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On October 4, 1977, the Philadelphia Phillies faced the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium for Game 1 of the 1977 NLCS.
Philadelphia had won 101 games for the second consecutive season under manager Danny Ozark,
and they were returning back to the NLCS after being swept by the Reds in 1976.
Los Angeles was managed by Tommy LaSorda in his first full season with the Dodgers after taking over from Walt Ulston at the end of the 1976 season.
The Dodgers had a great team throughout the 1970s but finished in second place in the NLCS in sixth of the past seven seasons.
This audio recording is from the CBS Radio broadcast featuring announcer Ralph Kiner and Jerry Coleman.
So, Big McBride stepping up into the batter's box, making the lead opposition at 3-16 for the area,
15-home run, 61 runs vetted in, has great speed, a left-hand batter in the first pitch, breaking ball of time inside for ball one.
So the game underway. Tommy John in the regular season had 11 complete games, with three shutouts.
And at 1-0, the pitch back to McBride, locked over the first baseman, set a base hit into right field.
Moving over to field at Reggie Smith, he bobbles the ball, McBride started to go to second base,
put on a brace, when Smith, who has a great arm, fired it into second base.
No McBride has single the right field as the game just underway and the batter coming up will be Larry Ball.
The throw by Smith, Ralph, was something we couldn't see last year.
He had an operation in the offseason and that certainly has made a difference.
One of the great arms in baseball, one of the outstanding talents in the game today.
Reggie Smith started his career with a Boston Red Sox, came to the Dodgers from the St. Louis Cardinals.
And Tommy John from the set position, here's the pitch.
It is bunnidon and fouled out of the dirt.
Boy had 2-8 in the regular season with four home runs and 41 runs vetted in.
Nobody's led the National League in team betting with a team betting average of $2.79.
They had 186 home runs, they had 135 stolen bases, had 68 men thrown out.
Now John, ready again, here's the pitch.
And a fastball ground of the court, ball filled by Bill Wusser,
and on the first base a double play.
Russell, the baby loop, on the derby on the Dodgers day, it went from crick to crack.
And on to Popeye, the nicknames of the infielders.
That third base the thing went.
And though the base hitters erased, and that'll bring up Mike Smith.
I just led the National League in double plays this year.
Tough to double up, Larry Boy, he has that good speed.
Last three years, Mike Smith led the National League in home runs.
This year he was beaten.
George Foster had 52, Mike had 38, his teammate Greg Luzimki had 39.
And Smith takes the first base, lowest ball one.
Smith hit it 274 this year with 101 RBI.
Something you might be interested in, Ralph, Mike Smith had 14 home runs in June to tie your record.
That's back in 1947.
I was splitting that one out, Gary.
14 home runs in the month of June.
Mike Smith had an injury in a fight that really delayed some of his progress this year.
And a ground ball hit to the shortstop.
Russell, it's deep as short.
Russell backs up those wide the first base in Smith.
And it's late, Barbie arguing that he came off the bag and made the pass.
What first plays umpire, Bob Engel, disagreeing with Garvey.
That'll be an error charged to Mill Russell the shortstop.
And the Phillies have a run around with Greg Luzimki coming up.
When you've got speed like Mike Smith and you start backing up on the ball,
that's what Russell did, you've got a big problem on your head and that's tough to display.
Had to hurry the throw and the throw was wild.
There's a threat as a base runner, he's had 15 solo bases.
What's the big ball?
Greg Luzimki the batter and the first base to Luzimki has chopped foul down the third base side.
Luzimki, wrong candidate for the most valuable player in the National League.
Batted 309 with 39 home runs, 130 runs batted in.
We're seeing a pattern here of what Tommy John does best, Ralph Kiner,
that's the big ball on the ground and if those big fluggers keep trying to pull that little fade away fastball and change up,
they're going to be in for trouble with that.
Reminds me a little bit of Eddie Lopot.
One strike count, the Greg Luzimki and Tommy John with his next pitch of breaking ball all on inside.
Luzimki with a hard swing over the top of it.
So now Tommy John reading the sign from his catcher, Jager and the pitch back to the plate is a fastball.
It's all the first base in the dirt is taken by Garvey and an error is saved.
Garvey holds the record for few of the errors in the National League in a single season with three.
He is a fine fielding first baseman.
The player is calling Popeye for his muscles but he can handle that glove.
One ball, two strike counts.
Tommy John a triple look at first base, mid-running, the ball is hit in the air to center field,
deep center field going back is Glenn Burke, it's going, going, it has gone, goodbye.
Greg Luzimki with a home run and the filly is laid by a score of 2 to nothing.
When he opened up the gate to the Philadelphia filly with a Luzimki up there,
that third out on the missed play by Bill Russell and Dr. Kurchap turned into two runs with Philadelphia.
That could be critical before the afternoon is over.
Two runs are unearned in the course of the regular season, Tommy John gave up only 12 home runs.
Luzimki had a total of 39.
So the filly is leading by a score of 2 to nothing and Dave Johnson coming up.
Johnson batted 320 for the year, he's playing first base tonight, right hand battered,
and the first pitch is outside of ball.
Dave Johnson holds the record for most home runs by a second baseman, 43.
During that with the Atlanta Braves, he played in Japan for a couple of years
and then came back to the station, the filly picked him up and signed him as a free agent.
That home run given up by Tommy John, the first four to fillies this year,
and the left hander back and he is outside and low, two balls and one strike.
And now Tommy back and missing again at 3-1.
In the course of the regular season, Tommy John walked only 50 batters, three of them on purpose,
in 220 innings and his next pitch is ground as slowly to the shortstop, Bill Russell,
who feels it throws the first base and the side is retired.
But in the ending two runs they were unearned on two hits,
a big home run by Greg Luzimki, one error and no one left on base.
The score after one half, I mean the fillies two and the Dodgers coming up.
It's like for a moment or two that Tommy John would get out of it after giving up a lead off
single and double play and an error, that's it.
And like Frankie Fish has said, the walks and the errors will kill you.
Well, big Greg Luzimki, the fillies said earlier before the ball game
that he figured that last year's playoff experience gives his team the edge.
Yeah, I think definitely, I think last year's playoff really helped us.
I think the same guys are back this year, they're going to be on the field
and we went through that playoff and it was a little bit of a different experience for us,
a little bit of pressure on us.
That's where the pressure amount is in the playoff because you have to win a playoff to go to the series
and we feel that it's our advantage that we're up around the road this time
and we will finish off with three at home.
Comments from the ball, big Greg Luzimki, he clobbered one.
They got Schmidt, but they couldn't get the other half of that power combination
of Schmidt and Luzimki.
So now Steve Carlson, 20 game winner, getting settled amount
as he will be pitching to the home team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, as we go back to LA Stadium.
After the first half ending of play, we just tuned in.
The toy loft, he had slowly picked up a couple of runs.
With two down, Mike Schmidt was saved by the shortstop Bill Russell
and then Greg Luzimki popped one over that center field wall 400 feet away
and the Phillies were on top, do nothing.
We go to the Dodgers first, but spring back Ralph Geiger.
In the course of the season, each team won six games of the 12 play.
The Phillies did not do well here.
They were 2-4 in this ballpark against the Dodgers and at home, they reversed that.
A.B. Loafs deleted off, batted 283 for the regular season, a right hand batter,
a lead and the first pick by Steve Carleton, who swung on and grounded foul.
Carleton with a record of 23 wins and 10 losses, the most in the major league.
He was one-on-one against the Philadelphia Phillies.
He had an earn run average of 2.64 in the season.
There's a drive to left field Luzimki going over and he makes the catch.
A big goal, running hard and far to his left, actually got up with that ball
and had to catch it right in front of his body.
So a hard out as Loafs lines to left field.
That will bring up Bill Russell with a shortstop.
Russell batted 278 with four home runs and 51 RBI's, started his career as an outfielder.
And the first pick by Steve Carleton, a call strike.
Carleton had 17 complete games this year, picked two shutouts,
worked 283 innings, gave up 89 walks, struck out 198 in a line 25 home run.
One ball and one strike as Carleton comes back inside.
He worked fast. Here's the pitch back to the plate, a curve ball that hangs high.
His catcher Tim McCarver, McCarver catching every game that Carleton pickers.
He caught him when he were both with a St. Louis Cardinal.
Then he comes back inside and misses for ball three.
Carleton against the Dodgers this year, 1-1 and lost one.
And the next pitch is popped up in the shallow center field, coming hard as McBride.
And he is there and he makes the catch.
At least playing without the services of Gary Maddox who batted 293.
Maddox an excellent center fielder. McBride also is an outstanding center fielder.
Maddox injured the knee and he is not available for this game and maybe not for a couple more.
That will bring up Reggie Smith who batted 307 in the regular season.
He's home runs, 87 runs batted in.
Reggie is a split hitter and the first pitch is a curve ball, too low for a ball.
In one game Carleton lost to the Dodgers. He was wild. He walked six and six innings.
Gave a free hit, loud four runs.
Rick Rodin was the one he pictured that much. Now ball two, two balls and no strikes.
Smith holds the bat high. Pitch back is fouled back.
He's a ball up around the letter. Two balls and one.
Carleton 32 years of age from Chesapeake, Missouri.
And the next pitch is grounded foul for the count of two and two.
In 1972 he won 27 and lost 10.
But 310 strikeouts his way this year.
Now the left hander back and a curve ball is gone over and that's strike three.
Carleton's first strikeout and he has retired this side in order.
And the score at the end of one, the Phillies still and the Dodgers nothing.
They're shaped up as a pitcher's side.
Only it still could be even though the Phillies were off to a two nothing lead with that two run homer by Luzinsky.
Before the game the Dodgers Tommy John figured that he'd have to pitch an exceptional game tonight to beat the Phillies.
You have to be on the top of your game. There's no question about that.
I don't think I can pitch from behind in count.
I don't think I can pitch two or no.
I think I've got to pitch out in front and hopefully try to get them to chase some bad pitches because they're a very, very intelligent ball club.
And I don't know. I think I would have to pitch a kind of game that I pitched against Siever down in Cincinnati tonight that I'd be treated to on the first game of four game series.
And I'll have to pitch that kind of a game and you know, you cannot beat any ball club in the National League by pitching a poor game and especially when you pitch one of the best team in the East.
And comments from the Dodgers pitcher tonight lefty Tommy John.
We've gone through one inning of play here. The Dodgers and the Phillies Dodger Stadium and the Phillies sitting on top two nothing.
Steve Carls had a remarkable pitcher in 1977 with a record of 23 and 10 and yet with all of that he has not been effective on the road.
He's got a record of 17 and 3 at veteran stadium in Philadelphia and 16 on the road.
So when he loses Rob Tanner is usually on the road but after that first inning it didn't look too bad.
The Phillies are very tough at home and they are now playing on the road.
The first batter for the Phillies in the top of the second inning will be Jerry Martin playing right field. Martin batted 260.
He is a platoon player. He alternates with J. Johnson most of the time.
Wayne in today's game because of himatic not being able to play.
Field now has been completely blocked out. There are no sun spots on the field.
There's no difficulty right now from the sun. Playing this ball game right now at 5.33 Los Angeles time.
They make a lot about the dust problem here just between daylight and darkness.
Is there that much of a factor in your mind really?
I think probably the only real problem would be an high pop of fly balls if you do have a tendency to lose.
But at the plate with the modern day life I don't think it means that much difference.
Well they were giving the Phillies the edge or many baseball experts were because of Carl this big curve ball at speed
and yet the odds make there's a lot to think. You see the dodgers are going to do it.
You know the one thing Jerry when I was playing I had trouble with when you did play in twilight was the change of speed.
Off speed or breaking ball right.
Now we're ready to go. Jerry Martin stepped into the baddest match and Tommy John with his first pitch.
And he catches that outside corner with a might what it might be called a screwball.
It's sort of a half way screwball not as slow as a screwball that normally is thrown by a screwball pitcher like Tom McGrath.
That's called straightens Martin back and it's one ball and one strike.
And Tommy John comes back outside. He likes to work low on outside. Two balls and one strike.
He's nine and three and Dodgers stadium. It's free shutout.
And the next pitch to Martin swung on and grounded foul. He has won 14 of his last 17.
And he is six and oh here at home against the Eastern Division clubs.
The Phillies are from the Eastern Division of course with the Dodgers representing the Western Division.
The game of the fast ball is strike three. Martin struck out. Tommy John first and it brings up Tim McCarver.
Carver a left hand batter hitting 320 for the year with six home runs and 30 runs.
Better and left hand catcher. He actually was released by the Boston Red Sox and he called the Philadelphia Phillies up for a job to be a broadcaster.
They said we don't need any broadcasters but we need a backup catcher and they brought him in and he had caught all the games that Carlton pitches.
And here's the first pitch to call strike. Phillies have won only one full season game in their history.
They won and played in the World Series of 1915 and lost four to one.
In 1950 the Wills kids lost four straights to the Yankees and last year Cincinnati defeated them three straight in the playoffs.
And it fits for a strike so it strikes two and now Tommy John back low on inside one ball and two strikes.
Dodgers have a long record of course of being in World Series and that curve ball is one on a miss.
Two on a roll for Tommy John. That'll bring up this size more.
Get that at 281 in the regular season with full run and 47 runs better than the umpires for this game.
We have six of them all prior behind home plate Bob Engle at first base.
Terry Wendell Stad is second. Bruce Brome in the third Dutch runner that the left field station and Paul Runge.
And the right field station. Size more of right hand batter and Tommy John with his first delivery and he gets the call strike.
One strike job. Phillies leading two to nothing on a two run home run by Greg Lozinski.
In a curve ball at center dirt it bounces away from the catcher Steve Yeager and the catcher 1-1.
Then he's home run way over the center field fence when he gets the bat on it it goes.
He is an awesome slugger.
One ball and one strike and Tommy John back to work.
And it's by the end of the third base line foul the ball picks up Justin Foul character.
Size more of running ahead of Steve Carlton with two men out but there is a fairly good explanation for that. Carlton is a good hitting pitcher.
Not only that size more may have a little word on what's going on around here.
He played for the Dodgers last year. They got his big break of first win day's catch.
Came back in the re-entry draft and what's the Montreal Phillies needed a second baseman desperately and played it for the Dodgers where four size more for Johnny Yoke.
So he has to get a big break. He's playing this year whereas last year he was watching.
That size more started with the Dodgers was rookie of the year went to the same bill as Cardinals was traded back to the Dodgers and then when he was not playing he has to be traded and went to the Philadelphia Phillies and he has been an asset to the Phillies.
One ball and two strikes as size more gets back into the batter's box. Here's the pitch and Ted takes it outside. It's two balls and two strikes.
And now Tommy John back and the next delivery is grounded over the top of the mound coming up the field with his bill ruffling.
He feels it just in front of the bag at second and throws the first base for the outfield and the score at the end of one and a half and he's a Phillies two and the Dodgers nothing.
Roger Skipper, Tomulus sort of feels the team has been consistent most of the season and that was the key to the Western Division title.
It's a great character. It's a team that's really played hard all year. They never make too many mistakes. They know how to play the game.
They do the little things that it takes to win. They execute the game fundamentally and they've got a lot of courage. They've got a lot of togetherness and this is something that I've said about them the entire season.
They've got a lot of desire. They believe they can win and they can do the job. So I think the answer is that when you get the ability and capacity together then you have a good ball club and that's what they did.
Dodgers manager Tommy Lestora, I'd make a Jimmy DeGree. He's tabbed the Dodgers and the Yankees to playoff favorites.
Dodgers listed the six to five favorites to win this opener tonight and he's picking the Yankees to open home on Wednesday against Kansas City at 7-5 for the first game.
Jerry Coleman and the first batter will be Ron Sey for the Dodgers. They'll have the two runs on two hits and the Dodgers have no runs and no hits.
These draw them, we've got the Dodgers in order in the first inning and now the first batter for LA will be Ron Sey. Sey ended the year in terrible shape. He went old for 31 to drop as that was down to 241.
He set a record in the month of April when he drove in 29 runs. The whole time high for runs driven in an April. Got off to a fantastic start and like most baseball players, he reached the level.
Ron Sey did not play in the lineup game and now home plate umpire Paul Fier is looking at his back. Dodgers have already lost one to the umpire.
When the Lassey had the home plate area all doctored up and the umpire said no, you got too much dirt there, take it off.
Sey stepped into the batter's box. The first pitch by Carlton was low at ball one. Carlton has won 191 games in his major league career, started with St. Louis Cardinals.
And the pitch back of fastball on the outside part of the plate at the knees is one ball and one strike. Right time against the Dodgers, he has won 12 and lost 9.
Sey's a curve ball, a hard slider more than a curve and it's inside for a ball. 2-1. Carlton with the big overhand curve, a hard slider and a good fastball.
Sey comes back inside with a slider and Sey. Grounds is fouled on the third base side. Ron Sey with 30 home runs on the 100-gen RBI for the year.
In at 2-2, the big left hander back to the plate. A back ball line, Sey makes a turn at first base and holds there and the Dodgers have their first batter on.
You might mention Ralph about the examination of the bat. You can have no form left that's more than 18 inches to the bottom of the bat and that may be what the umpire was checking on.
Also, there can be no bruise in the hitting surface of the bat and it cannot be flattened out. Sey passed the test, he kept the bat so it is all alright.
So Sey is on and Steve Garvey coming up and the first pitch to Garvey, a half swing he went too far. It's a swinging strike.
Garvey has hit in 14 of his last 18 games coming to the series and over that period he batted 4-36, the raises average to 2-97.
The led the Dodgers in home runs with 33 the most by any Dodger in Los Angeles and he drove in 115 runs.
Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and the next pitch is rounded foul right off the end of the bat.
Carlton has a two strike count on the dangerous Steve Garvey. Once again Carlton steps up, checks the runner at first base and the pitch.
That's all hit in the field, it will be a base hit. This is the second base in the hole there and the Dodgers have run into first and second in the low house.
The capacity crowd anticipating a time to rally. The Phillies ready to do nothing. Dusty Baker coming up. He hit in 17 of his last 18 games at 15 runs batted in.
And he has reached first base 44 of his last 45 games. Dusty Baker a great comeback here and he takes the first pitch to call strength.
Baker batted 291 with 30 home runs and 86 RBI. There's quite a story about his 30th home run. Three Dodgers that had 30 home runs or more.
Next pitch is taken high. A breaking ball is one ball and one strike. Dusty Baker if he could get one more home run on his 29 would become the fourth Dodger to have 30 or more home runs.
There's a swing in the midst and it's one and two. And he won a week trying to get it and finally in his last at bat he had a home run off JR Richards for his 30th and the Dodgers had an all time record of having four ball players with 30 or more home runs.
No other team has done that. One ball two strikes. Steve Carlton in a jam comes back with a curve ball. It's grounded foul.
I caught the Macarver before the ball game route and I asked him would he be in trouble. That is Steve Carlton if he didn't have a curve he said yes but he'll have it.
He's been getting the curve ball over course. It's hard for any pitcher to win on just two pitches even if you've been drawn harder than anybody else to pitch back as a new ball or putting players at bat ball just inside two and two.
We have a message from the president of the National League, Chuck Vinnie regarding the home plate discussion prior to the game.
Yampard thought the ground was too soft in front of the home plate and they asked the head ground keeper to remove the excess dirt.
Now a high pop up and foul territory. Playable for the first baseman Dave Johnson and he makes the catch.
So one away and that'll bring up the centerfielder Glen Burke who is a rookie. Burke was brought up during the season and batted 254.
Rick Mundy who was the starting centerfielder for the Dodgers had a lot of back problems and he was not able to play during the minor stage of the season.
He did get back into action near the end of it and Glen Burke playing in center field in his first playoff game.
Burke had one home run in 13 for the year. He has good speed and the first pitch by Carlson is taken high a breaking ball ball one.
Well he's leading two to nothing. The Dodgers with runners at first and second. One man up. We're in the bottom half of the sixth inning.
And a pick back again the curve ball. It's outside. Two balls no strike.
And the left hander sets up again. Here's the pitch. Fastball foul back. On the two old county he got the fastball.
Burke was behind it and fouls it back.
Once again the left hander ready and the pitch is a fastball hit the center field. Back is McBride. He is under it. The runner is halfway and he makes the catch.
And say goes back to second base. And Garvey back to first.
Sooner than away and the batter will be the catcher of Steve Garvey.
And last Sunday's ball game Jaeger was in the on deck circle and a bat shattered and hit him in the head and knocked him unconscious.
And they took him to the hospital but he was alright. Earlier in his career he was almost killed while bats were half of it sucked near his jugger vein in the throat and they had to do a very serious operation.
Steve Jaeger and he takes the first pitch a call strike. Throughout that half of San Diego that bat actually impaled him and it took six hours to remove the splinter.
Very close to casualty in baseball. Jaeger is a rugged type catcher and he is a good one. One strike down. Time's up. The home plate on fire. Paul Farah now Jaeger out of the box is back in.
And Garvin ready to go. And his one strike did. Popped up out into shallow right field. Actually right on the edge of the outfield.
And Garvin is back into the ball of Tysenor. He ain't put it away. So after back to back singles with no one out in a second. Garvin comes back to retire the side with no run.
In outfielder J. Johnstone figured a split at LA will give the Phillies an edge coming back to veteran stadium. He went two and two to Dusty Baker and that's as far as he wanted to go.
Had he gone with runners at first and second nobody out and Baker up there. He said man we're going to go for the downs right now. No one's going to but. We're going to see what we can do with it.
He might be second guessing himself a little bit but when you got a guy that hit 30 home runs you go for the big inning and that's what happens.
So as we go through the first two innings of play it's Philadelphia's two. Jaeger's nothing.
Here in the top of the third the leadoff batter four the fiddled out of the Phillies will be Steve Carlton.
Carlton a good hitting pitcher will be betting against the left ender which might take some of the advantage that he would have as a pitcher away.
Tommy John completing his warm up pitches.
Carlton's two sixty eight betting averages looks as good as some that I see the play every day. He's good with that back and he can hit the ball out of the ballpark.
And a ball game back on August 7th against the Dodgers really wanted three to one with Carlton on the mound. He had two hits and drove in one of the runs and now it's Tommy John with the first pitch of curve and it's popped up out in the shallow right field.
Loeb's going back he's the only one there and he had trouble with it. It's wrapped in.
Going back no left no right fielder no center fielder and looks at the only goal at it and he was turned in the wrong direction and couldn't get his job on it.
Well if I think both the right fielder Reggie Smith and the center fielder Glenn Burson seated that play too soon and suddenly Loeb found himself as the only man around it.
Cliff may have had a shot at it he come all the way or Loeb wasn't quite sure what to do.
The other option might be Jerry that in the twilight the one thing that you really do have trouble with is finding the ball in the air. They might not have seen it.
So Carlton is on. It is scored as a base hit and the Phillies have a run around with no one out and Bakeman's bride batting for the second time and bride single this first time up.
The end of the season with a 12 game hitting three.
The bride hit three 16 for the year and with the Philadelphia Phillies he batted over three 30 came with the Phillies from the St. Louis Cardinals for Tom Underwood and the first pitches inside a breaking ball right on the corner called strike.
Nobody's leading two to nothing two runs on three at the Dodgers have no runs on two.
No one out in the top of the third and Tommy John with his next delivery and he tries a curve ball to miss his outside ball down around the knees one ball and one strike.
Tommy John was a comeback player of the year last year when he won 10 and lost 10 after going through a serious arm operation it was so serious it had never been done before.
Now it's slow and the count two balls and one strike.
There he plays to ruptured ligament in his left elbow with an tendon from his right forearm.
And after the 10 and 10 year last year he has won 20 and lost seven this year. Now it's a two ball and two strikes.
In 1974 when the Dodgers played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the championship series Tommy John throughout the first ball with his right hand left hand was in a sling because of the operation.
And now a high pop up the right field Reggie Smith sees this one makes a routine catch and McBride is out.
He will bring up Larry Ball ball grounded into a double play his first time up and he is a tough man to double.
When Tommy John accepted his award for being the comeback player of the year his opening line was I hope I never get one of these things again.
Ball betting from the right hand side against the left hander say the third baseman about 80 feet away to guard against the possibility of a bun in the first pitch on the outside corner down around the knees it's a call strike.
Carlton is not being held on by Steve Garvey the first baseman Garvey playing about four steps from the back.
One strike on a Tommy John comes back with a curveball he gets it over breaking off the strike two.
Tommy John said that after that arm operation there was nothing that could phase him not even pitching in a situation like this he also plans to race in the Baja Road Race let's take a few.
This is a good one.
Long with Steve Carlton the one two pitch is grounded hard down the line backhand play by Ron say the third or second base is a one man throw but in time.
What a brilliant play.
That ball gone by say or had he missed it the Phillies have something rolling here with their big guys coming up but when he made that one that just broke the back of what looks like a voting rally.
That ball and foul territory with a backhand play of it had gone by with a man runners at least on second and third and the big batters Mike Smith and Greg Luzinski do up.
Now Smith steps in the batter's box the runner at first base Larry Ball there he's a threat to steal had thirty two out of thirty five this year.
Two seventy four thirty eight home runs on one RBI and Tommy John with his first pitch and it's too low for ball.
Tommy John is a number he likes to pitch around the strike zone to make you go after his pitch.
For a stolen fifteen in a row and he had thirty two out of thirty five for the year the pitch back to Smith is fouled back in the stands and Smith looks as though he was trying to hit that ball to right field.
One ball one strike Tommy John working the pace going to down out this point really leading to nothing human out on the top of the third throw the first base and ball back easily little calling card throw nothing on it.
John moves out the dirt in front of the pitch and slam and now sets up checks the catcher sign goes to the threat and comes to the plate and Smith checks the swing and foul hits the ball in the catcher's block.
One and two.
An interesting side light here the defense with the defense they've got the outfield in the right center and the infield pulls on the left side it's rather unusual the guy like Schmidt who is a big pull hitter.
Really isn't usual because if he hits it he can hit it to left field with no problem he has a great quick back.
One and two and it's outside for ball two what that would mean to me Jerry Coleman is that they're going to fit him a lot of screwballs outside.
Randy Jones of the San Diego Padres has beaten the Phillies the last four times around and has given him one run in those four games.
John's a lot like Jones.
Very close there goes the runner the pitch is going on in this and that's in the end.
Smith is struck out the third one for Tommy John.
Any one hit by the pitchers Steve Carroll and the runner left at first and the score at the end of two and a half and he's a Phillies two and the Dodgers have it.
Well Carlton got a slow start on that we look like he had plenty of time if he had a hustle and they got a big break being a pitcher on the bases.
The Phillies were almost unbeatable at home during a regular season with a 60 and 21 record.
An outfielder Jay Johnstone who's not playing tonight figures a split at Los Angeles will give the Phillies an edge coming back to veteran stadium.
Our main objective is come away winning one of these games.
You know everyone would like to win two that's being very optimistic and of course you know it's a...
If we win one we go back to the three games to play here we got a pretty good chance.
Marty Springstead an American League umpire for 13 years and heading up the crew of six umpires for the American League championship series beginning Wednesday at Yankee stadium with New York meeting Kansas City.
Springstead umpire previously in the 1970 and 74 American League playoffs as well as the 1973 World Series.
Working with him will be Jerry Newdecker, Russ Goats, Bill Diggins, Jim McKean and Nick Brumigan.
We're going now to the bottom of the third.
The Phillies leading by a score of 2-0 and for the Dodgers, Stanley John to lead off.
It'll help you to run three hits and the Dodgers no runs on two and the two runs the Phillies have are unearned.
They came after an error by the shortstop Bill Russell with two minutes out to the Zinski.
He hit a home run over the center field fence.
Tommy John a right hand batter.
And he is taking a lot of time getting in the batter's box.
And Steve Carroll then starts off with a fast ball that's popped into shallow right.
And we're going back also coming up in the ball is Jerry Martin and Martin runs size more off the play and makes the catch.
One Vincent, one away.
That'll bring up Davey Loeb, who is batting for the second time and first time up he lined out to the left field with Greg Loeb.
Loeb is generally considered the catalyst here on this ball for Alstiner and if he can have himself a good day get on the base and start running.
You know he led the league in stolen bases in the last couple of years although fell short this year but still had himself a good season on stolen bases.
Davey Loeb is a guy that can activate a ball club. They've got to get something rolling here now.
47 stolen bases this year and the winner this year in stolen bases was Frank Sovere for the Pittsburgh Bar.
And the first pitch to Loeb's the fast ball that's bound back out of play.
Right in there on the hands right around letter I.
Garland has not walked about it he has struck out one.
He has given up two hits.
And the pitch back is inside Loeb's has to turn away one ball and one strike.
And now the left hander back again and again he misses this time high with a fast ball.
Garland when he first came to the major leagues had great velocity.
He got two on the pitch. It is a fast ball popped up in play of all the first baseman Johnson is there and Dave puts it into the glove.
Carlson was the first man in the history of baseball to strike out 19 batters.
He did that against the New York Mets in 1969 but he lost the ball game when Ron Febord had two to run home run drop of a.
He is the only man to strike out 19 and lose.
Now the batter coming up Bill Russell and he takes the call strike.
Russell flight out the center field is last time up.
Russell as the shortstop had 16 stolen bases.
He is all time high and he strikes with one down the left field strike just found by a matter of a minute.
That's far five seconds for station identification. This is the CBS radio network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
This is the end of the bell.
Ralph Kiner along with Jerry Coleman from Los Angeles California.
Billy's leading two to nothing. Bottom half of the third two minute away and the next pitch to Russell has taken out 19-2.
And a curve ball bounced to the shortstop Larry Boyd and he picks it up.
He got the first base and it's every third in order and the score at the end of three the Phillies two in the dodgers nothing.
Tom Watson bidding for a victory which would give him the single season money-winning record will start the 4-1 favorite in the field of 16 Wednesday
and the $225,000 World Match Play Golf Championship at Virginia Water, England.
The American Masters and British Open Champion needs to add $43,000 to his $310,653 winning so far this year.
The top to top Johnny Miller's 1974 all-time record and the first prize at Virginia Water of $52,500 would do it nicely.
British bookmakers have made Hale Irwin attempting to snag the title for the third time in four years a sixth one shot
followed by US Open Champion Hubert Green and Lanny Watkins at 7-1 Ray Floyd at 10-1.
For the first time in his 14-year history the championship has been doubled in size to 16 players
and the winner faces the possibility of having to play 144 holes in four days making endurance the key factor.
In Wednesday's first round 36-hole matches Watson will face a Taiwan opponent while Irwin has a much stiffer test against British rider-coupler Peter Usterhaus.
Watson flew in from California Monday with a bad case of jet lag and could not use Tuesday as a practice day on the 6,969 yard Bermarrow course at Wentworth.
Green takes on former winner Graham March of Australia, Floyd meets Ernesto Acosta of Mexico, individual winner of the 1976 World Cup.
Watkins will face British veteran Neil Cole.
It's the top of the fourth inning the Phillies leading two to nothing on a two run home run by Greg Luzinski and now Greg Vatting for the second time.
Luzinski's home run went over the center field fence and drove in by Schmidt who was safe on an air.
The air flowed on the inning so the runs were unearned and the first pitch to Luzinski is a ball.
Greg hit an eight of his last nine regular season games, had three doubles, three home runs and drove an eight run.
And the ball had 39 home runs at late to club. He takes outside for balls too, two balls and no strikes.
That is three-oh-nine for the year and again the pitch is out of the strike zone low this time for ball three.
Dodgers had the best team run average in the National League with a 3.22 ERA.
Actually it was the best in the major leagues and Tommy John with his next pitch to call strikes.
Three-and-one. Dodgers hit an all-time attendance record last season, just past year.
And a pitch that is low on outside Luzinski-Wach. Dodgers drew two million, nine hundred fifty-five thousand eighty-seven and all-time record.
Greg hit a record or a day at Hells.
And a pitch that is low on outside Luzinski-Wach. Dodgers drew two million, nine hundred fifty-five thousand eighty-seven and all-time record.
Greg hit a record. Or a day at Hells.
from sort of a tennis affiliate had a great year they drew 2,700,070
throughout the Dodgers would have gone over 3 million with ease they had three
rainouts here in Los Angeles and that is one of the great preach of all time
but other without that they would have made 3 million easier. Amazing year for the Dodgers.
Now Luzinsky is running the pitches taken by Dave Johnson to throw a high over the head of
Luzinsky has a solo base he had four in the regular season in 6th September.
That was a big throw that just got away from Jager out there no more you can say
as a matter just sailed into center field Jager with a shotgun has a ball
there plenty of time but it went in center field that ball was 10 feet over
second base and no chance for Luzinsky to get to it. I believe Luzinsky surprised everybody in this ballpark
I know he surprised me he was not being held on by Garvey Garvey is playing
about two steps back of him and he took off for a second and the ball went in the
second with a big slide and the ball went to center field and the next pitch
to Johnson has fouled off and the count had one ball and one strike. Luzinsky had four in the regular season
they might have all been on the back end of a double steal. He's had 16 solo bases in his major league career.
Next pitch back to Johnson is low on inside two balls and one strike. Dave Johnson.
Once again Tommy John set the go he takes the run at second this time and throws the plate misses outside for ball three.
The boating for the most valuable player award and award and rookie of the year award has
taken place so that anything done in the playoff of the World Series will not affect a boater's thinking.
A ground ball hits the third, he moves to his left to field and the bend wind comes up with a ball throw to the first base for the out.
Luzinsky holding the second base and the batter will be Jerry Martin. If you're going to wait for back to back
based on balls from Tommy John you might be here until it's over because he doesn't do it often. He only gave up 50 in the regular season
and working 220 innings. Jerry Martin was struck out his first time up. Right hand batter playing right field.
And now the pitch and Martin takes the breaking ball low on inside. One ball no strike.
Luzinsky a short lead at second base is Tommy John. Missed into the side.
Goes to the set position and the next pitch back is taken outside.
Well I forget the feeling John has lost his pattern out there for the first time in the ball game other than the bad pitch to Luzinsky.
This is the first inning where he seems to have lost the pattern. He's been high and low on outside and he just hasn't been as sharp as he was in those middle two innings.
He hasn't been around the plate right on the edges so to speak. He's been missing by a considerable margin for him and that pitch was low and was low down around the ankle.
There was not close to the lead. Three balls and no strike.
And again Tommy John with the delivery and he gets a strike. White Anthony's on the outside corner. His type of pitch is three and one.
With the Dodgers Tommy John has won 70 and lost 32 in five years. And his next pitch it is granted to the third baseman say who has to wait for a high half to throw the first base is just in by.
And then he's got a line out by a very close margin. He also held a second base for that out and it will bring up Jim McArthur the catcher. McArthur was struck out his first time up.
Early is leading two to nothing. Two men out were in the top of the fourth inning. I see you got your name in the message board out there Jerry.
Jerry Coleman live casting the National Championship Series on CBS radio. And we're happy to be here. Delighted. I'd say this looks like a good story. And here's the pitch now to Jim McArthur and the pitch is low inside the ball.
McArthur is a very personable young man. As aspirations to be a broadcaster when he gets out of baseball. But he has pulled on his career by going to the Phillies and catching Steve Crowder.
And a pitch again for a ball. There's two balls and no strikes and Tommy John working behind the hitter. And the next pitch is grounded foul. So the count had two balls and one strike.
We might mention Ralph tomorrow, Wednesday October the fifth, the New York Yankees, and the Kansas City Royals to get off the ground with Ernie Harwell and Ned March.
Calling the game from Yankee Stadium. Airtime will be 307 Eastern Daylight on many of these same CBS radio stations and we'll once again get underway at 807 Eastern Daylight time here at Dodger Stadium.
Okay, Jerry, a 2-1 pitch and McArthur takes it inside three balls and one strike. With Steve Carleton pitching and McArthur hitting, McArthur is at 3-36 with five home runs.
But he has been a real asset both handling Carleton, it was not easy to handle, and hitting for Carleton.
And the next pitch is inside, McArthur walks and that will bring up Ted Feismore, who is runner to the first and second. The second and walker to the end, given up by Tommy John.
Feismore glided after the shortstop his first time up. And he owes the manager of the Phillies talking about Steve Carleton's bed.
I never completely understand him, but I know enough to give him the ball every fifth day, meaning that he can pitch.
Human away, runners at first and second base. We're in the top of the fourth inning, the Phillies leading by two. And the first pitch by Tommy John, outside of the strike zone again is ball one.
The most pitchers I've seen Tommy John make, around the plate and out of the strike zone. And we get some action going in the bullpen for the Dodgers and a fifth for a ball, that's two balls, no strike.
Feismore is batting in the eighth batting position, so it's not a matter of life or death if he walks because the pitchers do up.
Mike Garmin, a right-handed throwing in the bullpen and another pitch out of the strike zone, it's 3-0.
Tommy John and the Berger doing something he probably hasn't done too many times in his baseball career, walking the bases full.
3-0, runners at first and second base, he's set up. And here's the pitch, and it's a strike zone. Feismore taking all the land, he can't have three balls in one strike.
Mike Garmin warming up in the bullpen for the Dodgers, it flies to McCuff.
3-1 pitch on the way and it's round to the third, they make a good play on a hard smash as the defense is in.
It throws the second base for the fourth play that we saw at the side.
And the inning no runs, no hits, two walks, and two men left on base.
And the score at the end of three and a half innings, the Phillies two in the Dodgers nothing.
Woody McCovey, a one-time most valuable player who had to earn his spot on the roster of his old team, the San Francisco Giants,
was named nationally comeback player of the year, Tuesday by the sporting news in St. Louis.
Eric Satoholm, sidelined in 1976 by knee surgery and resulting complications earned the American leg owners for his play with the Chicago White Side.
At 39, McCovey was one of the few bright spots for the Giants this season, climbing 28 homers, batting 282, and driving in 86 runs.
The big first baseman also hit a 17 grand slam home-er, setting a league record.
For those of you who may have just tuned in, we have a two-nothing ball game going here at Dodger Stadium, the Phillies are leading.
The scoring came in the first inning, Bates McBride started with a single to right,
but was erased on the front end of a double play when Boa bounced to the shortstop, a 6-4-3 double play, retired the first two hitters.
But then Mike Schmidt hit a ground ball to Bill Russell, and he backed up on it just a little bit.
His throw to first was high as Schmidt, with good speed, beat it out.
Russell was charged with an error, and after that, Greg Lusinski, the ball came on and popped one over that center field wall,
with the only two runs in the ball game, and that's the way we stand right now, going into the fourth inning.
Carlton had some problem in the second inning when Sey and Garvey opened it up with following singles,
but after that, Bates, Burke and Jaeger went down, and that's been it as far as Los Angeles.
Certainly have a couple hits, the back-to-back singles, but no real threat in the ball game.
Steve Carlton, taking a little extra warm-up, is ready to go now as we move to the bottom of the fourth round.
The championship series began back in 1969, a year at the Maricall Mets,
and the Mets swept the man on three games and went on to beat Baltimore in the World Series.
Cincinnati made a clean sweep of the LCS in 1970, taking three straights from the park,
but Pittsburgh made the best of a return trip in 1971, beating San Francisco three to one.
First pitch to Reggie Smith's disrounded foul.
Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh three games to two in 1972, a five-game series the first one,
and the Reds took the series to a five-game limit again in 1973 before losing to the Mets.
The Reds have dominated the LCS the past two seasons, creeping past Pittsburgh in 1975 and Fiddled Elphi in 1976.
Now a pitch for a ball, it's one-on-one, the Reggie Smith. Smith has been voted the Dodger's most valuable player
in his last two games before the end of the season, he had hit a home run innings.
Now a two-on, the pitch to Smith is in the air to shallow left center field,
coming over from center field as Bake McBride, he makes the check.
It's remarkable when you can lose a center fielder like Gary Maddox and come up with a man like Bake McBride,
and really not even lose a little bit of your stride because you're about Matt Diedrich.
Reggie Smith having a great year, Bake McBride going from the Cardinals to the Phillies having a great year.
Phillies had a swing of 13 consecutive wins with McBride playing center field.
Here's Juan Céstebian, he's single his first time up, and Carlton starts off with a curve ball.
He's got one of the most beautiful sights here in Los Angeles looking out over into the San Gabriel Mountains and over the hills.
With the sun shining brightly on the hills and the mountains and the far distance.
Now it fits back to swinging strike at strike two.
And it two strikes, it fits to say, taken low in the count one and two.
There is Carl Chavez-Raveen and has been beautified by this beautiful stadium,
the last one built with private capital going back to Yankee Stadium in 1922.
Now it's one two, the pitch to say, a back ball, swung on a miss and say is out.
He's making a strike out with Carl, then it will bring up Steve Jarvis.
Jarvis, single the left field his first time up, he played in 162 games for the second straight year.
No one on, two men out, bottom of the fourth inning, the Phillies leading by a score of 2-0 and Carlton fits.
The back ball is outside, right around the letters, one ball and no strike.
And Carlton working quickly comes back with a curve ball that's shot foul down the third base side.
He counted one ball and one strike.
Garvey has quite a story here with the Dodgers, Ralph as you know.
He had no position and was almost on the brutes of being traded until Billy Butner entered his ankle at first base.
They put Garvey at first, the position he had not played, he was at third base and he found his place away from home and no one has moved him since, that's four years ago.
But he had a very inaccurate arm and couldn't play third well.
Quickly a problem of throwing, he could catch it, another 1-1-5, Garvey fouls it back out of play.
His father used to drive a bus in Tampa, Florida that used to take the different teams around with the different ball parts.
And Steve Garvey would get a board and ride when he was a kid and his idol was Gil Hodges, the great ball player of Florida Dodgers, later on a manager.
And was the manager when the next one in 1969.
Pitch for a ball with two balls and two strikes and it fits back, it's lining by the short-clutch in the left field.
Both Garvey continue as he gets to second base hit and they have a runner on with two men out and just two bankers coming up.
It's all even at three apiece but the Billy is laid two to nothing.
Baker fouled out his first down up.
And the first pitch to the right hand batter, two ball on inside the ball.
And it's all at first base and Garvey back easily.
Carlton led the National League with 22 pick offs and there is a lot of controversy about his moves at first.
Most people that play against him say he's a boss.
Here's his next delivery, it's inside and he counted two balls and no strikes.
Well, that great move it is is the reason that Tim McArthur can stay in there behind the plate.
And the runner on Calvin is hard to play MacArthur whose arm is rather weak.
Two balls, no strikes.
And the pitch back is high and they count three and off.
Blind up to Baker looking Glenn Burt.
Baker would rock the time limit, it would be at first base with two men away in the bottom of the fourth inning.
And the next pitch is taken high at ball four and again the Dodgers have runners at first and second.
This time the old Westview men away.
They and Garvey were on in the second, it was no one on but they did not event.
So MacArthur asked the mother to talk to Carlton, talked to him briefly and he now stands and comes back behind on plate as Glenn Burt comes up to the batter's box.
Carlton's first walk of the ball again and of course with a regular season he walks a total of 89.
And the first pitch to the right hand batter, very high for a ball.
Burt was called from Albuquerque on June 3rd where he was hitting 309 in the Pacific Coast League.
Now time is called by Ted Seismore, he wants to come in and talk to Steve Carlin.
If it gets down to the fact of the bullpen it may be the Phillies will have the edge as we look at it now.
They've got four pretty good ones, Dr. Strudler.
Big bullpenage as the experts say and the next pitch back is in the strike zone, a fastball foul back out of play, one ball and one strike.
One ball, one strike and Carlton pitches with Seismore standing about a foot away from the bag, a hole open on the right side but Burt cannot take advantage of it as he swings and fouls it over toward the Dodger dugout on.
Carlton pitching with his second baseman out of position.
And the next pitch hits to the third baseman Smith who feels it hits through the second base his side but taken with a one hand grab by Seismore and that's the tire of the side.
So once again the Dodgers leave two on a walk in a base hit and the score at the end of four it's the Phillies two and the Dodgers nothing.
The Cincinnati Reds announced today that they have signed center fielder Cesar Geronimo to a new four year contract which extends through 1981.
The 29 year old Geronimo is regarded as one of the finest offensive outfielders in the National League and has won a gold glove award for feeling excellence the last three years.
He was charged with just two errors in 147 games during the 1977 season, his sixth year with the Reds and he batted 265.
Terms of the contract were not the slow.
Tommy John warming up on the mound for the Dodgers has met at Bursa-D twice.
Several years ago while he was with the Chicago White Sox he had his left shoulder separated when he and Dick McGullibbe, the taggers got into a couple.
He came back from that to be an outstanding pitcher.
Three years ago he snapped a bone or a ligament in his left arm and I've got to tell you if you saw the results after that operation the entire left forearm had atrophied almost to the bone.
Looking at it no one would have believed that Tommy John would have come back.
But he persevered, he stayed out an entire year and his Ralph Golger came back to win 10 a year ago and 20 this year.
And if there was ever a pitcher who came back from the grave, Tommy John is a man and here he is opening up in the opening of the championship series here in Los Angeles for the Dodgers.
Pretty an outstanding person.
He is like Will Rogers used to be. He has never met a man he has in life and he is a real gentleman.
And the left hander will be working out to Steve Carleton. Carleton got a lucky base hit his first time up on a ball that dropped between the center fielder and the right fielder and Davey Loeb.
Loeb was back to dry and catch it when the outfielder weren't there and it dropped in.
And Carleton falls away from the plate as a half swing, one ball and one try.
And it has not been easy for Tommy John in this ball game but he is hanging tight after giving up two runs in the first that were both unearned on a home run to Greg Lersensky with Mike Schmidt on base and a fifth grounded foul at 1-2.
He's had 1-2-3 innings.
Carleton swings and grounds the ball foul at 1-2. Carleton batted 2-6-8 in the regular season with three home runs and 15 runs batted in.
Good hitting pitch and he gets hit right in the head.
He all bounces over to the on deck there so when he appears to be alright he's wearing the protective helmet, the fiberglass helmet and he is not even bothering to take a look at it.
It was a, I believe, slow curve ball.
Actually looking at the replay again it was down around the right arm so they did not get him on the helmet.
Paul was not a hard thrown pitch so he's alright and he hasn't even rubbed.
So Carleton on his first base, going out and the batter coming up will be BAKE McGride who has a single and two times up.
And again action starting up on the bullpen for the Dodgers. Mike Garmin was warming up before and it appears to be Garmin again.
Now Tommy John with his pitches, spun it out to the mound. John picks it up, throws the second in-dime for the fourth play at second.
And McGride is on at first base, running into a fourth play. So with Mike Garmin throwing in the bullpen the Dodgers get a quick add on the one attempt and the batter now coming up will be Larry Bohr.
Bohr is 0 for 2.
Bohr, granted into a double play his first time up and granted into a fourth play his second.
We're in the top of the fifth inning. Somebody's leading two to not being one man out.
McGride, a good runner on his first base, a hard smack to second. Loved one hand that closed the second base in-dime for the fourth play and they cry for...
And now wait a minute, there's going to be a change in the decision. In shortstop, Bill Russell was not in the bag at second base as Loved flew there and the runner called safe at second.
McGride was leaving the bag and was about four steps away when he heard the call and he quickly got back. So the Dodgers trying for two got none and the Phillies have runners at first and second.
And Tom was sort of off to argue where second base on from far and far he was close to that. The call was safe at second.
The throw was taken by Bill Russell at shortstop and he was standing about three or four inches off the bag.
And when you look at it on a video safe replay there is no doubt about the call being the right call.
That was an excellent call by Harry Wendelstead and one that isn't the normal routine play if the ball beats the runner, he's automatically out.
And that could be a critical play in the ball game. There's been a couple up there. That is a big one.
Something that's going to be hung with the air is the shortstop, Bill Russell.
Second air by the shortstop, Bill Russell, and I was worried about the fact that he was not on the bag. He was not touching the bag at any time.
Sometimes if you come across that bag you can take the throw as you're leaving it and get away with it. This time he never got to the bag.
So now runners at first and second with one man out and the batter will be Mike Smith.
And there are charged to the shortstop, Bill Russell.
Great stop in the ball by David Olpz at second baseman and a very good throw.
Smith is all for two.
And the first pitch by Tommy John, routed to the third baseman, say he has to wait for it and he picked up a fourth play after making the catch as he goes to the bag at third.
No chance at all for the double play.
Olpz moves down to second and Mike Smith on on the fourth play at third.
That'll bring up Greg Luzinski who has been in the only run for this long. He had a two run all run in the first.
Luzinski has his own run over the center field fence. There was a tremendous cloud of over 420 feet.
Now batting with runners at first and second base. We're in the top of the fifth inning, two men out.
And Tommy John with his first pitch is low and it's ball one.
Once again Tommy John starting this inning by hitting it better, starting with Wildness and he comes back and misses low again, two balls and no strikes.
Charlie Huff is going along with Mike Garmin now on the bullpen.
Muscle baller Charlie Huff.
And Tommy John's next pitch, way outside ball three, back ended by Steve Yeager, three balls no strikes.
So the anticipation of Luzinski being given a hit sign here makes it tough on Tommy John.
He comes back way outside as ball four and the bases are loaded. And that'll bring up Dave Johnson.
And as a result of the year, if any run score in this inning, they will be unearned as they were in the first inning when an error prolonged the inning for Greg Luzinski's home run.
The third walk by Tommy John, he also has hit it better, working under extreme pressure in the first game of the best of three out of five.
And now working from the lineup, the first pitch today is Johnson to curve ball, low with ball one.
It has to be ground.
The first two games are right here in LA and then we move on to Philadelphia. The next pitch is lined into center field of base pitch.
A run score and now the second and Philadelphia Phillies laid by a score of four to nothing.
And our clutch face hit by Dave Johnson who played his last two years in Japan.
And here comes Tom LaSorda to the mound.
This was not a Tommy John specialty tonight. He simply was not the pitcher that he has been winning those 20 games for the Dodgers.
He was erratic and at times ran into problems.
He's walked three, which is unusual in itself and then the hit matter wasn't each case that he was burned.
It was a high curve ball Luzinski went over the center field wall and a high pitch possibly a flight screwball to Dave Johnson that was set to fail in the center field.
It drove in two more and the Phillies right now with their big guy Steve Carleton doing so well are in pretty good shape.
They're out in front by four. This game is a long way from over, but when you've got a pitcher of Carlton's caliber going strongly for the four nothing lead,
you've got a lot of problems to try to make it up.
And it looks as though they are going to wave to the bullpen and it's going to be Mike Garmin, the right hander coming in.
So Mike Garmin coming on to take over for Tommy John.
Garmin has ripped it around a little bit.
His record now is four and four.
He earned an average of 2.71 appearing in his 50th game.
He was in 49 during the regular season and of course this is his first game in playoff action.
Garmin was not a very effective relief pitcher in the latter stages of the season.
In fact, the Dodgers is a whole route, kind of, struggle through the final three months.
They got out to that 22 and four start and then from there on they played better than 500, but not the kind of baseball it takes to win a penalty.
They got so far ahead of everybody they just wiped them out before things got started.
So Tommy John is leaving the field and getting a hand and Mike Garmin is the first pitching change in the ball game.
Phillies are on top four to nothing.
They got two on the first on Lysinski's home run, two here in the fifth inning on a single.
The center field by Dave Johnson with the bases loaded.
And once again we can point to the Philadelphia Phillies and that bench of theirs depending on who is pitching and how.
They can play Johnson at first or Richie Hevner.
They can switch to see an Ollie Brown, Gary Maddox, Bate McBride, Jerry Martin.
They've got a lot of things going for them where they can move players around and come off the bench with them.
Pretty good pitchers as well.
They have an outstanding ball club and they have taken advantage of the extra out in the two innings they have scored.
All four runs have been unearned and they have used the extra out given to them by the Dodgers.
Garmin had 12 saves in his regular season, pitched in 50 ball game and he came from the Chicago Gubs.
He'll be working to Jerry Martin to write Ambatis.
Now the Phillies have the luxury of switching to Jay Johnson, a good left hand hitter,
but Annie Ozark with a four nothing lead is thinking about later on and he is not making that change.
He had a stretch, Mike Garmin had a stretch from June 15th to July 30th where he gave up only one earned run in 18 or a third inning.
So the right hander, Mike Garmin, coming in to pitch to Jerry Martin.
Martin has struck out and granted out in the two appearances.
Phillies four runs unearned on four hits, the Dodgers no runs on three.
Tommy John getting better for four and two-thirds innings, struck out three in walk three and he also hit a better.
And the first pitch by Garmin is it foul, back home plate out of play.
Martin was an outstanding basketball player at Furman.
That's Furman to its first Southern Conference title.
He is not that tall a ball player.
He is a fine defense ball player and he is used mainly as Luzinski's caddy.
And they take Greg out and let a part of the ball game and he usually goes in for the final inning.
And the pitch back by Garmin in the dirt, dug out by Yeager a good play to run his hole.
Luzinski at second base and Dave Johnson at first.
One ball, one strike.
Crowd here.
Very quiet after the Phillies are taking this lead of four to nothing.
And here's the pitch back, it's on the outside corner of the track.
Tommy John out of the game, strong candidate for the Cy Young Award.
Along with John Candelary and Steve Carver, and Garmin does his job, he strikes out Jerry and Martin to end the inning.
But two runs in the inning on just one base hit.
Two men left on base and of course the end of four and a half.
It means the Philadelphia Phillies four and the New York should take the LA Dodgers nothing.
While the Dodgers using the approach of the Phillies in 1976, compiled the best winning percentage in Los Angeles history,
winning 22 of their first 26 games, that equals the marks of the 1955 Dodgers when they played in Brooklyn and the 1946 Boston Red Sox after the first 26 games.
It really had a great start.
The month of April saw the Dodgers compile their best winning percentage ever in the city of Los Angeles in 850 record.
The Dodgers jumped off to a seven and a half game lead, the biggest lead after the first month ever.
The lead was extended to 14 games by July 31.
And the closest to the big red machine, the two-time world championship Cincinnati Reds, ever got was eight games back.
And with all this, the Dodgers became the first team to draw two winning fans by their 52nd playing date, which was August 11th,
and they set the all-time attendance record of 2,955,087.
We're going now to the bottom of the fifth inning.
The Phillies leading by a score of four-nothing and as we go to the bottom of the fifth, it is indeed my pleasure to once again bring in Jerry Coleman
to the microphone.
Jerry and I are standing in here for the New York Yankees back in some of their greatest days and now broadcasting for the San Diego Padres.
So here for the rest of the ballgame, Jerry Coleman.
Okay Ralph, and it's the four-nothing ballgame.
The Phillies on top of the Dodgers right now, Steve Yeager coming on to hit with Lee Lacey in the on-dixer.
So Lacey will be in there for Mike Garmin.
So Garmin has done his thing.
He's struck out a man in a key spot and will leave the ballgame and we'll have another pitcher coming on against the Phillies in the sixth inning.
Dean Carlton, a giant left-hander who has been in control.
He's had a couple of innings where two men have been on in the second.
First two batters, got back-to-back singles, but he stopped them.
A little trouble in the fourth, but no real trouble.
The first pitch to Yeager is a one-hopper to the third baseman, Smith, over the first base and Yeager is set down.
So Steve Yeager is out of there five to three, one up, one down, and the fifth, and that'll bring on Lee Lacey.
Lacey started out his career over the Los Angeles Dodgers, was traded onto the Atlanta Braves and traded back here to the Dodgers.
Lacey has been a jack-of-all trade. He's got a good job with the bat. He's hitting a 266 so far this year.
And that's no home run from Sticharvea. Right-hand batter coming off from Mike Garmin.
So the Dodgers are deep into their bullpen now. We'll see how it stands when the game is over.
The first pitch foul back by Lacey Strike-Watt.
He pents at Schmid at third, Boa the short stab, dies more at second.
Johnson at first base with Tim McIver, the veteran catcher behind the plate.
Outfield dead straight away, Lezynski and left McBride in center, Martin and right field.
And Carl in the sixth floor, left-hander, fires low and inside. One ball, one strike.
B-1-1 pitch by Carl and Lacey hits it up the middle, base pitch.
So Lee Lacey, a pitch single up the middle, gives the Dodgers a start.
The fourth pitch off Steve Carl, then with Dave Loak stepping in.
That line score is rather unusual.
Philly's four runs four hits, the Dodgers no runs and four hits, and all four Philly's runs happen on Earth.
Couple of errors by short-stab Bill Russell and then the catalyst for Philadelphia.
Lacey at first.
Dodgers trailing in the ball game four-nothing, one away.
Here's Davey Loak, who lined left field and fouled the first.
Infield tight double play depth, Loak third ball, low and inside, ball one.
Loak, who had his best year ever, average-wise, a 285 hitter.
Waiting for the next one, shows up about an inch, but the throw goes to Perth and there's a Boc Paul.
A Boc Paul of Steve Merlin.
Carlton picked off Davey Loak from the ball game two times earlier this year,
and there's been a lot of debate about whether or not he botts or does throw the correct way.
Alright, here's the next one on the way to Loak, line, drive right side of field.
Lacey racing for the plate, the throw by McBride is cut off by Johnson and Loak is in the second.
Well, that was quite a meeting at second base.
Harry Wendelstead, Dave Loak, and the shortstop all been bridging out there,
and Loak beats the throw into second, a big play.
And Dodgers get on the board, it's a four-to-one ball game.
Now Bill Russell stepping in, Bill, fly to center, bounce to short.
Dodgers starting to fight back here in the fifth inning.
A chopper to the shortstop, Larry Boll, he'll make the play to first with Loak sailing over the third.
So Loak over the third, and Russell bouncing about six to three.
Two gone, and now Reggie Smith stepping in.
Smith had a composite 307 batting average,
but a much better hitter left handed, a 360 in the right handed, where he's standing in an out 282.
Large slider, low on his side, ball one.
Sink to the center and a box.
Now field spread out a little and fairly deep, the infield way back.
Get it, sir, it about as deep as you'll ever see a third base.
Third ball, one on this.
One ball, one strike, and there might have been a back swing on that that nailed McCarver.
McCarver got out of there, and I think stumbled out of there.
Smith with a big swing came back, and on the back swing may have nailed McCarver, but nothing serious.
One ball, one strike, two down, Loak to third.
Four to one, Philly's leading.
Ground ball, certainly hit to the shortstop, Boll, a tough, fast cutter, and he's got him at first base.
Man, I'll say it, that ball had air written all over it, and Boll managed to handle it.
One run, a couple of base hits and a man left, and after five innings of play, Philly's four.
Dodgers one.
Muhammad Ali will defend his heavyweight title early in February against the winner of the Leon Sphinx, Elfio.
Elfio Regetti bowed, this is announced by Bob Aram, the president of Top Rank Incorporated.
Aram said he has signed contracts with Ali and his manager, Herbert Muhammad, plus Sphinx and Regetti,
calling for the champion to receive $3.5 million, the challenger between $200,000 and $300,000.
Aram, the capital of Iran, is the leading site, he says.
Other potential sites are New York Madison Square Garden and the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas.
Aram added negotiations are now underway with all three networks for home telecast of the bout.
Aram said he expects to announce an exact date and location for the bout by early next week.
The fight between Sphinx, the Olympic Light Heavyweight Champion from St. Louis, and Regetti, the unbeaten 26-0 Italian heavyweight,
will take place in November.
The bout also promoted by Top Rank probably will be held in Las Vegas.
saying, wait till next year.
Aram, your favorite team is planning for 1978. You should too by ordering season tickets.
Now is the time when the best locations are available for your family or business.
So if you miss any of Baseball's excitement this past season, act now and ensure choice seats for all the fun of 1978.
You'll find yourself saying, I just can't wait till next year.
Proceeding has been brought to you on behalf of Major League Baseball.
Well, a new picture is coming in the ball game and Jerry Coleman as a player.
And also when I played, knuckleball pictures are enough to drive you crazy.
And Jerry, Charlie Huff is a new picture in knuckleball.
He's kind of a guy, you know what's coming or out, there's no question about it.
It will be the knuckleball except in rare cases, and still you can't hit it.
But Charlie Huff, in the first half of this season, had 18 saves and in the second half only 4.
So he really was a diminished member of that bullpen in the last half of the season.
Overall, Huff ended the season 6 and 12 under an average of 3.33 and he appeared in 70 ball game.
So Charlie Huff, who was the light vapor of the Dodgers in the first half, did not have that second half to live up to the first.
So he's had a little battle.
Right now he'll be going up against Tim McCarver, Ted Seismore and Steve Farrell.
I love the story that Tom the sort of the manager tells about Charlie Huff when he had him in the minor leagues.
He said you got a double A fastball, a double A curve, and in a foot race with a pregnant woman you finished third.
So you better come up with another pitch.
And he did.
And he just threw over his catcher, crazy Steve Yeager.
All right, Tim McCarver, struck out and walked, 4-1 Philly's leading, we're in the sixth inning.
Add an awful ball of sales now for ball one.
The outfield swung out to the right, infield way over there.
The 1-0 pitch.
The climbers took a fastball in there for a strike, one-on-one.
Grant say the third baseman is 20-25 feet off the line and even with a bag,
Russell shading well over towards shortstop near second base.
At a chopper in the hold of Bill, it's going to be tough, he can't handle it in the left field.
Now let's see how they rule out with it.
A high hopper, Russell just ran by it, tried to steer it and couldn't handle it, it goes for a base hit.
I would have to score that a base hit.
That was one of the most difficult plays in the game at short as you well know.
And although it's been a tough night for Bill Russell and the fans will continue to believe that was an error, it was too tough a chance.
It's due or die, you took a swipe at it and missed and that's about all you can do.
Here's Ted Seismore stepping in. Seismore bounced the short and the first.
Runner at first base, nobody out, 4-1 Philadelphia 6-inning.
Double plate combination of Loops and Russell inside as the front goes on the third base side.
There, hands it makes the play to first.
Seismore is an easy out for McCarver, moves into scoring position.
So the sacrifice is good.
The play, they're keeping book with us.
1-4.
Now here's Steve Carlin stepping in.
Carlin had a blue single in the third inning and then was hit by a pitch in the fifth.
If you missed the start of the ball game, Tommy John went the first 4-2-3, gave up 4 hits, 4 runs, all of the runs unearned.
Struck out 3 and he walked 3.
Garmin for a third of an inning, struck out a man and now Charlie up in the sixth.
First pitch to Carlin, swung on a missed strike one.
Carlin as we mentioned, an excellent hitting pitcher.
From the left side, Carlin waits and huffs the livers.
It's fouled back, strike two, no ball, two strikes.
Outfield, just about straight away.
The first in the best three of five, the National League playoffs.
The two strikes hit.
A line drive over the head of Dave Loach, the drop to the base hit.
Racing for the plate is McCarver, the throw is wide and over the head of the catcher.
McCarver's in the stores of 5-1 ball games.
And Reggie Smith showed his arm, but he showed it so well that Charlie huffed.
35 to 40 feet behind the plate was a man that picked it up.
Holding his first base and not attempting to go further was Steve Carlin.
So Ralph Kiner, it looks as though the Dodgers simply can't game ground on the Philly.
They're making that team a take here and there.
Not their ball game tonight and they've always said that the best way to handle a knuckleball pitcher
is to put nine pitchers in against him and Steve Carlin just proved that with the base hit the right field.
So Harvey I Single by Carlin, he's two for two helping his own cause.
Now we go to the top of the batting order, Bake McBride of his singles,
fly to right field, and an attempt at Buster Sacrifice and a runner for the second base.
So Bake McBride stepping in there, he's playing for Gary Maddox tonight who's got a bad knee.
The knuckle outside, McBride ball once.
Dodger in field, very close double play depth.
Carlin is not their problem, the man at the plate if they're going for two is the big problem.
McBride can go down that line with anybody.
High pop up, Ron Stey, foul territory, calling for it, is under it and he's got it for the second half.
So in the sixth inning there are two gone for the Phillies, one run in at first base B Carlin,
and now looking on the shortstop Larry Boa.
Larry Boa wrapped into a double play in the first inning and the Dodgers believe me turned that one.
That was a Russell Deload, back to Garvey.
Then Boa bounced the third in the third inning, it was safe on that key here by the shortstop Russell in the fifth inning.
It led the two runs a little later.
They first hit the ball, a ball one.
Tony Taylor, a veteran of many years, is a major league with the Phillies coaching at first,
Billy DeMarz observes and the pitch on the way to Boa popped up,
calling for this one is Garvey, a huff over there to help him out and Steve has it,
and that's safe here in the Phillies in the sixth inning.
One run, a couple of base hits and a man left after five and a half,
Philadelphia five run six hits, the Dodgers one run five hits.
South Park is done, Gullit and Paul spitt off, both of whom seem to thrive in pressure cookers.
Welcome, one there popped up on the firing line for Wednesday's pivotal first game of the American League championship series between the Yankees and Royals.
Gullit who has done very well in the baseball games this year, he played very well in the National League with the Cincinnati Reds.
Gullit off his 16-6 this year, he's two and nothing against the Yankees,
and was very enthusiastic about pitching in that first game on Wednesday.
191 home runs, the leads of National League and they have not been able to use that weapon here tonight.
And the Dodgers became the first team in major league history to have four players in 30-year-more home runs.
Garby led the group with 33, Reggie Smith, both of the most valuable Dodger at 32,
Hans Sey at 30 and on his last time at bat on the final day of the season, Dusty Baker got his 30th.
The feet have caused the Dodgers' out-scampanets, the architect of the ball,
so I have to say this was the greatest psychological lift Notre Dame was ever more fired up even for the Gipper.
Well, the Dodgers have to get fired up because they are training now by four,
it's the Philadelphia Phillies five and the Dodgers one as we go through the bottom half of the sixth inning.
Steve Carlton has been very strong here tonight in the Clutches, but that's something he has been known to do.
He won 27 ball games one time in his career and he also has been a 20-game winner three other times.
The veteran Steve Carlton still with a good fastball, a good slider, and here tonight he's had good command of his pitches.
Now as we go to the bottom of the sixth once again, Jerry Coleman.
Ralph, you mentioned Carlton's 19th strikeout, Steve Rennold and Ryan have not said that,
but when you think about a feet of striking out, 19 of 27 hours is impossible and lose.
And lose is really impossible.
Man, that's tough. All right, here's Ron Sey. He's single and he struck out leading up to sixth.
The Dodgers trailing five to one. Third hit, hits to the third baseman, Schmidt, and Sey is set down five to three.
So Steve Carlton gets a break there, one pitch, one out, and that'll bring on the number five hitter, Steve Garvey, who's gone two for two tonight.
Phillies five run six hits, Dodgers one run five hits.
Garvey's single in the second inning behind a single by Sey, and he's single with two out in the fourth inning.
Garvey out of Michigan State University had no position until they found first base for him.
It's still a remarkable story. Bunk one high and foul coming back out of play.
Steve Garvey, as you know, was suggested to by his manager, Tommy LaSorta, that they would like to see more power.
Well, he didn't do a bad job when you think about it. Led the club at home runs with 33.
The one strike pitch foul away by Garvey, and that is more than any other Dodger player, Los Angeles Dodger player.
Now let's not go back to Brooklyn, but more than any other Dodger player has been here on the West Coast.
Garvey on top of that, batted 297 with a 192 base hit.
So by those 33 home runs and the 115 RBI's, he did what he had to do and still kept everything else up there.
There's a foul away by Steve, no foul, two strikes.
Garvey to this point had had just, I believe, 21 was his top home run mark before this year.
Howell plays him a little bit straight away, and a pitch on the way to Steve in the dirt.
And there's a foul away by minimalist. And it's a two-ball two strike.
The little board has one ball, two strikes, it will go over the board right now.
One away. We're in the bottom of a sixth inning.
Miss very deep of third probably plays as deep of third base as anybody in baseball
They shoot to delivery to Garvey's round ball in the hole is short
Bro is gonna have a long cross. They make it in time. He got it
And I play by Larry bow and it wasn't so much the strength of the throw, but the way he got rid of it
Though the play goes six to three he's two down of a six inning as Dusty Baker comes on
Dusty Baker finished strong in September with seven home runs 18 RBI's and 11 ball games
He had some spring there in that final month and as Brown told you went into that 30 mark on the last day of the season
That brought him up with the rest of the big
You know Jerry you can't believe how he could throw the ball at well sitting on his
Barrier and he made it perfectly and almost got it there in time a slower man is out
We've got a couple of left fielders here who are saved by knee operation
Dusty Baker had a terrible year for the Dodgers last season. He was created from Atlanta
Had his knee operated on the off year and it turned his career around same for Greg was into you had a knee operation earlier
I stepping in right now Glenn Burke and the first big foul back first strike
Was too many years ago an operation on the arm and the elbow or whatever and out about into this but now they have
Got it to such a size and degree that anything can happen
First takes low one ball one strike one and one
Last half of the six inning Phillies leading the Dodgers five to one Baker at first first they hit her throw to first base
I
Already blocked the man to second who later scored on a single by low
Here's the one one pitch and Bert fouls it away
When Monday who had back fathoms in his back that lasted almost the final three and a half months of the season
First played a lot of baseball
Monday not playing tonight because of an ailing back and possibly the fact that curls on the left handers on the mound
That's all is outside the birth two balls two strikes
So in birth waiting now Baker drifting off the first
The two-two delivery on the way ground ball in the hole grab I spent what a plan they make the fourth the second
Mike Smith came from nowhere
Nighting at the shortstop forcing Baker at second phase. You know the defense for the Phillies
Really comes to life. No run the face hit one left. That's a six inning Phillies five Dodgers one
Unbeaten Texas on the heels of a 72 to 15 triumph over rice last Saturday continues to dominate the NCAA division one team
Statistics this week the first place standings and rushing scoring rushing defense and scoring defense
The long horns have now outscored their opponent
184 to 15 in three games
Averaging 61 3.3 points per game against an average of just five
Texas with its multiple set offense averaging 392.3 yards per game on the ground
While healing an average rush of just 38.3 yards per game
That fourth ranked Texas will be hard pressed to maintain its incredible offensive and defensive pace when he plays third ranked Oklahoma Saturday in Dallas
Grammling meanwhile, this is place Brigham young in two offensive categories taking over the total offense lead with a
536 yard average and passing offense with a
374 yard average
Louisiana Tech is this week's total defense leader with average yield of a hundred fifty two point seven yards per game
That's three yards less than what Texas allowed or Southern University is tops and past defense by allowing just 14 completions
in four games for an average yield of
49.5 yards per game
Tennessee is the net punting leader with a 45 point two yard average
Grammling leads and putt returns with a 26.2 average and Minnesota is another one and kickoff returns
With a 36 yard average
In the seventh inning the bottom third of the ball game coming your way here from Dodger Stadium
And the Phillies are sitting on top five to one Mike Schmidt Greg was in she's Dave Johnson the heart of the power of the Phillies
Tipping in there against Charlie Huss
Tommy John started it. He's on the hook
Mike Garmin for a third inning and now Charlie Huss who gave up a run on the sixth the step again over the second inning out there as
Schmidt takes outsize for a ball
Mike safe on an error scored ahead of Lijewski's home when the first struck out and he bounced the third right hand batter
big power
Right in there
One ball one strike
Schmidt is reportedly to be the highest paid baseball player of them all at about five hundred thousand a year
You won't say yes, and he won't say no
The one-one pitch coming up to Schmidt
The knuckleball swung on a miss the ball and two strikes
Mid another big year thirty eight home runs
101 RBI walked a hundred four times and scored over a hundred runs
He did it all and one of the finest defensive third baseman in baseball
The one two pitch coming on and it's low and outside two balls two strikes
Rarely will you get a man with that kind of hitting talent that can play his position with any of
The two-two pitch one out of this dropped by the catcher
Yeah, there's up with it has to make the play the first and doesn't time so Smith strikes out
Given a stiff the Jager is a play goes two to three
Let's watch five seconds for station identification. This is the CBS radio network
This is the American forces radio and television service
It's the end of the
Here's Greg was it's a you homework and walk twice one for one on this game and takes a strike in the middle
After the air by the short-term bill Russell in the first inning was it's the hit one over that center field wall off of Tommy John
The knuckleball dances in there
Right to the zesty having a chat with the plate on fire ball prior first time we've seen any discussion with a plate on fire this evening
Here's the two strike this the knuckleball
Long and fouled away and Jager got that in the arms
The zesty if you ever get mad to catch that knuckleball ball and just take a bite out of it. He may have some day
I think I'm gonna be combined for more home runs 77 than any other two Philly the old mark was 75 in
1929 by Chuck Klein and left the O'Doell
But it's far short of the Roger Maris Mickey Mattlemark of 61 and 54 back in 61
You point against those colors in
a swing in a miss
You have two down seven sitting a day's Johnson steps in
1961 a year when
Mantle and Maris went down to the wire both of them into the 50s and certainly
Madelgard the only came up with a virus there and faded and marriage went on to break the record and if anybody wants to say anything
About Roger Maris. He just broke the wrong record any other record would have been alright. That was the wrong one
Here's Dave Johnson stepping in there. He's one for three and he takes strike one
The one strike pitch coming on
Right to five to one Philly leading. We're in the seventh inning. We're also getting into the spot on the ball game with a Philly bullpen
Could be in a position to help out and they've got a good one the two strike pitch in the dirt
Dancers away and kicks off the shin guard
The eager let's it fail off and he'll try another ball a ball and two strikes
Yeah, you're always said there is no best way to catch the knuckleball. You just try to corral it Bob Uker says that you
Let it roll and pick it up with a stop
the one two pitch coming on that's another way gets away from
Steve Jager
Actually, I have in the latter part of the 77 season
Jerry Grootie, you know very well
for the men for many years
Several times been to be a better with a glove behind a plate. I mean, he's got great hands that you do this
And what on a miss?
Charlie have right now to start
Dave Johnson goes down swinging
It's a one two three inning for the Phillies here in the seventh. We go to the last
Philadelphia leading the Dodgers five to one
How to do a Reggie Jackson of the New York Yankees hit by two million dollar lawsuit for allegedly kicking a 13 year old boy following
The all-star game that was announced to do it now today according to his attorney Nicholas arena as a result of the occurrence
Chris Howell required psychiatric treatment as a suffered permanent injury the incident allegedly occurred in the parking lot outside Yankee Stadium
Irina who said that Jackson would be served with court favors in the next 24 hours
Said that the psychiatrist as well as the attending physician has indicated physical injury
Involving laceration the boys wrist and he's well now though on his way to a recovery as to other damages
They seem to be permanent as if other damages referred to mental problems the attorney said yes
Of course Jackson the Yankees opened the American League playoff series against Kansas City at Yankee Stadium
on
Wednesday
We have a story on the national football league the Patriots concerning John Hanna and Leon Gray and we'll chat about that next break we get
We're going out to the bottom of the seventh inning the Phillies leading by a four five and one
They got two runs in the first inning on a two-run home run by Greg Luzinski after an error had prolonged the inning
And they got two more in our runs in the fifth inning
We don't better Steve Garland was hit by a pitch ball that brought up a McBride who ran into a fourth place
And then Larry Bull hit a ground ball to the left side of the second baseman
Davey Lopes mostly the great play to get it fired it through the shortstop covering the second and Bill Russell was not in the bag
in all hands with safe
After another following
Of course play by Mike Smith walked the greats who's in he loaded up the bases in the single the center field by Johnson made of the
Four-nothing ball game now here's the bottom of the seventh and Jerry Coleman
Okay, Steve Yeager coming on he'll be followed by a pinch shooter for Charlie Huff and then back to the top of the order
And the Dodgers are down five to one and in trouble against deep Carl there the first pitch
Low and inside the Eager ball one
Preston Gomez coaching at third for Los Angeles Jim Gilliam over at first base for the Dodgers
The one-hole pitch on the way
Low and outside Yeager now runs the Cow two balls no strikes
Yeager met Dave Parker about a month and a half ago at home plate and was out for two weeks, but he's recovered completely
The two-hole pitch on the way to Yeager is good for a strike
Unlike the Steve Rose Ray bossy all-star collision bossy really never recovered well from that
Rathford six five two thirty got Yeager the same way and Steve managed to come out of it, but he was sore for some time
Here's the two one-pitch
One on a mess. Carl and his zipped at bio
two balls two strikes
Still nobody in the on deck circle
Second baseman size more is back on the lip of the outfield grad
Here's the two-two pitch to Yeager and he struck him out just just a fastball by on the second time around
So Carl and has not really had a strikeout pitch going for him
It's only the third of the night, but he'll get it in spots when he needs it
Now Jerry Grody is coming on the hits for Charlie Huss that's speaking of Ralph Kanner's old buddy from the New York Mets
He almost retired this friend I understand he did retire he said he was all through playing baseball
He's had a lot of back trouble, but then the Mets got him to come back
He played when he did play very well for the Mets and was fitted to the Dodgers as a backup free-agre and understand
He's done very well here for the Dodgers
Well, he's got a composite to 68 for the year and 60 ballgame
So Jerry Grody up there from the right side with one away and nobody on
Steve Carl, then who's finished 16 and they said 17
Game so far this year as a guy who usually does finish what he starts
He's into the seventh inning leading five to one and the first pitch is through at white spy go ready for strike one
Carlton and 36 start
Completed 17 games this year
It's all left-hander it's complete control tonight. I've had a couple of moments, but not too many
There's another fastball. It's right in a strike two
And Carlton doing what you'll see many good pitchers do when a man comes off that bench
They know they're cold they go right after
That two strike delivery
Filed away give her pinch as much as I did my last year and it's one of the worst jobs. I can think of
Never did like to do
No balls two strikes one away
Brody that's been catcher waiting on deck Dave Lopes. They pitch coming up by Carlton high and outside a
Ball of two strikes a capacity crowd here Dodger stadium
It's the first in the playoffs series between the Phillies and the Dodgers will go again tomorrow night with Longboard going against
The one-two pitch by Carlton
German bowled off roadie stayed with that night. So that ball dip hard. He got his bad off to stay alive
One ball two strikes one block
Outfield skating a little to the right side they give him left center out roadie back
Getting a better feel into the batter's box. He's about even with a plate
He won two pitch on the way by Carlton low went for the slider and missed it two balls two strikes
To ball two strikes one away
Farrell then again into the line a band of two pitch a breaking ball low for three and two
I was just a baker on the fourth inning
Exchange of baseballs the counters three and two lobes in the on deck circle
Dodgers trailing five to one needs something and they needed a hurry
All right Carlton again gets a sign from a carver the pitch on the way to grody ground ball sharply third foul on the left side
That ball outside of the bag may be three or four feet
It is completely dark here Dodger stadium and has been the last inning and a half we started in brilliant sunshine clear skies
Weathers close to the 80s
Out of the way off a little the three to pit and he lost a ball for low and inside
Second walk given up by Carlton as fincheter Jerry grody
Trots down to first base and that's one of those situations
Where a veteran pitcher rarely let's it get away Adam no balls and two strikes and locked him to a walk
He did battling hard and foul a couple balls off and better like Jerry grody did not
He has played in two championship series and a message in both of those two series with grody catching one the more
Dave lobes who is one foot three in there right now grody at first and the pitch coming on is a line drive
They sit the left field
So lobes keeps it going
Incidentally we have a new first baseman
Tommy Hutton has come into play for Dave Johnson
He missed out on foot Hutton at first base
Johnson out of the ball game
The Dodgers have runners at first and second
Tommy Hutton has slipped in on us now
The Dodgers have runners at first and second
Here's Bill Russell who's gone 0-3 in the first pitch
Outside for a ball and a billy bullpen is starting to loosen up
One down runners at first and second moving on a 1-0 pitch
Bounce to third, Smith has it to race for the bag for one to throw to first
Not in time
Smith raced for the bag and threw off balance to first base and Russell feed it out
But grody has forced the third on an unassisted play by Mike Smith
Down to second goes Lobe
At first base Bill Russell and here comes Reggie Smith
Gene Gubber a short right hander throwing as Lobe hits the third base and Smith hits one high in here
But foul on the left field side
Davey Lobe with two outs was taking off
Russell wasn't with him
Smith did a long high drive down the left field line for strike one
That's rather an unusual play in a spot like that trailing five to one
You better make it
Lobe's obviously going on a zone
Russell was not running with him
Goes back to second base
A one strike countdown
And there's sort of an awkward attempt to pick off a second that doesn't know anywhere
It goes round again
Here's Cowlin's pitch on the way to Smith and it dies
One ball, one strike
Keith Cowlin missed the plate by a foot and a half that time
And when those pitchers start to lose that groove and their pattern starts to become upset
The manager starts to look for something
Now one one delivery on the way to Smith
It's Cop foul, a good curve ball and he took a little off
One ball, two strikes, two outs
Billy's five runs six hits, the Dodgers one run and seven hits
So the Dodgers at the moment have out hit the Phillies
But the Phillies have the run, four unearned runs
Dave's pitch coming up and this one is inside
Macarver thought he had to go two balls and two strikes
Will Russell at first
Davey lobes the second two and two on Reggie Smith
Ron Say and the on-deck curve ball
Here's the two-two delivery, curve ball fouled away again
You get the feeling here the way the Dodgers are getting closer and closer to Carl
And there's something good to explode if you make that one team a safe
Miss waiting from the right side, runners moving off again
And it's two-two, one more time
It's a check swing, they're asking for an appeal
They don't get it from the first base up by her
And it goes to three and two
So Reggie Smith, 0-3 in the ballgame
From the count ball, the runners will be going
5-1 Phillies, bottom of the 7
And there's a play at first base, the Tommy Hutton is way off the bag
Obviously, it holds the haven, they might get lobes going to third
Hutton is standing 30 feet off the bag
Alright, here's the three-two delivery
The kick, and it's on its way, a chopper on the third base side foul
This is the Dodgers' biggest threat in the ballgame
They got a run on a fifth inning
Right now they've got the men coming up there that can make it work
And now Reggie Smith with runners at first and second
Getting back in with a count of three balls and two strikes
Ron Stey waiting in the on-deck circle
Smith's 32 home runs this year, holds the bad high
Here it is, it's on the way and it's
Ball four, they're loaded up
The base of their loaded
Lobes at third, Russell at second, Smith at first
And Mr. Vitting the tying run, Ron Stey
Carlton into his wind-up, fastball, high and over, and hit ball one
Here's Carlton once again, and the 1-0 pitch
One on a miss, one ball, one strike, a fastball, that's a letter
Jean Garver, analyzing with a right-hand pitcher, throwing in a silly bullpen
Dodgers trying to climb back into the ballgame, there's three-lane, five to one, bottom of the seventh
Carlton in his only severe jam of the game
Get the size of McHarver, here is Carlton's delivery at its high
Two balls and a strike
Carlton again, ready, the 2-1 pitch to say, and it's high for three balls, one strike
The ball is back to the ballgame, and it's high for three balls
So Steve Carlton is digging a hole for himself out there
Three balls, one strike, two away, base is loaded, here's the pitch
Bow back three and two
Ron Stey into the season, over 31
He's tangled in the second inning in his first set-back, struck out about the third
And now Carlton will come to a set position
Runner's moving off, they'll be on the way, here's the kick and the delivery
Bow back, we'll do it again
Loak going back to third, Russell to second, Smith to first
Ron Stey, batting in that queen of fucks
Right behind him, Steve Garvey, another dangerous hitter
Three balls, two strikes
Carlton ready, he sets, the big left hander unloads and say, when after a third ball might have been questionable
The ball looked like it was low on inside and out of the strike zone, but it was a good curveball and a good spot
And he just couldn't stop his swing, he did foul a long
The Phillies are holding a four run lead, but the Dodgers try to climb back into the game
They have the bases loaded, two outs, three and two on the batter, Rocks say
And Carlin is set again
Here it is, it's on the way to stay and he hits it hard, left batter field
That's what's tied up, it's going, going, going
That's what's tied up
The Dodgers are going to play a game
That's what's tied up, that's what's tied up
And the Dodgers are going to play a game
The Phillies sitting on top of a five to one lead, as seen at Meltz, it's all even at five
And now Garvey is on her first base, and here comes manager Danny Ozark
Incredible drama here, the electricity in this ballpark, unbelievable
And that's all for Steve Carlin, and we'll be looking to the bullpen to see who comes in more
And the little guy, Gene Garver with a full beard is coming in, and he'll be taking up the pitching chores for going off
Yeah, he'll be going up against Dusty Baker
If he gets just tuned in, we'll set the stage for you
And the first inning with two outs, Mike Schmidt safe on an error, followed by a Greg Lozinski home run, gave the Phillies two on earned runs
In the fifth inning, Steve Carlin started it by getting hit by a pitch, he was forced to second base
Then an error by the shortstop, Bill Russell kept things rolling
Greg Lozinski walked, Dave Johnson drilled a single, and it makes it loaded for two more runs
Phillies got another run on the sixth inning, and a single by McFarver, a second by Seyforn, a single by Farleden
The Dodgers got a run on the fifth to make it five to one, a single by Lacey, he was the second base, he came in on Dave Lozinski
And then the Dodgers here in the seventh inning
DJ Gers started it by Waukeha, striking out rather, Jerry Grootie, who's getting for Charlie Huff through a walk, Dave Lozinski, Bill Russell, forced Grootie at third
A walk to Smith, and then a grand plan home run by Rod Sey, where the base is loaded, brought the Dodgers right back into it at five
That was followed by Steve Garvey's single, and that's all for Steve Garvey, and now the little guy, Dean Garver, coming on
Ron Sey had grand slam homeruns on April 24th against Atlanta and on May 5th against Tom Siever of the New York Mets
So Ron Sey was a grand slam home run here in the championship playoff game, getting his third of the year, and it was a dramatic home run to tie up the ball game here in the seventh inning in the proud capacity crowd going wild
Ok, Dean Garver coming in, he is four and one with nine of the days this year, going up against Dusty Baker, and the Dodgers crowd is delirious, the ball even at five
We're in the last half of the seventh inning, five, five ties, Garvey at first base belongs to Carlton, so if he's just four, then the run will be charged to Carlton
The pitch on the way to Baker is right on their first strike, the grand slam home run by Ron Sey was the first in National League Championship Series history, and it was a low streaming line drive over that 370 mark in left center field
The least five runs six in, Dodgers five runs nine in, Dusty Baker one for two in the ball game, last time up, had an infield hit the third, that's right of first and Garvey gets back
Garver is ready, little right hander, there goes Garvey, the third and second base, not in time, Garvey steals it
The Dean Garvey, steals up the wreath, he represents the tie breaking run at second base, a one one count of Dusty Baker, and suddenly the Dodgers who appear to be dead buried are back alive and kicking
The one one pitch, one on a missed by Baker, a ball and two strikes, Garvey during the season, goal nine base, this is a six one on a brain here in the playoffs and it's a big one
The one two count on Baker, Garver's next pitch, close, her ball, he stuck him out, so Dean Garver ends it all by flaking out Dusty Baker, but the Dodgers pick up four runs, on three base, just in a man left, we go to the eighth inning, Billy's five, the Dodgers five
In 1976 when the Phillies won the national championship in the Eastern Division, they came out of the gate like Seattle's flow in a six four long race, they had a 15 and a half game lead in late August, August 24th, to be exact, then saw that made Gwinno the three games over to Pittsburgh by Hawks on September 17th, but then they recovered the win by nine
This year the Phillies started like two people in the gunny sack race, the Dodgers lost to home opener, they weren't just one of their first seven, and by the end of the month of April they had a record of seven and nine, and were dead last, it wasn't until a month into the season that they reached the 500 level for the first time, it was on May 12th when the Dodgers won their fourth game on its way to a second consecutive 20 game season,
Phillies won 12th on the next 15, they lost 4-0 and by the end of the month of May, Phillies were four three games back, but they went on to win it by five and the Phillies now tied up here in Los Angeles
Soler joins the top of the eighth inning, the Phillies five runs on six hits, the Dodgers five runs on nine, and back for the play-by-play, Jerry Coleman, Elias Sosa right-hander who's been the most effective of all the Dodgers of both then pitchers is coming on right now, when the Dodgers clinched the title at San Francisco on September the 20th,
Sosa slips on the west floor and sprained his wrist and was out of weak, but he apparently is okay now, his last 44 appearances covering 63-2-3 innings, his earned run average is a spark like 1.97, he's not allowing earned runs in his last nine appearances
So Jay Johnstone is coming in now to back for Jerry Martin as manager Danny Ozarka is starting to go to that celebrated back of his, Elias Sosa, the fourth Dodger pitcher
This is turning into a real street fight out there, we're in the eighth inning all even at five, Johnstone waiting at Sosa Deliverers, high for ball one, Jay Johnstone and Jerry Martin generally, fear right field depending on what kind of a pitcher's out there
Johnstone waits for the next one and hits it high in the air, foul territory, say maybe over by the Dodger dugout and catch right get it, that landed on top of the dugout and say try to leap after it, couldn't reach it
Johnstone this year battled at 284, 15 home runs and 59 RBI, this is along to the California angles many years ago and then drifted around to the White Sox and finally fouled his niche in life with a filly, that a big year last season
Jay Johnstone, from the left side has a one ball one strikeout, here's Sosa Delivery and hit into center field, that's where he strikes back as Russell moving around a little more and the trick stops after
Johnstone is out on a short top into center field, one away in the eighth inning and that'll bring out Jim Macarver, Macarver struck out he walked, he singled and he scored the fifth Philadelphia run and as it stands right now a mighty big run
Dodgers five the Padres five, pardon me the filly five, five five strikes, Macarver waiting from the left side and swings and this is a fast ball first strike, Sosa looks like his fast ball is riding
Johnstone, rather Macarver waits and he checks inside, one ball one strike, one and one Macarver, Jim Macarver, that's when the left pad hitting catcher waiting, Elia Sosa
gets the side from Jaeger and the Delivery, a hard shot grabbed by Garvey, Garvey pulled it down and was headed for right field and Steve comes up for the good one
Johnstone, Macarver robs to the base hit and now Ted Seismore is about it, Seismore bounce the short to third and lay down a sacrifice bunch, top of the eighth inning, Philadelphia five runs six hit, Dodgers five runs nine hit, outfield plays Seismore to the right side and gets him left center, all of left center
Sosa, Macarver asks for an appeal on a check swing and the first place umpire, Bob Angle says he did not go around, ball one Macarver, two down, nobody on, top of the eighth
Here's Sosa's delivery and a tie, two balls no strike, Sosa now waiting, it's all right, enter from the Dominican Republic, fires away and this one is sitting in the center field, a real keen play for Glenburne, third time in the game,
and the ball is drifting in, Casualia takes the corner bird out for Philadelphia in the eighth, three up and three down, after seven and a half Philadelphia five, Los Angeles five
John Hanna and Leon Gray have returned to the New England Patriots camp today, they two all pro linemen have walked out before the start of the season, they will remain with the club for the rest of the year and resume contract talks after the final game, return marks the major victory for club owner Bill Sullivan who felt he would be letting all national football league owners down if he gave in demands of two players,
Coach Chuck Fairbanks welcome to play his return, so the Patriots will negotiate their contract in good faith at the end of the season
All of Philadelphia Phillies this year had to come from way back to women's camp and chip, month of July thought of Phillies make their move, helped considerate considerably by the pumping times they had lost the services of their ace and relief-efficient new suitors,
and the game is back in the cup, the record for July was 19 and 10, Phillies took over the league for the first time of the year with an 8-3 win over the Dodgers on August the 4th, so that's the way the Phillies got going and they hit them back in the past, in April, May and then in July started to make their move
and right now we're going to the bottom of the 18th and Phillies tied now with the Dodgers 5-5, the Dodgers coming up and once again here's Jerry Coleman
Ok several changes, some defensive changes, Bob Boone has moved in to do the catching for Philadelphia, Jay Johnson stays in Ricefield
Tommy Hutton first base, has the tie for head second, Larry Ball, that short stuff, Mike Schmidt at third, on the mound, Gene Garber, now Rick Mundy is coming on to hit for the Dodgers, he plays in Glenn's first
and the Dodgers are ready for the first place, Rick Mundy, Mundy a left hand batter hit 230 in the regular season, 15 homers, 48 RBI's, he had back spasms almost throughout the entire year, here's Garber's first pitch to Mundy, a thinker low on outside for ball one
we're in the last half of the eighth inning, Phillies 5-5, the Dodgers 5, Dodgers tied it up on Ron Faye's grand slam home run on the bottom of the seventh
Mundy waits, Garber fires, then a swing and a miss, right one, one ball, one strike
Mundy's average dipped badly after he hurts that back and that was back on May the 31st, third ball, outside, two balls, one strike, two and one
Mundy on May the 31st was batting at 272 and we mentioned he finished the season at 230 after hurting that back, there's a swing and a miss by Rick for strike two, two balls, two strikes
Mundy the first ball player ever drafted by the then Kansas City A's when the new draft system came into effect back in 1965
3-2-2 delivery moving in, strike three, got him, last ball right at the knee, so Mundy walks away, called out on strike
Garber is pitch to two men, he struck out Baker at the end of seventh and gets Mundy open up in the eighth, now here's Steve Yeager stepping in
Yeager pops the second, bounce the third and he struck out, over three, right hand hitter
One down, nobody on, five, five, tie, last half of the eighth, Garber's delivery is a hard slider outside for a ball
Garber's only about five, ten, 155 with 60 rounds, turns his back on the hitter, that throws that slow curveball, that's a one hopper right back to him, he, underhand cost goes over to Hutton and that's all for Yeager, play goes one to three
Now Elias Sosa coming on to bat himself, the Dodgers who have used four pitchers in the ballgame, Tommy John, Mike Garmin, Charlie Huff and now Elias Sosa
and the pitchers are record right now are Sosa at the plate and Garber on the mound
Sosa as a hitter is one for four this year, right hander waiting, two down, nobody off and the pitch, a hard drop all to second, one hopper, ties more hazard, over to Hutton and Sosa's cut down, that play goes four to three
Very quick innings for Gene Garber, three up and three down, we go to the ninth, Billy's five and the Dodgers five
The NCAA has placed the University of Houston and Portland State University on a one year probation in football, both teams are barred from participating in postseason games and appearing in televised games, the NCAA Committee on Infraction is found violation by Houston in recruiting inducements, excessive recruiting contact and improper transportation
The Portland School was put on probation for allowing two ineligible players to compete, the committee statement said the Houston violation resulted in what it called a distinct competitive advantage in recruitment of a young man
The University of Houston was considered by many observers to be one of the top football prospects in the country, University's most promising recruit this year was considered to be Darrell Shepherd, a quarterback more desid, Texas high school, Shepherd had publicly said he would sign with the University of Texas but changed his mind just before the Southwest
The NCAA statement said the University would publicly reprimand head football coach Bill Yeoman as well as one of his assistants
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We go to the top of the ninth inning and Richie Hefner, formerly with a Pittsburgh Fires who played out his options, signed all of the Phillies coming on to take his wife, Ed Healy and Sosa
Hefner left hand batter waiting for the first one to add a Pittsburgh strike, over the year Hefner battered his 285 with 18 homers and 62 RBI, Doug McGraw throwing in the Philly Bullpen, Rick Roaden doing some work in the Dodger Bullpen
Hefner swings him to strike two and Sosa has been on the money, he's been coming on on the eighth inning, he retired the side in order on the eighth, he's after Hefner now, no balls and two strikes and it is the top of the ninth inning a 5-5 tie
Hefner waits, the two strike pitch, high and in, way up there, one ball, two strikes, the outfield is spread out, Smith on the line and right, Baker on the line and left and Monday shading a little into left center
Hefner, in field or Steve Garvey, the first baseman near the line, say the same as third, everybody protecting against that extra base hit, Hefner, a ball and two strikes waits and here's Sosa's next delivery, the high kick and the check swing that goes into the Dodger dugout, one ball and two strikes
So Sosa very calm, one match held up here as he grew up to the next inning, there's a high pop up way up there, coming after it is Garvey almost to the plate as Steve is under and makes the play
Steve Garvey came to within 20 feet of all play to get that one but he had the angle on it and Yeager, why is he with him having?
Yeager says, you got it. So there's one away here in the ninth inning for Philadelphia, then opening on the top of the order, Bates McBride, Bride, Bengald, fly to right, pass to the pitcher on a buck and popped up to third, left hand hitter
Sosa gets the sign from his catcher Yeager and the first pitch on the way and McBride fouls it away, right watch
Zilly's at one time, let it, four to nothing, then four to one, then five to one and the grand slam home run by Ron Sway and the bottom of the seventh, even things up at five apiece and that's where we stand here in the ninth inning
The one strike pitch moving into McBride is a check swing called two strikes, no balls and two strikes, McBride tried to check a swing, couldn't quite keep the bat from rolling around, third base umpire Bruce Breming, raised the right arm and it's no balls, two strikes, one down, nobody on
The right handers Sosa ready again and the pitch almost hit him, way inside a slider that kept coming out of him, one ball and two strikes
McBride continues to throw in the bullpen for the Philadelphia Phillies
Here's the one two pitch, coming up and McBride chopped it to the right side base hit, so the Phillies get one of the fastest men in the league on its first base with one away
McBride with that single, put the potential winning runner's first base with one away and baked McBride with 36 stolen bases this year, led the Phillies in that department, he was cut down only seven times
Now Larry Bowler the batter, Bowler get into a double play, bounce the first, save one of the error and popped up the first, infield very shallow, man are they in there, almost looks like they're playing at the plate
Bowler waiting, take low, say he was possibly looking for the but, he kept creeping in thinking Bowler might try to dump one that way
Ball one to count, out to you, way off to the left side, low shallow at second, Russell the famous short, stay way in a third, Garvey holding against McBride at first base, and Jaeger ready behind the plate
Sosa kicks and the pitch on the way, a line drive over the head of Lowes, McBride goes to second and has to hold on, the ball has hit that hard
On the other hand Reggie Smith because of Bowler, lack of power was way in there and had a chance to keep McBride at second
So back to back singles for the Phillies, McBride and Bowler, Bowler at first base, McBride at second, here's Mike Schmidt who's had the collar so far tonight
Schmidt was safe on an error on the first inning, struck out in the third and the seventh and bounced the third and the fifth
So the Phillies come up with two bases with one away off, Elias Sosa, Phillies five runs, Payton, Dodgers five runs and nine hits, and Mike Schmidt now with a chance to turn this game around
Sosa pulling at the back of his cap, Bowler a big lead at first, McBride not too big at second
Sosa checks and the pitch on the way to Schmidt, foul back, a fast ball he got on, Mike one
When you get the big hitters like Levincky and Schmidt, you run into one fatal flaw and that's the strikeout, Schmidt has struck out 122 times this year on Levincky 140
Here's the one strike pitch, line drive, Payton, now getting McBride in, Bowler is racing the third and the Phillies take the lead, 65 on a clutch strangle by Mike Schmidt
Successive base hit by McBride, Bowler and Schmidt and the Phillies are on top again by a run with Ray Glezynski stepping up
Ray Glezynski now with runners at the corners and the one thing that he wants to stay out of is that double play, Lance Rotson throwing in the bullpen for the Dodgers and left hander
And there's the ball, oh man can you imagine that, oh how do you like that, Elias Sosa's body is dipped off the rubber and fake the throw to first, both umpires
That second base, Wendell Stad at first base angle, yells for the block and the Dodgers fall to behind and I'll tell you Ralph Kiner in a spot like that if anything that can break your back, that was it
Rottor is arguing that he did break contact with a 50 rubber before making the move to first base, if he did that it would not be a block
Both umpires, that second and first, they'll call it immediately
So now the Phillies have a 7-5 lead, Schmidt is down at second base, coming in to score was Larry Boeck and here's Greg Glezynski with a chance to put the Phillies out in front by three
Glezynski takes low in inside, ball one, it's been a wild first ball game here in this National League playoff series, the Dodgers and the Phillies and the Phillies currently leading at 7-5 in the top of the ninth
The Dodgers have one more big lick and they've got all of their top men coming in, there's a foul back by Glezynski, one ball, one strike
The Dodgers will be setting up low, Russell and Reggie Smith to open up the bottom of the ninth
Glezy seven runs nine hits, Dodgers five runs nine hits
Alright sir sir, set, looks to Schmidt at second and Glezynski swings a missus strike two
The Dodgers gave away four unearned runs and now here in the ninth inning they have bought Pomeran
One ball, two strikes, one out, Greg Glezynski with that two run home on the first inning, put the Phillies on the board, the ground ball foul on the third base side, a ball and two strikes
Don't forget tomorrow night at 8-07 Eastern Daylight Time, Jim Lawnborn will be going for Philadelphia in that second ball game and he'll be up against Don Sutton, two X-Wap right handers, both veterans both know how to work
So for now a one-two count on Glezynski fires it away and this one is fouled away, hit the bat, Glezynski came back behind the plate
On Friday at Philadelphia, scheduled pitchers are Larry Christiansen, a youngster and Bert Hoot
So Christian Hoot will be going for the Phillies, Bert Hoot is for the Dodgers, that'll be on Friday in Philadelphia
Right now though the Dodgers are trailing in this one, seven to five, ninth inning, Greg Glezynski waiting, right hand batter
So if this pitch to Glezynski is high, a throw to second base and back at Schmidt
Two balls, two strikes, the way the National League umpires work, they work inside the bag and Harry Wendellstatt hit the deck as that throw is heading towards second base and make sure he wasn't in the way
Wendellstatt was cozyed up in a play at second base, with a runner, the offensive runner and the defensive player out there about the fifth inning and looked like all three of them were on the bag at once
Two balls, two strikes, one away, here's those who delivery, ground ball hit on the end of the bat at the second baseman, lobes as that he makes the play the first and moving the third as Mike Schmidt
So the play goes forward, a brachianist heads for third, he holds on and now Tommy Hutton, a former Dodger, comes on the bat in the spot that was started by Davey Johnson
Hutton came in defensively, he's a left hand hitter and an excellent first baseman, he came on defensively for Dave Johnson before the Dodgers tied it up
He's coming on right now to take his licks against Elias Sosa, Hutton left hand hitter, Sosa now waiting for Yeager's sign, Tommy Hutton bat at 300 this year, an 107 ball game but mostly in defense
He pulls one hard and foul off on the right side for strike one, Hutton in that 107 ball game was up over 81 times, he's had a couple of home runs, 11 RBI's, he primarily came on in the late innings as a defensive player
He's not a big man as first baseman Joe and has played some outfields for Philadelphia
Mike Schmidt at third, 7-5, Billy's leading the Dodgers ninth inning, Hutton hits a one hopper draft by Garvey and nice play by Dave Garvey to retire Tommy Hutton
The play is on his visit and that ends it but the Phillies pick up two runs on three base hits, no errors in a man left
As we go to the last half of the night, the Phillies lead the Dodgers 7-5
In tennis today in Atlanta, Janet Newberry of La Jolla, California defeated Jeannie Everett at Fort Lauderdale Park, that was in a first round match, a women's pro tennis tournament, scored 6-4, 6-1
Jeannie's sister, top seeded Chris Everett, is scheduled to play Bridgette Piper of South Africa tonight
So, play this for night competition of Billie Jean King, Virginia Wade and Dr. Renee Richards
Montana State fell from its perch as the number one team of the NCAA Division II ratings following last weekend 26-0 setback to Boise State
South Carolina State is now ranked number one ahead of New Hampshire, Jacksonville State, Boise State and Montana State
Whittenberg retained its spot as the head of Division III, Baldwin Wallace, which travels to Whittenberg this weekend is ranked second
Ithaca is third, followed by two Minnesota schools, Concordia and St. John
Top of the batting order now for the LA Dodgers
Well, a new pitcher in the ballgame for the Philadelphia Sully Sugma-Graw, veteran pitcher of playoff championship, was the star in one for the New York Met back in 1973 when he helped the Met take over the Cincinnati Red
So as we go to the bottom of the ninth, we look ahead to the Dodger batting order, it'll be two runs that they need and the leadoff batter will be Davie Loeb
So coming back for the play-by-play, Jerry Coleman
OK Ralph Tuck McGraw, 7-3 this year appearing in his 46th game, he was in 45 regular season games, earned an average of 2.67
The Sully's early in the year, you heard Ralph Tuck, Jim Lawnborn, the man who'll start tomorrow night's ballgame on the disabled list, and Chuck McGraw also on the disabled list and low and new whether they would take or for how long
On top of that, Jim Tuck's there, Vessel Epstein, who can hardly throw the ball across the infield
And that leaves both McGraw and Lawnborn done well and Chuck gives him to help out some guys at the time and the Sully's made a cake walk of it in the National League East
And now Chuck McGraw, coming on against Dave Loeb, Bill Russell and Reggie Smith, Sully's are leading at 7-5 but don't go away, this is not a pitcher's battle, it's a wild one
They came back from a 4 run-down and they put the tie up on Stays Grand Slammer on the 7th, they first picked the Loeb, his ball was
McGraw with that good through ball, wide out curve and a fast ball, and he can get them all over and he throws a good change on
Loeb's waiting, McGraw taking a lot of time and the 1-0 pitch by the Tuckers, outside 2-0
Tonight the 10 and 55,968th, the second largest Dodger Stadium crowd in history, it's back here, the 2-0 pitch, and it's in there for a strike, 2-1, 2 balls, 1 strike
Loeb's just 2-4 tonight, his last 2 times up the Ascingle, here's the 2-1 pitch by McGraw, there's a through ball, hit the 3rd, knocked down by Smith, bobbled and up with it over the 1st
Mike Smith looked like a juddler on that when it came up with a tough rest on it, it hit him in 3 spots before he finally held on to it
That play goes 5-3, one down, now Bill Russell moving in
Russell right hand batter is 0-4 for 4 tonight, Bill had a tough night on the field, has made a couple of critical errors and they led the 4 on there and rushed
Russell takes strike 1
The pitcher of record right now, Elias Surtse and Gene Garber
There's a through ball low, 1 ball, 1 strike to Bill Russell
It's the first game of the championship series in the National League between the Dodgers and the Phillies, and the Phillies hold a 7-5 lead with 1 away, last of the night
Russell chops one to the shortstop, up with it is Bola, the long throw, 2-0 away
The Larry Bola who gets rid of that ball with any of them, nails Bill Russell, this one goes 6-3
And now the Dodgers are down to their final outs, and here comes Reggie Smith
They first missed the Smith, hit on the ground, the second size were almost set on it to make sure, and this ball game is over
In the ninth inning, Cutmer-Graw came on and stopped them cold, 3-3 down for the Dodgers
The final score on this one, Philadelphia, 7 runs, 9 hits, no error, Los Angeles 5 runs, 9 hits and 2 errors
While there was an interesting ball game all the way around, the 20-6 had said that the Dodger pitching would be strong enough, but it was not picking in this ball game
Although Steve Carlton did pitch a very strong game up to the 7th inning
Fielding was the important part of the ball game, and also a very important call by second base umpire Harry Wendell-Satz
Filly scored first in the first inning, first man up McBride, single, but he was erased on a double play, and then Mike Smith was safe on an error by Bill Russell with a shortstop of the Dodgers
Greg Luzinski followed with a home run over the center field fence, and the Phillies had 2 runs, and they were both unearned
They added 2 more in the 5th inning, Alita Vatter was Steve Carlton, he was hit by a pitch ball, and then Bakeman-Bride, rounded the ball down to the second base man
The throw to the shortstop covering, Bill Russell was a good throw, but the shortstop Russell was not on the back
He returned the throw on the first base, but it was late, and there was a call of safe at second base, and that was the key to the inning
The Phillies were on the score 2 more runs on a single by Dave Johnson with 2 minutes, and they were leading by a score of 4-0
Dodgers got their first run of the ball game in the bottom of the 5th inning, Lee Lacey is a fence hitter, single to center field
David Lopes followed with a single, after a block and put Lacey down the second, and on that play, Lopes drove in the first Dodger run
They always didn't get another run to make it a 5-1 ball game in the 6th inning
A high copper throw to the shortstop, Bill Russell the went through 4 bases, head-sized Moore sacrificed the runner on down to second base
And then Steve Carlton batting against Charlie up, with a single to right field, and the Phillies were leading by a score of 5-1
It looked like Carlton was going to have an easy day of it with that big of lead, but in the 7th inning after striking out Steve Yeager
Jerry Groty worked out a walk on the 3-2 pitch, Dave Lopes single to left field, and Groty moved on down to second
Bill Russell was rounded into a fourth play, and runners were left on the base, but then Reggie Smith walked in and it was a bases loaded situation
Ron Say worked the count to 3-2, he had been 0-31 prior to this ball game at the end of the season
He fouled off a real tough pitch, a low-inside curve ball, and then hit a 3-2 fastball into the stands at left field to tie up the ball game at 5-5
But the Phillies were up to it, and they came back and scored 2 in the 9th inning
With one man out, McBride single to right, Larry Ball followed with a single to the right field, if it was runners at first and second
Mike Smith single to the middle, and the run was in, and then a Bob Call got another run in, and the Phillies won it by a score of 7-5