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The Baltimore Orioles faced the Detroit Tigers at Tigers Stadium for a Tuesday night game on September 20th, 1983.
The Orioles were in first place in the AL East with a 7.5 game lead over the Tigers.
They were managed by Joe Altabelli and his first year as manager.
He had taken over the club after the retirement of Earl Weaver in 1982.
The Tigers were in a pennant race for the first time in a decade thanks to a core of young talent
combined with the experience of manager Sparky Anderson.
They entered this game 20 games over 500 and were looking to make a move on the Orioles in the final two weeks of the season.
This audio recording is from the Detroit Radio broadcast featuring announcers Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey.
And the Orioles have just come on extremely strong in the last month to take control of the Eastern Division race.
The Tigers are down eight games in the loss column and seven and a half back in that games behind column.
But the Tigers have seven games to play with the Orioles including this twilight doubleheader.
They can make a pretty big statement themselves in this doubleheader and in this four game series here at Tigers Stadium.
We expect a big crowd. I'm sure the weather has deterred a few at the moment from showing up at least early.
But it looks like we might be able to get this game underway fairly close to the starting time.
Dan Petrie the Tigers starter in game one is down beginning to loosen up.
And so far the Baltimore pitcher has not started to warm up. It's going to be Dennis Martinez in game number one.
And the Tigers will see Bill Swaggerty a rookie right hander go in the second game.
The Tigers had expected to see Storm Davis but in fact he didn't make the trip here to Detroit with him.
He has had some shoulder problems and some pitching problems of late.
And so Swaggerty another one of those great finds out of the Orioles system.
He is going to be pitching the second game of this doubleheader against Glenn Abbott.
The grounds crew right now is folded up the top.
Preparatory to getting it on the roller and getting it off. I'm surprised that the rain stopped as suddenly as it has.
We had quite a storm roll in here about five minutes before five.
And it cut short the latter part of the Orioles pregame practice. They were just about through anyway.
And it continued a steady rain up until just moments ago after we had taken the air with the broadcast here.
But now it has stopped. The umpires are looking out at the scene and they're coming out of the Tiger dugout.
They'll be coming out shortly at least to check on the condition of the field.
And the diamond which took a little longer to cover simply because the Orioles were still having practice.
Had to get the cage out of the way.
And the green netting that is used for batting practices still on the grass right in front of home play.
Well I'll be back with the starting lineups for game one of this Twineye doubleheader after these words.
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And we'll get the lining of the home plate area here pretty soon.
Got a little damp there, as I said before they were able to get the tarp on the field because it really moved in quickly.
The rain did, but now it has ceased and it looks like we're going to get this one underway.
Let's pause here for station identification.
This is the Detroit Tiger Baseball Network.
And this is WJR Detroit, the flagship station for Tiger Baseball.
WJR offers complete sports coverage at 76 a.m.
Now let's look at the lineups for game one of this Twiniter against Dan Petrie in the opener.
Dan has won 17 and lost 9.
Well, he had won four in a row before dropping his last start.
Leading off and playing in center field will be Al Bombrey.
Batting second, right fielder Dan Ford in right.
Batting third and at shortstop Cal Ripken.
Ripken at short.
Batting fourth at first base, Andy Murray.
Murray playing first base.
Batting fifth, left fielder John Loewenstein.
Loewenstein in left.
Batting sixth, the D.H. for Baltimore, Ken Singleton.
Singleton as the D.H. in batting sixth.
Hitting in the seventh position will be the catcher Joe Nolan.
Nolan catching and batting seventh.
Batting eighth at third base, Glenn Gulliver.
Next tiger farmehend, Glenn Gulliver at third base and batting eighth.
Batting ninth at second base, Rich Dower.
Dower at second.
From the top again for the Orioles in game one.
It'll be Bombrey leading off to center fielder, followed by right fielder Ford, the shortstop Ripken.
First baseman Murray, left fielder Loewenstein, the D.H. Singleton, the catcher Nolan, third baseman Gulliver, and second baseman Dower.
All the Tigers in the opener against Dennis Martinez, the veteran right hander who has a record of seven wins and 14 defeats.
Leading off and playing second base will be Lou Whitaker.
Batting second at shortstop, Alan Trammell.
Batting third will be left fielder Larry Herndon.
Batting fourth and catching in the opener, Lance Parrish.
Batting fifth, the D.H. for Detroit, Kirk Gibson.
Gibson D.H.
Batting sixth at first base, Enos Cabell.
Hitting seventh and in center field will be Chet Lemon.
Batting eighth, right fielder Glenn Wilson.
And batting ninth, third baseman Wayne Kranchicki.
Kranchicki playing third.
It's a Tiger lineup. Looks pretty much the same as the one the Tigers have been putting on the field against right handers lately, with one exception, Wilson getting the start in right field instead of Rick Leach.
It's Whitaker leading off at second with Trammell at short, Herndon in left, Parrish catching, Gibson the D.H., Cabell at first, Lemon in center, Wilson in right, and Kranchicki at third.
Lance Parrish reported to the ballpark today, under the weather, he's got some influenza, but Sparky has to have him in this ball game somehow or another, and he's got him in as the catcher in the opening game.
And we'll see how Lance can last here tonight against the Orioles in this Twainiter.
We've got the lining of the batting boxes at home plate right now, and they've put some of the magic dust, the absorbent sand, out around the mound area.
It had gotten dust a little bit moist out there before they got the tarp on the field.
Right now the ground screw has the tarp rolled over beyond the foul line, but not up against the wall as yet.
They're still kind of holding at the moment. It's very dark here.
The lights have been on now for some time, and it had been expected, there's no question of that, that weather people had been giving dire forecasts for a couple of days about the weather on this date,
when the Tigers and Orioles were going to get together for this big Twineye doubleheader, and in fact it was going to come in earlier in the day, and hoped in fact it would come in last night and move on through earlier,
but now it kind of held off and now hit the stadium just before five o'clock. But right now we've got a little hole in the weather, and maybe it'll be large enough so the Tigers can get a couple of ball games in here against Baltimore.
Very big games, no question of that. I know the odds aren't all that good, down seven and a half games, eight games in the loss column, but they are not eliminated by any chance,
and they've got the chance to do it themselves in these seven games they have remaining with Baltimore for this week here in Detroit.
Following Baltimore, Boston comes in this weekend for three games, and the Tigers go to Baltimore next Tuesday, and will play Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in Baltimore against the Orioles.
The Tigers have done well against Baltimore lately, feeling back in mid-summer after the Tigers had seen the Birds the first time around, and the Birds began to play exceptionally well.
The Tigers play well against Baltimore, and they are not frightened of the Orioles by any means. In fact, the Tigers have been the only ones of late to play well against Baltimore down the line.
Since September 21st of last year, 1982, the Tigers have won seven and lost four against Baltimore. They are the only team to have a winning record against the Orioles since that time.
Dan Petrie continues to loosen up down in the Tiger bullpen area.
And we're still waiting for the grounds crew to finish its work. The umpires apparently may have set a time to start this, but I don't know.
Dan's been working down there just about long enough to be ready to throw out the first pitch. He's looking over his shoulder, too. He doesn't want to use up his game down in the bullpen.
But the umpires have not come out as yet. We have had an umpiring change just a moment ago, and they'll line up this way behind the plate, John Schuylach.
At first, Rick Reed. At second, Darrell Cousins. And at third, Dale Ford.
Ernie, seven and a half down with only 13 games to play. Tigers have a chance yet.
There's always a chance until the season's over. I'd say it would be slim and none right now, but they've got to go ahead and play, and they've almost set a position now where they have to win just about every game.
And things like that have happened, but from a realistic standpoint, you'd have to say they don't have much of a chance.
What was your feeling, your sensing of the Orioles as they arrived here at Tiger Stadium today?
Well, I think the quiet confidence is the kind of a team that they've always had. I was talking to Ray Miller, and he was saying that the guys feel like they're going to do it, but they're not flamboyant about it or anything.
They haven't counted their chickens yet because they haven't hatched, at least officially they haven't hatched. So they're going about it in a businesslike way.
And you look at fellows like Ripken and Murray, and they do something big, and it's all in a day's work for them. And they just keep on doing it.
And I think the remarkable thing is the way this Baltimore team turned around and began to win so many games against so few losses.
And they did it in such a fashion to look as if they'd never lose one. They get behind. The game last night was typical. They get behind in the late innings and even in the extra innings and come back.
And if they needed two runs, they'd score two. If they needed three, they'd score three. And you know, you hate to use the old cliché, but if a team ever looked like a team of destiny, they have this year.
John Miller, the Baltimore broadcaster, was telling you and me that even when they have played bad, they wind up winning the game somehow or another.
They look very poor for several innings in a row, maybe, and fall way behind, but then rally and somehow put it together.
And it's not just one guy each game, or the two guys, say Ripken or Murray or a Singleton, but it's been the Stapheros and the Dowers and the Bonners and the Gullivers that have come through for them, too.
Which is another mark of a good team who have a different hero every night.
And I think the fact now that they've got a pretty good size lead, seven and a half games, they could afford a little snuff at this time.
They'd probably rather have it right now than have it during the playoffs when they're going to meet the Chicago White Sox.
And I think that's going to be a very interesting playoff series.
You've got two teams, assuming that the Orioles are going to win it, and it looks like they will, that have put a pretty good margin between themselves and the rest of their division.
Chicago leading by fifteen and a half over Kansas City.
And they'll be nice and relaxed and ready to go in.
And the good thing about that from the managerial standpoint is that the manager can get his pitching rotation all straightened out.
Doesn't have to worry about winning his division.
He can go in ready and fresh with a good pitching rotation and go right into the playoffs with it.
And I know, speaking of the pitching, Joel DeBellis has come up with some people this year like Mike Bottiker and the guy we're going to see in the second game, Bill Swaggerty,
that have really filled big holes when it was absolutely necessary.
And he's going to have a little bit of a problem, I would think.
He's already got it figured out going into, say, a playoff series. Who's going to use as starting pitchers?
He's got so many potentials.
Yeah, that's right. Well, Swaggerty, John Miller was telling us, and Ray Miller told me too, was a fellow who came in and was under tremendous pressure in that game against Chicago
after the Orioles had had a bad series against the Cleveland Indians.
And he's the guy that turned it around. He kept him in the ballgame. I think it was 2-2 and then the Orioles went ahead and won it.
And they went after that. They won 34 and lost 5 or something like that.
Some outstanding kind of a record after Swaggerty had set him right.
And I think it's the thing that you like to see with pitchers like that come in and respond to pressure.
And you find out one way or the other in a hurry whether they can do their job and make a big difference.
It's going to bode well for the future.
Starting pitcher, game 3.
We're getting word now.
We're getting the word now and getting a little action.
And we're also getting a little dribbage from the sky at the same time.
There was a mist and I saw some umbrellas pop out and now the rain is starting again just as the grounds crew at this moment
rolled the tarp back to the wall beyond the Tiger dugout.
Petrie is standing down hands on hips.
The word from the press box is we've got an Alphonse Gastonac going right now I think.
As soon as Dan finishes his warm-up we would have the national anthem.
The umpires have not come out. We've not had the pregame meeting at home plate as yet.
And the grounds crew now taking care of the extra couple of scraps of tarp down there.
But while it brightened up here at Tiger Stadium we got a little rain again.
It's not enough to interfere with play once they were going.
But since they are not going they might decide to hold off for a little bit.
Petrie has really done, completed his warm-ups down there.
He's just looking around. He's looking for the home plate meeting.
That's what he's looking for. And here they come finally.
This is a kind of a situation the umpires dislike as much as anybody to fall because
not only do they have to make the decision about when to start the game
but then they have to be pretty well in touch with the weather department
to know when to stop and restart it.
And nobody really knows about what the weather is going to do.
And the game belongs to the umpires.
They really don't know what to do a lot of times because they can't figure out the weather just like all of us.
Well we're finally getting that meeting done.
Rick Dempsey is out representing Joel DeBellis Orioles.
Rick is the veteran catcher along with Coach Pellican's solo of the Tigers.
And now Petrie decides to heat up a little bit more and I think he's just ended.
He didn't want to lose it all down there in the bullpen and he's completed his warm-ups.
Let's hope that we can get these games in.
These Tigers and Orioles have the four games to pack in in the three-day span.
And they just soon not have to reschedule anything at all.
Let's hope that they can play both these games tonight.
The Tigers have had a fine advance sale for all three games, all four games of the series, the three dates.
And it looks like we're going to have a fine crowd if the weather holds right now and we get no more rain.
Well the Red Jackets are here at any rate, Ernie.
Bob Taylor will do the anthem for us and nobody does anything better than Robert does.
And Bob has got himself a new Christmas album that is going to be coming out around, I figure, the 1st of November.
Got a chance to listen to one of the selections on it and just gorgeous music done with a small choir, young persons choir from Ann Arbor.
Beautiful background in that and it will be out I think around the month or so.
Now we're going to get the chance to hear Bob Taylor sing our national anthem.
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Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave
The great voice of Bob Taylor singing our national anthem.
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Now the umpires have moved on to their positions.
This game will be getting underway shortly and before it does we'll pause for this message.
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Now Petrie out on the lawn now to take his final warm up tosses.
The Tigers are going to be looking at maybe a reborn Dennis Martinez here in the opener of this twilight doubleheader.
Dennis is having overall a porous season of his major league career.
It was a terrible start for Martinez this year.
The 28 year old right hander faced the Tigers one time and the Tigers bombed him.
Petrie was the winning pitcher that night.
The Tigers wound up beating Baltimore 9 to nothing in four innings time.
Martinez was nicked for six runs on eight Tiger hits.
But he sat up in terms of starting for some time, even used him in relief rolls.
And he went a period from August 23rd, I beg your pardon, from August 6th to August 23rd without starting.
He did pitch some relief.
But he came back in the last Wednesday night and beat the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
He went six innings, allowed four hits and no runs, and that was his first victory since July 26th, his first start since the 6th of August.
Well, maybe he is back.
We're going to find out something about that this afternoon, this evening here in the opener of this twilight doubleheader.
Dan Petrie had his four game winning streak coming to an end in the opener of the series in Boston this past weekend, losing that game 6 to 1.
He's ready to start another one. Little Al Bumbrey steps in to lead things off for Baltimore.
And here for the play-by-play is Ernie Harwell.
Thank you, Paul. Here's one of the sharp guys on this Baltimore ball club.
He's a veteran now, but he can still run very well, batting 279 to lead off man Bumbrey.
Left hand about at the plate, bows it away.
We're underway in the first of a twilight doubleheader at Tiger Stadium.
Strike one on Bumbrey.
22-minute delay here at the start of the game because of the moisture.
Trinchicki at third, Chamelechard-Hoodacard second, Cabell at first base, and the outfield at Herndon-Limmon and Wilson.
He could have lived his strike. He got the slider in.
And Bumbrey looks at that one for a strike too.
73 degrees at game time at Tiger Stadium.
Outfield a little bit to left on Al Bumbrey.
He'll be followed by Ford, and then it'll be Ripken in the Baltimore first inning.
Here's the motion, the right-handed deals.
Here's a foul out of play. Back to the grandstand of the county, still strike two.
Bumbrey, one of the veterans of this team, he was rookie of the year with Baltimore back in 73.
Hit 337 that year. Last year he batted 262.
Getting a little better than that right now, 279 for Al.
Petrie gets his sign from Parrish Works again. The pitch is a ball high.
And the Tiger fans thought that Mr. Bumbrey might have been fanned on that one, but umpire Shulock didn't agree with him.
On both two strikes to count on him.
Jimmy Williams coaches at first base, Cal Ripken senior third.
There's a ground ball to Whitaker, he's a chance, throw to first to Cavell, one away.
And Ford, the right-hand batting right fielder, steps up now.
Ford batting 281 with nine homers and 55 runs batted in.
That's a large increase over his season's record last year when he batted 235.
Outfield plays him straight away.
Ford in a close stance. Generally he's considered a curveball pitcher.
There's a hard slider in for a strike.
Usually the Tigers try to pitch him in with a fast stop.
Right-hand batter up, field straight up on Dan Ford, no score for sitting.
And there's a pop-up into short-center.
Lemon coming in, he's there, he makes the catch for the off.
Two down.
Cal Ripken stepping up now.
There are two men in this Baltimore lineup who are considered legitimate candidates for most valuable player.
They are right here in order, Cal Ripken and Eddie Murray.
Ripken batting 312 with 95 RBIs and 24 home runs.
Big, strong shortstop. Stands very deep in the batter's box, two out, nobody on.
The game is scoreless in the first inning of the first game.
And he takes a strike on the outside corner.
Ripken, another county head who seems to like to ball in on him, and they try to pitch him curves away.
There's a swing and a miss. He was jammed on that one right up at the letter.
Two quick strikes on him.
Kintzicki backing up at third, no score first inning, two out for Baltimore.
The battle has just begun here at the quarter of Michigan and Trumbull.
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Here's the motion by Dan, he deals again that it is a low curve outside.
As I told you, Lance Parrish is not feeling up to par.
He's in there anyway catching in this first game.
Little touch of the flu or something like that. Here's the one-two pitch.
Ripken strikes out swinging and Petrie has a good inning.
He sets the birds down one, two, three.
Half-inning, Baltimore nothing, Detroit comes to back.
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Nanny Martinez tuning up now right at the face of Tigers after Petrie set the birds down one, two, three in their half of the first inning.
And it'll be Whitaker, Chambl and Herndon to test Mr. Martinez, who is undergoing his toughest season since he's been in Baltimore.
And he's come back in the last outing or so and done a good job.
He's a record for the year seven and fourteen.
Sweet Lou Whitaker at the plate ready to try to get it started for the Tigers.
Lou batting at three fifteen eleven home runs and sixty four runs better than he'll be followed by Chambl and it'll be Herndon.
Right hand to Martinez on the mound ready to go to work.
And there's a chopper foul down past third a little grounded outside the bag.
Gulliver playing third Ripken at short.
Doward at second Murray at first for Baltimore.
They've got Nolan catching.
Loewenstein is in left Bumbrian centered forward and right.
Denny Martinez on the mound.
And he can throw hard. There's a fastball outside of the count one and one.
Got a slider and a good change up.
Also a good fielding pitcher Denny Martinez.
There's a foul upstairs out of play one and two to count on Lou Whitaker.
This is the few lot putting a new baseball into play now.
The Baltimore outfield plays the Whitaker around toward right.
Different save in the Boston outfield is dead.
Here's a pitch by the right hander and it is a breaking ball wide to to the count on Lou.
Cloudy skies the rain seems to have subsided at least for a while.
Martinez gets his sign from Nolan again and the works.
There's a foul fly out of play.
Let's pause briefly for station identification.
This is the Detroit Tiger baseball network.
And you're listening to Tiger baseball on radio 76.
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To count on Lou Whitaker no score first hitting Tigers at bat.
There's another foul out of play.
This one lifted over on the third base side.
Still a two to count on him.
Petrie set the Orioles down in order and they're half of the first inning.
Now Martinez working against the Tigers.
The Orioles have won 10 of their last 11.
They've won four straight and they lead the Tigers by seven and a half.
Ground ball to first base.
Murray grabs it.
Makes the play of the sister one up and one down in the Tiger first inning.
Comes Alan travel the Detroit shortstop batting a 313 with 14 home runs and 62 RBI last month or so.
And Whitaker has stayed fairly close together in the offensive figures.
Here's Tram waiting on Denny Martinez no score first inning.
Swing and a roll of foul on the third base side in the grass.
He's got a nice swing on that one and just tapped it down the third base side.
Orioles have been getting some good hitting since August 26 as a team they're batting 313.
And in the pitching department in the last 38 games since August 12 they've got a 2.71 earned run average.
There's the strike big curve over.
Pitching and hitting going together you've got it pretty well made.
Two strikes on Alan that was a good hard breaking ball on the outside corner from Martinez.
Now they wind up in the pitch.
Swung on ground ball hit sharply and foul down past third.
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Martinez did it his fastball fouled away.
The Tigers have done one thing these first two hitters they've made him throw a lot of pitches already.
And they've lost a lot of baseballs already too in the seats on these fouls back among the customers.
Denny looks him over gets his side again from Nolan it is a strike two count on Tramiel here it comes.
Swing another foul out of play well he's not wasting any still a strike two count and Alan just keeps fouling them off.
Denny Martinez end of action Tramiel waits here it comes here's a swing and a line drive they hit for the field.
Resistance pays off for Tramiel.
That's the first runner in the game Herndon will be the next Tiger batter.
Larry batting 296 with 18 home runs and 83 runs about at end.
He has an eighth game hitting streak.
One of the remarkable things about Baltimore is the left field position they've used mainly Gary Renneke and John Loewenstein.
And that left field position has produced a 298 average with 32 home runs and 119 RBI.
So there's a case of the platoon system really paying dividends.
Here's a pitch to Herndon it's a fastball high.
All on the count on Larry.
Now the set by Martinez he flips over to first base pretty good move for Dennis but Tramiel back in time.
The center field of Bombery is slightly toward right field on Larry Herndon.
Now the set by Martinez run a go as it's a strike Nolan slow to second.
The challenge 26th of the year number 26 he's having fun here in the total base.
One and one that's the count on her did the Tigers got a man in second with one away in the first inning of the first game it scored us.
Martinez that checks his side again that might be right hand a pitchers a good stop by Nolan at the plate.
The breeze are coming out of the west right now blowing from third base out toward the right field.
Steps away Martinez took a little bit too much time for him so he's going to step out of the batter's box.
The right hand ready for action it is a 2 1 pitch due to Larry Herndon to go sample and it is low for the third.
Nolan didn't have a chance.
The third now with one man down the infield will play back at this stage of the game Baltimore will give up a run and exchange it for the out.
That's a count on Larry Herndon.
Dennis is ready. He said he holds it he pitches a ball.
And on first man on third down and the Nolan go out the top with Danny Martinez and the next man to bat will be Parrish.
The chances hitting to seventy two he didn't have much of a series up in Boston.
Twenty five home runs and one hundred and five RBI.
Come Gray Miller the pitching coach of Baltimore out.
He wants to say something to the Richard Danny Martinez.
I don't know that they ever did find out what was wrong with Dennis earlier in the year mechanically apparently had seemed sound but it had to be something wrong there because the arm was sound and he was having no pain there and he was just getting hit hard.
He's got in a bad spell there probably and slumped just as bad as slump and field is slumped.
He seems to have pulled out of it but right now the Tigers have run as a first and third the conference is over.
And the Parrish at the plate game is scoreless in the last half of the first inning and there's a breaking ball all ball one.
And then edging off the bag at first they've got Eddie Murray holding over there with him.
Swing and a miss on a hard one.
One and one on Lance Parrish.
The Orioles felt he was throwing a high too much early in the year. You'll notice that much of the many of the pitches he's missing out of those sliders that is but they're low.
Especially in a ballpark like this one.
Now the one one delivery coming up the land.
He swings and misses again. One and two the count on him.
Gibson is waiting on deck. The Tigers with a scoring chance here in the opening inning.
They've got Trammel at third and her and down.
So Parrish waits again on the one two served by the right handed Eddie Martinez.
And it is a high one.
And then goes to second he makes it.
The word from Chuck Lockett the official scorer.
It's a steal for Herndon and the Trammel scores on the throwing arrow by Nolan the same arrow on which Herndon moved to third base and the Tigers have a one nothing lead.
Herndon is now at third with one out and the two to count on Parrish.
Markey running his team trying to keep out of that double play in that situation there.
And he got an extra bonus out of it. Here's a set the fit.
I think that's a little reliant on the set up.
The last nine games picking it up a little bit here drove the end of the year.
Parrish on first one man down.
Two nothing the Tigers jumping in front here in the first game of the double header.
I feel deep the right the infield and double play them.
Gibson swing.
Coming home you'll score.
A long line drive up the alley and deep left center.
They throw came to the plate not in time to nip Parrish who's going all the way first and Gibson goes into third with a three bagger.
The Tigers jump in front three nothing in the first inning.
Jim Palmer is starting to lose that in the Baltimore bullpen.
Gibson at third base Martinez delivers is a breaking ball into a close ball.
One out a single by travel walk to her and a single by Parrish a triple by Gibson plus the three stolen bases and a throwing error by the catcher Nolan leading to the Tiger three nothing advantage in the first inning.
Here's a bit the swings a mounting ball.
They are now ahead for another.
One out.
That is batting to sixty one he has sixty four RBI and twenty four homeless.
Nolan wants a conference with Danny Martinez.
Early in this inning the Tigers use their running to set up the scoring and then they hitters came through.
The other three hits have been single by travel by Parrish and by Cabell.
Here's Lemon to try to keep it moving for runs on four hits to the Tigers no runs and no hits for the Orioles.
The Tigers leading off the bag over there first and Jeff Lemon awaits.
I think he's right.
I think the ground rule is that it's above that yellow line at the home run.
The old bullpen area.
You just don't see a ball hit the foul ball above that yellow line very often.
That's the first one I remember.
There may have been one before when I was broadcasting but that's the first one I can remember.
What a long blow and it's five nothing the Tigers lemon is the third now with that three bagger.
And let's see what Wilson can do he's batting to sixty eight with eleven home runs.
And he takes a curve it's outside ball one that's the second triple in the setting.
If he had gone the one way or slice the other way it would have been a home run.
He's the right side of that six to nothing Detroit.
After the out by Whitaker here's what happened.
Not counting the stolen base.
A single a walk a single a triple a single a triple and a single.
It comes out of belly out he might want to make a change at this point.
He's looking on the bullpen.
He's not signal yet for Jim Palmer.
Now he gets the signal and that's off at any Martinez.
He will leave the game with Palmer taking over and the Tigers in the first inning have set up a six to nothing lead over the rivals from Baltimore.
Incredible opening inning for the Tigers against the front running Baltimore Orioles and Dennis Martinez trots off to the dugout.
Palmer is coming on just to keep this one respectable here in the first inning.
The Tigers Martinez for six hits five of them in a row two of them triples and they were by way of the umpires about that drive of lemons off the foul ball.
Is that the umpire say that if it hits the foul ball no matter where it hits it and bounces onto the field the ball is in play.
That is it could hit it way up by the bleachers and it would still be in play apparently.
The difference how far up the foul ball it goes it's in play.
Jim Palmer the veteran stylish right hander takes over on the mound and while he warms up we'll take time out for this message.
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I'm embarrassed by what I was saying earlier in relaying the information from the umpires about the flagpole.
I kept saying foul pole. I meant the flagpole out in center field just a little bit to the left of center field.
The ball hitting it no matter where it hits it it's in play if it goes back on the field.
Now Jim Palmer, number 22, doing a little pawing away on the mound ready to face Wayne Crenshecki with Wilson at first.
Still only one out in the Tiger first inning, six nothing Tigers. Ernie?
All right we'll see whether Crenshecki can keep it going now for the Tigers against the reliever Jim Palmer.
Outfield is a little bit, no they're going to play him straight away.
Palmer looking back, Jim is one of the few pitchers that you'll see designate the area where he wants his outfielders to play.
Turn around and point and ask them to move over or stay where they are or whatever.
Here's Crenshecki and he takes the breaking ball in for a strike.
Wayne batting 259.
Palmer with a record of four and four. This is his 12th game.
All but one of his appearances before this one have been as a starting pitcher.
Six runs and six hits for the Tigers. They lead six nothing.
There's a ball outside the breaking ball low. One and one they count on Crenshecki.
Jim Palmer will be 38 years old in the middle of October.
He delivers a fastball outside two and one.
The tall right hander deals again and Crenshecki slices a little pop line to left.
Lowenstein digging, can't get it. It's dropped in, bounced off his glove.
On the third now will go Wilson and Crenshecki holds it first base.
Little Texas Laker between Ripken and Lowenstein.
Lowenstein charged it, couldn't get to it if they saw it squirted away from it.
See whether there's an error charge to Lowenstein or whether it'll just be a single and that's it.
So far no report that it'll be any more than a single.
So here comes Whitaker up for the second time in the first inning.
The first time up he bounced the first. And everybody since then has reached base.
There's the word. Lowenstein is charged with an error.
Allowing Wilson to take third base after he had stopped at second on the single by Crenshecki.
Blue takes it. It is a fastball high from Jim Palmer.
Six runs and seven hits for the Tigers.
Murray holding Crenshecki at first base.
The outfield on Whitaker is almost straight up now.
They're not playing him as much to right as they did before.
Now the pitch on the way, it's a ball ball.
A little unusual too because you figure Palmer does not throw as hard as Denny Martinez.
Maybe they know how they're going to pitch him.
2-0 to count on Whitaker.
That's the pitch. He swings. There's a long one.
Deep right and it is gone. Home run for Whitaker.
A three run homer, a nine to nothing lead for the joy.
Number 12 for Lowenstein, Crenshecki and Wilson go ahead of it.
The Tigers have a nine to nothing lead over the league leaders.
That was another Armistown home run.
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The Tigers have scored nine times here in the opening inning.
Here's Cammel who started with a single with one out.
And he takes a small one, high ball one.
That was Lou Whitaker's 12th home run.
In too close on Cram, 2-0 to count on him.
Armour one delivers. Here's a strike called on Cammel, 2-1.
This crowd are buzzing about this nine run first inning.
There's a fly ball in into left center.
Will it drop in? Yes, sir. It does. Another hit for the Tigers.
Cammel gets his second hit of the first inning.
And the crowd is loving this surge by the Tigers.
Here's Herndon stepping up. He walked the first trip.
The Tigers have set eleven men to the right.
They have scored nine runs.
Here's one man out and one man on.
And Herndon with a pregame average of 296.
He takes a fast ball from Jim Palmer, ball one.
Murray holding close at first base with Cammel.
They've got Dower, the second baseman, over to the bag toward his right.
He's set by Palmer. He pitches. Here's a fly ball to keep the left.
Going back, Loewenstein. And this one is gone.
Here's one over to Herndon. Eleven to nothing for Tigers leader.
Number 19 for Larry Herndon.
Here comes Cammel to score. Here comes Herndon home.
Eleven to nothing to join.
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We'll get a pinch batter now for Parrish.
Walk-in Foss will bat for Lance Parrish here in the first inning.
You can see here that Lance was ailing. He's got flu or something.
And Walk-in Foss is batting for him now. Takes it inside, let up, ball one.
John batting to 79. The Tigers have scored 11 times here in the opening inning.
Armour to the Bears. It is in the dirt. Ball to the Walk-in Foss.
The Tigers have 10 hits and a walk in the city.
The ball low. Three hit ohs to count on John B.
Armour scraping around with his spikes out there on the mound.
Now the right-hander winds up pitching. It's a strike called on Walk-in Foss, three at one.
The wide-up stopped in the middle of it. Now starts over. Here's the pitch.
It is a lower and he walked in.
The second walk of the inning.
Here comes Gibson. He tripled his first time.
He's a 14th Tiger batter to come to the plate.
Walk-in Foss at first. Gibson at bat.
The Tigers lead 11-0 over the Bears.
I feel almost straight up on Gibson. His triple was the left-hander.
And he bowed it away. Didn't get around to the fastball.
Eight different times that Jim Palmer has won 20 games of the season.
He's been the outstanding pitcher in Baltimore history.
Here's the pitch by Jim and a change. It's one-hundred missed by Gibson. Two strikes on him.
Now pitching goes Ray Miller. He's giving a sign down to the bullpen.
Get a left-hander up there. Somebody. Some side-arming left-hander, it looks like, the sign is.
Gibson leaning in waiting. Two strikes on him. A man out of the man out.
And he swings and misses. Struck him out. That'll be the second out of the inning.
Here comes Cabell.
Tigers set 12 men up without anybody being retired between the bounce-out by Whitaker and the strike-out by Gibson here in the first inning.
A remarkable string. There's a fastball outside on Cabell.
All of those at 12 batters had hits except Herndon, the walk, and the walk-and-pass walk.
Change-up is in too close, 2-0.
Notice the scoreboard is not capable of putting in 11 for inning number one.
We'll just have to remember that the Tigers scored 11.
There's a ground ball deep jogged up, ripped it over, grabbed it, brought it back and not in time.
It'll be another hit for the Tigers.
Cabell gets his second hit of the inning.
Here comes Chap Lemon who hit a triple off the flagpole the first time he batted in the city.
Let's pause briefly for station identification. This is the Detroit Tiger Baseball Network.
And this is your Tiger Baseball station, your power station for sports, WJR Detroit.
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He's got a run at the plate and he takes a breaking ball from Jim Palmer ball once.
Eleven runs on eleven hits for the Detroit.
They've also picked up a couple of walks here in the first inning.
They've got two men on and two men out against Jim Palmer relieving Denny Martinez.
Jim, not quite ready, straddles his slab out there. Lemon did not get out of the batter's box.
On the set, the pitch, he takes high and away, ball two, two and oh.
Dan Moro, yellow, is the left-hander throwing in the bullpen.
Here's the set now by Palmer. He deals again. Lemon swings. There's a high pop-up back of third base.
It should end the inning. Here comes Loewenstein and he gets it.
He collides with Ripken, but he holds on to it and the inning is over.
And what an inning it's been. The Tigers have got eleven runs on eleven hits.
And at the end of one, it is Detroit eleven, Baltimore number.
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That's what you call a big inning or a big beginning.
The Tigers get eleven and they lead the Baltimore eleven nothing going into the second inning.
Some changes for the Tigers. Walk-in fuss will stay in the game and do the catching.
Rick Leach will go to first base replacing Caval.
And the Orioles bat now on the second Eddie Murray, John Lowenstein and Ken Singleton will face Dan Petrie.
Murray the switchback about about left handed.
I'll peel around the right on him. He's hitting three oh six another great year for Eddie Murray.
What an outstanding player he's been.
Very consistent at the plate. Very consistent in the field.
Plays just about every game. He's had twenty-eight home runs. He's knocked in a hundred and one runs.
Petrie on the mound working with a lead eleven and nothing and he fires a fastball in for a strike.
Strike one called on Eddie Murray.
There's a ball in close on Eddie one and one.
Couple of home runs and two triples featured at the eleven run search by the Tigers.
Triple by Gibson, triple by Lemon, home run by Whitaker, home run by Herndon.
Now the one one delivery Murray hits a bounding ball to the right. It'll be a hit.
A ground seagull between Whitaker and Leach puts Eddie Murray on. He's the first Oriole runner today.
Lowenstein will be the batter, the veteran outfielder.
John's come up with a lot of key hits for this Baltimore club this year batting 279, 12 home runs and 51 RBI.
Swings and fouls it away. That one came down hit him on the foot.
And missed a shoe lock to play it up. I was going to take that one out of play.
Lowenstein basically a fastball hitter. He likes to pull the ball most of the time.
Not quite ready to get back in there yet.
Still got that hot dog.
Strike one the count on John. Here's the set by Dan Petrie. He delivers. Here's a high foul that will be out of play. Strike two.
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Also to Bob Delano, an announcer at WTCM radio in Travis City.
Longtime Tiger supporter. And to Octavia VanLockeren at Roseville who's 103 years old on this date.
Here's a ball low to Lowenstein. One and two the count on him.
11 to nothing. The Tigers lead the Orioles in the second inning of the first game.
Time called at first base. Eddie Murray has to take a shoe off for a moment.
Lowenstein gets back in the batter's box. Petrie about ready to go to work again.
Here's the set by Dan. And the one-two pitch on the way. Foul off. It'll be out of play upstairs.
Some other Tiger fans celebrating 90th birthdays. James McDougal of Detroit.
Myrtle Hengstaffer of Marin City. And Glenn Mayer of Mute.
All celebrating their 90th birthdays on this date.
Here's the one-two pitch to Lowenstein. And it's a ball low. Gets by Wackenfuss. Murray will take second.
That was a breaking ball in the dirt. John couldn't handle it. It'll be a wild pitch.
Murray takes second. And the Counties 2-2 on Lowenstein.
The Phillies lead the Cubs at the Philadelphia 10-4 in that twilight game 5-3.
Lowenstein. It's a ground ball to Whitaker. He'll go to first. To Leach. And out is Lowenstein on the third.
That cruises Eddie Murray. Ken Singleton. A switch batter. Outfielder hitting 287.
He is the D.H. this evening. He has 84 RBI's and 18 home runs.
Tigers lead them 11-0. The Orioles have a man at third now with one out in their second inning.
Singleton stands deep and takes a fast ball outside from Dan Petrie ball one.
And he'll be followed by the catcher Joe Nolan.
Breeze is picking up a little bit. It's blowing out toward right.
Still cloudy skies in Detroit. Here's the pitch. One on the ground ball. Deep short.
Chammell has it. Long throw to first. To Leach.
And Eddie Murray crosses the plate to give Baltimore their first run of the night.
7-1 the Tigers lead. Now it'll be an RBI by Singleton on the ground out to travel.
It went very deep and made the long throw to Leach.
Here's Joe Nolan, the left-handed batting catcher with a.286 average.
And Joe takes a ball wide from Dan Petrie.
If you miss the afternoon game, Pittsburgh beat the Mets in New York today.
Four-nulling. Only afternoon action in the majors.
Nolan waits. Here it comes. He swings and hits a foul ball on the ground down past first base.
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Here's the 1-1 delivery now to Nolan. He swings and fouls it away. 1-2.
11 runs and 11 hits for Detroit. One run and one hit for Baltimore.
Baltimore batting in the second inning.
Nolan just about midway at about his box waiting on the features 1-2 pitch.
Here it is. He swings and hits another little foul ball down toward first base.
Slow grounder in that direction.
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Nolan still waiting and the county still 1-2 on Joe.
Here's the windup by Petrie. The pitch is swung on and hit foul again.
Down past first base.
You missed that first inning. The Tigers scored 11 times on 11 hits.
They sent 16 batters to the plate.
After the first out by Whitaker, the next 12 reach base consecutively.
Here's the windup on the pitch. He swings and there's another foul out of play.
This one upstairs, back of third.
And a gentleman from Northville made a good catch of that one.
The big blows of that Tiger first inning. Triples by Gibson and Lemon.
Home runs by Whitaker and Herndon.
Here's the windup in the pitch. Nolan fouls another one away.
They sure used a lot of baseballs already tonight.
Ralph Snyder and company will have to open up a new crate down there under the stadium.
Nolan left-handed batting catcher waiting on the next one. It is still a 1-2 count on him.
Two out, nobody on.
Petrie winds and kneels. Here's a fastball high 2-2.
Petrie got about 1-2-3 in the opening inning and in this inning Murray Singleton took second on the wild pitch.
Came in on a couple of bounce outs.
Nolan waits, here it comes. He swings and there's another ground foul pass first base down to the Oriole Bowl fan.
Glenn Gulliver, one-time Tiger property, waiting at the on-deck circle.
2-2 the count on Joe Nolan.
Bend at the knees, he waits, here it comes. He takes a high hard one, ball three. Full count on him.
11-0 the Tigers lead the Orioles in the second inning.
Swing, there's a drive to right, going back is Wilson. It is off the wall.
And Nolan has a long single. The ball got over Wilson's head before he could get back and then he played the ricochet well.
And fired it in the channel.
And here comes Gulliver to the plate.
Gulliver hitting 333 in 12 games. That's 8-24 with a couple of RBI's and no home runs for Glenn.
Left hand batter stepping in.
He stands deep in the batter's box.
Peecher ready, serves and it is a fast ball high and away on Gulliver.
Gulliver batted 309 this year at Rochester and had 11 home runs and 62 RBI's.
Played the second and third.
Here's a fast ball outside on Glenn, a 2-0 the count on him.
The fellow picks up a lot of walks. It's always been that case with him throughout his career.
He's 117 at Rochester to lead the league.
And there's another one wide, a ball three to Gulliver.
Native of Detroit makes his home in Allen Park.
Here's the pitch and it is a strike on the outside corner, 3-1 on Gulliver.
Now they set the pitch. It is wide. He walked him.
The ex-tiger gets on on the base on balls. That'll put two on and two out.
That'll bring up Jim Dower for the second baseman.
Dower batting 231 with five home runs and 39 runs batted in.
That's the first walk issued by Peecher. He's walked one and struck out one.
Right hand batting Dower waits. Here's the pitch and it is a hard splatter and first strike.
Game delayed in its start because of rain.
Tigers lead in the second inning 11-1. It's the first of two here tonight.
Swing and a fly ball lifted into short-staffed Herndon comes in. He's there. He's got it in the side retire.
One run for the bird. The Tigers bat in the second. They lead 11-1.
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Tigers coming to bat now to see what they can do for an encore after the first inning. They scored 11 times in that opener and they've got an 11-1 lead.
Waiting on the catcher, Nolan, to come out.
He was on base and had to go get his catching equipment on.
And now he takes over from Depth to warm up Jim Palmer and toss one down to second base and we're about set to go.
Glenn Wolfson who had a single and drug and a run in the first inning will lead it off for the Tigers.
Now field straight up on Glenn. 11-1 to Tigers lead in the second inning.
Here's a high foul out of play upstairs. Strike one. He swung late on Palmer's fastball.
Now Jim looks into Nolan to get the sign, goes to work again on Wolfson. There's a fastball that jams him one and one to count.
Here's the motion by Jim Palmer. The pitch is swung on at the second base. One down. He has an easy hop, throw to Murray. One up and one down in the Tigers' second inning.
We're going to be backing up our innings here on our scorecard.
Yeah, that's right.
Really going to be a filled up scorecard tonight.
Here's Krunchicki. He contributed a single and another 11-hit attack on the first inning for the Tigers.
Batting 266 down. Facing one of his old teammates, Jim Palmer. There's a ball outside on the way.
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Here's the wind up on the pitch and it is a slow one that hits the middle of the plate. One and one to count on Wayne Krunchicki.
He's had some hits in the last three games for this guy. There's a ball outside. Two and one to count on him.
Fastball high to Krunchicki. Three-one on the Tigers' third baseman.
Here's the motion, the pitch on the way, swing of the ground ball wide of the first base picked up by Dower.
He can't hold it and Krunchicki is safe. He came over to glove side.
Got his glove on it but couldn't hang on after the ball got past Murray.
Palmer came over to cover but Dower couldn't find the handle of the ball after he knocked it down.
Here's a single for Krunchicki, his second hit. And here's Lou Whittaker who batted twice in the first inning.
Bounced the first in the leadoff spot and then hit a three-run home with the next time up.
Number 12 in the home run column for Sweet Lou.
Palmer on the mound, 11-1 to Tigers. Here's a fastball outside from Big Tall Jim, ball one.
It's a ball outside. Every one of the Tigers starters has a hit already.
Lock and pass who batted for Harris through a walk. Rick Leach, the other substitution, has not yet been to the plate.
Here's a fastball over above the knees, a two-and-one on Lou Whittaker.
You realize how unusual that is for doers to have said that, that we haven't even finished the second inning and every starter has at least one hit.
That's right, only one out at the second.
Here's the pitch Lou takes and it is a ball low, three-and-one.
Looks like they all got them on the first inning. Absolutely.
Tigers starting off with a bang, here's the pitch and Lou swings and fouls it away.
It's going to be over in the third base sector.
Three-two, the count on Whittaker.
Eleven runs, twelve hits for Detroit, one run and two hits for Baltimore.
Lou swings and fouls another one away. This one straight back behind the plate.
The pitch seems to be changing, it's blowing a little bit more out toward left now.
Man at first, Krunchecki, three-two pitch, Whittaker takes and he has a walk.
That's the second walk issued by Jim Palmer.
It will bring Allen travel to the plate. Allen had two singles in the first inning, two for two so far.
The field is average up to three-sixteen.
Truman on, one man down, the Tigers lead eleven to one in the second inning of the first game.
Here's the stretch by the tall right-hander Palmer. He pitches, here's a fly ball, short set, it might drop in.
Brumford coming hard, can't get it, dropped in front, but Krunchecki will score when it could take third and Saddle has three for three.
And the Tigers get their twelve runs.
Here comes Herndon who had a walk and a two-way.
In the first inning.
Man on first and a man on third.
In field and double play depth for the Orioles.
Twelve to one, Detroit leads Baltimore.
Palmer straddles the slab, nothing happens, Herndon just steps up about his mark.
Every Tiger starter has an RBI except Krunchecki.
Here's a high foul out of play.
That will reach the seats back at first base.
And Krunchecki could hardly be faulted, he has two singles and two trips.
Herndon steps away, strike one, the count on Larry.
Jim Palmer checking his sign, Whitaker on second.
Trimble on third, Trimble on first, here's the ball inside.
And the count one and one on Herndon.
Now the set by Palmer, he pitches a slow curve hit on the ground, a short baby two, over to second for one, relay to first, not inside.
He went in on Dower and he didn't get anything on the relay, over to Murray.
And the Tigers got another run to make it 13 to one.
It'll be an RBI for Herndon on the fourth out at second base of Trimble.
Whitaker crossing the plate on the fourth out to make it 13 to one, Detroit.
Here comes a walk-in pass.
He came in the back for Parrish and the first inning in Dura Walk, that's been his only time at the plate, so his average is still 279.
Palmer delivers and John takes a fastball high, ball one.
The throw by Dower was a strange looking one, it was very accurate, but he didn't get anything out of the reason, the ball was slipping out of his hand as he threw.
Now Palmer and Schulach are having a conversation, Schulach yelling something out to Palmer.
They meet halfway between the mound and home plate.
Ball one, a count on John B. Walkenfuss here in the Tigers' second inning of the first game.
And the pitch on the way, he takes the ball low, and a good stop by Nolan.
2-0 to count on John, he'll be followed by Gibson.
Palmer delivers, here's a foul back this way, and the county's 2-1.
I suppose Palmer was telling Schulach, I've got a good bye for you on briefs.
Now the 2-1 pitch, big slow curve, grab the outside corner going by, 2-2 to count on Walkenfuss.
2-out, 1-on, here's the set by the right-hander, he pitches, fastball struck him out, and the Tigers are out in the second inning.
They get two and up their lead to 13-1 at the end of two.
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Well, the birds come to bat now.
The Tigers lead, Baltimore 13-1.
We're going into the third inning.
Bumbree, the leadoff man, will resume that role here in the third, the first time up, starting the ballgame.
He bounced to Lou Whitaker.
Petrie, working with a 12-run lead at 13-1 in the first game of a doubleheader on the Threatening Skies at Tiger Stadium.
Ford and Ripken are scheduled to follow here on the Oriole third inning.
And Delivers and Bumbree fouls it away, strike one.
Well, we've had word from the press box that the Tigers' 10 straight hits in the first inning ties the American League record set back in 19-1
by the Boston Red Sox against the old Milwaukee team in that first year of the American League.
There's a strike called on Bumbree, two strikes.
The Major League record is 12 consecutive hits shared by the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Cardinals in 19-20, the Dodgers in 19-30.
Strike two pitch to Bumbree, swung on the ground ball to Whitaker again.
He's got it, the flip to Leach, he got him out.
One up and one away.
Bumbree goes down the same way, they got him in the first.
Let's pause here briefly for station identification.
This is the Detroit Tiger baseball network.
And you're listening to Tiger Baseball on Radio 76, the great boys of the Great Lakes,
and WJR Detroit.
Dan Ford, fly to center, first trip.
There's another fly ball to center, and here comes Lemon, he's got it.
So the Orioles have repeated their first inning so far.
Bumbree bouncing to second and Ford flying to center.
Here comes Repkin, let's see if the carbon paper keeps on working.
He struck out in the first inning.
Tigers lead 13-1, Repkin at the plate now.
Vietre has a walk one and a struck out one.
I feel we'll be deep and straight away on Cal Repkin Jr.
Here's the pitch by Dan, and there's a tapper hit to a third.
Contiki Chargers can't handle it, he tried to glove it, and couldn't get it.
It will be scored as a single.
He was charging and he met the ball about halfway between the plate and third.
Probably didn't have a chance anyway.
Here's Eddie Murray who's single and scored the Baltimore run in the second.
He took second on the Wildfish, went to third on the bounce out by Lowenstein,
and scored on Singleton's ground out.
Tigers lead it 13-1.
Here's the set the pitch, Murray fouls it away, that'll be in the seats over back of the Tiger Dugout.
Crowd keeps on coming in, we'll have a good attendance here.
A lot of folks for these Triniters come in in the middle of the first game.
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There's a breaking ball, oh, one and one.
Thirteen runs and thirteen hits for the Tigers, one run and three hits for the Orioles.
The Orioles have made two errors, the Tigers have not made any.
It's the first of a double header here at the quarter, Michigan in Trumbull tonight.
Fastball swing and a miss by Murray, fired that one past him toward the outside, one and two on Eddie.
Eddie talking on their pregame show about his family, twelve youngsters.
The boys and the girls both played baseball.
Here's the one-two pitch to him now and he takes the ball, oh, that one hit in front of the plate.
Ripken on with two down in the third inning for the Birds.
Two to the count on Eddie Murray.
What a one-two punch this is in the middle part of the batting order for Joe Aldebelli.
Ripken followed by Murray.
Now Petrie to the set position, oh, that he pitches and Murray bows it away over on the third base side.
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That breeze is blowing out toward left now.
Here's the two-two pitch again to Eddie Murray.
And he takes a breaking ball, oh, full count on him.
What can pass during the catching paris third?
If we told you a little bit of the weather, he batted one time and then after the Tigers got a large lead,
Sparky Anderson removed him in favor of walking first.
Here's the three-two pitch to Murray on the way.
He swings on a ground ball off of the pitches picked up by Krzyczkiewicz, but no play and Murray has a single.
I don't know exactly where that hit Petrie, maybe on the foot.
He's waving and walking fast back.
He's mad now because he didn't get that ball.
That's right. He's mad. He's not hurt. His feelings are hurt more than anything else.
He's just really kicking around there.
He thought he should have had that ball.
It'll be scored as a hit for Murray. That's his second hit, two for two for Eddie.
And it'll bring up John Lowenstein, the veteran outfielder.
Samuels coming in and trying to settle down his pitcher Petrie a little bit.
Lowenstein's been on the big league scene since 1970. He broke in with Cleveland that year.
Left hand about a waiting and the pitch is high to him, ball one.
University of California at Riverside is schooled. He made it in anthropology.
A 1-0 pitch to John. He takes it high and wide, a 2-0 on Lowenstein.
Feature ready again and sets and deals. It is a strike on the inside corner.
He backed away from that one, but it nipped the corner on him.
John just let the bat slip out of his hands in disbelief.
And he gave Mr. Shulock the old-family look on that one.
Here's a 2-1 pitch coming now to John Lowenstein.
Here it comes. He takes it. It's a strike. That's 2-2.
Here's a fellow who seems to get better each year rather than the other way around,
which is the norm for baseball players. Here's, at least at his age, here's a 2-2 pitch.
And a 2-2 on the inside corner.
Here's a 2-2 pitch coming.
And a 2-2 on the inside corner.
Here's a 2-2 pitch coming.
And a 2-2 pitch coming.
One out, nobody on.
The Tigers are batting in the third.
They've got Gulliver very wide of the bag at third for Baltimore.
Leach steps out again.
Palmer not quite ready.
They can't get a tune here with each other.
Here's a 1-2 delivery.
Swung on, fly ball to right.
And a 2-2 pitch coming.
And that Philadelphia game,
Twy Nited-Philly,
the Phils lead Chicago 5-3 there in the fifth inning.
Here's the pitch to Leach.
And it's a wide 1-2-2.
One afternoon game in the majors.
And the National League Pittsburgh beat the Mets 4-0.
And yet the Minnesota White Sox game in Chicago rained out tonight.
Here's a line shot foul on the change-up again down in the bullpen.
Remember Palmer's had a lot of ailments over the years.
And early, very early in his career,
he had a lot of back trouble.
And Dr. Russell Wright was a team physician here in Detroit at that time.
And he put a lift in Jim Shue and corrected that.
And he came back after that.
And a foul out of play back on the screen.
Palmer had been sent down to the minors for almost a whole year.
And Dr. Wright found out that the problem was that one leg was longer than the other one.
And the left cured that problem.
Now the 2-2 pitch to Leach.
He swings and there's a base hit to left.
The line shot to the field off the bat of Rick Leach.
A man out and a man out.
Here comes Chad Lemon.
Chester has tripled and flied to left.
He did both of those things in the opening inning.
He made the final out in that 11-run first inning for the Tigers.
Now he's up with a man out and a man out in the third.
Time called at the plate. Lemon steps away for a moment.
Palmer to the set position delivers.
Watch out. That one almost hit him.
Now that was so slow he wouldn't mind being hit by that one.
Just the reflex action got him out of the way.
Here's a little topper in front of the plate.
He's picked up by Nolan. He'll go to first to Murray with it and Lemon is out and Leach takes second.
Wilson will be the battered.
Glenn had a single in the first inning. He's had one for two.
We're talking about Palmer winning 20 games in eight different seasons.
Palmer and Lefty Grove did that.
Johnson did it 12 times and Cy Young was a 20-game winner 16 seasons.
Warren Spahn and Matheson 13 times a piece to reach the 20-victory mark.
Wilson takes the ball outside.
13-1 the Tigers in the lead against the Orioles in the third inning.
Here's the pitch. Swung on and bowled away. One-on-one the count on Wilson.
That Philly-Chicago game is now 6-3. They've completed five at Philadelphia's Twilight game.
Leach down the line from second base. Palmer delivers. Fastball outside to Wilson. 2-1 on Glenn.
Just Martinez started and was credited with one-third of an inning. Charged with seven runs and six hits.
That's when Palmer took over. He worked the rest of the time. Here's the 2-1 pitch.
Swung on the ground ball to Ripken near the bag and second. He goes right through his legs and the run goes score.
He's complete across the plate. Ripken went a little bit to the glove side and had a routine play. The ball went right through his legs.
That puts Wilson at first base. Leach was able to score.
And the Tigers now lead it 14-1. Here's Krincky with two-for-two singles each time against his old teammates.
Wayne's brought that average up to 273. And he cuts and misses on a Palmer breaking ball.
Outfield plays him to left. There's a cut and a miss on a high hard one. Two strikes on Wayne Krincky.
Not only do they play him to left, but very shallow. Look how shallow Shelby is in center. Yeah, he's way in.
Strike two delivery is a strike called. The big floater got over. He's out on strike. The Tigers get one.
At the end of three, Detroit 14 Baltimore 1.
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Baltimore batting now in the fourth inning. Tigers lead them 14 to 1. Let's tune in on Paul Caring.
Alright, Ernie Ken Singleton will lead it off. He drove in the Baltimore run with a bounce out.
And there's a grounder to the right side. Leach comes wide to his right. Has it. Flips to P3 and they get it.
One pitch, one away in the Baltimore fourth inning.
Well, the biggest threat right now it would seem would be from the weather.
It has become increasingly dark overhead. Of course it's bound to as we lose the sunshine here in the Detroit area.
We haven't seen the sun since early today because of the precipitation, the growing clouds that came in.
Rain held off the start of this game for an official 22 minutes but it's not been interrupted.
Here's Joe Nolan. It's low for ball one on Nolan.
Better and left hand hitting catcher singled off the face of the wall in right field in the second inning.
P3 ready to work the pitch to Nolan. He takes low again 2-0.
Dan given a very big lead. Eleven runs in the very first inning.
Duo pitch to Nolan on the corner for a strike. Got it right on the inside corner to Joe.
Dan said he learned a lesson with a big lead over in Milwaukee. You may recall that game.
Tigers had jumped out to a five to nothing lead early. And he had a no hitter going for four innings.
There's a foul back up to the press box. By the bottom of the fifth inning the Tigers had given P3 a five to nothing lead.
And that's when Ted Simmons and Mark Brohard hit back to back home runs off P3.
He's had to learn a lesson from it. You've still got to pitch your ball game regardless of the score.
The stuff about just rearing back and getting it over he now doesn't believe in.
So he's trying to pitch his game here tonight. He struck him out. Nolan took a look at a hard one on the outside corner.
Three strikeouts for P3.
And that'll bring up Gulliver. Long time Tiger farm hand to Glenn Gulliver.
A man from Allen Park left hand hitting third baseman. Good season down at Rochester. He swings. There's a drive to deep right center field going back is Lemon.
He's there now. He's got it. And the side is out in order. After three and a half innings Tigers 14, Baltimore 1.
Lou Whitaker leads off the fourth inning for Detroit. And the first slow one is in from Palmer for a called strike on Lou.
Gets him all that motion that big leg kick of his and then lobs it in.
The delivery. There's another slow one hit on the ground. A second base dollar has a little trouble with it but gloves it throws him out at first base.
One out on the Tiger fourth inning. He's got a couple of defensive changes again for the Orioles behind the plate.
John Stapharo now replaces Joe Nolan and Todd Cruz is in the game playing third base.
He replaces Glenn Gulliver. So Joe Altavelli has made five switches defensively. Plus a switch on the mound already in this game.
One out. Nobody on here on the Tiger fourth inning. And here's Alan Trammel who has three singles and three trips.
He checks his swing. It's a little high from Palmer for ball one.
Now they say the first base umpire Rick Reid said he went too far. Stapharo appealing to the open side.
So it's strike one on Alan. There's a high fly ball. That feels deep but not deep enough I don't believe.
Young at the wall makes the catch. Well he was right there on the edge of the track anyway.
A towering fly ball by Trammel. Bearing deep to left and they finally get him out. Two out on the Tiger fourth inning.
Here's Herndon. Larry has walked hit a two run homer and bounced into a force out and that ground out got in another Tiger run.
So he has three RBIs. Every Tiger starter with a run batted in with the exception of Crenjicki who has two hits.
There's a slow curve inverse strike. Now Palmer ready pitches. Hard one is high. One and one on Herndon.
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There's a line drive to center field. A base hit for Herndon. Larry has his second hit. That's the 15th of the night for the Tigers.
It comes with two out here in the fourth inning. Let's pause for station identification. This is the Detroit Tiger Baseball Network.
And this is WJR Detroit, the flagship station for Tiger baseball. WJR offers complete sports coverage at 76 a.m.
John Walkenfuss batting. He takes a called strike from Palmer. Fuss came in when Lance Perrish's turn was up again in the first inning and he pinch hit for him.
He walked, struck out the next time. Slow curve, dips a little bit low. One and one on Fuss.
14 to one, the Tigers lead here in the bottom of the fourth inning. Thread of rain still persists.
Palmer's pitch. There's a slider that got in for a strike one and two on Fuss.
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Fastball in the corner. Fuss is up looking. Another strike out for Palmer. And the Tigers for the first time in this game do not score. After four innings, it's Detroit 14, Baltimore 1.
We have some more changes for the Tigers. Marty Castillo's gone in to play third. Wayne Crenchicki moves to second replacing Lou Whitaker.
And Lynn Jones is now in left field taking over for Larry Herndon. Top of the fifth inning here at Tiger Stadium. 14 to one, the Tigers have the lead.
Somebody had left a batting helmet on the outfield out there. And just before the inning was began, they decided to pick it up.
It's a Tiger batting helmet though I think, even though Jimmy Williams is going to throw it in the Baltimore dugout.
Here's the pitch to Dower and he fouls it back. Strike one on Rich.
Petrie has an odd four hits. They've all been singles. He's walked one and struck out three.
They kick the pitch by Petrie. There's a ground ball passed them on to Crenchicki at second. They toss to Leach. One away in the fifth inning.
That'll bring up John Shelby. Good looking outfielder for the Orioles.
Shelby is switch hitter. Bat's left handed against Petrie. He's up for the first time in the ball game hitting two fifty nine.
Five home runs, twenty five runs batted in. He cuts and pops one down the left field line. That's a tough chance. In comes Lynn Jones.
He makes the catch.
Jones gathers in the pop fly from Shelby. Two out in the fifth inning.
And the batter will be Tito Landrum.
Tito inserted in the lineup to play in right field for Dan Ford in the third inning. Takes a called strike.
Originally on the Cardinal organization, Landrum is looking at another called strike. Two quick ones out.
Three sixty four in limited action for the Orioles. One home run, a couple of RBI's.
Now the kick to pitch by Petrie. Tapped off the end of the bat. Petrie comes off the mound toward first. Fields it. Tags the runner.
And that's all for the Orioles and the money's in the bank. After four and a half innings, Tigers 14. Baltimore 1.
Another change for the Orioles in the field. Bob Bonner is now playing second base, replacing Rich Dower.
Here's Kirk Gibson leading off the Tiger fifth inning. Fourteen to one, the Tigers lead. They got eleven runs in the first inning.
Jim Palmer, who relieved in the first inning, came on for Dennis Martinez. Still in there.
The pitch to Gibson is a high outside fastball. Gibson has tripled in a run in the first inning. Since then he has struck out twice against Palmer.
The wind up by Big Jim. He delivers on the corner for a strike one and one.
Gibson, Leach and Lemon, the three do up here in the Tiger fifth inning. Fouled back off the glass just in front of the Baltimore radio booth.
Shaking up Tom Marr and John Miller a little bit over there.
Of course that first inning shook him up a little bit too I think. The one-two pitch.
Fung on and missed. He struck him out. So that's the third straight time Palmer's been able to strike out Gibson.
The batter now will be Leach, who has batted once and single.
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Careless clubhouse manager, director here at Tiger Stadium. High fly ball lifted to left center field.
Over Shelby and Young. The center field. Nope, the left field of Young is going to make the catch just on the edge of the track.
Two out in the fifth inning.
A ball that either one of them could catch, could handle.
Generally a ball hit there is given to the center fielder to gather in, but this time he gave way to Young.
Here's Lemon. Cat tripled in a run in the Tiger first inning.
Since then he's hit a pop fly to left and bounced out to the catcher.
A dribbler in front of the plate.
A one side curve from Palmer.
Jim kicks and delivers. There's a high fly ball hit to medium depth right center field.
Center fielder Shelby over. He's got it. And the Tigers are out quickly in the fifth inning after five.
Tigers 14, Orioles 1.
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We finished five innings. Tigers with 11 runs in the first inning.
Lead 14 to 1 and here comes the rain. It looked like it's going to be coming down for a long time.
Time called by the umpires and they're going to bring the tarp out.
Well, we'd heard reports that the rain was going to come in again about seven o'clock. It didn't.
This game is right now an official ballgame. They've completed five innings here at Tiger Stadium.
The Orioles about to come to bat against Dan Petrie in the sixth inning.
When the rains came in again, rain hit the stadium shortly before five o'clock.
And it came down hard for about 20 minutes worth before it let up.
And it caused a delay in the start of the contest officially for 22 minutes.
But now it has come in again here with a clock reading I guess 742 when the announcement first was, or when the signal was first given.
But this is an official ballgame right now.
Of course the Tigers and Orioles want to finish this one and play another one tonight.
They've got single game scheduled tomorrow night and Thursday night to complete this four game series.
We're playing a make-up game in a sense right now making up this Twineye doubleheader from the Orioles' first trip in here to Detroit.
Now the grounds crew has unrolled or taken the tarp off the roller.
They've got it unfolded now and get it over the diamond. They quickly first put on those separate pieces of tarp over home plate and on the mound.
And as usual the grounds crew under Frank Fennig does a great job here at Tiger Stadium.
They may be just about the quickest in the league in covering the playing surface.
While we wait for this rain, see how long it goes, we've got some lightning overhead too.
Let's check the scores pretty much up to date on those.
This afternoon in the National League, the Pirates shut out the Mets 4-0 on a two-hitter by McWilliams.
His 15th win against six defeats this year.
Lynch started for New York and had took his 10th loss each 10-10.
Dave Parker, homered in the game for Pittsburgh, his 12th of the year.
He had only 3112 at Shea Stadium in New York today.
Can you believe that?
A twilight game at Philadelphia. The Phillies hosting the Chicago Cubs.
And they've completed seven and a half innings now.
And it's Philadelphia 6, the Cubs 5 in the tight one.
For the Phillies, Gross started, followed by Hernandez in the fifth and Anderson in the eighth inning.
For the Cubs, it was Crouch the starter. Patterson came on in the second. Johnson in the fifth.
Forty in the seventh inning.
Bill Buckner has hit his 16th home run for Chicago.
And Gary Woods hit a two-run homer his third of the year for the Cubs.
But they trail 6-5 in the bottom of the eighth inning at Philadelphia.
Going into the action, the Phillies had a two-game lead over Montreal.
And the Pirates, the Pirates picking up a half game with their afternoon win.
At Montreal, the Cardinals didn't score in the first inning.
That one is underway with Bob Forch going for St. Louis against Bill Gullickson of Montreal.
Cincinnati is at Atlanta. It's Frank Bistori pitching for the Reds.
And Phil Necro for Atlanta, the game just beginning.
And later on the coast, Houston is at Los Angeles.
And the Padres play at San Francisco.
And the American League got three games just getting underway now.
The Yankees are playing at Boston.
John Matafusko pitching for New York and that one against Bruce First.
Seattle didn't score in the first inning at Toronto.
The Jays are batting.
It's Mike Moore for Seattle.
And Dave Steeve pitching for the Blue Jays.
Milwaukee at Cleveland.
Mike Caldwell on the mound for the Brewers.
And Rick Sutcliffe is the Cleveland starter.
A Minnesota-Chicago game was postponed because of this rain,
perhaps the same rain that's falling here at Tiger Stadium right now.
And they're going to make up that game at Comiskey Park,
hopefully with a Twineye doubleheader tomorrow.
California, Kansas City coming up a bit later,
as is the Oakland at Texas ball game.
We're getting rain here at Tiger Stadium right now that has suspended play
here after five completed innings.
And the opener of a Twineye doubleheader.
Now in case you tuned in late and wondered how the heck the Tigers
scored 11 runs in the first inning, let's go over that.
Dennis Martinez was the Oriole starter.
He got Lou Whitaker to bounce out unassisted to first,
the first man up, and then everything fell apart.
The Tigers sent 12 men to the plate after the bounce-off by Whitaker
without the Orioles getting it out, without anybody being retired.
Alan Trammell followed Whitaker's bounce-off with a single center.
He promptly stole second and stole third.
Then Larry Herndon was walked.
And as Herndon was taking off to steal second base,
a bad throw by the starting catcher Joe Nolan,
skipped on into center field.
Trammell came in to score the innings first run and Herndon took third.
He scored on a single center by Lance Parrish.
Then Lance raced in from first base on a triple to left center by Kirk Gibson.
Gibson then scored on a single to center by Henes Cabell through a drawn-in infield.
Chet Lemon tripled to deep center field off the flagpole
to score Cabell all the way from first base.
Then Glenn Wilson wrapped a single through the drawn-in infield
to score Lemon from third.
That was all for Martinez.
He had given up six hits and he left a man on.
Well, he promptly scored when Jim Palmer, in relief,
gave up a pop single to Wayne Crenchicki,
and Lou Whitaker came up and hit a three-run homer
into the seats in right field, lose 12th of the year.
Alan Trammell then picked up his second hit of the inning,
a loop single to left field,
and Larry Herndon followed with his 19th home run of the year,
a two-run homer.
The inning continued as John Walkenfuss batted for Lance Parrish.
He walked.
Gibson then struck out for out number two.
Henes Cabell beat out an infield hit, two on,
before Chet Lemon ended the inning with a pop fly to left field.
Sixteen men went to the plate in the first inning for the Tigers.
They got 11 runs, all of them earned on 11 hits.
There were two errors, but because of the way the Tigers kept on hitting,
those runs were all earned, and two men were left on base.
The Tigers added two runs in the second inning.
With one out, Crenchicki got his second straight hit, an infield hit,
and then Whitaker walked.
Alan Trammell's single scored Crenchicki,
with Whitaker moving to third,
and he scored when Larry Herndon bounced into a force out at second.
Rich Dower had the ball slip out of his hands,
trying to relay to first to complete the double play,
and the Tigers had a 13-1 lead at that point.
They added one more run in the third inning.
With one out, Henes Cabell, or, I beg your pardon, Rick Leach,
single to left field, moved to second on a bounce out by Lemon.
And then Glenn Wilson hit a ball right at shortstop Cal Ripken.
He brought the glove up too quickly,
and he put the glove between the legs for an error,
and Leach was able to score from second base to make it 14-1,
and that's where we stand right now.
The only Orioles run came in the second inning.
Eddie Murray led off with a single, took second on a wild pitch,
third on a bounce out, and scored on a ground out by Ken Singleton.
Petrie allowing two hits in that second inning, both singles,
and in the third inning he gave up a couple of infield hits with two out,
but then struck out Loewenstein to end the inning,
and Loewenstein has set down a side in order in the fourth and fifth innings,
and was about to work on the Orioles here in the sixth inning
when the rain began to come down.
It has abated somewhat, but it is still coming down rather steadily
at Tiger Stadium at the moment.
Now the crowd beginning to cheer because they don't see the driving rain coming down,
but if you look at the puddles on the turf that's covering the playing surface,
you can see the steady precipitation out here.
The Tigers win the opener of this Twineye Doubleheader,
a five-inning ball game, they win it 14-1,
and the second game of the scheduled doubleheader tonight
will be made up as part of a Twineye Doubleheader tomorrow,
and that will begin at 5.30 at Tiger Stadium,
and the broadcast coverage beginning at 5.15 tomorrow.
So the Tigers and Orioles play one official game tonight,
albeit shortened by the heavy rains here at Tiger Stadium.
The umpires have delayed the start of the game for 22 minutes,
and then after five innings had been completed,
the Orioles were coming to bat in the sixth.
The rains came in again, and the umpires waited an hour and 33 minutes
before determining that the field was unplayable here at Tiger Stadium.
So the Tigers win the opener with a big first inning,
scoring 11 times in the first inning off the starter,
Dennis Martinez and his successor, Jim Plummer.
The Tigers set 16 men to the plate, and during one span,
12 batters went to the plate without being retired,
and the Tigers giving Dan Petrie that big 11-run lead in the first inning.
So Petrie allowed just one run in the second inning,
the Tigers added two runs in the second and an unearned run in the third inning.
Plummer seemed to settle things down a little bit in the fourth and fifth innings,
and the Orioles weren't doing much with Petrie,
who had sent them down in order in the fourth and fifth innings,
and after the fifth inning had been completed,
the Orioles had that in the sixth just before a pitch was thrown.
The rain came in, and after a wait of an hour and 33 minutes,
the game has been called at the end of five innings.
The totals in the game for Detroit, 14 runs, 15 hits, no errors.
For Baltimore, one run, four hits and three errors.
Petrie gets the victory, his 18th against nine defeats.
Dennis Martinez started, did not survive that wild first inning,
and he suffered his 15th defeat. He's won seven times.
The game, what there was of it played, took one hour and 51 minutes.
hele.