angels, top of the seventh. And the Royal's in hot water. Gar digs in Christensen at the belt of pitch.
White-called breaking ball. Gar was backing off. Gar can run like the dick. He would be a tough man to double up.
He is mopped up and grounded out. Here's the 0-1 pitch. Bouncing ball, high bounce of the mound. Christensen's only played a first. He's got Gar.
The runners move up. And they're a second and third for Don Baylor now. That out comes Whitey Herzog. So Christensen got his man, although Gar did advance the runners.
Now first base open with Baylor coming up. And Whitey Herzog wants the right-handers. So Lady Martin now. Will come out of the ballpen.
Christensen got his man. He got Gar, although the high bouncer to the mound allowed the runners to advance. So now it's runners that second and third with two out.
Appearance number 22 now for Rainey Martin. He's one-none loss free. He has four saves. And all he has asked to do here is to retire the man who leads the Major Leagues and runs Bet-It-In.
Runners that second and third, two out. The Angels waiting three to two. And Don Baylor at the plate. Baylor at 300 hitter with 35 home runs, 136 RBI.
First base is open, but forget it. Rod Carew is in the on-text circle. So you've got to go after Baylor here.
Now Dan Quisenberry joins Al Robosky in the ball pit. Gary Christensen got a big out. Rainey Martin now has to do the same thing.
Baylor in, Martin picks up the sign. And here comes the pitch. Lined in the center field, a base hit and that's worth two runs. And Baylor again comes through for the California Angels. They lead five to two.
Don Baylor not waiting. He went right after the first pitch and he drilled it right back up the middle. So Miller scores and Lansford scores.
And the Angels have scored three in the top of the seventh. They lead now five to two. Well, all year long it has been Don Baylor who has been the man for the California Angels.
And here tonight with the pressure on the Angels, they needed the win. He holdered in the second and now he has driven a two run single in the seventh inning.
So Baylor now is driven in 138 runs and three very, very big ones here tonight. Now Rod Caru will hit with Baylor at first and two out.
And the Royals are going to be forced to come from behind. Five to California, the top of the seventh.
And a while through the first on the pick off attempt up the right field line and Don Baylor now goes the second base.
An error on the pitcher, Renie Martin. And that could be a very big play because now you've got Caru at the plate with Baylor in scoring position.
Jim Pagosi, the Angel manager, wants to talk to the first base umpire now.
Jim Pagosi wants to know if Pete McCock is trying to grab that throw with reflected Don Baylor.
The first base umpire Jim Evans did not call it.
And the Baylor at second, you've got first base open and Rod Caru at the plate so they won't throw with Rod Caru here.
Brian Downing the on deck circle so they're going to walk Rod Caru.
And it'll be runners at first and second, two out for Brian Downing.
And then they'll have to pick up the time getting anything going against Jim Barr here tonight. Now they're down by three runs in the seventh.
After tonight there are nine games left in the season that the Angels win it. They have a three game lead.
And it'll be very, very tough for the Royals.
Now out comes Whitey Herzog and he'll want Dan Quisenberry to pitch to Brian Downing.
The Royals will make their third pitching change here in the inning.
So Whitey Batling trying to stop the Angels here. He wants matchups that he wants.
So Dan Quisenberry will become the fourth Royal pitcher here in the inning.
Craig Chamberlain the starting pitcher began the inning.
Glitchinson came out and got one man, Renie Martin.
Gave up to single to Don Baylor.
Now walks Caru intentionally after a throwing error. So right hander Dan Quisenberry now will be asked to get Brian Downing.
And while we have a moment, let's pause 10 seconds for station identification. This is the Royals baseball network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
Dan Quisenberry who picked up a save here last night.
Now makes his 30th appearance of the year. He's won three, lost two and saved four. He's earned that average 2.57.
5-2 California in the top of the 7.
It'll be Porter LaCocca noticed for the Royals in the bottom of the inning.
And we mentioned earlier that California all year long has been a good offensive club late in the ball game.
So you could sort of see it coming. They mounted threats in the fifth and the sixth, but Craig Chamberlain fought them off.
Now they break through here in the seventh.
Quisenberry taking his warm up talk.
32,659 here at Royal City of the Night.
You can close the books now on Craig Chamberlain in six and a third innings. They gave up eight hits and five runs. They were all earned.
We have a moment we'll salute the Unroyal Theater. Unroyal Pirate Auto in 3503 South Nolan Road in Independence, Missouri.
And DNH Tyre at 919 Troop in Kansas City, Missouri.
And Quisenberry finishing his warm up talk.
And now Brian Downing will be the hitter. Don Bader at second. Rod Caru at first. Two outs.
So the Royals pulled out all the stops in the inning trying to stop the angels.
But Connie Lansford delivered one big single and Don Bader at other. And now here's Brian Downing. He's full for two tonight. He's walked, lined out and fouled out.
And he could punch a great big hole in this ball game right here. Quisenberry working off the stretch to pitch to Brian Downing on the way.
Breaking ball for a strike going one.
The good crowd now somewhat subdued by this angel charge in the top of the seventh.
The Royals have three more shots at it. Quisenberry ready. Long looking for runners to pitch.
And now it's time to count even that one one. The angels now about hit the Royals nine to six.
Now the Bosque still throwing in the bullpen. Quisenberry's pitch Downing takes outside ball two, two and one.
The high breaking ball missed away.
What was all the pitching changes? The angels have been batting for a while here in the top of the seventh.
Other games around the league they may think the angels are scoring eight or nine. They have scored three.
Now the stretch to one pitch. Downing plays it's a long fly ball to deep left field. There she goes and he's broken it wide open.
A great run over for Brian Downing. His twelfth of the year and it's now the angels eight to the Royals two.
Boy Brian Downing just jumped all over a Dan Quisenberry pitch. He was nearly halfway up the bank in left field.
And now six runs home in the inning and some of the fans immediately get up and start to head for the exit.
And Brian Downing got it all. Now here's Bobby Griske the ninth man to bat in the inning. Ground ball to second that'll be the inning.
He's got it. Throws the first. The inning is over but a big round for California. Six runs score in the inning.
There were four hits. An error and nobody left. Brian Downing took care of that. He cleaned them up.
We go to the bottom of the seventh. California eights the Royals two.
Well the Royals have to climb them out. Eight to two California's we go to the bottom of the seventh.
It's amazing how pattern or set early in the years that continue all year long.
California early in the year. British approved to be an explosive ball club in late inning.
They say that way all year. They were that here tonight. Certainly with six runs in the seventh.
The Royals obviously had problems in the bullpen coming out of spring training and they really haven't been able to solve it all year long.
They've had stretches where they were good last night. They came out. They were good but tonight.
They're dropping the angels. So now the Royals. It's very simple.
Either have a big inning or go on the road hurting nine games left in the season and they could be down by three.
They'll pull the lead off. Bars six. Outside ball one.
This is our twenty-fifth start. He has completed only five of his twenty-four previous starts.
There's been a handful here tonight. Right called on the outside quarter one to one.
Their reporter tonight is single and one.
Right hander Jim Barr delivers the one one pitch. This is outside two and one.
They're all ported up there taking the Royals need base runners and he wants to make bar work a little bit.
Two one pitch on the way. Lined in the left field at base fifth so ported to board.
Now Pima-Cocco here. Pico for two tonight.
They're moving around in a California bullpen so Jim Fragosi's going to waste no time.
He's going to get somebody working right now.
The Royals will simply have to hit their way back into it if they can.
Montreal and the Mets are all tangled up. Montreal won the first game of their double header.
The Pirate's lost and now a second game at Chase Stadium. Nothing nothing after seven innings.
Jim Barr to Lacan. Bouncing ball. Second looks like a double play.
He should stop Scott one back to first two. Four six three.
Very quickly Jim Barr comes back to get the double play so two out and nobody on.
Deimos Otos who's over here tonight.
Cardinals beat the Cubs two to one.
Silvio Martinez the winner down at Lamp to Loser.
Tombert for Baltimore in the seventh inning with nobody on. His twenty fourth Baltimore seventy.
Barr ready. Here's the pitch notice. Bouncing ball to third. Fair ball back into deep side.
Lansford along through safe. Otos Beatson.
Now the double play looks so big. Now Cowins will hit over to tonight.
And you can drop into your convenient neighborhood pop shop where twenty six fabulous flavors are still just pennies a bottle.
It's still not impossible for the Royals to win if they can't pull this one out.
The boy it is tough if the angels could just play five and four baseball after tonight if they win tonight.
The Royals would have to go eight and one and the angels play six and the remaining nine at home.
The Royals play six of them meaning nine on the road.
Bars pitch to Cowins.
Slow it outside.
The angels have landed a haymaker with a six run seventh inning.
Cowins. Ground ball up the middle. Rich backhand.
Clips to the shortstop in time for the fourth bout. The inning's over.
Nothing doing for the Royals. No runs to hit. They leave them that.
And after seven the angels eight the Royals two.
Lonnie Shelton that rookie.
Seven innings by the angels eight the Royals two.
And the Royals have just two more shots with a very big comeback on top of that.
They have to stop California. We'll go to the eight.
Eight to two. The angels in front and again here's the inning.
I've read Larry Harlow will start things.
Eight runs on ten hits for the angels. Two runs eight hits for the Royals.
The Royals have made the only error tonight.
Larry Harlow is one out of two out of three.
Singled in the seventh.
Crippled and scored in the third by the deep center in the fifth.
The fourth center late.
Larry Harlow.
So Larry Harlow left handed batter up there.
Here's the line by Cris and Barry in the pitch.
Lined in the center field they sit.
Larry Harlow three out of four tonight.
And eleven angel hits.
The batter Jim Hedder center.
He's checking with his third base coach Bobby Canop.
I feel the angels tonight feeling that they just can't have enough runs.
So we'll see if Anderson is up there to bun.
Layed down a bun his last time.
Joe Venter under the sacrifice fly in his first trip.
He's bunning. Buns follow back to the screen.
She comes and the count is 0-1.
The angels have at least one hit at every inning except the first.
Joe Ball's in a strike on Jim Anderson.
Dan Quisenberry set at the belt.
The pitch to Anderson he pulls the bat back and takes it flowing outside.
One ball and one strike.
Rep charging from third.
People cock coming down from first.
Bobby Canop the third base coach going through a series of signs.
And now Anderson back up to the point.
Quisenberry coming set.
Anderson to bun.
The ball up along first and the count is now 1-2 on Jim.
Come on, the angels play the Texas Rangers and Doc Medage will pitch against Frank Donata.
Saturday afternoon, Chris Knapp pitches against Steve Comer.
And then the angels say that Sunday Dave Frost or Don Opsley against Bernie Jenkins.
They play the Texas Rangers 3 while the Royals battle in Oakland.
Down low to Anderson, two balls and two strikes.
Woodoff and Langford tomorrow night, Leonard and Pio on Saturday.
Gura and Morgan will pitch on Sunday.
Two balls, two strikes on Anderson.
Larry Harlow at first with nobody out top of the eighth.
He struck him out.
But Jim Anderson after twice stealing the punch strikes out.
And now Rick Miller of the leadoff.
Man, Rick is one out of four, a fifth inning single.
Here's the stretch by Dan Quisenberry, tops over to first.
And Harlow diving back into the base set first.
The angels took a 1-0 lead in the second and 2-0 lead in the third.
The Royals promptly tied it with two in the bottom of the third.
And then the angels hit the Royals with that sixth run, seven.
Rick Miller takes the low and inside, one ball and no strike.
If the angels hang on and win this game tonight, they will have won five out of seven.
Here at Royal Stadium this year.
First the Royals are 3-0 and Enheim.
Bouncing ball up the middle, Frank White can't get it.
Harlow makes the turn at second.
Pointed third, Otis throw to breath, not in time.
So Miller bounces a single to center.
Riders at first and third one out.
Eddie Rodriguez and Al Robowski throwing in the Royal bullpen.
And here is Carney Lansford.
Lansford one out of four, but that one hit has spread set up big one.
A single to drive in the run in the seventh.
That broke the 2-2 tie and set the table for Don Baylor and Brian Downing.
Baylor a two run single and Downing a three run homer.
So most people will remember Baylor single.
More than that will remember Downing's three run homer.
Yet Carney Lansford has the hit to put the angels ahead.
Round ball followed outside third, 0-1.
Another big play occurred back in the Royal fifth inning.
Frank White tripled with one out.
And then a squeeze play, an aborted squeeze play as the angels sniffing it out,
and Frank White was dead between home and third.
So that was another big play and a big game.
No balls and a strike on right-handed hitting Carney Lansford.
Way inside one and one.
The angels, it does the hits now.
Signal given, Dan Quisenberry into the stretch.
With runners at first and third and one out, the 1-1 pitch to Carney Lansford.
A little blooper into right field, out goes Frank White to make the catch.
And the runners are made at first and third, now there are two down.
The batter is Ralph Gar.
Ralph in his first game with the angels, one for four.
He singles back in the fourth inning.
Left-handed batter, right-handed pitcher.
Both men rather unorthodox.
Quisenberry, a side-armed slicker baller, or a side-armed do, almost submarine,
goes that slicker ball and guards just a wild free slinger.
Runners at first and third, two down, eight to two angels.
Ball game in the top of the eighth.
Topped over to first, the runner back.
The stretch and the pitch to Gar.
During the breaking ball and it stayed outside, one ball and no strike.
Ralph Gar, a former national leagueer.
In fact, he won the National League batting championship with the Atlanta Braves.
Shopping foul behind the plate, one ball and one strike.
Remember, you're always a welcome sight at the sign of skilling.
A ball and a strike on Ralph Gar.
Quisenberry, Harlow at third, Rick Miller at first.
And with two down, here is Quisenberry's 1-1 pitch to Gar.
Outside, two and one.
Things are very quiet at Doyle Stadium at the moment.
That's what that sixth run seventh inning did.
So, one and one to Gar, take to third, take to first, no throw either place.
Quisenberry just trying to keep the runners on it.
Gar meanwhile at the plate awaiting the 2-1 pitch.
And it comes.
Bouncing ball out towards Frank White at second.
He's got it over to first base in time, side to side.
Two hits, no run, two men left.
The angels have stranded seven.
Through the bottom of the eighth we go, angels eight, Royals two.
Royals come to bat in the bottom of the eighth inning.
And Steve Braun and Jamie Corkar, going to bat for White in Washington.
Steve Braun hitting for Frank White, Frank, had a single, a triple, or unscored, and it's stolen base.
Steve Braun hitting, two fifty-seven, four homers, nine RBIs.
Jim Barr's pitch on the outside corner, strike call.
Barr trying to win his pitch.
No balls and one strike on the left-handed batter.
Here's the pitch.
Sharp hit, brown ball, player past third and up the left field line.
And Braun is still got rendering well with that score heel designed with a single.
And out there, a little run for Braun.
Here comes Jamie Corkar to bat for UL Washington.
It's running for Braun, number one, Jerry Carroll.
And Steve Corkar, number nine, Jamie Corkar.
Here's Jamie Corkar, the left-handed batter.
They have played eight innings, they've changed it in New York in the second game of that double header.
Montreal nothing, New York nothing.
Montreal won the first game six to three.
If Montreal wins, they're in first place by a half game, if they lose, they're in second place by a half game.
The Pirates lost to the Phillies.
Jamie Cork getting 294 with a half a dozen RBIs.
The 60 James is a fast ball outside, one ball and no strength.
Eight to two, California.
Royal's have nine hits, the Angels a dozen.
The fifth to court.
Line drive, they hit right field.
Carroll stops the second and the Royal's have two on, nobody out.
And the top of the batting order coming up.
He's out of the California bullpen, Montague and LaRose.
Jamie Corkar's really done some job as a pitch hitter, especially in the last couple of months.
Every time Whitey's sitting up there, he's responding.
Up comes Jim Fragosi.
Jim Fragosi moving towards the mound after the back to back singles by the pitch hitter.
We're going to pause right here for station identification.
This is the Kansas City Royals radio network.
This is him.
Jim Fragosi has signal towards the bullpen and he's going to make a pitching change.
Right under John Montague, who appeared here two nights ago and did a fine job, is going to come in.
So the pitching change is being made by the Angels here in the bottom of the inning with the score, the Angels eights, the Royals two.
Back in Royal City, and the Royals kind of amount of charge here.
John Montague, the new California pitcher.
Montague since joining the Angels from Seattle.
Has the 30-11 times for Jim Fragosi.
He's won two, lost none, saved six, allowed 14 hits and 15 innings.
He walked five-psycho.
Over all this year, dividing Seattle and California, eight and four, seven saves.
That is Willie Wilson. That is the first and second nobody out, eight to two Angels.
The Royals try to establish some momentum.
32,659 the Bated Tendons tonight.
Willie Wilson on the left side against Montague.
John Stich, foul ball off third.
Rocketing into the three from the count, oh and one.
Willie became only the fifth player in American League history to steal 75 or more bases in a season.
He swiped second back in the third inning for his 75th.
He'll win pitches, but it's foul and now the count is Montague's way, nothing in two.
Al McCrae will follow and then George Brett.
Dave LaRoch continues to throw in the Angels bullpets.
Right hander Don Ossi is now joined Dave LaRoch.
Two on, nobody out, eight to two California.
Ball game in the bottom of the eighth inning.
The O2 pitch to Willie.
He struck him out, Montague, took something off that pitch.
So Willie down swinging and here's Al McCrae.
Mac is one out of three, he's single to drive in and run in the third.
The Angels now looking for a double play.
They have turned over two double plays tonight, one in the fourth and one in the seventh.
The pitch to Al is a slider going outside, one ball in those strikes.
He runs on 12 hits for the Angels, two runs, 10 hits for the Royals.
Here's the Leno delivery, bouncing ball through the middle.
Here comes Darrell around, third to score and Perkels stops at second and now he's a great California.
That will bring up George Brett.
Now along with here the Royals are back to within two runs.
George tonight is one out of three, he's single his last time up in the sixth.
He's also struck out and bounced into a fourth play.
Eight to three, California, runners at first and second, one out.
Montague straightens up, here's the pitch.
Missed one outside, one ball in those strikes.
The Angels trying to hang out and get a split in this series.
The Royals trying for three out of four.
Whoa, ball two, it's two and 0.
Jamie Clark at second, Hal McCray is at first, one away.
Montague's, set it to Bill, here he comes.
High drive, deep center, that goes for her, way back to the wall, he's gone.
George Brett, happens to run over the wall and dead center field and it is eight to six, California.
Jim Porgosi has gone to the round, Brett's 22nd home run of the year.
Jamie Quist scored ahead of him, started Hal McCray and suddenly the Royals are within two.
Dave LaRouche, starting in from the California bullpen.
So the 15th change being made here in the bottom of the eighth inning and now the score, the Angels face the Royals six.
The Baltimore Colts have dropped place kicker Tony Linnhart, this after Linnhart was given a $10,000 a year raise last Sunday,
even though he missed three field goals in the Colts 13-10 loss to Cleveland.
The Colts signed former San Francisco and Detroit kicker Steve McMire to replace Linnhart.
The 37-year-old Linnhart missed three kicks from fairly short range on Sunday and that included a 28 yarder that would have tied the Browns with one second left.
After the game, Colts owner Robert Ersay visited the rejected Linnhart and gave him the $10,000 raise for making an effort.
The Colts owner said that after giving the raise that he thought Linnhart would kick better for the Colts,
but the Navy of Vavaspera won't get that chance to prove Ersay right.
The Baltimore Orioles are close but not close enough to wrapping up the American League East title for the second straight night.
The Orioles failed to reduce the magic clinching number on Wednesday Detroit Blank Baltimore 5-0 while second place Milwaukee Christ Seattle 12-1.
The Orioles are nine games ahead of the Brewers and the magic number remains at three going into action on Thursday.
Kansas City nudged to California 6-4 Wednesday and trails the Angels by two games in the American West going into play Wednesday
and those teams are winding up their four game series with this game right here.
The Montreal Expos swept a double header from the New York Mets three to one in four to one but the Pirates split
and so Pittsburgh's lead over Montreal is now just one game.
Back at Royal Stadium, it was so quiet just a few moments ago and now Bedlam eight to six Angels.
Dave Leroche bets it left hander now pitching. Darrell Porter at the plate. Darrell a perfect night.
Two singles in a lot. Leroche steals. Darrell a swing and a miss on one.
For Dave Leroche, it's number 51. He's seven and ten with ten saves.
The RA is rather inflated for a relief that you're 5.62.
His hits to any pitch ratio is not good. 101 hits in 82 innings. 55 strikeouts, 32 walks.
And the kind of Darrell Owen Lund.
Darrell Porter in this series now is eight out of 14.
So the Angels just simply cannot get him out.
Owen Lund, Dave Leroche, brings it in. That's Wallace, going inside. Dave thought that he's gone a strike.
The Dick Brunnigan set no. And they got one and one.
A free run home run by George Brett over the wall and center. He's pulled the Royals to a pin two.
The pinch hitter brought in Jamie Furt coming through with back to back singles. Darrell takes a strike and it's one and two.
Steve Lacock will be next. The beat keeps looking into the Royal dugout to see if Whitey's going to go to a pinch hitter.
One and two to Darrell. Here's Leroche's pitch.
Wide to the left center base hitter. Over to Drickfiller to cut it off. Darrell's going to stay at first.
Now the trying run to the plate and Watson will back for Lacock.
John Lawson will back four feet Lacock. And then Amazot is coming up back of Lawson.
New kidding 205 with two home runs, 26 RBI.
Lawson is announced and out comes Jim Pragosi. He has Don Ossie throwing in the bullpen.
And Pragosi is going to play percentage all the way. He's going to bring Don Ossie in to pitch two Lawson.
So Montague struck out the first man that he faced, Willie Wilson, then allowed the single to McCray in the home run to Brett.
Dave Leroche out in front of Darrell Porter gave up the single in the left center.
And now it'll be Don Ossie. So the 15th change he made, the third of the inning.
What's the score here is Royal Stadium. The Angel Base at Royal 6th.
So the Kansas City Royals not rolling over on this one. They're hanging right in there after California jumped off to a big lead.
Let's take a look and see what's happening in that National League race in the West.
Cincinnati and San Diego are now in the top of the fifth inning at San Diego.
And the Padres are leading that game by the score of two to one.
Cincinnati leading Houston by two and a half games in the National League West going into action on Thursday.
However, Houston has scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning at the Astridone.
And so with Atlanta hitting in the top of the ninth inning, it's Houston seven, Atlanta one.
So that's it as far as that race in the National League West is concerned.
In the American League, Baltimore and Detroit in the high scoring game at Tiger Stadium.
It's the top of the ninth inning now, Baltimore leading Detroit by the score of eight to six.
In the National League East Montreal has scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning.
And so the New York Mets are hitting in the bottom of the ninth.
Montreal two in the top of the ninth. New York hitting in the bottom of the ninth, trailing two to nothing.
Montreal, when the first game of that double header, six to three to move ahead of Pittsburgh by one percentage point.
After Philadelphia beat the Pirates earlier in the day by the score of two to one.
So a sweep by Montreal would put the X was a half a game in front of Pittsburgh in that National League East race.
Back in Royal Stadium, John Ossie is now pitching for California.
Nettles is going to bat for Laughlin who is announced as the hitter for Laughlin.
John Ossie appears for the 35th time.
The East Knight in 10 with one save, turns on average 4.84.
So Nettles, the left handed batter, facing the right hander, John Ossie.
A-A-S-E, John Ossie who came to the Angels from the Boston Reds Rock.
Eight to six Angels.
When this inning started they led eight to two.
The pitch to Nettles, it's low, one ball and no strike.
Darrell quartered first, what a way, here's the stretch by John Ossie and the pitch.
Didn't mean to do it, a check swing foul ball up to the left.
That is one and one on Jim Nettles.
Amos Otis to follow.
That's the tying run at the plate.
The beginning for the Angels, the seven, they scored a half a dozen.
Their oils at four so far here in the bottom of the eighth.
That's four outside, two balls and one strike.
Nettles played it over hard this year.
Ball three, three and one.
So the count is all Jim Nettles laid out, three balls and one strike.
Ossie checking with Downing, in comes the pitch.
Hopped up, short left field, out goes the third baseman, Lancer to make the catch and just in foul territory.
Darrell hustles back to first and up comes Amos Otis.
Amos Otis, one for three tonight and in field single in the seventh.
In comes Bobby Gritch to talk to Don Ossie.
Amos Otis could very well be one of the keys to the game.
If Ossie is successful and can get Amos Otis, the Royal's men in the ninth would have the lower part of their batting order.
Of course it was the lower part of the batting order that started this, but ten chitters.
Steve Braun and Jamie Quirk.
That Whitey has dipped deeply into the bench and few remain.
Runner at first, ride through, not holding to Darrell, the pitch to Amos Otis.
Breaking ball, base six, center field, Darrell cornered a second baseman holding.
And the winning run, the potential winning run, comes to the play.
The tying runs are now on the base pass.
The only man who hasn't batted in this inning comes to the play, Al Collins.
Al Collins coming up, Al is over three.
That is the first and second two down.
Two on, two out.
We are in the bottom of the eighth.
The lead runner to play, Don Ossie Deals.
Ground ball to the second baseman grip, he's got it over the first in time.
Ossie made a pretty good pitch, he had Collins side up with the pitch up and in.
But the Royals come up with four, they're back in it.
Four runs on six hits.
But two men left, and after eight exciting innings.
It's the Angels eight and the Royals six.
The National Basketball Association has appealed Wednesday's ruling by a federal court judge
that struck down a compensation award made last year by Commissioner Lawrence O'Brien.
A district court judge called excessive the compensation.
The New York Knicks were ordered to give the Seattle SuperSonics for the Knicks signing of Senator Marvin Webster.
And O'Brien says even in the event an altered compensation award must be determined,
he will not give the contracts of Seattle forward Lonnie Shelton and guard Vinnie Johnson to the Knicks.
New York has been ordered to give Shelton $450,000 at a draft pick that turned out to be Johnson.
As compensation to Seattle for that Webster signing.
Meanwhile, the head of the NBA Players Association says he anticipates a legal fight over another compensation case.
This one being between the San Diego Clippers and the Portland Trailblazers.
Earlier this week, the Clippers were ordered to give two players a future draft pick and either guard Randy Smith or cash for another draft choice to Portland.
This would be the compensation for San Diego signing of former Blazers center Bill Walton.
Blazers Association Chief Larry Fleischer says the ruling in the Webster case makes it clear to him that the compensation in the Walton case is also excessive.
Boston Report on the Groves says the controversial executive director of the National Hockey League Players Association has agreed to step down from this job in 1982.
The report says Alan Eagleton has decided to refuse a request from the association that concentrated solely on the association matters.
We go to the night inning 8-6 in favor of California.
Eight runs, twelve hits and no errors for the Angels.
The Royals have six runs on fourteen hits. The Royals have two more hits than the Angels.
And the Royals have made the only error of the ballgame.
That amazing Montreal team has come up with two runs in the top of the night inning.
The Rocks are now batting in the bottom of the night trailing the Expos 2-0.
Montreal won the first game 6-3 that Phillies beat the Pirates.
And if Montreal wins, they're back in first in that National League East.
By a half game. Don Baylor up there, Dan Quisenberry's pitch. It's a strike going on.
Don Baylor, a big man for the Angels tonight. A single home run, three RBI's, these two for four.
So now the Angels will try to have their lead outside one ball and one strike.
Jim Meddles is now at first base for the Royals. Jamie Quirk is at shortstop. Jerry Terrell is at second base.
Bouncing ball, bread at third. It's a fair ball. Sets himself. The throw to first is inside. Don Baylor is tired. What a way.
That brings up Rod Caru. Rod had double in three official trips. He was walked intentionally and scored in the seventh.
Rod setting himself at the plate. Brian Downing will follow.
Bouncing ball through the middle. Quirk to his left can't get it if he sits for Caru.
And here's Downing who hit the three run home run in the seventh inning that is now the difference in this ball game.
13 Angel hits.
Al Robosky goes to work on him in the Royal Bullfin. Downing in addition to his three run home run is walked, followed out and fly to left.
Rod Caru at 17 stolen bases has a pretty good lead at first. The pitch to Downing is outside one ball and no strikes.
The scheduled hitters in the Royal Ninth will be Terrell, Quirk and Wilson. And then back of that three, some McCray and Brett.
Toss over to first. Back in time is Rod Caru.
We're in the ninth, eighth, sixth, California. There's the stretch and the fifth. Miss the inside corner. Two balls and no strikes.
The Angel striving to split this four game series. The Royal's badly needing three out of four.
And it's coming down to the final inning. Rod Caru backs safe plays. Dan Quiszenberry fires over to Middles.
Two balls and no strikes on Brian Downing. Right handed batter waiting. Quiszenberry checking on the runner.
The ball to the left to high chopper Brett Sharpsing. Scoops it up on the short half and throws. He's got it all in a play.
Sensational play by George Cliff. Sharpsing's home play as part of the duty had to pick up a short hop on the dead run and then throw across his body accurately and with something on it.
He did all of the above to get down. On the play, Caru to second and here is Grits. Bob is one for four, a fifth inning single.
So two out of the top of the ninth, eight to six Angels. Quiszenberry deals and Grits after an off-speed pitch missed, going one.
The Angels you can rest assured would dearly love to have that additional run. Rod Caru at second two down, no balls and one strike on Bobby Grits.
The stretch and the pitch. Lowering outside. One ball and one strike.
San Diego winning in San Diego against Cincinnati and Houston is one of its games. The one one fifth to Grits is hit towards the right field corner, Al Collins towards the corner and Al up against the wall can't make the play.
He trapped it against the wall and run scores and now they're saying home run. Finally they get the signal and the Royals are going to argue. Al and put up against the wall. It appears that the ball, hear them off the very top of the wall but apparently it went into the seats and then came out.
Right in the corner and Whitey Herzog is going to go out and argue. They're going to rule with a home run. Dan Quiszenberry is talking to the play-dumpire. Whitey Herzog wants to ask Al Collins about it and we have a monitor here.
We can check it out if the angle is good but it's not going to be the best angle. Collins coming right into the corner and then right at the 330 foot side up he goes and it appears that the ball hit off that grating at the top of the wall.
Now that's inconclusive because the instant replay can sometimes deceive you a little bit and as I said the angle isn't all that good. But what has happened, the umpire has ruled the home run.
I saw Collins go up and then the ball came off what appeared to be the top of the wall or the steel grating. The umpire said home run and that's what it will be for Bobby Gritch is 28th.
That makes it 10-6 in favor of California. Gritch as he rounded first base was signaling home run. Whitey is really after the first base umpire Jim Heaven.
Bobby Gritt as in a two run home run. The pitch was out of way for him and he went with the pitch and hit that slice and drive down the right field line.
The ball just kept tearing and tearing. Collins going to the corner and Hal thought that he had to play all the way. Got right to the corner. Leaps high in the air. You could see the ball come down. So Gritch has home run.
The batter will be Larry Harlow who's three out of four, a couple of singles. He tripled back in the third and scored a run.
So it's a spin at home run right down into the right field corner for Bobby Gritch and the angels have a four run lead and here's Larry Harlow. Houston's BD Atlanta 7-1 forced the win. Boggs the loss. 22,000 in Houston.
And Montreal did win. Two to nothing. They won a double header while the pirates lost. Some raced in the nice league heat. A strike to Harlow 0-1.
Here's the 0-1 pitch. Off-speed and flung and missed 0-2. Fred you had a chance to go over and check one of the other monitors. It's still inconclusive. I didn't get to see the play but I asked. They said they froze it. They said the ball hit the top of the fence.
Well it's the top of the fence that comes back. It's not a home run. If a fan hits it, it's in the seats that comes back. The 0-2 pitch is low and inside.
The only question in my mind is the fact that the ball did not come off the wall as quickly as you would think it would. I thought the only question that I had looked like maybe a fan got a hand on it.
But now did he reach over the railing? You couldn't see that either. A little bit inside, Quisimiery thought that was strike three. Two balls and two strikes on Larry Harlow.
Sadeon clearlessly unbiased. There was a point in the replay where it did look like the ball had gotten over the rail. It was so close that it was really difficult to tell from the camera angle.
The 2-2 pitch found foul over toward the Royal dugout. Say what? It's one of those where you can look at the replay and depending on which way you want it to go, you could make a case for yourself really.
And you talk about the angle of the camera. As good a perch as we have at Royal Stadium. The extreme corners right at the foul pole. Very, very difficult for us to see. That's the toughest point in the ballpark.
Here's the 2-2 pitch. They sit right field for Larry Harlow. So the Angels have 15 hits. Jim Henderson the shortstop coming up.
Harlow's had quite a nice three singles and a triple. Jim Henderson up there. He is 0-2 in the ball game. 10-6 California top of the night.
Blind shot left field. Willie Wilson will have to play it in one half. Now he falls down and the ball rolls away from him. They're going to try to score Harlow. Willie up with the ball. And he didn't see the man coming to the plate and Harlow's going to score.
Well that's a shame. Willie had a shot at him because when Wilson picked up the ball, Harlow was just rounding third and Willie was rather shallow and left. But when he came up, he looked at second base.
And Bobby Knapp, the coach at third, waving Harlow in all the way. Willie trying for the shoestring catch and he blocked the ball with his chest but then fell down and the ball rolled in front of him back toward the infield.
Outcome flight of Herzog and that's going to be all for Dan Quarzenberry. So it is now 11-6. The Royals are making the 15th change here in the top of the night. With the score, the Angels 11. The Royals 6.
National League Supervisor of Umpires, Blake Cullen, has denied charges of discrimination against members of the Major League Umpires Association.
The charges were filed with the National Labor Relations Board by the Umpires Association. The association charges that its umpires were discriminated against in the areas of guaranteed salaries, advancement for minor league umpires who honored the strike, vacation time, evaluation and expense money.
Attorney Phillips says the umpires who crossed the pick of lines and were retained by the National League were rewarded with three-year contracts while regular umps have never gotten better than a one-year deal.
Phillips also charges that three non-union umps in the National League were given an extra week of vacation time and flown home at league expense.
The Umpires Association attorney says the American League has been guilty of some of the same discriminatory practices, but Phillips adds that the pattern of conduct has not continued throughout the season.
Hot Hitter won the $226,000 Little Brown Jug Pace in Delaware, Ohio, the three-year-old Edge Tiawana taxing a race off on Thursday afternoon.
Irvay Theon guided Hot Hitter over the mile in a minute 55 and three-fifths seconds at the tenth straight win for the three-year-old Tater whose 1979 earnings of nearly $717,000 give him the best single season total in harness racing history.
Hot Hitter won the second heat of the judge while Tiawana Taxi took the first.
Caleb Aske now pitching for the Royals. Now taking his warm-up shots. Let's pause right here for station identification. This is the Kansas City Royals Radio Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
And any math years along with Fred White and producer engineer Ed Shepard at Royal Stadium, 11 to 6th California, the Angels a 6 run 7, but now 3 here in the top of the ninth.
After the Royals fought back to within two runs, with four runs of their own in the bottom of the eighth.
Runner at second base, Rick Miller the Hitter and he takes the ball, one ball and no strike. Rick has two hits tonight, he's 2 out of 5.
The particulars on the Montreal double win over the Mets, second game 2-0. Scott Sanderson the winner, 9-7. Montreal got their two runs in the ninth.
Two high, two balls and no strikes. Connie Landsford will be next.
11 runs on 16 hits for the Angels, 6 runs on 14 hits for the Royals.
Left hander against left hander, Robotsky to Miller, followed back to the screen. Rick had a pretty good cut to count 2 and 1.
Robotsky has posted wins in three of his last seven outings. He has 12 strikeouts in his last 14 and 2-3.
Now his pitch well this month. Here's the 2-1 delivery. Just missed inside with a fast ball, 3 and 1.
And a right handed batter, Connie Landsford will be next.
Now that Jim Fragoci at this very moment is hopeful of about three or four more runs. The 3-1 pitch, he walked him.
But now Connie Landsford comes up, he's 1 for 5 and 7th inning single.
The credit just occurred to me, not that it's taken 8-1.5 innings to come to life, but it's so true. Landsford takes side.
This game illustrates perfectly the strengths and weaknesses of these two teams.
It does. It's the season in microscopic form really for both of them then.
Power, royal speed, both at inconsistencies.
2-1, 2-out. The 1-0 pitch to Landsford is up all 2-0. So I'm having trouble finding home plate.
I'll bet you right now, if Al Nibosky was to stop this thing right here at the Angels, I have a 5-1 late at the bottom of the night. I'll bet you if you could talk to an Angel person, they would all say we're afraid it may not be over yet.
Absolutely. After what's happened to them the last couple of months.
Oh, let's say since the all-star break. How many nightmares has Jim Fragosi gone through? Recurring dreams about 7th, 8th and 9th innings since the all-star break.
Here's the 2-0 pitch to Landsford. Followed back to the screen, he had a good set of the fast ball 2-1. 11-6, California in the night.
Robotsky ready? Here's the 2-1 pitch. Followed ball back to the screen 2-2 now. Ralph Gar standing in the undead circle, Landsford is the 8th Angel to come to the plate.
Two balls, two strikes with two out and two out. Robotsky nodding yes to Porter. And now the 2-2 pitch to Lansford. High ball three and now the Angels have the additional offense of advantage of having the runners on the move.
Anderson out of second, Rick Miller the runner at first. They both move pretty well so does the hitter, Landsford. The 3-2 pitch. Very high ball four.
Here's the 2-1 pitch to Robotsky. Here's Gar, the nice man to come to the plate. Ralph is one out of five, singled in the fourth. Eddie Rodriguez throwing in the bullpen.
Maces loaded two out, 11-6, California. The stretch and the pitch. Inside and high, one ball no strikes, that comes Galen Cisco.
Now Darryl Porter is going to join Galen Cisco on the mound. The Angels had apparently broken this game open with six in the seventh but the Royals came storming back with four in the eighth.
And now the Angels have scored three and have three out here on the top of the ninth. One and oh the count on Gar. Up and in two and oh.
Two balls and no strikes on Ralph Gar. Yesterday he was a member of the White Shots. Today the Angels. The 2-0 pitch. There's the strike 2-1.
Don Baylor kneeling in the on-deck circle. 2-1 now leading in to Reed Darryl Porter and now the stretch. And in comes the 2-1.
How a ball out of play on the third base side. That makes the count. Two balls and two strikes.
Anderson a third. Miller a second. Lansford a first with two down. Two balls, two strikes on Ralph Gar.
Bobbski taking too much time. Gar stepped up.
Here we go. Two and two. Here's the pitch.
Five ball left center field. Willie Wilson calling for it. And that ends the inning. The Angels scored three times.
There were four hits. Two walks and three men left. They stranded ten. We go to the bottom of the ninth. The Angels 11. They're oil six.
Scott Sanderson kept the Montreal Expos. And it expressed roaring at full speed tonight by pitching a seven hitter at the second game. This strike a 2-0 victory. They completed a double header sweep of the New York Mets.
The Expos have moved a half a game ahead of Pittsburgh in the first place in the National League East. Won the opener six to three when Jerry White, a late ending replacement for Ellis Valentine, blasted a solo home run to trigger a four run eight setting.
Sanderson matched eight scoreless innings with Mets rookie Mike Scott before the Expos broke through with a pair of runs in the ninth inning. Scott, who had faced a minimum of 11 batters through three and two third innings, got into trouble in the ninth inning.
Well, here we go. Bottom of the ninth inning. 11 to six Angels. Clint Hurdle comes out to bat four terrels. Don Ossie's fifth. Here's a strike going one. Clint hitting two 25 with three homers and 27 RBI's.
Left handed batter, the line by Don Ossie and the pitch. Kerbal lined into center field. Miller coming in. He's there to make the catch and there's one away.
That brings up Jamie Quirk. Jimmy has a pitch hitter back in the eighth inning single. Jamie single. Got his average over the 300 mark. He's now a 304 hitter.
Mace is empty one out. Bottom of the ninth inning. 11 to six California. Kerk takes off stride. I'll confident are the Angels while they have activity in the bullpen. One ball and no strike.
The right hander throwing is marked clear.
Line drive to the shortstop. Well, Jamie hit the ball hard and a lying shot right at the shortstop. Here's Willie. Willie one out of four in the ball game.
The Royals down to their final out. 11 to six Angels bouncing ball to the shortstop Anderson Big Hop. On the first the ball game is over.
So the Angels get what they came in to down to get. That was a split in the series. And the final score in a wild and woolly ball game here tonight. The Angels 11, the Royals six and we'll be back right after this.
The California Angels with that victory now have put some space between themselves and Kansas City. It's now a three game California lead in the American League West. California has now won 83 and lost 70 while Kansas City drops to 80 and 73 and is three games out of first place.
Milwaukee is not scheduled so the I should say Minnesota is not as we checked the schedule here for Thursday Minnesota losing its ball game to New York. And so let's reevaluate things here as far as things are concerned in the American League West Division.
It was Minnesota beating the New York Yankees by a score of three to one. So Minnesota will remain four games behind California in the American League West Division is Milwaukee and the East was not scheduled in Baltimore playing its baseball game right now with Detroit.
And that last word that ball game was in the top of the ninth with Baltimore leading by the score of eight to seven. We'll take a quick check of the tape and see if anything more has come in on that ball game. It has we do have the final score.
Baltimore winning it by the score of eight to seven. So that's the final score at Detroit Baltimore eight Detroit seven. So that means that Baltimore has now won its 99 game of the season. Now these Milwaukee by nine and a half and more importantly the Orioles have reduced their magic number for quenching the American League East to two games.
The 11 to six the final score here tonight a ball game that was wild and woolly the angels took a one nothing lead in the second a two nothing lead in the third the Royals got two in the third to tie it and then nothing but zeroes until the angels came up with a half a dozen in the top of the seven.
And it appears that they had salted this game away but the Royals came roaring back they scored four in the eighth inning off the bench came Steve Braun and Jamie Quirk the single Hal McCrae singled in her run and then George Brett and ordered a home run over the wall and did center field.
And you had the feeling at that point that the Royals had everything going their way all the momentum the crowd was in a frenzy but the angels came back and scored three in the top of the night. Don Aussie in relief of Dave LaRose you after Brett singled yielded the single to Darrell Porter and then Aussie got nettles on a pop foul to the third baseman.
I would have singled the Cowan's grounded out and that was probably one of the big pitches of the night as Aussie threw a fast ball up and in Al was trying to tomahawk it in the right field to hit a ground wall to second base.
And then we had the disputed Bobby Gritch home run down the right field line in the ninth inning.
The aborted squeeze plays the Royals tried in the fifth which was a big play in the game and clutch hits by the California angels Don Baylor with that single to center driving in two runs the three run homer by Downing and the single by Connie Lansford that we talked about earlier that single put the angels out in front three to two.
So you look back on this game for a better our zillion turning points. You can talk about this game from now until morning but one thing will change and that's the final score.
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