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The Philadelphia Phillies faced the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium for Game 2 of the 1977 NLCS on Wednesday, October 5th.
Philadelphia led the series one game to none after breaking up a tie with two runs in the top of the ninth in Game 1.
It's already recording from the CBS Radio broadcast featuring announcers Ralph Kiner and Jerry Coleman.
First baseman Steve Yeager the catcher in the outfield in leftist Ducky Baker, Rick Mundy taking over in center field tonight in place of Glen Burt and in right field Reggie Smith.
Bates McFly and the Play-Dom-Pyre Bob Angle having some kind of a conversation at home plate.
Apparently McFly wanted the Play-Dom-Pyre to check the ball. Dutton has been known in the past to doctor the ball.
And apparently McFly wanted to get everything off on the right foot.
So he's got his nose in, he wanted it done, he got it done.
But McFly, two for five last night with a run scored and the first pitch of this ball game is chopped high.
And when Dutton on the mound he makes the quick throw to first in time to get the feeding McFly.
Bates McFly has got a high hopper of the pitcher, gone on one pitch.
Gorspe, Laurie. Now here's Larry Fuller the switcher, he'll be up there left handed against the right handed Sutton.
Dutton a year ago won 20 games this year, he dropped only 14 victories. Although he is second all time in Dodgers for most win with 190 to drive sales 201.
First pitch to Bowers outside ball one. The outfield shading well off to the left side to get Bower all of right center.
The 1-0 pitch coming up, hit hard on the right field line, into the corner after to Smith and the ball is foul.
That was very close to home run territory.
Bower has four home runs before this year and this year the little shortstop came up with four until he matched his lifetime record in a single season.
I don't know if that ball is spiced up or not but certainly a lot of people are getting home runs that didn't have any more.
Very spiced up, it is hot.
Bower waiting now, joked up about three inches, here's the 1-1 delivery by Sutton and this one is loose toward left field.
Russell in hot pursuit can't get it and it drops.
Larry Fuller drops the single just past the outstretched club with a shortstop field Russell.
So Bower gets the first hit of the afternoon. It's late afternoon here on the west coast and of course early evening on the east coast.
Bower with a single to left, he had one hit last night, he is now two for six in the two games and here comes Mike Smith.
Smith drove in with food to be the winning run last night.
Right hand hit a big power the last three years as led the National League in home runs.
This year George Foster took it away from him.
Foster with 52 but Smith ended with 38.
A fastball right in there, strike one.
Sutton has a screwball, there's a sort of furs and Bower gets back.
With the left hand hitters, they're more than likely to see. Occasionally you'll try to put a little extra zip on it and get it on the fifth of the right hand hitters.
Greg was empty waiting in the on deck circle, Bow off at first and Smith swings and misses strike two.
Mike Smith, no ball, strikes one away, top of the first inning.
The second game of the championship series in the National League.
Outfield has Smith about dead straight away.
The configuration of a ballpark is 330 down each line, 385 into the alley and about 400 into dead center.
Now Sutton steps back off the rubber, Bower with running speed on at first base, he'll go.
Larry stole 32 this year, it's cut down only three times that Smith takes inside.
A ball and two strikes.
Billy DeMar is the third base coach for Philadelphia at first base, Tony Taylor.
Bow off pretty good lead at first, Sutton checking him out and a throw to first base again as Garvey puts the tag on him.
Sutton's taking off his catcher, Yeager has a sign, steps on the rubber, Smith from the right side, right on top of the plate.
Here's the delivery and he struck him out of the fastball, throw to first and Bower is back.
Mike Smith goes down on a fastball at the letter.
So John Sutton logs this first like out, Bowers still holding at first and here comes Greg Lozinski who is hitting nine.
The last ten ball games with three doubles, four whole runs and ten RBI's and of course that includes those final games of the 1970s.
Greg Lozinski who last night with a runner on, put the Phillies ahead with a home run.
Here's the ballers outside to the big guy, they call him the ball.
Lozinski belies his ability with a bat, he looks like a linebacker.
Throw to first, Bower gets back again.
The outfield now pulls over to the left side for Lozinski.
They back at third, Russell medium depth for short staff, lobes skating towards second and Bowers goes and Bowers switch back again at first base.
No score just underway, Phillies in the Dodgers, the Dodgers stadium, Los Angeles, California.
They pick coming up to Lozinski as playing on this, one ball and one strike.
Sutton who did not have a good second half, try to stop the Phillies tonight, a big game for the Dodgers, has the delivery come far and Lozinski goes after it, and misses it.
One ball, two strikes.
John Sutton out of Clio, Alabama, makes his home here in Southern California.
Checking his catcher, Bowers lead at first, Sutton off the rubber again, Sutton holding Bower very close.
Here's the delivery to Lozinski, chops it foul, it's over towards the Dodgers dugout.
The shot stays, one ball and two strikes and we'll try it again.
Play them fires Bowers angle, Harry Wendell said at first, Bruce Breming at second, Dutch renter at third.
On the left field line, Paul Rungy on the right field line, and Paul Pryor.
Sutton again at the set position and the delivery to Lozinski, checks the swing, off to the right side and once again we'll go, one ball and two strikes.
Lozinski led the Phillies in home runs and RBI's this year with 39 and 130.
Strong candidate for most valuable player of the year, awards for 77.
They one, two, six, Bowers on the way, Lozinski chops it over to pitcher's head, lobes is right there on the cover and makes an easy play on it.
Well Lozinski is down in there four to three and Bowers the Phillies in the first.
By hit, a man left after a half inning, fill it out for you nothing, the Dodgers moving in.
So, fellas pick the Jim Laundburg, we'll go to the mound, he's working in game two and he says, tell you what folks, I can't let play of pressure bother me on the mound.
There's a special excitement and that's all prior to walking across the line.
Once you walk across the line, if you let that excitement interfere with the job you have to do, then you're not really, I think, hitting the most out of your abilities.
The ability to have to be used on the field and with the coolness and not based on something that people talk about or all people expect of you.
It's a job that we have to try to keep at a simple level.
Jim Laundburg of the Philadelphia Phillies, Laundburg on the season with an 11-4 record and he came up with 158 innings fixed but his earned run average a little bit high at 4.10.
Three times in National League Championship series played, a losing team in the first game of the series has come on to win the series.
In 1971 the Pittsburgh Pirates lost the first game of San Francisco's Giants and then promptly won three straight.
In 1972 the Cincinnati Reds lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates in game one and defeated the Pirates in a five game set.
And in 1973 the New York Mets lost the opener to the Cincinnati Reds and won the series three to two.
All three winners won the championship series in their home park, which means that the Dodgers will be playing in the visitors' park.
If they can come back it will be the first time in the history of the championship series, dating back to 1969, that a team that has lost the first game will ever win if they win it in the visiting park.
That's very easy to do and once again here's Jerry Coleman.
Okay Ralph, Jim Lomborg, a man who was on the disabled list earlier this year and brought his way back to an 11-4 record.
And it was only ten years ago this October that Jim Lomborg was the host of the Boston Reds soft band of all New England.
He won the Cy Young Award for the Reds soft band that year on the American League, won two games in the World Series and then a skiing accident.
That's when he changed his entire career and pretty much his outlook on life.
Lomborg had three digital years after that three in the operation, brought his way back to his flexibility in 1971 with the Reds soft band.
And on the bill walked in with the fully blast four years.
So Jim Lomborg, a lifetime winner of 149 ball games, losing 126.
Overall, six and three against the Dodgers coming on now against Dave Loaf.
And this is a man, Lomborg will try to keep up the bases.
He can make things happen. He can run the bases.
The first pitch to Loaf to the ground ball to the shortstop.
Oh, a two-half, he's got it. The first base and Loaf to shut down.
The Loaf to a two-for-five last night is out of there six to three.
Now here's Bill Russell.
Russell is a delightful young man and the unfortunate victim of a couple of errors last night that led to four unearned runs and one other run, scored by the Phillies, came in on a ball.
So it's not the Dodgers night.
Lomborg delivers a one hopper to the shortstop and on two pitches, he's got two outs.
They're outside at that speed. Lomborg shoulder a last till next week. All the Dodgers know that Lomborg is around the plate.
He throws a lot of splatters. He has a pinpoint type picture and they're not wasting any time, although it will be easier for Lomborg if they continue to go at the first pitch.
Reggie Smith, who comes up there left-handed tonight, Smith a much better hitter from the left side.
He's got more power from the left side with a much better average. A three-sixteen hitter left-handed, 282 right-handed on the year.
And during this series, he is old for four. He got the collar last night.
Thirty-two home runs, eighty-seven RBI's and waits for the first one and a good first strike one.
So Lomborg has thrown three pitches. He's got two outs and a strike on Reggie Smith.
Outfield, tails out to the right side and Smith waits for the next one. Curve is high, one-and-one.
Smith, fuller, size more headner from third to first, boomin' as the catcher tonight.
The outfield from left to right, Lazingke, McBride and John Stone.
Reggie Smith takes strike two.
A ball and two strikes. Ron say the man of the hour last night for a few moments on the seventh inning in the on-deck circle.
Smith waiting, holds about high and the one-two delivery is hit hard and foul, way down into the corner.
The catch stays at a ball and two strikes.
Reggie Smith and Jim Lomborg, teammates on the miracle in Boston in 1967, now on the opposing forces.
Grab all great stuff by the first baseman, headner, and he mails Reggie Smith, man, an outstanding play by headner to save extra bases.
Three up and three down for the Dodgers in the first, we go to the second. Billy's nothing, Los Angeles nothing.
Two-run homers by Hal McCray and John Mayberry plus Freddie Apartex, disputed two-run doubles, highlighted a lightning quag,
Kansas City Blitz Wednesday, and carried the Royals to a 7-2 victory over the New York Yankees in the first game of the American League Championship Series.
In forging a 1-0 lead in the Best of Five Series, the Royals did the bulk of their scoring in the first three Yannings, and thus found themselves in the comfortable position
of returning to their home stadium at the first and night second game with no worse than a split in New York.
No team which has lost the first game of either league playoff at home has ever been able to rebound to win the series.
Yankee starter, Don Gullit, who said the secret to beating the Royals was keeping the speedmen off the bases, failed in that mission.
Maladodgers broke an all-time attendance record this year when they attracted 2,955,087 to the ballpark for 79 days. They reigned out of a chance to draw 3 million.
No team in course has ever been close to 3 million until the Dodgers did it this year.
And the first game of the series was 55,968, and it was the third largest crowd in Dodgers stadium history.
Once again, here's Jerry Coleman. Ricky Hadner coming on right now. He came on as a pinch-itter last night.
It did not connect. He popped up to the first baseman, and that was in the two runs, ninth inning, the dramatic ninth,
that the Phillies picked up and walked off of the game. They won at 7-5.
If you missed the act of this afternoon in the American League playoff, he had the City beat New York 7-2,
Paul Swift warped the winner, Don Gullit the loser, McBrady, Mayberry and Talon homeward for the Royals, months and four the Yankees.
Right now, Hadner waiting for the first one. It's on the way, and the curve ball is high from all walks.
They swing the outfield in the infield, way over for Hadner, a dead full header.
They would sit for a glass here, worked out as options, signed on with the Phillies.
A line drive to right field, and that's going to drop for a base hit. A looping line drive for Ricky Hadner,
gives the Phillies a runner at first base and nobody out here in the second.
No score in the ball game. Hadner on at first, and Jay Johnstone stepping in.
Jay Johnstone.
Johnstone is one of those unique players who was a late starter.
He started with the California Angels many years ago, kind of splattered around, and then came to real start him with the Phillies.
He platoons in right field, but a deadly hitter against the right-hand pitcher, Johnstone, takes the strike one.
Jay from the left side, in a pitch hitting role last night, did not connect.
There's Sutton delivering to Johnstone's front-side foul. He tried to drag it on the first base side, and it got under him.
So it's no ball, two strikes. Hadner at first, and nobody out, and rim the second in it. No score in the ball game.
Johnstone is the type of hitter that you could draw him 45 straight curveballs and then try to get a passball by him, and he would hit it.
He's still there. It'll never give up. All right. Here's a two-strike pitch on the way, and it's fouled away.
Johnstone was called out, apparently.
Well, I thought he fouled the ball. I take it back. The ball was dropped. He swung at it, and of course, he is an automatic out.
The runner at first can run at his own risk. I thought the ball was fouled, but Johnstone apparently missed it completely, and he becomes an automatic out.
With less than two outs in a runner at first, no matter what happens to that ball on strike three, the batter is out.
The runner may run at his own risk, so Johnstone strikes out, and log number two for Johnstone.
All right. Here's Bob Boone stepping in. Right-hand hitting Boone did not start last night, but take strike one.
Boone came on defensively in the late stages of the ball game. Up for the first time in the series, has a one-strike count on him.
Now the one-strike fits to Boone, and a little bit high, one ball, one strike. Bob Boone and Jim Lomborg got quite a battery, both on a Stanford University and both three med students.
That's a rarity in baseball. Boone waiting, and a throw to first base, switches having her back.
In field, tied at double play depth. Second, right-hander, six-hand delivery is coming up. A check swing, hop into the shortstop.
Russell, the low for one, no chance for the double play. A good play by Hebner got low-handed there, and any chance he has for Boone was lost.
So Hebner forced a second on a play that went six to four. Bob Boone now at first base, the two-hand, and here is Ted Seismore, who went over three last night.
Seismore right-hand hit a rookie of the year with the Dodgers a few years back, then traded off to St. Louis.
Back to the Dodgers and on to the Phillies when the Phillies lost their second baseman to an on to Montreal.
Ted Seismore, right-hand batter, batting an Ikeena breach.
Bob-hand, there's a ground ball foul, pulled hard on the left side, right one. They give Seismore all of that left field foul line and a big chunk of the left center field alley.
So he finds that alley, he can run for quite a while. Nobody out there at all.
Boone not an overly fast man on a first two down, second inning no score, and Seismore tries to jump a punt on the third base side and a foul.
No balls and two strikes. I haven't figured that play out yet, Jerry. It's been sort of popularized here lately of batter batting eight bunnies in front of the pitcher, and Lomborg is not a good hitting pitcher. Hard to believe.
He just hasn't managed it, but I named him Casey Stengler, who reminded one of our players one day to do that again and it'll cost you $500.
Because you can't drive them that from first base to the punt or from second base, but they do do it.
No balls, two strikes, two outs. And the two strikes, it's coming up as high, one and two.
Sometimes if the hitter feels the pitcher's got him cold, he may try anything to get on it. That could be the possibility there.
Lomborg has a major league batting average of 137. I throw it a first base and Boone is back again.
Bob Boone is not the kind of a guy that'll make you worry on the bases. He's stolen five and he's been caught five times.
Boone now with a short lead, Seismore waiting at the plate.
Sutton checks out Jaeger, loops over towards second, and here's the delivery to Seismore.
A looping wide drive right center field drop.
Boone down to second and holds on as Monday gets the ball back in a hurry.
Though Sutton has given up his third hit, but he's spread them out, and he couldn't have a better man than his friend like this coming up in the pitcher, Jim Lomborg.
Lomborg has five hits and 48 trips this year, and that comes out at 104.
Jim at 64, another Stanford University grad, waiting as Sutton sticks and delivers, and he was going to push the front on the first base side and pick it through a strike.
Garvey and Loeke are way back there.
All right, Seismore drifting off at first. Boone at second. No score on the game, second inning. Billy batting.
The next pick to Lomborg, high. One ball, one strike, one and one.
Jaeger Stadium where last night they had a near record crowd of 55,968, and it looks like the same tonight.
A swing by Lomborg, strike two. A ball and two strikes.
In fact, Major League Baseball had set an all-time record, coming up with 38,746,000 quats. That's about six million more than ever before.
Here's the one-ball-two strike, fish. As the breaking ball inside, Sutton started to leave.
Playdown, fireball, angle, said he's going to have to do it again. Two balls and two strikes.
Two and two to the count. Sutton has the set. Here's the pick to Lomborg and he struck them out.
John Sutton picks up the third strikeout.
While the Phillies in the second, no runs, a couple of hits, two men left. After one and a half, fill it up, you're nothing.
Los Angeles nothing.
We were talking about the Kansas City Royals victory over the New York Yankees 7 and 2 and game one of the American League Championship series.
Yankee center, John Gullard, instead of the secret of beating the Royals, was keeping his feet off the bases,
failed the meditations in the very outset, walking 30-parts, actually, off batter, on four straight pitches.
After Gullard threw another ball on his first pitch to McRaebe, the Royal Second batter, the game,
and Yankee manager Billy Martin hustled out of the mound for a conference of his pitcher.
Gullard settled down and threw two straight strikes, but McRaebe leaped on a two-two delivery and sent it over the left field wall inches above the 387-foot sign for a two-nothing lead.
That strikeout by John Sutton, a part of a great record that Sutton has had as a strikeout pitcher for the Dodgers,
the all-time strikeout leader for the Dodgers, Don Drysdale with 2,486,
and he co-facts who was here in the ballpark yesterday and probably here today,
second with 2,396, and Sutton in the regular season with enough strikeouts to run his records at 2,224,
third on the all-time Dodger list.
Don had 150 strikeouts this year.
Also, Sutton is right up there on Wednesday as second with Don Drysdale who had 209, Sutton has 190 in his career,
and on his way to passing Don Drysdale.
Once again, we go to the bottom of the Dodger inning, and it's Jerry Coleman.
Okay, Ralph Kiner will be Ron Say, Steve Garvey and Dusty Baker coming on,
and Say had gone over 31 to end the season before he came up with a couple hits last night,
and that one of the seven innings turned this ballpark upside down.
A grand slam home run that tied it up at five, but the Dodgers couldn't hold on, and the Phillies wanted seven to five.
Jim Lawnbord, taking his warm-up tosses, will face Say, Garvey Baker, followed by Monday, Yee, Grant, Sutton.
We might mention, although that Lawnbord retired the side in order in the first inning,
each Dodger hit the ball in star play, low, the hot-grounded is short, Russell is same on one hop,
then Reggie Smith hit a hot-grounded at first.
So the Dodgers were making contact. Let's see what happens here in the last of the second inning.
Ron Say, two for four, stepping in, a little guy, they call him the Penguin out of the state of Washington,
very pleasant guy and a hard tough competitor. They first hit, coming up to Say, is on that corner strike one.
Say has the biggest part of his year in April with 29 RBI's a record and nine home runs.
He ended up with a 241 average.
Say, waiting, well, one strike, that's fastball inside as Lawnbord goes in and out.
Preston Gomez coaching his third, Jim Gilliam at first for the Dodgers as Lawnbord delivers and Say misses,
a swing on the missed, one ball and two strikes.
Last year, Lawnbord had a brilliant five or six first innings and then collapsed.
That was against the Cincinnati Reds. He looked about as sharp again this year.
But one ball, two strikes it.
Say is out of there, he is protesting the call to the plate umpire five angle.
One thing I've noticed throughout, there's a lot more arguing.
I noticed it in the American League game today and here last night that I've ever seen his championship play, a lot of people.
In the old days, they used to say, be a little liberal, but I don't know.
You mean the umpire? The umpires.
The umpires evidently are giving some reason for an argument.
Man, out there, they're fighting out there.
Here's Steve Garvey stepping in three for four last night,
chopped one in the hole, bow out.
A long crawl, he's got him and once again Lawnbord gets a man on a single pitch.
So Garvey's out of there six to three of the five outs so far by Jim Lawnbord, Larry Bowen.
As a sit down three of them.
Here's Dusty Baker, we didn't mention this before, but if you heard this last night,
Smith, say Garvey and Baker set a new Major League record,
when they all connected to 30 home runs or more.
And Baker got his on the final day of the season to join an illustrious three-pip.
So there are a quartet now, it never happened before,
and Dusty Baker moving in and waiting.
Here's Lawnbord's first pitch, a slider outside for a ball.
Baker with a 291 average over all 86 RBIs, had a knee operation in the off-season,
and what a difference it made.
There's a lawn drive the right field, going over toward the line as Jay Johnstone,
he's under and takes it for the third out.
So once again the Dodgers go down one, two, three.
After two innings of play, Billy's nothing, the Dodgers nothing.
Well, the Philadelphia Phillies had a hard time to get in the first place this year.
They got in the first place for the first time,
when the N8-3 went over the Dodgers on August the 4th.
They knocked the Cubs down to the second to half game back.
The Cubs had been in first place for 69 days.
From April 3rd to April 16th, the Phillies won 13 straight games.
Montreal ended that straight, but then the Phillies came back
and won six more to make it 19 out of 20, and just about put the race away.
It's only then in August with a record of 22 and 7, and led Pittsburgh by five.
September arrived and they won two from the Reds to run their consecutive home victory through 16.
After a loss, they ended that straight, the Phillies put together a six-game streak
to run their lead to nine, and from then on it was just a matter of time.
Little help here last year, had a way of getting out of the front from the beginning and held on.
We're going now to the top of the third, it's no score here in Los Angeles,
and this is Lig's championship series play.
It started in 1966 when the Mets swept the Atlanta Braves
and then went on to be Baltimore in the World Series.
Cincinnati made a clean sweep of the LCS in 1970, taking three straights from the bar.
But Pittsburgh made the best of a return trip in 1971, beating San Francisco three to one.
Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh three to two, and 72, the Reds won the series.
And that situation, and then in 73, the Mets beat the Reds and three to two.
The Reds have dominated the LCS, the past two, the season sweeping past Pittsburgh and Fiddledoffia, three straights.
Right now, it's Fiddledoffia one, and the Dodgers nothing in series play, and here again is Gary Coleman.
Okay, Bate McBride comes on, we go to the top of the order again,
and McBride, in his first that bat, hit a high top of the pitcher, it was out easily,
and the first win to McBride is ball one.
McBride, Bowers, Schmidt, Bates, Speed, and the top three hitters for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Bate McBride in his last 13 games, including last night's game,
has a 13 game streak going, 23 or 25, 37 or 44, so he has been hot down the stretch.
A swing and a miss by the baker, and it's one ball, one strike.
When you think of Bate McBride, and the Phillies having Gary Maddock, you wonder,
what can you do with a guy like that when you've got the best center fielder in baseball,
but Danny Ozark has utilized them to great effect, both men.
Fast ball outside, two balls and a strike.
When fiddled out, they had their longest winning streak of 13 games,
McBride was in center field, and Maddock was hurt.
And once again, if you miss it, Gary Maddock with a bad knee may not play in this series.
But two-one pitch on the way to McBride is swinging a miss, two balls and two strikes.
They play up pretty much straight away, lobes to fairly deep at second base
for a man of McBride's feet.
So far Sutton has struck out three, has given up three base hits.
No score in the game, we're in the third inning.
A tight one.
Sutton ready, the two-two delivery, and McBride hit one down the line in right field,
he could carry, and the ball is gone.
A home run for Bake McBride into the lower section in right field.
Bake McBride with 15 home runs in the season on loads to put the Phillies on top one to nothing.
McBride jumps on a pitch that was high and inside, a hanging curveball I would get,
and he put it right down the line, and it was a quick home run,
and it's a quickly put the Phillies one-nothing.
Here's Larry Paolo, who jumped a single to left in the first inning,
and tries to run his way on and fouls it off for strike one.
The Phillies appear to be a different ball club than what we saw last year when they played Cincinnati.
Against the Reds, they were absolutely fumbling and stumbling all over the place.
In this series against the Dodgers, they've taken charge, they've been cruel collected,
and they've turned in every opportunity.
Now the one-strike pitch to little guy Larry Bow out of Sacramento,
there's that through ball, he's flung a mitt for strike two.
Bow at two for six in the series thus far.
A through ball to an in-express hitter can be devastating.
Bow out, face a bad ball, and it dips hard.
D2 strikes pitch five, that's a through ball again, but he takes it this time,
they ask for the appeal, third base umpire says no.
More and more you're seeing that in Major League Baseball,
the catcher asking for the appeal on a check swing.
A ball and two strikes, Bow out, wait.
Here's Sutton's delivery, a high drive off Sutton's run, he has to run for it,
but crossed the first in time on a very close play.
Tony Taylor, the first base coach is arguing with Wendell Stadham, Bow is just walking away.
Tony Taylor is arguing the play at first base, now he gives that a four-face.
It was close, but the man who hit the ball, Larry Bow, does not argue.
So we have one down, a run across here in the third inning, and Mike Schmidt steps in.
One for six, he struck out on his first at bat on the first inning.
Groped in that key, run last night, to put the Phillies ahead six to five,
the next one came in on a ball.
That unusual game last night, there were two balls.
They pitch on the way to Schmidt, one on a missed, strike one.
Sutton appears to have a devastating curve ball, and when he gets it down,
nobody seems to be making contact.
The only ball I was hit was a high hanging curve by McBride, he laid it into the right field feet.
See, one strike pitch now, Sutton taking his time.
Schmidt right on top of that plate, and the delivery by Sutton,
hit hard to left field on the line and hooking foul.
At Dodger Stadium, there's a short wall, about three and a half to four feet,
that runs about 50 to 60 feet from the foul pole into the bullpen,
and then that eight foot wall picks up and runs across the rest of the field.
That's in the left field corner and the right field corner,
so a low line drive can get in there without going over an eight foot wall.
It's only about four feet, looks to be about half the size of the regulation wall.
Here's Schmidt waiting, and the two strike pitch by Sutton coming up,
he went for the corner and missed it for a ball.
Jerry Coleman, you had an advantage in Yankee Stadium, the same thing.
In fact, it went all the way out.
There was no wall out there except the center field, that was 467 feet away,
which was out of my reach, just the same, just a bit.
Here's the one two pitch coming up to Schmidt, and he dribbles this one off toward the Philly.
Strike, watching that game today in the American League,
and the only off the clean the Royals, and the Yankees,
the ballpark has been changed dramatically, especially in the outfield.
It's 417 now to that center, and it looks like a symptom of about eight feet or so.
One ball, two strikes, one down.
Schmidt waits, Sutton fires, and misses inside,
so Don Sutton going up the letters inside didn't connect.
Two balls and two strikes.
He got Schmidt striking out on that pitch the last time up.
Outfield, way off to the left deep.
The two-two delivery by Sutton has filed back off the mask of the catcher.
You know, talking about some of the old ballparks,
and Pittsburgh was 457 to straight away center field,
and the polar grounds were 483, so those parks buried big in center field.
If you were a straight away hitter in those days,
you had a serious problem on your hand in some of those parks.
Like you mentioned, Forbes Field, Bollardown, Yankee Stadium,
that was just out of reach.
The two-two pitch coming up at Schmidt,
and Schmidt chomps it fouled again.
As Casey Stingel would say, you'd have to look for another line of work.
You know, they've got new regulations for those who are not aware of it.
In 1958, regulations for new ballparks are 325 down each line at 400 to dead center,
so that there can be no more, as they say, Chinese home runs in the polar grounds.
Unless the park has already been built like Fenway or Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Passball is low on inside. Now, 3 and 2 to Mike Schmidt.
This is the first time Sutton has gone this far in a hitter.
Three balls, two strikes, one away.
Drake Luzinski waiting in the on-deck circle.
Don Sutton, the right-hander and the veteran ready.
Here's the three-two pitch on the way to Luz...
Schmidt, a line dragged with a shortstop Russell, and he hauls it down.
So Mike Schmidt lines out to Bill Russell, a quarter-second out here in the third inning,
and that'll bring in the bull, Drake Luzinski.
Luzinski with three lifetime home runs against Sutton.
And last night was the guy that switched the fillies on top with that shot off of Tommy John.
Here you got your name and lights again up on the message board.
It was a welcome to CBS Radio, and you're not.
A line drive foul by Drake Luzinski.
That's kind of nice the way they do that here at Dodgers Bay.
They get us all in, and there are enough broadcasters.
It'll take them nine innings to get everybody in.
One thing, you're a total fan of this.
You come to this ballpark, and your name isn't written on that message board.
Here's the one strike, bitch, on the way to Drake.
A sling and a foul off.
They're caught by the catcher's strike, too.
No ball, two strikes.
Luzinski will forward in the batter's box.
He's not one of those guys who gets deep.
Here's the two strike delivery by Sutton.
He went for the corner outside mid-side.
A ball and two strikes.
We're in the third inning, the only run in the ball game.
The home run by Faye McBride leading off the third for the fillies,
and they're leading it one to nothing.
The Dodgers with their backs to the wall, they must win this one.
They cannot go to Philadelphia down two to nothing.
One ball, two strikes coming up, and Luzinski hits it hard right center field.
Rick Mundy's after it way back there.
He can't get it.
It's against the wall on one half.
Luzinski turns into second base and holds on.
Well, the ball drops one off the wall on one half
between the 3.95 and 3.85 mark,
and Luzinski's at second with two goals.
Luzinski, one more base, Luzki's one, one more base.
Well, the Dodgers didn't more home runs than anybody in the National League this year, 191.
The fillies had 186, but right now it's been filly power that's showing the way.
Although you cannot discount the grand slam home run by Ron Faye last night
that brought them back into the ball game.
Richie Hebner, one for one, steps in there with a runner at second and two down,
and takes strike long, and now Hebner is having a shot with Bob Engle.
Hebner opens stands against the right-hand hitters, deep in the box.
Waiting, here's the one strike delivery.
Hit hard the right field, and going forward to Smith.
He's got it.
Richie Smith barreling towards the line, pulled it down, as Hebner and a big stretch of bases was cut down.
One run, a couple of bases, and a man left.
After two and a half innings, fillies, the run on five hits, the Dodgers.
No runs, no hits.
As we mentioned earlier, no National League team has lost an opening game in the playoffs at home,
and then come back to win the Best of Five series,
but there has been one American League team to do that.
That was the 1974 Open A's who lost their home opener, and then won three straight over the Baltimore Orioles,
and the A's went on to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in five in the World Series.
pitcher Jerry Kuzman says he's asked the New York Mets to sign him to a no-trade, no-cut contract,
or trade him to the Minnesota Twins.
The left-hander who lost 20 games this year says he wants a five-year contract, which includes a substantial raise.
He currently makes about 150,000 a year.
The 34-year-old Kuzman just returned home to Minnesota,
and says he'd rather not go on moving his family back and forth to New York,
but would like to make his home in New York if the Mets reward him with the contract.
Well, John Sutton has said about the Dodgers, we are like an octopus.
You can roll down six or seven tentacles, but there is still one or two that will get you.
Well, the Dodgers better get a couple of those tentacles going.
They're trading by a score of 1-0 after 2-1.5.
They lost the first game by a score of 7-5, and incidentally, if you didn't hear
the American League Championship Series game today,
Kansas City defeated the Yankees by a score of 7-2, and they will be on the air.
For tomorrow's game, as the Dodgers' Phillies have a day off in the tomorrow's game,
from Yankee Stadium, they will be on the air at 8.07 Eastern Daylight time.
Edmarch and Ernie Harwell, they bring that play-by-play to you.
And now for the play-by-play here in Dodgers Stadium, it's still a beautiful evening here in LA,
a lot of sunlight, and the lights are on, and it's Jerry Coleman.
OK, Ralph Kiner and Rick Mundy, Steve Yeager, Don Sutton coming on against Jim Lawnborg.
It's the bottom third of the Dodger batting order.
Lawnborg has been littered perfect thus far.
He's going up against Rick Mundy, who last night, as a finch hitter, went 0-1.
So Mundy comes on to take his cut for the first time.
Glenn Burke against the left-handed, Steve Carlin got the starting nine last night.
Mundy goes this evening.
Rick Mundy has had a bad back on and off.
It's May the 31st, and pretty much destroyed his year.
He ended up hitting a 2-30.
Left-hand batter waiting. Lawnborg first pitch.
Hit hard to right field.
After it is the right-fielder, John Stone, it bounces into a ground rule double.
So Rick Mundy, laying for that back ball, unloaded.
One half-rin to the right field, seats for a ground rule double,
and the Dodgers have the time run on here on the bottom of the third with nobody out.
Let's pause five seconds for station identification.
This is the CBS Radio Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
Oh, that's the radio in the small zone.
Steve Yeager, who went over four last night's steps in, Yeager has a happy faculty,
as far as the Dodgers are concerned, with coming up with some C-Face hits.
Yeager this year, battered at 2.56, 16.00, runs 55 RBIs,
and the first pitch by Lawnborg is chopped away on the left-side foul.
Yeager, a pull of a catcher. He loves contact.
He loves the work. He has one of the strongest arms in all of baseball.
A right-hand hitter against the right-hand is Jim Lawnborg, who goes in at 6.05.
Lawnborg with a runner at second.
First time he has had to pitch from a stretch position.
Third inning, 1-0 Philadelphia.
Mundy drifting off at second.
Pitch out to Yeager, outside, 1-1.
Preston Gomez, keeping a sharp eye on Rick Mundy at second base to see that
that size, where the second baseman doesn't drift in behind.
I'm on a pick-off attempt.
And there he goes. Lawnborg goes to the plate of slow curve over the head of Yeager.
Almost a bad pitch.
That was a change-up curveball if Dan Jeevers took it for a knockdown pitch.
Yeager stadium a pack house, and the house doesn't still up till about the second or third inning
because of the freeway and parking problem.
There's a hard ground ball third but foul.
We started the game here at 5.15 here on the West Coast,
and that is at the heart of prime drive style.
There are cars all over the freeways, and I say it's about two or three in there
to get this ballpark full.
Two balls, two strikes, nobody out, Mundy again off at second base.
Lawnborg taking his time.
Yeager, great away stand, bends at the knee, keeps swinging that bat,
rolls it high and waits.
Here's the delivery by Lawnborg, a serve that missed the corner.
That's the one that he wanted.
Three balls, two strikes.
A walk to Yeager would set up a natural sacrifice situation for the pitcher, Don Suck.
Lawnborg again, checks Mundy.
Here's the 3-2 delivery, top-of-the-way foul,
as Yeager is pulling those hard sliders outside and getting the top of the bat on them.
Yeager in and out of the batter's box.
The outfield has Yeager pretty much straight away.
Dead even in right field and left field, fairly deep.
He's got power.
Lawnborg taking a lot of time, straddling them down, rubbing up the ball.
Mike Smith at third baseman, 15 to 20 feet back of third, way off the line.
Here's the 3-2 pitch and here's the drive to right field, going back as John Stone.
He's got it, Mundy tagging up and Yeager does his job, he gets the man to third base.
Steve Yeager got the runner to third and now Don Suck with a chance to try to get him in
and in a spot like this he can look for anything.
Don Sutton, right-hand hitter.
He's got a runner at third and one away.
Sutton, an excellent runner, has sacrificed successfully 10 times.
So you never know, the infield is tight, they've got to try to choke off Mundy at the plate.
He can look for the suicide squeeze just about anything.
Sutton now standing and waiting, Lawnborg being very deliberate.
Taking his time, looked at Mundy at third base, here's the pitch to Sutton and he shops a high one to the pitcher.
Mundy freezes at third, they make the plate a burst and Mundy has the hold.
And Mundy committed himself immediately, he might have scored.
Very tough decision to make, he had to make it immediately, the ball was shot high in the air,
I think he would have made it, but I guess they didn't want to take that chance.
Well, Rick Mundy throws in at third base and now it will be up to Davey Loach to try to get him in.
Loach, and at first that foul hit a sharp ground ball to the shortstop, he has gone over one on this game, he has two for six overall.
Davey with his best year ever, about at 283 this year.
Right-hand hitter against the right-handed Lawnborg.
Lawnborg has an option here, he can play with Loach and make sure he gives him nothing good.
Russell's behind of another right-handed hitter.
Lawnborg is at the set, checks Mundy at third, the pitch to Loach, the breaking ball low, ball one.
We're in the third inning, the only run on the ball game came in on Bate McBride,
home run into the lower seats and right.
Rick Mundy at third, watching, here's Lawnborg's delivery to Loach,
hit on the end of the bat a swift foul on the right side, almost a base hit, within two or three feet.
Lawnborg has given up the one hit and that's what the Rick Mundy, opening up the inning,
Jaeger got him the third on the long flight of right,
Sutton's high chopper, left Mundy at third for two down and now Dave Loach,
with a count of one ball, one strike, trying to get him in and tie it up.
Here's Lawnborg again, and the pitch on the way to Loach,
the ground ball over the head is hit, great hit.
Well maybe that's what they were talking about, that hard dirt in front of that place,
that ball jumped a foot and a half, one half over the head of Mike Smith,
and went for a base hit.
This infielders like the Santa Ana freeway, it is hard.
All right, Loach is going to run on it first as Ruckol, a shortstop pickball one.
In 1975, Loach set an all-time Major League record with 38 consecutive steals.
This year he's had 47 the last two years he led the league.
There goes Loach, the pitch is taken, the throw by Boone, and they got him.
Loach, attempting to steal, is cut down, an excellent throw by Bob Boone.
Go for the Dodgers here in the third inning, a run, on a couple of base hits and nobody left.
After three innings of play, the Phillies won the Dodgers one.
the Year by the Sporting News, also receiving votes in the ballerining, Whitey Herzog,
of the Kansas City Royals, Bob Lemon of the Chicago White Sox, Herman Franks of the Chicago Cubs,
Thomas Sorda of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Billy Martin of the Yankees, and Gene Mark of Minnesota.
Despite losing four starters in the free agent re-entry draft, weaver kept the game.
The American League East Grace until the last three days of the season.
And usually this is the way the voting goes as far as the manager of the year is concerned.
They don't go with a manager who wins the division.
They go with a manager who, this is generally the way they do it, they go with a manager
who may feel has done the best with the least amount of material.
And I think most people would certainly agree that with the Baltimore Oil situation and for the starters,
not just for players, for starters, gone in the free agent re-entry draft, most folks wrote off the Oil before the season never started.
But as it was, Earl Weaver kept the Oil from the race until the next to the last day of the 1977 season,
to the two days before the end of the season.
So he did quite a job with that ball club.
Pullback road Campbell of Texas with a four touchdown performance against Bryce last weekend
has moved into the major college scoring league with 42 points in three games.
teammate Russell Axelblen moved in a second place with Carlos Carson of LSU with 36 points.
Axelblen has kicked 21 extra points in five field goals including an NCAA record 67 yarders.
Jay Johnson is stepping in. Johnson struck out on the second inning.
We're into the fourth inning now. It's all even at one apiece.
A tight ball game. Don Sutton going up against Jim Lawnbork and the first pitch by Sutton on the way to Johnson is low and inside.
I'm Jerry Coleman along with Ralph Kiner at Dodger Stadium.
It's the second game of the championship series in the national league.
Billy's won it last night. Dodger is trying to stay alive on this one. Here's the delivery to Johnson.
It's playing amidst the fact that it's the first base of all behind the plate.
Well, Johnson gets the longest throw of bats for the game so far.
That ball came back one way and the bat went out towards Steve Garvey at first.
One-on-one to count and now Jay who's got golf clubs on both hands.
We're going to moisten them up a little bit to make sure he's got a better grip.
And if there's anything symbolic of the new era of baseball it's the golf ruffler that is kind of golf matter.
Yes, sir Jerry. And I either started it or had rims. I used to take it off a lot of batting practice.
I also played a lot of golf and I used it to keep from having calluses and blisters but it has really graduated into the game.
Alright, here's the one-one pitch on the way to Jay and he takes it low and inside. Two balls and one strike.
John Sutton checking out his catcher again. Jaeger the two-one pitch on the way to Johnson and it's good for a strike. Two and two.
Now Field drifting off to the right side. They give him left center.
Reggie Smith fairly shallow in right field. Not as far back as you might expect. Johnson a sharp brown ball to first.
Garvey's going to do it by himself. He makes the play unassisted.
So that's all for Jay Johnson. One gone for the Phillies here in the fourth.
Now Bob Boone steps in. Boone bounces short in the second inning.
The Phillies will leave immediately after the ball game and head for Philadelphia. The Dodgers will fly in tomorrow and then tomorrow evening at 807 Eastern Daylight Time.
Ned Martin and Ernie Harwell right here on CBS Radio. You'll hear the second game in the American League Championship Series between the Royals and the Yanks.
The Royals won the first one today by a seven to two score.
Bob Boone right hand batter takes strike one as Don Sutton starting to sharpen up a little bit.
One down, nobody off. The next one on the way to Boone and it's low. One ball, one strike.
When Steve Cowden pitches for the Phillies, Tim McArthur is the catcher. Anybody else is Bob Boone.
One ball, one strike, one away. One, one score. Fourth inning.
Boone trying to give the Phillies a shot here and the next one by Sutton is on the way and Boone swings and misses.
Now, ball and two strikes. Sutton keeping a sharp plighter down on Bob Boone.
Sutton ready again. Here's the one ball, two strikes pitch. It's coming up and Boone fouls it back.
And the one that's got Sutton this year gave up a team high of 23 home runs and a few years ago that was one of his main problems in life.
The home run ball, that really hurt him. Then he got it down where it was more of a situation he could live with but this year had more problems.
Here's the fly to left field, fairly short. Dusty Baker drifting in and takes the fourth and second down.
Boone flies to short left field. Floor down, nobody on. Ted Seismore steps there.
Seismore single the center of the second inning. And here's a spot where it looks like a throw away at that.
But if Seismore can get on, it's the key part of the game. That means you can get lawn board up there for that final out and start with the top of the order and the fifth.
Seismore will be trying to do his thing to get on. That's part of hitting in that number eight spot. It's the key part of that spot.
There's a fast ball high to Seismore for ball one. Two down, nobody on, one one tie, fourth inning, Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers and the Phillies.
Here's the one-oh-pitch. Hard grab ball is hardly a land drive grabbed by Ron Sey before it hit the ground and Seismore's out of there.
Excellent play by Sey, a leaping grab of a ball before it got to the ground to retire Seismore.
So Ron Sey grabs the nice one here. The Phillies are down one, two, three and a fourth and after three and a half, Phillies won the Dodgers one.
Provider Don King says the World Boxing Council has approved a scheduled November 5th heavyweight fight between Ken Norton and Jimmy Young as a title elimination bout
and King says the Las Vegas fight will be rescheduled for 15 rounds instead of 12.
The WBC has said it might strip the heavyweight crown from Muhammad Ali if he doesn't fight in the working young winner.
Go on the message, go to Happy Birthday to Fred Claire who is the vice president in charge of public relations and promotions for the Dodgers and he certainly has done quite a job setting up all the facilities here for the championship playoff game.
The games move on to Philadelphia, games number 3, 4 and 5 are necessary, Thursday is the travel date and we'll be bringing you the Friday game at 3.07 each two day life time.
On Friday it will be Bird Hoodies, Walden 7 for the season, I guess Larry Christensen, 19 and 6. Christensen says for 15 wins in his last 16 divisions.
For this game is the crucial game for the Dodgers, they have to win this to really mathematically stay into a challenging position.
The WBC is up to beating their home park, better than stadium and they will be going home to a very thin place. They won 16 lost only 21 at better stadium this season and they lost their first five of that 21 so they have been especially tough after getting off of that four start.
They won 101 games, lost 61 in the regular season, the Dodgers won 98 and lost 64 and now as we go to the bottom of the fourth in the dive ball game at one, once again Jerry Coleman.
Ralph kind of that home park at San E does exist and yet the Phillies turned it around last night on the Dodgers and grabbed that first big one, they're trying for two in a row, the Dodgers trying to come back to win their first game.
Second third and fourth hitters coming on to Los Angeles, Russell Smith and Stee going up against Jim Lawnmower. I believe the story in the Dodger dugout is stay close to them and we'll get them in the ladder inning.
Russell over six so far in the series, that began right now after bouncing them short on the first inning. Bill fouls this one fast for strike one.
You said that reminds me of the great Charlie Dressen story. Charlie was an outstanding manager. They were losing by a score of nine to nothing and Charlie said to the team, hold them right there and I'll think of something.
If you know Charlie Dressen, you understand it. Here's the one strike pitch at the curveball high, one and one.
One ball, one strike. Charlie Dressen made the mistake of fighting for a two year contract. The Dodgers would not give him a two year contract and he got fired over.
They brought in a guy that nobody ever heard of, Mokie Alston. There's a line drive left center field and it drops through the base.
Bill Russell, when his first hit in the series, drops one in the left center field. He gets things rolling for the Dodgers. So a runner at first base, nobody out. Here comes Reggie Smith.
Reggie Smith is at the collar on the series. 0 for three, make that 0 for four last night and 0 for one and this game for a total of nothing for five.
That is from the left side facing Jim Longborg. The infield site double play depth. First six, low and outside ball one.
Longborg kicking it a third a little bit for better footing. Russell shortly at first. Jim Gilliam coaching at first yelling something to him.
Here's a pitch by Longborg at the line drive center field. That's what it is, base McBride and holding at second base is Bill Russell.
Back to back singles by Russell and Smith and the Dodgers are rolling.
Ron Say who struck out on the second inning. Stepping in with runners at first and second. It's the one one tie last half of the four inning.
Now say out kicking a third base to express in Gomez. I don't think the Dodgers are going to get cute with their number four header.
The pitch to say is wow back strike one and I mean that was a pitch is cut. Warren Brewster a right hander, a young right hander throwing rapidly in the Philadelphia bullpen.
A solid shot by Russell. A solid base hit by Reggie Smith. Runners at first and second nobody out. A one strike counter the number four batter Ron Say.
Longborg is ready. Stay away from the square of the but and does on the first base side.
After that is Longborg and just in time at first base to attack the plate work.
Ron Say laid down a perfect buck.
The manager Danny Ozark out of the Philadelphia dugout. He wants to check the situation. He's Garvey is the hitter and behind him is Dusty Baker.
I wonder if you if he would walk Steve Garvey in his spot. It'd be very interesting. It's still an early ball game and Garvey walks with a load up the bases and bring up Dusty Baker.
That's exactly what they got to be talking about. In the series Garvey is three to five. Baker is one for four.
Have nice feet at three base hits of four trips.
Garvey of course the number one RPI man for the Dodgers and they're leading home run. There was 33 and 115. Let's see what happens here.
The field is tight and Garvey is trying to be put on for the next personal walk to lure the muscle to be bigger.
One of the great intentional walks of all time came with the bases loaded in Mel Watt.
The home run hitter was 511. We're all run batting Mel Watt was walked intentionally with the Giants leading by a full run. They felt that if he hit a home run they would put a giant losing by four runs.
They would make a big difference in the ball game and they walked Mel Watt the fourth of the run and sent to the other batters.
Right now Jim Lawnbork has a problem on his hand. He's got Dusty Baker up there and behind him Rick Mundy who doubled into the right field corner to follow.
So let's see what happens. Lawnbork has all he can handle right now. He's got a 1-1 ball game. The Dodgers are pushing at it. The bases are loaded.
The Dodgers are going away. Dusty Baker is stepping in. He's flying to right field in the second. Lawnbork's first pitch to Baker is outside the ball one.
Philadelphia a run on five hits. The Dodgers a run on four hits. But the Dodgers with the bases loaded and one go.
Russell at third. Smith at second. Garvey at first. Baker waiting and Lawnbork delivery is piled off. One ball one strike.
Just suddenly after Lawnbork went through the first two innings three up and three down. He ran into some trouble in the third. Gave up a base hit on the run.
And then here in the fourth innings back to back singles. A sacrifice and an intentional pass on the bases are loaded and Lawnbork is back to the wall.
Baker waiting. Here's the 1-1 delivery coming up. Bow back. Strike two. A ball and two strikes. Might have been out of that strike though on a restart.
Lawnbork as we mentioned ten years ago the hero of the Boston Red Sox in all of New England as he picked the Red Sox into the World Series and lost him to the St. Louis Cardinals.
Now he's out battling for the Philly. Here's the one to pick the Baker. Hit hard. Way back to the wall. And then Graham Holbrook.
Hit hard.
Just see Baker the second Grand Slam home run by the Dodgers in this series and they've run up a five to one lead with Rick Mundy moving in one out and nobody on.
We're in the bottom of the fourth inning. They've picked on the way to Monday as low an outside ball was.
It was a slider that hung right up into the belt and Baker laid into it and sounded over that 360 mark just out over the wall.
Four big runs for it across the Dodgers now with a commanding five to one lead.
The ball. The second baseman right through the side for Lance Hillett. Tries Moore tried to one hand the ground and ran right over it for an error.
The Philly's coming apart here in the fourth inning.
Now the catcher Steve Yeager stepping in. Well last night Ron say it's the first Grand Slam home run in championship play.
Justy Baker not to be out done. Followed him with one here in the fourth inning. Dodgers leading it five to one.
Mundy at first. Yeager the catcher takes outside ball one.
In Longmore you can see him giving ground out there. Suddenly in the fourth inning it all got away.
Manager Danny Ozark hoping Longmore can finish the inning so he can use a pink hitter to start off the fifth.
Here's the one oh pitch. Popped up. Coming back as the catcher.
The first baseman Hefner's over there through an hundred and makes the play.
Yeager fouls out the Bob Boone second out here in the fourth and that'll bring up the pitcher Don Stutton.
We're in the fourth inning. Dodgers have taken a five to one lead on a Grand Slam home run by Dusty Baker.
That was the second hit on the series. Baker last night and then field single of a six innings.
Second base umpire Bruce Bowman has said that second base is not battled down so it looks like they're going to have to change and put a new base out there.
You know at San Diego Stadium this year we lost more bases at second base and you can take a stick at Loop Rocks Tide and set a new record there.
We lost two there and then our young left fielder Gene Richards set a new rookie stolen base record.
We lost two more so you know we may have to borrow one to get the season underway next year.
Going to run out of second base. That's going to be a first.
Well it's so different now. They used to bury the bag with those four long spikes and now they just put it in a hole.
It's already three seconds cemented and apparently the runner or the peg and now when doesn't fit squarely.
Maybe it's a round hole with a pair of peg or whatever.
I don't know. They're bringing one in from the left field bullfin area to ground through one of the members of the ground through.
You know it's really been an exciting series run say with his grand slam home run in yesterday's ballgame and that probably will not be remembered because the Dodgers did not win the ballgame.
Timing is everything and when you make one of those great sensational moves that turns into an epic the main thing you got to do is make it when your team wins.
Right now the Dodgers are sitting on top five to one. They've got a runner at first base Rick Mardie.
We're waiting now for Don Sutton and we still can't find a base that fits them that hole out there at second.
So this ballgame and a rather unusual set of circumstances is being delayed.
I'm not quite sure what the problem is. The Phillies are coming off the field but it looks as though we have a serious problem.
The Phillies at least the infielders are walking off the field.
The outfielders are congregating out there and this may be one of those embarrassing moments in Dodger Stadium.
They have a rectangular post that goes down in the ground and then you insert a rectangular piece into that and evidently one of the two is bent so they cannot push the base all the way down to the ground
and we might have a little bit of time left here.
Now Cub Seney the National League president and I'm getting into something that is far-fetched but if the game couldn't continue we would have to make a rule here.
He's sitting right down behind the Dodger dugout.
I think Bruce Fleming is standing on second base right now and it doesn't appear to be too bad except he's got it upside down.
The peg has broken off apparently Ralph that long rectangular steel sphere that comes down has broken off and apparently they're looking for one that will work or fit.
The problem is the piece that has broken is still in that hole there and they'll have to get it out or put a new holding piece in there.
We just want to take a minute now to remind you fans that there's a lot more baseball excitement for you on most of these stations.
The World Series of course starting October 11th.
CBS Radio Sports will bring you all the play by play actions as the two late winners find it out for the World Championships.
No need to miss a single game.
Take a long affordable wherever you go and follow the World Series over most of these CBS radio network stations.
So while we're waiting for the Dodgers to find a base that will be appropriate to go out there at second let's recap the scoring.
Nothing nothing ballgames to the first two innings and then on the third inning they drive led it off and pop one into the lower right field seats to put the Phillies on top one to nothing.
The Dodgers came right back in the bottom of the third inning Rick Mundy started it with a ground rule double and was through down low single to bring him in and that was all tied at one.
They're bringing in what they hope will be satisfactory solution to the second wave problem.
Here on the fourth inning Bill Russell started with a single to left center with his first hit of the series and Reggie Smith in a line single to center field his first hit of the series.
Ron Sayed a clean up man after taking a big swipe at a fastball and following it back laid down a beautiful second to right front to advance the runners to second and third.
It manages any other came out and had a shot with him long Morgan the strategy was set.
You've seen Garvey in a tentative walk and pitch the Dutchy Baker which they did so the bases were loaded when Baker came up there and Baker respond with a grand slam home run that cleared the 360 mark.
The Dodgers went on top five to one.
Rick Mundy came up and hit a low grass cutting ground at the second base but that's size for and he ran by it for an error.
Dave Jaeger found out it got their Monday holding at first base.
Don Stet was about to come to home plate and then we ran into second base and we're still trying to resolve that problem.
I didn't even pass away the time here at Dodgers.
The president of the National League is giving a phone extension and a phone in case any problems arise and he can communicate with the people around the stadium.
This is really his game and he's into it and his extension was given to him and on the message board during the game they put up a message that said call extension 401.
The owner Dodgers season tickets for next year and he was getting all the calls and he didn't know what was going on.
They were calling for Dodger tickets and everyone that he got he's called tomorrow when the box office is open.
I'll say one thing.
This has been a first ever.
I do not recall it having happened ever with this kind of a base.
I've seen it with the old base when they were going loose but ever like this.
Now let's take a deep up day from CBS News.
This is Doug Colling reporting on the CBS radio network.
A Pan Am jumbo jet en route from San Francisco to Tokyo was diverted to Vancouver, Canada today after a note was found aboard saying there were eight bombs hitting on the plane.
The note said some of the passengers ought to be let off in Vancouver and the plane is to go on to Mexico.
In New York a Pan Am spokesman said the incident may be a hoax.
President Carter flew back to Washington tonight after two days of diplomatic activity at the United Nations in New York.
The president said his lengthy talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Diane enhanced the possibility of a Geneva peace conference.
The House Ways and Means Committee has completed action on a bill that would sharply increase social security taxes withheld from workers paychecks.
Republicans try without success to trim the increases.
Top officials of the United Auto Workers Union have voted against reaffiliation with the AFL-CIO.
Union President Douglas Fraser favored the action but other officials claim to rank and file union members before to keep the UAW independent.
Now back to the nationally playoff game in Los Angeles this is Doug Colling, CBS News.
While they're still working on second bills and they had to do that, who says they have to cement spots that hold the spike that they put the base into out of the ground
and with Walter O'Malley's luck the owner of the Dodgers will strike oil.
But they are now pulling that hole in and they're packing the dirt down and look back we'll be getting underway very shortly as the ground crew had to come in because of a difficult second base.
I don't know who broke it Jerry Colling but if anybody did it would have to be Dusty Baker as he round the bases after hitting that grand slam home ride.
He had to be one of the happy men and the Dodgers had an exciting thing happen to them.
They had three men on the team that had hit 30 or more home runs and in the history of Major League Baseball no team had ever had four men to hit 30.
Doug Colling had 29 and he went for about five days without a home run and in his last time at bat on the final day of the season he had a home run to make a record of four men on one team hitting 30 or more home runs.
A few years back the Atlanta Braves had three men on one team hit 40 or more home runs and that was the record and the question is would you rather have four men hitting 30 or three men hitting 40?
Three men for the Atlanta Braves Hank Aaron Darrell Evans and Dave Johnson who is now a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Dave Johnson broke an all time record for home runs by a second baseman that year 43 breaking a record set originally by Rogers Ornsby one of the greatest hitters of all time.
There was another record along those lines throughout that extended even further.
New York Yankees back in 1961 had six men hit 20 or more that was the year that Madison Mato went for it and Madison broke the record and Elton Howard, Yogi Berra, Johnny Blanchard and Bill Cowan were part of that six and that was a very powerful line up.
It looked powerful of all time. Really was Roger Merrits with 61 home runs and also making manholes coming up with I believe 54 or was it 54 and that was the side your record actually because you are second all time in the National League and tell me about it.
I think it was what 1948 or 1949. How close did you come? Did you get to 54 on the last day or did you have a week to go after your Hack Wilson 56?
I had one day to hit two home runs because I hit 16 home runs the last month of September and I was really coming up from a pretty far away position but I had one day to do it and failed to do it.
Not many people talk too much about the National League home run record of 56 set by Hack Wilson back in 1930.
That year he also drove in 190 runs which is the all time RBI record for a single season. No one has even come remotely close in this era of baseball but George Foster did have 149 this year for an outstanding year with 52 home runs.
Just briefly Ralph Kiner let me ask you you can put yourself I'm sure into the position of Roger Merrits going for Roots record which he broke on the final day of the season. What is it like to be in that kind of a spot? Is there any vanity around you anywhere?
Well it wasn't quite as bad for me because it was done in 49 before really a lot of media coverage but Roger Merrits in 61 had to contend with television he had to contend with more and more radio and also of course the newspapers and it affected Roger to the point where his hair started falling out.
It was a nerve wracking thing and it was amazing to me that he could pull it off. I always felt that if anybody was going to break Babe Ruth's record it would be by a number larger than one. I was thinking the pressure of just having only one day to hit one and he did it on the last day of the season.
The winning the ball game was nothing in the home run off crazy sourced but Roger did pull it off. I have to say this in defense of all the Babe Ruth fans Roger Merrits had the extended season of 162 games Babe Ruth at his 60 home runs in 154 games.
I've got to ask Ralph Kiner one more question because it has a direct bearing on how many home runs he had. How many would you have hit with Mickey Maddow hitting behind you? You've got to hit a lot more and the one thing I can tell you which is the most amazing thing about Roger Merrits' record the year he hit 61 home runs he did not receive one intentional walk because Mickey Maddow was hitting behind him.
Who did you have behind you and I don't mean to tear him down but I'm sure there was no Mickey Maddow there. There was no Mickey Maddow we had quite a few hitting behind me. And they didn't like me because they would get knocked down after that hit the home run.
Ok so Kiner we've got things pretty well organized here at least on the broadcast side we do the second base has been put in this shape but the Dodgers on the field have the Phillies down 5 to 1. Don Sutton is going to come up to take his flight. There's a runner at first base that is Rick Monday and the action will continue as soon as we can find the batter for the Dodgers Don Sutton who seems to have disappeared.
Knowing Don Sutton he's down hitting practice golf shots. If you missed it second base for whatever reason became dislodged and apparently that metal spike that fits into the ground into the terminal base broke off where it was snapped off and they had to replace the base the complete base and that took about 10 minutes until we had that 10 minute delay.
And now we are waiting for Don Sutton to make an appearance who may have been in getting a rub down or whatever.
And here he comes number 20 Don Sutton who has to be fat and happy right now he has a four run lead. We're in the bottom of the board setting Dodgers on top 5 to 1 and if you missed it if you get to him.
Dusty Baker a grand slam hole run here in his inning to give the Dodgers that 5 to 1 margin. Now Don Sutton sets up. That first base Monday drifting off outfields change to the right infield shallow and a pitch to Sutton is low on his side by Lonboard for ball one.
Lonboard at the set again. Sutton weighs down the pitch. Wow that. One ball one strike one and one.
One ball one strike two down. Lonboard again at the set position and steps back off the rubber. Monday in this spot I do not think we'll run with a pitcher hitting two down.
After holding against Rick anyway with a short lead the pitch to Sutton is on that corner strike two. One ball and two strikes.
They throw it off your bullpen. Head warm. Bruce to warming up. There's another man down there going so we'll have to wait and see who comes on. There's a foul away by Sutton a ball and two strikes.
Lonboard will be the lead hitter in the top of the fifth inning and more than likely will go for a pinch hitter. Dodgers on top five to one as Lonboard at the set the one to fix the Sutton a shot from the middle up with it as well as a short stop over the first base in time to get
Sutton and that's all for the Dodgers as they send eight men to the plate. Four big runs come in trust on a grand slam home run by Justin Baker. After four innings of play Dodgers five runs five it the Phillies one run five it.
History is on the side of the Kansas City Royals after their seven and two victory over the New York Yankees in game one of the American League playoffs only one since the league playoffs series began in 1969 has a visiting team won the opening game and not gone on to win the
championship. Royals manager Whitey Herzog says that the victory means that only one thing to him as he says it gives us a one game lead and that's all.
Well we're waiting for Don Sutton to come out and take his warm up pitches and Sutton enjoying a lead of five to one. Don Sutton has been a big man for the Dodgers he has won a hundred 90 ball game. He is second to Don Drysdale and then the
Bama Drysdale leads the Dodger list with 209 victory. Don Sutton also is very high and set out to get 47 in his major league career he had three in this year. Drysdale has the all time lead at 49.
And he is also second in any pitch. Drysdale with 3,000 scored and 30 new Sutton has 10,000 in 52 and a third. And Don Sutton now on top to the lead of five to one.
There's action in the goal and we're going to have a 10-kitter for the Philadelphia Phillies and this ball game the reverse of last night's ball game as the Dodgers are on top by a good margin.
And then last night's ball game it was the Phillies that got out in front and then by a score of 2-0 after the first and had a two-mourn the Fifth and he's leading by a score of 4-0.
And the bottom of the fifth the Dodgers got a run back and make it a 4-1 ball game but then the Phillies in the sixth inning had another that lead by five to one.
Then the thrilling grand slam hole run by Ron Sayt had it up at 5-5 and in the ninth inning the Phillies wanted with one man out, Desmond Bride, single the right field, Larry Bohr single over the head of the second baseman, putting runners at first and second.
Mike Smith single the left field to drive in the go ahead run and then the final run of the ball game giving the Phillies the victory seven to five came in at a bar.
So we've had the opposite and this ball game was the Dodgers on top five to one and once again here's Jerry Coleman.
Okay Ralph, kind of Tommy Hutton coming on to pass the gym lawn board so lawn board gives ground to the left hand hitting Hutton.
It's primarily a defensive player. It hits the first pitch high in the air to left field with Dusty Baker camping under it and grabbing it for the first out here in the fifth inning.
Five to one Los Angeles, top of the fifth and now makes McBride is responsible for the only silly run with his home run on the third some dog.
McBride's three for seven in the series, left hand hitter with six feet.
In the third game in Philadelphia, which will be on Friday starting at 307 Eastern Standard Time, make that Eastern Daylight Time, they first pitch by Sutton coming up to McBride is good for the fans.
Then it is good for the Dodgers and Larry Smith has been going for Philadelphia.
But Bride, left hand hitter has a strike count on him, one gone, nobody on, five to one Los Angeles fifth inning.
A check playing and the ball pops off the bat and goes back against the screen. No ball, two strikes.
Outfield playing McBride and it is dead straight away. Very trim, tensile thin athlete, bends all over when he hits, chokes up about an inch and takes outside.
One ball and two strikes.
McBride back in there again from the left side, has a side from Yeager.
The one ball, two strikes hit, the through ball right through the glove is Sutton behind back in his vessel, can he make the play? Not in time.
Sutton missed the ball, a comeback right through his glove, Russell almost came up with a miracle play, but McBride's feet, not much he can do about that when he can run away, he can run.
So, Bakes McBride with an in-field hit on his first base.
One away, here's Larry Bola, Bola's single and bounce to the pitcher.
Bola's super seven has scored twice in this series.
They picked on the way to Bola, as a copper to Garvey, he's got McBride hung up and he's gone, a double play, a reverse double play that went three to six.
So the Phillies go down in a hurry, here in the fifth inning, no runs ahead and nobody left.
After four and a half innings of play, it's the Dodgers, five runs, five hits to Phillies, one run and six hits.
The Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers, a couple of ball clubs that appear to be extremely evenly matched.
The power pretty much the same, although spread out among four players, with Bakes, Garvey and Baker for the Dodgers, the power for the Phillies, a couple of big men, Mike Smith and Frank Lozinski with the outside help from Ricky Hebner.
But the thing that seems to change these two ball clubs is the pitching. The Dodgers have a starter and a weak bullpen.
The Phillies have a questionable starting set and a very strong bullpen.
In the bullpen, Rooster, Garver, Reed and McDraw, there are four of them out there, all of them tough and all can be used in almost any spot in the lineup.
So, managers to Antioch Dark, we'll be going to that bullpen and he'll be using it extensively in this ball game today.
We've gone through four and a half innings of play. The Dodgers have taken a five to one lead and if you haven't heard of these bulls, I'll tell you one more time.
Dusty Baker's grand slam home run on the fourth inning has been the catalyst in this ball game.
A giant right hander, Ron Reed, a 6-6, an extra basketball player coming off of the Phillies and a college boy in the second half of the ball game.
Paul LaFamera and one of the all-time great fluggers in the National League, Ralph Kiner. Ralph, it's all yours.
Thank you, Jerry Goman and the new pitcher for the Phillies, Ron Reed.
He'd read with a record of seven and five in the regular season. He also had 15 things and his urban run average is at 2.76. He was in 60 ball games for the Phillies this year.
And Dave Lopes, the first batter. And Dave Lopes, 3-7 in the series, a right hand batter. Reed's first pitch on the outside corner is all striked.
Reed played for Notre Dame and also for the Detroit Pistons and the pitch high of basketball missing one ball, one strike.
Reed was a starting pitcher in the early part of his career. As John Surlipic, he has done an excellent job and he comes back and catches another strike with a fast ball at 42.
Reed first appeared in the Major League back in 1966 with the Atlanta Braves. In 1961, 14 and lost 10. His best year was in 1969 when the Braves were the Western Division champions of the National League. He won 18 and lost 10.
And Reed's next pitch is line right after 2nd baseman, Ted Seismore. So Lopes will hard out on the line drive the 2nd and that'll bring up Bill Russell.
Reed was a winning pitcher tonight at Hank Aaron, hit home run number 715 off the Dodgers. Then another game where he played baseball and basketball, played for the Detroit Pistons averaging 7.5 points.
He has been an outstanding player. The first pitch is strike to Russell. Now it's change up and he's got a real good change up and Russell's full is completely way out in front. Paul's with almost over his left shoulder into the stand.
And he takes an awful lot and with that big floppy motion of his, it's a very tough pitch. Russell won for 7. And the next pitch is just in the air out the shallow right field. Moving up in the ball is Jay Gonsonan he makes the catch.
Two men away. That'll bring up Reggie Smith. God is leading 5 to 1. Reggie Smith has had a base hit in this game his first in the series. He's won for 6.
And his base hit batting from the left hand side of the line drive in the center field. And the first pitch by Reed, a change up at Sulu for a ball. He appealed as a third base umpire for decision as to whether or not Smith did swing and he said no.
Smith is 307 in the regular season with 32 homeruns, 87 RBI's and the pitch back a strike in his one ball and one strike. Reggie was one of the most valuable player on the Dodgers.
He is a very versatile man has a lot of talent. The next pitch is fastball foul back out of play one and two. Reggie flies his own airplane. He also is a gourmet cook specializing in Chinese food.
One ball two strikes. And the next pitch is taken just slow. Lighter than misses below the knee. Two balls and two strikes.
Smith has one of the great throwing arms in baseball. And it's 2-2. The pitch is a half swing and he is out on a swinging strike. Smith didn't like that goal. He had the bat very much close to each other and turned his old body around.
My home plate umpire boss Engel said he did swing and that strike three. Reg gets his first strike out in the one two three inning and the score at the end of five innings here in Dodgers stadium is the Dodgers five and the Philadelphia Phillies one.
Bad news for the New York Yankees. New York Yankee manager Don Gullick. According to manager Billy Martin is virtually 30 knots of pitch to get him this year to make him play off. The multi-million dollar pitcher left the game on Wednesday after the second inning with a sore shoulder.
And according to trainer Jean Monaghan, Gullick's entire left shoulder is aching and Martin says it's the same shoulder trouble that put Gullick on the disable list for most of August.
And because that injury kept the lefty out for several weeks, Martin feels Gullick's postseason pitching is over for this year.
Gullick was tagged for four runs in his two innings and was the loser as the Yankees dropped the playoff opener to Kansas City seven to two.
So according to manager Billy Martin of the Yankees and Yankee trainer Jean Monaghan, it's virtually certain that left handed Don Gullick will not pitch again in this year's American League playoff.
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And now as we come into the sixth inning, let's go right back to Ralph Kiner.
Okay, and it's going to be Mike Smithily, though. Mike has struck out and lined out and it's three times up.
Don Sutton, working on the mound on, has given up one run on six hits. The Dodgers have five runs on five. The big blow to home run was the bases loaded by Dusty Baker.
And Sutton's first pitch is hit in the air to center field right there, though as Rick Munley, he puts it away. One pitch and one away.
Sutton has been getting a lot of batters out on one pitch. They have a championship series quiz here at Dodgers Stadium with Grand Plans by Dusty Baker tonight and Ron say last night there now has been a total of three in play in LCS play.
The first was hit by a Baltimore player in 1970. Can you name the oil player who hit that first Grand Plans?
Well, we'll let you work on that a while while we watch the bull back, Greg Luzinski. And the first pitch was Luzinski, it is a strike.
Luzinski jumbled in the right center field in the third half and grounding out in the second.
And Sutton's next pitch is taken high and outside.
They counted one ball and one strike. We have just had the answer that quiz passed on and for any of you that can get it, he deserves to have three tickets for baseball the rest of your life.
And now the pitch is one on a missed, it's one and two. We're not going to say who you really are, but you certainly deserve to have one ball, two strikes.
And now Sutton deliberately back and the breaking ball is grounded foul.
Sutton has been working with a very rhythmic pace. He has been very calm and cool on the mound.
Got off to a shaky start, but then worked out of a big jam in the second, gave up a home run to McBride in the first, worked the inning one, two, three and a four.
And now a line shot to right center field, Svessel for running and he won hands it as Luzinski grills one to right center field that's hauled in by Reggie Smith.
And now to bring up Ricky Hebner with two in a way. Hebner has a base hit and two times up. He broke his bat and singled the right field in the second and then in a line drive to right field in the third.
And then after a left hand batter, the first pitch is one on a foul shift, the ball's down in the dirtest strike line. Hebner was a pin-kitter in yesterday's ball game as well for one, so he has now won for three in this series.
And now he's in the Pittsburgh fire because he played out his option. Ricky Hebner's father is a aquatic character. They're from Boston and he is an undertaker and there's a line drive, little punch, they fit into right field as Hebner gets his second base hit and he is on.
Hebner has worked for his father, the undertaker, and one day he was asked if he had worked a fast winner as an undertaker and he said, yes, I've planted a few, he said. He is some sort of a character.
Now with Hebner on, Jay Johnstone will come up. Johnstone is all for two. Sevens base hit for the Phillies off his sputin. And the first pitch to Johnstone, a breaking ball, a foul strike.
Johnstone's flunging the ball in the dirt and was struck out in the second and grounded out in the fourth. In the series he is all for three. And the next pitch by Sutton, grounded foul.
The ball bounced on by Tony Taylor, one of the most popular players ever to play in Philadelphia. Willie Neymar is a third base coach for the Phillies with Tony Taylor on the line that first base.
Now with the first base, he is off the plate. In the regular season, Sutton had a record of 14-80 where 240 in and he gave up only 207 hits.
Good race for there, struck out 150. And he comes in with a slider that's full foul, routed on first base, tied to the cover mains and one ball and two strikes. Last year Sutton won 21-10, his first 20 game season.
He had an in run average of three-oh-six victory, his record for the New Navy with an ERA of 3.19, just slightly higher. He was the most valuable player in the All-Star game on the National League to beat his B, American League.
And a pitch to high, two balls, two strikes. Sutton, with ambitions to be a broadcaster, has been working in the Hollywood area on several interviews that Joe has been very good.
Two balls, two strikes, here's the pitch. And it's popped up on the shortstop drive, moving back his play on to the outfield rack, a couple steps back and he makes the test.
Every time he starts. No runs, one hit and one man left his first base in the score. At the end of five and a half innings, the Dodgers five and a Phillies one.
The last thing in the world why the Herzog was going to do is to crawl over that opening game jump Kansas City has gotten on the American League playoffs.
He said no, he didn't think the Royals had the best of five set lots up, since because they had beaten the Yankees on their own turf, 7-2 went to the opener.
And he was also asked whether or not he felt that this gave the club any kind of a psychological edge and he says no, I don't think. The only thing that gives us is a one-game lead.
It's our pleasure to be in the CBS Radio booth with a Krishna baseball, Mr. Booyi-Kun. And to make sure we can't talk about baseball without talking about 38,750,000, that's in the old time, and sent us directly by nearly six million.
It's a tremendous year. It is really a remarkable year. It's worked in so many ways and it's been good for the game and I think very exhilarating about the future of the game.
We had a lot of things happen this year, we had fine races at least most of the time and the American League carried at least down to last weekend.
A lot of exciting things happened in the game. We had Blue Rock, we had Peru. We had a lot of controversy and that isn't all bad, although it's uncomfortable for the commissioners sometimes. But it was a special year.
How about, is the commissioners off at the hot seat? Can we ask you that question?
You bet.
Mr. Booyi-Kun, here in our CBS Radio booth, now let's go back to Ralph Kiner in the play-by-play.
I doubt if he got the answer to the baseball quiz, I doubt if he got the answer. Maybe Mike Cuellar got the answer because these are fellow that did it.
Mike Cuellar, pitching for the Ball of Morals, has hit the only Grand Slam home run in championship play in the American League. Let's pause five seconds for state net notification. This is CBS Radio Network.
This is the American Forces Radio and Television Service.
Ralph Kiner along with Jerry Coleman from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Ron Sadevatter, he foul off the first pitch and now takes one for a ball. One ball, one strike.
On the mound is Ron Reed, saying that he's against Reed for the first time and the right-hand batter takes it outside.
Say is super five so far in this series with four runs better than on a Grand Slam home run.
And now Reed back and the pitch is just through the middle of a fifth to say.
On-strike came into this series with an old for 31 streak. He had been at that 31 official times without a base hit.
He had dropped his average down to 241 but he has hit a Grand Slam home run. He has had three bases and he is on now with no one out for Steve Garvey.
Garvey is three for five in this series. That was the first base hit given up by Reed and the Dodgers now have six hits to go with their five runs.
The Phillies are one and seven. Say is running with a pitch and Garvey fouls the ball back out of play. He was trying to hit the right field on the hit and run.
Say is not fast. He's had three solo bases in four, pardon me, in seven attempts. Dodgers in the regular season had six Grand Slam home runs.
Say had two, Garvey two, Yeager one, Baker one.
One strikeout is Ron Reed. Asked for another set of signs and now he gets them and if it's back a fastball, Garvey with a hard swing.
He hits the letters and it strikes you.
Garvey hit him 15 of his last 19 ball games and batted 451 over that period of time. The raises average to 297.
So the first base is not in time. Garvey had 33 home runs in the regular season. That sets a new record for home runs by Dodger playing in Los Angeles.
That does not count Dodgers playing in Brooklyn. And a five ball hit out of the right field is right there for John Stone and he makes the catch.
Say back to first base and Dusty Baker's coming up and here he is, the hero of this ball game, Dusty Baker.
In the fourth inning with Bill Russell on, at third base and Reggie Smith on a second, the Phillies elected to watch Steve Garvey with an intentional watch to load the bases.
And Dusty Baker crossed up the strategy with a Grand Slam home run.
If it hit off an inside high, Spider and the pitcher was Jim Lomborg and the first pitch is inside for a ball.
Baker closed out his season in good order with hit an 18 of his last 19 games batted over that period of, at a 362 pass the pitcher swung on and fouled back and again, say, was running on the head and run play.
Well, one of the things about Dusty Baker is that offseason operation, and I don't think we can talk about that enough because it's mended that lame knee.
He only played 112 games last year in about a 242 and he turned it completely around this season and has then, well, what more can you say, it's got 30 home runs this year, he had four last year, he just turned his entire season around.
I just believe he'll be the comeback player of the year, he had only four home runs last year, this year he hit 30 and there's a swing and a foul tip.
He drove in 39 runs last year, he had two still and bases, this year he's had 30 home runs and 86 RBIs, what a turnaround.
And you know, it wasn't so long ago with Atlanta back in 72 that he was the number four hither in the National League with a 321 average, so he is recouping what he lost back in those early days.
One ball and two strikes and Ron Reed throws the first base, stay back easily.
Baker, two for five in this series, right hand batter.
Now the pitch by Reed, it's low and outside, two balls, two strikes.
Dodgers leading five to one, early scored in the third, the Dodgers tied it in the third and the Dodgers got four in the grand slam on them by Baker, the fourth inning.
One man out, we're in the bottom half of the sixth, again, stay is running a throw by Brune, it's not in time and they had to stolen base.
Well in yesterday's ball game, Greg Luzinski had a stolen base, Greg up setting everybody, including the catches, Steve Yeager at the time, Luzinski had had only three still and bases all year and now Ron Faye gets one and he had had three all year.
Those are the kind of stolen bases, Ralph Kiner, that drive a catcher right up the side of the wall.
You expect to get those, the good guys like the Lopes and the speedsters are going to get their stolen bases, but when a say does it, it upsets you.
Went on the strike half, the first base is open and Rick Money the batter, left hand batter, he's going to be watched intensely to go after Steve Yeager, right hand batter.
And he goes back playing the first inning and the pitch outside for Balls U.
They have had only 10 stolen bases in his entire career, he has called a penguin because of the way he runs, he runs like a penguin does and he certainly has not noticed for Steve.
The ball is being put on by Tom LaSorda as the Dodgers lead by the one and the game they feel they have to win.
Everybody that watches baseball feels they have to win it to have a chance to win the National Championship Series and get a chance to go into the World Series.
Now it's Steve Yeager coming up and Steve brings to the first pitch and misses the fastball right around the letters.
Runners at first and second went two minutes away.
Both walks that the Dodgers have received in this game have been intentional passes.
Yeager had his best year in his major league career this year, having 256 with 16 home runs and 55 RBI's and Rick comes back again with a hard fastball, slinging the missed right to Rick Joy-Muss Maltz.
Now Rick goes with the set, spins around, doesn't throw the second base, no one covering.
He's putting his gear on Juan Ri, but that's very effective and sometimes it scares the runner second base right out of his wick.
He's not paying particular attention, he doesn't know what's going on, he could really be frightened.
Now a pitch, slow it outside, one and two.
They had a pitcher in baseball named Ginnery Joel Berry that used to run back to second base and once or twice actually ended up tagging the runner out.
Now at one two the pitcher is fouled back out of play, which brings me up to the point who was running.
Somebody had to be found asleep is what it was.
Now you can get out there at second base in a hot day in the summertime and start counting your money or something out there like that.
Maybe now, but not then you could.
Well you could be thinking about how you're going to make your next buck, maybe that would be it back in those days.
Now fastball fouled off.
Well Yeager hangs tough on the count stage at what it did.
I mean they make the day Jerry you don't even have to count it. They just say take another truckload in.
Well again it survived in spite of it.
We're having a double the playoff right here between the Dodgers and the Phillies.
And at one two again read back a line drive in the center field of base this day round third base.
And Y throws the third base and Smith takes the throw and the tag is made in time the one count.
They had to hustle all the way and cross home plate before the out of third and he just did so the run counts.
And the Dodgers lead by a scorer six to one.
Run battered in for C Yeager in the inning one run and two hits.
And one man left on base and a scorer at the end of six that the Dodgers six the Phillies won.
David Pearson won his ninth consecutive pole position at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Wednesday and rocketed $10,000 for grabbing the top starting spot for Sunday's $250,000 National 500 stock car race.
Pearson put his wood brothers Merkley around the one and a half mile track at an average speed of just under 161 miles an hour for two qualifying laps.
And most of the drivers agree that that speed would not be top.
Pearson's first lap was clocked at 161.517 miles an hour and his second had just over 160.
Donnie Allison and Cale Yarbrough both driving Chevrolet posted identical speeds of 159.848 miles an hour.
What NASCAR officials say that since Allison made his attempt first he would start in the second position.
Yarbrough the leading money winner in these standings in the lucrative Winston Cup standings says he knew he couldn't beat Pearson.
We've dropped through six innings of play here at Dodgers Stadium and the Dodgers sitting on top six to one.
The Phillies right now the final third of this ballgame are going to have to start to make a move.
Bob Boone will start it off and appears as though a pinch hitter will be coming off for Ron Rees and back to the top of the batting order.
But as it stands right now the Dodgers with a five run lead and three innings to go the Phillies will have to unseat Don Sutton from that mound
and get to the bullpen if they're going to do anything in this game.
Let's move on and get back to Ralph Kiner.
Ralph.
All right Jerry Coleman the fifth year of the Red Bulls bat third in the city so a warm boost is going in the bullpen for the Phillies.
Bob Boone the lead off Boone is all for two on the mound.
Don Sutton has given up one run on seven they sit.
The Red Bulls have only seven but they are leading by five and the first pitch to Boone is popped up in foul territory.
Yeager back.
And Steve Yeager making the catch about a step away from the backstop.
So one sits again and one man out.
That'll bring up just as more of the second baseman.
And the on deck circle is Tim Carver.
Carver caught Steve Carlton in the first game as he always does.
Sutton walking back to the mound and he has been pitching with great autonomy here last four innings.
He has given up only two hits in the last four innings and one of them he should have caught himself as was off of his love and fielded by the shortstop where they couldn't make the play in time.
And the first pitch of all Seismore one for two at a half fling and got a base hit in the second and he lined out the third in the fourth inning.
And the next pitch of all it's two balls and no strike Seismore one for five so far in the series.
Sutton has struck out three and the right hander with the two old pitch and he's in the strike zone for a call strike.
Seismore one to count.
It has been just perfect weather wise here in Los Angeles.
Warm days and a very pleasant evening for both balls ball games.
The drive hit the deep left center a long way to go for Baker but he gets back to it and catches the ball easily.
Seismore is out.
Now with two minutes the pitcher is due up and we're going to have a pinch of it.
Olly Brown a right hand batter is coming up.
Olly Brown is going to save a left hand batter if and when later on the ball game he might be of more value with two men out and no one on.
So downtown Olly Brown coming up.
He hasn't played much this year.
Brown was the combination between J Johnstone and Olly Brown the right and left hand combination.
He's going to go very much moved in this year with the younger player and obviously the Phillies are trying to bring in more use.
They have a put to and to limit first base and then right field and Brown last year on the year before with Amanda did that.
But Ralph Knottozki's been shifted out a little bit now and is more as a pinch better than anything else.
Also Baker McBride coming to the ball club that made a big difference for Olly Brown.
In 1975 he hit over 300 as a put to and player last year he batted 254 and the first pitch is called strike.
He was selected by San Diego on the expansion draft.
He also belonged to Olson Milwaukee California in Houston and he has a brother Willie Brown is a great football star at USC played professional football with a Rams and Eagles.
He's now an assistant coach at USC now a pitch for a ball at one ball and one strike.
And a pitch back for a ball of two balls and one strike.
He makes his own in Gwendo Park California right near here.
He really purchased from Houston on waiver.
And a nice pitch to Brown a hard swing and a vest of two balls and two strikes.
Olly Brown has a fine throwing arm and eventually he is a good ball player.
Two and two two minutes and on sudden back into the lineup here's the pitch and Brown swings and then he gets the four strike out and one two three and he's on the score at the end of six and a half and he's a ninety six and a filly one.
The Atlanta Hawks have signed forward Rick Laurel the Portland Trailblazers nineteen seventy seven first round draft choice to a multi year contract Laurel a six six rookie from Hofstra University was the 19th overall pick for the nineteen seventy seven college draft but was unable to come to terms with the Portland crowd.
In compensation for the signing of Laurel Atlanta agreed to give Portland its second round draft choice in nineteen seventy eight which was recently acquired by the bill really trade from Buffalo.
The Hawks coach to be brown saying Laurel will join the Hawks in Hollywood Florida October seven for a preseason contest against the New Orleans Jazz Laurel average just over 30 points a game last year and hit over 50% from the floor.
It's going average tied him for fourth place in last season's college scoring race where the University of Houston oldest bird song Laurel at Hofstra with twenty three and seven record in the verse in the NCAA postseason tournament.
He received the Haggerty Award recognizing the best college player in the New York metropolitan area Laurel attended Philadelphia's Olderbrook High School which counts world Chamberlain Walt Hazard and Andre McCutter among his alumni.
In case you missed it the Kansas City Royals seven to two. Open to New York Yankees in the first game of the American League playoff and only one since the league playoff series began in nineteen sixty nine as a visiting team won the opening game and not gone on to win the championship.
The Phillies are coming up with their third picture of the evening. Lawn board Saturday he works for and gave a five this and five runs Ron Reed and a couple of innings.
Two hits in one run and now a young right hander Warren Brewster with a seven and two mark overall on a two point six six earned run average in nineteen seventy seven appearing at forty six ball game.
He'll be going up against the picture Don Sutton Ralph kinders right here to tell you all about Warren Brewster and he spells his name B. R. U. S. S. E. A. R. but for now it's a bit as it were spelled phonetically Brewster and there's a good story behind that.
We'll get to that as we get along and the first pitch by Brewster a hard smash to shortstop taking on one hop by Larry Boren Don Sutton about it is a quick out.
A couple of generations ago Warren Brewster's great grandfather was wanted for being a thief in England and he wanted to get out of the country naturally so he changed the spelling of his name from the normal way you spell Brewster to B. R. U. S. S. E. A. R.
and that way he got himself in a position to get the papers to get out of the country he did came over to the United States and the name is said that way ever since and the first pitch is round it by David Oaks to the third base with Mike Smith of Brewster with great economy picking up two outs on two pitches.
And bring up Bill Russell earlier in the ball game in the first inning in Rambo retired the first two batters on two pitches and then Reggie Smith came up and picked the first pitch and I'm assuming that Russell will do the same no one wants to see a pitcher get out of an ending with three pitches.
The first pitch is but it is but it's not going to be tough play for many bare hands but he can't get it there in time and Russell crossing up to Fiddler out here Billy with a perfect one down the third base side.
Smith did all he could do he came in charging from a fairly deep position there and the ball fired at the first base but Russell needs to play. No Russell with his second in the ball game man he is armed with two men out and Reggie Smith will be coming up.
Sometimes from little a car big trees grow and a two out punch as we said sometimes get stuck thing rolling.
Reggie Smith one for three in this game betting from the left hand side Brewster sets up deck to run it for space and the pitches line foul into the stands on the left field side.
Reggie Smith with one hit and seven times up in this series.
I just leading six to one six runs on 80 at the Phillies one run on seven Brewster right handed with his next delivery and Smith goes for it doesn't make contact it strikes you.
When the artist that comes out at your record on the losing side Jim Longboard reached for five runs on five it's important.
When the artist that comes out at your record two gave up no runs on one hit Brewster has been reached for the bunting single listening in a pitch out but nothing on the wind calling for a pitch outside.
Now the pitch and Smith it's a deep left center field wall quick start on the center field of McFly he's back to the wall he's back into the wall drops the ball and he might be hurt.
Ball picked up by Lozinski to throw in fifth going to third as a run scores and McFly is on the warning track down on the ground he hits the wall hard.
The Phillies round kinder and are in tough shape for other center fielders Gary Maddox is injured and may not play in the series and fake McFly caught the ball and fell into that wall and the ball came flying out and he may be hurt.
He went in with his right shoulder John Singer the Philadelphia trainer running all the way out to center field along with manager Jan Yosark at a much slower pace trying to find out what's going on.
And apparently he's all right Jerry he's on his feet might have just had the breast knocked out of him he was down on one knee the trainer is working on his neck and shoulders they might have been jarred up sometimes these things show up a little bit later on but he did hit the ball with a resounding crash and he went down hard.
Well a couple of things happened there Lozinski picked up that ball and got it back as quick as he could and then went over to check with big McBride and McBride got part of his face in the middle of that wall and may have taken a stunning blow and I think that's what's kept them down there for so long.
But I haven't seen an outfield or go into a wall any harder than that sometimes.
One of the things about modern day ballpark the fences are made to give and that makes a tremendous difference because running that hard into a cement wall you've got to give.
But the fence did give and it might have couldn't have blown up to keep from Brian from being injured seriously.
When you talk about running into walls now I know the first person you think about anybody who's watched baseball is Pete Reeser destroyed his career and one of the greatest baseball players to ever hit the baseball team.
Pete Reeser not only did it once but twice and he really was the man who brought the Christian defect on the wall into baseball.
Well Brant Strickie after Reeser kept running out of the wall finally had it have it's field and hope that he could keep Reeser going but it's still the tremendous force that he went into the wall on a couple of occasions.
It's just about scattered his career.
Reeser was a great ball player with fantastic speed.
A Mickey Mantle type of player and some experts believe he would have been better than Mickey Mantle which shows that he was certainly some ball player.
Now it's Ron Save at him with a run at third.
He has a six ring ground ball to first base that's picked up by Hetner as he stands on the back and that requires his side.
But one run in on a one phase did and a three base did by Reggie Smith.
One man left his third in the score at the end of seven.
It's the Dodgers seven and the Philadelphia Phillies one.
Dodger Stadium tonight the Phillies in the Dodgers is the second of the best three of five last night as most of you baseball fans know the Phillies knocked off the Dodgers seven to five and John Sutton came into this ballgame pitching for the Dodgers knowing the Dodgers had to win it.
It was a must win ballgame.
They could not go into Philadelphia starting on Friday down nothing and to John Sutton has been the glue in this pitching staff so far.
He has given up one run a home run to make my pride.
He has spread out seven phase did but no serious in the innings except for that third when he gave up the home run and the double.
So John Sutton has been a man that has stopped in Philadelphia in a key ball game.
Right now the Dodgers and the line score seven nine and oh the Phillies one seven and one.
We're going into the eighth inning the Philadelphia Phillies will have to make a move and make it in a hurry or this ball game will go over to the Los Angeles.
Dodgers and we'll be all even at one of these starting on Friday.
Well back to the action here.
Big McBride who just blasted himself all over the left center field wall apparently.
It hard but did not have the effect from that hit as much as we thought he's coming up a leader off.
Got to be a tough man McBride at a home run in the third inning.
Yesterday.
Right home run in this ball game right down the right field line just around the three hundred thirty mark.
He was acquired from the state of the Cardinals for a picture of Tom Underwood outstanding acquisition.
And the first pitch the curve ball by Sutton is out of the strike zone.
Right out of the batter's box now comes back in.
And the next pitch is that foul on the right field side the ball drifting out into the stands out of play.
One ball and one strike all owns the architect of the Philadelphia Phillies the man who put this ball club together and he certainly has done an outstanding job.
Really coming up with a very strong ball club as he maneuvered and worked his way around requiring ball players to fit into the Philadelphia Phillies pattern.
And the blend with Philadelphia Phillies farm players like Mike Smith and Greg Luzinski the next pitch is fouled off on the third day side the count one and two.
Philadelphia World One organization headed by Bill Giles the son of the late not that I shouldn't say it that way he's still alive the next National League president Warren Giles who is here attending this game and looking great.
One and two he is the president of the National League Warren Giles one and two and a little pop up into center field Rick Mundy moves over he's there.
And McRibb is out of the put to the way you know Ralph one of the classic acquisitions about the ability with Mike Schmidt who may be the most positive and well balanced ball player in the field.
And his first year in a full season in a hundred and thirty two ball game batted only one mighty six and yet they stayed with him he fought his way back to a two eighty two year the next year and he's been on his way ever since.
Free time National League home run champions.
This year he was drawn by George Foster who had 52 become the fifth man in the history of the National League to hit 50 or more home runs.
He's a pitcher ball to Larry Ball.
Boy has one hit and three times up which is a bad even the left hand side and boy tries to put his way on misses the ball one ball one strike.
Don Sutton.
He gets a feeling of this ball game right now Rob kind of here in the eighth inning the momentum is totally on the dodgers side the Phillies more or less kind of playing out the swing at the moment.
He has been in command of this ball game he has just worked with a very patient approach to the 15th performance of Mark Madd off of the glove of Davey Lopes that was playable and bullies on the ball.
It's just right at Lopes the one hopper and it's sort of an error it was hit hard but playable.
So now it starts to David Lopes the first by the Dodgers and they're running on for Mike Smith having challenged a few of those myself.
I'll kind of that is a very tough error.
You really think so huh.
Yeah I'd say that ball came up quick on him.
He had one chance to knock it down and throw him out.
That was his best goal but when it got by him he was lost.
You and builders are all alike.
We protect our own.
That's right.
If you're a hitter you got to get a base hit on that.
That's what I say.
OK we got a runner at first with one man up.
Mike Smith up Mike is over three hit one ball hard a line drive to short in the third struck out in the first spot out the center field in the sixth and the first pitch is straight at Los Angeles nine seven one seven and lost three.
Here in this ballpark overall record of 14 and 81 is last four decisions and on front to the set position.
Here's the pitch and Smith hit the long five on the left center field is way back there.
It's going going and it is caught in the top of the wall.
Rick Monday catching that ball at the top of the wall and a long out.
The first base is where he's going.
He had already reached second and that's a big play in the ball game.
It was not a spectacular catch.
The ball was just so high that money got back to the fence and the only thing was whether or not he could reach it.
A pretty good demonstration on how to go back on a ball here in outfield there and Monday did exactly what he had to do.
He went right to the wall turned around and there it was.
That'll bring up Greg Luzinski.
Luzinski has had a double in three times up lined out in the sixth inning double the right center in the third.
He ran it into out to the second baseman his first time up and that now with the first pitch and he comes back with a slider and it's not that short.
Third base safe losses in front of the shortstop to feel it and the first base to be out for the entire desire.
In the inning no runs and there and one man left on base and a score at the end of seven and one half innings with Dodgers seven and the Phillies one.
To run homers by Al McCray and John Mayberry plus Freddie Parke ex disputed to run double highlighted a lightning quick Kansas City Blitz Wednesday and carried the Royals to a seven and two victory over the New York Yankees in the first game of their
American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium.
In taking a one nothing lead in that best five series the Royals did the bulk of their scoring in the first three innings on this fund themselves in the comfortable position of returning to their home stadium after Thursday night second game with no worse than a split in New York and no team which has lost the first game in the
series at least in the national make has ever been the rebound in the series in the American League.
The only team to have done it Yankee starter Don Gullit who said the safety of the building the Royals is keeping his speed off the basis failed in that mission tonight attendance 55,973 which Leonard last night marked by five people and that is a new record for our championship series here at Dodgers Stadium.
This is the second game.
So he's won it last night seven to five the Dodgers in complete command tonight leading seven to one.
We're going into the last half of the eighth inning.
Bees are coming up to hit and Ralph Kiner standing by for the play by play.
Okay, Jerry Coleman.
Garvey is open to this game after going three for four in last night's ballgame.
On the ground on the first pitch to Garvey it's all dry.
Old batters right hand batters of course but Baker not as feared by any old rock and Baker crossed up to 70 with a grand slam home run and it takes an a dirt account at one ball and one strike.
Garvey's going on and foul back one and two.
The right hand there with a record of seven and two for the year starting into the lineup at time call for Garvey as he steps back out of the batter's box.
And it's two to the fifth.
Go on and that's then Garvey is struck out.
First strikeout for Brewster.
And we'll bring up just the maker the hero of the ballgame.
Baker won for free in this game but a fantastic grand slam home run.
It was a line shot to the left.
The question about it was whether or not it would get up high enough to get in and it just did.
That's all it counts.
And here's the first pitch ball one.
Johnny Myers a great home run.
It was one of five players they hit over 50 home runs in a single season with 51 in 1947.
And he always said that it doesn't count how far you hit them.
He says I'll take him if they scrape the wall and the way down but make sure it's on the back side.
Ground ball foul and strike two.
And the next pitch it's called strike and two in a row now for Warren Brewster as he strikes out Dusty Baker looking.
And if you get out the better will be Rick Mundy who had a double his first time up in the store.
So the hero was safe on an air and was walked intentionally in the sixth.
And that walk also back by her to see yeah you're followed with a base hit to drive in a run.
So Danny Ozark has twice been foiled as they say in Hollywood.
And here's the first pitch it's too low for a ball.
And a fastball low on outside balls to.
He batted 229 in the regular season with 15 home runs and 48 runs batted in the games of the Dodgers from the Cubs.
But he was bothered with a bad back all year.
And brings out a fastball doesn't make contact to him one.
Stepping back out of the batter's box now sets himself in.
And he swings and foul tips the next one to and to Monday was a.
The batting instructor the Chicago Cubs.
Move on speaker and the ground ball hit to the second baseman.
He surrounds it comes up with it.
So is the first base for the.
And we turn in order and score at the end of the eight.
It is a dodger seven and the Philadelphia Phillies one.
Not only did the New York Yankees lose the opening game of the American League playoffs series to Kansas City seven and two.
But it appears the Yankees have also lost the services of left handed Don Gullet for the American League playoffs.
And if the Yankees continue onward in the World Series Yankee manager Billy Martin and trainer.
Do you want to hand saying that it's virtually certain that God will not pick again in this year's playoffs.
The left the game in the second inning on Wednesday with a four shoulder at Monaghan declares colors and tile left shoulder is aching.
And Martin says it's the same shoulder trouble that put God on the disabled list for most of August.
And because that injury kept the left the out for several weeks.
Martin says God is for season pitching is over for this year.
God was paid for four runs in his two runnings and was the loser as the Yankees dropped that playoff opener.
Seven to two.
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All the Phillies are down to their last three outs and the leadoff batter will be Ricky Hebner.
Don Sutton going all the way to the first eight in the first six to Hebner is high and inside.
He backs him out of the batter's box.
Sutton in postseason play has been unbeatable in the championship series for the Dodgers in 74 against Pittsburgh.
Sutton one two and lost number the 53.
We are a 0.53.
There's a pitch to enter it down the right field line foul in the World Series in 1974 Sutton was one and old.
The game he has no record no one's lost it so in extracurricular baseball Sutton has not lost and leading here by a score of 7 to 1 working to Ricky Hebner.
Hebner has two hits and three times up and he grounds one foul for the counted one and two Dodgers seven runs on nine hits the Phillies have one run on seven.
Each team has made one error.
The National League will not be playing tomorrow. It's a travel day but the American League at Yankee Stadium Kansas City.
There they won the day by a score of 7 to 2 and from Yankee Stadium it'll be Ned Martin and Ernie Harwell at 8 0 7 Eastern Daylight time for the play by player that one.
Anisothe ball is part of the nature of striking two balls and two strikes.
Hebner a left hand batter and the next delivery.
It pops up into the second base area and then rolls back in the outfield grass with separate foul puts it away. It easy out.
So the Phillies have two outs left as J. Johnstone comes up.
Mike Garmin the right hander throwing in the bullpen for the Dodgers.
Johnstone is 0 for three and Sutton's wind up and comes back in with a good curve ball of call strikes.
In that Royal Yankee game the Royal 7 Yankees two.
Kansas City had nine hits the Yankees had nine winning pitcher was Paul Fodor losing pitcher was John Gullick home runs by Thomas Gray.
John Maybury and Allen once and had one for the Yankees they had just the 4,000 quarks at Yankee Stadium.
And Johnstone looked and the 60s outside.
Before that also out of the strike zone for the count of two and one.
And Sutton with that same pace all through the ball game comes back with a fastball on the outside corner just at the knees it falls right through.
Two balls two strikes.
Now the wind up and it fits back to Johnstone it's hit on the line over the head of Garmin down into the right field area picked up by Smith.
And Johnstone has his first hit of the series he's on with one away.
That'll bring up Bob Boone.
Boone is 0 for three.
White hand batter.
Boone and Longboard the starting batteries for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Longboard the pitcher record on the losing side right now.
Both attended Stanford University.
And the first pitch to Boone on the outside corner a hard spotter down around the knee strike war.
Very featured by two grand slam home runs the first two in the Max and the Lays in championship play and a pitch for a ball that's one on one.
And it's the first time of course back to back games have seen a grand slam all run in full season play.
Mike Swayar has the only grand slam on run in full season championship play in the American League.
And here's the next celebrity of swinging the miss the back flies out of the hand of Boone.
That's what a first base by here but Johnstone gets back in faith.
That we do three three by the Dodger bat boy and Boone now back in the batter's box with a count against him one ball two strikes.
And the next pitch is hit hard a base hit just by the back at third down the left field line maker over the hurry to field it and he stops Boone at first base with a great play.
That's who Baker hustling over and actually feeling that ball in the left field corner and foul territory.
And he fired in the second and Boone stops it first.
Greenlee did defense play by Dusty Baker so what is not first and third as the Phillies try to fight that.
The ladies need six to try to have one is it first and third one man on the batter coming up is Ted Seismore.
One for three in this game and he hits a hard match to the shortstop Russell will be a double play in the ball game.
The second base blows the Garvey at first base and that's the goal he has to Dodgers win seven to one.